and direct the client placement and we would need real estate expertise. it is a priority for me in the budget process. since i didn't see that in the bla report i wanted that on the record so it is included in the resolutions we pass subsequently. i have talked to the chair fewer and president yee about my desire to expand the model looking at potential legislation as well-to-do that, working with chair fewer so i just want that on the record to make sure that while we are looking to expand models we expand the models that work and that we get that in this year's budget. thank you very much. i also have spoken to the mayor

about my desire to have the residences in my neighborhood. have seniors mentally ill who will need supportive care. this is exactly the type of housing that will fit in my neighborhood to serve the homeless population in my neighborhood. i think i have many single family homes i hope we can buy for this purpose and i think this is a good investment. i think is outcomes are much better. i concur and have spoken to the mayor about this for my own district. i am glad we are on the sage page -- same page and supervisor yee is in favor of the model also. i want to thank everyone for coming and staying late. sorry this went so long. we learned a lot. i would like to make a motion to

continue this motion to the call of the chair. seeing no comments i would like to continue to the call of the chair. thank you very familiar. any other issues before us today? >> no, madam chair. >> thank you very much. this meeting is adjourned. .

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the meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday, may 2nd meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. i'm gordon mar, the chair of the committee and i'm joined by vallie brown and aaron peskin. i'd like to thank corwin sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements?

>> clerk: please ensure you silenced your cell phones and other devices. speaker cards should be submit issed to the clerk. items acted upon will be on the may 14th board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor mar: number one? >> clerk: resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to establish a property-based business improvement district known as the downtown community. ordering and setting a time and place for public hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of whole on july 16, at 3:00 p.m. approving the form of the notice of public hearing and assessment ballot proceeding. directing environmental findings and directing the board to give notice as required. >> supervisor mar: i'd like to recognize helen mar and andrew from the office of economic

development for a brief presentation. >> thank you, good morning. helen mar, project manager with workforce development. i work on the team that provides oversight to the cbds in the city. i'm here to present on the resolution. this project has been a multiyear process with initial formation dating back to 2007. the original cbd was stopped by the recession of 2008. the steering committee came together and decided to reinitiate a campaign. the expanded cbd steering committee worked to determine the appropriate services to deliver and the appropriate assessments for the services. this was done through considerable outreach, including a survey to all property owners and stakeholders in the area. this outreach guided the

creation of the formation documents attached to this resolution and call for assessment of 10 cents per building square foot and 8 cents for vacant lots. the service areas which the cbd consultant will present in greater detail on sidewalks, management, which is 77.45% of the budget, district identity, marketing and public space development and management. 5.16% of the budget. program management approximately 14.2% of the budget. and contingency, 3.19% of the budget. the total district budget will be approximately $4 million with approximately $3.8 million by special assessment dollars. the district encompasses 669 parcels and their services will benefit property owners, business owners, residents and the area as a whole.

the downtown cbd has reached their 30% threshold necessary to trigger a special election and the cbd will have 15-year term from january 1, 2020 through to december 31, 2034. if there are no questions from staff, i would like to invite marco to present. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisors. supervisor peskin, i hope you're doing well today. always a pleasure to see you. supervisor peskin and i have been doing this for 15 years now, been through a lot together. i'm going to go through the power point presentation. will it show up here, helen? just to give you an overview.

as stated, we had started this -- am i doing something wrong here? so, this shows the activities or milestones we're working on. the background on the financial district as helen mentioned, we started this effort back in 2007-08. and because we knew that was the financial district is really, as far as -- i work throughout the state, so i -- really throughout the country, this is most significant business district in the entire west coast. it's one of the greatest ones, great density. and we started the effort in 2007. as you all know in the fall of 2008, everything collapsed. the effort to try to get to the

petition drive through our old efforts just stopped completely. so what we decided to do was go on hiatus. april 2016, we began to discuss it again with a few people as led by clint reilly, myself, jim lazarus of the chamber and commerce and we wanted to figure out was there support to do this. so we had the first meeting of the property owners in june 2017. we sent out a survey to property owners in august 2017. the petition threshold was reached december 2017. and now we're moving forward -- excuse me, the survey petition threshold. the survey has to demonstrate to the mayor's office that there is support enough to go to the management phase. we wrote the management plan in march 2018 and cbd petitions were mailed out -- we met the

threshold -- i'm having problems with this thing, helen, so... we sent out a news letter to all the property owners in april 2018. threshold was met in march 2019. presentation to the board of supervisors is today. the resolution is anticipated for june 2019. public hearing july 16. the new nonprofit corporation managing the district will be formed between august and september. and the contract with the mayor's office in probability october 2019. first transfer assessments this december and the cbd services will begin early 2019. you might want to just stay here. what we have here is the times that we met. we had incredible participation. we've done nine districts.

