the san francisco rules committee meeting of june 27, 2024.

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order. june 27, 2024 rules committee meeting. i'm supervisor ronan, chair, joined by supervisor walton and committee member safai, we are also joined by aaron peskin. the clerk is victor young and like to thank eugene--i wonder if eugene is new. welcome, eugene. from sfgovtv. >> public comment will be taken on each agenda. please line up to speak. you may submit public comment writing e-mail to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit public comment viae-mail it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. you may send written comment tuesday city hall, 1 dr. carlton b

goodlett place, 244, san francisco california 94102. silence cell phones and electronic devices. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda july 9, 2024 unless otherwise stated. that completes my initial announcements. >> thank you, please call item 1. >> item 1, charter amendment first draft to amend the charter to establish the position of inspector general in the controller's office to provide that the inspector general nominated subject to approval to authorize the initiate and lead investigations regarding potential violations of laws or policies involving fraud, waste, abuse, or misconduct to expand authority of the controller's office to issue subpoena and authorize the execute search warts to the extent permitted by state law at an election held

november 5, 2024. >> thank you. president peskin, would you like to present the item? >> thank you chair ronan. thank you for scheduling this as the first of the charter amendments that the rules committee is considering for the november ballot and let me just start by thanking the collaborators in putting this together, starting with my staff,inate, who did a national search of best practices and looked at models from cities around the country and consulting with leading academic experts in the field. let me thank the controller office, greg wagoner and members of his team who had a hand not only in doing audits and running the whistle blower program pursuant to the charter for many years,

but also authoring a number of public integrity reports under the leadership of the previous controller recollect , ben rosenfield. let me thank the city attorney office for help and collaboration as thought partners in drafting this charter amendment. let me just start out with the obvious, which is, government relies on trust, and the erosion of public trust is an erosion of government and our ability to do what government is supposed to do, and the last number of years have been really quite shameful as a number of high profile public

integrity scandals have thankfully been uncovered and as somebody who dovoted the lion share of my adult professional life to governance and good governance, it has been devastating and eroded public trust, and these are not new occurrences. the occurrences have gone back long before i was elected 24 years ago. while i thank the federal bureau of investigation and the u.s. attorney for rooting out corruption in san francisco government, i think it is time that san francisco have the mechanisms in place to clean our own house. we know that in the last half dozen years charges have been leveled against over a dozen people, many of those charges have lead to convictions, including of course the highest

profile case of former department head, mohammed nur rurks and it is time to stab the role of a public integrity unit and in doing our research, we relize the gold standard is the inspector general, and most american cities already have one and san francisco is probably the city most in need of one. this ballot measure takes the best aspects of the strong inspector general model recommended by leading public integrity experts in practice successfully in dozen major cities. it is clear mandate, public accountability and independence. it puts the role within the controller office in order to harness best practice and streamline them with existing functions building on what works at no additional cost to

the taxpayers, because the controller's office already enjoys a set aside with room in it for this position. i have a little presentation and if i could ask my staff, nate horelto come forward, we can run through this very brief power point, which you will bring it up. the inspector general- >> can we have the--thank you. >> thank you, victor. the inspector general would be appointed by our independent controller, i think we all recognize and acknowledge that the controller's office is truly a non-partisan independent office. i have personally experienced that under three controllers. that is a position that is nominated by

the mayor and approved by the board and the controller would have the power to appoint this person subject or to nominate this person subject to the approval of the mayor and majority of the board. that individual would not be subject to civil service and as i said, would be funded by the previously created set aside. let's move to the next slide. as to expanded investigative powers. give the broad anticorruption mandate to receive complaints and investigate, expand the controller's and inspector jen polk subpoena power to include contractors, lobbyist and anyone seeking contracts, grants, loans, permits, license, tax incentive

entitlement or other from the city. expand the subject of whistle blower complaints to include contractors, lobbyist and above mentioned permitees. grant powers to execute search warrant which are allowed under state penal code section 830.13 and codify duty to cooperate for city employees. requires and cooperation and information sharing with the between the inspector general, with ethics, the city attorney, and the district attorney. many of those mechanisms already exist in the charter today and f.1 06. dual reporting to the board and mayor twice yearly by inspector general. internal accountability through required reporting by inspector

general with local enforcement entities, ethics, the city attorney and district attorney who receive referrals, as well as the ability for the inspector general to hold public hearings. and then the next series of slides, just compare us to other major american cities, new york, chicago, washington dc, new orleans and los angeles and you will see that san francisco right now does not have, but this would give us broad subject jurisdiction. it would allow to initiate our own investigations and you will see that virtually every other city ther has those powers. we have ability to accept anonymous reports as most other cities and already have whistle blower protections as do most other cities. if you compare the powers, we are the only city that currently does

not have broad subpoena powers in that mandated position, and we are one of most cities have the power of search warrants in a inspector general position. we currently do not have dual reporting requirement, which every other city that we compared to already has . the same with public reporting. and then if you go to independence, removal protections, thes would provide removal protections as well as given the set aside budgetary protection. that is this high level summary of everything that provides other cities have. my staff worked closely with several public integrity experts and consuted with cities with inspector general positions including jennifer rogers claumia law center for advancement for

public integrity and they and others recommended the strong ig model as the gold standard. i like to take a minute to address the concerns raised by staff at the ethic commission and point out i believe important factors. the ethic commissions requested a clause be added to this charter amendment that would explicitly state this new inspector general not be able to investigate the two sets of laws enforced by the ethics commission, political form act and campaign conduct code. the problem is it would scale back the current authority provided to the controller, even more then the charter currently has. the reality and this is specifically called out, the charter currently and very intentionally does not wall off ethics and district attorney or the city attorney.

they have overlapping authority now, and depend on effective cooperation to function. this is how it would continue to function with empowered inspector general in the controller office and exactly how the works in the other model jurisdictions we closely looked at. there is always some overlapping authority and always up to ininvestigative and enforcement agencies to cooperate and collaborate. the charter already gives the controller ability to [indiscernible] suggested language would take away that ability. if you look at section f.106, and our city attorney can confirm this, the controller shall have there duty to perform regular oversight of the city contractor procedures including developal eing modeling criteria, auditing compliance with city contracting rules and where appropriate investigating cases of alleged

abuse or conflict of interest. that is in the current charter. f.107, subsection a, sub1, the controller can investigate any complaint unless they are subject to ongoing investigations by ethic city attorney or district attorney and states the controller impede or delay a investigation. that is already in the charter. however, well intentioned the overly ridged carve out will do more harm then good. investigations may start in one place and end up somewhere else asthy unfold may uncover different types of conducts in areas of law. instead of referring a investigation the moment there is a possible ethic violation, this gives the inspector general the flexibility to work cases for high level enforcement if they deem that the best course of action, and again, ethics in writing already has the ability to assert that

controller's investigation would impede or delay an investigation. when considering changes to our charters important we not be overly prescriptive. instead of setting each jurisdiction behind a wall we should see adding to the investigative capacity and there is plenty public integrity work to go aroupd. round. finally colleagues and coordination with supervisor walton to avoid confusion, this charter amendment also specifically calls out that the current ig position in the sheriff office be called the sheriff inspector general, so there is no confusion. and i am available to answer any questions and would be delighted if we could continue this item to your next meeting, because we are meeting and conferring with the municipal executive association this afternoon.

>> no problem. supervisor walton. >> thank you so much chair ronan and thank you president peskin. just wanted to say thank you for coming up with a strategy to try to distinguish the difference between the office of inspector general for the sheriff department oversight board, and that body. that was the only question i was going to have and i appreciate the work on that. thank you. >> thank you supervisor. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you. thanks supervisor peskin for this work. i want to add a few words to this. >> i neglected to thank you for your early cosponsorship supervisor safai. >>eme polk deeply offended, please remove me as a cosponsor. just joking. [laughter] thank you. no, listen, i think any of us that worked in this building and been on the board for the last 6 or 7

years, but particularly the last 4, it has been very discouraging to see the level of corruption that prevaded city government. multiple department heads, multiple commissioners, multiple front line staff. to see people taking money that was intended to improve small scale community projects and buying products and selling them on the internet to enrich themselves, having friends and family active false employees to enrich themselves. it literally brought a cloud over the gurmt and there are so many wonderful city employees in the city and county of san francisco that literally dedicate their life to making

this city what it is and one of the best cities in the united states. but this is something that has gone on too long, and part of the reason i put my name as a cosponsor is because we need a position at this level that has the power that this is proposing to investigate. one thing to have a hotline, and people whistle blow, another thing to have the investigative powers and the subpoena powers to call people in as investigations begin and information is brought. i agree with supervisor peskin, often times you don't know where someone will end up when the conversation begins so we done want to limit in any way. i think this is a step in the right direction. i think we have a duty to rebuild public trust, and ethical behavior begins with us at the top. the leaders of this city, and

so, i'm very strongly in support of this. in many ways, this was long overdue, so i believe that the voters of san francisco deserve the opportunity to weigh in on this, make the adjustment and the charter begin to restore trust and also insure that the public employees, people that are the front line workers, those that work in these departments, their moral is impacted. i have spoken to them. they feel discouraged in all of these departments that this corruption has prevaded. they feel discouraged and wept to restore that. we want them to understand we are here to support them and make a real ly strong step in the right direction so thank you supervisor peskin and i'm happy to be a cosponsor of this. >> thank you. >> thank you. colleagues i wanted you and the public to know that i did take the

ethic commission letter quite seriously. i talked to both president peskin and city attorney office about it. the crux of the concerns-their concerns are, there is basically too many cooks in the kitchen, and i don't necessarily agree with that. i think right now we have you know, really responsible adults who share jurisdiction over several matters and act like professionals and get in a room and look at their limited resources and decide who will take the lead over a particular type of investigation and i think adding one more leader into that discussion--it is from the same office that already is in the mix, so it is not radically changing in many ways what is

already happening right now. and then, you know, in talking to city attorney gibner, the way he explained it is, it would really require sort of a out of control person in this role who really just can't get along with others, or wants to make a name for him or herself. really doesn't cooperate and goes above and beyond their duties. i said in that case, we have more protection in this regard then if there was a rogue da or rogue city attorney or rogue controller, because in this case, the controller could just fire this person if they got out of control. there wouldn't have to be a recall or election in the future. i really don't agree with the contents that letter, and years ago,

when i worked for supervisor compos, i worked on public advocate piece of legislation that shared similarities to this and always thought it was a good idea. i thought having a city employee who's at the leadership--the number one job is exclusively to look and become a expert and truly understand what is happening in the city to prevent fraud and corruption, it makes a lot of sense. the city attorney has a lot of responsibility. the district attorney does as well. the controller does as well. to have a position who's full time job is to focus on this and work with all the different departments and make sure that we are using resources in the most useful way, it makes a ton

of sense to me. i want to thank supervisor peskin putting this forward. i like to be added as a cosponsor mr. clerk. with that, i will open this item up for public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. you can proceed. >> good morning supervisors. supervisor peskin, thank you for bringing this forward. i support the idea of the inspector general. my name is barbara, second generation san franciscan. my grand daughters are fourth generation. i'm very concerned about city hall, city politics and all the current concerns raised. supervisor peskin, i really appreciate your comments about looking at best practices in other cities. i think that is always very important when you are considering a change and thank you very much and i

support your legislation. thank you. >> thank you so much. >> any additional speakers on this matter? i do not see additional speakers. i believe we can close public comment. >> public comment is now closed. i am going to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair while we wait for meet and confer to finish. can we have roll call on the motion? >> motion to continue the matter to the call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. thank you president peskin. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk, please read item 2. >> item 2 is charter amendment firs draft to amend the charter of city and coupty of san francisco to

provide for the election of director sof department of police accountability held november 5, 2024. >> vice chair walton. >> thank you so much chair ronan and thank you for making sure we heard this item today. this amendment is about electing the director for the department of police accountability and this is really about establish mechanisms to insure that accountability and build trust between low enforcement and the public. independent oversight helps to bridge the gap between law enforcement agencies and the communities that they serve. thus, improving public safety in the longrun. our city has not been immune to instances of police misconduct and butality that challenge the very principals of justice, equality and community. from the tragic death of mario

woods, alex, kenneth, lewis, to the national tragedies of george floyd, briana taylor, freddy gray and countless others. these instances serve as stark reminders of the urgent need for continued reform. we should not have to prioritize accountability and transparency only when tragic incidents occur in our communities. as a city that values justice accountability and safety, we cannot afford to turn a blind eye to these realities. we must strive to implement robust oversight measure that empower independent bodies to thoroughly investigate any allegations of miscublth. miscublt. misconduct. i doopt to address concerns that were

brought up about this charter amendment. the city can legally create an elected position with this type of employment qualification. the city can and sometimes does give other duties to elected officers by ordinance. for example, the city attorney serving as the supervisor of records. in section 13.102, all references to instance run-offs was removed because the most common term now is rank choice voting so we cleaned up the language to avoid confusion. in regards to the salary of the position, this provision allows the civil service commission, the flexibility to look to various manager classifications within the determining salary base. because sthra range due to the different sizes and functions of different departments, the

