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legislature have been cowed by big petroleum along the way. i want to thank linda is ca lawn today for being one of the main sponsors of the statewide ballot measure. and even locally, recology was a big proponent of this as they're seeking ways to divert from our landfills, together with a growing coalition statewide. san francisco with this resolution would be the first municipality in the state to formally support this measure for the 2022 ballots. and i don't want to depress you late in the evening, but by mid century, and we're almost a quarter into the new century, it's estimated there will be more plastic in our oceans than fish. the weight of plastic in our oceans will be more than the weight of all the fish in our oceans.
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so, we know this -- i mean, this is we're at a crossroads. this is an existential crisis and i hope we'll spend time over the next years to trumpet the virtues of this ballot measure and get it passed. it's a piece for all of human kind to put together locally, nationally and internationally. thank you, all, for your co-sponsorship and we'll take that up at our next board meeting after the recess. i'd like to adjourn and i think supervisor stefani wants to join me in this in the memory of charles fraukia who died peacefully just last week on july 21st. he was one of our city's most respected historians and an all-around lovely person. he gave countless gifts to the city that he loved. he found the san francisco historical society in 1988 and
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built it into one of the finest historical societies in the country and was pleased by the help in the recovery. charles was truly a renaissance kind of guy. after a successful career in investment banking, he turned his later life to writing and teaching. he was the author of nearly 20 books and served as the publisher of the historical society, the argonaut, and its quarterly news letter, panorama. a lot more to say about mr. frackia, but i want to wish his wife, liz, and his family our collective condolences. he will be dearly missed and let's adjourn the board meeting in his honor. the rest, madame clerk, i will submit. >> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor preston: thank you. colleagues, today i am
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introducing a resolution calling on governor newsome to extend government related evictions to december 13st or -- 31st or later. i wish we had a state government that did not need this repeated prompting when it came to doing the right thing on evictions. but until the time we have such a state government, we need to keep pushing here at the san francisco board of supervisors. last month, the state enacted ab832 which provided statewide covid-related protections through september 30th of this year. at the same time, ab832 took aim at cities like san francisco, preempting local efforts to provide protections to vulnerable tenants. much has changed in our public health crisis even in the last month. in late june when the state law was passed, covid rates nationwide and in california had fallen to some of the lowest
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numbers since the pandemic began. as you know, a recent surge in the delta variant accounting for 83% of new cases in california over the past month has quickly and undeniably changed the landscape. infectious disease experts predict the current surge will likely last into september or october or beyond. it's becoming clear that we are not out of the woods yet. we have attempted to look ahead and provide local protections against covid-related eviction. as you recall, my office introduced legislation to extend nonpayment provisions through the end of the year, but before this board could vote and weigh in on that, the state stepped in and took away some of our local tools. a rational system would see us creating a protection floor, not a ceiling. they're stopping us from protecting our most vulnerable residents and it is shameful.
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we know exactly what happens when states allow eviction protections to expire during a public health crisis, because it has happened already in states all around the country. a study published just this week by the american journal of epidemiology studied 44 states that had instituted eviction moratorium and found that where they were allowed to expire, there was a doubling of covid-19 incidents and a five-fold increase in covid-19 mortality. it's is a stark reminder that now more than ever, eviction equals death. we need state leaders to do the right thing. i want to thank my cosponsors, president walton, supervisor ronen, peskin and chan and haney for joining me in calling on governor newsome to extend eviction protections to the end of this year. or beyond. thank you. the rest i submit.
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>> clerk: thank you. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, colleagues. today i have two items. the first, i'm introducing legislation to close significant loopholes and gaps in our planning codes' requirements for affordable housing and new market rate residential development. and i want to thank supervisor chan for her early co-sponsorship. as a city we address our need for affordable housing in self ways, by investing public dollars to build affordable housing and requiring that market-rate developers pick options under the housing program to mitigate the impact. either paying, creating new units offsite or dedicating land for affordable housing. for on site b.m.r.s, the assumption has been that they match the building. recently i became aware of
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developers wanting to maximize the higher revenue potential creating confusion about the developers inclusionary obligations under our planning code. one of these, 2100 mission, was approveded with on site b.m.r., but is still pending signoff before it is approved. 600 south van ness was completed in 2017, but the b.m.r. has been in limbo ever since. the project has been approved with ownership, affordable units after construction, the developer switched to renting the market-rate units but was trying to retain the b.m.r.s as ownership. the reality is having a small number of affordable units isn't feasible because banks won't finance their purchase. so m.o.c.d. which oversees
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b.m.r.s when they're built was unable to approve the request. the developer received signoff on his completed projects in july 2017 and has been renting out the market rate units while the b.m.r. units have been sitting empty for four years. this is four years. a very really impact on people struggling to stay in san francisco. with no codes in place, the planning commission had no other option than to allow the developer to fee out with the promise of affordable units on site. the city and my district lost and we cannot allow this to happen again. this legislation will establish procedures and requirements with respect to inclusionary housing tenure after project approval. sets a clear timeline to ensure timely marketing and occupancy of units. i really have appreciated the partnership with planning,
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specifically carly and kate, along with allay and jackie and deputy city attorneys keith, nag in preparing this legislation. and, of course, with everything housing, amy always works hard and shepherds and brings her brilliance and experience into making this legislation work. so as always, amy, thank you so much for your incredible work on this. next, with supervisor melgar, my partner in all things, i'm sure supervisor chan will sign on as well. we are getting to the preliminary recommendations from the incredible s.f. rise work group that has been meeting for many, many months to develop a
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plan to address distance learning and increased in schools. we heard from the colleagues, supervisor stefani about the number of students who have fled our public system and the amount of money that will be lost as a result. including other major impacts. we have to reverse that. that reality. as well as enhance enrichment activities like arts and sports. the working group is charged with creating this plan and is made up from representatives from the superintendent, the educators unions working in sfusd schools, children and families and experts in the field of child health, philanthropy and out of school academic support programs. colleagues, i've been sitting in and watching almost every
