Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

San francisco has shareholdeou much of the housing load and are already at 140 of our market rate housing goal in our current cycle, which goes until 2022. We do not need to increase our market Rate Housing Development goal, especially now as we see an exodus of hilowincome works out of San Francisco. The Affordable Housing needs are great, as we all know. San francisco has roughly 49,000 extremely rent burdened households in 2015, the overwhelming majority of housing facing cost burden, are very lowincome and extremely lowincome households, and a majority of lower income households are house burdened. During the covid19 pandemic, the Housing Needs of low to moderate Income Housing workers have become increasingly evident. So this urges abag and rnha to focus on current Housing Needs in San Francisco [inaudible]. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, mr. President , i have a number of items that i would like to present, none of them earth shattering, but i would like to close todays Board Meeting in the memory of three individuals. My neighbor, catherine mutter, who passed away today, my condolences to Megan Levitan and norman carlson. And together, with president yee, for james tang, the former president of the b. A. R. T. Board of directors and the San Francisco examiner organization, in one of its iterations, and a member of ill say it, the once powerful San Francisco political publishi publishing dynasty, fang family, who died on friday. For decades, they held sway with their newspapers, the San Francisco independent, asian week, and as i said, at one time, the San Francisco examiner. He was a member of the b. A. R. T. For 24 years, elected at the age of 28, in 1990, which was a remarkable run, and particularly remarkable insofar as he was the last selfidentified republican registered elected official for the city and county of San Francisco. He also served as chair of the San Francisco Shanghai Sister City Committee and definitely left his stamp on bay area culture. And with that, i will turn it over to president yee. May he rest in peace, and condolences to his family. President yee thank you, supervisor peskin. You actually summarized it really well. Whats remarkable is he was just the last elected republican in San Francisco, but he was elected at a very young age, at the age of 28. And regardless of his political affiliation for the chinese american community, that was very big for us in the community, to see someone get elected, and not only get elected, but get elected at 28 years old. I join you in your condolences to the family, and from many years of being in the community. Supervisor peskin and the rest i will submit. Madam clerk . Clerk thank you. Supervisor preston . Supervisor preston submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you, madam clerk. Today, i want to end also in memorial of one of our long time residents. Her name is florence aguera. Her parents were natives of the philippines. She graduated from Polytech High School class of 1968, and in 1972, she married m mel aguera. F flo worked for bank of america for nearly 30 years. Flo loved going out to lunch with her friends, taking a ride down to Half Moon Bay with carmelita, eileen, and rose, and she liked Walking Around the playground that had a wonderful renovation just a few yea years ago. After retirement, she and mel enjoyed going out to lunch and shows of vintage cars in and around the bay area. One of the things that flo loved during the last few years was she loved going to Bethel Church three days a month and monthly pot lucks, and friends would say that she and mel were like two peas in a pod, always together. She enjoyed cruising around the bay area, listening to rock and roll, doowop, and oldies. They enjoyed road trips to disneyland, las vegas, and universal studios. She and mels favorite vacation spot was hawaii. On and on this past july 22, florence aguera, wife of mel and mother of chris, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 70. Shes survived by her husband, son, sister, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, and she leaves behind many dear friends. She brought the community together, and we will extremely miss her, and we will be here for mel to support him during this transition time. The last thing i want to say is, colleagues, during my time on the board, i have never been late to a single meeting more than a few minutes. Today, i just want to put on the record that there are many parents in the bay area that are struggling with distance learning, and while were trying to juggle our jobs, while were trying to juggle or classroom exercises or watching our kids, this is the first time that ive been on the board of supervisors that weve had a transition week back to school that we havent been able to be with our kids. As a parent to two Public School children, i just want to say, especially out there to all the parents that are struggling with this time, i want to say thank you to all the support that the School District is trying to provide, but working parents need more help, and children need more help, and i know that this is one of the most difficult times for everybody, so again, i apologize for being late, but i also want to point out that the reason im late is specifically because im a working parent, like many of the folks that are out there, and the people that i represent in the district that i represent. Thank you for your support. I want to know all of the fami families and residents that im here for them, and thank you for all the educators out there that are doing everything they can to get ready to be back in the classroom and are teaching our kids in a distant manner and have been working with the children. So thank you, everyone. Clerk thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani the issues on the commission stem from the fact that it is managed in a way unlike any other board or commission i have seen. It is managed by a separate Nonprofit Organization that acts as a friends of organization and receives a contract from the department of Public Health to provide staff support. This structure has essentially created a Shadow Commission where conflicts of interest are not vetted and activities not conducted transparently. I want to be clear that many members of the Behavioral Health commission are just as concerned about these issues as i am, and they have been devastated because they know that a well functioning Behavioral Health commission is absolutely critical. This legislation will alter the structure of the commission and ensure that all Commission Activities are done publicly and transparently. I want to thank the members of the Behavioral Health commission who remain on that body and continue to fight for Better Services for those with Mental Health and Substance Abuse issues. Your work cannot be more critical, and this legislation is intended to give them the support they need. I want to thank hallie and marlow for their work at the department of Public Health, and i want to give special thanks to virginia in the City Attorneys office. She got everyone on the same page in the seemingly unending list of legal complications we encountered. And finally, i want to thank my legislative aide, andy mullen, that is just a gift and was extremely helpful in this resolution. Im also thrilled to introduce a legislation commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19 amendment. I want to start by thanking assessor carmen chiu for her help in putting this resolution together. That work is as important now as ever before, as our Voting Rights come under nearly daily assault from the federal government. Women fought for and won the right to vote, and we must continue to ensure we have the right to vote at the ballot box in november and beyond. Over a century later, we are still fighting for access to the ballot and of course for social equality. Toward the end of the 19 century, women mounted a prolonged effort in california, but the movement suffered a set back when california suffrage was defeated. In 1908, several san franciscans led what is now believed to be the first suffrage march in the United States across the bay in oakland. In the 1910s, the expanding participation of women in marching and civic life became increasingly common, and womens visibility began to force changes across the country, and we see what it does today, as well. After a hard fought battle, women in california finally won the right to vote in a statewide special election in 1911. Eight years later, the 19 amendment was passed in congress and was passed to the president for ratification. Exactly a century ago, the 19 amendment was ratified by the state of tennessee, which was the 25 and final state needed to secure its passage. Black, brown, native and Asian American women and man have faced disenfranchisement since the 19 amendment passed, and as the president made clear, that discrimination will continue through his watch at least, but we can make a change to ensure that all san franciscans make sure their voices are heard at the ballot box. As the late congressman john lewis wrote before he passed away last month, the vote is the most powerful nonviolent agent you have in a democratic society. You must use it, because it is not guaranteed, and you can lose it. We must do everything we can to make sure that no one loses that power. I want to thank my fierce women colleagues and cosponsors, supervisors fewer and ronen. Finally, im introducing a resolution declaring San Franciscos support for urgent funding for the United States Postal Service in light of the coronavirus pandemic and urging the Postal Service to maintain their longstanding delivery services. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the United States Postal Service has requested 25 billion in urgent funding, which the president and republicans have objected to. The Postal Services work will become especially important as it is expected that absentee ballots will surge in popularity across the country. During the 2018 election, the Postal Service found that 96. 