Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171120

SFGTV Government Access Programming November 20, 2017

Details on what the costs of this to the city would be. We are also continuing to examine as the Ethics Commission has raised, limiting the fundraising window for Office Holders to run for office, both prior to election day and after election day. And also, adding to the pamphlet that is sent to San Francisco registered voters, Current Campaign activities for all of the candidates and ballot measures to a certain date of that election day. I look forward to this ongoing conversation, both with the stakeholders, the board of supervisors, and the Ethics Commission and colleagues, hope to get your support as we move this ordinance through the process. The rest i submit. President breed supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, to supervisor kim through the president , i have not read the legislation, but it sounds very good and upon reading it, hope to afix my name as a cosponsor. Colleagues, as many of you know, i have been actively looking for a temporary Navigation Center in district 3 since i was elected in 2015. For those of you who came to the Neighborhood Forum we had a few weeks ago, the one thing that my opponent and i agreed on was that we wanted to have Navigation Center in district 3 and actually i teamed up with my former colleague who was then running the homelessness function for the mayor and we landed on our lady of Guadeloupe Church and entered into active negotiations with them. Unfortunately, despite having a tentative agreement, they sold the property off and since then, i have been looking for other sites. Earlier this month, i cohosted a forum and i know that supervisor ronen has been through this and supervisor cohen has been through this. In my case, it was a bilingual Community Forum in it was attended by 200 residents, business folks, neighborhood leaders, who have become concerned about plight of homelessness, polk street area, chinatown, where homeless numbers have seen a large uptick while the rest of the city has stabilized. The city staff said it was the best forum they have experienced, no offense to my colleagues, but i was really proud because the folks from district 3 were easy and early adopters. Business or telegraph hill, were very interested in seeing Navigation Center and to that end, i said that i would come back to the community and im going do that. But i wanted to start by saying weve identified two public sites in district 3. The studies that the department of homelessness who i neglected to acknowledge earlier on, showed was that the largest concentration of Homeless Individuals in the Northeast Corner of San Francisco are clustered on the northern waterfront and to that end, ive been looking for a facility on public land in that part of the corner of the city that i represent. And so we have two pieces of public land. Im going to go back to the community, but i wanted to start with you all. 88 broadway, which is a piece of land owned by public works at close to broadway and the embark dario and under the jurisdiction of the port. And while both options are on the table, im introducing legislation today to get that ball rolling. I want to extend my thanks to the director of public works for his help on this issue and his entire team who produced a video. And for those of you who may avail yourself of this opportunity in the future, it was about the creation and operation of Navigation Center. It was moving and extremely well received by my constituents. I also want to acknowledge the mayor. I wasnt and talked to him i went and talked to him early on, he was clear with me, he would support it, but i had to work with my constituents and i think that supervisor ronen went through the same thing, so i did it without the executive branch and again, hats off to the people of district 3 who clearly are compassionate and committed to implementing or trying a new tool that organizations like north beach citizens have pioneered in my corner of the city for many years. In addition, im introducing cleanup legislation to our inclusionary Affordable Housing laws that recognize the approval of Assembly Bill 1505, which clarifies that local jurisdictions may once again finally require as a condition of Development Approval inclusion of affordable onsite rental units in development projects. This was the palmer case which needed a legislative workaround and i want to thank the legislature and Governor Brown who signed this into law. As we all know, one of the large accomplishments of 2017 was our inclusionary housing law, where president breed and supervisor kim and supervisor safai and i worked together to craft the most comprehensive Affordable Housing program in, i believe the United States of america. With a new dedicated category of housing for middle income families. It was a tough lift. We got it done. But we found we actually enjoyed working together on something impactful that will make a huge difference of the years and decades to come. It was Unlikely Coalition of advocates whose work is still reverberating throughout the country. As we watch the federal Government Cut funding to Affordable Housing and homelessness, its all the more important. Through the work of our Technical Advisory Committee which were reconvening, we were able to analyze and create a program that