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a job the nature of which is the problem at heart. i want to speak today just to one comment he made, that people are afraid. we are afraid. we are afraid of you. i've been at the protests the last two days, and i can tell you what was scary. peaceful protests, police driving up in vans at excessive speeds, and unloading from their cars, the van, to protect the bank. it is aggressive, and that is what is aggravating, a police presence. there's plenty of scholarships by people who study riots, crowd behavior, and in particular, i will quote
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something from a b.b.c. article i read. a professor, clifford scott, from peel university in u.k. who has studies riots for many years, and this is a commonly understood scholarship about riots. they are a product of indactions largely to do with the nature of how police treat crowds. i would just repeat that the stress of police in riot gear was aggravating. that's what made it scary. i was there. thank you. >> clerk: thank you 23for you comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. >> hi. my name is eric coller. i've been a resident of san francisco since december 2018, and i just want to say that it
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shouldn't take a week for me living in the city to know the violence of the sfpd and what actually keeps us safe. it's not a curfew. there was a black man shot at 4:00 a.m. underneath my window. i woke up to cops screaming, stop or i'll shoot. he wasn't armed, he wasn't doing anything. this is why people are out. this is why people are protesting. you don't need a curfew to stop it. a curfew isn't going to stop it. it's going to make people even more angry and depressed. it is going to continue, the riots. a curfew only gives the police
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opportunity to oppress with impugnity. you have a chance to set the example for the rest of the country, defunding the police and funding housing, education, and welfare in this city. it is disgusting how much we spend in this city on policing and all it does it make the oppressed even less safe than they were. please defund, abolish the police. listen to what people out there are saying. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can hear you. welcome. >> thank you. hello. my name is joshua.
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i live and work as a designer in district 6. my supervisor is matt haney. he's doing an excellent job of engaging with his community and listening to our voices, unlike some others. i would like to add my voice to this discussion. curfews are the tool of the oppressor. i agree with the others that the protests and protesters do not scare me. the police with their loaded and lethal weapons, that is what is terrifying. this is a civil rights issue, which you say you care deeply for, but your actions say otherwise. it is clear to the people of san francisco that our elected officials that support a curfew care more about property damage than civil rights. this is one of the deepest rooted problems with our unbalanced equality in san francisco as a city. it has been a top down issue
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for decades now. living to all of you, there's a clear distinction listening to you that say that the violence comes from police and those of you that are saying that people are keeping people safe. they are not keeping people safe. we must reduce policing, not expand it, especially not indefinitely. also, bringing outside officers in is not the answer. it adds insult to injury that costs taxpayer dollars, that we're paying for this. we would better use this money to house homeless, build safe injection sites, provide p.p.e. a police officer cannot know who is working or who is homeless by driving by them with the mindset that they must detain anyone who was violating
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a curfew. innocent people are targeted by this bias. this is proven by the numbers released as of yesterday. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comment. next caller, and welcome caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hello, supervisors. i am a resident of district 1. this curfew is nothing short of fascist collaboration with donald trump. seeing things such as vandalism, looting, all it does it give police carte blanche to arrest anyone and everyone they want. by chief scott's own admission, all of the vandalism were entirely cleaned up by the next day. every protest i've ever attended that's turned violent is because the police have instigated the violence, tacking without provocation. if you want to -- [inaudible]
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>> fire the police who murdered alex nieto. disarm the police who use chemical weapons that are banned in war time but permitted to be used on our own citizens. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hello. i support chief scott for several reasons. unless you're going to pay for all the looting that's occurring in san francisco, you are coming up with no recommendations on how to keep the city safe. i hear all the protesters that are stating that the police are the problem, but truly, law abiding citizens aren't the problem. the people who have intent of
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looting and committing criminal acts, that is the problem, which actually jeopardizes the safety of all. the supervisors, i ask, unless you're going to pay for the looting and the damages, you think strong and hard about how you're going to make the city safer. irregardless of supervisor ronen reading a book about what happened in 1992 and preaching about the fourth amendment, it's safety that we're talking about. supervisor preston, your bias of equality of sensorship and attendance, that is ludicrous. so supervisor walton -- >> president yee: excuse me. be sure your comments are not directed to any supervisor in particular. thank you. >> you must think about the -- the people that you're trying to serve. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. are there other callers,
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operations? >> operator: yes, there's still a number of callers. go ahead. >> clerk: welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hi. can you all hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. welcome. >> excellent. howdy. my name is norm. i live in district 3, and i want to thank supervisors matt haney, hillary ronen, and dean preston for speaking up. you all are asking the right questions and breaking down the conflicting statements from the chief, which i think are uncomfortable and unsettled. i think we need to defund the police and find ways to commit to investing in the black community. a competent police chief can speak to the numbers of people killed and what was happening and giving answers to the
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reports that they are reading. he says that the violence starts with the protesters abu violence, and that's not true. you can't have officers out there in full riot gear, and then tell us that you're scared of people. upwards of 40% people killed in s.f. in the last 45 years were black. we need you to be able to standup for your black community right now and not just put them out in the rain and pretend they don't exist because your property is on fire. matt haney asked it. why are you saying we can't have peaceful protests, but then, you're restricting their rights. do i have any time left? >> clerk: you have 30 seconds. thank you, caller. >> okay. thank you. have a good day.
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>> clerk: you too, sir. next caller, please. hello and welcome, caller. >> hi. this is martin munoz. i live in district 5, and first, i want to say i am totally against this curfew. i believe it strongly infridngs on our first amendment right to free speech. i was out on the streets, and unfortunately, the sheriff's department or sfpd, i'm not exactly sure which van this was, ran into a group of us peaceful protesters on what's supposed to be car free market street. how can we have the police department ramming into protesters and causing extreme violence in a peaceful protest that did not cause any damage to the city? i believe that this curfew is going to be targeting black and brown people who are working working class jobs and causing
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the criminalization of black and brown bodies for no good reason. t us protest, let us live in freedom and peace, and let us be out there, protecting black lives. once again, black lives matter, and to quote supervisor sandra lee fewer, fuck the p.l.a. >> clerk: okay. let's try to keep our language more formal. thank you for your comment, sir. are there other speakers? >> yes. my name is patrick kirby, and i live with my wife and two young children in the sunset. i'm an attorney, and i can tell you that the justifications i've heard from law enforcement today for keeping the curfew in place are frankly nothing short of absurd and embarrassing. boiled down, we're hearing essentially from law enforcement that both peaceful action and nonpeaceful action each somehow justify keeping
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the curfew in place. it's silly. i can tell you i've personally attended the protests each day since saturday, and the protesters have been overwhelmingly peaceful. the only aggression or escalation i've seen was on the part of sfpd on sunday in inexplicably driving s.u.v.s into protesters and then driving another one into the protest. to keep the curfew in place is outrageous to keep people from speaking out against issues. to mayor breed and the supervisors, we're watching your actions very closely, and you face a binary choice right
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now. continue to support the protesters and their rights, or force more violent interactions between the citizens and the police. i can tell you the longer this curfew happens, the more people will continue to ignore it, and the more likely that action will be taken against the city to end this embarrassing and controversial curfew. i strongly urge you to end this curfew today. thank you for your time and consideration. >> clerk: thank you for your comment. next caller, please. >> i am calling because i would like the supervisors to rescind the curfew immediately. this is disproportionately
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affect people of color. police chief bill scott said the people arrested were almost half black people and latinx people. the city is only 5% black and 15% latinx. as many people said, if you attended the protests, you know that police were the ones in full riot gear and armed with guns. people are scared of the police. they're not scared of looting. they're protesting because of the police. we can not give the police more unjust power. we need to defund the police and give the funding to medical professionals and other community leaders. we are scared of them, of those murderers. i live in district 8, and in regards to the comments from my own supervisor, i am ashamed.
