Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use And Transportation Committee 20240711

Thank you for your comments. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, thank you for your time and attention and leadership. I hope you and your families are safe and healthy. The testimony from Business Owners made my heart race. I am judy, on the board of directors. My comments are a bit of blast from the past. I grew up from San Franciscos japan town back in the designated western addition. Mom and pop world war ii. My parents saved and borrowed money. They decided to retire and pass the business to my parents. My parents started. Redevelopment demolished. The Small Businesses provided for all of our needs from doctors to dentists, shoe repairs, barbers, bookshops and so much more. Mom and dads restaurant had celebrities. I slept to the jazz greats. Willie mays hung out. It was a Small Business on special flavor, friendliness and character. Back in the days Small Businesses and the people who loved community had a community that wases diverse. Their hard work continued to value small Business Owners because corporations and big money did not have the heart of the community. We support and rescue Small Businesses, communities that may being San Francisco unique and amazing place to live and visit. Thank you so much. Thank you for sharing. Next caller, please. I dont have anything to say on the legislation, i would like to comment on the amendment. I understand that the amendments are not substantial. It would have been better practice to have the amendment known to the general public before opening Public Comment so that the publico have been aware of the content of the amendment and commented on them should they so choose. That would allow for better transparency. Thank you. If the speaker wishes to identify whoever the speaker is, i am happy to speak to them. They are non substantive. I am happy to reiterate that section 37c points to we are making it more clear, although it is abundantly clear in said section this law applies to subtenants. In addition to that on page 6 i would insert the language that gives the proviso that payments made prior to the forbearance period cover commercial tenants in the first three tiers shall be applied to rents that come due during the forbearance period and unpaid rents that came due during the moratorium period, which is also clarification. They are truly nonsub tantive, was not worth talking about. The substantive amendments i will address later today. Thank you for that point. If the speaker wishes to identify herself, i am happy to hear it. I believe there is one more speaker left in the list. Next speaker, please. Yes, good afternoon. I am a Small Business owner in chinatown speaking on behalf of the president of the Chinese Chamber of commerce. Thank you for your leadership. Chinatown is a cultural icon. An important history of San Francisco. It faced many difficult challenges and continues to be the oldest and most vibrant chinatown in the United States because of Small Businesses and the people who live there. The livelihood of chinatown. They are also the residents of chinatown to make a living. The financial pressure caused by covid19 gives them an opportunity to make a living. Rent relief is crucial to chinatown Small Business. Continue chinatown. The Chinese Chamber committee is to put th. [indiscernable] thank you for your time. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, any other speakers in the queue . We have reached the end of the queue. I hear there are no further callers. Public comment is closed. I would like to thank everybody who called in to comment on this legislation, particularly those who called in t to support this legislation, those had had comments about potential amendments to the legislation, particularly that comment with regard to historic landmarks as well as those who called in to oppose this legislation. I want to thank everybody who has emailed the board. The overwhelming. I dont think i have seen any emails against it. We have huge petitions for it. I want to thank api legal outreach, mr. Taylor, ms. Matsuda for advocacy on behalf of the numerous tenants who are really struggling to make it through this pandemic. I particularly want to thank the cosponsors. I mentioned my colleagues on this panel. That is chair preston and vice chair safai and supervisors wall ton and mar. We dont have a new board president yet. As i mentioned to the second before last Public Commenter, i alluded to a number of amendments that i wanted to make which i just described on pages 3 and 4 and 37c. 2 which is actually definition section of the ordinance. I think it has been included and this may beings it more clear that sub tent would ensure sub lessees are separately eligible for protections under the legislation and relatively the to repayment of deferred rent. I described that on page 6. On page 7 striking the language that gives which would be a a rules and regulations for Financial Hardship of landlords for said waiver. On page 8 non substantive language to provide nothing shall provide legal or equitable defenses arising out of unpaid rent. I believe that language and thank you vice chair preston for asking that last week. I would like to move those amendments before duplicating the style and colleagues you are in receipt of that language and then i would like to make one substantive amendment to the duplicated file and send the first file to the full board with recommendations. Why dont we start. If there are any comments from colleagues, the floor is yours. I see supervisor preston nodding his head. He might want to say something, mr. Vicechairman. No. I am sorry. We dont have a new board president yet. Vice chair safai. I appreciate all of the amendments you made today. This is important and timely. The only thing i heard over the time, and we talked about this when we did our Eviction Moratorium for tenants. We certainly would never want to take away or disincentivize people from paying rent. This doesnt absolve people from the rent burden or the psychological and humane perspective of not wanting to be in debt. The incentive is that people want to pay rent and do right. These are people mainly mom and pop businesses as you so eloquently outlined. Most of these are few member run operations. I just think it is an important piece of legislation. Also hopeful. I mean we passed legislation to create a fun for tenants mainly living in an partment buildings. There will be stimulus money and this will help with new president in the white house to recover and move the businesses back on track. I appreciate the timeliness of this. Thanks. I apologize. It is that supervisor preston is the chief cosponsor of this legislation. Member preston. Yes, thank you for the inadvertent promotion. Temporary as it was there. You know, i want to thank you, chair. I wont repeat myself. For your leadership we have your staff that has worked on this. This is not simple to figure out how to within the law protect Small Businesses at a time when we had the data that you have set forth just around this unprecedented loss of revenue and business closures. I think this ordinance as amended does that. I appreciate all of your work and leadership on that. I also want to thank and you mentioned some of these folks. So the public understands the role that you have mentioned taylor, diane and jackson, the role they have played in not only fighting to preserve business business in japantown and across the city but leading the fight in San Francisco for all Small Businesses. Being in Constant Contact with my office, chair peskins office and other of my colleagues offices but also advocating for the original commercial moratorium for extension at state level that chair peskin led efforts on and we were proud to support. The drivers, same list of folks who we have been thanking were at the forefront of fighting for the extension at the state level so we have the authorization to do this ordinance and for the advocacy for the ordinance and making sure that we got it right. Obviously, japantown is in my district, absolutely essential and i will do everything in my power with the advocates to make sure we are not losing businesses that are the heart and soul of japan town and district five but this ordinance is a key part of saving these businesses. For the commercial landlord i spoke to last week. Everyone is going to take a hit. Everyone has taken a hit in this pandemic. Small businesses are losing venue. Commercial landlords have to accept less than 100 of rent. The key is to figure out ways if they take a hit all folks emerge okay in the long run and businesses dont have to close and folks can continue to thrive in the city. I am proud to be a cosponsor and appreciate your work, chair peskin on putting together such a strong ordinance. Thank you. I think you just summed it up perfectly in addition to acknowledging everybody who has been important. My staff, in hepner, taylor, met soda, low. This is one of the million pieces were it not for the governors extension to marc march 31st we would be in a different position. We are all in it together. We are all going to have to share the pain. By the way, this wases all originally model from the legislation you did on the residential side and made us all realize the commercial side and what that means for employment in San Francisco. With that i would like to make a motion to move the an for the py distributed amendments. Mr. Clerk on that motion a roll call, please. Motion to amend is offered by chair peskin. Vice chair safai. Aye. Preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. There are three ayes. Then i would like to make a motion with my authority to