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Cachannel 26 andsfgovtv will st. Comments will be available by calling 18882045984. Dial the access code 3501008. Then press pound and press pound again. When you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be adde added to the qo speak. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. Everyone should account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. Best practice call from quiet location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. You may have submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email me. If you submit via email it will be in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent through the u. S. Post office to city hall. 1 Carleton Place room 244, San Francisco, california 94102. That concludes my remarks. Thank you very much. Can you please call item 1. Would you like me to call the roll first . Yes, please. Chairperson fewer. Present. Commissioner pollock. Here. Commissioner haney. Present. Commissioner mar. Not present. Commissioner singh. Present. Madam chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. Can you please call item 2. Approve of the lafco minutes from the february 21, 2020 meeting. Are there any callers for this item . Press one and zero now to be added to the list. Checking our Public Comment. Is there anyone in the list . No caller to speak. Public comment is closed. Would someone like to make a motion to approve the lafco minutes from the meeting of february 21, 2020. So moved. Second. Roll call vote, please. On the motion to approve the minutes. Commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner maris absent. You have three ayes. Item 3 Community Companies activities report. Thank you very much. We asked mr. Hyams to present on covid19 on clean power sf. He is klein joining joining us today. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Great. Once again. I am the director of clean powers sf for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission. I want to say i hope everyone is healthy and safe and remain that way as we navigate through this challenging pendemic. As the commissioner mentioned the executive officer asked me for a short update how the clean power sf program is giving given Current Events around covid19. Clean power sf is fully operational. Our Electricity Service will not be impacted by covid19. We recognize that the Society Response has required sacrifice and many members of the community are facing economic hardship. I wanted to take this moment to emphasize we are here to help our community. We have created a covid19 information page on our website. We continue to update this page with the latest information on covid19 response and support service as it relates to clean power sf elect service. You can find it at our website. In addition to making sure that we are communicating efficiently with our members of the community and customers, a number of measures have been taken by the city and county and the state of california to ensure that electricity customers have access to electric service. First, if a customer is unable to pay the electricity bill, power will not be shut off. This is part of the emergency proclamation of march 13th and the governors executive order of march 16th. Pursuant to the emergenc emerger payment delinquency. Flexible payment plans are also available to support clean power sf customers. Customers interested in more information can find that on our website at the page i mentioned before. Pg e is providing Additional Support to medical baseline customers for the next 12 months starting as of the beginning of march. That Additional Support includes suspending all customer removals from the medical Baseline Program. Customers will also be able to recertify excuse me. Not need to recertify eligible through a doctor or other eligible medical professional during this period of time. Customers will be able to selfcertify eligibility to enroll in the medical Baseline Program. For information the medical Baseline Program increases the allotment of Energy Available at the lowest price to qualifying customers. If any members of the public are interested in applying for this program they can find more information on our website. Some customers may qualify for monthly discounts on electricity bills through the california alternate rates for energy or care program. Under care qualifying households save 20 or more each month on the energy bills. The public and members of customers can obtain information on the website about eligibility in this program. Finally, i wanted to highlight clean power sf customers will receive a 35. 73 credit and 17. 87 on their may and june bills respectively under the california climate credit program. This Program Provides credit to Customers Using revenues from the state of california Greenhouse Gas cap and trade program. To help with the Economic Impact of the covid19 response, the second of the two credits which is for october each year is provided this year in may and june. The october amount is split 50 50 across the months of may and june. That is where the 17. 87 comes from. Shifting gears to our staffing and operations. Our staff is now mostly working remotely with only Staff Members reporting to the Head Quarters to support department mental Emergency Operations or complete tasks that must be done there. For example, receiving mail and sorting and distributing it. Staff are reporting to the office or Field Operations are following personal safety and using protective equipment. On the power supply side. We have had no problems with our supply of power or our solvers ability to operate. However, shelterinplace has impacted construction schedules and disrupted disapply chains for supply chains for new development. We are in communication with clean power sf. I am happy to report that neither of the two projects under construction this year have reported delays. These projects are expected to begin operations and deliver the power in september and december of this year respectively. On the demand side of our business, as you might expect, the shelterinplace order was issued on march 17. We have seen a reduction in clean power surge of 7 to 9 relative to preshelterinplace usage. As for the specific customer groups, we are seeing trends similar to what other Community Choice Energy Programs in the bay area are also reporting. With most households in place we have seen an increase in residential customer usage of about 12 , and with only essential businesses open we have seen when a 20 to 25 decrease in nonresidential customer usage. We will be tipping to track and analyze the customer usage and demand to understand the impact to our business and also to individual customer groups and will share further information as it becomes available. That concludes my prepared remarks for the meeting. I am happy to take questions from the commissioners. Thank you very much. Commissioners, any comments or questions . I see commissioner marhas joined us. Any comments or questions for mr. Hyams . Seeing none, i have a question. I will go after you. Thank you. Please go ahead. Thank you so much for the report. One of my questions had to do with whether or not customers would be sent back to pg e for nonpayment. I am pleased to hear that clean power sf has decided to take the stance of not returning customers to pg e and no shutoffs. That is all good news. I wanted to ask the decrease in usage. What do you attribute that to or do you . Yes, the principal thing that i attribute it to is some businesses are closed. All nonessential businesses are closed for the time being. Just the reduced traffic in our Office Buildings and other businesses throughout the city as a result of the shelterinplace. The figures that i shared, we are seeing a pretty significant reduction in commercial customer or nonresidential usage as high as quarter of normal usage has disappeared. As we know, people are working from home. We have seen residential usage increase. It hasnt compensated one for one. There is more commercial demand reduction than residential demand growth. That makes sense. I wanted to ask not included in your report is there a Recovery Plan . Do you know in the city or if you have a sense of how economically we recover from covid19 . Is there something built in, you know, future planning for Recovery Period whenever that should be . I think that planning work is being under taken right now as we speak. I think that we are coordinating clean power sf Recovery Planning with sfp citywide planning. That is coordinating with the city and Mayors Office. I know the regular budget process is suspended for the year so there is work done to forecast the expected impacts on the economy and what that might mean for the budget. We are similarly making our own sort of projections as we get what have been sort of realtime information about changes in our customers usage. The big challenge, of course, is uncertainty. We know what demand is now under shelterinplace, but shelterinplace will, we expect, be lifted in some way over time. We will start to see people go bacback to work in some form or fashion. From a clean power sf standpoint we do expect that demand will start to pick back up to normal levels. We just dont know if it will go all of the way given the Economic Impacts and what the pace of recovery will be. I know that doesnt directly answer be your question. I think the direct answer is we are working on plans right now, and we are also still trying to understand the magnitude of the impact that we will see as a result. Are the plans connected to the irp and capital plans . Absolutely. Our budget in capital planner are connected. Those will be going together to the board of supervisors for approval, my understanding as of now that will be late summer or early fall, but i imagine there will be more information on that coming fairly soon. We are looking at what those impacts may be or what the impacts may be to those plans. We will have more information soon. I dont have any at this point in time to share any new updates. I read that the irp was delayed from may to july. Do you think it will be pushed out . I do have news on that. It has been postponed by the california p. U. C. From july to september. We continue to work on our power irp, integrated resource plan. A really big challenge we faced has been uncertainty around what the california Public Utilities commission is requiring of us. There was a decision voted out by the california p. U. C. A couple weeks ago that set in place the more or less final direction for the i rp. That decision extended the due date from july to september. It also identified midmay delivery of final guidelines from the california p. U. C. Energy division staff. Those final guidelines will shape what we will need to submit to the california p. U. C. In the meantime we are getting ready to quickly do analysis, modeling work after that time and prepare a report to the stakeholders and run through the approval process. Commissioner maxwell had asked about who was present for the roundtable in terms of the irp process, meeting with stakeholders. I know that is probably delayed as well starting in february and everything hit and is pushed out andy layed. Do you know if you will be inviting some of