Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Transportation Committe 20240712

Vice chair ahsha safai. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. In accordance with Governor Newsom executive order declaring a state of emergency starting the covid19 outbreak and mayor london n. Breeds proclamation declaring a local emergency issued on february 25, 2020, including the guidance for gatherings issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health center, members of t officer, aggressive directives were issued to reduce the spread of covid19. On march 17, 2020, the board of supervisors authorized their bhoord and Committee Meetings to convene remotely and will allow remote Public Comment via teleconference. Watch the sfgovtv website at www. Sfgovtv. Org to stream the live meeting or to watch meetings on demand. Members of the public are encouraged to participate remotely via detailed instructions on participating via teleconference. Members of the public may participate by phone or may submit their comments by email to ericamajor sfgov. Org. All comments received will be made a part of the official report. Chair peskin thank you. Would you please read items 1 and 2 today. Clerk item 1 is ordinance amending the Administration Code to establish the social Housing Program fund for the acquisition, creation, and operation of affordable social housing developments, and item 2 is an ordinance amending the Administration Code to establish the covid19 rent resolution and relief fund, to provide Financial Support to landlords whose tenants have been unable to pay rent due to the covid19 pandemic. Members of the public wishing to make Public Comment may call the phone number streaming across your screen and enter the meeting code. Chair peskin thank you. And it is my understanding that supervisor preston would like to continue these items one week. Supervisor preston yes. Chair peskin okay. And weve been joined by the actual vice chair, supervisor safai, so supervisor preston, you youre demoted to member of this committee at this point. So just so that we are clear, the agenda next week is remarkably long, so i would ask your indulgence, supervisor preston, either to continue this to the call of the chair, or if anything falls off of the next agenda, we could get it on or alternatively, i could schedule it for the meeting in two weeks. But weve got a super hairy, fivehour probably fourtofivehour agenda next week. So what is your will, sir . Supervisor preston well, so my concern is we will be introducing amendments next week which will require further hearing. We are trying to move the funding from the upcoming ballot measure, so i you know, our hope through the meetings that were having with stakeholders is that we are hammering out issues before next week, but it would be our hope not to have a marathon meeting on monday, but i would say we are sensitive to the timing on this. Chair peskin and thank you for your sensitivity to that. It sounds like youre going to be introducing amendments that are substantive that would require a continuance. To the extent that proponents of these items could comment once it comes to the committee for a full consideration, cosoe can make next mondays calendar as efficient as possible given the number of items that we have, lets continue it to next week for that. Lets open it up for Public Comment. Clerk yes. I dont know why you have to put social in front of everything, but i think public sounds better. I yield the rest of my time. Chair peskin hello. Next speaker, please. Hello. This is anastas anastasia iovannopoulos, district 8 resident. Thank you for continuing this for letting us look at them and moving them inform a future meeting where theyll them to a future meeting where theyll be voted on. Chair peskin is there any further comment on item 1 and 2 . Clerk that concludes the comment. Chair peskin if theres knox, supervisor preston would like to continue these items for one week. That motion made by myself, the chair. A roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin next item, please. Clerk item 3 is a resolution supporting california state proposition 21, keep families in their homed on november 3, 2020 ballot. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on item number 3 should call the number streaming on the screen. Thats 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. 1469569029. Press pound, and pound again, and press star, three to enter the queue. Please wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted and provide Public Comment. Chair peskin thank you. This item has been sponsored by supervisor ronen and cosponsored by supervisors preston, haney, walton, and myself. Is there a representative from supervisor ronens office . [inaudible]. Supervisor safai i cant hear anything shes saying. Oh, no. How is this . Chair peskin much better. Thank you for allowing me to speak today. This item is a resolution supporting california state proposition 21, keep families in their homes, on the november 3 ballot. Prop 21, when passed, will significantly amend the california civil code section now known as the costa hawkins rental act and rename it to the rental affordability act. Specifically, what it would do is allow local governments to adopt local rent ordinances with exceptions for housing and condos owned by natural persons to own no more than two singlefamily units, and it would allow local governments to prohibit landlords from proposing more than 15 rent increases in one year in the city. While anecdotally, there are stories of rents dropping due to covid, the rents are still out of reach for many. A minimum wage employee would have to work 57 hours a week to cover average rent if they didnt spend a single penny on food or anything else. 44 of san franciscans are still spending more than 30 of their income on their rent, with a disproportionate amount of those being african americans. [inaudible] it has distorted our Housing Market into becoming just another commodity for corporate speculators [inaudible] longterm commitment and investment. Two years ago, this board formally endorsed proposition 10 through resolution offered by supervisor pesk kin. Prop 10 was disputed statewide after some of the nations largest rental corporations spent 60 million on a cynical and misleading ad campaign, but a majority of san franciscans voted in favor. The california secretary of state website reports that the California Apartment Association has already poured nearly 28 million into the californians for responsible housing measure. The measure is a balanced approach to allow cities the flexibility to consider local Community Housing needs and legislate appropriate protections. On behalf of supervisor ronen i ask you to support today to move it forward a Committee Report. Chair peskin thank you, miss bynard, for a thorough presentation. Supervisor preston i would just like to thank miss bynard for bringing this forward, and the resolution in support of thenproposition 10. I think its really i just want to add, you know, its very important that folks understand, when were dealing with these state measures, is all were seeking to do is takeoff the handcuffs that are, right now, on our city when it comes to addressing rising rents and a history of gentrification. Whether its the ellis act, costa hawkins act, things were created because of real estate special interests and significantly restrict us as policy makers in the city and county of San Francisco to extend protections to folks who are struggling. So weve seen that balance in the state and power give a little bit in the context of the pandemic, where we had seen the State Government willing to give us a little more power. San francisco peskin, you led on the commercial eviction protections, where the governor said in the pandemic, that as a city, we could do more than what we would be otherwise allowed to do. But i think this prop, proposition 21, really gets at the heart of not just whats going on in the pandemic, but beyond. Are we going to be able to protect folks from highrent evictions or not . And will we have the choice . And right now, that choice is made by the Renters Association and the State Government, and this would return the power to us so we can craft some protections. Its narrow in scope, as miss bynard pointed out, as there were fewer things that were controversial than in the former version. I just want to say i fully support this. I also hope the entire board sends a unanimous and strong message that we as a city are behind prop 21, and it will give us power to address those things. It does not dictate how we will address those powers. You can bet that ensuring protections for renters in San Francisco will have to come back through this committee with a full opportunity at Public Comment before those changes can be made. Chair peskin thank you for those comments, supervisor preston. Supervisor safai, anything that you would like to add . Supervisor safai yeah. Can we have a conversation at what happened at the state level and in that conversation . I think assembly man david chiu did something. And i think it would be good to get on the record the differences put out theres a little conversation put out, but whats different between previously and this time. The ballot went down in large part because there was a lack of understanding of how, talking about bringing rent control to singlefamily homes and how that played into a statewide conversation. I think thats removed this time, for sure. Supervisor preston talked a little bit about smaller Property Owners, but i think it would be good to get some of the main differences on the record and what was talked about at the state level. I know that the governor signed the ability to control rent statewide, but im sure that for many places, thats still not enough in peoples minds, so i just wanted to get that on the record, as well. Chair peskin thank you, supervisor safai. Before i turn it over to supervisor ronens aide, miss bynard, let me offer a few things. It gets into the state exemption over what has historically before the purview over local governments such as our own, and costa hawkins significantly changed that, and weve been struggling with that for a long time. What is profoundly frustrating about this is prop 10 did not need to be on the ballot, and prop 21 did not need to be on the ballots. Had the democratic assemblies not taken the steps to return these conversations to local governments because whats happening in San Francisco is very different than whats going on in fresno, and we all have to wrestle with that on a local level. This has been a profound failure by the state legislature because it is under so much pressure from lobbying. Even though we are still under democrat super majorities in both houses, they are still under pressure from the statewide rental industry. Yes, prop 10 did not succeed. Prop 21 has made some adjustments. I want to express some profound disappointment in the democratic majorities in both houses that have failed to actually made modifications to costa hawkins, which was enacted by the state ledge lay tou legislature, and they can amend to return power to the cities, if they want. With that, if you would like to respond, miss bynard, to supervisor safais questions, the floor is yours. I think the two that he brought up about the two described, those are already in the records. With record to assembly man chius a. B. 1482, a. B. 1482 limits the state increase in rent to inflation plus 5 , which is quite high. Its great for places that have none have no rent control, but its very high, and its very high controlled with San Franciscos rent control ordinance, so the potential, again, as supervisor preston was mentioning, what what the passage of prop 21 would do would be to allow this back to the local legislation process legislative process, and for this city and this board of supervisors to be looking at whats appropriate for this city and the rental market here, and not to defer to, you know, what has been kind of a safety valve for places that have no rent control but really is not the solution for San Francisco. Chair peskin thank you, miss bynard. Why dont we open this up to Public Comment. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. We have six listeners, with five in queue. If you can queue in the first caller . Yes. Im, quite frankly, appalled by this resolution. The board of supervisors, in my opinion, has no place here. If you want to support something on the ballot, go out and vote for it on november 3. You know, chair peskin was complaining not complaining, but pointing out that next weeks meeting is going to be, what, like five hours . Dont waste your time on resolutions that do absolutely nothing. You say that San Francisco supports this . You will see that on november 3. This is disgusting. I yield the rest of my time. Thank you. Chair peskin next speaker, please. I will not even waste my breath responding to that. Thank you. This is theresa flandrick, senior and disability action. I am calling in support of this resolution. We did vote on prop 10, and the majority of san franciscans did want and need this back then and need it even more so today. Again, having local control so that we can do what we need for our residents, for our city, just as other cities should have that same right. So i hope that all supervisors will support this unanimously . It is about time, so thank you so much for bringing this forward. The champions of actually taking care of san franciscans as well as the small Property Owners who are also san franciscans, i really like that that is part of this ordinanc,. So thank you again. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, chair peskin, vice chair safai, and supervisor preston. This is jeremy shaw, d5. I think this is a modest compromise solution to afford some rent control. As an aside, this title of this resolution is supporting keeping families in their home. Id like to point out that the chair has to the committee has to the call of the chair resolution [inaudible] and i would like to urge that you take that matter back up. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker. Supervisors, this is lorraine petty. [inaudible] im calling in support of this very important resolution. Im in support of [inaudible] keeping families in their homes. I think this is a fair and measured proposition. This extends to local jurisdicti jurisdictions the ability to craft protections and improve current protections for tenants. [inaudible] and in other loc e localities [inaudible] wildfires, lost incomes, the racial and social injustice, and particularly the effects of the rampant speculation and dislocation. Prop 21 goes a long way towards [inaudible] id also make a nod to the brilliant legal minds of [inaudible] thank you. Chair peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. This is anastasia ionnapoulos. Id like to ask every one of you to support this resolution. We need this throughout the state. This is fair to do to Property Owners, and i think the only people that are opposed to it are the big money people. Thank you for introducing this resolution. Chair peskin thank you. Are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on item number 3 . Clerk that concludes the queue, sir. Chair peskin seeing no other members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed, and i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation as a Committee Report for hearing tomorrow. On that item, madam clerk, a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call] clerk you have three ayes. Chair peskin all right. The item has been sent with recommendation as a Committee Report. Is there any more business before this committee . Clerk theres no further business. Chair peskin we are adjourned. [gavel] the time is 5 00 p. M. The ringing of cell phones, pagers, and similar devices can still have been virtually and is still prohibited. Please turn your devices off. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect commissioners, staff and members of the public, commission on the environments meeting room is closed. However, commissioners and Department Staff will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant of the statewide stay at home order and all proceeding and preceding orders, declarations and directives. Commissioners will attend the meeting during videoconference or by telephone if the meeting fails and participate into the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item. We are streaming the number at the top of the screen. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. Comments are opportunities or opportunities to speak are available by calling 4156550001 and entering access code 146047 0765. One connected, darla start three to be added to the cue. Best practices dial star three to be added to the cue. Speak slowly and clearly and turn down any other devices. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment by email to the Commission Affairs officer through email. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the commissioners and will be included as part of the official file. I will now call the role. Everyone [roll call] we have a quorum. Great, next agenda item, please. The next item is item number two, president s welcome. This item is for discussion. Hello, everybody. To everyone who came out tonight to this meeting on the commission on the environment, let me begin by sharing the best practices for this meeting. I will ask all of the members of the commission to you to yourself to minimize background noise. You will have to remember to unmute yourself to comment when its your turn to do so. You can also signify that you want to speak. You can raise your hand or you can use little hand raise thing in the right to signify when you want to comment. There is staff in the background who will be managing the technological functions during the meeting so we can switch from live presentation to whoever is speaking at the moment. We will ask everyone to be patient as they make this adjustment. This will be our third Virtual Commission meeting. Im excited to see we are getting more efficient and comfortable. We have returned to our regular schedule and we have an Upcoming Committee on october 21st. Our last meeting in july was memorable and we received more than 20 Public Comments. I think we can all agree the comments we received were taken to heart and we incorporated them into the letter that we signed on behalf of the commission and sent to the board of supervisors. The initial issue of natural gas could not be more timely because not only is it a second largest generator of a mission, but a huge threat to public safety. That connection to Climate Change and human health was on full display display last week. Now that the Electricity Supply is approaching zero emissions, eliminating natural gas is the next step forward for San Francisco. I am confident the board of supervisors will move this forward. We are seeing the effects of Climate Change all around us and now its time to act. Is there any Public Comment . Lets open a Public Comment for this item. Great. We will now open for Public Comment. I am going to share my screen with the comment information. If you would like to make a Public Comment please dial the phone number and follow the instructions on the screen. If you are on hold in the queue, please wait until its your turn to speak and we will just pause for a few seconds now to give everyone time to call in case anyone would like to make a comment on this item. It looks like we have one collar with their hand raised. You will need to unmute them. Great. Or you can make me host. I will unmute the collar and start my timer. Your time starts now. My name is susan with the plant society. Im a San Francisco resident and i appreciate everything the department is doing to help make us more Carbon Neutral and more resilient. The department of environment spearheaded the San Francisco biodiversity resolution and im hoping that will turn into [indiscernible] and every part of the city of San Francisco will plant only local native plants to support the biodiversity. With all the emphasis on carbon, please keep in mind we have additional disasters going on. Not just Climate Change. Not just the pandemic, but also biodiversity losses. There are hundreds of thousands of dead birds in new mexico, colorado and texas due to smoke from wildfires pushing them out of their migratory patterns. They died because they starved to death. We can see them, but we need to see them [indiscernible] please continue to push the rest of San Francisco to plant local San Francisco native plants. That concludes my comments. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I am seeing no other collars in the queue. We will now close Public Comment on this item. Okay. Thank you. Hearing no more callers, Public Comment is closed. Next agenda item, please . The next item is item three. Approval of the minutes of the 2020 commission on the environment meeting. The explanatory document is the 2020 draft minutes and this item is for discussion and action. Commissioners, does anyone have any discussion on the draft minutes . All right. Can i please hear a motion . Public comment, sorry. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes . I move to approve. Is there a second . I second. Is there any Public Comment . We will now open for Public Comment. I will put the comment instructions back on the screen. If youd like to make a Public Comment, press star three if you want to be added to the queue. Please wait until it is your turn to speak. We will pause briefly for anyone to join the queue. It appears nobody has raised their hand. Thank you. In that case, we will close Public Comment on this item. Okay. Seeing no more Public Comment, please call the role. Yes. [roll call] the motion passes. Next item, please. The next item on our agenda is item four, general Public Comment. Members of the comment on the public may address matters which are not on the agenda. With that, we will open once again for Public Comment. I will put the instructions back on the screen. Remember to press star three if you would like to be added to the queue. If you are already on hold, please wait until its your turn to speak. We will pause once more for anyone who like to call in. Nobody has joined the queue. Thank you. Thanks. Next item, please. The next item is item five. Presentation on the citys Economic Recovery Task force and the role for the environment in recovery environment. This item is for discussion. Would you like to introduce the item . Thank you. Tonight, or this time of year marks about six months of shelter in place due to the covid19 pandemic. I think we all remember that day in midmarch when the hammer dropped and the mayor decided that we would be the first city to institute a shelter in place. I dont think any of us had any idea how long it would be and we would be here six months later still with no specific end in sight. And we wanted to paint a bit of a picture for you on the commission in terms of the reality of the state of our economy and what some of the discussions have been around how we are going to both respond to the pandemic and put in place policies and programs that would help us recover from the pandemic. Right now, 54 of our storefronts have been closed. We have about 193,000 unemployment claims. When you think about it city of 800,000, 900,000 people, that is a big number. And, of course, no one on this call or this meeting knows what the future holds, but we as a commission and we as a department want to make sure that whatever that future is is not businesses usual. It is better than ever before. So when we are back to whatever normal is, we are looking through the lens of green and true sustainability. What we want to offer tonight are three views of San Francisco today and some of the voices that are at the table and thinking about how to mark that future, and then we will open it up to questions and a discussion among the commission to get your thinking about how we weave in environment sustainability, equity, as well as a resilience into these discussions. First you will hear from ted egan. He is the chief economist and the Controllers Office and he will give us the reality check on where we are. Then we will hear from heather green who works with [indiscernible] they did a pretty phenomenal effort with the Economic Recovery Task force. That task force was called for by the mayor and mayor and the board of supervisors, but was led by four remarkable people. That San Francisco assessor recorder, the treasurer treasurer, the president and c. E. O. Of the chamber of commerce, and the executive director of the San Francisco labor council. They are at the point now where there is a final report being produced that reflects some pretty heavy lifting and thinking and heather is going to let you know what is probably in that report, as well as what other aspects of the task force. Finally we will end with more shes executive director on the Business Council and Climate Change. Her members are the largest employers of San Francisco. You will get a perspective from the business community, from the larger city family, as well as the businesses working together on the task force, as well as a Controllers Office. We hope that by the end of those three presentations that you will have an idea of where we are and where we might go and then we will open it up for questions after all three speakers are finished. With that, i am so grateful that the three of these people, these incredible professionals said yes to being with us tonight and we will kick it off with ted egan from the Controllers Office. Take it away. Thank you, debbi. Good afternoon, commissioners. Im the chief economist and the Controllers Office. If youre not familiar with my role in the city, i run the office of Economic Analysis in the Controllers Office. We do legislative review of new legislation and we write economic reports on legislation before the board. We also help with the city understanding how the economy is doing and we make number of presentations like this across the city. Im happy to have this opportunity to present to you today. What i will do is share with you the current statistics on how the city is doing and also a perspective on where we are in this particular economic moment. This is not just a Public Health crisis. We are six months into the shutdown. We are also six months into an severe economic recession that will be with us after the Public Health emergency is over. It is also no ordinary recession because of covid. Its really the interaction between those things and the issues. I think they will shape the city s recovery and one of its major priorities coming out. Katie, if you can show the first slide. In april, when the Economic Statistics came out, it became clear that the United States had lost 10 years of job growth in one month. This is the San Francisco Metro Division equivalent of that. You could see we lost 175,000 jobs between march of a march and april of this year. That was really businesses being forced to shut down, people being laid off in that time. Despite the fact that we are still in a deep recession, we have had several months of Economic Growth since then. Since i put the slide together, last friday we got the august appointment statistics and they should moderate growth, and we are now at around 62,000 jobs were covered in the San Mateo County area after losing 175,000 we are roughly a third of the way back. Clearly the recovery, while steady for months and months, is not nearly as fast in a drop and it will take us some time, even if we have no further economic interactions and no further recurrence of the virus. That requires additional shutdowns. And we are still looking at a long recovery. Next slide, please. It is not simply that we lost jobs in San Francisco and our unemployment right went quickly from around 3 to about 12 . But the nature of this recession in San Francisco is we want certain types of jobs. And in particular, jobs that affect lowwage workers in the city. This is a chart of the Economic Situation in the city before the covid crisis. It shows the employment growth right of different injury industries in San Francisco for the five years through 2019, and that is the horizontal axis. The vertical axis is the wage. You can see that the higher up industries, the higher Wage Industries, information, tech activity, financial services, this is the professional services. They were both the highest wages sectors, but also the Fastest Growing sectors. On the other hand, its investors like retail trade, combination and Food Services, because of Age Education and health. And the primary source of employment for lowwage workers. Even before the covid crisis, we had this unbalanced pattern of growth in the city in which there were far more Job Opportunities for high skilled workers and low skilled workers. If we move onto the next page, we can see the covid crisis has exacerbated this. On this chart, the horizontal axis as a percentage of jobs that was lost between february and july of this year. The vertical axis is the same. The high wage industry lost between five to 10 of their jobs. The tech sector lost up to 10 . Some of the median wages sectors are doing job are doing fine. Construction is basically where it was before. Where you really see the loss is in lowwage sectors like the accommodation and Food Services, arts and entertainment and recreation services, and other services which include a lot of neighborhood services. I would put retail trade too onto as a category. These are low Wage Industries infant San Francisco that have been hit the hardest after already having the weakest job recovery in the last five years. It has exacerbated it. Next slide, please. Here is an example of this from not efficient not official government data. It is showing the annual change of the reservations. They are showing it in San Francisco and four other west coast cities. You can see late february and early march. Things were slowing down and then by the 3rd week of march, different cities have recovered two different extents. Of these cities, San Franciscos Restaurant Industry is doing the worst, at least by the standards of having seated desks. And all of all the cities that we have a tract on this, [indiscernible] that is partly due to our continuing limitation of indoor restaurant dining. Next slide, please. Another data source that we are looking at is data from mastercard, which is tracking Small Businesses in particular that use mastercard to process transactions. They work on a business by business basis and they know who was doing transactions and who is not. This is a map showing the percentage of accounts that were not showing any transactions in the last couple of weeks of july unfortunately, we dont have updated data on this. Were trying to get this from a thirdparty source. Its showing you that when things were quite bad in the middle of july, exactly the extent of the shutdown, at least a temporary shutdown across the city. Heavily concentrated. Next slide. We would also like to talk about transportation because i think transportation and the willingness to use certain types of transportation is going to shape the recession and recovery in a way they never have. This is the information from the county. It shows the average freeway speed in San Francisco in rush hour. We have seen big changes in that since the shutdown. Before the shutdown, the average rushhour in the afternoon in San Francisco and highway speed was about 25 miles an hour. That quickly went up to about 60 after the shutdown. As econ really economy gradually reopens, the congestion comes back. By last week, it was only about 10 faster than it was the week of the shutdown. If you had the experience driving, you may sometimes ask yourself, what shutdowns do we still have . It does seem that automobiles are more of a transportation mode of choice during the recovery that we have had in the reopening that we have had then it was prior. And another way you can see that on the next slide is by looking at the bart writers. They have really shown a much more limited recovery. Bart is still down between 80 and 90 compared to last year. The way i am reading this is traffic is back in transit is not back. That has environmental implications if it continues. And we dont expect it to continue forever. Its also a consequence of the fact that this is a recession that is not just leading people to lose their jobs and taking away, you know, there need to commute in some cases, but also it affects their psychology about using public spaces like transit. And the fact that there are more people driving and fewer people taking transit, so i think a consequence of where we are in the moment and in this recession next slide, please. I mentioned that the economy and Food Services sector was the hardest hit sector and also the biggest source of job loss at about 45 to 50 of jobs lost. About half of the hotels in San Francisco are not even open. The Hotel Occupancy is about 20 of what it normally is. The big reason for that is ridership for the San Francisco airport, which is down over 80 yearoveryear for domestic and over 90 for international. If we dont have people riding, travelling by plane to San Francisco, that will put a crimp into the market for hotels and the visitor spending that support so many other industries from transportation, to retail, to restaurants. Any of these are lowWage Industries. And this is a shutdown of tourism. It helps to contribute to the difficulty of many lowwage workers and also Small Businesses. Next slide, please. Finally, the last point that i would mention, and we are tracking this carefully and i am not sure what is underneath these numbers, but i think they are quite significant, is the Housing Market. This is the Apartment List which tracks listings in the city. San francisco is seeing the biggest drop of any big city in the country in terms of its asking price. The drop is accelerating from monthtomonth, even as the job starts recovering. I think it is an open question of trying to get the answer the best i can as to whether or not this is tech folks who can work at home and deciding they no longer need to move to San Francisco or want to move away from San Francisco, or how much this is caused by lowwage murk workers who are laid off and cant afford to live in the city this is not our data. Were getting this from thirdparty sources. We need to figure out more about what