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Forward with the Public Safety power Shutoff Program where they made Power Transmission lines during certain climate conditions and weather conditions to decrease the ability of fires starting. As noted, the c. P. C. Approved this adoption of the guidelines for this as a preventive measure against imminent and significant fire risk. San francisco is consider add tier 1, which is the lowest risk for fire, but the transmission lines run through the east bay hills and up the peninsula. Those both are tier 2 and tier 3, which are higher risk areas. Turning off either side transmission lines, either south or east could lead to blackout conditions in San Francisco. This loss of power outage could be 24 hours and potentially longer. D. M. And other agencies have been taking steps to manage for the consequences of these potential power outages. Last week, we had over 120 participants from city departments that came together at bill graham, to really sit down and work through preparedness and coordination, looking at impacts of these. Im going the turn this over now to our acting Deputy Director for Emergency Services and he will continue to talk to you a little bit about what weve been working on. Thank you director carol. When we brought everyone together we had three primary objectives. We wanted to gather information on what the potential impact of this may look like and we wanted to make sure we were sharing information among departments so they knew what the consequences might be and what steps they would need to talk and that third piece was form a future preparedness activity for what the city could do. What were going to do is show you a quick video of what actually took place last thursday and ill ill talk to you about some of our learnings and what some of the next steps are. We are here today, we have almost every city and county of San Francisco department represented to prepare for the possibility of power shut downs, complete loss of electric power to San Francisco, as a result of the Public Safety power shut off program. This program is intended to mitigate the affect of wildfires. San francisco is not so much at risk of those fires, but due to the configuration of the electric grid should they do a transmission shut off on east bay or the peninsula, San Francisco can be affected. We have all the major Public Safety departments, and the health department, and all our infrastructure departments, the p. U. C. And Public Safety, and our support departments. The power outage will affect everyone and our ability to perform city services, so it was important to have all the representatives from across city programs here today. We in d. P. H. Are working very closely with the rest of the city to help people prepare. For us in d. P. H. , we really want people to make a plan, and especially make a plan with the people they care about. Its time to reach out to your neighbors, to think about your best circle of people. In a disaster, its trust that saves live and thats why in d. P. H. , were working with all of our partners as fast as we can to put together a network to respond in a diaster. Were having really productive conversations around the table here today. I think one of the most fruitful results is our expanded understanding of the inner dependencies of different departments and infrastructures, for example, communications will be disrupted so how do we coordinate when we dont have our normal mode of communication, fuel, transportation, traffic lights will be out, it will be difficult to get around town. We have a lot of follow up after this meeting and lot more work to do, but this is a great first step for San Francisco. [applause] thank you to sfgov tv for helping us pull together that brief. For mary ellen, a lot of stuff is going to happen and we need to know more about it. Some of the Key Takeaways is the Significant Impact to Public Safety and our health system. Were so dependent on power now. Two of the big agencies that will be impacted, the routine forms of communication, these devices calling our public cell towers, on data systems, theyre all going to be impacted. We also heard about challenges traveling. People dont respect that four way stop when the lights go out. It will be challenging to get around the city. Were also going to have other disruptions because of child care centers. They may not be able to function. Having our own staff come to work, that will be a challenge. There will be some extended operational periods. Were not asking people to come in to work 8 hours, but we may have to expand that. When we dont have power, one of the other things we will rely on is fuel. Fuel for our vehicles and generators. Mary ellen mentioned that were not going to be the only ones facing this. If our power is out, other peoples power is out as well. This will be a bay area concern and one we need to make sure we need to get ahead of. Also, this is one of the learning elements. Power outages will require a time for recovery. Just because the lights and the power comes back on, it doesnt mean that everything will be fine. We need to make sure if there are individuals that may have been specifically impacted, we need to reach out to them. If there are data systems that are impacted by an automatic shutoff, then those are brought up properly. Things wont go back to normal immediately. We looked at whats next, our people, processes we need to have and technology. For people in particular, its working and making sure were extending out to our private sector partners, vendors, an contractors. What are their plans . How are we going to coordinate with c. B. O. S and other groups to make sure neighbors are helping neighbors and theyre checking on one another during and after the event and cross train staff. If