This is the captioner. This is the modem test. Hopefully you can see the text. As always, i will ask the presenters and the commissioners and the speakers to mute themselves until called on and ask members of the public, ill ask you to mute yourselves as well until and unless you are giving comments, that theres not feedback or background noise. Before we begin, im going to ask everyone to put your hand over your heart and well do the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]. Now at the end of this meeting im going to be asking that we adjourn in honor of a firefighter who lost his life today, jason cortez, who spent 13 years with the San Francisco fire department, married, two young children, dad was a firefighter as well, and its such a terrible loss for our city, for our community, and we want to thank him and all of those who serve, who try to help us in the community at great expense to themselves. So i will ask to adjourn in his honor and in honor of all those who serve. We w
Present for us. The members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order is roll call. Please respond when i call your name. [ roll call ]. Clerk all members, excuse me, all other members of the commission are present. The next item is announcements. The next regularly scheduled meeting will be held remotely on november 20, 2020. Please be advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter period on any item. Please note that during the Public Comment reared, all dialin participants from the public will dial 14156550001 and the access code is 1464367015. When you dial star 3 you will hear the following message you have raised your hand to speak. Please wait for the host to invite you to speak. When your line is unmuted, this will be th
Quorum. Which brings us to item 3. Clerk mayty make a brief announcement before we move on to item 3 . Yes, please do. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and given the Public Health recommendations, issued by the San Francisco department of Public Health and Governor Newsom and mayor breed lifted restrictions on teleconference. This meeting is being held Via Teleconference and televised by sfgov tv. For those of you watching the live stream, theres a brief delay. On behalf of the commission, id like to extend our thanks to sfgov tv staff and sfpuc for their assistance during this meeting. If you wish to make Public Comment on an item, dial 415 6550001. I. D. 146 500 3304 and then press star 3 to raise your hand to speak. Im going to ask the commission and staff to please mute their microphones to minimize background noise, if they have not already done so. Mr. Chair, your first item is item number 3, commissioner vacancy and possible election of a new Vice President. Thank you. And le
Market make his gas station whatever it may need to be in the future. There is also been both between the tenant and the city, you know, what else can we do with this site . Certain other departments, the department of environment is interested in putting charging stations there. So all of these issues would take time, would take review. We cant do that in, you know, 68 months. So this would allow this lease and the term of it would allow all these things to be taken into consideration and try to Work Together as partners to move with the technology and whatever happens in the future. We did get an appraisal even though we werent required to under the code so we could come to a Fair Market Rent. It does substantially increase the rent. I believe it was 9,000 a month, now it will be approximately 16,000 a month. The percentage adjustment per year remains the same, 3 . The tenant pays all of the utilities and all permits and taxes. So there is no real downside in the sense that the tenan
Thank you. Chair peskin supervisor preston . Supervisor preston yeah. I just want to thank you and supervisor safai for your work on this legislation. I think its incredibly important. I was a sponsor back on the original legislation, and i think its timely on the latest version. Id love to be added as a cosponsor, and i think that youve summed up the ordinance. I will say as to the sentiment of some callers who would prefer that we not regulate the private sector, i think that you know, i dont think that we can rely on what makes sense to the owners of commercial buildings and hotels to decide what kind of protections theyre going to extend to their staff and what kind of protections theyre going to extend to the general public and to their patrons. So they have a role to this, but our role is to make sure that we put safety precautions in this. I think its important that we move forward to protect workers and patrons, and as you said, to fulfill the confidence in visitors to the city