mandelman is excused from item 28. [please stand by]

>> what they call commercial shoplifting and many of our anchor institutions being targeted for crime and wall greens, cvs, safeway, target, this is something going on in our city for a year now and also, our small businesses along our commercial corridors. i know supervisor mar is going to introduce something to talk a bit about the status of things in our commercial core and we'll work together with this over all conversation. i can tell you last summer, when

i witnesses firsthand adult and juveniles stealing out of wallgreens as seniors stood buy in shock, many of whom were leon this as a daily space for them to get the medications that they need, the things that they need, to survive and be healthy in our neighborhood as one of the districts with one of the highest, if not the highest number of elderly residents those aging in place, i can't continue to turn a blind eye to this rampant crime happening in our anchor institutions so this is something that struck me and we reached out to wallgreens and talked to our chief of police and victims involved and the only thing that they presented to us at the time was san francisco has one of the highest rates of theft in their stores and they weren't exactly sure

what they can do about it. it's going to talk about in our hearing, we need to talk about it in a honest way and what was announced and supervisor peskin's district recently in the outskirts of the tenderloin area and one of the wall greens being shut down and i know other wall greens have shut down in san francisco and that's not something our communities can sustain. the idea that potentially some of our anchor grocery stores could shut down would be devastating and if this happened in an ex celebrated fashion during covid, we know it would have had, based on the heroes pay we approved for our grocery store and drugstore workers, many of whom i worked and talked to and listened to and said they feel helpless. they feel absolutely helpless and unsafe in their own place of work because people come in and

are robbing on a consistent basis. did has a devastating impact for people that rely on them and the sur sounding businesses that rely on the foot traffic. we need to have a proactive conversation and rep sense from the major anchor institutions such as cvs, wall greens, safeway and our small business networks that are out there in those associations. we like the union representing the workers in these places to be a part of this conversation so we think this is an important conversation to have and we can't ignore it and we definitely want to move this

conversation in an aggressive manner. secondly, today i'm submitting a resolution in support of sb299 that is also co-sponsored by our own assemblymen david chiu. last summer as the world saw and as our nation saw the death of george floyd and so many other individuals at the hands of police officers, it sparked a national conversation and in that conversation, one of the things that we did not want to be lost was a victim's compensation and to include space that there would be funding for victims' compensation and i want to thank my co-sponsor on this resolution and president walton for adding your name for this legislation at the state level and we believe having a victim compensation fund for those that

died at the hands of officers, we think that this would allow for there could be a board at the state level and that funding would be provided and that we would remove the barriers for those families that have lost their loved ones and i can tell you that this is personally important to me and my office and i know that my staff are lost her brother at the hands of police officers years ago and this sparked her desire to be in public service and for many reasons i would not have met her to this day and many of us would not see the great work she's been able to do first in adult probation and now at this board of supervisors. so, we think that this is an important resolution and we hope

this time around, it will have enough momentum to passat the state level and hopefully colleagues all of you will be in support of that. next i have asked our city attorney to draft an ordinance to deal with frontline workers our janitors. at the onset the pandemic colleagues, many of those janitors have never stopped working just like our grocery store workers they work to disinfect offices and commercial spaces and more than half of their workforce has been laid off due to the downturn in the economy and those that have remained have remained to ensure the safety of the workforce that continues to come in on a daily basis. we've recently discovered the ventilation systems is brought to our attention that they potentially would be shut off in

the evenings when janitors are working putting those workers in danger and we believe that is as

these conversations proceed and how we bring office workers back and janitors back into the workforce safely. public services neighborhood safety co-sponsored by supervisor stefani and supervisor melgar to talk about the intersectionality between recidivism and consistent substance abuse and we are crafting budget requests and it's in the process of being reviewed both by the departments and administration and justice involved. people have been rearrested and a risk of rearrest that have a consistent underlying substance abuse and we believe this budget request is all offers and

alternatives sentencing programs for individuals struggling with substance abuse and through a model of peer-based on black and brown individuals. this is in conjunction with the letter of inquiry we sent to look at the number of deaths and over and had been involved in the criminal-justice system. we believe that we're going to find that there's a strong correlation between those that were involved in the system and we're pushing the district attorney and we'll continue those conversations to push the appropriate levers to compel people and we'll keep pushing and asking our probation system to utilize the levers that are

there. we no longer want people pointing the finger at one another rather than taking responsibilities. we believe that this proposal that we put forward and this budget request that we have is going to provide a wonderful alternative sentencing program and it will provide a good step forward and a model that can be scaled up on a level that could again to deal with the overdose and deal with the significant amount of the recidivism and some of the substance abuse of those that are justice involved. and lastly, colleagues, co-sponsoring a resolution supervisor melgar but i'm going to ask her to speak on that first. so madam clerk, if you could refer to me after supervisor melgar presents on resolutions. >> thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. >> thank you, madam clerk. i submit for today. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor.

supervisor walton. >> thank you, so much, madam clerk. >> i like to be added as a co-sponsor to support janitors and i have nothing else to submit. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president, we'll make a note of that. supervisor chan. >> thank you, madam clerk. i will be submitting today. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor haney. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm introducing a hearing request on our city's efforts to innovate and improve city services with a focus on human-centered and user-centered design. focusing on technological improvements for equitable access to city services and the collaboration across city departments to improve user experience and create intuitive pathways for residents. while covid-19 is fundamentally changed how all of us interact with the city and create a greater imperative for us to streamline and improve our

digital systems, this is something that we should have already been prioritizing and focusing on. everyday all of our offices worked to help our constituents navigate the various web sites and portals and systems and departments, following up on 311 requests and often time connecting residents with a real person because the systems they tried to navigate were overlapping and at times confusing. they're also times when we ourselves have trouble finding the information we need. the purpose of our jobs and that of the various departments and our government is to serve the people of san francisco and we have to design our systems from the perspective of the user and change city services from what works for bureaucracy and residents. i'm requesting to hear from our office of innovation and office of digital services and department of technology, commission technology and the city administrator office and we are here in san francisco at the

center of technology and design and our government should reflect that and our residents should experience that and i'm looking forward to learning more what we're doing to innovate our city services and that better reflect the needs and experiences of our residents. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i am introducing a request for a hearing on the 2019-2020 proposition t annual report and requesting the department of public-health and department of homelessness and sheriff department and adult probation in implementing the treatment on demand model. in september 2019, i held a hearing at public safety and neighborhood services committee to redue the treatment on demand and better understand the remaining barriers to making

effective substance use treatment available on demand many of it's the stated policy of the city and county of san francisco for a quarter century and since the passage of proposition t in 2008, the department of public-health has been required to submit an annual report to this board assessing the demand for substance use treatment proposing a plan to meat that demand and identifying funding needed to implement that plan. the annual prop t reports we reviewed at that 2019 hearing, painted a picture different from the experience of treatment providers, advocates, drug users and many members of the board whose districts are home to far too many people suffering from untreated mental illness and addictions. the fiscal year 2019-2020 prop t report stated that in 2018-2019, there were no wait for residential treatment or residential step down treatment and a wait for out patient treatment case management and tense i have care management and

the alternate reality described in that report san francisco had enough treatment capacity to meet demand. plainly, something was wrong with that picture. we were and are far from meeting the demand for treatment for the most vulnerable people especially those with co occurring diagnosis, people in jail who are justice involved and supervisor safai discussed earlier and people with complex medical needs and unhoused people. pretending otherwise doesn't change that fact and doesn't help us get closer to the goals established by voters under proposition t. a lot has happened since that hearing in september of 2019 and several initiatives have since been launched to address access to treatment. in the fall of 2019, mayor breed launched an initiative to increase for unhoused people with the highest level of service needs. based on analysis completed by dr. anton planned, that initiative identified a population of 4,000 unhoused people with co occurring severe

mental illnesses and substance use disorders which represents half of the unhoused population, 41% of whom are high users of emergent services and 95% of whom have an alcohol use disorder and in late 2019, the mental health reform team launched fine treatment st.org for short term treatment and in 2019, this board passed mental healing sf and to reimagine and reorient the city's behavioral health response system to more effectively meet the behavior health needs including the sub fans use treatment needs of the most vulnerable san franciscans. as we explored in july 20th on the impact of covid-19, on the city's delivery of behavioral health services, it put many city efforts to expand that to drug treatment on the backburner including key comb phone ants of mental health s.f. and establishment of sobering center

