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welcome to the july 20, 2020, meeting. with me is vice chair stefani and gordon mar. our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgov for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda, both channel 26 and sfgov.org are streaming the number across the screen. you can call in via phone, calling 415-655-0001.

the meeting id is 146 308 2077. then press pound and pound again. when connected you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, press star three to be added to the speaker line. call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or video. you may submit public comment by e-mailing it to myself. if -- it will be forwarded to the supervisors and be part of the official file. that concludes my comments. >> thank you very much.

can you please call item number 1. >> yes, an ordinance to amend the police code to require employers to provide public health emergency leave during a public health emergency. >> thank you, supervisor mar, do you have any comment? >> thank you so much chair ronen. colleagues, we prepared this measure because we believe it's imperative that as we contend with our current public health emergency we prepare to provide policy intervention in the future. this would codify it into law permanently. this was created earlier this year that is currently in effect and it offers two additional week of fully paid leave to over 200,000 san franciscans to take care of themselves or a loved one. it would be triggered under a

public health emergency situation. however, it's clear that we will be living with the current public health crisis for many months, perhaps a year or longer, and with some version of the current public order for most of it, if not all of the time. as such, i decided it's a better policy approach to continue to reenact the existing emergency order providing public health emergency league and to file this ballot measure. we introduced the second ordinance for the emergency ordinance and will continue to reenact it going forward for the duration of the emergency order. this will give us more time to consider and legislate this policy for future emergencies while maintaining the crucial benefit the the duration of the current emergency. this crisis has made it clear. we need to consider and enact new riot protections and benefits for working people and i'm committed to doing that work. i don't think this initiative

ordinance needs to move forward right now to do that so i intend to file it today. >> thank you so much. is there any questions or comments before we open up this item for public comment? seeing none, mr. clerk, can we please open this item for public comment. >> yes. public comment will be available on each item -- oh, sorry, wrong note. members of the public who want to comment on this item should call, the meeting id is 146-308-2077, then press pound and pound again. if you haven't done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. a system prompt would indicate

that you raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then you can proceed with your comment. do we have anyone for public comment at this time? would you happen to have any callers at this time? >> it does appear there is one caller and he may be having some issues. hold on one moment. >> i'm sorry about that, is it unmuted now? sorry about this, is this agenda

item number two? >> no, we're on agenda item number one still. >> oh, okay, my apologies. i'm going to withhold until item number two. >> okay, thank you. >> are there any other callers on the line? >> no more callers. >> there are no more callers on the line madam chair. >> okay, thank you. supervisor mar, you already made the motion, correct? can we have a roll call on that motion? >> just to confirm, the motion is to recommend this item to the full board -- sorry, i was

unclear. would you mind repeating the motion, i didn't catch it. >> yes, i would move that we file this item. >> yes, the motion is to table and file this matter. on that motion, supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> chair ronen. >> aye. >> this matter is tabled. >> thank you, can you please read item number two. >> item number two is a motion ordering an ordinance to be submitted to the voters at an election to be held on november 3, 2020, authorizing the city and county of san francisco to own, develop, construct, acquire, and

rehabilitate up to 10,000 affordable rental units in the city under article xxxiv of the california constitution. >> good morning supervisor ronen and supervisor mar and stefani and chair ronen. i want to first off thank you chair ronen for your early cosponsor ship of this measure and your leadership on housing issues and support for the broader package of reforms that this is part of and i also want to thank supervisors haney, walton, and mandelman who are also early cosponsors of this measure. colleagues, before the committee today is an ordinance and initiative that we are putting before, intend to put before the voters this november that would authorize the creation of up to

10,000 units of municipal housing. as i mentioned, it's one piece of a broader package of legislative reforms put forth by my office, which tends to tax wealthy real estate investors in order to pay for covid related rent relief, as well as long-term social housing. this measure before you is relevant to the social housing components. it will allow san francisco to expand its ability to pursue, if we so choose, municipal housing programs in addition to and to complement the proven non-profit affordable housing strategies that are currently underway and have been for some time in our city. to understand the context of this ballot measure, we have to roll back the clock and start and look at what occurred 70 years ago. in 1950, segregation is backed by the california realtors

association passed a statewide ballot measure with just 50.8% of the vote to create article xxxiv of the california constitution. article xxxiv requires that any public housing or private low income housing be approved at the ballot before even a single unit can be bought or built. it is simply put, a racist relic of the red lining era. in effect, this allowed for municipalities in california to keep out low income tenants and people of color, especially african american tenants, further segregation on race and class line. there is no law and i think it's important to note the distinction. there is no law requiring anyone to go to the ballot every time they want to create high rent counts. it's just low rent housing that's discriminated against. this was and remains a racist

approach to stopping affordable housing and specifically to stopping government owned housing. i believe article xxxiv should be, and in fact must be repealed at the state level. while a broad coalition has supported such efforts, including the entire san francisco state delegation, they have not seen success to date. in fact, article xxxiv repeal bill offered by senator scott and senator of santa monica is not moving forward for this november's ballot. we cannot sit by and wait indefinitely for this law to be repealed. i'm proposing with this ballot measure that san francisco lead the way with a powerful statement that we are in effect standing up locally against the structures that have upheld housing injustice for decades. the measure seeks to authorize 10,000 units of municipally owned social housing, where the city buys up land or constructs

new housing that is equitable, affordable, and sustainable. to be clear, it does not compel the city to pursue this model. instead, it clears the way for municipal housing, without requiring voter approval for each municipal housing proposal. this is crucial as we map out the social housing plan and strategy. we cannot have that conversation with one type of housing, municipal housing off the table because of an arbitrary state law. i want to acknowledge that government run housing in our country and in our city has a very mixed record. on the one hand, public housing has created housing stability for many who would otherwise be shut out from the housing market completely. the poor conditions of many public housing sites are well-known with devastating impact to the health and well-being of residents. what is hard to know colleagues

is how public housing would have faired in our city and in our country had it not faced decades of bipartisan, racist, disinvestment. as a failure of our broader housing market has become more apparent, there is a movement to municipal housing as an approach, looking boldly to the future to complement affordable housing models. when we look around the world and what has worked, when we look to other cities for guidance, to other countries, we see models have succeeded when funded in other nations. hong kong, singapore, barcelona. in vienna, tenants spend no more than 20% to 25% of their income on rent and have permanent housing stability. in austria, the average household spends only 21% of

their income on rent. vienna's program is growing at 10,000 units per year, including 4,000 of those units over five years. so just like these other jurisdictions, we can get this right, but i think we all recognize that it won't be easy, that our country assault on public housing has been linked to and driven by racism. as with so many aspects of structural racism in this country, african american who have been harmed disproportionately, the failure to maintain public housing and expand municipal housing opportunities and the failure to protect residents from unfair eviction all contribute to income disparities and displacement of so many african americans from san francisco and other expenses urban centers. it's undeniable that these factors are a major cause of the

