discounts and he's going to do certain things but there aren't very specific parameters and those are the kinds of things that we are looking to get more clarification and to you know, fill out the cva and make it more robust. >> thank you. i have a question to our staff. michael, so part of the project description here -- and maybe you can clarify to me as well in terms of the background. it's noted about the mission alcoholic beverage use district and how on site consumption are sometimes based on that. not permitted to the beverage but the on-site consumption does

not change that. can you clarify or can you give me a background on that? >> sure, so this discussion is coming from the early 2018 first phase of us having difficult-use cannabis in the city -- adult-use cannabis in the city. and on-site consumption are appropriate. in those early discussions, the commission had suggested that we look at the land-use allowance for other similar types of consumption uses, such as bars, but that was an early way that the department and commission were considering these. over the course of actually reviewing sites, we have found that that isn't exactly a very helpful view, particularly because there is an equity

component to on-site consumption, particularly when the city pusues legislation that would ban consumption within apartments but allow them in single-family homes. and we did have a similar case in the mission where 275 mission where the department was initially recommending this approval of an on-site consumption lounge, and through our process a lot of concern came with residents of the mission living in houing situations like sros that do not allow consumption and really kind of legalizing cannabis but then making it where it's not any legal place where someone can consume. so consumption is a tricky issue, and we still retain some of that discussion of bar uses but our analysis is trying to be a little more comprehensive. in the mission, there was an

effort a long time ago there was a recognition that the mission is overcocentrated with alcohol uses, and there was a desire to not allow more. and so the mission alcoholic beverage use district, you can move some of those uses around, like if you're an existing bar, you can relocate to another site within the district, but you can't create a new one. so that's where that's coming from, is we have existing controls that recognize a overcocentration of alcohol uses and does not allow the number of those uses to increase. >> well assuing -- well, it sounds like the valencia corridor doesn't have the alcohol-restricted use district. it does or it doesn't? >> the mission of alcoholic beverages use district covers a broad area of the mission, including this location.

>> and since you mentioned the previous project that was 275 mission and from what i'm hearing looks like there was a big mlu that happened back then. was there implementation mechanism on that? and now that there are -- there is a coming in front of us, even though it may not be a factor for our approval of this, how is the implementation on that earlier project? >> so there was a memorandum of understanding, i believe between the mission and the operator for the 2075 mission. that was a private agreement that was not under the city's puview. we do not have a copy of the agreement. that's not something that's enforceable by the city. the cannabis project -- there is

the private agreement realm where a sponsor may have some understandings with neighborhood groups. that's not something that the city ever enforces on and most of the time are not privyto. and there is the benefits agreement that there are enforcement mechanisms under he police code, where if somebody is advertiing their business, will provide a certain benefit when they are doing their public outreach to try to ask permission to get a license. the police code does require that those actually be implemented as part of the business. it's not clear what that enforcement mechanism will look like when these businesses are -- it's a new program for the city's office of cannabis and their enforcement division is something that is still being actively developed. but there are provisions in the police code that, if there is something in the community use benefits agreement, they're not

he supposed to be changed without a public process. >> does that mean -- >> it's through the city's office of cannabis through the licening. basically, there is a provision in the police code -- and i'm sorry, i don't remember the specific version. but it does state that if you are advertising a certain community benefit as part of your good neighborhood outreach, that this is -- it is something that is a requirement of the license. >> oh, okay. so thank you. michael, or mr. christensen. my comments, my initial comments for this is that we are aware that the mission is heavily saturated or not just mission but priarily on the eastern side of the city. and i think for me what i'm

finding problematic is that we lack of equity policy when it comes to cannabis. and so what is happening, i feel like, is that you know, communities are resorted to cbas. and again, in terms of the negotiation that's happening between the community and the project sponsor on the community benefits, you know, again, the committee are left to negotiate on those things. and us in the planning, i feel like we need to assess, especially if it's a big -- if it's a bigger square footage of a place, where just about 5,000 square feet, that if we're -- that there need to be a tracking of cannabis dispenary and whether this is appropriate in

this area and if this is appropriate in tis area, then what are the best measurements for equity. i'm having a hard time on this. i'm not going to be -- i'm just going to be honest. but i feel like in order for committees to have some sort of -- i think the planning department, we should start looking into having an equity policy on the cannabis. and in terms of the implementation of the cbas, i really wish that there is more binding agreement to it. but -- so those are my initial comments, and i'll be happy to hear what other commissioners say as well. >> commissioner tanner. >> thank you. i think you hit oba couple great points i want to echo.

i think they're a little bit global than this specific project, which i think we're having a little bit of a challenge. i think it would be adviable for the department to take a look at the equity issues related to cannabis industry, which is growing, but in terms of gographic distribution. but as we have been getting more applications and perhaps we can learn some things, i'm hoping as a city kind of understand the what is it that we expect our applicants and eventually when we open operators to be providing both as a business to the neighboring community. i know in the 2019 report from the controller there was not a recommendation around geography. but if we take a look at the program and understand opportunities to advance equits through cannabis. i did also note in that report concerns about this oversaturation of the cannabis industry in san francisco, which could be a challenge not only

for the diversity of retail types and different storefront operations in the city so that we have diverse mix of uses in our neighborhoods, but also that the industry itself could be harmed if there is too much saturation and it goes beyond a healthy level of competition. i do not suppose to know what that healthy level of competition is, but certainly it's an industry, at least in my short time in the commission, i've seen probably the most applications for cannabis, has been one of the top applications we've seen come forward. it's an industry that is somewhat recession-proof and it makes sense that folks are purr interviewing and continuing to pusue these applications and continuing to pusue their businesses. but i do think it would be good to take a look atit, especially as we are continuing the recession. mr. christensen, to go back to the comment you made about the enforceable nature of the cba.

so the cba that we have in the packet, is that something that if a member of the community noticed, hey, they're not abiding by term i of section g or something, that that would be something they would call the police department to report on? and you said that enforcement is not worked out, would to be a planning code violation? how does that work? >> so the community benefits agreement is a -- term of the good neighbor operating agreement that is part of the licening through the city's office of cannabis. so i would strongly encourage any member of the public who does notice something that is not reflected in how a business is operating to contact the city's office of cannabis. they do have staff who is dedicated to enforcement. my comment was only that the city's office of cannabis is a new agency. it's only about two years old.

most of the actual sites that are licensed by the city's office of cannabis, we only have a handful so far and we have more coming in. so enforcement is not something that has yet been an extremely active part of their work. their work right now is still focused on processing applications. so my comment was more we haven't yet really seen what -- how enforcement will work. cannabis, because it's new, but they are consulting with our enforcement team and other enforcement structures in the city to develop a work plan for that. >> great, thank you so much for that. and just to understand my ignorance of policies. is it possible that the operator didn't want to, if they could amend the agreement to add additional terms or is there just a standard template for the cba and it is what it is?

i guess what i'm thinking about some of the ways they describe their business operating for example, having icubator space that is built to the benefit. that's something i would imagine if that doesn't happen, to me that would seem to be a violation of the proposed use and the proposed benefits that it's providing. however, everybody operator is not going to provide that same type of benefit or the same types of discounts and things like that. so how much flexibility is in there in that agreement? >> the agreements that i have seen thus far have really varied widely in nature. many of them are have-- are kind of a single page, really focusing on how the business will be a good to be in -- neighbor to adjacent neighbors, to sweeping the sidewalk, having presence on the street, things like that. this is a little bit of a lengthier one. you know, it is something that

is aministered by the city's office of cannabis and i am hesitant to speak as much about this given that i don't have an answer for you today. but it's something that we can look into and report back. >> thank you very much. and then i have a question for the applicant, the applicant team. we heard from the united organized opposition some of the things that they had wanted, it seemed like they were able to have one meeting. with your team, i'm curious if you feel you were interested in or able to accommodate their request, how do you view the conversations you had with them? is the applicant on the line still? >> i'm sorry, commissioner tanner. i need to find and unmute them. just give me one second. here we go. mr. dolan.

are you there? >> caller: yes, i am here. >> all right, sir. can you respond to just the conversation that you had with the organized opposition and what your your thoughts were? >> caller: i want to clarify that i started meeting with the member organizations over two years ago in 2018. there have been multiple meetings. most recently there were two specific meetings, one in september and one in january. that we're getting into the community benefit commitments. we presented those to them about seven months ago back in june or july of 2020. they told us that they couldn't support cannabis under any circumstances, and we continued outreach to them through e-mails and concerted efforts between that point and now, and we send

them the agreement. and the remaining request at our last meeting were three things. number one, they asked us to continue to stay the hearing, which we've already done for multiple months. and we don't have the ability to -- stay the hearing and we make sure that we keep this building occupied. and i also want to make it clear that i do not own this building. we've told us m and provided -- and so we can't stay the hearing for tht purpose. i will not be able to move forward with this project any longer. the second request is that we create a cooperative ownership structure, where every member has equal ownership and equal

right to vote but is not a legal structure under california state law or a licensed cannabis. and we explained that and we also explained that it's not -- it doesn't qualify under our san francisco equity program. and the final request that they made is that we physically divide the building into multiple smaller retail spaces. and again, i am not the owner of the building. i don't have authority to do that. i do not have access to capital, and i don't have the ability to undertake a separate construction project. and ultimately, it would defeat the entire purpose and goal of this project, a cannabis equity marketplace and not to just be another 2,000 square foot cannabis retail store. and we wouldn't be able to make

the commissions with that small space. >> thank you. that was great. thank you for your response. i appreciate your passion. so with that, commissioners and hearing from everyone, i would be supportive of this project, not with standing i think the need for the department to do some work with our partner agenies and partners to think about equity as it relates to the cannabis industry in some other ways. and now i think in other ways. but i am supportive of this project. thank you. >> commissioner diamond. >> so i want to thank staff and the applicant and all of the commenters on their very, very thoughtful comments. many, many really important points were raised and are important for consideration. the ones that stand out for me the most are the following.

