Clerk you can do it. It makes sense to do so. President yee is there a motion to continue this item to a particular date . Clerk the date noted on the agenda is october 27th. President yee made by supervisor press ki peskin and d by supervisor mandelman. Lets have Public Comment. Clerk operations, do we have members of the public queue in the ready to speak on continuance to october 27th for items 5255, the 617 sanchez street appeal . No callers in the queue. Clerk mr. President i recommend we wait just about 20 seconds in case theres someone watching television and they are faced with the delay. Anyone in the queue . I have one caller. Clerk please put them through. That caller hung up. There are no other callers in the queue. Clerk thank you. President yee thank you very much. I will call Public Comment is closed now. Theres been a motion and seconded it. Madam clerk, lets go ahead and call the roll on the motion. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, this appeal hearing will go to october 27, 2020. Please go to our next special order. Please call items 5659 together. Clerk comprised public hearing of associate motion for the appeal of determination of Community Plan evaluation for the proposed project 1088 howard street. President yee okay. This will be continued to a later date. Is there a motion to continue this item to october 6, 2020 . I want to make a motion to continue the items to next week october 6th. Ive in touch with the appellants and the project sponsors. They are amendable to the continuance. President yee is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second. President yee are there any Public Comments on the continuance of these items. Clerk operations do we have anyone in the queue . I have one caller in the queue. I didnt want to speak on this item. Im just queuing up for the next item. You can identify my call p. P. P. Clerk thank you. Anyone else in the queue . That completes the queue. President yee lets go and take roll on the motion to continue. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. President yee madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special orders. Please call items 6075 together. Clerk comprised four separate proposed projects. They share the same Party Interest project sponsor the municipal transportation agency. All items were noticed for september 22, 2020. Continued for public hearing until today. Items 6063 comprised public hearing for persons interested in determination of exemption under the California Environmental quality act ceqa issued exemption by the Planning Department on june 10, 2020. The proposed municipal transportation recovery plan, covid19 emergency temporary transit and bike lane project. Item 6467 associated motion for persons interested in the determination by the Planning Department on july 16, 2020 at the proposed m. T. A. Safety project. Item 6871 for persons in hearing of the Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act by the Planning Department on july 15, 2020 for the m. T. A. Department Operation Center covid19 emergency temporary street changes program and item 7275, comprised public hearing and associated motion to persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act issued as a statutory and categorical exemption by the Planning Department on july 1, 2020 for proposed m. T. A. Phase 3 project. All four projects has associated motion reverses the Department Determination based upon finding and approved the preparation of finding. President yee thank you madam clerk. Colleagues we have before us today four appeals for m. T. A. Proposed projects including the recovery plan, covid19, emergency temporary transit lanes and bike ways project and panhandle social distancing and safety project, department of Operation Center, covid19 emergency temporary street changes program and slow streets phase three project. These appeals are related to the Planning Departments determination, statutory exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act. Today i call items 4475 together. These items concern the ceqa appeals for the four separate projects undertaken by m. T. A. Since o on the on set of covid. The board regularly call items together where they contain similar issues and reduce for need of city departments, appellants and public to make or comment on the same points multiple times. In addition to covid19, board of supervisors has backlogged uses. Theres need for use and time sufficiently as possible. That said, these are separate appeals. The board will consider them as such. The public is also reminded that these projects as separate distinct. The public made comment on some or all of the projects and made comment in support of some and in opposition of others. Its a typical time that is given to parties it give additional time to the appellants, both to make their initial statements and for rebuttal. Here we go, up to 12 minutes for a presentation david fillpell who is an appellant. Up to 13 minutes for a presentation by mary miles who is an appellant for three of the appeals. We will also extends Public Comment to three minutes to allow for additional time. Three minutes per speaker in support of the appeal. Then up to 20 minutes for a presentation from the Planning Department and up to 20 minutes from project sponsor. Then three minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and support of the project. Finally up to five minutes for a rebuttal from david fillpal and six minutes rebuttal from mary myles. I want to acknowledge that the appellants have renewed the request they made last week and that the board continue these items until next week. Given last weeks motion to continue already gave the parties an extra week to prepare the cases. I do not plan to introduce a motion to continue any of these items unless you have any questions or concern about the approach, we will proceed. Colleagues, are there any objections to proceeding this way . Seeing no objection, the public hearing will proceed as indicated and is now open. After the hearings the board will vote on whether to affirm or reverse the exemption from Environmental Review under ceqa for each project. Seeing no names on the roster from my colleagues, i will ask the appellant to come forward and present their case. You have up to 12 minutes. Are you there . Can you hear me now . President yee yes. Ive been at this a long time. Im pretty exhausted and somewhat upset. Let me just start. I submitted a brief this afternoon about 2 30. I believe that was circulated. It is posted to the public in registrar under board file 200 200903 and attachment 22. The public has an opportunity they may want to read it if those of you on the board havent read it or dont have the time to read it, then i would ask you to continue this hearing today. Im going walk through that and im going to expand on some of the comments that i made in that written submission. In terms of tone, im going to try to keep my tone future or neutral or positive. Im pretty upset and pretty exhausted, this is certainly draining away my life and not in a way i signed up for. I talked about yom kippur and reminded of some things yesterday. Again, i hope you all had a chance to read this document. Second, i renewed my continuance request that i previously filed on september 11th and september 18th as i previously statemented. I asked for continuance for at least one week to october 6th. I was told last week that m. T. A. Can live with one week continuance. M. T. A. Would not make such request but they would not oppose it if they were asked by the board. I urge you to grant the continuance request so in the. Can speak to them unde so tht m. T. A. Can speak to this under their time. In the section under applicable law guidelines, rules and procedures, i summarized what i believe are the principle law guidelines rules and procedures at issue here. I also briefly discussed two process requirements some of which i learned about from the City Attorney government guide. I i have a section on procedural objections that i filed here. I want to say very clearly on the record, i have not filed any appeals regarding the panhandle project, shared spaces, slow streets or anything other than the two appeals that i filed myself. I want no association with those appeals that i have not filed. I object specifically to merging these appeals or consolidating them for purpose of hearing for any other reason. I talked in the brief about the language and admin code 3116 about consolidating appeals so they are heard simultaneously. That section only applies in my opinion to board file 200903. I seen nothing in the record that the board exercised the power containing that section. It includes that language. I dont think theres any other power to consolidate other appeals as youre now doing here for which chapter 31 could have provided. Im fairly sure that courts have interpreted similar statutes and concluded that authority is conferred. That is the only authority granted and the absence of other provisions is presumed intentional. I feel that im denied basic due process here, denying reasonable continuance request and providing treatment of appellants. I talk about that further. I related the discussion that occurred last week with supervisor peskin, which i believe violated board rules. I suggested a remedy to that today and talked about the importance of avoiding bias or the appearance there of basic tenant due process. I have a section in here for anyone who are not familiar with me about my history involvement with the city and my intention with regard to the appeals that i have filed. The ceqa appeals that i filed are brought in good faith, about controversial project with language and statutes and guidelines cant be interpreted differently. I have not appealed every action taken by the m. T. A. Nor do i intend to. I have a section about the m. T. A. , the covid19 context there. Some description of the two projects that ive appealed and some discussion of the status of implementation of those projects. Both of the projects i described here are pretty complicated. I tried to slow it down. I assume m. T. A. Will describe them further. I have asked at the end here for a more clear and complete description of these projects, where theyve been approved and the status of all of those elements. There could be thousands of locations across town. I have no way to tell where theyve been implemented, where they are on hold and where they are contemplated for implementation and what the status is. As for the Planning Department, its offices closed to the public and most of the staff is working from home. The public has no access to case files and trying to navigate through the Public Portal or whatever the new permit tracking system is called, its very difficult. Ii go on to discuss plans reviw and approval of ceqa exemption pursuant to memorandum of understanding between the two departments and its unclear whether i other city departments to review the aspects of the project of the Environmental Review process. I want to spend most of my time here on the central argument against the exemptions. Thats the Public Health emergency under other statutes is not necessarily an emergency under ceqa. I discussed statutory construction rules and i will leave that for you to read. I reported directly, verbatim language from the ceqa guidelines and from the law itself. In the last paragraph, said ceqa contemplate emergencies. I want to take a moment to cite from couple of cases if i have time here. Western municipal Water District versus superior court, its the leading case. One moment. Its a leading case on an emergency under ceqa. The portions that are relevant here still hold. Im not going to have time to read them now. I can if you have questions. If they are like our water agency is also still good. It has more on the concept of actions being necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency. Cal Beach Associates can be distinguished. It was without a retaining wall and in imminent danger. This was not about that. This is not about retaining wall, house or bluff. I believe it can be distinguished. Finally the marshall case versus one of the School Districts. To summarize, im asking for at least continuance to allow me at least to continue to meet and confer with m. T. A. I think we have talked a few times. Thats been positive and productive. There are other steps that i outlined at the end of my brief. This is not a popularity contest. Its about the law and public may not had time to read my brief file today. Would ask you that you post the m. T. A. And planning presentations that i expect they will be making shortly so i can review them briefly in preparation for my rebuttal time. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisors, colleagues, do you have any questions . I dont see anyone on the roster right now. Supervisor peskin i see no reason to grant a continuance but will be happy to adjudicate these matters this evening as the president ial debate is going on right now. I see no reason to continue this matter. President yee why dont we move forward. I will ask the appellant, mary miles to come forward and present your case. You have up to 13 minutes. Clerk operations, do we have a line which caller she is . Can you hear me . Im mary miles . President yee we can hear you. Okay. I had to call on the other line because i wasnt given operational phone number to call. I strongly object, filed objections to the way you are conducting this meeting. The merger of five different appeals into one essentially is what you are doing. These are separate appeals. They were filed in response to the separate actions of m. T. A. , entirely different in terms of the issues. I agree with mr. Pilpel that a continuance is needed. We have sum summarized objections which you have not acknowledged. I did raise my hand and wasnt allowed to object. This is usual here. You need to continue this because due process has been denied. You have published a misleading agenda to the public. Nobody knows whats youre talking about, what items being talked about, things have to be individually considered here. Yet, youre saying we only get 12 or 13 minutes to consider free appeals. Thats the administrative code and your rules provide for 10 minutes per appeal. Those are my objections. I hope im not being docked time to talk about substance. We have filed continuance motion on each of the appeals. You have not acknowledged them. We have filed three different ones. No acknowledgement, no consideration at any meeting, even though you lavishly confer continuances on the proceeding appellants without even asking. Pretty amazing. Ill move on because i guess my inability to be called on to make objections is being countyd against me for talking about the appeals or not . [captioners transitioning] an emergency. They are they are the crazies we have congestion, we have to make it worse. Lets make it worse. So thats what its about. And we have we have pretty well delineated the facts here in our brief which we filed yesterday. Weve had no time to brief most of these things or to submit the kind of information that would allow for an objective or meaningful review of the deal. So we know that its a done deal. You have curtailed our time. You have curtailed our ability to speak individually to these appeals. So, yeah, im just waiting for the 110, monkeyseemonkeydo thing, and surprise me and dont do it better yet, consider the continuouses that we have asked for and that have not been considered at all. Okay, lets go to what an emergency is under ceqa. If it is a sudden unexpected, with a clear and imminent danger demanding immediate action to prevent or to mitigate the loss over damage to health, property or essential public services. That is public resources, code 206. 