Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 31317 20170323

This continuance has to do with the environment. We are here to discuss whether its appropriate environmentalthis project has environment all impacted it sounds like the developer and the group are trying to negotiate to come to an agreement but it doesnt sound like a really Environmental Concerns so much as there are concerns about gentrification and housing in the mission. I dont see what that has to do with this bill. I dont think we should turn everything into a referendum on gentrification. We should stick to the contents of the meeting. This then legislated before and at different times and things from us. Please, deny the contents thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon my name is larry mazzola. Business manager of local 30 plumbers and pipefitters union. Im also the present of the San Francisco Building Trades council. I am here today speaking in favor of the continuance today on this project. To also clear up a little confusion that you all might be facing right now. When you see some units within the Building Trades council coming here and stand up to deny a continuance and ballet dancer continuance in other unions speaking for a continuance like myself might be confusing. So theres a misnomer out there that the Building Trades is all being supported by this project is rebuilt 1 union. That is not to get some units have got the okay in writing that, yes, they will be union but some unions have not like the mep is just a mechanical electrical the plumbing and the sprinkler fitters. Those are the mep s unit it was of the subcontractors weve not gotten any commitments to this point it over we had a conversation with the ceo of access yesterday and it was a good conversation i think the continuance will give us more time to continue those discussions. But the portraits on the just mentioned have numerous if not hundreds of people that live in the Mission District and those Job Opportunities would be lost for those people. Those are workers in the city that deserves a good wage and a good benefit package and to live up to the area standards that the city is so proud of. So, thank you and i hope you will continue this item so we have more time to talk to the developer about a lot of different issues. Thank you. Thank you next speaker, please. Spielman is brian hamilton. I am the cofunder of the cow 40 renters legal advocacy and Education Fund regarding this continuance, this is the exact type of process that leads to increased economic and racial segregation displacement and rising price. There is an ocean of academic literature on this topic at scholarship by Lindsay Mccomb is be become to mind specific group of the happy with and charge you with anyone if you still care. Regarding the specific proper project understands after court has found there is no displacement effect from the market rate of element effect in a new Market Rate Developers mitigates against this [inaudible] which also with the urban displays the project at uc berkeley found and i understand as Many Committee members that feel otherwise. Supervisor ronen, i would implore you that leadership is hard. You are going to people that disagree with your decision one way or another. But i ask you to do the hard things and explain to your constituents that were housing is needed. The more housing is Community Benefit and that the mission is somewhat supplicant attorney into a noe valley if we close up shop for development. On a personal note, i live for five years on this very block above isaacs liquor store. I was displaced in september and am living in open and not too happy about it. I blame antihousing activists for being successful for decades for now building housing for my displacement and all my friends to a person that i knew in 2010 are all gone. And as a fitting metaphor, my last week at that at my apartment i stepped outside and i was almost run over by two welltodo women in jogging gear with a really extensive looking strollers. Theres been a real demographic seachange in a part of the mission that not one new housing to bauman. Toms of new luxury rehabs of existing houses but nothing new. They moved in and they displaced other people because were not building for them. Thank you. Thank you narrowminded public again, can you speak please keep your comments specifically to the continuance. Otherwise i will need to stop you and remind you of why you are giving this particular Public Comments. Specific to the continuance. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Welcome, supervisors and i want [inaudible] my district i been kicked out and thank you supervisor am a on behalf of stephen [inaudible] i will place to live and [inaudible] he is the owner of that building could you can have a Board Meeting and there and i want to thank everybody who got our place [inaudible]. Thank you. Weve all on behalf of all the supervisor we got the lottery. Thank you. Thank you. We all love you thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello. I am resident excelsior and i think you should not do the continuance. Because the problem excels in his own sense of and San Francisco because of all these delays. So im not too concerned about the developers. It might be able to negotiate 20 affordable, 40 affordable. Whether be able to do it because the market rate housing will increase in the meanwhile one the week around for all these negotiations and continuances. So i urge you approve the project is crappy as possible and help market rate housing back down. Thank you very much. Next item spews members of the board of supervisors [inaudible] open government and i echo the comments of many of the private previous speakers. But i would like to talk about the continuance itself. For you, continuing a matter is really no big issue. You are going to be your you are going to get paid. Doesnt really matter to you. However, when members of the public come here and sit for an hour and half waiting to make comments and then are told at the last minute, by the way, for our convenience or some other issue is though not always sure is accurate or true, we are going to continue this to some future date. People have to take time off work that they have to take time to make arrangements for the children. Just myriad of things. I see these continuances been done over and over and over again with little thought given to the members of the public and interested parties who have to come here and want to come here to comment and put in their two cents. I also would point out that according to the sunshine ordinance whenever continuance or change in the agenda is known, it is supposed to be brought up immediately and children brought up at the beginning right after where it says agenda changes. Therefore, members of the public, we wouldve had this discussion they couldve made their comments on the continuance they would not have too had to sit here for an hour and a half only to find out that theyre not going be allowed to comment on what they came here to do. I think this board of supervisors has shown a long history of disregard for the second phase the members of the public make when they come here and sit sometimes i think ive come here and sat the public commons 30 min. After the beginning of the meeting and in one case, seven hours into the meeting. So its a crapshoot. You really dont know when or if these are going to come up in this is not right. If you have something on the agenda and youre going to change it, ringing up during the agenda change that is the sunshine ordinance and look at your own agenda and it says, know your rights under the sunshine ordinance. Read the law and follow it. Thank you next speaker, please. Spielman and scottpresident of the mission for the 90s into thousands number and some behalf of work on geary under the sloppy with 01 speak on this issue to bring it was can be continuance so in favor of the gadget is because a lot of our community that was spoken trying to get a better project of this development it is not currently present. Solely on the other side we saw that the contractors, union had filled the space which also mentors let public there was not able to attend. This letter paid protesting lipstick and they broken from the rest of the unit is urban and Economic Impact from this path it is project target having housing is. Built in San Francisco. Overseeing is the committee pushes back we can get better projects and projects that are then introduced to begin with with these higher levels of affordability. These harder levels of Community Service because developers can afford it in the city needs it. So basically our current planning code is not demanding enough. Its only vehement agreement with the folks from sf [inaudible] we would like to see these projects go through as better projects. We look at you the leaders of our city to change our planning codes knowing we can get our these projects with higher levels of affordability and more civic service. Thank you for your time to give will talk you when this comes back up again and am overjoyed to hear the community and developers of original permits a you dont have to worry about. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. My name is sarah miles im grateful dirt will be it continues down very much in support of that. This development is coming huge impact on our neighborhood on our schools and our families. We really need time to work out a waiting which can be as little disruptive as possible. So i appreciate the time that we can Work Together to try to make it better. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im here because i came to the previous meeting and nothingwas no chance to express my view but i very much oppose delay. That will turn off the Citizen Input i simply bothering a lot and some people get a lot of money for having it become increased legal for professionals that are making money from the delay to get their way for some people that are getting financial advantage. I pursued a situation where the city made special arrangements for mercy housing, which involves the compliance of the state Building Code in ways that would increase fires but there was no review. Environmental review. Was treated as if it was a partnership between the city and the contractor instead of the city regulating the contractor. But simply, the city presumably is getting housing and therefore [inaudible] and therefore return some of the benefits to make it easier for the people building the housing to make money. But at the cost of it, imagine beneficiaries, the people who will be occupying the housing. They are never given a chance to look at building plans, to see whether it really conforms with the fire code. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Spielman and ms. Kristini live directly across the street from the proposed development. Im in favor of the continuance because i do believe in spite of what people said these Luxury Developers do cause despite my landlady is very sad but this thing because she wants to put the building on market in me delete the very afraid of getting displays. Their real estate speculator buying the building and affecting us. So i live with low income seniors disabled people in my building i think the continuously coupled to try to make a better deal. We dont need more luxury husband we need Affordable Housing at the crisis is not caused i housing activist. His cause by speculators and luxury housing. So thank you for listening thank you supervisor ronen jed thank you very much next speaker, please. My name is laylai live two blocks from the building. This large building is overlooking an Elementary School and beside it is a nursery or playground for a nursery for tom oneonta put in. None of the children to go to that school or go to that part have any chance of living in the socalled housing. I really have to stand here and question, can you honestly say that this new more luxury housing is going to help our housing crisis for the people that are displaced . Most of the people that arethis is a very serious decision we need to take all the time you can to be fair. Its the only way. Once a building goes up, you can take it down. Once those shadows are gone one step playground, has no sunshine, it is gone. You really do not listen to read which is eager to get paychecks out of this. You are always have as a defense against that greed. Use your concentrate use your eyes. Look at the neighborhood. It is not appropriate. If it was allit was all for us we were put up maybe it would be worth losing some sunshine it but it is not for us. I live across the street from luxury condos. Its all about [inaudible] its all about investment and flipping. Young people of no investment in the community. Displacing for more agree. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is scott weaver. I support a full week continuance. Four weeks is not a long time but it gives us an opportunity to renegotiate any good faith and come to a better agreement then itll be time well spent. If not, then its only four weeks. No matter what you believe can about how market rate housing skit fits into the schema things up for week continuance is not going to lead to the end of life on earth as we know it. We will either have a deal or we will not have a deal. Thats all. Keep this in perspective. Thank you good next speaker, please. Nami lorraine garcia. Im a member of latino historical San Francisco Historical Society and also from Arts Commission on federal commissioner with the Latino Museum that we are attempting to create. Im also an arts and cultural specific cultural working many many years in the Mission District. Iming conference with your motion to defer. I also feel that i agree with many of the young people that come up that said they dont understand why you would be deferred and i agree that i dont understand why you would be deferred and that, in fact, the time we are given that they will be given range of the project will be informed by letter of data that is not currently available. That will make this project much more successful, and at the same time, it will not follow the patterns of displacement in the same way that is happened throughout the city. So i think of your wisdom in the lane for weeks. Its not a long time, and i will leave it at that. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervised my name is carloson the housing attorney for [inaudible] i just want to take a quick moment to thank you all for your patience and wisdom in attempting to determine the best course of action for this project. In the mission as a whole. Permitting this continuance. While im aware this continuance may be a temporary inconvenience for some rushing into hasty decisions without waiting for substantive information or permitted goodfaith negotiation create a permanent detriment for everybody. Thank you for much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. If theres any other members of the public would like to speak on the continuance, please come for now. The afternoon davidi missed your earlier discussion on this but im standing you may have another appeal nearby with a related issue. It sounds like there are discussions ongoing so it makes sense for the continuance. I also think that whatever project happens at this location the project sponsors should document whats already there with photos and video because its not just the mission, but it is the Industrial History of the city. It really is the last example of the Railroad Going through from folsom to the mission and the buildings that surround it. So some documentation of that history for the Planning Department and the Public Library i think would be in order for this project. Im not saying to the rest of the meeting but im sure youll do an appropriate in the morning for natalie berg. Thank you remick. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Width tom gilbert. Between now and then whenever then is, how many seniorsbetter low income added to this project . How many graduates graduated foster kids might be living at this project . How many people off Navigation Systems between now with the plan stands for now, and we are we are going to go to equip how many seniors can we move from houses that are not appropriate anymore . Those are questions the planshow many people could you please speak to the continuance . Well, the continuance is then. We are here right now. I think of for going to pay for continuance how many whether or not ribbon on. Whether or not you [crosstalking off mic] instead of market rate people how many people from our committees are to be able to move in that are from those local zip codes . I would like to say probably a better balance that i think thats what all these people are saying. There is the Community Housing for us now . That needs to be answered between now and then. Thank you. Thank you. If theres no other members of the public would like to provide comments on the continuance, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] mdm. Clerk, seeing oh names on the roster please called roll call on a motion to continue the item to the meeting of april 18 2017. Sheehy aye, tang aye, yee aye, breed aye, cohen, farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye, peskin aye, ronen aye, safai aye. There are 11 tremont the okay this item marketing into the lead on april 18, 2017. [gavel] all right. Adam clark, lets go back to item 7 he was yes we were in the middle of a discussion supervisor yee has the floor. Im wondering if theres any examples or somebody actually did this . Because, if not im wondering why were passing legislation on this . Supervisor farrell thank you president breed to supervisor chinese, point, yes. The pirates apples from last point funny some of the local so moved. Do not continue the Mayors Office and donate Development Dollars in it but in looking at our laws, after that it reaches fever last year did we realize we were are vulnerable here in the city of stephen is that we dont think we should allow that to happen in our city. Supervisor yee can i say one other thing . In all the developers that are fighting this legislation, theres a proof point. If they have no intent to do it why would they care in the same way . Ontthey dant this legislation because they dont want to be restricted from using taxpayer dollars for political funds. Plain and simple. Thank you subbarao farrell. Supervisor yee no other questions because supervisor kim i just want to clarify because we dont have numbers of the public [inaudible] committee on behalf of these nonprofit Affordable Housing developers who all uniformly oppose legislation. They dont oppose it because they use cash out proceeds for political speech. They dont. They dont want us to set a dangerous precedent with the board of supervisors unfairly targets one category of entities in their freespeech spending. Now, lets talk about leveraging city subsidies the city dollars, city values to create profits. Right . Nonprofit formal Housing Developers to do this from moa speedy drovers but so do Market Rate Developers and they take city subsidies. They take the values we confer on their lands are zoning, and they leverage that public subsidy google profits were they do actually use profits to go on cruises and political spending. So if we are going to do this, we should do it for everyone and i think that is specifically with the nonprofit Affordable Housing voters are concerned with. Its not that this is going to in any way curtail anyones current activities or history. By the way, theres very rigorous audits of nonprofits organizations and how much of their hours and money they spent on volunteering and working and organizing on ballot measures could i know because i used to work at one christ filled out my timesheet i do specifically enumerate the number of hours i spent working on ballot measure campaigns. It is that we are setting a dangerous precedent by targeting one group not targeting all. Thats why ill be opposing the stay. Thank you. Supervisor farrell so again lets be clear what were voted on guilt were voting on whether we should taxpayer dollars to allow organizations to use for camping. That to me is a dangerous precedent were seven. I think it is the height of irony quite likely thinking during this break that was mentioned quite likely agree much agree with that citizens united, need to overturn that make more money bar political system but here we are simple people organa vote to put more money in our [inaudible] but taxpayer dollars in our political system. Again, i think we call the question but that the boat here, getting tested all should be funded for political campaigns, vote against the. You think Affordable Housing dollars on the taxpayer should be used for Affordable Housing, support this. Thank you. Supervisor yee, i will make this real quick. Im just sitting here thinking mainly because many of you know that i come from the nonprofit world. Worked in it for about 30 years. In man and organization so am sitting here thinking, okay, no we have some [inaudible] when we bought a building and no, we do not refinance it but [inaudible] im just thinking out loud that where does it stop for us for people in nonprofit that one could take it further . Opening up. What you would say since to have an outstanding loan and you are saving its 20 years old and mainly because youre able to pay rent use your mind when money to pay for the mortgage and youre paying this fixed mortgage and not the rent doesnt go up it must be saving money so you should be using that savings for any opinion that you have on about an initiative. So i question it it a little bit and again im thinking out loud is not really directed towards anyone. Thank you supervisor yee. Supervisor cohen. Thank you very much. I looked maybe a couple questions the Mayors Office of housing. If they could weigh in on this . You had an opportunity to listen to some of the discussion. I think for me, going back to the point was making earlier, i would describe it as great money. Likely if that initial investment of taxpublic money and profit is made. Is that considered by your department to the public money or private money . The way that i would answer that please come identifiers of peers amy chan is opposite housing. The way i would answer that if a project has a loan with the Mayors Office of housing we director a ground lease we directly regulate the project. We dont currently have a policy around cash out proceeds. The of only had a handful of projects that have either ocd money or ground lease where we spent [inaudible] on a case by case basis negotiated how to handle refinancing of those projects. That is why our office is going to work with the Developer Community to create a policy where we would apply the same rules across the board to any project looking for to do this kind of refinancing. But, currently, we dont and we are not regulating across the board of the cash out proceeds are handled. We are regulating any project with the spending of the direct loan funds from ocd. All right. How often does this happen . How often are you seeing nonprofits spending the money they are cashing out . So as weve mentioned it only see a handful of cases where theres been a refinancing and the cashing out. There could possibly be others in the future but its been a small percentage. So when you say a handful of just one quantify that. Is that two, three, he quit i think weve had two projects. Existing ocd funds from a sitting ocd funds in a refinance and captured cash out proceeds i assume this is public information. Can you tell us which nonprofits they were . One project was with tndc and one project was with that whole. Im not familiar with that one. What is battle . It is a church run out of i think the project was in district 5. Okay. Are you able to share with us how the money was used . We actuallyi actually dont have the specifics of those two project i can come back and give you information about that but we dontwe have negotiate how is an ocd we capture some of those cash out proceeds. So i dont believe we directly limit how the developers portion of those funds are spent but we are negotiating funds to be coming back to oh cds so that we can be using them for purposes of Affordable Housing. Okay. Have youim not sure if your department is taken opinion on the legislation. I would imagine you probably have not amok but im going to ask for some of your thoughts around is there a method, or a way, to put further distractions on the cash out dollars . I think our offices priority we would like to just see as much of the funds come back to our office as possible and then we would be easy to funds for former housing purposes those on the come back to the office are they required to come back in full . Currently, no we dont have a policy around. Even negotiating. We had negotiated at around the two projects but we would create a policy and we do that in collaboration with the Developer Community in terms of what that we capture would look like. So the dollars go out and the form of a loan . Yes. From our office. We have existing ones with nonprofits for them to build Affordable Housing. But they are required to be back the loan . Correct. To the quebec interest on the loan no. Is just the dollar amount soft loans, correct the money they make from the investment they are able, we will call profit theyre able to do without want without money . Currently, unless we are [inaudible] unless we are negotiating something different, yes, cured although we have in the cases that weve experienced, we have been negotiating those funds to be coming back to our office. Thank you madame president no further question. Thank you. Supervisor peskin so i want to appreciate what supervisor cohen just asked and say to the president , to the representative from the Mayors Office of housing, that to the extent Going Forward you want to package your loan documents such that a recipient of a loan would have obligations bolted to cash out proceeds, i would welcome you pioneering that policy, but let me put before you colleagues, is slightly different question as we enter the vote and the maker of the ordinance. Which is, if you wanted to kill one curtail one subset Political Rights vote for this or looks. If you dont want to chill one subset vote against this subset [inaudible] without im ready to vote thank you. Supervisor farrell. I think we should call the questionnaire but i cant let that stand. An answer. Its completely false. Supervisor peskin is thinking this is not chilling free speech. These organizations can use and raise money all they want and use it for political purposes although one. The lease taxpayer dollars to do it. Thats what the ordinance is. Thank you. Seeing no other questions names on the roster mdm. Clerk, on the item as amended, please call the roll call spews item 7 as amended supervisor sheehy aye, tang aye, yee sleight, breed nay cohen nay farrell aye fewer nay kim nay peskin nay, ronen nay, safai nay. There are 11 three aye and eight nay the ordinance fails. Im clerk please call items eight through 10 together. Items 8 to 10 are [inaudible] to purchase a diebold of september 1, 2015 through august 31, 2018. Item 10 is a grant in the amount of approximately 135,000 to purchase equipment for a fire Investigations Unit for the grant term of july 29, 2016 through july 20, 2017. Roll call boat on items 8 to 10 sheehy aye, tang aye, yee aye, breed aye, cohen aye, farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye, peskin aye, ronen aye, safai aye. There are 11 aye. The resolutions adopted unanimously [gavel] bancorp is call items 11 and 12 together please. Speaker to affirm sequa determination. Motion reused supervisor farrell. Who made that. Peskin is making a motion to remove farrell. Can we take that without objection . Without objection, supervisor farrell is excused. Madam clerk, on the item, please call the roll. Item 13, supervisor see hee. Aye. Tang. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. Speaker aye supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Fuer. Peskin. Aye. Ronin. Aye. There are ten ayes. The ordinance is passed on the first reading. Please call item 14 and 15 together. Items 14 and 15 are two resolutions to receive and approve at annual report for item 14 for the know valley Community Benefit district fiscal year 1516 and for item 15 for the ocean avenue Community Benefit district for fiscal year 2015, through 2016 was submitted as required by the Business Improvement district law of 1994. Supervisor tang. Speaker aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Farrell. Aye. Kim. Aye. Peskin aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Safai, aye. Resolutions are adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Should the Committee Reports items were on item 16, madam clerk. My apologies, madam president. Theres a resident to urge the state to levee personal and Corporate Income taxes which the city could utilize as a sustained source of funding for transportation and Public Health priorities. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam president. I would like to thank our Assembly Member tang for introducing bill 1007, Assembly Member tang would like to actually narrow the legislation to be for the city of San Francisco only, i have passed about to all of you and the clerk amendments that reflect that on pages 1, 2 and 3 and add an additional whereas clause that reads, whereas the state legislature as expressed concerns about the potential for the federal government to lower the federal income tax particularly for high wage earners, which will further exacerbate our growing concern in california. I would make a motion to adopt those amends. Supervisor, peskin made a motion to amend and seconded by supervisor ronen. Can we take the amendments without objection. Without objection, the amendment pass. And seeing no other names on the roster. Call the role. Sheehy, aye. Supervisor breed. No. Supervise he cohen. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Peskin, aye. Speaker peskin aye. Ronen, aye. Speaker supervisor safai. Theres 9 ayes and 2 nos. Speaker the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, lets go to Committee Reports. Items 2123 were considered by the budget and finance subcommittee at a regular meeting on march 15th and forwarded as Committee Reports. 21 was recommended with a new title. It is a resolution that approves a purchase and Sale Agreement by the city with prosperity to llc for city own properties at 1660 Mission Street and 1680 Mission Street for 52 million including a city lease back and an annual rent value of 3. 4 million with yearly increases. Madam clerk, call item 22 as well. Item 22 is a resolution that approves a purchase and Sale Agreement by the city with lean Lease Agreement for the located at 30 van ness avenue for 70 million. Includes a city lease back at a rent expense of 4. 5 million with yearly increases and to affirm the sequa determination for both items 21 and 22. Supervisor kim. Thank you, president breed. Colleagues, we have been discussing the site of 30 van ness, one of our City Owned Properties for a little over the last three years, the price which we would like to gain from that site, the revenue of which would be used to construct, 1500 Mission Street, a much needed large City Office Building which would house several of our City Departments taking the city off our swing commercial rental market and hopefully saving on tax payer dollars on the future, and also the debate of what we should be building on the site of 30 van ness after the sell given the fact this is public owned land. The city proposed a deal selling the site of 30 van ness at a price tag of 80 million. Members and myself expressed this content for dissatisfaction with the balance of the deal. Just one month prior to the introduction, voters passed proposition k which urged the city to build no less than 33 of Affordable Housing. In december, supervisor peskin introduced which would become proposition c which would raise inclusion of market rate from 12 Affordable Housing to 25 affordable and middle Income Housing. This measure was overwhelming passed by the voters the following june of 2016. We knew the city could do better on Affordable Housing commit on land which we land setting an example for the private market while balancing our need under raising revenue for a new Office Building. Deal before us today at air discount of 10 million raises enough money for the construction of a new Office Building at 1500 mission combined with the sell of 1660 and 1680 mission and on top of that, the city will win an additional 40 to 60 new middle Income Housing units that were not introduced in the deal prior. At a subsidized rate of roughly 250,000 a unit. That is a huge sale for anyone that is familiar with the development of housing. It cost much more than that on developing housing here in San Francisco. With the deal we have achieved, we have achieved proposition goals of 25 on site affordable middle Income Housing without any up zoning. Now, with the consideration of upzoning of 100 people, the via the market okay octavia plan to reach 33 of Affordable Housing with 8 being contributed through an Affordable Housing fee. My commitment to working with ensure were both maximizing affordable middle Income Housing on a publicly owned site. While keeping our commitment to the voters of proposition k while also making sure we are maximizing revenue that we can gain from the site to help build 1500 mission. Again, another important city priority as it saves tax payer tax payer dollars from Expensive Office leases which this board painfully votes on and pave to the private market. At the board of supervisors, were talking a lot about the need to build middle Income Housing and unlike the deal that came before us in december of 2015 which included zero incomes and middle Income Housing, unless the city was willing to buy the cities back at 641,271 per unit which i took issue to a year and a half ago. This includes any city up zoning and 40 to 60 middle income units. For a family of four, with a combined salary of a little over 100,000, thats two working teacher and two children with a starting salary of 48,000. Inclusionary housing is one of our most effective tools in building Affordable Housing and now middle Income Housing and as we have rising concerns about our federal government and potential budget short falls focusing on housing may be one of the certain ways well ensure that this type of housing getting built. I want to recognize and thank john updik from department of realestate who toiled or labored on making sure were balancing multiple important [inaudible] Affordable Housing and raising revenue for Office Building for the city. And i also want to recognize our project sponsor len lease. I believe this is their first lease in the city of San Francisco for not only committing to 25 of Affordable Housing without up zoning, but also brainstorming with our office over the last month to come up with a way that we could achieve 33 Affordable Housing with up zoning. Colleagues, i do ask going your support on item 22 which i am a sponsor. Im not a cosponsor of item 21, im in support of that measure as well. I dont know how many times we have grown when an expense office lease comes to the board of supervisors for our City Department. Its important our city owns our own office space and we build that. I think that 1500 mission is a good project and its one we should be insuring we support city revenues for. Thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor safai. Thank you supervisor yee and everyone involved. Maybe im missing someone because we own 1660 and 1680 free and clear. Those buildings are owned out right. Theres no debt on those buildings. Theyre occupied by city agencies. And as apart of this deal, well have an increase of rent over the next three years in both buildings and on 30 van ness, well have a significant increase as well. There was 14 million that would need to be identified to remain in existing buildings we currently occupy. Two of which we own. And there is no identified Revenue Source as of yet for where that money will come from. We heard from the mayor today, and we read over the weekend that the Community Development Block Grant Program is being proposed to be eliminated. Every agency group, organization, peopling sitting in this audience, folks advocating for the delay and the continuation on the Mission Project because of gentrification, well have no say with a Republican Led Congress and republican president , those programs will most likely be eliminated. We own two buildings currently. And were being asked to sale those two buildings to put into a deal thats funded by certificates of participation. So i would like to hear from our controller and potentially our department of realestate, has there been an investigation into whether we can do this deal, what the cost would be to do this deal, on certificates of participation, are there other city assets that we might be able to put into, because just two weeks ago we had hsa come in here and say we had to because we had no other option, sign a lease with a building that is owned by through managed by a private company to pay millions of extra dollars because they dont have space. We own these two buildings free and clear. I understand that it will take something to upgrade those properties, so thats one. Thats 1680 and 1660. On 30 van ness, lets be clear. This a purchase and Sale Agreement. Everything supervisor kim said is right. We can say 100 that will happen. Maybe i could feel comfortable. Lets be clear, theres nothing in this deal that says they have to build any housing. If you look at the report, the highest for this site is an Office Building. They might come back to us and say, Interest Rates has risen, investors are not investing. Sorry, we cant build this project anymore, so now you know no longer own the building. And youre going to continue to pay us rent in for how long we need because we dont have any other space to put those buildings at van ness or 1660 and 1680. The proposed buyers of 1660 and 1680 said theyre going to keep that as Office Buildings. So 14 million that we havent identified to pay rent in buildings we currently occupy from departments that we need Additional Services from. Two of those buildings, colleagues, are occupied by the department of public works. Every single one of us sitting here relies on those services and their money goes down almost every single year. As i said in our Transportation Authority meeting last week, they said theyre going to see a 15 million hit on street resurfacing. Thats just street resurfacing. Thats not even the entirety of their budget hit. Lets get back to 30 van ness. Thats one of the most valuable assets we have in our city portfolio. That site can go up to 520 feet. We have a crisis in homelessness. We have a crisis when it comes to specifically within that homelessness crisis, Family Housing crisis. Family homeless crisis. Why are we only doing 25 affordable at that site . I hear people come in from every single one of our districts come in and say and members are sitting in the audience, why are we not doing 100 affordable . Why are we not doing 100 affordable at this site. We own this site. So theres smarter people in this room than me when it comes to financing. I would like to hear has there been a full analysis. Can we do 1500 Mission Street using participation or other financing sources . Wheres the money going to pay for to pay the additional rent on the lease back options they have for three years and after the to years they go market rate. So we have to worry about having to go market rate the last two years in those buildings we currently occupy. At the end of the day, can we affirm that theres nothing in this deal that says they have to build anything on 30 van ness. That they could sit on that and keep it as an Office Building . And lastly i would say theres a reason this body passed a minute stray tifb code 238. These may not be surplus at the end of the day, this asset at 30 van ness has the potential to be a phenomenal opportunity to address many issues when it comes to family homelessness, Affordable Housing, homelessness for a lot of different entities that weve talked about in this body over the last couple of months and if we can flow 400 million in debt i like to hear from the controller, maybe the budge the and legislative analyst and the department of realestate. You want to start with whom . Controller, please. Speaker good afternoon, supervisor, ben. Controller. I can take one of the questions supervisor you have asked here and ill defer to realestate to address your other questions. The question as to what would happen if the city did not sell the facilities and apply those proceeds into the construction of this new tower, if we used a greater amount of debtor if cop financed that, how would that change the fundamentals of the project . And has an analysis been done . When i talked to the department of realestate, they said we havent been provided with that information. Its a question i have heard for the first time. We have done initial work on this, so i can talk you through those, but we can talk about what that doesnt include. Overall the building that were thats before you, the constructed 1500 Mission Street its about 95 million of that would be paid for with cash. And the remainder of that 260 million would be financed with cops. So the real question that i hear financially is, if we took the sales proceeds out of the project, and because we wanted to retain those properties as city own and borrow the full 350, how would that change some of the math. Of course, cash in a deal like this is helpful financially because we dont have to pay interest overtime and were not borrowing. It change the math. The square foot, the first year of