displacement of the african american population of san francisco. to reverse that, i believe we need a bold social housing policy and municipal housing is just one part of that. i'm asking for your support of this simple ballot measure to give the city the authority under article xxxiv to pursue a pilot program for municipal housing which would otherwise be banned under article xxxiv. we know colleagues that without federal and state investment, we're not going to be able to scale up to meet our affordable housing needs, but that doesn't mean we can wait to address affordability and the crisis in our city. we're going to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for social housing, as i described last week when discussing our transfer tax ballot measure and i really, truly believe that this is the time to think big and plan for the future. i want to say it wouldn't be the first time that san francisco has risen to that type of challenge. i mean we look back to 1909 when

san francisco created one of the first municipal transit systems in the nation, muni. united railroads treated workers poorly and today we can reflect on how expansive muni has become and how critical it is to support muni through the challenges of the covid pandemic. likewise, think of how far we could go if we fund a vision from municipally run social housing which is deeply affordable and benefit low income communities. that's what this ballot measure is about, getting the approval we need to work around a racist and classist law, so we can create a more equitable housing system. it does not lock us into doing municipal housing on day one but instead it allows municipal housing to be one of the tools we have to address housing affordable and stability in san francisco. so thank you for your time.

i look forward to any questions and the public comment and to urge you all to support this measure. thank you. >> supervisor peskin, i want to thank you so much for your leadership on this. this is exactly the type of change that we need in san francisco and order to stabilize communities that have been displaced in alarming numbers over the years that also to allow people to come back who have been displaced. thank you so much for all your leadership and work on this. are there any other questions or comments? >> chair ronen, i have my name on the roster. >> oh sorry, supervisor stefani. >> thank you chair ronen and supervisor preston for putting this proposal forward. i'm pleased to support the item

before us today. i also want to take this opportunity to also recognize senator scott's work on the issue and to express my hope that we can work to repeal article xxxiv all together in the near future. as you know in december of 2018, the senators introduced the amendment to our state constitution sca1 which would have repealed article xxxiv if approved in this year's election. last year in september, the state senate passed sca1 unanimously but the assembly failed to vote on the measure by deadline. we know as you el -- el locately mentioned that it has kept people of color out of the state

of california. during this time of crisis, we need to make sure people have affordable places to live and to create stable union jobs, including in construction and related professions. i want to thank you again supervisor preston for putting this forward and i hope the legislature will soon visit the senator's proposal to eliminate this stain on california's constitution. thank you, i look forward to supporting this today. >> thank you, supervisor mar. >> thank you chair ronen. i also want to thank supervisor preston for his leadership on this issue of bringing this item forward. i wanted to acknowledge all the housing advocates in our city that have been working on this for many years. so, i'm happy to support it. i would actually like to be added as a cosponsor, and i do agree that we need to deal with repealing article xxxiv in a

statewide level. i thank the senator for his leadership on that and on a local level, we need to look at all options to address our housing affordability crisis and think outside the box. so i think looking at municipal housing strategies, you know, it's very important right now. even in my district, in district four, they had the least amount of investment in affordable housing, we have had a small public housing project out of the great highway for decades where several townhouse units that blend in well. it's supported by the neighborhood and has been the only affordable housing in the sunset district for decades until the time we're moving forward finally. thank you so much supervisor preston for your leadership on

this. >> thank you so much, we're going to open this item up for public comment. every member of the public will have 2 minutes to speak. >> yes, members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, meeting id is 146-308-2077. then press pound and pound again. if you haven't done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. the system prompt will indicate that you raised your hand. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmute and you may begin your comment. mr. co, do you have any speakers on the line? >> yes, there are currently 25 callers in the queue. i will start the first caller. >> good morning supervisors, i live in district four. i'm calling in support of the

proposed ordinance to create social housing. we had an affordable housing crisis for decades, even more so now with the pandemic threatening many with evictions. we need to make sure everyone has the housing they need. this ordinance will overcome a racist barrier with the support of issing degree segregationist. san francisco will lay the ground for a housing program that will address our homeless crisis. please recommend this ordinance to the full board so we can move forward guaranteeing affordable housing for all. thank you. >> thank you. can we have the next caller please. >> hello, i live in district 7 and work in a school.

my parents came here to san francisco in the '60s to find housing when it was difficult or even impossible for them to find housing as an interracial couple. despite the racist and classist history of san francisco, san francisco has been the progressive leader in comparison to many municipalities and we need to continue this tradition to make sure that housing is a human right for all as residents. give us the opportunity to display our better nature and potentially ensure that the future of success is one that we recognize housing is a human right for all residents and provide affordable housing for all. thank you. >> thank you. can we have the next caller please. >> hi there, my name is brad.

i'm in the democratic club and i want to thank you for putting this forward and my very good friend who passed away recently, who was a champion on affordable housing and rent control and all of that will be so proud to hear what all of the supervisors have spoken today have said. i am almost brought to tears hearing all of this. the main thing i wanted to say was harry would be honored by a lot of things, but he didn't care as much about monuments or things like that. what he would care about is for me and the members of the club in san francisco that we are in some way fighting for things like this and not just mourning his death, but doing something about making san francisco a

place for everybody to live. i'm just so proud of all of you and to be a san franciscan right now and how you're addressing this crisis. thank you so much. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker? >> good morning supervisors, my name is rebecca and i live in district four. i am a member of the san francisco -- and i am calling in support of this proposed ordinance to create social housing. we had an affordable housing crisis for decades. we need to make sure everyone has the housing they need. this will overcome a racist barri barrier. it was designed to exclude people of color, including black

tennants. it would lay the ground for a housing program. it will address our homelessness crisis. as of right now, there are more likely 10,000 homeless san franciscos on -- san franciscans on our street. we need to provide housing service, which is why the coalition for homelessness -- [indiscernible - low volume] >> thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please? >> good morning supervisors and i live in san francisco, in district eight. many of you may recognize me by some of the calls we had on this

measure. i'm calling to support it as well obviously since i've been helping out with this effort. i just want to say, you know, i've been living in san francisco for over a decade. i've been in the bay area my whole life. every year i think about how expensive housing is and i think it can't get worse and then the next year it does. so we really need to attack this problem and solve it in a bold way because the piecemeal efforts we've been doing over the years has not been enough. as supervisor preston said, we seen the cratering of san franciscan s that are black because of it. we need to bring a strong municipal housing program to san francisco and i think this is the first step and i look

forward to working with you all on those next steps after voters approve it in november. thanks again for your support supervisors and i look forward to the next step. thanks so much. >> thank you, can we have the next caller? >> good morning supervisors, my name is todd snider, i'm a resident of district five. i want to echo all the previous callers to authorize the city to create social housing. i really want to press the point that our unhoused brothers and sisters on the street, the vast majority of whom actually had housing in the city before becoming homeless. so with the pandemic and the crisis of affordability in our city, we the voters demand a voice in this and social housing is the way to go. i urge all supervisors to move

