>> hello. my name is ian. i live in the lower hate. i work with the coalition on homelessness and i'm calling to ask the board of supervisors fully fund the oversight committee's budget proposal. i the privilege of helping to facilitate the process by which the budget proposals were made. this included a 17 listening session with over 800 community members. i was part of a listening session with over 50 homeless families. i was part of a listening session where clyde was able to collect input and dozens of homeless folks living on the street. these are the people, this was the community that got on the ballot and got it past. i'm calling in today to ask the board of supervisors recommend and respect their proposal. i know that many of those families have called in

tonight. not all have been able to have their comments interpreted. they have made their voices heard here. i'm asking for the board to respect those recommendations. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is gabriel. i live in district two. i am also calling to ask you to fully fund the oversight committee's budget proposal. and find real permanent solutions to homelessness. it was a great grassroots initiative. it was built for a local community and democratic process. we need to restore the 200 units of adult housing subsidies we need pathways for people to get off the streets and stay off the streets. this restoration process would

give us a permanent solution in addressing homelessness as people get back on their feet. the homeless use and the san francisco street. we demand 50 units. we call for the restoration of the 12th family housing subsidies. the speaker's time as elapsed -- has elapsed. >> hello? >> welcome. can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> hello. we live in the mission district

and i am calling to ask for help to build more sustainable and low income housing. i am asking that the supervisors please honor the committee and that we need real solutions for public housing. there are a lot of families who have been left without a home. we desperately need your help. thank you. >> there are five callers left in the queue.

>> props he is a people's initiative. respect the proposal. they made their voices heard that housing is the lifeline of the family and community supply. please restore the 200 units of adult housing subsidies for people not in hotels. and in honor of our day labourer who passed away this week, we ask that you create pathways to permit and exit so people can permanently exit homelessness and let's remember who was hardest hit with this pandemic.

let's not forget the immigrant and latin x community for essential workers who have been at the front lines of the pandemic. please prioritize their recovery and their resilience that they have for our city and our community. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hey, my favourite people. this is patty. i want to say we have found a beautiful way to support families in district 11. families deserve to be supported in ways that leave them feeling loved and cared for by their schools and neighborhoods. delivering food and basic needs like diapers and p.p.e. are helping them access resources in a way that isn't -- that is in service of being part of a school with no sign-up required, no idea -- no i.d. we love you and we want to support you. let me tell you that we have offered this service to many people. people have opted out because they aren't in need. a lot has kept it going.

a gallon of milk goes along way. i have worked in schools for over 20 years. you have no idea how many times a couple of groceries goes a long way and it's super helpful. district 11 has four high schools. we do it all in service of our neighborhood. i ask that you support the task force and their services and keep thinking of ways -- >> thank you for your comments. there are three callers left in the queue. as a final reminder, if you wish to provide your comments on item number one and two, press start three to be added to the queue. next caller, please. >> hello. my name is darlene. i live in the richmond district.

we want to find permanent solutions to homelessness. this is very people intensive. please respect this proposal to build a committee proposal. as a stay-at-home order -- [indiscernible] they were often times forced to stay at home with their abusers with nowhere to go but the streets. we must implement the funding of hotel vouchers for homelessness, domestic violence supervisors to protect them. >> the speaker's time has elapsed. >> thank you for your comments.

next speaker, please. >> good evening, board of supervisors and community members. i am a member of parent voices. i'm calling today to add my voice to many other voices to ask you today to increase protections for our teachers and our providers, invest in our services that support the physical and emotional development of children, on her the funding priorities, and last but not least, reinstate 900,000 for child care resources. i chose to steer my story today because childcare has made my life easier. and then i not only was able to

work or study, i was just overwhelmed all the time from trying to find childcare. i was -- [indiscernible] >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am a senior community organizer from the chinatown community center. i would like to speak on behalf of them. we hope the supervisors support props see funding allocation. no one wants to live in these units. you can't even imagine these spaces. our families have no choices. there is no place for them to even put a tv or table. where do they eat or where did they study? it's all in their beds. there's note for kids to learn and play. they applied for affordable

housing for many, many times. either the income is not qualified or the lottery number is over 2,000. where can they find permanent housing? this funding is very important for them. i know this is not a guarantee, but at least it's a chance for them and they hope for them to move out of s.r.o. units. please support this funding and make our s.r.o. family live there american dreams. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. welcome, caller. hello?