civil service commission will make a judgment about which one department head salary classes is most applicable to the department of police accountability director position. we specify the focus should be on non-elected city department heads, because the salaries of elected department heads are set under the county surveys, which have no relevance to the dpa director and this would create a first of its kind position. i'm proposing this charter amendment to make sure this position should be elected, because when members of the public see allegations of misconduct being investigated by impartial bodies and not beholden to a department or anyone, the trust and integrity of the police force is fostered. this enhances community police relations, promoats transparency and cultivates a culture of accountability that benefit every resident of

our city. this is about public safety for everyone. i do want to thank the deputy city attorney, christina for helping work on this important measure. nely from my teal and also want to take the time to thank cosponsors supervisors safai, ronan and supervisor preston. i would have a couple other things to add after we go to public comment, but i will also have to continue this as we need to have meet and confer with mea as well. thank you chair ronan. >> supervisor safai. >> i think that one thing that we see a lot in this building is, the political wind shift when it is convenient to be a part of a particular movement or particular moment. people will jump in and then when they feel it is not as convenient or

supportive they wake away. y walk away. one thing we have done and proud to have been a part of is tremendous amount of justice refomp. form. this is a positive step in the right direction because if we want to insure true accountability, the person that serves in this pz should not be beholden to the person that appoints them and their political point of view. this should be a objective position and i think this is the right way to reform this. not to say the person that serves in the position right now is in any way, but this allows this more freedom to be as objective as possible and not subject from political pressure that appointed them and i think that is a important aspect of what we are trying to reform here, so i appreciate it and also want to say thank you to

the person who served in this position. paul henderson. i think he has done a tremendous job, but at the end of the day, having the voters directly weigh in on this position allows for more freedom in terms of how this position should be connected. thank you and thank you supervisor walton for bringing this forward. >> thank you supervisor safai. i agree. i think the independence that would be afforded the person in this position is worth trying, and by electing this person to this person being appointed, brings that independence with it, so thank you for bringing it forward and i'm happy to be a cosponsor. with that, mr. clerk, let's open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak

at this time. each speaker will be allowed two minutes. is there anyone who would like to comment on this matter? >> hi. barbara--again. thank you having this hearing. i worked at the department of occ for 15 years before it was department of police accountability. i was a director for the berkeley police review commission, the independent police auditor in san jose. i'm past president of the national association for police accountability, and am a current and have been a member that association for 30 years. i'm very concerned about this legislation. i totally agree with all of your statements that this should not be a political position. i'm concerned that having that

person run for office would make it more political. best practices in oversight are that you hire a head hunter and bring in candidates from all over the country who are current directors who have experience in this field. these other directors from other agencies are not going to come to san francisco and run against whoever is running for this office. we want competition between people who have proven themselves as accountability experts, not political people. i agree that there have been political appointments in this office. it should not be a political appointment. it should be as i said, competition between experts in the field. i like the idea of for the

inspector general to have the controller's office decide who can be that elected person. why not do a charter amendment to have the controller's office help to make that appointment? but making it a position where people are running for office is going to further politicize it and make it less effective. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. any other members of the public who would like to comment? no other speakers. i believe we can close public comment. >> public comment is closed. supervisor walton. >> thank you chair ronan and definitely appreciate all the conversations we had around this charter with colleagues, with the public and experts in the field and understand concerns about over politicizing a position. i do really want to state that, this is really about being proactive

and about making sure that we are not waiting for negative incidents to happen in our communities before we do something that is going to really create independence in our oversight, and make our law enforcement entities think twice before they are over zealous sometimes in their policing. i do want to state for the record too, if we really want to have complete independence, an office should not beholden to the mayor office or this board of supervisors. currently as a department head, the dpa leader is beholden to the mayor's office and therefore really cannot be afforded the true independence of what is needed to investigate and fully have the power to conduct independent investigations. i want to state much like supervisor safai, for me this is about policy.

this is not about the current leadership of dpa, it is not about the current leadership of the mayor's office. this is really about policy and place that creates the independence we want to see when we have someone who has to investigate some very serious allegations when it comes to mistakes made by folks in our law enforcement entities. it is really about accountability and strengthening ability of this office, but i will say that we do have time to have more conversations. we will be meeting with community and are meeting more with the leadership of the city and of course we have to meet and confer with mea so i do want to continue this item. >> continue to call of the chair? >> call of the chair. >> thank you. i just want to say, have so much respect for barbara and your decades

and decades of experience, so i will look forward talking to you more in the break that we have, because i just value what you have to say on this issue tremendously, so thanks for coming out and thanks for giving your public comment. it is being taken seriously and heard. appreciate you. and witht that, mr. clerk can we have roll call vote on the motion? >> on the motion to continue the matter to call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. thank you. mr. clerk, please read item 3. >> charter amendment (second

draft) to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to establish within the charter the department of emergency management, the position of the director of the department, and the director's qualifications and appointing authority; at an election to be held on november 5, 2024. >> supervisor safai. >> [unable to hear speaker] i don't have much to say about this to respect everyone's time. i like to continue this item again. i think there is more discussion to be had. i still stand by this and think it is a really important charter amendment. i think having the requisite qualifications for head of department of emergency management is a important thing we should put in the charter. similar to the conversation we just had about the politics infusing oversight and accountability in the police department, i think prior to this leadership here, there have been time s when we haven't necessarily put people in the head of the department of emergency management that needs minimum qualifications necessary. i think mary ann cellar has

done a wonderful job and tremendous in terms of our leadership, but i still thinking having the requisite requirements for the leadership of the department is a important thing, so i ask to continue this item and we can continue the conversations. you can continue to call of the chair. >> like to open up for public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. each speaker is allowed two minutes. is there anyone who would like to comment on this matter? there are no speakers on this matter. >> public comment is now closed. roll call vote on the motion. >> yes, on the motion to continue the matter to call of the chair, walton, aye. safai, aye. ronan, aye. that motion passes without objection. >> motion passes unanimously. mr. clerk, is there any other items on the agenda? >> that completes the agenda

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>> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities

that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all

the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot

of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

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[music] >> opening this space with my sister, and being able to continue the very deep literary lineage that exist in the mission is part of the fabric of the neighborhood. this is neighborhood of poets and litary readings. you see the writers from the neighborhood, their books are here. paul flores books are here.

--that is what we are doing, keeping the litary lineage alive and going, you know? [music] >> san francisco is actually the only place that i can do this. in its quite way, something i can actually do that is a benefit. sure, i like to open up a really cool well curateed spot. it would be beneficial but not the same beneficial it is here. when i say young folks that remind me of us, when we were that young, and they come in here, they can relax. nobody is following them around like they are going to steal anything. that means they can be a little more free and little more of themselves and i can do some

small thing that helps them do that and that is part of what lets me know i'm doing exactly what i want and need to do. [music] >> we have events here that focus on the deep neighborhood history here on the artists and writers. if you look now there is antany, his exhibit and focus is on neighborhood people. artists muralist, the space was basically a gift given to us in a really weird way. we had to work our asses off for, but it was that opportunity for me that chance to be that link in the long literary chain of the neighborhood. it is a blessing to be here.

[music] this meeting will come to order. welcome to the june 26th meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. i'm joined by vice chair rafael mandelman and supervisor marina melgar. today we also have

supervisor sherman walton, as well as board president joining us, as and our clerk is brant khalipa. i would like to thank corwin cooley from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? thank you, madam chair. just a friendly reminder to those in attendance to please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent interruptions to our proceedings. should you have any documents to be included as part of the file that should be submitted to myself, the clerk public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. when your item of interest comes up in public comment is called, please line up to speak on the west side of the chamber to your right, my left along those curtains and while not required to provide public comment, we do invite you to fill out a comment card and leave them on the tray by the television to your left by the doors. if you wish to be accurately recorded for the minutes. alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. he mailed them to myself, the budget and finance committee clerk had b r e n t j a l i p a at sfgovtv .org. if you submit

public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. you may also send your written comments via us postal service to our office and city hall. had one doctor carlton be good to place room 244, san francisco, california 94102 and again, silence all cell phones and items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of july 2nd, unless otherwise stated. madam chair. thank you, mr. clerk. and with that and, we have, budget and legislative analyst report for items four through six on today's agenda and so for those items, we will have the departments presentation first, followed by the budget and legislative analyst. then we will take questions on public comments. so with that mr. clerk, please call item number one. yes. item number one is a resolution affirming the planning directors

approval of an assignment of assumption agreement between california barrel company, llc. and the regents of the university of california on behalf of its san francisco campus, pursuant to which ucsf will assume a portion of developers right title, and interest in and to the development agreement between the city and developer for the potrero power station project with respect to block two of the project. approving a waiver of liability by the city, acting by and through its planning department for the benefit of developer, pursuant to which the city will waive and release any claims made for action subsequent to execution of the waiver against the developer in connection with developers. indemnification obligations in section 4.10 of the development agreement with respect to block two of the project, and adopting findings under sequa. madam chair, thank you. and we have our office of economic and workforce development here. thank you, madam chair. good

morning. members of the committee, john law with cdd staff, here, i'll be brief, i know it's been a busy day. busy week, busy month for the committee, so i have no slides, but happy to, of course. spend whatever time you would like on inquiries here today with the matter related to the power station development, you'll recall a large mixed use development on the city's central waterfront, it's been before you in different shapes and flavors, since its initial adoption in spring of 2020, the matter today has to do exclusively with block two. within that, approved development scheme, it's a very exciting opportunity. pardon me. the people may have heard about media reports earlier this year or news related to, planning commission hearing just last

week, but the potential occupancy and use of that block by the university of california at san francisco, specifically for a cancer, treatment outpatient bassist clinic, as well as associated research functions, and in particular, what house? a proton therapy. center, which is a technology cutting edge, used to fight cancer. we have very few of these facilities in the western united states. so this was important for the city and the region. frankly as part of the city's, caregiving landscape. so the specific resolution before you today is related to that block two potential use, and thank you for supervisor walden for his co-sponsor or his sponsorship of this matter, you will recall that whenever is in front of policymakers talking

about a new development agreement project, we always say that the obligations are tied to the land and that it's not just the developer that we are entering the contract into, but by virtue of those agreements, any new entity that comes into ownership of a portion or all of the property would also inherit those obligations. and obviously, the associated community benefits are at the top of most people's mind. when we talk about that. so the assignment and assumption agreement is a key vehicle that the city uses to ensure that that transfer of obligation happens, and it is a california barrel companies, the owner of the power station development, right to enter into private agreements to transfer portions or all of its property, which it is proposing to do on block two with the regents of california. the reason we're here today, and that typically happens simply the planning director will sign off on that. this particular

assignment and assumption does differ, in a material, but we are proposing minor way from the standard agreements in that a piece of the indemnity provision, giving ucsf's, role as an entity of the state and its special, status given by the state of california's constitution is not subject to local land use requirements and other local laws, so in an effort to keep them part of this development agreement, and, and obviously the use itself, which we want to encourage, the planning director is comfortable with, with signing an assignment and assumption agreement that makes, we feel it is a minor modification to the indemnity provision, but it is material. and hence, he he has he's seeking affirmation of his decision to sign that, and that's what's in front of you today, i know that's a

particular technical component, which i can talk more about, but that is it in a nutshell. supervisors thank you. i don't see any name on the roster to see, no questions. and so thank you for the presentation. it's a project that, it's been a long time coming, and, i would like to move forward with this item to full board with recommendation. and with that, a roll call. madam chair, we need to hold public comment. oh sorry. let's hold public comments on this item. yes. members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding this item number one, now is your opportunity to, approach. and madam chair, two minutes per speaker, sorry. my apologies, let's limit to one minute today. okay. very well.

