>> supervisor fewer: good afternoon, everyone. this is the appropriations committee. i am joined by committee members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. we would like to thank --

[inaudible] -- sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. madame clerk? mr. clerk. i think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. a second please? >> second. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. could i have a roll call vote? >> i'm sorry, could you clarify who is the second? walt >> supervisor walton: walt supervisor walton. walton aye. mandelman absent. yee aye. ronen -- sorry, we're excusing her. fewer aye. >> clerk: chair fewer, aye.

supervisor mandelman? mandelman absent. you have three ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. thank you very much. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, madame chair. due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to order, declarations and directives. committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two

minutes to speak. you can call 1-415-655-0001. again, that is 1-415-655-0001. meeting i.d. is 146 812 0226. again, that is 146 812 0226. then press pound twice. when connected you'll hear the meeting discussions but you'll be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practice to speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. alternatively, you may submit public comment in either the following ways. e-mail to the budget and finance committee clerk. and she's linda wong.

linda.wong sf gov.org. spanish and chinese interpretation is available if you need these services in each of the public comments today. i will pass on to the interpreters to provide a summary of the announcement. >> [speaking spanish] [speaking spanish]

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>> interpreter: [speaking chinese]. >> interpreter: [speaking chinese]. >> clerk: thank you. chair fewer, that completes my announcements. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. would you please call item number 1. >> clerk: yes, chair fewer, item 1 is a hearing to identify the youth commission's budget priorities for fiscal years

2020-2021 and 2021-2022 and requesting the youth commission to report. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 1-415-655-0001. access code, 146 812 0226, then press pound twice. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, we did hear a presentation earlier this year from the youth commission about their budget priorities, but given that the city had to start from scratch with budget planning, we wanted to give the opportunity to hear again from the youth commission about their budget priorities. today, we have with us calvin

click, nora hilton, sarah chower and alexander. youth commissioners, you have the floor. >> thank you, chair fewer. staff, could you share the presentation, please? >> yes, give me one second. great thanks. so good afternoon, supervisors. my name is calvin click. i represent district 5. i'm as chair fewer said, i'm here today with my colleagues to present on the youth commission budget priorities for the upcoming two fiscal years. so to begin with, i'm just going to touch a bit on how the covid-19 pandemic has impacted

youth and students. that's part of why we're here today. as chair fewer mentioned, as the pandemic has progressed and the city and state have imposed measures to enforce social distancing and public health, youth have been and continue to be heavily impacted by measures such as school closures, implementation of distance learning, access to food and nutrition, wellness centres, among other support systems as well as access to mental health services provided by school programs. both the pandemic and the impact has been disproportionately felt in black, brown, and latinx communities. youth commission has been working with the youth services and others to identify how the city can better serve you during this challenging time.

so the preface which was included, touches on the specifics of this with some concrete recommendations. so we also have representatives at each our policy committees to present. i'm going to turn it over to them to begin with, commissioner chung, for this engagement committee. >> excuse me, am i not -- >> supervisor fewer: your presentation is not progressing. it is just at the first page. here we go. yes. >> now i see covid-19 and shelter in place. >> oh. that's been a while ago. >> we are on the civic engagement page. chair fewer, your connection may be a little slow. >> supervisor fewer: oh. okay. >> president yee: i'm seeing the

correct one. >> supervisor fewer: oh, i am not. okay. i see the committees now. so sorry. maybe my connection is slow. go ahead. i can hear you. go ahead. >> thanks, commissioner. i'm sarah chung, the district 1 appointee and the vice chair of the commission. this past year has been mainly working on the vote 16 campaign to expand voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds, but first we wanted to thank you all for charter amendment 16 and 17-year-olds voting in municipal election on november's ballot and thank president yee for sponsoring this charter amendment. as you know, allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to vote will get more young people involved in the democracy by installing the life long habit of voting at a young age.

san francisco would become the first major city to expand voting rights to 16 and 17-year-olds and set a precedent to other major cities throughout the u.s. to follow. but to continue this movement, we need your support. if it passes, we need to make sure we have enough funding for vote 16 to be implemented so we can see a high voter turnout from 16 and 17-year-olds in san francisco. one way to implement vote 16 is to work with the board of education to fully implement their resolution 1622383, encouraging students to exercise their voting rights to make further registration and education available so that 16 and 17-year-olds can easily register to vote. voter registration and further outreach would require about $84,556 to $102,000 of funding for the department of elections. after franchising 16 and 17-year-old citizens, the next would be to enfranchise 16 and

17-year-old noncitizens to make sure our city democracy is taking into account all of the 16 and 17-year-olds in san francisco. now over to commissioner hilton from the transformative justice committee. >> hi, i'm nora hilton. this year, the transformative justice committee aligned with the plan as outlined on the image shown in the presentation. we recommend that the budget reflect the wishes of the san francisco community to de-fund the police department and instead invest in community-based alternatives to policing an incarceration. the steps outlined are, one, de-fund the police. two, demilitarize communities. three, remove police from schools. four, free people from jails and prisons. five, repeal laws that criminalize survival.

six, invest in community self-governance. seven, provide safe housing. eight, invest in care, not cops. the following -- in following the first step which is de-funding the police and moving away from incourse cars ration -- incarceration, we recommend that they cut the budget by 50%. we suggest that 25% should go towards a "community and peoples budget which was similar to a proposal made in los angeles. 8.5% should go to the trauma informed counselors and victims of social misconduct. 50% of this should go to equitable education for black, brown and latinx youth. and policing within communities of color and other marginalized communities.

with the funds that are created by divesting from the police department, we recommend for the expansion of alternative to incarceration for youth. t.a.y.. the following points on the presentation display our recommendations for implementing 2-8 of the movement and these steps are lelaborated on in our full budget priority. i'll pass this on to commissioner. >> i'm our first recommendation is that the board supervisors work h.s.h. to complete the t.a.y. housing plan. the youth commission is appalled

that it is still not complete five years after it was supposed to be. let's make this a point to complete it, not stop it like the last recession did. it would cost around $48 million to complete 120 units of this plan. we also recommend that h.s.h. maintain and have at least one operating navigation center and one in the pipeline waiting for construction. we also recommend that the board of supervisors and h.s.h. work to increase financial support services for t.a.y. this would go to laundry, case management and opportunities and the funding should be proportional to the amount of t.a.y. inside the system. our second priority relates to transportation equity. the sheer number of complaints,

san francisco's transit system does not work for youth. muni, caltrain, bart, should work for youth and make them equitable. the easiest way for this to be done is to include youth. we recommend that the sfmta needs to make fair policies that work for youth and board of supervisors needs to provide funding that is constant and dedicated to train muni, caltrain and bart. we are 'em that the sfmta -- recommend that the sfmta stop working to enforce fares. we also recommend the board of supervisors, h.s.h. work to eliminate fare -- [inaudible] -- $2 million to eliminate this fare, however, this will be offset by admin costs. we also recommend there is increase of funding for the

sunset park and increase in funding for improvements to other experiencing extraordinarily high youth ridership. we recommend that the board of supervisors provide funding to muni static electric bus pilot project to give muni more experienced operators of electric buses. this would cost $4.1 million to $5.3 million. we'll now pass it back to commissioner click. >> thank you, commissioner. so, lastly, i'll just touch briefly on the commission's own budget, which we've talked about during this budget cycle. back in february, our staff worked with the clerk and board on raising our staff salaries and incorporating money for us to expand our outreach and community events. although the shelter-in-place means that our monetary needs to conduct outreach is less

pressing since most events are online. we still need to keep up with the communities we serve and retaining staff, we provide invaluable support to young people on the commission which is increasingly difficult when our staff are all under the 100% a.m.i. income line. that concludes our presentation and we're available to take any questions. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. colleagues, any comments or questions for our youth commissioners? i have a comment and question. so in hiring working on this committee and about the budget proposals, how were you able to -- during covid-19, to engage other youth with feedback on this proposal? >> yes. thank you for that question. that has definitely been a central part of the last few months. so one of the ways that happened is just because a lot of the community meetings that were already happened had to switch

to being online. so we still have been going to meetings that have happened. and we've also worked -- we worked together with ocls, counsel and a couple of other partners to meet regularly with them, who were also doing outreach to youth. i know cpa did a big data collection specifically on the youth impact of covid-19. and so to make sure we were sharing that information, because it is true that it's been more difficult to get youth endamaged during this -- engaged during this time, but it's been really important to make sure -- even more important to make sure we're all -- all youth advocates are talking to each other. so we're trying to do our best to keep that going. >> supervisor fewer: and my next question is, have you -- do you

coordinate with city advisory councils, usfsd, and if you do, in which way? >> well, for both 16 and the 17 engagement committee, we've been interacting with the s.a.c. they reached out asking how they can help out with the vote 16 effort. that is a rising phone bank. so i let them know about that and they're also helping to share other information about getting the word out there about vote 16. >> supervisor fewer: good. are they willing to put before the board of education a resolution in support of vote 16? >> yes. actually -- sorry. they're actually working on a resolution right now to support vote 16 and they're hoping to put it in front of the board of education soon, i believe. i'm not sure where they are,

what the status is of that right now. but i do know they're working on that resolution. >> supervisor fewer: okay. thank you very much. i see supervisor walton in the queue. >> supervisor walton: thank you. just a couple of things. i want to commend your work and particularly for highlighting the need for transitional age youth housing and emphasizing the importance of that. we have a housing and shelter work group. please make sure you get that feedback to us, because it is very important and something i want to make sure that the work group focuses on as we come out of covid-19 crisis, but also for the long-term. and then just going back to your work with sfusd youth that are in leadership and working on vote 16, have you been working also to try and diversify the youth commission and have more opportunities for both public and private school youth on the commission as we move forward as well?

