>> supervisor walton: good afternoon. welcome to the september 7, 2021 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. in celebration. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chan. >> present. >> supervisor haney. >> present. >> supervisor mandelman. >> present. >> supervisor mar. >> present. >> supervisor melgar. >> president. >> supervisor peskin. >> present. >> supervisor preston. >> present. >> supervisor ronen. >> present. >> supervisor safai. >> present. >> supervisor stefani. >> present. >> supervisor walton. >> present. >> mr. president, all members are present. >> thank you.

the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unseated homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, the original inhabitants of the san franciscoponenis la. as the stewards of this land in accord dance with tradition the ramaytush ohlone have never seated, lost, nor gotten responsibilities as care takers of this place. as well as for 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 peoples. please stand with me for the pledge of allegiance.

i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> today on behalf of the board of supervisors i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. today we have callena mendoza who records our meetings and makes transcripts to the public online. madam clerk, any communications? >> as the members return from recess in the interest of public health and safety this public meeting is simultaneously accessible remotely to all members of the public seeking to monitor the proceedings. they are able to watch this meeting on television, cable cast on city's sfgovtv channel 26 or the live stream online at

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the address for the san francisco board of supervisors room 244 city hall san francisco. 94102. you may send e-mail use the address bos at sfgovtv.org. great partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs interpretation will below rided 3:00 p.m. -- for general public to assist with language needs. for chinese agnes lye. filipino and for spanish. they will be with us this afternoon. finally, if you are experiencing any trouble connecting to this remote meeting, please call the clerk's office and a individual is stands by to assist you. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, madam clerk. friendly reminder for the

supervisors to mute microphones when you are not speaking. wear your mask as we are under an indoor mask mandate. i thought at this time we would welcome the public back. the delta variant and covid-19 said different. we are today approving the meeting minutes for june 29, july 13, july 20, july 27 regular board meeting. i don't see any changes to the minutes or anyone on the roster. seeing no one on the roster, i would entertain a motion to approve the minutes. supervisor preston and second by supervisor mar. madam clerk, please call the the roll. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin.

>> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> without objection the minuteds will be approved after public comment as presented. let's go to the concept agenda items 1 through 5. >> on consent. these are considered to be routine. if a member objects the item may be removed considered separately. >> thank you. i don't see anyone. does anyone wish to sever any items from the consent agenda? >> seeing none. would you please call the roll.

>> items 1 through five. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> there are 11 eyes. >> without objection, these are finally passed unanimously. >> please call item 6. >> ordinance to amends administrative code to prohibited landlords from evicting tenants from residential rent that came between july 1 and december 31,

2021. >> this was introduced in june of this year. in response to growing fear and anxiety from tenants as to whether eviction protections would continue. with days to spare before the then june 30th expiration date the state temperatured in and passed ab832 to extend the protection through september 30th. ab832 was one step forward and a step backwards. while offering 90 day extension it included provisions that purport to preempt efforts to provide covid related protections beyond the end of this month. actually through april 2022 the city would be barred from passing these types of protections. we are still working with city attorneys to fully understand

the scope of the preemption. on the stays i will say it is an entirely inappropriate intervention from the state with the state government trying to stop us from preventing massey vacations -- evictions in the city. if we want to extend to tenants no compelling reason the state should stand in the way. we will continue to push the governor and state legislative representatives to movie else from the current -- the preemption from the state law. we do not want to have to start the local process from beginning. i would like to move to continue to the meeting of tuesday, september 21st. we want to keep this legislation ready for immediate enactment in the event state leaders come to senses, put peel over profit -- people over profit to stop local

governments from addressing evictions. thank you cosponsors walton, chan, haney, safai and preston. thank you for standing firmly to prevent those in san francisco from losing homes due to pandemic hardship. >> thank you, supervisor preston. second on the motion? seconded by supervisor peskin. supervisor peskin. >> we have a first and second to continue until 9/21. madam clerk on the motion. >> motion to continue item 6 to september 21st. supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai.

>> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you. motion carries unanimously. madam clerk item 7. ordinance amending the administrative code to revise the eviction protections for commercial tenanteds related to unpaid rent due to financial impacts from the covid-19 pandemic. >> can we take the same call. >> supervisor safai. sorry. >> thank you, mr. president. real quick i know we are just coming back. thank you. i made these comments in committee. thank you, supervisor peskin for leading those number of

businesses with 50 or less. we felt like businesses with 50 to 99 employees, basically 100 or less employees was missing a piece of this. we are doing the tiered system those with fewest employees would have a longer period of time protected locally under eviction moratorium. i remind everyone in the chamber and the public it is to expire at the independent of this month -- end of this month. we have thousands of businesses in san francisco that are dealing with back rent. this is something that will come in many ways like hey tidal wave. thank you supervisor peskin. 50 or less employees, 10 or less up to two years. in the last year six months to give us a little more time for the businesses to hopefully negotiate. the second piece of what we are

offering is a represent relief fund -- rent relief fund. we will hear that next week. 100 to $400 million of back rent is out there. many of you saw over the last few months while we are on recess a number of businesses closed. they could not deal with the mounting back rent. this is important to the fabric of the city and neighborhoods to protect people in these uncertain times. i ask for your support today. >> same house same call. >> without objection passed on first reading unanimously. >> please call item 8. >> retroactive authorization for the office of economic and work force development do accept and expand $550,000 grant from the

department of commerce economic administration cares act for the small business loan program. during the grant period of july 1, 2021 through june 30, 2022. >> thank you. i do not see anyone on the roster. can we take this same house same call? without objection this is adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, please call 9 and 10 together. >> 9 and 10. two retroactive resolution authorizing the department of emergency management to accept and expand two grants from the california governor's office of emergency services. 9. authorizes an approximate $190,000 for the fiscal year 2020 for the community power resiliency allocation period through july 1, 2020 through october 31, 2021. 10. an approximate $380,000 for the

fiscal year 2019. public safety power shut off resiliency allocation program to support equipment purchases and prepare responses for psps events for the period of july 1, 2019 to october 31, 2022. >> thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. can we take these same house same call? without objection adopted unanimously. >> madam clerk, please call item 11. >> resolution to approve and authorize the director of the mayor's office of housen and community development to execute an infrastructure loan agreement with hunter's view associates for total loan not to exceed $33.9 million to finance the third phase of infrastructure improvements related to the master development of 800 units

every placement public housing, affordable and market rate housing known as hunters view hope sf development and add don't findings. >> i don't see anyone on the roster. same house same call. >> without objection this is adopted unanimously. please call items 12 age 13 together. >> 12 and 13. two resolution to retroactively approve two grants from california parks and recreation $250,000 grant contract from the outdoor environmental education facilities for trail improvements and 13 is $207,000 grant from the habitat conservation fund to support construction of new pedestrian and bicycle trail adjacent to

visitation avenue within mclaren park. >> no one is on the roster can we take this same house same call? without objection adopted unanimously. >> would you please call item 14. >> 14 resolution to retroactively authorize the police department to accept and expand $1.16 million grant from the department of homeland security federal emergency management agency for the fiscal year 2020 port security grant program to upgrade the existing 3-d sonar system to purchase a vessel mounted thermal camera system to send members to refurbish and perform deck safety upgrades and purchase response vessel for september 1, 2020 through august 31, 2023 and to waive indirect costs.

>> supervisor peskin. >> i have not had a chance to ask the police department a few questions offline which should be asked in public. i want to know whether anything purchased by this grant is subject to chapter 19b of the administrative code, city of surveillance technology oversight ordinance we voted for and the extend to which it is or is not exempt. this is in port jurisdiction, given this is retroactive anyway i don't think it would cause harm to delay one week and got those answers from the pd and the port. i would like to make a motion to continue this item one week. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. second on the motion? seconded by supervisor safai.

madam clerk. on the motion. >> the motion to continue 14 to september 14th. supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you. motion carries unanimously. please call item 15. >> item 15 resolution to authorize the treasure island development authority to execute a standard agreement with the california department of housing and community development under the infill infrastructure grant program for a total of

$30 million for qualifying infill projects on treasure island and yerba buena island. >> no one on the roster. can we take this same house same call without objection? this is adopted unanimously. item 16. >> item 6. ordinance to amend the environment, public works, health and add enough codes for construction and demolition debris recovery to make the appropriate findings. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, mr. this has been a long time coming. we have been working on this piece of legislation and conversation for over two years. i thank my chief sponsor president walton for his robust support. there are a number of steps to get here today. i want to thank all stakeholders and environmental community,

department of environment, teamsters 350, different sty attorneys that worked on this, smallpel staff to get this to the finish line. this was not a very easy piece of legislation to work on. the final city attorney was john givner. thank you city attorney for all your hard work on this as well. essentially, folks, if you recall in 2018, we called for a hearing on our city zero waste goals and how we were doing to achieve those goals and how close we had come over a decade to diverting as much waste as we could from landfill. at the time it was very clear we had large refuse generators, hospitals, hotels, union iversy cities, handling buildings not separating like we do in our

homes. they were just paying the fee and not participating in the program which was adding to our environmental degradation. we got that passed thank you to the sponsors of what the refuse compliance ordinance we called on it green job piece of legislation. violators were to beef up people dedicated to separate refuse and divert as much as we could from landfill this. is second peel about construction and demolition paste. 25% of what we send to landfill is construction and demolition waste. there are 12 facilities around the bay area that do this work. there are all of the operators now that are going to be required now as part of the legislation the haulers to register with the city on a tiered system based how big the

vehicle is and how much waste they intend to haul. this will bring a formal and concise process. as you know, also, it will help with illegal dumping. not too long ago in supervisor walton's district and he was furious as i was. illegal dumping operation was set up in front of allis griffith public housing. president walton worked with the city to stop that. this we believe will be another step not only for environmental goals for illegal dumping that happens in the south east part of san francisco. for every ton of debris we divert from landfill is a ton of carbon footprint we reduced. we are super-excited about this. we believe this is the right step in the right direction to help us achieve a tremendous step in our environmental goals. i look forward to your support

for this. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, supervisor safai. thank you for the piece of legislation. a lot of companies are circumventing the system and had you they remove waste and debris contributing a major factor of contributing to illegal dumping here in the city. this is one other tool to address and combat illegal dumping. i just want to appreciate you supervisor safai. colleagues i don't see anyone else on the roster. same house same call. without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk. item 17. >> item 17 is an ordinance to amend the police code to prohibited any person other than licensed manufacturer or importer from possessing, selling, offering for sale, transferring, or manufacturing

an unfinished firearm frame or severe not imprinted with the serial number, subject to certain exceptions. >> thank you. supervisor stephani. >> thank you. the item before you today will ban the sale or possession of unserial ghost gun kits in san francisco. this is the first of its kind in the state of california. this ordinance is very necessary and important. if you don't know what ghost gun kits are, i assume you do. they are kits sold in the mail or at gun shows. the frame comes unfinished. it is unfinished frames or receiver. 80% you put together and you have a gun. it is a ghost gun. they are untraceable in law enforcements. no serial number on them. what is moral alarms is the current state of law in california with regard to ghost guns. currently california state law permits vendors to sell the kits

without a serial number, requiring the purchaser to apply for a number with the department of justice. then within 10 days of assembling the gun engrave or affix that unique serial number to the gun. you can imagine, not many people do that. i will ask our attorney general for those numbers. what this means that ghost guns are the weapons of choice for those who would like to violate the law and injury many and others. this means no background checks, waiting periods, sales records, no sage restrictions at the time of sage. this allowed the ghost guns to be the weapon of chase for those prohibited from obtaining a firearm. popular with domestic abusesors. major manufacturers like polymer

80 sell without limitation. theyry so much profit while our community pays the price. guns illegal to possess should be illegal to sell. this ordinance gives our city the power to hold major manufacturers and distributeddors accountable for they are role in proliferating violence in the community. we must have laws on our books that give teeth to lawsuits. they empower the city to go after the manufacturers that sell the ghost guns in the city. without it, it is tough uphill battle to hold them accountable. last month san francisco police department's community violence reduction team arrested a individual on parole with an ar-15 ghost kit with magazine in his possession.

increased 2700%. this has continued to 2021. ghost gun seizures up 350% in january and february of this year same period two years ago. ghost guns were less than 1% of all gun seizures in san francisco in 2016. by 2020 they were 16% of all firearms seized in san francisco. tragically the rise in ghost gun possession accompanied rise in gun violence. shootings up 62% in 2020. in the fourth quarter of 2020 up 220%. according to the police department that trend is continuing to 2021. they reported shootings are up 300% compared to the same period last year. we know and have experienced and know people that suffered gun violence. it destroys lives of families cross the country every day and

is traumatizing the nation. at the hearing on public safety we had a 16 year-old girl in 2019 she was talking to friends before high school in southern california. next thing there was someone with a gun and she was shot in the stomach. she survived but her best friend did not. this person too young to obtain a firearm got a ghost gun killed two and injured three more and shattered lines of thousands that day. i am grateful we are considering this shortly after president biden asked new regulations at the federal level. we can't wait for the federal government on guns. it has wrecked havoc because politicians lacked a spine and put themselves before the good of this country and sold themselves to the gun lobby. i want to thank supervisors

mandelman, mar, haney, safai and melgar. we don't do this alone there. are so many to thank you have been working with for years and on this legislation. i would like to thank brady united against gun violence. moms against action, in particular i want to thank rudy, mary scott and allison at giffords for leadership for advocacy. some of the people in the community every day working to address the root causes. i want to thank brady united who helped draft this. we wouldn't be out here today without ruth. thank you for all you have done. i want to thank brad for his assistance at the city attorney's office. he helped on so many pieces of gun violence prevention

legislation and and demullen my chief of staff who is so hard working. i want to report that since the introduction last summer san diego, los angeles, berkeley and san mateo have begun to move towards ghost gun ban ordinance. i hope that you will support this today. i think we have to take a step here in san francisco to say these guns are causing way too much harm in our communities and it is time to do something about them. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor stefani. >> supervisor ronen. >> thank you supervisor stefani for ongoing work in this area. i ask to be added as cosponsor. >> thank you. it is unfortunate we piecemeal gun reform in the state and country. we need comprehensive gun

reform. thank you, supervisor stefani for your work. please add me as cosponsor as well. i don't see anyone else on the roster. we can take this same house same call. without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. please call 18. >> 18. ordinance to amend the municipal elections code to require department of elections to expand use of vote by mail ballots at exclusively municipal he leekses and encourage further use of vote-by-mail ballots in all elections. supervisor safai. >> every day we read that our democracy is challenged all over the united states. many times in very subtle ways. masked to seem neutral. at the end of the day to

undermine other democracy attacking women, by communities of color all over the united states. this is an atrocity today. this is attempt to build on the success of last year's municipal elections where we had almost record by .10% voter turnouts. it was phenomenal. the ballot in every home is an opportunity for san francisco to lead. at the state level they have the same conversation. we are hopeful it will become a state law. this is specifically for municipal elections to allow every voter to receive a ballot whether they choose or not. they would have the option of continuing to vote in their local election polling station. i think this is extremely important. we think it will continue to

builds voter turnout and send air message to the united states san francisco is leading in the right way. thank you. >> supervisor preston. >> thank you. a question. as you were talking, supervisor safai. i apologize for not engaged around this sooner. let me start by saying i support the purposes of this and appreciate your leadership on this. i don't see anything concerning what is required. i was wondering if we know and i don't know if this is through the president, supervisor safai or city attorney or department of elections. i want to make sure this mandate around vote by mail does not in any way detracted from same day

voting from polling stations to staffing, drop off-centers for ballots. i don't think it explicitly does. as i read it the purpose of expanding vote by mail to the extend allowed by state law i can see where with a limited pot of money someone might interpret that to require reductions in other forms. i want to make sure that doesn't happen. i am curious if that is addressed else where in the code to make sure there aren't reductions. i want to raise that as a question. >> thank you, supervisor preston. we had extensive conversation with department of elections. the intent every single polling place would remain open, same day voting remain open, a lot of people see a way to make extra

income. they rely on that. also, it is a way to participate in the local democracy. we never want to undermine that. that is in addition to, not subtraction of. it is purposeful to not take away from same day voting. >> thank you for that. i think we are on the same page trying to make sure this is net increase. i am wondering if there is a need for or would be a harm in something explicitly stating and again with apologies for not raising this prior to our hearing today. just to state that nothing in the ordinance shall express an intent to -- >> i am happy to ask the city

attorney to jump in for advice. i am happy for any clarification. >> thank you, supervisor safai. we have director sending in. city attorney pearson. >> deputy city attorney pearson. we would be happy to work with your office. i don't go that it would be ready today. it might require continuance. i would refer to the direction to speak of speak to the intention of his office and what other portions of the election code would speak to this. >> is the director available now, madam clerk. >> yes, mr. president. >> supervisor safai do you want to ask a question? >> yes. >> have you been following this conversation during this meeting? >> i just logged on. sorry.

>> supervisor preston. >> thank you, president walton. i am wondering. i would prefer not to slow down this important piece of legislation. i am wondering if it might be possible to put it over to the agenda just to state nothing in the ordinance shall be interpreted to support reductions in same day or other forms of voting which i would assume would be non substantive and statement of limits of purpose. i hope we could prepare that. >> if you would like to hear this later in the meeting, we will see if we can accomplish that today. >> i am okay with that. >> item 19. we will come back to item 18. thank you, director aren't. you are off the hook. item 19.

>> item 19. ordinance amending the administrative code to add the clerk of the board of supervisors and the executive director of the human rights commission as permanent members of the committee on information technology. >> thank you so much. seeing no one on the roster. same house same call. without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 20. >> item 20. motion appointing chanel williams, julie led better and julia and jennifer to the our city our home for terms ending april 22, 2023. >> thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. we can take this item same house same call. without objection this motion is approved unanimously.

madam clerk. looks like we will be at roll call for introductions. >> new business introduction is supervisor melgar. >> thank you, colleagues. today i introduce three items. first is a resolution strongly condemning the texas bill assault on women's self-autonomy and urge decriminalizing of abortion along with reason nan, stefani and chan. on september 1st senate bill 8 went into effect in texas under mining roe versus wade

effectively taking away a woman's right to choose and criminalizing uber and lyft drivers driving women to healthcare pointments. it de privileges women in texas of all options for abortion services and limits access to systematically stripping people of all genders from accessing abortion. not only a transgression against human reproductive rights but assault on autonomy. it is sb8 in texas debate symbols the continued work to subvert rights of women. this is reflective every assistance women have made throughout history to defend basic humanity. sb8 is the strictest aboabortion

ban in the nation as soon as heart beat is detectable. six weeks is only two weeks after a missed period assuming 28 day cycle. this is before many is not most women know that they are pregnant. it amounts to complete ban on abortion in texas. 85% of abortion procedures in the state happen after 6 weeks of pregnancy. as a result, women will no longer have these services in texas. in san francisco we must vow to welcome all women seeking reproductive services with open arms. in desisn't supreme court justice said the courts order is stunning presented with application to enjoying unconstitutional law engineered to prohibit women from exercising constitutional

rights. judicial scrutiny majority of justices buried heads in sand. in the city and county of san francisco we will not bury our heads in the sand. this resolution is a step in upholding refusal to entertain assertions the dignity and autonomy of women is open to organization. it is in pro-choice california, planned parenthood, department on status of women. office of racial equity and human rights commission. i look forward to working with you to explore how san francisco can strengthen commitment to reproductive freedom and thank you could sponsors. i introduce community grants initiative ordinance. one-time way to deal with our shortened year in covid with

participatory budgeting. as you know, participatory budgeting is a process in which community members can decide through a voting process how to spend public funds. it was started by former president norman yee in 2013. we have launched 120 projects in district 7 because of it. all community and neighborhood-led. we have seen great results. because of our commitment to the programs we have to do a little shortened process and that is what this is. this ordinance will result in the community grant process which supports phase 2 of participatory budgeting processes which have already been approved. lastly, i am introducing an in

memor yum with supervisors ronen and mandelman for yolanda lopez, the art test. she was acclaimed for her paintings and her work in political posters. she passed away on september 3rd at her home on san jose avenue in district 8. she was 79 years owe. she was artist, monitor who left a mark on the culture and politics of san francisco and california. she was born in 1942 and raised in san diego neighborhood. days after graduating from high school she moved to bay area to

leave her hometown and join the culture. in 1970s and 1980s she was part of the latino arts community in san francisco taking risks with her groundbreaking feminist portrayal. she embarked in paintings to reimagine the image of the mexico patron saint with mother and grand mother. she was not the first to entry interpret, lopez was an icon. her series was so radical she had to explain what the virgin meant for mexico. when she moved to san francisco she jumped into the activist

scene and part of the nonviolent community and third world liberation front and founding member of the committee. she was part of the five month strike at san francisco state college that shut down the school and prompted creation of the first college of ethnic studies and department of black studies. it was her involvement with to lease brutality -- police brutality. she drew the faces of seven imprisoned latino men. it was at rallies for the ultimate freedom. she served as part test for the community -- artist and created artworks to define the civil rights movement and 1978 poster

who is illegal pilgrims. there was a stern face as they crumbles the immigration papers which created in response to the passage of the immigration and nationality amendments. it was a mainstay at exhibitions. the illegal alien pilgrim with the art museum. her art will be featured and to open october 16th at the museum in san diego. in a recent interview her son recalled how galleries that showed her work were freak lently vandalized. strangers would leave death

presents or confront her. for the past 30 years lopez performed her most critical contribution a mentor. as a mentor to guided multiple generations of young artists she leaves the legacy in politics. the creative work continues with all of us. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, madam clerk, colleagues. a couple of legislative items and sadly, two im memorria. the sinking and tilting tower is back. i think it is time to reopen hearings on that matter, in light of continuing ongoing

revelations the department of building inspections so i am introducing a hearing request on that as the building alarmingly has begun to sink and tilt again. now the project stopped. next i introduce a piece of tax reform legislation part of a broader effort to streamline and eliminate fees for the san francisco taxi industry and the drivers who continue to find value from medallions against the unfair competition by tech monopolies who profited off the back of workers. we try to create a level playing

field against that backdrop. this is part of that effort. this legislation would retroactively waive fees and penalties for wastes and measure fees to certify devices in their vehicles and extend waiver through 2025. thank you department of public health as well as staff and council at the tax collector's office for assistance and look forward to removing this relief package through as quickly as possible. thank you, president walton for waiving the 30-day rule. that takes me sadly to im memorial. 2021 started out rough. it was marked by the pass of lawrence a month shy of his

101st birthday. it is a bad year of losses for community. heart breakingly we lost a integral part of the community with the passing of the north beach poet jack hershman over the summer recess. jack, i think, was maybe the last of the truly great letter rarely and culture rebels who helped create and nurture the identity of north beach and in many ways of san francisco. jack was cherished around the world for his poetry and humanity. jack was a proud self-proclaimed marxist. he turned down a career to pursue his writing in the cafe which was his living room and dining room and to keep the

spark of activism quite alive and well in hells half acre. in addition to being named poet laureate he performed at political events including mine over the years. commemorating the bookstore. i think some of you were there. the legacy of so many north beach souls from the late great to paul from jefferson airplane. jack was linked with north beach in san francisco. he was fired as professor for ucla forgiving as so they wouldn't be drafting in the vietnam war. that was jack. he was the poet's poet.

fighting for the myself understand and challenging all of us really at every step. he will be remembered for his honesty, his mustache, his bad jokes and beautiful emotions and fiery challenges transcribed into the written word. if you ever heard jack read, it was a moving experience. ultimately, he always sounded his best yelling out of his mouth with his new york accent. this loss is not just san francisco, it is the world's loss. my chief of staff came back from paris where a big tribute was being held at shakespeare and company bookstore in paris complete with alive size reprint

of his poem the path. i would like to read a short piece. go to your broken heart. if you think you don't have one. get one. to get one, be sincere, learn sent by letting liventer you are helpless to do otherwise. our hearts go out to his widow and all of north beach will be celebrating his life soon. you will be inviting. the only way jack would have it in the streets at the cafe and in washington square. stay tuned for that with a brass marching band. i would like to join supervisor mar who you will hear from later in-turning in memory of my friend of 20 years and my former d3 black history month honoree

officer karl pane who passed from a long hard battle with cancer over the summer recess. karl was a renaissance man with homegrown public self. incredible story. he was veteran serving in the marines, cable car gripman. ringing contest champion delighting the locals and tourists with his skills on the bells. he had the unique distinction of ringing the san francisco cable car bell at the first 49ers super bowl. he became the face of the city's fund-raising efforts after a long needed deferred maintenance on the iconic cable cars when dianne feinstein was mayor. he ended serving as rec and park

ranger after several decades as a police officer at central station who had the distinction of being the oldest recruit ever in the history of the sfpd going to the academy at the age of 50 after winning a lawsuit against the city. he passed the civil service test at 49. they was deemed too old by the time he was hirable at age 50. he won that lawsuit. he became really a great community serving police person in district 3. he summed up his job by saying it was helping people and listening. he lived to serve and did serve the city and county for over 50 years, ending as rec and park ranger. incredible life of public service to the service.

rest in peace. that concludes my roll call. [please stand by] -- and up to 316 group housing rooms, instead of 176 resident

yol units. items 22, through 24, are the associated motions with that hearing. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton. i want to make a motion to continue this to the meeting of >> president walton: thank you, a motion to continue to the september 28, 2021 by supervisor haney and seconded by supervisor peskin. before we vote, we need to take public comment on the motion to continue. >> clerk: okay, operations, the motion has been made to continue items 21 through 24. do we have any members of the public on the line who would like to make public comment as it pertains to items 2through

24, specifically to the continuance of september 28th, 2021. let's welcome our first caller. >> caller: i'm so sorry. i'm in queue for nonagenda public comment. can i be put back in the queue for that. >> clerk: okay, if you would press star, 3, that puts you back in the queue. operations, do we have another caller in the queue who would like to speak to the continuance for items 21 through 24? welcome, caller. okay, perhaps that individual went back into the queue as well. operations, do we have another caller on the line?

>> caller: yes, my name is ella strong and i am the president of the board for church -- church of christ scientists. while we were willing to accommodate the fact that there was a lack of the board of supervisors meeting in august and the conflict with the religious holiday today, we cannot agree to a continuance for longer than one week. we've already expressed that position on several occasions to the supervisor haney's office, even as late as this morning. all delays, periodically impacting the threat and the viability of the project so we're not able to agree to anything beyond september 14th. we've been there before. the previous approvals at the end of 2018 had to walk away from the project because of the delays in the city processes. and they rendered the project

unfinancialable. this year alone the project was delayed for six months from january to june, going into the planning commission's approval. now we're being challenged again with additional delays. please, consider it for the 14th as we previously had requested. it is going so much beyond even the 30-day filing of the r.p.o. the filing of the f.p.o. was july 21st. so now we are in september. so please consider the 14th of august -- i'm sorry, the 14th of september -- as the continuance that's just one week. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, do we have another

caller in the queue or an individual who is interested in speaking to the continuance of items 21 through 24, to the september 28, 2021 date? welcome, caller. >> caller: president walton, supervisors, my name is david murray. i'm a member of the church. we do not support any continuance beyond september 14th, 2021. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. okay, operations, do we have another caller in the queue who is willing to speak to the continuance of items 21 through to 24, to september 28th? welcome, caller. >> clerk: good afternoon, supervisors. corey smith on behalf of the action coalition. we do understand that due to the religious holiday of the continuance proposed for today, but we are also requesting that

the item is heard next week at the september 14th hearing. this project has been in the works for a really long time, and every day that passes with economic capability making it more and more difficult to get projects built, we risk losing the homes. as always, housing delayed is housing denied. and we ask that you please hear the item next week, thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, do we have another caller in the queue who is willing to speak specifically on the continuance of items 21 through 24? >> caller: yes, my name is michael naulty, i'm with alliance for a better district 6, and i would like to speak to the continuance of items 21

through 24 until september 28th as requested by supervisor haney's office. i believe that it is an appropriate request, and that it should be continued, and i hope to see that it's passed by the board today. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, is there another caller if the queue who is willing to speak specifically to items 21 through 24 and the continuance? the continuance to september 24 -- september 28th, 2021. >> caller: hi, this is susan touchstone. another member of the church. and for all of the reasons that have been stated thus far, as to why we cannot agree to a

continuance past the 14th, we urge you to give this your utmost consideration to allow the continuance to be only for september 14th. thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, let's hear from the next speaker regarding the continuance of items 21 through 24, to september 28th, 2021. welcome, caller. >> caller: hi, thank you for taking my call. my name is martha murray. i am a member of the church of christ scientists, and i would like to express my hope and insistence that the continuance go not beyond september 14th. this has been approved by planning since july -- excuse me

-- since june 24th, and then the appeal went on too long. and i am just -- just very sincere in the desire that the supervisors can hear this next week at the very latest. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, ma'am. all right, operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. we are taking public comment specifically on the continuance to september 28th for items 21 through 24. welcome, caller. >> caller: oh, um, my name is bill sealy and i'm a member of the community and i am just concerned what message we're sending out to developers that want to come in. housing is technically housing, there's no such thing as tech housing and i don't know how we

even got that into the conversation. and housing is housing and we definitely need housing. we don't need commercial development, we need housing development. and this is one kind of example to it. what kind of message are we sending out to our proposed developers by delaying and delaying. what's going to change next week? what's going to change two weeks from now? we need to address this program we're going to okay it or deny it. let's do it today, because i don't see any reason why we've got to keep delaying this thing while people still are needing help. walk down the street, look what we have on the street, so i just don't get it. i'm sorry. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. okay, operations, i believe that we 22 listeners, and four callers in the queue. if you are one of the 22 and you would like to make comment on this continuance to items 21 through 24 to september 2th, 28,

press star 3 now. operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. >> caller: hi, this is kenneth russell, speaking with regard to the continuations. we're in a housing crisis. we need to act with urgency. housing delayed is housing denied. i want to see the board act with urgency. and the delay and the continued delay after delay are our actions, and those are the actual reflections of our values. and those actions show that we aren't taking the housing crisis seriously. and we aren't making it a top priority. i'd like to see this taken up next week at a minimum. and we need to act with that urgency. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, let's hear from our next caller, please.

>> caller: hello, this is patricia. our church agreed, with all due respect to our supervisor, to continue to the september 14th date in honor of the high holy days. anymore delays are putting a project in financial jeopardy. it may not seem a lot to you, but every day costs us money. and as vice president of the church, i'm responsible for overseeing our church expenditures. and so i must speak in defense of our position, september 14th was on your agenda, and september 14th is what we agreed to. let there be no more delay. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, ma'am, for your comments. we have 22 listeners, and we have two callers in the queue. if you are one of the listeners, you should press star 3 now, to

get in line, otherwise we'll take this last group to the end operations, let's hear from our next caller. we're taking comment on the continuance of items 21 to 24, to september 28th, 2021. welcome, caller. >> caller: hello, this is christine freedom. i was a member of the church for 20 years and i served as vice president [indiscernible] and evaluated and signed for a proposal for designs, the modifications, you name it, for the church. it's about time [indiscernible] that we join the modern world and approve this project. as the former speaker said, housing is for people who are trying to come in and are [indiscernible] for one person and one child. multiply that times five. that's their housing budget.

where is the sometime they spend with their kids or on vacation or helping with homework? i couldn't be more forceful in my support for this project and i hope that after all of the time and all of the ferris wheel of the same arguments over and over -- think of the people who need the housing. they need it now. and as the other speakers tell you, housing delayed is housing denied. please, please, do not hesitate to address this approval, already approved as soon as possible, and do not delay it to a later date at the end of september. thank you very much for hearing me. and my very best to everyone in san francisco. since i'm now a new yorker. take care. bye.

>> clerk: thank you for your comments, ma'am. all right, operations, do we have another caller in the queue? this is the public's opportunity to speak to the continuance for items 21 through 24. there will not be another opportunity today to comment on this appeal. so, operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. >> caller: hello, i [indiscernible] and i strongly support [indiscernible] and housing [indiscernible] and this is an opportunity [indiscernible] i myself have, you know, been looking around in the past. [indiscernible] so the

situation is bad for families. [indiscernible] to have the well-being [indiscernible] and to not have to worry too much. [indiscernible] thank you for your time and have a great evening. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. okay, so, operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please? operations, perhaps let's go to the next caller.

welcome, caller. >> caller: hello. this is anastasia ionopoluos, a member of the san francisco tenants' union. i'm speaking in support of the continuance to september 28th. this generated a lot of comments at the planning commission. it could have been approved in 2018. now there are some more issues here that have to do with the type of housing they're proposing. whether it is good for the neighborhood or not good for the surrounding community. and i am anxious to hear this, but let's give the community time, and let's give the board of supervisors time to put it on their agenda so that they'll be ready to hear it appropriately. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your

comments. all right, operations, any last callers to speak to the continuance for items 21 through 24, to the date of september 28th, 2021? >> caller: hello. this is linda knox and i'm a member of this church. we agreed to extend this to the 14th, but not to the 28th. as you have heard, this appeal has been going on all year long, since january. and it's time for the board of supervisors to act on this. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations. another caller, please. >> caller: thank you, i am also a member of this church. and i urgently ask you to please

do not delay the project any longer. it is very important that we should get this taken care of. it should not be delayed. and not later than the 9-14. we have waited decades to get this project done and to provide housing for our neighborhood. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, another caller, >> madam clerk, that completes the queue. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk, and seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. madam clerk on the motions to continue items number 21-24 made by supervisor haney and seconded by supervisor peskin, to the september 28th, 2021 meeting. >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 21 to 24 to september 28, 2021. supervisor melgar.

>> aye. peskin, aye. supervisor preston. preston aye. supervisor ronen? ronen aye. supervisor safai? safai aye. supervisor stefani. stefani aye. supervisor walton. walton aye. supervisor chen, chen aye. supervisor haney, haney aye. supervisor mandelman. mandelman aye. and supervisor mar. mar aye. there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you, and without objection this motion carries unanimously. court, we are back to roll call. >> clerk: we left off, supervisor preston, it's your turn. okay, thank you. next then is supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. i wanted to start out by thanking supervisor melgar for the in memoriam for yolanda

lopez. this incredible artist and icon rest in peace and power. and, secondly, the resolution condemning the -- you know, the texas abortion ban. you know, it's just unbelievable to me that governor abbott is responsible for killing children in schools by preventing them from wearing masks on one hand, and yet is forcing women who are not ready or able or willing to have a child to have a child. the hypocrisy of these deadly policies and everyone that supports them is irresponsible. and they should leave public office immediately. so thank you for bringing forward that resolution, and i'm proud to co-sponsor it. and, finally, colleagues, i am

excited to co-sponsor a resolution accepting the ula hotel, which a former sro in the mission district, which the city is purchasing with help of the home key program. and i wanted to say on the record that we are very excited and working with homeless youth advocates, including the homeless youth alliance, and dshs housing and many others to really ask that this site be used for their very successful and innovative bridge housing model that allows a minimum of five years housing for youth that are facing very serious challenges in their lives. and that includes a very

specialized supportive housing program to help youth become independent, self-sufficient, and move on after five years. i know that this is not hsh's typical housing model, but it works, and it particularly works for homeless youth. and i just wanted to put on record that i am asking them to stretch what they've done in the past, and look at the new models that have proven to be very successful and to pilot this model at the ula in the mission and the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, madam clerk. today, colleagues, i am introducing a resolution in support of california's proposition 12. as you know in july, i conveyed to this board and us as

legislators the desire to create and reimagine food security, food distribution, and the quality of food that we give every day san franciscans, but particularly the most vulnerable in our city. with your help, this board also unanimously passed the reauthorization of the food security task force and we created a food empowerment market fund. and a biannual food equity report. these ordinances were truly a monumental first step in reimagining food security in our city. california's proposition 12 passed in 2018, it was revolutionary in the sense that it mandated how we treat our animals and livestock for consumption in this state. it was passed by nearly 75% of the voters and it was a statement that californians deserve good quality food. this aligns with my objective of reimagining food security, because it makes the humane

treatment of animals a right for everyone in california, and not just upper middle income or wealthy families that can afford organic free-range food. all of the food in california should be healthy and organic. this is a humane right, not just for animals, but for consumers. so today i present a resolution initially drafted by the commission of animal control and welfare. i want to thank nina orani for working my office, and supervisor mandelman and his aide, jacob binlif, and lori thomas with the restaurant association, and josh balk with the humane society and jeffrey o'morris from my staff. the statement that you are what you eat really means something in california, starting when this law becomes fully enacted. lastly, colleagues, i would like to conclude in memoriam for bonnie oashirk, a member of our community who recently passed

away. yeah, it was a surprise to us all. she was an american landscape planner, educator, international artist and founder of the farm, located near permanent structurg library that was in district 11 she did a lot of work in both of our districts, supervisor ronen, who was also caught by surprise it was a shock to us all. bonnie's work was to transform the environment and asphalt public spaces into thriving art gardens. she's transformed to do this for children, especially in the southeast part of the city and mainly underserved by outdoor learning environments. bonnie was born in massachusetts and was raised in new jersey. she graduated from douglas college at rutgers university in the 1960s and later enrolled in a master of fine arts program at san francisco state university, which brought her to our city. bonnie shared her love and

passion for the environment. she believed that the environment is a beautiful and diverse place, and that it is the most practical place for art and to create transformation because it has the ability to reach communities near and far. bonnie passed away on august 8th of 2021, this year. and was laid to rest on august 11th in mendicino near the grave of her parents. she'll be missed all over san francisco. many of our local community organizers have expressed their sympathy as bonnie shared a great connection with many groups throughout the excelsior and the mission. i don't know if you want to say something, supervisor ronen. mr. president, can i -- refer this to supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you, and i'm shocked, supervisor safai. i didn't know about her passing and bonnie was very famous in

our office because she was a budget advocate, like very few others. and so passionate about her living library work at the schools throughout san francisco. she gave us many laughs. we definitely spent a lot of time together. she's very passionate as well about the -- you know, the rivers or the creeks in san francisco that are covered and wanted to unearth them all, which someday we will do in your honor, bonnie. but may you rest in peace and thank you, supervisor safai, and please add me to this in memoriam. thanks. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. president, and thank you supervisor ronen, and thank you, the rest i submit.

>> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai. next is supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, madam clerk. i wanted to start by thanking supervisor melgar for your leadership in introducing the resolution about the texas abortion ban. i'm proud to be a co-sponsor. i thank you for your call this morning about this. when the news broke about the texas abortion ban, i was stunned but, sadly, not shocked and it's not just texas. we know that we have in pro-life, anti-choice, whatever you want to call them, wanna-be-governor waiting in the wings in california. the constitutional right to abortion has been under attack since 1973 when i was 3 years old. and in recent years, these attacks have become bolder and more flagrant. when the supreme court's right-wing justices refused under the cover of night and on the shadow docket to block the law last wednesday night, they affirmed many of our worst

fears. their intent to overturn roe v wade and to restrict reproductive freedoms afforded to us, to women, by the constitution. that five supreme court justices have chosen to brazenly ignore their constitutional obligation to even properly review the law due to procedural complexities is astounding, and an incredibly dangerous disregard for precedent. in issuing this ruling, the supreme court has effectively given a green light for republican officials in other states to replicate a law that will significantly harm those seeking abortions and deputizes citizen bounty hunters, rewarding them with cash, which president biden said is un-american. and i have to say -- i don't know if i can say it -- but i'm so ashamed that that's our

supreme court. i'm ashamed. i took my daughter there in february 2020, it was the last trip that i took before the pandemic hit. we went to the supreme court because she so badly wanted to meet justice ginsburg, and i was sworn into the supreme court and i was proud to be there with my daughter. today i am ashamed of our supreme court. what is so nauseating about this, not just the fact that they're trying to overturn roe v wade, is that they're doing it under what they're saying is procedural complexities. they're just brushing it aside like it means nothing to the women who will be harmed by this. usually when a lawsuit aiming to block such a law is unconstitutional, it names state officials as defendants. instead, this texas law, being as cute as they can be, deputizes private citizens to

sue anyone who performs an abortion or aids and abets, as supervisor melgar said -- the uber driver. the uber driver. i mean, are you kidding me? plaintiffs who have no connection to the clinic or patient can sue and recover legal fees. and, hey, if you win, you get a $10,000 bonus. $10,000 for ruining a woman's life. congratulations. it is so un-american. and if you apply this to our other constitutionally afforded rights, would our supreme court do the same? so if texas doesn't like the fact that people practice anything other than christianity, could they pass a law saying that you may only worship our god? but don't sue us, because we're going to deputize our next-door

neighbor to go after and you report you and we'll give them $10,000 if they win. screw freedom of religion. what if they don't want you to assemble anymore and complain about the government? not us. we deputize people to deal with that. you don't have a right to assemble. what if we don't like what you say. not us. we're going to deputize the next person over here and we're going to give them awards if they go after you, because we don't like what you say. we don't like you criticizing republicans. do you think the supreme court in the shadow of the night would say we're not going to deal with this because of procedural complexities? maybe. maybe they lack that much integrity. maybe they are that awful. but as a mother of a 12-year-old girl, i am disgusted.

i am so disgusted by what's happening in this country. i am so disgusted by texas, and i am so disgusted by these five justices who i don't know how they sleep at night. i want to thank you again, supervisor melgar. it is absolutely unacceptable what's happening and we have to do everything that we can and it's exhausting. we have to fight and fight and fight. and it's not about life, because if it was about life they would protect the woman who was in the situation in the first place. it's about control. because as supervisor ronen said, once that baby is born, who cares if they're going to get coronavirus in school, we're not going to make them wear masks. who cares if they get shot, because we're not going to ban guns. because in texas it's guns for anyone, anytime, anywhere.

this is not pro-life. this is so disgusting. and as a woman, it's frightening. everyone makes references to the "handmaid's tale", and i'll tell you they do it because this is terrifying to us. it's terrifying because we have daughters. and we see the pendulum swinging in a way that is terrifying. so we must do everything we can, and, yes, this is just a resolution, but i promise every person in that texas legislature that passed this law -- you have seen nothing yet. we are not done fighting and we will never stop fighting. so again thank you, supervisor melgar, and thank you to my female colleagues, because i know that we will fight together for this, forever and always. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor stefani. supervisor walton. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i have two in

memoriams. the first one for [indiscernible] died peacefully in our home on august 5, 2021. she was 98 years young. marjorie was [indiscernible] [not on microphone] and she married her life-long companion, and preceded her in death. they made their home and started their family in san francisco, and had three children, lois, tony and sammy jr. marjorie was a healer and graduated in the first class of nurse education at the marina adult school in 1951. she later became a licensed vocational nurse in 1953, with

san francisco general hospital where she eventually became the assistant director of nurses with a career spanning 31 years marjorie is surviveed by her three children, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. the second in memoriam is for jada fafoliolo, who was born october 11, 2004. she is the daughter of james and the late sophia, who passed away in 2009. jada attended dr. charles r. drew family mosque and completed elementary school at star king. she continued her education at optos middle school and graduated from park middle school in 2018. she attended deer valley high school and antioch where she

would have graduated with the class of 2022. jada was amazing and never showed anger or spoke negatively towards anyone. she was quiet, humble, loving, respectful, and truly genuine. her smile lit up any room. although jada received her wings at the sweet age of 16, which should never happen, she has imprinted on our hearts lessons that will last a lifetime. she is survived by her father, james, her mother, ponti, and three siblings, janaea and janaeh and jane. last, along with my colleagues, supervisors ronen, stefani, melgar, and chan, i am introducing a resolution recognizing september 2021 as the young woman's health awareness month.

the x in a woman's health represents inclusivity of transgender and non-binary individuals. women's health diseases such as endometriosis and polycystic ovary syndrome, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and uterine fibroids have traumatic life-altering symptoms and impacts all races, cultures and religions. youth who experience these diseases and the associated symptoms are in particular distressed as they are often dismissed by their doctors, teachers, or family and are told that they are dramatic, attention seeking, exaggerating or hydrochondriacs.

there's a movement to provide space, education, self-identity, artistic expression, and wellness empowerment for young people experiencing common women's health diseases, and to advocate that pain from these diseases are real. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, may i ask you to repeat louise young's in memoriam into the record. unfortunately, your microphone did not pick up that particular in memoriam for the record. >> president walton: got it, thank you. this in memoriam is for miss marjorie louise young who died in her home on august 5, 2021, at 98 years young. marjorie was born on may 29th, 1923, and to lula, louisiana, and on september 14th, 1946.

she married her life-long companion, sammy young, and they made their home and started their family in san francisco. they had three children, lois, tony and sammy jr. marjorie was a healer and graduated in the first class of nurse education at the marina adult school in 1951. she later became a licensed viewcasional nurse in 1953, with san francisco general hospital, where she eventually became the assistant director of nurses with a career spanning 31 years marjorie is survived by her three children, five grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. next on introduction says supervisor chan. >> thank you, madam clerk, and i too want to -- in agreement with

my fellow women colleagues, thank you, supervisor melgar, for your leadership on the resolution. and thank you so much to supervisor stefani for your just passionate speech. and actually i have no more to add to that, but still nonetheless i think that it is a moment that i believe that both -- actually our female and male colleagues probably recognize in san francisco that it was really despicable what just happened. and really great to -- and a privilege to be a co-sponsor to the resolution. colleagues, today, i am introducing a resolution calling for the creation of a beach-to-bay car-free connection in golden gate park which also urges the san francisco recreational and park department and the san francisco municipal transportation agency to create

equitable access to the park. this has been a long debated issue in san francisco. not just in the last few months during the pandemic, but really for decades. we know that in golden gate park, a portion of j.f.k. drive has been closed to the public or to cars every sunday year round and saturdays from april to september. and that's been going on for quite some time. but we now know that during the pandemic we really have heard that many visit at the park on foot or by bicycle, having enjoyed this car-free space and utilizing the full east-west road closures through the park to exercise or even to commute to work. but at the same time though, we also have heard the challenges from san francisco residents who may live in areas where transit is less reliable, or may not, you know, be able to really have the physical ability and limited by their physical ability to

really visit the space and require a car to get around town. this is why we need to make equitable improvements to golden gate park. this resolution is to realize what has been put in place and to continue working together to create a car-free space in our parks. and also ensure that we are not creating barriers to access the park and the green space for low-income, disabled or limited mobility communities. so in this resolution, it also urges the rec and park to continue to have a robust public outreach and discussion with the diverse communities who use golden gate park and improve overall access to and through the park. this resolution though also is not going to be -- it's also depending on the seqa process. i think that is a critical piece of it to make sure that we

really are -- are -- that we -- that this resolution or this project is going to be, like, vetted. and this resolution also builds on the work of the san francisco county transportation authority, which, colleagues, you have also approved the study earlier this year together. and you have also provided some feedback. i really like to thank the members of this study, but also my predecessor, supervisor sandra lee fewer who actually put together the working group to make sure that we had this study. i want to thank all of the stakeholders and that's including the museum, and the san francisco bicycle coalition and the walk s.f., just a lot of people that actually had their input. i think that is the key to solution to this problem that i really believe that has long

been a technical one, and not an ideological one. and i wanted to take this opportunity if you may indulge me -- i want to give a shout out to my staff, callie grove, who really just has been working so hard. she has been so mindful about the conversation. she has been to stakeholders, all of them, in fact, you know, our planning for the richmond association, richmond rising, bicycle coalition and walk s.f., she meets with them. if not biweekly, for sure i know on a monthly basis, about all things. and definitely including this. and, you know, we have talked to, of course, the institutions, the museum and the academy of sciences. all to say that this is really a product of a lot of people. and i think that i want to highlight one thing that i want to thank president walton for his feedback. that one of the clauses in this

resolution they want to highlight for you, colleagues, is that we recognize the parking garage could also be a key to the solution. we wanted to recognize that also supervisor safai has mentioned too is that it's really about accessibility. i think that the parking garage we're going to call for a first four hours for free parking for those who live in bayview, excelsior and chinatown, recognizing that these are the communities -- the residents in these communities -- have long been neglected really to access to golden gate park. i want to highlight that for you to really consider. i just think that this resolution is the way to frame the conversation, it's not the solution, but it's to frame the conversation of what's to come. and i really want to thank president walton and supervisor peskin for your co-sponsorship to this resolution. and i look forward to more conversation. this is not for -- this is going to be sent to a committee for

more conversation, so that we can get all of the feedback. so the draft that you're seeing today or that we're introducing today -- i actually don't think that's it. i think that there's going to be a lot more feedback to come. i want to also thank the deputy city attorney anne pearson for her advice. we sort of just put this together during recess, you know, to kind of still need some of her guidance to amend some of the language to make sure that the legality of it can help us move forward for productive conversation and solution. thank you. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor chan. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, madam clerk. first, i just want to thank supervisor melgar and supervisor chan and supervisor stefani and supervisor ronen for their leadership in taking a stand against the profound injustice that is taking place in the attack on our constitutional rights on women and in

particular in texas. i know that your male colleagues will join you in allyship in that as well. but i just want to thank you very much for your leadership. colleagues, today, i am introducing a resolution urging the mayor to exercise her executive powers to declare the overdose crisis in san francisco a local emergency. as it threatens the lives and the welfare of our city. the local emergency would allow to implement the overdose prevention sites with the full support and backing of this board. and with thousands of the community members and frontline workers who have advocated for years for the opening of a safe consumption site in our city. i want to thank supervisor mandelman for his c oorch-sponsorship, as well as community partners who have long been committed to this work, the safer inside coalition who reached out to our office to advocate for this resolution.

and to the s.f. aids foundation, rti, and dope and glide for continuing to champ yoon this work. and i want to thank gary mccoy and the lgbt democratic club. gary went -- a hunger strike, calling for us to take this stance and i think that reached out to many of you. so i introduced this resolution on behalf of the many of you who i know have publicly committed to support this moving forward. and we have held countless hearings at this point on the overdose crisis in our city. and what has been clear in all of these efforts is that what we are doing is not enough. the conditions on the streets have worsened and more people are overdosing and dying at a rate that has even surpassed covid deaths. overdoses are causing the deaths of two san franciscans a day on average, and taking the lives of more people than covid-19 in the last 18 months. this is despite the reported

over 5,000 reversals in 2021 alone. all effective means should be deployed to prevent these deaths. what we are proposing is not a new idea. not only has it been passed in legislation by this board to authorize these sites, we have passed numerous resolutions, but a hundred overdose prevention sites now operate in over 65 cities around the world. no site has experienced an overdose death and many have transitioned thousands of people into treatment and detox services. in 2017, mayor breed and the department of public health created a task force on addressing the epidemic and i want to really commend mayor breed for her long and consistent leadership on this issue, including on safe injection services in san francisco. the task force report concluded that opening one overdose prevention program could result in an annual net savings to the city of $3.5 million in health care costs and recommended

strongly that we should open a site. we all know this is the right thing to do and we all know that this makes financial sense. we have been waiting too long and i also want to thank senator scott wiener for his leadership in sacramento, continuing to fight for this. and with this resolution and this backing, i am hopeful that we can take this next step and move forward now with this proven tool, as part of a multipronged comprehensive strategy to stop overdoses and save lives. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, madam clerk. i want to begin by saying that i am as proud today of the women of the san francisco board of supervisors as i am embarrassed by the supreme court. so thank you for bringing this resolution. and i believe that my office has already asked that i be added as a co-sponsor.

i have a resolution to introduce and an in memoriam. the resolution is urging the california supreme court to restore anti-discrimination protections for lgbtq residents of long-term care facilities. in 2017, the california legislature passed california state senate bill 219, authored by senator scott wiener, which is created an lgbt seniors' bill of rights for seniors living in long-term care facilities. it protects lgbtq seniors from discrimination in such facility including refusing to use a resident's name or pronoun. or denying a long-term care facility or transferring within a facility or to another facility based on anti-lgbtqat toes of other residents. or evicting or discharging a resident from a facility on the basis of the resident's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, or h.i.v. status. unfortunately, these are things that happen in california.

in addition, the law requires that all long-term care facilities post a notice regarding the form of discrimination at the location where its current non-discrimination policies are posted. according to a 2011 study by the national senior citizens' law center, 89% of respondents believed that caretakers would discriminate against them for being lgbtq and 43% had personally witnessed or experienced mistreatment of lgbtq seniors. though california has sought to protect the rights of its senior population prior to sb-219, the state had not detailed specific actions deemed discriminatory or made residents fully aware of their rights to hold facilities more accountable. i will note that san francisco, as is so often the case, led the way on this issue at the local level. in 25015, the board much supervisors passed an ordinance by splfers wiener and compost for discrimination against patients at long-term care

facilities. and the ordinance also provided persons with the right to seek investigation and mediation by the human rights commission as well as the private right of action. unfortunately, on july 16th, 2021, the state of california third district court of appeals invalidated the provision of sb-219, requiring nursing home staff too use the correct pronouns for trans and non-binary patients, eliminating the protections for lgbtq seniors. they treated this law as singling out lgbtq people as a regulation of protected speech, rather than conduct. the court was wrong. and in prohibiting the state from protecting lgbtq seniors from misgenderring, the court failed to acknowledge the serious harm caused by the intentional misuse of strand gender people's names and pronouns. studies of transgender and non-binary people have found that it caused great harm, with

over 130 adults finding that a third of the participants saying they felt stigmatized when misgenderred and the studies published since 2009 founding that correlated how frequently with how often they were transgendered with how likely they experienced distress. the california attorney general, the california department of social services, and the california department of public health filed a petition for review before the supreme court of california. this petition urges the supreme court to restore sb-219 protections for lgbtq seniors and other long-term care residents in facilities. this resolution would put the board of supervisors on record urging the supreme court to review this ruling and to restore all of the critical anti-harassment protections in sb-219. i want to thank the supervisors for their co-sponsorship. i also have an in memoriam.

i'm asking that we adjr. teed's meeting in memory of james c.hormel who died at age 88. jim was a civil rights pioneer, the first out gay person to represent the united states as an ambassador and a lgbtq advocate. and he was born in austin, min minnesota in 1933. his grandfather founded hor mel foods in austin in 1981 and his father was the president from 1929-1954. jim grew up in austin where much of the town was employed at the hormel meatpacking plant that his father oversaw. he got a batch loor of arts and history and met his future wife with whom he would have five children. he would go on to earn a law degree from the university of chicago law school, where he served as dean of students and the director of admissions following his graduation.

jim and alice divorced in 1965 and in 1967 he came out as a gay man. in 1977, he moved to san francisco and began his many decades of work as a philanthropist and political activist. in 1981, he found the human rights campaign fund which later would become the human rights campaign of the he was an early donor to the national center for lesbian rights and the aids memorial grove and he donated $500,000 to the san francisco public library to create the lgbtqia center at the main library. he was a member of the board of directors for the san francisco chamber of commerce and the federation for aids research and the founding director of the city club of san francisco. he was an active democratic party donor and was alternate representative of the u.s. delegation to the 51st united nations general assembly in 1976. he was also a member of the u.s. delegation for the 51st u.n. human rights commission in early 1995. in 1997, after three decades as

living as an out and proud gay man, he was the first person to be nominated for an ambassadorship. he endured public opposition spearheaded by conservatives who viciously attacked him for his sexuality and his commitment to lgbtq causes and activism. undeterred he would meet with his detractors one by one but was not able to get the votes necessary for senate confirmation. in 1999, president clinton by-processed the process and named jim ambassador while congress was in recess. he would serve in the role to december 2000. jim received many honors for his many good works. he was a pride parade grand marshal in 2005 and announced the grand chief marshall in 2010. he received the commonwealth club of san francisco for social justice award, the silver spur award for leadership from spur, and a lifetime achievement award from human rights campaign.

he is survived by his five children, 14 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and his husband, michael. rest in power ambassador james hormel, may your memory be a blessing. the rest i submit. >> clerk: supervisor. >> i want to thank you for your powerful words about the women and girls right to choose and self-determination over their bodies. and it's a highlight from today's meeting that i'll be talking to my teenaged daughter about this evening when i get home. so thank you. i have two items today, colleagues. first, i'm introducing a resolution calling on the department of public health to set clear standards for how health care facilities will and should support their workers in meeting the california department of public health vaccine mandate deadline of september 30th. and also calling on health care employers to follow these

standards and support their workers. this vaccine mandate is essential. it's vital for all health care workers to get vaccinated to protect themselves and the public. but the standards have varied widely in how different providers are approaching this requirement. with some offering meaningful support and accommodation and providing paid time off and on-site vaccine access for testing of their workers. meanwhile, others have offered only threats of job loss, with very little accommodation or support for vaccinating their workers. while the city has our own mandate for city employees being vaccinated, the city offers ample supports to help workers avail themselves of the vaccine and testing. when the fight against the pandemic and the latest surge requires the full attention of the health care industry, both public and private, it makes no sense that san francisco would have widely varying standards and support for workers dealing with the vaccine hesitancy or

vaccine access. second, along with supervisor peskin, i'm requesting that we adjourn this meeting in memory of carl allen payne who was born on july 27, 1940 in pittsburgh and passed away on august 7th, 2021, at his home in the sunset district. as supervisor peskin so eloquently described, carl was an incredibly unique and dedicated public servant and ambassador for our city. he was also a veteran, a people person, and a musical talent. upon graduation from high school in pittsburgh, carl joined the u.s. marine corps serving as a military policeman in japan. after he was discharged from the service at treasure island in 1962, he came to san francisco, fell in love with the city and made it his home for nearly 60 years. he joined muni to run our city's cable cars while also working as a security guard and drummer. he won the cable car bell

ringing competition an incredible 10 times over a 15-year period. and at the age of 50 he joined sfpd as the oldest rookie to ever serve at the time. after he served for 23 years as a police officer, he continued his service with the city as a park ranger, often participating in special events such as outside plans and patrolling the parks. among his many civic cause was was a campaign to fund and rebuild the decripit cable car system which former mayor diane finestein recruited him to join by the time that the refurbished system reeached, carl was a celebrity in his own right, traveling to hong kong, london, and amsterdam on city business. because he'd grown up in a household too poor to afford a car, carl developed a weakness for fancy classic cars and his first was a bentley and then he moved to a rolls-royce. his classic cars could be seen on 30th avenue regularly.

he owned five at the time of his death and he showed them at classic car shows, winning awards, though not as many as he garnered for his bell ringing. and the family will keep the fleet together as the carl payne collection, eventually to tour the car show circuit. his daughter, charisse, stated that my dad used to say that there was no other city in the world like san francisco, with its character and its charm and opportunities. through all of his talents and natural skills and natural charisma he gave everything that he had to the city of san francisco. carl is survived by his two sons, carl payne jr., and james payne, and his two daughters, kimberly goodspeed and charisse payne. mr. payne's life is legendary and he represents the best of san francisco. we are forever indebted for his service to this city. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor mar. mr. president, seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business.

>> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. let's move on to public comment >> clerk: at this time the board of supervisors welcomes general public comment. the best way to provide public comment and avoid signal delay is to listen from your touch phone. you will be in sync to listen to the proceeding and provide public comment. the number is streaming on your screen and it is 1-(415)-655-0001. when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i.d., 2491 975 9362 press pound twice. and you will have joined the meeting. you will hear the discussion, you'll be muted and in the listening queue. to be added to the speaker queue to provide comment, press star 3. when it is your turn, the system will send you a prompt. listen carefully for "you have been un-muted" and just begin speaking your comments. at public comment you may speak to agenda items 27-35, the minutes as presented, you may

also speak to the subject matters that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of supervisors, but are not on this agenda. all other agenda content has had public comment fulfilled at committee. each caller has up to two minutes to provide comment. as stated earlier we do have interpreters who are standing by and ready to jump in to assist the public with their interpretation. for cantonese we have agnes ly, and for filipino, our interpreter, and for spanish, connie jospami. can you introduce yourself and the service that you are able to provide. >> (speaking foreign language). thank you. >> (speaking foreign language).

thank you. that's all. [speaking spanish] thank you. >> clerk: thank you all three for being here this afternoon. we have 12 listeners who are in the queue and three who are prepared to speak. if you are one of the 12, and you would like to provide comment this afternoon, you must hit star, 3, soon, or otherwise these next three callers may be the totality of public comment. we'll take them to the end. let's welcome the first caller. welcome, caller. >> caller: linda chapman -- excuse me -- again, i want to call your attention to the grove

as the potential city landmark. i was recently at the hearing for landmarking the other, [indiscernible] and in our district, you know, two buildings that were -- one was proposed for landmarking by the supervisor peskin. [indiscernible] the only free meeting place, you know, that was obviously worthy of being landmarked and instead it was demolished to have condos built the same thing is happening. in the case of the methodist church, and we took it for granted, and only discovered its importance when supervisor peskin nominated for landmarking. and then the studies came out. i would have to say in a way that was [indiscernible] i

moved to nob hill at a time when it was just a glorious, unbelievable, compared to anything that i have seen first and it was really the place to go. it was the place where it was very much a gay mecca and it was kind of difficult for other people to get in. but it was one place where everybody could go, because you couldn't go to the gay bar. and in 1975, next to the old -- what we thought at the time was a trolley car but was actually a lunch car, and next to that they had to expand by building a little dining room. it was very quaint and charming dining room. only when i saw the turnbull report on this, did i realize how really important this place is. what we thought was a trolley car was actually a lunch car

which was -- >> clerk:thank you, ms. chapman i apologize to interrupt you this afternoon. we are setting the timer for two minutes. operations, let's hear from the next caller. welcome, caller. >> caller: hello, my name is [indiscernible] and i currently live in district 11, and i wanted to call in regards to the context of what net positive, actionable, um, efforts in regards to equity and the term equity itself. so the term equity in the past eight months that i have been participating in local government related items, just like voicing my opinion, i feel like it's been used a lot loosely. and the meaning of that has been, like, just watered down quite significantly. for example, it's used as a

method to justify something that kind of puts us on a positive for the whole community as a whole, like, maybe some district alone itself, you know, which i totally understand. but in regards to equity, i was hoping that, you know, when using the term just keeping in mind that when used, it should be envisioned with the equity of the whole entire s.f. city, not just particularly a neighborhood or a district. again, i totally understand that. -- that buy in. but just having that reflection, okay, you know, what is better for s.f. city as a whole in an equitable way. and people from bayview equitably to go to oceanview, and to the people from the mission district, which i really kind of appreciate [indiscernible] thank you. have a great day and have a good

evening. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. all right, operations, let's welcome the next caller, please >> caller: hello, board of supervisors. my name is josh bach and i live here in san francisco. and i would like to thank you supervisors for the support for the resolution discussed earlier today about the limitation of this law. you know, imagine being confined in a cage as small as your home microwave and stuck with eight other chickens. you can imagine a mother pig in a cage so small that she can never turn around. you imagine a baby in a cage so small that she can't turn around. this is cruel and inhumane. and beyond those humane concerns, framing animals in these small cages leads to food safety issues. that's why they need health

issues, like zoonotic diseases and these animals cram together and one gets sick, they all get sick. and that's why they say that the leading risk for future global pandemics has to do with these industrial farms that confine animals in these small cages. so i want to say thank you so much. and supervisor safai was spot on that we should not have a 2002-tiered food system where people of higher income levels can have products from animals not treated cruelly, but those of lower incomes have to have animals that are treated cruelly. and where there's food concerns and public health concerns with products for people at lower income brackets. so for all of these myriad reasons i want to thank you so much for your support. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. all right, operations, let's hear from our next caller. we have 13 callers who are listening and seven who are in

the queue. if you are one of the 13, you should press star 3 now. otherwise we might take this group to the end. welcome, caller. >> caller: how are you doing, board of supervisors. this is dave alexander and i live in district 1. and i work with the richmond family transportation network. and i just want to thank supervisor chan for introducing the resolution today and i look forward to reading it when it's posted online. i wanted to give a shout out to legislative aide kelly croft who has been great to work with. and i also want to parrot the highest rate was 39%, and it's dwindled down in the 30s at this rate. so there's room. we can make it work. we have brilliant minds here in san francisco.

so let's keep chipping away at it. and that is it, thank you so much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. all right, perhaps that's -- >> caller: hello. >> clerk: welcome, caller. >> caller: oh, hello. i oppose the new mask mandate. i think that it is really bullshit. [indiscernible] is a faggot. >> clerk: all right, operations, let's hear from our next caller, please. >> caller: hi, supervisors. i'm calling in today to voice my

strong support for keeping the great highway closed to cars for all days, not just weekends. it's a great space for people to get out and recreate, and more importantly, gets people out of their cars. and 28% of emissions come from private auto. why are we cutting muni service and expanding it in the city. and we should make sure that we're doing our best to get people out of cars and on buses and on bikes and on foot. please, please, keep the great highway closed to cars and i urge sfmta to go back to 100% of pre-pandemic levels or more. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: yes, this is michael nasulte and i'm an advocate for

the disabled and people that have to use taxis in san francisco for transportation. the board of appeals is currently reviewing [indiscernible] and i requested the board of supervisors to convene a hearing to review the medallions for taxis. the taxi medallion holders, because of the fact that the mta is currently trying to have them repossessed because of problems that are currently occurring with the medallions. i requested the board have an appropriate -- create the legislation to assist the medallion holders and to have to have the ability to keep them. please look into this topic. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, do we have another caller in the queue, please?

>> caller: hello, can you hear me? >> clerk: yes, welcome. >> caller: hello? thank you. ava christiani. in 110 years that my father's family has lived and worked in san francisco, we have seen a near handful of latinos elected to the board of supervisors, despite being the most underpaid labor. and latino residents have been targeted by police and far more severely than whites. often for political purposes. this august, several sf board of supervisors and prominent progressives weighed in on allegations of sexual assault made by a white woman against a young latina activist as if the matter had already been decided in a court of law. you might claim that you're supporting women, but it is not as a survivor of domestic

violence and sexual assault, i take these allegations seriously, and i recognize how critical it is for the rights of all victims that they are brought forward and received in a responsible manner. that is the opposite of what happened. your comments helped ferment what became a mob against the accused, a mob consisting of white, quote, progressives who worked for non-profits and campaign and many who had been key players in last year's unproved accusations against another non-white latino political activist. this context was not reported by the "san francisco chronicle" or mission local, all which had biased accounts of the allegations. and specifically failed to note the conflicts of interest to your funding from shelter in place philanthropy and the pro-charter school foundation, and which employed the accused's father. and it's inexcusable.

i ask that you retract you're earlier comment ands make a clear statement against pre-trying any accused persons in the court of public opinion. i thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. all right, operations, can we hear from the next caller, please. >> caller: basically i was a drug user and a homeless person and as a drug person and a homeless person, i rose myself up and i became a member of the community, and i became a hero and i became an icon and a legend. and i did not change anything. all of a sudden this homeless fight came along and you use

terminology like homeless and referring to all homeless people. so i'm guilty of all of the trash, though i'm not, and my name has been trashed down to where i'm just a piece of trash and nobody who hasn't lived here for 15 years knows it or cares to know any different. and they call the cops on me and they're fighting me and they're doing all of this and i did not do anything to change. the descendants of those who slaughtered the native americans. let me tell you one thing, i was a farm boy when i got here, an innocent farm boy from nebraska and you turned me into what i don't like now, which is a meth head. many who came from minnesota and michigan and from iowa, and you guys turned them into something it's not my dirty laundry. i'm just wearing the shirt. [indiscernible]. >> clerk: thank you, sir, for your comments. there are 12 listeners in the

queue. if you would like to provide public comment this afternoon, you should hit star 3 now, and otherwise we'll take the next two callers to the very end. welcome, caller. >> caller: hi, board of supervisors, my name is scott feeney and i'm calling in to urge you to support car-free space on the great highway and j.f.k. and also to properly fund muni service. in july, you all unanimously passed the city's zero 80100 routes framework for environmental sustainability. the 80 in that refers to by 2030 having 80% of trips in the city made by low-carbon modes such as walking, and biking and taking transit. when that was most recently surveyed in 2019, we only had 47% of trips by low carbon load

so we have a long way to go in less than nine years. and making that kind of shift, that kind of change in how we get around requires action and reopening highways and cutting transit is not the way to get there. i think that in the debate over the great highway or the great walkway, there's been a lot of rightful attention paid to how people have enjoyed it as a park, which is great. but it can't be forgotten that this is also changing the transportation network to provide a safe space for people to bike and walk. and that's important too. we need to be making changes like that, and we need to be funding muni properly so that it doesn't have to make cuts. that's all i have to say today. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments, sir. operations, let's hear from the next caller, please.

>> caller: i am lisa church and i'm a resident of d3. i wanted to start by saying thank you to everyone, but particularly the women who brought up the resolution against texas sb-8. i have a lot to say about that, but i'm just very grateful that came up teed. today. i'm calling in particular to speak about in particular the great highway but also j.f.k. and what a boom those have been i was really very disappointed when the mayor and the supervisors mar, chan and melgar, reopened great highway as you were all going on your summer recess. i feel like it was disingenuous to tie to that the school opening, as anyone who has been on the great highway knows that it's not a way that goes to the different schools. i am middle age and i have limited mobility and i come

across town on muni from d3 because the great highway has become the only place in san francisco that is completely flat. it's completely protected from vehicles. it's by the ocean, there's fresh air. it just has so much potential for this city. and everything that we say that we stand for, vision zero, transit first, climate, everything. putting cars back on there goes against everything that we say that we believe in. so i am hoping that you'll take action. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. let's hear from the next speaker, please. >> madam clerk, that completes the queue. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president? >> president walton: thank you see, madam clerk. and seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. madam clerk, would you please go back to item number 18.

>> clerk: yes, item 18 is the expanded vote by mail for exclusively municipal elections >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, mr. president. after conferring with our city attorney, we've come up with the following amendment. this amendment is non-substantive. for those that want too reference it would be on page 2, line 7. at the end of that sentence we would added following language "without limiting in-person voting opportunities on or before election day." i'd like to make a motion to submit that amendment. >> president walton: thank you so much. do we have a second? seconded by supervisor preston. madam clerk, there's a motion on the floor to amend item 18 made by supervisor safai, and seconded by supervisor peskin. >> clerk: on the motion to item 18... [roll call vote] there are

11 ayes. >> president walton: on the amended item. >> clerk: on item 18 as amended [roll call vote]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. this passes unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to adoption without committee reference, items 27-35. >> clerk: items 27-35 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. the unanimous vote is required for resolutions on first reading today. alternatively a member may require a resolution to go to committee. >> president walton: colleagues, would you like to sever any items? i do see supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: item 31. >> president walton: 31. >> item 30. >> president walton: item 30. >> president walton: i don't see anyone else on the roster. i understand that no one else is on the roster. can we take the balance of the remaining items, same house,

same call. and without objection, these resolutions are adopted and the motions are approved unanimously. madam clerk, can we have item number 30. >> clerk: item 30 is a resolution to urge california governor gavin newsome to extend covid-related eviction protections to december 31, 2021, or later. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton, and colleagues. i talked about this issue previous in my remarks on item 6. i won't repeat that, but this is related. (please stand by)

>> supervisor preston: colleagues, we know what it -- last month, new york governor kathy hochul extended measures through january 15, 2022. not only will this keep vulnerable new yorkers -- [inaudible] >> supervisor preston: who need it most. there is absolutely no reason why california should not also

take this sensible step. i look forward to working with colleagues in the governor's office, in the state legislature to extend eviction protections, and i want to thank my cosponsors in joining this resolution. i hope that we as san franciscans can send a clear message by unanimously passing this resolution today and urging the state government in california and extend these protections that are so desperately needed. thank you. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor preston. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: please add me as a sponsor to that. >> president walton: madam clerk, roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on item 30 -- [roll call]

>> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk, and without objection, this item is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 31. >> clerk: item 31 is a resolution urging treasurer fiona ma and the california debt limit allocation committee, cdlac, to amend the adopted cdlac regulations immediately to address the regional inequities of the allocation system resulting in no awards to san francisco for

new construction affordable housing projects. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you, president walton. >> supervisor safai: we didn't get any new construction funds for this year, is that correct? 'cause i know we did in 2020, for sure, under the new rules, so i'm wondering if it has

something to do with the year, if it has something to do with the system. i'm in support, i'm not against this, just a point of clarification. i know in the past, they would award in a much different way, and san francisco would win, under treasurer ma, we were awarded cdlac, so i'm just wondering about the nonsupport of this year. >> president walton: i did have some statements to make that will answer your, but let me turn to supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: i just

wanted to be added as a cosponsor. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: thank you, president walton. i just wanted to be added as a cosponsor, as well. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor mar. i just wanted to say the california debt allocation committee, cdlac, is currently very oversubscribed, and the only activities that received bond allocation and tax credits are low cost and in high opportunity areas per h.c.d. and tsacs community projects. the east side of san francisco are identified as low opportunity areas, not competitive for tax exempt

financing. the use of cost containment as a primary determinant of which applications for housing will receive tax exempt bond allocations will disexempt projects in san francisco. this is to urge treasurer fiona ma and cdlac to adopt the resolutions, which was resulted in no awards to san francisco for new construction affordable housing projects. it's important for job in transit rich cities like san francisco to be able to access state resources to build affordable housing. san francisco has an explicit, dedicated, and on going commitment to invest in affordable housing for all of its recess dents, and i might add, we have certain regional bodies that increase our

affordable housing. madam clerk, roll call, please, for item 31. >> clerk: on item 31 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: and without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. and colleagues, i did move too fast when i did same house,

same call for items 27 through 29 and 37 through -- 32 through 35. we will rescind the vote on those items, and i would like to do motion for same house, same call, for 27 through 29 and 32 through 34. motion seconded by supervisor mandelman, and i believe we can take that same house, same call. madam clerk, can you please call item 35. >> clerk: item 35, this is a motion scheduling the brs brs

to sit as a committee of the whole on october 5, 2021, at 3:00 p.m., during the regular board of supervisors meeting, to hold a public hearing on the findings and recommendations from the independent review by william b. gould iv, a charles a. beardsley professor of law at stanford law school, on the city's equal employment opportunity policies of the department of human resources equal employment opportunity division. >> president walton: colleagues, i just want to remind you that this is after a year-long process where board of supervisors and staff members received countless e-mails over e.e.o.s treatment of employees where a former manager have forged documents and lied to a black employee

about their e.e.o. case, including deleting and manipulating files, dismissing lawsuits, and misrepresenting the department and the city. we're going to hear back from professor william gould. supervisor peskin called for an independent report on e.e.o. practices and ways to improve how e.e.o. cases are handled, so this report will go over those findings. we'll hear from professor gould, so i just wanted to highlight that.

madam clerk, on item 35, would you please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 35 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. and without objection, this motion is approved. madam clerk, do we have any imperative items? >> clerk: there are none to report. >> president walton: thank you so much, and that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, would you please read today's in memoriams?

>> clerk: yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of mr. jack hirschman, for mr. laura mcmann, miss lauren kinkaid, and for the late marjorie louise young and [inaudible] and for the late u.s. ambassador to luxembourg, james c.hormel, and officer carl

payne. >> president walton: and thank you so much, madam clerk. to my female colleagues, i want to say i am so sorry that you have to continue to deal with the continued persecution on women. i'm talking about texas. i just want to leave us with this. in the midst of the continued fight for women's rights and equity, i read the following quote from erica jones. i hope we do not have to go back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. the battle for birth control, the parity of women's health, it's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then, you have to win them again and again and again and fight the same battles over and over. you're not alone in this fight. in san francisco, we are

definitely on the battlefield. this meeting is adjourned. [gavel]

>> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk

around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself. >> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it

on the streets you like. >> you're watching quick bite, the show that has san francisco. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> we're here at one of the many food centric districts of san francisco, the 18th street corridor which locals have affectionately dubbed the castro. a cross between castro and gastronomic. the bakery, pizza, and dolores park cafe, there is no end in sight for the mouth watering

food options here. adding to the culinary delights is the family of business he which includes skylight creamery, skylight and the 18 raisin. >> skylight market has been here since 1940. it's been in the family since 1964. his father and uncle bought the market and ran it through sam taking it over in 1998. at that point sam revamped the market. he installed a kitchen in the center of the market and really made it a place where chefs look forward to come. he created community through food. so, we designed our community as having three parts we like to draw as a triangle where it's comprised of our producers that make the food, our staff, those who sell it, and our guests who come and buy and eat the food.

and we really feel that we wouldn't exist if it weren't for all three of those components who really support each other. and that's kind of what we work towards every day. >> valley creamery was opened in 2006. the two pastry chefs who started it, chris hoover and walker who is sam's wife, supplied all the pastries and bakeries for the market. they found a space on the block to do that and the ice cream kind of came as an afterthought. they realized the desire for ice cream and we now have lines around the corner. so, that's been a huge success. in 2008, sam started 18 reasons, which is our community and event space where we do five events a week all around the idea of bringling people closer to where the food comes from and closer to each other in that process. >> 18 reasons was started

almost four years ago as an educational arm of their work. and we would have dinners and a few classes and we understood there what momentum that people wanted this type of engagement and education in a way that allowed for a more in-depth conversation. we grew and now we offer -- i think we had nine, we have a series where adults learned home cooking and we did a teacher training workshop where san francisco unified public school teachers came and learned to use cooking for the core standards. we range all over the place. we really want everyone to feel like they can be included in the conversation. a lot of organizations i think which say we're going to teach cooking or we're going to teach gardening, or we're going to get in the policy side of the food from conversation. we say all of that is connected and we want to provide a place that feels really community oriented where you can be interested in multiple of those things or one of those things

and have an entree point to meet people. we want to build community and we're using food as a means to that end. >> we have a wonderful organization to be involved with obviously coming from buy right where really everyone is treated very much like family. coming into 18 reasons which even more community focused is such a treat. we have these events in the evening and we really try and bring people together. people come in in groups, meet friends that they didn't even know they had before. our whole set up is focused on communal table. you can sit across from someone and start a conversation. we're excited about that. >> i never worked in catering or food service before. it's been really fun learning about where things are coming from, where things are served from. >> it is getting really popular. she's a wonderful teacher and i think it is a perfect match for us. it is not about home cooking. it's really about how to facilitate your ease in the kitchen so you can just cook. >> i have always loved eating food.

for me, i love that it brings me into contact with so many wonderful people. ultimately all of my work that i do intersects at the place where food and community is. classes or cooking dinner for someone or writing about food. it always come down to empowering people and giving them a wonderful experience. empower their want to be around people and all the values and reasons the commitment, community and places, we're offering a whole spectrum of offerings and other really wide range of places to show that good food is not only for wealthy people and they are super committed to accessibility and to giving people a glimpse of the beauty that really is available to all of us that sometimes we forget in our day to day running around. >> we have such a philosophical mission around bringing people

together around food. it's so natural for me to come here. >> we want them to walk away feeling like they have the tools to make change in their lives. whether that change is voting on an issue in a way that they will really confident about, or that change is how to understand why it is important to support our small farmers. each class has a different purpose, but what we hope is that when people leave here they understand how to achieve that goal and feel that they have the resources necessary to do that. >> are you inspired? maybe you want to learn how to have a patch in your backyard or cook better with fresh ingredients . or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons.org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market.com. and don't forget to check out

our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites.com. until next time, may the fork be with you. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> so chocolaty. mm. ♪♪ >> oh, this is awesome. oh, sorry. i thought we were done rolling. ♪♪

>> 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

i just wanted to start by introducing myself. i'm san francisco mayor london breed. i'm here at this park in the community where i grew up in and this is where i wanted to come today especially in light of everything that's happening with covid-19. you know, i've gotten a lot of calls about people who have died and in particular yesterday, i talked to a frequent of mine who lost a very dear friend of his. that friend was 52 years old and he said, "london, this man spent 26 years in jail. he's been shot. he's been beat up.

he came out. he turned his life around and after everything he went through, he caught covid. he wasn't vaccinated and within less than a month's time he was dead." we have another member of our community that's joining us here today. ms. cassie cook who lost her son who was in his early 50s and was not vaccinated. and i understand the concerns that a lot of people have around vaccinations specifically in the african american community. we know the history of the alabama shear croppers through the tuskeegee experiments. when those people were provided the opportunity to get the cure

which at the time in 1977 which was penicillin, they were denied. they went on to infect their wives and others and, in fact, decades later, the government finally acknowledged the crime it committed against those african american sharecroppers. and many some of you know my grandmother who raised me in this community, her family were sharecroppers. were well aware we didn't have the devices and internet we had word of mouth where we were acutely aware of all that was going on in the injustices inflicted upon african americans at that time. that is part of the reason i know why we are not seeing as many african americans in this

city vaccinated as it should be. and the reason why i am becoming increasingly concerned, we as san francisco as a whole is doing great. we have 79% of those over the age of 12 that are fully vaccinated. we are seeing people, actually, the numbers are increasing about 203 new cases a day. 117 people right now in the hospital and an uptick in the number of african americans who are not only contracting covid, but who are dying from covid. disproportionately to a very small population of black people in this city and that should not be. this delta variant is covid on steroids in a whole other way. and the vaccine could be the difference between having the

sniffles, being at home sick a couple of days and not being able to breathe and suffocating, being on a ventilator and dying. so, yes, this is a matter of life or death and other people continue to bring up. i understand the concern and the hesitancy. i had to dig deep before i even committed to get the vaccine. i had to understand it because if i was going to be asking other people to do it, i had to do it myself. and i had to feel confident about why i was doing it. now more than ever, it is so important. you know, when ms. cook told me that the last time she saw her son, she couldn't even hug him. and she lost him.

i can't even imagine how she's feeling right now and i'm grateful to god she's standing strong here today. she's here to tell her story so you all can understand the importance. we've had so many challenging experiences in the black community and this city. challenging experience around violence, around poverty. and sadly now around covid. so when we come out of this pandemic eventually, i don't know when, i can't give a guaranteed date, when we come out of this pandemic, i don't want to be mourning the people lost because of this disease. so, yes, we have a lot of work today and for those who are hesitant and want to ask

questions, concerns want to get the vaccine, may not, who knows, but we want to be here. we want to be here to make sure people know it's possible if you want it and we want to encourage folks to get it because i'm tired of wearing masks. i'm tired of imposing all these public health guidelines. they're not meant to be a punishment. just remember, kids under the age of 12 cannot be vaccinated. they have not been approved for the vaccination. so when we have one case at a school, we may have to shut the whole school down and kids are back home suffering from mental health challenges because they're not able to be in school in the classroom with other students. so, today, i'm reaching out to folks to do their part to get

vaccinated. it's a simple message. and, with that, i want to introduce dr. grant colfax to talk a little bit more about specifically what's happening in san francisco and some of the data and then if ms. cook is up to it, i want her to come up here and say a few words because when we talked over the phone, she said she wants to make sure that she does everything she can to reach out to people to make sure they're vaccinated so this doesn't happen to someone else. so, with that, i want to introduce dr. grant col fax. >> thank you, mayor. and good morning everybody. thank you, mayor for your outstanding leadership during this pandemic and i just also want to acknowledge the leaders behind me today with regard to

ensuring that we do everything we can to get vaccinated. i want to thank reverend brown. i want to thank ms. cook for coming out today. we are in san francisco at almost 80% of people eligible being fully vaccinated. that is outstanding. we still have work to do. we still have work to do particularly among black african americans where our rate of vaccination is 64%. that's why we are here today, that's why we are here providing vaccine to people in the park. that's why we have our mobile teams out. that's why we have our vax to you program. you can call the number on our website. we will bring the vaccine to your home or any other place. if you have five or more people ready to get vaccinated. there's a lot of conversation about [break] through infections. those are important, but let's

stay on the key message here that these vaccines are saving lives every day. here in san francisco, the vast majority of people hospitalized are people who have not been vaccinated. the vast majority of people in this fourth surge that we're seeing who are sadly dying of covid-19, these deaths are overwhelmingly preventable with these vaccines. these vaccines are safe and effective and they are so important for us to get back to a new normal that we all take these vaccines. so just really encouraging people to do that. with regard to our fourth surge here in san francisco. we are currently just under 200 new infections per day. that's down a bit. hospitalizations appear to have stabilize z in terms of that rapid increase. they have stabilize now.

we do not know what's going to happen next. the more we are vaccinated, the better we'll be able to take care of people. the more likely our schools will continue to be able to stay open and we'll be able to protect people particularly vulnerable to covid-19 and we'll be better prepared and more ready for whatever this holds next for us. thank you very much. >> thank you, and i just want to thank reverend brown from the n.a.c.p. and other pastors who are joining us here today as well as sherman tillman from the black firefighters for his support and, at this time, i want to introduce reverend shaw from betho ame and floyd tramel from first friendship. i want to introduce cathy cook to come forward and say a few

words. >> good afternoon. can you hear me? okay. when i pulled up, i saw whole groups of young men across the street. that's why i'm here. when i look at you, we are preaching to the choir because we know what we need to do. i used to be a deputy executive director and i touched the lives of these young men that you see on the street, but they're gone. i am hurting.

i am burrying my son on tuesday i didn't get a chance to say good-bye. i begged him to be vaccinated, he wouldn't do it. so he had to leave my house because i wanted him to be safe. i saw him july 7th and i looked through the gate. i said have you been vaccined? vaccinated? and he just threw his hands up and all i saw was his back. it took them three days to find me. he was in kaiser in oakland. he was dying. he had acute pneumonia and he had all of these bacterias in his body that was eating up every organ he had.

and my message that i would like to get out today to the masses, if you're anywhere from 38 to sixty and i have a group of about twelve doctors that took their time with me and they said within the last six to eight months, the group 38 to 60, they come in, they don't make it out. they don't make it out because they have not been vaccinated. they die. my son is dead. my son. i have only one child. i beg you. i beg you. i can't take no more. my son i'm going to bury.

you don't know what it feels like. my son is dead. i've got to go. >> reverend brown. say something. >> thank you very much, madam mayor and to dr. colfax. reverend shaw of bethel african american first friendship and other clergy persons who are

here. i stand to say, we should applaud our mayor for taking the positive step to make sure that in the city and county of san francisco african americans will not be at the bottom of the barrel of the well when it comes to educating in a positive way. our entire community about the fact that all of us should be tested and vaccinated. ms. cassie cook is also a member of third baptist church and as a pastor and as one representing jesus of nazurus.

for that profit came and said that they may have life more abundantly. so we are pleading with and as i did with my own children who are this generation. i gave them some gentle yet direct indication, don't calls me to feel that i need to disown you. because james brown it not bare children who would not understand that you don't look alternate facebook. you don't look at those people who come up with some kind of conspiracy theories. just to divide others to be in charge of something, but you look to scientists, doctors.

you look to faith leaders who have gone the kay of the struggle and know what we are talking about. so today, we are just beginning. acp came and this gumbo ban will make some news throughout san francisco and bayview hunter's point to say to our children and to the young adults, come on, baby, god ordaned for you to have life and not to have death before the deadline. too many of us are dying. two and one half percent are dying of this virus in the city and county of san francisco.

but true hope treasure of god and christ, we have testing sites, we have vaccination sites and in addition to this site today, i say to all of you standing around here, if you've not been vaccinated come on together t. my mother-in-law is 103 years old and she's kicking and doing well with her whit. my wife is 78 years old and god has enabled me saying to everybody, god loves you and so do i, let's be about life and not death. >> thank you, reverend brown.

you know i'm going to tell jane on you for telling all these people her age out here. thank you reverend brown. thank you, cassie cook for your courage and everyone who's joining us here today and, as i said, you know, we don't know how long covid will be with us. but we want to make sure we do our part so we begin to open up everything we need to and finally i'll just say dr. colfax touched on it a little bit the people in the hospital are younger and we've had about 1800 people who were hospitalized and 1600 people were vaccinated. if just shows you that if more

people were. so we've got work to do. we're out here. we'll be out here another hour and a half. please come to the philmore mini park between turk and golden gate to get your vaccine today. thank you. any questions from the press? >> reporter: [inaudible] have you seen any uptick in vaccination rates? >> we have seen an uptick in the percentage of people who've been vaccinated and so that's been good. we've also even though we're still seeing a lot more cases than we're comfortable with, we see the average numbers decline. so that's good news, but we're

still not in a good place. >> reporter: marginalized communities are most of the time left behind. you have put them in the front of the line. our community members over here [inaudible] >> well, i think as a part of this community, i know that it's important that we do things differently. and how we communicate to the african american community. and so when this pandemic first hit, i didn't know all the answers to every question, but it was important to me that we embed an equity team that could answer those questions as soon as we have the information, the same with what we needed to do around this vaccination site. we started with a free site, no questions asked or everyone ninety-two thousand two hundred

forty-four and the one at 2401 keith in the bayview. you can come, you live in those zip codes. no questions asked, no insurance or what have you. so part of it was to make it easy and make sure people were available to help support and really just to encourage people to do it and we're going to keep on doing that. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> i think dr. colfax should talk more about that specifically. >> so i think in response to our questions is how important these vaccines are.

they're very key in preventing death from covid-19 and you can look at the data on our website. it's there. the rates of hospitalization for people with covid are over eight times higher if they've not been vaccinated versus fully vaccinated. so it's really important that people understand that these are incredible drugs and medicines that are literally saving lives every day. the break through infections. we continue to see break through infections. most of those, the vast majority of those break through infections caused mild to moderate symptoms. so what we really need to focus on is who's in the hospital and who unfortunately continues to die from covid-19. and ensure that we get people who have not been fully vaccinated as quickly as possible. >> reporter:

[inaudible] show your identification -- [inaudible] >> about what? i'm sorry, greg? >> vaccination cards. >> yeah. you can show a copy of it on your phone, your vaccination cards when you go into restaurants starting august 20th. you can show a copy of your card. you can show your card, you can register with the state and use that as a way. again, the goal is not to punish people. the whole point is education and to make sure that everyone does their part and we're not requiring it for people who are eating outside you can do that and it's really up to the restaurants. so what we ask and comply with what the businesses are asking

us to do. finally, if you need me to hold your hand while you get vaccinated, i'll hold your hand. i'll make sure you get through this. this community is very important to me and so i want to make sure that people know they can come here and get vaccinate. if not todays, we can answer any questions about concerns because this is the question i get a lot from from people so what does this virus consist of. what will it do and what does it actually mean? dr. colfax, if you can talk about it. it's complicated, but it's not like we're taking the actual virus and infecting people and i want the folks to understand

that. >> thank you, mayor. and, just to be very clear there is no virus in any of these vaccines. there is no virus in any of these vaccines. you cannot get the virus from these vaccines. what these vaccines do is they prime your body to be able to fight the virus. to be able to fight the virus. your immune system fighting the and it gets your body ready to fight the virus and god forbid you don't get the virus these vaccines are safe, they're highly effective. they've been used in hundreds and millions of people. they're very important. talk to your care provider. talk to a relative who's gotten

the vaccine. please, educate yourself about the vaccine. get the vaccine. it could save your life. it could save the life of someone you love. >> and, then, i'll just say that today we're going to be here for another hour and a half. if after work, you want to get vaccinated, you can go to maxine hall on golden gate and webster. you can drop in. there are people there that can answer your questions and provide you with any information and you can do your vaccine first shot, second shot at that location as well. we're trying to make it as convenient as possible. drop in. and in the meantime, thank you all so much for being here today and let's get vaccinated. [applause]

>> chairwoman: the department of disability and aging services commission meeting of wednesday, september 1st, 2021, called to order. i'm the vice president janet spears. this commission meeting is being conducted pursuant to provisions of the ground act and recent executive orders issued by the governor to facilitate teleconferencing to reduce the risk of covid-19 traps covid-19transmissions at public

meetings. the governor's executive order has suspended those rules. it requires we continue to notice meetings in advance. as noted on the agenda, members of the public may observe this teleconference meeting via sfgov tv.org. i would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching this live on sfgovtv. the we respectfully ask the public to have patience and expect delays and gaps in the meeting, particularly dr. public during c comment. all panelists and presenters are asked to mute themselves when not speaking or wait to present. the san francisco human

services and das commission acknowledges we're on the home land of the ramatush alonei. [inaudible] 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 and elderly of the community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first people. secretary, please take the roll. >> clerk: thank you, vice president spears. we'll begin with yourself, president biden spears.

>> present. [roll call taken] >> clerk: thank you. and with that, vice president spears, we have a quorum. >> thank you very much. i believe the next item is for you to read. is that correct? >> clerk: that is correct. >> okay. >> clerk: commissioners,

the next item is item 3: communications. we would like to provide further instructions for the public comment process. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda and during general public comment. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the number across the screen, each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment session are available during phone call. viewers and callers will be instructed to call 415-655-0001, using i.d. 1460186577. then press pound and then pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussions, but you will be muted and in listening

mode only. when your item of interest comes up, dial *3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. you will have three minutes to speak. and you will be informed by the moderator when you have 30 se 30 seconds left. after 30 seconds, you will be muted and placed back to alternative node. public comment can be submitted by e-mail to myself, jasmine.elo at jasmine.elo@sfgovtv.org are there any other communications from the das commission members? and if there isn't, we can move on to the next item. >> all right. thank you, jasmine.

commissioners, your next item on the agenda is item 4: approving the minutes of wednesday, june 2nd, 2021, and friday, july 16th 2021, das commission minutes. are there any comments or questions for the commission regarding the june 2nd or july 16th das commission minutes? i don't see anyone raising their hands, so i will continue. i will call on commissioners -- sorry. i'm doing my part (laughing). >> clerk: that's all right. my turn now. >> i think it is your turn now. >> clerk: not a problem. thank you. moderator, please open the

phone line for public comment. we will allow some time for callers to submit their quests. and do we have any callers in the queue, moderator? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> t ank you. and with no callers in the queue, we can move on to the next item. >> hearing no further requests to speak on this item, is there a motion to approve the das commission minutes? >> so moved. >> commissioner scholar moved and commissioner young seconded it. madam secretary, please take the roll call to approve the is june 2 and

july 16 commission minutes. [roll call taken] >> and with that, there is a unanimous vote. >> commissioners, item 5 is the executive director report. executive director kelly deerman is here and ready to give her report. thank you so much. >> thank you so much, commissioner. happy september, everyone. i will start with the federal update. last tuesday the house passed the $3.5 trillion -- and that's with a "t" -- budget resolution approved by the senate earlier this month. now the various senate and

house committees will work on what is being referred to as the human infrastructure package within their individual jurisdictions. the house is trying to conclude its committee work on the legislation by september 15th, with the goal of voting on the package, along with the bipartisan infrastructure bill by its own september 27th deadline. it will then move through the budget reconciliation process, meaning it can pass with the a simple majority in the senate. u.s. aging is focusing its priority in the reconciliation package on securing $400 billion for medicaid, home, and community-based services and shoring up the direct-care workforce that provides those essential services. so advocacy efforts are now (indiscernable). in addition to these items, something else very exciting happened at the federal level. currently there is a proposed federal legislation for the elder

justice reauthorization and modernization app of 2021. one in 10 americans over the age of 60 have experienced some form of elder abuse. the elder justice act, e.j.a., was originally enacted as part of the affordable care act. it was created to address the need for detection and treatment of elder people. since then, the elder justice act programs have been chronically unfunded or underfunded. then in december 2020, congress, for the first time, provided significant funding for the program, and then invested in the programs again in the american rescue plan act of 2021, appropriating about $276 million. now the elder justice reauthorization and

modernization act of 2021 proposes dedicated funding for a range of services that the office of community partnership support, as well as funding to support a.t.f. operations. additionally, there is funding earmarked for staff who work in long-term care settings. specifically, the legislation directly appropriates a substantial investment of $4 billion for new and existing elder justice act programs and activities through fiscal year 2025. these programs include 1.6 billion dollars for a new post-acute and long-term care program, $1.4 billion for function and grant programs. 172.5 million for ombudsman, and 500 million for supporting legal services and medical-legal

partnership, and $250 million to address social isolation and loneliness. on the state level, i know that we provided you with most of the budget updates at the state level, but there is one thing i want to highlight, c.b. a. is hosting a series of webinars to have stakeholder feedback on what they say is a model of care. the vision is to easily accessible help to provide the public with implementation (indiscernable) and care centers. and then hopes to connect people to a range of community, health, and other critical partners. the hope is to have help and folks in every community to help people navigate and accessory sources in order to remain in the community.

we believe this is something sharine originally introduced based on her own model. on the local level, some local updates: the (indiscernable) work that our team is doing has come to a close. the focus of the work has been to identify areas of work performed particularly in the context of consumer engagement or lack of con consumer engaged in the das groups. there are five populations: asian, black african-american, latinx, pacific islander, and lgbtq people of color. they are planning and starting to put together the report. this work is really a kickoff to the digital

community needs assessment, which is also happening this year. on a broader note, but also related to the people we serve, the city is looking at how to get supplemental shots out into the community. currently, supplemental vaccination, that would be third doses of the mrna pfizer or moderna are only available to people who are immunocompromised. the recommendation is people should first cult consult with their health care provider to see if an additional dose is safe for them. san francisco is not providing extra doses of the pfizer and johnson & johnson vaccine. however, the health sites are providing a dose of mrna vaccine for those who received a single dose of j & j vaccine.

the recommendation for roll call is eight months after an individual's first shot. there is not word at the present time whether there be mass sites or clinics available. it is obviously a work in progress, and we'll keep you posted once we hear anything. finally, i think our biggest update is that the city is returning to work, meaning returning to the actual buildings, on november 1st, now that the f.d.a. has approved the vaccine. the city is requiring all city employees to get vaccinated. it will definitely reflect the new norm and be a hybrid model with people coming into the office at 40% of the time, about two days a week. h.s.h. held a townhall last week, giving staff an

opportunity to voice concerns and ask questions. there were more than 1,000 people on the call, with over 200 questions that we tried to address. and we did the format a little differently, and it was trent and i who were doing all of the talking. the focus now is getting everyone vaccinated. the feeling is that with san francisco's high vaccination rates and with masking, it is safe to reopen. within san francisco, 71% are fully vaccinated across all ages. as a side note, if san francisco was a country, we would be the second most fully vaccinated place in the world. each program has their own reopening plan, and directors are working with their staff to roll out their plans. lastly, i want to give you a save the date for an event o.p.p. i happening in october. there will be a townhall event on october 26th

(indiscernable) and prioritizing services that help prevent homelessness within these populations. we'll make sure that you all get invited to this event. and that is all i have for now. thank you. >> thank you, executive director deerman. are there any -- thank you for that comprehensive report, and thank you so much for all of the money that is coming from the federal government, and hopefully that will all get approved as it comes down to it. so the next item? >> yes, commissioners, the next item is item 6: the das employee recognition. executive director deerman, vice president spears, and the das commission will honor sarah -- sara, i'm trying sarahm

trying not to butcher her name. [indiscernable] she is from the das office of community the partnership. executive director deerman, please feel free to take it away. >> great. i'm super excited to honor and recognize sarah as the employee of the month. they is an immensely valuable and intrical part of the team. she has consistently and enthusiastically taken on any task that comes her way. she relishes the opportunity to learn new things. sarah has a commitment and passion to serve older adults and adults with disabilities, as well as all disenfranchised populations. she has a wealth of ideas, and is always willing to share and also listen to other ideas. during the pandemic, as

the training coordinator, sarah has been highly responsive to training that is needed, including developing a monthly training with dr. anna chotos, response to safety concerns throughout the pandemic, and an overall willingness to participate and coordinate any training that crosses her path. in addition, sarah holds the a.b.h. state contracts and mas been instrumental coordinating their efforts, offering support and suggestions throughout the pandemic. she is always innovative in her approach and her suggestions. for example, working with the community providers to better identify needs in the community and to develop a scope that addresses that, rather than the status quo. over the past several months, sarah has been on the aging and disability role while the analyst for that effort is out. sarah has taken it on full force, and is an intrical

part of keeping that going. [inaudible] her relationship and reputation with the community is stellar. she is well-respected among the broader community. we are very fortunate to have sarah as part of the team. personally, i've had several meeting with sarah since i started, and it is always a pleasure. she is full of enthusiasm and ideas, and i look forward to continuing to work with her. congratulations to you, sarah, on this well-deserved honor. >> thank you so much. that was so nice. i'm actually blushing, which is not a normal occurrence for me. i just have to say, i have absolutely loved working with das. it is my favorite job i've ever had, and a huge part of that is not only just

the amazing people i work with, and working with a theme that is just so supportive, from my co-analysts and my supervisors, the department director and director -- everyone is so incredibly supportive and passionate about the work that we're doing. it is such a pleasure working with das and o.c.p. because of that. i'm a person who has a reputation for strong opinions. and it is nice working in a place where those opinions and ideas are not only heard, but i'm encouraged to keep voicing them (laughing). so i appreciate it, and thank you, everyone. this really means a lot, and i'm very touched. thank you. >> on behalf of the commission, sarah, the one thing in my prep i wanted to do, i wanted to understand, because this

is, quite frankly, my favorite part of the commission meetings, is seeing the people who actually work for the city and county and in this department. and the word that was used to describe you was "she's all in." so on behalf of the commission, thank you so much for the work that you do. we are nothing without the employees that are giving their all to the community, and lifting up the voices that are not heard every day. so on behalf of the commission, thank you very much. >> thank you so much. that is so kind. thanks. >> yay! >> any other comments from commissioners. if not, madam secretary, next item. >> indeed. commissioners, the next item is item 7: the advisory council report. that will be presented by the advisory council

president, diane lars. >> good morning. i would like to thank the opportunity to also congratulate kelly. we've worked with her on some joint training and she has been a wonderful partner. and always so update, especially during this pandemic. so i'm glad you're recognized. and i agree with you, vice president spears, this is my favorite part because we learn about what goes on in the department at the desk level, and i find that very informative. so i'm going to cover two advisory council meetings since the commission did not meet in august. so i thought i would combine it all into one report. so there was an action item from the july meeting which we sent out, which was to identify those supervisors who have in their district -- who have not appointed a representative. and i have some good news to report.

i think -- i'll keep my fingers crossed. the work continues. we did send out a followup e-mail to the board members without membership. we spent a lot of time in our august meeting discussing how to proceed. i want to thank jasmine for handling those for us. they did illicit some response, even though the board is in recess. so the -- we've got two supervisors who have responded to us, that, one, they'll be getting back to us -- supervisor preston will be getting back to us in september. they used to represent that district under supervisor brown. we have an appointment with the chief-of-staff of

supervisor walton's office on september 9th that jasmine has helped us coordinate. so we are making some progress there. we will also -- when we had our discussion last month, we came up with a series of questions that we're going to survey -- we'll have members who represent districts, where we can assign members who are commission appointees but reside in a particular district, to get some information on who handles the disability and aging services issues for that office, so we have a point of contact if there is some advocacy work or something we want to fill them in on, and begin that dialogue back and forth. they can mention any nutrition sites in their neighborhoods where there are office-hour news

townhalls, if there is an agenda, how do we get on it? and then include and invite any of their point people to our meetings, if possible. so i think we're making progress. and, as i say, we have assigned out most of the offices, and i detailed office by office in my report, so you'll have that. we still haven't heard from supervisor safai, nor supervisor ronen, but one of the council members notified supervisor ronen, and they will be reaching out to her. they volunteered to do that. we had a guest from district 7, supervisor melgar's office, attend our last meeting, but the supervisor has responded

to one of her constituents that hits sits on her council, and they have a potential candidate and our council member will be meeting with the supervisor in the potential council member this month. so hopefully in october we'll have more report, but i feel like we're making progress. and the best news is our representative in district 8 was reappointed on july 27th. he just hadn't been told. and their term will end in 2023. so we're getting there. we still have two commission vacancies, but, again, we have potential candidates. and we may well submit the name of the attendee of our last meeting who had a lot of interest and we didn't scare away at the meeting. so in our july meeting, we talked about the cost of doing business, and some questions had come up at the last dignity oversight

committee, and deputy director cindy koffman was with us and explained in detail how the funding for the dignity fund and the cost of business was. and that was really helpful to all of us. also, one of the points that came up at that oversight meeting was the importance of advocacy, and how well that had worked this year. i think every one of us on the council had reached out to our supervisors to say, please bring back funding. in july, the lgbtq plus older community survey, which i've mentioned in the last couple of months, was completed. that report is available on the website, but we have copies if any of you would like a copy. just let jasmine know, and we'll make sure you get the very thorough and well-done report and surveys.

basically the background is the lgbtq task force on 2012 had issued a report. 12 recommendations, and nine have been implemented. and the group kind of got back together and said, what do we do during covid? and that sparked this work. there are two programs that have already received funding of $900,000. and these were the areas with the largest gaps: mental health services, the telehealth, community aids sur visors and transgender not conforming community. that will be dope with collaboration with kerry senior center. counseling to address the digital divide for lgbtq adults.

at our august meeting, dr. marcn mentioned that the g.p. h. will be audited on sexual gender identification data or (indiscernable) data, which is supposed to have been collected, that is required to be collected in the city, and has now spread statewide, but for a lot of reasons, it has not been done. the only department that currently collects the data consistently is das. and then dr. adelman announced that dr. kathleen sullivan had been appointed the executive director of open house. and dr. sullivan comes with experience in intergenerational housing in los angeles and oregon. the -- we continue our site visit discussion.

we thought we had a way forward, and then the delta variant hit, so we're still discussing how we're going to proceed, and i'm sure we'll continue that at our september 15th meeting. and have more details from the report. the senior housing ad hock group gave an update. the first look at their report was entitled, "if you don't have a home, you don't get services," addressing the unmet needs of seniors and disabled homeless. that report came from an interviewee. both reports were sent in advance and we were well-prepared when we came to the meeting. they began -- they interviewed a variety of agencies. they also looked at the coalition of homelessness' report on "stop the

revolving door." and their findings centered on disabled asian communities and shelters. for example, sleeping arrangements, the needs of older adults and the disabled in terms of beds and all of that. services and shelters, training on aging and disabled persons' needs and behaviors, and then they included in their report the fiscal community services and the model of care that was released just before the pandemic began. and i think we're continuing those discussions and we're hoping to meet further on the report, and there were a couple of changes that the group wanted. so very lively discussions at our last two meetings, which was -- and then a very engaged group, so...we had lots to say. so are there any

questions? >> so thank you. are there any questions or comments from commissioners regarding the advisory council report? commissioner bitner, i'd seen your hand raised and it went down. i didn't know if you had any comments on the report. >> i do not. >> okay. any other comments? >> i would just say that was an extremely comprehensive reporting on two meetings, and thank you very much. and it seems like there is progress being made with our supervisors. so thank you for that update. secretary, our next item, please? >> yes. commissioners, our next item is item 8: our joint legislative report, also presented by ms. diane

lauren. >> again, i'm combining two reports. it is pretty easy because the joint leg committee did not meet in august. there was very little activity on any of the bills, so there really wasn't that much to discuss. the changes in july, there were a number of little changes, which i'm not going to go into here but i've detailed in the report bill by bill. there were a lot more language changes. some were a bit substantive, and some have been made two-year bills. this was the first year of a two-year session. so we're already seeing some bills that have been put on the two-year status. and as we have spoken before, many of the bills were placeholders for master plan funding. so we'll see some consolidation. our cfl, california senior

legislative representative point there wasn't a lot of activity in august. i think getting the budget done took a lot. we had one bill that was chaptered in july, and that's sb258, and that bill essentially added h.i.v. status to the list of non-economic factors to determine greatest social need, under the older californians act. and then as executive director deerman pointed out, there is a lot of work being done on the reauthorization of the elder justice act. and september 10th -- so before our next meeting -- that will be the last day to pass any legislation for the year, and the governor, i believe, has until the end of the month to sign or veto any of

those. those -- any legislation that passes. >> thank you. are there any comments or questions from the commission regarding the joint leg report? thank you so much for your report. hearing none, we will move to the next item. madam secretary? >> yes. and, commissioners, the next item is item 9: the case report. and that will be represented by daniel gallagher. >> good morning commissioners and executive director deerman. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you this morning. i have some brief comments. i did want to give an update on our writing project. you may recall this project where we are profiling select agencies

who have contributed their services through the pandemic. our oversight committee selected eight organizations to profile. you have the report in front of you. in the areas of food security, health disparities, digital divide, reframing and aging, isolation, and our last was the diverse umbrella services. so those agencies that were selected by a committee of three people were the program for food security, health disparities was a stepping stone, and the digital divide community network, reframing aging community music center, isolation on 30th street and self-help for the elderly,

and the community living campaign for diverse umbrella services, and we hoped there would be some emerging themes there because of the community living compaigns services are so diverse and they do so much. so we felt that it is well worth or while to highlight the diversity of their services. i don't know if there are any questions about that writing project at the moment, or if you're going to hold that until the end of my report. >> hold it until the end of your report and then we'll get all of the questions in. >> okay. great. and then das and kay held a joint webinar on july 23rd to discuss the reopening of community programs for older adults and adults with disabilities in san

francisco in support of san francisco's reopening plan. and that event was geared towards program and operation staff who oversee the implementation of the reopening of other programs. fortuitously, we said at the beginning of the meeting, especially the emergence of the delta variant, that we would give an overview of mitigation and practices, and obviously that the virus could interrupt, which it has to some degree. but it was a well-attended webinar. probably anywhere from 40 to 45 organizations attended the webinar. it was informative. and the currie center and 30th street presented their protocols and

procedures and their mitigation efforts, and it was very informative and helpful. kay programming for this quarter, and they held their annual advocacy campaign to brainstorm our advocacy efforts for fiscal year of '23. in september, we're having a presentation on aging and h.i.v., and in october, we'll be doing a training on (indiscernable). and, lastly, as we partner with the service providers' working group, we are identifying some emerging needs that we hope will help inform the upcoming community needs assessment. and those needs -- and i think these are needs that

everybody experiences currently where we are in the pandemic -- the increasing needs and support of remote learning and telehealth, the challenges of hybrid work environments, of those providing virtual programming and in-person programming. the increasing urgency of vaccinations and ongoing testing and providing education to our participants and to our clients. service delivery suspensions and challenges for the future. i think many organizations have experienced some service delivery interruptions because of the pandemic. and certainly the staffing challenges that affect everybody with our ability to recruit and retain staff. and especially with the

vaccine requirements. and i think that puts a lot of us in a difficult position in trying to make sure that we keep our participants and our clients safe, as well as our staff safe, and also trying to respect people's individual choices as well. transportation is an emerging need. there are not enough transit drivers right now to meet the demand, and we continue to work with public transit on those issues. social isolation has been a need prior to the pandemic, and the pandemic just increases that need. and, obviously, there is a need for enhanced outreach

to reach folks that are isolated. health issues are on the rise. we know that, and so we really want to get back to our advocacy effort on providing more mental and behavioral health to our clients. the digital divide advocacy continues, and will continue through next year and beyond, and finally the next for more case management. so those are the emerging needs that we've identified thus far. and, again, we hope these will help inform the community needs assessment that is upcoming. and that concludes my report. >> once again, quite a bit going on. are there any comments or questions from the

commissioners? i do not see any. commissioner skalar, do is you have any questions? >> no, i don't. i think it was a good report. >> yes. thank you for that report about what is going on. i do have one question, and this is regarding the writing report and the organizations that are going to be highlighted: is there a timeline for when that will be completed? >> yeah, we -- it has been extended a little bit, quite frankly. but we hope to have the report done by the end of november at this point. it took us -- there were some corrections with it, quite frankly, and just really due to the emergence of the delta variant, which slowed some things down. but we do have a project coordinator on board now, and that is judy gandas,

and judy was one of the people on the oversight committee that helped select the agencies that we're profiling. and those interviews have started. >> great. >> so we're on our way. >> i look forward to hearing the details to these stellar organizations that are in community. thank you for your report. madam secretary, can you please call the next item. >> yes. and, commissioners, the next item is item 10: public comment. it's an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on matters that are not on today's calendar. moderator, please open the phone line for public comment. we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests.

>> and do we have any callers in the queue? >> madam secretary, we do have a caller. i'll be transferring it over. >> hello. hello, caller. you're three minutes begin now. hello, caller? are you able to hear us? >> sorry, madam secretary. >> caller: hi, everyone. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. go ahead. >> caller: i was muted. this is jessica layman with senior disability action. i had a couple of comments. one is i just wanted to add my appreciation for sarah, with whom i've been delighted to work with over the last two years. she really understands senior and disability issues, and particularly as das works to understand

disability and ageism better. sarah brings so much knowledge and experience and insight to that. i was really glad to see you all honor her today. the other thing i wanted to mention was that so many more disabled people and seniors have actually been able to participate in city meetings and commissions because of remote options,either by video or phone. we know not being able to come in person is challenge, and the lack of digital access has made it hard for some people to participate that way. it is amazing to see our own f.d.a. members, and seniors, get on zoom and start to learn how to use computers because of the necessity. for so many disabled

people and seniors, in which it is really hard to come out because home care or transportation or medical appointments or whatever, being able to just log in from one's home and share input has been huge for increasing our community's participation. and so not only we from the senior and disability action, but a group of folks with cada, are going to be sending a letter to the city today, and we'll c.c. you that, really asking for continued video and phone options for participation in all city and county commissions' hearings and meetings so we can continue to make sure that seniors and people with disabilities are heard. we hope that you all will support this effort, and we look forward to working with you as the city figures out how to do hybrid options so that we can all be heard. thank you.

>> moderator, are there any other callers in the queue? >> madam secretary, there are no other callers in the queue. >> that concludes the members of the public who wish to address the commission on this item. we can move on to item 11. commissioners the your next item is item 11: old business. please indicate by raising your hand if there is any old business that you would like to discuss. >> no. >> okay. i was looking around, checking for that. seeing none, i'll hand it over to vice president spears to call the next item. >> commissioners, the next item is item 12: new business. items "a" through "d" are action items that require vote by the commission. item "a": requesting authorization to end enter into a new contract

agreement (indiscernable) comprehensive needs assessment during the period of september 1, 2021, through june 30th, 2022, in the amount of $249,955, plus a 10% contingency, for a total amount not to exceed $274,950. melissa mcgee will present this item. >> and i'm here. >> okay. >> okay. good morning vice president spears, commissioners, executive director deerman. my name is melissa mcgee. i'm a program manager with the office of community partnerships. i'm here today to ask your approval to enter into contract with resource development associates to conduct the dignity fund at community needs assessment. as you know, on november 8, 2016, san francisco voters approved proposition "i," an

amendment to the charter of the city and county of san francisco. this amendment established a fund to support older adults and adults with disabilities, and includes an annual contribution. this is referred to as the dignity fund. among the activities required by the dignity fund legislation is completion of a community, a comprehensive community needs assessment every four years. the first needs assessment was completed in fiscal year '17/'18, and we're now going to fiscal year '21/'22. we want to identify areas of unmet need and to support das' strategic decision-making. the dignity funds will

provide for extensive outreach, will there include key informing interviews, focus groups, and community surveys. reports resulting from this project will include development of equity metrics and analysis. the culmination of this effort will be a comprehensive report that will support the development of the service and allocation plan, which will inform allocation decisions, beginning in fiscal year '22/'23. a draft of the community needs assessment will be completed by march 1st, 2022, and the final by april 1st. at which time it will be submitted to the commission. per the legislation, a public hearing will be held in april with input from commission due by may 1st,. the project has a final completion date of june 30th, 2022. i'm happy to answer any questions.

>> are there any comments or questions from the commissioners? >> i just have one question. is this the same firm that we used for the first needs settlement? is that correct? >> yes. >> great. there is some history that will be brought forward. and are there any changes we -- major changes that we should be made aware of between the last community assessment and this one? >> there aren't any major, major changes. they will take the -- it turned out they were selected by a panel, and it was beneficial, i think, that the incumbent, again, won the award. they'll be looking at the previous project plan and making sort of changes to that. but there won't be any

major changes. we'll have more information to provide the more current status and information, but other than that it will be a similar process. [please stand by]

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them reach out to their constituents. there are obviously a number of people that we are not, you know, currently connected with. the community forums were held in each of the supervisors' districts with the supervisors attending, so they were instrumental in getting a lot of people to attend, and then all the different -- you know, really sort of blanketing the community and all the different organizations of both older adults and adults with disabilities to get the word out. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. any other questions? >> okay, if you'd like i can move to public comment for us on agenda item a? >> oh, i was talking to mute. >> oh, there we are. >> it wouldn't have been a meeting without saying that at

least once. so are there any other comments from commissioners before moving to the public? >> no. >> okay. so now, madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on item a? >> moderator, please open the phone line for public comment on agenda item a, and we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests. and do we have any callers in the queue? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> okay. thank you, moderator. this will conclude the members of the public that wish to address the commission under this item. vice-president speers, you may carry forward here. >> hearing no further requests to speak on the item, we will close public comment. is there a motion from the commissioners?

>> so moved. >> from commissioner young and a second from commissioner skoelard. madam secretary, please take the role caught. >> vice-president speers. >> yes. >> commissioner bitner. >> yes. >> commissioner jung, how do you vote? i think we're on mute. that's a yes, i see. and commissioner barbara scholar, how do you vote? >> yes. >> thank you. that is a unanimous vote. >> thank you. commissioners, the next order of business is agenda item d and also requires a vote by the commission. review and approval of fy2021 and 2022 california department of aging supplemental nutrition

assistance program education contract cs2022-06 with the amount of $126,817 and all subsequent amendments. approval of modifications of community services grant with self-help for the elderly to include the snap easy funding and activities. and ms. tiffany kearney will present this item. >> thank you. good morning, commissioners and executive director. i'm the lead nutritionist and i'm presenting for your review and approval our california department of aging nap ed contract administered by self-help for the elderly. supplemental nutrition assistance program education, also known as snap ed, is an evidence-based program under calfresh. it promotes healthy and active lifestyles through nutrition education, health promotion and policy improvements. snap ed also includes physical

activity programming. through snap ed, our nutrition partners can provide information and resources for healthy eating and physical activity tailored to the needs and interests of the clients they serve. as an example, last year a popular snap ed nutrition education topic was food safety focused on takeout meals from congregate meal sites. the physical activity programs offered through our snap ed programming includes tai chi, walk with ease, and bingo side. last year self-help offered these programs through virtual platforms. this year they plan to offer the programs outdoors as allowed by city health orders until the pandemic recedes. thank you very much for your time and consideration, and i'm

happy to answer any questions you might have. >> are there any questions or comments from the commissioners? seeing none, and hopefully i haven't missed anyone, will you -- madam secretary, will you see if there are any public comments? >> absolutely. >> item b as in boy. >> agenda item b, wonderful. moderator, please open the phone line for public comment on agenda item b, and we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests. and do we have any callers in

the queue? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, moderator. this concludes the members of the public that wish to address the commission under this item. >> so hearing no further requests to speak on this item, we will close the public comment. is there a motion from the commission? so there is a motion from commissioner sung. may i have a second? >> second. >> and a second from commissioner skolar. madam secretary, will you please take the roll call vote for item b. >> vice-president spears, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner brett ner, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner jung, how do you vote? i'm thinking that's a yes as well. and commissioner skolar, how do you vote? >> yes.

>> thank you. the vote is unanimous. >> thank you. commissioners, the next order of business is agenda item c and also requires a vote by the commission. requesting authorization to modify the existing grant with southwest community corporation for the provisions of the community services program during the period of july 1, 2021, through june 30, 2023, in the additional amount of $125,280, plus a 10% contingency for revised total amount not to exceed $1,027,022. ms. lauren mccalf lynn will present this item. thank you. >> good morning, commissioners. i'm the executive director of -- i'm a program analyst. we're seeking your approval to modify this grant with southwest community corporation for the provision of community services programming. southwest community corporation provides community services to

older adults and adults with disabilities for their it community center. the covid-19 pandemic brought significant disruption to it bookman participants who rely on their center for programs and services. a need that was identified early on in the pandemic was additional nutrition support that was culturally appropriate for their community services participants. as a result, it bookman established a dinner program that serves a culturally competent daily hot meal to daily services participants who because of covid-19 are shelterering in place or need additional nutrition support. meals are delivered to the home of each participant five days a week, and the menu incorporates a variety of queue scenes to meet the participants' cultural and meal preferences. not only have they received many letters from participants thanking them for the dinner program, it has also helped them stay connected to their participants while they are staying at home.

this modification is one-time-only funding to continue to provide this dinner service the community services participants for december 2021. i'm happy to answer any questions you have at this time. >> are there any questions from the commissioners? commissioner jung, you have the floor. okay, we can't hear you. >> can you hear me now? >> yes. >> okay. my questions, so basically this is a grant modification [indiscernible] program; is that correct? >> so it is for their community services program, but it's specifically for the dinner program within community services. >> okay. i just [indiscernible] on the document, but under service

objectives, section 7, table b, it shows the number of consumers and the number of meals. and i note for the first -- from january through june it's the same number of consumers but the number of meals are very different. can you kind of explain that? >> yes, definitely. so the meal program was established in that first six months, and i.t. bookman did not have a meal program before that, so within those six months they needed to establish that program, which meant they needed to hire meal program staff, ensure they had proper kitchen equipment, develop a menu that met nutrient requirements and receive a health permit. in addition to that, they had a start-up period to reach the 120 participants. so there was -- you know, it didn't start exactly right at that six months. it took a while for the program

to begin, but by the end of the six months they did serve the 120 participants. and so for this new six months, this is an accurate reflection of how many meals they would serve for a complete six-month period. >> okay. all right. thank you. thank you for clarifying. >> are there other questions from the commissioners regarding this item? seeing and hearing none, madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on agenda item c? >> moderator, please open the phone line for public comment on agenda item c, and we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests.

and do we have any callers in the queue? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, moderator. this concludes the members of the public that wish to address the commission under this item. >> so hearing no further requests to speak on this item, we will close public comment. is there a motion? there's one from commissioner jung. >> so moved. >> and a second by commissioner -- madam secretary, will you please take the roll call vote for item c. >> yes. vice-president spears, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner bitner, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner jung, how do you vote? >> yes. >> and commissioner sclar, how do you vote? >> yes. >> the vote was unanimous.

>> thank you, and thank you, ms. mccasland, for your report on this item. commissioners, our next order of business is agenda item d, and also requires a vote by the commission. review and approve fy21-22 cda area plan budget associated contract ap2122-06 and all subsequent amendments. mr. michael zaugg will present this item. >> good morning, commissioners, executive director dearman. i am mike zaugg, program director for the office of community partnership. all right, item d, our area plan contract. i think this was a 98-page packet which i had to subject you guys to to review, and this is unfortunately one that has gotten a little bit complicated due to some technical issues with the contract document, so what i'm going to try to do here is kind of talk you through what

we're doing and how everything stands, and then see if i can answer questions and get everyone comfortable with what the department is seeking to do here. you know, we -- dof has about a half dozen or so contracts with the california department of aging. we saw the snap ed contract earlier on today's agenda. these are contracts which allow us to access state and federal funding that we in turn typically turn around and use to fund programs in the community. the area plan contract is our big one. this funds our older americans act programs, and we see this year it's presented to us annually, and the dollar amounts change annually based on funding available as well as a number of factors that they weigh, including population and

demographic items in how the california department of aging allocates funding across the state. so it's done annually, and in my memo i referenced a very handy document which is a comparison from year to year. a great document that our fiscal team -- or our budget team, rather, puts together, and an item that i forgot to include amongst the 98 pages that have been submitted to the commission, so i'm going to highlight that really quickly. i'm also going to offline connect with commission secretary about submitting that

additional document to you after and having it posted as well on the website so people can see that. but taking a look at from year to year, from last year to this year, in older americans act funding is broken down into different titles or program areas. in the 3-d, supportive service area, so this is transportation, legal services and our short-term home care program, we're seeing an additional $94,000 or 93,373. in our ombudsman program we're actually seeing a decrease of $4,412. in congregate nutrition we are seeing a very large decline of $467,224. that is a very large decline, but put a flag in that one for a second and we're going to come back to that. home-delivered meals, a decline of $289. our disease prevention, title 3d, a decline of $3,055. our family caregiver program, part of title 3e, an increase this year of $40,383.

our elder abuse prevention program, a decline of $112. and administrative, we are able to and asked to take some fees for administration, which covers part of the salaries of a number of staff in dos who work on these programs, a decline of $17,338. for the most part, any time we see increases, those dollars are used to -- are invested back into those programs, either to expand -- typically to expand or reinforce programming, and when there's enough funding to even create new services within those programs. the majority of things, items, the small amounts that decreases here are not going to result in any reduction of services or

other impacts for agencies or clients. generally these are very small amounts, and as i'll get you in a moment, we will see some additional funding coming in in the next month as the california department of aging closes out all the fiscal stuff from last year and is able to move some money forward into the -- into our amendment process. so the big point is that that's a huge decline in congregate nutrition, and that was a big surprise we saw, and we take a look at it and we realized that there was a miscalculation statewide in how they calculated the funding for that. we brought it to the california department of aging's attention, and to their credit they recognized the issue and admitted that there needed to be a correction.

they unfortunately declined to update this current document with that information. they have asked us to -- stating that they will do the amendment process when they issue additional funding, they will correct at that time and give us an updated figure with that funding so we can truly understand what that impact is about. at the time that this packet was submitted to the commissioners on thursday, i had -- was going to come to you. we talked with our city attorney. we went back and forth with the california department of ageing. we felt that our best option at this point was to come to the commission and ask for your approval to execute this contract with the incorrect dollar amount, with the idea that we would continue to monitor the situation and see what would happen. lo and behold, i send you 98 pages on a thursday, and on

friday the california department of ageing has issued some preliminary guidance about that amendment, and it's that amendment, we don't have all the facts and figures yet, but it looks like it is going to send us a significant increase of additional funding, including a correction of that congregate nutritional number to make us all or very close to whole so that we do not see any impact on that service. there are additional funds that the california department of aging is going to include in that amendment, bringing in an additional approximately $1.1 million, and what i am proposing to do is at a future commission perhaps as soon as october i will be back with an

informational item where i can review the additional funding that has come to us, what that means in all of the bigger picture. so i think i'm almost through my spiel here, but i think in sort of in sum i bring you an imperfect document seeking your approval, but with that i bring the assurance that the decreased number in congregate nutrition, we have a path to fix that and we do not see any impact or project any impact to that service over the course of [indiscernible]. >> okay, that is quite a bit. and i know i have a set of questions, but i will defer to my colleagues first, and then i'll see if they come up. are there questions from the commissioners on this extensive

report, taking us through the 98 pages in record time to understand how it was put together and where we stand at this moment. are there questions from the commissioners? okay, so michael, i just have a few questions. >> sure. >> i was trying to make sure i was following. will there be -- is the only miscalculation on the congregate meal part of the contract with the -- that an error has occurred? >> yes, that is the only error that we found. >> and then you made mention that there would be additional funding that would be coming from the state after -- in the future. will that impact all of the line items or just the target meal portion when the additional $1.1 million comes in? >> you know, in all likelihood

it is going to impact all lines and result in an increase. they have sent us -- the preliminary guidance they have sent us shows about $1.1 million coming to the department with about $600,000 going to nutrition, just nutrition. the balance, $500,000, has not been broken out into which title it would be, so in theory it could all go to one or two, but i would project that we will see net increases across [indiscernible]. >> and so when this item comes back before the commission in october/november time frame, will we will able to approve those amendments for the additional 1.1, or will that just be an informational share to the commission at that time? >> yeah, so historically what we do is it's very common for kail

contracts to be amended once or even twice in a year. typically that means adding [indiscernible] dollars. when we come to commissions for the first time for presentation, we seek your authorization now for approval of any subsequent amendments. that way, when we're doing our behind-the-scenes paperwork and execution, we can point to the minutes from today's meeting and say the commissioners have already given us that approval. that gives us some administrative efficiency. i think that whenever there is -- i forget if we come to the commission informationally on every amendment, but absolutely ones that are of note or truly of controversy. i think it is our responsibility to come and let you know what's going on. so certainly with this upcoming

amendment, it will come to you. it will not require a vote, but it's something we can discuss, update you and get your [indiscernible]. >> great. that's wonderful. and then my last question is i'm trying to connect some additional dots. so executive director deerman's report, she was speaking of the changes that are happening at the federal level and things that are going through congress, et cetera. when would we see i'll call it a result of that within this state, i.e., then down to us here in san francisco, assuming especially around elder abuse and things of that nature that were talked about in the executive director's report? >> it can take a while. >> is that years or is it -- >> it could -- i would put it as less than a year. i would put it at months, typically. i'm trying to recall, you know,

the family first coronavirus relief act, or the original one that was passed, was that in february or march of 2020? we got to the commission, we saw those dollars i think by summer of 2020. i can tell you that the american recovery plan act, the arpa funding, which i think biden signed in january, that is just about -- we're going to see older americans act dollars for that, but that is just coming up to us in the next month or two. so that's one where we're talking nine months before it will show. >> right. >> -- vary based on size and complexity, but yeah. >> very, very helpful. thank you so much. madam secretary, are there any comments, additional comments from the commission, first?

madam secretary, do we have anyone from the public who wishes to comment on agenda item d? >> moderator, please open the phone line for public comment on agenda item d. and we will allow some time for callers to submit their requests. and do we have any callers in the queue? >> madam secretary, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you, moderator. and that concludes the members of the public that wish to address the commission under this item. >> hearing no further requests to speak on this item, we will close public comment. is there a motion to approve item d? >> i move. >> so moved by commissioner jung.

okay, second by . . . could i have a second from the commissioners? >> second. >> okay, thank you, commissioner sclar. madam secretary, please take the roll call vote is to approve item d. >> certainly. vice-president spears, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner bitner, how do you vote? >> yes. >> commissioner jung, how do you vote? >> yes. >> and commissioner sclar, how do you vote? >> yes. >> the vote was unanimous. >> thank you, and thank you, mr. zaugg, for taking something very complex and boiling it down so we could follow, and we appreciate your diligence in this matter. i am now at are there any

announcements for the commission in general? this is item 14 on the agenda. are there any announcements from the commission? so i will take it that we will adjourn and meet again in october. thank you all for your patience as i conducted my first meeting, and i look forward to seeing everyone in october, and thank you for the wonderful assistance from justin and also commission secretary jasmine, and have a wonderful rest of the day. thank you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. congratulations.

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[♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it.

we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was

interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate

of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for

them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books.

they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future. >> when i look at an old neon sign that's working or not working, i feel the family business that was in there.

>> since 2009, citywide, sf shines, has supported businesses and sites like the ones that receive new neon signs. >> you know, sf shines is doing an amazing job to bring back the lighting and the neon glow of san francisco. >> sf shines is such an amazing program, and i can't think of another program in another city that gives matching gunned funds to store owners, mom and pop owners, and if they've got a neon sign, they've really got a great way to advertise their business. >> this is a continuation of the sf shines program. >> focusing other neon signs is relatively new to us. of the seven neon signs, we've

invested about $145,000. >> a good quality sign costs more, but it lasts infinitily longer. as opposed to lasting five years, a good neon sign will last 15 to 20 years. >> in san francisco, the majority of neon signs are for mom-and-pop businesses. in order to be able to restore these signs, i think it gives back to your community. >> part of the project has to do with prioritizing certain signs in the neighborhood based on their aesthetics, based on their current signs, and base on the history. in the time that we've been here, we've seen a number of signs restored just on eddy street. >> there are a number of signs in the tenderloin and many more that are waiting or wanting to

be restored. i have worked with randall and al, and we've mapped out every single one of them and rated them as to how much work they would need to get restored. that information is passed onto sf shines, and they are going to rank it. so if they have x budget for a year, they can say all right, we're going to pick these five, and they're putting together clusters, so they build on top of what's already there. >> a cluster of neon signs is sort of, i guess, like a cluster of grapes. when you see them on a corner or on a block, it lights up the neighborhood and creates an ambient glow. if you havy got two of three of them, you've created an atmosphere that's almost like a movie set. >> some of the hotel, we've already invested in to get those neon signs for people to enjoy at night include the elk hotel, jefferson hotel, the

verona, not to mention some we've done in chinatown, as well as the city's portal neighborhood. >> we got the fund to restore it. it took five months, and the biggest challenge was it was completely infested with pigeons. once we got it clean, it came out beautiful. >> neon signs are often equated with film noir, and the noir genre as seen through the hollywood lens basically depicted despair and concentration. >> you would go downtown and see the most recent humphrey bogart film filled with neon in the background. and you'd see that on market street, and as market street got seedier and seedier and

fewer people continued to go down, that was what happened to all the neon strips of light. >> the film nori might start with the light filled with neon signs, and end with a scene with a single neon sign blinking and missing a few letters. >> one of my favorite scenes, orson welles is chasing rita hayworth with neon signs in the background. >> i think what the office of economic and workforce development is very excited with is that we'll be able to

see more neon signs in a concentrated way lit up at night for visitors and most especially residents. the first coin laundry, the elm hotel, the western hotel are ones that we want to focus on in the year ahead. >> neon signs are so iconic to certain neighborhoods like the hara, like the nightcap. we want to save as many historic and legacy neon signs in san francisco, and so do they. we bring the expertise, and they bring the means to actually get the job done. >> people in tenderloin get really excited as they see the signs relit. as you're driving through the tenderloin or the city, it pretty much tells you something exciting is happening here. >> knee an was created to make the night more friendly and advertise businesses. it's a great way of supporting and helping local businesses. >> there's so many ways to

improve public safety. the standard way is having more eyes on the street, but there's other culturally significant ways to do that, and one those ways is lighting up the streets. but what better way and special way to do that is by having old, historic neon signs lighting up our streets at night and casting away our shadows. >> when i see things coming back to life, it's like remembering how things were. it's remembering the hotel or the market that went to work seven days a week to raise their money or to provide a service, and it just -- it just -- it just

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those

earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the

weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it bumps up and you get a ground

fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't tough.

>> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances

buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits.

you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross that line. it's much more

damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for hi everyone. i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm joined here today by dr. grant colfax. and thank you rodney fong from the san francisco chamber of commerce. and we are at e.m.s. pilates studio and this is a place we wanted to come here today and as of today, august 20th, the new health order goes into effect with bars indoors and gyms and studios like this are

required to show proof of vaccination. and i want to start by saying this isn't about punishment. this is about trying to get our city to a better place. and it could be a lot worse if we've never even had a vaccine. and so yesterday, i went to the philmore western edition community, the place where i grew up and ms. cook, she and i attended the same church. i've known her my whole life. her son is a little bit older than me. he got sick. he refused to get vaccinated. within a week or so's time, he was in the hospital and sadly passed away and ms. cook talked about how and how when our son came to see her, she was worried because she has had the

vaccine, but she has underlying health conditions and was concerned about her health. she loves her son but she begged him to get vaccinated and the pain and hurt is really something that others are experiencing because what we're seeing was about 117 people in the hospital now when we were just not too long ago at less than ten people in the hospital. what we're seeing, we're, of course, very concerned about and we're especially worried about our children who are under the age of 12 who can't even get vaccinated. and so this requirement again, it's not about a punishment, it's really about a chance to try and get us moving in the right direction and keeping people safe. in san francisco, we have really been the model for the rest of the country. i'm really proud of the people here. we have 79% of san franciscans that are eligible to get the

vaccine that have been vaccinated. so that is absolutely amazing and i'm really grateful, but there are more people that we need to make sure get vaccinated. i'm tired of wearing masks. i'm tired of covid just like all of you. i'm tired of talking about covid, but just because we're tired of it, downtown mean it's tired of us and it's back here with its delta vengeance. what's interesting is i am getting more phone calls from people that i actually know that are getting covid. it's happening more regularly and in some cases, some of those people are actually vaccinated, i'm getting more phone calls from people who are telling me that their family member is in the hospital and they want to go see them and there's a whole other situation that happens as it relates to that and this is like nothing

that i've experienced even throughout this 16 months of dealing with covid. so what's important now as we try to get to that finish line, we keep talking about this light at the end of the tunnel, we're finally able to see one another again. we're finally able to go to restaurants and dine together and spend time with one another because during the pandemic, it was very difficult for us to do that and if we want to continue down that pads, as much as it's hard to continue to come out here and say i need you to do this, i need you to do that, i need you to do this, i don't want to keep saying that we need to implement health orders. >> i want us to be free to do the things we did before this pandemic existed. when i look at the data and what's happening in san francisco and other parts of the country. i think about what we need to do and our goal is to beat back this virus once again and

that's why we're implementing this new health order. it goes into effect today, we are trying to do everything we can to reach out and support businesses. we ask customers to comply with what businesses ask you to do. so, for example, we're asking for indoors to require the vaccination card and there's some restaurants who are choosing to do it for outdoors and if they ask you to show proof, please just comply. please, just comply with our health orders. it's not something that we're doing as a punishment and i just want to take us back just a little bit before i introduce dr. grant colfax, when this virus first hit san francisco or right before it first hit san francisco, a lot of us didn't know what was going on, how you would contract it, what's happening. we remember the ship that was stranded in the middle of the bay and everyone concerned and all the uncertainty and all the fear because we didn't

completely know what was going on and over time, we not only found out what was going on, but there were concerns expressed about whether or not we'd have a vaccine, you know, in the year or two and the fact that we have three options for vaccination has been absolutely incredible and dr. colfax will tell you about 1800 people that have been hospitalized since december onest of last year, only six of those people were vaccinated. so the whole point of these vaccines have a lot to do with keeping you out of the hospital. we're not saying you may not get covid. what we're saying is the difference between the sniffles and being home sick a few days and suffocating ending up in the hospital on a respirator and dying. that's what this is about. so we're here to announce these new health orders to ask people in san francisco to comply and

to be understanding. we want to get back to the life that we once knew. i want to go to a concert. i want to go hang out with my friends and settings and not worry about all these distancing requirements. i want to have a good time in san francisco and how do we get there? get vaccinated. get vaccinated so that we can continue to move forward and continue to make sure that san francisco is one of the safest cities as it relates to covid in the u.s. and, with that, i want to introduce dr. grant col fax to talk a little bit more about what is really going on. ladies and gentlemen, dr. grant colfax. >> good morning sxefsh thank you mayor breed for your continued leadership as we continue to work and reach out to the business community moving together during this pandemic. i want to acknowledge our key

partners in had this audience including kate sofis. rodney fong president and ceo of the chamber of commerce. it's great to see both of you and i want to thank tracy sill sylvester owner of this pilates studio. we know now covid is going to be with us for the foreseeable future. this is about the delta surge right now. it could be about the next variant fuelled search next. so getting vaccinated is so important. we're mott only worried about the suffering of this fourth surge, but we're also needing to do everything we can to keep the city as open as possible and continue our in-person learning with kids in school. and, today, requiring the proof of vaccination to serve food

and drinks or indoor events as another step forward as we continue to address the pandemic. this is navigating our new normal. we're here, d.p.h. is here to support businesses with the tools, signage, information, and other support to offer as we implement this order. and just a reminder that we will continue to send the vax to you team out to businesses to vaccinate five or more employees. that team has been busy. we asked businesses to take advantage of that. we will come to you and provide vaccines. in addition to implementing this order and i really also want to acknowledge dr. navina baba and dr. susan phillips on their work on implementing drafting the order and implementing the order, we've had a really busy week here at the department of public health. we have scaled up a new testing site, high volume testing site which can administer up to 500

tests a day with turn around time in 24 to 48 hours and we also issued a new health order requiring large health care systems to provide testing within 24 hours for their patients and to turn those tests around within 48 hours and to report back to the health department on progress with regard to that. we've also implemented the cdc recommendation that immuno compromised people implement a third vaccine. and people take advantage of that at our many hospital clinics. our primary care clinics and drop-in centers for vaccination. our strategy continues to be to protect the most vulnerable due to covid-19 and, again, part of that is working with our business community to ensure that everybody has the opportunity who is eligible to get vaccinated, to protect our children under 12 who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated so that we can get through this

surge together and be as ready prepared for what may be the next. thank you. >> thank you, dr. colfax. i don't know about you, but i want to go to the movies and eat popcorn and have a drink when i'm in the movie theater. don't you think it's about time? let's get vaccinated so we can do that too. with that, i want to introduce kate sofis to talk a little bit about what we are doing to help support businesses during this time. >> thank you, mayor. thank you for your continued leadership and thanks to dr. colfax and our department of public health. as i stand here today, i deeply appreciate and recognize that so much of the responsibility to move us forward lies on the backs of our small businesses and the leadership of our small businesses and we're about to hear from one that i'm personally so proud of that we

stand before today. we have always been a city that's been at the forefront of things in this country. and, it is no surprise to me that we are stepping forward in advance of other cities and other communities and taking such an aggressive stance in trying to keep our community healthy and safe and so have these opportunities it's all what makes us want to be here to raise our children and live here and work here. i am proud as the head of the office of economic development. to make sure small businesses wherever they present in this community have the support they mead to be able to effectively

implement this health order to be able to properly implement this order. that includes signage. it includes training on how to check a vaccine card whether it's local or from other part of the country or from a visitor abroad. so i encourage all of you to go to that resource and then we have a wonderful team who are ready now to be able to work with any of our businesses or employees who have questions about how to comply with this order. point in time again, today, august 20th is the day when we were asking all customers who come into restaurants, bars, entertainment venues, places where you take off your mask to eat or drink or places like gyms and pilates studios where you leave your mask on but you are breathing more heavily, these are really the two circumstances that the science

shows there's a high orising of transmission and that is why we are focusing on these businesses. but we stand at the ready and able. i'm so proud of us as a city and, with that, i want to give the final comment here today to one of our very own businesses. i'd like to call up tracy, tracy sylvester who is the owner of the e.h.c. pilates. this is a business that has started for vaccine status. we are standing in front of 30 years and i want to recognize you for your accomplishment, your leadership, and, with that, you have the floor. >> hi everyone. my name's tracy sylvester. i first want to thank mayor breed. it's been a really rough year and a half, but we're standing

here today with a team of people ready to serve and we just wanted to share our story. we have been rolling out the vaccination status requirements today and with the leadership of the bar community that got together and decided to do this i think about a month ago, we really have been waiting in the wings. we tested systems in place to see how we would do it. we were talking to our customers, getting our staff prepared and so we can confidently walk into this new landscape together and i invite all the other business community members to join if you have any questions and want to know what it's been like here, we actually have had a tremendous response of support from all of our clients and our entire staff. we were almost being asked to do this and we were just again waiting for that full throated support of our leadership. it gives us a way to be able to take an act in the public

health of the public health and make sure that we are all safe and we are about energy, health, and strength and we are embracing this moment and invite the rest of our community to join us. [applause] >> thank you so much, tracy. and i've got to say thank you to the bar owners, to the restaurants and to e.h.s. and tracy and others because what i found out from talking to not only many of those people, but also many of their employees, what they were noticing was that some of their employees who were vaccinated were getting sick and they were concerned about being able to stay open. it has already been challenging to find employees to work at many of these establishments and this was just a step that they felt was needed.

many of their employees expressed a desire to see it happen because i know there are folks saying how are small businesses have enough to do? how are they going to implement this? it's just another thing that's added that's going to make things better in the long run and most people are willing to comply. and i want to express my appreciation because i'm sure many of you like going out to these places in the city and especially a lot of restaurants and i love what san francisco has become. the one good thing from the pandemic are these shared spaces where you can have dinner and hang out with your friends outside. even when it's freezing cold. we're used to this weather in san francisco. it's what we're used to as san franciscans and the fact is it has been great, but we're still in this pandemic. we still have work to do and we're still very much appreciative to each and every one of you for being apart of

the solution. let's continue to get vaccinated. let's continue to encourage others. yesterday, i was holding a man's hand said i'm only going to get vaccinated because you're holding my hand and i was like all right. and he was squeezing tight and he got it done. i know it took a lot of courage for him to do that and i get it. it's not easy. everyone who gets vaccinated, you're doing it not just for yourself, but you're doing it for your fellow san franciscans. and, please, support the health orders. we'll be out there monitoring, but most important, we'll be out there to educate people and to provide resources and support to ensure that there is compliance. this is not about punishment. this is about education. it's about helping to get our city through this pandemic and thank you all again so much for

coming. [applause] >> and, we can do a few questions with the press. >> i really want to see health and safety too and some of what i'm [inaudible] people vaccinated it still transmits the disease, but it mitt mitigates the disease. [inaudible] and people who are against the vaccine and, two, rapid testing at sites. [inaudible] and go see a doctor >> thank you for your question. i'm going to let dr. colfax talk about because they knows the latest of what's happening. >> so thank you for those questions. with regard to people who are vaccinated, we know people who are fully vaccinated can still contract covid-19. thankfully for the vast majority of those people, the

symptoms will be mild to moderate. as you know, the cdc did determine people who are fully vaccinated can transmit the virus. we're still waiting to determine how long they can transmit the virus and how much they can transmit it compared to people who are not fully vaccinated. that's the key piece. i think with regard to ongoing vaccine research. that's something that's being done and supported by the national institutes of health and cdc. these vaccines we have right now are really good. i can't comment on the nasal, any plausibility around a nasal vaccine. i will say we do have a one shot for people who don't want two shots. so that's great and we'll continue to see these vaccines in a very positive way as we learn more about the virus and variants. with regard to rapid test kits, we're very much supportive of people using those and supporting them.

we're working with community organizations to distribute home test kits when possible and plausible and that's another tool that we have now to help get this pandemic under control. we're encouraging people to get tested particularly if they've been exposed to covid-19 or, of course, who has any type of symptoms. >> and, i'll just say for the testing, we just opened another site at 7th and branding and soma and the whole point of having these testing sites are really to, we don't turn anyone away, but we try to make them available for people who may not have insurance and who employers require testing for whatever reason. if you're trying to get tested for your vacation, please contact your health care provider. we've also put forward some requirements from private health care providers to be, you know, just more responsive, faster with providing testing for people. really, we want you to focus on your health care provider if

you have insurance, but especially for those who don't have insurance, we wanted to provide those options. i also know they sell these rapid test kits in a number of pharmacies and so they are available as well. the tests that we provide is also free and we want to make sure people without insurance have access to testing. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> no i'm not. we have a plan in place. we have required at this time that everyone at least reports what their vaccination status is and we're talking about a very small number of people that have been suspended and we have been prepared for that. so we're not concerned about first responders, but we are

not going to deviate from our requirement to ensure that every city employee is vaccinated because not only does it impact the people that they work with, it also impacts the public that they work with. so we want to do our part as a city to protect the public and we will continue to take the appropriate steps necessary to do just that. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> so we have -- we do have a number of scheduled outdoor events and, for example, we know outside lands is coming up and we're working very closely with them and the goal is to require proof of vaccination for events that have 5,000 or more people in an outdoor environment and so we're working with the promoters for a number of these large scale

events to put forth the appropriate plan to provide people. so they are well aware in advance before they attend the event. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> no. you do not have to have a smartphone, you can have your actual vaccination card. some people will use a photo of their vaccination card. some people will upload it with the state system so they can show it's been verified. right now, we're not trying to get into micromanaging of what you show. we just want to make sure people get into the habit of showing proof and everything is contingent upon the data and what we start to see with the numbers and what happens in covid with san francisco and whether or not we take that a step further and require they be verified, but for now, we're doing it this way to make it as easy as possible for people in & those businesses. and the people that want to

attend those businesses. >> reporter: [inaudible] >> well, you have been the help. the press has been very helpful with communicating that. i think also i've noticed that people have already been asking for it. so i think that most people realize we're in a pandemic, we're still dealing with it, so it's a thing that people expect. so i think the word is getting out especially through the press. i think that's very helpful. i also think that businesses, when you sometimes book your reservation, they give you information about what their requirements are and even people when they book flights and you're starting to do things online, they're saying look at the requirements and there's a way to see what the requirements of an establishment are. so i think for the most part, you know, we're going to do our very best to get it out there and this is just many of the things we're trying to do as a

possible solution to get things better. we'll be monitoring the numbers closely and revisit these policies if we see improvements. we can lift policies and make changes. for now, this is just another thing we have to do. we're living with covid. san franciscans are resilient. we adapt. we keep moving. we're able to still go out and see one another like never before. so we'll keep doing what we can to get the word out. thanks everyone. >> roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field

trip. the light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. >> working with kids in the ocean that aren't familiar with this space is really special because you're dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. >> when i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. >> we'll get a group of kids who have just never been to the

beach, are terrified of the idea, who don't like the beach. it's too cold out, and it's those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. >> over the last few years, i think we've had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. >> surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. >> we've start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. >> swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all -- not being anxious. >> so when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p.e. credits. just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial

challenges for the first year or two. but now that we've been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids that's consistent, and the word has spread, that it's super fun, that you learn about the ocean. >> starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. >> we usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. we once did a special trip. we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the

way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go

surfing, and then, i just feel, like, i'm going to be okay. >> it gives them resiliency skills and helps them build self-confidence. and with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. >> i went to bring my family to the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf, and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made

this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun.

>> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest

thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after - >> tenderloin is unique neighborhood where geographically place in downtown san francisco and on every street corner have liquor store in the corner it stores pretty much every single block has a liquor store but there are impoverishes grocery stores i'm the co-coordinated of the healthy corner store collaboration close to 35 hundred residents 4 thousand are children the medium is about $23,000 a year

so a low income neighborhood many new immigrants and many people on fixed incomes residents have it travel outside of their neighborhood to assess fruits and vegetables it can be come senator for seniors and hard to travel get on a bus to get an apple or a pear or like tomatoes to fit into their meals my my name is ryan the co-coordinate for the tenderloin healthy store he coalition we work in the neighborhood trying to support small businesses and improving access to healthy produce in the tenderloin that is one of the most neighborhoods that didn't have access to a

full service grocery store and we california together out of the meeting held in 2012 through the major development center the survey with the corners stores many stores do have access and some are bad quality and an overwhelming support from community members wanting to utilities the service spas we decided to work with the small businesses as their role within the community and bringing more fresh produce produce cerebrothe neighborhood their compassionate about creating a healthy environment when we get into the work they rise up to leadership. >> the different stores and assessment and trying to get them to understand the value of having healthy foods at a reasonable price you can offer

people fruits and vegetables and healthy produce they can't afford it not going to be able to allow it so that's why i want to get involved and we just make sure that there are alternatives to people can come into a store and not just see cookies and candies and potting chips and that kind of thing hi, i'm cindy the director of the a preif you believe program it is so important about healthy retail in the low income community is how it brings that health and hope to the communities i worked in the tenderloin for 20 years the difference you walk out the door and there is a bright new list of fresh fruits and vegetables some place you know is safe and welcoming it

makes. >> huge difference to the whole environment of the community what so important about retail environments in those neighborhoods it that sense of dignity and community safe way. >> this is why it is important for the neighborhood we have families that needs healthy have a lot of families that live up here most of them fruits and vegetables so that's good as far been doing good. >> now that i had this this is really great for me, i, go and get fresh fruits and vegetables it is healthy being a diabetic you're not

supposed to get carbons but getting extra food a all carbons not eating a lot of vegetables was bringing up my whether or not pressure once i got on the program everybody o everything i lost weight and my blood pressure came down helped in so many different ways the most important piece to me when we start seeing the business owners engagement and their participation in the program but how proud to speak that is the most moving piece of this program yes economic and social benefits and so forth but the personal pride business owners talk about in the program

is interesting and regarding starting to understand how they're part of the larger fabric of the community and this is just not the corner store they have influence over their community. >> it is an owner of this in the department of interior i see the great impact usually that is like people having especially with a small family think liquor store sells alcohol traditional alcohol but when they see this their vision is changed it is a small grocery store for them so they more options not just beer and wine but healthy options good for the business and good for the community i wish to have

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