services stipulation, at least they get a paycheck or something? >> that's correct. [please stand by]

>> we are now transferring people from workers' comp to the health system people will sa.

and so, you confuse the doctor, especially if you're out of area, you confuse the tonight. you confuse the pharmacy if you say, i'm getting my prescriptions filled for my workers' comp. >> workers' cor comp pays for disability that's not permanent. you could be an active employee and be under worker's comp or be eligible for a completely different position or body part than you've been awarded a workers' comp. so how health services administer focuadminister folkss corcomp is something we don't gt involved with in making sure they get connected and there's no break in coverage for them on their medical side, but --

>> well, i've been pleaed with d people contacted me and said i have and issue and they have an advocate group for the retirees. that's the same type of service i would hike to see here and i think it can be done with the o mbudsperson, somebody high up in the chain that can walk in and figure out.

>> make the sure it gets fix. >> but in the meantime, that person will be me. >> it shouldn't be you and you know, you're getting bantered around and i don't want you to get bantered around. >> operations are under me. didn't nobody here can be doing it all and you have two jobs, a mother job and you have a father job and you have, you know, sister job and all that stuff that goes along that is occurring in family lives and stuff hike that. like that. that's why i say it's two jobs but it's really just being able to make it good for some of the people that are ill. >> see if there's any improvement in the process and

benchmark the number of cases today and we'll come back 12 months to see if there's any change in that number. >> we've documented on the first page, mid-april, 2019, but we'll have real numbers. it's approximately 400 but we'll have 421 or whatever the numbers are. anything else on this item? public comments? a discussion item only, ok. that concludes that item. before we move on, under item 15, the ci's report, was it meant this item regarding new enterprise should have been on the calendar? >> they were added to the closures after the board materials were released.

>> the director was notified by ashley duneen that it's that time of year and time for the distribution of the performance evaluation service. ashley indicated she'll be emails services directly to each board member this friday, the 14th and that under the board policy, the retirement board needs to get their survey responses back to ashley by the end of this month. , so june 30th. i also have some good news related to onech our commissioners.

commissioner carmen shoe delivered a healthy baby a week ago tuesday. the latest report from her office is that mother and daughter, kaylee, are at home bonding and resting. >> maybe you can get that to us in email to respond with a card or something. >> sure, darlene can send an email out. that's what her staff represented it to be. there's a counter item for the next 12 board meetings but no

item scheduled for committee meetings. i'm giving us a heads up that items are planned for the committees. if the committee doesn't meet, items don't get done. the only answer is the obviously one, which is purpose of our education, personnel, deferred comp. there are actions the board is waiting. so these committees have to meet to get things done. the committees may change next month but in terms of planning out your schedule, plan on saving the third wednesday of every month for a committee meeting. maybe you're not on that committee. the reason this is important, in terms of the strategic plan we expect staff to do things. every item, they're labeled deliverables, something we're expecting staff to do. part of the concept of deliverables, if a group is supposed to meet and decide, if the group doesn't meet, huge botched it up in gettin gettings

done, much like hearings for disability. things that should take a few months take one to six years to get done. >> but sometimes we are at fault because we don't do what we're supposed to do. we have our strategic plan or they're waiting for us to act, and i think that maybe as the guy who started the committee system over claire's objections may need to revisit the committee system to discuss do we have the right committees and are we in the -- are we doing everything or should we be consolidating? i think that's a discussion you'll have to think out in the next month as you make your committee appointments in amonging at thlooking at the co,

because we're looking at not only time but it's efficiency and something that we have to get done and i think that that's committees -- some committees may outly their usefulness and some committees are needed to get to another point. >> no one sense, you don't need committees, but the general topic task is called governance. we evaluate managers nonstop and the self--evaluation by the board has been dropped, skipped, ignored, never discussed. when we do it with managers, we know why we hire them and fire them. we have to apply the same standard to ourselves if we're

going to sit here and insist on governing this system. to again, i'm bringing this up, right now there are no committee calendars to meet. >> you're right, the only one on the calendar. >> i appreciate your comments because we need to have a commitment that the committee system will do the work or otherwise, our meeting share will be twice as long and that was, i believe, part of the reason -- at one point, this board met twice a month for the longest period of time and that was because they had disability hearings as well as all of the work is being done not in committee. so i think it should go through the governance committee with

