some agreed lifting the restrictions until the conference. participating today via tele conference. this will ensure the safety of the board an staff and the public. it may not be as seamless as we

would like it to be. a reminder to the board members and staff to mute themselves. we are not providing comment to minimize background noise. >> : thank you very much. at this time, could you please take roll call. >> : (roll call). >> : thank you. >> : thank you. we have a quorum. >> : at this time are there any communications. >> : item number two, communications. due to the covid 19 health emergency and to protect

members, the retirement system is closed. other members participating in the meeting remotely this is taken in precaution to the state order and directives. members participating via video conference as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. you will be given two items to speak. when connected you will hear the meeting discussions but be muted and in listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up press star three. best practices are to call from

a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your tv or radio. >> : thank you very much. is there any public comment? >> : moderator, do we have any callers on the line. >> : madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> : thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is now closed. >> : call the next item, please. >> : action item. review an approval for a recommendation to establish an ad hoc committee and committee assignments. >> : thank you very much. at this time, i'll entertain a motion and any discussion if

desired. >> : commissioner, i move to approve the appointments as presented a and b of the formation of your ad hoc search committee. >> : mr. president, i second. can madam secretary read the committee assignments. i think they are are slig slighy different than the packet. >> : we cannot hear you. >> : sorry about that. the deferred compensation committee.

governance committee. investment committee. members committee as a whole. staff legal liaison. operations oversight committee. staff legal liaison. personnel committee.

the committee of the ad hoc director's search committee. >> : commissioner, i have a question. everything looks well but the personnel committee meeting assignment shows as amended just now, the the consultant was said to be -- if we're going to do the director's search committee as a committee as a whole then

basically gary is not necessary to be on the consultant as the personnel committee. >> : that's correct. that's an error there. thank you. >> : okay. so i will second -- i will rescind my motion previous and replace it with a motion to approve as adjusted and amended. >> : i second the amended motion. >> : okay. thank you very much. is there any discussion on this? >> : i have some thoughts on the committee assignments. >> : go ahead. >> : i think the spirit of the retirement board has always been trying to have a balance between elected and appointed members. we see that around rules of

reference as related to the president. always trying to have an elected member. when i look at the committee assignments what i see for operations oversight is stacked with committee members. i think we should make some changes to those two committees so there at least one member from each group on each of those committees. >> : thank you. anybody else have any thoughts?

>> : i didn't offer to say anything but the observation that the labor management balance that we tried to maintain, will not be in effect the way these committees are appointed. if that's what people are trying to achieve, you've done it with these appointments. unlike, for example, the presentation several weeks ago, many of the pension plans in canada, that was a subject that came up recently. they have unit rule on many fltf the subject plans in canada.

we don't have a unit rule but we have balance here for two of the most important ones. >> : anybody else? >> : president, i understand the spirit of it. given where we are right now and the search for an executive director as well as cio, i just think that we have to pivot a little bit because we're looking at something that's a little different this time. i'm okay with the assignments this time based on what we're working with.

>> : actually, never mind. we can adjust this shortly but we have to get through what we're working on right now and get that behind us. i would not be adverse to making a swap from one governance between operations and doing a swap there. i have one in mind. we have to get through the issues we have right now. anybody wish to chime in on that? >> : i think what we're trying to get through right now, i think lacks a little bit of balance. especially the way you have these set up. i don't think it's an effective use of the board on this committee. if the balance has always

historically been important. which i know it always has to you, you talk about it a lot. it just doesn't seem right. i think we should have balance on all committees. >> : balance is important to p me. me.i thought i could do that. we have a situation we're trying to work on immediately. given where we are and what we're working on. i agree with president, we can always pivot and change back unless we achieve the goals we're working on in the eg and cio. >> : is that the only goals. ceo and cio issue. >> : i guess i feel like people are talking cryptically here.

as it stands,ly not be supporting this. i know labor is not a fan of how this is set up either. >> : okay. let's call for the vote then and see where we're at. >> : we need public comment, first. >> : if you have not already done so, please press star three to be added to the queue. >> : there are no callers on the line. >> : thank you. hearing no callers public comment is now closed. >> : (roll call) we have two

noes and three ayes. >> : motion passes. >> : thank you very much. we've already called for public comment. item number four. >> : item number four closed session. >> : okay. public comment before going into

closed session. >> : if you have not already done so please press star three >> move to not disclose. >> we need roll call first. [roll call]

>> clerk: we do have a quorum. >> okay. thank you very much.

also, do you -- we've got everybody? >> commissioner safai is not in attendance. >> okay. he was complaining that he was in the other session. >> clerk: no, he's not. he's not here. >> okay. okay. thank you. at this time, i'll entertain a motion to not disclose. >> so moved. >> so moved by commissioner heldfond. >> second. >> seconded by commissioner [inaudible] okay. any discussion? all those -- or take a roll call, please. >> public comment? members of the public who wish to provide public comment on

this item should call 415-655-0001, access code 146-416-2189, then pound, and pound again. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam clerk, there are no callers. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is now closed. president casciato? >> clerk: okay. roll call vote, please. [roll call]

>> clerk: thank you. we have six ayes. motion passes. president casciato. >> can you call the next item? >> clerk: item number 5, general public comment. >> commissioners, i've received one e-mail public comment that was asked to be read into the minutes of the meeting, and so it is from mr. john stinson, and i will read it. at the june 4 board meeting, the city attorney gave you a presentation about your fiduciary responsibilities. investing in [inaudible] when you can get better returns by just making a passive investment in stocks, bonds, and real estate. ask your chief investment if he got 6% growth returns on your hedge funds investments?

what would your net return be after payment and fees? respectfully, john stinson, a 46-year member. that was the only public comment that we received. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be added to the queue. moderators, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we do not have any callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you very much. public comment is now closed. >> thank you very much. call the next item, please. >> minutes of the june 9, 2021 retirement board meeting and minutes of the june 30, 2021

special retirement board meeting. >> is there any comment on the minutes? public comment, please, on the minutes. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be added to the queue. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we have no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. president casciato? >> roll call vote, please. >> clerk: did we have a vote? i didn't hear it. >> mr. president, i move that we adopt the minutes from last month's retirement board meeting as well as the special

board meeting. >> okay. thank you. motion made, commissioner bridges. is there a second? >> second. >> okay. commissioner heldfond, second. okay. any discussion, commissioners? okay. roll call vote, please. [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. commissioner safai is present. we have six ayes. >> okay. next item. i'll entertain a motion to

adopt the consent calendar at this time. >> so moved. >> i second, mr. president. >> moved and seconded. is there any discussion? is there any public comment? >> clerk: a reminder to callers, if they have not already done so, to press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is now closed. president casciato? >> roll call vote? [roll call]

>> clerk: we have six ayes. motion passes. president casciato? >> okay, next item, investment calendar. >> clerk: item 8, discussion item, chief investment officer report. >> good afternoon, everyone. i hope that everyone is well. i'm going to invite anna lange to provide an update on the status of our investments and our investment facilities. anna, are you on the line? >> yes. i'll see if i can share the

c.i.o. report. one minute. can you see the report? >> yes. >> excellent. so good afternoon, commissioners, and everybody who is on the call. it's a pleasure to see and hear you? i would like to walk you through the details of a few liquidity management tools. first, we use futures contracts to gain exposures to this year's treasury market in a cash efficient way. if you see on page 7 of the c.i.o. report, if you look at the capital preservation under treasury, you will see that we have both physical and synthetic exposures to u.s. treasury bonds. the physical exposure relates to holding bonds that are

[inaudible] this account is fully funded, which means that we sent $1.1 billion to black rock, and they bought $1.1 billion of u.s. treasury bonds, replicating the treasury benchmark that we set. the synthetic exposure refers to holding of market treasury futures. to match [inaudible] and requires about 10% of the actual exposure in cash. that is $40 million in cash funding to gain 400 million of economic exposure to the one to

ten viewer treasury mix. the remaining 160 million cash is available to be drawn should we have a large capital call. however, if you see on the six calls that we did not use this 160 million cash. that means that we have sufficient cash, and that means we do not have fund level leverage. if you see, all the exposures

add up -- [please stand by]. >> the annual cost [inaudible] was 63 basis points, which included 30 basis points of administrative fees and 33 points back to our lending cash collateral account. in total, as you see on this table, we did $11,864 with the

access to an additional $50 million at the time when the cash position was the tightest. so this liquidity management tool, we use this to gain economic exposure to treasury indexes and the credit facilities are critical for the flexible and additional cash management of the fund. we will provide a comprehensive overview and update of first liquidity management update next wednesday, july 21, at the investment committee meeting. on that day, we will update the board on projected cash flows for all private investments, projected cash payments, and liquidity cash payments under various stress scenarios.

now i'd like to turn it back to bill. >> thank you all, board members. i'm thrilled to report that for the fiscal end of june, is that we returned about 33.8%. the report, the numbers that we had at the publication date, the c.i.o. report was 33.99. right now, it's at 33.76. i wouldn't expect it to move very much from there, but it is by far a historic -- a record setting year for sfers. our previous high was just under 24%, which we had done twice. i think this was the third year where we had returned 20% or more, and we have fund data on annualized returns going back to 1985-86. this is just projection, but i believe that our returns this

year were an all-time high, and that is because back prior to 1985, sfers was more of a fixed-income centric portfolio than it was right now, going into our returns a little bit is that in public equity, it was a sweep across the board, and we performed in the 30s to near 50. in private equity, we returned a stunning 66% for the year. our venture capital book alone returned 87%. the -- compare our returns of 33.76. today, calpers announced their returns, which is 21.3. the median pension plan was

probably about 26 or 27% for the fiscal year. if 27 was correct, that means we outperformed by about $1.8 billion this year? and in returns of gains, we returned approximately close to $9 billion for the year. going a little bit further into private equity, you can see on page 2, technology is beginning to sweep across a wide array of industries. i gave an example of large i.p.o.s in the last 1.5 years just so you can see how large these are for digital payments. travel, social media and dating, infrastructure and crypto currency, platform

prescription drug, and more, and fee platform for construction. these are very widely disbursed different types of businesses that technology is beginning to impact. digging a little bit further into our book beyond public and private equity, you'll recall that in our real assets portfolio really took it on the chin in -- particularly in 1-q, 2-q, and 3-q 2019, where it staged a strong come back. our natural resources book for the year finished up 21%.

another area that got -- took it on the chin in march 2020 was our absolute return portfolio. that's also staged a very, very strong come back, including the returns for june, when the book returned about 30 basis points is we finished up 14.1% for the year. credit, this is where there's an adjustment downward, our private [inaudible] that's a very impressive return for a credit year. our fixed income book is the one part of our portfolio where it didn't do much, about 3% for the year, but our treasury book was in the red.

however, if we step back and take a look at just the last 3.5 years, the fiscal year 21 is our public equity, our private equity, and our credit books all posted sterling returns. just previous to that, it was our equity book that had a stellar return prior to covid and then, we were bailed out because of our treasury portfolio. if we go back to 2018, when almost every public plan lost money for the year, we edged out a positive return. i think we were the top performer or the second best

performing public equity plan in the country in 2018. that is because our natural resources book returned 20% that year. so my point is that every portfolio in just the past 3.5 years has had times where it's contributed significantly to our excess reports. so we've had this rotation -- returns, so we've had this rotation of excess returns in the last 3.5 year period. so because of that, our projected status is 12.9%. you see on page 4 that our trust assets are also now at an all-time high, $34.5 billion.

we were under 25 billion just 15 months ago, 16 months ago. and our plan has grown more than 3x, 11 billion, from 2009, so just in 11 years. i do want to comment on inflation. the most recent numbersfrom the c.a.o. report is about 5.8%. the core inflation, so stripping away food and energy, that's 12.5%. that's actually near a 40-year high. there are two schools of thought regarding what the future for inflation might be. one school of thought is that this is a -- the uptick in

inflation is caused by an uptick in economic growth post covid. the u.s. had inflation in world war ii, but the c.p.i. was up in 1946, but it quickly returned to its very low trend of inflation. the reason why this might not be the case where we wouldn't have a return to very low inflation is we're really putting an extraordinary and unprecedented amount of money -- we're really printing an extraordinary and unprecedented amount of money. when you have more money that is chasing too few goods, that's when you have inflation.

so the volume of money is out pacing the volume of produced goods. i do want to move onto a date board of approved investments -- >> i'm going to wait a second. i'm going to lose electrical power in just a few minutes. darlene? >> yes. >> can you switch me to the cell phone? >> sure. you're not in as an attendee, no.

