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.

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful

environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite

store. when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was

such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge

stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> 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]

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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]

>> this is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your san francisco history used to be. >> we hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. >> even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. and they tell us that. >> you're going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something that's very, very good. ♪♪ >> the legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by san francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. it really provides for san francisco's unique character. ♪♪

>> and that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. >> i'm michael cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. ♪♪ the bakery started in 191. my grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. it is a small operation. it's not big. so everything is kind of quality that way. so i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. >> i'm leslie cirocco-mitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. ♪♪ so we get up pretty early in the morning. i usually start baking around 5:00. and then you just start doing

rounds of dough. loaves. >> my mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. after that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. ♪♪ you know, i don't really think about it. but then when i -- sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and we've been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. you know, that geez, we've been here a long time. [applause] ♪♪ >> a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. we all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry.

our lineage and i'll use one example of tommy's joint. tommy's joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and he's a fourth generation san franciscan. it's a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was san francisco like back in the 1950s. >> i'm the general manager at tommy's joint. people mostly recognize tommy's joint for its murals on the outside of the building. very bright blue. you drive down and see what it is. they know the building. tommy's is a san francisco hoffa, which is a german-style presenting food. we have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. you prefer it to be carved

whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. you want your pastrami to be very lean. you can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. san francisco's a place that's changing restaurants, except for tommy's joint. tommy's joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. san francisco in general that we don't lose a grip of what san francisco's came from. tommy's is a place that you'll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. you'll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. that's important.

♪♪ >> the service that san francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in san francisco. ♪♪ so we'll help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of san francisco. but i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in san francisco that has history and that is unique to san francisco.

>> it started in june of 1953. ♪♪ and we make everything from scratch. everything. we started a you -- we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. the business really boomed after that. >> i think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of san francisco. we were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. businesses come and go in the city. pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and there's so much competition.

so for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. >> we got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. she was our customer in 1953. and she still comes in. but she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that we're carrying on our father's legacy. and that we mean so much to so many people. ♪♪ >> it provides a perspective. and i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, you're missing the context. for me, legacy businesses,

legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. >> i just think it's part of san francisco. people like to see familiar stuff. at least i know i do. >> in the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommy's joint and looks exactly the same. we haven't change add thing. >> i remember one lady saying, you know, i've been eating this ice cream since before i was born. and i thought, wow! we have, too. ♪♪

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.. >> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without

small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the

chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion.

>> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated

field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish

and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learntra 88. we are at mount davidson and it has the highest point of elevation in san francisco hitting a whopping 928 feet. mt. davidson provides a peaceful 30-acre owe ace and great hiking trails. the spectacular views offers a perfect place to watch the sunrise or suffer sun set with someone you louvre, wear sturdy shows to conquer the stone trails and denly inventory advantage gives you hikers the

sensation of being in a rain forest it's quite a hike to the top here at mount davidson but the view i've got time i've bp with 25 jobs so for young people one of my favorite days in san francisco thank you, thank you to the companies that are hiring. >> (clapping.) >> the city of san francisco and united way are calling an employers to have jobs for youth in 2012 president obama issued a challenge and the challenge was get disconnected young people connected to jobs and so mayor ed lee said we should lead this challenge that the city will have 25 hundred jobs that first summer 6200 jobs and been

building. >> i'll high are ups we like to pledge 50 jobs so for youth this summer. >> excellent. thank you. >> a large part of the jobs it did manual resource center started off a a youth program and our first year 35 percent of the young people working full-time we know there the pressors looking for committed young people the resource fair attracts over 6 hundred people if all over the city and the greater bay area. >> we have public and private partnership the employers came from hertz rent a car and many private sector jobs sea have the city staff so the airport is here, starbuck's is here we've been retail we have restaurants, we have offices and so the young people will get an opportunity

to partner search warrant with so many of the great champions for jobs. >> for the past 5 years we've hired over 3 willed youth to work as business traces they have been promoted to supervisors. >> if you're doing a job at starbuck's the opportunity for them allows them to understand math if tire working at anothers architectural firm understanding debris or a media to understand reading and writing differently those are opportunities that the mayor is clear he wanted to provide we're going to be do mock interviews helping young people that the resumes a it pulls them to the career opportunities and building inspection commission make sure they're prepared for those opportunity educational and in terms of their preparation skills by the time

