abuse oversight authority. the controller, the city is continuously ignoring and pretty much going total opposite of what the comptroller is saying and what national people are saying about homelessness. we're going opposition, and you can't see it. we're spending millions of dollars, and the homeless is still going up. we're spending $300 million, and it's going up. >> clerk: speaker time has elapsed. >> chair ronen: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public wish to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: i want to thank everybody that came out to speak. i want to thank the members of

the advisory committees who do such important work. i realize this is an awkward thing to be coming out and speaking in support of oversight over a department that you work so regularly with. so i imagine that, you know, i just want to appreciate your courage and your partnership on this. i think it says a lot that the people who are on the front lines of serving our population that's experiencing homelessness believes strongly that there should be more accountability, transparency, and public input. i think that says a lot. yes, i talk a lot about speed, and i don't think this is going to slow things down, but there's nothing more wrong than getting it wrong and having to do it over and over and over again. we have to listen to these folks not just at the beginning but throughout the process to make sure that we get it right. and when we deny them that

opportunity, we are going to create so many delays throughout the process because we're going to have to spend money to fix our mistakes, we're going to have to repeat things over again. so fore the homeless providers -- for the hometiles providers and the people that work with them to support that, that says a lot because of the work that you're doing and it's important because people who have that expertise often live the experiences. so i want to appreciate you all for that. i do find it, as was said, a bit ironic that the same folks who oppose prop c would put us in a position where we create this crisis are saying that

they don't want this, they don't want this additional oversight. i find that incredibly ironic and unfortunate because in reality, what we're saying is there's value to accountability, and there's value to public oversite aght process. and in fact if we had this commission, prop c would have gotten the two-thirds that we needed, where they're coming in and saying they're on the other side. we should have flexibility, we should be able to do what we want here. we know if there's another opportunity to go forward for a funding measure, we are going to be attacked because there isn't accountability in play. so let's get ahead of this. let's create structures that create the same level of oversight, public input, transparency as almost every other large department in our city, and let's say that we can do this better together. we can do this better when we

listen to people who are impacted, we can do this better when people who are impacted are at the table, and yet, we agree accountability is important. so thank you -- thank you again, everyone, for coming, and i also want to recognize as has been said, my staff, courtney mcdonald, who has worked so hard on this and has led this process and worked very collaboratively with the mayor's office and the department of homelessness to put forward these amendments. >> chair ronen: thank you. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: yes. i just briefly wanted to thank supervisor haney for all of your work on this and your staff, as well, and express my support for this effort to create more public accountability and oversight to the department of homelessness and supportive housing. i also want to thank you for your work with the mayor's office on this to ensure that as this moves forward and it's created, that it best

incorporates our existing advi advisory bodies and we have a commission and oversight, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chair ronen: great. so if we can accept the amendments without objection, without objection, those amendments pass. [applause] >> chair ronen: well, we have to actually pass it now. >> supervisor haney: so my understanding is it has to be continued and come back next -- >> chair ronen: i did not realize that. thank you. that wasn't the case with the other measure. >> clerk: every amendment to a ballot measure requires an additional hearing in the same committee, even if it's a nonsubstantive amendment. the item 1 on today's agenda was not amended, so you could pass that. >> chair ronen: got it. if i could make a motion to

continue this item -- >> clerk: to july 15. >> chair ronen: thank you very much. without objection, that motion passes. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, could you please read item 4. >> clerk: item 4 is an item withdrawing the item withdrawing free city college fund. >> chair ronen: take them together? oh, just 4 and 5. could you also read item number 5. [agenda item read].

