related to sidewalks. when people are talking down the sidewalk, most people don't walk down the middle of the street. the city takes care of the street, and people take care of the sidewalk. we want to make the sidewalks dynamic, clean, orderly, and make sure that people work within the area, live within the area as well as property owners, business owners, and visitors have a pleasant experience in those public rights of way. the district will provide the special benefits on a day-to-day basis provided by the nonprofit corporation made up of profit owners and business owners in the proposed district. it'll probably be a very large governing board as anticipated because we add 30 to 40 people participating in an ongoing basis in our district steering committee. how about the services be provided in the first task is cleaning beautification and

maintaining order in the right-of-way. some of the most beautiful streets of the city are to be found in jackson square. we hope to be underway by 2020. so that's the presentation. it's long in coming, about 12 years in the making, and i think you'll see substantial support from all the property owners who have returned their ballots to improve this great community benefit district. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. okay. we will now open public testimony. if you're here to -- in support of the assessment district, please come up. you have two minutes. >> hello. my name is frank collins. i'm here representing clint mark landmark properties.

this has been a long time coming, as marco said, but nothing worth doing comes easy. we urge you to support the formation of this district. this is both an opportunity and responsibility of all the business owners in the district, and we're very excited to get going. thank you very much. >> supervisor rodney fong with the san francisco chamber of commerce. i seek your support here. you see this graed crowd before me. had the pleasure of forming the fisherman's wharf community benefit district ten years ago, and that was hugely successful. people speak about clean and safe, but the truth is c.b.d.s build community, c.b.d.s build support, and i urge you to support. thank you.

>> good afternoon. my name's glen good. i live at 4400 hate 19 stre19 . i'm also representing 1 bush street, which is owned by the tischman spire in this district. we're in support of this. thank you for the opportunity to speak. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is shayna eskew. i manage two of the buildings in the district. i just want to urge my support and hope that you will adopt this. thank you. >> thank you. my name's christie robela. i represent cbre, and i manage a property, and i just wanted

to urge my support, as well. >> my name is crissy harris, and i am a property manager in the area, and i just wanted to also register my support for the downtown c.b.d. thank you. >> hi. my name's marty smith, and i'm one of the owners of all house real estate, which is a real estate company managing properties in downtown. several of our buildings are in current improvement districts, and the difference between having one and not having one is dramatic for tenants, for property owners, and for the safety of the people walking those streets, so we're in full support of the downtown improvement districts. thanks. >> president yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. deedee workman with the san francisco chamber of commerce. really delighted that this is coming before you today. i want to thank supervisor

peskin and his staff for ushering this after all these years through to you. we know that c.b.d.s are a very successful approach to keeping neighborhoods thriving. the downtown core is no different than any other san francisco neighborhood and needs this additional help to stay clean and to be a thriving, attractive neighborhood that appeals to our businesses, to our residents, to our employees, to our visitors. this particular c.b.d. will fill the gap in terms of where other c.b.d.s exist and the services there. so we're glad this is coming there, and we urge you to support it. thank you. >> president yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name's diana rosenblatt. i manage 515 california, 533,

and 535, an entire city block. we look forward to the support moving forward. thank you very much. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> hello, supervisors. my name is jay cheng from the chamber of commerce. i'm here to register my support for the c.b.d. it is a ten-year-plus project that has been given a lot of attention by supervisor peskin and oewd on this issue. c.b.d.s are a great examples of individuals coming together to build community, strengthening neighborhoods, and take responsibility for the city around us, so thank you. >> president yee: next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lynn fazeroli, i am from the san francisco sales organization. we are the travel and sales organization throughout the city. this has been a long time coming. the c.b.d. will provide

services for our visitors and residents alike. it will provide safety and berment of the community. some of the key services -- betterment of the community. some of the key services are graffiti abatement and traffic control. and this will make for a better san francisco, and for that reason, we support the creation of the downtown community benefits district. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is david fewette. on behalf of the sway company, we would like to support this. thank you. >> president yee: thank you. next speaker. >> my name is jackie robinson. i'm with madison marquette, and

i fully support the downtown c.b.d. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is david harrison. i'm a long time san francisco resident, long time san francisco business owner and property owner, and i've had the pleasure of serving on the board of directors of three different community benefit districts: fisherman's wharf, civic center, and the community benefit district. i know these things work, and i won't go on, but i strongly urge that you support it. >> president yee: thank you. >> thank you. >> president yee: next speaker. >> example here of this section of san francisco where property owners and tenants get together and willing to tax themselves in order to keep their neighborhoods clean. if you used their type of

