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Chair mar can you call agenda item 1. Clerk an ordinance amending the administrative code to subject dwelling units at midtown Park Apartments, Residential Development owned by the city and county of San Francisco. And expanding the rent board fee to cover those dwelling units. The members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the number, and i will repeat the number again, 1 415 6550001. Enter the meeting i. D. For todays meeting, which is is 1467042839. Press the pound symbol twice to connect to the meeting and then press the star key, followed by the number 3 to enter the queue to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you are unmuted and you they begin your comments. One more thing, mr. Chair, i have a request that this item be considered as a Committee Report for consideration by the board of supervisors at the next board meeting, tuesday, october 6th. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. I welcome supervisor preston who is the sponsor of this measure. And thank you so much, supervisor preston, for your work with the midtown apartment and for sponsoring this item. The floor is yours. Supervisor preston thank you so much, chair mar. And, colleagues, before you today is an amended version of the legislation to provide rent stabilization to the longtime tenants at midtown apartments in my district. And this item was heard at the previous hearing of this committee during which substantive amendments were introduced and accepted. And today i respectfully request that we move the item to the full board. I do want to start by thanking the members of this committee, chair mar, vicechair peskin, the Committee Member haney, for cosponsoring this item at the september 17th hearing. And i wanted to thank and recognize supervisor ronen and supervisor walton who also have agreed in the intervening week to be cosponsors. It means a lot to have all of your support on this. And i know that it means a lot to the tenants of midtown and to have a majority of the board of supervisors supporting this measure. But we really hope that others will get on board and we can send a strong signal hopefully with unanimous support on this. At the previous hearing i discussed if detail the history of midtown, the context for this proposal. I explained our proposed amendments and their rationale. In the interest of time, i know that you have a busy agenda, i do not plan to cover that ground again today unless theres specific questions. I do, however, have a few minor amendments. I will be requesting today, which we are assured by the City Attorney, that are all nonsubstantive amendments and really just intended to provide greater clarity on the implementation side of this program. The amendments will clarify the time period that most c. D. Will have to implement the program. After meeting with my office and most, we agreed that in order to make sure they have the time for the apartment to correctly and effectively to roll the program out that they have no later than february 1, 2021, for to implement the all of the details of the program. So the specific amendments are as followed, and these have been circulated to the committee on page 8, line 6, stroke the word promptly, on page 8, line 7, most c. D. Will determine the base rent, applicable rent increases and shall credit any excess amounts by no later than february 1, 2021. And the Second Amendment further clarifies the procedure in the event that a legacy tenant at midtown elects to have their rent calculated as a percentage of income and the amendment at page 8, line 1617, would simply strike the word be implemented and insert take effect. Finally, colleagues, i would like to make the request that before accepting the amendment that the committee duplicate the file. The purpose of duplicating the file is to ensure that if there are further technical adjustments that are needed during implementation process that need to be addressed legislatively, that we can address those through the duplicated file while not incurring further any further delays on providing the relief that midtown tenants deserve and will be getting if this ordinance passes. After duplicating the file i would ask the committee to take the amendments that i have described to the original and then move that to the full board with positive recommendation as a Committee Report. And then request that the duplicated file, the original, be duplicated file to be continued to the call of the chair. I do just want to in closing to say that this has been a long road for the midtown tenants fighting since 2014 for this small measure of justice. My office has worked from the beginning of this year on crafting this proposal, working with the tenants and making the adjustments and conferring to make sure that we were providing the relief needed without interfering with any possible options for longterm homeownership investments, rehabilitation, that is the future of midtown. And, you know, we will be back, colleagues. This is essential now. We will be back before the board of supervisors im sure addressing the longterm plight of tenants at midtown and to make the repairs that are needed and to stabilize the housing and to have the residents control and or own the property in a more significant way. As was the longstanding historical promise to those tenants. But in the meantime, weve got to stabilize and address this rent increase situation, and thats what the legislation before you does today. So respectfully i request that as laid out that you move the amended item forward with positive recommendation today. Thanks so much. Chair mar thank you, supervisor preston. I think that all of your requests or requested actions, sound good to me. Before we go to Public Comment, colleagues, do you have any questions or comments . Okay. Why dont we go to Public Comment. Mr. Clerk, are there any callers on the line . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if we have any callers in the queue. Let us know if there are any callers that are ready. For those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press star, followed by 3, to be added to the queue to speak for this item. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. You will hear that your line has been unmuted. For those of you watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via a streaming link or through sfgovtv. Org, if you wish to speak on this item call in by following the instruction on your screen. That will be by dialing 1 415 6550001. And then entering the meeting i. D. Of 1467042839. And then by pressing the pound symbol twice, you will connect to the meeting and then you would press star, followed by 3, to enter the queue to speak. Do we have any callers for the ordinance on agenda item number one . Yes, i have nine callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Caller hello . Clerk hello, please begin. Caller hi, my name is arthur racal and im talking as a resident of midtown Park Apartments. I wanted to say thank you so much for cosponsoring the legislation. I believe that its very important to us here with regards to getting the rent control or rent stabilization legislation passed. If you could please also speak to your other colleagues at the board of supervisors with regards to supporting this legislation. Again, thank you so much for your time. Bye. Clerk thank you for your comments. Could we have the next caller, please. Good morning, caller, are you there . Please begin. Caller yes, i am. My name is mary watkins and i live admit town Park Apartments. I have been here approximately 15 years and i have raised my children here and everything. So i was calling in to support supervisor preston, and what hes trying to do for the resolution for midtown park. So i would ask you, the supervisors, the rest of you, to support our request because we need it and everything. Supervisor preston has did a wonderful