way we're the only one we're doing this with because you had so much passion around this. as we continue to fully implement the benefit, we expect to add the benefit going forward. i can't give you a time frame. if it's going to happen 2021. but what i am committed to doing is having more check ins with you all. you can decide how frequent that can happen. i need to stay close to mitchell and abbie -- executive director yant, around how the implementation is going because this is a new benefit. and we want to make sure that any bumps in the road get addressed quickly and effectively and efficiently. so i will stop there and see if you have any questions or comments. >> well, thank you for answering my preliminary questions. and from what you said, where you are at the beginning of

january will not necessarily be where you are maybe mid year in terms of trying to contract with wheelchair services or get the appropriate clearances? and i think i heard you say you're trying to work that through to do that. >> so we're starting that process. it takes about a year. we've been focused on trying to get this up and running since january 1. now that we're there, they're starting the process to add the benefit. they're working with the current vendor to see if they could add it. that would be an easy fix, but we also have to get the systems up to speed to meet the requirements of cms. so to answer your question, i don't know. we're working on it. i will answer to say we're committed and working on it. i can't give you a time frame. but i will know more as the year goes on and will be happy to provide an update. >> i would be interested in at least a quarterly update in the

area to track your progress. i recognize that licensing and vendor contracting in your organization, like in most large organizations, takes a bit of time. so, some kind of status would be helpful. >> okay, then i plan to come back again in march, unless sooner. >> i appreciate the update. i think it's quite -- i understand what the issues are and the hurdles that have to be met. listen, in my own mind, i was distinguishing wheelchair to gurneys. gurneys are a much bigger deal. i was not focused on people who need to be in a gurney. that is a bigger hurdle. i guess the question i do have, though, one question, one point, does the -- say someone is in a wheelchair and needs an attendant to help them get to the appointment, you know, a spouse, partner, whatever. are those people transported as

well, or do they need to then help their dependent into the van and then leave and come by a separate route? because that would make a difference to me about the comfort level, about access. >> okay. i'm going to pause and ask one of my colleagues if they know that. if not, we'll have to come back. my gut tells me they're included. so, yes, they can ride in the car with them. >> commissioner follansbee: good, because i'm much more comfortable with that. when we do revisit this, if he could have a sense of how many didn't qualify. so we have a sense of the volume. because none of us want to make a big deal over an issue that really is, you know, can be handled another way. if we had some data on your access. >> and i think that's why the

quarterly check kinz will be good. we have communication plan we're working with abbie on right now to roll it out. the first month is going to be slow. the second month it will build. and the third month we'll see more. so we'll keep you apprised of what is going on through regular check ins. >> commissioner follansbee: one more question. so it covers the san francisco facilities, mission bay and then the geary and french campuses, but doesn't cover south san francisco or oakland or -- i'm a little confuse about the limitation? >> it's a benefit for your entire population, so depending on where they live, it would cover them up to 50 miles per trip. >> commissioner follansbee: thank you. that claver -- clarifies it. >> thank you.

>> i'm going to give denise's voice break and make our second couple of announcements here. so we do have a strike notice from nuhw, the national union of health care workers is that will begin the 16th of december and will last through the 21st of december. these are nonphysician behavioral health professionals. and so they will be going on strike. we do -- we are prepared for this. all facilities will remain open. routine appointments may be rescheduled, but anyone who needs care will get care and we're prepared for that. we also have received notice of a sympathy strike through the operating engineers local 39. and those are engineers for the facilities in northern california. so i wanted to make sure is that you were aware of that strike notice. the second announcement that i have is that we have chosen a new c.e.o.

and this was -- many people have commented this was very quick. i think this speaks to the fact that we've done a lot of succession planning and gregory adams has been named the c.e.o. of kaiser permanente. more than 30 years of appearance in the health care industry. a longtime kaiser permanente employee and really has worked closely with bernard overtime, so we're exciteed as an organization to have a new c.e.o. and i wanted to share that with you. >> president breslin: any public comment? >> actually, not a public comment on that. another vendor update. >> go ahead. >> i'm with aon, i'm not a health plan, but i do have update at the request of executive director yants over

the medical. i did reach out to them and had a conversation. i wanted to give you an update on what the conversation was. so i pulled off -- at the top, i've included the link that i looked at, which is the one medical website under faqs. so the link is there. it's in regard to the annual membership fee we heard some membership complaints around to access their provider. and what i highlighted at the bottom of the first page is that payment of that annual membership fee is not a prerequisite for receiving medical care in one medical office. >> president breslin: what does that fee give you? >> the way one medical described it to me. they think about it in two pieces.

