[gavel]. President yee good afternoon and welcome to our september 29, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i wish to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. I just want to make sure that i captured supervisor stefani or did i miss you, supervisor . Supervisor stefani madam clerk, i believe that you did, and i am present. Thank you. Clerk i believe that, and i apologize to you, and yes, mr. President. All members are present, just to make sure. President yee mmhmm. Clerk and
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
Quarter of next year. [inaudible] hotel started construction on their project in 2018. They have proposed to divide 28 of their 37 one and twobedroom suites into 49 individual rooms. This request requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan to increase the number of rooms allowed on the block one hotel parcel from the currently approved 250 rooms to the rounded number of 300 rooms. The last [inaudible] including the ocii commission, Planning Commission, the Oversight Board, and the California Department of finance. This shows the current change to the proposed project. As you can see in the bottom row of this table, the buildings overall Square Footage remains the staple because the additional rooms will be achieved by moving interior walls and adding doors, thus, no exterior work will be needed for the suite conversion. This slide shows the typical floor plan and examples of twoinone bedroom suites, which are outlined in red. Each suite also has a living room whic
Am i on . Yes. Good afternoon. Welcome to the september 22, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, would you call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer present. Supervisor haney present. Supervisor mandelman present. Supervisor mar present. Well come back. Supervisor preston okay, we see you, but there is sound difficulty. Ill let operations know that. We see that you did say aye present. Supervisor peskin madame clerk, supervisor peskin is present. Supervisor ronen present. Supervisor safai present. Supervisor stefani present. Supervisor walton present. President yee present. Clerk all members are present. President yee okay. Supervisor preston, are you able to get on . Clerk we see him, but we dont hear sound. President yee maybe he can get help from somebody. Clerk yes, ill work on it. President yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance
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