13 where its defined. It gives examples, such as fires, floods, earthquakes. The and he did a good job of summarizing the case law. We have municipal which states that the that the construction of this definition is extremely narrow. That is, it cannot yo you hae to interpret it to give meaning to each word of the statute. And that case also says, in other words, is it sudden, is it unexpected occurrence . Is there imminent danger . And dont look to covid19. We do not have an emergency. Theres no doubt that we dont dispute that theres a Health Hazard on the ground. Thats not what this is about, however. This is about whether a renegade agency, m. T. A. , with its 7,000 employees and 2 billion budget can do whatever it wants without public input, or ceqa review or any review. And it cant that cant pass muster under ceqa. Its not that is not an emergency. It does not address an emergency. This project under 903, the temporary socalled transit lanes, we know from m. T. A. s own information that its not temporary, its permanent and it infers Unlimited Power on the m. T. A. s traffic engineer to change any of the streets. And in ways that are just totally impactful to travel. The next thing of course the question of necessity must also be and everything about an emergency exemption, the burden, is on the Planning Department to support that exemption with essential evidence of every that every word of that definition applies. And we learned that from western municipal, and we also have the water agency, the city clerk, santa wha claarita, and the cout ruled that it was not an emergency. That it just happened. A Development Plan was the project the project reDevelopment Plan. And the court deemed that not an emergency. It didnt because it was not just about repairing the damage from the earthquake, it proposed new improvements such as bikeways that did not exist before the earthquake. Thus, the port rejected it. That was not encompassed within the narrow specific actions necessary to prevent or mitigate an emergency that the republic sources code and the guidelines ceqa guidelines 15629c, one of the guidelines cited by the city as exemption. The mayors proclamations and 26 supplements by the mayor to the Health Hazard proclamations and the Health Officers numerous orders do not establish an emergency under ceqa. Theyre allowed under the government code, but theyre not substantial evidence of an emergency. So, again, covid has been with us for over seven months. Its ongoing. People refer to it as the new normal. And it is not an emergency under ceqa. So we have said why i move on very, very briefly, because its stated in our briefs. Youre not giving me any time. The project is also not categorically exempt from ceqa. Indeed, a categorical exemption for class one existing facilities and for a sudden occurrence, sudden unexpected occurrence, theyre just more crazy, absurd, ill logic from m. T. A. You dont have a sudden occurrence. Its mutually exclusive. You cant have a sudden unexpected occurrence and also have an existing minor alteration to existing facilities. So that is silly and almost frivolous. We have stated further reasons why this is not categorically exempt. And i wont go through them. It would take too long and you are only giving me four minutes for each of these appeals. By the way, ive not had time to prepare so im sorry if theres no researched speech going on here. Lets see. We also have strongly objected to m. T. A. s failure to conduct the public proceedings on this temporary project. And its misleading information to the public. I would remind this body that the director of m. T. A. Has himself stated that automobiles automobiles are the safest way to get around during the covid pandemic. Again, in our brief we go over that. I will move on to 200987, since i guess that i only have two minutes on this one. Yeah. We have objected to participation by supervisor dean preston on this appeal because he aggressively promoted this project and held private meetings. So on to formulate and to promote the project. In this project, we dont have a categorically exemption. We simply have an emergency exemption. This project, by the way, is a plan to make a permanent it is again a permanent project, according to the transportation engineer of the city who stated so, and we have cited that in our brief. It is not exempt from ceqa for the same reasons that we just cited the temporary emergency transit and bicycle lanes project. So it removes parking. And it places a bikeway in the left lane of one of the major traffic corridor in San Francisco, south street, which carries under normal circumstances about 30,000 cars, according to m. T. A. s data. So we to remove traffic lanes, create dangerous conditions there, the Fire Department disapproved it. I guess that theres some conditional something unclear from m. T. A. Where the Fire Department has been told that m. T. A. Will somehow are view whatever theyre doing at some point. Of course, we know that its permanent because he said so. Clerk youre muted, mr. President. Still muted, mr. President. President yee i will open up Public Comments for specifically those who would like to speak in support of the appeals. If youre here to support the appeal you will have an opportunity to come forward now and to up to three minutes. And for those who oppose the appeals, there will be an opportunity later in the hearing. At this time those who support the appeals, please, press star, 3, to be added to the queue. Madam clerk, would you please call the first speaker. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Operations, do we have the first caller in the queue . Yes, i have two callers in the queue. Clerk welcome, caller. Caller sorry. Thank you. Clerk okay, thank you. Well hopefully hear from you another time. Operations, please unmute the next caller. Caller okay, this is Bob Planthold, do you hear me . Clerk yes, mr. Planthold. Caller im sorry, because supervisor yee is muted. Im speaking on item 60 and 68 and their attendance following the public resolutions. My comments are mine based on the circumstances of the programs and not related to or dependent upon the statements, the arguments, that the appellants made im a senior with a lifelong disability that lived within a block of this area, Church Street, for 30 plus years. Market street is a major corridor. What m. T. A. Claims to do is to push more people off muni and on to the streets, exposing them to hazard injury. M. T. A. Didnt do a passenger count to figure out how many have to cross church, cross market, go up the elevator to get down into the subway. I will say that there is a problem that apart from the injury risk that theres also the fact that the shared spaces along Church Street have deterred people from going into that block to pick up food from the few restaurants who are viable. During the course of this project of shared safety, one restaurant has closed up and gone out of business. And safeway suffered a loss of business. And the cars trying to go to safe way that used to go up market is now deterred. So theres more cars zigzagging around the neighborhood trying to find a way around church and then get back to safeway to get in to shop so youre resulting in congestion and more pollution coming from cars, trying to get to safeway. But also of merchants who cant get into that block to deliver their goods and, therefore, theyve got to circle until they find a place and then carry it on their own into their own stores. This is causing big delays, greater hazards to the people who are muni passengers, especially like me, people who are seniors, you can kids, grandkids so this has gone without adequate analysis and its a hazard. Clerk thank you, mr. Planthold. Thank you. That completes the queue. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. President yee thank you for the comments. Since theres no other public speaker, any speakers to make Public Comment, Public Comment for this section is closed. Now we have we have up to 20 minutes for the representatives of the Planning Department to make a presentation. Hi, good afternoon president yee and board members. President yee hello. I am waiting a moment to see if my colleague, jenny, is going to share our screen and our project, our shared presentation. If not, i have it as available to share. She does not have access yet. I just created access to share. Okay. All right. Good evening, president yee, board members. I am marnie beale with the department staff. Im here with other staff, i will be presenting the departments response to the appeals of the statutory exemptions for the covid19 emergency temporary street changes program, and the panhandle distancing and safety project. And we will present the departments response to the appeals of the categorical and statutory exemptions for the covid19 emergency transit lanes and covid19 emergency temporary bikeways project. As well as the slow street presentation for phase three. This focuses on the Environmental Review and well give a brief description of the project and well rely on our colleagues at sfmta to provide a more detailed summary. And the department issued statutory exemptions related to emergency projects and we assessed two steps before issuing the statutory exemption. First, is there an emergency . And are the projects respondent to the emergency . The answer is, yes. Ceqa states that specific actions necessary to provide or to mitigate an emergency are exempt from the requirements of ceqa. Ceqa is defining an emergency as a sudden unexpected occurrence with a clear and imminent danger needing immediate action to prevent or to have loss or damage to life, property or health or essential public services. On february 25, 2020, mayor london breed had a local Health Emergency to address the spread of the coronavirus or covid19 pandemic. On march 16th, 2020, a Public Health order was originally issued with a shelter in place and since amended as more information and recommendations become available. Health orders are enforceable laws and are often accompanied by directives which provide legally binding instructions on how to comply with the health order such as maintaining six feet of social distancing in order to mitigate the spread of disease. Our pandemic is not explicitly listed in a enforcement code, and such as the covid19 pandemic, it falls within the category of events which is an emergency. Second, we assess if any of the exclusions in the exemption apply and the answer is, no. The emergency project statutory comevmention does not, play to longterm projects undertaken for the purpose of preventing or mitigating a situation that has the probability of occurrence in the short term. And social distancing and the covid19 emergency street changes program are accurately qualified as exempt from ceqa, because they meet the definition of an emergency project by addressing the need for adequate space to maintain six feet of social dancing. The panhandle project helps to alleviate congestion and the multiuse tasks in the pan handle of Golden Gate Park for Additional Space for bicyclists on bell street adjaysent to the panhandle. The covid19 emergency temporary street changes Program Helps to alleviate the overcrowding where queue lines are necessary to gain access to essential services and it also provides designated space for Curbside Pickup for restaurants and foodbased organizations. And this applies to either project because they are mitigating an emergency that has a high probability of occurring in the short term. We are dealing with the pandemic now. And we assure that both projects have been implemented using temporary infrastructure, and within 120 days after the local emergency declarations. I will now hand the presentation to my colleague jenny, and to discuss the other programs. Thank you. Thank you, lauren. Im jenny, the senior environmental planner with the Planning Department. The covid19 emergency temporary transit lanes and covid19 emergency temporary bikeways project would create temporary transit lanes, high occupancy lanes and bikeways on 36 corridors throughout the city. With health order c1907 arrives the individuals on Public Transit to as reasonably as possible to maintain social distancing of at least six feet from any other person not in their household when theyre outside of their residence. M. T. A. Can respond to overcrowding through many ways. Including by increasing the frequency of the transit vehicle, and providing other safe ways to travel between origins and destination for essential trips, increasing reliability to reduce overcrowding or all of the above. The temporary transit lanes would support sfmta in maintaining six feet of social distancing for people on transit vehicles, by shortening the travel times. And for the bikeways part of the project, would maintain six feet of social distancing through people riding bicycles and providing more dedicated space for that mode of travel. Thus, the project would mitigate the Health Emergency, with the statutory exemption. And covid19 Public Health emergency is ongoing. The high probability of this in the short term. Thus, the exemption do not apply to this project. The slow streets safe project would expand the slow Streets Program to 14 corridors throughout the city. It would create space on the project corridors for people to maintain six feet of social distancing while walking, running