Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Rules Committee 20240712

Physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda and both channel 26 and other cable channels and sfgov are streaming the number across the screen. You can call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 416 9714708 and then press pound and pond again. When connected, you will hear meeting discussions and be in listening hold. When your item of interest comes up, star three to be ad to the speaker line and call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following way,s email myself at eict rock. Young sfgov. Org and via email to the board of supervisors. That completes my comments. Thank you so much and can you please read item number one. Item number one is ordinance of the administrative code to the Northern California of journalists as a nominating body to the board of supervisors to hold the seat on a Sunshine Ordinance Task force from a ratio ethnic minorityowned used organization and to modify the qualifications for that seat. Fantastic colleagues, weve heard this item last week and dont have a rep from supervisor peskins office. If theres to comment, well open to this up for Public Comment. I would like to make a statement. Members who call 415 6550001 for Public Statement and the meeting i. D. Is 146 9714708, pound and pound and if you havent done so, dial star three and system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin. Are there any members of the public online . There are no callers in the queue. Thank you so much. Public comment is closed and i would like a motion to forward this to the full board with recommendation. If we can have a role call. role call . Can you read from items two , three and four together. Well ask to keep comments under five minutes and then two minutes per caller who can talk about one or several of the candidates today. Item number two is a motion approving rejecting the nomination for the reappointment of season diamond to the Planning Commission for a fouryear term ending july 1s july 1st, 2024 and number three, removing the nomination for the reappoint of joe kopel for a fouryear term ending julr move is approving objecting the board of supervisors, norman yee for maria teresa imperial to the Planning Commission for a fouryear term ending in 2024. Thank you so much. And i believe lets start with mr. Diamond. Good morning. Good to have you and thank you for your all your service thus far and please share with us whatever you would like. Thank you, can i just make sure you can all hear and see me . We can. Wonderful. Good morning, supervisors. Last november, i was honored to be appointed to the plan commission. Its a big responsibility. I made decisions that are very tough with the best interests with covid in mind. There are underlying problem, especially communities of color related to racial and social equity, housing access, economic recovery and Small Business vitality and our commission is well structured to be reactive, but instead of with the status quo, the commission could be more proactive in addressing the lanuse issues related to the pandemic and systemic racism. And given that our commission seizesees hundreds of cases, its uniquely situated to see the trends. For the past 40 years, lawyer representing profits for major real estate projects, volunteer board member, land use lawyer, educator and now commissioner, i had never been willing to settle for the status quo. I see my job as understanding the concerns, doing the due diligence, listening to a range of views and advancing the meaningful change. So as one idea, instead of merely responding to legislation at a time when people were already set on an approach, perhaps they could hold forums and retreats with the lands board use committee, automobile subject t. This collaboration mik well for phase two of the racial and social equity and additionally, we could change the assumption, the commission is the second to last stop this the process. By the time the Commission Sees projects, applicants have been spending money for years pursuing an approval, generally permitted by the code and applicants and staff resist much change at this late stage and activists are left to react to make projects designed without them. We have some power to require changes if we can show nexus. This can result in those who depend those who show up to protest, undermining predictability and consistency. Instead, perhaps we should insist, require that long before a submission of the ppa, applicants meet with staff, their supervisor, Community Groups and the commission to discuss the proposed project. Theres been a lot of turnover on the Planning Commission in the last year and i think we can benefit from some stability. The Current Group has a great working relationship where we help each other to formulate suingses to tough problems. So i hope you confirm all three of us. Nine months ago, the ceos from numerous nonprofits showed up at the rules committee to show up. I did not want to ask them to take time out to testify against so soon after the last hearing but have the submitted support letters which should be in your packet. Finally, i have worked hard to develop credibility with my fellow commissioners and with the other players in the process. I have learned so much and believe i have so much more to contribute as a commissioner. If you it would be an honor and a privilege to continue to serve. Thank you. Thank you so much. Do either of my colleagues have any questions . Chair ronen, i dont have any questions and ill wait until after Public Comment. I would like to interrupt one moment. I believe were having a technical issue that retrying to resolve on our Public Comment line. If you dont mind taking a short pause or recess, we would appreciate that. Ok, how long would you like to recess . Five minutes, please. Were going to recess for five minutes. Sorry about that short break. We have Public Comment back up and running and we are on iteming two, three and four ad were hearing all three items together. The way we will move forward, we have already heard the comments of the Planning Commission, suzannsusan die man diamond and, the three of us will be asking questioning or making comments and well hear from the next appointee and do the same and when were doing hearing from all three appointees, we will open this up for Public Comment and every member will have two minutes to speak about any or all or some of the three appointments. And so with that, thanks again, miss diamond for comments and supervisor stephanie, handing it over to you. Thank you, chair ronen and chair diamond for your remark. We discussed so many different topics, including housing on the west side and how were doing better and hope to continue to and also racial and social equity in housing and retail vacancies. We covered it all and i think our conversation was an hour. I want to thank you for what you said about being proactive instead of reactive on so many levels and how the Planning Commission might work with the board of supervisor. I dont have a question per say because i dont want to take a lot of time and im supporting your reappointment. I think youre a great addition to the Planning Commission. But i want you to know that your emphasis on so much of what we do, especially at the planning level is reactive, that if we could really somehow as a Planning Commission and board of supervisors work on po policieso address that with so many listings that come to you, i would love to participate in that. Dont really have a question and thank you for your incredible work. Youve been wonderful. Thank you for reaching out to me at times and i look forward to approving your appointment again. Supervisor mar. I want to thank commissioner diamond for your very thoughtful and diligent work and leadership on the Planning Commission thus far and its been very impressive. Yeah, just to see you step into the Important Role and i just have one question ill ask of you and the other commissioners who are being reappointed or nominated for reappointment and i would like to get your thoughts on housing balance in the city and, you know, like many in the city, i think its very important that we are more thoughtful about our strategies to address the housing crisis in our city and that means im looking at the housing that were approving and building in our city. There was 25. 5 housing balance and its a pretty extreme in favror market rate housing. And this is reflected when we look at how were making progress towards our regional goals or the Housing Needs allocation and, again, im sure youre aware that we are needing exceeding the market rate housing, i think, by 138 and that goal is through 2022. Whereas, were far behind in meeting rena goals for Affordable Housing. And i just wanted to get your thoughts about housing balance or imbalance in our city. Thank you, supervisor. That is the primary topic that occupies the commission in terms of how we spend our time, not at the policy level but the implementation, but there are so many things we could talk about within that broad question, and so let me mention a few items. And the rena goals are a good place to start. We, i think, were meeting a third or less than a third of the Affordable Housing. And thats a really important point because while we must produce more of it, the question is where the funds will come from in order to do that. Because we dont have enough money. And we also link market rate housing to Affordable Housing and so that market rate housing is the source of some of our fees in order to build Affordable Housing. And the concerns around this question also relate to, is it tall dance buildings . That does produce a lot of housing and if its on site, we get fees, but we need to be focused on increased production on adus, particularly on the west side so that we are looking at all sources for new housing. The adus may not be, quote affordable but less expensive than downtown luxury buildings. We also need to be giving more thought to what the impact is of where we place our dense housing. For years, most has been going into the Southeast Quadrant of the city with impacts on displacement. I live six hours from gary boulevard and thats a prime increase for dense housing, not downtown skyscrapers, but five, six, certainly stories and many of the units need to be Affordable Housing. I do think we need to continue to produce all kinds of housing, but we need to be very focused on the strategies for Affordable Housing and how we use the dollars available to us to produce the maximum amount. I want to thank you for all of your hard work, miss diamond and like supervisor, mar, i have one question i would like to ask all of the commissioners. In june, the San Francisco Planning Commission adopted a stronglyworded resolution acknowledging the harm harms tocommunity of color and strategies to raise equity in San Francisco. Of course, i was excited about this and i want to ask you what this resolution means to you and how you intend to apply this commitment to change the real life impacts of communities of color on low income workers and Small Businesses. And so, maybe ill talk first about what it means to me personally and why i felt so strongly to adopt a resolution and talk about some of the specific programs, actions that i know were considering to include in phase two of the racial and social equity initiative, which is the primary program we are using or structure to implement change. And so for me personally, i think a few factors behind my deepfelt drive in order to address this problem. And in no particular order. The first is, i have spent much of my volunteer life as an adult involved in creating and sustaining Community Centers. I believe that Community Centers are the way to help everyone in our Community Flourish and it is abundantly clear that we live in a society where flourish is absolutely the wrong word to describe whats happening to major elements of our population. We need to be hypervigilant where were building stocks and the racial and social equity and we need to do a racial and social equity Impact Analysis. And the same way we do sequa analysis to understand the environmental impacts, we need racial and social equity impacts and there are some who would like to incorporate the subject under sequa. I feel like that will take a long time to accomplish and wont be caught up in the courts and we dont need to do that. As a city, we can decide that racial and social Impact Analysis is a requirement before we do most of the projects that we undertake and we can implement that as a commission of the board and i hope that becomes part of phase two. Second, we need to give life to our cultural districts. Theyre an incredible device that focuses on the value of San Francisco is this conglomeration of amazing neighborhoods and many reflect Cultural Heritage and if we want to preserve those, we need to understand when were proposing a project in that district or adjacent to that district, the impact of the Cultural Heritage. I have been on the commission since we adopted the japanese heritage district and i have seen projects that have come before us in the philippino Cultural Heritage district and where not enough time was spent, even by staff and or by the commission until we were called out by the neighborhood groups to say you need to Pay Attention to this and i agree with that and i think thats a really important device to go forward. Thirdly, the two suggestions that i put forward in my remarks at the beginning, i think the preppa engagement is critical. That is where we understand before anybody gets set in their ways, what the impacts are and what the activists are concerned about and even if what the developer is proposing is consistent with the law at that point in time, it may be that is not the intent that people had in mind and that revisions and amendments are necessary and i would much prefer we do that at the beginning of the process than three years into the process. And finally, i would say and this is the other reason, the other comment that i gave is that we shouldnt be developing anything without the input of these Community Groups that are most affected by it. And so when i said we should be having a collaborative approach, not only should the board of supervisors and commissioners be working but the groups most affected at this need to be at the stable, working with usand forms and retreats that benefits everybody. I appreciate that answer. It was the offer of the cultural district legislation and its incredibly important to me and i could not agree with you more on that and thank you so much for your service. And next, were going to call up commissioner jewel kop particular el. Thank you spel. Thank you for be. Thank you so much. This has been a whirl wind of a four years and im still to this day honored and privileged to have gotten the nomination and appointment from late honorable mayor late and to be here four years later requesting a reappointment from the rules committee and its, again, also moving up the ladder from Vice President to president has been completely humbling and i dont take this position for granted. It is a lot of work and a lot of responsibility and i really feel that we have a Great Commission as we speak. Me, myself, im a proud paying member of Electrical Work for district six in San Francisco and i do speak for labor, but i also represent 32 Electrical Contractors here in San Francisco. So i also can look at the business side of things, too, and things need to be addressed equally to make sure we have businesses that employ labor and so, we cant have one without the other. And i do reside in that district currently and just am thrilled to see how we as a city are reacting to these crisies. Im seeing businesses open up and more residents lean towards normalcy and at the same time us taking Public Safety and health as seriously as we can, because we have to bounce back from this and i have to give a great shoutout to our department and secretaries. I think weve had 20 hearings since a small break, since the shutdown, but im still, im in amazement were able to continue to move forward and i understand you started your hearings sooner. So thank you for allowing the city to move forward. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, chair and thank you, commissioner kop particula. We had great talk last week. Evacuee known each other for a long time and i so appreciate your labor roots and thats how we got to originally know each other. But i also want to appreciate your steady leadership on the Planning Commission during this time of so much change with the new planning director, with the four new commissioners and now with commissioner johnson retiring. And i think having your steady leadership at the helm has been really good and obviously, its not only steady leadership, i think that, you know, a lot of things that you and i discussed last week in terms of being there for the working people and the middleclass and focus on Racial Equity, that im sure we can all proud to see the Planning Commission pass the resolution. And when we talked about the groundfloor retail space and what were going to do in terms of this pandemic and how its hurting our Small Businesses. I appreciated our conversation around that. I dont want to prolong this, because i dont have any questions because im supporting you. I just think youre a great addition to the Planning Commission and i want to emphasize, too, that often, ive been around for awhile and i know chair ronen can attest to this, as well, is that the Planning Commission getting along so well like this. There are differences of opinions, but i think the respect all of you have for one another and how youre working together is something good for all of us to see and i just, fen, your leadership has been great on the Planning Commission and thank you so much and i am thrilled to support your reappointment today. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you so much, supervisor stephanie. Supervisor mar. Thank you, chair ronen. I would echo supervisor stephanies thanks to commissioner koppel, to all of your tremendous leadership and commitment to the Planning Commission over the past four years and really what you bring to the unique perspectives to the important decisions at the Planning Commission is very much appreciated and, yeah, i had a question, again, as i told commissioner diamond. I would be interested in your perspective on the housing balance, expect housing balance report released by the Planning Department shows that were still, you know, have a pretty great imbalance between producing market rate housing versus Affordable Housing. The figure was 21. 5 in the latest housing report and the fact that on ou our arena goals, were meeting or exceeding arena goals for market rate and thats been particularly its more specifispecifically producing co buildings at the higher end of the price bracket. In local six were leaving the city and its alarming. Every year were losing 20 of our membership in the city. And so over ten years, if you go 20 , thats almost zero. And so, more often than not, i will be the one guy speaking about the middleclass because its often forgotten because there arent the same structure belowmarketrate Affordable Housing. Im sorry, were having a hard time hearing you. Could you please repeat the last five sentences. We have done a good job approving lots of units. Look at pier 70, the trail power plant, the giants power plant and that alone is a huge amount of units and, you know, how are we going to equ ec equitably do. I want to look at Worker Protections which are equally as important. And so what ive noticed over the years is that instead of, you know, forcing everyone to go eight stories and up where they dont want to, and thats an extreme case, but certain people are looking at extreme cases and what ive seen and kind of figured out, i think th richmond did it a little better, less of a singlefamily home model and a ground floor lobby where there are three full flats and a lot of the houses are zoned up to 4e family homes and so without raising any height limits or getting into anything too drastic, if we just looked at slightly expanding the density controls in a house of rh2, maybe if they were allowed to go to their height limit and have flee fulthreefull flats and thee large enough that you can have a small family. I wont say you can have a large family in a 1400 flat. Its doable and will hit the price point need to stay here. A lot of us are from here, we live here and our kids are going to school here and we spend our money in the restaurants and we want to keep it that way. Thats just an idea instead of jacking up the zoning heights. Were talking commute and more Carbon Emissions and im always a big fan of staying local and using local contractors and a local workforce and keeping our money her here in the city. Great, thank you so much, commissioner kop particulapel as for your leadership on the Planning Commission. Chair ronen, i dont have any other questions. I want to echo both of my colleagues in thanking you for all of your work over the years and i will ask the same question i asked miss diamond about your race and social equity resolution that i was really excited about and im hoping you can also explain what that means to you and how you intend to apply the commitments and the resolution to change the real life impacts of communities of color, lowwage workers, as well as Small Businesses. Absolutely, this has been a point of passion for me throughout my years in the trades and i dont know of a more maledominated field than construction and i will tell you that i know a lot of women electricians who are amazing workers and i honestly, i dont know how they do it. Just in a regular workplace, theres a lot of unfair situations and i have to tell you, on job sites, its multiplied and so, its been a huge deal to me, very selfishly looking at my own members, my friends, my coworkers that show up to these jobs and they have to put up with a lot and so im proud to be a part of a union thats been paying women the same since 1895 and thats a huge deal a lot of people dont remember. And weve been exhibiting Wage Equality as long as we have. And also, ive been very involved we have an Electrical Workers minority caucus within our trade and also a renewed group to stimulate a younger generation, new workers and another point of pride is that weve had our own float in the gay pride parade for three years in a row now and no other trade has pulled that together and im even more proud of our group to showcase weve been accepting a lot more women and theyre amazing workers and a lot of the apprenticeship classes, i still go down every semester and speak to the classrooms filled with San Francisco residents for the city classes and i tell them the same thing, look at me. I was just a city kid like you trying to get into a trade and dont give up, keep after it. It took me three years, actually tub tactually, to get in. I had to apply and interview three times and i tell those kids and see them in their 49ers hats and giants hats and warrior hats and its a big deal because i used to not have this opportunity and i want the kids in all of the neighborhoods all over this city to have the opportunity to become electrician or a plumber or any other trade that will give them a wellpaying career for the rest of their lives and theyll be able to have the help and welfare to take care of their families and put a good meal on the table and hopefully stay here in the city. And thats just what ive been doing through my position working in the electrical industry, but also, ive just got to give some more kudos to our department, Claudia Florez and mariam, seeing us with both hearings weve had to date and im proud to say we only have four women of color but we had five and im confident that with the new commissioners and the existing staff and director that well do a good job. And well pretty much let people know way ahead of time thaw wont bthat youwont be able tod and well want to be wowed to see how theyll handle it. Its happening all over the city. Some people are a paychec paychr two away from being homeless and a lot of people dont realize that. Market rate buildings go up in the districts that are undersieged where over 10,000 latino residents have been displaced and so, the impact of these developments, you know, on communities of color in neighborhoods is nuanced in different and so the onesizefitsall laws that are coming out of the state in sacramento, they really dont allow for nuance, of impacts on communities of concern and communities that have been displaced. I couldnt agree more. And ill take it one step further, sometimes the citys block is a block because within certain neighborhoods, you turn a corner and that whole block is different and every single item ive ever heard, ive gone to that address and did as much of a walkaround as i could because you have to know. You have to know how much space and what you may or may not be getting blocked. You have to see what youre dealing with and be there, literally in front of that address to know what youre really talking about, to see whos walking by you on the sidewalk and what the Current Situation is. Thank you so much and lastly, were hearing from teresa imperial and i wanted to ask you before you make comments because i have an emergency to attend to in my district real quick and i was going to ask Vice President stephanie to i wanted to ask how you would make the resolution real. Yes, thank you. First, what it means to me, as well. You know, i was thrilled when we passed the resolution. I could never thought it would pass in the Planning Commission coming from a community and also being a part of the philippino community with the passage as well to open a heritage district, which our community advocated on that was really its just very historical, i would say. As to how it would be implemented and this is going to be a lot of discussion. Its going to be a lot of work and as i said in my letter, passing the resolution is one step, but having to implement this, its a lot of steps more and, first of all, when were looking into as were looking into the access to housing, i think we also need to look into, as well, access to parks, access to Health System and into the quality of life. We need to highlight were rebuilding for. Those are the things weve been talking about from the group, as to how do we make sure that we really highlight the voices and, you know, the really paying attention to racial and social equity. One point of what supervisor mar is looking into, as well as the housing balance. And we know in the arena, San Francisco is behind when it comes to building lowincome housing and the question is that, as well, is the revenue. As of now, the way we see revenues is through the partnership with private developments, as well, but i believe theres a hearing before into the housing by the Land Use Community and that was the main comments about that. And so this will be, as we are going through a discussion of strategies, as to what are the revenues coming from. I mean, im thrilled there is a property transfer tax into the ballot, but there needs to be more than that and i think there needs to be a discussion about ththe vacancy tax. There are things where rent control housing are also theres a lack of protection in that and sometimes, theres a disconnect with the Planning Commission and the board and i believe commissioner melgar proposed a budget for a liaison to the rent board and i think thats one thing, as well, that how do we also protect the rentcontrolled Housing Units as we are talking about density and when were talking about density, i think we should look into the design equity and when we mean by design equity, the ability of people, as well, not just the number of units that were passing. As of now, housing is like a lot of projects that comes in into the Planning Commission, where we also base its on our decision. Theres a lot of things that need talked about and when were looking to the racial and social equity, its really going down to the strategies. And how were looking into that strategy and, again, the main question is who are we building for . Appreciate that, thank you so much. And im so sorry. Ill be back really soon. If vice chair captain stephanie can share the meeting and feel free to share your opening statements, but thank you for answering my question. I appreciate it. Ill be right back. Thank you, chair r portion r. You wan good morning, superviso supe, and thank you for having me. Last february, i was appointed as a Planning Commissioner and you also all supported me. Now that im seeking for your support for my reappointment for the next four years. The work of the Planning Commission has continued and land use and planning will be ever increasing as the composition and population of cities are showing signs of the significant change in the horizon. Voices of the most vulnerable will be more important than ever. While my time as a commissioner has been short, ive been a conduit for voices and i have talked with Community Members and Community Organizations throughout my service. Ive taken consideration comments from the public and as the executive director of the housing program, access to Affordable Housing has always continued to keep me in touch with the most vulnerable population. And i believe ive shown myself to be thoroughly prepared under the materials for each meeting. I paid close to the project sponsor. Im very proud that my fellow commissioners and i have passed the resolution that will submit our Planning Department to racial and social equity framework. And the impetus of my service with racial and Service Equity emphasis. While this is one great step ensuring that resolutions will be implemented, it promises several steps more. I would like to continue to serve so that i may ensure that the mandate we envision will slowly materialize and i hope that you and other commissioners, commissioner diamond and koppel will be reappointed an. Supervisor mar, would you like to start in with your comments. Thank you. Im really impressed by your thoughtful engagement and the important decisions youve been making and bringing such important depth of understanding and commitment to lowincome communities and communities of color to the Planning Decisions and i think its been appreciated that i really appreciated your a side resident, as well, and bringing those perspectives and my question that i posed to your colleagues was around wanting to hear your thoughts on housing balance or housing imbalance in terms of production of market rate versus Affordable Housing in our city. You already touched on that in your comments and i just wanted to see if you had anything else to add to that important topic. Yeah. The planbay area 2050, as well, the west side, along the Marina District is being for planned Development Area under the plan bay area 2050 and that will definitely be Planning Department. please stand by . When we talk about, you know building housing for low income and especially for middle income, what are strategy thats we need to implement or highlight on that. Theres a lot of talks in having more rez knews for the acquisition preservation. For the city of San Francisco to rethink how we he look into housing. We need to rethink how we look into the trans oriented development. I believe the city was only prepared for earthquakes and fires but not this type of virus crisis. That also includes designs and transportation and raising transportation during these times as well. We had a discussion about thewhen the hub was being put before us. That was a big discussion. That was something that i brought up during that passing of the hub. When we talk about the city, we need to rethink how we talk in terms of design and quality of life and in terms of transportation to look into. Thank you, commissioner. I really appreciate and thank you to all of your commitment to the Planning Commission. Thank you. Yes, thank you. I really appreciate your contributions as well. Thank you for your perspective and contribution. The time youve been appointed has been remarkable. Heard such good things. Although you and i did not get a chance to meet in person. I did get the letter you sent. You mentioned that the voices that are the most vulnerable in San Francisco will be important especially during this Public Health crisis and resulting economic crisis. I know were all in agreement on that. Youve answered a lot in terms ofi dont have anymore questions. I was going to ask a question around this. Just to keep in mind as we look at that priority and with the understanding that the citys budgeted issue thats were looking at even private developers and ever tightening budget and how to deliver on that goal. Those are issues that come to mind for me but again thank you for your service, im happy to support your reappointment today. With that i think we have no further questions from committee members. I believe we can go to Public Comment. Were going to take Public Comment on all three appointees at the time time. Each person will have two minutes. Whether clerk, if you can let us know how much are in the queue, we can then proceed. Yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call the number. The meeting i. D press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please press star three to line up to speak. The system will indicate you have raised your hand. Last count we had five callers waiting and four callers wait to speak with five in the queue. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. We know that the China Town Community center is here today speaking in support for imperi imperial. It represents everything we need on the Planning Commission. Her background, intelligence, thoughtfulness. You know, her fight for a long history of fighting for communities. Im very excited to see the conversation today centered around Racial Equity and how we make that real. As you can see were very excited. Today i wanted to strongly encourage you to support the appointment to the Planning Commission. Thank you, very much. Can we have the next speaker, please. Supervisors, let me bring to your attention that thisthe questions you ask should be very permanent and relevant. Now i hope you know the difference between a resolution and ordinance. Anyone can write a resolution. It cannot be enforced, its useful at three candidates. It cannot be enforced. Having said that, if you walk over San Francisco you see too many camps and homelessness. None of you have mentioned that. Nor have you mentioned that there are over 35 homes in San Francisco that are vacant. Thirty five thousand homes and sixty thousand condos. Im known all the directors. All of them have tried their best but as one of you supervisorsyou had more market rate housing. These three candidates should really fight for Affordable Housing which should be under 80,000. Afford to whom . It shouldnt compromise loans and are on the street dying. The Planning Commission is not aware of that. The Planning Commission never once mentioned about our infants, children, youth. Our elders. You dont look at it that way. Thank you, very much. Can we have the next speaker, please. This resolution is only the first step and leadership will be critical in ensuring goals of the resolution are actually implemented with the leadership with the most impacted communities. Immigrants and people of color are bearing the brunt of this pandemic and economic crisis. Leading voices and push for recovery centered around the most vulnerable communities. It brings on the ground experience that traditionally lack in the planning process. We fully support for reappointment and hope you will do the same. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Hi. Im Vice President for the San Francisco la latino club. Weve voted several times in support for teresa. She has been a great con duit cr the community. To be able to have a voice, analyst, advocate and somebody that has stood side by side with us in our struggle struggles one and planning. Very much encourage her reappointment. She is very prepared for every meeting. She asks a lot of critical questions that has drivenits a very important time with the social resolution coming through. Also as a nonprofit leader to work directly with clients. He urge you to please reappoint commissioner teresa, she has the full support. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Be proactive in future thinking. [indiscernible]. Real change comes from the same structural change in collaboration with community views, the Mayors Office nor to build a better and more equitable. I see her not only talk the talk but roll up her sleeves and including being on the racial and equity subcommittee and have ad voakating foandadvocating fol change that we put forward in the resolution. For those reasons, i support her. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Good morning commissioners. Im the executive director of the united player. An organization thats been pushed for twenty five years. Im hear for suppor support[indiscernible]. I know in San Francisco we have a crisis. They are working towards that crisis. Joe has always been a man of his word coming out checking out anytime we have a question, come out into district six. Teresa who is a great leader for bishop. Thank you, mr. Clerk. With that, Public Comment is closed. Any additional comments . No, i dont. Mr. Clerk, i think well go ahead and ill make a motion with regard to the three items and should chair ronan want to rescind the vote to participate in it. Im sorry. Thank you so much. No problem. Were done with Public Comment. You probably know. We have to move this meeting forward. Great. Do you want to make a motion. Sure. I would like to move the mayors reappointment to the diamond commission. Move this forward to the full board with positive recommendation. The motion offered by chair stephanie agenda item number to be amended and approving. roll call pr par. Madam chair, three ayes. Ill make a motion to reappointment joe to the Planning Commission. Remove the word rejecting and send forward with positive recommendations. The motion approving and recommending the motion to the board of supervisors. roll call . Thank you. Supervisor imaginer do you wanto the honors on the last motion. Recommended to the board of supervisors. roll call . Madam chair, there are three ayes. Thank you very much. Thank you for all your hard work. Would you please read the next item. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call in to 415 6550001 enter the meeting id. 146 9714708 press pound twice. Press star three if you wish to speak. Thank you so much. Welcomewe cant hear you. Thank you. Youd think i would have this down by the number of zoom calls. Im gradeful you scheduled this meeting. I wanted to acknowledge the mayor for her confidence to appointment to the Police Commission. Im really excited. Pretty much i think everyone knows that my background in the workfirst and foremost for the Oversight Agency paramount and should be consistent. I have been on the record to call for Even National oversight. I think theres value and when it comes to Law Enforcement agencies. You all know a little about my background. I created the prop g back in 2016 which created the accountability. Most importantly in the investigations whenever theres an officer involved shooting, i think that is the most important in underlining reason whywhat motivated me to work to create the department with a team effort. I dont want to take all the credit like most things, they are a heavy left. Work with the commission to end the restraint. Other legislation ive worked onsorry. My mom is here now. Also worked on banning flavored tobacco, took to the ballot and voters supported the befe bevere and sugary tax. There was the battle back in 2015 to make sure we had neighborhood preference of members of the community to be able to benefit from this new construction. Finding the displacement. Fair chance ordinance which was banning the box. Eliminating theon the application process for housing and jobs asking the question have you been convicted of a felony. And in 2 2011, i worked on the pregnancy disclosure a agreemen. I look forward to your questions and happy to talk about anything that is related to the Police Commission. Thank you for your time. Good morning. Thank you so much. I want to give my colleagues the opportunity to ask questions first. Do either of you have any questions . Good morning. I do not have any questions, i would like to make some opening remarks. I just wanted to say to our former supervisor, president of the board of supervisors, member of the board of equalization. Im really am excited for the opportunity to catch up. I dont have any further questions today but i would like to make a few remarks. I went to the emerge program. I got a call and she said im going to be your mentor throughout this process. I can only say that i hope to return that as you become a mother and a working mother and i will be here to answer all your questions on how to make that work. In addition to her current role on the state board of equalization she has shared in the budget and finance committee. She took on the Tobacco Companies and been a leader on criminal Justice Reform. We didnt always disagree or have some along the way when i first started as supervisor when issues came up. Youve always been so kind a gracious. I wanted to learn from you. We had something from the market bar. We were able to have a really good discussion. I think its so important. I say this time in a lot of vit rolvitriol in politics. This budget share, you never shied away from holding our Police Department or our District Attorneys Office accountable to ensure were seeing the changes i know we need to see. Youll bring thispolicing and criminal Justice Reform in San Francisco. We had a number of qualified candidates that put their names forward to be filled. Activists that received community ties. Accomplished attorneys and Public Servants and more. Stacks of information and stacks ofeverything she has done, i definitely was going to listen to her perspective. There were other candidates that i felt could have done just as good a job. I really knew in that moment it was on me to respect the work. I had no trouble doing that whatsoever given her history. Its the same way i feel about mayor breed on these issues. Youve done so much in this regard. I can learn so much from you sm i hav. I will and will continue o so. Im so confident that you are going to be able it lead on the Police Commission and lead with the grace that you always do. That formidable personality that you have. When i heard that mayor bree was appointing you, i said, thats it. Its going to be a good addition to the Police Commission. Im looking forward to working with you during this time of rec oning in our city and moving forward in the best way possible. I know i went on long. You know how i feel about you. Im so excited to see you here and excited to be able to approve your appointment today. Thank you. Thank you, chair ronan for accommodating my remarks. Its a historic moment around these issues. I want to thank mayor breed for nominating you and putting you forward. As you touched on briefly in your remarks. You really bring a depth of experiencePolice Accountable and criminal Justice Reform. I thinkyoure very much appreciated and needed. What you bring to the table. My question is more about the current moment. As you know despite, its really a historic moment right now as a city and kun ri in reall countrt these issues to systemic racism and Law Enforcement and criminal justice. Its quite different in 2016 when you led Police Accountability which was a huge importance in our city. The current moment right now and how the opportunity and the need to be boulder on these issues is going to inform your work as a leader on the Police Commission in our city. Thats an incredibly thoughtful question. I appreciate it. When i was first approached with the opportunity to serve, i was hesitant quite honestly. Im a state wide elected. I thought my focus should be more on the state. We have been sheltering in place for months. I am about to deliver a baby in two weeks. Im home, watching news, experiencing the protests, march, unrest. Were in a pri pivotal time, wed to be bold in our movement to bring more criminal Justice Reform to the entire system. It was the shooting of my Community Member mario woods that spurred my actions. Ive been involved in many officer involved shootings. The Police Officer i was in 2011 was different than in 2015 in my second term. It was dealing with uncomfortable experiences that i really began to feel the strong sense of urgency of now. That placating, pacifying, passing resolutions was just pacifying. We needed really bold action. I agree, how do you harness this time. I have a long list of ideas that we can begin to implement. I have had fan efi fantastic conversations for this justice movement. Working with the Racial Justice committee, i had a phenomenal meeting with them. I had a list of nine items of things that we can collectively work on. There are also pieces of work that i started when i was a member on the board of supervisors. I want to be able to continue. I think about the 96a collecting racial data. Theres a lag from the department of justice. A very small percentage has been implemented. I think im unique for this particular time because i have the San Francisco experience. I understand the budget. I have a connection to the state. My goal is to be a seamless transition s. The reforms that are happening, the Assembly Woman what she is bringing on is much of the work im bringing here to San Francisco. Being able to connect these dots here in the state of california. San francisco is not the only meun is palonlymeun is palt mov. This is time that i intend to not squander. Looking at violations of civil rights. A lot of department general orders that the commission has in the works and has been working diligently to get in place. The police chief has been very good and very supportive on creating and changing some policies like no longer making mug shots available to stiemy the racial profiling. Thank you. I dont have any other questions. I know we have hard questions. There would not be karma for the tough questions youve asked over the years. First of all, as your role as a member of the San Francisco Democratic Party Central Committee which both supervisor mar and i sit on as well. You voted to oppose endorsing the sheriffs oversight ballot measures. Since we are considering your appointment to the oversight body of the sfpd. Im curious why you would be against having a similar body. I appreciate that question and giving me the opportunity to talk about it. I dont normally have that platform. My feelings about the legislation at this point is inconsequential. I support oversight. It is consistent with my overall vision when it comes to the Law Enforcement. I have been public about calls for independent committees and oversight nationwide. I want to put that out there. My reserves are in the co contet strictly on the budget. The short fall were going to be feeling in San Francisco over the next two years is a reality. I had a chance to think about this. I think we need to seize this moment. Im hopeful that the board of supervisors and the Mayors Office will figure out these budgeting priorities. We really do need to be bold and not fearful. When i think about other bold initiatives like the San Francisco bank for example. It will benefitjustice is on the ballot. I would be willing to publicly support this proposition d on ballot. At the time of the vote it was limited information and out reach that was given to me. Sense consequent information, i looked at the bla reports as well as some ledg legislation. If we work collectively on this oversight measure, we can get this job done. Great. Thank you. Speaking budget, as you know, were thick in the middle of it right now. There are hearings almost everyday. God bless you all for that. Its not easy, as you know. Were looking at very closely at the Police Department budget. I know you have been the strongest leaders on the prd supervisors in and ow. Out. There is probably agreementfor example, when we think about Mental Health calls. One of the things i certainly recall in dealing with my captains. How uncomfortable and ilequiped in terms of Training Officer rzs are in dealing with Mental Health. Substance abusei dont necessarily know if those are police calls. I dont know if we need police there. Foot pat roll, working with the community would appreciate more foot patrol. Make sure our officers are able to speak and engage culturally. I think we need to revamp the Early Warning system which is a visit em in place taif we havey should be put on desk duty until we can get them retrained. I would like to think about reexamining the discipline process of rogue cop se cops. Weve known about rogue cops well before 2015. Im talking about homo phobic text messages. Theres a lot of room to continue to create some good policies that is the best interest of all of San Francisco. Thank you. A question im wrestling with, for me, confusing power we have to do this is the extent were reducing the Police Budget would cause layoffs. Im wondering your thoughts on that. Would you be supportive in the reduction of the budget that would cause police layoffs. I dont know that much about that. Because the vast majority of the Police Budget is on salary ses aniesand benefits. Theres a nationwide movement to defund the police and cut these budgets. The budget that mayor breed presented the board of supervisors has approximately under three percent budget cut to sfpd whereas most other departments have taken a 10 cut. If were going to get to the 10 or