strategic plan and implementing it has been a priority and this is our first budget that is really aligned with our 2020 strategic plan goals and so they are identified here and you will see this throughout our budget how it's reflected. as we execute our strategic plan in a complex environment, the first set of things that are listed on this slide is something that is really consistent throughout citywide and you will see it reflect in a lot of city budgets. however, our challenges are not only limited to that. we have regulatory issues unique to our agency. we are experiencing more stringent regulatory state and federal levels. on the state level, state water resource board, california public utilities commission and the california division of safety of dams all have

proposed and implemented regulations that impact our water and wastewater services. so for example, one example is that the state has implemented requirements that water agencies must test and continue to monitor all schools for lead in their water at no cost to schools. you will see this program reflected in our budget as well. finally, we are already seeing how climate change and specifically change in precipitation patterns in sea level rise has impacted our operations and bottom line and we anticipate climate change impacting will not only increase in the coming decades but we must start planning resilient in our budget in light of climate change. our agency priorities are listed here. once we have our mission

statement, our strategic plan goals as guiding principles and we take into consideration the external khal lepgs i talked about, this is how we develop our budget and prioritize for the next two years. i will take a quick look at these priorities. the first you are very familiar is our water system improvement program and this has been ongoing for ten years. we are so proud it's a 4.8 billion program, 87 projects that spans seven counties and we are pore than 96% complete. through coordinating efforts with community partners and trade unions and contractors and regional workforce numbers have been increasing. so if you look at this chart, 73% of our apprenticeship are from san francisco or service

territory which represents about 760,000 hours and earning about $33 million in wages and benefit and then if you look on the right-hand side, 50% of the non-apprenticeship opportunities are met by san franciscans and service territory residents as well. you can see we have been doing a very good job creating local hire to san franciscans and folks in the region. the other capital program is our sewer system improvement program which is to really bring our system up-to-date and reliable after earthquake so we can function as usual. this is a long program and we are approaching it in phases. our commission has approved phase 1, which we are implementing which is a $2.9

billion dollar program. if we look at the local hire in that program you will see 64% of our apprenticeship is from san francisco. the difference between the water improvement and sewer system, the sewer system is strictly san franciscan and water system is both san francisco and service territory which is made up of the 7 counties. if you look at the non-apprenticeship, we are 32% of san franciscans. i think this is really a great show we are really invested in trying to promote opportunities for san franciscans. moving from water and wastewater side, i wanted to focus on our power side.

i wanted to begin with our hetchy power customers. as you know and passed a resolution, we are celebrating 100 years of hetch hetchy power and we did that. so we can more effectively serve customers and expand our customer base and improving our service to our existing customers are key in meeting our power business plan goals. so if you look at what we are trying to accomplish. currently we serve about 100 megawatts to our customers and what we are looking for is to pretty much double that over time and the way it's broken down is we are looking for about 100 megawatts or 90 megawatts from new development or opportunities to serve in

the eastern side of san francisco and then we have 30-40 megawatts we feel are in dispute with pg&e, we feel those are customers we should be serving and just the natural growth of our customers that make up the 150 megawatts. so the other line of business is if we can't serve you with our hetchy power, we have our clean power sf program. we have 80,000 customers in clean power s.f. and that revenue is approximately $38 million. in the next two years we will complete a citywide roll out, so in the first of the two years we are going to roll another 95,000 new accounts which our revenue will jump from $38 million to $157 million and in the second year we are going to roll another