and task force i co chaired. how we will advance longstanding goal of achievements on demand. i will be asking the department of public-health to provide an update on the fiscal year 2019-2020 proposition t annual report and made to implement treatment on demand since the last hearing and charges to implementation brought on by the pandemic. i look forward to the conversation and i want to thank my co-sponsors, supervisor ronen, haney and stefani for joining in the request for this hearing and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman. supervisor mar. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i have one hearing request today that compliments the hearing that supervisor safai just called for. public safety conditions to be an issue of great concern among

residents and businesses through out or city. even as we've seen a shift in crime trends. our commercial quarters and business districts experience on going safety problems in particular as spike in burglar he's over the past year. in the sunset and park side districts, for example, at least 10 small family-owned businesses on irving and ter a bell have been burglarize and vandalized in the past few months and some targeted multiple times. impacted residents and businesses frequently call for more visible and responsive presence of public safety measures in our commercial corridors and so i'm calling for a hearing on public safety strategies in commercial corridors and their effectiveness on reducing crime. this includes examining the effectiveness and current status of sfpds foot and bicycle patrol policy strategy and plan as well as the office of civic

engagement and immigrant affairs, community embassador program and street-based outreach programs of other city departments and publicly funded community based organizations. i'm also requesting the office of small business and oewd to report at this hearing. and through the hearing, i hope to better assess the role and value of those programs and to foster a more public safety and as one key part of the city's over all crime prevention work. so, thank you again supervisor safai for your hearing request and on the increase and theft from neighborhood anchor business and i look forward to coordinate our respective hearings in the neighborhood services committee. the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor mar. supervisor melgar. >> thank you, so much, madam

clerk. during the month of march, i'm going to be introducing things that support women's economic political and socially quality as it is women's history month. so i will be submitting today two resolutions in a fund project that we're all going to be involved in and so the first resolution that i am sponsoring along with supervisor safai, thank you so much supervisor safai, it is to strengthen the office of early care and citizen and the childcare planning advisory councilor owes role and helping build that early care and education system. we have also started working with the city attorney and first and foremost i want to appreciate the work of early care education. so many have been working nonstop since the shut down and

words cannot express what they feel for this profoundly underpaid workforce and over 50% of those in the workforce have a college degree and yet early educators are those lowest paid of any profession with degree attainment and as you know, a scrappy but mighty movement of early care advocates providers and parents and leaders just like former president norman yee and jane kim passed proposition in june of 28 we call baby c to raise the salaries of early care educators and clear the waiting list for childcare and help low and moderate income families secure and affordable slots. we are still waiting for the final outcomes of the litigation and measure but there were able to release these funds because

of prop f last november. our early case and education system evolving and we have an unprecedented opportunity to completely revolutionize how we do things in san francisco. hopefully the state and federal government will follow too. the office of early case and education and administer in recovery grants and loan programs to struggling childcare providers in recent weeks working with first five and in the department of public-health to distribute as many vaccines as possible to the hundreds of early care educators, risking their lives everyday. we also are going to with

expanded effort we need to ensure we maintain a strong governance structure that offers oversight of baby c funding accountability and meaningful engagement with stakeholders. and it has come to our attention, that the advisory committee which is a nine-member board created by this board of supervisors when office was formed and it's over a year ago and so i wanted to commend the existing members of the oece pack who are volunteering pulled over especially given the challenging times right now and their service is greatly appreciated and they're unsustainable to rely on hold offers and so after learning with this information i want to thank chair peskin for working to expedite the new appointment to the board and we're also urging the mayor's office to expedite their appointments and we need to ensure that we're

supporting these structures and we set up to advise and engage the mayor, the board, the office of early care and education this requires adequate staffing in coordination between the different advisory bodies, the oec, childcare planning and first five commission and our resolution calls on the office of early care and education to strengthen information sharing, training and support of new cast members and supervisor safai and i are also working and on going conversations with the stakeholders and evaluating the ordinance that formed the oece to see how we can expand the duties and the role. i want this board to continue being a partner and building out division that former president yee fought for and i rerefer this back to supervisor safai for his comments and thank you and ronen, channing walton, mar and haney for co-sponsor.

i have a couple of more things. the second resolution i'm introducing is home opioid down payment assistance for early care educators and it is calling for home opioid is one of the few ways that working families are able to accumulate wasn't and not only benefits them in their long-term stability but it also an asset and leverage and pass down to their children and we can't rely on short term band-aid and we need to think out the box and help build community resiliency and san francisco has been offering home opioid down payment for decades and have been successful in helping families get into their first home and build equity and we have dedicated programs for sfusd teachers and first

responders and now i would love to see a pilot for family childcare providers. when family childcare providers face displayment it's a triple whammy and the operator and their family loses their homes and their livelihoods and the family they serve are then left scrambling to find childcare and the community also loses the childcare slots permanently. every family childcare that we stabilize will help us bring together the system of support that folks need. thank you to my co-sponsors, supervisor safai, ronen, chan, walton and haney. this resolution is to bring together existing funding and existing programs to make it work for childcare education specifically and supervisor safai, ronen, chan, walton mar and haney are also supporting.

thank you so now i'm going to get to the fun part. colleagues in the interest of advancing the gender analysis with political discusses on this board my office will be undertaking a time study in partnership with the san francisco women's political committee and to record and analyze the time and quality of political discourse during our meeting by gender. currently in our board we have male and female identifying members if we had greater diversity we would add that to the study as well. with what we have, we will be tracking for a one-week period during the month of march and how many minutes men or women speak during our board and committee meetings, we will be looking at our language patterns such as interruptions, women interrupting men or men interrupting women, asking to speak more than once on a particular item, when others

have not spoken we will be tracking the total time per again ter and multiplying by the preportion of men and women on our board. since there is more guys than women, to make it mathematically accurate. we will share the results with all of you at our last meeting in march. my hope with this study is to have people engage in self-reflection and collectively work together towards a behavior that is again better equitable. take an opportunity to see how individually women included internalize and external eyes our interactions and additionally the study will not be naming any individual supervisors. it's not meant to be a call out but to provide data as a whole on how we engage. and i want to thank my staff meghan for gathering with san francisco women's political committee and as well as our

volunteers and sarah, linda, lauren, den ice hyphenroader and jeb fer and amber, jasmine and gabrielle who service as board leaders and membership of the san francisco women's political committee and the rest i submit. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor melgar. also i love the candy neck less. if that is a candy necklace. supervisor safai, you asked to be rereferred. >> thank you. i just want to really appreciate supervisor melgar and those comments at the end and it's extremely important so i appreciate you putting that out there. on these two particular items that we're working on together, i'll just say we're going to try collectively supervisor melgar and i to fill the shoes of supervisor former supervisor yee

who dedicated his professional career for two early childcare and as i said in the day, his last day on the board, i learned so much from him and his fierce advocacy for children and families. supervisor melgar and i and i think walton probably have, if you were to add them up, have the vast majority, i know i have the most but i know that they too have a significant amount of family childcare providers so i'm proud to be a co-sponsor of the down payment assistance. it's been one of the most wonderful ways for so many immigrant women and to stabilize themselves and provide generational wealth at the same time helping so many families with their education and getting them on the right track, preparing them for school and it's a very affordable ways for families to access childcare so

for me, having two children of my own and having experienced it myself not that long ago, it's so important to support that infrastructure and so the down payment assistance is great and secondarily, the leadership and the oversight of the office of early childcare and the oversight. moving that forward, making that a priority and ensuring that we do the right thing by the voters is extremely important as we move the conversation of accessible affordable childcare for all forward. i'm proud to be co-sponsor with supervisor melgar on both items. and we look forward to coming back with positive results both on the appointments as well as the actual coordinates to help families purchase their buildings to sustain and expand their businesses. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai.