transportation isnt working, are there other Staff Members that may be able to provide some of the front line services, which goes along with departments identifying those essential business functions they have, what are the continuity of the plans they have. Thats part of the process, identifying the plans, identifying functions that can be done remotely. Maybe not all the bay area is out. Can someone be at home use their personal devices and Access Systems and process things . Also, should we need to, going back to paper forms. We heard there was a cyber attack in baltimore, they went back to paper form to process things. On the technology and equipment side, we have a lot of fuel in the city, how do we get whats in the ground, out of the ground, looking at ways we can use that resource while were getting additional sources brought in. Also, talking to Capital Planning about why are some investments we can make now, perhaps for solar and storage, so we have some other back ups available and also integrating, if we need to, the replacement of electronics if things go down. Those are some of the initial things we identified from this exercise, but this isnt the only workshop were going to do. Some of the follow up steps will be in the middle of july, were going to meet with our private sector and c. B. O. S from what we heard from p. G. E. And how were going to work together. The frequency of these e. M. S. S may come up. Something that director carol mentioned before, often these types of events doesnt happen in isolation, but when its hot or when theres an air quality event. We heard of all these things were doing. If we have this unfortunate trifecta, this will put a lot of train strain on our resources. These are some of the steps we are taking to make sure that we as a city family can all work together. Director. Thank you, does anyone have any questions or comment . I want to thank everyone who participated. I believe it was a good use of time. Im very cognisant of using all the city salaried people into the room and not wasting our time, but we do have some good followup and we will be meeting with our private sector partners in a couple weeks, and however, we have to be ready to flex at any time. We already had our first heat wave and pg e did implement their plan. We are affected if the conditions are closer to the peninsula on the east bay, which is why we have to be prepared for the trifecta effectiveness. So i want to thank everyone for coming together. One of the im trying to find a Silver Lining in all of this and one of them, ive been talking about this a lot and feeling like im bumming everyone out all the time, but one of the great things about this, and that we will accomplish over this summer is increased preparedness. The data shows when there is an actual event or a truly perceived threat that people take action. So, i think that the call to action for everybody in this room and anyone watching this is a call to action to do something, get your plan together, reach out to your neighbor, think through your mind what would happen if you did not have electric power for one, two, and three days, and take some steps now if you are able to prepare yourself. This will be the most important thing that we can do. Frankly, the conditions that well experience after an event like this are similar and would be worse after an earthquake, so if nothing else happens, my hope is carl the fog stays around all summer. We spend a lot of time getting ready and were just that much further along when the rain comes again. So thank you. I want to open it up to Public Comment, if there is any on this item. Okay, seeing none, oh, im sorry. Please. Sorry, can you use the microphone . Thank you, my name is nick mccoy. So i just wanted to make sure you dont under state the value of the staff, the people that you work with, or the folks that have actually served as the support and done the research, made the calls, put up with the late hours and also put up with people that dont have the same level of knowledge as you may have in your careers, or in your time that you spent on the subject, or you spent in the city. Like none of the ideas, none of the theories would be worth anything without your structural help and processes to put that in place. So thats part of like the integration of what youre talking about in the interagency work. I think working with state partners as well, and other International Organizations who may have some sort of the resources or the stake in seeing how we deal with our upcoming challenges or the things that we already face. I think that opens up new Revenue Streams as well. It also produces an opportunity for us to grow, i think scientifically, as well as just the hypothesis of what could happen. You guys, all of the presentati presentations were sound and like, the information was great. I just wonder if like, the worse case scenario, what is it like if we dont succeed . What will those numbers look like . Are we prepared to have that sort of conversation prior to, with the community at large. Also dealing what is the heart of escape, if we have to vacate a particular part of the city or have to change our strategy in regards to whether or not we go up, down, out, and then like even the scale of like equipment that could possibly be used or need to be used. Where would we store that . You know, that light production, i think there are entities out there that are interested in building cities for their own corporate purposes, so they can build the perfect city. You guys already did that. For hundreds of years, like the work has already been put piece by piece in the place. Anyway, thank you i just look forward to participating in the conversation. Thank you. Do we have any other Public Comments . Okay, seeing none, well move on to number 7, the