Transcripts For SFGTV SF Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

Clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy to receive your written correspondence and make it part of the official file. If you are using the u. S. Mail, address it to San Francisco board of supervisors, dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. You can live stream the meeting by going to www. Sfgtv. Org. If you have a television, you can watch the proceedings by going to cable channel 26. An important point is to be aware of the signal delay, and when you are ready to provide your public testimony, you must turn down your television and instead use your touchtone phone to listen to the proceedings. You will listen to the meeting and be in sync to provide your telephone couldment. The number is streaming across the screen and streaming on the internet. 4156550001, and when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. 1462287935. Press pound twice, and youll have joined the meeting as a listener. To provide Public Comment, press star, three, and listen carefully to the prompt, which is you have been unmuted, and you may begin speaking your comments right away. Now that you know how to access the meeting, i will take a moment to tell you what is appropriate Public Comment. There are two separate public hearings, items 26 through 29, the 617 sanchez street. Its appeal of determination for exemption from Environmental Review. I understand the president will entertain a motion to continue this item until november 17. That item, well take Public Comment on whether or not you want that item to be continued. Item 30 is a public hearing that is a report from the task force for the citys economic recovery. There will be a separate public hearing on that item. These items are noticed to begin no earlier than 3 00 p. M. Public comment will be called for each item. If your purpose is to provide testimony during general Public Comment, please wait for item 33 to be called, and you are able to speak on the september 22, 2020 regular Board Meeting minutes. The items that are within the subject matter of the board that are not on todays agenda and items 34 through 37, the items without Committee Reference calendar. All other items, items 1 through 25, as well as item 31, are not eligible for Public Comment as they have already had Public Comment taken at a duly noticed public meeting. We have interpreters at todays meeting. Please, will the interpreters introduce themselves in succession and let the listeners know theyre here to assist with Public Comment. [speaking tagalog language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk and thank you to all the interpreters at our meeting today. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of these proceedings, so if you are having any trouble with any connectivity issues, we have a live person standing by in the clerks office, 4155548584. And finally, pursuant to title two of the americans with disabilities act, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone early. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk, and we will get to that individual shortly. But before we do that, i just want to thank, once again, the residents of San Francisco for basically creating an environment in San Francisco in response to covid19 for us to be, in San Francisco, and even within the bay area, a role model for the rest of the country for how we behave when we are facing a pandemic. We are, as you know, yellow in terms of how we will come out of the this pandemic, and that means were able to loosen up a few more things, which means were closer to normal, but were still far from normal. Unfortunately, there was a little spike in our testing above last week. But even though we have a spike, were still better than most of the country. But thats a reminder that were not out of it yet. We need to continue to actually how we interact with each other, making sure that we continue to wear masks, making sure that we continue to social distance, and so forth. And if we continue to do that, we will continue to get better and better with our situation in San Francisco. So once again, thank you to all of us. It takes all of us to make the best of what were facing today. I also want to say that every if you havent gotten one of these yet, you know, its these i voted, already, please vote by mail. The city has made it very easy to vote at the ballot if they want to come down to city hall, even though it hasnt rained rain or shine, were going to have so many voting booths available, and our staff is actually wiping it down and making it safe for people. So that is open all week. Please come down if you want to do that, or make sure that you get your ballots in early enough to be counted. You know, we all know whats at stake at the federal level, whether we want a leader or not want a leader. And but locally, we have so many things, so many important issues for you to be a part of the decision here. We have issues do we want more processes for our residents here in San Francisco . There are several ballots to make that happen or if you choose not to make it happen, then you vote the way you want. There are Ballot Initiatives that will help our Small Businesses recover. So whether you want to support Small Businesses, we need your voices there, and we have several Ballot Initiatives if you want us as a city have better oversight on some of our departments. This is going to be one of those options where you get to weighin and say yes, we do or no, we dont, so please vote. And one more thing i want to say is today is a special day for many of us, but its a special day for one of our supervisors. Supervisor preston, if youre out there somewhere, happy birthday to you. Supervisor preston thank you. President yee and supervisor preston, im not going to sing, so sorry. Im just going to say happy birthday. Supervisor preston thank you. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets get to the person we want to accommodate at this point. Clerk okay. Operations, can you please pull forward mr. Karnazes, please . Hi, thank you. My name is zach karnazes. Thank you for this accommodation, although it has been very, very difficult to access this accommodation. I have emailed this department on september 19, october 6, october 1, october 13, and october 19, and every single one of those emails has been ignored by this department, and ive been very concerned about accessibility to these meetings as well as transparency issues and Public Access. As we know, these meetings are not available to those on the other side of the digital divide, which includes unhoused neighbored and many elderly folks and disabled folks. We cannot turn on our video or join via zoom, and yet, these meetings are pretended to be a public meeting, and theyre clearly not. Im also very concerned that theres a talk of changing covid zones and things being safer, and that was stated last week by the mayor here. And as was just mentioned, theres a spike in cases in this past week. Until there is a vaccine available, we should not be relaxing restrictions on our safety. Also, i started to have covid symptoms a few weeks ago. It took me six phone calls over the course of four days to get ahold of a covid nurse. This city is severely looking in its Covid Response as far as timely access. Lastly, i want to speak on meat haneys war on drugs. This richard nixonstyle rhetoric of attacking people who are really hurting right now. Instead of trying to criminalize black and brown people in the tenderloin and increase policing in our neighborhoods, i encourage this board to improve housing, especially in hotels for our homeless neighbors and to have a humane response to a desperate time and desperate acts of desperate people instead of criminalizing them. Thank you. Clerk okay. That concludes the Public Comment accommodation, mr. President. President yee okay. Okay. Thank you, caller, and madam clerk for arranging this accommodation. Next, colleagues, we are approving minutes from the september 22, 2020 Board Meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Supervisor mandelman moved by mandelman. President yee okay. And seconded . Supervisor walton seconded. President yee by supervisor walton, i believe. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on the minutes [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the approval of the minutes the minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madam clerk, lets go to our consent agenda. Please call items 1 through 8. Clerk items 1 through 8 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. Nobody on the roster. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on items 1 through 8 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinances finally pass. Madam clerk, lets go to our unfinished business. Please call the next item. Clerk item 9 is an administrative code, an ordinance amending the administrative code to require city departments to report annually information about the number, cost, and usage of vehicles the departments have rented for periods of longer than 30 days, to authorize the city administrator to inspector provide maintenance upon request for any vehicle rents, leased, or owned by the city, to require departments to submit information to the city administrator and the board of supervisors regarding the usage and safety of city vehicles, and to authorize the city administrator to require departments to develop correction plans to reduce speeding, idling, and or collisions involving city vehicles. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 9 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. I want to thank my colleagues for supporting this for me. Madam clerk, lets go to our next item. Clerk item 10 is an ordinance to deappropriate funds from various departments and to reappropriate several amounts to various departments to support district 7 and to support budgeting projects. President yee okay. Colleagues, i normally would let just have this come up with a vote without saying anything, but this is a program that i started in district 7 the first year i was a supervisor, and this is actually the seventh year, and my final year where im going to implement what we call the participatory budget being. This has been our most challenging year yet with the pandemic, heading just as were starting to resume getting people to vote on these items. To delay the program by adsh a we delayed the program by a few months, but it didnt stop the program. I did this as a way to forge stronger constituent relationships and, most importantly, to give our district 7 residents ownership in projects to improve their own neighborhoods. Residents 16 years and older can submit projects as long as they are a onetime expenditure and address emergency safety preparedness or cultural, educational, recreational or Small Business needs. Once all projects are submitted, district 7 residents vote on what should be funded. Despite having to go virtual this year, we still had over 1500 district 7 residents vote on this years program. The ordinance before you today reappropriates a further 532,000 in funds designated in fiscal year 20192020 for the district 7 participatory budgeting program. The fund will go towards 19 projects, including the play space activiation Disaster Preparedness program, school yards upgrades and enhancements around ocean avenue and other parts of the district. Since its inception, this p. B. Program has become a highly anticipated and appropriated aspect of forging constituent and government relationships and supporting Small Businesses in district 7. In total, this year, we have funded 126 projects to the tune of 2. 8 million through these seven years. Im especially thrilled that so many projects have supported our child funding cities initiatives, and that we have invested in and created play spaces throughout the district. I have been very proud of the increased activism and engagement of our activists and the projects this program has funded and ask for your support of this ordinance. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, roll call, please. Clerk on item 10 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the resolution is adopted or the ordinance is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 11 can we do through 13 together. Clerk items 11 through 13 comprise three leases with the United States government. Item 11 retroactively approves the rent between the city and the u. S. Customs and Border Protection to extend the lease to a total term of ten years, of february 1, 2003 through january 31, 2028 and adjust the annual rent to 833,000. Item 12 is a resolution proving rent between the United States government and the city and county of San Francisco, to extend the term by three years, for a new term ending september 30, 2023, and adjust the annual rent, increasing the annual rent to 569,000. And item 13 is a resolution approving lease between the United States government and the city and county of San Francisco to extend the lease term for an additional three years, for a total term of november 1, 2012 through october 31, 2023, and adjust the annual rent for offices to 2. 5 million occupied by the u. S. Transportation Security Administration at the International Incident national, and terminal two and land at plat 50dj. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i was wondering why the rent term was at risk. I found out that information, it was satisfactory, and i will vote in the affirmative. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on items 11 through 13 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 14 is a resolution to approve and authorize the director of property on behalf of the department of Public Health to amend the lease of Real Property located at 100 blanken avenue from Celestina Jimenez and salvador jimenez, cotrustees, at 90,000 per year base rent, and to authorize the director of property to execute documents and make certain modifications and take certain actions as defined here in. President yee all righty. Madam clerk, coahego ahead and the roll. Clerk on item 14 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 15. Clerk item 15 is a resoluti resolution authorizing the Human Services agency to apply for and accept a county Child Welfare agency allocation for an amount not to exceed 459,000 from the California Department of housing and Community Development under the Transitional Housing Program to help young adults secure and maintain housing. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 15 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item 16. Clerk item 16 is a resolution to authorize the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, h. S. H. , to accept a 100,000 inkind gift for diversity Equity Inclusion Consultant Services in a value not to compete 99,000999 from Tipping Point community to support the first phase of the development of Racial Equity action plans for h. S. H. And homelessness response system, and authorizing h. S. H. To accept an additional inkind gift of consultant avenueses in a value not to exceed 150,000 for a second phase of this project, for a total value not to exceed 249,999, and for the total term to commence upon board approval and to expire no later than june 30, 2021. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 16 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 17. Clerk item 17 is a resolution to approve a Municipal Transportation Agency contract for train control services and equipment purchases agreement with thales transportation and security, inc, to provide specialize the atcsspecific technical services, equipment, and Software Upgrades in an amount not to exceed 30 million for an initial term of seven years with option to extend two years, to commence following board approval. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 17 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item 18. Clerk item 18 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the department of Public Health to accept and expand a 1 million grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration for participation in a program entitled, ending the hiv epidemic, plan for america, Ryan White Hiv Aids Program parts a and b, for the period of march 1, 2020 through february 28, 2021. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, mr. President. As i said, with the airport item, i have reviewed the airport memo with regard to d. P. H. And find it to be acceptable and will vote in the affirmative. President yee okay. Madam clerk, call the roll, please. Clerk okay. On item 18 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 19. Clerk item 19 is a resolution to approve in accordance with with 147 section f of the 1986 Internal Revenue code as amended, the execution of a tax exempt loan or loans by the California Municipal Finance Authority in one or more series pursuant to a plan of financing and in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 3,700,000, the proceeds of which will be loaned by the authority to pacific primary school, a california nonprofit Public Benefit corporation. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets call the roll. Clerk on item 19 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The resolution is adopted unanimously. All right. Lets go to item 20. Clerk item 20 is a resolution to affirm the board of supervisors commitment to advancing Racial Equity and affirming the city and countys responsibility to address existing inequities in city programs, policies, and services. President yee all righty. Okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 20 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, and also add me as a cosponsor if i havent done so already. Okay. So the resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 21. Clerk item 21, ordinance to amend the administrative code to update the citys floodplain management requirements to conform to current federal flood plain management and National Flood Insurance Program criteria, and to remove obsolete provisions and to affirm the ceqa determination. President yee okay. Can you call the roll, please . Clerk on item 21 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 22. Clerk item 22 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the covid19 rent resolution and relief fund to provide Financial Support to landlords whose tenants have been unable to pay rent due to the covid19 pandemic. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 22 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to 23. Clerk item 23 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the Housing Stability Fund for the acquisition, creation, and operation of affordable social Housing Developments, establishing the Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board to advise the board of supervisors regarding the use of the Housing Stability Fund. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 23 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee the ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item 24. Clerk id 24 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the department of Public Health to provide Administration Staff to support the Behavioral Health commission to expand the membership criteria to conform to state law, and to reset all Commission Member terms as of january 1, 2021, to stagger the expiration of members terms. President yee supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. Im p im bringing this legislation forward so the Behavioral Health commission can continue to support the public to the best of their abilities. Currently, the department of Public Health awards a contract to an outside organization that serves as a fiscal agent to the Behavioral Health commission, and in that capacity, provides Staff Support. In april of this year, i became aware that the fiscal agent hadnt been mitt submitting timely invoices to reimbursement for d. P. H. As a result, staff hadnt been paid for several months, and i immediately notified the director of Public Health. As we all know, the p. P. P. Program was specifically designed to enable businesses to keep employees on the payroll after economic catastrophe instead of laying them off. The decision to get a p. P. P. Loan is a problem because the employer was funded through p. Ph. The department of Public Health is currently auditing the contract in a federal and an investigation into the status of the p. P. P. Loan was underway. While i was troubled by the status to pursue a p. P. P. Loan, i was equally concerned about the fact that our b. H. C. Was two separate bodies, one that was public and one that isnt. Due to these concerns, i resigned my seat on the Behavioral Health commission. The individuals who volunteer for this body should not be burdened with the responsibility of also managing the finances or administration of a separate organization. Thats simply not fair, and it isnt an obligation that we put on other commissions. Similarly, every other county in this state staffs there are Behavioral Health commission through the department of Public Health. I know that every member has spent an inordinate amount of time, and every time theyve had to spend time going over the paperwork for another Organization Takes Time away from the responsibilities that they were tasked with. Additionally, the legislation will stagger the terms of the Commission Seats so that they will no longer expire at the same time. Currently, nearly every seat on this body has expired and needs to be refilled or reappointed. I understand this circumstance has made it very difficult for the body to operate with a quorum, and my goal is to remedy this separation from occurring in the future. I want to thank the support of my colleagues for cosponsoring this legislation. Most importantly, i want to thank the members of the Behavioral Health commission who called to speak at the Behavioral Health commity last week and spoke about the dire need for reformat this commission. And thank you for my legislative assistant, andy mullen, who helped me with this as much as possible. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I just wanted to reiterate what supervisor stefani just said. This is actually a major piece of reform legislation, and i want to first thank supervisor stefani and her staff, andy mullen, but also the members of the board. When chip hillier in particular, who many of you will recall, colleagues, back when people could come and testify at city hall, would appear before us, and he actually alerted many of us, supervisor stefani and myself, about this broken function in government. So thank you, mr. Hillier, and thank you, supervisor stefani. This is, like, a really good piece of work. Supervisor stefani thank you, supervisor. President yee yes, i echo supervisor peskins remarks. Im so glad i appointed you to that to that seat there and for you to catch that. Again, its been going on for a while, and it took somebody like you to astutely understand that there was something wrong with the system that had been supported in the past, so thank you for bringing this forward. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk okay. On item 24 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 25. Clerk item 25 is a motion to approve the mayoral nomination for the appointment of Rachel Tanner to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30, 2022. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 25 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, the motion is approved unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to committee items, item 31. Clerk item 31 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require sellers of multifamily residential buildings to provide a new right of first offer and right of first refusal to qualified nonprofit organizations if a multifamily residential building is not under contract or remains unsold after one year and after each year thereafter; to require sellers to provide additional disclosures to qualified nonprofit organizations, to provide information to current tenants and assist qualified nonprofits with Due Diligence and to allow multifamily residential buildings acquired by qualified nonprofit organizations under the Community Opportunity to purchase act to convert to a limited Equity Cooperative under subdivision Code Division 11, and included from the Community Opportunity to purchase act land dedications to the city and county of San Francisco. President yee supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer copa has helped qualify nonprofits fur buildings at risk of losing their affordablity and preserve them as permanently Affordable Housing. And too [inaudible] supervisor fewer thanks to the success weve had here in San Francisco. I would like to thank all of our Community Partners which makes copa possible, and id also like to thank my colleagues who unanimously cosponsored the Ground Breaking legislation last year. The tweaks to copa and legislation are the result of Community Suggestions and enhancements fore the last year. It will allow nonprofits to be able to make an offer on the building by requiring the sellers to provide them with more complete disclosures, add clarification language to further prevent off market sales, exempt land dedications made to the city for the purpose of building new Affordable Housing, prevent megalandlords from potential workarounds by putting dozens of buildings on the market at the same time, overwhelming a nonprofit. It allows qualified nonprofits the option to convert rental buildings to limited equity coops as long as they comply with Affordable Housing restrictions. I would like to thank my cosponsors, supervisors wallet ton, yee, mandelman, mar, preston, peskin, and ronen for cosponsoring this legislation. Thank you, colleagues. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets please call the roll. Clerk okay. On item 31 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, we could briefly begin our next item, roll call for introductions, and shortly after, ill bring it back to our hearing. Clerk okay. Roll call for introductions. Supervisor walton, and as the president said, we will be interrupting it shortly for the hearing. Supervisor walton thank you, mr. President. Last month, our board as well as other leaders received an email from director Mickey Callahan of the department of Human Resources regarding an incident at the equal Employment Opportunity office where an employee had forged documents and lied to a black employee regarding their e. E. O. Case, including manipulating and deleting case files, forging communications, dismissing lawsuits, and misrepresenting the department and the city. There have been multiple black employees and other people of color who have complained about the mismanagement at the department of Human Resources for years, and before the news broke out on this incident, it has been documented by the black employees alliance and as reported by employees to our office. Todays resolution for introduction introduction urges the citys equal Employment Opportunity office to implement an option for an employee to give consent to share their e. E. O. Complaint with the office of Racial Equity as well as urging the e. E. O. To work with the office of Racial Equity on their investigations. This resolution also urges the e. E. O. To report the demographics of their cases to the office of Racial Equity and the board of supervisors on a quarterly basis. I want to thank supervisor fewer for leading the efforts to establish the office of Racial Equity. Departments are already required to report annually to the office of Racial Equity about the demographics of their workforce by race, on compensation, hires, motions, disciplinary actions, complaints made, and whether the complaints were investigated. Fraudulent actions by the former e. E. O. Manager were committed without oversight or accountability from the department of Human Resources, and this is unacceptable. This step is the first step of many to ensure that the department of Equity Office and the department of Human Resources are held accountability. I am also introducing a motion for a committee of the whole, requesting that the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and the Covid Command Center present their plans for the shelter in place [inaudible] mobilizations. We are concerned that after months of requesting more detail, the board of supervisors and operators of shelter in place hotels do not have the details on the plan, and where more than 2,000 people will be housed. We understand and agree that the shelter in place hotels are a temporary measure, however, Hotel Operators were only made aware of the timeline last friday. I also serve on the committee to make sure that we ensure that folks do not go back to the streets and have not seen this information. Along with this, supervisor haney will request a formal letter on our behalf later in our introductions. The rest i submit. President yee thank you. Madam clerk, i will also submit, and since im next on the roster there, and so well start with supervisor fewer when we come back to roll call. So right now, its 3 02, so we could go to our special items. Clerk okay. Items 26 through 29 were continues from august 18, 2020, and september 29, 2020. Its a hearing of persons interested in or objecting to the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under ceqa issued as a categorical exemption by the Planning Department on april 8, 2018, for the proposed project at 617 sanchez street. President yee okay. Its my understanding that these items may be continued to a later date. Supervisor [inaudible], do you have any further remarks . Supervisor mandelman [inaudible] i do believe this should be the last continuance and said that to both parties, but i would move that we continue items 26 to 29 to our november 17 meeting. Supervisor stefani second. President yee okay. Theres been a motion made and a second. Madam clerk, before we take the roll call on that motion, lets take the Public Comment on the continuance itself. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the anticipated continuance . Clerk operations . Operator madam clerk, there are no callers in the queue. Clerk okay. Mr. President . President yee thank you. Seeing no speakers for Public Comment, then Public Comment on the continuance is now closed. [gavel]. President yee motion to continue items 26 through 29, made by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor was it stefani . Clerk yes. President yee okay. To where are we . Clerk continued to november 17. President yee okay. Can you please take the roll. Clerk on the motion to continue items 26 through 29 to november 17 [roll call] clerk mr. President , well do our best to bring supervisor ronen back. Just suggest to pause for a moment. President yee okay. Clerk okay. Okay. To operations staff, i believe she is at her home office and is restarting her computer, mr. President. President yee all right. Well were moving quickly, so we have a minute or two. Clerk okay. President yee madam clerk . Clerk yes, i believe were getting closer. President yee okay. Clerk we have given her the callin line if her computer is problematic. President yee madam clerk, i suggest we finalize the roll call, and we can always rescind the vote. Clerk okay. President yee was that the final clerk yes, so it would be, at this point, ronen absent, but we would return to this, so there are ten ayes. President yee okay. So the motion to continue this item or these items to november 17, 2020 passes. [gave [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to our next special item. Clerk item 30 is a hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole on tuesday, october 27, 2020, at 3 00 p. M. To hold a public hearing on the findings and recommendations from the San Francisco Economic Recovery Task force report as it relates to the Economic Impacts of covid19 Health Emergency, supporting local businesses and employment, mitigating economic hardships, and ensuring a more resilient and equitable recovery, scheduled prudent to motion number m20143, approved on september 29, 2020. President yee okay. This was a report that president breed and i had proposed to help us recover quickly after the pandemic is defeated, i guess is the word that we should use, so this report is a long awaited report that all of us have been anxiously awaiting for. And so with that, colleagues, we shall now convene as a committee of the whole for the members of the board of supervisors to hear the findings and recommendations from the San Francisco Economic Recovery Task force report as it relates to the Economic Impacts of the covid19 Health Emergency supports local businesses and employee employment, mitigation economic hardships, and ensuring a more resilient and equitable recovery. And without objection, we will proceed as follows. First, well have opening remarks from assessor carmen chu. Then, well hear from rudy gonzalez, director of the San Francisco labor council, and then, the and then, rodney fong, the president and c. E. O. Of the San Francisco chamber of commerce. Then, well have an overview of the public process and equity review from treasurer jose cisneros. And then, actually a summary of the Economic Recovery Task force recommendations from heather green from the office of resilience and capital planning. Then, what ill do is ill invite my colleagues on the board who actually served as representatives of the board of supervisors on this committee, and they will come in this order supervisor mandelman, supervisor preston, and supervisor peskin. Then, well open well then open for questions and comments, and then, well have two minutes each for people that want to provide Public Comments. Okay, seeing no objections, we will proceed as proposed. With that, id like to welcome our city assessor chiu. Assessor chu, would you like to proceed . Thank you very much, president yee, for not only calling this hearing but for coconvening the Economic Recovery Task force alongside mayor london breed. I want to thank supervisors mandelman, preston, and peskin, who consistently gave your time to meet with us and share your comments and perspective as we embarked on this process. Ill be kicking off this presentation and turning it over to my cochairs and also to the city staff team who will provide an overview of todays recommendations. As you know, the economic roofer retask force sought to bring together a broad force of leaders to support the citys Recovery Efforts related to covid19. By convening a bold group of leaders, the task force was truly an opportunity to draw from the talents, perspectives of our many members. Each of these members on the task force served as a connection point to the communities beyond that and so that those constituencies that they represented would also have a direct line in the citys efforts in response to covid19. I think i speak on behalf of my cochairs when i reflect on the cochairs of the extensive public process this process represented and the emphasis we put on equality front and center. We partnered with the Human Rights Commission and many others to seek to ensure that the voices and perspectives of traditionally marginalized communities were heard, and we also made sure that each policy recommendation also provided an equity review to provide suggestions to deliver more equitable policies going forward. I think it shows we can do economic recovery in a more smart way and a more equitable way. Collectively, weve already provided ramps and relief to businesses, but we always know theres more we can do. These things are really great successes, but we know that its not enough. We know that unemployment is still high. Were at 8 , where not that long ago, we were looking at unemployment numbers of where like 3 . Tourism and spending are down 43 . In terms of a drop in sales tax, some areas in the city, its dropped as much as 70 , including our Downtown Core areas and other parts of the city, and so we look forward to your best thinking on how to reduce the burdens for our businesses, to encourage continued investments in San Francisco to make sure that were competitive, but also to make sure that as we think about connecting san franciscans to jobs, that we are helping to create jobs that are good jobs in this city. We hope the 41 recommendations that youll see before you today really provide a framework for you on how to think about recovery, and we all remain committed to helping and assisting you as we go. Before i turn it over to our treasurer, jose cisneros, i want to make sure i thank the city staff team. Thank you for your incredible dedication, to the cochairs, to our Task Force Members, thank you, and of course to the city departments who we couldnt have done this work without, our city administrator, oewd, the Human Rights Commission, thank you for your community support. And with that, ill turn it over to jose. Thank you. Thank you very much, carmen. Hello, everyone. This is jose cisneros, county treasurer. Im proud to bring you more information on how we worked as part of the task force. At this time, i think id like to bring up the powerpoint. Thank you very much, and thank you very much for bringing up my first slide. Let me talk a little bit how, you know, over 100 members of the Task Force Helped us connect to the San Francisco community. Many of the Task Force Members not only shared their own original perspectives, but they also conducted research throughout the San Francisco community. They administered Public Surveys. They actually had inperson interviews and conversations, and they worked through formal focus groups as well as neighborhood presentations. They made presentations as various city bodies, including the immigrants rights commission, the commission on the environment, the Small Business commission, and the commission on the status of women. These outreach efforts brought us information from over 1,000 members of the San Francisco community, and we see on this slide what many of the things we heard from the Public Survey and the community outreach. Certainly, Financial Assistance to businesses was the most desired category and reaction that we heard from Business Owners, but we really learned more when we started to reach out this way. We heard that not only was Financial Assistance [inaudible] but we also wanted to find ways to make businesses more successful, whether that was looking at conditions of usage of the street, about how we can look at specific needs of the disability community, and how we could particularly focus on Business Owners of color that had in particular needs screening, technical assistance, cultural competence, language, and beyond. This was extremely value as the city put together its response to the covid19 pandemic, and weve seen many of these conditions be reflected in the way weve reached out across the community. Next slide, please. Particularly what we heard was we heard many more specifics when it came to what we heard in our individual policy working groups. We created four policy working groups, and in the jobs and businesses working group, we of course not only reflected on the needs of businesses large and small, but we really looked at ways how we could reduce expenses and particularly support workers for many of these businesses. We also had a specific policy group looking at vulnerable populations. And here, we really got down into what many of the individual needs and members of our community are concerned with how we could build access to opportunities in Affordable Housing, and how we could particularly address inequities so that people who were already suffering before the pandemic hit would not receive increased impairments and sufferings and would not have their suffering extend longer. We wanted to bring particular focus to their needs. We looked at the area of economic development, and how we could do things like cut read tape and find more flexible uses for zoning codes and other codes that the city has so that we could really streamline the best ways that businesses could bounce back and find their way forward. And we also looked at arts, culture, hospitality, and enter tanment and how we could employ and activate spaces to these particular businesses and individuals could find a way to engage with their with their customers and their audiences and employ their workforce more productively. These are the kinds of things we looked at, and im very proud of the work that was done by the members of the Economic Recovery Task force, and we look forward to hearing about their recommendations later on today. I just want to urge all members of City Government and you, the members of the board of supervisors, to, when you hear about these recommendations, please open your minds and be as creative as possible with solutions. I think weve already seen a number of Creative Solutions like, for example, reusing former hotels for housing, all sorts of things. These are the kinds of creative thinking we need as we address the needs created out of this pandemic and how we can bring more solutions to our community moving forward. And with that, ill hand it over to my coach, Rudy Gonzales. Thank you, jose. Its been a cochair, Rudy Gonzales. Thank you, jose. Its been great to work alongside the cochairs, mayor breed and president yee. I come to you not just grateful for the experience but with a renewed sense of urgency. One of the slide decks that you saw as they put up, you saw kind of the intersection of our areas of focus. And the vulnerable populations area is one that, you know, really insected and overlapped with all of the work that was occurring. Youre going to be presented with a number of policy recommendations and generalizations in this report. Theres a real sense of urgency on the ground for immigrant workers, for black and Indigenous People of color, for workers who never sheltered in place, who juggled child care and School Closures and kept coming to work, and its with that lens that i have to approach this experience. As a labor leader, i can tell you that the cost of recovery is high. It is always approached from the perspective of statistics and numbers, but i would urge this policy making body to think of it in terms of the cost of human life. And when you think about eliminating red tape, and you think about the opportunities that exist to provide flexibility, i have to urge you to think about the impact of working class people when you make those decisions. Now im proud there was an equity lens taken to all of this. I think that the staff of the city who, in the middle of a pandemic response, pivoted and shifted into Research Functions and Staff Support functions all need to be commended. They have earned the respect, and they deserve the gratitude of the citys leadership for stepping up to the place and moving into this function in addition to their Disaster Service work, in addition to their regular civil service. We are certainly grateful for their response. On the ground, we still have frontline and essential workers in both the public and private sector who are counting on the confidence of city leaders, theyre counting on the unity of city leaders in this response, and theyre counting you on taking the report and some of its findings to the next level. We could not have captured every possibly variance, and ill tell you its been frustrating at times to see the ball move as we try to come up with solutions. But what you have before you does represent a best approach and best practices, and i think very thoughtful recommendations to you to consider. I will just close by saying that the Economic Recovery Task force is sunsetting, but the work is only just beginning. And as you embark on this through legislation, through ordinance, through careful review, please look at the existing programs that we have in the city. One of the things that stuck out to me most was the amount of energy and resources that go into workforce training and development, and a real need to centralize that and to streamline it and make sure that its transparent and that it delivers. As we emerge through this pandemic, we have that many more people who are in desperate need. So while thats my bias in the process, i do think that its a really important lens by which policy makers can look at this and make sure that the economic recovery in kmisk is not just for the few but for the money and for the people who are counting on all of you to lead us through this pandemic. Again, immense gratitude for all the people who made this possible, and now id like to pass it off to cochair rodney fong for the chamber of commerce. Great. Thank you, rowdy, and thank you, supervisors, for rudy, and thank you, supervisors, for the opportunity. I want to thank everybody who participated in this. Its been a long several months, and as has been pointed out, theres still a long way to know. In San Francisco, theres over 200,000 unemployment claims right now. Storefronts, 44 of Retail Businesses are still effectively nonoperational or have shuttered, and overall retail transactions in San Francisco are down by 66 . These are staggering numbers. There is much more work to be done. Want to point out, as well see in the presentation here, the local economic stimulus opportunities that are in front of us, and rudy touched on some of them that we all agree upon, the investment of Public Infrastructure and the support of Major Projects, the redesign of the public permit process, cutting the red focused on sa reopening in may and june because the very first thing we heard from the Task Force Members loud and clear is there is no economic [inaudible] and customers feel safe to come back as well as businesses feeling safe to operate, so they were very, very helpful in providing mitigation and other recommendations to the department of Public Health. And then, over the summer, we really shifted into the detailed policy work. We had four working groups compromised of ten to 20 Task Force Members each that met for weeks to come up with thoughtful and actionable ideas for you all to implement to help address economic recovery . And the results of that work was 41 policy recommendations, and yes, that was a prioritized list. Theres many more ideas that this group came up with, but theres 41 that made it to the top of the list for your consideration. We published the report on october 8, and it is available on the web . You can take a look, and i actually added the link into the chat, and im very proud of this work. There was 40plus city staff, as was already mentioned who, in addition to their day jobs and their d. S. W. Jobs, came together to support this earli earlier important work. An overview of the citys reopening work, the shared Spaces Program, how we developed our policies, a very detailed appendix d, Community Engagement and listening, led by myleen garcia and song dl songhee hiwata. Heard from many different focus groups around the city that we wanted to hear from, like the disability groups and others . And then, appendix e is where we did a Detailed Analysis of all 41 recommendations. And then finally, appendix f, the Assessors Office under carmens leadership put together a recommendation of all the programs that the city has done since the start of covid. I know that all the supervisors have worked so hard on our response, as well, so i hope that everyone is proud of this effort and does take the time to review all the recommendations and see all the good work that weve done. With that, i want to hand it over to heather, whos been a wonderful fearless leader. Hea heather, if you could walk us through the recommendations. Sure. Thank you, supervisors, for having me, and to city administrator kelly for allowing me to work on it and for the cochairs to be such amazing leads. We are here at the end. Im very excited about that, but you can see, you know, that this was a very rigorous process. 