and bicycling. And, thus, it would mitigate the Public Health emergency. As stated before, the covid19 Public Health emergency is ongoing with a high probability of occurring in the short term, therefore, the exclusions to the statutory exemption do not apply to this project. And the Planning Department assesses whether the covid19 temporary transit lanes and the covid19 temporary bikeways project and the slow streets project are eligible for categorical exemptions. We also assess before issuing the categorical exemption. Does it meet the class one exemptions . The answer is, yes. And are other categorical exemptions to existing facilities, including the existing streets, sidewalks and buffering and bicycle facilities. And do any of these apply . The answer is, no. A categorical exemption cant be granted if it needs exception with location or significant effects due to unusual circumstances. indiscernible the covid19 emergency temporary transit lanes and covid19 emergency temporary bikeways and the slow Street Project have minor alterations indiscernible , therefore, meeting the definition of a class 1 exemption. It includes temporary infrastructure changes such as temporary signage. We also found that none of the exceptionions that proclude a categorical exception apply to the projects. In conclusion, each project meets the definition of an emergency project and none of the issues for the emergency project apply. The project is statutorily exempt. The two projects evaluated which are the covid19 emergency transit lanes and the covid19 emergency temporary bikeways project, and the slow street phase three project meet the definition of one. And none of the categorically exemptions apply to those projects. Those projects are also categorically exempt. And this afternoon we received supplemental briefs to the covid19 temporary emergency bike lanes. And the panhandle safety project and the emergency temporary street changes program. No new substantive information was presented to have additional response, and to this presentation. We recommend to uphold the ceqa exemption and the determination and to deny the appeal to the ceqa. That concludes our presentation and the staff are here to answer any questions. President yee thank you both. Any questions from my colleagues . Okay. So nobody on the roster then. I will now invite the sponsors. The sponsors of these projects to make presentations, m. T. A. Yo thank you very much. Good evening, president yee and supervisors. My name is sarah jones and im the sfmta planning director. I want to introduce the presentation of the four sfmta projects whose environmental determinations are before you today. So before you hear from the project managers, i just want to explain the Overall Concept behind sfmtas Emergency Response and why weve initiated these particular projects in response to the covid pandemic emergency. Go to the next slide. So this has been a lengthy emergency. We have been in a declared state of emergency since february. And i think that as others have noted that its reasonable to say that an emergency of this sort is not what the state legislature envisioned in creating this exemption. However, what they did recognize is that there are emergency circumstances where the discretionary decisions and the actions need to be made without using the everyday approach in response to the particular circumstances. So the circumstances for covid what we have needed to do is to collectively needed to find ways to conduct and to provide both basic services and Emergency Services in a way that minimizes the risk of transmission of coronavirus. So this has meant using the infrastructure that we manage at sfmta differently. Were carrying fewer people on our buses. We need to actively to support walking and biking at a much higher level than ever before. And we need to use our outdoor space on the streets to support city emergency efforts like testing and food distribution. And this is an unprecedented situation. And we are doing everything that we can to look out for human life and health. So were also finding that as the city reactivates more and more, these programs that were putting into place are actually becoming increasingly necessary. There are more things going on in the city and theres more cars on the street. But at the same time we at sfmta still have major capacity constraints and still need to be looking out for minimizing risk of viral transmission. So we need to use our buses and our streets as efficiently and as effectively as we possibly can. The projects and the programs that were talking about have all been authorized to be in place for the emergency period only. Id like to emphasize that. Unless they are considered and approved as permanent projects during this intervening time, theyre all approved to be in place only until 120 days after the state of emergency is lifted. And so now im going to pass this along to michael roads from the Transit Division to talk about the temporary emergency lane project. Michael . Sorry about that. Thank you, sarah. And good evening president yee and supervisors. My name is michael rose im the manager for the transportation recovery plan, covid19 temporary emergency transit lanes and covid19 temporary emergency bikeways project with the sfmta. The project is also just known as the temporary emergency transit lanes or title project. During the covid19 pandemic, our ability to provide Transit Service has been limited in several ways. There are fewer operators available due to health and safety concerns. There are fewer vehicles available due to increased cleaning requirements. And theres a diagram here that shows the capacity of each muni vehicle is a third of its precovid levels due to physical distancing requirements. Given these reductions in service and frequency, its critical that muni avoids traffic delays to reduce unsafe overcrowding and the amount of time that passengers spend onboard. This led to the creation of the temporary emergency transit lanes project which the sfmta board approved on june 30th. As this map shows, the Traffic Congestion was much lighter in the early weeks of shelter in place. As a result, muni saw a savings on average during that time and as the map shows in certain parts of the city the savings were much larger, up to 50 in some places. This is allowing more frequent service with the limited number of buses that we had available and the increased frequency also helped to support the physical distancing for our riders with buses coming more often. But were starting to see congestion return. And this is leading to more crowding guidelines, especially on our most heavily used lines like the 14 mission and the 38 derry. And the temporary emergency transit lanes project is designed to ensure that people who rely on transit has reduced risk of covid19 transmission and have a reliable travel experience when making essential trips and theyre not getting passed up by full buses. We can protect the buses from traffic delays and make sure that theyre running are liabley to prevent reliably to prevent overcrowding and reduce the amount of time on the bus. This will reduce the risk of covid19 transmission. The sfmta board approved the transit lanes on nine specific corridors which are shown in green on this map. A few of the corridors on this map are also bicycle routes and in those cases weve included accommodations for bikes such as allowing them to use the transit lanes as well. At the same meeting the sfmta board delegated temporary authority to the traffic engineer to put temporary transit lanes on additional corridors following the public hearing. These corridors were specifically identified by the sfmta board at that meeting and theyre shown on this map in orange and in gray. The sfmta board gave direction to staff that any corridor that generates a lot of concern among the local stakeholders should still be taken to the sfmta board for approval. As a result, the members of the public will have opportunity to provide input in advance of any future temporary transit lanes receiving approval. This project that sarah mentioned was 120 days after the emergency order is lifted for any corridor to be made permanent and the board of directors would need to approve the project following the additional Public Engagement and Environmental Review as needed. Weve taken an approach to Public Outreach with the Public Health emergency. It comes from the initial round including by helping to determine which corridors were approved on june 30th and which would undergo more Extensive Community outreach first. As the sfmta has moved towards implementation of these projects the staff have had virtual open house meetings with specific corridors to explain the project in detail and answer questions from the community. And to solicit feedback on evaluation. The community is helping to evaluate and to adjust the emergency transit lanes in realtime and were prioritizing with the historically underrepresented communities. Based on public feed back and monitoring, the sfmta can tweak or remove transit lanes to meet the needs of community and muni riders. And were looking at crowding as well as monitoring the impacts to traffic. Community feedback will also help us to determine whether to pursue the permancy on a locationbylocation basis. And its subject to the same separate Environmental Review as needed and a full approval process. Its an opportunity to respond to the emergency transportation challenges and to address the Community Needs and to ensure that Transportation Safety and Public Health during this unprecedented time. Next you will hear about the panhandle social distancing and safety project. Good evening, president yee and board members. My name is Elizabeth Chen and im the project manager for the panhandle social distancing and safety project. So in response to observations of overcrowding and lack of physical distancing on the panhandle path, the project provided a parking protective bikeway between baker and traitor streets. Since cyclists can choose to ride, and theres pore spac morr physical distancing. And we wanted to remove elements so they could have signs. And as you can see in the before and after diagrams shown here, one of the four thru lanes was removed as part of this project and parking was maintained on both sides of the street but the southside is now floating parking lanes. No changes were made to driveway access, intersections or pedestrian crossings. So in may before the project was announced we coordinated with the district 5 Supervisors Office and presented the project during an Online Community meeting we also launched a project website that included Contact Information for project staff, and additionally we worked closely with sfsd to address any concern that this project could increase Emergency Response times. Including codeveloping an evaluation and monitoring plan to assess the changes to travel times and with the sfmta board in august with the stipulation that the approval expires 120 days following the expiration of the covid19 local emergency. And like mentioned before, if any permanent changes to south street were to be contemplated, the sfmta would conduct Public Engagement, Environmental Review as needed, and project approvals as needed for any changes under consideration. The bikeway on south street was installed adjacent to the panhandle path. Next you will hear about the covid19 emergency temporary street changes program. Ian . My apologies. I was on mute. Thank you, elizabeth. Good evening, president yee and supervisors. My name is ian trout and im an emergency within the m. T. A. s transportation engineering group. On march 13th, the m. T. A. Formally activated our Department Operations Center Following the february announcement by the mayor of the local proclamation of emergency. Myself and about 20 other Staff Members are currently working at the department Operation Center or d. O. C. For short. The main goals are that we help the c. C. C. Or the Covid Command Center, protecting and limiting the severe illness and deaths from covid19 as well as preparing for and protecting the health and safety of the public and vulnerable populations from covid19. So on this slide and on the following slide im going to show you basically images of what the city has done in order to achieve the above those above goals that i mentioned. These two examples show a covid drivethru testing site. On the left. And on the right hand the photo, theres a paramedic vehicle parking that we have placed so that our emsa, or the Emergency Medical Services association, can deploy ambulances throughout the city to treat and to transport covidpositive individuals. On the following slide, these are additional photos showing how weve temporarily removed parking, in this case on the unit block of south street, to provide critical Covid Response building increased access to covid19 response buildings. And then on the photo on the right is an example of grove street in front of city hall which was a one daystreet closure for the food bank. In addition to this, there are other food bank locations, including grenwich and alabama streets as well that have been deployed. On the following slide, these images show a partial road closure or a 24hour fulltime road closure to accommodate the meals on wheels food preparation facilities as well as covid Field Hospital and a testing site. On the following slide, theres another this is photos of the tenderloin. These are examples, again, of parking lane removal or daytime street closures and are urged to provide space for folks to congregate and queue for essential services. And to get to get the need in that neighborhood. As many of you know it is one of the densist neighborhoods in the city dense neighbors in the city and it came about from a Neighborhood Assessment plan which was crafted in coordination with the department of Public Health, looking at ways in which we can reduce the transmission rates of covid19 as well as looking at other factors such as transportation, social distancing, mask compliance and other other factors. The last the next slide is the kind of the program process. And i want to iterate that the this program is very, very quick. Many of these photos that i showed and changes to the streets only last for limited durations. Sometimes only one day a week. Sometimes up to a month. And as folks know the city have an obligation to act quickly during the emergencies such as the covid pandemic. So once we receive a request from the Covid Command Center organizations such as the food bank and, for example, other anxiouses, the