190,000 accounts and that will bring the total up to 367,000 with revenue of $250 million. you will see our clean power s.f. revenues increase about 650% in the next two years and that's one of the biggest things you will see in our budget. as far as, you could see we have a lot going on in the next two years but one of the biggest challenges as we implement projects, programs we are facing is the retirement risk at the p.u.c. particularly in our water and wastewater side. i just want to point out this graph which represents the eligibility of folks eligible for retirement in the next five years and if you look at the red bar, the red bar represents the number, the folks who will

max out. meaning it is probably the best time for them to retire because they won't receive any better benefits. it's safe to say the 16% on wastewater probably will retire in 15 years and the rest are eligible for retirement. that's probably one of our biggest risks we are facing so we are looking at ways we can attract the next generation of workers as a high priority to our agency. which leads me into our workforce and our aging workforce with close to half of our workforce will be close to retirement. so that's something we identified in our 2020 strategic plan. the goal is to attract, retain and develop an effective workforce reflective and

supportive of our communities. to achieve this goal we have actively implemented programs creating career pathways into entry level and mission critical positions at the p.u.c. in partnership with san francisco unified school district, we are making sure that students are aware and exposed to careers in our sector. we are getting ready to welcome approximately 1200 students in early career professionals that will join us annually for internships in the summer. our programs provide opportunities to historically under represented communities and our service areas. over the next two years we will further develop a kindergarten to career strategies that tangibly link investment to

environmental stewardships, stem curriculum. apprenticeship opportunities specifically focus on our water and wastewater enterprises. and also on a national level we are working with utilities throughout the country to secure new resources from water workforce training dollars. we have center booker and kapido introducing innovative water workforce development act that would establish a competitive workforce development grant program. so finally we are prioritizing investments in our current workforce to ensure that they have the training and skills to stay and take advantage of opportunities at the p.u.c. so now i would like to pass this over to our c.f.o. eric sandler that will dive into the numbers and thank you very much. [please stand by for captioner

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-- in january and faen february. . in january and february, 12 hours of deliberation on the operating and capital budget and also adopted ten-year capital plan and ten-year financial plan. the capital budget was also forwarded to the city-wide planning committee where it was vetted as well. so, as general manager kelly, i wanted to hit the highlights of the budget and what's really driving the changes year over year. the city-wide rollout is the single largest driver of the budget increases. it's additional $172 million. over the two-year period. all of our on budget position requests relate to cleanpowersf, 11 f.d.e.s. what i talk to you about in

terms of the ten-year capital plan and the two-year capital plan, we issue bonds and have to pay debt service issue bonds and debt service on them and larger share of the main replacement and sewer replacement through revenue funded capital, and that's also driving the increase in the budget. recommended budget results in rate and charge increases in line with the ten-year financial plans that we have provided on an annual basis. the combined water and sewer bill increase will be 8.5% annually, over the next four years. rate increases will go into effect on july 1st. the commission and staff recognizes the rates and charges impact our customers and we've been on a multi-pronged effort

over the last several years to try to address how our rates impact our most vulnerable and low income customers, and we've really taken four levels of work here. one to improve assistance to single-family residential customers, and we have worked collaboratively with the mayor's office and the controller's office to find legally compliant sort of funding. direct 15% on water and 35% on sewer credit. it's our community assistance program. and we'll be promoting and developing customized outreach to address, to try to reach our single-family residential low income customers. we have also worked significantly over the last year to reduce the impact of fees and charges on our low income customers. the commission last month adopted elimination of several fees and charges, including the water shutoff and water turn-on fees and so those

disproportionately impact the low income customers who are already having trouble paying their bills. working collaboratively with the office of financial empowerment and the h.s.a. to develop early interventions for some customers experiencing bill payment problems and try to develop assistant program for the customers in multi-family housing with whom we don't have a direct relationship. so, i talked about sort of the planning context, highlights, work on affordability, and overview of the budget. what we have here is a table of the p.u.c. operating budget. broken down into our enterprises, wastewater enterprise, hetch hetchy water and power, and cleanpowersf, such a big driver over the next