more given the call of the nation at the moment. Its impossible to cut the budget at that level without there being layoffs. Theres already reduced vacancies and accounted for attrition. Im wondering your thoughts on that. Thats an interesting question. When i think about the budget and budget costs. There was a news story that 25 officers are leaving. Theres good and bad. We need to purge the system of our bad apples. Perhaps those that are leaving are leaving because the climate has become uncomfortable. I dont know. When it comes to the budget theres opportunities for cuts that are far more than personnel. When you think abouti would not be interested in seeing cuts in training. I would not be interested in seeing cuts on equipment. Do officers need the best brand new squad cars . I dont know. I tend to say no. That is not something that i can have a lot of knowledge about. To answer your question shortly and su susshortly. It concerns me officers getting a raise. You think about social workers and nurses and people on the front lines who are also putting their lives on the line and taking the life of service and they arent getting raises. I think we need to be consistent about our service. What i remember, the state of employees have gotten a raise. I think there needs to be an overall freeze on this. Im a little concerned about how hushed the process has been. It was a shock about the number of Police Officers who were una ware of this negotiation going on. They are try to go pull a fast one on us. I dont like that. I dont appreciate that. I want to be aggressive and ask these types of questions. You asked me a question about my independence to the Mayors Office. Being able to talk to the Mayors Office and work with the more productive voices in the city. Really being a bridge and connen conduit. I dont know about the salary increases. But it left a bad taste in my month and made me uncomfortable. I also want to make sure were inkreetion and maintaining increasing and maintaining a level of transparency. There are things id like to structurally change. I dont want people to lose faith in our criminal justice. I want them to feel emboldened and excited. Here is an example of a group of people working in our best interest. And being able to have the difficult questions and answer. Stand up for the decisions that we make. Also being humble and saying, i made a mistake. It takes a big person to be able to did that. All over, ive been able to recognize my mistakes and atone to them. And rectify them and correct them. Take that hard line stance and ive been bulliedi understand the pressures. I would not succumb to that level of pressure sm when i think p budget, i think about serving with sandy. Thz a tougthats a tough job. When you think about state funding and supervisor mar, i worked really closely with your brother when it came to state dollars. Theres a lot of oversight and interwoven relationships when it comes to this entire body of work. Ill stop. Do you have another question . My last question isi think youll appreciate this. There are four mair mayoral appointees. The president of the commission ee iis almost always a mayoral appointee. Would you be willing to support a mayoral appointee for Vice President so there is a balance in the leadership for who is appointed. What often happen sz that is ise boards appointments never get into leadership positions. I find that problematic. As a former member of this body, i know youre acutely aware that happens every time. Im wondering if you find the shared would that be a Charter Amendment change . The Police Commissioner, themselves, end up voting for who they want their president and Vice President. The way it works out is its one of the four of them. Because they have the majority. One of them, you for example, i think if shared leadership is what you want to do thats really interesting. Im been thinking about that in the context of the Democratic Party. It really has to do with the distribution of power. In this particular context when i think about the commission, i probably have more of a neutral position. My fil philosophy is were all leaders just fyi thats not what ive heard about board appointed commissioners. They get pushed out. Its only president , Vice President. I did not know that. Ive been hearing from board of supervisors its extremely important it to them. They have brought this up many times and been silenced. They are not asking for the presidency. They are saying look, were all colleagues on this body. There hasnt been a board appointed president or Vice President on this body for a long time. Were asking for shared leadership here. I think thats something thats very important to me. Its very important to johni would ask that you make a commitment to supporting that chair leadership structure. I cant commit to you online right here. In my recollection, he was a board appointee and served diligently as president and really was instrumental in issuing in change. He was amazing. This dynamic has not allowed that. Theres been a lot of controversy within the Police Commission about that. You are open to this and willing to consider it and work with them for the shared leadership. I cant give you a hard commitment. This is is the first ive heard of this. Ive had some tight relationships. Ive voted and fought john. I would appreciate if he had the tun to get on brd and bring that opportunity i would ask you to be open to that. I would definitely tell you im open to it. Absolutely. Thank you for answering my questions. With that ill open this item up for Public Comment. Every member of the public will have two minutes to speak. Yeah. Members of the public who would like to speak should call the number. The meeting i. D. Press pound and pound again. If you havent done so press star three to line up to speak. The system will prompt you to raise your hand. You may begin your comments. We have ten listeners and four people queued up to speak. Can we have the first caller, please. Hi. Congratulations on having a baby. Im fully about safety. When it comes to safety. I believe malia is about safety. She is not scared to make decisions that are tough. With that said, i hope you appoint her on this Police Commission. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. Thank you. Can we have the next caller please. Supervisors. Ive been attending the Police Commissions meetings for a long time. I really feel that you need somebody on this commission that not connected to the machine. Speaker im Angela Jenkins and today, miss cohen has brought the facts i recall a meeting directly following the poa storming one of the Community Meetings and miss cohen took the board of supervisors through illustrious information on policing that just blew my mind. I barely had any comment because she did so well this getting her research. And the way the poa stormed the Police Commission meeting in 2016 following mario woods killing was so intimidating. I have to say on friday night, during the budget meeting, when many of our black voices are trying to get in there, i was taken aback and felt intimidated again when many ardent allies attempted to speak by proxy for black people and i trust melia cohen to raise true black voices. True black voices come from black people and even though people are sympathetic to this new era of george floyd killing, only our voices who are impacted speak for us and i trust melia cohen when she is appointed to the Police Commission. Thank you. Thank you. The next caller, please. Speaker this is critical condition, im a district nine resident and im calling to strongly urge you to support sherwin cohen for the Police Commission appointment. The Police Commission has proven itself incapable of pushing through the doj reforms with a sense of urgency demands, despite their constant lip service to reform. Miss cohen has been a leader and consistent voice for change on holding the Police Accountable in this city. From her work in creating the dta, to requiring 96a reports on race and traffic stops, miss cohen has been paying attention to race, racial equi equity, police oversight, before it became the hot political issue. Miss cohen knows the issues and is outspoken on the issues and she gets the work done. So we need miss cohen to hold the police not just accountable but the commission itself accountable and she will bring the energy and expertise to push through the remaining doj reforms. Thank you. The next caller, please. Good morning, everyone. I live in district eight and i am a parent here in San Francisco and an immigrant and i am also black. And im not calling into speak for or against the appointment of supervisor cohen specifically, but i did want to Say Something to, you know, address and frame one of the former supervisor and the candidate mentioned this morning, which is the possibility of things like, if there are, you know, quote, unquote, bad cops, rogue cops, that they can be on desk duty until their retrained. That doesnt go far enough in my opinion and in the opinions of a lot of people in the community, i think. I think that if you are a cop who sends racist texts or have had complaints against you for x, y and z reasons, the quote, unquote consequence shouldnt be youre on desk duty for a month or until you complete this Online Training or all of this, whatever the process is. It should be you dont get to carry a gun around any more. Im here to support miss cohen. If a cop has had negative spikes against him or her, they do not we do not hire them in San Francisco. We absolutely need someone and that was i know leah cohen would help the people, especially out for american citizens in San Francisco and especially africanamerican young men who find themselves on the wrong side of the law. We need someone to speak up for the people and i whole heartedly believe that a she be appointedo this position. Thank you. Next caller, please. Speaker good morning or good afternoon, im britney and im calling in as a member of the San Francisco community, born and raised here in San Francisco, where the majority of my family still leaves and as a former staff member from when she served as president and member of the board of supervisors and im very enthusiastic to support her candidacy for the San Francisco Police Commission because i have worked incidentally with chair cohen for over five years, including criminal justice and ive come to know her professionally as a skillful and magnificent leader. She refuses to be labeled, despite the imposition of her other politicos and her record speaks for herself, not only her many policies regarding Law Enforcement but more broadly across racial and social justice. Her record represents, i think, the most exciting aspect of this opportunity to approve this appointment. Melia is the added benefit, really, the added spark that the Police Commission needs, shes an unapologetic and unsung champion of marginalized communities, not just in her words but actions and shes a bold leader and i think most importantly, shes a student of the work. Melia never wanted to shoot from the hip. She wanted to learn more from her and even if on paper, it seems they may be on different sides of the proverbial aisle. Whashes unafraid to directly engage people that disagree with her. Chair cohen has a humble quality when it comes to learning from a diversity of stakeholders and grows and develops her own positions before taking them publically. So please support chair cohens appointment to the Police Commission. Thank you. Thank you. Next caller, please. Weve always had a great working relationship when melia cohen was supervisor and she as a unique perspective that had to deal with a lot of Community Violence and all of the different constituencies that are impacted in and affected by that violence, including sfpd and the mothers of murder victims. I think that unique perspective can serve this in making sure that fantastics ar folks are wor with creating safety communities and feeling the harm and has occurred in neighborhoods. We are really excited for change and we know that so much is kind of on the precedence of that and i think thats important we have leaders that are strong and dedicated and have experience in these areas to get to the San Francisco that we can all love and be proud of. Thank you so much. Are there any additional callers . Madam chair, that completes the queue. I will make a motion to remove the word reject and send this item forward with positive recommendation. Supervisor cohen, i wish you so much luck in the birth of your first child. Thank you. I know youll be an amazing mother and were all routing for you and i dont know how you feel about the public thing, but i hope youll share pictures with us because were all excited. Thank you. And with that, can we take a role call vote . role call . Enjoy your last few days of rest. [ laughter ] thank you to the members of the public that have voiced their vote of confidence. I appreciate that. Mr. Clerk, can you read item number six. A reenactment to temporary require private employers with 500 or mo employees to provide Public Health emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Supervisor mar, any comments. Yes, thank you, chair ronen. This emergency ordinance is a second reenactment to help keep this in place for an additional 260 days. The original ordinance was adopted bit board and signed on april 19th with mayor breed and this second reason actment will ensure this remains in place. We prepared an amendment and this amendment would not require a continuance and simply clarified that this reenactment ordinance would apply retroactively to the date the prior reenactment expired and this amendment avoids any potential gaps in coverage for this crucial benefit for essential workers. Unless supervisor stephanie has any comments or questions, we can open this item up for Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001 and the meeting i. D. Is 146 9714708 and press pound and pound again. If you have not done so, press star three and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand and please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Any members online to speak. No callers in the queue. Then Public Comment is closed. I do have one caller that just popped in. Ok, if we can hear if the caller. Yes, i think its a little bit silly to just have a law specific for covid19. You know, if youre just going to keep on having to renew this, why not extend it to any pandemic affecting a certain number of people . That completes the queue. Public comment is closed. On the motion to amend, can we have a role call . role call . The motion passes. And then, supervisor mar, would you like to make the motion . Yes, thank you, chair ronen. I would like to move we recommend this as a Committee Report to the august 8th to the board of supervisors. And can we have a role call vote . Yes, on the motion to recommend it as a Committee Report as amended, supervisor stephanie. role call . The motion passes without objection anobjection and the me referred. Any other items on the agenda . That completes the agenda for today. The meeting is adjourned and have a good day, everyone. Amc Health Crisis and where do we go from here. Today im joined by our department of Public Health director. Today we have six thousand ninety two cases and sadly sixty seven people have died from covid. Until we have a vaccine and until we are in a better place, we know that we need to continue to socially distance ourself from one another. Wear our mask as much as possible and follow our Public Health guidelines. We know that for months to come, this is something that we are unfortunately going to be living with and the fact is, there is still a lot of work to be done. I just want to say a few things before we get into the details of the budget. The fact is, weve come a very very very long way. Many of you remember even in january where we declared a state of emergency and we Start Talking about the crisis and whats to come, and when we shut down the city, that was back in march and here we are. Its august. We thought that in august wed be in a different place. I think whats happening with san franciscans as hard as weve worked to contain the virus, its gone up and down, and up again. We still have a long way to go. As tired as we are of doing what we need in order to keep one another safe, we have to start getting comfortable with it. We have to start changing our behavior. It really is whats going to make the difference because we notice that recently we had to basically put a pause on our oopenning. Reopening. We saw the numbers spike. Once we saw the numbers spike, behaviors started