that discussion on the system. a few years ago we had it off-site and supposedly went through this whole thing. >> the self-evaluation? >> consolidated committees, rebranded, whatever. you know, there's been a lot of change and going forward with the new committee assignments, everybody will come together. >> disability hearing stopped 43 years ago so we're way passed that. it's effective november of 1976. you can find a meeting. i hear stories about people watching from the old board room next door, watching the applicant with the head brace on and that as soon as they're through with the hearing, they

see it toss the neck brace off and jog across street, which was less than 43 years ago but it's not the point. >> part of expecting our managers to do better, expecting slantexpectingconsultants to doo provide better service, we have to apply that to the board. is that the only item left to discuss in. >> public comment on the executive director's report. excuse me. move to go to the order, individual members have any comments they would like to make? >> i have a couple. i do.

>> it's interesting because i've been to several meetings and things and people ask me about the contribution rates and i show it to them and they're astounded and they're mostly astounded by looking from 1997 to 2005. and it kind of says it all and i think this chart would be good on our website, on an evergreen and updated so it's readily available to us. and it's very eye-opening. the other thing is the, this was

in bigger letters so i printed it up and it's great for the members. and especially for the organizations. they look at it and they can -- it's something that gives them information and it's really good. so that's the type of things that i'm looking for when i say there's stuff that's on our website that the membership can look at, that others can look at that are interested in us. and it tells our story, our history.

they need to know we're not a mystery organization. that's what i'm talking about. that's my good of the order. >> is this something the communication's manager could do in terms of adding to our website? >> certainly not within the purview of our assignment. our current communication's manager is focused on member benefits' information, the summary plan descriptions, fact sheets.

>> ok. just a thought. >> thank you, commissioner driscoll. i thought about something when you mentioned earlier about one of our managers donated to the smithsonian and i wanted to point out we had another manager, one of our private equity managers, robert smith, and you may have seen it on the front of the "new york times," he was the commencement speaker for moorehouse college in atlanta, georgia. at the end of his commencement address, he and his family agreed to pay off the loan debt of every single graduate and that was done two weeks ago at the moorehouse college. he donated to the smithsonian, $20 million for one wing of the museum. i wanted to talk about one of the managers who presented today as well as being a private equity manager and giving back but i thought the moorehouse chef piece acollege piece was o.

so thank you for that, letting me point that out. >> motion to ajourn is in order. so moved. >> public comment. meeting is adjourned.

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work?

prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had

never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million.

if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website, sfassessor.org, ♪ >> about two years ago now i had my first child.

and i thought when i come back, you know, i'm going to get back in the swing of things and i'll find a spot. and it wasn't really that way when i got back to work. that's what really got me to think about the challenges that new mothers face when they come back to work. ♪ >> when it comes to innovative ideas and policies, san francisco is known to pave the way, fighting for social justice or advocating for the environment, our city serves as the example and leader many times over. and this year, it leads the nation again, but for a new reason. being the most supportive city of nursing mothers in the work place. >> i was inspired to work on legislation to help moms return to work, one of my legislative aids had a baby while working in the office and when she returned we had luckily just converted a

bathroom at city hall into a lactation room. she was pumping a couple times a day and had it not been for the room around the hallway, i don't know if she could have continued to provide breast milk for her baby. not all returning mothers have the same access, even though there's existing state laws on the issues. >> these moms usually work in low paying jobs and returning to work sooner and they don't feel well-supported at work. >> we started out by having legislation to mandate that all city offices and departments have accommodations for mothers to return to work and lactate. but this year we passed legislation for private companies to have lactation policies for all new moms returning to work. >> with the newcome -- accommodations, moms should have

those to return back to work. >> what are legislation? >> we wanted to make it applicable to all, we created a set of standards that can be achievable by everyone. >> do you have a few minutes today to give us a quick tour. >> i would love to. let's go. >> this is such an inviting space. what makes this a lactation room? >> as legislation requires it has the minimum standards, a seat, a surface to place your breast on, a clean space that doesn't have toxic chemicals or storage or anything like that. and we have electricity, we have plenty of outlets for pumps, for fridge. the things that make it a little extra, the fridge is in the room. and the sink is in the room. our legislation does require a fridge and sink nearby but it's all right in here.