many of them leave they'll leave with jobs and new relationships building their network of the opportunity to thrive and i think i could focus and i check around the booths to see had is available i'm hoping to get a job but have employers you know employers give practice. >> i feel this will be a great way to look for jobs we can do this like you get paid. >> when our young people walk we capture their information so we can do follows up and we have a room that has a our computer lab an opportunity for them to do cover letters and talk about updating their profile and i think how you do things on the internet we help quam and they can update tare resume and can

look in interviews and on the spot job officers we hire about one hundred young people today lee alone it is exciting out of that it is if they come through with one hundred walk out with a job. >> we'll rock and roll i guess in the job interviews it went great. >> as a youth we get to go through experiences 3 builds a great foundation gymnasium a positive outlook and more importantly confidence. >> we really want to do at the end of the day exist a young person with the possibility of what we can be and do we have them go home i want to get there let me connection with those folks and ultimately got on the path. >> good morning good morning caitlin i'm caitlin

lopez 23 years old i moved out to california and san francisco, california had i was about 8 years old and actually put in foster care at the age of 9 or 10 had a baby at the 16 years old so i've kind of had this crazy like youth experience. >> despite the challenges she faced caitlin finished high school and take advantage of program. >> i heard will mayor ed lee's program through my social worker and i interviewed with entrepreneurs after i was matched walking sweet spots office i thought imitated not been in that type of office ones i got into the office with my supervisor we boptd and i got a

call from h.r. i got the position and i'm in. >> i have. >> we hired merry for 8 weeks and saw how she did she was only going to work 8 weeks but at the end question offered her a position part time. >> i have those traits it has been great working here my term of 5 weeks was pretty much like family supporting each other i feel like the mayors job program helped me to get in job without the jobs plus program i - i probably would have not even had a job. >> in her case she's a mother of two now going to school full-time and making it happen so if she can do it differently

anyone that has a willingness to try at least try to make it can do it. >> those programs are amazing they're so important for young adults to really go out there and make a better future for themselves and despite not having a traditional - you can go out there based on the programs that's what they're for they want to help you succeed. >> we'll be committing to 25 jobs in the tech. >> the san francisco rec and park is hiring 3 and 50 youth that summer . >> (clapping.) >> and only child born in the office development allocation to r so for me is a network of the community that made the difference no way i'll be with united way this network was here for me this was personal and professional so important we

create the opportunities who know the next ceo or champion of the community is coming today to find their path. >> that's the roll in san francisco we really by helping each other out >> (clapping.) >> the goal for 2017 to create 5 thousand jobs for youth if you want more information invite them at sf youth.org

>> we have private and public gardens throughout the garden tour. all of the gardens are volunteers. the only requirement is you're willing to show your garden for a day. so we have gardens that vary from all stages of development and all gardens, family gardens, private gardens, some of them as small as postage stamps and others pretty expansive. it's a variety -- all of the world is represented in our gardens here in the portola. >> i have been coming to the portola garden tour for the past

seven or eight years ever since i learned about it because it is the most important event of the neighborhood, and the reason it is so important is because it links this neighborhood back to its history. in the early 1800s the portola was farmland. the region's flowers were grown in this neighborhood. if you wanted flowers anywhere future bay area, you would come to this area to get them. in the past decade, the area has tried to reclaim its roots as the garden district. one of the ways it has done that is through the portola garden tour, where neighbors open their gardens open their gardens to people of san francisco so they can share that history. >> when i started meeting with the neighbors and seeing their

gardens, i came up with this idea that it would be a great idea to fundraise. we started doing this as a fund-raiser. since we established it, we awarded 23 scholarships and six work projects for the students. >> the scholarship programs that we have developed in association with the portola is just a win-win-win situation all around. >> the scholarship program is important because it helps people to be able to tin in their situation and afford to take classes. >> i was not sure how i would stay in san francisco. it is so expensive here. i prayed so i would receive enough so i could stay in san francisco and finish my school, which is fantastic, because i don't know where else i would have gone to finish. >> the scholarships make the

difference between students being able to stay here in the city and take classes and having to go somewhere else. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> you come into someone's home and it's they're private and personal space. it's all about them and really their garden and in the city and urban environment, the garden is the extension of their indoor environment, their outdoor living room. >> why are you here at this garden core? it's amazing and i volunteer here every year. this is fantastic. it's a beautiful day. you walk around and look at gardens. you meet people that love gardens. it's fantastic. >> the portola garden tour is the last saturday in september every year. mark your calendars every year. you can see us on the website

>> president walton: good afternoon and welcome to the july 20, 2021, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, all members are president.