Disaster Council member round table. If Anyone Around the table have a diaster announcement. Michael. Sure, the San Francisco Interfaith Council in collaboration with major faith institutions have been posting vigils following terrorist attacks on houses of worship. The mayor has been faithfully attending and offering comfort at each of those vigils and she said that people should feel safe when they go to worship. As a result of that, were responding and taking action. We assembled a Steering Committee consisting of the f. B. I. , San Francisco police department, the sheriffs office, the antidefamation lead, Muslim Community center, the San Francisco human rights commission, the jewish federation, the department of emergency management, the department of Public Health, the archdiocese, and the San Francisco foundation. Its an Incredible Group of folks and what were looking to do in early september, were going to have a workshop for congregation leaders to provide them with the resource us that they need to keep their houses of worship safe and in the event that something should happen locally here, we taken that initiative. Thank you michael. Thats so incredibly important and thank you for your leadership on that. Is there anyone else . Yeah. About two weeks ago, i got notice from our chief medical examiner that he will be moving on to another county, so today is his last day in the office and as of today, were going to start a national recruitment. In the interim, well have acting chief medical examiner be dr. Amy hart and the assistant acting chief medical examiner erin moffett. Well keep you updated. Thank you. Anyone else . Any general Public Comment we havent already heard . Then we will adjourn the meeting, thank you all for being here. [applause] [ ] San Francisco, 911, whats the emergency . San francisco 911, police, fire and medical. The tenderloin. Suspect with a six inch knife. He was trying to get into his car and was hit by a car. San francisco 911 whats the exact location of your emergency . Welcome to the San Francisco department of emergency management. My name is shannon bond and im the lead instructor for our dispatch add academy. I want to tell you about what we do here. This is San Francisco 911. Do you need police, fire or medical . San francisco police, dispatcher 82, how can i help you . Youre helping people in their what may be their most vulnerable moment ever in life. So be able to provide them immediate help right then and there, its really rewarding. Our agency is a very combined agency. We answer emergency and nonemergency calls and we also do dispatching for fire, for medical and we also do dispatching for police. We staff multiple call taking positions. As well as positions for police and fire dispatch. We have a priority 221. I wanted to become a dispatcher so i could help people. I really like people. I enjoy talking to people. This is a way that i thought that i could be involved with people every day. As a 911 dispatcher i am the first first responder. Even though i never go on seen scene im the first one answering the phone call to calm the victim down and give them instruction. The information allows us to coordinate a response. Police officers, firefighters, ambulances or any other agency. It is a great feeling when everyone gets to go home safely at the end of the day knowing that youve also saved a citizens life. Our department operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This is shift work. That means we work nights, weekends and holidays and can involve over time and sometimes thats mandatory. This is a high stress career so its important to have a good balance between work and life. We have Resources Available like wellness and peer support groups. Our dispatchers of the month are recognized for their outstanding performance and unique and ever changing circumstances. I received an accommodation and then i received dispatcher of the month, which was really nice because i was just released from the phones. So for them to, you know, recognize me for that i appreciated it. I was surprised to even get it. At the end of the day i was just doing my job. A typical dispatch shift includes call taking and dispatching. It takes a large dedicated group of fifrst responders to make ths department run and in turn keep the city safe. When you work here you dont work alone, you work as part of a team. You may start off as initial phone call or contact but everyone around you participating in the whole process. I was born and raised in San Francisco so its really rewarding to me to be able to help the community and know that i have a part in you know, even if its behind the scenes kind of helping the city flow and helping people out that live here. The Training Program begins with our sevenweek academy followed by on the job training. This means youre actually taking calls or dispatching responders. You can walk in with a high school diploma, you dont need to have a college degree. We will train you and we will teach you how to do this job. We just need you to come with an open mind that we can train you and make you a good dispatcher. If its too dangerous to see and you think that you can get away and call us from somewhere safe. Good. Thats right. From the start of the academy to being released as a solo dispatcher can take nine months to a year. Training is a little over a year and may change in time. The training is intense. Very intense. Whats the number one thing that kills people in this country . So were going to assume that its a heart attack, right . Dont forget that. As a new hire we require you to be flexible. You will be required to work all shifts that include midnights, some call graveyard, days and swings. You have to be willing to work at different times, work during the holidays, you have to work during the