the lafco stakeholders like 350 bay area and seand those groups to the rd tables . They are on the invitee list. We have delayed that engagement on when that is going to happen. I am happy to share more information as it becomes available. I am also happy to share through the executive office our stakeholder list. That would be great. If mr. Gobbel could be brought in. I dont know if it started in february due to all of the shifting priorities, but if he could be brought in to identify the lafco stakeholders to be included and have those stakeholders and mr. Gobble be included in the report review early to report out to lafco after your commission has been updated. Yes, absolutely. That is wonderful. Thank you. I know that i was on Maternity Leave in january. I know that the build out plan agenda item was continued to the call of the chair. You know, those items are tied together, obviously. When you start to do that Recovery Planning and the irp and how that looks and i think i would be interested to know if part of the Recovery Plan includes making some of those sites identified as a better site, if those might be shovel ready as part of the Recovery Plan. I am not asking the question now. I realize you are sort of on the spot and things are shifting and moving and pushed out. When the item is called again, i would be interested in hearing how that dovetails with recovery from covid19. I know there is talk of getting the country back to work and those are essential jobs. That would be wonderful to be able to work, especially with building and trades and construction and electrical workers, just howther work within the city and that whole process. That would be great to sort of include in your report out on that. That concludes my questions. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other questions or comments . Seeing none. I have a couple questions. The relief measures. What are we doing proactively to let customers know there are these things available to them . Are we instead of asking them to look it up, are we putting things in mailings, sending emails out to Customer Base to let them know about not forgiveness but these efforts . We have not well, we have not been using physical mailinglers yet. Although i will take that suggestion back, commissioner. We have been prepared a newsletter electronic newsletter to distribute. These opportunities will feature prominently in that communication. We are also using or intend to use social media messaging to try to direct some traffic to our website so people know it is available. You bring up a good point about making sure that folks know where they can get information to provide assistance. Of course, we are arming our call center with this information. If our customers reach out to our call center looking for assistance, they will be able to get that information through the call center as well. I will take back this idea potentially for proactive physical mailinglers to direct attention to assistance measures. Also, are we contacting any sf media to make sure the nonenglish speaking customers are aware of these relief efforts available to them . I will follow up on that as well. The status of our media coordination. I have heard from the chinese folks that they arent reading newspapers but they are on the radio and, of course, seeing ads and Public Service announcements on television. Television viewing has gone up dramatically. You might do a public announcement on the ethnic media. I think a lot of customers who may need these relief packages or opportunities might be the nonenglish speaking customers. Yes, thank you very much. I will definitely take that back. Those are great suggestions. Thank you very much. No commissioners, no comments or questions . Anyone who would like to comment on item 3, please get in the queue and press 10. Could you please check to see if there are any speakers waiting. There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you very much. Public comment is now closed. We dont need action on this item. It is informational. Madam clerk please call item 4. Item 4. Consideration and approval of the proposed lafco budget for fiscal year 20202021. If there are any members of the public to speak please press 1 and 0 now. Bryan goebel, i believe you have a presentation. I do, thank you madam chair and good morning, commissioners. I hope you are coping well during this crisis. Thank you for your leadership right now. I do have a presentation this morning on the lafco budget. Today i am proposing a status quo budget that is based on the latest city projections of a growing deficit. The status quo budget we are required to pass a budget, a draft budget by may 1st and final budget by june 15th. The budget i bring you today includes no increase in the amount requested from the city. It maintains the level of funding the city is required by state law to provide from the general fund. It is the same amount provided to lafco over the past 10 years. This slide is our work order balance with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission for lafcos oversight of clean power sf. It outlines the balance through the years and the current fiscal year. We have spent minimal funds. We spent to pay interns and Research Associates like mr. Parsons who produced the report. We will be ending this fiscal year with a balance close to 200,000. We are very close to bringing on a consultant to help us with oversight. In fact, that r. F. Q. Process is wrapping up. I hope to bring a recommendation for a consultant to you at our may 15th meeting. This will be providing expertise for oversight of clean power sf and help us analyze the local buildout report that you heard in january, and also providing feedback on the capital plan and the irp as discussed earlier. The process was disrupted because of the crisis. Under your direction, i do anticipate a lot of work on clean power sf in the next fiscal year. This shows the amount of funds lafco was able to raise this fiscal year for the survey of on demand workers. It is about 330,000 actually 335,000 we got a 5,000 grant to help with our urgent covid19 survey of workers. It will be possible to fundraise in the next fiscal year to support similar work we undertake. The climate for fundraising has changed. However, i imagine a lot of what we are do in the coming year will be impacted by the impacts of covid19. This shows the general fund balance. That is the budget we are talking about today. The amount we receive from the city and county. This is over the years and projected balance by the end of june. Today we anticipate a 37,000 carryover to the next fiscal year. These are the expenditures to date as of april 7th. Right now we have about 105,000 remaining funds to get to the end of the fiscal year. All spending is pretty much on track, maybe a little over budget. We have been calling on them a lot to do public bank work, that might be a little higher but not anything substantial. This is my proposed budget for fiscal 2021. I have provided a description of each line item in your packets. Similar to last year. Increases for clerk of Boards Office based on this years spending. They are critical and helpful. Increase in the dues. It amounts to a little over 292,000. I would ask you to approve the fiscal 2021 budget for that amount while reserving the right to the full statute amount of 297,342 lafco receives each year from the city and county. With that, commissioners, i am happy to answer any questions. Are there any questions, commissioners for our executive officer . Mr. Global, i have a quell. I wonder, this is not the budget we submitted to the mayor as part of the boards budget, is that correct . Thats correct i revised it based on consultation with your staff and in light of the citys deficit reverted to status quo budget to use the executive officer as an independent contractor and the status quo budget from all previous years. I think for the meeting in may where we will approve the budget, can you present the two proposed budgets for us so we have an explanation of the budget proposed to the mayor as part of the boards budget. This committee is able to see that and we are able to have discussion on that. I would be happy to do that, madam chair. Thank you very much. I want you to know we had proposed, i think, a larger budget for lafco in light of for so many fiscal years we were so solvent and we thought it was time to add to the lafco budget as it has not been added to i think we have had this budget for many, many years and it was time to increase the budget but given the landscape now, i actually think everything is pretty much in the air. I am the budget chair. The budget land scape is undetermined now and we are trying to get numbers. It is too early to make a final determination on a status quo budget. I am going to ask mr. Gobel to present two budgets to deliberate on. I am wondering any commissioners have comments or questions at all . Chair fewer, this is commissioner mar. I have a few questions and comments. I appreciate the work that you have done with mr. Goebel to come up with a new budget for lafco for next year based on the new budget environment we are facing throughout the city. I do have questions about what this means for the important work, looking ahead. If lafco is involved in work around clean power and on demand worker and lane important study where there is a need for important follow up policy work, and then the public bank work. I know the original budget that you referred to included more capacity to Carry Forward on these important priorities. I think my question is when we get to the presentation of the budget at the next meeting, it could include some explanation about how a reduced budget and staff capacity for lafco would impact the important work that lafco is doing in the coming year or years. Mr. Goebel, would that be included in your next presentation . Yes. Thank you, commissioner mar. I appreciate your input and i would be happy to analyze the impacts of cutting back that work abinclude as part of my presentation. I do see mr. Global has fund raised 330,000 on his own for our labor study. I want to recognize and thank him for that work. We wouldnt be able to do that study without his initiative to get that money. Thank you, mr. Goebel. I want to appreciate that. Commissioner martha could be included in the discussion. Any further questions . Thank you for the budget. I want to ask in past years the budget has been presented in april for approval and second approval in may. I wanted to ask is that tied to the city budget processor something legally we need to do by a certain date . Can we extend tha that . Is our attorney on the line . Good morning. It is nice to see everybody. Yes that is required under thelas costatutes. We have to look at the budget twice. We also, of course, are coordinating with the city since the lafco budget comes through the city. It is a lafco requirement, not a city requirement. Does that answer the question . Is it tied to the date of april and mayor can it just be approved in two meetings, you know, with a date to be determined by the San Francisco lafco . I believe we have until july to hold the two meetings. That is great to know. Our own budget process is delayed and wont start until august. That goes together nicely. I just