We do as a city, as you all know, have an obligation for affirmatively fair housing. This developers have bottom lines to deliver for investors. They can be pressured to provide affordable minutes to make concessions regarding labor practices. At the end of the day it is this balance and this discussion that is at the heart of whether we are furthering fair housing or not. When we are having the neighborhood around 80 of the units unaffordable to working class units disproportionatesly available to white folks. We are taking steps backwards. I appreciate your work on this. We are in a point of urgency on so many fronts. Thank you for your time put into this. I appreciate it. This is one of the most robust discussions i have had and i want to thank Planning Department staff for signaling a new direction. Thank you, miriam and your colleagues. I want to say a couple things. One of them is a policy desire. I think it is low hanging fruit. I mentioned it earlier. Historically when we wante
Lower communities of color and we should have that in an apples to apples way. I was part of the movement to when supervisor kim threatened to annex a nearby city that was unwilling to increase the housing density on vacant land, so lets expand that conversation. So supervisor mar, and i really appreciate everything that you have, and please any closing comments for you, supervisor mar. And what is your will . Thank you so much, chair peskin and supervisor preston for your comments and engagement in this really important discussion. There is a number of very important items to get to so i will keep the closing comments very short. I did want to summarize that my goal today was emphasize the importance of data and who is the housing for and are we prioritizing and addressing the Housing Needs of residents an communities to insure the diverse and racially Equitable Society . This needs to be the core of our housing policy frame work, not just in the rhetoric and not just in theary tough
With d. O. A. In good faith. In addition, this is lawanna, if you look at the bottom of the page, there is a confidentiality notice, and there is a confidentiality requirement when the employer and organized labor are exchanging proposals. Those are not things that get sent out in public, just thats not how this process works. T [inaudible] the way it works is after you have an agreement, the documents that you argue with are private documents. After the agreement is reached, you can release them, but while were negotiating and this is not just the p. O. A. , all the other 30 unions in San Francisco, we do not release documents when were in a meet and confer process with anybody. Commissioner dejesus this isnt a contract for money. This is how were going to proceed under covid and whether its going to be in person or on zoom. I dont understand why that is confidential . I mean, you know i dont understand why we cant have a discussion with the public knowing what the issues are without
Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not onl
At 5 15. Thank you so much. Meeting is adjourned. Clerk to make this meeting accessible to the public so you would know where to find it. This is the july 8 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. Sergeant youngblood, will you please call roll. Clerk yes, maam. [roll call] Vice President taylor i think youre muted. [roll call] clerk Vice President taylor, you have a quorum. Vice president taylor thank you. For the members of the public who wish to make Public Comment on any of the items on the agenda, the phone number is 4084189388. The access code is 1467731245, and as always, i would ask that you mute your mute the television or any sounds in the background so that its easier for us to hear you. And commissioners, i would ask that you would mute yourself and unmute yourself when you want to be heard. Just as last week, please put your name in the chat if you would like to be heard. Sergeant youngblood. Clerk thank you, commissioner. For members of the public, this meeting is