Welcome to rules committee. With me is the vice chair stefani and member gordon mar. We are joined this morning by supervisors. I would like to thank sfgovtv for thanking this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Due to the Health Emergency and to protect Board Members the board of Supervisors Chamber and Committee Room are closed. Members will participate in the meeting remotely. Community members will attend through video and participate as if they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item. Channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number on the screen. Comments or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone call 415 6550001. 4156550001. The meeting id1465300679. Press pound and pound again. When connected you will hear the discussions but you will be muted in listening mode only. When your item comes up dial star 33 to be added to the speaker line. Call from quiet location and speak clearly and turndown your television or radio. Submit Public Comment to myself, rules committee clerk. If you submit Public Comment before the supervisors are included in the official file. That completes my comments. Thank you so much. It looks like the representative from supervisor peskins office is having a hard time getting on. If we can have it help and call item 2 out of order. Hopefully we can figure that out while we hear item 2. A resolution supporting reparations plan to comprehen civil address inequalities in the Africanamerican Community as a result of slavery and Advisory Committee for the africanamerican committee. Supervisor walton would you like to make opening remarks . Thank you for hearing this this morning. Beforbefore the murder of george floyd to bring attention to the plight of black people in america in San Francisco we introduced resolution for reparations. We have known injustices for the black community in San Francisco and across the country. We unanimously introduced the resolution in support of reparations plan at the board of supervisors. First, i want to thank all of my cosponsors, the entire board of supervisors. I think that says something to the communities of color and black people in San Francisco. I thank each and every one of my colleagues. Today we are here to hear the resolution on reparations for the black community as introduced during black history month. I would like to acknowledge the work of Human Rights Commission director and her chief of staff, Human Rights Commissioner jones and also james bail from the Burns Institute from working with us around some of the equity focus work. Our nest step when this is passed will be to complete a series of Community Input sessions that we started precovid19 pandemic. We will introduce the legislation for the working group to develop and implement the reparations plan for the black community in San Francisco. It is important to note that we stand on land that was taken from the nativeamerican Community Members where families were torn apart and children sent to boarding school from 1619 to 1865 from a recording standpoint when slavery ended with the 13th amendment and soon after the chinese communities were excluded from entering the countries due to the chinese exclusion act of 1882. In rent history the black community was red lined to the out skirts of the city. Japanese americans were sent to internment camps. They have been targeted and most recently the newly latin students. The trauma continues to exist in our communities today. This is not the america we envisioned but this can be the San Francisco that we need to correct the wrongs of history. We cannot forget the pain and suffering of aning of ancestors. We are the wildest dreams of ancestors whose voices were silenced. Here i stand before you to open the conversation on reparations to lead to a plan with a reparations package for black people in this city. The institution of slavery broke up families and matched away the opportunity to create wealth and build opportunitying from our families from generation and generation. We are excited to work along with black Community Leaders in San Francisco, city partners, organizations, faithbased organizations, Community Allies and the office of Racial Equity to create the Advisory Committee to help develop the true reparations plan. It is time for the city and county of San Francisco to honor the commitment to the africanamerican population in the city. The city has acknowledged the wrongs through chapter 12y now it is time for compensation for slavery that playing that p. L. A. This is one of the first steps towards true reparation for the black community in San Francisco. We will hear from the director of the Human Rights Commission this morning as well as the Human Rights Commissioner jones and mr. James bail from the Burns Institute. Chair ronen, if it is appropriate i would love to call up director davis at this time. Please do. Thank you. Director davis, you have the floor. Thank you. Hello, happy monday to everyone. Thank you supervisors for this opportunity. Thank you supervisor walton for your leadership and the work on behalf of the Africanamerican Community and the city of county of San Francisco as a whole. I am grateful to share a quick update of the work we have been doing. As i was looking over the announcement i am grateful so many of the supervisors signed on and made the commitment. They are helping to address some of the wrongs that have happened not just nationally but locally. Redevelopment as well as what we saw with imminent do main a lot of people suffered. I am going to share my screen and go through this presentation. Can you see my screen . Yes. Great. Again, really grateful for this opportunity to be part of this work. Part of this conversation around reparations is repairing the impact of broken promises and system failures. We want to give money to people. We want to talk about the system failures and promises and what has contributed to the inequity on black people in the city and county of San Francisco in criminal justice, health, income or achievement gaps that we see. We know that black people comprise less than 6 of the San Francisco population yet they represent 38 of the unhoused, 46 of the people incarcerated in jails. 