>> president stansbury: good afternoon, everyone. supervisor cohen present. supervisor fewer not present.

supervisor kim present. peskin present. ronen present. safai present. sheehy present. stefani present. tang present. supervisor yee present. madame president, supervisor fewer, fewer present. all members are present. >> president breed: please join us in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president breed: thank you, madame clerk, any communications? >> i have none to report. >> president breed: is there a motion to approve the minutes from march 20, 2018? moved by supervisor peskin,

seconded by supervisor yee, take that without objection, those meeting minutes are passed after public comment. madame clerk. go to the consent agenda. >> items 1-18 are on the consent agenda, these are considered to be routine if a member objects, an item may be removed. >> president breed: please call the roll. supervisor kim aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. sheehy aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. there are 11 ayes.

>> president breed: those items are adopted unanimously. item number 19. an ordinance to amend the administrative code to declare on the second monday, in addition to celebrating indigenous people day, we recognize and celebrate italian american heritage day. >> president breed: same house same call? supervisor kim aye. peskin aye. ronen no. safai aye. sheehy aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. there are 10 ayes and one no

with supervisor ronen in the assent. >> president breed: the ordinance passes. >> item 20 is a resolution to authorize the public of health to expend a grant in the amount of the state water resources control board, division of water quality beach safety program for the period of july 1, 2017 through june 30, 2018. >> president breed: roll call vote? kim aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. sheehy aye. stefani aye. tang aye. yee aye. breed aye. cohen aye. fewer aye. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes.

>> president breed: the resolution is adopted unanimously. approximate call items 21-23 together. intention to sell bonds for item 21. authorizes the issuance of earthquake and safety response obligation bonds in amount not to exceed $190 million. number 22 affordable housing taxable general obligation bonds in the amount not to exceed 146 million tdz and item 23, resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of health and safety tax exempt general obligation bonds. >> president breed: can we take

the items, same house same call? those item are adopted unanimously. >> clerk: item 24 is resolution to approve with the internal revenue code of 1986, the california municipal finance authority, also known as the authority and certain local agencies such as the city and county of san francisco, issuance of revenue bonds in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed $40 million and the loans therefore to school inc. facility. >> president breed: without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. >> clerk: item 25, ordinance to approve the assessor's award for information that led to the detection of underpayment of property tax from an unreported change in ownership.

>> president breed: same house, same call. passed unanimously. >> item 6, setting the budget and legislative analyst services audit plan, the first is for the san francisco municipal transportation agency to review trends in muni ridership and revenues and the effectiveness of management of the traffic congestion and the impact. the second is the effectiveness of the city's workforce development programs for low-income, homeless and formally homeless adults. the third is for the office of economic and workforce development's planning for large scale development and capital projects to address the economic impacts of the projects on surrounding businesses. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection, the motion is approved unanimously. >> clerk: item 27. to update the map references by

the department of building inspections advisory committee and to reenact, the type of proposed construction that triggers application of the map and determine the ceqa determination. >> supervisor peskin: i would like this make a motion to continue this item for two weeks. >> president breed: supervisor peskin has made a motion to continue the item two weeks, seconded by supervisor fewer, take that without objection? this item is continued for two weeks. >> clerk: to the date of may 8. >> president breed: thank you. next item please. >> clerk: item 28 ordinance to amend the planning code to extend the lower polk street alcohol restricted use district to june 1, 2023 to expand the circumstances in that district when temporary closures of liquor establishments are not considered abandonment of such

use us and to provide that such closures are not enlargement, alteration, intensification, abandonment and to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. >> clerk: item 29, california state senate bill. >> president breed: same house, same call, the resolution is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, let's go to our committee reports. >> clerk: item 38 was considered by the budget and finance subcommittee at a regular meeting on monday, april 19 and forwarded as a committee report. it's a resolution, designating those agencies qualified to participate in the 2018 annual joint fundraising drive for

officers and employees of the city and county of san francisco. >> president breed: same house, same call? adopted unanimously. >> item 39 was amended with a new title, it's ordinance to amend the building code to stepped the times for existing -- extend the times for existing building to have all primary entries into the building accessible to persons with disabilities or to receive a city determination of equivalent facilitation, technical feasibility or unreasonable hardship and extend the period of granting extension for the deadlines to extend the time to submit the building of inspection reports on the program to the board of supervisors to authorize the building official to waive the requirements for inspection and submittal of information for the building owners who have complied with the requirements under other permits, requiring the building owner to provide 30