>> can you see me as a participant? >> you're as a participant, not as an attendee. >> okay. can you move me on that one? >> al, we do not see you coming in on your cell phone. >> okay. i called the number for public comment. >> clerk: 415-655-0001. >> that's exactly what i used. >> clerk: yes, and the event

number -- >> yes, and the double pound. >> are you hearing the meeting on your phone? >> no, i cannot hear the meeting on my phone. >> you should probably hang up and try dialing in, because you're not showing up as an attendee. we can only see you on your computer with the participants. you want to verify -- >> clerk: the event number? >> 146-416-2189. >> okay. just go ahead, and if you lose me, it's because of a power

surge. >> thank you, president casciato. board members, regarding items previously approved by the board in closed session that have now closed, alteris, the board approved this, pelion, we received an allocation of 25 million and 24.75 million respectively. moving onto -- we have what staff thinks of is one of the

most important meetings of the year with the board, and that is our asset class updates, and this month's i.c. meeting, which is next wednesday, july 21, 1:00 to 4:00, it is a really robust meeting. we have five agenda items, assets for public equity, updates in provide credit as well as updates on private schedules, and alan has his updates for when we have the delegation of authority. staff spends several months providing these materials, and you'll see that there's going to be a really rich and robust amount of data. it includes more detailed, more granular updates.

it includes planned actions completed, planned actions going forward, and it includes a more comprehensive market update for all three asset classes. regarding our liquidity position, it's much better than it was a year ago, and i think it's structurally improved because of our credit facility as well as more active engagement across asset classes and careful management across the portfolio. so i think our liquidity is in very, very good position going forward. the the -- and staff is enthusiastic and excited about presenting these materials to you. we are going to need to start pretty close to right on time at 1:00, and we're going to go right up until 4:00, but you'll see there's a lot of material

and a lot of good material, as well. with that, president casciato, i can turn it back over for any questions or comments. >> okay. any questions or comments from anybody for the c.i.o.? >> commissioner casciato, i just want to remind mr. coaker is that a question that will come up next week is a question of immunizing the portfolio. >> okay. thank you. okay. any others? i want to thank you, thank you for all the good work. appreciate you. thank you very much. >> it is, president casciato. staff works very hard. they're very thoughtful and comprehensive about what they do. >> thank you. all right. next item, please.

>> we need to take public comment on the c.i.o. report. >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, please press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, do we have any public callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, we do not have any public callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is now closed. item 9, sfdcp committee report. >> the report was filed. it's very exciting, the work that's being done at the deferred comp committee, and it's all there before you in the packet.

do we have any public comment on the deferred comp report? >> clerk: callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no public callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is closed. next item. item 10, sfdcp manager report. >> thank you very much. good afternoon, commissioners. can you hear me okay? >> clerk: yes. >> thank you, miss secretary. so commissioners, today will be a brief report as it is our monthly report. next month will be our full quarterly report in addition to our semiannual investment performance update. so before you, i've included the stable value crediting rate for your reference, by is 1 -- which is 1.7 for the third quarter. as a reminder, this is a rate

for the quarter and is a dip of .7. yields were in line with last quarter. i'm also happy to report some early results from our targeted mail campaign that dropped in june. more details will be provided next month in the full report, but e-mail results this month are very prompting. as of yesterday, the restart your savings e-mail garnered a 47% open rate with a nearly 7% conversion rate. the conversion rate is when the receiver actually clicks through the e-mail to learn more. the save more e-mail received a 53% open rate and a 67% click rate. for comparison, an all-industry average open rate is around 18% and a click to rate of 2% to 3%. so we seem to be benefiting

from a very participating bait or a very interested base. i will be providing updated to the board once we received 30-day, 60-day, and 90-day post drop. i will say we've received the feedback of our most recent news letter and it's one of our best click-through rates of almost 50%. we hope to capitalize on this momentum. and lastly, attached is the monthly activity report for may. you may recall i walked the board through the design of this last month. on page 6, we're -- we've added the c.a.r.e.s. act section, and

two members have paid their covid distribution. while the number you see is not a huge number to the $39 million take-in, it is certainly a step in the right direction. with that, i am happy to answer any questions you may have regarding this month's report. >> if there is no questions, thank you very much, and public comment on that. >> clerk: thank you. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. next item, number 11, action item. declaration of vacant see on

retirement board occurring february 20, 2022. >> commissioners, as you're aware, we have elected members who are elected to five-year terms on a staggered basis, and we are asking the board to declare a vacancy that would occur on february 20, 2022, next year, for the term of office that is currently being occupied by president casciato. you'll see by the timeline and the documents that we bring this to you today so we can partner with the department of elections starting in august so that we can come to a decision on the timeline and the schedule of election that we would bring back to the full

board [inaudible] on this item, however, we do request a motion to approve [inaudible]. >> okay. at this time, i'll entertain a motion. >> i'd like to make a motion, president casciato. >> go ahead.

[inaudible]. >> as commissioner [inaudible] pointed out, it is nothing personal. it is procedure and routine, and we just need a declaration. >> i second. >> okay. thank you very much. is there any comment? if there isn't, call for public comment and then roll call following. >> clerk: thank you. a reminder to callers to press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. roll call vote. [roll call]

>> clerk: that's six ayes. motion passes. >> okay. thank you very much. next item, please. >> clerk: next item, item 12, action item. approve recommendation to retain nossaman, l.l.p., as retirement board fiduciary

governance consultant. >> [inaudible] this is an engagement that has, over the past five years, been fulfilled by nossaman, l.l.p., a law firm of the main person that was assigned to this -- that is assigned to this contract is ashley denning, and so we submitted the -- or we actually issued the r.f.p. in march, and we received responses from three firms in april, by the april 5 deadline. we had an evaluation team composed of myself and [inaudible] who is the deputy executive director. we reviewed the three proposals and determined that all three

president firms -- [inaudible] basically saw that, as you're aware, we have basically spanning and organizing and conducting off-site board retreat back in 2017 focused on governance and improving governance, so the majority of the experience that they've showed in their r.f.p. response was very similar, very project-based, audit based,

shorter term engagement with plans for the -- and nossaman has applied also, and in their response, showed similar, and because they are a law firm, most of the plans experienced with public plans was in the fiduciary counsel area rather than in the governance plans consulting air, and the same was true with the third proposer [inaudible] who provides legal counsel to an impressive list of public pension plans, but again doesn't have any experience with what we would ask them to do under the r.f.p. so long story short, it might

be too late for that. we had evaluated the three proposals. we are recommending that the board retain nossaman for another five-year term for this agreement, and just as a reminder, this statement of services is not to provide legal or fiduciary counsel to the board but to do more of the mechanics related to governance, helping the committee and the board conduct reviews of governance policies and procedures, conducting and helping the personnel committee conduct performance reviews for the executive director and the actual service coordinator and being generally a consultant and a resource for the governance committee as they work through priorities that they may have. so with that, i'd be happy to answer any questions that you,

the board members have, but with that, we'd request that you approve the recommendation that we retain our agreement with nossaman for an additional five years. and i've put in the write-up that this is rather unusual because under the city charter, we cannot engage a law firm directly, meaning the department cannot engage a law firm directly, so for the past five years, we have been negotiating directly with the city attorney's office, and i think robert would agree, it's been operating very smoothly, making sure that the procedures

have been progressing nicely, and with that, i'll answer any questions. . >> if there are no questions, i'll entertain a motion to adopt staff recommendations. >> so moved. >> i second. >> okay. it's moved by commissioner heldfond, seconded by commissioner bridges. any discussion? public comment, please. >> clerk: thank you. a reminder to any callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to be entered into the queue. moderator, do we have any callers in the queue? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the

line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is closed. roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: we have six ayes. motion passes. next item, number 13, discussion item, operations oversight committee report of may 27, 2021.

>> yes. thank you, madam secretary. the operations oversight committee report has been submitted, and as stated here, our meeting was held on may 27, but we did have approved amendments to the operations oversight committee terms of reference that are being forwarded to the governor's committee, so you'd like to know what's being forwarded, i can do that now, and from there, it'll be submitted to the full board with approval. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you, chair bridges. the amendments that we had provided to the committee and that were approved included oversight of the department strategic plan, oversight of

the new divisions in operations management, oversight in data security, oversight -- customer service and member education services, and lastly, an oversight for the tracking for staff response to member inquiries. i'm happy to take any questions. jay, did i catch them all? >> i believe you did, yes. >> i'm happy to answer any questions. >> yes, that was all of them. >> and again, these have been forwarded to the governor's committee for review and approval and then to the full board? >> that's correct. >> okay. thank you. public comment, please. >> clerk: thank you.

callers, if you have not already done so, press star, three to enter the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. public comment is closed. next item, item 14. discussion item, personnel committee reports of june 2, 2021 and june 7, 2021. >> commissioner stansbury, go ahead. >> nothing to report. >> so we can take -- this committee report is submitted. >> please. >> okay. thank you. >> thank you. can you call for public comment, please? >> clerk: yes.

callers, press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: moderator, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. item 15, discussion item, executive director's report. >> the major thing that i had to report was that the department budget had made its way through the mayor's budget office and also the budget and appropriations committee, and it had remained significantly intact, and we have been able to procure all the new positions that we'd requested, including the investment division positions as well as funding for the other priorities that the retirement board had supported in the budget that we presented. so i believe the timeline is there are two readings before

the mayor's budget before the board of supervisors this month, with the second reading to be july 27, and the mayor is expected to sign the final budget by august 1. the department of human resources and the payroll will have loaded all of the new positions and the budget for all the new positions hopefully soon thereafter, in august, and that we will be able to start filling these positions within the next four to six weeks, and with that, i'll be happy to take any questions. >> are there any questions? any public comment? >> clerk: callers, please press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers on the line? >> operator: madam secretary,

there's one caller on the line. >> clerk: thank you. caller, please state your name. your two minutes begins when you speak. >> my name is [inaudible] and i am calling for the retired employees in the city and county. i understand that the budget is being heard finally on july 27. my question more is with regard to our funding. it did not indicate whether [inaudible] 100% market funding and their discussion about supplemental cola, and i would like some clarifications on that because i believe that [inaudible] i would like clarification also on the good returns. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your

call. moderator, are there any other callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no more callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no callers, public comment is now closed. >> okay. thank you very much. >> clerk: item number 16, discussion item, retirement board member good of the order. >> does any member have anything for the good of the order? the only item i have is that we're starting to think about in-person meetings and what the protocols will be for those, so we'll be discussing those among -- jay will be discussing that with the health department and etc. okay. thank you very much. any public comment on that? >> i have one other item to add to good of the order. i had to wait until the blackout period was over.

one item that is not listed, and that's correct, it would not be listed under educational items that nossaman sent to us, but one of the other companies, mr. rick nelson has also been doing educational, one of the -- [inaudible] sister fund, calpers. i did not bring the link to us, but the upcoming series had to do with performance and risk management, which is really good educational stuff, and if you're interested, i'll provide the information to all of the trustees at the same time without discussion purposes so i'm not violating the [inaudible] rule, but that's what it relates to. >> yeah. thank you very much. if you could just submit that to darlene, and she'll make sure it gets out.

