they are ready or not. good morning and welcome to the june 17th, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm hilary ronan, chair of the committee. i'm joined by vice chair supervisor shaman walton and supervisor ahsha safaí, the clerk of the committee is victor young. and i'd like to thank jaime echevarria from etcheverry, from sfgovtv for covering this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? yes. public comment will be taken on each item on today's agenda. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak. alternatively you may submit public comment in writing either of the following ways. email them to myself. the rules committee clerk at vic t or dot

y o u n g at sfgovtv. org if your public comment is submitted via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may also send your written comments via us mail to our office at city hall. one doctor, carleton place, room 244, san francisco, california 94102. please make sure to silence all cell phones and other electronic devices, documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 25th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. thank you. can you please read item number one? item number one is a motion approving rejecting the president of the board of supervisors, aaron peskin. nomination for the reappointment of maria theresa imperial to the planning commission for a term beginning july 1st, 2024 and ending july 1st, 2028. thank you so much. and commissioner

imperial is here. i'd like to make any statements. good morning. thank you. thank you. supervisor just to introduce myself, my name is theresa imperial, and i'm seeking for reappointment in planning commission. i was deeply honored when i was appointed by former supervisor yee in 2020, and with support of various community groups, i became a commissioner in the times of pandemic, from online hearings, hybrid hearings to now in person. in those times, the commission has adopted and passed the racial and social equity resolution centering planning on racial and social equity and the housing element, the first housing element that centered on racial and social equity, which i'm very proud that has happened during my tenure in those years, i've also worked closely with the planning department and the surrounding issues of tenant protections and community outreach, the importance of

cultural districts, open space, and so much more. i've also learned many issues, projects and plans by the department from environmental resilience, sustainability, waterfront, transportation enforcement and of course, housing. however, in all those projects and plans, i always center the conversations on racial and social equity and on people. there is a saying in planning that we make decisions on use and not on user, which is a reasonable determination when we're dealing with land use. however, i try to go beyond that question and ask who has access to the land use? that's where the racial and social equity question lies. in the next four years of my term, i would like to strengthen the relationship communication expertise between planning department and the rent board, ensure tenant protections and small business protection as part of the expanding housing choices program, and to have a

robust community engagement program in designing and implementing community plans. thank you for your time, and i'm happy to have to answer any questions you may have for me. thank you so much. thank you for all of your time that you've dedicated to this commission. i really appreciate the way that you look at your job and, the specific concern that you have for, racial and economic justice and equity. so i just wanted to thank you so much for, for all of your work, colleagues, do you have any other questions or comments? no. they said ditto. thank you so much. thank you. we will now open up this item to public comment. 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 soft chime when you have 30s left and a louder chime when your time has expired. you may begin. my

name is calvin welch and i'm here speaking in support of the reappointment of commissioner imperial, i first met, the commissioner when she was a community activist and organizer . she was knowledgeable and articulate about the needs of her community. but for me, the interesting thing about theresa is her compassion for other community as well. and her willingness, to spend the time to understand the issues of importance to those folks. what watching her on the commission grow and become, versed in the arcane maneuver of, the planning process in san francisco, has been impressive. she has taken her commitment to her community and broadened it to a commitment to all of our communities to the

to, in my view, the true interests of san francisco. if you illustrated a book on the political history and theory and definition of san francisco politics, you couldn't do better than illustrating with a picture of theresa, what a san francisco planning commissioner is. i strongly urge you to reappoint her. thank you. thank you for your testimony. are there any other speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers for this matter. public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion enthusiastically supporting or recommending maria theresa imperial for seat one of the planning commission, to

amend the motion to delete rejecting. sorry, to remove the words rejecting from line three and rejects from line 15. yes. on the motion to amend and to recommend vice chair walton walton i. supervisor safaí. safaí. i chair ronan i ronan i the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number two? item number two is a hearing to consider appointing two members. term's ending july 2nd, 2028, to the public works commission. two seats, two applicants. wonderful. and these are also returning commissioners. and i believe gerald demarcus turner is present. am i wrong? not here. okay good morning. i'm bob for the commission secretary for the public works commission, commissioner turner should be here in about two minutes. if

you could take commissioner zarb first, that would be great. i, i would love to. commissioner zarb, please come forward. okay. good morning. commissioners, my name is fadi zarb. i'm a vice chair of. currently vice chair of the public works commission. prior to getting on the on the commission, i was very. i'm still very involved with the community. i'm, i'm the secretary of chinatown community development center, vice president of telegraph hill neighborhood center, we just we just had our north beach festival yesterday. so i'm a member of the north beach business association. and with all that experience, i want to start by thanking you for giving me the opportunity to be part of a newly created commission. and we learned a lot. we worked, we worked diligently with my fellow commissioners to, work to create

process, to create, strategies with public works at the same time, which is very important, is i learned a lot. i learned a lot about public works and how how everything, is, handled, which gave me a huge opportunity to learn how to, translate that to the public and ask questions where, a lot of, a lot of would create transparency to the public. and during that, we also so the commission worked on hiring our new public works director, which was which was a long process. i feel we did a great job on that. and i'm looking i'm looking forward to serve, the next, to be reappointment and serve again on the commission. so thank you for your time. thank you so much. thanks for your service thus far, i will ask and answer any

questions that you may have. okay. any questions? colleagues it appears like there's no question. so thank you for your service. thank you, and i don't believe, commissioner turner is here yet. why don't we open up this item for public comment? 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. are there any speakers who would like to provide public comment on this matter? i do not see any public commenters on this matter. public comment is now closed. would you like to move on to item three? i would, yes, please call item number three. yes. item number three is a motion approving rejecting the controller's nomination for the reappointment of lauren post to the public works commission for a term beginning july 2nd, 2024. and ending july 2nd, 2028. wonderful. and as chair, post here. yes. come on, come on up.

that was what was the reason. yeah. good morning. chair ronen. vice chair walton and supervisor safaí i'm lauren post, chair of the san francisco's public works commission. when the commission was launched two years ago, i was appointed by controller ben rosenfield. i'm pleased to have been reappointed for your consideration by controller greg wagner. as you know, public works is one of the city's largest departments and has been around for 120 years. but it never had a citizens oversight commission until two years ago. so as vice chair xabi mentioned, it's been a learning process for the department and for us. but i'm pleased to tell you, i think the two years have been a big success. as commissioner zarb mentioned, one of my biggest responsibilities last year was leading a national search for a new director for the department. it was a robust search at the mayor's request, and in our own backyard, interim director short rose to the top as the most qualified candidate. we were

pleased by the appointment and i think she's breathed new life into the department. inspired new joie de vivre and has stepped up the department's performance citywide. for me, any commission, it's really has a very simple mandate. to answer one question is the department fulfilling its mandate to the citizens of san francisco and doing so cost effectively? yes or no? and if the department says yes, we are, then the follow up question by the commission is how does the public know this? prove it. so one of the initiatives we've been working on the past two years is to put together a series of performance metrics with the department for all 17 public works bureaus, and to require the department to report out annually if those performance metrics are being met. and for those that aren't to work with them on solving problems and meeting challenges. i look forward to continuing that work, because i think it's going a long way into demonstrating to the public that public works is back after the scandals of several years ago. it's a new department, a reinvigorated department, and a