days notice, if a permit is required to irremediable yat the entry way or sidewalk and eliminate the administrative fee to restate the findings of local conditions under the california health and safety code. >> president breed: same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance passes unanimously on the first reading. madame clerk, roll call for introduction. >> clerk: first up is supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: thank you. >> supervisor peskin: submit. >> supervisor ronen: can i be referred? >> certainly >> supervisor sheehy: i have one item, i'm calling hearing on the negative impact of tenants in green tree units, the hearing is to have complete disclosures, the issues affecting a huge

segment of the rent controlled tenants. many conversations with the tenants have revealed a deep pattern of rent controlled housing stock. they own over 200 buildings in san francisco and the expansion has impacted the rental market and their inappropriate management conduct is the basis of this hearing. a variety and mix of legal, illegal and disputeably legal means have been confirmed by tenants of green tree's buildings. many of the rent-controlled tenants decided they have to leave after the ongoing harassment by the property management. specifically at 12-unit building at delores, the tenants have suffered a litany of construction projects, unnoticed water shutoffs, electric power

shutoffs and rent increases. only five long-term tenants remain. the building property manager is responsible for 23 other different properties and both types of charges for basic repairs to individual units have occurred that should not have increased the cost of maintenance. instead, the pass route revealed the practice of gold plating. overall, green tree management makes living in one's own home a burden to emotional -- makes it susceptible to emotional and financial services. this causes people to escape the management. over the past two years, green tree has subjected the tenants at delores with nonemergency apartment entries, days of water

service and electric service interruption. 51 days without a fire escape. 34 days with suspension of their garage parking. net increase of 24% over the same two-year period. so, i'm calling this hearing so that we can investigate what is going on with this landlord. thank you. >> president breed: thank you. >> supervisor sheehy: the rest i submit. >> clerk: madame stefani. >> supervisor stefani: i'm following up on the transportation hearing where supervisor fewer and i asked about safety questions for muni late at night. i receive a lot of complaints about this. most recently i received one in the lafayette park area, someone was harassing a woman late at night and they didn't know what

to do. it will tell people what to expect when they ride public transportation and what people should do in the event of an emergency or what they should expect from drivers, police, or whether or not there are cameras and what other measures are in place to keep people safe. a brief look at what safety tips are on muni's website and on kids safety tips, i found two things that stood out to me. one said remove your backpacks and hold them in front of you, keep valuable items out of sight and says music video games and computers are fine, as long as you wear headphones and earbuds, that's what i tell my son not to do. do not wear your headphones, stay alert, put all of that in your backpack and keep our backpack on. we need to look at this. i didn't find any other safety tips really on muni in terms of adult riders and it's something

we need to look at. i came from a press conference with the mayor, chief scott and supervisor peskin where we talked about the good work between muni and police department on the parking garages. when they work together and proactively work together, there improvements being seen at our garages in terms of safety, i'm hoping we can do the same thing for public transportation. the rest i submit. >> supervisor tang: thank you, i have two resolutions. one is building upon my effort back in 2016 with the department of human resources to reduce implicit bias in recruitment and hiring for city employees. the department of human resources had come up with rule changes and next mental health professional to undergo mandatory counseling. this is important so we're addressing the root causes where we can see that animal cruelty,

some of the things that lie underneath, and that lead to other acts of violence, especially these school shootings, we hope to identify them early on and address them. with that i submit. >> clerk: supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: submit. >> clerk: supervisor breed. supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: last we had a hearing about the departmental strategy and the many moving pieces with which the city attempts to tackle homelessness. we heard presentations from the city services, auditor, department of homelessness, department of public health, the mayor's office of housing and service providers. while we're helping 50 per day

to exit homelessness, an estimated 150 people are losing their homes and moving into the streets each day in san francisco. we heard that we need to focus on prevention, problem-solving and exits. we need medical attention and outreach for those suffering from mental health and addictions and we need to make sure transition aged youth. i am looking for resolution for adoption urging the mayor's office and the mayor to prioritize these issues in his budget. so let's be clear, what i'm specifically asking for. i'm asking for increased rapid housing subsidies. second, increased medical outreach teams. third, more beds for individuals with mental illness. fourth, funding for eviction

defense legal service. and fifth, and finally, a navigation center for the tay population. workforce development with the nonprofits that support our street cleaning are essential in providing dignity, health and a path out of homelessness. i want to thank my colleagues on the committee for joining me in the process. and i hope to have all of your support next week. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much, today i introduce a resolution along with supervisor cohen and cosponsors yee and ronen, urging the arbitration board to incorporate one of the city's proposals into the mum dumb of understanding -- memorandum of understanding between the city and county of san francisco and police officers association which is now in arbitration.

