Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the june 25, 2020 special meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair over the committee. With me on the Video Conference is vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and rules member gordon mar. Id like to thank sfgovtv for the meeting. Mr. Clerk, any announcements . Looks like youre on mute. Apologies. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. Many members will attend a meeting through Video Conference and attend to the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item on the agenda. Were streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Again, that is 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 145, 418, 2406. Again, that is 1454192406 and then press pound and pound again. When connected, youll hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. When the issue comes up, dial 3. Best practices are to call from a quiet location. Speak clearly and slowly and turn down your radio or television. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email to myself, the clerk. Submit Public Comment via email, it will be included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of july 7th unless otherwise stated. Supervisor ronen thank you. Could you state number one. Charter amendment to amend the charter of city and county of San Francisco to provide the future annual adjustments in baseline if funding for the following charter mandated funds will not take into account changes in the ballot. The municipal transportation fund, the park, recreation and open space fund, the children youth fund, the Library Preservation fund, the Housing Trust fund, the dignity fund and the street Tree Maintenance Fund at an election to be held on november 3, 2020. Supervisor ronen thank you. Our controller is here with us today. Do any of my colleagues have any statements before we turn it over to the controller . Nope. Mr. Rosenfeld. Good morning. [laughter] good morning and thank you for having me here today. I have a short presentation to talk through this proposal. And i should say that we do have amendments to suggest here today, which i can talk through that substantially limit versus what you have in front of you. So, in background here, the charter measure with the amendments will ask for your consideration of today, are intended to address the unique challenge we have in two of the tax measures that are pending in front of the board of supervisors. One introduced by the mayor. The other introduced by president yee with supervisors haney, fewer and peskin. Both are larger scale changes. Ill talk through the specific challenge were trying to address with these measures with the charter measure. I should say if the charter measure is amended and does move forward, i think the intent at the end of the day would be to merge it with the other measures on the ballot. The goal would be at the end of the board process, they would be merged. I should start with talking about a key feature of the two ballot measures. The two taxes. As you know, the city is in the midst of litigation regarding both dedicated taxes adopted by the voters in 2018. The city has been challenged on those. And the goal here of a feature in both of those tax measures is to unlock and basically make the money were collecting today expendable. We do that as creating a backstop tax. That is one feature that should the city lose that litigation would opt into place. Those new backstop taxes would look in many ways like big and baby c in their tax structure and they would generate a like amount of tax. Theyre effectively insurance against that possibility of a legal loss. What that does in terms of money that were collecting today, my office is impounding the funds we collect today. Should we be ordered by the court to pay refunds. So were collecting 450 million a year roughly on these two taxes that well have to refund if the courts strike down if the courts rule against the city. If the backstop tax is adopted thats been proposed on these two measures this november, our office would have a different means of repaying those refunds should the city lose. Rather than having to use money that were collecting to make the repayments, we would look to that new ongoing backstop tax to make the payments. Since we would have another means of repaying the refund should we lose, the money that were collecting today would become immediately spendable and thats really the policy were after with this tax feature. The policy challenge we have that results, though, is that currently big and baby c are dedicated taxes. That means that theyve been earmarked by the voters for a specific purpose and that means that the revenue collected under those measures is not discretionary and therefore does not contribute to the voter docket baseline. So all 450 million were currently collecting is dedic e dedicated for only those two purposes. The backstop feature, though, in the proposed measures. The one feature is a general tax. It will require 50 plus one vote to adopt. That tax is discretionary. And so of the approximately 450 million in annual taxes were collecting, approximately 100 million of that 450 would be allocated to various baseline purposes absent this proposed charter measure as amended. That would mean that the value of the backstop tax that is available to pay for refunds, should we need to, and the revenue available to support ongoing child care and Homeless Service programs that we have created in the shorter term, would be limited by the 100 million. Thats the policy challenge. That takes us to the purpose of the charter measure. The charter measure in front of you was very broad. It was applied to the entirety of the tax measure on the November Ballot and excludes the value of all the taxes from baseline. That is not our intent here. So we have an amendment we would consider today that would limit this charter measure to only apply specifically to the backstop tax that i talked about a few minutes ago. That would exclude the value of the backstop tax should it go into effect from baseline calculations. In doing so, it preserved the value of the tax to pay for quarter of refunds in child care and services. If its adopted, both by the board and then to the voters, it would leave the baseline allocations in the same places they are today. No better, no worse. Big and baby c are not subject to allocations and if this charter measure is adopted by the voters, the backstop tax would also not be subject to baseline compensations. As amended, the charter measure would not apply to any other taxes on the ballot or other features of these tax measures. So any additional revenue measured by these tax measures on the ballot would still contribute its share to the baseline purposes. I would be happy to answer any questions. In you shall flush i appreciate all of the work that has gone into this. Supervisor stefani, any comments . Okay. Any member of the public who wishes to speak will have two minutes to speak. Thank you. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1454192406. And press 8080 pound and pound again. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand when you press star 3. Do we have any members of the public for Public Comment at the time . There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor ronen okay. Public comment is closed. And i understand that supervisor stefani might introduce officially the amendment . No . Supervisor stefani thats fine, yes. I would like to move the amendments mentioned by mr. Rosenfield. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. Can we take a roll call on the amendment . On the motion to adopt the amendments stefani aye. Mar aye. Chair ronen aye. Motion passes without objection. Supervisor ronen and then on the underlying measure as amended . Thats right. If we can continue this item to the call of the chair, can we take a roll call on that motion to continue . And so the public is a Charter Amendment is amended, then it has to sit in committee and be heard once again before we can officially move it. On the motion to continue the call of the chair, stefani aye, mar aye, ronen aye. The motion passes. This matter is continued to the call of the chair with [inaudible] supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you, ben, take care. Please read item number 2. Item 2 is a Charter Amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to establish that workforce education and Recovery Fund to provide Financial Support to city college of San Francisco for workforce and professional development programs, Student Support and Wraparound Services supporting student retention and life long learning, enrichment and social justice classes and to require an annual appropriation in designated amounts to the fund, election to be held on november 3, 2020. Supervisor ronen thank you. Since this is supervisor mars measure, did you have any comments, supervisor mar . Yeah. Thank you supervisor mar i would like to hold off on hearing and considering action on this item today. Im currently working with city college stakeholders, labor and others to explore the best way to ensure that the more than 140,000 unemployed residents in our city have access to needed workforce education and training so they can upgrade their skills and get back to work and Economic Security as soon as possible. Were considering creating the workforce Education Recovery Fund as a twoyear Pilot Program through legislation and the Pilot Project that would support the recovery to happen sooner than the proposed Charter Amendment. I would like to request that we continue this item to the call of the chair . Supervisor ronen no problem, but before we do that, i will open up for Public Comment . Mr. Clerk . Yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment should call 415 6550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1454192406. Then press pound and pound again. If you havent done so, please dial star 3 to line up to speak. And wait until you hear the indicator that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Mr. Caller, any members of the public to speak online at this time . Madame chair, there are no callers in the queue. Supervisor ronen okay. Public comment is closed. Can you make a motion did you. Supervisor mar i move that we continue the item to the call of the chair. Supervisor ronen if we can have a roll call. Roll call on the matter to continue to the call of the chair. Stefani aye. Mar aye. Chair ronen aye. That motion passes to continue the matter to the call of the chair without objection. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, any other items . That completes the agenda for today. Supervisor ronen thank you, colleagues, for holding a special. We thought it would be longer, but were trying to space out all the measures on the ballot and make sure we have enough time for everyone. Enjoy a little free time in your calendars now. See you soon. Take care. Bye. But i do speak my mind. I have a question. There are a lot of traffic calming measures that arent included in the powerpoint toolkit, and im wondering if theyre being considered, such as the types of bulbs that can be put in. In quickbuild kind of spirit, you can just put out cones at dangerous intersections for almost no many, and again, i think theres things like that that can be done now in the midst of the virus, the covid virus, that people are going to accept, people driving cars, that then eventually become permanent. I dont quite get the sense of urgency of this being an exciting time to move much, much more quickly than people were moving before, and to adopt traffic calming measures so they can be done with very little cost. As it is, its only a 750,000 project, and i think if you rethought things, you could do twice as much with the same amount of money, so i urge you you to rethink or think outside the box in terms of covid19 and how quickly these projects are designed and how they move forward. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. Im Richard Rossman, and i live in the excelsior, and i was wondering why the last gentleman didnt mention this area. Theyve been implementing the Safety Measures for over a year. Apparently, its going to take another six months. It had to go to the Transportation Authority and the m. T. A. Why cant they have a joint meeting on these projects where both agencies are involved to speed up the process, and when they have the meeting, have the engineering folks who have come out and had meetings and speed this up . M. T. A. Needs to have a faster process and processing these safety improvements. Its just taking too long, and with the closure, more cars are traveling on folsom and lincoln way, and i dont know why it takes so long to implement these changes on folsom street. Thank you. President yee okay. Any other speakers . Clerk no additional public speakers. Supervisor peskin mr. Chair, id like to utilize ana to speak with funding issues. President yee okay. Thanks for helping me out, supervisor peskin, because my screen doesnt show anything. In 2019, the board approved 750,000 over the fiveyear period for this program, and the first of the project i believe we funded is central richmond. I thought we had funded excelsior, as well. It might not have been from this place holder funding. In addition, there has been discussion of the funding of this program for 2021. There has been a discussion of bulbouts at the fulton mall, and that the sfmta would be coming in during the construction phase of the project, asking for approximately 200,000 for that pr project. As far as the 2021, and the ingleside and visitacion projects, i am not aware that m. T. A. Is planning to use the place holder funds, but im pleased to hear about what will advance, and i look forward to hearing more. President yee thank you for that report. So where were we . We just finished with other comments. I guess theres no other comments or questions, so i will go ahead and close this close this out. Madam clerk, lets go to [inaudible]. So what number lets go to item 7. Clerk item 7, introduction of new items. This is an information item. President yee okay. No no introduction of new items unless i said earlier to have m. T. C. Come and give a report on their report that just came out, okay . So i guess lets go to Public Comment, then. Clerk okay. There is one Public Comment. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Good afternoon, chair yee and commissioner peskin. I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak. This is jodi madeiras, and im the executive director of walk San Francisco. Im here to speak on behalf of 20 organizations on the Vision Zero Coalition who sent this body as well as mayor breed a letter yesterday to encourage our city to invest in alternatives to safe policing on our streets. We need a stronger and committed investment in fair and proportionate policing. I want to thank kate breed for discussing this citys work on the automated Speed Enforcement because we need to pilot life saving speed Safety Cameras now. We also are asking as a group for a greater investment in our camera program. We currently only have 13 cameras in the city with only 2 million committed for the next five years, and this is an incredibly underutilized highly technological solutions. We need to provide alternatives to punitive inequitable fine systems in relation to traffic infractions because we know that traffic infractions should not disproportionately burden african american, black, brown, and people of color. These are the places where people of color are much more likely to live, walk, and bike. Clerk thank you, caller. Thank you. That is your two minutes. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Wethis is Steven Bingham fo the third time now, and i just want to second what jodi just said, in particular the comment in the letter she mentioned to provide alternatives to punitive traffic infractions that cause lowincome people to lose their drivers licenses and have their cars towed. I worked on this issue now, and i was a former legal aide for 20 years, and ive been working on this for a couple of decades, and one of the things that i think that m. T. A. Can take the lead on in terms of getting a conversation going is having nonPolice Officers to handout tickets to reduce the kinds of interactions that the police have with people of color in particular, and i think it would lead to actually safer streets because the police could focus their resources on real crime and not minor kinds of tickets they spend a great deal of time doing. Its been in new zealand for a couple of years, where traffic tickets were handled by a different agency. There are a number of cities around the country that have decriminalized part of t