8 of election mail was delivered within one to three days. In addition, Postal Service documents from may 13, 2020, outlined equipment reductions nationwide, including plans to decommission numerous advanced space, delivery bar code sorter machines, and flat package sorter machines, which account for the vast majority of election mail processing. The Postal Service plans to remove several machines from their San Francisco processing and distribution center, and although the post master said this afternoon in a statement that some of these would be delayed, i think his credibility is in high doubt. Decommissioning these machines will result in a 20 reduction in advanced sorting at the United States Postal Service San Francisco distribution center. Voters have long relied on the Postal Service to participate in their local elections. Nearly two thirds of San Francisco who vote do so by Postal Service elections. I note this is long, but this is, like, one of the most important things i think threatening our democracy at this point in time. The Postal Service is a pillar of american democracy. President trump threatens to starve it of the funds that it needs to deliver americans absentee ballots. Alarmingly, post master general dejoy has acted as an accomplice in the presss efforts to cheat the he president s efforts to cheat the election in pursuit of his own reelection. The Postal Service provides services that are critical to the lives and livlihoods of the american people, ensuring that seniors and veterans receive their medications, and voters receive absentee ballots. Congress must provide urgent funding to the United States Postal Service in light of the coronavirus pandemic and must poefs p postpone any decommissioning of sorting machines at the San Francisco Postal Service location. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, madam clerk, and supervisor stefani, i would love to be added as a cosponsor to your United States Postal Service resolution. I was just with Speaker Pelosi this afternoon. Trump and the u. S. Post master are pitting United States Postal Service workers against the communities they serve and denying them of their proper p. P. E. And other protections, and we wont stand for it, along with the focus on sabotaging the elections and doing everything he can to cheat, so thank you so much, and i just want to make sure that you know that im 100 in support of that. Colleagues, first, i want to thank supervisor haney for introducing the resolution of the make billionaires pay act, introduced by senator Bernie Sanders, and the resolution to the giants supporting their ballpark workers. Many were working multiple jobs to support their families. Our 2,000plus ballpark workers have removed loyal to fans and the giants through the good and bad seasons, and now it is absolutely important for the giants, who are worth 3. 1 billion and are continuing to profit during this pandemic, to continue to support their workers through this crisis. San francisco stands by its workers, and we urge the San Francisco giants teams to do so, as well. Along with supervisor haney, i fully support senator Bernie Sanders make billionaires pay act, and along with supervisors haney, preston, fewer, mar, and mandelman, im introducing a resolution to introduce ab 0288, the law introduced by california representatives. Many of our lowincome and working class populations have been struggling to make ends meet. Many lowincome and working class families in the United States are facing income loss, unemployment, evictions, and struggle in paying bill or seeking health care. The rich keep getting richer, the poor keep getting poorer. The income equality in the United States and california has never been wider. Many of the california residents cannot afford basic needs and are struggling to get by on extremely lowincomes. As of may 1, 2020, there was 630 billionaires in the United States. In california, there are 165 billionaires, and in San Francisco, there are 75. California has the highest number of ultrawealthy individuals than any other state in the United States, with 13,000 households with more than 30 million in assets, and in San Francisco, that are 5,460 households classified as ultrawealthy. Ab 0288 would tax 0. 4 of a residents net worth if it exceeds 30 million for a single and joint tax form for others, and 15 million for married couples filing separately. Ab 0288 could raise about 7. 2 billion from the general fund from San Francisco residents to fight the deficit that california faces due to the covid19 pandemic. It would require wealthy households pay their fair sure and ensure that california maintains and strengthens a safety net for all californians. This is a safety net for our most vulnerable populations as we come out of this crisis. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. Supervisor yee . President yee submit. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Lets see. Looking at the names if there are any names on the roster i believe none. That concludes the introduction of new business. President yee supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer i think me i think im last on roll call. Clerk yes, you are, supervisor fewer. My apologies to you. Supervisor fewer no problem. So colleagues, have a copacetic piece of legislation to introduce today. C i am thrilled to see that the state lejs layt[inaudible] the that are introducing this legislation today are based on the experience and input of our Affordable Housing providers and Community Stakeholders on the ground over the past year. These amendments will do the following things making it easier for qualifies nonprofits qualified nonprofits to make an offer on a building by requiring sellers to private information sheet about copa and the small sites program, and adding clarifying language to further prevent off market sales, and prevent megalandlords from potential workarounds like dumping dozens of buildings on the market at the same time and overwhelming qualified nonprofits. We will now require sellers to renotify qualified nonprofits and provide them with a new opportunity to purchase a building if it remains unsold after one year. [please stand by] when youre ready to speak, press star three to get spot queue. Its best if your location is quiet. Please listen closely or you will miss your prop to comment. Well move you back into listening mode or it will place you forward into the queue to speak. During Public Comment today, you may speak on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board that are not on the board. The minutes for july 14th, 2020 and july 20, which constitute a quorum of the board. Items 4347, these are the items on the withoutreference calendar and item 47, that is whether or not the board of soup stores should convene in closed session on labor negotiations and for those interested in the question of whether or not the board of supervisors should convene in closed session to discuss existing litigation in authorizing settlement of the lawsuit by Hastings College of law, you may discuss. Public comment will be permitted but specifically on whether or not the board should convene in closed session and not on the terms of the settlement. Just to finish, there is no electioneering. And youll address your. Testimony to the board as a whole. At this moment, i would like the interpreters to address themselves in succession. speaking spanish . Pair speaking speaking canton. Operations, lets welcome the first caller. Speaker am i on . Yes, you are, welcome. Thank you. Im maria and im an employer of a very competent Domestic Worker for the past eight years. And as such, im a member leader of handinhand, the Domestic Employer Network and im heritude speak in support of the San Francisco board of supervisors resolution to pass and sign sb1257, the health and safety for all workers act. It is urgent that Domestic Workers be protected with workplace protections as they work through a Global Health pandemic. As a longtime activist, i would be remiss if i didn didnt adho a longstanding a addage. An injury to one is an injury to all. Our workers should be protected from injury. If i didnt step up to advocate for this calosha exclusion, i should forefit my credentials and my Domestic Workers should fire me. Thank you. Thank you or your comments. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. Speaker hello. Im addressing you this evening because there are a few things that i would like to bring up. First of all, im concerned about the post office and whether my vote will be count. So im asking if the board of supervisors could hold a little session with the department of elections persons to tell us exactly what will happen. I understand this weekend there will be big doings and maybe some money will get allotted for the post office and that the new post office head will be in a hearing on monday. However, we need to know, the public doesnt want to have questions about should i put it in the mail or shouldnt i. So please do something for us. Thank you. Next, i love role call and i love what supervisor m arar proposes about checking on the reno levels. This is very important and we have learned that at a hearing at the land use that the way that it is recorded, the reno levels for San Francisco, they say that we have met our requirement for luxury housing. I like the copa regulations that sandra fewer was talking about and also what supervisor walton was talking about, supportin su. Anyway, youre doing great work. Thank you. Operations, lets welcome the next caller. Hello, caller. Hi, im vanessa barba. We organize with thousands of Domestic Workers in San Francisco who were caring for people and homes and children and we were calling in support in favour of the support and signing and health and Safety Health workers act. We really believe that its time to remove this exclusion from calosha, especially now at Domestic Workers are on the frontline of the pandemic, carrying for the diseased, keeping them out of the hospital and they deserve the right to know about workplace hazards and have protect equipment and training on remaining healthy in the workplace the way all other workers do. Thank you. We have 51 members of the public listening and 26 ready to provide testimony. Welcome to the next caller. Hello, caller. Speaker buenos tardes. speaking spanish . Hello. Im a Domestic Worker and im asking the board of supervisors to urgently support the Domestic Workers so that i can be protected during the pandemic, particularly to support to all 57 because