duplicate the amended file. Duplication is made from the version just amended. Thank you. Then i would like to make a motion to send the first file with recommendation to the full board of supervisors as a Committee Report for tomorrow, november 10th. A roll call, please. On the motion the original ordinance be recommended as a Committee Report. Vice chair satisfy. Aye. Preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Then i would like to speak to the one substantive amendment which has also been circulated to you, mr. Vice chair safai page 6 to clarify the right to tenants to terminate lease as follows in subsection c which would save tier 1 commercial tent unable to pay rent due to covid 19 and landlord fails to reach the payment for repayment. The tenant shall have 30days written notice to the landlord not witnotwithstanding lease te. To any rent. In addition if the tenant terminated the tenant shall not be liable for penalties out of the termination notwithstanding any lease to the contrary. I would like to make that amendment. On the motion to amend the duplicated file from the previously amended version. Vice chair safai. Aye. Member preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Finally, i would like to make a motion to continue the duplicated file to our next meeting one week from today. On the motion to continue the duplicated amendment file t to e november 16th regular land use and Transportation Committee meeting. Vice chair safai. Aye. Member preston. Aye. Chair peskin. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you. Then, mr. Clerk, is president yee in attendance yet . I am. All right. Then, mr. Clerk, please call items 2 and 3 together. Agenda 2 resolution to codify and implement proactive approach for reducing posted citied limits under existing authority and implement coordinated traffic signal timing to reduce vehicle speeds. Three is resolution calling for citywide commitment to vision zero and urging mayor department of Public Health and vision zero Partner Agencies to advance the Action Strategy to end traffic fatalities by 2024 through a bold and strategic approach to improve street conditions and ad vance longer term policies for safer streets. Members who wish to comment on these two resolutions is should call the number now. 4156550001. [please stand by] president yee thank you, chair peskin. He has been a partner with me from the time we passed the resolution when he first came in and as a supervisor, and in making sure that the at the transportation you know, i just want to say the state of our streets has been in crisis for some time now. While we have been pushing for vision zero since 2015, we are now slowly making progress. This year, we have seen close to 20 fatalities already, which is roughly the average of the past five years. The original goal was to end traffic deaths by 2024, and we have to think differently about how we are going to get to zero by then. On sunday, San Francisco will be joining the world Remembrance Day for traffic victims. It marks 25 years for the global anniversary, and locally, this will mark the sixth year that weve actually recognized it. Behind stats our lives are forever changed. They are somebodys child, wife, mother, father, grandparent. Someone is feeling pain and loss. I almost lost my life walking the streets of San Francisco, so this is an issue very personal to me. This year, walk sf for families and safe streets will sponsor an exhibit to commemorate all those lives we have lost. A few weeks ago, i heard a board of supervisors meeting discuss vision zero and saying that they needed to have a paradigm shift, and i could not agree more. Today, i want to give to the m. T. A. An effort to present on their shifts in Action Strategies on vision zero. The first resolution calls on us to do everything, Everything Possible to reduce speeding within the city. I know we have an unfinished fight at the state legislature to completely overhaul how to determine speed limits, but in the meantime, we need to be using everything to do what is possible around Senior Centers, around even Child Care Centers or engineering the slow cars to slow cars down near dangerous crosswalks. The second is calling on San Francisco to recommit to vision zero by evolving our approach and proposing some further ideas to get things done. The supervisors are often the first to hear about the state of the streets, even when the authority does not fall on us. Over the years, it has been such a slow process to see improvements in our neighborhoods. I used to have to fight to get anything done for a stop sign, strengthening, anything. I was always met with excuses and resistance in departments. This has started to change, but it really shows that we are not working collectively in a solutionsoriented approach. I hope with effort we can change and transform how we do thi things. Id like to thank supervisors mar, haney, and mandelman and now peskin for their sponsorship. And i want to thank sfmta vision zero 2 for helping us in this next days of the work. Next, id like to thank walk safe sf, family safe streets for their endless hours of advocacy. I think one Public Commenter, a board member i think one Public Commenter, a board member of walk sf, dr. Olivia gamboa, said it best. Up to now, the city has been treating walking as an asset gone, whereas people being able to walk safely through their city is vital to the essential, economic, and vital health of san franciscans. Everyone walks. This is not about special interest, this is about building a city around human beings. We all need safer streets, and it is a moral confimperative fs to get this done right. Now id like sfmta to make their presentation. Sfmta also has other team members on the line if there are other questions. Ryan, are you there . Chair peskin and mr. President , a couple of things. One is before we turn it over to miss reeves, i know that all of the members of the board are going to follow in your footsteps and continue to champion these policy matters, and i look forward to being at the top of that list. It is time for us literally to take our foot off of the gas in our cars but not off of the food, and got to keep our pedal to the metal on this issue. So were going to redouble our efforts and sincere reappreciate your leadership. Before we turn it over to mr. Reeves, i think one of the keys here is automated Speed Enforcement, and i hope that the sfpoa will aid us in our efforts to get that passed in the coming legislative session. I am hopeful that Assembly Member david chiu, whos championed this two weeks, will be bringing that back, whether its a wider bill or a only bay area bill, i think this is a huge part of the solution, and i want to thank you for your leadership. Mr. Reeves . President yee miss reeves . Chair peskin im sorry. Miss reeves . Yeah. Let me just pull up my slide here. Okay. Just confirming you can see my slides here. Chair peskin yes. So as you know, vision zero was adopted in San Francisco in 2014 as a ski wide commitment to eliminate all traffic fatalities and reduce severe injuries. The concept of vision zero is built on a safe systems approach, and it moves away from the idea that traffic deaths are inevitable and instead looks to design a system that prevents crashes and mistakes will happen, but no one should die from them. All work in San Francisco [inaudible] our work in San Francisco advanced the same system Social Security approach, and we work with our colleagues at the fire department, Police Department, and other areas across these three areas listed here. So were looking to design a system that will build safer streets to anticipate error. Our safe people work is looking to advance education around safe behaviors, and our safe vehicle work is looking to advance the idea that safe Vehicle Technology can be an important tool in our safe system. And across this work, we also have our data systems team, led by Public Health, and our legislative and policy team led by our m. T. A. Government affairs team. So through act act of this year, we have had 23 traffic fatalities, including nine people woalking, two people riding, and two people riding in vehicles. This is equivalent to the 2019 fatality, so we have a lot of work to do. Our net visualizes where the majority of our fatalities and injuries occur, and we know in San Francisco that 75 of all fatal injuries occur on our city streets, and half of our network is in communities of concern, which represents communities that have a higher population of lowincome people, people of color, and vulnerable communities. Recent fatality data does continue to align with our High Injury Network. As mentioned, half of the fatalities have been on the High Injury Network, and 60 have occurred in the communities of concern. We also know that seniors are disproportionately burdened. 