you can wash your pump and put your milk away and you don't have to put it in a fridge that you share with co-workers. >> the new standards will be applied to all businesses and places of employment in san francisco. but are they achievable for the smaller employers in the city? >> i think small businesses rightfully have some concerns about providing lactation accommodations for employees, however we left a lot of leeway in the legislation to account for small businesses that may have small footprints. for example, we don't mandate that you have a lactation room, but rather lactation space. in city hall we have a lactation pod here open to the public. ♪ ♪ >> so the more we can change, especially in government offices, the more we can support women. >> i think for the work place to

really offer support and encouragement for pumping and breast feeding mothers is necessary. >> what is most important about the legislation is that number one, we require that an employer have a lactation policy in place and then have a conversation with a new hire as well as an employee who requests parental leave. otherwise a lot of times moms don't feel comfortable asking their boss for lactation accommodations. really it's hard to go back to the office after you have become a mom, you're leaving your heart outside of your body. when you can provide your child food from your body and know you're connecting with them in that way, i know it means a lot to a mommy motionlely and physically to be able to do that. and businesses and employers can just provide a space. if they don't have a room, they can provide a small space that is private and free from

intrusion to help moms pump and that will attract moms to working in san francisco. >> if you want more information visit sfdph.org/breastfeedingatwork. ♪ ♪ >> my s.f. dove -- government t.v. moment was when i received a commendation award from supervisor chris daly. then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing]

>> happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. happy anniversary to you. happy anniversary san francisco government t.v. anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [♪] >> president yee: good afternoon. welcome to the june 25, 2019 regular meeting of the san

francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, would you please call the roll? >> thank you, mr. president. brown not present. fewer not present. haney not present. mandelman present. m mar present. peskin present. ronen present. safai present. stefani present. walton present. president yee? present. mr. president, you have to a quorum. >> president yee: thank you. ladies and gentlemen would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america,

and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> president yee: all right. on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, michael, maya and kaleno, who record the meetings and make the transcript available to those online. >> madame clerk, any communications? >> there are none to report. >> president yee: today we are approving the minutes from the may 21, 2019 board meeting. are there any changes to these meeting minutes?

seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? okay. motion made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor walton. these minutes will be approved after public comment. madame clerk, let's wipe out half the agenda. can you call the consent calendar, please call items 1 through 31. >> items 1 through 31 are considered to be routine, therefore discussion of item will only occur if the member severs it and considers it separatelily. -- separately. >> president yee: colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the consent calendar?

i see none, call the roll. >> on items 1 through 31, walton aye. yee aye. brown aye. fewer aye. -- fewer absent. haney aye. mandelman aye. mar aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. stefani aye. there are 10 ayes. >> president yee: these ordinances are passed unanimously. please call 32 through 35 together. >> clerk: item 32 is ordinance to appropriate 28 million of hetch hetchy power. and decreasing the hechy power and water revenue and increasing

hetch hetchy and deappropriate capital project appropriations for fiscal year 2019-20. to deappropriate streetlight funding and placing 28 million subject to the controller certification of availability to adopt a ceqa findings for the project. item 33 is ordinance to amend 142-18 to authorize increase of the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable power revenue bonds and other forms of indebtedness to aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200 million. item 34 is ordinance to amend to authorize increase of the issuance and sale of tax exempt water revenue bonds and other forms of indebtedness to

aggregate principle amount not to exceed 514 million. item 35 ordinance to appropriate revenue bonds for the sfpuc capital improvement program at $26 million and deappropriate and re-appropriate $34 million of the appropriations for first category year 2019-20. placing $25 million of revenue bond proceeds by project on controller's receive subject to the controller's certification of availability for expenditures for the sfpuc projects and adopt ceqa findings. >> president yee: i see that the house has changed. roll call. >> on items 32-35. walton aye. yee aye. brown aye. fewer absent. haney absent.

mandelman aye. mar aye. peskin aye. ronen aye. safai aye. stefani aye. haney aye. there are 10 ayes. >> president yee: without objection, these ordinances are passed unanimously. madame clerk, can you call items 36 and 37 together? >> item 36 and 37, proposed interim budgets. appropriation ordinance to appropriate all estimated receipts and estimated expenditures for the departments of the city. and item 37 is the proposed interim annual salary ordinance to enumerate positions in the budget for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2020 and 2021.

