hey good morning. today is wednesday, january 17th, 2024. this is a regular meeting of the abatement appeals board, and i would like to remind everyone to please mute yourself if you're not speaking. the first item on the agenda is roll call. um president newman here. um, commissioner alexander toot, commissioner chavez, commissioner shaddix here. commissioner williams here. and commissioner summer is expected, and we have a quorum. um, next,

we will have our land acknowledgment. morning the abatement appeals board acknowledges that we are in the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush, 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 as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples, peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guest, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging their the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. okay, thank you. um next, for any members of the public that are listening in the public comment, call in number.

is (415) 655-0001 and the access code. is 26644644212. and the webex webinar password is 011724. and to raise your hand for public comment on a specific agenda item, press star three. when prompted by the meeting moderator. okay. um, next on our agenda is item b, uh, remote public comment, discussion and possible action discussion and possible action to follow the board of supervisors remote public comment policy that eliminates remote public comment except when necessary, to enable the participation of people with disabilities. um, first, is there any public comment on this item? um, is there any remotely.

okay, i'm seeing none. then. uh, board discussion on that. so this is basically to determine on whether, uh, the, the abatement appeals board is going to follow that same procedure or not regarding remote public comment number two. i'm aware that the board of supervisors made this decision because there's um, there was disruptive public comment that hasn't been our experience. and i don't see a need to limit remote access. uh as someone who is here, surprisingly, with my child today, because i didn't anticipate his disability flaring up. um, that line of what? when to make that request is not always as clear as maybe it looks like when it's written on black and white. um, i think we can revisit this if becomes an issue in the future, but i

don't i don't feel the need to do that at this time. okay. is there any are there any other commissioner comments? mr. chavez? i don't have very much to add except that i agree with commissioner alexander to. i think it's our responsibility as a public board to be as accessible as possible. and keeping public comment open online hasn't posed a challenge for us so far. if we can continue to leave it open. commissioner williams. i echo, uh, prior statements and i would go further and say we should be encouraging remote public comment or any public comment. and if i remote public comment is what's feasible and possible for the public and it makes it easier, we should be encouraging it, uh, rather than restricting it. any other comments? i concur with everything that was said. shall we? do we vote? um.

emotion yes. there should be a motion. um, no. a motion to continue with remote public comment. so, so moved. second. okay. so that motion is by commissioner alexander to and the second was by commissioner chavez. and we'll do a roll call vote on that motion. um, president newman. yes, commissioner. alexander. toot. yes commissioner chavez. yes commissioner. shaddix. yes commissioner. summer. and commissioner williams. yes yes. oh commissioner. summer. oh, did you did you did you vote? i wasn't here for the beginning. oh, okay. it's uh, this this was a discussion to as to whether or not to continue with remote public comment or not. and you were you were here. i was here

for the. yes. yeah. for that then. oh, okay. it was very brief. you didn't miss anything. yes okay. thank you. then the motion carries unanimously. thanks, everyone. okay. so, um, next we have, um. our item is. is on what? approval of minutes. uh, this item is a discussion of possible action to adopt the minutes for meetings held on may 18th, 2022 and june 15th, 2022. um just would like to read that the minutes were already approved and they were agendized in error. however, if anyone, uh, has public comment on this item, you can you can do so at this time. is there any public comment? okay seeing none um, the next item we have then is

item d, new order of abatement appeals. the first matter is appeal number 691246 de vallejo street, block 0133. lot 020. complaint. number 202286188. owner of record and appellant is justin yonker. the appellant appeals the april 26th, 2022 order of abatement and assessment of costs on the grounds that he is in the process of correcting the cited violations. an appellant requests that the order of abatement and assessment of costs be reversed or modified. the hearing is convened pursuant to administrative code 77.3, which provides that the building inspection commission, sitting as the arb, may hear and decide appeals of abatement actions pursuant to san francisco building code 105.2. before we proceed, the hearing, we will administer the oath. um will all parties giving testimony today? please stand and raise your right hand. okay. do you swear

the testimony you're about to give is the truth? to the best of your knowledge? yes. okay. thank you. you may be seated. okay. the hearing procedures are described in section three g of the arb rules of procedures. the appellant and the department will each have seven minutes to present their position on. the department presents first, followed by the appellant after the presentations, we will have public comment. members of the public have three minutes each to speak after public comment. each party will have three minutes for a rebuttal. first the department and then the appellant. after rebuttal, arb members may ask questions of either party. the department may now present their case. good morning, president. commissioners. uh, john hanson, chief building inspector, code enforcement. i will be presenting the appeal case today

. for 460 vallejo street. uh, the complaint. 2022 861.88. this is, um, four story, single family dwelling. uh, the violation relates to work exceeding the scope of permit. there are a number of items, including possibly merger, uh, fence greater than, uh, nine foot six and nine foot nine, um, proper line windows were removed and relocated. garage door was widened and front facade stucco was removed and replaced with horizontal siding. a new building entry door installed, uh, the roof deck, uh, barriers were removed, opening up the roof deck to the entire roof. uh trees stairwell windows were installed. uh, the elevator

shaft enclosure door, uh, does not have the required doors and the rear stair has been changed to cantilever steel stairs. uh, the director's hearing took place on april 26th of 22. and in our abatement was issued at that time with the following conditions. 30 days to obtain permit and complete, including final sign off and pay all csvs a permit was issued, a filed on may 19th of 2022 that has not completed the plan. review process, and to date, that permit is not issued. um. so staff recommends that you uphold the order of abatement and impose assessment of costs. so i am available for any questions you may have. the appellant may

now present their position. uh, good morning. thank you. members of the board. i'm tom tunney of reuben. jason rose. i'm counsel for the property owner who's actually peter iskander, who's here. he's going to speak as well. you have justin yonker was the filed the appeal on peter's behalf, but he's not the owner of record just to clarify, um, really, you know, we don't disagree with much of what mr. hinson has said. um some of the details, uh, of the alleged violation is perhaps one thing is this is a two unit building. it's not a

single family dwelling. um, mr. iskander is going to provide you with a little more detail about the project, but i just wanted to address what we think is the bigger and biggest issue here. you're probably asking, you know , why have you gotten to the point of an order of abatement and this hearing and it has been years. um, we, as mr. hinson stated, we submitted a permit to abate the violation and address all of the items and as is, uh, normal procedure, that permit was routed to planning immediately. um, and then we started working with planning. um, we've planning had its own process that it needed to go through issued, um, neighborhood notice of the permit, discretionary review. uh request was filed, which means a hearing

at the planning commission. and we went through a process with planning, uh, where they had scheduled and then postponed, uh, at least two described review hearings. and that's the last we heard from planning. we we've tried to follow up and haven't heard, um, the staff at dbi today may know a little bit more about the about where things stand with planning, but we're waiting for planning to schedule this discretionary review hearing, uh, which would then allow us to move forward with the permit. then we go back to dbi and go through final review plan review at dbi. um, so with that, i'll stop there. that's probably even more detail than you needed. and let mr. iskander introduce himself and then we're available for any questions you may have. good

morning. member of the board. um i'm going to read, uh, so i'm peter iskander, the owner of four 6462 vallejo. uh, we acquired this two unit residence in 2014 to accommodate our expanding family with the intention if eventually housing my elderly parents, um, over the subsequent 4 to 5 years, we secured permits, collaborated with various skilled builders tradespeople to finalize the project. in 2018, uh, following numerous inspection by sf dbi, we obtained a certificate of final completion in 2018. the project proved to be more stressful for our family than anyone could ever imagine. uh, nearly causing a rift within our family union. at one point, we contemplated splitting and selling our, um, uh, newly constructed home. but fortunately, we navigated through these challenging times and opted to retain our homes. um, shortly thereafter, we received a notice from planning

department regarding the items that were approved but did not go undergo planning staff review. this item include facade restoration to the original wood siding fence along the eastern side wall, and new garage door, and the front door. we diligently addressed all the discrepancies and followed the scarf recommendation. from 2019 until january 2022, when planning staff scheduled a scheduled for board of hearing, it must have been like the second or third time this has been scheduled. um, these items encompass, uh, enlargement of the second kitchen. uh, as recommended by the staff and then, uh, further notification, uh, 311 notification, uh, approximately about two weeks before the scheduled hearing in january 2022, our hearing was postponed again. and we've been in the same spot since then. um, despite our our efforts to communicate this, when we received the abatement notice, they may have been misunderstanding. we filed a.

2022 05194663. in front of that, you have a copy in front of you, which states abatement of nov 20 2286 188 um, about a week after filing this pa, this pa was sending to planning department and then the current status indicates that the permit is being reviewed by planning, um, planning has not provided us with any further planning. what to do? the building department at the same time is issuing further notice to abate and further enforcement. um, we are cooperative. we're eager to resolve any discrepancy that may exist. please provide us guidance. what to do on the next steps. um. um, yes. okay. you may be seated. okay thank you.

we'll now have public comment. um. commission secretary, is there any public comment? okay. online. okay okay. well, thank you. we'll, uh, do the public comment in person and then online. okay. go ahead. for 60 vallejo street. yes thank you. okay good morning. my name is jerry dratler. i'm not prepared for public comment, but i know this project well. mr. iskander is a contractor, so he knows better for 60 vallejo street was offered for sale for $13 million. i put a swimming pool on top of it. um, i am told by a well known structural engineer the weight of a swimming pool with water is equal to almost to the weight of the building. so we're looking at some pretty serious stuff here. it just goes

on and on and on. so i'd like you to consider that, um, when you opine about his request. thank you very much. okay. uh yes. i think i don't know. is there any additional public comment online? no. and no additional public comment in person? okay okay. then yes. so the next we will, um, we'll have the rebuttal. um, the department's rebuttal for three minutes. uh, just to, uh, agree with the appellant, it is a two unit building. um, i misspoke there that it's a single family dwelling. what led me to that is, um, this concern that the two units may have been merged together into one unit. so but i

do stand corrected. it's a two family dwelling and no other rebuttal. the appellant is available. if you have any rebuttal. no. okay uh, seeing none there's no rebuttal. then um, it could be the board discussion. or questions. if you have any questions. commissioner williams. yeah. uh, well, i'm wondering if the appellant could address, uh, mr. rattlers, um, comment about the swimming pool on the building and the construction. there is there is a jacuzzi on the rooftop that's been permitted, and it's fully permitted. that's not an issue of notice of violation. it's not a violation of planning nor building. department it's something that he has a personal issue with. maybe, but he's not one of the neighbors that i know

. but it's fully permitted. we have fully permitted that. it's not. no, no, it's not it's not planning issue. it's a jacuzzi. commissioner alexander touched. yes, i have, uh, so this violation was issued because years of work without a permit, not work that exceeded an existing permit. is that correct ? no. or um, the violation was issued for numerous different items. many of the items requiring additional information, additional explanation, additional drawings . we provided those things as, um, if you look at the best page to look at, it's probably the

page in front of you. okay. yeah. you can check, um, our. i'm sorry, our, um, abatement appeals board secretary, uh, matthew green, he'd like to chime in on this, uh, is it on now? i can't hear you. okay okay. yeah. good morning, matthew green, representing the department of building inspection and serving as the secretary of the abatement appeals board today. so there were several building permits that were completed in 2018 on this notice, the violation is from january of 2022. so there were no active permits at the time. so, um, both correct. it was done without permit, but it's beyond the scope of the original permits. okay. it's unclear whether the work took place between 2018 or 2022 or was, um, mistakenly signed off in 2018. but the conditions today do not match the approved permits that were completed in 2018. can i ask another clarifying question? so there seems to be some issue between planning and permitting. and so

in 2018, there were permitted plans. it sounds like correct 2018 that completed correct. um, that um did not match the work completed. they there was work done in excess of what was approved by planning and correct. correct it wasn't in excess. it was uh, some items in planning view that it should have been reviewed by planning, but it didn't get the drawing, didn't get routed through planning. so those items include like the facade change to the original, for instance. this is a question to the department. so were those items included in the original plan set that was approved by planning? so the notice of violation is. can we just clarify who is speaking for the department? is it. oh, i apologize okay okay. just want

to make sure to make the record in conjunction with what the secretary just said. um, the last completed permits were in 2018. all of the items that are listed on the notice of violation that are listed on this abatement appeals report, all of those items i called out there are no permits for any of those. the conditions and the roof. uh, there was a permit in 2018 for a minimal roof deck. they removed. roof is now being used as a roof deck. okay and so there are no permits for anything that we call out in the notice of violation. they all exceed the scope of the original permit. okay. and all of or some of those things also, though, require planning sign off. absolutely. yes and they filed two permits. but those two

permits are not going to the plan review in a normal fashion. it seems that they're they were filed to stall the process. they're not moving forward. okay was the work that was complete and done to the code standards. so there are three permits that were signed off in 2018. they they were signed off because the work described in those plans was done to code. they were signed off. but after that they did all this other work right, exceeding the scope of those permits. then they filed two permits to as a but it looks to me like a stalling tactic. those permits have not been issued. so all of the items do not have a permit. they're not described in drawings attached to an issued permit. okay thank you. i was just trying to get some clarification between where we

were in both the permitting and planning processes. yeah. very important. um. commissioner chavez, um, yes. i had a clarifying question around the permit that was filed in may 2022. it sounds like it's not been reviewed and approved, and there have been well, i know that the planning, uh, department has pushed it back, but can you shed a little bit of light on what's going on with that permit? so so we have a permit, uh, to, uh, deal with the notice of violation that was filed in may 19th of 20, 22. there was some review, but there's a note. uh, plans do not meet criteria required for the notice of violation. so one permit that they specifically refer to this notice of violation. um the plans do not

fully deal with the notice of violation. so that would account for the fact that that permit could not move forward without the amending the plans. in response to whatever items they are missing. and so here we are with with no progress. right. was there another permit filed after that, or is that the most recent. so there were there were two permits filed, um, in may. one and may of uh 2022. and the other in april. and neither of the two have completed the plan review process. okay and, uh, miss iskander, that's those are the permits you're talking about today, the ones that you filed within 30 days of the notice of violation is that, um. yes but he didn't read the entire statement. it says, um, plans do not meet the criteria. meeting between dcp and appellants. uh, prior to posting, that never

happened. this is if you read the entire statement of that status. it's like that. we submitted the entire permit that was asked of us. the nob asked us to submit a reference sheet, which is the entire what you saw there on my sheet. it's about i don't know how thick it is, how many plants are there. and when we get to the counter, the person at the counter wrote in here, even take a reference sheet out of only out of the i mean take reference sheet should only be seven pages long. plan check unless plan checker wants to keep it as part of the plan set so he rejected the entire set. i don't want this whole thing. you only want submit seven. so we did that. we followed every single direction that the next person tells us to do. if you tell us today, today they got peter, go to the planning department and ask them to provide the hearing for you. i will do that if you ask me to go to the building department, i go, peter, resubmit the plan check. i will do that. i'm

following anything that you want me to do. but right now we're we're. i feel like we're being postponed by planning, and we don't know what to do. i don't the people who work with out plan approval and without. so let me correct that one. since 2018. there's zero since the certificate of final completion was issued, there's zero work that's been done on the building. zero work. some items were missed during inspections. some items were missed during, uh, planning. and that's what causes the problem. but there is no work. there is no worker being there in that place. i was living there, so there's nobody there. there's nobody except painting. maybe that's about it. so how is it that the initial plans don't match the work completed? there were the initial plan. the work talks about four years during the build process. there were some things that like for instance, there's some windows on the stairwells. oh it'll be kind of nice to put the windows. it's

not bothering anybody. it's only inside. we added those windows. it's not to the outside. and that property line windows, that's the only windows that was added. there were items like that, but for the majority of the part, it it it we are where we are today because there's notice of enforcement by planning for the facade replacement. and there was a thought that we were we merged the two units into one. we never merged the two units into one. we wanted to for our families. i have a large family and it's going to be multi family at some point my parents will be living with me. i have adult kids too so it's always been two units and if you look at the notice of violation, one of the bottom, it says there's a this unit has been merged. it has not been merged. there are two kitchens, there's separate clear separation between the units. um, as the firm by uh, um mr. um henson's um, so the we want to proceed, we want to do this. we don't know how we've we've tried. can i ask, are you a

contracting professional? i'm a contractor also. i'm a contractor also. so you then do know when on items that are changed, require the planning approval? um, not not all the time. i'm not a i'm not, i'm not i rely on i have architects, i rely on other people like that. that's on the field. architect on this project. yes. okay yes. we have an architect on the project. i follow the direction if when an item needs 311 notification, for instance, we send a 311 notification. as of today, we have already sent out three, three, 11 notification for or were there during the reviews. were there any amendment plan amendments issued or before. for the 2018? before for the final? yeah. 2018 uh, there are about 4 or 5 drawings. i don't remember how many all the way to 2018. all those things were when we initially started the project. there are some changes that needs to be modified because when you

renovate something, they usually something that you have to do. so it's been followed throughout the process until 2018, it took about five years to do that. when we finished, we must have gone through about more than 40 inspections of building, um, electrical. um, through the project. and at the end of that project, i think some of the items were missed. planning the first acquisition was that they thought there was a merger between the units, and that hasn't been substantiated. but since then, everybody is looking at all these different little things and we're okay because some things were missed, not purposely, some things were missed in the inspection process , something were missed in the planning process of it. so we issued the 311. we're cooperating. we issued 311, one, two, three. and then when they file the doctor, they file the doctor for the entire project. it creates a lot of confusion. then and then right before the hearing, the hearing got postponed because there's an nov . the nov states the exact same

thing as the violation of planning. and we submitted the paperwork 2020 (205) 194-6632 abated following the instruction exactly where taught, including putting the reference sheet in there and it says even in here, because the person at the counter said, you got to be crazy. we don't want to take that. just submit the seven sheet. only forget the rest of them. we did that. it gets routed to planning and we are still waiting to hear i want we want to get the permit. you know , to address this thing. if the front facade just for the front facade was a regular wood facade , in the 50s, somebody changed it to a stucco facade and when we were renovating it, you go, huh? originally it was the wood facade. why don't we just change it to wood? we did not obtain the permit to do that because it was the original one was wood. so we did that and according to planning, we need to go back to do that. we'll do that. that's not a problem. but if you tell us, change it back to stucco.

