Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

Mar present. Peskin present. Preston well return. Ronen present. Safai. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Haney present. Safai okay. I received a message that supervisor preston is having trouble signing in. So we will make a note of that, mr. President. And the minute on which he arrives. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Please place your right hand over your heart. Recite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. Who records each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. The minutes reflect that due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as physically present. The covid19 has made the urgent need for Public Access even more acute. The board of supervisors believes it is essential that all members of our various communities are provided options by which they can petition the board, access the board information and be able to fully participate remotely in these meetings to gain access to todays meeting, if you do not have the internet or without smart phone, you are able to submit your written correspondence on any subject matter, address your envelope to the San Francisco board of supervisors city hall. If you have a smart phone and wish to use it, to listen to these proceedings, dial 415 6550001. And when prompted enter the meeting i. D. , which is 1451982013. Youll press pound twice. Youll have joined the meeting and youre able to listen to the meeting in progress. This information is scrolling across your television and the internet. And well just let folks know that the access code or the meeting i. D. Number, it helps us identify the meeting you want to link to. There are two special orders at 3 00 p. M. , public hearing, items 30 through 33, the certification of the conditional uses authorization for proposed project and items 44 through 47 on the appeal of conditional use authorization of 44 street. Public comment when be taken when those specific items are called. On items under the subject matter, youll be able to provide comment and well call the telephone number and again identify the access code of the meeting i. D. At the time. We would like to announce there are three individuals standing by who would like to introduce themselves to the public. They are able to provide information. If you are providing a Public Comment, they can provide your comment in language. Lets start with to introduce herself and well go to the next and then the last. Thank you, madame clerk. [speaking Foreign Language] thank you so much, madame clerk. Clerk thank you very much. Next. [speaking Foreign Language] thank you, madame clerk. Clerk and last. [speaking Foreign Language] clerk just want to indicate that supervisor safai and preston are noted present and so, mr. President , all members are present, thank you for allowing me to make that communication. President yee just a reminder for the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. I understand that we are okay, thank you. Colleagues, we are approving the minutes from may 12, 2020, regular Board Meeting. Are there any changes for these Meeting Minutes . Okay, seeing none. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee second safai. Then without objection, the minutes will be approved after Public Comment has been presented. Madame clerk, lets go to the Consent Agenda, call items 1 through 6 together. Clerk in order to approve those minutes, after Public Comment, we shall take a roll call vote. President yee oh, yes. Clerk on the minutes, peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar . Supervisor mar, you might be on mute . Okay. Thank you. There are 11 ayes. President yee once again, without objection the minutes will be approved after Public Comment is presented. Madame clerk, lets go to the Consent Agenda, please call items 1 through 6 together. Clerk items 1 through 6 are items considered to be routine. President yee would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Please call the roll on items 1 through 6 . Clerk peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee the ordinance passes unanimously. Lets go to item number 7. Item 7 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed on may 18, 2017, by brian saou against the city for approximately 50,000 alleging personal injury on a city street. President yee madame clerk, please call the roll. Clerk last week, mr. President , supervisor mar declared disassociation for the record, well make that same note on this as well with permission, supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you. Clerk on item 7, peskin aye. Ronen aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, ordinance is passed unanimously. Lets go to the next item, item 8. A amendment to amend the charter to require that members of boards, commissions and advisory bodies be residents of the city and of legal voting age, replacing the requirement that members of boards, commissions and advisory bodies be United States citizens and registered voters at an election to be held on november 3, 2020. President yee okay. Supervisor walton, would you like to say anything . Supervisor walton thank you, supervisors, president yee. This is, of course, a pivotal time for us in history to remove the barrier of allowing our undocumented immigrants a voice at the table. As you know, they are a major fabric of our city. They have been fighting and organizing in our communities for years. Theyre part of our economy. Their families and children attend our schools and they have been participating in leadership in our city for a very long time. This will codify and make sure that we eliminate barriers to allowing our undocumented immigrants to serve on our commission, our special committees here in San Francisco. After todays vote, this will go to the ballot and we will begin to get to a point where we are really and truly about equity here in San Francisco. So im excited for your leadership along with me on making sure that we allow our undocumented immigrants to serve on commissions here in San Francisco. This is long overdue. This is commonsense policy. This amendment will make it real and it will make it something that we can be proud of here in San Francisco. So, i am excited to have unanimous support from all of my colleagues here on the board of supervisors and, again, want to thank you, president yee and your office and my office for their great work working with community and, of course, last but definitely not least, sara sousa and gabriel for their help to get this Charter Amendment on the ballot and move it forward so we can get true equity here in San Francisco. Thank you. President yee thank you, supervisor walton. Im going to echo everything you stated and also express my, again, appreciation for really the bold leadership of sarah sosa and all the advocates who have been supporting this issue. This is long overdue as you mentioned. And really a stain on our citys charter. I am hopeful that san franciscans will vote and undo this wrong that is in our Charter Amendment by lifting this discriminatory restriction wherein so many of our qualified residents are unable to serve on advisory bodies. All San Francisco residents should have an ability to serve our public. And to provide meaningful input. We often complain that our policy bodies are not diverse enough or representative of the needs of our city. These are also seats that are vacant at times because we cannot find the right individuals to serve in these capacities. Yet we have populations that are completely barred from serving despite the different perspectives and experiences that could could and would add value to the bodies that are supposed to represent them. We must hold ourselves to a higher standard in order to achieve more equitable outcomes. It is important we remove barriers for people to engage. I am proud that we have so many opportunities for everyday residents to get involved and to give back. This our democracy and the integrity of the public services. Colleagues, thank you for all your supports. San francisco voters, the matter is in your hands now. Lets stand by lets all stand by our our ideals. Madame clerk, can you call the roll . Clerk peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, Charter Amendment is submitted to november 3, 2020 ballot unanimously. New business. Call items 9 and 10 together please. Clerk items 9 and 10 are two resolutions that authorize the sfo or the San Francisco international airport, item 9 to approve the fifmodification fore s. R. O. Courtyard, three connector project with p. G. H. Wong and partners j. V. To increase the contract, or not to exceed 17. 