State owned land. The legislation were considering today is a sensible expansion of the planning code that will allow for Farmers Markets to seek authorization to open on other public facilities, such as city and state owned lands. We currently allow intermittent activities like Farmers Market at hospitals and postsecondary institutions and its surprising we dont allow them on other Government Owned Properties like the d. M. V. Parking lot on baker street. The Farmer Market has contracted with the d. M. V. , but it could not make the move under current zoning. Making this change today will allow the market to expand and serve the interests of the residents of district 5. The Pacific CoastFarmers Market association is a good neighbor. And theyve created markets that are accessible to all. Every vendor at this market accepts snap benefits and the market managers are considered members of the community. This move and expansion theyre proposing has the full support of the northern of the panhandle neighborhood association, in addition, merchants such as biright market. It will reopen grocery on sunday, providing relief to folks on grove who have to make contingency plans for accessing their homes every weekend. Finally, the move of this market will activate a space in district 5 that is not currently being used on sunday. We should celebrate the success of Farmers Markets. They promote healthy eating, create Community Spaces and increase the walkability of our neighborhoods. The code update were considering today will create additional Farmers Markets to open in the parking lots of our schools, museums, and public facilities. I hope you will join me today in voting yes on this sensible update that will benefit all san franciscans. President yee can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Before we go to item 45, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. If it pleases the chair, i would love for us to go back to the committee to the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole so we can rescind the vote on item 52 50. We dont have to sit as committee of the whole. We can just rescind the vote. President yee motion made, seconded and with no objection, then, the vote is rescinded. Madame clerk, can we take roll i guess we dont need to take roll call. Can you just name the item again so we know what were talking about. Item 53. We just rescinded the vote for 53, so can you call the item again. Call the item again and take roll call . Yes. On item 53, supervisor fewer . Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay, this ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madame clerk, go back to item number 45. Item 45 is the planning and administrative code changes for the north of market Affordable Housing fees and city wide Affordable Housing fund. Supervisor haney yes, colleagues, for item number 45 at the request of the Mayors Office, im asking for an amendment to update the Fee Associated with the north of market residential special use district. The fee of 5 per square foot was established in 1985 and should be indexed to the current year, which would make it 25. 41 per square foot. The Planning Commission recommended the amendment, but because it was not made at Land Use Committee, im proposing we send the item back to land use as the City Attorney and clerk have advised. I have i think that the clerk has copies . President yee okay. So i think there is motion to make amendment. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor mandelman. Without objection, amendments are adopted unanimously. And then there has been a motion to by supervisor haney to send this refer this item back to committee as amended. Is there a second . Second by supervisor walton. Without objection, this ordinance will be rereferred back to committee as amended. Please call item number 48. 47 maybe. 47. Item 47 is a resolution to impose interim zoning control for 18month period requiring conditional use authorization for a change in use from nighttime entertainment to any other use allowed in the area south of Market Street and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. President yee can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 48 is ordinance to amend the police code to clarify the content of the notice that employers must post summarizing applicants and employees rights under the fair chance ordinance. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this is passed. Number 49. Item 49 is a resolution to determine that the premise to premise transfer of type 21 of sale, beer, wine, to Guss Community Market located at 1101 Fourth Street will serve the public convenience or the necessity of the city and to request that the California Department of alcoholic Beverage Control impose conditions on the issuance of the license. President yee same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Item 50. Motion to approve the mayors nomination for the reappointment of ben layman to the entertainment commission. Same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Item 51 is a motion to reappoint paul wells to the bicycle advisory committee, term ending november 19, 2021. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, we are going to item number what . Committee reports. 54. Item 54 through 57 were considered by the government audience and Oversight Committee at a regular meeting on thursday, july 18, 2019 and were forwarded as committee reports. Item 54 was recommended. Its ordinance to amend the administrative code to create an office of Racial Equity as a division of the Human Rights Commission department. President yee okay. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you very much, president yee. I want to first acknowledge this week were celebrating the 55th Year Anniversary of the human rights president yee excuse me, supervisor fewer, do you want to oh, im sorry. I thought we called 54 to 57. Just item 54. Okay, thank you. F supervisor fewer i want to acknowledge we are celebrating the 55th year of the Human Rights Commission. The same year that the Civil Rights Act was passed. As the director explained yesterday, the founding of the Human Rights Commission came in response to explicit antiblack racism in San Francisco and the organizing to fight such racism. Considering this history, it is fitting that our legislation to establish an office of Racial Equity is voted on during the same week we celebrate this legacy, to continue and refocus our efforts to address racism in the city. Im proud of this legislation that finally makes a real commitment in San Francisco to adjust Racial Disparities in our city that have deepened over generations. There is deep racism in the country, causing harm to communities of color over hundreds of years and San Francisco was not an exception to the history. Historic race based racism has manifested in destructive policies like creating obstacles for chinese residents from owning business. The racial segregation of neighborhoods. The internment of japanese americans and the destruction of black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal. Now Racial Injustice appears differently. It is not exclusion policies, but rather in the inaction of the government to address and correct these pastimes done. And this has led to worsening disparities for black san franciscans, as well as latin, asian, arab communities in the area of housing, income, economic security, health, criminal justice, education and so much more. So today, this board will take action to address structural racism. Our legislation will require a citywide Racial Equity plan with identified outcomes and accountability for departments and tool for analysis pending legislation at the board of supervisors among other measures and it establishes office of Racial Equity to oversee all of this work. This legislation was drafted and amended with input from city workers, and nonprofit organizations. It is long past due that they renew their commitment to civil rights. And the new office will hold us accountable as a city to make sure that everyone who lives here has an equitable opportunity to life to. Thank you for my partner in this legislation supervisor brown, and her fabulous staff. I want to extend my profound thanks to my legislative aide chelsea for her diligence and persistence to craft legislation that sets a foundation for Racial Equity in the city. Thank you to my cosponsors for your support. Supervisor walton, mandelman, ronen, mar. And the Human Rights Commission for their support in the drafting process. And thank you to all of the members to have the public who came out to support and shared their stories. We know this is not a Silver Bullet for racism, but it is a critical, long overdue step toward Racial Equity. Thank you. [please stand by] in california, and throughout the United States, we have seen a genocidal history with our native and indigenous communities, which is included exportation and a loss of land, culture, and language. This history was made possible by the state laws and policies. This city was built on that history and those policies. We need to atone for this harm. There is no simple solution to undo this pain. This will take continued organizing and work on behalf of our board, working handinhand with our local community. We need to acknowledge and address our past harm for a more hopeful future, and we also need better policies and funding to combat deep disparities in housing, health care, education, transportation, and employment. I hope that we can Work Together to take this first step and pass this legislation thinking. Supervisor walton . Thank you. I want to thank the supervisors and all the cosponsors for working hard to set up this office of Racial Equity, and as we continue to attempt to address the injustice and inequalities that exist in our city and work to achieve tangible outcomes from recommendations from reports such as the unfinished agenda and the outmigration report, this will finally give us a formal platform to adequately address these recommendations and requires Department Heads to respond with concrete plans to address race issues that exist in our city. Theres more work to do, but this office calls out racial inequities and will affect systemic change. Thank you for everyone supporting this. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 55 through 57. Fiftyfive through 57 are three ordinances representing the following settlements, for eight and 55, this authorizes the settlement of the petitioner s claim for Attorney Fees and costs in a lawsuit filed by san franciscans for livable neighborhoods against the city for approximately 250,000 and involves a challenge to the Environmental Impact report prepared in support of and the approval of the 2009 Housing Element of the citys general plan, it does incorporate the new language from committee, item 56 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by fidel joshua against the city for 460,000. The settlement involves an employment dispute, and for eight and 57, this item authorizes settlement of the lawsuit filed by jury jack against the city for 200,000 and involves an employment dispute. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Fiftyeight through 63 were considered by the land use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday, july 22nd. Item 58 was not forwarded to the board. Item 59, mr. President , this item is an ordinance that amends the planning and administrative code to establish a legitimization program for certain nonresidential uses at 3150 18th street and requires the office of Small Business to assist businesses under the program and affirms the ceqa determination. This item was recommended as a mended and incorporates new language from committee. Colleagues, supervisor ronen . Thank you. Colleagues, in january, dozens of Small Businesses with active space learned they were facing displacement and finds due to violations of existing zoning regulations. These businesses are very small, owner operated enterprises and most of them are health and personal Services Including acupuncturists, massage practitioners and tattoo artists i was extremely concerned for the owners so i held two Community Meetings with the tenants, quickly introduced this legislation in my office personally connected the tenants to followup. Closing nearly 100 Small Businesses on the same block, all at once, would be an economic crisis for the mission, a neighborhood already suffering from the displacement of hundreds of Small Businesses. The ordinance that i have authored will prevent the displacement of these businesses were providing them with amnesty under the planning code. It will allow businesses currently operating in active space, a building that is zoned p. D. R. , to be considered legal, nonconforming uses, so they can remain in the building as long as they felt appropriate application. While this legislation is about saving businesses, i want to be clear that i am also actively working to protect arts and manufacturing spaces. Light manufacturing spaces provide san franciscans with important bluecollar jobs. The mission is one of the few districts whether p. D. R. Zoning exists and we must protect these hardtofind spaces. I can go into detail about what the legislation does, but i will spare you unless you have questions. I just wanted to thank the tenants who have been in communication with our office and have helped us to find this work and this solution. I want to thank the city departments and staff that have been working with my office for the past six months to come up with this solution, including the director and the office of Small Business. Our zoning administrator, and department staff, and the department of building inspection, as well as the department of public health, with particular thanks to stefani and jen. Finally, i want to thank carlee number alice from my office. It is no small feat to organize and work with hundreds of businesses that are in panic of losing their space, and she was on the phone and meeting with these businesses nonstop for months on end. Thank you so much, carlee not. I also want to thank my cosponsors as well as the Land Use Committee for unanimously supporting this item. I hope you will support it as well. Thank you so much. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call [applause] please call item number 60. Sixty is an ordinance to amend the planning code to reference the polk pacific special area Design Guidelines and to affirm the sequel determination to make the appropriate findings. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is ordinances passed on First Reading. Madame clerk, call sixtyone. Item 61 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to change from 18 months to three years the period of nonuse required to deem as discounted a permanent conditional use in the north beach neighborhood commercial district to affirm the sequel determination and to make the appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. I need to offer some amendments related to section 101. 1, findings as well as general plan consistency findings, which are being drafted so if we can continue this until after roll call and public comment, i will circulate those findings to all of my colleagues. Okay. No problem. Madame clerk, lets go to items 62, 63 together. Item 62 was recommended as recommended with the same title, it is an ordinance to accept the revocable offer with the storm water pump station number 5, and item 63 is an ordinance to dedicate the parking lot as open public rights of way in Mission Bay South and to adopt the appropriate findings for both items. Okay. Colleagues, can we take these items same house, same call . Without objection, these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item 64 through 67 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on monday, july 22nd. Item 64 64 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish uniform procedures for the administration of city loans and grants for the acquisition, development, construction, rubella tatian and preservation of Affordable Housing, to authorize the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute certain loan or grant agreements for Affordable Housing, and authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development in the director of property to acquire certain Real Property without an appraisal and accept a deed for the purpose of preserving Affordable Housing. Supervisor peskin . I will not reiterate my earlier comments that i made when miss hartley was being honored, but i will add one other thing, which is the notion of delegating authority for foreclosures is actually something that we offered several years ago after a couple of unfortunate foreclosures of b. M. R. Restricted properties. They are no longer subject to below market rate covenants. I appreciate the fact that you are now incorporating that in this ordinance, albeit, i kind of want to note for the record that we offered that to the department in 2016. Supervisor brown . Yes, i want to give a little