we'll go change it back to stucco. it's okay. we just want to get this thing done. well. thank you. um, can i ask the, um. sorry, commissioner williams, if, um, you can. oh yes. can i. can i ask what coordination dbe has been undertake working with planning to resolve this issue? well um, in response to the comments that the appellant just made. so they're referring to comments on the plan check from may 27th, 2022. the person that came to the counter, they admitted earlier is no longer associated with the property. uh, justin, they're saying he's no longer connected with this property, so he's he's speaking to, um, interaction with our department by somebody who no longer even represents them at and, um, and what i'm hearing is complete denial about all of the violations we have listed. so

how is there going to be, um, um , a solution from the property owner to file the proper permits, move them forward timely. so i would hope that you would uphold the order to encourage them to do that. i completely understand, but the question i asked was what coordination is dbe undertaking with planning to help resolve this issue? because what i'm hearing from the appellant is that there is and you have said that is a stall tactic. so i just want to understand how we're coordinating. so how it works is a person files a permit. uh, somebody in plan review designates what stations it goes to. and the property owner, what are there. architect walks through the system. if they don't walk it through the system, we can't just come along and say, hey, come and see us. they initiate that. they connect with planning. we don't control that. and what's the record is showing they are not taking

their responsibility to move the permits through the system. if they're getting plenty of comments, they're not responding and amending the drawings. and when you say they your the property owner, are they representative? okay yeah. okay yeah. president human i just i did reach out to the zoning commissioner about this, uh, project and understanding what the delay is and actually, he's not sure either. um but he did say it is in the hands of the permit applicants to move it forward if they're waiting for comments or so. but he's looking into it. okay. thank you, commissioner williams. thank you . um, so this is for the appellant or appellants. counsel either could answer, uh, i would like to narrow down on, uh, what's being discussed at least, or i want to get a response that's specific here. so when this appeal, uh, are you contending that the department made either a factual error in

any of its work, any of the issuing of the notices, or are you contending that there was a error in the application of the building code by the department? and if so, what is the basis for those contentions of error? there were it's tom tunney, uh, counsel for property owner. uh there were a number of items listed in the notice of violation, right, right. um, many of them, we agree, need to be addressed or abated that they that they could be violations ones. um they, they they and they can be brought into compliance. um, some of them we think are there's a misunderstanding of which floor, say the stair is on and we think

they're looking at a different stairway that could be clarified. um all of all of them can be addressed. just we don't think there's any new work that needs to be done. um, unless planning requires it to bring these items into compliance. a lot of it is just going through the plan review process. yes. so so to a large extent, i'd say we're in agreement with the department. so if i'm understanding this appeal, is this in the appeal? is this more of a addressing a hardship that's being created due to the planning department. is that the purpose of this appeal, that that might be an accurate way of saying it, that we, we would like planning to move this forward so they can go back to dbe and, and i think planning would agree if, if they were

here that we have done what they've asked, that they're not waiting on anything from us. do you know of any authority that we would have, as in this board, to, to address a hardship created by the planning department? well, i guess i, i don't to be honest, i don't think you would go there yet. i mean, i might suggest a short continuance and, uh, and that would give time to hear from planning. exactly where it stands. and and what could be done next. and i think that might satisfy by the board and, and, and our, the department of building inspection staff to move forward and, and planning as well. thank you. commissioner

alexander, i'd like to hear from the department. um, if it seems like we have labeled this the violations as unsafe, which is why i think it seems like it's on an expedited timeline. um, on a quick timeline to get to the novice and move through the process. but the appellant seems to think that it's an administrative process where they're just going to get the permits filed and file the inspections, and then the records will match the permits or, you know, the permits will match what's actually in the building. can you speak to your understanding of the violations and what it would take to resolve the violations? so whenever there's a violation on each item, uh, is addressed sometimes by legalizing it, going through a planning building, you know, the plan check process, other times it might need some adjustment or

something that would be reflected on the plan, or there might be some clarification on where, you know, it has been removed and that would be reflected on a permit saying that it's being removed. and when that permit would get issued, the inspector will go out and verify that it's removed. so you know, as the property representative just said, um, you know, um, some items might need some clarification or whatever. and i agree, all we need is a permit to be issued. so an inspector can go out there and say, yes, that's resolved. this um, it's not clear on the plans. um and so all we want is a permit to be issued. so an inspector can go back out and clarify. is it the new issued plans? and since the speaker just referred, you know, if, if you decide to continue the case and let them reconnect with planning, you know, the

department would be okay with that. so is there a standard by which we identify or when we name something as unsafe? we don't. not every notice of violation says that the building is unsafe. not every violation, but most. but once the notice of violation is issued, until we get a permit to legalize or remove the condition, we have to assume it's unsafe. okay? and we issue the notice of violation. and in this case, we issue an order of abatement. so anybody involved with that property, anybody going on it we're giving them notice that there may be unsafe condition here. and until there's a permit issued and signed off is we have to consider it as unsafe. that's understandable considering it's a roof and staircases. um, i just would like to clarify. yes, please. there are some unsafe conditions listed in this notice

of violation. the separation isn't present from the garage and the dwelling units. and there are some, um, um, guardrails missing at the deck, i believe. so there are unsafe conditions. it's not just a matter of documenting. with a new permit, there will be corrections made. thank you. thank you for helping clarify that. and my final question is, um, there's been a lot of talk about delays in the planning commission. has the appellant brought any evidence of these delays or communication from the planning commission? i you did not attach that to your appeal. right? yeah i'm, uh, we did not, um, and i, i at the time that the appeal was filed, the last communication did exist. but, um , the appeal was filed in, um, in april of 23, i believe. and the last communication in with planning was late january of

2023, where our, um, we had agreed to a new section three planning code. section 311 neighborhood notification. and that was planning was going to issue that notification. and that never happened. that was that's the last. and i could provide that to the to the board and to the staff if um, and you know, honestly, i don't want to put this all on planning. uh, they are we're waiting for them to do this. but i know for them it's been a long process and it's a complicated project and different issues came up and there's a lot of interest in in the neighborhood, in the property. so, um, there are reasons why it has taken time. um, but but i think they would confirm the last communication was from planning, telling us this new neighborhood notice

would be issued and it never was . thank you. commissioner summer . um, i think my thoughts were along the lines of commissioner williams regarding our specific purview, which, as i understand it, is regarding whether or not there was an error made by the department of building inspection in issuing the notice of violation and i do not hear that that is the case. there was work done that was not permitted . so it seems correct that a notice of violation would be issued. it is not currently resolved. so and i know sounds like that's complicated. um but i don't i don't know that it is the, um, purview of this board

to, you know, dwell on that fact. i my understanding is that our purview really is to look at whether, um, the department made any errors in issuing it. and to me, it sounds like that is not the case, is that i also want to clarify. so it that's that's correct. but also so, um, the board may uphold modify or reverse an order provided that the public health, safety and public welfare are secured. most nearly in accordance with the intent and the purpose of the building code and the housing code. so i interpret that as also looking into the, um, public health, safety and public welfare. and what is the decision must align with the intent and the purpose of the building code and health code. i hope that clarifies things. might confuse it a little

actually, but no, i think i think what you're well, my hearing of what you just said is that that gives us some flexible city to do something different. if there is a concern of health safety. however, i think in this case, the concern of health and safety is in favor of the same conclusion that there was a violation that needs to be fixed . uh, are there are are we ready to deliberate? are there more questions? is mission i'd just like to point out that whether you decide to uphold this order or stay this order, it won't have any effect on the property owner moving forward with their permit approvals. so if this order exists, there still have to go forward. it won't slow it or enter it in any way. okay. so there's no no further questioning. um, then i would like to thank the parties for

their presentation as the evidentiary portion of the hearing is now concluded and the arb takes the case under submission for deliberations and possible decision. so so is there, uh, do we want to take it around and do does anybody have anything additional they want to share or see they. know. i'd like to make a motion to uphold the order of abatement. second. so there is a motion by commissioner alexander to and a second by, um, president newman to uphold the order of abatement, and also including the assessment of costs. yes. to include the assessment of costs. okay. is there any public comment on this motion? um okay. seeing none, then i'll do a roll call, vote. yeah there was a

second. the second was by, uh, president newman. okay. so the roll call vote, um, president newman. yes um, commissioner alexander. toot. yes, commissioner. chavez. yes, commissioner. shaddix. yes, commissioner. sommer. yes, commissioner. williams. yes thank you. that motion carries unanimously. okay. thank you. um, next we have item e, general public comment. members of the public may address the board on matters that are within the board's jurisdiction. and are not on today's agenda. speakers shall address their remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual board members or department personnel. is there any general public comment? um. any remotely? okay seeing none, we have item f adjournment. is there a motion to adjourn? motion is there a second second second. okay. are all members in favor? yes yes yes. any opposed?

we are now adjourned. it's 10:27 a.m. we will take a recess and then we will reconvene in in the next 5 to 10 minutes as the building inspection commission. thank you

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manner. today's special guest is carla short. >> hi, i'm chris manner and you are watching san francisco rising the show restarting rebuilding and reimagining the city. our guest is carla short the intric director of public works and here to talk about the storms we had and much more. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me. >> great to have you. let's start by talking about the storms that started beginning of the year. there fsh a lot of clean up recovery and remediation. can you talk about what your team did? >> sure. the 17 inches of rain we got starting on new year's eve through the first 2 and a half weeks of january made it one of the wettest periods in recorded history for

san francisco, so as you imagine we had a lot of work to do. we gave out more then 31 thousand sand bags, we were operating all most non stop from new year's eve to san francisco residents and businesses out of our operation yard and frequently working thin rain so it was a beautiful dance to watch. we had a corio graphed where people drive in the stop and load with san dags and get on it way so thats was the most visible thij weez had to do. responded to all most a thousand calls for localized flooding for the corner of the street with catch basin. our team trying to address that. we clear and pick up anything to block and it hopefully get the flooding to go down. if we are able to respond we call in the san francisco pub utility system and are responsible for the sewer system under

so they bring ing vack trucks that vacuum out debris inside the catch basin. we also dealt with lots and lots of calls about trees and tree limbs down. i think we actually faired better then some other places in terms of loss of full trees. we did have whole tree failures and that is not that uncumin with super satch waited soil conditions. we had over 950 calls about trees or tree limbs down. a lot of calls were about loss of a limb and we could save the tree. we are still assessing the data to figure how many were full tree failures versus limb failure. >> also had land movement too. the great highway comes to mind. what is your approach to managing rock mud and land slides? >> that is a great question. we had 28 different slides over the course of that period. it is kind of a interesting process, so the first step is we have our

geotechnical or structural engineers take a look to see is the hillside safe, do we need to stabilize it in some way or just need to do some cleanup? once they made their assessment they will recommend the next steps. often times to protect public safety we will place k rails the giant concrete rails at the base omthe slide area to make sure that any debris doesn't get on the edroway and bring ing the heavy equipment to scoop up on the ground and move off the roadway and try to open the roadway. some cases, we will actually inject some rocks or other stabilizing forces either into the slide area or sometimes below the roadway. right now there is nothing that's unstable out there but be are keeping a close eye on the areas including the gray highway area. >> right, right. well, so talking about the storms in the city response, brings

us to southeast community scepter when there is rain remediation projects going on. can you talk about the inconstruction project kblrks that is a favorite project. a beautiful new community facility. we were involved in pretty much every aspect of developing that project for the public utility commission. they were a client. we design project management and construction management and the landscape design for that project. and one thing that we included was storm water management throughout the entire project site. so, that project encapturealize the rain water that lands on the roof and flows into the landscape where we have rain gardens so intent is slow the water down to and give areas to collect to percolate into the ground rather then the sewer system. when we have sewers

that are overloaded, because our rain water mixes with the sewer treatment storm sewer system, we actually can end up dist charging into the bay which we dont want to do. anything we can do to just prevent those combined sewers from overpm loaded is a good thing and in this case allows the water to collect onsite and percolate to the ground which is the best way to manage the storm water and it is beautiful and provides habitat. i encourage everybody to see it. it is special place. >> that's great. there was recently news about how city (indiscernible) powered by steam, which is super unusual i think. i understand public works ablgtually does the maintenance on the system. can you just talk about that a bit? >> sure. that is a unusual situation. that steam loop was actually built when the city was recovering from the 1906

earthquake. it only provides to steam about 4 buildings in civic center but that is how we keep buildings like city hall warm. the steam goes into the radiators and provides the heat. it is a old system and if you see steam billowing out of the man holes or other spaces, that is indication of a leak actually. we spend a lot of time trying to fix the leaks because it's a old system. it is managed by the real estate department and at one point they were looking trying to replace the whole thing but think that is a massive undertaking so now they focus on making as needed repair said. we did a big repair on growth street where we spent a month and a half working on the known leaks s in the area. it is a very tight spot and have to use blow torches to seal up the leak so a intense

operation and seeing more leaks on polk street so we will be out there once it warms up to fix the leaks. >> excellent. let's discuss what is the reunifiquation of public works. there fsh a proposal or plan to split off the division, called the street and sanitation. now that has been shelved and public works is going to just retain being a single entity. can you talk through the process? >> sure. yeah. the original proposal was a ballot measure voted on to split the department into 2. it basically create the department of sanitation and streets that was really going to incompass all our operation divisions so it was a street cleaning department but encompass everything we refer to as operations. when we worked preparing for that split with the city administrator office, we found there were actually 91 what we call touch

points between the operations work and our engineering and architecture side, so we really felt like it could be very difficult to split into two departments. we have so many areas of overlap. there was a new ballot measure last november to reunit the department. technically we split october one and did split in some ways. we did put on hold some of the behind the scenes things like rebranding all the vehicle jz giving everyone a new e-mail address in the sanitation and streets department, but on january 1 of 2023 we came back together so we are reunited i want sing the peaches and purb song and think it is a good thing for the 91 areas of overlap. we making #2c3w50d use of the research. preparing for the split. looking at all the

touch points and trying to strengthen the department so we are more streamlined and efficient. one of the most important component from the original ballot measure is commission oversight. we retained two commissions, the public works commission which oversee the over-all department and approve the budget and contracts. and sanitation and street commission and their mandate focus on policy and deliverable for street cleaning and basically the operation division. reporting to them regularly how we are doing, we think will help make sure we are as efficient and effective as we can be as a department. >> that sounds great. thank you so much for coming and talking to me today and appreciate the time you have given. >> thank you so much for having me. it was a pleasure. >> that is it for this episode. you are watching san francisco rising.

>> good morning, thed meeting will come to order. this is the january 22, 2023, rules committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined by supervisor walton and soon be joined by supervisor safai. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, public comment will be taken on each item of the agenda wh. your item of interest comes up, please line up to speak on the right.

alternatively, you may commit in writing in the following ways, email them to me. if you submit public comment by email it will be forwarded to the supervisor and included as part of the file. you may also send written comment by u.s. mail to our office, at city hall, room 244, san francisco california 94102. please make sure to silence all cell phones and electric devices. documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted today, unless otherwise noted. >> thank you, can you please call item number 1. >> clerk: item number 1 is the motion approving objecting the controller for city of san

francisco ten-year term. there is a request that this matter be sent out as a committee report. >> thank you very much and before we hear from mr. wagoner, i want to say that when we got notice that our extraordinary controller is going to leave his post in february, my heart sunk to the ground and i've never really honestly have not been more worried for san francisco. because ben, you really have kept us going. have maintained the trust of every one that i know. i don't know a single person who does not respect and trust you. and really are the adults in the room figuring out,000 solve

problem wz no political agendas underlining your judgment. so i thought how are we going to survive without you? and the pit of my stomach remained until the mayor brilliantly chose to pick mr. wagoner. i've been working with you, mr. wagoner as a legislative aid for the past four years, at the time you were budget director working for then mayor now, govern gavin newsom. and when i started this job, it was during an era, i guess that was not changed. there was a lot of friction between the board and mayor

newsom at the time. and i remember being in a battle information, i was also brand new a lot xhunger and came from the world of being an accountist so i was addressing my job in this way. i expected to be embattled and it was the opposite, you're the biggest pleasure to work with. you never played games, you were straight and honest and brilliant and helpful and when you then moved to the department of public health, the department that i worked with more than any other department in the city, you just continued to come up very similarly to, controller rosenfelt with the good ideas to solve the problems really for the people.

i could not be more excited about your nomination. i want to thank mayor breed for the perfect choice as far as i'm concerned. and just say that, i now have faith that our city will continue to be in good hands because you're willing to take this leadership position and i have no doubt we'll, which will be approved bit board of supervisors. so with that, unless you want to make any opening statements, please mr, wagoner, join us. >> thank you so much chair ronen, i appreciate those comments so thank you. i really deeply honored to be nominated for this position and considered by this board for approval. it is an inspiring and unique opportunity for me to serve the city that i love, the city i

live in and we are raising a family. and i'll give everything to the position if i'm approved. i spent the last 14 years working in financial management and other efforts to improve public services in san francisco, as you said, chair ronen, formerly as the mayor's budget director and for the last 12 years as the chief financial officer and chief operating officer in the department of public health, the city's largest department. i hope that work has prepared me for this position. controller has a number of roles, as the chief financial officer and auditor for the city and county. the discharge of those duties and confident and affective manner as an affective stone of government. but the office is also a voice

for integrity, ethics and accountabilities and a steward of the city's best interest. it is a voice for the use of data and information to apply to decision making about our critical public policy and operational issues and it's of course a partner to leaders throughout the city government. many other cities across the country, we're facing a challenging financial and economic moment. and, it's true that there are probably some difficult decisions and times ahead but i am truly optimistic about the future of san francisco. and i'm optimistic about our collective ability to work together and solve these problems. like, all of you, i've been around through previous challenges that includes the

years of the great recession, that includes the late 20 teens when we had a fed cal administration that attempt today dismantle our financial safety net through covid and many other ways. those were tough but i took from that experience the path to resolve is to have all the stakeholders working together, mayor's office, the community, our department heads, our advocates our business community and that is not always easy but we keep our north star on our eye on the north star of providing the best and most efficient services to the public. and thats my cause for op at this sifm. --optimism. if i have the honor of being

confirmed for this position i'll do everything i can to take those experiences and values into my work. i'm definitely eager to get to work in the controllers office among those using, the teams and the controller's office to analyze their teams to tackle some of the big problems and big issues facing our city, homelessness and behavioral health improving the streets and others. we're in a moment of economic transition, i'm eager to jump into that conversation and work on a data driven strategies and option to see present to policy mainingers for how we can navigate this change into the next phase of our city's economy. we also need to continue the work and i'm anxious of

continuing the work guiding light throughout our city government and i take that roll very seriously. i had the privilege of working with two great controllers, ben rosenfield and before him, ed herrington, i learned a lot by watching them do the job. they both approached it in different way to see a certain extent but there was a core common denominator which was competence, integrity, independence, accountability and focusing on using data to improve through government services. i'll take that into my job. i'm aeg tore get to work and to work with the absolutely remarkable team in the controllers' office it truly is a special group of public servants. i would like to thank my colleagues at public health who have supported me through this process and over the years and

with that, i will stop talking and i'm happy to hear thoughts from the board members here and answer any questions that you may have. thank you very much for the honor of being considered for this position. >> thank you so much. supervisor walton. >> thank you, chair ronen and thank you so much mr. wagoner for being willing to step up and move in a different direction. i know you already have a good job, so taking a leap to another role is a positive. i know i have a couple of questions, one thing i want to hear just on record because we know the role of controllers independent, but the appointment is not, so just want to know how you would deal if your job entails the decision. >> thank you very much, supervisor walton, very good question.

it's true, the controllers information is appointed by the mayor, confirmed by the board and serves for a term of ten years. and independence is critical in the nature of the work. there are a lot of things that i can say in answer to that question. the most important point though, is it comes back to rooting your decision making and your conduct in the office in the city charter, with the city charter defines the role to be and the ordinances and the admin code and otherwise that describe the discharge of those duties. so reading the charter which eveb rereading the sections related to the office of the controller, is clear to me that their roles for the controller must independently make decisions.