and yes, when you begin speaking, i'll start your time at one minute. yeah, it will be short. i know i'm not a native speaker of english, but i didn't understand anything. yeah this face. did you? it's like a convolution circumlocution. sorry to forget. what's the goal ? because it's easy. very easy to state. and what's the goal here? we don't we didn't i didn't get it. and i'm sure you didn't either. thank you for your comments. next speaker please. good morning, rudy gonzalez, san francisco building and construction trades council. good morning to the honorable members of the committee. rise in full support on behalf of the skilled and trained members of our 27 unions. it's really exciting to have the state of the art, cutting edge technology for cancer treatment coming into san francisco and building out, as we described, the care landscape, i also think it's really exciting, and it's

something that people at home can't see. but the room is chock full of young people today, and that really excites me. one of the things about an assignment and assumption agreement that i get to deal with in the building trades is you're literally transferring a piece or a parcel of property, and you're moving it over and through this indemnification legalese, you're essentially carrying with it any of the other strings that are attached. so in our case, a project labor agreement, for example. so there will be local hire, local apprentices, hyper local contractors. and we're really excited because on both sides of this project, we have great partners for labor, both ucsf and the power station developers. so rise in full support and thank you and staff for all their hard work. thank you. and thank you, rudy gonzalez. and with that madam chair, that completes our queue. thank you. seeing no more public comments, public comment is now closed. colleagues, i would like to, move this item to the full board with recommendation and a roll call, please. and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive

recommendation. vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item number two. yes. item number two is a resolution authorizing and approving the lease of 387ft!s f space at the main library, located at 100 larkin street, with the friends and foundation of the san francisco's of the san francisco public library. how far? an initial five year term had an annual base rent of approximately 15.5 thousand, with annual cpi increases to base rent and three additional five year extension options effective upon approval of this resolution, and to authorize the director of property to enter into amendments or modifications to the lease that do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. madam chair, thank you. and we have our director of real estate division. good morning, chair

chen, supervisors. andrew co director of real estate. i'm before you this morning seeking your positive recommendation on a resolution authorizing a lease . for the lobby space in the main library at 100 larkin street to the friends and foundation, of the library, this is city as landlord. the friends and foundation of san francisco public library, or friends of the library is a 500 and 1c3 nonprofit group that has been fundraising for the san francisco library system for over 60 years. they've been operating a bookstore on the ground floor, which is seen in the photo here. since 2002, friends of the library have consistently provided over $1

million annually in supplemental funding to the library. activities, throughout the city. their lease is, based upon market rate. however, it has a rent abatement based upon meeting certain fundraising goals set forth in the lease. the premises are approximately. 387ft!s on the ground floor. the initial term is five years, which starts upon board and mayoral approval with three five year extensions. the initial base rent is $15,555 or $40, and $0.20 per square foot. however, it abates to $1, one dollars annually, when the friends of the library contribute in excess of $90,000 during the preceding fiscal year. the rent escalation, unless abated, is set by the consumer price index.

that concludes my presentation. we have a representative from the library, and i are available to answer any questions you may have. thank you. i'm just trying to understand the lease. and so they are. so they're leasing the lobby of the library a portion of the library. correct. and then what will they exactly be doing there, they're running a bookstore, but they also have fundraising activities that provides most of the, of the grant to the city and the fundraiser. sorry, could you just kind of give an example of the fundraising activities, i'd like to defer that to john coonan from the library, if i may. yes. thank you. and, thank you for the question, i would have to get back to you with specific examples, but we work closely with the friends of the library

for a lot of different fundraising activities throughout the year. the bookstore is kind of a standalone, item that they operate there in the lobby. it's a very small portion of the lobby, from which they sell books and provide that service to the public that are interested. definitely would love to learn more. just about like the type of activities that's happening in the public space for fundraising purpose, so just would appreciate maybe perhaps providing a letter and then to go along with the file so that we, we have some something on the record. sure, we can do that. but in that space it really is just the bookstore for them. okay. thank you. okay do any fundraising? no, no. well, i can't answer that, but not in that space at all. that is just the bookstore. thank you. okay thank you, any questions from colleagues seeing . seeing no questions, we will, go to public comments on this item. yes. we have any members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding

this resolution, regarding the lease of space at the main library. now's your opportunity. give us more. yes. give more space to books. but all books. you can be the friend of the public library if you don't. i mean, okay, you have to include all books. remember, the public libraries have been used to continue miseducating people. now, the problem is that children are under attack. so that's not going to go. that's why i'm here at the end of the day of the. so make sure it includes every book that's, you know, even the one that are problematic for the what should be called sort of propaganda. unfortunately, that's where we are. thank you for your comments. and, madam chair, that completes our queue. thank you. and my apologies, seeing no

public comments, public comment is now closed, just a quick question because it says here is the five year term. so exactly when is the five, so it's like 2020. 25 year term start. yeah like is it 2030 and ending and then when another five years. i'm just like it just doesn't have a date. so i'm just the five year term starts, when the board and the mayor approve the resolution and we sign the lease. and that will create the start date, and then we'll run five years, and then they'll have three, five years thereafter. 20, 20, 29. yes okay. thank you. and then with the five years of option. yeah. three five year options. thank you. with that colleagues i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and a roll call please. and on that motion to forward this resolution to the full board with the positive

recommendation, vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes and with that, we'll go to item number three. please call. yes. item number three is a resolution retroactively approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the real estate division to execute a lease for a 1400 square feet, for the operation of a cafe by the new community leadership foundation, doing business as cafe mélange. and a revocable license for approximately 1400ft!s of adjacent space for patron seating on the ground level city of city hall for an initial five year lease term commencing on march first, 2024, at 10% of gross sales beginning july 1st, 2024, with one option to extend for five years and authorizing the director of property to enter into any additions, amendments or other modifications to the permit that

do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities of the city and effectuate the purposes of this resolution. madam chair, thank you. and again, we have real estate, good morning again, chair chan, supervisors and director of real estate. i am pleased to be standing before you seeking your positive recommendation for a resolution that was sponsored by supervisor walton, to for a lease of cafe space at city hall, for, cafe mélange. a city as landlord, for those of you who may not have, been down to the basement yet and visited cafe mélange, they are in the basement on the corner of grove and venice, which is the elections department side of the basement, you can find more information about them at info at cafe mélange dot com. by way

of background, the city has been without a coffee or food amenity, city hall. excuse me. has been without a cafe, coffee or food amenity since september 2020. when the prior cafe closed, basically due to the pandemic, the real estate division. or read has conducted a competitive selection process to identify a new operator. we had three responses, new community leadership foundation, nqf, dba cafe mélange was selected to be the new concessionaire and reactivate the space, in csf includes business model has the cafe operate as a point of sale for meals delivered by a collective of bay area bayview district restaurants. there are five in that collection. last december, ncl signed a permit to enter to undertake design and construction. procurement and

training activities in the space . following some initial delays, the cafe launched a soft opening this past march, as business operations ramp up, the leasing was negotiated and signed by the operator. and it's for your consideration today. the terms of the agreement. it starts with a five year lease with one five year option to renew. the space is approximately 1400ft!s. on te lower level. it also includes a non exclusive easement to use the adjacent 1300 square foot dining area. the rent is set at 10% of gross sales, subject to a minimum flat rate of $200 per month, and self made tenant improvements to the cafe space at their cost. however, the city will support them through, base building. mechanical, electrical, plumbing infrastructure, the current use of the dining area, including

the overflow voting, will continue on a priority basis as needed. so none of the overflow operations, from the dining area will be affected by this lease. that concludes my presentation. i'm available to answer any questions you may have. thank you. supervisor melgar. thank you, chair chan. i just wanted to say thank you to director penick and lori mazzola for the gift that is cafe lunch. after having been, you know, without food at city hall for a couple of years, you know, having it open in the food being so great. and i know that a lot of folks come to this building to get married. did you all sing and everybody was like, where's the food? so finally we can have something that is community based that does something for local entrepreneurs and also is really high quality. so i think

this is really great and supported. thank you. thank you. i also neglected to mention that their hours are monday through friday, 7 to 3. thank you. i'm certainly aware of the hour and just want to give a special shout out. i think that the barista her name is kelly and she's been very generous and kind, especially to my son who been visiting city hall. it's a great cafe. i think i do have one complaint. i think it's really on us as a city hall, though, like we should really provide them a signage in a hallway so that people are actually aware that they're open because there's no signage outside. i think it's also because, yeah, and i think that it's because, honestly, it's because the pandemic city hall has been closed for a few years to the public or a couple of years to the public in general. and just kind of it's difficult for people to remember sometimes that now we actually that space is no longer empty and have a cafe open. i think that, i think we should support them in a way

that to provide signage, throughout the building. but definitely in front of the entry , chair chan, that's an excellent point. and we have been in discussions with the operator. regarding signage, our thinking, at least on the city staff side, is a frames near the entrance outside of the building , having, desk placards at the information kiosks that are on the goodlatte and venice sides of the building, and also floor placards that give wayfinding. the operator is still finding their way. they're open to these ideas, but they haven't yet fully engaged. but we expect that in the future. great thank you, i don't see any other name on the roster, let's go to public comments on this item. yes. we're now opening public comment for this. item number three, if you wish to address this committee. madam chair, we have no speakers. thank you. seeing no public comments and public comment is now closed.

supervisor walton. thank you, chair chan. i do just want to give credit where credit is due on this item. to chair chan's point, we lost our restaurant cafeteria during the pandemic. and percy burch from my office was real instrumental in making sure that we bought the cafeteria restaurant back into city hall. he worked with the city administrator, quite frankly, for a couple of years, to make this happen. so i want to give percy a shout out for all of his work, and making this happen. i also want to give city administrator chew as well as sophie hayward from her office, their credit, and also, of course, your office. but they did a lot of work to make sure that we actually had community restaurants, community operators in the building. and we often talk about supporting our small businesses, supporting our homegrown community businesses. and this is a case where we really got it right as a city. and so i just want to say thank you to all those parties,

because everybody worked in a tandem to bring this back, and most certainly, it has been quite, an issue not being able just to walk downstairs or take the elevator downstairs to get something to eat and when you have a long day. so i want to thank all of them for, for their work together. thank you, thank you. and so with that, we'd like to move this item to the full board with recommendation and the roll call please. and on that motion to forward to the full board with a positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman mandelman i. member. melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes and mr. clerk, please call item number four, item number four is a resolution approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the san francisco human rights commission to execute a lease of a portion of the real property located at 141 industrial street. unit number one, with greater calvary hill missionary baptist church for an initial

term of three years. at an initial annual base rent of 351,000, effective upon approval of this resolution, and authorizes the director of property to enter into amendments or modifications to the lease. do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city, and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the lease or this resolution. madam chair, thank you. and again, we have real estate here, good morning again, chair chan. supervisors andrew koepenick, director of real estate. i'm here. before you seeking your positive recommendation for a resolution authorizing a lease of space at 141 industrial street, also known as calvary hill community church. city is tenant. the san francisco human rights commission, or hrc, works in service of the city's anti-discrimination laws to further racial solidarity, equity and healing to facilitate

this mission, hrc desires to open a community facility and job training location to provide ongoing and expanding implementation of the dream keeper initiative. opportunities for all community reading project and seasonal cultural events. the major terms of this lease. the premises consist of approximately 13,000ft!s, and also provides ten parking spaces . the term stirs upon mayoral and board approval and will terminate on may 31st, 2027. the annual rent is $351,000, or $27 per square foot, this is a fully serviced lease where the landlord pays all utilities, repairs, maintenance, basically a gross lease. doctor davis from

the human rights commission would like to speak to the programing, at this site. i just quickly just wanted to acknowledge that this is part of the work that we've been doing with all the different programs we want to build on and expand the support of the food security work that is already happening at calvary hill. we've heard from community, reverend brown from the naacp is here that they would like for us to do more work with faith based institutions and so dream keeper initiative holds monthly community meetings, the students that you see here, if you all want to just wave, are from opportunities for all during all of you wave. hi. they are working during the summer. the human rights commission supports over 1000 students and we don't have any place to actually have those convenings and meetings. and so this group is here today. we rotate them out and we

believe that we would be able to leverage that during the summer as well as use it for the work, the workshops and events that are happening throughout, as well as the educational work and the work with food security. so thank you so much for this opportunity to share that. thank you. and supervisor almond, can i go to the bla and then we'll come back to you. good morning supervisors. nick menard from the budget legislative analyst office item four is a resolution that approves a new lease between the human rights commission and the owner of 141 industrial street. the lease is for a space that's 13,000ft!s, has a base rent of $350,000 a year. and goes through may 2027. the lease also does not include any rent escalations, so that 351 is flat for the entire term. we estimate that the city will

pay $1,023,750 over the life of the lease that will be paid for by the general fund, with any new space that the city is leasing, we ask about how it's going to be used in this case, in the human rights commission described to us that this site, was suitable for their needs based on the fact that they've used it for prior events, that has parking, and that the, the, the owner, which is a church, has community ties, which are consistent with the mission of hrc, but i will say that it is not clear to me what exactly the space is going to be used for. and so for that reason, we're considering approval of this resolution to be a policy matter for the board. thank you. supervisor walton. thank you, chair chan. and you know, one, i just want to thank calvary hill for all the amazing work that they do in community, this is just one example of a faith based entity working to partner

with the city to provide services. what's not on these slides is also all of the work that calvary hill has been doing with good samaritan, which is an organization out of the mission they've been providing space for them to have after school programing for several years. this now allows for not only workshops and meetings to be hosted. this also serves as a work site. it also serves as a place where our young people can come and receive services from other organizations that partner with calvary hill and so i'm just excited that we're expanding our partnership with the community staple and community entity that is willing to work, with the city in this manner. as you know, finding space here in san francisco is very difficult. a lot of nonprofits reach out to my office, a lot of organizations and entities reach out to my office to just see if there's available space. and so for the city to find a gem like this, that has a working elevator that