to the extent that we think that there is saturation of cannabis retail stores, consumption or not, in the mission, i believe the right way to deal with that is not with one-off approvals or denials of projects that go all the way through the process, spend a lot of time and money getting to us and then we decide. i think the appropriate approach, if we think that we're approaching saturation point is for legislation, and that it's inkufshth upon the department to make recommendations to legislation and take it to the board of supervisors. so i don't know whether saturation is an issue or not. it seems like it's being raised as a very significant concern, and it is worthy not of one-off approval or denials, but a more extensive study that, if we

believe that is a problem, should lead to legislation. i am very concerns -- concerned about the fact that as a city, we're worried about secondhand smoke, and we are moving towards or considering actions that would limit smoking cannabis in apartment buildings where -- i'm hearing a lot of background noise,ion -- jonas. i don't know if there is anybody i should be doing to silence that or somebody needs to put themselves on mute. >> the microphones are muted other than your own, commissioner diamond. >> okay. that it doesn't strike me as right that we are limiting opportunities for people to smoke or vape but limiting

opportunities for people who live in an apartment building to smoke or vape but you can do that if you are in a sing le-family house. and if you are worried about the impact, then we need to provide opportunities for people to have smoking and vaping. in the year that i'd been on the commission, we were concerned about having consumption lounges in buildings where there have been residents because of concern that the hvac system isn't going to work. we've been worried as a commission about allowing consumption and smoking and vaping in lounges. we've been okay with a and b permits but not c permits, if i got that terminology correct. but this particular facility, as someone pointed out, is a

stand-alone facility, so if we were ever going to consider a consumption lounge, this strikes me as the right kind of physical space to allow for tht. and when i combine that with my concern about the equity of limiting opportunities for people to smoke and vape if they live in apartment buildings, that for me is a strong argument as to why we should approve this. i am also concerned about just the level of vacancy across the city and that cannabis seems to be one of the components of retail that is still vbrant. don't want to have another empty storefront here. and lastly, i am very confused by the role that these community benefit agreements are playing here. when they're negotiated not by us but by third parties and may or may not be enforced by third

parties. to the extent that the issues are covered by the agreements are important, then we should be incorporating those into our approval process, either as conditions of approval, the commercial use permits or they should be addressed by the licening department. i don't want to leave the onus for tht on neighbors. so when i put all of those factors together, there is several recommendations in there for the planning department with respect to how we treat this in the future, including you know, determiing whether or not we want legislation to limit the number of these going forward in the mission and looking at how we, as a city, want to make sure we're imposing the requirements in the community benefit agreements. but i am with commissioner tanner in thinking that this particular process tht it's complying with all of the rules n light of some of these othe equity issues that i just

described, i would be supportive of this project. >> commissioner jen? >> i think commissioner moore had a request to speak. >> you're next. >> great. so i'm wondering if i could ask mr. christensen some questions. so if there is an interest in exploring a cannabis neighborhood cap, what will be the next steps for kind of those legislaive changes? what would that look like? >> caller: for evaluaing that. some idea of what is an appropriate level. i think that the city is grappling with -- we're starting to see certain neighborhoods

feeling overcocentrated or feeling oversaturation. but on the global scale, we do have a significant portion of sales that are going to the unregulated market. can biis a very easy thing to grow in a closet and so it's something that a lot of competition that our retail feel from that ilistit market. and it's a priority of the city to continue to regulate the market such that that switches from the unregulated -- transfer from the regulated market. so taking that picture in mind, you know, i think that the city would need to evaluate kind of a number of locations that the city as a whole can really accommodate that the market can support in such a way that we're accommodating the market as it does exist, while still supporting our existing industries. and then that the point, we

would need to evaluate what that would look like as an -- in terms of spreading those uses throughout the city. that type of analysis is very detailed. it would likely require a lot of inpu from industry, from residents, from a broad swath of the city. and we do have some structures where that can happen. we do have the cannabis oversight committee, for example, which is the -- which the planning department -- where that discussion can begin. but it does need -- [noise] the city controller's office. but up to this point, that type of discussion has not begun. >> thank you. so it's we don't want

another storefront. i do have some thoughts about the enforceibility of the cba flagship aspect of the project to make sure that the project is going to actually be what it presented itself to be. so i would just put that out there if the other commissioners were interested in trying to report back and just to wait to have an opportunity for the public to weigh in on the cbas after the operation has started. >> before i call on commissioner moore, let me just give my two cents again. i'm in favor of the business and in favor of the location and the usage, but i did hear the words "level playing field" multiple times tonight and i don't feel that the level playing field if

someone's business a block away had made enforceable cba commitments that this company won't make. i don't know that that's a level of playing field. >> i would like to support the -- or report back to calls. on the fence about this project is the fact about enforceable where nobody has experience if that's the core of the cba. just like with c bi, many, many things happen outside and the office of cannabis is 32 years old. i think it's eloquently

described and no experience nor does the public know what to complain about. it's not a security camera. [background noise] the commission has spend a lot of time with us m, and i deeply regret that a more robust jointly acceptable agreement has not been reached. there are two sides representing different perspectives. i cannot say one way or the other exactly what to hear or not to hear. i regret that there is a split in the community about the subject. i agree with every point other commissioners made about those made to equity and other operational aspects of cannabis, the number of cannabis, the

saturation of cannabis, and so i am uncertain the size of the business oiginally was a concern. it is still a concern, although the organizational structure of what is proposed here makes it a more operable project. i would wait to hear more about the commissioner. a lot of back and forth question, and also with mr. christensen's response, i am also generally supportive of this, of this project and also supportive of commissioner

chan's recommendation for a one-year report back that will report back on the robust commitment of the planning of the project sponsors together with other groups such as us m, so that there is a place still for other groups to still have this conversation and to be able to report back to the planning commission. again, my concern, since when it comes to the cannabis and the use and on-site consumption, the size is always a big matter to me. and i am -- 5,000 square feet is important and you know, work with the planning department, together with other city agency. and i agree as well with commissioner the cbas, whether

maybe those can be implemented on the conditional use. so but i would like to have the planning department start working on the equity policy. >> commissioner moore. >> i have one lingering question for the applicant. is he still available to come on and answer a question? >> caller: i'm available. >> thank you. in one of the commenter's descriptions there was a comment that the cba agreement had not been signed. could you hear that yes or no please? >> caller: yes. the cba agreement has ben signed, and we filed it with the office of cannabis, and it is now a binding, enforceable

condition of our permit. and there were nine stakeholders that signed the document, in addition to myself, and the documents cannot be changed o amended without a majority consent of that equity committee and approval from the office of cannabis. does that answer your question? >> you are basically affirming that all necessary agreements discussed have been signed and are fully executed? >> caller: yes. >> thank you.

commissioner diamond. >> i would make a motion to approve, with the addition of a one-year second condition. addressing all of the issues that were discussed, including the status of the community benefit agreement. i don't know is it the city needs to weigh in on how we actually phrase that particular condition or if that was fine the way it is. >> commissioner diamond, i can work with planner and sort of flush out that language, but the meaning of your condition is clear, so thank you. >> okay, thank you. >> second. >> commissioners, if there is nothing further, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve this matter with conditions.

as have been amendd to include a one-year report back with a specific look at the cba agreement. on that motion, commissioner tanner? a ye. >> commissioner diamond? >> a ye. >> commissioner more? a y. >> and commissioner koppel? >> a y. >> that concludes your hearing for today. so i thank you. >> everyone, thank you.

>> san francisco mayor london n. breed. for persons who wish to ask questions, include your name, outlet and up to two clearly stated questions in webex chat. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you so much. and good morning, everyone. i am excited to be here today because we know that most recently we have a vacancy in the city administrator's office, and i am so proud to announce that i am nominating carmen chu to serve as san francisco's city administrator. many of us know carmen over the years. she has served the city and

county of san francisco since 2005. she currently serves as our assessor recorder and in that role she is responsible for managing a team of over 200 people. under her leadership, the aassessor's office has reversed a decades old backlog of assessment cases and generating $3.6 billion in property tax revenue annually to support public services in san francisco. had it not been for carmen's leader snip that role, we would have a budget that was deficient in the amount of $3.6 billion. that gives you an indication of how amazing and how valuable she is to san francisco. such achievements have earned her office the prestigious 2020 good government award, an honor recognizing excellence in public sector management and stewardship. she currently serves on the san francisco employees retirement system board where she oversees the investments and policies of

a $26 billion public pension system in san francisco. assessor chu has really stepped up during covid to lead our economic recovery task force as one of the co-chairs. this was not in her job description, nor was it her responsibility, but when i called carmen to ask for her help because we needed all hand on deck to address the challenges that none of us thought we would be dealing with with covid, she immediately said yes. and with her leadership the task force developed 41 recommendations and policy ideas to make the city's economy stronger, more resilient, and more attainable. prior to the career as assessor, she was an elected representative of the board of supervisor. when she served as budget chair of the board of supervisors, there was no one who was more

fiscally conservative and focused on equity and serving the public's best interest and made sure we understood the value of every single dollar we spent. there was no one more of an advocate in that role than carmen chu when he served as the budget chair of the san francisco board of supervisors. she also served as the deputy director of public policy and finance for gavin newsom when he was mayor. she's been actively engaged in really changing bureaucracy in san francisco on so many levels. and just to go back to some information about the assessor recorder's office which was experiencing a lot of challenges, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of confusion, the work that she did to put everyone for the most part on an electronic system and to re-organize the files in that system was pretty amazing. now, i know it's very bureaucratic and very technical,

but to make san francisco work in a more efficient way that provides information to the public in a way that people can understand so that they can pay their taxes and they can do whatever business they do with the city t work she has done has really been about making sure that the average, everyday citizen in san francisco who is not connected to city hall, who is not involved in city hall in any way, that they have a voice. and they have some level of understanding and access to the resources we provide. she is the only asian american woman elected as assessor in the state of california, and she is the daughter of immigrants. her family worked hard to make sure she had some amazing opportunities to succeed in life, and boy, has she made them proud. the city administrator's office consist of more than 25 departments and programs that provide a broad range of services to other city departments and the public.