is actually going on. Its a little bit of both. But it is a worrying trend, particularly because its so much more dramatic. And just lastly, im trying to summarize with what i think are pretty big challenges for the city Going Forward of going through and out of this recession. I would say go to the next slide, please. The economic this is a deep recession. People are not expecting this until the end of next year. The g. D. P. Will be back to where it was until late 2020. [indiscernible] [please stand by] i would also put in this category many Small Businesses. Larger businesses may be able to handle going into hibernation. Theyre Small Business is their job and its difficult to be without businesses and workers to be without income. In the medium term, we can talk about the virus being abated and people being more open. The severe Tourism Industry [indiscernible] there is a primary source of job loss that we have had now. We dont have any reason to think that this wont be an attractive Tourist Destination and all the rest when people are willing to travel again. Its very important. For the longerterm issue, and the greatest uncertainty, is what of the future of the people who are working from home . They are burying the least of the burden of the shutdown, but they have a great role to play in the future of the economy. If it really is true what people are saying then there is less of a role for people and businesses to work remotely. That has got implications for the future of downtown or housing. We are going to be watching that very carefully. Before we get to that point is the transit ridership is a very vital thing for us to recover. We cant really get everyone back to work. We need people to take transit. That is another thing that will need to be brought back. Those are my comments on where we currently are in the economy. Thank you. I will jump in here. I am heather green. I am the director of planning. I have also been staffing the task force. I will be offering a little perspective about what that body has been up to and the ideas there. Next slide . We have already told you who is is leading the task force. I will note that we have a membership of over 100 Community Members. A combination of the larger players and also a ton of Small Business owners, Community Leaders and representatives and a very diverse body as well as to keep city executives and a handful supervisors as well. Next slide. A little of context. This is the kind of information that we have worked with the task force. This is our hospitalization data you can see we are writing a little bit of a roller coaster here. And we have this incremental job gain since april but the disease itself is not linear. We are seeing recurring issues there. There are gaps from when the city chose to close and when the state wouldve told us to do so. Even with that being ahead of the ball, we saw cases climb to the peaks that they did over the summer. We are having to be extremely responsive and the task force has got to offer guidance and expressed challenges in realtime meanwhile, next slide. We have been trying to Pay Attention to the populations most dramatically affected people. We spent a lot of time as a body thinking who is vulnerable to the effects of the disease and also as the economic repercussions. We need to Pay Attention to which sectors need the most help and which populations, again, noticing that there are low income earners. They are taking the largest hit when it comes to their jobs. You can imagine the value can go along with that. We want to make sure we are paying attention. This is the task force that is charged with providing the body to help the city sustain vulnerable businesses and unemployment. We have never really invented something quite like this. When we set out, you know, to be a task force body, we put them together the report and there was a very clear directive from Task Force Members across those Small Group Meetings with Task Force Members. There are challenges and it is the most imperative thing that the task force can do in the short term to facilitate a reopening and help the safety to do that. The task force dug in on that in may and june and you continue to see that work and as new guidance is released in the city his everchanging, [indiscernible] we are trying to follow along. In june, we got going on thinking about our strategies in this city and time with an end date coming up on october 8th. It has been drafting the report that we referred to with august and september. The task force set out i want to highlight that they wanted to deliver concrete and actionable recommendations for the city. There are also aspirations for longterm ideas, a place that we could not get as a body until longterm for the city. [indiscernible] i dont think it is a failing of the task force by any stretch. It speaks to the amount of work and ideas that is needed in the short and medium term. There is still work ahead on the longterm vision. This is by no means the last remark on our recovery. Its really just an opening. Next slide. This is about the community engagement. There has been a ton of outreach continuing. On the next slide, sentiments that we gathered from our Public Survey which gathered over 1,000 responses in the early summer. It is important we believe as a staff and a task force that it is important to hear through engagement like this so we remember that it is important to be culturally competent. Some populations are suffering in extraordinary ways. Im thinking about the disability community. We have heard a lot from Small Businesses. There is extraordinary pressure on them and some of the efforts that they are facing and the investments that we need to make in order to make a difference. Next. The task force itself works in four policy groups. Im thinking about jobs and businesses, the vulnerable populations, economic development, arts, culture, hospitality, an entertainment. The last one speaks to the last slide from ted that i love so much. We need to make sure we Pay Attention to the needs that people have. And the others line up with the condition of the task force itself. Here are some of the things we heard in comments across them. I will just say things like supporting businesses, affording Affordable Housing, thinking about our workforce [indiscernible] we heard the multiple times. We have been thinking of staff and the task force and integrated priority areas. You can see here the priorities that will be going through each of the strategies. You dont have to commit those to memory. Here are strategies around supporting businesses and organizations, making sure that Small Business can survive. As i mentioned before, acknowledging our needs to communicate clearly so businesses know the options available to them thinking about how to stimulate economic recovery. We hear a lot of clambering in our group. It is important to get the virus under control for the economic recovery to be sustainable, with these businesses are in danger of going under now. The strategy is getting people back so people can spend money at neighborhood businesses. Need to keep our foot on the gas is much as we can. It is a delicate balance. Here at the bottom is an important one. Keep on acknowledging that we need to invest in infrastructure San Francisco has such good rules on the books. Next slide. Thinking about our workers. We need to look at strategies about our workforce and Workforce Development and making sure that we have a Clear Pathway for people. And at the backbone of that, make sure people can go to work. And we needed childcare system that meets the needs of our workforce. Protecting in meeting basic needs. There are a couple of strategies with the third and the fourth. It is on the health and wellbeing of all, and especially in low income communities. If you look on the c. D. C. Website, for example, those who arent as high risk, it is a limited number of preexisting conditions. Department the department of Public Health in San Francisco acknowledges this is a vulnerability by demography and living conditions. [indiscernible] things like that and making sure we have trusted Community Members that people will trust and help deliver the equipment and protection that people need and help the environment to succeed under number of other basic needs to accomplish. This is a San Francisco document we will talk about housing. Ted has a slide about affordability that has been a challenge for the city. [indiscernible] [indiscernible] there are a lot of strategies here that are in the spirit of what San Francisco has been endeavouring endeavouring to do to make more Affordable Housing and prevent addictions and misplacement. There is an even greater urgency and even more room to Pay Attention to these things. [indiscernible] next. Pursuing Economic Justice is another one of our goals. [indiscernible] we are thinking about fines and fees and making sure the city does not push people are key people in a cycle of poverty. This is about the Digital Divide of that and seeking the extraordinary needs of the arts, culture, and hospitality sector. And trying to identify new Revenue Services so they can survive. We want them to make sure they dont expire through their time. We need to make these things easier to deliver. And we are continuing to plan collaboratively for San Franciscos future and related investments. [indiscernible] the Housing Element is off. There are so many efforts going on at the same time. We need to make sure we Work Together as a city to think about how we can deliver asked for the future of San Francisco. Next. This shows where we are at. We have brackets to report. It has been circulated to the task force for a short comment. I think that is my last. I will be here for the questions at the end. Many cities globally are taking steps to put together plans for bold recovery that prioritize the climate goals while building more equitable economies. I think that is a lot of what the conversation has been about today. On june of this year, we launched the Climate Smart recovery recovery initiative. I will talk about that today. I want to start by bringing in some of the things that our members are doing so you have some contacts before i dive in to this. I also want to say, is absolutely i have been talking to debbie about this. Its great that the task force is opening and making it possible. It is clear to me that when is the right time for that . It has been clear just listening from all of you that the time to focus right now is getting our city safely reopened as soon as possible. Maybe some of what i will talk about today is some next steps of opportunity for when the time is right. It isnt opening. There are a lot of techs that will come after that. Next slide, please. Its a little bit about our organization. I was invited to come and give a quick talk when i came on board a couple of years ago in 2018. It was a very long time ago now. The Business Council on Climate Change was founded in 2007. The department of environment put out the first very the very first Climate Action plan. They knew they couldnt do it alone. We are now a standalone standalone and nonprofit organization. The department of the environment is a member of our organization. Our members listed here are collectively employing more than 750,000 people. The representative within our membership that come to the table with us and come to our meetings and engage across companies are mainly the leading sustainability people at their organization. They are the ones that are setting Global Climate goals for the organization and they are the ones that need to figure out how to meet those goals. Very similar to the department of the environment and the work that they do. It is also a small and mighty team of three. Its how we work and how we operate. When he defined opportunities for these companies and organizations to work across companies and to work across sectors. The goal is we want to try and incubate and share ideas that have the potential to address Climate Change. That is our main mission. Next slide. So just two concrete examples of the collective action that we do with our membership. In 2019, a few of our members came together around the project and they joined forces to Purchase Renewable Energy together. It is a virtual power purchase agreement. It is a technical solar term. Is the first time that multiple companies of moderate sizes had come together on a large deal together. They all signed the same contract. Their lawyers all worked together. It was a really heavy lift. They purchased 42 megawatts of a farm together collectively. In doing so, they created a blueprint for how other companies could join forces and make a bigger impact and offset their footprint, but also get more energy out. And another example is to create a pilot grant. They were testing out the issues the goal is overtime that there might be a carbon market. They are trying to make that happen. It is very early stages. Early days are messy. Our members got together to fund the research. They are trying to send a signal to say that if the market can figure those out, then we have funds to buy these. We are still tracking that market. Members are still interested in that question and the opportunity for this in the marketplace. Next slide. Many of our Member Companies have set ambitious climate goals many of you are engaged in the Climate Action summit that happened in 2018. If you have argues that a big goal, guess what, jury brown was trying to tell you that not everyone was big enough. They are hosting a lot of great events during that. It really did help elevate the ambition. I think it is a great example of saying, we dont know how we will do it, but the goals need to be bigger. They need to be more ambitious. That coming together will get a lot of our companies. It is. Pressure. Many of our members are already doing this. A lot of them are talking about trying to find strategies to deal with their legacy emissions they are looking backwards. Some of them are doing big efforts on that front. A handful of our companies have already instituted internal Carbon Pricing mechanisms so they can help to regulate the emissions from different business departments within the company, but also they are charging those departments. They have a budget to play with. Which is really interesting. If youre talking but a big company like google or microsoft , that carbon budget is substantial enough. What could we invest in with the funds we are generating . There is a lot of creativity involved. Google Just Announced last week that they will be investing 5. 7 billion as part of their new third decade investment. Theyre investing in technology and other solutions to invest in carbon. Next slide. This is the most interesting slide in my personal opinion. There arent that many examples right now in the corporate space there are a few inspiring and exciting. There was a huge announcement many months ago. They talking about 50 times over the next 30 years. Some companies are coming forward and making gigantic commitments that they dont know how to meet. They think it is really exciting two examples of this are these two companies that have set 2030 goals, which is less than 10 years from now. They Just Announced it again last week. They are trying to get to operating on what what they are calling 24 7 Carbon Free Energy by 2030. I barely know what that means. I couldnt tell you what that means. You could google it. You should google this term. If they figure it out in 10 years, it will be a game changer for safe companies, utilities, so that is super exciting for me they could have a roadmap of ideas. They will problemsolving over the next decade. It will be potentially transforming of the space. I want to highlight that lincoln and microsoft are going carbon negative. Lincoln is a company of microsoft now. They have committed to going carbon negative by 2030. Which means they will deal with all the legacy emissions. And all those emissions, they will be spending that Million Dollars and trying to get the markets going. I will be really excited to launch these over time. We have these numbers sharing with each other. What could they learn from each other over this. They have conversations a lot over Carbon Pricing and how to make it most effective. Members who are just launching these in the organization can talk about talk to microsoft and skip over the first five years of pain. There is no more time to work independently anymore. Next slide. I think, speaking of this, we talked about this meeting today earlier. Now is the time for bold action. Everyone here is experienced. The day the sunshine didnt fully come out [indiscernible] my sincere hope is that locally we have support for the masses but we will start doing things that we dont know how to do. We launched our Climate Smart recovery initiative. Next slide. I dont think i need to tell you all, but as a reminder, everything about the way we live and work is different. Planes are grounded. The percentage of people taking air flights, there are companies that have multibilliondollar multi milliondollar trial budgets. Those budgets are not being used for Airline Travel anymore. These companies are actually thinking like they are saying things like, find a way to not dip to air travel