department that i hope has seen in working with the commission that they can be more open and honest about meeting challenges. so i am grateful for your consideration of my reappointment. i look forward to continuing this work in the years ahead, and i appreciate your consideration and would be happy to answer any questions you may have. well, i think you just demonstrated why you are such a wonderful chair of this committee and why you've been reappointed, so i could not have said it any better myself. i also just wanted to congratulate you and the city on the permanent appointment of director short, who i also think the world of and think was a perfect choice. so i just wanted to thank you for all of your work. really. thank you. chair. job supervisor safaí. thank you. thank you, miss post commissioner post for your service to a department that's near and dear to my heart, really really appreciate all the good work you all have done. and i and i'm also very excited

about carla's appointment and the work that she's done. one of the things that vexed, public works, however, is a consistent vacancy rate and staffing, and it impacts the level of service that we have in the city. i just want to give you an opportunity to talk about that vacancy rate and some of the things that the commission is doing or the discussions that have been had and what you see, the path forward there, certainly at the commission's last meeting on just this prior monday, actually, we received our semiannual report from hr director karen hill in the public works department. as you may know, public works had never had its own discrete hr department, but now it does. and i must say, miss hill is knocking it out of the park. the vacancy rate actually has been cut in half during her tenure over the past year. plus, as of monday, it was at 15.7, but a large amount of that number is not in the operations staff, but in positions that are held for

special projects as capital projects receive bond funding and get funded. that's when those positions are filled. so i did note, in as i watched the video of the meeting, since i was out of the country and couldn't attend it. i am going to follow up with miss hill on breaking out that vacancy rate, that 15.7 into those capital project discrete hiring figures that get filled as needed and into the operations figures. so i appreciate your concern and please be assured that vice chair zoghbi in particular, has taken on the vacancy rates and hr reports to his heart, and we really are holding the department's feet to the fire. but i must say, miss hill and her team have done an excellent job. i appreciate you saying that. i know miss hill very well . in fact, when the first day of covid in our city was announced, we were working on on expediting a hiring process for the department of public health, in terms of our nurses and some of

our frontline staff. so she has a lot of great experience. so that absolutely was a great hire for your department. and in fact , when we ran the ballot measure, it was one of the biggest talking points is that some of the infrastructure within the department does not exist, like hr and the hiring process, being able to it was actually slowed down by having to wait for the city administrator's office because it was spread out so thin. public works was often second, third, or fourth choice, and actually there was a lot of pushback from a lot of people that did not want to see this commission created and did not want to see the additional infrastructure put in place, but i can it's great to hear you say and affirm that having your own hr director has made a significant difference. i think it makes a difference to hire the right person as well. i think miss hill is a phenomenal, person and has wonderful experience in in hr. so great to hear that you guys are working on lowering that vacancy rate,

definitely impacts the level of service and the cleanliness of our streets. so thank you for your hard work and keep it up. thank you. happy to happy to support your reappointment. thank you very much. supervisor your point is well taken. and please rest assured that given the staffing levels and how the vacancy rate, how low it's going, we will not be, indulging the excuse under-resourced much longer. so we're on it. and i do appreciate your comments. thank you, supervisor walton. thank you. chair. ronen, i just want to thank commissioner post and really all commissioners, public works commission for continuing to want to serve. i think that as we deal with some of the changes that have happened over the past few years, it's exciting to see commissioners who are excited about the work. i want to commend the workers of the department who really come out and do a good job on our streets, particularly in bayview, hunters point and other areas of district ten where we

see a lot of illegal dumping, most certainly the team comes through and does a great job of cleaning up. and so i want to definitely acknowledge and thank them for their continued work, but appreciate the leadership that is happening because these workers are really on the front line in our communities. and having that support, is important. thank you. thank you, vice chair walden. and please rest assured we are on the illegal dumping problem in your district. we've heard i've discussed it several times at our meetings and do keep following up with staff to try to get that improved. so please rest assured we are on it. thank you all very much. mr. clerk, can you please, open public comment? yes. members of the public who wish to speak on item number three, can line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. hi, folks, director shard is fantastic, public works is

definitely coming back, it couldn't get any lower, could it ? the, let me give you something that's happening, this morning, i just finished picking up four bags of trash down around the army, around my place. my dog and i do this every day. every day i fight with the public works people. the armory is a historic monument, for god's sake. clean up the piss and shit surrounding it. and i talked to rachel gordon, the pr person there. she says, unless it's a hazard, we won't spray the sidewalk next to the building. well, it's a hazard. and you know what? they sent a truck out , and the guy looks at me and waves, and he empties his truck. the water spraying on the sidewalk across the street from the armory. this is an hour ago. this is typical. now. all that crap wouldn't be there right next to the bus stop if they would move the port, the toilets that they've got around the corner. it's 100 yards. if they just move it in front of the

behind the bus stop in front of the army, you take care of that problem. i got 311 numbers in on all of it. hey the management is terrific. and that's where it starts because we had lousy management there for a couple of decades. but down on the ground, it ain't happening. well, and this lady's wonderful. are there any other speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers on this issue. public comment is now closed. i would like to, make a motion to forward this appointment to the full board with positive recommendation. deleting. rejecting. yes yes yes yes yes. removing the words. rejecting from lines three and line eight. yes motion to amend, to approve and to recommend on that motion, vice chair walton walton i. supervisor safaí safaí i chair

ronen i barron and i that motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you chair post and i don't believe, that, commissioner turner has arrived. but i will say, that he has done a fabulous job in the role so far. in my opinion, so i'm fine going forward, and recommending him if my colleagues are as well. yes this is commissioner turner, gerald demarcus turner. he was. why was he not able to make it today as chair. he was planning on coming and it looks like he's delayed. and it's unclear if you would like to wait. he is on his way. yeah. why don't we do that okay. just for him okay. is that okay? sure mr. clerk, can you please call item number four? item

number four is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of catherine meng to the building inspection commission for the unexpired portion of initial one year term ending july first, 2024, and for a term beginning july 1st, 2024 and ending july 1st, 2026. wonderful. and commissioner ming here. hello. well soon, perhaps soon to be commissioner ming. good morning. good morning, chair ronen, supervisor safaí and supervisor walton. i'm very happy to be here today and honored to be nominated to the building inspection commission. i am a licensed architect living and working in san francisco. my area of practice is in the higher education sector, designing facilities primarily for community colleges in the bay area. i am passionate about creating inclusive and welcoming learning environments that are safe and sustainable. i moved to san francisco nearly a decade ago with my husband, who was a

native san franciscan. we are the proud parents of two san francisco born girls and live in the napa area. i love my adopted city and i want to do my part to help make it a better place. that is the reason why i am here today. i am honored to have this unique opportunity to use my knowledge and skill set as an architect to serve our city. having practiced for nearly 15 years and in many jurisdictions, i have a deep familiarity with building codes and approvals processes. i look forward to contributing my abilities and talents to serving the people of san francisco. i believe that dbi exists to serve the people of san francisco as well, let me be clear. i know that there are many diligent, hard working members of the department who do good work and are a credit to the department, but as is well known, dbi has not been a stranger to serious problems, including corruption, inefficiency and opaqueness. should i be confirmed to the commission, i will make it my goal to help ensure that the department operates with utmost integrity. i will fight to make

it work efficient, i will fight to make it work with efficiency and consistency without sacrificing public safety. i would look forward to engaging with and learning more about the code enforcement, outreach programs, and the sro collaborative programs that provide a valuable service to our underserved communities. and i will do all i can to ensure that the department's rules are transparent. the people of san francisco deserve no less. as you may see in my file, i was also honored to receive letters of support from the san francisco chapter of the american institute of architects , where i recently served on the board of directors, as well as from the vice chair of the ace mentor program, where i volunteered as a mentor and program leader, introducing local high school students to career pathways in the architecture, construction, and engineering industries. thank you so much for your time and consideration, and i'm happy to answer any questions you may have. thank you so much. it was a pleasure speaking with you the other day, and i'm really,