>> all right. thank you. >> okay. >> clerk: public comment? >> yes, go ahead. >> clerk: callers, a reminder to press star, three to be added to the queue. moderator, are there any callers? >> operator: madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. >> clerk: thank you. hearing no calls, public comment is closed. item number 17, adjournment. >> okay. at this time, unless -- unless anybody has a comment from the commission, i will adjourn the meeting. okay. thank you very much. we are adjourned. >> thank you.

>> 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.

[♪♪♪] >> when i first started painting it was difficult to get my foot in the door and contractors and mostly men would have a bad attitude towards me or not want to answer my questions or not include me and after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. ♪♪♪ my name is nita riccardi, i'm a painter for the city of san francisco and i have my own business as a painting

contractor since 1994 called winning colors. my mother was kind of resistant. none of my brothers were painter. i went to college to be a chiropractor and i couldn't imagine being in an office all day. i dropped out of college to become a painter. >> we have been friends for about 15-20 years. we both decided that maybe i could work for her and so she hired me as a painter. she was always very kind. i wasn't actually a painter when she hired me and that was pretty cool but gave me an opportunity to learn the trade with her company. i went on to different job opportunities but we stayed friends. the division that i work for with san francisco was looking for a painter and so i suggested to my supervisor maybe we can give nita a shot. >> the painting i do for the city is primarily maintenance painting and i take care of

anything from pipes on the roof to maintaining the walls and beautifying the bathrooms and graffiti removal. the work i do for myself is different because i'm not actually a painter. i'm a painting contractor which is a little different. during the construction boom in the late 80s i started doing new construction and then when i moved to san francisco, i went to san francisco state and became fascinated with the architecture and got my contractor's licence and started painting victorians and kind of gravitated towards them. my first project that i did was a 92 room here in the mission. it was the first sro. i'm proud of that and it was challenging because it was occupied and i got interior and exterior and i thought it would take about six weeks to do it and it took me a whole year.

>> nita makes the city more beautiful and one of the things that makes her such a great contractor, she has a magical touch around looking at a project and bringing it to its fullest fruition. sometimes her ideas to me might seem a little whacky. i might be like that is a little crazy. but if you just let her do her thing, she is going to do something incredible, something amazing and that will have a lot of pop in it. and she's really talented at that. >> ultimately it depends on what the customer wants. sometimes they just want to be understated or blend in and other times they let me decide and then all the doors are open and they want me to create. they hire me to do something beautiful and i do. and that's when work is really fun. i get to be creative and express

what i want. paint a really happy house or something elegant or dignified. >> it's really cool to watch what she does. not only that, coming up as a woman, you know what i mean, and we're going back to the 80s with it. where the world wasn't so liberal. it was tough, especially being lgbtq, right, she had a lot of friction amongst trades and a lot of people weren't nice to her, a lot of people didn't give her her due respect. and one of the things amazing about nita, she would never quit. >> after you prove yourself, which i have done, i don't face that obstacle as much anymore. i'd like to be a mentor to other women also. i have always wanted to do that. they may not want to go to school but there's other options. there's trades.

i encourage women to apply for my company, i'd be willing to train and happy to do that. there's a shortage of other women painters. for any women who want to get into a trade or painting career, just start with an apprenticeship or if you want to do your own business, you have to get involved and find a mentor and surround yourself with other people that are going to encourage you to move forward and inspire you and support you and you can't give up. >> we've had a lot of history, nita and i. we've been friends and we have been enemies and we've had conflicts and we always gravitate towards each other with a sense of loyalty that maybe family would have. we just care about each other. >> many of the street corners in all the districts in san francisco, there will be a painting job i have completed and it will be a beautiful paint

job. it will be smooth and gold leaf and just wow. and you can't put it down. when i first started, it was hard to get employees to listen to me and go along -- but now, i have a lot of respect. >> hello, everyone. and welcome to the ribbon cutting ceremony for 490. i'm the deputy executive director for mission housing development corporation and it is my honor to welcome you back isn't that exciting? we are back into our neighborhood. you know, after, what, more than a year of collectively fighting the covid-19 virus. thank you, mayor, london breed. and thank you supervisors and all of the community effort that allowed us to be here today in this outdoor space to be able to celebrate 490. and we would like to remind you though as we are so proud to be

hosting you here today, we want to encourage you to kindly wear your masks as you enter the building, and to respect still the social distancing guidelines that 490 is basically asking from all of us. for our own safety. now it is my great pleasure to welcome today's guest to conduct the ceremony for us, we're very excited that she's here today. and a community-based organization that is going to be headquartered here at 490. and we're very excited about that. [applause] they'll be located at the flex place at the corner of 16th and south van ness very, very shortly. basically what they do -- they provide immigrant families in the bay area with social services and emergency support for most cultural values and serve as a bridge between our community and consulates and the

governments. so we are very pleased to have them come today to conduct a blessing to make sure that this building is blessed today. and i invite lydia to come up to the stage and begin that blessing ceremony. come on over. [applause] >> good morning to everyone. i am going toed in spanish and she'll translate it, okay. [speaking spanish] (speaking foreign language)

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[speaking spanish] (speaking foreign language) >> thank you very much. thank you. [applause] >> [speaking spanish] i just want to recap because we didn't have someone to translate in english what she just finished saying, but she wants to thank brim housing and mission housing, the mayor, all of the agencies, and anybody that had a

contribution to make this building a possibility for the community. she wants to express her gratitude. she also talked a little bit about the journey for many -- you know, from yucatán. i am so sorry. and they came here to look for a better -- and just more positive opportunities. and i get a little choked up because i know what that trajectory looked like as an immigrant person and someone that as myself, i know what that means. and she wanted to remind every member those that we lost during this pandemic. and so, again, she wants to have you all keep the good fight to make sure that we can continue to build affordable housing and she's looking upon all of you guys to be able to do that. mucho gracias. so, let's continue on. and let's talk about what is 490. it's an 80-unit affordable housing building that you're

sitting here today that is located in the san francisco mission district. just a couple blocks from here we have the authentic 1950 mission that is another wonderful partnership with the partnership of bridge housing and ourselves that we were proud to do a groundbreaking very recently. what has that done for me, and for those that may be wondering what that word represents. we decided to name it for various reasons because it actually means to "move upward, forward, and a desire to always advance." and we believe that it embodies the resilient spirit of this neighborhood, a neighborhood that fought and they were very vocal about what they needed. and so here together as a community, as a group, we're celebrating this amazing, amazing celebration for 490. so we continue to [speaking spanish] so we'll continue to move forward, right? right? yes!

yes! yes! [applause] mission housing and bridge housing are proudly basically celebrating the -- what we consider to be such a great accomplishment. and so we just want to be sure that you celebrate along with us because this is actually a little piece of history that we are sharing with you today. we saw about 230 families that moved into their homes here. we actually have several -- several -- several -- looking -- several -- please wave to those residents that moved in here, and i just want to welcome them to their new home. we're so excited. it really makes me get choked up because there's nothing to fight for something, deliver something, and then see the families moving in and this is what we're celebrating today. this is for you. so now it is my great pleasure to welcome someone that is an advocate for affordable housing and i know that she's been very, very vocal about it for many years and she continued to be a partner and a supporter of our

organization and everyone here that is sitting here today -- our mayor -- our mayor of san francisco that has been extremely busy for the past year or so, and we're very thankful for her to have time to join us today. that being said, mayor london breed, would you please come up and share your thoughts. [applause] >> thank you, marcia. i've got to say today is definitely very special because it's been a long time coming, and i think that some of the folks that are joining us here today don't really realize the history and the struggle and the challenges that have existed for so many years, specifically in the mission community. and supervisor ronen can recall at a time when we saw a huge amounts of displacement of the people in this community, she was working as an aide for the supervisor in the office that she now occupies and i remember when i was on the board of supervisors and this community rallied together -- rallied together to ask for more support

in san francisco, more support from city hall to build more affordable housing. and at the time i remember thinking to myself, what difference is it going to make when the people in this community may not even have an opportunity to get access to these units? and so together, myself and members in this community supported my efforts when the federal government, hud, said, no, we could not use neighborhood preference. i flew on the red eye to d.c., they changed their mind because all i did was tell them my story about my experience of growing up in the philmore and what happened there, the redevelopment that came in, tore down a lot of beautiful homes owned by black people, rebuilt a number of affordable housing developments, but made it difficult for the people who lived in this community to have access to those units. i was watching as what was happening in the mission already

happened in the philmore western edition community. so it was important that when we started, and we identified the number of the developments in this community, the community did a whole walk-thru, and i went through that walk-thru and that drive-thru to identify a number of properties and at the time our late mayor ed lee helped to put $50 million in the budget to begin the process of acquiring these sites, and i picked up the mantle and we were able to acquire some additional sites as a result of the work of this community, the advocacy of this community, not only do we have seven sites identified for affordable housing in this community, we also are using neighborhood presence to make sure that people from this neighborhood have right of first refusal to access these units and to live in their community. [applause] that was -- i mean, this is -- i get emotional too, marcia,

because i think about what's going to happen differently in this community for the people in this community. and so i was there for the opening of the childcare center, for the ribbon cutting and the ceremony. i was here when we did the groundbreaking, the amazing groundbreaking here with the space, to cleanse off all of the negative spirits and bring in the positive energy that these families deserve. we were on shopwell when we opened up a new senior developpent in and we have other properties where we're going to be doing a lot of ribbon cuttings in these community. in total almost 800 units and counting. so that is absolutely amazing. [applause] but we know that there's more that needs to be done. this pandemic, although it set us back, we were still able to get this project done. we were still able to continue to build. and that is so critical because families, like the ones that we see here today, they're counting on us.

they're counting on us to move as quickly as possible to get this housing built so that they can move in and raise their families in these incredible communities. i can't help but get excited, especially because i know that this is going to change and save lives. housing has to be the priority. san francisco has not done the best job of moving forward as aggressively as it should in building more housing opportunities. i can't imagine my grandmother who raised me -- i can't imagine what she would have to go through now in san francisco and what would happen and how difficult it would be for her to be able to raise her grandchildren and take care of her developmentally disabled daughter nowadays and the access to affordable housing. it would be almost virtually impossible. what we want to do in this city is to change that to make sure that people have safer, affordable places to call home. and i'm so grateful that we are partnering with mission housing

and with bridge housing to create these incredible spaces that are not just about buildings -- they're about people -- and people's lives. and their ability to live in dignity and take care of their families and live in a place like san francisco. and to be able to come back and tell those stories about their families emigrating to san francisco, or their grandmothers raising them. to be able to tell those stories, because they will have a future in this incredible city. and i'm so grateful that housing here will provide that opportunity. so, thank you, everyone, for being here. thank you for all of the folks that had a role -- the mayor's office of housing and the bank of america and our financers. so it took a village. it really did take a lot of people coming together, but more importantly -- more importantly -- it took this community rallying and demanding what they know that they deserve in order to live in dignity in the community that they call home. so, thank you all, so much for

being here today. [applause] >> thank you, joan, for coming out. >> thank you, all. thank you for making this (indiscernible) i'm so grateful. [applause] >> these are the stories that we are very proud of, that we should all be proud of. thank you, mayor london breed, and thank you so much for acknowledging and for being here and for the work, you know, that everyone was able to do to make this happen. our next speaker is our executive director at extension housing to say a few words. i'm sure many more words but just a few. come on over. >> thank you, everybody. joan got me crying up here. give me a sec. thank you all for coming and i

feel that i get to do this now and after 10 years it's kind of hard to believe that we're having a ribbon cutting every few months in the mission. marcia and myself took over the housing 10 years ago, well, we didn't look like what we look like now. we had a lot of growing to do, and we couldn't have done that growing without the support of our community. without the support of the late mayor lee and then mayor breed herself, and you know, most especially i'd like to thank bridge housing. we forced our way in the door and no one could get rid of us, and bridge housing is the one that opened that door up. so we wouldn't be able to grow the way we are and to provide the things that we provide on a daily basis, not just in these new buildings, but in all of our buildings, if we haven't had the trust and respect of bridge housing. so, thank you very much, for showing up.

