residents in our district didn't know this resolution at all. we know that almost 95% of the merchants living in this district oppose this resolution. also, collecting 2600 signatures. they are all opposed to this resolution as well. also, 800 residents oppose this resolution. we really think our supervisors didn't represent our wards. i want to say that the tndc didn't do a very good communication and also didn't do a good community outreach. i really think they really -- i

do not think we should approve this. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: supervisors, thank you for listening for all of these hours. i own the building across the street. to have the building built the way it is proposed for seven stories across from me is going to be hugely offensive to the building. it will cut off the light and cause problems. the bottom line i would ask you to put your hearts in the place. we are not against affordable housing. it is needed. during the whole conversation i

listened for three hours. nobody is saying they are against affordable housing. assuming it is your money on the table to buy a piece of land to build, are you going to approve this kind of loan, approve your budget to put out this money to buy this land now when there are so much uncertainty. 100% certainty litigation to follow because lack of process, lack of transparency and problems. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: i am a long time affordable housing advocate for seniors and people with disabilities. i want to thank supervisor mar for 100% affordable housing at

2550 irving. i stand with annie chung and self-help for elderly in urging no delay in progress of this development. all of the 100% affordable housing we can build as fast as we can build it. many of the objections that we have heard today, they can be resolved as natural part of this development process and should not be allowed to delay it. keep in mind essential workers, low income family, seniors and people with disabilities are already in the sunset in the neighborhood. you may not see them, but they are here. please don't deprive them of this opportunity. thank you.

>> clerk: thank you. currently there are three callers and 51 listening. to those that have commented press star 3 to lower your hands. each caller is allowed one minute to speak. if you have already provided your comment, you will not be able to speak. next caller, please. >> i am resident of district two in support of the motion. a lot of people in the sunset at risk of being priced out. people making minimum wage can qualify for this and it helps people stay in the city and we can keep the existing resident in the sunset. this project will help the san francisco goals for fair housing. we know that nearly all affordable housing is built on

the east side of san francisco. it is great to have more affordable housing and high opportunity neighborhoods. you know, if you are for affordable housing you need to be for the apartments. if you cannot find a place in the neighborhood where you want affordable housing you are pushed to somebody else. it doesn't make sense. the high price tag is because of costs like lawsuits and things they are promising to do against this. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi, i am a resident of district for a few blocks away from the site calling to express it looking like the lack

of diligence going on with this proposal and lack of diligence. lack of community interaction for this as well which is odd considering they are here and willing to help with this proposal. really i don't think we have seen design for this as yet. we are voting on the money, not design. we are going to be stuck with huge white elephant at the end. it needs to be thought about a bit more. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: i am a resident of 27th avenue between irving and lincoln. supervisor mar and his questions of the staff developers asked about the timing of this process

and concerns. there is no reason to recommend approval of the loan agreement today and not until these questions are answered. the tndc purchase agreement which we found out about yesterday with appraisal enables them to apply with extension to november 29th. no reason why the october 31st deadline has to be met. also, the sf planning deputy general plan referral which approved june 21st application is in violation of code section 101 of the plan which gives priority policies specifically. two, to existing housing in neighborhoods character beacon served and protected. the staff comment refers only to the site not to the immediately adjoining houses and neighborhood. four states not over burdening

streets. >> clerk: thank you. there are five callers in the queue. >> i propose irving project be reduced to four stories and more parking spots because it not only leads to conjest one annoys -- congestion but a problem. please consider our request and look forward to hearing more about the project. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> caller: i am a member of the san francisco tenants union and race and equity in all planning coalition in support of this project. hopefully, the budget and

finance committee will move this forward. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: i am district 6 resident and organizer in the tenderloin calling in support of approval of the loan because we all know we need housing all over the city. every politician in every election says we need affordable housing this. is an opportunity to have one. i feel like this neighborhood is selfish in this project thinking about the shadow over their home, parking space and other things versus housing at least 100 people that is the minimum number. 500 people. housing is a problem in the city. it needs to be solved.

please vote for this loan because we need house anything the city. i want to call out the opposesers and their reasons. it is all from calling supervisor mar communissan poor people. you are saying they are more important. >> clerk: thank you. >> caller: hello. [speaking foreign language]

members of committee i want to say a lot of callers not from our district. they called to support this proposal. actually, i want to say that i am on behalf of the residents

who directly impact this proposal. they didn't consider a lot of factors like the parking factors and the people are very much in our area another factor. the public transit is another factor. i really think that tndc and our supervisors didn't consider our residents living in this district. also that they identify us into four categories. we cannot be earned. i hope our supervisors tndc considered the actual wishes of our residents. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please.