would expand eligibility requirements for everyone from deeply low income to middle income residents e ensuring that private developers are doing their part to keep families in San Francisco. Unfortunately, i have a huge number of in me more iam. Would like to start with dr. Roland lowe. I had the pleasure of spending time with at the Chinese Cultural Center and i can say that the city has lost a true giant. Roland was a gamechanger and a champion for the underserved, dr. Lowe known as roland passed away peacefully on november 4th. He was a Family Doctor and surgeon serving the community he loved for four decades. He dedicated his life to the empowerment of chinatown as doctor, leader, visionary, activist and philanthropist. He has touched lives, changed minds and supported many nonprofit organizations even after he was hit multiple times with strokes. He was chief of staff and chair of the board of trustees at the chinese hospital, leading the hospital during challenging times. As a highly respected professional he helped found the Chinese Community health care association, served as the first president of the medical society. Roland was a strong advocate for civil rights, active in the founding of chinese for affirmative action, the cultural center, the youth center and selfhelp fort elderly. If you did one of those things, it was a life worth living. Roland was unparalleled in his leadership to the community and was honored by the chinatown resource center. Children services. Asian pacific fund, Health Services and numerous others. He had a deep love fort next generation, believing they will build a more vibrant world. Our condolence to his wife kathy, children and grandchildren. I added my name with supervisors fewer and yee to the pass of of herb lee. I would like to adjourn todays meeting in the memory of jemo preeny, who was an incredible north beach figure, remarkable photographer. He knew the score of everything happening in north beach. I had the honor of presiding over the marriage to his sweetheart, helene khan back in april of this year. We will miss you, jemo, i would like to adjourn in the memory of nate roth and send condolences to ann. And on behalf of the board of supervisors well miss you. I have a bunch more i am submitting. President breed thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor yee would like to make comments. Supervisor yee really quickly. Im going to add my name to dr. Roland also. Ive known him several decades. Other things, it seems like the places, i had a lot of interaction with him, being on the board with him at the Chinese Cultural Center and he was on the board of the San Francisco foundation when i was a staff member there. Im really going miss him. President breed thank you. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, i have a couple of resolutions today for 200 Affordable Housing developments in my district. The first is resolution to approve 99year lease between the city and Development Partnership of meta and ccdc to construct 94 units of senior housing. And the second is resolution for the City Partnership and financing construction of 1990 follow some, which is 143 units of Affordable Housing in the heart of the mission. Really looking forward to breaking ground on those projects. In addition, im introducing several planning amendments that will allow small retail and arts and food businesses in the mission to thrive and grow. And reduce rent pressure on those momandpops from competing large scale development. Under the Mission Action plan, 2020, Community Advocates and planning staff would implement from other departments and my office, looking at ways to support a thriving mission that is home to low and moderate income residents. A place for families, art and culture and Nonprofit Community organizations. I want to thank the many staffers at the Planning Department who contributed to the effort and those grassroots folks who fight for the heart and soul of the mission. While there is no single solution and were still working on several new initiatives, several clear approaches have risen to the top, vetted by the community and these include in the Planning Department amendments im introducing today. First recognizing the need to expand the allowable uses of up stair spaces to stimulate activity, this will allow catering and arts activity and prohibit nonretail professional use known as administrative uses. These changes encourage activities that are important contributing to the vibrance of my district. We know that diversity of scale is important for retaining spaces. We are thoughtfully creating a limit on merger of lots. The code will be amended excuse me to cap lot mergers at 100 feet street front and require one ground floor with any merger 50feet street frontage. The package is proactive approach that say yes to arts and culture and yes to mixture of small and large spaces and yes to healthy vibrant future for the mission. The rest i submit. President breed thank you. Supervisor safai. Supervisor safai thank you. Id like to start, seems like a bunch of us have in me moriam. Vanessa wallace was young and active member of the community. She was a member of the pilgrim opportunity church, part of my district. Part of the church led by dr. Pierre. I had the great pleasure of meeting vanessa and her mother on their doorstep as i campaigned and she became active in my