women's health. i am to speak in support of initiative. i want to encourage you to pass the legislation and i want to echo the sentiments about accountability making sure those running the effort have the authority to do their job and the accountability. your efforts to make sure everyone is accountability will help us to run our initiative. thank you. >> thank you. arnold townsend. real quick. you only got a minute. i support the legislation and what i want to talk about is that one minute. you all need to stop that. i remember when supervisors would have to take a break and dinner break. i know that is inconvenience,

but if anyone is going to be inconvenienced, it shouldn't be the people it should be the servants of the peopl people who should be inconvenienced. i would not be foolish enough to say anything important about racism in one minute. and then to cut people off mid sentence only speaks to the frustration that people of color feel living in a racist society. it ex asser bases it, increases it. you need to it would be better to bring us to say everybody support it stand up and everybody that doesn't sit down and you can go home and take care of your business. >> my given name is patricia and farrell. i have a legal name. i don't know what to think. my parents in 1948 were the

first interracial couple to be married in the san francisco county history if not the united states. he was negro, she was a white woman. i haven't heard anyone say anything about inter race, there are many people who don't know their races. there needs to be education on all sides. everybody has been separate for whatever race that they represent. i put decline to state. i want to say i know the group of people in the 1940s who came to san francisco because it was different and they wanted to enter. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am victoria stafford.

while our ons is excited to see the city take a long overdue step. the creation of the office would not be a beginning a continuation of work towards racial justice present for generations. do not let this let you lose momentum and i urge you to take the lead from the community from the voices you have heard today. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. i am here representing the office of economic and work force development. i was in the coal heard three years ago. thank you human rights for your leadership. thank you, supervisors, for considering the ordinance. this is important work to be in place a long time ago. i think or i will say the charge

to the legislator to make the decision from a place that is often disconnected from people of color and the issues they face. i will charge you to have deference to the people and people who are your staff who are actually working on the ground with people of color who see first hand the racism and discrimination they face on a daily basis. i think supervisors you should take the training to understand the veracity of racism. the partnership with the community and the legislators. >> chair mar: thank you. any other members of the public who wish to speak? please step forward. >> an old friend of mine set on

the board of the central bank. provided me the policies of state. government supporters and detractors of the industry and the general public compete for limited resources in spite of the rhetoric to the contrary. those city employees complaining before the budget finance committee a few weeks ago regarding a proposed policy of job elimination through attrition at the city housing authority were directing the comments to budget finance chair fewer as he was not only the prime mover of the targeted cuts disproportionately affecting black americans the funds from $3 million to $1 million. the budget chair as well recently blocked.

>> supervisor fewer: any more speakers during public comment? public comment is closed. now, i want to invite ms. campbell from the budget office to provide a brief economic impact presentation. >> good afternoon. the main thing i would report on the difference in what is said today is that the legislation does require a minimum of five staff for the office of racial equity. there were four positions that were introduced to the budget before the board of supervisors. three in 1920 and one in 2021. there would be one position requested by the human rights commission for the 2021 budget. we consider approval for the board of supervisors.

>> chair mar: colleagues, any additional comments or questions? supervisor brown? >> commissioner brown: thank you. i want to thank everyone for coming today and your time. i know the one minute is hard. we could be here for hours talking about this. i just also want to say this legislation isn't perfect. it is something that we are going to have to work on. i have to say, you know, from my years as legislative aid here and working on affordable housing and now as supervisor, the action that we take to address the racial equity in policy or funding priorities is really a gut feeling when we would do it. we would say this needs funded, this policy needs to be passed. a lot of times we didn't have the data to say is this really working. i think that was frustration for

all of us doing this work. it was frustrating. the things we thought were great and would make a difference did not. i feel it is really important this offers of racial equity that they can actually shine the light and really get in deep and find out what do we need to do as policymakers and when we are doing the budgets? they are going to do that with the community, the larger community is actually going to be helping with this. it is not a few people that talk to us as policymakers. this will be a larger community process which i think is really important when we move forward because it is the community, you, that are really going to guide a lot of this work. i just want to thank both supervisor few errand mayor