>> president yee: can we take these same house, same call, without objection? these ordinances are finally passed unanimously. please call item 38 and 39. >> two ordinances that adopt and implement the memorandum of understanding between the city and the service employees international union local 1021 and the staff and per diem nurses and item 39 between the city and the teamsters, local 856 supervising registered nurses. both m.o.u.s to be effective july through june 2022. >> president yee: same house same call? without objection, these are passed unanimously. please call the next item. >> item 40 administrative code displaced tenant preference in

affordable housing when it's no longer restricted by affordable housing restriction within five years and market rate rent in such tenant buildings is more than 40% of the tenant's gross household income. >> president yee: same house same call? this ordinance is passed. please call item 41. >> ordinance to call and provide for a session election to be held in the city on tuesday, march 3, 2020, for the purpose of submitting to the san francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded debt of the city in the amount of $628.5 million to finance the construction, acquisition, improvement, renovation and seismic retrofitting of multiple facilities for earthquake safety and emergency response. >> president yee: same house same call? without objection, this order -- i'm sorry, supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you. i just wanted to make some brief

remarks on this critically important bond measure to finance the earthquake retrofitting of police and fire stations and the department of emergency management on 311 call center. in particular, i just wanted to lift up that this bond will deliver $140 million in crucial investments for protecting the west side of the city in case of future disasters, including earthquake and fire and will allow us to expand the fire fighting. it is not a question of if the next big earthquake is coming, but when. and i'm proud to sponsor this important debt for insuring that the sunset and other westside neighborhoods are prepared to respond to emergencies. i'd like to add that in addition to this $140 million investment, the san francisco public utilities commission has committed an additional $55

million towards the westside emergency fire-fighting water system bringing the total in new investments to nearly $200 million. our action today will protect the life and property of westside residents and secure our future generations from disaster. i am proud to be a sponsor of this bond and i really want to thank the staff at the puc, the fire department and capital planning for your work and supervisor fewer for her focused attention, particularly on the fire-fighting water system. thank you. >> president yee: colleagues, same house same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madame clerk, call the next item. >> item 42 appropriate $12 million in the public utilities commission and deappropriate and reappropriate $2.1 million.

>> president yee: same house same call? without objection, this is passed. please call item number 43. >> resolution to accept and expend state transportation development act article 3 pedestrian and bicycle project funding for fiscal year 2019-20 in approximately $972,000 through june 30, 2022. >> president yee: can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> president yee: please call the next item. >> item 44 is ordinance to amend the code to establish the castro lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer cultural district in and around the cat tree neighborhood. >> president yee: same item same call? this ordinance passed on

reading. let's skip over to item 51. >> item 51 through 56 considered by the government oversight and were forwarded as committee reports. item 51 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the cooperative living opportunities for mental health loan fund and the cooperative living opportunities for mental health program to finance the acquisition of residential properties to be operated as communal housing for people with chronic mental illness and substance use disorders. >> president yee: supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. colleagues, i'm so excited this was called early in the meeting, because i'm not feeling well and may have to step out before the meeting is over, but happy to have the opportunity to speak on this legislation. the legislation before you today

will establish the cooperative living opportunities for mental health loan fund and program to help address the crisis of people with acute mental illness living on the streets of our city. it will enable nonprofit organizations to acquire apartments and single-family homes to create scattered site non-institutional facilitated communal households in which four or five people with chronic illness can share a home. the legislation establishes a fund under the add minute code which can -- admin code, including the 5 million prioritized by the board and funds allocated from the eraf effort. but also from other sources. they will use the capital funds for loans to non-profits so they can purchase eligible properties.