>> caller: tndc wants to buy contaminated property and build without cleaning it out. to spend $1 million to protect resident of their knowledge. at the same time -- of their building and say there is nothing to worry about. pce respects no property lines. it has moved to the nearby housing. they don't know how far. if nothing is done to clean it up, it will continue to spread.

u.c.s.f. researchers looked at the same pce data see enough evidence of cancer and parkinson in the neighborhood to open the long-term human study. they don't do that on a whim. you know there is a serious health risk that they aren't telling you about. we need extent of the contamination and clean it up. we need political help. the only leverage we have is to pause this loan. >> clerk: thank you. next caller, please. >> caller: i just want to say that, well, past callers said this is what tndc will do best. they designed a brilliant

project in palo alto by engaging with the neighbors that is not what tndc has done. they haven't listened to the neighbors. they refuse to compromise. they don't allow them to ask questions in the chat. that is not good process that is not right. this should be done right with a buy in from the neighbors. >> clerk: thank you. are there any other caller in the queue? >> that appears to be the last caller. >> clerk: this concludes the public comment for item 17. >> chair mar: public comment is closed. thank you everyone who called in.

colleagues, comments, additional questions before i may being mine, supervisor mar. >> thanks, chair haney. i just want to thank every one who spoke during public comment. all of your -- so many of you and your diverse perspectives on this project. i think it reflects the really important, huge importance of the project for sunset district and the city and important that it is successful and we get it right. i am clear about my support of the project as much needed and groundbreaking step in addressing the urgent housing affordable crisis in the city to preserve the historic character of sunset as a beacon for working class families. i campaigned on bringing affordable housing to the sunset.

as district 4 supervisor this is one of my top priorities. 2550 irving housing for low and moderate workers is what we need to create in our neighborhood. getting the details right is also extremely important not only for the success of this project in the neighborhood but the additional affordable housing projects to build in the sunset and on the west side. i want to clarify the action that the committee is considering today is only to approve loin agreement forsyth -- loan acquisition for the general parameters and goals in the funding allocation from the mayor such as prioritizing housing for low income families. most details are to be finalized with public input and based on the financing plan.

thank you for bringing this forward. i have a set of proposed amendments to the draft resolution to present. they were e-mailed out by my staff this afternoon. i just want to make a few points. regarding the environmental issues and over site. like all projects especially one with transparency and process matter. as leader on environmental oversight i have reservations to approve the loan ahead of the oversight process. i am convinced waiting for the environmental response will compromise. it is clear to have a public outcome when it comes to

environmental oversight. frankly, it is frustrating that tndc didn't complete the oversight process before bringing this loan approval for the board to consider. i believe it would be prudent to postpone approval of the loan agreement until the oversight process and approval of environmental response time is complete. finally, it is clear from public comment we heard today and a lot of e-mails and messages we received that 2550 irving has been controversial as new precedents are. how this is designed, height, scale, who it will serve and impact neighbors, congestion, fear for public safety have deeply divided the neighborhood. i believe there is room to address the issues and find solutions to build consensus.