job trying to help us and everything and we do appreciate that. And we will appreciate if whatever you could be able to do today to help us to control whats going on. So, you know, thanks to you, supervisor preston, and the rest of the board. Please help us to look at what is going on here at midtown park. Thank you, and you have a blessed day. Bye. Clerk thank you very much for your comments. Could we have the next caller, please. Caller hello, my name is magic altman and a longtime activist here in the city and i wanted to thank dean preston and the other members for supporting this. I have been coming to the meetings for years and the protests. And its been the one chance to redeem the travesty that happened when the fillmore got destroyed and midtown deserves to get the promises that were made to the residents there. They have fought so long and hard. I was at two meetings that the mayor called and neither of them did she come to. And it was really pathetic. And so its really time really time to make amends and to not stop until they have ownership, which was promised to them in the beginning. So, again, dean preston, thank you for bringing this forward and the members of this committee. And i also want to say that this text that were using says, do you have a question. Were not here to answer questions only. Were also here to make comments. That needs to be changed in the technology. We were never consulted, the public, about how the technology would be set up to serve us and there should be a form about that. And our input so that it serves us. To assume that were just here to question is to deny our right to comment. And it suggests that is our only purpose. So, thank you very much, and please support midtown. They have worked so hard, as have many people in the city, including d. S. A. , and i thank you again. Clerk thank you for your comments, magic altman. Can we have the next caller, please. Caller hi, this is renee curran and i spoke two weeks ago and my message is basically the same please recognize that rent controls are a small and reasonable ask by the midtown tenants who have endured so many indignities. After many lost their homes to redevelopment they made the best of things and formed a cooperative community. Through no fault of the tenants, the disrepair is from the citys negligent. And the solution was to take away many of the tenants right, the promise of ownership, and to have the rents raised. This must be corrected now through this legislation. Thanks. Clerk thank you for your comments, renee curran. Can we get the next caller, please. Caller hi, i grew up in midtown. I have lived there from the age of 8 to about 32. And i raised my a couple of my kids there. And i want to request that you all please consider rent control for midtown apartments. It has been a long battle for the residents there and many of them are elderly now and i just pray that you have a heart to try to help this community. Thank you. Clerk thank you very much for your comments. Can we get the next caller. Caller yes, hello, my name is mary ann makalvoy and a professor that has worked with midtown since 2013, and im a reporter and a researcher and i wanted to call in again and thank this committee for cosponsoring this legislation. And seeing how important this is and how this is absolutely essential to taking first steps to restoring some of the injustices that have been done to this community in the past and to creating a better opportunity for midtown in the future. Including ownership, but especially for now stabilizing the situation that people are in which is very precarious. So i thank the committee for supporting this and i urge the rest of the board of supervisors to please do the same. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Could you bring us the next caller, please. Caller hello. My name is michael and i have been a resident at midtown Park Apartments since 1980, thats about 40 years. I want to thank the Committee Members for cosponsoring and recognizing the point of this legislation for midtown Park Apartments, which is for residents like me. It provides housing stability and a possibility of future ownership which is really important for all of the residents here in midtown. I want to thank all of the 11 members, and i ask that the 11 members of the board of supervisors support this measure and move it forward and for supervisor preston for reaching out to us in the process. Thanks again and i urge you to support this legislation. Have a great day. Clerk thank you for your comments. Could we have the next caller, please. Caller my name is Donald Griggs and i lived at midtown since 1983. Im a retired u. S. Navy traffic controller. I want to thank the committee for sponsoring in this legislation, and i ask that the entire board of supervisors support dean preston in his efforts. We have been fighting the demolition of our westend Edition Homes for years and dean preston has been our champion. With his support, weve made Great Strides towards rent control and ownership. And it is very important. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you very much for participating in the process Donald Griggs. Can we get the next caller, please. Caller hello [broken audio] longtime resident [broken audio] for the neighbors. [broken audio] clerk pardon me, caller. I am going to pause you. Could you speak directly into the microphone . We are having difficulty hearing you. Caller [broken audio] for midtown residents. Thank you very much. Clerk if the call arer is sl there . If the caller is not still there, could you bring us to the next caller, please. Caller hello, i hope that you can hear me. This is anastasia, a member of the San Francisco tenants union. Thank you for helping midtown tenants in their struggles for homeownership and keeping them in their rental homes by this legislation that youre proposing. Please send this forward to the full board as a Committee Report. Thank you. Clerk thank you very much. Could we go to the next caller, please. Caller yes, thank you for the opportunity. My name is curtis trout and i am also a child of midtown. Graduated from George Washington high. I would say that broken up cellphones something familiar and unique to midtown because of the concrete structure, the sticky bushes and the courtyard. For safety we see the businesses that we grew up with around the neighborhood are gone to bigger and better things. And the one oasis that is left is midtown. So we thank mr. Preston and the board of supervisors for considering this and we have to continue to support the residents of midtown in their efforts to maintain their homes, because we know that one of the greatest issues in San Francisco right now is Affordable Housing. And so for you to continue to support the residents is a blessing and we thank you for the opportunity. Clerk thank you very much. Could we get the next caller, please. Caller hi, i am calling in support of the legislation for rent control. I we all on this call hopefully know that this city has gone over the westend area for more area. And especially the tragic destruction of culture, livelihoods and such a vibrant community during redevelopment. And its all legacy of the communitys collective strong response to that tragedy by banding together. As a first step in acknowledging the wrong that we have done, please pass this simple legislation and honor this, and to continue the struggle. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Could you see if theres another caller, please. Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Chair mar thank you so much, operations, and mr. Clerk. Hearing no further callers, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, any questions before we move to take action . No, i think that the Public Commenters, both at your last hearing and this hearing said it better than i possibly could, the importance of this legislation and of midtown more broadly in the fabric