55 of juveniles on probation and 30 live below the poverty level. The School District students make up less than 7 of the San Francisco unified they are more than a third of suspensions in high school and middle school. What we want to do is have a commitment to restoration. Bigger conversation around reparation. This idea of what does it look like to begin healing . What does it look like to fix the system . Just giving money is not going to address the systematic failures and challenges that continue to perpetuate inequities we see. What we are talking about in the framework we have been working on is to recognize anding knowledge the harm done. The city has done and take accountability for decisions of policies that predate you. My family didnt own slaves or i didnt own lives or this doesnt apply to me. We have to own the history and systems that have impacted and contributed to this before we were on the scene. We want to honor the contribution of the black community beyond slavery or civil rights. We want to understand the full history of black people, respect and understand that black people hold multiple intersecting identities. Reject policy violence. Understanding that sometimes the policies that we create actually contribute to this and cause harm on black communities instead of the benefits or the things we hope they will create. Part of what we did with supervisor walton and mayor breed was to really center, to listen and center lived experiences of black Community Members. They were much more involved in participating in the process. Reparations should be a conversation with data as wishes of community. We want to respect what we hear. We want to prioritize investment. The slide that didnt load was the one that highlighted the fact that we had over 600 people participate in our community meetings, 200 were folks in multiple meetings, 400 unique, 398 participated in the survey. 250 young people participated in the survey. Meeting with hope sf with 72 people in that meeting. Meeting with the core group of young people with 40 young people in that meeting. We hosted several meetings with mega black focused on black Community Stakeholders and we had 152 participate in those meetings. During 13 weeks as part of the engagement around reallocating sfpd dollars we engaged 1,000 people in two weeks do help us develop the communitys priorities. Some of what we heard in terms of allocating funding, economic justice, justice reform, health and wellness, housing. Again, looking at the big buckets, what we want to do is talk about the priorities identified by community. We know the Mayors Office has in this initial budget allocated 60 million to support the black community. These are the drafts. I have had initial conversation with mega black. These are buc buckets where it d go. 36 million to department of Public Health. That is a big place holder for very specific ideas and programming. We have healing centered practices. Communities didnt want to stick with health and wellness or Mental Health. They felt that was europeancentered language. They wanted to get away from additional strategies and think about healing cente center heald practices. This is where it would go. You can see some of the buckets. You can see in both department of Public Health and in oewd there is a line item for lbgq plus. To seniors calling out that we are not monolithic. Lbgq plus would be able to benefit there. Are special needs in the community we want to make sure to address. You can see here more specific some of the ideas in the buckets around what we heard from community in terms of priorities, college scholarships. If there are 200 africanamerican students why dont they each get 25,000 toward college . One of the biggest investments researchers found is investment in early education. That has been seen to make an impact in success in school and life and reduces social cost. This will do with community as we continue the conversation. To show big buckets what some of the work looks like. Here in the slide when we share it later you would click on the link. We have a 12 page supplemental from partners in the lbgq plus community where they did research to help us understand the need to drill down and support them with specific set asides for this work. Justice reform, homelessness. Housing, home ownership. The support for down payment assistance. The accountability and system change building out models built from the world bank to increase accountability across systems and in community. We heard clearly Community Members didnt want us to just hold the city accountability but make sure the agencies funded to do this work are also held accountable. Ultimately, we are looking for commitment to reparations to create formal body to