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[roll call] the first order of business is general public comment. this is for any agenda item that is not on our regular agenda. everyone has two minutes to speak. >> good evening president bleiman, i'm checking there are no hands raised and there's no comments in the chat. >> president bleiman: next meeting agenda item is number two, approval of our minutes for january 5, 2021 meeting. >> i move approval of the

minutes. >> second. >> president bleiman: any public comment on the approval of our minutes? hearing none, public comment is closed. we can have a vote test. [roll call vote] >> president bleiman: all right. the meeting minutes have been approved. the next agenda item is number three, which is a report from executive director weiland. >> hi commissioners, good evening. i hope you're having a good night and have a good three-day weekend. today for my update i wanted to reserve some time just in case there were updates to the bill. which is now being called

shuttered venue operators grant release program. it was approved in december 2020 and again just reminder, allocated $15 billion to the s.b.a. to launch this program. under the program, s.b.a. will provide grants up to 45% of gross revenue earned during 2019. for $10 million to support live entertainment and promoters performing arts organizations, museums and movie theater operators. applications are not yet available. we're waiting everyday to get updates. the s.b.a. is developing guidance and rules around

implementation. their first webinar was brief and held on 14th. it's now post to our social media if you want to watch it for the first time. that webinar we were told that more information will be forthcoming soon. they're working on that implementation. once it's launched, the plan -- work with s.b.a. staff and continues to support those folks with technical assistance throughout the application process. one other note on s.o.s. because the program will prioritize awarding grants to small employers and those businesses experiencing the largest percentage decline in revenue, we know it's critical for local businesses to have access to the

application information and the assistance as soon as possible. we'll continue to check those if you're logging in today to watch. one other note for you all, on the director's report updates around emergency response relative to covid-19. just withholding something here for this announcement that came last week from the mayor regarding large vaccination sites. those have now been announced. high volume -- vaccine sites. they were chosen communities where they are in. there's one sonoma. city colleges, san francisco

main campus and one in the bay view s.f. market. more information will be forthcoming about all of that. i wanted to flag anybody that's listening that there was also an update today from mayor breed creating the city's web page for folks that live and work in san francisco to get more information about the vaccine once it's available. you can get notifications based on the information that you submit about who you are and how old you are and what you do for work. if you go to sf.org/vaccine notify. no changes or updates to the health order too. that's it. let me know if you have any questions. >> president bleiman: anybody have any questions?

>> i do. i saw a memo that they are asking some of the larger entertainment venues that they were possibly available for vaccine sites. is that still a need or is that -- >> not that i heard of. do you know who the memo is from? >> it was passed around in the sf independent venue coalition. >> okay, no. i'm not aware of that. i know of the three chosen sites. however, i will note that very early on in the pandemic, we did send over to d.p.h. our list of access for any purposes they may be needed for. that is on their radar if they

need to expand. we'll keep you posted. >> president bleiman: any other questions? i don't have any questions either. any public comment? >> there are no hands raised. there are no chats in the comments. >> president bleiman: we'll close public comment. we'll move on to our next item. it's number 4. which is b.o.s. file number attorney, san francisco music entertainment venue recovery fund. >> i would like to introduce this item for you all. also, dylan, if could bring in

honey mahogany. >> i brought in honey. commissioner perez just joined moments ago. >> great, welcome commissioner. just in time. honey, before you get going, i wanted to note for commissioners just a reminder, if you need any further background staff review of this ordinance that honey will be talking about. that's all on your google drive. dylan did a great job putting together a review for all of you. for this item, you'll hear from honey and you'll have a chance to ask questions and discuss amongst yourselves if you want to direct staff to take any further action on this item. honey, before you go, i will read out the actual title of the ordinance. this is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the san francisco music and entertainment venue recovery fund. provide grants to certain music

entertainment venue who's been impacted by the covid-19 emergency and sponsored by supervisor haney along with supervisors walton and safai. thank you for joining us today. i'll let you take it from here. >> thanks director weiland and president bleiman and commissioners. i know that i'm speaking little bit to the choir here. as you all know, the music and entertainment industry has been impacted by this pandemic. entertainment establishments were among the first to close and will most definitely among the last to reopen. many of them have not been open at all, have had no reprieve

during shelter-in-place orders during march. we know that this is a huge issue. san francisco venues have been ringing their alarm about this for a long time. many are worried they will not survive in a post-pandemic world. which is still months away even with the beginning of the distribution of the vaccine. according to a survey in may of 2020, nearly half of the entertainment and nightlife businesses, including bars, music venues and night clubs were highly concerned that their businesses would need to close permanently. at the time more than half of these establishments reported having lost between 75% and 100% of their business income. it has been half a year since that completed.

since then things have become even more weak. san francisco had lost venues rock venue, the stud, san francisco oldest lgbt venue and mezzanine, one of san francisco's only women owned night club. this trend of closures is particularly troubling given the importance of these venues to be economic vitality of our city. nightlife generate $72 billion a year and create over 63,000 jobs which generates estimated $80 million annually in payroll for the city. all of of this can be lost if music and entertainment venues don't receive the resources they need in order to survive the pandemic. thankfully, congress has included the act.

that is the easier one to remember, s.o.s. it's included in the aid package at $16 billion of direct aid. we know this federal funding isn't going to be available for a while. i don't think applications are projected to even become to open up until april. if previous aid packages are any indicator of what the rollout would look like, for many venues, these funds are going likely be insufficient and prevent their permit closure and also become too little and too late. that's why supervisor haney worked with advocates and stakeholders to introduce legislation to create the san francisco music and recovery fund. which was introduced at the special meeting of the board of supervisors.

the fund shall benefit entertainment venues and give priority based on list of qualification including business status and venue size. grant request must be for rent, mortgage, payroll and security property taxes liability, insurance and utility costs. there's variety of other things we put in there to make sure this money is going to the venues that need it the most. i'm happy to answer any question about that moving forward. thank you for your time. >> if i might start off. i want to thank you and supervisor haney for really recognizing what important cultural and economic assets nightlife and entertainment businesses are for our city. i know that you've been long

involved in san francisco lgbt nightlife and establishment. i'm sure you played a big role in advocate in this. i'm grateful for that. i think for me, the biggest question is the legislation in reading, i didn't really see what the source of the funding or how it will be secured. i want to hear more details about that and how we can help. >> sure. we did get a recommendation from the small business commission to put $1.5 million city funding there. we have not yet identified the exact source. we're exploring different ones. we have couple of options that we're looking at. we've spoken to the controller and we have conversations with the mayor's budget office. we know that mayor introduced a package to help businesses in san francisco. we are definitely committed to

finding decent amount of money from city funds to put towards this. then the idea is to have some private funds also raised to help fund for the private sector. >> so glad to hear that. thanks honey. >> we don't really have kind of time frame yet. do you think we might -- the city will be lot quicker than the feds? >> yeah. i think so. we do have little bit update on the timeline. it will be heard budget committee not next week but the week after on the third. hopefully we will also be able to introduce funding source before then and that's the case, i do believe before april we

should get things rolling. >> do you know exactly what kind of fundraiser they want the independent venues want to do? >> we talked to -- i talk to couple of different folks from both the independent venues association and alliance and san francisco venue coalition. folks are looking to crowd surf and use their individual e-mail contacts to research out -- reach out to richer people that come to their establishment. i don't know if there's a rollout plan. this is an on going conversation. >> thanks.

>> i have a question. thank you, honey for your work and thanks to the supervisor as well for your work on this. we know you know that ins and outs of this business as well as anyone. thank you for stepping up on this. one of the things that i know that happened with previous loans and grants and so on, i want to -- i don't know if there's way to look at it. ensuring that if venues are getting payroll covered, they're actually using that money for payroll and in terms of the staff and the employees of the venues. they are part of where these

resources are going. i don't know if that is possible to do certainly we want venues to get their rent and mortgage covered as well. just given the dire straits that lot of staff and employees are figuring out how this money can be helpful to the staff as well as to the venue owners. >> that's a really good comment. i will take that into conversation. i'm not sure how that will be tracked. that's something we can talk to the office of small business about. >> the funds are discretionary or is it leaning towards employees, is it mainly for back rent. employees probably gotten unemployment but the venue owners have not gotten any

relief on their obligations on paying the rent. is there any restrictions about this money has to go to payroll like other loans? can it be pretty much whatever the priority is? >> yeah. this is specifically grants. it can be go towards payroll that is one of the things it can go toward. can go towards rent, mortgage, unsecured property taxes, liability insurance and security costs. i think one message that we got loud and clear is that every venue operate differently. we didn't want to make it too narrow. definitely it's not restrictive like the p.p.p. loans for example. >> okay, great. >> president bleiman: anymore questions from anyone?

i'm not seeing any. i want to echo what commissioner wang said. big thank you. i know supervisor haney -- one of the foundation of his campaign from day one was to support nightlife. i know you are kind of a nightlife legend in san francisco. one of the owners of the stud and also prominent figure in our nightlife culture here. at this time, when our venues are so desperate and really on a razor edge here and things could really go in a really bad direction. for them, your willingness to step up and do something is really appreciated. i'm thrilled about it.

obviously, we've worked little bit together on this as well. the other thing, again, echoing commissioner wang, this idea that our venues are special. they add something truly special to our community. i think it's something worth mentioning over and over again. i'm an advocate for small business in san francisco. i think every small business is an incredible gem. there's something truly special about venues where people get together and they gather for cultural and art and all these other reasons whether it's what you like to do on a friday night or who you identify as.

i'm going to echo one more time commissioner wang. what can we do individually or as a body to help with this process? >> one of our things that we have been hearing from lot of the venues, we know how incredible $60 million package by the mayor and really important to small businesses. to make sure that this is still moving money awarded to venue funds should be little bit more for venues. that $5000 to $20,000 for venues

have high overhead cost will not make much impact. they're in need of more money in addition to if they get money through the other grants or if they get loan. i think anything you can do to make sure that we are doing both, that is not one or the other, will be great. if you could do a resolution in support of the funds, acknowledging its importance in addition to other city efforts that are ongoing and really great and also in addition to the fund. that will be important for everyone to hear. we want to make sure that this doesn't get lost and that it isn't assume that it isn't needed. venues are struggling here. they need the extra support.