>> chair ronen: supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you. colleagues actually, i just wanted to provider some framing and oversight to these items. also, there is an item coming up on this at the g.a.o. meeting on thursday. free city college has been a success story. it has broken-down education barriers for san francisco residents, rebuilt following the accreditation crisis, and served as a model across the country for tuition free and debt free education. free college was started in 2003 as a vision of supervisor kim and an initial two-year funding allocation by mayor lee. this initial funding allocation

for the free city pilot program ended in june with an extension covering the summer 2019 semester. additionally, due to the overwhelming success of the program, costs have actually exceeded the original funding allocation by $2 million to $3 million a year, costs which city college has had to absorb. since i joined the board in january, i've been working on a plan to ensure full funding for free city over the next decade and also to strengthen the program design and financial oversight reflecting learning from the pilot project space. despite some differences of perspective and priorities, i've been very appreciative of all the parties' shared commitment to this program and to ensure that it's sustained for the next decade and beyond. after a very robust and, yes,

complicated negotiation process, i'm pleased to say that we've come to agreement on a comprehensive framework and plan for the future of free city. besides funding free city for the next decade, it includes a number of amendments to place on the november ballot. notably, it would start the funding for free city this fall, a year earlier than under the charter amendment. this represents an additional $8.6 million funding for city college over the coming year. the key terms of this agreement on the future of free city are outlined in a tentative agreement between the city and city college that was negotiated by the mayor's

office and city college translore chancellor's office and was approved on june 27. in order to move this agreement forward, there are three items for the board to take action on. the first item is the motion to withdraw the free city charter amendment, which is item number 4 on today's rules committee agenda. the second item is the ordinance modifying the city college financial assistance fund and oversight committee to align with the terms of the t.a. and the m.o.u., which is item 5 on today's rules committee agenda. the third item is a resolution directing dcyf to negotiate the fully executed ten-year m.o.u. with city college administration, which is scheduled to be heard in the

g.a.o. committee special meeting on thursday, july 11. because all three items are interrelated and are in effect a package deal, i would -- would really like to have all three items to be voted on by the full board together on july 16. i would like to thank president yee and chair ronen's offices for helping to expedite the three free city college items through the board. i also want to acknowledge the mayor's office and the free city coalition for working with my office to draft amendments to the ordinance which you have in front of you and i'll be going over. with this motion today and the ordinance, as well as the resolution in the g.a.o. committee urging dcyf to negotiate a m.o.u. with city college, we are on path to fund

city college for the next decade. i'd like to quickly explain the amendments. on page 2, line 5, we've deleted the word may. and it allows the free city program to be expended in the future as has been proposed by a number of the parties. we also -- we added a new subparagraph f, on page 3, line 14 in order to allow the $2 million currently in the free city reserve fund to be moved into the newly constituted free city fund and free city reserve

fund. on page 7', line 16, we adjusted the attendance requirements so that oversight committee members must not miss three meetings within nine months instead of six months. on page 8, line 7, we specified that the oversight committee can recommend potential expansion of the free city program in the future. on page 6, line 6 and line 7, i'm having students be appointed by city college associated students instead of -- and deleting appointed by the mayor and the board of supervisors, and that's per request from city college folks. on page 6, line 18, i'm amending the legislation so that the faculty representative is appointed by the academic senate instead of the board of

trustees. and finally, on page 6, i'm representing that i representative is appointed by the labor union, which represents the largest number of city college employees. so the third item is a resolution urging dcyf to negotiate the m.o.u. and that's to appear in the committee meeting on july 11. so in order to ensure that all three items are considered at the same board meeting on july 16, i would like to forgo the committee report for this ordinance and motion and simply recommend that this committee support the ordinance and motion, move forward to the july 16 board meeting. >> chair ronen: thank you so much. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: i definitely support the motion, but i do have a question through the chair. as i look at page 6, 21, it

talks about shall be held by a certified member of the staff of city college appointed -- and then, we have the amendment. going over to page 7, we make allowance to make sure that members of committee do not receive compensation, and i'm justified wondering, should we specify that in seat 11, as well, or did i miss that? >> supervisor mar: i believe that -- well, this is -- so you're -- on page 7. >> supervisor walton: you just talk about no committee member receiving compensation except for seats 1, 5, 7, and 8 may receive their regular salaries for time spent on the committee