looking forward to playing this important role on the commission supervisor safaí. thank you. thank you, miss meng, for stepping forward to be willing to serve on such an important commission in our city. and i'm glad you spoke head on about a lot of the corruption that's plagued this department, and a lot of it for so long. i mean, you can look at stories from two decades ago and they've recycled themselves. why do you think dbi has been plagued by corruption for so long? i think, i think building code, the building codes or with the building codes are. but it's always up to the agency to enforce the code. and so i think when, the rules, you know, they have to cover a wide variety of circumstances. so there's always a tension between strictly following the codes and then looking at, you know, specific situations when

individuals are going through the process. and so i think there's always that tension there, i also think that, you know, people have relationships, where there will be people who have been working in the city for a long time. there's dbi staff who've been there for a long time. and so by working, you know, together for a while, by i think people naturally start to form working relationships with each other. and i think that can often also lead to, misuse, and i think maybe there hasn't been as much accountability in the past, and so i think if i were to be on the commission, i would do my part to help continue the department, addressing these issues and making sure there's accountability and oversight. so i mean, i think you kind of are touching on it, on on the periphery. but i think a lot of what we've heard over and over

again is that the amount of time it takes to entitle projects in san francisco gives a lot of the inspectors themselves a lot more power over that process, so what do you think your role as a commissioner, what things can be done with your experience as well? yeah that could improve the process. i mean, we have i mean, they've written about it in the chronicle over the last year, how we have the longest entitlement process in the entire state of california. do you think that contributes to the corruption within the department? and are there things that could be done to improve that, i think it does contribute to it, i know that the department has working has been working on streamlining the permitting process, through a series of upgrades such as now, all in-house permit reviews are done digitally. and so i know that that has helped make the process more efficient. so i think tackling next inspection

side of things would be a good step to, helping streamline the process as well. last year, i put forward legislation to streamline the site permit process, and all we did, all i did with the legislation was say, follow the code. yeah, and guess who pushed back the most? was it the building department? the department itself? yeah, the department itself did not want us to put into the law. just follow these code. don't leave. so much discretion up to the department. yeah, so that we could cut at least 6 to 18 months from the process. so those are the kind of that's even within the department itself. there's significant pushback. so i only highlight that for you. yeah. so you come in eyes wide open. you're an architect yourself. you've obviously have you gone through the entitlement process in san francisco or has it been outside of the city, i've done it through san francisco and then

also in outside of the san francisco and then as well as through the division of the state architect. so the state had clients in san francisco that you've had to work through the entitlement process? yes. previously. good. yeah. okay. that's great. i appreciate your responses. thank you. thank you for stepping forward. thank you, madam chair. thank you. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please open this item up for public comment? 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. again, you're doing great at the top, on the ground. not so good, the. i didn't mention last time the fantastic concrete work that this department can do. i watched them do on 20th street above dolores park. they've been working there for 30, 40 years, they they're reshaping all the curbs, making it perfect, saving trees. fantastic. i've had a311

complaint in for four years now from the housing authority up to the bus stop on the other side of the street, supervisor safaí is a wonderful union building, and it's got a wide, fabulous concrete sidewalk on the side where old little old black ladies get out of busses and come down in wheelchairs in the rain. to go to the housing authority. there's no sidewalk at all. hasn't been. so let's do that, concrete, and asphalt, clarion alley needs paved. they did a fabulous job paving next to the armory. and it didn't need it. lord knows why they did it. it could be there was an opening, for a show there happening. but, clarion alley that that, that's four years old on that one. and the concrete sidewalk going from the housing authority's parking lot up to the bus stop. that's dead too. but they do wonderful work. the

people, when they get on the ground and actually do a job, they got some real fabulous craftsmen. thank you. and this lady's wonderful. are there any additional speakers on this matter? there are no additional speakers on this matter. public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to remove rejecting from line three and reject from line nine and a second recommends the appointment of catherine ming to the building inspection commission. yes, on that motion, vice chair walton walton i. supervisor safaí safaí i chair. ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. congratulations miss ming, i believe that mr. turner is here. hello, we're going to go back to item number two. do you need to

read the item, yes, i can do that. item number two hearing to consider appointing two members. term's ending july 2nd, 2028 to the public works commission. wonderful. and, commissioner turner, if you'd like to come up and make any remarks. good morning. and i want to thank you guys for giving me the opportunity and being humble enough. the space, being a civic servant here in the city of san francisco, i often get called to other jurisdictions, as i did this morning, so i'm grateful for the opportunity. i also just wanted to say, and i'm sure my colleagues have also mentioned it's been an amazing first year of the public works commission for me, outside of hiring, are, of course, director short. i'd also like to point out some other matrix that have been really important to us, including hiring within the ranks. we are now gone from over 25% vacancy to 16% vacancy and

trending down, that's reflective of our traditional hiring, but also our apprenticeship programs and our internship programs. that is really trying to make sure that we're leveraging our resources, not just to make sure that the public right of ways are being met, but also the comprehensive services that we provide at public works, going forward. i'm really excited as our commission, i think, continues to really season and more importantly, gel. we look forward to some really important initiatives, the city is back, if anyone's gone from our night markets to a plethora of things coming forward, such as pride parade, public works is there as the backbone to make sure the city hums. and i'm grateful to be of service. and i hope that this reappointment for the next term will continue to flourish and, more importantly, work with the public works department and staff. wonderful. well, i just wanted to thank you so much for your service thus far and willingness to continue to serve, and, very hopeful that we're going to continue to restore the reputation and continue to improve the services

of, the departments. so thank you so much. thank you. supervisor safaí. yes i'm glad you made it. i'm glad to hear what you've accomplished and what you've been working on. you hit every point that i asked before you got here, so keep up the great work. thank you so much. and we already called public comment for this item. so i would like to make a motion to , do i have to remove the word no? this is a hearing. so it's a motion to recommend gerald turner to seat one and 42. seat five. that is the with positive recommendation. that's the motion i'm making. yes. on that motion. vice chair walton walton i supervisor safaí safaí i chair ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you. thank you so much. thank you. thanks for being here. all three

of you, mr. clerk, can you please read item number five? item number five is a motion approving rejecting the mayor's nomination for the appointment of stefan engblom to the port commission. term ending may 1st, 2028. good morning, mr. blue. thanks for coming. good morning, good morning, chair ronen. vice chair walton and supervisor safaí. my name is steven engblom. i'm honored to be here this morning and honored to be recommended to serve on the port commission. i'm an architect and urban designer who has lived in san francisco since 2005, i've had the opportunity to work with cities and communities around the world and also here in the bay area, and i'm really excited to work to for the opportunity to work with the port on the commission at a time when there's very important work that the port is doing in leading the economic recovery of the city. also, you know, thinking about

the next decade of implementing, a lot of resilience work that will make the city safer. and it's once in a century type of work, my technical background aligns very well with that sort of work, i have locally had the opportunity to work on pier 70, i've worked at on transbay urban design guidelines, and as part of resilience bay challenge, which was an international challenge, about five years ago, i looked at how to make sites around the entire bay, including . azalea's creek was one of those study areas about how to make them much more resilient, my community service. i've served as a spur board member for the past six years, there i led a lot of thought leadership work for spur that has become work that's out there, recommending how to think about a more integrated, equitable approach to this once in a lifetime investment that we're going to be making in the

