Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not only in San Francisco but up and down california and of course across the nation. Very much thinking about workers and family members who may not have been access to state and federal programs the same way that others who are impacted have and do. That was to make sure families and workers were supported with woulrelief. Small Business Community to make sure they have access to loan was and grants. We are excited how diverse we have been able to do this. We have been able to roll these out to ensure that our communities are supported by our city together with all of us with city funds and philanthropic dollars to help realize them on behalf of the communitys needs. That is great. Now, many of our Small Businesses dont have large payrolls. They are unable to qualify for the federal ppp loans. Does the city have active programs available for Small Businesses to help with ongoing expenses such as rent while they are still closed . Certainly. One of the programs we launched in partnership and because of the ability of the give to sf loan fund presented us with was for loans and grants to do that. We knew in the beginning that it was not easy for smaller businesses not connected or those who were to get an answer around relief provided through ppp. We have seen success of the program. We knew it was important at the time to also have the San Francisco hardship mcwas Emergency Loan Program be launched and designed to support businesses who needed resources the most. We have committed 15. 5 million in ongoing covid19 Small Business Financial Relief. We have awarded grants and loans to over 400 Small Businesses thus far. We wanted to make sure that we were equitable about that approach always guidings work through Racial Equity lens. One of the most important pieces is ensuring every district would be represented and also more equitable work and places where we were doing that work would be supported through these efforts. In the first phase 1 million to 128 Small Businesses and 29 different neighborhoods with up to 10,000 in funds to support those who were experiencing loss. We set aside a minimum of 2 million for low and moderate income owners to ensure they were supported with relief efforts. Neighborhood goes like lower filmore, bayview, castro and excelsior. Longterm businesses have given to the city and we want to give bamto them as well. Then because we were looking for additional funding sources, we took dollars that we had with existing partners already with our partners to do Small Business work and help convert to support Women Entrepreneurs around San Francisco and very specific neighborhoods for mini grants to serve immediate needs. Every little dollar helped. One of the programs that just become available. Right to recover. I am glad you are asking about right to recover. We know that it is extremely valuable right now as we look to incentivize Community Members disproportionately impacted by covid19 by economic hardship, spaces to work in because they need to provide for families, having access to the Economic Relief or wages that you count on to protect yourself, stabilize your families, support your families and children or parents or extended family. That is a huge disincentive if you believe you may not have access to quarantine to do what we want you to do. If you are sick to get tested. If you test positive to quarantine and stay home. So that you can get better and not infect anyone else. That comes at a cost. You are not going to work, not making wages. For so many low income workers that is not acceptable. This is to provide relief based on the individual to give minimum wage for that period of time. When they walked into the testing site they knew if i test positive is there a program to help me, we could say yes . That was important to mayor breed, extremely important to supervisor ronen and they worked together to make 2 million available to support these individuals. Together with the department of Public Health we have a holistic system to fill the gaps that may exist to encourage people to get tested to do the right thing. Wear a mask, social distancing, not going places when they are sick and doing our part to make sure they were incentivized. Not having sick pay with the virus would be really stressful. Iit is important for undocumented. We know the lat inx is more than 50 of the positive cases and may not have access to sick leave or Financial Hardship to do the right thing and to quarantine with financial reli relief. As we start another new releaf program. Africanamerican Small Business Revolving Loan fund. How will that fund work . Well, i am very, very proud. This fund. I do have to give a shout out to our invest in Neighborhoods Team who worked day and night with the africanamerican chamber of commerce and main street launch to support the zero percent interest loan up to 50 thousand dollars. We have been striving to be specific and target communities of color and africanamerican Small Business Entrepreneur Community. It is so much more difficult for this community to access resources and it was important to do something in this moment that is reflective of a movement we know has been emotion for such a long time. For us to do something real, provide Financial Relief for the community in this ka this way ar them specifically. We are very proud to get this up and running. We look forward to applications being live so people from the africanamerican and black business communities to get relief. Flexible terms. Forgiveness up to 50,000 for those loans which can make a huge difference fought only for relief when you think about rent for a Small Business but also in terms of longterm recovery and being smart about the moment. There are businesses with the ability to be open, even a little bit. It is a stress on them. There are others that dont have the ability to do this at all. Where is their relief . They wait for us to do our collective part to ensure we can reopen. These dollars, very specifically for the black Entrepreneur Community are important for longterm viability success. That is good for them, the diversity of the city we hold dear and we need to be proud of. Do we have active programs for disconnected or underserved communities . Absolutely. As i was mentioning just simply about the right to recover program. When people go to the mission hub at 701 alabama within the Mission District to serve the community, they are providing Food Security, access to resources. What they have done is extraordinary in terms of partnering with the city with relief efforts to help pay and maintain Food Distribution for families. Thing are important like the latin x to do so many dishes with one item masa. Access to rise, cereals, milk, butter, fresh foods and vegetables. That is across the city in the entirety in those areas of need. To ensure those programs are made available for our most vulnerable communities. Seniors or families who desperately need that help. Finally, is there a website specifically designed to provide access and information about these resources . One of the easiest things to do, people have a general question and to want dont have access to the internet call 311. Reach out. We have been working closely to ensure the members and staff have the information they need to get what you need. As you call in. Most specifically for workers, employers, nonprofits to go to our website oewd. Org and click on covid19 which is a large button on the site. You will find a full list of information specifically designed for you as employer, as worker and nonprofit so that you know where to go for resources. Also, our phone number 5546134 for the small acciden small bus. The incredible staff are administering those lines. If they dont answer they will get back to you so you can talk to a real person in multiple languages. Also email sfosbasfgov. Org. Again, visit the website oewd. Org and you can find that. In terms of workforce 415 7014817. Someone will get back to you if they dont pick up immediately to answer your questions if you are a worker. Then to donate. Give to sf. Org. All of that information is to find to the website if you need resources or you need an understanding how we are phasing reopening or updated information, please visit us. We will get back to you. We look forward to serving you and the community to get through this very, very challenging time. That is great information. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate the time you have given us today. It is a pleasure, chris. Thank you for helping get information out to our communities. People are aware your government is hard at work on your behalf to get you what you need during a dynamic and challenging time. That is it for this episode. We will be back with more information shortly. This is coping with covid19. I am chris manners, thanks for watching on sfgovtv. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about checking with your neighbors. Start off by giving your neighbor a call to see how they are or if they need help. If they dont answer, dont get anxious. Try again later. Check to see if their car is parked nearby. Are they lights being turned on and off during normal hours . If you still cant contact them, contact your other neighbors and see if theyve had contact with them recently. You can also leave a note in their mailbox, and when you do get in touch with them, ask if theyd like to share their Emergency Contact information. If youre getting groceries for a neighbor, get a mask and sanitizing wipe. Put the groceries by the front door and then move back and call them from the sidewalk. If you need to ring the doorbell, dont use your hand. Use the wipe or paper towel that you brought. When you call, stay on the sidewalk at least 6 feet away from them. As youre talking to them, ask about any other help they might need. Some might need further assistance with groceries or just need to chat. Maybe they might need you to pick up prescriptions from the pharmacy. And as always, as soon as you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. Well, thats it for this episode. I hope you found it useful. Go to sfgov for my name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the Garment Industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. The Garment Industry had the at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. You will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. Women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. There was a woman by the name of diana. She was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. Supervisor fewer good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. This is the july 29, 2020 regular board and finance Committee Meeting. I am sandra lee fewer, chair. And i am joined by supervisors mandelman and walton. Our clerk is ms. Linda wong. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk, any announcements . Clerk yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the various local, state orders. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. You can call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Again, 146 812 0226 then press pound twice. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When the item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You can submit Public Comment in any of the following ways. Extre email myself, the committee clerk. It will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on august 11, unless otherwise stated. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madame clerk, can you call item number 1. Item 1, resolution approving and authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing to execute documents relating to loans for the acquisition, rehabilitation or permanent financing of 270 turk street pursuant to the Small Site Program, preservation and seismic safety, the Downtown Neighborhood Preservation Fund and the Educational Revenue Augmentation Fund not to exceed 31. 7 million. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001, 146 812 0226, and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Today we have with us m. O. C. D. And amy chan is here available for questions. Caroline, the floor is yours. Great. Good morning, chair fewer and supervisors. Im from the Mayors Office of Housing Community development and i work specifically on our acquisition and preservation team. Before you is a request to authorize m. O. C. D. To provide up to 31. 8 million in permanent financing for 270 turk street. The project involved preservation of an 86unit building in the tenderloin that houses primarily lowincome individuals. 276 turk street comes to us through the Housing Accelerator Fund which provided the bridge financing required to take the building off the market quickly and prevent the displacement of the lowincome residents. The building was previously owned and operated by veritas and we consider a significant win that the project will now be permanent Affordable Housing, given that the majority of residents are folks who work in the Service Industry downtown, who are feeling the negative impacts of covid, which is even more important now than ever that this building be stabilized. Mocd financing will pay off the acquisition and rehabilitation loan provided by the fund and cover other permanent financing costs. As described in detail in the b. L. A. Report, were requesting amounts that allow the project to close financing under two possible scenarios. The scenario described as scenario a in the b. L. A. Report assumes to the project centers into enters into a 20year contract so fund 24 stepup housing units. Stepup housing is for folks transitioning from a permanent housing scenario to more independent living. And then the remaining units in the building, so the remaining units other than those 24 units, will be leased. In that scenario, the building wide average is 53 ami. In scenario a, the per unit subsidy is 196,000, which is well below our average acquisition and preservation project. Scenario b under this all units will be leased up through dahlia, similar to our standard acquisition and preservation execution small sites. And in this scenario, the project achieves a building wide average of approximately 65 ami. The city subsidy in this scenario is 231,000 per unit which is also below our average for acquisition and preservation projects and below term sheet. We are working toward the preservation of the project as described in scenario a, so assuming 24 units in contract with h. S. H. , but weve included scenario b in the unlikely scenario that the h. S. H. Contract will not be executed. It has not been executed yet. It really is a timing issue, because the existing bridge financing carries significant interest, we want to make sure that we can convert this project into permanent financing as quickly as possible. And right now the schedule for the anticipated closing is early october of this year. We are requesting two changes to the resolution before you. First, mocd is in support of the b. L. A. Recommendation to correct the upto amount from 3. 31. 78 million to 31. 87 million, which was an unfortunate error in the resolution. The project financing and loan documents are reflective of that 3. 87 million amount. Second, we are requesting clarifying language on the sources of funding where the resolution refers to Small Site Program funding, we request replacing with acquisition Preservation Funding. Since this funding is not a traditional small site, its 86 units, its a big site, were not going to be utilizing fiscal year 1819 eraf funding that the supervisor advocated for. We wanted to clarify that turk is using acquisition and Preservation Funding that is not restricted to small sites only and we appreciate supervisor fewer requesting this distinction. Lastly, we are in support of the recommendation from the b. L. A. That mocd enter into an option to purchase for this project. It is a significant investment in city financing and we agree with their assessment that we should execute loan documents that provide an option for the city to purchase should the building be sold in the future. We have shared a red line of the amendments with the city and clerk and im happy to answer any questions about the project. So are the tenderloin development corporation, the project sponsors. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could we have the b. L. A. Report, please. Good morning, chair fewer, members of the committee, Severin Campbell from the b. L. A. Repeat of what the presentation said, this resolution approves the loan of 31. 9 million to the 270 turk llc which is affiliate of the tenderloin development corporation. It would be used to repay a loan from the Housing Accelerator Fund and other project costs. Page 5 of our report summarizes the loan sources. That 12 million would come from the preservation safety fund. With a balance of 20 million that comes from either the acquisition and Preservation Fund or the Downtown Neighborhood Preservation Fund. Page 6 of our report, sort of again gives a little more detail of the two different options for the loan. Approximately 29 million, depending on whether subsidy is available for from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. We consider approval of the proposed resolution to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors because the use of the acquisition and preservation or Neighborhood Preservation Program fund have not been determined and because the subsidy from the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing are not yet finalized. Our recommendation is to state the correct amount of the loan, 31. 87 million and to amend the resolution to request the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development executive director to provide for the action of the city to purchase 270 turk street at a future date. We consider approval to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors and im available for questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . Seeing none, madame clerk oh, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman i want to understand a little bit better the change that has been made around using eraf small sites to the acquisition and Preservation Fund. What is the acquisition and Preservation Fund that is not small site . It encompasses our anything that doesnt fit that 25 25 and below unit count. So it mirrors the same Program Guidelines as the small sites, but we were making the distinction and changing because we want it clear that the funding for 270 turk is not examining from a pot of coming from a pot of funds that is specific to small site. 1819 eraf fund which were intended for sort of the more traditional small sites which are 5 to 25 units. Supervisor mandelman are we establishing a distinction that not exist before . Supervisor fewer if i may step in. In the resolution, we do call out for specific sources that are would be used for acquisition preservation. And that is pass program, the downtown Preservation Fund and eraf fund. What caroline wants to make a distinction of today is that eraf, 1819 funds were specifically intended for the small sites in a traditional sense. That was with advocacy from supervisor fewer, so we want to make sure if were talking about eraf, were talking about fiscal year 1920. And when were talking about this project, its acquisition preservation and these sources would be three sources called out in the resolution. Hopefully that answers your question. Supervisor mandelman this is an 86unit. I appreciate i appreciate making that distinction. I think there are a lot of there are several districts, supervisor fewers is certainly one, a little bit my district as well, where opportunities for doing Affordable Housing are very limited and so we have been hoping that more focus on some of the smaller buildings might be one path to creating more Affordable Housing or preserving more housing that has functioned as Affordable Housing but hasnt been regulated. And so im grateful for that. I also think that there is tremendous need for funding to acquire larger buildings that are at risk, you know, not at risk, but are on the private market and could be brought into public or nonprofit ownership and so i think we i guess not at this moment, given where we are with the budget, but we need more of both. So anyway, i do want to thank supervisor fewer or chair fewer for ensuring that this pot of money, that i think we all intended to be used for these smaller projects remains. And i think we need to rededicate ourselves to ensuring that we have funding for larger projects that might be in the 50 building that probably on a perdoor basis actually make more sense financially, but dont necessarily achieve our equity goals. Okay. Thanks, everybody. Ill get of the way. Supervisor fewer thank you, supervisor mandelman. I had the same questions when i first saw in the legislation that one of the sources was the small site funding. But also with the preservation and acquisition fund, we could use that money to purchase traditional small sites also. So it doesnt prohibit us from small sites, however, the original intent of that pot of money in the 201819 eraf money was actually specifically for the traditional small site. So i think i think its brought up a lot of questions around how did this project which is 86 units get in on the small sites list. You know, we were provided a list of projects in the queue for small site funding and this project was in the queue for small site funding. And so and really small sites is defined between 5 and 25 units and im just wondering, how are the funds delineated within mohcd . I mean, i wouldnt think that there would be a huge pot of money, all the money is just mixed up together and we say im assuming that there are specific pots of money for specific projects. And so maybe amy chang can answer that and how are funds delineated with mohcd . Sure. And so i think maybe to the heart of the question, in terms of the two fiscal year eraf funding, 1819 which has called for traditional small sites. And then 1920 which came through, where you helped to create the Preservation Fund for future eraf. And that can go more broadly toward preservation. We do account for those funds separately. And so they sit in separate funds and theyre tracked separately and we Program Projects with specific sources of funds based on the restrictions of those funds. So we are tracking them that way. Supervisor fewer then why was i given a list of projects in the queue for smallsite funding and this was in the list with 86unit project was listed . So its confusing as you can see. They said these are the ones in the queue and then one of them was an 86unit building. How do we know the other ones in the queue arent 86unit buildings . I would say two things. One, i think as sort of offhand because small sites has been so popular, we talk about preservation work offhand, shorthand, small sites. Just any kind of preservation. So i think that was a delineation we needed now were clear we need to make that kind of distinction, whereas i think before, any kind of rentcontrolled site, regardless of the size of the project and typically weve been doing within the 5 to 25 units type of acquisition. Weve been calling it small site. We have a Small Site Program with small site guidelines. So i think that would probably just a matter of habit. Your statement about this being the only project on that list and all of the other projects. Continue to be in line with the Small Sites Program of 525 units. So that continues to be our focus and priority. Supervisor fewer great. Thanks. You know and going back to what supervisor mandelman said, i understand that when these opportunities come up, this is a great opportunity for us to purchase this building. I completely get it. However, we also just think in this economic downturn there is going to be great opportunities to purchase a lot of small sites, too. Just because, you know, renters and vacancies and people just kind of done with it. So ill okay. So lets open up for seeing no one else in the queue, lets open up for Public Comment. Madame clerk . Clerk operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Are there any callers who wish to comment on item number 1 . Yes, i have one caller in the queue. Hello, actually im calling around the balboa project, so im not sure this is item number 1. Im sorry. Supervisor fewer that is item number 4 and 5. So wed love to hear from you later. Okay, i can come back. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I will come back. Thank you. Supervisor fewer okay. Any other Public Comment . That completes the queue. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. So, caroline, would you mind resending me the list of the number of units indicated the list resend the list to me of all the small sites in the queue and with the number of units indicated next to each project . Thank you very much. Yeah, will do. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. So before us, we have b. L. A. Recommendations that i would like to adopt. And so i think that and you have amendments also, is that correct, in the legislation that so are these b. L. A. Recommendations all in your amendments . Or are they the only the correction to the loan amount is in the amendments that we shared with the committee and the clerk today. The amendment to pursue an option to purchase is not. But we do have some recommended language from the City Attorney that we can read into the record. Supervisor fewer lets do this first. I think i would like to formally take a vote to adopt the recommendations from the b. L. A. Supervisor mandelman can staff just talk a little bit about how the option would work . Is the regulatory agreement like a 55year how long is the regulatory agreement . Its 75 years or the life of the project, is our standard acquisition and preservation restriction. Supervisor mandelman and then the option that entire time . It does. Essentially, another loan document that we enter into, if the owner were to sell in the future, we would have that first right to purchase. Supervisor mandelman and the price is fair market value . Exactly, yes. Supervisor fewer okay. Supervisor mandelman yep. Supervisor fewer okay. So the amendments that staff has brought forward will need to be continued, i think theyre substantive and well have to continue it until the september 2nd Committee Meeting. So first, madame clerk, should we adopt the recommendations from the b. L. A. And then approve the amendments . Clerk yes, madame chair. Supervisor fewer id like to make a motion to adopt the recommendations from the b. L. A. Could i have a roll call vote, please . On the motion, supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Id like to adopt the approve the amendments made by staff. Could we have a roll call vote . Yes, on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. Your ayes are three ayes. Supervisor fewer thae very much. Id like to make a motion to continue this item to the Committee Meeting of september 2nd as amended. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Madame clerk, can you call item number 2. Yes, item number 2 resolution approving a Maintenance Agreement between the city and the California Department of transportation caltrans for the citys maintenance of artwork on the rightofway within caltrans jurisdiction located at the north and south boarding platforms of the van ness and geary station, between geary and ofarrell street. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system says youve been unmuted. Supervisor fewer today we have with us susan from the Arts Commission. Welcome, the floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor. We are here today to request the approval of the Arts Commission city agreement with caltrans authority for the maintenance of the artwork by jorge pardo which will be placed on the geary street stations of the van ness b. R. T. This artwork was commissioned as part of the richmond ordinance, administrative code, 3. 19, which sets aside up to 2 of the Construction Costs for art in richmond. The property, van ness avenue, because it is a state highway, does fall under the jurisdiction of state agency caltrans. And so the city must enter into an agreement with caltrans as per their requirements for any artwork on their property. This has been a long and complex agreement and we are at the last stages, which is the final agreement to maintain the artwork. The Arts Commission as per the city charter is already charged with maintaining all of the artwork in the citys collection. And in that regard, the maintenance of this particular artwork is no different than any other. So that this agreement is costneutral to the city and we urge your adoption. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions . There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Seeing no one in the queue, lets open up for Public Comment. Clerk operation is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. If you have not done so, please press star 3 to be entered into the queue. Let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on item number 2. Yes, i have one caller in the queue. Welcome, caller. Hi. My name is im a renter in district one and i want to say i support this idea. I hope you pass it. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any other callers in the queue . Madame chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you. Public comment on item number 2 is closed. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. I see no one in the queue, so i would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation. Could we have a roll call vote, please . On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Can you please call item number 3. Item number 3, resolution supporting housing stability by allocating revenue generated by november 2020 transfer tax ballot measure in two equal halves to a covid19 rent resolution and relief fund and a social Housing Program fund. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3 to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system states youve been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer i welcome dean preston to our committee today and hes our speaker on item number 3. Welcome, supervisor. Supervisor preston thank you, chair fewer, and thank you supervisors walton and mandelman. Chair fewer, as i was waiting to speak, wonderful to hear your comments on the Small Site Program. Im hopeful our efforts on the transfer tax and this resolution will result in increased funding to do work on that. The resolution before you sets forth the intended use of funds from the transfer tax increase on the highest value real estate transactions. Those valued at 10 million or more. The premise of the the overall effort is simple, as we reel from the worst recession in recent history, we need to demand more from the wealthiest investors and institutions and we should express our use of the generated tax to make sure san franciscans can get back on their feet without keeping a roof over their heads. I have spoken at length about the transfer tax and the package to the full board, in committees. So i will try not to repeat here. I know you have a packed and long agenda today. The purpose of this resolution is address the intent of the revenue if the measure passes. It expresses our intent to fund a covid19 rent Resolution Program as well as investing in longterm affordable social housing. And i want to be clear that this is a resolution of our intent as a board and as we have with previous statements of intent that is related to ballot measures, the board of supervisors here is stating our intent to resolution not creating a dedicated fund or legally binding future budget appropriations and i think its important to clarify that. We have distributed amendments that i hope you all have received, that the City Attorney has confirmed to our office are nonsubstantive, that clarify that the resolution is, as i mentioned, a statement of intent, not a legal dedication of funds. And other edits suggested by the City Attorney. I would be happy to read those line by line into the record if thats the committees preference, but with that, chair fewer, happy to yield the floor and look forward to Public Comment or answering any questions and please let me know if its your preference i read amendments into the record. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I think you have actually shared all the amendments with us. Youve cleared it with the City Attorney. I think thats fine. I see no speakers in the queue. And so lets open there is no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, madame chair. Operation is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Please let us know if there are callers who wish to comment on item number 3. Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer okay. Public comment for item number 3 is closed. And thank you, supervisor, for clarifying the intent of the board and actually memorializing it with this legislation. Id like oh, supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman i just wanted to thank supervisor preston for the underlying ballot measure and for this proposal as well. I think we all saw over the last, you know, ten years, this extraordinary growth of private wealth through real estate in San Francisco and beyond. And i think we all knew even before covid that the central challenge for the city was the fact that wealth had not been broadly shared. There were so many people priced out of the city and the folks who really do the work of powering our economy were unable to afford to live in San Francisco. So i think, you know, this measure, which seeks to ensure that to the extent there is ongoing continued massive wealth generation through real estate, that that gets shared a little more broadly and the city is able to pursue some more of our goals in terms of housing for the people who actually do the work of powering our economy at the ground. And the folks who are being left behind by our economy. You know, so anyway, thanks, supervisor preston. Supervisor fewer huge wealth gap that we have here in San Francisco, perpetuating a lot of problems. I would like to make a motion to move this to the board with a oh. Hold on. Supervisor walton i just want to say i would love to be added as a sponsor to the resolution as i am to the legislation. Supervisor fewer thank you. Seeing no more comments, id like to make a motion to move to the board with a positive recommendation. Could i have a roll call vote, please . Clerk would you like to adopt the amendments before . Supervisor fewer yes, adopt the amendments. Motion to amend, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer yes. Now i make a motion to move this to the board with a positive recommendation as amended. Clerk on the motion, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Chair fewer aye. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you for your time and support. I appreciate it. Supervisor fewer thank you. So madame clerk, can you call item 4 and 5 together . Yes, item 4, Resolution Approving Development Agreement between the city and Reservoir Community partners for the balboa reservoir project with Public Benefits including 50 of Affordable Housing and four acres of publicly accessible parks and open space and making various findings. Item 5, resolution approving and thordzing the execution of an agreement for sale of real estate for the conveyance by the city acting through the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to reservoir xhubt partners of approximately 16. 4 acres of Real Property in assessors parcel block number 3180, lot number 190 for 11. 4 million and adopting findings. Members of the public who wish to provide comment on these items, should call 14156550001, meeting i. D. , 146 812 0226. Then press pound twice. If you have not already done so, dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please stay until the system says youve been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you. Today, we have with us president norman yee, and welcome, president yee and also happy birthday, president. What a wonderful way to be spending your birthday today with us. Thank you for joining us. President yee joining us today. The office of economic and Workforce Development. The sfpuc is also here presenting and there are many other staff that are available for questions. And, president yee, the floor is yours. President yee thank you, chair fewer, and thank you supervisor walton and mandelman for joining me for my celebration of my 50th birthday. Supervisor fewer [laughter]. President yee there is a number of pieces of in consideration for the balboa reservoir project. On monday, the land use and Transportation Committee heard the general planned amendments and the ordinance to establish a special use district. Today this committee will be considering the Development Agreement and also vote on the Public Utilities commissions purchase Sale Agreement. For background, the balboa reservoir project is located on 17 acres of puc land, adjacent to the city college of San Francisco. And in 2015, was proposal of site for housing on public land as part of the prop k program. The site was actually contemplated for housing a few times before, even when the numbers at city college. I deeply i became deeply involved with after seeing the need for a more Robust Community engagement process. I worked to create the Advisory Committee with appointed representatives from Westwood Park, sunnyside, city college trustee, Business Owner along ocean avenue, a member of the former balboa park station area plan committee, a representative from the puc community Advisory Committee and representative from one of the institutions in the neighborhood. They spent two years gathering input to create principles and parameters that form the developers Selection Process and the project that is before you today. The project proposes one 1100unit Housing Project that includes 50 affordability with 33 being provided by the developer and the remaining 17 by the city. This was hardfought win by the community. Nearly 40 nearly 4 acres of publicly accessible space, including a public park and a Child Care Center. This is all part of the package. Overall, i believe this project is lawful and includes many of wanted to see. 50 range. With the first preference for city College Faculty and staff. A twoacre public park that will be central to the project. A Child Care Center to serve 100 families and local construction, local Business Enterprise and prevailing wage. What i am most proud of is that this will also be a child friendly Housing Project. Because some of the tac it was something that the t. A. C. Pushed for. And that was incorporated into the codes in terms of defining family child friendly housing on monday. If San Francisco is to become a true child friendly city, we must place children at the center of the decisionmaking, including designing Housing Projects for families with children. So what we have here is a 40 of the units will have two and three bedrooms with 10 minimum for threebedroom units. But also include other elements such as shared community space, play activation in the open spaces, and child Center Design inside and outside the units. As you can see, we have many of these Community Benefits are reflected in the Development Agreement. That being said, its still an evolving document and with every conversation, we are making improvements. I know there was a call for to make this project 100 affordable and keep the public land. We would have we would have to had to deplete the entire 600 million housing bond and await further research. While i shared the ideology, it is not practicable and feasible. Ill leave to the circumstances with the puc to present, but this project gives us 550 much needed affordable units and still allows the city the ability to create more units with other project citywide. Today i want to provide a summary of the amendments we have on working to strengthen the Development Agreement and to incorporate feedback. We have been hearing from community stakeholders, advocates and board of supervisors. Many of these amendments have final language to include and others are still in the drafting process. For members of the public, you can find the summary online at the board of supervisors website. Go to todays budget and finance committee agenda. Click on the link to item 4 and look for the document link title summary of amendments. So, for the first set of amendments that are about really about affordable units. While the Development Agreement includes affordability restrictions, the terms were capped at 57 years. It has always been the intent of the Affordable Housing to be permanently affordable. I also recognize the importance of keeping the land underneath the Affordable Housing part of the city, citys portfolio, especially if we are providing funding for them. So those are two elements that were seeking amendments on. Therefore, we are making changes to require that the development dedicate three affordable parcels back to the city by deeding it back to the city. The parcels will then be released back to the developer to operate similar to other Mayors Office of Housing Projects with permanent affordability outcomes or restrictions. When it comes to educator Housing Affordability restrictions, we will be we want to make sure that this piece, which is a little bit different from the other parcels, that would like to amend it so that it reflects that the affordability of the educator housing would be extended out for other restrictions to 99 years of or the life of the project. So in other words, right now, that is sort of silence. We want to make sure that language is included. I want to note that once the project is completed, over 50 of the project site will be under public control access. When it comes to the developers commitment to build, we will also include a clause in there. Use it or lose it provision to address the concern that the developer may have unjustifiable delays in delivering the project. Particularly the affordable units. The development will include a schedule with milestones that have to be met by dates certain. I want to thank supervisor peskin for working with us on this particular amendment. The Development Amendment will also include a provision to further clarify the commitment to deliver 33 affordability of the project and to make sure that 33 is never altered. Never come back to us and say, hey, by the way, we cant do that. Were going to put a clause in that that does not allow that. They are obligated to do this. Period. In order to serve more households and diverse range of residents, we are working to refine the income eligibility levels. The developer will ensure that 50 of their affordable units will serve lowincome households and also better define the a. M. I. Range so we provide opportunities to a diverse range of households. So were working on that. And going back and forth, but we will make sure that these amendments get in by the time we hear it in next month at the full board. Supervisor safai, whose district is right next to city college, or a few blocks away, and to assure that we have a range of people that would include some of the 11 were going to make a commitment or ask to amend that the neighborhood preference be grown to a radius of 1. 15 miles to cover more of ingleside. The child care piece, i love to talk about child care as you all know. The next piece is important to our early care educator community. The rent of the Child Care Center will be set at 1 annually. Okay . This is 10,000 square feet that we have been able to negotiate with that the developer. And this supports a nonprofit provider who will operate in that space. We know child care providers were struggling even before the pandemic. Every bit counts and its critical for our society to prioritize the needs of our youngest residents and the families. Existing Development Agreement already includes the child care operator. Will dedicate half their slots at least half the slots to lowincome families. And when it comes to the open space management, there is open space. So we wanted to include some wording in there in how its going to be managed. The project will rededicate the park and open space to the public, but i understand concerns about how we will ensure that everyone feels welcome and that the Community Members outside of this project will be welcome also. So one of these that ive committed to do is make sure that in regards to the existing open spaces that we include members from Community Members that are outside the project boundaries so it doesnt become exclusive to just the People Living around there. The board extended the life of the balboa Reservoir Community Advisory Committee to next year so they can continue serving. If this project moves forward, the committee would help with engaging the public on the projects construction schedule, outreach, mitigation efforts and help troubleshoot any arising issues with the developer. We will include language in the Development Agreement to acknowledge the developers commitment to ongoing Community Engagement through the t. A. C. And other neighborhoods during the construction and even afterwards. So in other words, you know, i know just because theyre going to move forward with the project, i dont want them to lose site. They must continue working with the community at large. Lastly, we were including more information in the Development Agreement on the m. T. A. s commitment to improving transportation, traffic conditions and pedestrianbike safety in the neighborhood. The developer is committing to improvements around the site, but as you know, its Rachel Notley just the responsibility of the developer. Its not just the responsibility of the developer. It needs to be dealt with as a systemwide approach, including m. T. A. , that have promised to make improvements for many, many years. We have not seen much improvement at all around the ocean avenue and frida kahlo way. I want to clarify some land use issues. The project does not have any proposed retail. Studied it in the Environmental Impact report. We want to reflect the developers intent to not include store front retail space and the communitys desire to limit this, because they want to support the ocean avenue corridors businesses and not have have a competing set of businesses. So we would try to do that. Before i hand this back to chair fewer and the staff presentation, i also want to acknowledge that the developer is also working directly with city college of San Francisco on a memorandum of understanding between the two entities. City college will be planning construction for their Performing Arts Center and s. T. E. M. Building. And well clarify agreements on infrastructure, coordinate construction schedules and mitigate impacts. It is also it will also serve to reiterate some of the commitments made to benefit the greater city college community. There is a lot happening in this neighborhood and from the very beginning we knew that it had to be a collaboration. The board of trustees will be discussing the m. O. U. Tomorrow and will be working toward a final version in the coming weeks. I want to acknowledge that some of the Community Benefits for city college are also part of the Development Agreement. We are monitoring the city College Process closely. I want to extend my gratitude to the hundreds of hours that Community Members have spent to design this project and the staff at the office of economic workforce and Development Planning and also the Planning Department and the City Attorneys team for all the work they have put into this. I also want to acknowledge that the Development Team has been very responsive and receptive to all the feedback. We really appreciate their willingness to make all these changes. With that, colleagues, i hope to count on you, your support and will hand it off to the chair to call presenters. I want to know, also, before we do that, that the committee cannot vote with recommendation because of the ceqa appeal well be hearing in august. And i guess i have more, but i know ive been taking up a lot of time. So why dont we turn it over to the chair. Supervisor fewer thank you, president yee. I want to appreciate all the work that youve done. It seems as though youve really looked into the community and many of these new additions to the Development Agreement, i think, answers a lot of those questions and comments. So right now, i think that what wed like to do is go to our first speaker. And lets see, on item number 4 and 5, our first speaker is office of economic and Workforce Development. Hello. Thank you, chair fewer and president yee. Good morning, supervisor mandelman and walton. Im going to share my screen to present some slides. Supervisor fewer excuse me first, supervisor walton had a question or comment. Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I will wait. I jumped the gun. Ill wait until presentations and everything are over. Supervisor fewer okay. I will remember to call on you. Please continue. Great. Im with the office of economic and Workforce Development. Im joined today by the sfpuc, we have the Mayors Office of housing, Planning Department and sfmta. The bridge team is also present to answer questions. In todays committee, well be hearing two items from the balboa package. The Development Agreement ordinance and the sfpuc purchase agreement. Two associated items were heard at land use committee. The general plan amendment and the planning code and map coordinates. The project before you today is the proposed development of balboa reservoir. The site is owned by the city through the sfpuc and is located just north of ocean avenue at the intersection of a number of residential neighborhoods including sunnyside, ingleside and Westwood Park. City college, main campus, is directly to the east and the balboa park station is about a half mile walk. There are a number of muni bus lines and the light rail line running nearby. The balboa reservoir site was among the first identified through the citys public land for Housing Program which speaks to implement the seeks the implement the policy of the voter passed proposition k and the surplus property. The city working with the puc put forward to convey and redevelop an underused site. It will bring new housing to the site and provide all families of all incomes the opportunity to live in this transit and amenityrich neighborhood. The reservoir is currently 1,000 spaces of surface parking. A portion of which is leased to city college as overflow space. The project implements key aspects of the citywide equity approach. The site is on the west side of the city in a transitrich area among longstanding neighborhoods with Great Schools and a thriving business corridor. It rents an opportunity to equitably distribute throughout the city and on a site with no displacement of housing and businesses and enable the provision of a high level of Affordable Housing for a wide range of households. This project is unique in the Community Benefits, mainly the 50 Affordable Housing, originated with the community process. In 2015, supervisor yee established the balboa reservoir Advisory Committee that has held over 50 meetings and been the key forum for feedback and has continued to be active during covid. The c. A. C. In 2017 created and approved a development, principles and parameters document that was attached to the citys developer r. F. P. The parameters outlined the Key Community priorities for the site. That it be 50 affordable. That the new housing was geared to families as a range of incomes and the site was planned lawfully in order to create a new neighborhood, among other topics. The city selected the Developer Team, Reservoir Community partners, a joint venture of Bridge Housing and avalon bay communities. They have worked in concert with the c. A. C. Over the last three years to shape the communitys priorities into a successful project. The proposed project builds 1100 new homes, both for renters and homeowners. 550 units or 50 will be affordable as a range of income. This approach creates broad opportunity for a diversity of new residents. The new neighborhood fits thoughtfully into the surrounding community and supports family with safe streets, large open spaces, play areas, a Child Care Center, a Public Community room, and new connections to city college and ocean avenue. The developer will participate in robust Workforce Development programs during construction and will continue to will contribute to nearby transit improvements. The projects key benefit is 550 units of Affordable Housing on site. The housing will be available for households earning between 30 and 120 of ami, meaning for households who work in health care, the Service Industry, education, Public Safety, and all of the people that complete a neighborhood. The units are familysized. 150 of the units will be designated for affordable educator housing among the first in the city. The developer is obligated to contribute gap funding for 33 Affordable Housing in the project. The city will contribute gap funding for an additional 17 to reach 50 affordability. It is expected that the city funding will be allocated to affordable buildings e, a and b, for lowincome households. And per city practice, sources of gap funding will be identified and appropriated closer to construction start of affordable units by the city. This combination of developer funding from the market rate housing and the city funding in addition to the typical subsidy sources for Affordable Housing creates a feasible project 550 Affordable Housing units so we can continue to fund an equitable range of projects. As you can see, the balboa reservoir parcel is directly to the west of city colleges main campus. We have heard from College Trustees and stakeholders that the project must support the longterm health of the college. The Development Team has proposed to do so with the inclusion of affordable educator housing which will have a first preference for city college and allow the college to attract and retain diverse faculty and staff. We have heard the project must maintain students access to education. We have worked closely with the college and sfmta to prioritize investment. In addition, they require that the developer construct up to 450 Public Parking spaces that will support college drivers. The a. D. Codified each of those benefits so the city can ensure they are delivered as the project is built out. Transportation has been a robust topic of discussion throughout the Community Planning process with concerns about traffic and pedestrian safety. The Community Forum has spurred a number of collaborative efforts to improve transit and safety in this area. City college completed a parking analysis. The pedestrian realm will receive safety improvements from sfmtas frida kahloocean Improvement Project and expanded project along the frontage. In addition to the onsite improvements that the balboa Reservoir Team will be constructing, the developer will pay citywide t. S. F. Fees, fund measure to reduce delays on ocean avenue. Ill now turn it to michael carlijn from sfmta to continue the presentation. Good morning, chair fewer, supervisors mandelman, walton and president yee. Im the deputy manage for the sfpuc. Weve been engaged in the project for the last five years through the city public land for Housing Program. Were pleased to be with the board of supervisors for the resolution and Sale Agreement for the balboa reservoir site. The p. S. A. Provides for the sale of 16 acres to the partners for 11. 4 million to develop the project. The project will provide 50 Affordable Housing, Infrastructure Improvements and several other benefits that much needed in our city. The project represents collaboration between city departments and the developer and the community. The puc released a request for equal if i indications in 20 qualifications in 2016 to solicit Development Teams interested in purchasing and developing the site for housing. In 2017, the puc Commission Approved an agreement allowing the puc and the developer to pursue a purchase and Sale Transaction for the property. The p. S. A. Said they will purchase the parcel for 11. 4 million by december 2022. The purchase and Sale Agreement includes a close of escrow by december 2022 with initial depopts prior to closing. At the close of escrow, the developer may elect to have the city carryback financing at a 3 interest rate. Portions of the site are subject to the 2012 access easement agreements between the puc and city college. To develop the project, the original access easement agreements will be amended to allow the widening and new right of way. The sfpuc will maintain a parcel with certain surface and subsurface water transmission lines that belong to the puc. The puc is creating a 20year open space license to the developer for the benefit of the general public as showed in the general master plan. To the next slide, please. The puc is obligated to obtain fair market value for the sale of the property and relies on certified appraisers for the fair market value. Its supported by a appraisal from june 2020 which finds that the fair market value to be 11. 4 million. It was created on a Development Approach using 33 Affordable Housing threshold in the project, which is the developers gap funding obligation. It is supported by the city Advisory Committee Development Principles and parameters and by voter approved proposition k in 2015. In addition to the independent market research, the appraiser considered the following factors in determining a fair market value. The complexity of the project, which requires significant horizontal Infrastructure Improvements in a variety of uses of the site, apartment, Affordable Housing, town holmes. The Affordable Housing component. The cost of construction entitlement as reflected in the model in the appraisers independent research. In addition to the appraisal, the feasibility examined project costs and revenues which support the 11. 4 million land value. The analysis of those costs and projections was reviewed and confirmed by two separate consultants, century urban, and sigh feld. Clifford and associates confirmed the evaluation. We did not believe that an praisal review would be appraisal review would be necessary. This is a great project with significant Public Benefits. Thank you, and ill turn it back over to lee. Thank you, michael. Before turning to the discussion, i want to highlight the d. A. Amendments that supervisor yee has submitted on Affordable Housing. Changes will focus on permanent affordability. Refining a. M. I. Distributions and broadening neighborhood preference. The Child Care Center will have a guarantee of a nominal 1 rent to support a nonprofit operator. The open space plan will include Public Engagement and the d. A. Will include new provisions for the rapid production of Affordable Housing. To close, i wanted to share the construction saving and schedule which projects phase one, beginning in 2022 and phase 2 in 2025. Ill conclude here. City staff and the Developer Team are available for questions. Thank you for the opportunity to present today. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, chair fewer. There we go. Thank you so much. Just one question and, again, i want to echo chair fewers comments about all of the work youve done with community, president yee. I know how a Big Development project can be. And so just thank you so much for listening to community and doing all the work that got you to this point. Appreciate it. The one question i do have just get a chance to ask. I know some of this is addressed in the Development Agreement, but just want to know where the developer and city college are in terms of finalizing m. O. U. In certain areas that have been identified as issues with the college . President yee so the m. O. U. Is between the development the developers and city college. And so i dont know if the developers are there to answer that question. I actually facilitated a meeting recently in my office to get them to Start Talking about it. And after that, i left it for them to move on to having that discussion. Can you make any comments . Sure. Can you hear me . Supervisor fewer yes. Identify yourself. Sure, im with avalon bay, part of the Development Team. So, yes, one of the first things our team did when selected to be the developers of this project back in, i think it was 2016, was to reach out to the college and reach out to Community Members to the administration. We worked with the administration. There was a 2016 resolution before we were selected where the board of trustees laid out their goals. We went back, i believe, twice to the board of trustees, with updates along with oewd to talk about what wed been working on and what we intended to do. We were following that path toward an m. O. U. That administration has since left the college and a lot of that effort was stalled, you know, mid to late 2019. But we learned recently the board of trustees recently picked up i believe it was earlier this month met again and picked up an old draft of the m. O. U. That the administration has left and said, lets get this done. Lets make sure we have something codified. In the meantime, the key commitment that weve made to the college regarding faculty housing, replacement parking are all embedded in the d. A. Those are our obligations to the city to make those things happen, but were still hopeful we have an agreement directly with the college to codify things with them. You know, were excited to hear the trustees picked this up and theyve exprosecutorsed a goal to expressed a goal to do an m. O. U. With you between our meeting in early july and final approval by the board. We understand theyre meeting tomorrow night. We havent seen the draft they want to propose. Were eager to see that and get it hammered out and get it done. That is the schedule. Weve got a couple of weeks before now and the full Board Hearing and thats our intention. Supervisor walton through the chair, so just for my clarity, you are hoping to have m. O. U. In place before all the approval . Yes. That was a question to me . Supervisor walton yes. Yeah, thats our hope and our intention. And you know, because were not sure what the process will be on the college side, weve made the key commitments to the city so there is no question. But were going to continue working as much as we can with the college and try to get something done. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I think supervisor mandelman may be able to shed a little light on this. I think you were on the board at that time. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman yeah, i dont know if im going to shed light on where city college is right now in terms of the negotiation of the m. O. U. , but its a fair question and one ill be definitely interested in hearing more of before we vote these items up or down in the full board. Ill have some i think ill have more things to say about this after the public. One question i want to ask from the getgo. I want to ask city staff why this is not structured as a ground lease project . Supervisor fewer is staff here to answer the question . This is the puc. I think i can answer that question. We didnt structure it as ground lease because we didnt think it would be feasible to get the high numbers for Affordable Housing. So that was not our intention originally. So. Supervisor mandelman because you did not believe that there were developers who would be interested in doing a 99year rental project . That was our belief. And were going to do infrastructure financing tools with this site. Supervisor mandelman i would say that every port project is a ground lease project. City college is 33 project. City of oakland has a policy of doing ground leases. So anyway, we can talk about this after Public Comment. But thank you. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Could we hear from the b. L. A. , please . Yes, their fewer. Members of the committee, im going to start with item number 5, which is the sale of the balboa reservoir to Reservoir Community partners. The sale price is 11. 4 million and this was based on appraisal by a third party appraiser, however, the Development Agreement would waive the appraisal review which is a requirement of the administrative code. Also, yes, the proposed agreement would provide for the seller to carry back financing on the sale, page 24, shows the schedule of those payments. We consider improvement of the resolution approvement to be for the board. Item number 4 is the Development Agreement between the city and balboa resu balboa Reservoir Community partners. It was summarized in the report. We do want to point out on page 17 of our page 15 of the report, is the relative schedule of the development of the market rate housing and Affordable Housing in other Community Benefits over to phases of the project. The citys actual obligation under this project is to provide Gap Financing for 183 Affordable Housing units. The cost would be 43. 8 million based on 2019 dollars. We do have a recommendation to amend the proposed ordinance to request that executive director to include an option for the city to purchase the Affordable Housing properties on the balboa reservoir site and the future financing of the Affordable Housing Development Set out in the agreement. We consider approval of the item number 4 to be a policy matter for the board of supervisors. Im available for any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Any more questions or comments . If not, lets open it up for Public Comment. Madame clerk, how many people are in the queue . Madame chair, currently there are 31 callers listening and 16 callers in the queue. Supervisor fewer okay. Lets start Public Comment. Everyone has two minutes. Thank you. Yes, callers, if you have not done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Please queue the first caller for item 4 and 5. Hello. My name is christopher. I am a district 7 resident and the balboa reservoir site. I strongly support the proposed housing. Its an excellent location for mixed income. It will be a significant step in the direction the city owes Affordable Housing crisis and provides many other important Public Benefits. The market rate component of the project is controversial, but it pays for much of the Affordable Housing and the other benefits. It would require much larger public subsidies but could fund Affordable Housing elsewhere. The proponents of 100 Affordable Housing appear to argue that the project should be limited to 550 units. Half the size of the proposed project. That would then mean the 550 households that could have lived in the market rate component would instead bid up the cost of housing in other neighborhoods. Neighborhoods that may be more susceptible to gentrification and displacement than Westwood Park. Reject any demands for increased Public Parking. Providing more subsidized parking will promote more driving in defiance of the transit requirements and the citys efforts to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors, happy 50th, president yee. Thank you for taking the time. I am calling in strong support of this project. I am steeven. I live on ocean avenue, a mere 300 feet from the balboa reservoir. I could not be more excited for this project. When i walk down ocean avenue, i see the many Small Businesses scattered. Many of those businesses were struggling even prior to the pandemic. A few months ago, not long after the initial lockdown, my favorite spot, a bakery, closed its doors. My girlfriend and i were crushed. If only wed done something to keep them open longer. To our great relief, they reopened a few weeks later. We make a point to eat there every weekend regardless whether were hungry for it or not. We need to do everything we can to preserve the Small Businesses. The density of the project would create many opportunities for more. With a fusion of new residents within walking distance, Small Businesses would thrive and provide much needed community. The 550 affordable units provide much needed housing for the workers of these Small Businesses who must commute tremendous distances to get to work. This is the goldilocks zone for housing. Its close to mass transit, shopping and dining. Lets not delay any longer and create opportunities for the Small Businesses of ocean avenue and build this project. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Hi. I rent in district 1. I was born in San Francisco. Hope to live here for a long time and we really need a lot of housing so this is a wonderful well thoughtout Housing Project for all the reasons that the supervisors have mentioned in the input. I think specifically the neighborhood legislation is really important in ascertaining that people who are struggling with housing, have a level of security to build families to stay in San Francisco and i think its great and support this project. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors and very happy birthday to board president yee. My name is sara. Im a resident in district 9. Im here in strong support for this project. Were in the midst of a pandemic compounded by a severe housing crisis. At 1100 units of housing here, will bring much needed housing and jobs. We need to be approving these projects now to help push us through the economic Recovery Period while keeping a keen eye on the bigger vision for the future of San Francisco. I want to take this opportunity to commend the neighborhood preference radius which was increased to include parks in conjunction with both supervisors asking for that to happen. With neighborhood preference legislation for this project, we know that a portion of Affordable Housing will be set aside for residents currently living in the neighborhood. With the lack of housing certainty in this chaotic time, that security will be a huge benefit to families. Im very excited about this project. I think its been a Long Time Coming and i urge you to support and approve and move this project forward as soon as possible. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. My name is stuart. Im the attorney representing the eir appeal, however, im not talking about the appeal. I want to talk about the project itself and particularly the financial aspects. And i sent a letter to you yesterday about that and im not going to repeat what is in that letter. I hope youll read through it carefully. I do have a couple of concerns, though, i want to raise. The first i appreciate supervisor yees new amendments to the Development Agreement, but im concerned that those amendments are being offered at almost literally the 11th hour. And they are very substantial amendments to the agreement. I think the supervisors and the public deserve time to review those and comment on those. This right now is essentially the last public hearing on this project unless you allow us some additional time for Public Comment. And obviously, with these amendments being offered just this morning, there is no time for the public to review and comment on them. We need that time. The other comment and this relates to supervisor waltons question having do with the m. O. U. With city college. We have two processes going on. The citys process involving the Development Agreement and city colleges agreement involving the m. O. U. Those processes should not be separated. The Development Agreement should not go to the board of supervisors until the m. O. U. Can be linked to it and incorporated into it so that you have one agreement that is binding on all of the parties. Having two separate agreements just doesnt work well. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Thank you, linda. Supervisor mandelman, id like to thank you for bringing up why not a ground lease . Anyway, in 2018, the b. L. A. Did a report that clearly called for application of the administrative code requirement for independent appraisal review. It also specified for a rigorous independent analysis to ensure that the land price paid to sfpuc is maximized. The p. S. A. Fulfills neither of these recommendations. [please stand by] its a policy matter for the board. If you read between the lines. Bla does not approve the city financing but without saying so out front sends back to you as a policy matter. The requirements are independent. The a raisal review wa appraisat for the public. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Superiors, ive spoken before about this project. No developer, no developer should own the land. I have deliberated in over 50 disposition and Development Agreements. This is illegal. Who the hell do you think you are making some amendments and we have these retro meeting andi dont want to use the word, two minutes and we cant even deliberate. Who the hell do you think we are in San Francisco. This matter will go to the fbi. Be very careful what you say. Each and every world will be evaluated by the federal investigation. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, superiors. Im speaking on behalf of the members of youth and families many of whom reside adjacent it the reservoir. We urge you to reject the proposal and come back to the site that keeps it publicly owned and allows affordable affe housing. Found in the publicly owned sites, it should never happen especially next to our city college one of the major institutions to support equity. They sho should not sell publicy owned landthere are many instances of publicly owned land to develop Affordable Housing. Theres a current fiscal crisis. The commission of the Enterprise Agency with a enterprise source for the housing and Community Development facing budget short falls. That way the city would save money and they would be able to leverage this important Land Resource to more deeply address Affordable Housing and city college infrastructure. Thank you supervis supervisors g what is right for the public and city. Thank you for not selling out. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im calling in strong sup or osupportof the project. Im excited about the prospect of a new park and the addition of child care in our neighborhood. And the Affordable Housing. Im happy that there will be additional residents to support the businesses. On a larger scale im excited about the prospect of additional housing. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello caller . Oh, hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Im an employment and training specialist at college of San Francisco. Child development, architecture students and theres more. I believe with more residents in the area, we can increase enrollment. Its a dual purpose. We develop opportunities of internship and Career Pathways for our students. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Im advocating for the reservoir to be in the hands of our community for 100 affordablaffordableafforafforda. Along with our most vulnerable. A[indiscernible]. The mou in place to guarantee process and social equity. Our most vulnerable can secure what they need. A much needed ten thousand units of Affordable Housing. Im hoping the purpose behind this measure can be seen which is public land for Community Need ses. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, chairhi sm can you hea. Can you hear me . Im a district one resident and mebl of thriving. The proposal perfect you today keep the site publicly owned. They do not disclose that this tax payer disclosed site is 100 fordable mplet its mosfordaffa. Supervisors simile have to pass a reses illusion t resolution sy have to sell it for market. This should pe model used for palpoa residents. Infrastructure is already in the budgetreject this deal and dont throw away this deal for Affordable Housing for generations to come. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. A lot has been introduced today. Its a unique public ass set ast should provide a unique Public Benefit. We build one hundred and 40 of the market rate goals. The original support for the housing balance was to stop the development of market rate housing and tha the aits reala concept of equity. Enforcing people of color and low income families out of the city. We could be building a forrable housing. We need to develop every site for a forrable housing. Especially such a large site as the balboa reservoir. We cannot be selling off our Public Resources sm thsources. The very resources that we need to make housing affordable. To build and sustain a livelihood in this city. We have to ask who are we building for and what are we billing. Thank you for your call. Next speaker, please. There was no clear understanding of the basis for the land use agreements. Today you heard president yee speak about many unre unresolved issues. Why is this being sold to a developer. Theres a shortage of land in San Francisco. Why is a for profit developer being able to buy this land for 5 of its market value. What portion of the Affordable Housing is the developer paying for . Why didnt the Environmental Impact report consider 100 Affordable Housing project . Why arent all the decisions for this project being tabled until an mou between city college and developers has been agreed to. It will protect the interest of city college and is so vulnerable should it good fore ases kurnly planned. Please postpone any decisions on this until any and all questions can be answe answered. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for you your comme. Next speaker, please. District seven. I had a prepared thing and all this stuff happens and now everything is up in the air. In general, i respect any request that you request further work for all the reasons people have been bringing up regarding city college. When the project first happened, there was scabbingly a kration project happened. Citsitcity college was not in te picture for quite a while. Things like parking are not sufficient. Stake holders have taked about in the meetings. Thats the point i have with the Development Agreement. I urge you to ejek the purchase a dpree m. These amen ms vn had time for r. My biggest thing about this whole project is the land should stay public. San francisco in San Francisco proper has so little public land that it owns. Generations have passed this down for San Francisco to have and control. For us to privatize this doesnt make any sense to me. There has to be some way that a lease can be dn if theres a mark he and made. Thank you f. Next speaker, please. C hello . C hi s hello . Hi. We have been participating in the development and im calling in support. Given the housing crisis and lack of Affordable Housing. Especially when built with Good Transportation access. The child care access and surrounding neighborhoods. Half of the Child Care Spaces will be subsidized for low income families. The park will offer two acres of Program Areas with active play ground areas for child play areas. There are no immediate parks in the area sm reservoi. Weve needed community i improvements for so long. I would like to thank president yee for forming the association for more Community Input. We are especially supportive of the education housing for c c sf. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please e. I really appreciate all work that has been put in to this proposal. You have power and authority to keep the reservoir land public. You can to this pause we have the california Municipal Bank as an option sm the analysis report cheerly tate that a eucheerly s Affordable Housing. Other benefits id fied by the bi thby the committee. Why maintain public land . Open airspaces are needed for good health. Especially for the under serves working families and the poor. The city have provided pi open space. To you know hodo you know how to these spaces . This cant be happening. We want to have a public space that will provide in kind of access accessible s accessible. I do appreciate comments that were put forward today. They do need to be reviewed to address all of the concerns that we have. The developer agreement still only requires up to 450 Parking Spaces. They will probably just provide 220. Until you offer these students with educational opportunities. Regarding the affordable. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. This is john. Im the chair of the c a c. Weve had about fifty or sixty meetings, ive lost count for principles and parameters to develop this property. What were coming up with is 11031100 units of housing. I prefer to call them homes. 50 of that is accordable. Different groups of affordable cohorts. In addition to eleven hundred homes were talking about eleven hundred homes for families. That means we have child care, a park, common spaces, this is an actualits more than homes, its more than family homes. Its a neighborhood. Were talking about a real legacy for future generations. A real birthday president for president yee. Theyll be pointing out to their children thats the neighborhood i grew up. Its a real opportunity to provide equal housing opportunity for San Francisco. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Development prpdevelopment parag started in 2016. Development of 100 Affordable Housing. We work with the community Advisory Committee to pass Affordable Housing. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im a renter in district eight. I wanted to focus on the answer thatthe question you posed, why not the land lease. The answer from staff was we got more Affordable Housing this way. If it was still under city control we would get less Affordable Housing sm its not i think is a smart pragmatic way to get more Affordable Housing on this site. Its been decades in the making. Were finally doing something great getting over the hump. Building homes here will be really great for the city. Close to transit, we can take advantage of what the city is doing with bus only lanes and bike lanes. This is a great shift towards environmental su sustainability. Im in great support of this. This has been dead in the water for 20 years. Hopefully 20 years from now there are thousand ses of people whs of peoplewho can say this wy great place for me. The supervisors can be really proud of bringing this a accomplishment to the city. Focus on numbers. People like 100 affordable. If we have one hundred units here thank you for your comments. Can we go back to the previous speaker. I believe he was cut off. Our apologies. Thank you. I was cut off. Ill start from the beginning. The urge that the reservoir be utilize for maximum public good, wre work witwe work supporting e housing and developed a proposal for development to reach 100 affordability. Our working class communities were asserting that housing was out of reach who today are suffering from hives highest raf unemployment. Taiin this critical final stret, this committee has the responsibility to act on the Planning Commissions resolution for publicly owned land to respond to the Housing Community needs. I urge you to reject the proposal that is before you today and demand that city departments come back that keeps this publicly owned site. Thank you for bringing me back on line and doing what is right for the workers and Community College and not selling out to public interest. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im a renter in district five. I want to speak in support of this project. Ive been living here and would love to live here the rest of my live and that include includes a family. I live in a studio which is all i can afford. These types of projects are the opportunity for people to be able to raise families in the city. To not have to choose living in the city they love and not having a family. Market rate units, this will help those families. Going back to this whole thing about this being public land and developer interest and all of that. It loses sight of why and who were building this housing for. Were building the housing for the people who are going to live there. The number one concern is how can we get as many people to live on the site as possible. Think about the five hundred and fifty families who will soon have a place to live because of these below market rate units. They arent going to care who owns the land or if it was sold for what amount. What percentagethey are going to care that they got housing where they can raise their kids near a dprai great university. Think about those low income families because of the work you are doing. This is a great birthday president for the chair. Thank you for occu your comm. Next speaker, please. I live in district five. We hear a lot of talk about howing needs. Theres a grit need for housing, a forrable howing sm in the laugh fif yers san francisc Affordable Housing. We have a budget deficit of nearly 2 million. By the time we actually build it thousands of people who would like to live in this home, would likely need the space. Theres no alternative to fall back on. If we dont build this, it will remain a parking lot. Were choosing between 100 affordable and not 100 affordable project. Theres no second choice here. I urge you to build this project and keep people from being displaced. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. I welcome more of our neighborhood being considered in the extended buffer zone. Id like to consider or at least understand better the implications as this is new information. I welcome the new addendum exhibit that were told will be in the Development Agreement that is not yet available. This exhibit will address our many requests to substitute electric back up batteries that was part of the original plan. The oniet an onsite and off sith impacts. We need more time to read the wording and digest this information in order to comment on it. Other significant adverse impa impacts for envairnmental impact rfer to botenvironment willcread parking nightmare. The timing is a concern because the concurrent construction period is expected to be from 2021 to 2024. Parking spaces on both city college land and the balboa reservoir will be backed up. This will be happening post pandemic where retraining is needed. Id like to include that because its on a tight schedule and very inflexible schedule sm i request priority be given to construction of the threeter to be reflected into Environmental Impact report. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Can we take the next speaker. There are currently 27 callers listening and 13 in the queue. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. I wan to thank supervisor yee for making this all happen. I support this proposal very much sm i live i . I live in district seven. I moved in the maybe hood about five years ago. It was majority black neighborhood. It resulted in the peek populatiopeakpopulation of blac. Back then our neighbors recommended housing here. Thank you for quu your comme. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Im a lifelong resident. Like everyone on the call i see an issue with human rights. Our city is not suffering from a lack of housing in general but lack of Affordable Housing. I cannot help but see that 50 Affordable Housing is not a solution but a trojan horse. I feel like its negotiating the facnegating thefact that its bd by private developer. I think the public land should stay in the publics hands. Understanding that anything public land is so short in San Francisco. It really needs to be built, any housing really needs to be built with city college an teachers in mind s. I can tell you wrying no right t will not serve at majority of students and teachers that need it right now. The alternate proposals will receive this knee. I really urge our supervisors to not green light this progeny further. Consider the legacy that will be left if public land is transferred over to private Developers Like avalon bay. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im calling to strongly urge you to reject the project. The proposal to sell the public property to developerslook at housing a basic human need that should be considered feasible would be to turn your back on the people of San Francisco. The existence of any market rate housing submitting to the need for somebody to profit from. Other callers are pointing out that the selling of public land is not the only interpretive. Develop housing at this site does notwe can keep the property in the Public Domain by a simple act of public purchase and dont need to compel it to auction by the highest bidder. 100 affordable if possible. We are in a moment where people recognize if we want to change things, we cant conduct business as usual sm we hav. We have to make bold moves. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. good afternoon commissioners. My main point here considering the unmanageable crisis were in wrying now, health crisis, covid crisis are mostly addressing systemic racism and black lives matter. Shortly after the murder of george floyd the Planning Commission director discussed how Going Forward with any project would require a social equity Racial Equity analysis. All of these forking forwardthese things have to happen now. We are all in a state of shock sm its not okay that the black population has decreased 43 percent in San Francisco. All of the displaced students are replaced by luxury housing. I want it know transit is beautiful. Transit for whom . Not for the displaced students which the luxury apartments can see from very far from location. They are glowering down over city college. It allows us to have essential workers be trained to do Front Line Work necessary today in this unimaginable time of we simply need to pause for a sec an considering all o of the comments in addressing that. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Im resident of the 611. Im in full support of this project. More Community Benefits would be a huge benefit to our city an to the budget. I bike next to the college and it takes a certain amount of wrecklessness to bike there. When school is in session its still a problem. We use number of Parking Spaces and make transportation less reliable for students and neighbors who need it the most. I appreciate working together to improve the streets and eb enabe more students to take public transit. This project provides needed homes to the neighborhood. Thank you for kru your comme. Next speaker, please. Im a doctor that takes care of people in need of housing everyday. If i had a choice of prescribing medicine or a home. I would prescribe a home. I cant prescribe homes but you all can and i strongly hope you support this project. Five hundred fifty Affordable Homes is great. Im really excited and thank you very much. Thank you for kru your comme. Next speaker, please. good afternoon board of supervisors. Happy birthday to supervisor yee. Im a retired rn with the city and county of San Francisco. Im african american. Ive lived in the omi district 11 for seventy years. Ive noticed the changes in this neighborhood. Were down to three to 5 of african americans. Im within a group thats been able to hang on. Im concerned because many many times of thoase those african an communities have been disenfranchised. Why not have 100 Affordable Housing. The physician noted that people are suffering, why not make sure that we have a plan in place that can address some of the iinacceptive. We need to maintain this property as 100 affordable and make sure that allmany people that have been forced out by deceptive practices and have not been able to return to San Francisco, perhaps those members can be addressed. From five hundred fifty to eleven hundred fully Affordable Housing. There are plans that would allow that to occur that do not involve the use of this land as the privately owned and operated. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. Good morning. My name is michael aarons. Im president of the West Wood Park association. It was formed to represent people. Evaluation, as my written commentshow is it possible that the fair market value is only eleven point four Million Dollars. A companiy is not provide. We can only reverse engineer how they intend to disvalue. It says that pages 23 and 24 the appraised value are based on the expected revenue minus the cost of development. They took away from the valuation of the property the anticipated contributions to be Affordable Housing. In fact, as we say in our letter, the developer is not relying on its own monies. It is not. As we say in our letter, its seeking public money, not its own money for the units its responsible for building. Public money for the infrastructure and also for the park. The public money and subsid subsidiesthe value of this property is one hundred to one hundred fifty Million Dollars. As we say in our letter, this should be reanalyzed. We havent seen a copy of the appraisal. It should be produced to the public. Thank you for clu comments. Before we take the next speaker. I wanted to note there are 17 callers listening and 14 in the queue. Next speaker, please. Hello. A lot of the callers seem to be focusing on housing. Of course San Francisco needs housing, this is not an argument. The issue is how its being sold. It should be 100 low income housing. That is not a affordable. Its not bold or idealistic to think of this way. If you want to be bold donate it back to the native americans or indirchg nowindigenous people. The fact that you are privatizing public land is ridiculous. You are representing us sm pleasus. Please please please be. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello. Am i on . Yes. Please proceed. Ive been a faculty member of city college for many decades. Ive tried to prevent how the project will harm the college. My concerns were not considered because as ive been told, the train has left the station and College Officials are sesi sine early request that you all give what many call a beloved institution a chance to work with you. It gives us time to step back and do what is right. Next speaker, please. Yes, hello. Speaking for equity for older students sm wstudents. We can be reached at equity forr older students dot org. The issue is public land being sold privately forever. City college is in very dire straights. The board of trustees and administration have made massive class cuts including the almost complete disruption of the older adults program. Three hundred classes cut last fall. Five hundred in the year before. This year, huge cuts in the esl program. Campuses are closing. Now theres to be another cut to existing use and potential growth including Affordable Housing and other uses by city college. We urge you to consider that many of the staff and teachers of city college are opposed to this as well. I would lake to bring your attention to two letters that were recently sent to the committee. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im in support of the reservoir project. I hope you move this project forward. Its exactly what we need into san given our housing and climate crisis. Its a transit thought oriented development. Its close to a bart station. It supports five hundred fifty affordable units. The large number is because of the private partnership. This is the kind of project that we need. Its also family oriented. Its not just the stu studio ore bedroom apartments. It includes the connections for transit for other users of the bart station and transit in the area. The College Students et cetera. Public spaces. Its exactly the type of project we need. You urge you to approve this project. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. This neighborhood desperately needs more housing. What do you think the rent of my old unit will do when theres new units miles away. It will be lowered. I think the value and not the title. We can let private individual dollars havshave the shell if wi wish that the city would have taken more of the risk and rewards of Brand Development for themselves. It wish it wore developed as a Long Term Land use. I hope we can repeal proposition 13. However, i disagree with anybody that said we should make city owned 100 affordable. Please keep all units both market rate and Affordable Housing. Please approve the Development Agreement at the fair market value. Thank you for your comments. Before we take the next speaker. There are approximately 33 callers listening and eight in the queue. Next speaker, please. Im opposite to the parking lot of city college. It has 1400 spaces. They are comeetl are completelyh time there is a school day. Public land needs to remain public. And have the greatest amount of users. If you consider that eleven hundred units may be used by ultimately three thousand people but if i have a city College Buddy students of thirty thousand and they graduate every two years, you end up in thirty years with six hundred thousand students who have benefited from the public land. Dont underestimate it. Because the people who will occupy the apartments, they just across ocean avenue and San Francisco has not solved the housing problem. The housing problem for low income people work withing the Hospitality Industry is preferred. You ca cannot guarantee this to. We have lost our public property for very low price. Please consider that six hundred thousand students benefit in thirty years if you keep this. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. I urge your support for the Land Development deal and project. I have to say as someone whose family has called this home for thirty years. Im the only one left in my Family Living in the city because of disgusting attitudes like that. That land hases bee land has bet for fifty years. This is best use of the land for this deal at this time. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im a long time member of San Francisco. Long time resident of San Francisco and a member of uni action. Im calling today to submit my strong and complete support of this project. Theres not enough housing, i wish there was more. Frankly, ill take what i can get. Im really excited about the five hundred plus units of Affordable Housing and the one thousand plus units of housing. Theres so many who need it. Many who are looking to move to San Francisco especially given this time rz ss are tough now. On a personal note, i really think we should get this done down. Were in such a housing crisis. Were lacking so many homes in San Francisco. This should be a slam dunk. Lets get this one done. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Im calling in full support of this project. Id like to say happy birthday to president yee. I know many families who live in the five hundred fifty affordable units in the reservoir are going to thank you for years to come. Incredible access to transit. Im disappointed to the Home Owners Association calling in in opposition to this. Especially when were in a housing crisis. Were talking about five hundred unit thats are being built in a part of the city that really does have access. This was disie decided upon thet that was commissioned to see how much money the city needed each year to reach the Affordable Housing goals. The callers asking for 100 Affordable Housing, i understand that. We need affordable units rk not a parkinunits, not a parking lot. This is only good for the environment and good for city college oa enrollment. I hope that you approve this. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Im a San Francisco resident and action member calling in support of the reservoir project. Im going to read a few comments in support of this project. I support housing because families deserve to live in San Francisco. We want to continue to live in a real city not a wealthy owned place. This plan looks great. I support this Housing Project because it will bring more Affordable Housing to San Francisco. Speaking for myself, i strongly support this project given the city wide impacts. Housing we can be proud of for generations to come. It must be handled in a abundane enoughwe need suburban rich areas to not destroy our planet. I thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. I think we need to go back to the drawing board. The Development Agreement has what it considers to be adequate and thats been the attitude all along that the city college doesnt matter. City does matter, its the place that trains the first responders, nurses, and all of the jobs that makes the city of San Francisco what it is. The mou building is four stories high. The proposal here is for eight. These buildings are gigantic. All over the years theres codes that the maximum amount of housing should be halfhave half the amount. Just have five hundred fifty units of 100 affordable. Still leave access. Thrsetheres only one city colle that provides economic benefit for all the people it trains. If you destroy the city college after the voters just voted on eight hundred Million Dollars of improvements, our Performance Arts center and engineering and arts and mathematics building those are the buildings that are slated to go immediately on the upper lot. Dont crush our dreams. Let us have a chance to better our lives with what we learn at city college. Thank you for qulu your comm. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is ken edg rustle. I applaud and support the development. The eleven hundred units are sorely needed. For a lot of this size in a prime location its too bad we cant house even more people. I want to first wish president yee a happy birthday and thank staff for this extensive work. 50 Affordable Housing. I support building more homes for teachers such as those who work at city college. I support building more homes for people who work in San Francisco and shouldnt be pushed into ever lengthening commutes that are opposite of the Greenhouse Gas. San is a welcoming place for people. I support more neighbors. We need to move forward not endlessly delay homes for people. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is robin pam. Im a rese resident of district seven. I strongly urge you to approve this project. Tses its a result of many yearf Community Engagement with the community. We need Affordable Homes and market rate homes that make the project work. Its important for San Francisco to speed this development along. The cost of housing is rising incredibly rapidly for everyone. As a neighbor i want to voice my strong support for passing this project. Not going back to the drawing board. That will would delay this project even further. Too bad we cant house more people in this project because its such a great site. Its close to transit and a great neighborhood. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. I am honestly pretty cynical about anything that the board does with regards to Affordable Housing because previous projects have not really benefited middle income and working class communities in San Francisco. What would count as Affordable Housing is for people who make six figure salaries. Its designed for entry tech level workers. Your barris bar east hospitalit, construction workers, all these other communities are going to continue to be pushed out to the east bay. San francisco is going to be subsidizing these so called Affordable Housing units. I dont see why you should continue funding these projects when they are not really actually creating truly Affordable Housing. They are just subsidizing a certain classthey are not even san franciscans. They are recent immigrants that may or may not stay, who are probably going to leave very soon because they dont want to stay in San Francisco during this covid 19 pandemic that could imo on fo go on for years. I think this is project is a waste of tax payer dollars. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Im a district eight resident and a renter in San Francisco francisco. I strongly support this project. It will replace a usually empty parking lot. Whenever i walk by this parking lot rarely is it more than halfway full. It will replace a slab of concrete with more than a thousand homes that are subsidized and affordable. Frankly, im disappointed to hear the speaker before me complain about some immigrants living in these units. San francisco is known for being a welcoming place. A key San Francisco value is being welcoming and that means being welcoming of everybody. This project will accomplish those goals. Im disappointed to see the opposition rely on racist opposition. Im a professor at the university of california. I wanted to share some personal experience in regard it this. All time we have graduate and undergraduate students, ive had conversations with about the cost of housing. We have to deal with daytoday. Students retain faculty to have people be part of our community to be the besti think if were thinking aboutwe have better reasons to afford this project. Im a member of the lgbtq community. I see so many people thinking about moving to San Francisco thinking its this accepting place. But the steps that were taking to not accept projects like this one were shutting out those exact vulnerable populations. Projects like this dont get approved nearly often enough. If we want to be a community that can be welcoming and safe place, we have to approve a project like this one. For our Education Systems and community. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisors. Cory smith on behalf of the San Coalition commission. Happy birthday to president yee and all the work he has done for this project. The proposal in front of you today means eleven hundred new homes. Five hundred fifty subsidized affordable. This is just incredibly valuable Public Benefit to district benefit to the community as a whole. Because a lot of people seem to not know a ton about the Affordable Housing. The housing were building is for our electricians and Fire Fighters and high school teachers. The people who work in our post offices, service workers, landscapers. All of these are the types of people that were trying to keep in San Francisco. President yee mentioned on monday this will generate four times as many Affordable Homes as has been built over the last decade. When you add in child care benefits and everything else. Everybody that has worked so hard to get this project to this place, really deserves a lot of credit. There are a bunch of people who are advocating for 100 su subsidized housing, that is great. I would love for them to be involved. Its a great project. Thank you. I just wanted to make a note that were still in the budget and finance Committee Meeting and 1 00 appropriations meeting will convene as soon as as this meeting adjourns. Thank you for your patience. Next speaker, please. Hello, im calling in support of this project. I was just actually going by lake mirr set on the bus actually and you see all these rvs. These people need housing. These are people going to s. F. State. These are people teaching at city college. You know. People are having to live in their rvs and theyre being harassed because there is a government tournament. Part of the trails are closed to accommodate a golf park. Nobody is complaining about that public land, but people are making racist remarks that we should not be welcoming new people into our communities. Its ridiculous. We need more housing. Were in the middle of a global pandemic. People need to be a bit more welcoming and friendly. Thank you, i totally support this project. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Madame chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Public comment on items number 4 and 5 are now closed. So before us today we have a recommendation. I think that it actually compliments president yee has brought fort and i know that president yee addressed many of the issues we heard. But i just want to reiterate that a few questions just to remind folks since we heard a substantial number of Public Comments and reoccurring themes. I just wanted to confirm with president yee that the b. L. A. Recommends that an option be included for the city to purchase Affordable Housing properties at the balboa reservoir site. And i believe, president yee, youve been working on an amendment that would deed this land back to the city. And can you explain how this all works . President yee ill try to explain it, although supervisor fewer oewd maybe . President yee city staff can do a better job. The land on which the building is going to be on. Once all these agreements are done, the idea would be to deed the land back to the city and the city then would lease the land to the nonprofits that are developing those so they could actually operate it its got the city operating them. So, yeah, there is a lot of the recommendations and were trying to put it into the developer agreement. Can i also say that there is a lot of confusion with the Development Agreement. I talked about that were put in the Development Agreement is not new legislation that you will be actually voting on today, or making some kind of recommendation. So as you know, its probably new to a lot of people that made Public Comments. As you know, the Developers Agreement could change a little bit amended up to the last minute possible. Weve seen that over and over again as we negotiate whats better for the community. So i want to put that out there. That i know that youve seen this over and over again. The public doesnt really understand that piece of it. So maybe oewd may answer the other piece of the question, if its not answered yet. Supervisor fewer sure. Hi. Thank you, president yee and chair fewer. President yee did a great job of explaining the amendment that will be made to the Development Agreement. In the interests of the fact that the city will be contributing funding to three expected to be three of the Affordable Housing parcels and the desire to keep those permanently affordable at the time that the city contributes that gap funding and the Construction Financing is all closed, they will the developers have agreed to convey those parcels back to mohcd which will lease them. Thats exactly the set up ocd uses throughout the city. Its consistent with our practice. Supervisor fewer right. What percentage of the total land would be deeded back to the city . I dont have the number in front of me for those three parcels in particular, but when you take the collection of those parcels plus the new public streets that the developer will be building and conveying back to the city at no cost, and the consideration of the fact that there will be permanent Deed Restrictions on the open spaces, that represents about 57 of the total project site. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. And then i also understand that there is some complication getting the educator housing parcel back under public ownership. Can you explain what that issue is . Sure. And i will also allow kirsten for Bridge Housing to comment. One thing to note about the Development Agreement is that the the educator parcel will be fully financed by the Developer Team. So there is no city funding to create that affordable educator parcel. And that said, the city will have a regulatory agreement to ensure the affordability remains on that parcel. And so one of the amendments that supervisor yee is making is to extend that regulatory agreement beyond the standard 57 years to 99 years. Supervisor fewer got it. Yes, hi, kirsten, i think that actually answered the question adequately. And then president yee said there would be a use it or lose it clause added to codify the developers commitment to build the housing. Is that correct . And can someone explain how the timeline commitments would work . Sure. This is something that typically is paired with Development Projects such as Treasure Island that have a significant amount of public tax increment financing. And really what were planning to do is to add a new schedule to the Development Agreement that will be a schedule of performance. And it will lay out certain milestones for the developer to achieve in order to stay in compliance with the agreement. So really what it is aimed to do is to incentivize the developer to do everything in its power to advance the production of the Affordable Housing. And so that scheduled performance will be added. It will be include predevelopment milestones, making sure theyre applying for permits, applying for the state subsidies. And of course, the city plays a big role in the production of the projects. We have to make sure were granting all the approvals, so really, the approach will be collaborative and lay out the timeline for those milestones. And codify that in the d. A. Supervisor fewer got it. Then one of the concerns about the project was when i was briefed on it, the Homeowner Association would be in charge of managing the park and this would leave out the important voices of all the renters, which includes almost all of the affordable units, not to mention the People Living in the community but outside this project. If this is a public park, shouldnt it shouldnt be governed by an h. O. A. It sounds like this is also being addressed in the amendment to the d. A. Can somebody confirm what this might look like . I will invite the Developer Team to respond about their plan for the open space managing, but i will also say quickly that one of the d. A. Amendments will be to clarify and ensure that the h. O. A. Representation is a pro rata equitable representation across all the buildings on the site. Supervisor fewer got it. Sure. Supervisor fewer, if i may. This is the project team. I want to speak briefly for a moment on the design of the public open space. This was something when we first sat down with our Development Team and the design team, before we responded, we made the decision to make the public open space, the twoacre park, the center piece and the center of the way that the site was actually laid out. There were multiple reasons for that. It was both because it would be a fantastic Community Gathering place, but also because it would be a great point of access for the surrounding communities into the new neighborhood were building. The originally designed park had a strong eastwest orientation and that was based on the two, like, immediate connections from the site to the surrounding neighborhoods. On the west there is a connection to Westwood Park which is a bicyclepedestrian connection. And on the east, we have the widest main entry to the park space, its facing directly at city college. Its intentionally lined up to align with the pedestrian passageway between the mixed use building and the future of what used to be the performing arts, now the diego rivera theater. We tried to make this open space, an open parklike College Campus and invite the neighbors in to enliven and make it an active space. Not just a grassy area. I can talk about the park program, a large lawn, a playground area, a community garden, a pavilion and gathering space. Thats whats been proposed, but as is spelled out in the d. A. , we have Ongoing Community input process that has been laid out and all of those Detailed Design features are going to be subject to the review of the community you know, the ongoing c. A. C. That has been set up. And then, you know, thats something weve contemplated for some time. Were also now in one of the d. A. Amendments working on codifying, okay, once this park is built, how are we going to maintain that Community Input . While the Homeowner Association which is made up of the owners of the buildings, the three nonprofits, avalon bay and the future purchasers of the home, theyre going to have the budget and responsibility to maintain the park. Were going to set up a Community Advisory group that will advise and the h. O. A. Will report to help with programming, to help with ensuring that the priorities are right and then, i mean, i take this as a given, but you know, given some of the comments and questions, you know, not that anybody on our team would ever dream of doing this, but this board could also function as a way to make sure nothing was done by the building owners to cut off Public Access or discourage Public Access to the park. We talked about representatives from surrounding neighborhood groups, you know, have that as a voice in the future management and the future programming of the space. Supervisor fewer got it. And i also just wanted to mention yes, president yee . President yee im sorry. I just wanted some clarification from joel. I heard i think at least one is not true. People talk about the open spaces. This closed space, its like a private park for the people. And from the drawings and the discussion of this its pretty much open access from the streets that People Public streets. So is there something new i dont know about . The playground or the park itself . I dont know why people are talking about it like that. No. There is no i mean, the park immediately abuts the i guess the streets on four sides. These are public streets. There wont be a fence. Well probably have a low fence around the playground for safety reasons. But thats well within the center of the park, but, no, there is no effort to discourage public use of this space. President yee thanks for the clarification. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I wanted to let everybody know that per the trustee on the City College Board of trustees said that the m. O. U. Is agendized for tomorrows meeting. So it looks like the m. O. U. Issue is being addressed with city college and hopefully we can get that done. And then just want to say in summary, we are, i guess what we heard a lot is about it being private land, privately owned and from what i just heard, its about 56, 57 of the land, including the park and open space as well as Affordable Housing will all be given back to the public and that is privately owned. And i also just want to say, i think, ideologywise, we would love 100 Public Housing on the land. I have said that. All of the Committee Members would love 100 Affordable Housing on public land. You know, one of the main barriers to building 100 Affordable Housing is really also the finances and the money to build it. Hence, we set aside a pot of money for it, but to do that on this piece of property, i think, would be not feasible, especially during our 1. 7 billion deficit. I see supervisor mandelman in the queue. Supervisor . Supervisor mandelman thank you, chair fewer. And i want to start by thanking and congratulating president yee on getting us to this point. I did see this project develop for the years that i was on the City College Board of trustees and i know that it has been a massive undertaking and i dont know that anyone would have envisioned that a Collaborative Community process would result in 1100 units going into district 7. Thats an incredible lift. And i think you are completely to be congratulated for that and for doing that in a way that respected the concerns of the community, but also that got the job done in terms of getting the housing of San Francisco met. I want to start by saying that. I have a record of having been supportive of developing a lot of housing on this property since when i was on the City College Board in the time of housing crisis. I think it makes no sense to maintain massively publicly owned parking, surface parking lots. And the fact that this is 50 affordable, you know, is also a great achievement. And i completely share, as chair fewer just express and i know president yee feels as well, the desire that this be 100 affordable project. And i wish that San Francisco had the resources from the federal government and from our local tax base to be able to develop many thousands tens of thousands of units more than we do at all income levels regulated, not just for very lowincome, but for lowincome and middle class and to create a neighborhood on a place like balboa reservoir where we wouldnt need to be subsidizing the affordable units with market rate units. But the reality is in the universe that we live in right now, we dont have those kinds of Public Resources available. So if we do not leverage our ability to well, if we do not Leverage Private development on some of these publicly owned parcels, were not going to get as much Affordable Housing. And i think the 5050 deal is about as good as it gets. We should elect a new president in november to free up resources for federal housing, but were not there yet. All that said, my one big giant quibble about the project, which i alluded to earlier in my question is that, you know, thats its not a ground lease. And i you know, years and years have gone into this. And the assumption on which this project are based are a fee sale. I think that president yee is again to be commended having ensured that we get at least the option to get as much as this land back as possible over time. But if i could roll this back to 2015 or whatever year the r. F. P. Went out. And this is going to guide my thinking about any future dispositions of public land that we see here at the board of supervisors. This could have been, i believe, a ground lease project. It would not have included ownership units and it might have trakted a different set of developer applicants, but we could have had 100 we could have had a ground lease project that, you know, theoretically should not have generated a ton less revenue for the puc, because of 99year ground lease is economically very, very similar to a fee. You know, perhaps there would have been some kind of haircut on that lease price. Or perhaps some other concession to a developer, but i do think we should be trying to get these lands back for our great, great grandchildren to be able to think again in 100 years about what they want to do with the property. That is the feeling that i have about future projects. It also impacts the ability of the city to ensure that were getting what we want on this project. And so i also want to thank president yee and supervisor peskin at land use for asking what happens if we dont get the Public Benefit . The child care, the public park, the Affordable Housing on the and ensuring there be a timeline and that there be some ability to take action based on that. The question that i do have there is, what is the remedy if the developer does not abide by the schedule of performance that were attaching to this purchase and sale . I know, you know, i think someone on staff referenced to collaborative approach, but you need the documents for when collaboration has broken down and were trying to insist on something. So what happens if the Child Care Center child care doesnt get developed by the time its supposed to be on the schedule of performance . Supervisor fewer staff . Thank you, supervisor, for the question. And we are going to be posting the updated Development Agreement with those full amendments, so i would first start by saying well have a chance to fully review that language. But the general framework of the scheduled performance really ties to the things that the developer can fully control. So the applications to the city for Building Permits. And really making sure theyre hitting their deadlines for things like that. And subsidy applications. If those performance targets are not met, it would be considered a default under the Development Agreement and so our d. A. Has terms in which the parties would be in default. Obviously, there are going to be a couple of additional elements to this. So there would be ways to cure that default before its officially a default. You would have a meet and confer tt. You would have to good faith discussions. But understanding the real estate development, the contract allows for exceptions and excusable delays given circumstances. Major