100plus Task Force Members came together in policy working groups. The conversation was free flowing, and we were able to hear challenges and solutions from the ground level. Task force members also reached out to their own communities to solicit further input, and so we were able to really pull together a lot of ideas and inspiration for San Franciscos path forward. Next slide, please. In the end, what we have in the report are these policy recommendation areas. The focus out from the task force was at the same time to be concrete and actionable and also think of the big picture. You have recommendations that are very specific in the near term and also some broad sweeping investment calls along the line of what rodney was speaking about for stimulus and visioning. I will also note there are some additional recommendations. He saw that in the table of contents for ideas that came up later in the process, and these may not have been prioritized directly in the output of the working groups, but we all agreed throughout that it was a good idea to include more ideas, not less. This is going to be something thats reformed and re economic recovery is going to be something thats going to need to be reformed week after week and even day after day as the requirements change. There are many topics discussed in the report, but these were the ideas that the task force discussed, and we were able to find over 1,000 voices, one way or another, through surveys, focus groups, sject Matter Expert review, and this is where we landed. Next slide. [please stand by] thannal. Negotiab. I will march through each of the policy recommendations areas now to talk about those Priority Areas and highlight kind of the major points, and then staff is here to answer questions if you guys have any for us. So on local economic stimulus, well start to explore policies and investments that encourage activity in San Francisco, such as funding infrastructure projects, streamlining permitting processes, delivering advocacy for state and federal resources, and so on. We have fore grounded the need for local stimulus, and we have a task force set up across the city because we cannot do everything ourselves, so we will need to be active ourselves and both reach out. Next slide. When it comes to job connections, we will strive we were talking about just now, especially improve and facilitate connections to job and hire local workers. To do that, we will need to acknowledge with unemployment still so high in San Francisco and so many out of work, the city will have to do more than ever to provide san franciscans with high quality job employment and training, and we know in making these connections, the city has a real opportunity for citizens who are struggling to make ends meet and those needing a big shift keeping their heads above water. I think we saw the announcement in the paper, the job task force, coming together and the main investment that the city is planning to get people to work as quickly as possible. Next slide. To promote safe reopening, this is along the lines of what melissa was saying, which is we cannot recover without safe reopening and, you know, our Task Force Made that very clear, that we need to provide clear and Accessible Information to businesses and workers on reopening requirements and provide tools and strategy to keep workers, customers, and residents based, that we need to continue as we have as a city to be a leader, prioritizing Public Health, to Pay Attention to the health and safety of all of our residents. Delivering on these recommendations will help San Francisco recover quickly and safely. Next slide. Number four, to preserve operations and lessen regulatory burdens, so our Task Force Members told us that we need to create greater flexibility for businesses to operate and consider reducing or eliminating regulatory burdens. This was a common refrain interest the task force. We from the task force. We need to make it easier to do business and start business in San Francisco. We cant get tripped up on bureaucracy when governments ability to be responsive is so important. This section includes recommendations to extend shared spaces to give businesses some assurance about the program space, more flexibility and supports to help business survive. Supervisor peskin so, miss green, i dont want to interrupt, president yee, or the flow of this. I do have some statements that id like to make, but i would like to drill down into this because many of the measures of flexibility have already been adopted either by the mayor or by the board. So what are we speaking about and i want to start by thanking carmen chu and my colleagues on this task force, as well as colleagues like rodney fong and Rudy Gonzales for being here and doing all the hard work. But this is one place where i think there may be a little bit of friction. So can you drill down into that, mr. President , if you will indulge me, sir. I am happy to. Thank you for the question. So i think we heard on shared spaces specifically so this is a program that exists that has been wildly successful. What we heard from the Business Community is the need for some the ability to see into the future to understand what kind of investments that are worth the return supervisor peskin i dont want to sound argumentative, and this is not an argumentative discourse, but did not the board extend that two years where everybody who invested 5,000, 7,000, 10,000, did we not just waive the fees . So can you speak to the aspects that are more troubling . Sure. And youve identified one of the points of recovery. At the time the report was published, extension of shared spaces are not been extended, but as you mentioned, the twoyear extension is now going forward. I think in terms of repurposing public outdoor space, there are a number of projects envisioned to make use of public spaces that, you know, may have different priority needs. These would be more Major Projects that have not yet been before the board, so for planning and other departments, the asset owner departments to Work Together to think about are we really making the best use of our public spaces and spaces that the city might easily have access to under freeways, for example, to deliver the greatest value at the greatest time. Supervisor peskin and again, i dont want to sound argumentative, but these spaces under those freeways are actually under the jurisdiction of the state of california. They belong to caltrans. Yeah. Supervisor peskin and you know that, and i know that. Im really trying to drill down into another area, which is impact fees for Affordable Housing, and when we get into this oh, were kind of in a recession, and developers dont have to pay their fair share. Thats what im asking about at this moment if, president yee, you will indulge me. Yes. So the impact fee deferrals are under section one, kind of considered like a stimulus morning a regulation, basically to get more businesses to be able to pencil. That is certainly a policy measure for the boards discussion going forward, you know, whether you will agree that that is the best way for the city to move to our recovery. What we produced in the report here is what we heard from our Task Force Members about what would make recovery speedier and more you know, more [inaudible], for lack of a better word, to get more projects into construction and through it, and certainly reducing fees is one way you could decide to do that. Supervisor peskin right. And so this may not be the right moment in this conversation to talk about that, but stimulus generally is a concept that is a federal concept president yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin yes, sir. President yee we will get to that. Many of us have questions, so let us get through her presentation, and we will drill down, i promise. Supervisor peskin i will defer any other questions i have. Thank you. Thank you, and i really appreciate the engagement, supervisor. On the next slide, where we look at priority number five, at the outset, the task force was making sure the recovery would benefit all, not just those who have historically benefited from a downturn. The goal was to bridge the gap and help especially the lowincome communities and communities of color. We discussed these needs at length, but that was a holistic call from the task force. We have to acknowledge that the booming precovid economy wasnt a boom for everyone, especially communities the color, and we will have to make sure that the new economy benefits all, especially those wronged in the past. We can do this by investing in our communities, break the cycle of poverty through fines and fees reform as led by the controllers office, and bridge the multigenerational divide, as laid out here. Next slide. To invest in housing, it wouldnt be a San Francisco recovery without housing. We need to incentivize Affordable Housing. We may be seeing dips in affordable rent, but the need for housing is still there. More Affordable Housing is a top city priority, and it will be part of the recovery ahead, and these recommendations speak to the need for a multipronged approach for [inaudible] and for expediting housing. Next slide. [inaudible] cant be a constructive part of San Franciscos recovery if they have to worry all day long with their safety, health, wellbeing, or housing security. This will help San Franciscos recovery to lift everyone and build us back better than before. Next slide. And finally, we will strive to imagine and build stronger neighborhoods, to activate and draw upon San Franciscos unique neighborhood and cultural assets. So in San Francisco, we look out for one another, we see each others humanity, and we seek all kinds of ways to live creatively, vibrantly, and proudly. This section acknowledges this crisis as an opportunity to plan for the future resilient city we want to be and infuse our neighborhoods with energy and activity through local projects and culture. And just yesterday, in the news, performing arts, enabling live music with a jam permit, all of these things have happened in a very short period of time since the report was published. Weve already made progress, and we look forward to making more progress as we build back a stronger and more resilient San Francisco, and some of those suggestions will help get us there. With that, i will hand back over to melissa. Thank you. That is the conclusion of our presentation. I just want to note that we have several city staff on the call, and i want to reiterate heathers comment that city staff was a part of the process where ideas were cultivated. Of course we understand its now up to policy makers on whether or not to decide to implement these recommendations, and we leave it up to you. Thank you. President yee thank you. I was going to leave this to the end, but i think supervisor peskin starts the conversation and will continue it. But i want to remind all of us that there were a lot of people involved in putting these recommendations together, and they are recommendations. Theyre not final. We need to, as a city, as city leaders, you know, follow through and discuss what to support and what are things that, if we do support, are there some negative impacts to any decisions we make, and thats where we, i think, as the board of supervisors, will take these recommendations and follow up with those type of discussions. But i dont want us to put on this path as these recommendations are final policies. They were recommended, and some of them were vetted by the community more than others, and as melissa was saying, many of these recommendations may have come and vetted by staff but not by the public. I want to be clear of this as we make our comments, so why dont we go ahead and go with supervisors mandelman, peskin, and preston first. I can see that supervisor ronen is on the roster, and well just go ahead and have a conversation. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman yeah. Thank you, president yee. I will be brief, but i do want to, you know, thank you and the mayor for bringing this group together. I really want to thank the staff again. They have been thanked, but they cant be thanked too much. The past eight months have beenon incredibly taxing time for the folks who work for the city and county of San Francisco, and the folks who worked with this came from other departments and had things to do all day long, and they were tasked with doing this on top. I want to thank them, and our cochairs who brought gravitas and heft to this presentation. Carmen chu, in the last few months, has strayed so far out of her lane, she doesnt have a lane anymore. But it is to the great benefit of San Francisco that she has done that, and the task force, in so many ways, has been sort of the task force extraordinaire. I think this task force was less about the document that came out of this and was more of a forum for all these different folks from all over San Francisco to come together and express their concerns as we were shutting down and beginning to reopen. I think with shared spaces and so many other issues, every single industry, every single Labor Organization had concerns about what was happening at some point, and many still do, and i think that the task force provided a forum to to engage with d. P. H. To try and bring clarity where sometimes it seemed like there was none, and i think that was that was so important. I think it was a forum for a lot of ideas to get surfaced. I think it is a mistake to treat this document as a road map for the recovery. I dont think it is that, i think it is a grab bag of ideas that we came up with that various folks in the different working groups had, and staff did their best to try to package it together in a way that would make sense to people. But i dont think its comprehensive. I think there were things that were not included in this document that could have been more. I think we could have gone a lot deeper on things like transportation and sustainability and a whole lot of other things that i think will be important to our recovery. And i think in other ideas, ten people in a room talking about a particular policy does not necessarily mean that that policy should get moved forward through law or administrative action. So i think its very much of a starting point. I do not want to belittle the work that was done or the value of the process or the document, but i think its important for us to realize that this document is just a reflection of 100 people that were concerned about the city that were having at this particular time, and i hope we will take it at that. One thing that i was struck by, and i think a little bit of dissonance in the conversations that i heard, again and again, i heard from folks, especially in the Business Community, but especially many different sectors, i heard homeless and street conditions and Behavioral Health as being preeminent concerns moving forward out of the recovery. And i do feel, in some ways, that the document piece and again, i dont feel that the document piece is the most important in this task force process, but i dont think the document may not have reflected how important this was for people participated in the task force. But with that, though, abundant thanks allaround, and i do think there are some good ideas in here, and some ideas are going to work their way into good legislation and administrative action, and well come up with a whole lot of other good ideas that arent here but that need to happen in the next couple of years. Thanks, everybody. President yee thank you, supervisor mandelman, and well said. Good summary. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston thank you, president yee, and i agree with a lot of the comments that supervisor mandelman just made. I want to echo the thanks that went into this, the elected official department, nonprofits, fiphilanthropy. You said it, when were actually moving toward detailed policies or proposals, so ill echo that. I also do want to repeat the thanks to assessor chu in particular for all her work in keeping us up to date on all of these issues, particularly between meetings. I also want to thank Rudy Gonzales not just for all his work in this process, but for his comments here today, and for grounding what, you know, any work can often read as words on a page, and remind us to ground us now of working people, of eventual workers, of people who are out of work, of people who are renters and are afraid of losing their homes, people who are afraid of getting foreclosed on. We all know people who are struggling, and rudy, i appreciate you centering the discussion around folks in the city right now. I think just reflecting on the report and the process here, i think theres, like, supervisor mandelmans vision or character i decision of a grab bag of ideas, i dont think thats minimizing the ideas. I think there are a lot of ideas that are set. I think certain issues, like bridging the internet divide, better jobs, taking a look at what it means for Economic Justice to supervisor peskins point, i think we have been looking at generating more revenues for Small Businesses. Appreciate supervisor mandelmans leadership around shared spaces. We have businesses in our district that have told me that they would have gone out of business, it would be over were not the fact for the m. T. A. And shared spaces and closing the block down and so forth. I also think it does a good job of talking about and outlining the needs of the most vulnerable residents in San Francisco. I will say that particularly when it comes to housing issues, preventing renter evictions and displacement sha, acquiring hotels and motels for Supportive Housing for people that are experiencing homelessness, and preserving Affordable Housing funding i think show a comprehensive look, although i agree with supervisor mandelmans point, in terms of addressing street homelessness and really looking at temporary solutions, theres less talk and more work that needs to be done. I will say that one thing from the record thats quite clear, especially when we talk about housing issues, is the need for additional funding to fulfill many of the recommendations that are laid out, such as building enough Affordable Housing, helping tenants, helping small landlords with back rent issue. There was just a report issued today by the b. L. A. , as much as 32 million of rent is unpaid each month due to covid19, which is hurting renters and small property owners. And one of the recommendations in the Task Force Report is that policy makers should work to expand additional ways for Affordable Housing through taxes and fees. And i want to underscore president yees point about the importance for everyone of voting, and the fact that many of the pending ballot measures could help the city fulfill many of the recommendations made in this report. While its not my purpose here today in this forum on advising people here how to vote, but i think it would be a mistake to recognize that there are ballot measures to deal with issues that are raised in this report. Prop i is on the ballot, raising property taxes to help pay for lowincome housing. I think the important thing is that folks vote, and that they connect the dots between some of those recommendations in this report that cost money and some of the things that are on the ballot. I do want to make clear and apologize, colleagues, for being lengthy in these statements, but this report covers a lot of ground. I think my office did raise some questions in terms of the draft report, and i think some of these were addressed in the final report. Others were not, and i just wanted to flag a few areas of concern in that. Supervisor peskin alluded to some of these in his questions, but im concerned that the report contains some recommendations that rang to me as really giving big corporations a bailout potentially at the expense of our residents. So when you look at recommendation 1. 3, page 30 of the report, it allows developers to defer impact fees to stimulate development. Thats a big red flag. Incentivizing Affordable Housing is one thing, and absolutely necessary right now. Reducing the impact that we get from impact fees, it could be more short sided and do more damage in the longterm than good. I think we have to take a closer look at any of these kinds of proposals, especially in terms of bigger corporate players in San Francisco at this time. There are other recommendations, like 6. 