city proposal number 22 includes language that propose changes involving any of the 272 recommendations from the 2016 department of justice report showing notice to the san francisco police officers association and that the association shall have 14 days to respond rather than the 30 days period of changes to general orders. if no agreement is reached, that would impact procedures. the u.s. department of justice released a report in 2016 with specific ways they need to change practices in the department to address a range of findings. the department is taking steps to put into place these reforms to address issues, including use of force, bias, community policing, accountability and recruitment hiring personnel practices. this city proposal is critical for these efforts to be success. . being the wife of a 35-year veteran of the police department, i know intimately the job of policing is not easy.

it is honorable and hard work. but there are big changes that are necessary to put into place to address that it is critical that we remove obstacles that stand in the way of san franciscans getting the police department they deserve and want, i look forward to your support. thank you. >> clerk: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: colleagues, today i'm introducing a resolution condemning the inhumane treatment of a detainee held by customs and border protection in the san francisco airport and urging federal representatives to call for independent investigation on the detainment of jerome souccar abba. he is a human rights worker and peace advocate for the philippines invited by the general board of the united methodist church and the international coalition for human rights in the philippines. he was also scheduled to meet

with u.s. conference of catholic bishops and several congressional offices. mr. abba was invited to the u.s. to speak about human rights violations in the philippines such as the 12,000 extra judicial killings under philippine's president rodrigo duterte, the displacement of hundreds of thousands of indigenous people. mr. aba never made it out out of the airport and was sent back to the philippines. he reported being tortured by officials in the airport. he said he did not have access to phone or belongings. was denied legal counsel. was ordered to strip naked and interrogated as they turned on industrial fan in the room. despite telling the officers he's muslim, was given only a ham sandwich which he couldn't eat while he was there for over

28 hours. we need a formal investigation of the egregious torture allegations because our city will not tolerate the inhumane treatment of our residents or visitors. the rest i submit. >> clerk: madame president? >> president breed: colleagues, i have two items today. the first item that i'm introducing is for the mental health care coordination program, a collaborative treatment and monitoring of our city's highest risk individuals struggling with mental health issues. it was created as a case conferencing effort between five departments who will meet on a regular basis to take a comprehensive and wholistic look at individuals to have been

identified as those users, frequent users of city services. including those who have made frequent visits to our emergency rooms, repeated interaction with law enforcement and repeated arrests and most importantly, repeated number of 5150, which are 72-hour holds for those suffering from mental illness. there are individuals who are the hardest to serve, but in the most need of comprehensive wraparound services. individuals who experience profound challenges due to a history of trauma, addiction, poor health and untreated mental illness. the five departments that will be a part of this particular care coordination effort, are the department of public health, the department of homelessness and supportive services, the department of aging and adult services, the san francisco police department and the bart police. at these meetings, the

departments will develop individual case coordinating plans for each individual and execute those plans. this wraparound approach will provide a full completion of services with the goal of getting individuals stabilized, housed and helping for the long-term. we all acknowledge that helping individuals who are frequent users of city services take a multi-agency and multiprong approach. all departments from the department of public health to law enforcement approach individuals differently, but the reality is, if we are truly going to make a lasting impact on the individuals we know are suffering from repeated trauma and mental illness and chronic homelessness and substance abuse, we're going to need everyone to work collaboratively together to accomplish the goal. we need to monitor the outcomes that actually work and make the

difference. that is why also included in this legislation is annual reporting requirements. so we can look at the work that we did and what we need to continue to do to make improvement to the program. i want to thank barbara garcia from the department of public health for spear heading the project. the san francisco standard and the bart police for being part of this multi-agency approach to addressing the challenges with people who are suffering from mental illness here on our streets in san francisco. the second item i have today is an item basically an update. it's been a while since i have updated the board on the status of mid town park apartments in my district. and i thought i'd take the time today to report the status of the rent modification program