my company has in the city of san francisco. the one that had the most participation before this was tenderloin. i did that in 2005. this one had has had 30 to 50 people talking about this plan. this is the survey results. you can see when we do a survey, we list what the properties are, supportive are green, red are people opposed. yellow are people stated no opinion. and based upon this, we met our threshold of properties. the survey demonstrated that the biggest services that people really wanted to fund -- because the cbd really is just a financing mechanism. and it's supposed to fund only special benefits. so is marketing promoting the

area to create new demand. rincon, union square, everything surrounding the district was marketing and promoting it. if you google financial district, there is really nothing there. we decided as part of the survey, because we had property managers that represented jackson square, that they wanted jackson square included too. but it alone would not generate the revenues to make an impact. we mixed jackson square in the financial district. providing daily maintenance and cleaning services in the public rights of way, where the city and count are currently providing, including traffic control officers provided over and above those provided by the mta. one of the greatest problems is trying to cross market street from 4:00 to 6:00 to get to the 880 or the 80. we know that everybody commented

that when the super bowl was here, it was easy to get across market street, because there were officers at each intersection. we want to figure out if there is a way to do that with mta also. not managed by signals, because if you know the area, it backs up heavily going southbound on the north side of market. so one thing that everyone was adamant, we need to have people get out of the financial district so they can be just as competitive as the people in soma or the greater rincon district. connecting people to resources. that is something that i think every cbd is trying do. securing safe passage of employers. re-branding the historic nature of the cbd to remain competitive with the massive development south of market. and retaining staff to oversee new services and ensure effective practices are being

deployed. so the final map now that we agreed to was, one, we made an adjustment for chinatown. supervisor peskin, as you recall, we put the boundary around there. we also have, it looks like a missing tooth on the south side of market. that's the federal reserve building because we knew it would be difficult for them to pay into the district and we want didn't to -- didn't want to provide services if they weren't paying in the district. this does not include the embarcadero center. there is interest in having it expand to the ferry building and other places in the portside, however, we figured that could be phase two and possible expansion in the future. on the west side it runs parallel to union scare. on the south side, it's a jagged edge, which is where the rincon is. we tried to fill in all the gaps. the budget, as helen mentioned,

we call them civic sidewalks and mobility management and that's where we would be working with mta to facilitate the traffic flow north and south of market street. it's about $3 million. it's over 77% of the budget. district identity which is promoting the district, creating a website, social media, trying to develop public spaces, et cetera, is around 5% of the budget. program management is about 14% of the budget and that is doing the multitude of tasks that are necessary to oversee the 82% of the special benefit services and then we have a contingency of 3% budget, giving us 3.8 almost $3.9 million. the civic sidewalks and mobility management, the services that are included, and they could shift from year to year, hiring employees or service providers to perform regular sidewalk and

gutter sweeping, removing trash overflow from current reaccept receptacles. and hiring nonprofit or private case workers to connect homeless individuals with necessary resources and services. continuing in the civic sidewalk, because this is over three quarters of the budget. considered live well live safe program that will benefit those who access the public rights of way. the whole point is to try to make the curb to the property line as enjoyable as possible. whether you're going from bart to the building, all the way to jackson square, or just trying to make it so it's attractive. and it's in everybody's best interest to enjoy the public rights of way. news racks, remove or consolidate. most of them are empty. advocacy for increased resources

to improve traffic management. and then traffic and mobility efforts to share parking, possibly valet program and curb cuts. district identity has to do with branding the financial district in jackson square. and finding a website, development and updating it. funding an app to help people get around the financial and jackson square. management and coordination of social events. hiring a pr firm. installation of holiday decorations. creating a banner program to tie the district together. planning of art displays. funding logo development. funding local space design and improvements and creating programs that fund business attraction workshops and fairs to ensure that owners have a good inventory of prospective tenants to choose from.

program management is basically staffing. it's paying for staff. it's advocacy for the improved traffic management, office related expenses, financial reporting. legal work and relation with the other cbds in the city. so that is the overview of what the intent of the financial district or the downtown cbd is. and we would just encourage the committee to move this forward so we can do our -- this has been 12 years in the making, so we'd finally like to see it happen at the beginning of 2020. and i'm available for any questions that the committee members might have, but there are some other speakers too. i can take a seat or should i answer questions. okay. >> supervisor mar: thank you. and ms. mar for the presentation and the good work. colleagues, any questions?

