Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman, present. Supervisor melgar, present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor preston, present. Supervisor ronan, present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor stefani, present. Supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. The San Francisco supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Colleagues, we have a motion to approve the Board Meeting minutes of march 26, made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor dorsey. On that motion made and seconded, a roll call, please. On the minutes, supervisor preston, aye. Supervisor ronan, aye. Supervisor safaion the minutes supervisor safai. Ahsha. On the minutes. Safai, aye. Stefani, aye. Supervisor walton, aye. Supervisor chan, aye. Supervisor dorsey, aye. Supervisor engardio, aye. Supervisor mandelman, aye. Supervisor melgar, aye. Supervisor peskin, aye. There are 11 ayes. Those minutes will be approved after Public Comment as presented. Madam clerk, would you please read the special order 2 p. M. . Special order 2 p. M. Is the appearance of todays meeting by the honorable mayor london breed present to engage in formal policy discussion with eligible memberoffs inboards. The mayor may address the board up to five minutes. Welcome mayor breed and you are welcome to start with any opening remarks. Supervisor peskin, we are here matching like blue tie, blue outfit. We came ready to go, didnt we . Anyway. Hi, everyone. San Francisco Mayor london breed. Hi, to members of the public and folks here from the board. Today i want to talk a little bit about joy. Now, in these brown walls i know we dont often times see a lot of joy, but when we talk about revitalizing the city, woo ehave to talk about the arts, entertainment and night life. Yes, our work on revitalization will always involve tax reform Business Recruitment and improving the conditions on our streets, but we also need to bring a little more joy to our city. Yesterday i had the opportunity to attend an annual night Life Entertainment summit. What we hear over and over from those in this industry how hard it is for many Small Businesses to actually run their business. How the city needs to find ways to support bringing people together and to celebrate in our bars, our restaurants, our night life. These businesses not only bring excitement and culture to our city, but they bring jobs and revenue. We made changes to the planning code to relax restrictions and we created new programs like the, Just Add Music so it is easier for these businesses to bring in someone to play a guitar, piano or any other type music. We made a hundred changes to our Small Businesses. We gotten rid of hundred layers of bureaucracy to get to yes, and we are investing in live music and entertainment across the city most recently with the sf live Concert Series kicking off saturday in golden gate park. We are also working to support outdoor festivals in neighborhoods throughout the city. Last week i introduced legislation to make it easier for our communities to put on a party. Night markets block parties and Farmers Markets and thank you supervisor engardio for bringing the night life market to the experience of our communities. By eliminating fees and streamlining permitting for vendors, we can do more. We can spread joy to more parts of the city. This thursday is a example of what we want to encourage. The first night of a new series called, first thursdays that is funded not by the city, but by members of the community for the whole community. This is good for our city, it is good for Small Businesses, it is good how people view our city. Too many people who might live outside San Francisco only see us for what they see on social media or on the news, but if people come to chinatown or to the sunset for a night market or if they go downtown for a night time festival, they will see the very best of San Francisco. They will see our people, our communities and our streets come alive with excitement in the way that only San Francisco can. And this is good for San Francisco and good for the economy. It is good for the future of our city. When it comes tonight life, we are saying improvements. In 2023 the Entertainment Commission received a 53 percent increase in applications compared to 2022. This makes a total of 125 entertainment permits issued to venues in those two years. It includes the stud, the San Francisco gay man chorus, Chan National Queer Arts Center on valencia and the music city hotel. These are great steps, but we can do more so lets do our part and wave fees and remove restrictions. Lets support live music and Small Businesses. Lets lift up the Arts Culture Entertainment and night life in our city. Lets open the streets for fun and joy. We will always have the serious important work to do here in city hall but we cant forget the spirit what makes San Francisco so special to the bay area and the rest of the world. Im clearly in a good mood today. Thank you. Madam clerk, can you call the first and only topic . Yes, the topic submit ed by supervisor preston is the tenant right to counsel. Please ask your opening question. Thank you president peskin and yes, yes, yes to live music everywhere, so thank you for those introductory remarks. Good afternoon mayor breed and thank you for being here for question time. My question is about the right to Counsel Program. As you know, prop f passed in 2018 establishing the right to counsel for tenants facing eviction. Guaranteeing that any tenant who receives an eviction notice gets free legal representation is one of the most effective antidisplacement strategies we have. It is also extremely Cost Effective saving the city a estimated 10 for every dollar spent thon program. At a hearing yesterday on the right to Counsel Program at which your office of Housing Community development presented mohcd released multiyear data showing how effective this program has been. 63 percent of tenant fully represented by an attorney are able to stay in their homes and 92 percent avoid homelessness. The program overwhelming benefits low income tenants. San francisco is seen as a nation wide leader when it comes to the tenant right to council. We have the most Robust Program for right to counsel in the entire country and for that i think we should all be proud. As we work to recover from the pandemic with rising evictions after the expiration of eviction bans, the tenant right to Counsel Program is more important then ever. Mayor breed, my question for you is, will you commit to continue funding the tenant right to Counsel Program at least the current annual amount of 17. 