philosophies in the area that's not clean, where you have to go out and pay employees that work for the department of public works $184,000 a year and their name is the poop squad cleanup detail, it's a big difference. but yet, we're still located in the same jurisdiction as far as the city and county of san francisco is concerned. the most you want to do is cleanup behind the people that are not wanting to use their own rest room because you're not providing them rest room. each and every one of these tenants and supporters have their own residents in which they live, and they're willing to tax themselves cleaner than what their neighborhoods already are. the tenderloin, other areas of the city, areas around city hall are nowhere as near as clean as their area before they even start taxing themselves to

cleanup their own god damn area. it's disgusting. you've got a supervisor that's arguing over plastic bags. you want to charge 25 cents more when you go to the store and get a bag. you spend more time on a god damn plastic bag than providing permanent housing for people that are out on the streets. you've got people that are recovering from the ethnic cleansing. i don't appreciate you talking like that, brown. i'm talking about you. >> president yee: okay. seei seeing no other persons, are

there any other comments in support of the community benefit district? okay. seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> president yee: okay, colleagues, do we have any other comments on this? okay. seeing none, the hearing is now filed. the department of elections will count the ballots cast and will return with the final tabulation later in the meeting and come back to item number 51. madam clerk, please call items 52 and 53. >> clerk: items 52 and 53

require the board of supervisors to convene as a special committee of the whole. item 52 ais a hearing to consider item 53 which is a hearing to review and expand the community benefit district known as the civic center community benefit district, collecting taxes levied in that district for is a years. >> president yee: colleagues, the purpose of this hearing is to take taxes of the proposed district named the civic center community business improvement district. pursuant to the board of supervisors resolution of intention we adopted on may 21, 2019. as described in the management district plan, the proposed district would be approximately 771 parcels.

details of the covered area are in the file. at the conclusion of the public hearing, the department of elections will tabulate the ballots and report to the board of supervisors. members of the public may view the ballot tabulation by the department of elections on the basement level of city hall in room 59. the board of supervisors will neither levy the assessments nor approve the establishment of the district if there is a majority protest. if public testimony -- the public testimony will be as follows. we will first hear from all speakers in support of the assessment district, then we will hear from all speakers in opposition of the assessment districts. during the hearing, a property owner who has not voted yet or who wishes to change their vote

may speak with the department of elections staff. they are just outside the board chamber and will provide you with affidavit and ballot. after hearing closes, the ballots will be counted. before we begin, supervisor haney or brown, would you like to make any opening remarks? supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: sure. thank you, president yee. just very briefly. i'm very strongly in support of this. i want to thank you, chris, for your work as well as the staff at c.b.d. i think there's great things that are happening at civic center and many positive things that you have been helping to lead. i think this plan and you are going to take us in the right direction, and also public

activation. i also want to realize that there were some issues that we worked on very closely, and we are working to resolve some of those issues, as well, and i hope that these are improved, and we can continue to work together. >> president yee: supervisor brown, do you have any comments? okay. then chris from oewd. >> thank you, president yee, oewd. i promise this is the last time you'll hear of a c.b.d. election for a few months. this is the renewal and expansion of the civic center community benefit district. there will be an amendment to this item after the votes are counted in line of procedure which will remove two buildings

or 51 parcels from the northernmost section of the district. now, tracey everline from the civic center c.b.d. is here to present on the renewal and expansion of the c.b.d. >> good afternoon, supervisors. tracey everline, executive

director for the civic center c.b.d., and i'm very honored to be representing our field personnel who helped take care of the district we sit in today day in and day out. our administrative staff, who have gone above and beyond in their jobs this past year, making civic center a better place for everyone in it, and we've also increased the capacity for our organizations so we can do more for the community. i'd like to thank the board members, all members of the community who volunteer their time, and especially our district members who want to be part of solutions and the power of working together. this has reminded everyone what an important role that civic center c.b.d. plays. it should be the example of what a safe and healthy neighborhood looks like.