are there any other callers in the queue? >> we have no more callers in the queue. >> thank you. >> thank you. public comment is closed. thank you everyone for calling in. let's see. i want to move continue items one and two to the june 17th budget and appropriations committee meeting. is there a second? >> second. >> second. >> seconded by supervisor walton. [roll call]

there are five wet. >> item number 10 is ordinance appropriating 13.3 million from property tax meeting -- revenue to community involvement for rent relief under the rent resolution and relief fund and appropriating $13.3 million for the acquisition, creation and acquisition of a full affordable housing under the fund and fiscal is years 2020-2021. they should call in. if you would like to call and provide public comment.

welcome, supervisor preston. >> thank you, chair haney and committee members. i know the hour is late and you all have been at this all day. i want to thank you for agreeing to hear this item on your busy agenda today. this was introduced in may following the publication of the controllers' nine-month budget update, which showed higher than expected revenues from prop i've. the intention at the time was to allocate the unanticipated revenue in the current fiscal year to the programmes understood by san francisco voters to be funded by popeye, namely rent relief and permanently affordable social housing. today i am requesting amendments that have been circulated to committee members before this hearing to update the legislation to include the latest projected revenue for the

upcoming fiscal year. in brief, the reamendments are as follows to change the source of the funds and the full amount of funds from property taxes to fiscal cliff reserves and to change the total amount from $26.7 million to $128.3 million to reflect the projected amount of revenue from prop live for the upcoming fiscal year after the baseline allocations. colleagues, i do not take the step of requesting this amendment and these funds from reserve slightly. it is unfortunate that we are in this situation. the voters overwhelmingly passed prop i.

there is an urgent need for these funds. san franciscans will lose their homes, face debt collectors, lawsuits and bankruptcy and have no opportunity for stable housing without this allocation. we learned at the budget hearing earlier this week that the mayor's budget includes no city funds for covid rent relief to meet the need that is not met by the federal funds which we know will be insufficient. we also learned the budget includes no money for the housing stability fund and completely leaves key social housing strategies. a's budget has $0 to create new limited equity co-ops. zero dollars to create new community land trusts, and $0 for municipal housing, despite the overwhelming support for proposition k., the social housing measure, which gathered more votes at the ballot than any other local ballot measure last year. san franciscans would want

this. but right now, it is not something that proposed budget delivers. there are immediate opportunities to require affordable social housing that will be missed if we do not act decisively. colleagues, we need rent relief and we need affordable social housing as part of our recovery and covert response. it's certainly not my first choice to ask for reserve dollars for these purposes and i'm deeply disappointed with the main -- that the mayor to not allocate any money in her budget to these purposes. we cannot turn our backs on san franciscans in need when we have the funds available. i asked today for your support in amending the file to address these pressing needs and to fulfill the promises that this board made unanimously to voters. if amended, i am affianced that the amendment would be substantive. i also request the item, as amended, be continued to be heard at the budget hearing one week from today on june 23rd. thank you very much.

i very much appreciate you hearing this item after such a long day. >> thank you. colleagues, questions or comments? >> thank you. one of the things, and supervisor preston, i appreciate your continued advocacy for rent relief, i know we have worked on allocating and working on those funds here collectively. i appreciate your hard work there. and then we did do some, in the end of the year, the budget surplus was allocated. we allocated an amount to that rent relief and in housing stability. can you remind me what those numbers were?