at 60 . They are challenging teams to plan now for when they get into recovery and how to keep emissions though. A lot of interesting conversations are happening in the company right now. This has an impact on the future of cities. Next slide. We are seeing a way of them to demonstrate this and calling for racial justice. What a moment we are living in. From my seat and the conversations we have been having, it is really interesting it is interesting that the word of systemic change, racial justice, intersectionality. I see these words every week. Everyone is grappling with the interconnectedness of it all. And the people who used to just sit in the silo of sustainability are now being asked, what is working . They are trying to figure it out they need to answer those questions and they are coming up with new ideas and proposals telling that. Conversations are happening at that level. But i think we know its his it is really hard. Dont try this at home by yourself. We cannot do it alone. Next slide. This gets into the future that we envision. We had it all sink for couple of minutes of what comes to mind. They just shared openly with popcorn words. Its really interesting what people were sharing. We cannot just start planning the way that we plan. We have to do everything differently. This is the great resizing. We need to do it in a more equitable manner. Ultimately, with our recovery initiative, our membership and the practitioners believe it is economic recovery that moves it towards our broader plan goals. We need to build a more resilient economy. In addition it will improve the health and quality of life. That is our belief. Its one of the cooler things that we are hoping as we move forward with the recovery initiative. The real question is, what is that future that we are envisioning and are we ready to start the process of designing it . For the next great disaster, its not the best time. They need to get back to that place. It is a space between this disaster is it will be another bookend. There will be a magic space for disasters where we have the ability to do the longterm envisioning and planning together. That is why starting these conversations now as we start to get our feedback on the ground, now is the time in between for the next disaster. Next slide. The good news here, and i just want to say, props. Early on this year they came out with their principles for covid19 recovery. And tonnes of mayors across the globe signed onto this. Im really proud of the mayor and excited that she planned on early on. It shows her courage to be part of this as it moves forward. These are the principles when they release them, but they can help accelerate economic recovery. It will drive wider benefits for everyone. Next slide. In terms of the Climate Smart recovery initiative, we have really launched this and these two tracks. We need to show up for our members right now. They are in crisis. They already have big jobs in their world to achieve through ambitious and bold climate goals they were struggling in their own silos. It is its our work to help them meet their climate goals. We have these added pressures of figuring out the intersectionality. The first track for the initiative is to bring members together. We need to show up for San Francisco. That is the other big part of the initiative. How can our membership work collaboratively with the city . With the Economic Task force and what will come out of that . How can these be recovered . Thats why i want to talk about this at the end here. We have hosted three forms. We held a forum on zero waste and covid. There are tonnes of questions if you are all aware. We had a big discussion with people around that. We pull together a lot of resources from the Member Companies themselves so folks can have the tools they need. Thank you to ted for participating. [indiscernible] in addition to these forums, we signed onto a letter of support for recovery pathway Feasibility Study to evaluate a temporary emergency bike lane on the bridge. We are gauging the ways to support studies being done to look at ways to get people back to work in cars. We also have a strong Employment Engagement platform. We watched it in january of this year before everyone went home to work forever for the shortterm. We have a tool and a manager who is running this with our members to reach these employees out there. We are in the middle of our campaign and looking to get those out to our Member Companies. The Campaign Encourages adoption of residential solar and battery that has opened it up. We are testing out a campaign this year to show clean energy across our members to get the word out to our employees to encourage them to ask us about clean energy right now. Maybe hopefully to offset the energy while working from home. They also trying to find ways to find ways for the companies to work from home. Can they also encourage [indiscernible] the companies create things like take your health and wellness benefits because people are not going to the gym. They say you could use that 500 this year to go towards a battery for your home or solar system or an air purifier. We are looking at trying to have them do these things in the shortterm that will make a difference for employees, but also for our grid. Those are some of the things we are working on. In general, we have the membership. The companies are committing to doing these three key things. They will pursue these strategies. We want to share out is much as we can with businesses of all sizes and what is working. We also commit to collaborating and identify Climate Smart recovery opportunities when the time is right. When the time is right, we would invite any and all ideas to bring this to the table. And finally, members are working closely with the city to address the impact and the opportunity of this changing workplace. There will be economic impacts, but huge emissions impacts of all of these decisions a company has made over the next six to 12 , to 24 months. And how many people will go back to work. Workforce shifts and impacts on the local economy so our members are interested and concerned in the transportation issue as i am sure you all can imagine. They are curious and want to be part of the experience. [indiscernible] there might be away locally. Many of these companies are headquartered in San Francisco. Theres a lot of interesting conversation to have as we move forward. In addition, i will wrap up by saying that we have been in touch. Thank you for your generous time we are also in touch with the Governors Task force. They have a committee on climate as part of the task force. Were looking for opportunities to convene when the time is right. In closing, we are all ears. If anyone is a commissioner [indiscernible] we want to have small conversations about opportunities to collaborate. We can help with that. [indiscernible] we are all ears for any ideas. Next slide. This is my contact information. I want to thank everyone. Thank you so much for that. It was really informative and fantastic. Every time i get to hear the smart folks in our public bodies and in our partners and the work that they are doing, im constantly proud to live in the city and be part of these organizations and the different people who are thinking about these important questions. I am sure the question commissioners probably have questions. I will take a look over at the hand raising list. Lets take advantage of the time that we have while these people are here for questions. Go ahead. Commissioner sullivan . I need to unmute myself. A couple of observations. One is that i have been pleasantly surprised at some of the changes that cobit has forced on us from this perspective and how it relates to the environment. With the shared spaces, it has been a big success. I find myself walking to my local restaurants as opposed to driving to other places. There is a new bike lane along the street next to the panhandle that happened with very little fanfare and very little process. And the old days, most of these things would have taken years of process and a few meetings. They happened quickly because of emergency powers. Maybe we can learn from that and we can make some of these things permanent. And the Second Thought i had is we have all been talking about how on a global level, emissions are down this year. Is a little bit of a silver lining. Emissions are down. And curious to see if the city can calculate the impact of the pandemic on San Francisco to see how we are doing. Those are my thoughts. This is my very myopic worldview. Do we see it in a largescale, or are we seeing a trend in that direction . Its a great question. The information that we are getting at this point largely is anecdotal. There is a lot of concern from cities like new york and others. You are seeing a temporary outflow. The Housing Market in the bay area is showing a great deal of weakness in the city. The brokers i am hearing from is that people are looking at who would ordinarily bought. People are looking at the suburbs. The marketing of real estate is showing the advantage of low density [indiscernible] whether or not this is real or worth focusing on [indiscernible] i think it is an open question. Im not worried about the people moving to the suburbs as i am with people moving to they are not going to come back. It has always been true that companies and jobs and people have effectively priced out of San Francisco and have moved to lower cost locations. If we see that supercharged, because this moment in technology, and the virus, and peoples psychology means it is a longerterm shot for the city s economy. The only piece of information comes from [indiscernible] they are tracking people who are searching for apartments, which they summed up on the website. They are suggesting that what we are seeing is nobody is moving to San Francisco as opposed to everyone is moving out of San Francisco. That also makes sense because as recently as 2019, for example, the Tech Industry and employment in San Francisco went down 10 . If that flow stops, it will look like a big slowdown in the rental market. It is slightly better than anecdotal. I am eager to learn more about this. You read stories from the work at home people who are casting off the shackles of living in San Francisco. And year or two ago, you are seeing people who are living in San Francisco. I frankly worry more about so low income workers. They dont have the access to draw on this to pay rent. [indiscernible] thank you. How are they inserting themselves into these conversations . This is part of the reason i want to get this topic to you because i would like it to be a collective brain form on all of these parts in the various ways we insert ourselves. The department is involved in two levels. One is in the work we do and making sure that our that we are thinking about economic recovery in our work. So whether it is focusing Energy Efficiency work and a Small Grant Program 20 waste, to Small Businesses and focusing our energy laser on the Small Businesses that are hurt the most and supporting the nail salon so that one so when they are ready to open, we make it easier for them to reopen. The other area we are participating in is a larger discussion area. That falls to me mostly. I was appointed to the Economic Recovery Task force. I was one of the executives that heather talked about and was on working groups. It has been a phenomenally useful experience for me because i got to be on working groups with people who i never would interact with and others that i didnt know that doing so now i do know. The president of the Small Business commission and i were on a working group together and now we are working together. Heather and i have had long talks about and same with professor chiu and i, about how we what is the right way that was fascinating. Sorry. We have had long discussions about the difference between the medium and short term that is happening now and the longrange of how we insert the green. What came out of it for me was what heather was saying to all of you that it isnt a shortcoming of the Economic Recovery Task force. It is a sign of what the members and where their heads are at. So the question then becomes, how do we make sure that sustainability is part of those longrange discussions . Where are those happening now . Theyre happening there happening in a number of places. There is the Housing Element of the general plan. Its an interesting moment for this commission to be thinking about how we dont do land use as a commission. There is a bright line there. Yet there is a big discussion in the Housing Element on resiliency and sustainability, as well as affordability and types of housing and the amount of housing. Our ears are open. We are looking for ways to insert and be part of the conversation. I would say, honestly, i havent found a good entry point yet. I wanted tonight to be with you and it be a launching of that. I ask is all of you commissioners [indiscernible]. [please stand by]. In a way, its a covid specific task force and so on, but, like, the challenge or the question on the floor is how best actually compel action, and talk about this sometimes, and i think theres a couple ways, but to me, like, you never get an argument in a San Francisco body that we should do whats good for the environment. So they have, like, such consensus in that way that perhaps its understated. But that doesnt mean that people disagree with the importance of the measure. I think to me, far more powerful than any individual strategy like, the c40 sign on, for example. Its a pledge, like, a pledge of ambitious desire, but the teeth comes in the local legislation, so all the work that debbie and the team do and that you do here to set the rules about what San Francisco can build, like, thats the leverage, and so and to be clear, you know, theres a lot of concern about how hard it is and how extensive it is to build in San Francisco. And in my capital planning, like, this is something we run up against all the time. Like, you want to build the best and greenest project that you can, but if it seems like its going to cost more, it might even pencil in savings over time. Daytoday, theres always limited resources, certainly, from a local level. But the rules are the rules, and to the extent that the rules can, you know, still facilitate the building that we need to deliver now, especially for stimulus, with that building being green, its going to get you so much farther, i believe, that, you know, articulating the call for this or that project which were all having political battles about it. So i just want to hope to instill im sure you already have it, but the call to the legislation that guides what we do, is really helpful, i think, for our collective priorities here. Yeah, thank you. I have been i just came out of a big planning process for the company that i work for, and we sat down for days, looking at, like, what do we want to do. These Companies Come up with these, like, plans for, like, this big, hairy, audicious goal. And you dont have the money and the resources to get there, and then, you have the money and the resources right now, and its a boat of a process to say, heres what we need to do, and what were supposed to be doing right now, always with the goal of working toward. Thats what im hoping we can do through this process is say, this is a brave new world were doing, for good and bad, and commissioner made reference to ways that our world is changing. I left town to visit a sick relative, and when i came back, the city is covered with parklets, and things that we would not ever have been able to get rid of. But now, theres outside dining and things that have changed the fabric of a piece of our city, like, you know, across town. I think that we can do both. I think that we can say this is our big, big goal of how we want to transform our recovery, and we can build the city back better, at the same time while we can say we can help the people at the same time that need help with those things, and i hope my fellow commissioners can help me come up with the big thing that we can tack on the board and say, this is what the city looks like in ten more years because thats what we have, is climate concerns that have to happen now. So any way. Commissioners, any other thoughts or questions . Debbie . Thanks. Sorry. I saw commissioner ahn had his hand up. This is a question to heather. So in terms of next steps, this the report, which i have read the draft of, which is really well written and easy to follow and such a wonderful reflection of all this brainstorming and good work on these hundreds of people has behind it just a whole list of suggestions, where, i dont know, just 100 ideas. And its how do we make this report not stay on the shelf . I mean, thats my question. How do we how do we pick things off, or what will it take to take some of these ideas and make them real . Thats the thing that worries me right now. Heather, youre on mute. Sorry. Hi. A little bit, well look to leadership, right . The mayor and the board president convened this body, and i think its reasonable to expect to hear from them for next steps. Like, when i said this report and this body is an opening, its also important to note that its not comprehensive, so ted shared the mobility data and