waterfront, i currently am on the faculty at uc berkeley, where i, for the past four years have been teaching resilience and equity for the masters of real estate development class. and my own practice as a licensed architect is focused on housing and working on a emergency housing solution with the county of sacramento right now, so, with that, i would just like to say i'm really honored to for the opportunity, and i'm happy to answer any questions or hear any comments. thank you. thank you so much. and thank you for your willingness to serve. supervisor walton, thank you so much, mr. engblom. did i pronounce that right? yes just a quick question, how do you think we achieve equity around the use of port property equity around the use of port money? is that what you said? port property. port property. well, i my philosophy on this is that there's, you know, an approach

of a triple bottom line for any project. so we're not just thinking about profit, but we're thinking about people and the environment as well. and i think that, the putting applying that metric to any, any project is, is critical. so i think that the, the waterfront communities, the eastern neighborhoods, i'm very familiar with the plan from the planning department. there's a lot of investment coming from, transportation agencies. so i think having a port, plan that really thinks about those and understands community priorities at the beginning. and i think elias creek was a great example of how, as a community led process where the community has resources to say what they want as a priority before the planning comes, comes and tells the community what they're thinking, but rather the community is prepared with those ideas. so that's during the during the course of my career, i've really seen our industry, the infrastructure and urban

planning, city planning industry go from a, you know, idea that, oh, we're going to go check with the community to one where today and i think san francisco is a great example of this, is that we lead with community driven ideas. thank you. thank you. supervisor safaí. thank you. thank you, mr. engblom, for being willing to serve. you talked a little bit about some of the vision or some of the need for the port to have a larger vision. i mean, we're at kind of a transition point in many areas. there's a number of projects that are coming from fisherman's wharf to the piers all the way down. as supervisor walton said over into bayview-hunters point. some of the other areas just like to hear you talk a little bit about the for the port, what can be done to help reimagine and revitalize the waterfront? well, i would say that there's been,

during my time in san francisco, there's a lot of visions already developed. so there's a lot of great visions already in place. and ensuring that they are integrated with each other. i think is and i believe that we're in a period where it's, you know, there's, there's a lot of great visions from the eastern neighborhoods to fisherman's wharf and the waterfront, the embarcadero reconstruction plan. there's a lot of great plans already in place, and now it's about shifting to how are we actually going to implement the work without sacrificing the great visions that are already, already developed. and the port has always been one that relies on long term leases to generate revenue for it. what do you see in terms of moving forward? some of its financial stability? i mean, it's gone through a hard time a lot of tenants couldn't pay their rent. that's more of

what i'm talking about. i understand that there's some exclusive negotiating agreements from fisherman's wharf down to, bayview. there's larger, impactful projects that we voted on as you know, citizens of san francisco and the bonds, there's going to be major redesigns in those areas. and kind of collectively bringing that together, but also making the port solvent and how it moves forward. well as i understand it, in some of the, you know, understanding the past couple of years of how the port has gotten much more on the front foot at going and getting funding from federal sources to help to complement or match local funding, really going out and being proactive with economic development. so i think that, i think my feeling is that the port is in a very as long as the port continues to be on the front foot with those kinds of economic development visions, including some of the really exciting things around green

economy that are coming, i think that the port is well situated to continue the recovery. great thank you so much. thank you. appreciate appreciate your willingness to serve again. thank you. thank you. mr. clerk, can you please open the set them up for public comment? 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, this guy is terrific. just a question. i'll supervisor south by. we talked off camera. you. i noticed that i don't really understand how this works. under the 30 day rule. does this is going to come up later, and then we'll get the talk on the items is i would like to drop program whether they want to give $300,000 a year to the worst homophobic, sexist, racist cops who are retired to come back, when will you be considering that the drop program, the one that gives $300,000. i'd just like to

remind you, you should be speaking on this matter. only this is not a time for questioning. can you tell me when that will come up, though? these. i cannot respond to questions during this meeting. this is only comment for this item specifically, my comment is this guy is terrific and i love the port. and we should do canals from one end of the city to the other. criss cross to take care of sea rise. are there any additional speakers on this matter? are there are no additional public commenters on this matter? public comment is now closed like to make a motion to remove rejecting from line three and reject from line seven and move this nomination to the full board with positive recommendation on yes. on that motion, vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor safaí i safaí i chair ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. congratulations.

thank you. mr. clerk, can you please read item number six? item number six is an ordinance amending the administrative code to streamline contracting for vision zero transportation projects by authoring the municipal transportation agency and the department of public works to expedite contracts by waiving applications of the environmental code and provisions related to competitive bidding, equal benefits, local business enterprise utilization, and other requirements for construction work and professional and other services related to vision zero projects. for a period of three years, i'd just like to note that there is a quest that this matter be sent out as a committee report. thank you so much. and i believe supervisor safaí has some amendments. yes thank you, madam chair, so we just got these amendments. i've handed them to you. the goal of what we were trying to accomplish was essentially to allow for a

process for there to, for this process to proceed, in, in a slightly more expedited manner. but creating and respecting a number of the different processes that we've put in place by creating a, a pre-qualified list of contractors as they've gone through the process. so if you look at the amendments today, it talks about vision zero as it originally did. it talks about the mta and public works and their ability to waive application fines and select provisions, but not waiving, administrative code chapter 14 and ensuring that the lbb's our local business enterprise is followed and that we're ensuring that. through that process, they have the authority to expedite the contracts by creating a

pre-qualified list of bidders. so if you look on page two, it would on down at the bottom lines 19 through 25. it says prior to entering into any new contract under the authority of the subsection mta public works, either jointly or independently and at the discretion of the department, shall issue a request for qualifications substantially in conformance with the requirements and procedures set forth in subsection f of 6.2 to establish a list of pre-qualified bidders, and that should be valid for three years, which basically is the time of this process. and. that's essentially that's essentially it that's that's the update that i have. i know that this is a substantive amendment, one question i did have and i know public works is here, wanted to make sure if mr. if bruce could come forward, ask a

question, i had asked this in the beginning, but i wanted to make sure that this doesn't in any way touch our citywide pla agreement for projects over $1 million. so i just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that for a second, thank you. supervisor bruce robertson, deputy director of finance and admin at public works, we would confirm with the city attorney, but our understanding is under provision 6.20 f, the in developing the list of pre-qualified vendors, the department head has the ability to add some provisions. so under the citywide poa, which public works adheres to, we would include the pla. if the mta is administering the contract. since the citywide pla does not apply to them, they the poa would not apply. so it would depend on which of the two agencies are issuing the construction contract. but it's the intent of public works to comply with the po. we would obviously confirm that with the city attorney, but that's the intent. and you said importantly, as you're creating your your internal procedures

once once this is authorized, correct. under administrative code 6.20 f, subparagraph one, it does allow if for the development of a pre-qualified list of vendors, the department had to determine some of the provisions in terms of how those vendors are selected. and that would likely be something that we would incorporate into that process. right. and then after that, you're no longer required to go through a solicitation process. once you've created that list of pre-qualified vendors. correct. we would follow the provision for three years. correct. got it. and then just through the chair to the city attorney, just ask same question. that was one of the things i just wanted to clarify on the record, whether or not this and i mean, i heard it from the department. i know i believe you all will check internally as well. is that correct? deputy city attorney ann pearson? that's correct. that question was posed to us this morning. we're looking at it and i can confirm with the committee probably not during today's