>> thank you. >> president bleiman: any other questions for honey? >> great job. >> thank you. >> president bleiman: thank you for coming. we appreciate it. open it to public comment. if there's anybody. >> right now there are no comments in the chat. >> president bleiman: go ahead and close public comment and let honey go with her night. thank you again for coming. we appreciate it. we will discuss as a commission hopefully how to support this effort. thank you so much. >> thanks everybody. happy to be here. >> president bleiman: let me

find my view. next agenda item is number five. which is report from deputy director kaitlyn azevedo. >> did you want us to finish off that item with further discussion or action? >> president bleiman: we can do that with the agenda item that we have for that now? >> it's a discussion and action item. >> president bleiman: okay. i personally would like to propose that we -- in the next meeting, we -- can we do resolution tonight? >> i could direct staff to send a letter of support and if you all voted in favor of it, we put in that vote whatever the vote was.

>> so we can have a discussion here? >> right. it can be a letter of support if that's what you want to do. >> president bleiman: personally that's something i'm interested in. i love to hear from the rest of the commission on it. >> i would echo that. that was part of of what honey identified that we could do was do a resolution a letter i'm fine whatever little bit faster in terms of getting to budget and finance. i feel like, this is exactly what we know industry has been

asking for and be very much in line with the better that we sent to the board of supervisors asking for exactly this. i think we should send in -- i will echo -- we should ask staff to put together a letter expressing our strong support for this as a commission and send it to the members of the budgets and finance committee as well as the rest of the board of supervisors. i will make that as a motion. >> i'd be willing to second that. >> president bleiman: anybody else have thoughts or comments they want to make on this? >> is that the time to discuss some of the recommendations in terms of defining our role in supporting the administration of this was in the memo?

>> if you wanted to where we would essentially send the letter of support along with like staff consideration. at this point, i can copy and paste what we put in there, which is like four different sections or if there's things that you want to see changed in that, that's what you want to discuss right now out of those four items within that memo. i'm happy to go over those with you guys if you want. >> i want top say thank you for this memo. it was a really helpful overview in terms of what we could do and what the issues and considerations were. thank you. >> i agree. all the items that you recommended i think are really

good suggestions. i would sign on to. i wonder if i can add, once this fund is up and running, if there's more proactive outreach we can do to the cultural district. i know some of the other organizations -- i know with the p.p.p. loans it end up being the largest players in the industry that got access. i want to make sure some of the smaller operators get the information to them. >> proactive outreach to cultural districts. did you say c.b.d.s. >> sure. amendment alliance and the

nightlife fund. >> happy to add that in. is that a friendly amendment to commissioner thomas's motion? >> yes. >> i think we got that. >> president bleiman: is there any other comments? i will open up for public comment one more time. i think i pulled the trigger too quickly before. apologies for that. >> there's no hands raised. no comments. happy to flash the information again on the screen. >> president bleiman, my motion still stand with the friendly amendment. my second to the motion.

>> president bleiman: we're not seeing public comment. we'll close that and vote. [roll call vote] so moved. we will forward that along. thank you very much everybody for your work on this. now we can move on to the next one. now we are on deputy director, kaitlyn azevedo. >> good evening commissioners. i don't have much exciting news to report out to you all about our enforcement report. we have received one complaint

since our last hearing. [indiscernible] you will see in the enforcement report that was uploaded to the google drive that it was for business on fillmore street. there was no music being heard. it was something on the street or passing by. aside from that, we are not receiving sound complaints, which is a good thing. i'm happy to answer any questions if there are any. >> president bleiman: questions? i don't have any questions. is there any public comment on this agenda item? >> there are no hands raise. no comments from the chat.

>> president bleiman: we'll close public -- comment on this agenda item. thanks again. >> next agenda item is number 6, discussion of possible action to adopt written comments and or recommendations to be submitted by the director to the planning department or department of building inspection regarding noise issues for proposed residential projects for chapter 116 of the administrative code. i will ask senior inspector antonio sevino to introduce the project. >> i'm please to share my first residential development review project with you this evening. the proposed project at 159 sells -- fell street would

demolish. there's one place of entertainment within 300 feet of the development, independent live music venue next to this project. project sponsor received no opposition that we are acquire . project sponsor also conducted sound study on a weekend prior to shelter-in-place that measured in calculated multiple sound sources including sound coming from riskshaw stop. staff reviewed the project

document located in the document one for this item in the google drive. i'm happy to go over those recommendations if you have any questions. here tonight to present on behalf of the project sponsor and answer any questions is jeff gibson, partner with windsor gibson architects. >> hi commissioners. great to see you. thank you for figuring out how to do these hearings virtually. i'll do a screen share and give you info about the project. it's on fell street. it's immediately adjacent to the rickshaw stop. it's a quiet block of fell street.

my client and developer purchased this building back in the fall of 2019. he was in contract on the property we looked into a number of different issues and one of which was the adjacency to the rickshaw stop. we want to make sure we weren't going to have an awkward or difficult relationship with them. this developer worked with a lot of times. he's very into understanding the community and the lay of the land. even before finalizing the purchase, he spoke with noah kincade and christopher white over at the rickshaw stop just to understand their business and what they thought about it developed next door. they were supportive of it. provided we had soundproofing issues. it's been a good relationship with them from the beginning.

i think most importantly, they knew that this was coming. they had a chance really early on to tell it's if they thought there will be an issue. we had a chance not purchase the property if we thought it would be insurmountable. as we progressed forward, i'll give you a brief outline of the design of the building, we're taking down this little two-story former auto shop. we're putting up a 7-story building. this is the rickshaw stop adjacent. tony, you had in your description, you had little bit of the old project description. it actually changed in response talking with planning. we're going to have retail on the ground floor. we have no parking in the building. we have some service things in the basement. we had office space on the second floor.

planning wasn't into the office programming there. we put some lofts units there and then five-story conventional. it's going to be seven stories, six which are residential. these lowest two stories, this building construction type, the lowest two stories are concrete construction. they are very heavy weight, robust concrete construction and then it's five floor wood frame construction above. that's actually relevant because the two heavy concrete floors also have quality to them and they are the floors that's adjacent to the rickshaw stop. that's kind of the lay of the land with our building. knowing that we're adjacent to place of entertainment, i will

interject, i spent long time being a d.j. i love our city, basically. we really wanted to make sure that we weren't going to be crushing rickshaw stop vibe at all. they always have to do environmental noise studies for residential buildings. we said it to them, we want to pick up on the worse case scenario what's going on at the rickshaw stop. good communication and direct contact with noah. we said, let's look at your calendar. this is all before covid came down. this is in late 2019 and early between 20. let's look at your calendar. we picked heavy dub night. what's going to be the most intense kind of show that you

have on a typical annual basis. we had made sure csda set up their monitors over that time frame over that weekend. we diagrammed that and they really tray to account for the sound that was coming out of the rickshaw stop. this is a chart showing the sound coming out. you can literally see when the gig is. i feel like we have a good relationship with the rickshaw stop. csda has given us their recommendations to make sure we're mitigating sounds on our side of the property line for the window types, the sec ratings. all things are achievable.

we have new windows, we know how to bill the wall. i feel that we can really mitigate any sound issues quite well and not in the least be pushing rickshaw stop to turn down the volume. it's a boone for this building. it's going to be -- those are parkingless units. we're going to be marketing as their lifestyle units. it's exciting to be beside the rickshaw stop. last piece, in addition to talking to the rickshaw stop, i don't see any issues there. i wanted to talk with them since they're a real stakeholderrer in

the neighborhood. kind of just community outreach we've done. we've done general neighborhood notification and not have any real opposition to the project at this point. i guess that's my rundown. this is first time i presented before this commission. if i've missed some information, it's useful for you guys, please ask me whatever questions you have. >> commissioner perez: i have a quick question. hi jeffrey, thank you for coming in. my question given the ground floor is a retail space that potentially that could have one off entertainment possibly.

do you have any plans about mitigating sound or sound mitigation between the floors and the one directly above it? >> that's something we'll have to address. there are code requirements within the building. csda were giving us their advice on that. as low as two levels are all concrete construction. that heavy concrete slab at the retail level, automatically gets us pretty good rating. we had to do a lot beyond that honestly. it's something we'll pay attention. >> the windows that are facing

the club and i'm pretty sure you maxed out the standard, did you -- trying to get back to the file but it's closed now. i'm going by memory. are you able to increase the soundproofing on those front windows little bit more? when people come outside at 2:00, there's people noise. we get lot of complaints sometimes at 2:00 when people are leaving. >> that's a really good point. i will work with csda on their recommendation. there's a decent amount of environmental noise in that area anyway. sort of spillover freeway noise, traffic on van ness. there are probably some additional factors already there that have bumped up the fcc

requirements. all units will have mechanical ventilation. that air quality in that immediate area is really great. running your mechanical ventilation system is a better idea. >> the interior design, they're just open windows. these are condos or they rentals? >> they will probably be condos. >> that's kind of up to the person to put the drapery up. sometimes draperies kind of tend to block the noise as well. if you guys were providing

curtains, i guess the windows are little bit better than norm, it should help. >> i think that will be sufficient. we'll probably leave the window treatment to the individual owners. >> that's really all i have. just make sure you have good outside lighting. that's my pet peeve. thank you. >> this is pretty much adjacent to the rickshaw stop. >> it is. we're going to inset 6 inches.

our property line wall are not actually on the property line. they won't be in contact at all with rickshaw walls. 6 inches isn't a lot of space. avoiding that physical contact is really helpful for avoiding the transmission through there. >> usually, they are within 300 feet. but not directly. i'm all about development. we need to do this all over town. i'm about making sure that the people moving in next door to existing venue have fair warning and know what they're getting into. >> we have those recorded statements. the adjacent to rickshaw stop

will be part of marketing. we're not hiding this from anyone. we're going to play it up. >> you don't need to do any more than you need to do? [indiscernible] often for us, we're the ones who have deal with it once everything settles and gone away. all i would do, base travel somehow, like a mystery and travel some things. i would just ask that you guys take a look at anything mitigate base down between the building and they're not touching it. anything that can be done, might

lead to everyone having a better experience. are you planning on -- there a group you represent planning on owning the build in perpetuity? >> no, he usually does condos. it dependen what's going on with the market. typically he sells. these are probably condos. i think heightens the issue. now you have 20 or 24 different homeowners instead of one. it also -- it standard to which condos are built are usually a higher standard than apartments. the market demands it. >> that makes sense. the law is the law. follow the law, they sign away their ability to complain, essentially. that doesn't necessarily stop

them. we want -- if there is anything that you and the group can do that's above and beyond, we would ask that, especially in this situation. this one feels more trepidation than others. >> definitely. one of the things that csda is really big on is obviously, it's like inspections during construction. you can detail something but if it's not built exactly right, they believe they find mysterious way around. step one is the environmental testing and detailing things and independenting them prop -- inspecting them properly. as the buildings are wrapping up, csda will come back in and pick a night that rickshaw stop is up

playing loud. if the building is not performing the way it supposed to be performing, we're going to have to figure out how to mitigate that. it's really important that we have checks and balances along the way. [indiscernible] >> our goal are the same as your goals. our goal is to keep rickshaw stop in business and our goal is to keep residents happy and not complaining. >> president bleiman: other comments? thanks for coming in. appreciate it. next up is public comment.

>> there's nobody in the queue waiting to speak. there are no chats. >> president bleiman: i will close public comment. i have one more question before you go. what was your d.j. name? >> [indiscernible] yeah, back in the day. thanks guys. >> president bleiman: thanks a lot for presenting. >> take care. >> president bleiman: next agenda item is number 7 -- >> president bleiman, did you want to take an action on that one too to send that to planning

with the staff recommendation? we have action items on the agenda today. >> president bleiman: i'm caught off guard. sorry. yes, can you remind us what the action before this recommendation with staff? >> exactly. unless you want to make any amendments to the staff rec. which are in the file for the r.d.r. item. it's the first item in the folder. it's a memo. >> i will be happy to make a motion if you would like president bleiman. >> president bleiman: we have a motion.

is there a second? >> i second. >> my motion specifically is to accept the staff's recommendations and ask can the staff submit comments to planning department and department of building inspection with staff recommendations. [roll call vote] >> president bleiman: now we can move on to the next one. the next item is number 7, which is new business request for future agenda items.

this is our newest regular standing item on the agenda that we can use to recommend anything that we feel the commission should look at or explore going forward. if there's anything that comes to mind. >> just a thought. what about anything that we can do to help with prop h reform? with some of the permit processing or anything like that. >> commissioners that's a good idea. both deputy director acevedo has been participating in the working group among staff in the city. we are launching this coming week, we're ready to roll. the planning department is the one leading this effort and has been working with all the

permitting agency. our role is pretty minor. we issued operational permit and after the fact after they go through the building process that we know. we're ready to go. >> when you guys want to do offline, i want to give you some experience of going through the process. may be there's ways you can take that information and may be help streamline the process. i think that will be helpful.

>> sure. we can do -- we can invite someone from planning to present on this prop h implementation and you can discuss when you have more information. >> or we can talk about the information first and then bring planning. what a person goes through when they have to open or build a venue of any sort. >> i am very aware of the those stories. there's so many business owners in it city.

>> director weiland thank you so much for staying involved with that prop h. on the same permitting topic, we could put a pen in for later, we have lot of short-term things to deal with but not letting this opportunity go by while we have less regulatory work is looking at how we can do more streamlining advocate for more streamlining on the regulatory side. just making it easier and paving wait for recovery lot of these small businesses in the post-covid climate. to business owners, artists and performers. >> that's a great idea. it inspires a little bit more

education from -- just lot of the efforts going on behind the scenes of wanting to streamline all of these processes and some of the ideas he's had and all that. i will flag this person as well and see how we can roll that into more conversation for you all. >> i'd be happy to be part of a working group. my background is in lot of this regulatory work. >> i'm a huge fan of asking ben to educate us better. i know he's watching now. on that note -- >> you just want to see the beard.

>> it does puts me to shame. prop h is a sprawling proposition that was extremely effective in so many different areas. i don't think should do it in this group here. it will be helpful if ben and staff just gave us a little bit of cheat sheet on how prop h actually affects nightlife and permit holders, specifically limited live and p.o. e.s. maybe pool tables. i agree with commissioner wang, we want to do everything we can. all the small businesses, we have a very specific mission here as a group.

that's for entertainment, promoting it and regulating it. how we can stay focused on that. i do think that it's time to start think being a retreat, virtual for all of us. i think it will be helpful eventually, not right now but eventually to think about things like prop h as an item in that retreat that we talked about. >> great idea. i love that. >> that actually, your mention of tool tables and mechanical reminds me one of my other issues that this might be a good time to work on to updating the code in terms of, do we actually need to be issuing permits for

pin ball machines. i think they probably don't have the moral downfall of teenagers that perhaps was once -- [indiscernible] >> the jury still out. we need more data on that. >> do we need to do a study. >> we need a study. >> the fact that you have to get a permit from us in order to have a pin ball machine is perhaps, not necessary. just looking through some of the really outdated and kind of language in the code. that was created for many generations ago and to be cleaned up and amended and just

-- as much as we are regulatory entity, i don't know that pin ball machines continue need to be regulated and permitted. i would love to see if there's an opportunity to work with staff to start going through some of those codes and regulations to try to develop some recommendations for it board of supervisors and the city on what can be updated and what possibly adding things but mostly just taking out some of the stuff. >> i would just note, democratic director azevedo and i started to do that. i think it will be really useful to be able to have your expertise and couple of other commissioners not equally a forum.

so we have more meetings. be able to hash it out and bring it back to the full commission for their ideas. >> i think some of the permit holders may have ideas about this too. that we could probably get to weigh in on. whether or not a permit is needed to have a pin ball machine in the back of your bar. i think it's unnecessary that you have to get a permit for mechanical amusement device. >> going back to history and maybe commissioner falzon can weigh in. the pin ball stuff was regulate id by -- regulated by the police. done we make revenue for our

department? >> that would be the biggest consideration. that would be very challenging for us now since we're not generating any revenue. propose removing future revenue could be very challenging. >> just like the pin ball place on 8th, remember they had a special zoning in order to have x amount of pin ball machines? >> we had update the planning code since then that has eased restrictions for opening mechanical amusement devices across san francisco. there's still a ton in there. a lot that we talked about. it could take a very long time if we wanted it to.

>> there is some really offensive and strange language in the code. >> exactly >> especially around adult entertainment. >> we opt not to include that particular language in the prop h application for the planning department. couldn't find a good way of writing it. >> i think this is really good fodder for potential future retreat.

is there any public comment on this item? >> there's no comment. >> we're going to now on. final agenda item is number 8, which is commissioner comments and questions. does anybody have something they want to say before we adjourn? i'm not seeing anything. i have one thing. san francisco and mayor breed are participating in the vigil tonight or the honorarium for it 400,000 lives lost to covid thus far. it bears mentioning in all

commissions in san francisco and everywhere publicly. i will editorialize. 25% of covid deaths from covid. we represent about 4% population of the world. that's a great shame on our country and a nation. i think it's indictment of the outgoing national administration that is leaving. i think i have hope in the future starting literally tomorrow, we might be able to at least not represent such a shameful and unnecessary loss of life by doing everything that americans can actually do well. getting together and circling the wagons and making a difference.

is there any public comment on the last agenda item? >> no hands raise. no comments. >> president bleiman: all right. we will adjourn the meeting at 6:47 p.m. thank you everybody for coming. we'll see you in couple of weeks.

>> we are joining the city and county of san francisco public covid-19 update. for q and a, state your name, outlet and up to two questions in web ex chat. questions will no longer be taken after the last speaker's remarks and when the q and a portion begins. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you, and good morning, everyone. today we are going to share some information on our vaccine rollout and where we are with covid-19 in san francisco. first, we continue to see the impact of the december holidays. our cases are still climbing, we have 333 new cases per day, but they seem to be increasing at a slower rate. and our hospitalizations, our hospitalizations remain as high as they have been but also seem to be slowing. reproductive rate is still above 1, 1.06, but inching down and we

know getting below 1 is key. and most importantly, more and more people are getting vaccinated every single day. especially our seniors who are the most vulnerable to getting sick and dying from covid. this should give us all some very real hope. it's going to be a long road, but the road will begin to lighten. i can see it if not tomorrow, but it is soon. right now we need to focus on doing the hard work each and every day to get through this. it means getting the correct information out so that people know when it's their turn to get vaccinated. and it means we need to keep wearing our masks, keep our distance from each other, and follow the public health guidance. the city need to keep finding ways to support our residents and workers in the months ahead. even as people get vaccinated. that means helping working people get, who get covid and

who need to take time off from work to isolate. in the absence of real programming from the federal government, the city has been at the forefront of providing financial relief through the right to recover program. so far, 4.5 million for the program. many from our latino community, which we all know has been disproportionately impacted by covid. today, another $6 million going forward, total support to $10.5 million. we are doing this by tapping into unused funds paid into our healthcare security ordinance funds, which is usually used to provide health insurance for workers. early in this pandemic we used the funds in the healthcare

security ordinance to provide $500 checks of need relief to people who qualify like restaurant workers and bar workers. now providing direct financial assistance for those who test positive during the pandemic. fulfilling the ideas of the healthcare security ordinance and thank our labor partners and the latino task force with helping us with this. i'm proud of the right to recover program. one of the shining examples of how the city has stepped up in the absence of federal leadership and provided support. we are continuing to move forward with distributing the vaccine through the department of public health and our private providers but we also continue to face challenges with the lack of supply. to show you what's happening in san francisco let me walk you through some slides. let's start with the department of public health, which is

charged with vaccinating workers at san francisco general, our e.m.t.s and other front line community health workers, as well as those who are 65 and older in the san francisco health network, which serves the most vulnerable and underserved people of the city. so far the department of public health has received 31,655 doses, and administered 15,545 doses. out of those doses administered, 12,920 have been first doses, and 2,625 are second doses. that puts our utilization rate at 49.1%, which is above the national average. all of the department of public health remaining vaccine doses are scheduled for individuals to receive their first or their second doses this week. and unless we get more vaccines, the department of public health

will run out of our existing supply by this thursday. we do not currently have this level of data from our private healthcare partners, but we are working with them to get it. overall in san francisco we do know that as of yesterday 28,501 san franciscans have received at least one dose, 6,347 having received their second dose. this is across all of our providers and largely healthcare workers who live in san francisco. to give you the overall picture of where we are with tier 1a, it's important to note that our entire system in san francisco has received 102,000, about 102,000 doses. again, these are for both first and second doses to everyone, including department of public

health, kaiser, sutter, dignity, ucsf and others. tier 1a in san francisco is comprised of more than 210,000 people, all of whom need to receive two doses, including approximately 80 to 90,000 healthcare workers, 11,000 inhome care workers, 110,000 people over the age of 65, as well as e.m.t.s, community healthcare workers, and others who qualify in tier 1a. this really shows that while we are making progress we simply need more vaccines. as i said, we are going to be out of our vaccines this week if we don't get more. now i can't do this presentation every day, but people do want answers every day. so to better track vaccine distribution we launched a new vaccine dashboard which you can find on the city's covid

dashboard, where you normally find our case rates and hospitalization ance other key data. this dashboard will tell you how many people have been vaccinated in san francisco first and second dose and how many doses are given to people daily. this is the first version of this dashboard when we have more data we will add that to the dashboard. we are working with other healthcare providers in the state to get this data and today the department of public health is issuing a health order to help us get this data from those providers. this health order will provide basic distribution data so we can better fill out the dashboard and understand what's happening in san francisco. i really view this health order as part of our collaboration with our private providers to set up our vaccine sites and to get people vaccinated quickly. i know we are all anxious and want to know how we are doing

but remember the vaccine is in limited supply. every single dose in our possession is accounted for and earmarked for an individual. also moving forward with setting up our vaccination network, including the build-out of the first site at city college. we still don't have the vaccine supply to meet the needs of these sites yet, we are getting ready for when we do. our goal is to be ready to quickly move to tier 1b once we have the supply. to make sure you are aware when it's your turn, you will be able to go to sf.gov/vaccine notify. our city technology staff has been working all weekend to prepare this site for what they know will be a significant volume of interest and it will be up later today. when it's live, you can enter some basic information, including your name, occupation, your provider, so you can be

notified when it's your turn. i understand that this has been tough for people. there's a lot of information out there. we are doing our best here locally, the good news is that starting tomorrow we are gonna have more support from the federal government. even before tomorrow's inauguration, the biden administration has already made clear what their plans are for expanding the fight against covid. these include things like activating fema and the national guard to support large vaccination sites. potentially using the defense production act to expand the supply of syringes and other critical materials, provide direct support to individuals and small businesses who are suffering from this pandemic. frankly, these are the basic things we should have been doing all along. but i'm excited to see them finally being put into action. this is what leadership looks like, and the hope i feel for

our city is, and our country is real. that hope is not based just in vaccine rollout but in how they are planning to immediately rejoin the paris climate change and reverse the discriminatory travel ban. and their talk about how they are going to overhaul our immigration laws and then there's just the basic message of our core values as a country. those valuing our core democratic principles, celebrating unity and restoring common decency. it's been a long, long four years, but we are finally, finally moving forward. and on top of that, tomorrow will be an historic day for our country because tomorrow we will see for the first time a woman, a black woman, a southeast asian woman, taking the oath of office to serve as our vice president.

i am so excited, not just because kamala harris got her start in the political world right here in the bay area, i'm excited because she has been a mentor, a friend, and a supporter of so many people throughout her entire career. she has been compassionate, she has cared about people and their individual struggles and challenges, and i know she's going to bring that same passion and love for changing the country to her new role as vice president and i can't wait. now having said all that, i know i'm not the only one who is excited and ready to celebrate. but as always, i'm here to remind everyone. we are still in a pandemic. the celebration we all want to have, the one that we normally would have sadly cannot happen.

we need people to stay home, watch the inauguration where they are and avoid gatherings. trust me, there's nothing more than i want to do than to go out and celebrate and hug everyone as we watch kamala harris sworn in as the vice president, and joe biden as the president. i'm getting excited just thinking about what this means. but we all need to keep doing our part. we need to get through these next weeks safely, keep slowing the spread. get vaccinated when it's your turn and wear your mask. so please, please for the sake of at least being able to reopen this city by the spring i am begging you all, no large gatherings. in addition, i know there are a lot of concerns about what we saw in washington, d.c. a few weeks ago. the violence and the indiscretion of our capitol were shocking and disgusting and i know people are nervous about something like that happening

right here in san francisco. well, let me be clear. we will be prepared for anything tomorrow. our focus is and always will be on keeping people safe. so before i bring on dr. colfax to provide the data where we are with our transmission rates, let me have police chief bill scott speak a little bit more about the city's plans for tomorrow. chief scott. >> thank you, mayor. as mayor breed said, tomorrow is going to be an exciting day with the inauguration of president-elect joe biden as the president of the united states and our own bay area senator kamala harris, first female african american as the mayor said, the first female asian will be the vice president of the united states of america. the nation has been on high alert following the january 6th attacks on the u.s. capitol. however, update you on the

city's preparedness for tomorrow's events. at this time we have no credible notifications of major protests of civil unrest likely taking place in the city and county of san francisco. however, we will be prepared for anything and everything. out of abundance of caution, san francisco police department is working closely and coordinating our efforts with our public safety partners at the local, state and federal level in order to preserve order and protect everyone's safety. at sfpd we have canceled discretionary days off of our officers and additional police and all necessary resources deployed to respond to all routine calls of service, as well as spontaneous events in the event they occur. we are closely coordinated with the san francisco fire department which is fully staffed and well prepared to meet fire and emergency and medical needs that may occur city-wide, and we are also

coordinating with the san francisco sheriff's department which has an increased presence to safeguard city hall and other city buildings as well as those who work there. our city emergency operations center, or eoc is fully activated to support city-wide coordination, awareness and resource management city-wide for inauguration day. as you've heard, me and many other law enforcement professionals say in the past if you see something, say something. please call us. as always, we remind san franciscans, help protect our city. report what you see, and remember, if you see something, say something. if you witness criminal or suspicious activity, call us. we will come, we will chat. we want everybody to be safe and we want everybody to feel safe. 911 call is an emergency center,

24 hours a day, you can call at any time. and if it's not an emergency, call our nonemergency line at 415-553-0123. 415-553-0123. and as a couple reminders, i want to reiterate what mayor breed said about covid. although we know there are no public safety threats at this time, civil unrest, protests planned in our city, we cannot forget the serious gravity that the covid-19 pandemic has caused in our country. covid won't be taking tomorrow off, so please listen to the mayor, stay at home, the events will be televised, and we are encouraging you not to gather in large gatherings in public. san francisco police department we agree with mayor breed and

the doctor to celebrate at home, watch it on tv again, and celebrate those in your household, celebrate with those in your household. you can go online and you can celebrate virtually. please remember that outdoor gatherings of individuals from different households pose a significantly higher risk of virus transmission, and the virus is still a threat. so please take heed to those basic public health advice. that's why our public health order prohibits public and private gatherings that occur outside of a single household. in conclusion, more than anything else, inauguration day is meant to celebrate a peaceful transition of power. so let's remember that the most patriotic thing we can do for our country is stay peaceful. let's also remember the most important thing we can do is

keep each other safe, prevent the spread of covid, stay at home, wear your mask, wash your hands, and abide and listen to the public health orders. thank you all, and please be safe. and if you see something, say something. call us. thank you, mayor. >> dr. colfax. >> yes, good morning, everyone. thank you, mayor, for your continued leadership and chief scott, thank you for everything you and your team are doing to keep our city safe. it's been nearly a year since we first began talking about this unfolding and unprecedented health crisis that we knew was coming our way. and let's be proud of what we

have accomplished together. one of the first cities in the nation to shelter-in-place due to covid-19, we understood what we were asking of all of us. hardship and sacrifice. we asked san franciscans to trust us and to follow the data, science and facts, and because we all did this together, we protected our hospital system and together we saved lives. so far while this third surge has been the worst the bay area has experienced, we have avoided the worst of the pandemic. indeed, today the numbers in the united states are hard to comprehend. and who would have thought a year ago that we would have nearly 400,000 people in this country dead of this virus. that is sad, sobering, and it is

tragic. and we understand what this sacrifice has meant to the city. be assured every action we take is with the goal of reopening as safely and as soon as possible. and now with the vaccine starting to arrive, it is hopeful for all of us finally. but even as we discussed vaccine rollout, we must remain vigilant. unfortunately as the mayor has said, there is not enough vaccine yet that we can administer it to keep us safe from these immediate surges, including the one we have been experiencing since november. believe me, i hope as much as to have each of you, that more vaccine comes as quickly as possible so we can get it into arms. first let me brief you on the numbers.

as this slide shows, new covid-19 cases remain higher than during our post thanksgiving surge. we are now averaging 333 cases per day. this is very high. for example, and we see that our current case rate is at 38.3 per 100,000 people, down slightly from the peak of 42.5 on january 10th. this trend is promising, but it is too early to know for sure, so we can simply not let our guard down. our current number per 100,000 is far higher than our summer surge when we peaked at just 15.4. but, we are still doing better than california as a whole where the average is 100.9 per 100,000

people infected. now as this slide illustrates, our data shows some relatively promising news on the hospitalization front as well. post holiday rise in hospitalization appears to be slowing. as of saturday, we had 244 covid-19 patients in san francisco hospitals, and we currently have 24% remaining i.c.u. capacity. in fact, our weekly change in hospitalization rate is down just barely by 1%. that rate of change, that rate of change is important because it reflects the demand put on our hospitals for acute care and i.c.u. beds to care for covid-19 and other patients. so again, this is promising and hopeful news.

as i think about the work that has gotten us to this point, i think of some of the challenges that we have overcome as a city this year. and now with a rollout of historic vaccine program, we see challenges across the country again in everything from production to distribution. our vaccine program, like so much else we have undertaken, will be a partnership among the city, healthcare providers, pharmacies, and the communities we serve. let me stress. these vaccines are remarkably effective. they are our ticket out of this pandemic, and they are very safe. in partnership with our comprehensive healthcare systems, we are building a comprehensive vaccination network with a variety of options for all of those who live and work in san francisco. the system is focussed on

equity, speed, and access. that will be available from whatever healthcare system you currently get services and whatever location is comfortable and convenient. a large drive-thru site, or a small community clinic, or a local pharmacy where doctor's office, or a vaccination site at a transit hub. we will continue to vaccinate the more than 210,000 people in san francisco in phase 1a and those 65 years and older. san francisco has more than 110,000 people age 65 and over. individuals 65 and over make up 15% of our covid-19 infections, yet they make up 85%, 85% of the people in our city who have died from covid-19.

and, we will be ready when more vaccine is available. and we will be ready when we move to the next group of priority populations based on state guidance, which prioritizes people by risk of exposure and risk of spreading the virus. indeed, we will be ready to vaccinate 10,000 people a day. but right now our challenge is the lack of vaccine. all vaccines, all the vaccines allocated to the san francisco department of public health have either been administered or are earmarked for those who have been scheduled to receive a first dose and those who need a second dose. given the current state, the d.p.h. vaccine supply will be exhausted by thursday. the day after tomorrow. this week, along with healthcare

providers across the city, we received a fraction of the doses we requested from the state. d.p.h. allocation from the state arriving this week is only 1,775 doses. moreover, d.p.h. paused on using 8,000 doses of moderna vaccine out of abundance of caution and guidance from the state due to possible increased side effects from this specific lot of moderna vaccine. as of today, we have not received any replacement doses. this will have an impact on the city's ability to complete already scheduled vaccinations. the inconsistent, the inconsistent and unpredictable vaccine from the state and directly at the feet of the feds

is not only impacting d.p.h., but our city healthcare providers as well. i know many of you have had frustrating experiences trying to get appointments. unfortunately, we must kin to have patience as supply ramps up and distribution rapidly improves. there will be challenges as a nation, as the nation begins the unprecedented rollout of mass vaccines. and as production ramps up by manufacturers, we anticipate large deliveries over the coming weeks and months. and we, along with our healthcare partners, will be ready to get these large deliveries out the door and into arms. with our high volume sites, our community clinics, our pharmacy partnerships, and our community

and local pop-up sites, when supply is available, operations to administer the vaccine will be ready. when the vaccine -- with the vaccine here, we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it is just as important that we stay vigilant as a city. i cannot stress it enough. the most important thing you can do now to slow the spread of the virus is to take the precautions that it becomes second nature to so many of us. please wear that mask over both your mouth and your nose whenever you go outside, wash your hands frequently, stay at home as much as possible, do not gather with members outside of your household, and certainly do not go out if you are sick. we are in this together, and together we will get through this. we will bring back our

communities, our economy, and our city the same way we continue to fight covid-19 by working together. thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed, chief scott and dr. colfax for your remarks. before we start the question and answer portion, take a moment to allow reporters to submit any >> thank you for your patience. when you are ready, mayor breed, we'll begin. your first question comes from joyce cutlet, bloomberg news. businesses earlier in the pandemic asked the city to tap

into the health security funds. how much has the city collected from employers and how much has been spent for health reimbursements since last march? >> well, we'll get you that information, but as you know, these funds are very limited. what we have tried to do is get creative as to how we can spend them in a way that the supports the population it intended to support. it's been definitely very challenging but we have been able to issue $500 checks to individuals who qualify, who fit in the categories. and we want to provide additional resource for those who would not necessarily feel comfortable getting tested or even taking time off work because they were not able to collect unemployment or healthcare or anything else for that nature. these are the kinds of funds that should be used for this purpose and so we have been able to do just that, but as you know, they are very -- the ability to use the money in the first place is very limited and these funds are restricted.

and so we have had to get really creative to make sure they get in the hands of the people it's intended to serve. >> thank you, mayor breed. next question comes from lily pan, nbc bay area. you mentioned sf would run out of vaccine by thursday. how does this impact the opening of the mass vaccination site at city college? will it still open at the end of this week? >> well, to be clear, when i say run out by thursday, we are specifically talking about what the city has control of over through the department of public health. and we are definitely planning to continue to move forward to open the city college site because we are working with other healthcare providers like dignity, like kaiser, like bpmc because we know they are still administering the vaccine. so it's should not have a significant impact but we are prepared so that when we receive the doses we don't want to wait

around, we want to get them into the arms of individuals who we know need them as quickly as possible. >> thank you, mr. breed. now questions for dr. colfax. dr. colfax, your first question comes from various news outlets. are you concerned the new variant, l254r found in the bay area or other variants from the u.k., brazil and south africa, will reverse the progress we are seeing in fighting the pandemic? and, is there a possibility that current treatments and vaccinations will be less effective against these new variants? >> so it's important to stress we see variants in these types of viruses. this is the natural evolution of

the virus to some degree. while some of the variants are more concerning than others we need to get more information with regard to their characteristics, certainly, with the u.k., we know it's more infectious, additional variant recently described in the bay area. also appears there is a likelihood it's more infectious. i think the bottom line is we are still gathering more information. there's no reason to panic. we know the activities that we continue to engage in with social distancing, the masking, and avoiding gatherings outside of your own household, those are effective prevention activities. we have no information at this point about these variants that they -- that those activities would not be able to prevent transmission of the virus, and certainly people, scientists are

looking at the characteristics of the variants with regard to the vaccines but don't have additional information for most of these variants with regard to that, especially with pfizer determines would not be resistant to the vaccine. so, this is going to be part of this pandemic as we see variants emerge, we are just going to have to learn more about them but also ensure that we take the prevention activities that we know will spread the virus. >> similar to the first set of questions, when will lab studies of the new coronavirus variant l452r be complete to help answer questions of increased transmissibility and the efficacy of currently authorized vaccines? >> sequencing is an ongoing process, and they do across the

united states, including at ucsf, it's an ongoing process. the infrastructure is small compared to other countries, for the sequencing, but an ongoing process done on a routine process, a routine basis. it's never actually complete. constant assessment of viral genotypes that go on. these specific types are emerging as a more frequent contributor to the viral population in the bay area, so why is that is the case is still under investigation. >> thank you, dr. colfax. the next question comes from various news outlets. has the city had to withhold any vaccine doses from the questionable moderna vaccine lot

and if so, how many? how much has that affected the city's vaccine rollout? >> so we have received from that specific lot, received 8,000 doses and those are now, we paused on those out of abundance of caution per the recommendation of the state. and as of today, we have not received any replacement doses so we'll have an impact on the city's ability to complete scheduled appointments this week. yes. >> thank you. your next question again from various news outlets, is the city receiving a lower allocation of vaccine doses than expected? the mayor mentioned the city will run out of doses this week. can you explain? >> well, i think it's just really unfortunate lack of

reliable supply. i will give you an example. last week we got 12,000 vaccines, we were expecting 12,000 this week and this week we are only getting 1775. so that's just an example of why it's so complicated right now, and this unreliable source makes it very hard to plan. and it is one of the key reasons that we are scheduled to run out of vaccine the day after tomorrow, thursday. within d.p.h. >> thank you, doctor. the next question comes from matt green, kqed. based on your data, fewer than 30% of doses received by the city have been administered. how do you account for this lag on the local level? >> so much of the vaccine received is being delivered by other healthcare systems across the city and those healthcare systems i know are working to

get the vaccine out as quickly as possible. but we don't have any direct control in terms of their ability to do that. here in the health department we have either administered the vaccine or all the vaccine has been allocated, so again, we are due to run out of vaccine this thursday. >> thank you. the next question comes from heather knight of the san francisco chronicle. when do you anticipate vaccine doses arriving in bigger numbers? when will all san franciscans who want vaccinations be able to get them in your estimation? >> i wish i had an answer for you on that one. what we are doing, as you know, is filling up a multi-pronged approach, including the mass sites, including the continued expansion of the clinical sites,

pharmacy partnerships and the pop-ups. so san francisco will be ready when that comes. i hope tomorrow's change in federal leadership that day is closer than it otherwise would be. but we are ready when that happens. >> thank you, doctor colfax. your final question comes from various news outlets. do you anticipate the stay-at-home order lifting for the bay area in the near future? what do you think the four-week projection for the city is? >> well, i think as i showed you, we have some hopeful signs with regard to case rates starting to drop, hospitalizations starting to level off. and we are looking at those data very, very carefully. so, i'm hopeful that we will have -- if that trend continues, i expect that we would potentially move out of the

stay-at-home order obviously sooner than if the cases continue to skyrocket. i don't have a specific date to share with you. but right now i would say for the trend is currently in a positive direction. but again, we will only get there if people continue to maintain the safety, the prevention precautions we know work to slow the spread of the disease. this is no time to let down our guard and the sooner we continue with the prevention activities the faster those numbers will go down and the sooner the stay-at-home order will be lifted. >> thank you, dr. colfax. >> thank you. >> there are no additional questions, and this concludes today's press conference. thank you, mayor breed, chief scott and dr. colfax for your time. for future questions, please email dempress at sfgov.org. thank you, and have a nice day.

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without that support, small business can't survive, and if we lose small business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. >> it is important to dine and shop locally. it allows us to maintain traditions. it makes the neighborhood. >> i think san francisco should shop local as much as they can. the retail marketplace is changes. we are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before.

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>> after my fire in my apartment and losing everything, the red

cross gave us a list of agencies in the city to reach out to and i signed up for the below-market rate program. i got my certificate and started applying and won the housing lottery. [♪♪♪] >> the current lottery program began in 2016. but there have been lot rows that have happened for affordable housing in the city for much longer than that. it was -- there was no standard practice. for non-profit organizations that were providing affordable housing with low in the city, they all did their lotteries on their own. private developers that include in their buildings affordable units, those are the city we've been monitoring for some time

since 1992. we did it with something like this. where people were given circus tickets. we game into 291st century in 2016 and started doing electronic lotteries. at the same time, we started electronic applications systems. called dalia. the lottery is completely free. you can apply two ways. you can submit a paper application, which you can download from the listing itself. if you apply online, it will take five minutes. you can make it easier creating an account. to get to dalia, you log on to housing.sfgov.org. >> i have lived in san francisco for almost 42 years. i was born here in the hayes valley.

>> i applied for the san francisco affordable housing lottery three times. >> since 2016, we've had about 265 electronic lotteries and almost 2,000 people have got their home through the lottery system. if you go into the listing, you can actually just press lottery results and you put in your lottery number and it will tell you exactly how you ranked. >> for some people, signing up for it was going to be a challenge. there is a digital divide here and especially when you are trying to help low and very low income people. so we began providing digital assistance for folks to go in and get help. >> along with the income and the residency requirements, we also required someone who is trying to buy the home to be a first

time home buyer and there's also an educational component that consists of an orientation that they need to attend, a first-time home buyer workshop and a one-on-one counseling session with the housing councilor. >> sometimes we have to go through 10 applicants before they shouldn't be discouraged if they have a low lottery number. they still might get a value for an available, affordable housing unit. >> we have a variety of lottery programs. the four that you will most often see are what we call c.o.p., the certificate of preference program, the dthp which is the displaced penance housing preference program. the neighborhood resident housing program and the live worth preference. >> i moved in my new home february 25th and 2019.

the neighborhood preference program really helped me achieve that goal and that dream was with eventually wind up staying in san francisco. >> the next steps, after finding out how well you did in the lottery and especially if you ranked really well you will be contacted by the leasing agent. you have to submit those document and income and asset qualify and you have to pass the credit and rental screening and the background and when you qualify for the unit, you can chose the unit and hopefully sign that lease. all city sponsored affordable housing comes through the system and has an electronic lottery. every week there's a listing on dalia. something that people can apply for. >> it's a bit hard to predict how long it will take for someone to be able to move into a unit. let's say the lottery has happened. several factors go into that and

mainly how many units are in the project, right. and how well you ranked and what preference bucket you were in. >> this particular building was brand new and really this is the one that i wanted out of everything i applied for. in my mind, i was like how am i going to win this? i did and when you get that notice that you won, it's like at first, it's surreal and you don't believe it and it sinks in, yeah, it happened. >> some of our buildings are pretty spectacular. they have key less entry now. they have a court yard where they play movies during the weekends, they have another master kitchen and space where people can throw parties. >> mayor breed has a plan for over 10,000 new units between now and 2025.

we will start construction on about 2,000 new units just in 2020. >> we also have a very big portfolio like over 25,000 units across the city. and life happens to people. people move. so we have a very large number of rerentals and resales of units every year. >> best thing about working for the affordable housing program is that we know that we're making a difference and we actually see that difference on a day-to-day basis. >> being back in the neighborhood i grew up in, it's a wonderful experience. >> it's a long process to get through. well worth it when you get to the other side. i could not be happier. [♪♪♪]

>> good morning, welcome. i'm michael lambert, your city librarian. on behalf of the library commission, we're so delighted that you could join us today for this important announcement. i would like to acknowledge our library commissioners that are present, teresa, tanya, pete, john, and dr. lopez. thank you all for being here. madam mayor, welcome. we are so honored that you could participate in this event. we appreciate your leadership of our city and we are super

excited about your announcement today. with that, i will invite you to get us started. maybe i was premature on that. oh, there she is. [laughter] >> did we start already? [laughter] >> i was just welcoming you and thanking you for honoring us with your presence and your leadership. we're super excited about your announcement today. with that, i invite you to get us started. >> all right thank you michael. i appreciate that. good morning everyone. i'm really excited to share some incredible news. as you may know, before i was mayor and even before i was on the board of supervisors, i served as the executive director

in the western edition. i saw how deeply important arts are and in creating a vibrant and diverse community. believe it or not, i used to sing in a choir, dance, and perform, but i was not the best at it. however, the arts connects us to one another. it bridges the gap in our culture by helping us understand each other. they are how we express ourselves during our brightest and happiest moments, and sometimes some of our darkest ones. for people of all ages, arts and culture can help us navigate a world that can be confusing and strange. they can also provide opportunity not only for jobs and income, but for people who are in under served communities to find their voices and to make sure they are heard. that includes the role of our city's poet laureate. since lauren was made our first

poet laureate in 1998, this prestigious honor has showcased san francisco's finest poets from many diverse backgrounds. their work has reminded us how it means to be a san franciscan, it reminus -- reminds us of our diversity and calls attention to our most pressing issues and inspires us to create a more equitable and just society. it inspires young people to search for their voice in a way that may not have -- that they may not have thought was possible before. it opens doors of opportunities for them to pursue their dreams. that is why i'm so excited today to announce our eighth poet laureate. before we get to the big announcement, i would like to thank and recognize our outgoing poet laureate kim shuck for her

imcredible service for our city. she represented our city beautifully through her work and has given her time over the past few years to serve our community. whether teaching at the local colleges, universiies and public schools or helping the library launch their first ever american indian initiative, kim on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you for your service and we would be honored if you close out your tenure with one last reading as poet laureate. >> thank you mayor breed. there we are. i do have a poem. it's called san francisco has a new poet laureate. pick any bench, stoop, any fourth star in this city or over it. sit quietly, you'll hear the water of time.

keys rattling, heart and innovation, war and colonization that only grows on the south side of that mountain right there. you'll hear the poetry of place, popsicle sticks scratching on the curb, jump rope songs, chess moves and love curses. every night in some back room, the future and past in autopsied words, gorilla words shouted at unsuspecting somewhere in north beach. the skyline mutters poems that have been and poems to come. if you stand at the cafe's door too long, you will hear what they choose to call in this moment a poem. old wives tales along valencia, you can hear the purring of fog as they pass through, the paintings comment quietly on

every new show and if your hearing is very good, ambrose's dictionary runs on a certain bar on a certain bar stool and the faint laughter from one of sam's jokes will still grind breath. victims in more languages that you can see, and the unbound seat 3. there are songs of varying and unbaring to found all over the richmond, every bench, every head stone under the sand. paula talks stories at state, at tables and cafes that turned to bars. john's words rattled justice and the voices of those taken in captain jack's war has made them into their own songs too. there is an eighth poet laureat of san francisco and with the title comes more wealth and words than all the great libraries that have ever been.

i would like to add that you will hear a lot about honor and responsibility. there are a couple of tricky things. one of them is that people will steal your pens. i had some pens printed up. i'm not going to say what they say and i don't think they will prevent your pens from being stolen, but they will raise the value of their resale on ebay. i'm going to share with you just very briefly what dr. jose said to me a couple of days after i was named the seventh poet laureate. he said that everything you have done up until this point got you here and none of that will matter. what matters now is what comes next. have a great time and you do know where my kitchen table is when you want to hide. take care. >> thank you so much kim for that amazing poem. thank you for representing san

francisco so well over the past few years. we look forward to seeing what comes next for you. now, it is my great honor to announce our eighth poet laureat. i had the privilege of knowing this individual for many years as he worked and volunteered at the african american art and culture complex. he has mentored men young men and women that came through our doors and taught them how to find their own vote and make themselves heard. his poems are just one of the many ways he fights for racial justice, equity, and human rights. he has shown our community what it means to be a successful poet, as a black man from san francisco. we are incredibly proud of the work he has done so far, especially his commitment to inspiring black men and boys and providing support for young people in our community. he will continue the work that our ancestors did as they fought

for their own voices to be heard. i am beyond excited to see what he accomplishes as the san francisco's eighth poet laureate. i am happy to present tongo martin, the eighth poet laureate. >> thank you madam mayor for this incredible, incredible honor. i prepared some words that i hope i make it through. i'm already filled with tears. >> i'm going to let you have the floor, it's so great to have you. thank you for all the magic you created over the years. as i said earlier, when we work together at the complex, there were a lot of challenges,

especially with our boys and we had unfortunately a lot of violence in the community and just seeing you as this literary figure and inspiring these young people to look at other ways besides, you know, being out in the streets and doing stuff that was happening then, focusing on how poetry, how music is poetry, and how they can really shift their voices to tell their own stories. you brought that to their lives and i know they continue to carry it with them today. so, you have been an inspiration for so many years, directed at so many generations of people. i'm so grateful that you accepted this honor so now i want to turn the floor over to you so that people can know who you are. if they don't know, now they know. we're looking forward to the work that we know you're going to do to make san francisco

proud. so the floor is yours tongo. >> thank you. thank you very much. incredibly humbled and honored. also, deep appreciation to the selection committee. i want to send love to my mother and brother as i am only an extension of their love, imagination, and revolutionary commitment, love to my two powerful sisters and the whirlwind that has nothing on us, love to my family above mud and lava, love to my father and the rest of the village that is not here in the physical form. i would also like to thank kim shuck for being a leader of

poets and beautiful force of the people. a poet of any station is secondary to the people. a poet of any use, that belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, one of arts most important incarnation is that expression of mass resistance but really what art teaches us with its dominantable energy, the indominantable energy of an idea is evident that it is oppressors themselves who are in the position of resistance. it's bigger than any imperialistic, cognitively reflected in any generation.

the power is ours and it is oppressors who are resisting us, resisting humanity, resisting us pretty well. it's resisting our right to determine our reality, resisting a coming epoch of liberation. mass participation in art is what is always created in san francisco, futurism. san francisco has legend too fearless for me to count myself as one of them. i am from this legendary collection of thousands and thousands of participants, revolutionary history and culture. i'm proud to be one of the anonymous thousands in san francisco who have road these buses all night, who has been raised in marcus's bookstore, who wants justice for mario

woods and alex, who wants freedom. what the people taught me is that unity is the only thing and taught me that individualism, as it is practiced and codified, romanticized in this society is not really about your adventure through life but at its core, unfortunately, individualism is about practicing the selective humanization. other people are only human beings when it suits individual interest. civilism of sorts, that is deeply connected to slavery, both from what the society evolved from and process that addicts you to and power struggle that alienates ourselves, and at no point do we find the dehumanization of other people, the deanimation of

people acceptable, are let alone necessary for an individual journey. so as much as i would love to assign the rest of my days to an individual invention, that time is over. history is heightening, showing us more and more everyday that we're part of people, a people beyond systemic description, and we need the entire pallet of protecting human rights and nurture human curiosity. the madness we see today shouldn't be surprising. these apartheid nativity scenes come home to roast and a capitalism in crisis, what is mixed in with the parole papers and the environmental racism and

program deliverables and passivism. we're in a time of epochal shift where this is opening its arms if we don't open the historical process more critically. where do we go from here? what is our revolutionary practice or more conveniently, it begins with cultural work. it transforms the way that we relate to each other, transforms the way we relate to the earth, to a way that is conducive to liberation. a poet belongs to the energy and consciousness of the people, respecting their spirit. my only aim as poet laureate is to join with that energy, join with that consciousness in order

to create vehicles of unity. events, workshops, readings, publications, these are all just vehicles of unity. i will never tire in building as many as the city can handle. so, meet me at the library. [laughter] >> if you can't make it, i will for sure meet you wherever you are. let me now say rest in power to cure junior and diane, and i will conclude with this poem titled faithless. a tour guide, through the robbery, he also is. cigarette stand, look at what i

did. ransom water and box spring gold, this decade is only for accent grooming, i guess. ransom water and box spring gold to corner store, war gangs, all these rummage junk. you know, the start of mass destruction begins and ends in restaurant bathrooms as some people use and other people clean. are you telling me there is a rag in the sky waiting for you? yes. we should have fit in. warehouse jobs are for communists and now the whistling is less playful and if it is not a city, it is a prison. it has a prison. it's a prison, not a city. when a courtyard talks on behalf of the military issue, all walk takes place outside the body. a medieval painting to your right, none of this makes an impression. you have five minutes to learn.