and ladies and gentlemen, i am so honored to introduce the next city administrator for the city and county of san francisco, assessor recorder carmen chu. >> good morning, everybody. first off, i just want to say thank you so much, mayor breed, for your confidence in me. i am humbled and i'm honored by your nomination, so thank you so much for this opportunity. >> thank you. >> if confirmed by the board, of course, i look forward to working not only with you but also with the board to make sure that we continue to move san francisco forward. i want to speak a little bit about my parents as i start off with the this. my parents were immigrants. mayor breed spoke about this a little bit ago, and my parents had a small restaurant and we all grew up, my sisters and i, working in that restaurant. i tell you this and i share this

with you because so much of our service and so much of what we do in life is grounded by our life experiences. how we were raised. the people who loved us. those who supported us. those were part of our lives. and what they taught me was the importance of making sure that we provide honest day of hard work, and making sure you do everything you can in every single role that you play is important. but they also taught me the importance of helping those who are in need. mike like my parents, not everybody starts off with resources. not everybody starts off with money, with support, and not everybody starts off with even the ability to communicate or speak english. and i think it's recognizing that so many people start off from different places that it's a privilege when any of us have the ability to serve in the public capacity. it is this grounding, this

belief that government can serve and the belief that government can help to support people, especially in their greatest times of need that gives me the privilege and honor of working as a public servant for the city and county of san francisco. first off, i want to recognize the people of the city administrator's office. your responsibility is a big one. the span of your responsibilities serve as a backbone for all of the city's operations. and i really want to thank you, a heartfelt thank you, especially during this time this, time when we're asking you to not only carry on with that work that you do, but also to do double duty especially as we continue to respond to an active global pandemic. this is something that is not easy. and i know that san francisco is better off for all the work that you are doing not only in your existing roles but also in the extra work that you are doing to make sure that we respond to with the best way possible to serve is city well.

to the people of the assessor's office, and i simply put and i want to tell you that i will miss you. we built a really great team in the assessor's office and we have accomplished so much. and things that seemed insurmountable to do and reversing a decades backlog and exceeding revenue expectations in half a billion during my time. and making sure we are completely overhauling outdated tools and systems that we have in our office. these may sound boring to many people, but honestly, it is this kind of attention and this kind of work that really drives change and excellent public service. i want to thank each and every person in the assessor's office. i enjoy working with you on the professional growth and challenges that you took on and

i hope you will carry on the accomplishments and legacy with you as you go forward. and finally, i want to close by recognizing and thanking the contributions as city administrator naomi kelly. i understand your decision was a difficult one. and thank you for helping meet the needs of the city during the global pandemic when we needed the support to lift up so many things that we have done. the accomplishments are not to be diminished, and icismly want to say thank you. with, that i am available, of course, for any questions. and i am really honored for this responsibility coming forward. >> thank you, assessor chiu and we are honored that you are willing to take on this responsibility. i want to provide member of the public with information about the city administrator's office. they are responsible for overseeing animal care and control, the office of cannabis, the medical examiner's office,

and the real estate division. the technology division. our community challenge grant, our grants for the arts program, the mayor's office on disability, risk management, and all of the things, many of the things that make the city run and often times we may have an interaction with any of the departments and not necessarily fully aware that they are all within the scope of the city administrator's office. it is a major responsibility, one that i know you are up for the task. and i am excited and grateful that you are willing to put your hat in the ring and allow yourself to be nominated for such a position. so thank you so much again, aseser to -- thank you, assessor chu, and with that we can open it up to any questions. >> thank you, mayor breed. before we start the question and answer portion, we are going to take a moment to allow reporters to submit questions on webex.

. >> okay. no questions, leo? >> thank you. okay. when mayor breed, the first question comes to you from joe with kqed. mayor breed k you ask ms. kelly to resign? if so, or if not, why? >> well, many of you know better than to ask about personnel issues. the fact is we cannot discuss

them. so we will not be discussing anything regarding anything that is personnel related. >> thank you, mayor breed. and should she be confirmed, are you tasks carmen chu with any specific tasks to address the allegations of corruption within the city that would be in her purview? what are those tasks? >> so just to be clear, last year when many of these allegations first began to surface, i immediately sent out an executive directive asking our city attorney and our controller's office as well as all city departments to not only investigate many of the allegations but to also look at ways in which to strengthen our policies so that we can make sure that the things that we saw happen or that people were being accused of are not easy to be able to happen moving forward. so what we did was to make sure that people are on alert when

they are making recommendations and changes to the policies for the department. and there is not a doubt in my mind that carmen chu will manage her department and make the appropriate changes necessary to address many of the challenges that we have heard over the past year as it relates to some of the department. >> thank you. and if i could just add to, that i think in any person who is assuming a role whether you are leading an organization as the assessor or city administrator, one of the things all of us will be doing is looking very, very closely to make sure we have the systems in place to ensure that there is transparency and how we're delivering the public service and how it is that we run our organization. these are all things that i am absolutely committed to. it is a fundamental piece to make sure that we have public trust. >> and there is no public

servant more respected, who has more integrity, who just basically is one of the most incredible, admirable persons that we have serving the city and county of san francisco than carmen chu. >> thank you, both. there are no additional questions for mayor breed. the next question is for assessor chu from ktfs. as the first chinese female administrator, what does this mean to you? >> i think this is -- this is always a heavy responsibility. i recall back when i served on the board of supervisors. at that time when i was nominated to the role, i was the only elected, only chinese american supervisor serving in the entire san francisco board of supervisors. and since that time much has changed in the city, but i think any of us, any of us who fill these roles understand that we

play a very important spot in making sure that not only do we lead the way but we also create opportunities and how people see no matter where you come from, no matter where you start from, there is an opportunity for you and a seat in government that no matter whether you had resources coming in or whether you were immigrants, that you have the opportunity to serve. and so i think serving as the first chinese woman as a city administrator, i hope to be able to to put my mark on creating a san francisco government that works well, that earns your trust, that is delivering services that you can be proud of in san francisco. >> okay. one moment. >> an i thought someone was going to ask me about taxes.

>> the only questions about taxes is why is my bill so high? >> indeed. >> and the next question is what's carmen's first responsibility after the nomination? and that comes from sky link. >> i think immediately especially during this time when so much of the city's response to covid is important, it is very important to make sure we continue to deliver on what is necessary and respond not only from a public health perspective, but also to support the city in the economic recovery. first and foremost, that has an impact on the lives of residents and operations. a big focus right away will be starting to take a look t a making sure we continue to support the efforts. that we do that in an excellent way and we also look forward to the future means. in addition to that, we're going to continue to look for more efficiencies. what's going to happen is we're going to go through a very tough time. i think the city is

understanding that not only are we going to be coming to recovery, but that will mean we have fewer resources at exactly the time when san franciscans need us the most. and that will really require that we do more, that we work harder, and that we're creative in terms of how we deliver the best services possible to the city. so in my role we're going to be taking very much a close look at this recovery effort, how we support that recovery for the city as well going forward. >> there are no additional questions. this concludes today's press conference. thank you, mayor breed and aseser to chu for your time. if you have questions, email the mayor's press office at sfgov.org. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you again. . . .

good afternoon. welcome to the january 19, 2021 special meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. would you please call the roll. >> supervisor chan. >> present. >> supervisor haney. >> present. >> supervisor mandelman. >> present. >> supervisor mar. >> present. >> supervisor melgar. >> might be muted. to my staff if you could check

to see if she is on. >> supervisor peskin. >> present. >> supervisor preston. >> present. >> supervisor ronen. >> present. >> supervisor safai. >> present. >> supervisor stefani. >> present. >> supervisor walton. >> present. >> i will -- circle back to melgar. not present. you have a quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseated and homeland of the original inhabitants of san francisco pepninsula. as the indigenous of this land

they have never forgotten the responsibilities of the care takers of the people as well as all people. our guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders of the community and by affirming their rights as first peoples. colleagues, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

>> thank you, colleagues. on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv, jason who records each meeting and makes the transcripts available to the public online. i would like to start off by saying to the clerk's office this has been a year of crisis and many long meetings. we appreciate your hard work and commitment to ensuring we handle the business of the city. you all do it with professionalism. i know it keeps you away from family. we appreciate you. to my colleagues, thank you for being here today as we address a very important issue to provide support for a community that has been devastated by the negative economic impacts of the covid-19 pandemic for a long period of time. my goal for this meeting is to

be efficient and get the work of the board done today in a timely manner. are there any communications? >> thank you, mr. president. we very much appreciate your words and we do appreciate continuing to serve the board and the city. thank you. the board of supervisors recognizes that public access to city services remains essential during the health emergency. the department makes the follow options available for the public to communicate with the board or access this meeting and participate remotely. you may send your written correspondence when received we will make it part of the file. if you are using u.s. mail send to the san francisco board of supervisors 1 city hall room 244 san francisco california 94102. if you are using e-mail, that is

bos at sfgov.orange. you can watch on your computer. go to channel 26. however, due to the signal delay you must turndown your television and listen from your phone if up intend to provide public comment. it is through your touch phone you will be able to be in live singh to listen to the proceedings without the delay. the telephone number is on the screen. 415-655-0001. when you hear the prompt enter the meeting id. press pound twice and join the meeting. only when you are ready to provide the public comment should you press star three listen for the prompt that you

have been unmuted. you may begin speaking your comments. i will say a few words about the agenda content eligible for public comment. there are two opportunities today. the president intends to call items one and two together. one is the opportunity to comment solely on item two which is the contingency reserve appropriation for the restaurant and food service businesses in chinatown. afterwards the board will vote on item 2. there after the members will introduce new business. immediately there after item 4 will be called. that is general public comment where you may speak on the items that are not on today's agenda within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. not to leave anyone out of the proceedings with the office of civic engagement we have three

interpreters who will assist with language needs. please introduce yourselves for chinese, spanish and filipino.