really think we should give it more thought. As commissioner mar talked about the important work, i feel like covid19 impacts on the economy will be huge. They are huge now. That work is so important that we continue, and also in terms of clean power sf, people needy electricity. How does covid19 impact clean power sf and how it moves forward with the m. O. U. Expiring with the San Francisco p. U. C. . That money will be part of what we use as what we get from the city and county of San Francisco. We need to just think about the fiscal impact of the budget and what that means for the important work that lafco can do. At this time i wouldnt feel comfortable voting on the budget. I agree with chair fewer this needs to come back in the next meeting or may would be a great time unless that was pushed to june. With a june and july approval process that it could go to the city for the full budget process. Chair fewer is wil is well positioned to advise lafco. I cant vote on a budget today. The second part of the question is with our executive Officers Services being transitioned from contract to a City Employee, does that impact the budget or does salary plus benefits equal 150,000 . I believe we have done that calculation, mr. Goebel, if you can respond with the proposed budget. It included mr. Goebel being considered a City Employee rather than contracted employee. Thank you. The line item budgeted for that which was given by the clerk of the Boards Office is 193,000 total, 80,000 of that, i believe, was benefits. That is the figure for that. It would impact. It is about a 43,000 increase. If i could interject. I just want to point out government code 56381 requires lafco to adopt the proposed budget by may 1st and final budget by june 15th. I dont know if there are suspensions of that government code but i want to point that out for the commission. Thank you very much, madam clerk. Back to our attorney we need two hearings but not two approval voting. Is there something to delay this vote since the budget process in San Francisco is delayed also. Today you were asked to adopt the proposed budget. This would not be the time budget adoption. You will have one hearing where you adopt proposed budge eat and then the final budget. We did look into what would happen if the deadlines were pushed. We did not find anything in terms of a penalty that lafco would suffer if it had to adopt the budget later. There is a legal obligation to adopt the final budget in june, however, there doesnt seem to be any negative ramifications for pushing that deadline if necessary. We did feel we would not want to do so without clear rationalization for that missed deadline. This is also in light of what madam clerk just explained about the government code, that is correct . Is that correct. Is it your opinion we may be able to continue this item, then commissioners are holding a vote on this budget together since we have time because the city budget is not to start discussions until august. Would we be able to in your legal advice be able to continue this item until the meeting in may and have mr. Goebel continue the discussion with both proposed budgeted and what the implication for the reduced budget might mean for the work we are doing. Am i understanding that we would review the proposed budget in may. What is the date of that meeting, bryan . May 15th is the next scheduled meeting. Would the commission entertain a final budget in june or later in the summer . If we could have a discussion with both budgets and then at that time the next may 15 meeting have a deep discussion on the we were to reduce and prioritize but increase the budget so that the board had an opportunity to see what the impact might be on the work we have already done and are doing, i think we would have a discussion in may. Tentative approval and final approval in june. Does that sound like that would give you enough time . That makes sense to me. That is great. I also think that by that time we will have a clearer picture on the covid19 impact on the city and county of San Franciscos budget and as budget chair we are pushing hard for the numbers. If we could do that, i shy that would work well for us. When is our june meeting and would that be in time to meet the june 15th deadline . Yes, i am looking at my calendar here. I believe the june meeting is just one second. I believe it is june 12th. My question in terms of government code to have take extended would that go to the board of supervisors budget and finance and then to the full board . I dont understand. What was the question . I think i can answer that, commissioner. It would then be going to the boards budget. Lafco is part of the boards budget. The revised budget would go the boards budget and be part of the overall process under the board of supervisors budget. Then it would be miss ca c. E. O. Who would present it. Our our numbers would be pushed forward as well . Yes revised numbers. Okay. Great. Thank you so much. Mr. Goebel are you sure it is the 12th . I look at the calendar. It could be the 19th. Itant correcte i stand co. It is the 19th. It is a mistake on my part. To our attorney if it is four days later or how many days later than the statutory requirements, that is actually we wouldnt suffer any penalty by submitting it four or five days later . I see a delay of days rather than weeks or months being fairly low risk. As i noted there arent any legal ramifications for delay. We dont want to be seen to be blowing off our statutory obligations. That said, i think four to five days sounds like we can easily rationalize that. Commissioners, i would like to make a motion to continue this item to the meeting of may 15th where mr. Goebel will bring the proposed two budgets to us. Proposed budget in the board packet before the covid19 crisis and also he will bring to us a discussion on the impacts that the budget cuts would make to the current work that we are doing. Madam clerk, would i need a vote . I assume yes, is that correct . Yes you need a roll call vote. I need a motion. Could i have a second please. Thank you. Roll call vote, please. Who was the second . I was. The name . Commissionier singh. You are an alternate. I need another second. I second that pollock. If you could state your name it would be helpful. We cant tell who is doing it. The motion to continue item 4 to may lafco meeting. Commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Ice. Commissioner haney aye. Commissioner mar. A ye. We should rescind this vote. I make a motion to resend this vote. Second vote. Commissioner pollock seconds the motion. Madam clerk, roll call vote. On the motion to resined commissioner fewer. Aye. Pollock. Aye. Haney. Aye. Mar. Aye. There are four ayes. I would like to open up for Public Comment. Any members to comment on item number 4 . There are no callers to speak. I would like to make a motion to continue this item 4 until the may 15th meeting. Could i have a second, please. Commissioner pollock second. Roll call vote please. The motion to continue. Commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner mar. Aye. There are four ayes. Can you please call item 5. Item 5 approval of a resolution to accept and expands a grant from the San Francisco foundation in the amount of 5,000. Any members of the public to speak please press one and zero now. Thank you. Mr. Goebel you are going to walk us through this . Yes. Straightforward item. When we pivoted to a covid19 survey of gig workers, i sought additional funding for staff time and also the worker incentives for the survey. We did receive a grant from the San Francisco foundation in the amount of 5,000 for this purpose, and this item would allow us to expend that money. I would recommend your approval. Thank you very much. Open this up for Public Comment. Any members of the public to comment on item 5. There are no callers wishing to speak. Public comment is closed. Any comments or questions by colleagues . Seeing none, please roll call vote. I make a motion to approve this item. Second please. Commissioner haney second. Thank you very much. Could i please have a roll call vote. Item 5, commissioner fewer. Aye. Commissioner pollock. Aye. Commissioner haney. Aye. Commissioner har. Aye. There are four ayes. Thank you very much. These call item 6. Item 6 is executive officers report. Mr. Goebel again. Thank you, madam chair. We are running late. I want to give you a brief update on our gig worker survey. The work our new intern is doing on public bank. Hopefully you can see my screen. My powerpoint so on both of these items, we have shifted our focus to assess covid19 impacts. The results will be a series of timely reports not only to report much needed data but give recommendations to help and form and guide your local policy decisions going forward. First i would like to talk about the survey of on demand workers. For those who are not uptodate on this. Lafco was in the process of a large survey of on demand survey of 1200 workers to get the city good data about the vulnerable workers who are front line workers. They were struggling before the virus. Now it is much, much worse. Before shelterinplace was issued. The survey Team Suspended the survey a month ago. When that work stopped they managed to get about 700 completed surveys up until then along with a number of in depth interviews. We suspended the survey three weeks to a month ago, and quickly pivoted to do a survey of covid19 impacts. The survey addressed these four categories. How is covid19 impacted the number of gig jobs . We know that there is a shift. We know uber and lyft is down. It has impacted pay as well. There are more workers out doing delivery. Many of the companies have waiting list for folks applying for these jobs. We know it has caused a big impact. We are also as in the broader survey asking about the lack of access to Health Insurance and paid sick leave. We are also asking what do you most urgently need now . Emergency funds, healthcare, pro protections from exposure, how are the companies doing . What are you doing to prevent spread of virus . How likely to work while sick due to the financial situation. Before this with some of the focus groups and results the team was getting, there were workers that said they would work even if they were sick. The plan here with the covid19 survey is to get around 300 responses. Combine that analysis with the 700 completed surveys the team has already. They are going to follow up or have been following up within depth interviews combined with research. We expect to have a preliminary report on the findings on may 2 and present those to you at the may 15 meeting. Along with those findings, working with the survey team and collaborating with stakeholders, lafco will produce a number of recommendations based on the findings. They will address these categories. Improving economic security, promoting accountability and lawful operations among the at base delivery and ride hailing companies, improving safety and health for at base workers and promoting Public Health and safety. These will be short and longterm recommendations. We are going to put out a table of ideas to comment already existing emergency measures taken and considered now by the board of supervisors. Also, we have a u. S. Tackling best practicing to address these. How are