30 of our fatalities have been ages 60 or older, and 40 of all our pedestrian deaths are seniors. So with all of this data, we know who is impacted and where, and we can focus all of our resources accordingly. So slowing speed is the single most effective thing we can do to save lives, and that our Transportation System should be designed for speeding that really protect the people, so slowing speeds is woven into all of our work, and we have dozens of ways to slow speeds, including our education and outreach work. We have ways to target our resources to be the most impactful, and ill highlight a few of those just briefly. So we know that through lane reductions, traffic calming, and predict tiive intersection to name a few, we can reduce speeds for all users. At our protected intersections, dru including here at 9th and division, it resulted in 30 of all people turning slower than the speed limit. Weve shown turning speeds reduced by 50 and also helped yield to a pedestrian by 25 , and using residential improved sight line [inaudible] in t including leading pedestrians intervals, which give the head start to pedestrians at a crosswalk and have been shown to reduce pedestrianvehicle collisions by as much as 60 , as well as located bike lanes where we saw [inaudible] on valencia street. Lastly, our boarding islands have been effective at reducing speeds including avoiding close calls as masonic and valencia. So next, ill move through our [inaudible] so our work has long been focused on the High Injury Network but has focused on Capital Improvement projects at locations such as vanness, geary, second, and sixth, and we know that these major Capital Projects are effective, but they are resource intensive, and they can take years to design and build and implement. We realized that we could pivot to deliver more quickly benefits, resources, in our different projects. Fifth street cost just under 2 million, but Second Street was a 20 million major Capital Project. So our approach really evolves then to build an additional quick built project, shown here in blue, again, knowing that we can cover more ground for effective projects at less cost. Our Quick Build Program represented over 50 miles low cost quick and effective improvements at about a tenth of the cost of our major Capital Projects. We have about 25 million in investment for this approach over the next five years. Weve made significant progress to advance safety on our High Injury Network, and together with our Capital Project, weve completed more than 50 miles of corridor projects on the network with another 30 miles in planning or design. So again, with this focus on the High Injury Network, we know we can make the biggest impact with these resources. However, we know that we need more to connect the quarter level project on the High Injury Network, and we expect we can complete the entire improvements to the network for about 85 million, while it would take about 2 million for improvements that have been used in approximate our previous approach. That said, we know that not every street can be redesigned, so there are a suite of programatic intersection based tools that we apply city tools. Theyre proven tools to save lives that focus on the areas that we want to focus on in vision zero. Daylighting is a standard tool in our Capital Project in quick build, but we also have a program to implement this work citywide. About 500 intersections have been completed in the past year, and we have funding anticipated to complete another 500 in the next 18 months. Were going to be completing this work on a corridor basis, focused on a significant basis similar to the approach that we used in the tenderloin as well as currently the work underway in d4, and this is going to be funded with prop k to continue this citywide work. We also continue to advance updates to our continental crosswalks. Theyre updated on about 85 of our High Injury Network, and weve committed to completing the remaining intersection upgrades by 2024. The continental crosswalks that you see on the right really increase the visibility compared to the crosswalks that you see on the left. We also have a program to update our signals with lower walking speed, known as walk speed 3. 0, and leading pedestrians intervals, which give the pedestrians more time to cross. Both are about 70 completes on the high injury kplecompletn the High Injury Network, and weve committed to completing the work on the High Injury Network. Looking ahead, we will be continuing our program why the theic programatic work. Were planning to advance this work in the tenderloin . Were working with our partners there to conduct additional outreach. Similarly, were looking to advance a no turn on a red policy, where we know the highest concentration of our high injury streets are located, and this is work that were looking to advancing in the spring . Were also going to be doing seen senior zones on certain streets, and then as mentioned earlier, well be doing our high injury daylighting work through prop k. Just a few highlights on you are on safe people work. Where engineering is where we fouk used most of our resources, we really depend on our education to outreach to more residents and amplify our messages, especially when it comes to slowing speeds. We also have developed campaigns around top crash factors such as our safe speeds campaign and our it stops here campaigns, which address failure to speed. These campaigns are typically run each year. Prior to covid, we had a dedicated street team with inlanguage ambassadors that would attend meetings in the community and address concerns over vision zero. Looking ahead to safe people work, we have active Transportation Program funded campaign focused on left turns which launched two weeks ago, and a larger citywide Outreach Program planned for early next week. We also have an office of Traffic Safety funded campaign for the Motorcycle Safety work, which we know that our motorcycle riders are one of our vulnerable road users for severe and fatal traffic crashes . And so thats providing handson safety skills training for motorcycle riders. All that being said, we do know that we need more to get to zero u and our transformative policies are where we see a lot of potential for the momentum that we need, so we continue to focus our resources on building safer streets. We have a lot of support for automated speeden derment and ticketing, and were continuing to enforce these legislative changes. Were changing speed limits. Were continuing to support the states zero fatality speed task force. Weve been working with other task force cities, including oakland, sacramento, san jose, los angeles, and others, to continue elevating this work and work for legislative opportunities around speed changes. We are exhausting our local authorities such with the 20 Miles Per Hour speed limits and slower speed limits near senior zones. With automated Speed Enforcement, we are still in exploratory conversations. Weve been participating in the state excuse me, the usdots work to update their guidelines on speed safety cameras, and were expecting those guidelines early next year. And lastly, our colleagues at the t. A. Are continue to work on congestion pricing. Several scenarios are being analyzed, and a plan is expected in the spring. So we also of course recognize that we need to achieve our needs to achieve other city commitments to reach vision zero. Mode shifts, climate change, transit first policies. So for example, we continue to see challenges around safety for homeless population. I know that People Living on the streets are inherently more vulnerable to traffic deaths. So we released our most recent Action Strategy last march, and we plan to revisit the strategy in the spring with an updated plan released in the summer of next year. That concludes my presentation. Chair peskin thank you, miss reeves. I really appreciate that. President yee . President yee, youre on mute. President yee are thank you, miss reeves, for the presentation can presentation. Id like to ask some specific questions around the senior speed zones. I know that theres been one put up around the geary boulevard, theres a Senior Center around there, and the traffic is slowed down around there. So the question is how many have we done . I mean, how many areas or or where you have actually slowed down the traffic at all for seniors . Sure. I just want to pause to see if our city traffic engineer is on the line, Ricardo Celaya . All right. Well, i can give an answer oh, did ricardo just join us. Clerk ricardo has been here, and the speakerphone is unmuted. Being on. Ricardo, do you mind answering the question around the slow senior zones . Yes. The slow senior zones are something we can do under california vehicle code, and its [inaudible] or to the facility, so its relatively restrictive type of regulation that we can lower speed limits on. President yee so my question is real specific. How many places have we identified, and how do you what what defines a Senior Center . Ricardo, we cant hear you, if youre trying to answer. Can you hear me now . President yee yeah. The the definition of a Senior Center is not typically defined in the california vehicle code. It is something that we look at facilities that serve a large amount of seniors, so its not a definition, like, an area, but a specific facility type, so weve identified about eight or ten locations that were going to be doing that as part of our first round of changes. Chair peskin and so do we have our own definition of what that consists of . We looked at possible definitions of what a Senior Center may be. Unlike a school, theres a wide range of possible facilities that could qualify, but we were trying to keep it within the spirit of the regulation, which is typically a facility that is aimed at serving seniors and not a location that would attract a lot of seniors. So for example, not necessarily restaurants or hospitals or libraries, but more specifically facilities that were geared more towards seniors. [please stand by] president yee have you reached out and talked to them about helping you identify these facilities where they serve seniors. Im not aware of the outreach we did. We used a list that was comprehensive as a starting point which had many facilities in it. We have worked off city list and i dont exactly how that who put input into those lists. Can you get my office the list that you think you are being pretty signed by eight places by the end of the year. It seems like you should be able to do it faster than that and also beyond the eight, what other centers have you identified. If you need help yes, we can get that list to you. If you need help to identify more than i think i know where my Senior Centers are in the district and im sure almost every supervisor knows where the senior programs are in the district so, its something that easy to do and do you know why its taking so long when we talked about i dont think its a cost issue. The main limit issue is the street has to have a speed limit over 25 Miles Per Hour. If the street already has a 25 Miles Per Hour limit, which is most of the city, this particular regulation doesnt apply and so its to lower speed limits that are over 25 to 25 similar to done around schools. President yee its 15 Miles Per Hour. What are you talking about . That is a different law that were using. Were using a law that we can post 25 Miles Per Hour people lid its an just on that point, my understanding is this is in in response to the fatality we had at goff and geary he joined me one of our walks through and our office was really trying to to figure out how we push the envelope in light the state restrictions and before that discussion in resent months this provision was used at all so when you ask how many places has it been posted, to my understanding, the answer is zero and theres eight in the pipeline but it begs to question given that we have limits understate law, it seems imperative we look for all these things where we have local control and we are looking proactively and thats your solution is urging here and that we look proactively and we should have a list of, as you say, all the Seniors Centers and also to what extent can we push the definition of Seniors Centers and say appreciate the question you are asking but its something that we should have figured out how to move forward more proactively and this is the moment and i hope your resolution and its the vehicle for, pared the word, for moving us forward more proactively and im not sure how the eight were select and i know goff and geary because of the death and the others because of injuries but hopefully we can be more proactive than reactive. Supervisor preston and president yee, i think supervisor preston is absolutely right, which is to the extent that we have the ability to do things not preempted by the state we should be doing them. To mr. Parks and and to the director of transportation mr mr. Tumland, you have a huge Agency Working against my will to reroute the 19 poll being and use that staff resource to do these kinds of things that will save peoples lives and if theyre raised that this board of supervisors can help we want to help. Im speaking on all 11 members of the board of supervisors. Weve got to bump that up in the priority and this is lowhanging fruit. Its not expensive fruit. This is pretty cheap stuff to save lives. So, i mean, im happy to have a conversation with docs and publichealth and the City Attorneys Office and most importantly the sfmta and your sign shop and sign installers but this seems easy. You want to talk Senior Centers or things that approximate eight Seniors Centers can produce for you any number of them by the close of business. I think this is why im doing this resolution to push these things. I need to maybe you could explain why does it happen 25 and why not 15 . Are you still there . Is that a question . Yeah. Is there a reason why we cant drop it to 15 rather than what you are talking about which is the 25 . Yeah, the provision were using is one that is the provision to drop it to 125. I dont know exactly what the rules are on dropping the speed limits further but we have to follow the state law on those type of changes. Can i can i have someone from mta look at the state law and see if we cant use the 15mile im talking about school zones, where its dropped to 15 Miles Per Hour during school operations. Lets look into whether or not we can aggressively use that. Yes. Wove done it before. I mentioned a possibility is looking at Childcare Centers which is are we looking at those facilities also to drop it and maybe using the supervision as we use for schools. The state regulations limit us in terms of a defense we could not apply the School Zone Signage to its not something i could do necessarily. Chair peskin. I know you are going to move forward with automated Speed Enforcement resolutions i wont be around. So, the force we ask the state to include, you know, Early Education facilities into their education codes since the state does fund Early Education through the department of education and if you look at San Francisco, Public Schools, is the prek12 unified School System so it seems that the state might actually to redefine what it means by education. Mr. President , you are not gone yet. You have two months left and plenty of board meetings left. We have runway and pass a resolution urging our state delegation to per spew just that kind of Public Policy at the state level and i would be happy to join you in that and for some reason we run out of runway, im happy to do that come january 9th. But i think we have plenty of time do do it. We can have it on the reference calender of the full board. Got you. Thank you. Ill just maybe closing. He appreciate you urging us to advance your authority and were having the list of locations we are going to be doing in front of seniors ends. The issue you speak to about expanding the type of locations that qualify is something we proposed in the state legislation that go beyond a narrow definition of senior ends and think about vulnerable populations like the locations near homeless shelters and that sort of things. I think thats some Additional Information we can provide as well. Thank you. I think to the sfmta what would be helpful is given what we believe are the state law constraints, what the universe of the possible is, right, so, weve come up with eight. I would like to know is that eight out of 20, is that eight out of 30. Assuming you have to have a posted speed limit above 25 to come down to 25 for a sen why facility. I would love to see that relative to school zones, how many have we brought down to 125 and how many are we left to do. Id love to see that. That would be a really helpful and informative data set and allow us to say hey, sfmta you nailed eight out of eight or oh, this body whether its division one or division two as well as the public. With that, if mr. President if its ok, id like to open that items 2 and 3 up for Public Comment. Ok. And i still a few more questions. I can come back. I want to ask about signal timing ough automatization and theres possibilities and i was close to creating a resolution to mandate it and the staff will look into it and what im talking about are oneway streets in which we, as a city, can actually set the timing on those and so right now many of those oneway streets are set with the timing of either 25 or 30 Miles Per Hour, i believe, and theres one or two where the snaps are set to and its mta aggressively look at retiming and all are main oneway corridors to have signals and ill name a few, franklin, pine, bush, oak, fell, geary, goff, are many of the see slow down and. Id like to get a report back and maybe it doesnt see that and and within our jurisdiction to do this and theres no state law that prohibits us from actually timing our single lights in a way that we can slow down traffic. Is this possible. Its something we started implementing when we resigned the downtown area which includes south of market and the western edition and north of market including the tenderloin. We retimed a lot of our Traffic Signals for 20 Miles Per Hour including oneway streets and so, that is something that were now monitoring with implemented last year and early this year. Its something that can be done by the city and were hopeful that this kind of approach will improve safety while at the same time providing some Quarterly Movement of traffic and we have plans to gradually expand this to other streets as you mentioned, but we are in the process of trying to get those resources with grants and getting staff aligned to expand that and but for the three feet for second to add leading intervals or head starts and to improve the timing of yellow and all red faces. Multiple signal timing changes that we can do and where were working on that. To answer an easterly year question on school speed limits, im pretty confident that we have lowered around schools speed limits as much as we can and we took a pretty comprehensive approach and lowered them where we could so its primarily now those 50 Miles Per Hour speed limits are where theyre feasible. If there are locations we havent done, we work with the public and fill those gaps. We did not leave any schools on the table and so thats reassuring supervisor peskin on that issue. Thank you. President yee and let me ask, one question around the resolution and on so, its really i wanted to call this off and were asking the mayor to identify elite staff to help with theres a lot of committed Staff Members from different departments and who do we always need to hit and say can coordinate and sometimes we have to go to the publichealth and Police Department and theyre working all together. So what has the culmination been across department and vision zero and this is always that issue. I dont know, you want to. Its the covid activation that many of our staff are on so for instance, publichealth has been a key part of our work but theyre really committed right now to curb it so theyve been activated in that way so its one current challenge that beer dealing with with our staffing resources. We do have systems in place to regularly coordinate and work across teams and i dont really feel there are silos were up against in that sense. Ill maybe pause and see if jamie parks has anything to add . Jamie parks livable streets director with mta and i think its a good summary, ryan, and i think that we do have systems in places ryan mentioned, for coordination across different city departments, resources are always a challenge and making sure that the resources are there to follow through is a challenge for individual agencies but we have had good inter departmental relationships throughout the program and its one of fundamental principles ever our Vision Zero Program is that its not just for one department to implement. Yeah, well, its something to think about. Certainly to really have that staff committed to just this one issue because many people from different departments and sometimes as mrs. Reese just said, Staff Members from old departments are being pulled away from other things right now as part of my motivation is to say can we have dedicated staff just for this and we will look into it. The other thing that i one last thing, sorry, chair peskin, is i want to ask about your approach to how you assess which places to work on in terms of improvement and i know in the past, what was done is mostly look and as did at the beginning of the presentation, pointing out here is the high injury corridors and these are the places we con is not straigh coi dont know if you are looking at whether you want to consider taking into another type of approach which is strict, make a street unsafe, one who makes a street unsafe is those close calls and instances that neighbors react to on a daily basis and as something that maybe i constantly bring up over my eight years and say, you have to Pay Attention to this and this particular intersection because ive seen stuff and i know how the behavior of a driver and i know the behavior of people crossing and the first thing that they would say is oh, but you havent anybody killed yet. So, thats not a i always someone is going to get killed here eventually. And secure why wait for someone to die . And one city that sort of is doing this now is seattle and i dont know if you as Staff Members are beginning to talk about it or not. Sure. Thank you, we dont know that the High Injury Network is predictive so its based on so many years of data that is really would encompass a lot of where people are sharing that they have these close call concerns and so with our limited resource were focusing first on those areas and that being said, you know, there are other programs that we have so for instance our Proactive Traffic Calming Program is based on residential requests and so if there are areas that are not on our High Injury Network we have other ways that people can request this additional work and we also have our 311s were responsive to when people have close that theyre concerned about. Ill see if jamie parks is our Capital Program manager for liberal streets so ill see if he has anything he wants to add as well. I can add a little bit of context to that. So for the High Injury Network as ryan mentioned thats where 75 of fatal injuries occur that leaves 25 of injuries on other streets and so, we definitely need to have a balance and we cant invest 100 of our resources in the High Injury Network and leave out the 87 of city streets so while we are focused on the High Injury Network for some of our Bigger Capital investments we have programs that focus on all of our streets and so, at the highlight a couple of those are traffic Calming Programs including a Proactive Traffic Calming Program that is in neighborhoods with high concentrations of seniors that the program where we spend about a half Million Dollars a year on traffic homing in those neighborhoods and and then theyre basic schools for the city network if its daylighting or signal timing for taking care of beds they have enough time to cross the street and Traffic Signals coming across the sidewalk those are all tools were applying and we focus on the High Injury Network and wore doing those as sort of our basic practice when we touch an injury were bringing them up to our current standards. I appreciate the response. I remember years ago when i would bring up monterey boulevard or ocean avenue, it was early on and no its not high injury and people die on monterey and on ocean avenue and exactly what i said was going to happen and why wait . Im done. Thank you, president yee. Why wait . I totally agree with you. With that, lets open up Public Comment for items 2 and 3. Mr. Clerk,. Clerk thank you mr. Chairman. We will check and see if we have any callers in the queue. Please let us know if we have any callers are ready. For those who are conducted via phone press star by 3 to be added to the queue if you wish to speak for these items, 2 and 3. For those already on hold in the queue please continue to wait until your prompted to begin you will hear a prompted informed line has been unmuted. For those who are watching our meeting right now on cable channel 26 or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions which are displaying on your screen and that would be by calling 415 6550001. When prompted then enter into the meeting i. D. Of 146 567 6907 and pressing the pound symbol twice while connected to the meeting so you can listen to that and following that express star to enter the queue to speak for these items agenda 2 and 3. Could you connect us to our first caller, please . Hello, my name is Richard Rothman and i live in the Outer Richmond and i live right near the Senior Center on foul ton and they did put the 25 lower speed limit from 30 to 25 and i can guarantee you nobody she is down to 25 Miles Per Hour on fulton street. You have to come up with another tool. Fulton street is the International Speed way and you have to find a way and the other streets should be 20 Miles Per Hour. Just do t let the City Attorneys do the state or let the state do the city. Were under a state of emergency and just do it. The City Attorney sue the state so we can lower the speed limit to 20 Miles Per Hour in the city and when Richmond District residents and safety improvements they dont do it, they dont listen to or it takes them 10 years to do it and we should get the same service as everybody else and maybe you sneed to look at big picture. Maybe sustainable streets need to be overhauled. You should have someone like Ben Rosenfield or harvey rose look at how mta operates and maybe they need to be reorganized. I think they need to be reorganized to serve the residents better and they have dedicated people that they have to use their assets more efficiently and it needs to be reobserved and maybe the board can pass a resolution asking them to or asking someone to do an ought i had. It shouldnt take 10 years. Thank you. Next caller, please. Good afternoon, chair peskin and commissioners my name is jody and im the executive director of walk San Francisco and we will give strong support of these two important resolutions to make vision zero. I need to extend a special thank you for all the work you have done in the tenure on the board and the elimination of traffic related injuries and fatalities and he is our true vision hero. Thank you so much for president yee. And these resolutions are being brought forward because on sunday on the steps of city hall families will be holding a memorial for the 186 Traffic Related Fatalities since we adopted vision zero in 2014. Were already halfway through our 10year goal and we have not reduced the number of fatalities and injuries and we know it causes these tragedies and its not a mystery or Rocket Science and we need to be doing all we can to save lives. Included in these resolutions 100 makes sense they use the tools and also commit to working with state legislatives for local control for future legislation over speed management. And theres more i am practical and i want to highlight two. We hit a dashboard to show progress of vision zero understanding the universe of what needs to be done, whats been complete and what needs to be completed in the fex few years and the 160 Miles Per Hour of the High Injury Network. And we also support the request for over stay and greater Agency Cooperation on vision zero progress and programs. When it comes to saves lives theres no time to wait. Walk San Francisco asks that these resolutions move to the full board with a positive recommendation and all supervisors on this committee. Thank you so much for signing on as sponsors of this resolution. Thank you. That completes the queue. Thank you. So, president yee let me conquer with the last speaker and if you have no further comments, i would like to send items 2 and 3 to the full board i will make a items to send them to the full board with a positive recommendation and i know you have amendments and then well call the roll. President yee ok, thank you, very much, i hope you have patients. These amendments and you do have the amended copy of the resolution to read it into record. Yes, sir. President yee this is for items 3. In terms of recommitment to vision zero. On page 1, items line 5 and in the title and updated and to and updated Action Strategies and online 17 add in 2015 after visions Action Strategy to clarify the initial date of the adoption. Online 19 and 20, add whereas clauses to clarify the sfmta has moved beyond the three es approach and for the safe systems approach. And line 22 through 25, omit reference through the three es and replacing it with the safe systems approach. On page 2, line 7 and 8, add a whereas clause acknowledging the proven effectiveness of slowing speeds and line 17 and 18 omit the three es replacing the word incorporating with elevating realtime evaluations and line 20, replace the term codified with adopt and implement and since we are not asking for a transportation quote change but for the mta to adopt a renew Action Strategy. Line 2224. Correct the term high injury corridors with High Injury Network and include daylighting as another two to help with the immediate improvements. And page 3 line 2 to four, add clarification languages and calling for sfmta to develop additional engagement tools to elevate and solicit input from residents to identify dangerous cross walks and intersections or corridors. Line 7 through 9, add clarification and but that we are encouraging them to line to fall when the mayor to identify a dedicated staff lead person to work with the Vision Zero Team to fast track projects on page four, line 15 add a clause that sends a copy of this resolution to the office of mayor, the city administrator, the director of sfmta, board of directors, the director of the department of public woks and the San Francisco health commission. Those are the amendments for item 3 and before i close my remarks, i want to thank the staff. The throw that made statements today. Jamie parks, ricardo olea and ryan reese for their dedication of vision zero. I know they work real hard and sometimes i get pushy around these issues and i know theyre behind the efforts to try to make us get to our goal of zero fatalities. Thank you, president yee and we are in receipt of all of those amendments and i believe that supervisor safai are in the queue. Thank you mr. Chair. I just want to be add as a cosponsor. Thank you and i appreciate president yee this is a life or death issue and i appreciate you putting so much of your time, energy and effort and your own personal experience no this in using the best practices out in the field. Thank you. President yee thank you. Commissioner preston. Thank you and i also would like to be added as a cosponsor to both these items and thank you president yee for your on going advocacy. I did have additional question and comment. You everyoned earlier about the dough sire to have a bit of an inventory just around where could we be and what Senior Center schools or others are there that we could be extending the lower speed limits to. I heard the comment that with respect to schools they were already been done but im also interested as part of that in having a better understanding of the definition and the extent to which we could take a more expensive approach that we could include Childcare Centers when we talk about senior how limited are we by those definitions and it would, because it would be very helpful to know where can we push the envelope and are there rulings that restrain us where jurisdiction has gone too far and something is a Senior Center or a school or something and someone has decided no it isnt. Or are we all just assuming things mean what they mean. We have broad consensus that would make it to violate the law but push the limits of what we can legally do this is such a cheap and effective way to prevent serious injury and death and i think we should be, while were fighting for state law changes pushing those definitions as broadly as we can and you know, and thank you for the clarification and i want to recognize mtas work in the geary and those in the pipeline here and at least with respect to geary moving very quickly and when we did request doing Everything Possible there at a lower speed and to adopting that and moving forward on that. I appreciate that. The last thing is more of a question. Just the one item we havent really addressed that was in the presentation, is around the rightturn on red. And i just wanted to understand perhaps is just whats the status of thats something, my understanding is theres not a state law or anything that inter fierce with that but im curious and i want to make sure my assumption of that is right but also understand is that a policy determination and is there some other barriers to moving forward as some other cities have done to ban right turn on red. Ms. Reeves. Yes, im just making sure im muting myself. I can give an answer to that and if ricardo has anything to add. Theres no state law prohibiting us on our work on the no turn on red policy. Its something weve had from walk sf and other community members. We are pursuing a no turn on red policy in the tenderloin and that is something that were so the policy decision is advancing and i dont know ricardo if you have anything thaw want toad. Right now the turn is legal so each location has to be legislated. Nothing prevents a city from legislating locations but, weve just wanted to make sure that when we post a sign it will be enforced and complied with and meets the current guidance for doing that and our Research Indicates when people turn the majority of the crashes are caused by people turning on a green light and the turn on red itself is not a major cause of injury crashes. Weve been trying to focus on issues related to turning when the volkswagen have a green light being a bigger problem in terms of safety issues both right and left turns. Like mentioned, wore going to focus on the tenderloin as our first area for basically having the area, the no turn on red but until that area wide approach has been to do case by case based on field conditions and that is how california cities have approached this. Thank you. Supervisor safai, do you want to be a cosponsor on both items 2 and 3 . Yes, sir. Ok. With that clarification, on the amendments made by or offered by president yee, for item number 3, i would like to move those and on that motion mr. Carole a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to amend the resolution as agenda item number 3 offered by chair peski [roll call vote] you keep saying that, man. Was that an aye. Yes, sir. [roll call vote] there are throw ayes. Id like to make a motion to send items 2 and 3 as amended with recommendations as Committee Reports on that motion a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion [roll call vote] mr. Chair, there are three ayes again. That concludes the business before this committee, we are adjourned. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. And welcome to this beautiful monday. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 9th, 2020 of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. 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That completes my announcements. Thank you very much. Can you please read item number 1. Clerk hearing to consider appointing one member to the aging Advisory Council. Paricia spaniak are you hear . Yes. Do you have any remarks . I have supervised on the Advisory Council for a number of years. I worked for the Community Living campaign, whose role in life is to fight isolation and loneliness with seniors across San Francisco. We offer now over 200 programs a month on the zoom classes. We do regularly scheduled checkin calls, food delivery, were very active in fighting loneliness and isolation in San Francisco. Supervisor ronen thank you so much for your work. My colleagues have no questions or comments, we can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes. Yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. Then press pound and up and down again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Operations, do we have any members of the public . For Public Comment . [distorted audio] clerk gives us a moment while we figure out whats going on. Chair ronen sure. Maybe they could write it in the chat. Clerk actually we cant. Were not allowed to use the chat while were in meeting. Oh, sorry. Clerk they are working on it. Yes. I received word that we have no one in the queue to speak at this time. Chair ronen okay. Thank you so much. Public comment is closed. And id like to make a motion to forward the appointment of paricia spaniak to seacliff 9, to the full board with positive recommendation. [roll call] clerk the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen great. Thank you so much for your service. Its been an honor to serve. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Congratulations. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 2. Clerk yes. Item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending february 1st, 2022, to the park, recreation and open space advisory committee. One seat, one applicant. Chair ronen thank you so much. Similarly to item number 1, supervisors, this is a district 11 appointee and supervisor safai couldnt be here, but sends his strong recommendation and support. Steve currier, are you here . I am. How are you . Chair ronen im good. How are you . You know, im going to second what you said and supervisor safai said. Its a brandnew dawning. I couldnt be happier. Yes. [laughter] chair ronen well, thank you for your willingness to serve again. I know supervisor safai is very excited. Did you have anything you wanted to share with us . Well, no. Thank you. Thank you for supervisor safais his reelection. So im very happy about that. Its been an honor for me to serve on, as we all say prozac, the park, rec, open space advisory committee. Its been a good two years. Ive been on since march of 2018. A great group of people. I think the only underlying sorrow, regarding the 150th year of golden gate park, is that we couldnt support we couldnt be there to celebrate. Were all there in spirit. I think we have a great team. And i look forward to being that member for the next two years. And i thank you for your support. Chair ronen thank you so much. Thank you. And theres no comment from my colleagues, well open this up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this reappointment. Clerk yes. Members of the public who wish to file Public Comment, call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. And press pound and up and down again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system has been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Do we have any members of the public for Public Comment today . There does not appear to be any callers in the queue at this time. Chair ronen okay. Then Public Comment is closed. It sounds like r2d2 every time. Supportive of your nomination. Well, thank you. And id like to make a motion to forward the appointment of Steve Currier to seat 22 to the full board with positive recommendation. Can we please have a roll call vote. Clerk on that motion, supervisor stefani. Aye. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar aye. Clerk chair. Supervisor ronen . Chair ronen aye. Clerk the motion passes without objection. Thank you so much. Chair ronen congratulations. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ends december 31st, 2022, to the sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. One seat, one applicant. Chair ronen wonderful. And miss Kiana Sezawar Keshavarz was nominated by the Youth Commission. And my understanding is that austin is here to speak on the nomination. Austin, are you here . Yes. That is correct. Hello, supervisors. Chair ronen good morning. Please feel free to go ahead, austin. Good morning, supervisors. Hopefully a better day. Better for our anxiety. Im austin with the Youth Commission and also the Staff Support for the sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. My role has been uplifting the youth word, supporting the youth leader with the adult leaders and the staff and the community, such as [indiscernible]. Microsoft teams meeting and working with them on the outreach that you see. For the past two years, hes been youth staff has served for only one year at a time. And this year with kiana, were hopeful shell stay for a twoyear term. And our process began in july starting this conversation at the youth clinic. And other folks within the eastern mission. And so because of the outreach, we doubled the number of applicants, which went from two to when we first started to five applicants. But kiana really stood out to our commissioners, growing up in the district 10 with how food deserts, food inequity and Racial Disparities interact. And kiana has demonstrated time and commitment to our community, her district. And as the youth tends to go into the Community Outreach work group, we wish to have a young person that has that experience in the Community Outreach. And has strong relationships with the community. And we know that within the community, to empower them away from big empowerment. So rather than treating the system or treating the cause. And she definitely demonstrates we look forward to working with her and that is our comments. Chair ronen thank you. Thank you so much. What a lovely recommendation. Appreciate you. And if theres no comments, lets open this up for Public Comment. Kiana may be on the line. Chair ronen oh, sorry. Yes, please. I believe i saw her name on the list. Chair ronen oh, yes, please. Thank you so much. Im so sorry. Please. No problem. Good morning. My name is kiana. Im 16 years old and in 10th grade. I have gone to Public Schools for most of my life, i currently attend an independent school. I live in district 10. Im really passionate about activism, nutrition and community organizing. And in terms of my ideas for this position, ill start out with my experience. About Student Leadership and fundraising, i lead south asian students and Activism Program at my school. I was a part of the youth board for makeawish, helping to fundraise and distribute funds. And then about outreach, organizing and fundraising, i was the core district 11 youth [indiscernible] and ive belong to the Youth Community garden. And i helped organize. And in terms of Public Health and nutrition, i volunteer at the food [indiscernible]. Thank you so much for that recommendation, by the way, austin. And everything living in district 10, how marginalized and access to health programs. And then also having on both sides going to public and private schools. How youth are often dont have access to quality food and health resources. And as somebody whose mom works for the education program, which was defunded, i have experience with health programs, to help marginalized communities. As you see, i hope to offer my perspective. And also passionate about this role for my experiences. [indiscernible] i really hope to help the program in marginalized communities, especially food deserts and communities of color, specifically black and asian. What i would like to do on the board and hopefully my role is to have more Community Outreach and although my job is to bring public perspective to this issue, having more Community Outreach and Community Input on the function. Chair ronen wonderful. Thank you so much. For your willingness to serve. Its really exciting. And, you know, i just want to say the importance of your work is getting greater and greater every day because of the pandemic and because children are stuck inside at Home Learning with less exercise than normal. And so, you know, what ive been hearing from General Hospital and the obesity clinic there, is that so much of the amazing work that theyve been able to do, to stabilize young people that are struggling with obesity, has gone backwards during this time. And so i really think that youre coming into this work at one of the most important times that you possibly could. Im really grateful that youre taking on this leadership role and willing to do this. Thank you. Thank you so much. And do any of my colleagues have any comments . Yes, supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani i want to say thank you so much for your service and willingness to serve. I have a son who is a 10th grader. And i know that this pandemic has been hard on teenagers and all kids, too. To see you taking an activist role in something thats so important, its so impressive. I continue to be astounded by the next generation and the youth and i just thank you so much for your participation and trying to make a difference. Thank you. Thank you. Chair ronen supervisor mar, did you want to say anything . Supervisor mar also as a parent of a 10 st. Grader, yeah, i just wanted to thank you so much, kiana, for all that you have already done. And for your yeah, your commitment to stepping up to this Important Role on this advisory committee. So we really, really appreciate it. And look forward to you doing great things. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. I look forward to this, too. Chair ronen wonderful. Wonderful. Can we please open this item up for Public Comment . Clerk yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 146 344 9722. And press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system proprietor will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you are unmuted and you may begin your comment. I am just waiting to see if we have one caller in the queue. Thats for Public Comment at this time. Caller good morning. My name is jackson morgan. I am the executive director of the youth center and clinic. And i am also on my third term as cochair of the sugary beverage well, sdddtax. Weve been working with the Youth Commission. Austin, thank you so much for all of your great work and all of the Youth Commissioners. And we are really, really excited and ready to welcome kiana into our on our tax. So this work is super important and weve been really needing more youth voice. Again really excited to support this candidate. Chair ronen thank you. Clerk that completes the members of the public in queue to speak at this time. Chair ronen thank you. Then Public Comment is closed. And i am honored to make a motion to forward the appointment of kiana im so sorry is im mispronouncing your name. To the full forward with a positive recommendation. Can we have a roll call vote. Clerk on that motion, supervisor stefani. [roll call]. Clerk the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen okay. Wonderful. Congratulations, kiana. Well see you soon. Thank you so much. Austin, thank you for all of the comments and recommendations. Its very sweet. Thank you. Bye. Chair ronen thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk item number 4 is a hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending junt Rights Commission. Three seats, three applicants. Chair ronen wonderful. And if we could hear from mario paz, one of my favorite immigrant rights leaders, in district 9. Good morning. Good morning, chair. Superviso ronen. Weve beena dark cloud for the last four years. Weve witnessed insanity in the separation of children from their parents. And the one policy after another with antiimmigrant. The policy initiative that was promoted by this the outgoing administration. Thank goodness. We now have an opportunity to reimagine the system and we are most excited at the commission to be at the forefront. San francisco has always been a beacon of light. During these four years, we standed for our sanctuary policy and we continued to stand to celebrate immigrants and continue to fight. And we are very, very proud of the work that we are highlighting all of the atrocities. Again we continue to uphold San Francisco values. I look forward to continuing that work. Again im very excited about finally being able to pass comprehensive immigration reform, with citizenship from undocumented communities, that we can get rid of the rules that were impacting our immigrants. That they went as far as to really dismantle, [indiscernible] so im very excited and very humble. And really thank you for your consideration. I would like to also endorse my colleagues Celine Kennelly and nima rahimi. Theyre wonderful leaders for our immigrant communities. And again thank you. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Chair ronen thank you so much. And i just have to say that you have been such a leader in our community, in the mission, serving so many latinx families. I just want to say how grateful i am for all of your work. Thank you. No, thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Im grateful to you also for all of your support. And the other supervisors. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. And next well hear from Celine Kennelly. Celine, are you here . I am. Apologies. Sorry. I had to figure out getting myself off of mute. Chair ronen no problem. Good morning. How are you . Its good to hear from you. Thank you. Good morning. Its a pleasure to be with you all this morning. And, yes, i will echo new dawn, new day. And i think great relief, not only locally and nationally, but also globally. I can say with my hand on my heart that the entire eilis h theyve watched the elections over the last week, as most of my family stayed up through the night following everything that was happening. So it is very exciting time. So i would like to thank you for the opportunity to be before you this morning. I am delighted to be reappointed to the immigrant Rights Commission. I have served on the commission since 2012. And it has been my pleasure to be part of the amazing work that the commission has done. For 22 years, we have fought for the rights and dignity of immigrants and other underserved and underrepresented communities. From rights to the sanctuary ordinance, we have worked with our Community Partners and fellow commissions to ensure inclusive, fair policies and conditions that make San Francisco a safe and welcoming a place for all people to thrive. It has not been an easy road for immigrants in recent years especially. Weve seen a steady stream of antiimmigrant policies, demeaning and hateful rhetoric and attempts to diminish the many,yes of hardworking, lawabiding immigrants and communities of color. We are thankful that we are moving towards a new dawn and a new day and we look forward to being able to be part of a move towards more humane, fair policies for our immigrant communities. There are many important issues facing us and the immigrant Rights Commission has been active as ever on major issues. We were very excited at the passage of prop c. And stand in support of the commission has partnered with the office of Civic Engagements and immigrant affairs to ensure that our commissioners have Language Access and assistance at every meeting and are able to participate in meaningful ways. We look forward to seeing the extension of our commission and other commissions within the city. As chair of the commission, i have been delighted to be in a position to work with and to support and to lead my fellow commissioners with, as always, undying support from vice chair paz, other members of the executive committee and, of course, the office of Civic Engagement. We have partnered with the Recovery Task force to hold special hearings on covid19 impacts on immigrant in june of this year. A hearing which fed into the overall outcome of the economic Recovery Task force and their findings. We have also in the last 12 months had a special hearing on daca, as we hope to see a more positive move for daca with a new administration. A joint hearing with the human Rights Commission on the border crisis. And we had begun a series of neighborhood specialty hearings in district 10 at the end of last year, which unfortunately we ended up having to put on hold, our series, due to covid. We recently passed a resolution on the treatment of the immigrants, followed by a hearing early in the new year. We are excited at the board resolution declaring war on racism. As a result of this resolution, we have established a Racial Equity working group, which is dealing with the access of Regional Equity and the human Rights Commission to look at how we can support and make change around Racial Equity within our city. And we were, of course, very involved in census 2020. The vice chair and i were members of the complete count committee. And the commission as a whole, the office of Civic Engagement and immigrants in deliverance of a complete count. I would like to thank director paz, robert simpson, all members of the complete count committee and the entire staff of the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant affairs for all of the work that they have done in delivering as complete of a count as we could for the city and county, in what proved to be an extremely difficult year to find everybody. So i am as i say, im delighted to be given the opportunity to again serve on the commission. It is an honor. We have a wonderful commission. We have a very diverse commission. We have a few seats to fill. And weve got some great ideas as to how to continue and expand the diversity. I thank you for this opportunity. Chair ronen thank you so much, celine. Youve done such incredible work over in the number of years on this commission. Were so grateful to you for it. And thanks for mentioning c yay how immigrants are going to be able to serve on the immigrant Rights Commission. Imagine that. So exciting. Were finally going to be able to take advantage of the talents of so many more people in the city and county of San Francisco on our local leadership bodies. So another piece of fantastic news for our city and our country. So thank you, celine. Did anybody else want to say anything . Were good . Okay. Okay. So next we will hear from our last, but not least candidate, nima rahimi. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Thank you, supervisor mar and stefani. Its been an honor serving on this commission. The board of supervisors first appointed me during the first year of the trump presidency. And i have worked with my fellow commissioners to resist the agenda from day one, leading special hearings on the muslim ban to a special hearing on the crimes against humanity hes committed at our southern border. To his attempt to break our promise to our daca brothers and sisters. When our Yemeni Community faced obstacles to send money to their families, caught in the middle of the civil war, i helped Bring Community members to our commission to help their stories on the record. We worked with our San Francisco treasurer to provide advice and recommendations to our yemeni neighbors to navigate this issue. Further, in collaboration with the economic Recovery Task force, we listened immigrant communities and leaders to advise the task force on how best to serve our immigrant families during this time of economic crisis. And most recently, and im very proud of this, especially because it just passed. I worked with Community Leaders say sarah souza. Iserve on the iranianamerican bar association, after served on the board of the Northern California chapter for seven years. I also serve on the board of a Community Nonprofit called the Equality Center generation plus, supporting the social, civic and economics. We have a lot of work to do. Im so excited about President Biden and Kamala Harris election. I want our commission to support this administrations efforts on immigrant rights and help inform as San Francisco goes, as california goes, so goes the nation. We have important work to do. Id be honored to continue serving our city and county as an immigrant Rights Commissioner. Thank you so much for your consideration. Chair ronen thank you. Thank you. Now we can open this item up for Public Comment. Clerk yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, should call 415 655000 415 6550001, the. Is 146 344 9722. Then press pound and up and down again. If you havent already done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your happened. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. We are checking on if we have any members of the public in queue to speak at this time. We have zero callers in the queue to speak. That completes youre on mute, chair. Chair ronen thank you. Before i close Public Comment, i wanted to give an opportunity for commissioner kennelly to speak on behalf of her in support of her colleagues. Thank you, chair ronen. I will be brief. I am delighted that theyre back up for reappointment to the immigrant Rights Commission. They are both dedicated, passionate, informed, and big picture thinkers in terms of policies that affects the lives of immigrants. They have been they have been so active on the commission. They have been leaders and they are an absolutely phenomenal addition to our commission. I am delighted to speak in their support. And i hope that we can move to a positive recommendation for both of them. So commissioner rahimi, and commissioner paz, thank you for your dedication to the environment Rights Commission. Ronen thank you so much. And with that, Public Comment is closed. And i am happy to make a motion to forward the appointment of mario paz to seat 6, with a residency waiver. Celine kennelly to seat 7 and nima rahimi to seat 8. To the full board with positive recommendation. Can we take a roll call. Clerk on that motion, supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar aye. Clerk chair ronen. Chair ronen aye. Clerk the motion passes without objection. Chair ronen fantastic. Thank you to all three of you. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for being willing to continue to serve. Thank you, supervisor. Chair ronen thank you. Mr. Clerk, do we have any other items on the agenda . Clerk thats our agenda for today. Chair ronen okay. Great. The meeting is adjourned. Have a great day, everyone. Bye. Fosda. Clerk regular meeting of the Small Business Commission Held on monday, october 5, 2020. The meeting is being called to order at 5 30 p. M. 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