economic issues. Those types of things would play into those excusable delays. So all of that framework is set up, though, within the general terms of the Development Agreement, which would at the end of the day mean that the developer would be in default if they didnt meet the scheduled performance goal. Supervisor mandelman which means what . A default means they supervisor mandelman i know what a default means, but what is the consequence . I dont want to get out of my lane, so i want to ask the City Attorney to talk about the default in the contract and make sure they can appropriately reflect what that is. Hi, there, this is betsy dietrich with the City Attorney. Thank you for the question. Ultimately, in a default situation, the ultimate remedy is to terminate the Development Agreement. So the entitlements that they have, they would no longer have. I would also like to supervisor mandelman and we would have a right performance as well. But in addition with respect to your question, the linkages, there is also a schedule of linkages in the Development Agreement that lee might want to talk to, because that is the actual trigger point for each of the various Community Benefits. For instance, they have to provide the Community Room by a certain point in order to get certificate of occupancy or Something Else that is tied to it. I think in that instance, its the certificate of occupancy for the building in which the Community Room is located. Supervisor mandelman are future Building Permits tied to those things as well . Yeah, betsy raises a great point. We do have, like many Development Agreements here, we have a linkage schedule, which is the biggest incentiveization for delivery of the Public Benefits as the project is built out. It lays out kind of a commensurate development of the Public Benefits as the market rate portion of the project is being built out. In this case, specifically for this project, the market rate each market rate Apartment Building cannot receive a certificate of occupancy until an associated affordable building receives a certificate of occupancy. Supervisor mandelman the reason that i ask is that under a ground lease, the remedy ultimately is, you can terminate the ground lease and take the property back. And i dont know if there is a right of revert in built into this deal, but thats, you know, a hard thing to enforce. And i also actually think certificates of occupancy are its hard to tell an acquiring condo owner that theyre not going to be able to have their condo because the city has right to with hold the certificate of occupancy until the park gets finished. So i think again, going back to my discomfort with you know, not having a ground lease, i just think there is additional protections for the city there. I recognize thats not what we have here. Im happy we have more time before this goes to the board of supervisors and i have to vote on it and i can take a look at the remedies and think about how this would actually work. But you know this is not just it feels like when they did this, they were thinking of this maybe a little more like a land sale. And you know, they wanted to negotiate a price and ensure the ratepayers got the value of the the fair market value of the property. But this feels a little bit this is a little more like, you know, more of a redevelopment deal where the city has actual interest in what happens and how it happens and when it happens. And wants to have some rights to insist on things actually getting done on a certain timeline. So i know folks have made a lot of moves in that direction and i appreciate that. And i think were moving in that direction in land use. And i want to thank everyone for their work. But again, in the future, think being selling land, i think we should think about whether we do a longterm grant lease. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. Any more comments or questions . President yee . President yee supervisor walton, any questions or comments before i make my last comments . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. Madame chair, just real quick. Its not necessarily about this. I did receive a text about someone missing Public Comment. I suggested they send in an email to all of us with their comment, but i just wanted to let everyone know that there has been some technical concerns trying to get into Public Comment as we move forward to the next meeting. Supervisor fewer okay, thank you. Our apologies. President yee so let me i want to thank all the people that made Public Comments. Colleagues can see the opinions are diverse as the city is diverse. As i mentioned already, the whole packaging, the whole process of developing a massive project like this is complicated, so some of the compliments are as factual as people could make it. But sometimes the assumptions are a little off. I want to say one thing. Ive been in this area for nearly 40 years i guess. And the discussions 40 years ago were very different from what it is now. But still this little bit of where i work with my residents in d7 and a lot of them not all, but a lot of the residents are living in singlefamily homes and i want to protect that that quality in the area. But the pressure of developing more housing is really immense at this point. And everybody everybody agrees that not just one area of San Francisco should pick up the slack for them. But this should be distributed for all San Francisco. And d7 is not known to have a lot of affordable units. In fact, very few. And ive always said to people, well, there is pressure here. One is to keep the quality of life that you want. And then the other pressure is that they want to rezone everything. There are others that want to rezone everything where it can be all high rises. I always have taken the middle ground. That we do our share and there are certainly places where the density can go up without disturbing the quality of life like people want. And the balboa reservoir project is one of these examples where we can increase the density of the district without really having to change much of the zoning for a singlefamily home. There is going to be other opportunities like this throughout d7. And so i want to stay because i think say that because i think that people need to understand, this isnt 40 years ago where you can be exclusive and keep on fighting the city to develop this land. Its been 30, 40 years of talking about it and its out there. This is as close as weve ever gotten. Were not talking 5,000 units at the beginning of this discussion five years ago. Many were suggesting that. Were not talking no units. There are some people there were people that suggested that. And probably some more still suggest that. So, for me, you know, compromises are always difficult. It makes way for everybody to find something wrong, but you could tell from the comments that many people have seen something right about this project, too. So ill leave it at that. But again, well continue to work on the Development Agreement and as i mentioned earlier, its posted online so people can look at it. The final decision on this is not going to happen until we have our committeeofthewhole meeting in august. So this time to review those things. And by the way, a lot of these things were amending or things that the committee had asked for, so its not moving in another direction at all. But there is something i would like to have you amend on the ordinance itself. I started talking about it. Where the ceqa iir mentioned something about retail space. And somehow its put into this ordinance as a possibility of 7500 square feet which is not a lot, but i also said that the developers and because the community, we dont compete with ocean avenue businesses. We are totally committed to that. So i want to delete that language that is in the ordinance that states that possibility. And that would be on page 3, line 8. And basically it is a few words, so were clear there wouldnt be any retail space there. What i wanted deleted was approximately 7500 square feet of Neighborhood Survey retail space. Okay . Supervisor fewer great. Okay. So, colleagues, because this is due to ceqa filed for the project, we can make a motion to the full board without recommendation. But first, i would like to make a motion to accept the recommendations from the b. L. A. Could i have a roll call vote, please . Clerk yes, on the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer then id like to vote to accept the amendment from supervisor yee and could i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the amendment, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Now id like to make a motion to send this to the full board as amended without recommendations. Clerk madame chair, because of the modification to the Development Agreement is substantive, so a formal motion to accept the changes is recommended. Supervisor fewer oh, okay. So i make a formal motion to accept the amendment, is that what im supposed to be doing . A motion to accept the modifications to the Development Agreement. Supervisor fewer yes. Clerk on the motion, walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer okay. Now may i move this as amended and modified to the full board without recommendation . Clerk yes. On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. City attorney . I just wanted to clarify one thing. The motion was just to accept the modified d. A. Into the board file. It was not because the changes were substantive, just to accept it into the board file. Just wanted to clarify that point. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madame City Attorney. And now i in closing i just want to say to president yee, a very happy birthday, president. Thank you for joining us. And we have another meeting that were very late for. Were over an hour late, but i am going to call a recess for 15 minutes. I would say supervisors have been sitting at this meeting and i think we also sfgovtv wants to transition. So lets take a 15minute break. Lets come back at 2 25. Excuse me, madame chair. I just wanted to clarify that the motion so the motion that were taking, were on item number 4, can we also take a motion on item number 5. Supervisor fewer yes. So i think we would like to send this i make a motion to send this to the full board without recommendations . On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer okay. For people listening, the budget and Appropriations Committee will will start at 2 25. And were taking a slight break. And is there any more business in this committee . We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to order, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. 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Interpreter [speaking chinese]. Clerk thank you. Chair fewer, that completes my announcements. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Would you please call item number 1. Clerk yes, chair fewer, item 1 is a hearing to identify the Youth Commissions Budget Priorities for fiscal years 20202021 and 20212022 and requesting the Youth Commission to report. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001. Access code, 146 812 0226, then press pound twice. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, we did hear a presentation earlier this year from the Youth Commission about their Budget Priorities, but given that the city had to start from scratch with budget planning, we wanted to give the opportunity to hear again from the Youth Commission about their Budget Priorities. Today, we have with us calvin click, nora hilton, sarah chower and alexander. Youth commissioners, you have the floor. Thank you, chair fewer. Staff, could you share the presentation, please . Yes, give me one second. Great thanks. So good afternoon, supervisors. My name is calvin click. I represent district 5. Im as chair fewer said, im here today with my colleagues to present on the Youth Commission Budget Priorities for the upcoming two fiscal years. So to begin with, im just going to touch a bit on how the covid19 pandemic has impacted youth and students. Thats part of why were here today. As chair fewer mentioned, as the pandemic has progressed and the city and state have imposed measures to enforce social distancing and Public Health, youth have been and continue to be heavily impacted by measures such as school closures, implementation of distance learning, access to food and nutrition, wellness centres, among other support systems as well as access to Mental Health Services Provided by school programs. Both the pandemic and the impact has been disproportionately felt in black, brown, and latinx communities. Youth commission has been working with the Youth Services and others to identify how the city can better serve you during this challenging time. So the preface which was included, touches on the specifics of this with some concrete recommendations. So we also have representatives at each our policy committees to present. Im going to turn it over to them to begin with, commissioner chung, for this engagement committee. Excuse me, am i not supervisor fewer your presentation is not progressing. It is just at the first page. Here we go. Yes. Now i see covid19 and shelter in place. Oh. Thats been a while ago. We are on the Civic Engagement page. Chair fewer, your connection may be a little slow. Supervisor fewer oh. Okay. President yee im seeing the correct one. Supervisor fewer oh, i am not. Okay. I see the committees now. So sorry. Maybe my connection is slow. Go ahead. I can hear you. Go ahead. Thanks, commissioner. Im sarah chung, the district 1 appointee and the vice chair of the commission. This past year has been mainly working on the vote 16 campaign to expand Voting Rights to 16 and 17yearolds, but first we wanted to thank you all for Charter Amendment 16 and 17yearolds voting in municipal election on novembers ballot and thank president yee for sponsoring this Charter Amendment. As you know, allowing 16 and 17yearolds to vote will get more young people involved in the democracy by installing the life long habit of voting at a young age. San francisco would become the first major city to expand Voting Rights to 16 and 17yearolds and set a precedent to other major cities throughout the u. S. To follow. But to continue this movement, we need your support. If it passes, we need to make sure we have enough funding for vote 16 to be implemented so we can see a high voter turnout from 16 and 17yearolds in San Francisco. One way to implement vote 16 is to work with the board of education to fully implement their resolution 1622383, encouraging students to exercise their Voting Rights to make further registration and education available so that 16 and 17yearolds can easily register to vote. Voter registration and further outreach would require about 84,556 to 102,000 of funding for the department of elections. After franchising 16 and 17yearold citizens, the next would be to enfranchise 16 and 17yearold noncitizens to make sure our city democracy is taking into account all of the 16 and 17yearolds in San Francisco. Now over to commissioner hilton from the transformative Justice Committee. Hi, im nora hilton. This year, the transformative Justice Committee aligned with the plan as outlined on the image shown in the presentation. We recommend that the budget reflect the wishes of the San Francisco community to defund the Police Department and instead invest in communitybased alternatives to policing an incarceration. The steps outlined are, one, defund the police. Two, demilitarize communities. Three, remove police from schools. Four, free people from jails and prisons. Five, repeal laws that criminalize survival. Six, invest in community selfgovernance. Seven, provide safe housing. Eight, invest in care, not cops. The following in following the first step which is defunding the police and moving away from incourse cars ration incarceration, we recommend that they cut the budget by 50 . We suggest that 25 should go towards a community and peoples budget which was similar to a proposal made in los angeles. 8. 5 should go to the trauma informed counselors and victims of social misconduct. 50 of this should go to equitable education for black, brown and latinx youth. And policing within communities of color and other marginalized communities. With the funds that are created by divesting from the Police Department, we recommend for the expansion of alternative to incarceration for youth. T. A. Y. The following points on the presentation display our recommendations for implementing 28 of the movement and these steps are lelaborated on in our full budget priority. Ill pass this on to commissioner. Im our first recommendation is that the board supervisors work h. S. H. To complete the t. A. Y. Housing plan. The Youth Commission is appalled that it is still not complete five years after it was supposed to be. Lets make this a point to complete it, not stop it like the last recession did. It would cost around 48 million to complete 120 units of this plan. We also recommend that h. S. H. Maintain and have at least one operating Navigation Center and one in the pipeline waiting for construction. We also recommend that the board of supervisors and h. S. H. Work to increase Financial Support services for t. A. Y. This would go to laundry, Case Management and opportunities and the funding should be proportional to the amount of t. A. Y. Inside the system. Our second priority relates to transportation equity. The sheer number of complaints, San Franciscos Transit System does not work for youth. Muni, caltrain, bart, should work for youth and make them equitable. The easiest way for this to be done is to include youth. We recommend that the sfmta needs to make fair policies that work for youth and board of supervisors needs to provide funding that is constant and dedicated to train muni, caltrain and bart. We are em that the sfmta recommend that the sfmta stop working to enforce fares. We also recommend the board of supervisors, h. S. H. Work to eliminate fare [inaudible] 2 million to eliminate this fare, however, this will be offset by admin costs. We also recommend there is increase of funding for the sunset park and increase in funding for improvements to other experiencing extraordinarily high youth ridership. We recommend that the board of supervisors provide funding to muni static electric bus Pilot Project to give muni more experienced operators of electric buses. This would cost 4. 1 million to 5. 3 million. Well now pass it back to commissioner click. Thank you, commissioner. So, lastly, ill just touch briefly on the commissions own budget, which weve talked about during this budget cycle. Back in february, our staff worked with the clerk and board on raising our staff salaries and incorporating money for us to expand our outreach and community events. Although the shelterinplace means that our monetary needs to conduct outreach is less pressing since most events are online. We still need to keep up with the communities we serve and retaining staff, we provide invaluable support to young people on the commission which is increasingly difficult when our staff are all under the 100 a. M. I. Income line. That concludes our presentation and were available to take any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions for our Youth Commissioners . I have a comment and question. So in hiring working on this committee and about the budget proposals, how were you able to during covid19, to engage other youth with feedback on this proposal . Yes. Thank you for that question. That has definitely been a central part of the last few months. So one of the ways that happened is just because a lot of the Community Meetings that were already happened had to switch to being online. So we still have been going to meetings that have happened. And weve also worked we worked together with ocls, counsel and a couple of other partners to meet regularly with them, who were also doing outreach to youth. I know cpa did a big Data Collection specifically on the youth impact of covid19. And so to make sure we were sharing that information, because it is true that its been more difficult to get youth endamaged during this engaged during this time, but its been really important to make sure even more important to make sure were all all youth advocates are talking to each other. So were trying to do our best to keep that going. Supervisor fewer and my next question is, have you do you coordinate with city advisory councils, usfsd, and if you do, in which way . Well, for both 16 and the 17 engagement committee, weve been interacting with the s. A. C. They reached out asking how they can help out with the vote 16 effort. That is a rising phone bank. So i let them know about that and theyre also helping to share other information about getting the word out there about vote 16. Supervisor fewer good. Are they willing to put before the board of education a resolution in support of vote 16 . Yes. Actually sorry. Theyre actually working on a resolution right now to support vote 16 and theyre hoping to put it in front of the board of education soon, i believe. Im not sure where they are, what the status is of that right now. But i do know theyre working on that resolution. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. I see supervisor walton in the queue. Supervisor walton thank you. Just a couple of things. I want to commend your work and particularly for highlighting the need for transitional age youth housing and emphasizing the importance of that. We have a housing and shelter work group. Please make sure you get that feedback to us, because it is very important and something i want to make sure that the work group focuses on as we come out of covid19 crisis, but also for the longterm. And then just going back to your work with sfusd youth that are in leadership and working on vote 16, have you been working also to try and diversify the Youth Commission and have more opportunities for both public and private school youth on the commission as we move forward as well . So, calvin click again. Yes, that is definitely a concern weve had. So this last i guess i can speak to how we run applications yearly for these commissions. It happens quite regularly. I can speak maybe to some of the outreach weve done and the other staff can help me out if im missing anything. I believe this year weve got we always try to reach out to community worse organizations that work with students. We always got a lot of applications from lowell, but not others. We have applications from Washington High School and a couple of others. Ones that continually tie back to the fact, as you know, supervisor walton, were not paid, prohibited by the charter from being paid in any way shape or form. That includes transportation passes. Were not allowed to have those. It would be a policy matter that would be great on eliminating that barrier. But while were still doing that, we try our best to always reach out to, you know, the communities that are not represented on the commission, that are not in the room, to make sure were at least offering an opportunity as best as that may be. Also, adding onto that. We as calvin said, we did do a lot of work this year reaching out to communities that are not represented adequately on the commission. And then in the meantime, obviously that isnt enough to work for next year, so in the meantime weve been working with Community Organizations that have a really like big population of Public School citizens. Again, like not necessary from lowell, because we have a large percentage of students from lowell. So in the meantime, were trying to get input and those voices heard on the Commission Even if theyre not in official commissioner roles. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor fewer following up on that question. How many Youth Commissioners are from Public Schools . Staff, could you speak to that . Hi. Total amount of Youth Commissioners is how many . There are 17 Youth Commissioners and in this current team, we have three Public School students. Supervisor fewer out of 17 . Yes. There are some that are also College Students as well. Correct. Supervisor fewer how many College Students . College students, i believe we have two. Supervisor fewer are they from the public colleges . Two of them go to city college, calvin goes to u. C. Berkeley. Supervisor fewer how many are English Learners . I dont believe we have any that would identify that way this term. Supervisor fewer okay. All right. Any other questions or comments from my colleagues . On the Youth Commissions Budget Priorities . If not, lets president yee . President yee yeah, thanks for the presentation. I believe i can worked closely with the Youth Commissioners on vote 16. I just want to commend their activism on that issue. And that they continue i just had an Outreach Movement with the youth about two weeks ago. So i know theyre pretty active in that way. And they continue to find look for groups of youth to get them engaged. I know that for myself, district 7, we actually have two youth councils. One operated by coral, one operated by cyc. Ive lost contact with the coral group, but im going to be engaging next week. And hopefully, there will be a Youth Commissioner there that can join in that discussion. And i just want to, again, i know you put in a lot of work as we move forward to get the endorsements and so forth. So im looking forward to seeing more of you. Because this is a real learning experience. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you. The reason i asked about English Learners also is i wanted to know if you have taken a position on the Charter Amendment that is going to be on the ballot about allowing noncitizens to actually serve or undocumented folks to serve on commissions . So, we have not taken a position on that because that was not referred to us, but i can say so im not going to speak on that specifically, but i will say that, as commissioner chung mentioned, we are supportive of expanding Civic Engagement opportunities generally for undocumented folks. So that is definitely a priority for the Youth Commission and im sure that [inaudible] a lot of us will be supportive of that Charter Amendment when its on the ballot. Supervisor fewer supervisor walton, that sounds like an opening for you . Hes the main author of that charter. Supervisor walton most definitely. We talked about vote 16, you know, it is my hope that our young people are supportive of all the things we put on the ballot that are going to lead to more diverse leadership here in San Francisco, and, of course, allow for our immigrant community that plays a major role in our economy as well as other important aspects of leadership here in the city. So this is something that i hope we can get the commissions support on. I support a lot of equity and social justice issues we put forward. Supervisor fewer yes. That would be great. Okay, seeing no one else in the queue, lets go to Public Comment. Could we call for Public Comment on the item number 1, please. Clerk yes, chair, fewer. Operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those already on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on this item. Yes. We have 31 callers listening and four currently in the queue. I will queue up the first caller. Hold on. Supervisor fewer thank you. So Youth Commissioners, my name is francisco. And before the pandemic, this issue came before the board of supervisors and the clerk of the board was working with some of you all. And the issue was funding. [please stand by] [please stand by] you cannot be a good leader unless your heart is in the right place. If your heart is in the right place, then you can lead many people to a better place. I know people who lie all the time, including on the board of supervisors and thats wrong. I pray for you commissioners so you can help the city and help the future youth. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker please. Im speaking here on behalf [indiscernible] at the same time im with an organization. I like to commend supervisor shamann walton. How can we speak about Racial Justice when you know theres so many things in our city. Someone was saying, we need to walk the walk. Thats a great thing. I think we should Start Talking the talk. We need to put our efforts together and make sure the organization theres been lot of work. We do commend the work of the board of supervisors for supporting our work over the years. We need to maintain the funding so we can so many needed services. As someone serving the community, any cuts would be so heavy in particular smaller organization. We strongly believe combined efforts we will maintain the funding as is. Thank you so much. We looking forward to continue the conversation and working with the board of supervisors. Supervisor fewer i like to remind callers we are hearing Public Comment on item number one. That is the budget for the San Francisco Youth Commission. Thank you. Next caller please. I called for the next item. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you. Hi. Im a Homeless Youth in the district five area. I want to say that i agree with the Committee Members who are going further time in their own experiences. They continue to be there and help other clients in other markets. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Are there any more speakers . Im the executive director. I gotten the opportunity to work with the Youth Commission both with Youth Commissioner for district 10 and with the Youth Commission as a whole body working on several projects for youth homelessness. I support budget recommendation. I want to uplift something that weve been talking about even as cochair of the sugary beverage tax advisory board. Weve been trying to get them to get compensated in some sort of way. Its making it difficult for youth of colour, youth from socioeconomic background to participate in this. If folks can start look at amending this charter for the Youth Commission, we are start paying little bit more folks from a diverse body of experiences. Thank you. Next speaker. Is the calmer on the line . [indiscernible] im sorry, we are currenting accepting Public Comment for Youth Commission Budget Priorities for fiscal years 20202022. [indiscernible] good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. We support the Youth Commission recommendation and would like to lift as we move in commendation forward about protecting our youth. We keep in mind that many children in our city and across the country are not entitled to legal representation in court. We have many battles to fight moving forward. Immigrant community and children in our city and country are suffering because of the take of the current administration. We like it show that were looking at the juvenile Detention Centre and how that money can fund can be redistributed to the nonprofit city wide. Thank you. Next speaker please. I think that finishes the queue for this item. Clerk thank you. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is closed. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton i wanted to comment on the fact that there were request made about Youth Commissioners getting paid. This is something that we definitely explored at the very beginning of the year and the beginning of the budget process. It will require a charter change. Its something well be working on for the future. It is something that i believe being able to provide some compensation for our dedicated Youth Commissioners and how hard they work. That conversation will continue because it is something that we are passionate about. I wanted to bring that up. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. On behalf of the board, i love to thank the Youth Commission for sharing with us their Budget Priorities this year. We will definitely keep those Budget Priorities in mind. Having said that i like to make a motion to file this hearing. Could i have a second please . Supervisor walton second. Supervisor fewer roll call vote please. Clerk motion that the hearing be heard and filed. [roll call vote] there are five ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you Youth Commissioners. Call item number two. [agenda item read] supervisor fewer thank you very much. We created office Racial Equity last year, it was intention to create more structures and accountability for the City Government and ensure the prioritization of Racial Equity within our own city department, city policy and practices. Under the Human Rights Commission, we created this office prior to the current political moment but appreciate that theres now an immense amount of Public Discourse about Racial Equity and Racial Justice and invest in black lives. That is meant theres incredible amount of demand placed upon the office of Racial Equity. I want to recognize supervisor mandelman for working mayor breed to realize Racial Equity in the proposed budget. I call this hearing after learning that the office of Racial Equity was conducting a Racial Equity analysis of departmental spending with city department. I want to make space for this conversation publicly prior to the boards budget process. We have never had a collective conversation as a city about how to across departments, prioritize strategies throughout departmental spending to lift up communities of colour and address the systemic racial and equity experienced for generations. This is why my office wrote this legislation and why im so glad to hear this critical conversation today. In the next month the board will make difficult decisions to make about the city budget. My hope is todays hearing will help frame our discussion. Anything we hear today is based on next years budget. Since the mayors proposed budget has not yet been released. Thank you director finley and director davis for being here today. Were excite to hear more about the finding of the Racial Equity analysis you conducted. Thank you so much chair fewer, good afternoon, thank you for the opportunity to present today. I want to thank our fellow committee communities and special shot out, happy birthday president yee, thank you for being with us today. We do have executive director davis on the call today. Hes available for additional questions. I like to thank the mayor london breed and Budget Office working with us collaboratively on doing this work and lot of this conversation around budget equity is an ongoing one. We at the beginning of a long and hopefully fruitful process. Before i share my slide, i want to do some expectation setting. The purpose of this hearing the information were providing today from the office of Racial Equity is to start that conversation when it comes to budget equity. Number two, provide a Racial Equity framework or a tool that office of Racial Equity will be releasing this year. Also help provide a real tool and framework guiding questions and principles that the board and other policy Decision Makers can use to make sure were centring and prioritizing Racial Equity given our upcoming Budget Hearing in august. We have an analysis of our survey and assessment that we did. That work is still ongoing. Were still on conversations in working with the different departments who responded to us to do this work. Also, we want to highlight some key areas based on our experience with Community Outreach practices given the covid Pandemic Impact and the racial disprit impacts given the coronavirus. I like to jump into the work and i will share my slides. Please give me one second. Is that visible . Supervisor fewer yes, it is. Great. I ask that for audio cues, i cant see you all while im presenting. Ill be happy to answer anything. In the case of racial equities experienced by San Francisco s. Mayor london breed pout a budget process to prioritize equity as a lens. Additionally that same year, director davis also listed the need for equity in the budget process and spending given in the race of racial tension at that time. As you mentioned, supervisor fewer, the office of Racial Equity wasnt intent to hold it accountable. Also in the mayors budget instructions from past september centring equity. All of this work and all these directives have laid the ground work for something that will be formalized intentional, specific in explicit when it comes centring Racial Equity within city wide budget process. We know that San Francisco is facing a 1. 5 billion deficit over the next two fiscal years. Were going to have increasing hardships for communities of colour and low income communities. We need to make sure and have greater intentionality aod accountability for every single dollar. I want to make sure win were saying equity, we all mean the same thing. The office of Racial Equity making sure this is the framework. We gathered Racial Equity leaders and understanding that Racial Equity is not equality its a set of social justice practices thats rooted in understanding of our historical present day oppression. Moving towards collective justice for all. We need to acknowledge that Racial Equity presents a unique opportunity in our spending, allows us to use city budget as a tool for Racial Justice. That is my question for everyone today in our community, and all Decision Makers can we make sure that our city budget is a tool for Racial Equity and for Racial Justice and atone for the racial harm that has been placed upon black and indigenous, Latinx Community time and time again. In order to do this work, i will offer a frame of questions that this committee, colleagues can use to help frame the questions for departmental hearings thats happening next month in august. One of the first questions thats really important and that weve been asking the department. What specific Racial Disparities at your department. Weapon want to know if people are thinking about this and comfortable with that language. We want to understand are there programs that you want to continue in this budget. Which ones offers march promise to limiting racial disparity. Another question to be asked of departments is that if were going to be advancing Racial Equity, what programs can you modify and put forth to make that happen and how much will you put towards that and key question which we always ask over and over again, how will we know if people are better off . Its such a key question that we want folks to centre around Racial Equity. We want to make sure theres internal policy as well. This is a process. Were on a journey together. Some folks are little further ahead than others. I think its important for us to be comfortable in having these Difficult Conversations because this work is not easy. Its not light. It will help us uproot things like antiblackness, things Like Fighting against antiapi, harassment and discrimination under covid. Recognizing the debt we owe to indigenous folks and better connecting to our community who are behind. In our work, we want to lift up and i want to also refer the supervisors our office has sent a memo for this hearing that outlines the principles. Im wear of time, i will quickly go through some highlights of principles that are incredibly important. If were thinking about Racial Equity in our budgeting and principleprinciples that are inh that. We have to commit to shifting power. The City Government San Francisco, we have to commit to making sure that the people who are closest to the pen are ones closest to the power. The power im talking about is the spending. Make sure budget process is one that uplifts Racial Equity. Often times those are impacted are left out of practices, creating programs that are meant to help them. We never want to speak behalf or instead of communities. Community has loud enough voice. We need to make sure that were providing the ears in this budget process and were truly listening to make sure that were shifting power. Another strategy is dissin a, budget and budget plans and priorities need to be baked in the equity plan which is due in december. We will continue this work. Its not going to stop with this budget process. We also need folks to articulate specific desired outcomes and move from focus on how departments are spending money to focus on where the targeted results. Few other things, you heard this over and over again from community is better transparency and accountability. We can set different equity benchmarks to make sure that happens. We want departments to align spending change. Which means pooling resources or working collaboratively or working with our private and Nonprofit Sector on something that is more of a package, more strategic to get at broader change. Thats like a Quick Service items that dont really go anywhere. Something thats extremely important in this role that we want to see in our budget process and we want folks to talk to is having dedicated equity line item. That can be for example an line item to robust resources, it could be outlining a Strategic Plan to address a climate issue for social problems. It could be removing bureaucratic processes for folks to Access Services or resources. Or like weve seen in the city of baltimore, dedicating a percentage to create support and augment programs towards Racial Equity. Office of Racial Equity is here. We are working hard. We are a resource. We are a partner to work with us in this process to get things done and to ensure that equity. In order to do this work, no conversation about our budget process can really go forth without understanding how covid has impacted our city and that will impact our budget. I am 100 aware that mayor Budget Office has working on this and trying extremely hard to make sure that were getting some of our key issues. Over the past six months from my department as equity officer at our Emergency Operation centre to working supporting director davis outreach process around reinvestment and reallocation process to our Ongoing Research around disparities and lot of these issues are outlined in our equity framework. Any conversations around budget need to make sure were talking about some of these key issues from Food Insecurity and housing insecurity to Mental Health support to homelessness to isolation and disconnection to Public Safety and communitybased violence, unfortunately, which has been happening in the southeast sector of our city to understanding needs of our immigrant undocumented community and increasing ada and our folks who are experiencing disability. I want to say that even with these issues and even youre hearing from the department ace youre hearing from community, you will hear a lot about these issues and some of the issues that the Commission Just brought up as well. We need to lead with race when it comes to these issues on this radar. We do know that our black pacific islanders, Indigenous Community are experiencing Racial Disparities in each of these areas. In the conversation on budget is centring these key issues. I will quickly go over some analysis. Were still working with departments to understand their needs and how they did their outreach in vulnerable population and what theyre thinking about next year. We want to make sure that folks that are board of supervisors engaging and understanding some of the issues that were concerned about. I want to make sure that we highlight that what is working that most of our city and county agencies has pivoted to respond to covid19. We have redirected resources to develop new programs to meet the needs. Many department have allowed grantees that they have to respond to the pandemic. Which has been very helpful. We need to continue to support nonprofits to do that work. Some departments have specifically offered competent programs if theyre working with our communities. Other departments is taking steps further to address systemic issues through newly created funds. However, when were thinking about how we can be better and things that we need to ask for is making sure that were moving away from broad program descriptions. Thats not equity. We want to make sure that were not equating equality with equity. Many departments want to address racism. They need to go beyond saying we Service Everyone and we Service Everyone equally. Not everyone experiences everything equally. Not everyone has level of opportunity equally. We need to amend for that specifically in our City Government. Another part that i definitely want to bring up in centre is inequitable investment. We found that our black islanders, simone and indigenous communities experience housing, health and education and criminal justice involvement. We know that similar outcomes are experienced by transgender and i dont remember nonconforming communities of colour. Weve seen that department have underinvested in communities. That the current equality strategy is just not working. We need to be in the shortterm, we need to have conversations about that. In the longterm, well think about how we can use our budget equity tool to start closing some of the disparity gaps. Need to make sure were uplifting neighborhoods that have been left behind consistently. Weve heard from communities, neighborhoods lakeview and tenderline, they need our help more than ever. Its how can we offer city services. Lastly, something we really want to centre what we found in our analysis is understanding that even though departments do a great job have a great spread, touch every san franciscan, including communities of colour, proximity and basic Service Provision is not meaningful connection or investment. We need to be honest about that. We know theres a disconnect there because of city wide Racial Disparities. Advancing Racial Equity is best measured not by which people are served. Are People Better off . I talk about whats working and were proud to see the number of departments that stepped up and meeting the need and they do need help to ask for assistance to trying to connect with communities. We can always do better. We want to move towards a model of continuous improvement. Its not for us to put someone on blast or call anyone out. Lets check in, see where the gaps are, be honest about them. Couple of things that we want to call up that needs little bit improvement is lifting up and pushing for more explicit programs and strategies to combat disparities when it comes to our black and latin x and specific islander communities. We want to make sure that were better coordinating with our workforce programs and pipelines. We know how hard covid has hit our economy. That access and that mobility will be important now more than ever. Moving forward, we know theres ongoing conversations and we know that budget process is not a static thing. Its flexible. Its adaptive. Its moving it forward. Theres couple of things that were very much aware of. We want to make sure were not were rejecting the status quo that reproduces inequities year after year. If were relying on historical budget that produces outcomes something have to shift. We want to lift up strengthening communities. Making sure folks actually have the information, among, space k, space and time. Lastly, i want to share couple of budget milestone. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Correct me if im wrong supervisor fewer or anyones on the call. You had lot of executive direction, you had callouts from director davis and based off that report, some of its more explicit. Im excited and proud to stand with you all to get this work done. Please work with office of Racial Equity as we continue our analysis through our august Budget Hearing. We know that were shooting to end of august for the budget to pass. This december, well be releasing our budget equity tool and making sure budget items are included in our department racial action plan. Well be using those plans next year when it comes to having more accountability. I want to end there. I know its a lot of information. Ill stop sharing my screen. I want to thank everyone for listening and for providing us the opportunity to speak today. Ill make sure that memo gets out to members. Thank you. Supervisor fewer before i call on supervisor mandelman, i wanted to give director davis an opportunity if you like to address the committee, director davis. Thank you for your work. Thank you so much chair fewer. Im grateful to see this come to pass. Im grateful for your leadership, former supervisor brown and mayor breed for leading the way on this effort. I know its something weve talked about and worked on. There are lot of moving piece from the hearing you held. Grateful for your leadership but at the same time, i want to recognize and thank supervisor mandelman who supervisor walton who helped on this process. Supseudossue kudos to shama. Share fewer, i cant stress enough this process and focus that you elevated and put in motion and we made this happen in partnership with community voices. When i heard that you were holding this hearing and giving space, that really legitimatizes and validated that were committed to moving this forward. Really appreciate it and thank you so much president yee and supervisor mandelman for being here as well today and look forward to continuing to work with you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you chair fewer. If you indulge for a minute, i want to thank you for all of your work on the office of Racial Equity and along with director finley, supervisor brown and director davis. You really worked hard to make this happen. We had conversations about the possibility of in office of Racial Equity years prior to this. Thank you for being here seeing this through and doing the heavy lifting on this. The office of Racial Equity is important given the time in history where people are finally calling out many injustices that have plagued communities of colour for decades. The systemic failures to serve the black community, community of colour are glaring before us. This office was created to create a city wide Racial Equity framework. Designate employees as Racial Equity leaders is long overdue. I understand that this office just newly created. By the way, director finley, you have done a lot of work in a short period of time. I do want to thank you for working hard. This is newly created. Here we are in a crises where this equity lens has become an elevated priority even more with covid19. This pandemic has disproportionately impacted black and brown communities with rise in cases in africanamerican, Latino Community and asian community. It is now more important than ever to address this crises and approach to use the equity framework. Our community have suffered for a too long. I anticipate that covid1 covidl continue to impact our community for much longer. I want to thank you for your presentation director and for one providing with us with a list of guiding questions for city department. Which is something i will definitely be using as we continue to have our budget conversations. I cant wait to see the office of Racial Equity budget tool, i think thats going to be for us as well as we move well into the future around budget. I do have few questions. The first is just so far from your work. Where are we with department designating employees as Racial Equity leaders . Thank you so much supervisor walton. I want to commend you and thank you for your consistent support, your real talk, your energy and your courage. Actually putting equity into action. People like to talk the talk, you do walk the walk. I appreciate you and thank you for pushing us to do better and to do more. In regards to different city departments, we have heard from 43 departments and who have assigned Racial Equity leaders. We did send out a survey about a month ago. Were working on to make sure they have appropriate representation. Were making sure the Racial Equity leaders represent the diversity of the department. Also in management and Decision Making power. We dont want this work to be saddled with person of colour, who needs to do their work and so much more. Weve been having conversations with the departments. They have been responsive and doing the work and folks getting ready. Thank you. Supervisor walton thank you. As we look at covid19 case numbers we know highest particular in the mission and bay view and excelsior affecting the Latino Community, black community and disproportionately. What added work have you to take on in office of Racial Equity, what support do you need to be able to carry out the work of addressing the covid19 additional work for your office and quite frankly for the hrc . Thank you. We have been front and centre with director davis and with funding to covid. I was deployed personally at the Operation Centre for 16 weeks and pivoted with my staff and build up a team of officers to make sure that we as a city looking for Racial Equity in our response. Its been heart breaking to talk about this, some of the things we have been lifting up since march, we knew it would happen because of the social things of health and existing inequities. What covid does, its a disease. It compounds existing disparit disparities. Therefore, we need direct Community Support to meet better infrastructure and access to testing. We need Contact Tracing but. We need communitybased Health Ambassadors to do that work. We need to make sure that folks understand the programs we have in place and Additional Support they know and translated to different communities so they have access to it. Also Holding Private employers accountable who is not taking care of their employees majority black and brown. I think theyre doing fact job we cant reopen the city if essential workers black and brown, we need to take care of our folks as much as possible. In order to continue to do this work, we will continue to support and work with them as much as possible. Covid is not going away any time soon until theres a vaccine. My question is who gets to recover . Who gets to recover from covid and who will remain sick . We need to provide resources directly to communities in order to have a mutual aid support and through our office, we do need additional staff and resources to continue to meet the need. Supervisor walton you just touched on lot what we need in the community to be responsive, positively to pandemic that were in now. Have you seen any Community Responses to the pandemic that have done well or that have actually included components what you just named . Yes. Just for the last question through the claire. I want to hit on some specific things we did with community if its okay chair fewer . Supervisor fewer yes. Just to your point supervisor walton, office of Racial Equity sits in the Human Rights Commission. Weve been very involved with Community Engagement through this process. Working both with our our staff has been supporting that effort. In addition to being able to work very closely with other departments to deploy folks. Similar effort around new initiative called mega black has happened. We work also with weve had development in engagement with supervisor haney around the work in the tenderloin. Specific needs that i know we have, we have funded in sunnydale Community Ambassadors who have been helping distribute food, who have been helping to do work in communities that have been at site similarly in the tenderloin doing distribution masks and helping give out gloves and Hand Sanitizer but also working to make sure folks remember to social distance. We have been working with sbip which is funding that we had for opportunities for all to do work and the bayview area. Then trying to work more with the folks in omi and trying to amplify and elevate the issues working with closely well supervisor safai. We have leveraged our small h. R. C. Budget. We took funding that was allocated to us to support Food Security. Theres been a tremendous effort within our small office to do that. I think pieces around staffing is really important. Working with collective impact to distribute computers and other components. I want to thank you as the board of supervisors with you the Mayors Office as well for that flexibility to really be hyper intentional about the work and getting to those most in need. Supervisor walton thank you so much for director davis. Your office has done an amazing job of leveraging resources and working well with other city departments as well as with community. This is my last question. I do just have to state because i do believe that what happened with mocd is perfect example we need office of Racial Equity. I want to know if your office will be able to review that process and process like that to ensure that moving forward, we have more equitable Selection Process that includes africanamerican, latino, asian leaders, specific islanders and just leaders from all communities and other areas across the city as we fund communitybased organizations as we do the work thats about equity and making sure that we achieve the outcomes and goals that we set out from your office as well as in our communities. This office will be able to play a role in moving forward. Thank you. I would say yes. I wanted to defer back to director davis on this question as well. I definitely want to recognize the blackled organization, coalition that brought to daylight some of the the things that folks have felt and really pushed for a new energy on some of this work. I have to say, like i have enjoyed the opportunity to engage with the new director, eric shaw. He has been extremely open to listening. I think he stepped in a challenging situation. We had very honest and frank conversations about the gaps. He has asked for and put into his office some new things in place and has start to collect Additional Data that i think director finley and office of Racial Equity were going to use as tools to support other departments. In know in their recent submission, i was impressed how much detail they gave in terms where their funding is going and who they are supporting. Im sure we need data information. I thought they were moving along the right track. I think that it has been frustrating for this process. I know for both the board and for community. I will also say for the mayor to get to whats real and impactful. Im grateful that director shaw is willing to take the heat and develop the plan to address the shortcoming. Supervisor walton thank you so much detector davis and director finley. I want everyone to recall that there was a 42 million r. F. P. , 2 of that funding went to black organizations. When we talk about systemic racism and redirecting resources from certain departments to give to the black community and invest in the black community, i want people to understand that, it has been systemic in terms of investment in our community being looked over. The city has played a role in that and made mistakes in that as well. Thats why its important that we do what we are doing. I want to thank everyone for being bold enough to call it out and spell it out and own it. We got to make sure things like that dont happen again or else we will be responsible and have some that blood on our hand. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer thank you. Next in the queue, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman i want to thank director finley for your presentation today and for all the work that you are doing to set the city up to be able to respond to this historic moment and have a budget that reflects where the United States is in 2020 and where San Francisco wants to be. Director davis for all the work you have been doing and continue to do. I really want to say to our chair fewer, thank you for your forsight and fortitude and commitment to making this office happen. The timing is good and i im glad we have it right now. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Counting on you guys to continue it. Supervisor haney is next in the queue. Supervisor haney thank you chair fewer and lot of gratitude to you and supervisor walton and directors. I want to ask couple of questions that i had about the memo that you all sent. I want to thank you so much for the work that youre doing. This is tremendous. I want to appreciate the work that you all have done in the tenderloin as well and excited to continue to partner with you on that. Theres couple of things that i was interested in the memo. Theres a lot in here. Its really overdue and incredibly important the work you all are doing. Especially with such a small team in how impactful you are. You make a note of about the process. Theres a note in there about how the advac process has taken an approach where the same amount of money is allocated to each district. That is something that i perked my interest because of level of need in my district and its something that come up for districts like mine in the past. Are there recommendations that you would make or that youre planning to make to ensure a more equitybased approach . I know this is something that were going to be considering. Im sure chair fewer is thinking about what more equity based approach look like when it came to advacs . Thank you supervisor haney. I will defer policy decision to chair fewer. As you know as a person who was lean on budget last year and worked to this process and understanding the different district disparities. I do want to centre equity based approach and maybe think being if instead of districts but think being equity line item. Get to populations which is why we have to lead with race. All the work that the Human Rights Commission and office of Racial Equity has done tenderloin and given the covid pandemic, need to have that focus because thats where the need is. Im sure that work with continue given the needs and our budget process and going into august. I think some of the issues that i outlined, particularly in regard to Food Security, critical city services, access to testing and healthcare, i think the board will have to think hard about how much that would be, where that comes from and who will be prioritized. I will say again, we lead with race and we must prioritize black and brown communities. Im looking forward to being a partner with you all starting in august. I like to pivot to the chair in case you have specific feedback about that. I will say that we dont know if there will be advacs this year. Well fight for them of course. There will be district addbacks this year. You will not get 1 million for your district. Its not going to happen. Considering i want to make a point that we get the budget at the end of the budget, the mayor gets the first bite at the budget. All departments are already cutting, directed to cut. You know, i think it is hopeful to talk about addbacks. We will not have district addbacks this year. We will take a city wide approach. I think this is so opportune that we lead with race. I think that, during the budget process, i think one of the big complaints has been is that people not everyone has the same set of access to the city budget and the city budget process. That has led to huge inequities. Were really looking at that and about who has access to the budget process. It used to be that people could stay until midnight or 1 00 in the morning until its always been we havent seen lot of the black community be engaged in the process and fight for their fair share. Part of the process is very class. It is not open to everybody. It is sort of of closed door. Its only if you know how and you network. Were working also with black organizations to show them how to get on the addback list, what the budget process is and so they can have more knowledge how they can advocate for their communities and also for their organizations. Hopefully, have a seat at the table. We see this in past budget processes. It really isnt the black community that is savvy about it. Politics aside now, i think we have to do what is right and if were committed to Racial Equity in our budget and to reflection of our commitment to Racial Equity, we lead with race. Not everyone is at the table. We need to be conscious about that. Supervisor haney thank you chair fewer for that. I know this year is going to be different when it relates to addbacks more broadly. We may think about a longterm change to how we think about this as well. Thank you director finley for your thoughts on that. The other question one thing i saw theres neighborhoods that need intentional investment due to historical divestment, which the neighborhoods that are flagged there, make a lot of sense. I would flag so i can be little bit more clear, when the mayor releases her budget, will there be kind of analysis of that that youre going to do from a race equity lens . In particular, one of the things is as we in the budget itself and as we as a board are considering certain reductions, how are we analyzing the racial impacts and the relationship between those cuts and its impact on certain communities. Is that a part of what we are going to be progressing together and how can we look to understand. Were going to take this much taken in way out of the department and budget proposal. This is the impact when it comes to systemic racism in communities that have experienced historic disinvestment. I appreciate the thoughtful questions. To your first question, absolutely, im happy to Treasure Island as a neighborhood that has long experienced divestment. Thank you for that call out. Additionally, the mayors Budget Office and director davis are the ones to push to make sure we have population. That process has been ongoing which has coordinated well with this hearing. The mayor has been very clean and direct and saying this is your job. I expect you to do this work. You need to figure out what equity issues, which has undertaken. Its ongoing. Its not perfect but i think having this, this is why i create these questions for our all. This is why i create this framework document. This is why im providing the topic areas. Im not going to disappear on august 2nd and be like, peace out, good luck. If there are additional questions or needs you have, you can reach out to director davis and i to connect to make sure were helping form Racial Equity decisions. We do have more work to do. It doesnt end on september 1st. I look forward to working with your office thinking about that towards end of the year. Supervisor haney, i would add, so much of this was focused on like the whole build out. We really are in process right now really trying to understand what does this look like working in collaboration and partnership with the mayors Budget Office. The mayor has been very clear that she expects there should be some level of engagement and understanding and coming back to her with where the shortfalls are and where the issues are. To be honest, part of this has been more broadly thinking about the budget. You asked really good question where weathere we need to thinkt where the process looks likes to be in lock step. What does it look like to say, maybe we need more of this thing in other communities and less of it in others having that framework for people to make those decisions little bit easier. Thats what will happen in the Racial Equity action plan. How it translates to the budget is another process we have to work on. Supervisor haney thank you so much director finley and director davis. This is really important work. Im sure were going to be all talking a lot over the next few months. I really appreciate the way that both of you and your staff has stepped up and played such key and critical roles during this pandemic. Really extraordinary leadership and we all appreciate it. Supervisor fewer president yee . Supervisor yee thank you for i dont want to say maverick. One that pushed this whole issue and float it to the top for us to Pay Attention to this. Thank you director finley for your presentation. All the work youve done in a short period of time. Couple of things supervisor walton, i want to piggy back on some of the things you mentioned. You have the framework and theyre asking for action plans. At some point, maybe you articulated in your presentation, how would you know whether or not what youre doing right now is really going to have an impact . Really hang it on the wall and say, this is an accomplishment. In particular on systemic racism. This is not the first time this is the title take the attempt to take it on. We take sort of two steps forward and one step back. I always have this question. I want things to be successful but thats why im asking the question. How do you view it . Thats a question that i ask myself everyday. I go back to couple of things. Number one, Racial Equity is just not my job. Maybe i get paid big bucks to do this but Racial Equity is everyones job. Everyone listening on the call, everyone on the board of supervisors, our mayor, all the departments. That is a shared responsibility. Has made that explicitly clear. I will continue to do so. Everyone can take accountability, recognize the privilege they hold and the power they hold, which i think i will say our National Uprising given the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor, have really broke something open. Were having conversations i did not know wed have in a lifetime. When i step in this role in january, here we are in july. I feel like were at a place of racial reckoning which provides more opportunity than ever before. When it comes to pandemics, when it comes to revolution, these are time of tremendous flexibility and adaptation. Lot of you know i have an organizational background. We are part of this. Its everyones job. Were doing that. This budget process is going to look different. Ive already seen some initial successes in people who are afraid to have these conversations or afraid to say things like White Supremacy culture and afraid to bring these conversations to their department. Thats extremely powerful. I know it can be hard and frustrating for folks who been in the game for a long time. Were going from wake to woke. We need to bring folks on. I will say that we are reaching a watershed moment. Were seeing shifting. We cant let this movement slip through our fingers. I want to make sure we have shared accountability. Folks checking their privilege and holding themselves accountable. Office of Racial Equity, were not just here to make reports. We will o have things like publc score cards. We will have criterias to measure to see how folks are doing. We will working with communities to hold folks accountable. I think our spending is going to hopefully reflect that and we have a tremendous opportunity the next six weeks. I know well be successful when were getting together. For the first time were putting our money where the mouth is. For the first time with the largest voices are the ones getting the share of our budget. That to me is progress. , thats exciting im happy to work with you president yee to make sure that happens. President yee, there are two things for me. One is the commitment how it shows up. Specifically, during this budget crises, weve done lot of work. Director finley has done a lot. We have four positions still open in the office of Racial Equity. Success looks like were not afraid to put the investment to advance the work. Thats one and then two, an ongoing opportunity for engagement and feedback from communities. We are not afraid to hear about where our failures are and adjust or redirect your do the things that we need to do. Those are the two things if we are successful, we stay engaged with communities. We are responsive to what we hear from communities. We are putting our money where our mouth is to make sure what the work is done. The Human Rights Commission is designated a second person but theyre not technically part of office of Racial Equity. Office of one that is supported by another staff person going to be really hard to change and impact over 800,000 folks experiences in San Francisco. Creating a face for feedback but supporting the work. Supervisor yee anybody can do the work, you can. Can i ask this . Are you also four of the five member on this committee were board members. We all try to deal with the opportunity gaps and yet it still exist. I feel like it needs something. I will say again, theres a lot of shared duty with the office of Racial Equity and Human Rights Commission. Human Rights Commission has been helping lead the equity studies task force for the School District. We have been working really closely with deputy superintendent ford martelle. I was on a call earlier today. President yee, like in all transparency, i think theres still lot of work to be done. When we talk about the ability to be responsive and be accountable and not be afraid to get honest community feedback, theres still struggle i would say with working with the School District. We have been working with lot of community partners. The Human Rights Commission and office of Racial Equity work with some. We have distributed thousands of books to the Latino Task Force and to programs in the o. M. I. And bayview and worked with the samoa community. That is not been coordinated with the School District as it should be. Supervisor yee thank you. One other question. You mentioned covid19, how. Impacted and the Racial Equity. One of the things that disturbs me a lot is some of the issues that we talk about as a result of covid19, should be talked about. Whats missing in any discussion, only a few months ago, we had a discussion. When you look at people that are dying at least in San Francisco, 50 . Its not your job. I agree with you president yee. It is heart breaking and when i was i was deeply concern. They are being disconnected. Number two, the lack of support and key health messages. Another thing is, access to care and resources. We in no way want to diminish any of that and through the Human Rights Commission, our first entry of covid was attacking racial and discrimination and hate and hate crime happening within our community. Now were seeing the impact of the disease. Moving forward, we commit to working with our communitybased organizations and our a. P. I. Neighborhood to make sure folks are not getting left behind. Supervisor walton has made that part of his commission in particular the seniors to make sure they have access to support and resources and ask for that racial data so we can whats happening from chinatown. We ned to be vigilant and we need to continue to push to make sure thate