two years. what you can see is our existing budget is about a billion dollars, $53 million, going up for fiscal year, 1,000,000,299 million and for 2020, 1,000,000,499 million, increase of 348 million over the two-year period. lion's share by cleanpowersf and the other big drivers are debt service on water bonds, on wastewater bonds, and then revenue funded capital on water and wastewater infrastructure assets. >> bring to your attention the presentation was -- >> long? >> yes, long, but supposed to be ten minutes and you are already like seven minutes over. i need you to wrap it up to get to the questions. >> sorry about that. operating budgets highlights are

here. i've highlighted them, cleanpowersf, capital funding, slide 19, this is a picture of the authorized position changes from fiscal year 18 to 19. >> and authorized position change, who authorized them? >> in the annual salary budget. and the -- >> the f.t.e., increase to help with the rollout of the program? >> yes, exactly. the large page summarizes the capital budget, two-year appropriation, $1.85 billion. you can see the lion's share relates to 60% of that relates to the wastewater enterprise and the sewer system improvement program the general manager addressed. water side, investments are, and

completing the water improvement program, investing in the water transmission and distribution system, and the power side, about 70% of the investment in the up-country assets, and investment in distribution locally the general manager pointed out to expand the hetchy power operations. in conclusion, 24/7 services critical to public health and safety. a significant expansion of the power enterprise and cleanpowersf, long-term capital investment and financial planning strategies, we are investing in our assets. and the activities as general manager kelly pointed out, deliver tangible benefits to the community. >> all right. thank very much. supervisor yee. >> supervisor yee: could you help me understand this a little

bit? increase of seven f.t.e. for the clean power and increase of 117 million in terms of revenues for cleanpowersf. not understanding the math. >> very good question. >> i think one of the premise of convincing people to participate in clean, cleanpowersf is that, you know, we want to use clean power, but at the same time, we knew that people to participate would get hit with a higher rate, especially super clean power, and then so is there any

attempt to lower that rate? you continue to almost punish the people that want to have clean power. >> so, the commission adopted last month rates for cleanpowersf that will put it on july 1, 2% lower than comparable pg&e rates, and the dollars that you point out are related to the increase is really related to the cost of purchasing and procuring power, not staffing. >> supervisor fewer: thank you for the presentation and because the general manager meets with me every six months i'm pretty up to date on everything. congratulations on the timeline, on the cleanpowersf, i think it's very exciting and then i just have one question which i have asked all of our departments is that i understand

that you have some contracts you contract out, and very few, mainly about security. and i know that those are in times of emergency as prop j has been, that's when it says and that, and i think 76 ordinance. do you have any plans to incorporate those jobs into your permanent workforce? >> we can talk with the head of h.r. and get back to you. >> supervisor fewer: i want to commend you, we have seen presentation after presentation today and the idea that you are looking, forward looking at your retirement and planning for creating a pipeline to your jobs i think is really commendable and putting resource to say that, and also the apprenticeship programs. i think it is proving to actually help to hire and train many san franciscans, and a

problem of homelessness and the wealth divide. thank you very much. >> i think the general manager deserves a lot of credit. the general manager deserves a lot of credit for those programs. >> a little bit louder? >> thank you general manager. >> thank you. >> ok, eric. thank you. real quick, for clarification, i don't know if i have this wrong, but when we say that the combined water, power sewer bill increase 8% over four years, do most customers have all three, are they bundled? >> no, i meant to say it's the water and wastewater bill 8.5%. >> ok. just the wastewater, that's what i was briefed on. and ok, thank you, that's it. thank you. anyone else, any questions?