>> president walton: thank you so much, and i just want to let the public know that supervisor mandelman will be participating remotely for this meeting. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. in accordance with this land and their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place as well as all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign

rights as first nations. colleagues, will you please stand and place your right hand over your heart in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president walton: and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. today, we have kalina mendoza with us, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available on-line. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: mr. president, you wanted me to remind you that when the mayor was attending the board meeting, that we would begin with the mayor's appearance. >> president walton: thank you so much, and i want the public to know when the mayor gets here we will start with our

question-and-answer period with the mayor. >> the hon. london breed: i am here. >> president walton: ah. thank you so much, madam mayor. good to see you, and we want to welcome madam mayor to our meeting today. we are going to go ahead and start with our 2:00 p.m. special order, and madam clerk, would you read the special order. >> clerk: yes. the board welcomes the honorable london n. breed to address questions by the board of supervisors. before questions, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> president walton: madam mayor, do you have any remarks? >> the hon. london breed: yes. i am meeting with you from city hall. our unemployment rate is down to 5.4%, which is down from a high of 12.8%, and our hotel

occupancy rate is now up to 45%. that's not where we are before the pandemic where our hotels were full all the time, but it's certainly better than 17%. it means more jobs at our hotels, including the hard working staff, and there's some troubling news in this time, especially with the delta variant. even with 83% of san franciscans who have received their first dose, we still have work to do. we are better off than any other major city, but there's still far too many people vulnerable to this virus. last week, i went down to the southeast health clinic to talk

about the disparities that we are seeing not only with our vaccine but our hospitalization numbers, and i want to thank president walton for joining me to spread this message, this important message, and i encourage you all to do everything you can to reach out to communities that have not yet been vaccinated. the numbers with this delta variant are stark. for those who are unvaccinated and who have not yet contracted the disease, it's not a matter of if you get it but when, and how bad it will be when you do get it. vaccines offer incredible protection from the delta variant. will they prevent every single possible infection? no, they won't. but will they keep you out of the hospital? almost universally, yes, they will. since december 1 of last year, we have had about 1700 people who were not vaccinated who were in the hospital with

covid-19. and do you know how many people were hospitalized after being vaccinated? only six. six people versus almost 1800 people. i know it feels like you heard this before, but if you were not vaccinated, this is the single most dangerous time in this pandemic because of how easily this virus spread. time and again, we've come together with the department of public health to do what's necessary and save lives. so please do it today. don't do it tomorrow or next week. bring your family members with you to the community health clinic. save a life other than the one that's yours. we've got more to do as a community. we've done so much, but we still have to do more. >> president walton: thank you so much for your remarks.

madam clerk, would you read the topics. >> clerk: yes. item 1, public transportation from district 5, and item 2, affordable housing on the west side, district 7. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: thank you. thank you for urging everybody to get vaccinated, especially with the delta variant on the rise. for the last 16 months, some muni lines have been suspended, many with no timeline for return. meanwhile, the m.t.a., many of your appointees, have not made a mission to move back to 100% prepandemic service hours and reinstate suspended lines. all of this as the m.t.a. has received unanticipated federal

funding and sits on $150 million in reserves. m.t.a. refuses to restore service or even commit to a plan that involves full return of all suspended lines, and with the economy reopening, san francisco residents and businesses are being hobbled by anemic services, including suspended service, shortened lines, limited even and night hours and severely reduced frequency on community lines. madam mayor, my question for you is this: can you commit to the riders of suspended muni lines that their lines will be restored to service? >> the hon. london breed: well, thank you, supervisor, for your question, and you and i both can agree that we would want to do everything we can to restore muni service as much as we possibly can. i'm very eager to not just