other cities responding to protect workers . What protections are being put in place around the globe . What kind of health and safety regulations are developed . What will the virus mean for the delivery industry and workers . What are the best practices around that . To comment the resolution passed calling on the City Attorney and the office of labor enforcement to enforce ab5 considering other aspects of ab5 or even force meant to protect the delivery industry. This will all come together in time for the may 15th meeting. We will have three presentations at that meeting. Combined findings of the survey and the team is pouring all resources into that preliminary findings. We will have the report from us f class on Delivery Services and lafco recommendations based on the combined findings and research. That is the latest on the gig survey. I do have one other item. I want to pause to see if there are questions from commissioners . Any comments or questions for our executive officer . I have a question. This is commissioner pollock. For the may 15th meeting, when do you anticipate we will get the three reports in draft form . Thank you for the question. May 21 when we may 2 we will have the draft. April 30 i expect a draft from usf. When i receive those i will send to you and your staff so we can get your feedback on those. We will be sending them out to a variety of other folks who have been involved in the research, various worker groups, unions and stakeholders. The gig workers, jobs with justice. Jobs with justice is doing a lot of outreach. They have been in touch with a variety of Community Organizations through this process. Thank you. Any more comments or questions for mr. Goebel . Is it too late to add a question to the survey . I can check with the survey team. The covid19 survey is going to wrap up next week. I could ask the survey team that. I wanted to know the federal relief package included gig workers. I wanted to know if they applied for that, what is the status, do they know about it, have they going to apply for it . I dont think the checks have been issued. They are coming, and if they had received any relief. That was my question. I had another question and i forgot about it. Sorry. That was the question. It is a very good point, madam chair in terms of unemployment. I have been reading reports about gig workers having difficulty accessing it. It is delayed until the end of the month. All kinds of problems. They might ask some of the workers they are doing interviews with. I am happy to do Additional Research and add to the presentation i give you on ma may 15th. Because we are just hearing, also, issues about the Small Business funding and the glitches there. I am wondering if the workers have gotten relief. My second thing is among your recommendations are you going to include legislative recommendations for the board of supervisors and the commissioners it is on the board of supervisors to actually put in some legislation to help these workers and protect these workers . We are crafting the recommendations with that in mind. Putting the ideas on the table to be legislated to protecting workers. Yes, we are very much considering that as we draft the recommendations. Thank you so much. Any more comments or questions for mr. Goebel . I have one other item, madam chair. Go ahead. I am very excited along the lines of Small Businesses and, particularly the banks responses to covid19, as its relates to Small Businesses. Our newest intern is working on some related topics to that. Kara has a Public Policy background and will attend law school this fall. She is a fellow in Public Affairs and has produced work for a number of agencies, including the mpc and office of management and budget in washington as well as working with immigration legal resource and graduate of princeton with a degree in Public Policy. I am excited to have her. I am going to turn it over to her to talk about the scope of work we have ask can see her to undertake. She came to work on public bank. She is working on related topics. I will turn it over to kara to talk about what she is doing. Thank you. Good morning, commissioners. Great to be here with you. As i am sure you are aware another focus area of work is the public work. This is putting that public bank in perspective of bank accountability. I believe moments like this like the one we are in now magnifies areas that need changes. Arguably i think the current pandemic is the perfect storm to evaluate bank accountability. I am looking at response by private and public actors in live time and assessing their epactions. The report has three key questions. In brief the report looks at incentive structure driving the large corporate banks andrews lessons to form Forward Solutions to Immediate Community needs and the report will look at what covid19 means for Accountability Community actors like small banks and credit unions. Given this present moment, i think we need the San Francisco public Bank Initiative in the changing system of needs. This will be completed by the end of the month. I will share the recommendations with you at the next lafco meeting. With that i am happy to field questions or comments. Thank you so much for your assistance with this. We look forward to that report. Any comments or questions for kara . I just want to say thank you, kara, for putting this together. I am very, very excited to see what you come up with next month because we think we need to start thinking at a public bank at this point like something to help us get back on our feet with regards to Affordable Housing and issues that are going to be adversely impacted by a deep precision or depression with budget cuts. I am glad we are framing the public bank as part of the covid19 response. Commissioner haney. Thank you, chair fewer. This is exciting. I am glad we are doing this. Thank you for coming on. One of the things we have been looking a lot at is what banks have been doing for people who have struggled to pay mortgages or rent, and what policies are set up across the different be banks and what opportunities there are. That will continue to be an issue after this is done just to put a word in there if that is something to look at forgiveness and Interest Rates and all of that for folks having challenges repaying loans or mortgages. That is an important piece. It sounds like that is included. I wanted to flag that. Definitely. Thank you. Thank you, kara. We also at the board of supervisors my office have been working with the public bank. We can use that information. Thank yothank you for your your. I echo what commissioner heavy y rain me said haney said. Open this up for Public Comment. Any otheany other items. That concludes my executive officers report. Any Public Comment on item 6. There are no callers wishing to speak. Public comment is closed. Thank you both. We look forward to hearing from both of you on may 15th, our next meeting. Madam clerk please call item 7. Public comment. Are there any members of the public to offer Public Comment . There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you. Public comment is closed. Madam clerk can you please call item 8. Future agenda items. Colleagues any future agenda items you would like to see us discuss in the future . Seeing none, madam clerk is there any more business . We need Public Comment for this item. Public comment for item 8. Madam chair, no callers are wishing to speak. Madam clerk any more business before us today . That concludes the business for today. Thank you everyone. We are adjourned. Good morning. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the thursday, april 16th meeting of the government audit and Oversight Committee. I am the chair of the committee joined by aaron peskin and Committee Member matt haney. Thank you to the clerk, john carroll. I would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements. Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect Board Members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. Comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available by calling 888 2045984. Use the access code. That is 3501008. After you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. When you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. While you are waiting the system will be silent. The call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. All callers will be in mute until open for comment. You must allow for time delays between live coverage and streaming. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and turn down the television or radio or streaming device. You may submit your Public Comment in either of the following way also. Email john carroll, clerk of the government audit and Oversight Committee john. Carroll at sfgovtv. Org. If you submit Public Comment by email, it will be included in the file and brought to the attention of the members of the board of supervisors. Written comments bab may be seno city hall at room 244 in San Francisco. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of april 28 unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Please call items one and two together. 1. Resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of special tax bonds for the Community Facilities district 20141 related to the Transbay Transit Center in the amount not to exceed 90 million. Approving related documents including the statement and the supplement. Bond Purchase Agreement and continuing disclosure and determining other matters in connection there with. Agenda item two is resolution approving the issuance of Transbay Joint Powers Authority not to exceed 315 million in Principal Amount of tax allocation bonds to finance costs relating to the transbay terminal project as defined within the resolution. Members of the public to comment on these items call the Public Comment number 888 2045984 and Center Access code 3501008. Press pound twice and press 1 and 0 to speak. Mr. Chair. Thank you. I would like to welcome the director of the office of Public Finance and the chief Financial Officer of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority here to present on these items this morning. Thank you. I am anna from the Controllers Office of Public Finance. I am here today to talk about the two related transbay bond resolutions. The Transbay Transit Center Community Facilities district special tax bond and the Transbay Joint Powers Authority tax allocation bond. Due to technical constraints, i will present on both items. The cfo is available to address any questions you may have. Also, my colleague bridgett and mark from the City Attorneys office are on the line. Before i get into detail on the financing, i will provide background on the project. Tjpa was established in 2001 to fund the Transbay Program. Current members of the jpa include the city, ag transit. Cal tran and california highspeed rail authority. Tjpa manages the Transbay Program which includes construction of the Transit Center and extension of the caltrain rail tracks to the center to accommodate california highspeed rail and caltrain. The project over the past two decades includes in 2005 the redevelopment project area was formed. In 2009tjpa secured the loan to fund the project. In 2015, the city approved the formation of Community Facilities district and the levee of special taxes to support 1. 