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gigi good afternoon a . >> president yee: good afternoon and welcome to the february 5, 2019 meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. let's see -- oh, i know what i want to say. [speaking foreign language] >> president yee: so happy new year, and happy year of the pig. this is for the lunar new year. madam clerk, right now, i'd like to ask everyone to join me in the pledge of allegiance. before we do that, i want to do something directly, which is to call roll. please have a seat. >> clerk: thank you. [roll call]

>> clerk: mr. president, all members are present. >> president yee: thank you very much. ladies and gentlemen, would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president yee: okay. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who record each of the meetings and make the transcript available to the public on-line. madam clerk r there any

communications? >> clerk: there are none to report, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. could we have -- colleagues, today, we are approving the minutes from the december 18, 2018 board meeting. are there any changes to these meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes at presented? motion by -- as presented? >> motion by supervisor safai and seconded by supervisor fewer. could i have a roll call. >> clerk: on the meeting minutes --

[roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. motion passes. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, could you read the consent agenda one through six. >> clerk: one through six are on the consent calendar. these items are considered to be routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the consent agenda? seeing none, madam clerk, please call the roll for items one through six. >> supervisor peskin: can we do it, same house, same call? >> president yee: better yet, motion passes for item one through six. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, let's go to the real agenda. please call the next item.

>> clerk: item seven is an ordinance to order the vacation of streets and earn easements in the runny daily hope sf project site to reserve public utility and certain easement rights on behalf of the city, to authorize the city to quitclaim its railroad in the vacation areas to housing authority and to affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call items eight through 13. >> clerk: items 8 through 13 comprise the appeal of the categorical exemption granted for the project located at 3637 through 3757 sacramento street and a conditional use appeal for the same project address. items eight through ten are specific motions for the affirmation of the department's

determination or the motion to conditionally reverse the department ease determination that the sacramento street project is categorically exempt from further environmental review, and item ten is to direct the motion of the preparation of findings. items 11 through 13 are the items specific to the conditional use authorization grants for the sacramento street project. item 11 is the motion to approve the department's decision to approve the conditional use. item 12 conditionally disapproves the condition use authorization, and item 13 is the motion to approve the conditional findings. >> president yee: okay. supervisor stefani, would you looic to share your remarks. >> supervisor stefani: yes. thank you, president yee. with regard to eights eight through ten, the ceqa -- items eight through ten, the ceqa appeal, i believe the planning department properly reviewed the project and that a class 31 exemption was appropriate in

this case. therefore, i'd like to move to affirm the determination made by the planning department that the proposed project at 3637 and 3657 sacramento street is categorically exempt from further environmental review and deny the motion in item nine. >> president yee: okay. >> supervisor peskin: i'll second. >> president yee: so we have a motion to approve items eight, and to table nine and ten. we have a second by supervisor safai. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? okay. items are approved. >> clerk: mr. president, items eight were approved, and items nine and ten were tabled. 11 and 13 are before the board.

>> president yee: okay. >> supervisor stefani: president yee, can we rerefer itemed 11, 12, and -- items 11, 12, and 13? i have a few items that i need to review with the city attorney. >> president yee: okay. there is a motion to rerefer. do i need a second for this? there's a second, supervisor ronen, so we'll refer this item to further notice. okay. let's go onto -- >> clerk: item 14? >> president yee: item 14, the next item, please. >> clerk: item 14 is an ordinance to delegate authority to the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to enter into a 20 year term grant agreement for the city's infrastructure green program subject to a july 1, 2020 sunset date. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, is there a speaker -- yes, supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: that was for the last item.

>> president yee: sorry about that. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 14 is an item to appropriate $1 million to 2006 and 2007 nonbond reserves to the rossi pool project and to reprop that amount to the golden gate park golf course clubhouse project in fiscal year 2018 through 19. >> president yee: colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 16 is a resolution to retroactively authorize the department of public health behavioral health services to enter into a multiyear amendment for an incident governmental

agreementor substance use disorder services with the state department of health care services for approximately 145 million for the retroactive term of june 30, 2017 to june 30, 2018, and to execute the agreement and to approve amounts for less than 10% of the contracted amount. >> president yee: okay. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you, president yee and colleagues. as you know, i am on a terror on retroactivity, so i would like to hear from the department a story that has a reasonable beginning, middle, and end as to why this is retroactive. >> president yee: is there a representative from the department? why don't we continue this item to -- further down the agenda -- the meeting.