so before you is our proposed district map. the district includes 771 parcels. notable things are that we are going from two -- from three zones to two, and have a slightly eastern expansion to include u.n. plaza which is currently without a c.b.d. we have a $3.2 million proposed budget, with $1.6 million to be spent in zone 1, $1.7 million to be spent in zone two, and as you can see, 77% of the budget is spent towards cleaning services of safety, cleaning, and activation. as snapshot of our services, cleaning, safety, maintenance, public health and safety, with a lot of issues that remain on our sidewalks, and they are the responsibility of the property

owners. we are removing a lot of graffiti every day on not-so-easy to clean surfaces. we are still struggling with discarded syringes and human and animal feces in our right-of-way, but our pilot project is very successful, so we will be adding more of these in the years to come. couple of more current statistics. we're currently only able to appreciate wash 46,000 square feet of sidewalk. if successfully renewed, we will go over to 300,000 square feet. we are still collecting 100,000 needles a year, and we hope that will go down.

we are providing playground monitors for safety in the civic center plaza, and we make sure that all the rental income from that facility is reinvested in civic center plaza. the people are feeling much better about coming to civic

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we stand to benefit the most from this partnership. i fully support this item and i hope that you do, as well. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is miles gordon. i am here to voice support for

this measure. i represent the ownership of 1355 market street and support the civic centre c.b.d. our building houses approximately 2,500 employees in addition to 300 visitors per day we greatly benefit from the cleaning and safety ambassador services provided by the c.b.d. we want the services to continue and appreciate the value of the c.b.d. to the neighborhood. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with emerald fund. we are the developer and property owners are and -- property manager and owner of three different buildings. it comprises 1,000 apartments which totals close to 2,000 residents. we are huge supporters of the c.b.d. the positive changes that the c.b.d. has brought over the last nine years have been great. we can't imagine operating without the c.b.d. and we would like to express our huge support for it. thank you. >> next speaker.

>> i work for -- i work with properties that are in the civic centre c.b.d. i have been involved with that c.b.d. since its inception and i feel that we have learned a lot and we are really looking forward to renewing it. therefore i support the renewal. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello, my name is ruth. i'm a staff member at san francisco opera. i walk every day from the castro neighborhood into the civic centre neighborhood. i have been in san francisco for over 11 years and i am just amazed by the transformation that i have seen in civic centre we do have more to do and we would appreciate your support in helping us do that. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. patrick mills here representing the bayreuth family of businesses including the by right café kiosk on civic centre plaza to enthusiastically

support the renewal of the c.b.d. at civic centre plaza and to attest to the astute management of our facilities, your support and opening our business, the safety and cleanliness of the plaza and most importantly, the building of community within the community benefit district. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i live at 100 van nuys. i worked with him on ways to improve civic centre and in 2006 , he authorized the creation of a civic centre c.b.d. it took four years to get it to the point of being authorized by the board of supervisors because it was tricky. we had all these public parcels and it had to be shaped up and we didn't really know what the area needed exactly. so eight years from the

inception and now we are back before you saying we better understand it. we need more money and we are also going to be taking the responsibility for you and pablo , which has been virtually neglected for the last eight or ten years, and so i think we are at a really good place. i would also like to suggest that, which has not been mentioned, that civic centre is the most significant civic centre of any in the united states. it is the largest collection of monumental municipal buildings of any city. it is a national treasure and we need a strong organization to help tell that story and get people to come because for the last 50 or 70 years, the area has been misunderstood, it has been neglected, and it has been ignored. the c.b.d. is one of the biggest steps along with a number of others in the last ten years to try to overcome that but more needs to be done. if case -- in case you haven't

seen it, i have written it all up in a book that i have put out recently and i hope that you all have gotten a copy and read it closely because the last chapter underscores a lot of the things that happened to mess things up. so i will leave some of my flyers here to encourage you to get the book. [laughter]. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is susan and i represent the san francisco conservatory of music. we are enthusiastic supporters of the c.b.d. we have 400 and more students coming and going at the building on 50 oh, every day. on saturdays we have as many as 350 children between the ages of four and 18 coming with their parents to learn about music, and they come through that area, too, as well as the fact that we have about 600 concerts a year free to the public. so we have people coming and going all the time and we couldn't imagine doing it

without the services of the c.b.d. we are very strongly in support. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. my name is lisa and they represent the san francisco opera. we are thrilled to be here in support of the civic centre community benefit district. we welcome hundreds of thousands of patrons from all over the world, all over the country and here in san francisco and in the bay area to the beautiful war memorial performing arts center in the work that the community district has done to clean our streets provide ambassadors for patients walking to and from areas around the civic centre and it has been crucial to our retention of patrons, and we support this and appreciate your consideration. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am george, the new manager of permits and reservations for recreation and park, formerly the executive director of san francisco pride, also here to enthusiastically encourage you