>> thank you, madam clerk. >> thank you all for being with us today. your continued support in attending these board meetings. for persons experiencing connection issues we have a live person to assist you. call (115)554-5184. pursuant to title two of american with disabilities. we have an individual who requested to make public comment

early. >> thank you, madam clerk. before we get started. a friendly reminder to colleagues. please be sure to mute your microphones when not speaking. we will open public comment at this time for the individual requiring special accommodations. >> thank you, mr. president. operations. can you please unmute the first caller. >> i am zack. disability advocate in san francisco. last week a member spoke of corruption in san francisco in a largely stance on the topic. i agree with mr. preston's request for whistleblower protection there. is so much corruption locally i don't know where to begin there. was a scandal for the mayor

london breed ordered the homeless directly despite denials. there is corruption with d.p.w. and muhammad who was arrested by the fbi for charges of corruption. i have a recording of on tube of vice president honda of the board of appeals bragging about his close personal friendship during an appeals hearing for doing something that the city found illegal. that was allowed by ethics. it was not exchange of money. it is permissible. it is ridiculous. when could individual happened in march the mayor blocked access to public records and deplayed the sunshine ordinance.

in 2016, police chief resigned under charges of racist attacks in our city and that was in may of 2016. i believe we still have a big problem with white supremacy and right wing extremist views in the police department. today two national guardsmen were pulled from the inauguration because of extremist views. we have a problem in the country. i ask the city do something about this while supporting the officers that do their job diligently. >> thank you for your public comment. mr. president that concludes the title two early public comment. >> thank you so much for arranging this accommodation. madam clerk please now call items one and two together. >> as this is a special meeting

of the board of supervisors the special agenda is laid out differently. for all special meetings the board affords the right of public comment to be discussed at the meeting even if that item had already received public comment at board committee. this is due to the brown act case. item 1. the hearing of the board of supervisors sitting as committee of the whole january 19. 2021 to hold that public hearing to consider the ordinance which is the subject matter of item 2. appropriates $1.9 million from the covid reserve in the human services agency to provide assistance to chinatown in fiscal year 20-21 to reduce appropriations and return funds to the covid reserve to the extent state and/or federal

funds are available for reimbursement. >> thank you so much, colleagues. we will convene as a committee of the whole to consider the ordinance appropriating $1.9 million from the covid contingency reserve in the human services agency to provide assistance to restaurants and service businesses in chinatown. seeing we do not have any presenters without objection we will proceed as follows. two minutes each for those who wish to provide public comment on the ordinance. we will then consider the ordinance on first reading after the hearing is held. supervisor peskin, would you like to make any opening remarks? i see your name on the roster. please proceed. >> thank you, president walton. thank you colleagues. this item today and convening a

rare special meeting of the board. thank you, president walton not only for scheduling the meeting but for your cosponsorship. we are starting 2021 exactly as we ended 2020 with a bunch of extra meetings. that is quite appropriate given everything that has been going on for the last 11 months. i really want to thank my original cosponsors president yee and sandra fewer. safai was there at the beginning, mar, haney and our newest member of the board supervisor chan. everything that needs to be said was said last week in the finance committee meeting. i want to appreciate mcspaed den

for support and early actions to address not only the impacts to chinatown businesses but more particularly to the seniors that have been disproportionately impacted by covid in that put. i want to mention mayor breed as well for her support. it is rare supplemental appropriations are offered and rare that i offer one. this is truly an extra ordinary situation in an otherwise extraordinary circumstance. i spoke to that in committee. i will briefly reiterate here. then i would like to offer after public comment -- i will speak before public comment a non

substantive amendment and i will speak to that in just a second. by way of background and we have seen this in local and national press detailing the very real threat of losing not only one of the last in chinatowns in the united states but i would argue the greatest chinatown outside of china in the world. this is a neighborhood we all know, all 11 of us know it not as tourists but proud residents of san francisco. one of us was partially raised there, and that would be our newest colleague, supervisor chan. the neighborhood that has been jumping off point for new immigrants, has an extremely large population of seniors, many the vast majority of whom

live in very crowded single resident hotels and whose workers are like everybody struggling to make ends meet but in this community it is particularly true. the statistics are startling. before the pandemic 97% of the families were working and gainfully employed. after shelter-in-place, half of them, 45% have lost all of their income. the pandemic hit this community earlier because it was exacerbated by the subway delays and by late access to the city's shared spaces, cancellations of the chinese new years parade. i am trying to make an argument

this neighborhood is particularly hard-hit. it is also an ecosystem that is very unique in the neighborhoods where it not only offers employment but food to the very same community. >> everybody is crying for help hopefully tomorrow when joe biden and kamala harris are sworn it assistance will be forthcoming. we don't have time to wait. every neighborhood and every corridor is hurting, but keeping chain new town intact is a universal priority and having said that the non substantive amendment i would like to make to item 2 on today's special board meeting is one that would

increase the city's flexibility relative to reducing the amount of this supplemental appropriation given the potential for reimbursement. as we discuss in committee, at least $230,000 of this $1.9 million appropriation should be reimbursable by fema. there may be other sources of funds, federal cares act money that may be forthcoming, and to that end i would like to add at section 3 on page 3 beginning line 16, just a very simple non substantive addition to add the words for the program or appropriated by the boards permit other local funds reprogrammed. it would read the controller shall reduce appropriations in

return for covid reserves to the extent that state and/or federal funds are available for reimbursement insert for the program or are appropriated by the board to permit other local funds to bereprogrammed for this purpose. i also want to really thank the community represented by a large set of organizations and individuals that don't always get along and are not always on the same page but 100% on the same page in this instance represented by the chinese chamber of commerce, chinatown, chinatown development center, tenants, sr families, merchants, api council, sf new deal, rose pak democratic club. i am sure i neglected others.

i want to thank the chinatown development center for putting up $100,000 and thank ms. mcspaed den for half a million dollars for $2.5 million relief package that hopefully will get us to the point where these restaurants and other food serving businesses can get on their feet. i rant to -- want to thank for looking for more dollars to carry this program forward. i commend the chinatown restaurant support and food security to all of you. thank you to those cosponsored it and i am available to answer any questions. after public comment would like to move the amendment. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. it looks like we have supervisor preston on the roster.

>> thank you, president walton. thank you supervisor peskin for your leadership i would like to be added as cosponsor. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, mr. president. i will be brief. i want to reiterate my desire for early support in this matter. if you recall back when all of us began to hear about what covid might be and the hatred by the soon to be former president as of today. chinatown, chinese seniors, tenants, small business owners have been hit hardest and earliest in the pandemic. for us to be able to give money to a program that is a win-win

for seniors, tenants, win-win small businesses. thank you for the wisdom to expand beyond restaurants. there are other limited use restaurants, cafes that also benefit from this which are extremely important to the vibrancy of chinatown. i am proud to be a cosponsor. thank you, supervisor peskin for leadership and thank you to the community for bringing this forward and demanding a just bailout in the appropriate time to help this community survive. it is the cultural importance for san francisco. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you. please add me as cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor ronen. >> please add me as cosponsor.

i want to echo supervisor peskin's words about the importance that the historic neighborhoods in the city are to our city. our city isn't san francisco without chinatown, and as the main proponent of the cultural districts in the city, i really belief that it is the neighborhoods that often center around certain ethnic groups in our city. they may being it such a special and unique place. you can't find neighborhoods like this anywhere else in the world. this is to me incredibly appropriate use of funds, and i know that everywhere suffering but i understand why you are bringing this forward, supervisor peskin. i appreciate it and love to join

in. thanks. >> thank you. [please stand by]

and you know, these funds are an important step toward equitable recovery, because this is really like our colleagues mentioned, it's a win-win strategy that also supports our chinatown business and restaurants definitely in need at this time. so i just want to thank supervisor peskin for legislating this supplemental. and really appreciate president walton for calling this special meeting. and of course, all of my colleagues on the board for really willing to come together for this hearing today. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor chan.

supervisor melgar. >> thank you. i would like to cosponsor. and thanks to supervisor peskin for the legislation and for supporting cultural communities and for recognizing the diverse ecosystem as that exists with businesses. thank you. >> thank you so much. supervisor melgar, i want to say how important it was for us to meet today and show unity and solidarity in support of chinatown and really just as a show of a form of unity against the bigotry pushed by the current resident of the white house. and we need to do this together as we overcome all of this targeting that's been happening for a lot of our communities due to this current leadership. so thank you all for being here today. and coming to this special

meeting. with that said, supervisor peskin, would you like to move for amendments and we can come back to them after roll-call? >> so moved. >> and is there a second? >> second. >> thank you so much. we will take up this motion after public comment. excuse me. and, madam clerk, are there members of the public who wish to speak on the appropriation ordinance? each speaker would have two minutes to speak. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. operations, do we have speakers in the queue, please? >> yes, madam clerk, we have six callers in the queue. >> clerk: great. let's unmute the first caller. as the president said, you'll have two minutes. welcome, caller.