the transit data with our group, but our group really didnt tackle transportation, for example. Theres another group thats working in the city on transportation and response and the m. T. A. Is already thinking about recovery. We had jeff tumlin present to us, but this body didnt tackle that, like, the downtown cant recover and our city as a whole cant recover unless people feel safe using transit. So i just wanted to give something on youth and families and the Community Hubs that youve probably read about. Like, theres a whole weve heard and read about that information, but there is a whole effort there on homelessness and essential government function. Like, theres a lot of groups. I love the report, too, but i think its a piece of the pie, and i think its really important that our city stakeholders, you know, Pay Attention in the months ahead and look to see how the mayor and our board weave together those various facets of recovery planning, of which this is one component. There are so many, and to see how to look that balls like that dont get dropped. I wouldnt expect that they would. Thats one piece of it to see on which exactly pieces get picked up as priority from that leadership perspective. And then, you know, i think it happens often in government and augments things and that last thing, i was trying to hurry through, and still spent way too long. The one that we acknowledge the various processes that exist, including the climate plan, the budget plan, those are places where decisions get made. And ill just say, the legislation that goes along with them are so important. For the public space reuse is such a visible part of what were doing, continuing to communicate with your electives and so forth about how you like it, and that its a good idea, but that you may have seen the article of being able to, like, for a single commenter like, the ceqa problem, where a single commenter can obstruct a whole project on the street. M. T. A. Has a whole slate of closed streets that they want to open, but its held up. And so keeping your eye on those on those movements through the board and expressing your support for things that you want to see, i think, remains, you know it is in some ways business as usual, but, you know, its no less important but then, those processes. And then, for the part about articulating like, in the 40 goals, we cant return to business as usual. I ju like, all of our documents already say that and, like, all of our legislation already pushing us there, and that will be the work of the c. A. P. And i dont mean to diminish it but its, like, youre doing youre doing the work, and i dont know exactly what the future holds in terms of how the mayor will, like, articulate a recovery task. I know the task force that im staffing will be a part of it, but i wouldnt expect it to be the whole picture, and so, you know, just a little bit of a waitandsee how she activates it. I think that all city processes are going to be a part of this for the foreseeable future until were where we want to be, and yes, demanding that vision is going to be the whole thing to do. I think its hard to start from such a high peak. Like, the full employment numbers i dont know if you think youll get back to where we were. Those are spheric low unemployment numbers, and so its something we have to Pay Attention to [inaudible] theres a lot of questions ahead. Thank you. Commissioner ahn, i know you had a question. I wanted to make sure that we got to you. Sure. I just had a question for [inaudible] really appreciate you taking the time to present today. The question is i heard mention that a lot of the stories, for instance, are anecdotal. Were waiting on new trends or data reports. Could you clarify which data reports or trends we could look forward to for future followup . Specifically to the migration. The 2000 census was going on at the start of the shutdown period, and thats a question where you ask people where you live now and sent to your address where you lived a year ago, so that will start to show migration behavior, and were not going to get that until 2021 or 2022. Another source of information that we get is the i. R. S. The i. R. S. Looks at the zip code which you filed your taxes and the zip code that you filed your taxes last year and creates countytocounty migration charts that way. Realistically, the migration is still happening, at least thats what the housing data is telling us, and so we wont really know until next years census and maybe next years i. R. S. Input which will lead to data a year or two after that. So i think from the point of view from official statistics, were going to get a picture of this that gets clearer and clearer over the next few years. The things that will get more timely are things that reflect population. So for example, when b. A. R. T. Starts up and how many people are riding b. A. R. T. , thats going to be a good indication of how many people are working in San Francisco. Its better than doing a survey, whereas b. A. R. T. Is counting everyone. So i think its going to be good to see what we can do creatively with anecdotal lore because well be waiting a year or two for the whole story. Thank you. Commissioner wald . Thank you. I just wanted to tie together what laura was saying, and you, chair stephenson about sort of the big, Ambitious Goals, and what heather was saying about the importance of San Franciscos legislative goals and fundamental rules that we have. And it seems to me that this might be an appropriate question at an appropriate point in time to question whether or not our goals, our environmental goals are, impact, actually bold enough. Is this, in other words, a time in which we ought to push forward some of our transit and other goals because we have because we have the opportunity, number one, because were doing this kind of planning, but because the consequences of pushing forward those goals in some cases will be increased jobs, increased benefits, helping those people who need it the most. So i would encourage you, debbie, to at least spend a little while figuring out whether or not we really ought to say, you know i, of course, cannot think at this moment of an appropriate example, but whether or not we want to have even boulder, even more Ambitious Goals that would help us move forward from from this particular moment in time to a future that is more in line with the one that i [inaudible] believe in and want to see. Ill second that. I like that. Anyone else have any questions or comments on the commission . All right. Lets open it up for Public Comment. I want to thank everyone for your presentation. I appreciate your attention to detail and patience as we wait till the end to ask questions. I think well probably have more as time goes on, and i think at this time we should open it up for Public Comment. Yes. So we can open it up for Public Comment regarding this agenda item. Im going to put the instructions back up on the screen. That didnt work, did it . Okay. So the instructions are now up on the screen. If you would like to call in to make a Public Comment, please make sure to press star, three to be added to the queue. If you make a Public Comment, you will have three minutes, and please wait until it is your turn to speak. Give me one second, and ill check the queue. I do see we have one caller in the queue, so i will start your time, and i will unmute you now. Hi. This is susan from the California Native Plants Society and im a San Francisco resident. The United States faces simultaneous threats exacerbated by a pandemic related economic crisis. Unfortunately, we must address all of these crises at the same time to survive. Please include biodiversity in the conversation so the climate and the city can build back better. This pandemic has exposed how important our green spaces are to our Mental Health as well as our physical health. 68 of San Francisco is paved and built on. Every bit of green space and every bit of tree we plant matters. Every plant the city installs should be 100 local native plants. Consider replacing some of our carbon emitting golf courses with childrens playgrounds, dog parks, bike trails, and running trails to offer a wider variety of ways to be outside for San Francisco residents. Thinking larger, companies to invest in home solar and batteries is a wonderful idea. Would companies consider consider some of this wellness funding for employees to plant green spaces at home . Seeing a reduction in numbers in varieties of butterflies and birds here in San Francisco is evidence that we are losing the biodiversity that is the foundation of our health, our air quality, our water quality, and our food web. Please include biodiversity in our city and corporate plans to allow us to build back better together. That concludes my comments. Thank you f comments. [inaudible] under the environment code, the department maintains a reduced list pesti cried list that may be used on city property, with restriction. The support is dr. Debra raphael, direct raphael, the sponsor is dr. Deborah raphael, director, and the speaker is dr. Chris gieger, integrated Pest Management program manager. Pandemic, fires, recessions, these are things that are holding our attention right now in a riveting way, but the citys work goes on, and the commissions work goes on, and every year, the city takes a look at at the use of pes pesticides on those areas. The report that the Committee Looked at was in 2019 and ended at the end of 2019, but of course everyone on the policy committee was interested in how covid impacted our Pesticide Use. At this point, you will be hearing from chris a summary a very quick summary of what has happened in 2019 because the policy Committee Heard a very detailed presentation about not only the [inaudible] of 2019 but also what was happening as opposed to covid, what some of the challenges are, what some of resilient requirements were for our land managers. And so with that, i will have chris present his abbreviated version of the presentation he gave at policy committee, and then, we will ask you to weighin. Chris . Thank you, director, and thank you, commissioners. This makes me proud to be working for local government at this critical time. Im going to be abbreviating as much as i can. This is an annual ritual, an annual function that we do. This reduced list pesticide list. The background, i think you guys have all heard this before. We will discuss activities that debbie mentioned through the present, not just through 2019, give you a brief summary of the trends of 2019 and then our recommendations. Integrated Pest Management is a Decision Making process. It is one that values nonchemical and nondisruptive techniques most highly and saved pesticides and disruptive techniques as a last resort. We like to live at the base of this pyramid with emphasis on prevention. The ordinance itself, as you may remember, requires an approach on all City Properties. The pesticides have to be on this list to be used on City Properties unless there is an exemption granted by our department. It includes posting and Record Keeping requirements, requires compliance of contractors and also includes an annual public hearing requirement which we had beginning of august, and that is a chance for us to talk to members of the community about what city staff do in their Landscape Management and structural Pest Management activities and also to hear about community concerns. The very briefest of background, we do screen every pesticide that goes onto this list. We have a three tier hazard screening system. Tier one is what we consider to be the most hazardous, tier three, the least hazardous. We rely extensively on training. That is really one of the hearts of, i think the heart of the program is extensive training, and we have meetings every month with speakers, almost every month, as well as spring trainings where 300, 400 people are typically trained in those events. Those were cut a little bit short by covid this year. We got most of them in before the curtain fell. Some of the activities from this past year, we continued with our Pilot Testing of safer herbicides. Its been a high priority since round up became categorized as a probable carcinogen. Theyre one that were looking at based clove oil and takes that matter into the plant tissue, ways to tikill plants the roots, so there is a lot of progress with that. Weve been looking at a rat contraceptive as opposed to baits. We are continuing these activities at rec park and also at pier 96. Weve continued our work with pest prevention in Affordable Housing. We won a grant last year with department of pesticide regulation to follow up on our previous work in Affordable Housing, and we did get a fair weve got all of our external designs and interview forums and lined up our partners just at the point where covid happened. So part of that is on hold. Were going to proceed with some of the interviews that are involved in that study and then wait for the chance to get into these lowincome Housing Units to check on the success of pest preventative design measures that were installed there. We also began to roll out we completed a new product that ive spoken about before. Our pest prevention and landscape guidelines. These were the product of a very dedicated working group, multiagency working group, including a couple of people out of state, and it is Available Online as a downloadable document, also as a database that can be searched. Were very proud of that. Right exactly at the time when we were going to do a formal rollout, thats when covid happened, and so we are now going through other avenues to get the word out about this and keep the Public Document about reducing the needs for herbicides and creating a healthier environment. We also completed another big project this year, a brandnew pesticide reporting database. This is where we record all pesticides used on City Properties. The old one has been troublesome for many years. This one promises to be a lot more streamlined and trouble free, and it was rolled out september 1. Rolling over to pesticide trends. The news is mostly good for 2019, and i based on what we heard at the Commission Policy Committee Meeting, i will expect some increase in herbicide use in 2020. Dont know exactly how much yet, but based on staff reductions, and based on the changing patterns of use and actually, a lack of volunteer labor to do some of the weeding that typically happens in the parks, there are thousands of people that help with that. So nevertheless, we actually had an improvement in our main metric, which is tier one, or highest hazard pesticides within the city limits. Last year, it was about a 96 reduction since 2010. For this year, its 97. 9 reduction, so that is a good indicator. Mind you, were already at pretty low levels, so we expect that to dump around. Its been an 83 reduction since 2015, which is when the roundup determination was made, and a 22. 