they provide the care in the office and then they have technology. so their app, making appointments online, virtual visits, senior electronic medical record online through the app, kind of that concierge piece. if you wanted to see a provider, dr. smith at one medical, you can pick up the phone. you can call. you can make an appointment. you can see the provider, have the appointment. it will go through your insurance. and that's the end of it. there is no problem with that. if you want these additional technology services, you would pay that fee. in addition, at the bottom of this, it says for more information click here. one medical does have financial assistance and so if members wanted to call in to see if they

are eligible for financial assistance, they can do that as well for the annual membership fee. it does appear they would potentially help with some of their out-of-pocket costs, no co-pays, but the other out-of-pocket costs. if we want more information, we should invite one medical back to speak with you. does that help? >> president breslin: yes. that's makes it more clear. first you say they can't charge a fee. and then you say they can charge a fee, but -- so thinks the reason they can -- this is the reason they can charge the fee for extra technology. that makes sense. >> correct. >> commissioner follansbee: i'm not sure i need to hear more from one medical. i do think that it does raise again the issue of the question i asked of our outreach survey about urgent care and all that, because obviously you know, to

buy membership in one medical would be think being getting ongoing care. i mean, like, urgent care. in their own sense. and i don't think that our own networks, through any of our providers, actually, they belong to any of those networks. i think that would be something -- >> one medical? >> one medical. >> they do. >> commissioner follansbee: they do? they are? >> yeah, they kind of -- i don't know for certain who all they're connected with but i think it's pretty much everybody. >> commissioner follansbee: maybe we do have them back, because the member who is a hill physician patient is seen there, is the lab and the encounter automatically transferred to some medical record? so there is continuity of care that we heard the members want? there are pieces about all of

this that i still am a little bit confused. i can understand the ease of making an appointment online if you're getting your physician care at one medical, because they're all over the city and i assume outside the city limits, but i don't know. again, these are issues that we would need -- would want to know in terms of how to direct members in terms of -- what members want and need. this is not really a substitute if it doesn't meet certain criteria. >> they came on the market 15 years ago? and they've been around a while and they were cutting edge when they came on market with all the technology. and they've stayed focused on primary care and they have expanded. i'm not aware that they do urgent care. >> no, not in the office, but they would have virtual urgent care. >> yeah, so during regular business hours, that type of

things, but they don't run any of the urgent care clinics that i'm aware of. >> commissioner follansbee: the question is, can people walk in and get care? >> yes. >> i know they don't have 24-7 coverage. i have former colleagues who joined one medical as physicians and so there is nothing in my mind about the quality of care they deliver or the technology or anything, that's not the issue. the issue is really this wholistic approach to the delivery of health care, which i think is something that we as a board, we as a health service system, are really interested in promoting. >> maybe we should ask them to come. >> president breslin: any public comment on the item? thank you very much. no public comment. moving on. item 13. >> item 13, opportunity for the public to comment on matters within the board's jurisdiction. >> president breslin: public comment? clare?

>> good afternoon, commissioners. i'm representing dennis kruger and firefighters. dennis couldn't find parking. found the garage overfilled. and so he sent me a text. he was very frustrated and he left. >> so they're following up. they want to wish everybody happy holidays. by the way, we loved abbie's,

director yant's message, it was nice to see. and that was pointed out at our retiree meeting yesterday when we had the party. so we are here to wish everyone happy holidays and also -- sorry, always to thank the staff. we have the best staff in the world. i'm sorry, i get broken up about it. health services workers, our staff is the best in the city and i've worked in a lot of different departments. i won't tell you stories, okay? but we have the best. they work hard for us all year. open enrollment is a killer. and they make it easy for all of us. and all the services that they provide, you just need to know that all the retirees are grateful. and all of the associations, whether it's retired fire or vpoa, or retirees, all of us are

extremely grateful. happy holidays and happy new year and see you next year. >> president breslin: any other public comment? seeing none. item number 14. >> item 14, opportunity to place items within the board's jurisdiction on future agendas? >> president breslin: i think we have our work cut out for us. any public comment? we're going to closed session and have to be closing the doors. >> item 15, vote whether to hold a closed session for the public employee evaluation for hss executive director. this is presented by president. >> i need a motion -- >> i move that we vote to hold a closed session for the public employee performance evaluation.