perspective for me because when we are looking at these sites, and we have to turn them around, sometimes a turnaround to small site acquisition, and 60 or 90 days, and we know there are things that have to be done to it. Rehabilitation that we need to be able to have them move quickly with these at risk properties, and i had this happen for one of the properties that we were able to buy. I just think it is really important that we want to maximize the potential of our small site program. It is critical that mohcd is able to move fast. With this potential loss of these sites and other buyers, it limits our ability, so i really want to be supportive of this going through so give some a little bit of wiggle room to be able to buy these sights. Thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinances step in, please. Without objection, this ordinances passed from First Reading unanimously. Next item, please. Item 65 was tabled in committee and was not forwarded to the board, so item 66 as a resolution to urge the office of Small Business to convene a Small Business economic Mitigation Working Group to outline economic mitigation measures in support of San Franciscos Small Business retailers affected by ordinance number 12219 and to request the office of the controller to provide an Economic Impact report. Supervisor walton . I would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Item 67 is a motion to reappoint scott patterson, Betty Packard and ashley rivette, terms and a november 30th, 2020, to the ballot simple sympathy occasion committee. This item was recommended from committee as amended with a new title. Colleagues, can we take the same house, same call . Without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. Lets go to roll call. Supervisor viewer is first up to introduce new business. Submit. Supervisor haney . Thank you, madame clerk. I mentioned this this morning at the t. A. Meeting. I am submitting a resolution today asking mayor breed and the sfmta to declare a state of emergency around Traffic Safety on the streets of San Francisco. I want to thank chair peskin for speaking on this issue this morning and for board president he and supervisor viewer, and so many others who have worked on this issue and to have spoke on the urgency. On average, three people a day are hit by cars in San Francisco that is more than any other city in our state. Many of the fatal crashes in the city have happened in the tenderloin and soma. A part of the city where we have the highest concentration of children. I also, a supervisor fewer noted today, these are crashes and fatalities that are happening all over our city. They were two individuals who were killed in her district this year, as well. Just this last week, we had two separate fatal crashes in district six. Last week, a 54yearold Michael Evans was hit by a big rig at eddie and mason, and on sunday, a speeding car ran a red light and killed benjamin dean, and seriously injured his wife, kelly, who is still in the hospital. This is a tragedy, and to michael and dean and kelly, and the many other individuals who have lost their lives this year to traffic collisions, we recognize that our city has to do so much better. Benjamin and kelly were actually married here at city hall and were here visiting this city, celebrating their wedding anniversary. This morning we had a rally on the streets of city hall, and i want to thank supervisors walton and ronen and brown and peskin and supervisor yee for being there. Walk s. F. , the bike coalition, community members, we are calling for, along with senator weiner, calling for a state of emergency to be cleared here in San Francisco. While we are making progress, it is not happening fast enough, and we are calling for immediate and proactive action. There are things that we can do to protect and save lives on our streets. The need for a red light camera, immediate he put out on our streets is something that we can do now, installing Pedestrian Safety measures like scrambles where we separate when pedestrians are walking and when cars are turning or driving, we can reduce the number of lanes on streets that we know are much like freeways with fastmoving traffic, like many of the streets in the tenderloin and soma. We can retime our lights so that we prioritize safety rather than speed and flow. We can quickly gather data, get rid of any barriers to increasing safety and support any and all funding streams to bring pedestrian deaths down to zero. We also can prioritize enforcement in ways that we are not right now. Far too often we see people flying through the tenderloin at high speeds or even through red lights without any fear of enforcement at all. We believe that by declaring a state of emergency we can take more immediate and sweeping action, and i hope that my colleagues will join me in this. I know this is something that has impacted all of our districts, and we are all greatly concerned about it, so i hope that we can join together and make this strong statement that we want to see more sweeping and immediate action to save lives on our streets. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor haney. I would like to be added as a cosponsor to the resolution. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor mandelman . Thank you. I will just report back that supervisor haney and i attended last weeks executive committee meeting. The most eventful and noteworthy things were three positions that the executive committee took on statewide legislation. One was a. B. 14 and 87, simile member tos legislation to allow for m. T. C. And to raise revenue on a regional basis by putting taxes on that would raise Affordable Housing funds that could be spent across the region that passed after three hours of conversation, pretty overwhelmingly 223 with 1 extension. Similarly, there was broad support for simile just for a. B. 1486 which was a revision to the safe surplus land act to make war surplus land available for Affordable Housing. Far more controversial, and in fact, not recommended and in fact, they recommended against s. B. 330 s. B. 330, they recommended against it by one vote. This was the state senator skinners legislation to limit the discretion of local governments in Processing Development applications. I found pretty compelling in testing my vote against that memo that had been prepared by the planning department. That said, the bills prohibition on new Design Standards after generally first, 2018, they do not meet the definition of objective standards would propose propose a significant disruption to do the Design Review process, specifically the urban Design Guidelines which were adopted in march 2018 that would become more difficult to lament under the bill. The central soma plan adopted in late 2018 generally applies and would be similarly challenged by the bill, i would as we design guideline efforts currently underway in the hub and in the poke specific spirit special area. For me, that was enough to vote no, and for various reasons they did recommend against that legislation. And the last point that we probably should bring up here from that meeting is that we were going into another arena update, Regional Housing needs allocation and we had a presentation that outlined how that is going to work. We are going to end up probably with a significantly greater obligation to produce or to plan for and produce housing at all levels then we have experienced before. Many of us know proudly that San Francisco has his meeting their housing goals. It is unlikely to be the case after the next arena update in 2022. And as folks know, the consequence of not meeting your arena obligations is a significant loss of local control, so that is my update from the executive committee meeting, and the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mar . Supervisor peskin . Thank you, madame clerk. Im introducing the San Francisco reuse ordinance which is a piece of environmental legislation designed to further San Franciscos and i were mayor s zero waste commitment that was made last year to drastically reduce the amount of solid waste that ends up on our streets, in our waterways, in the ocean, in the bay, and of course, in our landfills. I dont think it is an understatement to say that we are experiencing a number of environmental crises. As i said yesterday, half joking , it is a race between whether we will end up up to our next in sea level rise, or plastic first, and yesterday, the Land Use Committee held a hearing convened by supervisor mandelman relative to the declaration of Climate Emergency on the federal level, it is the green new deal, but i want to be perfectly clear, the 4 trilliondollar plastics industry is also the Petroleum Industry and it is wreaking havoc in the same way, matter of fact, Climate Change and the plastics problem are inextricably linked. It is the same exact companies that are fighting regulation of fossil fuels. Im talking about chevron, exxonmobil, shall petroleum, the same national lobbying entities that are fighting plastic bag regulations and are working with alec to preempt, most recently in the state of tennessee, any regulation of plastic disposal and i am sure that they will work to poke holes in our policies and this piece of legislation. But the data is truly disturbing in the late 1960s, less than 25 million tons of plastic were produced each year in the night it states. By the 80s, that production had doubled to over 50 million tons. By the nineties, it doubled again to over 100 million tons. Today, the plastic industry, which as i said earlier is estimated to be worth more than 4 trillion, it generates more than 300 million tons of plastic a year, nearly half of which is designed to be single use plastic where. We tend, erroneously, to think of plastic as recyclable, but this has turned out, in large part, to be a con of the plastic industry. The vast majority of the 8. 3 billion metric tons of plastic produced, almost 80 has ended up in landfills or polluted our planet. According to our own Waste Company here, recology, which collects and processes 700 tons of recyclables in San Francisco every single day, less than 10 of all plastic has ever been recycled. We did a beach cleanup on sunday sponsored by the Surfrider Foundation which has been collecting data that shows that 80 of the plastic items that ended up on our beaches and in our oceans a single use food where and beverage cups. Your standard small footprint, fast casual restaurant in San Francisco can generate upwards of a half a million individual singleuse plastic items per year, over 3600 pounds of plastic waste. Rethink disposable huston outreach to businesses across the bay area, and for those restaurants who have voluntarily converted to a fully reusable model, savings can be in the tens of thousands of dollars per year. The reuse ordinance that i am announcing today and i want to thank supervisor brown for her cosponsorship and leadership around the plastic bag charge, is similar in some ways and has three major components. First, and this will be a controversial part, a 25 cents charge on all single use beverage cups and takeout containers, but, that charge would actually be retained by the restaurant or food vendor to help them defray costs and help them invest in reusable food where. Second, a requirement that restaurants provide reasonable food where for all onsite