4, which was basically one of the slides we saw that really used the term housing and Affordable Housing interchangeably. And i think when were talking about housing or Affordable Housing, weve got to know which term were talking. Secondly, i was concerned, as part of the draft, that transportation was not something substantively considered in this report. I think it should have been its own section, or at least there should have been multiple proposals with these recommendations. I think as we are starting to reopen the economy, we need to be having a serious conversation about how workers can return to work and get home, and how seniors, people with disabilities, can pick up food, make appointments, and recognizing that limiting Transportation Options affect our lowincome communities and communities of color the most who rely disproportionately on Public Transportation and dont necessarily have alternative means to get around to work or go Grocery Shopping or get to appointments. Right now, a majority of our bus lines still have not returned, our rail service is shutdown altogether for who knows how long at this point, to be determined, so i do really believe that this should have been taken up in the report, and i was disappointed that there have not. Another part was our taxi drivers, and i realize there have been 49 medallion closures between july and september of this year. The taxi industry has been devastated by covid19. Trips are down on average 80 , so again, if were addressing transportation, part of that needs to be recovery for taxi drivers who are a krushl part of the transit crucial part of the transit infrastructure. I think theres a lot of really strong recommendations in here, but i want to preface one that i bring up at every turn, and im just disappointed in all of us for not having solved this, and this is referenced in the report. The fixed costs are addressed in recommendation 4. 5, where the tax force notes the fixed cost that could cause businesses to permanently shutter. And the biggest one of those fixed costs is the mounting rent debt that businesses owe. And other than asking commercial landlords nicely to write it down, theres been no meaningful solution that has been proposed, and if we dont solve that, colleagues, these businesses are not going to survive. No matter how much we create opportunities for them to get revenue through different programs, at the end of the day, if were facing 10, 20, 50, 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 of back rent, none of them are going to survive. Ill wrap it up now. I think there are many important recommendations here, and i appreciate all the work that went in. I also want to thank president yee for appointing me one of the representatives from the board on the task force. I learned a lot from folks and appreciated being a part of that. Its a good starting point with a lot of good ideas. I think theres a lot of work we newould need to do in analyzing some of these proposals, and i look forward to flushing it out in the weeks and months ahead. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. And the more that yourself and supervisor mandelman and supervisor preston and assessor chu spoke, the less i have to say. And i think fundamentally, the resulting report and the incredible work that has been done by labor and by the Business Community and many communities all gathered together, 150 city leaders from family and child care to Affordable Housing to Small Business has resulted in mostly profound recommendations, and i say that in the same breath, and i think supervisor preston just said this, as theres a little bit of beef between certain parties over certain measures on the ballot a week from today. So all of that is going on, and generally what happens when a report like this, that rarely happens, and people of these Diverse Communities rarely sit down together, is that people like me will reiterate not all of what we embrace, but where we actually part company. And so there is a spot here that dangerously, im a little worried about. I think we all realize we have to pay for child care in San Francisco, and these are programs that have been chronically under funded, but i think there is a diversity of agreement as it relates to Affordable Housing, and i want to be the first person to say that there are notions in this report where we will be led down a primrose path. And i know we all are in a recession, and its tough times, but that does not mean we give Market Rate Developers a break going forward. I just wanted to put this on the table. This is an informational item, but i, for one, am not going there going forward. And with that, mr. President , ill turn it back over to you. President yee thank you. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thanks, president yee. First of 5all, i want to thank everyone for their hard work, and especially carmen chu. When she told me about her work, i thought my god, who wants that job . But we just had a great conversation, and i just wanted to say thank you to carmen for reaching out to me to make sure that i was informed every step of the way. I think when we were in budget season, when i couldnt think of anything else, carmen, thank you for reaching out to me. When people asked me, how can we get back to where we were, and i said to carmen, frankly, we werent that great before, so the question is how can we build back better . I think the biggest barrier to building Affordable Housing is actually money. So we have a housing bond, we know that we can do it. I just think this cant really the time to do it because when you look at this, the whole report is premised around equity, and the most vulnerable, and then, we say you can build luxury condos, but you dont have to build any Affordable Housing. I think thats the wrong message. Having said that, i appreciate everyones work. But i would also ask if you or this committee have run any of these ideas by our office of Racial Equity, and have you asked for a Racial Equity analysis . Because actually, i think we could be we could start in the same direction if we dont ask for that analysis, and that is why we have the office there. So before, i think that we this is just a plan, this is not ledge lation yet, but im interested in legislation around impact fees, and im going to ask some of my colleagues if theyd like to work on it with me. But i do think that many of these recommendations that we have, that maybe we should get an analysis from the office of Racial Equity just to see what the impact is because i feel like San Francisco, this board, not us particularly, but we have made decisions without any kind of Racial Equity analysis, and that is why we have less than 5 African Americans left in San Francisco. And so opportunity to reset a little, this opportunity to rebuild, to build back better, i think some of that is really capturing the support. Any way, i want to thank everyone for their hours and hours and hours and hours of hard work with the intention of getting San Francisco back on its feet and building our city back better. Thanks. Supervisor, if i may just address the question president yee sorry, whos taking. This is heather green. President yee sorry. Would you get recognized first before you Start Talking. Miss green, go ahead. Thank you. In response to the direct question about whether the office of Racial Equity has been involved, i just want to answer that very clearly yes. So we had from the office of Racial Equity on the Core Management team, sonny huata, who helped he is develop a racial analysis for each and every recommendation in the report, and melissa mentioned every appendices that were published today. The appendix a to the main report, it includes a Racial Equity analysis that was conducted by a team of staff, some of the dozens of people that worked on this report, and that considers barriers, burdens, assets, and Community Input that we should be gathering. Basically, that appendix is we talked about it as a running start to implementation, and it also kind of gives the foregrounding, if the recommendations are implemented with those kinds of recommendations in mind, what kind of racial impacts are we going to see. Supervisor fewer have you, miss green, through the president. I just wanted to say, i think what i was looking for was this idea, this housing fee affordable fee deferral, an analysis of that idea. Its not about the implementation of it, quite frankly, its really about the analysis of who this might impact, and who would be in those Affordable Housing units if they were to go built, and if they werent to be built, who would be most deeply impacted . I guess the implementation, who do we contact, who do we need to contact . This is a deeper ideology and also a commitment of our city, and that is it starts here. It isnt about if we pass it, who do we then get on our side or who do we hear from . That is not what im talking about. Im talking about a real analysis. If we were to defer these fees, what would be our impact on our Affordable Housing stock. Is there a shortage of our Affordable Housing stock . Who has been displaced . It is those type of questions that really need a deeper analysis, and if you hear a push back from this board or a majority of this board on the 1. 3, it is because of that, because i think we know we have a huge wait list for Affordable Housing when we think about our seniors, especially now, with so much displacement. I think a racial analysis on that is what actually i was asking about. Thank you very much, president yee. Thank you, and that is not the quantitative that youre speaking, but the qualitative and acknowledges those kinds of barriers is what we were documenting in that appendix. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you, president yee. I want to echo my colleagues who thanked everyone in this process, and a special thank you to carmen chiu, who personally called me on a regular basis to keep me and my staff updated on what was going on, so thank you so, so, so, so much. And i similar to the housing fees, i wanted to share some concerns around 4. 6, reviewing employer mandates. And specifically, that makes me think about the Health Care Security ordinance and the employer spending requirement. And i just want to make very, very clear that during a pandemic, when theres more need for health care than perhaps ever before, that this supervisor is not open to reconsidering whether or not there is going to be an employer spending requirement for Workers Health care expenses. I have been working with d. P. H. To make it easier for workers to access their medical reimbursement accounts if they have one, and we are continuing to make improvements. Not only can workers use those for the broadest expenses you can possibly imagine, but together with supervisor mar and the Mayors Office, we created a program allowing workers, for the first time, to access cash from those accounts to meet sort of the overwhelming expenses that they have right now related to the pandemic, which i think made a lot of sense. But this is a something that employers have fought all the way up to the United States Supreme Court, and its been upheld, and i want to make sure that it is here to stay until we have a medicare for all program, where everyone is entitled to health insurance. So i i just wauns to nip that in the bud before that conversation conversation nip that in the bud before that conversation gets started. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. I just want to echo my colleagues to thank everyone who put in the work on this Economic Recovery Task force. I know its a process that took some time, and a lot of people had to be corralled, for lack of a better term, to Work Together. I there are some quicks that are giveaways to developers and also well intended relief for Small Businesses, but to some degree, providing us as a city some relive to take advantage of. I know were going to consider these recommendations. Nothing in here makes a were not bound by the recommendations as a city, but my hope is we move forward in a way that we do whats intended, but also that we protect the most vulnerable populations and also get the Affordable Housing that weve been fighting for for a long time. So those concerns, i know were going to work on together and put some better thoughts into how we work on moving forward together. I just really do look forward to working together so we can get everybody at least to some sense of normalcy through the devastation of this pandemic. But i do want to thank everyone, assessor chiu and everyone, community folks, and cochairs and leaders for just the great amount of work that went into it. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor mar . [please stand by] over which voters have limited influence. A local economic recovery vision looks at Strategic Revenue plans for increasing local dedicated housing funds as well as asperations for new federal dollars. Recommendation 6. 2 on preservation. The housing report couches how the preservation funding in terms of loans, but the primary limiting factor to scales is not availability of Debt Financing but dedicated sources for permanent Equity Investment which is city report is silent on so again we really need to look at new revenue for Housing Preservation, including equity and capital funds, Capacity Building and predevelopment funds. Section 6. 4 around streamlining, and by right approval of housing projects, Housing Development the city already has the approval for streamlining Affordable Housing citywide on public and private sides through last years proposition e and trailing legislation adopted this summer to further expand the provisions. Similar to some of the other policy recommendations, including in this report which calls out small market rate projects encouraging through reduction marrowing of the city controls. It is not clear how such regulations would include tenant protection how they would benefit from redevelopment of the building they have called home. I would be very concerned about citywide application of approval of market rate projects and narrowing of demolition of restrictions unless it is clear tenants benefit from redevelopment. Finally, i did want to touch on recommendation 8. 1. That is the planning for our citys future. I want to highlight this recommendation and cities the urgency to adapt the capital plan for the reality of the crisis which is in a dramatic and terrifying way in the summer and fall. In my district the citys first major Climate Change adaptation project is well underway. We already have to move sand by the tons at the coastline the, trying to reclaim roads and would be permanently removing the great highway in response to sea level rise. I would like to see us update the capital plan to fast track a large scale Green Infrastructure bond as soon as possible, through which we can create thousands of jobs and support economic recovery in the city. Thank you. Supervisor haney. Thank you, president yee. I will be brief. I want to thank you, president yee and mayor breed and a sessoration treasure and the members of our board who serves as part of the task force as well as rudy and rodney for leadership. There is a lot here. I certainly have a lot of thoughts on a lot of it, but what i will say is that echoing some of the comments made by supervisor fewer, this is not only a question of how we get out of this crisis and recover, but actually where we want to go as a city. Our city was already one of the most economically unequal racially unequal places in the country that was before covid. That has been exacerbated. We had the highest rent. It was difficult to do business to start and maintain a Small Business. All of the things we are looking at are also about how we want to address those challenges that we pays before covid, how we build the city that is much more equitable that addresses racial inequality, displacement, affordability and the barriers that made it difficult to do business here especially for Small Businesses. One of the things i would like to see as we look at some of these is how we translate these into a clear set of goals or metrics in terms of where we want to get to and what we want to accomplish together, and i also echoing a bit of what supervisor preston said, i think that in many ways we have pushed pause on some of the deeper impacts of this crisis, particularly as it relates to debt, and we are going to need to help folks who have gone into tremendous amounts of debt, whether it is tenants with rental department or commercial tenants, people who run up debt on credit cards or people in industries that may not be coming back for a longer amount of time. I think that one of the things that i think will need to build into this is how we, particularly as related to debt, rental, commercial, people who are really getting through now but over the longterm because of decisions that were forced on them now are going to have a much more difficult time to recover if they dont have our support. That will be key. Thank you again for your leadership and hard work. I know we are all in this together. We will do whatever we can to support our workers and residents and businesses around the next steps. Thank you. Thank you. I dont see anybody else on the roster. I will go straight into Public Comments on this item. We will come back and there are further comments that my colleagues would like to make or ask any more questions we can do that. Madam clerk, i will open it up to Public Comment at this point. Are there any individuals on the roster . Clerk we are checking. The Public Comment telephone number 415 6550001. The meeting id1462287935. Pound three and star three to speak. Do we have any callers . Yes, there are seven callers in the queue. First caller. Welcome, caller. You have up to two minutes. I am local 2. I had the opportunity be to serve as a member of the task force. I appreciate the opportunity to be there to help provide a voice for working people. We are particularly hardhit by the pandemic. First, because of the covid19 occurrence. Numbers are largely people of color, particularly Latino Community we have had many cases of covid19 among our members but economically impacted. Already living on the razors edge. Over 95 of the members are still laid off. It is a very slow recovery in hospitality. I do believe the report with everybody together and i do believe that working peoples interests were reflected overall in this discussion and the final product here. That being said i want to echo what all of you have said. This is a very much a whole that is not descriptive in terms of policy. It will be up to the board and leaders of the city what policy solutions are required going forward. I urge you that you work to workers who are going to be, you know, have the most difficulty in this recovery period. The service sector, First Responders. Give particular consideration. I will talk about healthcare but supervisor ronen did a good job of that. I think we should look for ways to expand healthcare access, solutions for working people in the middle of the global pandemic, not scaling back. San francisco is a leader in that regard. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Operations next caller. Public comment on Economic Recovery Task force report. Not general Public Comment. That will happen later in the meeting. Welcome, caller. I was part of the task force. I had two stakeholder groups. One with public contracting. Most of those businesses were latino and black contractors in the Mission District and bayview with the work force that lives on this side of the city and lives in covid impacted areas. Given the challenge of my comments on behalf of these contractors and restaurant owners, i really challenged a lot. I wanted to thank staff for listening to what i needed to say and this didnt come from me. It came from over 50 businesses. I want to specifically thank Melissa Whitehead and what she had to do at the Building Department and listening to the shared space program. What i want to talk about is some of your responses to this document. They need to be looked at some of these recommendations as urgent issues, not just to wait for policy to develop. The urgency is based on some of the public and private contractors who about a work force on the eastern side of the city. These businesses only have six months to a years worth of workload especially in the public contracting. Without doing this and just the survey of 10 businesses which serve over 200 people on the eastern side of the city, they are not judged. These are mostly people of color. I wanted to bring that attention to it. It is not a good sign. It shouldnt these are urgent issues for people because it has an impact. Also, part of the recommendations, which is urgent to the eastern side of the city. There is existing Affordable Housing thank you for your comments. Next caller please. There are 18 listeners and five members of the public in the queue. Comment on the Economic Recovery Task force report. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am representing the council of Community Housing organizations. We are very glad to see the breadth of issues touched upon in the city economic recovery report. As some of you know, representative executive directors of nonprofit Housing Development organizations serving on the task force submitted collective recommendations from the 23 member council. We are glad to see two of those recommendations reflected here. We want to raise up a couple other points that we made. This is an opportunity right now in the down market to acquire distressed at Risk Properties anand land bank lower priced sites. There are a lot of low income homeowners facing risks as the pandemic and recession continues. It is important to highlight that as well. We are glad to see the supervisors today before this particular item voted on the Housing Stability Fund and rent relief fund and passed those. Those are key pieces to the platform around Housing Preservation and eviction prevention. We want to reiterate importance of local revenue. The plan talks about state and federal funding. Those cannot be assets without matching funds. In this november we would love to see you all pulling together, getting over differences and supporting the three local measures to significantly impact the city proposition a, f and i. It is criminal cal if this is not a plan on the shelves but is implemented we have the revenues to make it real. Thank you very much. Is there another caller, please . Hole low. This is president of the Small Business commission. It was my privilege and honor to serve on the Economic Recovery Task force. I want to thank mayor breed and president yee and supervisors preston, peskin and mandelman for all of your hard work and the city staffs hard work as well. I want to express the importance of moving quickly on whatever decisions are to be made by your group. The urgency is imperative. Small business is in crisis and continues to be in crisis over half of our businesses are not taking any revenue at all. I do think it is important to emphasize as we learned at the Small Business Commission Last night that most of our restaurants where it is hardest hit and arts and entertainment and recreation and these businesses disproportionately about workers without college degrees, women and immigrant workers as well. It is critical to save the Small Businesses. To that end, the ertf recommended shared spaces be extended for years. I appreciate supervisor peskins comments. He is a friend and partner. The legislation passed was fee waiver for two years. It does not extend shared spaces which includes the park. There will be more work done on shared spaces. I urge the board of supervisors to please move as quickly as possible. Shared Spaces Program has over 80 of the shared spaces applicants said it was extremely helpful. I would like to see it extended to the eastern side of the city in excel your where it would help those communities. Thank you for your work. I am here to help you any way i can. Operations next caller, please. I would like to second martinez about housing. Specifically Residential Hotels in my neighborhood and others. Right at my corner there are 130 units with bathrooms which used to be Affordable Housing for ineighbors. For members of the nob hill neighbors and volunteers but which become housing. One of them western turned into a Tourist Hotel and ad vertising for techies and now they are empty and for sale. This is an opportunity to buy those places and to try to buy some of the other noncompliant places. [ inaudible ] these were Residential Hotels that became medical offices, Tourist Hotels, dormitory for musicians. We should buy these instead of Residential Hotels lira mada that have ra mada that have provided longterm housing. Think of the money wasted by paying 250 per night for Tourist Hotels in order to house people in this crisis. You know, those are not the kinds of prices that they would be able to get on the open market in normal circumstances. I paid 56 for a beautiful Tourist Hotel room near the state capital recently with breakfast and everything. They are paying tax, they have vacancies. This wases exploitation to the City Attorney and to the controller about exploitation. Even though the people in charge of the homeless Industrial Complex do not know how to do contracting. That is not an excuse. Thank you. For the 17 listeners in the queue. Now is the opportunity if you want to speak on the Economic Recovery Task force finding and Recommendations Press star 3. Otherwise we will take the last four callers to the end. Operations next caller. Hi. This is becky from the San Francisco Human Services network. I want to thank the task force for hard work and calling to highlight the role of the nonprofit Housing Human Service sector to address the needs of vulnerable san franciscans in the house of the economic housing crisis. We provide array of services that are vital to the city recovery including housing, food security, healthcare, child care and work force development. Our sector is a significant employer with close to 25,000 workers. Our organizations recruit employees from the communities they serve in the work force and management teams reflect diversity of client base. Just as with First Responders and teachers and transit workers staff provides essential services to community. They are dedicated to jobs while putting their own health at risk during the pandemic and they are key providers to City Residents suffering and in meed of programs to help them get back on their feet including the jobless and homeless as well as those already suffering before the pandemic. As we adopt Creative Solutions to restore a thriving economy keep in mind city funded nonprofits need to provide fair pay to recruit workers and they deserve to make a livable wage and stay in San Francisco and live in the community where they work as part of the economic recovery we cannot forget those workers. The city needs them and we all need them. Thank you. Thank you. Operations. Next caller, please. Hello, this is district 8 tenant. I was inspired by the comments made by the supervisors about this legislation. It is not legislation yet, just a report. I expect and i have confidence in you to lift up the report using a racial and social equity lens that you have put so much emphasis on to bring us out of this crisis. A lot of work you have going forward, but i have confidence in you. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations. Next caller. Good afternoon. Thank you, president yee and members of the San Francisco board of supervisors for your time. I am the chief of staff to president mahoney to San Francisco State University and on her behalf. Economic Recovery Task force is to address the challenges of covid19 has brought to the city to support the San Francisco economic recovery. The need for a skilled work force from San Francisco unified city college and at the state is critical to the city and county recovery in the fall of 2019 the students enrolled from San Francisco. They are on the way to be leaders in the bay area. The University College of extended learns is poised to help the roles of the Economic Recovery Task force for skills work force development. In 2017 there were 50,000 in San Francisco. Our students invest in the community and embrace the city as their home. We urge you to take action on the policy recommendation developed by the task force so the family and maybes and friends can neighbors and friends can rebuild their lives. Thank you. Next caller, please. This is share lynn adams, executive director at the larkin Street Youth Services and cochair of Human Services network and member of the task force. I want to thank everybody for incredible work on the task force and highlight comments just made about the importance of the nonprofit work force. They are the providers of services to the most vulnerable populations. We are also a huge part of the economic engine of workers that want to live and work in their city, in this city, and bring incredible vibrance to our community. I am excited about what we focused on around housing. I agree with a lot in the report and the comments today. I would urge that as we move forward that we think about the Nonprofit Sector as part of the work force in San Francisco that we think about the ways they bring diversity to the city and ways they serve most vulnerable residents and need to be able to live in our city in an economically vibrant way. Appreciate your time. All of your work. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Operations any other speakers who would like to provide testimony on the Economic Recovery Task force report . That completes the queue. Thank you, operations. Mr. President. Thanthank you very much. I want to thank all of the people that made Public Comments. It is mys to hear so many individuals nice to hear so many making Public Comments and participated in the task force itself. Colleagues before i may being closing remarks, are there other things that people want to mention . Okay. Let me wrap it up then. President yee. This is supervisor ronen. Go ahead. I wanted to mention. Supervisors fewer and haney and i are talking every other friday at the joint select committee on education that without the reopening of our sfufc school system, families and working parents cannot go back to work and participate in the work force like they want to, and we cannot have a full economic recovery until schools are open again. There were places in the report that was mentioned, but it wasnt highlighted. I cannot emphasize this point enough. We will continue to provide assistance and push the School District and school board to work with the urgency and i share supervisor fewers facial expressions. Work with the urgency and import this has for our economy and the health and wellbeing of our children. Sorry i didnt add that earlier. I wanted to mention that before closing remarks. Who is speaking . Carmen. You have got to be recogniz recognized. Carmen. Thank you, president. I will keep it brief. To things that i want you to no the task force recognizes the challenges. The task force proceeded at the end of april and at this point the needs of the community and city is evolving. Part of what we recognize is that these are a series of fronting recommendations for policymakers to consider. We need to evolve to see where we are from an Economic Perspective and pandemic perspective and ad just. That is one point that people recognize on the task force. Second piece is that i failed to share earlier the task force recognized that they were very, very big issues associated with economic reopening we couldnt cover entirely. Supervisor mandelman and myself spoke about those areas. It was raised earlier things like transportation. How we feel with education, child care, how we think about developing environmental sustainability in terms of Development Going forward. These were all big topics around economic recovery that didnt get carried out or spoken about or highlighted within the Task Force Report. That was because there was a recognition there were efforts going on to really focus on those particular topic areas. I want to mention there was recognition there were many topics but it was too large to get into all of those in a short period of time. We do hope just as today you had a robust conversation and shared insights about how to approach recovery. The mayor and others will continue to think about and wrap all of the efforts as you think about recovery. Thank you very much. Anybody else before i Start Talking . All right. Lets wrap this up. Again, i want to thank particularly assess or chu for her leadership and role in the Recovery Task force and gonzalez, jose and fong in sharing part of this and staff. Melissa whitehead and also ms. Green for really stepping up because carmen and i spoke about this early on. This just cant be Task Force Members doing all the work. They are not able to do it on their own. They will meet but we need staffing to actually do the followup, do the write up and everything else, do the research if necessary. I thought heather green and Melissa Whitehead stepped into that role quickly. Thank you for all of your leadership and thank you for all the members of the task force itself for stepping up also. Many of them participated fully engaged on almost about every meeting. Again, they have their own jobs to do. Thank you for their role. You know, this has been good. I want to say that overall, when i read the situation, the creation of the task force, i will say it was very successful. It doesnt mean that they had all of the answers, it doesnt mean that everything was addressed. What i saw was a couple things that were very positive. What i saw were over 100 people get together from all walks of life and different disciplines and so forth. We have proved to ourselves that we can actually talk to each other and understand each others perspective to work out a solution. What i also am seeing right now is that this report by itself is stimulating all of us to take this further. I mean as i said upfront, these are recommendations. Some things are going to be able to move quickly because we agreed to it, all of us. There are other things that we need to have discussions around to see what impact it has, whether it is economic lens or racial lens or shifts in regards to whether it is practical for us. You know, i want to say a little bit about child care. I remember the first few meetings, child care came up a lot. What are we going to do right now . We cant bewe do anything about child care. Child care is closing, we are losing essential workers. That was a discussion in which we know that many of the businesses whether they are family child care, they are starting to close because they are no health. Especially for those that are licensed family child caree providers. I want to say there is discussions that the Task Force Level that this discussion doesnt end there. I am already having discussions with the office at this point and have been having them for two months. Get ready depending on the outcome of the election, if one of the propositions that is going to free up money for child care, we have to be ready to spend that money to help these businesses on day one, not wait an year from now. I am hoping that we will take it. Engaging the community, Child Care Community at this point to say what doy you need so you dont close down . It comes back to as supervisor ronen mentioned. The schools reopening. Ind the last few days in regards to the School District the discussion hass taken a 180 turnin terms of who is doing what at this point, and i am positive that the discussions at the joint committee has some impact on this. The testing issue is not resolved completely but we are moving in the right direction in terms of someng of the resources that we could actually access were i think i dont want to speak out of term we might have some coming in to help the School District and their staff to work out the plans. There the other thingshe i dont want to mention because it hasnt happened yet. They are going to happen in the next few days. I am very positive at least they are moving instead of in reverse. Thank you, supervisor fewer and ronen and haney in pushing that discussion. The othern. Thing that has come out, and assess or chu just mentioned some of the issues are real big issues. I think as supervisor preston and haney and i believe peskin, the issue of transportation was not completely tackled but certainly mentioned. It is an issue we need to tackle. I ams hoping that director tumln will take that very seriously and maybe what they need to do is form their own task force and help to answers some of the questions that we have along how did we get ourself running . How did we get people to go back on Public Transportation and trust that is safe . Those are things that i felt this task force and this report has stimulated and so i dont look att it as one report that s finite and done and accessible to stop the problems . No. Thisr is away that has opened up the doors to have discussions and continue to haven discussions. We knowio what important issues are. We cant just keep on saying those are important issues. What we need to do is start addressing these issues. Thank youes very much for everybody for your patience in allowing me to go on and on for a little while. At this point, i want to closes this hearing. The hearing is now closed. Thank you very much. Thank you. Madam clerk, i believe that we g madam clerk wer should go bak to roll call. Mr. President you indicated no to call on you. President yee thank you very mu thank you very much madam depend me. So i have one thing to introduce, colleagues. Reintroducing a resolution to urge the San Francisco m. T. A. To implement a plan to slow speeds wherever they can, can do this, within their own authority. Especially near sites that serve vulnerable populations such as Senior Centers and possibly child care centers. And looking at any way that we could do this. On november 15th, we will be recognizing the 25th anniversary of the world day of remembrance, novembenovember 15th. And this is for transit victims. Its overshadowed by the deadly conditions on our streets. It is a club that nobody wants to be a part of, and to be a victim to be a victim or a family of a victim from vehicle collisions. The heart is heavy thinking of all of those families who have lost a loved one or had their lives forever changed. We are not on track to meet our goals in 2024 for vision zero. We can either continue t on this path of vision zero or completely revamp how were doing things to make real changes. Im glad that the board of directors and m. T. A. And sfmta are agreeing. So San Francisco will need to keep pushing for safety level changes to finally get automated Speed Enforcement passed and also update the methodology for setting speed limits. We cannot afford to keep waiting for change to occur. The way that the state sets speed with development for rural road settings that is almost always 85 methodology. They set the speed at which 85 were driving. This assumes that the drivers are responsible and reasonable within their environment. And it does not take into account the pedestrians or cyclists. There is a tendency to speed creep and to go above the posted speed limit which is not only dangerous, but it can be fatal. We heard the stats before. A person hit by a car at 40 Miles Per Hour has a 10 chance of survival while a person hit by a car at 20 Miles Per Hour has 90 survival rate. We cant be we cant be saving live we can be saving lives right now if we do everything that we can to slow down speeds. And actually tying our traffic light signals to encourage slow driving. Im looking forward to this body working closely with sfmtas board to get this done and to help us to establish a more slow speed zones around the city. So hopefully the series of things that im asking m. T. A. To do will have some impact. Thats how i see it. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, thank you, mad clerk. Last week u. S. A. Today highlighted the disparity about the impact of the pandemic on the asianamerican community entitled Asian Americans in San Francisco are dying from alarming rates from covid19. Racism is to blame. This strikes at the gaps and inequities that are exacerbated by this Public Health crisis and calls for our immediate attention to the need to step up our response and supporting our diverse asianamerican communities through this crisis. It is literally a matter of lifeanddeath. Racism is killing my community. Having the ability to look at Public Health data through a racial lens has been an essential tool. Thank you to the early efforts of our Racial Equity officers at the e. O. C. For pushing us to be accountable and to affirm our commitment to Racial Equity to a covid19 response. It is illuminating where we need to double down on our efforts to tackle this pandemic. The most of any ethnicity, this is heartbreaking. And while only 12 of the cases are asian, the death rate is three times that number, raising big concerns for me about the stigma that asianamericans are experiencing in San Francisco related to the covid pandemic that may be a barrier for residents seeking timely treatment. I wanted to say only 12 of the confirmed cases are asian. In the u. S u. S. A. Today article, they were quoted as saying that the high mortality rate among asianamericans means that theres either not enough testing or people are waiting far too long to get care. I recognize that it takes a herculean effort to operationalize the response plans in the midst of a pandemic, but in light of that data about the disproportionate deaths in the a. P. I. Community, i have serious questions. How are we reaching out to our most vulnerable and the communities in a culturally competent and accessible way . Whether we are adequately conveying information and resources to address the unique barriers for the community for testing. How to register, whether the registration interface and processes are available in languages, and whether were leveraging the strength of the trusted hit professionals that have a demonstrated history of working with our communities. And most importantly, how are we connecting the individuals to Accurate Information regarding resources and supports available for if and when someone might test covid positive, from the daily needs of food access or having space to isolate and to recovery assistance and other essential needs. While theres been recent initiatives announced to try to address testing in the a. P. I. Community such as availability of testing in chinatown, there is an urgency to do more, given what the data tells us about alarming numbers in the a. P. I. Community. 40 of the Richmond District is asian. And i have asked for a testing site or a mobile testing site to remove any barriers to individuals getting this resource. What worries me the most is how this data could be reflective of how our community is overlooked or left behind. I will be submitting a letter of inquiry with supervisor peskin to the department of Public Health and the department of Emergency Management to speak to the cultural and linguistic outreach strategies, and testing capacity, and the plan of action for the a. P. I. Community citywide to address this inequity. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. Now supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, madam clerk. In addition to the committee of the whole that supervisor walton spoke about, i, along with supervisors walton, ronen and preston, are requesting a letter of inquiry to the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing and Covid Command Centers to get a response about their plan to rehouse thousands of people experiencing homelessness who are currently at shelterinplace sites. It should not take a formal request to obtain details about the issue so consequential for thousands of people, hundreds who are staying at these hotels and hundreds of staff in the hotels, and our nonprofit agencies who have said that to run these hotels. But we have asked for details and now we know that there are plans to close some of these hotels and we want to make sure that theres an effective transition for the 2,500 people in the shelterinplace sites. The vision and the reality must be that no one is returned to the streets and that though we have heard that is the plan that we are yet to have specific details about how that will happen. This is something that we should assist with as this board has been especially focused in making sure that everyone during this crisis had a place to shelter in place and now as we go to the next stages of transition, that people exit homelessness more permanently. So we will be submitting this formal letter of inquiry, in addition to the committee of the whole that supervisor walton spoke of. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman thank you, madam clerk. I am asking that we adjourn today in honor of tom taylor who died at the age of 77 after a long battle with prostate cancer. Tom was a longtime lgbtq activist, philantropist and caretaker of the rainbow flag and the plaza. He was most loved for the annual Christmas Display that he and his husband Gerry Goldstein have put on on 21st street between church and sanchez, and calling revelers to a scene with a 65foottall Norfolk Island pine tree decorated with thousands of sparkling l. E. D. Lights and lavish ornaments and a miniature ferris wheel and animated train sets and giant stuffed animals and lifesized tom and jerry stockings. Born september 8, 1943, in richmond california, tom left home after high school to pursue a career as a hairstylist. Coming out to his parents, who would remain estranged from him for a year before finally accepting that he was gay. Tom was in lgbtq activism to spare other queer kids from the rejection that he faced. Tom met jerry in 1972, which hao whomhood build a life together. The two would marry in october 2013 in a public block partystyle wedding. Tom was diagnosed with h. I. V. In 1983, a death sentence at the time as little was known about the virus that was killing gay men by the thousands. Tom far outlived his diagnosis and over the decades he and jerry donated time, money and loving support to countless causes and organizations. They founded the Diversity Foundation which for years has been the quiet caretaker of the rainbow flag. And tom gave countless houring to secure lighting for this most iconic installation of gilberts flag. Tom and jerry maintained and lovingly cared for the hundreds of the rain bow flags that line the street. And yet as recalled in a recent bay area reporter column about toms life, few people knew how much work tom put into caring for these beloved and internationally recognized symbols of queer equality. But that was the kind of person that tom was, devoted to bringing joy and hope to others and never seeking recognition for himself. He was a city treasure and San Francisco will miss him dearly. Rest in power, tom taylor, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Mr. President , id like to be add as a cosponsor to the in memoriam. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i want to say that im proud to cosponsor president yees resolution to reduce vehicle speeds in our city. Much has been said about the streets program, which doesnt actually require any changes to the vehicle speeds. But in a city every residential street should be a slow street. I dont mean that we should take cars off every road, with a Million People in 49 square miles, every residential street should be slow enough to be safe for all of us. To achieve vision zero, this must be a priority and theres far more work that we could we can and should do on a local and a state level. And this resolution is one important step forward. And im deeply grateful to president youre fo yee for hisp on this truly life and death issue. And today i have a resolution to a fossilfree future for california. As we reckon with the Public Health and peculia and economicf covid19 and racial injustice, we cannot lose sight of the scope and scale of our climate crisis. In fact, Climate Justice is a Public Health issue and an Economic Justice issue and a Racial Justice issue. Last year under the leadership of supervisor mandelman, this body declared a climate state of emergency and yet california continues to frack. We call ourselves climate leaders and yet the state continues to extract nearly 200 Million Barrels of oil every year. In over 250 billion cubic feet of natural gas. This is, frankly, climate denialism. Existing fossil fuel production alone will push the globe past degrees of warming and into a world that will displace more than a billion people and result in Food Insecurity worldwide. We are already in a climate crisis. And we see it with our rising seas and our raging fires. To have any hope of a livable future, we have to leave fossil fuels in the ground. So the resolution that i introduce today urges governor newsome and the California State Legislature to dispermit permitting for fossil fuel, or petrochemical projects in california. To set california on a path to drop the existing Oil Production in line with the paris climate goals. And with a just and equitable transition that protects workers and economies. And to require a 2,500foot health and safety buffer between fossil fuel infrastructure and homes, schools and other sensitive sites. California cannot be a true climate leader without addressing the dirty oil and Gas Production within our borders. Our survival as a city and a species demands nothing less. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Miss calvillo, can you do me the kindness of posting the picture that i sent you earlier of mr. Taylor, please. Clerk yes, ill have brent in operations to show that now. Supervisor peskin so i am so deeply saddened that yesterday the one and only bubba taylor, the many decades dean of the City Hall Press corps passed away. And many of us are going through it right now, her family, of course, for which, mark, i am so very sorry. Her city hall friends who range from mayors, and to lily brown to my former colleague, and to our clerk miss calvillo. And some of her dearest friends, former supervisor dufty, and Rachel Gordon, who has been a fellow member of the press corp with barbara and now a city official in her own right. And my chief of staff sonny angulo who worked with her and im going to now reveal something that barbara swore me to secrecy about. Barbara was a secret weapon in my 2015 campaign. Generations at city hall, press officers like p. J. Johnson who helped me to craft these comments this evening, and many others were her dear friends. And were all so sorry and loved her and her vivacious spirit and professionalism so much. Barbara began her career in broadcasting in san diego before coming to city of San Francisco in the year 1975 to kcbs radio, where she eventually moved on onair work. And in her more than 40 years at kcbs, she covered politics, elections, city hall happenings, and was n known as the great dae of the City Hall Press room which, colleagues, i will introduce a resolution to rename the Unnamed Press room in Barbara Taylors name and honor. She was the kcbs City Hall Bureau chief for three decades before she retired in 2015. She covered every major news event with San Francisco government for four decades, including the assassinations of then mayor mosconi and the supervisor in 1978. And the coverage of the shocking deaths was immortalized in the academyaward winning film that was filmed here in part, mlk. She also coaltogetheauthored n for many years and was the longtime on camera host of city desk where i appeared any number of times which was a weekly televised roundtable of reporters that provided the behindthescenes insights into the happenings at city hall. And she also served for many years as the voice sunday afternoon as the anchor at kcbs radio where i was known to call in a time or two. She never took no or too busy for an answer. Not from a politician, not from a member of our citizenry. She was just remarkable. And for those of you who knew her, she was both the conscience of this building and truly one of its unsung heroes. And thank you p. J. , ill give you a few highlights. She sparred with willie brown at his tuesday press conferences, generating countless kcbs reports from city hall that drove p. J. Crazy. And while conducting a live interview during a hotly contested Election Night she famously got right up on a table with mayor brown, who had jumped on the same table and was screaming and dancing as the numbers came in and continued the interview. I do believe that it was over the the 49ers ballpark, which all went down the drain. And her dog tanner, which many of us knew, that she brought to city hall every day, even though then city administrator bill lee tried to banish that dog from city hall, was actually and im not making this up eventually given a press pass by mayor brown. When mayor newsome came around she always began her questions with, well, mayor newsome, thats all well and good, and then would just nail him with a bunch of sharp and insightful and tough questions and, you know, then he became governor. When the olympic torch was secreted through the city and nobody and that would be literally nobody, and i was the president of the board at the time knew where it was. Not mayor newsome, and the route was changed, Barbara Taylor, who rarely left city hall because she was always with her dog, tanner, flew out of the building and chased the torch down and actually found it. Whether dealing with politicians, special interests, regular people, or dealing with no offense p. R. Flacks who got their com comeuppance, barbara had a no bullshit meter and could not be spun. She taught and counseled her fellow colleagues about kindness, and while keeping her integrity as a journalist and never taking cheap shots, she taught other people who came into the press corp about the power of the press in ways that were profoundly meaningful. And most of those folks learned those lessons, a few of them didnt. And at some point i might even reveal the name of the Chronicle Reporter who did not take her lessons. Her journalist colleagues have described her as tenacious, professional, and most importantly, as so human. And barbara was a longtime resident of the castro district, with a sprawling and dedicated group of friends. She got in a car accident about a year and a half ago and would not let me visit her, but i want to salute Rachel Gordon and those who visited her after that car accident. She is survived by her adoring husband, mark naper and her stepchildren, and as we are perhaps our hearts go out to mark. He has lost a partner and a best friend. And the City Attorney requested to be add to this in memoriam. Id like to be add to and the to the resolution. Clerk okay. Clerks office will make that happen. President yee i would like to see it come to the full board. Thank you. Clerk okay. Supervisor peskin im not done with dead people, mr. President. Clerk okay president yee lets go. Supervisor peskin diane deprama, who i knew who was a poet laureate of San Francisco, born in 1934, passed away on sunday at the age of 86, a poet, writer, activist, remarkable human being, pioneering women and leading feminist voice of the beat generation. Diane bridged and transcended generations in her journey to live and to tell her poetry and authentic life. Born in brooklyn, she began writing early in her childhood and eventually the smartest people drop out of college moved to grenwich village and there became involved with the beats in the early 1960s. She came to San Francisco, i think at the age when i was 4 years old, and she lived here mostly of the remainder of her life, except for a few times when she went other places. She got involved with the diggers, if any of you folks remember that history, a group of anticapitalist activists who handed out free food in the community. She wrote more than 40 books of poetry and a memoir that dealt with politics, community, love, and sex. And at the press conference where she was named the fifth poet laureate of the city and county of San Francisco about 11 years ago she told the crowd that her deepest service was to poetry and to humans. She was a true visionary, totally a rebel, and the sort of which i think that many of us hope that will take root in this community after the pandemic. And she is survived by her five children, jean, dominique, and alex, tara and rudy. I have one piece of Public Policy to submit, which is a request for the City Attorney to draft an ordinance that would subject the Community Benefit districts and our one Business Improvement district to the same Good Government standards that the city departments and other public offices exist under. Earlier this year it came to light that the security cameras owned and operated by the union square b. I. D. Add allegedly, air quotes, this to the actively surveill the peaceful protesters. And i dont think we need to point fingers at those allegations, but i think that we should as supervisor ronen did in her capacity as a commissioner of the transportation authority, have the alter ego of San Francisco and one b. I. D. To live under our own local laws. So im going to ask the City Attorney to draft that. And with that, mr. President , i am done. Clerk thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen im sorry. I submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor safai. Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. And supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, we have all seen the recent reporting in the chronicle outlining californias struggle with drug addiction and, quite frankly, we do not have to read it in the chronicle, we see it every day on the streets. And the citys failure to address this problem effectively. According to an article, between january 1august 3 , 468 people died of an overdose in San Francisco. That means this year alone we have lost nearly two people to drug overdoses on our streets every single day. Those suffering on our streets are someones son or daughter, father, or mother or partner, or brother or sister. They are suffering from the disease of addiction, a disease so cunning and baffling and powerful that it takes some to depths of despair that are unfathomable to many. Addictions does not discriminate and no one is immune. Those sufferin suffering on ours and in danger of overdose are dying in record numbers due to the type of drugs out there, the easy availability of those drugs, and the lack of paths towards recovery. The consequence of addiction can be seen all over San Francisco. This is clearly apparent in our parks, our sidewalks and our alley ways. And children and families have to navigate around those suffering on our streets. We hear about needles all the time. Small Business Owners struggling to keep their shops open amid covid19 need to contend with the effects of the drug epidemic and not just during this pandemic. This issue is personal for me too. My brother has long struggled with addiction. I have talked about that before and several members of my family, and i have seen firsthand the tremendous pain that the disease of addiction afflicts on those who are suffering from it and their families and everyone around them. My mom is also a nurse who worked in and ran a Recovery Center in merced and i have seen firsthand what recovery can do for people. Overdose is an acutely human problem and so its disappointing that San Francisco has not found a way to confront it. And with the condition on our street and indeed, the human toll of this disease worsens, we have got to figure this out. And we have to do better. Over the past year, i have been working with the Reentry Division of the Adult Probation Department, the services center, also known as casck, and our residents in recover tow chart a path forward. In 2018, the entry Entry Division of the Adult Probation Department in partnership with the senior exoffender program and ucfs citywide launched San Franciscos first ever recovery summit. A forum to discuss the addiction realities and the recovery challenges in San Francisco. What has become clear to me is that for many who have suffered from addiction, in addition to Harm Reduction strategies, abstinencebased treatment, which includes 12step programs and therapeutic communities and faithbased programs and behavioral modification programs all need to be considered when addressing addictions. On thursday, october 22nd, the Summit Working Group prohibited their findings to the reentry council. Which is comprised of 24 members, including 12 city departments and the Mayors Office and the board of supervisors and the seven formally incarcerated individuals and the state and federal probation. And they heard from 20 participants in the working group that shared their experience with addiction and shared their recovery. At the conclusion of the presentation, the Council Voted unanimously to support the working groups treatment and addiction responses to the city and county of San Francisco. Today i am calling for a hearing where we will receive reports from the recovery Summit Working Group, the department of Public Health and more to ensure that San Francisco makes a full spectrum of Treatment Options available. We will also hear from those who are in recovery, what worked for them and how to learn from their experience. I have heard Success Stories from all across our city, and we must listen to those with experience with addiction as we try to address this crisis. People that cant imagine living life without their drug of choice should have the opportunity to hear from others who once felt that same way but were able to get clean and sober. We need to know all of the options to address their addictions. Many people in their addiction dont want to continue to hurt themselves. They dont want to continue to hurt their family. They dont want to continue to hurt others. But they have no way out. If we do not show them what is possible. Right now there are thousands of people in San Francisco suffering from addictions. And they dont have a viable path out. That is a tragedy. I look forward to hearing from our department and the partners to ensure that pathways to recovery for all and to give people the hope that they need to get clean and sober. Thank you. Clerk thank you, supervisor. The rest i submit. Clerk mr. President , there are no names on the roster so that includes the introduction of new business. President yee all right. Then we can go straight into Public Comments. Clerk all right. For the members of the public, the board of supervisors is hosting and welcomes your general Public Comment. If you are calling in now the tectelephone number is on our website and the number is 1 415 6550001. And enter the i. D. Number 1462287935. I think many of you have been calling in over the last couple of months and you know that when youre ready to provide Public Comment press star, 3, make sure that your background is quiet so that you will be able to hear the prompt which is you have been unmuted. Once you hear that just please begin your comments. All right. We still have i believe that we still have the interpreters with us, we have fay and agnus lee. And if you wouldnt mind please present a very quick introduce yourself and that youre here to address them with their Public Comment in what language. Thank you, madam clerk. [speaking spanish] speaking Foreign Language . Thank you. speaking Foreign Language . Clerk thank you very much to all of you. Theres 12 listeners in the queue listening and five members in the queue. If you are interested now is the time to press star, 3. Operations, lets hear from the first caller, please. Caller this is mrs. Chapman. I want to thank the sponsor and all of you for including the class of disabled people in the care and ordinance. And i had a very nice conversation with one of the staff in supervisor waltons office about, you know, the necessity of considering the people who are going to benefit from being able from having a cause of action to sue would be people like [broken audio] and the people who are in front of my house. I did ask for a copy and i got one. I was very satisfied [broken audio] with that aspect of it. By including, you know, citations and misdemeanors and maybe felonies [broken audio] as potential results of action like occurs outside [broken audio] which can be dramatic. Imagine the trauma for these poor young men who maybe are subjected to this forever. [broken audio] in the public rightofway. You know, not even sitting or camped out or anything like that. Youre not going to see [broken audio] because, a, i wouldnt whip out a cellphone to take pictures of my coowner. But also you wouldnt want to see the privacy violated of these young men that have relatives or their Old School Friends being treated in this manner. And maybe acting kind of imbalanced. But, you know, i think that its a danger to the big handsome son of some white mother who was having a mental breakdown and who my coowner reported to the police [broken audio] and he might be armed it says, right . And at the very time that he was supposedly outside clerk thank you, miss chapman. Thank you for your comments. Operations, incom next caller,. Caller hello. Hello. This is gilbert crusval, district 8. Im here to talk about transit issues regarding muni. Muni is a disaster. The only reason that muni buses are running is because in the election a week away because you want that penny cent tax to go through for cal train and for muni. Doing this during a pandemic and when unemployment is sky high in San Francisco, the highest its ever been since the depression, is unethical and immoral to tax seniors, disabled and poor people. We dont have a subway. We dont have the fline. We dont have the 27 line. We dont have other bus lines running. All we get from muni are cuts, service cuts the website doesnt even work. It tells you when the bus is coming. So poor people and the people in the collective neighborhoods dont have bus service, but other areas of the city do have bus service, like the pacific heights, russian hill and telegraph hill. Because theyre white and rich. When we should restore bus Service Throughout the city, open the subway, open up the fline, restore service cuts that have been cut during the pandemic. Its time to open up. The Health Department is opening downtown, the subway needs to be open. I guess that muni cant pay its pg e bill to run the subway cars. So its time to open the subway. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller supervisors, this has been nine months since handling of this pandemic. And i was listening to another conversation about the Municipal Transportation Agency trying to make changes on Market Street. And you supervisors should maintain some standard when it comes to the construction thats going on all over the city. Impacting mostly seniors and people with disabilities. So i suggest to that deliberation that there should be no changes on Market Street for at least five years. Its taxpayers money. And try to improve things on van ness and gary street. Suffice to say that the pandemic is stressing us, at least when we go out and use the Public Transportation, and it should be less stressful. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations. Next caller, please. We have about 15 listeners and about Seven Members of the public in the queue. Two minutes. Caller supervisors, i wanted to thank supervisor peskin with comments about Barbara Taylor and to name the press room in her honor. After all, that is where she lived the whole time. Im calling today about the contract, and calling on the board of supervisors to provide some transparency, some explanation for what is going on with this inexplicable build. Its been two months since the membership approved the deal and d. H. R. Refused to brief the public and the Police Commission about it, and the Bar Association of San Francisco has sought documents on october 15th about this to get information. And we received a response yesterday saying that were not going to give you anything beyond another 14 days beyond the date that theres a committee and a hearing on this contract. Why is the city being so secretive about its police union and reversing course on how this is handled in the past and what the trend is initially . After all, in 2018, the support from supervisor breed and others, the city identified a key reform in the contract to speed up the d. O. J. Reform, and that as an essential objective with d. H. R. And yet you heard hours and hours of testimony and presentation about delays that persist in that contract that should be fixed im sorry in the reform process. And they all could be fixed in the contract but we dont have information, and philadelphia and chicago are dealing with contracts holistically and addressing the reform issues and not just the demands but the u. S. Conference of mayors and the chief associations and the naacp and the Civil Defense fund, and scholars and retired judges and labor arbitrators and even a prominent Police Union Attorney ronald yank was called for more transparency. When will San Francisco address this issue in a transparent process because what we know so far makes no sense. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, we have 15 listeners and seven in the queue. Next speaker, please. Caller can you hear me now . Clerk yes, we can hear you, welcome. Caller its mr. indiscernible thanks. So two notes in memoriam, and im sorry that i missed last weeks meeting and i saw randy little listed and so i went and looked that up. Im very sad to hear about the passing of randy ridle, a former deputy City Attorney. I mean, me wrote the sunshine ordinance and wrote the Charter Amendment that created the ethics commission. And, to heck, that was just the summer of 1993. I mean, he was responsible for much work, particularly in the area of ethics and elections. But also the government litigation and any number of other things. He was just a wonderful person. You know, cant say enough good things. I mean, the only half decent thing is that now theres somebody else for bud to chat with, but its unfortunate for all of us and i just saw that with much sadness. I guess that i just gleaned from the previous caller that Barbara Taylor now as well . It just gets worse and worse. One of my favorite lines from when willie brown was mayor is at a press conference he would say, barbara, you must be completely misinformed and that usually meant that barbara was right on and knew exactly what was going on with city hall or the departments or whatever. And, you know, i mean, anyway, i just continue to feel sad about all of these losses. Thank you very much to all of you. Clerk thank you for your comments, david. Is his two minutes up . Clerk no, he has 15 seconds. All right. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, i am lawrence and i live in district 9. I am calling to bring attention to the negotiations of the Police Officer Association Contract. And if i known that i was going to go by order it would have been after the i would have tried to dial in sooner, because thats hard to follow. But ill echo a lot of the concerns that the contract extension and the renegotiation seems to be happening completely behind doors. This is an issue that impacts not only the entire city, but especially the black and brown citizens who are impacted by these policies. So i would just call on the board of supervisors that now is the time to be able to push back on the contracts, dont agree to the renegotiation and dont delay it for a few years when youre this working position. So, yeah, thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. We have 20 listeners and seven in the queue. Operations, lets unmute the next caller. Caller mr. President and members of the board, i am hyde bagdasarian, and i would like to thank president yee for introducing the resolution regarding the unlawful and unprovoked attacks on the nation. And supervisor safai for cosponsoring this. While 2020 has been a very difficult year for all of us, but for the armenian nation in particular because more than a hundred years after the Armenian Genocide were facing a threat. Genocide watch issued a report a few days ago indicating that the armenian stages i stage nation n stages of nine and 10, meaning extermination and denial. The denial is going on for over a hundred years. Its revised because one of the precurrers of dehumanization has been happening for a long time. And this is a good time for me to point out that this the intent is not to vilify the turkish nation nor the azerbaijany nation but to really call into question the practices of the two leaders, erdogan and they have stoked and fanned the flames to the point that we actually experience the prelude to the current hostilities that are occurring overseas in our own city through the course of three hate crimes committed at my Daughters School and the Cultural Center adjacent to our church on commonwealth avenue. We appreciate the support thats been demonstrated to our community through that. And we ask for your support on this particular resolution. So thank you for the attention that is being paid and i appreciate the time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, please unmute the next caller. Welcome, caller. Caller yes. Good evening. I did get home earlier than usual this time. This is barrett toronto, i am calling to alert you of the related action by the sfmta board not the board, excuse me, but jeff tumlin and his righthand woman kate torren that i sometimes call the donald trump of the taxi industry. Im sorry to put it that way, but the thing is this she announced yesterday through an email that they want to restrict access to airport pickups to purchased medallion holders. They had threatened to do this previously, but why now . The medallions that are required after 1978 and before 2010, are only one out of every six to nine cabs that leave the airport with a fare. And so because there were 49 foreclosures in the last three months, the credit union foreclosed on 49 medallions. And the question is whether restricting access to the airport to purchased medallions is the solution . It is not. Its the fact that business has slowed down at the airport and the number of vehicles that are returning from short fares that get fundable access, you know, has almost doubled since the beginning of the pandemic due to the fact that the nearby hotels dont run their shuttles very often, especially after 9 00 and 10 00 at night when people need to go to nearby hotels to either pick up their cars or stay in the lodging there. So the thing is that this has become a serious situation. It doesnt take effect until december 1st. But we need some help to try and to get things to get more business at the airport, when the figures show not, versus trying to get some relief clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. And madam clerk i do not want to be argumentive and i have known mr. Toronto for many, many years. But i do take exception to his characterization of miss torrent. I want to just put that on the record. That was unfortunate and conduct unbecoming. President yee thank you, supervisor peskin. Clerk thank you. Well make a note of it that you put those comments on the record at Public Comment. At mr. Torontos Public Comment. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is edith and i live in district 11 and my mother and father are long time members. I demand that the board of supervisors reject the p. O. A. Contracting renegotiation and call a public hearing to provide transparency into Contract Negotiations. Since the george floyd uprising i have been disappointed in the boards unwillingness to stand up for Public Safety. The city budget came and went and you failed to take police off our street. You have passed a resolution for racial equality into our programs and services. Many of you sign on to these with the resolution, the sfpd kills brown and brak black peop, and earlier this year they described the level of antiblack bias in sfpd as extreme. How can you pass this resolution or sponsor it while having a contract that has no Harm Reduction efforts . The community is paying attention and we know that you have yet to take a stand against police brutality. Its your chance to stand up for the people and to take a stand against police brutality. It was renegotiated behind closed doors and subverting the power of the public to weigh in on our most vulnerable. Cities are Holding Police fraternities accountable. And in chicago, they are asking for 40 disciplinary reforms and had all negotiations in public. Philadelphia even passed a law to prohibit talks with their Police Fraternity until the Community Demands are incorporated into the negotiations it is your responsibility to prevent it from operating in the shadow. Mayor breeds threat to layoff workers if this is not pass side unimaginable. A shortage of funds in the sfpd workers would lead to workers being laid off. I want to remind that you these negotiations arent just about money. Theyre about lives lost on San Franciscos streets, about families left without their loved ones and lasting trauma because the sfpd and the p. O. A. Are not held accountable. Budget after budget, contract after contract. Clerk thank you. Thank you for your comments. Great, thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, please unmute the next caller. Caller hi, my name is Jennifer Fang and i live in district 3. I risko the previous callers in asking the board of supervisors to reject the Police Officers association renegotiation and call for a public hearing to provide transparency and for Contract Negotiations. Thousands of people have been on the streets indiscernible but nothing changed. And indiscernible despite widespread demands for a transformation to our approach to Public Safety, the p. O. A. Contract is status quo. And sfpd offers no policy concessions and are killing yet another person. Has a parity clause that gives benefits earned by the city workers that create Public Safety like teachers and other essential workers. One city found that collective bargaining rights are used to protect the officers to discriminate in the use of force against nonwhite populations. It estimates that policing and unionization has led to about 60 to 70 civilians killed by police each year. The overwhelming majority were not white. And cities are Holding Police fraternities accountable, such as philadelphia and chicago as previous callers mentioned. And it is your responsibility as supervisors to keep them from operating in the shadows. Stand up to the racist police fraternities and reject this contract and make all future negotiations public. Clerk okay, thank you, caller. Thank you for your comments. Operations, please unmute the next caller. Caller hello, i hope that you are well. I am john wynne and i live in district 5. Across the country and in San Francisco, tens of thousands of people have hit the streets demanding an end to Police Violence and called for countless hearings these same months but nothing is changing. This past month sfpd killed vargas, a man in crisis on the streets. So im calling to demand that the board of supervisors reject the p. O. A. Association contract renegotiation and call public hearings to provide transparency into the future Contract Negotiations. The contract perpetuates the status quo. Giving two additional years of raises and offers no concessions for the officers to kill yet another person. And it has a parity clause that gives benefits earned by the city workers that actually occurred against teachers and other essential workers, bearing in mind that police were originally indiscernible . In chicago, like people have said, there are negotiations with their police union and asking for decemberary reforms and disciplinary reforms. And they prohibited contract talks until a public hearing takes place. They use their collective bargaining rights and political influence to protect the ability of their officers to discriminate in a disproportionate use of force against people of color. And i believe my conviction is that your job as elected officials is to stand up for s. F. Citizens and the safety of our communities. To make all future negotiations public. Were talking about Public Safety and the public has to be involved, otherwise, its just all empty words. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller my name is camilla and i live in district 11. I demand that the board of supervisors to reject the racist Police Officers Association Contract renegotiation and call a public hearing to provide transparency into the future Contract Negotiations. Reject the renegotiations and please hold a public hearing. This renegotiation is exactly what the p. O. A. Wants. They get two additional years of raises and that locks in their lack of tran transparency and ss them up to negotiate a next contract in a Mayoral Election year when theyll have more leverage. Stand up to the racist p. O. A. The attempted legal action to prohibit the officers from indiscernible at moving cars which is how the sfpd murdered Jessica Williams. And the use of restraint which killed eric garner. This past june they threatened a lawsuit so they can still kneel on the necks of san franciscans after they killed george floyd. Negotiations should be held in public so that the community can have input. Its a matter of life and death for black and brown citizens. Stand up, and reject this p. O. A. Contract and make all future negotiations public. I yield my time. Clerk okay, thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller my name is gracie and i live in district 7 and i grew up in San Francisco. Im calling to demand the board of supervisors to reject a racist Police Officers Association Contract renegotiation and call a public hearing to provide transparency into the future Contract Negotiations. This summer, tens of thousands of people hit the streets of San Francisco demanding the end of Police Violence. But you failed to reduce our police force. This month the sfpd hunted down mr. Vargas, a man in crisis and killed him in the streets. After supervisor stefanis comments about addiction issues its unthinkable that shes taking no action on the motor of a 21yearold. The p. O. A. Defends officers when have been in racist and homophobic scandals and had extreme acts of violence against our communities, including the killing of black and brown san franciscans. It was weeks after a move that killed george floyd. And the bias trainer described the level of antiblackness in sfpd as extreme. Passing this p. O. A. Contract gives racism a pass. Across the country cities are Holding Police fraternities accountable. In chicago, they are asking for 40 disciplinary reforms and had all negotiations in public. Philadelphia even passed a law prohibiting the contract talks with Police Fraternity until a public hearing takes place and the Community Demands are incorporated into the negotiations. It is your responsibility, supervisors, to prevent the sfpoa from operating in the shadows. Despite demand for a different approach to Public Safety, this perpetuates the racist status quo and gives sfpd two more years of raises and doesnt prevent officers from killing yet another person. It has a clause that gives the p. O. A. Any additional benefits by the city workers to actually create Public Safety like nurses and teachers and other essential workers. Please dont continue to fail us. I yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Unmute the next caller, please. Hi, i am peter and i live in district 5. I have read the p. O. A. Contract amendment, which is is file 201050 and i have to say that its a terrible deal. You should not extend this contract into 2023. You should not be granting the p. O. A. A parity clause that gives them raises when other Public Employees get raises. You should not be approving a contract amendment negotiated behind closed doors without transparency or public input. Reject this amendment and send it back for a renegotiation with the public input opportunities. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller hi, i am emily and i live in district 9. Im echoing the previous callers demand that they reject the p. O. A. Contract negotiation and call for future negotiations to be public. This Contract Negotiation is an act of violence, particularly towards black, indigenous and broken lives an live brown livee unhoused and people marched in the streets in defending the police. And when we called in to you and told to you cut the sfpd budget, your excuse is that the p. O. A. Budget would undo these cuts. So you did nothing. This is inaction and complicity. And the system of Police Violence. Earlier this month afpd killed mr. Sfpd killed mr. Vargas. And they are looking to the murder. And they said indiscernible with the use of force policies that the parity clauses for unfair raises. To protect the fraternal brotherhood over peoples lives. If you dont vote down this contract youre defending this racist status quo. So i should remind you that you work for the people. You dont work for the mayor, you dont work for the police, so stop being boot lickers and stop acting like it and reject this contract. And reject this p. O. A. Contract and make all future negotiations public. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, im carla and i wanted board of supervisors to reject the p. O. A. Contract renegotiation and call public hearings for transparency. And to have all future Contract Negotiations. And the p. O. A. Continually defends and ingauges in racist and homophobic actions and has used violence. And the california d. O. J. And the sfpd describes the level of antiblack violence in sfpd as extreme. So its a matter of life and death for black and brown san franciscans. So given how racist the p. O. A. Is, they cant have a negotiation without a public hearing. So reject the p. O. A. Contract and make all future negotiations public. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller my name is dillon tabrith and i live and work in district 6. Ill calling to demand the board of supervisors to reject the racist Police Officers contract renegotiation and to call a public hearing to provide transparency into future Contract Negotiations. I have been disappointed by the lack of action taken by the board of supervisors on this issue. This renegotiation is exactly what the p. O. A. Wants. It gets two additional years of raises and locks in their lack of transparency and accountability and sets them up to negotiate the next contract within the Mayoral Election year when they had no leverage. Stand up to the racist p. O. A. Why is San Francisco asking for no policy concessions even after months of protesting and Police Violence and another Police Killing of a man in crisis less than a month ago . They found violent violence increased 40 after they allowed the officers to unionize. Another study found that corrupt bargaining rights are used to protect the ability of officers to discriminate in this disproportionate use of force against a nonwhite population. It estimates that the police unionizations led to 60 or 70 additional killings by police each year. The overwhelming majority were nonwhite. Even after decades of socalled reforms, 76 of uses of force last year were against people of color. Sfpd officers killed people 2. 4 times a day and other indiscernible went up from 3 in 2016. Readial action must be taking now. We are paying attention and we will not stop until the sfpd is replaced with a kinder and more sustainable safety system. Stand up for your progressive values and do the humane thing. You work for us, not the police department. Stand up to our citys racist police from turnity and reject this p. O. A. Contract and make all future negotiations public. Clerk thank you for your comments. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller. Hello, this is byron and i live in district one and i ask the board of supervisors to negotiate a new contract. Myself and thousands of others that have been on the streets all summer, all fall, demanding to renegotiate our contract with the police. And were asking the board to listen to our demands, not across the country, but here in San Francisco to have Community Input and to report for a Police Contract that works for all san franciscans. Clerk all right, im assuming that the caller finished. Thank you kindly for your comments. Operations, lets unmute the next caller. Caller hello, well, good evening, supervisors. I am so so many callers have called in against the police, and i have lived 68 years and i have never had a problem with the police. I have been stopped many, many times and i have received many traffic tickets. And you know, they should know that this is a time to give them a raids. Theres going to be so many burglaries, and the people calling indiscernible yeah, and these cops indiscernible and, you know indiscernible what else i dont know what is wrong with these young people. Get a grip on life. Clerk okay, operations, lets unmute the next caller, please. Caller hello. This is indiscernible and i have been attending the Police Commission meetings and working to try to create justice here. And yet the p. O. A. Continues to be bullying all of you. Yeah, i can understand why youd be scared, you know, they try to destroyed jeff gadachi, his character. And they have attacked sandra fewer and Hillary Ronen in their journal and calling you unstable. Theyre bullies. And were getting to deal with this every day with black and brown people walking the streets who are afraid that these guys are a threat to them, that police are a threat. And now theyre a threat to you. So are you going to continue to hide behind the disinformation coming from the Mayors Office, saying that they have to tie themselves to this union, which never should have been police unions. Theres a Movement Across the country to end policing in cities, frankly. But youre going to continue to coward in the face of these bullies that have shown racism and killed the indiscernible have never admitted any single guilt of any Police Officer ever. Its your job. Please do it. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller indiscernible to reject this p. O. A. Contract and you give the racist Police Everything they want, and the p. O. A. Specifically admits to protect the officers abuses. Police unions have been demonstrated to increase the abusive racist behavior, and indiscernible in public and indiscernible i yield my time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller. Caller hi, i am sophie and i live in district 7 of San Francisco. I am calling in today to raise awareness and ask the board to take a stance against the p. O. A. Contract. And you can provide transparency in renegotiating a new contract that doesnt tie raises to our city workers who create Public Safety like nurses and other essential workers. I do not see a police from 10ity as a legitimate union but for a way to have police to have unfettered power in the city. They use their power to cover up their murders like the most recent murder of mr. Vargas and mya woods and other san franciscans who should still be alive today. No one should be murdered by people who are sworn to serve and protect. If the police do not keep black and brown and Indigenous Peoples of color safe, they are not keeping San Francisco safe and that is unacceptable. Clerk okay, thank you, caller. Operations, lets hear from the next speaker. Caller hi, i am catalina and i call to demand that the board of supervisors reject the racist p. O. A. Renegotiations and call a hearing to provide transparency and for future negotiations. Tens of thousands of people have hit the streets of San Francisco to demand the end of Police Violence but nothing changed. Sfpd hunted down mr. Vargas, a man in crisis and killed him in the streets. Despite our approach to Public Safety, it perpetuates the status quo. It gives sfpd two additional years of raises and it adds a parity clause which gives the p. O. A. Any additional benefits that are earned by the public that are essential workers like teachers and nurses. And cities are beginning to hold these Police Officers acouncillable. Theyre asking for 40 disciplinary reforms and have negotiations all in public. Prohibiting the contract talks with the Police Fraternity and until the Community Demands are incorperated into the negotiations. And its your responsibility to stop them fromerating in the shadows. The p. O. A. Has a long history of those who are committed extreme acts of violence against our communities. Including the killing of dozens of black and brown san franciscans. This past june they threatened a lawsuit so they could still kneel on the necks of san franciscans after that same move killed george floyd. The sfpd described the level of antiblack bias in San Francisco as extreme. Stand up to our citys racist Police Fraternity and make all future negotiations public. Please do the right thing. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hello, i live in district 8 and im a member of a group of people who want to see that police that police stop killing everybody. Im calling to demand the board of supervisors to reject the racist Police Officers Association Contract renegotiation and to call a public hearing to provide transparency to future negotiations. This renegotiation is exactly what the p. O. A. Wants, they get two years of raises and they have a lack of transparency locked in and it sets them to renegotiate their next contract in a mayoral year when theyll have more leverage. The attempted legal action to prohibit the officers from shooting at moving cars, which is how sfpd murdered Jessica Williams and the use of restraint that killed eric garner. Like this past june they threatened a lawsuit so they could still kneel on the necks of san franciscans weeks after that same move killed george floyd. Stand up to the racist Police Fraternity and reject this p. O. A. Contract and make all future negotiations public. Im going to end with a song that was popularized in italy during world war ii, so the song for the resistance. Clerk okay, thank you to the caller. Thank you for your great song. Okay, operations, lets hear from the next speaker, please. Caller hi, could you clarify how many more callers are in the queue . Clerk set your time and i will look wit and when youre finished ill announce it. Caller great. I live in district 9 and i ask the supervisors to reject the racist p. O. A. Contract. Supervisors, take a stand and do better. Take a risk. Stop pandering when you dont even live by it. We hear how the antibias squad at the sfpd got. And look past that and understand that bias is the base they work on. And this is a base of reform. indiscernible and im going to respond to what is wrong indiscernible whats wrong with me is that i have to pick up the pieces of your ignorance. What is wrong with me is that i want more, and i want better, and i want black lives to matter. And for us to really live like that. I want more, i want better, and i say black lives matter then ill get rid of the problem and that means police. indiscernible mr. Vargas was murdered in cold blood. Our liberation is tied together. And indiscernible so, anyways, please, let us know how many other callers are on the line. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Theres 13 listeners and two callers in the queue. Next caller please, operations. Caller hello, i am mariah and i live and i work in San Francisco. I did call, and like so many calls that we made earlier this year we want you to hold the sfpd accountable, and some lowhanging fruit here, just that these negotiations be transparent, to reject raises for our citys cops. And without policy concessions, really. And they protect officers from being accountable for their actions and you have heard people quote these statistics of implicit bias being extreme and you have heard the collective bargaining rights and saying that they have 60 indiscernible for each year. 40 increase indiscernible , its not healthy and its not good. indiscernible make it transparent, and put options. Its enough, come on, its time to call you to task to do your job. And you get paid to do this, we dont. And callers are listening and were speaking our hearts and our minds, so, please, what can you do and do it. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hello, my name is marie cardier and i live in district 5 and a member of the San Francisco mime troupe. I call that the board of supervisors reject the contract renegotiation and call public hearings to provide transparency into the future Contract Negotiations. And the renegotiation is exactly what the p. O. A. Wants. They get two additional years of raises and it works on the lack of accountability through 2023 and a Mayoral Election year when they will have more leverage. And negotiations should be held in public so that the community can have input. The p. O. A. Policies are a matter of life and death for black and brown san franciscans. A study found that misconduct among the sheriff officers increased 40 after a state Supreme Court rules allowed the officers to unionize. And collective bargaining rights are used to protect the ability of officers to discriminate in a disproportionate use of force against a nonwhite population. And estimates that the popees unionization led to 60 to 70 additional civilians killed by police each year. The overwhelming majority were white. Stand up to the p. O. A. Everyone knows how racist and corrupt they are. Take a stand and be on the right side of history, black lives matter. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller good evening, supervisors, i am sarah, i havent called in for a minute, i really missed yall. I want to make it clear that i know that its election season and everyone is talking about their platforms and what they stand for. Everything that you think that you stand for or tweet about are put on your instagram live, did not mean shit if you dont block this contract. But at least call for a public hearing. I yield my time. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller good evening, supervisors. I am from st. Johns, pass epil church. And i want to talk against the credit for sfpd. No reforms, no money. After all of the trauma that we have been through over the last several years, including the killings of alex and lopez and mario woods, and most recently mr. Varga, to mention just a few, i have hoped that San Francisco could now join chicago and philadelphia and other major cities in finally recognizing the police union for the major obstacle to Police Reform that it is. This contract indiscernible is behind closed doors with no citizen input. It does not reflect the values and the lived experience and, yes, the tawma o trauma of our communities in San Francisco. You can rectify this by having public hearings and public input before even considering this flawed contract. The past several years have been traumatic for many of us here in San Francisco and the more recent National Attention to this issue has reopened many old wounds that so many of us still carry. At this critical moment in our nations history, before approve anything contract with the p. O. A. , please make sure that it reflects the needs and the values of the people in our communities, including especially our immigrant families and our brothers and sisters who are black and brown. Thank you so much for listening to me. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is brandy and i live and work in district five. Im calling to demand the board of supervisors reject the racist p. O. A. Contract renegotiation and to call for a public hearing so that we can have transparenciy in the future Contract Negotiations. The current renegotiation is exactly what the p. O. A. Wants, so you could have two additional years of raidses and it locks in their lack of atransparency through 2023 and sets them to renegotiate the next contract in a Mayoral Election year, when they would have more leverage than they already do. Get a backbone and stand up to the racist p. O. A. And stand up to the citys racist Police Fraternity, stop treating them like theyre a union. Theyre not. Theyre using their collective bargaining right to protect their able to discriminate and theyre just pushing a use of force against the nonwhite population in San Francisco. Were seeing that in the streets all the time, and youre not listening. Clerk okay, operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Madam clerk, that completes the queue. President yee thank you for the comments. Now Public Comment is now closed. Lets see, madam clerk, lets call for the adoption of all of the Committee Recommendations 34 to 37. Clerk okay. Item 34 through 37 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee and a unanimous vote is required for a resolution on First Reading today. Alternatively any member may require a resolution to go to committee. President yee okay, anyone would like to sever any of these items . I would like to sever number 36. For the remainder of the items, number 34 through 35 and 37, please call a roll clerk items 3437, [roll call] there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, without objection the motion is approv approved. Okay, hopefully call item 36. Clerk item 36, condemns the ongoing attacks in the republic and urging the United States to broker the cessation of hostilities. President yee thank you very much. And the board, we really weighed in on International Conflicts what is happening between azerbaijan and armenia demands our attention. Theres so much at stack for the stability in that region and the effects that it has worldwide. So in the bay area its home to the Diverse Communities, including those armenian descendants. However, the course of the past few months, you know, the Armenian Community is targeted violence and hateful attacks against their communal space. This cannot be tolerated. Where the schools are vandalized and the Church Offices being set ablaze, followed by fire at the school, our residents are understandably terrified. Two fires were started between armenia and azerbaijan and then the fighting got once. Azerbaijans defensive which includes the shelling of the indiscernible the most populated city with a population of 55,000, has resulted in dozens of children, and hundreds were wounded. As of this weekend, the threat to civilians continues. And the International Community have failed to resolve the conflict and now a new generation is paying the price. The Populated Areas within the contested territory of argonal have been hit by missile strikes and bombardments for the First Time Since the 1990s. And civilian targets in armenia and azerbaijan have been also hit. So we should all be extremely concerned by the work that removes any additions to azerbaijan to a reconquest of the area being expressed my neighboring countries like turkey and allies of azerbaijan. To echo Vice President joe bidens comments, we must tell azerbaijan that we will not tolerate its efforts to impose a military solution to this conflict. It must be made clear to armenia that the surrounding areas cannot be occupied indefinitely and that the negotiations on a lasting resolution of the conflict was commenced immediately once the ceasefire is concluded. This resolution calls on our congress and leaders to help to intervene and to bring about a true ceasefire to spare any more loss of life and to bring stability. I also want an end to the targeted hateful attacks on our community in San Francisco. This is not the answer to grief and frustration. We must rise above this and ensure the safety of our neighbors. Thank you, colleagues, for your support and i want to also thank supervisor safai for cosponsoring. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. First of all i would like to add my name as a cosponsor and to say that it is very rare that i believe that the San Francisco board of supervisors should engage in matters of international and geopolitical issues. But if theres one, this is one. And the reason for it is because these have as you said been playing out in the city and the county of San Francisco in most hateful ways. So i do believe that it is entirely appropriate and i am proud to affix my name as a cosponsor to this resolution to affirm the support for congressman spheres task resolution 1165. And urge the United States to be a real broker of peace in the azerbaijani, armenian region much essential steps of asia. So im honored to be affixed as a cosponsor. President yee thank you, spfer peskin. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani i would like to associate myself with the comments that supervisor peskin and to thank you, president yee, for this resolution. As you know i have one of the churches in my district and it was subject to vandalism by arson. And it is something that i agree with you on, president yee, and i would like to add my name as a cosponsor as well. President yee thank you, supervisor stefani. Okay, madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk okay. On item 36, [roll call] 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, where are we . Can you please read the in memoriams . Clerk todays meeting is adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals, on behalf of the supervisor mandelman and supervisor peskin, for the late mr. Tom taylor, and on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late miss diane deprmia and on a motion by supervisor peskin, mandelman and president yee on behalf of the entire board of supervisors and the City Attorney general dennis arera, for the borough chief miss Barbara Taylor. President yee okay, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Is there any other business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee thank you, madam clerk. And as theres no further business we are adjourned. Good night, everybody. My name is colleen chan, and im running for district 1 supervisor. Thats including the richmond neighborhood and golden gate park. I was a a first generation immigrant. I was horn in honeg kong and born in hong kong and i came here when i was 13 years old. San francisco has been a great home for me and my family. Today, my partner, a firefighter, we are able to afford our home in the richmond, raising our child, a second greater, avenue lafayette elementary. Ive spent the last five years in my life working in City Government the, starting out at a legislative aide on the San Francisco board of supervisors. Also advocating for more than 500 million grants and funding to improve our park system at rec and park. Last, but not least, but also at the city college of San Francisco, champion Free City College that is a Higher Education program froee for al san franciscans. Im proud of the things that i have accomplished, but also, at the same time i have seen the income divide significantly increase in San Francisco, especially during this pandemic, it has disproportionately hurt something the working people in our communities. Its the reason why im running, that i want to bring my skills and experience to the table to help close that income divide gap and making sure that all working people can stay housed, stay healthy and safe in our beloved city. Thank you. Hi. Im sherman dasilva. We have problems that we face daily when we walk out or door to shop, work, and enjoy the precious neighborhood we call home. On homelessness, it means no camping or sleeping on streets. Instead, we will use cityowned garages to provide a safe, clean, and private space where we can offer Mental Health and he diction offices. On crime and safety, well increase beat officers to deter theft and vandalism, but we will not defund, reduce or reappropriate the number of sworn officers. On pedestrian safety, we will install traffic lights on all major corridors. For accessibility, well have a Neighborhood Department to serve you. For infrastructure, were going to set aside money every year to replace sidewalks, roads, and public buildings. On police accountability, well increase transparency and randomly review officer actions. We want to be independent. It means we will not accept money from unions, corporations, or special interests. Ive seen the decline of our neighborhood happening over time. Refocusing these priorities will make our neighborhood cleaner, safer, and a more enjoyable place to work and live. Im sherman da silva, and im looking forward to being your next Richmond District supervisor. Im a Small Business owner, with my wife, we operate a Small Business on gary boulevard, and we have been serving the community over a decade. Im running because im deeply troubled by the current state of our district. We now have more homenessen campmented, closed businesses, and increased crime. The Richmond District has been neglected by city hall for too long. Its time for new city leadership at city hall. Its time for a supervisor who will put the richmond first. Im the only candidate with extensive civil rights experience needed to effectively represent the Richmond District. First, the richmond and San Francisco more broadly must build more Affordable Housing. Second, i will fight to expand healthy San Francisco so that uninsured middle class residents will receive health care coverage. Additionally, i am the only major candidate in this race to oppose any tax increases swoosh the covid19 during the covid19 pandemic. We should not kick people when were down. Lets first look at our current spending and fight government waste before we increase teaks. We net better environmentally friendly options to help getting citizens to and from the richmond. Thats why im for bringing b. A. R. T. To the richmond. Lastly, our current homeless policies have been ineffective. I support caring for our homeless without turning our neighborhoods and our parks into homeless encampments. I believe my policies will help all residents and help put the richmond first. Hi. My name is marlhausen, and im running for supervisor because for too long, politicians have allowed the problems in our neighborhood to worsen without taking action. We cant afford four more years of this. The devastating effect of the covid19 pandemic has increased the need for new leadership at the board of supervisors. To make a Significant Impact on homelessness, we have to recognize the different needs of our unhoused population. There is no single simple solution. We must prevent evictions by stabilizing tenants. We have to meet the immediate needs of our unhoused population by acquiring more safe sleeping places, shelters, and safe spaces. I have over 30 Years Experience in government, business, and community advocacy. Two years ago, my sister and i opened our Family Business on balboa street, and now, like so many other Small Businesses, on you future is uncertain our future is uncertain. Many owners are stalled or defeated but our bureaucracy before they even had a chance to begin. I will support policies and legislation that make it easier to run a neighborhood business in San Francisco. Finally, we need to make our streets more friendly or residents and families. Ill owe prioritizes more street cleanings in our business corridors. We must bring our neighborhood together to ensure that none of us is left behind in our recovery. Hi. My name is veronica cinzano. For far too long, our government has been out of touch with the problems of so many san franciscans and struggling families. Im a 30year Richmond District. Im your neighbor to make sure you have a voice at city hall. You need someone who understands your struggles who represents, and not the same old politics. Im a working mom, and a Small Business owner. Im working for all of San Francisco, not just the privileged few. Im running to offer concrete solutions. We have a 2 billion shortfall. Make no mistake, we cannot tax our way out of this pandemic. My priorities, economic recovery for all. With historic unemployment and a pandemic with no end in sight, budget cuts cannot be made on the bams working family he ands backs of the working families and middle class. Resilience, identify additional sources of revenue to fund City Projects and reevaluate Government Spending carefully. Calibrate budget cuts without hurting those who are already feeling the brund of income inequality before the pandemic. As a community taxpayer advocate, if youre tired of politics as usual, then im your candidate. Vote for veronica. Im not backed by any political machine or special interests. Whether youre a moderate, progressive, republican or independent, join us, and please stay healthy during these tough times. Thank you. Hi. Im chris manners, and youre watching to coping with covid19. Well, were down to the wire before the president ial election, so heres some tips to help you vote safely during this pandemic. By now, all californians who are registered to vote should have received your ballot to vote by mail. It must be post marked by election day, november 3, so be sure to check collect times if you wait to mail it until election day. If youre concerned that your ballot wont make it in time through the post, the next option is to drop off your ballot at San Franciscos voting center, which has been set up outside of the bill graham auditorium on grove street. You can either walk up to hand off your ballot, or you can use the drivethru election. Therell be a ballot drop off location at each of the citys libraries. Consider going early in the day, when it should be less busy. From october 28 through election day, any registered voter unable to drop off their own ballot may authorize somebody else to do so. To authorize somebodys to return your vote by mail ballot, make sure you complete the additional section on your ballot return envelope. If youre picking up or dropping off any ballots, wear a mask and use Hand Sanitizer after touching any surfaces. If you wish to drop it off in person, vis person, if you wish to vote in person, visit the bill graham center. You can avoid lines and save time by preparing your ballots in advance and going to the polling place during offpeak hours. If youre planning on filling out your ballot at the voting center, consider bringing some wipes to clean surfaces and Hand Sanitizer to use after you vote. For those who are planning to vote on election day, consider going to your polling place at offpeak time dos, such as midmorning, because it might reduce wait time. And finally, once you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. And thats it for this episode. 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