Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

Good afternoon and welcome to the august 25, 2020 regular meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] mr. President , all members are present. Please place your right hand over your heart join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. Behalf of the board, i like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Colleagues, i like to take a few meetings to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. The 19th amendment which guarantees and protect womens constitutional right to vote was ratified on august 18, 1920. Hundredth anniversary of this historic milestone is to reflect on incredible efforts to secure womens Voting Rights. It is a reminder of the unfinished work ahead of us to fulfill the promise of our democracy. For decades after the ratification of the 19th amendment, many women of color were prevented from casting ballots through poll taxes, literacy tests, violence, intimidation and racism. For many women of color, that didnt begin to change until the Voting Rights act of 1965. As we commemorate this historic moment, we recognize that we have come a long way but that we still have far to go to ensure that everyone who has already been afforded the right to vote is able to cast their ballot on election day. We know that our fight for the fight is far from over. I like to invite my colleagues to speak. Supervisor, floor is yours. Supervisor stefani thank you president yee. Tomorrow is womens equality day when we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment which finally allowed women to vote. Im join my incredible woman colleague to commemorate that today. Later, well vote on my resolution to this effect. Im pleased to see that supervisors ronen, fewer, walter and safai has signed on as cosponsor. This is tr truly consequential moment in american history. As we see the first woman of color on the major ticket as Kamala Harris serve as Vice President , we know womens rights are under attack from this administration. Our rights to healthcare decision, our right to live free from gun violence and even to vote. As we mark this milestone and commit to work aheading im reminded of a powerful quote by abolitionist and womens activist. She said, if the first woman god ever made was Strong Enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again. Now, that they are asking us to do it, the men better let them. Women across the United States are stepping up to lead, to turn the world right side up again when it has been turned upside down, especially by this administration. Whether thats senator harris, senator Diane Feinstein or Speaker Nancy Pelosi who broke the ceiling in congress. In 2018 we celebrated San Franciscos first black woman elected mayor. Im so grateful to all the women who paved the path for us, daughters and granddaughters. It is an honor to stand ton their shoulders. We know we can do better in representation especially for women ever color. In San Francisco today, only two of seven citywide elected officials are women. Women account for only three of the 11 supervisors down from seven when i first joined this body and zero member of our state delegation to the state legislature. We have a lot to celebrate, we have a long way to go. Its such an honor to serve with something ive always wanted to do. Im grateful for the women who have paved the path to allow that to happen. Im forever committed to making sure we have more women in elected office and making sure that every woman can participate in the political process. Thank you president yee for giving us us this time. I look forward to passing my resolution later on in the meeting. Supervisor yee thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you so much for giving us this opportunity president yee forrening canninacknowledging t. Its imagine a woman not allow to vote. Whats more women have used this right. For years, our turnout has been higher than our brother, despite race, education or income, women vote. Heroic women fought for this right. The first wave of feminism opened the door next generation movement. First fighting against discrimination and moving women in leadership, evidenced by the three women who serve on this board, assessor chu who is speaking today, mayor, senator and congressional speaker and soon to be elected Vice President. Its now to see the women rights move to join in solidarity. Here we are today, if you ever questioned whether voting works, consider how hard donald trump is working to stop people from casting their ballot. Especially africanamericans and latinos. Im pretty sure on this board agrees with me this is the most important election of our lifetime. We must never make the mistake taking this responsibility for granted. Lets commit to continuing the fight for justice and vote the rights for the next hundred years to come. Supervisor fewer im proud to join my female colleagues, women colleagues on the board in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment. I want to start off to thank the women hundred years ago who fought for this right for my vote and for my daughters vote and all the women that im joined here today that we have the right to have control over our bodies, our future and livelihood through our vote. It is not just about elected official,s, it is not just the people we read about in the paper. It is about everyday women that you have controlled over your life and your livelihoods by voting. It is such a simple thing to do. Yet it is so important and so profound. We find ourselves in this election cycle, knowing that our vote is the vote that is going to give us the freedom over our own bodies and also our lives. I want to say to women who havent voted before or havent registered to vote in the place that youre living, it is time. It is time that we take back this country. It is time that women cast a vote for every other woman, also for the future of women in this country and in the world. This is a very important election. I have been a voter ever since i was 19 years old. I am now 63. I have never taken that for granted. Women, future daughters, tell them to vote. In this election especially. Please vote. Supervisor yee thank you supervisor fewer. Assessor are you there . Thank you president yee for inviting me to speak. I want to thank the board for allowing this time. To the cosponsor to this resolution, thank you very much for cosponsoring this resolution. I think more than anything todays resolution really does highlight and commemorate the 100 Year Anniversary of women being able to win the right to vote. We know that for many women, Indigenous Women and women of color, the right to vote didnt come until decade later. Regardless of the time, its important to remember the importance of voting and making sure we have a stake at the table to make the decisions that matter. As a new young mother of a 15monthold daughter now, i think it becomes even more imperative. Being able to experience our lives as women is one thing and seeing what the impact will be to our children and into the future is another. Let vote for not only ourselves but for that future to make sure they have equal opportunity to earn the same wages as their counterparts. To have the opportunity to say what happens that story to their body. This is something that so incredibly important. In california, we remain one of the worst states when it comes to women voter participation. Thats something we want to make sure we continue to do and promote and make sure people understand how important voting is determining what the future of the country looks like. Although we cant come together this year because of covid19 to celebrate and commemorate this day, i hope that you will join us in that challenge. In 2018 i started womens challenge. Its to raise women voices across the political spectrum to make sure people understood the importance of voting and encourage our friend and family do the same. We have a very exciting challenge. That is to celebrate 100 years by recognizing 100 amazing women in our history. These are the Unsung Heroes of San Francisco of the nation and we hope that you all take the time to recognize their stories, tell their truth and experiences that they went through to highlight the fact that we must remain vigilant to continue to have strong Voting Rights and representation going forward. I want to thank the supervisors for their support of this resolution for always doing what they can to make sure that we have full representation of all residents and cohost, league of women voters, department on the status of women and to our local historian, evelyn rose director founder of neighborhood history project who helped draft todays resolution. Thank you very much for this time. Thank you for celebrating and lets keep on making sure that women have full rights and full participation. Supervisor yee thank you. Thank you colleagues. Madam clerk, any communicates . Clerk yes. Minute reflected during the covid19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely through video conference. To the same extent as physically present in their legislative chamber. The board recognize that the Novel Coronavirus has made the need for Public Access more acute. They have the following option to participate remotely in this meeting. Your written correspondence on any subject matter will be made a part of the legislative file sent by u. S. Mail. Address the envelope to the city of San Francisco board of supervisors city hall, dr. Carlton b. Goodlatte room 224. If youre sending an email send it to our new and edited version of our email address. Bos . Org. Your touch tone phone can be used to listen to the proceeding and provide Public Comment. When you hear the prompt enter the meeting i. D. Number. Press pound twice, you would have joined the proceedings as a listener. Be sure to turn your television down. Otherwise you may miss the prompt. We have also interpreters present at todays meeting. Interpreters please introduce yourselves in succession to let the Community Know that youre here to assist with Public Comment. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] clerk thank you all for being here. Quick word on what agenda consent it public for Public Comment. There are two 3 00 p. M. Orders slated to begin at 3 00 p. M. Each has its own Public Comment hearing associated with it. That is for 666 Mountain Spring avenue. Items 811. Items 1215, the exemption determination and items 1619 conditional use authorization an appeal. Minutes and july 16 Meeting Minutes is from the budget and finance committee meeting. Other items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board that are not on the agenda today and items 27333 without reference to Committee Calendar all other items 17 and 2025, that is content that is not eligible for your testimony today as they have had their noticed public hearing fulfilled at committee. If you are having any access or connection issues concerns or questions, please contact my office a. Finally mr. President , pursuant to title two of americans with disability act, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone. I want to thank wilson ang who set this opportunity up for this gentleman. Were ready to provide him that and him to unmute his call. Supervisor yee thank you. We ask all the supervisors to mute your microphone when you are not speaking. We are approving the minutes from july 15, 2020. Reschedule meeting at the budget and Appropriations Committee meeting and the july 16, 2020 special meeting at the budget and finance committee meeting. Which constituted quorums of boards of supervisors. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Move by mandelman. Second supervisor ronen. Why dont we go ahead and take the roll on this. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the agenda will be approved. After Public Comment as presented. Lets go to the unfinished business. Please call item number one. [agenda item read] supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 7 ayes and 4 noes. With supervisors peskin, preston, ronen and wilson ins dissent. Supervisor yee ordinance finally passed by 74 vote. Please call the next item. Clerk i wanted to remind you that there was the ada request that was still on the table. Supervisor yee before you call the next item, why dont we go to accommodate that request. Clerk operations please. Thank you for the accommodation. Im a disability advocate and district nine voter. Great to see some support for womens rights spoken here today. I think it will be great if the board of supervisors was entirely women one day. That will be great. I have a number of things to speak about but primarily im concerned about censorship happening in the Meeting Minutes. The minutes publics names are given, we see public official such a supervisor or member of your staff. That persons name should be included in the permanent Public Meeting minute. To censor that persons name is really egregious act of censorship. Its problematic. The Meeting Minutes is supposed to reflect said at the meeting. I really urge this board to not accept the Meeting Minutes from last week without that persons name being included. Thats part of my grievance as the many challenges and barriers access i have faced from mr. Wilson. Additionally, i do not feel the board is doing enough to include the public in these meetings, especially those on the other side of the digital divide. The Microsoft Teams set up pails in comparison to zoom and other platforms. We cannot seen see all the supervisors. Their names are not legible. We have no option for visual participation. This is not the same as a Public Meeting where the public could participate visually if they wanted to. The technology exist but this board is not utilizing it and neither is Microsoft Teams. Writing a letter is not the same as being able to give a live Public Comment. People without computer and phone access should be able to give Public Comment live. This board could build and create a Public Infrastructure to do that the way theyve been doing covid testing. Thank you for your time. Clerk the good thews i newst the department of technology and office met multiple times with microsoft. Theres hope on the horizon coming. Microsoft heard our request and they are working towards everything the speaker mentioned. Supervisor yee thank you very much. I knew your team will be on the ball. Lets go back to item two. [agenda item read] supervisor yee nobody on the roster. Please call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ordinance is finally passed. Lets go to our new business, please call the next item. [agenda item read]. Supervisor yee supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you. By reassigning appointment authority, new American Media to the society for professional journalists. This measure ensures that the Sunshine Ordinance Task force will continue not only to meet quorum but recommit this body to racial and Ethnic Diversity at a time when that representation is profoundly important. I want to thank sandy close who trained my younger brother and i want to thank Sunshine Ordinance Task force chair and the members of s. P. J. , the Northern California chapter who weighed in with my office. Thank you to my former member of the Sunshine Ordinance Task force and staff and respectfully request and urge your support. Supervisor yee thank you. Madam clark, call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ordinance is passed on First Reading. Please call items 4 and 5 together. [agenda item read] supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll on these items. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee motions are approved unanimously. Please call the next item. [agenda item read]. Supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee great. This motion is approved unanimously. Congratulations theresa. Item number seven. [agenda item read] supervisor yee okay. Anybody on the roster . Madam clark, call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee motion is approved unanimously. Madam clark clerk, lets go to committee reports. Item number 20. Clerk [agenda item read] this matter requires vote of two thirds or eight votes final passage with only one reading. Supervisor yee call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 10 ayes and 1 no. Supervisor yee the ordinance is passed. With 101 vote. Call the next item. [agenda item read] supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please go to the next item. [agenda item read] supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Lets go to item number 23. [agenda item read]. Supervisor yee go ahead and call the roll madam clerk. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee resolution is adopted unanimously. Item number 24 please. [agenda item read] supervisor peskin thank you president yee. I like to thank all you voting in the past. I like to Land Use Committee for forwarding and supervisor safai for becoming a cosponsor. Supervisor yee madam clerk. Call the roll. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee ordinance passed unanimously. Lets go to roll call or introductions. Clerk supervisor mandelman up to introduce new business. , supervisor mar. Supervisor mar i have one in memoriam, she passed away july 22nd along with her son and his family since their move from San Francisco to chicago several years ago. During this pandemic, we can appreciate the essential work that our healthcare workers perform and mia 50year career in nursing involved work caring for her patients and providing support for the families. Later as a nursing supervisor, she made the rounds every night, walking miles throughout the hospital. In the final years of her career, she was recognized only nursing instructor at her Harper College in illinois who had 100 pass rate for the state nursing exam. Mia immigrated to the u. S. From seoul in 1964. Her children recalled her devotion as a mother and love of visual and performing art and road trips across the u. S. I want to share some words from her son who as you know is a member of the Treasure Island Development Authority board of directors. He said, my mom loved her family with every cell in her body. She demonstrated her love for our family. Her physical state wasnt just due to age, she had worned herself down from lifetime unrelenting work. What we know about the parent struggle comes directly from their own account. It soons become like noise and other stories heard at the dinner table. Living with mom, i would just sit with her on the couch or my wife will be making her bed, thats when we would hear her side and Say Something that isnt just recounting. You know their stories never capture what they endured. Inspired by the nurses at st. Marys hospital who cared for mia, the family see up a scholarship to inspire scholarships from the philippines. Mia is preceded by death by her husband. May you rest in peace. The rest i submit. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin i will submit my legislation. I like to join supervisor mar in memoriam he jus submitted and le to adjourn in memory of william and alonso little jr. , who i had the pleasure of meeting who was a musician and a remarkable person and father of our city administrator. I would like city administrator kelly to know that we are grieving with her and to her husband, harlan kelly and sibling and rest of her family. I will submit. Clerk thank you supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston thank you madam clark. Clerk. I would like to offer memoriam today for leon fleischer. A renowned pianist who at a very young age help put San Francisco on the map for Classical Music. He died of cancer on august 2nd at the age of 92. What many folks who may know his music and legacy, may not know he had deep roots here in San Francisco and specifically in district five. Leon was born at mt. Zion hospital in San Francisco on july 23, 1928. His parents were jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who made their way to San Francisco in 1930, they opened a hat shop on fillmore street between mcallister and golde goldengate. They moved around the neighborhood almost every year. There are several great Classical Musical talentings growing up in the area. Including isaac stern. Leon began playing the piano at age four. At the age of nine, leon performed with the San Francisco symphony and committed to studying in italy with the austrian, maestro. Leon was able to move to new york to continue his piano studies that have been disrupted by second world war. He played Carnegie Hall at the age of 16. At which point fleischer was hailed by conductor pierre monto as pianist of the industry. Century. He was the First American to win the covert the Queen Elizabeth competition in brussel. In 1964 at the age of 36, during the height of his career, leon lost the use of his right hand due to mysterious nea neurologil condition. It caused his fingers to cramp and curl. In 1967, leon turned to performing with only his left hand. He played pieces written for pianist who lost his right hand during world war i and composers wrote pieces for leon. His left hand like his two hand playing was widely praised for unique artistry and tone. It listeners closed their eyes it was impossible to tell they were hearing one hand at the keyboard this. In 1968 his world transformed again he took on the role of conductor for the baltimore symphony orchestra. He began playing public work for two hands. Leon was mover and shaker in the Classical Music world teaching and conducting 60 years at Johns Hopkins university, royal conservatory music in toronto. He was beloved guest teacher. He taught master classes all over the world including virtually until about three weeks before his death. Leon tremendous musical legacy continues in the students, he has inspired many whom are now distinguished performers and teachers. Among his countless achievements, leon was the center honor recipient in 2007. He took the unusual step. Writing an op ed in the Washington Post expressing his opposition to the policies of then president bush. He was proud to have been invited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg to perform for the members of the supreme court. He enjoyed hearing news from his hometown and closely followed San Francisco and california politics in in 2008, at the age of 80, he produced and performed a sold out Chamber Music concert, he called 88 against 8. A benefit for the Human Rights Campaign fund few weeks before california voted on prop 8. Two years ago, leon celebrated his 90th birthday with a recital where he performed as a 9yearold. He told stories that night about his first time on the stage. Leon fleischer survived by his wife, Catherine Jacobson fleischer, his children from first marriage, deb remarks richard and leah and paula and julian and two grandchildren. I want to thank paula for reaching out to my office and helping us learn more about the life and legacy of leon fleischer. Leon fleischer the San Francisco gem whos story is testament to finding resilience, meaning and beauty in the face of insurmountable challenges. His Exceptional Talent will be with us forever. I like to extend my condolences to leons family and friends. May his memory and music be a blessing. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor safai. Supervisor safai i have a couple of items today. One in particular is i think is extremely timely. Given a situation with the covid crises and how this is being handled and dealt with all over the bay area. We are putting forward a resolution today that essentially urges the San Francisco department of Public Healthy and county Health Officers and others to ensure that both public and private hospitals do not apply for waivers to the state for granting a reduction in existing patient to nurse ratio. This is allowed now in the state. We certainly given the circumstances that weve had at sf general where weve been fighting over a decade. I want to thank my colleagues for supporting me in that effort when we had hearings, we talked about ensuring that we can get more nurses hired there. I want to thank the mayor and her team for working aggressively to get more nurses there but still understaff. The same is to be said with many of our other private hospitals and many of you, couple of weeks ago were there with the California Nurses Association and others at kaiser and other hospitals in the San Francisco bay area. This is about ensuring that our frontline workers are safe and that were not reducing ratios and its at the same time, ensuring patients are safe. This is a really important aspect. I wanted to put it on everyones radar to ensure were doing doing that. As covid continues to ravage communities. We dont want to reduce the number of nurses as it relates to patients. Many of these workers have been working off on the frontline, putting their lives on the line, often times with inadequate ppe, often working overtime with little rest. Certainly i want to also give my condolences to any of the nurses and their families that have experienced loss as a result of this crises. They have been severely impacted by this. I want to thank the California Nursing Association for their support working with us on this resolution. Earlier in month, i know that c. N. A. Staged national day across 17 sedate 17 sedate ss including here in california. Calling to increase staffing and increase access to ppe and ensuring understands have access to that testing. We cant make any shortcuts in the circumstances. I hope colleagues youll support me in this resolution and wanting to bring it to your attention as we get into these conversations to ensure that were not allowing any of our hospitals and not encouraging people to apply for these waivers to reduce patient to nurse ratio. The second thing i wanted to talk about like many my other colleagues, i want to pay honor to one of the people that an important figure in the excelsior, Small Business owner. He learned about the value of hard work and how to treat every Single Person with dignity and respect. Pete met his amazing wife kathy and fortunate to raise three children while fulfilling his ultimate calling which is running his restaurant. In 1989, pete took over bravo pizza in San Francisco in the excelsior district. For 30 years, many came in the neighboring city. The its the quality of the food it serves, however, pete will also be known for much more than his pizzas and pasta. No one could go into bravos without seeing pete going from table to table, checking in on the customers, knowing their children and helping to see and watch their children get raised. Whether its his weekly regular out of state visitor or someone who stumbled into bravos the first time. Pete always made time to listen to people, crack jokes and made people laugh. He was known the mayor of the corridor. Bravo pizza was the place he created where people want to laugh, smile and feel loved. He put others before himself. That made pete a remarkable person and a pillar of a Small Business community in the excelsior. A remarkable person overall. His influence in the neighborhood will not be forgotten. Pete passed away peacefully on august 15th surrounded by his family. A truly iconic man who served and made the community a better place to live. I hope his family was able to watch this today. I wanted they wanted to have some honor. This is my honor to participate in. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Stefani. Supervisor stefani submit today. Clerk thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton i submit as well. Clerk supervisor yee. Supervisor yee submit. Clerk supervisor fewer. Supervisor safai i like to be added for ms. Khan. The rest i will submit. Clerk supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, i have one resolution that im introducing today. Its a resolution stating our intent to appropriate revenue generated by the executive tax to support the hiring of healthcare, Mental Health and other essential workers amidst this unprecedented pandemic. Our Health Workers are on the front lines. We must ensure that we have enough healthcare workers to care for those in need as well as invest in our Public Health system to address untreated Mental Illness and addiction. We drafted executive tax front line workers and there are union who represent hundreds, some cases thousands of healthcare workers from across the city. It is a simple and straightforward tax that will raise up to 140 million. Will allow us to hire hundred nurses and doctors, emergency workers and healthcare workers that our city needs. I know that all of us have been closely involved in advocating for San Francisco General Hospital and have had concerns about the staffing shortages there, the nurse shortages, the way in which inadequate staffing has impacted patients and the Mental Health and wellness of staff themselves, overworking front line healthcare workers result in inconsistent treatment of patients and it can be a matter of life or death. Inadequate service in staff asking lead to Patient Safety issues and lead to impact quality of care and life of workers. Weve seen that now during this pandemic more clearly than ever. I want to make sure that we are clear that the funds that come from this overpaid executive t tax, goes in effect. Clerk mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. Supervisor yee thank you very much. Lets go back and introduce our first three p. M. Special order. Supervisor walton. Before you introduce this supervisor walton i apologize. I was would love to be added to the memoriam for iquans mother. Clerk thank you. Supervisor yee please calls items 811 together. [agenda item read]. Supervisor yee thank you colleagues. I will be asking for a continuance for items 811. There was new information that i would like everyone involved to have, more time to review in advance of the ceqa hearing. Additionally the neighbors ask to meet with the project sponsor. I want to afford them the opportunity to do that. I want to appreciate all the staff time involved and would now like to make a motion to continue this hearing to the regular schedule Board Meeting on tuesday, september 15th, 2020. Can i have a second . Supervisor peskin second. Supervisor yee before we take the motion, lets take a Public Comment on the continuance. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the anticipated continuance . Clerk i understand theres one person in the queue mr. President. There are 16 listeners. If any of those listeners interested in lining up, please press star three now. Lets hear from the first caller. Hello caller. Are you on the line . I hear something vaguely in the background. Its certain to me if its a caller. Is there any way to boost the public callers sound . I believe that is the callers audio in the background with the tv. Clerk caller, if you wouldnt mind please turn down your television and Pay Attention to the telephone. That way youll understand that its your opportunity now to speak. While that cycling, are there any other callers in the queue . That completes the queue. Clerk okay, mr. President , well try that caller one more time. Were working hard not to miss anyone. Is there any way you can grab their attention . Hello caller, can you hear us . Clerk perhaps were called away from the phone mr. President. Supervisor yee why dont we move ahead to our next special order. Ill come back and see if that person is having difficulties with the technology or whatever. Call items 1219 together. [agenda item read] supervisor peskin thank you president yee and colleagues. I will be making a motion to continue this matter. I want to just thank both of the appellants and the project sponsor. My office convened an initial mediation session that i think was a constructive start but the parties have agreed to come back for a second session which i think could be productive in trying to reach a resolution of these appeals. I would like to make a motion that we continue items 1219 to september 29th in order to give us a further opportunity for mediation. Supervisor yee okay. This will be the motion made by supervisor preston to continue items 1219 until supervisor peskin september 29th. Supervisor yee okay, sorry. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman . Lets see if theres any Public Comments on the continuation. Clerk do we have any other speakers in the queue . The previous caller has hung. I do an additional caller for this item. Clerk thank you. Hello caller. Welcome. Good afternoon supervisors. My name is rocke robert. Im disappointed to hear that the item being continued. I hope theres some resolution for this fairly soon. This project has been delayed by number of months. I dont think theres much to naianyone. Its four homes originally five. Fire department declared that project is for all. Its such a minimal intrusion on the space. I looked over the applicants documents, there are multiple examples of this kind of infield inside the existing block. I dont think theres really any danger. I think this project could be more dense. But the sponsors havelesser density to lower the possibilities from the neighbor perhaps unsuccessfully since theres this appeal thats going on. I think you should stop wasting the town and board of board of supervisors with four homes and move this forward. Thank you. Clerk thank you caller. Operations, are there any other callers in the queue . That completes the queue. Clerk mr. President. Supervisor yee Public Comment is closed for items 1219. Public comment is closed for items 811. Lets go to 811 first and order a motion to continue the item until september 15th. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the motion to continue items 811 until september 15, 2020 passes. Lets go to the other motion to continue items 1219 to the september 29th Board Meeting. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the motion to continue items 1219 to september 29th Board Meeting passes. Lets go straight into Public Comments. Clerk at this time the board of supervisors will host Public Comment remotely. If you need assistance with access to please contact my office. If you wish to get in line to provide testimony, press star 3. If you are calling in now the telephone is displayed on the website and crawling on channel 26. Press pound twice to join the proceeding a listener. When youre ready to get in line to provide testimony, press star 3. The prompt youre listening for is you have been unmuted. Just start speaking once you hear it. You will have two minutes to provide your testimony. If your location is quiet, you will be able to hear the prompt. You may also miss it if your location is not quiet. Star 3 moves you back into listening mode or may place you forward again into the queue to speak. One note for troubleshooting, the system holds. To about 300 callers at any time. If you feel you are lost in the system, as long as you can hear the proceeding through your phone, you are connected to the system. Give it a moment and try star 3 once again. Otherwise, call my office for assistance or just redial. Quick word about the content that is eligible for your Public Comment. The subject matter jurisdiction of the board and the approval of the minutes that are on the agenda. Theres no electioneering allowed at the meeting. If the interpreter can introduce themselves, let the Community Know that youre here for them please. [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] clerk mr. President that concludes my comment. Can we hear the first caller please. I like to say that i admire your stamina and all the work that you are doing for the citizens of San Francisco. Thank you. Today i urge you to support the resolutions proposed in items 27, 29 and 32, first the resolution in support of u. S. Senator sanders, make billionaires pay act that will place emergency tax on billionaires. Also, the resolution in support of state Assembly Bills 2088, the wealth tax over income over 30 million is worthy of support. Finally the resolution sponsored by supervisorss mar and ronen urging abag to focus San Francisco unmet needs for housing thats affordable to low and moderate income residents