this ordinance forward to the full board so we can guarantee affordable housing for all. thank you, i yield my time. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker please? >> hi, good morning supervisors, my name is ann wily. i live in district four. i work in san francisco in a hospital. i'm calling in support of the ordinance that's before us now. i just want to highlight that this ordinance is antiracist and this ordinance is addressing our current pandemic environment. i also appreciated the mention earlier that was made of the municipal transit system. i use that everyday to get to work and i can't imagine my life in a city without it. so yes, absolutely support this social housing measure and yeah,

again i just want to highlight that as other people have mentioned, most people on the street had housing before this happened and with the pandemic that could only get worse. i absolutely support this measure to stop gentrification or at least slow its spread. then also i wanted to highlight how racist the original article xxxiv was, passed in 1960 to keep out low income housing. i think that in san francisco, it sounds like everybody, at least on this call believe we can do better and i do too. thanks for supporting this and i support it as well. >> thank you, can we have the speaker please? >> good morning supervisors, thank you preston for bringing

this forward and ronen for cosponsoring and stefani and mar for all your work as well. i live in san francisco district seven. my family has represented he here -- rented here for 15 years. i'm calling to overcome this racist barrier and authorize the city to create 10,000 units of social housing. as a young person, i seen increasing costs of housing, which is making it harder and harder to afford to live in the city i grew up in. this is a result of decades of policy that privatized our public housing. there is a solution, if we have the political will to act on it, which is social housing program, which has proven successful in cities from cities like vienna to hong kong, a lot of these cities have greatly brought down the cost of housing so that it's

affordable for all. this community can really show leadership by taking steps towards building a municipal housing program that will create an infrahave you can dc infrastructure of sustainable housing. please recommend this to the board for a vote so our city can lead the way for social housing. thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker please? >> hi, good morning supervisors. i live in district eight and work in district 10 and i am glad to hear you all are in support of getting this measure, this ordinance passed to get it on the ballot because i, like everyone else who is calling in, really feel that we need a social housing model for this city. thank you so much for your support. it's good to hear. >> thank you, can we have the

next caller? [indiscernible - low volum [inaudible] >> hi, this is jordan, district six and for identification purposes i am a former member of the task force. i am very supportive of this amendment to add 10,000 units of social housing. i have been reflecting on my time as a tenant of my ten years on the tax force, where i was the only there. i think we need to go beyond

s.r.o.s, and it will allow them to get into a functional, safe, and up to code housing. i'm all supporting that it creates opportunities for all and it would even allow people who live among middle income, destigmatize housing. thank you. my pronouns are she/her. >> thank you, can we have the next caller? >> hi. -- [inaudible] >> we are here to support it.

[inaudible] >> also creating necessary jobs, which is really important, as well as equity. you know, in response to the pandemic and the crisis of homelessness, i think that's the important thing about this measure. it's not only responding to the crisis, it's creating a permanent solution. it's not only to respond to this health crisis but all of the factors. [inaudible] >> if there are no additional comments speaker? okay, we can move on to the next speaker.

>> hello. >> one second speaker, would you mind turning off your radio or your computer. we're hearing it in the background and it's echoing. >> i'm sorry, i can't do that. i'll have to comment again later. >> yes, if you speak now, the echo from your computer or radio is repeating and we can't hear you clearly. you can call back in with just your telephone, we can take your comment. there is still time to call in

again. thank you. >> thank you. >> can we have the next speaker please? >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm from san francisco coalition in district eight. i'm calling to strongly support this measure. it's about time. back in the 1950s when 35% of the workforce was in the union, obviously not available to blacks and browns, it was convenient for those fortunate people having good jobs, thanks to the union membership to block less fortunate people and be racist to have measures against affordable housing. we don't have jobs that are praying living wages. it's time for the government to

get involved and provide the much needed housing for those who do not make enough money, although they work hard, to own homes orient homes, particularly in the city of san francisco, which is a playground for the rich and famous. it's about time and i want to thank supervisor preston and chair ronen as we, as well as supervisors stefani and mar for this measure. we desperately need affordable housing, or affordable social housing, and it is about time for us to make this happen. hopefully this will end up on the ballot and the city of san francisco will come forward and vote for this because this is the right thing to do. thank you so much. >> thank you. can we have the next speaker

please? >> hi, my name is tyler. i'm a resident of district six. i want to echo what everyone else is saying and say while i was listening to dean preston's intro, i was thinking housing is a human right. currently it's not treated as a human right but a commodity or even as a luxury and if you can't afford it, too bad, you have to live miles and miles away or just be homeless. it's completely ridiculous that's how it is and i think this measure will be a big step in moving towards making that slogan a reality and making housing something that the city actually provides to people instead of something built,

sold, and rented for a profit. thank you. >> thank you. can we have the next speaker please? >> hi, my name is cassandra and i live in district seven. i'm calling in support of putting this ordinance on the ballot. i plan to vote for it. thank you so much for discussing it today. i agree with the other comments by callers that the pandemic shouldn't force out long time residents. i think it's important to have a low, middle, and high income families living in the same community. san francisco's benefit is the long standing businesses.

i have commuted three hours a day. i hope this ordinance will be passed and affordable housing will be created in san francisco and allows for communities to stay together for a long time, without fear of construction of higher income people like myself. thank you for supporting this. i look forward to seeing it on the ballot in november. thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please? >> hi, my name is heidi. i live in district seven in sunny side. i also have a small studio in district 11. i'm a mother of four and all my kids have gone to public schools, as well as city college. i'm currently in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing. i really can't think of any

reason not to support this ordinance. we seen how aggressively the city has become gentrified. middle and low income residents have been pushed out. if we want san francisco to be a place of equity and not just a playground for the rich, we need programs to support social housing. it's the right thing to do. on a personal note, i worry about my young adult children's ability to remain in san francisco. my oldest child lives with four other people and spends a third of his income on rent. i am a photographer and i have been working to interview people on the streets in the tenderloin. it's heartbreaking to see how lives are destroyed by not having access to the most basic human need. people living on the streets may get housing and turn their lives around. so many of these folks were born

and raised in san francisco. let's not let them down. thanks. >> thank you. i just like to state that if you have not already done so, please press star three to be added to the queue to speak. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. we currently have 14 people in line to speak at this time. can we have the next speaker please? >> so my name is francisco decosta. my take on this is quite different than what the other speakers said. i think i read the mckinley act. if you read that act, you can find out how racist this city is, including all the board of superviso supervisors. if you done your due diligence, then you will stop coming out

with a new type of model and i don't trust scott at all. i never have, never will. here is what i have to say. it is a shame that thousands of people are living on the streets that once had their own homes, that public housing, their own homes but they done nothing. right now we had 40,000 homes vacant. 80,000 condominiums vacant. what are you talking about? nonsense. one time the mayor said the city was given an opportunity to take over some of the housing. they refused.