campaign. I quickly learned she was very strong advocate for the lake neighborhood. She served on the board of the bookman center. She was active member of the Community Church and stmichels catholic school. She attended university of california, san diego and graduated from u. C. Berkeley. Two weeks ago she was applying for a grant. We share that area of San Francisco, she was very active in both of our neighborhoods. She had just been awarded a Community Action grant to do work at the bookman center and she passed away just last week. Got a blood clot in her leg at the young age of 49. So just want to end the meeting in her honor this evening. So thats one. Second thing is, were going to be introducing a resolution and accompanying ordinance next week regarding 20 years of work and advocacy for the geneva car barn. This is one of two Historic Buildings on the register in district 11. Again, something that both supervisor yee and i have active members of the community that are active in the powerhouse. We will be transforming that property into one of the premier cultural art and performing arts space for young people. And through this work, in the community, our stabilization trust and steve oliver will be leading that in project management in conjunction with rec and park. Performing arts will come in and occupy the space and will be doing afterschool programming in the arts, working with collaboration with many of the surrounding schools like sheridan, long fellow, miguel, Early Childhood center, all the different high schools. Many of you know district 11 and 10 are the two areas of San Francisco that have the highest number of children under 18. We have the highest concentration of schoolaged children. This is very much needed and desired historic upgrade of the facility. This will allow for 1315 million in upgrades. That will come through. This is phase one of a 30 million upgrade for the entire facility. But its really about exposing young people to our part of town. I want to give a special thanks to assemblyman phil tinge who came through with a 3 million grant with the california recreation and parks department. General manager phil ginnsberg mayor ed lee for his support and all the recreation and park staff. So were very, very happy about this opportunity. And want to give a special thanks to nicole and reama and the staff at rec and park and members of the community, dan weaver and friends in the car barn out there advocating for this facility. One, two, three, four six resolutions authorizing the services development, authorizing indemnification agreement between the powerhouse, the arts trust and resolution developing Services Agreement between cast and the construction related costs and the car barn and recognizing rec and park to expend the 3. 5 million for the state of california department. And the ordinance will be introduced next week. The rest i submit. President breed thank you. Supervisor sheehy. Supervisor sheehy thank you. Today, im introducing a request to the City Attorney to draft an ordinance has establishes right to counsel for tenants facing evictions. Let me say that tenants facing evictions are at a disadvantage and we need to make sure that no one stands alone facing eviction. An attorney will help them stand up and stay in their homings. I want to make sure were clear. What were asking the City Attorney to draft is something that would include every tenant who cannot afford to pay, regardless of income. Every eviction would be covered including those in Affordable Housing buildings. We would not allow funds to be used from cases for Domestic Violence, child abuse are occurring. There are those who say we should wait for voter initiative. There is no need to wait. We can prevent evictions today and fund them now. Antilgbtq hate crimes. As people know i worked in the District Attorneys Office as advocate for same sex victims of Domestic Violence and hate crimes. Hate crimes are up 11. 2 in california from 837 hate crimes to 931 hate crimes. Its largely driven by increases in crimes based on race and religion. But here in San Francisco, the increase came from a tax on our Lgbt Community. Hate crimes in the city increased 24 compared to 11 . Nine crimes targeted Sexual Orientation in 2015. 14 crimes in 2016. The Trump Administration has inflamed tensions and were at risk. We have to stand up to the Trump Administration, white supremacist and nazis. As the only lgbt person on the board, im calling that a hearing been scheduled immediately. We must hear from teresa sparks the human rights commission, the Police Department and the District Attorney that the safety of the Lgbt Community is a concern. For the justice institute, the Lgbt Community has been shaken by the embrace of the justice institute. I have three items related today. Two ask agencies to investigate their role in impacting the discussions here at city hall. The final item allows the board of supervisors to go on the record confirming the poverty law sentence, that pgi is a hate group. First, the Pacific Justice institute is on a project sponsored by a location in the district. Pgi never registered as a lobbyist. I would like to send a letter of inquiry asking if the activity that they engaged in to influence the board counts as direct lobbying activity, or grassroots lobbying activity. Seco

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