because they're serving in an official capacity, and i'm wondering if we should also say the same for seat 11. >> supervisor mar: john, you want to respond? >> mr. givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. what you're referring to, supervisor walton, refers to only in their official capacity. city college can make a decision to pay the city college employee, but that's not something that we could mandate in this ordinance. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> chair ronen: wonderful. so if we could open up this item for public comment. any member of the public that wishes to speak, if you could lineup to my left, your right, and mr. wright, please feel free to start us off. >> any time somebody telling you something straight, they lying. it's like when it first

happened, when jane kim came up with that idea, the first hearing that we had for jane kim for the budget, when you had $12 billion in your account, the highest amount of money ever in the history of san francisco, you had two executive females -- white females come up here and claim that it's a good program to have students go to college for free, but we're up here because we're $5 million in debt. it wasn't 2 or $3 million, it was $5 million in debt. and i pointed out when a supervisor comes up with an idea and it results in a negative cash flow, make the supervisor pay for it. make jane kim pay for it. talking about bernie god damn sanders. he's been in politics 40 years. he don't have his state where he's have, vermont, going to college for free.

now you've got kids here going to college for free and creating a negative cash flow just like you can with twitter and nine other companies. the chancellor sit up here and give a speech, talking about it's a good deal, and we're $11.5 million in. you're $32 million in debt and the year isn't even over. now you want to take money from the homeless, and give it to kids that are spoiled, living at home with mom and dad. you had an $88.2 million negative cash flow when ed lee died, and the -- after he died, you still had that amount of money. now you're trying to spend all the money that you got from the president and give that to people in high income brackets.

the people in welfare can't even go to college because they're on welfare. it's not fair. >> chair ronen: thank you, mr. wright. next speaker, please. >> thank you. my name is marcos. i'm a student organizer at city college, was going to come up here and talk about one of the amendments that just got talked about about students being able to choose their own representatives through associated students at city college, so i appreciate that the board is considering that already because yeah, we would like to represent ourselves fully in this committee in this oversight committee. you know, a lot of students are very interested in the free city program. we appreciate that our voices are going to be heard, that we will be able to appoint people ourselves. i just wanted to point out one more thing about that, and that's our student trustee as

it is right now doesn't have a voting seat in the oversight committee, and so i would just like the rules committee to consider an amendment to that and make that seat also a voting seat. again, he's an elected student trustee right now, so we would like that democratic position to have some power in this oversight committee, as well. again, just want to thank everybody that he's helped us. long time coming for a program like this, so we are appreciative. thank you very much. >> hello, supervisors. this is alex randolph. i'm the president of the board of trusties at city college, san francisco. on behalf of the board of trustees, i want to thank the board of supervisors and the mayor for working with us to fund the program. so that end, the city board of trustees rad identified the summary points in our meeting on june 17 and look forward to

having an m.o.u. in place, soon, as some other comments said earlier, this is a long-timlong time coming. this is exciting for us as it was one of the first programs created in the country to make city college free for all. i was one of those students who was not privileged, who was not lazy, who have a foster kid, who would not be here today without my start in city college. that's why i want to thank everybody who worked so hard on this program to make this possible for thousands and thousands of students who come to college every single year to make a change in life after coming. there are some changes in amendments before you that we are supportive, specifically around the amendment that the

board of trustees has voted on to support. there is one thing i would like to put your attention to. in regards to the vacancies, i would like to see it changed to any appointing authority because currently, the classified staff, associated students, and the academic senate do not make an appointment, there's no process in place to actually pull that so they can speak. the other thing is i would like to have the clerk of the board of trustees be informed if there is a vacancy, not just the clerk of the board of supervisors. thank you. >> supervisor mar: can i ask a question, alex, if you wouldn't mind. can you just repeat your -- your proposed changes to the vacant -- >> sure. on page 6, you -- changing the appointing authority to the city college associated students to the city college senate and the labor organization. but on page 7, starting with

