>> clerk: -- for wednesday, january 20, 2021. happy inauguration day, everyone. on may 29, 2020, the mayor's office authorized all

commissions to reconvene remotely. this will be our 15th remote hearing. remote hearings require everyone's attention and most of all your patience. if you are not speaking, please mute your microphone and turnoff your video camera. to enable public participation, sfgovtv is broadcasting or will be broadcasting and is streaming this hearing live. apparently d.b.i.s commission hearing is running a bit late, so it may not be broadcasting live, but it is streaming live, and we will receive public comment for each item on today's agenda. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling 415-655-0001 and enter access code 146-960-7519. when we reach your item, press star then three to be added to the queue. when you hear your line has been unmuted, that is your

indication to begin speaking. each speaker will be allowed up to three minutes. when you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime, indicating your time is almost up. when your allotted time is reached, i will announce that your time is up and take the next person queued to speak. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and speak directly into the computer. i will take roll at this time. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. first on your agenda is general public comment. at this time, members of the public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission except agenda items. with respect to agenda items, your opportunity to address the

commission will be afforded when the item is reached in the meeting. each member of the public may address the commission for up to three minutes. members of the public, this is your opportunity to get into the queue for public comment by pressing star then three. seeing no public commenters, we can move onto the next item, which is department's announcements. >> director hillis: no announcements, jonas. thanks. >> clerk: okay. item 2, president's report and announcements. >> no report today. thank you. >> clerk: okay. consideration of adoption, draft minutes for the meeting of january 6, 2021. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission regarding the draft minutes by pressing star, three to enter the queue.

seeing no public commenters, public comment is now closed, commissioners and the matter is now before you. >> so moved. >> second. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. on that motion, then, to adopt the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, placing us on item 4, commission comments and questions. okay. everybody is quiet today. >> i do have one. just waiting to see if other commissioners had any, and i'm not sure who to direct this to, if it's for you, jonas, or maybe andrea, the city attorney, but when or how are we to include the recognition in our introduction of our

meeting, the opening of our meeting for being on the ancestor ohlone ground? i've been watching a couple other hearings, and they are making announcements. i think the board of supervisors is including that in their hearing. >> clerk: commissioner, there's no need to wait. you can do that in your opening. there's no need to ask to do so. if you'd like to open every hearing that way as chair, you're more than entitled to, and you can read that into the record. >> yeah, i think let's explore doing that. it probably would be good just to have it printed in the structure of our agenda, and i'm happy to read it in, as well, but something to read from, and we can just look at what they're -- actually, the statement that they're makes in

the board of supervisors or in our resolution that we passed, and maybe we can start that next hearing. okay? >> clerk: if there's nothing else, commissioners, we'll move onto item 5, election of officers. in accordance with the rules and regulations of the san francisco historic preservation commission, the president and vice president of the commission shall be elected at the first regular meeting of the historic preservation commission held after the first day of january each year or at a subsequent meeting, the date of which is fixed by the historic preservation commission at the first regular meeting after the first day of january each year or at a subsequent meeting. >> i make a motion that

commissioner hyland continue as president and commissioner matsuda continue as vice president if they are willing to do so. >> second. >> i -- >> clerk: if there are no other requests to speak, commissioners, there's a motion that has been seconded. should i call the question? >> do we take public comment on this or not? >> clerk: we can certainly take public comment on this. members of the public, this is your opportunity to speak to the election of officers by pressing star and three. seeing no requests to speak, commissioners, public comment is closed. and on that motion, then, to elect commissioner matsuda as vice president, on that motion -- [roll call]

>> yes, and thank you, commissioner johns and other fellow commissioners. i appreciate your vote of confidence. thank you. >> inauguration speech? >> clerk: i hear lady gaga is going to sing later today. that concludes election of officers, commissioners, and we can move onto your regular calendar. item 6, fiscal year 2021-2023 proposed department budget and work program. this is an informational presentation and no action is required of you today. this will be returning for your action in two weeks -- or i shouldn't say two weeks, in february. staff, are you prepared to present? and i believe there's some

introductory remarks from the director. >> director hillis: yeah, and congratulations, president hyland and vice president matsuda. [inaudible] >> director hillis: so thank you for the opportunity to present our budget and we're looking forward to your comments and questions. it all goes without saying that this has been a difficult year both financially and operationally for the city and our department, so i want to first thank our staff and you all in the planning commission for not just kind of getting us back up and not only operating, but operating well, but for taking the lead in programs and initiatives. your work to center and prioritize our work program on racial and social equity and responding to the -- to the

