Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240714

As you all know, San Francisco welcomes and encourages emerging technology. As a city we must ensure that technologies provide net common good, measure in identifiable ways, and that they are safe and appropriate. So, we have learned, on more than one occasion, that many businesses and in some cases, entire industries have launched and ground with little regulation oversight. This is due to the absence of a process that could facilitate envisioning the future of emerging technologies. Today the most salient example of emerging technologies are mobility, focus and impacting our streets and sidewalks. The guidelines in the prince was of the office will be inclusive of technologies beyond mobilitys. To include startup and technologies that will potentially impact of critical resources, whether it is water, air, and our environment. The office of emerging technology will speak to industries beyond mobility and transportation including health services, public, private partnerships, later sharing agreements, and anywhere there is a nexus between emerging technology and the public realm. The emerging Technology Diversity must be accommodating the most vulnerable persons, including seniors, children, and those with mobility and other limitations, not the other way around. Not retrospectively or as an afterthought. The privacy of our residents must not be compromised with data collection, and of an emerging technology. The creation of emerging technology will allow the departments to maintain their respective objectives, while working collectively toward this goal of supporting emergency technology, and limiting Public Resources to serve the welfare of san franciscans. I look forward to working with all of you, the public, private and tech sectors as this legislation is established. Resident setting guiding principles, and for the office of emerging technology. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor brown. Thank you, madame clerk can you add me as a cosponsor to supervisor peskins displacement legislation . Thank you. Colleagues, id like, many of you, have heard from dozens of massage and bodywork practitioners in this past week, due to over 200 letters from the department of Public Health. These letters were sent out, for a whistleblower complaint. Filed with the department. This is actually scary, and alarming, for many practitioners who are struggling to make a living in the city and keep their doors open. Although, this industry is designed to relieve our stress, and our aches, we know that our practitioners have felt the pain of overreaching regulations, extremely restrictive zoning. All of us at one time or another have spoken about the importance and making it easier for Small Businesses to do business in San Francisco. This is one industry where the citys current regulations are doing just the opposite. They do not reflect the importance of integration of massage to the delivery of the healthcare, and stifling its growth. I have three actions that i am asking today. One, i am calling for the City Attorney to drop comprehensive legislation that will improve Economic Vitality of legitimate massage businesses. It is clear to me that we need an ordinance that will potentially amend our planning code, our health code, and make administrative reforms. For the past several months, my office and i have been working with the office of Small Business to get policy direction , and i would like to thank regina, and her staff, for your support. I also appreciate supervisor mandleman and ronen for joining me on this work, given how this impacts their districts, too. We met with the massage council to hear the concerns and understand the challenges of this industry. I am committed to commonsense regulatory amendments that would not only serve legitimate massage business owners, but also would retain the integrity of controls put into place in order to prevent illicit sex work, and Human Trafficking. Two, i am calling for the department of Public Health to ease up on enforcement of our massage practitioners while we undergo this legislative process. This overall would take thoughtful work. And we need time to do this. We need to bring more people to the table, and work with the massage and bodywork industry, anti Human Trafficking advocates, and our sex worker advocates to determine the next steps. Lastly, i am asking for the office of Small Business to meet with them massage practitioners, on friday september 13 to get additional policy direction from the industry. We cannot develop solutions in a vacuum, we need to hear from this community. San francisco has also been a leader in delivering highquality healthcare, and we have been a leader in developing integrative healthcare. We can do the same for massage and bodywork. This is not just about the delivery of healthcare, it is an two important equity issue for women and Small Business owners. This issue impacts directly our frontline communities; women, immigrants, people of color and our queer communities. The American Massage Therapy Association estimates that nationally, massage therapists are mostly 80 , likely to be so practitioners, enter massage Massage Therapy profession as a second career, and the medium age of a massage therapist is 44 years old. The federal bureau of labor estimates there is 1900 female massage therapist employed in the bay area earning a yearly