Good afternoon. I know we have a number of people here today for our first item and thank you so much for making the time to be here. Hello and welcome to our regular rules committee for thursday, october 18 [ fplg ]. My name is jane kim and im joined by supervisor mark farrell and supervisor david campos and were joined by our clerk, linda wong and we would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record our meetings and make the transcript as valuable and makenize jesse larson and mike freeman. Make sure to silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documented to be individualed as part of the file should submitted to the clerk. Thank you, madame clerk. Can you please call item no. 1. Ordinance amending the health code by requiring 1, the department of Public Health to provide written information outlining the rights and riresponsibilities of tenants, Property Owners and pest control operators regarding the prevention and treatment of bedbug infestations. 2, dph to de
Bedbug infestation history for the previous two years. 5, the department of Public Health to collect and publish bedbug data on a quarterly basis. 6, establishing enforcement procedures and 7, making environmental findings. Thank you. Colleagues, one of the first thing issues did when i joined the board of supervisors was to call a hearing on bedbugs in the city and county of San Francisco. Prior to that hearing actually a group of many of our residents from neighborhoods, chinatown and south of market and the tenderloin had been convening meetings fore over a year to discuss what we could do about the citywide epidemic that has been plaguing our neighborhoods. Through the work group this legislation came forwards a series of recommendations on what we could do to better abate bedbugs and the bedbug abatement issue here in San Francisco. This legislation will address three primary issues. The first of course is to actually collect data on bedbug abatement. So to require pest control op
8315510. You can write us at or walk in and say hello. And of course you can find more information moresfrecpark. Org. Good afternoon. I know we have a number of people here today for our first item and thank you so much for making the time to be here. Hello and welcome to our regular rules committee for thursday, october 18 [ fplg ]. My name is jane kim and im joined by supervisor mark farrell and supervisor david campos and were joined by our clerk, linda wong and we would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record our meetings and make the transcript as valuable and makenize jesse larson and mike freeman. Make sure to silence all cell phones and complete speaker cards and documented to be individualed as part of the file should submitted to the clerk. Thank you, madame clerk. Can you please call item no. 1. Ordinance amending the health code by requiring 1, the department of Public Health to provide written information outlining the rights and riresponsibilities of tenants,
We had stakeholder meetings and Public Comment and public hearings and all of those were wrapped up into our new regthat has been mentioned effective july 1st. Since that time i have been working with the advocates who are speaking here today to increase public awareness. As an example there we go. We have been collaborating on an interior bus placard advertising at muni that will be out in three different languages. The emphasis is that bedbugs dont discriminate and what you can do to look for bugs and if your property manager or landlord doesnt respond you should be calling 311. We have communicated with the Government Library Communication Center so hard copies will be available at their [tkefpg ]s and our website is listed for those who use the internet. The rule that the ordinance that has been added today by introductions by supervisor kim is very important, because our current legislative authority doesnt go beyond making specific buildings habitable and by adding this ordinance
The friendly amendment. Everyone is clear . Public comment . All in favor of the Amendment Proposal please raise your right hand and say aye. Any opposed . Abstained . That was not very painful. laughter we have a few more items. We are running short on time. Is there any potential for extended time today . Five minutes. Thank you. The next item is a report from the disability Disaster Preparedness committee. Thank you cochair parsons. Chair delivered by councilmember senhaux. Disability Disaster Preparedness committee met on friday. There was a followup discussion on the shakeout activities that took place in october 18 and a disability specific activities. The Mayors Disability Council conducted an activation deal with the sou partners by text messaging the identifying contacts. The results were impressive. There was 100 response within 12 hours. We also discussed the civic center evacuation drill on october 25, about 10 buildings in the Civic Center Area evacuated including city hal