>> i'll second it. >> president breslin: public comment? all right. all those in favor? okay. unanimous. we will now be going into closed session. >> president breslin: we're back. item 17. >> item 17, possible report on closed session regarding the employee evaluation presented by president breslin. >> i move that we not report on the action taken in closed session regarding an employee evaluation. >> president breslin: that's 18. but i don't know what this 17 is. 17 is the action. reporting of the action. >> i move that we not report on the action taken in closed

section regarding employee evaluation. >> second. all right. all those in favor? opposed? it's unanimous. item number 18. >> item 18, vote for elect whether to disclose any or all of the discussion held regarding the employee evaluation in closed session. >> i move that we not disclose any or all of our discussion held in closed session. >> i second. >> president breslin: all those in favor? any opposed? it's unanimous. all right. so this is item number 19. this meeting is adjourned. >> happy holidays. >> happy holidays.

>> shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their business in the 49 square files of san francisco. we help san francisco remain unique, successful and right vi. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> i'm one of three owners here in san francisco and we provide

mostly live music entertainment and we have food, the type of food that we have a mexican food and it's not a big menu, but we did it with love. like ribeye tacos and quesadillas and fries. for latinos, it brings families together and if we can bring that family to your business, you're gold. tonight we have russelling for e community. >> we have a ten-person limb elimination match. we have a full-size ring with barside food and drink. we ended up getting wrestling here with puoillo del mar. we're hope og get families to

join us. we've done a drag queen bingo and we're trying to be a diverse kind of club, trying different things. this is a great part of town and there's a bunch of shops, a variety of stores and ethnic restaurants. there's a popular little shop that all of the kids like to hanhang out at. we have a great breakfast spot call brick fast at tiffanies. some of the older businesses are refurbished and newer businesses are coming in and it's exciting. >> we even have our own brewery for fdr, ferment, drink repeat. it's in the san francisco garden district and four beautiful muellermixer ura alsomurals. >> it's important to shop local because it's kind of like a circle of life, if you will. we hire local people.

local people spend their money at our businesses and those local mean that wor people willr money as well. i hope people shop locally. [ ♪ ] >> working with kids, they keep you young. they keep you on your tones -- on your toes. >> teaching them, at the same time, us learning from them, everything is fulfilling. >> ready? go. [♪] >> we really wanted to find a way to support women entrepreneurs in particular in san francisco. it was very important for the

mayor, as well as the safety support the dreams that people want to realize, and provide them with an opportunity to receive funding to support improvements for their business so they could grow and thrive in their neighborhoods and in their industry. >> three, two, one! >> because i am one of the consultants for two nonprofits here for entrepreneurship, i knew about the grand through the renaissance entrepreneur center, and through the small business development center. i thought they were going to be perfect candidate because of their strong values in the community. they really give back to the neighborhood. they are from this neighborhood, and they care about the kids in the community here. >> when molly -- molly first told us about the grant because she works with small businesses. she has been a tremendous help for us here. she brought us to the attention of the grand just because a lot of things here were outdated, and need to be up-to-date and redone totally.

>> hands in front. recite the creed. >> my oldest is jt, he is seven, and my youngest is ryan, he is almost six. it instills discipline and the boys, but they show a lot of care. we think it is great. the moves are fantastic. the women both are great teachers. >> what is the next one? >> my son goes to fd k. he has been attending for about two years now. they also have a summer program, and last summer was our first year participating in it. they took the kids everywhere around san francisco. this year, owner talking about placing them in summer camps, all he wanted to do was spend the entire summer with them. >> he has strong women in his life, so he really appreciates it. i think that carries through and

i appreciate the fact that there are more strong women in the world like that. >> i met d'andrea 25 years ago, and we met through our interest in karate. our professor started on cortland years ago, so we grew up here at this location, we out -- he outgrew the space and he moved ten years later. he decided to reopen this location after he moved. initially, i came back to say, hey, because it might have been 15 years since i even put on a uniform. my business partner was here basically by herself, and the person she was supposed to run the studio with said great, you are here, i started new -- nursing school so you can take over. and she said wait, that is not what i am here for i was by myself before -- for a month before she came through. she was technically here as a secretary, but we insisted, just