>> yeah. they totalled just over $20 million. it was the first amount that came in after prop i took effect january 1st and then it was just over 10 million to each of those two purposes. >> that 10 million is still there in each of those funds. correct? >> that is right. >> okay. so for 10 million in city funding allocated for rent relief, let's just talk about that first. and then we have gotten close to, and all the different stimulus packages, close to another 80 or 90 million. it puts us around 100 million for rent relief. i guess what i would say, and just respectfully, i think it is harder to anticipate, and i get the premise, and your argument that you made the argument that you are going under the premise that these are the two buckets,

but ultimately, it was not a dedicated tact. this sets up the situation. we do have 100 million. i'm not sure yet because the money hasn't started to get allocated. the money hasn't started to get into people's hands yet. although it is in great need. a lot of applications are in there. it is harder for me to have the conversation about supplemental requests in the context of finishing this budget now without knowing how quickly we will go through that 100 million for rent relief, for example. that would be my reservation to do anything out of the reserve. i know that we have around 700 or 800 million on reserve. i don't think i can recall anything of that magnitude coming out of the reserve. i understand why you are doing and i understand what the

premise is. it is harder to make that move until -- or even have that conversation until we know exactly how quickly and how much utilization there will be, although we are protecting it to be significant with regard to rent relief. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> you can respond to that if you like. >> thank you. through the chair, i appreciate the comments and i appreciate your support for the original supplemental that you referenced at the request of -- the reason it hasn't been spent was to have it coincide with getting the first batch of federal money out the door. all that is happening now. the applications are in. we are holding a hearing this friday where they will support

about the status of applications. i just want to round you in the reality around the extent of the need. the b.l.a. report, which looked at the first expense of the pandemic only. if found, at the low-end, $801 million in unpaid background. and at the height, 196. we have had nine months since then. so even being conservative and doubling those figures, and i hear you. these are $90 million from the federal government to address rent relief. it is serious money. it will offer and then norma his amount of relief. these approach a significant

fraction of the rent over this period. we will get more clarity if the committee were to adopt the amendments. with they will come back next week. i think it is a pretty safe bet that even with these additional funds, we will not be in a position to meet all of the need. we will still need more federal relief. >> thank you. >> thank you, mr. chair. >> thank you. just a good timing question. when can we expect an estimate of the actual need? >> we have asked them their estimate. we have the b.l.a. report. it is the best san francisco data that we have. there is also the data on --

there was an initial round with gifted s.f. those folks are reapplying. we're hoping to get that clarity through our hearing on friday. >> no one has an exact number. not everyone likes to be surveyed. we should be in a position -- it will still be a arrange. i don't want to promise that there will be an exact figure, but we should have a range. what we have is the best study. it looked at broad industry data, but also at what was being reported by the department situation and the first six months with the range that i mentioned. we should have more information after friday. >> thank you.

>> thank you. run thing that i failed to ask the department of supportive housing, is how much of the rental assistance money will serve the same population that this rental assistance money might serve. to have a sense of that? is that something you will explore in the hearing on friday? >> i am not sure i am clear on how much -- which programme? this is been -- the prevention funds that h.s.h. has in the budget. the rental subsidy, et cetera. i am just trying to get a sense of, you know, the whole amount of money that we currently have

in the budget for rental assistance because of the so many various needs and trying to figure it all out together. i am wondering if we know that piece. i meant to asked h.s.a. and i forgot. i'm wondering if you've a sense of that and if you could maybe find out on friday during your hearing. >> absolutely. thank you. i appreciate the clarification. i misunderstood your question. my understanding is that the rental subsidy programmes that are in the budget are looking forward. and i think one of the things that is so important about prop i and all of our collective efforts is it is the only source other than this federal money of rent debt relief. for the subsidy programme, at