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if he was paying attention, he would know, and he does know, the sfpd crashed the pride parade last year. he should be working to end this curfew. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. welcome, caller. you have up two to minutes. >> thank you. my name is kitaj. i'm a district seven homeowner and also a mother of two kids who are both in the schools here. i'm calling because i want to know why this meeting wasn't about why people are protesting and feeling desperate right now, which is the violent targeting of black people and the murder of black people. i also want to make sure that all of you go much, much further. now is the time to defund the police by removing all but the
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most emergency functions from them. you all as the board of supervisors uniquely have the power to adjust that police budget and move the abundance of funding to other agencies, agencies that can welcome people to the city and help them, support them, not punish. we've tried incremental reforms for decades, and it's not worked, which is why our country is erupting right now. so please, please, wake up. stop messing around at the margins and actually do the real work here. please do not allow anymore people to be killed here. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.
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welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hi. i live in district 5. we need to end the curfew and ask you to enact needed reforms that would end police violence. i know some reforms will take longer than others, but getting started on reducing police violence through policy is the single most effective thing we can do to end unrest. people are lashing out at
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repression. >> thank you. good evening, supervisors. this is calvin quick. i serve as the district 5 youth commissioner, but i'm here speaking in my personal capacity. i am here, asking to end the curfew. i also want to echo concerns about black and brown essential employees going to and from work. it is deeply problematic that we are giving our police department more discretion more freedom to exercise subjective judgment in making arrests when we know that our police department has problems with racial bias, when we know that
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there are deep institutional problems and with law enforcement, with racism and prejudice and racial profiling, that within that context, we are saying as a city that the only box the police need to tick to detain them, that box that you need to check for violating the curfew is unbiased checking by police. it boggles the mind that the systemic police brutality, we are affording the police more lee way. i urge you to rescind the curfew now. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes.
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>> my name is carla, and i'm a district 6 resident. i want to join in the support for ending the curfew not on thursday, not on saturday, but today. the reason why the protests are occurring is because of police brutality, and to give police even more power to brutalize people, to randomly grab people that are attempting to get home, first responders, or people that are making a delivery? like, how will they know? i personally attended a protest, and it was super, super peaceful until, of course, police showed up. another concern i have yet to be heard is in the middle of a pandemic, they are using tear gas, and what happens to the people they arrest? they load them into buses and put them into jail cells. it's a pandemic, so that means that more people are going to get infected, more people are going to get covid-19, and you
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guys are giving them pretty much the permission to do so. there was a supervisor earlier that was coding the meeting that said that. >> my name is adam. i'm a district 6 resident, and i wanted to speak out against the curfew. a curfew that is targeted against protesters is clearly a prior restraint against speech and is unconstitutional on every level. everything that we've heard in support of the curfew is that it's there to stop the protests. all the supporevidence that we support the fact that the protests have been peaceful.
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i saw police harassing other folks. i did witness the police s.u.v. on market that people are talking about. i did see the police lineup to threaten the protesters. as a journalist, i pulled out my camera immediately, and i was ready to record because i thought the police were going to start going after people. again, i have a level of safety because i have white privilege. i know i don't have the level of fear that other people do, but i saw them tense up. i saw the action. the police are also out there, many of them without masks, you know, we've got covid. we're supposed to be social distancing. they're closing in. they don't have masks, and, you know, what is it? are we protecting ourselves or are we not? why are we allowing ourselves to be scared because police say we should be scared? i watch the police conferences
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with the chief and mayor breed. they say oh, we need to do this for "safety," but no one has said what systemic changes are going to be made to make the police safer. if you really want safety, look to cities that have had the police marching with the protesters, supporting the protesters. you do not need 50, 60 police for a protest of less than 50 outside city hall. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. >> hi. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. welcome. >> i live in supervisor mandelman's district. my family came here from the former soviet union because we believe that this is a democratic country, and i still believe that, and specifically,
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i believe in the city of san francisco. on saturday, i was in a crowd of protesters when the police were pointing their weapons at us, even though we were peaceful, and we kept raising our arms and shouting for them not to shoot. on sunday, i watched videos of police arrested protesters that were not armed and that were not a danger because they were "violating curfew," and i watched it happen again on monday. that's not free speech. that's not a danger to anybody, and that's not how free societies are supposed to behave. i still believe in the first amendment and the right of people together. i am sorry if the police department cannot handle criticism from people, but they're not -- [inaudible] >> i please ask you to vote against this curfew. if there's no purpose, looting
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is already illegal, but so far, all this has been done is to stifle the sense of free speech. thank you so much for that. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hello there. my name is aaron, and i live in district 7. born and raised here in san francisco, and i also work for san francisco for the last 16 years. i urge all of you to please end the curfew immediately. one thing to mention is oakland mayor libby schaaf why she did not enact the curfew is it's a symbolic depression of people of color.
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curfews do all sorts of harm to our city. one is that businesses that are typically open after 8:00 p.m. have to close. because of that, employees are getting wage cuts because you can't do the work or work the night shift anymore, and because muni and other agencies in the areas are cutting service, so that means if people are working close to closing time, meaning 8:00, they are can't catch public transit, so they're now spending more money to get home. any of us here in san francisco, we should not be oppressing people of their first amendment right.
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it's a beautiful night tonight, and people should just view tonight's sunset. once again, i urge all of you to please end the curfew now. not tomorrow, now. that's the end of my comments, and thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. is there another speaker in the queue, please? >> hi. my name is elliott wild. i want to point out that supervisor ronen made this viewpoint that the curfew must be justified every night that it's enacted. it hasn't been justified any night. it's abundantly clear that this is a mechanism to extend on the authorittarian power of the officials in san francisco.
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how can we give more power to an organization that can't perform basic overnight? defund the police before we have another alex nieto, jessica williams, and mario woods. i am 19 years old, and the cowardice of some of my local politicians to end this curfew today has completely turned me off to the idea that there will be change in this city. the idea that s.f. park and recs has closed public bathrooms, leaving my friends to not be able to poop with dignity? end the curfew now. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. welcome, caller. >> hi. i'm natasha. i live in district 2? i'm calling to request the board move to enter this curfew? we know that curfew is a tool
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that people use to suppress our right to protest, and we've seen how it disproportionately harms black and brown san franciscans. i urge you to take action today and not wait until thursday or saturday to end this curfew. i want to second what the person before me said about supervisor ronen's point, that we have to know that this curfew is required every single day, and we haven't seen that in action any day. i have been at peaceful protests during the weekend, and if anything, we've seen police intimidation over and over and over again? it is wild and gross and unbelievable that the police aren't able to report how many acts of violence that he have committed and acts of intimidation during this time. i hope that this is on the agenda every single day for the board of supervisors, and i hope that they can really see the light for what needs to be
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done. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. >> hi, my name is ryan. i live and work in district 9. i am a social worker for the city of san francisco department of public health. i'm calling just to join in on the course of those asking that we rescind this curfew immediately. you know, i've been at these protests all weekend long, and the act of aggression that i saw from the police were absolutely abhorrent. you all do -- play such a role in setting the tone of a dynamic, and when you are seeing vehicles filled with riot gear armed police, aimed at crowds just exercising their right to innocently protest, it's like they almost were let down that people were not being more violent than they were.
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please, don't give them more power to use whatever nondiscretion power that they have to keep us "safe." the police chief said it's hard for us to know who is going to do wrong, who is going to do right. you know the tools that they're using to determine that? the color of their skin. as a d.p.h. employee, it is crazy that we can spend all this money bringing in all these police officers from k o kwho -- who knows where, where my department, we don't even have the money to provide quick personal protective equipment to san francisco. what the police of the united states of america have done to black community for generations, it's not the looting of the stores.
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we cannot think about this issue outside of the broader context of the united states given the words that the president said yesterday. how can we even be considering the question of enacting this curfew further? we are just furthering his agenda to create a more police state. please vote in your souls what is right. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. >> i live in district 8, right by district 9, and i'm really disappointed in my supervisor for district 8. just shocking and really proud of the analysis that supervisor ronen made.