Median Income of 42,890. We need to protect this lifeline , for our women, on the margins. Colleagues, i also realize that there are illicit sex, and human traffic operators that fronted their operations under disguise a massage. I also believe that we can create regulations of that it can growth for massage as part of healthcare, and not allow illicit operators to open. I applied my colleagues were taking additional solutions, we need systematic change. I am also asking, my fellow supervisors, to please work with me on this. I need your input and guidance. I look forward to working with the City Attorney, supervisors mandleman,. Seven and the rest of our colleagues to make this happen. The rest i submit. Supervisor viewer. Thank you. Colleagues, across the city we are seeing the alltoofamiliar longrunning construction projects, that have real impact, not only to our streetscape but also on a Small Business courtyard. We hear from our Small Businesses about concerns regarding Pedestrian Access, parking impact challenges with loading and unloading, and other Significant Impacts the bottom line of viability of Small Businesses as well as the economic neighborhood. Small businesses are the backbone of our neighborhood. It is time that we intentionally and proactively care about resources with mitigation strategies for large projects as a way of protecting our Small Businesses due to construction. With a supervisor brown, i am requesting that the City Attorneys Office Dropped an ordinance that would mandate, incorporate a Small Business Construction Mitigation Fund as part of large construction projects. Where threshold of a Significant Impact to Small Businesses can be estimated. There should be a very intentional consideration of the potential Small Business impact. I would like to see projects have a line item that accounts for percentage that will be set aside a for the purposes of a Small Business construction mitigation. It is critical we have the resources in place to develop programs and processes to best support Small Businesses for construction. The unique Small Business needs vary along project neighborhoods, one thing is similar, Small Business merchants can use the relief. Thank you supervisor brown for your support, as we develop this ordinance for the Small Business Construction Mitigation Fund. The rest i submit. Supervisor haney. Thank you, madame clerk. I wanted to say brief word about the resolution that supervisor mark, and i, and president. Yee added his name, i did have the opportunity to visit brandon, his family, in the philippines, a hospital, and he is definitely improving, he is able to breathe on his own. He is able to be responsive, conscious. He is still very much in critical condition, and to make things even worse, hes even in a situation where his security is still very much at risk. There are people that come into his room, and around the hospital, saying they may be affiliated with police who attempted to assassinate him. This is a very urgent situation that we want to continue to bring attention, and publicity to, so that the u. S. Embassy, the philippian government responds and ensures his security, and health. We also have been looking into opportunities for potentially bringing brandon back home with the support of our department of Public Health, his mom who is there with him, is a 30 plus year employee of the department of Public Health. His brother is a nurse area i just wanted to thank you, and your staff for your advocacy for brandon, and we want to continue to do everything we can to support him. Calling on hearing for the decision to take away 75 of permanent residential treatment beds from seriously mental l people. This is a responsible and illogical. We need to get to the bottom of this the residents of the Behavioral Health centers adult residential facility are extremely vulnerable and they need the help of our Healthcare Professionals to assist them with their activities. They require the help of nurses to assist with her laundry, management and handle their finances. While we drafted the legislation, we worked closely with a core group of experts who passionately advocate for the rights of the same clients to reside where theyre at. What i heard from them, time and time again was that we have a broken Mental Health system that fails to address the serious needs of mental ill clients braided the system does not adequately serve all of our essential needs because of the severe shortage of permanent housing solutions. Reducing the number of beds available was such a Vulnerable Group at this alarming rate is sending a clear message that we are willing to turn our backs on them. Their needs are far less important, when we are prioritizing temporary shelter beds in terms of longterm housing solutions. Instead of focusing on the needs of both populations, we have pitted them against each other. When we make these decisions it is critical that we take our advice from the Mental Health professionals who are on the front lines, and who are the experts. If it wasnt for the leadership of the frontline workers and members of local 21, this problem would have been swept under the rug i would have caused dire consequences for the health and wellbeing for the residents of the area as well as the workers they consider to be family. We do need low Barrier Navigation Centers to treat clients suffering with Mental Health and Substance Abuse issues. However that