do you think they have the money to come up with this 10,000 affordable rental units at this time? have you done a needs assessment? how many of you have gone to public housing and seen how big their rooms are there. y'all are giving permission to the john stewart company, bridge developmenters, mercy housing to make money on the back of poor people. shame on you supervisors. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please. >> hello, this is victoria. i'm calling in support. i think we all want to live in a city in san francisco that is diverse and inclusive to people who are low income. we have not seen that for such a

long time. san francisco is one of the most gentrified cities in the country. many black and brown residents were forced to leave because of rising rent and lack of affordable housing. we need affordable housing to bring people back. by approving this, the board will show leadership in addressing the brute of our affording housing crisis. thanks to supervisor preston for his leadership on this as we went -- well as the other supervisor on the committee. please recommend this. thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please? >> hi, i live in d7 and i was reading in the news that private equity firms have more money

than they ever did and they're waiting to pounce on the real estate market to consolidate housing stock in the city and i think more people are at risk to lose their housing because of foreclosures and because of evictions because of the pandemic and i believe that this crisis, you know, has triggered, you know, a huge emergency necessity for us to have social housing. i think we desperately need it in our city to avoid any situation that is worse than the crash in 2008 and i think that people in the city deserve housing as a human right, which is why i am in support of this

ordinance and i hope it passes. thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please? >> hi, thank you for putting this on and supervisor preston for your earlier notes and your opening and thank you to the supervisors that are in support of this. so my name is su, i'm with the housing rights in san francisco. i work along with fred. i operate primarily as an advocate and outreach organizer primarily in public housing in specific. i wanted to open up with saying that currently right now, this is from our partners, that 30% of all evictions are with black tenants. so this is still something

that's a massive displacement problem. for that many evictions to be filed against black tenants in san francisco has created a problem. i also wanted to highlight ov overcrowding in public housing which you have three generations of people that are living this one unit and so that's also another problem. i think that supporting this right here, which h.r.c. is clearly in support of this and giving thanks to the supervisors, our support of this to get rid of the pattern blackiblac blocking people of color and to create affordable housing is really needed. i think this is another step in san francisco to do good and correcting the wrongs in the past and reversing racist policies. much love on that. thank you once again and i yield

my time to anyone else who wants to take it. bye. >> thank you, can we have the next caller please? >> hi, i am calling in support of social housing in san francisco. i live in district two of san francisco and i work in the selma area in san francisco as well. i personally feel, on a personal level, i feel great importance of this ordinance because i'm a volunteer at san francisco's suicide prevention and i see callers call in regularly about the distress they're going through because of the inability to afford housing or living on the street because they're homeless and also on a personal level because my mom, my mother is a recipient of low income housing in washington state. without this ability for her to qualify or not having a place

for her to stay, i don't know how i personally would be able to help or support her as i'm the only family she has here in the country. i think about it as racist, it is not okay and it's inhumane. there is no excuse for us not to provide options for everybody and the solutions should not be if you don't like it, go somewhere else. thank you so much for your support and that is all. thank you. >> thank you. can we have the next speaker? >> hi, this is munoz, calling from district five. i want to thank supervisor preston for introducing this ballot proposition. i am in strong support of municipal social housing here in san francisco. i want to point out the cities that supervisor preston mentioned modeled around the

world, vienna, singapore, barcelona has a density that we don't see in neighborhoods of san francisco. did you know that san francisco among other large american cities was a victim of red lining, which is a racist policy that essentially did not allow black and brown folks from acquiring housing in exclusionary whiter, higher income neighborhoods. red lining still shines today. so i love for the board to add the next step, look into 100% affordable housing overlay for the entire city, including single family home zones. a lot of our rapid transit in san francisco is adjacent to single family and duplex buildings, which unfortunately doesn't work for public housing. as we seen, public housing does require a level of density to allow enough space for everybody

to live comfortably in a city like san francisco. so again, i am in strong support and i can't wait to see article xxxiv repealed because it's incredibly racist. we have to couple this social housing plan with the space to plan for the housing and it has to exist all over san francisco, not just in waste dumps like we saw in the bay view plan where the land there was radioactively poisoned and we're building tons of housing there and avoiding places like glenn park. it's important that we look -- >> thank you, speaker time as elapsed. can we have the next speaker please? >> hi, good morning supervisors. my name is tessa. i live in district five and work

in district six. i lived here for 23 years. i'm a doctor and therapist. i'm particularly aware of how much of an impact this has had on black and brown people in our community. i'm a member of san francisco burning crest. this ordinance will overcome a racist barrier to municipally owned social housing with the support of segregationists which allow municipalities to exclude low income tenants and people of color, including black tenants. san francisco will lay the ground work for a pilot municipal housing program that will address our homeless crisis and serve the needs of the city's working and middle classes from -- i think it's important that we have different classes and races here within the city otherwise we will all suffer. i want to live in an inclusive

city. we need a diversity of class and race. please recommend this ordinance to the full board so we can move towards guaranteeing affordable housing for all. thank you very much. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. i will note that members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001. the meeting id is 146, 308, 2077. then press pound and pound again. if you have been already done so, press star three to line up to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comment. we currently have 12 people in line to speak at this time. can we have the next caller? >> good morning supervisors, my name is angie. i live in san francisco in

district two and i'm a middle school science teacher. i'm calling in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing. it's been wonderful to hear so much support from the supervisors and so many other callers today. most of what i had wanted to say has already been said. i will add a couple of things. we see in schools the negative impact of unstable housing in the city and you know, a lot has been said about homelessness, gentrification displacement. with this ordinance we can overcome our relic of the red lining era and end the displacement of people of color from san francisco and in terms of the environment, you know, we're facing not only a housing crisis but an environmental crisis. the board passed the requirement of municipal construction be all electric. this would include all housing built through this program, the

pilot program will focus initially on the acquisition of buildings, which is more environmentally friendly than construction and much faster by adding new housing, as well as providing displacement. this will help reduce commute times and prevent greenhouse gas emissions. by approving this ordinance, the board will show leadership and adjust the roots of our housing crisis and pave the way for affordable municipal housing programs. please recommend this ordinance to the full board of supervisors and thank you for your support. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker? >>. >> good morning chair ronen and supervisors. i want to thank supervisor preston and all the cosponsors

for your support of the motion ordering an ordinance be submitted to the voters on november 3rd authorizing the city and county to rehabilitate up to 10,000 affordable rental units in the city under article xxxiv of the california constitution. voter approval of this companion ballot measure is essential to clearing the way currently blocked by arbitrary law at the state level, to grant our city the authority to provide desperately municipal housing. i echo the words of several public commenters today. it's about time. it's about time to create equity in our housing policy. thank you. >> thank you.