meeting, but afterwards. okay. thank you so much. and that's regarding the citywide pla. thank you. and mr. robertson, given that the whole point of this legislation is to expedite vision zero projects, given, you know, that we have not had a wonderful year so far when it comes to vision zero with these amendments, is this are we still going to have an expedited process? this is under this legislation, will it still be easier to, to move these process, these projects forward in a quicker manner than without the legislation, thank you, supervisor, it would expedite things, at this point, we we're still trying to figure out exactly how much it would expedite what that time shaving would be. there would certainly. absolutely. yes. reduce some time. but we're not exactly sure how much we're still evaluating under our, chapter 6.76, which does something similar for homelessness related projects

that shaves, approximately eight weeks, 6 to 8 weeks. so this would certainly shave similar time period off. i would estimate we once we get done and develop our policies and how we're going to implement the pre-qualified list of vendors, we certainly can report back and provide that specific information. and once that list is created, i would assume then it'll even save more time. you know, in the future, because you'll already have that pre-qualified list. and you can correct. i think one of the things that is a little unknown, and why i'm being a little vague here, is what's the procedure we're going to put in place once that list is developed, how do we then select the firm that the bidder we go with. that's part of the procedures that will still have to develop okay okay. thank you. and i just want to say for the record i appreciate it that i generally have a problem with sole source contract. it's i've said that in this committee over the course of a number of years, whether it was h.s.a, df or any of the related projects. and i think a

better way to do it is through this process of going through. it's what i referenced when we did the sober living, in union square with adult probation. they had a list of qualified vendors. they were able to use their own internal procedures to select then people that had gone through a competitive process. so i think just for the record, i think it's so everyone understands there will be a competitive process this will no longer be sole source, but once the list is created, the internal procedures within the department will guide the selection process. that will then also expedite time for the next three years. and we're still going to adhere to respect and honor the procedures that we put in place as it relates to our local businesses and having them be a part of the process and also waiting for clarification, my intent would never be to undermine an our citywide pla, which we've put a lot of time, effort and energy into. so thank you, mr. robinson

. thank you. thank you, madam chair. thank you. can we open this item up for public comment? 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. letting this turd sit in the sun. an extra couple of weeks did not make it smell any better. for all you people who fought to have, minority contractors get jobs for all you people who fought for equal pay, for all you people who fought for equal benefits, for all the hundreds of hours i've watched people argue for protecting the environment, this kills it all. this thing should not be here at all on the ground. you take away all these guardrails for from the mayor. what does they do on the ground? they do crap on the ground. the valencia bike lane, ends, under my window. it starts, all the way down the

army or something, and it comes all the way down to, 15th street. and then it quits, and then it picks up again at 14th on on down to the highway. beautiful by the schools there. but they the they're complaining about this project and it's not even finished. what's the next one? i mean you're taking away all of these requirements. you're screwing all of the unions, all of the labor that's been done. this thing should not be for you at all. you know, take away all all of the requirements. that's absolutely preposterous. you know, play by the rules. when do you take away the rules? they don't even do get the job done anyway. okay? this should not be here. and you should be ashamed for passing it . hi. lasagna. mansfield. mansfield and mansfield. good morning. board members. chair. i am a small contractor and a

member of the san francisco latino and black builders association, as a hard working single parent. born and raised in san francisco. raised in district ten, i oppose number six. streamlining. projects i've received multiple phone calls for work, from the community and desire to give back. but if they streamline the projects, then it will close the door for my company to provide a living wage to the community. it is crucial that the sponsor of this legislation sit down with the small business community and give us the opportunity to give input. i want to thank the board president, chair and ahsha ahsha excuse me for proposing an amendment proposing legislation before speaking to before speaking with the small business

community. let's let's me know that i am valued and i appreciate that. and i would love for it to go forward with some changes. thank you. good morning, supervisors, i had a whole speech written out, but then when i hear something that angers me, i have to throws me off of my speech. so, you know my question is, where is the data that that allows streamlining to happen? where who is asking for the data when you're asking to remove 14 be you know, you want to talk about vision 0 in 10 years it's already been going on. but why now? do you want to leave out 14 be in chapter six. where is the data that says this is holding up the contracting? anyway, thank you for listening to us or hearing us for last week, and we're asking you just to take

another pause and really look at the amendments before voting on it and to remember that, you know, we are the other small businesses in the city of san francisco that we do employ our community who are voters in the community. and before any of this comes across your desk, please, please, i plead with you to take a moment and to reach out to the community before you guys vote on things that could, in three years, shut down several companies. thank you. supervisors, thank you for the opportunity to speak this morning. safaí thank you for the opportunity to briefly review this amendment, i know that everybody struggled to get things done with father's day and so forth. so i know the putting this effort in was important. thank you, we appreciate the efforts that

you've put into this. and i know in speaking to my brother rudy, he certainly was concerned about pla and chapter six carve out and we stand united with the building trades council in that respect. so making sure that they're not left out either. but as i look forward and listen to, the gentleman from public works, i've come to realize that, dpw has asked for another exemption, and that's already passed. and they've got they the extension and how many projects are they doing for years without 14 b and chapter six, i think two, two projects in four years. so that's the data i mean, you just pull that up in the newspaper, you see how many projects have been delayed, how many projects come over budget and certainly wasn't because of 14 b because

when we in part of the process. so i think when you start thinking about changing the rules of engagement, you should do as the mayor has done. the mayor has proposed streamlining and has come to the elbe community to speak about what she's looking to do. rec and park has come to our community and asks, how can we better improve how we do things? supervisor mandelman has come to our committee and spoken about some initiatives he had in streamlining contracting. i think it's unforgivable that we're proposing things without speaking to the community, getting input and working with our community to better help the city of san francisco. thank you . my bad.

good morning, alan braddell here. i don't know how to say anything better than what was already said here, about the policy, before you today. so let me just say something about vision zero. and by the way, sfmta is a disaster. the last thing we need to do is, expedite anything for them, right? so. but vision zero should be a north star that guides responses . traffic control achieving zero traffic deaths on san francisco streets is impossible. it's an impossible goal to achieve the tragedy in west portal and other similar tragedies proved that. but making vision zero policy to achieve that impossible number is certainly useful to folks who want to exert control over our shared public right of ways. why? because every extreme traffic control measure can easily. be justified as

necessary to achieve zero traffic deaths on san francisco streets. say no to this policy today and that concludes my comments. thank you. good morning, chair ronen and committee, angelina, you, on behalf of supervisor chan, we agree and appreciate the amendments that have been put forth by supervisor safaí today. we do recognize they are substantive and do need to sit for. must be continued, we also recognize that given that, i think next week is our number of ballot measures coming before the committee, we are respectfully asking to continue to the call of the chair to allow for, time and flexibility. but thank you for the amendments. are there any additional speakers who would like to provide public comment on this matter? there are no additional speakers at this time

. public comment is now closed. supervisor walton thank you, chair ronen. and i think i can save some of my comments because we're going to be continuing this to the call of the chair. but i do want to thank, supervisor chan, supervisor safaí, and sponsors for trying to work with community on this, to come up with a way to address vision zero and do what we can to save lives, i am very concerned because we've been having conversations about this legislation for weeks, and it still seems like there will be community has not, at least the perception had a chance to really engage. and so my hope, of course, is during this time period, there are conversations that take into account the needs of our community and all the work that we have done to make sure that we provide the protections for them. and so do look forward to the continued conversation as we move forward. thank you for that. and ditto,

we will be continuing this to the call of the chair. so there is time, to continue to have these conversations and get this right, supervisor safaí, thank you. and i appreciate the comments from the community coming out, this was the idea was to try to get as much from last week into this week. and as miguel said, there were a number of different delays and we worked with our city attorney's office. we got the amendments this morning, so knowing that it's going to sit for at least a week now, it'll sit longer. there will be plenty of opportunity to work with the sponsor. so supervisor chen's office is absolutely engaged in that regard. i'm happy to help in any way i can. i was doing my best to try to, ensure operate in amendments based on some of the conversations that we had, but i know that there's a lot more time and input that could be had. so i appreciate you all coming out here today. and don't

want to give you the impression that at least from the supervisor, we were trying to rush this process through, but appreciate you guys coming out, and we absolutely are ready to work with you to get this right. thank you, do you want to go ahead and make a motion to. yes, if we if we can make a motion to accept these amendments, i make a motion to accept these amendments as read into the record. yes. on the motion to on the amendment, vice chair walton walton i, supervisor safaí i safaí i chair ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. i motion the amendments pass unanimously. and mr. clerk, i'd like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. yes. on the motion to continue the matter to the call of the chair. vice chair. walton. walton, i supervisor safaí safaí i chair.

