Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman, present. Supervisor melgar, present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor preston, present. Supervisor ronen, present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor stefani, present. Supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , all members are present. Thank you madam clerk. The San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance . I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Yes, mr. President. The public is welcome to attend the meeting in person here in city hall second floor of city hall in room 250. To participate remotely the telephone number and meeting id are published on the agenda and streaming on it television or computer screen. We have a clerk standing by in room 244 or call 4155545184 if you like to send written comments to the members. Send a stamped letter via u. S. Post office addressed to the San Francisco board of supervisors, number 1, dr. Carlton b goodlett place, room 244, San Francisco california 94102 or email to bos sfgov. Org. Lastly, we continue to offer interpretation assistance in chinese, filipino and spanish beginning at 3 p. M. Thank you. Thank you madam clerk. Why dont we go to approval of the minutes from june 7 and july 11 and the june 26 and june 28 special Meeting Minutes at the budget and appropriations committee. Roll call, mr. President . Roll call, please. On the minutes as presentedyes, mr. President , we need a first and second. Motion made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor preston. On that motion, a roll call, please. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. The minutes will be adopted as presented after Public Comment. Madam clerk, please call the adoptionconsent calendar. Items 16 are on consent and considered to be routine. Seeing no names on the roster for consent agenda, roll call, please. On items 16 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Those resolutions are adopted and ordinances finally passed. Madam clerk, please read item 7 and 8 together. Item 7, is ordinance to amend the planning Building Code to modify Development Impact fees, indexing deferral and wavers and adopt the San Francisco city wide nexus analysis to affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings. Item 8 is the ordinance that amends the planning and administrative codes for Development Impact fee reductions and also affirms the ceqa determination making the appropriate findings. On those two items, a roll call, please. On item 7 and 8 [roll call] there are 10 ayes and 1 no with supervisor preston voting no. Those ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk, please read items 911 together. Items 911 are ordinances that authorize the settlement of lawsuits filed by the followingby the city and the people of the state of california against walgreens for item 9 in the amount of 229 million. Item 10, authorize settlement of the laut filed by the city and people of the state of california against cephalon inc. Teva farm pharmaceuticals for 28. 8 million. Authorize settlement of the lawsuit against allergen finance llc for approximately 12. 9 million. These lawsuits pertain to allegations pertaining to a public nuisance and violation under the unfair competition law by falsely marketing opioids. Supervisor preston. Thank you president peskin and veryjust want to braefly addressed these. We had these in gao and i wanted to take a moment to thank our City Attorney david chui and his team for their work to secure these crucial settlements on behalf of our city. Just last week the entire nation observed Overdose Awareness Day and i was proud to participate in a rally on the steps of city hall in observance of Overdose Awareness Day and while this certainly isnt a crisis that exists only in San Francisco, i think we all know that one does not have to travel far from this building to see some of its devastating effects. Securing these funds for our city will help insure we have the resources to address the issue in the short and longterm and i would just urge the administration and department of Public Health to make sure there is transparency in the use of these funds and to insure that the funds are spent on things that help us save lives, including Overdose Prevention efforts, wellness hubs, treatment on demand and programs that help people remain in recovery and i know we will talk about a lot of these issues later this month on the hearings called by supervisor ronen. And not to put you on the spot, but through the president , deputy City Attorney pearson, i just wantedif there are particular members of the City Attorney office. I know we had a number of folks through the committees we have been talking about these settlements long ago and following up and hearing them, just want to give you a opportunity if okay with the president to recognize some of the folks who put so much work into the major settlements. Absolutely. Deputy City Attorney ann pearson. Thank you for the opportunity and terrified i will forget many many people. I are want to highlight the work of many people on the work of litigation[indiscerni ble] done a of heavy lifting and supported by other attorneys and our legal staff. It has been a very heavy lift along with outside counsel who have been a great help to us. Thank you and congratulations. Appreciate all the work. Thank you supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen. Yes, thank you. Likewise, appreciate all the work and just had a couple of questions for the Controllers Office about logistics after the fact. The first question is, are there any city procedures that are different from our normal appropriation procedures that exist or could exist or will exist . Maybe i should start with currently exist for the allocation of this money. Good afternoon supervisors rchlts ben roseen field. Through the president , and the City Attorney office here can help me if i miss specific provisions covered in the Settlement Agreement but in general each Settlement Agreement mandates a special which the proceeds are deposited. We maintain segregated accounts for each of the settlements each have slightly different reporting and eligible use requirements. Our office will be tracking and keeping these accounts in place. It does create a complicated set of eligible uses which will have to be grappled with every year as part of the budget process, and we be doing as the settlement call for regular reporting to the board and some cases back to the courts how proceeds are used and whether they insure they are in line with the specific Settlement Agreements. So, there is no specific procedures that exist internally within the city for allocation or use of this money, outside of the norm . There are a lot of procedures that govern insuring the funds are spnt in line with the settlement. They are not outside of the norm in terms we have hundreds of special restricted funds in the city that require kind of work by our team and the Controllers Office and Department Teams and our external auditors and host of other things. Im not aware of anything outside that complicated normal. Thank you. My second question, at different parts of this settlement process with various Different Companies that contributed to the opioid crisis, you or the City Attorney office, not sure, these charts where youeach settlement ishas a different time period and different amount of money and it sort said when money will be available at different times through each settlement and i did talk to City Attorney ann pierson before and my understanding that chart has not been updated since january. If it is possible to update that chart. It was so helpful. And, i doubt you have these numbers at your fingertips now, no problem, but if you could get to us the information about what part of these settlements has been allocated in this yearsin our current budget and whats left in what year to allocate. I would be happy to follow up on the multiyear schedule. I think our office and City Attorney office worked on it together. It is a complicated set of flows, because in some cases these payments are flowing in over a nearly 20 year horizon. In general, those payments are frontloaded, meaning that the early years have much larger payments coming to the city under these. I know the budget recently adopted by the mayor and board appropriated approximately a hundred Million Dollars in settlement proceeds over the next 2 years. The year we are now in and next fiscal year. I can as part of the update to this chart summarize the last part of your question, which is of the amount that we have scheduled to receive, how much has been appropriated and allocated, versus unappropriated. I dont have that information with me, but it would be easy enough for us to update. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Of course. Supervisor dorsey. Thank you president peskin. I wanted to add my appreciation to the City Attorneys office and my colleague dean preston foric a knowledgeing the great work by the City Attorney office. My my career was spent in that office and think some of the work done there , sometimes we can take it for granted and appreciate deputy City Attorney pierson concern about missing somebody. If there is one thing i did learn in that office, there are from paralegals and others who just do so much great work in that office and it was something that is the highlight of my career. Congratulation to the City Attorney office on this great result. Madam clerk, on the items, roll call, please. On items 911 [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Those ordinances are passed First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to roll call for introductions. Yes, mr. President. Recognition of service mr. President ordid you say roll call . Roll call. Recognition of commendation is 2 30. Yes, supervisor dorsey you are first up to introduce new benefit. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor engardio. Submit, thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you madam clerk. Today i am introducing resolution to proclaim september transit month in the city county of San Francisco. Since 2015 San Francisco transit riders organized a transit celebration to encourage more people to use Public Transit and celebrate transit riders and operators towards the itvooal role creating a more sustainable and livable San Francisco. In 2021 transit week expanded to transit month and last year sf transit riders added a ride challenge to encourage to proudly log trips on Public Transit. Congrats to supervisor preston for winning last years challenge among our local elected officials and it was great to see so many at this morning ride along and rally as we kick off the fesivities. I want to thank [indiscernible] staff and volunteers for organizing these events. There is much more to come and encourage you to check out all the events at sftransitriders. Org. The rest i submit. Supervisor peskin, submit. Supervisor preston. Thank you madam clerk. Welcome back everyone from the recess. Two items that i have first today. Introducing a resolution urging the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing to immediately fill at least half of the vacant permanent Supportive Housing units in their portfolio within 90 days and maintain vacancy rate that does not exceed 5 percent going forward. Permanent Supportive Housing as you all know is a proven model to provide stable housing for people experiencing homelessness where Vulnerable People can tend to physical and Mental Health in a stable vide. This benefits the entire community. According to the 2022 point in time count, there were 7754 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco consisting of 3357 people in temporary shelters and 4397 people unsheltered. Accord ing to the latest data from hsh over 1 thousand units in the city portfolio is sitting empty which is 10 percent of the permanent Supportive Housing units. Over 700 of the units are ready for referral now. Supportive Housing Providers are ready and eager to move people in and to be clear colleagues, these rooms are fully funded and specifically for unhoused people. This is not a new problem with vacancies, vacancies in Supportive Housing rose sharply in 2021 and have remained unacceptbly high since then. Averaging about 10 percent monthly over the last two years. We just cannot tolerate any further delays moving people who need a place to live into these vacant units. I want to thank my early cosponsors, president peskin, supervisors walton and chan. Look forward to others sponsoring and also look forward to supporting hsh as they move hopefully with renewed urgency to meet this goal and provide immediate housing for at least 500 people who are currently unhoused in these currently vacant permanent Supportive Housing units. And the second item is another resolution for introduction. This is a resolution submitted with president peskin expressing our concern over the development of the pilot un plaza activation plan and specifically the displacement of the heart of the city, Farmers Market and the resolution urges rec park to provide clarity around this pilot and also to adopt mitigations requested by the Farmers Market. The heart of the city Farmers Market is a incredible market. It brought so much to the neighborhood for decades and really has been a bright spot in what are otherwise very challenging conditions that we are all familiar with on un plaza. Through severe challenges over the years, including the conditions on the plaza including droughts and impact on farmers, recessions and so forth, the heart of the city Farmers Market managed to survive 42 years, 42 years on un plaza. Farmer market serves more then 20thousand people on wednesdays and sundays where folks shop for seasonal fresh fruits, vegetables and other staples. These things are sold by more then 50 california farmers, man y travel for hours to sell their produce here on un plaza. The heart of the city Farmers Market also manages distribution and redemption for the largest Farmer Market ebt program in the nation and makes over 1 million per year in grant funded incentives to help low income families purchase fruits and vegetables from local farms. In july the Rec Park Department filed plans for activation of un plaza described as a pilot, which included installing a skate park and other Recreational Activities on the plaza in november 2023 and moving the Farmers Market off un plaza to fulton plaza in december, which in fact happened this past weekday. These developments happen without input from the community, without a Community Meeting and with no clear commitments from the Farmers Market on th e length of the pilot or the measures the city would undertake to mitigate the impact of this move on the Farmers Market. The failure to involve Community Members and development of plans for un plaza simply does not comport with city goals around equity, conflicts lead by the Planning Department in the neighborhood and raises serious questions regarding differential treatment how projects are planned and implemented in more affluent neighborhood. We had concerns