>> so, calvin click again. yes, that is definitely a concern we've had. so this last -- i guess i can speak to how -- we run applications yearly for these commissions. it happens quite regularly. i can speak maybe to some of the outreach we've done and the other staff can help me out if i'm missing anything. i believe this year we've got -- we always try to reach out to community worse -- organizations that work with students. we always got a lot of applications from lowell, but not others. we have applications from washington high school and a couple of others. ones that continually tie back to the fact, as you know, supervisor walton, we're not

paid, prohibited by the charter from being paid in any way shape or form. that includes transportation passes. we're not allowed to have those. it would be a policy matter that would be great on eliminating that barrier. but while we're still doing that, we try our best to always reach out to, you know, the communities that are not represented on the commission, that are not in the room, to make sure we're at least offering an opportunity as best as that may be. >> also, adding onto that. we -- as calvin said, we did do a lot of work this year reaching out to communities that are not represented adequately on the commission. and then in the meantime, obviously that isn't enough to work for next year, so in the meantime we've been working with community organizations that have a really like big population of public school citizens. again, like not necessary from lowell, because we have a large percentage of students from lowell. so in the meantime, we're trying

to get input and those voices heard on the commission even if they're not in official commissioner roles. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: following up on that question. how many youth commissioners are from public schools? >> staff, could you speak to that? >> hi. total amount of youth commissioners is how many? there are 17 youth commissioners and in this current team, we have three public school students. >> supervisor fewer: out of 17? >> yes. >> there are some that are also college students as well. >> correct. >> supervisor fewer: how many college students? >> college students, i believe we have two. >> supervisor fewer: are they from the public colleges?

>> two of them go to city college, calvin goes to u.c. berkeley. >> supervisor fewer: how many are english learners? >> i don't believe we have any that would identify that way this term. >> supervisor fewer: okay. all right. any other questions or comments from my colleagues? on the youth commission's budget priorities? if not, let's -- president yee? >> president yee: yeah, thanks for the presentation. i believe i can -- worked closely with the youth commissioners on vote 16. i just want to commend their activism on that issue.

and that they continue -- i just had an outreach movement with the youth about two weeks ago. so i know they're pretty active in that way. and they continue to find -- look for groups of youth to get them engaged. i know that for myself, district 7, we actually have two youth councils. one operated by coral, one operated by cyc. i've lost contact with the coral group, but i'm going to be engaging next week. and hopefully, there will be a youth commissioner there that can join in that discussion. and i just want to, again, i

know you put in a lot of work as we move forward to get the endorsements and so forth. so i'm looking forward to seeing more of you. because this is a real learning experience. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. the reason i asked about english learners also is i wanted to know if you have taken a position on the charter amendment that is going to be on the ballot about allowing noncitizens to actually serve or undocumented folks to serve on commissions? >> so, we have not taken a position on that because that was not referred to us, but i can say -- so i'm not going to speak on that specifically, but i will say that, as commissioner chung mentioned, we are

supportive of expanding civic engagement opportunities generally for undocumented folks. so that is definitely a priority for the youth commission and i'm sure that -- [inaudible] a lot of us will be supportive of that charter amendment when it's on the ballot. >> supervisor fewer: supervisor walton, that sounds like an opening for you? he's the main author of that charter. >> supervisor walton: most definitely. we talked about vote 16, you know, it is my hope that our young people are supportive of all the things we put on the ballot that are going to lead to more diverse leadership here in san francisco, and, of course, allow for our immigrant community that plays a major role in our economy as well as other important aspects of leadership here in the city. so this is something that i hope

we can get the commission's support on. i support a lot of equity and social justice issues we put forward. >> supervisor fewer: yes. that would be great. okay, seeing no one else in the queue, let's go to public comment. could we call for public comment on the item number 1, please. >> clerk: yes, chair, fewer. operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. if you have not already done so, please press star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, continue to wait until the system indicates you've been unmuted. let us know if there are any callers who wish to comment on this item. >> yes. we have 31 callers listening and four currently in the queue. i will queue up the first caller. hold on. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> so youth commissioners, my name is francisco.

and before the pandemic, this issue came before the board of supervisors and the clerk of the board was working with some of you all. and the issue was funding. [please stand by] [please stand by]

>> you cannot be a good leader unless your heart is in the right place. if your heart is in the right place, then you can lead many people to a better place. i know people who lie all the time, including on the board of supervisors and that's wrong. i pray for you commissioners so you can help the city and help the future youth. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please.

>> i'm speaking here on behalf -- [indiscernible] -- at the same time i'm with an organization. i like to commend supervisor shamann walton. how can we speak about racial justice when you know there's so many things in our city. someone was saying, we need to walk the walk. that's a great thing. i think we should start talking the talk. we need to put our efforts together and make sure the organization -- there's been lot of work. we do commend the work of the

board of supervisors for supporting our work over the years. we need to maintain the funding so we can so many needed services. as someone serving the community, any cuts would be so heavy in particular smaller organization. we strongly believe combined efforts we will maintain the

funding as is. thank you so much. we looking forward to continue the conversation and working with the board of supervisors. >> supervisor fewer: i like to remind callers we are hearing public comment on item number one. that is the budget for the san francisco youth commission. thank you. >> next caller please. >> i called for the next item. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. >> hi. i'm a homeless youth in the district five area. i want to say that i agree with the committee members who are going further time in their own

experiences. they continue to be there and help other clients in other markets. thank you. >> thank you for your comment. are there any more speakers? >> i'm the executive director. i gotten the opportunity to work with the youth commission both with youth commissioner for district 10 and with the youth commission as a whole body working on several projects for youth homelessness. i support budget recommendation. i want to uplift something that we've been talking about even as cochair of the sugary beverage tax advisory board.

we've been trying to get them to get compensated in some sort of way. it's making it difficult for youth of colour, youth from socioeconomic background to participate in this. if folks can start look at amending this charter for the youth commission, we are start paying little bit more folks from a diverse body of experiences. thank you. >> next speaker. >> is the calmer on the line?

[indiscernible] >> i'm sorry, we are currenting accepting public comment for youth commission budget priorities for fiscal years 2020-2022. >> [indiscernible] >> good afternoon members of the board of supervisors. we support the youth commission recommendation and would like to lift as we move in commendation

forward about protecting our youth. we keep in mind that many children in our city and across the country are not entitled to legal representation in court. we have many battles to fight moving forward. immigrant community and children in our city and country are suffering because of the take of the current administration. we like it show that we're looking at the juvenile detention centre and how that money can fund can be redistributed to the nonprofit city wide. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> i think that finishes the queue for this item. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: public comment is closed.

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: i wanted to comment on the fact that there were request made about youth commissioners getting paid. this is something that we definitely explored at the very beginning of the year and the beginning of the budget process. it will require a charter change. it's something we'll be working on for the future. it is something that i believe being able to provide some compensation for our dedicated youth commissioners and how hard they work. that conversation will continue because it is something that we are passionate about. i wanted to bring that up. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. on behalf of the board, i love to thank the youth commission for sharing with us their budget priorities this year. we will definitely keep those budget priorities in mind. having said that i like to make a motion to file this hearing. could i have a second please?