cannot happen at the expense of shutting down 75 of these beds. We absolutely need to hold a hearing on this decision and schedule it, by the end of this month. The future and wellbeing of the residents are depending on it, and we owe it to all of them to advocate for their health and safety. The rest i submit. Thank you. No other names on the roster. Why dont we just go ahead and called the first 3 00 p. M. Special order. Items 912, comprise the 3 00 p. M. Special order for public hearing of persons interested in a Community Plan evaluation by the planning department, under the California Environmental quality act, issued on june 11, 2019 for the proposed project at 655 fourth street. The next three items comprise the motions that are associated with the public hearing. We are in receipt of a communication from david lamb, withdrawing his appeal, this withdrawal was dated august 29, 2019. Okay. Then, if they are withdrawing the appeal, we dont need to have this hearing. Correct . I believe the appellants are in the audience, mr. President and can come to the podium and make a statement. With the appellant like to do that . And a Public Comment, mr. President. I dont see anybody coming up , so why dont we have Public Comment on this item . Seeing no Public Comment. Public comment for this is closed. Thank you, mr. President. I wanted to thank the appellant in the project sponsor, we held a number of meetings, and my office convened to work out some of these issues, and we were able to do so, which led to the withdrawal of this appeal. I am very happy that both parties have been able to reach an agreement. I would like to make a motion to adopt item ten, affirmed the travertine determination and table items 11 and 12. Do we have a second . Okay. Without objection, item ten is approved unanimously, and items 11 and 12 madame clerk, please call the next one. Items 13 and 14 comprise the board of supervisors to convene in a committee of the whole pursuant to a resolution approved on july 26, 2019 for public hearing to consider the proposed ordinance which is contained in item 14, ordering the street vacation of the entirety of seawall lot 337 and portions, along with Public Service easements with the mission rock project to reserve temporary rights in favor of the city and pg e, subject to conditions specified in the ordinance and adopted a sequel determination and make the appropriate findings. We will now be convening as a committee of the whole, and im open to hearing the streets and Public Service easement vacation order, at mission rock project. Does the district six supervisor wish to make any remarks . Yes, i think most of you are very familiar with this project, i am a cosponsor of this legislation with mayor breen. This is a port of San Francisco project in partnership with, to inspire mission rock is a mixeduse development in the planning process for over ten years. During that decade, the project has engaged in Extensive Community input, received over 74 approval of San Francisco voters, earning unanimous support at every board and commission including the board of supervisors last year. I am excited to help realize this project, because it brings important unneeded Public Benefits, not only to district six but to the broader waterfront of the city. 8 acres of open parks and open space including a signature waterfront park, significant affordable housing, neighborhood retail space and Community Space , construction and permanent jobs of the street vacation legislation before you is administrative in nature, providing additional insurance for the City Development partners against future rightofway claims. I think the staff report is here if there any questions. Do any of the Department Staff wish to make any comments . Seeing none. Are there any members of the public who wish to speak on these items . Come on up. You have two minutes. I would like to speak about it. You talk about affordable housing. I showed you documentation, i believe it was for ten pertaining to redevelopment rules and regulations 415 of all new brandnew apartment buildings, including building at mission rock, is supposed to be 15 for very low and low income bracket people. 15 of 1500 means that 225 of those apartments, and the overall 1500 units for mission rock is supposed to be for very low, and low i demonstrated in front of you, the rest of this board, and president yee how you are not following your own rules and regulations. How come youre not speaking up for that . Then have the nerve to talk about 100 of horrible housing. That is not true. By the same response, you use a female, and her daughter, who is living in a boardinghouse to be your pitch person to advertise commercials, not only on regular tv, but cable tv pertaining to proposition d, which is about affordable housing, for the mission rock complex. Pertaining to the instructions on mission rock says 15 of those apartments are supposed to be for very low and low income bracket people, the people you claim you want to help, and the people that is out of the streets that is homeless. Your pitch person, spanish latino, mexican female who you had on tv throughout the system, for the voters to think that they can afford to live out that mission rock, where you know god damn well that that lady, and her daughter, and then the compound that you are not dealing in good faith, and never had any in

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