breed because when we were looking at budget and really fighting for these positions to put into human rights commission, it was one of those times where everybody came forward to say, yes, this is important. this is probably some of the most important legislation that we could do. i just really appreciate everybody coming. let's get the data to make the best decisions we can and policy and funding and also accountability. i herd that. i heard that. we have to make sure that is on the front of the list as we move forward. let's get this work done. thank you. >> supervisor fewer. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chair. i want to thank everyone for sharing your opinions with us today. we heard about account ability. hearing after hearing, report after report nothing had been done.

it was imperative to take the first step. this is a concrete step in the right direction. i want to thank the members of the committee for the special meeting. i want to thank supervisor mar for holding this hearing. it is a special meeting. i want to apologize for the one minute. i know it is short. i have been on the other side of the podium as a community organizer for many years. we were going to lose quorum we felt imperative to do the one minute. our apologies. supervisor brown and i are temporary stewards of the city and county of san francisco. this work will go on after we are not here. we depend on you who showed up today who want accountability. it is not just going to be on us or on the office of hrc. it is on all of us not to forget

this and to work on it. we feel like with this office we have laid a foundation for that work. without it we felt as though any testimony you give could not have the teeth unless we had this foundation of this office. let's work hard to make it successful. i hope my colleagues pass it unanimously to show they also agree it is time in the city and county of san francisco that we address racial disparities in a very concrete way and also look to this office to give us recommendations on closing this gap to make everyone successful in san francisco. thank you for joining us today and thank you for holding this hearing. i greatly appreciate it. >> i want to say in the meantime as we work towards this, what are you going to do? >> chair mar: public comment has

concluded for this item. we can continue this discussion. >> can you sit down with black workers to tell us how you are going to make us whole? >> chair mar: is there a motion for this item. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: let me just move forward. we have subsequent amendments. i have the motion to continue this. i want to do that. i am going to -- we can talk. i definitely. can i just finish? this is rule of order. what we are going to do for the amendments.

>> we all have a copy and i think that our colleagues know that the underlying portion or amendments. there are quite a few amendments here. i believe they are substantive. it must be continued. >> is there a motion to accept the amendments? is that the motion? >> accept the amendments. >> so moved. can we continue this item to the next meeting? >> governmengovernment audits ad

oversights meets july 18th. >> can we continue this to july 18th? >> so moved. >> thank you so much. >> mr. clerk, please call item number two. >> item twoard nance to prohibit city funded travel to statessen accounted laws that prohibit abortion and city contracting with companies headquartered in states enacting such laws or work to be performed in such states making technical amendments regarding this ban which apply to the existing ban on city funded travel based on sexual orientation. mr. chair. >> chair mar: can everyone please take the conversation to the hallway we are moving to

item two. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: thank you, colleagues. i am pleased to limit the city and county of san francisco from contracting in and restricting city funded travel to states that pass abortion bans. i want to thank 10 co-sponsors for support. i hope we can take a meaningful stand against states rolling back access to abortion care. i want to thank the city administrator, planned parenthood and department of status of women for collaboration. this is drafted in the spirit of chapter x ordinance article one of chapter 12a places a ban on city funded travel and city contracts with states passing anti-lgbt laws. i am grateful for the leaders for paving the way. today we are adding a second

article to the existing code chapter to expand existing ordinance to states that waged war on the constitutional protected rights to an abortion. article two of chapter 12x will mandate no sponsoring or reimburse meant to city fund travel to any staten acing a law for abortion prior to viability. no contracts to require the dent of status to women to device a list of abortion covered states and submit the list to the city administrator and city attorneys every six months. it require the controller generates an economic impact report of this article in three years. lastly, as a reminder to everyone, chapter 12x including waivers for emergency services, sole source contracts, no