all right. benefit of being last. critical thinking skills might be dissipating. going through this since 10:00. thank you, appreciate that. so, i think we are going to hear from the san francisco unified school district, ben rosenfeld. >> controller. this is the county office of education appropriation for this item, so, this is statutory required payment from the county to the county office of education, which of course for us is the same as our school district. the -- so, ministerial appropriation before you on this item. majority of these appropriations that flow to the school district, much larger and of interest, contained in the department of children youth and families budget which you'll see in june. >> yes, that's right. all right. well, thank you very much for that brief description. appreciate that. right now we are going to go to public comment. any member of the public, come

on up, two minutes. public comment is open. please. someone. come to the mic. >> start off with that first speaker from the transportation. i object to his statements about school traffic monitors, monitoring the crosswalk for kids. there was hundreds that applied for a job opening about several months ago, and i was the person that was passing out the job announcements, advertise you pay $20 an hour for the work. you lead the people to believe they can make enough money to support themselves in the city. then after the process and selection process to get the job, you only work them an hour and a half a day. it's disgusting. and about this medallions, where you are charging the arabic and people from india descent,

$250,000 in order to have a license and permit to drive taxis, that's extortion. that's a criminal offense. and you are in violation of the rico act. racially profile those brown skin color taxi drivers in order to pressure them, you know they want to survive and put them in potential financial bind. it's a criminal offense. violation of title 18 of the united states code service and deprive a person of a civil rights like that, pertaining to funds, you should not be fined more than $10,000 of cash money and serve a prison term fo longer than seven years. you should go to the school district and press charges against them and also the city attorney for civil penalties and about calling that hearing to verify what i'm talking about, i take it intelligence of cohen, seeing how all the arabic people were coming to me and asking me to help them and i was the one

that pointed out all you have to do is explain to them like you explain to me. they didn't know they could speak at public comment. i'm the one that got them to come up and speak. don't stop there cohen, also the way we got treated in the fillmore area. >> your time is up. thank you. come on, next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. peter warfield, executive director of library users association. i want to thank you very much for the many questions you have had generally and particularly to the library. they are not used to being in a forum where they don't control everything, and their responses were very interesting. let me make some general statements about radio frequency

identification, $3.4 million project they want to install and then spend about $200,000 a year for the next ten years supporting. first of all, rfid kills patron privacy, enables a tag of the book to be read without the knowledge or consent of the person carrying the item and it can be read through clothing and a closed container like a purse or briefcase. rfid, second of all, a huge security hole and that is it leaves the library wide open to massive and undetected losses from people who may intentionally or unintentionally have a very inexpensive and readily available material that they can basically put the books or other materials into or have it adjacent to, and that blocks the signal so that the reader has no idea what's going out the door.

rfid poses potential health risks from radio frequency radiation. we are not talking atomic radiation, but radio frequency radiation. some health studies have shown that. and repetitive stress coming from bar code swiping is something they have no longer claimed but that is pretty much bogus. let me just say the biggest whopper we heard, only one individual from acle and esf, electronic frontier foundation and american civil liberties submit the letter. groups, not individuals. >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> thank you, supervisors, mark krueger with san francisco taxi workers alliance, and some taxi drivers came to the board the other day, you heard from them. they shelled out $250,000 for

taxi medallion. drivers have been coming to the mta for a couple of years now asking for help and the mta has been unresponsive to them. most drivers have given up on the mta and don't bother to go. there was a consultant's report put out in the last couple of weeks, completely dropped the ball, did not discuss it. and this is an issue not only here in san francisco, it's an issue in new york and other places. last week the "new york times" wrote an editorial which entitled what will new york do about its uber problem, and i would like to read you just two sentences from that editorial. says over time the city should consider whether it owes something to drivers who sunk their savings into taxi medallions. many drivers went into debt to buy these permits because the city promised them a monopoly on picking up passengers a promise it has not been able to keep.

so, the situation here in san francisco is far worse because these drivers who bought the medallio medallions were on a waiting list, many for 10, 15 years or more, the city pulled away the right to a medallion at a nominal price and forced them to buy these things for $250,000. so, the city needs to do something about this. these drivers need help. i don't know if it's too late in the mta's budget process but i would call upon this board, the board of supervisors to find a funding source, whether through the mta or otherwise to start compensating these medallion holders for the situation which the city has created. thank you. >> thank you. any other members of the public that would like to comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you very much, thank you to the staff that made the presentations and the ladies and gentlemen that participated in public comment. thank you.