has extra space aside from what the church does, in terms of what it does with its own membership, is certainly something that we should be excited about. so i want to thank again, calvary hill. i want to thank the hrc, for providing this opportunity for community and to be able to expand services, for an entity that is doing work citywide, most certainly providing a lot of amazing work in bayview hunters point in district ten, but also doing the work that is affecting and supporting our city services across the entire city. so thank you again. thank you, my question right now is for the budget and legislative analyst, because of the recommendations, is saying that we need to understand better, understand what is it, what are the activities or what is the programing going on there? what information is specifically should we be asking for and that we should ask the human rights commission to provide like is it are we trying to understand

hours or operations and organizations that should be that are actually going to be on site? i think that, you know, whether it's going to be open to the public, how many people are going to be there, what programs are going to be there throughout the year? what other entities are going to be using that space , why they need 13,000ft!s year round for three years, are there going to be city workers there? i just i don't know that i don't know the answers to those questions, and so i think then this is back to either director pinnock and of course, also, director davis, help us understand, can we provide that information and, like, do we have that information right now or can we actually have this? i'm trying to understand why we didn't actually provide that information in advance of this. today's hearing. i mean, to be totally honest, i don't know that we could give you a this is

what's happening 365 days of the year. basically what i've shared with the questions that were asked of me is that literally every monday through friday during the summer, this is a portion of the students that we have to find space for. so right now, at least for the from may to august, there are anywhere from 100 to 500 young people. yesterday we had 700 young people in a space that we are supporting with regards to the year right now, the human rights commission has 40 something staff and we have ten offices, so it would be a place where our staff would be housed. it is also where we would host community meetings. it is also where we do a year round literacy reading project with community partners that serves anywhere from 75 to 200 families. that's not people that's, you know, an adult and anywhere from 1 to 5 children. and that happens weekly. and we've been doing that on

weekends, but we've been going from chase center to the fillmore center to all these other places. in addition to the monthly dream keeper initiative meetings, which are held hybrid online and in person, which is in addition to the dream keeper meetings, which is in addition to the work that, the community asked us to do in partnership with calvary hill. so supervisor walton referred to that there are things that they already do because we are a city entity. if we set up shop in what they're already doing, then we are in violation of something, or we have to report that we've been in their space for x amount of time. so this is about the partnership for food security. the partnership for educational programing. much of the work that they already do, but that if we are actually in their space, if we spend time in their space, there is a cost calculated to that that says that we would be in violation of ethics rules if we were there. do we have a contract to do? do we have a contract with the

church to do just what you're just listing? i mean, i'm just trying to understand we don't give them money for that. they do that work and then our staff is actually, i've said before, a direct service provider. we go there and we provide support for their that there's no money exchange. yeah and i mean i guess what i'm trying to understand so clearly you have an idea and clearly you know what you're doing like that we're what you're going to do with the space. so like can we have it like written communicated what i just said to you in the email where it was requested. so i can do that again. do you want a formal memo? i just i don't i think i think so first of all, like i sorry, i didn't see i didn't see the email. did you mention that to the bla when the bla asked me these questions? what i just said i shared. but i can do it formally if i need to write a memo or like i shared these pieces. yeah i think, i think the, the, the important thing in critical things. then i agree

with you, as you said, like let's it is if we're occupying someone's space for city activities and city services, we ought to have a clear delineation liability and many other things like. so i think what i'm trying the reason why i asked if there's an mou also is because if we're if the city is occupying a space, typically we also have mou. we are not occupying now. now we go when they provide services, we go and support those services. we we're not using that as an office space. we've used it in the past for students in terms of hosting internships there or for their meetings and their workshops. and in that instance, we have an mou. we didn't enter into an mou this summer because we thought we were going to actually be leasing the space. so the work that we've done is not contractual, and it is us supporting the work that exists there. but we so the goal is how

many understand tho. but then right now the goal is then we will be leasing the space so that we will occupying the space and that the city will be doing the city activities and services in that space. and so but right now you only have plans from may to august? no, we have year round plans. and then do we have that plan on on the record. yes. because that's essentially the right now i'm just trying to explain the whole recommendations of why this is not a like a it becomes a policy decision. and that is in the process of asking for more information from hrc, from human rights commission, is that it sounds like you do actually have a plan from starting from may to august, occupying for summer programing. and then thereafter it sounds like you're going to have a satellite office for human rights commission staff to be on site. so i think what i'm asking is can we have that in a

written document so that to go along with the lease agreement so that it's clear what we're doing, the sites for a list, like, i think it's like every other lease, there will be a list of like, you know, list of operation of hours. even the cafe that we just, you know, approved, like even the, the, the, the, the library, you know, that we're leasing out the space to someone else. we would like to understand the activities that it's conducting. i think i and i totally understand, i'm just trying to understand that's in distinction from what i already submitted. or is that a formal like i'm trying to understand how that's different from. so yes, we can submit something and i'm just trying to see if that's different than what i previously do. you need more detail than what i previously submitted? yeah, i think because what i just said here is what i wrote before, i think yeah, i think that it's probably like you know, the number of staff occupying on sites, hours of operations and the type of activities including the, the city contractors that we're going to work with that

will occupy the sites, including, i think, here it says something like opportunities for all. and then i think there's other cultural events. so it will be a list of organizations that will be partnered to use this site. i think those are the typical information that we will be looking for. so i think that's and that's part of this conversation that resulted. i think clearly what you sent in resulted in in need of more information. so i think that here we are just asking for more information. so will that be possible? it is totally possible . and i think that the challenge is that like so if we could continue this, can i just say though, i just i'm not really and i'm not trying to be disrespectful, but honestly i'm just trying to figure out what's the best way so that we are not having young people roam the city to figure out where to be. each week i'm trying to figure out how a staff that for three years i've been trying to figure out how to house them can be

housed. 40 people that don't have a place to work, or that we're having covid outbreaks because we don't. i just i want to figure out if you're very specific to me, i will give you exactly what you ask. but i just think, and i know you all are going through a lot. i'm just feeling very beat up by this process. and i will say, i try to follow the rules to do what is expected. i think i'm a little bit lost right now because, i don't understand what's going on. i'm literally just trying to, like, serve the people, and i feel like i'm being punished for something. so i just want to have clear, like, if you can be very clear about what needs to happen, i can be very responsive. great. and then director, i, i just i'm about to call on you for just one minute and because i just want to respond to that really quickly, i what is happening here. so this is more for director picnic and responding. but then i think i'm putting this back on director picnic to be honest, is that i want to flag one thing and i think that quickly. also,

vice chair mandelman also flag too. in the prior this, the even for some of the other leases, you know, including this one particularly or maybe i'm incorrect. i think this one is also listed in june like june 1st, 2024. so i'm trying to understand the lease terms like that. you're listing on the actual lease like agreement. they're not they're, they're they're all to for the last three leases including this one. they're all seems to be retroactive. so because that kind of directly back to director davis's frustration about in need of this for summer programing. and so i'm trying to trying to understand like, exactly how do we help and support city departments if they're needing a space like planning ahead and that is not retroactive and that we're jam in this in this moment, if this is the space that we intend to have. supervisor melgar, if, okay. i, read the you know, materials and the bla recommendations. i am fine with

this. i understand what you're saying about the level of specificity, you know, i haven't seen that in other leases. i will say this. you know, having the experience of working with the city for youth programing, you know, we as a city are not very responsive to the needs of communities, especially young people, because, i mean, you've been, you know, we've we who are parents have been through this experience of having to sign up for rec park summer program, you know, in january. and if you lose that lottery, like, you're so, i feel like organizations do what they can to scramble for space. i like this model, because it doesn't require that we purchase any real estate. we are leasing a space that's already used by the community that the community trusts, that is familiar with. that's

especially important for kids and families, i understand the need for, you know, more specificity and hours and who's going to do what and what the liability is. that's important. but i also think it's important to have a model where we can quickly mobilize so that we can have the needs of the community met. in fact, i'm looking at this for something in my district because we have very few services, and, you know, we're looking for senior space and we're talking to one of the churches which, you know, do have space. and so i, and going forward for director penick, you know, if the expectation is that you come with, sort of more specificity, i'm okay with that. but i am okay approving this today, i think it's a good model i want going into summer when we have cut back a bunch of, you know, youth development and summer programs. i want kids in

this community to have a place to go. thank you. i mean, i think we do actually have those information. typically, when we approve for leases and they're usually have like services and organizations, like, i mean, i if they don't i do tend to ask for like what they are. and i just wanted to be on the record on that too. it's like, anyway, so especially when it's actually city services, we at least for the very minimum to have operational hours and access, you know, and hours that are accessible to the public for any type of spaces that we as a city leases, so supervisor walton, thank you, chair chan. i'm i mean, i'm i, i don't know if we really understand how things work out in community. we have over a thousand students participating in summer opportunities right now as we speak, the space is needed. there is a point where we cross a line from providing oversight versus getting in the administrative responsibilities of a city department. the

department of real estate bought us a lease that they deem is something that's appropriate, and necessary to conduct city business. the department head and the department deemed this is something that is responsible for the city, provided information about the fact that we are going to use this the entire summer, talked about workshops and conferences and the lack of space that we have for rental here in san francisco, most certainly mapping out every single event, every single date and time is not something that we've required from other leases here in this body. and this is unfortunate that once again, we have programs that serve primarily young people of color, and they're they're they have to go through a different increased level of scrutiny. and it's happening right here in our chamber like this is ridiculous. it's not our job to determine what the city departments do. it is our job to provide oversight and make sure that what our

money is being spent on is responsible. but we don't give direction to departments in terms of how to deal with day to day operations. and neither does the b.l.a. chair. chair chen i disagree. i mean, i'm only simply asking for our hours of operation so you can disagree all you want, but there are responsibilities for each branch of government. it's written in detail and i can give that to you if you need to see it. chair chen right, that is actually what i'm asking for. but director pinnock, thank you. chair chen, i appreciate the opportunity to speak, you asked me two things, but i didn't have a chance to respond. first, with regards to, the additional information that you requested, i think that we have a model that was brought up in the friends of the library, and the friends of the library. you asked the library to provide additional information via a memo, to the clerk to be passed

out to the board of supervisors. i would suggest that we do the same thing in this instance, that this item be continued, be, recommended, passed on to the full board. you'll get the memo before the full board meets. if that memo is unsatisfactory to you, then you can take the opportunity there to either continue it, to approve it, or deny it, that's just a recommendation from based upon what we've done just a few moments ago. absolutely. i mean, i think that the problem is, though, the difference in, in here is that this is a brand new lease. and i think that's really according to the budget and legislative analyst. like the difference between here is this is a brand new lease. we have not done this before. so i just wanted to be clear about that. so then there's a difference between a brand new lease and something that's already been sort of been done. vice chair mandelman i thank you, chair chan. i think it's reasonable to ask for, detail about operations. i also think it is something that we can probably

get before the board meeting. and i think, you know, particularly for not knowing a ton about, you know, what's going to happen in this space. i do know that we have you know, we're cutting the funding for street violence intervention, you know, it's there are there are concerns about a tough summer. so i think we probably should be, you know, trying to support efforts to give kids things to do that are not bad. so i would be inclined to support this. director pinnock, i'm sorry, chair chan, you asked me about, retroactivity. i can speak to that issue if you want to hear, the 141 industrial lease is not. retroactive, it's a new lease as you just mentioned. it will start if and when the board and the mayor mayor approve it, with regards to the cafe mélange lease, that lease is retroactive, that started out as a permit to enter for them to do site prep and,

and to build out the space, once they were ready to start, we were not yet done with the lease itself. so we allowed them to operate, i.e. open under the permit. right. but that i think i'm what i'm asking is though, then if it's not, then because according to director davis, she's mentioning the needs is for may to august for summer programing. so i'm just trying to understand, is this retroactivity? as i said before, we have not been in the space. we've been like, they're here today, mainly because this would be a good opportunity for them to see this is the finance, communication, public services group. and so it makes sense for them to be here. i think that there is no standing place where they know each group to go. right. so we are not using the space currently the this process has been ongoing. i don't remember when we started, but there's no contract in place, so we have not been in the space.