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i feel i want the curfew to end immediately. it's very counterproductive. it's just in your face that we're going to take away your rights, the police are going to take away your rights, first amendment rights, and it's kind of like that boot stepping on your neck, on your face, the steel-toed boot on you. also, the protests are nationwide. well, they're nationwide for a reason. it's to let the voices out there be heard. the police chief's logic is twisted, well, because police are being allowed to protest in other places, they shouldn't be allowed to protest in san francisco. i haven't seen too much of the protests because i'm very much following the stay in place guidelines, but we know mario
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woods, we know alex nieto. there's so many, it's hard to remember the names. they have the blue ribbon panel, 240 recommendations, and they've done like 40. in these days, can they say how many times they've been using these weapons, and how many times they've been hitting people? no. we cannot -- san francisco cannot be part of the military. anybody who's been to protests, them riding up there with their motorcycles, too many police out there. it's being request --
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[inaudible] >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> i'm matt, and a resident, and someone who thinks this is a complete farce. first, i'd like to call out some particularly egregious things about what the chief was saying. first, property crimes, we don't need to violate people's rights to recognize them. if cops are too dumb to figure out who's committing a crime with this authoritarian nonsense, they shouldn't be cops.
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besides that, without like calling anyone out specifically, i'm a jew, and i believe that hypothetically, it is shameful to use that to justify a commitment to order that involves taking people's rights away. absolutely not acceptable. besides that, let me just say, what we're seeing is a broad escalation of police violence. enforcing curfew and playing along with these outer narratives lets us play along with these doofuses, and the only solution is to defund the police. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. i believe there is one other caller in the queue. send him through. >> hi. i'm zack, and i'm a district 6
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resident. it's time to end the curfew now, as santa clara has just did. on sunday night, things were so quiet that i heard on the police scanner an officer explaining he was going to escort a chipotle delivery driver around for the next hour. if officers have time to do that, there's clearly no citywide emergency. if we have extra resources to send to oakland, there's clearly no see wide emergency. there's no reason why independent restaurants currently teetering on the brink of bankruptcy should be forced to close for the night. what we need is not a curfew and hundreds of law enforcement interactions, harassment of peaceful protesters and people of color by officers who refuse to wear face masks.
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it is a profound failure of leadership. the mayor's silence is stunning. her office has nothing whatsoever to say tonight in justification of the broadest use of her powers, and she didn't even show up to yesterday's public safety press conference. the police is not serving the city if it's incapable of preventing crime without imposing a citywide curfew. suddenly, we have vast resources for the hundreds of officers to swarm literally one protesters in front of city hall as they did last night. end the curfew. thank you.
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[inaudible] >> -- to express their anger and demand that police accountability be taken seriously by the san francisco government. it is also endangering a lot of people and businesses who are trying to get to and from work and to and from the protests. it's very difficult to move in and out of the city for regular business because of the curfew, and it's very dangerous in allowing police to brutalize more people at a time when they need to stop brutalizing people, so i am highly against the curfew, and i ask the board of supervisors lift it. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operati >> operator: madam clerk, that completes the queue. mr. president? [please stand by]
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>> there's a motion on the floor to continue the two items or recess the two items on thursday. and we just take a little call and see what happens, ok? madam clerk, can you call the role? >> to continue to thursday, 2:0. (role call).
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>> there are six ayes and five no's with supervisors hain -rbgs y, preston, ronen, safaye and walton in the dissents. >> we need majority. majority to approve the motion. to recess and continue the items to thursday. >> motion is 6-5 vote. are we going back to 3:00 p.m.?
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items 30 and 31, 20 and 21, mr. president. special order is the board of supervisors and sitting as a committee of the whole, this motion to sit was scheduled and approved on may 12th, 2020 for a hearing to consider objection to a report of delinquent transfer tax under the regulation's code for personal block 0269 lot number 004. that is 364 bush street and directing the transmission of the said report to the controller and the tax collector for collection and deposit into the general fund. this public hearing is for a resolution to confirm report of a delinquents tax in directing
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public hearing to occur on this day. >> today we will be considering a report for the property transfer tax for 364 bush street, and without objection, we will proceed as follows. a brief presentation from snap at the office of the city assessor and recorder. we will proceed as proposed and douglas leg, from the recorders' office, here to present and mr. lee.
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>> good evening, supervisors. as president yee said, i'm the deputy director of operations and the recorder's office. we're here to ask for a lien on transfer taxes, penalties and interests, triggered by a change of ownership by a legal entity. the property in question is located at 364 bush street. on march 9th, 2018, royal phoenix llt purchased an interest in bush street, llc.
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this created an accessible change in ownership for both property taxes and transfer taxes and transfer tax in the amount of $9,000 for this event was paid on march 16th, 2008 and under the ordinance, and that was based on a reported value of 1.$2 million for the membership interest transferred. under the ordinance, however, the transfer tax is the market value of realty and not paid to acquire a portion of the legal entity. we noted that the reported value was settlely below the assessed value and we sent a request to ththe proper owner. we received a request that did not provide support for the value claimed as the transfer
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tax basis. there was tangible and intangible personal property was $8,975,000. for $7,775,000 before than what was declare at the time of recording. this resulted in a transfer tax liability of an additional $192,000. on march 4, they recorded a notice of delinquent property taxes and deficiency determination on the property
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and the same day we issued a demand letter via certified to the seller and buyer for the unpaid transfer tax liability, plus penalties and interest 1115 of article 10c. i would like to put this break in context. since our audit transfer tax began, we've collected over $45 million from 66 taxpayers in unpaid hit taxes and $4.5 millin the current fiscal year and the city has refunded of that
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$45 million that we have collected, we have refunded $3 million. thank you for your time and i'm happy to answer any questions the board may have. >> thank you, we will now proceed to public comment. is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on the report of for 354 bush street? madam clerk, see if we have any speakers? >> in operations, do we have any speakers, please? >> madam clerk, there are to callers wishing to speak.
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>> mr. president, there are no speakers in the cue. >> ok, then public comment is now closed. madam clerk, can you call the role? >> this would be on item 21? >> we will close the hearing. >> and just reconvene as the board and have a role call on 21. >> item 21. >> on item 21 --
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(role call). >> there are 11 ar arc ayes. >> this resolution is adopted unanimously and thank you. si think the next item is public comment. >> for individuals who would like to dial in for public comment, the telephone number
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has been crawling across the screen and is on the website, as well, and it is for 156-55-0001. and when prompted, enter the access code which is scrolling at 921-46-2660 and press pound twice to join the meeting. to be added to the cue to speak or raise your hand, dial star 9. the system will prompt you when it is your turn and all speakerrers are cueing up, i'll provide the best practises and you should call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly. each speaker will have two minutes or up to two minutes to deliver your comments. if you're utilizing an interpreter, the interpreter will separately be timed for two minutes and keep your comments within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board and we have from the office of civic
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engagement three interpreters who are assigned to our board meetings during the local emergency and i would like each of them to say hello to let the community know they're here for them. and we'll start with mr. fayette. (speaking foreign language).
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>> thank you, madam clerk. >> miss lee, let the community know you're here, please,. (speaking foreign language). >> i'm done, thank you. >> mr. arturo cosenza.
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(speaking foreign language) >> in operations, can you please seven the first caller through and you'll have up to two minutes. welcome, caller. >> so my nap name is francisco
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lacosta and the commission is in disarray. and the san francisco police commission hasn't met in many years, many months until we made some noise and so they have met once or twice. and i was paying attention to the rules' committee. there were two black candidates, one worse than the other and they're now sitting on the san francisco police commission and now she's chosen two other candidates, unfit to be on the police commission. and this is all connected.
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it's connected so much so that the board of supervisors are pull our hair and they don't know what to do and i don't want to go into the details. but what is happening to our city? we don't have a functional tax force, a functional ethic's commission and board of supervisors that wags their tongue and the mayor chooses two dysfunctional police candidates to be on the commission. thank you very much. >> next speaker, please. welcome call e. er. you have up to two minutes.
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>> i'm speaking with items 20 and 21. there was a technical glitch is i was in the cue for two hours and if appropriate, take a revote on this tax issue for 3 4 bush street. i'm with the law firm of rubin, junias and rose. >> excuse me for a second. stop his time. you're kind of out of order but i don't think my colleagues would mind if you were to speak. one of my colleagues or some of my colleagues object, go ahead and continue. >> thank you very much. i want to preserve the taxpayer's rights here with respect to the issue at hand. i did want to point out a couple of issues.