dining, and third, a mandate that all delivery apps provide utensils and other food where only by affirmative request, meaning that the default would be you dont get ten plastic forks that you dont need to because you are actually eating at home. This legislation is designed to raise awareness about the citys zero waste goals and change Consumer Behavior in the exact same way that Consumer Behavior was changed by the plastic bag charge. As we discussed, we know that this legislation works. A 2016 study demonstrated that california jurisdictions with bands on nonreusable plastic bags sought a 23rd reduction in their use. In the city of santa cruz, the 25cent check out bag charge has resulted in a 90 customers changing their behavior to bring reusable bags. The Plastic Bag Ban and 10cent paper bag charge in l. A. Has reduced overall nonreusable back used by over 90 . In San Francisco, our own department of the environment has reported over 60 of customers now bringing their own grocery bags. I also want to be perfectly clear, this charge is not a tax, it is completely avoidable. It is not assessed if purchases are made with food stamps, it is not assessed of consumers change their behavior, which i think is an imperative to do so. It is progressive to take this bold action now so we are not left paying costs down the line. We will pay those costs one way or another, whether it is increased charges from recology to the ratepayers, they will pay and normas cost of cleanup. We will pay the cost of cleaning up after the Big Oil Companies that are pillaging the planets resources that pollute our environment and our atmosphere. We can take some modest steps to change Consumer Behavior to send a signal to manufacturers that there is profit in reusable alternatives to disposable cups, containers, and utensils. We change our behavior now, we might just avoid the worst of the harm. Im also introducing a request to the b. L. A. To put together a report on the impact of delivery on exacerbating our culture of convenience, our throwaway culture. More than just food delivery, we have become too accustomed to ordering everything online, a practice which has had adverse impacts on our retailers and our retail corridors, as we just learned in the very public and said example of mission pie. I want to thank supervisor brown and welcome all of you to read it and join on as cosponsors if you would like. I would also like to acknowledge the leadership of president he who has dedicated funds to his district to perform outreach to Small Businesses. I really want to think recology who is supporting this legislation, including our former aide and colleague and john part her john porter who helped us clean up the beach this sunday, and to have been advocating against singleuse food where an plastics in our states capital. And finally, i want to thank the coalition of advocates who have been building the movement to save our planet and our advocates for list legislation including the Surfrider Foundation, upstream, clean water action, rethink disposable , californians against waste, greens greenpeace, and save the bay. I particularly want to thank my staff who have been working on this legislation with all of the aforementioned organizations. As we close out another plastic free july, i hope this legislation starts a broad conversation and we will continue to invite Small Businesses and all of our affected communities in and let them know that there are a lot of standups in this legislation. The rest i will submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor peskin, i think youll be very proud of our board president , who i saw bringing his little single use plastic container down to the cafeteria to refill his salad because he didnt want to waste a new one. It was really awesome. [laughter] they actually had to put down a towel so that they abided by health standards, but i was very proud of president. Colleagues, today im introducing a resolution supporting workers in San Franciscos largest veterinarian each year they care for thousands of sick and injured animals. Last year, these workers decided to organize and do something about the low pay, high turnover , and training problems that hurt them and the animals they care for. They held an election and voted overwhelmingly to form a union and they chose to join the International Longshore and warehouse union. The law says the next step is for the union and company to negotiate a contract. That process started 14 months ago, but unfortunately has resulted in delays and not a contract. This is no momandpop veterinarian hospital. It is a big business. The San Francisco veterinarian Specialist Hospital is owned by vca, a company that owns 800 animal hospitals. In 2017, it was bought by mars inc. , the Candy Company that sells m a his m ms and snickers. Mars pays paid 9. 7 billion for those animal hospitals including s. F. Is one of the largest private companies, mars 2017 revenues is worth 35 billion. Unfortunately, instead of negotiating and reaching a contract, they decided to hire a professional union busters. So after 14 months, these veterinarian workers still have no contract. It seems like this company is going out of their way to punish workers. They have been cutting services, closing the citys only fulltime Oncology Service for animals and has lost seven veterinarians in the past year. Recently, the board did an investigation into the situation they filed a formal complaint. I am told the other violations are being investigated now that could result in further charges. This is all incredibly frustrating. The resolution before you today urges the community to stop this community, specifically states that the San