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] afternoon. Am i on . Yes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the september 22, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, would you call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor mar present. Well come back. Supervisor preston okay, we see you, but there is sound difficulty. Ill let operations know that. We see that you did say aye present. Supervisor peskin madame clerk, supervisor peskin is present. Supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. President yee present. Clerk all members are present. President yee okay. Supervisor preston, are you able to get on . Clerk we see him, but we dont hear sound. President yee maybe he can get help from somebody. Clerk yes, ill work on it. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Who records the meetings and makes the transcript available to the public online. Are there any communications. During the covid19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely through live Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes that the Novel Coronavirus has made the need for Public Access more acute and believes its essential that all communities with and without the internet will have the following options to be able to participate remotely in this meeting. We will accept your correspondence. If youre sending by u. S. Mail, address the envelope to San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, 1 Carlton Goodlett place, San Francisco, california. If youre sending via email, send it to bos at sf gov. Org. You can watch on 26. Due to a broadcasting delay when youre ready to provide testimony, make sure you turn down your television. Instead, to listen to the proceedings, you can use your touch phone. You can listen and provide Public Comment. Telephone number is 14156550001. When you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. , 146 750 0645. Youll have joined the proceedings as a listener. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of the proceedings and if youre experiencing connectivity issues, we have someone standing by at the clerks office. He can help you in live time. We have interpreters present. Will the interpreters please introduce yourselves in succession in language to let the Community Know youre here to assist them with Public Comment. Agnes lai [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] thank you. [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] interpreter [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] thank you so much, madame clerk. Clerk thank you. President yee okay. Thank you, madame clerk. Before we get started, a friendly remy der for all the supervisors to mute your microphones when youre not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Supervisor preston, a sound check . Supervisor preston yes, thank you, can you hear me this time . President yee perfect, perfect. Now you can mute yourself [laughter]. Madame clerk, i understand we have received an aecccommodatio request from the member of the public who wishes to provide Public Comment. Well open Public Comment at this time for the individual. Madame clerk, is the person ready . Clerk yes, mr. President , he is. Operations, please unmute the speaker. My name is im a disability advocate. Despite what the board these are not Public Meetings and this is coronavirus pandemic. The disabled seniors, people with low vision, are excluded. Were not allow to visually participate due to limitations in the microsoft system that is set up. And it doesnt matter what is said here, this is not a public meeting. The minutes are being censored. [inaudible] what i said was that Text Messages between mayor breed and chief scott of the San Francisco Police Department were exchanged article documenting numerous 911 phone calls about the homeless being present on our streets. The mayor calling and calling the police chief and using our text to submit these complaints repeatedly. This is [inaudible] that be changed [inaudible] additionally, wait 25 minutes on hold to leave a Public Comment as a disability accommodation. That 25minute hold period is clearly an effort to participate here as well as other members of the public. And additionally, there is no information on the meeting website that disabled people can call in for disability accommodations. It just says services which is not the same thing. Lastly, i want to speak in support of dean preston and his legislation to ban nofault evictions during the pandemic. That is a great move forward as well as waltons legislation for the act to stop 911 harassment phone calls based on racial profiling. President yee thank you, caller. Madame clerk, were arranging this accommodation. Today, were approving the Meeting Minutes from the august 12, 2020 rescheduled budget and appropriation meeting and the august 13, 2020 and august 14, 2020 Meeting Minutes at the special budget and appropriations Committee Meetings which constituted quorums of the board of supervisors. Is there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Okay. Seeing none, can you can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee moved by ronen and seconded by peskin. Madame clerk, could you call the role. Clerk yes. On the minutes, supervisor preston . Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor safai aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee without, objections will be approved after Public Comment as presented. Madame clerk, lets go to the consent agenda. Please call items 1 through 25. 1 through 25 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. I dont see anybody on the roster, so madame clerk, please call the roll on items 1 through 25. Clerk on items 1 through 25, supervisor preston . Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor safai aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. Supervisor fewer aye. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee all right. The ordinance are passed unanimously. Now that we have gone through 25 items already, we have about 80 more. Madame clerk, can you please call items 26 through 28 together. Clerk items 26 through 28, comprise the motion to affirm the categorical exemption from further Environmental Review as determined by the planning department. The motion to conditionally reverse the categorical exemption determination. The preparation of finding to reverse the categorical exemption. All for 178 seacliff avenue. Its important to note that the items had their Public Comment requirement satisfied during the Board Meeting of september 15 and were continued to today for consideration by the board. President yee thank you. We have before us the motion for an appeal for the proposed project as 178 seacliff avenue, which we heard and filed during our meeting last week as madame clerk just mentioned. This is related to the planning departments review that the project is exempt from the categorical quality act. Supervisor stefani, do you have comments you would like to make . Supervisor stefani yes. Colleagues, last week i requested a oneweek continuance of the proposed project at 178 seacliff avenue. I said at the time and before that its important we get this right. I requested the continuance because i thought supervisor peskin and mandelman raised questions i felt needed clarification. Today i would like to ask the City Attorney to clarify some points for the record. The first question, do we have the attorney jensen here . Yes, you do. Supervisor stefani i want to thank, too, supervisor peskin for working with me and working out all of the issues that were raised. Just for the record, City Attorney general, can you explain the difference between a Historic Resource and contributor to a Historic District . Yes, through the chair. Ceqa defines Historic Resource to include a number of items, in particular, that list includes a resource that is listed in or determined eligible to be listed in the california register of Historic Resources. In this case, as i believe all the members of the board know, the seacliff neighborhood is eligible to be listed in the california register of Historic Resources and, therefore, the department has determined that the seacliff district is a Historic Resource in this case. So i know there was some discussion last week about whether it was the individual properties or the neighborhood itself, which was the Historic Resource. But in this case, based on the language of ceqa, its the district that is the Historic Resource. An individual house can be an individually identifiable ceqa resource, but in this case, it is the district itself, the group of approximately 230 homes that is the resource that is being analyzed for ceqa purposes. Supervisor stefani thank you. Another question that came up, what about future construction, impacts and wondering if ceqa allows you to speculate about future impacts to the district and standard of foreseeable reasonable plays into that . Again, the answer is, no, ceqa forbids speculation of the kind that youre suggesting here. This comes up in the context of impact, which is one of the exceptions to the use of exemptions under ceqa. And cumulative impact can be looked at, but there must be impacts that are looked at in terms of present, future and reasonably foreseeable future projects. So ceqa specifically limits the kind of future speculation you can do. So, for example, the board cant consider whether it might be possible that some day down the road a speculator could buy an entire block of properties in this neighborhood and propose to raise all the houses. That is not reasonably foreseeable and probable under ceqa. If you knew that had been proposed and permits were in the pipeline, that would be something that could be considered, but ceqa doesnt allow that kind of speculation, because its not reasonably foreseeable. Supervisor stefani thank you. And finally, with with regard to what is before us today, will this change or damage the Historic District . No, and thats a determination made based on the facts before the department. The department has determined for a variety of reasons the loss of this particular contributor will not damage the Historic Resource as a whole and that is because this contributor does not in itself display characterdefining features that make it particularly important example of the features of the district, for example. As an example, if you were looking at the civic center Historic District and you proposed to eliminate a small feature, such as a statue, you can imagine that wouldnt eliminate or damage the history of the overall civic center Historic District, but if somebody proposed to destroy city hall which is sort of the centerpiece of that district, that would have a much more Significant Impact on the district. Here we have a house, not a particularly good example of the work by the architect who designed it. And the home itself is a mixture of architectural styles and does not show the kinds of attributes that are important for the delineation of this district as determined by the department. Supervisor stefani thank you. I dont have any further questions. I feel that we went through all of them in the interim. And it is my opinion this project complies with the planning code and the residential guidelines to map, height, scale with the street and is compatible for the forms and features of the surrounding buildings, setbacks and lot sizes and Neighboring Properties and will provide plenty of space for light and privacy. A number of important questions were raised last week. Today, we heard the answers from the attorney jensen. One of the questions raised was whether the demolition of the existing home which is recognized as a contributor to an eligible Historic District is automatically a Significant Impact under ceqa. The answer is no, this is simply not the law. Ceqa requires us to look at why the existing home is considered a contributor to a Historic District. The reason this home is a contributor because it was built at the time this district was developed. And it contributes to the broader pattern of development of the district. It was asked at what point could removal of the contributor cause Significant Impact on the Historic District . The question of impact is made on a case by case basis and the district comprised of around 300 contributors, it is clear that the removal of one is not going to affect the integrity and defining characteristics of the district. When the Historic District is the Historic Resource as is the case here, the question is whether the project as a whole, the demolition of the existing home and the construction of the new home, would cause a substantial adverse change to the Historic District . In other words, the project would need to render the entire district no longer eligible for listing in the california register. In this case, the answer is that it does not. With the answers to these questions clear with me, im now certain that the scope of environmental and historic review of this project was correct and i would like to move items 26 forward and table 27 and 28. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee and supervisor stefani. Just for the purpose of moving this conversation forward, i will second supervisor stefanis motion. Let me just start by thanking supervisor stefani for engaging me and deputy City Attorney jensen yesterday for what you all just heard right now. And i still believe that this is rich people on rich people violence. And i still believe that this is the unnecessary removal of a structure that probably has old growth redwood, but has become abundantly clear as a matter of law that is not a consideration for us under ceqa. The questions that i dont want to put words in supervisor mandelmans mouth, but the questions that we asked last week with record to the status of the contributor to a potential district, i ran the City Attorney and supervisor stefani through the paces about yesterday and got satisfactory answers. And those answers fundamentally are that this particular individual structure is not worthy as a contributor to a district. And we used a lot of analogies and the deputy City Attorney jensen spoke to some of those. We used much more graphic analogies in our conversation, if you cut off a foot and leg, when does a body stop being a body . But i will say that i think as to this particular individual case, the questions have been asked and adequately answered and so i am thank you, supervisor stefani, for putting up with myself and supervisor mandelman. Its very rare that in a ceqa case anybody goes across district borders, but making sure that the best of the rest, our Historic Resources and designated and potential districts are treated and remain with integrity is profoundly important. So, thank you. And with that, i believe we have come to the right conclusion here. I was very moved by mr. Maps or at least animated by mr. Knapps remarks last week which took me down this trail. But i do believe this in this particular case the historic merits of this particular building at 178 do not rise to the level and, therefore, i am happy to second supervisor stefanis motion. Supervisor fewer yes. Thank you, president yee. I want to just say in the discussion that happened last week, this is the district that borders my district. Most people that live in the seacliff have a strong affliction to my district. I am in that district a lot. I walk through it a lot. I have a lot of friends that live there. I think the discussion last week, the thing that struck me was the conversation with supervisor mandelman. Because i think i see a little differently. I see it that there goes one, there goes another, there goes another and there goes another. And i concur with what supervisor peskin said. Then when do you start cutting off a arm, leg, foot, finger, and no longer have a body . In this particular neighborhood, there is a feeling in that neighborhood, it is and it is defined by these homes that are older. And they are large. And it is a singlefamily home and replacing another singlefamily home i know, and doesnt give us more housing, but to say it is not a good example when i went by the home, i actually think it does add to the character of the overall neighborhood. And so i think that what we heard is a good argument to actually revisit some of these guidelines, because otherwise we will just have, know, death of neighborhoods by a thousand cuts and we will no longer be able to recognize ourselves as a neighborhood. And so having said that, im sorry that i am going to have to not vote in favor of what this motion is, but actually, i am the reason i do it is not because it is because i think we are getting to a point where we need to discuss this as a board because it will be a thousand cuts to a neighborhood and we will no longer and it needs to have a larger than neighborhood discussion. Im sorry not to be able to support the motion, but i wanted to explain myself. Thank you, president yee. President yee okay. I dont see anybody else on the roster. There has been motion made to table item supervisor peskin dont worry, im still going to vote for the budget. Supervisor fewer i appreciate that. President yee im sorry. Did you Say Something . I think supervisor peskin was just making a comment, mr. President , but as you were saying, you were reviewing the motion that was made. President yee has nothing to do with what im saying, right . Clerk no sir. President yee approve item 26 and table 27 and 28 made by supervisor stefani, seconded by supervisor peskin. Will you please take the role. Madame clerk . Clerk thank you, mr. President. On the motion to approve item 26 and table 27 and 28, supervisor preston. Supervisor preston aye. Supervisor ronen aye. Supervisor safai aye. Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. President yee aye. Supervisor fewer no. Supervisor haney aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Supervisor mar aye. Supervisor peskin aye. Clerk there are 10 ayes, one no, with supervisor fewer in the dissent. President yee thank you. 101 vote. Item 26 is approved and items 27 and 28 are tabled. So madame clerk, lets go to items 29 through 52 well, wait. Yes. Items 29 through 52, comprise the matters that are associated with the citys budget. Item 29 is the budget and appropriation ordinance to appropriate all estimated receipts for departments of the city as of july 30, 2020 and item 30 is the salary ordinance for both items for the fiscal year ending june 30, 2021 and 2022. Items 31 is the resolution to approve the fiscal year 2020 through 2021. Budget of the office of Community Investment and infrastructure operating as the Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and approving the issuance by ocii in the bonds in aggregate amount not to exceed 15. 4 million for the purpose of financing a portion of ocii enforceable obligation its. Items 32 is ordinance to beautification and graffiti cleanup turned approximate. 33 through 39 are seven ordinances from the San Francisco Public Utilities commission that benefit the Public Utilities commission certain business lines. Item 33, ordinance to appropriate proceeds were Revenue Bonds, state loans, grants and wastewater revenues and to deappropriate 391. 4 million for the sfpuc. Item 34 is the ordinance to appropriate 348. 4 million from proceeds from Revenue Bonds resolving loan funds Revolving Loan funds for the Water Enterprise Capital Improvement Program for fiscal year 202021 at 132. 1 million and for 202122 at 212. 7 million and to deappropriate 3. 5 million of water Capital Project funding to Water Fund Balance in fiscal year 202021 to be appropriate and reappropriate 14. 4 million in fiscal year 202021. To place 238. 5 million of revenue bond and state loan funds of state grant funds by project on controllers reserve subject to the certification of the availability of the funds. And at the boards discretion and to adopt the California Environmental quality act finding. Item 35 is the ordinance to appropriate 260. 3 million of hetch hetchy revenue, lowcarbon fuel standard and power and Revenue Bonds for the hetch hetchy Capital Improvement program for fiscal year 202021 at 94. 3 million. And for fiscal year 202122 at 165. 9 million. And placing 142. 9 million of power bonds and 108. 6 million of water bonds by project on controllers reserve subject to the availability of the funds and the discretion of the board and to adopt the California Environmental quality act findings. Item 36 is the ordinance to appropriate 4. 3 million of clean power sf revenue for the Capital Improvement program for 202021 at 1. 89 million and 2021 at 2. 4 million. The issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable power Revenue Bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the puc. Not to exceed 142. 9 million. To finance the costs of various Capital Projects benefitting the power enterprise pursuant to the charter and retirement of the outstanding power enterprise paper to declare the official intent of the commission to reimburse itself with one or morrishance withes more. Taxable wastewater Revenue Bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the puc in an aggregate Principal Amount not to excite 349. 9 million to finance the costs of various capital wastewater projects benefitting the wastewater enterprise. Pursuant to proposition e, to authorize the issuance of wastewater refunding bond and the retirement of outstanding commercial paper to declare the official intent of the commission to reimburse itself with one or moand to take actio with the item. Item 39 in an amount in the to exceed 347. 1 million to finance the costs of various capital water projects benefitting the water enterprise pursuant to proposition e to authorize the issuance of refunding bonds and the retirement of outstanding commercial paper, to declare the official intent of the commission to reimburse itself and to ratify previous actions previously taken in connection with this item. Item 40 is an administrative Code Amendment to adjust the medical examiner fee amount. Item 41 is an administrative Code Amendment to authorize the department of Administrative Services to impose a fee for reproduction and notary services. Item 42, the refunding of certificates of participation for multiple Capital Improvement projec projects. Or for other property as determined bit director of Public Finance or 97. 5 million. Item 43 is ordinance to deappropriate 4. 6 million of series 2010a refunding certificates of participation, prior reserve funds and to appropriate 102 million of refunding certificates of participation series 2020r1, including deappropriated funds and 97. 