ronen, i ronen i, there is no objection to the motion to continue the matter to the call of the chair, as amended. motion passes unanimously. thank you. mr. clerk. can you please read item number seven? item number seven is ordinance approving the amended airport surveillance technology policy governing the use of pre-security cameras. and we have guy clark, from the airport to present. good morning. good morning. chair. vice chair walton and supervisor safaí. thank you for having, guy clark, the it cybersecurity governance compliance director at the airport, as you noted, we're presenting the amended pre security cameras, surveillance technology policy. this policy was approved by the board probably five years just after it was initial policy, probably five years ago, right after the ordinance was first. originally

done. and, the other the other three items, the airtrain, the shuttle busses and the bart streaming were in the inventory. evidently, this was before i started the program. about 3 or 4 years ago. so this was prior to my being there. those i think were they were in the inventory, but they were considered as potentially having separate, street policies, surveillance technology policies done for them. but after working with julie and coit, we decided to be better off just to amend the existing pre-security policy with those three items. so that's how we went ahead and did that. if you want to go ahead and just a couple couple quick slides here. the pre security camera support the airport's mission and objective right of safety and security. it's live monitoring of the pre security space for any incidents that occur. you make sure the public everybody at the airport is protected from that perspective and the footage is only used or reviewed if there is an incident that occurs and needs to be investigated from that perspective, it's video, video

management software. and the cameras themselves are there, from that perspective. and then the was for authorized use cases in the original provision if you go to the next slide. yeah. and those use cases did not change with the addition of these. the three items that i mentioned, live monitoring one of them, recording of the video images, as i mentioned, reviewing camera footage in the event of an incident and then providing that footage to law enforcement or other authorized persons, following an incident or upon request. so there's a process at the airport for requesting any of that footage, as long as it's and as long as it's reasonable and legitimate, there's not a problem providing that, from that perspective. and then the real quick, the amendments there was the core policy followed by the description of the technologies. and in the core policy that was approved, two major or two changes, amendments was in the data sharing section.

we had a sentence that said redact names and ensure that all pii is removed in accordance with the department's data policies, after doing some research and doing and processing the amendment, we found out that the camera technology currently doesn't support scrubbing of faces, so we don't have that. so we did correct and updated that piece of it, and then in the addendum sections of the policy, the amended portions, we added the three areas that are now covered. so the use of video cameras and the airtrain vehicles. and then on the shuttle busses. and those are for business purposes only. and then the third item is the live streaming of the of the bart video cctv from the actual bart station at the airport, and when we say streaming, we use that term intentionally because we don't control the cameras, we don't own the cameras. right. we have no access to the footage, cannot record the footage. there's a formal process with bart to request footage if we needed it for an incident. so we have to go to them. they are the custodians of that, the other

two items, obviously, the airtrain and the shuttle busses. we are custodians and do have that footage, and the reason why the shuttle busses weren't another additional reason why they weren't included originally was because shuttle busses were for employees and contractors at the airport, not for the general public. however during the pandemic, as sometimes the airport got very busy at times, and afterwards, as if the parking lots fill at the airport, we may have to use the employee shuttle busses for general public. so we want to, you know, full disclosure, i want to make sure that it's known that there are cameras and you're being filmed when you're on those busses. so settle. any questions, colleagues. any questions. no. no questions. thanks for the presentation. appreciate it. great. mr. clerk, can we please open this item up for public comment? thank you. members of the public who wish to speak on this matter should line up to speak. at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. are there any parties

who would like to meet public comment? there are no public commenters for this matter. public comment is now closed. colleagues, i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. yes on the motion to recommend vice chair walton i. walton i supervise safaí safaí i chair ronen, i ronen i. the motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you for your time. thank you. mr. clerk. can you please read item number eight? yes. item number eight is ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the downtown university attraction and retention fund to provide financial incentives to attract public college or universities interested in having a physical location in south market, union square and the financial district. neighborhoods and to purchase or lease property for public colleges or university campuses in those neighborhoods. there is a request that this matter be

sent out as committee report. mr. for or mr. or supervisor safaí would you like to speak on this item since it's yes, i would yes, i would, thank you, thank you, colleagues, before you, this item today is aimed at attracting public universities into our downtown, which i've been working on for over a year now, this will create a category fund for category four fund named the downtown university attraction and retention fund, that will provide key incentives for public universities and institutions that are interested in establishing a presence in key neighborhoods, including soma, union square, and the financial district, and both for this fund. both public dollars include bond financing, along with phil. anthropic sources will be allowed to put into the fund. and i just want to point out this is a historic moment in our city's commercial real

estate. not only do we have such a high rate of vacancy, well over almost 40,000,000ft!s of empty office space, over 37% of vacancy rate. but the properties themselves are at an all time low. so this would be the time to buy. this would be the time to create this fund. buying these buildings and then putting together an rfp, this is we're looking to replicate the success places like phoenix, arizona, did back in 2006, 18 years ago, it's been a remarkable resurgence in their downtown today. phoenix. and they did the same thing. they were able to purchase property they used, able to use some bond financing, and they were able to put together an rfp and invite asu to participate today, almost 12,000 students not only study in that area, live in that area and spend money in that area.

and it's led to over 4,000,000ft!s of office space being occupied. and $6.5 billion in revenue generated. so this reality of our office market being at one of its lowest points in the last 30 years, truly gives us an opportunity to invest. so i believe san francisco's downtown will thrive again. it will it will come back. and this will allow us to send the message that it's going to happen. we intend to eventually get close to 20 to $30 million in this fund, but we wanted to start the conversation about how the board of supervisors could engage through the legislative process to bring this reality, to the downtown. and we don't have to look that far. you look at the uc village that's there. it's a collaboration between multiple universities living, studying, a number of them are studying in

the downtown, not just at the law school, but it's a really strong collaboration, we can get their absolute. we believe that this is a reality that san francisco can realize in a very expedited manner. one small amendment non-substantive colleagues on page two, lines 17 and 18, we call out that we can use bond financing in this process. so thank you. anyone would love your support. love your co-sponsorship, but love definitely would like to get this out with the positive, i mean positive vote today, and move this process forward so that hopefully we can attract the opportunity for investment and see public universities in the downtown. thank you. thank you. supervisor walton. thank you. chair. ronen, just a quick question through the chair, how does the usage of bond resources applied to the capital plan? we

would absolutely work with the capital plan, just wanted to put that information in there, kind of reference to, if there in an upcoming bond in the next year or two, there's an opportunity to utilize that, we could also do certificates of participation, but just wanted to call that out exclusively, because that's one of the things that was done, in asu, they use bond financing as a, as a mechanism, and then there's a long term lease signed with asu to attract that again. also after nine over 11, nyu julliard did the same thing and revitalizing their downtown. and if you think about any world class city around the world, you see a university presence in the downtown, this is something we do have some satellite campuses there, but the difference is the difference is today, majority of them are just studying in those locations. they're not living in those locations. and so the idea

is to create more of a 24 hour environment where students are studying, living, thriving in that environment. so an actual campus, as you see in other cities around the world, but the calling out of the bond financing would absolutely respect the capital plan process . credit. okay. can we now open this item up for public comment? 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. are there any speakers who would like to provide public comment on this matter? i do not see any speakers for this matter. public comment is now closed. supervisor safaí yes, i'd like to make the motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. oh wait, do we need to do that? no. do we need to do that, we need to amend this prior. say oh, sorry. yes, i'd like to. i'd

like a motion to amend the item. page two. line 1718. as i don't know if i gave it to you guys, but it's right here, as stated into the record, to include bond financing. sorry about that. yes. on that motion to amend, vice chair walton a walton i supervisor safaí i safaí i chair ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection passes. and then now i'd like to make a motion to send this item, as amended, to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. as a committee report, yes. thank you. as the committee report on that motion, vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor safaí i safaí i chair ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you mr. clerk. can you please read

item number nine? item number nine is ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the library read and recovery program to provide at the main library and all library branches, free written material and books from mutual help programs for individuals who seek recovery from substance abuse use disorder and non substance related addictive disorders. and i believe we have mahonys here from supervisor dorsey's office. good morning, chair ronen and committee members. my name is mahony zebari and i'm a legislative aide for district six. thank you very much for the opportunity to present this ordinance memorializing the reach recovery program on behalf of supervisor matt dorsey. this program will offer free to keep recovery literature and basic texts in all available languages from the murad mutual help program. traditions for individuals who seek recovery, recovery from substance use disorder, alcohol use disorder, and non-substance related addictive disorders, and

the related code dependencies. no library card is required for anyone to benefit from this program's offerings, which will expand in its first year of operation from the main library to all 27 branch libraries citywide. since first announcing this program, we've received inquiries from other cities and public agencies across the country. saratoga springs recently launched a similar program and included free grief recovery literature, as well. read to recovery has its roots in an accidental discovery. back in 2022, the board passed a resolution called san francisco recovers, wherein we asked 21 city departments to report back on drug policies and proposals for this board to consider as we address the ongoing drug and substance use addiction crisis in san francisco. one city department that wasn't included in the resolution reached out to say, you should ask us, too,

because we have a great idea. that was branch manager doreen horston, who, with the support of city librarian michael lambert, proposed this idea. both doreen and michael are here to offer brief presentations about this program and are available to answer any questions you might have about this legislation and the reach recovery program. thank you again for your time this morning, and we hope to earn your support for this simple yet powerful legislation. this concludes my remarks, and through the chair, i respectfully request that we invite city librarian lambert to make remarks. thank you. with pleasure. thank you so much, miss lambert. great to see you as always. thank you for that introduction. and thank you, chair. ronen. good morning, supervisors. i want to begin by acknowledging the sponsors of the read to recovery program

legislation, supervisors dorsey mandelman, stephanie and engardio for recognizing the critical role of the public library in transforming lives. in this instance, supporting individuals struggling with substance abuse disorder and alcohol addiction. i also want to reinforce the earlier remarks and acknowledge our park branch manager, doreen horston, for coming up with this innovative service response, this is a wonderful example of bottom up innovation. and, you know, something that is arguably the most pressing issue facing our community today. since the program's inception as a pilot at the main library, we have distributed over 4000 copies of recovery literature and collateral. we have also scaled this program into three of our neighborhood branches. so far through this legislation, the read to recovery initiative will be elevated as a priority for the library to continue scaling system wide at all 28 library

locations. as during my three decade career in librarianship, i've heard countless testimonials from individuals recounting how the library saved their life. it is my sincere hope that the free distribution of this literature and a safe, judgment free space in our neighborhood libraries will help families and individuals impacted by addiction get onto a path of recovery and rebuilding their lives. i appreciate the rule rules committee's consideration of this legislation today, and now i'm pleased to introduce my colleague doreen horston, who represents the very best of our workforce as a dedicated public servant and a passionate advocate for recovery. good morning. thanks for being here. good morning, supervisors. i don't have any prepared remarks, but i just wanted to say i'm going on 18 years with the public library and one thing that has been consistent in all

the different roles that i've had is that people come to the library when they need help, or they have an information need, and they look for books. and of course, now people will accept other formats like ebooks, but it really always comes down to the books. people want to walk out with something in their hand that can help them, whether it's a self-help book, a spiritual need, something that they want to read for entertainment or to take their mind off of things that are going on in the world or something informational. they're they want to learn and they want to gain knowledge about something that's new. and i feel the same way about read to recovery. we have books at my location, the park branch and i'm regularly refilling the shelf where we keep them. i don't really monitor those books, but i know people come in and take them and i'm just so proud to be a part of the library because, as you know, we do a lot of great things. the

addiction crisis in san francisco is one of our biggest issues right now, and no one department can fix it. but i feel like this is a step in the right direction. and so i think michael lambert and the supervisors for your support, thank you. thank you so much for coming up with this wonderful idea. and, you know, i just, want to say that, the work of the library never ceases to amaze me. i think it's one of the pride and joys of not only san francisco, but of our country in general. it's one of the few free open to everybody. opportunities that we have in the united states of america. that and our public school system are the only two rights we have, we should absolutely have the right to information and the right to educate

ourselves and the right to seek help and help ourselves. so i just really want to appreciate this, this legislation. i want to appreciate the library for everything that you do. i would ask to be added as a co-sponsor. and now i'll turn it over to supervisor safaí. thank you. i just had a question about how the program will actually be implemented. it says here in the legislation that you don't have to have a library card. and i'm just wondering, are are you going to be just giving away free books like what's what's how is this work? i mean, i like the idea of it sounds great. obviously we want to help people in their road to recovery. but it says no library membership card will be required to obtain written materials or books and no such book, and will be offered free. so how do we how do we do that? do we get a whole bunch of books donated to the

library and we just handing them out? thank you for the question, supervisor safaí, the materials are sourced through our library vendors, and we are very fortunate enough to be able to support this program through the library preservation fund. but i'd also like to invite the architect of this program, doreen hairston, to explain how this works internally. so the first thing i want to point out is that most of these titles are available in the collection. to check out as well. so there are permanent part of the library's collection. and even if something happens where we can't afford to buy books, we have them there circulating. anybody with a library card can come in and get them as far as the book giveaways, we're getting that through our collection and technical services department. they do the ordering, they send them to the branches that are currently participating, and this creates a low barrier program for people who may be

just coming out of jail doing reentry, being recommended to a program so that they don't have to have the library card to participate. and we also bring these books with us to different outreach opportunities. last year, i brought books to the, of all places, the haight ashbury street fair, and they all got taken. i had to go back to the branch and get more. so there is a need for those books to be out there in the community. sometimes i'm approached by friends and family members of people with an addiction. sometimes people will say, oh, i'm just curious, or i'm just getting this for a friend. and sometimes it's people who are in recovery programs who see the selection that we have, and they stop and they start browsing and they take a book. so you never know, really. but i think that having these and having a copy that you can highlight and make

notes and put little post-it notes in is really helpful for people in that situation. so i'm glad that we're able to offer both alternatives. we have the books in house, of course, because we're the library, and that's what we do. but the giveaway is another part of the program to really engage people who are going through that in their lives right now. great. so it'll be a giveaway and opportunity for people to check books out. yes. great. okay. that that was my question. sounds good. yeah. no, i think it's a phenomenal idea. anytime you can give people the option to access something that can help turn their life around, i just was interested in how it would be implemented and how you would be doing. i've been to places where the librarians and people have station and they do. they're just handing books out these are the books that we have. if you'd like a book, it's here for free. so that was all. thank you very much. and i'd also like to be added as a co-sponsor. could you share some of the titles and authors of the