>> good afternoon. my name is malcolm young with chinatown community development center. i'm calling in to state my overwhelmed level of support that the city family has shown for chinatown in this dire moment. as a community we reached out for help. as a city, you have responded. supervisor peskin, incredible thanks and gratitude to your advocacy on introducing this legislation. president walton, for scheduling the special meeting. and the overwhelming number of cosponsors. i need to read their names. i just feel so grateful. super vicar safai, mar, mandelman, melgar, preston, ronen, haney. thank you so much. thank you mayor breed for activating. and so early after our call for help. just amazing.

and of course for administering the program. we've spoken about the outcome this is going to hit public health by keeping residents out of kitchen, food security, employment and economic development. but i want to add one last note that people may not know. the chinese new year period is usually whenever our businesses generate 30% of their income in a one-month period. this is coming up in february. this couldn't come at a more timely moment, especially the impact last year during chinese new year's. this is going to keep us afloat and keep chinatown a gateway. thank you so much. >> thank you for your public comment. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> good afternoon, members of the board, supervisors, i'm the executive director of the chinese progressive association in chinatown.

i want to echo the gratitude and the appreciation. honestly, the awe of seeing our board of supervisors come together in unity and support. led by somebody, our wonderful supervisor, aaron peskin. he recognized the moment of critical urgent need for chinatown residents. p.t.a. provides services to chinatown families and residents. our partner organizations in chinatown. and we have seen just the devastation of, you know, over 1,000 workers being assisted with unemployment benefits. we had 4,000 requests. we were only able to fill 80 of them for cash assistance to families. we also helped support the establishment of un-docu funds and other federal organizations

to support undocumented immigrants. who do live in chinatown, who have no other safety net to fall back on. we've seen how our members and folks who are living are hit so hard with job loss, with unsafe living conditions, food insecurity, and trying every day to either risk their lives to ga go to work or stay at home with little for their income. the past week, there's been a surge in the bay area and san francisco and chinatown. so the fear is quite great. i want to make one final point about the importance of this resource. it's about an investment in the long-term future of chinatown. we need our restaurants and businesses to survive, not only to survive, but thrive as businesses, as communities and employers. this cries circumstances we have to view as an opportunity to support those employers who are doing everything they can to do

right by their workers. and ensure businesses and staff have the education and resources... >> thank you for your comments. apologize to cutting anyone off. we're giving two minutes to the members of the public to make their comments. thank you. sorry about that. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. welcome, caller. you have up to two minutes. >> hello. my name is max. i'm a 29 year-old san francisco native and resident of district 6. last week was the first attempt at speaking. this week, i'm addressing the fact san francisco is not a safe place anymore, especially for the disabled and low-income community members. i'm asking what is going to be done to make san francisco safe as a city that it used to be? i wasn't able to finish last week. after having my friend -- right in front of -- i believe i was targeted, because i was recognized from the methadone

clinics -- >> the public comment is for a specific item at this point. >> clerk: i will, mr. president. the caller, can you hold your comments, sir. apologies. this is not general public comment. this is public comment specifically -- >> i'm sorry if i did it early. >> clerk: no problem. go back into the queue. we have to hear what you have to say. right now, we're taking public comment in the committee of the whole for the contingency reserve for authorizing covid funds to go towards a reserve appropriation to chinatown to assist restaurants and food services agencies. okay. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please.

please continue. >> hello. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> hello supervisors, my name is gayle, a district 3 resident. for identification purposes, a board member of northeast citizens. i'm here to thank supervisor peskin for introducing this legislation and for president walton for holding the committee of the whole. when you have a thriving chinatown we have a thriving district 3. and many of our residents overlap. many of residents of north beach are touched by the program. and our chinatown brothers and sisters make our community thrive as well. i'm overwhelmed by the board of supervisors. i'm calling to thank the board for taking action that folks will see. seniors and families, who cannot

survive. and also to keep our thriving businesses of chinatown alive. we come out of this recovery together as a community, as one district 3. i want to thank you for your support. >> clerk: thank you, commissioner for your comments. we have in the queue, three members in the public. there are 14 listening. if you like to comment on the contingency only, press star 3 now. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm a community member in chinatown. i grew up in chinatown myself. i just want to reiterate the importance of the $1.5 million funding coming to our community for local restaurants. thank you, supervisor peskin for advocating for this. this under funding cannot come

soon enough this time of the year. one of our members previously mentioned, malcolm, chinese new year's coming up, and it's celebrated with food. it helps the local restaurants survive temporarily and helping the families living in the r.s.o. if they don't -- so we can provide some happiness to them and celebrate the holiday safely. i want to remind that this is just only a temporary band-aid for this whole thing. we need to find support for this community. this is how we can all thrive as a community together and honor those who work so hard. so for the future leaders of a future generation, thank you

very much for the funding. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hello. i'm from the chinatown merchants' association. i'd like to thank supervisor peskin and president walton for holding the special meeting and all of you supervisors coming together to support the legislative opportunity for funding for chinatown. i've been in a chinatown for a long time, since i was a young girl. i grew up in chinatown. it's very close to my heart. and to see what is happening to it now, really is devastating. chinatown is, you know, the -- this relief funding comes as definitely a lifeline.

this restaurant -- we could see when we started shared spaces program for outdoor dining, the restaurants people did come around. the outdoor dining it to be banned for now. i can tell you restaurants do create jobs for the immigrants, with limited skills. it helps make the communities thrive. we appreciate this measure to help chinatown during the most historic and largest chinatowns in the united states. thank you so much. to all the speakers before me and also for our support. because this really does mean a lot. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next caller, please.

>> hi. my name is larry. at this time, i'd like to thank president walton for holding the special board meeting. and a special thanks to our supervisor, aaron peskin in district 3. and all the other supervisors who joined in support of this. this is much-needed funding for our chinatown community. we're in dire need as i talk to merchants and residents in chinatown. and it's important that it stay alive. it's one of the oldest chinatowns in the united states. it's historic. it's a destination stop for many ports coming back to san francisco, or looking forward to them. many of the workers live in s.r.o.s. and also, they live in your

district. they come to chinatown to work and they go home in your district. we ask that you continue to do the funding, your covid funding. and also the c.a.r.e.s. act and heros act that will be rolling out. we look forward to the new president coming out. it's much needed in the community. i thank you again. and we're looking forward to seeing the funds roll out as soon as possible. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. we have nine callers listening. and no left in the queue. can we have the last caller. >> hello, i'm holly, the curator at the chinese culture center. we're a nonprofits arts organization in chinatown. we have deep gratitude for the relief package to chinatown.

it's the backbone to our economy and tied to the neighborhood. i feel this relief package is such a strong statement in expressing that we care about this neighborhood. this neighborhood is incredibly important to us all. without the support, we would not only lose our small businesses, but chinatown itself, one of the last intact gateway immigrant neighborhoods in the country, homes to so many, we thank you to the board of supervisors for our leadership and the support of the relief fund. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you to the caller for your comments. if you are one of the nine listening and you would like to make comments now, you should press star 3. otherwise, operations, do we have other callers in the queue? >> madam clerk, that completes the queue. >> clerk: okay. mr. president, there are no further callers. >> president walton: thank you so much. seeing no other speakers, public

comment is now closed. [gavel] >> president walton: colleagues, are there other comments on the hearing? i do not see anyone in the roster. and so being that hearing has been heard and is now considered filed. madam clerk, can you please call roll-call on the amendments made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor mandelman. >> clerk: on the amendments, supervisor mandelman. >> [roll-call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. roll call on item two. >> clerk: item two is amended. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. i have two in memoriam and resolutions. >> clerk: we're taking vote on item 2 as amended. >> yes, sorry. [roll-call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. [gavel] >> president walton: madam clerk, can we go to roll-call for introductions? >> clerk: yes, supervisor mandelman, as you were saying. >> thank you, madam clerk. let's try that again. i have two in memoriam today and

resolution. so first, i'd like that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of ken jones, who died of bladder cancer on january 13th at the age of 70. ken was an lgbtq and hiv activist who diversified the white male centric queer rights movement in san francisco. ken was an extraordinary man. he made his mark. he was kind and we'll miss him terribly. ken grew up in new jersey and came to san francisco. he became involved in the city's burgeoning lgbtq's movement when he attended a pride parade committee meeting after seeing a flyer for the event that featured only white men. he left that first meeting as cochair of the outreach community to elevate the voices of the marginalized members of the community. ken did that. in 1985, became the first black chair of the lgbtq pride celebration committee board. in the early 1980s, ken began to

volunteer at the foundation, today known as the san francisco aids foundation. he became the director of volunteer services and management. and formed a third-world aids advisory committee. ken was the northern california cochair of the california life aids lobby in sacramento for four years. where he actively lobbied for pro-lgbtq legislation. he chaired the campaign and fight back against racist opposition within the lgbtq community to the candidacy of a black lesbian. in 2009, ken was appointed to the citizen review board to the police department after the murder of officer grant. ken's lifetime of activism was memorialized in the 2017 series on the lgbtq rights movement "when we rise". years prior to the pandemic, ken

led regular walking tours that took visitors on a trek through san francisco's lgbtq history from the perspective of a person who helped make it. in the words of his long-time friend and collaborator, ken jones was a hero. he survived many struggles. he loved his family and community. and to dedicated his life to the movement of peace and justice. rest in power, ken jones. secondly, margot st. james. colleagues margot st. james was legendary in every sense of the word. monday, january 11th, this world lost this feminist revolutionary, proud prostitute and pioneer of the sex worker movement. i'm requesting that we adjourn today's meeting as the board of

supervisors in her honor. i'm introducing a resolution declaring february 14th, 2021 margot st. james day in the city and county of san francisco. thank you to supervisors peskin and ronen for cosponsorering the resolution and joining me in requesting we adjourn in margot's memory. margot was born on december 12th, 1937. raised on her father's dairy farm, margot was an aspiring painter in high school with hopes of pursuing life as an artist when she married her classmate dan and gave birth to their son, don, jr., around the time she graduated. in 1958, margot left her life in washington for san francisco. later, joining the beat nick scene in north beach, where she lived above jazz institutionel mat door on broadway. in 1962, margot was arrested on false charges of prostitution

and convicted. as she once put it "for the crime of knowing too much to be a nice girl". tommy the dyke, opened the first open bar in san francisco. when she got word, she ran to margot's place to find out what was going on. tommy bailed margot out of jail. her invices inspired margot to enroll in law school. her studied helped her successfully appeal her conviction. that led her to become a sex worker, she says. margot's 647-b's conviction made it hard to find regular work. she later became one of california's first woman private detectives. margot held ties with the san francisco defense bar, quickly growing her network of powerful contacts and decades-long relationships that would help her propel the movement forward.