line 5, you're only referencing the board of trustees, the president, the board of education. but now that there's three new appointing authorities, those vacancies would currently not be covered in the ordinance. and then, on-line 22, i would like to see the clerk of the board of trustees being added as part of the notification process in case there are any vacancies on the oversight committee, but other than that, we are supportive and thank you for your work. >> supervisor mar: thank you. >> hello. good afternoon, supervisors ronen, walton, and mar. i want to thank you for taking up this ordinance. i'm jennie worley with a.f.t. 2121. we are just so appreciative of you taking up this ordinance. as supervisor mar said, it's part of a three-piece package.

there's an ordinance, there's a motion, and there's a resolution. so it's part of a three-piece package, and we're really excited to see this go forward to support our students for another ten years. contrary to the first commentator, the first public comment, our students are certainly not the privileged children of san francisco's wealthy, living at home and off of dear old dad. as our board presidents, our students are coming out of foster care, some from incarceration. some of our students are second, third, fourth chancers. every year, at the beginning of my class, i do a little step forward, step back with students so they can all see they're not alone. who's a single parent? and i ask who's fucked up and is taking a second chance? every one of them steps

forward, so those are our students, and we are really so grateful to you for giving them this chance. we really support the amendment that supervisor mar proposed, and we just want to express particularly or gratitude for supervisor mar for carrying this through. i don't know if he knew what he was getting himself into with all the complications, but thank you so much. well done. thank you. >> hi. minoxil, organizer, community housing partnership. i just want to remind folks why we were involved in the houscoe coalition. the reason we're here is because students quantity to feel that they're part of enhancing the community. i just want to encourage

through each of these processes of approval that we maintain the structure and intent of providing free education for our most at-need residents in our community. thank you. >> supervisors, thank you again for taking this up. i'm elisa messer. i'm a faculty member at city college, but i also sit on the oversight committee. we fully support these amendments, and i'm glad to see the amends to the over sight committee. i just want to mention that we're working on the final report right now about the -- about the pilot that the program has been under. we've served -- in the first year of free serve college, we served more than 22,000 students, so i just -- it's

nice to hear that number and understand what that means for our city, not just for our college and our students, but what that means for our city. there are some big changes in the oversight committee. there are -- definitely, it's changing the balance. there's one less faculty member. we don't like that so much, but we do like the additional students that are there, and look forward to continuing the work of that committee. i also wanted to mention that i've been doing recently, as part of the oversight committee, a deep dive into the literature about free college program, and ours continues to be unique and special. we are universal. we support low-income students, not just middle -- middle-income students. we support students of all ages, not just recent high school graduates, and we're just doing a really -- we have a unique program that deserves more study and more work, but we're very excited to keep doing this work and for a

ten-year program. so i want to thank supervisor mar, supervisor ronen, and supervisor walton. you have all played your parts, and we will need your continued vigilance to make sure that this program continues to do good work for our city overall. thank you. >> good afternoon, i guess, supervisors. my name is connie ford, and i'm here on behalf of the san francisco labor council and the labor movement in general. you know that the labor movement has supported the free city college in general for decades around the free city program. the labor movement was instrumental in helping with a resolution. and further, i also, like elisa, sit on the oversight committee as the "community representative" so making sure all of those important programs continue. the labor movement is extremely interested and excited about the labor and community

department of which we send many of our members to learn more about san francisco, the san francisco history, community organizing, etc. i also would like to thank supervisor mar for his diligence, his perseverance, and his patience, because this is one of those very difficult kinds of campaigns where you don't really know. we have the students, we have the labor movements, we have the chancellor's office, we have the trustees, we have dcyf, there's a lot of players, and to bring them together in this part of the world to support initiatives, we will all go forward. it's just been a great thing. i do want to mention that by not having -- by eliminating one faculty of city college, it eliminates the option of having -- aside from the president and he or she should be on it, but one more person