colleagues, we are just about done here. i would like to make a motion to continue the hearings to next week. >> motion to continue the matter to may 24. >> that's right. second? >> second by supervisor fewer, take that without objection. please note that supervisor yee is not here. >> thank you. >> that motion passes. with chair cohen, fewer, stefani and supervisor yee absent. >> any other business before this body? >> that completes the morning agenda. take a 15-minute recess and then we will begin the afternoon agenda. thank you.

good afternoon everyone and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, may 15th, 2018. madam clerk, please call the role. thank you, madam president. president breed? breed, present.

supervisor cohen? cohen, president. super visor fewer? fewer, present. supervisor safai? safai, not present. supervisor sheehy? sheehy, present. supervisor ronen? ronen, president. supervisor tang? tang, present. supervisor yee?

yee, present. will you join me for the pledge of allegiance. without objection, those meeting minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, please read the consent agenda. items one and two are on consent. these items are considered routi routine. madam clerk, please call the role. on items one and two. supervise supervisor yee? yee, aye. supervisor breed? breed, aye.

supervisor peskin? peskin, aye. madam clerk, let's go to the next item. an ordnance to amend the movement code.

item six appropriates $146 million of proceeds from the general obligation housing bond series 2018 d. for public housing, low income housing and investment in the mission neighborhood and middle income housing in 2017-2018. and item seven appropriates $52.5 million of proceeds for

improvements in seismic strengthening for mental health emergency response and safety and homeless shelter and service, placing all funds on controller's reserve pending the outcome of the sale of the bonds. same house, same call. without objection, the items pass unanimously. next item? item eight is a resolution to authorize the tack collector to sell at public auction certain parcels of tax defaulted real property as defined herein. supervisor tang? i know that given previous discussions on this item, i had been communicating with the treasurer and tax collector's office outside of this meeting to go through what the office had been doing in light of our last conversation. i wasn't sure if anyone was here and i didn't ask anyone. so it's not their fault if they're not here. supervisor tang, we could

come back to this item later in the meeting and get someone in the department to come. that would be helpful, i think, for us all. okay, if colleagues are interested. otherwise, i was happy to share that they did inform me that they took extra steps for posting on the site and so forth, regardless of whether it was an actual property or not. but if other colleagues want to hear from then, then we could defer. okay, all right. okay, so we will come back to this item and we will make sure that we reach out to someone from the treasurer tax collector's office to come to our meeting today for this item. madam clerk, let's call supervisor kim on item eight? okay, madam clerk, please call item number nine. item nine is a resolution to retro actively authorize the recreation and park department

supervisor safai? for item number 11.

sorry. this is the first reading of this item. just wanted to say a few words about this. supervisor peskin and i have worked on this legislation for over a year. the genesis of this, colleagues, was the general frustration that many of us have felt on this board with our interactions with sfmta. we put this legislation forward in two pieces, and i'm gonna hand it over to supervisor peskin to speak from his perspective about his approach. but essentially, when we're thinking about it, it was about an agency that was extremely, extremely large and had many different objectives that sometimes were competing objectives.

when i came on this board, there was still a lot of general frustration when it came down to the micro level and the neighborhood level issues. so that's the way i approach th this. we've been engaging for over a year. if you remember, we had a jeopardy conversation about a potential charter amendment that would have broken is sfmta into two pieces. a department of sustainable streets and a department of muni. we are accessing what supervisor peskin and others put into the charter over a decade a go.

and as i said, we have seen a change in behavior. we've seen some progress in dealing with some of these issues. there's still a way's to go. but i would say that this is a good compromised piece of legislation. and i think i've heard from many of my colleagues that you have started to see some positive steps in the right direction and gotten more response from the sfmta. so we're willing to do this on a year. we want to give this some time. but essentially, we believe that this is an opportunity for some authority to come back to this board. now, that does not mean that we will be hearing items on a weekly basis. we believe that like the conditional use authority that we have, when five members of the board sign on to a piece of legislation, that that's happened twice since i've been on the board for a year and a half. we believe that this will be used very strategically, or if at all.