put on the uniform, and help her teach. i was struggling a little bit. and she has been here. one thing led to another and now we are co-owners. you think a lot more about safety after having children and i wanted to not live in fear so much, and so i just took advantage of the opportunity, and i found it very powerful to hit something, to get some relief, but also having the knowledge one you might be in a situation of how to take care of yourself. >> the self-defence class is a new thing that we are doing. we started with a group of women last year as a trial run to see how it felt. there's a difference between self-defence and doing a karate class. we didn't want them to do an actual karate class. we wanted to learn the fundamentals of how to defend yourself versus, you know, going through all the forms and

techniques that we teaching a karate class and how to break that down. then i was approached by my old high school. one -- once a semester, the kids get to pick an extra curricular activity to take outside of the school walls. my old biology teacher is now the principle. she approached us into doing a self-defence class. the girls have been really proactive and really sweet. they step out of of the comfort zone, but they have been willing to step out and that hasn't been any pushback. it is really great. >> it is respect. you have to learn it. when we first came in, they knew us as those girls. they didn't know who we were. finally, we came enough for them to realize, okay, they are in the business now. it took a while for us to gain that respect from our peers, our male peers. >> since receiving the grant, it has ignited us even more, and put a fire underneath our butts even more. >> we were doing our summer camp

and we are in a movie theatre, and we just finished watching a film and she stepped out to receive a phone call. she came in and she screamed, hey, we got the grant. and i said what? >> martial arts is a passion for us. it is passion driven. there are days where we are dead tired and the kids come and they have the biggest smiles on their faces and it is contagious. >> we have been operating this program for a little over a year all women entrepreneurs. it is an extraordinary benefit for us. we have had the mayor's office investing in our program so we can continue doing this work. it has been so impactful across a diversity of communities throughout the city. >> we hope that we are making some type of impact in these kids' lives outside of just learning karate. having self-confidence, having discipline, learning to know when it's okay to stand up for yourself versus you just being a bully in school.

these are the values we want the kids to take away from this. not just, i learned how to kick and i learned how to punch. we want the kids to have more values when they walk outside of these doors. [♪] sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. so having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. we heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. it was super easy to sign up. our bookkeeper signed up online,

it was like 15 minutes. nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. it's an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around climate change and it's so easy that it's hard to not want to do it, and it doesn't really add anything to

>> good afternoon and welcome to the land use and transportation committee for today, monday, december 16th, 2019. our last land use committee meeting of the 2019 calender year. i am aaron peskin, the chair of this committee joined to my left by committee member supervisor matt haney and our clerk is

ms. erika major. we welcome, in her own right for her first trial by fire experience is land use committee deputy city attorney anne pearson. do you have any announcements? >> clerk: silence all cellphones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents that include as part of a file should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the januarf supervisors agenda less otherwise stated. >> we are joined momentarily to my right by vice-chair of the committee supervisor ahsha safai who rightfully comments that it is quite warm in these chambers so, ms. major, when you have a second after you read item number 1, if you could ask them to cool this place down >> you can ask them through the chair.

send some heat to my office since i don't have any right now. that would be great. >> sure thing >> transfer the heat from the board chambers to room 256. >> clerk: item number 1 entitled regulating the width of sidewalks to reduce the sidewalk width of certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street in front of the maxime health center at 1301 pierce street >> sidewalks are important which is precisely why these instruments come to the board of exercises. this is a proposal to actually reduce sidewalk widths but, apparently, in the public interest, in supervisor haney's district on behalf of the department of public works, which i guess we now call public

works, which one of you is here to testify. please come forward. >> good afternoon. i'm kevin jensen, disability access coordinator with public works. >> yes, the for examplio for fri remember you >> coming back with another one. this is the health center across the street from kimball playground city clinic. we're proposing a fully compliant building code and a.d.a. compliant passenger loading zone at the front of that facility which includes a street level passenger loading aisle. that street level passenger loading aisle is alongside the passenger side of the vehicle pull-up space which is the best way to do accessible passenger loading zones. which we feel is important this being a clinic and all. as planning also agreed with our position on this, it doesn't effectively reduce the