to renew the civic centre c.b.d. i can say from experience, producing events in this space, knowing it is a well-funded, a well perceived and they well resourced venue, it is of the utmost importance when you're literally bringing millions of people to the heart of the city so i encourage you to renew it. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is justin. i have been a resident in this district since 2012 and i have seen it transform. we need to continue this program because it is actually working to make our streets a lot safer, cleaner, you know, there's not a lot of needles out there anymore , they are offering a public service. they have been doing a great job and we need to keep this going. >> supervisors, i am a public-policy leader at square. square is headquartered at 1455 market street within the c.b.d. boundaries.

we have about 2,000 people in that headquarters. i also represent square on the advisory board of civic centre commons initiative, partnering with the c.b.d. we partner with them on friday markets to get local merchants participating and activating spaces like the plaza. we have sent many employees to events like block parties. these activations are having important impacts to -- revitalize the community. square is proud to work with the c.b.d. on this. i'm also a neighbor of civic centre. i live in the tenderloin and have seen every day in my walk to work to civic centre the drastic improvements that the c.b.d. has helped to make in the neighborhood. i'm here to support the renewal and expansion of the c.b.d. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm here representing emerald fund. i am their chief building engineer for 100 venice, 150 van ness and the civic. i'm here seeking your support and showing my support for the

civic centre c.b.d. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. my name is tonya and i am the property manager at 10150 van ness. i fully support the renewal of the c.b.d. and i do believe that the services they do provide are vital. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is art. i am the owner of one united nations plaza. it is a little art deco building , but it is the top of the escalator from the civic centre by main station. that is where tours from the airport come up and see san francisco for the first time. i was born in the city. i practised law in that little building for the last 25 years. this is the best i have ever seen it. it has a ways to go in terms of the policing. the neighborhood policing in the neighborhood has has recently been stopped at night.

the tenants in the café had to close early because they don't feel safe at night. whatever you can do to get 24/7 policing of that neighborhood will help to supplement what this and if it district can otherwise do. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker. >> i would like to start by asking you all how you got here today. did you take munimobile? did you get off at bart? did you walk on hyde street? did you park underground of the civic centre garage? any wait you got here, you are directly benefiting from the c.b.d.'s efforts in our public spaces. they provide essential services that the city does not, specifically outside of this building where you all work. without their efforts, we would walk through human waste or animal waste, syringes, garbage, other hazardous materials, and the ambassadors help others in the neighborhood feel safe and welcome. that is a direct c.b.d. program.

my name is kate and in a managed the visitor experience with the san francisco symphony across the street and we adamantly support the c.b.d. i would like to especially lift up the c.b.d.'s evening ambassador assistance and garage creators which positively affect our patients who come to concerts on nights and weekends when the area isn't filled with workers such as yourselves. there is much more work to be done to keep the area consistently clean and safe for employees, residents and visitors and i would like to register support and thank the board of supervisors for hearing this public comment. thanks. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is samara, i am representing lynn lease. it is a property owned -- he is a property owner in the district i am here to register our support for the c.b.d. we are great supporters of the c.b.d. we greatly value the work that the c.b.d. has done to make this

area safer, cleaner, and more vibrant, and we are particularly supportive of what the c.b.d. is doing to program civic centre plaza with events that help all of us to enjoy this beautiful place. the civic centre plaza, which some may call a national treasure. we look forward to partnering with the c.b.d. going forward to make this whole area more welcoming for the whole community. thank you. >> good afternoon, my name is david. i am representing hastings cold of law. we strongly support the civic centre community benefit district. i think their effectiveness is demonstrated by the success they have had to date and with the renewal, we are very hopeful that they, along with the other community stakeholders that are committed to improving this immediate area will continue to see progress as the neighborhood continues to evolve and become all the more embrace of,

inclusive, and welcoming for all folks. thank you very much. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is joanne desmond and i am an assistant business agent, the theatrical stage hand's union. on behalf of our members, we are pleased that the city and sh and have come to an agreement with respect to the community than if it's district and to compromise on the financial burden of safety and security around the orpheum theatre and surrounding areas. as indicated, the community benefits district will help coordinate ten officers with sh in. it looks to assist in this effort as best as we can. special thanks to supervisor peskin, safai, and haney, as well as their staff, and the staff at the office of economic