8 reduction since last year. Now some departments have a little more, and some a little less, so the story varies. We are continue to listen to public concerns, and these are some of the typical ones. We didnt have a lot of Public Comment this year during the public hearing or during the Commission Meeting. What we have been hearing all along are these sort of varying comments. Some people who are very interested in preserving biodiversity and want more Pesticide Use, some people who believe that biodiversity does not warrant the use of herbicides and feel that herbicides should never be used on City Properties. Our goal was to strike a balance on these feelings and issues and also to follow our commitments to reduce the use of chemicals. So im going to summarize the proposed product changes for this years reduced risk product list pesticide list. Its very, very few changes this time, and i consider that a good sign. I think the herbicide restrictions that we spent to much time on in the previous four years, i think have settled into a workable document that people are using. So there are no recommendations for changes to our herbicides restrictions document. And for the products themselves, we have added one product, which is that rat contraceptive that i mentioned, the contra pest, and then, we have added a tier one product, t the tier three product. The contra pest is a tier one product. We did updates on 18 products. Those are mostly administrative changes. I think we did increase the restrictions on a smoke bomb that is sometimes used for rodent burrows, but that is administrative changes. That is what youd see in your packet. I did go through that fast, but we do have a related item to this following on a rat control product a dry ice rat control product. Were going to treat that separately, and i am happy to answer any questions you might have about this years list. Thanks, chris. Commissioners, any questions . I know that the policy committee is already deeply aware of everything on the list. Eddie, is there anything that you want to say about the policies, experience, or anything that you want to say as we go into the vote . No, not for this particular item. I do think that the rat ice item will be interesting to discuss, though. Commissioner stephenson, i have one question. I dont know why i didnt think about this during committee. The question is about weed slayer, i think even though were adding a substance to the list, were doing it for good reason, and hopefully, it will work to replace [inaudible]. Are other places using this around the country and is there the possibility of getting data from those other places . Good question. The answer is yes. Other jurisdictions for example, Presidio Trust did some informal Pilot Testing. Marin county, and also, rec and park, and some promising results. Its difficult to tell what it can replace in what situation at this point, and i discussed that im very skeptical at this product. Its not a registered f. D. A. Product, its an exempt product, but cant argue with results, so were hopeful on this one. Thank you, chris. Commissioner wald . Thank you. I just want to make the following observation in light of the fact that this is my umptyumpth time to vote on this list. What were looking at here is not just data that documents how the use of pesticides has declined so very dramatically in the city and county of San Francisco, but that what that reflects is something thats sort of implicit in what chris talks about, but it represents real and dramatic change in the culture of city agencies in how they think about using pesti sides and what they do to not use them. Esticides and what they do to not use them. I think its something that everyone, including chris geiger, should be incredibly proud of. Its great what the department has managed to accomplish [inaudible] we started this. We should all feel a real sense of accomplishments about what has happened and how it has happened and think about, you know, really how hard it is to change agency cultures and what an incredibly promising and meaningful change has occurred here. Thank you. Any other questions or comments by commissioners . All right. Lets go to Public Comment, katie. Okay. Ill open it up for Public Comment. Ill put the instructions back up on the screen. So if you would like to make Public Comment on this agenda item, please follow the directions on the screen and press star, three to be added to the queue. If you are already in the queue, please wait until it is your turn to speak, and you will have three minutes to make comment. I do see that we have one call in the queue, and i will unmute you now. Can you hear me now . Yes. Its david pillpow. Good evening, greetings. Sorry. Ive been busy with other projects. I still care very much about the commission and the department. I support the continued efforts to reduce Pesticide Use and transition to less toxic alternatives. Commissioner wall commissioner wald already talked about the long road to changing culture over time in the city. Were really talking about dry ice as an alternative and rat contraception . Okay. Its well, its 2020, so i guess anythings possible, and hopefully, the Supreme Court over time will not ban rat contraception as being a problem. So i want to conclude by saying i support chris geigers efforts, and i support your anticipated action to approve the reduced risk pesticide list for this year. Thanks very much. Thank you for your comment. And president stephenson, im seeing no other callers in the queue. Okay. Seeing none, lets move to a vote or actually, do i hear a motion to hold on. Im just going to hear a motion to pass resolution 2020003coe adopting the 2020 reduced risk pes pesticide list for City Properties . I have a motion, and a second. Lets move to the roll call, please. [roll call] motion passes. And i just want to always thank the policy committee for the work that they do, and chris and your team for the hard, hard work that you do almost every single year. All right. The next item, please, katie. All right. The next item is item 7, discussion and vote on whether the commission should send letters to bell laboratories to support distribution of its rat control alternative practiced and to the e. P. A. To support a variance to allow dry ice to be used as a pesti cried. The sponsor is deborah raphael, director, and the speaker is chris geiger, integrated Pest Management program manager. So i guess all i can say, how many commissions are jealous that they dont have an item called rat ice. Its an exciting project for us here. Its an interesting story that chris will share a little bit with you that the policy found quite ironic and compelling and a need to weighin. So while it sounds odd, i think its indicative of the plight that we have to get alternatives onto the marketplace, especially when it comes to dealing with the e. P. A. And the very restrictive pesticide requirements. So with that, i will let chris describe the details. Thank you, debbie. Can i share the screen, katie . So while im getting the screen up oh, here we go. Slowly Getting Better at this. So the the the brief, brief, brief story the brief version of the story, for many decades, actually, many decades ago, people used to use dry ice to control rodents. You basically put it in their burrows, and it kills it by asphyxiation. It has no secondary impacts as long as theres no other animals living in the burrows. You use gloves to apply it. Did you want the slide is on Public Comment. Did you want to sorry. Oh, dear. There we go. So there was a lot of Movement Towards finding a way to use dry ice and to use it legally because it was already known to be fairly effective for this particular kind of control if the e. P. A. Made a statement saying no, its not legal. You cant use it, and we found a way to use it legally by creating a what you call an exempt product that uses the dry ice, and we had that approved by department of pesticide regulation. We were able to, during the twomonth period when it was legal for us, to do some Pilot Testing and confirm, yes, its pretty effective. We tried it at portsmouth square with some promising results, and that, as you know, is rat capital. And the e. P. A. Said no, you cant use that. The usual way that e. P. A. Operates is registering a product and there by, creating and reviewing a label, and they registered a product called rat ice, and this is from bell labs. So we were sad, but then suddenly, we were happy again because we had a product that we could potentially used that was a replacement for rodenticide for certain situations, and we waited and waited for it to be distributed on the west coast, and we bugged them, and were not alone in this. We and other agencies with i. P. M. Programs, and that was three years ago, and it is not happening. The distribution out here is simply not happening, and yet, we still cant use a product that we know to be a safer alternative. So this started out as kind of a failure story for the program activities. We failed to find a way to use this, but wed love to turn it into a Success Story and do what we can at least to find a way to do so. So what we recommend is that staff work with the commission to draft two letters to try to push this along. One to bell labs, making it clear to them that there are a lot of agencies and institutional i. V. M. Programs who would love to have this item available; is there any way they can make it available on the west coast . And the second letter to the e. P. A. To explore some kind of variance for carbon dioxide, dry ice for use in rodents because it is a clear wildlife threat to use some of these rodenticides that are around today. So that is the story and the recommendation for the commission to consider. Thank you, chris. Any questions, commissioners, or comments . This is eddie ahn, if i may, president stephenson . Go ahead, commissioner. So the policy committee did support also putting forward these letters positive reasons these letters for positive reasons. Its been beset by a number of failures, but pushing it through any way, and then, the commissioners can join in the authoring of these letters promoting the usage of these comments . Commissionera wan . I just want to commend you on this. Thank you. All right. Commissioner wald . Yes. Chris, can you explain how it works . Are we freezing the rats or are we suffocating the rats . It doesnt seem that they flee from it as quickly as some other things that you might use on them, like smoke. Its not a pleasant thing to talk about, but it is a health issue. We have a lot of them right now, and we dont need anymore. Its a suffocation issue, and there are several ways to block the hole so that its effective. All right. Do i hear a motion . Were voting on this, right . Doing the letter . Do i hear a motion to write the letter to bell labs . So moved. Second. So moved and seconded by commissioner ahn. Sorry, carol. Just forget Public Comment, just as a reminder. Well do Public Comment. So we have a motion and a second. Are there any comments by members of the public. President stephenson, is there a letter to bell labs or is it a letter to the e. P. A. . I cant remember. Its both. Okay. Great. Unless you want to split it up and for some reason not send it to one [inaudible]. Get it all done. Okay. Great. Well open it up for Public Comment on this item. Instructions for making Public Comment back up on the screen. If you would like to make a Public Comment, please remember to press star, three to be added to the queue, and you will have three minutes to make your comment. And i am seeing that we have one caller in the queue, so i will unmute you now, and your three minutes will begin. Can you hear me now . Yes. Its david pillpow again. I walked away from the computer because i couldnt figure out how to mute it again. Ive got it on webex and sfgovtv. By the way, sfgtv isnt having closed captions right now. I wanted to speak on the item. Lets write a letter to bell labs, and lets get dry ice to suffocate the rodents. Thank you. Okay. I am seeing one additional hand raised in the queue, but not seeing a way to unmute them. Oh it disappeared. So with that, im seeing no more callers in the queue. All right. No more callers in the queue, lets close Public Comment and move to the roll call vote, please. All right. [roll call] all right. The motion passes. Next item, please, katie. Next item is item 8, the directors report. Updates on department of the environment, administrative and programatic operations related to budget planning, strategic planning, clean care and transportation, climate, energy, Public Outreach and education, environmental justice, habitat restoration, green building, zero waste, toxics reduction, and urban forestry, the speaker is deborah raphael, director, and the document is the explanatory document, directors report. I just wanted to highlight a few things that im particularly excited about that i want to bring to your attention. First, and this is something that president stephenson talked about that, yesterday, we went before the land use and Transportation Committee to for the First Committee hearing of the all electric new construction ordinance. We knew that it was likely to be continued there because there are further discussions that need to happen before we finalize the legislation, and supervisor mandelman has been actively leading conversations with various stakeholders. It was a spirited discussion, and it was also very supportive, absolutely supportive of the concept. Just some more stakeholders that need to come to the table. So you have been hearing a lot about how we have been pivoting our messaging in times of covid, everything from the bay run program, which is on Energy Efficiency. They have been doing webinars on training, running ads linking Covid Response and Public Health to moderating the climate in their homes, especially in light of the increased temperature, so weve been trying to promote people to be all electric and look at electric cook tops and thermostats all in the air of responding to Climate Change. The Silver Linings have been for us are the partnerships that we forged with what used to the Emergency Operations center. Now its changed its name to the covid command center, the c. C. C. Out of moscone center. Its truly been a fruitful partnership. We have a lot of staff that work there, and we have found ways to align our mission. For example, theres a big push to get information and personal protective equipment out to lowincome communities. We provide the bags, the reuseable bags, 8,000 of them. And in those bags are materials about zero waste and materials about low toxic cleaning products as well as the personal protective gear and information about protecting yourself against covid. So the Covid Response becomes a partner with us in getting our messages out. As you know, we worked very closely with the department of Public Health to make sure Reusable Bags would be allowed back into grocery stores. At the same time, remember the charge for bags is going up to 25 cents, and there were new requirements on precheck out bags, for example, the produce bags needing to be compostable. So our team has reached out to almost 700 businesses to let them know about the fact that the Reusable Bags are allowed and about these new challenges. Its been very challenging for environment now to get the word out and to make sure that everyones aware, but theyve been doing yeomans effort. You remember we talked about last time our Emergency Ride Home Program and we pivoted that to employee ride home. Our team is continuing to work with the c. C. C. Also to get the word out about to essential workers. So its been an amazing opportunity to insert ourselves and partner with city agencies who we arent normally partnering with, and i think thats the blessing of a pandemic. In terms of transportation, theres an interesting thing thats happening, just to let you know. Jeff tumlin, the director of m. T. A. , realized that there were many people interested in what was going on and concerned about transit. He created a roundtable and if any of you are interested in participating in it, let me know, and its held every other week. At the last one he held, he shared something that was interesting. As you can imagine, theres a huge concern around the messaging of the safety of transit, and this was something that ted egan talked about. This is a psychology problem that needs to be talked about thats not unique to m. T. A. So the m. T. C. Is putting together a Blue Ribbon Task force to tackle this and think about how we get this messaging out on a regional scale. So im im very interested in what theyre going to be doing and thinking about how the department of environment can support that messaging with our great social Media Channels and the other ways we do a behavior change. A couple of milestones. Sunday was the 100year anniversary of recology, and i it made me realize that in 2019, the end of 2019, i put a handout together of all the milestones that 2020 would have, to the 50th anniversary of earth day, the 100 anniversary of golden gate park, 100th anniversary of womens suffrage, and including recology. Every one of those milestones had a huge event planned, and every one of those milestones has passed quietly. So we can give a cheer to recology that they continue to be thriving and a wonderful partner after 100 years on the job. This is new york climate week. Its also had to, you know, very much shift, but there are 350 events online if anyones interested in spending some more time in front of your computer. And a thing thats captivating many of our staff is our future move to 1155 market. Were in the process of budgeting for carpet and paint and thinking about what we can do on a shoe string and thinking about how we pack up our boxes now, keep them in storage or a year or keep them in place for six months, and then, they move to another place for another six months before we actually show up to unpack them. So its quite a process, so in a way, theres a blessing with the fact this we dont have to unplug our computers on friday and plug them back in on monday. It gives us some time to be creative in a new space. That is whats keeping us busy. Lots keeping up active as we go on this journey, so thank you. Thanks, debbie. Commissioners, any discussions . All right. Lets open it up to Public Comment, please. Okay. I will pull up the directions. If youd like to make a Public Comment on this agenda item, please follow the instructions i just pulled up on the screen, and be sure to press star, three to be added to the queue, and you will have two minutes to make your Public Comment. And i am seeing one caller in the queue, so i will start the timer, and i will unmute you now. Can you hear me now . Yes. Its david pillpow again. Hopefully, the last time tonight. Although not directly on point to the directors report, i did want to note among the various passings of people in the past few months was denise deann, a long time member of San Francisco tomorrow, a long time city employee. When denise worked at the thendepartment of social services, now part of the Home Services agency, she absolutely gathered up paper clips in an effort to conserve our resources and was just a longtime great supporter. I see commissioner wald nodding, and, you know, there have been so money people lost in the world due to covid, so many people for other reasons, so many great city people and retired city people, but i i absolutely wanted to call out denise as being a great loss to all of us, and with that, i say thank you to everyone listening and participating for all of your good continuing