>> supervisor peskin: no, this thing has been kicking around since the first time i was on the board of supervisors and happy to have lived long enough to hopefully see it come to fruition. >> supervisor mar: why don't we move to public comment. i have speaker cards. you can line up on the right-hand side and speak. you have two minutes for public comment. >> good morning, on behalf of the realtry trust. we represent the 555 block of california street and they're expressing their support, to put it mildly, they're behind this. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is sheyna. i work for all house, i'm a

property manager and i just want to say i fully support this. i've been involved with the group for the last couple of years and i really hope we can move forward. thank you. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning, i represent cbre downtown and i was involved with the uptown district in oakland when was kick started on the board there, and i'm looking forward to having the same success here in the financial district. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> morning. thank you for having us today. my name is frank holland, clint reilly organization. we have a number of buildings in the financial district and in jackson square primarily historic buildings around the california street and montgomery intersection. and this has been a long time coming. before i begin, i have a short statement, but i would like to thank city staff for all of their help, particularly chris,

who isn't here today, but really did a phenomenal job of guiding us through the process and thanks to marco as well. you know, since 2004 when the city augmented the improvement district law with article 15 of the business tax regulations code, we've seen this flourishing of the districts throughout the city and they've done innovative things in helping increase the vibrancy of the neighborhood. as so many other neighborhoods have seized opportunities afforded by this structure to partner with the city on behalf of cleaner streets, public art, place making activities, public safety, the financial district -- which historically has been the heart of the city dating back to the gold rush -- has failed to do so. so our project to bring the cbd,

which as supervisor peskin mentioned, dates back to over a decade. it's nearly complete and we need it now more than ever before. the city has evolved dramatically over the past decade. more challenges than ever confront us and this allows an opportunity to be proactive, coordinate with the city and address them. we've worked hard to the steering committee over the past two years to develop a thoughtful effective management plan that will administer the revenues. on behalf of the neighborhood and partnering with the city -- [bell ringing]. >> supervisor mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> i agree with everything you're doing and i would like to see it in granite by the board of supervisors here. but also, i'd like to see you

expand and take it a step further than what you're doing. with this type of budget, $3,873,491, you could build 144 units of apartment building complex for $56 million. i'd like to see you help take care of the homeless problem by means of building and investing and building a brand new apartment building complex to help the most vulnerable people in the city that need housing. there is also a 68-unit building being built for $57 million. i'd like to see you get involved in building apartment building complex of that magnitude, too. that don't mean for people to get these types of buildings and price-fix them and make it in order for the tenant to be

eligible claim as affordable housing and then do price gouging and price fixing and making the eligibility for the tenants to have income of 80, 90, $120,000 a year like mission rock. there is going to be bad consequences behind that, because that it is price fixing and price gouging. you have rules in the mission rock instruction packet that says 15% of those apartments are supposed to be for low-income bracket people. it's 1500 units in that building and that rule 410.2 says part of that construction and redevelopment of that land is supposed to have low-income bracket tenants. that means 225 of those units -- [bell ringing] >> supervisor mar: thank you.

any other persons who wish to testify? seeing none, public comment is closed. colleagues, can we recommend this item to the full board without objection? >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> supervisor mar: great. mr. clerk, can you please call item number 2. >> hearing to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the retroactive nature of the board of supervisors approval of the grant agreement between the city and county of san francisco and the tenderloin housing clinic and review of the agreement. review of other contracts to which the city and county. in spite of the lease limitations set forth in section 9.118. >> supervisor mar: i would like to pass it off to supervisor peskin, who is the chief sponsor