steps need to be taken to bring the neighborhood together as a committed long-term partner, tndc needs to work more closely with neighborhood stakeholders to build broad support for expanding in the sunset and west side. tndc must improve community engagement and incorporate community input into project design and detail. while it has eliminated much of the formal public process once it goes to entitlement process we must go above and beyond formal requirements and elect for more neighborhood engagement as matter of being good neighbor and investment in successful project. we know from the city experience building affordable housing residents become leaders in the community. they fight for more neighborhood

resources, public safety, advocate for better transit. with approval of the loan they have the opportunity to build bridges now and the relationship during predevelopment to create best foundations for both current and future residents to thrive. colleagues i have a set of amendmentses to present then i want to make a motion that we continue this item to take action after the oversight process is complete. >> do you want to do the amendments now and we can make comments and turn it back to you for the motion? >> sure. i would be happy to do that. i worked on some amendments to ask an important details to the resolution that i felt should be included and work with the

mayor's office on the language so they are good with amendments. they were e-mailed to you this afternoon. i could summarize them. there are seven new whereas clauses and two new resolve clauses. in summary, three of the whereas clauses just are key points about the need for the project and urgent need to expand affordable housing in sunset district. one of the new whereas clauses is from bla report. it is adding a clause noting the city's intention to take ownership of the project and enter the ground lease for the properties.

there is a whereas clause urging ocd to consider families living in hotel in the project. that is something the community has been advocating for. this is housing for low income families, families living in the hotels are considered homeless in the city. finally, there is a whereas and resolve clause acknowledging the diverse perspectives expressed about this project through comments city officials received and urging the city to have a transparent community process to find equitable balance between maximizing housing units and addressing concerns of nearby residents about height and scale

within the feasibility. that is a summary. >> you want to make a motion on those amendments? or do you have comments on the amendments. why don't we take a motion. vote on the motion to accept those amendments. >> clerk: on the motion to accept the amendments articulated by supervisor mar. supervisor safai. >> aye. >> member mar. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> three ayes. >> okay. amendments accepted. anything more before we make our comments. then back to you for the motion. >> there was one additional

whereas clause in the set of amendments that i shared with you. i didn't mention verbally. that is a whereas clause describing the department of toxic substance control oversight over the environmental assessment and response time. >> great. thank you. >> mr. chair, on that additional amendment. >> on the additional amendment supervisor mar. >> safai. >> aye. >> mar. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> three ayes. >> it is accepted. >> supervisor safai. >> mr. chair. thank you, supervisor mar, for all your hard work on this.

mayor's office of housing staff pndc and engagement. i know this has been baptism by fire for you to go through this process. it hasn't been the most enjoyable thing to be accused of criticisms and all you are trying to do is bring an honest conversation for building affordable housing in the part of town as many have said that has produced 17 units over the course of its time. i say that from a place of experience. i represent part of san francisco excelsior, lake view that has the highest concentration of owner occupied

single family homes. some of the longest standing generational families working families that are going through a very similar experience that the sunset district 4 have gone through where not that long ago you could find a home on a salary of a working family, middle class family. you could afford to live in that neighborhood. for the families that have been there 30, 40, 50 years, let's rewind. think about what it costs for you to move into the sunset at that time. think what it costs to move to excelsior at that time. on a janitor's salary you could buy a home in district 11. in fact, we had the highest concentration of j anitors.

many of the families are the same. today like my district the homes go for north of $1.5 million, $2 million in the sunset. the cost of housing is extremely out of reach. i think supervisor mar reflects that about the changing nature and the survey done and response from that survey. almost 4400 people applied for affordable housing. only 35 were accepted in other parts of san francisco. we need to have balance where we provide affordable housing everywhere in the city so the time where neighborhoods would say they don't want affordable housing. that time has come and gone. the idea you might want 3, 4, 5

story building. that does not pencil out. i leave the final parameters and shape to the district supervisor respectfully. supervisor mar will continue that conversation. for those listening at home to be competitive to get the funding you need to build affordable housing. the project has to be competitive with projects around the state. that is how they get the tax credit moneys for the local level. if this project is too small or not providing enough, it will not be chosen. we at the local level don't have that level of financing to fund $100 million development in one shot. we use local money and match with state and federal money. for me now thansitioning to pc

-- transitioning to the dccs report. only one out of 66 samples were found to have pce. the recommendation every response to tndc was that a vapor intrusion mitigation would be done. this is not unusual in development. [please stand by]