do we need a motion for that? we don't. okay. okay. thank you. let's go to item numbers 17 and 18. >> clerk: items 17 and 18 are two resolutions to approve two emergency declarations from the san francisco public utilities commission. item 17 repairs the southeast treatment plant final he flunt forced main for a total -- effluent forced main, and item 18 repairs the toting treatment ducts. >> president yee: supervisor peskin -- i have a comment? >> supervisor peskin: yeah. i hate to be the good government nerd, but somebody has to do it. so when is an emergency an emergency? there are emergencies that happen, like, at moccasin dam.

that is a true emergency. but when you know you have ageing infrastructure, and the department in this case invoked admin code six, which is the emergency works and repairs contract provision, and article 21 with the emergency procurement provisions of our administrative code, and there was every bit of evidence that everybody knew that this was ageing infrastructure, i do not deny that we need to do the repairs, but i would -- i want to get the sfpuc on the straight and narrow, and if i could ask mr. scarpulla, who i warned i was going to ask to bring up to speak to this, because the next item is also an emergency declaration from the same agency. so mr. scarpulla through the president, if you'd be willing to speak to that. and of course, you're going to be on the hot seat for item 19,

as well. >> good afternoon, supervisors. john sparpulla with sfpuc. so the water infrastructure is ageing. it's reaching the end of its useful life, which is why we have the infrastructure repair program. it is correct that a lot of this infrastructure is reaching the end of its useful life cycle. this item is an out fall that we're planning to do a major project to. it's in a sensitive environment which means we have to work with the army corps of engineers, state water resources control board, e.p.a. and a whole host of other agencies to complete this project. unfortunately, this failure, this crack happened before we could finish the design for that project. so that project is happening. it's a bigger fix.

we cannot, though, not fix this crack prior to completing the large project, so we implemented the emergency declaration, got out there and started doing the work to ensure this didn't result in a complete break of the pipe which would have been even worse to have a three-foot sewer broken into a creek that the public can access and also have potential serious regulatory engagement based on that. >> president yee: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: well, when you call the next item, i'd like to hear the story on the next item. >> sounds good. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take these two items, same house, same call? without objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 19 is a resolution to retroactively approve a contract agreement with southern california edison company for supplies of renewable energy for cleanpowersf for a contract

term of one year from january 1, 2019 through december 31, 2019 in an amount not to exceed 24 million. >> president yee: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: so different nerdly issue. this is -- nerdy issue. this is retroactivity. and i'm doing this because this is a new board, and new boards start slipping. when they learn we've got to hold them all accountable, they start to do it right. so mr. scarpulla, what is your story with relation to retroactive to this matter. and what is going on with this matter, and when are you going to stop? >> good afternoon, supervisors. john scarpulla. this one is a renewal with edison for our clean power roll out. this is when we plan to complete city enrollment of

cleanpowersf customers, which is pretty exciting. our commission approved us to move forward on december 15. edison said that if we did not lock in the contract for this large amount of power, 300,000 megawatts worth of energy in january, then they could not guarantee this energy would be available in our april enrollment. our goal is to not come back to you with any other retroactive approvals. supervisor peskin provided good guidance on how that can not happen, so laying out the plan readings, the power mark is a little finicky because you have to move quickly to secure power. so i'm excited to meet with our city attorney on friday and the director of our cleanpowersf program -- we cannot come back with more of those retroactive contracts, so what's the best

way to do it such as early readings. so that's the reason, and we do not plan to come back. >> through the president to mr. scarpulla and the sfpuc, i appreciate that. the reason i bring this up, i don't want this elected body to be a rubber stamp. i don't want departments to think they can enter into these contracts and then couple and ask the board for permission or forgiveness after the act. so that's -- i'm not picking on the p.u.c. we've got a few more of these coming up for different agencies, but this is a fundamental charter power that's delegated on this body. so i appreciate that, and there are extraordinary circumstances where retroactivity and emergency declarations make sense. i just don't want that to be commonplace, and i want all of the departments to understand that. so that's what this exercise is about, and thank you. >> understood. thank you, sir.

>> president yee: all right. thank you, supervisor peskin, for your nerdy questions. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call items -- [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, please call items 20 through 29. >> clerk: items 20 through 29 are being called together. the first bundle are items 20 through 22. here are three resolutions to approve leases with the san francisco international airport with the same vendor, inmotion entertainment group, l.l.c. item 20 approved the terminal one concession retile lease for a ten year term and first year minimum annual guarantee of 405,000. item 2 approves the electronic store lease in terminals e and d for a first year term and mag of 324,000.

item 23 is a resolution to retroactively approve the first modification to a lease between the united states government and the city for space occupied by the united states federal bureau of investigation at the international terminal to extend the term for up to three years and increase for an annual rent to approximately 615,000. second bundle is items 24 through 29. here are six resolutions that approval leases with the san francisco international airport and the following vendors. for item 24, this item is proves the terminal retain concession lease number four between l' occitane with two one-year options to extend and the first-year minimum annual guarantee or a mag of 135,000. item 25 approved terminal

boarding area e and international terminal boarding area g for a ten-year term and a first-year mag of 250,000. item 26 approves a terminal one retail concession less number five between marshall retail group, l.l.c. and the city for a ten-year term and a first-year mag of 440,000. item 27 approves the terminal one retail concession lease number seven between skyline concessions, inc, and the city for a seven year and two one-year options to extend with a first-year mag of 220,000. item 28 approves the retail terminal less concession between raca, inc and the city for a ten year term with two one-year options to extend and a first-year mag of 125,000.

>> president yee: okay. thank you. does any supervisor want to sever any of these items? supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: 23. >> president yee: 23? supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i was going to ask for the same one, 23. >> president yee: 23. >> supervisor safai: yeah. >> president yee: okay. madam clerk, could i take items 20 through 29, except for 23, same house, same call. without objection, then, these items pass -- are adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you chair -- president yee. this has nothing to do with the fact that this happens to be a lease to the federal bureau of investigation, which i have mixed feelings about.

i remember mr. mueller when he ran the fbi in town, he did a bang-up job. this is actually the same as the previous issue, this resolution is retroactive, and i wanted to give the port -- sorry, the airport the opportunity to speak to why it is retroactive and see whether they have a story that has a good beginning, middle, and an end. >> president yee: is there a rep from the airport? yes. come on up. >> good afternoon. kathy widener with the san francisco international airport through the president to supervisor peskin. the lease with the fbi at the airport does require retroactivity to january 4 of 2019. while the lease was approved at our commission in november, staff experienced a delay in getting the required signature on the lease from the federal general services administration that administers all federal agency leases and putting us in the position where we ended up submitting the item to the

clerk during the winter recess. so it's not something we ever plan on, and we try and avoid. it's not part of our practice to come to you and seeking retroactivity. >> president yee: supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: and supervisor yee, colleagues, i want to say, no disrespect to the sfpuc, the airport is actually much better at not bringing retroactive instruments than other enterprise agencies and other general fund departments. so i do want to acknowledge that and thank you, miss widener, for your candid answer. >> president yee: supervisor satis safai? >> supervisor safai: yeah. just didn't have the pleasure of sitting in the budget committee, but just wanted to ask a couple of things about how long the fbi's been out of the airport. and then, the second question was, i noticed as part of the lease that you offer free eight parking spots, and it was counter to our transit first

policy of the city. every member here has to pay for parking. almost everybody in the city has to pay for parking, so i'm just wondering why that's included in your normal negotiations. i understand that it would make sense under previous circumstances, we would aunt to encourage in and out parking, but why is it not included in some form of compensation to the city and county, through the chair. >> through the president, supervisor safai, as far as i know, the fbi has been at the airport for more than -- a long time. i don't have the exact date of when they started having a presence there. i would be happy to follow up from you -- with you on that. in terms of the parking, again, the general services administration has a policy against paying for parking outside of rent for federal agencies. we have experienced this before. we try and capture some of that cost in the formulation that

determines their -- what they pay per square foot, but they are not allowed to pay for parking on top of their rental payments. >> president yee: supervisor? >> supervisor safai: that -- that pretty much answers any question. i think, though, that we should figure out a way to have some -- if you're capturing the cost and the lease, and you're not allowed to -- don't we have the ability to craft the leases based on the policies that we have in the city? so i could figure out another way to have that compensation captured. >> i can look into that and ask our city attorneys to help us with that. >> >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. colleagues, can we take item 23, same house, same call? without objection, then, this resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, can we call item number 30. >> clerk: item 30 is a resolution to authorize the execution and delivery of a

multifamily housing revenue house in an amount not to exceed approximately 62.1 million to provide financing for the construction of a 143-unit multieye family rental housing project known as 1990 folsom. >> president yee: okay. supervisors safai? >> supervisor safai: oh, no, sorry about that. >> president yee: okay. i don't see anybody wanting to speak. colleagues, can we take this same house, same call? without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, can you please call the next item. [gavel]. >> clerk: item 31 was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee. the resolution to approve a vertical disposition and development agreement between the port and a joint venture between t.m.g. partners and presidio bay ventures for the sale of parcel k north located