and the proposed development and rehabilitation. the story of midtown has been a long and complicated one. i personally know many of the residents who live there and for too long, the residents of midtown were neglected and misinformed by former administrations and went through a number of property managers. midtown park apartments is a six-building, 139-unit residential complex established in 1964 and historically, designed for low and moderate income households. the development is owned by the city and county of san francisco under the jurisdiction of the mayor's office of housing and community development. and as of 2014, it's been leased and managed by mercy housing. the complex still suffers from over 40 years of deferred maintenance caused by insufficient rental revenue and

years and years of poor management. we're talking about things like mold problems, fire safety systems, broken heaters and plumbing issues, water damage and so much more. the property is not fully accessible to seniors and people with disabilities. and of the 129 occupied units, 30 have been identified as frail seniors. without rent restructuring, this disrepair has grown worse and could potentially result in loss of units. since 2005, mayor's office of housing and community development provided the complex with $12.5 million for emergency capital funds to help address some of the most pressing issues at the complex. additionally since midtown has been operating on a deficit since 2014, mohcd also

contributed another 2.5 to fund annual operating costs and work towards stabilizing operations at this complex. residents of midtown have always needed and deserved to be told the truth. and be given a path that will allow them to rehabilitate their decaying units while not getting displaced. one of the first things that i did as supervisor was work with our late mayor, ed lee, to develop a plan known as the rent modification program to get midtown on track to rehabilitate their homes. the program is intended to equalize rents and potentially increase revenue to the development. through the process, i was committed to ensuring that not one person was evicted from midtown and that the city and mercy worked together to toward stabilizing the property in a way that is sustainable, safe

and fair. but the scale of what individuals were paying tore their rent were extremely skewed for so long and needed to be addressed if we were going to address to the deferred maintenance crieses that existed at midtown. some people were paying far more than they could afford while others were paying far less. for example, a senior citizen on a fixed income making a little bit over $10,000 a year, was paying $1024 a month for rent. in a household making over $211,000 a year, was only paying $939 a month for a two-bedroom. this all changed with the rent modification program. and after a lot of hard work with departments and the community, all residents were eventually income certified and provided with a six-year ramp-up

payment period to adjust to the new payment scale. i'm happy to say that as a result of this modification program, many rents were actually decreased significantly. all residents of midtown will have lifetime leases and will pay no more than 30% of their income in rent. not one resident has been evicted as a result of the changes going on at midtown and only one has left on their own accord. at the last meeting i attended, i was proud to hear that most residents believed we were finally, finally going in the right direction with midtown. yes, there remains a vocal minority to any changes in midtown and a lot of folks who actually don't live there who are trying to speak on behalf of the residents of midtown. and not everyone is perfect, but

we need to continue to move this process forward and do the right thing by ensuring that midtown is a viable sustainable community fort people who live there for the long-term. every resident in our city deserves a safe affordable place to call home. there is also a new resident advisory board that is helping with the process of planning for midtown's future which will include the necessary rehabilitation, which will hopefully make units accessible and prioritize work for those who are elderly and disabled. so, however, there is still substantial work needed on some of the buildings. and the recommendations have been that some buildings should be demolished while others are substantially rehabilitated. i want to be clear that no decision on demolition or anything of that nature has been made. the plan is to continue to work

with the residents of midtown and the mayor's office of housing and community development to develop a long-term plan. i'm hopeful this will continue to progress in a positive direction and that we can get the support that the residents revenue midtown deserve. the only plan is to provide a safe and affordable housing for the residents without displacement. and together we'll be able to accomplish that goal. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, madame president. seeing no other names, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president breed: madame clerk, let's go to our 2:30 commendations at this time. i know we have a few. i'll start with the one that i have. i'm excited to invite the lord

mayor of cork ireland, tony fitzgerald is here today. will you please come forward? [applause] in addition to our lord mayor who is here today, i know that there are a number of members from our cork sister city committee who are joining us, dermott phillpot and jim who is here as well, come forward at this time. cork sister city committee and many others visiting, for all of those here in the audience today, visiting and joining our dear city, can you please stand at this time? [applause] >> president breed: thank you for joining us. as some of you know, cork and

san francisco have enjoyed a sister city relationship since 1984. over the last 34 years, we have celebrated our business, trade, educational and cultural accomplishments. and this relationship continues to grow as we work together to strengthen our cities and our communities. just yesterday i along with supervisor sheehy and supervisor safai and supervisor tang, we were at the historic signing ceremony, the memorandum of understanding that was signed by our mayor that will establish new relationships between our lgbtq communities. and we are proud to have you here today, with your delegation in the chamber. not only has lord mayor fitzgerald been a champion for lgbtq rights, but he's also led the way in expanding economic

development and bringing in new employment opportunities to cork. his work and health, early childhood education, youth programs and the local drug task force all contribute to the production of comprehensive conversations that we all have where we learn from one another and we grow as two incredible cities as we use one another's best practices. i know many in the room had the fortune of joining mayor lee on the historic trip to cork last year. and i think that you coming to san francisco reminds us of his dedication, of mayor lee's dedication and commitment to our sister city relationship. on behalf of the board of supervisors, i know we all look forward to continuing our working relationship to create incredible opportunities between our cities and i'd like this invite you at this time to share with us a few words.