for example when there is a over spending projected in one of the city's accounts, the controllers office must step in. but it's also clear to me that independence means, you're not isolated and the charter requires the controller's office to have an on going relationship and conversation with both, the mayor's office, the board of supervisors or other elected officials and city departments. so take that role seriously and use the, use the language in the charter and responsibility outlined in the cheater as my guide for navigating those decisions. >> thank you, and then, just curious what would be your focus on improving the ability for nonprofits to be successful but also make sure that they're in compliance with contracts and of course, making sure that they benefit the city in a

matter where they can do their job and execute contracts, but also make sure that the city is able to be on top of the work? >> thank you, that is a question that is close to my heart coming from public health which has both depends on contracts with our private organization to see deliver our services but also where i've heard a lot of the frustration and challenges of working with the city from our partners in the nonprofit sector. there is a process that has started to show some tangible gains that is lead by the controller's office working with the group of community base organization sxz that is looking at some things like how do we treat the cola, the compensation, the cola's for

nonprofits in a more consistent way and how do we do a better job of having stream lined and coordinated monitoring? i think it would be a priority for me to work on taking that work to the next stage. you mentioned a couple of key issues, there is challenges with the city to officially administrator contracts. i believe that we can do a better job broadening the pool of potential applicants for rfps and other city contracts and supporting organizations as they come in and express a willingness to do work for the city. and also providing support where our partners need capacity building and trying to develop that system of support. the other piece that you mentioned, which is also a priority for me, is working on

how do we do a better job of being clear about metric that's we're using to evaluate success under our city contracts and i think that the controllers is in a position to help facilitate some city wide conversations, it's a tricky topic, but there is a lot of our work that depends on successful relationships with our contractors. i think there is a opportunity to spend quite a bit of time on developing tools and data and option to see bring to policy makers for how we can improve in that area. so i'm excite today work on that topic. and i also think, i will mention, there is an opportunity to expand or change the compositions of that group that is working on that process that we have a an inclusive

perspective on organizations. >> thank you. supervisor safai? >> thank you, supervisor walton asked a question that i was asking. the auditing has been helpful for some flt organizations to kind of guide them and i'm talking about nonprofit auditing from the controllers office, i'm thinking about the department of public health. i'm thinking about some of the programs in-housing and supportive housing. some of it intended to guide and road map to strengthen organizations but we found some instances where there is been a significant problem, can you talk about that a little bit in the role that the controller's office plays in that? >> yes, absolutely, supervisor,

and you're correct, controller's office audit role is one of the fundamental responsibilities of the office under the charter. there is a team that controls those audits, there are, there are challenges in delivering city services, i think it's critical to have active and robust action where identifying where things are not working well and we're not getting value for public dollars. and even when there may be misuse of public funds. so that is certainly a critical role the controllers office. i have started digging in with the team on the work planning, i would like to spend quite a bit of time for the audit function. i've heard, and will continue to cult with members of this board, where they think opportunities may be.

but, i'm absolutely, committed to carrying out that role and making sure that we have a process for ensuring that public funds are used effectively and the programs are being successful. >> we started that program with the current controller with the department on the supportive housing that was about a measure that i lead last year. and some of that work is beginning, i think that's an important work between controller and yourself. just at the beginning of auditing showed some significant deficiencies and some problem within that department. so we need to prioritize as a goal for your transition. a second thing i want to talk about at least from my term on the board and i think my colleagues will agree. the position the controller plays is one of solutions and

problem solving and helping the guide a us in an independent way when we have policy debates or looking for solutions in those. can you talk about how you will embrace that and how the role that the controller plays in those positions? >> yes, thank you, supervisor. i think i view the role of the controllers office as a not a decision maker about those challenging issues but as you described voice that can support, can provide data to policy makers, that can bounce ideas off of members of the board or the mayor's office. and take those ideas and put our analytical capacity to work to create options that may be available to the board.

i think with a tactical stand point, i would certainly be meeting regularly with the members of the board, to talk through the issues that they're concerned with, the areas where they need support and using the teams to my best of the best of my ability to do so. the controllers office is in that special role and this goes back to the role and the charter of it stands outside the board of supervisors and outside the mayor's office and that role of helping facilitate conversation and using data i think is core to how the office needs to conduct itself and that is one of the things that i have watched from our former two controllers and learned lesson and i will continue to cult with our former controllers and all of you to learn how to do that, well and

better if i'm given the opportunity to have this position. >> i would take it a step further, i feel that when a controller puts stamp of approval on idea, it helps all the stakeholders in the city. so i think that's a really important role. >> absolutely, supervisor, there are times when the board or the mayor says to the controller, we don't just want data, we want to you give us a memberation. i understand that point. >> so the last thing i want to talk about is coming into this year, in particular you're stepping, you'll be stepping into this role in a very tenuous time in the city, about 800 million dollars deficit, i

think the feeling is that that number will keep growing as we get closer to budget negotiations and potentially have, potentially grow further with that amount. some of that has to do with the 40 million empty office space in the downtown. some of the tourist industry, transfer tax, not as robust as it once was because of the deflation and devaluation of property, property owners are going to foreclose more rapidly or hold until the economy comes back. all of that plays into a larger and larger deficit and yet, we have a significant number of services and positions in this city, city positions that the mayor chose to not fill over the last five years, whether it was 911 call operators, nurses,

paramedics, a whole host of our kind of social safety net all over the city. just wanted to hear your thoughts about the structural deficit that is upcoming, the amount of services that will be impacted and some of the ideas that you have in terms of recommendations going forward. >> thank you supervisor, that is the i guess it's the build question. i have a lot of thoughts and i spent a lot of years tackling questions of this nature but a few to share here at this moment. so number 1, as you described, the shape of the projected deficit includes a short-term deficit but also a structural, structural imbalance between structures and revenues.

we have a short-term problem to solve in this two-year budget but we also have a growth in the deficit in the out years so. i think that's going to take multiple years of layering on solutions. there is some things that we can look at in the current year, and in the short-term, there are other things that will take a longer lead time to develop ideas and analysis, flush out some of the ideas so we'll be ready in next year's budget or the year after to put those on the table or into play for decision making and the budget process. i think a few things that we can certainly do, the short-term things that the controllers office will help with that are in the technical financial analysis, things like looking at the city's debt

portfolio, looking at the general fund, things at the rate where we can draw our fema reimbursement, we will certainly do those. the other piece of this is, at your, you described that economic transition that we're in. i think the current state of our forecast is, we have a good forecast but we also have an unusual amount of uncertainty. and so, there is going to be both short-term and long term work for the controllers office and much of that has started in partnership with the treasure and tax collector to continue to get a better handle on what those projections look like as more data becomes available so. projecting out what the economic situation means for property and property base

taxes, so that we can have a clearer picture of deficit. but lastly and i think, importantly to your underlying question, i think there are opportunities that the controller's office can use to support decision making by this body and by the mayor's office. for as i understand, the first time and quite sometime, we have a nearly fully staffed city performance unit, which is the team that you're often reading reports and hearing analysis from. and in that capacity is something that we can use to flush out some of these concepts or ideas both short-term and long term. things are there opportunities and consolidated city services. how can we analyze programs where there is overlap and look for, savings, opportunities, opportunities to deliver

services more efficiency. those things take time and thought and complicated to implement, i think that's a place that we can help. the team at the controllers office is already, working on some of that work to try to think through, leading into this process. how we can use the office to help with some of that analysis and flush out some city priority options leading into the budget and that could include things like looking at vacant positions, looking at what is going on in our contracted spending or other topics of that nature. so we will be supporting to the best of our ability in that regard. >> so, i just want to ask you directly something that i know a lot of us with thinking about. i heard consolidation savings,

vacant positions and contracted adjustment of contract spending. but i don't know if that gets us to 1.4 billion in terms of deficit. and unlike, probably anytime in the last 75-80 years, this downtown recovery in this downtown vacancy will continue to have a significant impact in the short and medium term. how do you, how do you think about the overall service delivery and that's what i started with in terms of the basic important services. how do you approach that without thinking about revenue? thinking about where our revenue sources are? and how we adjust those sources. i think it's one that we have not seen in a very very long time. >> yeah, absolutely.

and the question about revenue goes to the earlier discussion about about that on going analysis of the economic drivers which translate into our tax base. so there has been a lot of base line work that has been happened on that but i think there are multiple. the controllers office has the office of city economist.

the toint say a couple of things, i will not ask questions, i promise. as somebody that has worked with greg in a number of years and the number of roles that he's held and i've held around the government, it's important to mention some of my experiences with his approach and the qualities, i think he would bring to the job and i'll mention a couple of areas that are important for the role. first, i think it's absolutely critical that whoever hold the role be an honest broker and under in their approach to the work. and i know greg will do that, having seen him in his approach in tricky situations in the

past as mayor's budget director's and other roles, he has held in the city. i think the respect that comes for the office comes in part because it's understood that, when we're kind of saying something as a controller's office it comes with thought t comes from analysis from a tremendous group of people and the answer is the same, regardless of who is asking but that would be a mayor, a board of supervisor member, it would be a member of labor union a nonprofit organization, you are an honest and straightforward broker of information and often contentious situation and i witnessed greg doing that over the many times over the years. other, i think it's critical that whoever hold the role have a belief in the power to place to do good in the importance of government. so while the control and the controllers improving that you're saying no, a lot.

and you are. you really want somebody in the role that wants to be helpful that understand what is wanted and identify issues and try to help people get there. you know, seeing greg troubleshoot tricky situations have seen him, kind of work through complicated issues, listen carefully and bring his knowledge and the knowledge of those around him to troubleshoot problems. so just a couple of my perspectives as i step out of role and look for this body approve to work with greg on a clean transition. >> thank you so much, i appreciate that. and now if we can open this item up for public comment. >> clerk: yes, members who wish to speak on this item, should line up to speak at this time.

each speaker will be allowed two minutes there will be a chime when there is 30 seconds left and a louder chime when your time has expired. would anybody like to make any public comment on this matter? is there does not appear to be public comment. >> public comment is now closed. so, the advise of the city attorney, i want today offer an amendment to the item, if we could amend the language basically to clarify when, greg would take over as controller. so the language would read moved that the board of supervisors approves the appointment of greg wagoner for the terms of 10 years which shall be the latter affective date of the motion or resignation of controller ben

grossenfeld. >> second. >> would you also like to include deleting rejecting. >> oh sure, i can do it in one. and then it's my great pleasure to make a motion to remove the word rejects, is that the language? >> clerk: i believe it is. >> i have not been on this committee for a while. remove the word rejects, from from this motion. can i have a roll call. >> clerk: voice chair walton. >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. jaot motion passes without objection. >> and now i make a motion to send the amended item to the full board with positive recommendation. >> clerk: as a committee report. >> as a committee report. >> clerk: yes recommended as committee report, vice chair walton. >> aye.

>> clerk: supervisor safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> passes unanimously. congratulations, thank you. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 2. >> clerk: item number 2 is a a appointment of food security task force. >> we have two vacant seats. i would like to bring up hannah if you can tell us about yourself and why you're interested on serving in the seat. >> speaker: i'm the associated directer on meals on wheels in san francisco and i would like to be a member of the food security task force because i think that food security is a

essential to moving the needle on health equity and social justice in our city, in my position, i interact with members of the community everyday who are, managing chronic conditions and experiencing food insecurities. so i think that i'm well positioned to provide good feedback and to advocate for members of our community to the task force and help make the recommendations to you and the other supervisors. it's a topic that is really important to me, i love san francisco and i just want to be part of making it a healthier place for members of our community to live. >> wonderful, thank you so much. any questions? i have one quick question for you. because we're heading into a difficult budget year and because in the past food

security has been, you know, on the chopping block several times, something that many members of the board have fought very hard to protect. do you have any thoughts about what the task force may be able to do to sort of, lift up the importance of food security as an item? >> yeah. >> and that should not be cut? >> absolutely. one thing that i task force is working on right now is the biannual report. and what the food securities means for the community and down streams, i think illustrating that with personal stories from people in our

community and paring that up with data to illustrate how important topic it is. something that the food security task force does tries to do. i think i can help advocate for that, our organization serves every zip code in san francisco. and i talked to people from all over the community all the time. i think that paring those things can try to, you know, drive home the importance. >> i appreciate that a lot. thank you so much. thank you so much. for not only applying for this position but for the work that you do every single day, it's so important and crucial and really appreciate you. it's a pleasure having you. thank you. that's all thank you. and next, we'll hear from laura jones.

>> good morning, i'm laura jones i'm the program manager for lea's pantry in san francisco and we're a non prove thait does trauma informed initiative in san francisco imanage our community base programs. we work with the department of disability and aging to provide education with older adults and adults with disability and a cal fresh living grant to need assessment in specific areas in the city that has the highest need and to do community engagement to try to lift up the voices for older adults and adults with disabilities. >> thank you. any questions? no? i'll just, i'll take the opportunity to ask you one question, can you talk about the impacts of covid and the end of the covid emergency on

food security in san francisco? >> well there were so many extra supports, i was not here during the lock down in the pandemic i was living in oregon but arriving and seeing all the, the extra money that was going into cal fresh benefits and the extra support that the city was providing to the foodbank, and now seeing all of those things cut and the longer lines all around the city of people needing food and families struggling and knowing that the direct relationship and how children are going to perform in school, the possibility of people losing their homes because they have to choose between feeding their children and paying their rent, just undering how critical food security is to the well being of people in the city. so. >> thank you, thank you, i appreciate you taking the time to apply. mr. clerk, can we open this item up for public comment? >> clerk: yes, members of the public wish to speak on this

item, should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. >> speaker: thank you, for letting me allowing me to speak on this item. it's very important, i think food security task force and i'm glad i was able to catch this item. my time is going out, i don't want to take too many of your time. i just want to applaud this board and body for, for being mindful of this task force. and knowing how important their job is. especially when you consider the population like the homeless population that really relies on the pantries and the city support the dietician sxz nutritionist and the foodbanks, making sure the food is safe to consume.

because anybody can just walk in and serve you. --i tried to eat at anthony, i was at dorothy day at berkeley, it's awful, people push you around. so we can have a more strict proses for allowing people to volunteer and serve, being in charge of food, and serving a really sensitive population. because the homeless population that i'm a part of right now, is really vulnerable. sol thank you guys and i appreciate you. >> thanks tore your testimony. >> clerk: are there any other speakers in this matter. there are no more speakers for public comment. >> public comment is now closed. is would like to make a motion to recommend hannah grant for seat 18 and laura jones for seat 19 and send that item to

the full board with positive recommendation. >> clerk: vice chair walton. >> aye. >> clerk: safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. motion passes unanimously. congratulation sxz thanks again. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 3 jao. item 3 is a appointment electric commission appointee. >> thank you and we have one seat and two applicants. first i would like to call out ruth, good morning, hi. thanks so much. tell us about your qualifications and interest in serving. >> speaker: yeah, for those i have not met, i'm ruth kowitz, i first got interested when i spent sometime in 2019

volunteering in supervisor stefani's office when i was between jobs. and i loved engaging with the constituents and being here in city hall and also the volunteers that i got to work with was a wonderful community. since then i went back to work full-time and i was not able to come back and then i had a baby, my daughter is two and a half now so i'm excited to come back and tribute to the community again. and specifically why i thought this was a good opportunity for me, i don't have a ton of experience in civic policy or elections policy, but i feel that i have strong experience from my professional career that i can bring to the commission and contribute in that way. so i'm a product manager in the tech industry and there is two real skills i can bring from that to this commission. the first is data analytics, as we heard from our speakers,

it's really critical that we both set appropriate metrics that are measuring the right thing. measure them in the best way possible so we get good data and then analyze it to understand what it's really telling us and take the right actions so i would love, i've been doing that for my entire career and i would love to work with the team and help support them in any way i can. and secondly, stakeholder management. product manager is a really key central role that has a lot of responsibilities but very little direct. so it's part of my job to bring groups of people who don't have the same agenda, who don't have the same point of view and get them working on the same goal and mission. it's engineers and marketers and data scientists and

designers and executive in getting around them altogether and i can take that same skill set and apply it to the teams here with my fellow commissioners, with the, with the department members of the department of elections and the other department that's we would need to work with to achieve our goals. i'm really excited about the opportunity. i'm happy to answer your questions. >> thank you so much. any questions? supervisor walton? >> thank you, chair, and i'll ask this to ever applicant how important do you think for voting to be made accessible to anyone and do you have any ideas on how to get people registered and to the polls? >> that's a great question. and i think it's critical that we get as many people to vote as possible. i think that's probably the most important thing that the commission does and the ways that the commission can contribute. in terms of specific ideas of how to get people to the polls,

i'm sure there is a lot of programs already that are doing out reach, i just received my pam let yesterday to anyone that can vote to this address which i really appreciate it. so there is a lot that is happening already. and i think, there are probably opportunities as i mentioned that is not really my area of expertise and somewhere where i have a ton of experience. so i would be looking to my fellow commissioners and department of elections to come, to come with those initial ideas and be able to help bring me along to learn what those key things are and i can contribute in other ways on constitution and things like that. >> thank you. >> supervisor safai. >> and it says here, you hosted polling station at your resident? >> i did yes, in 2022, yeah. so i live on the same block

with the mission campus of city college. so during the pandemic, that location is closed that's usually where they have a huge polling station. so instead we had a smaller one in my garage. i just got a letter in my mail that said, we identified that you may have space, i was so excited and called them back immediately. i only got to do it once, after that, the city college opened back up again and that's a much more better suited than my garage but i was really sad i want today get a bunch of americana day core but i didn't get to it. >> thank you so much. and then, just last question, what would be your priorities if you served? >> yeah, what supervisor walton mentioned about getting as many people to the polls as possible

would be a really really high priority. and also just ensuring that we're creating a collaborative environment between the department of elections and commission. you don't want that relationship to be advosaryial, let's get these people together and coming back with the best ideas and doing as efficient as possible. >> thank you so much, thank you for applying for this position and your willingness to serve. >> thanks. >> next and next we'll hear from kelly wong. >> good morning, i'm kelly wong i stand here to seek your support for my nomination to the elections commission. i believe this position will not only allow me to promote

aoek al access for voting but for me to uplift the voices of immigrant communities. i have to start that my background may be uncommon compared to those who have historically served on elections. i'm a non -citizen and a broad sit en born in hong kong. many may wonder why a newcomer like myself would seek this position. it is exactly because i'm an immigrant that i understand how it feels to be left out of important policy decisions and conversation that i am packets my life. for a long time after moving to the u.s., i felt defeated and struggled to hear my own voice. but rather than staying in violence or working in

washington after graduation like many did, i moved to san francisco to serve my communities. through my work of chinese for affirmative action, i saw how low income immigrants face barriers that prevents them to vote. to breach this communication gap, i host and produce podcast to voting rights, in a creative way that is not accessible but understand by mon lingual votes. to me, access is not just about translation but understanding. of course, these issues don't stand in isolation among chinese immigrants but also apply to the broader immigrants group that i have had the privilege to work with, across san francisco immigrant legal and education network. i'm grateful that some of them are here today to vouch for my support on behalf of their own,

i'm sorry, their own organizations. over the--sorry, over the past three months, i work to dr. angs from the department of elections as well as commissioner preston and three esteemed members of the commission. we all share the same vision of empowering individuals to exercise the fundamental right to vote. this includes community of color, low income graourntionz number efficient voters and immigrants and people with disability and hopeful and committed to make sure that every one has an equal voice that impacts their well being and of their children. in closing, i take pride in rediscovering my voice so i ask for your support today where my voice will not only be amplified but also the voices that i'm proud to represent in

the elections commission. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you so much. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much chair ronen, and thank you so much for being applicant. same question, how important is it to you that voting be accessible to every one and do you have any ideas of how to get people registered and out to the polls. >> speaker: totally, like i mentioned in my opening statement, would i like to stud collaborate with trusted organizations. because of my network with multi racial coalitions, i would like to talk to them and identify and address the specific needs of under represented communities and try to find a why the communities have lower disproportionately lower registration rates. and as i mentioned also, i love

to you know, language and cultural skills to examine the voting materials. on a mixture that those materials is not only available in multiple languages compliance with all access ordinance but also done in a way that is competent for immigrants voters. knowledge is power, without that, i'm mono lingual would not have access to ballot box sxz make important positions with informed materials and knowledge. so these are the tentative things that i'm going to work on and things that i have compliance to that i'm already working to. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor safai do you have any questions? and i have the same question, what would be your priority? >> i think for the most part i talked about, but i can do, at

that, i spoke to commission president and dr. earns and commission stones and commissioner sigh and parker and i think sense that everybody is on board with tha. i also know that the president try to create a committee to cultivate agencies so we can have more information on our registration data and how to engage with data, sorry from diverse back grounds. and i think i can be the person on that committee, you know hopefully to solicit inputs from my communities and also be that person that people can reach out because of the trust already built with the groups. thank you. >> thank you, thank you for applying. thank you. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk, can we open this item up for public comment jao.

yes, i would like to clarify before i make my statement, that zentecia withdrew their application. members of the public who wish to speak, each speaker will have two minutes. our first speaker. >> speaker: good morning, every one. thank you for operating for open space for people to comment. i'm tim, i'm here in support of kelly wong's application for this position. throughout my work with kelly, i've been able to see her operate in various group making spaces, coalitions as she mentioned, multi racial, multi ethnic coalitions and i've been struck by her commitment to you know, the democratic process to putting her efforts where her

mouth is and actually uplifting, you know, these believes that many of us have but not all of us have the opportunity to actually you know, follow through with. i also want to mention that it's a huge strength that she is from hong kong not only for communities that speak cantonese, when we uplift voices, we're able to see the gaps in our system. and i have personally from work ining los angeles and other states that, you know, the voting process is not just accessible for immigrants but many, and i think, when we uplift voices from specific groups, that see those barriers, we make it for accessible for people and the immigrant community in the san francisco is a massive part of the community. thank you for your time. >> thank you.