to change again. Now we see the numbers declining. That doesnt mean we dont have several people every single day testing positive for the virus. That doesnt mean that some of those people, sadly, have lost their lives. We anticipate seeing more. Only we can be the solution to this big challenge. Just think about it. When we first started off, the big conversations were around ppe and testing and other things, weve definitely come a long way. Although, its clear that due to, what i believe a lack of federal response and coordination with our state and cities, its been very difficult for so many of us. We didnt let that stop us. We prepared, we worked hard, we redirected resources, we redirected staff from all over the city. We adjusted to our situation and because of that San Francisco has been a model for the rest of the country. I want us to be even better than that. Its up to us. Its up to us to change our behavior. Its up to us especially because when you think about it, sadly, what we see in terms of businesses not being able to open. Some of our favorite restaurants and retail shops and places where we get our hair and nails done, they may never return. People who need to send their kids to school because we, regardless of the achievement gaps and equipment were providing for low income students were still seeing problems and increase in the achievement gaps. We have work to do. Im asking people in San Francisco to just really change their behavior. I know its not easy. I know we want to enjoy ourselves. But its up to us to make a difference. Today, i want to really talk about our budget and the proposed budget thats working its way through the legislative process as we speak. Part of why we are investing 446 million in response to covid has everything to do with the understanding that were going to be living with this for some time. Thats money that i wish we could divert to other things. But unfortunately this is the reality of today. I hope thats not the reality of our next budget cycle. Were committing about 93 million directly from the general fund. Again, thats money that i wish we could be diverting to other places and the fact is, its going to be important that were prepared and doing whats necessary to keep the public safe. Today, i want to get into our slides and talk a little about our investments so you have a clear understanding of why and whats being invested based on our response based on our budg budget. So lets look at exactly what it is that our response is this year in the budget. It includes 16 point five million for operations. Health response. 62 million for Food Distributions and housing and shelter programs. Its important to remember that this funding really assumes that we dont see any major surges. If that happens, we will need to divert even more resources. Thats why it is so critical that everybody does their part to stop the spread. It assumes that well continue to be reimbursed by fema. We all know how the federal government has been. This is only through june of 2021 for the next year. If this stretches beyond june theres even more of a drain on our budget next year. The funding for communications and operations is critical to not only staffing our Covid Command Center but also providing communication in the many different languages and cultures in San Francisco in different ways. 50 of our cases in San Francisco have been in our latino community. Visitation valley have the highest rates of cases in the city. Communication is key in a Public Health response. Thankfully we have an Incredible Team of people doing this work every single day. One hundred eighty five million for Health Operations is a lot of money. Its important to understand in the context of all the things that were doing as a city. Were talking about testing, ppe, surge capacity, preparations, Contact Tracing, community out reach, out break mitigations and Everything Else required to fight this virus and keep our re residents safe. We have massively expanded our Food Distribution to people in the si city and will continue to this for as long as needed. Keep people fed and increase sanitation conditions on the streets. Pit stops we chose to expand city wide for an additional 16 million. As you can see from the slide, this is a significant investment. In short term options to keep people off the street. Continuing to fund hotel rooms and shelter in place. We also know we need more housing for people which is why this all feeds into our homeless Recovery Plan to create six thousand replacements for our homeless residents. These are absolutely critical for our plan to work. Building on some of our existing programs as well including our waste replacement, meantle healtMental Health programs. Educational efforts to support our schools. Mobile testing for neighborhoods that are disproportionately hit. These investments in our budget this year as we know, are absolutely critical in order to get us through the very challenging time and i cant reiterate enough the need to make changes to our behavior. I dont know about you, but as i said before in some of these press conferences, i was a very challenging kid to deal with for my grandmother who raised me. I can remember time and time again, when you tell someone to do something over and over and over again. Dont touch that fire, dont touch that fire. Youre like, i wonder what the fire feels like. You touch it the fire and youre like, ill never do that again. Thats the kind of kid i was. It feels like im a parent telling people in San Francisco over and over again wear your mask, socially distance, do this, do this that. Really, this is about protecting Public Health. This is about getting us back on track. This is not just a problem in San Francisco, its a problem all over world. When you think about it theres some countries in the world that have reduced the virus and gone back to normal. Thats where we want to be. The only way were going to get there. The only way were going to be able to open the gyms and nail salons and visit our parents and grandparents in senior homes and places they are housed, is if we change our behavior. We listen to our Public Health expert. Especially in places like dolores park. Especially in places where people continue to gather and not socially distance. From our contact tracers, we know that many people who are contracting the virus are contracting the virus because they are having gatherings. They are having family gatherings and birthday parties and other events. You know what . Today is my birthday. Im going to socially distance myself and talk to people op opn zoom. If we all did our part rkts wher, where wewould be today. I know youre tired of hearing it from me. I say it time and time again. I cant reiterate enough that we need to do our part. We can be a leader and crush this virus if we all do our part. With that, i want to ask the director of the department of Public Health dr. Grant kol fa x fax to please come forward now. Good morning. Im dr. Grant colfax director of Public Health. Happy birthday and thank you for your commitment when it comes to covid response. When it comes to shelter in place, a surge of covid 19 cases. Our investments in testing, Contact Tracing and Food Security among other items have helped San Francisco manage to slow the spread of the virus. Thank you again for your ladership anleadership and dire. Here is an update of where we are with the virus. As of this morning. Six thousand forty two have been diagnosed and sadly sixty seven of them have died. Were currently caring for 88 in our local hospitals. Thats a slight drop from last week. Its a 20 reduction from our peak in july. Because of our efforts. Because of your efforts such as face coverings and social distancing, we have lowered the effective reproductive rate to just below one. The effective reproductive rate or re is a key measure of how fast the virus is spreading. Its the average number of people who become infected by an infectious before. If its above one, the virus will spread and it will spread quickly. When the re factor is below one, its slowing. Our best estimate is that re has been just below one, between point nine eight and point nine five. We continue to exceed our daily testing goals and lead the state and nation it testing. In this next phase of our testing strategy, well be more targeted in our testing even as we expand Testing Capacity in the city. Last week, we brought mobile testing to communities with highest infection rates of covid 19. Including in the bay view, sunny dale, mission and omi. We are indeed following the day awe to identify the communities where testing can have the greatest impact to identify and slow the spread of covid 19. As you saw in the budget presentation, the mayor is proposing a nearly 56 milliondollar budget in testing next year. That number has started to drop from the high point a few weeks ago. Its a cause for great concern and could easily go up again. This is one of our key health indicators. Anything above 15 new cases per day puts us in the red zone on our highest alert level. Were been there for the past few weeks. Weve seen our numbers improving. Lets stay vigilant. Weve seen issues with the state reporting system that may have caused issues with cases. We see many many san franciscans covering their faces. Recent Research Indicates if 80 of a population is regularly using face coverings we can prevent out breaks of covid 19. Please, be one of those 80 . Thank you to everyone who is doing their part to reach that critical mat. Why dont we make it ninety. Why dont we make it 100 of people wearing face coverings in our city. We know unfortunately some people are not covering their faces complicitily. I see some people trying but maybe they dont know both their nose and mouth need to be covering. Maybe they dont know that face could havings are required in San Francisco for everyone age ten years and up. If you have any questions or doubts, wear a facial covering. Its right thing. Its the safe thimg t ting to t. Its like remembering your wallet or keys. Its a habit were going to need to develop and have with us for some time. My mask protects you. Your mask protects me. This is something we can all do and indeed we must do for each other. We must keep up our momentum and stand our ground and sustain our gains and continue to make progress. Were seeing some hopeful signs. As weve seen before this virus is persistent. We cannot let our guard down. Please, again, continue to do your part. Continue to take caution and care. Take care of yourself. Call your friends and family. We are all in this together. We will get through this together. Together we have the power to save lives and again, crush that curve. Thank you. Thank you dr. Colfax and madam mayor for your time. Well begin our q and a portion. First we have Health Care Related questions for dr. Colfax. What specifically is the city doing to shorten the time it takes to get test results and boboaster Contact Tracing. The turn around times have averaged general 48 to 72 hours. We did fall behind because of the great surge in testing. We have caught up on that. Were increasing looking to expand our city test sf capacity. Those times will hopefully continue to be shorter than a few weeks ago. Weve trained three hundred people in Contact Tracing. Were try to go catcing to catcm the flood of cases. Making great progress on that. We continue to expand our capacity and Contact Tracing. As you see in the budget theres investments to strengthen that work going forward. Thank you doctor. Have any out breaks been traced to a gathering in dolores park. Where are the out breaks happening. We know that out breaks occur when people gather. Indoor gatherings are more at risk than outdoor gatherin gatheringpeople doing essential work and need to work in close proximity, we need to have that happen. Lets not gather for things that could otherwise be delayed or be done on zoom or in other virtual ways. With regard to specific out breaks, i cant comment on drawing conclusions from the gathering at dolores park except to say thats behavior that were very concerned about it. Our message continue continues o not gather unless absolutely essential. Do not gather out side your immediate household. If you do, wear those face masks and use good hygiene and socially distance when possible. Look, when i walk or drive around the city, we know this is still not happening to the degree it needs to be. We need to hit that 80 mark. Lets go for 90 or one hundred. We need to crush this curve. Thank you. The next set of questions are from the associated press. How have the states problems with cal ready effected San Francisco effective reproductive rate. Its based on the number of hospitalizations. Our data is not part of that calculation. Were confident in our ability to estimate based on the hospitalization rates in the city. How can we be sure cases are going down if there is under reporting by the states system. The number of hospitalled cases are going down in our city. Thats what we base the reproductive rate on. Its on those numbers sm the nu. The number of cases diagnosed with covid 19, that number could change based on the correction from the state. We hope to have tha that tha th. Thank you, doctor. What are the major factors contributing to the numbers leveling off . What wewe cant draw any one action with regard to cause and effect with regard to the decline in the number of cases. I do think a few weeks ago our recognition that we were in the midst of another surge and the reproductive rate was going up rapidly. We worked with comeupit communiy members, key stake holders and people in neighborhoods most effected to work to really get the message out that everyone needed to be aware of this. Access testing. If you were in an area experiencing out breaks to wear those facial coverings and not gather. I hope people heard this and people are doing their part to flatten and hopefully crush the curve. I will say that the reproductive number is just about at one now. We need to see that trend continue so we get much much lower. Im hopeful that we continue to go in the right direction. Thank you, doctor. Have you considered further restrictions or enforcement measuremeasures foreplaysesmea. We need to give people thank you, doctor. The next question comes from sf examiner. Business owners from the small industry and other personal services have been frustrated that they cannot fully reopen even after sanitation guidelines. What is your level of concerns. Right now we are on the state watch list and have been since late july. No further reopenings can happen until were off that watch list and receive updated guidance from the state. And what might be plausible going forward. Thank you. Our next question. If the reproductive rate is not below is only based on hospitalization and not positive tests it does not include asymptomatic people. How is that viable. Its an estimate. Its an estimate that we have been working with u c berkeley and u c sf and cal San Francisco researchers with regard to developing a model that takes exactly that into account. Uses the hospitalization number and extrapolates that to the broader population at large to come up with an estimate of the reproductive rate. Its publicly available with regard to what the reproductive rate estimate is. You can dig deeper into that on the website which we can certainly provide to you. Thank you, dr. Colfax. There no further questions at this time. This concludes todays press conference. Thank you madam mayor and dr. Colfax for your time. Hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. When i meet with seniors in the community, theyre thinking about the future. Some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood thats closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. Thats why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. So how does this work . Prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. Under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2 growth a year. But when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. Compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. Thats where prop 60 comes in. Prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. Remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the Property Value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. If you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. This means that if your existing home is worth 1 million in market value, your new home must be 1 million or below. If youre looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105 of your exist egging home. Which means if you sell your old home for 1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than 1. 