and maintain the current allocation levels in this upcoming rina process. Its so important that your collective voice is heard. [please stand by] it must be repaired. When a white person with power polices how young people of color organize, that reinforces White Supremacy. It centers the powerful white persons fragility and ego while marginalizing actions for justice. When a white person with power have people protest at their home, it reinforces White Supremacy by repeating bile racist jokes. Progressive politicians and those who attack and punish and shun is wrong. I call upon supervisor ronen and all who piled on to repair the damage they have done to people of color, and to report back to constituents. When repair is made and the details are made public, it will be a learning and a growing experience for the supervisor and the public. This is a healthy way to deal with episodes of White Supremacy. Lets start repairing here and now. Thank you very much. Clerk operations, can we have the next caller, please. Caller good morning, honor members of the board. Hi, good afternoon. And good afternoon, honorable members of the board. My name is evelyn rose, the director of the glen park neighborhood history project. Tomorrow, august 26th, is womens equality day, marking the 100Year Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment. Thank you all for the support of todays resolution. For over 200 years, women have been denied the fundamental right simply because of their gender. And as significant as this success was, the worked welling up to ratification had not been allinclusive. Moreover, many women of native american and asian descent would not win rights to vote until decades later. Today the american women of all backgrounds are still fighting for full equity in society and our continued right to have all voices heard that is increasingly at risk. The fight goes on. Learn more about 100 leaders on wchallenge. Org 100women, and in california, it was defeated in 1896. A new movement with new tactics emerged to unite women by crossing class bridges, but, unfortunately, in many locales not the racial divide. Much of this work that would eventually be adopted by Eastern States began in San Francisco in 1908. And its highlighted by what is believed to be the first sufferage march in america held in oakland and coled by San Francisco women. The day after womens equality day, thursday august 27th, is the 112th anniversary of that historic event. I invite you to visit the San Francisco Public Library Events Calendar for details about joining a virtual presentation to be held on that day at 6 00 p. M. , entitled americas first sufferage march and the San Francisco women who led it to learn more about these women, the significance of the march, and their activities leading up to it. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, can we have the next caller, please. Caller good afternoon, board. My name is dan doich and im a San Francisco resident. And the reason that im calling in today is to actually express opposition to supervisor mars resolution opposing the new arena goals. The reason for that is, honestly, i thought that it was ridiculous to for him to imply that San Francisco has sufficiently produced market rate housing. Thats just simply not true. If you look at the attack on decades of Housing Production in San Francisco, we have significantly underproduced housing. Thats the exact reason that we have some of the most expensive rent in the country. And, furthermore, the reality is that while i support more Affordable Housing, we cant pretend that if we just magically say oh, we want 100 Affordable Housing that its going to be built. The reality is that Inclusionary Zoning and impact fe fees are used to fund Affordable Housing. And as a result were going to need a combination of market rate and Affordable Housing to be part of the solution. And, frankly, the myopic view that market rate housing is the enemy is probably the reason that were in this crisis. And so the more i thought it was particularly enlightening last night, i watched the r. N. C. , and you had the mcdollars closkey, known as the st. Louis gun couple, who were waving their guns outside of their house and threatening protesters. On the r. N. C. They said that they opposed Single Family zoning and yet gordon mars resolution here would make it easier for parts of San Francisco with exclusionary Single Family zoning to entrench that zoning and to continue their exclusionary practices. So i think that its, frankly, absurd to see people thank you, caller. The libertarians will liberate. Clerk operations, can you unmute the next caller, please. There are 17 callers in the queue. Caller hi, this is steve market calling. Im calling against gordon mars resolution to limit the number of units for the allocation for San Francisco. The main reason for this is that were seeing just across Northern California insane prices and a lot of folks are getting put in great danger. And a big result of that is because people are forced to live further and further away because of the housing in San Francisco. When we limit the units that we build to only Affordable Housing, we are limiting ourselves to a tiny fraction of the total units built. This limit is imposed by the state and federal lowincome housing credits that are being allocated. And i fully support that being increased. But until it is, were not talking about fair solutions. We need to help the people in california live in places that are safe from wildfires and places like San Francisco should be home to all. So, please, i ask you to not support this resolution. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is adam buck and im a doctor who lives in d6 and i take care of people experiencing housing insecurity every day. Im calling to oppose supervisor mars resolution to try to reduce this. And i have heard from the indiscernible and i took care of him for three years and every time i saw him he had back pain, depression and i was trying to adjust his medications for back pain. One day he showed up and he had this brightness behind his eyes and i asked him how he was feeling and his pain and he didnt have anymore pain. And i said, what happened, we have been working on this for years and how do you have no more back pain. He said that i appealed my v. A. Benefits and they got approved and i just got a check for 130,000. And now i no longer have to worry about housing and i bought an apartment in vallejo, and i feel great, i have no more complaints anymore. And this happened probably seven years ago and its still on my mind. It was shocking how much the stress of housing insecurity can affect peoples health. And as other callers have mentioned, basically choking on the air. If you look at the air quality maps, and i also think that its kind of you know, these are where the homes should be. San francisco is great. You dont even need air conditioning. We have better air and better temperatures and, you know, if the average twobedroom apartment market rate is over 3,000, how is a family supposed to start and move here and live here . I mean, of course we should have higher market rate targets. We should have higher affordable rate targets. This is the solution for people who live in San Francisco. So i really hope that you dont move forward with this resolution because Affordable Housing is great and you should prioritize it and allow zoning to prioritize more Affordable Housing. But we need more market rate too. And if youre seriously saying that market rate rents as they currently are are acceptable thank you for your time. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, supervisors. My name is theo gordon and i am calling in to oppose supervisor mars resolution. And i am sitting in my apartment on golden gate avenue that i rent and i have a great view of the city. And right now i see blue skies. I cant tell you how amazing it is to see blue skies again after the last week we had with smoke. But i look online at the air conditions across the bay and i look, you know, on social media, and i see my friends in santa cruz and east bay who still have orange skies. With asthma who are choking. And are having to live in shelters right now because theyre worried that their houses are going to burn down. I have to say that i feel pretty privileged to be here and i wish that more people could be here. The idea that San Francisco doesnt bear responsibility in solving our housing crisis, and instead we should be forcing more people out int, and more pe to live in the urban wildlife interface and live away from the sea breeze that brings cool, healthy air in . Its insane. Its climate arson. Its condemning people to lives of respiratory disease, lives where they have to be concerned about having to evacuate their homes in the middle of the night because a fire started. Its just irresponsible. So ill be asking the bay area governors to push more housing into San Francisco because its the healthiest place in the bay to live. Its also, you know, the most transit dense city in the bay. And we need more people to be taking buses and bikes and not driving. The progressive environmental solution to our housing crisis is to build more housing in the cities. I dont know why certain supervisors keep trying to associate prohousing views that will reduce Health Impact and reduce the environmental impacts thank you, mr. Gordon. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Qoip gooplease. Caller good afternoon, this is peter warfield, the executive director of the Library Users association. We can be reached at libraryusers2004. Com. Wed like to ask the supervisors to review in doing any allocation for the library, and the library serves everybody, wed like to you review how the library spends that money. And even to put a hold on some of the funds because the library is not providing in some respects even basics. Its basically a husk compared to what it was previously. First of all, last thursday the Library Commission was told, not asked, and not given for discussion or action, told that 15 of 28 branches would be commandeered for child care related activity for an indefinite time. Giving kids child care in school is certainly a worthy goal, but it should not be done at the cost of libraries for all. The libraries have been very slow to start, especially compared with other libraries in the area and elsewhere. Only two libraries recently opened. And theyre currently opened for extremely limited service. Plans for the next round of openings include only four more libraries to be opened september 1st. And thats less than a quarter of the locations nearly six months from initial closure. At a time when we desperately need good information, the libraries have no plan for civic information and libraries have no plan for access to actual newspapers, magazines, periodic cals and so on. Periodicals, and no the New York Times and atlantic, nation, etc. And there should be more provided for folks who dont have access via the internet. Please, scrutinize how the money will be used and put some of it on hold. Thank you. Clerk thank you, mr. Warfield, for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, president yee, and the members of the board of supervisors. Im lenaia fox speaking on the status of women. We would like the supervisors for commemorating this historic moment and recognizing some of the local women who worked to extend the vote to women across the nation. As we celebrate this occasion, we also recognize that many women continue to experience disenfranchisement based on their race, ethnicity and citizenship status. And that the fight against Voter Suppression continues today. We also know that despite many efforts to make voting easier and more accessible, california ranks fourth lowest among the states for women registered to vote. And that women in San Francisco are less likely to register to vote than men. We appreciate the leadership of developing the w. Challenge to encourage more women to use their voices. We are proud to partner with her office and the league of women voters San Francisco in this effort. We urge all who are eligible, especially women, to register and to vote and to make sure that your friends and family are who are able to vote do so too. In honor of those who fought for this right and to acknowledge those who still struggle for it today. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, and thank you, madam clerk. This is audrey real. Just, you know, i was appalled hearing all of these uppity white privileged folks who are speaking in support of a Million Dollar homes, and yet each and every single one of them could afford to buy, wil while here we observing the exodus of people out of San Francisco. I am calling in support, thats why im calling in support of supervisor mars resolution to lower the surreal increase in our arena numbers for market rate homes. One thing that these people who are calling in opposition to this are not telling you is that this will actually precipitate the lower portion, the lower percentage for inclusionary housing. And the reason is that not my senator scott wiener years ago came up with one that will penalize those cities that do not meet their market rate portion of the arena. And it will make it so that a developer who wants to be building anything with as little as 10 for Affordable Housing, they will have by right to build that without any public input. That is not the city that we have worked so hard, that is not the Affordable Housing portion that we have worked so hard to pass. In this city, that is not good enough for us. We are standing for more Affordable Housing. Not market rate housing that every single one of these privileged white folks can afford to buy. So, please, support this resolution, supervisors. Were looking to you to set the record. And, please, do explain to the public that is calling in opposition to this resolution, why is it that we cannot afford to increase our arena number, in particular when we are having clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, can we hear from the next caller, please. Caller wow, so the rules changed, yet a new script that youre reading. That was a good surprise. All right, lets get started on Public Comment. Item 27, no thats socialism. And also youre taking political sides. Come on, dont do that. 28, yes. Workers need help. 29, i dont care. 30 its too political right now. You need to wait. 31, yes. Nineteenth amendment is awesome. 32, nah, fuck the wealth tax. Its the same thing as 27. Not okay. And then 33 i dont care. You guys have an issue. You know how when kids are in school, its like oh, its the worst thing if theyre on their phone . Yall are on twitter and you dont hide it. Youre tweeting and youre replying to people. Stay focused on the meeting. Thats what matters. Thats what youre elected for. Yeah, i see a bunch of you actually recently on twitter. I have an account just to follow you so i can see who is causing problems now. Also, yeah, thats all i have to say. Thank you. Clerk okay. Thank you for your comments. Operations, can you please unmute the next caller, please. Caller hello im jeffrey gull and a longtime president of San Francisco since 1976 and im calling in support of item number 29, and i want to thank the supervisors for looking after the people who live here. And as it correctly states, San Francisco has sheltered much of the regions Housing Development and its not likely that it will double or more to absorb the underperformance by other cities. Despite the citys longstanding commitment to Affordable Housing, we have achieved only 30 of the low and moderate income goals that have already meant 140 of our above moderate rate. Existing Housing Element of the 2014 general plan, objective 1, states very clearly that it is to identify and to make available adequate sites for the housing, especially permanent Affordable Housing. Youre obviously not meeting our objectives. We need Affordable Housing. The city needs to demonstrate that theyre committed to the june 2020 resolution on racial and social equity. And mandated by right approvals to incentivize speculation and only more of the same, and gentrification and racial disparity. I urge you to approve this resolution. By the way, everybody cant live in San Francisco. We cant move everybody from the suburbs into the city. Were going to just make it miserable and horrible for everybody. I mean, really. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Caller hi, my name is Barbara Delaney and im a resident of the sunset district. And i am calling in support of gordon mars resolution. I thought that it was very interesting to hear people say that we need market rate housing because the environment is so nice here in San Francisco, and the air is so clean. And, you know, the transportation is so good. Well, i feel that people who need Affordable Housing are entitled to have clean air and Good Transportation too. We have a lot of market rate housing in the city. And we have very little Affordable Housing. And the fact is that developers do not want to build Affordable Housing because theres not that much money in it for them. They want to build market rate housing. Yep, theyll maybe make a concession and give in 10 for affordable rate housing. But they dont really want to do that. And if they dont have to, they will not. Just like now that they dont have to build parking parking is expensive to build for developers. So they dont want to build parking and they wont be building parking. If they dont have to build Affordable Housing, they wont do that either. But everyone is entitled to clean air. Not everyone can live in San Francisco. But we should have people we should have a Diverse Economic population in the city and we need more Affordable Housing. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, the next caller, please. We have approximately 13 members of the public in the queue. Lets hear from the next one. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. My name is sarah ogilvy. Im a latina woman and i live and i vote in San Francisco. And i would like to register my opposition to supervisor mars antihousing resolution being submitted to you. In the last couple of weeks that trump has doubled down on his rhetoric against my senator and we have seen portland oregon, pass reform legislation, not to mention the equity resolution that San Francisco Planning Commission passed several weeks ago, im frankly surprised that im hearing this come out of the board of supervisors right now. As a daughter of california, im pleading with you to consider a housing allocation that pays attention to the wildfires blazing all around the bay area. And the fact that were going to be need to be facing these facts. We need to build these homes in San Francisco and make space for people who can rebuild our city anhelp our economy. And please consider the proposal to Bring Health Care workers to the city. Where will they live . They wont qualify for low and very lowincome housing. And although i want an abundance of those too, we need homes for everyone. And we need to build them. You know, i dont think that this resolution should be passed. I think its a violation of sfb38, and 35, its attempting to thwart the policy and it demands an answer to our heartwrenching housing crisis. We have been doing this for too many decades, supervisors. Please make it stop. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Welcome, caller. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. This is catherine howard. Please support the resolution to oppose the market rate housing and heres a few reasons. There are only so many Building Sites in San Francisco. Building market rate housing uses up land and resources that should be used for lower income housing. There are now many vacant Housing Units in San Francisco, and airbnb still has a lot of illegal units. We need to find them and get them on the market. Every 10 units of market rate housing requires at least three units of Affordable Housing for the people who provide service for the money classes. If we build more market rate units we will need more and more affordable units. This is a catch22. We cannot build market rate housing as a way out of the affordability crisis. The pandemic and the desire for social distancing as well as the need for open space and backyards for families have prompted those who can afford it to move to areas with these amenities. Stackandpack counting has lost its appeal while destroying the very amenities of open green space that might have persuaded people to stay in the city. Fortunately, the discovery that people can work at home has prompted people to rethink the market rates to live in San Francisco. But those people who do not have techie job options and cannot afford the rent are the people whom we need in San Francisco to keep it diverse and vibrant city that it has been. We need to provide housing for them first. With the fires and the loss of homes all over the state, the price of Building Material and shortage of labor is going to increase. Affordable housing will have difficulty competing with the market rate housing in paying for this and it will all go to the luxury developments. And i will add that watching the news contrary to what some of the callers said, that the People Living in the fire zones are not interested in moving into a dense urban environment. They live where they want to live because they want more space. That is what they want. We do not need more market rate housing in San Francisco. How many more neighborhoods do we have to destroy to satisfy the Greedy Developers . Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Welcome, caller. You will have up to two minutes. Caller hello, supervisors. I am Dan Fetterman and a resident of d5. I call to urge you all to reject supervisor mars measure, asking for market rate allocations away from San Francisco. Hundreds of thousands of acres of the bay area are currently on fire. San francisco has some of the best air quality in the region. please stand by clerk lets hear from the next speaker please. Hi longterm resident of d4. I really appreciate item 29, mar and ronens resolution. To not put ridiculous pressure on the city for market rate housing. Nothing stops the market rate in the best market in the United States and the world. We need middle, lower and Affordable Housing. We do not need further pressure to exceed goals and help Market Rate Developers build in San Francisco. Thank you very much, i hope you supervisors support that resolution. Clerk lets hear from the next caller please. Good afternoon. Im from senior and disability action. Im calling in support, absolute support for supervisor mar and preview ronens resolution. This is so important that we halt the overbuilding of market rate housing and we build for the actual needs of our city, which is very clearly are essential workers. Those in the Service Industry who have been forced out of the city through either gentrification or through the inability to afford the rising rent. We desperately need Affordable Housing, deeply Affordable Housing to meet our needs and im looking forward to what that job housing fit looks like today. I think that will be very different. I appreciate all the work you have done supervisor mar in getting housing balance reports out and really looking and revealing and asking the really important questions about what has been built and what needs to be built. Thank you and please all supervisors support this resolution. Thank you so much. Clerk next caller please. We have nine callers in the queue. I support this and thank supervisor mar and ronen for item 29 for this long overdue discussion on the Regional Housing needs. Question are do they have San Francisco needs in mind. What are San Francisco needs. Only answer to me is to ask the people who live here. Every Community Forum run by the planning department, has put Affordable Housing as the Number One Community priority. In the last San Francisco housing strategies report from the planning department, that projects for the next 30 years. The conclusion was that at least one area of new