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 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 Task Force. We are supported by the Human Rights Commission. Mega black hosting multiple Monthly Community meetings to share information and opportunities foreign gagement with the public. We are creating a safe base for black civic participation. It is between a Clearing House and hub for folks with black identity to get better involved in San Francisco advocacy. I would like to highlight the first meeting in may. We started developing learning collaboratives for Distance Learning and still pushing on that topic. We launched working groups in june. A number of subcommittees that are the pillars that i discussed. Ththe letter to mayor breed. That passed the human rights and health commission. That will be before this board tomorrow at the meeting of the board of supervisors. We launched a wellness fund, money for black Economic Opportunities in San Francisco. We sent a letter this morning regarding the Budget Allocation exclusively for black people which you should have received. Here is a highlight of the meetings that we posted and the different ways to get Community Members. The strategy for the framework in moving the mega black work forward. We are advocating resources for the black community. I will be explicit. We dont want to be lumped as people of color we want attention to the disparities that disproportionately affect black people. We are trying to visualize the atrocious disparities the black people in San Francisco experience. That is breaking down in our working groups, policies and implementing strategies for those improved outcomes. Then updates that we began that are across neighborhoods. Mega black is engaging with diverse communities, represents, workshops to increase participation and to ensure we are all doing a lot of ground setting and foundational work to make sure we are on the same page and unite in how we move forward. Visibility of black people. Moving forward we are focused on interagency and organizational collaboration and increasing the black peoples voice politically in San Francisco. This is james bail. The process is everything now that you can see how we are structured. As you said they are labor and communityintensive in terms of getting voices in to get consensus. We are looking at other practices from around the country and also having deliberations amongst ourselves to the best way forward. Thank you, brittany and director davis for being able to be more specific about the process we are going through. We havent arrived at a place yet, but you can see this is the process we are going through to get there. Thank you so much for the presentation. Again, i want to say that the importance of mega black in terms of us achieving reparations and the equity we have been fighting for in San Francisco is very important. You heard the talk about is not being too dissimilar from the formulation of the Latino Task Force and their work and it is exciting to see everyone come together and focus on what we need in the black community. Thank you for the presentation and thank you, mr. Bail, and back to you, chair ronen. Thank you so much. I am peach less. This is incredible, absolutely incredible. I want to thank you so much, supervisor walton and director davis and all of the leaders inn maygininmega black. It is similar to the Latino Task Force in many ways, it has some news innovative components that i have never seen. I am jus