of this hearing. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, as stated in the request back in january, it came to the board's attention that one particular contract had been approved three times in violation of section 9.118 of the charter, which is a responsibility that i take and i know we all take seriously. i'll just read the most important part of 9.118, which is subsection b, which says unless otherwise provide for in this charter and with the exception of construction contracts entered into by the city and county, any other contracts or agreements entered into by department, board or commission, having a term in excess of 10 years or expenditures of $10 million or the modification of amendments to the contract or agreement having impact of more than half a million dollars, shall be subject to approval by the board of supervisors. and in this instance, that did

not happen. and so subsequently representatives from the human services agency explained how that happened. and identified one subsequent contract, the meals on wheels contract, which we retroactively approved. i think mr. roar and his department have scoured all of their contracts and found that these two probably due to a change in personnel at a particular juncture, have now been addressed. when i did this hearing request, i asked every department in city government to scour their records. and none of them have come forward to say that they have approved any contract in violation of section 9.118. so i'm -- this is going to be a very quick two-minute hearing. i wanted mr. roar to come down and say it again for the record.

and i want every other department to be sure that they follow 9.118 and bring any contract before it is entered into that is in excess of $10 million or 10 years to the board of supervisors for its review and approval or not approval. with that, i just want to turn it over to trent to say a few words and then we can file this item. >> supervisor, trent roar, human services agency, as supervisor peskin noted after discovering the contract in question, housing clinic contract, we did scour all of our -- probably close to 200 contracts we have entered into with the community based organizations or for-profit entities through department of aging and department of human services, which as you know, the three departments that comprise the human services agency. we found one additional meals on wheels that we brought forward.

i think what was important about the process, we saw gaps in our system of contract processing from procurement to approval and have since developed 15 differently measures to ensure we're following the proper protocols to ensure that we don't make this mistake again. and i'm pretty confident that is going to be the case. >> supervisor peskin: you might want to circulate that to the other 52 department heads so they can learn from your wisdom. >> sure. >> supervisor mar: thank you. any questions? before we move to the motion that supervisor peskin made, we'll take public comment. so you have two minutes to speak. please speak into the mic. >> this goes and flows with the earlier demonstration. not only is this type of contract that was conducted by

him, the same type of breach of contract took place at mission rock. now you got the giants caught up in it. they're laughing when i make that demonstration, but when i get you in front of a federal district court judge, the giants will be the first team to have a lawsuit filed against them. you're not following the rules in the instruction and that big bank of information pertaining to mission rock. i flashed that page and showed it to all of you, including you, bre, when you were president. that's are supposed to be for low-income bracket people. you further demonstrate you're not dealing with good faith. by the same response, you never had intentions of reaching a legal agreement on this matter, because you take a female that is hispanic, latino, mexican

descent be your pitch person on tv commercials pertaining to proposition d and have her explain she would love to be a tenant at mission rock. and then you have her daughter parade around with balloons and act like they're going to be eligible to live in that mission rock apartment building complex. then you take it a step further by having the female school teach say she would love to be a tenant. the female i spoke about is living in a boarding home. and the teacher doesn't have a high enough income to live in that mission rock apartment building complex. and you know that as a fact. and then you turn around and claim low federal tax credit as if you're putting low-income bracket people in the building, but when you read the fine print, the lowest income is higher than all of the people on the low-income -- [bell ringing]

>> supervisor mar: thank you. any other members of the public who wish to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. any additional comments? >> supervisor peskin: i would make a motion to file this matter. >> supervisor mar: can we file without objection? done. mr. clerk, any further business. >> there is no further business. >> supervisor mar: this committee meeting is now closed.

[cheers and applause]. >> all right. good morning, everybody. first of all, i am mayor london breed, and i am so excited to be here to talk about housing. now you guys maybe tired of me talking about housing, but i will not stop until we get it built, and that is why we are

here today. [applause]. >> we are joined by so many amazing supporters of affordable and teacher housing in san francisco. we have so much work to do to build more housing all over the city across all income levels. we are working together right now to put together an affordable housing bond for this november, and i'm really excited about the folks who are working hand-in-hand to make this a reality. this is a key part of our housing plan to fund the production of new affordable housing. but just having the funding isn't enough. we have to get better at approving more housing faster in this city. and in january, i announced during my state of the city address that we will be moving forward with a charter amendment to make it easier to build

affordable housing and teacher housing in san francisco, that we will no longer let the bureaucracy of city government stand in the way, that we will no longer let let's barriers to housing stand in the way. i made a promise to make affordable housing in san francisco as of right, because affordable housing is a right. [applause]. >> today, i'm proud to say that we have follow-through on followed through on that promise , and yesterday, we introduced the charter amendment at the board of supervisors, and i want to thank our cosponsors standing here with us today. supervisor vallie brown from district five. [cheers and applause]. >> and supervisor safai from district 11. [cheers and applause].