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the taxpayer property recorded the transaction in march of 2018 and did not receive the reassessment of the transfer tax for approximately two years. so the penalties in interest are over 50% of the tax. it's $113,000, approximately, and if the taxpayer had known what the tax would be, we would have been able to get it paid much quicker. this is a small company, 100% minority owned and 50% women owned. they are giving their tenants tax breaks and support local businesses and within of the tenants is sam's restaurant, a local establishment that's been around for many, many years. there are some issues with the value of the property. the assessor has not yet reassessed the property and we have not had an opportunity to appeal the valuation and there's a disagreement about the revenue and tax code, 1114b and there
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are tate's law and federal regulations which we believe require that the transfer tax be based on the consideration paid, not the value of the property. and this was a membership interest transfer and this ordinance is relatively new and it has not been tested in the courts. so there is a dispute. we've inninge indicated with the assessor we would rather work with them rather than create a test case. i urge the board to allow us the opportunity to do that and not impose a lean on this local minority-owned business, especially in this economic environment that's very volatile. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments and for the record, mr. president, my staff are telling me that there was no one else in the cue at the time. there was no one who had raised their hand. however, i understand this is a new system to all of us and so,
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as with the rest of us, it may be difficult or hard to figure out hard to use, but just for the record, i wanted to let you know there was no glitches on our side. >> no, no, i wasn't in indicating that. i was indicating that we heard the item. >> very good. i think we have one other call earl ierin the cue. is that true? >> yes, direct. >> ok, welcome, caller. >> you have up to two minutes, welcome. >> i think you have the wrong name. is it my turn? >> yes, mr. warfield, go ahead. >> this is peter warfield and i'm speaking with two hats. the first point to make is on behalf of equity for older students and we can be reached at equityforolder students@protonmail.com.
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on thursday night, and, in fact friday morning at 7:30 a.m., the board of trustees at city college voted to extend the lease only so long as it would be necessary through september to remove the heavy gear and other gear that is part of city college's presence there for more than 45 years and so to end fort mason as a site, as a campus of city college. we have been very concerned since at least november that the trustees have been practicing age discrimination by cutting more than 90% of the older adult student's program from 76 about a year and a half ago classes to 52 in the fall and for the spring, they scheduled before covid-19 just five. that's an all of complete destruction of the older adult
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program. and now they are basically ending over 45 years of presence in fort mason in a step that is likely to be permanent and irreversible. and underscores the older adult, basically, diminishment or elimination because that is where a unti number of the older adult programs existed and there was a kind of community. all of the arguments, in terms of facts, are highly questionable to put it po polity all and of the classes are high enrollment and on and on. we act ask that you in any budgt discussion as well as legislation look to make sure -- >> thank you, mr. warful, for your comments.
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>> hi, this is adam chung. i want to speak about past residents as a whole. what will you doing about police reform overall? what is the plan? we haven't heard anybody addressed this directly. we've talked around it and had other items that were adjacent and no one in san francisco government has yet stepped up and said, we are going to tackle the problem of police reform head-on. these are the problems we see. these are the problems that we're going to address. we haven't even heard the first steps of the plan to dig into those issues. so i would urge you all to put something on the agenda for an upcoming meeting, to start a committee if you need to do that wanthat, whatever the process i,
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take it off and don't just let that question go unanswered during board meetings, during press conferences because that's what you're constituents want to know. how will you solve the problem, not how are we all going to complain about it? thank you. >> thank you for your comments, sir. >> any other speakers? >> that concludes the speakers in the cue. >> thank you. >> and s then public comment is now closed. madam clerk, can you go ahead and just call the adoption on committee reference agenda items, 25-34? >> yes, items 25-34 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee and a unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today. alternatively, any supervisor
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may require a resolution to go to committee. >> commissioner stephanie. >> i would like to sever item number 26. >> are you muted, mr. president? >> thank you, anybody e else wat to sever any items? >> 27 and 28. >> item 31. >> mr. president, were you interested in item number 29? >> it's ok.
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>> thank you. >> ok, can you go ahead and call role on the remainder of the items. >> on items 25, 30, 32, 33 and 34, supervisor hainey -- >> wait, and 29? >> and 29, thank you, mr. president. yes, thank you. >> supervisor hainey. >> aye. >> soup stor (role call).
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>> there are 11 ayes. >> ok, so these motions are approved and resolutions are adopted. and so let's go to item number 26. >> item 26 is a resolution to support california state senate bill number 939, authorized by senator scott weiner and coauthored by david choo and phil ting to protect nonprofit organizations from evictions and permit small businesses or restaurants that have experienced a decline in revenue during the shelter-in-place to terminate commercial leases. >> supervisor stephanie. >> thank you, president yee.
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i would like to continue this item to the june 23rd meeting. >> ok, motion has been made and is there a second? >> second, peskin. >> so seconded by peskin and call role, please. >> on the motion to continue item 26 to june 23 -- (role call).
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>> there are 11 ayes. >> call items 27 and 28. >> to meet remotely during the shelter-in-place order and to authorize the local homeless coordinating board to meet remotely during the covid-19 shelter-in-place order. >> ok, supervisor hainey. >> so the mayor had 16 supplemental which was city advisory bodies and boards are again authorized to meet so that mean these motions are to longer by the board and i want to thank my cosponsors, supervisor ronen, preston and walton. given the provision and the mayor's order that for non-chartered bodies that the meetings must, quote, reasonably require the time of staff with emergency operations, motioning
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to continue both items to next week's meeting to explore the impact of this requirement and make sure that these two bodies can meet in a timely fashion to address rapidly changing shelter policies despite the staff time required to run these meetings. (please stand by).
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>> president yee: okay. i believe we need to have a motion to excuse shamann -- i mean, supervisor walton. >> supervisor safai: so moved. supervisor safai.
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>> second. >> president yee: okay. there is a motion and a second. roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor walton -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president yee: okay. so the motion to excuse is passed unanimously. the item itself. >> clerk: on item 31 -- [roll call] 23rs
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. >> president yee: okay. then the motion is approved. welcome back, supervisor walton, and congratulations. madam clerk, i have to ask that we rescind the first vote for items 25, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34
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because i want to sever 29 out of there. >> clerk: okay. on the motion to rescind, mr. president -- >> president yee: do i need a second? >> clerk: yes, you do. >> president yee: can i have a second on the motion? >> supervisor stefani: second. >> president yee: made by supervisor stefani. can you call the vote? >> clerk: mr. president, you don't need to rescind the entire vote, you just need to rescind the vote on the item you're hearing. >> president yee: okay. i'll rescind the vote on item 29. >> clerk: and the second. >> president yee: supervisor stefani, is it okay? >> supervisor stefani: yes, go ahead. >> clerk: on the motion to resci
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rescind? >> president yee: yes, go ahead and call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to rescind -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. thank you. so motion to rescind passes. colleagues, i'm sorry. i should have severed this item. what i'd like to do is make a motion to continue this item until our next meeting on june 9, for the same rationale as what supervisor haney gave for 27 and 28, so can i have a second to continue this item?
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>> supervisor fewer: second. >> president yee: made by supervisor fewer, i believe. >> supervisor fewer: yes, that's me. >> president yee: okay. so madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item 29 to june 9 -- [roll call]
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>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: good. so the motion to continue to june 9 passes. madam clerk, can you read the in memoriams? >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals: on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late richard alioto. on behalf of supervisor yee for the late donnetta e lane. on behalf of supervisor ronen on supervisor hanzanetti. on behalf of supervisor walton, for the late lottie titus, and
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on behalf of supervisor ronen, for the late george floyd. >> president yee: thank you. colleague, that brings us to the end of the agenda tonight. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that continues -- that concludes our business for today. >> president yee: thank you very much. meeting adjourned.
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>> hi, i'm chris manus and a you are watching "coping with covid-19." today joining us is susan girardeau of the california pacific medical center. and mow to cope with emotional stress of a major daf. she's here today to talk to us about how to help young children cope with this ongoing pandemic. dr. girardeau, welcome to the show. >> thank you very much. >> let's start by talking about some of the issues that 5 to 11-year-olds might be facing. what are some difficultties they might be experiencing during this pandemic? >> the biggest difficulties that all children experience is fear and anxiety and it's displayed in a variety of different ways. the kids have a fear of a family member getting sick or themselves getting sick. they have a fear of separation.