in the early '70s, margot became a founding member of citizens for justice along with harvey milk. she created the sex worker caucus. 1973, margot founded coyote, call off your old tired ethics. for decades, coyote offered legal assistance to sex workers, successfully thought to overturn city policies requiring nonconsensual s.t.d. testing and quarantine for sex workers and condoms as criminal evidence. and led a movement to decriminalize sex work making visible the victimization of sex workers. coyote published "coyote howls", which featured news on sex work, firsthand accounts of abuses. and feminist theory and research

on poetry. coyote solicited artwork from a cartoonist and tina robins. the hookers' ball was a trademark margot event, remembered by many as one of those only san francisco occasions where lines of limousines and rolls royces lined up pimps, politicians and everyone in between. it grossed $200,000 to fund staff to carry out coyote's mission. margot made her entrance that year on the back of an elephant. margot brought coyote across the country, attending major women's conferences in the movement for

decriminalization of the world's oldest profession. and fearlessly pushed for decriminalization onto the political agenda. in 1982 with margot contemplating plans to take the movement international, she met dale peterson. soon after, the two moved to europe, where they would live ten years, first in the netherlands and then southern france. together with the coyote network, margot and gayle formed the prostitution rights, first world whores congress and second world whores congress in brussels in 1986. at the height of the aids epidemic when sex workers were desperate to protect themselves and livelihood. sex workers from 18 countries attended the congresss and world charter for prostitutes' rights were written there. in 1990s, paul avery declared

they get marry so margot could access paul's insurance. and margot returned to the states for good in november 1993. in 1994, margot was appointed to the san francisco task force on prostitution. there, margot met carol stewart. then an aid to the legislator. carol urged margot to run for public office to build support for the movement. 1996, margot ran for one of six open seats on the board of supervisors with carol as her campaign manager running on her slogan, the lady is a... champ. margot came in seventh and endorsements from mayor brown. among others. in 1999, margot and her closest comrades, set out to create the

world's first health clinic for sex workers based on priscilla alexander's model for a pure health-based initiative. in 1999, st. james's infirmary opened its doors with a pop-up clinic providing free primary care, testing, free food, acupuncture and massage therapy to sex worker clients. st. james remains the only nation's only clinic for sex workers. margot moved to washington with her ailing husband. she lived after paul's passing after her declining health. there's more that could be said about margot and the countless ways she touched lives. she devoted her lives to exposing hypocrisy and stigmaization of women who defy the standards of the "good girl". she was a relentless organizers

for legal rights, financial and health security and dignity of sex workers. she built alliances for women in societal divisions. she's remembered as a field nurse, abortionist, midwife and proud unionist, never management. as she'd like to say. her long-time friend susan bright said she was the sex workary joan of arc. it was founded up well, "good girls go to heaven. good girls go everywhere." i want to thank carroll and johanna making sure margot gets the recognition she deserves. rest in power, margot, may your memory be a blessing. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you supervisor mandelman. supervisor peskin, do you wish

to speak to the in memoriam. >> thank you, madam clerk. let me take a step back. supervisor -- >> president walton: why don't we do this. since you reminded us at protocol at a meeting awhile ago, why don't we wait until you're called on the roster and you would proceed. >> happy to do so. would like to be added as cosponsor and would suggest that this come from the entire board of supervisors as for mr. jones and miss st. james. >> clerk: mr. president, if you could declare it as such for both and i'll make a note and announce it at the end of the meeting. >> president walton: we declare it as such and allow supervisor peskin to make the statement at the appropriate time as reminded to us before. >> clerk: okay. thank you, mr. president. next is supervisor mar. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i left monday the

controller's office issued their fourth public integrity report as part of their ongoing investigation into instances of public corruption. this report focuses on ethical standards for contract award processes with the airport commission and other city commissions and boards. and identified several gaps in city law as contributing factors to actual and potential unethical practices in the contract award processes. closing these loopholes is one small critical step we must take to rebuild trust in local government that's been deeply shaken by the crisis. i'm submitting a letter requesting an ordinance be crafted to codify the recommendations contained in the report. including, but not limited to, amending city law to codify city officials and employees shall not knowingly provide selective assistance to individuals or entities that advantage for a city contract, codifying the

roles of commission and board members, including limitations in the contract award process. and requiring city departments to obtain key information about contract proposers, affiliates and subcontractors. i've also requested a hearing date at g.a.o. and spoken to chair preston to discuss the report. as we have throughout the investigation into public corruption. i'm grateful to the controller's office for their careful and critical work on these investigations and recommendations. colleagues, today, i'm introducing a further reenactment of public health emergency leave, our emergency ordinance that provides extended paid leave to hundreds of thousands of san francisco workers at large employers. the federal government regrettably let the expanded paid leave requirement in the first coronavirus response act expire at the end of last year. though, there's new hope on the horizon for expanded relief and

paid leave nationwide with the incoming biden administration. we will not wait locally to ensure access to this critical safety net in san francisco. for economic security and public health. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor melgar. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk. as previously stated, i would like to suggest or even make a motion that the two in memorium be from the entire board of supervisors. i would add growing up in the east bay, margot st. james was the thing of legend. i had no idea that i would end up meeting her in north beach and getting to hang out and be

friends with her and carol stewart. and she was just a ball of fun. and i think supervisor mandelman said all of the more important bona fideties. she was great to hang out with. i would like adjourn today's board meeting in the memory of my neighbor sally, who was also a ball of fun. and i'm sure margot st. james and she passed away -- she fell and went to rehab, where there was a covid outbreak. and she passed away from covid a few days ago. so i would like adjourn the board meeting in the memory of late-great sally gould who was highly entertaining and thank her neighbor sean for taking care of her. >> clerk: sorry for your loss, supervisor peskin. thank you for your

introductions. supervisor preston. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today, i'm introducing an emergency ordinance to stop evictions for nonpayment of rent that becomes due starting february 1st, 2021. this board has taken very strong action throughout the pandemic to stop evictions. the ordinance to ban covid-related nonpayment evictions passed the board 10-1. it was challenged in court and upheld, which was a major victory for our city and strategy for preventing evictions in san francisco. assembly member chu created state protections that are set to expire on january 31st, 2021. and that law took the crucial step of extending eviction protections statewide. but with respect to san

francisco, it purported to restrict our ability to adopt new laws to stop eviction for covid-related rent. so there is current an effort in san francisco. folks are working hard to adopt a new bill and assembly member chu is at the helm of the efforts to extend tenant protections along ab-38, 88. and the negotiations are ongoing. at this point, we don't know what the state will pass. we don't know when they will pass it. and we don't know to what extent it will restrict our ability to act locally once it goes into effect. there is too much at stake for us to wait to find out the parameters of the state law that's not yet been finalized. nationwide, more than 14 million people are behind on rent according to a report on the center on budget and policy priorities. locally, our budget and legislative analyst reported san

franciscoans saved $32 million per rent in unpaid covid back rent. the emergency ordinance i'm introducing would prohibit evictions for rent that's becoming due starting february 1st. for the period of the emergency ordinance. if the tenant's inability to pay is covid-related. the substance of this ordinance is that is the same as the previous ordinance that protected tenants from eviction for rent that came due april through september. as with the previous ordinance, this emergency ordinance does not relieve tenants of ultimately be liable for the unpaid rent. but it prevents evictions for that rent. the ordinance also, as our previous one did, would bar landlords from collecting a late fee for rent that is delayed for the reasons stated in the ordinance. i want to thank my legislative aid and deputy city attorney for

very fast turn around in getting this essential emergency ordinance ready for introduction today. colleagues, i ask you support this critical effort in help ensure that this passes without delay so we can make sure we have strong local protections against evictions. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor ronen. >> thank you. i just wanted to add a few words for the in memoriam for margot st. james. i wasn't lucky enough to have met or hung out with her. but i am a huge fan. and i had the pleasure of supporting her -- in summary for many years when it was in district 9. i'm honored to be able to cosponsor along with all of you

the resolution declaring february 14th as margot st. james day in the city and county of san francisco. as supervisor mandelman so beautifully said, margot was a freedom fighter and unparalleled civil rights leader who propelled the sex worker movement not just here in the united states but across the globe. her advocacy at the local, state, federal and international level helped expose systemic abuses against sex workers and decriminalize sex work and empower sex workers everywhere. margot st. james is behind a remarkable, inspiring legacy of defending not only the civil libertiys of sex workers. it's a legacy all san franciscoans should be proud of. rest in power, margot st. james. i'm introducing for a resolution

for in support of the caravan of children to heal. [foreign language] >> this is a caravan that will be safely distanced, but planned for tomorrow during the inauguration. that would bring attention to the local and national demands to support justice as welcome new leadership in washington. the treatment of immigrants and refugees by the soon-depending federal administration has been nothing short of brutal. in fact, the i.c.e. is separating a haitian child who is 9 years old from his family today in san francisco. and has sent this child down south alone and where he's going to be sleeping in isolation in a single room on his own for the first time in his life.

it's just awful. in 2018, the department of justice instituted what they called the zero tolerance policy, intended to deter migrants from coming to the united states to seek refuge and pursue a better life. a major component on the policy was separation of children from their parents at the u.s.-mexico border. children and infants were ripped from their parents' arms and placed in detention facilities that resembled cages for livestock. we saw the heartbreaking images of scared and traumatized children. it's reported 5,468 children and infants were separated from their parents by the trump administration. two months ago, 666 children were still in federal custody. as their parents could not be traced. thankfully, as we know, tomorrow is the end of this administration. good riddance. and we can focus on the transition to new leadership and new possibilities.