when a man goes sideways barb wire becomes the roof. did you know they killed the world for the sake of giving everyone the same back story? watching indiana, fight yourself into the sky, oh penny for when. it goes up and over your headache, marking all aspirations, the first newspaper i ever read and the storefront, they left us down where the holy spirit favors the bathroom. for those in the situation offer 100 ways to remain a loser. watching those clock, what are we talking about again? the narrater at the graveyard, 10 minute flat. the funeral only took 10 minutes. you're going to pin the 90s on me, all 30 years of them? why should i know the difference between sleeping and the pyramid of corner stores on our head. we die right away. that building wants to jump off

other buildings, those are down tone decisions. what evaporated on earth that we can be sent back down? thank you all again, much love. i want to give the whole roll call right now but that's too many. much love to all my family and thank you again madam mayor. thank you. san francisco for better for worse, which you are raised, you know? >> thank you so much tongo. just so you know, the chat is blowing up. there is so much love and excitement for what you will bring to san francisco and i just want to thank you so much. thank you for the incredible poem and your inspiration and just everything that you continue to do.

i look forward to what you will accomplish as our city's poet laureate. i can't wait. it's going to be exciting, especially when we open up. when you talk about meet me at the library, it's like that's your slogan now. [laughter] >> so we're going to take it to another level. that's your slogan, meet me at the library. hitting all the libraries all over san francisco. >> that's right. >> just inviting the people in and really bringing it back to some of the basics. you know, with the way technology is nowadays, sometimes we get away from just picking up a book or picking out a book or looking through an index card. i guess we don't look through index cards to find books anymore. sitting there and having discussions, i'm looking forward to what you're going to bring and really excited about that. i really want to thank the people that nominated you. you know, there was a really

compelling, you know, letter of support that you know, went into all the details about your work. you have a lot of fans out there. i want to thank the selection committee, the people who served and had to go through all of those applications because i got to tell you, it was a hard decision and i was so excited that so many people in san francisco, you know, really embraced and support poets in such an incredible way. there are so many wonderful nominees. i'm looking forward to you connecting with all of them as well and really the outgoing poet laureate kim shuck, thank you for that poem and your commitment to san francisco and the role you have played over the years. thank you to san francisco public library and the commissioners who are joining us here today and our librarian, michael lambert. so many amazing people and i think that based on your comments today, meet me at the

library, that's going to be a new part of the campaign to really bring people together, to inspire and to really you know, set things off on a whole other level. thank you tongo for your work and commitment. we're so honored that you will be san francisco's eighth poet laureate and if there is anything left to say, you're welcome to have the floor. if not, we can turn it back over to michael lambert. >> i just want to say much love and appreciation. >> great. >> thank you so much madam mayor. my heart is full, #meetmeatthelibrary. congratulations tongoo. i want to thank all of you for joining us this morning. our public affairs office is happy to help facilitate any interviews with our new poet lawyer -- laureate, thank you

all and have a great day. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] is -- >> our united states constitution requires every ten years that america counts every human being in the united states, which is incredibly important for many reasons. it's important for preliminary representation because if -- political representation because if we under count california, we get less

representatives in congress. it's important for san francisco because if we don't have all of the people in our city, if we don't have all of the folks in california, california and san francisco stand to lose billions of dollars in funding. >> it's really important to the city of san francisco that the federal government gets the count right, so we've created count sf to motivate all -- sf count to motivate all citizens to participate in the census.

>> for the immigrant community, a lot of people aren't sure whether they should take part, whether this is something for u.s. citizens or whether it's something for anybody who's in the united states, and it is something for everybody. census counts the entire population. >> we've given out $2 million to over 30 community-based organizations to help people do the census in the communities where they live and work. we've also partnered with the public libraries here in the city and also the public schools to make sure there are informational materials to make sure the folks do the census at those sites, as well, and we've initiated a campaign to motivate the citizens and make sure they participate in census 2020. because of the language issues that many chinese community and

families experience, there is a lot of mistrust in the federal government and whether their private information will be kept private and confidential. >> so it's really important that communities like bayview-hunters point participate because in the past, they've been under counted, so what that means is that funding that should have gone to these communities, it wasn't enough. >> we're going to help educate people in the tenderloin, the multicultural residents of the tenderloin. you know, any one of our given blocks, there's 35 different languages spoken, so we are the original u.n. of san francisco. so it's -- our job is to educate people and be able to familiarize themselves on doing this census.

>> you go on-line and do the census. it's available in 13 languages, and you don't need anything. it's based on household. you put in your address and answer nine simple questions. how many people are in your household, do you rent, and your information. your name, your age, your race, your gender. >> everybody is $2,000 in funding for our child care, housing, food stamps, and medical care. >> all of the residents in the city and county of san francisco need to be counted in census 2020. if you're not counted, then your community is underrepresented and will be underserved.

>> hi. my name is carmen chiu, san francisco's elected assessor. when i meet with seniors in the community, they're thinking about the future. some want to down size or move to a new neighborhood that's closer to family, but they also worry that making such a change will increase their property taxes. that's why i want to share with you a property tax saving program called proposition 60. so how does this work? prop 60 was passed in 1986 to allow seniors who are 55 years and older to keep their prop 13 value, even when they move into

a new home. under prop 13 law, property growth is limited to 2% growth a year. but when ownership changes the law requires that we reassess the value to new market value. compared to your existing home, which was benefited from the -- which has benefited from the prop 13 growth limit on taxable value, the new limit on the replacement home would likely be higher. that's where prop 60 comes in. prop 60 recognizes that seniors on fixed income may not be able to afford higher taxes so it allows them to carryover their existing prop 13 value to their new home which means seniors can continue to pay their prop 13 tax values as if they had never moved. remember, the prop 60 is a one time tax benefit, and the property value must be equal to

or below around your replacement home. if you plan to purchase your new home before selling your existing home, please make sure that your new home is at the same price or cheaper than your existing home. this means that if your existing home is worth $1 million in market value, your new home must be $1 million or below. if you're looking to purchase and sell within a year, were you nur home must not be at a value that is worth more than 105% of your exist egging home. which means if you sell your old home for $1 million, and you buy a home within one year, your new home should not be worth more than $1.15 million. if you sell your existing home at $1 million and buy a

replacement between year one and two, it should be no more than $1.1 million. know that your ability to participate in this program expires after two years. you will not be able to receive prop 60 tax benefits if you cannot make the purchase within two years. so benefit from this tax savings program, you have to apply. just download the prop 60 form from our website and submit it to our office. for more, visit our website,

>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro.

>> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community. >> i am nima romney.

this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on traditional desserts and pair

them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of

my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community.

>> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.

>> van ness avenue runs from market street to bay street in san francisco. south vanness runs from south of market to cesar chavez street. originally residential after the 1906 earthquake it was used as a fire break. many car dealerships and businesses exist on vanness today with expansion of bus lanes. originally marlet street was named after james vanness, seventh mayor of san francisco from 1855 to 1856. vanness heavy are streets in santa cruz, los angeles and

fresno in his honor. in 1915 streetcars started the opening of the expo. in 1950s it was removed and replaced by a tree-lined median. it was part of the central freeway from bayshore to hayes valley. it is part of uses 101. it was damaged during the 1989 earthquake. in 1992 the elevator part of the roadway was removed. it was developed into a surface boulevard. today the vanness bus rapid transit project is to have designated bus lanes service from mission. it will display the history of the city. van ness avenue.

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of operation. >> one of the main drivers is a one stopper mitt center for -- permit center.

>> special events. we are a one stop shop for those three things. >> this has many different uses throughout if years. >> in 1940s it was coca-cola and the flagship as part of the construction project we are retaining the clock tower. the permit center is little working closely with the digital services team on how can we modernize and move away from the paper we use right now to move to a more digital world. >> the digital services team was created in 2017. it is 2.5 years. our job is to make it possible to get things done with the city online. >> one of the reasons permitting is so difficult in this city and county is really about the scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the

departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add

extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they canshay what they are here to. it helps them workout which cue they neat to be in.

if they rant to run anker rapid she can do that. we say you are next in line make sure you are back ready for your appointment. >> we want it all-in-one location across the many departments involved. it is clear where customers go to play. >> on june 5, 2019 the ceremony was held to celebrate the placement of the last beam on top of the structures. six months later construction is complete. >> we will be moving next summer. >> the flu building -- the new building will be building. it was designed with light in mind. employees will appreciate these amenities. >> solar panels on the roof, electric vehicle chargers in the basement levels, benefiting from gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might

catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> good morning andour staff. welcome to the newly reconstituted rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisions for the first committee meeting of the new board. my name is aaron peskin, joined by new vice chair supervisor rafael mandelman and newly elected member of the board of supervisions and member of this rules committee, supervisor connie chan for today's meeting of monday, january 11, . mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: hi, due