[applause] >> coming to these ribbon cuttings, as great as they are, it has me thinking about the past and how far we've come and just how important it is for us to stop right now. we've all just gone through a really hard ordeal and we're still going through it, and it's important to look forward. you know, it's important to come together and to say here we are at this point in time. and i know that these things happened in the past and i know this person said that, and this person -- this company did that -- but here we are as a community together supporting each other. and we're standing on something tangible, on a physical structure that was erected with the blood and sweat and tears -- and i guess a little bit of money from the san francisco government, of course, but without all of that coming together, working together, we wouldn't be here right now. we'd still be talking about how many people are displaced in the city and we would still talked about what if we could have

built that. and we're standing on something that we did -- that we accomplished. and i just really want everyone to take a moment and to pat yourself on the back because it wasn't easy. it was exhausting. it was emotionally trying. but we're here now and we're about to have some empanadas later and have a good old time. so from the bottom of my heart i just want to thank everyone. thank you very much. >> thank you. right back at mission housing. really interesting story about this building and i want to talk about that and talk about relationships and how powerful and important they are to achieving what we're here to celebrate today. back in the day when we were just fighting to stand in justification, you know, people forced out of the mission and we weren't under the cloud of a global pandemic like today.

mission housing and bridge housing had partnered a block away from here. and he came to my office and said we'd like to get back in the game and that was a momentous day. not only did that happen but a few months later, and the mayor's office of housing acquired some land that we're standing on, it was fully entitled for a market rate condominium project. they had drawings that were done, they were ready to break ground. the mayor's office had the vision and the wherewithal at the time to acquire this shovel ready -- remember that term that we used to talk about? and the city took some grief at the time because they paid a lot. in hindsight it looks like a pretty good number, a pretty good deal by today's standards. so i want to thank the mayor's office and the leadership for making that happen. and then sam and i, i think that we decided we should get the band back together after what happened here in 1950, and fast

forward, and here we are today. you know, as sam said, a lot of blood and sweat and a lot of hard work and a lot of talented people that, you know, we're not going to be able to thank everybody today, but i want to thank the relationships that we value most and, really, the mayor's office of housing -- mission housing, as sam said, bridge and mission got together and we might have helped mission on some things, but they certainly helped us to understand what the mission is all about. and thank you for the blessing today. it's a complicated neighborhood, one that has been under a lot of pressure and, you know, if we can come here and to be a part of helping to stem that tide, that's part of our mission. so i thank mission housing for helping to educate us about the mission itself. and we're not done. we're going to be working with mission housing and we're busy trying to finance the infrastructure, but bridge is going to build there and mission is going to build there and we'll have a couple more of these ribbon cuttings.

so i look forward to that. and i also need to thank a few of the key actors here, and from architects, who we're working with in portland and here in the san francisco bay area. and those who built this building, and thank you, bob, and your team. and nibe is building in berkeley, another very complex neighborhood and a complex project. and i want to thank some of the folks at bridge briefly. mitch, who couldn't be here but his namesake here, this caterpillar was named after mitch apparently. so for all of you who know mitch, really helped to get this off the ground and he was helped by anna and sarah and david from our team that worked with sam and michael and marcia and the folks from mission housing. so thank you all for helping to execute that initial vision and for being here today to help to celebrate. congratulations.

>> i would like to introduce -- >> i would like to introduce -- god, you're tall -- even with heels. i would like to introduce the next speaker, supervisor hillary ronen. come right on over. [applause] >> supervisor ronen: thank you, everyone. it feels good, madam mayor, to keep coming to these ribbon cuttings. it's incredible. like sam said, after 10 years of not doing any of this, to be able to celebrate every couple months with, you know, the opening -- the ribbon cutting of a new affordable housing complex. and like our mayor said, this isn't about buildings, it's about people. and talking to the incredible families that are living in this building we've got to remember where those families were coming from. there are so many families in the mission that are living in tiny s.r.o. hotel rooms -- four

people, five people, to a room. and if that wasn't -- that's always been unacceptable, but after this year of pandemic when we weren't allowed to leave those rooms, when kids had to open up their computers and sit on their bunkbeds and be in a tiny space for 24 hours a day, and weren't allowed to hang out in the hallway because they could get sick -- that is cruel it almost feels -- it makes your home feel like a jail. and those are the kind of conditions that families moved from to finally be in a proper home where their kids can run outside and be safe, where they can have their own bedroom and feel like they have that -- that privacy and that space to grow up and be kids. that's what projects like this make happen. and so thanks to the mayor's

neighborhood preference -- thank you for that law, that was one of the best and the most important laws that we've ever passed in san francisco. making that happen, going to washington, and -- and not leaving and not taking no for an answer, it's one of your great legacies, mayor breed, because that is what made it possible for families that live in the s.r.o.s in the mission to move into proper, adequate housing for themselves and their families. and we can't stop -- like you said, we're going to keep on going because while there remains one family improperly housed in an s.r.o., where there remains thousands of people living on streets of san francisco, we can't stop. we've got to keep this going. and thank you, mission housing, for resurrecting your housing development or we wouldn't be here and we wouldn't do all of these ribbon cuttings without you. thank you, marcia, and thank you, sam, and, bridge -- of course, you never stop. so thank you for partnering with our local community-based

developers, because we need that local -- that local voice and that local commitment and those folks from the community that are doing this work, like sam, marcia and oscar and so many members of the mission housing team. thank you so much, this is a great day. congrats. [applause] >> i would like to introduce our next speaker, kevin blackburn, from the federal home loan bank of san francisco. [applause] >> well, again, it's an honor to be here this morning and, sam, with your giant shirt there, and i am the last one to speak and i am feeling like the cleanup like willie mays right now. but i don't know if you have noticed but there's been a common theme that has gone through each speaker today and that is the stories.

you know, i have some facts to share with you, but facts tell, but the reality is that stories sell. and the stories of the people whose lives have been impacted by having access to quality, affordable housing are the things that drive us to keep working hard to provide justice and equity for those who need it most. so i'm privileged that the federal home loan bank of san francisco, this is, like, the best thing that i get to do. i spend a lot of times on planes, well, prior to the pandemic, anyway, a lot of time on planes going back and forth to d.c.. and that is hard work. but this is really where it all makes a difference. so, you know, the facts that i just want to share with you and i want to really congratulate mission housing development corporation and bridge housing for collaborating because to build affordable housing, it is the most difficult type of

housing to build, period. and to do it and to see what you'd be able to create here, i think they deserve a big round of applause, don't you? [applause] of course it doesn't happen in a vacuum. you know, years ago i'd say, well, building affordable housing is like a seven-layer cake because you have so many layers of financing and expertise and, and now with the cost of housing continuing to increase it's probably a 10-layer cake now. but there are three layers of that cake that i just want to talk about and one is the federal home loan of san francisco. we know what is going on in washington, and once upon a time there was an atmosphere where both sides of the aisle worked together for a common good. one of the things they created was the affordable housing program. and so the federal home loan bank of san francisco gives away 10% of its profits annually in the form of grants for

affordable housing with. bridge as a partner, that has translated to about $33 million in grants to bridge. and the congressional district, speaker nancy pelosi, created 5,40 units of affordable housing and that's quality work. but we don't do it alone. we do it with community capital, and the members, the federal home loan bank that provided the grant. and then it takes affordable housing developers to bring it all together. and so for the federal home loan bank of san francisco, we're honored to continue to be the legacy of building affordable housing in san francisco and we want to just acknowledge mayor breed and her vision to -- to be a fighter. you know, it's one thing to get in office and to kind of move things along. it's another thing to drive an agenda that really matters. and there's nothing that matters more than providing quality housing for people. so not only are we working to

continue to support affordable housing, but right now with the legislation introduced in washington that would allow the home loan banks to support infrastructure, and that is important -- it is worth it. i was on the phone at 6:00 this morning back in d.c., because this legislation is really important and we want to be able as the infrastructure bill comes together to be another tool that banks can use to support the infrastructure development, because we need it. and so just keep your ears open we appreciate the support from supervisor ronen and from speaker pelosi as well. so, thank you all for being here today. thank you, mission housing development, and bridge housing and this is a great day. and will we're honored to be able to celebrate it with you. thank you. [applause] >> all right. thank god i'm wearing my heels.

i was going to wear my flats but i wore my heels. anyways, before we get moving on to the ribbon cutting ceremony, i just want to acknowledge the team that actually worked so hard to make sure that we can do this celebration, which is bridge housing team, and also mission housing team. for all of you that worked really hard here -- where is the staff? mission housing and bridge housing, lift your hands up? big and proud. [applause] there's a few here too that are shy to come out, but thank you so much. i hope that you guys enjoy this space. you are standing and sitting here today and it's basically the place where our children are going to be able to play. parents are going to actually be able to go right here and do their laundry and to be able to have their kids run around here so i just wanted to acknowledge this space because i think that it's beautiful. and i'm a parent of three and if my little one his an opportunity to be in this space, i would be proud to have them run around

because it's a beautiful, safe space. with that being said, we'll continue on with the ribbon ceremony and we'll ask the speakers to move up here. but before we would like to remind all of you that we have a reception on the rooftop. if you haven't been to the rooftop yet, we left that for last. and we partnered with a neighbor of ours, a commercial tenant of ours that is providing amazing empanadas to enjoy. so if you want to be at the reception, the elevators to my right, and another right there's going to be staff there directing you to take you to the rooftop. and so you can grab a bite to eat and take it with you. and the other thing that we have are some amazing t-shirts. so for all of you joining us today, pick up your t-shirts. it's very nice -- nice t-shirt that you can take with you. very proud of that t-shirt. besides that i just want to say -- actually ask everyone that is here today -- i want to

ask for a commitment. would you -- would each one of you guys commit to be supportive of affordable housing? we have learned about the stories about what this building represents and all of the work that everyone that is here today, and i just want to make sure that i hear you loud and clear that you are committed and to keep affordable housing efforts moving forward. can i hear that? [applause] okay. so, [speaking spanish] which means we're going to move forward together. thank you so much to all of the speakers. please come up. >> all right, are we ready? okay. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... [applause]

>> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit

here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here,

i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now

is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close.

i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal -- developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and

i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the prospective

search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits before i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is

a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have

gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all of those things are temporary.

to speak to you this morning. before i -- before the mayor takes the make phone, i want to say a few words and introduce our mayor, london breene. it's been an incredible year. 2020, first part of 2021 has been a very challenging year for all of us. i can't be more proud of being a part of a city under the leadership with our mayor. we saw what true leadership means. in the midst of a global pandemic, san francisco was the first to take action to really get in front of what was facing us. we saw the result. we led across the board in terms

of big cities, the amount of preventing death. the shelter in place order which our mayor's leadership started really a national movement on shelter in place. we got into june with the george floyd murder that followed that. we had had our mayor step up and respond to the challenge to get the resources that we needed to really put the rioted and the civil unrest and looting and fires down really quickly. we saw where a lot of cities continued to have problems for months. we saw really a peaceful summer here last summer given all that was going on in our country. leadership is important.

people are important. staffing is important. we're going to talk a little bit about all of that today. the other thing that i'd like to say that with our mayor and staffing and all the issues i just brought up. it didn't just start when she became mayor. she was the first supervisor that i met when i got here on the board of supervisors. she has been supportive from the day a riefed. riefed. arrived. i appreciate it, the san francisco police department appreciate it. without further adieu, i would like to introduce our mayor, london breene. >> : thank you, chief. it's definitely great to be here with all of you in person today. it's been a very very challenging 15 months. to be here in person is so

significant. we appreciate it a lot more as a result of what we had to do in terms of our actions during covid. here we are, san francisco with over 82 percent of our residents who have been vaccinated. we're doing great in comparison to other major cities. i'm grateful to the people of this city who stepped up and made that difference. we're seeing a whole other spot light being placed on san francisco. on the one hand with covid what we've seen is a lot of praise and support, san francisco has gotten a lot of great attention as it relate it covid. but sadly as it relate it crime, we've gotten a lot of negative attention. when you think about where we were last year during the holiday july 4th, we saw

unprecedented shootings. the death of a young six year old boy in the bay view hunter's point community. it was heart breaking. when i think about what happened last year with violent crime and where we were even this past forth of july weekend. we saw not one homicide over that weekend time period. just recently lory was here from chicago. i'm sure you have been hearing about the unprecedented amount of gun violence in chicago. over a hundred shootings over the week anne. weekend.here in san francisco we nowhere near that. we've gotten to a better place. not perfect. but a better place than what's being highlighted now. we've seen a lot of the attacks on our elderly particularly our

asian seniors. the videos are not just going viral in san francisco but all over the world. what's not going viral is every single instance our police department have arrested many of the people in these particular crimes. there have been arrested sadly in the death of jays young. the guy, we saw the video of him riding the bicycle into the walgreens. he has been arrested and is currently awaiting trial. the case of the man walking home from the post office who was stabbed and robbed. his perpetrator was arrested. the man in the franklin street market, i beloved member of the community, his perpetrator has

been arrested. two people were stabbed, that perpetrator has been arrested. what is not getting the attention is the fact that when you come to san francisco and commit a crime, you will be arrested by this police department. our investigators and the work that they do to bring people to justice has been extraordinary. when we talk about the burglar burglaries and car break ins perpetrated by ten groups of people. when those groups get arrested, we see those car break ins go down significantly. at the end of the day we have to make sure that accountability is a part of this. one of the big conversations that is happening around defunding the police is not taking into account all the incredible work san francisco has done to invest in program that's help to prevent crimes

from happening in the first place. an unprecedented investment of $65 million in my budget to help with street violence prevention and victim services. all the incredible work, thank you for the work that you do to reach out to the families who sadly are victims of violent crimes. a lot of investment preventing these crimes from happening. wellness teams out in the communities checking on those who are suffering from mental illness and addiction. a sobering center. a street crisis response team who are responding to the calls who don't know what to do when they see people screaming and unresponsive in the streets. mental health beds. an unprecedented investment. all of these things are a part of our network of trying to

address public safety. it's not just about funding or defunding the police. not just about funding one program over another. it's a comprehensive strategy to make sure the right investments are being made to deal with the challenges that exist. going back to covid, we use the data and the science. what we should do as a city. that's what we did in this year's budget. the chief today is going to talk a lot about the statistics because there's a lot of misinformation out there about what's happening in san francisco. we know that numbers don't matter when you're the victim of a crime, any crime in any capacity. at the end of the day we have to use this data to make a decision about our policies an our investments. in the coming months we're going to be making some significant changes.

we are not prepared to reveal all of our plans to help address some of these issues around these retail thefts and holding companies accountable like amazon to not do their due diligence to vet these stolen goods. we have to make sure there are tools to hold people accountable but more importantly, we have to look at the data and allow that to help guide us. finally as we move forward, we need police officers. we have a number of officers retiring, this work just doesn't happen. we have a number of officers retiring, we have others leaving the force for different reasons. we need to back fill those officers. i'm hopeful that the work we're doing to make those investments to bring those officers out on the streets to bring down crime

as well are significant. work withing our partners, ambassadors has everything to do with prevention and also accountability. we have to reability when a crime is committed but the best case scenario is to make sure that crime never happens in the first place. here in san francisco, yes, like any major city we have our challenges. at the end of the day we're going to work hard to step up and do everything we can to make the right investments, arrests, hold people accountable and do what we can to look at the data and make the appropriate changes to our system for the safety of our city. i want to thank all of you for being here today. i want to thank the men and women of the police department. if you take nothing from this event, this press conference today that you go down the

laundry list of all of those crimes that have been committed here in san francisco over the past year. you look especially at the violent crimes in particular and look at the arrests that have been made and start to highlight those in a way that they've been highlighted in terms of when the videos went viral. when you see the incredible work that goes into the investigation part of it an arrests and all the things this san francisco police department is doing to bring justice to those families that are victims, you would be proud of the work being done. i truly am. thank you for all being here today. thank you chief scott. he will go over the the statistics so you can see in comparison where we are with the crimes in san francisco. >> : thank you mayor. i know the mayor touched on

public perceptions, i think it's important to start by acknowledging people's fear about crime particularly when these videos go viral. these things get in our head. people start to believe that is our city. that is not our city. today's news conference i'm going to show you some comparative numbers. think of this as a mid year check in. computer statistics. it's a program police departments across the country use to perform statistics to understand where their cities are in terms of statistics. it allows us to reduce those crimes. let me be very clear about something, about two things. those numbers you're about to see represent human beings.

they represent people, i don't want to be dehumanizing when i talk about numbers an statistics. we understand because we see it day in and day out, these are people. our brothers, sisters, nephews, aunts, friends that are being victimized. it's important to take a step back and remember that statistics represent people. what we see on some of these videos are brazen crimes. there's no statistic on the outlook and how we perceive what's going on in our city. that's why police officers are so important. most of us feel more comfortable when thee see officers in their

neighborhood. that's our justification for the reality of our officers being on the beat and being on the street to make people feel safer. these crimes aren't as frequent as many people think but it's still unsettling. most of these crimes are solved and we'll continue to do that. i want to start by really lifting up what's going on here in our city. it starts with the members of the san francisco police department. i'm the chief of police, you see command staff members on the wall here. the mayor. the work is being done by the members, the patrol officers. day in day out solving crimes, working with the community and doing what we need to do to keep our city safe. still, even when we have everything to work right, it

seems like it's not enough. you've heard this cliche before. we can't arrest our way out of problems. we need to make arrests and hold people accountable. the other side of that equation is officers on the street. this mayor, from day one, has been very definitive about the need to have officers on the beat. she supported the budget and staffing. we need to have staffing to balance the other side of the equation. holding people accountable that will always be one half of the equation. the other side we struggle with is keeping enough officers on the street so you see them in your communities to prevent what is happening from happening. according to city beat, 75% of

san franciscans want more sfpd officers in high crime areas. seventy six percent want expanded community policing through their neighborhoods and sixty four percent want more sfpd office everies in busy areas where we have these brazen crimes that we've seen on video. china town included. that's why we're so appreciative of what's happening with the mayor's leadership and community members calling to staff this department adequately so we can do our jobs. that is not going to go away. we'll continue to advocate for what we need to keep this city safe. every number represents a human being, even someone has suffered a loss of injury sometimes the damage is irrevokable.

homicides, we have people in this room that have lost members of their family both in uniform and out of uniform. people in this family who have had their houses and cars broken into. we all know how that feels when it happens to you. you don't care about statistics. it happened to me and turned my life upside down. we understand that. that's why it is so important to work with our community. through the mayor's leadership and urging we established a community liaison unit to help people get through the turmoil of being victimizeled. to pre vied a better service. we want to prevent it in the first place but when it happens people need help to navigate the system and need help. that's what the system does.

let's go to our statistics. this is our mid year statistics and how we're going to frame the conversation to show you year to date and mid year statistics we're going to take a look back so can you compare where we were 2018 and 2017 same time of year. one of the things that make this time of year challenging and unique. last year we had people inside their homes, we didn't have the tourist that's we normally have. it's hard to get a gauge on where we are in crime when you only look at last year. we're going look at the last three years to get a perspective of where we are an where we've been. homicides last year. we are up somewhat from where we

were this time last year. if you look at 2019, 2018, 2017 you see pretty consistent numbers. we're up four this year. if you go back to 2017 we're down pretty significantly from 2017, even 2016 and up slightly from 2015. next slide, let me say a few things about that. some of our strategies that we've introduced this year include a partnership with an entity called california partnership for safe communities. one of the things among the many we want to do with homicides and this speaks to what the mayor said earlier is investigate the root causes. our investigators do a magnificent job of clearing homicide cases.

the other side of that is what can we do for the individuals most at risk for being involved in a shooting or homicide either as a victim or as a perpetrator. what can we do for those individuals and families to provent it. our strategy moving forward is to get to that issue. that's what the mayor spoke to with the partnerships. identify the people most at risk who are people of color. black and brown men. that's not necessarily policing. we're a conduit to get services to the families most at risk. our job is to prevent and solve crime and get other people involved to address those issues to make the situation better. let's go to gun violence. since 2016 this is where we're having some challenges.