but at the same time, it is something that we have access to and we do have the ability to review some decisions that will come forward. i'm gonna hand it over to my colleague, supervisor peskin, through the chair. but i know that some of this is also about the separation of powers and the division of power ins our city. so i'm gonna hand it over to my colleague from china town north beach. supervisor peskin? thank you, madam president and colleagues. first of all, i want to thank supervisor safai for having the courage and perseverance to move this forward. i also want to thank the staff and director riskin as well as the commission for working with us in a collaborative fashion and underscore what supervisor safai said, which is just the mere presence of this appeal procedure has already, i think, started to affectuate the kind of communication that many of

us felt we're lacking. it's very difficult to explain that as a result of the 2007 proposition a charter amendment, this board of supervisors has little, if any, legislative authority over the works of a $1.2 billion agency known as the sfmta. supervisor safai said a little bit about prop a. i want to actually, just for historic reminiscence, go back to 1999 when two supervisors collaborated on proposition e, which was the first real piece of charter reform since they were a property of our public utilities commission back in the day. and if you will recall, willie brown had a challenge to see

whether or not he could walk down market street faster than the j line got from the van ness station to the embarcadero station. for the first eight years that i was on the board of superviso supervisors, every red curb, blue curb, green curb, yellow curb, stop sign actually came to the land use and transportation committee for approval. when prop a came around in 2007, we gave all of that authority to the sfmta commission. and prop a actually, which i was the chief author of, included a provision that said that the board of supervisors, by ordnance, can create an appeal procedure so that legislative actions takingen by the sfmta commission could be

appealed to this board of supervisors. and indeed, i introduced some appellate legislation and the clock ran out and i actually never got it done. ten years has passed. this is narrowly tailored and narrowly crafted. as supervisor safai says, it takes five members of this board to bring an appeal. i expect that we'll use that judicially, that this is really creating a pathway for us to have healthy, robust interactions with the mta staff and the commission. and that we will not need to avail ourselves of this appellate procedure very often. and with that, i commend it to you, colleagues. and again, i want to thank supervisor safai and the committee that brought this forward. thank you for your support and committee. thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor safai?

yes, i just want to bring the attention to the board here, we have one small amendment. page 1, line 19-22. and that's the definition of a development application.

i want to thank supervisor peskin and his staff, my staff, the sfmta, at the present time city attorney gibner. i know that this was something that was on your plate along with deputy city attorney john kennedy and the sfmta staff and susan cleveland knolls. we know this was not an easy piece of legislation. but colleagues, we ask for your support. thank you. colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call?

the amendment, madam president. where's the amendment? oh, sorry. this is for another piece of legislation. no, i just read the amendment into the record. i thought they had given you a copy. it's a very small change to the definition of what a development agreement is, application. that's line 19-22. making a motion to accept that amendment. supervisor safai has made a motion to amend seconded by supervisor peskin. can we take the amendment without objection? without objection, the amendment passes. and on the item as amended, can we take that same house, same call? without objection, the ordnance -- madam president, supervisor cohen. supervisor cohen? on item no. 11 as amended, madam clerk please call the roll.

