understand and know our history. important amendments i will turn it over to you, justin. >> thank you. i would like to say can we have a precocious teenager at all meetings. i want to say thank you for taking the time and having that, the will and desire to make this resolution. thank you, supervisor haney and the supervisor committee members, mar, chan, safai and the attorney and so many more. this apology is long overdue and comes at a time of increased hate against the api committee.

it is an ongoing issue. anti chinese sentiment is not new. since the inception of trying to remove or eradicate the chinese question. trying to move the entire community from san francisco. we think of san francisco as positive liberal thought and diversity. the history against the chinese is opposite. one of the nations hot shops for anti chinese sentiment. global pandemic or from api hate, gentrification. with this type of youth leadership that gives me hope that we will continue to have what is necessary to build for a future that repairs past injustices.

continuity of community, continuity of effort to raise the voices of those less privilege and to family and friends in chinatown, all communities of color in the bay area. the next step to the city must commit to is significant investment in chinatown. the leadership that they are embodying with passion and drive to do it. apology is not enough unless met with real action of budget resolution and solutions that will truly help the community. i am asked what is the role today? you collect things and put in the closet. why does that matter? you know what, sure, we have collection of artifacts that tell our story who we are and where we came from.

that is not the purpose of the museum. it is represented by four words. of, by, for, all. we are here to collect and share and encourage the skills that result in change-making leadership. that is what we are going after. we have exhibits telling about the history and what is happening now. the idea is that as dennis mentioned. he is a student of history seeking resolution of ongoing issues. that is what he is doing. through leadership more substantive investment in the future of our community. this is what the museum does, a pi council and ccc. they are organizations that believe strongly in cultivating the values to lead us to a better future. with even more than these items.

the trailblazing leaders in the community and cultivate these values in the community members such as these friends that are on today. it is one step in solidarity of the history of people of color in san francisco. i am happy to see this coming about. i support it and i thank you for it. i want to lend my support. congratulations. let's take the next step together to see how we can invest in the future of our communities. thank you. >> chair haney: thank you. i appreciate that. i have some questions for you. i want to go to the last set of presenters. we have representatives from the a pi council here. directors all of whom are really extraordinary leaders in our

community. i am grateful for their partnership and feedback. not only be in the resolution but in working together about what we do next. the actions that we have to take. those are going to be key to everything that we do. i will turn it over to you to get us started ms. wong. >> apologies for not having my camera. my son broke it this morning. not time to get a new one by midday. quick change-up in the lineup. we are adding. [indiscernable] thank you, chair haney for leading this overdue apology. a pi council is 57 direct service organizations in the city representing close to 300,000 low income api across every district. since inception we have

advocated for resources supporting the most vulnerable. this has never been more important as the pressure of the last two years buried the needs of not only our clients but community member organizations in the trenches of serving our community. api and sf represent 35% of the population. 40% live in poverty. this is a statistic we must uplifts. it under opinions is narrative of discussions of poverty. the current gap in the city funding will potentially defund 27 programs to the tune of close to $7 million. the onset of covid has magnified the disparities within the api community. a community whose problem attic

narrative. api is a model minority. the legacy of anti-asian laws in the past has inhibited our ability to build a more robust communities infrastructure despite the fact that against the odds we have built lasting institutions, neighborhoods and belong in the lanscape. it is fragile. the hate crimes is seen as foreignners and not americans. in the spirit of chair haney's resolution to take inventory of the wrongs and continue our pasts for collected healing the city must support the policies that are uplifting and shift the narrative. my ask is to continue to have meaningful discussions with city leadership and have opportunities to open our books

together to see how we can filthies gaps to ensure ability to serve those needs. next up i have malcolm young. he will share some of his insight on emerging needs. >> good morning everybody. first off i will say as everybody knows lunar new year starts february 1st. joyous time for our community and highlights a lot of why places like chinatown need to be there and need to survive this pandemic. they need to be around for future generations of new immigrant households many are working folks and need a place to start in san francisco. you know, the interesting think about this resolution and i want to thank supervisor haney for leading the charge on this and

supervisor safai and marfor being right there with him. the irony about this is places like chinatown were an outcome of the virulence we are poling apologizes for. over time we transformed chinatown from a place that was a function of perhaps the worst elements of the history of the country to the true resource and gateway for working families that generations that come to san francisco and to america and need a launching pad to integrate into the american society and economy. chinatown needs to be there for future generations. we can't take for granted the places like china town will remain a resource. keeping chinatown chinatown requires intentional continuous

commitment from the city. covid height ebbed the concern as the community is facing devastating impact and raising questions whether chinatown can survive. we need to say that seriously. as an example the first 26 days in january we tracked 22 chinatown buildings listed for sale, 10 have sold. that is the highest level of activity i have personally witnessed in the 20 years working in the community. it is making us nervous. to me this indicates chinatown is becoming a target of real estate speculation especially as our businesses are forced to go out of business and property owners are struggling and looking to sell properties as a way out of the economic woes of

covid. i want to echo the point we need the support of this board of supervisors, the mayor, city as a whole to work on an action plan to come with significance resources to make sure chinatown can remain a resource for our working immigrant households. one thing i want to point out. the city is working with us and others in a robust way on preserving housing affordability. i do think part of this action plan needs to focus on preserving community commercial assets, ones that are truly sort of anchors to the community like food security assets, grocery stores on stockton street, agricultural institutions justin run and the commercial assets that may being up the fabric of this community in so many ways. we are looking forward to

working with you on coming up with a plan. thank you, supervisor haney, mar, safai. i will take it back. >> next up we are dean taylor. >> good morning. thank you to the young people, dennis, george, drew. i am hoping to talk them into going to law school because we need more advocates. i am with api legal outreach and co-chair of the api council be and we provide legal services to low income residents of san francisco. i am going to speak from my

experience in the japan town community. the api committee is supportive of your resolution, supervisor haney. i thank you again for your lead with supervisors safai and mar. it is long overdue as you heard. as you said, supervisor haney, many communities of color suffered at the hands of city government in san francisco. the japanese american community suffered shocking discriminations and not being able to own property by law, not being able to inter marry by law, not to attend public schools by law. we are not here to compare operations, certainly the api community has suffered at the

hands of city government. you know during the world war ii the entire japanese american community was removed from san francisco and put in concentration camps, entire community. the small businesses and community centers were wiped out by incarceration. i hate to see this but san francisco was the lead community on the west coast pushing for that incarceration. when the folks were able to get out of camps, some were able to comb back to san francisco. they were not welcome and funneled into the western addition along with the african-american community in a less desirable kind of real estate section of san francisco. a few years later as people got back on their feet san francisco

redeveloped the blighted west addition and removed most of the japanese american residents in the name of redevelopment. those folks were promised. japan town has four square blocks of residential schools, churches, service agencies, community centers, it is a shell of what it used to be. not only that, the city decided we are going to recreate japan town in our image. that was a little commercial corridor not residential, not cultural. a commercial corridor for tourists that is what the japan town community is suffered under since redevelopment. we are hoping that the city will

take notice that as malcolm was pointing out. cultural districts are suffering. they have been suffering for many years. now with federal propaganda about asian disease and the destruction of small businesses by a series of unfortunate events. the cultural districts are at risk of being wiped out. we are the fabric of san francisco. can you imagine without chinatown and japan town or filipinos. it is what the city is envisioning as far as diverse community. our residents are being excluded by the eviction moratoriums ended, people are forced out. we are not supportive of the senior community.

i think there is plenty of areas where the city can reinvest resources to bolster recovery from decades of racism and discrimination. we hope in the future to come up with remedies that will belong term preservation type of remedies for the api and chinese american communities. thank you again. >> next. [indiscernable] >> good morning, supervisors. it is great to see young people to be a leader and to kickoff the presentation. i am proud to work with this organization.