>> this resulted in what we have now and the policies of the social security administration was that people must be housed and if they couldn't get the housing on their own, we had to get payees to get them housing. we didn't get out to expect them to find it. housing was a human right like water and we didn't have to discuss it then and the fact is that right now, the sites are being approved by the city for condos rapidly. a couple years ago, the housing, david baker, were already to

build on a site that is now condos and i had a couple ad hoc meetings and that's what they wanted to see there and i'm certainly hoping this will happen. the bad conditions of public housing, it wasn't like that in buffalo when i worked there. that was the result of complete neglect. >> speaker time has elapsed. thank you. can we have the next speaker, please. >> speaker: i'm with the coalition of slashing the san francisco police department budget and i would like to implore the board to not only -- >> excuse me. i would like to note -- i will pause your time at this moment. i would like to note that we're

discussing item number 2 on the agenda which is authorizing the development of up to ten thousand units. >> i understand. >> we're not discussing the police department item under this matter. so i will restart your time. if you would like to make comments on item number 2, please. please proceed. >> speaker: i'll call back, thank you. >> thank you, the next speaker, please. >> speaker: good morning, supervisors and thank you, thank you, thank you for this breath-taking ordinance which i hope flies through the process. my name is evi posmentre, i counsel for the housing right's committee and i am a member of faith in action and it's truly

great to be sanfranciscans today. at last, we are make a one and first bold step towards achieving racial equity. i'm very concerned, also, as a senior and a person with a disability, i'm concerned and hopeful that our seniors will remain in dignified and safe housing which i think this ordinance will provide. thank you, thank you again. >> thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> speaker: hello. >> hi, please proceed.

>> speaker: i'm kathy livkcom and i'm a maternal of district 8. i'member of district 8.this is , article 34, ballot measure to the transfer tax. and in preparing for my remarks, i looked at the board of supervisor's budget and legislative analysis office report that was issued last year and it spells things out clearly and i quote, we need to plan for an additional 9300 affordable housing units, three times the number of approved units in the city's pipeline, to keep up with the rise of low-wage jobs expected over the next six years, end quote. and so, apparently, for every high-wage job, there's an 18-to

20-hour position doing security work for office buildings, cleaning homes and driving uber. and so we know very well who is forced to sleep in their cars or drive 60 miles from anti-oc everyday to get to work because they cannot find a place to live in san francisco. such a situation is morally out of whack and unsustainable. let's change that and start on the path to social housing. we can make history this way and i would like to thank all of the supervisors who are presently in support and i hope that every single one of them joins in this effort to win this in november. thank you for listening. >> thank you. i would like to state if you have not spoken yet, please star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold, wait until the system is un-muted.

we currently have six people in line to speak. may we have the next speaker. >> speaker: hi, i'm asher. good morning, everyone. i live and work in san francisco, district 7 and i go to school at city college in san francisco. i'm calling in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing and i don't need to tell you right now we have had an affordable housing crisis for decades that disproportionate impacts folks who are, you know, not white, not upper class or middle class and that's going to get even worse with the pandemic and recession incoming. being a student at city college, i've seen the best and brightest of my generation, to deal wit hurdles caused by the history of san francisco's racist red-lining and not only that, it's time, like, with this

history, that the city ha has wh the progressive policy to implement this solution to work towards gaining sole access to necessary needs and proximity to education and healthcare, public transit and groceries and so, i just want to say thank you for the support and san francisco has an opportunity to become a leader with the municipal housing programs in america that will address our housing crisis and serve the needs people working in mid-class. thank you very much. >> thank you, can we have the next caller.

>> speaker: i'm mark and i live in san francisco and i would like to give you some rhetorical points to consider because i understand you're all in support of this. but we've been looking at this horrendous housing crisis situation here for pretty much forever here in san francisco. so here is what you have to understand. there are approximately 100 billionaires walking around the streets of san francisco. and, yet, this city is degrading to the point where it's becoming unlivable for most people. san francisco was once known as a city of the golden gate bridge and trolley cars and all that stuff. well, guess what? if you go around the world and you talk to anyone and say, you're from san francisco, guess what the first thing is out of their mouth? what the hell is up with all of

those homeless people on the street? and you know why they're saying that? because that's all they see. entire swaths of this city have been taken over by encantmen of homeless people. it is sick. it is un-humane an inhumane, exe ones at the top and even they're complaining, because they have to move their offices to other cities and everyone has to leave. this is a crisis. i don't care that you're in support of it. nothing has happened. time should be running around like your hair is on fire. we have a crisis and this is city is known globally as the laughing stock. it is the laughing stock of the world, the city in which you have ultra rich, the richest in the world, in a growing mass of homeless people shooting up on the street, clearly dealing drugs and clearly suffering from mental illness, in a scale

unheard of world-wide. ladies and gentlemen, you have the laughing stock of the world, the laughing stock of the world. do i think you should do something about it? hell, yeah! >> thank you. the next speaker, please. >> speaker: hi there, everybody. i'm otto, i'm the resident of district 10 and thank you for listening to all of us speaking and i just wanted to briefly add my support to agenda item number 2. i'm sure everybody listening to this chat knows better than i do that the current model of mixed housing is just by no means going to solve what we have happening and i think we're building 1.5 times the market rate housing that we need and less than a fifth of the affordable housing we need. and yeah, i believe very firmly that socialized housing is the only meaningful solution. i look around the city and the

only communities of working-class people, of african-americans and immigrants that i see that have the facility are the cooperative housing that we already have, although not created by the city, like over in japan town. so, i don't want to speak too much, but i want to think everybody for putting this together and putting forth my extreme support and i hope everyone will do the same. thank you. >> thank you, next caller, please. hi, may we have the next speaker? >> speaker: can you hear me? >> yes, we can. please proceed.