supervisor peskin. >> colleagues, mr. president, over a number of years i've made a number of reforms earlier today we met as the county transportation authority commission which supervisor mandelman presides over now. in the old days, we had committees and now we meet as a body of the whole. i do believe that was a constructive change that i made that will consist as we continue deliver row over a number of years or decades. and in that same notion, i would like to introduce a motion to amend our board rules and i think this will actually make us more deliberative and that would be a new board rule at 2.2, 1.1 which would allow this board of

supervisors to make appointments to advisory committees by peace act and the prozac, which not a drug and the advisory committee and on the adoption without community reference calender and so, i want to be clear this would apply to individuals supervisor who is appointing someone under the code under individual ordinance to a specific position on a specific advisory body and rather than going through a rules committee and a board committee meeting we can do that on the adoption of the reference and i want to thank the clerk and her staff for having streamline that and my staff lee heppner for helping me figure it out.

and colleagues, as we all know -- not only is recology and d.p.w. crooked, but there's ways to fix it. not only is the parks land crooked because they're crooked as heck, so we read all these articles in the paper and they don't say the parks alliance. but the parks alliance is crooked. i don't see stuff like that very often. the parks alliance is crooked. they longer mohammad nuru's money. that's a true fact. today i'm introducing a city attorney drafting request to establish a body to address the issues around changing our rev

use regiment that would be garbage in san francisco. over the past year of my office has delved in the 1932 ordinance that was passed 90 years ago and there are many ways to fix that at a high level and it can be fixed by one in no particular order municipalizing it and number two, putting outcome pet tive bids and number three, as i kindly say putting some lipstick on the staying and making it better and let's be clear, it turns out if there are any members of the press who are watching and it turns out that not only did mohammad nuru new the 14.4% rate increase should have been 7% and members of his

senior staff, including but not limited to and i will name names, and i've held her in heine seen julia dawson, allegedly and apparently new and senior department of the environment allegedly new that the rate was 100% higher than it should have been and they were informed and that would be miss debra rafael. this is a scandal. we cannot hold ourselves harmless. this is profoundly important colleagues. so, in that breath, i am convening a task force and that task force which as i propose

consist of 15 members ranging from a pointies of labor and the mayor's office and the department of environment and the public works department and many other interested parties from commercial and residential impacted parties would be convened under this ordinance and madam clerk, the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you supervisor peskin. supervisor preston. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues today i have one resolution and inmemoriam. today with the support of the california nurses association i am introducing a resolution in support of ab1400 authored by assembly member ash culra would establish universal single payer healthcare and i want to thank my early co-sponsors president

walton and supervisors mar, chan, ronen, peskin, haney and safai. also really want to thank c.n.a. and brandon of the san francisco bernie crass for working with my office on this resolution. guaranteed, healthcare for all has been so clearly needed as the covid-19 crisis. from saddling folks with incredible doubt just because they got a disease they have little ability to prevent to our inability to get folks tested rapidly and consistently and to have a transparent and comprehensive vaccine roll out plan that equitably reaches everyone how inadequate our system it. it has left too many people without adequate coverage and costs keeping going up for con

simmers. working class people have lost their jobs and their healthcare in their pandemic-driven recession. here in california alone, 165 billionaire have seen their wealth increase by $175 billion in the last year during shelter in place. with single pairing in california everyone would be covered and people wouldn't lose coverage if their employment status changed and we can eliminate deductible cutting out insurance profits out of the equation. the san francisco board of supervisors have support for single payer in connection with previous bills including resolution dated april 11th in 2017 and march 19th and in 2019 we need to continue to challenge the cruelty of the health-care system and push for something better. i urge the board to stand with nurses and patients and struggling californians in

saving our unambiguous support for ab1400. and i have an inmemoriam, i do i forgot to ask to be added as a co-sponsor to supervisor safai's resolution regarding janitors and please, add me as a co-sponsor supervisor. i would like to offer an inmemoriam for the late linda pettybone. linda was an artist with incredible talent and eye unique eye. a district 5 receipt department for over 42 years and a friend of the the entire district 5 office. linda was born in buffalo, new york, in 1948. and her family settled in lexington, massachusetts in 1950. as a child linda displayed an early talent for vis you'll art and design. after graduate north 1966 from

high school, she worked as an architect actual draft man in cambridge, massachusetts. she was involved in the world with jazz, blues and early folk music and massachusetts and spent time at club 47 now club ha seem where joannie mitching, bob dylan, taj mahal began their careers and the early 1970s after studying early childhood development at the school in detroit, linda drove her old v.w. bug across the country to california exploring the state before deciding to plant roots and san francisco in the mid-70s. her love the i can, art and design never wavered throughout her life. after graduating from goodard college, she began work as a freelance sign painter and graphic designer and by night she sang at local clubs and a companied by rear friend j.c.

tuck' and she took a interest in custom rug design creating and painting her original patterns directly on the side which were featured in arc tuck actual digest and the "new york times." she had a reputation for great exactitude and delicacy and perfection in her work. she also created her own business as a personal and home organizer and helped many grateful clients throughout the bay area. linda lived in her studio apartment on the avenue in coal valley for 42 years and during my first run for office in 2016, linda decorated the basement which was our war room of my campaign headquarters. it was a deexpressing, window less huge basement storage area until linda gotta hold of it and did the impossible transforming

this space to look like a junkel. her unique style and creativity brought joy and life to the space. and made for some memorable phone banks and meetings with the pressures of a campaign set to the back drop of ex odd tick animals and palm. it became like the magnificent set of a broadway musical and yet she was so humble about it and claiming she just grabbed a little bit of this and that from other projects that she just had lying around her house and she create aid quiet room where volunteers can recharge after long hours of phone banking and voter outreach and a testament to linda thoughtfulness and care for the well-being of her and years later my staff and i still remember the jungle and talked about it fondly. so marveling at how linda transformed the space with vision and care and ours was just one of hundreds of spaces she filled with life and love

during her amazing life. linda passed on july 31st, 2020 on her 72nd birthday and i would like to extend my condolences to linda's husband, my good friend roger, and to her sister nancy and her brother jim and thank you to them for saying their memories of linda with us. may she rest in peace and her member row will be a blessing. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor ronen. >> yes, thank you, colleagues, today i have one item i willing introducing in ordinance. with co-sponsors supervisor haney to temporarily suspend citations to business and property owners for graffiti. currently the graffiti abatement and removal ordinance and the public works code makes it unlawful for a person to damage or face and as well as or an

owner to allow graffiti to remain on private property. it allows public works to issue a notice of violation to a business or property owner within short time lines. well for the first several months of the shelter in place, public works held off on the issuance citations to merchants and property owners and they have now reassumed. at this time, when these small businesses are struggle to go stay a float during the shut down, to adjust to quickly shifting guidelines of practices, and to rea actively promote new ways of doing business and outdoor spaces and it is demoralizing for the city to for merchants to take on the work of cleaning after after vandals or face fees and penalties and my staff and i hear from small businesses all the time and insure you all do as well. they are struggling inform hold on and they're tired and stressed and yet just when we should be offering help, giving them hope, they're handed a notice of a ticket and their shops are vandalize and the city

sites them and honestly it must feel like a slap in the face. elizabeth vasquez owns t.o. g. and a mexican grill on 24th street in florida her outdoor pandemic park let has been tagged and she's repeatedly painted over the graffiti. nevertheless, a city inspector showed up for a quote unquote consultation visit which is the right of a citation to follow and michael mcnamara has a pub and the business has been cited three times including ones when the mural that he had painted to us in life to the plywood protecting his large window was tagged. he called the city to ask why he had been charged an inspection fee before the deadline foray basement and couldn't get a clearance on what was expected and several weeks after being told that the city had a hardship program he still has not got information on how to

apply. my proposed legislation will suspend the portion of a graffiti ordinance that allows citations to be issued to private owners for the duration of the emergency order and wave any pending fees or fines back to january 1st, 2021. the city will continue to be responsible for removing graffiti and also be allowed to respond quickly to pain over offensive hate speech graffiti as a way to counter urban light it may be time to reconsider whether or not it's time to replace the burden on property owners and small businesses and as i understand it, public works felt pressure to resume graffiti abatement and 311 complaints. public works waved fees but it puts the onus or merchants to take that and i believe that public works wants to help but does it make to show up with a pad instead of a can of paint?

