Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240704

Present. Ronen, present. Safai, present. Stefani, present. And supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, do we have any communications . Yes, mr. President. This meeting is airing live on sfgovtv channel 26. You are encouraged to come to the board legislative chamber in city hall, second floor room 250. The telephone number and id are streaming on the television. If you need assistance we is have a clerk standing by, 4154445184. To send written comments to members, snd your stamped letter via u. S. Mail addressed to the San Francisco board of supervisors, 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place room 244 San Francisco, california 94102 or send email to the address bos sfgov. Org. Well have interpretation assistance in chinese filipino and spanish from 3 p. M. To 7 p. M. Thank you mr. President. Thank you madam clerk. Well go to our 2 p. M. Special order, the mayors appearance before the board. Welcome mayor breed. Do you have any remarks . I know there are no questions this month from the supervisors representing districts 9, 10 and 11. Thank you president peskin, and good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. Over the last several months we have been moving forward to talk about the future of downtown, and changing our laws to make it easier to convert and fill empty space. We reformed our tax truckture to recruit new businesses and delivered on our Budget Priorities to keep our city safe and clean. Just yesterday we announced 4000000 in new Small Business grants to help fill empty store fronts. All this work matters, but we also have to think bigger. Downtown, financial district once the thriving part of the city and representing 70 percent of the tax base is changing and we need to adapt. Today i sent several letters out including three to our city administrator, to the San Francisco Unified School District and to city college. These letters all ask the same fundamental question, how can we as public agencies be strategic with our own use of our real estate, our office space to take advantage of Current Office climate and directly invest in San Franciscos recovery . As the larger employer in the city, we can lead on recovy by investing in high Quality Office space for our workers, we can do this while also leveraging our own buildings and land for other uses. We are in need of more land for housing and the city and these agencies have land all over San Francisco. The School District is already pursuing building on vacant land, we are building hundreds of new homes on the old sfpuc land at balboa reservoir, at 49 south van ness partnered with related to build a new City Office Building and permit center while also creating hundreds of new units of rental housing. The office of Economic Workforce Development willby the resource available to help us think through what is possible, and the other letter i sent was along with our City Attorney david chui to the uc board of regents asking them to consider the possibility of bringing the uc system to downtown San Francisco. Whether thats ucsf, uc berkeley or other idea, we have space at the center of the city and the region that could attract students from all over the world. Again, it is about whats possible. We arent saying all of this is absolutely going to happen, but all of it can happen and thats what we need to start thinking about. Lets be the city that imagines whats possible. The city that finds the way to make possibility a realty. Lets not throw up road blocks, lets remove barriers not just in the policy but the vision for the fuper of the city. When i mention the possibility of bringing a soccer stadium downtown, that wasnt just me throwing out a idea . Why cant we do it . It is easy to Say Something is hard, easy to Say Something is complicated, but if we continue to put up road blocks and say that then it wont be possible. San francisco talks about being a place of doers, a place of dreamer s, we are the place where the television was discovered. We are a place where the inventor of the chia pet and clapper and when we talk about what happens in San Francisco and many of the tech industries, the bio tech and other folks, they say, San Francisco is where we want to be because this city has the talent, it has the creativity, it has the invasion. Regardless of the narrative people are try to put out about San Francisco, people still want to be here, because this is where the world is changing. This is where the creativity and tomorrows invasion and technology will happen because it happens in San Francisco first. I want us to start thinking about what is possible. Think bigger and with bolder and better for the future of our city. We cant be content always limiting and saying no and what cant be done. How do we get to yes . How do we make San Francisco better for the future for all of us . Thank you. Thank you mayor breed. That concludes our 2 p. M. Special order and thank you for joining today and we look forward seeing you nextactually in september. Do you really look forward to seeing me . I do thank you mayor breed. Madam clerk, can we please go to the approval of our Meeting Minutes . Yes, approval of the june 13, 2023 board Meeting Minutes and the special Meeting Minutes at the budget and Appropriations Committee where upon a quorum of the board appeared on june 14, june 15 and june 16, 2023. Is there a motion to approve the minutes made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor preston. On that motion a roll call, please. On the minutes [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Those minutes will be approved as presented after Public Comment. Madam clerk, could you please read the first item . Item 1 is ordinance to amend the public works code and administrative code to eliminate permit fees for a curbside shared spaces permit approved before june 30, 2024 and increase the gross receipts threshold from 2 million to 2. 5 million for permit and license fees and affirm the ceqa determination. Supervisor safai. Thank you president peskin. Colleagues, we discussed many times beforei spoke too quickly sir, i apologize. [laughter] curbside parklets are crucial to Small Business recovery in our city. Not only do they provide Small Business owners more space, but they provide Service Industry workers extra opportunities to find work in our city. My goal with this legislation is that we stay true to the original intent of the shared space program,x which is to help Small Businesses and not take away from them. I believe eliminating the permit fees in this first year will allow the over thousand applicants, a thousand Small Businesses new and existing established parklets to expand their current footprint and sustain themselves in this really difficult economy. Earlier this year we heard from Small Businesses that would cost them many times over 10 thousand up to 20 thousand to keep their current space, not including the additional adjustments they had to make to conform them to code, which in the end serve our purpose more but rather keeping the money in their hands to reinvest in their businesses by hiring staff and sustain themselves. Additionally, inflation continues to effect Small Businesses, which is why the ordinance adjust the gross receipt threshold for the annual 50 percent license fee waver for businesses that do not exceed 2. 5 million in gross receipts. Again, this is truly a Small Business stimulus program. While this legislation started as a permit elimination of the fees ongoing, we were able to come to consensus at the budget and Appropriations Committee working with my colleagues and others and this fee waver will act as a shortterm stimulus as i said for Small Businesses for the next fiscal year. I believe this is a good compromise for us to continue to support the recovery of our Small Businesses and our local economy. Many of whom are the largest employers in the city. Small businesses together make up a Significant Network of Employment Opportunities across San Francisco. I ask for your support today. Thank you colleagues. Thank you supervisor safai. Seeing no other names on the roster, we will take this same house same call. The ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, could you please read items 236 together . Item 236 comprise the budget for the city and county of San Francisco for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2024 and june 30, 2025. Item 2 and 3 are the budget and appropriation and annual sally ordinances, appropriating the estimated receipts and expenditures for the departments as of june 1, 2023 and approval of the positions. Item 4, this is ordinance to amend the administrative code to increase minimum Hourly Compensation rate for employees of both non profit city contractors to 23 per hour by jan 21, 2026 to include annual increases based on the Consumer Price index and city contractors incrementally up to 25. 50 per hour by january 24, 2027 with annual increases based for certain workers and modify the exemption to minimum compensation requirements for youth employees in summer and after school programs. Item 5 this is the ordinance to amend administrative and environment codes to reduce administrative cost by requiring the risk manager to review and update insurance requirements as necessary instead of annually and eliminate the requirement the office of Contract Administration report on the implementation of city laws relating to select employment practice and use of tropical hardware by city contractor jz require the city administrator to send a list of available reports to the board of superrisers annually. Item 6, this amends the administrative code to eliminate the city annual joint fund raising drive. Item 7, the ordinance amends the administrative code to conform to current nomenclature the definition of Technology Market place for procurement of technology caw modties and service and adjust the associated fees paid by city departments. Item 8, amends the administrative code to extend the boards delegation of authority under charter section 9. 118 to the department of Public Health to approve managed care contracts to include contracts ending december 31, 2028 and to include from the requirement of controllers review those managed care contracts that are based on rates set by the California Department Healthcare Service on or actual Healthcare Delivery cost. Item 9 amends the administrative code to clarify certain procedures for the Film Commission programs such as when a contract is or isnt necessary to film a news event and clarify the execive director is apointded to increase the daily use fees to engage in film pruck and allow funds from the film rebate project account to be used to administer and market the program. Item 1013 are four ordinances that appropriate funds from the San Francisco Public Utility Commission in fiscal year 2324. 10 appropriates approximately 124 million of hetch hetchy cap and trade revenue and power and water Revenue Bonds for the hetch hetchy Capital Improvement program and to place 41 million of power bonds and approximately 77 million of water bonds by project on controllers reserve. Item 11 appropriates 759 thousand of clean powersf revenue for clean powersf Capital Improvements and 848 in california Public Utility Commission grant funds to implement the disadvantdage communities and Community Solar green tariff programs. Item 12 appropriates 332 million of proceeds from Revenue Bonds state of California Water resource s control board Revolving Loan or grant funds, water revenues and Water Capacity fees for the water enterprise Capital Improvement program and places 282 million of revenue bond and state loaner grant fund proceeds by project on controllers reserve and for item 13, this item appropriates approximately 1. 1 million of proceeds from Revenue Bonds state loans or grant funds wastewater revenue and capacity fees for wastewater enterprise Capital Improvement program and to replace approximately 1 billion in Revenue Bonds or state loans or grant funds by projeths on controller reserve for the project. 11 and 13, these are subject to prior currents of the sfpuc and board discretionary of ceqa findings. Item 14, this appropriates 502 thousand in the Port Commission and approximately 97 million in the San Francisco Public Utility Commission in fiscal year 202324. Item 15, this ordinance amends the Building Code to increase fees charged by the department of building inspection by 15 percent and affirm the ceqa determination. 16, this amends the business and tax regulation code to update Emergency Medical Services fees subject to annual adjustment provisions and require fees for certain Additional Services and to amend the health code to define the terms Trauma Center and the pediatric center. Item 17, this ordinance modifies early care and Education Programs and enables the city to use early care and education commercial rents tax revenue for such programs in the budget and are the outyear. Item 18, this ordinance amends the health code to set patient rates and rates for other Services Provided by department of Public Health. Item 19, this ordinance amends the municipal Election Code to opt out of state law that would require the names of supporters and opponents of a local ballot measure to be listed in the ballot statement or questions for the measure. Item 20, this ordinance amends the business and tax regulation code to wave retroactively to july 1, 2023 certain first year permit license and Business Registration fees for specified Small Businesses that newly form or that open in new location and refund any waived fees paid to the city. For items 2123, these three ordinances are submitted by the San Francisco Public Utility Commission. Item 21 authorizes the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water Revenue Bonds and other forms of debt in an amount of 359 million to finarns the cost of variance capital water projects that benefit the water enterprise to altogethererize the issuance of water revenue refunding bond and water Enterprise Commercial paper. Item 22, authorize the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable wastewater Revenue Bonds and other forms of debt in approximate amount of 1 billion to finance the cost of various capital wastewater projeblths benefiting the wastewater enterprise to authorize the issuance of wastewater revenue reund ifing bonds and retirement of outstanding wastewater commercial paper and for item 23, this item authorizes the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable power Revenue Bonds and other forms of debt in the amount of 41 million to finance Capital Projects benefiting the power enterprise and authorize the issuance of bonds and declare the intent of the commission to reimburse it self with one or more issues of tax exempt bonds or other forms of debt and ratify Previous Action Taken in connection as defined within each of the three items. For item 24, this ordinance adopts the neighborhood beautification and graffiti Cleanup Fund Tax designation ceiling for tax year 2023. 