housing built needs to be affordable. At the same time, the report shows that two thirds of the affordable units built between 2006 and 2018 resulted from 100 affordable project. To me that clearly shows its the fastest way to achieve Affordable Housing. Included in that same report, Affordable Homes are needed by 2050. That stated that San Franciscos racial, social and Economic Diversity depends on the stability of housing. Affordable housing are the only Housing Needs that are unmet. We can and we are planning and building Affordable Housing. Clerk thank you for your comment. We have a hand full of speakers in the queue for those who are listening. This is the last call. If you are interested in speaking, please press star 3 and that way you can get in line to make your testimony. Next caller please. Good afternoon. Im a district 6 resident and a first generation immigrant. I urge you all to vote no on supervisor mars resolution to keep our existing levels. Wildfires ravaged the entire bay area. San francisco has been the only county spared. My parents who live in livermore around so lucky. Over the weekend, Alameda County issued evacuation warning couple of blocks away from their house. Youre saying if you happen to win one of the Affordable Housing lotteries you dont deserve to live here. Usually members from the other political party. To me, all that is morally bankrupt position. Our greatest need is lower and moderate income housing. One bedroom apartment to rent with over 3000 a month, its ludicrous if you have enough market race housing. Our housing should accommodate everyone that wants to live here. Far away from the wildfires. Thank you very much, have a wonderful day. Clerk next caller please. [speaking foreign language] i will now proceed to interpret what the caller was expressing. Good afternoon supervisors. Im calling because i am extremely concerned and the price of rent in San Francisco is extremely high and makes it impossible for somebody like me for a middle class san franciscan to live in San Francisco. Now the wildfires have put all of us at risk and all of our brothers and sisters in california. California, we should be receiving all our brothers and sisters with open arms and i am against building more market rate housing and im against resolution 29. I am urging you to welcome our brothers and sisters with open arms and to keep our doors open for all those who need and would like to come and live in california. Im very proud to live in california because we have always received everybody with open arms regardless of their socioeconomic status. I hope that you will vote against the resolution. Thank you very much. Clerk gracias to the caller. Thank you connie, well done. Next caller. Hello. I would like to raise some concerns about how much time spent on this commemoration of the 19th amendment today. The 19th amendment was important but i dont think that this is necessarily the time and place for commemorating the 19th amendment. Im very glad to have the right to vote. As somebody who attends these meetings to find out whats happening with the city, i dont want to have to sit through each supervisor talking about their personal feelings on the 19th amendment. The resolution the hundredth anniversary of the 19th amendment, i dont understand what is the point of that . Its purely ceremonial. I feel like this is a waste of time. Theres Better Things that our city actually has, need, we need focusing on the housing. We have real needs other than ceremonial things. Quit with the memoriam and all that stuff that doesnt do anything for anyone, that will be much appreciated. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next caller. This is a matter of principle. If your mother is a wetback and youre born in america, you are not an american citizen. Youre undesirable and should be deported. All citizenship to these clerk that is offensive. Operations, do we have another caller on the line . My name is david. I live in district 5. Im calling in to oppose supervisor mars resolution. From couple of perspectives, one, im a member of the Lgbtq Community here in San Francisco. So many people would love to move here and who dont qualify for Affordable Housing but theyre not rich. They cant afford the rent. Im an educator and im a professor. Its really hard to recruit students undergrads to come move to the bay area to study and contribute to our economy and community. Its a huge problem. We do need to build more market rate housing in order to have the member of our Community Come here. Folks i know who are respected ph. D. Students they are shocked by efforts like in from supervisor mar. Why does it matter . Not only the people move in the units rented out or purchase them, you have to recognize that the people who move into those units who are currently in the bay area, say someone whos driving two hours everyday in San Francisco. They then vacate units that other people that can move into that are more affordable. Building more housing helps reduce rent. I understand folks calling in that are housing secure and have prop 13 for decades want to see San Francisco look like a suburb. Its hurting the community and younger generation. I ask you to oppose supervisor mars resolution. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments sir. Next caller please. Hello im im theodore. Im calling to oppose item 29, mar and ronens resolution. The biggest conceptual problem is that our city is not at closed system controlled by the city government. We are a city of 800,000 people in the region over 4 million residents each with freedom of movement and pushed around by law. They have done the opposite neighborhoods like mine become more expensive an more rich white. Furthermore, gentrification still breaking up the communities in oakland and other cities. This resolution is not only against the spirit of the state law, it is against the spirit of the resolution on racial and socioequity. If you dont want to be part of the bay area, you would advocate for housing of all kind and built in the unaffordable neighborhoods of San Francisco. Thank you. Clerk you have time left. Did he get cut off . I just paused his time. No. I believe he hung up. Clerk please lets hear from the next caller. Hi. Im not really opposing or supporting this resolution. I do think something we need to address. I believe strongly that need to build Housing First for the most vulnerable san franciscans. I do feel that we have not an honest conversation about the public about how much funding for subsidized housing is contingent on market rate housing. Were leaving vulnerable communities in the dark by not being honest with proms we cant keep. Weri think that we need look at this and come up with bold and Creative Solutions like taxing income and taxing property before we make determinations to cut all our high end market rate allocations. It pains me t to say this, as yu feel funding question is okay, you cant have an intelligent conversation about allocations without addressing that. Thank you. Clerk next speaker please. This is adam. Im a resident in district 6. Im calling to comment on item 29. Its important to know, right now, it cost 700,000 to bill an affordable unit in San Francisco. Thats not even affordable. San francisco says it wants Affordable Housing but this board and city leaders havent made it a priority. You guys arent the first to not made it a priority. Affordable housing has been allowed to languish in favor of appeals and reviews and etcetera. When i read this resolution by mar and ronen, it read very much like the i got mine attitude. It was associated with suburban people and right wing trumpers. They have their Single Family home and they know, we need Affordable Housing but they dont really want to do the work to get it done. If the board of supervisors is serious about Affordable Housing, stop trying to get special treatment from San Francisco. Cut out the needless appeals that drive up the cost for everyone. Hickllets not keep repeating te same mistakes over and over again. Lets be in progressive city that welcomes people of all income levels, not an exclusive suburb that opposes all development. We dont want to be the next lafayette. We can say we need Affordable Housing all we want, if no action is taken its the same as board of supervisors saying it doesnt care about Affordable Housing. I firmly oppose to this resolution. We need to step up to our goals both in market rate housing and Affordable Housing. Theres a lot supervisors can do to address Affordable Housing and make it happen. Just stop pull out the red tape, open it up. If you want to do it, show us action. Dont give us words that means nothing. Thank you. Clerk next caller please. My name is craig miller. We support the market rate housing. We do need to build more Affordable Housing and i think it has to be done outside and giving subsidies for Affordable Housing. We met our goals with Affordable Housing over and over again and keep failing to meet the goals in Affordable Housing. Lets focus on Affordable Housing and come up with some funding to do that. Rhna goals is popping up. We need to get out of that. You need to focus if you want to have diversity and you have to do is explicitly. Clerk next speaker please. This is martin. Im calling from district 5. Im really horrified to hear some of the comments that have happened during this call, especially the really racist one that happened earlier. The reason i bring that up, i dont necessarily want to identify every single identity that i come from. Its not always relevant. In this case its relevant. San francisco is a sanctuary city, i believe that we can open up our city and more people that really do this resolution doesnt actually solve the problem which is that we have affordability crises in San Francisco. Thats why i oppose this resolution. I want to agree with shanti earlier. We do want to build Affordable Housing. Its telling folks that the solution is to wave away Market Rate Development instead of actually trying to get more money from the state for Affordable Housing. Its rich that this resolution is coming from the supervisor in district 4 whos working with the supervisor in district 9 who consider so much Affordable Housing thats been built in the city has been denied. You can count how many affordable units have been built in the last five years in d4. Allow for the affordable units to be paid for by the market rate units in d4. I oppose this resolution because its not actually creating a Funding Source for Affordable Housing, someone like me clerk thank you for your comment. Next caller. Good afternoon supervisors. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My name is mike, i dont live in San Francisco. My wife and i dont want to eat the enormous rent increase we have to take if we move to San Francisco. Im frustrated that as someone whos advocated many times for Affordable Housing, that a city that is the center of the Tech Industry in this country, would push so hard back on market rate housing. If you look at the resolution, it says there are 49,000 extremely rents burden households in the city. This is by definition, 49,000 low income households that are living in the market rate housing today. If you can somehow get things together and find the money to build 10,000 units, great. I would support any tax increases necessary to do that. You will still have 39,000 low income families. I think its pretty clear if you look at the red lining maps of San Francisco from 90 years ago, there are pretty easy ways to build lots of market rate housing with low risk of rates and gentrification. That is upzone the wealthy and disproportionately white west side of the city. Gentrification is low. You can rely on the private market to build lots and lots of market rate homes without displacing low income families of color. Its the obvious solution. It is shocking to me that this board of supervisors wont talk about that. Instead, wants to fight the state. Its the clear obvious answer. Thank you. Clerk next caller. Ross brayden, district 7. I want to comment about the board of supervisors response to covid. I sent an email about Placer County board of supervisors meeting august 17th. Made very good rational case for ending the lockdown because were at a point where lockdown is causing more damage than the virus. Our hospitals are not overflowing but restaurants are closing, people who live here are losing their businesses. Its gone too far. Its time for us to stand up against the state. We can force the governor. We do not have to comply. The city of San Francisco, the mayor need to change course and end the lockdown in San Francisco. Thank you for your time. Clerk next caller. This is stephanie peek i live in district 2 and im a member of the San Francisco land use coalition. I support supervisors mar and ronen resolution. We already met 100 rhna goal. There are 444 homes have asking price above 800,000. During this pandemic, nothing can be more out of touch than to push for more market rate housing when homes are sitting empty. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next caller please. My name is eva. I can tell you my name was on this thing. I have been listening to the comments opposing gordonmars resolution for Affordable Housing. The comments are the same and the same level of articulateness. I recently discovered if you go to a lans us land use lawyer, many of them provide community support. They have people who will call in to either support or oppose whatever you want to pay for. Im wondering how many of these people who are opposing gordonmars resolution to require more Affordable Housing instead of making market rate housing have actually been hired by the lawyers several developers hired to oppose this resolution. Developers do not want to go Affordable Housing. They want to build market rate housing. The people calling in saying we need more housing and more market rate housing. Why wouldnt they want more Affordable Housing and not market rate housing . If i was calling in from burlingame, i would want more affordable house. The comment according to gordon mars resolution should be taken with grain of salt. We need to take wealthy refugees from the suburbs because there was an earthquake or something. We can have an earthquake here. They had fires over there. I think they all seem little too scripted to be taken as legitimate callers. Thank you. Clerk next caller please. I would like to express concern about the lady who was said earlier over her use of racial slur. I believe that you cut off a Public Comment. The commenter must both be offensive and disruptive. She was very clearly offensive. Its not clearly that she was disruptive. Her First Amendment rights were violated. That was concerning to me. While her words were very offensive, i believe she had as much right as anyone to express them. Clerk im pausing your time. You called in before. I want to gently acknowledge that to you and just state if you would just acknowledge that back to us, then we can go on our way. Can you just state that and hang up please . Pardon . Clerk this is the second time you called today. We are going to disconnect the line. Operations, please. That completes the queue. Clerk thank you. Supervisor yee seeing no other Public Comment. Public comment now closed. Madam clerk, lets go to the Committee Reference agenda items 2733. [agenda item read] supervisor yee colleagues, would anyone like to talk about these items. Can we separate item 29 . Supervisor yee supervisor preston. Supervisor preston i wanted to be added cosponsor on 31. Supervisor yee supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani i like to sever item number 30. Supervisor yee madam clerk, do we have to sever something to be added as a cosponsor . Clerk no. You can tell me and staff inanei will track it and well make sure it happens. 27, 28, 30 and 31. Got it. Supervisor peskin , i like to do the same. Supervisor yee i said 32 also. Clerk and 32 for president yee. Thank you. Supervisor yee go ahead and get the roll call for the remainder of the items except for 29 and 30 i believe. [roll call vote] he ises in a he is in a meeting. Hes on mute. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee these resolutions are adopted. Call item number 29. [agenda item read] supervisor yee supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you president yee. I want to thank my cosponsors supervisor, ronen, walton, preston and fewer. I like to make a motion that we continue this item on september 1st. Its in light of the that weve been focused on the budget, especially the members of the budgets and Appropriations Committee and other pressing matters in the past week. I want to make sure all of you and we all have adequate time to consider this really important resolution and policy matter. Supervisor yee is there a second . Mandelman will second. Supervisor yee motion to continue. Roll call please. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee motion to continue item 29 to our september 1st Board Meeting passes. Call item 30. [agenda item read]. To provide few updates since i introduced the resolution last week, House Democrats passed an emergency 25 billion funding bill to ensure that post office has continue financial health. The bill will block any more changes to service and operations ahead of this november. The future of the bill lie hands in the republicans in it senate. Im not optimistic. Postal service is a matter of life and death for Many Americans and critical to our democracy. We know that the pandemic will have incredible impact on inperson voting. Absentee ballot will be the first choice and United States post office must continue to play a role. Testifying in front of the House Oversight committee postmaster general dejoy saying delays to be expected. Staffing changes and threats to employ overtime have been in the state of flux. Katy porter asked if he will revert to change, he responded no. Today, recognizing the high stakes of this moment, i want to recognize that City Attorney joined coalition of state municipalities to stop the Trump Administration attempt to dismantle the Postal Service and undermine the election. More than ever, cities and states across the country, we must keep the pressure on. We must Tell Congress that we demand fully funded, fully operation Postal Service through in november. I like to thank my cosponsors president yee and supervisor walton, fewer and yee and peskin and mandelman. I urge your support. Supervisor yee call the roll on this item. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, this bring us to the memoriams. Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of a fallen beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor safai for. Supervisor yee that bring us to end of our agenda. Is there any further business before us today. Clerk that concludes business for today. Supervisor yee if there are no further business, we are adjourned. I love teaching. It is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. This really is a place where all people can come and take a class and fill part of the community. This is very enriching as an artist. A lot of folks take these classes and take their digital imagery and turn it into negatives. There are not many black and white darkrooms available anymore. That is a really big draw. This is a signature piece. This is the bill largest darkroom in the u. S. There are a lot of people that want to get into that dark room. I think it is the heart of this place. You feel it when you come in. The people who just started taking pictures, so this is really an intersection for many generations of photographers and this is a great place to learn because if you need people from different areas and also everyone who works here is working in photography. We get to build the community here. This is different. First of all, this is a great location. It is in a lesspopulated area. Of lot of people come here just so that they can participate in this program. It is a great opportunity for people who have a little bit of photographic experience. The people have a lot, they can really come together and share a love and a passion. We offer everything from traditional black and white darkrooms to learning how to process your first roll of film. We offer classes and workshops in digital camera, digital printing. We offer classes basically in the shooting, ton the town at night, Treasure Island. There is a way for the programs exploring everyone who would like to spend the day on this program. Hello, my name is jennifer. My name is simone. We are going on a field trip to take pictures up the hill. Cmon, cmon, cmon. Actually, i have been here a lot. I have never looked closely enough to see everything. Now, i get to take pictures. We want to try to get them to be more creative with it. We let them to be free with them but at the same time, we give them a little bit of direction. You can focus in here. That was cool. If you see that . Behind the city, behind the houses, behind those hills. The see any more hills . These kids are wonderful. They get to explore, they get to see different things. We let them explore a little bit. They get their best. If their parents ever ask, we can learn they can say that they learned about the depth of field or the rule of thirds or that the shadows can give a good contrast. Some of the things they come up with are fantastic. That is what were trying to encourage. These kids can bring up the creativity and also the love for photography. A lot of people come into my classes and they dont feel like they really are creative and through the process of working and showing them and giving them some tips and ideas. This is kind of the best kept secret. You should come on and take a class. We have orientations on most saturdays. This is a really wonderful location and is the real jewel to the community. Ready to develop your photography skills . The Harvey Milk Photo Center focuses on Adult Classes. And saturday workshops expose youth and adults to photography classes. 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. Roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after we have a wonderful adult ceramic class. We offer over 10 Adult Classes in morning and evening. It accommodates people who work in the day, people who work in the evening, people who are day people and night people. We try to cater to the whole group. Its beyond just a clay lesson. Its really a lifeless on. When you meet people you never know whats underneath. Sometimes they show you what they want to. And you kind of expect that its just going to be that. But its never really whats on the surface. Its really whats underneath the surface. Thats what i try to get at when i do my clay. The camaraderie that we have here. We have students that have been for for many many years. We have students here for the first time. We share our skills, our formulas. This is how we learn. How did you do that . Let me show you. Thats the attitude that the students and the teachers have here. Its a really wonderful nurturing place. Right before the game starts, if im still on the field, i look around, and i just take a deep breath because it is so exciting and magical, not knowing what the season holds holds is very, very exciting. It was fastpaced, stressful, but the good kind of stressful, high energy. There was a crowd to entertain, it was overwhelming in a good way, and i really, really enjoyed it. I continued working for the grizzlies for the 20122013 season, and out of happenstance, the same job opened up for the San Francisco giants. I applied, not knowing if i would get it, but i would kick myself if i didnt apply. I was so nervous, i never lived anywhere outside of fridays know, andfridays fresno, and i got an interview. And then, i got a second interview, and i got more nervous because know the thought of leaving fresno and my family and friends was scary, but this opportunity was on the other side. But i had to try, and lo and behold, i got the job, and my first day was january 14, 2014. Every game day was a puzzle, and i have to figure out how to put the pieces together. I have two