saving small business is a top priority. most san franciscans agree and are stepping up to shop local and help keep mom and pop alive now is the time to walk that talk and make sure we are making it easier for them to keep going. that is the message that they should be hearing from us that we've got their backs and we're ready to give them a break many of let's think carefully and creatively about how we're spending city resources and let's find constructive weighs to deal with expecting our small businesses and the victims in these cases to shoulder that burden. thank you so much for my co-sponsors and matt haney and john and a fair draft north to the small business commissioner for flagging this issue and resolution they passed last month and small business commissioners william or tease and sharing his in sight and challenges they are facing and once again the amazing for shepherding this legislation to introductions and i look forward

to discussing this at committee and i hope that you will be joining me in passing this in the near future. and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. seeing no other names on the roster, mr. president that concludes the introduction of new business. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. now we are at public comment. >> it's time for the public to provide their general public comment. the telephone number is scrolling on your screen. (415)655-0001. and when you hear the prompt entering the meeting i.d. 187 635 0207, listen from your touch phone and otherwise you may miss the unmuted queue from the system. press star 3 if you would like to provide your public comment now. there are several listeners and we have two people in the queue.

i'll set the timer for two minutes. >> linda chapman. i feel blessed to hear all these rally important initiatives that i've been hearing tonight and i would like to tell you about the path that it took just to get information on the covid guidelines for contract and which i knew published by d.p.h. and maybe i'll just call supervisor haney's office and talk to an aid about that because we still have d.b.i. issues that i raised before so important and you did item 16 and then on the other hand we have the problem of the foxes in charge of the hen house and i want you to hear about throw really important things where they could have taken action and they either just didn't.

in attention, you know, negligence, or complete malfeasance so i'm going back to my co-op. it may take me a couple times. the co-op was damaged in the earthquake of '89. when they had a structural engineer who examine thed one crack that they were aware of and said it should be cured with a poxy which meant it was sealed back together. when i moved in in '91 there were these little tiny plastic cracks around the window edges and who knew that when the painter removed the plaster interpret going to be massive cracks that went through the concrete walls and through which water came in and those were tracks that went from floor to floor and it turned out in across the plaster, across the concrete floor or ceiling and so

fourth and so, i called, first of all, i had a couple of, i had structural engineers and myself and one was a member of the board and an expert work for the state and i hired one and paid them because they didn't have a vex actual engineer back then. >> thank you for your time. we are setting the time are for two minutes so i apologize for cutting anyone off. so, operations, let's hear from the next caller, please, i believe we have six callers in the queue. and about seven listening. >> >> i'm an executive member of the group called decreasing the distance where a parent collective family from across the district and first of all we wanted to appreciate supervisor walton for helping with the deal reached between the district and

the unions to get our students back to spring and we're very appreciate tive of that and they have been waiting to get back into the classroom so we're appreciative and we also have been talking with you and many of have you been supportive making sure that our kids can get back to the classroom full time. our middle schoolers and high schoolers were left out of the plans for the spring and i want to read a couple stories, we are calling into read a few stories and i'll read one right now and some others will call in as well. my name is sew fee blaire and i live in san francisco and i attend marina middle school and thank you to president walton for stepping into help with our student and i've been waiting a full year for a date and a plan and however there's still no plan for me and my friends to rush. this year i've been able to interact with other students and kids my age and it's very important for me to go back to inperson and without interaction is difficult and not as

effective and i still and i'm not learning and i'm falling behind and learning what i should be learning and i'm begging you to step in wish for a date and a plan for getting me back into the classroom where i do best and learn as i should be learning. thank you for your time, sew so. >> thank you for your comments. collisions, can we hear from the next caller, please. >> my name is kit hodge and i'm also a volunteer with decreasing the instant and i'm reading the letters from students. hi, my name is ben chan, i live in the sunset and i'm a sixth grader. i started and my first year at school without anyone meeting in-person and i feel as if i'm still in elementary school and thank you to supervisor walton for stepping into help our younger school students back in

spring and i've been waiting a full year for a date in plan for my return to school however there's no plan for me and every kid should have a chance to do be their friends and had he limit the time for education and instead of six hours of education we're only getting three and you lack a shared social experience and do you have friends you can improve your social skills and virtual learning and isolating because you are staring into a computer and you get depressed. do you remember the people you met in middle. >> zahra: so i am begging you our leaders to step in again and push for a date and plan to get me back to the classroom where i do best, thank you. i will leave it at that. we have a number of more letters from students that i hope we can read. i will hang up now. >> thank you for your comments. each caller has two minutes to provide their comments and if they would like to provide the comment of another person that's

fine too. operations, next caller, please. >> caller: hello. i would like to say and i think the board of supervisors needs to convene a safe and hearings on the unmentionable topics of homosexual sex crimes and everyone knows about the boy scouts of america and everybody knows about the catholic priest and i was brought to my attention today that well-known chinese fashion designer, alexander wang from san francisco supposedly and now based in new york city admitted involvement in the series of

suspicious activities that was only brought to life when the victims hired notable attorneys. we found out about it today and i think homosexuals around the world need to be rewinded that just because you have a powerful lobby, you can't run around the world doing things like that and the pope should be censored for allowing those priested to still exist. the boys scouts of america have to face the truth and so does every homosexual around this world and homosexuals sex crimes will not be tolerate and i urge the f.b.i. to look into that too. after, after, they finish with city hall corruption and if you know anything about city hall, i would say contact the public corruption unit in san francisco

and they'll get to the bottom of it and we want everybody in jail. even if your chinese, i know you guys out there, you guys should resign from the public positions, you are embarrassing the chinese race. thank you for your time. >> clerk: all right. before we go to the next caller, i'll just make a statement that the body does not tolerate harassing remarks and confers any privilege or protection for expression that constructor duties discriminatory or harassing remarks and i did not cut the caller off, he got his two minutes but he was very close to the line. operations, can we please -- >> thank you so much for reaffirming that, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. operations, can we hear from the next caller, please.

>> caller: hi, i'm also a volunteer with decreasing the distance and i'm going to continue reading a letter from the high school students. hi, my name is (inaudible) and i live in sunny side and i attend mission high school. thank you to president walton for stepping into help get our youngest school students back into school this spring. i have now been waiting a full year for a date and plan for my return to school. however there's still no plans for me. i am going to be a senior next year and online schooling has left me unprepared and unmotivated for my future. i'm not learning enough to prepare for the s.a.t.s and he wake up at a&e a.m. to study out of a and hope i get into college for the students who have been school for months. i sit in any bed or at a table and stair ought a computer via zoom. i participate so i am quote-unquote a success story. i mom has the means to perform for our home so i'm not like students who keep their computers off and working to survive for their families.

i'm thankful for miss teacher to do their best and care about the students and do everything in their power to give us the education we deserve. but the district has shown us that politics and union contract negotiations surpass my constitutional right to an education. these are years i will never get back. high school is a faint memory because our leaders couldn't figure it out for us. the quote-unquote best years of any life will be years of depression, staring out a week wishing i could be in a classroom again so i beg you to step in and push for a date and plan for getting me back no a classroom where i do best. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> clerk: ok, we have eight listeners in the queue and there are three callers reed to make comments. if you are one of the eight and you would like to get in line to speak, press star 3. otherwise, we'll take these next throw callers to the very end. operations. next caller, please.