>> supervisor safai: conversation and negotiation, but we have to do more in terms of building affordable housing. so i'm speaking from experience of going through what district 4 is now in a conversation for. i also think that i encourage you to do more aggressive community engagement. i think in the beginning there was not a lot of awareness. i believe this is a good opportunity to purchase land. had been in conversations with the police officers, credit union for over two years. they're coming to an end of that period and the fact that

it would be conditions that said in terms of finalizing the loan there would have to be a certified action plan with regard to mitigating the environmental concerns it gives me the confidence this is the right thing to do and to move forward with this purchase and respectfully, supervisor mar, i think we can continue to have the conversations around what i heard the most today. so thank you mr. chair. thank you supervisor mar for the amendments that you made today. they were very helpful to clarify and put in important point that is talk about process and involvement dtsc. it gives us clarity.

we feel confident this is the right time to move forward. thank you, mr. chair. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor safai. before i make my comments, i did have a question for the folks from o.c.d. and that's about your rental housing portfolio and district four in particular. i know there were many comments. how much of mocd's portfolio is in district four? >> we currently have another project in the pipeline which is a housing project about 130 units. that is mocd sponsored affordable housing. i don't believe we have any other city sponsored new construction, affordable housing other than that project. we have had a number of small site preservation projects that

we have worked on with the supervisor, but i can double check with our team. i don't believe we have any other new construction, city sponsored new construction project with the exception of shirley village. >> so just to be clear, so in the entirety of district four currently, there's not any existing city sponsored affordable housing that exists. there exists currently zero? >> yes, and it looks like from our team, that's correct.

>> chairman: and how many vn built in district four. i assume in acquisitions? >> it would be through the inclusion fair process and i can see if we've tracked that for district four. >> chairman: got it. i had listed somewhere where it was 18. >> i believe that's right from the housing that's what they would be tracking. >> chairman: got it. a couple things about that. the first thing i would say is, you know, how ground breaking and overdue this project is.

i think we would all agree even some of the folks who had concerns about this project that there's a tremendous need for affordable housing in our city including in the sunset. home prices in the sunset in district four have gone up exponentially. we know that subsidized affordable housing and i think

that in and of itself is a very powerful overdue opportunity that we should be celebrating and that is a really incredible thing that this has never happened. one of the things i hope that will come out of this project is that this should happen so much more is that we don't need more buildings like this, we need so many more across our city and it needs to happen much quicker and much more often. i think a situation where we have not had a single new construction affordable housing building ever built in district 4 in san francisco is absolutely shameful considering the need there. i represent district six.

and i pulled up the numbers, we have over 14,000 affordable rental housing units in district six. we have over 3,000 multi-family union construction in 28 buildings. we have over the last ten years at over 4,000 affordable housing units in district six. i think what this has demonstrated to me and i hope with a we can also understand is that it's completely unsustainable for us to continue to only build affordable housing in one corner of our city whether that's district six or parts of 10 and 9. that is unacceptable. it hasn't met the needs of our city and neighborhoods like the sunset can benefit tremendously from affordable housing and just like neighborhoods in mission bay.

so i'm not only supportive of this project, i am overjoyed that it is and i feel overdue. i think wherever you stand on this project you can be proud of the way your supervisor has gone and take everything he can to hear input, to hear peoples' voices, but also to stay focused on the needs of the residents that he represents who are strugling with the cost of housing. having heard the fact that this loan is conditioned on the

project approval from d.t.s.c. already that there are a number of reasons why the loan should move forward today. there's also a number of parts of this project that still will needtor worked out and this is just one of the many steps that still need to be taken and i'm also going to support our position moving forward today to get it done and many of the further details and community engagement will continue after today and i want to appreciate everyone from mocd, the mayor's office, mayor breed, tmbc. it has the name "tenderloin" in it and developed a lot in district six. this is a citywide affordable