pedestrian through way zone in the sidewalks so it's consistent with the better streets plan in as much as the pedestrian capacity of the sidewalk is uneffected. i have slides if that would be helpful. >> please proceed. >> the location of that clinic. kimball playground is the large patch to the right of the subject site. this is the facade with the building as it stands today. you can see the existing sidewalk has cross which we're correcting with this work. head-on shot there. looking back the other way. it's about a 4% grade down the street. official legislated sidewalk with its 15 feet. rendering of the project. we've done some remodeling including putting in an elevator which is a long-standing need in this clinic. the site plan. you can see the indented

passenger loading zone with the curb ramp to the rear of the vehicle space. it's directly opposite the entrance ramp and stair at the primary entrance at the main entrance. this is a drawing of the working drawing of the plan which shows dimensions. you can zoom on that in a little bit here. i'm sorry this has slopes. the next exhibit has dimensions. >> one has slopes. here is the dimensions here. here are the exhibits if there's any questions. >> thank you mr. jenson.

if there are no comments from committee members, are there any members of the public who would like to testify on item number 1? if there's no objection and it will be one heard on the seventh day of january 2020. >> without objection that will be the order. colleagues, i'd like to skip over item number 2 pending some amendments that deputy city attorney is working on and madam clerk, call item number 3 out of soareorder >> clerk: to receive public input on the appropriate periods to implement the hotel conversion updates. >> thank you, i want to thank my

colleagues and city staff and the owner community and members of the advocacy community for sitting through last week's long committee hearing. given the length of that meeting we continued this meeting after receiving brief presentations from city departments. this is to receive input from stakeholders to implement our 2017h.c.o. update hotel conversion ordinance update in order to ensure that any property owners wh owners who ny recoup investments they may have made relying on a tourist versus residential use. the amortization ordinance continues to after that it

raises it to 30 days to provide staple residential uses instead of short term tourist uses. the purpose of the city's law has been that residential s.r.o. units are intended for residents and not for tourists. the definitions have not been as clear as they could have been. today's discussion is focused on trying to provide an appropriate buffer for those s.r.o. owners who have been running on a tourist hotel model and rendering for short term use. the purpose is to restore s.r.o.s who what they have been and immigrant families and those living on fixed low incomes. a request to contain this

meeting can be convened. i still a intend to amend the legislation and get back to the original policy intent that existed since 1981 that all residential rooms are ended for residential uses not seven day tourists and i will ask it in the beginning of the year persuade opursued on a parallel. we'll ask questions as well as take public comment and then i intend to make a motion if you colleagues will continue to t to the call of the chair. we heard a brief presentation on the background of the h.c.o. but i'd like to ask joseph barber from d.b.i. to come up and let's see if we can get at sometime of the things we cannot have the chance to discuss last week.

thank you. i will not make any comments about where to put your jacket. >> on ton of the vilers leasing to tourists for nightly stays and operating a hotel they found an additional 13 hotels that were specifically being advertised toe tourists to tour. it is in the northeast corn of the city represented by this supervisor and the supervisor to

my left and a hotel that was supposed to be 75% residential and 25% tourist. that listed 100% of all of the units as tourist rentals and another couple of buildings and listed a number of rooms for tourists so the question s. how does the city enforce listings and ensure that residential rooms are not going to tourists? i say that in light of the fact that our short term rental ordinance does not cover s.r.o.s. >> i mean, just broadly, we generally respond to complaints and different hotels suspected of unlawful conversion. there are usual suspects that

come up every now and then. we respond to complaints. we go down in the hotels and check records and as of now we're enforcing the seven will have da-dayminimum and it's lime can discover who say tourist or not >> we stipulate today that >> you know, if we find they're not keeping their records correctly, we can find them and we do so -- a problem we do encounter is it sees there'there's not daily loo us. while we're on that subject. i was actually going to raise that, which is mr. lutins did refer to quote cooking the books in two sets of books. and can you state from your experience what impediments there are to d.b.i.s ability to enforce the h.c.o. is record