d.p.h. will determine client eligibility and authorize client placement and will then expand current contracts or issue new ones to enable these non-profits to provide services to the residents. much of the service funding will be recouped through medi-cal reimbursement. this is in response to within of the glaring gaps in our mental health crisis on the streets. a lack of affordable housing. d.p.h. reported at a hearing last month that 44% of homeless clients brought in for acute care leave these short-term programs without a place to go. having people go through residential treatment to then be turned on the street with nowhere to go is inhumane and wasteful. furthermore, we know this model works. several of the respected mental health providers have been operating co-op households for

years in neighborhoods throughout san francisco, but until now they're master leasing most of the units from private owners. unsurprisingly our current market has made it impossible to hold onto the housing stock and to grow the program as a much needed and effective housing option. for many people who are dealing with the combination of psychiatric and addiction issues, the key to stability and success is to be away from hectic surroundings that trigger continued crisis. cooperative living can open the door to stability. over the past several weeks my office worked with several people from d.p.h. and kate and amy who helped re -- to refine the legislation. i want to give a huge thank you

to steve, brett, and richard, for sharing your wisdom and experience and shaping this. and of course to amy, who really was the driving force behind this legislation. thank you so much, amy. and finally to supervisor haney -- i believe safai, who also cosponsored the legislation. >> supervisor haney: not yet. not yet. >> sorry. okay. thank you for cosponsoring the legislation. >> president yee: same house same call? without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. item 52. >> resolution to approve the first amendment of the grant agreement between the city and woo yee children services to support the implementation of the city-wide plan for early care and education for a total

amount of $11.3 million and to extend the grant term through june 30, 2020. >> president yee: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. >> item 53, resolution to authorize the human services agency to continue its membership in the california welfare information network, cal win with the welfare of client data to authorize an increase expenditure authority to $88.2 million through january 31, 2023. >> president yee: can we take this same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call items 54 through 56.

>> item 54 through 56, three resolutions that authorize the mayor or her designee to cast an assessment ballot for the property improvement. item 54, the renewal and expansion for the civic center community district with respect to parcels of property owned by the city. item 55, for the proposed renewal and expansion of the property and improvement business district to be named the union square improvement district. and item 56, the proposed formation of property and business to be named the downtown. community benefit district with certain parcels of real property owned by the city in each aforementioned district that would be subject to the assessment. >> president yee: can we take these items same house same call? these resolutions are adopted unanimously. let's go to roll call for

introductions. >> supervisor walton, you're up to introduce new business. >> supervisor walton: thank you, i submit. >> president yee: submit. >> supervisor brown: refer. >> supervisor haney: sure. thank you, madame clerk. today i'm introducing a resolution in support of a.c.a.6, the vote act which will give california voters the opportunity to allow automatic restoration of voting rights to those on parole, upon completion of a state or federal prison term on the 2020 ballot. it would extend the right to vote a fundamental civil right to those who have paid their debt to society. our resolution is supported by my colleagues. i want to thank supervisors mandelman, walton, brown, mar,

fewer. it was introduced by assembly members mccarthy and co-authorizco co-authorico co-authorize by scott wiener. there are 50,000 unable to vote as a result of felony disenfranchisement laws. as we all know, mass incarceration disproportionately impacts communities of color and even when people serve time and exit incarceration, they face barriers finding employment, stable residence and more. being denied a right to vote is one more barrier to integrating back into the community. this will amend sections 2 and 4 of the constitution to restore voting rights upon the completion of their prison term. by eliminating a barrier to voting, this bill will align

california with 14 other states and washington d.c. which have either all restored voting rights upon release from prison or have no disenfranchisement laws at all. there has been a lot of momentum in other states. the state of florida which is notorious passed a similar law at the ballot box. i hope california does the same. i want to thank the many advocates who have been working on this and the free to vote coalition, initiate justice, aclu of california, anti-recidivism coalition, league of women voters of california and california secretary of state. i hope we can join this coalition as a city of san francisco and help to get this passed in 2020. the rest i submit.