housing developer with an incredible reputation in our city and the people who will live in this building will add to the neighborhood, will help to improve the community, will only be a benefit to the neighbors and ultimately, 98 units is a step forward, but it's a small step forward. many larger steps forward and i think we as a city have to demonstrate we can move forward with this efficiently and quickly and effectively. with that, i'll turn it back over to you supervisor mar, and i enjoy the leadership of your team and i'll allow you to make the motion. >> supervisor mar: thank you, chair haney. and, actually, so i do want to say that, you know, i'm disappointed, you know, on my request to delay the vote on the resolution on the agreement

until after the dtsc oversight process is complete and they sign off on the response plan, but i do appreciate both of you, your strong support of this project and all of your words on encouragement to me and my constituents and, supervisor haney, your sort of contrast between district 6 and district 4, i think that's a pretty stark contrast and i don't know that district 4's ever going to get to the level of affordable housing development that you have in district six, but i think your point is well taken. i think affordable housing in the sunset is going to look different than it does in district six and it will look like it in district 11 and just given the physical make-up of our neighborhoods and honestly, that's been one of the forces

of tension around this project because the size of the site and where it's located you know right next to single family homes is not an ideal site. i think today, we're just considering action on the loan agreement. that will just allow the site acquisition or predevelopment work in the details of this project are still to be worked out by tndc and the mayor's office with community engagement and i'm fully committed to helping push for that. and i guess -- so i would like to move that we send this item over to the full board with positive recommendation and with my amendments, i would also like to be added as a

cosponsor. >> chairman: great. i -- do we want to take a vote on this item as amended to the motion is moved to the full board as amended. can we take a role call vote. >> clerk: mr. chair, prior to that consider their recommendations. >> chairman: yes. >> clerk: okay the bla added the proposed resolution to a purchase and sales agreement in which the city will take ownership of the land at 2550

irvine street and street the ground with a nonprofit affordable housing operator. >> supervisor mar: chair haney and madam clerk, that was included in my amendments. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mar, for the clarification. so i will now proceed into taking the vote on supervisor mar's motion to recommend the item to the full board as amended. on the motion, vice chair, safai, [roll call] there are three ayes. >> chairman: great. this will go to the full board with a above recommendation as amended and thank you supervisor mar and mocd and tndc, and everyone who called in today to supervisor safai

for the conversation and this will move further. madam clerk, are there any other items in front of us today? >> clerk: no, mr. chair. clrm all right. meeting adjourned. thank you.

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good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, july 12th, 2021. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joining by supervisor mandelman and committee member supervisor chan. our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. due to the covid-19 health

emergency and to protect board members, city employees, and the public, the committee rooms are closed. however, members will be participating in the meetings remotely. committee members will attend the meetings through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item of the agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are scrolling the public comment number across the screen. the meeting i.d. is 146 014 4426 then press pound and pound again. you will hear the meeting discussion but you will be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up, please dial star three to be added to the

speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location and speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv or radio. you can submit public comment to myself at victoryoung@sfgov.org. that concludes my initial comments. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young, could you please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code by codifying a grant award. two, require an advertisement of solicitation. three, reserve the city's right to cancel or reject to readvertise.

four list required grant terms. six authorizing the purchaser to promulgate rules and regulations for effectively carrying out and requiring, carrying out the requirements of the ordinance. seven, set forth grant requirements based on grant's funding source. eight set forth administrative debarment procedures. and nine advertisement and rebate incentive programs. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. colleagues, we heard this five weeks ago as you'll rule. it was brought by supervisor stefani and has since been sponsored by supervisor chan and then the rules committee had to go dark during the budget process. so it is back before us today. i want to thank supervisor stefani and her staff for their work on this matter in large part after the unfortunate if

not tragic revelations after the muhammad nuru dpw scandal amongst others and i have reviewed the amendments that supervisor stefani will make. some of which we suggested in committee and would like to fix my name, mr. clerk and supervisor stefani as a proud cosponsor of this legislation which had people not abuse the process, would not be necessary but is now clearly long overdue and with that, supervisor stefani, good morning and welcome. >> supervisor stefani: good morning, chair peskin and thank you for those remarks and thank you for your cosponsorship. i truly appreciate it. i will be exceptionally brief because we did hear this in june. i am happy to read those into the record. but the most significant change is to make the operative data