economic crisis by participating in the city's own recovery effort. as you know, budget is a big policy statement. it sets our priorities. where we allocate resources is critically important, and i think it's in the statement by the department and the commission. this year, we did it different. we undertook something different, called a pilot equity assessment that allocates how our budget and resources are allocated, both looking at communities of color and high need communities, and we will get more into that in the presentation. we attempted to quantify this. it's not an exact science and by no means perfect, and that's our first effort at this, but

we will continue to revise. but it's to address issues and show where the programs we're prioritizing and hopefully continue to make efforts on this progress. doing this also in a context of significant reduction in our general fund allocation as well as fees has been another layer of difficulty. so with that, i think we're turning it over to megan first who is new in presenting to the commission, so just want to introduce her. she's been with the department since 2017. she's a senior planner in our

environmental planning division, although she's working part-time on loan to the community -- [inaudible] >> director hillis: -- lastly with a masters in planning in public health, so with that, i'll turn it over to megan. >> thank you, director hillis. megan [inaudible], planning department staff. i'm going to provide a brief overview of the budget equity assessment that we've developed over the last year and a half, which is included in the budget report that you received before today's hearing. we derive our purpose of the budget equity analysis from three parts. first, budget allocation plan resource allocation goal. plans in summer 2020 to take

concrete actions that are visible in the reallocation of resources and the work program. and lastly, we want to align our tool as we move forward with the office of racial equity, which will be developing a forthcoming budget equity assessment tool for all departments to utilize in the future. so what has the process looked like so far? in june 2020, when the mayor asked departments to reduce their budgets in light of the pandemic and economic downturn, a truncated tool was included in the commission staff report. this cycle, the fiscal year 21-22 budget, we developed a collaboration with each division within the department. the tool indicates resources towards racial and social equity, priority issue areas, geographies, and pgs pos, which i'll explain more on the next slide. the results are included in the

appendix of today's budget staff report. we know that this is just one iteration. we're really seeing this as a pilot, and we need to do more work, but we wanted to road test this version of the tool to understand what challenges and limitations exist, and the exercise really brought about meaningful conversations about how to measure equity impacts of our work as well as shifting additional resources towards that work. in future years, we'll be better equipped with more baseline data and performance measures that we'll be developing in 2021, as well as guidance from the office of racial equity. so commissioners, you can expect to see a more refined tool in the coming year. the focus of this year's tool was identifying what [inaudible] in the fiscal year

2021-2022 budget. one, that the work program is focused on priority issue areas, and two, that the work is focused on a priority geography or population served. so this is how we were defining our work program areas that advance equity, and so that is what is called out in the tool this year is highlighting those areas. managers reviewed their division's budget proposal using this method allege and listed those work program areas and contracts in the tool that met the criteria. we really want to emphasize that this is the start of a longer iterative process that we need to do more to measure how our work program is burdening communities of color and other priority populations. we are open to your feedback and suggestions, and we'll comeback to this commission next with an updated tool and reporting materials. with that, i'd like to invite

deborah landis to present on the department's overall budget, and i'll be around for questions. thank you. >> thank you, director hillis. my name is deborah landis, and i'm the director of [inaudible] in the planning department. if you have questions while i'm going through this, please feel free to ask, and at the end, we always do leave some time for questions. so with that, let me try to share my screen, which i practiced in the practice session, and is now missing, so if you will give me just one

moment, please, i'm going to reopen powerpoint, which appears to have shut itself down, and i will get the presentation started. i apologize for my technical challenges here. >> okay. so today, we will be going through the budget and work program for the next two years, fiscal year 2021-22 and fiscal 22-23. our fiscal years in the city begin on july 1 and go through june 30. we got some instructions from the mayor's office this year, which i'll go over, review the volume of the past ten years, our revenue that we are proposing to budget, and our expenditures, the work program and then specifically talking to the historic preservation

work program, and then, our overall calendar. so the mayor's office budget instructions were to prioritize economic recovery programs that produce meaningful equitable outcomes, mental health and homelessness, and continued covid response. we have a financial joint report from the mayor's office and from the controller's office, which is projecting a two-year deficit of $653 million. to compare, i believe, last year's suggested two-year deficit was 420, so things are a little bit more challenging this year, and we, as always, have the rising employee costs which every year presents a challenge for budgeting. we also do still have some uncertainties and risks. we don't know exactly when the the -- how the city will open up

and when. at this point, we are planning that the city will be open in the calendar year 2021, so we are planning to budget to the prepandemic level, but that could change. we could have a slow commute, we could have a slow return to tourism or a slower than expected economic recovery, so we're not sure, but we're optimistic. as you'll see most of the