development for helping to facilitate this agreement. thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am the vice president of production for sh in theaters. we represent the golden gate theatre and the tenderloin c.b.d., as well as the orpheum theatre in the proposed civic centre c.b.d. we are pleased of come to an agreement with the civic centre c.b.t. to compromise on the financial burden of safety and security around the theatre and surrounding areas. we look forward to working with the c.b.d. executive committee and tracy, starting in january, to fulfil the letter of intent and to assist us in coordinating ten beat officers during a time that we have security concerns at a projected 200 hours a year. we look forward to sitting down with them before january to discuss their commitments and our needs. as just mentioned by joanne, we have special thanks for supervisors peskin, safai, and

haney, as well as their staff, and the staff at oewd for helping to facilitate the agreement between the c.b.d. and us. thank you. >> thank you. next. [please stand by]

>> that is that the c.b.d., through its board and committee meetings, offers a forum where the different property owners, the different property and business owners and tenants and so on, but the big groups here, there's a lot of government property owners -- government owned properties, a lot of

performing arts groups, a lot of private businesses and private properties. those groups kind of operate in their own world, for the most part, and this entity here offers a way for those groups to communicate with each other and work together for the common good of sales and of the city. it is -- a very strongly recommend that you support it. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is lynn. i am from the san francisco travel association and i'm here to support the renewal of the civic centre c.b.d. the c.b.d. provide services for our visitors and our residents. some of the key services are sidewalk power washing, hazardous material cleanup such as syringes, graffiti removal, neighborhood activations, events , public art, concerts, community ambassadors, safe, informed, and inspired. all of these things make people feel more welcome on the streets

of san francisco. for that reason, we support the renewal. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> could afternoon board of supervisors. my name is barry and i am an nonprofit and service support analyst and i depend on analyst in this area. i have been living in this area for almost 14 years and i know that the support of those animals on the people that cater to the city center, this may be very beneficial for them and i thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> thank you, again. tom, i am glad we are cleaning up the area. the u.n. was given birth at civic centre, the u.n. plaza. i think we've got some of the local big shots that are in the

room here. it would be nice to have a little statuary for mrs. eleanor roosevelt. if you want to know a little bit more, refresh your memory about the women, go to ken burns, i believe it was roosevelt's episode. it was his last. thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my office is in the civic centre c.b.d. and i have been on the board there since the inception. we utilize the services of the c.b.d. and probably call two or three times a day. we strongly support the renewal and the expansion. thank you for your time. >> next speaker. >> i just have a word with matt and i asked if one of these

kinds of programs in the tenderloin. he says that there already is one. if there is, you are doing a terrible job and i want to put strong urgency on it. as far as these upper income bracket people expanding, they need to expand to the tenderloin where strong drug abuse, discharging of both animal waste and human waste is all over the place. that's why you have the poop squad to detail. they get paid $194,000 a year plus benefits and you still can't keep the area clean. it is disgusting, but yet all of these organizations and these testimonies from people that are predominately white within the city, they are taking money out of their income to keep their areas cleaner than they already are. that's a fraction of the areas where you live if it was just half as clean as the tenderloin

is, and with the amount of money that is being wasted, we would be all right. i will tell you the source, the reason why. it is like this. s.f. viewer, please. the viewer is out of check. anyway, can you stop my team for a moment please while i get this together? around-the-clock, 24 hours a day it is like this, and even more so. this is life. this is one of the reasons why because you discriminate against those people who are in low income back -- brackets. you have a brand-new 300 unit apartment building complex, section 410 that he told you about, it is part of your own rules and regulations and says 15% dispose spee for low and very low income bracket people, the people that are homeless. out of this 300 unit apartment

building complex, 45 of though units -- those units is supposed to be for people in low income. you have it where low income is 39,000 -- >> thank you. thank you. [indiscernible] >> any other -- thank you. [indiscernible] >> thank you, mr. right. next speaker. any other speakers in support? seeing none, now i would like to welcome any speakers who are in opposition of the assessment. come on up. you have two minutes. >> good afternoon. nothing like feeling outnumbered , but i am paul alec, the priest of these pissed vocal church at the advent on fell street -- at the episcopal church.