books that that are most popular that you're giving away? sure. we have, most of the main titles that are part of, alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous, cocaine anonymous, and then we also have books by lifering, which is a secular version of the 12 step program, we have some self-help titles and some that are a little more spiritual, like the zen of recovery, and other related books and some of the lesser known titles. i guess. of course, we have the aa big big book, the na big book. then we have things like the small book, 12 steps and 12 traditions and, and other books about codependency. so we tried to develop a collection that didn't just stick to one program, because there are a lot of different people out there, and they have different needs and

different opinions about all these different programs. so we wanted to offer a selection so that there would be something there for everybody. and i'm pleased to report that some of our recovery organizations in the city have donated titles to us as well, alcoholics anonymous and nar-anon have both contacted me several times over the past few years to make book donations. as part of this program, so i'm really happy to see that participation from some of the recovery groups that are out there. wonderful. what a great program. thank you so much. thank you. supervisors. mr. clerk, can we now open this item up for public comment? 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. are there any members of the public who like to provide public comment on this matter? there are no speakers at this time. public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board, with positive

recommendation on that motion. vice chair walton a walton i supervisor safaí a safaí i chair. ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you. thank you so much. mr. clerk, can you please read item number ten? yes. item number ten is an ordinance amending the administrative code to repeal chapter 26, known as the deemed approved off sale alcohol use nuisance regulations and thereby repealing certain city provisions regulating establishments that sell alcoholic beverages for off site consumption. hello. and we have lorenzo rojas here. hi. good morning. thank you. chair ronen and committee members walton and safaí for hearing this ordinance today. my name is lorenzo rosas, and i'm here to present on

behalf of supervisor stefany regarding this ordinance that will repeal duplicative code and help the bottom lines of our small businesses selling alcohol citywide. this ordinance repeals administrative code chapter 26. this the section that regulates deemed approved off site off street alcohol use, otherwise referred to as dao nuisance regulations. administrative code chapter 26 was passed in 2006 to ensure that businesses that sell alcoholic beverages for off site consumption are not the source of undue public nuisances in the community. in addition to enforcement, the city requires the owner of these businesses to pay an annual fee to cover the costs of administering the deemed approved off sale alcohol use education and outreach program, and its related costs. according to the department of public health, the annual fee was $310 last year and the fee is tied to the relevant consumer price index to increase yearly with inflation. inflation repealing these dao regulations was initially proposed in an

office of small business economic mitigation, working group 2020 report, created in response to a resolution passed by supervisor walton and then supervisor fuhrer. the group's december 2020 report found that businesses selling off site liquor have had historically high compliance rates with the dao's performance standards that the fees paid to administering dao were often unequally applied , and that the regulations were largely duplicative of existing state law. as such, the economic mitigation working group called for the full repeal of administrative code. chapter 26, and the small business commission passed a resolution in 2021 calling for the elimination of the dao ordinance and fee while drafting this legislation, our office consulted with the department of public health, san francisco police department, and the city attorney's office. the offices tasked with dao administration and enforcement to confirm the working group's assessment. additionally deputy city attorney henry lifton

communicated that the code enforcement team has not had a recent dao case and that the team believes that the city attorney's and the district attorney's office could enforce violations of similar state law. as such, it is clear to our office that our dao ordinance is not being used for enforcement, that businesses selling alcohol have had historically high rates of compliance, and that the fee paid by these businesses can no longer be justified, especially when considering the underlying racial inequities in its application. this repeal effort will eliminate the duplicative state and city enforcement codes, as well as save businesses selling alcohol hundreds of dollars a year, particularly helping small businesses struggling to survive in the post-pandemic economic environment. for these reasons and more, both sfpd and dph have expressed that neither department is opposed to this ordinance, as they understand that laws have been since been enacted that make this legislation duplicative, and that sfpd will continue to

conduct business inspections with california abc, which uses a community oriented education approach. representatives from sfpd and sf are also here today to answer any questions from the committee. this ordinance is supported by the neighborhood business alliance, the arab american grocers association, independent grocers association, tenderloin merchants association, and many businesses in your district, as well as citywide. supervisor stephanie and our office are extremely grateful to all who have helped bring this ordinance to today's committee. in particular, i want to thank small business commissioner miriam sessions for her extensive work on this proposal over the past several years. additionally, i want to thank henry lifton and the city attorney's office. carl nicita from the police department, and anna vlcek from the department of public health, all of whom were instrumental in the drafting of this legislation. thank you for your time today and our office hopes to have your support. thank you so much, colleagues. any questions? nope i think it's all very clear.

thank you all for your work on this. i will now open this item up for public comment. 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. are there any members of the public who like to make public comment at this time, there are no speakers at this time. oh hello. thank you so much, supervisors, for hearing this item. and i want to give a big shout out to supervisor walton for, initiating this conversation with merchants, prior to the covid shutdowns. and i really hope that this is going to give merchants a little bit more wiggle room to do social programing, diversify their offerings. and i think the trend is going in the direction of prior to covid, retailers were doing 70% alcohol sales. a lot of that changed with online

retailers and also on premise establishments being able to sell off sale, i think at this point, culturally, we're seeing a lot of businesses, corner markets reduce their tobacco and alcohol. and i think it's a good move from the city to ease them into compliance and other pathways. and part of that is fee mitigation. so really appreciate this effort. thank you. thank you commissioner. are there any additional speakers for public comment? there are no additional speakers. public comment is now closed. i'd like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. yes. on that motion to recommend vice chair walton a walton i supervisor safaí safaí i chair ronen i ronen i that motion passes without objection. motion passes unanimously. thank you, mr. clerk. are there any further items before us today? there are no additional items on today's agenda. the meeting is adjourned

. >> who doesn't love cable cars? charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this

was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have

i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing]

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when completed in 1923, o'shaugnessy dam was the largest of the time built with over

660,000 cubic feet of concrete and 700,000 pounds of steel. what ask most impressive the purity of the water in hetch hetchy reservoir. >> quality of the water coming down the tuolumne river is snow melt rung off of grantite. it does not pick up pollute annuals the most pristine water source wrochl getting it from the dam to san francisco was a challenge. the construction of mountain tunnel through 19 miles of grantite brought the water to the reservoir and then to the moccasin power plant the pipe lines called pen stalkers. for moccasin it flowed across the san wa queen valley where michael o'shaugnessy failed a daunting challenge.

>> most feat was tunnelling throughout coast ranges. which was the tunnel was 28 miles long. it was an under taking but we persevered he wanted to drill through so it would be gravity flow from beginning to end. there were 85 miles of tunnels some through grantite and 71 miles of aqueducts to carry hetch hetchy water to the crystal springs reservoir >> o'shaugnessy delivered to bring water and generate power from the tuolumne river 167 miles across california by gravity flow to the san francisco bay area. >> this o'shaugnessy dam centennial moment is

>> alright. good morning everyone. welcome to our june 13 meeting of transbay jonet power authority. board meeting is held in person at san francisco city hall. members of the public may attend in person or via online live stream at www sfgovtv.tjpalive to stream the meeting. please call the roll. >> prior to calling roll i note vice chair mandelman and [indiscernible] and will be absent. director forbes, present. john-baptiste, present. lipkin, present. syed, here.