its something that is completely urgent and that we need right now. Thats everything, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, can we welcome the next caller, please. Speaker good evening. Can you hear me . Yes, we can. Speaker wonderful. Im lindsay and im the california director for handin hand, the domestic employers network. Were the own organization in california that seeks to organize employers of Domestic Workers of which theres an estimated two million in the state of california and im calling in with strong, strong support for your resolution to endorse sv1257, the health and safety for all workers act. Theres 170 domestic employers that have taken action and we believe that Health Protections for workers really means a safer home for ourselves and our loved ones and thus, sb1257 would be a winwin for workers and employers partl particularly dug this pandemic. Thank you so much. Operations, can we welcome the next caller, please. Speaker buenos tardes. speaking spanish . Good evening. Im a resident of San Francisco for 15 years and im asking the board of supervisors to support the resolution sb1257 to make work for all workers much more secure. Its urgent Domestic Workers get the same protection during the pandemic that most other workers receive. Thank you. Now. Thank you to the caller and mr. Cotenza. Operations, can we welcome the next caller, please. Speaker hello. Ily in saim here to speak in sf the sf board of supervisors board of resolution to pass and sign 1257, health and safety for all workers act. Its urgent Domestic Workers be protected by calosha as they work through a Global Health pandemic, thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Ing if youre in line to listen, press star three to put yourselves into the queue. Speaker its david ph irk l particular el. I was moved by supervisor stephanies remarks about the Behavioral Health commission and the post office and service cutbacks. Im sure a lot went into that and i wanted to support those two efforts. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. We have 50 listeners and 18 members of the public in the queue. Operations, lets welcome the next caller. speaking spanish . Good afternoon. Ive been a Domestic Worker for over ten years and im asking you to please support and sign the resolution, sb1257 for the safety and security of the Domestic Workers. Its urgent workers be protected just as well working looping los at the residences in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you to the caller. Operations, let welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. Im call for your support for sb1257. Its important the divergencersc workers have the support from osha and im pleading for the support. Thank you. Thank you. Operations, welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. Ive been a Domestic Worker for ten years and i am here to speak in favor of sb1257, allowing for the safety and security of all workers and its important Domestic Workers are protected by osha and im pleading that you support the resolution. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, can we welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish . Hello, board of supervisors. Ive been a resident of San Francisco and a Domestic Worker for over ten years and im here to speak to ask you to support sb1257. Its important that the Domestic Workers be considered under the security of osha, particularly while they work during a pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. We have 49 listeners in the queue and 15 in the public testimony queue. Next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening. Im from San Francisco, california. I have been a Domestic Worker for seven years and im here to ask for your support for sb1257 for health and security for all workers. It is urgent that the dope domec workers be protected under osha during this pandemic. Thank you. Operations, lets welcome the next caller. speaking spanish . Good evening. Im vivian castro. Im from the collective of Domestic Workers and im asking for your support an for sb1257 r hell and security for all Domestic Workers. Its urgent all Domestic Workers be protected during the pandemic. Thank you. Thank you and thank you to the caller. Operations, next caller, please. Speaker good evening, supervisors. Im from the San Francisco Labor Council and i am calling on all of you. I know youre going go into closed session with the mayor about the budget. We are asking you just to remember the frontline Service Workers today and all that they do, you know, these folks have changed their jobs, go out, working at food banks and all sorts of stuff and i just want you to remember all of their hard work and all of the amazing work theyve done since the covid crisis began and that the frontline workers are hoping that you will support them as you continue your struggles with the budget crisis and we hope that you will take that into mind as you continue your budget discussions with the mayor. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. Pair prosecutospare speaking sp. Good evening, board of supervisors. Ive been working for part of the collective Domestic Workers for over 18 years and im asking the board of supervisors to please support and sign sb1257 for the health and security of all of the Domestic Workers. The Domestic Workers should enjoy the protections of osha ba working during a Global Health crisis is as the pandemic and thank you for your consideration. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish i liv. I live in San Francisco and a domestic borker for five years and im here to speak in favour of the San Francisco board of supervisors supporting and signing the resolution in favor of the sb1257. It is urgent that thotomies thec workers are protect th protectee osha during the pandemic. Thank you so much. Thank you to the caller. Operations, next caller, please. Good evening. Speaker good evening. Ily in San Francisco and im a member of handinhand and im here to speak in support of the San Francisco board of supervisors resolution, to pass and sign sb1257, the Affordable Health and safety of all workers act. I think its really urgent that the Domestic Workers be protected by caloshas workplace protections as they work through this global pandemic. Domestic workers have been excluded from basic health and safety protections. I moved to San Francisco as an ivy league graduate from boston because of this citys vibrant diversity. It is quickly more and more becoming a monotonous center, frankly, of white tech employees. Many domestii think we want to t Domestic Workers because it is the right and just thing to do, but for those that dont really care about that, i think its important to care about keeping this city vibrant and the diverse place it has always been and that means diverse in terms of class, race and culture. And its been an International Drawing towards tourists because of that and i think its very important that we do as much as we can to protect our workers so they can stay in San Francisco and contribute to its diversity. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Goospeaker good evening, boad of supervisors, as a whole, i wanted to talk about a few thins. Item 43, item 44 and item 45, yeah, wow, only three this week. Your resolutions, i dont know, they feel like a waste of time to me. They dont do anything. I elect you guys to pass laws and policies and stuff that will protect me and the citizens of San Francisco that dont just stir up, you know youre not here to fight. City is here to govern itself, not govern the rest of the state and in some cases the rest of the world. Also, i would like to say, this whole thing with microsoft, i would like to see all of the supervisors i only see four right now. And how do i know theres a quorum . You know. Even if youre away from your computer to go to the band room, youre not there and thats not participating. You can see theres stuff behind it, see whos own the vide on t. At least put it below the text or somewhere. Get the whole meeting in the picture. Weigh good news, microsoft has told us they are doing their best to move that floating bar to another location and to allow for 11 camera feeds to be shown through the tiles and three working to do that. So hopefully, it will be delivered soon. Ok, operations, next caller, please. Speaker my name is connie ford and im a longtime resident of San Francisco, i also am an employer, a Domestic Worker employer of a hardworking woman who has worked with me for about six years. I find it totally outrageous that we have to do what were doing today and appreciate the work of this resolution. I remember back in 2013, a bunch of us went to sacramento to ensure the Domestic Workers could have overtime and it took three more years after that and now they can have overtime. Today were asking you to eliminate the Household Domestic Service engine exclusions in lae 6303. Imagine workers being excluded. Its a long history of why in happened and i think we know it has to do with systemic racism in our society and i am very proud to be here to advocate for the persoall Domestic Workers. They are workers of our city and they do deserve health and safety under calosha and thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Operations, let welcome the next caller. Pair operato speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. Ive been in San Francisco for 17 years and i have been a Domestic Worker for seven years and i am also a member of the collision of Domestic Workers and im asking the board supervisors to please support and sign the sb1257. Its urgently needed that the Domestic Workers also enjoy the benefits of protection under osha, particularly during this Global Crisis for humanity. And that is the pandemic. Thank you for listening. Thank you, and our thanks to the speaker. And there are five members of the public in the public testimony queue. This is the last call. We really want to hear from everyone. So if youre interested in speaking, please press star three and that will put you in the public testimony queue or well take this group to the very end. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, bikes, ive been a Domestic Worker for certainly years ansevenyears. Im asking the board of supervisors to please support and sign sb1257. It is urgently needed that Domestic Workers be protected under the protections of calosha, particularly during the stres distress of the globe pandemic. Thank you. Thank you for your translation and thank you for the comments. Operations, next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, bikes. Board of supervisors. Im here to ask you to support and please sign sb1257, the law that upholds the security and protection to Domestic Workers. It is important that we are included in calosha during this time of the pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. Operations, next caller web please. , please. speaking spanish . I left my mic unmuted. Iive been a Domestic Worker fr seven years and im a member of the collective of the Domestic Workers and im pleading to support and sign sb1257 for the protection of the Domestic Workers. Domestic workers should enjoy calosha, particularly during the global pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. Operations, next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, bikes. Board of supervisors. Ive been working as a dome domc worker for three years. Im asking you to please support and sign sb1257, the laws for safety and protection of Domestic Workers. Domestic workers should enjoy these protections under calosha, particularly during the Global Crisis that is the pandemic. Thank you. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. I believe theres about six members of the public in the queue. If you could just very quickly ask if the caller is there and prepared to speak . speaking spanish . speaking spanish . Operations, next caller, please. Speaker our numbers are low waive chinese worker in San Francisco and a growing portion of which are workers. I would like to pass and support sb11257. Thank you. Thank you. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, board. Im a member of the Domestic Workers and im calling for your support, your support in signing sb1257, which is needed for all Domestic Workers during the pandemic. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks to the caller. Operations, please send through the next caller. Welcome, caller. To operations, why dont we go to the next caller and well circle back to that individual. Speaker hi, im a San Francisco resident and a daughter of a Domestic Worker. Im also a staff member at Chinese Progressive Association and the organized chinese immigrant workers in a variety of lowgrade industries. Over the past couple of months, weve heard a lot of stories about Domestic Workers experiencexperiencing work. There waan employer let her go r falling exher employer let her go without a penny of pay. One neighbor walks around a neighborhood without a face mask. They do important work to provide for other people but they do not get nearly the amount of pay or respect on the job for the hard work that they do. Workers are not safe on the job. They need an agency that they can turn to. That is why i support the sf board of supervisors to pass and sign of sb1257, health and safety for all workers act and it is urgent they be protected by calosha protections as they work through the Global Health pandemic. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Theres a few callers left in the queue and for those of you who are interested in making Public Comment, just please press star three and that will put you in the queue. It will raise the the verbiage is it will raise your han and well unmutyourhand anr comments. Operations, next caller. Hola, hola. Ok, operations, lets go to the next caller and well circle back to that person. speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. Im a resident of San Francisco and a Domestic Worker for six years and i am also a member for the collective. I am asking to sign sb1257 for the health and safety of the workers. The Domestic Workers should enjoy the same privileges as other workers do under osha, particularly during this global pandemic. Thank you. Put. Thank you. Thank you. Operations, next caller, please. We can hear you, but youll have to turn down your television to make your comment. Ok, operations, lets go to the next caller and well circle back to that individual. Hello, caller, are you there . Ok, operations, we might be down to the individuals who might be in the queue but are doing Something Different than paying attention to this Public Comment period. Now are there other callers in the queue . Two more. Ok, welcome caller. speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. I have been a Domestic Worker for significance years and i am calling to ask for your support for sb1257 and we should all be protected under calosha. Thank you very much. Thank you. And i think we have three members the publi of the publice queue. Next caller, please. Perhaps you could give an introductory to the individual. Pair operato speaking spanish . Ok, well, apparently, this individual is not able to make their comment. And for the record, if they are interested in submitting something, were happy to receive it in writing and even iin language. Operations, im afraid we have to go to the next caller. speaking spanish . Good evening, board. Ive been a Domestic Worker for ten years and i am also a member of the collective. I am calling to express my support for sb1257 and to ask the board of supervisors for their support, as well. And Domestic Workers should not be exposed to dangerous situations while working and they should enjoy the same benefits that others enjoy under caloshacalosha. During this particular pandemic. Thank you. Next call er, please. speaking spanish . Good evening, board of supervisors. Im a San Francisco resident and i have been a Domestic Worker for four years. Im also a member of the collective and im calling to actask for your support in the signing of the sb1257, the health and safety for workers and during the time of the pandemic, its important and we need your support so that we can be protected under calosha. Thank you. Thank you. And to the caller. Operations, next caller, please. Speaker im from the collective and ive been working for the past three years and i just am here to ask the supervisors to support us with the sb1257 because i feel we need the support in to time of the pandemic and asking for the support and for all of us to be heard and for all of us to be supported as someone else. We have to be taken into consideration for our hard work and for what we do. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets welcome the next caller, please. Hello. Buenos noches. Caller, are you there . Pai speaking spanish . Hello. Im a resident of San Francisco and i am a Domestic Worker and im calling to ask the support of the board of supervisors to sign sb1257 for the health and safety of the workers during the pandemic. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Madam clerk, that completes the queue. Thank you, operations. Mr. President. Thank you for the comments from the public and seeing that theres no more Public Comments, Public Comment is now closed. Colleagues, we will return to what . Without reference items. Adoption of Committee Reference 4347. Introduced to reference without committee, a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on First Reading today. Alternatively, any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. Ssupervisor hainey. I want to pull item number 44. I have a few amendments. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, president yee rbgs. E. I would like to sever item number 45. Supervisor fewer. I just wanted to be added as a sponsor for item number 43. Thank you. Supervisor mar. Can we sever item 43. Ok. And madam clerk, lets take the role on item 46. 46. role call . Fortyseven p. And 47. Pai role call . Are 11 ayes. Without objection, the motions are approved. Item 43, authored by state the state senator, the health and state for all workers act, eliminating Household Domestic Service from calosha workplace, health and safety protections and ensure that the Domestic Workers have access to health and Safety Training and information about risks in the workplace and necessary protective equipment. Supervisor mar. Thank you, president yee. I want to thank all of the Domestic Workers, the employers and the organizers who spoke during Public Comment in support of this resolution. Sb1257, the health and safety for all workers act is an urgent state bill to expand labor rights by ending household Domestic Workers from calosha protection to provide a safe working environment. There are over 3,000 doles 3,00c workers who work in private homes in california including tens of thousands here in San Francisco. Domestic workers are majority immigrant women who work in private homes for very low wages and many are the primary bread winners for their families. Some are also on the frontlines of the current pandemic and taking care of the people in our homes most vulnerable to our illness, our participants and grandparents, our family and friends with compromises immune systems or children. And they play an instrumental role in making sure seniors and other vulnerable groups stay out of hospitals in the already overwhelmed medical system and as stated, you know, however, because of a historical exclusion, Domestic Workers are not covered by health and safety protections under calosha, including front lin frontline wt risk. When wildfires burned throughout california, theyre exposed to dangerous conditions, cleaning up toxic ash and being asked to stay behind and protect property and each time they have to choose to work in unsafe and unhealthy workplaces or go without income. So this resolution puts our city on record urging the state legislature to pass sb1257 and expand Workplace Safety protections to workers. I want to thank the supervisors for cosponsoring and the california coalition, and Chinese Progressive Association and handin. Han for minhand for their wory important ongoing work organizing and empowering dome workers in our city and state. Thank you. Thank you. Role call, please. role call . There are 11 ayes. Without objection, this resolution is object the. Item 44. Directing resources to housing for the black community and addressing black homelessness. I want to thank my copopserscosponsorssupervisors. The 2107 reportthe report recomr including rent subsidies and backrent for Human Trafficking and whereas, according to the Family Violence in San Francisco violent for fiscal year 2017, black women accounted for the highest cases of Domestic Violence for women between ages of 18 and 39 and black victims were overrepresented across all age categories and the report notes the permanent housing provides support to survivers of support and their families and the Housing Services had and 85 turnaway rate in fiscal year 2012017 due to a lack of space n the service. I just wanted to make those amendments and add them to the end. Is there a second for a motion to amend by adding the clauses . Is there a second in. Second. Madam clerk, can i have the role call on the motion to amend. role call . There are 11 ayes. The motion to appended passes. The item is amended. On item 44, as amended, supervisor hainey. role call. There are 11 ay session. Es. The resolution as amended is adopted. Item 45. A resolution to oppose changes to the title nine that diminishes the rights of Sexual Assault victims at institutions of Higher Education by making it more difficult to file an official grievance and protect assailants from action and to further enhance victims rights under title nine. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, president yee. Colleagues, in may, betsy devoss provided drastic new guidelines the way title nine was implemented. It was a followup to the act of 1974 and prohibited discrimination in areas of employment, public accommodation. However, it did not probabl prox discriminations at persons in institutions. No person in the United States shall on the basis of sex be excluded from participation or be subjected to discrimination under activity receiving federal financial assistance. Since this enactment, title nine has been used to increase equity if collegiate athletics, increase female enrollment in Higher Education and protect pregnant students from discriminationdiscrimination. Many schools refused to admit women and how more women than men are enrolled in Higher Education. Perhaps title nines most enduring legacy is that it requires universities to prevent sexual harrassment, assault and rape and held them libel when they failed to do so. Despite title nines advances, sexual iSexual Assault is alarmy common on campuses. Education secretary has issued new title nine guidelines that will hamper or eliminate Sexual Assault and the survivors ability to support by increasing the hurdles necessary to file a claim under title nine. Also, nearly redefine Sexual Harassment to actions that are severe, pervasive and objectionionably offensive and also, require survivors to undergo crossexamination in a live hearing that would bring them facetoface with their assailants and create a new and normal resolution process which benefits accused aai assailantsy allowing them to opt out of any disciplinary proceeding. Unfortunately, and this is why im bringing this. , thesthese titleses wereovershe National Surgeon of covid19 and to undermine our election system. This is a resolution to oppose secretary devoss changes to the title nine guidelines because Sexual Assault is an issue that requires greater attention not less and more protection for the victims, not less. And i want to thank president yee, superviso and the supervisi ask for your support. Madam clerk, please call role. On item 45 role call . There are 11 spontaneous ayes. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Well go back to item 40, i believe, now, and madam clerk, so this is can you call item 40. Yes. This is the first session conference with the labor negotiators. The board has approved the therequisite in file 29, authorizing the board to convene in closed session and Public Comment was satisfied during general Public Comment and item 40 is the closed session to confirm. And the department of Human Resources under Government Code Section 549a. 7 and San Francisco administrative code 67. 10 of section e, regarding the negotiateds with labor and unions representing city employees. So i think we will be going into closed session at this point and we will reconvene once we come out of closed session and if there any question from any of my colleagues how to move from one session to the other, please contact madam clerk and so we should have on your calendar the ability to move to the closed session meeting. Thats right, mr. President. The calendar entry is on the members and the attendees calendars called closed session. Well see you in the next meeting, closed session. And well use this calendar entry for both closed seconds. By the way, madam clerk, do we have to close no, you do not close this window. Ok, thank you. Go to the calendar and tap on go to the calendar and tap on we are back to the open session. We have a motion that the board finds it is in the best interest of the public the boards elect not to disclose the closed session deliberations. So moved, peskin. Second . Stephanie second. All right. It is a motion made and seconded by supervisor stephanie. Do we have to take a roll call on that motion . Yes, supervisor haney. Aye. Supervisor mandell man. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronan. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. Supervisor walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. I think that she left. Supervisor fewer absent. There are 10. Poka the motion passes to not disclose. Can we get out of open session and go back to closed session now. I would like to call the items that we are going to closed session about. Sure. Item 41. Settlement of lawsuits. Which is the closed session Conference Regarding existing litigation settlements by Hastings College of the law item 42 will be called after 41. It was heard at the Government Oversight Committee on july 30th. Public comment was originally satisfied. They referred it to the board of supervisors meeting august 11. The board adopted the motion in 2758 authorizes the board in closed session. Pursuant to 4. 22 Public Comment was satisfied on entering to closed session. Item 41 is convening for the purposes of conferring or receiving advice with the City Attorney regarding the lawsuit filed by Hastings College of the law. This lawsuit well, we will leave it at that. Thank you. We will go into closed session now and the board will confer with the city attor we are back in session. I will make a quick motion to not disclose. So moved. Is there a second. Second. Who was that supervisor haney. Yes. Is there a motion to not disclose what we discussed. Roll call. Supervisor haney. Aye. Mandell man. Aye. Mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor preston. Aye. Supervisor ronan. Aye. Supervisor safai. Saffieabsent. Stephani. Aye. Walton. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. There are 10 ayes. The motion passes to not disclose. Mr. President. I have a president from supervisor safai who is waiting to be let in. If you can hear me, just go to your calendar and click on todays general board of supervisors meeting and that will get you in. Item 42 to authorize settlement against hastings for zero dollars and this involves alleged civil Rights Violations negligent and private nuisance and condemnation. From were some questions to ask of uc hastings from colleagues. I dont know if the chancellor is available or can get into the discussion here. How would we do that . Is he on the line . It is our understanding, mr. President , that he was logging in. I believe he was successful. Can you confirm . The chancellor was logging in. We dont see him any more. He may have left. He has left. Mr. President , if chancellor is not available, i respectfully this is supervisor peskin. Motion to continue this to a closed and open session one week from today, august 25th. Is there a second . Mr. President we have in the lobby. Try it. Operations. We believe that is the chancellor. Are you there, chancellor . Hi, this is associate general counsel. He is trying to get on the line at the moment. I believe he is in the waiting room. If he is not there is it possible you call him directly and pull him into the meeting . I understand that he is here. John, please go ahead. If we can get a phone number to text it, maybe i can try to call him into the meeting. Okay. I am communicating by email now. I will ask him what phone number to use, and i will send that over to you. Just to be clear. We have a motion seconded to continue this to open and closed session for next week. We do have a motion. Mr. President. Who was the second on that . Supervisor haney, i believe. I am sorry. That was the last thing. Is there a second . Second. Supervisor preston. Staff i have received his telephone number. They are trying to reach him now. He is having challenges like me trying to get into these things. I would like to reiterate the earlier motion to continue this item in closed and open session to the meeting seven days from today. This is supervisor peskin talking. And we have a second to that. I am sorry to interrupt. I have a number from our chance chancellor. I am on there. Is that the chancellor speaking in. Yes, it is. I have been trying to get on through teams. I dont seem to be connecting. We will make it work. We have some questions for you. I hope you can hear us pretty well. I can. Supervisor peskin, would you like to get started. I will defer to colleagues. So you are the lead off and cleanup. Go ahead. President through the president of the board of supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco, first of all, i really want to thank you for speaking with us at 10 12 p. M. At night. Thank you for attending our meeting. As you may or may not know, i have expressed concerns about the litigation between two public institutions. The building that i am sitting in that supervisor mandell man, supervisor preston, supervisor ronan are sitting this is city hall that is located a couple hundred yards from the Hastings College of the law, and there have been over the terms of office that i have served over 20 years some dynamic tensions between your institution that you now steward as part of the state of california and our institution that we steward as the city and county of San Francisco. First, i would like to and this may seem like a pedestrian question. I will ask you why you brought suit, why you brought suit with other parties against the city and county of San Francisco