not necessarily speaking against the idea, i love the concept of it, i wish we would have known and been part of the process. its neck up on us. i think we got swept in the expansion of it and our organization does not have the resources that the city government has or the opera, or anyone that spoke today, and it sounds funny in san francisco, but $1,000 here or there, and ours would go up about $3,000, is a lot of money for us. we live on the edge financially. we don't produce income, we live by donations. i just wanted to name that reality. i don't know if other nonprofits got swept up in it without realizing it. we found out about two months ago by accident before the mailing came that it was even happening. having said all that, and identifying those unintended consequences, the area around us certainly needs to be cleaned up

thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. i'm at 234 linden. this is my ballot. this is what it is worth. as a condo owner. i am paying, you know, a dollar a month and after right hotline to, it is only a dollar a month. after 15 years, that is about $30,000, okay. for the average homeowner, fs -- ff -- s.f. jazz -- this is nothing to them. my calculations are right and know what he has gotten back to me on this so i had to go clicking through the thing to find how much they are paying. the ultrarich here, they are paying some around $200 a day. twitter and uber, and their free cafeterias, they are throwing away that much sushi every day. for me, this is real money. in 15 years, what is the $30,000 going to be? cancer treatment? for me, it is a lot. for the average homeowner, who

are paying what i am paying, this is a lot of money. nobody cares. people are regularly laughing. it is not fair. look at all the people who are speaking in favor. neither single one of them is super rich or they benefit financially. they are getting money back from the c.b.d. this is amazing because there are fewer homeless people and drug addicts you can't even see the -- say their home -- whole name. they are on linden now. there is a guy every morning, you know, he has a pile of his own feces on one side, syringes on the other, and he is completely comatose. we are calling 311 all the time. you could completely have the camera going and say here is linden street. it is completely sad. why am i paying, you know, the bulk of the bird and when this is nothing for all the rich people? one hundred van ness, come on. this is nothing for them. it is totally unfair how the poor have no say. think about who owns this

election. it is the ultrarich. the properties over $75 million, they completely owned the vote because it is weighted by property value. my property value is almost nothing, as are the other condos in the area so we have no voice. s.f. jazz's vota 75 of mine. uber has over 200 of my vote. how come i -- [indiscernible]. >> thank you. thank you. next speaker. next speaker. i'm sorry. >> oh,.

>> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is donna. i live at 720 gough street. i just wanted to say a couple of things. one, we have worked with supervisor brown and her office and we want to thank them for the work they did with us. we could not afford to stay in the c.b.d. we recognize that it has done some great stuff in the civic centre area. we do appreciate what you all have done. the other comment i want to add to what the minister said is that if there's something that can be improved in the process of bringing folks into the renewal things that have to happen, and if it could be done earlier, it would be a great thing. but thank you. >> thank you. any other speakers? seeing no other speakers, public comment is closed.

colleagues, do we have any other comments? seeing no other speakers and no comments, then i want to say that this hearing has been heard and is now filed. supervisor peskin? >> so i just want to reiterate comments that i have previously made with regard to the enabling ordinance that creates community benefit districts, which is that these are little many governments with parts of the city that agreed to assess themselves. and as to the impassioned speaker who just came before us, yes, it is absolutely true, they are variously weighted and they are not one person, one vote. these are actually created in a way under state law and local law where certain voters, based

on square footage or linear footage, have a weighted vote. that is a true fact, but as i was describing to my colleague, supervisor ronen, the reason that the board of supervisors i think, in 2003 passed an ordinance that allows this board to not approve a c.b.d., even if the voters in that c.b.d. vote for it, that allows us to disband a c.b.d. if it is dysfunctional, if it is gentrifying an area, if it is discriminating against individuals, if it is dysfunctional, the reason that we did that is because we understood that these are little many governments that ultimately are under the elected government of the city and county of san francisco, so to the priest and others that came here, if this

c.b.d., and in the case, as i said in committee and supervisor haney is well aware of this, the civic centre c.b.d. is actually a san francisco government c.b.d. because the number 1 payer into that c.b.d. is this government. a majority of those properties belong to the people of the city and county of san francisco. this board authorizes -- authorized by resolution that we empower the mayor to vote in the affirmative for this c.b.d. if it cease is to work, if it discriminates against people, if it is a failure, come to this board of supervisors, come to supervisor haney, to this supervisor, and god forbid that it ever gets that bad, but we have the power to disband it. i just want to say that again for the record. >> okay.