qualified bidders, public health and safety and bulk purchasing and grant agreements. the article we are discussing today does the same. i would like to call up two presenters to provide more context to the legislation. first is elizabeth mu nan, policy and project director on the status of women. you have three minutes. >> thank you, supervisors. abortion is a basic part every productive healthcaretr healthc. the access to save legal abortions coincided with significant increases in education and wage gains. since january state legislators across the country enacted 60

new abortion restrictions, 26 would ban abortions in all or some cases. i want to be clear these do not limit women's freedom they put people who can get pregnant lives at stake. they make abortions more dangerous when they are restricted people may seek unsafe ways to end pregnancy. every year 47,000 women in the world unnecessarily die from complications related to abortion. u.s. has the highest mortality rate of any developed nation and these states have higher rates of maternal and infant mortality compared to the nation. we applaud supervisor brown for continuing the san francisco legacy saying we will not spend dollars where people's lives and economic security are threatened. we worked with her office and her aid to help develop this

legislation and prioritize the rights and bodily autonomy of women and intersex people in the country. the department on the status of women welcome this policy by identifying states with the abortion laws and making the suggestions regularly. we have identified 20 states thatten abilitied a ban -- enacted a ban. it adds an additional 11 states. in accordance with the landmark ordinance to commit the city to ensure the women's social and political equality the commission support this to make real our commitment to the right to abortion. thank you. >> i would like to call up laura babb from planned parenthood.

>> hi. i am with planned parenthood. i want to thank the staff and supporters as well as all of you. we have seen a rash extreme abortion babbs sweep the country to bring a challenge to the supreme court to make abortion inaccessible. judicial fights have begun around the country. over states limiting safe legal abortion prior to viability of the fetus. this is not just an attack in missouri and georgia. it is on anyone who can get pregnant. one out of three women live in those states. that is 25 million. that is signaling in san francisco we will not tolerate a rollback of women's whites. with trump and kavanaugh thousand is the time to meet the legal precise dense and take a

standing on the harmful policies. the attack will continue. abortion is on the line. it is critical to begin the fight for rights by standing up to the bans. the c.e.o. of 180 companies are calling for the end of abortion ban. up the opportunity to do the right thing. something elective leaders in states with the harmful bans have fail to do. i ask you to vote yes to seek to ban travel and do business on states with the abortion bans. thank you for considering this effort in this great city and county. >> i would like to h thank our presenters. city attorney can you clarify changes to chapter 12x with this, please? >> sure.

deputy city attorney john gibner. the ordinance proposed to make some modifications to chapter 12x. i believe working with the city administrator to make some technical changes. the amendment today removed those changes so that 12x, the existing law that applies to states with laws that discriminate against lbgq people will remain. this does not change 12x. this adds on a mirror provision, a new article that applies to additional states as has been described. >> thank you. we are going to go to public comment. are there members of the public

to speak on this? you have one minute to speak given the time constraints for the hearing. please step up to the microphone. mr. right. >> this is a complex issue. 50% agrees and 50% does not. about one minute is discrimination in the administration right here before me. you it is up there and let other people speak as long as they want when your race is being represented. i get to speak for two minutes. that is an insult on my intelligence. you only give us one minute. thathat is disgusting. you referring to the city attorney you never referred nothing to the city attorney about blacks being discriminated against. we are recovered from the gentrification that is a bull

shit lie. our race is diminishing if you say we are recovering when our numbers is 2 or 3% is insult on my intelligence and i don't appreciate that. >> chair mar: next speaker, please. >> i am the planned parent affairs officer. we have seen constant attacks on the reproductive healthcare, the title 10 restrictions, domestic gag rule, appointment of kavanaugh to the supreme court. we have had the opportunity to work with the board of supervisors to pass resolutions

confirming the san francisco commitment for reproductive health. we urge you to support this today to ensure the passage. >> i am susan anthony. i am a planned parenthood supporter and mother and grandmother. my passion for woman's right to bodily autonomy is rooted in my experience 50 years ago. i became pregnant when it was not legal to have the abortion. the other or i experienced may be hard for younger women to imagine today. the thought of carrying the pregnancy was horrific. it would not matter if they offered diapers or showed me fetuses. the idea of giving up the baby was horrific. i was ready to risk my wife to prevent having a bab baby.