2021 we're almost double where we were last year in terms of gun violence. this includes fatal and non fatal shootings. 2019, 2020 we were in the mid fifties. you can see that we're not terribly higher than we were in 2016, 17, and 18. we're almost double where we were in the last two years. part of the strategies i just mentioned will help address that. it building relationships with the community members that are necessary to get a handle on this issue. we have commander pete who are a big part of this along with our investigations bureau, this brings all this together. our strategies on gun violence

are holistic. we have to get a handle on this. illegal legal ghost guns. the number of illegal ghost guns that we con fist kateed over the last four years have increased exponentially. these are guns that materialize in people's homes. they are dangerous, unregulated and in our city. we're addressing that with our partners from atf and our federal partners. we have an increase in con -- next we'll go to sexual

assaults. here is an area that i'm pleased to say is far below where it was the last few years. when you look at 2019 to 2020. this was a significant drop. 2021 we continue to go down in that area. still that's 88 victims that have been sexually assaulted, far too many. we're working with the district attorney and advocacy groups. including treatment and services to the victims. that's a par of our plan, if you will, to get better in all of those areas. we do okay. we can always get better. we dropped sexual assaults from eleven cases to nineteen case nz

june. that's a huge increase from a month to month perspective. it's something we want to keep an eye on because that's concerned. we want to make sure we keep control of that. next we'll go to robberies. again, videos drive perception. when you see people getting robbed. when you see elderly victims get getting robbed and they go viral. here is the reality. our robberies from 2018 to year to date have gone down each year. we hope to continue that by year's end. if we continue the trend, we hope to keep this going. robberies are one of the categories where cops in the street matter. police officers in the street really matter when it comes to

driving down robberies. people are less likely to rob people when they see officers nearby. that's a fact, it's proven. it's tried and true. i can't say it enough, we need officers on the street to keep this going in the right direction. some of our high traffic corridors, our tourist areas. people enjoying themselves. we have to see police officers out there. the mayor did market vibrancy plan. we have seen robberies cut by 3. it matters when police officers are on their beat and able to stay on their beat. we want to continue that trend an make sure we keep that going in the right direction.

aggravated assault is our next category. if you look at the five year period, again, this is some of the videos that we see happening that go viral. when you look at where we are now compared to where we were just three years ago, we're actually doing okay. i want to say this. we know that not all crime rz ce reported. there's always a degree of under reporting of crime. we encourage people to report if they are victimized. that's how we know what going on and how we deploy. if you look at 2018, 2019, 2020. you see a significant drop. we are below where we were in

2019 our precovid year. can we do better? yes. we're not doing terribly and we want to keep that trend going as well. again, research. the university of california, they started the foot beat deployment to see how that effected aggravated assault. it's proven, cops matter. when we put them in those areas, high corridor areas, assaults went down. we know that matters. that's been proven by research. next topic is burglaries. as we talk about property crime, the narrative in san francisco has been car break ins. it's been that way for a long time. here is an area we're struggling

somewhat in terms of increases. we saw this trend start even before covid. last year we started to see burglaries go up. we started to see other types of crime go down. could there have been some type of displacement? maybe. a lot of those were garage type burglaries. tools, bicycles. the good news is we started the year off really in a hole and over the last three and a half four months, we've seen burglaries decrease. at a about four percent increase year to date. it's still an increase. some of the things we've done is made some drastic change nzs in

deproiment. deployment. a lot of these crimes happen overnight and we had to make that adjustment. continue to keep these people off balance to let these people know that you'll see officers overnight. burglaries are up. we are going in the right direction compared to the way we started the year off. 2020, particularly last summer we had a spike because of the civil unrest. we had a lot of looting but we were able to get that under control. we have to compare it. next we'll go to larceny theft. retail theft is in that

category. as you can see from 2017 and these are mid year numbers to now, it's been a steady decrease in this category. i will give you not every crime reported. we can only go by what we know. it's counter to the narrative. not to say that these things that are happening, they are brazen and heinous. they need to stop and people held accountable. the statistics are in front of you. much work needs to be done in retail theft. a lot of the things the mayor said are coming into play. it's very challenging. what we can control is what we can control. that's our strategies an

tactics. give the da the best cases we can give them. when these crimes do have them particularly when they are crews that were mentioned earlier, we identify who they are an bring them to account for these crimes. we do a pretty good job at that. we have to get better. this is something that people -- it's personal to me when people think what they see on the video is what we represent. we all work and live here, it's a good city and safe city. that's not what you think when you see a guy ate local pharmacy and having at it with someone. they're in jail. we will catch you. make no mistakes about that.

we're good at what we do. we'll keep going until we catch the people responsible for these crimes. we hope to keep that going in the right direction and listen the frequency of these viral videos that we keep seeing on news and social media. next category is car break ins. here is another thing that tends to go viral. if you look at where we were in 2017, it was the worst year we had ever had. we ended that year with over 30,000 car break inns. ins. we shifted our focus.

car break ins that continued in 2019 and 2020. we're starting to go back up. we'll get a handle on that. put together a plan that we believe will make a difference. more officers on beat. particularly in the corridors that people visit our cities. that's where our problems are concentrated and that's where we will be. we have to be there. we have to be consistent about our deployment. we'll be consistent in our arrests and we also have to continue to drive some of these things down.

we are up seven hundred crimes from where we were last year. we need the officers to do the work. we're going to make due with what we have until we start to get academy classes through. we'll make it happen. this is is the image of our city that we're talking about. you can come to san francisco. it's a safe city. sfpd, the mayor, elected officials. we got your back. next category, auto theft. auto thefts are up. that's a two year trend. we started to see that also in 2020 before covid. that trend continued not as significantly. less of an increase this year but it's still up. that is also an issue that we

need to get a handle on. if you look at where we were back in 2015, we're down pretty significantly but it's after a good year in 2018 and it went up a little bit, we're starting to go back up. it's pretty significant from 2019 to 202 #. 2021. these are hard crimes to solve. we're going to do everything we can to keep this under wraps and under control as well. the auto thefts are middle of the night type of crimes as well. that's where nighttime deployment can can impact some. it's a difficult case. most of all the thefts we recover a lot of cars that get recovered in other

jurisdictions. when your car gets stolen, you don't care what is stealing it, you just want your car back. that is our mid year statistic. you can see when you look at these over time, it paints a much different picture than watching a video that goes viral. i don't want to be dismissive of the videos because they are brazen and heinous and awful. we need to prevent those things from happening and arrest the people doing it. we want to keep perspective on the reality of what's really happening in terms of crime activity in our city. i hope this provided some perspective for you.

that concludes our presentation. we'll be available for some questions. thank you.

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so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go

it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help

us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and

they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can

afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things

you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the

conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for

. >> president walton: good afternoon and welcome to the july 13th, 2021, regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president, [roll call]

. >> president walton: madam clerk, do we have any restrictions today? >> clerk: yes. we will make those provisions to expand the democratic practice for in-person meetings to the public. until then, we will provide the virtual participation utilizing the remote call-in system. for the public, the best way to provide your public comment today and to avoid the signal delay from either the live

stream at www.sfgov.org or from the city's sfgov channel 26 is to listen from your touch tone phone. you will be in live sync to listen to the proceeding and to provide your public comment. the telephone number is streaming on your screen. it is (415) 655-0001. when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i.d. that is 146 408 6781. press pound twice and you will have joined the meeting as a listener. then you should press star three and listen carefully for the prompt, you have been unmuted and you may begin speaking your comments. regarding general public comment that i believe is item 17, item 44. excuse me. it is item 44. at that time, you may speak to the approval of the meeting minutes as presented. the items within the subject

matter jurisdiction that do not appear on this agenda and the items that have not been to committee but are on this agenda as items 45 through 49. all other agenda content has had its public comment. based on the annual level in the city budget, i make a special mention about items 9 through 31. these are the items that comprise the city's budget. many of you may want to comment on the budget, however, the city's budget is not eligible content for public comment today as it has already had its public comment period in committee and, again, is not eligible to be commented on today. the board of supervisors will accept written correspondence by u.s. mail. use the address, the san francisco board of supervisors. the 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett

place city hall. you can send an e-mail to the board's address at b.o.s.@sfgov.org. interpretation assistance will be provided between the hours of 3:00 p.m. and 5:30 to assist speakers with their language needs. we will have them introduce themselves during public comment and, finally, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely, please call (415) 554-5484. we do have a live person standing by to assist you. thank you, mr. president. that concludes my communications. >> president walton: thank you. i just want to remind all of our supervisors to make sure that you mute your microphones when you're not speaking so that we can avoid any audio feedback. colleagues, today we are approving the meeting minutes

from the may 25th, 2021, and june 8th, 2021, regular board meetings and the june 7th, 2021, special board meeting minutes at the land use and transportation committee which constituted a quorum at the board of supervisors. i don't see anyone requesting changes to the minutes. madam clerk -- sorry. i would entertain a motion for approval of the minutes. made by supervisor preston seconded by supervisor peskin. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the minutes, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection. the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. madam clerk. let's go to the consent agenda items 1 through 7. >> clerk: items 1 through 7 are on consent. these items are considered to be routine. if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president walton: thank you, colleagues, anyone wish to sever any items? i don't see anyone. please call the roll on items 1 through 7. >> clerk: on items 1 through 7, [roll call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, these ordinances are passed on the first reading and these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call unfinished business, item number 8. >> clerk: item 8 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to prohibit landlords for nonpayment of rental that was not paid due to the covid-19 pandemic provided the tenant has paid at least 25% of the rent owned to prohibit land lords from imposes late fees or similar charges on such tenants and to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank

you, madam clerk. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton. and we are continuing to review the pre-emption. we're trying to see if some of it would not be. i would like to continue this item until after our recess to the meeting on september 7th. >> president walton: motion continued to september 7th by supervisor preston seconded by supervisor preston. >> clerk: safai's on the roster. >> supervisor safai: can you tell us what the point of clarification is for my information. through the chair. >> supervisor preston: so when the state extended the state eviction protections, they also include pretty broad preemption language to pass local nonpayment protections and so

the pending ordinance that's before the board would have extended protections, the tenants that pay 25% of their rent through the end of this year. the state deal instead uses september 30th instead of the end of the year. so it appears there was an effort to pre-empt our ability to go beyond september 30th and there are also some other aspects of the ordinance that we passed locally. we want to see whether those would be caught up in the pre-emption as well. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: yes. i just wanted to thank you supervisor preston for working so hard with the city attorney and to express my disappointment with the state for having potentially pre-empted our ability to protect tenants even further. we've just come out of the worldwide crisis of our lifetime. tenants have never been more vulnerable and it's pretty sad

to me that the state struck a deal not allowing municipalities to protect our tenants as strongly as we wish to do so. so i just wanted to put that on the record. but thank you, supervisor preston, for all your work. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor ronen. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item 8 to september 7th, [roll call] >> clerk: there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection, the motion to continue passes unanimously.

madam clerk, would you please call new business items number 9 through 31. >> clerk: items 9 through 31 where the public requirement had been fulfilled and therefore there will be no further public comment on items 9 through 31 today. item 9 is the annual budget and appropriation ordinance to appropriate all estimated receipts and expenditures for the departments of the city for fiscal years ending june 30th, 2022, and june 30th, 2023. item 10 is the annual salary ordinance which provides all temporary and appointed positions in the annual budget and general work schedules for the fiscal years ending june 30th, 2022, and june 30th, 2023, for which compensation is paid from city and county funds appropriated in the annual appropriation ordinance. item 11 is the resolution to

approve the fiscal year 2021 through 2022 budget of the ocii which is the office of community and investment infrastructure. and delivery of certificates of participation for to finance and refinance multiple projects in the city. item 13 is the health code for fiscal years through 2020 through 2023. items 14 through 17, appropriate various proceeds from the san francisco public utilities commission water and power revenue bonds or state loan or grant funds for the capital improvement program and deappropriate various funds and places other funds on controller's reserve to authorize an increase of the issuance and sale of tax exempt

or taxable waste water revenue bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the san francisco public utilities commission. to finance capital improvements in the public utility commissions power and water enterprises. moving on to item 18. this is an ordinance to appropriate $27 million to the san francisco public utilities commission and reduce preefgs appropriation to the airport commission by $273.2 million and by $17.6 million for the port commission. item 19 is an ordinance to amend the salary ordinance to reflect at the airport commission and the substitution of nine positions and the addition of 23 positions at the san francisco public utilities commission in fiscal years 2021 through 2022. item 20 is an ordinance to amend police code to lower the fee for a street artist

certificate. item 21 is an ordinance to adopt the neighborhood beatyfication and graffiti clean-up fund. item 23 is to impose a penalty in the event of nonpayment and clarifying existing law. item 23 is an nornd nance to amend the business and tax code to reflect a balance currently authorized and charged under annual adjustment provisions and to determine that the fees would be paid to the department of emergency management rather than to the department of public health. item 24 authorizes the acceptance and expenditure of state grant funds by the san francisco department of public health for fiscal year