>> to those other members of the board of supervisors, we are looking at other cosponsors. this is critical. the housing production in san francisco, and thank you to the 20 supervisors for joining us today to step up to the plate and say when we have 100% affordable housing projects or a teacher housing project proposed within the zoning, that we should build it. no more hoops to jump through, no more commission hearings, no more appeals, no more know in my backyard. [applause]. >> we also want to thank the elected officials who are here and support, because while we know there are plenty of teachers in this town who support teacher housing, we are busy in our schools teaching our students.

we have the next best thing. the elected official who run air community college board and the san francisco board of education , thank you to community college board members alex randolph who is here today. [applause] , and i think tom is here as well today. thank you so much to tom temporal no. also from the san francisco board of education, we have jenny lam who is here today. [applause]. >> i think. she is on her way. and mar sanchez. [applause]. >> the leaders here know that the students they know benefit from making sure that our educators have access to safe and affordable housing, and i'm also making another exciting announcement, that today, i will be signing onto the ballot and ordinance to help us build more teacher affordable housing.

this law will rezone all of our public parcels for affordable and teacher housing. let me tell you, what that means is we will be opening up opportunities to build housing faster on public property throughout san francisco. let me give you an example. many of you know that years ago, the project that's going to be happening at the old campus of france's key, we committed to building teacher housing on this particular property. but unfortunately, this property would not know that -- was not necessarily zoned for teacher housing, adding, in addition to the years of process, adding another two years on top of the bureaucracy that is making it difficult to get this housing built now when we know we need it the most. so what this legislation would

do is completely rezone all of the public properties that exist in san francisco, so the opportunity to use these properties for 100% affordable and teacher housing would be made faster. so the goal is, this long process to rezone land which was slow down and adding extra years of bureaucracy is one that will hopefully make a significant difference. this ballot measure will allow us to move more quickly and use surplus public land to build badly needed affordable and future housing. i am very excited about this opportunity. i know that a lot of the folks who are part of the housing community understand and are excited about this crazy bureaucracy that we are trying to peel away like an onion to get to the root.

ultimately, we are going to continue to push the envelope to get rid of the layers of bureaucracy, to make it easier to build housing. it should not be so challenging when we commit to trying to build 140 units of family housing. 120 units of teacher housing. why is it taking so long? these two proposals will help cut that time down considerably, and it would mean getting people into affordable housing faster, and getting it built faster in san francisco. i want to thank everyone who is here with us today, not just the elected officials, but the advocates, and the workers who are out there every day fighting for more housing. together i know that we can make a difference at the ballot box this november. we will pass our affordable housing bonds. we will make it easier to build affordable and teacher housing in san francisco, and we will do

it together. at this time, i want to introduce someone who has been a champion for affordable housing. many of the products, for example, -- projects, for example, in district five started long before i even became supervisor, and the challenges of trying to get properties that are slated for 100% affordable housing built has been a very challenging one. we could add thousands of units just in district five if we can get these measures past, and the person to help us lead the way on those efforts is none other then the supervisor for that district, vallie brown. [cheers and applause]. >> thank you, mayor breed to, and everyone that is here today, all the housing advocates. it will take us all to make this happen. san francisco is in the midst of probably the most serious housing crisis that we have had

that threatens our culture, and it also threatens our economy. sure, you know, san francisco, we have always had wealthy people that live here, but we are also a town of teachers, and artists, small business people, bartenders, and labor. we are a working-class town, but the lack of affordable housing, more and more of our families seen san francisco cannot afford housing. so what do they do create they leave. this is our teachers, this is labor, this is people who just cannot afford housing, even if they have a rent controlled apartment, when they are growing their family, they usually leave because there is no options. there's no choices for them. keeping you working people in san francisco should also be a priority for us because it is their home. this charter amendment will shorten the time and lower the