at illinois street by the port commission and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> president yee: okay. nobody on the roster, so is there a motion to adopt this resolution as -- i'm sorry, can we take this same house, same call? okay. without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. [gavel]. >> president yee: madam clerk, could we have item -- >> clerk: 32. >> president yee: 32. >> clerk: i'd 31 is an ordinance to amend the public works code to allow five members ber of the board of supervisors to schedule an administrative hearing before the board regarding potential revocation of a major encroachment permit when the director of public works has not taken stepped to timely schedule or issue a hearing regarding the revocation and to affirm the ceqa determination. >> president yee: colleagues,

can we take this roll call on this item, or can we just take this same house -- >> clerk: same house, same call. >> president yee: okay. same house, same call. without objection, this item passes first reading unanimously. madam clerk, call the next item. [please stand by]

>> in order to help horace mann

k. through eight school in the mission create the first ever school-based stay over program for the housing secure -- housing secure students and families pick the school principal is also here, who had the original vision for this program over a year ago, as a way to provide temporary sanctuary for homeless and housing and secure families at the school who did not have a secure place to sleep at night. at the time, after she had approached us, i approached then school board commissioner scott schumann walton and matt haney, two partnered together to make this happen -- to partner together to make this happen pick up the time, one of the key tasks to make it possible for families to be able to stay over the school -- at the school over night was to renovate the bathrooms, make them handicap accessible, put showers in so

that families could use them when they needed them, and we didn't have funds for that project acts of the first person that we thought of to help us brainstorming how we were going to make this happen without any funds was one of our true guardian angels of the city and county of san francisco, and one of the kindest and most caring and creative individuals that i know, supervisor devon dusty, and he had the brilliant idea of connecting us with david turton, who i met for the first time on this project. david leads the san francisco office of jones lang, one of the premier commercial development consultants in the world, and david is also the recent president of the alumni, and has a deep, deep personal and long-term commitment to addressing the plight of homeless students. he immediately agreed to get on board. and then devon said, but you

also cannot do this without the brilliant and talented and, and brought her into the project. she is one of the great commission leaders and activists. she is also a brilliant architect who helps design the mission campus for city college, as well as the renovation of the ferry building. with this dynamic trio, we got all of the needed improvements taken care of, and pretty much did it and ripped -- record time, given san francisco's slow pace of getting anything of this size done. david also engaged a number of contractors to help with the shower construction, and in -- and the design associates. they designed all the needed changes and managed hundreds of logistical details. devon kept us all in the loop throughout the process, and was really the project cheerleader,

kind of giving us the buzz behind the scenes that we needed to make this happen, and we also wanted to really send a shout out and thank all the pro bono contractors who worked on this under the leadership of this team. there are so many people to thank. this really was a herculean effort of so many people who care so deeply about our students in this city, and making sure they have a safe place to sleep at night. thank you so, so much for your dedication to those that are facing homelessness at the moment. we cannot thank you enough. before i turn it over to you, i

wanted to give supervisors walton and haney a opportunity to see things as well. >> thank you supervisor ronen. i definitely want to start off by saying that this is a real innovative solution to a major problem that exists in the city. we talk about combating homelessness, and having a school principal step up and offer a school site to provide overnight sleep services for our family use is very important. we talk about how we can address the homeless issues that address in our city, and opening up a school, nothing like this has been done before, so i just want to honor claudia, the principal at the school, and also supervisor ronen for her leadership, but i do want to say that i want to thank the district for commissioner haney, and all of our commissioners on

the board of education who pushed very hard to make this a reality along with the leadership at the school. i really see this as a model that can work to help us try to end homelessness for our students and our families in the city. and so that is something i see that will be important for the future, and i do want to thank our honourees today for stepping up and really working swiftly to give us what we needed to make sure that the work that needed to happen at the school happened, so i'm excited to see you here with the overlap of the work in the district, and now being here on the board of supervisors to see it all coming to fruition. it would not have happened without your support and your work. i want to thank the three of you and i'm honored to be here as we have this commendation. >> okay. go ahead. >> i. don't have a whole lot to add to that. i want to say thank you to the three of you.

