>> good morning and welcome to the rules committee of the san francisco board of supervisors for today, monday january 24th, 2022. i am the chair of the committee aaron peskin joined by vice chair supervisor rafael mandelman and supervisor connie chan. our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. the board recognizes that

public access to city service is essential and invites public participation in the following ways. public comment available on sfgov.org. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak unless otherwise stated. comments or opportunities to speak are available by calling (415) 655-0001. the meeting id is 24816783884 then press pound and pound again. when connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but be muted and in listening mode only. best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio.

you may submit public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. it will be included as part of the file. written comments may be sent to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlet place san francisco california. 24102. that completes my initial comments. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. and members of the public. before we get to our charter amendments, we have three pieces of regular business. with that, mr. clerk, please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. item number one is a motion approving -- sorry it should motion approving or rejects the

mayor's nomination for the appointment of stephanie cajina to the municipality transportation agency board of directors for a term ending march 1, 2022. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. so we have stephanie. it was good to meet you and interview you and you can pronounce your last name for us and welcome good morning and please make some opening comments and we'll open it up to committee members. we received a number of letters of support.

my personal interview with you led me to believe you are a well qualified believed to be member of the m.t.a. board of directors and, with that, i will turn it over to you. >> thank you, chair peskin. thank you, supervisors. my name is stephanie cajina and i'm honored and humbled to be before you today as nominated for the s.f.m.t.a. board of directors. i would first like to that the mayor and her team for believing me and for shepherding me through this process: there is no greater honor than to serve my hometown. i was born and raised in san francisco as a first generation nicaraguan american. anded the 14 line was integral to connecting my family, housing and taking me to school. my mother depended on the

special supplemental program for women and children to keep us fed and i remember riding the bus with our food packages and sense of security. to learn how to navigate systemings in the u.s. and get access to education. with many of these services throughout different parts of the city, my mother relied on public transit to get her children to school. a family day care with with union benefits and many years working in tobascan park. these opportunities can

transform lives. because i saw first-hand the benefit of the city that plans with its most vulnerable community at the forefront. i studied city and regional planning at cornell university to create more equitable planning processes for immigrant families like mine. my experience working on transportation planning projects in san francisco has always been community centers. with a specific focus on commercial corridors, culturally competent. over the last few years, i was an active member of the vision 0 coalition where i led initiatives that put a spotlight on the deeply felt pedestrian issues in our city. i was intentional about bridging city leadership and staff to community and creating partnerships along the way.

as a vision 0 coalition member, i led walk audits to the high injury corridors and how ped city departments to work together. i spearheaded the safety on many intersections on mission street. the project also featured a local nonprofit. i'm proud to say that this project was featured and recognized in sf weekly. i also launched culturally competent campaigns in chinese communities. these experiences helped me establish relationships between different city departments and different communities and avenues that are often not heard from concerns. i have also worked on a number

of initiatives and i worked at foster collaboration with c.b.o.s. i served as an inaugural member for two years for i along with citywide commercial corridor leaders helped shape the direction of the local leadership group. i also acted as community liaison for the sfmta safety project. and worked with various organizations such as senior disability. walk sf, the bicycle coalition to authentically engage community members on this project. i also worked in partnership with the mayor's office of economic work force development. this particular project helped increase greater collaboration and coordination across city departments on the many projects coming to fruition on

the commercial corridor. it is imperative we keep our vulnerable communities at the forefront of our decision making processes. this makes sure transit is available and affordable to our cities. for san francisco diverse communities who are traditionally not felt or heard in. the san francisco association. and such a strong leadership council and today, supervisors, i respectfully ask for your support as well. >> supervisor peskin: sorry about that. thank you. are there any questions or comments from committee members? seeing none at this time. i see your district supervisor

supervisor safai has joined us. it must be sunny in district 11. supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> supervisor safai: thank you, chair peskin, it is sunny. especially because we have one of our own native representatives about to join the sfmta. i just wanted to say a few words. i've worked with ms. cajina over the last few years. she brings a personality that's calm, cool, and collected, one that can work with district groups. i'm really happy and proud to be supportive of her today. i want to thank supervisor melgar for her tremendous support for soon to be commissioner cajina. the work that she described was not easy work. the excelsior, outer mission,

district 11 is very much a microcause. of our city and so to be able to do that under the umbrella of transportation falling back on her training and background as a planner was always extensively important for us as district 11 residents and me as district 11 supervisor. the excelsior outer mission process, the transportation, the muni forward, all the things that she's been involved in were really positive and had wonderful positive outcomes for the community. i know she'll be a strong voice for underrepresented communities and i know she'll bring so much of her experience to the table that it will allow us to have a strong voice and someone that's going to be looking at transportation from