2 million for services arched to make the appropriate findings. Item 10 approves the s. F. O. International terminal duty free and luxury lease between d. F. S. Group lp and the city for adjustment of base rent under the lease for lease year one ending on december 31, 2020. Clerk pleaon items 9 and 10 peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item 11 is resolution to authorize and approve the lease of Telecommunications Facilities on a portion of the roof on 260 golden gate avenue with new Singular Wireless for a 10year term and annual rent of 93,000 or the base rent of 8,000 with a 4 annual adjustment thereafter and two fiveyear options to extend with tenant responsible for all services and utilities. President yee thank you. Dont forget, colleagues, if youre not speaking, go ahead and mute your microphone. Were getting feedback. Madame clerk, can you call the roll on item 11 . Clerk on item 11 peskin aye. Preston aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 12 through 14 together. Clerk items 12 through 14 pertain to different aspects of the healthy San Francisco program. We have resolutions between the Health Authority and the department of Public Health. For item 12 Administrator Services for a total amount not to exceed 35. 3 million. For item 13, agreement for Fiscal Administration of private Provider Services for a total amount not to exceed 25 million. And for item 14, approving an agreement for third party Administrator Services for the San Francisco City Option Program for a total amount not to exceed 49 million and for all three agreements to a five year term through june 30, 2025. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Im wondering if there is anyone here from d. P. H. Who might be able to answer questions i have . I had requested that someone be here. Hi president yee who . This is michele rugle from the department of Public Health and also alice is on the line as well. President yee go ahead and ask your question, supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, president yee. Hi, good afternoon. I had requested that you be here today because i have heard from several workers in the medical profession that when they had patients that are undocumented [inaudible] over and over again, their patients have never heard president yee excuse me. Supervisor, im sorry. Somebody i can hear somebody speaking in the background. Please mute your mics. Supervisor ronen that they had never heard of the healthy San Francisco program. They didnt know they were eligible. And just had never heard about it. So im wondering what kind of outreach and education and recruitment youve been doing for those individuals that are eligible for healthy San Francisco . Good afternoon, supervisor ronen. This is alice with the department of Public Health. And id like to just share with you kind of some of the activities that we are currently doing. Prior to covid, we did have more outreach in terms of availability to do presentations that are requested. We still have our website that is that contains information around who can enroll, where they can enroll, but since we are not currently doing a lot of inperson outreach, some of the activities that were currently doing are we do have regular we continue to have regular monthly meetings with application assisters from the various medical homes who participate in healthy San Francisco programs. And we had in march, in april, in may as well as in june, letting them know what our current policies are. Weve taken some policies to try to ensure folks can continue to be enrolled. In addition to that, our enrollment unit at zuckerberg, San Francisco general is still continuing to provide phone appointments because there are not as many clinics or sites that are doing inperson appointments. The Enrollment Center staff by the San Francisco health plan is also doing the phone appointments as well. Weve also recently connected with the department of Public Health Community Hub to let them know about our programs as well as some additional steps that weve taken to really try to help currently enroll participants who may have some challenges with, you know, renewing their applications or paying fees if they have them. So those are some of the current steps that were doing. Weve made ourselves available to the Community Hub in case that there is a need by commune members or stakeholders who would like to find out more information about our program. So those are our current outreach efforts. Previously, we did go out to sites during enrollment fairs and things to try to recruit folks. Another thing that we are currently in the development is working with the city college of San Francisco to do enrollment site on their campuses. Its not live yet, but it is in discussions of implementation. Does that answer your question . Supervisor ronen thank you, so part of why this is a particular concern to me right now is because of the disproportionate amount of individuals in the next community that are testing positive for covid, visavis their option in the city, in comparison to their population in the city. And you know, it has become apparent in the ucsf study and the followup from the testing and into the runup to the testing, the outreach that the Latino Task Force on covid19 did, that many immigrants in the Latinx Community had not heard of healthy San Francisco, dont feel comfortable accessing medical services. And from its heyday, you know, as one of the first universal coverage programs in the country, it feels like the emphasis on making it clear to opportunity members that theyre safe and welcome to use the services has declined. Im just wondering if you have any data over the years, over the past five years lets say, of enrollment in healthy San Francisco and how that is compared to and whether or not its declined, et cetera . Do you have that Information Available . Yes. So within the last year, healthy San Franciscos enrollment has stayed fairly consistent at around 13, 500. We had at the height over close to 60,000, but the majority of our members were able to get onto insurance and transfer to medical which was great. What we did notice was starting in february we did have a decline. We think of about 400 individuals. We do think that part of that contributing to that decline was the expansion of medical to undocumented young adults. So we did have we anticipated that a number of our participants might have been able to transition to full coverage. So that was good. But the other thing we think might have been contributing to that recent decline is because of shelterinplace many of our enrollment sites did have to stop doing inperson enrollment which is the standard methodology that we do for enrolling p

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