7 million in your upcoming budget . Thank you supervisor for the question. Mayor breed, you may respond. Thank you for the question supervisor preston. Let me just say, we all know this is a difficult budget year. We are facing significant deficit and tough decisions will need to be made that will impact programs that all of us in the room care deeply about. When it comes to tenant right to Counsel Program, we know this program has seen trumendsing success as you mentioned and my data might be similar, but a littleworded differently here since the program started in 2019, we invested nearly 68 million and provided legal representation to roughly 12 thousand tenants to prevent them from being evicted. That is tremendous results and as weyou and i both know, prevention is the key insuring people do not beit come homeless in San Francisco. This is definitely at the top of my priority list. I am engaged with the number of conversations around some changes and adjustments and things we need to make to the budget. I havent gotten into details what we might do in this particular program and cannot commit to the amount of funding you mentioned, but i am definitely looking at the data, what the cost s are and making sure that we make a decision so right to counsel is funded appropriately so no matter who you are you can get the kind of support necessary in order to receive services when you are facing an eviction as a tenant. Thank you. Supervisor preston you may ask a followup question if you so choose. Thank you and thank you mayor breed. Im hopeful there will be no cuts after you complete that review and just want to invite you to be in touch with our office if we can Work Together on that to insure there are no cuts to this crucial program. I wanted to follow up on a crucial issue that enabled the right to counsel to be so effective as you point out, particularly recent years and that is availability of rent relief funds. As you know voters have twice taxed the ultrarich in 2018 with prop c and 2020 with prop i to fund local rent Relief Program that is unprecedented in u. S. History, and as laid out in a bla report dated april 23, since the start of the pandemic our city already dispensed 60 million through the local program and stabilized 20 thousand of San Franciscos most vulnerable renters. Having these Funds Available has often meant the difference between eviction and housing stability and provided a crucial tool for the attorneys who are working under the right to Counsel Program to actually stop evictions. It is my understanding there are still significant rent relief Funds Available which is good news and ongoing dedicated tax revenue that add to that. That said, i think there is a risk the funds at some point were not there yet, but some point will not meet the need of the non payment evictions as those continue to be filed at higher rates then during the pandemic, so my followup question for you is, will you commit to working collaboratively with our office and this board to insure that our city maintains a sufficient local rent relief balance to prevent as many evictions as possible in San Francisco . Thank you again for your question, and consistently not just as mayor, but a member of this board, prevention has been a top priority for me and making investment in rental relief to prevent someone from becoming homeless is just as important as right to counsel. As you said, they go hand in hand and so making sure that people have access to these resources is important and my plan is to insure that there are sufficient resources to the best of our ability during this budget cycle possible. More so to insure that these programs are effectively helping with the challenges that we are experiencing. We are again doing a very deep dive on what is happening with the program, who are receiving the resources, and whether or not there are some challenges around how the money is being spent and some of the repeat requesters of this resource, so that we can insure that people who really need this money that is available for them and we prevent people becoming homeless, but also that we are addressing some of the challenges around the abuse to the use of this money. We need to make sure there is a accountability component that is part of this as well. I will commit working with the board and your office to insure resources necessary for prevention are sufficient to continue the success of all the great programs we have done. Thank you. Mayor breed you may ask a question to supervisor preston or any other supervisor pertaining to the same topic if you do desire. I do have a question for supervisor preston, because over the years during the budget season, i have been extremely collaborative and very supportive and generous to many members of this board, especially when it comes to things that are important to you, important to your districts, because many of those things are important to me as well, but unfortunately in some cases you have still not supported the budget and voted no against the budget as a whole, and what i wanted to ask in my question is, you know, especially because the things you have requested in many cases have been provided. If that is the case in this particular budget, are you planning to support or reject the budget as we move forward in the direction of trying to Work Together . Supervisor preston, you may respond to the mayors followup question. Thanks for the question. Ill need to see the budget to know if im voting for or against it and look forward to making it as strong as possible. I made clear in the budgets i voted against why i have voted against them, and the two main reasons that i voted against recent budgets were unprecedented and massive increases in sfpd budgets, as well as the refusal of your office to allocate prop i funds to social housing, and i hope those are both things we can talk about. I think it is essential as we look at the budget in a difficult year to make sure that we are not cutting the services and the safetynet that those most vulnerable in the city rely on. That will be my focus when i see your budget. I highlighted the right to counsel which is certainly one and eviction prevention which is certainly one important part of the budget, but as you know, we need to evaluate the budget as a whole. I start out approaching a budget as one i hope i can support and intend to support, and well see whats in the budget that you put forward and are then the changes that the board makes to make sure that those most vulnerable in our city are sentards centered in a budget the board passes. Thank you for your response and thank you madam mayor asking your first followup question ever and that concludes the special order 2 p. M. This matter has been heard and filed. Madam clerk, please call the consent agenda. Item 215 are consent and considered to be retune. If a member object as item may be removed. Would any member like a item severed . Seeing none, well take 215same housesorry, supervisor safai. I wanted to make sure i didnt missyes. Can we remove item 15, please . Sever item 15. Supervisor walton. Items 214 well take thosesupervisor walton. Take those same house, same call. Those ordinances are finally passed First Reading and resolutions adopted. Madam clerk, would you please read item 15. I want to duplicate the file and sendcan i do thet . Lets read item 15 before you do anything. Madam clerk, please read item 15. Ordinance to amend the public works code to streamline the enforcement of vending requirements and restrictions. Clarifying vending permit application and compliance requirements, require certain vending permitees to register with the Tax Collector and pay related fees, prohibit stationary sidewalk vendor vending in residential districts to limit permissibleveneding times and streamline vending regulation and affirm the ceqa determination. Supervisor safai. Yes, can i duplicate the file and send back to the rule said committee, please . You can definitely duplicate the file and then the board can vote to send the duplicated file back to committee. The duplication is your right. The file is duplicated and then there is a motion to send the duplicated file back to committee, which is going to be identical as the original file, so then it will automatically die. Doesnt it have 30 days once duplicated . No . Madam deputy city attorney. Ann pierson. It will be identity for 30 days. The original will not go into effect [multiple speakers] okay. Alright. So, motion to send the duplicated file to committee made by supervisor safai, second by supervisor ronan and take same house same call. Mr. President that goes to rules committee . Yes, that wouldyes. Would go to rules committee, and on the item 15, we will take same hous