restore muni service to all san franciscans but to get residents back to riding muni across the city. coming out of the pandemic, our service map is going to have to look a little different than it did before covid. that's because before the pandemic, muni had a structural deficit, and it continues to get worse every year. right now, ridership is only 37% of what it was prepandemic. as of early june, san francisco was estimated to have 20% of its prepandemic office attendance, and that's lower than most of the other metro areas of our kind. the good news is we do see an uptick in weekend ridership, which means that people are increasingly willing to use transit when they have places to go but are likely to stay home when it comes to work for

the next several months. we are incredibly fortunate that we've received $700 million from the federal government, which means we have not had to layoff one single person. but we need to make more progress to bring back our staffing and operators. we have a shortage before this pandemic, and the last year has made it worse. we need to strike a balance between making sure that there's enough coverage to get san franciscans back on the bus as the city opens up, but not stretch ourselves so thin that we run out of money, and we have to resource to service cuts in a year or two. as we restore muni service, we are prioritizing equity and access. i think i heard the bell, but i can go on. [bell ringing] >> the hon. london breed: well,

there's the well. >> president walton: -- bell. >> president walton: thank you, mayor breed. did you finish your thought? >> the hon. london breed: in prioritizing equity, we want to make sure that the neighborhoods that are most reliant on low cost transit are prioritized for predictable service. in prioritizing access, we want to make sure that everyone in the city within a quarter mile of a transit stop -- is within a quarter mile of a transit stop. the august 13 expansion will help us get there. sfmta will be continuing an access study to understand the tradeoffs of having more routes having more routes or existing routes and how those affect different populations. >> president walton: thank you, mayor breed. supervisor preston, you may know ask a follow up question

directly related to your opening question. >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton, and thank you, mayor breed, for your comments, and i think we certainly agree on the importance of getting folks back on muni and making the system as strong as possible. i think my follow up question is on the lines that you mentioned, the lines that are not yet scheduled to come back, my question is, will you commit to returning those lines to service regardless of what the long-term decision is regarding those lines as the community process that you described moves forward? in other words, can the riders of those suspended lines count on those lines coming back in the short-term regardless of the long-term plans for those lines? >> the hon. london breed: well,

thank you, supervisor, for your follow-up question. and part of the way that we handle this pandemic is we looked at data, and we looked at a way to make decisions based on the problems that we saw, and the challenges, and the needs, and we will do the same with various problems around the city. i grew up in san francisco taking the muni. i know that lines have existed for generations, and people count on these lines in various capacities, but we are in need of making our system a lot more efficient, so what that may mean is there may be changes to these lines. in the district that you represent, the n-judah, we may get someone that calls in sick on the n-judah, and we can't get someone to take over that line, and now, we've got hundreds of people waiting for

the next line. we don't want to go back to that. we also want to make sure that staffing levels are up to par. we're going to use data, we're going to look at numbers in terms of the dollars. we're going to make sure that we have staffing levels appropriate with the sole goal of making sure that the lines and the service that we do provide is a lot more efficient than it has been in the past because that has not been the case. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor preston and mayor breed. supervisor preston,-- mayor breed, you may ask a question of supervisor preston not directly related to the questions. >> the hon. london breed: thank you. i have no questions. >> president walton: this

concludes the question topic. madam clerk, would you read the next item? >> supervisor melgar: we have a growing population that is often house rich and cash poor with few opportunities to age in place in the communities they love, where they have friends and family.

if they have a home, it's one that they cannot afford to pass to future generations. we have families with young children that would relish living in these neighborhoods but are completely priced out. we also have a growing workforce with institutions such as city college, san francisco state university, and ucsf parnassas with very little housing opportunities. very little housing has been produced in district 7 in the last few decades, and very little affordable housing has been produced. so my question to you is how can we develop solutions with your mayor's office of housing and community development that are catered to west side needs and sensiblities, and are you willing to develop tools for a range of income levels, most importantly serving our seniors and multigenerational

households? >> the hon. london breed: thank you, supervisor. throughout the time that i've been in office, i think i've been clear about my desire to see more housing in all areas of the city, including on the west side, and i've put forth ways to make this happen, including resources -- i hear from people all the time that grew up here, folks who lived on the west side for generations who can't afford to stay here. we want san francisco to be affordable, and we want generations of san francisco to grow up here and still live here. it shouldn't matter if you have money or not. anyone who works hard should be able to afford living in san francisco. problem is getting worse every year and it's not getting better. we made some good progress.

prop a, the affordable housing prop, brought funding to a number of programs, from down payment on housing to payments on existing loans, but moving forward, we can't, once again, concentrate all of our housing on the east side of the city and focus on things like small sites for the west side of the city. small sites is $500,000 per door. this is a lot of money for projects that don't create any newhousing. while i know that this board hasn't supported all of my housing proposals in the past, i'm looking at ways that we can do something in the future. i'm confident that these dollars will help us find new

ways to fund new models where state tax credits aren't available, but we do need to look at zoning and our housing proposal process. i know there's a lot of discussions on fourplexes in the city. i look forward to continuing these decisions, and we -- i look forward to having these discussions, and we need to push forward housing, including on the west site. >> president walton: thank you, mayor breed. supervisor melgar, you can now ask a follow up question in direct relation to your first question. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, mayor breed. i think upzoning has been --

[inaudible]. >> the hon. london breed: -- even for affordable housing specifically, but that shouldn't stop up from moving forward in looking at other parts of our city to build. when we're talking about fourplexes, we're talking about

four, five, six, seven, eight stories, i don't think that's unreasonable when trying to build housing on the west side in unutilized spaces. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, madam mayor. >> president walton: thank you, mayor breed and supervisor melgar. mayor breed, you may now ask questions of supervisor melgar or any other attendee not necessarily related to the exact same question. >> the hon. london breed: thank you, president walton. i will let you get back to your business at hand. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk, that concludes our mayoral discussion. can we now go back to communications? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. out of an abundance of caution, the board is asking the public to monitor these proceedings via www.sfgovtv.org or channel

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you use the address san francisco board of supervisors, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, room 204, san francisco, california, 94102. in partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, interpretation will be provided for general public comment between the hours of 3:30 and 5:30 once general public comment is called. and finally, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely, call 415-554-5184, and there, you can gain access to a live person who will assist you with connecting to this meeting. mr. president? >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. a friendly reminder, colleagues, please remember to mute your microphones when

you're not speaking. colleagues, we are moving to approve the meeting minutes of the june 14, 2021 special board meeting minutes at the budget and appropriations committee, which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors, and the june 15, 2021 regular board meeting minutes. may i have a motion and a second? supervisor peskin has made a motion to approve and supervisor haney has seconded. madam clerk, a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: thank you. on the motion to approve the minutes -- [roll call]

>> president walton: without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. madam clerk, would you please call the consent agenda? >> clerk: items 2 through 7 are considered the consent agenda and will be considered by a single vote of the board. >> president walton: i would

like to sever item 7, so if you could call the roll on items 2 through 6. >> clerk: yes. on items 2 through 6 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, these ordinances are finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, would you please call item 7. >> clerk: item 7 is an ordinance amending the planning code to create the new

2500-2530 18 street affordable housing special use district, to facilitate the development of affordable housing at the site, amending the zoning map to rezone the lots from p.d.r.-1-g to u.m.u. and to map the new special use district, affirming the planning department's determination under the ceqa act, and making findings under planning codes section 101 and section 302. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk, please call the roll on item 7. >> clerk: on item 7 -- [roll call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this item is passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call unfinished business, items 8 through 30 together. >> clerk: items 8 through 30

are items that were properly brought before the committees with public comment on such items. item 10, resolution to approve the fiscal year 2021 through 2022 budget of the ocii, and to approve the issuance of bonds to finance a portion of ociis enforceable on obligations. item 11 is the ordinance to authorize the execution and delivery of certificates of participation in one or more series on a tax exempt

representing an aggregate principal amount of not to exceed 67.5 million to finance multiple cam tall improvement projects. item 12, ordinance to amend the health code to set rates and rates for other services from the department of public health through fiscal year 2021 through 2023.