>> supervisor walton: second. >> supervisor fewer: roll call vote please. >> clerk: motion that the hearing be heard and filed. [roll call vote] there are five ayes. >> supervisor fewer: thank you youth commissioners. call item number two. [agenda item read]

>> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. we created office racial equity last year, it was intention to create more structures and accountability for the city government and ensure the prioritization of racial equity within our own city department, city policy and practices. under the human rights commission, we created this office prior to the current political moment but appreciate that there's now an immense amount of public discourse about racial equity and racial justice and invest in black lives. that is meant there's incredible amount of demand placed upon the office of racial equity. i want to recognize supervisor

mandelman for working mayor breed to realize racial equity in the proposed budget. i call this hearing after learning that the office of racial equity was conducting a racial equity analysis of departmental spending with city department. i want to make space for this conversation publicly prior to the board's budget process. we have never had a collective conversation as a city about how to across departments, prioritize strategies throughout departmental spending to lift up communities of colour and address the systemic racial and equity experienced for generations. this is why my office wrote this

legislation and why i'm so glad to hear this critical conversation today. in the next month the board will make difficult decisions to make about the city budget. my hope is today's hearing will help frame our discussion. anything we hear today is based on next year's budget. since the mayor's proposed budget has not yet been released. thank you director finley and director davis for being here today. we're excite to hear more about the finding of the racial equity analysis you conducted. >> thank you so much chair fewer, good afternoon, thank you for the opportunity to present today. i want to thank our fellow committee communities and special shot out, happy birthday president yee, thank you for being with us today. we do have executive director davis on the call today.

he's available for additional questions. i like to thank the mayor london breed and budget office working with us collaboratively on doing this work and lot of this conversation around budget equity is an ongoing one. we at the beginning of a long and hopefully fruitful process. before i share my slide, i want to do some expectation setting. the purpose of this hearing the information we're providing today from the office of racial equity is to start that conversation when it comes to budget equity. number two, provide a racial equity framework or a tool that office of racial equity will be releasing this year. also help provide a real tool and framework guiding questions and principles that the board and other policy decision makers

can use to make sure we're centring and prioritizing racial equity given our upcoming budget hearing in august. we have an analysis of our survey and assessment that we did. that work is still ongoing. we're still on conversations in working with the different departments who responded to us to do this work. also, we want to highlight some key areas based on our experience with community outreach practices given the covid pandemic impact and the racial disprit impacts given the coronavirus. i like to jump into the work and i will share my slides. please give me one second.

is that visible? >> supervisor fewer: yes, it is. >> great. i ask that for audio cues, i can't see you all while i'm presenting. i'll be happy to answer anything. in the case of racial equities experienced by san francisco s . mayor london breed pout a budget process to prioritize equity as a lens. additionally that same year, director davis also listed the need for equity in the budget process and spending given in the race of racial tension at

that time. as you mentioned, supervisor fewer, the office of racial equity wasn't intent to hold it accountable. also in the mayor's budget instructions from past september centring equity. all of this work and all these directives have laid the ground work for something that will be formalized intentional, specific in explicit when it comes centring racial equity within city wide budget process. we know that san francisco is facing a $1.5 billion deficit over the next two fiscal years. we're going to have increasing hardships for communities of colour and low income communities. we need to make sure and have greater intentionality aod accountability for every single dollar. i want to make sure win we're

saying equity, we all mean the same thing. the office of racial equity making sure this is the framework. we gathered racial equity leaders and understanding that racial equity is not equality it's a set of social justice practices that's rooted in understanding of our historical present day oppression. moving towards collective justice for all. we need to acknowledge that racial equity presents a unique opportunity in our spending, allows us to use city budget as a tool for racial justice. that is my question for everyone today in our community, and all decision makers can we make sure that our city budget is a tool for racial equity and for racial justice and atone for the racial

harm that has been placed upon black and indigenous, latin-x community time and time again. in order to do this work, i will offer a frame of questions that this committee, colleagues can use to help frame the questions for departmental hearings that's happening next month in august. one of the first questions that's really important and that we've been asking the department. what specific racial disparities at your department. weapon want to know if people are thinking about this and comfortable with that language. we want to understand are there programs that you want to continue in this budget. which ones offers march promise to limiting racial disparity.

another question to be asked of departments is that if we're going to be advancing racial equity, what programs can you modify and put forth to make that happen and how much will you put towards that and key question which we always ask over and over again, how will we know if people are better off? it's such a key question that we want folks to centre around racial equity. we want to make sure there's internal policy as well. this is a process. we're on a journey together. some folks are little further ahead than others. i think it's important for us to be comfortable in having these difficult conversations because

this work is not easy. it's not light. it will help us uproot things like anti-blackness, things like fighting against anti-api, harassment and discrimination under covid. recognizing the debt we owe to indigenous folks and better connecting to our community who are behind. in our work, we want to lift up and i want to also refer the supervisors -- our office has sent a memo for this hearing that outlines the principles. i'm wear of time, i will quickly go through some highlights of principles that are incredibly important. if we're thinking about racial equity in our budgeting and

principleprinciples that are inh that. we have to commit to shifting power. the city government san francisco, we have to commit to making sure that the people who are closest to the pen are ones closest to the power. the power i'm talking about is the spending. make sure budget process is one that uplifts racial equity. often times those are impacted are left out of practices, creating programs that are meant to help them. we never want to speak behalf or instead of communities. community has loud enough voice. we need to make sure that we're providing the ears in this budget process and we're truly listening to make sure that we're shifting power. another strategy is dissin -- a,

budget and budget plans and priorities need to be baked in the equity plan which is due in december. we will continue this work. it's not going to stop with this budget process. we also need folks to articulate specific desired outcomes and move from focus on how departments are spending money to focus on where the targeted

results. few other things, you heard this over and over again from community is better transparency and accountability. we can set different equity benchmarks to make sure that happens. we want departments to align spending change. which means pooling resources or working collaboratively or working with our private and nonprofit sector on something that is more of a package, more strategic to get at broader change. that's like a quick service items that don't really go anywhere. something that's extremely important in this role that we want to see in our budget process and we want folks to talk to is having dedicated equity line item.

that can be for example an line item to robust resources, it could be outlining a strategic plan to address a climate issue for social problems. it could be removing bureaucratic processes for folks to access services or resources. or like we've seen in the city of baltimore, dedicating a percentage to create support and augment programs towards racial equity. office of racial equity is here. we are working hard. we are a resource. we are a partner to work with us in this process to get things done and to ensure that equity. in order to do this work, no conversation about our budget process can really go forth

without understanding how covid has impacted our city and that will impact our budget. i am 100% aware that mayor budget office has working on this and trying extremely hard to make sure that we're getting some of our key issues. over the past six months from my department as equity officer at our emergency operation centre to working supporting director davis outreach process around reinvestment and reallocation process to our ongoing research around disparities and lot of these issues are outlined in our equity framework. any conversations around budget need to make sure we're talking about some of these key issues from food insecurity and housing insecurity to mental health support to homelessness to

isolation and disconnection to public safety and community-based violence, unfortunately, which has been happening in the southeast sector of our city to understanding needs of our immigrant undocumented community and increasing ada and our folks who are experiencing disability. i want to say that even with these issues and even you're hearing from the department ace you're hearing from community, you will hear a lot about these issues and some of the issues that the commission just brought up as well. we need to lead with race when it comes to these issues on this radar. we do know that our black pacific islanders, indigenous

community are experiencing racial disparities in each of these areas. in the conversation on budget is centring these key issues. i will quickly go over some analysis. we're still working with departments to understand their needs and how they did their outreach in vulnerable population and what they're thinking about next year. we want to make sure that folks that are board of supervisors engaging and understanding some of the issues that we're concerned about. i want to make sure that we highlight that what is working that most of our city and county agencies has pivoted to respond to covid-19. we have redirected resources to develop new programs to meet the needs. many department have allowed

grantees that they have to respond to the pandemic. which has been very helpful. we need to continue to support nonprofits to do that work. some departments have specifically offered competent programs if they're working with our communities. other departments is taking steps further to address systemic issues through newly created funds. however, when we're thinking about how we can be better and things that we need to ask for is making sure that we're moving away from broad program descriptions. that's not equity. we want to make sure that we're

not equating equality with equity. many departments want to address racism. they need to go beyond saying we service everyone and we service everyone equally. not everyone experiences everything equally. not everyone has level of opportunity equally. we need to amend for that specifically in our city government. another part that i definitely want to bring up in centre is inequitable investment. we found that our black islanders, simone and indigenous communities experience housing, health and education and criminal justice involvement. we know that similar outcomes are experienced by transgender and i don't remember nonconforming communities of colour. we've seen that department have underinvested in communities.

that the current equality strategy is just not working. we need to be -- in the short-term, we need to have conversations about that. in the long-term, we'll think about how we can use our budget equity tool to start closing some of the disparity gaps. need to make sure we're uplifting neighborhoods that have been left behind consistently. we've heard from communities, neighborhoods lakeview and tenderline, they need our help more than ever. it's how can we offer city services. lastly, something we really want to centre what we found in our

analysis is understanding that even though departments do a great job have a great spread, touch every san franciscan, including communities of colour, proximity and basic service provision is not meaningful connection or investment. we need to be honest about that. we know there's a disconnect there because of city wide racial disparities. advancing racial equity is best measured not by which people are served. are people better off? i talk about what's working and we're proud to see the number of departments that stepped up and meeting the need and they do need help to ask for assistance to trying to connect with communities. we can always do better. we want to move towards a model of continuous improvement.

it's not for us to put someone on blast or call anyone out. let's check in, see where the gaps are, be honest about them. couple of things that we want to call up that needs little bit improvement is lifting up and pushing for more explicit programs and strategies to combat disparities when it comes to our black and latin x and specific islander communities. we want to make sure that we're better coordinating with our workforce programs and pipelines.

we know how hard covid has hit our economy. that access and that mobility will be important now more than ever. moving forward, we know there's ongoing conversations and we know that budget process is not a static thing. it's flexible. it's adaptive. it's moving it forward. there's couple of things that we're very much aware of. we want to make sure we're not -- we're rejecting the status quo that reproduces inequities year after year. if we're relying on historical budget that produces outcomes something have to shift.