occupancy in the its about 60 a square foot. Thats the fully loaded cost of the city facility thats being discussed as proposed. If youre borrowing for the full amount, and then paying back a larger amount of debt service overtime in the form of higher rent, it increases that rental cost by about 23 . So let me interrupt you. Let me ask a different question. What if has it been looked at if, for instance, you did float the certificate of are there penalties for paying those back early . We always have a call prevision in our certificates [inaudible] or any other pro visions. Thats at year ten we could hypothetically retain ownership over those existing properties and not have to do the lease back and sell them and then once you built it, then you sell the buildings and pay them down. You could do it that way, couldnt you . That would be a way you could approach the project. A couple of things might argue against that financially, one where it has low Interest Rate environment at the moment. Looking head into the future, were going to be we would be locking in a low Interest Rate now. Its based on five and a quarter. Theyre not based on todays numbers. You base them on worst case scenario. You have taken into that increase, correct . I dont think were taking at worst case. Were adding 100 points basis because of uncertainty and whats going to go on with the Interest Rates overtime. But youre right. You could take that approach, i guess the risk would be that we would have issued bonds and the question would be, will you have proceeds in the future to repay them. If not, we would be stuck with a Debt Service Payment and the higher rental cost i mentioned. Its a choice for the board. Hypothetically you could do that and then sell the building at a later date once the building is finished and pay down the debt. Youre taking a different financial risk. Until the time you sold the buildings, the tenants in the building will pay a higher market rent so building inspection will pay rent thats 23 higher than if you applied the proceeds to the project. And you would be or the city would be counting later on being able to redeem bonds at an unknown sales price in the future. You could do this. Thats effectively how this changes the project finances as its less equity in the project which means the property is higher. Over the life of the bonds, Debt Services are higher of course. It increases. The total debt service increase over the life because you are borrowing more. We have come to 177 million in additional payments over the 30 year period. Thats if you didnt sell the buildings after year five or three. Yekt. Correct. We havent done that analysis fully . We can run analysis, otherwise i know the realestate department has taken a look at this in a number of different ways. They could speak you havent done the specific analysis on selling the buildings after a few years and paying down the debt. Not doing it just 100 certificates of participation over 30 years . We can look at that question. Its really going to fundamentally be the numbers i talked through, and the place where well probably be having to estimate the most significantly will be what will the market for these buildings be like in five years. Will it be higher than today or lower than today . The buildings are aging, the value of the assets are likely to decline overtime. Were probably are near the peak of asset value at the moment. Those are estimates about what might happen in the future. Soup his veer safai, if i can interrupt. Do you think in light of what we know and i know theres going to be a Budget Hearing at the Budget Select Committee on thursday to talk about whats going to happen around federal cut and what were dealing with here in San Francisco. I mean, were going to have to make some major changes in our budget. Do you think that as a controller, as a person who looks at our financial figures, whether its our debtor our projections or whatever you want to call it, do you think that it is wise to continue in some instances with a project like this, for example, business as usual, try to get this project done in light of what we could anticipate with our financial status here in San Francisco . I mean, what are your thoughts around that . As it relates to this particular project . Is this responsible to do . I mean, i think fundamentally those are your choices in front of this board. I think this would be a responsible choice to move ahead with, yes. The tenants are non were talking about city planning, which is 90 fee supported and these departments of public works are not general fund dependent unlike the street resurfacing and the other parts of the department. So cost here or savings here, fundamentally are not going to be funded. I think they are out of separate pots of money and that would give me solis. This ends up being a choice about do we want to own real this state in the civic center and make a play for long term savings or do we want to remain ore exposed in both good ways and bad to the least rental market in the city. If i might supervisor safai. Thats what im saying, mr. Controller. I dont know in its those two choices and im not necessarily proposing that. I think there might be scenario is john here. Hey, john. Maybe you can speak too. There might be a scenario have you looked at that certificates of participation, holding onto the property, selling them at a later date and then we might be able to build that building and have those properties without the significance increase. Theres going to be an increase, but not 107 increase. There might be a cost savings to the tax payers and the we havent gotten into the 30 van ness. This is about 1680. Thats not an analysis we prepared okay, thank you. Thats what i wanted. John, can you speak to that a little bit. Of course, supervisor safai. Director of realestate. So expand a little on what the controller was talking about, relative to risk from my perspective and looking at the realestate market, i think thats an important point to be noted that we are sort of scraping along this plateau of a peak of the realestate market that i cant speak to what that market might look like in two, three, four, five years from now. Yes, it could be higher, but it also could be lower. And so we are maximizing and monotising these on 30 van ness at a great time in the market to do that. As an example, we are first appraised 30 van ness just four years ago, and it appraised at 40 or so million dollars. Thats an indicator of the volitility of the market. Speaker the second issue is relative to remaining at these locations, theres a de they do not meet the needs of the occupant departments. Can i ask you a question on that . Speaker sure. The president is paying 52 million for these what would their response be for 1660. Youre saying theyre obsolete. What is their plan because when i read in this document, it says theyre going to keep them as Office Buildings. So theyre going to pay 50 million and spend how much in your opinion . I would emergency theyre not going to spend that much. Its a fair question as to what their intent is, and that really isnt apart of our agreement. But speaking to the broker age ferms that looked at the properties, they estimate at a significant Capital Investment would be made by any buyer on the orders of tens of millions of dollars and likely a rescanning of both buildings. Perhaps a rejoining of the two buildings. You might recall 1660 and 16880 mission divided by a parking lot and the city looked at constructing an improvement in between to wed the two buildings and look at retaining dbi at locations which was daemed infeasible. We could never obtain the per Square Footage we need. It was north of 100 million for a public works project to web the two and use them to our advantage. So i think the upside is, again, buyers is looking at the Market Dynamics and the continuing need for office space. The fact that these assets are not subject to prop m allocation, gives us great value at this time. So thats why i think were seeing the relatively [inaudible] is office space . Thats correct. It goes to 30 van ness, as i understand when im reading this report, this is a purchasing Sale Agreement. This does not obligate in any way the purchaser to build housing on this site, is that correct . That is correct, supervisor. It is a purchase and Sale Agreement. Its not a Development Agreement because we do not have sequa approval for a project on the parcel. Even may i add. It does mandate that if redevelopment were to occur, certain requirements relative to Affordable Housing are mandated in the deed as a restriction against title. Against this developer or any subsequent owner of the property. Theres nothing in this purchase theres a deed restriction in terms of the affordability if they were about to, but theres nothing that requires them to build the housing on site . They could fee out on everything, is that correct . I know they can fee out on the additional to get the 33 . But they could fee out on the proposed in this purchase and Sale Agreement, they can fee out on the entirety of it. Consistent with the current proposition, yes. So, i guess what i would leave with, colleagues is i think that based on the questions that i had here today, based on the answered questions on the source of rent, that these departments would be required to pay, it most likely would come out of our general fund the and analysis of doing this deal, 1500 mission in terms of participation and holding onto the properties and selling them at a later date, i would ask for there to be a continuance on this item to give further study so we can have further information to make an informed decision because im not im not comfortable supporting this today. At the end of the day, i think that if we do determine that we can do 1500 Mission Street without the sale of these properties, i think we need to take a stronger look at 30 van ness. Everyone in this room who supports helping to build housing to address our homelessness crisis, to address our affordability crisis, we have a wonderful and unprecedented opportunity on 30 van ness. Theres not many that can go up as high as 350 feet. Thank you supervisor safai. Are you making a motion to continue both items . Yes. 21 and 22 . I am. Soup his veer safai made a recommendation to continue both items. Is there a second. Ill second that. And i wanted to ask clarity on and maybe someone from the staff can answer whether or not there is pay source to do, once these properties are sold, wheres the money going to come from to pay the rent which is about close to 20 million for 3 years. Where does the money come from, somebody . Supervisor, naomi, city administration. The majority of the clients that would be going into 1500 mission who are at 30 van ness, who are at 1680 mission and 1600 mission are general fund departments. It would come from these non general fund resources. All of the money to pay not all of it, but the majority. You know where the money is going to come from, from the non general fund . Its going to come from general fund . Im confused by that. Dbi is a Revenue Generating department. Planning is a Revenue Generating the department and it will come out of their revenues. Dpw is over head and most is architects and engineers. Thats coming from primarily non general fund sources. Okay. So none of the money of the proposed 20 million to pay for the rent over the course of 3 years is going to come from any of the general fund. Speaker i cant say that. The majority is not coming from the general fund. And i need help from the mayors budget office. There you go. And to be specific, president breed, the number is 91 non general fund. 9 general fund. Okay. And then that would have to be approved by the board of supervisors coming up in our upcoming budget which we havent discussed. Its in the analyst report. The cost during this fiscal year for the time of projected closing is may 1, 2017 until the end of this fiscal year. Those cost are born in my budget and so we are covering that delta of a rental differential. Its subject to next fiscal years budget preparation and yes, thats a matter for the board to deal with. Thank you. Supervisor kim. Im sorry, supervisor peskin hasnt had an opportunity. Im refer to peskin. I want to thank safai. He asked good questions and many of these questions came up over the last three years. Many of us questioned whether we needed to sell city owned property on an urge to build a larger city owned property and whether it was wiser to keep some of our some these facilities because land is so value here in San Francisco. So i want to thank you for that. After my heart making sure were getting the best deal possible moving forward. I did want to bring up the project sponsor who i see here today to speak on the record about their commitment. I know that what is before us today is a sale on acquisition deal, not the dda where we could affirm an agreement. I think its important that you know when a developer comes in and speaks on the public you know, i think there are very severe consequences when a developer doesnt keep to them, up hold them especially if theyre going to do other developers here in San Francisco. So i was hoping you could speak to the question about a commitment of 25 Affordable Housing and 33 with the fees with an up zoning. And also to address some of supervisor safais question. Its valuable eye was articulates. Thank you. Alexa with len leaf. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. Were a Development Company that is just getting our footings and were excited to have our first project in San Francisco. We are a residential Development Company. And so we look at this as an opportunity to rehab the base of the Office Building which needs quite a bit of work and build a residential building on top of that. Rezoning is not complete which would bring the height up to 500 feet, during the several years that the city has the least back option, we worked with the Planning Department and entitlement for the building on top to move forward with the project. Obviously the commitment in the purchase and Sale Agreement is that the 25 on site, there isnt a fee out component. Theres no money pay it out check out. I wanted to clarify that so i can see how that would be concerned if there was that ability. And then obviously we Work Together to find the ability its a total of 33 for the project. Speaker thats our intent and were cognoscente theres approval projects Going Forward and without sequa we cant get to determine thats our intent Going Forward. I appreciate that clarification. One of the things that gives me assurance is that you will have to come back to the board several times as well as the planning commission. One with the affirmation, potentially of the sequa determination, and also if there is up zoning of the market hub which i strongly support and i agree with supervisor safai. We should be maximizing height and tensity to build as much market rate, middle class and working class housing as possible. You will then have to come back to this board again in order to be able to build. Could you clarify, you had mentioned that theres an inability for the developer in the lease to fee out. You have could you explain in further details why thats the case . I dont have the document in front of me. You could probably try to get that, but the general limitations within the purchase and Sale Agreement required 25 on site, consistent with prop c or 33 where we build that 33 Affordable Housing elsewhere in city. But the ability to just pay a fee does not exist in the purchase and Sale Agreement. Great. Thank you, ms. Rena. I want to make one further point. This deal really is a balance of many city priorities which makes it a little bit more difficult and challenging than the average housing deal that you know, our office would typically negotiate. Thats our belief that the city should own and construct office sites that we are that we have set control over and that we arent at the whelm of the market. But i also want to address supervisors safai other point, i would like to build 100 percent Affordable Housing or 100 percent housing at 550 feet or 600 feet for those who were formally homeless. There isnt a case where weve been able to finance a 100 project like that and recognizing its very difficult to achieve 100 Affordable Housing, you know, if proposition k, our public land, ballot measure we put before the voters, we acknowledged that in larger deals we would be achieved 33 of affordability on those sites and smaller projects that we would endeavor to hit 100 . But the Mayors Office of housing isnt here to dress e here to address that project. I dont know where weve been able to build 600 units of affordable house. Thats a dream and i would love to get there, and i really appreciate supervisor safai proposing that. I just think given the landscape that i have seen, i like to push the limits, but i dont like to push whats the impossible, and so in this case, i believe we are maximizing what we can do for the Housing Market, both affordable, middle class and market rate unit while were generating revenue for much needed Office Building site. So i had a point of clarification. Im not certain and i just need im not certain that the option to not fee out is possible. Thats number one. Number two, my understanding that you have to have land if youre going to build off site which most of the land, im not certain if there is an opportunity to do this outside. I know this is not a Development Agreement. And this is a longer conversation, but there are just a lot of uncertainties here and i guess part of my concern is a lot of unanswered questions, but more importantly, im just really concerned that we are continuing with business as usual and we still havent approved the budget i mean, theres so many things always attached to many decisions we make, but were going to have some tough decisions ahead of us as it relates to our budget, and how are we going to deal with the situation like this. I mean, in fact, you know, if god forbidden we have to cut city staff and cut departments and start trimming down departments and theyve already been given orders to start can you cutting back on their budget, are we going to have enough people to fill these proposed Office Spaces were looking at. I think a bigger conversation needs to happen as it relates to our overall budget and also as it relates to the possibilities of the Affordable Housing and what makes sense and so thats the reason why i i get these are Sale Agreements and the decisions are kind of theyve been in the works for a long time. Theyve been rejected by this body before and brought back in a different way, but i feel a little uneasy about some of the missing details of this agreement. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam president. I wanted to put this in a little bit of Historical Context for those of you who are around on december the 8th of 2015 which was my first Board Meeting in 7 years were in we actually rejected the sale that was before us at that time. With represent dags because representative to Historical Context, i said at that meeting that we should have bought the triple a site when we could have it for 80 million and at the end of the day, the city got cold feet and had we done that, we would have been out of being captive of the Housing Market many years ago. I appreciate what supervisor safai is saying. I actually came to this party with a slightly different perspective from supervisor kim. I was actually in this particular instance, less interested inhousing affordability and more interested in getting out of the Office Rental market as the city. And that was what was actually driving me. In the end, we actually ended up with more Affordable Housing and we will get out of the rental market for all of our Office Workers that work for city. I think it is the best deal that we could hope for. I concur with mr. Updike and this is probably the top of the market and while we agree to delay the 2026 follow ill vote against the continuance. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor safai. Yeah. I just wanted to say again, i wasnt talking about building 600 units at 300 at 30 van ness. But what i was saying is that there is a phenomenal opportunity and im not exactly sure if weve actually dug in deep to look at all the potential avenues that we could approach this site. We have john, excuse me. Director updike, do we have assets in our portfolios that have a height of 550 feet. Is there any other city owned property where we can do 500 2350e9 . 500 feet. I have been championing the downtown, twostory fire station, we could build literately dozens of floors of housing above that site that we own. Thank you for that. Thank you, supervisor peskin. You stole the words out of my mouth. Those are probably other opportunities. Were looking at that in fact. To your point, supervisor safai, these opportunities are rare. The current entitlement is 400 feet. 400 feet with the ability to up zone the 520. My point is and i want to really underscore that, in this situation were going to have this conversation with this body over the next three years. Were going to have people come in from the department of housing, we have a crisis. We have the ability to and the mandate to build at least 1,000 units to end family homelessness in this city. We have this asset. Maybe not 600 units, but i look at this similar to the balboa reservoir in supervisor yees district. We have a phenomenal opportunity we can take and do something trend setting that could address these crisis we have. Thats one. The second thing is that i think we have need to have further analysis to determine if we can approach what supervisor peskin is talking about, to get out of the rental market for rental space. Im not convinced we cant do both and thats why im asking for a continuance to allow a selling the building at a later date so our rates arent increasing significantly and then having another look at 30 van ness. Thats what im asking for today. Thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor kim. Thank you, i wanted to address the question of land, existing land thats available for the protection of Affordable Housing and there are two sites. Both one at 1 hyde and 180 jones which while the majority of the financing came from the private Market Rate Developers that bought the land for the city and deeded it to the Mayors Office of city of housing, theres Gap Financing. When we talked about the final 8 of fees coming out at 30 van ness, i talked about the fees potentially going toward the Gap Financing for 1 and 180 hyde and 180 jones. For 180 jones, the community is hoping that what will be built on this many of whom even if they have ability to pay a consistent small amount of rent, arent able to get into better types of housing, there by freeing 101 hyde hasnt been set yet. It could be housing for you know, working class families. Were still looking into that, but all to say that there is land within our state control we need to raise revenue for to build additional Affordable Housing. Colleagues, i wont support the continuance, although i appreciate supervisor safais questions and comments, and they were good. But we have hashed this i think the deal isnt everything i want it to be, but i do think its the best balance in consideration of all the different goals that the city has and looking at a number of ways to finance the construction of 1500 van ness. Colleagues, i ask for your support. Thank you, supervisor kim. Seeing no other names on the roster, on the motion to continue, madam clerk, please call the roll. Madam president , i would need to know a date that supervisor safai is wishing to continue. Safai. Can i ask the controller how much time he thinks he would need to do the analysis we have talked about . We could do complete preliminary analysis in one two to weeks, supervisor. More detailed will take more time. That would be two weeks seems to be fine. Thats what im proposing. The meeting of april 4th. Yes. Mr. Updike. The issue to note, due to the debt on 30 van ness, theres strict timelines relative to notification and we have a closing date in both transactions. Im not sure we can meet our closing date. We may have to renegotiate the agreement and that could open issues. I want to express theres risk associated with that delay. Thank you. Since we dont have another Board Meeting, thats the next Board Meeting. So that would be our only option. Any other questions. No other names on the rosters on the motion to continue, madam clerk, please call the roll. Speaker sheehy. Speaker no. Tang. No. Supervisor yee. Speaker no. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor cohen. No. Supervisor farrell. No. Supervisor fewer. No. Supervisor kim. No. Supervisor peskin. Speaker no. Supervisor ronen. No. Supervisor safai. Aye. There are 2 ayes with 9 nos. Fewer, kim, peskin and the continuance fails. And seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk on the item. Please call the roll. Items 21 and 22, supervisor sheehy. Yes. Supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. No. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Yes. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. No. There are 9 ayes and two nos with supervisor yee those resolutions are adopted. Supervisor sheehy. Id like to resend my vote on item 16. You would like to resend the vote on item number 16 . Yes. Supervisor sheehy made a motion to resend the vote on item number 16. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor farrell. Colleagues can we take that without objection . Without objection, the vote has been rescinded. Madam clerk, on item number 16, please call the roll. Item 16, supervisor, sheehy. No. Supervisor tang. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. I mean [bleep]. [laughter] sorry, public. No. Breed, no. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. No. Supervisor fewer. Yes. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Speaker aye. Supervisor safai. Aye there are 8 ayes and 3 nos with supervisor sheehy, breed, and farrell in the descent. The resolution is adopted. All right. Madam clerk, please go to the next item, item number 23. Item 23 is a resolution to an authorize the recreation and Park Department to apply for a grant from the california for the planning and development of various parks and Community Facilities in San Francisco. Role call vote. Item 23, supervisor sheehy. Aye. Tang. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Aye. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai. Aye. There are 11 ayes. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Speaker next item, roll call for introduction. Supervisor yee to introduce business. People knows my history to fight for equal benefits and given our rising inequality, i believe we can improve wages and help workers move closer to middle class. Im introduced a wage to the ordinance or mco has a wage rate of 13. 64 on city contracts. This is known as a living wage. For a person working 40 hours a week that comes to 28,000 per year. This ordinance will restore the traditional delta between the minimum wage and the living wage which has been on average a difference of a dollar 68. This year on july 1st, minimum wage rises 14. This will set the minimum wage at 32,600 a year. In 2018, a rise in a dollar. The minimum wage cover workers in San Francisco, not for those working outside of the city. At San Francisco International Airport for example, many Service Workers will not receive a minimum wage unless we take action on july 1st. It stimulates our economy because these workers spend the wages in our local community. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor sheehy. Supervisor tang. I will submit. Thank you. Supervisor yee. Thank you, madam clerk. First all i want i want to make a quick announcement that im actually on my 4th year of this program. Were having our district in district 7, budget and this year, again, joined with supervisor cohen and her district. So i wanted to say that the this year well have over a half million for our district to vote on in regards to projects and we had a Record Number of projects that were submitted of proposals. I think were 46 in which we selected 40 neighborhood council, 21 proposals for our residences. So this voting just started in on friday, march 17th. It will go through march 31st. And that there are two ways for people to vote on these projects. One is in person if they feel like it. They can go to west portal or libraries or they can dwo to the mayor low that library to vote. There was a stack we had to redeliver on monday. And thats far weve had 900, close to 1,000 people voting on our project. So were trying to break a record, our own record for the district. So im hopeful that it looks like were going to waiver it this year. The other thing i wanted to do was by the way, for that, to vote online, go to sfpbd. Sfgov. Org d7 vote to get online to vote, okay. I would like to today honor a fellow native san franciscan. I like to close todays meeting in his memory. This is a man who is ear replacement in the chinese american community. Someone i know ive known personally for many, many decades now. And for him to pass away last thursday at the age of 90 after being diagnosed with cancer this year, but today i want to honor his far reaching legacy and contribution to the chineseamerican community. Philip was a teacher, author and first civil rights advocate. Many of what we know today about the overlooked contributions in the chineseamericans to our countrys developments, we among his many accomplishments, [inaudible] he helped teach the first course in chinese American History in a country at San Francisco State University in 1969. His course was the model for College Programs throughout the country. Growing up during a time of wide discrimination against asians, troy was not easily intimidated. As a trained architect from uc berkeley working in a firm he was discriminated against because of his race and told he would never get senior position. He established his own practice which he ran until he retired in 2000. During the 1965, i think, during the 1965 centennial celebration, he also challenged organizers of the event when they failed to acknowledge the pivotal there was no acknowledge they existed. This section included the particularly, the difficult construction of the sierra nevada. Deserving chinese history was phils passion. He played a part he was the president of the chinese historical in 1965 and for many years and created a documentary stories on chineseAmerican History for broadcasting called [foreign language]. He served on state commissions and won many, many prizes. I personally many grateful for his work which taught me so much about my own history, and he was he would be messed in the chinese american community. You know, all the things he did in regards to the history, we forget that he was an architect. And that indeed he even had influence as an architect to play a role in, you know, keeping the history of the chinese American History alive. He had a big part in giving advice to creating the chinese Historical Society of museum on clay street. And you think that its only in San Francisco. I was driving up camping one year into the mountain and coming down the mountain and i saw a little sign that says museum. And so i went into this little town and it was a Chinese Museum in oroville of all places and i walked in there thinking what is this. The person that was there told me the history of how it was developed and he says, you know something, maybe you heard of this guy. Heres from San Francisco actually. The person this designed this museum that is keeping a flavor of the chinese, was troy. So i could see that even in his architectural work he had influence from that was way passed the bond age of the bay area. To be he is survived by his children, stephanie, randall and brian and six grand children. So the rest i submit and i think supervisor peskin, did you want to Say Something too . Sure. I would be honored to join in the memorial. Supervisor yee said it all. My wife was a huge fan of philip troy from back on the days when you served on the preservation board. In addition to what supervisor yee said, he mentored generations of Historic Preservation professionals and activist including cindy wu and he will be sorely missed and our regrets to his daughter stephanie and sons randall and brian and there will be an event for in his memory in april at a date to be determined and also our regrets to sue lee from the Historical Society of america. Speaker thank you supervisor yee and peskin. Supervisor breed. Supervisor cohen. Thank you. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Yes, thank you. Colleagues, today im calling for a hearing on the 2017 San Francisco Language Access ordinance annual compliance summary report presented by the office of Civic Engagement and immigrant appears and the citys first ordinance was passed by the board of supervisors in 2001 with amendments made in 2009 and 2015. 21. 6 of San Francisco residents self identify as women and English Proficiency with chinese and spanish being number one spoken among residents. Other languages including russian and vietnamese. It complies a fifth of our population speaking chinese. With a quarter of San Francisco residents identified as english its incumbent upon the city of San Francisco that the services are accessible to languages spoken to the constituents. Bus schedules and Development Property taxes and so much more. I have seen City Departments conducting Community Outreach in my own neighborhood without providing interpretation or translation and i have been disappointed. It is imperative we are able to communicate clearly with residents regardless of language and they feel City Services are accessible to them. Its important as a city we see the Language Access language as not as a burden, but apart of our responsibility in serving the residents of San Francisco. I look forward to working with the office of civic engages and other agencies on this hearing and hope it will inform our future discussion and any possible actions regarding Language Access. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor kim. Thank you, madam clerk. Im introduced a resolution today on supportive of Single Payer Health insurance resolution. Quote from the physician for a National Health program. Our current National Health care system is simple. Dont get sick. Even with our Current System of Health Coverage known as obama care and established as a patient patient and Affordable Care act, people are left behind with no coverage or inadequate coverage. With Donald Trumps signing on executive order authorizing federal agencies to dismantle this federal health care system, it has been left to state and our own city to figure out how we can resist this administrative director that makes it more of a disaster to get sick in this country. I want to thank my colleague and cosponsors supervisor ronen, fewer, peskin, yee, and cohen for their cosponsorship of our resolution to support senate bill 562. Known as the californian for a healthy california act signed by laura and senator tony. Its under consideration by the state legislature and would establish a comprehensive universal single payer for the benefit of all residents of the state. For those that are unfamiliar with universal health care, this is what it is. It is a system which a single public or Public Agency organizes health care finances, but the delivery of the health care remains in private hands. Under a single payer system, all residents of the u. S. Will be covered for Services Including doctors, hospitals, mental health, Reproductive Health care, dental, vision, prescription drugs and medical supply cost. This program would be funded by the savings obtained from a replacing today insurance payer with a single system, which a single stream line nonprofit modest new taxes based on ability to pay. We are already pay enough for heath health care for all. Americans have the highest spending in the world, but we get less care than other industrialized countries because we pay for health care through 1 3 of our Health Spending goes to administration. No more premiums, no more financial barriers to help care which is copays and deductible. And doctors support national according to a 2008 survey of internal medicine with 59 supporting and we can add our support today with a board of supervisors voice along with the california nurses association, 4 million californians who are apart over 150 organizations representing communities, immigrant rights, business, seniors, Health Care Provider and advocates in support of senator laura and atkins bill 562. The rest i submit. Speaker thank you supervisor kim. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk. Im proud to cosponsor the trump ban which hell hear more about if you didnt real this mornings paper. Im introduced at the board of supervisors, the same resolution urging the state legislature to require the puc to allow us to gather data about transportation network, companies and i spoke to that at the ta meeting earlier today. So i will not be labor here. In preparation of for our next millennial tower hearing given the revelations that were set forth in nbc coverage monday, a week ago, and given our efforts to contact mr. Pernu who is the reviewers at 301 Mission Street, ill be introduced another request for a subpoena as well as his testimony under penalty of perjury for a gao meeting on friday, april 28th. And then in addition to joining supervisor yee for the i am more yum for troy, i would like to adjourn in natalie bird as well. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Peskin, with can we do that on behalf of the entire board. Well adjourn the meeting on behalf of natalie bird and entire bird. Thank you. Supervisor ronen. Speaker i have two items and the first that supervisor peskin referred to. I stood in front of ty len group to announce legislation that im introduced that would prevent the city and county of San Francisco from contracting with any business that bids or actually provides services or goods to build president trumps wall along the border between mexico and the United States. We stood in front of ty len international because this Company Received millions of dollars in government contracts to help build the eastern span of the bay bridge and has expressed interest in potentially bidding on the wall. We had a message to the company. Stick to building bridges, not walls. By introducing so, we are a city that benefits every single day off the hard work and the engagement of immigrant residents in every facet of our community. Were also a major player in the marketplace by introducing this legislation, were moving beyond symbolic protest and making it clear to Companies Interested in doing business with San Francisco, we expect those companies to up hold compassion and dedication to human rights. These companies have a choice to make. Build a wall or work with the city and county of San Francisco at a time when the Trump Administration is withdrawing investment from Life Saving Services like meals on wheels and Health Insurance for poor citizens and investments in Affordable Housing and our Public Education system, hes instead squandering billions of dollars on a border wall. Thats his decision to make, but we can decide not to being complicit of that. If my daughter was in danger for her life, theres no wall that is large enough that i would not find a way to climb and there is no trench that is too deep that i would not find a way to dig. Immigration is driven by parents seeking a better like and safer life for their children. And as the richest and most powerful nation in the world we should be setting the bar for how to treat the most vulnerable among us with compassion. I want to thank supervisor peskin for being with me on this one from the get go and supervisor kim for her cosponsorship. I also want to thank City Council Member abel who joined us today and who is pursuing a similar law in oakland and to curry from the citys Attorneys Office who worked to get their legislation done on time. Finally colleagues, a very, very special thank you to sheila from my office. This is the last Board Meeting that shes staffing because we dont have a Board Meeting next week, sadly. You know, sheila started her career as a legislative aid in the city and county the San Francisco for supervisor david campos and her first major fight was to ensure due process for immigrant use. I find its fitting she going out fighting for immigrants like she has always for decades by working and being the main driver of this important piece of legislation. Youll hear more from me. Obviously devastated that shes leaving. But she did me the great favor of helping me transition from a legislative aid to a supervisor and ill be grateful for that. Thank you sheila for your work on this legislation. We will all be extremely grateful for it for many years to come. The second piece i have is a resolution to in support of california bill 523, the electric Program Investment charge equity and Clean Energy Invest authorized by Assembly Member reyes. The Public Utility Commission created the electric program charge known as epic in december of 2011 to allocate funds collected from investor owned utilities for projects and clean energy. The California Energy commission is in charge of administering these funds. According to a december 2017 report from the California Energy commission, individuals living in disadvantaged communities and low income communities face barriers to fully participate in the States Clean Energy program. Out of 81 projects funded by epic in 2015, 12 projects were 14 were reaching low income. This will allocate communities that need it more. 25 of funds will go to disadvantaged communities and 10 