15 million. If you sell your existing home at 1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than 1. 1 million. Know that your ability to participate in this Program Expires after two years. You will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. So benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. Just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. For more, visit our website, in. The august 21st, 2020 requested budget and Appropriations Committee meeting. Im sandra lee fewer, chair of the committee. I wouli would like to thank sf r broadcasting this meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements h. Due to the covid19 health emergency, City Employee and the board of public and the Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely and this precaution is taken pursuant to the local, state and federal order declarations and directives. We will participate in the meeting through video as if present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26 and sf tv is streaming the number across the screen and each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available rhea phone call by alling 415 6550001. The i. D. Is 146 8471266. Ten press pound twice. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussions and muted and in listening mode. When your item comes up, dial star three to be added. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit public email to the budget and Appropriations Committee clerk, linda wong. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15th unless otherwise stated and that concludes my announcements. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the last day of hearings on changes and reductions that the Budget Committee would like to make to the department budgets. We reconvening the budgets and appropriatations meeting from yesterday. A few things to note before we begin. We have trailing legislation and all associated with the puc budget. Just as a reminder to new members of the public, the hearings this week are noticed separately, but this is all one meeting. Well be recessing, not ajourning at the end of everyday and taking backup the following day at 10 00 a. M. Weve had one continual meeting from wednesday, thursday and friday. For that reason, no Public Comment this week on the budget which is items one and two and all Public Comment will be heard on monday, august 24th at 10 00 a. M. No other business on monday, except to hear Public Comment. The budget and Appropriations Committee will recess at 12 120 or 1 00 p. M. For a lunch. Today we will recess at noon. We have five final departments we will finish with before lunch and then well have several departments who will be joining us this afternoon. As much as possible, we will be hearing the departments in the order lists, but i want to recognise that we sometimes need to accommodate scheduling conflicts and call departments out of order. Thanks in all in advance for your flexibility. Well be hearing likely in the following order, public p the pc utilitys commission, Public Health, the port and the airport. And then, i also want to say as i said the last two mornings, the process o of deciding on the budget for the city and county of San Francisco is somewhat adversarial and the mayor gets first bite and then we looks within that budget for efficiencies. When we find inefficiencies with the help of the budget legislative analyst, we then take out those monies and we will reappropriate to the boards issues and the majority going to the vulnerable communities in San Francisco and trying to close the gaps from the mayors budget with that money. But i do want to say, even though we start this, this process is add veer sailor advet to thank the publi employees. Theyre so important to city government. Thank you for your service, especially during covid19, where everyone has pitched in together to protect all of those in San Francisco and Department Heads who you may see us having a back and forth conversation thats heat, thank you for all of your service. I know that you are here fighting for your budgets because you want the resources to serve our public in the best way that you can. And so i want to appreciate them and i want to appreciate all of you, public employees, for all of the work that you do on an everyday basis and we have Great Respect for you and i want to honor all of the th effort ad work you have done. We have been training and legislation today which we will first take care of. And so, mr. Clerk, can you please call items three through nine. I think youre on mute right now. Item number three is an ordinance appropriatating 260. Three millions of hedge revenue and flow carbon trade revenue and power and water Revenue Bonds for the sfpuc Capitol Improvement program for 2020 to 2021 at 94. 3 million and fiscal year 2022 at 165. 9 million and placing 142. 9 millions of the power bond powes subject to the controllers certification of funds availability. Item number four is ordinance appropriating 4. 3 million, clean power sf revenue for the clean power sf Capitol Improvement program for 2020 to 2021 at 1. 8 million and 2021 to 2022 at 2. 4 million. Item number five is an ordinance appropriating approximately 479. 1 millions of proceeds Revenue Bonds, Water Resources control and loan funds or grant funds, waste water revenue and capacity fees for the sfpuc waste Water Enterprises capital Improvement Program for fiscal years 202at 178. 8 million and reappropriating 391. 4 million and placing 349. 9 million in Revenue Bonds or state loan or grant funds by project on controllers reserve subject to the controllers certification of funds availability. Item number significance is an aaroaaron appropriating 344 miln proceeds from Revenue Bonds, state of california, Water Resources, control boards Revolving Loan funds and Water Capacity fees for 2020 to 2021 at 132. 3 million and fiscal years 2021 to 2022 at 212. 7 million and appropriating 3. 5 million water Capital Project funding to waters fund balance in 2020 to 2021 and water capital appropriations in fiscal years 2020 to 2021 and placing 35. 9 million in state grant fund proceeds by project on controllers revenue project to the funds availability. Number seven is authorizing the issuance and sale of power Revenue Bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the puc and an amount not to exceed 142. 9 million to finance the costs of various Capital Projects, benefiting the power enterprise. Item number eight is an ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable waste water Revenue Bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the sfpuc in an amount not to exceed 34 349. 9 million benefiting the waste water enterprise and item number nine is an ordinance authorizing sale and tax exempt or Revenue Bonds as defined by the sfpuc in a principle amount not to exceed 347. 1 million to finance the cost of various capital water projects benefiting the water enterprise. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001, meeting i. D. 146 8472266 and then press pound twice. If you have not done so, please dial star three to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand approximately indicate until the system indicates you have been unmuted. Chair we have eric sandler from the utilitys commission. The floor is yours. Thank you. Im eric sandler, the cfo of the puc here to present pieces of legislation that are all about implementing our Capital Investment plan programs for the next two years. Next slide. As you heard, there are seven ordinances tied to the implementation of our capital budget. Four are supplemental appropriation ordinances that essentially identify a series of projects that comprise or capital program. Theres one for water enterprise, one for water and power and clean power assess. And then we have three debt authorization ordinances that authorize us to issue Revenue Bonds or other forms of indebtedness to fund all or a portion of the programs and i would just point out that we have a couple of amendments. One to the waste water supplemental appropriation ordinance and then an amendment to all of the debt authorization ordinances and ill point this out as we go along. So the waste water capital supplemental is 579. 2 million over a twoyear period and Improvement Program, renewal and replacement, as well as waste water facility and the amendment that i refer to and an error on page 13, line 23, the correct number is 57,174,566 to be placed on controllers preserve. Next slide. The water capital supplemental appropriates 344. 8 million over a twoyear period and places 223. 5 on controllers reserve and funds Regional Water projects as well as local water projects including treatment plan improvements, water diversification and supply projects, et cetera. The next supplemental for the water and power and thats for our facilities of country that are either solely water, power or joint facilities and they have ordinance appropriating 260. 3 million over the twoyear period and places 142. 9 on controllers reserve for the pipeline improvement to mountain tunnel improvement and distribution projects in the city and general Fund Energy Efficiency improvements to lower costs. Pair indiscernible . There are demand response programs, electric mobility, local renewable. Next slide, please. So now, im turning to the the debt Organization Ordinance and we only have three because we issue power, waste water or water bombs. So the first authorization is for power bomb and the amendment issues referring Revenue Bonds after adoption to the ordinance. Essentially, we had revenue bond refunding authorization which allows you to save by refinancing the outstanding debt and expired in june and we have a number of refinancing opportunities, particularly in the water enterprise that can realize about 105 million in savings over the life of the debt and we want to be able to immediately enter the market and thats why the amendments are appearing in the financing authorization. Next slide. This next ordinance refers to authorization of revenue bond issuance for the waste water of 349. 9 million and, again, the same amendment as i discussed in the power ordinance and finally, we have the Water Revenue Fund authorization ordinance, authorizing 347. 1 million of issuance of water revenue bond and an amendment, again, clarifying the implementation schedule for revenue refunding bond issuance. And that concludes my presentation and im happy to answer any questions. Chair i believe we have a daily report on these items. So could the bla present on items three through nine. Good morning, chair. And, yes, item three is an appropriation to the revenue and other funds for the Capital Projects and item number seven is the authorization to issue power bonds. We summarize the sources of uses bonds on page three of our report and in terms of the impact on power rates, we discuss that on page five with about a one year increase over the next few years from the municipal customers and a three per year increase for other customers and we recommend approval. Puitem number four is 4. 3 millin in clean power revenues and we summarize the uses of these funds on page 11 of our report and we recommend approval. Item number five is appropriating funds from waste water revenue bunds and item number seven is the issuance of waste water Revenue Bonds. We summarize the sources and uses of these on page 14 of our report. In terms of the impact on rates, we discuss that on page 17 and there would be an eight rate in 2021 and 2022 for customers. In terms of waste water sewer rates. And we recommend approval. And then items number six and nine. Item number six appropriates funds of water Revenue Bonds to water capital programs and item nine approves issuance of water Revenue Bonds. Sources and uses are summarized on page 27 of our report and then in terms of the impact on water rates, it would be a 7. 8 increase in customer water rates in 2021 and seven. Nine increase in water rates in 2 12 and we recommend approval. Chair it looks like the bla has recommended approval on items three through nine and i understand there are some amendments that were presented and could the public utilitys commission please present those amendments now. So the water supplemental, john, are you doing this or am i . Yes, i can take this on. Chair excuse me, can you please refer to it by the item number . Yes, i can. This is john scarpula with the sfpuc and i will work through the amendments right now. File number 230822, the capital supplemental. Chair thats item number five, ok and you have an amendment for item number five. Correct, thank you, supervisor. And that is on page 14, line 23 and were replace the amount of 170,869,000. 66 with the correct total of 57,174,566. Chair thats a big difference. Yes. Chair and any other amendments . On that item, no, but i will move on to file number 200836. Chair thats item number seven. Correct. And on that item, we are looking at a couple of different amendments. Ill start with page eight, lines five through nine and so youll see that amendment authorizes the issuance of refunding Revenue Bonds immediately after their adoption. And so thats the first and then there are several other smaller grammatical revisions throughout the document and should i run through each of those or thats the main crux . Chair thats fine. Thank you. I will move on to file number 200837. Chair that is item number eight. And thats page nine, lines 15 through 19. And, again, this is authorizing the issuance of refunding Revenue Bonds immediately after the adoption of the ordinance. Press star 3. Please let us know if there are any callers wishing to comment on the items. Madam, chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair three through 9 are now closes for public items. I would like to adopt 5, 7, 8 and 9. Could i have a second, please . Second. Chair can i have a role call vote, please, mr. Clarke. Clerk. Can i clarify the second . Supervisor walton. Pair. To accept 5, 7, 8 and 9. role call . Chair i would like to move these items. Could i have a second, please. Second. Chair role call vote, please, mr. Clerk. role call . There are five ayes. Chair that was our trailing legislation and we will hear from the public utilitys commission and i believe we have eric sandler, julie ellis, Michael Carmen and charles pearl. The public utilitys commission, the floor is years. Before we do that, should i read items 1 and 2 . Chair thank you. Item number on 1 the appropre ordinance appropriatating all expenditures for departments of the city as of july 31st, 2020 for years ending june 30, 2021 and june 3 30, 2022. This is continuing, creating or establishing these positions. Chair thank you very much and now lets hear from the public utilitys commission. Chair fewer, we presented a presentation at the last meeting and we are in agreement with the budget analyst and it was certainly we really appreciate all of the work of the budget analyst, particularly miss martin. They were difficult substantives, we are in agreement with the budget analyst. Chair im glad you came to an agreement. Improve heard it was, you know, difficult conversation, but im glad you came to an agreement. And so, yes, present yee. Youre on mute, president. Can you explain why puc would be using vehicles and im talking about passengertype vehicles and why youre using quite a number of luxury vehicles. Thank you, supervisor yee. The top three reasons we rent vehicles is that we have Construction Projects and infrastructure is the largest user of shortterm. Projects are shortterm and when thats over, we relinquish the vehicle and we rent the vehicle if the vehicle is totaled and no budget to replace it. We utilize a contract that is a citywide contract that oca manages with enterprise. The specifications are unclear what they will pay for. Thprintwe do not pay any more te citys contract rates for the vehicle. It seems like these vehicles you lease for not just one or two days or a week, and it seems lengthy. Why is it . We have Construction Projects and with the needs for vehicles can increase in decrease dramatically depending on the construction management. indiscernible . I had a hard time understanding what you just said. We try to manage our fleet effectively and there are a number of we had in our budget a number of recommendations for a replacement about 36, for 1. 