we did an increased amount of research for this year's auction based on a lot of your feedback. we really do appreciate that. it made for a much better process all around. we did what we call skip tracing in the collections world. we looked for anybody who might have some interest in these parcels. whether or not there was a recorded deed, we really expanded the search and found the widest net possible of folks that may need to be notified. and we sent certified

notification to all of those people. we also sent letters to all of the direct neighbors of each of the vacant parcels. so if there were people living anywhere directly around those vacant parcels, they receive notification. and just this morning, we began physically posting the vacant parcels. we're notifying people about the auction and what to do if they have concerns. we also sent each of you a personalized list of the parcels in your district for consideration with parcel maps and some brief descriptions of the square footage and the taxes owed. and we are having parcels redeemed every day, which means people are getting our notification, paying off their back taxes and we hope to have a very uneventful auction this year. thank you. thank you. supervisor tang? thank you, i just wanted to

thank the treasurer's office for really listening to us during that last issue that we had with the auction list. you did personally reach out to our office, sharing with us the list. we did have some very strange deliver of parcels. but i really appreciate you sharing with us everything the office has done since then. and i can see that it is going above and beyond what you did in the past, so thank you. thank you. seeing no other names on the roaster on the item. madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call]

there are 11 ayes. the resolution is adopted unanimously. all right, madam clerk. let's go to our next item where we left off. supervisor ronen? i'm very excited to be here today voting on this legislation that i introduced past october. over the past few months, my office and i have worked diligently to incorporate input from city departments, existing cultural districts, community leaders and many of you, my colleagues on the board. and thank you to the many people who have been part of the development of this legislation. what this legislation does is create an official recognition of cultural districts in san

francisco. and formalize the process for operating them. this legislation establishes cultural districts as a community stabilization tool and provides a frame work for city departments to invest resources into preserving and strengthening culturally relevant businesses, arts, festivals and affordable housing. a cultural district is an area in san francisco where certain communities have historically established themselves, have brought a rich diversity of culture, business and traditions and continue to have a significant presence today. for example, we have the latino cultural district around 24th street and the mission. and the compton's transgender district in the tenderloin. these are areas in the community that have been marginalized and oppressed. they've gone to seek refuge and establish themselves in the city. they are also neighborhoods

that make san francisco an amazing international travel destination. these enclaves prevent san francisco from becoming a cookie cutter city where every neighborhood looks and feels the same. because of the housing affordability crisis in san francisco, we're not only losing the people that make up these districts, we're losing the businesses that provide the rich cuisines and products that you can only find in those neighborhoods. we're losing the arts and culture organizations that exist for these communities to express themselves and bring vitality and art into our lives. we're even missing that place making that has made us the envy of the world. i've created this formal concept of a cultural district as a way to shift this trend. we currently have five cultural districts in the city and two cultural districts in the making. supervisor cohen is working with the community in the bayview for an african american cultural district. this legislation, just like

cultural districts themselves are a collective effort. i want to thank brian chu for helping us collaborate with many departments to strengthen the legislation. a huge thanks to the cultural district organizers who provided input and are active in protecting their vulnerable communities every day. and lastly, thank you so much to my colleagues who have co-sponsored this legislation, particularly supervisor cohen who was my lead co-sponsor from the beginning and supervisors kim, fewer, sheehy, sa fany and safai. i look forward with protecting the unique identity of san francisco. and colleagues, i just have one small amendment that i passed out to you.

i'd like to make a motion to adopt those changes. supervisor ronen has made a motion to amend. without objection, the amendment passes. supervisor kim? i also want to thank supervisor ronen's office for all of your work on this ordnance. it took almost half a year if not a little bit longer. and i'm also happy to be a co-sponsor of this ordnance. my district includes three of the cultural districts that are mentioned in this ordnance, including the lgbtq cultural districts. these cultural districts are much more than honorary. and in fact, the work that our community members are trying to take on is far more ambitious. we are trying to preserve these communities so that they can

continue to live and thrive here in san francisco. this is also to honor the history of these communities and what they have brought to this great city of san francisco. i'm fortunate to come from a district where we have a rich history of lgbtq leather transgender activism, small businesses and residents. we want to make sure these are more than just street re-namings and plaques, but that we're continuing to invest in the resident small businesses and non-profit cultural organizations. thank you to supervisor ronen and your office on working to create a formation process that is streamlined, provided a road map, but also sets out clear expectations of our departments and how we expect them to work nd