abortions bans extreme will only lead to more deaths for women and assign more infants to a live not wanted or welcomed. thanks. >> chair mar: next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is karen. i am a clinical socia social wor working with adolescents and with abusesive and neglectful parents. they are intertwined in many ways. studies have shown that unintended pregnancies can be a predictor of child maltreatment psychological and physical aggression. the number of children having

school difficulties and the number of people in prison also have high rates of having experienced abuse often times because their mothers had unintended pregnancies. i support the proposed ban that we are considering here. money talks. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. i am the president of our planned parenthood campus chapter at san francisco state. during the past year it has allowed me to give back to my san francisco community and san francisco state. working out of the health center allowed me in the rup loop. it has resulted in harmful

abortion bans limiting access to abortions for most vulnerable. we must take a stand. san francisco tax dollars should not support states passing laws to oppress people. you will consider this. i strongly urge you to vote yes today. when it comes before the full board of supervisors. i hope san francisco can be a leader for the rest of the country. >> any other member of the public that wishes to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor brown. >> thank you. by moving this forward we are taking a strong stand. san francisco is a city of firsts. today we have an opportunity to lead on that issue. we will not support policies that put women, transgender, non-binary people in danger. we are affirming the right to

care essential epto racial and economic equality. please tell the women and child bearing people of the united states that we stand with them. i have a motion to move this legislation to the full board. >> are amendments, right? >> yes, there are amendments. i am sorry. >> do i have a motion to accept the amendment. >> i am happy to move the amendments before us. they are in the double underlined and strikeouts as set forth in th the ad min code. motion to accept the amendments without objection.

i assume deputy city attorney these are not substantive and we can send them as amended to the full board. >> i would move to send the item with recommendation as a proud co-sponsor to the full board as amended. >> motion to move in as amended to the full board without objection with recommendation. mr. clerk please call item 3. >> ordinance amending the business and tax coded to increase daily tax exemption amount from less than $40 to 52. to decrease from less that $100 to 130 there and and consider adjustments. >> thank you, soon per visor peskin. >> this is not as groundbreaking as the last two pieces of legislation. this is legislation that comes to the board every three to five

years based on the controller's office review we raise the amount that is exempt from the transsent occupancy tax for youth hostels and the controller's report indicates we should raise it from 40 to $52 for daily rental and from $100 to $130 per week. ms. campbell has a report which says approval is a policy matter. i will let her speak to it. the amount this impacts is less than -- it is one quarter of 1% of all of the hotel tax in san francisco. .26%. with that i will turn it over to ms. campbell. >> correct. members of the committee on page

5 of the report taxes the collected amount was $1.1 billion. our estimate is that this would forego about 23 $7,000 in taxes annually. we do consider it a policy matter because of the tax issue. >> i don't know if there is public comment on this item. members of the public who wish to speak please step forward. you have one minute to speak. mr. right. >> you are always taxes somebody. you didn't tax twitter forgetting tax free money now you want to tax the taxi drivers and the drivers pay $250,000 for a medallion that has them broke and some of the drivers want to commit suicide.

you are north the internal revenue. you are not the irs. you are already demonstrated tax evasion, money laundering and wire and mail freud. you are in violation of the enterprise where you are running a racket and transferring funds and giving tax free money to companies that don't need a break. when i check you talk about giving them a break. they don't need a break. they have to tax you. >> chair mar: thank you. next speaker, please. are there any other members of the public? thank you, mr. right. are there any other members of the public to speak on this item. public comment is closed.