really i will talk about the struggle community-based organization. we have over 56 members of our council. we have seen a struggles of our members have experienced during the pandemic. how we can have resilience to help them to weather these unexpected events and to this changing conditions. every contrary council advocates for budget to safeguard the fundamental social services we can offer city-wide to the population. a lot of times we don't put investment into the infrastructure. we definitely have a major issue with housing development leadership pipeline. how to support our leaders to build capacity beyond general operating. we need some support in terms of greater training to train

leaders for diversity, equity and inclusion strategy across organizations to field solidarity for the black community and latinos together. we felt there would be infrastructure investment to the community organizations serving the asian and pacific islanders to provide a pipeline, to provide training to help develop these sectors. there are staff shortage. we can't do it unless we provide investment into our members as service providers. thank you. back to you. >> thank you. we will come up with a real

concrete plan. thank you. >> chair haney: thank you. thank you so much for all of you for your incredible work serving the community and your leadership and partnership for the next steps. i know we are going to be celebrating together over the next few weeks bit also that renewing our commitment and that is part of what we are doing with this resolution, deepening the commitment to the community to its needs, to addressing the lingering effects of the discriminatory laws reflected in this resolution. i really want to encourage for folks listening to take time to read the resolution itself. we are praising the students for

the incredible reserve they have done. it is a painful history to read, and i think folks know about a lot and we want to contribute to this to keep per understanding and solidarity to that people have a better understanding what this community has gone through, what they are still going through. that deepens solidarity and understanding and challenges ignorance. i have questions i want to defer to my colleagues first. supervisor mar. >> supervsor mar: i want to thank the students and for you and your staff for working with them on this resolution. this public acknowledgment of our city history of systematic

racism against chinese immigrants is extremely timely as we work to stem the tides of hate and violence against asian-americans. as a city that values inclusion and equity facing our past mistakes head on is posh important toward healing. as you mentioned, i appreciate the timing right before the year of the tiger and the lunar new year, which is the most important holiday for the asian communities and symbolism is very important. it has fostered a lot more reflection on the history of racism against chinese immigrants and others in the city through city policies and a

lot more conversations in our city about this development of that history of discrimination and racism to the urgent issues we are grappling with today for the api communities and others. my daughter is a lowell student with dennis right now taking ap u.s. history. we talked about the resolution and a lot of the stuff that isn't included in her u.s. history class even at lowell. this is important symbolism that sparked a lot of important reflection and discussion. as the community be leaders highlighted in their brief presentations, we need to go beyond symbolism in the resolution to apply to lessons learned from the history of systematic racism to real action plan and renewed commitment by the city to address the current

issues that, particularly a pi community, and communities of color are struggling with from poverty to language access and across the whole range of issues. i really did want to also appreciate a lot of focus and comments from the community leaders, the council and historical society on chinatown especially for the chinese community in such a historic and current center and anchor and heart and soul of the chinese community in preserving and supporting the ongoing vitality and development of chinatown as a working class community of chinese immigrants with a strong vibrant small business sector, art and culture sector and community infrastructure.

also, i appreciate the comments about japan town and the importance of us looking at the history of discrimination against japanese americans in the city and preserving and supporting japan town to be unique and one of the last remaining real japanese american communities in the entire country, and i think for me, also, i want to highlight the importance of community -- importance of community preservation and development. the building of community infrastructure to apply across the city. certainly on the west side. we see the chinese community has expanded to be a major presence on the west side in the sunsets and richmond district and also in the southeast neighborhoods

on the valley and the vietnamese and southeast asian community has been important in creating the tenderloin and bayview-hunters point. we should apply the lessons and urgency to preserve and protect and support the thriving continued vitality of chinatown and japan town to other api communities throughout the city. this is sunset district we are over 50% asian-american right now and the chinese community has such a strong presence and it is such a strong part of the

identity and it is easy to forget 50 years ago we were dealing with racist exclusionary housing covenants in the neighborhoods that explicitly restricted nonwhite people and asians from owning houses and living in neighborhoods like the sunset to the resolution coming that breakdown is extremely important in reflecting on that history and also ensuring that the chinese community and asian community continue to thrive and be a big part of sunset looking ahead given the housing affordability crisis that is already starting to lead to gentrification in many neighborhoods. for the first time the latest census data show decline in asian population in the sunset

after many decades of growth. that is one reason why the community leaders, organizations in the sunset district worked with my office last year to create the chinese cultural district which is an important new vehicle to bring the community together in my district to ensure that we highlight and lift up the important heritage and history in the neighborhood, but also to ensure that we are able to continue to thrive and be an important part of the sunset looking ahead. i appreciate this resolution being brought forward especially now by the young people. i just want to reaffirm my commitment to going beyond the symbolism of the resolution and supporting the community to turn

it into an action plan including investments in the upcoming budget. thank you. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you to the students that motivated this conversation building on what we have had and the chinese american community has had for years. >> i went to look at the history as presented in san francisco and the impact of the community and contributions the community has made to make the city great.

i feel like chinatown people are looking at it and seeing it as a point of speculation. i hear the advocates every year fighting for services for this community, but when you have racist history and have not addressed that history and you have not acknowledged that history in a real meaningful way, this is an important first step. i really appreciate being part of this conversation today. we have very fortunate to have such a strong chinese american community, deeply rooted chinese american community in the city. strong chinatown what that represents and why we fight to preserve it is extremely, extremely important. to acknowledge the wrongdoing and highlight the wrongdoings of

the past to ensure we don't repeat them. over the last two years from listening to my chinese american api community they have felt under assault these past two years. they feel like they have been absolutely targeted as victims of crime. we have seen the statistics. some were reported yesterday. six fold increase in one year is extraordinary and something that we have to acknowledge and we have to do better at. i know from listening to that community they felt as though their voice has not been heard when it pertains to addressing the issues of crime and so many other things. i think that this is important, again, to also acknowledge how the pandemic was looked at through the lens of the chinese american community, how it impacted them and how the city responds. i have said this before.

so goes the economy, so goes the strength of chinatown and the strength of the economy of san francisco. that is an important point to recognize. i am very proud to be part of and supporter of the regulations solution. i -- resolution. i would like to add my maim as cosponsor. i appreciate the presentations. thank you to all and thank you supervisor haney and thank you supervisor mar and chan. she wanted to be here. we are fortunate to have that community represented by elected representatives from their own community that have and can talk about their own experiences within that community and have that representation. that representation matters. like when we had the first

chinese american mayor, mayor lee, how important that was to this city. thank you for this resolution. absolutely looking forward to having this conversation through the budget process and symbolic resolutions are a good first step and there will be deep conversations in the budget process and i am prepared for those and look forward to embracing a strong agenda to deal with the wrongs of the past. thank you. >> chair haney: thank you. i appreciate your words. again, this is why it is important for us to have this hearing here at the budget and finance committee this is a symbol like meaningful action we will tap bypassing this formal apology. it has to see follow-through it

has to be a deepening and reaffirmation of commitment to address the wrongs reflected in this resolution. why this was needed. this has happened the effects and impacts are still with us. that is why there is tremendous urgency and need for action around it. i wanted to ask two questions of our presenters. i know this will be a longer conversation. first, to mr. -- mr. hoover. how we best share this history that is reflected in this

resolution. as supervisor mar said, even in our own city sometimes in our curriculum young people are not learning about this. everyone who lives in our city, our young people, should know about this history. really when we have violence, hate crimes, it is deeply rooted in ignorance. honesty and education and accountability are how we confront that type of ignorance. as you look at what you are doing and what is reflected in this resolution, what would you say are the ways the city can elevate our commitment to showing this history as a way of building understanding and solidarity? >> thank you. that is a great question. i really appreciate that.

the theory of change in the impact model we follow at the chsa museum. we are producing and sharing community supportive and learning opportunities. the multitude partners cultivate and provide leadership pipeline that results in a equitable and just future. we produce exhibits, programs, special events that have an outcome of cultivating community. that means providing opportunities for businesses to connect with new audiences for opportunities, looking at enabling participation to culture so they feel their voices are heard. illuminating the fact of the history to fight racism. impact that we provide opportunities for healing of

collective trauma by supporting cultyvation of future leaders. this is done by offering programs not only in the museum. we are in the middle of renovation of the museum. old model people will come to it and that is it. you learn it. the future of the community is where the museum, c ddc, cyc are tied together in public spaces. we have more collectively programming in solidarity. not just trying to bring people to the museum walls. we are trying to connect with local people across identities. not just chinese americans, the bridge to latin x. it is about a jamaican chinese

artist from new york talking about the history. a role in the future the place for investments is going to be collaborative programs in public space to break down the walls of institutions to bridge with new communities. on top of that each institution has major gaps in services to do more of because of lack of human resources. making sure we have resource to result in stronger cultivation of community with opportunities for learning and healing. there are ways to go out. i think it is important to see the arts are not only a product oriented area of work. not about a monument or public

culture. a mural may be great. the way to get there is the bread and butter of the process of healing and learning. process of communication, education, enabling the public to have a voice and actively participate in the arts. the way you get to these things such as a mural, monument. we need the investment. what does that look like? possibly greater funding for organizations in chinatown to create programs that are bridging programs. ccc, chsa works with community merchants to put on street festivals and learning opportunities. last thing. how do we bring the youth in and make that learning opportunity something that they want and something that they need? that is going to s.f.u.s.d. and

providing that opportunity so the teachers can see the opportunities in visiting chinatown, activities that work in partnership. working collaborative ways for opportunities to learn about and actively participate in the arts and then the third is providing other opportunities such as online and virtual. there is a big initiative to reinvent the histor doing exhibition. supervisor safai came to visit. we would love to have that available in every language. a learning tool for students and teachers to be able to then in the classroom give the underlying preview necessary to enable students to have the

knowledge and desire to build on that in public space in programs and to become the means they need to be. public programs, more collaboration and focusing on educational work that allows for multitude of access points for this history and this content. i am happy to take questions. >> chair haney: thank you for that. i do think it is something that our city should be supporting and appreciate your work and leadership. really meeting people where they are. at the museum and monuments and other organizations that serve different populations across the city, across the world. our schools and s.f.u.s.d. and city college. all of that work is critical. we do take responsibility just

our city community has an important role in educating not just those in san francisco but the world about chinese culture, chinese immigrant experience in the united states and other countries. it is really tremendous responsibility we have there around that. this is not only about our own residents and young people but it is also about the responsibility we have as a city that comes from this experience to make sure people understand it and don't repeat it and confronts its lingering effects. did you want to share something else, mr. hoover?