interrogate the San Francisco past, identify opportunities for repair, build framework and lead the effort and compensate participants for their time in that committee. All of the slides didnt load but that is ultimately the general learnings that we got from the Community Engagement process, the plan is that as part of this there will be monthly meetings that will continue. As we build out to think where the money is allocated we can continue to hear from community. There will be quarterly meetings more about where the money was allocated and whether the community is seeing the impact. There is huge concern saying we are giving money to dcyf or School District where we have seen not the best outcomes. The Community Wants the ability to say this is not working and the city will be responsive to those concerns. Really trying to build out. Monthly as well as quarterly. Hoping as the task force or Advisory Committee for reparations is committed we will be able to partner and leverage that to advance the work. I think that is it for me. Just really grateful to play part in this work. I would have to say over the last month, although it is a lot, being able to hear from people, engage in that process and hear from folks that are happy to sit in the room and listen or participate or share my thoughts, we have over 700 recommendations through the process that will be shared in this kay. In this way. They want to be part of the process and that it wasnt given to five people to make a decision for them. Thank you so much, director davis and chair ronen, for, again, allowing us to present todays resolution. I want to apologize for my mistake earlier. I know that commissioner jones is not going to be able to make it this morning. There is a conflict. I dont see mr. Bail listed as presenter. He just came in, supervisor walton. I am on the phone. I couldnt get in on the zoom link. I am on the phone. Thank you. We are excited to have you. Mr. Bail is here. He has been working with us on our equity work in the city over the past year plus we want to give him time to also talk about reparations and some of the work we have been doing together. We have just been working on, as cheryl suggested, getting information from the community and looking at data that we can get from various departments. Looking at how it is that we might be more equitable and think about away that is distribution and redistribution of current funds in a way that actually provides a fair start and head start to people in the city traditionally dispossessed, especially in the neighborhoods where that occurs. We have been looking at a variety of sources. Through this process, which has been going quickly. It is a lot going on. We are in the process of coming up with something that we think is strong and doable. At this point i will just leave it at that. As we try to gain more and more consensus how it is we should proceed. I will leave it at that. Thank you so much, mr. Bail. As you know, this work is very time heavy, and we have a lot of folks that we need to hear from and participating. It is important to have people on board to help us guide and facilitate the different conversations happening at many different level. I am excited we are to this point that we are acknowledging the wrongs and injustices and working together to come up with tangible opportunities and outcomes for the black community. Chair ronen, i am going to pass this back to you. I know there may be questions. I have an amendment. You can tell me if you want it presented now or wait until after we hear from everyone. Can we hear that now so the public can comment on the amendment. It is minor. It was sent out to you as well. Page 3 line 17 instead of the San Francisco board of supervisors will create an adviser re. It will be the San Francisco board of supervisors intend to create an adviser re. We will have legislation to create the committee. Can i ask. I know that james bell wasnt able to get online. Would it be okay for the deputy to share the slides that he had . I would love that, chair ronen. Is that all right with you . Of course. Thank you. Thank you, brittany. No problem. Let me share me screen quickly. Good morning, everyone. I am going to talk through a few slides about mega black sf, a collective of black voices here in San Francisco representing different sectors so folks who work in San Francisco or who serve the black san franciscans in some capacity, and we are a new collective that began in march of 2020. Really we are fighting for visibility and justice for black san franciscans. The framework is built around the following we are fighting for economic power, investments in Public Education for black students who have the worst test performances in the state of california, land for businesses, cultural events, wealth building. It is important to get a history of black Economic Opportunities, consequences for discrimination on the job, housing is targeted displacement of back people from displacement of black people. Diverse body of experiencing people who have been displaced from San Francisco but still work in the city. Folks who spend 80 to 90 of the waking hours in San Francisco at least prepandemic. I work here and my aunts and grandma and cousinses live in the city. A quick capture of some of the participant organizations of mega black. We want to highlight those organizations. Housing collective, bmagic, a range of expertise in representation. The structure looks like it is not unlike the Latino