item 18, this is an ordinance to amend the salary ordinance fiscal years 2020 through 2021 and 2021 through 2022 to reflect the substitution of three positions 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 year 2021 through 2022. item 19 is an ordinance to amend the police code to lower the fee for street artist's certificate. item 20, ordinance to adopt the neighborhood beautification fund. item 21 is the ordinance to amend the administrative court to require the rent board to collect the fee through invoices rather than property tax bill, to impose penalties for nonpayment and to clarify law regarding the existing laws for landlord. item 22, ordinance to amend the

business and tax regulations code to update emergency medical services fees to reflect amounts currently authorized and charged under annual adjustment provisions and inform require the fees be made to the department of emergency management rather than department of public health. item 23, resolution to authorize the acceptance and expenditure of state funds by the san francisco department of public health for fiscal year 2021-22. item 24, resolution to authorize the acceptance and expenditure of state funds by the p.u.c. for fiscal year

2022-2023. item 27 and 28 are two resolutions that concur with the controller's certification that department services can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by city and county employees, for item 27, for security services for the department of public health. for item 28, for budget and ejs will -- legislative analyst services for the board of supervisors, for citywide security services, fleet security, convention facilities management for general service agency for the city administrator, for mainframe system support, for general services agency for technology and security services for the public works, for the human services agency, for the

department of homelessness and supportive housing, for the department of mayor's office of housing and community development, for assembly of vote by mail envelopes for the department of elections. for security services for the public utilities commission, for security information and guest services parking information, shuttle bus services at the airport, and custodial and security services at the port. for item 29, this is an agreement to receipt approve [inaudible] cash grant program payments authorized under the 17 supplement to the local emergency declaration for a total amount not to exceed 14.9 million for an 18 month term through december 31, 2021, and for item 30, this is a resolution to concur with the

controller's price establishment of the consumer price index and to adjust the service tax by the same rate. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton. i made my longer statement at last week's board meeting, so i just want to quickly reiterate my thanks for the members of the budget committee and my staff. i want to thank all of you, every single one of you. all our colleagues had a role in it in adding to it and improving it. i want to thank the mayor for her leadership and vision and partnership and the mayor's office who are here, as well, especially ashley and sophia, the controller's office and team, the b.l.a. and clerk and her team, this is a budget that i believe that we can be proud

of. this is a recovery budget and makes investments in our most impacts residents. it prioritizes equity, and it does so with urgency. i think we set out a set of priorities and values that we have as a board that i believe are honored in the budget that is in front of us. it makes historic unprecedented investments in responding to mental health illness, to drug addiction, to investments in housing, to include resources for public safety, for alternative responses and interventions on our streets, into rent relief. this is a budget that prioritizes recovery at a time where our residents need us more than ever, and i believe it is a budget that was done in partnership -- close partnership with the mayor and close residents and

stakeholders. i've got some amendments that i'll save. we present this budget to you as one that was passed unanimously from the budget committee, and i hope that we can count on your support for it today. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, president walton. i didn't jump in last week, but wanted to make a few comments on this budget process. so really believe that this was a truly historic, some might even say magical budget process. while it was long and arduous and laborious, i'm proud of the work that chair haney did. i'm proud of the office that my office did, vice chair, i'm

proud of the work of supervisor mar and supervisor walton. we came together and were able to restore vital services while at the same time came together for funding new and vital ideas. i want to thank ashley and sophia for being available, never looking tired, no matter what time of day it was, and the b.l.a. and their team and city attorney, all throughout the process, really appreciate your collaboration. you know, our city is evolving, and it's forever evolving. but during this covid year, we drastically changed how we do business and how we did business, and we were able to produce, i would say, a decade's worth of innovation and new programming through ordinances in a really short

period of time. this budget presents opportunities in housing, equity, access, and innovation, and we were able to get services on the street for those in needs, in emergency room -- in terms of ambassadors, making people feel safe on the streets, and our vital first responders, paramedics and firefighters in the work that they're trying to do. moreover, i think we were able to support art and culture while deferring an amount of historical criminal related activities. we were able to baseline the dream keeper program that the mayor and president walton initiated last year, along with many members of this board to invest back in communities who had been affected by decades of