can we move this forward? >> this is tax relief. yes, i would love to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> without objection. thank you. mr. checker. please call item four. agenda item four resolution authorizes the department of children, youth and families to enter into a memorandum for financial sup39 for the period july 1, 2019 and june 30, 2029 subject to the budget and fiscal provisions of the charter. >> colleagues since i joined in january i have been working with the pre-city coalition and mayor breed and city college leaders including the trustees to ensure full funding over the next decade reflecting learning.

despite differences i have been very appreciative of the parties shared commitment to the program to ensure it is sustained for the next decade. after a robust and quite complicated negotiation process involving multiple parties. i am pleased we have come to a agreement on a plan for the future of free city. besides fully funding free city it including significant improvements to the charter amendment the board voted on last december. the new agreement would start the full funding this fall, a year earlier than under the charter amendment. this represents $8.6 million this coming year. the agreement includes a one-time reimbursement of $5.4 million to cover under finding the first two years. the key terms of the agreement

are outlined in a tentative agreement between the city and city college that was negotiated by the mayor office and approved by the trustees on june 27. this tentative agreement will serve as basis for fully executed 10 year mou to be negotiated by the city college administration in the coming weeks. to move this agreement forward there are three items for the board to take action on. first is a motion to withdraw the free city charter amendment which moved forward on monday to the july 16 full board. second is the soared nance for o move forward to july 16 full board meeting. third is the resolution

authorizing the fully executed 10 year m.o.u. that is before us today. because all three items are a package deal, i would like to have all three items voted by the full board together on july 16. i want to thankty mayor's office and city college trustees and the coalition for working on this resolution and amendments i will propose today. i am submitting to the clerk a copy of the tentative agreement upon which the city college was agreed upon by city college for the file. i would like to explain the amendments for the resolution. do we have copies?

since the tentative agreement says the m.o.u. would take effect on july 1, 2019, i would like to amend the resolution to take effect retroactive to july 1, 2019. i have added language in the first subparagraph d and e to state funds allocated by the city can be used for enrollment fees and to offset educational expenses other than tuition. thirdly, i somewhere deleted language in the first subparagraph d that says the funds can be used for no other purpose than enrollment fees. i have deleted the last whereas clause stated that funding for the city program is not guaranteed. i want be to acknowledge the city attorney may advise us to be cautious about deleting the last whereas clause.

the deletion stating funding is not guaranteed is crucial to the good faith agreement. we know funding is subject to appropriations process as are all funds not in the city charter. all parties agree to fund it for the next decade. we agreed we would have the strongest intent language. it upholds the intent of our agreement. i would ask mr. campbell to do a fiscal impact report at the full board on july 16th. >> we can submit the report to the full board. >> thank you ms. campbell. i look forward to moving this forward as a committee report and considering all items on july 16th. before public comment, colleagues do you have any comments or questions?

>> chair mar, i understand what you are saying with regard to the provision in the current legislation which is a recital on page 2 lines 10 through 13 and remind me what is the deputy city attorney's name. >> the charter ultimately rules. the reality is whether that clause is in this memorandum of understanding or not the charter rules. i mean if it makes people happy not to have the language in there, the reality is if god forbid the board were not to appropriate not like the city college can sue us to ask them to perform. >> yes, deputy city attorney. the reason we wanted that we

suggested that language for the resolution to make clear to the public that funding guarantee would be subject to the fiscal provisions of the charter and subject to appropriation by the board every year. >> i think the city college trustees know that and city attorney knows that and mayor news that. if it makes people happy not to have it in there. i support its removal. >> any questions? >> are there members of the public to speak? please stem up to the microphone, mr. right. >> you are going to get sued because the people on general assistance and welfare program and your cash. single mothers can't go for free. mothers taking care of kids they can't go to college. by the same response you are