5 million of one or more series of refunding certificates of participation proceeds for fiscal year 202021. Item 44 is add minute tev Code Amendment to establish a Digital Signature fee and update other fees to the current amounts in the county clerk office. Item 45 is to set rates for patient services. Item 47 is an approval of the expenditure plan for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing fund. Item 48 is a resolution to concur with the controllers establishment of the Consumer Price index of 2020 and adjust the access line tax by the same rate. Item 49 and 50, two resolutions that concur with the controller certification that certain work can be performed for the following services. The budget and legislative analyst, the custodial security including fleet security, main frame system support, Security Services public works, Security Services for the Human Services agency, the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, the Public Utilities commission, full services for jail inmates and sheriffs department. Assembly of votebymail envelopes for the department of elections. Shuttle bus services for the airport, citations, paratransit, parking meter collections, security, towing, transit shelter cleaning services for the municipal transportation agency, and custodyial and Security Services for the port. And Security Services for Human Services agency, General Services agency, city administrator and the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development. Item 51 is resolution to it authorize the San Francisco Public Library to accept and extend 809,000 inkind gifts services and cash monies of the friends of San Francisco Public Library for a variety of Public Programs and services. And item 52, resolution to suspend the city financial policy in administrative code certification 10. 61 for fiscal year 202122 to authorize the city to spend selected none recurring revenues described in that policy on recurring expenditures. President yee okay. Supervisor fewer, you go first. Supervisor fewer yes, president yee, id like to sever items 29 and items 45. Thank you. President yee we can do this right now. Supervisor fewer, i know this is going to be your last city budget that youll be handling. Like you, it will be my last city budget. And it was quite a way to close out our term, dont you think . Although, each budget i have worked on in the last eight years on the board has had sort of unique challenges. This time we really had onceinalifetime challenge of trying to pass a balanced budget during a Global Pandemic. And unsurprisingly were faced with another budget deficit that was, again, balanced on our lowest paid and most vulnerable workers and residents placing the board in more difficult position to resolve certain budget consumptions and balance competing priorities and interests. Not only with the administration, but among 10 colleagues who dont always see eye to eye on every issue. However, i feel that we truly rose to the occasion and we were able to starve off cuts to critical programs that serve most vulnerable seniors and families. I cannot emphasize how important it is for us to plan ahead. During our last recession, the board of supervisors did just that by creating a number of reserve funds. Funds that are key to our recovery today. Im proud of the crucial investments we have made in the past few years. And this years budget will help us recover more quickly and set us up for a more equitable future. During the time of economic crisis, we need Vital Services to get people back on their feet and ready to jump in when we reopen again. Shows us that every recovery in history was accomplished by a critical public investment. Cuts only worsen and prolong recessions. We would not be here if it was not for our bold leadership of chair fewer. I know ive said it over and over again. One of the best things i ever did was make her chair of budget while i have been president. And i dont want to not mention i want to mention the tireless chief of staff chelsea, thank you to the both of you and your team. I want to extend my thanks to my other colleagues on the budget and appropriations committee. Supervisors walton, supervisor ronen, supervisor mandelman. And the staff at the budget and legislative analyst office, the city controller and his team, the mayors Budget Office and, of course, my own staff, jen and francis. This is my final budget. It isnt everything we had hoped for, especially when were thinking about it in december, but i know its the budget that meets the current moment. So once again, thank you for all your leadership and that includes everybody i just named. For now, why dont we have supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen yes, thank you, president yee. I just wanted to echo your thanks to chair fewer and chelsea, her chief of staff, for their extraordinary leadership during this budget process. When i first heard that we were going to be facing 1. 7 billion hole in our budget i could not have imagined that wed be sitting here today voting on the budget that is before us. Somehow, some way, we managed to meet the most pressing needs of constituents in our city during one of the biggest crisis that has ever befallen, certainly San Francisco, but the country as a whole. And i had no idea that we would be able to accomplish what we accomplished. I dont know that ive ever felt more proud of a city budget than i feel this year. Ive sat through, as a legislative aide and supervisor, about 10 budgets. And ive seen them all in good times and in bad times. And what feels so what makes me feel so proud of this budget is that when push came to shove and we had to get as lean as we possibly could, that we cut in places where it was appropriate at this time and this moment in history, and that we preserved the Critical Services safety net and infrastructure serving san franciscans and their families the. There was not one layoff. We are meeting our commitment to our workers who are risking their life at this crucial time. And we are making sure that the unhoused have opportunities to be safe indoors. We made historic cuts to the Police Department, something that wasnt easy to do and that has never happened in the ten years that ive been on this board of supervisors, but we responded to the National Movement asking us to do just that. What we accomplished was nothing short of extraordinary and i want to thank my colleagues on the Budget Committee, supervisors mandelman, president yee, supervisor walton and, of course, chair fewer. It was brutal. We worked so hard. I cant believe how long those meetings were night after night. I thought we were going to lose our minds at certain points, but we didnt. We stayed as calm as we could under really tough circumstances. And we really kept our unity on this Budget Committee. And i feel very proud of that as well. And so much of that was following the lead of the chair. Thank you again. We did it, we accomplished something major. Of course, we never can make everyone happy, but i think if you look at the budget overall, its a document we can all be proud of. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman i have similar things to say, piling onto the thanks and gratitude to my colleagues on the committee and to the folks in the Budget Office and the controller, but really, i just want to express tremendous gratitude and thanks to chair fewer and to chelsea. This was not an easy year for leading this budget process. I think it was historically challenging. And there were so many ways in which we could have been pulled parity and i know how hard our chair worked to hold the committee together, to hold stakeholders together, to try where possible to find consensus going the extra step. And sometimes we couldnt do that and we acknowledged that and moved on, but i think really the chair recognizing that we are in a moment where were going to have to were going to continue struggling with these things and need to have trust and try to Work Together where we can, did an admirable job of honoring that spirit and trying to hold it together. And sending us into the next phases of this. Were not really done. We have tremendous uncertainty. Were going to have another budget to do next year. We may have work to do on the budget before then, but, i think, chair fewer, youve done youve led us to a place that is a very good one to be as we continue the conversations. Thank you, ill miss you, ill miss our president , but i think weve gotten to a good place. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin supervisor preston sorry, preston or peskin. Supervisor peskin preston is before me. President yee supervisor preston, sorry, your name scrolled up already. Supervisor preston no problem. Thank you, president yee. And just want to echo the incredible thanks to chair fewer and chelsea. I will say as the newest supervisor on this body and the first time going through the budget process, i think i and my staff particularly appreciate, not only the amount of work that the chair and her team and the Budget Committee members have to put in during these not days or weeks, but months of gearing up for a budget of this type, but also to all of my colleagues who work with our office all the way through helping us understand the very complex process. And make sure that our priorities as an office were reflected in the budget. I also want to just recognize also, similar to that, the partnership with the budget legislative analyst office, the Controllers Office and all the folks who advocate with us in making sure that their priorities are reflected. Essential workers, many stakeholders and advocates who we hear from and who are involved every step of the way. So my staff, i did want to give a shoutout to jen and justin who led the budget work in our office. And i think overall the budget work this year has really been impressive at many levels as colleagues weve spoken to about the moment were in and the financial realities. We not only restored a lot of proposed cuts that i think would have been devastating to the city, but also increased investments in programs that are going to help, particularly help those most vulnerable in the city and help our residents get through this pandemic and get on the path to recovery. Obviously an incredibly long list of projects and initiatives, but i do want to say, it really is a budget that includes a lot of new and historic investments. Things like new Community Hubs to assist 6,000 students with distance learning. Cultural competent Covid Response, including communitybased testing and targeted investments in the latino and africanamerican communities hit hardest. The crisis outreach teams and resource center. New and expanded housing subsidies for seniors, for homes families and other homeless families and vulnerable populations. New Food Security initiatives for communities impacted by covid19. And the right to Counsel Program which provides free legal representation to san franciscans facing eviction. Let me just say on this one, i deeply appreciate all of my colleagues support for this and prioritizing of this important and Ground Breaking program for the city and also want to recognize the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development folks who worked so hard to implement this and all the advocate who fought for the program. With the budget passing today, well be taking a major step toward the universal right for counsel for all San Francisco tenants. Im proud were not only restoring the proposed cuts, but expanding the right to Counsel Program. A long list, a tiny fraction of what is in the budget and each of you colleagues have championed the different aspects that i just raised. Every one of those bullet points or sentences is weeks of work and advocacy that you all have done and its work i greatly appreciate and i know folks in district 5 do, too. I do want to be clear, though, that i think we still have a long way to go in honoring the lives of black and brown residents in San Francisco. Injecting 120 million over the next two years to the Africanamerican Community is crucial and something that my office has supported and will continue to support. And in addition, as supervisor ronen noted, we have as a city, for once, not increased the police budget. And instead are decreasing it. And i think that is notable and important, but our city at the same time, the mayor and all of us on the board of supervisors, to be frank, i think we came up short in our response to the widespread demands that we allocate more significant money from the Police Department and really reimagine policing and Public Safety in our city. We did some cuts. And that took a lot of work and a lot of guts. And cuts over time and work orders for material academy classes. I want to recognize that, but i think in the face of a 700 million budget, the roughly 6 cuts to police is just not enough. We have major work to do and i think we cant allow ourselves to bury this reality in service of feelgood sentiments about Defunding Police that are not matched by really concrete and bold action. I think to do otherwise is insult to what the New York Times said may be the Largest Movement in the u. S. History, the black lives matter movement. And weve lost black lives at the hands of police over and over. For those of us who were not around during the civil rights movement, if you ever wonder what you would have done during that movement, this is it. And i think we need to get much bolder about transforming how we think about policing and Public Safety. We need to invest in a more robust way in alternative to policing. I want to recognize we have started that work. But we are so far from where we need to be. And i just cant stress how much more work there is to do to meaningfully change a racist system that preys on poor and working class communities of color. And we, in our office and i know colleagues will continue standing, i hope, with those who are very loudly and forcefully demanding more from all of us in City Government. With that, colleagues, ill wrap up. I will be voting in favor of this budget. I really appreciate all the work and care in putting together a budget that will do so much good for those who are struggling in our city. Thank you. President yee supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I dont think i can match the words of my previous colleagues, but i just want to start by sincerely thanking the chair of the Budget Committee and all of the members of the Budget Committee, their staff and everybody who participated in what most years is an annual ritual, but once a decade and probably never before in any of our lifetimes or political lifetimes is one of the most difficult budgets that we will hopefully ever face. And i think the way the committee dealt with that and the decisions that they made are profoundly right. And we all have to acknowledge our absolutely financially uncertain. And it is entirely possible that even before you leave, president yee, and you leave budget chair fewer, that this budget may have to be reopened. Some of that certainty actually, thank you to the california state supreme court, became more certain when they refused to take up the big c case and hopefully that will be the answer in the Early Childhood education and hopefully for the tax that was known as prop g. But i do have to say that as somebody who once voted against a budget and ive been struggling with this a budget that was actually predicated on tax measures that had not passed, ive been struggling with whether i should vote for this budget. And after looking at the work that this committee has done, at the uncertainty and now the new certainty that weve gotten relative to the prop c case, i believe it is our individual and collective responsibility for all 11 of us, to vote to adopt this budget. Is it perfect . Of course, its not perfect. Are there Little Things in there that you dont like and i dont like and ive got my pet peeves, but theyre pretty small pet peeves relative to the policy document that has been forwarded by this board, by the finance committee. Five of the 11 of us. And i truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank supervisor fewer and the members of that committee and the hundreds of hours that you put in. I do have one teeny tiny little amendment that i would like to make to item number 29. As it relates to the very important, albeit pedestrian issue of trash cans. And as prop b that we put not by unanimous vote, but by a super majority vote to create oversight over thank you, supervisor haney over the department of public works and create a new Sanitation Department with its own oversight body. I discussed this earlier today with supervisor haney and have had a conversation with budget chair fewer. I would like to make a very small motion to reserve 840,000 in each of two fiscal years that will be used for the procurement of these trash cans. I include it on full board reserve. So i would like to make that motion. We can consider it and debate it later, but i really profoundly want to thank the Budget Committee. And i do believe that in this time, it is our individual and collective responsibility to pass this budget unanimously. Thank you, colleagues. President yee supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. You know, there is a couple of things i want to say. I first also want to thank chair fewer and chelsea. I, like many of you, have had the privilege of serving with supervisor fewer for a number of years both on this body and on the board of education and you brought everything to this process and we needed every bit of your experience and skills and creativity and ability to work with challenging questions and different interesting goals. And this is a truly a crowning achievement to your Public Service. And i really want to thank you supervisor fewer and chelsea for your extraordinary work. As supervisor ronen said, when we started this process, this is one of the tougher years weve ever faced as a city financially what our residents are going through, what their needs are, the demands of us, the very real and urgent demands of us around Law Enforcement and policing. And you were able to balance all of that along with the members of the Budget Committee. And you know dozens and dozens of hours of hearings. And you all worked together. And all of the various folks who are out there in our city who care about this process had trust in your ability to manage all of that. For everything said about government not working and people not getting along and division and divisiveness, this was a time that people really came together. And we had tremendous trust in your ability to manage this. And to listen to us. My office, we had a ton of things like everyone did as supervisor preston said, and you took it all in and the outcome was one that was much better than we could have possibly imagined. Were in a moment where we cannot retreat, retract from the needs that our residents are facing. This is not a time for just cuts. Its not a time for austerity. Its a time to invest in protecting our residents. Their health and their economic situation. We dont have the ability to run a deficit nor should we, so we have to use our resources in a smart and effective way. They were more limited this year. And we made sure that when it came to the most critical needs and priorities of protecting our residents, we put those first. Whether that was housing subsidies, whether it was essential workers and making sure there were no layoffs of the people who are supporting and protecting us during this time. Investments in the black community and the Latino Community. Addressing the most urgent pressing realities around covid. Mental health s. F. , fully Funding Mental Health s. F. So nobody would ever say that a spending plan when we have such tremendous needs in our city is perfect, but it does its best job possible, i believe, under the circumstances to meet [inaudible] make critical shifts away from overreliance on policing and Law Enforcement and essential investments in the black community. I just lastly want to say two things. One, our frontline workers, our city workers, our nurses, it means so much we made a statement in this budget and in the reality that were facing that were having their backs. They should not take a hit in this moment. We have a reserve. We have prepared for this. We have made commitments to them. And we should honor those commitments. And im very proud were doing that. There is still a lot of work to do. Others have said this. You know, there are aspects of this budget where we need to make more investments moving forward. Structural deficits in terms of housing. Deeper investments in the black and Latino Community. Child care, support for Small Businesses, but we did the best that we could with what we had and i think we should be very proud. I also want to thank Courtney Mcdonald in my office for her work and all of the staff who did this in partnership. Thank you, again, chair fewer, and i will absolutely be supporting this budget and thank you to the entire Budget Committee. President yee supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much, president yee. And i do just want to make some brief statements and add my voice to the chorus. First i want to say when youre faced with a pandemic and a deficit and civil unrest, which i hope never befalls any of us again, the importance of strong leadership is necessary. I just want to thank chair fewer and chelsea for steering a ship that a lot of people thought was sinking. Your commitment to the hard work was evident and pure magicianship. And i truly mean that, getting all of us together and on the same page. For the community pushing us to persevere through this pandemic and preserve Vital Services during this crisis. And for defending the safety nets for those who need it the most. This was truly a process where colleagues, supervisor fewer, ronen, yee and mandelman and team work showed its best ability. Frustrating at times. Disheartening at times. We came together for the benefit of our city. I also want to thank ashley from the mayors Budget Office as well as all of my colleagues for their work on this budget. Lastly, i want to appreciate tracy brown from my office for all of her work on the budget. She worked tirelessly with other legislative aides and was available to all both day and night while we worked through this budget process. We have accomplished something never seen before here in San Francisco and quite frankly, anywhere across this country, by redirecting over 100 million and providing a major investment in the black community. Working together with mayor breed and all of my colleagues, that is a true step towards reparation and recognizing the harm done to my community. There is no better way to say what our morals are, what our obligations are than by where we put our resources and how we do that as a city. I, again, want to thank all of us for the work on this budget. We are here, like supervisor preston, the work continues and we have a very long way to go, but i am proud of what we have done together and know that we have done this through major adversity. Thank you, all. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen, i see your name, but im going to call supervisor mar first. Supervisor mar thank you. Briefly, i want to add my deep appreciation to chair fewer, chelsea, all of our colleagues who sit on Budget Committee from the mayors Budget Office, controller office, my legislative aide who led the work and most importantly, the advocates who work on the front lines to serve san franciscans every day and hold us accountable to pass a budget that reflects the needs of our city. Especially in these trying times and constraints. This budget reflects our commitment to Public Services by staving off cuts. In the face of the ongoing pandemic, widespread unemployment and monumental challenges for Small Businesses, investing in the Public Sector ensures that san franciscans are supported during a crisis when the stakes are the highest and when they are most in need. The budget also reflects the public response to the Global Pandemic that supports front line essential workers who pivoted quickly and did so much more with less in the face of their own economic instability. Finally, im proud of our investment to the black community and Public Safety for all. Especially our investment in Community Safety and Restorative Justice for the a. P. I. And black community, the alternative to policing. Along with the support for Higher Education and workforce development, these are the kinds of policies and investments that truly stabilize families, security and create justice. So thanks again to all of you for the work on this budget and i look forward to moving forward today. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. Thank you so much. I am very sorry, but i forgot to give one of the biggest thanks to my legislative aide who worked on his first city budget ever and did a remarkable job. Thank you so much santiago. President yee okay. I think i got everybody on the roster here. Oh, did i miss you . Im sorry. Supervisor safai thank you, president yee. I want to start off by saying ive served for four years with chair fewer. We sat next to each other, weve worked together in the trenches and i have to say every day im impressed by the leadership and the work she did. This was a phenomenal opportunity for her to step up and show her leadership skills. And i have to say this was one of the smoothest budgets in one of the most difficult times. I really want to commend you, supervisor fewer, for the work that you did. I know that chelsea carried a tremendous load and your team, so i want to commend you for the work you did on behalf of the board of supervisors. I want to recognize the mayors budget team and their team for coming together and working in partnership with the all of us and the rest of the Budget Committee for all their hard work. There are a few things i think are historic. Many of the colleagues mentioned them, but i want to reiterate a few of them. One of the first times that i can recall, the voice of the black Community Came together working with mayor breed and working with supervisor walton in the form of a coalition of africanamerican leaders city wide called mega black. I think that was a historic statement from the black community in these times. And i think its a voice that needs to be listened to and underscored and in many ways uplifted and empowered. Im really proud of the work this board did and this mayor did to highlight that group and listen to their concerns. 120 million over two years, its a significant step as what supervisor walton said in the step toward reparations. I want to highlight that. I want to recognize the hard work that my staff, monica did, working through all the hard work on behalf of the community, the calls night and day. I want to highlight the work she did. And the work we were able to incorporate into the budget in terms of the Latinx Community, in terms of highlighting the disproportionate impact that covid has had on that community. Its important we made a statement. There is still more work to be done, but its important we were able to highlight that. And as to what supervisor haney said, really recognizing our frontline city workers, our bus drivers, nurses, laborers, all the folks that have put it on the line every single day. Our librarians have been some of the best Disaster Service workers that have been redeployed doing contact tracing. While our libraries are shut down, these are the folks in our hotels that are out on the streets, doing much of that work. So our command center, our human rights led by director davis and all the conversation of equity that were incorporated into this budget. And then lastly, the work we were able to do for one of the first times, the Citywide Initiative on violence prevention for the api Community Working in partnership with some very significant ceo to talk about the violence perpetrated toward the chineseamerican api community and working with the Africanamerican Community to come together in terms of building harmony and partnership to really dig deep into this. So i just wanted to thank everyone for all the hard work. Thank you, president yee, for your leadership as well. I know you were involved in many of the negotiations and conversations and so i appreciate you through all of this. Thank you. President yee okay. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. Colleagues, with the pandemic and resulting economic catastrophe, the board of supervisors has been faced with one of the most difficult environments in recent memory to be making decisions that will affect peoples lives for years to come. Between my time and chief of staff to former supervisor lapeer in the wake of the great recession, farmer staffer to mark farrell and the Department Head of the county clerk office, i have seen how much thought, careful consideration and collective effort goes into making a Budget Proposal. I value the perspective that each of you bring to the table. Mayor breed started with the Budget Proposal without layoffs and provided 5 million in Small Business relief. As i have wrestled with the amendments made by this body, it has become clear to me that the budget as amended is untenable. This proposal drains down our reserves and fails to provide enough support for those who need it most, the Small Businesses community and our newly unemployed neighbors. This proposal depends on state and federal reimbursement, as well as revenue from a tax measure that has not yet passed by the voters. Covid19 will be with us for a long time. It will continue to increase our expenses while decreasing our revenue. And there is no way to know what reimbursement we will receive over the next two years. Each time the controller has assessed our financial position, he has revised his revenue projections downward. Tourism is not likely to return. Commercial real estate is in freefall. And more than 200,000 san franciscans remain unemployed. These pillars of our local economy may very well be in worse shape next year than we currently understand. The city is in no position to commit funding we may not have, but this proposal does that. While failing to provide Necessary Services for residents and Small Businesses. Our reserves exist to stabilize Government Services and support our community during a volatile situation like the one we find ourselves in today. This budget does not provide the support our Small Business Community Faces as they face extinction level and our reserves are not infinite. This is a budget that will spend a lot of taxpayer money and produce nowhere near the benefits this moment demand. For this reason, i cannot support the proposal before us today. President yee supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you, president yee. So, colleagues, i made my comments last week, but i just want to say again how extraordinarily proud i am of this budget in front of us today. For the last couple of months, this board and this Budget Committee has been under tremendous pressure to step up to the challenge of reversing budget cuts, investing in Community Needs and list of Public Health and economic crisis, addressing historic racism and responding to the call to pull funds from police for black community priorities. This budget includes historic investments. Over 17 million for new and expanded housing subsidies for seniors, homeless families and other vulnerable populations. An additional 2 million for new Food Security initiatives for communities impacted by covid19 in addition to the more than 20 Million Investment from the mayor. Almost 15 million in emergency relief for nonprofit and their workers on the front line of the covid crisis. 2 million for cultural competent Covid Response including communitybased testing and target investment in the latino and black communities hit hardest by the virus. Assisting 6,000 students with distance learning, free legal representation for san franciscans facing eviction. Mental Health Response outreach team, expanded resource hours and implementation of Mental Health s. F. And millions more in funding for communitybased services for youth, family, seniors and people with disabilities. Not to mention restoring funds for victims of domestic violence. And deepened investments for Health Services for queer and transcommunities and addressing our black mortality rate which is among the worst in our nation. Thank you, again, to my colleagues, especially on the Budget Committee for being collaborative partners through a very, very difficult year. I just want to say also that i think this Budget Committee worked really well together. There was compromise, give and take, and also brought new ideas and assisted me, i think, in forming this budget that you see presented before you today for approval. I also want to say that i realize this budget is not perfect. There are certainly, for every supervisor, items in this budget that we may not agree with. But it is our responsibility to come together to work out our disagreements during the budget process. And i have to just say that every single supervisor was invited to every single budget meeting and not all supervisors took me up on that. To work out our disagreements during the budget process and ultimately pass a city budget so we can pave streets, put out fires, run after school programs, collect taxes, run airports, place people in housing and shelter, run a hospital and so much more. This budget gets people paid and ensures the city keeps running. I am proud of what weve done together to finalize the package that reflects the board and the citys value. If this budget does not pass, it means City Government shuts down completely. A novote for this means no one gets paid. Nurses dont get paid, doctors dont get paid, librarians dont get paid, clerks, firefighters, police officers, all of them do not get paid. There are things in this budget that trouble me, too. The mayors balancing the budget on the assumption that a ballot measure will pass is a big one, however, in the end, were one city and our communities need our help now and they need us to be united. Lets be bold enough to answer the call. Having said that, i have amendments to item number 29. In a normal year, there would be little to no amendments at the full board, but this is not a normal year. And during our remote deliberations, there were changes. I present to you the amendments to the final spending plan. All of my colleagues should have reserved these received these from my staff yesterday. Item 61 was a duplicate and this change should have been made on the regional list. Item 64 was also a duplicate and should have been allocated for services. And fortunately, district 6 allocation was included instead of the final version that supervisor haneys office provided, so those changes are reflected here. And finally the twoyear allocation with the puc is included. All other changes are updating the list with which departments the line items should go to. So i make a motion to approve these amendments to item number 29. President yee seconded by supervisor ronen. Why dont we go ahead, madame clerk, and take the motions one at a time. Supervisor peskin, you have something to say . Supervisor peskin i do, as i mentioned earlier, an amendment to item 29. I also have discuss relative to the budget, but whatever is your will, mr. President. President yee so, im sorry, i didnt hear the 29 part. Supervisor peskin as i mentioned earlier, there is an amendment that i would like to offer relative to putting on reserve 840,000 of refuse rates in each of the two years for the procurement of new trash cans. I mentioned that earlier. President yee right. Supervisor peskin i would like to make that motion as well, mr. President. President yee okay, no problem. I didnt know what number was associated to. Supervisor peskin that is item 29, sir. Supervisor fewer mr. President , i am open to taking those amendments with my amendments as one package. And from supervisor peskin. My question to the City Attorney, are any of the amendments substantive . No, supervisor fewer, they are not. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin full board of supervisors reserve, let me be abundantly clear, that 840,000 in each of two fiscal years would be on the full board of senior supervisors reserve. President yee is there a second for supervisor peskins motion . I need a second. Okay. Supervisor fewer. So there is amendments offered for item 29 and seconded. Is there any discussion . Supervisor ronen, did you have something . I see you on the roster. Supervisor ronen i just had another comment, but not related to these motions, related to the overall budget. President yee okay. Me too. President yee ill get back to you guys, okay. Supervisor ronen okay. President yee sorry, colleagues. [please stand by] [please stand by] supervisor fewer page 7, lines 7, 9, and 11 are missing rates in the fiscal year 20202021 column. Page 7, line 9, is supposed to be e. M. Comprehensive consult instead of e. M. Expanded consult. So id make a motion to make those amendments. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor peskin . Any discussion . Seeing none, madam clerk, please call the roll on the motion to amend 65 45, im sorry. Clerk yes, on the amend to item 45 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to amend item number 45 passes. [gavel]. President yee so any other amendments before we move to more comments . Seeing none, then, supervisor ronen, i believe . You still have a comment . Supervisor ronen i think peskin was performing. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, supervisor ronen, and thank you, president yee. So through the president to supervisor stefani, can you reiterate i think you heard you say earlier that you were thinking you were going to vote against this budget, and i heard the budget chair express her concern that this budget could fail. Thats clearly not going to happen. After 20 years, i know how to count votes, and it looks like to me that we have either an 110 or a 101 vote. And i have not discussed this with any of my colleagues, but can you reiterate, supervisor stefani, why youre voting no on this budget . President yee supervisor stefani, would you like to do that . Supervisor peskin youre on mute. Supervisor stefani through the chair, supervisor peskin, i made it clear in the remarks that i made why i have issues with the budget. Would you like me do you need me to read them again . Supervisor peskin please, through the president. Supervisor stefani colleagues, the pandemic and resulting economic catastrophe has made it necessary for us to make decisions. I have seen just how much thought, careful decision, and collective effort goes into making a Budget Proposal. Over the summer, mayor breed presented the board of supervisors with a strong starting point with her Budget Proposal that closed the historically large deficit without layoffs and provided 5 million in Small Business relief. The proposal drains down on all reserves and fails to provide enough support to those who need it most our Small Businesses and more than 200,000 unemployed neighbors. It relies on state and federal reimbursement as well as a tax measure that has not yet been passed by the voters. Covid19, this worldwide pandemic that were in, will be with us for a very long time. It will continue to increase our expenses while decreasing our revenue, and there is no way to know what reimbursement we will receive over the next two years. Every time the controller has assessed our financial position, she has revised the projections downward. We know that tourism is not likely to return any time soon. Commercial real estate is in free fall, and 200,000 san franciscans are unemployed. I do not believe that this city is in a position to commit funding we may not have, but this proposal does that. Supervisor peskin so sorry. Go ahead. I apologize. President yee keep going. Supervisor stefani thats okay. I think if you didnt get the point the first time, i really shouldnt have to read it the second time. Supervisor peskin no, and totally respectfully, as i said in my earlier comments, if this were any normal year, and the budget was being balanced on a tax measure that hasnt been passed, i would vote no, and i struggled with the comments. Supervisor stefani, i truly hold you in the highest esteem, and i wasnt trying to run you through the paces, i was trying to remind myself of what the arguments were. I think to encapsulate the comments, i think what you said is, number one, this budget is based on tax measures that havent passed. Supervisor stefani correct. Supervisor peskin and that is true and is possibly why this budget will have to be reopened. It will have to be reopened because of the profound uncertainty, and i think that the mayor and the mayors budget shop and chair fewer and everybody understands. But there was a second thing, and the reason i asked you to remind us as you were making your comments is the notion of spending down our rainy day reserves. When i first started 20 years ago, we basically didnt have rainy day reserves in San Francisco. Weirdly enough, the rainy day concept was pushed by not the moderates, but by tom ammiano. The fundamental reason our budget is in such great shape is the former president , tom ammiano, the lefty believed that being fiscally prudent was a progressive value, and the notion here that this budget is indeed predicated on drawing down of rainy day reserves. And ive wrestled with that, too. And if theres ever a rainy day, its pouring cats and dogs right now. So and by the way, the budget that supervisor chair fewer has brought to the rest of us, i am not on the Budget Committee. I will never be on the Budget Committee. I did four years on the Budget Committee. Im never going to be on the Budget Committee for as long as i shall live, and i salute the Budget Committee. But the notice that we are spending down our rainy day reserves to me seems fiscally right. This is not the librarian that thinks that he or she is doing their job when all the books are on the shelves, this is a librarian who smiles to himself or herself when all the books have been checked out. And so to that end, i actually think, with great uncertainty, that this budget is actually the best budget that any collection of legislative and executive members and their staffs and their expert staffs could put together. So respectfully, through the president , i really hope we have a unanimous vote on this budget. As i said earlier in my comments, supervisor stefani, it is perfect. I dont like the fact that theres 50,000 in there in overtime for our own staff. I dont like that, but i wouldnt sink the budget with that, and i wouldnt sink the budget for rainy day reserves included in there. With that, ill conclude my comments. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you, president yee. When mayor breed handed us this budget, she handed it to us upon the assumption that prop f would passed. And i dont remember you coming to any of the Budget Committees to express any concern about it, and you certainly didnt reach out to me about any concerns you had about the budget during the entire process. And i ask you why that is. And the reason that i ask you why that is is because we spent more time than i think ive spent on most things in my life busting our butts to try to come up with a budget that could save lives during this time and could keep people going during one of the hardest moments in their lives. And chair fewer literally worked miracles to get us all together where we on the committee itself had very, very different ideas on how to prioritize and how to come to agreement on the budget. I think, like, supervisor mandelman and i were on opposite sides of how to deal with the police budget, but we came together in the interest of unity and in the interest of giving some modicum of peace to the people of San Francisco that we have their backs during this time. So i have to say that i do take a little bit of your remarks at this last moment not as an insult because i know youre not trying to insult us, but im a bit frustrated because it would have been nice to have heard your voice during the entire monthslong process had you had an issue with this. The fact that ten of us agree on something that none of us, as supervisor peskin stated, are 100 happy with the budget. And to have you for the first time express your opposition feels a little bit disrespectful to me, and it feels a little bit disrespectful to the chair of the Budget Committee who probably didnt get any sleep when trying to put a fair budget together. President yee supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman i will briefly interrupt in that in my remarks earlier, i neglected to thank tom temprano, who made this happen, so thank you, leger and tom temprano who made this happen. Supervisor ronen and president yee, i was posing a question to supervisor stefani through the chair. President yee supervisor stefani, if youd like to respond, youre welcome. Supervisor stefani yes. I respect everyones point of view. I see this differently, and were just going to have to agree to disagree. My staff was intimately involved and had many conversations with chair fewers staff, and i just see the budget differently. Supervisor ronen one more question through the chair. How would you have handled the budget if it came to you balanced upon an assumption that prop f would have passed . Would you have would you have not assumed that budget and told the mayor that that wasnt appropriate and done Something Different than chair fewer did . President yee supervisor ronen, can i not go with that question, please . I dont think were going to get anywhere with this. Supervisor ronen actually, president yee, im sorry. I have a right to ask a question, and supervisor to my colleague on a matter thats been jaeagendized on the budge and she can answer it however she chooses, but i would really like her to answer my question. President yee okay. You may or may not want to but go ahead. Supervisor stefani i will answer with one simple sentence i would budget within our means, the money that we have when we have it. Not based on the budget that we will have in november. We should balance the budget that we have at the time. Supervisor ronen okay. I would just finish with this for those of us who spent countless hours on the Budget Committee. If we would have done that, we would have had to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from lifesaving services to the residents of San Francisco, and i just want to reiterate one more time how proud i am of the work of chair fewer and this committee, that we did the best that we could to ensure, to save lives during a pandemic, and i want to thank mayor breed, as well, for having approached the budget in the way that she did by assuming the passage of prop f because to do otherwise at this time would have been devastating, and with that, ill end my comments. President yee chair fewer, can i get clarification . I still believe theres 900 million or so thats in reserves, and that when when you when we made a decision to add a little bit more towards the add back, that money that we reserved, that we targeted, was actually the level removed from prop f, it wasnt dipping into the existing reserves. Supervisor fewer thats correct. President yee so if prop f doesnt pass, all of that goes away. So i think i agree. I felt that same, and supervisor stefani is saying we passed a budget that was balanced on these assumptions, and we looked at it, and we basically went through it, agonized over it, and the decision made in the Budget Committee was to move forward with what the mayor had made assumptions on, and that prop f will will do its best to pass, and if it doesnt [inaudible], the budget process will have to open up again. I just want to say that for clarification. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you, pre president yee. I also wanted to say that per the controller, theres 750 million left in the reserves. The reserves are not being all spent. And also, i want to say that during this budget process and for supervisors that have worked with me on budget before, they know that their voices are heard. Budget Committee Members have said to me in the past that they appreciate that i do listen to them, but i do have to hear the comments first. Some supervisors came to the Budget Committee, but to say now that this budget isnt doesnt have in it what you want or youre not happy, i also just wanted to say that i feel like, in our defense, that we invited every single supervisor to every budget meeting, and to hear the voices of the supervisors, and my legislative aide painstakingly went to every Single Office to hear about concerns. There have been past budgets ive had to hold my nose and vote for them, too, and i wasnt happy to do so. But there were things that i liked in the budget. I think we heard loud and clear that there was a supervisor that was concerned about victims of domestic violence, and we fully restored that and funded that. If this budget did not pass, they would not have that funding, either. Quite frankly, i think we have a different view of moving San Francisco forward. If we dont pass a budget, that means that absolutely every single city service shuts down immediately, and so that is too big of a risk. So i just want to thank all of my colleagues once again for their work on this budget. Its not ideal . Is this a budget that i think was difficult and challenging . Yes. Am i glad it is my last budget year . Yes, you bet. It was a lot of work, it was a lot of me pushing back on people, too, and this is something, you know, i have to say, that is etched in my memory. And one of the hardest things that ive done is actually give [inaudible] and this was harder than that. So having said that, president yee, thank you for allowing me to make my comments, and thank you, colleagues. President yee sure. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, mr. Chair. I think its important to have these kind of conversations. I did have one question, point of clarification, since were talking about prop f, and just for the record. If prop f were not to pass, what impact does that have on the budget in terms of scale, and how much money does that impact . Just so we president yee 300 million. Supervisor safai excuse me . President yee 300 million. Supervisor safai 300 million additional dollars, so that was what was incorporated into this. I just wanted to get that into the record. That was a significant assumption, and thats why were working so hard to get prop f passed. I think its fair to say that revenues going down. I think its fair to say that taxes are going down, and i do appreciate the comments of supervisor peskin because he has the perspective of 20 years of being on this board when supervisor ammiano and the board created at that time the reserves. I think its important at that say that if not now, when . And its important in these times of need that we are to be commended for continuing these services, for sure. But 300 million is significant, so i hope that all of us are involved in assuring that we are able to get that across the finish line, and what that would mean for the budget, for sure. So thank you, chair fewer, for all of your hard work. I think this is a pretty unbelievable experience to go through. When you and i were on the board, and we had so much extra riches, we were fighting not what not to spend it on, but what to spend it on. I just want to commend you, and thank you for the conversation that were having today. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yeah, just to correct the record through the chair, supervisor safai, and if prop f does not pass, we would have to account for 150 million approximately that would be the balance to fill. 150 million in a 13 billion budget is doable and we can do it. The suffering that would take place if we dont pass the budget that were going to pass today is too horrifying to explain. Supervisor safai of course. So is it 150 over one year or 150 over two years . President yee im sorry. When i said that, i forgot that part of the contribution was from the homeless prop c. Supervisor safai got it. President yee and as soon as it got out of court, part of it is available right now. Part of it was available from baby prop c, general funds. So supervisor ronen is probably correct, closer to the 150 mark. Supervisor safai okay. I think that most of us understood that, but i just wanted to get that on the record. President yee okay. Let l lets see where were at. So we have amended items. And madam clerk, can i actually call all the items, plus amended, you know, number 29 as amended and number 45 as amended and the remainder of the items all at once . Clerk yes, sir. President yee okay. Lets do that. Lets take the roll on i forget what number through what number at this point . Clerk so its 29 through 52, and 29 as amended. President yee okay. Lets take the roll on those items. [roll call] clerk there are 10 ayes and one no, with supervisor stefani in the dissent. President yee okay. So with a 101 vote, then, the items 29 to 5 clerk two . President yee 52 passes on First Reading. Okay. Lets go to our 3 00 special items. And can you call number im skipping around with me. Bear with me. Please call items 69 and 70 together. Clerk items 69 and 70 are the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole, hearing scheduled pursuant to motion number m20102, approved on august 11, 2020. Item 69 is a hearing of the boards sitting as a committee of the whole on september 22, 2020, at 3 00 p. M. , to hold a public hearing to consider the ordinance approving an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project. President yee okay. Without objection, we will proceed as follows. A brief presentation from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. [inaudible] seeing no objections, then, well proceed as proposed. I think Gretchen Heckman from the office of Community Investment and infrastructure is here to present. Gretchen, please proceed with your presentation if youre here. Oh, there you are. Thank you, president yee. Good afternoon, president yee and supervisors. I am Gretchen Heckman, and i will be presented on the [inaudible] and i will pull up my slide to share with you all. Is that visible to everyone . President yee yes. Okay. Great. So we will start with a rendering of the project and an overview of the Mission Bay South project area. Here is a visual of the hotel under construction as well as a rendering of what it will look like upon completion. Here you can see an aerial shot of the mission bay neighborhood, which as you can see, its nearly complete. This shows the two projects in mission bay. Mission bay north, shown in red, and Mission Bay South, shown in blue. 29 of these units will be affordable. Mission bay will have 41 acres of open space, more than half of which has already been built. Theres just under 5 million square feet of commercial feet in mission bay. Finally, mission bay has finist quarter of next year. [inaudible] hotel started construction on their project in 2018. They have proposed to divide 28 of their 37 one and twobedroom suites into 49 individual rooms. This request requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan to increase the number of rooms allowed on the block one hotel parcel from the currently approved 250 rooms to the rounded number of 300 rooms. The last [inaudible] including the ocii commission, Planning Commission, the Oversight Board, and the California Department of finance. This shows the current change to the proposed project. As you can see in the bottom row of this table, the buildings overall Square Footage remains the staple because the additional rooms will be achieved by moving interior walls and adding doors, thus, no exterior work will be needed for the suite conversion. This slide shows the typical floor plan and examples of twoinone bedroom suites, which are outlined in red. Each suite also has a living room which will be converted into a standalone room. The main change required in the redevelopment plan is an increase in the number of hotel rooms on the hotel parcel in block one. There are also minor installations having to do with the 2013 redevelopment plan amendment also associated with the larger block one. This slide shows all of the approval entities, again, that have acted or will act on the proposed amendments. The ocii commission and Planning Commission approved the redevelopment amendment in july, and after todays hearing, the Oversight Board will review the participation in the agreement on october 8. That concludes my presentation for today, and i and other ocii staff are happy to answer any questions. President yee thank you, gretchen. We will now proceed to Public Comment. Is there any first of all, before i do that, are there any questions . First of all, lets go to Public Comments. You have two minutes each or if there are anybody that would like to speak on this item . Madam clerk, are there any speakers . Clerk thank you, mr. President. Operations, can you let us know how many are in the queue, and if you would unmute the first caller. Operator yes, i have two callers in the queue. Clerk okay. Ill set the timer for two minutes, mr. President. President yee yes. Clerk okay. Welcome, caller. All right. Hello, caller . I believe i can hear your television. You should turn down your television. All right. Operations, this person might have walked away from their phone or is not watching their television. Well circle back. Can you unmute the next caller. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon, president yee, members of the San Francisco board of supervisors, staff, and members of the community. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. My name is don hokett, and im a field representative at carpenters local 22. I represent 4,000 carpenters here in San Francisco and 40,000 across california. I am a member of pile drivers local 34 and have worked on most of the projects in the bay area. I know having worked on this project firsthand in particular any local hires and apprentices are given the same opportunities today. The members of Carpenters Union local 22 support somas request by replacing suites with more rooms. San francisco Hospitality Industry has been impacted by covid19, and we need to support business requests to adjust to the demands of the current market. The soma hotel and their Union General contractor, hathaway dinwiddy, provides Contractors Union wages and benefits. This project provides good jobs while making every effort to hire local. In addition, the corarpenters union is in full support of the changes, and we ask that you approve them. As well. Thank you for your time. Clerk all right. Thank you for your comments. All right. Operations, try the caller once again. We are currently taking comments for the members of the community who are interested in the community from the Mission Bay South redevelopment comment. Excuse me. I meant to comment for a different were going to have Public Comments at 1 10 . Clerk were going to have general Public Comment later in the meeting. Excuse me, then ill wait for the appropriate time. Clerk okay. Operations, is there another caller . Im sorry, clerk. I thought this was Public Comment, but i just heard its 1 30 or 1 10, so ill call back. Clerk no, sir, this is Public Comment for the Mission Bay Redevelopment plan south. So if youre waiting for general Public Comment, itll be later in the meeting. I was watching the meeting on t. V. , and supervisor peskin is so smart. There was a 20 million allotment for the [inaudible] of mission bay. That was 20 years ago, and, you know, i dont know, maybe 10 years ago, and they were given 20 million to fix that problem. Peskin is so smart, he said wait a minute. That was ten years ago. I want to know what the real cost of taking care of the society is now. Hes so smart, man. Clerk operations, is there another caller, please . Hello, caller . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam president. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Are there any other comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, this hearing has been heard and is now filed. Madam clerk, please call the roll on item 70. Clerk on item 70 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special orders. Lets call items 71 through 106 together. Clerk okay. Items 71 through 106 consistent of land appeals comprised of matters proposed for continuance and take individual votes on each of the appeals beginning with items 71 through 74 compromised public hearing and associated motion for 552 through 554 hill street. The suggested date for the continuance is october 6. Items 75 through 78 comprise the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination for exemption for Environmental Review for the proposed project at 231 37 avenue. For items 79 through 82, the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of conditional use authorization for the proposed project at 2001 37 avenue. Suggested date for continuance is october 6. For the items 83 through 86, for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review for the proposed department of Public Health local Oversight Program for investigation remediation project at 1776 green street with a suggested date for a continuance to october 20. For the items associated with items 87 through 90 for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of final mitigated negative declaration proposed for the project at 2417 green street. Suggested continuance date to october 20. And for the four m. T. A. Projects, items 91 through 94 for the public hearing and associated motions for the public exemption from Environmental Review for the transportation Recovery Plan from covid19 for temporary transit ways and bikeways, suggested continuance date is september 29. For the items associated with 95 through 98, public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination from statutory exemption from Environmental Review, suggested continuance date to september 29, and for items 99 through 102, for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal and statutory exemption from Environmental Review for the m. T. A. Environmental operations center, emergency temporary street changes program, suggested continuance date, september 29, and lastly, for the items 103 through 106 for the public hearing and associated 340egs associated motions for the m. T. A. Post streets phase three. Suggested continuance date is september 29, 2020. Thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor haney, did you want to make some comments . Supervisor haney i had no comments, but im going to make a motion to continue these items. President yee you want to you want to make a motion to continue all the items . Supervisor haney yes. President yee okay. We could do that. Supervisor peskin mr. President , to what date . President yee to next week, to september 29. Supervisor peskin second. President yee so the motion to continue all the items from 71 to 106 has been made. Any discussion . Seeing none clerk mr. President , i just want to interrupt for a moment. The president yee go ahead. Clerk i just want to make sure, for claritys sake, supervisor haney, your motion is to continue all of these dates not to the suggested date on the calendar, but to next week. That is your motion . President yee theres different dates for different ones. Clerk yes. Each item has a suggested continuance date. President yee supervisor haney, would you like to rescind your motion, and ill just call people that might want to make motions on particular ones . Is that okay . Supervisor haney sure. I rescind my motion. President yee okay. Thank you very much. So for items 71 through 74, is there a motion to continue . Supervisor safai so moved. President yee is there a second . Second. President yee and there is a motion and a second. Supervisor peskin and, mr. President , i will go ahead and withdraw my second. President yee okay. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Madam clerk, if you would call the roll. Clerk mr. President , if you could capture who made the second, and well open it up for Public Comment so the public can comment on the continuances, and then, well take the vote on the item individually. President yee sounds good. I believe it was supervisor peskin that made the second . Is that correct, supervisor peskin, on the last vote to clerk the hill street appeal. Supervisor peskin second. President yee okay. That was him. Clerk okay. President yee is there a motion to continue items 75 through 82 . Clerk yes, that would be president yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar yes. I would make a motion to continue items 75 through 82 to october 6. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second, supervisor mandelman. President yee second by supervisor mandelman. Is there a motion to continue items 83 through 86 . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. I would like to move to continue items 83 through 86 to the october 20, 2020 board of supervisors meeting. President yee okay. Thank you. Is there a motion to continue items oh, is there a second for item for that motion . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee is there a motion to continue items 83 through no, 87 through 90. Supervisor stefani yes, thank you president yee. I would like to move to continue items 87 to 90 to the october 20, 2020 board of supervisors meeting. President yee okay. Any second . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee all righty. Do we have a motion to continue items 91 through 94 . Supervisor mandelman mandelman. Clerk now were getting into the four m. T. A. Appeals for reference. President yee okay. Clerk and so this is supervisor mandelman who made the motion. Supervisor preston second, preston. President yee okay. This is a motion to continue these items to september 29. Is there a motion to continue items 99 through clerk mr. President , im sorry. 95 through 98 would be next. President yee okay. Sorry about that. Is there a motion to continue items 95 through 98 to the meeting of september 29 . Supervisor preston president yee, id like to move 95 through 98 to continued to september 29, 2020. President yee okay. Thank you. Do i have a motion to continue items 99 through 102 to september 29, 2020 . Supervisor mandelman you do, but ill also second supervisor prestons prior motion. Clerk thank you. President yee im glad i have you guys for colleagues to remind me. No, im serious. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman made a motion to continue items 99 through 102, and seconded by who . Supervisor preston preston. President yee okay. Do i have a motion to continue items 103 through 106 to september 29, 2020. Supervisor preston motion. Supervisor mandelman second. President yee okay. Madam clerk, before we vote, lets take Public Comment on the continuances for all the items. Supervisor fewer president yee, before you president yee okay. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, id like to ask the City Attorney for her advice. I own property near 2001 37 avenue, i think within 500 feet of the proposed construction site, so i may have to recuse myself on a motion to i just want to know, do i have to recuse myself on the motion to continue . Deputy City Attorney ann pearson, if you are confidence your absolutely confident your property is within 500 feet, its probably a safeway to proceed. Supervisor peskin i make a motion to recuse supervisor fewer. President yee no, no, no. Wait a moment. What items do you have to recuse yourself on, supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer 75 through 82. Supervisor mar i believe its 83, 84, 85, 86, and 87. Supervisor peskin and i would like to make a motion for supervisor fewer to recuse herself for those items. President yee okay. Is there a motion to recuse . Supervisor mar second, mar. Second by mar. President yee okay. Lets those items are going to be heard, also, so im a little bit [inaudible] procedurally because i will be taking Public Comments on all of these items. Madam clerk, whats the procedure here . Clerk sure. Mr. President , i think youre right. Lets take Public Comment first, and then, well take the fewer recusal, and then, well take each motion one at a time. So well begin with Public Comment. President yee okay. Do we need to excuse supervisor fewer now . Clerk no, we can take Public Comment first and then excuse her during the action. President yee okay. Lets take Public Comment for items 75 to 106 and in regards to the continuance. Okay, madam clerk, go ahead. Im sorry. Clerk i will provide the telephone phone number. It is 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14675500645. Press pound twice and then star, three if you are interested in getting to speak. The board is accepting Public Comments for items 71 through 106. Operations, do we have any public speakers . Operator yes. We have four callers in the queue. I will unmute the first caller. Clerk okay. Welcome, caller. Can you hear me now . Clerk yes, welcome, caller. Okay. Its david pillpow. Here are my brief comments. One other appeals today are proposed to continuance for october 6 through october 20. M. T. A. Has already implemented the project, so theres no prejudice to m. T. A. M. T. A. Provided new information which i have not yet digested for researched. Five, it is extremely difficult for me to submit more information to the board by this friday, either by noon or 5 00 p. M. , so one week for me is definitely a hardship. Six, yom kippur is monday, so i dont think i can submit anything by friday morning, which is not enough time for anyone to read anything on my appeals. Please, seriously. Otherwise, i cannot meaningfully participate despite my best efforts to pursue these appeals in good faith, and i think both planning and m. T. A. Can live with two weeks, so i ask you to do the same. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin mr. President , this is supervisor peskin. I realize this is rather extraordinary, but insofar as as the Public Commenter is an appellant, if you will give me the ability to do so, i would like to, through the president , ask the individual a question. President yee you may. Go ahead. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. Mr. Pillpow, are you still on the line . Yes, im still here. Supervisor peskin mr. Pillpow, i heard the arguments that you set forth regarding the hardship and the jewish holiday that you and i share, but i would like to ask you and i dont mean to be antagonistic or argumentative, but what is going to take your days between now and y yom kippur . What is your schedule like between now and then . Yes, i can. I have family issues going on that id rather not make public. I have preparations with the synagogue relative to the ten days. On the appeals, theres a lot of information some of which was only provided yesterday by planning and m. T. A. That requires some more research both factually and legally, and he h id like to give it the effort it deserves. Im not asking for two years or six months, im only asking for two weeks. Supervisor peskin thank you, mr. Pillpow, and i understand you have family issues, nor would i like to pry, but do you have a job or anything that occupancy you eight or more hours a day . Its a yes or no question, mr. Pillpow . I do not. Im spending as much time on these appeals and spending as much time as i can on these appeals, as you are well aware. Supervisor peskin thank you for your answers, mr. Pillpow. Mr. President , thank you for allowing me my comments. President yee thank you. Madam clerk, next caller. Clerk operations, lets unmute the next caller. Welcome, caller. Do you have comments specifically on the continuance for these items . This is mary eliza. I want to support what david pillpow is asking, for two weeks. I also want to make a comment in general on how this whole process is not really set up to help the public at all. Theres a lot of concern over m. T. A. Staff time, but theres no concern for the publics time. The public [inaudible] if they have longer to analyze them or [inaudible] it would be less it would be more helpful to file an appeal immediately, so theres something really wrong with the process. The public is not allowed to do anything other than following an appeal, so if you could come up with a better method for dealing with this, and the business [inaudible] we thought what was happening with the businesses. They would like to have some kind of mitigation when things dont work out their way, but theyre not allowed to even see whats going to happen, so i would like to work this out in a longerterm manner of how we can better serve the public and not worry zoo much about these matters Going Forward in too much about these matters Going Forward in such a fast way. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, would you unmute the next caller, please. Hello. Clerk hello, welcome. Can i be hear . Clerk youre being heard right now. Thank you. My name is gary russ. Ive lived at 500 north in district eight, just where the city closed twin peaks boulevard on march 8. Im calling in on item 94 for my request for strong support for continuances or, if not accepted, the appeals. The city closed twin peaks boulevard without any input from our neighborhood and without any kind of ceqa review whatsoever. The citys premise for doing this was to create added recreational space, there by increasing social distancing and reducing therefore covid spread. And heres what happened six months ago. Theres been no increase in social distancing whatsoever at daytime when there is minimum fog, hundreds of people i saw mostly tourist park on burnet avenue, crest line, palo alto, and then, they walk up about a half mile to see the view. No social distancing, no masks, no effort to enforce social distancing on twin peaks at all. At night, young people gather on burnette avenue, zero masks, zero social distancing. No net benefit from closing twin peaks boulevard. Closing twin peaks boulevard has driven crime, late night, noisy, alcohol and drugfuelled partying, and hundreds and hundreds of pounds of trash on our street and private property. None of this existed before closing twin peaks boulevard. Clerk thank you for your comments, sir. Yep. Clerk okay. Operations, do we have another caller, please . Thank you. Can i be heard . Clerk yes, youre providing Public Comment on the continuance of the yes. Clerk thank you. Please proceed. Yes, i am. Mary miles. I represent coalition for representation of adequate review. We have submitted requests for continuance in order to provide the public and the appellant adequate time to inform the board of facts and Legal Authority supporting this appeal. Our request asks for specific dates that are beyond the september 29 proposed date, and we have no idea who submitted a proposal for that, but it wasnt appellant. We did have dates certain on there to accommodate the public and the appellant. Yesterday afternoon, m. T. A. And planning submitted voluminous material to this board. One week is not enough time for appellant and the public to review that material and submit comment thats informed. The city, as mr. Pillpow stated, already implemented many of its proposed projects, and therefore, it will not be prejudiced by allowing these continuance requests. The board is considering only a one week continuance on five appeals involving Major Projects affecting thousands of people while it allows a full month continuance on a single ceqa pe ceqa appeal in pacific heights. That is unfair treatment, and we ask for the same treatment that other appellants receive. Its the boards duty to hear the appellant and not be a mouthpiece to m. T. A. Appeals to the board are the last level of appeals to resolve issues at the administrative level. Theyre important in the ceqa scheme and serve to obviate the need for litigation. We ask that the board continue the dates beyond september 29 and study our request. Clerk thank you. And state again, one week is not long enough. Clerk thank you for your comment, miss miles. Operations, do we have another caller, please . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk okay. Thank you. Mr. President . President yee thank you. Seeing no other Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor peskin, do you have something . I see you on the roster. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i already made any comment. Thats an old. President yee yeah, i can only tell supervisor peskin yes, i spoke much earlier. Thank you, sir. President yee madam clerk, can we actually take motions on the continuance together . Clerk if youre speaking about the 2001 37 avenue project, i believe that would be already. In my conversations with the deputy City Attorney ann pearson, it was recommended that each of these be taken individually for claritys sake. President yee okay. Then well do that. Why dont we go ahead and, just so ill just do it my way. Im going to take items through 75 through 78 and then right after that, 79 through 81 first. So theres been a motion to recuse excuse supervisor fewer. And was there a second on it . I dont remember. Clerk yes, it was supervisor mar. President yee okay. Can i have a roll call on that motion . Clerk on the motion to recuse supervisor fewer from items 75 through 82 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee so the motion passes to excuse supervisor fewer. Madam clerk, please call the roll on the motion to continue the items 75 through 82 to tuesday, october 6, 2020. Clerk okay. On that motion [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, items 75 through 82 are continued to the meeting of tuesday, october 6. Madam clerk, we can bring back supervisor fewer at this point. Clerk yes. President yee and lets go to items 71 through 74, to continue those items till october 6, 2020. Roll call. Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, items 74 71 through 74 are continued to the meeting of october 6, 2020. Madam clerk, on the motion to continue items 83 through 86. Clerk okay. To october 20, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk okay. On the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection. Items 83 through 86 are continued to the meeting of october 6, 2020. On the motion to continue items 87 through 90, madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the motion to continue items 87 through 90 to october 20 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, items 87 through 90 are continued to the meeting of tuesday, october 20, 2020. On the motion to continue items 91 through 94 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, items 91 through 94 are continued to september 29, 2020. On the motion to continue items 95 through 98, madam clerk . Clerk to september 29, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk okay. On the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to pass without objection, then items 95 through 98 are continued to the meeting of september 29, 2020. On the motion to continue items 99 through 102 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So motion passes. Madam clerk, on the motion to continue items 103 to 106 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion passes. Thank you, colleagues, for your indulgence in going through all that. Madam clerk, lets go back to item 53, go ahead and call item 53. Clerk item 53 is a motion to amend the taxes and penalties and interests relating to taxes that are subject to the common administrative provisions of that code and to add provisions for administering the cannabis business tax. President yee okay. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 54 is a resolution to approve the terminal 3 boarding area f news and multiconcept retail store lease number 190246 between mrg San Francisco terminal 3, l. L. C. , as tenant, and the city and county of San Francisco, acting by and through its airport commission, for a term of seven years with two oneyear options to extend, and a minimum annual guarantee of 750,000 for the first year of the lease, to commence following board approval. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 55. Clerk item 55 is a resolution to authorize adoption of the San Francisco Mental Health services act threeyear program and expenditure integrated plan for fiscal years 2020 through 2023. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 55 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets take items 56 and 57 together. Clerk item 56 and 57 are two items that deal with 681 florida street, construction of a 130 multiunit family project. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on thoese two items. Clerk on items 56 and 57 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The resolutions are adopted unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, go ahead and call 58 and 59 together. Clerk items 58 and 59 are two resolutions that pertain to the communities facility district or c. F. D. S [inaudible] not to exceed 18 million and to approve related documents, including an official statement, fiscal agent agreement, bond Purchase Agreement and continuing disclosure certificate, clarifying certain items of the rate and method of apportionment of special tax, and determining other matters in connection there with, as defined here in. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk okay. On items 58 and 59 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the items are adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Clerk next item, mr. President . Okay. Item 60 is a resolution to approve the form of and authorize the distribution of a preliminary official statement relating to the execution and delivery of city and county of San Francisco certificates of participation for the animal care and control project and to authorize the preparation, execution, and delivery of a final official statement and to modify and ratify the approvals and terms and conditions of a previous resolution and related matters, as defined herein. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 60 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 61. Clerk item 61 is a resolution to levee property taxes at a combined 1. 19 on each 100 valuation of taxable property for the city and county, San Francisco unified school district, San Francisco county office of education, San Francisco Community College district, bay area rapt transit district, and bay area air Quality Management district, and establishing a passthrough rate of. 07 per 100 of assessed value for residential tenants pursuant to administrative code. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Next item. Clerk item 62 is a resolution approving for purposes of the revenue coat section 146f, the issuance and sale of revenue obligations by the California Enterprise Development Authority in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 20 million to finance the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, improvement and or equipping of educational and related facilities to be owned and operated by San Francisco day school. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on the item. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 63. Clerk item 63 is an ordinance to order the vacation of streets in the india basin project site, located generally at innes avenue between griffith street and earl street, alone the india basin shoreline, reserving temporary public utility and access right in favor of the city and temporary easement rights for existing pg e gas and overhead electrical facilities, authorizing the city to quitclaim its interest in approximately 3. 6 acres within earl street, hudson avenue, and arrestlious waumer drive to india basin investment, l. L. C. , and making the appropriate findings. President yee okay. So then, madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 63 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee and unanimously, this item is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 64 is an ordinance amending the health code to establish cleaning and disease prevention standards and practices in Tourist Hotel and Large Commercial Office buildings to help contain covid19 or other Contagious Health threats. President yee okay. Supervisor pesk peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I have five very minor amendments, all of which have been distributed to the board and which the deputy City Attorney has been deemed to have been nonsubstantive in nature, and i want to thank the council for giving five of the six changes that we asked for and other parties asked here in. [inaudible] to have that section read, nothing in this article shall preclude an employee from bringing a civil action for alleged violation of this article where such civil action is recognized under the law. That would replace the previous. Just a few words that are changed in that provision. At 65. 3 sube sub7 page 6, strike the word dedicated. At line 7, after primary public entrance, insert in a hotel 100 rooms or more, and in section 625. 3 subf sub3 and subf sub7, insert open, and at line 17, insert youll see this in the word document that is before you, must remove the guest room for use, and then insert for seven days or until the department, and that would be the department of Public Health, determines that its safe for reuse. Those are the amendments that i hereby make a motion to move. President yee is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee second by supervisor mandelman. Roll call on the motion to amend. Clerk on the motion to amend item 64 [roll call] president yee okay. Motion to amend passes. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the item as amended. Clerk on the item as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee so the ordinance as amended is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, item number 65. Clerk item 65 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to extend by five months to august 31, 2020, the deadline for the streetlevel Drug Distribution task force to submit its initial report to the board of supervisors and the mayor, and to revise the contents of that report, and subsequent reports, to require a summary of the progress of the task force and its plans for the next threemonth period. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 65 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the motion to without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, call item number 66. Clerk item 66 is a resolution to confirm the nomination of alfred sims as the county Veterans Service officer for the city and county of San Francisco. President yee okay. Go ahead and call the roll on this item. Clerk on item 66 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 67. Clerk item 67 is a motion appointing dean schmidt, lila lahood, and jennifer wong, terms ending april 27, 2022, to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 67 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, this the motion is approved unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 68. Clerk item 68 is a motion to appoint Cissie Bonini and Emma Steinberg to the Food Security task force for an indefinite term. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. Id like to strike all reference to seat 18, as that seat is not correct, and the seat will be up for considerations by the rules committee next week. President yee is there a second . Supervisor preston second. President yee okay. Second by supervisor preston. The motion to amend, roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to amend item 68 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to amend passes. Madam clerk, please call the item as amended. Clerk okay. Thank you to supervisor ronen for making that amendment for our office, and to the members for approving that. On item 68 as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The the item as amended passes. [gavel]. President yee is approved. Okay. Madam clerk, please call the next item. I dont know whether were at Committee Reports or not . Clerk our Committee Reports, that is correct. President yee okay. Clerk item itesitems 17 0 1 107 and 108 were considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 17, 2020. The chair intends to request the committee to send the following items as Committee Reports on tuesday, september 2, 2020. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on these items. Clerk on items 107 and 108 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to 108. Clerk 108, this is a resolution to urge the association of bay hair governments, abag, in its upcoming regional Housing Needs allocation, rhna, process to focus on San Franciscos unmet needs for housing affordable to low and moderate income residents, counteract the displacement of low and moderate income communities of color in core urban cities like San Francisco and oakland, prioritize increased to the regions above mad rat rhna allocation in high resource and high opportunity jurisdictions, and limit increases in above moderate rhna allocations to bay area cities with sken ken concentrations of sensitive communities. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without resolution, the item is adopted unanimously. Okay. Madam clerk, lets go to our roll call for introductions. Clerk supervisor preston, youre first up to introduce new business. Supervisor preston submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. Colleagues, today, i have a few items. First, i will be introducing an ordinance that would broaden the boundaries of San Franciscos cultural indian district. Cultural districts are one of the most important tools we as a city have to strengthen the cultural identity of neighborhoods and communities that face the dangers of gentrification and displacement. The recently formed American Indian cultural district which is situated within the Mission District and the Mission Delores neighborhoods in areas that expands districts 8 and 9 provides a home base for the american indpopulation in San Francisco to make sure that its contributions and milestones are not overwritten. Due to covid and the urgent need to establish this cultural district in order to channel city resources to the American Indian community as quickly as possible, we decided to approve the legislation with the original boundaries and revisit expanding the boundaries through an amendment to the legislation once things stabilized. Now that most City Government departments are back in operations, were following through with our commitment to recognize a slightly broader footprint for the American Indian cultural district which would be roughly bounded by 17 street, market street, duboce avenue, and 7 street. It has been a great honor to partner with so many great leaders from the American Indian community and bring this project to a fruition, especially when cultural districts are playing such a Critical Role in connecting our communities to the resources and information they need to navigate this crisis. I want to thank supervisor mandelman and his office as well as [inaudible] in my office for their work on this, as well. Next, i will be introducing a request for a hearing on the department of Public Healths response to the Covid Response in the community. Unfortunately, studies show that the Latino Community was contracting the virus at a much higher rate than other san franciscans completely disproportionate to the population numbers in the city. After nearly 4,000 tests, ucsf found that 95 of those who tested positive in the Mission Study were latino, and at the time, latinos accounted for 55 of all covid cases in San Francisco. The citys response should have been swift and decisive to mitigate the toll that covid has inflicted on our city. Today, nearly five months after the study, the situation has only gotten worse in the mission and in the latino population for the city. Today, 50 of all people in San Francisco with covid are latinx. The hearing im calling for is intended why were not making progress. We want to know specifically how d. P. H. Focuses its resources in the latinx and how has the strategy involved given the rising infection rate, and what standards are used to measure success . What is the plan to reduce the infection rate in the Latinx Community . I look forward to hearing from dr. Colfax and the staff, and to have a robust discussion on what we need to do to get infection rates down in the Latinx Community, and i will be asking this hearing be scheduled as soon as possible. And then finally, today, im introducing a resolution in support of california state p proposition 17, free the ballot. When passed, it will allow the california constitution to allow people who committed felonies to vote after their prison term and while they are still on parole. We will join 17 states in doing so. Right now, there are 50,000 californiians w californiia californians who have completed their prison term, and yet, california denies them the most fundamental right to participate in our democracy. Make no mistake, stripping the right to vote from formerly incarcerated people is a form of voter suppression, and part of the legacy of jim crow segregation and continuing Racial Discrimination that proportionally locks black and brown people out of voting participation. It is time for our state to be a leader in progressive and inclusive democracy. Initially authored by Kevin Mccarthy in sacramento, thank you to my cosponsorship, supervisors walton, preston, haney, and fewer, los angeles, san jose, oakland, and berkeley, have all passed similar ordinances. I hope we can join them, and the rest i submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Today, i will be asking for a hearing in the way the ongoing local and federal investigations have made clear we need more accountability from city departments. This ordinance was drafted in response to the city auditors Public Integrity review and contracting in public works. In that report, the city auditor found that public works issued 19 grants totaling 24 million [inaudible] which was a source of corruption of its own. The city auditor found these grants were found in accordance with city policy only because there is no city policy, and that needs to change. The problem is larger than public works. The city issued 5,746 grant awards totaling 5. 