Francisco board of supervisors strongly supports veterinarian workers in San Francisco who choose to form unions and negotiate contracts with employers in order to improve working conditions and promote quality of care for patients and clients. It also urges mars inc. To immediately halt all forms of antiunion contact, embrace workers and the democratically elected union, and reach a contract settlement. I urge you to join me in adopting this to defend these workers. By doing so, we are sending a strong message to mars that we expect them to honor the law and do right by their employees. Secondly, i knew would like to introduce an in memoriam in honor of bernardo, the beloved father of susanna working on got violence prevention and latin x. Youth empowerment. He was born in columbia on april 29th, 1930. He was kind, honest and a hardworking man and he made a difference in the lives of everyone he met. He will be deeply missed by his family and the countless people whose lives he touched and his exemplary and remarkable life. He and his wife and his youngest daughter immigrated to the United States in the late 1980s. The family was forced to leave columbia to build a new life in the United States and seek financial and Healthcare Security after his wife suffered his field of work took them all him all over the globe and each of these sites found him to take young, new talent under the wing and mentor them. Also had to be an honorable person in their lives and with their families. He is survived by his wife, his children and by his eight grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. He will be sorely missed, not only by his loving family but also by his community in San Francisco. May he rest in peace. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Madame clerk, in the context of the conversation today about the homelessness crisis, i am making im introducing specific legislation for our vehicle triage lot at the corner of san jose and geneva. A supervisor brown noted in supervisor ronen noted in her comments today, initially there was not a strong reception and not an acknowledgement that this is something that should be tackled from this angle. We were very adamant about the desire to put forward a policy through the legislative process and change the legislative process and not just have some internal decisionmaking happen. I want to thank the mayor for committing a million dollars, into all of my colleagues for supporting an additional 200,000 to this pilot program. We are very fortunate that we have a location in our district that we can look at as a possibility. The site that we are proposing is the upper yard. It will be built in the next year or so into Affordable Housing, but in its current usage, it is a parking lot and it is immediately accessible to public transportation. It is very visible, it is very defensible, so with minimal Cost Increases a minimal cost investment, we will be able to turn this into our citys first vehicle triage center. We had a Large Community meeting i would put that number close to about 500 people, balboa high school, and it was very animated and it was and to my to me being very proud, about half the room was immediately in favor of this. They understand that our part of town needs to do its part in addressing our homeless crisis. The other half of the room had some reservation and were against. As people heard what was being proposed, they were very much open and willing to listen further, and the question that i posed to them, was, these are our neighbors now. These folks live in this neighborhood now, on san jose avenue, on mission street, people call me and say people are sleeping in their cars and so the street cleaning comes at 5 00 a. M. , and then they move. And so this is a crisis that i know myself, supervisor ronen and brown, immediately were responding to, and then the homeless point in time count came out, and of the 30 increase we have seen in homelessness in our city, almost 70 of that are folks living in their vehicles. So my question back to those that were opposed to anyone that is not willing to embrace this, is what would you do . Because the idea of continuously putting a sign, no overnight sleeping in your vehicles, all it really does is push it from one block to the other. It does not solve the problem. In no way am i saying that this proposal will solve the crisis of People Living in their vehicles, but it is a real crisis and we believe that it is a small step and a positive step in the right direction. I know supervisor yee who borders my district, also has seen a major increase in the number of People Living in their vehicles, so i want to thank him also for working in partnership with me on this proposal. He and i are going to be working together going forward. We immediately engaged stakeholders, we talked to a lot of community leaders, nonprofits , association leaders, neighbors that were in the meeting environment. We put 45 people in the room and talked about this before we came forward today. Every single one of them raise their hand to say that they would support doing this pilot, and then we followed it up with a Large Community meeting. We will continue over the next couple of months to meet with many different neighbors, with many different stakeholders, and we dont pretend to have all the answers, but we believe that this is the third step in the process, and a supervisor brown pointed out. Thank you for pushing me initially when we started this conversation. I know it is easy to say lets just put up signs and move on, but you shared your own personal experience of your own time living in an r. V. When you were young, and what an impact that had on you and