47 million and was included in the twoyear budget and there is potentially a higher likelihood we would need to rent vehicles over the next two years. I didnt want to keep on asking. Its not you. Its the sound system. And what ill do, this issue will be brought back up. Well provide more information. To get more information and maybe more written because for whatever reason, i cant understand what youre saying very well. Its not your fault. Chair mr. Sandler, would you please provide for this committee the information that present yee is requesting and could you please respond in writing to us . Definitely. Chair thank you, president yee. Thank you, chair fewer. Im looking at this budget and looking at the bla reductions and im a little concerned about whats going on with the super green with clean power sf program and i dont know if were getting budgetary savings out of the fact that clean power does not appear to be up and running in the way that we want it up and running but im wondering why its not up and running. Whats going on with clean power sf . What is it, 40 vacancies and it seems like were ramping down our markets for the program . So i will try to answer this and any of my colleagues can feel free to jump in. This was definitely in an area where we had a lot of back and forth with the budget analyst. In terms of staffing, our strategy was to staff up to meet organizational needs. It was noted there were a number of vacancies. We had temporary positions and we are a great Training Ground for other cpas and so we have had quite a bit of turnover in the Clean Power Program because people get great experience and theres a proliferation of ccas throughout the bay area. Thats our be vancancy rate. Our budget director, laura bush. We cant hear you. I think youre on mute, miss bush. Sorry. Good morning. Im laura bush, the budget director of the sfpu c. There has been a massive impact on clean power search f. There are many positions in the process of being hired and earlier this year, they were put on hold due to the emergency. Were ramping that back up and we have a plan to staff up the program over the coming year. And what do they do to that, staffing newspaper. Up . We took a look at the hiring plan and which positions we intended to hire over the year and came to a compromise over a slight increase to our attrition rate to reflect that. So this will look better next year . Yes. And why were you underspending on marketing . This is a high priority and for a number of reasons, we are not a monopoly and have a bunch of new positions. Were going to be really trying to fully expend our marketing dollars over the coming year. This tthis is another area where have to have Difficult Conversations about the budget in the coming years. Because you havent been spending you on marketing and were holding you at that level. Can we hear from the bla about this . Chair yes, bla, mr. Goncher. Yes, im with the budget and legislative analyst office. Just with regards to the attrition, we did generously estimate what would be appropriate attrition on the Clean Power Programs own hiring schedule. With regard to the marketing, we saw professional Services Contracts were increased significantly, the development and marketing. They scaled that back and did not increase the source of funding. My understanding is that the Marketing Budget is still increasing, but not increasing as much. This is juliet with external affairs and i would jump in to reinforce what our budget director and agm sandler said and i think it really is in response to the question around marketing, so as we went back and forth with the bla budget, you know, director of communications who oversees that entire program was very engaged to defend the dollars, to really reflect the fact that theres a lot of marketing that suggests required by law with these Clean Power Programs and even the fundamental equal o and the numf notices that go out and the number of people that are moving and that the feedback that weve gotten that we fully agree needs to happen with regards to more robust, innovative ways because our director of the budget describes, were not a monopoly, were with water and waste water and people have choices to opt out of the Clean Water Program and we were in the exact position you are with regards to just an awareness and understanding that marketing for this type of program is extremely program for us to be able to retain customers as well as to grow the program. And do it with language, access and all of the other thanks are extremely important for us. Yeah, i will i know that our chair is deeply familiar with the clean power sf program and cares a lot about it. And so this gives me concern, but if she is feeling that this will allow this program to expand in the ways that it needs to, then, you know, i guess i can accept this, but im a little worried about the state of it. Chair supervisor mandleman, that in our last discussions, you know, we have pushed back a little bit on the puc about the markets and actually, actually,k they presented a fabulous marketing plan. Not only that, i think theyve made great gains and so i have faith with this budget and the way its designed that they actually can continue that progress. Any other questions or comments from my colleagues . I think were in general agreement with the bla recommendations. So i would like to tell the Controllers Office to please take note that this committees intentions is to accept the bla recommendation for this department. Thank you very much and next we have the department of Public Health. And dr. Grant kolfax and his team. The floor is yours. Good afternoon. In this era of the covid19 pandemic which is also highlight, we continue to focus on our priorities of addressing health improve equities, Behavioral Health and further with regard to the complicating factors of implications of climate change, i am pleased to say that we are in cu concurrene with the blas report and we would like to thank the bla staff in working with our team to reach that agreement. I know that there have been some conversations with regard to the reinvestments from the Public Safety funds with regard to putting those dollars into a reserve. We would strongly prefer those not to be put in a reserve in order to allow those resources to get to the communities who need them most. Thank you and were here to take any additional questions. Chair supervisor ronen. Thank you. I wanted to talk to you about Mental Health assess. And so, supervisor mandelman, hainey and i have been having side conversations with your team, dr. Kolfax, your Behavioral Health team, as well as your finance team, about making changes to the plans for Mental Health health sf so that the street Response Crisis Team could be increased by two from four to six and so that the Mental Health Health Center could operate 24 hours a day. My understanding where we are at right now or mr. Wagner, please try to clarify, is that we are going since were balancing the whole budget on the assumption that the gross, receipts will pass, there is onetime money in that budget for capital repairs that well be able to use to transform the Behavioral Health Access Center into the division of the Mental Health assess Service Center and because we assumed that in the original budget you have for Mental Health sf that 8 million would come from the general fund in order to fund those capital repairs, your team has been able to spread that 8 million out into operations so that we could make those changes that i just discussed. My understanding and, greg, it would be good for you to confirm or deny, my misunderstand, based on our back and forth, is that we would still be short an additional 763,480 and greg and i can have a conversation about whether or not thats the right figure right now. And ill explain how i got to that number. Im hoping we can have that conversation now and im first wanting to ask mr. Wagner if he can confirm these numbers and let me walk you through how i got to this deficit that we have in the first year. So what mr. Wagner has been able to do is to get us to a point where by using that 8 million in capital dollars that was originally from the general fund but that were instead going to take from proxy capital dollars should it pass, we are in the first year and im looking at the spreadsheet that mr. Wagner sent me that in the first year of the budget, we have a 9,784,151 surplus. In the second year be we have a 9,247,631 deficit. And so, my first question is, are you able to take that surplus from the first year and use it to cover the deficit in the second year . I hope im explaining myself. Im greg wagner and so weve been in conversations, it looks like, and ben rosenfield, the controller may want to Say Something, but weve been in conversations with the Controllers Office and the Mayors Office and it looks like that is technically possible to appropriate onetime cover the onetime cost with the onetime funding, which would leave savings in the first year. And as you said, then that would potentially be available to cover the second year and youre probably getting there, but i think the outstanding question then becomes not as a technical question but a policy issue for the mayor and board of supervisors on the third year, where we would have a deficit after the second year being adopted. Yes, so lets take this one step at a time because we need to catch the rest of the Budget Committee with the rest of the conversations weve been having. But let me just make sure i can understand it so we can catch them up. So, therefore, i just sent you indiscernible . You had sent me an email i dont know why im getting that feedback. If this plan goes into effect which i will explain to the entire committee as soon as i understand it, then we still have a 763,480 gap in the first year of budget. Do you agree with me on that point, greg . And if you do, then i can explain it but if you dont, then im still confused. So here is how the math works. Over the three years, if we do the swap that we just described, using onetime funds for the capital expense, that takes us to a twoyear surplus of 536 thoughted. Thats right. Over the two years. And then the cost of the additional is 1. 3 million. Im trying to do the math on the fly. If i can help you out, the cost of adding the. 5 team would be is. 3 million and so if you subtract 536,520 from 1. 3 million, we get 763,480. Let me just take a look here. 1. 367 million would be the additional cost and so thats very close. I think i had given you a rounded number. Got it. But were on the safe page where were at. Yeah. Thats the important thing. So the policy question before us, then and i have some ideas and questions for you on how we would cover that 763 plus gap that we have to get to. But the overall broad policy question before us is if we are ready to take a leap and fully implement Mental Health sf with this 24hour crisis team Mental Health Service Center going into effect this year, which is what gives me comfort red reducing te Police Budget, because we need a team with expertise working 24 hours a day addressing the mental Health Crisis on the street, we can fund it in years one and two fully, assuming the gross receipt tax passes. We have a problem in year three where that onetime money that were going to get from prop c, that well get in one fell swoop, that were using a bunch of that money in order to fund the full implementation of the Mental Health sf in year one and two will be used up. So what that will mean is that in year three, which were not dealing with in this budget, but we need to be cognizant with for the future, we would have an 11 million gap. Is that right . Yes, it is. An 11 million gap. Closer to 12, but yes. Ok, not in the spreadsheet you just gave me, but i believe you. Between 11 and 12 million gap. And so, the reason that i think we should move forward despite having to fill that gap in the future is because we are under so much uncertainty. We have the salary tax on the budget. We have the gross receipts tax on the budget and both of those two Revenue Generating measures will, if they pass, will bring in enough money to cover that 11 million gap. When we passed Mental Health sf unanimously, the mayor wrote us a letter promising to fully fund Mental Health sf if theres new revenue coming in to the city. And those two would be the new revenue coming in. Now, if one or both of these dont pass, were going to be redoing the whole budget anyway. Because our entire budget is predicated on the fact that this gross receipts is going to pass. So when were redoing the entire budget anyway, we can then redo Mental Health sf. And so i feel comfortable starting the process if in november, the gross receipts tax doesnt pass and we readdress the entire budget, we can readdress Mental Health sf with it and then well also know if the salary tax passes. So that is my desire and recommendation for this budget and would ask the support of my colleagues on this. And then after we get passed this point, we still have another point which is how to fill this 763,000 deficit in the first year. And i want to ask questions to dph about that, but before that, i wanted to see if theres any questions from my colleagues on this first point and im sorry this is so confusing. Please tell me if i can make it easier to understand. Chair president yee. In terms of trying to ramp up for this Additional Team, i guess yes. So the idea would be that they would be up and running or this Additional Team would be up and running when . please stand by . You know, if the optimistic math goes right, at least we will be able for say that were trying to redirect all 21,000 of those calls. And i kind of think if this goes well, it may be that in the future we do need to add maybe even another team. But this is like a first cut at what it would take to have all 21,000 of those calls at least have the First Response being Police Officers, which i think as a moral matter and a matter of you are speaking correctly for me. I think something that we must do and we must find the funding for it somewhere, somehow it is imperative. Commissioner yee im not questioning the value of this. I get that part. Im trying to get to the budget part of it. You dont have to convince me. I guess supervisor ronen, as you alluded to, theres a lot of assumptions in this budget. And im going to support it. And so im trying to like figure out the timing of all this stuff. Commissioner haney can i can i finish explaining the timing for you. Just really quickly. What we learned yesterday from the Fire Department is that theyre currently working on the floor team. If we put this money in the budget for them, that they will have the additional two teams up and running by february or march of next year. Okay. So i think i feel a little more comfortable with your proposal, knowing that we probably have some time to back off off of that and find some other money. If in november, you know, its not going to work, thats all i want to get to. Then im a lot more willing to support what youre saying. I wanted to clarify the joint program with fire in this extremely important program. It is a priority for the department. We are working to get it scaled up as kickly quickly as possible. We have not identified Behavioral Health staff for implementation. The Crisis Response teams are very understaffed with current demands and working hard with fire to find additional staff and hire them to do the work. I just wanted to clarify that. Commissioner fewer thank you. So supervisor ronen, if i may ask, so were trying to get these two Additional Teams up and running by february. And the budget part by march, right. And the cost of the Additional Teams is what again . Commissioner ronen frank, do you know the answer to that . Commissioner fewer or mr. Rosenfeld or somebody knows the cost of the additional two teams were trying to get up and running. We have the funding for the four teams. Were looking for funding for the two teams, is that correct . Yeah. Commissioner ronen go ahead, greg. The difference between the four teams and the the four teams proposed in the mayors budget and the full team is one second here. Im sorry. Commissioner fewer youre kind of breaking up. Pardon me. Through the chair, jenny the c. F. Op. The cost one Additional Team for the Crisis Response is about 1. 8 million. So if we were looking at two teams, it would be about 3. 6 million, 3. 7 million for an additional two teams. On top of the four that were assumed in the madam chair budget. Commissioner fewer thats great. The cost of the two Additional Teams would be 3. 7 million. Supervisor ronen, is that the number youre working off of . Commissioner ronen now i just got confused. Greg is telling us. 5 teams is 1. 