25 amends the annual salary ordinance for fy2223 and 2324 to reflect the addition of four positions at the Port Commission and the substitution of 31 positions and addition of 128 positions at the airPort Commission in fiscal year 2324. Item 26, approves the budget for the ocii, the office of Community Investment and infrastructure and to approve the issuance by ocii of bonds in approximate amount of 75 million to finance enforceable obligations of the ocii. Item 27, this resolution concurs with the controllers certification that Departments Service previously approved can be performed by a private contractor for a lower cost then similar work performed by city and county employees for the following services, budget and legislative Analyst Service for the board of supervisors, for fleet Security Services, real estate division, custodial suvs and Security Services and Convention Facility manage for General Service agency in the cityat the city administrator office. For Security Services for department of public works, homelessness and Supportive Housing, human Service Agency and mayor office on housing and Community Development. And the department of Public Health. For food service at the county jail for the Sheriff Department and Assembly Vote by mail service for department of elections. Item 28 and 29 approve the following two mous. The memorandum of understanding with Public Health between the following entities that establish the roles and responsibilities for each party for purposes of fund raising and Capital Projects, for item 28, between the San Francisco Public Health foundation and the department of Public Health. For item 29, this is between the San Francisco General Hospital foundation and the city and county of San Francisco department of Public Health and to enter into amendments or modifications for both mou prior to final execution for the purpose of the mou or resolution. For item 30, this resolution approves the budget and outyear expenditure plan for department of homelessness and Supportive Housing fund and item 31, this resolution concurs with the controllers establishment of Consumer Price index for 2023 and adjust the tax by the same rate. Item 32, authorize the acceptance and expenditure of state grant funds by department of Public Health. Item 33, resolution authorizes the Public Library to accept and expend approximate 1 million grant inkind gift service and cash money from the friends of the San Francisco Public Library for direct support for variety of Public Programs and services. Item 34, approve an agreement between the Public Health and advocates for it Human Potential inc. Having anticipated revenue to the city of approximately 2 million for a term of september 15, 2021 through june 30, 2025 and to authorize the department of Public Health to enter into amendments or modifications to effect wait the purpose of the resolution. Item 35 and 36, are two resolutions that approve amendments to two Grant Agreements for the office of economic and Workforce Development. Item 3 approves the 5th amendment to Grant Agreement with the San Francisco tourism Improvement District Management Corporation to manage the downtown Welcome Ambassador Program including a 5. 1 million grant increase for a new total of approximately 21. 3 million with increase to the term of one year and 8 months for new term ret row act v to july 1, 2021 to june 30, 2025. Item 36 approves the third amendment to Grant Agreement with midmarket foundation to manage the midmarket Tenderloin Community based Safety Program grant amount increase of 31 million for total amount of 61 million, Term Extension through june 30, 2025. Thank you madam clerk, that was a mouthful and want to start by thanking the members of the budget and Appropriations Committee. Supervisors chan, ronen, walton and safai and particularly chair chan for i think the leastsorry, mandelman, excuse me, my bad. The least acrimonious most challenging budget we had in recent times, so hats off to all of you and applaud to supervisor ronen who went above and beyond the call to settle various matters and with that, supervisor chan, my profound thanks. The floor is yours. Thank you president peskin. Colleagues, at the beginning of this process i set with a goal to bring accountability to city spending through the hard work of colleagues on the budget and Appropriation Committee who fought for a more equitable San Francisco. Together, we present to all of you today with the budget that does just that. I like to thank my colleagues on the budget and Appropriations Committee, supervisor Hillary Ronen for her support and unwavering advocacy and bringing her know how as a former budget chair to the table and make sure we get this through. And vice chair Rafael Mandelman was critical in helping move our community forward. Not just during the budget june time, but really throughout the month leading to it. Of course, supervisor Shamann Walton keeping all of us time and tine again on time and honest. And supervisor ahsha safai for making sure we keep the conversation going. And of course, we as a committee didnt also do this alone as a committee. Just also want to thank supervisor melgar for bringing early child care communities together. Through her leadership we got it done. And last but not least, our board president aaron peskin for being ready any hour of the day, standing by when i call to offerreadily offer his guidance and support. For that im really grateful. Im also grateful for the partners who moved the budget forward from my friends and colleague francis shay and team kelly grove, indiscernible our ever steady Budget Committee clerk, brent, our outstanding madam clerk and the entire Clerks Office that supported our process, especially during the last two weeks. Of course for mr. Harvey rose and his team. indiscernible and the staff at the entire team at the budget and legislative analyst. Of course our controller Ben Rosenfeld and indiscernible and rest of the Controllers Office and of course our director, budget director from the Mayors Office and her team and of course our deputy City Attorney ann pierson stayed with all those hours. Colleagues through this budget we restored an unprecedent 75 million to direct service for our most vulnerable residents in San Francisco for the next 2 fiscal year. Some of the touch time still ahead of us. I have to be very honest. Even though this budget we protected critical funding for child care and Early Education while preserving funding for food security, we have restored funding for the sro collaborative to protect single room occupancy tenants and safeguard funding for small sites acquisition. We have increased wages for workers in the Community Based organization and Service Industry. We have increased funding for shelter beds while preserving funding for housing for families and transitional age youth. We have preserved the critical work of the Ethics Commission as we are about to enter a very robust election cycle. And we have funded the creation of the office of reparations. All this was the work of this committee together. The restoration of these Vital Services fulfilled our promise to serve every san franciscans and create a more equitable budget not balanced oen the backs of our most vulnerable. This is about the people we serve. This is why im most grateful for our labor partners, Community Advocates and organizers here with us late night Early Morning and their advocacy helped all of us accountable and truly turned this budget into the peoples budget. Im thankful for all of you and placing your trust in me as your budget chair. Finally, we still have little work to do and as last order of the business before we vote on these items, we will need to move some technical amendments to item 2 and 3 to amend the board of supervisors spending plan to correct some department destinations for item numbers c2, c6, c9, c11, c59, c76, c97 and c98 and update the description for item c24. And to authorize the controller to make adjustments as necessary to implement the boards action in order to balance accounts. So, with that, colleagues thank you. We are here. I also have to remind all of us, this isnt over. We are only the first of the two years budget cycle. Actually we have a tough road ahead of us, so with that, again, i are want to thank the budget and Appropriation Committee. I look forward to seeing all you again, not soon though. You have recess. But i will see all of you back in the committee back in this chamber to get back to a very touch budget ahead of us. Thank you. Thank you chair chan. Supervisor ronen. Thank you. I just wanted to give a huge thanks to chair chan for providing wonderful leadership throughout the budget process. Like many years, this year was particularly hard when we first got that budget from the mayor, i could not see how we were going to solve it, and get to a point where we could get this passed at the board and i think the hard hard work that we did at the committee, because man, we put in the hours really paid off, and as usual, the incredibly brilliant staff of our fiscal staff and the city from the budget director to the bla to the controller to the City Attorneys office, it was as always a huge group effort and just always so impressed with the brilliance and the commitment of just all of the fiscal staff in this city that keeps running. Finally, i really wanted to thank jacky preger of my office. This was her first budget. She said it nearly killed her, but thank goodness she took a couple weeks of vacation and slowly coming back to life for all her really extraordinary hard work on this budget. And to all the committee members, thank you for sitting for hours and hours and hours upon end making sure we listen to every Public Commenter in the city and that we went through each Department Budget with a fine tooth comb. I couldnt wait for it to be over, but feel extremely excited with the result. Congratulations. Thank you supervisor ronen. Supervisor melgar. Thank you so much president peskin. First, i just want to commend chair chan and her phenomenal aid francis shay for leading the budget process despite the many challenges we faced. And also to thank the entire committee for their long hours of work and all of your staff where all the work is supported in a very touch budget year. I also would be remiss not to acknowledge the hundreds of early care educators, families, working parents and advocates who came to city hall to hold us accountable to the will of the voters. This is is a group of people who dont often tell us what is on their mind. To insure we protect prop c to achieve the goal of universal child care in San Francisco. I want to thank chair chan and controlling rosenfield and his team for all the work and brilliance, particularly supporting in finding a sophisticating resolution to insure we protect the baseline of bayview prop c and utilize the interest accrued rather then the 30 million baseline funding to help close the budget. I want to thank anna dunning for the mayor budget druckter director for leadership, partnership and thoughtfulness and i want to make clear hearing chair chan comments about next budget year and the hard work ahead, that we have many difficult decisions ahead of us in the next fiscal year, but have to be conscious about the cost and benefits of the hard choices we make and avoid being penny wise and pound foolish. For Early Education every dollar we spend for kids 03 saves us hundreds if not thousands of dollars later on for those San Francisco citizens. I know our Vice President Kamala Harris did a lot of work when she was attorney general in california making the connection to Early Education to everything that comes later. Again, want to thank the chair for her leadership in your great ability to tune up the noise and stay on task and i appreciate all the members of the committee. Thank you. Thank you supervisor melgar. Supervisor engardio. Thank you president peskin. I want to extend gratitude to the mayor budget team, our controller, budget legislative analyst and Budget Committee lead my chair chan. The budget secured critical investment for senior youth and Community Based organizations even as we faced a big deficit with more difficult decisions to come next year. I want to thank supervisors ronen and chan for helping preserve dist rth 4s youth and family network. Funding for the Vital Service was on the chopping block and many in the sunset are relieved we were able to save critical funding for youth and families in need. I am proud this budget will raise the minimum wage for our city funded healthcare workers. They do essential work caring for other peoples families. Now they will also be able to better provide for their own families. I especially want to thank my west side colleague supervisor melgar for her efforts as a champion for bayview prop c. Supervisor melgar was a strong mediator for our is ity youth and families. Thanks to her advocacy we were able to accomplish the goals sought by the Mayors Office while preserving baby prop c funds for future generations. Colleagues, we provided a lifeline to home grown business passes first year free and delaying scheduled increase to gross receipts business tax. I want to thank the mayor as champion for neighborhood commercial district. We are able to fund activation efforts throughout the city to increase foot traffic encourage diversity or discovery of what our diverse neighborhoods offer. Residents and visitors are going to experience San Francisco and create a lot of joy and we need more of that. Speaking of joy, i are want to encourage all of my colleagues to attend our first sunset night market scheduled for september 15 on iving street. Celebrate food, music arts. This helps accomplish many goals to improve our city, bringz people together, makes streets safer, gives Small Businesses a boost so i look forward having you there as we work to create our best San Francisco. Thank you supervisor engardio. President peskin. Thank you supervisor walton. I rise to offer an amendment to item number 19 that is part of the budget package, which is the ordinance amending the elections code to opt out of a state law enacted last year that would require the names of supporters and opponents of local ballot measures to be listed in the ballot statement for any election. This measure did incompass the state law incompassed and applied to charter cities like San Francisco, but gave us the ability to opt out and that is what this legislation provides. And given the fiscal situation that we face, i think it made sense. It costs according to john arts our director of elections in so far as it could add 125 characters per side per ballot measure and additional page. Cost as much as a half Million Dollars so i concur with the legislation but it is nice if we can comply with ab1416 and to that end i like to offer a amendment that does not make this permanent but requires us to revisit this on a annual basis and that has been distributed to all of you in the long title. It would add at the end of the long title for any election held in fiscal year 2324 and future elections subject to approval by the board of supervisors. On page 2, at the end of subsection f to add the language for elections held in fiscal year 2324 and future approval by the board of supervisors by resolution submitted and approved as part of the annual budget process and to add that at section 510 on page 3 in subsection d, for election held after fy2324 the board may opt out of the requirements of section 910 subsection a by resolution submitted and approved as part of the annual budget process. I would like to thank deputy City Attorney brad russi and deputy City Attorney ann pierson for their very quick work in crafting this and the suggestions from Ben Rosenfield and ask for a second. Thank you. Motion to amend item 19 by president peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen. Thank you. Ill call on supervisor walton next, but before i do that, is there a second to technical amendments, by chair chan and seconded by chair ronen. Supervisor walton, the floor is yours. Thank you president peskin. First want to start with a big thank you to chair chan for her leadership through the budget process as well as