4 billion over the last four years. The city has only provided guidance to departments which does not carry the force of law and is totally nonbinding. This proposal will create a new chapter in the administrative code to create formalized standards for the notification, selection, and participation in grant awards. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, madam clerk. Couple of things for this afternoon. Last friday afternoon, the board of supervisors, as you know, received an email from the director of the department of Human Resources regarding the corruption at the equal Employment Opportunity office where a manager allegedly had forged documents and lied to a black employee regarding their e. E. O. Case, including manipulating and deleting case lines, forging communications, dismissing lawsuits, and misrepresenting the department and the city. Somehow, this was allowed to happen. There have been multiple black employees who have complained about this over the last few years as documented by the black employees alliance and as reported by employees to our office. The state of African American employment and economic mobility in San Francisco is troubling at best. We will conduct a hearing on these issues at the october 15 government and accountability committee, where d. H. R. Will present and complete an audit requested by the mayor on how departments are doing on the mayors ten employee mandates given in 2018. Today, i am also requesting another hearing, along with supervisor peskin, to receive recommendations on restructuring and reforming the equal Employment Opportunity office and an analysis of the best practices of similar urban jurisdictions with c. E. O. Offices, including Core Functions of the c. E. O. Offices within overall City Government structures, staff reporting and investigation protocols, and general oversight and requesting the department of Human Resources, the budget and legislative analyst, and office of controller to present. [please stand by] which is the save our stages. Which was introduced this past july in the United States senate by senators john cornen and amy cobichar providing 10 billion in aid to small, live venue operators. As we all know, the covid19 pandemic has devastated Small Businesses and forced non essential businesses to cease operations in march of 2020. While some businesses have slowly reopened, at largely reduced capacity, many Entertainment Venues in San Francisco and across the country remain shuttered with no set plan for reopening. They have provided bid and the businesses and to our country business and workers by passing the Small Business Administration Program and its failed to meet the need with millions having been given to multi million and billion Dollar Corporation and instead of the Small Businesses they were intended to support. In particular, our beloved small venues even and community theats provides greater flexibility and is available through the ppp program when it comes to and we have to act fast if which expect the business to survive the pandemic. The live Event Industry is experiencing upwards of 90 revenue loss with venues and theaters predicted to remain closed well into 2021 due to safety concerns posed by large gatherings. Without support from congress, 90 of these venues across america also report that they will be forced to close their doors forever. This is important to us locally and nationally. San francisco is famous for its unique and diverse night life that continues to shape art and culture across the globe and protecting this legacy is essential and is the need to make sure that San Francisco continues to be a place where we all can see each other and enjoy life and in corridors because they hope to find a critical part of who we are and they play a role in our local economy and according to an update of the Controllers Office of Economic Impact study in 2018, 3,418 night life establishments in San Francisco employ 63,000 workers and generate 7. 2 billion for city. A permanent loss of independent venues and theaters will have tremendous Economic Impacts on the city of San Francisco and the country at large including venue owners and staff and also the artists, the companies have individuals that provide renters and Tourism Industry which rely on them for entertainment for their guests and the restaurants and bars and taxi and Ride Share Companies and and more. We need our night life venues, our cultural identity and a portion of our economy are at stake. The save our stages act will authorization them to grant eligible live venue operators producers, promoters, talent representatives out of this establish fund and it has bipartisan support with 42 cosponsors and we need it to pass now and our venues rely on this support and i want to thank my cosponsors, ronen, walton and preston and join the many dozens of independent venues in our city that have been organized for the passage of this fact in calling for us to support the save our stages act so we can prevent devastating impacts on the induce tremendous and on our culture and economy. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Ok, thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you, madam clerk. Today i have two items. First, pursuant to charter section 9. 117, im calling for a hearing to receive the report covering fiscal year 20182019 and to hear the audit plans for fiscal year 20192020 to 2020. Given the on going fiscal challenge and gren Community Needs in our city, its more important than ever to ensure our city finances in order and that all plans in every dollar is used in accordance with the intended purpose. Secondly, im interesting an emergency ordinance to reenact the right to reem employment. This policy was passed by the bored on june 23rd and enacted on july 3rd. Since then we reenacted it and i introduced a regular ordinance that would codify this policy to provide certainty as the publichealth emergency conditions. That regular non emergency back to work ordinance moved through the legislative process for our considertation will keep the right to reemployment in effect. As our city allows more business to reopen, and more jobs again become available, this one will ensure that laid off workers are given the chance to be retired through a fair process rather than replaced. And the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk, thank you mr. President , colleagues. First of all, i would like to associate myself with the comments of supervisor walton with regards to the revelations at the eeo office and they are profoundly disturbing. Ive spoken to the mayors chiefofstaff about this and to the head of our department of Human Resources who, as we all know, will be retiring shortly. This, in many ways, is more scandalous than what we learned about terrible but relative low petty corruption that was commit bid Mohammad Nuru and other senior officials in our government. This really goes to the core of pair Employment Practices and i am profoundly doubled by this and look forward to that hearing and thank you supervisor walton, for his leadership in that matter. We are close to the end of the month, september 30th, the Expiration Date of the state wide commissioner eviction protection regiment and later this evening, item 111 on our calender will be vote ong a resolution urging the governor of the great state of california to take immediate action to extend the suspension, emergency suspension of state laws that preempt our ability to protect Small Businesses at the local level and its absurd to think if they will have back rent and regular rent when so many are operated at limited if any capacity so today, together with supervisor preston, were introducing a 60 day emergency ordinance and the most we can do to prohibit evictions and Small Businesses for their inability to pay rent. For extending relief, were will be introduction emotional and i apologize for this to have it heard as committee of the whole next tuesday and thank you president yee for granting that request. If all goes well, the governor of california will take his own action and if he does so, our mayor, who acted before, can take a similar action. Because what we really need is relief from the state to untie our hands so we can continue the work that mayor breed and this board have done to prevent the worst catastrophe to our residential and commercial businesses and we wont have that hearing next week and and so well see how that goes. And that relief is part of this fight and these stop gap measures really beg for more holistic relief and i know that both this emergency ordinance, as well as a permanent ordinance and we are submitting today contain hardship for hand lords and Property Owners and many of whom are hampered by their own mortgage and other debt obligations and to the commercial tenants in jaytown and the Small Business owners and their employees in northbeatnorthnorth beach and n francisco. I profoundly want to thank you for sticking with it and continuing to do what you really do best which is to adapt and thrive even during these trying times. The rest i submit. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Mr. President , seeing no names on the roster it seems to be the end of the introduction of new business. Lets go to Public Comment. If you need assistance contact my office at 415 5545184 and we have someone standing by to assist you and ill give you the telephone number. Its 14156550001 and the meeting i. D. Number is 146 750 0645 and press pound twice if you have already dialed in mr. President , did you call me . I was going to say, just be clear, we will give one minute to Public Comment. If youve dialed in early and youve been listening to the proceedings all along and you wish to get in line to provide your testimony you will press star 3 now. This is for general Public Comment. The prompt that you are lining for is you have been unmuted and you can just begin your testimony. If you are dial in now, the number is on the television and on the internet. When you are ready, again, just press star 3 when you are ready to get in line. Its the best practice you can you will miss the prompt if your location is loud. I want to say about a moment Public Comment today and of course the items would then subject managers jurisdiction of the board not on the agenda and can be spoke on and you can speak on the approval of the Meeting Minutes and talk to committee calender and those are items 111 through 119ment all other items on this agenda, 168, as well as 107 through 108 are not eligible for your testimony today as they have all had their dually noticed public hearing fulfilled at committee. You can also speak on the Meeting Minutes as well. I want to just be clear the items 2952 contain the annual appropriation ordinance. These are the matters associated with the citys budget and these are not items that are eligible for Public Comment. If you do happen to cross over in the line of Public Comment items, ill just pause your time and well do that one time and well redirect you gently. Second to last point, unfortunately its worth mentioning in advance that the board of supervisors will not tolerate discriminatory or harassing remarks made at this public meeting. Pursuant to city policy, along with federal state and local laws the city invites Public Comment or criticisms on its policies, procedures and programs, services, acts or omissions on the board but theres nothing in state law that will confer a privilege or protection for expressions that constitute a discriminatory or harassing remark. All right, we have a couple of interpreters who are still with us, i believe. I would love for them to interest themselves in succession. Well begin with agnes lie. I want to confer one thing. Is it public time is one or two minutes . Yes, thank you so much. Were providing Public Comment up to one minute. Thank you. [voice of interpreter] vladimir puti[voice of interpre] thank you so much, madam clerk. Thank you all three for still being able to be with us this evening. Mr. President , that concludes my comments. Supervisor yee lets get started. Operations, lets hear from the first caller, please. Welcome caller, you have one minute. Caller what can you say one minute that frankly im going to breakdown and cry so it doesnt matter. I saw today in the paper and the Granada Hotel which is Senior Housing like the broad moore, you know. Needed, needed. And by that for Supportive Housing. My Street Corner theres a hotel for sale cheaper, a Residential Hotel thats been used for tourism and its upgraded to ada and its mostly empty now where the knob hill neighborhoods are and its been living since the apartment was burned and its a lovely place. Across the building theres 88 units also used illegally and now partly reconverted. Things like that need to be bought. And motels, Tourist Hotels, and so fourth. The gra mad a and the broadmoore are places where people who i know have gone to live. People who are not going to qualify for Supportive Housing and its next caller, please. Caller wow, one minute. Its not enough time. First of all, id like to say that something needs to be done about how you call for Public Comment at the Committee Meetings. Because theres been a couple times where ive been watching on sfgovtv on the stream online and theyve said, call for Public Comment and given the number ive called as soon as they said and because of the delay, its been late and i havent been able to provide Public Comment. So i feel like my brown act rights and i love the brown act, as you know, i feel like in those cases my brown act rights are kind of violated because there was not enough time given for me to even call it because of the delay. It changes all the time which is weird. Sfgov gov needs to get rid of the lower third. Shrink it down so we can see who is in the meeting. I appreciate most of the things about supervisors have done and and i dont support thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller, please. Caller hello. Can you hear me . Yes. Caller yes, this is gilbert crystal of district 8. Im calling about transit issues and transit lack of transit. Muni still has not restored service to many muni lines during the pandemic that they cut. Its time to restore services and lines that were cut during the pandemic. Muni needs to open the subway and open the f line. Muni is in a black hole of financial black hole and fiscal irresponsibility muni is mismanaged and corrupt. We need to fix muni so they can get around the city. Poor people are kicked to the curb. A bus service that is operating is only operating the only reason there are buses on the line is because an election is coming. I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak. Im representing our deckhands of golden gate ferry. My comments today are regarding two of your supervisors. Its on the Golden Gate Bridge board and they have a Board Meeting where we asked the berdych members to support us and postponing a notice until january 1st and 2021. We were disappointed and sadly, to hear that the Board Members from the board of supervisors and what i would ask is well that any further issues Golden Gate Bridge to layoff employees and would be supported by the supervisors and you would fill your empty board seats and its been so distressing for all the workers there the 240 that could be laid off to think everyday as they go to work this could get the day i get my notice from the district. Operations, please unmute the next caller, please. Can you hear me . Yes, we can, welcome. Thank you, good morning. My name is shane white and im the president of the local 1575 that represent 250 front line essential hardworking Bus Operators and golden gate transit that connect San Francisco to the north bay. I want to echo some of the fronts from marina, who just spoke. Im happy to hear the supervisors have spoken up and Bus Operators by name and how the city took care of these heroes during the pandemic. Im proud and my Front Line Group and hope that they are taking care of as well. To echo what marina said again, a couple supervisors, went the opposite way and im hoping that theres going to be another vote that needs to come up to approve layoffs and we hope these can be staved off until the after the first of the year. With the holidays coming up, i just want everybody to know and the pandemic, Mental Health issues are prevalent and suicide and no one needs a layoff hanging over there head while that are dragging a bus through San Francisco during a pandemic. Thank you for your comments. Operations next caller, please. Caller hello, my name is bennett and i represent the Freedom Socialist Party with a storefront office in district 6. We support the resolution calling on Governor Newsome to expend the moratorium of evictions on Small Businesses. We join other Community Groups that for bid rent that is not paid during the moratorium. They should be given a full year lifted to re pay any deferred rent, Small Businesses are a part of the heart and soul of our communities and allowing evictions to proceed without during the pandemic or service landowner and for gender communities. The fsp itself calls that we believe the city of San Francisco should itself set an example by doing no less than immediately creating City Ordinance to establish a rent holiday for all residents, Community Groups until the end of the covid19 emergency. To protect renters, not big businesses, those use be airbnb or landlords. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hello, im speaking on item 111. I really appreciate that you are doing this proactively to help our businesses. I am very active in japan town and familiar with the situation of the merchants and the Japan Center Mall. And i just wanted to ask you, please, to do everything you can and be creative and active in finding a broadbased support for these people. They are, im in awe of them. Theyre facing a year where they will be paying a month and a half commercial rent, com an area charges, publicity charges, and theres an automatically increase in their leases. And they are facing it and working so hard to stay in business to keep our communities and our cities alive and vibrant and so do all you can to help them. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello. I would like to acknowledge that i would like to acknowledge can you hear me . I would like to and the people, thank you president yee, supervisor ronen and mandelman for your support and the rest of the board of supervisors for your time today. My name is mary travis salas and i am my mother side and on my fathers side. I am a mother, grandmother and great grand mother. I represent an elder from the American Indian cultural district board. I have lived in San Francisco all my life. The need to expand the already legislative boundaries of the American Indian cultural district is important. We need land for our cultural centers, ceremonials stage and Community Garden and cultural district processes. We should have already had this recognition and already had a designated district to build and support our communities and we need to be acknowledged in this city and have a voice when concerns are discussed by the leadership and Government Regarding underserved communities and the need for funding and services. Thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller, please . Hello, supervisors, my name is dianne and im a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific islander legal outreach. Were working with the firm of perk kins coy to represent tenants who are Small Business owners renting space in the Japan Center Mall. I just want to thank supervisors peskin and preston for taking the lead in introducing this emergency ordinance. These tenants have been almost out of business for almost five months and theyre being asked to pay back all their rent by october 1st. We need your support to help extend this moratorium and workout a deal for our tenants that they can stay in japan town. We cannot lose these tenants as they account t account to 90 in town. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Thank you, very much. Its a hard job. I cant do what you guys do. I would fall asleep. Sir, can you speak into your phone. We can barely hear you. Ok. Well, i guess he hung up. Operations is there another call, please. Caller can you hear me . Hi, my name is joyce and im a resident of district 3 in speaking in support of the ordinances introduced by supervisors peskin and preston. To stoppie convictions and extend the moratorium on rents for Small Businesses effected by covid. In the 1970 i was involved in commuting organizing to stop the further destruction of the japan townchinatown malil a town communities created by redevelopment. Fast forward to 2020 and the effects of the covid19 pandemic. Small businesses owned by people of color are most at risk of being wiped out. As a japanese american im concerned about Small Businesses facing eviction in japan town. If these businesses fail, it opens the door to property being sold to developers. They may transform the property and change the charter of japan town, similar to what happened to the International Hotel property in malil a town where the hilton hotel now stands. Please support these ordinance to give Small Businesses a fighting chance to survive and preserve our communities of color. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Great timing. Thank you. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello caller . If you press star 3 and you have are unmuted start speaking lets see if thats you. Well go bax to the next person. Can you hear me now . Yes, welcome. Very quickly, im following gill, marina and the atu local 1575 president and Mary Travis Allen and happy to be in that group. I note the unfortunate passing of ben and we should recognize City Employees with 25 years or more of service, i dont think the board does that now and could one of you ask dhr to followup and lets see if we can get a program to do that. And finally, operations, please unmute the next caller. Welcome caller. One moment. Hello. Start speaking. One minute is not enough, this is communism at its finest, folks. When theyre out of control, leftist of San Francisco get their way. We begin to lose our rights and madams to the attorney and madam clerk, 42 ufc1983 first amendment. I can say whatever the maam, you are welcome to continue. Your time is still ticking. Ok. All right. Operations is there another caller in the queue, please . Caller oh, wow, thank you very much begin. And im supposed to speak here in the budget i should talk weeks ago but i did a lot of budget hearings budget is not eligible content for you to speak on. Im not talking about the budget. I was not talking about the budget. Hello. Im talking about next years budget. Ways to save money. You know, im chinese but you know, the city doesnt need to pay Chinese New Year and im Third Generation and i dont really celebrate Chinese New Year myself. Why should can i pay, you know, i dont have to pay full price but i guys, its free. I can pay and i will think about it next year and we the. Thank you for your call. Operations, is there another caller, please. Hello, this is frank mack murry im an employee at the golden gate ferry which is part of the Golden Gate Bridge and im speaking on the same issue that marina spoke on. Were facing now the possibility of the prospect of being laid off and this is a huge problem for everybody because of course our Healthcare Benefits are tied with our employment and it means we lose our Healthcare Benefits and it also means that were getting laid off in an industry where there isnt any other work so there is no place else to work if we are with the gooden gate ferry. This is a disaster for our members so im asking, im hoping, that two representatives from the supervisor and supervisor and thank you, very much, i appreciate your help. Thank you for your comments. All right, operations, before you unmute the next caller ill just invite anyone who is in the listening queue to just press star 3, come on over and get yourselves lined up in the queue. We are going to take this group to the very end. Next caller, please. Caller next call, please. Hell oh caller. Just start speaking, lets see if thats you. All right. Operations, next caller. Caller hello. Thank you. Im sorry. I couldnt hear. I too am a member of the inland boat mans union of the pacific and im also an employee of the golden gate ferry as well. Id like to echo this words and frank mack murry who just called i believe and this layoff, this prospect layoff and extremely cumbersome to many of our families. Any loss would be horrific and i would just like to say the issuance of the worn, the issuance has been very debilitating and the moral, the environment, has been hostile in a way and lets say passively hostile and its just a very difficult environmental work and not knowing what our future is and just having the prospect raised at this point has been thank you, sir. Thank you for your comments. All right. Operations lets hear from the next caller, please. Good evening, supervisors. My name is ryan and im the owner of a japanese photo both shop. As a Business Owner for the past 14 years i can say its challenging running a Small Business in the city even before this pandemic. My kids are saying yall need to help us out my shop is in japan town where folks go to have fun and explore Japanese Culture but you know unfortunately with the circumstances it looks like it can come to an end. But its not too late to take action and say that thousands of other Small Businesses in the city. Extending the commercial conviction moratorium is great and i urge you to push the envelope further with Small Businesses to get back on their feet and you can snap a finger and its impossible to come up with six month rent but if you give Business Owners time it will give temperature a heighting chance otherwise we risk losing all the Small Businesses and many owned by people of color such as myself that make japan town such a unique place to live. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Perfect timing. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Ok. Operations, lets go to the next caller and well come back to that person. All right, were trying this caller. We hope you are near i couldnt phone we dont want to leave anyone out. Just start speaking if you are there. All right. Operations that completes the queue. Thank you. Mr. President. Supervisor yee seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call the for adoption without committee reference. Items 111 through 119. Ok. Items 111119 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee and out nan muss vote is required foray deposition of First Reading today and otherwise any member may require a resolution to go to committee. All right. Madam clerk, lets go ahead and is there anybody that wants to severe these items . Id like to severe item number 114. This is supervisor stefani. Supervisor yee number 114 . And, mr. President i would like to be added to 116. Thank you. Supervisor preston, i believe. 111, please. On the. So that leaves 112, 113, 115, 117, 118, 119. Correct. Go ahead and call the roll on those items. [ roll call vote[. Vote ] add me to item 112 112 and , aye. Peskin, aye. There are 11 ayes and we will add you, supervisor. Objection. Madam clerk, please add me to 112. I know we emailed that but i dont know if it got to the clerk. Well add you here, thank you. Without objection the resolutions are adopted and motion is approved unanimously. Lets go to item 111. Item 111 is a resolution to urge the office of the governor of the state of california to extend eviction protections and Financial Support for Small Businesses and their employees beyond september 30th, 2020 with a healthy economy recovery from the covid19 pandemic. Supervisor yee supervisor peskin. Mr. President , i had no intention of removing item 111 and i called supervisor preston. My apologies. Thank you, president yee and sorry for the confusion and i just wanted to thank supervisor peskin for his leadership on this item. He outlined the importance of this and no need to reiterate that. Were obviously looking at it expiring executive order and the neighborhood commercial corridors in our district but as you can tell from the Public Comments in my district this is crucial for japan town and we have have a number of folks and and who stated it better than i can. The Japan Center Mall is really in so many ways, the anchor to the january an Town Community and its the home to dozen of unique and really important Small Businesses in our community and including legacy businesses and these businesses through no fault of their own have not operated for months and they really are, we are looking at businesses that are on the verge of massey convictions and my office and supervisor peskins office have been working with they represent 44 tenants and theyve been attempting to negotiate with the landlords and comments to try to workout some form of rent re loaf or compromise and landlords, thus far theyve been unwilling to budge at all or entertain these discussions and these losing these businesses will be a profound loss not just for the merchants but for the entire cultural neighborhoods and one that has experienced in generation past that the trauma of mass displaysment and so we know what needs to happen to a void this outcome and the first thing that needs to happen is for our governor to step up and extend the emergency order to allow us to continue our prevention efforts and i want to reiterate my thanks to supervisor peskin for leading the way on this. Thank you. Thank you president. Ok. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. [ roll call vote ] i also want to be added as a co sponsor if im not. Can i also be add add as a cosponsor. Just in time. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, call 114. Ok. A resolution to urge the City Attorney and the District Attorney to investigate the Burning Man Party at ocean beach and to file charges against organizers for violating Applicable Health orders. Supervisor stefani. Id like to continue this item for one week. Ok. It will continue until next week. Why think we have to take a vote for that. Yes, mr. President. We do . Yes to continue this item to september 29th. Can i just ask, i mean, this seems like pretty routine and through the president to supervisor stefani and why do we need to continue this if they want to vote no, i have to condition it. Lets just see who wants to vote no. Im ready to support it. Did you want to continue . Is there a second to continue. The only way that we wouldnt condition it is if the result was unanimous and we cant vote on it today and it would have to be unanimous. You are correct. We can see if it is or not and. Mr. President , supervisor stefani can we have a little discussion about it and then if its on the agenda it we talk about it and hear if theres colleagues who disagree with this and why and continue it . I rescind my motion to continue it and happy to vote on it today. Any comments. Yes and im pulling it up but i was so grateful to supervisor stefani for her willing us to give us time to work on this and i shared my colleagues in the general sort of horror and shock about what happened at ocean beach. It seemed like a little bit much and i imagine that the full board would want to condemn the activities but im not thinking we should be calling for the time and prosecution of people over this. We can talk about it. Thank you supervisor stefani. So im happy to call roll for it. We have the option to send it to committee, is that correct . Its absolutely correct. One member can do so. What committee do you think it should be sent to . If they would like to send it to committee. Im speaking to the president. What committee would you recommend to this . Let me think. I would think that it could go to Public Service . Public service Public Safety sounds about right. That is where we, that is where you could have that kind of discussion. You know. And actually, ask the city and City Attorney what measures they would take because i dont think theyre here or available to answer those types of questions. Ocean beach is in my neighborhood and i havent had a discussion with the author about this and so i think it would be helpful to send it to committee. I think i understand and i heard supervisor stefani is open to that is there motion to accepted it. Parten my intrusion but did supervisor stefani want to send it to committee herself as the sponsor she could and. Thats fine. Ill send it to committee. Ok. Supervisor is there awe second. This is not necessary this is the issue with this part of agenda one member can do so to send it to committee i see that supervisor preston is still on the roster. I was on there if it was going to committee it can reserve comments i will just say briefly that i share some of the concerns supervisor mandelman has raised around the actual resolution calls for and when its too severe but i also just want to say that theres been a number of troubling gatherings including those hosted by churches and many that we see on a day bee basis and i am certainly interested in if its going to committee well hear about it there but just why the board of supervisors would be in what is the reason this is being brought forward. Were all troubled by larger gatherings and im unclear why this is singled out in this way. Im happy if you want to address that now or in committee, whatever your preference is. This is going to go to committee. Thank you. Thank you. So, that brings us to someone said something. I would actually like us to if i may and im thinking about this for a while and its not an easy thing but i would like to make a motion to rescind the vote on item 115 and is a motion to rescind the vote on 115s. Will a second . [ roll call vote ] there are eight ayes and three nos. Supervisor yee so the motion to rescind passes. I struggle with this and you know, i can tell you my struggle has resulted in me making this late in the evening motion. I have to tell you, i can produce the subject of any number of remark plea hateful antisemitic attacks by email and in perp on the street but this happens in San Francisco. Probably a lot less than in other places. After 20 years, i know how to suck it up and hang with it and it never feels good. When were in the middle of an election cycle, and there is applied for one candidate for one office and not another candidate for another office both of whom are proud jewish, i would like my name added to this item and to the president to supervisor stefani. As someone who is a proud jewish person of faith and who also is the subject of antisemitic attacks. I cant ignore these things and i think to myself, i can roll with this and handle this but i actually who experienced this i can turn to my right and during an election psychologistel if were doing it for one elected official we should do it for other elected officials. Im happy to vote for this but i feel like i should be included in this too and maybe supervisor mandelman has experienced this and maybe supervisor preston has experienced this and maybe supervisor haney has experienced this but i just wanted put that on the record. All due respect my straight colleagues urn generally called pepedophile. In the same breath, lets add supervisor mandelman to that too. Let us have this through the president be a combination of this kind of behavior against elected officials who only exhibits inclusiveness who only stands for unity and so yes, you have me at hello on that through the president supervisor mandelman and absolutely. Supervisor walton. Thank you so much president yee. I just wanted to, if supervisor peskin is making an amendment i would support that. Im happy to condemn anti sem tism and homophobic attacks on anyone who receives them. So if you want to send this to committee and or discuss it further, happy to do so because anyone who engages in such horrible anti sem tism, especially now, in homo phone i can attacks, im happy to include everyone who experiences it. If you want it to include everybody, im happy to do that or if you want to amend the colleagues here that are jewish, happy to do that. Whatever you would like as long as we continue to condemn antisemitism and attacks on people including homophobic attack and Death Threats and everything else, thats outlined in this resolution. I will let you decide what you want to do with this. So we also include racist attacks, quite frankly ive been subject to that. As the only woman of color on this board. Mr. President , sir. I think the findings in here are all true and correct. All of the recitals and the whereases are absolutely right and they could certainly be expanded and when we get to the one, the resolves they could be quite expanded and so that it is not about one elect official. It is really about the focus of hatred that often becomes focused on elect official and we are the man i havetation by the electorate of communities and color, religion, geographic communities. I would like to work with supervisor stefani and supervisor fewer and supervisor mandelman and i would like to make a suggestion that we continue this item one woke and i will work with to really denounce hate, of all sorts, particularly against people who do this as a matter of Public Service and so i would make a motion to continue this item one week and well work with supervisor stefani and mandelman to expand results. Thank you. What were you saying . May i respond . Go ahead. I have two other people. Just, thank you for the suggestions. I think while were at it we should also add misogyny on there and ive been victim of that several times. Lets go there too. All the attacks that happen on Public Officials and the Death Threats from the nra so we might as well as massag massage misogy to discuss all of this. Thank you president yee and i think we have all experienced these attacks and on Public Officials to i appreciate the conversation. I want to say the attacks, the really orchestrated attacks on senator wiener have been appalling and rightfully called out. I have a question and through the president to deputy City Attorney on the issue that supervisor peskin raised around timing and candidates. I would like to know if theres any guidance regard what is is or is not appropriate from the board in terms of resolutions in effect taking on attacks on a candidate and the numerous attacks launched on a candidate for office, for example. And latina, queer, indigenous person who i think that would likely not be an appropriate, i think its my question and i think theres a sensitivity in this body of not using the official processes to weigh in on the electoral matter and candidate races. As we consider this further and it sounds like theres some from the in considering it is there any guidance can you give us on when is it or is it not appropriate with an election so close for us to weigh in on resolutions direct low addressing those candidates for office. Anne peerson, theres an election hearing in need meetings and i appreciate you raising that point and it sounds like the amendment the board is contemplating are to expression the opposition to racism and all sorts of things more generally and not with respect to specific candidates and in the elections coming up. Thank you. And i just, you know, i want to be careful and i had an event just the other day and in which im not sim and a swastika was in the event and i would not bring it forward because it was something relate today a Campaign Type issue and it would not seem appropriate if it was something that deserved to be which we all would and i would assume that that would be an inappropriate and i dont know if my assumption is correct and genuinely tried to navigate as we talk about it whether its pro pro at given the proximity of elections. Its relevant in light of the upcoming election. Supervisor walton, i believe. Thank you president yee. I just had a point of clarification and moving forward the resolution to committee and as we brought injustices we inincluded in the resolution, are we adding names of people to include supervisor peskin and supervisor fewer and stephanie along with the senator . I dont think theres clarification and you can discuss with between today and next week, i guess. If i may, mr. President , im putting my name on the roster and i know that supervisor walton has been the recipient of the n word in public and on his fax machine and its something none of us talk about and i want to appreciate supervisor stefani for talking about this, lets be honest, people who chose to run for this office get Death Threats. That actually happens to us we get crazy emails and crazy faxes and we dont talk about it. But now that this is brought up, for which i appreciate, lets have a full conversation. Weve all undertaken the business of under representing people that make us the target of hate and hopefully not man fess the physically. Lets spread it around to the lbgt folks that get it and the women that get it and community of color that get it and lets spread it to the jewish people that get it and let this be a statement for all of us who any other comments. This item is continued until next muni which is the 29th. Well need a second on that and a vote to continue it. Its a different process than one member sending it to committee and i wanted and confirm with supervisor mandelman, did you want me to add you. I was added as a cosponsor. O. , ox. And who made it to september 29th. Is there a second . Can i have a second. Roll call, please. Item 115 to september 29th, supervisor preston. [ roll call vote ] clerk there are 11 ayes. Months t motion to continue e 29th passes. Thank you, everybody. This goes to. Today i have no member i am mor yums to present. Thats the end of our agenda. Madam clerk s. There any further before us today . That concludes our business for today. Ok, sorry, colleagues, its ending so early but meeting adjourned. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is naiomi kelly. We are joined here today with Adrien Adrian pawn, and dell seymor and mario pause. Were all here today because we want to make sure everyone fills out the census. It is our s. F. Accounts campaign is a multilingual, multicultural outreach that is canvassing many businesses, residences, and everyone to make sure that they fill out the census. We need to reach every corner of San Francisco to remove barriers for your participation. I want to thank you to our partners. The self help for the elderly and all those who are helping us making sure that every san franciscan fills out the census. Time is of the essence. Completing the census in 2020 is more important than ever. Census data informs our community Mental Health, child care systems, emergency services, nutrition programs, and education and healthcare resources. If we dont get counted, we wont get this important money that we need to serve our most vulnerable residents. This means more accountability and representation to make sure our most vulnerable communities get the funding they deserve. The census is ending september 30, in one week. This is earlier than originally planned. It means there is a greater risk of an under count. We need to get the message out today. This is a call of action. Do the census and do it now. It is easy. You can complete the nine questions in less than five minutes. I completed my household in three minutes. You can do it on you can fill out the census online at my2020census. Gov or you can call by phone at 8443302020. Remember, the 2020 census is safe and confidential. Your response to the census are protected by law and it cannot be shared by anyone including other governmentings a government agencies. Do the census and do it now. We have a call of action and we are kicking this off which starts at civic center plaza. I would to address adrian pawn to tell you about the events coming up for the next week. Thank you. [applaus [applause]. Thank you, naomi and thank you for your leadership. Lets give us up for ms. Naomi kelly, the city administrator. Hi, everyone. Thank you, first of all, for coming out and being present here today and helping us help our residents participate in the 2020 census. A lot of people in San Francisco face barriers, language barriers, digital barriers, and physical barriers to doing the census on their own. Thats why we are so grateful for all our community partners, the immigrant rights commission. I want to give a shout out to the immigrant rights share. Everybody pulling together, every community, district, neighborhood, to do this for the San Francisco family. So we are happy to launch todays event. Weve already had more than 50 households participate in the census. Thats going to help San Francisco get its numbers up. Because, you know, for every person who participates in the census, it brings in 2,000 each year for things that are important to the city, your potholes and p. P. E. For first responders, your hospitals and schools. Every person that participates means that 400 seniors or little kids get to eat before their daily meal every single year. Every Single Person can make a difference. As ms. Kelly said, we need everybody to go online before september 30, the last day of the census, and do the census. It only takes a few minutes. For those who need the help, this is why in the next days we are going to be out in the community, starting at civic center and tomorrow in chinatown, and on saturday at mendel plaza in the bayview and capping it off on tuesday, look for the big census bus, a lot of arts, billboards, a lot of lowriders and cars going all through the city to get everybody to participate. We can do this, but we cant do it by ourselves. We cant count on the Census Bureau to do all the counting. We have to do it for ourselves in San Francisco. We have to do it because there are a lot of people depending on us. I want to thank our community partners, they are the awesome people out here volunteering with our city staff from the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs. With that, im going to introduce somebody who doesnt need any introduction. He is the mayor of the tenderloin, he is our hero, and has been doing it for the tenderloin and the south market and district 6 since july of last year when we all started this, mr. Dell seymor. Hey, good afternoon. I will not be long. Until a couple of years ago, i thought the United States citizen count was the most boring thing, but now i want to find out who cares and what matters. If the people who are standing here today, if each one of you all will go and recruit 10 people to come and sign up for the census, that will be about 100,000 to the city. You could bring 100,000 to the city. Do you know how many shelter beds that is, how many showers, how many meals . Ask someone across the street what that 100,000 could mean to this city. They dont have any idea how many people are out here and on the streets and in need. They talk this b. S. That the africanamerican population is less than 4 of San Francisco. Tell me we are only 4 . Thats one of the biggest myths there is. We can bust that mist by telling those people who we are. Lets stand up and tell sacramento who we are and city hall and stand up and tell washington and number 45, i will not mention his name, lets tell number 45 who we are, what we dont have, what we do have and what we dont have. Its all about our folks right now. Were hurting real bad right now and no one understands how many people are in need on our streets. Come to the tenderloin and walk down the streets. Watch people go in and out. Go to some of the shelters in the morning where people walk out, not knowing where theyre going, not having any idea where they are going for the day. I dont know if you account for it. You know where youre going and going to be tomorrow, sunday, and next week. Our folks dont know where theyre going to be at 6 01. We can change that to get more funding for our communities in San Francisco, but we have to be counted and stand up. One of the shirts over there says im not invisible. We all need to be advisable. We are our brothers and sisters keepers. Thank you and thank you, folks, for inviting me on the program. God bless. Im going to bring up mario who will give you his spiel. Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to acknowledge naomi kelly and adrian pawn, and everyone behind me has been working so hard to make sure we get a complete census count in San Francisco. 2020 is a year were all going to remember. So many in our community have been beaten down by the pandemic and the economic fallout. Right now in the city hall are the mayor and the city leaders trying to figure out how to navigate us through this crisis. Its not easy. Its hard. We want to make sure that we get through this crisis where no one is left behind. The only way we can do that is to make sure everyone completes the census. We need every federal dollar we are entitled to. We cant do it alone. We need you to tell your friends, family, make sure your children are counted. They are the most under counted. Make a challenge in your own family to reach out. This is critical. Weve got 10 days left. There are events in the city if you need help completing the census, you can get the help. Again, there is a lot at stake here. This is a year were never going to forget. This city is resilient, strong, and has always been a national leader. We dont leave people behind in this city. We care about every resident. Thats what were asking San Francisco to do, to care for every resident. Stand up and fill out the census and be counted. Thank you. Let me do my cleanup duty her. This concludes our press conference. I want to thank everyone for being here today. Fill out the census. Thank you. We need you. [ ] in 201,755. 7 million passengers traveled through San Francisco international airport. We have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. Flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. The wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the San Francisco therapy Animal Assistant Program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. I amgen fer casarian and i work here at San Francisco international airport. The idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9 11. An employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9 11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passengers jitter. When we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. Passengers. We find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and cant have pets and we have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. I love the wag brigade. One of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and its on a different level. More of an emotional level. I just got off an 11. 5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. We look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. I like coming to airport its a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. They are required to compete a certification process. And they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. I think toby really likes meeting kids. That is his favorite thing. He likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. Our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches. There is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. We get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. The dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. There is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. I think its great. One of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. He wears a wheel around. He has special shoes and a harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. He loves it. Little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. He doesnt seem to mind at all. Probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. Many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. What i absolutely love most about it is the look on peoples faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. I am the mom of lilo the pig and she is San Franciscos first therapy pig. Lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig. Wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a yearandahalf ago. Our visits last 1. 5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. I feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. Its very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. Its been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. Its been an extremely successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi. Welcome, City Attorney herrera. Good morning. Thank you to mayor breed, chief scott, supervisors peskin and haney for joining me this morning to highlight our collective commitment to combating an all too familiar problem. Open air drug dealing in the tenderloin. Were all created to solutions to make sure we combat this epidemic that is taking control of the tenderloin neighborhood. This morning, my office sued 28 known drug dealers, file. They do not live in the tenderloin, but sell deadly drugs there. The drugs that are fueling the drug crisis in our streets. This is to stop the brazen drugdealing that has plagued this neighborhood. Last year alone 441 people died from drug overdoses in the city and the tenderloin had the highest overdose mortality rate of any neighborhood in the city. Enough is enough. These injunctions are carefully crafted to simultaneously safeguard a defendants due process while targeting with precision, the problem of drug dealers coming from outside the area to prey on tenderloin residents, housed and unhoused. This prevents the 28 named defendants from entering the tenderloin and part of the adjacent south of market neighborhood. Roughly from van ness to ellis and geary to mission. The tenderloin would become a protected zone and these defendants, none of whom live in the tenderloin, would be allowed to go there unless they had a lawful legitimate reason to be there. Were focused on the predatory repeat dealers selling the most dangerous drugs, including those leading to the most deaths. We have rigorous criteria. He or she was arrested at least twice for drug sales or possession of drugs for the purpose of sales in the tenderloin in the past year and a half. One of those arrests must have been in the last nine months. Both of the arrests must have led to either criminal charges by the District Attorney or a motion to revoke probation. The drugs involved were fentanyl, heroin, cocaine or methamphetamine. And the defendant is not a tenderloin resident. Has been given the opportunity to present their defense in court at a hearing and the court finds there is sufficient evidence to warrant the injunction. In other words, an injunction is issued if the need for it is proven in a court of law. Demographics or Group Affiliations were not considered when putting together these lawsuits. Violations of the injunctions will have civil and criminal consequences. Violations carry Civil Penalties of up to 6,000 per violation. Perhaps just as important, violations can also be pursued as misdemeanor crimes and subject to the defendants immediate arrest. An arrest leads to the search and confiscation of drugs or contraband a person has in his or her possession. These actions are aimed slowly at criminals coming to prey on the people of the tenderloin. We know who the predators are and we will not allow them to victimize tenderloin residents. Our message to these dealers is simple. If you come to the tenderloin, youll be arrested and your drugs will be confiscated. This is not a silver bullet. More needs to be done, including drug treatment options, expanded Mental Health and a focus on major narcotics suppliers, but this gives one more tool to the Law Enforcement to help keep the tenderloin residents safe. We need to stop this neighborhood from being used as the open air drug market. Our goal is to keep the dealers out of the tenderloin. The kids, the parents, the seniors, the workers, the Business Owners of this neighborhood have suffered enough and deserve nothing less. The tenderloin has the highest concentration of children in the city. It also has the highest number of Overdose Deaths and that is not acceptable. Once the pandemic improves, the kids of the pandemic deserve to be able to go to the school, playground, go see a friend without being caught in the middle of a drug deal or a person overdosing on the sidewalk. This wont solve the problem, but its a step work taking. I hadnt to thank the hardworking men and women in the San Francisco Police Department. Their diligence laid the ground work to put together this creative approach to Public Safety. I want to thank the team in my office that worked hard to come up with a way that will deal with a longstanding problem. I also want to thank our mayor for her tremendous support and leadership during this incredibly challenging time for our city, as well as supervisors peskin and haney, for their commitment to combating this problem. With that, i would like to introduce our mayor, london breed. Mayor breed good morning, everyone. Thank you, all, so much for being here today. I want to begin by thanking dennis has rare kerrera and the Attorney Office to deal with one of the Biggest Challenges in the tenderloin community. Not so long ago we set down a path to address what we saw as a significant increase in homelessness and tent encampments in the t. L. And we made a lot of progress. Over 400 tents removed with over 600 people. Were now down to less than 30 tents. And we drive around the tenderloin, we walk around the tenderloin, and you would think that nothing has ever happened there. That no progress has been made. You see hundreds of people on blocks throughout the t. L. Who are dealing drugs openly, in broad daylight. You see people pushing strollers, mothers, who have to go out on the streets to go around the drug dealing and the drug using and the challenges that exist there. I grew up in this city. I grew up not too far from the tenderloin in the western edition. And the tenderloin has always had its challenges, but it has never been worse. It has never been worse. And we cant do this work alone. We need to make sure that, yes, we address the challenges that exist with people who struggle with addiction. This is why im fighting so hard to get Safe Injection Sites open. Why im fighting to get expanded Mental Health support, because those of you who have family members who suffer with addicti addiction, you know how challenging it is to get them on the right path. We have to do more as a city to provide alternatives. And then we know the challenges that exist. The people who are being trafficked to sell drugs on our streets from other countries. The folks who are coming from other bay area cities because they know San Francisco is a place where they can make a lot of money. San francisco has become the place to go to sell drugs. It is known widely. And that has got to stop, because there has to be consequences. Look, i understand there might be financial challenges, but the fact is, we cant tolerate what we see happening in the tenderloin or any other neighborhood in our city. People have got to be held accountable for the destruction they are causing to these communities. And when we talk about destruction, were talking about the people who are dying in record numbers from drug overdoses right in the tenderloin. This is a commonsense solution to a very, very complex problem. And i really want to, again, express my appreciation to our City Attorney, Dennis Herrera, for not only putting together a unique plan, but for caring about this issue in the first place. And i want to thank him for working with the San Francisco Police Department to actually use data to inform this decision. We know that there is a lot of work to do. And we cant continue to let the tenderloin be the breeding ground for all that is problematic and challenging in our city. Its going to take helping with homelessness. Its going to take drug treatment. Its going to take supporting lowincome families and people who live in that community. And, yes, its going to take holding the people who are holding this community hostage with the rampant drugdealing that is completely devastated this neighborhood. We have to do better and we will do better. This is a step in the right direction. And im looking forward to seeing the results of this work. And i want to thank all those who have been involved and supportive of this issue. And we have got to get the job done and thats what this is about. With that, i want to introduce the police chief of San Francisco, chief scott. Good morning. Thank you, mayor breed. First, i want to start off by thanking our mayor london breed for her relentless leadership when it comes to this issue. As the mayor stated, this problem is pervasive and i also want to thank our City Attorney Dennis Herrera for an innovative strategy that really gives us a much better opportunity to turn the corner on the drug dealing in the tenderloin. I would like to thank supervisors peskin and haney for their support and leadership on this issue. Youll hear from them as well in a second. The men and women of the San Francisco Police Department and those say sign assigned to the tenderloin, have been working very, very hard to address the rampant drugdealing in the tenderloin. During a recent threemonth operation to focus on narcotics dealers, the tenderloin officers and the narcotics detail officers arrested over 267 individuals for drug sales. 267. And although that number may sound high, its just a drop in the bucket. Our officers seized over 144,000 in u. S. Currency and a combination of over 7,000 grams of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, fentanyl and other drugs. 210 of those arrests had prior arrests in San Francisco and 55 of the 267 arrests were in violation of courtissued stay away orders where they were prohibited from the area where they were selling drugs. 58 of those arrested live outside of the city of San Francisco. Now our efforts to combine or combat narc sales in the tenderloin are ongoing as of today. And todays announcement of injunctions filed by our City Attorney will help us address the concerns and complaints of tenderloin residents and merchants. And those complaints come pouring in daily. These dealers prey on a vulnerable population and contribute to the drug degradation of the quality of life who work and live in the tenderloin. These injunctions give Law Enforcement officers another tool in our tool kit. Violators face up to a 6,000 fine, misdemeanor arrest and officers can potentially seize money and drugs along with other contraband. With the combined efforts in the drug treatment and other Public Health strategies, we hope to have a positive effect on the quality of life in the tenderloin area. As was stated by the mayor i cant emphasize this enough we have to do more, we have do better and we will do better. We cannot and will not further tolerate drug dealers coming into the tenderloin from wherever theyre coming from throughout the bay area to ruin our community. The injunctions will make coming back to the tenderloin have more serious consequences. And, drug dealers, if youre out there watching this news conference, know that your actions will not and cannot be tolerated any longer in the city and county of San Francisco. With that, id like to turn the mic over to supervisor aaron peskin. Thank you. Supervisor peskin chief, thank you, City Attorney herrera, mayor breed, for what is truly a creative solution. This is not a silver bullet. It must be coupled with Mental Health services, with drug treatment, with the addition of sorely needed Affordable Housing in and around the tenderloin. A year ago supervisor haney and i went to a meeting together just up the street in the tenderloin wherein we witnessed an individual who was literally dying of a fentanyl overdose. We were able to locate some narcan and that individual is alive today, but that should not be happening on our streets. This is not only a creative solution, but it is one where City Attorney herrera has crafted it very carefully in conjunction with my office. Has done so in a way that honors the civil rights of individuals in our community. It is structured fairly and will be supported by the board of supervisors. I want to thank the City Attorney. Were going to make a difference in the tenderloin. And if this works, this is a model that be exported to other parts of San Francisco because when you look at those 441 deaths, it is true a disproportionate number of them are in the tenderloin, but those individuals who are preying on weak individuals in our community are not just operating in the tenderloin. And if this is a success, i look forward to working with the City Attorney office, the chief of police and mayor to export this model to the rest of the city and county of San Francisco. We are available for questions and comments. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Well begin with the q a portion with City Attorney herrera. The first set of questions are from kate wolf. The aclu and other Community Groups have said injunctions like gang injunctions used in the past dont address root problems and violate peoples civil liberties. Can you address how these injunctions will be different from those . One thing you heard uniformly, both from the mayor, from supervisor peskin and from the chief of police, this is part of a has to be part of a comprehensive approach that focuses on drug rehab, Mental Health and the like. So there is no doubt that we need to also get the root causes which are contributing to our problem. However, this is different from gang injunctions. This is not based on affiliation or status, it is based on going after individuals who have been known to engage in criminal conduct that has been charged by the District Attorney and arrests by the Police Department for known activity that has occurred in the tenderloin. The fact of the matter is, we carefully crafted this to make sure it was based on conduct, not on status or affiliation. And there is also the opportunity for if people have a legitimate reason to be in the 50square block area, the protected zone, courts, city hall, have all been exempted from the limitation of movement. So this is very different from gang injunctions. I think it is something people need to be aware of. This is based on conduct, not status. And demonstrable conduct from individuals who dont even live in the tenderloin and 27 of the 28 dont even live in the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you, City Attorney. The next question is from joe with bay city news. Why would civil injunctions be used instead of criminal actions if the city knows who the dealers are . Its another tool in the tool kit. Certainly, there are criminal penalties that can accrue, but the fact of the matter is, if someone is going to suffer a financial penalty of a significant dollar amount, that is something that dissuades individuals from engaging. With respect to these injunctions, you have two tools, a criminal sanction as well as a civil sanction which did not occur previously. This encompasses the whole tenderloin, where something that the chief referred to earlier, the stayaway orders in other criminal cases were designed to be with respect to one particular corner or block. It was not nearly as comprehensive as what were seeking here today. Thank you, City Attorney. That concludes todays press conference. Thank you, everyone, for joining us. The meeting is being called to order at 5 36 p. M. The meeting is televised on sf gov tv 2 or live streamed on the website. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 4155 4156550001, and then the number is 4156550001. The access code is 1466093005,