who understands the free city college program, and by putting that back on, which i might consider, you know? it's been, to be honest, elisa, as an a.f.t. person who's done a fabulous job, you're all going to be impressed with it -- and i serve on it, as well. >> chair ronen: thank you. is there any other member of the public that would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: i, too, just wanted to thank supervisor mar for taking leadership and making sure that we see the crucial programs through. i know that you've worked really hard on it, and i just appreciate all that work. i've always said that the free city college program is one of those very rare pieces of legislation that's

transformative that really has the power to change class dynamics in the city, and there's very few pieces of legislation that make that kind of impact, so it's a tremendous honor to be able to vote in favor of this and to be able to follow the tremendous leadership of the community and labor and who -- and the trustees who have worked so hard to make this program a resounding success. so congratulations, everyone, and thank you for finding this incredible solution and bringing everyone together to see this through. did you want to say anything else, supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: yeah. so indeed, this was a bit more complicated than i thought it would be when i volunteered to work on free city, but i think we're really close to getting something that is really great for city college. i think it encompasses the

goals that we all share for the free city program. i did want to discuss some of the amendments that were mentioned by the speakers in public comment as well as what i referred to earlier. these all relate to the membership. the first one is -- i heard -- for 3 aseats 3 and 4, the amendments i had introduced was changing the appointing authority for those two seats, taking it away from the mayor and board of supervisors and giving it to the college and associated students. upon further consideration, i wanted to propose that we keep those two seats -- one -- seat 3 appointed by the mayor and seat 4 appointed by the board

of supervisors but add an additional seat, a student seat that is appointed by the associated students. i mean, i think in terms of amending the ordinance, it probably would be best that what i'm proposing as a third seat to be held by a student at city college and be appointed by the associated student -- city college associated student so that would go best as seat five, and then all the other seats from seat 5 on would get bumped a number higher. city attorney givner, does that sound -- yes? and then there -- there was a question raised about seat 141234 it's a nonvoting seat held by the student trustee who's a member of the college board? is there a reason why that's a nonvoting seat on the oversight

committee? >> mr. givner: deputy city attorney jon givner again. that's a policy decision. we drafted the ordinance, just followed the policy decision, so you could make that a voting seat. that's entirely in your discretion. >> supervisor mar: mm-hmm. yeah, i would -- i would be inclined to have that. because i think in terms of -- of modifying the oversight committee, i think they were most interested in expanding student voice on the oversight committee, so i think in addition to adding a third student seat to be appointed by the associated students of city college, i think making the student trustee the -- a voting seat would also be in line with that. so we would remove the language that says it'll be a nonvoting seat. and then, the final possible

amendment that the board -- that alex randolph is president of the board of trustees referred to, on page 7, line 3 to 7, that section of the ordinance describes what happens when a member of the oversight committee is not appointed in this a timely way, we'd want to add in, the first sentence, in addition to mentioning the city college board of trustees, the president of the city college board of trustees and the board of education of the san francisco unified school district add in those three other appointing entities that are reflected in the amendment. that's the associated students of city college, the academic senate of city college, and the labor organization representing the largest number of classified employees.

>> mr. givner: i think the one thing that i'd recommend is remove the reference of the president of the city board of trustees in that line because while the president will be serving on that oversight committee, the president will no longer have appointment over what we're originally calling seats 10 and 11, so there's no longer a need to include the president in that list. >> supervisor mar: got it. yes, that makes sense. and then, i think the final point that president randolph mentioned was write -- the potential amendment to be considered is saying that when the board of supervisors may appoint a member of the public to fill -- fill the seat until the appointing authority appoints a person, that we should notify the clerk of the city college board of trustees just so they're aware.