2021-through 2022. item 25 expenditure plan for the department of homelessness and supportive housing fund. items 26 and 27 both authorize the san francisco public library to accept and expend a grant of of in-kind gifts and services for a variety of public programs and for the mission branch renovation project for specific fiscal years. item 28 is a resolution to conquer with the controller's certification that department services can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed. item 29, resolution to concur with the controller's certification that department services previously approved can be formed by private contractor. for a lower cost than similar work performed by city and

county employees. for the specific services as listed, item 30 is a resolution to retroactively approve an agreement from the san francisco health authority and the department of public health accounts cash grant programs. and item 31 is a resolution to concur with the controller's establishment of the consumer price index for 2021 and to adjust the access line tax by the same rate. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton and thank you, madam clerk, for reading all of those items. colleagues, it's my honor and privilege as your chair of the budget and appropriations committee to present to you on behalf of our committee vice chair safai, chair walton, supervisor mar, the budget for the 2022 and 2023 fiscal years and many associated items.

this past year was unlike any in our city's history. every single person in san francisco, every small business, every neighborhood was impacted by this pandemic in deep and lasting ways. for that reason, first and foremost, this is a recovery budget. our guiding focus was to invest in the communities, neighborhoods, people and small businesses hardest hit by this pandemic. those most in need of our support for their recovery. seniors, children, workers, families, tenants, communities of color to make them whole and to build them back up. this is also an equity budget. we don't want to just take our city back to where we were 15 months ago. we want to come back better. we want to close gaps and inequities. we want to learn from the past year and put our city on a better path. this makes a new critical robust investments with your support in the latinx, black, api, and lgbtq communities along with seniors, children, and families. and, lastly, this is a budget

that's designed to tackle new solutions, the challenges that we have long confronted as a city, but in many cases have worsened over the past year. homelessness, housing afford nlt, education inequities, mental illness and addiction, and public safety. moving away from the failed strategies of the past. this budget includes over a billion dollars invested with a comprehensive strategy to transform our broken mental health system and a massive expansion of alternatives to law enforcement and street responses led by public health professionals. our committee put a special focus on transparency and accountability focusing on rooting out corruption and eliminating efficiencies. we've collaborated and we've fought for people who've needed our support. our committee took the same spirit and commitment into the

budget process and i'm proud of the way that we worked together. i want to thank mayor breed in particular for her vision and leadership and partnership. her budget director. her board liaison sophia kitler. everyone in the clerk's office and everyone in the department head and city staff involved. a special thank you and a debt of gratitude to the controller's office controller ben rosenfield as well as the budget and legislative analyst office. dan goncher, nicholas menard and their entire team. there were thousands of residents who gave us their feedback and we want to thank all of them for their input and the hundreds of advocacy and community organizations who've partnered with us as well. i want to thank all of the legislative aids in your respective offices for their hard work and a huge special thank you to abigail river in my office who worked tirelessly

gracefully, forcefully with all of you, with hundreds of staff across the city departments over the last number of months and she deserves a huge amount of gratitude from all of us. the clerk's office most notably our clerk, ms. linda wong, we appreciate you and the entire i.t. and sfgov tv for getting us through this budget season. i want to thank each and every one of you. each of you, members of this board and your staff contributed to developing this budget and approving it. i realize that all of us may not agree with every single thing in the budget and if it was our decision alone, every single one of us would do something different. that is true for me as well. but that budget is inherently the product of compromise. there's no way that us, the mayor, or every individual can get everything they want. we have a collective document

drafted with the input of hundreds of city workers, all of us, the mayor, and her staff and i believe we can all stand behind and be proud of. this was a strenuous and unprecedented budget cycle and as a committee, we did our best to balance those needs, improve this budget and as a result, we have a budget that will have positive impacts on countless san franciscans. our budget is a moral document and it also must be actionable, accountable, and innovative and i believe what we have in front of us is something we can be proud of. with that, i will be continuing items 9 through 31 today which is a standard practice, i ask for your unanimous support for this budget and it's associated items and i deeply appreciate your partnership and that of your staff throughout this entire process. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor haney, and was that a motion in there? >> supervisor haney: i can

make it after others. >> president walton: supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: turn on my mic and then thank all of my colleagues, but especially, chair haney and his chief of staff abigail rufamonte and your work on the budget. it was i thought a great process this year, but the reason i want to speak is to item 13 and i'm wondering if there is a representative from d.p.h. that we can get ahold of. is that possible? >> clerk: yes, through the president and supervisor ronen, we did invite the departments to today's meeting. we have greg ragner cfo. >> supervisor ronen: wonderful. thank you, greg. are you able to hear me? >> yes, i can. can you hear me. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much. i did e-mail you about this and you did respond and i

appreciate that, but i just want to bring this to the attention of my colleagues and also ask for a little bit more explanation. so during the budget process and if we'll remember, colleagues, a while back when a patient was out of network and had to seek services at general hospital because of an emergency, they were charged astronomically absurd bills. but we recently received an e-mail, colleagues, all of us yesterday that tells the story of an individual who went to general hospital because he burned his hand and was not close to home. he received four tylenol and an

ice pack and was charged after insurance, $933.30. that's ridiculous and i want to understand what's going on there. >> supervisors, thank you. so i did get your e-mail a little bit before this meeting and reached out to our financial service its team to see what's going on with that account. i can't discuss an individual account in public due to privacy issues, but i will kind of reiterate where we've been over the last several years on this issue and you're correct in your description of what we've gone through. two years ago, roughly two years ago, we've made a change to the way our policies work within the hospital and the

health network and the two core pieces, i think i'm echoing. am i echoing? >> clerk: we can hear you, mr. wagner. >> okay. i'm just echoing to myself. the two key pieces of the change to our policy were as you described, supervisor ronen, a change so that if a patient comes to our facilities as an out-of-network patient, we will treat them as if they were in network from a billing perspective. so the patient will be billed as if they were at an in-network facility. we also discussed out-of-pocket for patients at all income levels and those two actions taken together significantly limit the cases that you

described where an individual would receive a large bill referred to as a balance bill or a surprise bill. the insurance that not only covers a portion, but the patient becomes responsible for the rest. there are still cases where a patient will receive a bill. those are when they may have an insurance policy where they have a cost sharing policy for their health insurance and for a portion of the cost. that cost will be subject to the cap how far. so they will not charge above the out of pocket cap. and there are other situations and, again, i'm not describing an individual case, but there are situations where the insurance will pay the individual instead of the hospital and the hospital will go through the patient to

receive the reimbursement. so there are cases like that, but our policies are in tact as we described at the board. the out of pocket maximums and the in-network cost sharing policies. and so we will look into this individual case and if anything has been done, we will correct it. >> supervisor ronen: i thank you for that explanation or that assurance again. we rarely get an insight into how much hospital bills cost and the insurance handles it and we don't see the actual cost of those services. so when we get a glimpse at, you know, what is it four

tylenol and an ice pack after insurance cost $933 it's a glimpse into the cost of the system. and so, you know, i'd like to follow up with you on this case. understand if this was a mistake which i'm hoping it was, then maybe that will account for it. but if this is the rate that we are charging for tylenol and an ice pack, i'd like to understand that more and we're going to be continuing these items anyway so there's time between now and next week, but as soon as you find out about this particular case, if you could follow up with me and we could meet on that, i would appreciate it. >> i will do so. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. >> president walton: thank you, mr. wagner. thank you, supervisor ronen.

supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: thank you, president walton. i'll keep it brief because i know we're going to have more opportunity to talk about the budget when we vote on it, but i really did want to take this opportunity to express my deep appreciation and respect to chair haney, to his chief of staff abby rivermontemesa and the entire team for your leadership and coordination and really to all of my budget committee colleagues for two plus exhausting but productive weeks of work. i think we all agree that we have a lot to be proud of in what we accomplished through the spending plan reflecting the priorities of the entire board with the lessons and needs of the pandemic that the pandemic has revealed at the front of our minds and, we did put together a historic 120 plus million dollars spending plan that builds on top of the commitments. mayor breed as made and provides critical investments so thanks again, everyone and especially chair haney.

>> president walton: thank you, supervisor mar. and i do want to say, for the record, one, thank you chair haney for your hard work. i want to say very loud and proud and just appreciate abby river monte mesa from your office for her extremely hard commitment. i also want to thank tracy brown gallardo and the entire district 10 team for their work to achieve success in this budget and i want to thank the entire budget and appropriations committee. vice chair safai, supervisor mar, and supervisor ronen as well as the mayor's team for working hard with this board to do what's best for our city and to the community members who advocated strongly for equity. this year, our communities received a record breaking $100 million plus for community

programs in so many areas addressing our unhoused population, violence, rent relief, affordable housing, mental health and substance abuse services, relief for small businesses, food insecurity, immigrant services and protections, free legal services for low income families, housing for transitional age youth, lgbtq services, and education resources so that we can make sure that our children are going to receive quality education and fight a lot of the learning loss from this pandemic. all the late nights and early mornings until 3:30 a.m. in some cases, demonstrates the commitment from san francisco's leadership, our budget reflects our values and now we will continue the twoshg of making sure san francisco continues to be the best city in the world. so i want to appreciate you and your team, chair haney and all of my colleagues for the hard and dedicated work. supervisor haney, do you have a

motion to make? >> supervisor haney: yes. thank you, president walton. i want to make a motion to continue items 9 through 31 to next week which is the 20th. >> president walton: can i have a second? seconded by supervisor mar. madam clerk, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 9 through 31 to july 20th, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you and without objection, the motion to continue items 9 through 31 to july 20th is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 32. >> clerk: item 32 is a motion to enact a 3.25% cost of living adjustment also known as a c.o.l.a. to the contract for budget and legislative analyst services from july 1, 2021, through december 31st, 2021, resulting in the amount of $1,220,283 an increase. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton. i have a motion on this. i want to motion to make the following amendments on page 1, line 1 by adding "retroactive. on page 3 adding "reto

actively" and page 2, line 1 adding "retroactively". >> president walton: motion by supervisor haney, seconded by supervisor safai. maddal clerk, will you call the roll on the motion to amend. >> clerk: on the motion to amend, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection, the amendments to item 32 are accepted unanimously. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 32 as amended. >> clerk: on item 32 as amended, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection this motion is approved unanimously amended. madam clerk please call item 33. >> clerk: item 33 to accept and spend an approximate $986,000 grant from the california highway patrol cannabis tax fund grant program and to aamend the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2021 through two thousand twenty-two to provide for the addition of