weekends, midnight, 6 00 in the morning, 3 00 in the afternoon. Thats like the toughest part of this job. We need every person thats in here and when it comes down to it, we can come together and we make a really great team and do our best to keep the city flowing and safe. This is a big job and an honorable career. We appreciate your interest in joining our team. We hope you decide to join us here as the first First Responders to the city and county of San Francisco. For more information on the job and how to apply follow the it had been rain for several days. At 12 30 there was a notice of large amount of input into the reservoir. We opened up the incident command and started working the incident to make sure employees and the public were kept were safe there is what we call Diversion Dam upstream of moccasin. The water floods the Drinking Water reservoir. We couldnt leave work. If the dam fails what is going to happen. We had three objectives. Evacuate and keep the community and employees safe. Second was to monitor the dam. Third objective was to activate Emergency Action plan and call the agencies that needed contacted. The time was implement failure of the dam. We needed to set up for an extended incident. We got people evacuated downstream. They came back to say it is clear downstream, start issuing problems and create work orders as problems come in. Powerhouse was flooded. Water was so high it came through the basement floor plate, mud and debris were there. It was a survey where are we . What are we going to do to get the Drinking Water back in. We have had several emergencies. With each incident we all ways operate withins dent command open. Process works without headache. When we do it right it makes it easier for the next one. We may experience working as a team in the different format. Always the team comes together. They work together. Our staff i feel does take a lot of pride of ownership of the projects that they work on for the city. We are a Small Organization that helps to service the water for 2. 7 million people. The diversity of the group makes us successful. The best description we are a big family. It is an honor to have my team recognized. I consider my team as a small part of what we do here, but it makes you proud to see people come together in a disaster. Safety is number one through the whole city of San Francisco. We want people to go home at the end of the day to see their loved ones. We dont want them hurt. We want them back the next day to do their work. There is a lot of responsibility the team members take on. They word very they work hard. They are proud of what they do. I am proud they are recognized. My son and i was living in my car. We was in and out of shelters in San Francisco for almost about 3. 5 years. I would take my son to school. We would use a public rest room just for him to brush his teeth and do a quick little wipeoff so it seemed he could take a shower every day. It was a very stressful time that i wish for no one. My name is mario, and i have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. Born here in hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. My son and i were having to have a great happened to have a great lottery number because of the neighborhood preference. I moved into my home in 2014. The neighborhood preference goal was what really allowed me to stay in San Francisco. My favorite thing is the view. On a clear day, im able to see city hall, and on a really clear day, i can see salesforce tower. We just have a wonderful neighborhood that we enjoy living in. Being back in the neighborhood that i grew up in, its a wonderful, wonderful experience. Now, we can hopefully reach our goals, not only single mothers, but single fathers, as well, who are living that. Live your dream, live your life, okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i would like to do something a little bit different today and introduced to you a new segment to highlight the work of our city departments that are sometimes overlooked. Today we will have a short clip from whats next San Francisco, or whats next s. F. , produced by our Emmy Awardwinning team at San Francisco government t. V. , featuring the department of recreation and park and theyre wheelchair basketball program. Can we roll the clip . I got the hang of it a little bit from the first time. I never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask me twice. That is where you can always find me, on the court. [ ] thank you to some generous support for sports and recreation, we have been able to purchase approximately 12 athletic wheelchairs. This grant provides a really expensive tool to facilitate basketball, specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden skate war golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state. Led by its captain, chuck gill, it was a National Pair olympian and is now an assistant coach on the u. S. National team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. This is the main hub of the bay area which, you know, we should definitely have these resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i am looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that these resources are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied to be able to see and to try this sport and to appreciate just trying different things. People can come and check out the chairs to use them any time we have openings, but also friday evenings from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball. We will make sure the floor is available. That way people can no that other people can come into play at the same time. We always try to meet people where they are at regardless of any difference in ability. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusionary programming, but this is the first time we have ever had our own equipment and that enables us to do some important things. [ ] thank you. Thank you. You know, we often times are here to critique, criticize, or to try to get our departments to be more aware of issues that come from our home districts and throughout the city and we forget on a daily basis that our departments actually do a lot of positive things. I want to take the opportunity to maybe do this once a month where we have these short segments. I hope that you will provide some suggestions and some of the departments that you would like to see. I think it is important for the public to know how our tax dollars are being spent. Okay . So, thank you. Lets go to our approval for the Meeting Minutes. Yes, approval of the june 4 th, 2019 Board Meeting minutes. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from june 4th, 2019. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the a minute prove the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve without objection, these minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madame clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda and call items one through five. Items one through five are considered routine, a single roll call vote will occur, otherwise discussion of an item will occur only if a member severs it to be considered separately. Okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk, please call the role. On items one through five. [roll call] there are ten imacs. Okay. Without objection these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item six is an ordinance to call and provide for special election to be held in the city on tuesday, march 3rd, 2020 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded debt of this city in the amount of 620. 5 million to finance the construction and seismic retrofitting of multiple facilities for earthquake safety and Emergency Response pursuant to california Government Code Section 43607 and 608. This item requires a vote. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item seven is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 12. 2 million in Public Utilities Commission Funds to appropriate to but 1 million from airport airport Commission Funds to d. Appropriate and re appropriate 304,000, approximately from the port Commission Funds and pursuant to charter section 9. 113 subsection c. , this ordinance requires a 23 rd vote of all members for the 12. 1 million in Public Utilities commission appropriations approval, 200 and 83,004 Airport Airport Commission reappropriation approval and 139,000 in Port Commission reappropriations. Chair peskin okay okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, please call item number 8. Item eight is an ordinance to amend the ministry to code to establish the cooperative living living opportunities for Mental Health loan fund and the Mental Health program to finance the acquisition of Residential Properties operated as communal housing for people with chronic Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection oh, i see supervisor safai. Sorry, you are moving so fast i almost missed it. Colleagues, i am in support of this amendment, this legislation today. I think it is very thoughtful. I wanted to add my name is a cosponsor, but just speaking to the sponsor of the legislation, i wanted to add one small piece of language on i am proposing an amendment on line 23, page 5 that would add the ability that there would be an appraisal of the Property Done before any purchase of the property, so that would just be four words after the word start with the Program Regulations shall address matters such as programs and fund administration, public and competitive processes to apply for loans, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, appraisal of the property affordability restrictions for the longest possible term. Those will use the funds underwriting the criteria and Transaction Processing documentation and compliance monitoring and enforcement. Okay. Any objection . I see there is a motion put forward by supervisor peskin. I think the actual provision in the code is pursuant to chapter 23 of the administrative code, but i will defer to council. Deputy city attorney. You are correct, supervisor peskin that chapter 23 addresses appraisal requirements for city purchases of property. This amendment will authorize the department to adopt regulations regarding appraisals under this program. Okay. Any other comments . While i have the floor, perhaps a relevant section of law that supervisor safai wants to refer to his chapter 23 of the administrative code. He said applicable law, the applicable law is that chapter. The current ordinance provides that the department will adopt regulations regarding compliance with applicable law and other issues including appraisals, Program Administration et cetera. So i think supervisor safais amendment hits the mark. For the president , i get it. Is there a second for that . Okay. If there is no objection, one can we take the amendment as stated . Okay. Motion passes. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call as amended . Without objection, this ordinance as amended is passed. On First Reading, mr. President. Thank you for the correction. This ordinance is passed as amended on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the castro lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer cultural district in and around the castro neighborhood and to affirm the sequel determination. The sequel determination. Colleagues, can we take the same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is finally passed. Madame clerk, please call items ten through 12 together. Okay. Item ten through 12, item ten is a resolution to determine and declare that the Public Interest and necessity demand Affordable Housing improvements and related costs necessary to be financed through bonded indebtedness in an amount not to exceed approximately 600 million, to authorize the 50 passthrough of the property tax increase to residential tenants under chapter 37 of the administrative code and to adopt the requisite findings. Item 11 is an ordinance that calls for and provides a special election to be held in San Francisco on tuesday, november 5 th 2019 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the 600 million of bonded indebtedness for Affordable Housing improvements into and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 12 is the motion to urge the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to update and amend the 2019 general obligation Affordable Housing bond report to reflect the increase to the bond amount update allegations of proposed funding and proposed amendments on prioritized issues pursuant to the california Government Code Section 43607 and zero eight. Item ten and 11 require eight votes. Thank you. As you know, in anticipation to this vote this morning, we had a little press Conference Rally out in front of the city hall steps. I want to think all the supervisors who attended the event because this really shows that we are working very closely with the mayor, not only the mayor, but also the community in presenting this bond measure. As you know, we started this discussion a few months back with a 300 milliondollar bond housing bond measure. Eventually people all agreed that we needed to grow it. The needs are much greater and much too great for us to not make it larger then the 300 million. I think with the urging of many of the members on the board of supervisors and with the mayor agreeing that we finally grew it to 600 million, and that is a good thing. Because of your efforts and your staffs efforts, we are going to be able to do a lot more than we had anticipated. Because of this, with the input of the Board Members, we have been able to secure funding to address the Housing Needs in neighborhoods that have not seen any net new Affordable Housing for many, many decades, and we have seen even more investment in Supportive Housing for those with chronic Mental Illness. We also have a callout for a very important population, housing for our Public School educators and staff. I am most proud of us seeing the diverse crosssection of the Community Partners who came together to help form this bond. With the help of our four Incredible Community cochairs, malcolm and others, they were able to engage in a robust discussion about the bigger picture. Housing is a Public Infrastructure issue. It is a Public Health issue, it is a social equity issue. Our roads, our parks Means Nothing if there are no residents here to enjoy them. We need to invest in ensuring existing Affordable Housing stock, but also bring in units that will be available to those who need it most. For the first time ever, and im so excited for this, there is a dedicated conversation about our aging population. Nearly half of our seniors cannot even qualify for Affordable Housing because they are on fixed incomes. We also have seniors who feel trapped in homes that they can no longer maintain, but are unable to move out because of scarce options. Only 12 of the housing in the pipeline for Affordable Housing was dedicated for seniors. Now we have 150 million in this bond to reverse this trend. In addition, this bond measure emphasizes that while we must invest in Public Housing units and build more extremely affordable units for our low income residents, there is still a growing need for our middle income households. If we want to keep our workforce and new families in San Francisco, we must do more to support these residents, too. The need will continue to be there after this bond, but we will be bringing 2800 units online. This is not a small feet. It shows that we can it shows what we can do when we roll up our sleeves and put our brains together. That is what we intend to do. After this board approves this bond measure, it will be in the hands of the voters in San Francisco. I hope we can keep this momentum going strong. The mayor and the board of supervisors, who dont always agree on everything, but for this one, this one particular issue, were coming together to make sure this bond passes overwhelmingly and i want to think you for being with us every step of the way. I would say, lets take the goal and lets get this done. Colleagues, i can see there are other supervisors who would like to make some comments. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge and commend mayor breed and president and your staff and all the members of the Affordable Housing working group for all of the work that you brought in on this incredibly important bond measure. I would like to add im very pleased that it includes the importance of geographic balance of the criteria and allocation of Affordable Housing dollars to prioritize projects in district four and other districts that havent received their fair share of Affordable Housing over the years. I also wanted to highlight that from all of the input that i received from my constituents in district four, also very pleased that there is allocations not only for the different a. M. I. Levels for Affordable Housing, but specific populations that are a high priority including seniors and our educators. Finally, i just wanted to also comment that i think we can all agreed that while this is an incredibly important measure to move forward and 600 million of new investment is supported by housing, that, you know, it is clearly not enough. And all the difficult discussions that happened through the Affordable Housing working group and among Board Members about how to allocate that pie highlights the need for us to continue to look at