efforts. Thanks again, take care. Thank you for your comments. Okay. And i am seeing no additional callers in the queue. Okay. Next item, please. The next item on our agenda is item 9, Committee Reports, and this item is for discussion. Great. Commissioner ahn, would you please give us your update on policy meeting. Yes. On september 17, policy committee had their first meeting since the shelter in place. We had several presentations, and of course as Commission Approved the list today, so i think it gets us off on the right track. That concludes my report. Okay. Commissioners, any discussion . Okay. Lets open up Public Comment on the policy Committee Report. Okay. If you would like to make a Public Comment regarding this agenda item, please follow the instructions on the screen and be sure to press star, three, and you will have three minutes to make your Public Comment. And im not seeing any callers currently, but maybe well just take a brief pause for anyone who would like to call in at this time. Okay. Im still seeing no additional callers in the queue. All right. Next item, please. Okay. Our next item is item 10, announcements, and this item is for discussion. Commissioners, does anyone have any announcements youd like to make . All right. Seeing no announcements, is there any Public Comment on this item . Okay, and once again, if you would like to make a Public Comment on this agenda item, please be sure to press star, three to be added to the queue, and you will have three minutes to make your comment. Okay. And im not currently seeing any Public Comment, but maybe well just take another brief pause. Okay. Im seeing no callers in the queue. All right. Public comments now closed. Next item, please. Okay. The next item is item 11, new business and future agenda items. The speaker is charles sheehan, chief policy and public Affairs Officer, and this item is for discussion go ahead, charles. Thank you, commissioner. Charles sheehan, policy and public Affairs Officer for the department. The next Commission Meeting is slated to be october 21. The next policy Committee Meeting is slated to be october 26, and the next slated Commission Meeting is scheduled to be november 24. Coming up at your next Commission Meeting, were looking at a number of agenda items, which may include the second plan of our Racial Equity plan presentation. Some of that might be contingent upon directions and guidance from the office of Racial Equity, which they are issuing to all departments. Were also looking at a larger Energy Efficiency update and whats going on with the Energy Efficiency team at the department, and other policy profits, potentially for the full commission or the policy subcommittee. Theres sfcta congested management congestion management report that well want to hear from sfcta on, and theres a sustainable consumption report that we will also want to present on. Thank you. I wanted to confirm the Operations Committee date. Is that a monday . I will have to quickly look that up, but if you is that october 26 . No. The operations Committee Meeting is october 21. And then, november 24 is that thanksgiving break week, not that anyones going to have much of a break. It may not be an issue, but i still would like to explore changing the bylaws so that we move it a week earlier or a week later as a standard so were not trying to fit it in on the tuesday before thanksgiving. And maybe well have a quorum this time because where else are whee all going to be, but maybe that wont be the case. Okay. Well look at changing that. Meeting discussion, questions, commissioners comments . All right. Seeing none, lets move to Public Comment, please. All right. If you would like to make a Public Comment on this agenda item, please follow the instructions on the screen and be sure to press star, three to be added to the queue, and you will then have three minutes to make your Public Comment, and im not currently seeing any callers in the queue, but we can take another brief pause in case anyone would like to call in. Okay. Im seeing no callers in the queue. Great. Next item, please. Okay. The next item on the agenda is item 12, adjournment, and this meeting is adjourned, and the time is 7 37 p. M. Thank you for joining us. Thanks, everybody, for your diligence and your attention. When i look at an old neon sign thats working or not working, i feel the Family Business that was in there. Since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. You know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of San Francisco. Sf shines is such an amazing program, and i cant think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if theyve got a neon sign, theyve really got a great way to advertise their business. This is a continuation of the sf shines program. Focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. Of the seven neon signs, weve invested about 145,000. A good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. As opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. In San Francisco, the majority of neon signs are for momandpop businesses. In order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. Part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. In the time that weve been here, weve seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. There are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to be restored. I have worked with randall and al, and weve mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. That information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. So if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, were going to pick these five, and theyre putting together clusters, so they build on top of whats already there. A cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. When you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. If you havy got two of three of them, youve created an atmosphere thats almost like a movie set. Some of the hotel, weve already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the verona, not to mention some weve done in chinatown, as well as the citys portal neighborhood. We got the fund to restore it. It took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. Once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. Neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. You would go downtown and see the most recent Humphrey Bogart film filled with neon in the background. And youd see that on Market Street, and as Market Street got seedier and seedier and fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. The film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. One of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing ririt Rita Hayworth with neon signs in the background. I think what the office of economic and Workforce Development is very excited with is that well be able to see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. The first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the Western Hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. Neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. We want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in San Francisco, and so do they. We bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. People in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. As youre driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. Knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. Its a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. Theres so many ways to improve public safety. The standard way is having more eyes on the street, but theres other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. But what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. When i see things coming back to life, its like remembering how things were. Its remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just it just it justno. No. Good afternoon. This now 1 10 p. M. And this is the committee on Community Investment and infrastructure, september 15, 2020. Thank you to the public and to the staff participating in the meeting. Set by the guidelines by local and state officials during the haith emergency the members are meeting remotely to ensure everyone including members of public. Thank you for joining us today. Madame secretary, please call the first item. The first order of business is item 1, roll call. Please respond when i call your name. Commissioner brackett. Absent. Commissioner scott. Here. Vice chair rosales. Present. Chair bustos. Present. Commissioner bracket brackett is absent. The rest are here. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be remotely october 6, 2020. Viewers will be instructed to dial 14084189388 and enter the access code 146 642 8927 press the pound sign twice to enter the call and when prompted press star 3 to submit your request to speak. Youll hearing the following message. 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Next order of business is item 5,matters of new business consisting of consent and regular agenda. First the consent agenda, 5a approval of minutes regular meeting august 18, 2020. Mr. Chair. Madame secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wish to speak or provide a comment . At this time members of the public who wish to make Public Comment should call 14084189388 and enter access code 146 642 8927 followed by the pound side twice and when prompted press star 3. Any members of the public already joining us by phone and would like to provide a Public Comment please press star 3. Well give them a few moments. Let us know if there are any callers on the line. Is anyone calling in . No callers in the queue to speak. Thank you. Mr. Chair, there are no callers on the line at this moment. Okay. Hearing no further request to speak on the item. Ill close Public Comment. Commissioners may i get a motion for this consent item . Yes, we accept it. Thank you. Staff, may i have a second. Yes, i move for the minutes. Thank you. Vice chair rosales second. Madame secretary, please take roll. Thank you. Please announce your vote when i call your name. Commissioner brackett, are you on . Commissioner scott. Vice chair rosales. Yes. Mr. Chair, the vote is three ayes and one absent. Thank you. The motion carries. Call the next item. Conditionally authorizing the executive directors to enter into a firstamendment for the december 14th, 2010 agreement between the Mexican Museum and the Successor Agency to extend the term and authorizing the director to transfer the Grant Agreement and authorizing the transmittal of the amendment and Oversight Board of the city and county of San Francisco discussion action no. 242020. The item before you is a request to extend the contract which expires december 20. As a result in partnership with the museum were requesting we extend one year and assign the agreement. We funded 3. 8 million to date and still have 6. 8 million remaining on the grant as you know last year the board submitted the agreement of 1 million is ongoing and the extension will allow to extend. Well be presenting on the item and we look forward to discussion and were available to respond to questions. With that. Thank you. Im the Real Estate Developer manager. Well walk through requests to extend the Grant Agreement and authorize the transfer of the Grant Agreement and related funds to the city. Ill provide an every view of the project and then it up for questions or comments. And this is the successful cultural district including the yerba buena gardens and the moab and contemporary Jewish Museum and undeveloped parcel was the Mexican Museum parse parcel shown here. The project site combines the original Mexican Museum slide. And in the areas shown in red is the Mexican Museum site and the building. This is the final project in yerba buena. And there were prior agreements including the 1993 land disposition agreement with the museum. The current mixed use project evolved out of conversation starting in the mid2000s with the museum and partners who purchased the building in 2006. The parties combined the museum and unused parcel for a high rise residential tower and museum in its base. In 2008 the museum formally agreed to become part of the process and in 2010 the former agency and museum entered into the Grant Agreement to preserve the museums access for development of the museum space. The approval of the Grant Agreement anticipated the former agencys authority to obligate new funds woul end with the yerba buena Redevelopment Center in january of 2011. As you know in 2012 the agency absolved. In 2013 they approved the purchase and Sale Agreement with Millennium Partners and the project was fully entitled by the city. It includes a high rise power and commercial units and museum in the base of the building. Its being built on plan land partially acquired from ocii. This shows the base. It was agreed to provide substantial Community Benefits and it created an operate endowment for future costs. Upon completion of the museum space the developer will deem that space to the city and the city will enter into a lease with the museum and the museum is responsible for the tenant improvements in their new space. Towards that end theres approximately 6. 8 million remaining in ocii 2010 grants. In terms of the status of the Commission Project construction completion is anticipated later this year an documents was issued this month and the developer expect to deliver the museum space to the city later this fall. This is at the base of the tower nearing completion and closes the museum space. The former agency entered into a Grant Agreement in 2010 to help with costs for the space. The Grant Agreement created an obligation of the former agency to provide a total of 10. 56 million to cover a substantial portion for predevelopment activities and tenant improvements for the build out of the space and requires the funds be dispersed through separately approved agreements been four granted agreements. The last, last fall and approximately 6. 8 million are available the balance subject to revule. The grant has a approval. As we now starting in spring of this year the covid19 pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods and caused substantial challenges to the museums plans for Financial Management and program and the capital Fund Raising Program is experiencing challenges as a result of the covid19 pandemic and resulting negative impacts to the economy. And it intends to submit the design, construction and funding of the museum space. Hour staff is recommending a new extension of the Grant Agreement through december 2021 and staff is seeking authorization to transfer the Grant Agreement and related funds from ocii to the city. Both actions are in support of facilitating the museums successful completion of the project. The city will have an ongoing role in the submission project in administering the Community Benefits under the purchase and Sale Agreement and as owner of the museum space and landlord of the space and the fund is consistent with the citys ongoing role and the completion and operation of the space as we all know il will contribute to the cultural vitality and diversity. In addition the completion of the museum will increase Economic Activity and associated revenue from the patrons and visitors to the museum and benefits would be passed on to the amenities which includes the city and county of San Francisco. In terms of next steps both the amendment of the Grant Agreement and the transfer of the grant to the city are subject to the review and approval of the Oversight Board to determine if the acts are in the best interest. Those requests would be heard by the Oversight Board at their next regular meeting september 28. Thereafter its subject to review and approval by the state department of finance. This concludes staffs presentation. Id like to let you know representatives from the Mexican Museum are here today. Joining me is the chair of the board of the trustees of the Mexican Museum and the vice chair of the board of trustees, secretary of the board of trustees and others were available for any questions you may have and that concludes the presentation. Thank you. Mrfk madame secretary, do we have members of the public wishing to provide Public Comment. Those members of the public wish to comment dial 14084189388 enter 146 642 8927, press the pound sign twice to be entered in the call and press star 3 to be pressed in the queue. If youre already listening by phone president star 3 if youd like to provide a comment. Well allow a few moments. There are no callers. No members of the public. Commissioner ill close the Public Comment. Lets start with commissioner scott. Do you have questions or comments . Thank you for your presentation. Ive gone through it and so impressed and theres a question i wrote down. Do you think the one year in light of covid is enough time youre asking for an extension of a year. Do you think that will be enough time for you . Thank you, commissioner scott. I think the uncertain nature of pandemic we all acknowledge its an uncertain time frame and were balancing that with the progress the museum is making on its plans for the tenant improvement along with what the state department of finance may entertain with the Oversight Board. I can also speak to the time frame. It was proposed in conversations