[gavel]. President yee okay. Good afternoon and welcome to our october 27, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll . Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , you vid have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if. President yee all right. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid19 Health Emergency, Board Members participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public are able to take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to communicate with the board of supervisors or to be able to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy to receive your written correspondence and make it part of the official file. If you are using the u. S. Mail, address it to San Francisco board of supervisors, dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. You can live stream the meeting by going to www. Sfgtv. Org. If you have a television, you can watch the proceedings by going to cable channel 26. An important point is to be aware of the signal delay, and when you are ready to provide your public testimony, you must turn down your television and instead use your touchtone phone to listen to the proceedings. You will listen to the meeting and be in sync to provide your telephone couldment. The number is streaming across the screen and streaming on the internet. 4156550001, and when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. 1462287935. Press pound twice, and youll have joined the meeting as a listener. To provide Public Comment, press star, three, and listen carefully to the prompt, which is you have been unmuted, and you may begin speaking your comments right away. Now that you know how to access the meeting, i will take a moment to tell you what is appropriate Public Comment. There are two separate public hearings, items 26 through 29, the 617 sanchez street. Its appeal of determination for exemption from Environmental Review. I understand the president will entertain a motion to continue this item until november 17. That item, well take Public Comment on whether or not you want that item to be continued. Item 30 is a public hearing that is a report from the task force for the citys economic recovery. There will be a separate public hearing on that item. These items are noticed to begin no earlier than 3 00 p. M. Public comment will be called for each item. If your purpose is to provide testimony during general Public Comment, please wait for item 33 to be called, and you are able to speak on the september 22, 2020 regular Board Meeting minutes. The items that are within the subject matter of the board that are not on todays agenda and items 34 through 37, the items without Committee Reference calendar. All other items, items 1 through 25, as well as item 31, are not eligible for Public Comment as they have already had Public Comment taken at a duly noticed public meeting. We have interpreters at todays meeting. Please, will the interpreters introduce themselves in succession and let the listeners know theyre here to assist with Public Comment. [speaking tagalog language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation]. Interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk and thank you to all the interpreters at our meeting today. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of these proceedings, so if you are having any trouble with any connectivity issues, we have a live person standing by in the clerks office, 4155548584. And finally, pursuant to title two of the americans with disabilities act, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone early. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk, and we will get to that individual shortly. But before we do that, i just want to thank, once again, the residents of San Francisco for basically creating an environment in San Francisco in response to covid19 for us to be, in San Francisco, and even within the bay area, a role model for the rest of the country for how we behave when we are facing a pandemic. We are, as you know, yellow in terms of how we will come out of the this pandemic, and that means were able to loosen up a few more things, which means were closer to normal, but were still far from normal. Unfortunately, there was a little spike in our testing above last week. But even though we have a spike, were still better than most of the country. But thats a reminder that were not out of it yet. We need to continue to actually how we interact with each other, making sure that we continue to wear masks, making sure that we continue to social distance, and so forth. And if we continue to do that, we will continue to get better and better with our situation in San Francisco. So once again, thank you to all of us. It takes all of us to make the best of what were facing today. I also want to say that every if you havent gotten one of these yet, you know, its these i voted, already, please vote by mail. The city has made it very easy to vote at the ballot if they want to come down to city hall, even though it hasnt rained rain or shine, were going to have so many voting booths available, and our staff is actually wiping it down and making it safe for people. So that is open all week. Please come down if you want to do that, or make sure that you get your ballots in early enough to be counted. You know, we all know whats at stake at the federal level, whether we want a leader or not want a leader. And but locally, we have so many things, so many important issues for you to be a part of the decision here. We have issues do we want more processes for our residents here in San Francisco . There are several ballots to make that happen or if you choose not to make it happen, then you vote the way you want. There are Ballot Initiatives that will help our Small Businesses recover. So whether you want to support Small Businesses, we need your voices there, and we have several Ballot Initiatives if you want us as a city have better oversight on some of our departments. This is going to be one of those options where you get to weighin and say yes, we do or no, we dont, so please vote. And one more thing i want to say is today is a special day for many of us, but its a special day for one of our supervisors. Supervisor preston, if youre out there somewhere, happy birthday to you. Supervisor preston thank you. President yee and supervisor preston, im not going to sing, so sorry. Im just going to say happy birthday. Supervisor preston thank you. President yee okay. Madam clerk, lets get to the person we want to accommodate at this point. Clerk okay. Operations, can you please pull forward mr. Karnazes, please . Hi, thank you. My name is zach karnazes. Thank you for this accommodation, although it has been very, very difficult to access this accommodation. I have emailed this department on september 19, october 6, october 1, october 13, and october 19, and every single one of those emails has been ignored by this department, and ive been very concerned about accessibility to these meetings as well as transparency issues and Public Access. As we know, these meetings are not available to those on the other side of the digital divide, which includes unhoused neighbored and many elderly folks and disabled folks. We cannot turn on our video or join via zoom, and yet, these meetings are pretended to be a public meeting, and theyre clearly not. Im also very concerned that theres a talk of changing covid zones and things being safer, and that was stated last week by the mayor here. And as was just mentioned, theres a spike in cases in this past week. Until there is a vaccine available, we should not be relaxing restrictions on our safety. Also, i started to have covid symptoms a few weeks ago. It took me six phone calls over the course of four days to get ahold of a covid nurse. This city is severely looking in its Covid Response as far as timely access. Lastly, i want to speak on meat haneys war on drugs. This richard nixonstyle rhetoric of attacking people who are really hurting right now. Instead of trying to criminalize black and brown people in the tenderloin and increase policing in our neighborhoods, i encourage this board to improve housing, especially in hotels for our homeless neighbors and to have a humane response to a desperate time and desperate acts of desperate people instead of criminalizing them. Thank you. Clerk okay. That concludes the Public Comment accommodation, mr. President. President yee okay. Okay. Thank you, caller, and madam clerk for arranging this accommodation. Next, colleagues, we are approving minutes from the september 22, 2020 Board Meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Supervisor mandelman moved by mandelman. President yee okay. And seconded . Supervisor walton seconded. President yee by supervisor walton, i believe. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on the minutes [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the approval of the minutes the minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madam clerk, lets go to our consent agenda. Please call items 1 through 8. Clerk items 1 through 8 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. Nobody on the roster. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on items 1 through 8 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinances finally pass. Madam clerk, lets go to our unfinished business. Please call the next item. Clerk item 9 is an administrative code, an ordinance amending the administrative code to require city departments to report annually information about the number, cost, and usage of vehicles the departments have rented for periods of longer than 30 days, to authorize the city administrator to inspector provide maintenance upon request for any vehicle rents, leased, or owned by the city, to require departments to submit information to the city administrator and the board of supervisors regarding the usage and safety of city vehicles, and to authorize the city administrator to require departments to develop correction plans to reduce speeding, idling, and or collisions involving city vehicles. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 9 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. I want to thank my colleagues for supporting this for me. Madam clerk, lets go to our next item. Clerk item 10 is an ordinance to deappropriate funds from various departments and to reappropriate several amounts to various departments to support district 7 and to support budgeting projects. President yee okay. Colleagues, i normally would let just have this come up with a vote without saying anything, but this is a program that i started in district 7 the first year i was a supervisor, and this is actually the seventh year, and my final year where im going to implement what we call the participatory budget being. This has been our most challenging year yet with the pandemic, heading just as were starting to resume getting people to vote on these items. To delay the program by adsh a we delayed the program by a few months, but it didnt stop the program. I did this as a way to forge stronger constituent relationships and, most importantly, to give our district 7 residents ownership in projects to improve their own neighborhoods. Residents 16 years and older can submit projects as long as they are a onetime expenditure and address emergency safety preparedness or cultural, educational, recreational or Small Business needs. Once all projects are submitted, district 7 residents vote on what should be funded. Despite having to go virtual this year, we still had over 1500 district 7 residents vote on this years program. The ordinance before you today reappropriates a further 532,000 in funds designated in fiscal year 20192020 for the district 7 participatory budgeting program. The fund will go towards 19 projects, including the play space activiation Disaster Preparedness program, school yards upgrades and enhancements around ocean avenue and other parts of the district. Since its inception, this p. B. Program has become a highly anticipated and appropriated aspect of forging constituent and government relationships and supporting Small Businesses in district 7. In total, this year, we have funded 126 projects to the tune of 2. 8 million through these seven years. Im especially thrilled that so many projects have supported our child funding cities initiatives, and that we have invested in and created play spaces throughout the district. I have been very proud of the increased activism and engagement of our activists and the projects this program has funded and ask for your support of this ordinance. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, roll call, please. Clerk on item 10 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the resolution is adopted or the ordinance is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 11 can we do through 13 together. Clerk items 11 through 13 comprise three leases with the United States government. Item 11 retroactively approves the rent between the city and the u. S. Customs and Border Protection to extend the lease to a total term of ten years, of february 1, 2003 through january 31, 2028 and adjust the annual rent to 833,000. Item 12 is a resolution proving rent between the United States government and the city and county of San Francisco, to extend the term by three years, for a new term ending september 30, 2023, and adjust the annual rent, increasing the annual rent to 569,000. And item 13 is a resolution approving lease between the United States government and the city and county of San Francisco to extend the lease term for an additional three years, for a total term of november 1, 2012 through october 31, 2023, and adjust the annual rent for offices to 2. 5 million occupied by the u. S. Transportation Security Administration at the International Incident national, and terminal two and land at plat 50dj. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i was wondering why the rent term was at risk. I found out that information, it was satisfactory, and i will vote in the affirmative. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on items 11 through 13 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 14 is a resolution to approve and authorize the director of property on behalf of the department of Public Health to amend the lease of Real Property located at 100 blanken avenue from Celestina Jimenez and salvador jimenez, cotrustees, at 90,000 per year base rent, and to authorize the director of property to execute documents and make certain modifications and take certain actions as defined here in. President yee all righty. Madam clerk, coahego ahead and the roll. Clerk on item 14 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 15. Clerk item 15 is a resoluti resolution authorizing the Human Services agency to apply for and accept a county Child Welfare agency allocation for an amount not to exceed 459,000 from the California Department of housing and Community Development under the Transitional Housing Program to help young adults secure and maintain housing. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 15 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item 16. Clerk item 16 is a resolution to authorize the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, h. S. H. , to acc