other Revenue Streams or Revenue Sources so we can truly address the Affordable Housing crisis at the scale that it is and really something that is affecting, you know, all districts and all communities here in the city. I look forward to further work with colleagues on the board and other stakeholders at looking at other revenue proposals that we can come up with and finally i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor ronen . Yes, thank you. This is so exciting. Congratulations to all of a sudden and especially to you, supervisor yee for fighting so hard to double the quantity of this housing bond. This is absolutely essential to create the Affordable Housing that we so desperately need for our working families. People exiting homelessness, seniors, and people with disabilities. I really wanted to take a moment to talk about the Immediate Impact that this will have on district nine. The mission, as you all know is continuing to be ground zero for displacement and i certainly, as a supervisor for the district, felt the organ urgency of the crisis every day. I was determined this bond would keep the pipeline of Affordable Housing Development Going and it will with two projects that havent Broken Ground yet. We will also use a portion of this bond to help and the crisis of People Living on our streets by dedicating funds for acquisition of small scale cooperative delivering just living spaces. I wanted to thank you, president yee because not only did you pay so much close attention to having making sure that all of our individual priorities were included in this bond, but you brought us a mayor and the community all together. I think it is really a testament to your fierce and elegant leadership and i am just so excited about it. Thank you so much and lets go win this thing. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I also want to echo my congratulations and gratitude to you for your leadership in bringing us together and representing us so well in this process. I know we had a conversation early on and we both agreed, well, if theres anything we can do to make this bigger, lets do it. So i really appreciate you and mayor breed and all the members of the committee for seeing that through and doubling the bond in terms of its size from where it was first proposed. I really appreciate that because as supervisor mar said, this process i think we realized how much need there is and how urgent this funding is, and how, you know, if we can have twice as much that we would still feel like we have a long way to go. I want to appreciate your leadership and mayor breeds leadership and our controller who i know, every time i see him i say goodbye. They were able to do that. It is really exciting because this will mean that hundreds of more people, thousands of people will have a place to call home, a stable and affordable place to call home, and it is an extraordinary thing, and life changing for so people. There are a number of projects in district six that are shovel ready that we that will be able to be built if this bond passes. I know we will do everything we can to make sure it passes in november, but this is one of those issues where as the district that has seen the large majority of a lot of the housing being built in the past, im very excited to see housing be built throughout the city as a result of this bond and the commitment to geographic equity and our shared commitment to the board is very exciting. I want to know there was a lot of work done to make sure we maintain our commitment to union labor and prevailing wage and really partner with labor in this process. I think this was a critical aspect that we were able to work through that and educate our housing, seniors, cooperative living, theres so much that is exciting about where we ended up last thing i wanted to say, we did have the need to secure additional ongoing funding. Through this process we have been able to identify where we would prioritize. I hope that we will put the Affordable Housing priority into our bond schedule moving forward so that, on a regular basis, we have an Affordable Housing bond and that we take advantage of things like the jobs housing linkage fee, which is also going to be coming up soon for us to secure hundreds of millions of more and Affordable Housing dollars. Thank you to all of my colleagues for your work on this i would like to be added as a cosponsor in this bond and we look forward to getting it passed in november. Thank you. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. I rise to also affix my name to this Obligation Bond as a cosponsor and salute you and your staff for your work and concur with the previous members of the board to salute the good work of the controller. I want to address one thing. It is the compromise that then supervisor tom made to have a 50 50 passthrough, capture by landlords, have shared by tenants, were indeed it was raised by the Tenants Union that that has actually turned out not to be equitable. I wanted to share with all of you that with the good work of mr. Rosenfield, i will be introducing legislation to make that right. If anybody from the Tenants Union is watching, you can join the forces of labor in supporting this because we are going to fix that little technical problem, which is, i never believed it because we always say that we retire as much debt as we issue, and therefore your marginal tax rate should not be going up, and therefore the past should not be going up, but it turns out that is not true, that it is fixable. It is fixable. That is another thing i wanted to say is that i just had the honor of coming from a ribboncutting of our newest Affordable Housing project with the mayor who has long been in the making. I was delighted to be there. Almost 200 units of Affordable Housing. Much of it for sio