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obviously with our quarantine, all of us at home, children still have a fear of separation in own home, which means from room to room, that they cannot be home alone without a parent. it is very difficult and even at night to sleep in their own bed can be a problem and an issue that is under the umbrella of anxiety. the other parts that play into it is the anxiety of when will this end? as we know currently, we don't know and that is the most difficult. and all kids, their peers, are an important part of their development. so it is often asking when can i go to school? at this point, they are very
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tired of online school. when can i take my friends and when can i see extended family? >> right. what kind of indicators are there that a young child is struggling right now? >> particularly behaviors that are really across the age spectrum of 5 to adolescence is sleep disturbances and increase in nightmares and in the younger kids, night terrors. woe see across the age speck trup, fear of the dark. the other behaviors that we are seeing is the regression in their normal developmenttal tasks. for the younger child and as i referenced sleeping in their own room. other types of behaviors that parents or caregivers might see
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are meltdowns over relatively minor issues. often we're seeing a decrease attention and focus, especially with online school. we're also seeing headaches, stomach aches that we typically see when there is stress and trauma. >> i see. let's say we've realize add child is having difficulties. are there specific ways we can talk to them to get them to open up, perhaps phrases or ways to ask questions that will encourage them to share their concerns? >> there are a number of ways. number one, the biggest thing that parents can do is to really listen to their child. often times we're rushed. we are working parents, plus as well as now teachers online as well as playmates. so, to pause and really listen
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to what their fears are. as parents, we often don't get down to a younger child's physical level, look at them and listen to them and talk to them directly. i often use the technique of nailing a feeling and kids often times -- they're not going to, especially in times of stress, come up with this feeling that they can name. so, i recommend to parents always of naming three feelings. happy, sad and mad. and you've been through those three. not frustration. but just nailing it to those three. another technique that i highly recommend is to use the third person. in a way such as i have heard other kids say that they're scared and they don't know why they're scared.
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do you think that happens with you sometimes? this is a way that kids feel much safer in talking about their feelings because they don't feel like they're on the spot, but other kids are feeling that same way. >> i understand. do you think that there is secondary concerns for kids as concerns are gradually lifted? i know one small child frightened to go outside right now. >> yes. and we're seeing that already right now. because with -- as one -- as restrictions are lifted and we're able to go outside, you know, people are wearing masks and that can be very frightening. even if halloween. many kids won't wear a mask. children under 2 do not wear masks. under 7, they don't have to. but over the age of 7, it is
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highly recommended by the c.d.c. that kids wear masks. that is going to be difficult. so, what i've recommended is for kids to make their own masks. they can make their own designs on the paper surgical masks. and so it is there. they can't put [inaudible] on it, whatever makes it feel a lot safer for them. other things that i have heard are kids are afraid to go outside. i heard this from a number of families because they haven't really been able to do so so they're afraid they will get sick. i recommend that families start very small steps and the first step is take a ride in the car. that is the first way to go outside, windows down. and if you have a sunroof, open the sunroof and unbuckle the seat belts or car seat and be able to stand up and that is a
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small step to feel like the outside might be safe. so, it has to be in small steps for the fear it is going to be exacerbated. >> absolutely. so, could you tell me a little bit about your book, disaster shock? >> yes, "disaster shock" has been originally written for the 1989 earthquake in san francisco. this has been a number of disasters since then and families in 1989 gave us the feedback that it was extremely helpful because there was really no literature available on how to help children and families that haven't talked to them. unfortunately our natural disasters increased with tornadoes and the last wildfires affecting northern california.
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it has been updated again for the pandemic. >> right. and finally, what would you say to parents about how to talk to their kids in general? could you suggest some good ways to re-assure them? >> a few ways that i have been suggesting is, number one, you have to be honest. about what you know. and be able to explain in developmentally appropriate terms what is happening. and that we are all learning. we don't know. there are many things we don't know. but that parents need re-assure the kids that they are safe, that the family will be together. but they need to be able to get the kids a little leeway, so to speak. and i'm not saying not disciplined, but what your discipline techniques may have been before may need to lighten up a little bit because these are very unusual circumstances
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for adults, but as well as for kids. but i always suggest and recommend that parents be honest with the kids because that is the trust that children have in their parents. parents must be really aware their kids will hear, they will read their body language and understand the anxiety we all feel, but the parents need to be honest that they -- the kids will be safe. >> i understand. well, thanks for coming on the show, dr. girardeau. i appreciate the time you've given us today. thanks again. >> you're welcome. >> and that is it for this episode. we'll be back with more pandemic-related information shortly. thank for watching. is --
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>> our united states constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if --
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political representation because if we under count california, we get less representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census.
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>> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the yunited states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues
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that many chinese community and families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to
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educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census. >> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved.
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ranso boostose. rosales. buff this is a regular meeting on the commission of community investment and infrastructure for tuesday, june 2, 2020. i would like to welcome the members of the public who are streaming or listening to us live, and to the staff who will be participating in today's meeting. following the guidelines set forth by local and state officials during this health emergency, the members of this commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. thank you all for joining us. madam secretary, please call the first item. >> clerk: thank you, madam
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chair. the first item is business is item one, roll call. commission members, please respond when i call your name. [roll call] >> clerk: the next order is business is item 2, announcements. a, the next regularly scheduled meeting will be held on tuesday, june 16, 2020, at 1:00 p.m. b, announcement of procedures. please be advised that each member of the public has up to two minutes to address the commission unless the chair designates a shorter comment period. to call in, dial
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1-888-557-8511. dial the access code 7500645, press pound, then pound again to enter as a participant. this number will also show up on the screen during each public comment section. when you are connected, listen to instructions, and then when prompted, dial one and zero to be entered into the queue to speak. during waiting, the line will remain on silent. all callers will remain on mute until their line is open. it is best to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio.
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the next order of business is 3, report on actions taken at previous closed session meetings, if any. there are none. the next item is 4, matters of unfinished business. there are none. the next item is 5, matters of new business, consent agenda. there are no consent agenda items. the next is item 5-a, workshop on ociis fiscal year 2020-2021 budget. madam chair? >> thank you. i just want to thank the staff for putting this presentation together. the normal time for submission
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is june 1 so they can present the budget to the mayor and then the board of supervisors. because of covid, that timeline got delayed. because we're required to submit our recognized payment obligation schedule to the department of finance for approval, you were able to have a preview of our budget back in january, and since then, the department of finance has responded to us with some reallocation and reduction in property tax request. so what you will see before you is a reflection of what the department of finance instructions were to ask, as well as the city controller, and that is reflected in our budget. and more specifically, staff will be presenting on the item, but we also have representatives from our
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various divisions, project teams to present on their respective items. again, i want to thank the staff for working diligently on the -- on certain times, particularly remotely, knowing that these budget processes and the extensive double monitoring is definitely needed for the kind of work that we do, but we're kind of able to put a budget together that we're happy to present on. as you know, this is just an informational item. we'll take your feedback during this process and then come back on june 16 for approval. with that, i'll turn it over to nina to present on this item. thank you. >> thank you, director sesay,
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vice chair rosales. my name is nina chu. i am the budget and legislative analyst for ocii, and i am here to present to you the 20-21 budget. so i'll go over the budget timeline, our uses, and then, the project managers will speak to our budgets, and then i will go over more facts. so the department of finance approved our r.o.t.s. -- [inaudible] >> so our total budget for
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fiscal year 20-21 is 527.3 million, the majority is funded by prior f.r.e., and they're continuing to disburse over a multiyear period. our second largest source is property tax, followed by fund balance. so this shows 20-21 broken out by uses. we're spending $362.2 million on direct programatic schedules. infrastructure and nonhousing encompasses our nonhousing work in our major approved project areas in mission bay, hunters bay, and mission rock. i'll provide a couple of high
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level perspectives. next slide. so this is a high level overview of our infrastructure and nonhousing budget of $237.5 million. you can see the majority is for development infrastructure reimbursement, so we typically partner with our developers to do the on the groundwork, and we submit requests, and they revise and make these payments. next slide. so in 2021, ocii will complete several park projects, and the project managers will talk about these in greater detail. and with that, i like to introduce mark slepkin, who is our mission bay project manager. >> good afternoon, vice chair rosales, director sesay.