and respectfully if you can articulate that, mr. Chancellor. I would be happy to. Thank you for inciting me to inviting me to the meeting and giving me the opportunity to speak to you this evening. I brought suit, i have been on the faculty since 1987 when i first moved to San Francisco. I lived on jackson just between polk. I used to walk to School Every Day through the tenderloin down larkin. I never felt unsafe. It always was a little bit gritty but i grew up near the bronx. It was a good neighborhood, good working class people. I always felt like we had been forgotten by the city. The status quo over time that seemed to be maintained and quite frankly things over the years had started looking up. You had the art museum, the new state building and federal building, great neighborhoods, family restaurants. I was always hopeful. I said to people that the civic center, mid market, tenderloin area was moving in the right direction, a lot of kids, a lot of energy and a lot of enthusiasm. Over the last couple of years, things seem to turnin the wrong direction. Everybody felt that. It not only felt gritty. Then it started feeling more and more unsafe. I think that you and the supervisors can appreciate that since you traverse those very same streets. Then when we had always been Good Neighbors and worked closely with San Francisco police, with city hall, obviously, a number of our graduates are in City Government. We always felt like we were being listened to but not always responsive. When covid19 hit, it seemed like the neighborhood fell off the cliff, and the tents which had been virtually nill grew up by the hundreds surpassing 400. We were getting basically the same story from the city. We were not getting the attention that we needed, and i am trained as a lawyer. Proud of the Public Interest and Public Service and litigation. We train lawyers to make a difference, and sometimes you need to make a difference by bringing suit. What we saw in the neighborhood were violations not only of state law but of federal law. The americans with disabilities act. Our neighbors were the residents including our students. We have as you know well over 200 students in the tower that live in the tenderloin who free went the restaurants and shop in the tenderloin, neighbors in the tenderloin. They were afraid to go outside, and what was happening on the street you had tents in doorways. You had tents blocking the sidewalks. So people in wheelchairs couldnt get to the pharmacy, couldnt get to the store, couldnt get supplies. I teach constitutional law. Fundamental rights were violated by the nuisance happening on the street by the drug dealing going on on the street, and we thought that having a federal judge and we ended up with the judge step in and oversee and basically bring the parties to the table to ask how are we going to solve this . We filed suit, i believe it was may 4th. We reached an agreement just a little bit over a month later. I think that everybody agreed that something needed to be done. The board of supervisors believed something needed to be done. I saw hastings as on the same side, not only and i said this publicly i thought i was on the same side as the mayor. I said on cnn when i was interviewed if mayor breed and i sat down and wrote out what we wanted the neighborhood to look like a year from now it would look pretty much our statement it would look pretty much the same. I would do the same thing it would look the same. When i saw was an inability, quite frankly, to get from here to there. The lawsuit was my decision, and it was it turned out to be the right decision. I think the streets are much better. People that were sleeping on the streets are now in hotels which i understand the board of supervisors advocated from the start and should be applauded fofor taking a stand. I thought we were on the same side as the city but we needed a federal court to get us where we needed to go. Thank you chancellor and thank you president yee for allowing me to ask those questions. I want to say, chancellor, i never knew you were my constituent. I am delighted to know you walk to work. Thank you for that. Can i ask you through the president whether or not there was any discussions as to whether or not your institution, which i am sure has a budget smaller than ours and mission much more narrower than ours, was asked to or whether you offered to financially participate in am meal rating the situation we will all stipulate was out of control and was actually Getting Better where we had a plan to make better before you as you set forth chose at your discretion to litigate against your sister public agency, but was there ever any discussions as to whether or not the state of california that your you division of wanted to participate financially . We did not have that discussion. I am not sure you are right our budget is smaller than the city and county of San Francisco. We get our budget from the legislature and governor. It is directed at Higher Education so i am not sure i wouldnt be know whether we could use it for the purpose you describe. We certainly dont have those resources. Having said that i will add that we have dedicated faculty who are and have been very involved with the community, with ucsf to work with the unhoused and to give them services both legal and medical and psychiatric. We are prepared to do what we do well, which is to provide clinical and Legal Assistance to those that are unhoused, those that have addiction issues and Mental Health issues. I would submit my resources and my energy to partner with the city and other institutions, including ucsf, to help out wherever we can. Chancellor, did those conversations ensue . That is the question i was trying to ask. Which conversations . Anything. Well, we were never asked to pay for anything nor would we have the budget to pay for what is a very expensive, as you know better than i do, problem that has multiple factors behind it and will require multiple responses to resolve it. Chancellor, i dont want to repeat your is it figman. Thats right. Are you sure that you live where you said you live . I looked you up . I live would there when i first moved to San Francisco. I dont live there now. When i moved to San Francisco i lived on jackson between larkin and pope. I am a resident of marin county now. I was looking you up. It doesnt look like you live in my district. I have no further questions. I really through the president , chancellor, feel like this could have been resolved in a much different way. I really profoundly think that there is no question we have an outofcontrol problem on our streets with Behavioral Health and i salute supervisor ronan and supervisor haney for the work they have done on Mental Health sf. I really fundamentally do not think this is the way governmental institutions resolve their differences, and the thing that is missing for me is that and you laid out the timeline, that there was no attempt to try to resolve this matter short of litigation. Yes, you come from the legal profession, but this is to me, and i am expressing 1 11th of the board of supervisors a profoundly unfortunate interaction between two well funded governmental institutions both suffering under covid19 and the situation on the streets. I will leave it at that and turn it over to my colleagues. If i could respond. I will say that we were loud and clear long before we filed suit in may that it was an intollerrable situation and nothing was done for months. We did contact folks to let them know we were contemplating litigation and still nothing was done. I will say with all due respect to you, mr. Supervisor, and to the city and county of San Francisco, you all brought suit against us and u. C. S. F. And csu for the parking tags and brought that to the california Supreme Court. I think that you understand. I would be happy to have that conversation publicly. I am very familiar with that piece of litigation, and i think you all lived to regretthat piece of litigation. We will likely settle this piece of litigation. I would not confuse those two matters. I wasnt confusing the matters, mr. Supervisor. I am responding to your point that litigation was not the appropriate vehicle between state entities, that sometimes San Francisco does think litigation is appropriate and i respect that. I respect that. Sometimes hastings believes litigation is appropriate and you respect that. I just want to make it clear. If i may, mr. President , in the matter of the first part, it involves human beings and how we as a society through two governmental institutions take care of them. In the other we are fighting over a 25 parking tax that you did not want to pay that we prevailed in. They are apples and oranges. We all have the right to litigate. Supervisor haney, do you have a question . Yes, thank you, chancellor and dean. I just had a couple quick questions. This could be helpful for us to understand the decision in front of the board. One is, you know, we have had some conversation about getting people off the streets into hotels. We passed citywide legislation. I think all of us wanted to and still want to see a lot more action around that in the tenderloin and beyond. One of the things in the conversation about the settlement is that hastings focus has been more so on the tents and less so on the people who need to be off the streets. That actually part of the reason the city is settling maybe in part because if there is not a settlement it could lead to other types of stronger enforcement that you all might call for that would be against what this boyd or the city would want. Could you speak to that in sort of the people versus tents and how you view that . I think it has come up a lot in the neighborhood. I think it is a very fair question. First, i do want to highlight that the agreement itself makes it very clear that the unhoused ought to be given the dignity and respect they deserve as human beings. The agreement specifically says and i am reading page 3 line 26. All parties shall respect the legal rights of the unhoused of the tenderloin in all manners in relation to removing. The tents and materials and personal property. So we as a legal matter were not in the position to represent the unhoused. We represented ourselves and we were joined by other residents that in legal terms were differently situated than