police violence and overpolicing. so we're baselining those investments. we're making it a priority to really, really invest in justice reform. i'm really proud of that work and shifting it over to community based organizations. i'm proud of the work that the our city, our home committee did in partnership with the budget committee and prioritized homelessness and affordable housing. we were able to prioritize several recommendations, almost 90-plus percent of what the committee prioritized, and we negotiated the final amount in the budget process with approximately $1 billion in resources coming to the department of homelessness, we were finally able to put forward solutions that past

affords only dreamed about doing. i know we use the word historic often, but when you look at funding over the next year, and what we were able to accomplish, buying buildings, buying hotels, creating transitional vouchers, and creating a safety net and safe housing system, i think it was really truly historic, so really thank the mayor, really thank the our city, our home, and thank the leadership of this budget committee for working in that direction. in closing, i would be remiss if i didn't thank my entire team for working through this process nonstop. i also want to thank all of the amazing staff of chair haney, led by abigail, as he already thanked, but their entire team and all the teams of the other

offices, supervisor mar, supervisor ronen, for working together along the way. i know there's always road bumps and room for improvement, but i think the citizens and the people of san francisco will really be impressed by what will happen over the next year. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. that is magical. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. i would like to thank chair haney and all the members of the budget and appropriation committee for all your hard work to get this budget done. i agree there's magic, but i think it's due to chair haney's chief of staff, who i note did the lion's share of heavy lifting, so i really appreciate here, and i -- i also really

want to talk about the fact, you know, that in this budget, we really -- i really am wholeheartedly supportive of this budget right now because, you know, just thinking about the -- when i was -- before i took office, just thinking about around how do we help our city to recover, to the commitment to working families and tenants and small businesses. so i also want to express my appreciate to the mayor, who also presented this budget, that really allowed us to you deliver on our promises and all our colleagues who are committed to ensuring that our recovery does not leave anyone behind. with this budget, we were able to fund the gap to ensure that

we don't have to close any after school programs. that's not just in my district, but allow the whole city. this budget also supports our ability and responsibility to build more affordable housing on the west side of san francisco, and that really -- we did that through expending the capacity of our community based organizations. so finally earlier this year, i created the neighboring [inaudible] business program, and i'm really happy that the staff in the office of small business funds and administrates this program. this funds the legacy historic business preservation fund for the first time since it was created in 2013. so thank you for working with

my office in funding all of the critical funding in district 1, including all of the social infrastructure that we could really support long-term funding for some of our most vulnerable communities, including seniors, youth, and homeless. this invests in programs and clinical services for our seniors. we're also able to support youth engagement and development as well as culturally appropriate services center for our language deficient residents. i believe we should all be proud that we have what we have before us today. it truly reflects our share priorities that we fight so hard for. i look forward to voting in

support of the budget package. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: i know it is a ton of work, and i appreciate your diligence and your care in balancing a lot of competing demands to arrive at a budget. and let me start by recognizing what others have previously said. there is no such thing as a perfect budget. we fought hard to get some critical help to renters, working people, unhoused folks, and communities of color, and i appreciate that chair haney and the budget committee shared these goals and worked to include so many of our office's priorities in the budget that's before us today, from the public bank to fully funding the right to council, public

housing organizers, millions of dollars to address homelessness, including our d-5 hotel family shelter and help for youth in the haight, major investments in the fillmore, major investments in japantown, and important nonpolice public safety efforts, such as community ambassadors, and the beginning funding for cart. there is a lot to be proud of in this budget, as others have stated, and i think it delivers in many important ways. that said, colleagues, i have stated throughout the budget process and strongly believe that reducing our bloated police budgets is one of our most important obligations. we must reverse decades and generations of overinvestment in policing and underinvestment in the services and system change that address the root causes of crime.

we have before us a budget that increases law enforcement funding for the next two years. the national reckoning with racism and policing over this last year hasn't been incorporated, in my opinion, into our budget when it comes to funding law enforcement. meanwhile, racial disparities in policing rage on despite reform efforts. our continued overinvestment in policing is not making us safer, but it's resulting in more arrests and incarceration and ultimately, more recidivism and more crime. i have consistently voted against budgets that increase policing budgets.