>> caller: i'm also a member of decreasing the distance and i'm going to read another letter. hi, my name is max and i live in portola and my daughter attends begin brock middle school. i would like to thank president walton for fighting for our public school students. he and his family are proud products of our public school system but there's a huge issue, we have no plans returned date to school while the c.d.c. says it's fine to do so safely and privilege at schools in s.f. have been back ask in session and surrounding progress school districts as well. and in the meantime we can see there are teachers that are doing the best they can teaching through zoom and you it's a shaddest in-person learning experience. many aren't learning or present and the lesson they're learning is at school is not as important as every other area of life and we know we can do this so please, please, please, bring back in-person learning for all of our students as soon as

possible. >> thank you to the caller for your comments. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> good evening, supervisors, thank you for taking my call. my name is seth and i'm a member of decreasing the distance and i'm reading a letter. from a mom. my name is kim green. i'm relieved some of our traditionally students will get what they require and deserve. however, i remain deeply disturbed that our board, district and union have chosen to dismiss the plight of students who are suffering behind closed doors. as we enter year 2, of the crisis that closed our school sites, it doesn't matter what zip code you live in our how

intersectional your identity is to outsiders, san francisco public school teams are suffering and increasingly that suffering is a choice made by empowered adults and made by you. in otherwise resource families the spiritual and psychological delay, caused by the closure can be obvious or subtle. we know kids who have stopped showering, who won't leave the house. who refuse to a ploy to college. who are now taking depression medications. who are terrified of everything. who play mind craft 17 hours a day and they haven't picked up their saxophone in 12 months. who are supervisorring younger siblings from morning to night and instead of attending school so their parents can work. who can't get out of bed. who log in and immediately go become to sleep. who have gained or lost 30 pounds. who know longer see friends. who watch private school students laughing outside their apartment windows. whose teachers have never not

once spoken to them directly. at this point, for no reason other than politics. we know them all. dozens of them and now you do too so my question is, what are you going to do for them. it's not only your job and privilege, it's your imperative. now is the time to put aside cynical games. >> clerk: i want to apologize, we are setting the timer for two minutes but still just a poll apologiesfor cutting you off. operations, let's hear from the next caller. we have four in the queue and 10 who are listening. welcome, caller. >> hi, i'm a parent of a second grader at jefferson and sixth grader at apge middle school. i'm calling for us to thank president walton for his

leadership and growth the district union to come together. we absolutely need the leadership of all the educational folks and supervisors in this city to get our kids become to school. every single one of them, a full five days a week by fall. we can be going back now and should be to the greatest possible extent the san francisco is just going to continue to hemorrhage students and families if we do not get and make a commitment to getting students back full five days by fall. please, doing everything you can to make that happen. every student in this district deserves and has the right to an appropriate quality education and right now, few if any are receiving such an education, this is learning cannot substitute for in-person experiences both whether academically or socially and we have the responsibility to our children, to our community, to

get our kids back in school where they node to be and every single child and san francisco is suffering and essentially by this point and there is no go ahead reason not to be bringing them back. thank you so much for take my comments. >> clerk: thank you for bringing your comments. operations, do we have another caller, please. >> hello my name is (inaudible). can you hear me? >> if you speak up just a little bit, that would be best. >> my name is charles. i witnessed a security (inaudible) violently attack a person lying on the sidewalk and i'm requesting someone take this

serious because the police came and then they gave me a number and left. it's (inaudible) all the stuff about different people pretexts. they violently attack and i am getting no response from the police department, from the board of supervisors, and no one and i don't think it's appropriate. our security, the private security have more regulations and running around with no (inaudible) and they received a (inaudible). they have less obligations as a police officer to identify him selves and it's -- san francisco should be better than this. they're allowed to carry weapons

at police department doesn't have and i mean, i would appreciate it if i could get some word as to if this is acceptable to the board of supervisors. and i posted it several times on twitter and in facebook and no one has responded it happened across the street from sane anthony's. it's really starting to feel like the government is not going to help owe protect poor and plaque people in san francisco. it's really horrifying that we have of to live under this continuous abuse. >> clerk: if you contact the office of clerk the board tomorrow, we will take a note from you and we will do

everything we can to assist you. 415 -- you know our office number. 554-5184. thank you, we look forward to talking to you tomorrow. operations, do we have another caller, please. >> caller: thank you. i'm a parent and i want to thank all the supervisors and supervisor walton for helping us get to this point where we might be able to see our children go become to school. i'm going to read a letter from a freshman who has never seen the inside of her high school. i don't just want totally open many of we as a city need school to be open. students are falling hyped and mental health problems are soaring and everyone is effected. it's much harder to get help hem the at home and only do students list their friends and teachers my whole class has never seen

each other's faces and we deserve action and leadership and will fight until change is made and i know we can't go back tomorrow and it would mean the world to have a real plan for when we can all go back. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. there are 10 listeners and one person in the queue, if you are one of the 10 and you expect to make public comment, press star 3 otherwise we'll take it to the end. operations, can we have the next caller, please. >> hi, good evening. this is barrie toronto. i first want to say that i admire the clerk of the board angela for will way she communicates and public comment and how tactful she is in

creating the rules regarding public comments. you ought to be admired and she should get a hearing room named after her and also, shaman walton should be commended for how he mediated the negotiations between the teachers' union and the school district administration and great job. on another note, i want to thank supervisor haney for raising the issue about the dig workers being able to get paid for cleaning the vehicles and for making sure they have enough p.p.e. and the thing is, the taxi drivers also deserve this and you can understand the type of passengers that we deal with particularly at late-night hours and the fact that it's very difficult to try and enforce the mass rule and the risk we take by taking these passengers and the work we have to do especially with seniors and

disabled we only are allowed to get a 10% tip off of the paratransit and essential trip cards so it's important to take that into consideration considering the m.t.a. is making it harder and harder for us to get around the city and to help these seniors and disabled and the at extend of making sure that bikists are safe and at the same time we're not getting paid for our services, thank you for your time and have a good evening. >> clerk: thank you mr. toronto. operations do we have another caller on the line? >> caller: hi, there. my name is laura and i'm a parent of two children. i want to thank supervisor walton for his help in getting us to the point where we are this the tentative agreement

with uasf return to school and call to support a full return in the fall meaning full five days for pre k through 12th grade. we really need this and it's not just about my children or other people's children it's about the whole city. if we don't have strong public schools on the city, it would be catastrophic so please, please support five full days in the fall. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. there are nine listeners, two callers in the queue, operations, let's hear from the next caller, please. if you want to make public comment this evening press star 3 if you are one of the nine listeners.

>> caller: my name is laura and i'm a constituent of the d11 and i have two kids at home and they are in elementary school so i am grateful for the good news and the work of president walton but there's so much work ahead. i beg of the board of supervisors who work with the berdych to work with us and continuing to move our kids and have a school day plan and in the fall there's a lot of work ahead and the summer is upon us and we continue to resources and continue to work as a community with families and sfuc and the union and whatever it takes. let's just get ready so we don't receive august 2019 and in

august 2020, and august 2021 our kids are going to be back in school. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. operations, do we have another caller on the line, please? >> hi, my name is lisa and are you still taking comments on the observation and is that? >> no, we are not, ma'am, that item is in the rules committee now so i would recommend that you, what just talked to the chair of the rules committee and or watch the agenda, great. thank you. >> thank you. >> operations, do we have another caller on the line? >> madam clerk, that completes the queue. mr. president. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, would you please

call the items for adoption without committee reference, items 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, and 39. >> clerk: items as mentioned by the president, 32-40 without items 39 and 40 -- without 38 and 40, were introduced for adoption without reference to committee and unanimous vote is required for resolutions today and any supervisor may require a resolution to go to committee. >> thank you, madam clerk. i would like to severe item 37. colleagues, are there any other items? i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk, please call 32 and 33 and 32 and 3536 and 39 for

roll call vote. >> clerk: on items 32-36 and 39 -- [roll call vote] >> without any reservation, these items should be adopted

unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 37. >> clerk: item 37 is a resolution to recognize every march as endometrioses aware nice month in the city and county of san francisco. >> thank you so much. colleagues i have a minor amendment to item 37 on the clause on page 1 line 12 striking inflammatory condition where the tissue similar to the lining of the uterus but not the same goes outside of the uterus and instead adding endometrioses is a chronic inflammatory disease and characterized by the presence of endometrial owe like tissue found out the uterus and other areas of the body and these urn substantial but a clarifying definition. i would like to thank my colleagues supervisor ronen and

haney and chan, president ton and mandelman for co-sponsoring and and would like to mick a motion to approve this amendment. >> i will make a motion. >> thank you so much, supervisor melgar. i did make a motion. >> i'll second. >> thank you. thank you so much. it is been moved and seconds to amend item 37. madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: on the amendment to item 37, supervisor safai. >> mr. president, i believe supervisor mar is on the roster. a poll goes. apologies.my apology supervisor. >> i just wanted to be added as a co-sponsor and thank you to your chief-of-staff for working on this.