>> it is new year's time. what you are saying how do we share the potential for leadership? if you look at the chinese new years parade historically. you don't see this in china. that is an american tradition. the queer community looked to chinese community to have the meetings to see the history of the queer leader asking how to organize this and you have the pride parades. the structure of leadership is inter woven in ways you don't see. in supporting people where they are is crucial. there are programs that no one

knew the chinese american new year's parade was going to spin off a world movement in the queer pride parades 50 years later. nobody knew that was the outcome. you can trace in the record the conversations that led to that. that is where the arts and community comes to impact in ways you can't add up when you first put the money into it. they have direct impact in leadership and making community a stronger and more resilient place. thank you. if director long is with us and anything who may want to share on this. you have heard us say our members of our committee that we take our commitments to take

action on this very seriously. passing this resolution will bring renewed commitment from us. i am sure we all have our own thoughts on the next steps on that. if anybody from api council is here with us still and might be able to share your thoughts what would be the next steps that you see to really identify the needs and make sure. [indiscernable] >> we are in discussions around those issues. of course, we are consulting with your office and others. i think overall as malcolm and others mentioned we are looking

at long-term sustainability for the communities, cultural corridors and nonprofit organizations which are essential services to the people of san francisco. within that context we are trying to figure out what would be a vital investment to last generations and benefit san francisco long-term? we certainly are happy to engage in discussions regards your ideas and your suggestions as to directions that we should be going on. >> chair haney: thank you so much. >> thank you for that and thanks supervisor haney for asking that question. for us right now we are thinking and this is where we want to sit down with members of the board and the mayor and budget office.

one is that we need to really make a decent investment in capacity building for our community institutions. as supervisor mar mentioned, there is a lot of need for the apac communities on the west side where they don't get the same kind of attention chinatown does. i think building these institutions in areas that need those services are critical. one direction we are thinking and would like to put on the table eventually is a conversation how to create an infrastructure that sustains these institutions. i think the other piece that is very real is capital fund to help us acquire and to preserve community access, particularly on the commercial side because i think that is the area where the city we could look at that

closer. these are significant dollars how you structure the capital fund. it is a challenging question. we were hoping to take additional time with you to sort that out to figure out how to best utilize the limited and valuable dollars the city has. >> i think the timing of this is important. really the eve of chinese new year but also on the eve of our budget process beginning in many ways and laying out priorities. it does sound like this is a priority for this committee and we hope for the mayor and the rest of the board as well. with that, i want to open it up to public comment. mr. clerk. >> clerk: operations is checking to see if there are callers.

press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. if you are on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. that is the queue to comment. any callers? >> yes three callers in the queue. >> clerk: first caller, please. >> caller: this is wilson chu with the chinese american democratic club. thank you, supervisor haney, mar, safai and connie chan. thank you to the students, dennis, drew and george that put forth the resolution to the board. i want to say that the pandemic

and the surge in api hate has been significant. when i see an event that occurs, the pain goes deep in my heart. we are still victims of discrimination. this resolution will start the healing process. through the viewing of this particular procedure we can see the concrete solutions are starting to develop. the conversations are already starting to advance. we are now building the bridges. not putting up the wall. i think this resolution is having an effect with a public discussion about historical and structural discrimination. i want to say this particular resolution also thank people outside of the api community and the chinese american community for all assistance they have

provided throughout history. even today the coalitions that are built, it acknowledges the systems for the coalitions built today where people from different communities are talking with each other. this resolution encourages that. it also thanks them. for the getting together and knowledge a stronger san francisco and api community and stronger chinese american community. thank you, supervisors. next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, i want to say. [indiscernable] this is the year of the tiger. known as the king of the beasts in china. san francisco has 500% increase on api hate. we need to bring unity, collaboration and partnership. i want to thank everyone for their leadership. if malcolm young if you are there, give me a call, my friend. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i am a retired teacher of asian students and long time community activists assisting crime victims and immigrants

over 30 years. this is totally due. i have been waiting over 100 years. thank you, supervisor haney, for the resolution and awesome efforts of the sweet students, young dennis and casey and the tens of thousands of supporters for this historic meeting. i apologized to the chinese immigrants for the acts of violence our board of supervisors will show your commitment through the size annual chinese populations in the city. the entire asian violence i continue to grieve for the senior homicide victims, some of whom were my former esl students. please show real commitment by providing the investments in capacity building, not only to our oldest chinatown but to all neighborhoods including visitation valley over 50%

chinese. some crime victims don't make the report because of the language barriers. i hope this apology for atrocities in the past will encourage more to be healed, proactive, be involved in civic engagerment and the need to strengthen measures to stop the anti-asian crimes. may the year of the tiger be the best for all of us. thank you. >> clerk: next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am a san francisco native, fifth generation. i am speaking on behalf of the chinese american democratic club

as their current president. cadc is active since 1958 struggling in efforts to do what you are doing. thank you, supervisor haney, for introducing this measure. it is very important. my grandpa came in 1923 at the age of 16. his comment was i was treated like a dog. that hit hard. that has led me to my work at caa the human rights commission and working in the community with you and all of us. i would like to remind us that cadc is fighting for equality and justice in education, housing, employment, small businesses and all of the areas. this measure, i believe as was said by other speakers will help

bring us to a landing point to where we can open up and have self-recognition of our contributions we have made to san francisco and the self-pride and stand up and speak out anytime we need to. develop leaders like drew and dennis and george to speak up and lead our future in making this a better society in san francisco, the bay area and the u.s.a. and the world. it is my understanding even racist language still exists in the city charter and property tax fees. we need to correct that and fix that. [please stand by]

. . . . there are a lot of diversity and inclusion and the neighbor, the family, and even the kids can educate us. i am courtney ellington. thank you.

>> public comment is closed. >> thank you to the leaders who gave the presenters for their leadership and you heard a to continue this important and meaningful symbolic action with serious steps to address the ongoing impacts of discrimination and racism and violence and to ensure that we truly redress it so colleagues, are there any other questions or comments? with that i want to make a motion to move this to the full board with a positive

recommendation. >> on the motion to forward the item to the full board with a positive recommendation. vice chair safai. >> aye. >> safai, aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> a great. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call item six. >> an ordinance retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand the grant increase in the amount of approximately $2.2 million for a total amount of approximately $3.3 million from the centers for disease control and prevention for participation in the program entitled strengthening sexually transmitted disease prevention and control for health departments. for the period of january 1, 2021 through december 31, 2021. and amending ordinance number

166-20 to the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2020, the 2021 and 2021 to 2022. to provide for the eight grant funded full-time position in the one class 922 manager 1 and 3 class 2595 health program coordinator 3. and and health care analyst. member of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001 meeting i.d. 2482 5480 and wait until the system indicates that you have been ann muted and that will be

your cue to begin your comments. >> thank you so much for the opportunity to present today. i am a physician within the disease prevention and control branch. and over the last two years have been activated around covid-19 for contact tracing and disease response, but i am here today to provide information about the funding for control for health departments and grants. as you all know, san francisco's disease investigators are city's first line to interrupt chains of transmission and prevent disease. we do this through case

investigation and contact tracing, outbreak management and assistance to congregate and the highly vulnerable populations receive the most up to date guidance and services. taking lessons learned through covid-19, we plan to expand the covid-19 work force for covid-19 and other diseases and in order to interrupt disease transmission. the funds will be spent on assuring that the department of public health has surge capacity for whatever lies ahead of us whether covid-19 or other diseases. address existing staffing gaps, insure that we have a diverse work force that reflects the community we serve. provide training and performance improvement to insure that our workforce is the most skilled to

respond. and also to integrate our data management and quality assurance systems. as we all know the surveillance databases are critical for us to be track diseases and respond efficiently. and a note in term of why this is retroactive and received the subaward from c.d.c. mid year last year. that is ongoing and proper approvals and signatures, we prepared the legislation for introduction on december 7. i am happy to take any questions or comments.