the caravan for children is organized by the central american resource center. [foreign language] >> latin x racial community project to hold the new biden-harris administration accountable to the promises they made during their campaign. the coalitions are two-pronged. first, seeking immediate executive action to reverse the draconian and cruel policies that instilled terror and hardship on our immigrant communities. and second, the coalition demands congress gets to work on overdue comprehensive immigration reform. we can no longer accept excuses that relegate reform to the back of the line. and ensure nothing like child separation ever occurs again. san francisco should be proud of our sanctuary law and the financial support we've put toward immigrant legal aid and vital resources that help

newcomers transition and navigate to their new homes. the tireless work of the advocates and community organizing, san francisco is a model how a local government can engage immigrant communities. tomorrow's caravan is another example of san francisco's leadership and vision of how the immigrant community should be uplifted. colleagues i ask for our support and i rest submitted. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor safai. >> thank you. please add me as a cosponsor to your caravan resolution. i think there could be no greater message sent immediately than to begin to reunify children with their parents and families and caregivers. it's one of the most atrocious practices this administration has partaken in. so please add me. second, colleagues, today, i am

urging this body to support state senator scott wiener's sb-110 bill. better known as recovery incentives act. sb-110 would legalize substance abuse disorder treatment known as contingency management. an incentive-based program that gives those struggling with substance abuse disorder financial award if, and only if they enter substance abuse treatment programs. it would require for med cal cover the program. colleagues, we must recognize last year in 2020, we lost one shy of 700 individuals to accidental overdoses. no community is immune from the state opioid addiction and

methamphetamine addiction. we know meth addiction is disproportionately impacting the lgbtq community and black community. with our support, we would be added to a list of -- a strong list of porers. the sb-10 is sponsored by san francisco aids foundation, apa health. equality california. mayor breed voiced her concern and california association of alcohol and drug program executives. so hopefully, we can look for my colleagues' support on that. in furthering the conversation and some of the hearings that supervisor haney had back not too long ago just december of last year regarding drug overdoses. secondly, colleagues, last week i introduced a resolution 210039 urging completion of the 2016 government of justice recommendations and compliance

measures. i wanted to let you all know that my office will be amendmenting the resolution in efforts to put stronger language in the substitute resolution. i want to thank miss jones, founder, alerting my office that my resolution needed stronger language. my office reached out to welcome disparities in the black community to further strengthen the language. i will be reaching out to you, if i haven't, colleagues, to create a collaborative process and resolution that encompasses the spirit of how this board wants to move forward making our police department more accountable. and to accelerate police reform. i want to thank those of you that have already reached out to me on how to strengthen this language for this resolution. in particular, president walton, thank you. supervisor melgar, supervisor mandelman and supervisor haney.

their substitute resolution will be submitted to the government oversight committee. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. >> thank you, madam clerk. i'm asking the city attorney's office to drop legislation for district 2 pilot program that would remove the parklets for an additional two years after the additional covid-19 declaration of emergency. as we're painfully aware, small businesses in each of our neighborhoods closed or had their operations severely limited in order to stop the spread of covid-19 in san francisco. the precautions we have taken have saved lives. we know the measures required to slow the spread and minimize the loss of life throughout california have resulted in severe economic consequences for our small businesses. and our restaurants in

particular. restaurants in san francisco employ 60,000 workers, and have been among the hardest hit the course of the past year. we cannot let up in our advocacy and have to advocate for their survival. allowing them to keep the parklets outside of their businesses, especially when many invested thousands of dollars to install them, and they can't use them now, is another small step to soften the blow. that's why i want to give businesses in district 2 -- that they will have these parklets for an additional two years. we must do everything possible to provide as much relief as we can to these absolutely essential parts of our economy and our community. i look forward to continuing this certification as i work with the city attorney to draft this resolution and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor stefani. supervisor walton. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, submit.

>> clerk: thank you, mr. president. supervisor chan. >> thank you, madam clerk. i want to thank supervisor dean preston on his leadership for the emergency ordinances, the eviction moratorium and i would like to add myself as a cosponsor for that legislation. and the rest i will submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor. supervisor haney. >> thank you, madam clerk. i just quickly want to thank supervisor mandelman for his words in powerful statement in memoriam. i'm grateful we're going to be adding our names for both of those extraordinary individuals. i just want to add a word. as the supervisor who represents st. james recovery now, just how essential that clinic is for sex workers, for people in our

community. and margot st. james leaves behind a tremendous legacy on half of the district 6 residents who benefit from that legacy. i want to say thank you. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor haney. seeing no names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. let's go to public comment. >> clerk: okay. at this time, the board of supervisors is taking general public comment. if you're watching channel 26, there's a signal delay. when you're ready to provide public comment, you must turn down your television. and press star 3 at the time. the telephone number and the meeting i.d. is streaming across the television. as the president indicated at the beginning of the meeting, you have up to two minutes to provide your testimony. we do have interpreters standing-by, who are ready to jump in and assist if there are

members of the public with their public comments. we have six listeners, and four members of the public in the queue. we're going to take the first caller. but if you are one of the six listening, please press star 3 if you would like to make public comment. operations, let's hear from the first caller, please. >> good afternoon, today, i saw the cops that killed george floyd while being presented as a saint. this has been on instagram. and before it was taken down, there's a picture of police officers belt saying st. derrick chauvin. it's believed this was posted by the police. deeply concerning. also, i called this morning because i've been told by

shamann walton's office, you can call 311 to get an alternative to the police. i talked to the woman at 311. she went through every suggestion about the stress, mental health issues, homelessness. and every single one of them said call 911 for the police. they directed me to the police. i talked to a police officer. i asked is there anybody that can be sent through 311 that is not police? and they said, we've had postal workers and people that help with mental health. i said do police always come with them? he said absolutely. so what's going on here? because you know what -- give to people so that stop calling the police. and we stop losing, especially black, brown and homeless people i'd really like there to be an

option how the service is supposed to be created is going to happen. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> yeah, i'd like to raise concerns about safai's proposed resolution regarding sb-110. first of all, i think it's kind of ridiculous that the board of supervisors does all of these resolutions in support of x, y, z. i feel like, you know, instead of worrying about what is happening in sacramento or d.c., board of supervisors should be worrying about what is happening in san francisco. but that being said, you should look into the florida shuffle. where i'm sure that the people who wrote sb-10 were very well

intentioned people. there is a phenomenon where individuals prey on people with substance abuse disorders by enticing them with various gift cards or having their luxury-grade sort of accommodations at substance treatment centers. and then, afterwards, later, giving them drugs and getting them readdicted. and having them go through the cycle over and over again. so there really needs to be some sort of accountability for these programs. and so i don't know what the situation is like in san

francisco, but before we start authorizing medicaid or san francisco health plan to pay for things, we need to make sure they're actually working. and so, yeah, we really need to make sure they're working. because right now, it doesn't seem like they are. and also, are with regards to alternatives to the police, the east cut -- >> clerk: sorry to cut you off. each speaker gets two minutes today. thank you for your comments. operations, is there another caller in the queue, please? >> hello. my name is max. i'll start from the beginning after saying the last caller was on point. i'm a 29 year-old san francisco native and resident of district 6 abandoned and transitional housing. i want to address the fact that san francisco is not a safe place, especially for the low-income and disabled community members. what is going to be done to make

san francisco safe and supportive city? i don't want to speak again after not being able to finish last week. after having my phone stole stolen in daylight, i feel like i need to. this person recognized me from methadone clinics i've been forced into my doctors who try to prescribe opioids. i'm with dangerous characters that choose to abuse drugs and engage in criminal behavior. it forces many to steal. and deny said patient from accessing the support they need as those same workers deny a liability as they cause a direct harm choosing to neglect the patient's needs. many turn to the streets as methadone and suboxone clinics are not in need and overproductive to the overall goal of substance dependency.

many accept regimens because the doctor claims it works rather than act in a patient's best interest. we want nonjudgmental treatment. what will be done to stop opening the drug markets? what will be done to set an example to criminals who focused on shoplifting from retail stores that are now closed? what will be done to make the city is safe place again and maintain the diverse, compassionate and understanding community rather than the current segregated, divided community the city promotes. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. and thank you for sticking around to provide your public comments as this item on the agenda. okay. we have five listeners in the queue. if you would like to get into the queue, press star 3. we have two members of the

public in the queue. and will take this to the end, unless some of the five actually press star 3. operations, let's hear from the last two callers. >> hello. good afternoon. taxi medalian 771. when will we fall in line for vaccinations for covid-19 as we pick up public passengers. we don't want to spread the virus from the public passengers. i talk to elderly and paratransit people all day. i'm asking that you contact and find out when we're going to fall in line for vaccinations.

i feel like the drivers should be aligned appropriately. i want to point out during this time, we're start to go lose more and more -- every day. foreclosing. you need to step in and take care of the situation. thank you. >> clerk: okay. thank you, caller. thank you for your comments. all right. operations, if this is the last caller, let's hear from the last caller. unless one of the five actually pressed star 3 to get into the queue. welcome, caller. setting the timer for two minutes. okay. operations, i don't think we have an answer on that person. can you try once again?

okay. mr. president, doesn't seem as though there's any other callers in the queue. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> president walton: madam clerk would you announce the in memoriam. >> clerk: tonight's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor peskin for the late sally gould. a motion made by supervisor mandelman and supervisor peskin on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late ken jones and margot st. james. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. that brings us to the end of our agenda. is there any further business for today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president walton: thank you

so much. colleagues, i want to thank all of you for coming together and meeting today and addressing a major need for a community that was hard hit by this pandemic. i want to thank madam clerk. and as this meeting comes to an end one day after the celebration of dr. martin luther king, jr.'s birthday, i leave you with his words. we have also come to this hallowed spot to remind america of the fierce urgency of now. this is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradually. now is to make time the promises of democracy. dr. martin luther king, jr. march on washington, august 28th, 1963. as there is no further business, we are adjourned. [gavel] [adjourned]