so it's not retroactive. so because we're not we haven't been in the space, we're not going to pay for before that time. we've been you know, they're here today. they're not in that space. so they've been in a bunch of different places, but we've been working with them at that space. no, we have not been the youth this summer have not been in that space because i thought we were going to be working on a contract in previous years, we had an mou and the students were in that space. but this year we have not been in the space. so we did have an mou and are we continuing the mou as well? the mou was based on that summer and i think that it was not last summer, but a previous summer that we were in this space. and so we're deciding to switch from the mou model to the leasing model. so with the new changes in from our city attorney who's not here, to help me say this correctly with new changes, if we were to be in in that space offering programing, it may be

in violation of a ethics thing where we may be in the space and it may be considered a gift that we were in that space without paying for it. so we are better suited to lease the space to be able to use it as we need it, versus having to worry about the fact that during the summer and every month that we are offering things, i think the challenge here is that you maybe are looking for us to give you ours, in the same way that the cafe is set up, but our hours are actually based upon community need and partnership. and so during the summer we have set hours because we know the young people are there from 9 to 5 during the month of october, when we are maybe doing halloween events and we're maybe doing different reading events, it's going to be based on the feedback that we get from parents. we know that we do our literacy program on saturdays, but we also do tutoring and things of that nature. but those are all informed by our community engagement sessions. i think we could say that we would have staff there, but our staff literally work from seven in the

morning till sometimes midnight, so their hours would not be something that i could say. they're going to be here monday through friday, 9 to 5. so we can tell you what day, what what our plans are and our what we would use the space for. i wouldn't necessarily be able to tell you what time. i mean, we do know that we want to partner with them on their educational pieces, on their food security pieces, and so we could do that. but i think that the challenge is we don't work. unfortunately, standard hours, much like you all like, you know, you don't know when the budget meeting is going to end. you don't know when. so we have very similar experiences. i think that ultimately is kind of like what we started off with this conversation. it's are you able to put that information in writing and then so that we can actually go along with this lease? i that was really how it started. and i think that's how where we're ending. and i think that that's all really is what it's being asked of. yeah. i mean, yes, he's asking me if i can write a memo. yes i can

write a memo. i think i've said that a couple of times. so yes, i will definitely give you whatever you need in writing. i think i just didn't have clarity on when i responded to previous questions. and in all honesty, we had a deadline. this was agendized and i was with 100 plus kids and i didn't get the response in in an hour because i was working directly with young people. so i also want to say like it was a requested to be scheduled today the by supervisor walton. so no, i don't i'm responding to debating that for it to be scheduled as soon as possible. so i just want to put it out there too. great. thank you. and then with that, let's go to public comments on this item. thank you. chair chan. if we have any members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding this item number four, now's your opportunity to address the committee for one minute. good morning, madam chair. members of

the committee. ladies and gentlemen, i'm amos brown, senior pastor of the historic third baptist church of san francisco. and also president of the san francisco naacp. in this chamber. a few days ago, you did the noble thing of voting to support the concept of reparations. this measure presents an opportunity for us to put substance to our rhetoric . let's just do the right thing. this black community has already been underserved. the programs that we are talking about are year round programs in computer literacy, elders and young people. come on, let's be a dream team and do the right thing and i think you will be

pleased. what prop? what this great church, calvary hill, can do and has been doing has expired for the good of all. thank you much, reverend brown, for addressing this committee next speaker, please. nice. otherwise, stop beating around the bush. remind her it's the money. doesn't matter. it's how you spend it that does. so you are talking here about basically a historical site, right? it's a church which happens to be a missionary baptist church, which means catholic, christian, catholic. so you make sure you respect the historic site of it. yes, that's what it is, right. and to teach the kids or whatever the activities you want to provide them with, to be respectful of the facts, right? so you teach them how to focus their mind on beauty for

example. you see, because that's the future. we're going to beauty. you see. so mind mindset . now remember something. never forget this. no belief is welcome in the duty to learn. thank you much for addressing this committee. next speaker good morning board. my name is piercey bastiani, past president of the gamma chi lambda chapter of alpha phi alpha fraternity, incorporated. i want to be clear. i'm not speaking on behalf of the chapter. this is my own personal opinion. i am in full support of this measure and of what pastor brown was just speaking to you. this is a common sense measure that is going to be of great benefit to our youth, who are in dire need of this critical service. so i expect to see an 11 zero vote on this to the full board. i am in full support. please get this done and in full support of doctor davis here and the great

work that she has done. thank you. thank you much for your comments. next speaker, please. good morning supervisors. my name is doctor joseph bryant junior. i serve as a senior pastor, calvary hill community church. thank you so much for taking this time. and i want to commend doctor davis for her amazing work with opportunities for all. dream keeper initiatives. she's done an amazing job empowering our youth and empowering our our people of color in so many different ways. we have had the benefit as a community to open our doors to so many various organizations over the past 20 years and allowed them to have educational, economic stability as well as employment experiences throughout our facility and as our facility has expanded, we have enough space to invite the dream keepers, the opportunities for all, and the human rights commission to come in and have a space to impact our entire city. and i thank you for the opportunity. and thank you much, joseph brown, junior, if you have any other speakers who wish to address this committee, now's your opportunity. otherwise, we'll close public comment. and madam

chair, that completes our queue. thank you. seeing no public comments, public comment is now close. supervisor melgar, thank you, chair chan. and thank you for the folks who are here in the audience who came to support . i would like to make a motion that we move this with a positive recommendation to the full board with the information. yes. and also that we will get a memo from director davis before the time this is scheduled at the board. thank you. and with that, a roll call, please. and on that motion by member melgar that this resolution be forwarded to the full board, to the positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman. vice chair mandelman. raffy rice, vice chair on the motion to forward. vice chair mandelman on the motion mandelman i member melgar i. melgar i church hand i chan i we have three i's. the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call

item five and six together. item numbers five and six. our legislation regarding the acquisition or improvement of real property, including facilities to deliver primary health care services, emergency medical services, skilled nursing, nursing services and services for persons experiencing mental health challenges or persons with substance use disorders. acquire, improve and seismically upgrade critical medical care and mental health facilities and emergency shelter facilities and improvements for certain transportation, pedestrian and street safety related capital improvements. streetscape enhancements, and other public space improvements and related costs necessary or convenient for each of the foregoing purposes. authorizing landlords to pass through 50% of the resulting property tax increase, if any, to residential tenants under the administrative code. item number five is an ordinance

calling and providing for a special election to be held in the city and county on tuesday, november 5th, 2024, for the purpose of submitting to san francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded indebtedness of not to exceed $390 million to finance the acquisition or improvement of the aforementioned real property. providing for the levy and collection of taxes to pay both principal and interest on such bonds, and incorporating a review of bond expenditures under the provisions of the administrative code. but a citizens general obligation bond oversight committee setting certain procedures and requirements for the election, and item six is a resolution determining and declaring that the public interest and necessity demand the acquisition or improvement of the aforementioned real property. madam chair, thank you. the sponsor of this item, i want to acknowledge board president peskin, who is putting his name on the roster before we call on brian strong for the presentation and the b.l.a

report. board president peskin, thank you. colleagues first of all, i want to commend this bond to the budget and finance committee of the board of supervisors and thank the capital planning committee for their work and thank mayor breed and her staff for their flexibility and would like the committee to adopt changes that the mayor and i have agreed, agreed on, which would reallocate $10 million five from the downtown public realm, portion of the bond and 5 million from the road portion of the bond to the public health portion of the bond, as originally envisioned. and those changes are on page six at line 14 and page seven at line eight, and then i would like my name to be added as a co-sponsor of all three instruments. oh, i thought you were already for some reason , we're ready for our captain planning. yeah. hi. good

morning. members of the budget and finance committee. my name is brian strong. i'm the chief resilience officer and oversee the office of resilience and capital planning. and is it up? thank you. sophia and as the powerpoint presentation is coming up, thank you very much for hearing this and moving it up in the schedule so that we're able to get this done. quickly. so as, as was mentioned, this is a healthy, safe and vibrant san francisco bond, it is really to address, you know, critical health and shelter needs in the city, as well as street safety improvements and improved community services and some of those things where we know with various parts of our city are struggling, post covid with that, the bond contains, you know, four different buckets and president peskin, you know, mentioned the amendments. those amendments have been incorporated into these numbers,

so, you know, $205 million, the bulk of it is to expand and strengthen the public health system that we have in san francisco, including a number of specific projects. we've been working on for a long time, including including the chinatown public health center, it's to support homeless families, and we know that we the city owns three different shelters that are all in need of funding. it's to deliver a street safety projects. again, pedestrian safety. and those those those areas are critical, so especially in some of our high injury corridors, and it's to improve community spaces. in various areas, including, you know, the downtown, harvey milk plaza, and to promote active recreation. so those are the components of the bond, i just want to mention we agree with the b.l.a report in terms of coming back with an amendment to the capital plan, now that we

have these amendments that just came through today, we will bring it back to the capital planning committee in july. and we expect that we'll be bringing a resolution to you shortly thereafter that will amend the capital plan to reflect the changes that we're discussing today, we also and we discussed this at our capital planning committee meeting. we do expect that bonds that have not been named or projects that have not been named will come back to the committee, with prioritization criteria. so we understand how those funds are going to be spent on specific projects. and that will also include hearing from departments on operating impacts, so before any bonds are sold, we will have an understanding of how those bonds, how the money is being prioritized and the operating impacts that are associated with those projects, with that, i will pass it off to jenny lewis from the department of public health and then we'll pass it off to jill. we'll pass it off to bruce robinson, and we will walk through, the specifics of the bond proposal. thank you.

thank you, mr. strong. i'm just going to put this onto slideshow . all right, so focusing on dfw's portion of the bond, i'm pleased to say that we have 205 million of the 390 proposed. it's just over 50% of the total bond allocations. it's really going towards four buckets, really around chinatown public health center for a seismic retrofit. and renovation, city clinic relocation, retrofitting, building three on the zuckerberg san francisco general campus, as well as 66 million for critical repairs related to maintaining zuckerberg, san francisco general and laguna honda hospitals, infrastructure to continue its quality care going more specifically prior to going specifically, i just want to note the df's past history of delivering quality care through bonds. we've completed the maxine hall health center in

2021. castro mission health center in august 2022, southeast health family center july 2022, as well as maria x health resource center september of 2022, going specifically into chinatown public health center. this is a project that focuses on the structural enhancement of the building, which is a 65, which is was built in 1969 and has not had significant upgrade in its infrastructure since then . this will be a complete retrofit of the building and will expand and improve services with increased capacity. it will also consolidate and integrate our mental health services with our primary care services, as we will co-locate chinatown development and chinatown child development center within the facility, as well, and this is part of our commitment to culturally responsive care, as you know, that over 80% of the

patients that we serve there are native chinese speakers. this is a shovel ready project. and thanks to some of the investments we've received from the critical development funds, and we are excited to get started on this, moving on to city clinic, we're requesting $28 million to relocate the clinic, which is currently in 100 year old fire station, into a more effective modern, facility. it will improve the hvac, the hvac capabilities as a result of, to maintain our lab services as well as patient quality care and efficiency. and it will co-locate, this with hopefully other cities, city staff as well, reducing our footprint. we also have, critical repairs for laguna

honda and zuckerberg san francisco general, this is all important for maintaining our licensure for the hospitals. we have $66 million of allocation there. these perhaps aren't the most exciting projects, but it includes things like replacing the laguna kitchen floor, fire life safety at both of the hospitals and replacing the chiller systems at zuckerberg san francisco general. and last but not least, we are also going to retrofit zuckerberg san francisco general building three requests for $40 million. this, increases our capacity for seismically safe space by 65,000ft!s and aligns with our safe spaces program as we continue to make our safe spaces safer for both staff and patients. it is also necessary for maintaining licensure, as we will be moving anatomical pathology into safe space as as required under a licensing. this

completes the d.p.h portion, but i would like to thank members of the committee as well as the capital planning committee, for their support of d.p.h in this bond. and with that, i'm going to turn it over to bruce robertson from dpw to talk about the additional projects in the bond, good morning, chair chan. supervisors bruce robertson, deputy director of finance and administration from public works, i'll go through the rest of the presentation of what's included in the $390 million general obligation bond, starting with $50 million for adult and emergency shelters. this funding will do a couple of things. it will provide new acquisition or seismic retrofit of existing shelters, as part of this bond proceeds, many of the existing shelters are, seismic hazard rating of four, which means in the event of a significant seismic event, there would be significant damage and risk to those facilities, the

funding will also allow the department to take advantage of opportunities for much needed shelter space that's desperately needed to house families, and we'll really be able to provide very specific services for those individuals. and then this is a theme you're going to hear a couple times during my presentation of the bond. this will provide the city the opportunity these funds to leverage outside and external sources. as you know, proposition one, the voters approved at the state level $6.38 billion of funding for shelters. and we can leverage this $50 million in in alignment with some of that $6.4 billion coming from the state level, the next component, just under $64 million, is for street safety projects. and this tranche is really broken up into four buckets. but i want to reiterate again, this would also be the opportunity for the city to leverage state, local and federal grant funds to deliver these projects in terms of

pedestrian and bicycle safety, traffic signal infrastructure improvements, and for streetscape improvements, the pedestrian and bicycle safety improvements really are a key part of vision zero. that's the as you all know, the commitment to build safer and better streets. this bond significantly helps the city achieve this goal. it will allow the city to modernize streets to include really important safety improvements, protective barriers between bike lanes, other bike safety features, pedestrian lighting, curb ramps, extended bulbouts, that will then help support the transit first city and support local businesses and communities throughout the city, traffic signal improvements again will support a transit first city. and really a lot of these projects are going to be on the high injury network and will advance equity, two things this is really going to do kind of in the weeds and a bit boring, but