who you are today so that was a really important thing. I appreciate you working with me on this. So this is the third step. We change the its administrative code, we change the police code, but every time we propose one of these vehicle triage lots, they will have to be a planning Code Amendment for the specific site. That is what im introducing today. We will go to the Planning Commission, we will continue to at the end of next month, will continue to have conversations with those in our neighborhood, and we will continue to get feedback as much as possible, but i would like to end with saying, also thank you to the coalition on homelessness and the department of housing and supportive services. Although there was some initial reluctance on their part, they have embraced this and are working diligently with us, along with public works, along with sfmta, along with supervisor brown and supervisor ronen, and as i said, president g. s office, and all the different people that are important to seeing this move forward. Unlike in the past, in many ways , district 11 being the last , we are very proud that district 11 is to be the first neighborhood in the city that will attempt to move this pilot forward. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Colleagues, i would like to close todays meeting in memory of angelina, known by her friends and families, she was also the sister of the former mayor, joseph leota. Born in San Francisco on april 23rd, 1913, she celebrated her 102nd birthday with her family angelinas parents met on the 19 th 19 06, the day of the big earthquake. Her father and uncles fishing business shaped what is now fishermans worth. She graduated from Presentation High School before attending u. C. Berkeley. At berkeley, she studied french, spanish, and italian and travelled to campus each day by ferry since her father would not allow her to move away from home after graduation, she worked as a manager at a Large Company before chaperoning her sister in an internship in mexico would diego rivera. Upon her return to San Francisco , she met her future husband. A physician from baltimore in 1935. Joe and angelina were married for 71 years and raised five children. Angelinas home was known as being the Grand Central station of baker street, is all of the neighbor kids neighborhood kids was shuffled through for dinners and everyone know when they went angelinas they would be well fed. She was a longtime volunteer at st. Marys Medical Center as well as the patron of the San Francisco opera, the San Francisco symphony and the american conservatory theatre. Although she was extraordinarily welltraveled, a favorite time of the year was that week she spent with all of her children and grandchildren in lake tahoe. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and greatgrandchildren and predeceased by her devoted husband and her loving siblings and when it, stefani, and the former mayor, joseph. She was the last of his siblings it is truly the end of an era. She will be remembered for her warm and giving personality. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Thank you. Today i have a memorial. Colleagues, i would like to adjourn todays meeting in honor of miss williams. Yesterday we lost a Genuine Community jim jim. She was a bayview resident and stable for over 50 years. Born in alexandria, louisiana, and came to San Francisco in 1960. With a child care advocate, a mother, she was a community activist, a Family Resource center director, a leader, and someone who dedicated her whole life to service. For years she worked with the Economic Opportunity council, creating and developing and managing childcare programs, as well as the Community Director of the potrero hill Family Resource center, which she also founded. Not only did she pursue her education in Early Childhood development, she also travelled to england in the early seventies to Gain Knowledge of Early Childhood education overseas. She started off doing Family Advocacy at a Head Start Program today known as alice griffith. In addition to her work, she was a mentor to many women and helps them realize their leadership potential as she demonstrated leadership and connected women to opportunities that did not exist many years ago. She was always willing to provide for people in need, adopted many children and families and treated them like her own. Her work and dedication led to a call to name an infant and Toddler Center after her. The infant and Toddler Center, which she also founded. She has an honorary ph. D. And her love and devotion to god was wellknown. Her commitment to her community was unmatched and evident through her creation of the food pantry in potrero hill, evident in her creation of the grandparents proof of potrero hill and evident in her willingness to be a Foster Parent for many years in treating all children as her own she did everything with class, dignity, and independence as she and she did it her way. She was educated and worked hard to give her children, and those she served a better life. Her mother died when she was three years old and she was the youngest of all of her siblings and raised by her grandmother, which is probably why she had such a big heart and opened her life to everyone. On a personal note, she opened her home to my mother and i i was younger and we were going through a life transition and has been a constant in my life. Sh good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, july 18th meeting. My name is supervisor gordan mar and im the chair of this committee. Im joined by supervisor aaron peskin, brown is running late and shell be with us in a few minutes. Thank you to this committees clerk, john carole and id like