>> speaker: my name is vincent pan, i'm the coexecutive of chinese affirmative action caa. it's a community civil rights organization head quart erred in san francisco china town and we support the appointment of kelly wong to the san francisco elections commission. we advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights and remedies racial and social injustice. demo cot i can processes and civic participation. kelly has been on staff since august 2022 as a immigrant rights advocate. she has demonstrated track record for migrant populations both in san francisco and abroad. she has a commitment and expertise about how to create more access for those who are marginized due to class stat uts, race and migrant experiences.

this would make her an invaluable member of the elections commission. caa has reviewed the rules of elections commissioners and incompatible activities. we will ensure that kelly's work will not include any of these activities to exclude kelly from involvement from my election work. kelly's role is to conducting community education on available service sxz resources for the same population. we respectfully support kelly wong candidacy for the elections commission of san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. >> speaker: good morning, i'm brent turner i've been involved with the elections commission for quite a few years

advocating for open source software elections system. on behalf of the public, i want to first and for most thank chris as being a great cad list for this effort as well as the local effort that was first brought forward here by supervisor tom amiano. the budget cuts that we're con templating for the elections department and the mayor has mandated can be accomplished by following mr. jerdonic's direction regarding deploying open source elections in san francisco. unfortunately, we've been frozen in place here in san francisco bye-bye lobbyist

pleasure. so if we could make sure that the incoming commissionr is well versed in open source and understand the issue as a national security issue that can also be fiscally responsibility in the work of san francisco, i think that would be smart and i appreciate your time today. thank you. >> speaker: good morning, i am the program manager of leadership at urban habitat. a 30-year-old organization that works through power and lifting the voisz of low and low income and color as well as supporting, leaders in these communities in our board and commission which kelly is currently a a fellow. i want to speak in support of

kelly wong, the voters passed prop n. and that was just upheld by the court in august. as a san franciscan and in my professional role i think it's important to move that forward and hopefully, non citizens will be able to vote on all of their elected officials. and talk about the tax that's they have to pay. we believe that language justice is component of racial and class justice. and to have that voice on this commission is really critical. those who's language, first language is not english, or notice not their dominant language has something that understand them and has that lived experience. given that there is no current

immigrant in that commission, kelly would be the perfect for tha. i also want to say that kelly shows just a great level of solidarity, she does not only represent her community, of cantonese but all immigrants in the city. we have seen people be divided in the pandemic especially communities of color and i think her bringing a voice of accountability and solidarity of others, is important. we hope that you support this as well. >> speaker: my name is indicate--caden, i'm here to support my support for kelly wong. i know ms. wong personally and i know her to be a very bright and moral and ethical person. and i believe she has applied for this position for this commission solely because she

wants to serve the entire community of san francisco. in my brief statement i want to provide my support here and my expression and my belief that ms. wong would be an excellent commissioner. >> thank you. >> clerk: are there any other speakers who wish to give public comment? no additional speakers. >> public comment is now closed. supervisor watson. >> thank you, i want to say first thank you to both candidates. thank you both for stepping up and i want to en shaourj all of you to continue to pursue a way to participate and the work here in san francisco. i appreciate boasting you for

applying. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, and thank you for saying that supervisor walton. it's a tough job to make a decision when there is multiple applicants. and sometimes we get very qualified and motivated and engaged citizens and resident of san francisco that want to participate. so i appreciate both people for coming out. i did want to say, i think one of the things that, that we have not done well in san francisco and need to do better is fighting for advocating for immigrant communities that have language as a barrier to participating in the elections process. and i think that having somebody from that community that strangely can't even vote themselves but is that motivated to be part of the

process, i think in this public time, in this public moment is the right person for this opportunity. it's no knock on ruth and the work that she has done. i think she would make a phenomenal commissioner as well. but given where we are with increasing amount of immigrant communities moving to san francisco as supervisor walton said, engaging and encouraging more people existing to participate in the elections process, i think is an important thing. we made a very important decision in san francisco, much to the chagrin that wanted the status quo to move our mayoral election to november. and just that move itself will increase the participation by almost 30 percent of voters in san francisco in the most important election here locally.

so appreciate both of the applicants, but, i think we should at this moment, support kelly wong for this position and i would make a motion to put her into the seat. >> thank you, supervisor safai. i would agree and almost for all of the reasons that had you laid forward, so i will not repeat those. but i will say that, is it wouldcowits or kowitz, i had a great time talking to you.

your willingness and enthusiasm about serving the city is so, infectious that we're not going to let that go to waste, we will be in touch from my office, i really really want to express my gratitude to you for not only applying for this position but, for doing it so thoughtfully and so enthusiastickly want to go serve the city. i would support that motion and if we can have a roll call vote. >> clerk: yes on the motion to appoint kelly wong to seat 1. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> clerk: supervisor safai. >> aye. >> clerk: chair ronen. >> aye. jaot motion passes without objection. >> passes unanimously.

thank you to you both, we'll be in touch. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 4. >> clerk: item number 4 is mayoral appointment to mus caltrans portation agency board of directors, janet tarlov. >> hello. good morning, hello. >> speaker: good morning, good moansinger chair ronen, supervisor walton and supervisor safai. i'm very braitful for the opportunity to discuss my candidacy for the directer of msf transportation board. i appreciate your consideration of my nomination to the seat that was recently vacanted by

manny for his term completing on march 1 of this year. in 2006, i founded canyon market with my husband. and we rant store for over 16 years still late 2022. we were proud to employ 100 employees, support 250 active vendors and serve an average 6700 customers a day. road construction, commercial loading sxen forcement issues were part of our daily conversation. my presidency of glen mark merchant association and my service as vice president and chair of the legislative committee for the san francisco council of district merchant association, thought me that i have a passion for public service. last yae, i spent some months considering what my next professional step might be.

and i began to research opportunities to serve on a city commission. i believe strongly that mta has a fundamental impact on anyone who visits, works and lives in san francisco and merchants play an integral role in that system. i'm supportive of the practice of filling one seat of the mta board with somebody like myself from the merchant community. san francisco must have safe, reliable and clean, and affordable public transit and soundly engineer system of roys and parking if we are to be an equitable vibrant and environmentally sustainable city. if confirmed, i will work to expand my understanding and the many urgent issues it's facing. i'm eager to represent an independent voice for the mer xhant community, while at the

same time, taking holistic approach to making decisions that profoundly impact so many people. finally, i would like to thank you, chair ronen and supervisor walton and supervisor safai for your work on behalf of all san franciscans. i know the challenge of making decisions on behalf of others and i admire and respect your efforts. thank you and i'll gladly take my questions you may have. >> thank you, supervisor walton. >> thank you, chair ronen, thank you so much for being willing to serve. i have a couple of questions, once the only vehicle triaage center that we have in district 10. and curious, your approach to addressing the side of people who live in cars and in railroad vs and vehicles. >> yes, so that's a very very

difficult topic, vehicularly housed, this is a term that i recently learned. it's important that i maintain a kena wareness that this population is the most vulnerable to becoming homelessness. and there is a significant number of families with children in this represented in this population. i think the only way to solve this problem is for the agencies to collaborate with one another. mta plays a role, certainly, but we need to work together to solve this issue which is incredible urgent for both the people who are living in those circumstances and the, the neighborhoods where this is happening. there is an urgent need for

appropriate parking that is secure and provides basic services like sanitation, water and power. i look forward to digging into it and being part of the solution. i'm not, i'm not, i have so much empathy for every one on all sides of this problem. and, and i looked forward to doing what i can to help. >> how do you feel about mta raising fares? >> i think that the budget is a very important part, we have to have a sustainable system, i think we need to be looking at the revenue sources carefully and critically all the time.

fares are very in and out part of it, it goes to the services being provide. the answers that i've heard from the staff side have been that, you know, revenue needs to stay at a certain level in order for services to remain at a same level. what i've been told is not as simplistic as that and message is not as simplistic as that, but, we've been very fortunate to receive a bit of a stay on the urgency around raising fares in the immediate future, but there needs to be a lot of work in order to avoid that, if the services are not going to be impacted. and i think that's work that

needs to be done and it's not an impossible problem to solve. afford sablt tremendous important particularly for, for communities where the household income is low. or people who are disabled or senior or students, affordable muni and we need to do what we can to protect and preserve them. >> are you familiar with family tolls and what would be your vision on preventing them. >> i don't know i'm familiar, but the name seems to tell 34e that it's people's vehicles that are maybe non functional, maybe you can tell me a little bit more about that. >> it's the premise for folks getting fined for parking i willy but they don't have the

ability to pay for them. so they lose their vehicle. and fines can increase and continue to grow and really puts low income community members in a position where they may not be able to get their vehicles back. >> right, and then there is the cascading, series of issues for folks that. so, i, i think that the staff needs to be working very very hard to have to identify those situations. and find ways to help people out of those situations. that the level of the fines, you know, just having received some myself, they don't seem to be compensatory or appropriate to the infraction sometimes,

$100 is a lot of money. and that's, those are the fines that i've seen. so that's something that i think about a lot. at my business there were a lot of students and people from low income households who worked for us and and whenever there was a ticket, it was a big issue. and we as employees had to step in many times to help people in those and similar circumstances. where they didn't have enough money. so i'm very sensitive to it. i don't know the solutionds today but i think it's very important issue and i appreciate you bringing it up. >> there are some policies that work to alleviate the burden on low income from members of the

community that suffer these fines. i hope you read up on some of those and come up with some items to come up. >> and sorry to, but, you know, towing is a vehicle is a drastic step. drastic for the person who's vehicle is getting towed and it should not be taken lightly. so thank you. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, chair. and thank you ms. tarlov for a good discussion this morning. how often do you ride public transit? and did you ride public transit here today?

and what lines do you ride? >> i ride public transit not infrequently, my preferred way is by bike. i do own a car and i use it several times a week. and in terms of, arriving today, i took the m, i got it at castro station and got off here. since being appointed or, nominated for this role, i made it a point to leave my bike at home and ride muni more frequently than i have in resent years. i would like to say that i've been pleasantly surprised at the cleanliness and the operation of the vehicles that i encountered.

it was, encouraged to use muni more. and particularly, it came in very handy today because it was raining cats and dogs and i wanted to dress well for this hearing and, wearing rain pants was not part of my idea. so that's my answer. >> the reason i ask that question is for the seat in this particular, they look for people that are regular riders of public transportation, so that's one of the qualifications. >> yeah, i believe there is a certain number of seats that are required to have regular riders of the public transportation system it's not a requirement for all of the commissioners. >> and then, the other thing is, we talked a little bit this

morning, supervisor walton talked about one of the questions i had on impact on low income communities, so i appreciate you asked that question. my next question is there is not technically a seat for perspective of small business owner, if you read the charter, it's not written that way, but i think they reserved in a seat to appoint with that perspective, so i want to give you an opportunity to talk about that. i know you spoke about founding canon market, big fan of that establishment i've been going there for 15 years, since you opened. can you talk a little bit about how, over the last few years in particular, there is been a lot of conflict between small businesses, commercial corridors and many of the decisions that the mta has made. i want to give you an opportunity to talk about that.

>> sure, so, your question is specifically about the last few years in conflict with the merchant community. >> small business owners, merchant community and how they have interacted with them? and how you manage those conflicts? >> as you might have imagined, i have given this a lot of thought. particularly the community that i, that i have the most importance with is is our businesses with employees and who operate 7 days a week. and have a public facing component the. and owner operator are if you, think about it as a section of the whole population of san francisco, it's an incredibly small number of people.

you know, maybe there is 2000 of us, i'm really not sure, i would be interested in data related to that. however, we have an enormous impact on the quality of life for the people in our communities. and so, the one of the reasons that i'm so interested in taking this position, is i feel with mta in particular. there is a nrs a real urgency around having somebody with that experience having a strong voice. and then at the same time, i don't want to forget that the job of a directer as it is of any board is to take the tote alts of the issues before her and and make prudent decisions

that take into account all the points of view. but i do come from that merchant background, speaking for myself, i have certainly felt felt the the measure of making decisions that impact my business by mta and other city businesses, frankly very keenly. in particular, when i was in my business, we would divide our time so we were divide our time to always be there and we were closed 3 times a year and we

were there on those days. and to have antion say we could not get ahold of you, was a little discouraging. as we talked about on the phone, i feel like that lived experience of that out reach that did not live up to its promise, just to put it kindly is something that i would like to see. and just in the last few months that have had a lot of input at this several of level at the hearing level from members from the mer xhant community.

and if they come down and make their voice heard, it means that something has gone wrong before then, if they're coming down, it should be, i understand what the decision that has been, that's being considered is, and while i may not agree with every part of it, i want to, you know, just recognize that there is been out reach. and i don't see that happening. does that answer your question. >> a bit. i like the part that you've under scored and we're concerned about the out reach job that mta does when decisions are made and how they impact communities and merchants. i gave you multiple examples, we were talking about on the phone that the mta. one of the things that the mta has said in the past, at least

to me, i don't know if they said that to my colleague was that they were intended to have a point person, maybe they would overlap with multiple districts but at least there would be some to handle those problem and be as an interface. that will has never been realized. so i think that's an important thing to carry. i think you said to me, that would be one of your top priority would be engaging and improving out reach.

>> yes, and i appreciate what you're saying about the direct link because, because the as resident and as a business owner, that's my point of contact. so if there is strong communication with the supervisors offices, there is a link. the supervisors know who the loudest voices are and what the points are. they also know the people who are quietly working in the background. and are doing good work but maybe not as vocal about it. hearing that as our experience as supervisor, i think that's an area to pay strong attention

to. and you're right, that that is what i'm passionate about. i think i told you that running my business one of the things that hi learned is that employees and customers and vendors, they just want things to work. there is a lot 6 leadership. that people understand and if, and you don't get everything you want, you at least know that you were heard and you got some of what you want. that's a really important faoes and that's something that i would bring to the board. >> one of the things that i noticed about the mt a, it's

very top heavy, it's very managerial heavy in terms of the amount of positions. if i ask a question, i want to meet and discuss this, ten people will show up. so i had to turn back and say, i'm only going to interface with the director and director of libable streets. what i'm talking about in terms of community out reach and those on the ground, one of the biggest frustrations for many people is that the way the charter is set up, the mayor appoints all of the commissioners and all the decisions are board of the body but we receive a significant amount of requests and concerns

about the mta. so anything that you can do to prioritize is important in which the operations. to try to anticipate concerns that may come. i would just end with, i think it's important that have somebody with your perspective that is interface with both potentially the good and the bad from this agency. i did ask you and i'll just end with this, why you would want to be a commissioner for this commission? i think you're going to make a lot of enemies and disappoint a lot of people and understand, probably will be the only commission that you ever serve

on in the city. very very infrequently, so going with that with eyes wide open, i'm not trying to be a downer but trying to be very realistic about the endeavor you're about to take on. >> all right, thank you. >> you can say that about any role in the city where. you go and serve on the commission, but mta, you made a lost people upset. >> in fact, every one, if your bus is late, your day is ruined. there is a pothole in the street in front of your house, you hate the seed humps, whatever it is, everybody has got a lot of passionate

opinions. and to respond very briefly. i know the dinner parties would change and the and the inner actions would change. you know, i would like to, believe that, there are a lot of people who have interacted with me over the years who appreciate i'm a person of integrity and that you know, do my best and i'm very transparent in my communications possibly too transparent sometimes. but i really want to do well by the city and bit people. i think it's important if people think that the, the board, the directors have some kind of elevated group. we are san franciscans and i

think that very basic understanding is important. i'm aeg tore saefsh and i'm not disuaded by your questions. >> good answer. >> i have just one question, when we spoke on the phone, i want to talk about vision zero for a moment. we did better last year than the year before, which was one of the deadliest years that we had for traffic fatality but it continues to be a major challenge for us. i would love to hear any thoughts you have on vision zero and the importance it would hold for you, et cetera. >> thank you, thank you for that question.

we got cut off before having another chance. as mentioned before, i get around on my like, primarily and you know, i get sternd talking to, it's great to wear a helmet and your safety vest and all of these things, but you know, a neck injury, you're life is forever altered. so when i'm a driver, the thought of causing injury to somebody else is haunting and frankly terrifying, that's one of the reasons that i do cycle is it reduces the risk that i could ever hurt somebody that badly or cause a death.

san francisco for our level of population has higher incidents of these issues. and i really appreciate that we made a commitment to work on it as a city and i've had an opportunity to meet with a number of the you know, nonprofit organizations that are working hard on this issue. related to trying to further vision zero mission that our, you know, deeply unpopular. i mentioned the speed humps, the prohi bysing on right turns on read that are coming in

slowly slowly. and recently the state, requiring the daylighting of intersections. all of those have fans and attract orers. but i believe the safety has to be the number one priority, and it's a little harder to find a parking spot for its it takes 5 minutes longer for where you're going. that's just, how i feel about that, that's not a merchant point of view, that's a human point of view and i cannot stress enough the importance of that.