>> we did not report on this item. >> and open this up for public comment. >> before i open it up, if you can take down the slides please, mr. wong. thank you very much. operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. for those on hold, continue to wait until the system indicating you have been unmuted. >> mr. clerk, there are no callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. mr. chair? >> all right. public comment is closed. colleagues, any questions or comments? i want to make a motion to move item 6 to the full board with a

positive recommendation. >> vice chair safai. >> aye. >> member mar. >> i believe we have lost him. chair haney? >> aye. >> actually, i think member mar lost his connection. but we do have two ayes with member mar absent. >> this will move forward with a positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk, please call item 7. i think 7 and 8 are connected in some way.

can you call item seven or eight? >> item 7 is approving and authorizing an amendment to the lease and management agreement between the recreation and park department and the san francisco garden botanical garden society and the san francisco botanical garden and golden gate park and the japanese tea garden and conservatory of flowers which shall be known as the gardens of golden gate park collectively to commence upon approval by the board of supervisors. item 8 is waiving the fees phi bisan francisco residents to the japanese tea garden and the conservatory of flowers and co-author is the art, recreation and art department to waive or discount fees at these facilities and with the collective gardens and to reauthorize the recreation and park department to set admission

fees for nonresident adults at the gardens through flexible pricing based on certain factors and to ensure consistency among all three gardens and affirming the planning department's determination and the california environmental and equality act. members should call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. is 2482 500 9585. press pound twice. if you haven't done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. >> thank you, mr. clerk. i had a request from supervisor chan who had some questions and some potential amendments that she wanted to request and i am going to honor that request of

hers. she wanted to be here but can't because of a rescheduled rules committee. i am planning to continue this to our next budget meeting next week. and to have the full conversation then and we do need to call it and to have public comment since it was on the agenda. mr. clerk, can you open this for public comment please? 7 and 8. >> members of the public who would like to provide public comment, press star 3. for those on hold and the queue to begin the comments. >> we currently have five

callers in the queue. >> thank you very much. first caller please. >> good afternoon. are you able to hear me? >> my name is carol and i am a resident of district 7. i work in the tenderloin and i also serve as a volunteer with the san francisco botanical garden. since i live within walking distance to golden gate park, i have enjoyed many visits to the botanical garden, the conservatory of flowers, the japanese tea garden, and other parts of the park. the pandemic has made us acutely aware to connect with nature and the outdoors no matter our age, background, and abilities.

i want to speak in support of agenda item 7 and 8. the lease and management resolution and the admissions ordinance. these proposals would benefit all san franciscans. this includes educational and youth activities, conservation, and cultural events. second, these measures would leverage the resources and attributes of the three gardens to forge a bigger and better entity that elevates the collective profile and international standing of these gardens. third, the flexible pricing

arrangement that is authorized by the ordinance is a path to free admission to all the gardens for all city residents through a creative, nonresident fee structure. >> that is the speaker's time. thank you for your comments. before i call the next speaker, of course, we will allow you public comment on both items 7 and 8, but as the matters are going to be continued to next week, we will have full discussion then. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. this is rachel norton, the executive director of the california state parks foundation a resident of san francisco's district one and the

san francisco park advocate. i am calling to speak in favor of the garden gate park merger and the san francisco bow canal garden has a long history of excellent management of the botanical garden and i think under the leadership of my friend and colleague stephanie linder, that i will do a fabulous job in the new merged entity. i also want to speak in favor of the proposal to make the botanical garden conservatory and tea garden free to all san francisco residents the it is an excellent proposal and i would be remess if i did not say that flex pricing is a crucial element of this because it allows the any entity and gardens of golden gate park to make up crucial revenue that pays for essential operations and maintenance. i look forward to the board's

discussion of this next week and urge you to be supportive. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. i am commissioner for san francisco veterans affairs commission and i believe since you will get free to all residents, why not give free to all veterans, too. include that and of course, you will have this extra budget money, right? and that could be allocated to some of us veterans. so support in giving us veterans free access, too. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

>> next speaker please. >> good afternoon. my name is dell maxwell, board vary of the san francisco garden botanical society and 21-year volunteer at the botanical garden and i consider myself invested in the success and future of golden gate park. i am here to speak in favor of the amendment to add the conservatory of flouers and japanese tea guard on the the lease and management agreement with the san francisco botanical garden society. like many leading botanical gardens, we are lucky to have a japanese garden for a comprehensive and educational experience with the three unique locations in the heart of golden gate park and this is a we feel chance to consolidate and streamline under one leadership. also t proposed ordinance to

waive admission for san francisco residents offers new visitation opportunities. and in order to implement the free for san francisco residence program, the gardens needs to continue flex pricing for out of town visitors. this doesn't impose an undue burden. the current fees are low for large botanical gardens across the country. this revenue is critical in supporting the plants and programs at the three gardens. all three are living museums requiring specialized care. initial worries about flex pricing is not born out. we have not had documented visitor complaints about admission fees and visitation did not decrease. and many comments about how the appearance of the garden has improved with increased revenue and how grateful people are for the special places. in closing, the board at the botanical garden society is 100% in favor of the merger and flexible pricing for all three gardens. we ask the board to i a prove

the merger and continue flexionable pricing for out of town visitors. thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. next speaker please. do we have a caller on the line? >> i am the executive director of the one vet, one voice. from my understanding the supervisors approved the veterans park deal. and i think the parks were wanting to charge the veterans $200,000 or more for that. then all of a sudden i hear

about the san francisco residents bill and they are going to increase the pay of the non-residents to cover the cost which means that will be a profit for the park. with ask for the parks to not just accept the residents but to accept all veterans and we kind of got a little -- we went a little back and forth on that. so i am trying to figure out that it will be beneficial for all parties and residents as well as veterans, but one of the things that we talked about was how it help the veterans with mental health, with social communication and also bring in the diversity because we speak on diversity and inclusion. so my proposal to the supervisors is to consider making this available for all veterans and not just san francisco veterans. and to rethink about the price

that the parks was willing to charge in order to make this possible. thank you. >> thank you, for your comments. next speaker please. >> hello. do we have a speaker? >> i am a retired air force master agent, native san francisco and advocate for veterans here in the city and across the country. the proposal on the table i believe will be an opportunity for veterans to utilize the

different park resource. travis air force base is right up the road and hundreds of veterans and active duty that need a place to go and coming to san francisco to utilize the parks would be a great opportunity for the veterans and active duty folks to explore san francisco and spend money in san francisco with the opportunity that is on the table now should be open to all veterans. and thank you for the service and thank you for the time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> i am don, a current veteran, and agree with allowing veterans

to the parks and gardens and ptsd treatment and other health and wellness for vets as well. and to the huge impact on not only just the community and the state and being a leader for the nation and taking care of our vets as well as our local resident. that is all i have and thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> i am charles baker with one vet, one voice. and i am a case manager and i second both what the other representatives said and i am for opportunity for vets to have for mental health reasons and i

am all for it. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> i am a veterans affairs commissioner. i would like to say i am very grateful for the city to offer and extend this benefit to veterans. i am standing in front of the memorial across the street and it says the people of san francisco dedicate this memorial to our nation's veterans in honor for their service as of october 2014. i served with a lot of amazing men and women. i have seen the pieces that come home and i just can't look a veteran in the eye whose just

across county lines and say, i get it better than you because i live here. i think that every veteran who fought and served their country did it for their country as a whole. they didn't serve just their city, just their local municipality, and i feel that to discriminate against them based on where they arement coing from to visit this great city is kind of takes away from it. it is not the way to go around to do funding. to do amazing people who are dedicated to the city of san francisco to consider that every veteran raised their right hand and said i give this nation a blank check to do whatever is needed up to my death for any reason at any time. and i hope that i a lous them to see the beautiful park of san

francisco and if they can't afford it or get an extension to get in for free, we're grateful to you, we just appreciate what you have done for the nation and for your service. i don't think that's out of the realm of reasonable possibilities, and i hope you members consider that as well. i appreciate all you do for veterans and the city of san francisco. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> i am a san francisco resident of district five and a small business owner and a volunteer educator for one vet, one voice, and a huge advocate for the idea of sharing veterans mental health with access to the

beautiful local parks. there is the amazing opportunity and to allow people to access the parks. thank you so much and make sure this measure goes forward. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> do we have a speaker on the line? >> regarding the measure and the

amendment and support that amendment and i support that amendment. and i wanted to take the opportunity to confirm to the committee for the overall resolution with the fiduciary and sound financial audit and finance committee. and the partner at kpmg and are audited yearly along with the form 490 is available on the website. a few points on the overall resolution and to remind to create jobs and not job loss. and most importantly, we want to move forward a best in class living museum for the city of and thank you for your time and

consideration. >> thank you for your comments. >> we currently are down to the last two callers in the queue to comment on both items 7 and 8. and these two items will be continued to next week. if you wish to provide comments on the continuance since we will hold the full discussion next week. next speaker please. >> my name is laura and i am a disabled vet and i just want to speak in support of item 8 that i completely agree that veterans should have access to anything that gets ittous in nature and parks and mental health and physical health going and i appreciate the vets that have served over the years so thank you for your time.

>> thank you for your comment. next speaker please. >> i am a case manager for veterans up at one vet, one voice here in san francisco. i'm also a san francisco resident, and i was born here in san francisco. so i'm a san franciscan of san francisco -- i am a san francisco son of san francisco. i want to thank you all of you supervisors for even considering number 7 and number 8. and i want to thank you in advance for considering adding all veterans to it. and i also looked at both sides being a case manager, and the side of rehabilitation and we definitely need that for the veterans. but i also look at the business side of it and that is we definitely here in san francisco want to increase business due to the situation with covid, so

veterans would be bringing their families. and that would increase some funding in the areas in the parks and recreation centers. so i am looking at a dual success happening and taking place here. if we can add the veterans when they bring their families and what they will be spending time here in san francisco. profits will be increased for the restaurants and quite a few places including the parks. so i think it's a positive thing if we can work this out. thank you, board of supervisors, for everything you're doing and everything you're going to do. >> thank you so much for your comments. do we have anymore callers?

>> hello. my name is harry. i am a direct neighbor of the san francisco garden society for over three decades now. however, they have never held a meeting with us. we can talk about the destruction of gardens by the san francisco botanical garden society, the fact that we have to pay for our guests now. we can't go in through gates we used to before and i wanted to comment because you want to focus on this veterans issue. first of all, everyone should be admitted for free. that is the way it was. and secondly, my friend was persecuted by the botanical garden society who continually called police on him. he is a -- he was -- because he was murdered -- a salvadoran immigrant who often went there, lived in the neighborhood right nearby, and he was also a usmc veteran who was disabled. he was treated shabbily by these

people. to say they are admitting the veterans, maybe white veterans with a card and who look nice, but other people, you get the police called on them. and that is only the tip of the iceberg as far as how badly the san francisco botanical garden site has mismanaged that facility including putting $1,100,000 februarys at taxpayer extense and have the nerve to say they're going to charge us to get in. i think that's wrong. i think we need to look at this that the public spaces iffer us and not for relief. they want to use this to make money with the after hour $50 concerts and probably see ridiculous tea ceremonies in the tea garden which is not a world class tea guard fn you go to japan. and i used to live there so i know. thank you for your time. >> do we have anymore lined up to speak? >> that completes the queue, mr.

clerk. >> thank you much. mr. chair. >> we have two chairs at once. >> i can take back over. supervisor mar. >> thank you, chair haney. so i understand that these items will be both continued. i just wanted to mention that i do have some questions about the lease agreement amendment and the waiver of the competitive bid requirement. i can follow up with the department about the next week with the chance to raise questions over the next week. and i did want to mention on the fee waiver the san francisco fee waiver item, i want to thank the folks that called in about that, particularly from one vet, one voice, and the veterans affairs

commission. thank you to all of you and others for working with us on the separate rec and park, fee waiver and discount veterans legislation. and i did want to share an update that i have been in discussions with the department and the mayor's office about amending this legislation to align it with the veterans and the separate veterans fee waiver and discount legislation that we adopted some months ago. and to ensure that nonresident veterans were also included in the waiver at the gardens of golden gate park along with san francisco resident. the amendments were drafted but weren't quite ready to be introduced today, so we can bring those forward with the mayor's office next week. thank you.

>> great. thank you. so with that, excuse me, if we can take a motion and a vote on the motion to continue this item for one week. >> mr. chair. on the motion to continue both items 7 and 8 to the budget and finance committee meeting of february 2. vice chair safai. >> aye. >> safai aye. member mar. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. we have three aye's. >> great. thank you. and to call 9 and 10 together. and 9 and 10. and improving of certain transportation and street safety

and the potential administration and code chapter 37 and providing for the levee and collection of taxes to pay. and the administrative code sections 5.30 to 5.36. and setting certain funding requirements and under the california environmental quality and at the proposed bond that is in conformity with the eight priority policies of planning commission and planning code section 101.subsection b and the general planning requirement of charter section 4.105. and the ordinance calling proond vieding for san francisco and june 7, 2022.

and the proposition and the following bonded indebtedness. and to about $400 million to finance everything and item 10 is a resolution determining and declaring the public interest and aforementioned. members of the public who wish to provide comment. call 415-655-0001. price pound twice. >> please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and can make comments. >> great. we have a member from mta here

to present. >> awe i will quick it off before i turn it off but i want to thank the mayor, board president walton and supervisor mandelman for sponsoring and all of you in advance for your support. we are committed to recovery to the city by investing improvements and critical for us getting people back to work and depending on the daily basis in 2013 and to tackle and resolve the shortfalls and the less sexy stuff as you know for reparis and maintenance. and jonathan will go over the full program of investments but what i can't underscore enough is the infrastructure dollars that will be coming from the federal government with the local match to put us ahead of the line for other jurisdictions

around the country. and the infrastructure backlogs and community to fill the gaps. and thank you in advance for time and turn it over. >> jonathan acting chief financial officer of mta. you have had a long meeting so i am going to try to make this really quick. of course, the tech doesn't work when i need it. i have 10,000 windows open. let me try this one more time. it doesn't want to -- and the

liability and quickly in august of 20211, the mta went through a process to update the overall needs, 30-year needs for the transportation system and the number here shows a 10-year gap and a community survey and developing t20 and more repairs which is the focus and overall over the next 10 years and the investment and transportation system in the operating side of community service and street safety, and capital, we have 5.8 billion dollar gap. when looking at the bond specifically and this is the first of a couple initiatives to raise revenues for

transportation here in san francisco, the focus will be heard from the community was really we focus on improving the system and fixing it, making it work. as chair borden noted, it is not fancy projects but to fix aged infrastructure and fill the gaps we have in funding dollars and the liability is the core focus of the mta and investments we make and safety and to make sure vehicles are clean. making sure we have the equipment to do that and working and finally working to make improvements across the network in san francisco. and the quick elements of the community survey in spring of last year that is very clear and

the key component in doing that and reducing crowding on muni and reliability of the system. and not having any discorruption to allow us to reduce the crowding. and this surprise stuff is the first time and to have the ability to maintain the new fleet we have purchased over the last 10 years. addressing backlog, maintenance work and addressing the rail network. to make sure to focus on improvements to san francisco streets to make them safe. that said when we considered the

bond specifically and this source, three key elements in developing the program first project delivery is not a secret that the 2014 bond that has a significant cash flow need with 1 to 3 years and we have the staffing resources in place at the agency from the project to quickly measure and shovel ready. with the signal infrastructure.

and state and federal funds and the infrastructure bill and state and federal are not going to pay for that infrastructure. we are going to have no other choice but to have pedestrian invest in its own infrastructure. a summary of the program. and based on that community survey and the state of good repair report. and comparing the physical plans, facilities, and talk about that. and to spread out the dollars and reliability of family transit. on the bond hearing and to increase the amount of funding on the street side of the bond program. with the match of the proportion

inside the 2014 beyond. and very quickly the improvements when it comes to our facilities across san francisco includes allowing for future infrastructure to move towards electric buses with the muny fleet. two of the facilities are over 100 years old and are not safe and quite a few do not function and are working to rebuild one right now and we want to continue to make those improvements. and lastly we have four acres at muny metro east to develop from the light rail fleet to construct other sites in the facility. this is the dedicated lanes and

transit priority. from the success on the bond and with the picture in my left and is the diode and looks like that to modernize the train control and is the key recommendation of the muny reliability network and something that the agency is focused on to improve reliability of subway service. on the street side, we have a massive state of 60-year

replacement cycle. this will help us catch up and replace the traffic signal and to expand the pedestrian countdown signals and a signal wide program with the other ada improvements and not super exciting stuff but super important and super impactful. on the on street improvements are major corridor projects with curb to curb and the federal funds and multi-block improvements throughout the

city. and $30 million for speed management. people might know this as traffic calming. we need to take the opportunity to slow down the speeds across san francisco, and it is the agency's intention consistent with the recently adopted zigs zero action strategy to complete work on the remaining miles network. this $30 million will allow us to complete and meet that goal of 2024 and having improvements along all those streets and intersections. i promise it would be quick. minus the tech problems. and chair borden and i and if director tumlin made it, we are happy to take any questions you have asked. >> thank you so much for that presentation and your work on what is obviously a very important measure for our city and our street infrastructure