department of Operation Centers, we analyze the request and we implement it typically within two to seven days upon receiving the request. In the cases of the larger lane or road closure, we will take that through a process called covid task. Which stands for the transportation advisory staff committee. Its an Interagency Group that consists of fire, police, public works, planning, and other agencies that reviews these larger street changes that could potentially impact their emergency access or cause substantial traffic modifications. So as such, we use that process to make sure that all of the constituents and the various agencies throughout the city are aware of the change that is about to occur. Residents can always use 311 to ask questions and impose feedback. Many times we have made minor tweaks following the implementation of these temporary changes in the field. And next and the last slide is just two more photos showing the changes that weve made removing parking to allow for food palettes on alabama street, and then on pennsylvania in front of the s. F. Food bank, allowing for Curbside Pickup and drop off for volunteers helping to deliver the food to the people that need it. So next there will be a presentation on the slow street phase 3 program. Good evening, president yee, and supervisors. Im shannon higg, the Program Manager for slow streets. I come before the board i came before the board with appeal of phase 1 of slow streets so youre already familiar with these projects. These are temporary residential street traffic restrictions that create space for socially distanced walking and biking during the covid pandemic. Phase three, what were discussing today, includes 14 new corridors that have not yet been implemented. Theyre shown on this map in blue and these corridors were entirely Community Generated suggested by residents and stakeholders and neighborhood associations and even your offices. So phase three is approved by the m. T. A. Board on july 21st and, granted the categorically and the statutory exemption for ceqa which were asking you to uphold today. That concludes our presentation i hope that we have demonstrated the connection between these four projects and our covid Emergency Response and were available for any questions. President yee thank you very much for the presentation. Any questions . Okay, i dont see any. No one is on the roster. All right, lets go on to lets see if theres somebody from the public that would like to make Public Comments in opposition of the appeal. Or in support of the project. And so if you want to do that, press pound not pound star, and then 3 to be added to the queue to speak. You will have up to three minutes. Madam clerk, could you please call the first speaker. Clerk thank you, mr. President. We do have a special guest on this side. His name is Bob Planthold and he was entitled to three minutes. He spoke earlier for two minutes and i promised him i would let him finish his last minute at this moment. Operations, are you prepared to have mr. Planthold make his comments, please. Mr. Planthold, you have up to one minute. Caller okay, so what you folks arent aware of is that the j. Church project is not the Covid Response. So its not an Emergency Response. Just november last year, before he was hired, gave an interview suggesting the changes be made the point is this is now writ large but its not an emergency sentence. Secondly, when i mentioned about the hazards of market street, i was a witness to a person in a wheelchair being hit at market and church. You could have more of us now being out there. Beyond that, m. T. A. Did not tell people how they could protest, contest, any decision recommended by hearing officer at a public hearing recommended to the city traffic engineer. We didnt know when that decision was made. We didnt know who to contact, how to protest. The Planning Department was kept silent of all of this information that is relevant as to what manipulation, activities that m. T. A. Didnt do and did do, but which now biases the Planning Departments response because they lack what m. T. A. Should have provided. All of those are reasons the hazards and the procedural bias, they should be accepted and clerk thank you, mr. Plantholden. And thank you for your good nature on this. We very much appreciate your contribution. All right, so as the president stated, we are now taking Public Comment from those individuals who support the m. T. A. s project. All four of them. And who are in opposition to the appeal. First caller, please. I believe, mr. President , you are providing three minutes per Public Comment speaker . President yee thats correct. Clerk okay. Operations, please. Caller hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Welcome. Caller great. Good evening, supervisors. My name is jordan wing and im here with streets for people bay area. Im calling in to support rejecting the appeals before you. First, i want to briefly respond to a comment from the appellants. They alluded to cars being the safest way to get around during covid, but not everyone in San Francisco has a car. So for those of us who dont its vital to our safety to get around while also social distancing. That means High Frequency muni service and safe bike lanes as the sfmta has done. But, really, i dont think that i could imagine a more striking of example of just how broken this process is. Were in the middle of two crises, one is a Global Pandemic and the other is Climate Change that caused wildfires that made the air outside hazardous. And this allows sa san franciscs to safely travel outdoors and to have workers to travel without cars and had emergency food and testing sites to those in need. It took two accounts to abuse the Environmental Review process and to prevent the improvements in these areas since july. This is not the first time that ceqa appeal had months of delay and without efforts by the board it will not be the last. So for that reason, more than anything, i strongly urge you to take up legislation to fix this appeals process. Things that ive heard you can require signatures to file an appeal of an exemption determination. Allow the m. T. A. To continue work during the appeals process. Shorten the appeals window from 30 days after the determination to just 10 days. And to require the apel appellao raise concerns during the process, as san jose does. This is a step forward. If we want to meet the Ambitious Goals that it will take to keep our residents safe and to save our climate, well have to do better than the process that brought us here for now, six hours today. I urge you to reject these appeals and to reformulate this process. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets unmute the next caller, please. Are you there, caller . Caller hi, hi, yes, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Caller can you hear me . Thanks, sorry. Ironically im in a freaking car because we dont have enough Transit Service to get from one side of the town to the other for my sons soccer practice. So i have to here we go. My name is stacy reans did decker and im a 20year resident of San Francisco and a homeowner raising two children. Im gravely concerned about the state of this city and our planet. 47 years ago this body stated that San Francisco is transit first. In 2013, after averaging 32 deaths per year by Motor Vehicles, this body resolved that we should adopt policies to reach zero deaths by Motor Vehicle in 10 years time. Last february, the body resolved that the planet is in a climate emergency. Last october, this body declared a state of emergency on pedestrian and cyclist fatalities in San Francisco. At the close of 2019, we hit a 10year high of 42 deaths by Motor Vehicle, and a fiveyear average of 32 deaths per year. Thats five years, and deaths are completely unchanged from the adoption of vision zero. Let me connect the dots. Climate change is caused by Greenhouse Gases. Transportation is the number one source of Greenhouse Gases. Transit, biking, scooters and walking versus driving are ways that we can reduce Greenhouse Gases and prevent traffic fatalities. But people dont use them if they dont feel safe. If the past five years, we have lost over 8 million acres of california to fire with 3. 8 million okayer thimillacres thi. And the grass fire is still raging at 43,000 acres and zero percent containment and our fire season hasnt even started ceqa is the California Environmental equality act and its used to perpetuate Motor Vehicle dominance and insufficient housing. The very things that are killing us and the planet. I havent even said pandemic or covid once. These are changes that we should make despite that. Now that people must maintain physical distance, it seems absolutely unconscionable that we are indulging these frivolous and dangerous appeals. Plus one on everything that jordan said. Please, make changes to this ridiculous process. It has been completely bastardized and endangering our health and welfare as a city, state and planet. We need to reduce the use of Motor Vehicles and give people plenty of space outside and we need protected bike lanes and wider walkways throughout the city. We need mor more housing. We need to ensure that ceqa is used to help our environment. You have the power to change these things and inaction is equivalent to homicide by arson. Please act. Through the president , thank you so much for pulling over. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Good point. Okay, operations, is there another caller, please . Caller hello, im winston parkins and im here to speak in support of the temporary transit lanes and bikeways and ask that you reject this appeal. To reduce overcrowding and to make the muni lines safer for riders and to make it safer for operators as well. These are measures that will improve the conditions for taxi drivers and operations which serve our most vulnerable residents. Many of the clients that i serve at the Senior Center that i work at that is located on gary boulevard, ride transit. And the 28 and the 39 to get to food pantries and to get to the doctor and more. Like rob anderson and miss miles already tried a decade ago to advance these arguments holding up the transportation infrastructure for years. They have farcical evidence, while the state is on fire. And the western onethird of the u. S. Was on fire and this is just the beginning. Focusing again on Public Health, my sister who works as a stylist and lives in oakland recently was able to start working again in downtown s. F. She called me after her first day and said that she felt safe riding transit and a bit nervous riding bart because of crowding but fearful on 38 because of the crowding on there. Now she, a healthy individual in her late 20s, feels unsafe, i have to wonder how older adults, those who are immunocompromised feel and especially those who cant rent the zip car or dont have a car to drive as an alternative. I suspect that this is a reality that they are removed from, that they are declaring this is nottage emergency and theyre sitting in comfort while denying essential services. I ask that you ignore their farcical arguments and approve these transportation measures. Thank you, and have a lovely evening. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, is there another caller . Were hearing Public Comment from those members of the public who are in support of the m. T. A. Projects, and in opposition to the appeal. Welcome. Youll have up to three minutes. Caller hi, thank you. Can you all hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Caller hello . Okay, great. Hi. My name is alex howly and im calling in support of the measures that the sfmta is taking. I think that we can all agree that it is most certainly an emergency. Whether or not you are referring to the Global Pandemic or whether or not were referring to the millions of acres of california that have burned this year. And i believe that as measures to alleviate crowding and provide people with respite outside as well as safe avenues to walk or bike, and to have alternative ways of moving through their city, that these have been fantastic. I would absolutely reject the appellants claims. I cant really see the point of using ceqa, which is meant to be an environmental act to protect the environment, and using it in the exact opposite way which is to harm the environment. And so i would just like to support you all and thank you for your work and trying to make San Francisco a better place right now in the midst of all of this crisis. Thanks. Clerk thank you for your comments. So there are 16 listeners in the queue. And there are five members who are already lined up to make Public Comment. If you are one of the 16 listeners, please press star, 3, if you would like to make Public Comment on behalf of the m. T. A. S decision and in opposition to the appeals. Operation, next caller, please. Caller hello, good evening, supervisors. Sorry for that, im out of breath and working out while waiting my turn in line. Im mike chan and i live in district 2 and im speaking as a member of the Advocacy Group that advocates for walkable and sustainable and more affordable neighborhoods. You know, so i would like to talk about my experience in district 2, which has been that, you know, we really dont have that many slow streets right now. Wed love to see the slow streets to come through pacific avenue and on queen street but its hit by this appeal. Not jut out of district 2 but i go around the city. And the bike lane is wonderful and it helps to reduce the crowding in the panhandle. And im speaking against all of the appeals, and asking that you affirm the ceqa determination. And the other thing that other callers have also said is that we have a very, very low bar for people to file ceqa appeals, so even if people are doing everything right, something can be frozen. Something that i read in the laws around ceqa determination says that the boorld of board of supervisors has a time limit on how long a ceqa appeal is to go, 60 to 90 days. And frequently thats not really enforceable. So in addition to the other things that commenters have said around shortening appeal times and making sure that making sure that things are heard quickly, i think that its also speeding up the time that things are heard quickly and possibly allocating penalties in terms of the staff cost and the staff time if an appeal is without merit. And raising the requirements. And making sure that these appeals as required by state law have an avenue of being heard, but raising the friction because it doesnt make sense for one person to deny something that has been affirmed by so many agencies and so many people. And so in conclusion, please fix this process as, you know, scott wiener did in 2013. I think that was a good step. We should do more. I think we should do and to please deny these appeals. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. please stand by clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets unmute the next caller, please. Hello, everyone. My name is dave alexander. Im with silverton family transport. I want to thank our amazing m. T. A. Staff who present countless hours preparing this report. So im calling to support the temporary transit lanes and bike lanes. The one Common Thread that ive heard throughout the presentation and callers is that these projects, emergency projects, are helping people get their needs met, so its really important that we keep this in mind as we move forward. A third of Richmond District residents filed for unemployment in the last quarter, so thats a major concern. The other is, again, covid is an emergency, and continues to be. We must ensure that [inaudible] thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets unmute the next caller. Hi. This is hayden miller. Just wanted to voice my opposition to the ceqa appeal and voice my concern to the categorical exemption. More than 40 employees have tested positive for covid19. This is killing people in our city, and to try and prevent these projects that are speeding up our essential workers commutes, making sure its more safe for them, and its unconscionable. Theyre saving lives, and slowing them out, its terrible. I hope you guys will make the right decision today. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets unmute the next speaker, please. Hi. Can you hear me . Welcome. My name is joe dane, and im a district 4 resident. I want to thank the board of supervisors for hearing Public Comment today. Im calling to support the San Francisco m. T. A. S slow streets project and to deny the appeal. [inaudible] nothing normal about the time that were in, unable to make physical contact with others. Transit options are greatly reduced, and the spaces that we can go to and congregate in are greatly limited. Of course, not everyone is going to be happy, but it should be noted that the changes arent permanent. Id also like to add, and this is important going back to what stacey rendacher has said, speeding and other dangerous charges have increased significantly. At the same time, Police Enforcement for the focus on five violations and Traffic Enforcement in general has dropped through the floor since march and has accelerated this decline in total citations issued since 2017. Were issuing fewer citations than we did in january 2017, and 67 fewer citations than we were back in january of this year. My observation, if you draw them on the treats right now, youre at much them on the streets right now, youre at much more danger because the streets are empty, and the cars who feel like theyre on a racetrack. I want my family and kids who go bike riding with me, they can feel confident that they live in a community where theyre not going to get killed by reckless drivers, and they feel safe. I hope that everyone will be able to use the programs throughout the city, and im looking forward to participate in as a city that hopefully will be going live after this project. Clerk thank you for your comments. Great. Thank you for your comments. Operations, can you please unmute the next speaker . Hello. This is mary eliza. I sent in a few questions questioning the procedures. If the request is not granted, i ask that you deny the appeal. This sounds more like a Pilot Project than an emergency program. We just had a long conversation over the confluence of categories, and this sounds like a similar case. Were not sure what rules were following. People rely on physical delivery for access and customer pick ups and transit to survive. All of these emergency measurements may not allow them to operate in situations that are not listed. Were not sure what the processes are for removing the emergency state restrictions [inaudible] should each business address the District Office for relief or will there be a citywide listing of all the street restrictions at one time . We heard earlier today that that was the plan, but there may be some changes if people try to make these restrictions permanent during that time, so thats basically it. Thank you for letting me speak in favor of the appeal. I was not able to get on earlier today, so thank you for that listening to my request. Clerk okay. Thank you for your comments. We appreciate your contribution. Generally, these appeals are divided up in support of the appellant and support of the project sponsor just for next time. Okay. Operations, is there another caller, please . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk thank you, operations. Mr. President . President yee thank you very much. Thank you for the comments, and seeing no other speaker, then, Public Comment is now closed. Okay. Lets move onto our next segment, which is i will invite both appellants to present rebuttal arguments. Mr. Pillpow, you have two minutes, and mary, you have up to six minutes. Mr. Pillpow, please go ahead and start. Can you hear me now . President yee yes. Okay. I just got a message from at least one person who tried to make comments and who was unable to do so. Okay. Can you please warn me when i have one minute left . Thanks. The key issue here is still whether this is an emergency under ceqa, and i still didnt hear clear from m. T. A. Or planning how this was an emergency under ceqa, and if so, how the projects address the emergency. Please refer to the court cases that i cited and possibly others. Alternatively, a changed condition happens over time and allows time for Environmental Review. Here, exactly how do the specific actions proposed prevent or mitigate an emergency . All i heard from m. T. A. And planning was they allow 6 feet for social distancing. In that case, all sorts of things would qualify. I think thats a generalized assertion and not a specific showing. Next, why do these projects end 120 days after the crisis supposedly ends . Thats well beyond the end of the crisis, if it ever does end, and how do planning and m. T. A. Under what circumstances would m. T. A. And planning think that this becomes an ongoing condition . If were still at this two or three next year or two or three years from now, that is that still an emergency under their writhinking and non ongoing condition . Im thinking seven months in here, this is an ongoing condition. This is not an emergency or three days after a rock slide. I just want to respond briefly to a couple of Public Comments. I dont have a car. I take muni. I want all weekend muni routes back. I want to see the three jacks, the 7 balboa, and the 33 ashbury. I want to see all those back. I dont like the situation more than anyone else, but from my perspective, this is a difference of opinion. Id much prefer to spend my limited time working with m. T. A. And planning to improve transportations and planning and Environmental Review and engagement. I do not enjoy spending my time filing and following appeals like this. I would like to withdraw one or both of my appeals if i come to an agreement with m. T. A. And planning, which takes time. I can address any questions that you may have. If youve not read my brief, then please do so, and i just wanted to take some time to read from western municipal in particular, the emergency exception under 2108 ep4 is extremely narrow. Question particularly note that the definition limits an occurrence to an missiemergenct an action. If a damage is ready to burst or a fire is raging out of control, and human life is threatened as a result of delaying a project decision, application of the emergency exemption would be proper, but that but it goes onto talk about a more expansive view of an emergency would create a hole in ceqa fathomless depth and spectacular breadth. I could go on thank you. I could go on quoting from western municipal, which then cites two sorry, which then sites all kinds of other ceqa cases. Thats not the point here. I recognize that different people can come to different conclusions about this, and i would appreciate if people would respect my perspective here, even if they dont agree with it. Thanks very much. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin, did you have a question . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. Did the appellant in a couple of these matters just indicate that he may be willing to withdraw, and if so, through the president to the appellant, under what circumstances would he withdraw this appeal, which we have yet to adjudicate . President yee mr. Pillpow, you still on . Can i respond to that . President yee yes, you may. Supervisor peskin i dont want to violate the rule for a fourth time, but yes. No, no. Im now acting as an appellant, and we now have the opportunity to dialogue, so i think were good. Ill be willing to withdraw one or both of my appeals if i come to an agreement with m. T. A. Or planning. Ive been in discussion with m. T. A. Representatives. Ive suggested some points. They are considering those. It chiropractors further discussions. I have not had conversations with planning. Thats why it requires an additional week. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, mr. President. Mr. Pillpow, would you just state for the record what are you presenting to the m. T. A. , your terms of withdrawal for these matters . Well, okay again, with respect, i dont think youve asked other appellants to release agreements that theyve made supervisor peskin mr. Pillpow, through the president president yee mr. Pillpow, it was a question. You can answer or not answer. Its up to you. Ive suggested some outlines of some issues that involve a process, and considering restoring weekend Transit Service and reviewing the arrangements at church and market and west portal and a number of other things. Its a somewhat detailed and complicated list that id prefer not to go over right this moment, but i can just say that i have had productive conversations with m. T. A. Representatives. When were able to talk, we get work done, you know . Supervisor peskin so through the president to the appellant. So what youre saying is this is not an environmental matter, youre just using this as an attempt to leverage changes in Public Policy that youre desiring. Is that true . No, im sorry. Thats not what im saying. There are definitely issues related to Environmental Review. Im sorry i didnt comment on those just now. There are definitely issues as it relates to Environmental Review wiby the Planning Department that would be subject to further conversations. President yee so why dont we move on. If we have further specific questions, we can answer those, but i want to gave mary miles her opportunity to present her rebuttal arguments, and you have six minutes, mary. Hello . Can you hear me . President yee hello, yes. Okay. The six minutes to the citys 40 minutes and whatever else is going on here. I do have a few points. I agree with mr. Pillpow that the that either m. T. A. Nor planning has actually addressed on point each of these situations necessitating an emergency or the necessity of any of these projects. Theres no evidence, for example, that any [inaudible] that theyre making any essential trips. Theres been no origin or destination study or data that would show that anybodys making an essential trip on a bus or a bike or the other 98 of people that are using cars. And i heard m. T. A. , i believe it was mr. Rhodes, say is the pedal being temporary, this is not temporary. M. T. A. S own submissions show that they say its not temporary. Hes saying after 120 days, therell be some kind of Public Engagement and Environmental Review as needed. Well, the Environmental Review was needed before the project was approved, and thats established law. Same thing was stated by ms. Chen. Well have some engagement here and Environmental Review if needed. Well, you need to conduct an approval process that considers the Environmental Review and then allow the public, the general public to participate. Theres no public process, just as youre not allowing public process and arguing against the appeal from your perch. Some other people talked about covid being an emergency. Lets go there. Covid has, according to the department of health website, readily available, says it has 99 people out of 11 Million People in San Francisco or so in San Francisco that travel in San Francisco. 99 have died since february. Covid is contracted by 1 . I dont know if 1 tests positive or contracts the disease, but of that 1 , 1 would die. That would be. 001 . So lets get this out this. People are not dying, and San Francisco has the adequate facilities. That was a concern, and it turns out it has plenty of facilities. So again, even if it were a Health Hazard, and we dont deny that it is, it is not an emergency under ceqa, and the city has access to those facts. The other thing that im bothered by is that some members of the public seem to feel that they are in the majority for some reason, well, lets take that apart. Bicyclists have according to m. T. A. , bicyclists constitute 2 or less of the traveling public. That is the share for bicycling. So the vast majority of people, especially with covid, choose to use automobiles, and it wasnt i that said it was mr. Tumlin, the director of m. T. A. , who said that automobiles are the safest form of transportation during the covid pandemic. The whole incredible word description of fires being caused by me or somebody up here that files an appeal, its preposterous, and were tired of hearing that our right to speak and get redress should be limited for some reason. How do you know how many people oppose this stuff . You havent held a fair hearing. You havent given the people time to speak. [inaudible] you know . In any event, we also stated in our objections that we that this was a violation of the brown act, so i would mention that, as well, under the law and ceqa, the environment belongs to everyone, not just the 2 who have lots and lots and lots of leisure time to buzz around on their bicycles. You have no evidence that the people on the buses are president yee okay. So i think thats it, and public hearing has been held and is now filed. As previously discussed, we will take up the California Environmental quality act for each project, which involves the analysis whether the determination from the Planning Department was appropriate. To reverse the Planning Departments decision, six votes of the board is required. Colleagues, do you have any further comments . Okay. Seeing none, so supervisor haney . Im sorry. Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. I know its been a long hearing, but ill be quick. You know, i dont think that there is any question for this board or for our city or for the country that we are in an emergency. The idea that a handful of people would come forward, and with their own interpretation, say that we are in an emergency, and because of that, we need to expend tremendous time and resources and energy responding to them and justifying the fact that we are in an emergency when it was obvious to everyone in our city that we are is actually quite incredible. Being that we are in an emergency, it is obvious and necessary and essential that we would take emergency measures on our streets, removing targeted parking spaces, has helped save lives in our most crowded and impacted neighborhoods. The changes that have taken place in the tenderloin, and there are more that are coming, have meant that people can walk down the street safely, that people are able to go to food pantries, that they have space to do so; that people who need testing are able to walk down the street safely or have safe outdoor spaces. The emergency measures on our streets are absolutely necessary and essential, and i think its, as i said, incredible that we, during this obvious emergency, have had to spend so much time responding, that our agency is spending money and resources focusing on this peal rather than continuing to make essential changes on our street. So we absolutely need to move forward. And any further efforts to stall these projects would be both dangerous and irresponsible. So there is an emergency, and i think we should move forward, and i think its incredible that so much time and energy and resources were spent on this to begin with. President yee thank you, supervisor haney. I personally dont like the hearings let me back off. Im theres always going to be differences of opinions of people, and i honor the system where people can appeal, and sometimes, we have cases where people can do better. In this case, i did not think it was necessary for the appellants to come forward with these. Again, i agree with supervisor haney that although people disagree, this is not an emergency. You take peoples lives so lightly and people talk about oh, people die or whatever, i mean, come on. This is ridiculous. I dont know why people would say that. And here we are, we can prevent something. So and and again, i respect the appeal process, but in this case, i will definitely be supporting that we in all throu three or four cases, i will be supporting the finding of the Planning Department. So supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. And i just wanted to associate myself with your remarks and state the importance of ceqa appeals and the importance they play in our city and our state, but share your opinion of the appeals. I did adjust want to, before we move to the vote, address very briefly, since there was a question by ms. Miles, that i recuse myself. I do not want to do, and i just want to clarify for the record, my resident is not within 500 feet of the two sites that are referenced in these appeals. And also, that the standard it is not any involvement with underlying projects of the city that would require someone to recuse themselves. I have not stated a position until now regarding these appeals, and im fully able to dispassionately express my ideas on this appeal. So i just want to clarify that for the record. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I know that ceqa and due process is under attack, but we spent the time tonight maybe i wish i had saw the debate. Probably not, but i think insofar as i have read the briefing papers, listened to the testimony, i completely agree with the previous comments of president yee, supervisor haney, supervisor hess t preston, and would be happy to make a motion, second a motion denying these appeals and or voting for denial of those appeals. So thank you for colleagues, for listening to this. Its part of what we do, and i think its profoundly important that we all understand that, at the end of the day, we are the back stop for environmental n appeals, but all of these appeals do not meet the test. With that, im ready to make a motion or second a motion or vote for a motion. President yee okay. Why dont we go ahead and take items 60 to 63, which is the first of the four projects, and supervisor peskin, would you like to make a motion to approve item 61 and table items 62 and 63 . Supervisor peskin mr. Press, i would like to make mr. President , i would like to make a motion to approve 61 and table items 62 and 63. Supervisor ronen ronen, second. President yee ronen second. Okay. Madam clerk, roll call, please. Clerk okay. On the motion to approve item 61 and table items 62 and 63 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So motion to approve 61 and table 62 and 63 is approved. Supervisor haney, would you like to make a motion regarding 62 and 63 . Supervisor haney sure. Is it approved president yee im sorry. Im sorry. 64 through 67, which is to would you like to make a motion to approve item 65 and table items 66 and 67 . Supervisor haney id like to make a motion to approve item 65 and table items 66 and 67. President yee is there a second . Supervisor ronen second, ronen. President yee second, ronen. Madam clerk, roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to approve item 65 and table items 66 and 67 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee thank you. Without objection, then, items 65 is approved and 66 and 67 are tabled. So lets take items 68 through 71. Supervisor preston, would you like to make a motion to approve 68 and 69, im sorry 69 and table 70 and 71 . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee okay. Second, supervisor mandelman. Madam clerk, would you call the roll. Clerk on the motion to approve 69 and table 70 and 71 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So without objection, item 69 is tabled i mean, 69 is approved, and 70 and 71 are tabled. Madam so were going to go to item 72 to 75, which is our last of the four items. Supervisor ronen, would you like to make a motion to approve item 73 and table 74 and 75 . Supervisor ronen yes, so moved. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor walto supervisor peskin second. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the motion to approve item 73 and table 74 and 75 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, item 73 is approved, and items 74 and 75 are tabled. President yee madam clerk, lets go to our committee reports. Call the next item. Clerk item 76 was and 77 were considered by the land use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday, sept 28, 2020, at 1 30 p. M. Item 76 is a resolution supporting california state proposition 21, keep families in their homes on the november 3, 2020 ballot. President yee okay. Madam clerk, call the roll. Clerk on item 76 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 77. Clerk item 77 was considered by the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at a regular meeting on thursday, sept 24, 2020, at 10 00. 77 is a resolution determining that the issuance of a type 99 on sail general for special use Liquor License to the st. Josephs Arts Foundation located at 1401 horse street will serve the public convenience or necessarily of the city, and requesting that the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control kboes conditions on t kboes close conditions on the issuance of the license. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 77 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, its time to go to roll call for introductions. Clerk supervisor ronen is up first for new business. Supervisor ronen submit. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor steph othfani . Supervisor stefani submit. Clerk supervisor walton . Supervisor walton colleagues, tonight, i am introducing legislation to oppose proposition 20, also known as the parole and d. N. A. Initiative. I would like to thank my colleagues. Prop 20 is funded by Law Enforcement and the prison industry that have been losing money as a result of californias criminal Justice Reform in the last decade. Cri california previously rov overwhelmingly supported and passed two Justice Reform measures, proposition 7, in 2014, and prop 57, which gave incarcerated individuals convicted of certain nonviolent offenses an opportunity to earn early release. Both of these propositions led to a 25 drop in incarceration while statewide crime rates remain at a historic low, and new Crime Prevention programs were launched as a result of these reforms. Prop 20 will undo all this work by reducing the threshold for felony threats which transforms a number of offenses from misdemeanors to potential felonies by repealing parts of prop 47. Prop 20 will prevent some people from earning points for Good Behavior or repealing parts that work. Prop 20 will potentially return people to jail automatically for parole violations and require d. N. A. Collection for certain misdemeanors. Prevention should be the focus of our justice resources, an intention for both public [inaudible] and Public Safety. California still spends more than 11 billion on prisons, one that is far more than other critical public investment, such as hospitals. Prop 20, if passed, will increase californias spending on prisons by tens of millions of dollars annually. Incarceration disproportionately impacts black and latinx communities. One in three black men born today can expect to be incarcerated in their lifetime compared to 1 in 6 latino men and 1 in 17 white men. Similarly, 1 in 17 black women born in 2001 can expect to be incarcerated in their life compared to 1 in 111 white women. At a time when we are trying to recover from covid19, physical and community and health impacts, we should not be supporting a proposal that seeks to increase incarceration and increase costs to the state. Instead, we must continue to invest in our communities. This resolution, if passed, will formally declare San Franciscos opposition to prop 20 and urge other municipalities to oppose, as well. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee . President yee yes, thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor walton, can you add me as a cosponsor for your resolution . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. President yee submit. Clerk did you submit, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer submit. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. I have two items. The first is legislation that arises directly out of the Public Integrity review of the controller that was released this week, which included a recommendation to eliminate the egregious pay to play risk in City Government that have come to light during these investigations. The law im introducing, the legislation that im introducing will prohibit Department Heads from seeking solicitations from people for land use contracts or other contracts against the city. There was an explicit statement that in exchange for mr. Nurus assistance in steering contracts to mr. Bovis, mr. Bovis would pay to city departments of choice. The worst part is these shake downs happen without any regulation, completely behind closed doors, and are ripe for complete unethical behavior. We right now, our Department Heads who are much closer to the contract and permanent decisions that often happen behind closed doors are completely off the hook for contracts that they make on their behalf. The controllers report notes that the practice of mr. Nuru soliciting funds from interested parties or doing business with the city creates a perceived pay to play relationship. These unregulated fundraising transactions have created a situation where contractors can access business with the city or receive preferential treatment for donations given rather than the work that was done. This was a massive disserve to San Francisco and a blatant violation of the public trust. This will prohibit Department Heads who are very close to the control of contracted decisions from making decisions for donations to third parties at their Department Heads behest. I want to thank supervisor peskin for cosponsoring, the Ethics Commission and staff for their insight and partnership, and the controller and his office for their incredible work with the Public Integrity reviews, and City Attorney andrew shen. Im introducing a resolution on proposition 6. California has historically demonstrated leadership in advancing social equity issues and yet, with the passage of prop 209, california became just one of nine states banning affirmative action. This had a devastating impact on the public procurement process of state and local governments as it related to support for and intentional overcoming of systemic racism for disenfranchised minority requests. Black and latino children and youth in particular face unique challenges that often limit their access to high quality schools and good paying jobs, even when compared to white children that come from families with similar income levels. A Study Released by e. J. S. Found that passing prop 209 resulted in a loss of 820 million per year in contracts with the state of california. Bypassing prop 16, well be sending a strong message that californians are not only against racist policies but are in support of race conscious measures that can target opportunities to the communities and the people that most need them. Prop 16 has very broad support, and i hope that we will all join this very Large Coalition by having the city and county of San Francisco formally enforce proposition 16, opportunities for all, on the november 3, 2020 ballot. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor manndelman . Supervisor mandelman i would like to be added as a cosponsor to supervisor haneys proposition 16. Clerk thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar colleagues, im introducing a resolution to [inaudible] our city has implemented to help our neighborhood businesses navigate the unprecedented challenges on confronting them. Even with the phased partial reopening of different types of businesses this fall, which will expand with our states move into the orange tier today, neighborhoods and businesses will face monumental challenges in recovering and reopening for years to come. Since its launch in june, the shared Spaces Program has created a lifeline for over 1300 individual neighborhood businesses with approved permits, and many more through 26 shared spaces street closures so far. Out here in the sunset, the program has been extremely successful, supporting over 60 neighborhood businesses to expand to outdoor dining, shopping, and curbside pick up, and with thriving street openings on irving at 20, taraval at 46, and on 37 avenue, where our new outer sunset Farmers Market and mercantile launched very successfully during the pandemic. This is important for the Small Business program through speedy review and timelines, Technical Assistance, and High Quality Customer service, through equitable participation in the program, prioritizing lowincome communities and nonenglish speaking communiti communities. Id like to thank the Small Business commission and especially president Sharky Laguana for their advocacy for this shared Spaces Program and the resolution that they adopted in july that served as the basis for this board of supes resolution. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, let me just start by saying that i would like to adjourn this evenings Board Meeting for the former Zoning Administrator of San Francisco who served for 37 years in that capacity, robert passmore, and to his wife carolyn, and his children, grandchildren, our condolences. He was truly fair. He adjudicated every case with compassion and knowledge of the code, and robert passmore, may you rest in peace. I would also like to thank the individuals from the recreation and parks department. As about 8 00 p. M. On saturday evening, i received a text message, saying that coit tower had a leak at the fifth floor. I hustled up there not to many minutes later to all of the folks from rec and park and their rangers, mark and vince to daniel and raymond and jack and john for getting all of the water out of that building, turning the leak off. It was incredible, and those incredible w. P. A. Era murals done under the tutelage of diego rivera. I cant thank you enough. Finally, i want to concur with supervisor haney and commend him for working on our resolutions with the controller having to do with the corruption in public works, and im a cosponsor of supervisor haneys legislation. But id like to take it a step further, and i want to thank the controller and the city administrator for engaging with me and my staff the last few days about totally turning the page and getting rid of the incentive to bad behavior and corruption by completely terminating the relationships between friends and organizations and individual departments that are charged, as we saw, in the controllers report with funding from permittees and contractees even if they were strictest sources. Theres a better way of doing this by creating a department of philanthropy and donations and bequests to the city. So i look forward to working with supervisor haney, the mayors office, the controllers office, and the city administrators office, and with that, the rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston submit. Clerk and mr. President , seeing no names on the roster, i believe that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee okay. Lets go to Public Comment at this point. Clerk okay. Operations, at this time, the board of supervisors is going to hear from members of the public on general Public Comment on their policy perspectives. I want to just report, mr. President , that the interpreters had to leave about an hour ago. We appreciated their service here today. I want to just make sure that members of the public know that there is no commenting on items that have already been subject to Public Comment at committee or during a hearing at todays Board Meeting. And with that, operations, can we hear from the first speaker. Welcome, callers. Youll have up to two minutes. Hello . Clerk mr. Pillpow. Surprise. Mr. Pillpow. All right. So stuff happens. Im not talking about the things that we already discussed. Im actually calling about the in memory memoriam. Bob passmore was a good guy, and i wanted to say that. Clerk thank you, mr. Pillpow. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller. Okay. Can you hear me . Can everyone hear me . Im calling tonight to alert the San Francisco board of supervisors that you need to pass immediately resolution 201072 condemning homophobic and antisemite attacks against senator scott wiener. I must say tonight, for a president who has decided not to condemn White Supremacy, as a white man, it would be my honor to give my life if necessary to my jewish relatives and friends as well as the african americans. I also wear the cloth of our nation. Our president s failure to lead has become a National Security threat. I ask you to answer this countrys call and to pass this resolution, and make it explicit to supervisor stefani, when you attack terrorist organizations like the n. R. A. And white supremacists, your country is going to stand with you. It has to stop, and when voices like yours speak up, i will, too. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, supervisor stefani, for your work against White Supremacy and against the n. R. A. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Good evening. Im zach in district 6. I wanted to speak in favor of also item 80, the resolution condemning the threats and the attacks of senator wiener. I was particularly appalled that some members made next week. He put forward several rights for legislation to aprovide for equal treatment in the justice system. As a result, he and his family have been subject to over 1,000 Death Threats against him and tens of thousands of homophobic and antisemitic threats promoted by a member of our National Cabinet and a member of the president s family. People do watching and were paying attention when members of this board clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello, caller . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk mr. President . President yee okay. Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets call for the items for adopt without Committee Reference agenda, items 80 through 88. Clerk these measures were introduced for adoption without Committee Reference. A unanimous vote is required for adoption of these resolutions today. Any supervisor may require any resolution to go to committee, otherwise, you can ask to sever an item and have it heard separately. President yee okay. Are there any supervisors that would like to sever any items . Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. Id like to sever items 84 and 85. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin id like to sever items 80 and 86, please. President yee supervisor haney . Supervisor haney the item i wanted to sever was covered. President yee okay. For the remainder of the items, 82, 83, 87, and 88, madam clerk, call the roll. Clerk and i think 81, as well. President yee correct. 81, also. Clerk on those items [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So these resolutions, and the motions are approved resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, lets go back to item number 80. Clerk item 80 is a resolution to condemn the antisemitic and homophobic attacks on senator scottine irrelevant and urging social media platforms to protect their users from hate scott wiener and urging social media platforms to protect their users from hate speech. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I have some minor amendments to this item. And as i said last week, many of us have been the subject of hate speech, whether it is antisemitic, whether it is misogynystic, whether its homophob homophobic, weve all been a part of that. What senator wiener has been subject to is extraordinary, and what i was trying to articulate last week is we should all be against that. Hate against our elected officials should not in any way not condoned and should be condemned. But what i want to articulate this evening is there are media, facebook and twitter, that have been forums for that hate, and we have to acknowledge that, as well. To that end, colleagues, my staff have circulated to you a very minor change in the law of the title that sets forth that we are also condemning social media platforms for failing to intervene and protect their users from hate speech, and at page 1, line 6, i here by respectfully request and would like to make a motion to insert a whereas clause that as whereas, San Franciscos National Identity as a bastion of progressive values and diversity of elected representation that have historically made its officials the targets of racist, misogynistic threats and insert whereas the San Francisco bay area is the hometown of several bay area Tech Companies that operate largely unregulated social media flat forms, including facebook, youtube, and twitter, that use algorithms to target user activity but have done little to crack down on hate speech and doxing by right wing abusers of these high Profile Information sites which have caus caused irreparable damage to communities of concern. And i would like to insert after, and condemns these social media flat forms for failing to protect their members from hate speech. And be it further reed that the San Francisco board of supervisors directed the clerk of the board to send a copy of this resolution to the chief Financial Officers of facebook, youtube, and instagram upon final adoption. The speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, i would like to confirm these nonsubstantive amendments to you, colleagues, and join in the condemning of incendiary language by people such as ted cruz and rush limbaugh. President yee okay. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. I just wanted to state for the record that, you know, i said it before, that i wont pass up an opportunity to denounce homophobia and antisemitism. And after learning what happened to our state senator, who was acting to protect our lgbt community. I do believe we should stand together in the face of hate, and the best way to do that is to pass this resolution. On the whole, the amendments set forth by supervisor peskin do not diminish my original goal, so i have no objection to them. Thank you. President yee supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. I just quickly and definitely ill support the amendments, as well. I just wanted to say quickly thank you to supervisor stefani for bringing this resolution forward. I just want to say very clearly that i condemn, and i know that we all condemn the violent homophobia, the antisemitism thats been directed at our state senator. It is terrifying, horrendous, the heat thate that has been at him. Im sure youve known people ive had friends and acquaintances who came to me and said what is this . So i appreciate adding an element of the connection to the irresponsibility of our social Media Companies in allowing this hate to be distributed on their platforms. But over and above all, without question, full stop, we all should condemn the hate thats been directed at senator wiener, which has been unlike anything that ive seen in a long time. So again, thank you, supervisor stefani. I send this to the clerk, but i would like to be added as a cosponsor. President yee supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee. I just wanted to concur with a lot of the remarks that have been made. I think were aware of just how over the top the attacks on senator wiener have been. I did want to report back, since i raised it last week, as i said last week, my only concern was around timing, giving a pending race in which senator wiener is a candidate. I did have a chance to confer with City Attorney who assured me that that this type of resolution is appropriate, but i also think its appropriate for us all to look at the timing of these things. I do think that not ascribing anything to the timing of this resolution with respect to that race, but i just i think that as we approach balts dropping in Political Races ballots dropping in Political Races, its important to exercise care in what we brought forward. But i certainly appreciate all of the contents of this rez lieutenant govern resolution, as well, and all of the amendments, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. President yee thank you. Im glad that it seems like all of us will stand firm, and i always feel like i want to stand firm in condemning people that spread hate, and to anybody, in particular our colleagues in the elected world. And its appropriate for me to always support resolutions like this to continue to show our our intolerance for people who like the ones that are attacking our individuals. I personally would have supported the resolution last week as it was, in terms of what it was trying to do in terms of us Standing Firm, saying this is not what San Francisco is about, and we should never tolerate people, the things that are happening to senator wiener. However, the amendments that are being offered today does strengthen the original resolution, so im glad this is happening, but i would have supported the original one. So thank you very much, and everybody really working together and Standing Firm for what we believe in. I think were voting on the amendments. Roll call on the amendments. Clerk on the amendments to item 80 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the resolution is adopted unanimously or the motion to make amendments are passes. Madam clerk, lets take a roll call on the amended resolution. Clerk on the resolution as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the resolution as amended is adopted. Madam clerk, call number 84. Clerk item 84 is a resolution recognizing oct1, 2020 as korean chuseok day and honoring the Korean Center for its contributions to the Korean American Community in the city and county of San Francisco. President yee supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, this day is one of the most important and widely celebrated holidays in korean culture, and honoring it today is a tribute to the Korean Community which has contributed immeasurably to the city and county of San Francisco. No organizations has done more than the efforts of the Korean Center to keep chuseok day thriving. They have been an invaluable support for everyone in the city, i want to call out their work for underserved immigrant communities. The Korean Center has been providing Meal Delivery and critical Language Access programming to korean speaking residents, so they have access to the same Public Health care systems that we all do. Thanks to the Korean American Community