i, i guess, that's all i really want to say about that. >> thank you, thank you so much for being willing to serve in this role. mr. clerk, can we now open this item up for public comment. >> clerk: yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item, should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. there will be a small chime when you have 30 seconds left. and a louder chime when your time is expired. >> speaker: thank you very much. i'm paul terry i'm a small business advisory in san francisco and have lived in glen park for about 35 years. when janet and her husband took over, she was immediately involved in working with the community that we were cleaning up the community and dealing with off-ramps and on ramps, and as i spent more time in the community, and got to know her

more, she recruited me to the board which is influential, she was nones me to do that. and i worked with her over a year while we were on the board and i think, what i wanted to say about janet is that i know a lot about small businesses because i work with them all the time and having a business of a certain size, it allows to you see a large perspective on the impact that you have in the community. and when her and her husband are working with 50-60 employees, a lot impact the business and the community. so she didn't just stick to the small business of the business but looked at community at large. also how the impact of being a business of a certain size impact on travel or community or the population that they serve. so as a business owner, have you to look at the clients you serve and employees that you

maintain and she brings that broad perspective of handling things. so, for those reasons and many more, i support janet's approval on this board. thank you. >> speaker: hello i'm flow kelly and i lived in district 9. and i work with the coalition on stof poverty tows. and i'm really thankful to the requests that the rules committee members have been asking of janet tarlov, i admit, i knew nothing about her, but because of your que,z i learned a lot and i'm very happy. i'm very happy by what i heard. i appreciate her openness and

her empathy towards people that have such tight budgets that any huge thing like having to pay a ticket, having to pay registration even are things that they can't possibly predict like you know, yeah. yeah, all kinds of expenses that come up whether it be, medical expenses or what you have you, things that you cannot predict. and it throws everybody for a loop and it may mean that they end up living in their vehicle. and i appreciate that, janet tarlov sounds very empathetic towards that situation. and very happy to learn more and has an open mind and asked questions. so i would like her statement that towing a vehicle is drastic.

i really appreciate that. i think this is a janet would be a good person. thank you. >> speaker: good morning, chair and supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee on behalf of janet tarlov. i'm a 28-year resident in san francisco and 266 those in district 9. i've known janet for nine years through our children's work and more recently where i work. i'm a frequent shopper at canyon market that janet and her husband started. she i'm so excited that she is appointed, she has done a lot

of work, building up the membership and services in the area. and helping steward the organization throughout of the covid pandemic. she is trust i partner and cares deeply about the business leaders and neighborhood residents. her work through the council associations has given her a city wide perspective of the businesses in san francisco. and her voice on the board will be an important one as they navigate opportunities and challenges in the years to come. janet is devoted through service through san francisco, its resident sxz its future. she has demonstrated a willingness to serve her community in multiple capacity and works collaborative to seek solutions. one example, we recently had a rat problem and janet worked with a wide variety of city department, neighbors and business owners and others to work towards solutions. she is always organized and prepared.

finally, i believe janet will serve san francisco well, she listens and cure yu, principaled and she will approach the issues and concerns that will come to the boateder with equity and forbearance. i enthusiastickly support janet's nomination. thank you so much. >> speaker: hello supervisors shark' here to speak on behalf of janet. >> i went canyon market is my local market. i went down to go frao myself. i'm a small business owner myself, i've always been impressed how she ran. if you walk in the connection

to both the community and the employees, it's self evident, when she joined cdma, she would come to the small business meetings, she would often be the only person there. quietly listening, asking thoughtful questions and i would always listen very carefully to her, because so carefully thought through the issues and was a really thoughtful partner in trying to advance in city's interest. what, you would experienced just now talk to go janet is the janet that i've come to know. she is thoughtful, she is kind, she is empathetic, she is honest and diplomatic. i support her with all of my soul and anybody that wants to

volunteer with the city with those characteristics, we need so much more of that, and i urge you to vote her to the board. thank you. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors thank you so much for taking the time to listen to all of us, my name is sam, and i'm the founder and one of the owners of the business here in san francisco. and i've known janet for well over 20 years. as a fellow parent and business owner and fellow citizen of san francisco, janet has one of the highest levels of inat thingity of any person that i know. her genuine concern for san francisco is at the highest level, she talked a little bit about the challenge of being a business owner.

our staff who we need to care for. we have our employers that are trying to sell the food, people's livelihood are dependent on the commerce. general neighborhood in the community, that we also have to serve in janet's perspective has always been one of compassion and care for every single one of the stakeholders and she cares about her micro community but cares about the larger region of san francisco. i couldn't think of anyone better to serve on the board and i encourage you to vote her through. thank you so much.

>> clerk: are there any other speakers for this matter? no additional speakers. >> public comment is now closed. any last comment? well, thank you for coming out and giving testimony and thank you for your thoughtful response, ms. tarlov and i would like to make a motion to remove the word project, i guess. and send the motion as a community with positive recommendations. >> clerk: yes the motion to attend the motion to deplete rejecting throughout legislation and recommend as a committee report. vice chair, walton? walton aye. supervisor safai. safai aye. chair ronen. >> aye. >> clerk: ronen aye, the motion passes unanimously. >> glazesing. and mr. clerk, do we have any

other items on the agenda today. >> clerk: there are no other items on the agenda today. >> the meeting is adjourned. muy

african-americans migrated to the san francisco bay area, but bayview hunter's point to work as part of the ship yarding culture and tradition. that is how the black community got its root in this incredible city. a lot migrated to work at the hunter's point shipyard and on the water front >> my family came to san francisco lead my by my great grand mother in 1941. she came like most of the

african americans out of the south to the bay area to work in the shipyards during the second world war. overnight years, we people prospered, homeowners it was thriving for the african-american community. where bayview became the center points for african-american homeownership. >> with the shipyard closing, a lot of jobs left and with the maritime shipping leaving throughout the state. african-americans moved out of san francisco, which was the population is 4% or less of african-americans where 20 years ago it may have been 20%. here the port of san francisco we tried to create many opportunities for are african-americans to participate in contracting in development and jobs. i'm kay book the founder of

coffee company. recently opened the flagship coffee shop. this is a full circle for mow to have opened a new cafe here at the port. also like being welcomed back home again. >> port is the first place they was able to bid and win an opinion contract as a small business owner. when we think about the business of the port, and the maritime, right, that history is really continuing to extend itself in the way they engage with black businesses, black people and other diverse communities that are situated along the waterfront and as we move inward. >> we are looking now at the port of rejuvenating the community. bringing back a kind of economic sip lutz so that the people can go back to the lives they were so well adopted to and building

homes and creating families and having churches that were filled. >> i toured crane cove park it is absolutely amazing. this will be a wonderful addition to san francisco. >> i think it is amazing after having conversations with folk who is live in the community and have been excited and waiting for this p to be realized for years, walking around, seeings the connections to history. the opportunity for folks to utilize the water here is going to be an amazing opportunity for all the families and community and i can't wait for the diversity of opportunity we will see here. >> i'm in the crowd and i'm the owner and founder of spin out fit knows. port reached out to me recently and said they would love to spin out fitness a per of this plan going to 2025. that will be the beginning of you know, this redevelopment of this southern part of san francisco. which is going to be a

fantastic. i'm excited about that. >> mission rock is 13 years of city planning and community input to transform a surface parking lot south of the park to a new neighborhood. it will transfurthermore this area into 1200 homes 40% will be affordable and this is something this we are all excited and proud of. >> having been in the industry for 17 years and seeing a lack of diversity when i joined the port, that was the first thing that i saw that there is a lot of diversity and leadership from the commission. and down through the executive team and then throughout our port. director forbes, commission they have done a good job of making sure the port team reflects not only the city but the people of san francisco and those who visit our water front

>> the community. city and private cities working together we with bring the port back to the economic stimulus for people who live here. >> it is important that -- everyone have a role at the port of san francisco and everybody feels welcome

>> good morning. welcome to the january 24, 2024 meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor chan chair i'm joined by vice chair mandelman. and horly by supervisor melgar. our clerk is brent jalipa i would like to thank sfgov.org for broadcasting the meeting. >> to those in attendance silence electronic device to not interrupt. should you have documents to be included as part of the file snoit to myself. public comment will be taken on

each item when you item come up. line up to speak on the west side to your right, my left along the kurt anxiety. not necessary to provide comment we invite to you fill out a comment card by the television to your left by the doors. if you wish to be recorded for the minute of the you may submit in writing. e mail them to myself the budget and finance clerk brent. jalipa sfgov.org. if you submit comment via e mail tell be forwarded to the supervisors and per of the file. e mails sends written comments to 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, room 224, san francisco, california. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the agenda of january 30 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you.

and just a reminder we have the budget and legislative analyst report and today we have it for a bit of items on the agenda 3, 7, 8, 9, lane and 15. we'll have the department presentation followed by budget and analyst report then committee questions then public comment. mr. clerk. call item 1. >> item one ordinance authorizing the office of the chooefr me to accept and extend i grant 1 million from the california department of public health substance and addiction branch will the saul row ordinance for 23-24 and 24-25. to provide addition of grant fund class 2403 forensic analyst, toxicologist and class 2457 forensic toxicologist supervisor positions required

for the period december first of 23-28. madam chair. >> thank you. and today we have the city add administrator's office here. that is weird. okay. i believe this was continued from last week. okay. all right. then go public comment o this item. yes. we have members joined us who wish to speak lineup now to speak. along to the right. and all will have 2 minutes to speak. we have no speakers. >> no public comment it is now closed. we did have amendments from last week. with that because have to amend

the aso with the annual salary ordinance to include position and that was substantive from the last week. with that i will make a motion to move the amended legislation from last week. that continued to this week to full board with recommendation. a roll call, please. >> on that motion, vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> abupon cent. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 2 aye's member melgar is absent. >> motion passes. >> with this mr. clerk call item 2. >> item 2, is an ordinance amending ordinance 8-18 authorize the general manager of puc to enter in amendments and extensions of or replacements

for the bank agreement authorized under the ordinance. support as need for power purchase and requirements and other financial obligations cleanpowersf aggregation program for additional terms not exceeding 10 years. madam chair? >> i want to thank the puc for briefing to allow me to learn about the technical aspects of this legislation. so that we understand why this is before us today. and we have puc our commission here today. >> good morning, supervisors. i'm nick, the capitol finance director for the puc. my team works with all 4 rated entities to access the capitol markets for various bonds. letters of credit and other financial products. the legislative file before you today has a lot of paper in it

but it is simple. item. >> and in 20 antiboard of supervisors authorized the general manager to enter in credit agreements to facilitate the operations of cleanpowersf. that authority is coming to end and it is time now to renew that. this renews the existing authority for the existing amount of 1 fate million dollars up to for another 10 years. this facility is -- a key fasillity for allowing cleanpowersf to function in san francisco. can i have the next slide? we provide you with the legislative history and as i mentioned this was originally authorized in 2018.

subsequent the puc did have a competitive process, for jekdzs jp morgan to provide a facility for 75 million dollars. the cleanpowersf rated by moody investors with the highest rating of any community choice in the state that allowed us to reduce the need for credit facilities. we still do require credit facilities. that is the next slide. why do we need these. the cleanpowersf enters in various contracts with counter parties to acquire power in the future. this is in order to provide reliable future power. and some of those agreements require the posting of -- collateral we

account post cash but lowers the cost to be able to enter in credit agreements and letters of credit. which are simply -- a back stop to our promises and should we ever fail on those promises the counter party can access the funds from the bank. rather than posting cash and losing the interest earningos that cash this . is a product used throughout city departments. >> one of the key items and the items that is affected our times well is a financial security requirement that is the requirement that they maintain that should cleanpowersf ever go out of business, this would cover cost of returning those

customers to pg and e. and -- this is a requirement for all ag~igator~s across the state. they are reevaluating that requirement. we had expected a decision on this in october. we are still awaiting that but the anticipation is this because well was a cca in southern california that went out of business what requirement will increase substantially. this facility will allow you to meet that requirement on any other requirements under the purchase agreements. with that i'm happy to answer questions. >> vice chair mandelman. thank you madam chair and thank you for your workism think

cleanpowersf is the great policy successes for san francisco the last couple dkdzs and would like to add myself as a cosponsor. >> thank you. i don'ting i have sponsors vice chair mandelman add heel be the response of legislation. i appreciate the work. it is technical to understand this from what after the brief to,000 as both a collateral and leverage for us to continue to operate for cleanpowersf it is critical. it is has been concerning seeing the bankruptcy filed in southern california for the aggregation program there. i want to see continuing extension not just for san francisco and regionaly. we have the northern california community aggregation. coa ligsz would like to see everyone is sound and sustained

and conditioning. supervisor melgar? >> thank you. chair chan, my question was along your comments. in that i am wondering if this facility for a 150 million over 10 years is sufficient for the growth of the program that may be necessitated by the changes in the what we have in terms of the fast changing market. >> thank you. for that question. >> the facility is 20 million. this is the authorization for the general manager to enter in such agreements. recognizing that the actual need for credit facilities may change over this 10 year period and

might change fast enough to make -- through full process for authorization each time. that's why we second degree for 150 million. we do intends to restore this back to 75 million dollars, which is where it had been. based on when we would the cpu c may require. thank you. go to public money this item of the >> the opportunity to the public if they choose to approach. we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. colleagues i like to move this item ask to continue -- sorry. let's move this to full board with recommendation. and a roll call >> on that motion to forward to

the full board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman >> member melgar. >> chair fan. >> we have 3 aye's. >> motion passes. >> mr. clerk. call itemly >> a resolution authorizing the office contract administration to execute modification number 3 to a contract can the city and alameda inc. for for you chas of supplies for city departments increasing the amount by 6 huh that you knowed for a total amount 10.5 million no change to the contract duration. madam chair. >> i not the want asked we then and there item. they asked for continuance january 31. go to public comment for

continuance of this item. >> we invite the public to approach if they wish to comment on the continuance of item number 3. we have no speakers. >> no public comment it is now closed. like to make the motion to move this to continue to january 31. and with that a roll call. >> on the motion it continue this to january 31 meeting. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. aye >> chair chan. >> aye >> thank you the motion pass. mr. clerk. call item 4 and 5 together. >> 4 and 5 are resolutions authorizing the d. public comment, 4 is to nernt a grant agreement for term commencing on execution of the upon grant agreement through june 30 of 27 to between the city and advocates for human potential

inc. construction at 822 gear first floor including a permitted and restricted use authorizing the guarantee to apply for a receiver. in the event of the city's default and authorizing to enter in modifications to the grant agreement that will did not increase the obligations or liabilities of the city and necessary for the purpose of the grant and item 5 to accept and extendan a grant increase 282,000 for an amount 4 million from public health for participation in the program, california tobacco prevention program for july first of 23 to june 30 of 24. in dam chair. >> thank you. we have department of public health for both items. >> thank you. good morning. thank you for hearing. i'm here to speak to the

agreement for human potential. part of funding from the state. i'm sorry. thank you. from the state behavioral healing infrastructure program. the funder is a california department of health care service using coronavirus funds. in november, we received november of 22, received an award from this program. not to exceed amount of 6. 8 million appropriated part of last year's budget process. here today because the california department of human care services. included nonstandard terms. we are here to seek approval to accept those terms. on the grant that has been accepted. the funding is for the

infrastructure program to prepare the building at 882 geary for crisis stabilization unit. to provide medical care and staffed with medical providers. the unit will be designated state license 24/7 medical facility providing psychiatric and urgent care service. 16 beds add to the existing 550 residential care beds. >> city street teams have the site available for drop off at the stabilization unit. and once occupied we will may maintain the space and be good theirs. specific to the agreement. the terms we seek approval on -- include one, entering in the agreement for 6.8 million. agrees to record the restrictions specific to the

first floor of 822 geary consistent william terms of the funding. second. an obgigz for the city to hold them harmless. and last provide authorization for the state to apply for receiver. in the case of city default. they are nonstandard terms that require board approval for accepting. we are seeking as retroactive approval. upon we received the award letter in november of 22. and the award agreement a few days later. grant funds process in the left year's budget and the nonstandard negotiations around the nonstandard terms carried on through the course until now. in closing, we request your approval to retroactively accept and happy to answer questions on

the item 4. vice chair mandelman. i want to just say this has been a long time coming. we have been talking about for the entirety time i have been on the board of supervisor its is much needed to provide relief for sf general. and i'm glad to see it move forward. thank you. >> thank you. i don't see questions let's go to 5 presentation. thank you. good morning i'm nicole train weir promotion branch with dph for the tobacco free program by the california department of

public health. i will start with the goals of the program. give you over view of the program. goals of the tobacco free project are to rugs use in san francisco by work across all levels of the spectrum of prevention a -- variety of issues. some of the issues are limiting tobacco oct. sesz and advertising. providing community education and quitting programs. establishing healthy alternatives to tobacco and implementing policies this protect our community from second hand smoke. at the individual level our to becomeo free project team usa implements smoke cellsation classes and direct education, community events and through social marketing. our team trains primary and behavioral health mo providers

how to support individual who is use tobacco that are enrolled in substance use treatment promise. the project is the backbone support of our san francisco community tobacco free coalition providing funding opportunity to youth serving organizations. this allows young and upon learn to conduct and analyze their research. learn about functions of local government of anticipate in community organizing. they allow the youth to be public health champions. california to becomeo prevention program instructed jurisdictions on how the funds may be used with the focus on supporting the implementation of the state flavor tobacco restriction

policy. the funding requires the local jurisdictions with the pundzs to add one or more new activities or required to increase the volume of the current activities. . . the tobacco free prshth anticipated prop 56 tobacco sales tax revenue by the california department of public health. within to becomeo free prevention program. proposition 56 tax revenue funds health care, medical services and tobacco use prevention and education programs in school districts. and county departments. san francisco was the several california county received a prop 56 funding adjustment this year. and they were allocated

based on the legislative formula. so we were awarded an additional 281,000. to expand our service. during the fiscal year 23-24 or program staff planned to provide additional tobaccosertions they will be at southeast health center and richmonday people's clinic in san francisco and expand partnerships with small businesses impacted by the flavored po tobacco policy and a minigrant to communities they are community engagement grants to support prevention education. again additional tobacco cellsation programs and referrals and participation in our program activities.

>> the system of care requested retroactive authorize of the funds toalicate to the grant the item is retroactive due to dph receiving the notice of award in august 30 of 23. with the project start date of july first of 23 and project start date of the is predetermined by the grantor. thank you for your time and consideration. and i will open up for questions you have. >> thank you. it is interesting, i see that there is a senior health educator? to be part of this and i'm love to learn more about that. not this moment. just in the separate conversation.

interesting. >> i could upon answer that question now. i think. what i'm hearing the senior health educator classification or certification does not imply this individual is reaching out to seniors. it is a higher level classification we have health education assistant. a health educator and senior health educator in those series. >> senior health educator could program manage several wellness

and drug health services. it is nestle in the program management design and implementation around populations. thank you. >> sometimes i'm reading it and trying to understand them. >> absolutely. just curious about bilingual out reach materials with the grants that go to small businesses. i think there are some that are i see sell more it becomeo than others in different neighborhoods. could you walk us through a bit more about the minigrant and how they anticipate reaching out to monolingual and immigrants small businesses and individuals. >> absolutely. within our community wellness we have a diverse staff. and how we issue our minidprants throughout program add administrator. which allows us to give to funds

agencies who don't necessarily have the fiscal capacity to go through an rfp process n. miniguarantees we hold smaller conference with our program add administrator that give additional information on how to apply for the grants and provide direct assistance for smaller program who is have not gone through the process. within the minigrants we think about language capacity am as of now we grants are not necessary low issue in the different language and will muttling walwe do have staff that can help the small are agencies throughout the process of of course, from a neutral stand point. has to be sloit low competitive process. but we ensure we reach out to partners they are aware that this money is available in addition, this process is not as

rigorous as rfp press it is low threshold. and so when they apply for the grants it is one page response opposed some of them are required by the city. thank you. and my last question. in the document and trying to understand of what this is. here it mentioned about youth internship wanted to understand the h for youth internship. >> our youth are from 12-24 that's how we classifiy youths. yes. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. i'm familiar with this project. you know it was great.

and not just in teaching having kids discuss tobacco and also about the social justice and racial justice aspects of substance abuse and you know tobacco in the cultural context. i continuing is great. kudos to you >> thank you i appreciate that. and kudos to my team. the senior health educator. they are the -- brains behind this. thank you. >> thank you. >> with that, let's go to public comment on 4 and 5. >> we invite the public who wish to comment on or both items 4 and 5. we have no speakers. public comment is closed. i would like to move the 2 items with recommendation.

and with that a roll call. >> on the motion to forward both. these to the board with positive recommendation mandelman. >> aye >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three. >> motion passes. >> call item 6. >> a resolution approving a declaration of restrictions with the are san francisco number 15 owner llc to establish a new build zone on property by the city. adjacent to 1450 for future park use providing amounts of 72 with 3% increases. the city from owner in exchange for a term effective on january first, 24 through and perch taoist defined in restriction and authorizing the director of properties to make modifications

and take actions increase the obligations or liability to the city don't decrease the benefits to the city and necessary for the purposes of declaration of restrictions or resolution. >> thank you. and our director, good to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you, chair chan. good seeing you. good morning chair chan and supervisor mandelman and melgar director of real estate. i'm here before thank you morning seeking positive recommendation on a resolution to establish a declaration of restrictions establishing a no build zone on property soon to be owned by the city adjacent to 1550 owen street. i have a slide presentation.