4 billion of debt. In 2016 after they identified the funding gap, the city provided bridge financing to close the gap which included the general fund. The takeout for the financing wasnt visioned to be the tax allocation bond proceeds which i will talk about in a minute. Funding for the project was provided by a variety of federal state and local sources including special taxes on the tax bond. Tax increment generated Redevelopment Area which paid debt service on the city bridge loan. Again, the two bond resolutions before you today would authorize the issuance of up to 90 million of Transit Center special tax bonds and related financing documents including disclosure on the city which we have been updating to include the Current Crisis. The second resolution would authorize the issuance up to 315 million worth of tax allocation bonds. Proceeds from the financing would be used to payoff the full Outstanding Balance of the city bridge loan which is 76 million. Refinance the loan for debt service savings, fund project costs including costs for design, construction and related obligations as well as tenant improvements and Program Capital reserves. Here we have provided more detail on the anticipated use of proceeds. The cfd proceedings and jtpa proceeds will be used to pay off the city bridge loan financing. The tjpa proceeds will be used to refinance the federal loan to achieve approximately 20 million in debt service savings. It will Fund Capital Improvement program reserves and capital replacement reserve. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds of both financings will be used to fund bond issuance costs in debt service funds. These final slides show the estimated financing costs for each transaction. For the bonds we estimate 158 million over the 30 year term of the bond. This includes interest of 4. 4 . The bonds will be structured as taxable debt which carry a higher interest cost but offsetting the higher interest cost is the strong expected rating of aaa plus for the bonds which is due to the cfd participation in the citys tr plan. The debt service 587 million for the jtpa tax allocation bonds assumes interest cost of 3. 86 . The lower cost is anticipated because they will be structured primarily as taxexempt debt. This last slide outlines the anticipated financing schedule. I would note that given recent volatility in the Municipal Market we are allowing more time for marketing and sale of the bonds before the closing in may and june. With that, i would be happy to answer any questions as would my colleagues. That you for the presentation. Before we go to Public Comment, colleagues do you have questions or comments . I do, mr. Chairman. There is aaron peskin. Maybe this is a question for the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, but in item 2 why does the city and county of San Francisco need to authorize . Why cant the tj pa do its own financing . I would be happy to answer that question. This is chief Financial Officer at jtpa. The resolution is in front of you because we are joint Powers Authority and all financings have to go in front of the board in which we are doing the construction, the physical construction within or the financing will take place. It is part of state statute for jpa law. We are required to come to the San Francisco board of supervisors so the board can find Public Benefit to the financing. That would be defined as demonstrated savings or economic benefit in terms of job growth. There is another faceto that. That would be so you can find Public Benefit to the financing for jtpa. Thank you for that answer. With regard to the 115 million portion of the tax allocation bonds, that references payments of judgment or settlement obligations. Is that sufficient funds for any and all outstanding payments of judgments or settlement obligations . Yes, it is. So that would be in part what this committee will be discussing later as well as other outstanding claims presumably the web core litigation . Any web core litigation, any litigation between any of our main contractors and subcontractors would be encompassed in any sort of litigation proceeds. The 115 rate is sufficient funds to settle any and all outstanding judgments and claims . Yes, correct. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, if we can move to Public Comment. Mr. Clerk are there any callers on the line . We will check. Are there any callers . I have one caller waiting in the queue. I will call him up. Good morning. You have two minutes. Good morning. My Public Comment was for item 4. I will wait. That sounds good we will ask you enter into the queue for item 4 when we call item 4. Do you have comments for agenda items 1 and 2 . No. Thank you. Are there any other callers . There are no other callers in the queue. Thank you. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is now closed. I would like to move that we send these items to the full board with positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk please call the roll. On the motion to send the items one and two to full board with positive recommendation. Vice chair peskin. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Please call item number 3. Agenda item 3. Resolution approving the levy on the secured roll of add valour rum and special taxes on subproject areas g2 through g4 and subproject areas i1 through i13 for city and county of San Francisco infrastructure district 2. 20192 for pier 70 leased property and city and county San Francisco special tax district 20201 for mission rock facilities and services and making findings in connection there with. Members who wish to comment on this item agenda item 3 should call the Public Comment number 888 2045984. Enter the access code 3501008. Enter the pound symbol twice. Then press one and zero to be entered to speak when Public Comment is called for this item. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We have the finance team to present on this item. We have rebecca, the port water director available for questions as needed. The floor is yours. Thank you. I am Wyatt Donnelly on behalf of director forbes who is a Disaster Service worker in response to covid19 emergency. I will present on this item. I will pull up the presenttation. Can you see that okay . Yes. Excellent. I will get started. Again, this item number 3 is to levy the taxes. I would like to thank the Assessors Office for work on this item. We have been working closely with them and they are in full support of this item. I will give background on the project. This affects both projects. I will go through the financing structure and why this is a key component and i will talk about the action taken today and impacts on the financing for the project and talk about the requested action and some next steps. The two sites it impacts are mission rock and the pier 70 only. You can see chase center is the reference. Mission rock is the giant parking lot. Pier 70 is a shipping district that has been vacant for several decades. They will be mixed use neighborhoods. We are here because the board of supervisors has the ability under the state revenue and taxation code to direct the assessor to levy taxes on the secured and unsecured role. I will talk about those. Project background. Mission rock is a 28acre site serving as the giants parking lot. At completion over four phases of construction it will create 1200 units of housing, 1 million square feet of office space and 8acres of parks and open space. Housing includes 40 on site affordable. There is a local component. Transportation management program, rehabilitation and historic pier 48 which is on the map to the right, one of the historic piers. We are looking at potential options for that. Ongoing revenue stream for Sea Level Rise protection, planning for the year 2100 and on site child care. Pier 70 is a 35acre site. It will include 1600 to 3,000 units of residential. 1. 1 and 1. 7 million square feet of commercial and 9acres of open space. The range for both projects is flex parcels residential or commercial, depending on what ends up being constructed. Public benefit for the pier 70 project. 30 of the housing on site affordable. It has local labor, prevailing wages, transportation, historic rehabilitation of the entire site including buildings 12 and 21. Similar Sea Level Rise protection facilities. Looking at the year 2100 and ongoing revenue stream for Sea Level Rise protection. 90,000 square foot facility and on site child care. The structure is very similar for both projects. Initial funds is through developer import equity, which is repaid with a return through the land value at the site, and the two tax sources, special taxes or cfd Community Facilities district and i. F. D. Infrastructure financing. Those are the ultimately repayment. The item today is all about maximizing our bond proceeds which will reduce the use of developer capital which is more expensive for the project and preserves the portland value to allow the port to fund other projects on the waterfront. Just four terms to talk about a lot. Possessory interest tax is property tax on the value of the lease use or other private possession of publiclyowned property. Because the port is publicly owned it is taxexempt. When the port leases to private entities for private use, it is taxed by the assessor under the possessory interest. The ad valorem. That is on the assessd value of the property. The property tax is a common form. That is one of the two taxes as sessioned on the secured role. The other is a special Community Facilities district tax which is currently in the process of being formed for mission rock and was formed in january for pier 70. The secured role is more secure including taxes on land and structures. Unsecured role has an insufficient security for the assessor to deem that there is a secure payment of taxes, and the difference between these two roles has bond implications. That is why we are requesting both taxes be assessed on the secured role. What happens is the possessory interests are typically assessed on the unsecured role. However, the board of supervisors can direct the assessor to levee these all on the secured role. This would place the i. F. D. Property taxes and the cfd special taxes on the secured role. The key thing is it has a priority lien which inproofs the bond holders view and will receive better Interest Rates. Pier 70 and mission rock where we issue hundreds of millions of dollars of debt this can mean 10s of millions of dollars over the life of the project. As i mentioned before more bonds will increase the project funding and the portland value and reduce the need for developer capital. Once this is approved, the assessor will place all of these taxes on the secured role for next fiscal year and we will be able to issue bonds with that additional security and receive better Interest Rates in the coming year and we will be coming back with those bond issuance at a later time with more details and a better understanding of the market. That is pretty much everything. I would request positive recommendation for the resolution at hand. I am available and my colleague rebecca, the Waterfront Development director as well as the City Attorney and Public Finance attorney are available for any questions. Thank you so much for the presentation. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments or questions from my colleagues . Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line for Public Comment . Thank you, mr. Chair. We will check to see if there are any callers in the queue. I have one caller in the queue. Allow me to call him up. I am francisco lacosta. What i want to say is that the presenter talks about this property in a very general way. It comes on the public trust land. Every californian has a right to express their opinion. This land that we are talking about pier 70 and mission rock is contaminated land. On pier 70 i had brought it to your attention before. There is a Million Pounds of coal tar that has to be mitigated. You didnt talk about that. There are two huge areas of a field. You dont want to talk about that. This matter came before another committee and a gentleman, i was not allowed to get in because of this mickey mouse operation that you have with this communication. Another gentleman got in and explained in detail how contaminated the mission rock area was. How can you agree to pass a bond measure on contaminated land and adversely impact the lives of innocent people . This is happening on other areas. The supervisors please represent the people. Thank you. Do we have any more speakers on the line . No other callers in the queue. Thank you. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is now closed. I would like to move that we send this item to the board with positive recommendations. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. On the motion to recommend agenda item 3 to the full board of supervisors made by supervisor mar. Vice chair peskin. Aye. Member haney. Aye. Chair mar. Aye. There are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Please calm item 4. Emergency ordinance to temporary require grocery store, drugstore and restaurant and on demand Delivery Service employers to provide health, scheduling and hours protections to employees during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. I have received request to schedule this as Committee Report. Members of the public should call 888 2045984 and enter access code 3501008. Press the pound symbol twice. Then press one and zero to enter the queue to speak for agenda item 4. Mr. Chair. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Supervisor haney thank you for sponsoring this and your work on this important ordinance. The floor is yours, supervisor haney. Thank you, chair mar, for your partnership and all you have been doing to make sure essential workers have access to sick leave and other protections during this time. It has been a pleasure to partner with you on this. Colleagues for your consideration is an emergency ordinance for increased employee protections for grocery store, drug store, restaurant and on demand delivery employees of the emergency legislation we are introducing. Hearing it is cosponsors by supervisors and addresses the needs of this Critical Group of workers who are not yet receiving the level of employee protection to safely do their jobs during this pandemic. I want to thank City Attorney lisa powell, jim from the usc w local 5, usc w648. Rudy and kim at the San Francisco labor council, with jobs with justice and also to the Golden Gate Restaurant Association and office of Small Business for reaching out to my office and for making sure that we take into act the needs of Small Businesses and grocers. This is a chair scary time fs and they make sure we have access to food, medicine and essential goods. They need protected so they do not get sick or get anyone else sick. They should never face retaliation. Requiring personal protective equipment, no Contact Delivery, paid time for following health and safety protocols and no retaliation during the covid19 pricesis is essential for us to get through this pandemic. They are out there interacting with others and putting themselves at risk and dont have the option of staying home. We have to make sure these workers and customers are protected. The legislation strengthens the protections covered by the Health Officers order and gives additional protection and mechanism to file a complaint with the office of labor standards. The legislation does five thinks. One requires employers to provide workers with gloves, masks, hand sanitizer, soap and water in the workplace. Additionally on demand Delivery Service employers must be reimbursed for purchasing the item. On demand Delivery Service employees must be paid for time spent cleaning vehicles or driving to hand washing facilities during their shift. On demand delivery platforms must offer drivers and shoppers the no Contact Delivery of anytime. Four Service Employers must keep employees uptodate with latest social distancing protocols and inform them how to comply. Employers cannot discharge any person for exercising rights under this emergency ordinance. We need emergency legislation because we cannot wait knowing the personal safety of the worker l put then dire Public Health of the community at risk. We have three amendments for the legislation to consider as well. The first appears on page 4 of starting at line 17. This amendment makes it more explicit what on demand Delivery Service means. We are saying a thirdparty online or mobile application or other Internet Service offering or arranging for same day or scheduled delivery of Food Products or goods from Grocery Stores and drugstores. Second appears on page 6. Parttime employees we have stricken this out entirely. We have addressed the concerns voiced by the office of Small Business and please note in striking section 6, the office of Small Business regina said we are no longer need to change covered employer to apply only to businesses with 350 employees and also alleviates request to change work hours from two hours to eight hours which she requested in a letter that was send. Final amendment on page 8 section 8. Implementation and enforcement. We added language to say a individual may report a potential violation of this emergency ordinance by calling 311. The agency may investigate potential violations. This reflects the way that people are able to immediately and easily report Health Violations and labor violations during this crisis. We also have executive director regina who is from the office of Small Business who is available to make comment about the changes we made. I want to thank everyone who worked with us on this legislation. It puts in place critical protection to protect workers and their customers. I want to say thank you, supervisor haney, for this important measure to make sure the front line essential workers have adequate protections they need to continue to fulfill the Important Role during the shelterinplace ordinance. I appreciate your work. Your staffs work in addressing the concerns raised by our Small Businesses in how this might impact them. I know in my district i have heard from many Small Businesses. It is a small market and the restaurants that they absolutely want to protect employees and they have been asking for help in accessing personal protective equipment. I appreciate your work in addressing their concerns and the challenges they faced in accessing p performe ppe to proe employee. From the Small Business office were you going to offer some comments . Yes. This is regina, director of the office of Small Business. I want to thank supervisor haney and all of the supervisors that are supporting the legislation. Understanding the concerns of our Small Businesses and making that amendment. One thing i did not highlight in my letter to you which supports the effort under 4a is that in my conversation with the local grocers, many have put in placetic protocols for on demand delivery shoppers to require protective gear. They have been having not always but many times have to provide that gear for them to allow them to shop. This is important because our Small Businesses should not be subsidizing the paid protective gear for these workers. Thank you. Thank you. Colleagues, are there questions or comments before we move to Public Comment . I am pleased to be a co cosponsor. Chair mar, i know there were a lot of Small Businesses who had raised concerns and some may be calling in for Public Comment, which is great. I did just want to underscore that i believe we were able to address most if not all of those concerns with these amendments. I do appreciate the partnership every gina to make that happen. Also to my chief of staff who worked hard on these amendments to address these concerns. As she underlined, regina underlined, there is also a lot of this will help Small Businesses and protect Small Businesses requiring the Delivery Companies themselves to provide that equipment. When people are coming in and out of the stores or restaurants they will be protected. I really see this as a measure that is intended to support and protect Small Businesses as well. Thank you, supervisor haney. Why dont we move to Public Comment. Any callers on the line . Thank you, mr. Chair. Mr. Coo will check to see if we have callers in the queue. First caller. You have two minutes. I would like to thank you, supervisors, and staff for your hard work. Speaking in support of this legislation, the health and safety of the workers are at stake. They are providing essential services which means their health is essential to us. Not only for the value of the work they perform to serve the public at this critical time but just on principal. Workers should be protected not only for the value of the work. These are parents, partners, siblings and loved ones and they deserve to go to work and return at the end of the day healthy and safe to their families. Thank you for that. Next caller, please. Good morning. I am here on behalf of the states council. We represent 160,000 members in california, 120,000 work in the Grocery Retail industry. I would like to thank you for taking bold action to protect the thousands of front line workers who stepped up in the crisis. They show up every day to ensure we can feed families and strong protections to ensure they are safe during the peak of this crisis and the months after when we open up our communities. Before you today is the first in the nation emergency ordinance to provide protection to the deliveries. We would like to thank supervisor haney and cosponsors and urge all members to adopt this ordinance in whole. Thank you. Hello, supervisors. I am adam woods, City Resident and San Francisco firefighter for almost 25 years. As a fire fighter, i want to say these front line food workers are putting health ablives on the line to a far greater extent than i am. I would like to explain what i mean by that. When we go out to respond to toa covid19 call we are given full personal protective equipment and training on how to safely interact with an infected patient. If anything goes wrong and there is a suspected exposure we are given administrative leave to quarantine. If we develop symptoms we are moved to the front of line for testing. That is firefighters. Front line food workers have a far greater number of person to person interactions than we are. They have no idea about the Health Status of the customers. They dont have the same level of personal protective equipment that we do, and if