revenues -- [inaudible] >> -- and it was starting to decrease a little bit, and as you can see in 19-20, and our projections are a little bit lower, and that's due to the pandemic. so one thing that often gets asked about the enforcement, that is related to mostly short-term rentals before there was an agreement with the hosting platforms. every year, like i mentioned before, employees cost more, so the employees cost will

increase, but this is on the revenue side. so you can see that charges for services, those are our fees. it is going down a little bit, so we're actually proposing to reduce the fees that go into our operating funds by $2 million. the other fees are different funds that are special revenue, so we are, in our operating fund, proposing to reduce by $2 million. in our grant fund, this is one where we always have a larger number than the proposed budget than in the outer year proposed budget. for 22-23, we know that we have some recurring funding opportunities, but in the out year, we're not going to know what those opportunities will be until next year. development impact fee, we are mostly a pass-through agency,

so those are not projects that we'll be doing. those are mostly pass-throughs to noncity agency because we administer the noncity agency planning and implementation committee. it will potentially change later in the budget cycle, but most likely it will be set when we're back on february 3. and then, the last year's general fund support, what happens is we have a base budget, so that base budget included salary increases and benefit increases. so we started out with, i

believe it was 8.1 million for our general fund support, and we're bringing it down to the $7.1 million. and then, next year, it's going to be a lower amount because of the grant funds and revenue. as always, salaries and revenue are the biggest costs for our department, and you can see that going up slightly here in the proposed budget. we are going to be proposing to cut some vacant positions, so we're not going to be going up as much as we would have been otherwise, and we're still taking a look at which positions those will be, but i assure you that they will be vacant, and then, we can move -- we will have that list by the time we're back on the third. the overhead number will also change. that is centrally loaded by the

controller's office. it's going to be put in later in the budget cycle. we don't know what the number is. we have no control over it. it just gets put in. and then, nonpersonal services, that -- it includes things like leases on our copiers and anything that's basically is not a material or supply, and we are going to see an increase in the housing amount. the materials and supplies, we had [inaudible] for the current year, so we're taking that down by $200,000 for next year because we think we will have less of a need for supplies. capital and equipment, we don't

have the need to get any in the next two years. they're in a good state in their life cycle. projects, this is where grants and fees will be spent. we don't know how they will be awarded, so this line allows us to be more general until we know where it's going to be allocated specifically, and then it'll be allocated towards materials and supplies once those requests come in. interdepartmental services are things that we pay between departments. so our big three are rent, maintenance, and costs.

so you can see we're holding our numbers steady here in the work program that we had put together. the numbers in 21-22 and 22-23 will decrease once we identify those vacant positions, so this will change a little bit. you can see' the -- see the size of the division. executive office includes the director's office, commission affairs, and the executive office programs, which is regulations, legislation, and a lot of the policy work. so looking specifically to the

preservation work program, we have surveys, which are cultural district, legacy business, preservation ceqa, preservation h.p.c. activities, and mills act, so totaling right around 22 or 23 s.p.e. for each year. so you can see that we're here today with our introduction. we'll be at planning commission tomorrow, and back here on february 3 and planning commission on february 4. the budget is due on most years on february 21, but this year, that's a sunday, so it's due this year on the 22.

we start with the board in june, and then, the budget is considered at the board in july. so this is the presentation here, and there are quite a number of here that are happy to answer questions if there are any from the commissioners. >> clerk: okay. deborah, does that conclude staff's presentation? >> that concludes staff's presentation. >> clerk: okay. if there are no questions or comments, we should take public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to press star, three to be entered into the queue. commissioners, i have no members of the public requesting to speak at this time. public comment is closed, and the matter is now before you.

>> any comments or questions, commissioners? i did have a few, but i wanted to give other commissioners a chance to speak. it doesn't look like it. so i have a question -- this is for megan. on the geographical map that you had on the screen, it appeared that there wasn't that much in district 5. is that correct? megan, are you there? >> yes, sorry. i'm just pulling up. if i could share my screen, i could pull the map up again. that would be helpful.

we used a map from the department of public health, their areas of vulnerability map. >> yes, that's it. >> yes, and i could share a little bit about the areas of vulnerable created it -- [inaudible] >> director hillis: and just to add, president hyland, i think we had some debate internally and discussion about the best map to use because there are others, and there's other

departments involved, but we thought that this best captured this targeted g.i. there are some other targeted areas in the western fillmore. >> maybe in the outer civic center, western addition. in the unscientific few for under represented populations for legacy businesses, landmark designations, i think we had a smaller -- i didn't think we -- i remember that district 5 wasn't as represented as we had hoped -- didn't have as much representation as we had hoped, so i didn't know how this overlapped with that kind of

lens, so to speak. >> director hillis: i think we found that, as well, and this was kind of more inclusive variance that was in the map. this is not set in stone [inaudible]. >> yeah, okay. and just -- and this is for you, director hillis, maybe. i think that the way you've kind of allocated resources and full bolstered the citywide survey, i thank you for that. i think it's going to be very helpful as we move forward; definitely very helpful. i wonder as we move forward with the commission on equity, what your view is on working with other departments, like the office of economic and

workforce development and department of housing development specifically with our landmark designations as well as the citywide survey? but i see that we're going to be overlapping many efforts across other divisions, and it would be good if we -- you know, we started having dialogue with eric shaw and -- in housing and community development, but i think there's opportunity for us to leverage those specific programs: landmark and community legacy. so do you know what have some of the ways that we could improve that? >> director hillis: we could bolster our efforts in working with other departments in the

city. clearly, there's more work we can do in almost every subject, the housing work or environmental justice work, so it's clear that we do that in a way that the value of all work is enhanced by working with other city individuals. so i think it's a great idea, and we can certainly do that. i think we have a great working relationship with oewd, and i think as part of our legacy business efforts, we should engage even more with them. >> and i'm wondering if -- if we have a -- a venue, specifically, our public hearings, that some of the other divisions, departments, city departments may not have. and then, i think that they have more capabilities of

having, like, unity town halls that then, you know, diane being our liaison, can participate in. as far as just broadening education and awareness of our programs and being able to engage in a broader sense. >> director hillis: we did that. oewd as well as mohcd came just for that same reason, because it is a good forum to have those discussions, so happy to pursue that. >> yeah. i know that commissioner matsuda wants to pipe in, but before i do that, my last thought is when you were on the planning commission, we had created the cultural heritage assets committee, and that was a great venue to invite other

departments to share with us their efforts, and we learned a lot from that, and so i think diane can carry that knowledge forward and engaging in a more meaningful way. commissioner matsuda, did you want to go ahead and speak? >> sure, i'm happy to do that. i just found out by happenstance that there is a meeting at 2:30 today with oewd to talk about this new grant program that they're going to be administering for small businesses, and there's going to be a grant program component and a loan program component, and if i have the commission's consent or blessing, i'd like zoo see how we can insert priority for legacy-owned businesses because this program is geared towards small

businesses. the grant program is geared toward all businesses, and businesses that have more than $2.5 million in annual income, and i'm going to advocate to lower that amount because i think the businesses that are really, really hurting are businesses that really fall below a 2.5 annual income. to remember legacy businesses, i don't think that has been on anyone's radar because we have a full plate of things going on, so i'd like to have them consider that. and then, [inaudible] within our commission, i think we have definitely made it a priority to claim social and racial equity as one of the

considerations, really, the highest priority that we analyze when we look at all the projects that come before us, and i'm just wondering how we can make have our own commission priorities inserted in our part of the budget. you know, looking at landmark designations that are in communities that are fully underrepresented. and then, with the cultural districts, we see a lot of cultural districts, especially the historic cultural districts, that are really hurting in this pandemic just because so many of their small businesses have closed. not only economically but just having the linguistic or the social or the historic inability to be able to equally tap into the public resources. so i'm just wondering, you know, just some thoughts about how we can do that. and i don't know if we have any

access or any, i guess authority or priority over the -- the fund and the historic preservation, but i'd like to see some of that money carved aside for racial and social equity. and that kind of takes us out of the budget conversation a bit with the planning budget, but just kind of think more globally, i think, about how we can then prioritize what we want to do. >> okay. commissioner hillis -- or director hillis, do you want to comment? >> director hillis: yeah. i certainly think we can follow up, but i don't know how much is left in the historic preservation fund -- committee fund, but we can certainly convey that to them and talk to them about how they're kind of prioritizing about what's

remaining. >> yeah. obviously, we're getting into other topics, but having this laid out so well in the budget and having the community equity group established. it formalizes what we've been trying to attempt in our outreach over the last few years, and so that's a really great effort, and thank you for doing that. we look to you, director hillis, to work with us so that we're not creating more work for you, but we have to look at not duplicating efforts, and that's really the goal.

any other comments from commissioners? i think are we done with this item, jonas? >> clerk: it looks like it. i'll comeback to you for your recommendation for adoption to the planning commission resolution. >> great. thanks again. >> clerk: no additional requests to speak from commissioners. we can move onto item 7, case 2020-009613des. this is at 2778 24 street to initiate landmark designation. are you ready to make your presentation? >> yes, jonas. i will share my screen.

hopefully everything is up and running. good afternoon, commissioners. paula lavalley, planning department staff. this is the cass asanchez building, located at 2778 24 street in the mission. in 2016 -- casa sanchez building, located at 2778 24 street in the mission.

>> -- with the family business that dates to the 1920s, and with development of a larger

latino business community, particularly that of the mission district in the 20 century. the company's production facility at 250 napoleon street was listed on the legacy business registry in 2017. the period of significance would be 1968 to 2011, commencing the year casa sanchez opened in the building and ending when it closed. the casa sanchez is significant for its association with the latinx community. it remains under represented among designated buildings on-site.

property owner has been notified and is supportive of the landmark initiation and will also be on the phone for some remarks. this concludes my presentation, and i'm happy to answer any questions. i apologize to supervisor ronen's aide, amy reinhart. i meant to indicate that she could go ahead before we started, so if you'd like to speak, ann cervantes and desiree miranda are here with statements in support of the designation. >> can you hear me? am i on? oh, i'm not on. >> we can hear you. >> okay.

thank you so much. amy reinhart, legislative aide to supervisor hillary ronen. no need to apologize. i'm perfectly fine. i just wanted to make sure my name was on the roster. thank you, commissioner hyland and commission fore hearing our two items today. i'm very honored to speak on behalf of commissioner ronen for the designation of casa sanchez at 2778 24 street and 2868 mission street. [inaudible] i'm not going to repeat any of that, but i do want to add to those the

importance of the [inaudible] and preserve this area as a center of latinx center of culture and commerce. and identification and protection of specific places and preservation of the district is crucial. we are so grateful for s.f. heritage and san francisco latino historical society in particular, ann cervantes, and the city staff for doing the

research. [inaudible] it's particularly resonating, and just overall supervisor ronen enthusiastically supports. happy to work with you on moving this forward. thank you so much, and look forward to your [inaudible]. take care. >> clerk: so if i understand correctly, the planning department is the project sponsor for this matter. is that right, pilar? >> that's right, but we have been partnering with ann and desiree, and we had to inform them they would have additional information about the history. >> clerk: okay. commissioner hyland, how much time did you want to provide? >> i just wonder how much do

they need? is five minutes enough or i don't know -- i don't know what they were intending, what their time frame that they were intending to present is. do you know, pilar? >> they have a number of slides, which i'm going to share, and then, talking about the -- yeah, going more in depth into the history of the business and the significance -- >> clerk: so who am i unmuting, pilar, because ann cervantes was originally listed as the main speaker. >> the phone number should be, yeah, the one i gave you. >> clerk: okay. so if the presenter is ready, i've unmuted your line, and you have five minutes. >> is five minutes enough? maybe they can share with us what they were thinking before

we get started? i don't think we need an extensive presentation. yes. >> so -- can you hear me? >> clerk: yes. >> yes, we can hear you. >> what we're going to do is desiree's going to give some of the background in preparing this application, and i'm going to follow with the history, and then bob is on the line, as well. it depends on what you want, how much time you allow us. it's difficult in figuring out your system, so i figured it out. so we can start with desiree. desiree, can you unmute and begin? she has two minutes, and then, i have two minutes after that. >> okay. so let's shoot for five. we just don't want it to go on and on. that's our goal, but we want to hear what you have to say. >> desiree?

desiree? okay. she's not on there, so i'm going to have to do -- she sent me just in case we had technical difficulties. so her remarks are good afternoon, president hyland, vice president matsuda, and commission. [inaudible] included in your packets which you should choose to initiate today. i prepared the draft national document in 2015 to 2016 with -- while on staff at san francisco statistical heritage. we received two applications [inaudible] latinos in the 20

century. the other nomination was for mission cultural center. in 2016, the h.p.c. added the casa sanchez building to the landmarks designation work programming. significant. opened in 1924, the family business remains the longest operating tamale and tortilla factory in the city. the 24 street building was the third and last san francisco location of the business where it operated from 1968 to 2001. as you'll hear from ann, the contributions of casa sanchez extend beyond its business success. it is located in the iconic 24 street cultural center. currently, there are no designation latino lan marks within calle 24 or the cultural

district at all. in fact there's only one latino designate in the city, guadalupe church. [inaudible] which will inform the local landmark designation to use to inform the local landmarks information. should you choose to initiate the building with that, i'll hand it over to ann and the history of casa sanchez. and my work, sorry -- words are, thank you, commissioners for initiating this casa sanchez for landmarking. we would love your support in landmarking another latino community historical asset. it is important to the latino community to document the contributions of latinos in the building of the city of san francisco, both tangible and intangible assets. we have found the historic

context statements to this date have been missing historic periods what we seem important: post world war ii, 1946 to 1959, 1960-1999 and code control affirmation resistance to displacement 2000 to 2020. the reason casa sanchez, we would like you commissioners to initiate this landmark is just not for the historic pillory of the building but for the contributions to this building. the owners of this building was sustaining involvement with st. peter's church and is really important to document the contributions of martha and robert sanchez when they moved to the mission district. and especially their son, bob sanchez, in establishing one of the anchors businesses on calle

24. while still in high school, his parents relegated the finances of casa sanchez to bob. his parents eventually promoted him to leadership of the company, where he developed the products for a growing market for mexican food products. while he was still in high school, he was one of the founders of the 24 street merchants association along with mari yana and marisel sanchez. he was appointed one of the first small business commissioners by vice mayor agnos. it's because of his contributions that have connected the rest of san francisco to the latino communities festivals and parades and other businesses.

the concept [inaudible] is really important to communities of color, and i'm going to recite something from [inaudible] book on california women and politics, and professor [inaudible] brought this in. he said people must have their own space to inhabit and fluor fluorish. [inaudible] not only the people but also their histories and their abilities to construct their histories. emma perez argues without language, there is no memory, and history sustains a community and allows it to imagine a different future. this is where i was going to

introduce bob sanchez, but i don't know how to connect him to this conversation. would these people have to dial in? i'm not quite sure? >> clerk: well, instructions should have been sent out to everyone as to how to coordinate your presentations, but maybe they weren't provided to you. at this point, yes, they should basically call in if they want to commit public comment. >> okay.

[inaudible] so you can get an accurate history that's not recorded in the books. i'm not sure how to proceed on this. clerk clrk thank you. commissioners, we should open this up for public comment. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this item by pressing star and three to enter the queue. commissioners, i have no members of the public requesting to speak at this time, so public comment is closed, and the matter is now before you.

>> any other comments or questions from the commission? >> motion to approve. >> second. >> all right. looks like commissioner matsuda, did you want to say anything or just wanted to motion? >> just make a motion. >> okay. i think we have a motion and a second, jonas. >> clerk: very good, commissioners. on that motion, it has been seconded to initiate landmark designation. [roll call]

>> clerk: thank you, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0. commissioners, that'll place us on item 8 for case number 2020-009614 des for 2868 mission street, the mission cultural center, also an initiation of landmark designation. >> good afternoon. i'm moses corrette, department staff. this building is located at 2868 mission street, in the

mission. in 2016, the h.p.c. added the mission cultural center to diversefy the landmark program in anticipation of the completion of a national register nomination for the subject property. the draft nomination, authored by jonathan limmers and desiree arnata was recently in front of this body and forms the core of this local designation. the mission cultural center for latino arts, otherwise known as the m.c.c. or mccla, is located on the west side of mission street between 24 street and 25 street in the mission. the building was originally constructed as a furniture store and was converted to the cultural center in 1977.

it is l-shaped in plan and has an open floor plan with track lights. the upper portion of the primary and east facades feature a large and significant mural depicting latino and cultural heritage themes. a list of the features is included in the executive summary. as noted in the executive summary and detailed in had the draft nomination, the mccla is the foremost art and cultural center for latinos in san francisco. the mission cultural center is significant for association with a social and ethnic history of the mission district and a predominantly latinoen clarify, along with the

development of the latino movement in the 19 # of 0s. the period of significance is from 1977 to 1984, commencing with the year the mccla occupied the building at 2868 mission street and ending in the year the renovations commenced. the designation for the mission cultural center for the latino arts meets one of the commission's requirements for designation. the property owners, the san francisco [inaudible] commission, represented today by deputy director of programs, joanne lee, is supportive of the landmark designation initiation. that ends my presentation. i'm happy to answer any

questions. we have some statements to present as well as another short presentation in support of the designation. and. >> clerk: miss cervantes, are you prepared to make your designation? >> i'm here. can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, we can. you need to mute your television or something. something is giving us some feedback. you're muted now. >> i'm not sure. i know i can hear it. it's kind of annoying. i'll just say real quickly, from the arts mission, we're supportive of this landmark

status and to initiate the process. we look forward to working with the staff on this. thank you. >> clerk: okay. i believe that's coming from miss cervantes because i unmuted her, and it was coming through. miss cervantes, if you can mute your television or however you're viewing this. i'm going to unmute you again for the presentation. >> okay. and i will share my screen again for the presentation. >> clerk: okay. miss cervantes, you need to mute your television. >> i don't have it on. >> clerk: how about your computer? turn the sound down. >> my computer is off. >> clerk: okay. i'm not sure. it's a really obnoxious sound.

if you say you've got everything muted, something must be on on your side. i'm going to try one more time, miss cervantes. there you go. >> okay. >> clerk: okay. you have five minutes, miss cervantes. >> okay. i don't have the total presentation. [inaudible] calling in, who has the background history. what i want to say, again, these are important in documenting the latino history and contribution to the city, and both myself and [inaudible] and allen [inaudible] have a role in the overall latino citywide context statement.

we're providing history that's not recorded in books. because of where we are and approaching our twilight years, i guess, that's able to document this history because we were part of this history. more so carlos as an immigrant and involved in the establishing of the mission cultural center, that we've been able to access photos, and it's the same for lorraine garcia lacara who's part of the royal chicano air force and part of the community here in san francisco, and alan martinez because of how context statements should be formalized. but i thank you for the equity involvement. what you'll see here are slides that no one has ever been seeing, but also, i want to say

that both ellen and myself have documented the historic and oral histories of calle 24 who is assisting the latino cultural district [inaudible] so is there any way that you can advance carlos to speak to the policy number? >> clerk: well, miss cervantes, given that the names do not appear, they're phone numbers -- >> oh. >> clerk: it's extremely difficult. this is why coordination and the instructions were sent out to project sponsors, that you should really have one point of entry, and you should call in on your end for your presentations. at this point, they should

press star, three in public comment if they want to speak, and we'll take them in the order that they were received. >> okay. well, i'm going to end my part. okay. >> clerk: okay. members of the public, this is your opportunity to address the commission on this matter by pressing star and three to be entered into the queue, and we will take -- well, i guess they decided not to speak, so right -- commissioners -- i mean, commissioners, members of the public, if you press star, three again, you will lower your hand and no longer be in the queue. so you just need to press star, three once. no one wants to speak to this matter? okay. commissioners, i have no members of the public wishing to speak at this time, so public comment is closed and the matter is now before you. >> so jonas, maybe moses and/or

ann can work with the person who wanted to speak and try to get on the call, if we have time, and then, commissioners, if anyone has anything to say, and then, if they end up on the call, we'll reopen public comment. >> clerk: public. >> i'm trying to patch in carlos through my phone right now. >> clerk: well, right now is not really the time right now. >> well, i'll see if i can speak through my phone. can you hear him? >> clerk: we can hear you, but i don't hear anybody else. why doesn't he just calling in to the 415 area code number that's running on the bottom of the screen and then entering the access code and then

pressing star and three to get into the queue? >> commissioner matsuda, why don't we go with you while we're trying to have that figured out. >> sure. i just wanted to thank ann and and alan and all of those who have been involved in initiation and incorporating all of the things that we have been advocating for about the landmark designations for businesses in the city, and seeing pictures that no one has ever seen before will help inform the commission and generations to come long after we are gone about why this building is very important. so i thank you for doing that,

and i encourage all projects that you may be involved in in the future and to encourage friends and family who may be interested in participating in landmark designation projects to do the same, so thank you. >> great. commissioner so? >> i'm really excited about this process of designating this particular cultural center for the mission arts cultural center. as an arts commissioner, i had the opportunity to tour the building and how we can allocate more resources to help the artists and also marginalized community in the mission. and i love this building, i love the programs, the after school kids program that this

location has provided to the neighborhoods, and also, i love the community to see that there's a really vibrant print making workshop in the upstairs, and the posters. and i was able to talk to the organizers there. those posters are historic, in my opinion, showing the local grassroots movement or just any other fun things that happen in the history of the mission and also the latinx population, and i really hope that when we are moving forward to hone into what is the significant events and activities, and i trust that everybody here are going to be really having a great time to look into this history and the evolutions of how this ultimate cultural center can

transcend itself to elevate the community. it's just going to be huge to san francisco and all of us. and advocating the cultural heritage for essentially this part of my neighborhood, it's essentially amazing, so thank you for all of the hard work that you have put forward, and also with the hard work of supervisor ronen's office. and i am in full support of this, and i am really happy to see how quickly this designation has been progressed, so kudos to all of you. so i'm like this, thumbs up, and thanks to joanne from the arts commission who's here to shepherd this, and we are all going to be able to help this cultural center, like commissioner matsuda said, to fluorish for many years to

come. >> thank you. i just wanted to add onto both of these, this designation and the previous one. and really, i think the preservation in its maturity now has finally transcended the goal -- well, the colonial view of architecture, let's just say, and i think that san francisco is kind of leading the way in recognizing the intangible cultural heritage in these two projects, and these two designations are perfect examples of that. and it'll lead us to having a greater appreciation for more of the community-based grass roots kind of arts and cultural and, you know, the things that don't -- that has not, up until now, gotten as much recognition, so really excited for both of these, and i would

certainly support them. commissioner johns, i think you're up next. >> yes, thank you. well, i -- i am very much in favor of this program, this designation, and i move that we adopt the proposed resolution. however, i did notice that the dates in the proposed resolution for this designation and the last one are off and they need to be corrected. i think they were prepared in anticipation for the hearing in december, and so they should be corrected, too. >> second the motion. >> clerk: thank you, commissioners. >> i think commissioner pearlman has something to add. >> thank you. i really want to echo what commissioner hyland just said about the celebration of a

building versus the celebration of culture. i, you know, personally get stuck in the historical view of history being about the building, and especially being an architect, the first thing i do when i start reading the information, you know, about a project being landmarked is look at the building, and of course, neither of these buildings are much to speak of from an architectural standpoint. but i still appreciate that san francisco in particular is leading the country in how we celebrate who we are. >> right. >> i thought this morning as i watched the inauguration about the broad spectrum of people that are going to be in our government, and so i think now we as a city are really looking at that same broad spectrum of

who we are and how we got here and where we go from here, so i really applaud this community in particular. it seems like, you know, the same people were involved in preparing these reports and the research and the history, and thank you for that because it really is not only helping the city, but it certainly opened my eyes to parts of the city that i don't know really well, so thank you for that. >> thank you, commissioner pearlman. it just kind of reminded me. i didn't want to diminish the preservation movement. you know, in the early first couple decades of the preservation movement, our cultural and tangible cultural heritage was being erased by the buildings being destroyed, so it as a movement had to hang onto the physical buildings,

and i just wanted to celebrate the fact that it's matured to the fact where we can actually do more, and so i don't know if there's any other commissioners. we have a motion. i'm not sure if we had a second yet. do we have a second? so jonas, were we able to connect to the speaker? >> clerk: i have members of the public who are wanting to speak. if we want to try one last time, members of the public, you have one last time to address the commission. okay. here we go. we have one person wanting to address the commission. >> hello. this is carlos. i've been trying to -- can you hear me? >> yes, you're good. >> great, thank you. okay. it is really a pleasure to speak in regards to the

designation of the mission cultural center. one of the things that i found really interesting at the time is that it was a collective of young people, young artists coming from different parts of the mission district and also from universities like san francisco state and u.c. berkeley who actually got together and made a proposal to the city based on the fact that they had made a call for the creation of the five cultural centers in strisk, and it was a struggle, let me tell you, because of the fact that it was built basically with the help of hundreds and hundreds of volunteers. i remember at the time my ex-wife was working at the san francisco pretrial diversion program, and she was able to channel a number of individuals to come in and put 150 hours in

the remodelling of the center. people from project 20, from various places who would come in and spent hours, and i have to say that some people actually refused to leave after the 150 hours because they loved the place so much. i remember one person who spent over 500 hours volunteering at the cultural center because it was a tremendous enthusiasm to see arts being developed. one of the reasons why we created the cultural center was the fact that, as latinos, we have very few places where to show. i was an art student and anthropology at san francisco state, and we felt we did not have a place to show our art. so our thought was well, since we don't have a place, we'll bring diversity to the community. it's really grown immensely over the years. approximately 20 years ago, there was a study done by stanford university that said that the mission cultural

center was the most dynamic and the largest latino cultural center in the country, and i think that's still the case, and so i say that with all my heart, i feel a tremendous unity, a tremendous pride in the work that has been done by not only the staff, the residents of the mission district and love it. thank you for your time, and i appreciate your support. >> excellent. glad we were able to hear your comments. >> indeed. >> jonas? >> clerk: yes. commissioners that concludes public comment. there's a motion that's been seconded to adopt and initiate. on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: so moved,

commissioners. that motion passes unanimously, 7-0, and concludes your agenda for today. >> thank you. >> thank you. we're adjourned. thank you, everyone. >> thanks. >> see you, everybody. >> bye, everybody. modifying requirements for in person meetings. during the coronavirus this commit me will convene remotely until authorized to meet in person. public comment is available on each item.

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org. >> thank you so much. welcome everyone to our city our home oversight committee meeting. it is january 19th. please call the roll. andrews. >> here. >> choice chair d'antonio. >> here. >> member friedenbach. >> i don't think we can hear you. here. >> member haines. >> here. >> member leadbetter. >> here. >> member miller. >> absent. >> memberna agenda. >> here. >> reggio. >> here. >> chair williams. here. >> we have a quorum at this time. >> now we will move to public comment on any matters not on