1450 owen was entitled in the planning department to construct a 7 story life science building. will be built against the prosperity line. as a result, the developer needs a no build easement on the adjacent property soon to be owned by the city to provide fire and emergency service access. the easement 24 feet wide. a no build area. i apologize for the quality of the picture this is a rendzerring of the 1450 owens building. you see the dotted out line that would show the no build area.

the property is owned by ocii will be transferred to the city under the jurisdiction of rec and park. scheduled to be a park. so what we are talking about is maintaining an open no build area in this case a grass area in an existing park. the city had no plans to build it is beneficial to the developer and the city. >> in terms of the agreement i said before is that the no build would be 24 feeted with. and the leth of the parcel. which is 247 feet. it required the dwerp, which is are to make payments to the city of 72 thousand dollars per year increasing 3 percent. required maintain the no build area. suitable for emergency vehicle access.

the ease. remain until the building is demoed and easement is no longer required or if the developer were to fail to meet obligations for payment. >> i have with me eon snow vice president of the real estate division for the develop and i'm available to answer questions you may have. thank you. >> thank you. so we are basically saying we are shiping a no interested we want to turn it to a park. and we are to the developer and -- so -- do we have beyond what we have now, as initial annual payment are there plans of building this out as a park? >> yes. this is in mission bay. which is a planned development

redevelopment project area. the parcel p 7 is designated as a park. it is already entitled as such plans are already approved. we know? will be a park. mission bay is required build out the p. >> got it. they are -- responsible to build out as responsible to fund and build it. >> my last statement was not clear. there are 2 developers. the developer are for 1455 offense the no build easement the mission bay developer required build a park and turn it over to ocii then to the city. parcel p 7 the adjacent parcel the subject of the no build easement, will be a park built

by mission bay develop and run by rec and park once it is transferred. >> which i think this body approved that mission bay. >> yes. that transfer ask emthen. >> thank you. and with this i don't see anyone, go to public comment on this item. members of public who wish to speak on item 6 now is the time to approach. we have no speakers. >> public comment is closed. with this i would like to move this to full board with recommendation and with that a roll call. >> on the motion to forward with a positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> 3 ayes. >> item 7 a resolution

authorizing the sheriff's office to enter in a fourth amendment contact with the pretrial diversion project for pretrial services increasing the condition tract amount 499 thousand not to exceed amount of 19. 8 million no change to the term of 3 years. >> we will go to the department for a presentation and good to see cfo patrick now sf police department. and now with the sheriff's office am i'm patrick the chief

financial officer. today we are requesting the committee recommendation for our amendment for the pretrial diversion contract. i want to -- address one of the issues identified. in that -- for the department we have not conducted the site monitor visit at this time. we had transition internally. i just joined the department the left month and another vacancy within the team this is the things i do intends to upon correct in the next couple of months to dot monitoring visit and get us back in compliance. with respect to the amendment, this amendment is to add funds to the contract and most of the change in budget is attribuable to cost of living for salary.

and if there are questions that the committee members have. i am joined by my colleagues from our program and david with pretrial. and we are here to answer questions you may have. sthk. we gallon to the bla and i think i wanted clarify there are few recommendations from the bla and i want to make sure we are all on the same page. >> good morning. nick from the bla. item 7 a resolution approves an amendment to the sheriff's office contract with the pretrial diversion project. the amendment increases not to exceed from 19.3 million to 19. 8 million dollars. there is no change in the term which educations june 30 of

2024. this funding is to get them throughout rest of this fiscal year. any funding beyond that would require board approval. it is not to exceed is based on funding throughout fiscal year. as we do for any nonprofit provider, we look at their financial health and electric at the performance of their programming. in this case pretrial diversion safety assistance for people arrested, supervision for people awaiting trial and provides diversion programming as required by the -- courts. this, there were issues we noted in our review. upon one is that so the city's contract with pretrial diversion required an audited financial statement provided in 6 months in close. the organization has not done

one since june of 20 ton. shoes the deteriorating financial health decrease 400 thousand dollars. and then in their tax statements for 2022, shows on going decreases in net inin from 400 thousand dollars to 300 thousand dollars. which for this year they had 9.3 million dollars in expense. their reserve is less than the 60 day cash minimum t. is a best practice for nonprofits to have the control are office recommends -- for all city nonprofits. and i know this there has been turn over in the cfo i'm not sure the time line of that. i do have concerns about the financial health of the organization that is delivering

critical services to the criminal justice population. on the program side we did there are several reporting requirements required by the city's contract. that we relied on to -- assess the program performance. and in general. the data reported by pretrail for 23 i think many ways looks like the program is w. there are 2 key performance metrics. one is they rate which clients pay for court dates above 95% and the rate at which they recylinder have a. did they commit a crime under intrigz or in a diversion program they are in the 90%. one stuck out to me which was that clines on the highest level of intrigz have a lowir

appearance rate. 80%. special that informs recommendation we have about the sheriff's office coming back when they amend the contract a guess beyond the fiscal year. to develop a plan to improve the rates. and suggests to me that there is not the sheriff's office does not do a program assessment. which is a best practice when you work k with a contractor. and that performance could assess whether -- that the quality of the service you know is high. right mou we have out put in terms of number of clients and appearance and don't have a sense of what the quality of service is. and again we don't have for the statistics that deviate from -- you know the higher levels from the higher program performance rates we have seen in other

areas of the program. we don't have an explanation why or how to improve it. we had several recommendations one to request the sheriff's office and controller's office. review the organization to see if they benefit from technical assistance to ensure the governors meets guidance. second to request under take a program monitor process for the contract and ensure it complies with the terms and assess the program's performance. and related that request the sheriff to develop a plan for appearance rate in a case manage. . recommend approval of item 7. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. thank you to the sheriff's department. this is concerning on both

finance side and the program side. so on the finance side i want to point out that i'm not having updated audits is also not in compliance with the secretary of state. there is that further. problem. so i like all the recommendations. in the bla report. i would go a bit farther this contract is expiring and want a path forward this is responsible not just as budget committee but what we are trying to do in terms of the over all goal. that is -- perhaps a cost benefit analysis from the sheriff's department. some of the functions were once performed by staff at the sheriff's office. you therein are reasons the contract out this work. you know one of them is is to allow for leverage of other

resources not just city resources to be brought in the to work this organization has not done that so much there is not a lot leveraged out in terms of private dollars outside of the government funding. in terms of when we guest. the goals and the performance. >> thank you. i would echo and second those comments you know i -- have very mixed feeling busy this contract in a lot of uncertainty about it. i know we are considering an

amendment now. i think we are thinking about what's coming. the one hand. pretrial does great work and is and you know a uniquely san franciscans prop to get folks that have -- accused of committing a crime the support than i need to not return. i think we have been asking more of this program the last few years we have been rethinking our approach to criminal justice generally. i think well is a need for -- you know real first of all. a basic level of finance and i -- look forward to the sheriff's department able to -- you know get their reporting up-to-date and unsure they are doing the reporting.

going become to policy lab report from 2021. and those, there appears to be a discrepancy with had they were seeing and finding and when is hinted at here. you know, i don't know thou how that would resolved. i don't remember. as we think about continuing on, we need tong about are these numbers right and what the

controller and board should look at. i think we need to make sure that there are the resources to be evaluating program efficacy. i think there are i do -- i do have occurrence. my inclination to vote this out without recommendation or to you know vote out with recommendation but continue to think about these the next week and reserving my right to change my position. >> i'm inclined to vote out without recommendation. that has been the consistency in this committee. that when there are things does in the matter which department or program they are, when they have we have questions specific

low about the deliver and he results. and also cost benefits. we often time vote anything out out of this committee. if necessary because of constraint of time without recommendation. i'm inclined do so today. i think that i want to make clear not just on this contract and i think i was -- may be not as definite, so i will reiterate what i said last week when we had -- the mayor's office and the controller before us last week about the projection of 1. 3 billion dollars deficit. and i have tasked the analyst office. our controller to be greg very specifically that both all

contracts city contract this moment with the deficits we face in the fork road. one is if than i are not performing and we don't know what they do. and that it is costing us. how do we rents them down in the fiscal rear or however way we rent them down. and the goal is to a determination. if there are contracts we do see results and performs and they are deliveries that meet our goals but we see they are calling short for a reason like requirement of capacity building. acquire more information. in order tormake that decision. and that it is not the intention of the city departments to terminate they see values or previous results.

and for wha reason now they fall short. we can go in a pace where how do we build the capacity. scale up oir or down deliver the results with the dollar we spend. so i will reiterate that for all contract including pretrial diversion project before us today. i think that -- cfo presidentric mentioned that it is the sheriff office intention in the next few months you get this all the recommendations. you will have responses for all the recommendations. i look forward to seeing that. this amendment of contract last to june of 24. which is the end of this fiscal year. and from what i understand and the bla can confirm it did or the sheriff's office can confirm this did go out for bid. and that pretrial diversion is

the only respondedant. >> that was correct. there was afr in 2020 and pretrial was the only. >> that was 2020? >> i believe. gi think so, too. let's have this conversation about going referring back to the bid in 2020. and in the last 2 fiscal years how do we make sure that the project itself does -- answer to the briermentd. the contract requirement. i look forward to seeing that. with that go to public comment on this item. members who wish to comment on this item 7, now is your opportunity to approach and address this committee. we have no speakers

>> public comment is closes. i would like to recommend to full board. >> we have an agreement to include that cost benefit analysis. with that i like to -- accept and request recommendation provide by bla. and with that we would loishg to

move this item to full board without recommendation. >> on that motion. vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have throw aye's. >> thank you. >> item 8 is a resolution authorizing the port to accept a grant in the amount of 9.6 million from the department of transportation merry time administration port infrastructure development program to fund the amdover street infrastructure project from march of 24 through february of 27 and thursdaying the port director to enter in modifications to the grant agreement and not increase the liabilities to the city and necessary for the purposes of the grant agreement or this resolution. in dam chair. we have sf port and this has the

bla report. >> good morning. legislative affairs manager for the port of san francisco. the item authorizes the port to except 9.6 million from the merry time administration for the improvement project a 1. 4 mile roadway in the merry time industrial complex. it is associated utilities are beyond the design, life and in poor condition. the area is subject to closure due to storm flogd in 2022 applied and won a port infrastructure development grant 9.6 million dollars. our original grant included a 25% port match inform 2023, we won a 21.5 million dollars grant from the cal state agency for

merry time that award includes 2.5 to cover a portion of matching funds will bring that accept and extend resolution to you next month after both are applied the port will contribute 647 thousand dollars of the total 12. 8 million dollars project. the -- it is the gate way to the merry time industrial complex the roadways in dire need of repair the improves clood reconstruction of the roadway. replace am of the pump station and of the sewer system. removal of abandon railroad tracks and tie and new land cale scaping. if you approve this resolution today we will work to advertise bids next month with the goal of beginning construction in august and completion in summer of 20 ticks i'm joined by our project manager, we are both available to answer questions.

thank you and we ask your approval. >> item 8 is a resolution that authorizes the port to accept and extend 9.6 million dollars guarantee from u.s. department of transportation. we detailed the use of fundos page 12, which show this granted be applied to the amdover street project that was described by the port limp is a matching funds requirement to accept which is why we report on it today. that the matching fund requirement the remaining cost 3.2 million dollars. the bulk of that will be met by another grant from the state the port obtained with 647 thousand dollars by the harbor fund we recommend approval >> thank you it is good to have money that is from outside of city to be able to do something for improvements i appreciate. and i don't see questions on

name on the officer and let's go to public comment. we have no speakers zoom seeing no public comment temperature is closed. move this to full board with recommendation. and with that a roll call. >> to forward this vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have 3. >> motion passes. call item 9. >> item 9 is a resolution approving and authorizations the execution of a first amendment to the amended restated loan agreement with the san kristina lp a limited partnership to increase a loan amount 2 million for a new aggregate loern amount

not to exceed 12.8 million for rehab costs related an affordable 58 unit multifamily development. on whiches of housing and community development. documents made modifications to take action infurtherance. define thered in. madam chair >> thank you. >> >> we have mayor's office of housing and community development here. >> thank you. supervisor chan and mandelman and melgar. i'm william wilcox bond program manager and the project manager for the san kristina. and this request is authorizing increase of lone for a new aggregate loan amount not to

exceed 12. 758 unit multifemale rental housing for very low income. >> this building was built in 1913 and also scene from the phil from interview with a vampire in 1991 home rise known as the community housing partnership purchase today with funds from the city. and then we started a full scale redevelopment to update work.

all the major work is complete and we are now seeing additional fundses to address issue this is came up toward the end of construction learningly top of the building. as well as others construction loan and insurance increases across the industry. the project has 58 units for former low homeless adulls and on site service they are restricted 50% of the median income. than i all have section 8. tenabilities pay 30% of encome. 2 commercial space one is home rise office and the other is working to lease it to a restaurant hopefully that is in

process. the scope is large. redid the plumbing, electric and h vac upgrade to the units sinks to each. up grids to the shared bedrooms and improvements to come areas and office space. i mentioned, we provide a lone that was committed up front. the additional 1.9 million in community block grant funding. than i received monfrefederal home lone affordable housing program and then award of accelerator and mull family housing program. work is on going. you see from the presentation, the cornice at the top has significant. these were covered by a combination of paint and duct tape. some initial amount money was put aside for this until work started there was no real way to

know the extent of the damage. the building is a hundred years old in historic seed are district. we have to replace it to the standards. we have to have all of those from fiberglass. we reduced spends to replace the sheet metal with planning approval. the contractor and developer condition third degree work to not have construction loan. we are hope to finish completion in may and close out in july with the fundses to come in. the project manager is here to answer questions and happy to

discuss questions as well. there is a press to obtain a waiver, from the historic preservation commission. the work is on going the department's proceeding with the restoration of the cornice.

i think that this makes sense in terms of approving this. i do think this raises -- for me a policy issue about whether the board can consider amending the planning code to exempt affordable from requirements and historical districts to save monoat costs going forward recommend approval item 9. >> thank you. >> i don't see name on the roster. we appreciate the work. now public comment on this item. why we invite the public who wish to speak. to address the committee. to approach the lect urn. we have no speakers >> seeing no public comment it is closed. colleagues interesting of 58 residential sro units in

historic district. it is cost low but must be done special with this i like to move this item to full board with recommendation. and with that roll call. >> on this motion it forward the full board vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we >> thank you. call the next item 10. >> and wait. item 10 through 12 together. >> yes. items 10 and 11 are resolutions authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute the agreements with the california department of housing and community development. item 10, under the infill infrastructure grant program for 8 million by hcd i guarantee to

the city for infrastructure related to report at 850 turk and 750 golden gate. selected by california for a handled percent for periods on the execution date of the agreement. through june 30, 2030. and as amended. item 11 is under the affordable housing and sustain act community program for award 32 million including 22 million dispursed by hcd a loan to the turk street lp for a 100 percent foorpdzable houz housing and 10 million to be a grant for public transportation near 850 turk. the period starting on the agreement to november 30, 2043. and authorizing ocd to accept and extend the guarantee of up to 10 million for transportation

street scape and pedestrian. and other transit programming and improvement approved by hcd. item 12, supporting housing corporation of application under the site's local government matching grant program to the hcd to receive funds in order to develop and construct an affordable 75 unit full family development affordable to low income. resident manager unit on a state owned site, at 750 golden gate. submit project budget and resources. to be included in the application. madam chair >> today we have major's office of housing here. thank you. >> hi, thank you. chair chan i'm ryan senior project manager of the mayor's office of house and community development. i'm here to present on 10, 11,

12 housing at 750 golden gate and 850 turk. all 3 resolutions relate to state funding for the state cites for affordable housing developed by mid pen housing. in 2019, governor direct agencies to identify parcels for excess state lanes to be develop in the affordable housing n. 2021, after a state issued rfp. mid pen ordered rights 100% affordable on 2 site negligence san francisco at 850 turk and 750 golden gate in haze valley neighborhoods. both are used as parks lots near employees ever state employment development department. they will be developed from 3 housing developments totalling 260 new units. the resolutions are for the first 2 projects 850 turk and 750 golden gate phase one the

third will start predevelopment once more source of funding are identified. torch fill the gap needed to develop the projects phase one mid pen applied from 3 state programs to the california department of housing and community development. item 10 accept and extend resolution authorize to execute an agreement with hcd under infill product grant program for award 8 opinion 1 million dollars. the projects awarded in february of 2023. and will be used for infrastructure improvements for 750 golden gate and 850 turk. where 11 authorizes to execute an agreement under the affordable housing and sustainable communities program to award 32 million dollars in housing funding and transportation improvements forave 50 turk. and item 12 supporting 750

golden gate phase one application to hcd local government matching grant program. will provide 10 million dollars in funding for the development. more about the projects 850 turk a 92 unit 100% affordable incomes from 40 to 80% area median incriminal 28 stewedise. 161 bedrooms. 221 bathrooms. speak fast. >> funded with grants. tax credits and bonds with no direct funding from the city. will provide 75 units of new housing for san francisco districts and community college district employees. 42 units for paraeducators and staff earning 40 to 90% of the income. and 30 reserveed teachers 140%

incriminal 7 studios. 331 brotherlies and [inaudible]. and 750 golden gate will be funded with state grants. tax credits issue bonds and funding from ocd23 educator [inaudible] an award up to 20 million dollars. this project will come become to the budget and finance later this year to review and approve the lone before construction. both will apply for housing tax credit in april and construction in december of 24 and january of 25. i'm here today with lisa from mid pen housing we are happy to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you. okay. i guess i don't my colleagues don't have questions. i do have just for mow to learn and understand the relationship and the notification how it guess out for bid between the

mayor's office and the state department. state d. housing figure out so. how -- are the mid pen selected be the developer for the projects again? walk me good in detail. i can try inform 2019 the governoror designated state excess sights reserved for affordable. a separate from dgs mid pen applied for theory separate low directly through the state. and they were award in the 2021. and so with this, this started ocd's involvement. and we have been working with them the 850 turk project there is no city funds we are using the infill product grant. for infrastructure improvements. but 750 golden gate has have oc

d funds we are underwent writing that through guidelines. in terms of the state it is on its own schedule. and this one the excess site is not common. iag and grants we see all the time the cites this was meant firstitying raise. second. so. still new for san francisco. >> yea. so -- again, help me understand. when it means that it is the state has acquired the site in this case the 2 cites directly on their own and that they have awarded mid pen directly to develop the sites. once the process went through the mayor's office of housing get involved? >> that's correct. with one small edit the state did not acquire them they owned the cites. it is current parking lot for a

state department now. >> thank you. >> we don't vice chair mandelman. >> sound like great project and like to be added for 10-12. >> thank you. let's go to public comment for the 3 items. >> invite public to comment on item 10, 11 or 12, you can approach now. we have no speakers. >> no public comment, it is closed. colleagues i like to move the 3 items to full board with recommendation and the roll call. >> on this motion to forward these resolution to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> the motion passes. >> mr. clerk, call item then.