cost of building 100% affordable housing, and teacher housing. don't we want our teachers to live in our community? yes, absolutely. [applause]. >> when the teachers live in the community, they are much more invested, and they also, it helps in being able to take care of their own families because they live close to their jobs. it will exempt qualifying housing projects from all discretionary review and appeals , and instead, apply a variety of mistral his for review. that is really important. we already do this for low income and moderate households that make up to $66,000 a year, and for one person and in a family of four, of $94,000 a year. this charter amendment would extend the same treatment for teacher housing, and housing

that is affordable for the middle income households. it is so important to keep our middle income families and households in this city. who are middle income people? there are seasons many mobile drivers and a teacher. there are two teachers, they are somebody who works for the city and a janitor. these are the people that we want to keep in our community, ending other and in other words, it also encouraged 100% affordable for housing for san francisco for working people. it is our middle class, it is our middle class that is also in danger of housing here, of no affordable housing for them, and it was very clear in 2014 when we passed prop k. that this was really important for the residents of san francisco. this connection between our housing crisis and our homeless crisis is pretty clear to me.

our housing crisis also -- also is threatening and many other areas of our life in this city. if our teachers can't afford to live here, let alone raise their families in the city, it is pretty clear that we are threatens or we will have a threatening housing crisis that we need to address. also, and we talked about this before, half of our drivers live outside of the city. when you think that they have to drive hours in to drive a bus, or they are sleeping in their cars because they can't afford this city, that is wrong. they are our frontlines people that work for the city for all of our social issues. they also -- we trust them to get us around and our children around the city. so this is something that we need to do. we need to build housing so people who work for the city can actually live here, like our many munimobile operators. also, when we don't think this

way, when we don't think about everyone in the city and trying to keep middle-class and low income in the city, it actually hurts us all, we have to think of it that way. so working people make city life possible, and they make it desirable. when you go into your favorite restaurant or go get your hair cut or your favorite bar, don't you want to make sure that the people you know can work there and that is because they can live in the community. they can live in the city. so we need to more choices. choice is so important. this isn't going to solve everything, thank you, but you are in the right place, this is city hall, lots of sharks. [laughter]. >> so this is one thing that we need to do. this many other things we need to do. we need to preserve affordable housing by buying existing buildings. we need to build housing, we need to have a dus, accessible

dwelling units being built. there are so many things that we need to do to self this housing crisis, and i'm so happy that everybody is here with us to solve this. thank you very much. [cheers and applause]. >> now i want to introduce one of our partners to help build 100% affordable housing, ladies and gentlemen, from mission mission housing, sam moss. [cheers and applause]. >> good morning, everybody. thank you, mayor breed and supervisors. thank you for coming here. affordable housing is hard enough to build without having to take ten years and loads a bureaucracy to do it. mission housing and myself, i'm really proud to be part of a movement that will ensure that high-quality affordable housing is built in every neighborhood of san francisco, because we live in the crisis of our time. it is time for every day people.

and especially the leaders and supervisors at those neighborhoods to get on board and start helping solve this crisis. from st. francis would to the sunset, from the marina, it is time for telegraph hill, it is time for everyone to get on board and be part of solving this crisis, because the mission and soma, and the bayview cannot do it on our own any longer. [applause]. >> i just want to think mayor breed for her leadership, and i'm excited to start building some housing. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, sam. another one of our cosponsors and champions for getting more affordable housing built throughout the city includes the representative from district 11, supervisor safai. [applause]. >> thank you, mayor breed.

i will be brief because i think we are all melting on the stage here. >> we are melting. >> i will be real fast. i just want to say that it is amazing how much the conversation has changed in the two years that i have been on the boards. mayor breed and i locked arms when she was on the board of supervisors, and we took on a really difficult conversation about expanding the conversation of what is affordable. because parts of the city, sm was talking about, the need to do more always absorbed our middle and working-class families. the excelsior, the outer mission , the sunset, bayview hunter's point, these are parts of the city that we didn't think would ever be under assault in terms of major gentrification. but when homes in my district and excelsior go for $1.9 million, this city is no longer affordable. so the fact that we are putting legislation forward that not only expands the definition of what is affordable to include working and middle-class

families, but speeds up the process, in two years, the cost of construction has gone up by 30%. every moment that we wait costs these projects more money, cost the taxpayers more money, and endangers losing more working and middle-class families from san francisco because they have to leave, the can't live in the city, the can't access the affordable housing. i'm just go to wrap it up by saying we have neighborhood preference that mayor breed fought for, we accelerating the process by which we can go through the bureaucracy, we are increasing the funding, whether it is through additional surplus money we have, or the affordable housing bonds that we are going to fight for, we are doing every single thing that we can think about, and i just want to give kudos to mayor breed for doing things that a lot of people talked about, that are making happen in less than one here that she has been in office.