>> supervisor mar: thank you, madame clerk. colleagues, today i'm joining with mayor breed to introduce two items, a resolution and ordinance that will affirm and memolize the terms of the plan to fund free city college over the next decade. free city college has been a huge success, breaking down barriers to higher education for diverse san francisco residents and rebuilding enrollment in the years of decline. this ground breaking program was created in 2016 by the free city coalition of organizations representing faculty, students and communities working closely with supervisor jane kim and other leaders. it has served as an important model nationally for tuition-free higher education. as you know, the program was initially funded by mayor lee as a two-year pilot program and due to greater than expected growth, costs exceeded the initial funding allocation.

over the past six months, the mayor's office and i have worked with city college leaders and the free city coalition to develop a plan to ensure that free city college is fully funded over the next decade. and to also update and strengthen program policies and financial oversight and accountability. i'd like to thank mayor breed, her chief of staff and her senior education advisor for commitment to free state college and for all of your work on this plan. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. colleagues, a couple of items for introduction today. first, a minor, but significant amendment to the north beach neighborhood commercial district zoning ordinance. that will lengthen the abandonment period for certain vacant store fronts from 18 months to three years. and while it is a very small amendment, the impact is

quantifiable and hopefully immediate. my office has determined that it will impact 10 vacant store fronts and make them available for desirable businesses without any need for a conditional use authorization. and this is, i think, precisely the type of edits we should be considering to address the retail issues in each of our neighborhood, commercial district corridors, to specifically tailor it to address the problems that exist in each and every one of those districts, which vary from district to district. i am going to ask the president to waive the 30-day rule. i understand that staff at the planning department is going to ask the commission to waive their 90-day consideration because it is minor and the second item that i am submitting today is a resolution that

hopefully we will all vote for on the adoption without committee reference calendar, urging the department of real estate to enter into a lease for a navigation center in district 3 at a particular site on post street. i hope that will meet with all of your support. the rest i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: submit, but i wanted to congratulate supervisor peskin of finally getting a site in district 3 for the navigation center. i know you've been fighting hard and long for that and i want to congratulate you. >> supervisor peskin: it ain't over till it's over. >> supervisor safai: commit >> supervisor brown: thank you. colleagues, today i'm introducing a resolution in support of california state bill 285. this bill will reduce food

insecurity and poverty in san francisco and in the state by increasing participation in the cal fresh program. it will also support the upcoming expansion of cal fresh to s.s.i. recipients for the first time. currently 2 million californians who are eligible for cal fresh, but not receiving benefits and only 19% of eligible seniors participate in this program. we can and must do better. historically cal fresh has failed to enroll eligible californians because of administrative hurdles that don't take into account many peoples' unstable financial situation. s b285 will allow californians to access cal fresh with ease, regardless of where this elive -- they live or life circumstances. 5,0 5,000s.s.i. recipients will

become eligible for the first time. it's time we take a real look at food insecurity and expand this access. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president yee: okay. i'm going to take my time and speak real slowly -- oh, there it is. 2:30. can you call the 2:30 commendations. >> yes, we have four. supervisor mandelman, peskin, safai and brown. >> president yee: supervisor mandelman, please present your commendations. >> supervisor mandelman: happy pride week, happy pride month. i'm recognizing the owners of jolene's -- [applause]

are they here? there is shannon. okay. here's the deal on jolene's. it opened its doors in december of 2018, san francisco's first transand queer women of color owned bar and restaurant. the queer and transspace that they have created is of city-wide importance to the lgbtq community. at a time when queer-owned and serving businesses are being displaced from our city at an alarming rate, jolene's is creating new space for the community. after a decade of organizing parties for queer women and starting her own events company, jolene started searching -- for a permanent home for u-haul, her party for -- [screaming] -- her

party for girls who love girls since 2014. despite san francisco's reputation as a global lgbtq capital, the 2015 closure of the last surviving lesbian bar left queer women without any spaces of their own. with few options available, jolene decided that opening her own space was the only path forward. to bring this vision to life, jolene joined forces with shannon, an experienced restauranteur who opened his business in 2009. the two found a space in the mission, moving into the former dear mom space at 2700 16th street. but that was only part of the challenge. they faced hurdles navigating the licensing process. my office