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Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240704

You have documents as part of the file submitted to myself the clerk and Public Comment on each item on the agenda. When your item come up and Public Comment is called lineup on the west side to your right, my left. And not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a card by the doors. If you wish to be recorded for minutes you may submit comment in writing. E mail them to mis the budget and finance clerk at brent. Jalipa sfgov. Org. If you nit e mill tell be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the official time send written comments by u. S. Postal service to city hall 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244, San Francisco, california 94102 and items acted upon today will appear at the board agenda of march fifth unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Before we call item one remind everyone we have budget and legislative Analyst Reports for items 69, 11 and 12 on todays agendaful for those items we will have the presentation followed by the budget and legislative analyst. Then take questions and Public Comment. Mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1, ordinance emamending the business and tax code after january 21 of 24 to require short term rental hosts that dont operate through a company for transient occupancy tax returns. Wave requirements for the certificate of authority from the Tax Collector change the period for filing the returns from annual to among low for all hotel small operators. Codify the Tax Collectors Website Company program. And the return and payment requirements for tourism and expansion district assessments and companies to collect and remit to immruf move assessments. We have the Treasurers Office here. Good morning. Chair chan and Supervisors Office of treasure and Tax Collector. Im presenting an item tht simplify tax and fee filing for short term residential hosts. Following an election in 202e22 as of january first short herm rental hosts are assessed under the tourism improvement district. Hosts may pass this on to their guests. As we work to implement this collection from hosts our goal is to simplify the filing and payment of the tid4 host. I thank our partners at sf travel to notify hosts of new requirements under the tid and cohosted a webinar to explain the purpose and how this will work that is posted on our website. As you know, Short Term Rentals required collect and remit transient occupancy taxes. We offered many options for hosts to collect and remit the obligations. Hosts can collect and remit it month low or annually or work with a Website Company to collect and remit the taxes on their behalf. In practice, the vast majority is collected by qualified Website Companies. Hosts who operate Short Term Rentals directly or nonqualified platforms do collect and remit them annually now. We dont have any tot remitted month low by short term rental hosts. To ease collection of the new tid requirement we are seeking to require our qualified website Companies Collect and remit them on behalf of hosts as part of their agreement with our office to collect and remit the tot. We will discontinue the option for hosts to collect and remit monthly. And require all hosts who dont operate through a qualified website to file and pay the tot and tid assessment annually. I would like to request that the board consider amendment we circulated clarifying the tid requirement for qualified Website Company system not retroactive. Contirmed with the deputy City Attorney it is not substantive and shared the language with the clerk. Thank you for your consideration and im happy to take any questions. I do have a question. Sure. Could you i think because it is just not included in the legislation itself i know it is somewhere. Could you walk us through quick the definition of qualified Website Company . Sure. So the transyebt occupancy tax is 14 tax on stays paid by guests and remitted by hotels or by reservations, Website Companies or short term hosts directly. When this became popular in San Francisco, we worked hard to figure out a way for to get these collected buys of Platform Companies themselves, that was at the urging of hosts who found that collection and remittance of taxes confusing and overwhelming and really wanted this to be done in a one stop shop. So in order to become a qualified Website Company to collect and remit the tot to our office, companies this is opt in, optional. They have to submit a declaration to our office that they will adhere to our terms and conditions. And they are required to file and remit taxes among low to our office. And with those taxes they have to submit detailed information about each stay. All of information this we require for this is posted on our website. Any member of the public and guests and hosts can see what we are requiring and getting from the platforms. Now we have 3 companies participating. Air bnb and mr. Bnb and that will be an opt in program. But it does institute the majority of revenue collected at this time. So, we are now look at so called like to make it easy to stream line for those who register under the qualified websites or company. The changes at ti d was did not cover short term and now it does. If we dont pass this legislation and qualified Website Companies choose not to collt it now they can collect but we are not requiring them. What will happen is that the companies will submit the tot on behalf their hosts. Next year in january, well go out to their hosts and say, okay you have to submit in extra filing for this tid assessment. We notified them that this is their requirement they need to do this. We cant anticipate they will be upset and they will think, i thought this was going to be collected by my Website Company like for taxes and why are you coming after me. They are a snaul amount of revenue to go to each host t. Is not a great use of anyone napa time. Our hope is by dook this. Tell be stream lined we collect it monthly that will make it easier for the improve am district to do what they need to do with the revenue. And stream 39 so it operated like the tot. What will happen to the individual hosts. That are not registered with the qualified Website Company. Now when they do is they file annually the end of january. And than i file for all stays that happened in the year prior and remit the tot now they will also remit their tid on top of that. Will there be both listing for a qualified Website Company and not. Yes. Wee have that now and that is fine. They are qualified Website Company collects the revenue on behalf of the stays and they are on the hook for everything else. Thank you. And so that means the filing will be the tax will be filing separately and as a host themselves, they will have to file separate low from the how many of the state aside from the qualified website thats how we have been doing it for many years wield like to add in tid to make it clear what obligations are. Thank you. Appreciate t. I dont see name on the roster no questions at this time and then lets go to Public Comment on this item. We invite the members joining who wish to speak number one step up and address the committee. We have no speakers thank you. No Public Comment it is now closed. I would like to amend the legislation to strike out the possibility for retroactivity and set the new date on and or after january first, 2024. And that is the proposed amendment today. I would like to amend it and then sends the amended version to full board. Lets call roll on that motion. The motion to amend the ordinance and accepting the amendments offered by the treasure Tax Collector and forward that to the full board as amended vice chair mandelman. Aye member melgar. Aye. Chair chan. Aye. The motion passes. And mr. Clerk. Call next item. Item 2 a resolution authorizing the Mayors Office innovation to accept an inkind gift valued at 302,000 from various providers marijuana 6. 24 through june 21, 24 with the civic Ridge Program and Mayors Office of innovation to not materially increase the liabilities to the city and necessary for the purposes of donor agreement or resolution. Thank you. And of today we have Administrators Office. No. Mayors office of innovation. Thank you. Chair and members. Will. An inkinds gift of Consulting Service 302 thousand dollars. You have all heard about the civic bRidge Program a few times. We had a waiver about a month and a half ago. Came through a Different Committee this year we are bring forward low projects. One with department of emergency management. One with the Fire Department and the third with department of Public Health all focused on improving Data Collection and Service Delivery in distressing street behaviors or conditions. Typically civic bridge is a program of hen a 16 week partnership where a corporation base in the San Francisco donates time with up to 6 volunteers for 20 of their time and value that using the tap root calculation. We are continuing to do this for one of our promise. We have two innovations this year. The department of Public Health will do a shorter sprint with less time dedicated. That project is foreign focused on how we make sure that people seek treatment with Substance Use or with a people that use substances when they are ready to accept service, how do we make sure our service is set up without barriers. They are doing convening and stake holder engagements to figure out where we as a city might be falling down and how to pull that together. The other is in we are working with oi group u. S. Digital response for the dem. They are a National Nonprofit functions like civic bridge itself. They recruit individual volunteers not companies themselves. But individual volunteers to work on projects like this. Those volunteers Donate Services to u. S. Digital and then they do nit their time and cordination to us. To this affect, to make sure we are representing not just the time value u. S. Dick tality cordination and reflect the volunteer services the City Attorney suggested an amendment on page one line 20 i have copies. Adding plus the cordination of related volunteer services. The chair had asked me which corporations they are working with. We dont know they are in the recruitment stage. Positions they are recruiting for are a service sdriern, form design and gentleman forms designered haves from donating their own time we dont know where they work yet. The Third Program and theyll work with zem to redesign h sock form. To make sure we are improving how many people answer the questions. Are we asking redundant questions. Inputting the dates the same way that dph does so when we try to link we dont have tong about whether you have written out tuesday or february. It sounds simple but is quite technical on the back end. The third project is the Fire Department adobe is donating a team ofville tears to think about the ems6 project and how to understand whether they are doing, how to measure their success. You know that ems6 and not to speak for the Fire Department but the ms6 steam how people who call 911 frequently. And we tong about what it means to be successful with that group of people. They measured success in how you get people off this list. Sometimes new people come of i apologize to the department fist i screwed up the details of your project this is the best i understand them. And im here for questions. What is the ems. Ems6 is again not to speak for the Fire Department. I understand it, the divifthz Community Paramedicine team dealing with people who routinely call 911 on a regular basis. For example somebody who might not have a healing Insurance Plan and they call 911 when they get sick. And the upon Fire Department has a dedicated team. I think represented in the bla report. About coordinated street response recently. And adobe is . Offering a logic model redesign . Yes. Matt, you want to talk about the logic model and design means . For the logic model redesign it is helping taking the time to work with fire to reflect on had the programs and the out come are. Are the operations best like meeting. Kinds of what the operational goals are and how you electronic the impact to be able to better understand the great work they are doing and like where there are opportunity to improve or double down on space or interventions. So hopefully it is providing 6 additional volunteers to give them the time and space to take in all the information across the Fire Department teams to better understand the program and help them think through what the Key Performance will be. Sorry. Matt larson with Mayors Office. [inaudible] program manager. Thank you. It is interesting. I think i like to learn more about this. Only with the thinking about we will be think burglar how do we evaluate contracts and results and just learn more about what adont seoffering in terms of a logic model it is interesting the benefits of the program. It soundses to me it is not just about hitting the understanding the benefits but in the possible improvements and like are we hitting target for the state reporting . Yea this is a bit a new program for me from what i understand it is the forefront that San Francisco is leading in this space and helping to guide some of the state level understanding of what impact it is. Where we should drive toward there is a great opportunity for scale here. Working with fire to continue to improve a program that is at the forefront. If it start in february, it is 16 weeks program. So you are finishing august . Mid to late june. Great. Love to hear and learn more when they finish. Thank you. I dont see names on the roster we are good. We can go to Public Comment. Members of the public wish to speak on item 2 now is your opportunity. Step up and address the committee for two minutes. We have no speakers. Seeing no Public Comment it is now closed. I would like to make the amendment read out loud which is the page one, line 20 and the courtination of volunteer services and learn more when it happens. This sounds good i like to learn about the form. With that said, make that amendment and move this item to full board with recommendation and i roll call please. On that motion to amend the resolution offered by the Mayors Office innovation. And forward that to the board as amend vice chair mandelman. Aye and add me as a cosponsor. Thank you. Noted. Member melgar. Aye. Chair chan. Aye. Thank you and the motion passes. Thank you and mr. Clerk call items 3 and 4 together. Items 3 and 4 are resolutions authorizationing Public Health and dph to enter in amendments or modifications to the agreements that not increase the obligations or linocaines to the city and necessary for the purposes of resolutions. Item 3 authorizes the department to continue to anticipate in california mental Healthy Services under the terms of join exercise of powers agreement. Authorizing jpa to execute the participation agreements by the City Attorney without further board approval unless being directed. And item 4. Retroactively authorize the department to enter in a Grant Agreement for a form on commission of the Grant Agreement through june 30 with the city and count and he advocates for Human Potential inc. Anticipated revenue to the city. 3. Upon 7 million for construction at 1001 potrero avenue building time 6b and 7a. Including a permitted and restricted use and authorizing the grantor to apply for a receiver in the event of the citys default. Madam chair thank you we have department of Public Health here. Good morning im Deputy Director for Behavioral Health and here to speak on item 3. We are looking for support to continue working with the cal mhsa joint powers authority. Briefly about cal mhsa joint Power Authority

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