keeping a problem and have you ever caught an operator or operators not keeping correct books or keeping two sets of books as you said there's a problem with cooking the books to reflect the number of tourist rooms and vacancies. can you address that? >> yeah, i mean, we have caught a few but it's sort of anxiety that there's a lot more out there we don't know because it's hard to go after additional records. the legislation that you passed including supervis subpoena powd it's not showing us the true occupancy of the hotel by giving us the daily logs that they fill out and having a computer system or something that tells who is

in the hotel and who pays for rooms >> the administrative supervisor power >> i continue to hear from folks in the community that the practice of keeping units vacant or as its commonly referred to as warehousing, it's prevalent, particularly in certain neighborhoods like lower knob hill, the tenderloin. do you have a sense of how many vacancies are out there and why property owners are holding them off the market. given that the practice of warehousing of precious residential units in the midst of a housing crisis seems to be at odds with the contention that some property owners are making that they are trying to make back their front-end investments and hence our am terrization comments >> i know it does happen. many units are kept vacant for

extended periods and i'm not sure why that would be if you are trying to make money off of those units. i see it where wore just processing our annual unit usage report inform. we haven't completely assembled the data base but it's also self-reported and there's some data there as to how many vacancies there are. it's a snapshot when what we have asks for data from one day throughout the year. and we've looked at that before and we can certainly look at it again >> what's that snapshot tell you overtime if you can produce that out of? >> in terms of having sa vacancy units are occupied in october 15th of the year. they turned it in on november 1st so they have information from that one day.

i can tell you it does happen. >> i'm sorry if this seems obvious but it's important, which is the difference between a residential unit and a tourist units. are there different amenities provided? are they market second-degree d? do some come with bathrooms and some not come with bathrooms? how does that work? >> really, it depends. they can be exactly the same. i'm been in buildings mix tourist and residential designated rooms and there's no difference between two rooms m will keep their tourist designated room on a different floor and i don't know for what purposes, for cleaning the rooms and after people move out but there's no nessie difference

between the rooms. there's not any enforceable -- the room has to be this versus that. >> what are some of the indicators that a room may have been unlawfully convert. i'm aware of one s.r.o. hotel that hired a artist to do to cater to a hipper, class of tourist demo graphics that the boutique industry billed itself around and got rid of a beauty salon to usher in a international art bar and pride and permit on top of a liquor license transfer meaning they had to get sign off from the tenants above. only it turned out there were no tenants left. they were only renting out to tourists. i know of another s.r.o. that actively advertises personal

tours of local and regional attractions ranging from monterey, carmel, yo sem tee. are these amenities in line with a tourist use or residential use? >> generally it's tourist rather than residential. >> are adding these amenities consistent with a residential hotel, do you think? >> it's up to the owner. due have to. it's not necessary. can you rent the rooms out for seven days at a time and advertise online. as far as advertising for the rooms, they used some of the same services basically where at least most testify is done online anyways so you are on airbnb getting a temporary unit

or craigslist for more prominent listing for the s.r.o. housing stock. >> i would agree with that >> >> dough know if s.r.o. owners make a profit from the operation and maintenance from the s.r.o.s without adding these types of tourist amenities? >> >> sure, i don't see why not. the housing market such that it is you can charge quite a bit and per room >> understood. >> and is there a component that makes payment options. i know that some low income residents who don't have credit cards or wish to pate their installments were concerned clarifying the definition might mean they would no longer be able to pay on a weekly basis or

pay in cash. is that accurate? >> no. we thought about that a while back when this was discussed before and i don't think so. as long as it shows me this person has stayed there for a long period of time or they have rent receipt 0 that person paying there's no reason why they shouldn't be able to pay on whatsoever basis they want. they can bay in advance, by week, however they want. just as long as they're a resident. that's what we're looking for in terms of this law. >> so they can rely on the same business model they've take weekly payments from tenants for lodging and make a reasonable return on their investment in that way >> yes, from our enforcement standpoint, yes. >> thank you. >> i'd like to tell the story a i was sitting in this chamber in a hearing that then supervisor scott wiener called back in

early 2016, in february, when kelly, who was then with the department of public-health before we created the department of homelessness and supportive housing stated in a span of four years, the city had gone from 360 stabilization rooms to 65 and i'm hearing it's been further reduce today 53. at the time she cited factors from illegal conversions by the academy of art to little tourist conversions and can you tell us what obstacles the city has come up with against with respect to acquiring buildings and master lease agreement witcity agreeme? >> i'm not sure i would able to -- >> the department of public-health. >> i haven't been involved in those so that's not -- >> it's not in your wheel house.