january 21st, 2022, and the purpose of that is to give the city purchaser enough time to draft the rules and regulations that this ordinance requires her to complete and as a result, most of the reporting dates have been pushed back to reflect the new operative dates. i won't repeat my remarks from from the last hearing and, chair peskin, you just stated the reasons why this is so necessary. i do believe this legislation is important in preventing the kind of corruption we've seen. we know nearly $2 billion is awarded in grants by city departments without any required competitions. open solicitation transparency, fairness or even documentation. so i really do believe with this legislation, that will end. so, chair peskin, i don't know if you'd like me to read the amendments into the record? >> chairman: why don't you actually you or your staff

actually sent a summary of those. i have read them yesterday and again this morning. but if you want to do a high level summary of them, that would be great for the public to be able to hear them. >> supervisor stefani: great. okay. so starting on page line 11, we're adding the phrase "set forth the requirements" to the long title. also "notice of availability" on title. line 6, changing the word effective date to "operative date." and changing the annual due date report to june 21st, 2023. page 6, line 22 through 23, we're then changing the date accordingly reportedly so that it begins from 2021 to 2022 because we're already more than halfway through 2021. page 8, line 21, we're adding the phrase "rules and" to the

sentence reading in accordance rules and regulations to be consistent with the other parts of the admin code.' this is your recommendation from if last hearing, chair peskin, on page 9 line 5 through 6. we're adding the phrase "grant recommendation be awarded as a sole source." page 9, line 12, changing requirements for grants to rules and regulations to make the phrase consistent with other sections of ordinance. page 9, lines 14 through 18, adding these rules and regulations shall among other things permit sole source grants when competitive process is impracticable. or when may be accomplished by one particular grantee. they may update these rules from time to time as needed. this language makes the ordinance more consistent with other parts of the admin code and, again, thank you,

supervisor peskin for those recommendations. and then, page 10, line 23, and page 11, lines 3 and 4, make the operative date january 21st, 2022, instead of 30 days from enactment which would allow the city purchaser to draft the rules and regulations to implement the ordinance or subscribe by the ordinance. those are all of the amendments today and they are non substantive. i want to thank supervisor peskin and supervisor chan for your cosponsorship and andy mullen for all of his help on this. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor stefani. are there any questions or comments from committee members? if not -- supervisor mandelman.

>> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair peskin. i want to thank you and would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chairman: it's unanimous. before we move those, why don't we open this up to public comment. are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number one. >> clerk: yes. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call (415) 655-0001. the meeting i.d. is 146 014 4426 and press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star three to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. at this time, it appears we do not have any members of the public in line to speak. >> chairman: okay. public comment is closed and i will make a motion to move the aamendments.

on that motion, mr. clerk, a roll call please. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the amendments, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: and i will make a motion to send it with recommendation to the full board of supervisors. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: thank you, mr. clerk. can you read items two through

four together. >> clerk: to establish and operate food empowerment markets and designate the human services agency to administer and establish rules for the program. item number three is a ordinance amending the administrative code to direct the department of public health to report by annually on food security and equity with input from other departments. and item number four is an ordinance amending the code the sunset date of the food security task force assisting with the department of public health, food security and equity report. i believe there's a request for a committee report on all three of these items. >> chairman: that is correct. these three items have been brought to us by supervisor

safai. supervisor safai, welcome, and good morning. >> supervisor safai: hi everyone. good morning. so, colleagues, as the supervisor said and chair peskin said. i'm bringing three ordinances all in one. in our efforts to reimagine how we distribute food and food related services to our most vulnerable residents here in san francisco. these three ordinances build off one another. the food security task force was first created by former supervisor sophie maxwell in 2005. for 16 years, the department of health under the fundamental leadership of ms. paula jones

and susie smith community based organization silos. as our city begins to recover from the covid-19 pandemic, the role of security passport has become even more important. and more certain in covid in what we're all experiencing. agenda item number four seeks to reauthorize the food security task force for another three years. while tasking the body to provide a more expensive report. the new report and data that we seek for nearly the last 18 months of the covid pandemic, our city has seen first-hand of

bankrupt undocumented community members and long time residents and seniors. many residents in my district did not have the option to work from home. they were in the and many of them were in the food restaurant and retail industry and lower level government jobs and had this and were not able to stay home during the pandemic. as a result, my district was hit harder by covid-19 and food insecurity than many parts of san francisco. at the beginning of the pandemic, there were over 1,000 people seeking food at balboa high school in many locations.