>> san francisco mayor london n. breed. for persons who wish to ask questions, include your name, outlet and up to two clearly stated questions in webex chat. and now we welcome mayor london breed. >> thank you so much. and good morning, everyone. i am excited to be here today because we know that most recently we have a vacancy in the city administrator's office, and i am so proud to announce

that i am nominating carmen chu to serve as san francisco's city administrator. many of us know carmen over the years. she has served the city and county of san francisco since 2005. she currently serves as our assessor recorder and in that role she is responsible for managing a team of over 200 people. under her leadership, the aassessor's office has reversed a decades old backlog of assessment cases and generating $3.6 billion in property tax revenue annually to support public services in san francisco. had it not been for carmen's leader snip that role, we would have a budget that was deficient in the amount of $3.6 billion. that gives you an indication of how amazing and how valuable she is to san francisco. such achievements have earned her office the prestigious 2020 good government award, an honor

recognizing excellence in public sector management and stewardship. she currently serves on the san francisco employees retirement system board where she oversees the investments and policies of a $26 billion public pension system in san francisco. assessor chu has really stepped up during covid to lead our economic recovery task force as one of the co-chairs. this was not in her job description, nor was it her responsibility, but when i called carmen to ask for her help because we needed all hand on deck to address the challenges that none of us thought we would be dealing with with covid, she immediately said yes. and with her leadership the task force developed 41 recommendations and policy ideas to make the city's economy stronger, more resilient, and more attainable. prior to the career as assessor,

she was an elected representative of the board of supervisor. when she served as budget chair of the board of supervisors, there was no one who was more fiscally conservative and focused on equity and serving the public's best interest and made sure we understood the value of every single dollar we spent. there was no one more of an advocate in that role than carmen chu when he served as the budget chair of the san francisco board of supervisors. she also served as the deputy director of public policy and finance for gavin newsom when he was mayor. she's been actively engaged in really changing bureaucracy in san francisco on so many levels. and just to go back to some information about the assessor recorder's office which was experiencing a lot of challenges, a lot of uncertainty, a lot of confusion, the work that she did to put everyone for the most part on an

electronic system and to re-organize the files in that system was pretty amazing. now, i know it's very bureaucratic and very technical, but to make san francisco work in a more efficient way that provides information to the public in a way that people can understand so that they can pay their taxes and they can do whatever business they do with the city t work she has done has really been about making sure that the average, everyday citizen in san francisco who is not connected to city hall, who is not involved in city hall in any way, that they have a voice. and they have some level of understanding and access to the resources we provide. she is the only asian american woman elected as assessor in the state of california, and she is the daughter of immigrants. her family worked hard to make sure she had some amazing opportunities to succeed in life, and boy, has she made them proud. the city administrator's office

consist of more than 25 departments and programs that provide a broad range of services to other city departments and the public. and ladies and gentlemen, i am so honored to introduce the next city administrator for the city and county of san francisco, assessor recorder carmen chu. >> good morning, everybody. first off, i just want to say thank you so much, mayor breed, for your confidence in me. i am humbled and i'm honored by your nomination, so thank you so much for this opportunity. >> thank you. >> if confirmed by the board, of course, i look forward to working not only with you but also with the board to make sure that we continue to move san francisco forward. i want to speak a little bit about my parents as i start off with the this. my parents were immigrants.

mayor breed spoke about this a little bit ago, and my parents had a small restaurant and we all grew up, my sisters and i, working in that restaurant. i tell you this and i share this with you because so much of our service and so much of what we do in life is grounded by our life experiences. how we were raised. the people who loved us. those who supported us. those were part of our lives. and what they taught me was the importance of making sure that we provide honest day of hard work, and making sure you do everything you can in every single role that you play is important. but they also taught me the importance of helping those who are in need. mike like my parents, not everybody starts off with resources. not everybody starts off with money, with support, and not everybody starts off with even the ability to communicate or speak english. and i think it's recognizing that so many people start off

from different places that it's a privilege when any of us have the ability to serve in the public capacity. it is this grounding, this belief that government can serve and the belief that government can help to support people, especially in their greatest times of need that gives me the privilege and honor of working as a public servant for the city and county of san francisco. first off, i want to recognize the people of the city administrator's office. your responsibility is a big one. the span of your responsibilities serve as a backbone for all of the city's operations. and i really want to thank you, a heartfelt thank you, especially during this time this, time when we're asking you to not only carry on with that work that you do, but also to do double duty especially as we continue to respond to an active global pandemic. this is something that is not easy. and i know that san francisco is

better off for all the work that you are doing not only in your existing roles but also in the extra work that you are doing to make sure that we respond to with the best way possible to serve is city well. to the people of the assessor's office, and i simply put and i want to tell you that i will miss you. we built a really great team in the assessor's office and we have accomplished so much. and things that seemed insurmountable to do and reversing a decades backlog and exceeding revenue expectations in half a billion during my time. and making sure we are completely overhauling outdated tools and systems that we have in our office. these may sound boring to many people, but honestly, it is this kind of attention and this kind of work that really drives change and excellent public service. i want to thank each and every person in the assessor's office. i enjoy working with you on the

professional growth and challenges that you took on and i hope you will carry on the accomplishments and legacy with you as you go forward. and finally, i want to close by recognizing and thanking the contributions as city administrator naomi kelly. i understand your decision was a difficult one. and thank you for helping meet the needs of the city during the global pandemic when we needed the support to lift up so many things that we have done. the accomplishments are not to be diminished, and icismly want to say thank you. with, that i am available, of course, for any questions. and i am really honored for this responsibility coming forward. >> thank you, assessor chiu and we are honored that you are willing to take on this responsibility. i want to provide member of the

public with information about the city administrator's office. they are responsible for overseeing animal care and control, the office of cannabis, the medical examiner's office, and the real estate division. the technology division. our community challenge grant, our grants for the arts program, the mayor's office on disability, risk management, and all of the things, many of the things that make the city run and often times we may have an interaction with any of the departments and not necessarily fully aware that they are all within the scope of the city administrator's office. it is a major responsibility, one that i know you are up for the task. and i am excited and grateful that you are willing to put your hat in the ring and allow yourself to be nominated for such a position. so thank you so much again,

aseser to -- thank you, assessor chu, and with that we can open it up to any questions. >> thank you, mayor breed. before we start the question and answer portion, we are going to take a moment to allow reporters to submit questions on webex. . >> okay. no questions, leo? >> thank you. okay. when mayor breed, the first question comes to you from joe with kqed. mayor breed k you ask ms. kelly

to resign? if so, or if not, why? >> well, many of you know better than to ask about personnel issues. the fact is we cannot discuss them. so we will not be discussing anything regarding anything that is personnel related. >> thank you, mayor breed. and should she be confirmed, are you tasks carmen chu with any specific tasks to address the allegations of corruption within the city that would be in her purview? what are those tasks? >> so just to be clear, last year when many of these allegations first began to surface, i immediately sent out an executive directive asking our city attorney and our controller's office as well as all city departments to not only investigate many of the allegations but to also look at ways in which to strengthen our policies so that we can make sure that the things that we saw

happen or that people were being accused of are not easy to be able to happen moving forward. so what we did was to make sure that people are on alert when they are making recommendations and changes to the policies for the department. and there is not a doubt in my mind that carmen chu will manage her department and make the appropriate changes necessary to address many of the challenges that we have heard over the past year as it relates to some of the department. >> thank you. and if i could just add to, that i think in any person who is assuming a role whether you are leading an organization as the assessor or city administrator, one of the things all of us will be doing is looking very, very closely to make sure we have the systems in place to ensure that there is transparency and how we're delivering the public service and how it is that we run our organization.

these are all things that i am absolutely committed to. it is a fundamental piece to make sure that we have public trust. >> and there is no public servant more respected, who has more integrity, who just basically is one of the most incredible, admirable persons that we have serving the city and county of san francisco than carmen chu. >> thank you, both. there are no additional questions for mayor breed. the next question is for assessor chu from ktfs. as the first chinese female administrator, what does this mean to you? >> i think this is -- this is always a heavy responsibility. i recall back when i served on the board of supervisors. at that time when i was nominated to the role, i was the only elected, only chinese american supervisor serving in the entire san francisco board

of supervisors. and since that time much has changed in the city, but i think any of us, any of us who fill these roles understand that we play a very important spot in making sure that not only do we lead the way but we also create opportunities and how people see no matter where you come from, no matter where you start from, there is an opportunity for you and a seat in government that no matter whether you had resources coming in or whether you were immigrants, that you have the opportunity to serve. and so i think serving as the first chinese woman as a city administrator, i hope to be able to to put my mark on creating a san francisco government that works well, that earns your trust, that is delivering services that you can be proud of in san francisco. >> okay. one moment.

>> an i thought someone was going to ask me about taxes. >> the only questions about taxes is why is my bill so high? >> indeed. >> and the next question is what's carmen's first responsibility after the nomination? and that comes from sky link. >> i think immediately especially during this time when so much of the city's response to covid is important, it is very important to make sure we continue to deliver on what is necessary and respond not only from a public health perspective, but also to support the city in the economic recovery. first and foremost, that has an impact on the lives of residents and operations. a big focus right away will be starting to take a look t a making sure we continue to support the efforts. that we do that in an excellent way and we also look forward to

the future means. in addition to that, we're going to continue to look for more efficiencies. what's going to happen is we're going to go through a very tough time. i think the city is understanding that not only are we going to be coming to recovery, but that will mean we have fewer resources at exactly the time when san franciscans need us the most. and that will really require that we do more, that we work harder, and that we're creative in terms of how we deliver the best services possible to the city. so in my role we're going to be taking very much a close look at this recovery effort, how we support that recovery for the city as well going forward. >> there are no additional questions. this concludes today's press conference. thank you, mayor breed and aseser to chu for your time. if you have questions, email the mayor's press office at sfgov.org. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you again. .

. . >> president bleiman: tuesday january 19, 2021 entertainment commission. due to coronavirus health emergency, city employees and the public, city hall meeting rooms are closed. members and employees will be participating. public comment will be available on each agenda item tonight. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org or streaming the number across the screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. opportunities to speak during the public comment period are

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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