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i'm mark slepkin, director of mission bay. the mission bay work plan will include finishing construction of the last streets in mission bay south and turning our construction on three parks. three parks, p-3, p-19, and p-27 will be completed, and p-22 will be worked on throughout the year. the reimbursement for infrastructure, so the $178.3 million we are budgeting includes not just reimbursement for the proposed work plan but for work that was completed in prior years. we're budgeting 2.3 million for plan and permit review for future parks, housing, tenant improvement for future space, most notably, the uber
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headquarters. we've been working with the arts commission on an m.o.u. for them to create art in our own space, and in the upcoming fiscal year, we will be bringing an m.o.u. before the commission for approval for an m.o.u. and then begin doing work, creating art in the open space, and we'll be budgeting $1.5 million for that. finally, we'll continue to see the art in the open space in mission bay. this slide shows the sources used in our budget. you can see property tax is the primary source of funds. for infrastructure, we'll be using $45 million in bond proceeds and 130 million for
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property tax. $900,000 for other professional services will also be paid from property tax. for public art, these funds come from developers who have chosen to pay the 1% park fee instead of building public art on their -- 1% art fee instead of building public art on their site. here's some pictures of the mission bay projects. p-22, which will be under construction in the next fiscal year. p-3, which should be completed by december. we have the soma hotel, which will be open in early 2021, and the uber headquarters which will also open later this year. that is the budget and work plan for mission bay, and up next is sally orth to discuss transbay. >> thank you, mark. good afternoon, commissioners. this is sally orth, deputy
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director, and i'll be presenting the transbay budget portion. so the budget is approximately $51 million for the next fiscal year, and that can really be broken-down in three categories. first, $27 million is going to costs related to various infrastructure projects like the fulsom state-owned project. and then, finally, the remaining $3 million is other costs for transbay's portion of staffing, operating costs, consu consultants, and various legal services. so here's another cut of the same expenditures but really
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shown by the revenue source, and the developer payments and the property tax columns represent the new funding that would be coming in in the year. you can see the majority of the property tax will be the pledged increment to the transbay joint powers authority, but the remaining funds such as the bond fees and park fees are fees that we already have in hand, and we'll -- are funds that we already have in hand, and we'll just continue to draw those down for existing contracts or additional work that we have through the scope of the fiscal year. so i'll just close by just showing some images of some of the streetscape and open space projects that we will be working on and will be continuing to work on. the top image, the fulsom street project is closing up. the remaining two pictures on the right, you'll see the
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transbay conceptual design. this is a block holder for what we call the park three project. we have hired d.p.w. to be doing design work, and we've begun our community outreach process, and we'll continue to do that throughout the fiscal year and work on designs, and the underramp park project, we have done a lot of work on the sche schematic designs, and we'll continue to advise the commission through the this fiscal year as we make progress. i'll hand it over to leila hussein for hunters point shipyard and candlestick point. >> good afternoon, commissioners. leila hussein for hunters point shipyard and candlestick.
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so both phase one and phase two of the project are both in a lot of predevelopment and infrastructure development phases, and a majority of the work that you see here is for plans and permit review that you see associated with construction happening on hilthill tops and hillsides of shipyard phase one, and that is a lot of the work that staff at ocii is engaged with with our partners, budget park and len 234nnar. we also have some grants from federal and state government to complete work, which i'll go
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over on the next slide. and then, we have a grant for shipyard phase one that will be used to pay for the operation of maintenance and parks within phase one of the shipyard. so if i can go to next slide, i'll get in a little deeper. so you see staffing and operating costs funded through the developer. we have development and infrastructure costs that's happening both on shipyard phase one and phase two. we also have consultants helping us as well as we have infrastructure support consultants. we have a grant to help us improve the building 101, the artist building, from the federal government, to help us rehab the building. we are entering into contract with p.p.w. to go out and bid and actually implement these
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improvements that have been in the planning stages for many years, and then, we have the grant to the community-based organizations, which is mainly monitored with -- very closely wi grounds for home ownership assistance that falls in this bucket to you shortly. and then, infrastructure development, as you know, we are very much in the infrastructure phase for both shipyard phase one and phase two. we are still building out there, and this amount of funds, this potential bonds that -- ocii will go out for to start canvassing for infrastructure development. and then, we have workforce development, which we're able to go into into greater detail. the last one is payment agencies. the last payment we got --
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[inaudible] >> as well as the lease payments we get from the artists who -- who currently occupy also shipyard phase two parcel b out there, and those are lease payments made to the navy because those ones have not transferred yet to ocii, and that concludes the dollar amount, and then, i have some images on the next slide. phase one park, inness core park. the second right hapicture is
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rendering of the candlestick center. we will be working with our development partners to see that design and building enhanced. and the last building, building 101, which is where we have the federal grant that we have to rehab that building so we can improve life and safety issues and make it more accessible. and that's where the studios happen that every quarter that you've gone to. this will be a great amenity for the public to make not only the building for accessible to these events but make it more safer for the artists working in that building. so with that, i'll transfer the next slide over to jeff white
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to talk about affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you. i'm jeff white, housing program manager. i'm going to review the fiscal 2021 housing program with you. this image is our project mission bay south six west. it's a rendering. it's under construction. 152 units and will be completed and occupied by the middle of next year, the end of the fiscal year. next slide. for fiscal year 2021, the total housing budget is 124 -- $12 5 $124.5 million. it includes six new housing loans for a total of 96.8 million. two are construction and four our development. the existing runs are projects from prior period authority and range from predevelopment to
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under construction to pending asset transfer to the mayor's office of housing and community development. next slide. at a more granular level, these are six new -- these are the six new loans for the fiscal year. two are construction loans. one is mission bay south nine, and the other is hunters point shipyards blocks 52 to 54. the other predevelopments are for developments in all of our immediate areas, hunters point shipyard and mission bay south. these are existing loans to $124.9 million. they include projects that were previously funded the way that nina described before and in different stages of development, and the total number of units that these one touched is 910 affordable
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housing units. next slide, please. and this slide shows highlights of our affordable housing work, and the top slide is alice griffith phase four. as you know, it's a completed unoccupied project, and it's pending asset transfer. then, we've got hunters point shipyard blocks 52-54. that's construction loan. we anticipate that project starting construction toward the end of the fiscal year, and then, to your right is mission bay south, block nine. that's the project that's 100% for formerly homeless adults and anticipate starting that project at the beginning of the fiscal year. so with that, next up is raymond lee, the contract compliance supervisor. thank you. >> thank you, jeff. good afternoon, vice chair
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rosales, director sesay. the fiscal year 2021 support contract staff's work plan that includes the disbursing of community benefit funds. also in our budget of funds to the office of economic and workforce development or oewd to assist us with the administration workforce compliant efforts. included in our work plan for next year is a business compatiblity study. i thought i'll spend a minute or two on our accomplishments. since the establishment of ocii in 2012, we have awarded over 5.5 billion in contracts with over $1.6 to small businesses. this constitutes over 6% of
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s.b.e. participation with over half going to san francisco s.b.e.s. for this current fiscal year, our awards include small businesses of $20 million, which equates to a small business participation of 56%. over 7,700 workers have performed work on our projects with 17% of those from san francisco. notably in the latter part of 2019 under the mission bay south o.p.a. and the first source hiring requirements, 128 san francisco residents were hired by the chase center through cooperative efforts with oewd and other community based organizations. a special training was held in the latter part of 2017 to train special alice griffith residents on abatement work. with that, i'd like to
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introduce odi manal to talk about asset management. >> thank you, ray. good afternoon, commissioners. nice to see everyone. again, i'm toby miles, real estate and services manager. this part of the work plan includes implementation of the long range property management plan which directs the transfer of ociis assets to the city and private parties both within and outside of the major approved project areas. currently, we are in conversations with our city partners around priorities for transfer of assets in 2021. in the coming year, we will continue our work to transfer ociis completed affordable housing assets to mohcd. included transfers include alice griffith, phases one through four, in mission bay
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south, projects 6 east and 7 west, and in transit a, blocks 6 and 7. it also includes the ongoing management obligations, including the 606 project in yerba buena is expected to be completed later this summer. in this past march, the board of supervisors approved legislation authorizing the transfer of three propertied to the city under the p.m.p. the actual closings on those properties will occur during the remainder of this year, 19-20, and into next year. those properties include the south of market health care center, which is in soma and part of the mixed use housing development which will be under mohcds management, a portion of aaron rogers park in the bayview, and the grocery store
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at 333 williams. during this past year, ocii transferred assets to mohcd. in summary, progress continues on winding during our obligations and transferring the assets. i would like to turn the presentation back over to nina yu for the portion of the debt presentation. >> thank you. so we'll be spending 118.6 million on our debt program for 2021? our bond portfolio includes about 20 bonds. we have $998.5 million outstanding of which 860 is tax allocation bonds that are secured by property taxes in our redevelopment project areas, and the debt service on
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this is on average about 100 million a year. our nontap debt includes the issuance of the new shipyard bond of 3.8 million. we have 13.4 million of funds on hand that we will use to pay down our c.f.d. number four bond in mission bay north. we also have hotel taxes that will be used to pay the hotel occupancy tax refunding bond. next slide. so our operating budget -- next slight. our operating budget is 20.6 million for 2021, and the bond proceeds will be used to fund fast timer issuer bonds. the uses are broken out here, but we'll go into more detail on the next slide. so of the 20.6, 10.4 is for
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existing staff salaries and benefits. this encompasses 55 f.t.e.s. this is no change from the current year. next slide. so as i mentioned, we have 6 million in our nonlabor expenditures. the largest order is for city departments at 3.6 million. we also have some consultant services and other expenses. the legal services are for legal costs in not significant areas. so of the 3.6 in work orders, the largest is with the mayor's office of housing, followed by the city administrator's office for our rent and mail services. we have costs for oewd, and then smaller portions for the
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controllers, planning, b.p., and then, the tax collector. next slide. so again, our 2021 budget is 527.3. in this table, the incorporated housing costs are included in the verticals for the project areas, and then, our nonproject costs are primarily made up of our debt services -- debt portfolio costs. next slide. so under our developer agreements, our developmenters develop parts, and we use the taxes collected under those c.f. -- parks, and we use the taxes collected under those c.f.d.s. the commission does act as a legislative body, so these are preempted here today along with our -- presented $11.6 million.