supervisor ronen said it took an old -- all-star team to make something that most people and most cities would have thought would have been impossible, and to have a solution to what is our most endemic and urgent challenge that we have is a city, especially when it impacts families, and to say, well, we have space, we have schools, can be used that? and to have that creative thinking, and have the community come together, and the school leadership said, yes, we want this, this will help our families, and to have the families come along and be supportive of that, and for the school district and the city, this wouldn't have happened without supervisor ronen and carolyn, and your entire team, and how you brought us all together. it was an incredible reflection of what we can do when we don't just accept the restrictions or

the boundaries that often determine what is possible. thank you for coming together and being part of it. thank you commissioner and now supervisor walton. people say that we are school board members, it is because of the amazing work that we were able to do when we work together. congratulations. [applause] >> i want to thank you, supervisor ronen, and supervisor -- i'm going to forget everybody's names, supervisor walton and haney. if it hadn't been for the 25 years of working with a repeat client like san francisco unified school district, i don't think we would be here. i knew how to pull the project together, and i think that devon owes me his firstborn. [laughter]

>> i want to also think don, nathan, for their ability to pull things together. part of this, i've had a working relationship with san francisco school district for over 25 years. i've been a business in san francisco for over 25 years, almost a legacy business, and it is my office of commitment to reinvesting community, but there's long-standing relationships that i've had in working in my field, such as my good friend antonio from ruiz construction, and angelo. we have worked together for a long time. this is a really important job to come to the assistance of the supervisor to address the needs of the homeless families and district nine.

the gentrification is causing havoc in the district, and the continued high density market rate housing, which i called density dumping in the mission. it has decreased latino populations from 78%, to currently, 48% in the last ten years. this is why i urge all the supervisors to look on the west side of the city to do more high density housing, rather than dumping it in the red line in districts that stretch from the bayview to chinatown. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. i am a native san franciscan. i want to thank supervisor ronen and her staff, and the leadership and the great team we have assembled. a very brief comment, we were

honored to help. i can't imagine a more vulnerable and needy group of people than homeless families in san francisco. it was easy to get people together to get this job done, and we are thrilled to be here. i want to say thank you for the opportunity. [applause]

[laughter] >> madam clerk? >> okay, let's continue. madam clerk, can you bring back

item number 11 through 13? >> items 11 through 13, pertain to the conditional use authorization for 3637 through 3637 sacramento street. >> okay. supervisor stefani, would you like to make some comments? >> yes, thank you president he. i would like to continue this item for one week. the project sponsor and the appellants are in favor of that continuance, and i believe we are within our timeframe. the deputy city attorney is shaking his head yes, so if we can, i would like to continue these three items to the next board meeting next week. >> there is a motion made by supervisor stefani, and seconded by supervisor peskin to continue this item until the next meeting next week. >> february 12th. >> february 12th. rollcall, please. [roll call]

>> mr president, there are ten aye. >> so the motion passes. madam clerk, please call items 34 through 36. >> thirty-four through 30 -- 36 are three motions that appoint supervisor matt haney to the following three bodies. item 34, to the association of bay area governments executive board term ending june 30th, 2020, for the transbay joint

powers authority for an indefinite term, and for item 36, to the san francisco local agency formation commission, term ending february 4th, 2022. >> okay, colleagues can we have a motion to excuse supervisor haney? >> so moved. >> motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor his safai okay. there is a motion to excuse supervisor haney. can we take this same house same call? motion passes unanimously. madam clerk, can you recall 34 through 36? >> items 34 through 36. >> yes. >> item 34 through 36,. [roll call]

. >> you are not permitted to be in here. [roll call] >> there are ten aye. >> thank you. this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 37 is a motion to appoint supervisor catherine stefani as an alternate member to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission for an indefinite term. >> colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani? motion made by supervisor brown and seconded by supervisor fewer

please call rollcall on this item. >> you have excused supervisor stefani, mr president, on a motion made by supervisor and fewer without objection? >> without objection, the motion passes. supervisor peskin? >> on this item, in order for supervisor stefani to attend the bcdc meeting on the seventh, you will need to convey that to bcdc today or tomorrow. >> stuff are prepared to do that. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> okay. rollcall, please. [roll call]

>> there are ten aye. >> thank you. without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> on item 38, this is a motion to appoint supervisor walton to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district, board of directors for a term ending january 31st, 2021. >> okay. colleagues, can we make a motion to excuse supervisor walton? motion made by supervisor brown, seconded by supervisor safai.