the unhoused. From a legal standpoint there wasnt an opportunity to combine those. Throughout the agreement and if you read it carefully you will see several places. In fact at the very beginning it starts out by saying that the individuals who are living on the street need to be given real opportunity and real alternatives. The hotels are the first option and safe sleeping sites orville labelings or the villages are an option. This is the people on the street not the tents in mind. The tents created the legal problem in terms of the americans with disabilities act and the ability of residents to get around on the streets with tents in doorways so residents couldnt get in and out of their houses. From a technical legal standpoint, it made a lot of sense to us and our lawyers to focus on the tents because they were creating the problem, not the people. The people were not the problem. The tents were the problem. The people needed to be given an opportunity, they needed alternatives. The agreement if read in that light and read carefully, out of respect and dignity to them. Thank you. I appreciate that. I will say that there are definitely some very good things happening in the neighborhood over the last number of weeks. Organizations working together and mou we set up. Obviously over 600 people who have been brought inside. I agree the situation, you know, two months ago had become so awful and untenable and in need of yo urgent sweeping change. I want to ask one last question. The first place i represent hastings and the tenderloin. The first place i lived was mcallister and leavenworth and i walked by hastings every day. One of the questions for you. With this lawsuit how much for you is about what is happening in front of your building and right around your building as opposed to what is happening throughout the entire neighborhood . In the last few weeks it seems you have and i understand why you are wanting to protect your property, but some of the folk lined up around your area have led to actually more challenging things happening within the tenderloin. People are pushed up from around hastings into the tenderloin and the area where i live has gotten worse than two months ago, much, much worse. If you would speak to how much is about the whole tenderloin and how much is about your building . Supervisor haney i am glad you asked that question. It is very important one. When we talked to the tenderloin tapped in over the years we talked to ucsf police department. They describe the problem in the tenderloin as, you know, addressing one block and then having folks and it is very often drug dealers that are the problem moving to another block because you moved them off your block. I do recognize that hastings has a certain amount of resources to make sure that our immediate frontage is clear and that those folks if they are not taken off the streets and committing crimes or need assistance or they are given housing or whatever it might be may move to a different part. I will tell you as sincerely as i can possibly describe it. We view ourselves as part of that neighborhood. I have been in that neighborhood for 33 years working there. To the earlier question about living on jackson, i lived there 12 years. I walked down through that neighborhood for 12 years. Every other day at least to the deli which requires walking up. So going to the evening at the Tenderloin Museum for an event and getting to know the local and kim jackson and her group. I used to belong to the y, which moved out of the tenderloin some years ago. I played rackets ball there three times a week. The folks at hastings dont view our situation as somehow holed up on a few square blocks. We are residents and neighbors in the tenderloin. We frequent the restaurants. You know, we have gotten to know our neighbors. It pains me to walk around. Onone of the worst corners as yu know supervisor haney is hyde and golden gate. If you walked there today you would have found a couple dozen folks dealing drugs across the street from our campus. It is a problem not just right on our street but it is our neighbors are facing it and our students face it when they walk out into the neighborhood to grab a drink at a bar, to go to the restaurant or go shopping or walk down to the golden gate theatre. I have a subscription to the golden gate theater and orpheum. You cant walk around that neighborhood without facing the challenges in you know and we all know the tenderloin has faced. I think that underlying the lawsuit was the level of frustration, frankly, that this has been a problem for so long that something dramatic needed to be done. I am on your side here and hastings is on the citys side. We are trying to do good, not just for the housed residents bun unhoused residents, people addicted to drugs, mentally ill. They need the citys generosity. And yours, mr. Chancellor. Our generosity, too, i agree. I want to close with this. I appreciate all of that. I definitely hear your frustration. I share it as well. I live on hyde street and hear from residents every day about their frustration and anger with the conditions here, and the inhumanity of what is happening during covid and before in the tenderloin. The work that has been done by the organizations here, by the advocates, residents, Small Businesses here is something we have to continue and grow on and the successes we had in the past few months, i think have to be the beginning. It want cant be one building or one block doing well and the west deteriorating. We have to lift everyone up. I am not worried what is best for hastings or the city and county of San Francisco. More broadly as an institution what is best for the residents, neighbors and Small Businesses in the tenderloin and in my district. I hope that with this settlement, which as i said i support, that we can build on it and continue any progress that we have seen. Supervisor preston, go ahead. Thank you, president yee. Thank you dean for being on. I will note that longer ago than i wish it were, dean was my constitutional law proffer at hastings before i graduated from 1996. One of the best professors i had there. I did want to note that for the record. I think a couple comments and a question. First of all, i do want to address the issue that hastings is on the citys side. To me that is a stretch. I think that it is rare that a litigant in litigation would claim to be on the side of the entity they sued. All due respect i think i was hopeful when i saw a lawsuit that may be my alma matter was on the side of the board of supervisors in trying to push harder to get hotel rooms for folks in the tenderloin. I think that gets to the heart of the comment. I have some specific concerns around the settlement, but the biggest one is that the settlement, the litigation, while i differ from my colleague supervisor peskin a little. I do understand what led to it and i do understand the frustration and why it was filed. I think the city wasnt acting. I think that we as the city failed on the homeless crisis. In the pandemic we failed in the tenderloin. It is inexcusable and not a surprise to me whether it was hastings or someone else there was legal action to try to compel the actions the city was not taking. My critique is more about the failure of the litigation or the settlement to actually expand the pool of resources that the city uses to address that crisis. From my perspective from the start, and i guess it is a comment and question. My perspective is that from the moment it was filed through the point we are looking at the proposed settlement or stipulated injunction, that there has not been as part of this an effort to actually increase to have the city agree or have hastings be part of providing an increased number of hotel rooms to address the homelessness crisis and the tents on the streets of the city. We are forced to continue in a zero sum game where nobody but the board of supervisors will challenge the limits we put on ourselves in terms of rooms we get. I was disappointed. I thought the lawsuit might result in that. The city agreeing to get 500 or 1,000 rooms or hastings or other neighbors agreeing to contribute to not have the zero sum game to provide hotel rooms in one neighborhood and not available in another. That is what we are stuck with. It is unsatisfying. I guess my question is why is it the objective and agreement not increase the pie, increase the pool of rooms, have that as part of this, which would have been a real step forward, i think, for the neighborhood and the city. It is just not there. Why . I think that is a fair question. I may get into more legal than anybody wants to hear. As you understand having taken constitutional law from me. The constitution is a negative on actions not a positive. As a legal matter, the courts are not and in fact, the Supreme Court case on this that the courts cannot order a sovereign entity to raise taxes or to allocate money in different ways. This is the question what the remedy should be. The cause of action with the complaint was concerned about were affirmative violations of state, federal and constitutional law. I apologize for the technical aspect of this, but i think the City Attorneys office would back me up on this. From our perspective as a litigant, we didnt have the latitude to ask a federal court under these provisions to have the city spend more money or change the way they spend money. That is a political question and doctrine that is delegated to the sovereign entity to decide. As part of the settlement, the city could have taken that position. In fact i would have said if you had asked me because it wasnt for us to define that as part of the remedy in order to solve the problem that we identified in the lawsuit in the tenderloin the city would have necessarily in order to solve that problem done exactly what you just described. Increase the number of hotel rooms and increase the opportunities for the unhoused to have alternative to sleeps on the streets or pitching tents on the streets. I am in favor of all of that. As the technical legal matter, that wasnt for us to decide. That is for you as the board of supervisors and for the mayor as executive officer to figure that out how to define the remedies. We were arguing what the rights were that the residents and we suffered. The remedy is a separate consideration and how