with their request to extend the Grant Agreement. Victor, do you want to address the question . Absolutely. Certainly it would be great and thank you for the presentation. The key point there is what would the department of finance and Oversight Committee feel more comfortable with. And we submitted the requests and local businesses small and large and some corporations and Large Businesses are not going reopen until maybe November December and some probably not until this First Quarter of next year. So things are not normal but wed prefer to have one year and not be challenged by the department of finances. Its a safer bet to go to the state and ask for one year we cant anticipate what they might or may not do. I think well have a friendly audience given some of the current extensions the state has offered with the stay at home orders as well as evictions and what everyone in the state of california is suffering. Certainly maybe perhaps if i may, through chair bustos, provide 12 to 18 months at the pleasure of department of finance may be more helpful than just the 12month extension and maybe that would give them an opportunity to go with 12 or 18 months. It allows for the flexibility in considering the time frame and we would not have the same Oversight Board and changes to the Grant Agreement. Thats part of the approach and the assignment allows flexibility and future consideration the city could take were perhaps more constrained by. Commissioner rosales do you have questions . Do you want the followup to that question part of my concerns about the one year have been addressed. I defer to you to followup. The followup to commissioner scotts question is if we approve this for 12 months, are we giving the ability to negotiate with the city 18 months instead of 12. Is that what were doing as well . As proposed it would be an extension of 12 months and transfer to the city and we would then if both approved by Oversight Board and the state we would extend the agreement and work on finding and transferring over to the city so that could be completed within the 12 months. And the need to extend the city would have time and the museum would have time to consider that. That would be the thought. Thank you. If i may chair bustos id like to piggy back on one comment. In hearing the discussion i do think to give the museum as well as the city some additional work due to semantics perhaps a revised motion to do up to 18 months and provide the ability to do 18 months opposed to 12 months may be helpful for everyone. Lets hear from vice chair rosales and then have discussion about that. Thank you, chair bustos. My question is centered on the city less the first issue though id like to hear more about what our executive director thinks about the proposal by mr. Marquez. With regard to the city this is a discretionary act on our part. In other words were not bound by any deadline to make the transfer at this time . We are bound to a time frame on the transfer. We would need to work through Oversight Board in the state to get approval of that and then work with the city partner on effectuating the transfer is more to come in terms of a time frame for tran ferg transferring that and get the prophylwe would need and approval we would need and work with City Partners on what approval they may need on their side. Does that address your question . We take action to transfer to the city to make the transfer to the city at this time. Through the chair because of the time line of approval and because we dont have authority we can take action. We can delay and give ourselves flexibility at this time we have mixed response from them over the years and are strategizing for the best approach. I have three additional questions. Which department of the city would receive would be responsible for the oversight on the project Going Forward . Its up to the city but its the City Department of real estate taking ownership of the cultural condo of which the museum would be the tenant. And it would be housed in the administrators office. Its normally up to the city to make that decision. That would be the assumption. Okay. My question is, once the transfer is completed i assume our jurisdiction resets . That is correct. The Grant Agreement is the last financial obligation to fund the museum were also party to the Sale Agreement as beneficiary under the purchasing agreement and again that agreement lines up largely when the developers obligations are concluded which is the construction of the power which is almost done and the conveyance of that museum space to the city and payment of their various community Community Benefits and under our last obligations in yerba buena. [audio digitizing]. The Small Businesses and local hire while theres similarities with ours and i try to be a mirror image on the l. B. E. Program, what happens with those obligations not only in terms of commitments im assuming they transfer over, but what happens to the contract compliance side. We work with the yerba buena gardens and thats precedent. Ramon. Im a supervisor for omcii. The obligation really ends theyre committed to local hire and part of making arrangements and an agreement. Im not fully 100 certain wirth respect to that. And agree the commitment can continue as expressed by the Mexican Museum. Thank you for the explanation. I refer to the chair about additional comments or questions. Id like to state that i dont have a concern about the oneyear time frame being expanded to 18 months for flexibility but prefer to retain jurisdiction unless i hear a contrary reason why not. So far im not convinced we should not hold on to the jurisdictions for at least a few more months. Just to ensure all the agreements and all the promises and our interests in seeing this project go through as weve envisioned it over now many years is realized. Those are my comments. Chair bustos. Chair bustos, if i may add a few comments to vice chair rosales a question i think may be pertinent. I think were good, victor. Is that an amendment, chair rosales . Yes. Youre asking the commission to amend whats before us from one year to 18 months and retain jurisdiction for now. Is that correct . Yes, thats correct, thank you. Okay. I would make that motion to amend for if the commissioner is okay with. First commissioner rosales. Seconded by the commission. Is there a second . I second it, yes. Thank you, commissioner scott. Soo we have a motion to amend. We have a first and second. So were now voting on this item. President bustos . Yes. This is general counsel. First you should vote on the amendment as to whether theres a majority of the commission that sports the amendment and if supports that amendment and if that passes you take another vote on the item as amended. If you want to follow the rules. I do so i may need your help on this. May i have a motion to vote thoins amendment from the floor. Yes, mr. Chair. I offer entering by our executive director entering into the First Amendment to the december 2010 Grant Agreement with the Mexican Museum. It sounded like the commission wanted to amend from 12 month to 18 months. Thats one amendment. That should be moved and considered and if theres other amendments those can be moved and voted on. Thats the ideal way to do it. We have the First Amendment which is 18 months. May i have an approval for that amendment and well need a roll call and commissioner salas moving the amendment with a second by commissioner scott. Can you roll call for that amendment . Yes. Were just voting on that portion and this is just on the amendment amendment. Please submit your vote for the amendment to move to 12 to 18 months, correct, and retain jurisdiction is that included or just the time line . Amend amended 12 to 18 month and motioned by chair rosales seconded by commissioner scott. Commissioners, can i get your vote. Commissioner brackett, have you joined us, can you hear us . Shes having audio problems. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vice chair rosales. Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. The vote is three ayes and one absent. So the motion carries for these amendments now we have to vote on the new standard which is 18 months. Ill need a first and motion. I move we authorize the addition of 18 months to this amendment. Moved. The motion is with the 18 months already embedded in it because its been approved as an amendment. Its a vote on the main motion. I would also note that its still a motion of a staff recommendation with the assignment in it so an 18 month extension with assignment to the city. We need to bifurcate. Thats one way but once again youd need an amendment to bifurcate or amend the motion now on the table. So based on our conversation thus far we would need if thats an interest in moving the assignment the amendment would be to delete the assignment from this amended motion which now is 18 months. Okay. So may i have a motion to delete the assignment of Jurisdictional Authority to the city so were going remove that. Yes. Commissioner rosales moves to delete the assignment from the term of extension. Great. Thank you. Is there a second . Ill second that motion. Thank you, commissioner scott. Commissioner members please announce your vote when i call your name. Commissioner brackett is absent. Commissioner scott. Yes. Vice chair rosales. Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. Mr. Chair the vote is three ayes and one absent. Motion to delete the transfer. Now were voting on the 18 month extension. May i have a motion to extend the contract by 18 months. So moved vice chair rosales. I second that. Seconded by commissioner scott. Commissioner members, please announce your vote when i call your name. Commissioner brackett is absent. Commissioner scott. Yes voice chair rosales. Yes. Chair bustos. Yes. Mr. Chair the vote is three ayes, one absent. Motion carries. Please call the next item. The next regular agenda item is 5c workshop no authorize the payment schedule. Thank you madame secretary. This is a discussion item. The oversight approved the payment schedule in january and before you is a workshop approved in the spring and then we had budget deliberations still ongoing and the board is expected to take action on the regular budget this month. This also allows for the agency to make amendments and submit on the approval. What you have before you is an overview of the proposed amendments as well as an opportunity to have the Oversight Board approve them and submit to the department of finance prior to october 1. We have a presentation on the item. Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Good afternoon, commissioners. My name is mina yu the analyst for ocii and here for the workshop on the amendment to realize obligation payment schedule for the fiscal year 2021. First a bit of background. It requires the agencies create this and the amendment allowing for an amendment to june 30 or the b period. This is an overview of our schedule. This was submitted february 1st and they issued the approval april 15 and im here to advance the workshop on the amendment. Well be incorporating feedback from your comment and present it as an action item before the Oversight Board on the 28th and then submitting our amendment to the department of finance by the 30th. This is just a reminder of the funding sources. We have our bond including prior and anticipated and we have reserve balances with property taxes and and we have a catchall for the amount not captured by the four other funding sources. We have property tax nonadmin on obligation for cost allowances. This breaks out our proposed 2020 amendment and compares this to our approved amount an increase of 4. 9 million in our property tax and this is updated for the tax roll we received in august. We repaired our 2021 with data from the winter of last year and so were requesting our amendment to reflect the updated rolls roles we received to reflect the increase. This table shows the increases in two of our major approved project areas. We have a 2. 1 million in our candle stick point and a total of 12. 9 million. So candle stick park will be moving property tax to pay reimbursement paid by the developer in june of 2019 the rye i am reimbursements is part to pay for the Outstanding Balance in that reimbursement request. And well be using part of the pay for debt service for bonds issued june 2020 and the remainder will be used what is required for the bond and the amount must be used for the outstanding issues of bonds. Essentially well be using the request to pay for this. The amendment is due to growth being hire than anticipated and from that amount the to the increase in the overall growth doesnt affect the flow of the funds. Additionally, our resolution allowed us to accept any increments in excess of the budget amounts so long as its included in the approved lots. This is the 2021 process. So well be presenting the workshop and the action item to the Oversight Board on the 28th and i am submitting the amendment to the department of finance on the 30th of this month. That concludes the presentation. Ill turn it back over to jamie. Mr. Chair. Madame secretary, do you have members of public who wish to comment . Those members of the comment who wish to comment should call 14084189388 and enter access code 146 642 8927 followed by the pound sign then pound sign again. When you enter please press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If youre already listening by phone press star 3 if youd like to provide a comment. Just let us know if theres anybody who puts in their request. Thank you. At this time there are no members of the public who wish to provide a comment. Thank you. So hearing no further requests to hear a request ill close Public Comment and turn to fellow commissioners. Commissioner scott any comments or questions . No comments or questions, mr. Chair. New. Vice chair rosales. Im good. No questions. Commissioner thank you. Assuming commissioner brackett is still not on line. I believe she is on now. Commissioner brackett can you hear us . Yes. Commissioner great. Welcome. Are there any questions or comments you splay . You may have . Not at this time. Thank you. Commissioner this is a workshop item and will not require an action from us. Madame secretary please call the next item. Yes, mr. Chair. Let me pull up the Public Comment. Next order of business is item 6 Public Comment on nonagenda items. At this time members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 14084189388 and enter access code 146 642 8927 followed by the pound sign then pound sign again. When prompted please press star 3. If youre already on the line listening, please press star 3 if youd like to provide a comment. There are no callers on the line who would like to speak. Thank you. Mr. Chair, theres no members of the public who wish to provide comment. Ill close Public Comment. Madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. Mr. Chair . Report adds of today. The next order is item 8, report of the executive director. Madame director. Thank you, madame secretary, i dont have a report but an announcement talking about the Trainee Program 2020. I wanted to give an overview of that in the fall of 2016l. C. I. Launched the ocii engineering and training program. In collaboration with a Community Center and San Francisco office of Community Workforce develop. They launched the program to assist professionals on ocii projects and meet trainee perspectives. Over the years the office has managed to cultivate a network of University Stakeholders and employers dedicated nurturing and guiding the next generation of design professionals. Ta da to date we have 30 firm. The majority of the students attend public meth college or university of San Francisco. 50 of part participants and in the past year the program has been held on an annual basis with the most recent class affirmed august 27, 2020 and i want to thank the commissioners who participated on that zoom commencement meeting and looking at [indiscernible] and because of covid the class was smaller than usual and same with the city office of Opportunities Development program. There was the possibility of this through engagement and we had four placements [listing names]. I wanted to share that with you and the for the commissioners who werent able to participate as well. Good to see that. Thats it for me. Thank you. Thank you, madame director. Madame secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 9 commissioner questions or matters. Does anyone have a question or comment . No questions or comments, mr. Chair. Thank you. Seeing none, vice chair rosales. Madame secretary, call the next item. The next item of business is closed session. There are no closed session item. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment, mr. Chair. Commissioners i need a motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair i move the meeting be adjourned. May i have a second . I second. Thank you. We are adjourned at 2 00 p. M. [gavel]. Chair peskin good afternoon and welcome to the San Francisco land use and Transportation Committee of the board of supervisors, joined by acting vice chair dean preston, soon to be joined by actual vice chair ahsha safai. Our clerk is miss erica major. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk