>> supervisor peskin: we'll be joined by vice chair supervisor rafael mandelman. mr. clerk, do we have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. comments or opportunities to speak during public comment are available via phone by calling 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 187-725-3857, then press pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussion but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, dial star, three to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your t.v. or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment to me via e-mail at victor.young@sf.gov. that concludes my announcements. >> supervisor peskin: and please call item number one. >> clerk: item one is motion appointing supervisor rafael mandelman, for an indefinite term, to the transbay joint powers authority. >> chair peskin: and supervisor mandelman would be excused, but he isn't clear. we'll open this up for public comment. >> clerk: it appears we have three listeners but no one lined up to speak at this time. >> chair peskin: okay. seeing none, public comment is closed, and let me just say that i'm pleased that supervisor mandelman is willing to succeed supervisor haney as a role in that committee's history as the downtown rail makes progress on a modicum of transportation. with that, i'll make a motion to recommend this to the full board with a positive recommendation. mr. clerk, roll call, please. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes with supervisor mandelman being absent. >> chair peskin: all right. next item, please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number two, motion reappointing catherine stefani, term ending january 31, 2023, to the golden gate bridge, highway, and transportation district board of directors. >> chair peskin: is there any comment from members of the public? >> clerk: yes, members of the public, please press star, three to enter the queue or wait until your system line is unmuted. there are four listeners but no one lined up to speak. >> chair peskin: thank you. supervisor stefani is not here nor does she need to be. i would like to make a motion to send this recommendation to the full board with a positive recommendation. roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes with supervisor mandelman being absent. >> chair peskin: and mr. clerk, this is very unlike supervisor mandelman. you will attempt to contact him again, correct? >> clerk: i or my staff. >> chair peskin: yes. could you please read the next item. >> clerk: yes. item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing four members, terms ending january 31, 2023, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district, board of directors. >> chair peskin: thank you. i want to thank everyone seeking reappointment on the golden gate bridge board, and i'd like to thank the fifth member, mr. francis gleason, for his application. let's start with the names on the agenda. sabrina hernandez? >> thank you. can you hear me? >> chair peskin: we can hear you. >> thank you. i'm here seeking seat one public at-large to be appointed to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors. it's been my honor for the last over ten years to sit on this board. it's particularly important work, and i thought i made significant contributions on the part of our labor partners who have, under the terms of this pandemic, come under a lot of stress because of the logistics. that's what you do when you sit on the board, is make difficult decisions and make sure everyone is heard. as i've said, i've been on the board for ten-plus years. i currently sit on the public policy and industrial relations committee. i sit on the advisory committee for the [inaudible] and on the committee for the evaluation of executive officer performance, and recently, i was able to work with the president of the board barbara parr to establish a committee on review of disparity and equity on this subject. first, we're looking at how we procure our contracts, and second, how we evaluate our employees, and how we select our committee members, and the president has selected me to help run that, so if you have any questions of me, i'm happy to answer them. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: and i just want to apologize to committee members and the public that i am in receipt of a note that supervisor mandelman was going to be 30 to 40 minutes late, so i would like to make a motion, if i can do so, to excuse him from the previous vote, and mr. clerk, if we have to retake that vote in order to set the record straight, i'm happy to rescind the vote later on on item 2 after we disposed with this item, but i apologize, i did have a note to that effect that i overlooked. thank you, miss hernandez. why that, why don't we go onto mr. hill? bert? >> can you see me? >> chair peskin: i can hear you, and now i can see you. >> good. that's great. good morning, chair peskin, supervisor chan, and hopefully supervisor mandelman in a few moments. first, i would like to acknowledge my fellow commissioners, hernandez, grosboll, and theriault. these have been very trying times, especially this last year, they have had to make decisions with gravity affecting the lives of our employees and their families. to date, our decisions have minute mined loss of income, supported safety protocols, and allowed operations to continue. we face a challenging future, recognizing the possibility that the 84-year-old revenue model and vehicle tolls may not continue to produce sufficient subsidies for public transportation. i serve on various committees. i serve on the transportation committee, government and rules committees, and also on the labor advisory committee and the equity and diversity committee. director hernandez started it recently, and we've had a couple of meetings, and it's really going well. i would lastly like to thank victor. victor young, i've known him for years, and he does just a fabulous job. he must work very hard and very long hours, and i hope the supervisors recognize the work that he does, so this is just a little push for him, and the last i want to mention is that we need supervisors on our bridge board. we also have a minority. we're going to be making hard decisions. we really need support on the committees. >> chair peskin: yes. i'm painfully aware of that, mr. hill. i might even have to return. >> well, that would be good. >> chair peskin: not for me. >> i'm honored to serve on the golden gate bridge district, and i'm happy to take any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. hill. i see no questions. mr. grosboll. >> hi. dick grosboll, can you hear me all right? >> chair peskin: yes, we can, dick. >> thank you, it's been my pleasure to serve on the board for quite a while, since 2006, and my primary stage and goal is working with the suicide deterrent system. we originally had a completion date was january of this year, and unfortunately, we were not able to make that, and now, completion because of some issues is not until january 2023. i am chair on the deterrent system, and sabrina and michael have been valuable members of this committee, and bert has contributed on that issue. you know, we do have a good staff at the bridge. we're fortunate in that regard, and we've gotten a lot of help from m.t.c. and the government in getting money over of the years, but it's been hard this year in terms of loss of revenue as well as possibly driving over the bridge. it's been hard work, but i would like another couple of years on the board to work on these issues. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. grosboll. mr. theriault? >> now i can hear you. okay. new program for me. little hard to get used to. so i want to start as director hill did, in praising my three fellow current board members on the bridgeport. director hernandez has been absolutely wonderful. as she said, she helped established the new advisory committee on equity, and we're looking forward to seeing what we can accomplish there at the district in that regard. she manages to share some of the same upsets and passions that i do on the board while being much more polite on it. director hill, i see nothing from bert but devotion to the bike, but he's a little better acquainted with policy matters in that regard and in transportation generally has been an absolutely valuable voice there. director grosboll, having an attorney's background, asks some of the hard questions that i've never thought to ask, and i appreciate his leadership on the suicide deterrent advisory committee, as well. my own reasons for being on are, in some reasons, fortunately or unfortunately, are the same as i applied two years ago. i think i bring some particular expertise to that committee with my knowledge of the construction industry, with my knowledge as a retired ironworker of the bridge in general and of bridges, and i think i've made important contributions at flex points in the discussion of that -- of that suicide did he tern system and the contractor difficulties we've had there. the other item that i've brought before the committee last time i was here was the bus drivers pension trust. i'm a management trustee on the bus drivers pension trust. that is a pension trust that has seen considerable difficulties. it is, as some of you with knowledge of pension terms would understand, a mature pension. it has a high ratio of retirees to actives that presents particular challenges in contribution to the plan itself and its funding and its administration over the years. we have gradually been working through the issues of the trust. many of the changes that have been achieved have been achieved in large part thanks to my particular identification of them and my particular suggestions with regard to them, and there are others still to be accomplished. the third thing that is new in my particular presentation today, in the course of how things work on that board, as supervisor peskin would understand, there's a set of rotation for the offices of the board that is based on two things, on geography and on seniority. it alternates on the presidency and vice presidencies between directors from north of the golden gate and directors from south of the golden gate. currently, i sit as first vice president on the board. in a year under that rotation, i would be president of the board. at that time, i would like to undertake a task that has not been taken in quite sometime for the bridge board. currently, as supervisor peskin, again, is aware, the board agenda tends to be staff driven. one way of countering that to some degree is to come up with a new general plan that provides some direction to the staff in providing us agendas, and i'd like to see some direction with that. with that said, supervisors, you have my biographical information before you, you have my information, and i welcome any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. theriault. i see no questions, so why don't we move onto mr. gleason. mr. gleason, the floor is yours. >> hello, supervisors. are you hearing me? i'm going through a tunnel right now. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. gleason. we hear you. >> i'm going to read something just to introduce myself to the two of you, and maybe you can pass this onto the other supervisor, mandelman, when he shows up. my name is francis gleason, and i live in san francisco. my last job was on the golden gate bridge. hopefully going to be on the board. i live near [inaudible] city boulevard and now how the bridge can affect my neighbors. i know the passengers, the employees, the supervisors. i'm familiar with the other five county board members. i will bring firsthand knowledge of the employees and passengers and residents concerns. because i travel the bridge daily, i will be able to contribute empirical dialogue to call bridge board discussions. i'd ask you to please utilize my experience and knowledge by recommending my appointment. the golden gate bridge has many advocates, and i love the bridge, and i am an advocate for those who use the bridge. by appointing me, you will be getting a native of san francisco, a concerned neighbor who will work with all parties for fairness, transparency, and equity within the city of san francisco. and as far as my experience with the board itself, as the other directors have just spoken, no. we do have a very bad, poorly funded pension for the -- >> chair peskin: you're breaking up there, mr. gleason. >> [inaudible] with my efforts, we've actually got the contribution rate up to the right amount. before, it was in the 15s for many, many, many years. i've represented my fellow workers when we were all going to get laid off when there was still money from the c.a.r.e.s. aid fund. i'm very glad that nobody was laid off, but initially, there was plans to lay us off. i do agree with the board of directors who have just spoken, however, none of them have [inaudible] employees in this district need to have a little bit more respect. this is a bridge, but this is also a transportation district, and that's going to come back when people get all these vaccines. i got mine. people are getting them, and we've got -- 35% of california are getting vaccines. things are going to be popping back faster than we think, and that's why the c.a.r.e.s. funding is there because when it pops back, it's going to pop back as quickly as it fell off. most people that are working from home are anxious to get back in their cars and go and drive to work. they want to see their friends from work, they want to see the things they want to see at work. i have hopes that the transportation industry is going to be more successful than before, but you need planning, you need more information, and you need a boots on the ground guy to see what's happening. and because i drive all of these every day -- i drive the three bridges every day. i'm a union member, i'm an amalgamated transportation union member. i support people driving the bus that are getting up early in the morning to do the landscaping and maintenance in san francisco and marin, and i appreciate your support. >> chair peskin: all right. we've heard from the five members for four seats. i see no questions from my colleagues. mr. young? >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to contribute public comment, dial 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 187-725-3857. press pound, and pound again: press star, three to enter the queue, and you may begin speaking when the system indicates you've been unmuted. >> chair peskin: okay. somebody needs to unmute. >> good morning. >> chair peskin: good morning. >> good morning, supervisor peskin and supervisor chan. [inaudible] i'm calling in support of sabrina hernandez for seat number one, dick grosboll for seat three, and michael theriault for seat four. their experience will serve the district and the citizens of san francisco over the next two years as they look to come out of the crisis. on behalf of ibew number six, i enthusiastically support their appointments. thank you for allowing me to speak. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. dougherty. next speaker, please. next speaker? >> can you hear me now. >> chair peskin: we can hear you now, mr. pillpel. please proceed. >> good morning. david pillpel. i'm sorry. i missed the presentations earlier. i joined last, but i do know the incumbent directors. i attend and participate in many of the bridge committee and board meetings. i know that the four incumbent directors have worked hard for the district and for the public, and i support their reappointment, but i did want to offer a couple of brief comments. i hope that with their reappointment that they would try to deescalate the recent tension on the board and reduce the divide between those perceived as more or less supportive of labor. in my opinion, the environment on the board is not good right now, and hopefully will get better. there are important and difficult issues and decisions before that board related to finances, policy, transportation recovery, labor, a number of issues there, and as i say, that divide amongst board members has become more apparent, and i believe is not helpful for the district or the public, so i hope that that will be high on the minds of the appointees and presumably director theriault would become board president next year, and i think he would do a good job, but i believe that we need to bear in mind that they work for the public, the entire public, and that the district needs to be kept whole and sound, and that, again, that dwight should be reduced, and we should try to work together in difficult times. that's all from me right now. thanks very much. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. pillpel. next speaker, please. >> good morning, chair, and distinguished members of the committee. my name is rudy gonzales, and i'm secretary of the construction and trades union council. we call in this morning to weigh-in in support of the incumbents, first and foremost, director sabrina hernandez, who has served with incredible integrity and vision. she has pushed the committee and her colleagues as a whole to develop more committees and find more solutions. i have to say that the times that we find ourselves in are not unique to the district, but the bridge is truly an iconic piece to our bay area, in addition to being an essential part of our infrastructure. the view that bert hill brings has been important. i would say the same with dick grosboll. finally, seat four, michael theriault, an ironworker, whose hands served to build this iconic piece of infrastructure. it is important, the last comment talking about ways that we can work together. there is a lot to be desired with the overall composition of this board, but let's be clear. these four seats are intended to represent san francisco, and i think these four directors have done a heck of a job in terms of working together, making sure that san francisco is well represented and working together as much as possible in bringing all of their personal and professional experience. we appreciate the incumbents, we appreciate the opportunity to weigh-in, and we appreciate the public comment. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. hernandez. are there any other public comments on this item? >> clerk: there may be one additional caller. do we have any additional callers at this time? i believe we do have one additional caller. next speaker, please. >> hello? hello. good morning, supervisors. my name is john bolden. i'm a native san franciscan of the north beach district two community. i would love to say that the past president, sabrina hernandez, has done an excellent job in representing san francisco, as well as director theriault, who has mentioned that he will be the next president of the board of directors. i would also like to support my fellow a.t.u. 1575 brother, francis gleason, another native san franciscan of the richmond district. during this time, we've had sometimes just one vote passing on layoffs, so it's important that other supervisors of the san francisco step in. hopefully, supervisor chan can help in and one more supervisor, so we can get a full san francisco representation on the board of directors. my own personal reflections, after observing meetings for a few months, director grosboll has been absent a few times over the last few months. he's done a great job, but i think it's important that the a.t.u. transdrivers are the biggest union, have the most members and employees at the district, and we're underrepresented at the board. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. holden. are there any other members of the public for this item number three? >> clerk: i.t., could you please confirm if we have any additional speakers at this time. >> operator: i believe we have one more. operations, can you unmute user nine. >> hello, supervisors. this is kim cavaloni with the san francisco labor company. we proudly support the incumbents, grosboll, hill, hernandez, and theriault for the openings on the golden gate bridge board. they have done an excellent job, and the labor council would ask that you allow us to continue to work with them. they've been great advocates for san francisco, and we respectfully ask that you confirm them for a full recomm. >> clerk: on that motion -- [roll call] >> chair peskin: thank you. mr. clerk, please read the next item. >> clerk: item four is an appointment to the public utilities revenue bond oversight committee. there is one applicant. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. clerk and for applying, mr. kamt. it sounds like you are qualify in terms of you have the qualifications and expertise and experience, certainly, in the field of economics, and with that, mr. kamp, the floor is yours. mr. kamp? >> can you hear me now? >> chair peskin: we can hear you now. >> perfect, thank you. chair peskin, supervisor chan. good morning. the bulk of rain in san francisco occurs in just three months. december, january, and february. this three-month window is why a reliable water infrastructure is so important to san francisco, and it's why i'm interested no joining the revenue bond oversight committee: to contribute to the infrastructure of san francisco. my name is lars kamp. i've been a resident of san francisco living in district two. i worked for 12 years for [inaudible] as a founder of a software company and members of the board, i've raised both debt and equity and understand financial markets. my experience includes the auditing of annual financial statements and reports. i believe this can be a significant contribution to the arba, and i'd like to thank victor young for guiding me through the application process, and it would be my honor to contribute to san francisco infrastructure. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. is there any question from committee member? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 187-725-3857, then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, press star, three to lineup to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may provide your comment. operations, can you confirm if we have any public comment? >> operator: i don't believe we -- [inaudible] >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. >> i'm sorry. is this for item five? >> chair peskin: no. >> okay. i'm sorry. >> chair peskin: no worries. you can come in on the next item. are there any speakers for this item number four, the rboc appointment? >> operator: no further speakers in public comment? >> chair peskin: mr. kamp, we look forward to seeing your report, although you're welcome to report on it more than annually. i see no questions from supervisor chan, and i'd like to excuse supervisor mandelman from this item. mr. young, roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor mandelman from item number four is approved. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion to excuse supervisor mandelman is approved with supervisor mandelman being excused. >> chair peskin: and then i'd like to make a motion to approve mr. kamp. >> clerk: on the motion to approve mr. kamp -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion is approved. >> chair peskin: congratulations, mr. kamp. next item, please. >> clerk: item 5 is appointments to the sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee. we have seven seats and 12 applicants. >> chair peskin: thank you. i've read the applications, and this is going to be a difficult selection because everybody is so superlatively fit to serve on this board. why don't we just take them in order as they appear on the agenda, and i do have a cheat sheet here as to what was able to attend. i think pretty much everybody or most everybody was able to attend, so why don't we start with vanessa bohm. if you just want to make -- if each of you want to make a brief -- given that there's a lot of folks here, try to keep it to two minutes if you can. miss bohm. and if she is not available, we can move onto sonia banks. >> clerk: i believe that miss banks submitted a request withdrawing her application. >> chair peskin: okay. that is correct. i do remember seeing that. so now, we have 11 applicants for seven seats. with that, miss francis -- frances abigail cabrera. >> hello. good morning. time to unmute myself. can you hear me? >> chair peskin: we can hear you and see you. >> okay. thank you. good morning, supervisors. i'd like to share that i'm a proud daughter of filipino immigrants. first and foremost, i am a proud filipina and working deeply within my community and would really like to have the opportunity to represent both my personal and professional experience. i have a deep passion for improving health equity, disparities. i attended school in philadelphia where i obtained my master's degree. i was the hospital liaison to the community school funding from philadelphia sugary drinks distributor tax, and as a bay area native and san francisco resident, i'm happy to be back working in the communities that raised me and would love to give back. i'm currently a program manager with the excellence in primary care at the university of san francisco, and i've had the pleasure to be a project manager with a program called stop covid. i would really be honored to serve in that capacity. thank you for your time, and i well come any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you so much for your application and your experience. why don't we -- if miss bohm is all with us, although i do know she is confirmed. why don't we go onto dianna cavagnaro, and miss cabrera, you can go ahead and turn your camera off. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. you are close. i am dianna cavagnaro. i'm most interested as the parent of an sfusd student, that seat. i have lived in san francisco since 2007, and i have invested a lot into the city both through my career and volunteering, and from 2016 to 2019, i worked with the san francisco chamber of commerce where i was the vice president of investor initiatives and events, and i coordinated over 250 events for the community's largest business advocacy organization? there, i was able to put a lot of people on the stage and contribute to the community here in san francisco? this would be my first foray into something like this, but i am on the board of the marin food bank and have been for almost a year. food scarcity is such an important issue for people in the bay area, especially in these unprecedented times? i would like to participate in this committee because i have full personal and professional experience. when i was pregnant with my daughter, i had gestational diabetes, which i'd never had before, and i was confronted with what i put in my body and what that means. i've lost over 75 pounds in the past year, so i think this would be an integral part in deciding how these funds are distributed? i also have worked for various art and nonprofit organizations in san francisco, where i focus on fundraising efforts for everything from community engagement and arts education. now i'm the c.o.o. of an events company, and unfortunately due to the pandemic has been furloughed, so now have a greater depth of understanding for the need to look at your funds when it comes to food and food scarcity and diversity. and i thank you for your time and welcome your questions. >> chair peskin: and just for seat seven, which had to be nominated by the parent advisory committee, were you nominated or not? >> no, i didn't know. this is my first time doing this. >> chair peskin: okay. i think there's only one person eligible for that seat as they were the only person nominated by the parent advisory committee. i'm making a note that 15 does not apply to you, although i understand why you want that. all right. thank you so much, and if ms. bohm is not here, why don't we go to maureen guerrera. >> clerk: before we go on, i just wanted to let you know that we had an emergency message from miss bohm, and she will not be able to attend today. >> chair peskin: okay. thank you. miss guerrero. >> hi, everybody. i'm applied for seats 1, 2, 3, and 16, and i'm currently a director of programs at ymca. has program has the ability to serve all programs across the community of san francisco. i've also, through the family resource center, have been able to design programs for children five and below and their parents. a large part of my work has been focusing on families and reaching their goals around employment and housing, and with that, i saw that health and financial well-being go hand and hand, and as soon as i noticed that, i would start to bring as many resources as i could to those communities to [inaudible] per year, free workshops, health screenings, and resources, just resources in general, and that was all in partnership with ucsf nursing students and walgreens. i also was able to bring healthier tools workshops, and currently with partnership with d.p.h., we're doing covid-19 screenings at our sites. currently, i'm also working on a masters in public policy program. a large part of my study has been looking at sugary drinks tax and what's been working in other cities, and trying to find out what components can be duplicated other places and what shouldn't be duplicated. one of the things that i have noticed that this committee has focused on is the food insecurity piece, and one thing i would like to achieve is increasing support with neighborhood markets? they have also been greatly impacted by the covid pandemic, and oakland has a model where they're actually working with markets, making sure that they keep investing in nonperishable foods to, you know, decrease the cycle of food deserts in our communities, so that's one thing that i was just looking at, and yeah, open to any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss guerrero. great presentation. really appreciate it. i see no questions for you. why don't we move to maysha bell. >> thank you. >> are you able to see and hear me? >> chair peskin: able to see and hear you. >> great. thank you. i just wanted to say happy women's day to all of my women colleagues. my name is maysha bell, and i am a san francisco native, and i am the mother to four san francisco natives. i have come to live in san francisco about 14 years ago, and i just want to say that my purpose is dedicated to the heart and life in this city. i have [inaudible] in san francisco for 14 years. my current and new role is executive director of out of school time program? during this time, i've had the opportunity to become a trainer in evidence based practices that was developed for active schools and out of school program staff to support healthy outcomes for youth and their families? i also help inaugurate our diabetes program at john muir in western addition beacon in 2019. it was so important based on what we know of the impact that diabetes and sugar sweetened beverages have on the african american communities, especially those coming into that 30 to 40 age group for african americans, which is really high in the city of san francisco. and also, i was able to support our youth campaign. before the program was initiated, we had a group of young people with the ymca in san francisco that was [inaudible] and so they went through a variety of initiatives and activities just to engage the community in dialogue and to really get people to understand why is this something that should matter and why it is something that we can put our support behind. what i'm most eager to bring to this committee, this body, is my ability to get to the heart of the matter. one thing i know is that what people eat, what they choose to eat, yes, it has a lot to do with access, it has a lot to do with resources, grocery stores in your neighborhood, yes, all those things are a factor, but another component that can be missed at times is really the handing down that comes, the cultural aspect. what makes me decide to feed my kids what i feed my kids, and the fact that a lot of habits that i have are things passed down to me of things that i love and trust, and so when we're looking at making changes to this system, we want to make sure that we're giving space and celebrating and acknowledging that context. i think that's the thing that helps people to get on board with whatever recommends and recommendations that we're bringing forth, if we really can find a way to celebrate that experience and not make one party feel challenged or wrong. so that's what i continue to bring to my work, and i see an opportunity to uplift in space. i just want to thank you for your time and giving me the opportunity to speak today and being here, and once again, happy women's day, and see you soon and bye. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss bell, for that presentation. our next speaker will be diana lau. miss lau? . >> hello, supervisor peskin. thank you, everyone, for the opportunity to be here. my name is diana lau, and i work at ucsf, also, and my job is i'm the director of asian health institute at ucsf. i've been in this job for many years now, and my basic training is i'm a nurse, and i obtained my ph.d. about ten years ago from ucsf in the school of nursing and major in cardiovascular nursing. one of the main pet peeves is i am an immigrant, and i am aware of the difficulties that immigrants have in navigating our complex health care systems, and my specialty is language access, health care access equity, and trying to raise the choice level so that they do not have so much disparities when they need to utilize our health care system. so i also serve as a board member [inaudible] on the side as a volunteer, and impart of the reviewers for the grants for the asian research center for minority aging research. we call it rcma. so any way, i am pleased to be able to do that as you hear a lot of good ideas when people present their grant projects to you. i also have served on the san francisco immigrant rights commission. you might not have remembered me, supervisor peskin. >> chair peskin: i do remember you, miss lau. >> i served -- go ahead. >> chair peskin: no, no, i remember. >> okay. i served for eight years and chaired four of it, so i am kind of aware of how the city health system works, but then, i went to [inaudible] school, so i drop off because i was working full time and going to school full time and my hair was falling out and i was itching all over the place, and i didn't understand why. but any way, i got through it, and so that's good, and so now, i think i'm ready to come back and serve now, and i would be happy for the opportunity to do so, and thank you so much. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to entertain. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss lau. i see no questions from committee members, so why don't we move onto marna armstead. >> good morning. thank you. can you hear me? >> chair peskin: we can hear you, and we can see you. >> thank you. good morning, supervisor peskin, supervisor chan, and supervisor mandelman in his absence. my name is marna armstead, and i submitted an application to the sugary drinks advisory tax committee. >> chair peskin: miss armstead, i will tell you how to make that echo go away. mr. young, what's the trick? >> i think that was someone else's line. >> yes, i believe there was another participant echos. >> thank you. again, i'm going up for the sugary drinks tax committee advisory committee. i'm a founder of a black led and community led nonprofit committed to providing doulas for the community in need. we also have partners and provided food, food vouchers, and gift cards, and we really try to provide wraparound services for our clients during the perinatal period. as a black woman, i've struggled through health conditions with the poor conditions marketed to me in san francisco, and for decades i struggled to learn about nutrition with very well awareness of the damage being done to my body and find proper nutrition and adapt it in a way that i could consume, literally consume. so in the past three years, i've learned the tools needed to help me lose over 50 pounds. over the course of that time, i've learned ways to manage my health condition and i seek ways to be healthy and have weight reduction and eventually the elimination of sugary drinks from your diet. i'm a san francisco native, a lifelong district ten resident, and i'm committed to my work through sister web, through megablack s.f., to the latina task force, through ucsf black health initiative, through s.f. black, and the s.e.c., the southeast community coalition, and the healthy southeast coalition, and a couple of other things that i will endow because i just like to be in the know. my passions are addressing racism as a root cause and addressing health disparities in communities of color. by nature, i'm a facilitator type and a team player. i plan to lend my experience to the efforts to affect the impacts of health disparities on those in my city. i want to continue to make sure that a voice for san francisco's black communities continue to have a seat at the table and to be recognized and flunl in systems that affect our livelihood, and i believe i'm the person to hold that voice. also talk about a couple of the other things i do. i work with all of the hospitals in san francisco. that includes many doctors, nurses, mid we've beens, dietitians, you name it, and i also work with a number of community-based organizations. i have a number of natural organic relationships with neighborhood communities, so at this point, i'm going to end my presentation and ask if you have any questions of me. >> chair peskin: miss armstead, i do not have any questions, though dare i say that you may be overqualified for this position, so thank you, and why don't we move onto nicolle elmore, and dr. mendoza, if you could just turn your camera off, we are going to get to you next. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to apologize for my mask and the background, but i am here at collective impact in the western addition, getting some work done for our youth, and so i just want to share a little bit about myself. i am applying for the health equity seat, number three, for the sugary drink distributor tax committee, and so again, my name is nicolle elmore. i'm a first generational college student. i recently started my quest for my doctoral degree at [inaudible] university in naturopathic medicine. the -- san francisco's black community supports and acknowledges my efforts and advocacy for my employment. i currently act as the program coordinator for opportunities for all, mayor breed's workforce initiative, san francisco's human rights commission, and i have dedicated to my short life span and life experience to the ethical implementation of health equity for our disenfranchised community. i have had the opportunity to work for my community, becoming a voice for voices around mental health and mental health resources. through these mental health disparities that have plagued our community members, we have figured out ways not only how to survive but to thrive. i work as a student liaison community organizer, and we have launched over three policies and wellness centers at the schools, which is a huge accomplishment for the youth, and we are really proud of that? and we have really worked on figuring out how to navigate through the devastating road blocks of health disparities happening in our community? and i would also like to share that as a youth advocate, i have worked with countless community members in all of our districts in san francisco to acknowledge the monumental role of lack of access to health pathways as well as naturopathic medicine? and within the sugary tax committee, i seek to work with community members as well as the board to create essential framework to recommend -- not only to create intention but to recommend community based education, nutritional education as well as equitable school nutrition around food securities? i also hold positions with the megablack san francisco coalition task force, the japanese community youth council. i am an active member and do a lot of work through collective impact, through community development, and around san francisco, and i know i don't have as much life experience, and i just want to uplift dr. armstead, who went before me because she's such an inspiration because it's my goal to have that catalog and give back to the community. i'm really committed to the drivenness and the essential framework that we need in our community and the black community around food security, nutritional education, and wellness. so thank you all, and now, i will pass it over to you if you have any questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss elmore. i see no questions, but sincere appreciation for everything you do in the community and for application to this body. i said at the outset, this is not going to be easy because we have 11 superlatively qualified individuals, and the selections are getting tougher by the minute, but with that why don't we go to dr. mendoza >> hi, everyone. can you hear me? sorry for the technical difficulties. [inaudible]. >> great. so my name is rosalia mendoza, a latinx doctor working in the community since 2008. most of the chronic diseases that i'm working with patients to manage include diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease that, as we know, are directly tied to the negative consumption of sugary drinks. i trained as a research fellow and faculty members with the department of family and community medicine with ucsf, providing family care through the family health center and immigrant health clinic. research with the ucsf center for addressing oral health disparities, we focused, and my roles were generally around writing other n.i.h. grants, doing analysis, doing community feedback in the study design as well as data recruitment and as well as doing quantitative and qualitative research with our focused groups. our interventions that we focused on in those studies involved the improvement of education to parents and physicians around oral health and primary care, which, in the last ten years, has started to expand thankfully. fluoride dental clinics in san francisco, reducing sugary drink consumption, and trying to include fluoridated water in bottled water in san francisco. my experience includes a long history of representation of underrepresented minorities, doing continual education with our ucsf medical residents, and a long-standing relationship with community based organizations. the longest affiliation i have is with clinica martin [inaudible] providing health care to immigrants and day laborers in the mission district [inaudible] which has made it challenging for people not able to navigate some of the traditional health care systems that we have in place. the pandemic has shifted a lot of our efforts. all of those aspects have taken a huge highlight and probably a bit [inaudible] so that people can continue to manage their chronic diseases. my aim in applying to this seat is really to kind of bring my expertise in data analysis, chronic disease management as a family physician. community engagement with our existing c.e.o.s and serving the low-income and communities of color in our city. it would be an honor to work alongside many of the people that we heard from today, and i'd be happy to take any questions from supervisors or anyone else. >> chair peskin: thank you, dr. men dose a, and thank you for your time in the community and in public health, and i see no questions from members, so why don't we move onto carolyn or caroline fichtenburg for seat four. >> clerk: chair peskin, i'd just like to let you know that we received a message from caroline withdrawing her application for the seat today. >> chair peskin: okay. so with that, that takes us to ten applicants for seven seats, and that takes us to laura derosier for seat 15 from the district's parent advisory committee, so please proceed if you're here. and sounds like maybe she is not here. >> clerk: i am double-checking to see if she is logged in. i do not see a log-in at the moment, but it is a long list, so she may not be logged in at the moment. >> chair peskin: okay. why don't we go to general public comment on this item. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 187-725-3857, then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please dial star, three to lineup to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. please wait for the system to indicate you have been unmuted to begin your comments. i believe we have nine callers and two speakers at the moment. >> chair peskin: okay. first speaker, please. >> good morning, same supervisors, members of the rules committee in san francisco. my name is roberto vargas, and a former member of the [inaudible] had the opportunity on behalf of ucsf to convene scientists, public policy makers, and health advocates in the development of the soda tax policy and other policies to help reduce chronic disease disparities and recently served on the s.e.d. tax. i'm calling to support dr. rosalia men dose -- mendoza and frances abigail cabrera. i know both of them to be dedicated to this work and know both of them to be dedicated to staying connected to and serving the interest of the communities that they are part of, both latinx and latinax communities that they are involved in. i also wanted to support vanessa bohm, sorry she could not be here today. she is one of the only members that is reapplying for her seat, and i know it is a challenge for all of our members to sustain anything during the pandemic, and i deeply appreciate the fact that vanessa is willing to serve again san francisco in this capacity. she has done an amazing job in her role chairing the community input committee -- subcommittee, and i hope that she is able to continue serving san francisco and the broader community in this role. thank you for your time. >> clerk: your time has elapsed. >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. >> good morning, supervisors. my name is rodney chin. i'm the executive director of the [inaudible] ymca in district five, and i'm calling in to support maysha bell, who i've worked with for the last 13 years. she is a resident of d-5, and like she had mentioned earlier, about four or five years ago, she was instrumental in aiding our community at the john muir beacon center in that community [inaudible] sugar diets and how that adversely affects our population. so again, i'm calling to support maysha bell. i think she'll be a wonderful addition to the committee. thank you. >> clerk: i believe we have at least one more caller at this time. >> chair peskin: please proceed. >> hi, there. can you hear me? >> chair peskin: we can hear you. >> great. good morning. my name is -- >> clerk: i believe you have your t.v. on in the background or computer. i believe we're having an echo. if you could turnoff your t.v. or radio, it would be appreciated. >> okay. i don't have a t.v. or radio on. it may just be a connection. how about now? >> chair peskin: sounds good. >> okay. as i mentioned i'm [inaudible] parker, the director of the bayview-hunters point ymca. i'm calling in support of maysha bell who is a tremendous leader within our organization, not only our organization but our community. for many years, she has served our community and the organization by helping to ensure that youth and families in san francisco who have historically been marginalized or disproportionately impacted have a space and place to gain resources, to gain skills, and have access to opportunities. i believe that maysha's leadership, she is passionate and committed to the work of supporting families in san francisco. she has demonstrated leadership in a way that has really gone beyond what, in most cases, many consider a 9-to-5 in that she goes above and beyond to provide for families. she intimately understands how food beverage impacts not only the health and wellness of youth and families in san francisco but also the cognitive abilities and learning in terms of development and achievement. i believe that her experience is well rounded from a professional perspective as well as her personal experience, and i am calling again to support her taking that seat. so i truly thank you for your time and again want to support maysha bell in this opportunity. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. are there any other members of the public for this item? >> operator: we have two callers in queue. >> chair peskin: please proceed. >> hi. this is cameron smith, a resident of district one. also work for the [inaudible] as the director of community programs. i was just calling to show my community support for maysha bell. throughout the years that i've been working with her, i've seen her care for the community in working to fill the equity gaps for communities of color. i believe she would be perfect for this seat, and just through her passion and her support of the community, she would be a great advocate for the city and for all the people involved, so i'll keep it nice and short, but again, my community support for maysha. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors and members of the rules committee. i am [inaudible] gardner, vice president of social services [inaudible] for the ymca of san francisco. i am calling in support of maysha bell. through her professional and community volunteer experiences, mrs. bell has the proven ability to work collaboratively through a system lens approach. mrs. bell is deeply rooted in youth and community development. she has not only advanced healthy eating and nutrition collaboratives throughout san francisco but she has also done this nationally on behalf of many different organizations. i am putting my full support behind her application in hopes that she can further advance the work of this commission on behalf of all san franciscans. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. are there any other members of the public for this item? >> operator: there are no more callers in queue. >> chair peskin: okay. public comment is closed, and i was remiss in not starting with some comments. if d.p.h. would like to make them, from christina get, if she's able, and i hope i pronounced her name correctly. >> good morning, supervisors. i did not actually have any prepared comments. i think you are all well prepared with respect to the work of the sugary drinks tax advisory committee, and the only thing that i would add is i know that dr. jonathan butler is trying to get through and make public comment, but i'm not sure if that's going through. >> chair peskin: i'm happy to reopen public comment. if you have anything else to add, please feel free, and then, we -- i'll make a motion to reopen public comment if the good doctor would try to get back on. >> no, i'd just like to add that it's a great commitment, and we're very grateful to those who have been in these seats over three years and very excited to welcome new members. it sounds like there's a good crop of candidates. i'll answer any questions if you have any. >> chair peskin: thank you so much. mr. young, why don't we reopen public comment? >> clerk: operations, have we received any additional calls at this time? if you're on the line, waiting to speak, you do need to press star, three to raise your hand to speak. we can give them a moment. >> operator: a caller just came in. >> clerk: okay. >> good morning to -- can you hear me? >> chair peskin: yes, sir. >> hi. my name is dr. jonathan butler, and i have been able to serve on the soda tax committee since the inception of the committee, and my seat was seat number five and am currently has -- have served for the past two years as cochair, and my purpose for calling is to highly recommend vanessa bohm to seat number one. she has been my colleague on the committee since day one, as well. she has been certainly an important vote for the latino, chicana, and indigenous community, but she has been exceptionally beneficial in providing the entire committee and the community with a strong recommendation, a strong supportive community, and i just simply wanted to acknowledge that she would be most important in ensuring that the work of the committee continues, and i wanted to highly recommend her and continue in her seat, seat number one. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you so much, doctor. are there any other members of the public for this item number five? >> operator: no more callers in queue. >> chair peskin: okay. public comment is closed again. let me start by making a motion to excuse vice president supervisor mandelman. on that motion, mr. clerk, can we have a vote. >> clerk: yes. on that motion to excuse vice president mandelman -- [roll call] . >> chair peskin: and then, supervisor chan, would you like to make some comments about ten remarkable people wanting to serve in seven seats? supervisor chan? >> commissioner chan: thank you, supervisor peskin. i think for some us wanting to pay attention to this committee's accomplishments the last couple years, me as a mom of a public school student, a second grader in this city, really have noted some of the decisions that this committee has made in terms of funding allocation and support program and messaging really around this town, and to really support, really, in the spirits of what the sugary tax was about, so i really appreciate everyone's work here. i think that it is always great to see new members, you know or applicants that are -- that could be potentially new members to a committee, but it's also good toe zoo that there are folks or at least in this case, at least one that is incumbent that has -- that's really, you know, my preference at times is to have a mix of institutional knowledge of what has been done and welcoming new members on board to just mix it up and with fresh perspective. so i, again, this is great to see people willingness to serve. definitely tough decision ahead of us, but i think i have some idea. i think this is really a good mix of people with perspective -- diverse perspective, so i look forward and eager to make our appointments today. thank you, chair peskin. >> chair peskin: thank you, supervisor chan, and let me just start by reminding everybody that while we have the seven seats before us today, this is actually a body that consists of 16 members, so there will be more opportunities over time as we see in the seats that are before us today. in the seats of those that have served, six have opened up, so there will be some openings over time, and i encourage folks, all of whom are superlatively qualified, to keep an eye on this body for future vacancies and appointments. with that, i concur with supervisor chan and the doctor who just spoke, and even who, due to an emergency, vanessa bohm, was not able to speak this morning, i think she has served with distinction and would like to suggest, with residency waiver, she fill -- continue to fill seat number one and be reappointed. to seat number two, i would suggest maysha bell. to seat number 3, i would suggest marna armstead. to seat number four, frances abigail cabrera, to seat five, [inaudible], and seat 15, laura derosier. supervisor chan, i defer to you. >> commissioner chan: chair peskin, i would love for you to repeat your appointments for seats four and five so that i understand -- i think i missed those two names -- or i think i do know those two names, but i just want to make sure i heard it correctly for seats four and five. >> chair peskin: for four, who has to be held by an individual that is employed at a medical institution in san francisco and has experience in the diagnosis of diabetes or other diseases linked to the consumption of sugar sweetened beverages, i was suggesting francis abigail cabrera. and seat five, which has the exact same requirements as seat number four, miss diana lau. >> commissioner chan: got it. i think i understand, which is what i thought i heard. thank you, and i concur, so please do the roll call. >> clerk: chair peskin, i missed seat 16, if you do have a recommendation for that. >> chair peskin: i do have a recommendation for that, and that is maureen guerrero. >> clerk: thank you. >> chair peskin: on that motion, mr. clerk, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. i'd just like to repeat to make sure i have it correct. >> chair peskin: yes. >> clerk: seat one, we have miss bohm, with a residency requirement waiver. seas two, maysha bell, seat three [inaudible] and seat 16, miss guerrero. >> chair peskin: yes, that is correct. >> clerk: on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes with supervisor mandelman being excused. >> chair peskin: and that concludes the business before this committee. my apologies to those who we were not able to accommodate, but as i said, please continue to monitor this committee. there will inevitably be opportunities to join and now this committee knows you and wants to appoint you, and with that, we are adjourned. >> good morning. this meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday, march 4th meeting of government audit. i am the chair of the committee, supervisor preston. i am joined by supervisors chanand mandelman. thank you to the clerk and sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do we have any announcements? >> thank you. in order to protect the public and board members. the chamber and committee room are closed. this is pursuant to local, state and federal orders and directives. committee members will attend through video conference. public comment is available for each item on cable channel 26 and sfgovtv streaming the call in number across the street at this time. the opportunity to speak and provide comments during the public comment period will be available by calling 415-655-0001. following that you will be prompted to enter the meeting id which is (187)490-6868. followed by pound twice to be connected to the meeting. when connected you will hear the discussions but your line will be in his senning mode only. dial star to be added to the speaker line. wait until unmuted to begin comments. call from quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turndown your television, radio or streaming device. there are time delays between live coverage and streaming. you may submit public comments by e-mailing me. john carroll at sfgovtv. org. if you submit by e-mail it will be in the file as part of the matter you comment upon. your written comments may be sent to our office in city hall. clerks office, room 244, 1 carlington bgoodlet place this is on our agenda today. items today will appear on the march 16th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated by motions. >> thank you. please call the first item. ordinance amending the police code to require grocery store, drawing store, restaurants and on-demand delivery service employers to provide health and scheduling protections related to covid-19 to workers and to sunset an emergency ordinance with similar requirements. call 415-655-0001 and enter (187)490-6868, pound, pound and star followed by 3 to speak. it will indicate you raised your hand. wait until unmuted. we received a memo requested this be a committee report at the march 9th 20, 21 board meeting. >> thank you, mr. clerk. at this time i believe that supervisor haney's chief of staff will be here with comments on this item. i will turn the floor over to her. >> thank you. good morning. i am abygail and i am here on behalf of supervisor haney. on our workers protections ordinance this was continued from last meeting in light of substantive amendments during committee. the legislation before you strengthening the worker protections covered by the health officers orders during covid-19 to give workers an additional level of protection and mechanism to file complaint with the office of labor standards and enforcement. we have non substantive amendments today that i previously circulated to the committee members for consideration. walking through two of those amendments. first clarifies that employees must be paid normal rate of pay for the services and in accordance with high touch areas in accordance with law. independent contractors must be paid no less than the personal services minimum contractual rate ordinance admin code chapter 12b. that is noted in page 6 lines 3 through 8 in your ordinance that i circulated previously. second amendment requires that covered entities retain their records in compliance with this ordinance for three years. other city attorney is on the line for any other clarifying questions. i am requesting for your consideration those two non substantive amendments before you today. i thank you for your cosponsorship on behalf of supervisor haney and special thank you to the organizers with jobs for justice san francisco, 10-1, we drive progress, state workers rising and chinese progressive association for fighting hard during this pandemic. thank you so much. >> do you have any staff presentations planned? you have folks available for questions. i didn't know if you wanted any presentations from those departments to get us started? >> no, supervisor, i think we covered everything in the last couple hearings. i just wanted to bring forth these amendments. >> thank you. do we have any comments or questions from the vice chair or supervisor mandelman? >> okay. why don't we go to public comment. >> thank you, mr. chair. maria with the department of technology is working to help run the public comment lines. there is about a half dozen people on the line. for those connected via phone press star 3 to be added to the queue if you wish to speak for this item. for those on hold please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. you will hear that your line is unmuted. on channel 26 or through sfgovtv if you wish to speak call in by following the instructions on the screen. dial 415-655-0001 enter id1874906668. pound pound and star followed by 3 to speak. mr. chair, while we have callers listening. i hear that we have no callers for public comment on this agenda item. agenda item. public comment is now closed on this item. may we have a motion to amend? >> move. chen. >> thank you. can we have a roll call, mr. clerk. >> on the motion to amend. vice chair chen. >> aye. >> member mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> mr. chair, three ayes. >> if thank you. can we have a motion to refer this item to the full board with recommendation as a committee report for consideration at our next board of supervisors? >> moved. mandelman. >> roll call, please. >> on the motion this ordinance be recommended as committee report vice chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> mr. chair. >> aye. >> there are three ayes. >> thank you. mr. clerk, call item 2. >> an emergency ordinance to temporarily require certain grocery stores, drugstores and property service contractors for grocery stores and drugstores to pay employees an additional $5 per hour during the public health emergency related to covid-19. call 415-655-0001 enter id1874906868. press pound pound, star. a system prompt will indicate your line is unmuted. that is your opportunity to provide public comments. >> thank you, mr. clerk. at this time i would like to welcome natalie gee, supervisor walton's chief of staff and turn the floor over to ms. gee to present on this item. >> good morning. thank you, chair preston and supervisors for hearing this emergency ordinance today. i am natalie gee, chief of staff for supervisor walton. he was not able to make it to the meeting today. we have been in the pandemic a year. grocery and retail pharmacy workers have not stopped working to make sure residents have access to groceries and supplies. they provided appreciation pay for the workers. many of them stopped in june of last year, three months after the shelter-in-place orders. earlier this year the board of supervisors passed a resolution for $5 hazard pay during the pen dam eck. this is a follow up. if this is passed san francisco will join berkeley, san jose, south san francisco, oakland and santa clara and long beach, la, santa ana, santa monica who have allen accounted similar measures on hazard pay. this will require grocery stores, retail pharmacies and janitor and security contractors whose securities work to provide $5 per hour of hazard pay to employees making under $35 per hour or $75,000 a year. this will only apply to grocery stores and retail pharmacies with at least 20 employees in san francisco and 500 or more employees worldwide. it does not include mom and pop grocery stores or pharmacies that do not meet those requirements. if the store wants exempt all they have to do is engage in a collective bargaining agreement with the union regarding the hazard pay and they will be exempt. this exempts employers who have predated collective bargaining agreements on hazard pay which some stores negotiated during this pandemic. this is written in the ordinance on page 5 lines 18 through page 6 line 4. president walton would like to clarify the definitions. this was sept to committee members this morning for review. i think we would like to thank united workers 5 and 8 for advocating this issue and deputy city attorney powell for helping us draft this. i will go to the list of amendments we are presenting. first we are striking drugstores and adding retail locations to include pharmacies. on page 5 line 4 clarifying the definition of base wage for salaried employees. calculated on 40 hour workweek. we are striking lines 6-7 and adding hazard pay to hazard page or wage enhancement. on page 6 line 16. we are clarifying and adding to include at least 20 employees who work on site at the restale sales and service use that operates and add excluding pharmacies provided as part of the hospital or health service use defined in section 102 of the planning code. we are adding clarifying definition to be on page 5 with lines 22-25 to on site at retail sales and service to operate any general grocery, specialty grocery or pharmacy as part of the hospital or health service use as each of those terms is defined in planning code section 102 with the boundaries of the city. page 6 line 16-17 under hazard pay we are striking including premium pay applicable at the time and adding any wage enhancement in effect for each hour worked for for salary employees for 40 hours per week. page 6 line 25 under poverty services contractor to include services for covered employer at any retail sales and service use that operates grocery store, specialty grocery or pharmacies except health service use. striking 3 to 7 page 7. new definition on page 7 lines 8-10. premium or additional wages paid to an employee by covered employer above base wage without additional fay for over time -- additional pay for hazard pay. page 7 line 14. we are adding plus any wage enhancement in effect. finally page 12 section 12 adding that this emergency ordinance shall become operative third day following enactment and based on termination of health emergency or first day of the emergency ordinance whichever occurs first. happy to answer any questions. >> thank you, ms. gee. any questions for ms. gee on this item? vice chair chan. >> thank you, chair preston. thank you so much, natalie. great to see you here and thank you for walking us through the amendments without taking a breath. that was amazing. my question is and my apology and i really should have done better homework in making sure i really understand thoroughly but i also appreciate the amendments today. i am trying to digest amendments as well. if this is something that already addressed in the amendment, my apology for asking this. i am trying to understand from the legislation specifically really around employer initiated hazard pay. i understand that right now i am looking at it specifically page 7 or starting page 6 and then with the date about how this provide after february 1st including collectively bargained employer initiated hazard pay which leads to the conversation or my question will be following on page 7 specifically talk about except for the employees whose base wage is between $30 per hour and $34.99 per hour. if initiated employer hazard pay is provided on and after february 1st but not meeting the base wage between 30 and $34.99 per hour are they exempt from this or are they not? >> thank you for the question. do we have city attorney lisa powell on the line? >> yes. i am not sure i understood the question. basically the way it is intended to function is that employer initiatedded hazard pay can be offset from the requirement and there is a hard cap to the requirement of $35 per hour. for example, if an employer provided initiated hazard pay $o makes $20 an hour, they would get $2 an hour on top of that to opposite the employer $3 an hour and get $2 an hour on top of that. if an employer provided the same $3 of initiated hazard pay to someone who already made $33 an hour, that would take them over the cap so they wouldn't get any additional hazard pay on top of that. >> that may beings it. thank you so much for walking me through it. that may beings a lot of sense. my last question will be if i may, chair preston, really about the waiver on page 11 starting online 14. to try to understand all or any portion of applicable requirements for emergency ordinance shall not apply to employees covered by collective bargaining agreement. someone in -- maybe it is my lay person ignorance trying to understand what abonnified collective bargaining agreement. explain to me. if there is a ongoing bargaining agreement now or timeline? how do we figure out a waiver? >> this is a fairly standard provision in many of the ordinances that standards enforcement oversees. it is for people who have collectively bargained an exception to an ordinance. many of the city worker protections allow employees who are represented by collective bargaining agent to choose the ordinance of protection or trade-off with their collective bargaining agent to the overall superior for those workers. for a temporary ordinance it is unlikely to come into play because collective bargaining agreements aren't amended as frequently as a shorter term ordinance. i put it in there as a standard provision that is how local ordinances operate. there is a worker protection that says for those workers who have the protection of collective bargaining agent negotiating for them, they have the option of bargaining something different as long as they expressly agree to do that. >> for any employer already have collective bargaining agreement, they are exempt? >> no. it is only if it is expressly waived in a collective bargaining agreement. probably how this would function if it were to happen is that an employer would do a side letter agreement expressly waiving the hazard pay if they chose to do that. much more common in longer term ordinances where the paid sick leave ordinance around the paid sick leave in the city but maybe a union already hadtic agreements regarding paid time off so they decided to stay with that and expressly wave in their collective bargaining agreements the specifics of the paid sick leave ordinance. this may not be particularly likely applicable. there could be an employer who offered the union something else that they consider to be very valuable to them and that they might agree to waive in either an amendment to the collective bargaining agreement or side letter agreement to waive their rights under this ordinance, presumably as trade-off for something else. >> good to know. my apologies. just signed on as cosponsor. i want to understand the amendment that we proposed today and that overall that i understand what we can actually accomplish with this legislation. i think the waiver itself learning this now it sounds like standard language that doesn't quite impact any employer that already has a collective bargaining agreement unless the union decided to come forward to have the conversation with the employer. i think at this time, you know, this is only for 61 days hazard pay. on the third day of the effective day of this ordinance, right? if i understood the amendment correctly. thank you. that may beings sense to me. -- makes sense to me. i appreciate chair preston allowing me to do so. >> thank you. following up they are good points. just want to say on the last piece around the waiver, i think that the duration of this is important. while it may be standard language and not utilized in the collective bargaining context it is possible that there would be discussions especially given this will protect folks for 60 days or add the hazard day for 60 days. no one nos if it -- no one knows if it will get renewed. there would be discussions during the course of the emergency ordinance period. i would hope there would be discussions. there might be voluntary agreements reached. as long as if that happened and they could expressly waive the protections of this or future renewal ordinance but not forced upon anyone to wave those. it is part of the agreement between the union and the employer. is that right? >> correct. any other comments or questions from committee members before public comment? all right. mr. clerk, can we begin public comment, please. >> thank you, mr. chair. we are checking for callers in the queue. for those connecting by phone press star 3 to speak for this item. for those on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. you will hear that your line is unmuted and once you hear that you will have an opportunity for your comments. if you are watching on cable channel 26 or through sfgovtv, if you wish to speak call in now by following instructions on your screen. that will be by dialing 415-655-0001. press pound twice and star followed by 3 to be entered to speak. i am hearing that we have four callers and three people raised hands. please bring us the first caller, please. >> good morning. onis of mollies -- owner of mollies market. we have done the right things for employees, customers during the last year. owned independent in san francisco with more than 500 employee in the bay area. we have 675 employees over nine stores, three are in san francisco. the number of employees doesn't equate to profit. we are a local, family-owned company. we rewarded employees with increases in hourly pay for a number of months over the past year. the latest in the first part of this february. we have had only one case in the last 30-days in our three stores in san francisco. our increases of pay coincided with the stay-at-home orders and most critical periods of the spread of virus over the past year. we paid our people approximately five months of extra pay. including bonuses throughout the year. this week we have had over 60% of the worke forcer in san francisco have gotten the vaccine or have an appointment to get it. by next week we hope to have 90% of our people vaccinated. we are not exempt from our collective bargaining agreement. we are union. don't have anything in the contract, nobody knew covid was happening. it is not normal to have this in the contract. the force us to negotiate with the union when we fairly provided the utmost protection for all of our employees. ramifications of this will belong lasting, not just a band-aid. we have done the right things and treated our employees -- >> thank you. next caller, please. >> good morning. i am dan larson. i represent the members of usc w648. being the president i have heard so many issues concerning covid with our members. we represent the food and drugstores in san francisco. i thank president walton for bringing this issue to the forefront. our members have been on the front line of the pandemic when it began a year ago and they are still serving customers day after day. the work goes unnoticed. this will bring respect, dignity and appreciation to the dangers of their jobs they do every day. we may never know the many dangers and sacrifices each worker made during these times but this ordinance does acknowledge the dangerous conditions exist and tells the employers that they are providing the absolute minimum of protection to the most valuable employees is not enough. we ask for your support. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments with the committee. we are checking for further callers. i am hearing now that we have reached the end of the queue, mr. chair. >> thank you, mr. clerk. thanks to the comments from the public on this. i do just want to say i am a cosponsor and proud to be a cosponsor. appreciate president walton's work and i think there is a tendency through not unintentionally through this pandemic of some essential workers more than others. i want to say that the sector of the worke forcer that is addressed by this legislation is a sector that is really taken for granted. the folks working, particularly at the big national chains grocery stores, and others covered by this ordinance have been work nothing matter what tier we have been in. they have been working every day through this entire pandemic. i appreciate all of the work president walton has done. not just in this legislation but previously by resolution in trying to elevate really the need to be recognizing that service and rewarding that service. i do appreciate and had a opportunity to speak with mr. stone who called in. they are in an between situation where it is not a big national chain and not a small mom and pop store on the corner with nearly 700 employees. certainly wherever you draw the line in this legislation, there are going to be followings who are near that -- folks who are near that line raising legitimate issues. i defer to the sponsor who addressed the various amendments. i think it is something to keep an eye on regardless of the final vote on this and contours of the size and other parameters. something to look at. this is 60 day period open to hearing from impacted workers and employers during the pendency of that. when it comes time for renewal of these things. the only question i had that was raised a little in the call is just the issue of and supervisor chan raised this as well. the issue of past, i think he used the example what happens if someone gave a voluntary hazard increase pay in february. i just want to make sure my understanding of the ordinance is right. my understanding this is just looking forward, right? in other words if somebody gave a bonus in january of a certain amount, that wouldn't impact their obligations one way or the other under this ordinance or does it? >> it did not. it is only perspective. there is even a provision that says past pay doesn't matter, basically. >> okay. i think i understand the reason and it could be very complicated to do it differently so i am not proposing changes. i think as we go further and if there is future legislation, i think a policy question of how we address past voluntary bonuses in terms of if there are longer term legislation in the future around this, we don't want a situation where we are rewarding people who have chosen not to do past voluntary bonuses. i want to recognize that. i don't know the details in particular but their particular business overall, i think while i understand why this is structure understand this way for this legislation, it is, i think, beyond emergency ordinance potentially a question of what is the cumulative? my view if folks have not been providing increases over time they should be forced to pay more. if folks have been doing voluntarily increases it might make sense to factor that into future obligations. that is an editorial comment rather than a specific proposal with respect to this ordinance which is very strong. i appreciate the amendments submitted. i see my colleague supervisor mandelman on the roster. >> thank you, chair preston. i guess and i am going to support moving this forward to the full board today. i do want partly based on a conversation with mr. stone yesterday and his comments this morning. i am -- when i think of molly stone in a different category from certainly the whole foods of the world or safe ways and luckies and all of the bigger actors. i know there was an effort to carve out the smaller operators with this 500 employee cap. i am wondering about the thinking that went into choosing that number. it sounds like 750 which was the san mateo number would go above molly stones. i just wanted to see if ms. gee is still here to talk about 550 verse -- 500 versus 750. >> thank you. the thinking be hired this is -- behind this is other jurisdictions passed ordinances at 500. lowest was 300 in california. >> is it true san mateo did 750. >> the city of sanaa theo 750. >> not the county? >> not the county. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman. mr. clerk, to dot the i's and cross the ts. if i have not closed public comment, public comment is now closed. i see that vice chair chanmay have a question. >> hazard pay i thought from deputy city attorney powell's explanation. if an employer has already initiated that pay say $3 per hour, with this passage of the legislation moving forward for the next 61 days is that instead of $23 an hour for the next 60 days is now $25 per hour. basically, it is paying the $5 cap. in my opinion if you really have as an employer if you have been providing employer initiative hazard pay on and after februare basically paying the gap, there is a cap of $34.99 per hour. you will not -- actually the employee will not receive the pay increase for the next 60 days. did i understand that correctly? i thought that was the explanation. i am sorry. >> the current employer initiative pay is offset but not past hazard pay. >> supervisor chan, i think the distinction is if there was a hazard pay increase in effect now. folks were getting $2 per hour more. under this ordinance under the emergency ordinance they would get the balance of that, right? $2 increase in effect would go toward the $5. what the ordinance doesn't do and would be quite complex to try to do especially in a 60 day emergency ordinance is figure out the past that is not in effect now. if somebody had given a bump up in pay for october, november, december but that was no longer in effect. that past pay would be irrelevant to the analysis. i believe that is the summary. someone correct me if i'm wrong of both the questions we have been asking and i think that is my understanding of it. do i have that right? >> yes, you have that right. >> if thank you. seeing no other questions from colleagues to ms. gee regarding the procedural posture of this. it is my understanding that in addition to moving the amendments today, which i understand to be substantive amendments that it is president walton's request to refer this item as amended rather than to our next gao meeting weeks away instead to a committee as a whole on march 9th, is that right? i want to make sure that is the preferred course here? >> thank you. that is correct. >> can we have a motion to amend the emergency ordinance as provided to the committee? >> move. chan. >> can we call the roll, please. >> motion offered that the ordinance be amended as presented in text by the office of president walton. vis chair chan. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> three ayes for the amendment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. can we have a motion to refer the emergency ordinance as amended to the board of supervisors for a committee as the whole on march 9th, 2021 pending approval to it is as committee as hole in 210231 on the same agenda. let's call the very long and wore demotion. >> you want me to repeat? >> on the motion offered by member mandelman the ordinance be referred as amended to committee as the whole hearing date marthe, 2021 board of supervisors spending approval to it is as committee as whole which will appear without agenda on that same meeting. vice chair chan. >> nicely done. aye. >> member mandelman. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye. >> mr. chair three ayes. >> thank you, mr. clerk for that challenging motion. i think we got it procedurally right. thank you, ms. gee and to president walton for this ordinance. mr. clerk, any further business? >> there is no further business. >> thank you. then we are adjourned. >> okay. hello, everyone. and thank you for coming. my name is leosha tillman, and i am the director for t.h.p. right over there at civic center hotel. in four days, it will be my fourth day to work for c.h.p. it has been rewarding to work for a nonprofit organization which allows me to help people suffering from homelessness transition into permanent housing. the work we do here is so important, especially in this pandemic era, because we are providing shelter and housing for the let fortunate, and because of all of -- that we do, i am very excited to be a part of this ground breaking of the colton project. today, we have a special guest to help us kick off this critical and ground breaking project. at this time, if everyone would please join me in welcoming san francisco mayor, mayor london breed. [applause] >> we are excited and grateful that she could join us today. >> the hon. london breed: thank you so much, leosha, for the introduction. thank you for all you do for community housing partnership. i've got to say, it's nice to be outside with people. we are still in the midst of this pandemic. we know that so many people are still hard at work, and we are excited to break ground on this project today. joseph p. mazzola has a rich project in this city. today, we're joined by larry mazzola, jr., his grandson, who spear headed this project in partnership with the city and plumbers union and strata and community housing partnership to create an incredible new community. almost 600 units here near a transit rich location. 1200 jobs created in construction with this particular project, and also, not only will we be helping our formerly homeless individuals into a housing situation that is permanent, we'll be helping them with services. we'll be helping them to turn their lives around, and we know that mazzola, sr., sr. would have been really proud of his grandson and for his vision for what this has created. the gardens that are being built and available to not only the residents of this community but available to the public will be named in his honor. this is what creating great projects is all about in san francisco. retail space, housing, opportunities for disadvantaged community members, and not to mention, there are over 60 units in south beach that were in -- that were being threatened to go from affordable housing units to market rate units after the covenants expired. because of this project, many is being invested to preserve those affordable units for the people who live there. incredible what this project has done, and we're finally getting an up-to-date modern union hall for the plumbers. thank you, larry, thank you for that. it is much needed. you know, it's been a very, very challenging time for our city, but we know that san francisco is a very expensive place to life with many challenges, and just because we're in the middle of a pandemic doesn't mean we should stop building more houses. just because we stop producing housing for san franciscans. we can't continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. mazzola, jr. and i grew up in this city. we grew up in this city, and his family worked towards better opportunities for middle class families in san francisco. many people in the western addition, including my aunt, this was their first opportunity -- getting a good paying union job was their first opportunity to take care of their families. and the sad reality is that over the years, as we underdeveloped housing in this city, those same people have been displaced from the city that they are born and raised in. that is really sad and unfortunate, and it's something that i fight to change every single day by producing as much housing as we possible can to make sure that housing is affordable for people who live here. it takes a lot of work, it takes a lot of effort, but today is a good day as we breakdown on 96 units for formerly homeless individuals. as we provide a plan around homelessness. our homeless recovery plan involves that we are transitioning people out of our shelters, out of our hotel rooms, into a permanent situation. this is what it's all about, and having incredible partners to make us make this possible is so critical to the success of this city, so i'm really glad to be here. hell, i'm glad to be anywhere nowadays. i want to thank my partners, i want to thank larry mazzola, jr. to having the vision and to look at this as not only a way to support his members but to support san francisco. i want to thank strata for being our great partner in this project and coming up with opportunities to build new and affordable housing. i want to thank community housing partnership for continuing to invest and support the community here. i'm excited that members of the civic center hotel will also be brought back to the projects in these new units, as well, long time members. i'm excited about how we came together with the mayor's office of housing and the state. it definitely took a village and a lot of money to create almost 600 new units right here on market street, where we have robust opportunities for people to also use public transit. and yes, mazzola, you're getting your parking because i know how your members feel about parking when they come to the union hall, but we're also creating over 100 spaces for bike, so they can get in shape by jumping on a bike and coming here, as well. thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] >> thank you, mayor london breed. next up, i am happy to do the c.e.o. of community housing partnership, rick aubrey, to share more about c.h.p. and the community housing opportunity at this site. let's welcome rick. [applause] >> thank you, leosha. and i've got several folks to thank, so please indulge me in a little bit of a list. first and foremost, i want to thank the mayor to come out today. i think this may be the first opportunity that you've had to be with folks at an event. we're very glad that you were here. and it is your commitment and the city's commitment that has made this project possible. as folks have mentioned, this is going to be 96 units of permanent and supportive housing for folks who may be unhoused and living on the streets. this is going to get folks a key to put in their hands, some ability to stabilize their lives with dignity and choose to move forward in whatever way makes the most sense for them. our partnership with the city is deep and very wide. i want to particularly note that we couldn't do this without the funding from the city. the mayor's office of housing and community development, which is providing substantial funding for the construction of the project. once the project is built, in order to continue to provide services in the building, we have a contract with the department of housing and supportive housing, which will make sure that over the long haul, folks get the services that they need to succeed with their lives, but it makes more than just a village to create the kind of housing that we're all about. it actually takes a nation, so part of the funding that we have in this project comes from the state of california from the housing and community development department of the state. there's also low-income housing tax credits that are part of the funding that make this project possible, which is a partnership for both the city and the federal government, and it takes all of those entities and the complexity of putting them all together in order to get the housing that folks need to thrive with their lives. particularly, they wanted a focus on this site for not only providing folks a great place to live, but stewarding green life. we'll have rooftop solar panels on the building. it's a full all-electric building, so not only are we serving the folks who live here, but we're trying to serve the planet, as well, by thinking about affordable housing as also something that addresses the issues of global warming. thanks in particular to our architect partner david baker and associates who designed an incredible building. so not only is it environmentally friendly, but they have developed an expertise for what are the needs of folks who have been recently living on the streets, and what are the needs that make this an inviting place, a safe and secure place, and a very thoughtful design that they've put into it really has people first, has a real human touch into the design. we couldn't do this without the money from both the investors and the lenders, so our primary tax credit investor, enterprise, which is in the business of supporting these kind of projects, despite the fact that this was going on during covid, stepped up, figured out how to get the finances in place with all the complications. we all remembered back in may, june, and july, and got it done. our lending partners, merchants capital, was a critical partner in helping us secure the deal. just a few other notes and then i'll turn it over to other folks. we are very proud that we're doing this in partnership with the plumbers union. we are in partnership with the community housing partnership, so we're really pleased that we're doing this project with all of the plumbers union folks. and finally, but by no means least, these kinds of projects are very difficult to do, and this project is a public and private partnership, and we are really lucky that the strata development company that does huge projects really saw the opportunity to work with us, figured out how we could do an affordable housing project, and our teams have worked extremely well together just making this possible, so my big thanks to the strata community for making this all possible. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, rick, so much. i would like introduce michael cohen, one of the founding partners of strata group. so let's all welcome michael cohen. [applause] >> as you can see if you look behind you, 53 colton is part of a larger project. as the mayor alluded to, we've got almost 600 units of market rate units under construction. we have a state-of-the-art new union hall. there will be that beautiful park that's really important for a neighbor that's underserved by open space, which is the joseph p. mazzola gardens, and the reason we're here today which is a first of its kind project in that 53 colton is supportive permanent affordable housing that's part of a larger development project. this project was not easy. it's got incredible complexity, a lot of moving parts, but we are immensely proud of it, and i think especially 53 colton, where through some of the unique transactional structures that mayor breed was alluding to, including us contributing the land and $10 million of private equity allow us collectively to deliver support hiv homeless -- supportive homeless housing on a super effective basis. what's unique here is there's so many partners. we literally had the public sector, the provide sector, the nonprofit sector and organized labor coming together all working towards a common goal. first in those partners is local 38 and their pension trust fund. this is their land, and they're the people who put their faith in strata to make this project happen. you know, larry, we've been working our tails off to reward the faith that you've put in us what is now many years ago. and i'm not sure if people know this, but it was in large part because of a personal outreach by larry that the afl-cio housing trust came into this project and is part of the financing for 53 colton. c.h.p. has been with us almost as long. from the very beginning, the mayor's office asked us to think outside the box, and that included allowing the civic center hotel to become a temporary navigation center. i don't know if that's the case, but i think it's still the only navigation center in san francisco that's actually on private property. even more important was the idea of deeply embracing that we are going to have permanent homeless housing as part of a much larger project. and, you know, in san francisco, you have to do a lot of work with neighbors. we spend a lot of time with the neighbors here, and really, one of the keys to getting the neighbors around this site comfortable with the idea of homeless housing literally in their backyard was the literacy and outreach of c.h.p. we would ask them to go and look around the local apartments and say, tell us something that's different from the buildings around it, and they couldn't. that's because the buildings are well built, they're well designed, and well managed. the city has been a fantastic partner in the project. mayor breed and supervisor haney, i want to thank you both. we literally would not be here without your leadership. i want to specifically acknowledge the hard work and contributions of ann topier, for judson and his seam, the san francisco housing of community development, the san francisco housing department and rich sucre, who was a joy to work with, something that people don't often say when it comes to housing in san francisco. i want to acknowledge the men and women that are actually building all of this stuff around you, and the terrific leadership of mike dinapoli who is coordinating this massive effort. both mayor breed and rick took a line that i had, and i think it's interesting that we all had the same thing, and that's that it takes a village to build a village, and that extraordinary level of collaboration and cooperation is why we're here today. i do believe that it is a testament to the foundational strength of this project that we were able to secure hundreds of millions of dollars of financing and secure the supports of affordable housing in the teeth of this pandemic. we're very proud of it as we were one of the few construction loans to proceed during that time. this little stretch of market street between vanness and goff and where the freeway comes has been a bit forlorn for a number of years. but with the vanness b.r.t. nearing completion and other projects sprouting around us, we are absolutely thrilled to be a catalyst for san francisco's next great urban village, so thank you very much. [applause] . >> all right. thank you, michael, for your words, and for being our partner on this project. up next is larry mazzola, jr. from local 48, whose family's foresight and ownership on this project made all of this possible, so let's welcome larry mazzola, jr. >> thank you very much. is this fun or what? it's a lot better than my last two days, talking about ferris wheels. anyhow, let me get this little speech here that matt haney wrote for me. i want to thank everybody that spoke before me and all the kind words that you all had about local 38 and myself and my family in particular, and mayor breed, you gave me a lot of credit for this whole thing coming to fruition, but the credit goes to people who were before me, my grandfather and all the people that served on the board of trustees in the 1970s when they bought all this land. i don't even think if they were here, they would envision what this has turned into. i guarantee you they did not envision that, and they would be super proud that their envision back then turns out what it's starting to look like in the near future. we're very excited. we're proud to be a part of it, we're proud to be a part of the community as we always have been to help the homeless and help the city, like mike cohen has just said. it's going to be a great partnership. it already has been, so i just want to say the members of the board of trustees are excited to be a part of this and be the decision makers and see this come to fruition. unfortunately, they couldn't all be here because of covid, but i'm sure soon they will be. it's great for the community and the surrounding area and to be able to help the lower income and formerly homeless people into some supportive housing is something we're -- that's vitally important and something we're proud of. this is one of the only jobs that's kind of got started during covid. we're proud of that, and i want to thank all the union trades, building trades, construction workers. i see some of them over here. i want to thank you for everything you do and the great job you do every day. 53 colton will be a top rate supportive housing project, and we're proud to help provide that with the partnership of the city and c.h.p. we're equally proud to partner with strata and suffolk to design a state of the art development. this whole octavia area is going to be a city within a city with all the construction you see going onto your left, to your right, and behind you. we're proud to be part of that history, and we're proud to be part of the future of this great neighborhood and this great city, and i couldn't be more happy today with the partnerships that we've all formed, and i think this is one of the better partnerships going in san francisco. i think it's going to be better involved for san francisco as a whole. we're very proud to be here today, and we thank you very much. >> all right. thank you, larry, for joining us today, and thank you for those words. finally, i'd like to welcome district 6 supervisor, matt haney. matt has been a great supporter of community housing partnership and our mission to provide safe supportive housing to all san franciscans, and we're glad he's able to join us today, so please help me welcome district 6 supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, leosha. now that larry has given the speech that i wrote, i have nothing to say. don't worry. he didn't write mine, so you don't have to worry about that. this is, for the first time in a long time, an opportunity for us to actually be here in person for a ground breaking. thank you so much, mayor breed. thank you to c.h.p., to strata, to larry and the plumbers. we have done a number of ground breakings all over the last year, all virtual. this is the first one that i've done in person in some time, and this is the right one. this is such an important project for our city. it is going to be a part of a larger transformation of this neighborhood and the area all-around us. i know that, for a lot of san franciscans, when they hear about colton street or colton alley, they probably wouldn't hear anything that rung a bell. the reality is the future of this alley is thankfully going to be one of housing, of hundreds of units for people in our city, especially people who are in need, who are formerly homeless. when my staff told me it was on colton street, i had to think for a moment of where that was. we think of our areas as lots of constituent requests and concerns. in the future, i'm looking to working with them and representing them and being a part of a larger transformation of this neighborhood. larry and c.h.p. and strata and the mayor have been working on this project for years. larry, i'd see him on thanksgiving at the horse races across the bay, and even years ago before i was a supervisor, he'd come over and bend my ear and say, do you know what's happening with the union hall? do you know what's happening over there? i'm so excited about it. i'm so happy for him, i'm so happy about all the jobs that will be created. i'm so happy for our city and the hundreds of people who will be able to call this entire village home. lastly, i really want to -- and other folks did this, as well -- thank the workers who are here, thank the folks who are out here, building this project. thank you so much for your hard work. we need the housing, we also need the jobs. all of it is going to lead to a transformation not just of this alley, of this street, but of the entire city. all right. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor haney, and thank you to all our speakers today as well as our many partners on this project, all of whom have played a vital role in helping to bring this project into fruition. community housing partnership looks forward to welcoming 96 residents to 53 colton in spring 2023, moving forward in our mission to providing homes to people experiencing homelessness. thank you, everyone, for being here today. [applause]