least the ones that i heard h.s.h. talking about in their presentation, they are forward-looking programmes. they will not look back. i will confirm that to make sure. i think it is an excellent question. >> i've got it. >> okay. i want to prevent homelessness and displacement of every single person who has suffered because of the pandemic. i am a huge fan and was a huge supporter of prop i. there are so many competing views in this budget. i want to fully understand them all. i can support this today with a caveat that i need to look at the full picture and understand all the competing needs and

talking to the controller, what is the responsible amount of money to remove from these reserves given the budget situation going into the future. i agree that the amount of money in that reserve right now is very conservative and the needs that we have right now stemming from the pandemic are urgent and now. if we don't act now, than the ramifications in the future are potentially more expensive and more devastating. i just don't know what that full picture looks like. that is my caveat tonight. i support this amendment that i need to look at the budget as a whole and make these decisions together. i have never seen a budget supplemental go at the same time as the budget. so i'm just trying to figure this all out as we go along and

i want to put that out there. again, thank you for all your incredible work on prop i and preventing displacement of our residents that are in dire straits. >> thank you. if i could just comment, i think one of the purposes of having this amendment is to avoid the very competition for resources in the budget that i thank you have outlined. so that is very much in the spirit of why we are doing this and i have been assured that we are not crossing any lines in terms of the extent of reserves that would be available. obviously it's a policy choice, ultimately, as to how much of the reserves we use. i think we are well within what is allowable.

supervisor mark? >> thank you. thank you to supervisor preston for your leadership on prop i and rent relief and social housing. i agree with you that the budget, the new budget should reflect the need around rent relief and should include some significant new funding for social housing. i also agree it makes sense to go by and follow the policy that the board set on allocation or prop i in the guideline. i think, like others and my colleagues on the committee, i'm still struggling with the complicated decisions that we are making right now around the budget and how this important proposal that you are bringing forward fits in.

i guess i am still struggling with this. i am supportive of your goal of increasing funding in the budget for rent relief and social housing. thank you. >> before we take any actions, can we open this up for public comment. >> yes. are there any callers in the queue? are there any callers who wish to comment? >> we have four callers in the queue. >> thank you. please unmute the first caller. >> good evening, supervisors. thank you for considering this item. i was a co-author trying to pass

prop i. so much opposition for corporate interest. the mere's budget does not allocate funding for social housing and rent relief. i hope you'll consider this from the covid reserve to make sure voter intent is respected. using this for covid rent relief should be a no-brainer. a supervisor press skin mentioned, they estimated that there will be 32 million per month of unpaid rent due to covid. they are not being fully utilized due to lack of outreach. and it also gives us a dedicated funding stream to build permanently affordable social housing. it can go towards funding community land trust and co-ops and lay the groundwork for municipal social housing programmes to start the guarantee and entitle at the same way that we do for public schools and public transit. i hope you will vote yes on item number 10 today.

>> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good evening, supervisors. for the record, i am not speaking on youth commission time. i'm speaking on my own behalf and my personal behalf. i want to call in to urge you to support this supplemental appropriation for the rent relief and social housing with the proposed amendment to effectively use the covid reserves to cover the mayor's decision to completely ignore this and not fund the intended uses of prop i. it was passed on the premise of. i want to echo everything that was just said and to put this in perspective, i find it deeply disheartening that in the same budget that we have immediately pressing needs, this is another budget were every

single law enforcement budget this year is getting additional general fund support. this is a general fund that is being supplemented and saved by measures by prop i. it's deeply concerning to me -- >> the speaker's time is up. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> chair haney and members of the committee, im with chinatown c.d.c. we believe it is appropriate for the city to utilize the covid reserve to extend rent relief to help all at-risk san franciscans. we see a critical need for the proposal to protect our housing stock and small businesses from distress sales and real estate speculation. an essential part of such protection is to fund acquisitions for preservation and for new affordable development. without securing the land before us, the city cannot protect our

cherished neighborhoods while also fostering inclusive housing strategies, including co-op rentals, equity ownership, and family and senior housing. it needs to be mobilized before it's too late to help you proactively create an equitable recovery. this proposal addresses that need. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> what is the length of time to speak? >> one minute. >> hi. i am mitchell with the affordable housing alliance. this proposition was put on the ballot to raise revenue to address two particular problems. the board of supervisors passed the resolution resolving how to spend this money. it was passed unanimously. the mayor let the resolution go into effect by allowing it to go into effect. we want to raise revenue of putting this on the ballot, and

then trailed by the board of supervisors resolution as to what those purposes go through, we need to keep our promises to the voters. anything else is a bait and switch. i would urge you to find a way to spend the money that has been raised by proposition i for the purposes that you and the rest of us said we were going to do. thank you. >> next caller please. [speaking spanish]

[speaking spanish] >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. i live in sunnyside. i'm also calling to ask you to support the appropriation to

draw on the covid reserve funds to fund this. i have been volunteering with the neighborhood group to call renters and connect them with rent relief programmes. it is clear there is a need for programmes. they are not being utilized properly. the harsh reality is that san francisco tenants have as much as $32 million per month due to covid. and we have had a pandemic for 15 months. there could be as much as $480 million in total unpaid rent debt. we need as much of this funding is possible to go towards this purpose, as well as long-term infrastructure for social affordable housing. please support this item and ensure that these tenants will be able to remain housed. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. are there any other callers in the queue? >> there are no more callers in the queue. >> thank you.

>> thank you. public comment is now closed. i just wanted to say a couple quick things. i definitely appreciate your leadership, supervisor preston, and everyone who is there with you. we strongly supported and have been very disappointed that the mayor did not honor the voters' wishes and our wishes when it came to her budget. i will say that we have very important responsibilities right now to come to an agreement and passed the budget that is in front of us. that is our overwhelming responsibility over the next few weeks. i echo my colleagues' questions about the level of funding and what is needed and making sure we have the appropriate level, learning from the hearing that we will have on friday will be very important, and then figuring out the right timing for this. if it is pulled from the reserve, it is not something

that will have to happen the same time that we passed the budget. if the need is there, i do think it's something that has to happen. so i think that we should consider that and explore many of the questions that folks have brought up in the committee. the other thing that i do want to make clear is because of the mayor's budget proposal, we don't have a covid reserve anymore. they're calling it the fiscal reserve. essentially what that is is $290 million to offset what will be a fiscal adjustment in two years. we are spending all this money in the next two years with one time funds that we got from the federal government. and two years, if we don't have additional revenue, in this case, in the reserves, we will have to face major cuts and layoffs. what we have in front of us, the amendments that we are taking, would take over half of that now. i want to make sure we're clear

to people know what the choices are. we may very well move forward with that. it needs further consideration and that we actually fund the need that is there. with that, i will make a motion to move the amendment that supervisor preston has. if we could have a second on that? >> second. >> seconded by president walton. roll call vote, please. [roll call] there are five wet. >> now i will make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. is there a second? >> seconded by president walton. roll call, please. [roll call]

there are five wet. >> great. this will be continued to the call of the chair and we will bring it back to committee and have it voted on here. thank you, supervisor preston. madame clerk, are there any other items in front of us? >> there is no further business. >> great. this meeting is adjourned. thank you, everyone. good night. >> good night.

>> my name is amanda [inaudible] over see the girls sports program. when i came to san francisco and studied recreation and parks and towerism and after i graduated i moved to candlestick park and grain r gain adlot of experience work with the san francisco 49 and [inaudible] be

agfemale in a vore sports dynamic facility. i coached volo ball on the side and as candle stick closed down the city had me move in92 too [inaudible] >> immediate interaction and response when you work with kids. i think that is what drives other people to do this. what drew me to come to [inaudible] to begin with for me to stay. i use today work in advertising as a media buyer and it wasn't fulfilling enough and i found a opportunity to be a writing coach. the moment [inaudible] you to take advantage of how you change and inspire a child by the words you say and actions you do. >> you have a 30 different programs for girls through rec and park and fast ball, soft

ball and volley ball. i started the first volley ball league and very proud what i have done with that. being a leader for girls is passion and showing to be confident and being ambiggish and strong person. [inaudible] for about 5 years. programs offered thraw thirty-three rec and park and oversee thg prms about a year. other than the programs we offer we offer summer camp squz do [inaudible] during the summer and that is something i wherei have been able to shine in my role. >> couple years we started the civic center socking league and what an amazing opportunity it was and is it for kid in the neighborhood who come together every friday in the civic center plaza on green grass to run and play. you otonly see soccer and poetry but also see

books t. is a really promoting literacy to our kid and giving them to tools to make it work at home. real fortunate to see the [inaudible] grow. >> girls get pressureed with society and i know that is obvious, but we see it every day, magazines, commercials the idea what a woman should look like but i like to be a strong female role for it goals that play sports because a lot of times they don't see someone strong in a female role with something connected with sports and athleticism and i love i can bring that to the table. >> soccer, poetry, community service. we now have field of dreams. we are [inaudible] all over the bay area and excited to be share our mission with other schools across the bay to really build the confidence and character of kids when they go

out to play and close their eyes and think, why was [inaudible] we want to make sure-i want to make sure they remember me and remember the other folks who [inaudible] >> get out there and do it. who cares about what anybody else says. there will be poopal people that come up and want to wreck your ideas. that happen today eme when i went to candle stick part and wanted to [inaudible] people told me no left and right. whether you go out for something you are passionate about our something you want to grow in and feel people will say no. go out and get it done. i can be the strong leader female and i love

>> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the

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

scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing

people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they

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

gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling

in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff. >> i personally love the mega jobs. i think they're a lot of fun. i like being part of a build that is bigger than myself and outlast me and make a mark on a landscape or industry. ♪♪♪ we do a lot of the big sexy jobs, the stacked towers, transit center, a lot of the note worthy projects. i'm second generation

construction. my dad was in it and for me it just felt right. i was about 16 when i first started drafting home plans for people and working my way through college. in college i became a project engineer on the job, replacing others who were there previously and took over for them. the transit center project is about a million square feet. the entire floor is for commuter buses to come in and drop off, there will be five and a half acre city park accessible to everyone. it has an amputheater and water marsh that will filter it through to use it for landscaping. bay area council is big here in the area, and they have a gender equity group. i love going to the workshops. it's where i met jessica.

>> we hit it off, we were both in the same field and the only two women in the same. >> through that friendship did we discover that our projects are interrelated. >> the projects provide the power from san jose to san francisco and end in the trans bay terminal where amanda was in charge of construction. >> without her project basically i have a fancy bus stop. she has headed up the women's network and i do, too. we have exchanged a lot of ideas on how to get groups to work together. it's been a good partnership for us. >> women can play leadership role in this field. >> i tell him that the schedule

is behind, his work is crappy. he starts dropping f-bombs and i say if you're going to talk to me like that, the meeting is over. so these are the challenges that we face over and over again. the reality, okay, but it is getting better i think. >> it has been great to bond with other women in the field. we lack diversity and so we have to support each other and change the culture a bit so more women see it as a great field that they can succeed in. >> what drew me in, i could use more of my mind than my body to get the work done. >> it's important for women to network with each other, especially in construction. the percentage of women and men in construction is so different. it's hard to feel a part of something and you feel alone. >> it's fun to play a leadership

role in an important project, this is important for the transportation of the entire peninsula. >> to have that person -- of women coming into construction, returning to construction from family leave and creating the network of women that can rely on each other. >> women are the main source of income in your household. show of hands. >> people are very charmed with the idea of the reverse role, that there's a dad at home instead of a mom. you won't have gender equity in the office until it's at home. >> whatever you do, be the best you can be. don't say i can't do it, you can excel and do whatever you want. just put your mind into it.

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>> restaurants will be open for take out only, but nonessential stores, like bars and gyms, will close effective midnight tonight. [♪♪♪] >> my name is sharky laguana. i am a small business owner. i own a company called vandigo van rentals. it rents vans to the music industry. i am also a member of the small business commission as appointed by mayor breed in 2019.

i am a musician and have worked as a professional musician and recording artist in the 90s. [♪♪♪] >> we came up in san francisco, so i've played at most of the live venues as a performer, and, of course, i've seen hundreds of shows over the years, and i care very, very deeply about live entertainment. in fact, when i joined the commission, i said that i was going to make a particular effort to pay attention to the arts and entertainment and make sure that those small businesses receive the level of attention that i think they deserve. >> this is a constantly and rapidly changing situation, and we are working hard to be aggressive to flatten the curve to disrupt the spread of covid-19. >> when the pandemic hit, it was crystal clear to me that

this was devastating to the music industry because live venues had to completely shutdown. there was no way for them to open for even a single day or in limited capacity. that hit me emotionally as an artist and hit me professionally, as well as a small business that caters to artists, so i was very deeply concerned about what the city could do to help the entertainment committee. we knew we needed somebody to introduce some kind of legislation to get the ball rolling, and so we just started texting supervisor haney, just harassing him, saying we need to do something, we need to do something. he said i know we need to do something, but what do we do? we eventually settled on this idea that there would be an independent venue recovery

fund. >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, this resolution is passed unanimously. >> and we were concerned for these small mom-and-pop businesses that contribute so much to our arts community. >> we are an extremely small venue that has the capacity to do extremely small shows. most of our staff has been working for us for over ten years. there's very little turnover in the staff, so it felt like family. sharky with the small business commission was crucial in pestering supervisor haney and others to really keep our industry top of mind. we closed down on march 13 of

2020 when we heard that there was an order to do so by the mayor, and we had to call that show in the middle of the night. they were in the middle of their sound check, and i had to call the venue and say, we need to cancel the show tonight. >> the fund is for our live music and entertainment venues, and in its first round, it will offer grants of at least $10,000 to qualifying venues. these are venues that offer a signature amount of live entertainment programming before the pandemic and are committed to reopening and offering live entertainment spaces after the pandemic. >> it's going to, you know, just stave off the bleeding for a moment. it's the city contributing to

helping make sure these venues are around, to continue to be part of the economic recovery for our city. >> when you think about the venues for events in the city, we're talking about all of them. some have been able to come back adaptively over the last year and have been able to be shape shifters in this pandemic, and that's exciting to see, but i'm really looking forward to the day when events and venues can reopen and help drive the recovery here in san francisco. >> they have done a study that says for every dollar of ticket sales done in this city, $12 goes to neighboring businesses. from all of our vendors to the restaurants that are next to our ven sues and just so many other things that you can think of, all of which have been so negatively affected by covid. for this industry to fail is

unthinkable on so many levels. it's unheard of, like, san francisco without its music scene would be a terribly dismal place. >> i don't know that this needs to be arrest -- that there needs to be art welfare for artists. we just need to live and pay for our food, and things will take care of themselves. i think that that's not the given situation. what san francisco could do that they don't seem to do very much is really do something to support these clubs and venues that have all of these different artists performing in them. actually, i think precovid, it was, you know, don't have a warehouse party and don't do a gig. don't go outside, and don't do this. there was a lot of don't, don't, don't, and after the

pandemic, they realized we're a big industry, and we bring a lot of money into this city, so they need to encourage and hope these venues. and then, you know, as far as people like me, it would be nice if you didn't only get encouraged for only singing opera or playing violin. [♪♪♪] >> entertainment is a huge part of what is going to make this city bounce back, and we're going to need to have live music coming back, and comedy, and drag shows and everything under the sun that is fun and creative in order to get smiles back on our faces and in order to get the city moving again. [♪♪♪] >> venues serve a really vital function in society. there aren't many places where

people from any walk of life, race, religion, sexuality can come together in the same room and experience joy, right? experience love, experience anything that what makes us human, community, our connective tissues between different souls. if we were to lose this, lose this situation, you're going to lose this very vital piece of society, and just coming out of the pandemic, you know, it's going to help us recover socially? well, yeah, because we need to be in the same room with a bunch of people, and then help people across the country recover financially. >> san francisco art recovery fund, amazing. it opened yesterday on april 21. applications are open through may 5. we're encouraging everyone in the coalition to apply. there's very clear information on what's eligible, but that's

basically been what our coalition has been advocating for from the beginning. you know, everyone's been supportive, and they've all been hugely integral to this program getting off the ground. you know, we found our champion with supervisor matt haney from district six who introduced this legislation and pushed this into law. mayor breed dedicated $1.5 million this fund, and then supervisor haney matched that, so there's $3 million in this fund. this is a huge moment for our coalition. it's what we've been fighting for all along. >> one of the challenges of our business is staying on top of all the opportunities as they come back. at the office of oewd, office of economic and workforce development, if you need to speak to somebody, you can find people who can help you

navigate any of the available programs and resources. >> a lot of blind optimism has kept us afloat, you know, and there's been a lot of reason for despair, but this is what keeps me in the business, and this is what keeps me fighting, you know, and continuing to advocate, is that we need this and this is part of our life's blood as much as oxygen and food is. don't lose heart. look at there for all the various grants that are available to you. some of them might be very slow to unrao, and it might seem like too -- unroll, and it might seem like it's too late, but people are going to fight to keep their beloved venues open, and as a band, you're going to be okay. [♪♪♪]

>> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding. that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've

been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue

responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am 100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of

emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san

francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to,

most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had

someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not.

we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more

leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership >> this is a huge catalyst for change. >> it will be over 530,000 gross square feet plus two levels of basement. >> now the departments are across so many locations it is hard for them to work together and collaborate and hard for the customers to figure out the different locations and hours of

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

scale. we have 58 different department in the city and 18 of them involve permitting. >> we are expecting the residents to understand how the departments are structured to navigate through the permitting processes. it is difficult and we have heard that from many people we interviewed. our goal is you don't have to know the department. you are dealing with the city. >> now if you are trying to get construction or special events permit you might go to 13 locations to get the permit. here we are taking 13 locations into one floor of one location which is a huge improvement for the customer and staff trying to work together to make it easy to comply with the rules. >> there are more than 300 permitting processes in the city. there is a huge to do list that we are possessing digital. the first project is allowing

people to apply online for the a.d.u. it is an accessory dwelling unit, away for people to add extra living space to their home, to convert a garage or add something to the back of the house. it is a very complicated permit. you have to speak to different departments to get it approved. we are trying to consolidate to one easy to due process. some of the next ones are windows and roofing. those are high volume permits. they are simple to issue. another one is restaurant permitting. while the overall volume is lower it is long and complicated business process. people struggle to open restaurants because the permitting process is hard to navigate. >> the city is going to roll out a digital curing system one that is being tested. >> when people arrive they

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

gray watery use and secured bicycle parking for 300 bicycles. when you are on the higher floors of the building you might catch the tip of the golden gate bridge on a clear day and good view of soma. >> it is so exciting for the team. it is a fiscal manifestation what we are trying to do. it is allowing the different departments to come together to issue permits to the residents. we hope people can digitally come to one website for permits. we are trying to make it digital so when they come into the center they have a high-quality interaction with experts to guide then rather than filling

in forms. they will have good conversations with our staff.

>> chairman: this meeting will come to order. this is the