we want to lift up strengthening communities. making sure folks actually have the information, among, space k, space and time. lastly, i want to share couple of budget milestone. this is just the tip of the iceberg. correct me if i'm wrong supervisor fewer or anyones on the call. you had lot of executive direction, you had callouts from director davis and based off that report, some of it's more explicit. i'm excited and proud to stand with you all to get this work done. please work with office of racial equity as we continue our

analysis through our august budget hearing. we know that we're shooting to end of august for the budget to pass. this december, we'll be releasing our budget equity tool and making sure budget items are included in our department racial action plan. we'll be using those plans next year when it comes to having more accountability. i want to end there. i know it's a lot of information. i'll stop sharing my screen. i want to thank everyone for listening and for providing us the opportunity to speak today. i'll make sure that memo gets out to members. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: before i call on supervisor mandelman, i wanted to give director davis an

opportunity if you like to address the committee, director davis. thank you for your work. >> thank you so much chair fewer. i'm grateful to see this come to pass. i'm grateful for your leadership, former supervisor brown and mayor breed for leading the way on this effort. i know it's something we've talked about and worked on. there are lot of moving piece from the hearing you held. grateful for your leadership but at the same time, i want to recognize and thank supervisor mandelman who -- supervisor walton who helped on this process. supseudossue -- kudos to shama . share fewer, i can't stress enough this process and focus that you elevated and put in

motion and we made this happen in partnership with community voices. when i heard that you were holding this hearing and giving space, that really legitimatizes and validated that we're committed to moving this forward. really appreciate it and thank you so much president yee and supervisor mandelman for being here as well today and look forward to continuing to work with you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair fewer. if you indulge for a minute, i want to thank you for all of your work on the office of racial equity and along with director finley, supervisor brown and director davis. you really worked hard to make

this happen. we had conversations about the possibility of in office of racial equity years prior to this. thank you for being here seeing this through and doing the heavy lifting on this. the office of racial equity is important given the time in history where people are finally calling out many injustices that have plagued communities of colour for decades. the systemic failures to serve the black community, community of colour are glaring before us. this office was created to create a city wide racial equity framework. designate employees as racial equity leaders is long overdue. i understand that this office just newly created. by the way, director finley, you have done a lot of work in a short period of time. i do want to thank you for working hard. this is newly created. here we are in a crises where this equity lens has become an

elevated priority even more with covid-19. this pandemic has disproportionately impacted black and brown communities with rise in cases in african-american, latino community and asian community. it is now more important than ever to address this crises and approach to use the equity framework. our community have suffered for a too long. i anticipate that covid-1 covidl continue to impact our community for much longer. i want to thank you for your presentation director and for one providing with us with a list of guiding questions for city department. which is something i will definitely be using as we continue to have our budget conversations. i can't wait to see the office of racial equity budget tool, i think that's going to be for us as well as we move well into the future around budget.

i do have few questions. the first is just so far from your work. where are we with department designating employees as racial equity leaders? >> thank you so much supervisor walton. i want to commend you and thank you for your consistent support, your real talk, your energy and your courage. actually putting equity into action. people like to talk the talk, you do walk the walk. i appreciate you and thank you for pushing us to do better and to do more. in regards to different city departments, we have heard from 43 departments and who have assigned racial equity leaders. we did send out a survey about a month ago. we're working on to make sure they have appropriate representation. we're making sure the racial

equity leaders represent the diversity of the department. also in management and decision making power. we don't want this work to be saddled with person of colour, who needs to do their work and so much more. we've been having conversations with the departments. they have been responsive and doing the work and folks getting ready. thank you. >> supervisor walton: thank you. as we look at covid-19 case numbers we know highest particular in the mission and bay view and excelsior affecting the latino community, black community and disproportionately. what added work have you to take on in office of racial equity, what support do you need to be able to carry out the work of addressing the covid-19 additional work for your office

and quite frankly for the hrc? >> thank you. we have been front and centre with director davis and with funding to covid. i was deployed personally at the operation centre for 16 weeks and pivoted with my staff and build up a team of officers to make sure that we as a city looking for racial equity in our response. it's been heart breaking to talk about this, some of the things we have been lifting up since march, we knew it would happen because of the social things of health and existing inequities. what covid does, it's a disease. it compounds existing disparit disparities.

therefore, we need direct community support to meet better infrastructure and access to testing. we need contact tracing but. we need community-based health ambassadors to do that work. we need to make sure that folks understand the programs we have in place and additional support they know and translated to different communities so they have access to it. also holding private employers accountable who is not taking care of their employees majority black and brown. i think they're doing fact job we can't reopen the city if essential workers black and brown, we need to take care of our folks as much as possible. in order to continue to do this

work, we will continue to support and work with them as much as possible. covid is not going away any time soon until there's a vaccine. my question is who gets to recover? who gets to recover from covid and who will remain sick? we need to provide resources directly to communities in order to have a mutual aid support and through our office, we do need additional staff and resources to continue to meet the need. >> supervisor walton: you just touched on lot what we need in the community to be responsive, positively to pandemic that we're in now. have you seen any community responses to the pandemic that have done well or that have actually included components what you just named?

>> yes. >> just for the last question through the claire. i want to hit on some specific things we did with community -- if it's okay chair fewer? >> supervisor fewer: yes. >> just to your point supervisor walton, office of racial equity sits in the human rights commission. we've been very involved with community engagement through this process. working both with our -- our staff has been supporting that effort. in addition to being able to work very closely with other departments to deploy folks. similar effort around new initiative called mega black has happened. we work also with -- we've had development in engagement with supervisor haney around the work

in the tenderloin. specific needs that i know we have, we have funded in sunnydale community ambassadors who have been helping distribute food, who have been helping to do work in communities that have been at site similarly in the tenderloin doing distribution masks and helping give out gloves and hand sanitizer but also working to make sure folks remember to social distance. we have been working with sbip which is funding that we had for opportunities for all to do work and the bayview area. then trying to work more with the folks in omi and trying to amplify and elevate the issues working with closely well

supervisor safai. we have leveraged our small h.r.c. budget. we took funding that was allocated to us to support food security. there's been a tremendous effort within our small office to do that. i think pieces around staffing is really important. working with collective impact to distribute computers and other components.

i want to thank you as the board of supervisors with you the mayor's office as well for that flexibility to really be hyper intentional about the work and getting to those most in need. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much for director davis. your office has done an amazing job of leveraging resources and working well with other city departments as well as with community. this is my last question. i do just have to state because i do believe that what happened with mocd is perfect example we need office of racial equity. i want to know if your office will be able to review that process and process like that to ensure that moving forward, we

have more equitable selection process that includes african-american, latino, asian leaders, specific islanders and just leaders from all communities and other areas across the city as we fund community-based organizations as we do the work that's about equity and making sure that we achieve the outcomes and goals that we set out from your office as well as in our communities. this office will be able to play a role in moving forward. >> thank you. i would say yes. i wanted to defer back to director davis on this question as well. >> i definitely want to recognize the black-led organization, coalition that brought to daylight some of the the things that folks have felt and really pushed for a new energy on some of this work. i have to say, like i have

enjoyed the opportunity to engage with the new director, eric shaw. he has been extremely open to listening. i think he stepped in a challenging situation. we had very honest and frank conversations about the gaps. he has asked for and put into his office some new things in place and has start to collect additional data that i think director finley and office of racial equity were going to use as tools to support other departments. in know in their recent submission, i was impressed how much detail they gave in terms where their funding is going and who they are supporting. i'm sure we need data information. i thought they were moving along the right track. i think that it has been frustrating for this process. i know for both the board and

for community. i will also say for the mayor to get to what's real and impactful. i'm grateful that director shaw is willing to take the heat and develop the plan to address the shortcoming. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much detector davis and director finley. i want everyone to recall that there was a $42 million r.f.p., 2% of that funding went to black organizations. when we talk about systemic racism and redirecting resources from certain departments to give to the black community and invest in the black community, i want people to understand that, it has been systemic in terms of investment in our community being looked over. the city has played a role in that and made mistakes in that as well. that's why it's important that we do what we are doing. i want to thank everyone for being bold enough to call it out and spell it out and own it. we got to make sure things like

that don't happen again or else we will be responsible and have some that blood on our hand. thank you very much. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. next in the queue, supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: i want to thank director finley for your presentation today and for all the work that you are doing to set the city up to be able to respond to this historic moment and have a budget that reflects where the united states is in 2020 and where san francisco wants to be. director davis for all the work you have been doing and continue to do. i really want to say to our chair fewer, thank you for your forsight and fortitude and commitment to making this office happen.

