The meeting will come to the order. This is the july 8, 2020, rescheduled budget and finance meeting. Im sandra lee fewer. Im joined by supervisor walton and mandelman. I would like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Do we have any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed, however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This is taken pursuant to the state orders and directive. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda, both channel 26 and our website, streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Opportunity to speak during Public Comment period are available by calling 408 4189388. Meeting i. D. , 1461315200. Again, 1461315200, then press pound twice. When connected you will hear the meeting discussion. When your item of interest comes up, dial to be added to the speaker line. Turn down your television or radio. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email to myself the clerk at linda. Wong at sf gov. If you subject Public Comment, it will be forwarded to the supervisors. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda july 14th, unless otherwise stated. Supervisor fewer please call items 1, 2 and 3. Item 1 calling for special election to be held in the city and county of catastrophe on tuesday, november 3, for the purpose of submitting to San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness not to exceed 487. 5 million to finance the acquisition or improvement of real property, authorizing landlords to pass through 50 of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants providing for the collection of taxes. Item 2, resolution determining and declaring that the Public Interest and necessity demand the acquisition or improvement of real property, authorizing landlords to pass 50 of the resulting property tax increase to residential tenants. And item 3, resolution amending the citys tenyear Capital Expenditure plan to amend the proposed government Obligation Bond program. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on these items should call 408 4189388, i. D. , 1461315200. Then press pound twice. Press star 3 to line up to speak. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Supervisor fewer item number 1, colleagues, you may remember item number 1 and 2 were continued from last week when we had approved the amendment. And now i think heather green from Capital Planning are going to review with us the updated financing numbers. Thank you, supervisors. Nice to be here this morning. This is items 1 and 2, this is the second hearing of the bond legislation. Last time material amendments were introduced to increase the bond overall amount from 438. 5 million to 487. 5 million, the bond report should now be in the file. It wasnt shown on the website, so i have just reset with linda to make sure that it is included, but i will recap the changes made. I apologize if its not in there. We have updated the amounts. 207 million for Mental Health. 239 for parks uses. And 41. 5 million for street and rightofwa rightofways. We changed eligible uses to match the ordinance. So that was added abilities like psychiatric Skilled Nursing facilities, sobering center, all on the Behavioral Health side. Supervisor fewer excuse me. This screen. Do you have a power point to share with us. I will be delivering a power point on the capital plan amendment. I also have some slides ready that show the uses if that would be helpful, i can pull those up. Supervisor fewer its just that youre rambling off numbers, i think, that it would helpful for supervisors to actually see it. The numbers that are you are [inaudible] presentation that can show that . Yes. This is the same as we looked at last time. And i will pull it up right now. Youre able to see supervisor fewer yes, we are. Excuse me as i flip forward quickly and flip back. Supervisor fewer that would be great. These are the numbers that show the overall bond amount. This is the 207 for Mental Health and parks and 41. 5 for streets and rightofway uses. And then we had the uses that were added these are all of the eligible uses in the bond for the health and homelessness side. Notable as additions in the revised bond report are the addition of locked acute facilities, psychiatric nursing facilities and sobering center. Supervisor fewer got it. In the park side, thats what this looks like. Not here indicated on the slide, but i have eligible use we did add urban agriculture sites as one of the eligible sustainability uses. Supervisor fewer got it. Then we also expanded the recovery park section to include also the projects shown here, so that the additional 54 million for portsmouth square, priorities, Jackson Playground for 10 million, south sunset for 3 million and Richmond Senior park for 1 million as those are descriptions for the additional priority parks in the parks program. Supervisor fewer thats great. And then there was no change to the streets and rightofway piece. Supervisor fewer okay. Thats great. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, ms. Green. So we heard the daily report last time. So b. L. A. , is there anything new you want to share . Good morning, chair. We did update our report to look at the impact on the larger bond issuance and based on 487 million issuance, average estimate debt service would be 39. 5 million per year. The impact on a property owner, the property tax rate for property assessed at 600,000 would be 83 per year. This still falls within the debt limit and tax rate policy. We consider approval to be a policy matter. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions . Seeing none, lets open item 1 and 2 for Public Comment, please. Well take item 3 separately. Madame clerk, can you call for Public Comment on items 1 and 2. Clerk yes. Operations is checking to see if there are callers in the queue. Operation, please let us know if there are callers ready. If you have not already done so, press star 3 to be added to the queue. For those on hold wait until the system indicates youve been unmuted. Operator, let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on items 1 and 2. Yes, i do have a few callers. Ill unmute the first caller. Hello, good morning. Can you hear me . Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Great. Thank you. Yes, im speaking about the bond measure, particularly the park and rec. Good morning, my name is jeffrey. Im the president of the japanese American Federation housing incorporated. Communitybased organization comprised of the buddhist christian and independent churches here in japantown. This morning, i would like to speak in favor of full funding for 25 million for the renovation of the peace plaza in japantown. This is a very important space in japantown. Significance to our residents in the greater community. It is a large open space. [inaudible] so it serves as a principle venue for cultural events. Weve held numerous Public Events in the plaza. One that particularly comes to mind to me is 70th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb in. It also features a speech by a survivor of hiroshima bombing. That day in particular the peace plaza was truly the appropriate place for his message and our message for world peace. In summary, along with men organizations many organizations, we urge that the board of supervisors fully fund the 25 million allocated for the renovation and the park and rec bond measure. So [inaudible] long overdue rehabilitation that it deserves. The project has received all approval and stands ready in the november ballot. On behalf of the japanese housing incorporated, we urge you to approve in its full entirety the 25 million appropriation for the renovation of the japantown peace plaza. Thank you. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker. Good morning, can you hear me . Yes, please begin your comments. Good morning, commissioners. My name is glyna. Im a board member of the Japantown Task force and also Advisory Board member of the japanese bilingual Cultural Program over at rosa parks elementary school. Youve heard multiple testimony about the crucial role of the peace plaza and the sustainability of japantown, so i wont be redundant. Instead, given this moment of national reckoning, i would like to ask you to look at the peace plaza through the lens of social justice for a minute. Because this project is also about equity and restorative justice. While the peace plaza is, today, the cultural heart and living room of japantown, to many families in the western edition, it is a painful reminder of urban renewal in the late 60s when hundreds of japanese americans were again forcibly removed and evicted from the neighborhood. This time by the city. It was really the nail in the coffin of the once vibrant commercial and residential fabric of japantown. And the displacement of japaneseamerican families was never really reversed. But the community as it always does made the best of it. Weve waited patiently for the voices of the community to be heard and the deterioration of the plaza, including the botched construction that was never corrected, to be addressed. Of the billions of dollars approved rec money passed since 2000, japantown has never been the recipient of a main bond measure project. I ask you today to advance equity and exercise responsibility in repairing some of the harm of the past by including the peace plaza renovation in its full 25 million allocation in the proposed health and recovery bond measure. Thanks for your time today. Hello. Hello, can you hear me . Yes. Hello . Hello. My name is joe. Hi. May i begin . May i begin . Yes, please do. My name is george. Born in the San Francisco in the outset of the great depression. And trained in arkansas during the war. Im here to urge the 25 million allocation for the peace project. I have a little narrative i want to read to you. Upon returning to the city after the war, i recall how hard we all worked to get our lives back together. You can imagine store owners and what working people face today with the pandemic and what to do when this crisis is over, you can well imagine what we went through, except wed been away for four years. When we thought we had our life back in order, imminent do main took a wrecking ball to our community. The only acting grace was a gift from japan. The plaza with the reflecting pools. Soon after construction [inaudibl [inaudible] the plaza was of anything with water. Community gatherings. Today, japan center with its plaza and iconic are accessible year long, its Cherry Blossom for 200,000 people annually. After 52 years, the plaza still leeches unclean water into the atmosphere. It is high time to correct these deficiencies. Our community your time has expired. Thank you for your comments sir. Next speaker, please. Hello, speaker . Good morning, are you able to hear me . Yes. Okay. Awesome. My name is im calling to urge the support for the japantown. We are a group that is actually pretty unique in that its practiced by women. To us San Franciscos japantown is one of the very few places that has been a public platform at the annual festival to celebrate and demonstrate our arts. This is critical not just for us, but many arts. Japantown isnt just a place to enjoy japanese food and shopping, but its also tied to the survival of many of our arts. You know, also on a more personal note, in the past 12 years of Public School education that i received, nothing could compare to what i learned about the devastation and aftermath of japaneseamerican internment. Every remaining space of japantown is incredibly valuable for the arts, but also as a landmark that serves as a living textbook for the generation. And the resilience of the japanese community. I urge each and every one of you to support the 25 million for the peace plaza. Please help us to make the repairs we desperately need and help us make a greener space that aligns with our vision fort peace plaza. You can make a difference for us. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Hello. My name is nick. Im the chair of the park rec open Space Advisory Commission and committee. And we were lucky enough to be able to meet last night and discuss the bond. I say that because weve been wanting to do that since the beginning of the pandemic so that we could stand here and actually support the bond through the commission, through the other meetings that have happened over this. And today i can finally say that the park rec open Space Advisory Committee fully supports the bond to move forward and to get on the ballot. We hope that you approve it and put it on the ballot. And we hope we can help be part of getting it passed to the voters and working with rec park to get these wonderful projects done. As rec park has had 100 Completion Rate for all the other bonds weve worked on together. We hope to continue that. Thank you for that and have a great day. Next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors. My name is stephen courier. I am a member of the park and rec open Space Advisory Committee. As nick mentioned, we voted last night to support is this bond. And i actually supported on both ends the recovery and the park bond. Im vice chair of the Vehicle Triage Center at the upper parking lot at bart station. So really this serves two areas that i am concerned with. Mental illness, homelessness and parks. I hope that you will vote to put this ballot on the measure in november. We look forward to supporting this. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. Good morning. My name is alanna. Im a fourth generation japaneseamerican working in japantown. Last week i called in and i said, you know, were not giving up so i wanted to call again to show my dedication to peace plaza receiving the 25 million for much needed repairs. Last week i called and told you about how the repeated displacement of japaneseamericans from japantown has affected generations like mine and how many of us grow up in communities where there are no other japaneseamericans. That is so important that the city, that we invest in these japantowns because there is only three japantowns left. And these japantowns are really the only place that as japaneseamericans we can be our true cultural authentic selfs. I wanted to note there is a lot of younger voices today on the call and it really speaks to how deeply meaningful your support of our peace plaza is, to all parts of our community. I really look forward to doing everything i can if our peace plaza gets on the bond to advocate for this bond. To show how much it means to us. So thank you so much. Clerk thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Supervisor fewer madame clerk, how many people are in the queue . Yes, madame chair, i believe there is one more. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madame clerk. Hello. Can you hear me . Yes. Hi, im a student yeah. Hello, im a student at San FranciscoState University and the founder and president of the student union. I am calling to show my support for japantown receiving 25 million for the peace plaza renovation plan. I would like to urge this board of supervisors to vote in favor of it. When i moved to San Francisco, the first area of the city that i visited was japantown. This is not because i was in the mood for a particular dish or shopping experience, but instead to find comfort in a city that i was about to call a new home. I hope to find comfort in japantown while i did in l. A. When i arrived in japantown, i found it was small and humble, and it was a district that didnt receive the amount that it deserved. This would be a step in the right direction in terms of being treated with respect that japantown deserves with historical significance and value in the community. Japantown still stands today. Needing to give the support that the rest of the city receives without question. That said, shovel ready, it only needs your support to receive the funds it needs to be treated with the respect it deserves. I urge you to approve the 25 million so we as a city can continue to support the preservation of the japaneseamerican community and our history in San Francisco and promote growth within the area through the renovation of peace plaza. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you for your comments. Are there any other speakers in the queue . Yes, there is one final caller in the queue. I will unmute them now. Thank you. Good morning, caller. Hello . Good morning, thank you for this opportunity to address the committee. Im reverend with the church of San Francisco and member of jar. And i would like to speak in support of the proposal and also point out this is not only significant for japantown, per se, but i think for the city of San Francisco city and county of San Francisco in that its a physical icon. Id like to emphasize that it represents the aspiration for peace upon which the United Nations was established 75 years ago in San Francisco. I think this is in contrast to other physical landmarks that more