>> speaker: good morning. i live in the san francisco district 6 and i work for sunnyville community services emergency nonprofit emergency food and financial assistance during this crisis. i know that all of you are in support of bringing this ordinance to the full board but i'm calling to add my name to the board to create social housing and doing something to make housing a human right. my only complaint is that the proposed number is so much smaller than what we've been hearing is the perspective number. working in sunnyville, the small municipality knows what is going on in a larger scale. despite the moratorium on evictions, i know low-income and immigrant families are strong-armed in illicit removals. this is stacked against low-income families, fully exacerbated by the pandemic. it shouldn't be up to private nonprofits to dole out nonfinancial aid. we need a real solution that makes sure everybody has the housing they need and not

worrying about spending more than half of their income on having a roof over their head. this wilthis was passed in 1950h the support of segregationists to allow municipalities to exclude low-income tenants and people of colo, particularly black tenants. the board will show leadership in addressing the housing crisis and pave the way for permanently affordable municipal housing. >> thank you. toucan we have the next caller. >> speaker: can you hear me? >> yes, we can. please proceed. >> speaker: thank you so much. i'm zach collinde resource. r. i live in san francisco in the tenderloin and i'm calling in support to authorize the city to

create social housing. we have had an affordable housingrise for decades and this is threatening many with eviction and homelessness. in the tenderloin and across our city, we are not meeting the most fundamental need for secure and stable housing and we are specifically failing our black and brown neighbors and low-income tenants. we need a com par compassionate equitable solution. this can address our hopelessneshomelessness and secs and we need to meet the city towards policies of antiracism. we know when using the more more comprehensive accountant, there are many on the streets -- ( indiscernible). >> black people are in 6% of the general population of the city and we know that three-quarters

had housing in san francisco before becoming homeless and jo. lastly, this is very aligned with the housing first approach granting stability and the basic need of a home before anything else. and we've been doing trickle-down economics and it has not worked. we need to build from the bottom up and build specifically for communities who have been marginalized and excluded. the board will show leadership with the housing crisis and pave the way for a municipal housing program. please recommend this to the full board of superiors. thank you. >> thank you can we hear from the next speaker. >> speaker: hi. i'm nisha and i'm just a tenant here in d7 and i wanted to express my support for the

silent measure. some of thi have the privilege g married to an immigrant an who s educated me and i think san francisco wants think of itself as a global city, as we should, we need to consider how un-normal this is. this is pretty much standard in most of the world and i believe it should not be considered left wing and right-wing thing. so thank you for allowing me to comment and i yield the rest of my time. >> thank you. can we have the next caller, please. mr. speaker good morning, soup

supervisors. i live in district 6 and work in district 9, actually, opposite. i live in district 9 and work in district 6 and i'm a member of the bay area and i'm calling in support of the proposed ordinance to authorize the city to create social housing. we need to stop this crisis by providing housing that people can actually afford so that we don't continue to put more folks out on the street, especially black and brown community members and lgbtq members who are the most harmed by the housing crisis. i see it everyday working in the mission and tenderloin. we need to provide housing first to folks on the streets and for this ordinance, the coalition on homelessness have enforced this. please recommend this in the

hopes they pass it and sf can be the leader it should be on affordable housing. thank you. i yield my time. >> thank you. i would like to note if you have not already done so, presence star press star 3to be added to. we currently have five people in line waiting to speak and may we have the next speaker, please. >> speaker: hello. i'm a resident of d9 and i strongly support this ordinance to authorize ten thousand units of housing. i think we know article 34 is terrible and i hope it gets repealed soon but we can't wait. this is anni an affordable crisd this would absolutely help people from becoming homeless. the coalition on homelessness

and civil act, looking forward to voting on this measure and seeing san francisco lead the country in providing real solutions instead of leading the country in gentrification. please recommend this to the full board to move for affordable housing for everyone. thank you. >> thank you, can we have the next speaker, please. >> speaker: can you happy me? >> yes, we can. please proceed. >> speaker: great. i'm josh, i'm a resident of d1 in san francisco and i'm calling to urge full support of this measure and i think it's obvious the city needs to authorize social housing and combat what has been designed to harm low-income people and people of color. i want to thank you for considering this and to work on

moving forward with this ordinance and i highly, highly encourage recommending this to the full board and making sure that all of us can afford to live in the city. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> speaker: i'm peter and i live in district 5. in order to expand our housing stock and get people off the streets, we need to build social housing. in order to do that, under california's racist 34, ew we nd a ballot initiative. at long last, the city would have a real alternative to homelessness. we have needed this for years and it is long passed time to make this happen. we need to get rid of article 34 and we need to pass this 34

authorization asap. please recommend this to the full board. thank you. >> thank you. can we have the next speaker? >> speaker: mada >> madam chair, that completes the queue. madam chair, public comment has ended at this time. >> so sorry. thank you so much. if there's no closing comments from supervisor preston, i would

like to make a motion to send this item forward with a positive recommendation. >> yes, op, on the motion to recommend this to the full board, supervisors -- (role call). >> this matter has been recommended to the full board. >> thank you, can you please read item number 3. >> the ordinance amending the administrative code to introduce standards and goals for food purchasing by the department of public health and sheriff's department in hospitals and jails. >> and we have supervisor fewer here with us and if you would like to kick us off.

supervisor fewer, are you here? >> her screen may have frozen. let's give her a moment. chair ronen, looks like she logged off quickly and looks like she'll come back in a few minutes. if you would like to continue first. >> sure. do any of my colleagues have any remarks on this? otherwise maybe we could hear

public comment first and then we'll hear from supervisor fewer when she returns. h. >> can you hear me now? >> can internet get overworked? my apologies. >> we've all had it happen to us. no worries. >> colleagues, please let me know if my internet goes out again. thank you, chair ronen for hearing this in your committee. i'm thrilled to bring this to committee almost after three years of work, to adopt a good food purchasing policy for san francisco hospital and jails. this is a model developed in 2012012 to procure food through driven standards and these standards have been adopted by institutions in los angelos,

chicago, oklahoma, seattle, austin and i brought it to our own san francisco unified school district. with more jurisdictions in the exploration process. the good food purchasing program works to establish a supply change transparency from farms to fork, evaluate how current purchasing practises align with a set of standards, assist with goal-setting, measures progress and celebrates institutional sucker cesses in shifting toward a value-based purchasing motto, good food purchasing policies and whether food procurement funds are spent on vendors that share our values for a valued workforce low economies and local sustainability and animal welfare and nutrition. after three years of coordination, meetings and hearings and both sheriff's department and the department of public health has undergone

impressive of comprehensive baseline assessment to analyze our current food vendors and practises, we are already to announce the adoption of the good food purchasing policy as a setting of goals in the next two years to transform the way our jails and hospitals purchase food. thank you to kate and elva from the department of public health and sheriff miamota.

indie(indiscernible). >> culture shifts take time particularly for ederly. i want to clarify that the goals in this legislation are the minimum commitment and made in consideration of feasibility and recognition of this at the critical but new strategic tradition for food procurement in a comprehensive suite of food suchs, priorities that the san francisco department will be

pursuing over the coming years. there's opportunity for the agencies to go above and beyond the goals set to achieve the higher levels in the program and regular opportunities for advocates to weigh this on the progress on this ordinance. in other words, this is just the start. the city as leadership in adopting this creating a pathway to engage non-city entities in setting targets than the handful of city agencies can have individually with their relatively small overall purchases. i do have to clarify that my staff should have sent to all commity memberallcommittee membe are non-substantive, clarifyin g five lines one and two and clarifying the language of antibiotics on line five, 7

through 10 and lines 7, lines 3-4 and clarifyin clarifying pld foods and changes in words to and from on page 6, line 19. with that, the with the permission of the chair, i wanted to introduce our speakers today. we have colleen mckinny and from lieutenant john caramuchi and kate marimen and elvis labaradae frolabaradae. thank you for your patience and allowing us to finally pass this ordinance out of committee. >> can we have hear from our first guest speaker? >> colleen mckinny. thank you.