367 million. I can clarify that. The number that miss louie just gave you is a full year. But when one of a fullyear plus, a partial year and the first year. I think were talking about theres per year and then theres the cost over the twoyear. The cost of two teams for the two years is actually 5 commissioner fewer could you give me that number again. The twoyear budget cycle is how much . Im sorry. You were kind of going in and out. Okay. The cost of the two teams over the twoyear budget cycle is 5,470,771. And so thats a partial year in the first year. Well, its a full year in the second year. Commissioner fewer supervisor ronen, is that the amount that you come up with also . Commissioner ronen great question. Let me ask one more question. When does it when does the first year, when does that start for these numbers . In that figure it is halfway through the year. Commissioner ronen oh, i see. So this starts halfway through the fiscal year . Correct. Commissioner ronen so encarnacion what month . So january . Commissioner fewer mr. Wagner, are you looking from january 2021 . January of fiscal year 2021. So this coming january. Yeah. Commissioner fewer fiscal year your calculation is in fiscal year january 2021, is that correct . Correct. Now were getting into the second part of this discussion, how were going to fill the 763,000 debt. And one way is that we know that these teams are not going to get up and running. I think its safe to say, because we need the hiring and training side on the first part and the hiring and training part on d. P. H. s part. I think thats going to be a heavy lift for these four teams we need right now. I would feel comfortable starting them in march. So if we started them in march, how much would it bring down that 763,480 debt . 900,000. Commissioner fewer you would save about 900,000 . Correct. Commissioner fewer i think, supervisor, ronen, it looks like budget deficit. Okay. And were you and again once the records, i think this is hard for listening public actually to follow. Commissioner ronen i think so. Commissioner fewer so supervisor ronen, what youre saying now is that we would be saving so we now are asking mr. Wagner for a calculation between march 2021 and the end of the fiscal year 2022, is that correct . Commissioner ronen no. The end of the fiscal year 2021. Correct, greg . Commissioner fewer the end of the fiscal year 2021 . Yeah. So march of 2021. So about seven, eight months from now. Commissioner fewer okay. And president yee, did you have your hand up . Commissioner yee yeah. I mean, if these tax measures do pass, is there still a deficit . Im trying to if theres enough funding to fund it fully, can we then bring it back to, you know, for january . Commissioner ronen i can explain that. So the mayor has fully funded has fully funded the implementation of the additional beds as, you know, a flow as determined by the doctor has planned. She has fully funded the implementation of the office of coordinated care. The two things that she didnt fully fund, but significantly funded, were the Crisis Response team. She funded for, not the six that we need. And she only funded she funded the Mental Health Service Center with some hours during the weekends and some extended hours during the week, but not 24 hours. So what we would have to do, if the gross receipts doesnt pass, is were going to have to go back to her original budget, which i would be comfortable doing. I mean, we dont have a choice, right. So basically what supervisor mandelman, haney and i have been able to do during this budget, with the incredible help of the fiscal team and the Bay Area Health team at d. P. H. Weve had tons of meetings about this offline. Weve been able to take again that 8 million in capital upgrades that are need and theyve been able to use that for the first two years of ongoing costs, of the operational costs. We have a cliff in the third year that were going to have to figure out next budget year how to fund. And im saying we can figure that out and we have revenue, if those two things pass. If they dont, so lets say the gross receipts if the gross receipts passes, well deal with it next budget year. And maybe have to have a special hearing on it. About the gross receipts doesnt pass, we have to redo this whole budget and go back to where what the mayor funded for Mental Health s. F. Yee im commissioner yee im actually suggesting we be more aggressive with the timing, if it passes. Im not and supervisor mandelman said no, because why . Commissioner mandelman because they dont believe they can staff up enough just to move any faster. If supervisor ronen and haney and i could get these six teams on the ground tomorrow, i think that we would be pushing for a budgetary solution that would allow that to happen. But i think that theres a feasibility problem in terms of hiring and training, staffing, all the stuff that has to go into place. What we heard from the team is really and they think this is aggressive. Theyre going to do everything they can to get four up and running by the end of this calendar year. Great. And then if we get them more money, they will move as quickly as they can to get two more up and running. Honestly thats going to take until march or april of next year. All of these are im just going to imagine, although i imagine theyre aggressive. So i think were being i dont think we can push the staff. I dont think we would say we want to fully fund this in january. Because i dont think were going to fully fund this in january. Commissioner fewer yeah. I think we heard yesterday from the Fire Department commissioner yee i was trying to be helpful and give you more money. Commissioner fewer thank you. Commissioner mandelman thank you, president yee. Commissioner fewer what we heard from the Fire Department yesterday, they were reluctant to over promise. You know what i mean. We have mr. Rosenfeld i believe he has a process suggestion. Good afternoon. I was simply going to suggest, we certainly understand the proposal that supervisor ronen have outlined. Its a complicated set of amendmentamendments that you nee to make this happen to the budget. I was going to suggest that we can prepare with Public Health what the amendments look like and then bring it back to you at a subsequent meeting for your consideration and action. It does involve rearranging sources and uses in a pretty complicated way. And it also changes appropriations if different fiscal years, which may require growing the budget in some cases. So kind of decreasing in one year and increasing for another. There may be pieces of this ma the Mayors Office needs to work with. We hope to be done with this process, you know, by next wednesday. I am happy, though, to have this item come back on wednesday for further discussion. But it will have to be a quick discussion. This will not be a full discussion. This will be a proposal of what we discussed today. And that we will have to vote on it. Okay. So its just that we want the process not to linger on. I think that we have a commitment to end it by midnight on wednesday. And i think all of us are looking forward to that. So if i could make that suggestion. I think it would be great. I think that we have a couple of other items, Public Health, are you in agreement with the rest of the recommendations from the b. L. A. . Yes, we are. Commissioner fewer okay. Thats great. I would also say, yes, supervisor ronen. Commissioner ronen thank you so much. I just i just really wanted to appreciate everyone. You know, i have been working on Mental Health s. F. For a couple years now. And i think we all got off to a really shaky start, where supervisor mandelman, the mayor and supervisor haney and i were not all on the same page. And the doctor and the health department. And i just want to appreciate everyone so much, because we are now all on the same page. We are now working together in a collaborative, incredible way. We all have the same end goal, the same, you know, vision of how were going to get there. And i want to just really appreciate the mayor for really not only keeping to her promise that she made to us, but doing so in the worst budget year ever. That she funded the vast majority of Mental Health s. F. And then i want to thank supervisor mandelman, who re we started off not agreeing on this to working together and coming together and advocating to really just push it to the end and get it all implemented. And then the Incredible Team at the department of Public Health, who has met with us more times than i can count to figure this all out. And, you know, greg is always just incredible. Hes been incredible since the first day i met you, when you were budget director, mr. Wag wagner. I appreciate you so much. You know, mr. Colfax and doctor and the whole team, theyre getting us through a Global Pandemic and yet have still prioritized this. And i just feel the biggest amount of gratitude to you all. And i cant tell you how happy i am to be working on the same page. And i know were going to be successful because of it. So thank you, everyone. Commissioner fewer thank you very much. I missed supervisor mandelman in the queue. My apology. Commissioner mandelman asking about the details of the b. L. A. Report. I do share supervisor ronens excitement about this. And it makes me feel like theres alignment here. I do feel honestly like, you know, supervisor ronen is an ass kicker and some ass needed some kicking. And i think, you know, it does feel like were moving in a better direction. And i do think, you know, people came at this from different places. And but in a lot of ways i think there was alignment underlyre lining a lot of it. I think as different people have come to understand the knowledge and what different people are seeing different pieces of this. The workers at the front line at s. F. General are seeing this in a very different way from administrators who have to make it work, seeing it in a different way from constituents, seeing it in a different way from people who are spearser who are experiencing the system. I think what supervisor ronen and haneys effort has led to is all of these different voices getting heard and coming together. And i think a lot of people have worked really hard on this consensus. You know, i think you know, i feel really good about it. So, you know, and as supervisor ronen pointed out, our Global Health department, although we are frustrated with it often in many ways, is doing extraordinary, extraordinary things right now. Has done extraordinary things in the past, continues to do extraordinary things now. And this stuff is really hard. And if we figure it out, well be able to beat ourselves up a little bit less, because well be a model for everybody else. Nobody is doing this stuff well i dont think in public Health Systems in the united states. So but with that i do want to ask the mundane questions of the b. L. A. Cuts. Because i worry about cuts to Public Health. I know if theyre saying yes, i want to understand whats being lost. My questions about d. P. H. 4, d. P. H. 7, and d. P. H. 8. And d. P. H. 9. So i worry about cutting i. T. For a department that has such terrible when the b. L. A. Itself has pointed out the ethic implementation and other things. Whats going on with the d. P. H. Recommendation for and why should i not be worried about that . That might be for dan. Sure. Supervisor mandelman, so we did conduct an analysis of the centralized i. T. Projects budget. We looked at the previous expenditures as well as what they were planning to do. In our assessment, we decided to recommend a reduction of 480,000 to reflect the Program Budget that the department was actually [indiscernible] commissioner mandelman all right. We all recognize they need to do a ton of work on the i. T. And this is about as much as they can get done in the next year. And d. P. H. Is basically accepting that . Correct. Commissioner mandelman okay. Then since d. P. H. 7 is reducing the budget allocated for [indiscernible] by 800,000 to reflect spending. Can you say just a little bit more about what that means. Sure. We looked at typically 1819 actual expenditures, as well as 1920 projected, even though the year is over. Because were at the yearend, still yearend closings. We did based on that we did a projection of their underspending historically on the professional and specialized services. And they we found the department was under spending these. When we make the reductions, we always leave some cushion. We dont cut it to the bone. So we felt like this was a reasonable reduction to make in the line items to reflect what their actual spending is. Commissioner mandelman okay. D. P. H. Is accepting that. I will accept that. The last question i have, im going to skip d. P. H. 8, because it is a small relatively small amount. My colleagues are here to move on to other things, right, chair fewer. I do want to at least touch on d. P. H. 9, because i do feel like the work of the director of Mental Health has really been valuable to the Mental Health s. F. Process. They work parallel efforts. But i think [indiscernible] as i was starting to understand some of the i hope this is not offensive, brokenness in Behavioral Health services that i thought she needed a point person who was going to be like shaking you know, poking around and looking at everything and understand what wasnt working. And i dont know. They might well have done it without that suggestion. But they did it and i was glad they did it. I think that the dr. Lucy bland has come up with some really valuable information for Mental Health s. F. And has informed all of us about 4,000 folks who are out on the streets, who have these different diagnosis, there was not coordination between d. P. H. And d. H. D. Getting if the highest users prioritized for housing and shelter. And now in doing the modeling study, which again i think underestimates the need. But is at least finally something more than a feeling about what bed as we need to increase. So i dont want to lose that work. And i want to understand what is being lost by taking a hundred thousand dollars 500,000 out of that pot . Appreciate that. We dont believe anything will be lost. This was a problematic budget. They received funding to begin the Mental Health s. F. Before the measure passes. Theyll have such a short time to spend the funding, because its through november. And so the department in discussions about this, the department was comfortable reducing the funding by 100,000, due to the limited amount of time to actually spend the funds. Commissioner mandelman maybe for the department, what is the money getting used for . Through the chair, these dollars were essentially as part of mayor breeds Mental Health reform project. We received two years of project funding, while the doctor actually conducted hits work along with some Staff Members and dollars to support the analytical work that hes doing. It was only meant to be a twoyear project and the funding was budgeted to end at the end of this current fiscal year 2021. And to be clear, we are not reducing his work or his services. But we are going to transition some of the work to operations instead. And reducing the reliance on project funding for their support. Its a shift of funding supportses to this project to operating. And there will be were just going to start that transition earlier in this fiscal year, because we do need to find a solution of more important work that he and his staff are doing. So we agreed for this onetime reduction and to start that shift earlier. But in short your concerns, we do not want the work to end. We find it valuable. And we are trying to continue it in a different way. Commissioner mandelman i have definitely as i said, appreciated having actual data and someone actually looking at whats going on in the system. Thats incredibly important as Critical Care gets stood up. And as we look to be making smart investments. It has to be gathering data, measuring it, and seeing where its needed. So, all right. Im satisfied. Thanks, everyone. Thanks to the b. L. A. And d. P. H. And im done. Chair fewer thank you very much. And so i see supervisor walton in the queue. Commissioner walton thank you, chair fewer. I will be very quick. I just want to thank the department for the reductions and also want to thank dr. Colfax for speaking about what i was going to also address. And just make sure that we do the same thing we did with oewd yesterday and not place the 36 million in funding for the investment of the black community on reserve. I want to appreciate dr. Colfax for also mentioning his support for that. Keeping in mind we do have a blueprint for how were going to make sure that this body has the opportunity to provide oversight with the report of proposed expenditures and updates one