>> clerk: on item 37° [roll call vote] 37 -- [roll call vote] >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you. this resolution a adopted unanimously. i'm sorry, the motion to amend is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 37 for roll call vote. >> clerk: on item 37 as amended -- [roll call vote]

i believe supervisor peskin is on the roster. >> no, madam clerk, i'd like to reopen roll call and i'd like to add to roll call so after we deal with item 37, i would like to be rereferred. >> clerk: on item 37, as amende]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> thank you so much and without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. supervisor peskin. >> thank you president walton, madam clerk, colleagues, i made some very serious allegations earlier in this meeting and i would like to speak to those allegations. as we all learned last week, based on the work of the city attorney, the rate payers of san francisco were over charged some 94 and a half million dollars for rev use collection and as i spoke to earlier, i am undertaking a reform effort in that regard. >> supervisor peskin, did you want us to rescind a particular item to bring it back? >> no, ma'am. >> clerk: which item are you

speaking of? >> i'mal roll call for productions, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor peskin is taking his time as a personal privilege to make a statement about his roll call. >> clerk: ok. >> that is correct. >> clerk: i will just make a notation that roll call for introductions were reopened bought objection, mr. president? >> that works, thank you. >> that's what i've asked for so i'd like to reiterate that i do not take these allegations lightly. in the matter of mohammad nuru, we were all befuddled that he could have done these things without any knowledge of higher ups in that department. in the matter of recology relative to the rate, we should all be befuddled that no one could have understood these

things and i believe that higher ups in many departments actually knew or should have known these things that is what i attempted to explain earlier on. the criminal-justice system will do what it will do but i stick to those comments and i say that to the mayor and the mayor's chief-of-staff and i want to use this moment to double down on my colleagues. >> thank you supervisor peskin. madam clerk, i see that we have no imperative agenda items. would you please read the inmemoriam. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of supervisor preston for the late ms. linda pettybone. >> thank you so much and do we

have any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> seeing there's no more business, and to continue and honor of woman during this women's history month, i bring you words from vanessa macillo. at the heart of relentlessly pursuing the course for gender equity lies not the desire to give women the upper hand or bestowing matriarch at supremacy beyond the world on the contrary, this pursuit is about society undoing historical injustices for which have not only marginalized women but have also ham strung humanity as a whole. and ensuring the participation of women and all levels of key social institutions, is neither redemptive or charitable. it is an indispensable objective

without which humanity is incapable of meaningful progress or events. and with that, we are adjourned.

>> mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. we acknowledge we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramatush aloni, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco pence. in accordance with their traditions, these people have never ceded, lost, or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as bests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working

on their traditional homelands. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders of the ramatoush eloni community by affirming their solemn rights. please place your right hand over your heart and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. on behalf of the board of supervisors, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov tv. jason gomer is with us and he makes the transcripts available online. madam clerk, would you please

call our special order. >> the special order is an appearance by the honorable london breed. the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> chair: thank you so much. welcome, madam mayor. it is great to see you. >> mayor breed: good afternoon, supervisors. happy women's history month to the four women on the board of supervisors. today i want to discuss our vaccine efforts as well as the state of reopening schools for in-person instruction. to date we have 1,901 -- over 196,000 people who have received a first dose of the vaccine in san francisco and over 93,000

people who have received the first and their second dose. 26%, one in every four san franciscans have now received the vaccine. 68% of people over 65 years old have received at least their first shot. this is a huge milestone for our city. our case numbers are dropping and our test positivity rate is under 1% opposite only 0.93% tests came back positive. our reproductive rate is 0.66%. we are in the red tier trending back to the orange tier and i'm so excited what that means for our ability to reopen. based on the state's guidelines, as soon as we can get to the orange tier is march 24. if we keep it up, it looks likely that that will happen.

we're continuing to do everything we can to get shots administered, whether through the mass vaccination sites or the drop-in sites, the community clinics, pilot sites, to bring vaccines directly to certain populations. at the end of this month on a day we received enough supply, we administered over 10,000 shots in one day, which is our goal. we actually have the capacity to do more than that and ooism saskatoon /* /* -- want to provide those with priority access codes to they can be vaccinated. thank you, president walton, for

your work in bringing both sides together for a proposed agreement. i'm glad we know that some students will be returning in april, fingers crossed, but we need to push for more and do better for all our students, not just some of them. we need to focus getting all students back in the schools five days a week, including extending this commitment to include middle and high schools. we know that a return to a safe in-person learning is essential to the continued development of our children and after a year of distance learning, we need to do everything we can to move this process forward. the city has been assisting with staff and resources in getting our schools ready for in-person learning and we are prepared to meet this timeline. the department of public health will assess this reopening. our team will hit the ground running and be there quickly to

get the job done. the sooner we get these applications, the faster we can move and ensure they are safe for school, staff, and students to return. we already deployed city staff on the supporting of drafting of reopening applications. planners and architects are reviewing the maps. site inspectors are conducting facility inspections, laborers helping to prepare schools. we will make additional personnel available to help meet this timeline. there will be prioritization for the staff and other people who are on the grounds who are returning on site and will continue to do so. nothing should stand in our way of getting our students and

educators back in the classroom as quickly as possible. the city is ready to do our part to get all our kids back in school. i'm so excited that april 12 we have a day and fingers crossed, it will be magic for the kids in san francisco. thank you, president walton, for your work. i'm excited. keep wearing your masks and doing what you need to do to keep your distance. we're getting san franciscans vaccinated. i have hope for the future. let's continue to do our part. >> chair: thank you so much, madam mayor and madam clerk. seeing as we didn't have any questions submitted today, this concludes our special order. have a great afternoon, mayor breed. madam clerk, we are at

communication. the board recognizes that public access to city services is essential and s and invite public participation in the following ways. you will be able to end us your written correspondence and it will be received made a part of the legislative file. if you're using the u.s. postal service, you can find the address online. if you would like to watch the meeting, it is being live streamed at www.sfgov.org. you can watch on television on channel 26. when you want to provide public comment, make sure you turn down

your television so that you will be in sync to listen to the proceedings and provide public comment. the telephone number is 415-655-0001 and when you hear the prompt enter the meeting id number 187 635 0207, press pound twice and you will have joined as a listener. once you're ready to provide public comment, you should press star 3 and listen carefully for the prompt that you have been unmuted and begin your comments. just a few words pertaining to what agenda comments are eligible for public comment. today there is one 3:00 p.m. public hearing pertaining to the covid-related hazard pay, notice to begin no earlier than 3 p.m. if you intend to provide your

comments, your only opportunity is once item 25 is called. that is when the board will sit as a committee of the whole to consider item 26 on hazard pay. once the president closes public comment on item 25, then item 26 would be under consideration and in front of the board. general public comment is item 31. items that may be commented on are the approval of the meeting minutes that are noticed on the agenda, the mayoral appearance, items 32 through 40 and the items in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board, but that are not on the agenda. all other agenda comment is not eligible for public testimony. as duly noted, public hearing have been held at committees. so that you do know what's

scheduled, we encourage you to go to the board's website online where you can review the committee agendas and provide complement at the appropriate committee. it is only after public comment is held in committee that those items are able to come to board for board approval or consideration. in a special partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, we do have interpreters with us today. they will jump in and assist the public with their language interpretation needs. i will ask the interpreters to please introduce themselves. today we have mr. cortenz for spanish and ms. ly for chinese.

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thank you, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you both for being here. we very much appreciate your support. finally, mr. president, i would like to just mention to the public if there is any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely, please call the clerk's office. there is a live person standing by to assist you, that's on

screen. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk and supervisor peskin. i see your name on the roster. you are on mute, sir. supervisor peskin. can anybody else hear supervisor peskin? >> clerk: no, mr. president. >> president: i can't hear the supervisor. >> clerk: mr. president, i will have john check on supervisor peskin's connection. >> chair: thank you so much. supervisors, if you bear with us, i just want to make a statement before we get started, just a friendly reminder for all supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. colleagues, we are going to approve the meeting minutes from

the january 20, 2021, special board meeting at the public safety and neighborhood services committee which constituted a quorum of the board and a february 22, 2021, regular board meeting. are there any changes to the meeting minutes from colleagues? okay. i don't see any changes. supervisor peskin, has your audio ability come back? >> clerk: i don't believe so, mr. president. we received notice from supervisor peskin's staff that there might be a problem with his system and his microphone is not muted on his end.

>> chair: we are going to go into a recess and will we are i recess. >> we are now going to resume our tuesday, march 9, 2021, board of supervisor meeting. we are approving the meeting minutes from january 20, 2021 meeting, of the public safety and services meeting, which constituted a conform of the board and the february 20, 2021 regular board meeting. are there any changes to board meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve -- >> mr. president, i was only rising relative respectfully to the comments of the agust clerk

of the board of supervisors relative to items 25 and 26. >> chair: thank you so much, supervisor peskin. what's your statement? >> my statement is all of the clerk's comments are subject to item number 40. and the clerk did not make that clear. i rarely take exception with her words. >> chair: thank you. we will address that when we get to the question and we see your microphone is working. madam clerk, will you call the roll on the minutes as

presented. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: just checking, staff, that supervisor safai was able to sign in. [ roll call ].

>> chair: supervisor peskin, is your name on the role from last? >> no, i said the comments that i have to say, sir. >> chair: thank you so much. madam clerk, please call the consent agenda items 1 through 4. >> clerk: these items are on consent and considered to be on routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> chair: thank you so much, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll. [ roll call ].

>> chair: the ordinances are passed unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda. please call items 5 and 6 together. >> clerk: item 5 is an ordinance amending the building code to waive specified fees for certain accessory dwelling unit projects through june 30, 2023; requiring the department of building

inspection to annually report on such waivers; and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. and item 6 is an ordinance appropriating $165,000 from the general reserve in the department of building inspection to provide accessory dwelling unit permit services in fiscal year (fy) 2020-2021. >> chair: supervisor safai. >> i have a potential conflict. >> through the president to supervisor safai. i believe the law is clear. can you state what the reasons are. >> yes, sir. the reason is we have a pending permit to build our own home with an adu and that is currently in the process of being reviewed. so that could potentially impact us financially so for those reasons i have to be recused. >> i move for recusal. >> chair: thank you. it was seconded by supervisor

stephanie. madam clerk, may we please have the roll on the motion. >> clerk: on the motion to excuse supervisor safai from items 5 and 6. [ roll call ]. >> chair: the motion passes

unanimously. please call the roll for items 5 and 6. >> clerk: for items 5 and 6. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: there are 10 ayes. >> chair: the motions pass unanimously. supervisor safai, please return

to the meeting. madam clerk, please call item 7. >> clerk:resolution approving and authorizing the director of property, on behalf of the department of public health and sum m. seto properties, llc, and jenny p. seto properties, llc, to amend the lease of real property for its 33-bed, licensed treatment facility located at 1421 broderick street at a base rent

of $372,510 per year with annual rent increases of 3%, and to extend the lease expiring on january 31, 2021, through january 31, 2024, to commence upon approval of this resolution by the board of supervisors; and authorizing the director of property to execute documents, make certain modifications and take certain actions in furtherance of the amendment, the lease and this resolution, as defined herein. >> i did have more questions i wanted to ask dph if there was a representative available. . >> chair: thank you so much. >> through the president. thank you, mr. yamoto, for being here today. i want to confirm that dph will do an assessment on the building regarding the conditions that have been discussed. >> thank you, supervisor. dph will conduct an initial facility assessment in conjunction with the current program operator prior to march 23. this will be used to start the process to address the issues in the short term. dph agreed to not sign the lease assessment until after that assessment occurred. a facility site assessment will include an initial assessment of the following types of systems to determine what, if anything,

needs to be addressed. fire life safety systems, ada access. ventilation and air conditioning, electrical and backup generator, roof, and the basement. they will follow through to complete the needed upgrades if necessary. >> thank you. i just want to confirm that after that assessment if there are any upgrades needed, dph will create a plan and a timeline so they can be made by the property manager, any upgrades? >> that is correct. >> is there enforcement language that you're working on that would make sure that the building owner made these amendments? >> yes, real estate brokered a very good deal and has much stronger language to hold the

owner accountable. >> i want to thank you for working with the department to come to some agreement. thank you for being here today. >> i want to thank supervisor stephanie for her leadership on this issue that i know is very critical for both the workers on site and the patients to ensure this is a safe environment for this to continue on and for us to continue our work and to support these amendments. i just want to put it on record that i share supervisor

stephanie's concerns and i do support this item today moving forward. i'm eager to see your department of public health to hold the company owner accountable on the site. >> chair: thank you so much. madam clerk, would you call the roll on item 7. >> clerk: on item 7. [ roll call ]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: thank you so much, madam clerk. without obligation, this resolution passes unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 8. >> clerk: item 8 is a administrative code to establish protections for occupants of residential hotels (“sro residents”) during the covid-19 pandemic. >> chair: thank you. seeing no one on the roster, please call the roll on item 8. >> clerk: on item 8. [ roll call ].

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: thank you so much, madam clerk. without any objections, this passes unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 9. >> clerk: item 9 is an ordinance authorizing the san francisco municipal transportation agency to exempt the development of the potrero yard modernization project, located at 2500 mariposa street, from chapters 6, 14b, and 21 of the administrative code as is applicable to such agreements, and permitting a best-value selection of the developer team if the city elects to proceed with the project after completing its

review under the california environmental quality act. >> chair: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll for item number 9. supervisor safai, are you raising your hand? >> yeah, i was going to, if that's okay, mr. president. i just wanted to ask one quick question on the record. is there anyone here that's monitoring the project for m.t.a.? >> clerk: yes, mr. president, we raised two people. >> thank you. mr. rabali, i wanted to ask a quick question as it relates to the sequa documents on this project. i know there has been a conversation about the replacement parking on the operators and we talked a bit about that. can you quickly say whether or

not the sequa documents have made room for reviewing parking on site and how that impacts sequa moving forward. >> yes, i'll discuss that briefly and defer for more details about that. we're currently in the sequa process moving forward to draft the b.i.r. in the spring. the project description does not have any parking on site, but that doesn't necessarily close the book on that option. >> just to the second question as to how this impacts the project moving forward. i did pose that question with our environmental control department working with the environmental report preparation. this is a concern of when parking is available to the

public. so a potential addition of parking at some date in the project if that were to be added at any point would not derail this process. >> whether it was for any of the residents deemed to be necessary in any way or the operators. >> that's my understanding. >> okay. great. thank you. thank you, mr. president. thank you, staff. >> chair: thank you, supervisor safai. we have been clear from the beginning that we'll be replacing parking for operators at the site with a design in the future. thank you for asking that question. on record, supervisor safai. madam clerk, would you please call the roll for number 9. >> clerk: on item 9. [ roll call ].

>> chair: thank you. without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 10. >> clerk: item 10, resolution authorizing the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute amendment no. 1 to the new headworks facility construction management staff augmentation

services agreement for continued construction management staff augmentation services for the new headworks facility project between the city and hdr engineering, inc., increasing the agreement by $10,000,000 for a total not to exceed amount of $27,000,000 and with a time extension of one year, for a total term of seven years, from june 12, 2017, through june 14, 2024. >> chair: thank you. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 10. >> clerk: on item 10. [ roll call ].

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: without objection, this is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 11. >> clerk: item 11, resolution retroactively authorizing the department of technology to enter into the fifth amendment of an agreement between the city and county of san francisco and at&t corporation, to extend the term of the agreement by one year for a total term of february 26, 2010, through december 31, 2021, and to increase the not to exceed amount of the agreement by $18,266,199 for a total amount of $140,695,756 . >> chair: thank you so much. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 11. [ roll call ].

>> clerk: there are 11 eyes. >> chair: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call items 12 and 13 together. >> clerk: items 12 and 13 together are two resolutions that resolution retroactively authorizing the fire department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $636,363.64 from the federal emergency management agency to

item 12 it's $636,000 to purchase four mini-pumper apparatus, for the performance period of august 6, 2020, through august 5, 2021, and waiving indirect costs. ( and item 13 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the fire department to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $883,145.45 from the federal emergency management agency to purchase personal protective equipment, for the performance period of june 26, 2020, through june 25, 2021, and waiving indirect costs. >> clerk: would you call the roll on items 12 and 13. >> clerk: on items 12 and 13. [ roll call ].

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: these are passed. please call item 14. >> clerk: item 14 is a resolution retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $4,545,455 from kaiser permanente through the san francisco general hospital foundation to participate in a program, entitled “adoption of enterprise electronic health record system,” for the period of november 1, 2019, through october 31, 2021. >> chair: thank you. please call the roll, madam clerk. >> clerk: on item 14.