>> hi. i'm going to share my screen. i have a brief presentation with background to run through. one moment. confirming you can see my deck now. >> yes. now. >> great. thank you all for use leadership on this important topic. as supervisor fewer said, i'm colleen mckinny, the director of engagement for good food purchasing and we're an organization that houses the food purchasing program. we're here in a time when the pandemic exposed inequities and vulnerabilities in our food system. the workers who grow, process, transport and sell food do not have adequate pay under normal circumstances, much less in a global crisis. farmers and small businesses, especially owned by black indigenous and people of color

have precarious livelihood. access is in jeopardy. our public institutions don't have the resources and support to safely and fully address the needs of the populations they serve. the pandemic has allowed us to see them more clearly and paint the picture of urgent trans formation. the adopt of this policy would be a leading statement within the region and nationally, the calls for building something new on what we've learned, that accelerates a just, healthy and sustainable food system.

san francisco will lead in a number of other influential cities across the country and currently, the purchasing program is in 53 institutions, in 20 cities noons over $1 billion in food nation-wide. many of the agencies on this slide share key city and community support or goals around address the climate crisis and carbon footprint reduction. work has demonstrated in a school food service setting ways in which the menu resign can contribute to carbon reduction strategy and we look forward to continuing to explore ways to bring all of these agencies in the bay area together to align goals, share strategies around

meat reduction and accelerate the impact of this important work along with other values of the program. many of the community supporters who have been long-standing advocates for this work are represented on the slide, as well. we're also fortunate to work with a wide array of partners offering successful implementation of valued-based procurement and in particular, i would like to highlight the healthcare without harm is the leading resource specifically for the hospital sector and convened an active network of 50 plus hospitals in the greater bay area and sacramento. through this network, it has worked with the san francisco general hospital on an individual basis to identify many resign options in support of meat adoption and sustainable meat options and all hospitals share a goal of meat reduction. we're pleased to deepen the support of the city.

we've been proud to be in the partnership with the hospitals and sheriff's department over the course of the last several years and you can see from this slide since the last hearing, both have undergone baseline assessment and participated in action planning and strategy setting. thithis is progress toward an achievement of the goals set out by the agencies along the five values in the proposed ordinance. what does the baseline assessment process show? it measures food procurement purchases and practises along a few different dimensions used to set targets for improvement in each. one, how much good food is purchased as a proportion of the overall budget and two, within each value, which purchases are strongly aligned with that value and three, the other policies

and programs the department is undertaking, the support can not be measured quantitatively through the purchasing records, like they're own internal workforce practises. this is meant to be a snapshot prior to participation in the programme and a tool to guide decision-making. compliance is not expected in the baseline year. baseline year. this shows a few of the findings of the baseline process that we underwent over the last couple of years with the three agencies involved and so we analyzed 7.$5 million in food purchases across the three agencies and, for example, san francisco general hospital, l laguna hospital hospital and sheriff's department. this is typical of baseline assessment results with a higher percentage of food sourced locally, of aggregate of 7% and some producers with fair labo practises and and aggregate of

5% and environmentally sustainable and high animal welfare, both under 2%. one key metr immigratioic is ths whole and meaning that about 44% of the food purchases are highly processed. and the aim was providing the baseline snapshot to guide individual and collective goal setting. highla year from now, we would e to see this in line with the targets in the ordinance. having the baseline information to guide decision-making is just the start of a challenging but aspirational and exciting journey to put the findings into action. and i should note that we weren't able to complete a water footprint but moving forward, we will get the nervous to completo

complete this analysis, recognising this is an important goal of the city and community supporters. from here, the departments move into the implementation stage to start measuring progress toward the goals they've set and the assessment process would repeat annually to show improvements and continue informing whether more ambitious targets are possible. to support this process, the center for purchasing, working in collaboration with our local and national partners to leverage expertise will offer resources to support the departments including regular one-on-one technical assistance support, training and templates, including for business and solicitations, access to an online platform of purchases that score in our program and regional and intentional networks of operators pursuing several goal for peer learning. we're honored to work with the city of san francisco and appreciate the leadership of this board and the departments involved in this work to ensure the food purchased to help build a food system that is resilient

and contributes to the community of health and wealth and we're excited to pursue this with you. thank you for your time and i'll be happy to take any questions you may have. >> supervisor fewer, did you want me to facilitate or did you want to? you're on mute. >> yes, could we have the next speaker, please. lieutenant john caramuchi. thank you, chair. >> good morning, supervisors. i would just like to say we have very excited to be participating with this and did complete the

baseline assessment and we continue to work with the mayor -- indiscernibl (indie (indiscernible). >> we're having a hard time hearing you. can you speak a little clearer or is there a microphone you can use that's a little clearer? thank you. >> so th(indiscernible).

>> we're on board. sorry about the microphone. >> do you have anything to add? >> our next speakers, please. >> i would suggest that you turn off your tv or radio. we are getting the echo in the background.

>> this is michael. katie is on vacation this week, so i'm stepping in for katie this week. >> ok. we've been doing programs here for two years at zucker berg an. one the biggest challenges we face is educating some of our vendors in terms of how to meet the gfpp third-party certifications and that's probably been the biggest challenges. some of the things around animal welfare and no antibiotics ever, those things have been challenging because a lot of times what we found is a lot of the vendors, they self-certify, meaning they may use the credential from the usda to self-certify and those certifications don't necessarily

align with certifications from gfff. so that's been somewhat of a challenge. over the weekend, we picked up another vendor called daylight foods forcing nae products for us, which is also very exciting. and so, as we look at the gsfp program as a whole, we've done small things to move the program forward. there's a machine in the cafe allowing us to save 70,000 water bottles out of landfills and moving to paper straws was very helpful and we're also have a local produce called bay city produce. i think the previous years that we spent $60,000 in produce

locally. there were three tiers, l1, 2 and 3. l3, 250 miles and l1 being within 150 miles. what we've learned some of these things happen organically, but focusing in california has really been helpful and we've spent about $300,000 last year in produce and that went from 60,000 to 300,000 and we're also exploring the opportunity to do hyperlocal and that's 50 to 75 miles to the hospital. there's a lot of great things going on and we're working on internal things in terms, we serve an underserved population and as we are making the different changes through our consumers and our guests and our patients recognising what we're doing. and so we feel it's important

educate them on some the things we're doing. we're serving cage-free eggs throughout the hospital, both liquid and hardboiled eggs and we made the moves to organic lettuce as a staple throughout the hospital and that's both spring mix and romain. we're hitting this at a bunch of different angles. beyond that, one of the biggest things is the financial impact of some of the changes. i think in terms of the animal welfare, that will be the most and we're seeing anywhere between 50% to 60% cost increase to move over to nae products. and for us, it's figuring out ways to creatively pass that along, whether it to be the cafe or increasing our prices through the cafe and, also, reducing