talking about free. ain't a god damn thing free. $32.5 million in debt and the year is not over with yet. it is cool and proper to say at the end of the year $65 million in debt. 10 years means that you will be $650 million in debt. spending money on programs to give treatment to spoiled kids. they don't let the students go to school for free and they come to san francisco on your dime to go to school. >> next speaker, please. speakers have one minute to speak given our time constraints. >> i will be done in 30 seconds. i am the senior vice chancellor

of student affairs at city college. thank you so very, very much for your hard work. the city as well. we appreciate this effort and understand the funds are not guaranteed. we appreciate the changes made including authorizing that is critical for timing. the rest of it we are in agreement with aft. thank you very much for your support. >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. thank you for taking up this matter. i am president of a ft2121 representing the faculty at city college san francisco. we worked with supervisor mar on the free city program. the program started two years ago in 2017 after the voters passed proposition w to make

city college free and to raise the funds for that program. contrary to mr. right's stance, the plan is funded by the money we have raised. we are speaking in favor of this resolution and of the changes that superviso supervisor mar m. the programming is successful. students in the city have used the free city program and students will be grateful for the next 10 years for passing this. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> connie ford, vice president of san francisco labor council. this ithis is a long time coming speaks to the need of every piece of legislation to have a massive coalition, community, great supervisor. we have been struggling for six

months to extend the free city program for 10 years. the city has given a promise to fund us for 10 years. we are thankful we have the board of supervisors to back that up. we appreciate the amendments there and the labor movement is extremely happy we will consider this free city college for 10 years. >> public comment is closed. i want to thank the leaders from the pre-city coalition and city colleges for being here and for working on this important project. can we -- i would like to move that we accept amendments without objection.

then can we mover this item as amended with recommends to the put board as a committee report? >> yes. >> thank you. mr. clerk. is there any further business? >> clerk: no further business. >> chair mar: we are adjourned. thank you.

you. >> >> >> my name is jean alexander.

i'm an attorney in the san francisco city attorney's office. i supervise the tax team, giving tax advice to the treasurer, tax collect or, drafting tax legislation. the thing i remember my mother telling me as a child is that you need to be prepared to take care of yourself and i knew that i wanted to be able to do something that i enjoyed. i didn't expect anybody to give me anything because nobody ever gave her anything and i also i always saw her fighting for the things that she wanted in life for herself and for her children. >> my name is jasmine flores. i am working as an admin assistant

in the city attorney's office. i have always enjoyed the tasks that i have been given. on the days i show up and work on my own is empowering. for me, happiness in being more involved in a person-to-person interaction. my dream jobs includes being a physician, paramedic, firefighter, working with animals with the public. on a personal level with self improvement. my sister is the biggest influence in my life because she taught me to go forward with what makes you happy rather that what makes you the most money. >> i graduated from law school in 1972 at a time when there was a beginning to be an influx of women in the legal profession and tried criminal

cases for about 10 years, treatment for delinquent operating programs, government budgets, analyzed fiscal legislation. i came to the san francisco city attorney's office and i have been here for about 12 years advising on tax matters. i did just about anything you can think of. some things that lawyers do and some things that lawyers don't do. >> i'm from the mission in san francisco. i have grown up there and i have lived there pretty much my whole life. living there, i do see other women, some of them older, some of them look just like me like my age and a lot of them work nanny jobs, child care jobs, retail jobs. i don't know, it seems kind of like a reminder that you are kind of

lucky to be where you are, i guess. just when you haven't gone so far at all. i want them to go on maybe go on an interview that's more challenging that they think that they can't get that job. you know, just to kind of challenge and surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. >> there had been women practicing law for many years, but there were so few of them that a lot of the issues hadn't really come into play and some of them worked out and some are still being resolved like equal pay and women in lawfirms and making sure women get fair

assignments and in the decision making and working with law firms. i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way. >> >>