and public infrastructure transportation systems. >> yes, chair haney. i have a report. >> file 211.2190 is an ordinance to call for a special election on june 7, 2022, to submit a $400 million general obligation bond for transportation improvements for board of approval. and are resolution to reclaire that the public interest with improved transportation infrastructure. as we show on page 25 of the report, the $400 million bond funds would be primarily dedicated to funding muny facility upgrades and transit and street improvement projects. if the bonds approved by the voteers and bonding issuances and appropriations associated with those would be subject to future board of supervisors approval. according to the office of public finance, the total

estimated debt service on this $400 million bond is $690 million. these bonds are in the city's capital plan and they are consistent with the city's debt policies related to the amount of debt outstanding and the city's property tax rate cap. we recommend approval. happy to answer any questions. thank you. i see -- supervisor safai. sorry, supervisor mar. go ahead. >> who do you want to call? >> i think mar was first. supervisor mar. >> that is fine. >> okay. thank you, chair haney. can you hear me? i'm sorry, i am want to make sure -- i am having to call in on the iphone. >> we can hear you. thanks, for the presentation, for all your work on this with

the mta and staff and others. and this is a tremendously important bond measure and proceeds to go to the muny forward project. we talked about this before but my very specific question is whether that would allow that project and to be unpaused and to be able to move forward more quickly. and this is the highest ridership rail line in the city. there is a need for major improvements on that line as we increase population density in outer sunset and inner sunset.

>> thank you, supervisor mar, for the question. yes, actually, that category moving forward and we would like to advance it for a major state grant with the inner city rail program and the agency was successful at bringing in over $100 million in the past. it is a significant project. and that would provide the local match and leveraged dollars on the federal or state and we are actively working on that project and that particular category of the bond would make that grant application much more competitive. hope that answers the question.

>> thank you for working with us. i will be submitting some amendments to this today that talks about project labor agreement to give a context. a coup of years ago and led the process in the city to institute a city wide project labor agreement. and started out on public works projects in the department of public works and recreation and supervisor peskin was there with me and we worked with supervisor breed and then mayor breed to get that done. in that process it was decided at the time that the enterprise department and p.u.c. and the port that the way this conversation would extend to the

mta would be a future bond that was put forward that is here today and we have worked with the team and talked to representative labor community and we worked with many different individuals within the city attorney's office. with the city's pla and pearson and her team and susan cleveland and mta. and you sent you the amendments and i can walk through those with you. and these would be for all the projects and anything that the provisions of the administrative code that reference section 6.27 and rould wire any funded project that are paid for by the bond and the mta went through

the process subsequent to today's hearing to work with organized labor to get the representative groups and i think there is about 40 of them to sign an agreement with the agency. so i have circulated these amendments on page 1 in the title on page 10 through 11 and talks about applying provisions of the administrative code 6.27 and requiring certain funded projects to be subject to project labor agreement. if you look on pages 4 and 5, lines 24 through line one on the language and code 127 requiring projects and 16 through 25. and exclusion aolympic to

believe the san francisco and administrative hour. and contracted funded with the proceeds of bonds and authorized hereunder and which bonds are issued on or after june 7, 2022, shall be subject to project labor agreements that include the required terms set forth in subsection e of the administrative code, section 6.27 and shall be governed by provisions of section 6.27 as that section may be amended from time to time. and unless the applications of this require and would cause the city to violate any conditions of state, federal, or other funding source. the board of supervisors may by ordinance modify the june 7, 2022 deadline to accommodate the negotiation of project labor agreements and that is the last line there. and that was intended and that last sentence was intended to insure that there is enough time

for all of the parties to sign and in case that it is not done by that time, we can extend that deadline, but i have all the confidence in the world six months will be a good amount of time for the mta to get that done. i don't think there is any other parts of this that add any amendments. and i will say that it is important and the commitment to make a couple of years ago. and it was something to anticipate that is coming and a fulfillment today and appreciate the hard work and my team and the chair of the mta bond and talk with tony, rudy gonzalez and san francisco building trades. from electricians and others and appreciate everyone's work and

involvement and feel like this is a good consensus agreement that this is the right way to proceed. i want to aughted a couple more things. i think that things like our muny servicing areas that need upgrades from the facilities are extremely important and many of the things that that were outlined from muny reliability, street safety and the transportation network in general is extremely general and this is a good step and this is also a continuation, colleagues and others, of some of the indebtedness conversations and issuing debt that we have had with mr. rohrs and his team to talk about funding all of the different things under the mta's larger capital improvement and infrastructure improvement, so this is another step in that we did a few hundred million in

indebtedness and we came to a conclusion and this is another big step and is the right step today. this is important to invest in our cities and transportation system and i am proud to be sponsoring it. mr. clerk, if you can add me as a co-sponsor to item number 9 and 10. now that we have this language, i am starting to feel very comfortable that we should move this forward and it will be something that the voters will embrace and pass. >> thank you, mr. chair. i make a motion to accept those amendments please. >> great. before we take the amendments, can we open to public comment please. >> thank you, mr. chair. operations, checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item, press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. for those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmute and that is your cue

to begin your comments. first caller please. >> good afternoon, supervisors haney, safai, mar, and chair borden. this is mark greecen and i am here speaking on behalf of my brother who is out on yet another remarkable private sector organizing drive today. otherwise we would be here on the call. tony's asked me along with the executive board of local 65 the teamsters to extend his contingency report to the bond measure and it is contingent as supervisor safai has just articulated on the completion of the pla and so many of our affiliate partners in the buildings and construction trades. so i look forward to. apart from that in anticipating successful completion of the plas, the teamsters are going to be proud to be supporters of

this bond measure and encourage all of our working people to support it as it is presented in some of the voters this june. so we hope we can get this all completed and done and again, appreciate everyone's work on it. we look forward to being strong supporters of it as it appears on the ballot. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, chair haney, supervisor safai and supervisor mar. my name is brian and i am walk san francisco's vision zero organizer. walk sf strongly supports advancing the 2022muny reliability and street safety bond to this june ballot. the over $100 million to help make our streets safer for people on bikes and people walking is essential for our city to get closer to vision zero. the fate of eliminating traffic

deaths is intertwined with the fate of sustainable transportation options as well and needs to be convenient, safe and enjoyable to walk, bike, and take transit for many more trip than we currently take, otherwise the city will be stuck in a car centered, climate backwards state killing 2500 annually from traffic crashes. they passed a vision zero action strategy that is achievable and will make the streets safe, but none of the initiatives will be possible without funding to implement them. the bond funds are well positioned to leverage incoming state and federal fund, and thanks to the funding category, they are ready to put the dollars to work as soon as they are received. that project will happen now, not in 10 years. safe streets can't wait another day for this critical funding. we ask for your enthusiastic support for this bond today and in the coming months. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please.

>> hi there. this is zach, advocacy director with san francisco transit rideers and represent the hundreds of thousands of riders that that i can take muny with the to suggest the crisis and improve air quality and will invest in low cost transportation improvement and transit only lanes and that collectively improve speed and reliability for riders by 10-25% and this bond will not only benefit downtown commuters but residents like me who live out in district 11. by improving speed and

reliability on to get the pla right and hit our climate, equity and movement goals. thank you for your time. >> a can you hear me now? >> sorry. i am juggling between rules and here. on this item, the general obligation bond, i have commented a couple of times on this matter. i think that there is, although some support, there is broad unhappiness with mta and various sectors of the city. and that may lead to at least 34% of voters opposing this bond which would be enough to kill it. i think that mta has a lot of

work to do between now and june if the board places this measure on the ballot to gain or regain trust with the public on a variety of issues and i would strongly encourage mta to direct their resources at that effort. i cannot stress that enough. thanks for listening. >> do we have any further speakers? >> i speak for taxi drivers and am concerned about this proposed ballot measure. i do support the amendment. it makes sense. this should be labor equity involved. and there should also make sure the unions get what they need in order to participate and support the bond measure. that is taxi drivers do not support it and on behalf of the seniors and disabled passenger,

there is nothing in there to support the taxi industry and provide more funding for providing service to seniors and disabled and make sure that the service is there. the mta turns its back on the taxi industry by not controlling uber and lyft when it had the chance and not seeking more support from the state in regulating uber and lyft and limiting the number of cars they can put on the road. there is no limits and the state has seen to that at this point. the city can push and push. and it does little for seniors and the medallion holder who is will face foreclosure. business has been horrible this month, even worse than last january. i want you to know it is hard at this point to see support from taxi drivers and the passengers considering that it includes

nothing of this point. and the slowing down of the essential subway and van ness vrt completed. the other project wills do a better job. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. are there any further speakers? >> mr. clerk, that completes the queue. >> thank you very much. chair haney. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. supervisor safai made a motion. can we take a vote on the motion to accept the amendments please? >> on the motion to accept the amendments as stated by vice chair safai. vice chair safai. >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair haney?

>> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> great, thank you. thank you, again, to president borden and mr. rohrs for your work and leadership and everyone who has given feedback and input to help put together this important measure that will make critical investments in our city's transit and street infrastructure. i would love to have my name added as well as one of the sponsors. i know supervisor safai requested that as well. we will have to have this return to us and i want to make a motion to continue items 9 as amended and item 10 to the next budget and finance committee meeting. a roll call vote please. >> yes, mr. chair. also noting vice chair safai's

co-sponsorship and your co-sponsorship as well. on the motion to continue item 9 as amended and item 10 to the february 2 meeting of the budget and finance committee, vice chair safai. >> aye. >> safai, aye. >> member mar? >> aye. and please add me as a co-sponsor as well. thank you. >> noted, member mar. mar aye. chair haney. >> aye. >> haney aye. we have three ayes. >> a great, thank you. see you next week. all right. mr. clerk, can you please call item 11? just 11. please call item 11. >> very well. item number 11 is a resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multi-family housing revenue bonds, nontaxable, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately $40.7 million and multifamily housing revenue bonds taxable in an

aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10 million for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and rehabilitation of the 69 unit affordable multi-family housing rental project located at 4101noriega street, 363 noe, 200 randolph, 409 head, 2206-2268 great highway, and 1357-13 # 1 eddy and also known as 1353-1367 eddy. and sfha scattered sites within the city and approving the form of and authorizing the execution of the venture of trusts and approving the form and authorizing the execution of one or more regulatory agreements and declaration of restrictive covenants and approving the form of and providing terms and conditions of the loan from the

city to the borrower. and approving the form of and authorizing the execution of and the assignment of deed and trust documents authorizing the collection of certain fees and approving modifications, changes and additions to the documents as defined. ratifying and approving any action heretofore taken in connection with the bonds and project and granting general authority to city officials to take actions necessary to implement this resolution. and related matters as defoined. members of the pun lick who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001. meeting i.d. 2482 500. 9585 and press pound twice. if you didn't done so, please press star 3 to line up to speak. please indicate until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. mr. chair? >> thank you. and we have ryan from mayor's

office of housing and community development to present on this item. >> great. thank you. good afternoon and thank you, chair haney, and committee members mar and safai. i am the project manager at the mayor's office of housing and community development here to present on item 11 related to the bond issuance for the sfha scattered sites project. the purpose of the resolution is to i a prove the affordable financing not to exceed $40,776,000 and the proposed bond issuance will be conduit financing and not require the city to pledge any of the fund to the repayment of the bonds. sfha scattered sites is an acquisition and rehabilitation project of 69 units across five san francisco public housing sites in four diverse neighborhoods including the outer sunset, engle zooed,

castro and the filmore. mission development housing corporation is the developer. they are working with mocd and the san francisco housing authority to acquire the so its and tush to a ground lease and preserve affordability for public housing residents in rehabilitated unit. the project will include 66 affordable units restricted at 50% san francisco ami and will serve large family, seniors and those are disabilities. project-based vouchers will be used to subsidize household rent. financing is anticipated to close in february 2022 and we expect the project to be complete around august 2023. i have also joined today by the project sponsor from mhdc and we are happy to answer any questions that committee members may have. thank you very much. >> thank you so much.

appreciate it and also see sam moss with us here as well. i know he has been waiting patiently for the last few hours so thank you so much for that. and thank you for your great work and building and supporting affordable housing in our city. is there a bla report on this item? >> no, chair haney, we don't have a report on this item. >> supervisor safai. >> good to see sam. good to see ryan. and this is important stuff. i mean, i can tell you as someone who started my career in the city with the san francisco housing authority, worked a lot with the nonprofit and will work with mission housing and i know that many of these buildings have lived there and in their useful life. and they are in a major state of disrepair. really happy to see mission

housing coming to 200 randolph that is a building that has been in my district that has been in much needed repair and know very well the building on noriega and noe. these scattered sites although they don't have a lot of residents living in them, they are definitely in need of repair and deserve that level of investment. so we're really looking forward to seeing the san francisco housing authority scattered sites take the equity, take the situation within them, thoughtfully -- i think and sam, you can say this on the record and/or ryan, i think many of the tenants will be able to remain in place and aa lot of the work can happen or if they have to be relocated for a short amount of time, it will be done very

temporarily to allow them to come back into the renovated units. in the randolph situation, there was a lot of underutilized space that never got fully utilized. we are looking forward to seeing the projects invested and rehabilitated and allow for the community that lives in them, so this is a really important, big step to take some of the revenue bonds and rehab the property. thank you, all, for your hard work. thank you for being here. i don't know through the chair and i know we're going to take public comment and we're going to hear with the things he is confronting through the community process they have undertaken with the conversations about rehabilitating the sites if that is okay with the chair. >> sure mr. moss. >> thanks, everyone.

i appreciate the opportunity to speak and this is a really hard, complicated project. there is no other way about it. ryan and mocd have been great and talking about buildings that to be frank were left behind and with the buildings and the tenants and one of the first things mission housing has done is the resident community services department and we have a case manager dedicated to the project and we have engaged with every single tenant individually or also having monthly community meetings and a lot of the work is structural and is unfortunately not just aesthetic. it is a lot of structural and main systems work. with the fully furnished units and bring them back and this is something that mission housing and hundreds of units and to

drive to make sure that the tenants and located properly and the same services that they would and to demand and pride ourselves in. i think more than anything right now is a source of trust that we are trying to build. we don't need to get into the san francisco housing authority and the sordid past, but the tenants need -- >> sam, i think you should say something about that because i think from the perspective of someone that started their career in the housing authority and push to advocate for hope sf. this is kind of a piece of that, right? this is nonprofits coming in with that expertise on construction. and if anyone knows how to do construction, we know it is you, sam. and mohcd. and also the resident and tenant

services is really, really important because that was one of the things that for so many years along with property management that was lacking. i didn't mean to cut you off, but say a few words about that. it is important. and you said it right, supervisor. i would joke around and h.u.d. starting defunding public housing the day after they invented it. it is really sad and generations and ideas that have been lafayette behind. and one of the benefit of mission housing and nonprofit housing affordable developer and to get the bonds and tax credits and completely rehab the buildings and maybe as safe and structurally sound as 2022 as possible. in the year 2022. and ongoing resident and community services at the site every day. every one of the buildings has

already started doing that and more importantly, once the rehab is done and that is not the end of the project. that is really just the begin. and because we have secured the rad higher rental subsidy, we are able to fund those resident services through building operations which i think is important to point out and that is something that the housing authority and public housing could never do. the rent was never truly enough to pay for resident and community services on site. the tenants aren't going to be paying more necessarily. this is the rent subsidy has increased. we are not burdening the tenant. we are increasing the amount of public dollars coming in every month. and the overall majority of them after construction will be spent on resident community services and monthly meetings. but anything to think of food pant pantry, health services, job search, after school care, and mission housing as a great partnership with ucsf and clinic

without walls for on site mental health and to bring to the site because a nonprofit affordable housing developer and the housing authority never really good. and i do want to thank the people at the housing authority who have been helping us with this transition and they have time and is a real real partnership of the current leadership of the housing authority as part of the transition that's happened over the last few years and the mayor's office of housing, community development and the work they have done. but having that real strong triangulation has been important and ultimately the residents and the city will benefit from that. so thank you mr. chair.

>> thank you, vice chair safai. and mr. moss for those -- for that insight into some of the challenges and also some of the important work that you are doing. obviously there is more that used to be done. >> supervisor mar. >> i want to thank mocd and the mission development housing corporation to ensure rehabilitation and improvement to the scattered sites that are really provide the resources and attention that these sites and the residents really deserve and have been lacking for decades and these are across a number of neighborhoods but i did want to highlight the two sites and the outer sunset and like i said a

total of 25 units for low income tenants and just highlight the extreme importance of these units and being rehabilitated and improved in the tenant supported especially from the district which hasn't received inequitable amount of investments in affordable housing for low income tenants. this is really important and thank you so much. particularly sam and the mission housing team for your commitment to these sites and to the outer sunset. and i am also excite about the possibility of a major small site acquisition that you are work on right nearby the two sites that would add another 37 units. so thank you. i would like to be added a z a co-sponsor on this. thanks. >> me, too. thank you.