we'll take care a lot of the infrastructure, the wiring, the conduits, the pole boxes, the signal heads. that will help the life expectancy of many of our signals. but it will also allowed improved traffic signal visibility, and it will allow on walk signs that will have that countdown clock and will allow tiles and bulbs for the visually impaired. so that will help, accessibility quite a bit, street space improvements. this bond will potentially have funding for street space improvements that will do a lot of things. sidewalk extensions. bulbouts. crosswalk enhancements, which you can see in this middle. photo alley improvements, sidewalk and roadway lighting and site furnishings. as part of all of these projects, there will also be a paving component so that will improve bicycle safety and help maintain our pci score of 74. and this will also help traffic circulation improvements potentially out at sloat boulevard. moving on to the next tranche of projects. $71 million

for three subsets harvey milk plaza downtown improvements and modernization of recreation spaces. $25 million for harvey milk plaza will really improve accessibility. the elevator will be upgraded and apply ada regulations and safeties for the muni station that's there at the castro station, and it'll really do something that'll help become really a gateway to the castro neighborhood by honoring the legacy of harvey milk, it will include fixtures, landscaping, and other sorts of acumen, so it will really honor his legacy, downtown improvements. $41 million in this tranche will really help revitalize downtown, that's still recovering with the office vacancy rate from the covid 19 pandemic. it will improve safety experiences for pedestrians and make it more accessible for foot traffic. they'll also likely be some improvements around the powell street and market intersection, and potentially some improvements to accessibility

around halliday plaza, finally, $5 million for modernization of recreational spaces. this really will allow the recreation and park department to expand more programing for recreational events in various locations throughout the city. it will improve ada accessibility pathway traffic as well. also offer some infrastructure improvements with electrical conduit and other items. and with that, supervisors, thank you so much for your time. i'm joined by the mayor's office capital planning committee staff, public health and representatives from other departments to answer any questions you may have. thank you so much. thank you. oh, i have a lot of questions, but. thank you. items five and six, are one. an ordinance to call for a special election, to request voter approval of a $390 million general obligation bond, and a resolution that determines that this is in the public interest. to take this action,

we detail the uses on pages six and seven of our report. we also note that according to the office of public finance, this $390 million bond will end up costing $737 million, when you factor in interest costs over the over the 20 year life of each bond. and i also want to point out some policy considerations in our report that i think could improve the city's capital planning process. one is that the board hasn't taken action to amend the capital plan. we detail in our report how this bond and actually the prior bond that the board approved for the march 2024 ballot were not part of the differed from what was planned and in the capital plan that was approved by the board of supervisors in may 2023, so i do think that that's, an action the board could take just to formalize that change, as it's done in the past. i think more importantly, the capital plan

does not detail the operating impacts of capital investments, and it really should. and i think in part because it's a ten year plan, it's difficult to do that. but i think when the bond, the bond sales have to also be approved by the board. so at that time the department should report to this committee, what the operating cost impacts will be, for their capital investments. i also think because some of the there's a lot of this is a $390 million bond. some of the projects are named. many are not particularly on the street safety improvements. and the public space improvements, it's not clear what is going to happen with that money in many cases. so i think the departments should actually report now about how they're going to prioritize funding for those projects, if the bond is approved, we do recommend approval of these

items. thank you. and, my questions, it's coming from a context. basing on the capital plan that we this body approved in 2023. and so i'm going to start off with that. so in, you know, in 2023 during may the this body approved a actually quite significantly different plan. specifically for this bond. i think at that time we're still talking about shelters and public health. and one on one growth and different scenarios, and that's also inclusive of course, at that time, like i think the chinatown, clinic, as well as the silver avenue clinic, i think that mr. strong already knows where i'm going with this because, colleagues, i , i, have submitted a letter and now it's actually on our file to the mayor and to board president

and peskin expressing my concern about this public health. technically, this is as we as we plan our capital plan, like every city department really have their, i would say their in their queue waiting to do the necessary capital improvements and renovations and including sometimes acquisitions, for, for their capital needs. and this november was a commitment that we were going to have for really our public health needs. and, and, and the challenge that i'm seeing with this bond is to see a significant portion of it is not directly going to things like, about that that can be done like, you know, either child care center at general hospital or campus security enhancements and definitely silver avenue for some reason, from what i learned is because the escalated cost so that it no

longer could be part of the bond . but that begs the question, then, at what point if we continue to delay project as the lesson that we have learned for chinatown clinic, that these if we further delay these project, they will only increase the cost will only increase. so then, at which point do we decide they should be in the bond or not in the bond? and shouldn't we find ways to a more cost effective way to make sure that we renovate these projects and spaces, so i think my first question is, and given the fact that, again, it's not very clear to us, like some of these projects, like what they really are, including the shelters or the, street improvements, i can understand to actually have some, so-called, like, cash on hand with the bond dollars, that we can be ready to leverage that bond dollars for california proposition one, when the events that we're ready to do some type

of matching fund to get some of the project going, if we if we get that from the $6.3 billion of bond dollars from the state to make sure that we take care of some of the, mental health issues, behavioral health, and including like also shelters and other related issues. i do have question about the decisions to put and allocate 60 over $63 million on street improvement. can we not or i mean, i'm trying to understand like we have sb one. we have just recently the sales tax renewal from prop l. so that's like about $2 billion worth of like, dollars that we can do some of these stuff. so so help us understand what is going on here. and what is it that we, we're trying to accomplish with these $63 million, good morning, supervisors. bruce robinson from public works. once again, we're looking to accomplish a couple things. one is there is a report from the legislative analyst's

office that does anticipate the sb one money to start declining as the proliferation of hybrid and electric vehicles, in particular, continues to increase. we are going to start seeing less money from the state in terms of gas tax, road fund and more importantly, the sb one tax, which is that 12 cent per gallon tax. so that's part of this will address that. the city has invested a large amount of money to get the pci score up to 71 for paving, and this will help offset that. so it will maintain the city did not fully fund the paving program in the current year. so that's that's one area. and then the other area is just as you know, the incredible importance of vision zero projects, pedestrian safety, bike safety. so really this bond will address that and it will create some efficiencies with use of some one time funding that is available at the federal level as well as leveraging the funding that is coming through the state and then local funding. any that we may receive from the county, the transportation authority. so

it's really those items as well. and just really taking a moment in time to create some efficiencies with joint projects that i didn't say in, in my presentation as well, where the various entities can partner up, where there is money in place, and we can create some efficiencies and really adhere to that dig once policy that the city has and try to really, you know, leverage existing funds and be efficient is the public works in queue for a next bond for any other type of, like street paving and other needs, it's two years away. i will yield to mr. strong on that, but i don't believe so. but that's really well, i mean, we do have it. so the next bond coming up and in two years in 2026 is the is the transportation bond. so it's a $300 million planned transportation bond, we expect that we're going to be making some adjustments to that bond as we update the capital plan. so we're updating the capital plan

beginning at the end of this summer. it'll come to you, it'll come to the capital planning committee january 1st. it'll come to the board in march. so we do expect that we'll we're going to see some changes to the geo bond program that reflect moving some of the projects forward around transportation and public works. i mean, the last transportation bond included public works components to it. i expect that those will be likely included in this next one as well, and then the other point i just want to make is that, you know, in previous, previous capital plans, we were we had odd year elections. so now we're on a cycle where it's even where we don't have as many opportunities to go to voters with geo bonds, which means that the bonds i think that we are bringing are, are becoming a little more complex because we are seeing these needs come up more quickly. right. and we don't have many, as many bites at the apple. so that's another, i think that's another consideration here. so, and in

speaking with members of the capital planning committee, city administrator chiu, i think we're going to we're going to be taking a look at. okay, is the cadence that we've been using based on departments programmatically working or not, and should we make adjustments to it? yeah and i think that leads to my second question is really about the silver avenue neighborhood clinic that was, you know, part of the capital plan. and for consideration, can you explain a couple of things? from what i learned is that there's a significant escalated cost. and can you walk me through what it is and what happened there? because it's just one year's time from the original estimate to now, it sounds like at least over $30 million or increase. so that's my first question. and my second part of the question is, now that it's not going to be on this bond, then what do we do to address silver avenue? right? so that first part of the question, thank you. i think original estimates for silver avenue was around 35 million, for a

retrofit of to retrofit and renovate the building, i think there's a couple of factors, that drove up the cost. one, that was the 35 million was an initial estimate. and so as we got closer to actually being part of the bond, we did additional due diligence, and then there was additional cost escalations, as, as a part of that. in addition, because of the previous clinic projects that we've had that i noted the four, there was we changed some of the scope on one of the things we found. what was critical was actually having a second elevator, which is and so there's that change that we requested as well. and then plus the regular inflation since our original cost estimates, there are multiple factors, but that we do have we that $80 million number is a cost estimator number, in the, that, that is that's invalidated by the cost estimator. and our best guess in

terms of what it would take. and then how we understand, besides the change of scope and elevator , are there anything else that added to the cost, or is it like are you adding a story? because right now it's one story building and then i think, are you i mean, i'm just trying to understand like, what other ways to that it's really it's a two story building and it will remain a two story building, but for improved access, we are adding a second elevator as a result. and then what other else are you changing in terms of the scope, and will this actually be i mean, and i guess then then the next question is what? so i guess the question would be the question are what are the changes of the scope besides the elevator? and if it's so significant, then when are we going to get it done? if it's not included in this bond? oh, apologies, we did also add 1500 square feet to expand capacity at silver avenue. so yeah. and i recognize these these changes are costly. but just given how few and far these bonds are in

between, we want to get it right and get it done right the first time to make sure that we have maximum capacity. how do you add how do you add that additional 15,000ft!s? how do you how do yu add that? are you expanding the envelope of the building or are you adding a story? okay, i'm going to turn it over to cathy zhang, our director of facilities, who could probably answer these questions and i apologize, i misspoke. it's 1500 square feet, not 15,000ft!s. i see. good afternoon, supervisors. cathy zhang, director of facilities capital planning, d.p.h. so the 1500 square feet was going to be added by pushing out the front of the building. so the building floor plan on the first floor would be expanded. right. wow that's a that's a real cost estimate. and the cost estimate we did, we went to a cost estimator through dpw. that's and we got a real we also did our chinatown estimates. so as lessons learned for us usually give them a discount. this is like a great a great increase. so what is the plan now that you have such a significant increase. but you also are not

on the bond. yeah i mean we're going to continue to look for just just like other projects we have, we're going to continue to look for different ways to fund it. so grants hazard mitigation program grants. other opportunities. and like i said, we're going to be looking at our capital planning program overall. so i expect that this will be part of that discussion. you know, what do we do with some of the projects that that we thought we were going to be able to fund? how are we going to fund them, you know, going forward? so i just want to be on the record. i think that for me personally, i really think that what we have learned from the pandemic that we are seeing neighborhood clinics are really critical hubs for public health purpose. and many way, be it testing, be it vaccinations, for the general public and being able to have access in the neighborhood where they live. i am just as i am a strong supporter of the chinatown

clinic, i am a strong supporter of the silver avenue clinic, as well as the bayview neighborhood clinic, and i think that these really deserve a lot of love. they have not been really receive any type of improvements. i think for like 2 or 3 decades now. well, well, we certainly i guess cathy was just mentioning, you know, southeast health center of course, is a brand new health center that was completely redone, we've we have been addressing, you know, maxine, i mean, there are a number of health centers. i mean, the city owns and manages a bunch of them, but we have been addressing the vast majority of them have received improvements in the past 10 to 15 years. so thank you. i agree there's more work to be done. yes. i don't doubt it. yeah. thank you. so i'm going to ask my last question. if that's okay. like it's i'm just closing this out to the child care facility. i'm looking at the mayor's office. i'm looking at miss kittler. i think what i am hoping is trying to help me understand what are we going to

do to fulfill our commitment with a child care facility at the general hospital? thank you. chair sophia hitler, mayor's office, the child care facility has been kind of a moving target, as you know, since the last dph bond, this is something that supervisor melgar has absolutely been leading with us on. we've kind of reached a point where we think we need additional positions and intends to include those in the budget, as well as setting aside funding specifically for the child care center at zuckerberg sf general, in this budget, through the department of early childhood in their facilities planning money, and so we are hopeful that with that funding identified, we can move quickly if an opportunity arises, but we did not feel that at this point in this bond that was that we kind of had a plan that we should fund specifically that. yeah. i mean, i think that like the way i see it, i'm not sure it's like the staffing first and then and then the money comes. i think i'm more

like, where's the money? and then and then we once we actually identify the funding, then we have we should have a staffing to move forward with the plan. and i just want to be clear that there is an assumed at least $10 million in dec's capital pipeline, for this project. right. supervisor melgar, thank you, chair chan. i you know, that was one of my questions. of course. because i also agree that it's a chicken or an egg. right. and we don't identify how much it's going to cost. so then, you know, we don't have to put it in there. so. and we've been at this for 17 years. so it's kind of inexcusable. i'm glad we now have baby property monies and at least that can advance a conversation. so but my question, well, first of all, i wanted to ask about, the, 66 million now going to, repairs at general hospital and laguna honda. i'm wondering if the increase is for laguna honda or