>> the chief housing record wanted me to read a comment in the record. >> the floor is yours. >> of course i moved it. >> take your time. >> i would be remised if i didn't include my boss' remarks. >> that's important.

>> so, we'd like to thank you supervisor peskin for your tireless work in the preservation of affordable housing regarding the hotel conversion ordinance. we call had the h.c.o. thank you to sunny, your legislative aid, kristen jenson, andrea reece, in the city attorney's office. we're all grateful for the work they've done. the consensus they've achieved was solved a problem that effects department for some years and the problem being some hotels would rent the same room to a different person each week regardless of their being a resident or a tourist on holiday. even if it was a residential room for some 40 years or so and they could claim protection for this use of the exception of seven day exception. clearly they're not occupied as residential or a way that most

of us under the word residential and to mean it so it became basically a loophole. and you know, many hotel owners follow the spirit and letter of the law but there's some that are available themselves of the loophole and it's not fair to them either and it's also defleeting our housing stock in a time we don't need that. and you are unanimous legislation was seen as closing the loophole in a way that would prevent it from being exploited in the future. it's a tax loop hope if you have a tax loophole that someone a veils themselves of and congress passes a law to close that loophole, do we really owe them something going forward because we close the loophole that it doesn't exist anymore? what about the people that never got the chance to take advantage

of it? what about the other hotel owners who never vile eight the law. so, basically it's a consideration is how do we balance the interests of hotel owners through seeking the versus fairness to owners and operators who are actually complying with the spirit o spie law and have residential hotels. >> thank you for your boss' events. let's it open to public comment. i have one speaker card from ryan padder son and if you would like to testify on item number 3, if you are line to my left your right, mr. patterson. >> thank you on behalf of the san francisco s.r.o. hotel coalition. i want to thank you for working together with the hotel owners to try to find a resolution to this. snag we are definitely interested in talking about.

and you have asked for the s.r.o. owners' assistance with what we seem to be an unconstitutional taking of their business. specifically, you are asking for constitutionally protected private financial information. while we want to work with the city, this needs to be done in a way that protects the privilege and confidentiality of that information that you are requested. we reiterate our suggestion for a continuance of this matter until we're able to work with the city attorney to have that discussion in a privileged and confidential sitting. before doing anything, the city does need to come into compliance with the court's order of september 24th, 2019. thank you very much. >> thank you mr. patterson. as i indicated at the beginning of this meeting in my opening remarks, we will continue this item to the call of the chair and if you turned your head to the left you will see christian

jenson who you know and you are welcome to speak and set. we are speaking about the h.c.o. >> thank you. i just want to say here comes santa claus, right down santa claus land use lane. i know you are glad he came. bells are ringing, children singing. everything is merry and bright. i hope this hotel hits the highest high. >> happy holidays. welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, next speaker, please. >> >> good afternoon, i'm the senior director of housing development with tndc. i'm thankful to have a second day and i missed the main events that were offered last week. we own several s.r.o. hotels in the tenderloin. we were founded in 1981 to

protect and preserve existing housing serving low income people in the tenderloin recognize pressures on the neighborhood with the extension of union square and the financial district. i've lived in san francisco since 2003 but i began working here in 2012 and i was really impressed when i first got here around the strength of the housing conversion law and how effective it was in effectively preserving this housing stock to serve to low income people and as we've seen over the last five to 12 years pressures are so strong and the income potential so high it's happening. i'm very grateful to the supervisor and the other folks throughout the city who have worked to close loopholes, things working in the past that aren't working now to protect this housing stock so i want to express gratitude and we are ready to think through policy or implementation or anything like

that to continue to preserve the stock. thank you. >> thank you mr. lamont. are there any other speakers on item number 3 who would like to offer public testimony? seeing none. public comment is closed and colleagues, if there's no objection, we will continue this item to.call of the chair. amendments to item number two are not approved as to form by deputy city. >> clerk: the hearing on the implementation of ordinance number 19019 personal wireless service facility site permits. >> thank you. every since this board of supervisors passed legislation earlier this year to bring san francisco in a further compliance with federal and state law regarding wireless