features that are 30 seconds long or a minute and a 30 feature. Its fun to put that altogetl r together and then lay that out in a way that is entertaining for the fans. A lucky seat there and there, and then, some lucky games that include players. And then ill talk to lucille, can you take the shirt gun to the bleachers. I just organize it from top to bottom, and its just fun for me. Something, we dont know how its going to go, and it can be a huge hit, but youve got to try it. Or if it fails, you just wont do it again. Or you tweak it. When that all pans out, you go oh, we did that. We did that as a team. I have a great team. We all gel well together. It keeps the show going. The fans are here to see the teams, but also to be entertained, and thats our job. I have wonderful female role models that i look up to here at the giants, and theyve been great mentors for me, so i aspire to be like them one day. Renelle is the best. Shes all about women in the workforce, shes always in our corner. [applause] i enjoy how progressive the giants are. We have had the longer running until they secure day. Weve been doing lgbt night longer than most teams. I enjoy that i work for an organization who supports that and is all inclusive. That means a lot to me, and i wouldnt have it any other way. I wasnt sure i was going to get this job, but i went for it, and i got it, and my first season, we won a world series even if we hadnt have won or gone all the way, i still would have learned. Ive grown more in the past four years professionally than i think ive grown in my entire adult life, so its been eye opening and a wonderful learning my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field Interview Police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in law enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco. Working with kids, they keep you young. They keep you on your tones on your toes. Teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. Ready . Go. [ ] we really wanted to find a way to support Women Entrepreneurs in particular in San Francisco. It was very important for the mayor, as well as the Safety Support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. Three, two, one because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the Small Business development center. I thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. They really give back to the neighborhood. They are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. When molly molly first told us about the grant because she works with Small Businesses. She has been a tremendous help for us here. She brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be uptodate and redone totally. Hands in front. Recite the creed. My oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. It instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. We think it is great. The moves are fantastic. The women both are great teachers. What is the next one . My son goes to fd k. He has been attending for about two years now. They also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. They took the kids everywhere around San Francisco. This year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. He has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. I think that carries through and i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. I met dandrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. Our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. He decided to reopen this location after he moved. Initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. My Business Partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new Nursing School so you can take over. And she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before for a month before she came through. She was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just put on the uniform, and help her teach. I was struggling a little bit. And she has been here. One thing led to another and now we are coowners. You think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. The selfdefence class is a new thing that we are doing. We started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. Theres a difference between selfdefence and doing a karate class. We didnt want them to do an actual karate class. We wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. Then i was approached by my old high school. One once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. My old biology teacher is now the principle. She approached us into doing a selfdefence class. The girls have been really proactive and really sweet. They step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasnt been any pushback. It is really great. It is respect. You have to learn it. When we first came in, they knew us as those girls. They didnt know who we were. Finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. It took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. Since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. We were doing our summer camp and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. She came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. And i said what . Martial arts is a passion for us. It is passion driven. There are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. We have been operating this program for a little over a year all Women Entrepreneurs. It is an extraordinary benefit for us. We have had the Mayors Office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. It has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. We hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids lives outside of just learning karate. Having selfconfidence, having discipline, learning to know when its okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school. These are the values we want the kids to take away from this. Not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. We want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. First its always the hardest and when they look back they really wont see you, but its the path that youre paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. Hi, my name is jajaida durden and im the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. And im over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. And some tree inspectors as well. I have been with the city and county of San Francisco for 17 years. And i was a cement mason, that was my first job. When i got here i thought that it was too easy. So i said one day ill be a supervisor. And when i run this place it will be ran different. And i i didnt think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. And i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. And six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. With all of those responsibilities and the staff youre also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. And shes able shes displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the Deputy Director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. Shes a natural leader. I mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. And the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, shes right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. My inspiration is when i was a young adult was to become a fire woman. Well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. When i was in jail they had a Little Program called Suppers Program and i supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. I thought that the Fire Department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. So i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. While i was in jail. And the program that i was in, they retrained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. And cement mason didnt require a High School Diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. When i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area and i went there. My first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. I was an apprentice pouring concrete. And my first job was mount zion Emergency Hospital which is now ucsf. And every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. Yeah, i did. I graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. I loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. My first for formen job was a 40 Story Building from the ground up. And its a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. Im used to it though, its a challenge for me. As a female youre working with a lot of guys. So when they see a woman, first they dont think that the woman is in charge and to know that shes a person that is in charge with operations, i think that its great, because its different. Its not something i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. I was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. When i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. In the middle, theyd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she dont belong. Oh, it was terrible. It was terrible. I didnt have any support from the shop. The ones who said they supported me, they didnt, they talked about me behind my back. Sometimes i had some crying, a lot of crying behind doors, not in public. But i had a lot of mentors. My mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. What am a i going to do . Hang in there. It was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. But what they didnt understand is that because they didnt help me i had to learn it. And then probably about a year later, thats when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. It was scary. But the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. I knew that it was going to come, but i didnt know how long it would take. It was coming. In the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, thats my highlight. I can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. And i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. Ill talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me. And they com knock on my door ad ask how i move up and how i get training. Im always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d. P. W. And i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. Although we dont like hearing it at the time that were going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a person roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after hi. Im Chris Mathers with channel 19, and youre watching coping with covid19. Today, im going to be talking about exercising during the pandemic. First, im going to tell you what ive been doing, and then im going to be checking in with some friends and family. Ive been riding my bike. All i take is a pair of gloves and a mask if i come into contact with anyone. I try to ride my bike during the time im sheltering in place. I try to ride for at least 30 minutes. Surfing is my other regular outdoor activity. California state guidelines recommend you dont drive more than ten minutes for a spot to exercise, and although im close to ocean beach, im a bit wary to go there, so im using the time to do some maintenance. Filling in gouges and dings, and sanding it down. Im also repairing holes in my suit. Fellow sfgovtv producer chris took his first yoga lesson a couple of years ago and used to go to a class regularly before the lockdown. He and his wife set up a space in their garage for exercising. This routine is from an online class by power yoga. Deann and andy have been using the ping pong table that they bought off craigslist and set it up in their back yard. Ellie has been using this home gym to stay fit. It has everything she needed. And lastly, if the weather is bad outside, you can exercise your mind by doing a puzzle, sudoku, or just by reading a good book. Heres a quick recap. Since i started this episode, the guidelines have changed. For instance, jack may be able to go golfing with some restrictions. Go to sf. Gov to get the most uptodate good afternoon and welcome to the august 25, 2020 regular meeting of the board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call]