>> >> ordinance policing approximately 48.4 million in various departments budgets. departments budget appropriation specified in the mayor's fiscal 23-24 mid year budget reduction on board of supervisor budget reserve in fiscal 23-24. madam chair. >> thank you. colleagues. we really negotiated in good faith with the mir and are the team. with the murder in the third degree year budget cut the cuts were really are the board's add backs. and so with this appropriation allow you to place the mid year budget cuts which mainly are the board's add back place on reserve. so we continue the conversation. it is true tht city is facing a

critical phase. about what we need do in terms of changes to tackle the deficit so it does in the blob to 1.3 billion dollars. i think that with putting these. 48 million dollars on reserve allow you to continue the conversation this fiscal year and beyond. i don't see, because of the mid year budget cut i don't see that is -- wee have finalized the budget freshman left fiscal year. that we have it has been an on going conversation. we have a bla report on this. i wanted explain my intention of why i'm putting this 48 million dollars total on reserve as a reserve for us to continue this

conversation. later. item thrown an ordinance that places 48.4 million dollars on 30 department budgets in their general fund on budget and finance committee reserve for this fiscal year. supervisor chan, after the budget was pass in the october the mayor requested departments cut back on general fund spending. 75 million dollars of changes identified. the bulk was 48. 4 million dollars and reductions in spending and the other chunk was 26 million moving spends to other revenues. what this -- ordinance does is placed the cuts this were issued by the mir to the department on mittee reserve. spending from the appropriations will now require approval the mayor's office and this

committee this is an unusual budget action and considering approval tora policy matter we are in an unusual budget year. >> thank you. we near an unusual budget year and times. i don't see a name on the roster about this item. and so let's go to public comment. members of the public who wish to comment on item 13. >> first speaker, please. >> good morning. i'm maria. i'm with youth service i'm cochair of his pa. wanted say that his pavalues our relationships with city departments. there are a couple of cuts

proposed from hsh and oewd. that reflect modest mingar asks from us. one 200 thousand dollars asks of hsh for fill gaps around food security for unhouses young people who are still suffering under the cuts from cal fresh and the local food promise. it is modest ask the other for adult earn and learn. that first part of the funding has been fundd and the second year on the cut list that is 400,000. this combined 600 thousand cut compared to the deficit is like

is really staggaring. the cuts will not do anything significant with the budget but will have a massive impact on youth who need food and adult who is need wage jobs to stay out of homelessness. i'm asking for consideration around that. and we look forward to working more with hsh leader help to get cuts restored. thanks. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning i'm louisia the director of the san francisco latino equity coalition. we want to express that we are concerned with the mid year cuts and proposed cuts they affect communities of color and working class individuals. the cuts end programs for

revitalization, health and safety. the latino commune has been impacted by the cuts receiving a 1.3 million dollars cut affecting programs in technical assistance in support for small businesses affecting local organizations. hospitality dislocate work are program cultural workshop affecting day of the dead programming the miracle project. hummingbird farm. training initiatives and. am placements. and we are further impacted and affected by the cuts by the proposed cut in legacy business and programs. programs for street cleaning reparation, food security, health services and mental health service. all of these issues that are severely important and impact communities of confirm communities of color like the well tino community, operating in a deficit before, during and

after covid. we cannot further endure reductions of the basic need program i urge to you please restore the cuts. >> thank you. >> before i go to the next speaker. if you were not here for my announcements. we have opened up comment cards again. while not necessary to provide public comment if you wanted fill out a comment card they are available by the television. thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. charles director of policy. fiscal communal service. want to speak to the adult workforce cuts. here. this is allowed us and other providers to pilot place ams that don't rely on cost low certification promise. barriers to entries exclude.

it allows choice in workforce opportunity. we had an individual in a housing site who wanted access training barriers to programs. this programming allows to work with a councillor and has agency and sane are out come and success envelope that program. we had calls like that from people who know what they need to succeed and don't have the opportunity. this money is creating the opportunity for this population. also this is nuchl cutting now will not allow you to expand to reach the full potential of new programming. considering the impact that the small cuts have to the vulnerable populations. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hi. good morning. director of policy at compass

family services. in practice very damaging cuts under hsh. thank you for your attention and advocacy. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors sarah short. i'm speaking for housing right's committee. we are member of the budget coalition the budget justice coagz aligzmented me to report we have rental housing crisis here. we still do have families working families and poor families evicted on the regular. we have serious displacement and we have people made homeless day after day. and it is -- important this we take care of the needs of those

individuals before we start happening about you know other department who is may need more and strengthened. we need to dot emergency crisis type of -- supports. first of all. and what it means had people lose housing or cannot find affordable housing is we lose them from the city they are not contributing to the economy. than i are no long are part of our community at large. and we lose people like immigrants and folks that have given so much to our city and continue to contribute. have children in the school systems here. et cetera . and we also when we create more homelessness, obviously, we are contributing to the problems that mean we have to put more money homeless service. eviction prevention and building

conditions and rental assistance. those are important nightright mou and have no room to cut any of it by any means. we need to preserve what we have. and if anything those other areas we need do more with. rather than -- law enforcement or other departments that -- seem to be a priority now. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors. pardon my speaking quickly. getting my breath together. i appreciate this item coming forward to explore how we look at the mid year cuts and assess how much they are going to be need or if the city is going to

be carrying them out or not. and what cost savings will be available so we make better decisions. this type of -- transparency that we are creating around this budget process is essential. it is essential in january and -- in february and march, april, may and june throughout this process and a process that really needs to have a balanced approach there is significant public input. i'm concerned about the dreshgz the city has been going in terms of putting the resource or the talk about where than i have to go to public safety and a police staffing to e eliminate the 8 to look at the whole budget and essential service across the fwhaj give a sevenls public safety that need investment. san francisco residents rely on

to create community. this is about how we create a leadership around how we resolve the crisis of management we have in the city and the board has a significant role it play in that. and we hope we can work with you to help shape this process. the next few months. thank you very much. >> thank you. good to see you john. last call for speakers for item 13. >> that completes our queue.

>> thank you. i didn'ts want to acknowledge that was our former supervisor john avalos. now public comment is closed. i wanted read off quickly out of the 48 million dollars reserve roughly about 7. 9 million dollars almost 8 million dollars is coming from the d. public health and about 2. 7 million dollars is economic and w force development and the 3.4 million dollars is the homelessness and supportive housing. and another 5.2 million dollars is for the human service agency. and about 8.2 million dollars from the mayor's office and this case i believe a big chunk is for the mayor's office of housing and community development. wanted to highlight for you colleagues out of the 48 millions those are coming where i would identify as critical services for san franciscans put

this on reserve and so allow you to condition this conversation about how we balance and now -- what to cut and what we can continue. i want to make sure that i give a chance at the mayor's office want to comment but i don't -- does in the electric like tiwant it make sure acknowledge that. and -- with this, clothes i like to move this item with recommendation. >> roll call, please. >> yes, on that motion to forward this to the full board, vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member melgar. >> aye >> chair chan. >> aye. >> we have throw aye's. >> the motion passes >> with that mr. clerk call items 14 and 15 together. >> item 14 and 15 are items regarding costs incurred hosting the asia pacific cooperation summit. 47 is a resolution authorizing

the police department to accept and extend a grant 2 installments with initial. 5 million followed by available funds up to 1.5 million for a total of up to sick opinion 5 million. from the san francisco special event's nonprofit it fund over time costs by the police department in support of the city's hosting of the a pack. in november of 2023 approving the grant agreement and authorizing the chief of police to enter in modifications to the grant agreement that do not increase the liabilities to the city and in for the purposes of the agreements of the resolution. number 15 is a hearing to consider the release of reserve fundses to the mayor's office placeod budget and finance reserve. by ordinance number 144-23, 6.5 million it fund city departments including the police department, sheriff department and

department of emergency management due to cost related a pack. >> madam chair >> colleagues and the public, dwrm item 14 to for the city to accept money to receive monfrea special event committee apec related. and then the item 15 is for the city to release the reserve funds to fund what is spent on the very same event. and only item 15 has a budget and analyst report. had we doll is go to the mayor's office first for presentation and then for both 14 and 15 and the budget and legislative analyst and colleagues ask questions. thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan. to sum rise what you stated there are 2 items before you

today. swop a gift to accept funds to partially reimburse costs associated with apec and second to release funds already set aside in the budget a portion to reimburse costs. today we talk about the upon event over all. the costs associated. representatives here from dpths of who and speak about the specifics of operations. but i will understand that over to shawn the mayor avenue chief of staff. who will talk about what apeck did for the city. i have a presentation i'm sharing on my screen. great. >> thank you. sprierdzs and hannah for that introduction. supervisors i like to take your lead here in terms of where you want to go and when detail you want. i don't think i need to explain to you what apeck was. who was here what it was.

you tell me would you like to the break down where the money came from. it is all in the presentation we submitted and met with your offices a number of times i don't you direct me where would you like to go. >> go through the presentation it is for the public. run luit for me. >> again. apeck supervisor chan the economic cooperation we had 2 dozen heads of state here in san francisco. the week observeing. and along with it, now that you asked me to talk a piece i did not appreciate until post apeck was the apeck ceo summit. the foreign dignitaries. we had over a thousand ceo's from companies throughout the pacific rim along with their

employees. and that to which me may be in the long run the thevent creates the biggest benefit for san francisco. in this we brought the eyes to san frato safety san francisco is the great city we continue is and gave us the ability to show off our home to them. so. we had that summit. you see that why san francisco you see who theed 5 other cities were by the special event's

committee. for certain city purposes- is the special event's committee? this is the first time it has been used since mayor breed has been mayor the last time it was used in the capacity i believe when the tony bennett statute was put up there at the fairmont. prior to that the last time was for the 2014-12, 2010, world series parades. so it is a vehicle that is used to raise funds for large events. next slide, please. you can see we mayor raised over 20 million.

20.20 million this is a list of the donors the funds raising complied with behested payment legislation all 3 of you if not 3, sponsored. earlier this or late last year. it did pass unanimously. all fundraising was public low disclosed and behested forms filed with ethics. the exact amounts the mayor raised. publicly disclosed all available and help top provide more should you care to see it. next slide, please. >> this is now a break down of how the proposed the funds were spent. you will see at the top raised 20 million dollars. and then the various event this is happened. needs to spend dollars. without question the learningest amount went to the event.

and near low 8 opinion 4 million dollars. i could talk through each one if you like or if you have questions i can take your questions. and you see that -- all in some will some events spent 14.2 million of 20 million than i raised. leaving us k with 6 million dollars, which is had the special events committee is proposing to give to the city for the remaining costs that we have. next slide. >> i can talk about these for a moment the costs represents direct city costs you saw the event with putting on the events the cost that city departments also incurred. these represent out size cost from departments far above and beyond the standard duties. this is police staffing. and representatives from the

police department can speak to their extraordinary level effort they want through to support mutual aid from the state that came in the secret service over mull pull day this is is about police and sheriff staffing that supported the aid effort and ambulance units we needd that were paid for by dem. these costing will be paid for by the 2 source that are pending before you today. >> if i could jump in, i recall from my day in this room it does in the happen often. i like to recognize captain cane and cane special lieutenant frost. it came off flawless low from a sfpd perspective like to thank you for the work you did the left year and that week.

thank you, both. >> so, next slide, please. what did apec do for the city? i think apeck. one of the largest events the events san francisco my life i'm proud of being in san francisco that we hosted. we had all of the heads of state. put ourselves on the every newspaper throughout the world. this we had this exposure in a positive way. this was huge for the city! we know the city is taking a beat nothing international press and local press. this gave us a chance to show when we are. we other great city we know we are. and we were able to he it off. fair low proud of this opportunity and we did it flulessly. i'm very proud of the way the city pulled this off. there were doubt irs and people who did not think we could pull it off.

we did. every sing will one of those ceo's said, wow this is a great city. this is a city this we need to penned more time in and this is a city we need spend more money in. it was a very successful event. from a foreign policy per spektdive the goldenigate declaration the document approved by the apec counsel rows is the document that i believe that the foreign countries will talk about for decades to come. the fact that san francisco was the host of the president biden summit. the thing this provides the foundation for the future of u.s./china relations that always going to pay for the city. we should be proud we were able to host and nurture a successful foreign diplomatic event. this is the budget mittee you want to how much we generated that is pie in the sky. you are right to ask. per san francisco travel the

total economic impact was 62 million dollars. we can tell you 44 million dollars was spent in direct spending. out of that 14 million dollars that the special events committee spent that is already spent this was money spent in san francisco. money spent on labor job in san francisco. it was union labor that put together the events at mos sceney at the legion of honor. local catering companies and local businesses that benefited from all of that spending. so. mayor, the administration are pleased with the apec summit and we would respectfully request this you follow the recommendation and release the reserves and approve the accept and extend resolution and i'm happy to answer questions. and have various city

departments here to answer specific questions i can't handle. >> thank you. chair chan. supervisors. item 15 this is a hear to release 6.5 million dollars and general fund reserve this was reserved during the budget process for apec spending. noted by major's office it will contribute to the 12.8 million dollars reimburse am plan from the major's office for the sheriff, police and d. emergency management for they incurred related apec. we detailed the spending the city spending on pages 30 and 31 of our report. you will see that the citywide upon departments spent 26.6 million dollars that was partial low off set by revenues add up

to 1 million dollars. so. the nest expndz tours of the city was 25 million dollars. those were general fund expenditures. 21 million dollars was general fund expenditures. i will say, we don't know the economic impact this conference had on the city. largely because the sales tax data is in the available and will not be for review until march. we were able to obtain hotel data from sf travel did indicate that about hotel rates were up during that week. that ruin the additional 2 million dollars this week relative to the prior year. and hotel tax ref now to the city. bridge tell shot a decrease in trips to san francisco in the east bay. of 100,000 individualors during the month in 2023. relative to november of 22. off set by 30,000 passengers

during that period. i think this economic impact is ambiguous but indicators -- this is -- releaseing money from reserve is shifting general fund monfreone per of the budget at this time other. although it is reemburgs the net cost to the city of 26 million dollars then reduced by donation of 6.3 million dollars. there is no other reimbursement this is coming in from the outside. we did look at a couple other diplomatic eventses similar to this. looked at a nato sum nit chicago. in 2012 and prior apec in the

united states in honolulu in 2011 there other than grants off set fund for example police staffing costs and honolulu there was a grant designed for this event. and chicago, there was also a fema grant that was provided a portion of reimbursement for that city. this is in the part of the federal budget and the city of chicago diverted their urban security initiative funds the city used to fund counter terrorism activities. to pay for police staffing there was no net costs in chicago. to host the nato summit.

>> thank you. i have to just questions. based on the previous analysis for the superbowl [inaudible]. the let'sons learn federal this there seems to be the lack of written memorandum of understanding or agreements about spending and reimbursement employmented know a couple of things one, were there written agreements that the city has with -- special event committee? in the decisionmaking process of bothy spending and generating

revenue and when this looked like. meaning are there specific calls for reimbursement and percentage of events or spending the steal receive. i think the second part will be learning upon about potential of able to receive federal reimbursement through fema. do we have we tried to follow through fema process. granted though from based on the budget and analyst report. seems like that budget is no long are available to us. by the federal government of the when do we learn that, how do we than and how do we adjust to that knowing it is not no longer available to san francisco? >> sure. i will start with the written agreement question . short answer, no there is in the a written agreement with the city and special event's committee. to your point about receipts itemizations and all of that.

we have every single penny accounted for. everything is documentd andy everything provide to the budget analyst and every receipt and expense is available. help it make that public. we had to disclose every dollar raiseed ethics. it was also disclosed. the expenses are here and available to you. but no there is no written agreement with us and the special event's you mentioned the problem than i had a separate committee 10 years ago i was not here i don't know. the next about fema. the budget analyst did not analyze i don't know if you locked at the summit of americas in los angeles. just last year. perhaps a bit better of a comparison than that not a decade old it was just a year. summit of americas in los angeles cost the city of los angeles over 28 million dollars. they were only able to raise 2

million. city of san francisco doubled this despite a shorter window of time to raise money and this is only going to cost the city requesting the release of 6.5 million dollars? we are happy to talk to fema. we spent a great deal of time talking to state department of white house and speaker pelosi doing everything we could anybodyinging on every door in the government to get more reimbursement there were lines and doors that were shut and told, no. there will not be federal reimbursement. as the budget analyst said there is no program in the fema budget today that exist in the 2012. it is 2024. not today. we will go become to them again. and then i think the other point the budget analyst made shifting the guarantees. this will be the last things we

want. the grants are programmed for important home lanlt security projects we don't want to defund. >> i think the question is that you know the fact this we don't have a written agreement how do we come about decision making process or walk us 32 the decision making process event is spent for 8.3 million dollars. i am not questioning the spending i wanted understand the decisionmaking process to say spend 8.3 million dollars. this again, though is in the context that us as a city are spending 26 million dollars granted we are receiving 6. 5 million dollars as a gift from the special event's commit. the net spending with after this process will be about 20

million. >> i'm sorry. supervisor. no. >> net cost is 6 million dollars. 20 million was raised. the net cost for the city is over 6 million dollars. >> here in the budget and legislative analyst report indicating that there are spending specific to the apec. from administrative service, airport, public works is 2.6 million dollars. place is 13. 8 million dollars. just and mta2.2 million dollars. those other spending this the city has that is about the costs absorbed by departments. yes. jot city is spending about 26 million dollars, which we appreciate receiving 6.5 or million dollars from the special

event's committee as a gift of funds raised by the committee about 20 million dollars the city is absorb to host apec. so this leads to the question if we don't have a written agreement about how we make decision on spending, how do we i think it is i'm trying to understand in that we spent 8 million dollars on -- how do we -- walk, way to say this is a mutual beneficial decision makes process? the special events committee is not the one who decided how much the events would cost. the state department and white house did. and there was no written agreement with the white house and the state department and the special events committee nor with the city and county of san francisco. the way it worked is this of

that event line item you have in front of you 90% went to this one welcome reception you attended that even costs over 7 envelope million dollars. this event was entirely designed by the white house and the state department. we made recommendations on how to save dollars but they have the final call on how that event would proceed. >> i personal low did not get a chance to enjoy or did in the stay to enjoy the fireworks and concerts. is i'm trying to understand that this is i'm specific low pointing to the exploretoryium event this you mentioned. is that clear that when you are saying i want to confirm and verify this what you are saying is the state departments the white house administration in the san francisco determined this we have fireworks and the concerts following the events. >> that was all of their event.