for both. and i'm wondering what is entailed and if that's going towards the physical improvements that are required by the findings, in the last survey that identified findings, yes, that bucket of $66 million is for both laguna honda hospital and zuckerberg san francisco general and includes, projects that are identified as part of our recertification efforts and as well as just critical infrastructure improvements to ensure that we are maintaining life safety to, to maintain licensure between the two facilities. and so it it completes we believe we're fully funded for the certification projects that we're aware of at this time as well as additional projects that we want to get ahead of some things to make sure that we are staying up to date in terms of our infrastructure at the two facilities. okay. thank you so much. so i had to i want to follow up on a question line of

questioning that chair chan started, although i think that i'm, you know, in the other sort of, policy, you know, space that i am wondering why we are reducing the investment in street safety improvements, by 5 million. and is that is, i guess, that that's what we're moving to, you know, public health, and you know, i, representing district seven, which is one of the districts that has the worst infrastructure for street safety improvements. it's been a high priority for me. in, in for the past three years, i sat on the bay area air quality management agency board and i chaired the mobile sources committee, which puts out millions of dollars every year for street safety improvements, most of it requires a match, and so we, you know, being in that seat, i saw

a bunch of money flowing to san francisco for all these things that i care about, and i do think it's a public health issue, as well, just as a personal anecdote, the worst bicycle accident i ever had was all by myself when my front wheel caught in the tracks between the muni and the asphalt and the folks at the hospital told me that they saw 7 or 8 every week. it was very embarrassing for me, but it was also like i still feel it actually on my right knee. that injury is long lasting. so for district seven, i really do want the investment to. why? why are we moving that over? and is this enough? and the most important part of my question in here is do we have any funding in here for, rv or recreational vehicle? safe parking, or is that something that we're putting on as an operational, cost to the

department of homelessness? any of you, sophia kittler mayor's office? i'm on the second question. that would be an operating cost. that would we, i believe, not be bond eligible as i understand your question, so, no, that is not contemplated in here, i see, as for the moving of the 5 million. so, yes, this was a proposed amendment that we worked on with president peskin. to identify kind of opportunities where we may have, i mean, to your question, is there enough? there is probably never enough for any of this, particularly we have underinvested in capital for the last several years, certainly since the beginning of the pandemic, but as to the point about where we had kind of more fungible costs versus being able to get the dollars out the door quickly. the, the street safety area was one where there was it felt a little bit more fungible, certainly a priority, but but

kind of moving that to public health allowed us to get those dollars out very quickly and get something that we had heard was a priority from, in addition to president peskin, many members of the board and the community. okay. thank you, miss kittler. i don't know if it's possible. i think what i would love to move this forward before i like as we continue to move this forward, i would love to have a letter of a commitment about the $10 million, from the department of early child care, with the commitment of like the $10 million for the very least, to commit to the child care facilities that can go along with this bond at least, or somewhere that i could like, have a record of it to say, did i mean, because it's not really in the budget, it's not really anywhere. i mean, i know that we have this conversation on the record, like publicly, but i would really appreciate either the department of early child care director or the mayor

herself. like writing submitting a letter to the board. and with the commitment of $10 million that is specifically for the child care facility for the san francisco general hospital. and i think that's important. i think it's in good faith, to do that. is that is that possible, before so today, if you were to take the amendments, those would be substantive amendments. and presumably would move this forward. so you would like that letter, in advance next, the next committee hearing, i we can certainly work on that. yes. thank you. and so with that, though, colleagues, i would like to make the motion to move the amendments proposed by board president peskin and, and with that, because these are substantive amendments, we will have to continue to our next meeting, which is july 9th. no, 10th, july 10th, we do not have a budget and finance committee next week, on july 3rd. so with

that in, and a public comments on these two items. thank you. vice chair. thank you, madam chair. we now invite members of the public who wish to address this committee regarding these general obligation bond legislation, an intelligence doesn't add up on that. so it's very tough for me if you don't listen with the little help from my friends, the skies. okay. what you are doing is just increasing the length of the suffering of your children or closest relatives. you are for most of you, promote or do not listen to me here. you are done. you won't finish your life happily, i guarantee you so. you better learn fast. waste the money. go ahead, go ahead. the price to pay is going to be

extremely expensive. i'm here to make sure. okay. do not like me. go ahead. next speaker, please. good afternoon. supervisors. my name is brian springfield. i'm the executive director of the friends of harvey milk plaza. and one of the things i'm especially proud of in the work that we've done on behalf of this project is the degree of community outreach and engagement that we've undertaken, and not surprisingly, we heard a lot about how people want to see harvey milk honored at that space. but we also heard from a lot of people that they did not want to see the transit functions at the site compromised at all. in order to achieve that. and so we actually went one step further. we worked with swa group to not only protect the functions at the site, but to enhance and improve them, including some really necessary ada compliance upgrades. and so the public

supports this plan for smart coordinated public private investment at harvey milk plaza and castro muni station, we have the support of seven community organizations. castro merchants, castro cbd, castro cultural district, eureka valley neighborhood association, dubose triangle neighborhood association, the harvey milk democratic club, and the alice b toklas democratic club. that's a lot of consensus from a community that's not known for agreeing on things. so thank you. thanks so much, brian springfield. if we have any more speakers who wish to address this committee, kindly line up so we don't have to wait for people to get up and approach. chapel i'm a 45 year san francisco resident. i'm an urbanist. i'm also an ambassador for harvey milk plaza and a former long term board member and currently a member of the streetscape committee of the union square alliance. i'm here

in support of the healthy, safe and vibrant san francisco bond. there are many reasons to support this bond. it's our duty to care for the health of our citizens. it's our responsibility to build and maintain safe streets and sidewalks. but there are two other things. as we all know, we've been hit very hard by covid 19 and are still recovering, and we need to, make improvements to get back the vitality of our streets and public spaces and secondly, all of these projects provide good union construction jobs. and in a time of, economic hardship, as we have been in, this is doubly necessary. speaker's time has expired. i thank you for addressing this committee. and with that, madam chair, that completes our q thank you. seeing no more public comments, public comment is now closed. and, as the motion stands and

would like a roll call on that motion to amend and then continue to the next meeting, and on that motion by chair chan, to amend the ordinance in item five, as offered by. actually, who who read the. oh, yes. has offered by the chair and, and to continue the ordinance as amended to our july 10th meeting of this committee and on that motion, vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes and with that, do we have any other business before us, actually, we need to, dispense with item six, are we also continuing the resolution to do we. is it

necessary to continue the resolution or. let's continue it so that we can actually have them go in the pair. so sorry. so i moved to also continue item six along with five to till the next meeting. yes. and on that motion to continue the resolution and item number six also to the july 10th. meeting of this committee, vice chair mandelman mandelman i member melgar. melgar. i chair chan i chan i we have three eyes. thank you. the motion passes and with that, do we have any other business before us, no, not for this committee, madam chair. thank you. this meeting is adjourned

>> everyone loves a good sunset, but in san francisco we take to a new level. i'm city supervisor engardio and i represent an entire part of the city called the sunset. it stretches 30 glorious avenues. welcome to district 4! the sunset is a collide scope of people culture and experiences for residents of all ages. we are a beach town, we are a chinatown, and not a town at

all. the sunset is home to 80 thousand people and we love our dogs. we live in neat row houses, homes with yards, story book homes and every quirk in between. the sunset used to be sand dunes all the way to the ocean. when the city needed to grow, san francisco's future ran through the sunset. we built rows and rows of housing for a great irish population and welcomed a great chinese population. today home to a gowing number of families from all backgrounds and the future starts here. >> we chose sunset knauz we love san francisco but during the pandemic we needed more space and more family focused, so that is where we found the sunset. how walkable it is. we live along iving street along where diana's school is our son's day care is.

>> our kids and all the kids we knee in the neighborhood are really the future here and we are really excited to live in the neighborhood. we love it so much. >> nina and alex are expecting their first baby and it first leaders of the newly formed sunset community band which bring together musicians of all ages at special events. >> we are about to have our first kid and met so many younger people and so many moving into the neighborhood. exciting to raising our family here because this community is awesome. >> bringing the community together and making it stronger i think a band can help with that. it is a matter of civic pride and coming together and doing something as a community that really makes like us from a collection of people into a neighborhood. >> sundays in the sunset are

for worship, farmer's market and live music at the ocean. if the sunset had a town square, it would be this magical area that appears every sunday on 37 avenue. the sunset farmer market isn't just a place to get good food and produce, it is where community gathers live music from local musicians and cultural celebrations and [indiscernible] share ideas to shape our city. it really is the place the community comes together to celebrate the best of the sunset. >> something about it had sunset chinese cultural district is there a lot of opportunities to uplift the chinese voice and chinese people. when you look at the sunset, a lot of think of trees and single family homets and the schools, but there isn't a lot of very iconic locations that

people can look at and know they are in the sunset. one thing we are working on is to unveil a new mural in the park by community and as we do more work in the sunset and uplift the unique qualities of the community, we want to do more mural s and spaces that are iconic so the sunset gets a piece of being unique and identifiable. >> a supermarket for everything you need for chinese home cooking and [indiscernible] the rice noodles are so good they are featured in catherine moss latest novel, [indiscernible] takes place in the sunset. there is a old school menu at the ond mandarin islamic restaurant and a item so spicy they have to warn customers. maybe bobo can neutralize the spice. the sunset has plenty options. try the bars at the beach.

we also have the sunset reservoir brewing company and o'briens irish pub. cuisine in the sunset spans the world. [indiscernible] >> travel and work in [indiscernible] we have our own restaurant. and then, it was my turn to follow her to her country, so that's why we opened in her neighborhood. >> we are looking for more a local gentleman gem. we traveled around the world and what we highly value, a place for the community to gather. a local hang-out spot. that is why this isn't a restaurant, it is cafe, you can order a coffee, you can have a fuel full meal but it is place to connect. whether parents kids friends is why we decide to go qulose close to

the beach, a neighborhood i am familiar with. i run into people all the time. i live in a big city but why i chose district 4 outer sunset. it has a small town feel. i love our neighbors. >> the sunset has everything from footwear to hardware. here is great wall hardware, 3500 square feet of retail space. we carry about 22 thousand items and counting. it never stops because i have a thing. when a customer says don't you have this and i don't have it, it bothers me. i want to have it,s so it is just of those things about owner a hardware store, people expect you to have everything and you to fulfill that need. i like to serve my neighborhood. most businesses you want to buy this or that or eat this or buy the widget. a hardware store is different. people come in and have a problem and

need a solution and they are looking for you to navigate them through that problem and offer them products that help them get to where they need to go. people are great. i love this neighborhood. there is different ethnicities here, different cultures here. we all intermingle and mix together and we get along fine and i always like that about this neighborhood. it is just a nice place to be. it is near the beach, it is beautiful and near the zoo and near golden gate park, stern grove. great schools, great parks. whats there not to like? we also love pizza from hole in the wall to [indiscernible] hottest restaurants in the sunset tunching vietnamese food [indiscernible] ice cream [indiscernible] this is great highway park. a great place to burn calories on the

weekend. i'm here every sunday doing a long run and start with 5 miles and with this ocean view, if it motivates me i try for 10. the new york times named great highway park one of 52 places to change the world. it is that amazing and the gem of the sunset and people are finding new ways to activate the space. in halloween it turns into the great haunt way. >> we imagine a future from the part time road close toor to a park to welcome people all ages and activities to our coast. >> since we had [indiscernible] always looking for ways to sort of improve what is already good around us. the neighborhood is great. it will be even better with a park here. >> sunset turn to put a new sign up on our coast. open for all. >> this is the treasure of san francisco and this hasn't been

discovered yet. homes are still relatively affordable, there is decent schools and a place for kids to have a feeling they can run and play and take part in things. what i'm happy the great highway has become a park for the weekend. i'm glad we share what we have with the rest of the city and people come from outside the city. i'm sure people come from the east bay, and i just feel like, seeing the people out here enjoying this represents the hope for the future. >> imagine the potential of an emerald necklace in the sunset for safe biking and recreation along the green belt of sunset boulevard which connects lake merced with golden gate park and great highway park. quality of life matters and we know how to take care of each other. sunset youth service helps teenagers find purpose and self-help for

the elderly let's seniors shine. local artists capture the sunset experience and work is on display in cafes like java beach and black bird books. the art of conversation happens at this new barber shop called the avenue. the owner calls it a barber lounge because he wants to create a space for the community to gather beyond hair cuts. this corner is a hent of the future. you see new housing built for new generations and it is over a community space that everyone loves. the sunset is a place full of potential. >> the possibility is here, more then anything. you can start something here and people will get behind and the community finds there is a need for it and people support it. >> i always look around the corner, the next thing we can do to crank it up more and make it safer, make it more enjoyable. bring in new business, support them. >> i really hope we bring just joy,

because ultimately music helps bring joy to the community. >> this is where people are at. this is where people want to be, so it gives me a lot of positive energy. >> my office created the first sunset night market on iring street where i'm standing. more then 10 thousand people showed up. nobody has seen that many on--[indiscernible] here it celebrate all the fun things in life, food music and art. our beautiful sunset always amazed. the sunset experience is pure joy. the sunset is where we will create our best san francisco. join us.