my district had well over ten differential food pantries. just believing we as a city could do better to meet the needs of our most vulnerable residents, my office started attending the food security task force and talking to community stakeholders. after witnesses some of the incredible work the mission hub was doing with their food pantry and seeing them employ community members in the commercial kitchen and some of the work that was also happening by the excelsior strong, we began to reimagine food security within food sovereignty lands. agenda item number two, the food empowerment market in my mind is the city's first step toward assist engine the most vulnerable communities in the information of food sovereignty and food justice. to cook should be a basic right

to all of us. having culturally specific food that's readily available to our most vulnerable residents for eight to ten hours in the market located in the commercial corridor is the goal and should be the city's plan long-term. i have met with the san francisco marin food bank new leadership dennis crosby and they are on board with a larger distribution of food in san francisco. we have also gotten the support and principle from the mayor and as you heard during question time about a month and a half ago, the mayor spoke of her own experience of having to wait in line and how these three ordinances codify our commitment to end food insecurity in our city and county of san francisco. today, i have several speakers

from the department of human agency and the department of public health. first, we'll be calling on the department of public health and the director of food insecurity in the population health division. ms. jones, can you talk about the food security task force and by annual security and equity report that would replace the former report and lastly, can you speak about other departments having more active role in this new report defining data in the new report. unless colleagues want to jump in, i'd like to go to ms. jones, mr. chair. >> chairman: absolutely. i don't see any hands raised by committee members. i do have some questions, but it can certainly wait until after the presentations. ms. jones, good morning. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> good morning. good morning chair peskin, supervisor safai, supervisor chan, supervisor mandelman.

my name, again, is paula jones. i'm the director of security for population health. i'm also vice chair to the food security task force and i also provide staffing to the task force as well. and as supervisor safai has talked about and you all know food is integral to health, equity and justice, and assets to adequate food is both an individual right and collective responsibility. we as a city can solve this complex and persistent problem and we have the ability and we have the resources to make sure all san franciscans have the food that they need. as you all know, prior to covid-nineteen, food insecurity was a crisis with one in four residents at risk as not always having enough food because they lack income with the pandemic and food closure programs, it became reliable to everyone. and i want to thank again supervisor safai for

introducing these three pieces of food security legislation that all work together to reimagine food security in san francisco and to jafria morrow and to work to advance this legislation which really provides this incredible scaffolding for san francisco to collectively work to make sure all san franciscans have this basic need. so for the talking about the by annual food security and equity report, this really builds and advances our food security work through building on our past food security assessments conducted by the food security task force. adding more departments that will be apart of this report that will provide data and that will work with us to make sure that we're all doing everything that we can to make sure that everyone has the food that they

need. it will build on the lessons and opportunities from covid-19 and also, by adding the section on economic development, it really looks at this economic development potential of community food systems and food initiatives and that part to be led by the office of economic and work force development and it leverages the food security task force in reviewing the data sets and reaching out to the community for additional data and the development of recommendations for policy programs and funding and also presenting this information back to you all at the board of. >> supervisor: s and one of the things i think that is key is that this will allow a more in-depth analysis and presensitive analysis as it applies to food security programs. we're really going to be looking closely at our city investments and what we and all

do collectively to make sure that everyone has food and i also want to say supervisor safai, we're very appreciative of your support to reauthorize the food security task force and for the partnership and leadership of your office and especially jafria morris to just really work with us to advance this issue and to make sure we as a city are doing everything we can to support the community. so we're very supportive. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. >> supervisor safai: chair, i do have some amendments i'm happy to do them whenever you want. i don't know susie, ms. smith, if you had anything you wanted to add, but absolutely, i'd just say really quickly, ms. jones and her team and, susie, ms. smith and her team have worked really well with our office. i really appreciate all the