they do become infected, many of them are basically left on their own to deal with the consequences. Especially those workers working directly for the on demand delivery App Companies whose owner ignore California Law andyny protections they deserve as employees. Speaking as a fire fighter, these workers are feeding us, keeping us alive, heroes of this crisis andy serve the protections contained in this ordinance. I urge you to support it. Thank you for your comments. Is there another caller . This is jessie money from sciu101, deputy executive director we stand along with the i aff and every union in strong support of this legislation. As you know, 101 that organized thousands of uber and lift drivers that moved to delivery for lack of work. We stand with the fastfood workers in the fight for 15 which we are happy to stand in solidarity with for many years. It is wonderful the fastfood workers are also included in this legislation. We appreciate that this addresses significant issues of equity, health and safety for a group of workers on the front lines without any protection, no ppe or even broad labor union protections regarding health and safety and sick leave and the other items in our contracts. We stand in strong solidarity. Thanks, supervisor haney and the cosponsors. We will do what you need to do to make sure this is supported and executed. Thank you very much. Is there another caller . I am representing ufcw local 5. I want to thank supervisor haney and the cosponsors of the legislation. We have deemed front line food workers as essential to our lively hood and the business is essential to our society. I believe that we should treat their health and welfare and their employment as essential as well. I think this legislation does a lot to ensure that these workers not only are able to do their job in a safe and timely manner but also able to go home and secure knowing that they are not bringing the virus to friends and family because of the nature of their employment. I want to thank everyone in support of this bill. Thank you for your comments. Operations is there another caller on the line . I am chris wright executive director on the committee on jobs and represent the largest private sector employers in the city. During this extraordinary time we are adapting to the health and landscape and at the same time there is a rise in demand for Home Delivery of groceries and medications. Businesses and delivery workers are playing a vital role to ensure the goods are delivered and their health and safety is important. I have heard them say many members are offering no contact deliveries, protective equipment and Financial Assistance to support delivery workers. Our concern is some parts may cause unintended harm to the process and ask you consider the detailed letter we sent your office this week. Section 4 a allows businesses to provide reimbursement for sanitizers and protective equipment. This would require extensive it and training changes during this relatively short time of the emergency order. We request you allow businesses to proactively offer workers a stipend to cover the cost of products. Sections 5 and 6. As you know many on demand Delivery Companies allow workers to set when and where they use their platform. These do not apply to on demand Delivery Services. We understand and applaud your efforts to address concerns. We are committed to achieve them. That is why we want to make sure it is done right and to everyones benefit. Thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Operations is there another caller . Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Can you hear us . I will will bring in the next caller. Welcome, your two minutes begins now. Hello. Good morning. I am mark. I am here. I want to thank everybody that is here today enforcing these rights for myself and my colleagues. I am here today. I have been a registered driver for five years. I switched up recently to food delivery and i am pretty alarmed how we dont have any safety in place. There is no where to wash your hands, there is no mask, no wipe. They said they were going to provide us with all of these safety things, and as of now they havent provided anything. We are still waiting. Something has to be done. We are not First Responders or nurses but we are definitely on the front lines in the community daybyday. We are exposing myself and my family as well and my community when i come back home. Definitely they passed 85, but it seems like nobody is enforcing it. This is being ignored which is unfortunate. They are leaving us pretty much out there to fend for ourselves. I plea for myself and my colleagues that something comes to play and has to be done immediately for us to continue operating safely and providing our services. That is pretty much it for me. I want to thank everybody once again for coming together and trying to make a change for my colleagues and myself. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Welcome caller. Your two minutes begins now. Thank you. There is michael lion. My wife and i are 80 years old and trapped at home. We depend on these services andy pend on the people who bravely bring us food and medicine. Our son is an rn at the emergency at kaiser. We are well aware of the issues of protective equipment. Workers are being pressed to return to work by trump. Even if the governors resist, it is the line when people have to return to work. It is being pushed nationally. Considering this National Pressure to get people back to work, the city needs to protect workers. That is why we are in favor of this. I personally look forward to the day when workers control society and this will happen automatically rather than having to go through the legislature. Given the conditions now, i really appreciate this. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Do we have another caller . Your two minutes begins now. I would like to read into the record a statement by a person who was not able to get off work. Hello, i work in mcdonalds at 1100 fillmore street in San Francisco. I am organizing with the fight for 15. I strongly support the emergency ordinance to protect the health of workers and public. I have three kids daughter 7 and son 3 and baby girl 11 months. I am afraid to get sick and bring it to my family. My husband works at mcdonalds. It would be good to feel protected. We have run out of hand sanitizer. There is not a plan to keep social distance with customers or between us. I understand there is not enough space in the kitchen. They have never provided masks for us only be to the managers. They allow more than 10 customers in the lobby. Workers went on strike to demand the company protect the workers and public. I am proud to be an essential worker but we deserve protection. Please help us get mcdonalds to do the right thing. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Do we have another caller on the line . [please stand by] regardless if theyre in a brick and mortar store or if theyre working in a mobile app Delivery Service. Its an incredible tragedy to see that so many people are affected by this virus. I also want to appreciate that Small Business brick and Mortar Companies are already at a disadvantage. They should not be subsidizing these massive corporations, but they should be applauded for already taking measures in their stores. I think the actions theyve already taken are prudent, and we look forward to moving this legislation forward urgently. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operator you have three questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. I want to thank supervisor haneys office for working on this with us, and ufcw. This legislation is so critical. The only reason why were so here and able to social distance is from frontline to delivery workers, they make this work, and they deserve these minimal protections. They deserve to be protected against this evil virus, and i really believe they need this. The fact that corporations would put health aprofits abov health and safety of their workers is absurd. They deserve this. They deserve gloves, they deserve masks, they deserve time to wash their hands. The fact that anyone would speak against it is who are identifying. A horrifying. I want to thank all of them every day for what they do, for making this shelter in place work, so thank you for all you do, and thank you to the supervisors. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller. You have two minutes. My name is connie ford, and i am a Vice President of the San Francisco labor counsel and an executive member of jobs with justice. I also am a part of that vulnerable age group that is worried constantly about the health and safety of my family, of me, of my husband who just had a recent stroke. I just cant tell you how the workers, providing the protections and services that they do are whats keeping our communities in San Francisco alive and doing well. We were out there with supervisor haney on the first day, when we were banging the pots in support of frontline workers, and today, to be in favor of this legislation with the meaningful amendments that have been added, is crucial for our survivor of residents of San Francisco and as residents of this country. So please protect continue to protect the workers, continue to provide these benefits, and keep enforcing them through the office of labor standards so that we can all rise above this horrible pandemic and move forward for the next steps. Thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comments, miss ford. Operations, is there another caller . Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk caller, your two minutes begins now. Hi. My name is edan alba. Ive been a lyft supervisor for two years now, and im a member with workers rising. Drivers like me are exposed are the most vulnerable, the most exposed during these times. It can be that we are the least protected because Companies Like instacart, uber, lyft, have not offered protections that workers usually get, and functionalities, we are exposed during our work more than most others. When i started or when the Current Crisis started, i tried to get from lyft protection measures. They said they would try to provide them, but then, they shutdown all their field offices, so there was no one to talk to. So people like me, on a daily basis, are forced to choose between not working, which takes away our livelihood, and we dont have any savings because of how little we make during this crisis, and providing a risk to the public and to ourselves during this crisis. I strongly encourage this measure. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Mr. Qu, are there any other callers on the line . Operator you have zero questions remaining. Clerk there are no other callers. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Public comment is now closed. I want to thank everyone who spoke in Public Comments, but especially the frontline workers, the grocery workers, the frontline clerks, the fastfood and restaurant workers who spoke out here this morning just for all of the important work that youre providing and service youre providing for our communities right now in these really challenging times through your labor, so thank you so much. Supervisor haney. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. I did want to say just one more thing, which is we recognize that there is active litigation and disagreements about the definition of employees. We as the board of supervisors have been very clear about where we stand on that and have passed numerous resolutions that have clarified our stance as a city, as the board of supervisors, in support of 85 and other efforts. And so i do want to say that for the companies who read this and believe that it does not ally to them, i would, in the strongest terms, request that you comply with this. This iscy this is critical for our health and safety as a city during this time, and for folks who we believe that you employ, but you are referring to with another term, please make sure that they have access to this protection. Ive heard some folks say this is great, or some companies are saying they dont have to comply with this, and i believe that would be a terrible and dangerous mistake not to ensure the health of their drivers, of their shoppers, of their employees, and of their customers. Supervisor mar thank you, supervisor haney, for that important point, and thanks for all of your work on this important ordinance to protect our frontline essential workers right now. I believe you or you moved to amend the ordinance, which i will second. Mr. Clerk, can you please call the roll on the motion to amend . Clerk on the motion to amend the ordinance [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes on the motion to amend. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. I would now like to move that we send this as amended with positive recommendation as a Committee Report to the april 21 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mr. Clerk, please call call the roll. Clerk on the motion that the ordinance be recommended as a Committee Report to the april 21 board of supervisors meeting [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you. As we move into the next items, i did want to state that, colleagues, you know, we have a closed session scheduled to consider these next two items, which are litigation matters. At this time, i dont believe its necessary for us to convene in closed session for us to consider either ordinance, so instead of asking for a motion to convene in closed session, i will ask our clerk to call these items in both sessions. Mr. Clerk, please call the two items. Clerk items 5 and 6 are ordinances authorizing the settlement of lawsuits filed by individuals against the city and county of San Francisco. Members of the public, if you wish to speak, dial 18882045984, and then enter the access code 3501008, then pound, then pound to queue up, then onezero to speak. Supervisor mar its hard for me to imagine a more misguided effort than this building sinking into the ground. Well likely have a retrofit for this, and we have reached this agreement for developers and millionaire condo owners before we provide shelter for homeless san franciscans to shelter in place. I hope we acknowledge the absurd disparities in wealth, privilege, and access that got us here, but i will be voting in support of these items today. Before we go to Public Comment, are there any further comments from my colleagues . Chair peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, chair mar. I concur with your statement with regards to item 6, which in a normal circumstance, i wish we could actually discuss in closed session, but i understand that time is of the essence, and i know that all three of us have been individually briefed by the City Attorney, and i do want to acknowledge that the City Attorneys office has really done the best they can in settling this ongoing litigation. And i was going to actually ask some questions, but i was able to do that in the previous items 1 and 2 with regard to pointing out that there are other unsettled claims and litigation that t. J. The Transbay Joint Powers Authority are doing, but they are not a party in this particular action, and that has been set forth in the answers that the tjpa gave earlier in todays meeting. With regard to item number 5, i do not think time is of the essence. Speaking only for myself, i would like to have a closed session on that, which we dont yet have the technology, apparently, to do, so i would respectfully ask that that item be continued until we can have a closed session. Supervisor mar thank you, supervisor peskin. Actually, i will support that motion your your motion to continue the item number 5. Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line for Public Comment . Clerk mr. Chair, mr. Qu will check to see if we have any callers in the queue. Operator mr. Chair, there is one caller in the queue. Please allow me a moment to queue them up. You have one question remaining. Clerk well come, caller. Your two minutes begins now. I appreciate the statements that you have made. Truly, when we were suffering during this pandemic, we see all these discrepancies and disparities with some of our supervisors commenting, but they dont want to really address the situation. Here we are, trying to give a lot of money in some settlement, because, you know, if you have the attorneys, you can get the money. But whos going to repair the poor . Whos going to represent when decisions are made to put the homeless, the indigent, in harms way . So i admire at least you are making a statement, telling everybody in this city and county of San Francisco, the hard working taxpayers that there is a disparity, where if you have lawyers or the machine on your side, you can get paid. But if you are poor or you dont have representation, you are left to die, slowly left to die. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller . Operator there are no other callers in the queue. Clerk thank you, operations, a operations. Supervisor mar thank you again, mr. Clerk. Hearing no further comments, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor peskin made a motion to continue item number 5. I just want to check with deputy City Attorney ann pearson to see if theres any time sensitivity to decide that we should be aware of before we consider the motion to continue that way. Are you able to see and hear me . Oh, there i am. I trust our litigators would say that there is some time sensitivity to this, but there is no hardandfast deadline that im aware of that i could bring to your attention to influence your decision to move this forward as quickly as possible. Supervisor mar okay. Thank you for that, deputy City Attorney pearson. So supervisor peskin has moved that we continue item number 5. I will second that. Clerk would you like to specify the supervisor mar why dont we continue it to the supervisor peskin id like to continue to the call of the chair, and the moment that we can actually have a closed session, then i would ask that it be scheduled. Supervisor mar thank you, and i would second that. Mr. Clerk, can you please call roll . Clerk on the motion to continue agenda item number 5 to the call of the chair [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. And then, i move that we would send item number 6 to the full board with a positive recommendation. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the motion from chair mar to recommend item number 6 to the full board of supervisors [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mar thank you, mr. Clerk. There any further business . Clerk that concludes our business for today. Supervisor mar thank you. We are adjourned. Hi, my nam. In this episode, we are featuring the romantic park locations in your very own backyard. This is your chance to find your heart in San Francisco with someone special. Our first look out is here at buena vista park, a favorite with couples and dog lovers. It is as old as its neighbor and both have a significant forest, a refreshing retreat from urban life. 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Motion to for todays budget and appropriation committee. Thank you. Can i have a second please . Roll call vote, please, madame clerk. The motion . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. There are five. Supervisor fewer thank you. Welcome. Madame clerk, any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Care Emergency and to protect members of the public, the board of supervisors and chamber room are closed. However, members will be participating as if theyre physically present. All the comments will Public Comment will be available. Streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. By calling 888 2045984. Press pound and pound again. When youre connected, dial 1 and then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. Youll be lined up in the order. While youre waiting the system will be silent. The system will notify you when youre in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until their line is open. [inaudible] and streaming. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively at [inaudible] if you submit Public Comment, it will be included in the legislative file as part of the matter. Written comments may be sent via u. S. Postal service. Finally, items acted upon today will be forwarded to the full board for consideration on april 28 unless otherwise indicated. Madame clerk. Thank you. Can you please call items 1 through 3 together . Item 1, emergency ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the covid19 disaster Family Relief Fund. Item 2, emergency ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the covid19 disaster Family Relief Fund and item number 3, appropriating 10 million from the general reserve for the creation of the Family Relief Fund that will serve undocumented and extremely lowincome families with children 0 to 18 years old and who do not qualify for stimulus relief. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. We continued this item to the meeting for this meeting by supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I want to provide an update and say weve been working closely with the leadership of the Human Rights Commission as well as with the Mayors Office and were going to be providing relief for this population working without doing this the legislative process. So i think its appropriate items 1, 2 and 3. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, supervisor. So we have a motion to file items 1, 2 and 3. Before we do that, lets open up for Public Comment. Madame clerk, can you call for Public Comment . Yes. Madame chair, checking to see if there are any calls in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready . Madame chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor fewer Public Comment is now closed. There is a motion to file this item and could we have a roll call vote, please . On the motion to file items 1, 2 and 3, supervisor walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. There are three ayes. Supervisor fewer congratulations, supervisor walt walton. Can you call items 4 and 5 together . Item 4, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to expend a grant in the amount of 900,000 for participation in the program entitled california injury and Violence Prevention Branch overdose data to action for a period of january 1, 2020 through august 31, 2022. Item 5, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 750,000 from