>> why does it been a process and celebration standing up together a difference luther against deliberation and i think justice and. freedom and love over the decades more and more people are standing up against bigotry and hate a media to celebrate love and resilient of our community. now over 5 hundred on people to anti legislation introduced across the country many targeting trainers youth to me not just a month but drawing how

ethnicity say fighting for justice everyone person to celebrated for who they are this is a reunion time to lift up our voices and shower our community with love and appreciation. pride month so showing up confidently in myself i love to have ethnicity and solid a dart anyone's our community and to jose for the indulgence and more. >> our city has a rich legacy of queer and transand occupy myself we are the history and the strulgsz the triumphant and the resilience of our community. in san francisco throughout the country and all over the world especially where we face persuasion this fried let's stand together in solidarity and

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we are talking about here today to announce a new legislation subdivide 925 to address the significant and growing problems in san francisco. specifically the sale of stolen goods on our streets also known as fencing. joined here by by partner in the legislation that mayor london breed who came to me earlier in year as a clear addressing the issue with the it up priority for her and thank supervisor ronen couldn't be here but her office is here. thank to supervisor dorsey for joining us and welcome a broad coalition of the community community-based organizations that you see behind me today from the mission

and he tenderloin primarily you'll hear from them shortly. fencing of stolen goods a major issues in parts of san francisco parallel in the mission and the tenderloin south of market and other neighborhoods. and sb 925 provides san francisco with an additional tool to address this problem i want to be crystal-clear credit bill is not about our beautify and diverse and i ray of the street vendors the people who sell proposed foods arrest goods and flowers and other you amazing products on the streets street vendors make your city a better place they add to the richness that make neighborhood like the mission unique and leo allow people that earning fencing stolen goods is different it is

orchard crime and harms not only the surrounding neighborhoods but legitimate street vendors as well. those criminal fencing operations are pushing out legitimate street vendors often people that or selling on the streets for a long time and creating fear and violence. that's why the mission streets veterans is spovrpt sb and you'll hear from addition to support from other mission and tenderloin organizations like the economic development and. >> (calling names.) >> the tenderloin cdb and the housing clinic and other organization time the legal fencing on the streets makes our streets less safe and legitimate street vefrndz and fuel orchid retail theft in the brandishing

businesses. they also possess risks to city workers trying to enforce permitting lose and city workers have been assaulted they attempt to enforce against is fenceers fencing on mission street mayor london breed and supervisor ronen placed temporary moerments a blanket conveniently is san francisco the um, any of us apts he street vevendz is part of a fabric of our economy and helps people pit food on the table and sb 295 helps it does allows citation of people selling goods commonly shoplifted pursuant to a list of commonly stolen goods prepared by the city and only

doing so without a permit if a perch is cited twice for selling those o stolen goods they can be cited for a misdemeanor the third time we wanted to avoid immigration and just to be clear, sb 925 does for the apply in any way to prepared foods notice for people selling goods with a permit only applies to people that district attorney have a permit as you are selling temples commonly stolen. sb 925 compliments the state law on street vefrndz in 2018 the legislature passed sb 946 that street vendors is a administrative matter and the purpose of sb 946 i voted for addresses the abuse in the parts

of california the police were making that impossible for street vendors to do business the goal to allow legitimate street vepdz to thrive throughout california we have the same goal with sb that will restore a goal tackling the fencing of stolen goods and not apply to any other form of street convenience, welfare, and necessity and only in san francisco. sb 925 a narrow taught intfrm to allow san francisco to allow to hold the bad actors affordable and allow the by the san franciscans love and a bill we're going to work hard to pass and.

>> (speaking spanish) with that said i'm going to turn it over to my partner in the legislation mayor london breed

(clapping). >> thank you, senator wiener and unfortunately, not able to speak spanish so hopefully and, get his assistance this translating any comments that is great to be here with that coalition of people to help to introduce this legislation in sacramento and want to thank senator wiener for his leadership not just here announcing in legislation it is a lot of work and meetings across my policymakers in northern california and southern california and community stakeholders to get to - to this point to make sure that we're doing everything we can to protect our actual street veterans in san francisco because this is something that you know what about you but i'm used to experience growing up in san francisco we had the -

growing in the man folks who worked to create their goods and also available to provide that support to community and so many of the various veterans joining us here do they have been part of community for many, many years. and sadly what we see in recent years is a change. where we know that there are challenges around those who are going into various retail establishments and stealing items and taking them on the streets and also impacting the ability for so many of the vendors to function on the street it is extremely challenging for the city workforce where people have been assaulted when we tried to create and stash that level of the order and structure to make sure that our veterans are not

impacted and in a negative way. it has been chaotic and very much problematic in neighborhoods like the mission and tenderloin i'm grateful to be here with a strong coalition of people who want to make sure we protect and support our vendors and also dealing with the willing fencing really destroyed the fabric of what people have been doing for many, many decades and what is important about that legislation and appreciate 29 a broad coalition thank you, supervisor ronen for being a partner and working with us to make sure that community was a part of the conversation. so we as i believe have a broad coalition and expensive responsible legislation with progressive penlites to make sure that we are trying to address that issue and hold people accountable but transition them into something that is more meaningful and

possibly the treatment and support they need to get their lives on the right paktsdz paths and so 34 things intertwined i want to take an opportunity to taking thank to many people with worked with us to make sure that people understand there are a huge difference between those who are vending in terms of making a living and solely their goods they make and appraise and they're out there supporting the community and the people who are fencing. who or stealing items from our brick-and-mortar places creating a lot of problem and even the fact we had a number of pharmacies closed it impacts the community when elders can't get their medication so we hope to

continue to allow for those who want to sell their variance goods and services to the people of san francisco to do so safely i want to thank the central city sros collaborative gallery good same triathlon resource center and. >> (calling names.) >> and mission economic development and the merchants association and the mission neighborhood centers and mission street vendors association, the tenderloin bones district the tenderloin housing clinic and the university of california law a coalition of people i labored to making sure this legislation is to the finish line and continue to see vibrant neighborhoods with street vendors who represent the diversity of what makes san francisco so special and with that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce our police chief bill scott

(clapping). >> thank you, mayor london breed and thank you, senator wiener for a focusing on this issue. you know, the sfpd's has been graphically cracking down on willing stolen goods with that have a lot of momentum and theft is down 40 percent than last year, we have to had had more with the partnership of public works and all the folks see standing here with me we have recovered thousands of items of stolen goods from those willing fencing market over the this year alone and optimistic this momentum will continue because of this legislation now like i said by the mayor and senator and narrowly focused

piece of legislation meant to address willing fencing and address the stolen goods market that impacts us has nothing to do with food or people condominium to sell that is state by our senator and mayor that is part of fabric of this city was not part of the fabric of this city is orchid retail theft running rampant effecting our businesses and effecting our community members and effecting our nonprofit you name that across the board that has to have to be cracked down on and this legislation will help us do that i also want to say if as we focus on this issue, it is such a flurry to be standing among point people impacted by this the most we're not doing this loan on our mayor and senator

and police department in conjunction with the various community members impacted by this the most. and that is what makes this elective special and this effort special and what will drive our best in the city with that, once in a while thank you to the mayor. >> thank you to senator wiener and introduce you to sheila the supervisor from the supervisor ronen office. thank you. >> good morning. i'd like to share this statement on behalf of the supervisor ronen who represents the mission district one of the neighborhoods impacted by the fencing activity. as supervisor district 9 mission neighborhoods and thankful to senator wiener for the introduction of sb 295 and tailing this fencing in the commercial corridor the migration has cherished history

of vending where that is selling flowers on 24 street or others in. >> items submitted by the mayor. >> customers our street vendors contributed what makes the mission a rich and attractive neighborhood. by the techniques tradition of the mission it is economic vitally have been challenged by the fencing of stolen goods. our public works employees should be talented and assaulted for administering our city program. our small business owners should not worried about did save of our employees and commissioners will reach their storefronts our transit riders should be able to easily get on bart and our neighbors should experience

safe, clean and assessable sidewalks as they walk the neighborhoods. as periphery, i.e., represent my constituents that care about the health and safety of the neighborhood that's why the passages is important to make sure we address the criminal activities of fenceers and letting public works administer the users family-friendly practices tomorrow i'll introduce at board of supervisors and as the city we'll continue to support the street vendors to still 19 sell in your marketplace with business training, with special events and marking marketing to bring permitted vendors on to mission street. we look forward to sharing the details as we

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>> (speaking spanish.) >> now my enclosure to introduce the treasure give me. >> (speaking spanish) williams ortez. >> (clapping) good morning, everybody. buenos dias and i can't say porn what everyone has been saying fencing is not street vending those are street vendors. >> (speaking spanish) that's - >> (clapping) i'm not i time to thank scott

wiener and may it be so marked we make that a point to say we are community building we we do get down with vending but support our history of the street convenience, welfare, and necessity and you are community and entrepreneurs that make san francisco so thank you, with that, i'll introduce - kate robinson from the pd. >> all again, thank you, a (clapping.) and good morning, everyone. my name is kate robinson the executive director finding benefit district and organization that centers the needs of the neighborhoods children families and seniors and small businesses we strive for a clean and positively active community and the tenderloin is a beautifully diverse multiplying lingual neighborhood of color it deserves enjoyment and

connective vitality that with i see in other beautiful neighborhoods in san francisco. and in order to get there we must address the on street of astrology goods to that end our partners that were here so grateful for the leadership of the senator wiener, mayor london breed, and supervisor ronen for introducing and working on sb 925. to continue the progress they made in improving the conditions of our streets and making them starve safer for everyone the fencing did he drug market is a block to you are success and have negative impacts on the lives of tenderloin residents and including poor health outcomes resulting in the per singling stressful environment the work of the drug market coordination

center a game chancellorer to combat the open air drug and fejs market it involves cooperation of our law enforcement and outreach working and dph public agency and community stptd and stakeholders. intersection 925 builds think little work give agencies tools to gain a handsome on the sale of stolen goods and specifically target bad actors for the hypothetical anyone can come out here avenue dark and in fact, actually just on my walk over here had to work on ma cultivator street fencing accuracy fights and arguments who get to sell that makes our

blocks to tentatively and for families to simply walk down the sidewalk and keeps visitors from coming over our restaurants three needs to be flood with reservations have the best food in the tenderloin and - we the heart and consistent work is paying off we are beginning to see change moving in the right direction and new must not stop we must keep on going the striate of san francisco starts with that work thank you, everyone, and with that, i'll introduce the president of mission street michigan - that's where i'm from mission street. >> fernandez. >> (clapping) buenos dias.

>> (speaking spanish) good morning. my name is lopez the point of the mission street vendors association. >> (speaking spanish.) >> our organization represents one hundred and 16 street vendors three work hard to make a living. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we street veterans day are part of vitality of the street and our presence contributed to the heart of the mission. >> (speaking spanish.) >> the mortality not selling

on mission street has affected us, we is families and small businesses to continue. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we hope with this legislation get the situation on the streets will get better and have safer communities. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we the street developers where permits have been following the rules and support the legislation and want to continue to sell in the streets of san francisco and stay

afloat. >> (speaking spanish.) >> this is why we have the been working hard hand in hand to continue the solutions to support the street veterans. >> (speaking spanish.) >> we need to be - we seek assurance and hope the leaders support our efforts to have safer streets and return to mission street is structures to be has - um, success and that our small businesses and our community also moves forward.

>> (speaking spanish.) >> (clapping.) we also want to thank the community-based organizations have helped us so many to mention but hours and hours put into this effort we appreciate all the folks here supporting us the mission street vendors (clapping.) great 0 e so those are the speakers we're happy to take a couple of questions from the press their be around any

questions? >> that will be form late by the city and board of supervisors will formulate that list. >> so - [off mic.] >> yeah. >> yeah. so the city has a permitting process will not change that process the process today and the city will continue to have the ability permitting role it compliments other clauses so there objective physically stealing from a store is a crime and in terms of receiving stolen goods complimentary to it anyone is on the streets selling didn't have

a permit and has items, you know, are everyone is aware have been stolen and pretty clear and those are the items will or that will go on the list of complimentarys. >> they're not - the bill didn't apply to proposed food so that's simply not part of this bill. so 0 someone selling prepared food without or with a permit not cited under this law in the bill. >> any other - great at the this amazing coalition. >> aced

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