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we'll be back on you on june 16 for the action item, and then, we'll be submitting our budget to the mayor's office on july 30, and then, the board of supervisors on august 1. and we have staff here to answer any questions. thank you for your time and attention. >> thank you to you and everyone who presented, but before we take commissioner questions, madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to provide a comment? >> operator: your conference is now in question-and-answer
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mode. to summon each question, press one and then zero. >> clerk: at this time, members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item should call 1-888-557-8511, then enter the access code 7500645, then pound, and pound again. to request to speak, press one and zero. if there are any participants who called in ahead of time and are listening to the meeting by phone, please press one and then zero if you wish to submit a public comment. we'll give them a few minutes to allow callers to submit their request.
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miss nguyen, do we have any participants on the phone? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: okay. we'll give it a few more seconds just to allow them time to call in. thank you. madam vice chair, at this time, there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to comment on this item. >> okay. thank you. hearing that, unless there's a member of the public that calls in late, i will close -- temporarily close public comment at this time, and we'll turn to my fellow commissioners
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for any questions or comments they would like to make. i can see commissioner scott on the screen, but -- >> your conference is now in question-and-answer mode. to summon each question, press one and then zero. >> clerk: sorry. >> okay. so do we have -- can i invite a comment or question by commissioner scott? >> yes, madam vice chair. thank you so much, and thank you so much for this presentation. the only thing i thought as i began reading the material was in light of the pandemic crisis and the reality of it and all the, you know, disappointments, changes, do you believe that this is going to cover and be sufficient for the needs going forward without knowing what all those needs might be -- and
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you may know and be aware of what to foresee out of this post pandemic and even now. >> i'm going to have bree or nina? i'm happy to add on, as well. >> good morning. i'm bree mahorter. as director sesay mentioned, normally, our budget process, we do all of our thinking in february and march, and we come to you in april, and we delayed with the city our budget process for two months. and during that time, we've done a lot of thinks what we need to support our staff as they continue to work under these challenging working
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conditions, and we've thought a lot about what is possible out in the community, and we have already adjusted the budget accordi accord accordingly so we can continue to meet those needs? all of that is to say that within our limited mandate, we are funded to do the best that we can to support the community. >> thank you. >> if you have any further questions, i'd be happy to answer them. >> thank you so much, bree. >> any further questions, commissioner scott? >> no, thank you.
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commissioner brackett, any questions or comments? >> not at this time. okay. i have a couple. thank you again for the presentation. i've been on the commission many years, and each year, you know, the presentation gets more detailed and allows me to integrate all of the detail in a concise fashion, so i appreciate that. i did have two questions, and one of them has to do with basically an add-onto what commissioner scott asked. in looking at the slide on contract compliance, slide 30, my only question was given the shelter in place orders, what, if any, impacts were there on existing infrastructure
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projects, like our housing development projects? were those temporarily halted in any fashion? >> this is raymond, compliance supervisor. the projects did not halt for what we're considering essential projects, so housing projects continued, and our contractors continued working at those particular projects. there were impacted to nonaffordable housing construction activities, and so those activities did pause where subcontractors were impacts. you're correct. there was a lot of impact to the small business community. i think, if anything, our progression in terms of continuing our work certainly helps, but the impact to the small businesses, particularly when other private projects are on hold.
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>> thank you for that -- for that response. and so maybe at a different time, ray, you could give us kind of a general review of those impacts. like, are those folks that were impacted, for instance, ad versely back -- adversely back on the jobs? anything that would give us information about those impacts because i think it does dovetail into the information that we've been working on as a commission but as laborers and contractors, as well. >> okay. >> so thank you. the other question i had was with the city m.o.u.s. i just -- one question was is
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the budget that we have the same, less, or more than last year? >> good afternoon, commissioners. bree morhorter. because the needs of the departments don't change from year to year, the budget is largely the same as prior years. there are some small adjustments in particular departments. like, for example, rent is higher, our technology costs are higher because of the
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timeline of the lease up work and the marketing work with mohcd, that's slightly lower, but all in all, i would say things are sort of roughly the same. >> great. okay. those were my questions. any other questions by commissioners or do we happen to have any member of the public that came late and would like to speak to this item? >> clerk: miss nguyen, do we have any late participants? >> operator: there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. no additional callers, madam vice chair. >> okay. well, this item is not an action item. it's a workshop, and when it's before the commission at the next meeting, perhaps commissioner bustos will also weigh-in on this item, which is a very critical one for underwriting all of our activities. but that's in the breadth of
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all those activities. it's very important. so thank you again to the staff. madam secretary, please call the next item. >> clerk: thank you, madam vice chair. the next order is business is item 6, public comment on nonagenda items. >> do we have any speakers for this item? >> operator: madam secretary, we have no speakers on the line. >> clerk: okay. let me allow them a few minutes. again, members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-888-557-8511, enter access code 7500645.
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press pound, and then pound again. press one and then zero to be entered into the queue. if there are any people listening on the phone, please press one and zero to provide a public comment. we'll allow them a few -- provide them a few more seconds to allow them to call in. and miss nguyen, just to double-check, making sure there are no callers who called in a little later? >> operator: yes, no callers on the line. >> clerk: madam vice chair, at this time, there are no members of the public on the line wishing to comment on this item. >> okay. thank you. please call the next item. >> clerk: one moment.