partnership. we've spent a lot of time to implement a vision that the community will support. it's come from the community and as you said, ms. jones appreciate the hard work from my team and the city attorney for the great work they did to put this together. ms. smith, did you have something you wangted to add? >> yeah, supervisor, i would love to take this moment to introduce cindy lynn from our food coordination here. and a few words about the legislation. >> hi, good morning. can everyone hear me okay? >> yes. >> great. good morning supervisors. thank you to supervisor safai for inviting us today. my name is cindy lynn. i'm the manager for the covid, well, for the food coordination team at h.s.a. within d.a.s.. we are excited to see the model of student empowerment imposed and we're looking forward to seeing it once passed.

we are a newly formed team first from the covid command center. we're currently a team of four and we have all had experience working in the food security space. i myself grew up in chinatown and was raised on food stamps, so this work is incredibly meaningful to me. in the last 16 months, we have worked to administer over $80 million. we look fat to continuing the support of some of the innovative programs which addressed the heightened needs of the community and to contribute towards ending food insecurity in san francisco. in order to learn and draw from the expertise of the d.a.s. team which has long supported a network of meal services for seniors and adults support thousands of seniors many low

income throughout san francisco. d.a.s. supports congregate meals and groceries. we know that two of these models are apart of the foundation of food support for many low income san franciscans facing hunger. by allowing them to shelter in place. we will continue to learn from this success of the d.a. and programming in order to offer impactful programming that worked towards ending food insecurity. as we continue to support the community with their needs, we have held listening sessions with over 40 organizations that work in the food insecurity space and have committed to holding the following as ouring principle for our work moving forward. number one, we seek to provide dignity for our community members include choice, quality, and culturally appropriate food options. second, we commit to an equity lens to offer the appropriate

resources. these two principles are aligned with the food empowerment market that is proposed and we look forward to implementing the markets with these principles as our foundation. i'd like to turn it back over to susie to discuss a little more about the markets. >> thanks so much, cindy, and thanks, supervisor safai for your steadfast leadership on food security, empowerment and sovereignty. we've seen the unbelievable numbers as a result of covid don't seem to be. we are really excited by this concept. it aligns with our principles of choice, dignity, and equity and really importantly, the importance of destigmatizing access. currently, there's no organization operating models like this in san francisco creating a market where you can not only choose culturally appropriate food but adding

linkages and job component in the culinary sector. in the coming months, we need to do the hard work in taking this concept and building frame work and undering what the costs are and food sources. the staffing, eligibility, availability of space in all of that. so we're really excited to do that. our hope is that. our goal is to issue an rfp by the end of the fiscal year to be able to launch this model as a pilot and learn from it and hopefully be able to scale it in a more spread way next fiscal year and, of course, we're going to be mindful of how this fits into the existing network. so, again, just wanted to thank supervisor for bringing this issue and vision for sympathying about another way we can distribute food in a way

that respects peoples' dignity in san francisco. >> supervisor safai: thank you. it's great to see all this work coming together. yes, we're excited to have a pilot. we believe that pilot will naturally grow out of district 11 and hopefully will spread to other parts of the city. we look forward to working in partnership with you. and, i'll just say i think for the longest time, we've done a tremendous job of getting food into peoples' homes that really need it in the city. i think just like our conversation around shared spaces or slow streets or so many of the different things that we're doing differently after covid, i think just giving us the opportunity to really think about how we get food to people and i know each and every one of us on this board was involved in delivering food to peoples homes and seeing people that we

had never seen before need food and have food insecurity and i think our city, this is another example of the way our city really stepped up in a tremendous way incorporating in restaurants, getting food to seniors and families that english is not their first language. just doing so many different things to ensure that no one went hungry. but now we have the opportunity to truly reimagine this and we appreciate your partnership and willingness to work with us as well as the marin food bank and other entities that have been doing this for years. the idea of having to stand in line outside often times in front of residential homes or in whatever the weather or whatever the elements are to stand there and get a prepackaged box, i is an older model that now this allow