President yee good afternoon. And welcome to the october 6th, 2020, regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Supervisor fewer. Commissioner fewer present. Clerk supervisor haney . Supervisor haney present. Clerk supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman present. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar present. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin present. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston present. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen present. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai present. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani present. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton present. Clerk and supervisor yee. President yee present. Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United St
U process, i believe that we also could have some discretion in how quickly we would process that perm mit permit removed. Im going to refer to the Zoning Administrator on this. the tenant issue is always chachallenging because obviously its allowing it out side the purview of the code. If its not legalized if it is required to be removed and theres an existing tenant that does become an enforcement situation if we have an unauthorized unpermitted unit that may have life safety deficiencies. We generally want that unit to be vacated. Aobviously theres challenges with an existing tenant. We want to be open to options there. We dont have an open ended option to allow residency in an unauthorized unit and it may be something that the City Attorney wants to speak to further in terms of this issue and conflicts between our codes and other City Ordinances relating to renting units and occupancy. commissioner johnson. one second. I thought i heard them asking what happens if we do approve thi
Were now able to offer to sixth, seventh, and eighth graders of economically disadvantaged families the opportunity to attend our middle school and college prep tuition free. 95 of our fsa students are children of color. They would not otherwise be able to april tend our schools. Were really proud and excited about this. They will directly benefit from the sf lights project. A little more about our schools. Please show slide two. Were the Oldest School in the west. Since its founding its been an integral part of San Francisco. We pre mote academic adolescence along with justice. Originally an all boys school. In 1989 we opened our doors to young women. To prepare promising scholars from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. We have seventy five middle School Scholars and 1475 high school students. 40 commute from san mateo kowny. Wcounty. Our mission is to form leaders who are men and women with and for others. We believe strongly that what happens out side of the classroom and sports dr
Commission meeting. As i have done in the past im going to read the following into the record. On february 25, 2020, the mayor declared a state of emergency related to covid19. Further moremore, theres laws apicable to boards and commissions to hold hearings remotely on. April 3, 2020, the Planning Commission received authorization from the Mayors Office to reconvene remotely through the end of the shelter in place. This is so that we are here. I am requesting everyones patience in advance, and the platforms at times are not perfect and may seem clums i. If you are not speaking mute your microphone and do not hit any controls that may affect other participants. To enable the Public Participation sfgovtv is broadcasting and streaming this hearing live and we will receive Public Comment for each item on todays agenda. You can do so by calling the 800 number at 1 888 2733658. And enter access code, 3107452. Press pound, and pound again. When you are connected and your item comes up that y
That i wake up to that i am most focused on as governor of the state of california. The number of people in icu and the number of people hospitalized in california. Those numbers represent our most urgent need in terms of keeping people alive and keeping people healthy and safe in california. It is incumbent that we prepare for a surge in the number of hospitalizations and icu patients. That 774 may be deceiving. Many of you think it sounds modest compared with what is happening in other parts of the country. That may be true but it is important to impress upon you that that number represents a quadrupling compared to where we were just six days ago. The number of people hospitalized in california, 1855 represents a tripling of where we were six days ago. It gives you a sense of the nature of the spread and the nature of the attack of this virus and the nature of our focus as it relates to preparing for this surge. I will remind you that we are preparing for a two thirds increase in ou