>> thank you very much. madame president, london breed, esteemed supervisors, acting chief executive of the council, ladies and gentlemen, could i say at the outset, thank you for the warm hospitality and friendship that the delegation from cork has received since our arrival here over the weekend. we are among friends. we are among people that we have a great bond with. and our visit here is one of the largest delegations ever to come to san francisco from cork city. and i thank you and each and every one of you, particularly mayor farrell yesterday for his hospitality, and the historic moment of our memorandum of understanding for lgbtq rights, another great experience. i thank you for the opportunity to address this democratic forum

here in it city hall. i want to pay tribute and remember fondly your late mayor ed lee. and then to make continued connections between our city and cork and here in san francisco. there is a time for everything. there is a time to be born, a time to die. there is a time to plant and a plant to uproot. there is a time to weep and a time to laugh. and there is a time to mourn and a time to dance. a time to be silent and a time to speak. so today, on behalf of the people of cork, i speak on their behalf to offer our deepest sympathy, our thoughts, and prayers to the wife of the late ed lee. to his two daughters. his entire family. and indeed, to you the people of

san francisco on the loss of such an amazing man. he was a man of the people. and his focus was always the people. as a community organizer and civil rights lawyer and hard working son of an immigrant family, he understood the strength of the community and measured that by meeting the needs of all its people as they emerged. in 2012, as deputy lord mayor i was here to mark the commencement of the st. patrick's day celebrations. from then on i had the privilege of meeting him here in san francisco, then back in cork and then coming back to our city of learning conference last september. where he interacted, interfaced,

made connections, right across all the sectors of our community in cork. and that is why all of the sectors of the community in cork are here this afternoon. in education, health in community in business, in commerce, in city council, right across the sector. and he was as we would say in cork, one of our own. he met a lady on the stage of the concert hall, a lady called mary mannix who this week is 101 years old. and they built a great bond in the short time he was with us. and that was her comment to me about mayor lee. he was one of our own. so today, we share your loss. we were shocked and dismayed at

his sudden passing last december. and our city and the people of our city miss him as much as you do. mayor lee would want to be continue the work that you do here in city hall and san francisco. and with us in cork city. and so i think there is major opportunities to expand our relationships with our sister city committee, with jim here, and we're working hard together. because san francisco is rich with culture and arts and institutions for performing arts, app opearts opera, jazz. we, with your jazz festival and our art gallery see an opportunity to explore further development, further growth and further relationships. i want to commend you here for

your initiatives on public transport as being a leader in clean public transport. i wish you every success with your conference in september in that regard. our committee here is also working on our famine memorial. i understand that they have a location agreed with the city park and recreation and now moving to develop that. again, we at work would like to support that and be part of that to celebrate the warm home that san francisco is and has been to many irish people, but also to commemorate the tragedy of the famine. so today, we are here to strengthen our relationships. our english market and ferry port, our memorandum of understanding, we have developed that strength this morning.

tomorrow, we will travel to the silicon valley to the home of apple in cupertino. will be going from one parish to another with apple there as well. we look forward to many other exchanges over the next few days while we're here. so, again, today, on behalf of the people of cork, as first citizen of cork city, we extend our sympathy to you all on the death of mayor ed lee. we miss him as much as you miss him. and long may his legacy continue. thank you very much. [applause]

>> president breed: thank you for being here and i know the council of general of ireland is here as well, if you'd like to come forward and say a few words. please do so at this time. >> thank you very much, madame president breed, supervisors, ladies and gentlemen, lord mayor, i'll be very, very quick. i know you have a busy afternoon of work ahead of you. i just wanted to say two quick things. firstly, we appreciate just how important those political contacts are to maintaining our relationship between ireland and california. and between san francisco and cork. and we were very encouraged by the high level political representation that traveled with mayor lee in september last

year. and i know supervisor tang, supeor