meats. we have reducing meats and every monday is a meatless monday and normally, we would serve about 200 pounds of protein on a monday, but over the last, i would say, three months, we haven't done meat on mondays and that's pretty significant. that's about it. i'm happy to answer my questions. >> thank you very much. so we have elvis lavaera to speak about laguna honda. >> yes. i'm from the laguna honda hospital. so, yes, we currently serve 170 residents and offer a 28-day cycle menu to the residents. what makes the hospital is unique is the population that we serve, the highly vulnerable

population and the age group. a lot of our residents are here and their length of stay is two weeks to -- some have been here for more than 30 years and with that said, the biggest challenge that we currently face is, you know, being able to have that cultural change amongst our residents that have been here for so many years and, you know, a lot of them look forward to enjoying, you know, certain dishes and certain meals on certain days that they look forward to. with that said, laguna honda hospital and san francisco general hospital fully supports the gpff and the offerings of plant-based meals as an alternative. we purchase local and sustainable items and organics when available and we have an extensive salad bar which we have local fruits and vegetables that we buy from a lot of local

farmers, but the biggest challenge that we now is being able to have that cultural change with our residents. we've pledged to do 15% -- eliminate our meat by 15% and one of the challenges that come with us is due to our highly vulnerable patient population, just being able to provide all of the proteins and vitamins and minerals at the nutritional value that some of our residents need. and we completely understand the high risks that come with having meals that do offer more meats, the diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, digestive disease, cancer, obesity. but, you know, we're doing everything that we can that we can possibly do to keep our residents safe, healthy and that

we also at the same time don't violate any laws of our -- that residents have. you know, they have a decision to make on what meals they want to have. we're currently working on is building a questionnaire and getting a lot of residents involved in this cultural change. so that way, when we look at our two or three or five-year goal, it's something we've worked together with our residents. unfortunately due to covid-19, this was something we wanted to put in play early this year. but, unfortunately, due to covid-19, that has been a little bit of a challenge and a struggle and those are our plans. we hope in the next ten years, that 15%, hopefully is somewhere aligned to 20% or 25% less meat offerings at the l laguna honda hospital. >> thank you very much. and so colleagues, i have some

amendments that i have proposed, also. and if you have any questions or comments, i think that you will find the goals are in the legislation starting on page 4 on line 21. as i said before, this is a beginning and if you would like to take public comment now, i would be happy -- i encourage you to actually support this legislation. it's been a long time in the works and i just want to applaud the department. it is a cultural shift, i would think. it's a shifting and i understand about the department of public health, laguna honda, people born in 1 1930's, 1940's and 1950's. we'll look back in 20 years and say, wow! i can't believe we're eating all this meat, but again, this is a start. so thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor fewer and i just wanted to say,

i remember when we first had a hearing on this item at public safety and neighborhood service's committee, what, two, three years ago? it was so long ago and i remember learning so much and i'm so excited it's here before us and i wanted to thank you both of the school district and the city for advancing this important work. so with that, can we please open this up for public comment. >> can i ask a question? >> of course. i'm so sorry, supervisor mar, of course. >> i'm work on and important policy with all of the stakeholder expose with thes and i think this is important to move forward to use our food purchasing on food procurement

powers to advance important goals for environmental sustainability and animal welfare and nutrition and i did have a few questions about the goals that were set particularly for the hospitals, for dph. on the animal welfare goal, you know, the 15% of nonmeat alternatives, i feel like it's a bit low and i appreciate the work you have done. i understand that is a minimum baseline and there will be an effort to achieve a higher percentage o on nonanimal food

purchases. i had a question of the workforce goals and that's really important, as well, and i'm glad to see that is being one of the five values, areas. but there seems to be quite a difference between the dph goals and the sheriff's department goals for valued workforce. in the sheriff's department goals for valued workforce, you know, it's a much higher bar and it's really prioritizing vendors that have a social responsibility policy, prioritizes non-poverty wages for their employees, labor peace agreements, employment benefits, et cetera. whereas, for the dph, their goal for the valued workforce, it seems very low and all it says is that they encourage vendors to not violate our labor laws.

and so i was just wondering, yeah, why there's such a difference between the sheriff's department and dph's valued workforce goals. >> i think one the challenges with dph that the sheriff's department did not have, they o the direct procurement of goods. the department of public health buys things in bulk with other jurisdictions, also, and that's how they're able to get the discounted price. not as much flexibility. however, there are representatives still on the call from dph, if you could respond to that.

>> they come from a gpo, visio. the sheriff's department, they're precooked meals bundy a third-party management company and i believe it's arrow mark and that's where the difference comes in. >> i would also add that the gsp assessment, they have sort of a report card in the back of that assessment talking about injuries in the workplace, death in the wor workplace and there a lot of bad actors on there. for us, we will be taking a look at those folks. they sent out a letter to some of the bad actors, too, a lot of the labor and different issues, as well. but i do agree, i think some of the things are very important. but i think because it's such a

big shift within the organization, we will have to take baby steps in that direction. and baby, steps, you know, for zuckerburg general looks like, how do we get our patients and our guests the best food that we can? and then, after that, we're looking to say, ok, talking about some of the companies -- there were 26 deaths in two years. so, to me, how do you have 26 people die if two years? we're not talking koa sudbury. covid but we're talking pre-covid. >> you just want to say, thank you very much, speakers. i wanted to say that the good food's purchasing program was brought to me by doug black, teamsters local 7 because of te

working conditions. actually, i would say, the wrap-up for this, the city and county, has been more difficult. i think it's a larger organization that actually the culture shift is different. if we did not actually bring this good food purchasing to this city and county of san francisco, and introduce the idea that we would not even be made aware of these violations in workplace and, also, not understanding the power of the procurement dollars. so while i know it might seem, like, wow, we might more progress, i want to caution that we want these goals to be real and the departments to monitor themselves in a very real way and to make sure it's attainable but something they can work toward. as i mentioned before, this is just the beginning and we will, i think most of us will look to those on the board to constantly

monitor and create more aggressive goals. >> thank you for that response. again, i just -- i appreciate all of your work on this. i do feel like the valued workforce goals in the ordinance for dph seem very low and i mean, it basically just says that we encourage all vendors -- dph will encourage all vendors to not violate labor laws. and so, that should be expected without the need for this ordinance and so, i think, the ordinance should be pushing for higher standards that are above the minimum, like main wage and paid sick leave, et cetera. so, again -- and there's quite a difference between what is required of the sheriff's department versus dph under the valued workforce goals in the

ordinance. but again, i respect the work you've done on this, so thank you. >> thank you. (please stand by)