and the Korean Center for their decades of support and best wishes to you all during chuseok day. Thank you. President yee please add me as a cosponsor. Clerk ill make a note of that. President yee okay. Roll call, please. Clerk on item 84 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes, and we certainly will. Thank you. President yee okay. So the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item number 85. Clerk item 85 is a resolution condemning antiarmenian acts of hate and supporting San Franciscos armmenian community. President yee supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. Supervisor stefani [inaudible] were subject to three violent acts of hate in less than three months. Sfpd special Investigations Unit opened an investigation into this incident shortly afterwards. Less than two months later, sfpd and the Fire Department responded to a fire in jordan park. This fire destroyed sunday school classrooms, and church and school records. Two weeks after the fire, the k. Z. B. School was targeted again as Police Responded to the sound of gunshots outside the school. If anyone has any information about these incidents, please contact the sfpds Anonymous Tip Line at 4157754444. And thank you to president yee for your amendment i think, president yee, ill let you say that before ill let you speak to that. I just want to say that these actions have no place in San Francisco. And thank you to everyone who came out to the armenian church, and thank you, president yee. President yee so we have some amendments added earlier to add a resolved clause in calling for a thorough investigation from attorney general xavier becerra. Schools are starting to reopen, and i cannot imagine the fear in families and educators, showing that this sanctuary was targeted. These are yet more hateful acts of violence here in San Francisco against our armenian community, and these acts are getting more brazen. San francisco stands with our armenian community, and we must bring whoever is involved to justice. We must look out for one another. This cannot be tolerated against any of our neighbors. Colleagues, i would like to include in the title a resolve clause urging an investigation from the California Attorney general. In the first whereas clause, we also offer an amendment to strike out parkmerced and include on brotherhood way. Can we have a second for this amendment . Seconded by supervisor peskin. Madam clerk, please call the roll on the amendments. Clerk i president yee supervisor peskin, did i want to Say Something . Pesk psk i ju supervisor pes want to say as a student who studied the holocaust in the 21st century against the armenian people, this cannot happen in San Francisco. When supervisor stefani and i appeared with senator wiener and mayor breed in jordan park, this this sfrifgs San Francisco is not a place where this can happen. San francisco is a tolerant society, but we do not tolerate anything like this. I want to say to our brothers and sisters in the armenian community, we truly have your back. President yee thank you. So, madam clerk, please call the roll on the amendments . Clerk on the amendments to item 85 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, the amendments are accepted. Madam clerk, please call the roll on the amended resolution. Clerk on item 85 as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Im sorry. Was that the amendments . Im sorry. Im getting tired. Clerk that was 85 as amended. President yee okay. So 85 as amended passes. 86. Please call 86, please. Clerk item 86 is a motion to waive certain provisions of board rule 3. 37 and calling for the land use and Transportation Committee a committee of the whole for an emergency ordinance to extend commercial eviction protections. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee, and colleagues. And thank you, president yee, for accommodating my request. Out of an buabundance of cauti, i introduced this emergency ordinance set forth earlier on the calendar as item 43 to extend commercial eviction protections in the event that that was not extended by the state, and i really want to thank my staff, lee hepner and ultimately, Governor Newsom did, in fact, extend the preemption of state law through march 31, 2021, which was followed by the mayors action today to prevent the eviction of Small Businesses at least through the end of november this year, which would be subject to extension, and i assume that will be extended. So those actions by the governor and the mayor have rendered this emergency ordinance unnecessary, and id like to table this item 86 and table items 42 and 43 that have not, i dont think, yet been read, but i would like to table item 86. President yee okay. Can i have a second . Supervisor fewer second. President yee second by . Supervisor fewer fewer. President yee seconded by fewer. Madam clerk, on the motion to table . Clerk on the motion to table, which essentially renders items 42, 43, and 86 moot before the board [roll call] wi with clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to table passes. So i guess we should go back to 42 and 43 and read it, call call those two items. Supervisor peskin they may be moot. Clerk they are. President yee so do we need to call . Clerk no, they disappear on the agenda. Theyre only on the agenda because of item 86. President yee all right. So theyre moot. Lets go to madam clerk, can you please read the in memoriams . Clerk yes. Todays meeting will be adjourned on in memory of the late city administrator robert bob passmore. President yee is it okay if we do it on behalf of the whole board . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee okay. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes the items before us today, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk. As there is no further business before us today, we are adjourned. 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1. Cut. We are here to celebrate the opening of this community garden. A place that used to look a lot darker and today is sun is shining and its beautiful and its been completely redone and been a Gathering Place for this community. I have been waiting for this garden for 3 decades. That is not a joke. I live in an Apartment Building three floors up and i have potted plants and have dreamt the whole time i have lived there to have some ability to build this dirt. Let me tell you handout you how to build a community garden. You start with a really good idea and add Community Support from echo media and levis and take management and water and sun and this is what we have. This is great. Its about environment and stewardship. Its also for the we implemented several practices in our successes of the site. That is made up of the pockets like wool but they are made of recycled plastic bottles. I dont know how they do it. There is acres and acres of parkland throughout Golden Gate Park, but not necessarily through Golden Community garden. We have it right in the middle of announcer youre watching coping with covid19. Hi. Im chris manus and youre watching coping with covid19. Today my guest is anastasia klaste and were going talk about how the pandemic has affected our school community. Welcome to the show. Hi thank you. I understand that our students and teachers have adopted Video Conference as Distance Learning tools to be able to continue studying remotely and this is clearly new for everyone. Do you have some suggestions to students and perhaps their parents that could help them manage this new approach . I think the best advice i can give students and parents is to really be gentle on yourselves during this time. The thing we dont really want to do is increase stress and anxiety amongst our students because they know it is a scary, uncertain time aside from the work. So, we are engaging in Distance Learning and providing work for students to engage in. The Mental Health of students and their wellbeing and safety is really at the forefront of our minds and so were asking parents to keep an eye on their kids and also asking kids to speak up and let us know if theyre having trouble f they need to talk to someone, if they need to take a break or they need more time to do work. Because that is really whats most important for us. Right. And what would you say to teachers having a hard time adjusting as well . I think our faculty is really lucky in that we were already utilizing google classroom in all of our classes. So the switch from inperson to online is not as extreme as it may have been to some other faculties in other schools. That said, most of us had never engaged in Video Conferencing or done any sort of daily online lesson planning. So, i think the same thing i say to parents and students i say to teachers is to just be gentle and give yourself space and know its ok to make mistakes and its ok if youre not perfect and were all sort of learning and doing at the same time. So, that can also be anxiety provoking and that can be hard for taoefers that are used to being really good at what they do and knowing what exactly to say and how to do it every day are grappling with new technology and theyre finding that students [inaudible] what they do in person. Are there concerns about College Admissions for High School Seniors and juniors . I think at first there was a lot of sort of confusion and anxiety for juniors and seniors about colleges. And now that the system has come out with some guidance and we understand that, you know, the s. A. T. And a. C. T. Tests wont be required for the next year, we know that universities have only agreed to accept credit or no credit or passno pass grades and looking at students across the country knowing that were in unprecedented situation now that weve got guidance of clarity around that. Students are feeling a lot more comfort. Comfortable. For our current seniors, most of them got their College Acceptances in february and march so those things shouldnt be changing that much. For juniors, you know, now that they know that they have to step it up for the next year because the grades that theyre getting this semester may not be letter grades, it might be a passno pass, creditno credit. But it seems from everything that i read or hear, theyre working really closely with School Districts to make sure that no student is, you know, adversely affected by the pandemic because of this sort of universal experience for all students. Indeed. I heard that some kids are worried that they may have to make up the work or retake the whole year . How likely are those scenarios and how will grades be assigned for this semester . Well, San Francisco unified has made a decision through the board of ed that there will be a signing. Creditno credit for 6 through 12th graders and that means that basically they will either full credit for the glass or wont receive credit for class, based on the work that they do and that goes into a gaap of neutral so it shouldnt raise or lower any specific students g. P. A. , but just give them credit toward graduation. From what i can tell, california has been pretty clear that no student will have to retake this year. As educators, we do acknowledge that thereby a little bit of catchup happening in the fall. Right. Have your students had a variety of different experiences during this pandemic . Yes. I would say definitely. Our school serves a big atrisk group of kids. We have students from every zip code and city, basically. And students from all sorts of backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses so on one hand they have their high speed wifi and its no problem for them to hop on a zoom call or get their google docs turned in and then we have a lot of situations where they may not have wifi so theyre delivering hotspots or they have a device but it is shared among several siblings or the parents are using it during the day and the kids have only a certain amount of time that they can engage. So, you know, something that the teachers have talked about being mindful of and im definitely being mindful, as a principal, is that our students are in various situations and we cant assume anything about their access in their ability to [inaudible] right now. For some of them, theyre caring for siblings or grandma, living at home. Many of them have family members affected by covid and so theyre in a space where theyre really just trying to take care of those around them. And academics are sort of on the backburner and for right now thats ok. You know, we sort of support them in whatever way they need. I understand. Have you been able to provide any Technical Assistance to your students or faculty . Yes. The School District had hotspots so i personally delivered about 50 chrome books to students and now were getting hotspots, which are wifi devices that utilize cell phone coverage in an area so homes that dont have wifi or homes that have spotty wifi can use these hotspots and the kids are saying that they work really well and now the district just got a bunch of them so were able to list them. So any family that needs them right now, which is really great. Now all of our faculties have access to high speed wifi and technology at home. We are providing them with the technology that they need to be engaged in this. I see. And finally s there any news about Summer School . There is. Sort of. Its happening. In some way, shape or form. But we dont really know how or where. Im assuming it will be online and, as usual, seniors or kids about to graduate will be prioritized so therell definitely be some Summer School, im just not sure where or what at this point. But theyre going to share information about that pretty soon. Unfortunately all the fun summer programs and jobs, the arts programs and language programs, the acceleration programs are probably not happening. But there will be some sort of Credit Recovery option for kids who need it. Right. Well, thank you for coming ton show. I really appreciate the time youve given us today. Yeah. Great talking with you. Thank you so much for having me. That is it for this episode. Well be back with more covid19 related information shortly. Youve been watching coping with covid19. Im chris manus. Thank you for watching. Good morning, and welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority for todays meeting, tuesday, september 22, 2020, our clerk is ms. Britney milton. Could you call the roll. Supervisor fewer present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor mar present. Supervisor peskin present. Supervisor preston present. Supervisor ronen
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