>> i will say me, too, although none of these are in my district. it is rare we have so many sites -- >> let us spread it around a little bit. >> this is one of these situations where i am happy to see that there is taking place all over the city and not only in district 6 and i know supervisors mar and safai are very excited to be advocating for their own districts and some of the investments and they need to be taking place there as well. we appreciate the citywide approach here that we can make with scattered sites in particular, and we know that will be extended to other types of affordable housing initiatives and ensuring renovation and new units and buildings. with that i want to open this up to public comment. >> thank you, chair haney. operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the

queue. member who is wish to provide public comment should press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. there are fez on hold, please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted. >> mr. clerk, we have no callers in the queue. >> thank you much, mr. chair. >> public comment is closed. all right. well, not seeing any other questions or comments, we have all said what we needed to say. i will make a motion to move item 11 to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> on that motion to forward this item to the full board, vice chair safai. >> aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair haney? >> aye. >> we have three ayes. >> thanks, everyone. we appreciate it. >> good luck. >> appreciate the work and your

patience for speaking with us today. mr. clerk, please call our last item, item 12. >> yes, mr. chair. a resolution approving and authorizing the director of property on behalf of the department of homelessness and supportive housing to acquire certain property at 835 turk street for approximately $25.6 million plus an approximately estimated $511,000 for typical closing costs for a total anticipated amount of approximately $25.7 million approve and authorizing hsh to apply to the california department of housing and community development for the home key grant program to purchase the property and approving and authorizing the purchase of sale for real estate and the acquisition of property from vssf associates llc for a purchase agreement which includes a liquidated damages clause for up to 250,000 in case of default by the city.

head and interim property management fee not to exceed 5,000 per month and reasonable operating expenses to be paid and the city selects the operator for the property and make certain modifications and furtherance of the resolution and the purchase agreement and the planning department with the environmental and quality act. with the general plan and the priorities section and 101.1. and to call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2482 500 9585. and press pound twice. if you haven't done so, press star 3 to line up to speak and a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand.

wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and that will be the cue to begin your comments. mr. chair. >> do we have somebody from supervisor preston's office or supervisor preston? do not see him. why don't we turn it over to dan adams and emily cohen. welcome. >> good afternoon, chair haney. good afternoon, committee members. eam here to talk about the proposed acquisition and the fourth proposal and at turk street and in district five and

we are really excited about this proposed acquisition and the building would would add 114 units to the permanent supportive housing stock for people exiting homelessness and the building is ideal from the residential building and the rooms are generously sized, private bathrooms, elevator a community kitchen, lounge space, really the ideal building for this use. i think our clients and tenant wills do well here and this authorization and for 25.6 pants and estimated 51,000 in closing costs. we plan to use up fee funding for the acquisition and

operations of the property to apply to the home key program for supplemental and operating dollars. i am joined by dan adams and he and i are available to answer any questions the committee might have. thank you. >> thank you. this is very exciting and thank you so much for this work and that supervisor preston is very supportive as well. and i believe he cannot join, but we have somebody from his office who is here. i want to give them the opportunity to speak. >> hi, thank you. can you hear me? >> yes. >> great. my name is jennifer boland and a legislative aide to supervisor preston. i am in here on behalf of supervisor to share our support for the acquisition of 835 turk

for permanent supportive housing. i would like to thank the department and supportive housing for moving forward with the purchase of 835 turk and the outreach when in collaboration with our office and engagement of the community. 835 turk is an excellent candidate for permanent supportive housing with 114 generously sized room, private bathrooms and a community lounge and kitchen. by helping people move from homelessness into housing that includes supportive services, vulnerable san franciscans can tend to the physical and mental health in a stable and permanent environment which benefits everyone in the community. and supervisor preston looks forward to working in partnership with h.s.h. to house unhoused people with the necessary supportive services and this marks a new era of expanding permanent supportive housing in district five and respectfully ask the committee to forward this to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you. >> thank you so much. we appreciate it. we appreciate you being here and supervisor preston's strong

support for this is much appreciated. and the bla report on this item. >> thank you, chair haney. and this resolution would approve the acquisition of 835 turk street and 114 single room occupancy hotel which will be converted to supportive housing. the resolution also authorizes the department of homelessness to apply for a state home key grant fund. the purchase price of $25.6 million was confirmed by a third party appraisal and appraisal review. as we show on page 32 of the report, the total cost per unit of 304,000 [inaudible] with the estimate $9 million in rehabilitation cost. we recommend approval and i am happy to answer any questions. >> great. not seeing any questions or comments from colleague, supervisor safai had to step away for a rules committee

meeting. and can you open this to public comment please. >> yes, chair haney. operations the checking to see if there are any members in the queue. >> please press star 3 to be added to the line to speak. for those on hold, wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and that will be your cue to begin your comments. do we have any callers? >> we have three callers in the queue. >> thank you much. first speaker please. >> do we have a caller on the line? perhaps that is an unattended line.

>> good afternoon, chair haney and supervisors. my name is eliana and i am the policy associate for glide. on behalf of the organization i am calling strong support and glide is one of the original co-sponsors of prop c and we firmly believe in the acquisition as the part of the broader homeless intervention strategy and our city, our home oversight committee recommended the city use prop c funds to acquire and develop permanent supportive housing and the strategy is a true reflection of the needs that were expressed during extensive community listening sessions last year including one hosted by glide. permanent supportive housing by way of acquisition of hotels is an effective solution with considerable cost savings that can be transformative for people experiencing chronic homelessness. this allows residents to access life performing resources such as mental and physical health care from a place of safety and

stability. further more, the city has to pay less to house someone than to pay for the additional emergency physical and mental health resources for someone who is experiencing homelessness. rehab cost for existing properties are also lower per unit than the annual cost of a temporary shelter bed. acquiring the gotham hotel represents progress to expanding the supplies of supportive housing which is the critical component of the campaign to end homelessness. acquisition will help that people's experience is brief and nonrecurring. this is achievable, a smart thing to do and is moral and right thing to do. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> good afternoon, chair haney and supervisors. i am the director of external affairs and policy at family services and the co-chair of the homeless emergency service

providers association calling in strong support on behalf of our partners for the agency's proposal to purchase the gotham hotel at 835 turk. it was summed up nicely. we and a great basis to reintegrate houseless people to provide services to stabilize in a safe and supportive housing environment. we wholeheartedly support the proposed purchase and would be happy to work with the city on implementing that housing. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker please. >> i am megan and i am calling to show my support of this purchase. housing is crucial. we are in a public health croix sis in an affordable housing crisis. purchasing this is a use of proxy funds.

i hope that as we have the housing crisis we will not turn down a single opportunity for additional housing. thank you for the opportunity to voice support of the resolution. >> thank you for your comments and feedback. >> next speaker please. >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes, we can. >> thank you very much. i am jordan and my pronouns are she/her and i am a supportive housing tenant and activist myself. i want to express my deepest support for 835 turk. as someone who is really pushed for improvements in the quality of life in the supportive housing srs ofs, this is the perfect site. it is not in the area where it's supposed to be. it is more geographically diverse. elevator, private restrooms, and community kitchen. and you've got general

accessibility and private bathrooms are really, really important. and so is accessibility. and i know it is a transgender person who just had her -- who has the big surgery and i have been thinking about more like accessibility and supportive housing not only for both the disabled and transgender community, but this would help alleviate this issue because there is too many support sites that are just not good for people. they just end up back in the streets. so i am really encouraging you to support this, but on a more global level, i invite any supervisor listening to please work with housing tenants to improve conditions and supportive housing whether it's current supportive housing or future housing. thank you. i yield my time. >> thank you for your comments. do we have anymore callers? >> that completes the queue.

>> thank you much. mr. chair. >> all right. thank you. public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, did we lose quorum? >> i am noting that yes, we -- i have noted that vice chair safai and member mar are not here. i suggest we recess until we can get ahold of i they are members. -- of either member. >> okay. all right. i guess we have to do that. >> time start in five minutes or 10 minutes?

>> sure. >> very well. >> five minutes. >> thank you m

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they get t-shirts, nametags, maps, and all the information they need to have a successful event. our participant escorts are a core part of our group, and they are the ones who help participants flow from the different service areas and help them find the different services that they needs. >> one of the ways we work closely with the department of homelessness and supportive housing is by working with homeless outreach teams. they come here, and these are the people that help you get into navigation centers, help you get into short-term shelter, and talk about housing-1st policies. we also work very closely with the department of public health to provide a lot of our services. >> we have all types of things that volunteers deal do on a day of service. we have folks that help give out lunches in the café, we have folks who help with the check in, getting people when they arrive, making sure that they find the services that they need to, we have folks who help in the check out process, to make sure they get their food bag,

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>> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists,

and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm

going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you

don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally.

>> i'm alex, the owner of the lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon

cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the

operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.

>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one

roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

>> president walton: good afternoon. welcome to the regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you mr. president. [roll call vote] supervisor chan not present. mr. president, all members are present. >> president w