thank you. any other colleagues want to speak? seeing none, the hearing has been heard and is now filed. we will now adjourn from the committee of the whole and reconvene as the board of supervisors. the department of elections will call the ballots cast and we will return with the final tabulation later in the meeting and come back to item number 53. okay. let's go back to our regular agenda for now. madame clerk, i believe your own item number 42. >> forty-two. forty-two is a charter amendment to amend the municipal chartier of the city to change the name of the aging and adult services commission to the disability and aging services commission to establish qualifications for three of the commission seats, change the name of the department of aging and adult services to the department of disability and aging services and to change the name of the

aging and adult services community living fund to their disability and aging services community living fund at an election to be held on november 5th, 2019. this is the first appearance of this proposed charter amendment. it therefore should be continued until july 23rd. >> okay. thank you. i want to thank my colleagues for your support the far furthest charter amendment that is needed in order to update the name and commission of one of our departments, which helps more than one in four san franciscans. today we need to support as they grow older. this charter amendment will accomplish the following. it will change the official name of the aging and adult services commission to the disability and aging services commission. it will change the official name

of the department of aging and adult services to the department of disability and aging services it will add qualifications to three of the commission's seats so that one commissioner will be a person who is 60 years or older. one will be a person with disabilities, and the last would be a person who has served in the u.s. military. thank you to my colleagues for your support and i look forward to a shift of passage of the amendment which will be heading to the november ballot with your support today. colleagues, can we have a motion to continue this item to the meeting on tuesday, july 23rd? motion made by supervisor mandelman, seconded by supervisor walton. without objection, this item is

continued to tweak, tuesday, july 23rd, 2019. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> forty-three is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the senior operating subsidies program fund to be used to lower rent in housing develop its occupied by low income senior citizens. >> i'm very excited to bring forward. i know some of you hurt her at committee, but this legislation before you is the result of many conversations we have had throughout the year about how we are going to deal with the affordable housing crisis that is impacting seniors. i want to first thank my cosponsors, supervisors peskin, ronen, mar, and fewer. by 2030, 26% of the population will be seniors. we will need to increase our level of attention and thoughtful investment to ensure that older adults can aging in

place and with dignity. seniors 60 years and older make up 24%, almost one quarter of all persons in the city who are under the poverty line. the housing crisis is difficult for seniors in a difficult way. they are facing challenges that the aging population is facing. i want to acknowledge that this hits people at various income levels, even middle income households. many seniors are living in situations that no longer suits them and are unable to move because they simply cannot afford a market rate unit. in terms of the reality is that aging adults will need some level of assistance and there are some -- there are very few options out there. as a city, we will need to develop solutions to address a range of issues. today, the focus is on affordable senior housing that the city helps to subsidize.

i'm proud that the housing bond will have $150 million dedicated to the senior housing projects. that is first. however, the peace we were not able to address in the bond is that when we build affordable senior housing, units are still not affordable to many on fixed incomes. many seniors are surviving off of fixed income like social security or s.s.i. yet the affordable -- the most affordable housing units are priced at 50% of a.m.i. for one person, that income is roughly $41,000. seniors make up three times less than that on their fixed incomes this situation is really untenable as more of our residents are retiring and relying on fixed incomes themselves. so the legislation before you today establishes what we call the s.o.s., senior operating subsidies program fund.

in this year's budget, we are ceding this fund with a 5 million-dollar investment over the next five years. this program will lower the cost of a unit to meet seniors where they are at, instead of 50% a.m.i. units, units will be set at 15% and 25% of a.m.i. so that seniors on fixed incomes can actually qualify. our hope is that this program can be used to start bringing down the affordability in senior housing projects that are currently under construction or in the housing pipeline. i hope that this will also inspire a more thoughtful strategy on how we can support our aging population before it is too late. i want to thank the seniors and advocates who have come out time and time again, courageously sharing their stories and struggles. some of the groups i would like to thank our the housing bond senior working group, the

dignity fund coalition, senior and disability action, faith in action, and self-help for the old elderly. i also want to acknowledge the team of the department of aging and adult services and the mayor 's office of housing for their collaboration. in our commitment to continue pushing the envelope on this issue, and hopefully get to a place where seniors will never have to question whether they will be able to find a safe, affordable and accessible place to live. with this, colleagues, i can hope i can -- i hope i can count on your support. supervisor safai? >> thank you. i just wanted to thank you for your hard work on this. please add me as a cosponsor and i just want to reiterate, is one of the districts that has the highest number of those aging in place, and many of whom have families move on and they are in houses that are too largeor