supervisor ronen working and bringing Community Together to address some of the proposals that the mayor put forth that really bring people together and do it in a manner that brought folks together so thank you so much for that. Also want to thank tracey brown from my team as well as the entire district 10 office, the budget legislative analyst, Controllers Office, deputy City Attorney ann pierson and of course the mayors budget director anna dunning. We were able to restore a lot of resources that were proposed to be cut. Restore cuts from the draconian mayor office of Housing Community development. Restored funding to combat Domestic Violence, protected child care and homelessness resources, secure funding for recovery hubs and we secured funding for the office of reparations and just excited about being able to come to a point where we could balance the budget, particularly and in the face of pretty high deficits over the next couple fiscal years so thank you to everyone who worked hard on this budget, including the community and of course our clerk brent who was here with us the entire time and also other members of the Clerks Office who stayed with us and of course made sure we were able to have efficient meetings and conducted business of the city. Thank you. Thank you supervisor walton. Supervisor preston. Thank you president peskin. I want to echo a lot of the comments of colleagues and really thank budget chair chan and entire Budget Committee for their extensive work and deliberation throughout the process and i really appreciate their diligence and care in balancing a lot of competing demands and needs and this looming deficit we are all aware of, and will not repeat but echo the thanks to all the other folks involved, bla, Controller Office, mayor budget office, City Attorney. Takes a ton of work to move this forward and appreciate everyones efforts. Let me start by recognizingi think the Budget Committee was put in a very difficult spot this year. I think the mayors budget funded some important shared priorities, including tenant right to counsel, various mous with unions, wellness hubs and are many other essential services, but at the same time, that budget also sought to defund key and crucial priorities like Affordable Housing, food banks and services for Domestic Violence survivors just to name a few. As some of my colleagues referenced, the community really activated to push back on that initial proposed budget and really thanks to the advocacy of residents across San Francisco, and the work of this board lead by chair chan and the Budget Committee and as a number of folks recognized in particular, former chair ronens work on the major ballot measures and others on the committee who really took leadership each on their own initiatives. The budget was dramatically improved in many respects. In addition to restoring some of the most mayoral cuts this budget provides funding for crucial programs and resources that will help our city become more equitable for poor and working class san franciscans. Im also personally deeply appreciative of the many items we were able to secure from my district including a drop in site for Homeless Individuals in the tenderloin. Peer lead overdose funding, indiscernible violence preventions, indiscernible just to name a few. P so im proud of our office work in the budget process and appreciate the collaboration of Budget Committee members and chair chan in securing a lot of those crucial budget items. I want to say that i recognize that no budget is perfect. There is a process of give and take here but here is where i land, were it not for two major issues and thats the defunding of social housing and the massive increase to the police budget, issues i made clear are redline for my support of a budget, were not for those issues i would support this budget even if i had issues with particular line items here and there as we all have particular issues with line items here and there. On housing, inexplicbly the mayor continues the unfortunate pattern of seeking to divert prop i revenue away from social housing. But this year the mayors budget and budget before us went a step forward defunding to the tune of 20million. Funds the board already appropriated to the Housing Stability Fund for small site acquisition and Community Land trust. This undoes progress toward Affordable Housing goals set forth in the housing element. It means displacement of residents at the hands of real estate speculators and loss of buildings that could have been saved and converted permanently to affordable house. I want to be clear, the refusal to invest in social housing is not because of a lack of funds and that is clear from what this budget does with the police budget. In this budget we will fund policing thin city more then we ever have before to the tune of nearly 800 million. The sfpd is getting a 62 million increase on top of the 50 million increase last year and 25 million supplemental just a handful of months ago. This despite the fact that our city has made significant investments and progress in diverting noncriminal calls from police and reducing calls for service. Our office suggested millions of dollars of cuts to sfpd the public wouldnt have noticed and none were taken. Meanwhile Racial Disparities in policing rage on despite reform efforts. The most recent data shows the end of last year police were 25 times more likely to use force against the black community then they were against white people. And the recent arrest of 81 children many children of color at a recent skating event shows Police Resources continue to be used in questionable ways. These unconditional budget giveaways to sfpd are in my opinion out of hand and not making us safer. So, colleagues, rb i will be voting no despite the many good things in this budget, including many things that i my team spent countless hours working to support. I do this with immense respect and gratitude and appreciation for the work of chair chan and the Budget Committee, and i appreciate and thank them all for their work. I also want to thank my entire staff, especially my legislative aid preston killgore who led the work of my office along with melissa hernandez, kyle indiscernible and Jennifer Bullen and thank each and every person and Community Group who met with us to advocate for priorities in the budget and came and spoke to the Budget Committee. We appreciate your time and involvement and there is no question in my mind that you all helped to dramatically improve this budget. With respect and for these reasons i will be voting no on the budget today. Thank you. Supervisor preston, just as a housekeeping matter, would you like me to call and vote separately on items 2 and 3 or would you like me to callwe have called 236 together. Would you like me to call and vote on them as one . How would you like to cast your descenting vote . I assumed as a packagehappy to support the amendments put forward. Great. Supervisor safai. Thank you. I just want to briefly say thank you to chair chan for her work leading this process and all the committee members. My colleagues supervisor ronen, mandelman, walton for indiscernible and supervisor melgar for jumping in. Obviously helping tremendously during the process and president peskin. Also want to thank the budget director anna dunning and her team working so collaboratively with us. I will say that i think the way the conversation started and the way the budget was presented to us, i think it was extremely harsh toward children and families. Took a lot of work and lot of energy to get the message out to them that we were going to do everything we can to balance this out and it is hard when people havent gone through that process before to understand exactly what the outcome might end up being, but i think we did a good job in the end and probably a precursor to the conversations there next year, but i thought the process was smooth. Other then Public Comment every single day. Just kidding. [laughter ] not really. Anyway, but thank you for everyone involved and i think at the end i think we have a pretty strong budget with really good initiatives that will help move the city forward in a positive direction. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. I like to echo all the thanks and will not repeat them all. Thanks to chair chan and my colleagues on the committee and all our staff and then i want to add in, jacky thornhill formally of my office and indiscernible of my office. Thank you. Colleagues can we take the amendments to items 2, 3 and 19 same house same call . The items are amended and on items 236 with 2, 3 and 19 as amended, madam clerk a roll call, please. Supervisor walton, aye. Supervisor chan, aye. Supervisor dorsey, aye. Supervisor engardio, aye. Supervisor mandelman, aye. Supervisor melgar, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. Preston no. Supervisor ronen, aye. Supervisor safai, aye. Supervisor stefani, aye. Ten ayes and one no with supervisor preston voting no. Ordinances passed First Reading and resolutions adopted. Congratulations. Madam clerk, please read item 37 . Item 37 is ordinance to amend the planning code to permit Health Service uses on the ground floor for specified areas of polk street neighborhood commercial district to affirm the ceqa determination and are make the appropriate findings. Roll call. On item 37 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. The ordinance is finally passed. Next item. 38 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to extend the sunset date of the San Francisco Sentencing Commission to june 30, 2026. Same house same call, the ordinance is finally passed. Next item. Item 39, ordinance to wave the public right of way occupancy assessment fee under the public works code for major encroachment permit associated with the seal rock inn at 545 point lob os and affirm the ceqa determination. Same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item. Item 40, this vote requires a 9 vote requirement pursuant to charter section 88. 422, a ordinance to approve the Health Service system plan and contribution rates for calendar year 2024. Same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Madam clerk, 4145 together. Comprise 5 resolutions that approve the execution of master license agreement between the city and following various entities to install Telecommunication Systems on San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and San Francisco Public Utilities commission poles, each for term of 12 years and resulting in revenues that exceed 1 million for each contract. 41 approve the crablth with gte mobile net limited partnership verizon wireless. 42 approve the contract with mobile it. 43 approve the contract with extenet. indiscernible doing business as at t and are to affirm the ceqa determination for each item. Same house same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. Item 46 approves a Emergency Declaration of the San Francisco Public Utilities commission to Contract Resources to repair the road failures on cherry lake road and hetch hetchy road where damage by above normal precipitation and series of recent winter storms with total estimated contract cost not to exceed 20 million. Same house same call, the resolution is adopted. Next item, please. Item 47, authorizes department of technology and office of Contract Administration to enter into an agreement between the city and zone llc for Enterprise Products not to exceed 55 million for initial 3 year term through august 31, 2026 with the option of one of six one year extensions. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Please read item 4849 together. Comprise two resolutions that designate the community and outreach neighborhood advertising and official advertising. Item 48 designate the bay area reporter, the wind newspaper, the wind newspaper and sing thao daily. indiscernible newspaper, the sellven communications doing business as the San Francisco bay times, and the hearse communications doing business as San Francisco chronicle, all to be the outreach neighborhood periodicals and for item 49, designates the Clinton Riley communication doing business as San Francisco examiner to be the official newspaper of the city for official advertising for fiscal year 20232024. Same house, same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item. 50, retroactively authorize to enter into the following two related agreements with department of Healthcare Service for state medical county inmate program. The participation agreement and the Administrative Service agreement 2330045 in amount not to exceed 24 thousand for a term through including june 30, 2026. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Next item, please. Item 51 resolution to aauthorize the mayor office of housing and Community Development to expend Soma Community Stabilization Fund dollars in the amount of 600 thousand to address various impact 06 destabilization on residents and business in the soma for term through june 30, 2024. Same house same call, resolution adopted. Motion to enact 4. 75 percent cost of living adjust to base fiscal year 2223 contract amount of approximately 2. 9 million for budget and legislative Analyst Services to as of july 1, 2023 resulting in new 2324 contract amount of approximately 3. 1 million and direct the clerk to take necessary administrative action to amend the contract accordingly. Same house, same call, the motion is approved. Next item, please. Item 53 amend the business and tax regulation code to extend through december 31, 2024 the gross receipts tax rates in effect january 1, 2022. Same house, same call, the ordinance passed First Reading. Next item. Item 54, ordinance to reallocate approximately 16. 3 million in unappropriated earned interest revenues from the our city our home fund to allow the city to use such revenues from the homelessness gross receipts tax for certain types of service to prevent homelessness, temporary suspending the funding for shortterm rental subsidies and finding the changes are necessary to achieve the purposes of the our city our home fund pursuant to business and tax regulation code section 2811 the board may amend by ordinance by 2 3 vote. This is 9 vote threshold. Seeing no names on the roster, same house, same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item. 55, ordinance to amend the planning code to revise the van ness market residential special use district to update the option for dedication of land for Development Projects to fulfill inclusionary housing obligations to revise the zoning map to increase the maximum height to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house, same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Please read items 5658 together . 5658 pertain to theport of San Francisco waterfront plan update. 