will go towards low income communities to find as below Renewable Energy spending research and programs are not reaching low income and communities of color who are most impacted by negative fossil fuel energy production. It is critical that as a Green Economy develops, we but also have the most to gain from Economic Impacts of renewable industry. I want to thank both the Community Based organization, and natalie gene from my office for bringing this issue to my attention and working on this resolution. And i want to thank supervisor fewer and peskin for cosponsoring. The rest i submit. Thank you supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai. I dont have anything to introduce today, but i wanted to wish everyone a happy persian new year. Today is the first day of spring. [foreign language] which means happy year to everyone. Madam president , that please read Public Comment at this time, the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the minutes and items 26 and 27 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. Public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to Public Comment at a Board Committee or at a public hearing in at the Board Meeting. Speakers using translation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. If you would like to display a document on the projector, please state to us and remove the document when the screen should return to live coverage of the meeting. Thank you, first speaker. Good afternoon, my name is sue lee. Im the director of i wanted to thank yee and peskin about your kind wars about troy. Without him and his efforts, there probably wouldnt be as much history about chinese history. People gathered at the National Mall to listen to Martin Luther king give his i have a dream speech and the estimate of the crowd was 250,000. That number is bigger than the number of chinese in america in 1963. Today, we have more chinese in San Francisco than there were on the National Mall. People in the National Mall. So just in the scope of 50 years, the demographics of the asian population has changed. And the work that phil did really illuminates our history and talks about our contributions to america and just because resistance is a theme now, we think about chinese resisting the chinese exclusion act. We think of chinese resist and going to the courts and making sure we have equal protections of the law, and that we have birth rights citizenship. Those are achievements that were not recognized so its important. So i wanted to thank you for acknowledging phil. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is nancy cross. And im going to try to address an opportunity for plan b in some of the crucial relations with the federal government. We read in the paper about the the federals coming into courtrooms, state courtrooms and we see that theres problems in keeping our people safe from attack by indirect means. And i would like to propose so we can strengthen our hand by assuring that we are making the due process and fairness and standards of our Society Available to everybody, and not only the chinese and the hispanics and all those that we think of high priority, but also the people who are low priority, namely the homeless senior adults and now what im saying affects other people too. But we are judging people out of shelters by a process called arbitration which is not arbitration in the usual legal sense, but its a con caution made up by non lawyers to get rid of people from shelters without due process. And we have opportunity we have an opportunity to make due process in all the things we do whether exiting people from the library or exiting the people from the shelters. We need fairness to our administrative hearings that deny people important rights to them whether theyre priority people or not. And if we can demonstrate that we are respecting the standards that we want in relation to people from other that originate in other countries thank you, ms. Cross. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, very much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Patricia, [inaudible] neighbors in action, Planning Association [inaudible]. And marine, neighbors and merchants. I came here for several reasons. The first reason is that marine has a great issue concerning the homeless. Were getting truck loads from san quinton delivered to us on a regular basis. Were trying to get the license plates in order to be able to handle the situation. We have a process with the Police Department with the new homeless that we try to get them help. We tried to get them food. We tried to get them housing. And but we have a couple that are refusing everything. The one im going to talk about is [inaudible]. It looks like me from what i hear, and shes refused all help. As of today, shes been kicked out of 20 merchants. She comes in. She says, i want to use your bathroom. They say yes, and she comes out and raises a stink. One of them, the super duper tells her she can come in between 9 00 and 12 00 and they would allow her to go in. She, after a while decided to come in other hours and slam doors in peoples faces. Bank of america, shes destroyed the plants repeatedly. She sits next to the marina supermarket and say i dont have food and people bring her food and she goes around the corner and she goes into the supermarket and starts screaming, im diabetic and you have to return it and exchange it. This is the problem weve had continually. Thank you. Thank you, i will continue this later. Next speaker, please. Sgtv, i would like the over head to remain on the screen until i say clearly otherwise. So, we were talking about the ongoing fraud being perpetrated on the citizens of San Francisco. The Fair Political Practices Commission in sacramento, responded to luis while serving a librarian for the San Francisco Public Library, and failed to receive gifts from the San Francisco public lie library for years 2009, 10 and 11 in violation of 87800. Mr. Ha rare a signed the statements with the following declaration. I certify the for going is true and correct. And if you look at the first column, youll see his original statements were all zeros. And when he was required by the fpc to file, they went up to 5,000 a year. So a City Department head appointed by the mayor perj erred himself after lying year after year about receiving gifts from a group he was responsible for providing over head. If you have other things to do, why dont you go outside and do it. It is less rude than sitting there when the Public Comments. Almost 15,000 over these three years and at that point it become accustom for more than a decade. So i ask the mate from public records, he has gotten 90,000 and never declared it legally. If a City Employee did that, they would be fired. Next week, well Start Talking about the different orders of determination, and the ones next speaker, please. Good afternoon, peter, executive direct of Library Users association. Today is our arts day, San Francisco. And arts advocacy day and on a non library matter wanted to say that it appears that the administration of city college wants to close the ford mason campus which has a lot of older adult programs. They want to close it completely presumably to save money. This is something they have concealed from the public and even from the head of the board of trustees. The board of trustees of city colleges is meeting on thursday, the 23rd of march at 4 00 in the multi youth building on the ocean avenue campus. The library, the library [inaudible] ended last month, and recently they sent their statistics out. Most of which which represented some good news, but also in the larger picture, it was what might be considered not a success, but a flop. More than 90 of some of their goals, if not all, failed. So for example, they boasted about 10,000 patrons having their fines forgiven. What they didnt say was 150,000 patrons, more than a third of the total current card holders owe 1 cent or more and has restricted use of the library. They boasted that 5,000 patrons had their borrowing privileges restored. They didnt boast that thats less than 10 of the 55,000 whose borrowing were restricted. The whole thing covers a harsh and regretful fine. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. And i am catherine. Im the organizer with arts for a better bay area, and i want to thank supervisors kim and fewer for joining us earlier this afternoon outside for arts advocacys day of San Francisco. Were in coalition for the arts advocacy day. We have dozens of arts leaders from across the country in dc and i really just want to say that as an arts worker in San Francisco, having been born and raised in San Francisco, i ask you to support our arts. It really is about the way that we tie and weave together a Strong Social fabric. San francisco an expensive city to survive in and our Arts Institute was struggling like our residents and workers. Its difficult enough to not have the hotel pack funding for the arts and what were asking for is to support continuing to stabilize grants for the arts in San Franciscos arts budget. They do important work all disciplines, all shapes and supporting the various communities of San Francisco and various populations. So now more than ever, we need additional funding of 2. 5 million so we can build a Strong Social fabric for this city. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, many name is andy and im the director my name is andy and im the director of San Francisco ballet. Im an arts consumer here in San Francisco. And in recognition of arts advocacy day and in appreciation of the more than 400 supporters who rallied here, i would like to ask you to please recognize the supporters of prop s. Nearly 2 3 of San Francisco voters demonstrated how important and vital the arts are to the citys identity. At San Francisco ballet, our Youth Program reaches 5,000 students and we have dance programs in 35 schools in all of your districts. We also work very closely with organizations in the Tenderloin Community as well as our own civic center and Western Addition neighborhood. We see firsthand the effects of Arts Education and increased learning and achievement. We believe strongly that the arts are fundamental in making future generations the most well rounded, em pathetic and creative they can be. I stand with the individual artist and all of our sister organizations large and small in supporting no cuts to grands for the arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission as well as adding an additional 2. 5 million to their budget this year. The ballet is proud of its long standing and Extensive Services to San Francisco School Children and our Public Schools and its dedication to Community Partnerships with organizations like the boys and girls club, the bay area womens and childrens center, our Public Library, our Public Schools and our various arts and cultural institutions. Arts are a vital component of our childrens education. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Hi, im suzannes daughter. I was a conservative director and im the artistic director from the San Francisco unified School District. And this is a room where it happens. This is where the decisions are made. And its a pleasure to address you today and remind you that the artist are the truth tellers, theyre the first ones that the dictators kill. Kill the artist first was because we have never as a nation or a city been more in need of our artist because they always tell the truth. They hit the note or they dont. Theyre the articulateers of our culture and as ruth was fond to remaining me, suzanne when they petty us food and shelter, we must remind everyone you must feed the body, but you must feed the spirit as well. Otherwise, were not animated. The beauty and the life spirit of it comes through the arts. We live in a city with the finest arts providers in the world and one is my colleague who represents the San Francisco ballet. Theres the jewish museum, sf jazz, all these pro places that provides a campus for our public School Children. San francisco is their campus. How wonderful to get to live here and no that youre child goes to the aim program and seeing the sim know knee and can we must protect these things. We live in a time where they have you believes that arts is extra. Theyre not extra. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. My name is Elizabeth Decker and as a working and teaching artist here in San Francisco, i ask you to support the arts. They are a need now more than ever. San francisco is such an amazing its an expensive city to survive in and our artist are suffering and our organizations are struggling. People visit our city from every corner of the world. Art is a universal language. I lost my place, sorry. Everyone understands beauty and the importance of vigil communication and reflection. History proves it. Where would we be without the i support no further cuts to the grants for the arts and San Francisco Arts Commission. Thanks. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is beth. And im founder and director of green artwork shop which is a small Arts Education nonprofit based here in San Francisco. I support no cuts to grants for the arts and the Arts Commission. Because people like me who work in the arts and care about the soul of San Francisco are worried about our ability to live here and survive here. More than 63 of San Francisco voters agree with me and wants more funding for our arts. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good evening, board of supervisors of the city of San Francisco. My name is cynthia and im here in support of arts advocacy day. I work at Community Arts stable station trust. Were a Nonprofit Organization established in San Francisco in 2013 Whose Mission is to acquire and develop affordable realestate for small and midsize nonprofit arts and cultural organizations. We are living in unprecedented and challenging times. Across our country, theres a conversion of crisis related to affordability, equity and safety. Art and culture contributes to San Franciscos booming economy and help generating numerous social educational and economic benefits. According to the San Francisco center for economic development, the arts comprises of the 4th largest arts in our city. It stabilized Property Values and engaging the community and attracting and supporting local businesses. The arts transient class, race, income, education levels and politics. They bring a refreshing sense of serenity, transparency and cohesiveness to our community. Without critical na many of our Arts Partners will be incapacitated therefore collectively were worth more than 0. 2 of the national budget. We cant allow cast and our partners to be further economically isolated. Were asking no cuts for the grants to the arts and the Arts Commission budget. An additional 2. 5 million to this years cycle. We need to act now to alert our political representatives. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good evening, supervisors. My name is suzanne. I serve on board of safe house for the board of arts here in San Francisco. Recently we just secured a long term lease and new home in the heart the tenderloin. This would not have been possible without the support from the city arts agencies as well as programs, working to mitigate nonprofit displacement. Prior to this, safe house for the performing arts was struggling to secure a long term home and venue. Due to the realestate market and the changing climate in San Francisco. Now we can serve hundreds of emerging and early career artist which is a critical need for any city wishing to stay creative and keep creating. We urge you to consider increasing support for the arts agency in light of the current proposed federal budget threatening on dismiss support for the arts and culture all together. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hi. My name is gene, and im the executive director of teaching artist gild. Im happy to be in front of you. Were a San Francisco bay area based organization and we serve teaching artist nationally with service to support arts and education communities. I was happy to join more than 400 artist and art organizations. Large and small on the steps of city hall today fighting for the arts and Arts Education. Arts as you know serve us all. They are the bomb. Theyre economic driver and they are empathy builder. When we lose our art in culture, we lose the essence of our society. Im here to urge you indeed to increase a 2. 5 million. Those budgets. If anything, lets strengthen those budgets if we can. Lets show the state and the country what we stand for and if i and we here today are preaching to the choir, then lets stand up and sing. Thank you so much. Have a great evening. Thank you for your comment. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon supervisor. My name is art. Im with [inaudible] district and we are here in support for a grant for the arts in the San Francisco Arts Commission. These are a vital to do programming for the latino district. They provide a lot of opportunities for our youth to get involved. It provides a lot of jobs for folks in the area for other artist and different artist to get involved with the organizations and a culture district. Were also here to ask to provide funding for these organizations, 2. 5 million will go a long way to help sustain the organizations and sustain the latino culture district for the future and the future of our kids. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Hello. My name is scott. Im an unpaid advocate for the arts and im native of the bay area and i have lived in San Francisco for most of my adult life. Any other voting or political contest, thats a land slide but it was shy of the amount we needed. Prop f is not asking for new funding, but reinstate funds that have been approved for arts budgets in San Francisco for the hotel tax fund. Theres been millions lost from our budget from previous mayors really what were trying to do is reinstate the money we have removed from these organizations. The arts have been in a state of crisis for years now. And the arts in our weve had an conviction for years and the conversation has been shifting not from Community Crisis to colony collapse. If we dont act now to relieve pressure and not just keep people in place, but actually recede new space for artist, educator and culture contributors to continue to live here and return to their formal homes in order to help create and maintain diverse neighbors and the sort of roles these groups have provided. Artist and teachers are we need to start coming up with a plan to create new housing to help support these organizations and individuals who have been so essential to the landscape and the community of San Francisco. Its what San Francisco is known for. Its telling a modern times. San francisco in the summer of love. Everybody in the world knows about that, and we did not allow them to celebrate in the park. We need your help to start coming through for San Francisco culture and not just for the latest housing development. These things are essential to help preserve us be here. Again, ive been here most of my life. I have five months left and thats the end of it. We used to house 26 artist. Theres no solution to keep any of these people i used to work with these homes. So basically thank you very much for your comment. Thank you. Next speaker, please. If there any more members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment, please line up. Mr. Gill, welcome back. Thank you. Its nice to be back, tom giberta. I was in college 1972. It was a little tit bit that came out from the club of rome and it wasnt catholic and it was limits to growth, and of course it was shu shu. Right here i can prove that theres limits to growth and will use the overhead, please. Yeah, so the housing plan. The housing plan, we start at the bottom. 20 , community specific needs. Seniors Affordable Homes artist. People from Navigation Systems graduated foster children. 20 . Above that, 20 teacher, police, fire, muni employees, above that, 5 seniors who can move out of their homes. 15 , 20 year resident in the local zip codes and that can be 35yearold people, 55yearold people. Then we go to 10 in the local zip codes for the seniors and then we have 30 open market and if its residential, our rental is its rent control. We cant do that. There are limits to growth. We cant do that because were limits in this case to profit and the city cant do it on its own 100. We go back to 2nd and 3rd grade, no, theres not enough profit. Can this stamp plate work . Yes, it can. Thank you. Thank you, very much. Are there any other members of the public who would like to provide Public Comment at this time . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Madam, please read the without reference to committee items. Items 26 and 27 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. A single roll call vote may enact these vote. A member can reject speaker supervisor yee. 27. All right. Roll call on item number 26. Item 26, supervisor sheehy. Aye. Speaker tang. Aye. Supervisor yee. Aye. Supervisor breed. Aye. Supervisor cohen. Aye. Supervisor farrell. Absent. Supervisor fewer. Aye. Supervisor kim. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai. Theres 10 ayes. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, i failed to request supervisor farrell had to depart and asked to excused at of 5 22 p. M. Is there a motion to excuse him. Motioned by supervisor tang and seconded by ronen. Without objection, supervisor farrell is excused as of 5 22 p. M. Please read the next item. Item 27 is a resolution to support California State Senate bill 807. The teacher reprovement and retention active 2017 activated by stern and le many authorizing a credit for teachers supervisor yee. Thank you, president yee. You dont have to tell this group, but Research Demonstrates the most Important School factor affecting classroom peoples with well trained teacher are likely to earn higher salaries, save more for retirement and its likely to be teenage parents. Today, california schools are facing an unprecedented teacher shortage. Enrollment in teacher preparation enrollment has plummeted to 76 state wide over the past decade. And currently over 75 of the School District has difficulty filling positions including San Francisco unified School District. The shortage is wide spread. Teachers are leaving the district and the profession and retirements. Districts pay is substantial trained new teachers. Due to high turnover, theyre investing in efforts professional support about reaping the benefits of many of these investments. Today there are over 150,000 students in california being taught by temporarily teachers. The number of teacher permits and waivers being [inaudible] as temporarily fixes has increased by more than 270 . In just four years. This doesnt come with the elimination of state and local district Financial Support for mandatory training and mentoring, some teachers face unexpected paycheck deductions for trainings required to clear [inaudible] and legal teachings in california. Spc 807 recognizes the session of teachers to the children and the economy of california by providing tax incentives to help new teachers gain the skills they need to be successful and keep experienced teachers in the classrooms. Specifically sb 807 addresses the shortage of teachers around the country to help teachers complete, require training to remain in the classroom. Then it also incentivize qualified teachers to stay in the classroom by exemption teaching income from state income tax. This is why i urge my colleagues to support the state passage of sb 807. The teacher retirement and retention act of 2017 and i want to thank my cosponsors, cohen, kim and please add me as a cosponsor. Thank you madam president. Speaker can we take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, its adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please read the end me more yum. Speaker todays adjourned in the beloved individuals at the suggestion of supervisor yee and peskin, for the late mr. Philip p. Troy with the suggestion of supervisor peskin for the on behalf of the board of supervisors, for the late ms. Natalie burg. Thank you, colleague, this brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, any further business before us . That concludes our business for today. Speaker okay, we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. clapping. i think we have more companies anywhere in the United States its at the amazing statement were not trying to be flashy or shocking just trying to create something new and original were one of the things about the conduct our you enter and turn your your back and just so the orchestra. The most contrary composer of this time if you accountability his music you would think hes a camera come important he become ill and it was crazy he at the end of his life and pushed the boundary to think were not acceptable at this point for sure it had a great influence he was a great influence on the harmonic language on the contemporary up to now. I thought it would be interesting because they have e he was contemporary we use him on this and his life was you kill our wife you get poisons all those things are Great Stories for on opera. I was leaving behind a little bit which those collaborative dancers i was really trying to focus on opera. A friend of mine said well, what would you really want to do i said opera what is it not opera parallel. Why isnt it are that i have the support now we can do that. I realized that was something that wasnt being done in San Francisco no other organization was doing this as opposed to contemporary we are very blessed in San Francisco to have organizations well, i thought that was going to be our speciality you create a conceptual idea for setting the opera and you spear ahead and work with the other sdierndz to create an overview vision thats the final product felt opera. I was very inspired to work with him because the way he looked at the key is the way i looked at sports looking at the daily. So much our mandate is to try to enter disis particular work theres great dancers and theatre actresses and choirs weve worked with and great video artists is a great place to collect and collaborate. I had a model they have a professionally music yes, maam assemble and as a student i benefited from being around this professional on and on soccer ball and as a conductor id be able to work with them and its helped my growth i had a dream of having a professional residential on and on soccer ball to be an imperial it operates as a laboratory we germ a national the ideas technically and work with activity artists and designers and video all over the on any given project to further the way we tell stories to improve our ability to tell stories on stage. Thats part of the opera lab i was to investigate that aspect of renaissance and new work so thats why this piece it is important it was a renaissance composer. There were young people that are not interested in seeing traditional opera and like the quality and its different it has a story telling quality every little detail is integrated and helps to capture the imagination and thats part of the opera how we can use those colors into the language of today. So one of the great things of the stories of opera and story combined with opera music it allows people to let go and be entertained and enjoy the music instead of putting on headphones. Thats what is great about art sometimes everyone loves it because you have to, you know, really great you have to have both some people dont like it and some people do were concerned about that. Its about thirty something out there thats risky. You know, disliked by someone torn apart and thats the whole point of what were drying to do you never take this for granted you make sure it is the best if you can. 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