congratulations to all that hauser his who have been fighting here. thank you mayor breed for your leadership, and we look forward to building affordable housing in the excelsior, outer mission, because me know we are next in line. thank you very much. >> thank you. we had one of our residents who had planned to speak today, but unfortunately she couldn't make it. she is part of tenderloin housing clinic, and at this time , i would like to introduce randy shot to say a few words, since she was not able to make it. [applause]. >> you know, i will be even briefer because it is hot. i have to say, listening to mayor breed, i have a book out called "generation priced out" who gets to live a new urban america, and i recommend to all cities is one of the key strategies for affordability is to take all public land and converted to affordable housing. thank you for proving what should be done. i gave her a copy of my book. >> i haven't read it yet.

>> i'm telling you, what is happening in san francisco around affordable housing is something that we all need to have done years ago. it doesn't make sense when we have supervisors here saying they only want affordable housing, but it can't be built in their districts because of the zoning. otherwise you are not really for it because it can't be built. so if we all agree that 100% affordable housing, we all supported, they should be unanimous support in the board of supervisors for what the mayor has pronounced. let's make sure that happens. talk to your district supervisors about what is happening here. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you, randy. let me also just say thank you to a family who are here today who continue to fight on a regular basis to say yes in my backyard, yes to housing in san francisco in all neighborhoods. thank you so much for your advocacy. and now, at this time, i would like to introduce a member of the community college board college board, alex randolph. [applause].

>> thank you, mayor. i think the weather today is an indication that we will turning up the heat on affordable housing and making sure that we are building affordable housing here in san francisco. it is past due that we can no longer wait for affordable housing to be built here in san francisco. i want to thank the mayor, i want to thank the supervisors for introducing this legislation , this critical legislation, and for inviting city college to be part of this press conference here today. the city college communities no stranger to the current housing crisis. we see first-hand every single day the impact it has on our college and our community. to get a better sense of what it actually does to our community and to actually see the data, we recently conducted a housing survey and discover there is a significant need for affordable housing for our hard-working faculty and staff at city college for affordable housing in san francisco. especially our entry-level faculty and staff, always known

as freeway flyers because they come from all over the bay area to work and teach at city college, and they spend sometimes more times -- more time commuting to san francisco than actually teaching our students or holding office hours it is a critical need. we all know that our teachers and educators are more effective if they are part of the community, in this charter amendment is an important and right step towards offering an affordable place to live for our workforce and allow san francisco and city college to continue to provide high quality education. our educators are the ones that are training our first responders, they are training our nurses, they are training our teachers, our future teachers. they are training our people who we do not want to see left behind in this new economy in san francisco. we need to make sure that when all of our teachers are about to retire, and our staff is near retirement age, that we continue to be able to recruit

high-quality individuals at city college. that is no longer the case, unfortunately due to the high cost of housing and the inability for many of them to move to san francisco. so on behalf of city college and my colleagues and the vice president, i want to thank the mayor and all of you for doing this. we are here to strongly support the charter amendment. thank you so much. [applause]. >> thank you. i want to thank all of you for being here today. i continue to say that i grew up in san francisco, and i watched as our cities changed, i watched as so many of my friends and family members, over the years, who could no longer afford to live here, leave because this city has not done what it should in terms of building more housing. everyone says, yes, i want more housing, yes, i want my kids to live here, yes, i want my teachers to live here, but as soon as we try and build in communities that traditionally

have not had a lot of housing production, it turns into a completely different conversation. it is time that we move forward. it is time that we do what we say we want to do, make san francisco a safer, more affordable city for everybody. with over 70,000 units in the pipeline as we speak, we are not doing enough to move forward. and just imagine what it would do for our housing prices, for access to affordable housing if we were able to get those 70,000 units built today. today starts today. let's get it done, let's get these measures past, and let's build more housing in san francisco. thank you. [cheers and applause]

>> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee for the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday april 29th, 2019. i am the chair of the committee, joined by vice chai -- vice chair supervisor safai and matt haney to my left. please make any announcements that you have. >> please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents can be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk items will appear on the may 7 th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated