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. . . . . >> this meeting will come to order, welcome to the march 1, 2021 regular meeting of the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors.

i am supervisor melgar joined by vice chair supervisor dean peskin and erin peskin. the committee clerk is erica major and i like to acknowledge and thank javierand maria for stopping this meeting. madam clerk, do we have any announcements ?>>erica major: due to the health emergency and to protect board members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee are" members will be participating in the meeting remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay-at-home order and all local state and federal orders, declarations anddirectives. the members will attend through videoconference andparticipate in the meetings to the same extent as if they were physically present . public comments will be available on each item on this agenda . either channel 26, 78 or 99 and

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public comment through one of the following ways, id myself the transportation clerk at erica.major@sfgov.org if you submit public comment via email it will be soon forwarded and be made part of the official file. written comments may be sent via u.s. postal service to city hall, room 244. san francisco california 94102. finally, items after today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agendamarch 9 unless otherwise stated . madam chair. >>supervisormelgar: thank you madam clerk. now will you please call the first item ? >>erica major: item 1 is a ordinance to implement expanded compliance control and consumer protection provisions for projects, individuals, agents and entities with a history of

significant violations and affirming appropriatefindings . members of the public whowish to provide public comment on item number one should call the number on the screen. that number is 1-415-655-0001 . the meeting id is 187265 5544 and press pound and pound again. if you have not done so already please press á3 to line up to speak for item number one. thesystem will indicate you have raised your hand please wait untilthe system indicates you have been on muted when we get to public comment . madam chair >>supervisor melgar: this item was amended last week and we continued it as amended . we are now joined by amy beinart, welcome miss beinart i see supervisor peskin has access speaking. we have ...

>>supervisor peskin: i'm happy to defer to the chief of staff and i can go after. i think she will, our staff have beenworking together and i'm a cosponsor and i'll defer to miss beinart who is indicating she needs to be on muted . >>supervisor melgar: can we help miss beinart get on muted please ? >> unfortunately we can't unmute herthrough teams. let's see . if miss beinart is on the phone ... >>supervisor melgar: miss beinart, are you here? >>amy beinart: i am, can you hear me? >>supervisor melgar: we can.

>>amy beinart: can you hear me? okay, i'm really sorry, i'm having a lot of problems with teams but i'm here and i appreciate the time. amy beinart 82 hillary ronen. thank you supervisors for hearing this today and thank you for sponsoring lastweek . these are amendments to introduce today, these were emailed to you the clerkand your staff earlier today . city attorneys advised i respectfully ask that you adopt these today and send them to thefull board with recommendations . for the most part today's amendments are minor language adjustments to make the legislation more clear and go and i'm not working with these unless you want to, first in section 103 861 describing the type of notices andviolations

that will be tracked , we are further amending action 103 86142 delete including but not limited to work beyond the scale of the building permit and i think supervisor peskin may want to say something about that. second we have inserted language at the end of section 103 a-61 to conclude that the tracking file, that's not the expanded control list, the tracking file is internal purposes only and doesn't imply any violation of misconduct and last we have added language in section 103 a-63 to add factors that should be considered in making the determination through the party of project onto theexpanded compliance control list . not limiting to but adding those supervised instructions for the analysis. so on behalf of of supervisor

ronen i hope to receive your recommendation today. >>supervisor melgar: supervisor peskin. >>supervisor peskin: miss beinart cover the amendment this week and i want to thank her for working with my staff. we thank mister hafner as well. together with our city attorneys andthe department of building inspection , and look, i think we want to make sure that we are catching. we want to catch and not making legislation unenforceable or for that matter impeding less experienced folks who make several honest mistakes. so she covered my amendments. i also want to reiterate the commitment made by dvi to my

staff on the record here which is that they will promulgate administrative regulations and present them to this board of supervisors as to what constitutes substantial noncompliance in that subsection 4 that miss beinart just reference and what constitutesquote unquote egregiousnoncompliance inthe next agent , section 106 a 1038.6 .272 . and finally, it's not lost on me or i think on many of us that in some ways and i don't mean this critically, we have some fox guarding the hen house issues here and i just want to say for the record that i want dvi and the building community to understand that supervisor ronen in my office will be monitoring implementation of

this ordinance closely and one thing in particular that i will be watching is whether we see a spike in notices of correction or notices by previously issued because the former notices of corrections are not implicated in this ordinance and don't get you on the enhanced tracking list butthe latter notices of violation do and if that becomes the case , i believe supervisor ronen and i are ready to legislate accordingly so when it's the appropriate time i'm happy to move supervisor ronen amendments as set forth by missbeinart and that concludes my remarks . >>supervisor melgar: thank you so much supervisor peskin and after reading the amendment and now you're in your explanation i just want to say i'm very grateful to you supervisor peskin for adding these amendments into this legislation.

i think it's much better so thank you. supervisor preston, did you have comments? >>supervisor preston: just a quick clarifying question and i don't want to go the thanks chair melgar as you said to supervisorpeskin and supervisor ronen the work on this . i think this has been really solid legislation badly needed and i'm really pleased with what before us. the only question i have and this is not to suggest any changes but i just am trying to understand the scope of this and whether we would have to handle certain aspects of this in potentially in future legislation or through amendment and that's specifically on the issue of the other substantial noncompliance . when i read that was in the 103 a-61, there's structural work beyond the permit, work or home without a license and then

there's the broader catchall number four of other substantial noncompliance and i'm areas that , we're anticipating that violations from the housing inspection side, like repeated violations that are not technically violations of the permit but are violations of coderesulting in notices of violation , would it trip that and potentially when someone in the slip or if it's viewed as something maybe outside the scope of this understand the immediate and primary target ofthis is the abuse of permits . any clarification and i think especially sincedvi can deal with this , with a substantial and repeated violations for example by a landlord who is also someone who is seeking permits . notices of violation against

them, do we anticipate the trip subsection 4 substantial noncompliance wire or is it separate from that because it doesn't deal with abuse of a permit? and i don't know if that's an attorney? miss beinart. it's just a question for whoever knows the answer. >>amy beinart: that's a really interesting question, i don't know the answer i will defer to miss beinart at the subject expert. >>amy beinart: just venturing an opinion i would think it would include those substantial notices of violation and they are provided as notices of violation and yes, but as you mentioned supervisor preston, if the follow-up to being on

the tracking list is pending on theexpanded compliance control list for all measures to deal with for the department . so for the action taken after that which would only be with regard to the permits and not to other kinds of reports that thecity might want to take . for situations like that. i know john murray is here and i don't know if you want to add to that comment or not. >>chair melgar: mister murray, are you here? >>john murray: iam, john murray, department of building inspection . our understanding was this was pertaining to building permits specifically and not to housin . i'm not sureexactly what the impact would be if we were to include housing under the umbrella here . again, this is all around

misrepresenting conditions for building permits and not necessarily housing violations release income to the calculus here so i would defer to you all on that. but that isn't my understanding at this point. >>chair melgar: thank you mister murray, that's an interesting question supervisor peskin i wonder if having sat on the building commission and also on theboard of appeals , when it handful of folks as you know very well having done tenants rights work, the handful of folks who repeatedly violate you know, building code, housing codes and you know, if we put them on the list and then if sort of you know, they can use that as an excuse not to hold further building permits . i wonder if we shouldn't be

exempting them or trying to legislate further to clarify the intention and come up with remedies. is thatwhat you were thinking ? >>john murray: i just tried to clarity. i think has drafted and i should have prefaced all this with apologies to miss beinart and supervisors peskin ronen at this in the final minutes before i was preparing for this hearing. i wish i had raised this earlier, but i think that as miss beinart laid it out, abstracted that substantial violations are or noncomplianc , substantial noncompliance as written would follow under a severe violation of housing codes by a landlord would presumably fall within that. but then also as miss beinart

points out that wouldn't impact their conduct when they are seeking permits. but what i'm hearing from mister murray that may not have been the intent to cover those so i guess i'm just trying to avoid problems when there are implementing or creating the ranks around this . and hopefully have clarity does raise any issues to treat those violations as subsection for violations that would put someone on this list and if you say chairman you have to look at what you don't want to stop a permit from being pulled, that is to fixeverything that is in notice of violation . so yes, i don't know where that ends up but it seems like at least having some clarity as we're moving this forward as to whether those are or not within these paragraphs subsection for

violations. >>chair melgar: thank you, supervisor peskin. >>supervisor peskin: i put my little thumbs-up because supervisorpreston actually said what i was going to say . >>chair melgar: thank you. so if no other comments from my colleagues, let's take public comment on this item . >>erica major: thank you madam chair. it looks like there are no listeners in queue but if you'd like to make comments on item number one you can press á3 and we will see your handraised on our end .there are now 2 in queue . if you could unmute thefirst caller . >>caller: good afternoon

supervisors, corey smith on behalf ofthe housing action coalition . we appreciate the continued conversation around this topic and it's really important. just wanted to reiterate comments we made last week regarding death fund dvi to carry out this important task and other complicated pieces for you all to consider, thank you. >>chair melgar: thank you mistersmith. do we have any other public comments, madam clerk ? >>erica major: maria, if you can unmute the last caller please. >>caller: good afternoon chair melgar and supervisors, i'm ryan patterson and i'm often hired to help resolve notices of violation and other problems withconstruction projects . i want to thank you againfor protecting the integrity of the permitting process. i am concerned about some of the specifics here .

construction professionals will be deprived of their livelihood are being associated with projects as notices of violation but this decision would be taken behind closed doors dvi notices are not appealable in sanfrancisco. i'd like to highlight a couple sections . section 103 a-61 says identifying all individuals agents and other entities associated with the permit and/or project , section 10386.2 says associated with three or more reported violations. though there is a conflict between the first sections language aboutbeing associated with a permit of the project versus the second sections language about being associated with a violation . second it would violate due process rights put someone on this list merely for being associated with a project or recorded violation such as an architect is hard to of a

violation. 103 a-62 should beamended to say three or more violations rather than associated with . and the initial determination by dvi should be made in the process and testimony can be taken over penalty of perjury in the public will have the ability to give evidence. lastly today changes sound substantive but have not been read into therecord and i request anopportunity to review them before this is passed out of committee . thank you for your attention to this .>>chair melgar: thank you mister patterson, any other callers? >>erica major:maria, if you can unmute the last caller . >>caller: linda chapman. i would hope that some supervisor sponsoring this would like to talk with me

because i have a whole string of cases in which dbi did not take action about: circumstances in which people whocomplained only resulted in retaliation . serious retaliation. my co-op, i was driven from my co-op because i went to department of building inspection with the contracts and architectural drawings and so far how to structure 81 and a half billiondollars , $77,000 which was just being covered up by, the project manager we hired an everest construction people. john stuart was on the property managers is peskin's office and a needy senior inspector says you will have to waitfor the next earthquake and i could give you details about that . same kind of thing is

happening. i was told by my ho a and condo where i took refuge to go and get advice from the building inspectors. i did and they assured me this is noncompliance and it's very serious and dangerous threat to public safety, anybody could see it but on the other hand they were going to enforce so i've been two years biting it out of the department of housing as an ada complaint and now i am being sued for exemplary damages mind you, promotedby the president of my co-op , you know the nice guy with the equal opportunity to present of disabled people on the streets and whenthey're no occupying his time there's the elderly woman as he calls me , then there was nabil senior housing, that's a whole other story .the people from nobhill, they kept trying to filecomplaints about ... >> speakers time has elapsed .

>>chair melgar: any other public commenters? >>erica major: dv has confirmed that was the last caller. >>chair melgar: public comment is now closed. is there a motion toassess the amendment as presented by superintendent and staff ? madam clerk, will you please call theroll on this item ?>> promotion as stated by supervisor peskin. [roll call vote] >>chair melgar: thank you mada clerk, is there a motion to send this item to the full board with a positive recommendation asamended ?

>> approved. >>chair melgar: madam clerk, will you call the roll please . >>erica major: [roll call vote] on the motion as stated by supervisor preston, supervisor peskin .supervisor preston. supervisor melgar. you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: please call item number two. >>erica major: item 2 is a resolution designating landmark designation under item to for the trocadero clubhouse and recreation grove located at 2750 19th avenue and extending the prescribed time which the historic preservation commission may render its decision by 90 days. members of the public who wish toprovide public comment on item number two to callthe number on their screen , 1-415-655-0001 . the meeting id is 187-695-5994.

please dial á3 to line up to speak. the system prompts will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until the system indicate you have been unmute it when we get to public comment , madam chair. >>chair melgar: we are not joined by supervisor mark who is sponsoringthis initiation supervisor, would you like to share some remarks ? >> thank you for your time today considering this resolution to initiate a historic landmark designation for the trocadero clubhouse inside stern grove and also thank youfor your cosponsorship . if you can walk into the annual music festival or participants there you know that it's beautiful distinctive and beloved yellow building among the eucalyptus and pine trees right next to the third grove

amphitheater. it'sa unique public venue used for many public and private events . managed by park. the trocadero has been a source of community pride especially on the west side since 1931 when they were gifted to the city by rosalie stern. built in 1892, the trocadero clubhouse is the earliest building in the parkside district , one of the last surviving 19th century doctors in western san francisco and one of the last contact examples of the 19th century rowhouses at once lined the roads of western and southern san francisco. it was by george green junior is an example of state architecture. was originally meant to be an institutionfor san francisco elite as one writer put it , the roadhouse clientele usually

consisted of troops of less refined men out for a day of drinking, dining and perhaps gambling and it was the site wherepolitical boss gave ruth was arrested during the government corruption trial after the 1906 earthquake and fire . in the decades to follow the trocadero became a rare recreational enclave for women. women's and girls club , job training classes and suffragette meetings and when rosalie stern bought the land from george greene in 1931 he hired renowned master architect renard ray back to restore the truck. she named the site site segment stern grove after her husband donated it to the city of san francisco to beused only for recreation , music, dramatics and pageantry and annual music festival was held in 1938. the talkingclubhouse has been used for a wide range of special events , sponsored by the city and by the public on a rental basis and my first time

inside this amazing building was actually with my daughter and some of her friends years ago at raglan park halloween festival where the trocadero was converted into an awesome hauntedhouse and the 19th century architecture definitely added to the ambience . colleagues, it's important that we look at historic landmark and through the lens of different experiences in all parts of the city including westside and not just in the realm of the most. architecture may be the most ornate, most and worthy of historical distinctions . the history and cultural significance of the parkside like many other historically working-class neighborhoods has often been overlooked this really sparked the creation of the group parkside heritage last year.i'm very grateful for their work proposing and advocating for this landmark the efforts do lookforward to supporting their future work . and besides parksideheritage i

have someone to francisco heritage, western project . i'm a part politicization sunset parkside education action committee for all their work to initiate a landmark in of the talking and really just for all of their ongoing dedication and advocacy for the sunset parksideand westside communities . colleagues and staff are availableto answer any questions . and at the request of the planning department resolution does include a 90 day extension or historic preservation review due to limited staff capacity thecurrent request for other landmark designations . so colleagues, i urgeyour support in this resolution . >> thank you supervisor. it's also a family favorite for my family as well. supervisor peskin.

>> i want to say how pleased i am so many supervisorsare initiate landmark designations . this one is absolutely deserved and i'm really pleased that they are being gone all over the city and in this case in the parkside and would like to be added as a cosponsor. >>chair melgar: thank you supervisor, supervisor preston class just wanted to thank supervisor peskin for bringing this forward and i want to be added as a cosponsor as well. >>chair melgar: i want to thank supervisor peskin for bringing this to us and letting me be added as a sponsor and its right between the border of 47. the stern grove is such a vibrant, wonderful part oflife on the west side . it is, i am thrilled that we are doing this, thinking area supervisor peskin.

>>supervisor peskin: i wanted to say insofar as this was the this where then boss even ruth was arrested, some things never seem to change. >>chair melgar: thank you supervisor. madam clerk, do we have any public comment ? >>erica major:maria is checking to see if we have any callers in queue . please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. if you have not done so less star agreed to beadded to the queue and for those already on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmute it . maria, if you can unmute, we have five colors in two. >>caller: island bogan, president of speak action

committee. he is install support for initiating landmark designation for the trocadero clubhouse. the many reasons for landmark designation included in the resolution itself. as well as in speech written comments. now, speaking on my own behalf, i believe there to the talking in the recent move of the house of tori. in the headline in the book section, tony bravo described as and i quote, ss comes together for historic the victorian move and reclaims of these are the sole area he went on to write , in the scheme of things seeking one historic building is not make up for the other enormous losses we have suffered as a city, we needed something tofeel good about . even in the midstof the pandemic , there was a feeling of joy as he watched the house process. there was also a feeling of coming together as acommunity that has been hard to come by

lately . on a final note, on the passing lawrence ferlinghetti whose work helped us reclaim our heart and soul. rest inpower, rest in the changing light . thank you. >>. >>chair melgar: next speaker please. >>caller: this is woody malaki from san francisco heritage. also allof the parkside district is the context in which darrell was featured . there is the latest on the last example of what was thespring rowhouses on the west side of town and it has been an important community space or generations of san franciscans . it's history and its design, itsintegrity and its connection

and residence to thesouthwest part of town, the trocadero is a significant and special place to many of us . heritage strongly endorses this initiation , supervisor peskin and his staff forhaving put this forward and for the other supervisors are coming out as cosponsors thanks so much. >>chair melgar: thank you, next collar please . speed. >>caller: my name is jim marcel and i'mspeaking at a past president of san francisco victoria alliance . we also have enjoyed the treasure that the trocadero is. we've been having meetings there personally just enjoying it as a venue when we visited stern grove. i really supervisor mar mister labounty stated all the reasons why this is so critical to save and preserve and so i won't reiterate, just offer my continued support for your

efforts to advance this landmark in process with great thanks from the members of the victorian alliance. >>chair melgar: thank you mister rochelle. next speaker please. >>caller: good afternoon, my name is jonathan rothman and resident of the parkside district as well as a member of parkside heritage and i want to express my gratitude to provide mar and to the cosponsors spoken up as well as an the comments from all of her speakers. i return to san francisco about six months ago afterbeing only about 15 years but i did grow up in the . there are many treasures locally here but the trocadero

is especially sweet and it's nice to see that very committed effort to bring the trocadero to the attention of pursuing landmark status and sharing it with eight folks who come into the city and enjoy the treasures of all corners of the city is part of putting the western neighborhood on the map there. but thank you all very much and thank you for the time to offer this comment.thank you. >>chair melgar:thank you mister boston. any other public commenters ? >>erica major: 2 more callers into. >>chair melgar: next commentor please. >>caller: my name is evan rosen and i'm parkside heritage. i'm delightedthis committee is taking a landmark designation for the there . too often decision-makers think

and act like there's not much worth keeping and restoring in western neighborhood and sometimes there's even a stigma sunset and parkside district and that some of the architecture is different from that the orioles square but the longer i live in parkside the more i come to see how significant this neighborhood is and there's a lot worth keeping and restoring and improving in parkside. the trocadero is inappropriate for us to start because it's inextricably linked with the history of our city but you know, the trouble darrell is just one of the many structures that are part and parcel of the character and relevance of the western neighborhood. you have chernow station in the parkside, foresthill station , the empire the building unless florida avenue and the list goes on and on . these structures give francisco the look and feel and the

character that has drawn people here for so many generations so that you supervisors for recognizing the significance and role of the trocadero and thank you for voting infavor of initiating landmark designation . >>chair melgar: thank you misterrosen. next public commentor please . >>caller: the trocadero clubhouse is important to every san franciscan regardless of the neighborhood one lives and i'm glad the supervisors present on this call will vote in favor of this landmark will track all san franciscans fashion especially those who attendconcerts and events in the growth . thank you very much. >>chair melgar: thank you commentor. any other public commenters madam clerk? >>erica major: dp has confirmed that was the last caller. >>chair melgar: public comment is now closed.

can we have a motion to pass this resolution to the full board with positive recommendation? madam clerk, willyou call role please ? >>john murray: >>erica major: [roll call vote] you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: the motion passes. madam clerk willyou call item number three . >>erica major: item 3 is an ordinance amending the planning code by revising zoning matching sheet dn 07 to rezone 118 through 124 kipling street from residential enclave to residential care district next and affirming appropriate findings.

>>chair melgar:thank you very much. we have westlaw from the planning department who will present on the site . welcome. >> alex west, planning department staff. the proposed project will reconfigure an existing motor vehicle repair operation by converting 8006 nine square feet of existing vehicle storage on 39, 41 and 42 block 3516 two 4 parking level stackers. the project would install approximately 32 feet seven inch tall metal screenings and mckittrick street frontage and the proposed stackers would accommodate 200 net new vehicles. the existing 46 and a half curb cut would be removed. a conditional use authorization was approved by the san francisco planning commission

with the condition the board of supervisors approves a zoning amendment which read the 4 subject parcels from a residential enclave district zoning to a residential mixed zoning district which would then be available storage and the planning commission, this project fits in with the general plan as well as the san francisco planning code thank you and i'm welcoming any questions . >>chair melgar:thank you so much mister westhoff . colleagues, do we have any commentsor questions for mister westhoff ? okay, seeing a madam clerk let's take publiccomment on this item . >>erica major: thank you madam chair. we have maria to check and see

ifwe have any colors into. if you havenot done so pressed á3 to be added to the queue . not until you have been on muted . maria, we have one and two, if you can unmute the first colum . >>caller: good afternoon supervisors, john kelly on behalf of the project sponsor the reason the legislation is necessary to complete the proposal renovation of the existing auto repair operation between 11th and 12th streets, a quick review of theproject , existing operation consists of a auto service building to vehicle storage lot and the projects will construct a nonretail car wash new cars and service colors it would construct a series of stackers on the service wants to increasethe capacity of vehicles on site . the stackers would be used for vehicles under service new vehicles being displayed dealerships on 14 south van

ness and we will be constructing three walls with landscaping on both on both kipling. the project would improve the operations forroyal motors in the neighborhood role motors would no longer have to move cars to the nearby parking garage . of all the circulation would be internal which would take the number of cars off the streets and in particular kipling street which is kind of a low density more residential oriented street. it would also eliminate 60 feet of existing heard on howard and kipling so it will be a significant improvement for pedestrian safetyin the area the project will initiate existing pdr operation at the site . there are currently 88 service vehicles at the site, a large operation and this will consolidate the vehicle storage and service for the nearby dealerships as well so we keep it all on one site . the commission approved the

project in two phases and has recommended approval of the legislation, we work with two adjacent neighbors to the east anddesign modifications to get the principle of the project . a product will maintain and enhance theexisting pdr operation that has occupied the site for 40 years and with that werespectfully request you support the legislation and we're here if you have any questions . >> see one any other public commenters on this item ? >>erica major: maria from dp has confirmed that her no more callers and you see one public comment is now closed area are there any further comments for their emotion to process item out of committee with apositive recommendation ? >>supervisor preston: when pieces of legislation come along they are usually answered bythe districtsupervisor . this is an exception to that

general practice . i'm not through the board packet, before we do this supervisor haney i assume is fine with this. >>chair melgar: has anyone heard from supervisor haney's office western mark ifnot, mister westhoff would know this ? >>alex westhoff: wediscussed this with supervisor haney's office . he did not oppose rezoning. >>chair melgar:supervisor peskin, any further questions ? >>supervisor peskin: no. >>chair melgar:would anybody like to make a motion ?

>>supervisor preston: so moved. >>chair melgar:thank you. madamclerk, will you please take role . >>erica major: on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin . [roll call vote] you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: motion passes unanimously . madam clerk will you please call item number four. >>erica major: item number four is a reenactment of emergency ordinancenumber 154 20 . temporarily prohibiting construction projects and buildings of any residential units require the suspension of water or utility service to residential tenants providing alternative sources and affirming their findings, members of thepublic who wish to provide public comment on item for you call the number on the screen, that's 1-415-655-0001 . and the idea is 187 665 5594.

if you've not done sopressed á3 to lineup to speed and the system will indicate you greater hand . madam chair . >>chair melgar: supervisor peskin thank you for introducing this item, would you share your remarks. >>supervisor peskin: decided as a reenactment of emergency ordinance that we passed unanimously last august. remain in place for the days as emergency ordinances do before it expired and the legislation before us withrevised for another 60 days . this legislation not unlike the enhanced compliance legislation that we considered earlier on this agenda addresses bad behavior at the periphery of the construction industry, not commonplace behavior and i do not in any way suggest that behavior that is being

addressed by this ordinance is pervasive or the norm. actually to the contrary. it is the last resort for the handful of people experiencing repeated water utility shutoffs with consideration from a previous landlords. in isolated instances i believe those shutoffs verged on harassment approaching constructive eviction of long-term tenants. tenants often approach our office that we don't have the tools to provide any dpi short of this legislation doesn't have the tools to provide, and i know several offices have heard from tenants experiencing ongoing construction. water shutoffs and electrical shutoffs, all trying to shelter in place and work from home . so i hope each of ouroffices can now point constituents to this guidance . as the baseline relief we

expect during the pandemic. andfor the landlord and building industry this legislation is entirely avoidable if landlords and tenants arrive mutually agreeable terms . this is really about engendering and encouraging that type of communication. i really want to thank chair melgar for indulging our request on this report and know at least a few tenants who will enjoy its benefits in the near-term and onein particular in my district . this reenactment comes as this committee has unanimous support of the commission to ensure this legislation on the 17th and i look forward to it being reenacted unanimously at tomorrow's boardmeeting . i want to thank my staff and also mention that we met with the san francisco apartment association to address questions that they had

regarding re-upping this ordinance for an additional 2 months . >>chair melgar: thank you supervisor peskin and thank you for introducing thisitem. visor preston . >>supervisor preston: ,i want to go to roger peskin. please add me as a cosponsor i was with your original ordinance and i want to say that this is kind of emergency ordinance that does not lend itself to being on the front page of the newspaper in big headlines but has an absolutely enormous impact on people's lives and i think all of our offices were hearing from constituents who were dealing with this nightmare scenario of originally the emergency ordinance addresses which you as you are stuck at home and your following rules and you have an abusive landlord, not a

reasonable one and they are seizing the opportunity to make your life tell through water shops and other utility interference with utilities so i will say and this is not statistically significant at all but the numbers of those constituents reaching out definitely dropped after passage of this ordinance and we did have a place as you say for roger peskin to send both when this happened and the other thing to point out is that a lot of times when these things come forward people predict the sky will fall and it will be hard for people to navigate these rules and i'm not aware of any difficulty anyone's having in navigating these rules and we hear from landlords in the district if they are having trouble following a new road and as roger peskin has said this was clearly tailored to deal with the situation that i don't think anyone operating in this space has any trouble complying with it so i'm happy and thank you for your leadershipthrough

roger peskin . >>supervisor peskin: thank you for yourcosponsorship . >>chair melgar: i would like to beadded as acosponsor as well. madam clerk , did we have any public comment on this item ? >>erica major: maria from dp is checking to see if we haveany callers and you . if you'd like to be added to our queue for this item you just need to press á3 we have 2 callers. if you onthe first . >>caller: linda chapman. thank you supervisor peskin and if only i were a renter i would be able to benefit to instead of being sued and having to run around trying to find out if i'm going to find a lawyer to sue theequal opportunity oppressor . so i would like to suggest you might want to consider instead of saying rental units saying residential units. i've mentioned in past hearing

that those of us who live in ho ways , while there's a whole system of state regulation about what's supposed to be done by the board and so on that they do not have the equivalent of the rent board when we wrote the rent control law , we put a rent board that people can go to for enforcementbut we don't have that . the other thing that i would suggest is to put in compliance with the covid guidelines for construction. in my unit i've been living here through five months of industrial-strength noise. from the construction downstairs in the unit which i never complained about and all what are shutoffs which i never complained about and all the times that they came into my unit because they weretrying to figure out where the leak came from and it wasn't from my unit

but they came in a lot of times . finally i found myself in my little kitchen people from five different household for this lengthy meeting and the two poor latino plumbers back again being subjected to complete violations of the regulations and two of them in the sink where they didn't need to be and the next thingi'm told is that they're going to come in and read about my kitchen walls with no permits, no contract. the ho a has a right to do contract , obviously which would protect me and the ho way so i'm going to get permits and so onthat note, equal opportunity oppressor tells the owner downstairs you will authorize $1500, just have his contractors come in and knock out my wall . quick's speakers time has elapsed. >>chair melgar: thank you very much. next public comment please . >>caller: seems the board is being a little bit disingenuous

with this legislation insofar as initially when this legislation was introduced it was advertised as being something for people who had to go home all day, they can't go outside and if their neighbor is doing construction, who wants to shelter at homewhile their neighbor is doing construction . and now you're telling us that it's to prevent landlords from driving tenants out. certainly a wonderful thing to prevent landlords fromharassing their tenants . i mean, i applaud that but if that's the case then why is it being done as a reenactment of the three-day emergency ordinance? surely there are other ways of

preventing landlords from dragging their tenants out and spending a 60 day emergency ordinance to ensure that you can have some sort of long-term legislation to achieve this goal that a 60 day emergency ordinance. i suppose to give the benefit of the doubt maybe this is the easiest and most convenient way of achieving this goal since certainly there are a lot of landlords with a lot of nonpaying tenants right now who would rather not have those properties right now so i suppose that's a big issue right now. but in that case, maybe the board of supervisors need to deal with these larger structural issues and of course there's a lot of large structural issues right now. so there's a lot to deal with but i don't know.

quick's the speakers time has elapsed. >>chair melgar:thank you so much. madam clerk do we have any other public comment on this item ? >>erica major: maria from ds has confirmed that was the last caller. >>chair melgar: public comment is now closed. is there a motion to pass this item out of committee with a positive recommendation as the committee reports >>supervisor preston: so moved >>chair melgar: madam clerk will you please call the role . >>erica major: [roll call vote] you have 3 ayes. >>chair melgar: the motion passesunanimously . madam clerk, would you and please call item number five.

>>erica major: item 5 is a resolution urging office of economic and workforce to the planning department to meet the full transportation agency, department of public works, fire department and recreation department to develop a proposal for a permanent shared space program and affirming the board creating a permanent version of the program members of the public who wish to provide public comment on item 5 to call the number on the screen, that's 1-415-655-0001 . the meeting id is 187 265 2954. please wait until the system indicates that you have been on unitwhen the public comment . madam chair. >>chair melgar: argument on file supervisor amy who is sponsoring this item. supervisor amy will you please

share your remarks. >>supervisor haney: good to see you all. we are all familiar with the chairs program.it has provided alifeline to small businesses , neighborhoods and help to activate and beautify our commercial corridors. while this board has already unanimously established our support for the shared spaces program via resolution and unanimously passed by supervisor peskin's ordinance, fees for tables and chairs and creating the use of parks till april 2022 the future of the shared spaces program or some version of it is uncertain. the shared space permits will initially scheduled to expire

at the end of 2020 but in october permits were extended through june 30, 2021. the permit of thisresolution is todemonstrate the board's support for a permanent version of the shared spaces program that continues to streamline permanent . i've also had a focus on prioritizing equitable and accessible citywide participation . last fall we established support for moving forward and creating a plan to make elements of shared spaces program permanent and an analysis of how to make the program is currently underway. the resolutionurges oed to play a part in public works and the parks department to develop a proposal to make a permanent >>chair melgar: welcome to the land use and transportation

committee of april 1. we are reconvening the meeting on item 5. and i have asked supervisor amy to resume his remarks because it seems that we were cut off during the first time he made them. supervisor haney. >>supervisor haney: should i start from the beginning? >>chair melgar: i'm afraid so. i'm afraid you were cutoff right when you started . >>supervisor haney: so this resolution is for our board to show support and demonstrate support for a permanent version of the shared space program. the shared spaces program over the last nine months is a vital lifeline to small businesses and activating neighborhoods and commercial corridors.

i did want to thank and acknowledge the work that this board has alreadydone to support this program including the resolution , the supervisor peskin's ordinance and renewal fee and also the leaving of fees through april 2022.the future of the shared spaces program and its permanence is still somewhatuncertain although there are positive signs . mayor reed established her support on the planto make elements of the shared spaces program permanent .this resolution would urge m.d., mta and the planning department to develop a proposal for a permanent shared spaces program in early 2021. there is legislation now being prepared and supervisor peskin has been working on it so that's a positive thing since this resolution was first introduced.

i think it's important we make this statement together as a board that we are in support of a permanent version but i do think it's important any permanent version that we learn from what happened during the last few months that things that we can improve if we want to make sure we include to ensure accessibility and all of those things i think are critical. the shared space program has had four 2300 applications nearly 2000 approved. the 1600 small business owners that filled out an impact survey, 80 percent want to continue operating outdoors 90 percent had these shared outdoor spaces havekept them from closing permanently . other areas with programs include already established permanent programs to support small this . i know that there are some amendments from supervisor peskin which i'm supportive of

and we have today the president of the small business commission and the shared great spaces program staff and the mayor's office sophia kitchener so i do think that this strong statement from the board of supervisors in support of a permanent shared space program is still absolutely needed and we're all looking forward to digging in and a lot more depth on legislation that comes forward that would do that. so i'll pass it back to you madam chair and we are prepared to present as well. >>chair melgar:thanks for your patience . president, thank you for your patience. if you could please present. >> is my joy and honor to present onthis topic and i'm very excited about . i like to thank you chair melgar and supervisors peskin and preston for holding this

hearing and in general for its support so far.the small business commission has paid close attention to this vital program and we've been working closely with the mayor's office, mole business community and the directors to make this permanent. >>. [please stand by]

. >> you're watching coping with covid-19 with chris manners. >> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching coping with covid-19. today, my guest is phil ginsburg. he's the director of the san francisco rec and parks, and he's a national rec and park ranger. thank you for being here. >> hi, chris. thank you for having me. >> i've heard you have an exciting new exhibit that features social distancing and is outside, so it's safer. can you tell us a little bit about it? >> the golden gate 50 anniversary wasn't the celebration that we hoped for, but when life deals you lemons, you hope to make lemonade, and

we tried to engage people in the park in different ways. behind me is what we did. it's a public exhibit which has transformed peacock meadows into an enchanted forest of other worldly shapes and lights. it's to close out golden gate park's 150 years and to allow people to have outdoors socially distant fun. >> great. and what are the hours, and when can people go see it, and are there access for wheelchairs and strollers? >> well, it will run until

february 27, and the ways are wheelchair accessible. it will close in time to make the city's curfew. we're not supposed to be gathering. we're not supposed to be celebrating out there, unfortunately. it is a beautiful exhibit and is one that can be seen from the sidewalk or you can wander into the meadow, but we ask that people be really mindful of the circumstances in which we find ourselves. the most important thing for us is to be safe and healthy. do not show up with other households. come and see it, get a little taste of the holidays and leave so other people can enjoy it. if it's too crowded, comeback because it's going to be around

for a while. >> how long does it take to walk around the exhibit? >> well, you could be there for five minutes or 15 minutes or longer if it's not crowded. it's about in an acre of meadow, but it's very visible even from a fully accessible sidewalk. you'll get a sense of it. basically, there are sculpted trees, and it's gorgeous. i got an opportunity to visit it over the weekend. the conservatory of flowers is there, and then, we have our amazing spreckels temple of

music which was recently renovated and lit up in lights. >> i have information that it was created by a local artist. what can you tell us about it? >> well, it's a new concept, but the lights were previously installed in a park in toronto and also in las vegas. the installation has been paid for through private donations to the golden gate park's san francisco 150 campaign. it reflects a culture steeped in science and history and

culture. >> i can't wait to visit it. safely, of course. >> wear masks, distance, sanitize, and don't gather. >> well, thank you for coming on the show today, mr. ginsburg. i appreciate the time you've given us today. >> thank you, and thank you for giving so much attention to golden gate park which has been so wonderful for us during covid and deserves a lot of extra love and attention on its 150 anniversary. >> and that's it for this episode. we'll be back with more information shortly. thank you for watching coping with

>> mayor: thank you and good morning. thank you for joining us here today. i'm here with dr. co fax to talk about our case rate, our vaccination process, and specifically

around the challenges with our vaccination process and supply, and also to provide an update on where we are with our schools. today the case rate is about 135 new cases per day. we have about 148 people who are hospitalized, and, sadly, we have had 346 people die in san francisco due to covid since the beginning of this pandemic. now, the case rate is down from its peak, but the virus is still in our community. so i just want to talk a little bit about what happened over the weekend. we know that in san francisco we were very excited we were in the purple tier, so as a result, we opened outdoor dining and a number of other amenities. and for the most part, there were a lot of people who were doing their part. and, unfortunately, there were some that weren't.

the fact is, we are in a better place now based on what you all have been doing, especially over the holiday season. we are at a place where we were before thanksgiving last year. the last thing we want to do is go backwards. and so it is so important that we continue to do our part. i know you're tired of hearing it. i'm tired of saying it. but we're almost there. and the ability to access the vaccine we know is critical. we don't have control of the supply, but we do have control over the number of locations that we're able to open city wide, and i'm really proud of the efforts we put forward thus far. san francisco has a network of sites all around the city. we have the capacity of over 10,000 sites where we can do over 10,000 vaccines per day. and that's pretty

remarkable, and it is really exciting, especially once we get the supply. we know that we can get them distributed quickly as possible. i really appreciate those who have been vaccinated and have gone to places like masconi center and ucsf, and the really nice notes and positive experiences that you have shared with us going to those sites, and how friendly the people have been, how comfortable they made you feel, and how, of course, how assured you feel knowing you have been vaccinated, and i'm looking forward to everyone in san francisco having that exact same experience. so thank you for sharing just your appreciation to the city, your appreciation to many of our health care workers, our volunteers, and a number of people that are out there helping to vaccinate people as quickly as possible. it definitely takes a village, and we've had a village of support with the department of public health, ucsf, kaiser

permanente, and a number of other health care providers. there have been a lot of sites that you have been hearing about. the large sights at masconi and ucsf, have set up in their parking lots, and we're working with them. and we have one in the mission, the bayview hunter's point, the places where the case rates are higher. our goal is to try to meet people where they are, and to try to get to, of course, our health care workers, our in-home support service workers, and those 65 and older, who are, sadly, the most likely to die if they contract covid. so i want to go to a slide just to give you a little bit of information about where we are, increasing as supply -- the vaccines that we have administered, we're now average about 4,000 vaccines per day. and yesterday we basically

reached a new high: 5,542 vaccines yesterday, which is pretty remarkable. it gives me hope we're getting there, and we're moving as fastly as we can. the next slide, vaccinating health care workers and people over 65 has really been our focus, making good on progress. so what we see here is more than 30% of s.f. residents 65 and older have received their first dose. and we still, of course, have more to do because about 2.5% have received their second dose. and others are scheduled. city-wide, 13% of san francisco residents have received their first dose, and 3% have received their second dose. this includes health care workers. and to be clear, this is based on data that we have in san francisco. we know that there are a lot of san franciscan

residents, as well as san francisco essential workers and health care workers that are most likely getting the vaccines in other counties. we are still struggling to get that data, so these numbers could potentially be hiring than what we're seeing. and once we have that data, we will share it with the public. the next slide. to be clear who is eligible now: health care workers, long-term care residents, people 65 and older. i have some good news: starting february 26th, san francisco will move to phase 1b, tier 1, and eligible people in that next phase include education and child care workers, our emergency services workers, including our police officers, our food and agricultural employees, and those -- that's a

really exciting thing, that we're going to be able to expand the number of people who are eligible in the next two weeks, but to also reiterate that the vaccine supply is still limited. so for resources, on the next slide, you can sign up at s f.gov/notify, and you can make an appointment at s f.gov/get vaccinated, or call 3-1-1. some of the systems, they

don't have a cell phone to place a number. we ask that you call 3-1-1, and we will provide you assistance to get you through the process. if anyone has a neighbor that is a senior, or any one of our programs where we serve seniors, we're doing everything we can to get people vaccinated and signed up. but let's take some responsibility here and try to help our seniors through this process. we're going to be doing a lot more outreach to get to many of those seniors who may not have access to the appropriate language that they need, as well as a cell phone and e-mail, which i know can be a barrier to getting our elderly population. so i just want to talk a little bit about the schools. i want to have what has, you know, been a hard conversation. i know that it has been

hard not just for the children and the parents, it has been hard for many of our educators as well. the distance learning, we all know, has been challenging, especially kids who are younger. but we know that every day those teachers still show up, they set up their class lessons, and they do everything they can to hold the attention span of sometimes five, six, and seven-year-olds through a computer. i know they miss the kids just as much as the kids miss them. and i know that this has been a bit of a challenging subject to talk about. and, sadly, very hurtful and emotional. i just want to be clear that i know this isn't easy for any of us. it isn't easy for us to go back and forth and to be at odds with one another during such a critical time.

when we first made the decision last year to shut the city down, that wasn't easy for me. i did it because i knew that it would save lives. it was based on the information from the department of public health. i didn't understand completely how long we would be shut down or what it specifically meant. many of us were just finding out more and more information about covid, but we knew that we had to act fast. so we shut the city down. schools were shut down. a number of things had to occur, and none of us thought we would be adjusting our lives for the past year because of this pandemic. but i must say that what i appreciate about the department of public health is that they have been leaders, they have made hard decisions. i've had to support many of those hard decisions.

they've made decisions based on science and based on data, and they have been probably one of of the most conservative around our policies to reopen our city, probably more than any other public health department in the country. so i don't take lightly the ability to begin a process of reopening with the schools. the fact is, our department of public health has put our public schools first. so when requested, because an application has to be submitted, we made analyzing the public schools our priority. in fact, in san francisco, we know that there are about 113 private and parochial schools that are

currently open. our same department of public health had to go in and analyze those schools for safety measures. and when provided the opportunity to do that for the public schools, we did that. we have cleared at least, based on the application process, six schools that can open. six schools, including alvarado, glen park, john mere, sunset, and cobb. and we're prepared to do whatever it takes to support our school district, to support our school district with experts from the department of public health, who can help provide us with not only what we need to do for the actual physical buildings, but how we need to protect the students and the educators and the staff and the administrators. that has always been our goal. i think we share that same goal.

we all want to be safe. and we all understand that there are some teachers who are concerned about -- they may have an underlying health condition, they may have an elderly parent or grandparent that they take care of, and there are concerns there. we have a responsibility to listen and to address that. and what we try to do, as a partner for the school district, at the very beginning of this pandemic we were told that in addition to the money that we already give them in our budget, that they were still short. and so the city stepped up. we stepped up and gave them an additional $15 million. i stepped up and put a ballot measure, proposition "j," that the voters, you all, supported, raises for teachers, proposition "j". we support our teachers.

we support our educators. we want them to be safe, but we also know our children are broken. last week when i went to support a group of parents and students and teachers who were there as well, at a press conference, not one kid smiled. not one kid laughed. yesterday i met with the little high school students from the black student union who, sadly, faced racial discrimination in their school, and they're not the first black students to experience this at lowell. it is something that we need to address, but they, too, are kids who wanted to go back to school. sadness in their eyes. i'm here to work to do everything possible to support the science and

the data, to ask that we respect our public health department and the hard decisions they've had to make. there is no way that they would have cleared our ability to open public or private schools if it were not for the need to keep our students and our parents and our teachers and everyone safe. so i trust them. and i'm asking the school district to trust them. and i'm asking us to make some hard decisions. i'm worried that the tentative agreement proposed by the union will not get us to a place in this city where we will even open schools this year. i want us to be honest. honest about what we will and will not do, or what we can and cannot do.

our children are suffering. there is no way i would have ever supported using the legal system to try and get our schools open. if we were on a path of moving it forward, and if it weren't for the department of public health telling us that it is safe to do so. we have to do better. we have to think about these children. and if nothing else, our elementary schools, kids who are in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade -- and i just also want to say that i appreciate the fact that there are so many people who are reaching out,

especially a lot of teachers, who are saying, i want to go back to school. i want to take care of my students. i'm worried about them. they're not showing up on the screen; i'm checking in with their parents. they're struggling; they're hurting. they want to be there for them. and this city is prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure that they can safely do that. we know this is hard. this is not about being divisive and choosing a side. this is about the leaders of this city choosing to work together, to put aside our differences, and do what is in the best interests of these children. i would not be pushing it if i were not advised by our department of public

health that it is safe. and not to mention our community learning hubs, with staff from rec and park, with help from the department of children, youth, and family programs. they've been open for months now. no major outbreaks. 15,000 kids in our private schools are back in school. we have examples. we have data. we have information. and what we need to do is leave the excuses out of the way. we have the ability to do this and do this now. but what we don't have right now is a clear plan and a clear timeline and assurance to parents that these kids are returning to school on a date certain. we can do better than this. so i'm continuing to make my appeal to the school

district that this is exactly what i'm here to do, to help, to support, to uplift, to bring together, and to stop -- let's stop pointing the fingers. let's just be better by doing better. these kids are counting on us. you know, this pandemic -- this pandemic has tested us like never before. we have tried to protect people's physical health, but it has tried to tear us apart because of our mental and emotional health. and we can't let it do that. so many of us are struggling. we have a real opportunity to make sure that our kids, who look sad, who

miss their friends, who miss their teachers, who are ready to return to school -- we have an opportunity to at least make some of that possible before the end of this school year. i am hopeful that we can get to a better place. and i am grateful to the people of san francisco who continue to follow the health orders and to do your part in helping to make sure that people in this city are safe. with the vaccines, with our reopening efforts, with all that we're doing, the city is going to come alive again. let's continue to do our very best to make sure that we don't lose something precious in the process. process, the heart and the soul of our children. with that, for more information, please visit our website or call 3-1-1.

and at this time, i'd ask dr. grant cofax to come forward and provide specific information from the department of public health. thank you so much. >> good morning. thank you for joining us today. and thank you, mayor breed, for your leadership and commitment to our

city-wide covid-19 response. as you all know, as a city we've been responding to this virus for over a year now. and, mayor, your steadfast leadership and support continue to be invaluable. san francisco, we have made significant headway in containing the virus during this recent surge. but, as we are seeing nationally, there are still many unknowns, including new variants. we must continue to practice the safety precautions: mask-wearing, physical distancing, and limiting interactions with multiple households. please protect yourselves and those closest to you by following all of the precautions. together we can continue to move forward and make progress.

the vaccines represent the light at the end of the tunnel. while sufficient supplies are preventing us from vaccinating as many people as possible as quickly as possible, we all have reasons to be hopeful. as the mayor just said, we have made great progress in vaccinating health care workers and those 65 years of age and older. and we continue to partner with health care systems across the city, to build a vaccine eco-system, vaccine sites, focused on equity, speed, and access to meet the needs of san francisco's diverse communities. today, right now, this city has the capacity to administer over 10,000

vaccines a day. we could get 10,000 vaccines into arms a day. right now we are averaging just 4,000 due to a lack of vaccine supply. we just need supply to meet the demands and the capability of our vaccine infrastructure. and now i'd like to bring you some data on where we stand with the virus. first slide, please. as you can see from this slide, the number of new covid cases in our city fell rapidly after the peak of our most recent third surge. however, what concerns me is that new cases of

covid-19 have stopped declining, and there has been a trending up in the last several days. now we are averaging 135 new cases a day. now, that is certainly much better than than when we were at our peak surge, and averaging 373 new cases per day. and that was just one month ago. but our case rate still remains higher than any other previous surge. our current rate is 15.5 per 100,000 people is roughly the same as our peak summer surge. and, remember, our goal is for an average of new cases to decline to less than 1.8 per 100,000. next slide, please.

as you can see in this slide, our hospitalizations continue to decrease from their peak just a few weeks ago. and this is certainly good news. as our ability to properly treat those affected with covid-19 is a top priority. additionally, our hospital rate is a key indicator of both the state and local health indicators for reopening decisions. right now, with regard to intensive unit care beds, our capacity is good. with 28% i.c.u. capacity, which represents over 90 i.c.u. beds available across our health care systems in the city. next slide, please. the mayor provided a significant update on the vaccines, but i wanted to

share this map on the work of the department of public health, and what we're doing to vaccinate populations in our most impacted communities. through the san francisco health network, the health department's health care delivery system, we served more than 100,000 people each year, who are largely uninsured, underinsured, have medicaid, medi-cal, or are served by healthy san francisco, or other such programs. many of the people in our system are in the southeast sector of the city, which, as you know, has had a disproportionate number of covid-19 cases. this map shows where d.p.h., the department of public health, vaccines are being administered, and it shows that the majority of the

approximately 1300 daily doses that we are administering is in the southeast sector of the city. next slide -- oh, sorry. that's it for slides. before closing, i want to say a few words about variants. now, variants are a natural part of how all viruses evolve. some of the covid-19 variants that have emerged worldwide, and some that have been detected in the bay area, have the potential to spread faster. now, across the nation, we have little laboratory capacity to detect variants. but studies do show that certain ones are spreading quickly in the united states and are likely to become common, if not the dominant strain. now, i know that this can be a scary idea.

and there is reason for concern. but we know what to do to slow the spread of these variants. it's even more important to wear those masks, socially distance, and avoid gatherings outside of your household. and it's so important to emphasize that vaccines remain our ticket out, including with variants. and i can't emphasize enough, if and when you're eligible and offered a vaccine, take it. the variants add uncertainty to this ever-evolving situation. but i can't stress it enough: slow the spread of the virus. take those prevention

activities seriously. and i know it has been a year now. i know we're tired. we need to dig a little deeper to get closer to our ticket out, to get the vaccines into arms, to get to those 10,000 vaccines a day so we can really turn this thing around. and our acting health officer, dr. susan phyllis, is here to answer specific questions about the variants. look, we are all in this together, and together we will get through this. the vaccines are affective; they are safe. and i am hopeful, and even optimistic, that our supply will increase in the coming months. there is truly reason for hope and optimism on the horizon. we will bring back our community and our economy the same way we continue

to fight covid-19, by working together. thank you. >> thank you, mayor breed, and dr. cofax, for your remarks. before we begin the question and answer portion, we're going to take a moment to allow reporters to submit any final questions into webex chat. cameras off or on? >> we can begin. mayor breed, your first question comes from daniel terman. do you support the city attorney's lawsuit against the school district in terms of: is this the best course of action to get schools to reopen? >> mayor: i want to be clear that, yes, i support the lawsuit. and if the possibility of getting schools open sooner, without this lawsuit, were in sight, if we thought that that was possible, there is no way

we would have pursued legal action. unfortunately, this is where we are, and that's where we're headed. >> thank you. and the follow-up question: even if san francisco moves to the red tier, schools cannot reopen until those teachers are vaccinated. is there a plan to prioritize teachers alongside those aged 65 and older? >> mayor: to be clear, schools are open. there are 113 schools in san francisco that are currently open, with over 15,000 kids, and they've been open for months. as it relates to the clarity on the plan and the vaccinations, on february 26th, we will move to tier 1b, and that will provide an opportunity for both educators, teachers, child care workers to be vaccinated at that time. >> thank you, mayor breed. your next question comes from joe fittipaldi. mayor breed, you spoke of

the black student union, not to take away from the vaccine discussion, but can you talk about what support you've offered the black student union and what you think lowell high school should do to support them going forward? >> mayor: out of respect for the students, we had a lengthy conversation, and i want to make sure that they are comfortable with me sharing information from that conversation. but i did offer to help support them through this process, to help facilitate conversations with administrators and others. sadly, what they're enduring is something they should not be experiencing. and, unfortunately, this is not a new challenge at lowell. several years back, other african-american students had faced similar issues around race and discrimination. and it is definitely important that we respond to it. and, to be clear, respond

to it in a way that provides an opportunity for these young people to have an environment where they can learn and thrive, just like any other student at lowell. >> thank you, mayor breed. your next question comes from trisha sadani, the san francisco chronicle. now that the federal government said it would reimburse san francisco for much of its homeless program, would you support s.f. h., bringing more people off of the streets, who may not be eligible for fema reembawrmts, and if not, how do you propose the city deal with the many people still out on the streets who may not qualify for fema reimbursement. >> mayor: just to be clear, they are already moving people who are not necessarily qualified for fema reimbursement.

hopefully we'll get to a point where we're able to repopulate our shelter system. so this is not, like, frozen in time here. if you look around san francisco, even with the challenges we have around homelessness, h.s.h. has been doing an incredible job with helping to transition people off the streets and into either hotel rooms, if they're eligible, but some of the other options that we have. do we have enough to support everyone who is on the streets? no, sadly we don't. but we're moving forward with a strategy around homelessness, to try to transition people not just into hotel rooms, not just into our shelter system, but transition them into permanent, supportive housing units. and that's a part of our long-term homeless strategy in general. >> thank you, mayor breed. your next question comes from dan curman, cron 4 news. you said that you do not support the current agreement --

>> mayor: i did not say i do not support the current agreement. i want to be clear about that. >> how can you get a reopening date when the teachers have trouble getting a vaccination? >> mayor: well, again, i want to be clear. i never said that i don't support the current agreement. the current agreement is just not clear. it doesn't provide any timelines, and exactly what we're going to do. i have a lot of questions, just like a lot of parents have a lot of questions about the current proposed agreement. we have over 15,000 students in school, and have been for months, with the 113 schools that are currently open. and these are people who have not received the vaccine. and our department of public health says that without the vaccine, it is still safe to return to schools. but we do realize there are people who want that assurance. and so fortunately we're

in a position where in the next few weeks, on february 26th, we will be able to move to the next tier 1b, so educators, teachers, and child care workers can actually get vaccinated, and i'm truly looking forward to that day. >> thank you, mayor breed. your next question comes from leslie mcclerick. given the tentative deal with labor unions, when do you foresee schools reopening? >> definitely not this school year. when you incorporate the vaccine into the requirement -- i understand this is something that is important to the union, but at the same time, we are doing everything we can, based on supplies, to get the vaccines to people in san francisco. and the fact is, based on the limited information that i have about the tentative proposal, i

don't think it is realistic that we can expect schools to open this school year. >> thank you, mayor breed. the next question comes from christian captan, ktbu. san francisco city attorney has expanded the lawsuit to get kids back into school. one moment, please. we'll come back for that question. christian captan. the san francisco city attorney has expanded the lawsuit to get kids back

into school. school board and union agree that the lawsuit is counterproductive. is this the right tool to incentivize both sides to reach an agreement? and what would constitute concrete details for reopening? >> mayor: if i didn't think that it was the right thing to do, i wouldn't be very supportive of doing it. the fact is that we have tried to be supportive. and you can look back in a number of press conferences that i've had to specifically talk about the support that we provided the school district, how we put aside, in many cases, many of the things that we were focused on in order to provide that support, in order to make our public schools a priority. we will continue to do that. but the fact is, it hasn't worked. and that's why i support our city attorney using the legal process to get to a place where,

hopefully, it will make a difference. not necessarily, you know, if it makes a -- if it makes a difference with negotiations, great, but, more importantly, i just care about getting our kids back in school. so whatever that takes, whether it is the legal system or negotiation, that's fine. but i want to make sure at the end of the day, we're being honest with the public about what will happen. and, ultimately, all of the details don't matter if kids aren't back in school. i think that is the most important part. what is the first day we can expect to see a kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade kids return to school. that's the most important piece of what is missing here. >> thank you, mayor breed. next question comes from liz hillaman, bay area reporter. what will be the vaccine prioritization after phase 1?

one moment. the next question is from abc news. in light of the recent crimes in san francisco, do you think prop 47 should be revisited? do you believe that it has played a role in crime in san francisco? >> mayor: i think, unfortunately, being in the midst of this pandemic, seeing, sadly, a lot of people lose their jobs has probably played a role in what we're seeing as it relates to crime. i do think when we talk about crime and accountability, i think the that there is -- you know, it is not an easy solution because specifically when you talk about someone who has committed a violent crime against another human being, you know, that's a different punishment versus someone who it may

have been their first offense, they stole something, and they need to be held accountable, but at the same time jail may not be the best solution because ultimately we want rehabilitation or we want support or we want an option to try to get that person on the right path. so i think there are various layers of accountability that need to be implemented in our criminal justice system here in san francisco, regardless of a proposition. it is what we're working with, and it's what we are in a position to try and work within. and, mostly, the goal is to make sure that people understand that they will be held accountable when they commit crimes in san francisco. and i want to take this opportunity to just talk about some of the recent violent crimes. sadly, where people have been murdered in our city. elderly people have been murdered. and in those last three

cases, our officers acted quickly and apprehended the suspects in those cases. and they are being prosecuted. we understand that after the fact doesn't matter. those people are no longer with us, but at the end of the day, here in san francisco we are going to take an aggressive stand to protect the citizens of this city against crime, and we'll continue to do everything we can to do that. not just with law enforcement, but with our criminal justice system as a whole. >> thank you, mayor breed. we will now continue with questions for dr. colfax. >> mayor: thank you.

>> this is from a bay area reporter. what will be the vaccine prioritization after phase 1b. will the age group step down in 10-year increments? >> doctor: right now we are focused on vaccinating people -- health care workers and people over 65, and then on the 26th, as the mayor announced, we will move into phase 1b, which includes emergency service workers, food and agricultural workers, and educators. now we're still waiting for the state to finalize the next tiers of the vaccination priority. we're following the state guidelines. the bottom line is we need more vaccine to get it into arms as quickly as possible. our goal is to vaccinate everyone in san francisco as quickly as possible. >> thank you, dr. colfax.

your next set of questions come from joshua sabitini. are the vaccines being equitably administered? or do you notice any disparities? and when will you release the race -- >> doctor: it will be updated regularly with regard to the race and ethnicity of people who received vaccinations. as i mentioned earlier, equity is a core value of our vaccine rollout. we want to ensure that people in those neighborhoods who are eligible for vaccine have ready access. we're building -- we have built a vaccine eco-system where every door is a right door to receive the vaccine. whether it is a mass site,

whether it is one of your neighborhood clinics, whether it is a pharmacy, whether it is a mobile site team that we'll be launching to reach people who need to remain at home. so we're working on all of the above, and every door is the right door approach, to ensure there is equitable access to vaccine. we're very concerned about it. it needs to be a focus. and we're working to get it right as quickly as possible. >> thank you, dr. colfax. you're next question comes from multiple media outlets. on the question of equity, can you provide an update on how many residents within is zip codes 92134 and 92034 have been vaccinate? have there plans to make more appointments available for hard-hit zip codes. >> the doctor: as vaccine becomes more available, we will expand

vaccines in those areas. the in other words and zip codes where covid-19 is most concentrated. right now at the southeast health center, we're able to do over 200 vaccines a day. we're also planning to launch, in collaboration with better health, a mass vaccine site at the produce market off of bay shore boulevard. so we hope to have that scaled up and ready to go within the next two weeks, so that people have access to vaccine there as well. we're also establishing the neighborhood access sites. last week at 24th and mission, in collaboration with the latino task force and ucsf, and we established a site there. and we're looking at establishing sites in the bay view so people have access there. and i want to emphasize these are not mutually exclusive sites. where people are lining up to get vaccine, thanks to

the mayor's office, we arranged transportation for people to go to our vaccine clinic at san francisco general hospital, so people were able to access vaccine there, and not have to wait in line at 24th and cap. and at the mobile sites, these mobile teams are going to have capacity each to do 150 vaccines a day. we'll be launching these mobile teams very soon. so they can focus in neighborhoods where people have the greatest amount of disease, and don't necessarily have the capacity to get to other vaccine options. so really every door is the right door, with a focus very specifically in the health department on meeting the needs of people in the zip codes where covid-19 is most prevalent, where the rates are highest and people are most at risk. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next question comes from michael barba.

when should the san francisco police department officers expect to get vaccinated? >> doctor: emergency responders, emergency workers, service workers, including the police officers, are eligible in phase 1b, and that will be february 26th. >> thank you. your next set of questions comes from various media outlets. is the city now receiving a stable amount of vaccine from the state, or is it still unpredictable? >> doctor: let me emphasize that we are directly receiving -- the health department is directly receiving only somewhere between 10,000 and 1 1,000 vaccines a week -- a week. so, as i said, we can do over 10,000in' vaccines,000 vaco arms a day. we hope the supply increases dramatically in the next couple of weeks,

especially so we can vaccine night the 1b essential workers, along with the people 65 and older who continue to need to get vaccinated. so we just need more right now as quickly as possible. i'm hopeful there is more on the horizon, but we're ready to go. if i can get 10,000 vaccines after this press conference, we will get it into arms in 24 hours. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your next question comes from mora dolan, l.a. times. any thoughts on why virus cases have stopped decreasing, and even rising, in recent days? >> doctor: so i think it is important to emphasize it is sort of a balance here. we are way below our peak during the holiday surge, where we went over 140p 140 per 100,000. i think we don't have exactly one reason as to why this has leveled off. i think we know as we

gradually increase activity in the city, viral cases generally do go up somewhat, so it is really a matter of trying to mitigate that, and ensure that people still realize this is a very serious situation, and that we need to socially distance, and wear a mask over your face and nose whenever you are outside of the house, and avoid gatherings -- high-risk gatherings -- whenever possible. i think we also need to also understand that with some of these variants, especially the british variants, the research says that is predicted to become the dominant strain in many parts of the u.s. by march or april. we know that that virus spreads more quickly than what we call the wild site, the original type of the virus. so there are multiple possible reasons. the key thing is we know how to slow the spread.

we know that the vaccines are coming. we can do this. we just have to dig a little deeper so we can all get the vaccine and get through this and reopen our city and have life go back to normal as quickly as possible. >> thank you, dr. colfax. your final question comes from robert rodriguez. will the effort to reopen schools change the prioritization or rollout of vaccines in phase 1b at all considering teachers' desires for vaccination before returning to the classroom? >> doctor: as the mayor said, we have 113 schools open right now. the schools can reopen without educators being vaccin vaccinated. and we share the priority that the kids need to get back into school for the health of the kids, for the health of the parents, and to close out learning gaps. when we reach phase 1b,

teachers will be eligible for vaccine. we want to make sure we vaccinate teachers as quickly as possible. the bottom line is we need more supply of vaccine to make that possible. >> thank you, dr. col colfax. now for questions on coronavirus variants, we invite the acting county health officer for san francisco, dr. susan philips. dr. philips, your first question is: what is the status of the new variants in san francisco? have you identified any of the variants from the u.k., south africa, or brazil? >> doctor: thank you very much for the question. i wanted to take a moment to step back. i know many of us have been hearing about variants, but to give a

quick primer, when we're talking about variants, what this really means is viruses, as dr. colfax said, normally mutate randomly. this happens all of the time. when the mutations sometimes cause them to be less fit, we don't hear about them. occasionally there can be a mutation or a grouping of mutations that causes the virus to become more fit, to be able to transmit more, make people more sick, and that is what we're talking about when we talk about variants. these are random occurrences that then spread in our populations. so in san francisco, we have not identified the variants of interest that have been nationally talked about. so these are the variants that started in the u.k., which is known as b117. it is a variant that began in south africa, which is b13151, and the variant that started in brazil,

which is called p1. this is different than the testing that we all know and think about now for many, many months, where we'll go and get a swab in our nose and get that diagnostic test. that is done in very many labs across the city and the region. the sequencing is actually the test that we need to do to find the variants. what that is is looking at the genetic material of the virus, sequencing the virus genome to be able to see what the mutations are. that only occurs in a few specialized laboratories. and we're very fortunate in san francisco that we have strong collaborations with our colleagues at ucsf and the bio hub, both of whom are experts in doing this type of work. in context as a country, we do not have the robust infrastructure to do this very, very systematically. so we are, by necessity, not able to sequence the

6,000 plus ses men's that specit we are testing every day, and the 2% to 3% that are positive, not all of those can be sequenced because of the specialty issues. we don't have a complete picture across the world, across the country, in the bay area or in san francisco, but we can get a glimpse of what we think is happening by how frequently we find different variants in these specimens that are tested. so, where what we know, there has been the u.k. variant identified in california and in the bay area. in fact, california has the second highest number of cases in the united states right now. so we have to assume that there could be that virus circulating in the bay area and in san francisco, but we have not identified it. what dr. colfax said is so, so important. we know that the

prevention methods that we've been talking about for a year are what will stop and slow the spread of these variants, even before we're able to access vaccine, which is, in fact, our ticket out because the vaccine in studies has still been shown to be affective against these variants, and particularly against preventing against severe disease. while vaccine is the ticket out, we have the ability in our hands right now to stop transmission of any virus, including variants, by masking, by distancing, by washing our happedz. hands. i want to add one additional wrinkle to this: the less virus that is transmitting and replicating, the less chance we have of having new variants emerge. we talked about how it is random mutation, but every time the virus replicates, there another chance for random mutation to end up resulting in a variant that would be a concern,

for faster spread, making people sicker, or a concern with the vaccine. so we have the power in our hand to not only stop the variants that we know now, but also to prevent new ones from emerging. so i would really urge all of us to take the standard prevention methods that we have in public health, as a department, we're working to understand the types of distribution of variants, not only in san francisco, but reachly and regionly.but in the meantime, we asking for everyone's help in slowing the spread. >> the follow-up question is: what happens if the variant from the u.k. continues to spread in california and becomes the dominant variant down there? will that happen here, too? and what is the level of your concern about these west coast variants? >> doctor: so what we know from the models, and what we understand from science nationally, is

that the u.k. variant, because it does spread more quickly, person to person, is likely to become the dominant strain in the united states by march. so we don't have any reason to think that that will be different in san francisco. but, again, we have t-e ability, as we have done time and again, to not necessarily let the models become our destiny, if we are distancing, washing our hands, wearing face coverings all the time, and particularly as we are reopening and coming into contact with each other more, it becomes so important to do those things. there was a second part of the question about the west coast variant. so this is a different strain of virus, which has been identified in california and in other areas on the west coast. and this is called cal.20c, and it has been identified in some outbreaks, not in san francisco, but it has been

identified in individuals from san francisco and in the bay area. our colleagues at c.d.c. are still evaluating all of the data to understand if it is, in fact, more easy to transmit that variant and what all of the implications are. so we don't have a clear understanding yet of the implications. but we do know it is transmitted the same way. we have no reason to think that the vaccine would not be affective against this variant or any others. >> thank you, dr. philip. there are no additional questions. >> doctor: thank you. >> this concludes today's press conference. take mayor breed, dr. colfax, and dr. philip, for your time. for future questions, please e-mail dem press at sfgov.org. thank you, and have a nice day.

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>> unmute. >> here. >> commissioner dooley. is not on yet. commissioner hule is not on yet. commissioner ortiz-cartagena. also not on yet. commissioner laguana. >> present. >> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president laguana: great. thank you, next item, please. >> item 2. board of supervisors file number 210078 administrative code. san francisco reinvestment working group. ordinance amending the at administrative code to submit business and government plans for a non deposit tory municipal finance corporation to the local agency formation commission

discussion and action item. the presenter is preston tillborn, legislative aid. supervisor dean preston. if i need presenting controls, let me know and i'll give them over to you. >> thank you, dominica. welcome, preston, delighted to have you. very excited to learn about the much-needed potential public resource and good to see progress moving forward on this. i spoke with some folks that were working on this at the beginning of the pandemic. it's good to see on going steps being made. tell us where we're at right now. >> thank you, all so much. dominica, i just got an e-mail from carl saying he can't access the meeting. maybe you can help him join the meeting. awesome. so, real quick, thank you all

and good afternoon everyone and happy monday. my name is preston killborn and i'm a legislative aid of dean preston in district 5. i want to thank president laguana and vice president executive director and the dominica donovan and small business commission secretary. dominica, you will be missed. so thank you all for all your work on the small business commission. i also want to thank carl from the v.o.a. and the public bank coalition for making themselves available to join me here today as well. so, today i'm here to speak on the reinvest and sf ordinance introduced by supervisor preston. the ordinance is -- we believe it's an essential step in creating a public bank here in san francisco. we're excited about the potential. public bank to provide solutions

to crucial issues facing our city, especially as we look ahead at how to ensure an equitable recovery as we emerge in the pandemic from the years to come. a public bank promises public funds and the proceeds from wall street banks, indoor struggling communities, now needed more than ever. and also i just want to step back and say also, i also want to say thank you to our early co-sponsor at board of supervisors. that includes president walton, supervisor ronen, supervisor chan, melgar and supervisor haney. thank you for their support on this. i also would like to recognize sandy fewer and her team. particularly chelsea for their work leading this effort at the board of supervisor while supervisor was in office. and i would also like to thank assembly member david chiu and it makes this possible here in san francisco. so a little bit about the

ordinance. we know the severe economic impact of the pandemic. the inequity in our city that are socioeconomic lines have been further exacerbated by the pandemic. as all of you know quite well, small business this is our city have shuttered while they're to survive with the combination of cleansing revenue and debt. we also know the communities of color have been impacted by the pandemic. at the same time, building as our nation by a trillion dollars, and simultaneously millions of dollars of p.p.p. loans and grants that were intended for many of our struggling small business have gone to billionaires and mega corporations instead. our for profit banking have played a key role in asker asexacerbating communities locally. and as we move forward and chart a path to economic recovery, we believe public banking can be a

powerful tool to regenerate our economy with shared values in san francisco and afford housing, struggling small businesses, helping our entrepreneurs, our underserved communities and great infrastructure. and some of the things that you public bank supports locally, includes strengthening our mom and pop enterprises and supporting legacy businesses and cultivating new ones and strengthening co-operatives and adapting to covid-19 shifts, strengthening our neighborhood-based economy, a plan for longer terms stability. we think about some of the small businesses we think about some of the loans and the small businesses that need these loans to open. it's at the critical part. the last part is, public bank has the potential to support community banks and credit unions. north dakota with the public bank was the only state with a

public bank and they have more credit unions and community banks than in eye state. in california, it's near the bottom. so what does the ordinance do? it will create a working group, tackle developing a business plan for a municipal corporation within a year, the group will have three banking experts, four community representatives and as well as a rep ten serve from the representative t willapply for . submit a business plan to the california department of business and oversight. business oversight innovation. and financial protection and funding requirement this is accordance with requirements set fourth and the california public bank act. and so we believe these are the key next steps in order to move

forward on this visionary and essential task of creating the first municipal banks here in the city in san francisco. in my few months in this working on public bank, i realize it takes a lot of creativity, determination and per ser vance to reimagine banking and changed it while building equitable publicly owned alternative traditional banking and we have been carried by a diverse group of individuals and organizations that come together through the san francisco public bank coalition and we're grateful for their advocacy and hard work and intrusting our office to carry this critical legislation. some of those groups include the bank coalition leadership team and jackie fielder, curtis wu, jolene larose a, sam lu, jesse fernandez, charlie shamez and fernando marti and some of the

organizations council of community housing, choo choo, lawyers committee for civil rights, dsa, sf after and lastly the united educators of san francisco. and so, i'll leave you with this, with this coalition and with the support and partnership of you all, i'm confident we will have successful public banks so once again, thank you all for in inviting me and happy to take any questions that you all might have. >> thank you, preston. commissioners, do we have any questions? >> we do and i'm just waiting for me to type their name in chat. >> commissioner adams. >> this is interesting. i appreciate you coming on today. i have some notes here. so, this is just to create working group to start the

public thing, correct? >> that is correct. yes. >> because i've started a bank in san francisco. 27 years ago. and i am no longer there, it did go public so i appreciate your sediment when you say wall street because you were a private bank and we went public and i left to work for another private company. this is really interesting to me. in the working group, so, aba 157, i'm trying to wrap my head around this i know about north dakota and how they work. and how they're able to -- you said something that was really key like in north dakota it's a state public bank not a city public bank.

having more people in san francisco then in the state of north dakota. i like the fact on some of the lending that you described, and one of the things that i would be interested in, i don't know if this is part of the working group or what so, does this fall under fdic number one and number two, who would be the -- would the federal regulator would be a state regulate or or the office of compliance and currency? do you know any of that? or is that still being worked on? >> so, a few things. so the goal is to set up a non deposit tory bank and part of the reason with that is we know the sdic has very strict

regulations and around the creation or one is we'll be the first to create this. so with the outline was some concern around getting approved for a public bank through the fdic. so the thinking was, we go the route of a non deposit tory bank to build a little bit of equity to bring that conversation in years to come to the fdic to get approval on forward deposit tory bank. >> how do you raise the capital for this? you need money to lend out? you need to get the capital. >> that's a great question. >> i can also answer some of the questions as well.

>> feel free to jump in. >> commissioner adams, to answer your question about the who is the regulator, the bill says they be fdic insured so the insurance which does provide some regulatory authority as well as the required to be have a state regulator, which is now the dfpi, formally the d.b.o. >> ok. and do you know -- how would you guys -- since you are not going to have deposits because that's how most banks do it, how would you raise the funds? >> one of the recommendations in the d. l.a. report was operator redirection of earnings on the city's investment pool that would have to be authorized by the board of supervisors, as part of the annual corporation ordinance. a second one is a series of board authorized appropriations from the investment pool and the

third is a series of annual line items corporations as part of the annual probation ordinance itself and so the goal is overtime, increase the amount of money coming from the city into that pot of money to help finance the public bank. >> ok, here is another question. i mean, there's a part of me that does support a public bank and it's for this reason and it's what i see with the cannabis industry and what they have to go through. also, low income housing, what they all have to go through. those two things could use a public bank. so on the cannabis, i know, you can't get fdic insurance and there's a lot of restrictions because they just don't let you deal with that. would you structure it so you could deal with cannabis institutions, for small

businesses? >> i don't know the answer off the top of my head. that's the goal is to bring experts within those induce industriesto have those convers. >> i think there's a lot of gaps right now with the regular banks and that i think a public bank would really help out, especially with small businesses. like you said, you've said some key things with the p.p.p. loans and stuff, if we had our own public bank we could get those funds and direct them to the right people. going through this once in my lifetime, i find this very fascinating so, what you guys, i don't know the answer to this and i'm just thinking ahead of the game, in the case of

collections and (inaudible). is it the same as a regular bank? >> yes. so one thing to note is that keys, it would be just like a regular bank, however, the contemplated position of this bank in the lending marketplace is important. these are contemplated the wholesale banking institutions rather than retail and their clients are cdfis, local banks, and community lenders so the goal is not to replace existing small local finance institutions. what we be doing is wholesale and participating lending. that's what the public bank of san francisco would be doing. >> thank you. you really cleared it up for me. i appreciate that. i can get behind this then, that's great. >> thank you.

>> president laguana: ok, is that it? you are done, commission adams? vice president zouzounis. >> thank you for coming before us today. this is really exciting and i'm really looking forward to learning more about how the small business community and our commission can support public bank initiatives. thank you for asking the cannabis question. that was on there for me. i think it would be helpful to understand a little bit more of what the fundings scheme for this if the city attorney had any reference points for how the city interacts with the public bank. would the city be able to put money directly into this that is

something that came to my mind. there are two questioning and on the legislation and the composition of the working group and gets disappointing and if i could and not to let them

participate in public bank lending. i would ask that the sponsors take, maybe, a recommendation swap that for 35% of selling area being healthy products but not more than 20% selling area being tobacco and alcohol products. i feel like that is a much fairer definition. our public housing entities are tntc or mercy housing, that he plied by this very similar and

these special spaces so we wanted to fully encourage community retailers to be able to seek participation in the public banks and what it has to offer so that would be my recommendation for eligibility changes and then, yeah, if my fellow customers have any information i feel like that's a big one we want to make sure we're not having unintested consequences with who we preclude from getting access to this. >> you want to respond to vice president zouzounis? >> i appreciate that and i'm happy to share that with the supervisor. i appreciate that.

>> ok. are there any other commissioners? couple quick questions myself. so, about the investment pool, i'm trying get a sense of the that would be available to anticipate year one starting with? >> this would be best answered by carl. do you know if he is joining? >> i have issues getting on. what i can say is i'm looking at the floor right now so the bla model that they drafted they assume that, i apologize.

so they assume the -- they're looking for general pro priations of 10 million and in years two and three of the municipal finance corporations operations on the first two and three years and in additional appropriation of general funds or plus money from the investment pool of 10 million each year and year two and three. in total, that ends upcoming to about $80 million which can ultimately be increased or decreased at the discretion of the board of supervisors. >> is the presumably, the moneys are in that investment pool. i guess, who controls that? is that the economist? >> treasurer controls that. >> got it. and presumably, (inaudible). it does a feedback for whatever

reason. so, if presumably the money the treasurer is looking for a return on is it part of the bank's business plan to match or equal that return? >> the b.l.a. they assume that through the funding of -- through the dedication, through both the general fund and appropriations they expend a return on investment of $25 million and 5 million general fund balance which would be allocated. the goal is to take the interest earned and reinvest that into the public bank itself. >> president laguana: wait a second, take the interest through the public bank and reinvest it through the public

bank? >> take the interest earned through the investment pool you mean? >> you are muted. >> yes, sorry. thank you for clarifying. the money from the investment pool interest back into the public bank. >> right. what are the expected returns on the public bank? are you just looking to be revenue neutral? >> that is unfortunately a carl question. i don't know if carl is on yet. >> president laguana: no sign of him yet, if he gets on before, i guess, we're providing the call-in number for him so hopefully he will join us. i have a couple more questions that aren't as specific about the financing. hopefully we won't be as dependent as carl and he will show up before the item is over.

so, let's talk about the -- you know, i should mention, i'm a fan of the idea and a fan of the concept and i think i agree with the point that north dakota having its own bank and i'd like to see the city have similar flexibility and so with what i'm asking my questions i'm coming from a place of being a supporter many of i just want to clarify that. on the working group, you have nine members of the working group. one through three are technical experts and 4-7 are community representatives. where, looking at this and i'm not sure where would you put someone with small or micro

business development experience? because on our commission, that's what we would be looking for and i think should be a guiding light for the creation of the bank and if the intent is to support small businesses and certainly we'd like to make sure that there was someone on this working group that had experience with that. >> one of the community seats would be an expert in small business and the term local enterprise is the ordinance references to small business, non-profit, co-operative and land trust and then that term is used again when it's a person familiar with local enterprise

lending. >> ok. would you agree that -- did you guys have a chance to review the feedback from our legislative aide? our soon-to-be missed dough dominicandonovan? i think -- could you just reread that definition of local -- where is it? local enterprise lending. >> it means small businesses and

non-profit that operate mainly in san francisco. >> so, non profits, land trust, some them are not small business so what i'm suggesting here is that a seat be reserved for someone specific to small business and many are not small business some can be sun stan shall. we're always finding that when you have small business voices on these commissions and boards, the outcomes tend to be a lot more small business friendly.

four seats would be to this local lending category. >> i personally was anticipating one seat. we can take this feedback back to the author. >> i appreciate the feedback. i think what i will say is we're working close partnership with the public coalition and of which is a member of they've seen the report from dough doughminute ache and the publick is to assistance and there's

ways to get small business voices in simultaneously and achieve some of these equity goals as well. so, that is an important point to pay attention to. the other issue is legislation could be strengthened with more specific language with goals for

economic development and economic opportunity, for example, establishing lending priorities to support borrowers who would otherwise be considered high-risk and lending priorities for entrepreneurs and vulnerable populations like women and minorities and to that, i would also add, as a subset of job creation, job creation that dis purport atly benefits vulnerable populations because we see examples of that too. for example, our restaurant industry as compared to save the tech industry and the vulnerable population and so it would be great to see those communities receive assistance and do you guys have any reaction to that suggestion? are there constraints there?

>> i don't think so. i think for us it's -- i mean it's always conversation like how do you get more people around the table and for us, what i will say is the working group will be drafting the plan. they would be collecting feedback from external stakeholders in that conversation. so yeah, absolutely. what i will say is as working exclusively for district 5 and we've seen firsthand, even the city grant processing how often those businesses are left out due to outreach and all those things. and i think it speaks to the needs for public bank locally to having someone, having a bank that is just situated here that can assist a more hands on approach on some of these lending of some of the grants processes. absolutely. you are spot on with what you shared, yeah. >> and as a point of clarification just for myself, so, i just wants to make sure i

understand this correctly. wholesale banking means that you won't be processing the loan documents or doing the credit evaluations yourselves, instead, you will do the credit evaluation of the city adviser or the -- you are a middle man between the money and the lending institutions than the actual lending institution, is that correct? >> i think you saw where i was going. that's fine, you can jump in. >> that's correct. these banks aren't intended to be retail banks. and part of the reason for that is in order to get it passed, we had to deal with the banking industry in sacramento and one of the associations to keep those public banks in their lane and not to encroach on local banks and credit unions. so, the restrictions on public banks are that they, if they pro provide a retail service it has to be clear it's a retail

product or service that's not being offered by a local bank or credit union or financial institution. it is going to be difficult to provide those what is very clear and what is explicitly permit they do wholesale lending and infrastructure and affordable housing lending in the communities. so the participation in wholesale lending is where they'll touch on where their capital will reach small businesses. >> president laguana: again, from my own curiosity, what's the size of the market for a public bank in terms of outlets, cdfis, local lending institutions, how many -- i'm trying to get a sense of how many customers could the public bank potentially have and what would is the typical wholesale lending amount look like. is it a million or 10 million or

50 million. what point does it make for the lending institutions to dig through all the administrative work of applying for the money and administering it? >> unfortunately i don't have a number. the types are existing community based cdfis so it would be like meta, and or sf halving accelerator fund organizations that for them it would be worth it to have an ongoing relationship with the public bank. >> do you have a sense of what a typical wholesale lending amount is? what it makes sense to do. you are not lending on a case-by-case basis, it's some larger that they lend out of? >> right. i don't have that number with me but some examples of wholesale

lending amounts were provided in the treasurers task force report. you are right. it's not a million it's 10 or 20 million is what we're talking about. >> so we're talking, basically about funding three to five local lending institutions or providing a source of funds. what is the competitive advantage that a public bank is it is it lower interest rates? i am a cdfi, why i do want to work with a public bank that might come with restrictions that more typical wholesale outlets might not have? what's attractive to me about it? >> yeah, it would be lower cost of funds. >> ok. >> great. thank you. and that's just, sorry --

>> i'm let commissioner -- my question was in line with what you were saying president laguana. i want to know where the accountability is for what you all are drafting as you know goals and for the public bank and how that gets translated to money provided to the community lending institutions so is that money going to be earmarked for specific things when it's giving

to -- you know, given off to the cdfis? how are the goals translate nothing the funding is really what i'm trying to understand and if our mandate is san francisco, how are we making sure that those goals are in line with our san francisco needs they want text proper co-operative models and do feasibility studies like that. for example, if they're a tobacco or fossil fuel business and they want to transition out of that, you know, like, i am just trying to make sure that we going to be able to translate on to what cdfis are going to be given loans to and what tools we

are envisioning to keep the goals of the public bank. >> you are asking a critical question of who is this bank account able to. the ordinance says the working group is tasked with coming up with a business maud that will is financially feasible and presenting that back to the board of supervisors and this would be all the questions you just asked. that is the opportunity to publicly hear them. i participated in the san

francisco treasurers task force and one of the biggest issues with that task force was the lack of direction that the implementing ordinance gave that task force led us to basically have several months where we were asking each other what is the purpose of this bank and and to evaluate additional lending programs. >> back to the working group. the goal is also to have houses in and they've put a very similar role in terms of just

facilitating not to the extend and clean power sf that's been housed in the puc and playing that role. it's to hire a consult apartment consultant whowas an expert to e working group around what a public bank looks like and both the lending priorities and to have the working group run with those ideas, and the spirit of san francisco's values. >> all right. let me ask you another question, who is determining who is on the working group? how are the people selected?

>> we are partnering with -- so we're partnering with supervisor walton's office and president walton as president, we're also going to be partnering with supervisor peskin and the chair of the rules committee and there's externally, checking the community working closely with public bank coalition and putting fourth experts if they have in the industry and then also just reaching out to -- there are other public bank coalitions across the state and communication with them around recommendations locally and yeah, really rely on public bank coalition and the expertise that they offer around recommendations to support. >> in the legislation, it's legislation it'soutlined to putd recommendations to sit on the working group. >> and does the mayor's office have a role? >> >> the mayor's office does not,

no. >> i was just -- why was the mayor's office excluded? just out of curiosity? >> the thought is we have a participant from the treasurer and city control's office which plays a role in the formation of public bank and that was thinking with the relationship to the mayor's office is they're putting two large departments onto the working group and the thinking was they're connected in that way. what were you saying? >> it was written in partnership with the board of supervisors. >> so the treasure and controller are from the mayor's office, do they get to vote on the plan as well? >> >> y. they will be voting members.

>> ok. got it. >> all right. yes. got it. i thought seats 1-7 would be a pointed -- i got confused. got it. >> this is carl and i was the primary author of the d.o.a. report i had a hard time getting on and if anyone wants to ask questions about the report, i am now here. >> wonderful. thank you for joining us. and i apologize for the technical issues getting on. webex is always fun. we couldn't have gone like zoom like the rest of the world. we have to pick something complicated. so anyway, i had a quick question -- i asked about the investment pool and you guys

asked those questions for something you were referring back to carl. i can't remember which question that was. i don't know if you recall, preston? >> i think it was around the funding and better understanding the -- sorry, i apologize, i'm going off the -- >> you asked a question about, you said it was a circular structure where it was reinvesting in the bank and taking funds from the pool and reinvesting, i believe. >> preston has spoken and we corrected that and he was saying it was how the bank was going to be funded and that would be difficult to accomplish. i think -- didn't one of the other commissioners have a question thaw wanted to defer to

carl on? did you have a question on earlier? >> they answered. >> ok. >> commissioner, if i can inter jeb quickly. >> i think your question is correct me if i'm wrong, was how the profits were obtained and reinvested. i wrote it in my notes. >> i was trying to understand how much money was coming -- i remember the question. we were trying to get an understanding presumably the treasure when he puts money in the investment pool, he or she or they is expecting to make a return on that investment and i was trying to get the public bank and how it's looking to

match that expected rate of return on the funds it took out. carl, i don't know, i think i've got that someone answered in that the bank wasn't really looking to make a return per se but i mean, obviously there's some return because you are charging some sort of interest rate to your cdfi and maybe it's just to cover the administration costs and nothing power and perhaps you can just very broadly at top level about the businesspeople or the business plan of the bank and how it creates to these funds that would otherwise be earning some kind of return? >> yes, that good question. in the model we proposed the blink benefits ray profit. it's not its primary motive but it is designed to generate a profit and, based on the

assumption it generates a rate of return of about 1.4% on assets and about 9% on equity, which is around roughly comparable to what private banks do and what you do with those profits, is a question. i mean, in our model, we have all the profits going back into the bank, it's capitalization because what that means is that every dollar you have in profit, you can leverage it at five times that amount. you can transform those profits into a greater amount of loans. it is possible that the profits that the bank would earn could go back to the city. i mean, there's no reason that could not happen in our model. there's a -- the investment pool

is essentially saying the policy goals and the benefits of the bank outweigh the rate of return that we were expecting to get on these investments. so they're basically take a lower rate of return. >> that's a fair assessment. it makes perfect sense to me. when we put vulnerable populations to work that benefits to the city far outweigh that cost. we see it over and over and over again. it makes a lot of sense. i guess, the last question i'd have is, on -- if one of the cdfi has a failure or event, is it just like as if the city had

lost money on an investment? what sort of protections are there if any against the city being the victim of fraud or just, you know, we're in a pandemic? i think we've all seen tables can be turned upside down at us in a moment's notice. what kind of control do we have over protections of the city's money? >> i missed the earlier discussion, is the bank established and lending to cdfis and what protections are in place to ensure losses are not incurred by the bank and passed onto the city. is that correct? >> that's correct. i want to understand the cdfi lending guidelines and not in ex excruciating detail. just top level.

>> to dive deep into the weeds would be the task of the working group. you know, the essential way you guard against that kind of rink is you have rigorous under writing standards that are vetted and are publicly -- they're available to the public for review. and the way we design the bank, i mean, you have to anticipate that some loans you make will not be repaid. our model could withstand very, very heavy losses. and still remain solvent. the trade off is it grows slower and it has a lower rate of return but the benefit is the financial commitment has a robust and very strong buffer and i think we did modeling and

our bank could withstand a great depression-like scenario. our model would have done very well in it just has so much cushion. >> what is the typical loan size to a cdfi. >> i don't know the context of that question this is a wholesale lending environment and it's a cdfi. so we talked about over the first few years there being roughly $80 million in funds contributed by the city to be learned out and so, i would assume that a cdfi will not

borrow $20,000 but they're going to borrow enough money to make it worth while for the administrative cost and the under writing guidelines so i'm contemplating how many -- what is the typical loan size and how many customers do you anticipate the bank will have? >> well, that really, you know, that depends. that's a question that is, i think, the next stage. we were looking more generally at kind of broad-lending categories as opposed to drilling down to that extent. i mean, i guess, one of the ways that i would imagine the bank would try to operate if it's providing loans to small businesses it would do that to the maximum extent possible with existing cdi loan funds like the northern california loan fund. i know those existing loan funds only lend up to 10 million. they have certain caps and the bank can go way beyond that.

it can make large-scale loans. it can make loans in hundreds of thousands of dollars or you know, even into the millions. it would have that kind of large scale lending capacity. the way in which you structure strong business lending, there would be a lot of questions addressed around that. i don't want to get too specific. >> now i'm confused. i apologize. because earlier we talked about the bank would be wholesale only not lending directly to businesses. you are contemplating to businesses. could you clarify? >> well, the way i imagine it working is yes, i mean, the bank could lend in principle directly to businesses the way in which the stay law and if you are on

the call, jump in around this but, i believe if i'm recalling correctly the way the state law is written is the bank would have to have an agreement with at least one local credit union or community bank and if it had that agreement then it would have latitude to engage in a broader range of lending activity. the way we imagine it, that i think the way you get the most bang for your buck, is if you had a local credit union or a network of them who entered into partnership with the bank through things like loans syndications, risk sharing, loan participation. there's a lot of different ways you can structure those. what that would mean is for instance, a credit union can put in you know $100 and the bank can put in $100 alongside that and take a lower rate of return or accept certain types of risk. does that make sense? you actually leverage the bank's

money through the existing network of local credit unions and community banks. that's how we envisioned the bank having maximum impact. >> so basically you are supplementing the cdfi existing capital and giving them flexibility to increase their lending guidelines? >> yeah. and you can again you can do that for instance like the cdfi can make a loan and the bank can buy it off their loan book and sort of infuse more money that they can relend. or the bank could in some cases inject certain types of equity, it's called secondary capital into credit union and they can leverage that. so there's a variety of ways that you can go about structuring that relationship when you git the buy in there's creative thinking about how it

can work. >> so, commissioner adams, who is our commission and you missed this during the beginning here but you actually started a bank so we're blessed to have experience and wisdom on the commission. commissioner adams, does this all make sense to you and matches up with you as a lending institution like this is an attractive proposition? >> yes, absolutely. especially he mentioned a couple of things we call them pap precipitation loans. yeah, it makes total sense to me. so, yes. a good example to work with and one of my favorite organizations is northern california community loan fund.

they've done some excellent work with low income housing here in san francisco and if it wasn't for them stepping up to the late with mercy housing, you wouldn't even be put up. at the bank i was at, we used to participate with them and fund a lot of our cra funds through them. i really like this proposal and i really like that it's been really thought through and everything. so, i think through participation loans, with community banks and credit union, to answer your question, president laguana, prior to this bank, i was at another bank when i specialized in wholesale lending in detroit and the wholesale amounts were anywhere on the low end 250,000, so we're

talking detroit. and a high-end to 5, $10 million. >> ok. >> but that's detroit, you know. detroit and san francisco costs are a little bit different. and the interesting thing is historically, you know, there's a risk. even in some of the worst -- like in 2008-2009 across the country, a lot of these organizations didn't lose money. you know.

on the top end you have governmental entities that are large institutions providing them with capital. some of the small business owners who want to buy their buildings or this is will happen because that's where you run into issues with the big banks but i know there are some cdfis out there and they're willing to help small businesses if they had the funds to do it and we used to do tic loans for commercial buildings and that really helped out. when the big bank won't do it. n will help out a lot of people

across the board and especially small businesses and we think this will help out a lot and affordable housing, that's where a lot of people, we need to keep telling you, values they say rents are down in san francisco you about rents being done in san francisco when you went from $3,500 to $2,700, it's still $2,700 a month. which to me is nuts. and i think this will help a lot of those working class people stay in the city. and that is so so important right now because as we heard from our last commission meeting with people leaving the bay area, this will help so, i really like everything i've heard tonight from all three of our guests. i got excited here. >> that's amazing and i love that you are excited about it.

one last question and this is really for all three of you and i appreciate your patience in helping me understand how all of these pieces fit together. with respect to the existing community bank cdfi environment, are there any holes, areas where we're weak and for example, you mentioned madia, you know there's some good resources in the mission. do we have a similar level of support in bayview and the excel see year? is there some place and let me tell you why i'm asking. the next question after starting a public bank is, do we have enough end user or borrowing support in the places where we really need it and i just wonder

you have been looking up to this much deeper than we have and is there any holes that come to mind and places we don't have enough cdfi or community bank support. >> i think it would be useful to actually hear about the dla's anticipated end user isn't just giving advice a lot of it is housing preservation production which will be beyond just the existing cdfi base. do you want to talk about that? >> yeah, i mean, we were as specifically by supervisor fewer to look at housing issues so we didn't do a lot of work on small business lending by think what commission adams have had the name correct, talked about, i

think it's where this could have very major impact in terms of property acquisitions and providing and you can do things shorter term working capital loans and those things of things but particularly for establish small businesses and non profits, being able to assist them in acquiring property would be a major area that the bank could operate in. one of the things the bank can do is make large scale loans or find purchasers and the system and acquiring property. the northern california loans fund they do great work and i think their maximum loan amount last time i looked at is $10 million and so the way we designed the bank it could go much higher than that so you talk about very large scale acquisition and i have stabilized non profits and the arts groups and the cultural

groups and also provide tremendous benefits and small businesses and yeah, meta is doing a lot of work in the commission but you know, there's always, we can calls do more and i think a lot of other areas of the city, bayview are very underserved right now. >> go ahead. i just want to add to carl's answer which is the presence of this bank will provide an incentive for other cdfis to operate to fill the gaps and you are bringing up president laguana. >> that was what i was thinking and that leads to the next question, how do we make that outreach happen and capitalized on it and i great the feeling those institutions aren't the kind of thing you create over a weekend. and so, those conversations skating to where the puck is going to be rather than where it's at needs to start happening sooner rather than later and if

people know there's an injection of capital into the system that is indicatorred to its useful information for the market to know and how do we find the right people to help make those be really successful in impactful for the communities and serve as some of the areas. that is the one little feedback i have is let's keep an eye open for those possibilities and opportunities. and try figure out how to jump start those conversations because, i imagine between the city and assembly member hule this will come to fruition and hopefully this working group is successful. so, let's also build all the elements of the foundation so

that this translates broadly to all of tour struggling and disadvantaged communities across the city wide. if that, unless any other commissioners have any comments or suggestions and thank you again for entertaining all my questions. we will go to public comment. is anyone on the line for public comment? >> checking to see if anyone is on the line for public comment, please. >> no one is online, sorry, i had trouble trying to unmute. it kept going.

>> what's the story of our time. >> you are either muted or trying to unmute or trying to mute and you don't want anybody to hear you and it's always the thing you don't want it to be. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. commissioners, do we have any further discussion? i just think this, now is the time, please. >> i just think, as we were just discussing through, what helps is oohed thing right now i've seen in the city is non profits want to buy their facilities just to stay in the city and this will help so many people and so many different levels and i just think this is long overdue. >>. well, i am going to make a

motion that we support the supervisors ordinance with the recommendations that they adopt the suggestions that were offered by our soon-to-be dearly missed legislative aid dominica donovan and i feel like there's one other suggestion we had in there. >> i would like to propose -- i will second with a friendly amendment if it isn't taken. and i recommendation that we add to our action item that for section 4c in eligibility for lending, instead of precluding

any tobacco license holders, that language changes to that mirror the healing' retail ordinance definition which is no more than 20% selling area to tobacco and alcohol products. >> that's a agree. if you want to make any kind of amendment about cannabis, was that commissioner adams, was that the answer to your satisfaction? >> it was answered to my satisfaction. >> great. dominica, i know that wasn't the most he will gently worded motion, but were you able to capture all that have? >> yes. >> ok. >> the motion presented by commissioner laguana and lended by commission zouzounis. [roll call vote]

>> he is having technical difficulties. >> we can try and come back to him if he is able to get back on. >> i don't think that he will be. >> i also vote yes. >> commissioner laguana. [laughter] >> motion now passes. >> president laguana: great. thank you all three for taking your time and being so patient to explain all of this. not all was on point but it helps us understand so many aspects of this and i imagine this won't be the only time the public bank comes before us so,

this is important work helping us understand you are all up to and we're supportive and if there's anything to help in the future don't hesitate to let us know. >> thank you. >> thank you for in inviting me and all of us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> president laguana: next item, please. >> clerk: item 3, approval of legacy business registry applications and resolutions. discussion item. the presenter is it richard kurylo legacy business program manager and impassing the control over to you now. >> thank you. >> hello rick. >> how are you? >> i'm excellent. it's go ahead to see you. >> let me see if i can share my

screen here. is that it? does that work? >> all right. >> ok. good afternoon, president legault and voice president zouzounis, commissioners, office of small business and staff. richard, legacy business program manager. before you today are two applications for your consideration of the legacy business registry. including a staff report, a draft resolution and the application itself and a case report and draft resolution from the planning department. the applications were submitted to planning on january 7th and heard by historic preservation commission on february 3rd. item 3a is ajc auto body. the business is a vehicular repair facility established in 1990. they provide full service automobile work and including paint, suspension, repairs,

tires, electrical work, bus and truck repairs and more on both contemporary and classic car models. although hac sees a diverse customer base from all over the city they're returning customers largely are from their own neighborhood of the bayview and nearby neighborhoods such as visitation valley and the portal and the mission. the core feature and maintain to remain on the legacy business is auto motive services. item 3b is g.mazzei and honed hardware it was opened in 1936 and making it one of the oldest family-owned businesses in the buy have you. bayview. it was a watch repair shop and it continued to expand to a hard ware store. and they offer a personalized

shopping experience that is more approachable than big box hardware stores providing advice due to their knowledge of the neighborhood building stock throughout time. the store is well stocked with supplies from home improvement and repair projects and the core feature must maintain is hardware store. and both businesses met the three criteria for listing the legacy and received a positive recommendation from the historic commission. they recommend adding the business to the registry and two resolutions for your consideration and a motion and support should be framed as a motion in favor of the resolution. i'd be happy to hire any questions. they may speak on behalf of the applications during public comment. >> president laguana: great. thank you. commissioners, any comments?

>> seeing none. do we have any public comment on the line? >> >> is anyone on the line for public comment? >> yes, we have one caller. >> hello. i'm calling on behalf of ajc auto body. i have the owner on the line who would like to speak on behalf of the business? >> great. >> hello.

>> you are on, please speak, caller. >> first and foremost, i would like to thank everyone in attendance for the opportunity to be able to speak. i would also like to extend my regard to all the nominated ajc in last but not left i want to tend the city and county of san francisco for everything he has contributed to be in our legacy. and for all the the wonderful memories he continues to make for me in everyone else that forms a part of the story of this city. allow me to interest myself. i am the business owner of ajc like many people who have emigrated to san francisco, i started my business with a

vision and a dream and i wanted it to be a lot more than business and i wanted to make an impact on the community and i was going to serve and make it my own for the rest of my life. during this long journey doing business in san francisco i have learned to accept and embrace the cost of doing business here in the city. i am focused on my community by giving back in anyway that i can. even if that is putting them back on the road or only giving them a bottle of water. i want to be able to pass down ajc as a legacy with the same values with which it was found all those years ago. to keep the flame going in the pain. ajc wants to continue to be a

part of the story of san francisco. thank you all for your time. thank you, very much. >> thank you. >> are there any other callers on the line? >> that was the only caller. >> great. >> so, any commission comments? >> i'd like to comment. >> please, go ahead. i am literally down the street from them. to see them to be nominated and we have an opportunity to do some and media exposure just so people but from the bayview and

hard wares and amazing and i just this is a wonderful opportunity from follow them with this and they're such an essential part of the bayview from ourself and we were going through the building project that they were just always right there and i just want to speak on them and the community that i think this is definitely due for them. >> i think the phrase that they say now is love to hear it? >> is there any other commission

comments? >> i would just say, the city is full of a lot of businesses are not as sexy and visible as the restaurants and comedy clubs and live venues and cleaning our clothes and selling every piece of good under the sun and so it's really nice to see some recognize are doing just that have worked long over a hard time and stay over business so my congratulations.

>> do we have a motion? >> i will second that motion? >> we have to have the motion first. >> would someone like to make the motion? >> i move. >> ok. >> commissioner, what is the motion, please? >> to approve the two legacy business applications as presented. >> ok, is there a second. >> i second that. >> ok. >> the motion by commissioner hule to approve the legacy business applications as presented presented by commissioner dickerson. [roll call vote]

ordinances drafted five resolutions published two white papers and the economic mitigation working group which resulted in 15 recommendations assisted in the drafting of 83 federal stimulus recommendation and 32 separate recommendations to the recovery task force and she did all of this while fielding 15 billion calls e-mails and text and we tried to be very specific there about the number of calls and i think we came up short. her excellent research and analysis skills along with her willingness to go above and beyond helped ensure important legislative amendments, inspired and contributed to new legislation and improving the quality of life for all of san

francisco small businesses and it's for these accomplishment this is which deep gratitude the small business commission will recognize dominica donovan with the certificate of honor. [applause] it's a quiet clap on zoom but we can loud clap. >> yeah. >> thank you. i don't know if this is my time to speak or not but, i will -- >> let me interrupt. this is not your time to speak yet. you can go last. commissioners, do we have any comments? >> yes. >> commissioner dickerson, just fyi, if dominica was continue, she would say use the chat to

indicate you want to speak. but i will recognize you none the less. commission dickerson. >> i officially went in the chat. >> perfect. >> i am the newest to this and this board and i initially received all of the information and was extremely overwhelmed. and i was really grateful for the initial set up and consultation but there was something about when i received the pope call from dominica. i -- she literally was my great of air and it made me feel like not only was this possible, doable but she literally brought such an ease to me it was

something that was so complicated is not easy for someone to do that with something so large and capacity as being a commissioner on this, at least i don't take it lightly. i just want to say and you know, just with who she is as a person, her ability to communicate and bring ease to me was probably the most essential part of -- i appreciate dominica so much and the last question we had it felt like we have known each other for years just with how -- just the way that she is. i mean, of course we all know she has an amazing work ethic and she's really good at what she does and i would say this and i don't know anyone that does what she does, she's the best at it but more importantly to me, it's who she is as a person.

i am so sad. although i celebrate you, transitioning. you spoiled me rotten and i gist i justwant to say, i'm going tos you tremendously and i do celebrate you moving on because i know it's going to be for your embersment and i just celebrate you and i'm grateful because i know we're going to continue to have a good friendship. i'm so grateful and to the small business commission. >> thank you. >> commission hule. >> yes, i cannot believe this is actually happening already. i hope you didn't have to write your certificate for yourself. but -- >> we won't do that. [laughter]

>> i think i've only been on the commission the past year and it's been through zoo and i wish we would have spent a lot more time together in-person and in real life because i do miss those moments and just before and after meetings where you really helped put me at ease and helped me kind of understand the lay of the land and in terms of what is going to happen and when things happen and stuff like that and on top of that i appreciate all of the personal connections that you know we've been able to make and it's harder now because i don't know exactly, you know, how i'm supposed to text you and when i'm supposed to text and you stuff like that. i really do hope that we stay in tough and i really am looking forward to staying abreast of your future success and this is very exciting for you and i'm totally rooting for you and i'm just

going to be your biggest cheerleader. thank you so much for all you've done for the office and thank you very much for what you've done for our commission and myself personally. so, you can't wait to see all the good stuff that you are going to be doing. thank you. >> president laguana: vice president zouzounis. >> thank you. dominica, i am so grateful for your time serving us. you are our point guard and we could not have done the work that we've been doing without you. i am probably going to get emotional because i can't thank you enough for having this perfect balance of professionalism and bringing your experience in the public sector and making sure our document and our recommendations are up to parliamentary code and

meeting that with real community of informed input and economic policy that is driven by need and driven by the real lived experience of our most vulnerable communities and you've done that so well have and it's recognized and it's felt not just by us by by all the small businesses that you've helped and advocated for and you taught the supervisors a lot. i think that you've learned we've early learned from you and we're process and yeah, who and what you spring professionally and your love and support for real community-driven economic policy and i appreciate that so

much. so thank you for also being such a strong advocate of leadership and i have benefited from your support and we now have a woman majority commission and i'm really proud of this moment and for your role and bringing us here so thank you so much. >> president laguana: thank you. commission dooley. >> i just want to say that you have been amazing all this time of grace under fire.

>> zahra: we will definitely miss you. >> thank you. >> i want to echo what everybody is saying. our loss is supervisor stefani's gain. i want to thank you for all your help. when i was helping out with the meetings and making sure we get our forms 700 filled and turned in and those are the important stuff and i want to thank you from the about the um of my heart for everything you've done and helping me with this commission. we know you are not going far. just up to the second floor so

we know where to find you. >> i'm so grateful that you responded to the job application and moved from d.c. to san francisco and you have definitely been the glue for the commission and have been instrumental in terms of being a partner with the business councilors and we have our preliminary discussions and the input and insights to looking at

legislation that i didn't think of so, that has been really stimulating and i will miss that but, as commission says you have the gift of being able to look at things at the high sort of level but knowing how to impacts the smallest of small businesses and that is truly is a gift and your passion that you brought to the work and during the legislative analysis and you were doing business counseling and the active space and working with all these really massage therapists losing their space

and livelihood and just the ability to be able to have a clear head of how we solve that problem and being empathetic to that and i am a very excited for you going inform supervisor stefani's office. i am really looking forward to what you are going to be able to contribute and i think you are going to help make this city even better because you are going to be dealing with a broader set of policy issues so, looking forward to what is coming ahead of us. thank you so much. >> president laguana: why are you leaving me? you know, right away, i was joining the commission in march

of 2019 was immediately impressed by your depth of knowledge and your commitment to the process. i became present and later and two or three weeks a global pandemic started. i can't even imagine how we could have gotten through that at the level we did without all the work that you were doing. both in front of the scenes and behind the scenes and my god, how many text did you answer at 11:00, midnight, 1:00 a.m., as we tried to push forward on one resolution or another or strategizing on how to best help the city. you know, i'll just say for the benefit of the other commissioned that didn't have the pleasure that i did of working as much with you as i

was blessed to do. dominica personifies the best that the city has in terms of public service and commitment to helping the city grow and become better. she helped me grow and become better and ways that i didn't. never could have seen in a million years. she was and is a vigorous advocate for minority and women and paying attention to all kinds of things that aren't technically in her job category or job duties and bringing her formidable intellect to bear and it's going to be a devastating loss to lose you to this commission and the work that you

have done really we're all deeply in debt to you whether we know it or not and we all know it. and so, just thank you so very much for being you and for everything you give to the city. i'm so sorry we have to do this over zoom and can't do it in-person. i'm sorry that i've never had the opportunity for us to socialize and buy you a drink or get you a glass of water even. but, you know, i know that the one thing i take constellation in is that the city is not going to lose you. and the city will be a big winner because your portfolio will be widened and everything you learn here you will take

there and i think also that this spreads the influence of the community a bit to and throughout the city that is probably a good thing. saying all that aside, on a personal note, it's been an honor and a privilege to know and you become friends with you and i'm really going to miss working with you on a daily basis and that part is really hard. thank you. >> if you. >> that's is weird to hear. it's uncomfortable to hear people say nice things about you for a little bit. i don't know, especially on camera how am i supposed to react. thank you from the bottom of my heart. thank you.

each of you for those really kind words and remarks and it is been an absolute privilege to serve in commission and thank you for providing me with that opportunity. i am so grateful that you responded to the random applications from a woman in d.c. who had zero ties to the city. just over -- i guess two and a half years ago, coming to san francisco i am not a native san franciscan, i don't have family here. i threw myself living in this city and getting to know the different communities.