and i -- >> mr. givner: commissioner randolph can correct me if this is wrong, but i believe that's an amendment to section c, where the oversight committee would inform the clerk of the board and then appointing authority of any resignation based on this meeting, so we would add the clerk of the board of trustees in addition to the clerk of the board of supervisors. is that right? >> supervisor mar: okay. so that would go in subsection c, sort of line 20 or something? okay. sounds good. >> chair ronen: good. with that, i'll take the motion to amend without objection? without objection, those amendments pass. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: and then, the attorney, jon givner, does that mean that we need to continue this item or no? >> mr. givner: you can forward it out today. >> chair ronen: fantastic. i will note that both items 4

and 5 were noted that we were going to potentially consider them as a committee report. we're not going to take them as a committee report. we're just going to pass them out under the regular calendar, so they will be voted on at the board of supervisors at the -- >> clerk: july 16. >> chair ronen: july 16 meeting, so we're not going to send them forward as a committee report. so do you want to do the honors of making the motion? >> supervisor mar: yeah. can we do these together -- so yeah, i would move that we recommend -- that we move items 4 and 5 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> chair ronen: yes, and item 5 as amended. without objection, those motions pass. okay. congratulations. thank you. [applause] >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, is there any other item? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> chair ronen: and the meeting is adjourned. thank you.

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>> a way of life in san francisco. when the next major quake hits, the city hopes a new law requiring seismic upgrades to five story buildings will help keep more residents safe and sound. tell me a little about the soft story program. what is it? >> it's a program the mayor signed into law about a year and a half ago and the whole idea behind it was to help homeowners strengthen buildings so that they would not collapse. >> did you the soft story program apply to all buildings or building that were built in a certain time frame? >> it only applies to buildings built in the time frame of 1978 and earlier. it's aimed at wood framed

buildings that are three or more stories and five or more units. but the openings at the garage level and the street level aren't supported in many buildings. and without the support during a major earthquake, they are expected to pancake and flatten ~. many of the buildings in this program are under rent control so it's to everybody's advantage to do the work and make sure they protect their investment and their tenant. >> notices have gone out to more than 6,000 owners of potentially at-risk properties but fewer than one-third have responded and thousands might miss an important deadline in september to tell the city what they plan to do. let's talk worst case scenario. what happens in a collapse? >> buildings have the tendency of rolling over. the first soft story walls lean over and the building collapse. in an earthquake the building

is a total loss. >> can you describe what kind of strengthening is involved in the retrofit? >> one of the basic concepts, you want to think of this building kind of like rubber band and the upper three floor are very rigid box and the garage is a very flexible element. in an earthquake the garage will have a tendency to rollover. you have to rubber band analogy that the first floor is a very tough but flexible rubber band such that you never drive force he to the upper floors. where all your damage goes into controlled element like plywood or steel frame. >> so, here we are actually inside of a soft story building. can we talk a little about what kinds of repairs property owners might expect? >> it's a very simple process. we deliberately tried to keep it that way. so, what's involved is plywood, which when you install it and make a wall as we have done here already, then you cover it

with this gypsum material. this adds some flexibility so that during the earthquake you'll get movement but not collapse. and that gets strengthened even more when we go over to the steel frame to support the upper floor. >> so, potentially the wood and the steel -- it sounds like a fairly straightforward process takes your odds of collapse from one in 4 to one in 30? >> that's exactly right. that's why we're hoping that people will move quickly and make this happen. >> great. let's take a look. so, let's talk steel frames. tell me what we have going on here. >> well, we have a steel frame here. there are two of these and they go up to the lower floor and there is a beam that go across, basically a box that is much

stiffer and stronger. ~ goes so that during the earthquake the upper floor will not collapse down on this story. it can be done in about two weeks' time. voila, you're done. easy. >> for more information on how to get your building earthquake ready, [gavel]. >> chair peskin: good afternoon and well come to the land use and transportation committee meeting of july 8, 2019. i am joined by supervisor safai to my left and matt haney to my right. our clerk is miss