one grant funded class two thousand two hundred three and one grant funded class 2456 forensic toxicologist for the period beginning july 21st, 2021, through june 30th, two thousand twenty-three. >> president walton: seeing no one on the roster. ke can take this same house same call. without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 34. >> clerk: item 34 is an to approve the retroactive conservation grant contract in the amount of approximately $205,000 or $200,500 that requires the recreation and parks department to maintain a certain portion of sharp park as habitat for the san francisco guarder snake for the duration of the contract performance through june 30th, 2039, and to authorize the recreation and park department general manager to file a deed restriction against the property providing the

restrictions contained in the grant contract will apply until june 30th, 2039. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, president walton. colleagues, there's a little bit of history with this city and sharp park i think it goes back to somewhere around 1927 when the city of san francisco accepted a request of some 400 acres of a park in another county, sharp mark in san mateo county used to be the public gun range. it's got a lot of lead on one portion of it. about 20 years ago, the state of california and san mateo got after rec and park who finally capped it. we didn't actually dig the lead out, we just stuck a layer on top of it. it also is the home of a couple threatened and endangered species and i am pleased that rec and park has gotten the

state ally a number of years ago and we can get to that to grant some $200,000 for habitat restoration of a minuscule portion of that park as set forth in the subject resolution actually about one acre of that park and while i think we should accept that money and i believe insofaras this grant was granted not this year, not last year, not the year before that but in 2018 and it's never come before this board and we'll get to the retro activity as i indicated, that work is already as i understand it ongoing for that little bit of restoration for the endangered san francisco guarder snake, a beautiful creature, but i do have an amendment that i would

like to make which is that there has been an off and on again conversation about san francisco, the city and county of san francisco conveying this property to another appropriate steward. whether it is san mateo county parks. they have considered that in the past. the golden gate national recreation area which owns adjoining property has in the past expressed interest and in so far as requires the city to put a deed restriction on this property which deed restriction lasts until 2039, i wanted to ensure and make abundantly clear that should between now and 2039, a conversation come to fruition about the possible transfer of that property to the golden gate national recreation area, san mateo parks, a state entity that this in no way interferes with that and to that end, i would like

to offer an amendment at page two to insert at line 11, the very simple clause thank you deputy city attorney pierson for preparing that would say "whereas and the deed contract do not preclude transferring to another eligible entity provided the successive entity and with written approval of the state." so i would like to make a motion to add that whereas clause to it. there are a couple of things for this it body to discuss and consider. the deed restriction refers to a quote unquote lead restriction to the property in the pact and that exhibit is not a legal description.

it should be a legal description. a legal description is actually available, but it is a picture with a red line around it for a large i am guessing somewhere in the magnitude of 200 acres of sharp park if you will look at the file item number 34, go to exhibit a. there are two pages. 016430020 with the red line around it. you can see it has one, two, three, four, five fairways of the sharp park golf course. it includes a several hundred long swath of beach, the birm behind that beach clearly more than one acre and if you look at page two of two, you will see in light green an area within that parcel that i

assume is the area that as a matter of fact there is on the key, it says sharp park habitat restoration area, just eye balling that, that is significantly more than acres. so i have questions as to why the resolution says it's one acre, why the map shows it to be many acres and in any event why we would deed restrict a parcel that is somewhere in the area of 200 acres in size. i think the deed restriction is appropriate. i think the restoration is appropriate and welcomed, but i would like to give rec and park either now or next week the opportunity to explain why the deed restriction should not be shrunk to the actual area where we are spending the $200,000 whether it's an acre zero this looks more like five acres but i think that needs to be harm monoized within the resolution and it should not be a legal

description. finally, as to the retro activity, colleagues, which as we all know and i thank the clerk for being so diligent in soliciting and obtaining explanations, the explanation set forth in the memorandom dated july 27th really does not hold water. the primary excuse here is that this was not brought to the board of supervisors because of covid. well, the emergency declaration didn't happen until march 17th of 2020. this grant was received in 2018. it was officially awarded on july 25th of 2019, so why it did not come to this board for years is deeply concerning and covid can certainly be used as

an excuse for some things but nobody had any idea that was coming. if there is somebody here from rec and park, i would like to adopt an amendment. if there is somebody here from rec and park so a assume depending on what rec and park has to say. >> clerk: we invited tony moran from rec and park department. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name's tony moran. i am the event writer for the capital division and i would

like to answer supervisor peskin's questions. thank you so much for those questions. the first question regarding the map is the first question regarding the legal description. the state of california accepts a typography map. so what we did is created a typography map of the parcel so that to present where the project was and that is considered acceptable as a legal description. now, part two of your question about the size, i believe i can work with the state to reduce the area to more accurately reflect the project area as you requested. so i've done that in the past with some other projects in golden gate park and i will be

happy to do that so that when we file the deed restriction, it reflects the area mainly the national area of sharp park. regarding the retro activity of the late presentation, i would have to say that the grant was awarded in 2019. when we received the cot, we believed that it would not be retroactive until we started spending money on the grant because we can rescind the contract pretty much at any time if we do not spend the grant contract funds. we have since learned that the board would like to have the grants presented before contracts are signed. and that's one of the reasons why it was presented so late. >> president walton: thank

you, tony moran. and es supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you for the information relative to activity. i think the law is clear. i don't want to spend any time on that. i'm delighted to hear that you can work with the state and maybe come back. is a week enough time? two weeks enough time to actually shrink the deed restriction specifically to the area where the grant funds are being expended which the resolution says it one acre. the map appears to be much larger. so either the resolution has to reflect a larger acreage, but in any event, how long do you think you need for that? >> well, i can try to return. i mean, i need to know get approval from the state and i also need to modify the map to reflect the area, there's an

area that over laps a little bit. so i can try and get it done, but i can confirm with the clerk of the board later this week. >> supervisor peskin: sounds good. so maybe we should do a two-week continuance. that will be our last meeting before the summer recess. >> president walton: is that your motion? >> supervisor peskin: i'm going to defer to supervisor chan. >> president walton: thank you so much supervisor peskin. supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton and thank you supervisor peskin for flagging this. colleagues, here's really as a cosponsor of this legislation that i understand the issues at sharp park well enough to say that it is critical for us to actually do the restoration in this area. it's not just for the guarder snake but also for the frogs. it's really a space where

there's really multi-jurisdiction not just for the -- not just our rec and parks department, but also our sfpucsharp park owned as well. it's also where the partnership with the city of pacifica and national parks services to really manage sharp park and the area. it's the reason why that, you know, it also has been from my understanding and my previous role that there has been a long struggle to maintain the space not just for sharp park, but along sharp park with the sea wall. we know there's some conversation around manage retreat and just kind of looking at the area how to make sure that we really protect wildlife habitat as well as the golf course itself and really human activities in the area. so it's the reason why i really support to make sure that we're containing the work for the wildlife habitat and make sure we get the grant funding from the state because we know with

that comes with audit, comes with inspections and making sure this retro activity is done as well. at the same time, i do understand, supervisor peskin's concerns with the fact that there were previous conversations about what can we do with this land? should they maintain. nonetheless, it has been a long-time property and asset for the city and county of san francisco. and so we should have that conversation, but we also know that it has not really been the best piece of property for some to take over. so, again, i think the grant funding will help us to continue to maintain the area. i look forward to having your support on this grant funding to move forward, but at the same time, i do support the motion so i do like to second

that motion to amend the legislation as well as to ask the department to come back with the revised deed. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor peskin, you look like you want to say something. >> supervisor peskin: yeah. if we can vote on the motion and continue the item to two weeks. >> president walton: thank you so much. we have a motion, seconded by supervisor chan. >> clerk: mr. president, if the members are consenting, you can take it without objection. >> president walton: looks like everybody's all in. we will take that without objection. >> clerk: and then there's a motion on the floor to continue it for two weeks to july 27th made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor chan. >> president walton: that is correct. can we take that without objection? seeing none. that motion carries as well. thank you so much. madam clerk, would you please

call item number five. >> clerk: just for the record, item 34 will be continued to july 27th as amended. yes. item 35, mr. president, did you ask for 35 and 36 together or just 35? >> president walton: actually we can take them together. >> clerk: we have two resolutions that authorize the port of san francisco to accept for item 35 a gift of donated beach materials with an estimated market value of $417,000 from hanson aggregates mid pacific inc. and for item 36, a resolution to authorize the port to accept and extend a grant or to fund the heron

head's park for the term july 15th for item 36, 2021 through may 31st, 2025. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, mr. president. given the long storied unfortunate history involving sand pirating in san francisco bay dating back to 1993 which includes a $2 million lawsuit brought by hanson aggregates which i had a ring side seat for as a relatively new member of the bay conservation development commission some 18 years ago as well as ongoing concerns about sand mining done by hanson in the bay that bay keeper and other environmental organizations have, i would like to make a motion to strike

on page three the final resolved at line 7 through 9 while i think that it is good that this beach material is being given by hanson advocates given to the port of san francisco to benefit heron's head. i don't think it's appropriate for this board of supervisors to extend gratitude for a quote unquote generous gift. so i'd like to make a motion to strike line 7 through 9 on page 3 of the subject resolution. >> president walton: i don't see any objections. >> clerk: and 35 as amended.

>> president walton: madam clerk, please call item 37. >> clerk: this is a resolution to retro act ily authorize the department of public health to for participation entitled ps2020-2010 to support the hiv epidemic in the united states for the period of august once, 2020 through july 31st, 2021. >> president walton: i don't see anyone on the roster. we can take this same house, same call. this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 38. >> clerk: yes, items 38 and 39 were considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on monday, july 12th, 2021, specifically

item 38 was recommended with the same title. item 38 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to create the new 2500 through 2530 18th street from p.d.r.-1-g. to umu, urban mixed use, and to make the appropriate fiendings. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. so we will take this same house same call. and without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously on the first reading. madam clerk. please call item 39. >> clerk: it's an ordinance to amend the administrative code to remaple and modify the places for people program as the shared spaces program and to affirm the ceqa

determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. chair. first, i want to say i know that we have done tremendous work over the course of the last year with regard to helping small businesses. this legislation that we have in front of us today, the shared spaces program i think it one of the lasting legacies as a positive direction for our city. when you travel the world, when you go to bangkok, when you go to hong kong, when you go to barcelona, when you go to anywhere in the world, they have an active night life that complements their small business activities and extension of their business into the public realm. as a city planner, for me, this is extremely exciting to see

our city evolve in a positive way and i think it has tremendous impact not only and i think when we started this program, we were trying to find a way to help businesses survive and businesses thrive in a once in a hundred year situation. i want to thank the mayor's office, andres power and the planning department for all their tremendous work put into shaping this program and the vision for moving this forward. as one of the lead cosponsors with supervisor mandelman and others, supervisor haney, we've all been fighting to make this program permanent and i think what came out of the land use committee, supervisor melgar, thank you for your leadership and supervisor peskin, for all your hard work on this. i think it's an almost perfect piece of legislation. the part that i have circulated to all of you, i'm asking for

two last amendments today. one of which, again, if you look back at the history of the park lit program where this was birthed, it was birthed out of the planning department. the planning department has done a tremendous amount of coordination. they've done a tremendous amount of traversing the bureaucracy. they are primed to do this work on a larger scale for our city. they can interact and they do interact with sfmta, puc, public works, building, all of this to make an important and effective program. i understand why in some ways it was amended out that this would then go to the final permitting department, but i don't ultimately agree that that's the right place for this to live and thrive. so one of my amendments today is that this will go back into the planning department and i welcome any response on that or i would c