56 amend the recreation and open space element of the general plan. Item 57 is the ordinance to amend the zoning map of the planning code to rezone certain waterfront parcels from public to m1, Light Industrial and add special use district 4 covering areas east of mission bay and southern waterfront areas and item 58, ordinance to amends the planning code to revise certain waterfront special use district controls and add waterfront special use district number 4 and all three items to make the findings. Same house, same call, the ordinances pass First Reading. Item 59, motion to approve the mayor nomination for the appointment of lydia so to Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors ending march 1, 2025. Same house same call, the motion is approved. Please read items 60 and 61 together . Items 60 and 61 called together are the motions that approve a two nomination made by the mayor to the Civil Service commission. Item 60 approves kate term ending june 30, 2029 and item 61 approves jacqueline miner term end ing june 30, 2029. Supervisor safai. Thank you president peskin. I just want to take a quick moment to discuss the Civil Service commission. One of our most important city commissions. Colleagues, the civil grand jury report that demonstrate the shocking amount of time it takes to hire a front line city worker, the 911 dispatcher nurse or firefighter who provides services we need in the city. Commissioners favetti and miner are served for 6 year term so want to make sure we have a public hearing about the qualifications, which ewoo did. The rules Committee Recommended approval and look forward working with these commissioners and others to improve the city hiring process, so wanted to highlight why we had the hearing, the importance of it and why we need to focus on speeding up the hiring process to deal with the dramatic undershort staff we have in so many critical departments in the city is directly related to the amount of time it takes to hire front line city workers. Thank you. Thank you. Same house same call, the motions are approved. That takes us to Committee Reports. Madam clerk. 62 and 63 considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee at our special meeting on thursday july 13. Item 62 was recommended as a Committee Report. It is ordinance to approve Development Agreement between the city and 98 franklin street llc for certain Real Property at 98 franklin street consisting of three parcels and to wave certain provisions of the administrative code chapter 56 and adopt the appropriate findings. Thank you madam clerk. On item 62, same house same call, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Congratulations mr. Whity. Item 63 is not before us. Madam clerk, please read 6466 together . 6470 considered by the homelessness and Behavioral Health select committee on july 14. Item 6466 were all recommended as Committee Reports to authorize the department of homelessness and supporting housing to amend the booking agreement. 64 is with the sayana corporation to increase amount by 3. 6 million for total of 18. 4 million and Term Extension through august 31, 2024. 65 was sent as Committee Report approves the booking agreement with Lombard Hotel group to increase not to exceed by 4. 1 million for total of 19. 1 million and Term Extension through august 31, 2024. For item 66, also sent as a Committee Report, this is with Shin International inc. Operator of cova hotel to increase by 2. 9 million for total amount of 14. 3 and Term Extension through august 31, 2024. Seeing no names on the roster, these ordinances are passed First Reading. Next item, please. Item 67, this was recommended as Committee Report. It is resolution for purchase of Real Property for Greenseed Folsom land inc. , 11741178 folsom street and 663 clemen tina street for homelessness and Supportive Housing not to exceed 27. 2 million. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Next item. Item 68 recommended as a Committee Report. To approve authorize the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to apply to California Department of housing and Community Development for homekey grant for the property located at 42 otis street not to exceed 9. 4 million. Same house same call, the resolution is adopted. Item 69 was recommends as Committee Report. Retroactively approve agreement between homelessness and Supportive Housing and San Francisco Housing Authority for 20 year term through june 14, 2023 with anticipated revenue to city of 50 million or more for 50 United States department of housing and urban Development Section 8 property vouchers. 343 12 street for families exiting homelessness. Same house, same call, resolution adopted. Item 70, recommended as a Committee Report. The resolution to approve the third amendment to the Grant Agreement between the Providence Foundation and department of homelessness and Supportive Housing at the oasis family shelter to extend the grant term for a new term september 1, 2020 through june 30, 2032 and increase the agreement amount for new total of 58. 3 million. Same house same call, the resolution is adopted. Item 71 is not before us. Please read item 72. Yes. I will first state 7176 considered by the land use and Transportation Committee on monday july 17, 2023. 72 was recommended as a Committee Report. Ordinance to amend the Building Code to outline the site permit application process and define and limit the scope of Building Official review of site permits to require simultaneous and interdepartmental review of electronic submitted applications and affirm the ceqa determination. Same house mr. President. Keep going. Supervisor safai. Thanks. I thought i heard you say keep going. Colleagues, just want to take a moment to talk about this legislation this is a piece of legislation i worked on with land use chair supervisor melgar. Thank you for your work. This will absolutely fundamentally alter the way we permit things here in the city. I dont have to tell anyone in this room our permit process in San Francisco is broken and needs to be reformed, and we hear about it every day from all of our constituents, people all over the city and talk how we can incur we insure we are moving housing. San Francisco Chronicle analyzed the data and found a typical applicant waits a staggering 627 calendar days before obtaining a full Building Permit from the city to construct a multifamily housing e project and 861 days for a Single Family home. Things are getting worse in the city, not better, so the city wide meeting approval time for permits increased 83 percent since 2012. According to this analysis. It isnt enough to call out inadequacy and bureaucracy. Is our job to fix it. I want to thank supervisor melgar and cosponsorship. I want to thank the building inspection commission, reformed thanks to Charter Amendment sponsored by supervisor melgar. They considered the ordinance and recommended these reforms. This will allow permits to be reviewed in a simultaneous manner while it goes through planning review, put limitations emphasize that, put limitations on what the city planned reviewers will review and comment at the site permit stage. We are the only municipality in the state of california that has a site permit and the design was to get a placeholder, have people to have a opportunity if there is protest, input, get that out in the first stage but what happened over time, it has taken on the form of a Building Permit and that is a much more complicated and much more detailed oriented. So, this proposal in front of us today will shave between 6 to 18 months from the review time, all without impacting good design, Public Safety or neighborhood input. We want to turn the site permit back into a quick one page check list, simple and easy for everyone to follow. I want to thank the San Francisco Building Construction trades, rba, hotel council, bay area council, Chinese Chamber of commerce all for their support and endorsement of their legislation. I want to thank meta for review of the ordinance and comments along with many many architects, engineers, builders, both big and small who gave their input how we could reform this important process and we incorporated them into the final legislation in front of you today. Thank you colleagues. I look forward to your support. Thank you supervisor safai. No other names on the roster, same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item. Item 73 was recommended as Committee Report. An ordinance to amend the planning code to designate Parkside Branch library as landmark and affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house same call ordinance passes First Reading. Item 74 recommended as Committee Report. Recommended as amended with new title. Amend the planning code to facilitate residential uses downtown by authorizing the conversion of non residential uses to residential use in c commercial Zoning Districts and the additional part is affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you. I wanted to be added as a cosponsor to this item and like to express gratitude to president peskin and mayor office who made the original legislation possible. I appreciate you for accommodating my request to duplicate this file and add my requested amendment to spur more Residential Development in the transbay area. I appreciate everybodys work on this original file as well as the duplicate. Thanks. Thank you supervisor dorsey and once i understood it, thank you for offering it. Took me a couple weeks to figure it out. With that, same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item, please. Item 75, recommended as a Committee Report. Ordinance to amend the building and planning codes to create a temporary amnessty program for unpermitted awnings that streamline the application process to legalize awnings, wave Applicable Fees and confer legal non conforming status for awnings and signs that do not comply with the planning code and affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item, please. Item 36 recommendeditem 76 was recommended as a Committee Report and amended with the same title. It is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to provide that tenant occupied units in buildings that will be receiving either low Income Housing tax credits or tax exempt multifamily Revenue Bonds remain subject to rent ordinance as long as existing tenants continue to reside within the unit or unless all the tenants in the unit agree otherwise in writing and any such units previously exempt from the rent ordinance since 2018 and to restore to rent to the level allowed had the rent ordinance continuously applied. Supervisor ronen. Thank you. I just like to request to be added as cosponsor and want to thank supervisor preston for this legislation. Thank you. I believe supervisor melgar and i added our names yesterday, but thats not reflected because it came as a Committee Report, and supervisor dorsey. I would like to be added as a cosponsor as well. Record shall so reflect and seeing no other names on the roster, this ordinance is passed First Reading. Madam clerk, if you talk to us about the Public Safety and Neighborhood Service item. 77 was considered by the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee at regular meeting on thursday july 13, however it was not sent as Committee Report. Okay. Can you go to the items from the rules committee . Autom 7882 considered by the rules committee at regular meeting on monday july 17. Item 17 was recommended as amnlded amended with the same title. Amend the ordinance to modify disclaimer requirements for Campaign Advertisement to conform to a court order. Seeing no names on the roster, same house same call, item 78 passed First Reading. Next item, please. 79 recommended as Committee Report amended with the same title. Ordinance to approve Surveillance Technology policy for the Human Services agency use of social Media Management software. Same house same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item, please. Item 80 was not sent as Committee Report. Therefore, item 81. This item was recommended as aminded with a new title to strike the word, reject, 8 one reads a motion to approve the mayor nomination for the appointment of earl shaddock to building inspection commission. Same house same call, the motion is approved. Next item, please. 82 recommended as amended striking the word reject. Motion to approve the mayor nomination for appointment of Dena Williams to Homelessness Oversight Commission term ending may 1, 2025. Supervisor preston. Thank you president peskin and thanks to chair dorsey and rules committee for their consideration of this nomi nee yesterday. I have concerns about this nomination, especially based on mrs. Williams recent experience on the Government Relations team of the sf realtor association, which is regularly opposed solutions to homelessness here in San Francisco. Her comments at the rules committee yesterday regarding lack of experience, i believe her words were i cant say edge caughted educated on the topic and social media post that came to light yesterday the nominee last year encouraged opposition to rv sites. The nomination was just heard yesterday in rules committee, and unfortunately unlike many nominees that we are asked to support, this nominee did not reach out to our office regarding her appointment so we didnt have a chance to get any questions answered. I am trying to reserve judgment here, despite some concerns around things that have surfaced in the last day around this appointment. It is entirely possible that the nominee does not share some of the views of the San Francisco association of realtors on homelessness issues. It is also possible her views on Vehicle Triage Centers for unhoused folks and other comments about being opposed to or voicing opposition to Harm Reduction for example, it is entirely possible that her views have evolved, but for what is out there so far and what we have seen in both media reports, social media as well as advovoicates reaching out with concerns i think we would be well advised to not act on this today and instead take a week before voting on this to get more clarity regarding this nominees experience and perspective on homelessness before being seated on the Homelessness Oversight Commission. I would like to make a motion to continue this item for one week by which time i think our office and perhaps other supervisors can get any questions answered before we vote on this appointment. Thank you. Motion to continue the item one week. Is there a second for that motion . Second, supervisor ronen. Supervisor melgar. Thank you so much. I wasnt going to speak to the item but i feel compelled as i know dena very well. She is my constituent and count her as a friend and the vehicle triage site that was just mentioned is in my district and something that i have worked on with my staff and dena has actually supported. I do think the Good Practice nominees should meet with supervisors and thoroughly vetted and should be able to answer questions and i want to give dena the opportunity to do that because you will find her as lovely as i have. Dena is a active member of the Forest Hill Association past president of the indiscernible twin peak central council. Very supportive of my efforts to bring deeply affordable low Income Housing to district 7. I think we have in the past vetted and also put forward folks who have been in our full in their expressions on social media. Some of us in the room have done the same and i think that these are tricky things to navigate in a modern world. Like i said, i do think giving a week of opportunity to meet and vet is Good Government practice. I think that that is the role of the rules committee. This wasnti dont know what happened, but i do think it is a Good Practice to do that. And i hope supervisor that you do have the time to meet and ask those questions. As i said, the vehicle triage that is at issue here is one that i have worked on and spoken to dena about as well and if you have any questions for me later i would be happy to discuss it as well. Thank you. Thank you supervisor melgar. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you president peskin. I yes as a matter of courtesy comfortable giving additional week to talk to mrs. Williams. I will be supporting her and i think it is important that we have a diversity of perspective and viewpoints represented on this body. We certainly have on that body folks who are quite aggressive in their social Media Presence and i donti havent gone deeply through but think hers is a viewpoint and perspective that is good to have on the Homelessness Oversight Commission. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you president peskin. I did just want to reiterate something i mentioned at rules that i am going through a process of working with the community on a couple of permanent Supportive Housing projects in my district and the first time i have seen working with hsh on these, and that was where i really appreciated the wisdom of the policy makers who crafted this Oversight Commission in having a seat that is designated for someone with a record of participation and merchants or Small Business associations with neighborhood associations. One observation i have made is i think hsh should do more work working with neighborhoods to make this a little easier of a process, rather then coming in with projects. I did appreciate mrs. Williams commitment to me to go with me to some of the community meetings, so i am impressed with her, but i will doi do want to support a process that includes having the ability to meet with everybody, so happy to do that. Im very impressed with her and mostly want to just emphasize, this is a Oversight Commission by smart design should have neighborhood representation. I think hsh would be well served by it. Supervisor safai. Thank you president peskin. I was going to say i think we should move forward with this today, but if supervisor melgar wants to allow the process to continuei know that when i spoke with mrs. Aslanian she is out of town so why we put on the agenda today was her to accommodate her to be her, had questions and leaving town. Fine if people want to give her a call and do it via phone. I will say and want to say this because i have gotten calls as the creator of this ballot measure and this commission, i think by design we will have people that will have pretty different views and approaches and i are think thats intentional. That was why we did what we did. I got calls about other individuals that we affirmatively aopponented to this board, both for their social media posts and some of their positions and we stood strong. I think at the end of the day the makeup right now is a pretty well balanced makeup and i think mrs. Aslanian will bring a new perspective and you quoted correctly, she comes in with a big heart and wonderful experience, but she isnt a expert in the field. That isnt the intention of the seat. The intention of the seat is have someone that brings a certain level of perspective and i think we heard that in committee yesterday, so i felt very comfortable at the end of the day. We had conversation about safe parking i keep deeply about and talked about that in committee and know every neighborhood in the city needs to share in those type of responsibilities. Anyway, if it is the will of the body to continue, fine, if not, i am happy to vote on this today because i would like to see the commission have the full complement of all the members. It has been without this position since the failed proposal for the seat for the person initially proposed and now we have i think someone that is qualified and ready to go. Anyway, i differ to the rest of the body, but happy to vote on this today. Supervisor stefani. Thank you president peskin. I am ready to vote on this today as well, but i differ to my colleagues if they need another week. That hasnt always happened in the past for other people, but i will vote to continue it and i want to appreciate supervisor melgars comments by mrs. Williams who i know very well and i think she is a incredible person, incredible san franciscans, cares deeply about everyone, and i hope that others get a chance to know her better, because i think she would be great for this board and i really hope that next week she will have the votes to get through and like i said, im ready to vote on this today, but if people need another week, happy to vote in that regard in that way. Thanks. Thank you supervisor stefani. Colleagues it would seem based oen the words i have heard uttered by many of you that i can say without objection this item will be continued for one week, and nobody is nodding their heads in the negative, so that will be the order. The motion is to continue is approved. Madam clerk, roll call for introductions. Yes. For that item to july 25, for the record. Correct. First introduce new business is supervisor walton. Thank you so much madam clerk. Colleagues, today along with supervisor chan i introducing a resolution urging city contractors that have participated or profited from slave trade to make voluntary contributions to ameliorate the legacy of slavery as part of the work on reparations. In 2006 the San Francisco board of supervisors passed an ordinance requiring city contractors providing insurance and Insurance Service Financial Service or textiles to the city to disclose any participation in the slave trade. Thank you supervisor chan for working on this when you were in a aid to supervisor maxwell. The ordinance also created an account for contractors subject to the ordinance to make voluntary contributions and required that monies donated to this account use to Fund Economic development and are Educational Initiatives designed to ameal urate the effects of slaverry upon the resident of San Francisco. As i understand, no one crawlenitarily contradicted so far. This ties into the work on reparations and reparations and Advisory Committee recently released. This is timely to urge contractors or predecessor firms who profited or participated in slavery to contribute to this fund to emealierate the effect of slavery. I like to thank supervisor chan and her aid kelly gross to initiate the resolution and nely gee incorporating the work we have done on reparation. Also introducing resolution encouraging interested parties to negotiate and purchase Anchor Brewing Company a historical staple of San Francisco, particularly in district 10 for over 127 years. It is a travesty for this community and for the city and for the bay area for this to be shutting down. All of us were blindsiding by soporos actions last week and unfortunate they did not notify the city or employees. The closing of anchor is bad for everyone involved. We are in contract with anchor management, office of economic and Workforce Development and International Long shore and Warehouse Union local 10 which represents over 40 employees for further discussion on the future of anchor brewing. Since the announcement last week that the brewery will cease operations we heard from management approximately 2 dozen investors, individuals and companies have expressed interest in some part of anchor brewing. My hope is who ever is able to take the legacy of Anchor Brewing Company and keep it to insure that our current anchor workers keep their job under new management. Many current anchor workers dedicated lives working at the brewery. Commit to preserving space and zoning at anchor brewing located at mariposa and indiscernible as production distribution and repair and of course my office will fight very hard to make sure this stays the case. Uses are limited in the city but contribute a lot to the city economy so it is important we do our Due Diligence in preserving them. Next week well honor the workers of anchor brewing at the full Board Meeting and i hope our community can join us. Lastly, colleagues introducing a letter of inquiry today to our treasurer and Tax Collector jose cisnaros because of the closeier of several banks eect ifing the community. We are deeply concerned in district 10, Bayview Hunter point the Bank Closures will have on the residents and Financial Wellbeing and access to essential Banking Services. We request information on the following matters one, the number of banks that closed in zip codes 94107, 94124 and 94134 within the past 10 years compared across the sit a e. Two, the reason behinds the Bank Closures as understanding the causes will help us formulate strategy and measures to address the situation effectively. Three, recommendations or potential actions that the community along with the assistance of my office can undertake to eleaveiate the adverse impact of the closures and insure adequate Banking Service are available to our residents. Im committed working collaboratively with cityficials and Community Stakeholders to address this issue and find viable solutions. We believe preserving access it Banking Service is vital for the prosperity and wellbeing of residents of district 10 and city at large and also why it is imperative we have our own public bank. We appreciate your attention to this matter and the important concern and look forward receiving the requested information. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor walton. Supervisor chan. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you madam clerk. Colleagues, as sometimes happens in american politics, those of us in elected office can face enormous political pressure from interest and my case i seem to have fallen push to taylor swift lobby represented by majority of legislative staff to introduce declaring july 28 and 29 taylor swift weekday in city county of San Francisco. Im more a billy ilish girl but agreed to request and informed it is National Trend among political figures are to infuse their taylor swift relating public statements with lyrics from taylor swift songs. This was well documented at a new York Magazine feature story entitled politicians i add my indiscernible with the statement prepared for me to introduce the resolution. Dont blame me this is the work of 4 swifties in my office i committed to be fearless, before august slips away i ask you to drop everything now, with one more Board Meeting left i must speak now on the resolution declaring july 28 and 29 taylor swift weekday. Taylor swift is Music Industry icon and advocate for change, once in a generation talent who captivated people. She sets records to the moon and saturn. Long story short, the indiscernible brought sizable tourism dollars where it slowly lerchs towards city. Federal reserve contributed ms. Swift to much needing Economic Activity nation wide. The story of us and indiscernible but i want you to take a moment and promise me this, by supporting a resolution celebrating the happiness of the cultural events, the concert takes place in the south, there is invezable string tying levi stadium to San Francisco as the supervisor representing district known for many Tourist Destination i know places that welcome the foot traffic and business the weekday will bring, including a dive bar or two. Encourage to jump on a train and not ride off alone. Well do our part to avoid trains that are not coming and if not trains see you at the bus stop. Lets not make this a cruel summer but sparks fly and in a state of grace. I initially considered the request tresherous my staff shared stories welcoming ms. Swift. This was worthwhile. I urge skeptics to shake it off and avoidbed blood. You are forever and always welcome in San Francisco and invite you to visit the amazing city of ours. It is unbelievable beautiful place in this world. Welcome to the bay bearia and San Francisco, it is waiting for you. The isis well loved and popular cultural funomnomand hope i can count on yoir support. I want to thank my Office Madison tam and two interns indiscernible . They all did excellent work preparing the resolution and me for the introduction today and having done my part carrying water for big taylor. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor dorsey. That was fun. Supervisor engardio. Colleagues, i like to adjourn todays meetsing in memory of benny yee. He was a legend of the sunset. Most known as uncle bennies doneings on irving street but so much more then a done utshops. It serves as town square, where the community gathers. Can police officers, police recruits, workers of all trades gathered for many years. Benny live said to 91. Impact goes back decades and will continue. Instrumental in the merchant association. He served the public since Diane Feinstein was mayor. Commissioner of the redevelopment agency, special advisor to mayor edlee and part of mayor breed transition team. Active in the chinese community. Advisor of Chinese Benevolent Association and yee fung toy family association. Survived by wife als and daughters care line and cecilia. Made sure everyone felt welcomed. It was and continue to be a place for Community Gathering thank s to benny yee, and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor engardio. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor melgar. Thank you madam clerk. Today i am introducing a resolution to accept the ocean Avenue Association annual report for fiscal year 2122 as well as hearing request on the audit, included in that report. Over the past several years the oaa, ocean Avenue Community Business District had multiple challenges, which are identified in the audit, so i look forward to hearing from the Controllers Office, the oaa, oewd regarding these challenges as well as recommendations presented to insure that the oaa can serve ocean avenue corridor is and Small Businesses for years to come. Thank you supervisor safai for early cosponsorship and collaboration making progress on this important corridor. The second thing im doing, requesting a budget and legislative Analyst Report to create a report that analyzing the exnomic contributions of immigrants from Central America with emphasis on women to the local economy through buying power, creation of jobs, through starting businesses and the fulfillment of jobs in the workforce, including but not limited to the Service Industry, hospitality, child care, home healthcare, restaurants and the food industry, construction, and the trades. The study should cover the multiplying impact one worker can have in terms of dollars impact and the creation of opportunities for other workers. Recently there has been a growing attempt by some to attack Central Americans and through a narrative that blame hon durs for the fentanyl crisis. Folked on the community and context of it drug trades and created the perception among those that are ignorant or familiar with the community all hondurens are drug dealer jz getting rich and building mansions off the pain of san franciscans. Imagine if we refer to the gay or the chinese or the jews in terms of the members of our community. We dont do that anymore colleagues, but we did this in this series, or they did. Every ethnicity or nationality has individuals that engage in criminal activities including the United States of america. To focus on a nationality and concentration the solution on stripping folks of due process and civil rights follows the play book used by the German Government starting in 1935 and counter to our San Francisco values. So, i would like this analyst fromanalysis from budget and legislative analyst to have a educated and balanced policy conversation about the effect that these attacks have on a whole group of people on the Central American community and on our recovering economy in San Francisco as opposed to individuals. First let me tell you about honduras because many have not been there. A country with population of near ly 10 million people. The per capita income was 6759. Measures income and equality is among the highest in the world at 52, meaning hondur ans have very poor and very rich people. Abortion is illegal in honduras. Access to Birth Control is difficult for the young and poor especially and the person featured in the chronicle sears pregnant at age indiscernible widespread. Before the spanish coninalization was part of the myan empire. Spanning to el salvador andmy ancestors are inca and still live in those lands. The post is populated indiscernible who escaped slavery and indiscernible caribbean islands who settled on the coast of honduras indiscernible it is popular with american tourist because of the pristine beaches, breath taking snorkeling and vibrant rich culture. Suffered from u. S. Aggression and political instability. Without going into hundreds of years of history of colonialism and impression, i want to focus on the last period of instubble that lead to immigrate to the u. S. And San Francisco. indiscernible president from 2006 to 2009 ousted by a indiscernible army after raising the minimum wage and redistributing indiscernible poured to other countries including the u. S. Accelerating a trends underway due to poverty and Climate Change induced drought. The greatest concentration of immigrant indiscernible as they known call themselves, is actually in new orleans. Construction workers after hurricane katrina. After the hurricane but also transformed the cultural of the city by adding indiscernible to the menu and indiscernible to the big easy beats. In San Francisco, immigrants work in our number 1 industry, hospitality. Cleaning our hotel rooms, serving our food. They are our cooks, dish washers delivery people essential workers. They makes up a large part of the laborers and construction workers building Affordable Housing, building housing. Our landscapers, gardeners cultivate and pick our food. Women in particular take care of our children and elders. Central american sits on the bord of supervisors for thest first time every in San Francisco. We depend on hondurens to make the economy work. We treat them poorly, we pay them poorly. The tech and Financial Industries could not operate without these essential workers. We are throwing them under the bus. Blaming them for our collective failure to deal with the fentanyl crisis oen the streets. I look forward to the report and plan on holding a hearing whether that report comes out. I want to thank cosponsors for this request, supervisor connie chan and Hillary Ronen and the support and collaboration of indiscernible at the Central American referue center and indiscernible the rest i submit. Thauj. Thank you. Thank you supervisor melgar. Supervisor peskin. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor preston. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor ronen. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor safai. Thank you colleagues. We have item 88 today but i wanted to take a moment because we have both the members from adult probation and juvenile probation here with us today. Want to give them the opportunity during Public Comment to say a couple words. In honor of Probation Service week, july 16july 22 and introduce resolution to acknowledge San Francisco probation officers and professionals. Many are here today. In San Francisco unlike many counties in california, we have two departments. The Adult Probation Department reached out to our office and the board about honoring these employees, and our office added juvenile probation employees as well. In line with many of what supervisor peskin and others asked to honor the good work people in our city are doing. We wanted to bring them here today so Probation Service is a alternative to incarceration. At best probation reduces recidivism, provides support and resources for justice involved individuals to reenter society. I can just say from my own experience working to set up the first trp working with adult probation, it has been wildly successful. It is a therapeutic community. Formally incourseerated individuals that recovered from addictions that are helping other individuals recover from addictions in a therapeutic supportive environment. That model now has been expanded. We added more money to the budget to do more work and think well get an additional location from the success, so i want to thank adult probation and juvenile probation for the tremendous work they have done working with our young adults and helping them turn their lives around. I know we have folks in the chamber today. I wanted to ask them to stand and be recognized. They willsomeone will speak during Public Comment, but if there the folks from adult and juvenile probation if they can stand and be recognized, that would be great. [applause] thank you all for your amazing work and i know we are just about to go to Public Comment shortly. I know a couple of you will speak, but thank you again for everything. Thank you supervisor safai for that acknowledgment. Thank you supervisor safai. Supervisor stefani. Submit. Thank you. Seeing no names on the roster, mr. President that is the end of new business. Lets go to Public Comment starting with our folks from adult probation. Chief tulic, you are welcome to the podium and speak on behalf of your commission. Come on up chief. Director winesteen taylor swift quotes, without success, texting my 20 year old. Hi, everybody. Im chief miller from juvenile probation, because we are in fact unique and having two probation departments here in San Francisco. I wanted to speak really quickly and express my gratitude to my colleagues at jpd who are watching us remotely right now. Our job as juvenile probation is work with kids and increasingly young adults throughout their involvement in the juvenile Justice System from the very beginning to the very end. We support and supervise at home and in community that is most of the kids we work with, but we also care for those who cant go home, whether they are with us briefly or in some cases for a long time. We do this in partnership with their families and Community Organizations and with our government partners and we do it to celebrate success and address their hard moments, and really fundamentally to help forge connections for them that would and should outlast their time with us. That is the crux of our work. It is really hard work and are requires committed hearts and minds. It requires training and experience and it is a lot of unpredictable days and long hours and i want to note that. Lately particularly for memberoffs the staff who work in juvenile hall. And it is something that requires being dynamic. This is a time when our Justice System is changing a lot. The time when we want it to change a lot and so requires that willingness and appetite for staff the same way our kids are in a super dynamic points in their lives. I want to thank everybody i work with at probation and thank you for acknowledging this. I 3 and a half years into my time at probation and working in this field and constantly humbled and learning things from the men and women i work with every day, so thank you for joining us in the celebration of Probation Services week. Thank you. Hi, tommy bains, assistants chief of adult probation and i want to just let you know how deeply honored and appreciative i am of being recognized for this department. We have such dedicated and committed professionals and every day i get tothey remind me of why i joined this work and work in this particular field over the last few decades. With that said, i will make room for our chief to talk. Good afternoon supervisors and special thank you to supervisor melgar and supervisor dorsey and especially supervisor stefani, and supervisor safai. Thank you so much for your partnership and leadership and your honesty and your directness. Adult probation, what we do in probation is truly bring balance to social work, social justice, and Law Enforcement. I am so incredibly proud to stand here with you today. Some of the members of our department who truly bring the rich and meaningful connection to our clients to help them restore their lives, and so you see me before, but you havent seen them so ill give them a opportunity to address you, but thank you so much for your partnership and leadership. Thank you chief. Come on up. Good afternoon. My name is Chancy Robinson a director at the San Francisco Adult Probation Department. This is a honor to be here. A native of San Francisco, so im really honored to work in the city and county and be acknowledged by the board of supervisor s. Never thought i would be speaking in frupt of you today. I want to acknowledge avenue wn in our staff. Everyone from the clerk to probation assistants, admin team, it who help keep us afloat and acknowledge deputy and supervisor probation officers. They work daily to make sure when a judge places someone on probation that the orders are enforced and more then often develop relationships with the clients they supervise and often times the relationships help stay out of trouble and hopefully out of the criminal Justice System. A lot of hard work, but we have very dedicated staff. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. My name is vick williams. San francisco adult probation. I just want to go over a few things. I have been in the probation field for roughly 20 years. Been with adult probation over a decade and highlight a few things fun to me about working in this field. Probation is not only a integral part of community, it is the community. We adopted schools, we adopted bayview, kid Bayview Academy and work with them for over the semester. We have work hand in hand with the youth. We serve lunches and work during recess and have a opportunity to educate them and interact with them what we do at probation and the goal is to just really create positive memories with Law Enforcement and starts relationships early. We also done things around the holidays where we partnered with giving tree and we supply clients and families with gifts, and let me tell you, the appreciation and joy we see on the family faces is truly heart felt and recharges the staff and emphasize our purpose and what we do in the community. Finally, i want to talk about our Fatherhood Program. We developed and started a Fatherhood Program and work with criminally involved men and work with them about celebrating fatherhood, wuck with getting resource s and learning the barriers about being a father in the criminal Justice System. Finally, as mentioned earlier are, i want to say probation is not only a part of the community, it is the community. Our vast unique workforce is mirrors the diverse population here in San Francisco. We got diversity and cultural throughout the department and just want to thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Thanks. Good afternoon. My name is indiscernible Adult Probation Department. Im very thankful to work for San Francisco under chief tuloc. A little about myself, i grew up here in San Francisco. In fact, my family and i lived in the heart of the tenderloin for many many many years in a small apartment complex and im a product of success that when you put things together, you got the proper guidance and support you can do anything and thats one thing i want to tell the kids growing up in tenderloin. You could be anybody you want to be and you could be successful. That im very grateful for everyone and grateful for San Francisco and i look forward to giving back to the city. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the team would like to address the board . Good afternoon. My name is adela martinez, a supervisor at the Adult Probation Department and work frd the department 16 years. As said, born and raised in San Francisco from the Mission District and just super proud to be erhoo. Thank you for the acknowledgment. We all work tirelessly to be a part of this steady community and we want to keep the public safe, we want to give back to our community and we really care about what we do so thank you for the acknowledgment. Thank you to my colleagues as well and the chief tuloc and chief bains for bringing us together today. Thank you. Thank you. If there are other members of the public who would like to speak during Public Comment, if you line up to your right good afternoon. My name is art follow. I have been with the Department Since 1989. That is 34 years with the San Francisco Adult Probation Department. I have on some occasions met some of you, and i am very grateful and thankful that you have given our department and my colleagues here and my teammates the opportunity to continue to do the hard work that weve done since i have been here with the department. We do truly change lives and your support has helped us to change the lives of a lot of folks here in San Francisco and i thank you for giving us that opportunity and platform to do that. Thank you very much and have a good day. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon board of supervisors. Chris cline and wanted to share a few things about San Francisco. I have over 25 years of investigative experience having worked with city state and federal Law Enforcement to include the doj, secret service and postal investigators. Also located individuals missing kids and adult. I took Public Health class to figure in and out of digital surveillance. We are on pace for 808 overdoses in San Francisco while grant cofax placed a high level official to use the surveillance to cheat at softball. Really board of supervisors . The same conduct happened in pool leagues where a few people with these credentials are cheating for politics and donations. All this while the assistant chief of place, david lazar and or the mayor used the credentials to alter Police Report detailing illegal usage of the technology to cause illness and injury. Just like what happened in boston the mayor givers a list of paper who makes statements against her to attempt to discredit them or silence them. Please restore the faith in Public Health and safety and not time to think what to do, it is time to remove the individuals using this technology as our city and county falls apart. We can no longer tolerate the corruption in the city in fear of a few taking benefits housing our income away simply for speaking the truth or worse, allowing Public Health to give false diagnosis and false symptoms to discredit people and or silence them. Earlier i gave president peskin documents. I will be forwarding those to the rest of the board. It is time for each of you to act. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. My name is indiscernible many of you might remember me from last week. I was present at there event and stayed to 230 in the morning when the last child was taken to processing. Im here to impart the 79 out of 81 or 81 out of 83 charges for the miners. I have been contact with many of the families. I have spoken with many arrested. One kid who is 18 he is going away to school brilliant brilliant young black man, first time interacting with any Law Enforcement. His first day of school out of state is his Court Appearance date here. Im asking you to speak up and use your voices to have the charges against the adults all most all are 18 or 19 dropped and as a therapist myself the repair process starts with at least acknowledgment, many of you havemost of you havent made acknowledgment or that starts with like not admission of guilt, but im sorry this happen today you and will give up time if some want to say just im sorry. The world is watching. It doesntwe are not allowed to respond during Public Comment. I encourage and ask you then to make some type of nonadmission of guilt but some type of an apology or acknowledgment that what happened was wrong. It was wrong. I was present. It was wrong. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Good afternoon everybody. Sure most know who i am. Introduce myself, matt sutter a purchaser of the medallion system for taxies so i want to introduce myself to melgar, chan, engardio and dorsey. This has been just a absolute money grab by San Francisco. We all know it is. I know majority of you in the bottom of your hearts really believe that we deserve a buy back but we are getting nothing. Supervisor peskin tried to get the bank and mta together. We are getting no where, no answers and now the puc will vote on the atoninous vehicle and they did nothing to regulate. What are we go ing to do guys . Are we just going to sit here and let San Francisco steal 63 million from the cab drivers . I signed that paper and honoring that paper. But we do deserve something back. There is a lot of families involved. People put up their homes and kids College Tuitions and it is shame you say you cant do anything. What are we doing here then . If you guys are ignornt to whats going on, please ask some of your coworkers and we appreciate everything you can do for us. Thank you for your comments. Good afternoon. My name is indiscernible im speaking on behalf of medallion holders. What about the reason behind medallion sale . indiscernible taxi medallions are indiscernible what a despicable discrimination. It is very depressing. We lost everything and we work tirelessly. Why the company have achieved so much . indiscernible it is not a material fulfillment indiscernible enjoying the perks. We express indiscernible you specifically target taxi drivers. Stop butchering us with ride share. indiscernible we cannot sustain in taxi business. 400 taxi medallions have been foreclosed and more will go in foreclosing. Why your problems are taxi drivers problems. Taxi driver problems are not your problems. Why dont you understand the situation and give our money back. We sit here indiscernible if you want us to stay in taxi business you have to ban ride share, otherwise we cant survive or give us money back. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker. Hello. My name is roberto and coming here because i have the same problem with taxi medallion issue. I bought my medallion in 2010 and promisedi was a taxi driver before and paying just rent for the taxi. There were no uber or lyft and we were taking care of the business. Later on they say you want to make money real money then buy medallions, 250 thousand. They offered to me and indiscernible so, anyway, indiscernible they promised us 2500 a month and then i had a loan for 1300 a month and i have to work because they had rules and regulations and had to work twice a week and these two days i work i am not able to do everything and it will be nice for us. Something that is going to happen is my retirement going to come soon and have a good life. Anyway, later on came uber and then took all the indiscernible 2500 a month was getting every month, he went down to 400, so i bought my car and got my permit and start working by myself and until now. Since then and i start driving i make only 150, 200 a day and just to pay the bill s and working like 16 or 18 hours a day. Im glad the city is doing well because we have plenty of Public Transportation, but we are the only ones who pay 250 thousand and the rest, uber, lyft, black cars and anybody who has a license and a car can go and pick up somebody. Im a taxi driver and they charge for me is terrible. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi. Same problem with my fellow cabbies that we follow the regulation by the San Francisco government and we dont do any indiscernible we dont mistake, we follow and trust you guys, but sinsh nobody want to buy our medallion and nobody go toog buy this medallion, why have to pay everything month, which we earn very very hard money. We work like 60, 80 hours. We have a lot from the families and we just deent see the families. We get home at 2 a. M. And have to live 6, 7 in the morning. We sleep while we wait. That is unfair. Please, you know what to do, you can do it, you have it power to do. Please do something for us. We really really requestdeeply request, because we see many fellow drivers pass away while they are wait for the airport. You can see that. 6 or 7 or 8 drivers die inside the car at the airport. It is really unfair. Please, you know what to do, you can do it. Please do it immediately, because now we dont have tourist. We dont have convention. Since we have a lot of problem. You all know on the social media. Please do something for us. Thank you for your comments. Before the next speaker, anyone here in the chamber who wds would like to address the board please line up to your right. Welcome. Good afternoon supervisors. Fellow san franciscans. My name is honest charley bodkin, a district 5 resident and concerned citizen. The recent decision to consider reduction in funds for the San Francisco Marin Food Bank as part of the 2425 budget struck a cord of deep concern within me. Many others in the city. The food bank has been and continues to be im interrupting your time. I will pause it. The budget is currently before the board of supervisors and are that matter is a part of the budget. It has already had the Public Comment fulfilled. It is not eligible for you to speak about today. Sorry. You will be voting on it next week, correct . They will vote next week. The same thing, you wont be able to speak about it during Public Comment as it had multiple opportunities during committee for Public Comment. Okay. Thank you. Different stage now. Okay. Can i provide general Public Comment . Sure. Speak about general matters. indiscernible sir we passed the points in the agenda. I believe that it is the government responsibility to provide the bear necessities of life to people and one in four san franciscans are at risk for hunger and it is our job, your job as Public Servants to do more. Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Lets hear from the next speaker. If this is the last speaker well head to the remote system next. Welcome. Go right ahead. First, im glad formula retail is staging return instead of incrementally phased out due to legislative glitch as much as possible. It is better indiscernible drives urban decay. It is far too much to micro manage the city economy. Asked many years ago to introduce Barbara Boxer while she was senator. I decided i rather work the spotlight on to the stage and hand address the envelopes containing the invitations we mailed to fillen thopical foundations. I addressed a small pet peeth affthe same time by simply moving the zip code up one line where it is at present. I corrected an archaic format and 45 minutes of free handwriting. indiscernible philanthropic foundations are agencies of change. Something to keep in mind next year. Thank you. Good evening. indiscernible im going to finish what i couldnt finish last time. What i said to the Ethics Commission. I stated what i already stated in front of you. Yes, dont forget you cant fake beauty. The first thing is to remember that it excludes indiscernible it makes you indiscernible welcome the aspiration for beauty. We dont define beauty. Happiness comes from that, otherwise you cant be happy and if you fight against it, you are unhappy. Now you know it. For you technology again, sorry, it is the way it is. Things to exclude. Qr codes. Anything that is not convenience anymore. It is bunch of stuff here in technology, which is beyond convenience. It becomes a way to enslave us. We are taking about slavery earlier, physical slavery, now it will be the slavery of the soul. Be aware, it is coming. We have to fight it. The last thing, i will be specific here. We need to serve the indiscernible please try your best, it is important. Because it is your district. indiscernible other then that, thats it. Okay. It is pretty good. Good vibe. Stay focused, please. Is that okay . Nobody will stop me . Thank you terry. Welcome. Salutations. Appreciate if you can take a peak at this video here. No audio is necessary. Ill play it again. Pull that microphone down. Im beginning your time now. Alright. Basically, of course hopefully you saw it. If you didnt see it, lets try this picture. You have an urban alchemy worker Walking Around with a machete, but before he branished it on a person he had it stuck in his pants ck that is illegal. So, when do you start some type of Accountability Measures for urban alchemy and private security . I mean, aaron peskin, you said it was your job. Aaron peskin, you said it was your job to make sure the government runs right, whatever to hold to make San Francisco safe. Does this look safe . And you know the hiring pool is mostly felons, but wait, theres more. Lets see heretrying to get to the other picture. Lets try this. So, this is a urban alchemy worker with a ski mask and wearing camouflage. What type of psychological profile is that . You walk around with ski mask, refuse to identify. When i asked they said the person that is going to come kick my ass. That is in my other you tube video. This is your group that you are funding. Do i get any type of response as to do you ever have any type of Oversight Committees or panels to hold these people accountable . Thank you. Just remember to address your comments to the board as a whole. Sir, if you stick around. We are close to the end of the Board Meeting i would like to visit with you. Any other members of the public in the audience who like to address the board during general Public Comment . Seeing none, we will head to the remote callin system. Do we have a caller in the queue, please . Welcome to our first caller. Hello. My name is indiscernible with San Francisco taxi workers alliance. Calling to support the men and women who have purchased the medallion and still struggling to pay for it. After all these years ask you, why after so long you have still done nothing. The last medallion was sold in 2016 and it was already obvious there was a great problem by them. Sending out letters to drives like me to congratulate to be eligible to buy medallion. It was trying to make it easier to buy a medallion, even though all the signs were already there that the system was collapsing. indiscernible first medallion that was foreclosed that could not be resold happened and the end of 2016, nearly 80 in 2017 and 2018, and then came covid and the medallion holders got a mere two months of relief from their loans and there was a tsunami of foreclosures all most 104 months. This is a tragedy ignored for far far too long and i call on you to roll up your sleeves and stop indiscernible and try to do something to help with this medallion crisis. Thank you. Thank you evelyn ingle for your comments. Next speaker, please. Great. David pillpel. Can you hear me okay . Yes, we can. Welcome. Great. Thank you. Nice to see charles pits live and in person. I hope hes doing okay. It is great to see him. Brief comment on item 85 coming up after this portion of the agenda on supporting sb532 wiener. I think this item should be sent to committee, all though it would provide funding for mta for transit purposes, it does so at the expense of those who cross the bay bridge and the other bay area toll bridges. It proports to have language about equity without a plan in place and i think it warrants some policy level discussion at a Board Committee and i encourage at least one of you to ask that it be severed and sent to committee, all though you certainly can legally approve it today and support it on the adoption without Committee Reference calendar. That is my comment for today. Thanks for listening. Thank you for your comments. Lets go to the next speaker, please. I think there are 4 callers in the queue and 5 listening. Hello. Good afternoon. This is berry toronto calling to support the purchase medallion holders that showed up today. Obviously if you know notice they are coming back to speak to you because the airport isnt as lucrative as you think it should be. A lot of cab drivers are getting more of the less lucrative short rides because hotels are not providing shuttles for the guests or only during limited hours and also the uber lyft drivers are charging way too much for those short rides or not enough so they are not accepting them. The thing is, obviously we need debt relief for these guys. You need to figure how to get debt relief and some other topics, it was great wording about taylor swift using all the song titles, but should applaud all the people who showed up for the three concerts this weekday at oracle park. It was a very very lucrative weekday for a lot of businesses including taxi drivers, accept for the black suvs you got to help support because the Taxi Division refused to get taxi investigators out there keeping them out of the taxi zones and soliciting unknowing people thinking they were getting a safe ride. A lot of people know that and did not take them, but it was a problem so urge you to help with that. Raising the bridge toll may have unintended consequence that could hurt the city rather then help it because a lot of people come to work from the east bay in San Francisco because they cant afford to live in San Francisco, but the thing is, it would be great if you actually made sure there was some time of relief for those people. I think it is a mistake to approve thank you for your comments. Lets hear from the next caller, please. Yes. Everybody is on mute and i dont want to hear anybody breathing. This is San Francisco and i can say anything i want so this is for communitythe First Amendment gives the right to say anything you want so you can use profanity. You can say whatever the hell he wants. Had a problem with the event indiscernible we should never have that again. Arrangements need to be made. If you know there is an event going down you need to make it with the event holders. You cant do that. Have cops out there indiscernible thats a huge huge problem and a huge problem for citizens natives like my self because we support the police department. Those ride share is supported by us if you didnt know. Ccw, we need to get the applications processed. It is Second Amendment right the Supreme Court ruled these individuals applied for ccw to protect themselves. It isnt an offensive measure, it is defensive measure so we dont want to go up against resistance on this and throw down profanities or anything like that, just indiscernible they need them. indiscernible 29 homicides and 13 assaults. It is on the police escort. Not pulling the numbers out. And then we got to make the minutes and captions are right. Over and over again, i dont know what the clerk is doing, but get the notes right. The whole city can file a lawsuit because you are a moron and idiot. What are you doing . You got to get this right. Finally, we talk about the fentanyl crisis, 110 thousand people died in the u. S. Last year because of fentanyl and those numbers are increasing this year. It is a Public Health crisis. indiscernible did this and thank you for your comments. Do we have another caller in the queue, please . Yes, thank you. I wanted to thank supervisor walton for bringing to light the all most loss of 127 year legacy business for San Francisco, and i wanted to say that we all know our city has vast wealth and every one of you in the room, every single supervisor should be on board trying to find a way to make lemonaid out of lemons, take about the anchor stream brewery from a international comglomerate, pull together some band aid funders and keep that brewery alive. If we dont start doing that, keeping our 127, hundred year old legacy businesses, there will be no San Francisco. There will be bag dad by the bay. It will be a hodgepodge of new stuff, so thank you supervisor walton and everyone of you in that room, please get on board and do something to help them. Actually, im a d1 resident, thank you connie chan for your work on the budget. Thank you for your commentss. I believe that is our last caller, mr. President. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, could you please read the adoption without Committee Reference calendar . Yes, item 8590, introduced for adoption without reference to committee. Unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on First Reading to go to committee. Would any member like a item or item served . Supervisor walton. I like to sendsorry, item 85. Item 85. Supervisor safai. Just would like to be added as cosponsor to 86. Okay. On the balance of the calendar, items 8690 a roll call, please. 8690 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Those resolutions are adopted and motions approved. Item 85. 85 is resolution to support California State Senate bill number 532. Enabling the San Francisco bay area to raise funds to prevent a medium term Public Transportation shortfall while requiring transportation safety. Supervisor walton. You want to talk . I think you severed, so thank you president peskin. I want to send item 85 to committee. I am reluctantly in support of this bill, but it definitely warrants conversation in Committee Due to negative impacts on low income communities, communities of color, and people who are struggling. I voted to support the bill and think that communities should have a opportunity to learn more about the effects of this bill. Supervisor walton. Supervisor mandelman. I would of course prefer to have us take action on this. I think to the extent all is action at the state level on this bill, it is likely to happen between now and when we get this back coming from committee. In some sense it may not matter that much as the board already signed on in support of the alter ego at the Transportation Authority. I guess i would be curious what the expectation of the committee of the board would be in terms of what might be presented at a Committee Hearing on this assuming it is still alive when we come back in september . Supervisor walton. That can be discussed in committee. Supervisor chan. Thank you president peskin. Just as supervisor mandelman stated, our alter ego, which is Transportation Authority voted against that resolution recommended by cta staff to support the bridge toll increase. I will continue to be not in support of the bridge toll increase. Seeing how i think the San Francisco chronicle reported as well that even our local economist ted egeen from Controller Office the increase of bridge toll could impact recovery of downtown and i also concur with supervisor waltons indication that it does seeing that a lot of essential workers do come through to San Francisco really not just through Public Transportation but time to time again through driving as well, bridge toll is going to be burdensum financially for many. Thank you. Item referred to committee. Land use committee . Yes. Land use and Transportation Committee. We were just saying for short. Please read the in memoria. For the late benny yee. We are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] im connie chan district one supervisor and welcome to the richmond. Im an immigrant and came to San Francisco china town when i was 13 years old with my mom and brother. My first job is at the Community Organizer for Public Safety with San Francisco state. And land in the city hall and became a legislative aid to sophie maxwell. Went through city departments when Kamala Harris was our District Attorney im proud to represent the richmondad district supervisor. [music] we have great neighborhood commercial corridors that need to be protected. The reason why we launched the neighborhood business for supporting the [inaudible] for 15 years special more. We have the Legacy Business Program the business around for 30 years or more and thought, you know, we gotta make sure the next generation contains for generations to come. Am im ruth the owner of hamburger haven we came back on july 11. We were opened in 1968 at that time i believe one of the owners of mestart today went through a guy named andy in the early 70s and my father took it mid 70s. Originally was just a burger joint. Open late nights. Then it changed over the years and became the breakfast staple. We specialize in breakfast, brunch come lunch now. I love this neighborhood. I grew up here. And it feels like home. I walk down the block and recognize people of people say hello. You say hello you talk and joke. Has that familiar environment that is enjoyable and i have not experienced anywhere else. There are many things i would like to see improve ams the things we might see are making sure that our tenants stay housed our Small Business in tact and those are the solutions that will contain to push to make sure that you know our communities can take root, stay and thrive. Im proud of you know, welcoming folks to the richmond. Everyone loch its we got Farmers Market every sunday there. The you see really business at the noaa. Ice cream at toy folks and going to chop for book like green apple. And thats when you like the deal is pizza place haall families love. You will see a lot of great chinese shops that is readily available for everyone. And that is just thein are richmond there is more to do in the richmond. What is love is the theatre. I mean adam and with my wife jamie, own Little Company called cinema sf we operate the balboa theatre. The vocabularying theatre on sacramento and soon the 4 star on clement. Balboa theatre opened in 1926 and servicing this Outer Richmond neighborhood since then. And close on the heels the 4 star opens since 1913. When you come in to a movie theatre, the rest of the world has to be left behind. But you get e mersed in the world that is film makers made for you. That is a special experience to very much we can all think of the movies that we saw in the big screen of with everybody screaming or laughing or crying. It is a shared Human Experience that you get when you go in to places that are gatherings and artist presented to you. A shared experience is the most precious. And the popcorn. [laughter]. At the balboa especially, we stroif to have movies for people of every generation from the pop corn palace movies on the weekend mornings, for families and kids. This is for everybody of all ages. What is great about the richmond is it is a neighborhood of the immigrants. Belongs to immigrants not ap i immigrants you will see that there are also a Huge Population of rush wrans and ukrainian immigrants they stay united you am see that the support they lend to each other as a community. And cinderella bakery is another legacy business. If you go on the website it is known as a russian bakery. The first thing you see their pledge to support the ukrainian community. You will see the unity in the richmond im so proud of our immigrant community in the rich monthed. My dad immigrate friday iran the reason he stayed was because of the restaurant. Has more centamential value it is the reasonable we are in this country. When he had an opportunity to take over the instruct he stayed that is why we are here part of our legacy and San Francisco history and like to keep it going for years to come. Another moment im proud to be supporting the richmond and the only Asian American woman elect in the office and as an immigrant that is not happen nothing 3 decades. You see it is my ability to represent especially the asianamerican community. In my case the chinese speaking elders in our community that really can allow me to communicate with them directly. Im Program Director of adult day centers. I have been here for 7 years i love to help the communities and help and the people with disability. I foal a connection with them. I am anim grant i love helping our community and new immigrants and improvements. If you want nature, richmond is the neighborhood to go we are between ocean beach heights and golden gate park. I love the Outer Richmond. For me this is the single best neighborhood in San Francisco. Everybody knows each other. People have been living here forever. It is young and old. The ocean is really near by. And so there is that out doors ocean vibe to it. There are places to seat Golden Gate Bridge it is amazing. Businesses are all small mom and pop businesses. Houses get passed down generation to generation. It has a small town feel but you know you are in a big city at the same time. Its got a unique flavor i dont see in other neighborhoods j. It is about being inclusive we are inclusive and welcome the communities, anybody should feel welcome and belong here and shop local, eat local. We believe that with that support and that network it come in full circle. It is passing on kinds knows. Thats when richmond is about that we are together at once. Welcome to the richmond. [music] what were trying to approach is bringing more diversity to our food. Its not just the old european style food. We are seeing a lot of influences, and all of this is because of our students. All we ask is make it flavorful. [ ] we are the first twoyear Culinary Hospitality School in the United States. The first year was 1936, and it was started by two graduates from cornell. Im a graduate of this program, and very proud of that. So students can expect to learn under the three degrees. Culinary Arts Management degree, Food Service Management degree, and Hotel Management degree. Were not a cooking school. Even though were not teaching you how to cook, were teaching you how to manage, how to supervise employees, how to manage a hotel, and plus youre getting an associate of science degree. My name is vince, and im a faculty member of the hospitality arts and Culinary School here in San Francisco. This is my 11th year. The program is very, very rich in what this industry demands. Cooking, health, safety, and sanitation issues are included in it. Its quite a complete program to prepare them for whats happening out in the real world. The first time i heard about this program, i was working in a restaurant, and the sous chef had graduated from this program. He was very young to be a sous chef, and i want to be like him, basically, in the future. This program, its awesome. Its another world when youre here. Its another world. You get to be who you are, a person get to be who they are. You get to explore different things, and then, you get to explore and they encourage you to bring your background to the kitchen, too. Ive been in the program for about a year. Twoyear program, and im about halfway through. Before, i was studying behavioral genetics and dance. I had few injuries, and i couldnt pursue the things that i needed to to dance, so i pursued my other passion, cooking. When i stopped dance, i was deprived of my creative outlet, and cooking has been that for me, specifically pastry. The good thing is we have students everywhere from places like the ritz to we have kids from every area. Facebook and google. Kids from everywhere. They are all over the bay area, and theyre thriving. My name is jeff, and im a coowner of nopa restaurant, nopalito restaurant in San Francisco. I attended city college of San Francisco, the culinary arts program, where it was called hotel and restaurant back then in the early 90s. Nopalito on broderick street, its based on no specific region in mexico. All our masa is hand made. We cook our own corn in house. Everything is pretty much hand made on a daily basis, so day and night, were making hand made tortillas, carnitas, salsas. A lot of love put into this. [ ] used to be very easy to define casual dining, fine dining, quick service. Now, its shades of gray, and were trying to define that experience through that spectrum of service. Fine dining calls into white table cloths. The cafeteria is Large Production kitchen, understanding vast production kitchens, the googles and the facebooks of the world that have those types of kitchens. And the ideas that change every year, again, its the notion and the venue. One of the things i love about vince is one of our outlets is a concept restaurant, and he changes the concept every year to show students how to do a startup restaurant. Its been a pizzeria, a taco bar. Its been a mediterranean bar, its been a noodle bar. People choose ccsf over other hospitality programs because the industry recognizes that we instill the work ethic. We, again, serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Other culinary hospitality programs may open two days a week for breakfast service. Were open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner five days a week. The menus always interesting. They change it every semester, maybe more. Theres always a good variety of foods. The preparation is always beautiful. The students are really sincere, and they work so hard here, and theyre so proud of their work. Ive had people coming in to town, and i, like, bring them here for a special treat, so its more, like, not so much every day, but as often as i can for a special treat. When i have my interns in their final semester of the program go out in the industry, 80 to 90 of the students get hired in the industry, well above the industry average in the culinary program. We do have internals continually coming into our restaurants from city college of San Francisco, and most of the time that people doing internships with us realize this is what they want to do for a living. We hired many interns into employees from our restaurants. My partner is also a graduate of city college. So my goal is actually to travel and try to do some pastry in maybe italy or france, along those lines. I actually have developed a few connections through this program in italy, which i am excited to support. Im thinking about going to go work on a cruise ship for about two, three year so i can save some money and then hopefully venture out on my own. Yeah, i want to go back to china. I want to bring something that i learned here, the french cooking, the western system, back to china. So we want them to have a full toolkit. Were trying to make them ready for the world out there. Shared spaces have transformed San Franciscos adjacent sidewalks, local business communities are more resilient and their Neighborhood Centers are more vibrant and mildly. Sidewalks and parking lanes can be used for outdoor seating, dining, merchandising, and other community activities. Were counting on operators of shared spaces to ensure their sites are safe and accessible for all. People with disabilities enjoy all types of spaces. Please provide at least 8 feet of open uninterrupted sidewalk so everyone can get through. Sidewalk diverter let those who have low vision navigate through dining and other activity areas on the sidewalk. These devices are rectangular planters or boxes that are placed on the sidewalk at the ends of each shared space and need to be at least 12 inches wide and 24 inches long and 30 inches tall. They can be on wheels to make it easy to bring in and out at the start and the end of each day. But during business hours, they should be stationary and secure. Please provide at least one Wheelchair Accessible dining table in your shared space so the disability people can patronize your business. To ensure that wheelchair users can get to the Wheelchair Accessible area in the park area, provide an adequate ramp or parklet ramps are even with the curb. Nobody wants to trip or get stuck. Cable covers or cable ramps can create tripping hazards and difficulties for wheelchair users so they are not permitted on sidewalks. Instead, electrical cables should run overhead at least ten feet above sidewalk. These updates to the shared Spaces Program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone, so that we can all enjoy these public spaces. More information is available at sf. Govt shared spaces. [inaudible]. Hi. Everybody. San Francisco Mayor disability