i cannot accept this, especially as we are all coming together around alternatives to policing, and funding should be moving from the police department to nonpolice services that better promote public safety. i also want to note my disappointment with the failure of this budget to fund social housing. contrary to the will of san francisco voters and despite the fact that proposition i is already bringing in over $150 million. this budget did secure an additional $32 million for local rent relief efforts, ensuring that approximately 3500 households who would otherwise shut out the need to prevent eviction, and this is a major victory, and i want to thank and recognize chair haney for his leadership on this, and colleagues, for your support of rent relief. and also, the antidisplacement coalition, faith in action,

housing rights coalition? san francisco, jobs with justice, affordable housing alliance, democratic socialists of america, and many other housing advocates. and i know the board stands ready to provide more funds for rent relief if the federal, state, and now our local funding proves inadequate to meet the need. but the reality is that while rent relief is extremely important as an immediate antidisplacement measure, it does not fundamentally challenge the underlying affordable housing imbalance that has left so many tenants vulnerable in the first place. i believe we still have the opportunity to boldly address the long-standing housing challenges in san francisco, and i look forward to working with you all in the months ahead to achieve this vision. so with profoundly mixed feelings about this budget, and with great appreciation for everyone's work on this, i will

not be supporting the budget today. i want to thank you all, especially chair haney and budget committee members, and all of our legislative staff, particularly the budget committee members, and especially, as mentioned, abbie of chair haney's office and jen snyder and anya worley of my office. i want to thank all of our advocates for keeping us focused and holding us accountable in delivering a budget for all san franciscans. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you, president walton. colleagues, i am humbled by the amount of energy, passion, compassion i witnessed in my first budget process as a supervisor, and i want to thank

you all, my colleagues, but especially the budget committee members for all your hard work and long hours. and i especially want to thank chair haney for your elegance and your chief of staff who put in long hours and had a commitment to equity in this budget. i especially want to thank the mayor and her staff for putting together a budget that is progressive, that this board could build on, and i especially thank the budget and legislative analyst's office and the controller's office, and above all, to the city staff and the workers in the community workers who carry out

the work of our people every day who serve our most impacted communities. free muni for all youth, i want to thank mayor london breed for negotiating with me on this important and necessary program that the community has been fighting to get for decades. so starting on april 15, all youth under 19 years old will be able to ride muni for free. in my office, and all the youth that are involved in my office are working to make the m.t.a. a little better on the social media front to reach youth the way that they communicate to make this a success. second, i again want to thank the mayor for thinking outside

the box and putting in a housing innovation fund. we are planning innovative projects that we can do in our city and especially on the west side, projects that we can explore that are different from what we have traditionally done and not address west side needs. and then, income subsidies for extremely low-income subsidies, the dignity fund. district 7 has the third highest population of seniors in the city, and i want to thank the justice coalition, the dignity fund, the senior and disability action folks, and more specifically, jessica, sandy, and marie, and the many others who put in countless hours for the rights of seniors and people with disabilities.

we provided resources and referrals to families with young children who needed child care, and i want to thank naima and her team who never stopped working. thank you, colleagues, and it's been an exciting first year. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar, and i do want to state that i share some of supervisor preston's concerning about overpolicing and state for the record that this budget decreases funding for the police department and the sheriff's oversight board, and the office of the inspector general. but the great part of having a team is to letting them handle all the heavy lifting and doing

great work. so i won't do anything but say thank you as chair haney has spoken, and you did last week. with that, chair haney, you do have some amendments? >> supervisor haney: yes. to adjust spending plan item number 41, $500,000, from legacy business program two, $100,000 for one-time staffing support to expedite legacy business applications, and 400,000 for the application of the legacy business acquisition

fund. third, to adjust the description of spending plan item 61 from project based s.r.o. operating subsidies to support extremely low-income tenants in affordable housing. two, extremely low-income s.r.o. project operating based subsidies to support rehabilitation and rehab. fourth to adjust the description of spending plan item number 84 from rent relief project to residential rent relief prioritizing tenants who receive eviction notice or face threat of eviction. fifth, to reallocate $250,000 to the human rights commission to support the reimagining of juvenile hall, and six, to reallocate $855,000 to