>> and so, i think that is the question. so that to imagine. i will reference back and you are right i was a coexperience to the behest payment waiver. what i believe is that will it is was for are a cash strapped city tackling budget deficit or best option if we move forward and host event at this scale that we should be able to fund raise with private funds. and at this moment and i remember that we were having the discussion the anticipation was roughly about 20 million dollars that we will raise. through this waiver. and to also anticipation that 20 million will cover the city expenses. do you want to talk about that? how do we end up being able to

raise that fund and that 20 million dollars clearly out of that only 6 million coming become to the city? >> i'm sorry, supervisor i don't understand the question. >> when we approved the waiver at this hearing you have committed and explained tht goal is it raise roughly 20 mission and this is to reimburse the cost hosting the event for the city. the reason why we are going out with this wifr to say we need to raise this money for our mayor and our office of protocol to go out to raise the fund on behalf of the city it is anticipation the 20 million dollars is going to cover the cost of the city of to host the event. as a result, this seems now we

are receiving sick.5 million. >> fair enough but the point i need to quibble wela bit when we came for behested payment we suggested we think we can raise 20 million we did not know at this time or say this event will cost 20 million we said we think we can raise 20 million. then subsequent it getting the behested payment waiver the mayor introduced the budget including 10 million dollars you placeod reserve to cover additional costs. that in and of itself is evidence we did not know how much it would cost and the supervisors unanimous low approved that allocation recognized that point and the budget analyst report if the budget in june this all of you had specific low said in that 10 million dollars reserve this is to cover additional costs beyond had they will pay for apeck.

so to be clear we never said apec will only cost 20 million dollars and there was evidence in your budget reports meching clear. >> when do we go out to bid for the event? >> i thinkingish of 22? thanks dlf giving 22. it was announced it is held every year and announced this time by vice president harris. >> that is when december of 22 i think i do remember, too, and that's when we were awarded with the bid of hosting apeck in november of 23. and but i againment to clarify. when it came to the board which is spring for waiver.

>> april. and that 2023, we did in the know how much event of the going to cost us even though we were award in the december of 22. >> correct. >> and so along the way we just learning more and more about the cost. we did not have the written agreement to know about the spending and reimburse ams but continued to since we awarded the bid to host and we continue on to figure out along the way. so to speak. >> >> in december of 22, we had no idea landlord be a leader reception with fireworks in november of 23. we knew we were having a summit here in san francisco november 23 and over 23 the event started building itself out and the costs started escalating. >> there was no way that the city and county of san francisco

were able to push back on some of those spending? >> there was and we did. we i mean i don't want to know what the number would have been had we not pushed become we pushed baon a number of yessed. some we were successful some we were not. >> the push back i think i'm again trying to understand we don't have a written agreement. i assume there is a time of agreement that is like on the grounds of able to according to you push back. as we accepted the bid we were able to have some -- information or agreement a type of written agreement to allow you to push become on spending? as i said there was no written agreement with the city and the state department about who was going it pay for when we worked that out throughout the year >> thank you.

>> i don't see name on the roster. >> i think we will go to public comments on this item now. >> invite the public to speak on the item. lineup on the west side.

it was only within00,000. i can't think of an -- miniscule amount of money compared to the city budget and the impact it had on people's lives. i money we will not stop doing when we are doing. there was so much more this could be done.

and i will turn over to community members to talk about the affect it had on them. [speak spanish]

>> i can translate mr. clerk. >> i am very worried this we are shiftings the funds this are needed for community. to needs like law enforcement, instead of the needs of the community which are in housing, food security and services for workers, which is when the community needs so i am asking you to show our priorities thank you. >> before i call the next speaker i need to reminds the odd yents now we are taking public comment on the cost related apeck. we did hold public comment regarding the mid year budget reduction in the left item and

that public comment was closed. if you are to address the committee now items that were called is related apeck funding. so i'm givingut opportunity to redirect your comments toward the apec funding now.

>> thank you. for this and with this next speaker, please. >> if i can i will translate. i'm sorry i have not started the time yet. directly into the microphone, please. >> thank you. >> [speak spanish] good afternoon i'm a domestic worker. i'm an immigrant woman and worker and being affected by all

the budget cuts that i have seen. >> it is necessary that you don't make other budget cuts, thank you. >> again. we are taking public comment regarding apeck funding we have already held public comment regarding the mid year budget cuts. going forward if i continue to hear commentary i will interrupt and you go to the next speaker. thank you. >> [speaking spanish] i'm a

domestic worker advocating resources that you are allocating for apeck should be always used for commune services. next speaker, please. next speaker, please. i'm rachel church. and i'm a parent leader with parent voices, san francisco. i'm a mother of half west african 7 year old daughter. i believe that we can use the apeck funding community services

like housing, food, all of the really personal things this low income mothers like me need other 12th of every among my food stamps are gone and have nothing left and i have to find ways to make end's made with the apeck event i think we should use this money for low income family family in san francisco. thank you. >> next speaker, please.

>> i'm alma. i am a domestic worker here to advocate for our community. i believe that all of the resources this has been spent during apec and are going to be meant to spend for apec should be invested in working class communities. like myself. i'm a day laborerer here to represent the to coalition.

>> next speaker, please. >> yes, i'm [inaudible] i'm here to advocate for the [inaudible]. it is like really [inaudible] in the community it is sad that the

[inaudible] is being expand being apeck it is in the teching care of the regular family in san francisco and i'm an educator and here to add roicate for every child for education and an education and i'm really asking to you put this spending somewhere fund these community instead of events like the apec. thank you very much. >> i'm june bug and a leader with paraphernalia voices. and i'm born and raise in the the city. i'm of maked ap i decent and work as a healing worker at the commune healing center. i want to say that when apec came here that it is nice the music and the lights. but a lot of houseless folks were in foreand had to find safe

places because of the police presence. and i think that it is good we have conferences because they provide services and education but we 92ed to look how we to that in our community. how it is impacting our unhoused communities. and we need to look how we are spending money and investing in the big conferences in our city. >> because now -- childcare is in crisis. we have children in the wait list and families that are dealing with houselessness. parent who is need childcare now and we lost childcare infrastructure because of covid and the pandemic. we need to take that funding and invest in children in san francisco. thank you. because investing in childcare is i public safety, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm >> landa and i hope i'm not

sensured. the reasons [inaudible] you [inaudible]. drop it is charges women are using 10 [inaudible].

[inaudible]. again we are talking about apec. so if you can't redirect comments we move on. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm jd with in lia movement san francisco. a residentin are sunset and work in the tenderloin when i go to work it it is a contrast to the neighborhood i live in apparent homelessness and drug abuse are unaddressed issues. people are crowded and the evenings other parts of neighborhood than i are sloping on the streets or walking bent over. i want to acknowledge that this issue is in the limited to the tenderloin but throughout the city. >> the solutions to homelessness prior to apeck was militarized police sweeps to make san francisco presentable to heads of state visiting the city this has not solved homeless before

and we can't dpp to solve it in the future. allocating apec reserves to the sfpd and cutting budgets will in the change that. this will e eliminate program this is help people get jobs. fed and become on feet. worse even the epidemic our city issing. >> investing the reserve in services and program this is aim to help them will. criminalizing drug abusers will not make them stop using drugs. however if we invest in programs and service this is are frun reduce addiction we lessen the amount of people harmed by drug abuse. if feces on the streets something people don't want to z. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon i'm amanda i'm the development director immigration attorney. legal aid in the mission. i'm here to peek about the apec expend tours the city spent. funds will be much better spent if they were restoreed our legal aid in the amount 80,000. that's the amount funding cuts our agency suffered to our staff attorneys salary. that staff attorney is the wonderful young attorney standing right here. we hired him a year ago we believed the city would honor the promise of funding his salary. now that we learned 80 thonld is cut we are struggling and dip nothing savings that's how important this low wage workers in san francisco have legal represent anticipation. the difference is prior to

hiring this wonderful young attorney in 2022 we offered wan free consultations and many of full scope legal representation. after we hired juan, in 2023, we were able to offer 255 one on one consults. low wage, hotel workers, car wash, restaurant workers. these are people who were supporting our economy and the conference like apeck. supporting all of our industry and i urge to you restore that funding. i want folks to know that you know by spending so extravagant low what does this look like? it means we don't have the fundses to pay juan's salary and truly low wage workers are the backbone here. if we bring back tourism we will

support folks immigrants we put our money where our how long mouth is. >> thank you for addressing the committee. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello i'm juan, staff attorney. and i work in worker rights over the last year our program has [inaudible]. 255 consults. represented 42 clients and recovered 175 thousand dollars for our clients in the last year. i understand the city interests in apeck it is good for the economy but it is important the board, speak very fast. helps build them from the ground up not just the top downful thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good afternoon ierm louisia director of the san francisco latino equity do aligz express

concerns and regarding the apec in the ask reallocate 6.5 million dollars. welcome a garthing is an opportunity for growth in this ability [inaudible] we address the lack of fiscal responsibility in our approach. the absence of i budget and plan for cost associated with hosting apeck raises flags how can we embark on under taking without understanding of the financial implications? our city is already grappling with a deficit and allocate funds for an event demands consideration. the proposal to allocate 6.5 to police amid our challenges is also a cause of concern. public safety is at the top of our priority we must balance needs and responsibility. kuth millions of dollars from

programs in the face of public safety issues raises questions about the direct your attention of resources we have in the city.

i am a day laboreror. and i want to contribute that funding events like apeck is -- in committing on the events take away from funding community -- and programs that help me. thank you, next speaker, please.

i'm lowon i'm here to -- sure in the my life. the only thing i have is programs like the day labor program who is constantly giving me support and helping the community. i want to reminds you we are all part of one community the

community of god and krishna and humans. we are deserve to be included and taken account for. we deserve to be receive services, thank you. we are taking comment on item 47 and 15 regarding apec funding and so -- thank you. >> community organization we focus on the needs of the soma community so we were concerned about the impact on resident and businesses in the neighborhood. almost everyone we spoke to received little to no information from the system about the school closures. rerouting transit or security that would be in place. the electric of preparation and care for the residents and businesses is an under statement. small businesses in soma

reported lszs 80% of businesses during this week. major's surveillance and policing of communities was not an oversight. to accommodate sfpd, highway patrol and secret service cut services for the public the whole week of apeck. at the summit my member movement was assaulted by a sfpd sergeant. since attack they suffered from -- another protester assaulted by an sfpd officer and could not work for an among.

thank you. next speaker, please. i'm representing my comopinionians from the day labor program the workers.

i'm hearing there is position to support the apec company i'm not sure who they are but millions of dollars 6 million dollars i'm here representing workers as well saying that we would supported with 100 thousand dollars instead.

i'm also homeless and have in the found work and the funds will help our community to get better organizationed thank you very much. next speaker, please. good afternoon i'm camillo the

executive director of initial lawyery guild. i live and w in the mission and bernal heights i want to echo the words spoken by my colleagues before me. from the movement and the budget justice and community aejszs speak out we are here to under line the fact that is proposed in terms of redirecting these apeck funds to compensate those who have been privileged is exactly the opposite direction when we need. it is more of the same piled high and deep and goes to the question of what is essential for the city of san francisco. apeck was an opinion public relation'sent that served the major's personal agenda and not of that community of san francisco community of color this we represent. this includes dictators marcos of the philippines and peru and included over police and

brutalizing of protesters by police in 3 well document incidents we will follow up on. an outrage and obscenity to compensate and subsidize that atrsity. no to apec and the compensation. thank you. thank you. next speaker, please. hello i'm aid republican a city council at san francisco state university and against using apeck funds toward pleas over time. funny when it did for the city what did it accomplish. nothing. the police get millions are a lot of services got company communities and mall businesses took a hit. in terms of had i saw during the week was how folks displaced i saw sf okay investing leaders and other leaders to have sf as

a vacation spot. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm risk the leaving filipino students. i want to start you know taking issue with the report that was presented. i think first with the climb this apec show cased our city to the global scale in the best light possible is homelessness sweeps in assault of protesters?

coeo exploit us? heads of states like [inaudible] who committed human right violations against the people of their home left lanes and selling out countries is that had san francisco of exemplifies? we see that they talk about economic gains but from the report the economic gains are ambiguous at best and worse it is net zero. on top of that climb in that report this was presented just now that labor and mall business support apeck. it was union labor that opposed it with every fiber. small businesses that were shuttered and lost millions in the apec shut down zone. in this house here we passed the resolution showing commitment to put the reserves to the people

and food security and basic needs and rights not police that protected those this exploit our peoples across the world and not for police that have countlessly committed assaults against our people in the city itself. so, please spend this reserves for the people not the police. thank you. >> thank you. >> next speaker, please. good upon afternoon. supervisors i'm [inaudible]. i work in the homelessness. using the opportunity to speak on the item that yes definite so00 autopeople who are speaking they bringing the issues and these -- one of the things i want to say we have so many families without an opportunity to shelter and children in san

franciscoment to [inaudible] homelessness without housing. we need to invest in the homeless children and families. and invest in the youth. the city cut the food for the youth. when we want with this issues. we really facing the program here. this issues of the problems and putting the money and real things to solving the problems we stay and thinking about to -- provide more montote police officers. what is [inaudible] to thinking allow families need housing.

we ever taking public comment regarding the accept and extend resolution and the release of reserve funds regarding apeck any discussion about the budget cuts to the departments i will redirect. back to the topic. so. thank you. next speaker, please. i'm kristin an ill administrator in d1 a filipino-american in connie's district i urge you to reconsider how you use the reserve funds. during apec law enforcement brutalized me and others as we protested apeck liberal dealless.

yea. the c else o from the corporations and dictators from different countries got the red carpet treatment. meanwhile i'm out here brutalized by the forces that are poseed protect me but they are protecting ceo's. i don't agree with my tax tologist prioritize institutions to [inaudible]. it does not make sense this the mir wants the fund its go to more funding for law enforcement. and in the working families. we rely on the services that the mayor wants to decimate.

thank you. next speaker, please. [inaudible] i'm sua member

leader of the chinese progressive association. we don't understand why when well is so much money spent on apeck when on the other hand the mayor is cutting budget for worker rights and out reach. many low wage workers face language barriers, difficult finding jobs, to survive they may accept job in bad conditions with low wages. exploitation. no benefits or holidays or sick leave. we met a chinese employee worked in i bakery worked many hour and

employer did not tell them about over pitime. in san francisco laborers are not protected and does work with the worker right collaborative to enforce worker rights and here to ask instead of sending reserve fundos other things we like to continue funding for worker rights enforcement and out reach. thank you. thank you for the translation. next speaker, please.

>> i'm may chow. we know the city spent a lot on apeck and believe the funds should be used to develop our communities and working families. sefrm years of out roach we see cases wars don't have over time of minimum wage. sick leave wages and discriminated against. we met domestic workers only earning 80 dollars per day. >> a lot of workers of color because of language barriers don't understand labor rights in the united states. and when they face issues they don't know where to find help. worker out reach program uses their language.

we believe the budget cuts would cut other important resources for young people and seniors. who need health and wellness program and funding and a sense of belonging at sister hood gardens and hummingbird farm we are here to ask to restore funds to worker right collaborative out reach and sister hood and other community gardens.

>> thank you. and again. taking public comment on the accept and extend resolution. to the police department regarding their funding for apeck and also the release of reserve funds to the major's office. so we are not talking about any budget cuts or funding to any departmentful stay on topic. >> hi i'm casey home a community organizer at chinese progressive association we are disappointed how much the city spent on apec should support working families we meet with workys every year without our out roach they would not know labor rights like over time paid leave and minimum wage. >> the communities need the resources and xhundzs and facing

the budget cuts is horrible. cuts would to the workers right collaborative hitim grant and working families of color had rely on community out reach programs. and support working san franciscans paying for work and organize for working continues. we believe that sf should fund health and wellness programs for youth, family and seniors including community gardens and hummingbird farm. invest in working family and youth and should go to restoring the budget cuts. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. i'm best of my knowledge i'm a

chinese-american residents in san francisco in the mission district. apec directs funds from our community and after the celebrations the unhoused people displaced and the city in deficit duce to spending. ? of 6. 5 million funds used for over time for police. and severe racial disparities and use of force by sfpd is over 20 times more likely for a police to target black over white people. fwheer need of reform temperature is clear that the state of sfpd does not serve the community and community is in need of true care. had you have access to funds millions that learningly are funded by big tech. we should reinvest in our community. especially in light of the budget cuts that many are facing thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please.

helo i'm julia part of [inaudible] san francisco community based organizations many are here today. and unions in san francisco are affected by the budget proposal. as everyone here had to say. the millions spent on apeck and millions more in policing our city and the conference is in direct competition. the city with limited budget and many need for residents the duty of this body to decide what is critical afect is not critical it harmed many residents as stated to policing. and impact on immigrant communities and small businesses instead we could use this to fund true public safety. commune safety. and all be it so much research backs it up.

>> so, in my line of work with local labor unions and community groups in san francisco, i seen

how economic realities forced san franciscans to organize themselves in home and w places to fight for economic justice whether for organizationing 10 annual associations against landlords look to squeeze every dime out of properties or union member organizing with community groups to take on firms using pension fundses to displace tenants the future of the working folks is up to you the city responsive to needs the people who built the city or bosses. thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm alice a d10 resident with san francisco riegz apeck and the budget reflection of priorities and must prioritize investing in community resources work families and uses in the city. communities are not in agreement with the mayor wanting to spend

fundsos more policing. neglect to resources to keep our community safe. the same resources the mayor is trying to slash i urge to you commit to community safety, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i'm a day labor joining in support of the petitions made here and the and not be thrown

in the trash. thank you. we work in support for our

community to become to the contributing and group my voice instead of funding the rich we need the cut this is robbery made to our programs and to our budgets to be restored to be a productive members of the community. i'm a domestic worker myself. thank you. i insist that speakers remain on topic. >> hi. i'm pj with shadow market network. we are disappointed how much money spent on apeck. working class families are strug 39ing teem keep a roof and food on the table. we must maintain essential service this is supports working

people and vulnerable community such as worker rights collaborative. that support it is immigrant and working families of color rely on community out reach program. i work in the soma and no one in our community is talking about how great apeck is. how much is spent on apec when the event was a major disruption to the lives of seniors, work and families in the south of market. seniors were afraid to leave

homes and workers could not show up to work and youth blocked going to school this should support our community by protecting low wageim grant workers. the worker rights collaborative stands to lose an amount of funding year. this funding is crucial and allowing them to educate workers in our community about right and protect them from theft. work place intimidation and other formless of exploitation. tell be more difficult for low wage workers to get when they deserve. rights of our communities should not be sacrificed for the benefit of a wealthy fume economic recovery will not come from kuth public service or paying for expensive events like apec. it will come through investing in the future of san francisco working class. thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi i'm jane wellswood.

cross woods women center. we urge to you bring the money you would think of putting in protecting apec to organizations. please, think about it, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i'm lorenzo and i'm the founding director of the filipino community development corporation asking to you re, line the investment in conferences like the apeck and spent in helping most vulnerable in san francisco. i ask you supervisors to restore the funding you allocated to the city for the operations of

[inaudible] sleep center [inaudible]. homeless center project in the tenderloin. the ursc will look on the ground floor of 420 in the tenderloin. look to accommodate 16 individuals serving the homeless individuals [inaudible] and 20 beds at night will be available. so in we are targeting 15 yearo population. with the capacity to the senior population. we have 5 service areas in the center clsd like socialing services individual case management promise. where well