[ roll call ]. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> chair: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> clerk: item 15, ordinance amending the planning code by revising zoning map

sheet no. zn07 to rezone assessor's parcel block no. 3516, lot nos. 039, 040, 041, and 042 (118-134 kissling street), from residential enclave district to residential enclave district - mixed; affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act; making findings of public necessity, convenience, and welfare under planning code, section 302; and making findings of consistency with the general plan, and the eight priority policies of planning code, section 101.1 >> chair: on 15, please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 15. [ roll call ]. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes.

>> chair: thank you. without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call the next item. >> clerk: item 16 is an ordinance amending the building code to implement expanded compliance control and consumer protection provisions for projects, individuals, agents, and entities with a history of significant violations; and affirming the planning department's determination under the california environmental quality act. >> chair: supervisor ronan. >> thank you, president. colleagues, in january i entered this legislation with co-sponsors peskin and haney to address fraudulent abuse of the city's building system. there have been cases of serious and repeated violations from district 9 [indiscernible] draft this legislation. over the past two months my incredible chief of staff who

did the bulk of the work on this ordinance and i thank her so much for that presented this ordinance to the planning commission. it's been heard twice by the land use committee. thank you for that. we are both co-sponsors. the input we've received along the way informed the item before you today. in order to protect the public, this legislation amends the building code to protect applicants for future applications. this legislation requires that d.b.i. maintain internal tracking of parties with significant violations. those parties who get on to the internal tracking documents three times in 18 months must be

considered for expanded compliance control. the legislation ensures the parties have a chance to share their reasons before being added to the list and this allows for appeals. dbi will be required to report any licensed professional placed on the list and anyone on the list will be subject to elevated scrutiny. dbi has to post the list on their website. lastly, the legislation establishes standards for internal d.b.i. staff accountability. thanks to my co-sponsors and to the deputy city attorney whose

help was invaluable in drafting this legislation. most of all, to amy bynard from my office who really was the heart and soul behind this legislation. thank you so much. >> thank you, supervisor ronan. >> supervisor ronan, i'm proud to be a co-sponsor. i want to thank you for your initiative. i want to thank my staff and i really want to reiterate what i said in committee which is if we see an increase in notices of correction which are not implicated by this ordinance, then the board of supervisors will be watching and this will all be highly transparent.

if that's the way it goes, we will adjust accordingly. i think this is going to do a lot relative to what's a handful of bad actors. i'm talking about rodriguez santos. this will make the department more accountable and transparent. >> i wanted to thank the supervisors for their work on this important measure and would like to be added as a co-sponsor. >> thank you. supervisor ronan, thank you for taking the initiative on this. it seems like these situations we hear about serial offenders

backs so many in the system. sorry, i wasn't in committee or able to be involved in the details, but i heard you talk about exculpatory evidence and you talked about how if somebody has three violations in an 18-month period, is it confirmed violations or is it violations that the inspector brings that they have the opportunity to bring evidence forward? if you could just explain that a little bit and to the public, i understand the process intimately, but i just wanted you to explain that for the record. because i had gotten some calls and questions about that. >> sure. d.b.i. has an internal tracking document of notices of violations that go out to contractors when they don't follow the code in their work on a job after being inspected. is a particular -- if a

particular contractor gets up to three violations, then at that point they're going to be placed on an expanded compliance control list and they will have an opportunity to come and give the exculpatory evidence and say one -- these violations weren't justified or this wasn't my fault and here is why. they'll have a chance to protest that so they get off the expanded compliance and control list. that's basically how it works. did i answer your question there? >> yeah, i just wanted to ensure that there was a process. sometimes you can have neighbors call in, the inspectors might not come or the contractor might not be on site. the violations might be small or expanded and extreme.

as long as there is a process to explain the serial bad actors. it's the ones that leave the consequences of and you allow the contractor to explain and if it's a valid reason, they won't be added to the list. that's my question. >> the idea is two-fold. not only they want to protect them from these bad contractors, but also subs can pick and choose who they're working with based on the ones that are doing honest work, which we all know are the vast majority of people. that will work to clean up the industry. >> the idea is if they're on

this expanded list and it's justified, did you say what happens, they get on the adjusted list and it's justified and then they're banned from doing business for a period of time? >> it's not that they're banned from doing business. first of all, the property owner is notified. they get more expansive investigations and all of the work and a site visit checked by a more experienced investigator. >> so the level of inspector [all talking at once] -- >> heightened review and inspection. >> got it. so it's not stopping that work or inspection? >> it's not stopping the work, but the alarm bells go off and heightened inspection. if there's any licensing board

you can notify, the licensing board will be identified. basically alarm bells go off to say there's been alarm bells here. >> thank you. >> thanks. >> chair: thank you, supervisor safai. >> thank you, president walton. i wanted to thank supervisor ronan for this great piece of legislation and would love to add my name as a co-sponsor. >> thank you, president. i wanted to thank supervisor ronan for her leadership on this. i think this is really important legislation long overdue, not just letting folks choose their contractors in the back offices

and behind the scenes, but when i heard this matter in land use and when i first read this measure and didn't speak to it in land use, but i couldn't help thinking of my early days fighting against one of the biggest landlords in the city who would just do work without a permit or in gross violation and in excess of any permit. people would complain and complain. they got cited over and over and at a point point when we realized what is going on, they just made a business decision that it is better for them to circumvent the rules because they are big and powerful. they get a small slap on the wrist later and they saved money, but systematically violating the rules. one of the powerful things of this legislation will put an end

to that. once they whack up those first violations, they will be on a list and someone will look at the work they're doing. i think it will be targeted at those bad apples. i agree with supervisor safai that is the target and i agree with supervisor peskin that it's not doing anything that they want to hit. i want that thank supervisor ronan. this is complicated terrain to wade into and to get right and i appreciate the time and care that your office put in. thank you. >> chair: thank you, supervisor. supervisor chan. >> thank you, president walton

and supervisor ronan, for your work on this. i would like to be added as a co-sponsor. >> chair: thank you, supervisor chan. i would also love to be added as a co-sponsor. seeing no other members on the roster -- supervisor safai. >> i'm sorry, i forgot to be added as well. >> chair: thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor peskin. >> i just want to say that with supervisor ronan and her chief of staff have devised here with plenty of due process. i was going to say that supervisor safai now that he is a co-sponsor of those words, these words matter. >> chair: they always matter. madam clerk, please call the roll.

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>> clerk: i understand, mr. president, you are only interested in severing item 40tor public comment at this time -- 40 for public comment at this time. you are not calling the other items, 32 through 40 -- through 39, excuse me. >> president walton: correct, for this time. if this is approved, we will go to item 25 and 26, our committee of the whole, and come back to 32 through 39 at the appropriate time. >> clerk: supervisor peskin, i did state the introductory items that were introduced to committee. the president stated he's leaving those items on the

agenda and only severing item 40, not asking to sever anything further. so if that answers your question, supervisor peskin, i will continue. >> supervisor peskin: so madam clerk, we do have a measure on the adoption calendar that does seem to be controversial, and i do defer to supervisor chan, that while we're at it, maybe we should sever item 38? >> clerk: mr. president, i understand you are only interested in taking up the 3:00 p.m. special order items. you are asking me not to call the other items at this time. >> president walton: yes. supervisor peskin, it would

behoove me to go through the committee of the whole. >> supervisor peskin: i understand, but if we are severing item 40, we should sever item 38 with the committee. >> president walton: okay. then we should have public comment on both. >> clerk: okay. mr. president, i will call item 38 and 40, and we will take public comment. scrolling down to the items, item 38, this is a measure to authorize construction of an observation wheel structure in golden gate park for a term starting february 28, 2020, and lasting for one year following

the current permit expiration term, until february 7, 2022. the 3:00 p.m. special orders are items 25 and 26, however, before items 25 and 26 can be called, we've got the committee of the whole and the emergency ordinance related to covid-19 related hazard pay can be called, item 40 must be considered. item 40 is a procedural motion if approved would allow the board to schedule and convene to sit as a committee of the whole today on had not 9, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., during the regular meeting, to consider a proposed emergency ordinance requiring certain stores to temporarily pay covid related hazard pay. if that is procedurally stated, the board will open public commentci