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meeting of the sf rise working group and it's been one of the most incredible and most productive groups that i've seen in san francisco. it is -- it's been truly extraordinary and i want to thank the group for their incredible work. they're going to working through outthe year to continue to refine this plan, but they have worked extremely hard to come up with some preliminary recommendations for the start of the school year. which we thought were important to show that we're not missing a day of school to make sure that our san francisco kids get what they need. and so i'm requesting a hearing on those preliminary recommendations and asking members of the work group to present as well as representatives from s.f. u.s. d. and dcyf who discuss how the
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plan will be implemented and funded. the rest i submit. >> supervisor safai: thank you, madame clerk. take a moment, i don't have anything to introduce today, but i wanted to underscore something that is a trend that is happening. and i think it's something when we come back we're going to be paying more attention to and that is considering the conversation around mandate around vaccination. cal state announced today that all students, staff are going to be required. the governor has talked about mandating government employees, at least to be mandated and/or tested. our city has talked about our front-line workforce. at this point the conversation has shifted into those that are vaccinated and those that are unvaccinated and how the unvaccinated are beginning to put in jeopardy so much of the great effort we've made here in san francisco. and when i think of children that don't have the choice under the age of 12 to be vaccinated,
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how that could possibly impact schools. how it could possibly impact our seniors and our most vulnerable, just wanted to highlight for us that i think we're going to have really seriously take up that conversation. i want to recognize the san francisco bar owners alliance. we're seeing that expanding into the private sector. businesses are taking it upon themselves to begin to expand the conversation about mandate and how that will impact san francisco. we have 76% of our population with at least one dose and almost 70% that are fully vaccinated. that still has not fully protected us in this environment. so i know we're going to be on break. i know this delta variant is spreading quickly. but so is the conversation around the country and in our state and city about mandating vaccination. and it's something i think our public health department is talking about. our health officer is talking about, and something we're going
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to have to take up more seriously when we return from cess. i -- recess. i just wanted to put that out there. and the rest i submit. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madame clerk. today i'm introducing an ordinance to begin the process of reforming the way the city regulates third party private security firms. we've seen reports of private security harassing. a black 5th grader was falsely accused of stealing a sandwich at a safeway grocery store. an indigenous woman was accused of shoplifting in another safeway grocery store. a 12-year-old boy was reportedly harassed and followed for several blocks by a private security guard. in the fall of 2019, a university high school student in my district was leaving school after a sports dinner
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when he was detained and harassed by a private security guard. the student was too scared to file a report. these incidents are unacceptable. everyone should be able to walk and shop freely without harassment and children should not be afraid to speak up when they're subject to discrimination like the university high school student. my office has been investigating the state of private security in san francisco and what power we have to regulate it. we discovered two things. one, the state possesses a lot, but not all the authority to regulate private security. two, san francisco has a lot of rules related to regulating private security, but they're incredibly old, out of date and largely unenforced. article 25 of the san francisco police code was created in the early 1970s and appears to have never been looked at again. the definitions and provisions are archaic and the inner play
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between the old local rules and the state law is murky. this ordinance requires the police department to do analysis to modernize the regulation of private security. conduct a gap analysis to see what provisions of article 25 are not enforced. determine the extent to which the state permits new local regulations. make recommendations to expand the oversight of private security to ensure that these firms are registered and regulated. residents who face these incidents have a way to file complaints. that complaints are actually investigated. these firms are penalized for engaging in discriminatory practices and illegally drawing a firearm, up to and including revoking the registration.
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once that analysis is complete, it's my intention to bring a packet of security reforms forward. we cannot have a city where public safety is available to only a select few and comes as a cost to many. i want to thank the president of the police commission and the deputy city attorney and my chief of staff. i'm calling for a hearing on the findings and recommendations made in the family violence 10th annual report on family violence trends in san francisco. in 20007, the family violence council was established to increase awareness and
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understanding of family violence and consequences and to recommend programs, policies and coordination of city services to reduce family violence in san francisco. the report presents data on the prevalence of abuse, the response from city agencies, utilization of community-based services, demographics of victims and survivors and demographics of those committing acts of abuse. this reports aims to track trends and identify gaps and needs in both response and services. some of the troubling findings in this report include that there continue to be clear racial disparities across all three forms of family violence. reported family violence disproportionately affects women. men remain the largest offenders. there remains a significant need for shelters for survivors of family violence in san
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francisco. 79% of clients were turned away in 2020. in covid-19 had an adverse impact on family violence in our city. qualitative reporting from community-based organizations showed feelings of decreased safety for survivors. and unis thee set -- unsettling, due to decrease with mandated reports because of the pandemic. i look forward to hearing more on the status on these findings and will be eager to learn more about their recommendations for moving forward this fall. i'm introducing a resolution to rename sonora lane to -- veesha. she was an 84-year-old immigrant from thailand who lived with his
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family. he was retired auditor and moved to the united states to be close to his daughter and grandchildren. he helped watch them while his daughter attended school. he was well known in his community for his hour-long walks, a ritual that kept him healthy. while on a walk this year, he was violently shoved and tragically died after the attack. this was one of the many senseless acts of violence committed against asians over the past year. recorded 7,000 hate incidents involving asian americans and pacific islanders since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. since his passing, his daughter and husband have both worked hard to ensure survivors of these attacks and their families are supported through city services, law enforcement and the justice system. i'm