you get to that really is a political question, not defined by the court. I am in favor of the remedy you described. We would be behind it. I would advocate for it. We are not in the position to define it. Thank you. I appreciate the answer. I would like to just briefly comment on it. I think it is really important. I understand you may not have felt it is something you could compel in your lawsuit, that your interpretation is political question doctrine and that is not something a judge could order. I understand that you may think there was a ruling not a settlement the judge would not order the city to spend x dollars getting y number of rooms. As you point out in settlement context that is entirely possible. You may not have felt it, hastings may not have felt it your place to include that in the settlement. We are facing the reality there are is difference between the branches of government they do not want to increase the number of hotel rooms. The branch the settlement is before does want to increase the number of hotel rooms. It is telling to me hastings might be open to a Settlement Agreement that required the city to provide Additional Hotel rooms. I think that is pertinent to our consideration as the board of supervisors and how we vote. That did not mean hastings would pay for it. It is a question supervisor peskin raised. I understand you are not making commitments in that regard. It is helpful to know hastings as litigant would not be opposed to having the city commit to growing that pie i dont want to put words in your mind. Am i characterizing that correctly . I think generally you are stating it correctly. Let me phrase it differently. We are happy with this agreement. We think that it has accomplished in the tenderloin what we were hopping to accomplish on the specific legal claims that we made. How the city got to it, i think is very important issue for the city, and it is important issue for the people of San Francisco. The lawsuit itself doesnt, as i mentioned earlier, doesnt really compel that and doesnt define it. One thing i would be reluctant to agree to would be to have this agreement fall apart because another branch of the City Government decided that they didnt think that was the right solution and that somehow that then undermined the basic agreement which supervisor haney pointed outcomelished a great deal for the tenderloin. My advice would be if you ask me it, i would hope the board of supervisors will ratify and sign this agreement, but this could be viewed as a first step to a settlement conference or future conferences or figuring out the next steps to achieve exactly what you are describing. If it is a question of undermining this agreement in the hope that, you know, in a month or two months or six months we will come up with away that the two branches of government. To put it simply and straightforwardly, hastings doesnt have an interest in being involved in the political sovereignty questions between the board of supervisors and the mayor. Our concern was the legal problems that were being created by the streets in the tender loin. That has been largely solved so far. We are pretty happy with that. We would participate in once this deal is signed figuring outweighs to work with you and the homelessness and others to achieve exactly what you are describing. Let me just say that you may not have intended to enter into the political dispute but your lawsuit enters into the heart of a dispute between branches and in my view there is a path through and some add adjustments that would include given the hundreds of rooms that were correctly and i want to be clear. I support those rooms were used to address the crisis in the tenderloin. There was a winwin here that wasnt on the table or addressed. Which was to actually use this as a vehicle to make broader progress. You know, that is a decision the executive branch made to not require or discuss that as part of this agreement, but we are asked to ignore it and simply approve it anyway. I think there is opportunities here. I dont want to be labor it. We have other questions. Thank you for making the time to be here at this late hour. Thank you. Mr. President i defer to supervisor walton. Thank you, supervisor peskin and thank you, chair yee, and thank you for being on the call chancellor. I want to say this is about people and about human beings. What i have to say is not 100 for you. I do have a few words for the college. I will not be long winded. I think it is a shame as a city we would get bullied into the settlements and be concerned for providing support for People Living on the street because it is litigation. We have been begging for hotels for the bayview, mission, tenderloin, across the city folks in sros. Now we provide shelter because of a lawsuit. We Pay Attention to folks who need help in one area of San Francisco only be that is highly inequitable. Hastings should be ashamed of themselves as well. We are all working to support unhoused. To take advantage of people with homelessness and us as a city with a lawsuit during this pandemic is slow blow and incentive. There are ways to Work Together to where we wouldnt be in a situation where we are forced to solve this through litigation. I understand hastings frustration because i share it as a board of supervisors and when we put the ordinance forward to shelter over 8,000 individuals and that didnt happen. That frustration still exists because the issue of folks needing support and living on our streets still exists in the tenderloin, in the bayview, in the mission, in the haight and in other areas in San Francisco. I dont think the lawsuit is the way to get there. I am ash shamed of the heartless lawsuit on behalf of a institution that i had so much respect for that was part of the fabric of San Francisco. I have to say that on record as we have a conversation about this lawsuit. I respect your views. I am not ashamed of this lawsuit. Sometimes lawsuits are necessary to accomplish things. That is the history of this country, history of civil righ rights. And this lawsuit is about civil rights. We had children, we had the elderly during the covid 19 pandemic. They were locked into their sros and ats, working class folks who couldnt get out of homes because there were tents in their doorways. We had students who had to maneuver around tents to get down the street to get to walgreens or c vs. This was about civil rights. This was about fundamental rights state, federal, constitutional law. Sometimes litigation is needed for that. The residents, the housed residents are just as deserving as anybody else in the city of San Francisco to be able to walk in and out of their houses to maneuver wheelchairs down the street. I love San Francisco. I have lived here this is my 34th year. It is the greatest city on earth. I am frustrated not simply because i work in the tenderloin. I see a city not figuring out how to solve a civil rights issue. This lawsuit was driven by that frustration and the covid19. I appreciate that we have been asked for damages. I work pro bono. Look at the settlements agreement they waived attorney fees. I do not want to interrupt. Your hand is on your face. The chancellor or dean just said he has lived here 34 years but earlier said he lived here for 12 years. I dont want to in any way under mine anything he said. I would like to call the question. It is getting late and i have to go home and have dinner. With no disrespect to the dean or chancellor of this institution i think we have asked every question i respectfully think you have attempted to answer every question adequately or less so. There are five members of this board that understood some of the stuff you said who are members of the california state bar that would be supervisor preston, ronan, haney, mandell man, stephanie. Six of us do not understand what the heck you are talking about but i know enough to no, i am ready to vote. I want to say in closing to the chancellor, i understand how you feel and where you are coming from, but i have to say your excitement what has happened as a result of this lawsuit is irresponsible because it has driven it didnt solve anything. It exacerbated concerns and increased the support and needs of folks in our city and pushed them in other areas across San Francisco. I get you are excited about the fact your little neck of the woods received some relief. Reality we have things to work on as a city. I dont share your excitement and dont agree with your take on this even though i understand your frustration. I know you didnt come here to debate but i did have to say that on record. Thank you very much, chancellor, for making yourself available to us at such a late night. We are going to go ahead and close this conversation right now. I think we have a motion on the floor to continue. Do you still want to vote on the motion . No, i would like to withdraw my continuance. I do believe that supervisor haney would like to hear this this evening. I am ready to hear this right now. Who seconded . It was supervisor preston. Would you like to also withdraw the continuance . Yes. Okay. Madam clerk, can we vote on the item itself, item 42. Item 42 supervisor haney. On the settlement itself . Thats correct. Aye. Supervisor mandell man. Aye. Supervisor mar. Aye. Supervisor peskin. No. Supervisor preston. No. Supervisor ronan. No. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor stephanie. Aye. Supervisor walton. No. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. There are 8 ayes and 3 nos with supervisors peskin, preston and walton in the descent. I voted no. I think you are correct it is 74. I am sorry i have you in the aye column. I will correct that. That would be 74 with peskin, preston, ronan and walton in the descent. The ordinance is passed with 74 vote. Madam clerk, go ahead. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals on behalf of supervisor mandell man mr. Hadly dale hall, Ronnie Goldman and cheryl lazar. On behalf of supervisor peskin. Kathryn mentor, james fang and norman harry. Supervisor safai for the late florence nagara. May their memories be a blessing. That brings us to the the end of the agenda. Any further business before us. That concludes the business for today. The meeting is adjourned. Is there any Public Comment on the Meeting Minutes . This moderator can open the phone line