the timing is good and i i'm glad we have it right now. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. counting on you guys to continue it. supervisor haney is next in the queue. >> supervisor haney: thank you chair fewer and lot of gratitude to you and supervisor walton and directors. i want to ask couple of questions that i had about the memo that you all sent. i want to thank you so much for the work that you're doing. this is tremendous. i want to appreciate the work that you all have done in the tenderloin as well and excited to continue to partner with you on that. there's couple of things that i

was interested in the memo. there's a lot in here. it's really overdue and incredibly important the work you all are doing. especially with such a small team in how impactful you are. you make a note of about the process. there's a note in there about how the advac process has taken an approach where the same amount of money is allocated to each district. that is something that i perked my interest because of level of need in my district and it's something that come up for districts like mine in the past. are there recommendations that you would make or that you're planning to make to ensure a more equity-based approach? i know this is something that

we're going to be considering. i'm sure chair fewer is thinking about what more equity based approach look like when it came to advacs? >> thank you supervisor haney. i will defer policy decision to chair fewer. as you know as a person who was lean on budget last year and worked to this process and understanding the different district disparities. i do want to centre equity based approach and maybe think being if -- instead of districts but think being equity line item. get to populations which is why we have to lead with race. all the work that the human rights commission and office of racial equity has done

tenderloin and given the covid pandemic, need to have that focus because that's where the need is. i'm sure that work with continue given the needs and our budget process and going into august. i think some of the issues that i outlined, particularly in regard to food security, critical city services, access to testing and healthcare, i think the board will have to think hard about how much that would be, where that comes from and who will be prioritized. i will say again, we lead with race and we must prioritize black and brown communities. i'm looking forward to being a partner with you all starting in

august. i like to pivot to the chair in case you have specific feedback about that. >> i will say that we don't know if there will be advacs this year. we'll fight for them of course. there will be district addbacks this year. you will not get $1 million for your district. it's not going to happen. considering -- i want to make a point that we get the budget at the end of the budget, the mayor gets the first bite at the budget. all departments are already cutting, directed to cut. you know, i think it is hopeful to talk about addbacks. we will not have district addbacks this year. we will take a city wide approach. i think this is so opportune that we lead with race. i think that, during the budget process, i think one of the big complaints has been is that

people not everyone has the same set of access to the city budget and the city budget process. that has led to huge inequities. we're really looking at that and about who has access to the budget process. it used to be that people could stay until midnight or 1:00 in the morning until -- it's always been we haven't seen lot of the black community be engaged in the process and fight for their fair share. part of the process is very class. it is not open to everybody. it is sort of of closed door. it's only if you know how and you network. we're working also with black organizations to show them how to get on the addback list, what the budget process is and so

they can have more knowledge how they can advocate for their communities and also for their organizations. hopefully, have a seat at the table. we see this in past budget processes. it really isn't the black community that is savvy about it. politics aside now, i think we have to do what is right and if we're committed to racial equity in our budget and to reflection of our commitment to racial equity, we lead with race. not everyone is at the table. we need to be conscious about that. >> supervisor haney: thank you chair fewer for that. i know this year is going to be different when it relates to addbacks more broadly. we may think about a long-term change to how we think about this as well. thank you director finley for your thoughts on that.

the other question -- one thing i saw there's neighborhoods that need intentional investment due to historical divestment, which the neighborhoods that are flagged there, make a lot of sense. i would flag -- so i can be little bit more clear, when the mayor releases her budget, will there be kind of analysis of that that you're going to do from a race equity lens?

in particular, one of the things is as we in the budget itself and as we as a board are considering certain reductions, how are we analyzing the racial impacts and the relationship between those cuts and its impact on certain communities. is that a part of what we are going to be progressing together and how can we look to understand. we're going to take this much taken in way out of the department and budget proposal. this is the impact when it comes to systemic racism in communities that have experienced historic disinvestment. >> i appreciate the thoughtful questions. to your first question, absolutely, i'm happy to

treasure island as a neighborhood that has long experienced divestment. thank you for that call out. additionally, the mayor's budget office and director davis are the ones to push to make sure we have population. that process has been ongoing which has coordinated well with this hearing. the mayor has been very clean and direct and saying this is your job. i expect you to do this work. you need to figure out what equity issues, which has undertaken. it's ongoing. it's not perfect but i think having this, this is why i create these questions for our all. this is why i create this

framework document. this is why i'm providing the topic areas. i'm not going to disappear on august 2nd and be like, peace out, good luck. if there are additional questions or needs you have, you can reach out to director davis and i to connect to make sure we're helping form racial equity decisions. we do have more work to do. it doesn't end on september 1st. i look forward to working with your office thinking about that towards end of the year. >> supervisor haney, i would add, so much of this was focused on like the whole build out.

we really are in process right now really trying to understand what does this look like working in collaboration and partnership with the mayor's budget office. the mayor has been very clear that she expects there should be some level of engagement and understanding and coming back to her with where the shortfalls are and where the issues are. to be honest, part of this has been more broadly thinking about the budget. you asked really good question where weathere we need to thinkt where the process looks likes to be in lock step. what does it look like to say, maybe we need more of this thing in other communities and less of it in others having that framework for people to make those decisions little bit easier. that's what will happen in the

racial equity action plan. how it translates to the budget is another process we have to work on. >> supervisor haney: thank you so much director finley and director davis. this is really important work. i'm sure we're going to be all talking a lot over the next few months. i really appreciate the way that both of you and your staff has stepped up and played such key and critical roles during this pandemic. really extraordinary leadership and we all appreciate it. >> supervisor fewer: president yee? >> supervisor yee: thank you for i don't want to say maverick. one that pushed this whole issue

and float it to the top for us to pay attention to this. thank you director finley for your presentation. all the work you've done in a short period of time. couple of things -- supervisor walton, i want to piggy back on some of the things you mentioned. you have the framework and they're asking for action plans. at some point, maybe you articulated in your presentation, how would you know whether or not what you're doing right now is really going to have an impact?

really hang it on the wall and say, this is an accomplishment. in particular on systemic racism. this is not the first time this is the title take -- the attempt to take it on. we take sort of two steps forward and one step back. i always have this question. i want things to be successful but that's why i'm asking the question. how do you view it? >> that's a question that i ask myself everyday. i go back to couple of things. number one, racial equity is

just not my job. maybe i get paid big bucks to do this but racial equity is everyone's job. everyone listening on the call, everyone on the board of supervisors, our mayor, all the departments. that is a shared responsibility. has made that explicitly clear. i will continue to do so. everyone can take accountability, recognize the privilege they hold and the power they hold, which i think i will say our national uprising given the deaths of george floyd and breonna taylor, have really broke something open. we're having conversations i did not know we'd have in a lifetime. when i step in this role in january, here we are in july. i feel like we're at a place of

racial reckoning which provides more opportunity than ever before. when it comes to pandemics, when it comes to revolution, these are time of tremendous flexibility and adaptation. lot of you know i have an organizational background. we are part of this. it's everyone's job. we're doing that. this budget process is going to look different. i've already seen some initial successes in people who are afraid to have these conversations or afraid to say things like white supremacy culture and afraid to bring these conversations to their department. that's extremely powerful. i know it can be hard and frustrating for folks who been in the game for a long time. we're going from wake to woke. we need to bring folks on. i will say that we are reaching

a watershed moment. we're seeing shifting. we can't let this movement slip through our fingers. i want to make sure we have shared accountability. folks checking their privilege and holding themselves accountable. office of racial equity, we're not just here to make reports. we will o have things like publc score cards. we will have criterias to measure to see how folks are doing. we will working with communities to hold folks accountable. i think our spending is going to hopefully reflect that and we have a tremendous opportunity the next six weeks. i know we'll be successful when

we're getting together. for the first time we're putting our money where the mouth is. for the first time with the largest voices are the ones getting the share of our budget. that to me is progress. , that's exciting i'm happy to work with you president yee to make sure that happens. >> president yee, there are two things for me. one is the commitment how it shows up. specifically, during this budget crises, we've done lot of work. director finley has done a lot. we have four positions still open in the office of racial equity. success looks like we're not afraid to put the investment to advance the work. that's one and then two, an ongoing opportunity for engagement and feedback from communities. we are not afraid to hear about

where our failures are and adjust or redirect your do the things that we need to do. those are the two things -- if we are successful, we stay engaged with communities. we are responsive to what we hear from communities. we are putting our money where our mouth is to make sure what the work is done. the human rights commission is designated a second person but they're not technically part of office of racial equity. office of one that is supported by another staff person going to be really hard to change and impact over 800,000 folks experiences in san francisco. creating a face for feedback but supporting the work. >> supervisor yee: anybody can do the work, you can. can i ask this?

are you also -- four of the five member on this committee were board members. we all try to deal with the opportunity gaps and yet it still exist. i feel like it needs something. >> i will say again, there's a lot of shared duty with the office of racial equity and human rights commission. human rights commission has been helping lead the equity studies

task force for the school district. we have been working really closely with deputy superintendent ford martelle. i was on a call earlier today. president yee, like in all transparency, i think there's still lot of work to be done. when we talk about the ability to be responsive and be accountable and not be afraid to get honest community feedback, there's still struggle i would say with working with the school district. we have been working with lot of community partners. the human rights commission and office of racial equity work with some. we have distributed thousands of books to the latino task force and to programs in the o.m.i. and bayview and worked with the

samoa community. that is not been coordinated with the school district as it should be. >> supervisor yee: thank you. one other question. you mentioned covid-19, how. impacted and the racial equity. one of the things that disturbs me a lot is some of the issues that we talk about as a result of covid-19, should be talked about. what's missing in any discussion, only a few months ago, we had a discussion. when you look at people that are dying -- at least in san

francisco, 50%. it's not your job. >> i agree with you president yee. it is heart breaking and when i was -- i was deeply concern. they are being disconnected. number two, the lack of support and key health messages. another thing is, access to care and resources. we in no way want to diminish any of that and through the human rights commission, our

first entry of covid was attacking racial and discrimination and hate and hate crime happening within our community. now we're seeing the impact of the disease. moving forward, we commit to working with our community-based organizations and our a.p.i. neighborhood to make sure folks are not getting left behind.

supervisor walton has made that part of his commission in particular the seniors to make sure they have access to support and resources and ask for that racial data so we can what's happening from chinatown. we ned to be vigilant and we need to continue to push to make sure that we're providing a culture and competent care, multilingual contact tracing. thank you for bringing that up.

>> supervisor yee: thank you. this is everybody's responsibility. i don't see anybody taking responsibility right now. one last thing, in terms of resource distribution in districts, supervisor brought up this issue. my argument sometimes it's counterintuitive. if you look at my district, there's really no nonprofit. nobody wants to come out there to help 100 rvs parked out

there. i think it's too easy just to say one district has more need and that we're not getting the resources. as you know, most of the nonprofits are in those areas, in those districts where the needs are the greatest. you can't ignore all those resources that are serving that community doesn't exist. it won't matter this year. in the future, i want to say that because it's not fair to just say, little piece of pie,

we should get more of it, because not taking into consideration that in hat bigger budget, 99.9%, if you look at what's allocated, you will see the discrepancy. i don't want to be into this thing at this point. i thought at least bring it up. >> thank you for all your work. >> supervisor fewer: thank you president yee. >> supervisor yee: thank you everybody. >> supervisor fewer: thank you president yee. i want to thank you for your work. i think this is super exciting. i don't know if other supervisors know, there's now a statewide effort to create racial equity for the state of

california. thank you so much for director finley for helping that work on this. i think they're looking at the framework also and learning and how we can do it statewide. i also want to say that what i appreciate, many times during the budget cycle, i think that my colleagues will know, i asked about impact. the numbers served does not represent how we're changing people's lives. i'm really grateful that you're shifting the focus of not -- as nonprofits also. i was in nonprofit too. we used to having sign-in sheets, we're using to being accountable by the sign-in shoots so we can say we had 20 or 30 people there. what is the outcome for it?

how deep does it go? i think these are the types of investments that we want to make it real. the fact that we're asking the questions, it's like have you changed people's lives. it's so important because then we're responsible to the individual and we are not responsible to just the sign-in sheet or to the department that is funding it but we're really responsible to the individual in how we're impacting that person's life. i wanted to -- i think this is something that i'm going to ask during the budget process and ask departments to respond to so they get use to the idea of thinking in the way it's not how many of serve but really what the impact is having upon the people that you do serve. are we going deep enough, are we giving enough, are we giving up

too early. i want to know, to what extent that your analysis look at racial equity within departmental staffing? we heard a lot -- we've had hearings. to what extent your analysis look at racial equity within departmental staffing? >> that's a great question supervisor fewer. i want to uplift that director davis have that amazing community engagement framework. that resource is there. i want to thank director davis for that. secondly, we did an early report in march with the comptrollers

office and looked at racial breakdowns by department through that workforce report. it confirmed some of our suspicions in regard to equity in our departments where certain -- which leads to disparities in pay, benefits and access to management positions. we are going to be taking a targeted approach with the department of human resources who has committed to identifying some key areas that impact workforce diversity and some of the focus areas that we'll be doing this year is looking at qualifications and looking at how we create our job

qualifications. not allowing persons of colour foot in the door. we're going to be looking at recruitment and hiring. that's been a huge issue. if issues don't reach the standard for e.e.o. complaint, workers are still being -- or having issues, not having support. how can we find a way to mediate or find justice for our folks in

the city workforce. it's been a parallel track for office of racial equity internal and external. we're not losing sight of the need. to be honest, the work -- the creation of this office was built off advocacy and work of our black city workers and city workers of colour. thank you for bringing that up. i want to make sure that was included. >> supervisor fewer: that's great. i want to say how important it is that we align racial equity with the mayor. we're looking at -- i'm looking and my office also at long-term strategies. when president yee asked you about the school district, the disparity start way before our children start school. when we look at not investing in 025 with subsidies and child care, particularly for low income, black and brown

families. child care is so expensive, especially infant care so expensive. the disparities start earlier when we look at black mortality rate and health of black women and look at all those things. i think that we will not be able to crack this unless we start to think long-term and not a band-aid. that we invest now and in 20 years later, i know it's hard to do that. as a government, city government, when politicians are looking at four-year terms, we're not looking in 20 years. this is a type of investment we need to make. we need to make it early. and make it strong. we need to start investing in people much earlier. we know at the school district when most of us have been on the school board that we see data that if behind by second grade and if you're african-american or latino, you flat line.

that's where you stay. these early investments are so important. this is why i think it's so important that office of racial equities align with the mayor vision. setting it up for success and continuing it and hopefully the office of racial equity will celebrate a 50th anniversary and tracking this all along so we can see long-term improvements, these opportunities gaps don't start when you're 15. the opportunity gap start way before and much of it generational. one last question, i think that is can you talk more about the budget equity tool whether is something we're focused on the board or designed for department and when it will be released? >> we need to start earlier.

when it comes to the budget equity assessment tool, two things. the tool will be released in december. that is part of the legislation something we'll work on with the mayor's budget office so that it's viewed within the mayor's budget instruction. there are a number of agencies that have similar tools. portland, austin, san antonio, seattle, they already had budget equity processes. i'm open to more conversation how we can connect with you as our chair of the budget finance committee to form that tool. so it's not just for departments but for the board.

it's not just something that come from us, it's something that's more collaborative in nature. for the mandate, that's due at the end of this year in december. the reason i'm creating this memo to provide a precursor of the things we would uplift in that budget assessment tool. thank you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you very much. i know it's late. let's start with public comment, please call for public comment on item number two. >> clerk: operations is checking if there are any callers in the queue. please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. if you have not already done so, please star 3 to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted.

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>> thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to support this work. i hope it goes forward on the state level. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker please.

>> good afternoon supervisors. this is carl larson. lead attorney community resource centre. we're located in district 8, the same district where live. i'm speaking on behalf of cbo and in solidarity with many nonprofit partners. we firmly believe in racial equity and we are also speaking out in strong opposition to budget cuts for community-based organizations. we are intentional to getting san francisco through covid-19 pandemic and protect the trump administration from the attack. the pandemic struck as one of the worst possible time for the community.

san francisco needs cbos to continue helping families to avoid going hungry, maintain access to the labor market and be protected from being torn apart by deportation. we are the first place many sf residents turn to in a crises. when the city shut down in march the number of families for food pantries skyrocketed. when our clients get sick with covid-19, we the first place to turn to for support. at the same time, our legal team continue providing urgent services even as the trump administration is using the pandemic as cover.

>> thank you for the opportunity to speak today. i work in san francisco mission district in community services where the coordinate san francisco legal network known as sf island. sf island is a groundbreaking collaborative between 13 organizations.

we see i.c.e. deportments is continuing including threatening to exclude immigrants. for all of these reasons, strongly urge you to invest in the agile tool like the ones we developed. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker please.

>> hello i'm the executive director, member of coalition. i want to thank tremendously the work of the office of racial equity and human rights commission for the work they have done during this covid crises. i got to say, i'm proud, very few proud that i'm proud of government. i'm really proud of what they've done because lot of people are terrified especially our seniors. they were able to bring resources, food, faces, masks to the community. it's something to be proud of. i want to say that i support the

office of racial equity and the recommendations by director finley in terms of fund is power, standard, city wide budget with racial equity framework. the black community in this country, through slavery has never been supported. jim crow, we managed to take nothing and create something amazing. even when we came here with nothing from the south during the navy ship during world war ii, we built amazing communities all around the city. this board of supervisors decided to allow for the federal and state government urban renewal. much of this is post civil rights era and modern times.

>> clerk: next speaker please. >> thank you for having us.

i'm the coordinator for it rapid response network. i'm here speaking today to advocate for no cuts for community organizations and standing in solidarity with many organizations who are being heavily impacted during this time. especially during covid.

>> thank you very much. very active in the latino task force and latin equity

coalition. we are very concerned. we are heavily impacted by covid-19 pandemic. we are like in the mission. without a spare tire and running on empty. the last thing we need is for fourth tire to be taken away. we really need investment, heavy investment into our c.b.o.s and work we're doing and essential work. i want to make a special comment on the work we're doing with the latino task force. last thursday we reached 996 people who were tested. we had a very good partnership with ucsf. we had some work that has done very well with the department of public health. we are stuck right now and we need the support of your office

to help us get the funds that we need from department of public health. we're in a very interesting place being able to really reach the families. we've got day laborers and domestic workers trained to be contact tracers to do the work that needs to be done deep in the community. we need the city to invest in this work. we will be able to have a very, very positive impact. i yield the rest of my time. thank you very much for this effort and please support more investment in our community. thanks. >> clerk: next speaker please. >> hello, i'm the senior director of college access and

success at mission graduates. during this covid crises mission graduates continue to support students and their families. we are already doing so much with so little which is inequitable. this is especially not the time to cut our funding. i ask the city and our mayor to keep all community-based organizations whole by not

cutting our budget allocation. we really just can't accept these cuts. i like to emphasize, we stand with our brothers and sisters from other systematically underserved communities. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is felicia jones on speak on behalf of the black community. i want to say first and foremost to director davis, thank you for the work that you're doing. it's not enough.

she needs more help. she needs more funding. let's be real about the black community and black san franciscans here in san francisco. we are worse than immigrants. that is not meant to be a derogatory statement but facts. when supervisor walton indicated that there was $42 million in r.f.p.s and the black community got about 2%, that's appalling. i feel that every board of supervisors who sits on the board of supervisors, you are responsible for that. there's been 55 years and black folks in san francisco, we fair worse now than we did 55 years ago. the office of racial equity was really brought forth, even though they have been many tries, it was brought forth by the disparities of black

workers. what i'm hearing is the can kick down the road. that was over two years ago that we brought to you supervisor fewer, the disparities of sitting and county black workers. nothing has been done to address it. what does the board of supervisors have tendency to do? constantly, want to have hearings. you have hearings after hearings but we're on the -- where are the outcome. you speak of covid -- >> clerk: speaker time as expired. thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. calvin quick from youth

commission again. i'm speaking on public comment on this item. youth commission supportive of office of racial equity work. >> clerk: next caller please.

>> that's i'm urging san francisco you board of supervisors to support black equity.

increase of support fo of owned business. we must hold departments accountable and their spending towards black people and black neighborhood. i stand if full support of office of racial equity. while it is true director finley is amazing and more than capable holding down any department. she is vital to our community and her mental and physical health means a lot to us. i'm hoping the office of racial

equity is adequately staffed. thank you. >> thank you having this hearing supervisors and directors and president. i'm from the tenderloin. we need to understand make-up of the community of the tenderloin we don't have a lot of black people on the census that are registered voters in the tenderloin. if you walk down the tenderloin, 18 hours of the day the tenderloin is full of black folks.

mostly young black folks. only skill they have is able to roll a blunt. i understand it's a heck of budget situation this year. i understand more than anybody. i like to go with that line that was money involved when the manager, they said you need to do better with the money you already got. we can do that but we got to change the parameters of these r.f.p.s. i rather give 100% effort to 20 people than 10% effort to 100

people.

>> immigrant community has been disproportionately living crises. our community is unemployed, they are hungry, sick and dying. teams are-- families are increasing domestic violence, child abuse and depression. we all know you have hard challenges to make ahead. i believe the true fairness and equity is about helping those in our society. we ask that you please prevent the cuts to the community based organizations. there are many. we want you to be on the right side of history. thank you for your time.

>> my comments are in regards to supporting racial equity in the budget. holding departments accountable in their spending towards black people and black neighborhoods. also, supporting the black seniors, disabled and unhoused folks, there's so much that has been going on for so long and we've been neglected and left out and not had a feet at the table to make decisions on our own community future. that power needs to go back into our hand. we can do this together. we can make our own decisions

and decide what's best for our community. we've been living it and we know what's best. continue to support the office of racial equity, to continue to highlight this work. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. thank you for holding this space and this meeting. i appreciate that presentation. i'[indiscernible]

immigrant community is not a -- just yesterday department of homeland security that the federal government will openly override supreme court of the united states. it's critical time to sustain

service. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. [speaking foreign language]

>> i'm on going to summarize who the speaker said. she's a volunteer and also a participant in one of the organizations, c.o.b.s. she helps distribute services and also receives them. she would like to ask that looking -- community needs more opportunities in leadership so that the city can continue to provide services to these agencies. they need not just opportunities

for families but also for -- to meet all the needs that has covid presented to the city. they would like to see a higher budget to support c.b.o.s to support more resources and to support all of the families that are in dire need now. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker please. >> hi. i'm a homeless youth in san francisco. i think that i'm in agreement with everything that's been stated by finley in the sense that we need economic justice in the form of help black communities, black workers and

black and immigrants that have been coming here and continue support and office of racial equity support. not only just with covid but with their abilities with testing and mask and increase in funds to help continue to give the correct outcome in the communities that matter and continue to support rest of our nation. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> my name is francisco. we have been doing the work that we have to do. for example right now we have two doctors, women doctors doing

monitoring. you really have to look at this is that we actually have representation. the chinese community for example, that is suffering from -- lot of them dying. children who need help, infants need help. black elders need help. they go in the restroom to take

a shower. they take a power towel and dab themselves. we talk about equity. fairness and justice and we have people who are employed by the city and they do no hiring. i want to see who can deliver. you can talk the talk, you cannot walk the walk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker please.

>> san francisco is a very diverse population with a lot of needs. there's a lot of different communities with special needs, cultural needs, etcetera. there's a need to reach out to them. however, there's a real problem in san francisco with nonprofits. no offense to anyone here, there are many good nonprofits. i have personal experience with nonprofits i had experience with not so good nonprofits which are basically grant mills if you will.

how will our funds -- how does one determine the need? [indiscernible] how does one determine who racial equity, who needs certain -- who needs what? i think there's a lot of things i don't quite understand.

>> clerk: speaker time has expired. next speaker please. >> hello, i'm calling to talk about community i represent. i represent the latino community. i'm calling on behalf of the san francisco latino equity coalition also the nonprofit organization that i work for, good samaritan family resource centre. i want to thank for offering the space to hear us. the immigrant community is definitely by definition, a

vulnerable population. for this reason, we like to implore that there are no budget cuts or the c.b.o.s, that are helping this population. we would not be able to alleviate the struggle and the suffering in this city it it weren't for all the many c.b.o.s that are on the ground and are essential workers, first responders who -- through this crises. we need to continue to plan for fund recovery to our community and ensure that our vulnerable and highly impacted population with recover from covid-19. our community is currently

facing a crises on top of previous crises. immigrants no wonder to anyone that this is current administration has been on full attack on the latino community and the immigrant community and in particular. our coalition was formed -- >> clerk: thank you for your comments. >> hi i'm i'm a long time resident of the o.m.i. serving o.i.m. residents. i'm tired angry and frustration about the misallocation of funds. we do not get our fair share in the o.m.i.

i encourage the board of supervisors to support black equity in the city budget to trust community to speak for themselves. we know what's best. , hold departments accountable in the spending towards black people and black neighborhoods, to dismantle anti-blackness in city spending, historical budgets that didn't change up. to uplift all black neighborhoods and basic city services, social service, better infrastructure, housing, healthcare to provide towards black owned businesses and black-led agencies to uplift the most vulnerable in our community and our community. black seniors to youth, families, pregnant and mothering. unhoused, lgbtq and especially our trans community and support the work that the office of racial equity is doing and to continue to highlight this work. in these times of extreme racial

and economic equality must move beyond normal in our covid recovery and follow the lead of black lives by centring black in new policy institutions. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you ms. brown. next speaker please. >> happy birthday president yee. thank you chair fewer and supervisor walton, director finley and director davis. this is monique, i'm a proud san francisco resident.

after decades of broken promises from the black and african-american communities mayor breed challenged her partners to listen and act. it led to stark disparities in the black community has been talked about for years. she said this is the first time i feel confident they are taken seriously. i support this speakers who have spoken so far who are asking not to be left behind. we ust remember that the legacies of racism pit up against each other.

this conversation is about black and african-american folks and five decades of ongoing broken promises and underresources communities people agencies and san francisco government. i urge to dismantle anti-black racism and support black owned agencies and black owned businesses and community. i ask you to uplift the most vulnerable and understand the intersections of our community, black seniors, youth, family, pregnant and mother and people and our lgbtq community. support office of racial equity to continue to highlight this important work and dismantle anti-black racism in our city. please don't let this opportunity pass us by. [please stand by]

>> we have a great opportunity to make a difference in the lives of so many people who so desperately need support. san francisco has the opportunity of forthing a path towards racial equity that can be an example across the country. i support the office and hope you will continue to support the office also. >> thank you for your comments. >> we currently have 30 listeners on the line and six in the queue. if you have not done so please

call the number on the screen. with that next caller please. >> hi, everyone. good afternoon all present. executive director a community based legal aid agency. i speak on behalf of our collaborative agencies. and i want to express my solidarity and our organization's solidarity with the black lives matter movement and all black lives in san francisco. we stand with the black community in this moment and

going forward in the new civil rights age that we are in. i'd like to speak out in strong opposition to budget cuts that may be impacting our community based organization. i also wanted to add a nuance to what other speakers have said. we're located in the mission in district eight and many of our clients are from the latina community, i wanted to add the nuance and additional information that we do serve immigrants from the african continent just in the past 12 months i successfully represented a west african woman fleeing a country and won her case at the san francisco asylm office. we do that despite the fact that

our attorneys are bo bilingual d spanish speaking. we have a wonderful net work advocating. we also mentor attorneys of color. >> speaker time has expired. thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hey, everyone. i am the executive director of horizons unlimited a non-profit bordering districts nine and ten. we like to say we belong to both. we provide support to youth and

families of color. new horizons is a member of many initiatives and coalitions charged with racial equity. we work on the ground everyday. as you know the latin and black community have been hit hardest by this pandemic. essential workers are keeping this community up and running. there needs to be ample resources to carry out the work.

we are the lifeline. many of the families don't qualify for government benefits and assistance. they are literally in hiding that has been brought on by the administration and policy that were never meant to work for us that has been built on the backs of our people. the community was in crisis before this pandemic hit. if this pa pandemic has done anything has exposed the inequity in our city. >> speaker time has expired. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello?

i'm a cofounder of black workers unite as well as the advisor of the san francisco and aa c p euj council. i'm here to thank director davis for her work for the office of race and equity. i support it. i want to echo that this office of race and equity came out of black workers. there was a hearing in 2018. we haven't had a hearing since. nothing has changed. the work force came out in 2020. it was worse than before. the disparity is wider. that needs to be addressed asess well. black workers. we are here on the front lines in all these departments.

we are not getting equality or economic justice. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. i'm hoping they continue the work tha>> i'm calling to say, e disparity my entire life. i lived the pandemic my entire life. my grandmother being displaced because of gentrification. me going to prison, graduating high school, barely being able to read third grade level and

the other disparities in our community. i'm happy to be able to lift myself up by my boot straps and move forward. many don't get the opportunity i got to be successful. i'm standing with the black community to be prosperous and move on. i've fought for the guidance and voice for the black community. it seems like our voice has been muted. at this point please do not mute our voices or drown our voices out. we have been living a pandemic before covid 19. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> hello. >> hello. we hear you caller. >> hi. i was born and raised in san francisco here. i'm a black business owner. i want to say that i am in support of the office of racial equity.

we need to hold departments accountable because we have literally been starving all across the board. also we need more support for black owned businesses and black led organizations. i'm a black business owner and my business has been around for seven years. it was extremely hard for me to get a loan. i have colleague that's are black business owners as well. it has been like pulling teeth to try to get a loan. we have credit scores and everything in place for years of experience. but it's just been hard for us. we're pillars in our community. we have been struggling. i fully stand behind the office of racial equity and the black

community and we need to make sure that whatever funds are going out are going to the community for people that have their ears to the ground. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to provide public comment. i'm a rez de resident of distri. i'm a community organizer and activist in the mission. i stand in solidarity with the black community. that they have all levels of equity in justice and the government. during this crisis i have seen a net work of community

organizations responding to the needs of both black and brown communities so they receive the proper care and have their basic needs met. i have seen people rally together. through the partnerships that the city has been able to respond the way that it has to this crisis. i ask that if you really believe in racial equity that there is no cause in any c bos that are in our vu vulnerable communitie. and those disproportionately effected by covid 19. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> my name is barbara thompson. i want to thank director c h da. you work for the good of the area. i really appreciate what you are doing. if you need my help, you have my number, please call me. thank you. love you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you. i'm a resident of san francisco. i'd like to express solidarity with those who have spoken before me. i strongly oppose the proposed

budget cuts for community based organizations. community based organizations are essential to community based strategy. san francisco non-profit service providers face many challenges. one of the problem ss is adequae funding. thin these unprecedented times e need more support and i urge you to uplift the most vulnerable communities. thank you so much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> i'm a member of the sf

coalition. i stand in solidarity with the black community. the budget will not only effect our organization but a whole net work of community organizations that are working hard to provide services to close gaps in inequities that include race, gender, sexual orientation just to name a few. even prior to covid 19 immigrant and black and brown communities were hurting the system inequities and now more than ever they need resources to get

through these unprecedented times. we urge you not to not propose cuts to these organizations. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> thank you board of supervisors and director davis. i'm director of the american resource center. we represent central american descendants as well. i think that one of the ir issus when we talk about this-

>> thank you for your comments sm next speakercomments.next sp. >> i'm calling on behalf of the latino task force.

i wanted to share what has been shared by the community on this call around maintaining new cuts to our community based organizations that are providing essential services and a safety net service that has been impacted by this public health crisis. our community is experiencing due to this pandemic. maintaining also the inadequate resources to our community based prproviders during the response

and recovery of covid 19. also stress the importance of maintaining a community driven approach and making decisions and resource decisions with community interest in mind. listening to those that have that lived experience that are closest to the solutions and issues, supporting and fostering self dpermings fo determination. >> speaker's time has expired. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. i'm a native san francis can. francis can.isato san francisc k

residents of our city. we have to have services for them. we have to uplift all black neighborhoods with basic services. infrastructure, health care, housing. we have to support these businesses and institutions.

i want to thank director davis and everyone for their effort. for once i feel inspired to be alongside my colleagues and supporting african american fufunding and be a part of the change. for so long we've seen what's happening and talking about it now is finally happening. i'm just so elated to just be on the front lines and director davis, you can call me anytime.

my sleeve rs are rolled up and ready to go. i appreciate all the work that you guy rz doing. see you guys soon. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. before we call the next caller. right now we have two left in the queue. if you wish to participate on this call, i suggest you call the number that's scrolling across your screen, otherwise we will run this comment out. next caller, please. >are you still around?

>> hello? >> speaker, please begin. > i'm sorry, operations, did we lose that caller? >> still there but i will go back to that caller. >> okay. >> we'll go to the next caller. >> hello. i run an organization in the tender loin district. we only have three maybe four founders and directors of

organizations in the community. i'm one of them. i've been dealing with this. they rely on us. we have to figure out how to run our organizations on shoe string budgets. we have to figure ou

out-[indiscernible]. i've been doing this for nine years. i want to put our voices out there.

>> (speaking foreign language).

>> good afternoon. i'm a member of the community. i also do out reach with our community and i have worked with many city organizations bu orgae now crucial to the community to provide many resources for which many families don't have anyone

else to turn to. i'm asking this community that is struck with the obligation obligation-i'm asking this community that is charged with the obligation of allocating the budget, please do not cut any of the assistance that they have for the c bo's that help all of the family nz mies in my commund help many undocumented people. i'm asking you to keep us in mind. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon.

i'm the director of policy and advocacy. we're one of the member organizations of the san francisco latino equity coalition. i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today. i whole heartedly stand with the speakers. covid 19 has only made the suffering and inequities more visible. our community has been and continues to be the targets of

political scapegoating. this is not the time to cut the budgets of those that serve the many community based organizations i work with. we plan recovery for communities that are all vulnerable and can recover from covid 19. thank you for this opportunity and thank you for this hearing. >> thank you for your comments. operations are there anymore

speakers? >> thank you. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. please begin. >> i'm the coordinator of the task force. i would like to thank director davis and all the work that has been done. what if anything we receive as a latino community we demand that the african american community receive and more. i want to-their data shows that

latinos are 50% of covid positive cases. we have not received one cent from dph. ensure the testing success of completing-we have a psyche coordinator that has not been paid for the past four weeks. our community wellness teams have not been funded. we provide mlvs medical assistance graduates to manage street traffic and lines of hundreds of people and coordinate other volunteers. we've spent our own money with no reimbursement in sight. we've bought canopies, chairs, pens, highlighters. i'm calling out dph.

they are aware. i'm not being hypocritical. the committee has let them know. we're being punished for doing a good job. where is the equity- >> speaker's time has expired. thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> chair, that completes queue. >> okay. thank you very much speakers. public comment is now closed on item number two. i see none of my colleagues in the queue. i think they join me in saying thank you very much from the office of racial equity. and also to the directors, thank you for all your work. colleagues, i'd like it make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair as we may need to call them back for more guidance. and so if i may, i'd like to

make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair- >> chair, before we act on that motion. we still need to excuse president yee. >> yes, can i make a motion to excuse president lee and can i get a second please. >> second. >> (roll call). >> thank you very much. i would now like to make a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. can i get a second. >> second. >> roll call vote, please.

>> on the motion for this to be continued to the call of the chair. (roll call). >> thank you very much. anymore business for us today? >> that concludes our business, madam chair. >> we are adjourned. thank you, everybody.>> i'm dise

leadership of the department of public health flattened the curve in san francisco. the steps we have taken together have saved lives. one of the reasons the city acted so quickly so early was to not overburden our health care systems. as the state of california and

bay area counties have begun to gradually reopen, we are seeing some troubling signs. we have a seven day average of ninety eight new cases per day. our demand for acute care for covid positive patients has goan each week. today dr. and i are announcing the establishment of our first low acuity medical site. located a 163.

it will open with twenty patients. it's not expected to treat covid positive patients. when i starred this i facility i was truly impressed at the first rate medical facility. the city's ability to confront covid 19 depends on our ability to care for those with all manner of conditions. sprained angels to heart