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the next order of business is item 7, report of the chair. madam vice chair? >> i do not have a report. >> clerk: the next item is business is report 8, report of the executive director. madam director? >> i do not have a report at this time, but i do want to just express my gratitude and thanks to the staff just showing up every day remotely and doing what is needed so that we can continue to fulfill our obligations and then also respond to our community partners and development teams as well as trying to be supportive and volunteer as best as possible during this challenging time. so i do want to express my gratitude and thanks and thanks to the commission, as well, for constantly requiring that we do our best and be as resourceful
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as possible in supporting our constituents, which includes affordable housing residents as well as small business partners. thank you. >> thank you. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 9, commissioners' questions and matters. madam chair? >> yes. commissioners, do either one of you have questions or matters that you'd like to bring up at this time? >> no questions or matters for myself, dr. scott. >> commissioner brackett? >> no questions at this time. >> okay. i would like to bring up a question just as an add-on just
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to what we were saying, and commissioner sesay. in my time on the commission, i'm proud of the civil rights and equity and fairness work that we do in all the fields that we talked about today: housing, small business, workforce development, community development, community empowerment, and while i'm very proud and i think we've done a lot, there's -- you know, i'm not trying to sing our praises because i think our results speak for themselves, given the climate that we're in, both economic and political and policy, and just from a community fairness standpoint, i would like to ask the executive director if i and any other commissioner who wants to join that doesn't constitute a quorum of the commission, meet to review informally the
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commission's programs and policies in these areas just to ensure that we're doing all that we can for our constituent communities. if there's a need to redouble our efforts or be creative or reach out to our community partners so that they can be creative, i think that we're going to see certainly fallout economically to our small business partners, and i just want to make sure that we stay ahead of those issues and that we do everything we can. so that is a request to the executive director. >> thank you, vice chair rosales, for this request. we're happy to assemble a small team from my group that includes bree and other directors to work with the
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commission. i know last year when we were in front of the commission for developments on candlestick point, we had discussed creating some small committees, but because of covid and the delay in projects, we haven't instituted that. but we could create a small working group specific to this issue to kind of help review all our policies, how creative we can be, and how we can connect the dots with city partners to provide resources that can support our constituents, particularly the workforce and our small businesses. i do want to note, i think ray mentioned, that we were doing the capacity study s. i kn. i know we're trying to get that back out as quickly as possible, but more specifically, what resources specifically exist and what
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constituents and residents have access to that. this is an opportunity for us to review and see what we can do to enhance that so that no one is left behind and we're able to weather this short hopefully difficult times. and i know that director brackett had been interested in participating in that. i expect you two, and then, we can rotate others in and out, depending on when we have the schedule and follow ups. >> excellent. thank you. >> so madam director, i wanted to thank you for bringing that. that was one of my thoughts when i asked about the budget earlier, and i'm glad you brought up in that way.
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i would also be interested in being a part of this to ensure that as we come out of this, that no one is left behind. >> thank you. i appreciate that. please call the next item. >> clerk: the next order of business is item 10, closed session. there are no closed session items. the next order is business is item 11, adjournment. madam vice chair? >> yes. do i have a motion to adjourn at 1:51 p.m.? >> yes. i move that we adjourn the meeting. >> i second the motion. >> the adjournment motion has been moved by commissioner scott and seconded by commissioner brackett. i don't know that we need to do a roll call, but the meeting is adjourned at 1:51. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioners. appreciate it.
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>> thank you, everyone.
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>> announcer: you're watching "coping with covid-19." >> hi, i'm chris manus and a you are watching "coping with covid-19." today joining us is susan girardeau of the california pacific medical center. and mow to cope with emotional stress of a major daf. she's here today to talk to us about how to help young children cope with this ongoing pandemic. dr. girardeau, welcome to the
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show. >> thank you very much. >> let's start by talking about some of the issues that 5 to 11-year-olds might be facing. what are some difficultties they might be experiencing during this pandemic? >> the biggest difficulties that all children experience is fear and anxiety and it's displayed in a variety of different ways. the kids have a fear of a family member getting sick or themselves getting sick. they have a fear of separation. obviously with our quarantine, all of us at home, children still have a fear of separation in own home, which means from room to room, that they cannot be home alone without a parent. it is very difficult and even at night to sleep in their own
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bed can be a problem and an issue that is under the umbrella of anxiety. the other parts that play into it is the anxiety of when will this end? as we know currently, we don't know and that is the most difficult. and all kids, their peers, are an important part of their development. so it is often asking when can i go to school? at this point, they are very tired of online school. when can i take my friends and when can i see extended family? >> right. what kind of indicators are there that a young child is struggling right now? >> particularly behaviors that are really across the age spectrum of 5 to adolescence is
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sleep disturbances and increase in nightmares and in the younger kids, night terrors. woe see across the age speck trup, fear of the dark. the other behaviors that we are seeing is the regression in their normal developmenttal tasks. for the younger child and as i referenced sleeping in their own room. other types of behaviors that parents or caregivers might see are meltdowns over relatively minor issues. often we're seeing a decrease attention and focus, especially with online school. we're also seeing headaches, stomach aches that we typically see when there is stress and trauma. >> i see. let's say we've realize add
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child is having difficulties. are there specific ways we can talk to them to get them to open up, perhaps phrases or ways to ask questions that will encourage them to share their concerns? >> there are a number of ways. number one, the biggest thing that parents can do is to really listen to their child. often times we're rushed. we are working parents, plus as well as now teachers online as well as playmates. so, to pause and really listen to what their fears are. as parents, we often don't get down to a younger child's physical level, look at them and listen to them and talk to them directly. i often use the technique of nailing a feeling and kids often times -- they're not
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going to, especially in times of stress, come up with this feeling that they can name. so, i recommend to parents always of naming three feelings. happy, sad and mad. and you've been through those three. not frustration. but just nailing it to those three. another technique that i highly recommend is to use the third person. in a way such as i have heard other kids say that they're scared and they don't know why they're scared. do you think that happens with you sometimes? this is a way that kids feel much safer in talking about their feelings because they don't feel like they're on the spot, but other kids are feeling that same way. >> i understand. do you think that there is secondary concerns for kids as
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concerns are gradually lifted? i know one small child frightened to go outside right now. >> yes. and we're seeing that already right now. because with -- as one -- as restrictions are lifted and we're able to go outside, you know, people are wearing masks and that can be very frightening. even if halloween. many kids won't wear a mask. children under 2 do not wear masks. under 7, they don't have to. but over the age of 7, it is highly recommended by the c.d.c. that kids wear masks. that is going to be difficult. so, what i've recommended is for kids to make their own masks. they can make their own designs on the paper surgical masks. and so it is there. they can't put [inaudible] on it, whatever makes it feel a lot safer for them.
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other things that i have heard are kids are afraid to go outside. i heard this from a number of families because they haven't really been able to do so so they're afraid they will get sick. i recommend that families start very small steps and the first step is take a ride in the car. that is the first way to go outside, windows down. and if you have a sunroof, open the sunroof and unbuckle the seat belts or car seat and be able to stand up and that is a small step to feel like the outside might be safe. so, it has to be in small steps for the fear it is going to be exacerbated. >> absolutely. so, could you tell me a little bit about your book, disaster shock? >> yes, "disaster shock" has been originally written for the
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1989 earthquake in san francisco. this has been a number of disasters since then and families in 1989 gave us the feedback that it was extremely helpful because there was really no literature available on how to help children and families that haven't talked to them. unfortunately our natural disasters increased with tornadoes and the last wildfires affecting northern california. it has been updated again for the pandemic. >> right. and finally, what would you say to parents about how to talk to their kids in general? could you suggest some good ways to re-assure them? >> a few ways that i have been suggesting is, number one, you have to be honest. about what you know. and be able to explain in developmentally appropriate
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terms what is happening. and that we are all learning. we don't know. there are many things we don't know. but that parents need re-assure the kids that they are safe, that the family will be together. but they need to be able to get the kids a little leeway, so to speak. and i'm not saying not disciplined, but what your discipline techniques may have been before may need to lighten up a little bit because these are very unusual circumstances for adults, but as well as for kids. but i always suggest and recommend that parents be honest with the kids because that is the trust that children have in their parents. parents must be really aware their kids will hear, they will read their body language and
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understand the anxiety we all feel, but the parents need to be honest that they -- the kids will be safe. >> i understand. well, thanks for coming on the show, dr. girardeau. i appreciate the time you've given us today. thanks again. >> you're welcome. >> and that is it for this episode. we'll be back with more pandemic-related information shortly. thank for watching.
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>> -- amendments to the amendments. >> the corrected minutes were reposted yesterday as requested. >> a directors, do we have a motion for the reposted minutes for the may 19 meeting? >> so moved. >> second. >> all in favor?
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>> before we do, we should see if there are minutes of the public who wish to address the board. >> my mistake. >> open up for public comment on this item. to the amended minutes that were recirc