without objection, supervisor walton is excused. madam clerk, please call role on this item. [roll call] >> there are ten aye. >> thank you. without objection, the motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> item 39 is a motion to appoint supervisor gordon moore to the san francisco local agency formation commission, term ending february 4th, 2022 >> can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar? made by supervisor peskin and made by supervisor ronen. motion to excuse supervisor mar,

can we take this without objection? supervisor mar is excused. madam clerk, roll call on this item. [roll call] >> there are ten aye. >> without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. please call the next item. >> item 40 is a motion to make the following appointments to the shelter monitoring committee terms ending january 1st, 2020, and terms ending generally

first, 2021. >> madam clerk, please call role on this item. [roll call] >> there are 11 aye. >> this motion is approved unanimously. so, what time is it? 252 p.m. >> mr president? can we go back to item 16? >> i see that the rib representative from a bh is here

would you like to come up to the podium? supervisor peskin? >> through the president to the representative of the department of public health, i don't know -- i assume you've been informed about the questions i asked with regard to item 16, relative to retroactivity, but if not, i'm happy to restate them >> i can explain why it's retroactive. >> can you say your name for the record through the president? >> my name is laurel sneed, i'm an analyst at d.p.h. so this is an amendment , but adding additional funding to an already executed contract that is a multiyear contract that

started in 2017, so they are adding additional funds this year, sorry, i'm a little bit nervous, adding more for a dip -- administrative functions that we already have to do. they are giving us a way to be reimbursed for it to. since a contract is multiyear, it becomes retroactive, even though the changes only for this year. week we received the contract from the state on october 22nd , and beebe again -- began the legislative process at that time. >> supervisor peskin? >> would your colleague like to add anything to that? i see there are two of you. >> i'm director of the health services. regarding the contract, i think laurel answered the contract was already retroactive.

is there something about the services i can answer, or any other question? >> no, this is really solely and absolutely about why this is a retroactive approval. >> this is the way of the contract comes to us from the state to, and the timeline that they sent to us is based on the timeline that we are participating in. so that is usually how it is structured, this is like any county participating in this. it is nothing unique that we are experiencing. the occasion that this stayed many times does though she wanted it to be retroactive because they are structured. even though it is not to be operationalized on the county level. >> mr president, colleagues, with all due respect to the

individuals here from the department of public health, and i'm not in any way trying to be mean-spirited, this is not a story that has a beginning, middle, or an end that makes any sense to me. i'm happy to have more information respectfully, the department of public health is a two billion dollar a year organization, and i realize you have a new leader at the top, and i would like dr koufax to succeed. insofar as you are asking for a rubber stamp of approval of a retroactive agreement that you've already basically said yes to, i don't think there is any injury that will happen to you if we continue this item, so that we can actually get to the bottom of why and how this is happening.

it's very -- you are the third agency today that we have interviewed about this, and it occurs to me that all 11 members of this body no that when we want to deal with a legislative matter at the airport, there is one legislative liaison to the lawmaking body, the legislative branch of government. we all know who that is. when we have the same issue at the s.f. p.u.c., we all know that we are going to call him. i cannot, for the life of me, was has been a supervisor on and off the board for twenty years, know who your legislative liaison -- are not saying this to you as individuals, i'm saying this to you as an organization that has ten thousand employees, to hospitals, at a two billion dollar budget, i could not -- i don't think any of my colleagues, correct me if i'm wrong, you can tell the . person is for -- and i don't like to

create new positions in government, but you might need one. generally when i see something like this, as i did today, i will have questions for you at the board of supervisors. today i called next i have questions for you. i don't like to blindside people. i don't know who to call in your department. that is not a good thing. maybe we can continue this item for a week, get some good answers and on the record next week. i would like to make a motion to continue this one week. i don't think there is any harm. >> there is a motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen to continue this item for one week to our next meeting of the twelfth. can we take this -- supervisor mandelman? >> thank you. is there any harm in waiting a week?

>> they already have the money. >> we don't already have the money. so this is a routine agreement with the county, and the department of public health that's been going on in one form or another for the last thirty five years, and this is the standard away that the state handles this contract, so we haven't had a problem with this issue up until this . there isn't an urgent need to get it through now. is a routine contract. this is something that happens quite often. because they are the ones calling the shots on the contract. this is their standard way of

doing business. unfortunately, we don't have a lot of control over it. >> okay. your answer is we would not have any harm if we were to hold this over for one week. >> it's fine. >> okay. >> hold on a second. mr president, supervisor mandelman, what is before us says that you have entered into the agreement. is that true or untrue? >> with the board of supervisors approval, we did enter into the agreement when it first began, and this is an amendment to the agreement, the second amendment, where they are encumbering additional funds for this year. [please stand by]