a wholistic lens. so very happy to support her today and just wanted to throw my two words of support in. thank you, chair. and other committee members. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor safai. seeing no comments from committee members at this time, oh, supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, supervisor peskin. i had a chance to speak with ms. cajina as well. i also had a chance to see her as a woman of color growing up in a community with immigrant families and that point of view and i think that is what is lacking from time to time in our city commissions and in this case from our board directors who governs our transit agency to make sure there's a length of equity,

there's a length of really looking at the needs of our constituents, our residents, and really understand transit is so much more and it should always be a priority to serve, but to really find a critical balance and to make sure that we actually meet the demands and actually have the services before we implement new initiatives that it may sound good at the moment, but it actually is not meeting the long-term needs for public transit agency to really serve the city as a whole. so thank you, ms. cajina and i thank mayor breed for this appointment that i could really agree with, so thank you. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor chan. and i understand supervisor

melgar may have been the person who recommended ms. cajina to the mayor. and with that, live from her car, supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, colleagues. i'm in transit, but i had to stop and say a few words about stephanie cajina. a couple weeks ago, a former mayor of ours cried about the lack of pipeline in our politics. despite my admiration for what he has done, i respectfully have to viamently disagree. i think people like stephanie are our pipeline. they're people who grew up in san francisco or have made san francisco home from immigrant backgrounds who have taken on that quiet leadership and done amazing things for our community, but have not always been recognized in leadership

because we don't look like the folks that have always been in leadership. and i think that stephanie's family, her sister anna who is now a school board member in berkeley are that pipeline and leadership and this committee's role in that is so important to make sure that the best qualified people, the people who have the knowledge of our communities, of our needs in the commercial corridors of immigrants, of working people, of union members, all of those folks will be represented by this next generation of leadership i'm proud that you're here. to put your nomination forward and, colleagues, i urge you to

support stephanie's nominee. she's going to be great. >> chairman: okay. we are all of one mind on that. why don't we open this up to public comment on item number. are there any member officer the public who would like to comment on ms. cajina's nomination to the board of directors. >> clerk: mr. chair, we're checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. press star three to be added to the queue. for those on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicatings you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. it looks like we have 25 people on the line with 10 people in line to speak. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> caller: good morning chair and committee members. my name is cathy deluca and i'm calling to strongly support the nomination of stephanie cajina to the sfmta board.

i couldn't tell you how and that is a grounding in the community. you know, a lot of times folks on board like the sfmta, you know, they're using data and pushing quote unquote best practices sort of from a top down approach and not having the engagement to really understand what everyday people are experiencing and i know that stephanie is going to bring the community perspective. i worked with her. she engaged me when i worked at walk sf and i saw how stephanie could bring in all kinds of

stakeholders. she saw what was happening on the ground when folks were walking their families to the day care center, she saw how dangerous it was. she got everyone involved. she worked with me and walk san francisco on a project with the sfmta to improve their outreach for the 14th and mission project. as we all know, often the m.t.a. could improve its outreach on the ground to everyday riders and stephanie made sure there was outreach for monolingual. and i'm running out of time. i'm thrilled she's going to continue to serve riders and transit. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker please. >> caller: good morning. my name's jose hernandez.

i'm also calling in support of the nomination of stephanie cajina. my experience with her has been over the last couple of years. i am a native san francisco. i now live in napa. i worked with stephanie on a statewide and community issues. with that in mind, i've learned ensuring that all marginalized she has brought me back into the circle of san francisco and i think it's so important she could represent all other individuals. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: good morning members of the rules committee. i'm calling in support of stephanie's nomination to the

sfmta board. i've collaborated with stephanie in coalitions where we've worked to advocate for voices and rights of immigrants in disenfranchised communities here in san francisco. i lived in excelsior at the time when stephanie was the executive director of the excelsior action group and i firsthandly saw how she led and that is positively impacted the multicultural working class residents of the neighborhood. so if you care about a justice and equitable transportation for all citizens. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker. >> caller: good morning, chair peskin, supervisor chan, and supervisor mandelman. i'm walk san francisco's vision

0 organizer. walk san francisco strongly supports the appointment of stephanie cajina to the board. ped and transit related projects, stephanie showed us to be someone when looking at a transportation project sees it with a larger picture in mind. how the community overall works and functions every day. as a member of the vision 0 project thinking about who else needs to be at the table to make transportation safer, easier, and faster and projects successful. she brought her urban planning experience, but also really values riders, walkers. we ask for your support of her nomination to the sfmta board.

>> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: good morning chair peskin and members of the rules committee. and my name's kevin ortiz. i'm here speaking in my own capacity of the latinx club. the sfmta board of directors. we've worked with stephanie in many different capacities as well as within the democratic party and she's always been a great collaborator, a coalition builder and putting equity and community first at the forefront of everything she's done. you may remember 18 months ago, the latinx club started pushing heavily to make sure we had an mta commissioner from our own community and stephanie cajina

represents that in full force. we're excited to support her appointment for the commission and we're also excited to continue pushing forward for making sure that latinx is represented on all commissions right now. within the city and county of san francisco. and so we're excited today to be joining with t.w.u. and supporting stephanie's appointment to the commission as well. you know, thank you again also to the supervisors that really heard our concerns during this last round of advocacy, including chair peskin, supervisor chan, supervisor safai, and supervisor melgar for making sure we had an appointment that was going to be from our zone committee. we're so thrilled to have you on the board and let's get to

work. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hello. good morning. this is barry toronto. i stayed up to watch this hearing because i've been looking forward to hearing from nominee stephanie cajina. my name is barry toronto. i'm an advocate for taxicab drivers and i hope she'll know that her job will also be to regulate and set policy for the taxi industry and also help the accessibility issues related to taxis and the ramp vans, etc. so i hope she gets herself familiar with it. i would like to know if she has taken taxis in san francisco and i'd like to hear about her

experiences and maybe she can meet with us when she gets approved by the entire board of supervisors. so i'd employ appreciative if she wants to familiarize herself with the taxi industry. thank you very much and good luck to you nominee stephanie cajina. thank you. >> chairman: mr. toronto, thank you for that offer and i see that ms. cajina is nodding her head in the affirmative and will meet with you. next speaker, please. >> caller: yes. stephanie cajina and members of the public. i'm here in the capacity as copresident of the san francisco latinx democratic

club. we fully support stephanie cajina. stephanie is more than qualified for the position and we are super ecstatic to see the progressive work she's going to partake on, the sfmta board. she's an amazing woman of color who will bring a critical lens to the board. she will bring the immigrant background experience and her deep commitment toe the community. and thank you, mayor london breed for this appointment. thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hi. my name is anna and i'm speaking here as a latinx

affinity group member of the sfmta and i want to support the nomination of stephanie cajina to the san francisco board of directors. who has, worked with her and known her over the yearsment i myself have known stephanie her whole life and admire her commitment. she's been awe staunch advocate for vision 0 and worked tirelessly in the southeastern district when stephanie was the executive director, she frequently participated in all the projects in the excelsior and made sure children were kept safe on the streets. if you remember, as someone who who's worked at the sfmta, i

can think of no one better on transportation issues. i wanted to thank the committee members, supervisor melgar for always being a wonderful strong latino woman and supervisor safai for your comments this morning. i know you care about equity as much as everybody else who's called in this morning. it's really important to have a transportation agency that reflects the diversity of san francisco. i hope you support her nomination. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi. my name is ruby navaro representing navaro's martial

arts academy. we are a san francisco legacy business and we have encountered and worked with stephanie cajina. i have found her to be a calm person. she's very well rounded with the community. she focuses on the task and the project at hand making sure that all surrounding elements play the factor into what the outcome is going to be. she is a great young lady and i support her to be a commissioner on the transportation division because she is the future of san francisco. she's born in san francisco. she is san francisco. and to keep san francisco calm and well rounded, i strongly

urge that she become part of that division. thank you. >> supervisor peskin: thank you. next speaker. >> clerk: hello, caller. you may begin your comments. >> caller: yes. good morning. this is pete wilson, executive vice president for tw 250a and we're calling in full support of stephanie to the board. we look forward to working with her. we look forward to another person of color on the board. this is the most equitably diverse union and we appreciate she comes from a working class family and background. we appreciate all the work she has done in the city.

we looking forward and also our fair inspectors. so we are in full support and we appreciate you giving us an opportunity to speak today. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. next speaker, please. >> caller: good morning. david pillpell. i do not know ms. cajina, but i have an open mind. people have been saying that for years. i've been hearing good things about people who know her and have worked with her. i hear she will be independent on the m.t.a. board and listen to the public and not just me. but she'll hear plenty from me and vote no on an occasion. when they're proposing something bad, just say no and,

you know, in general try to steer the conversation to concern for transit riders and the transit system and the other employees and concerns of m.t.a. state of good repair. all of those things. and so i think she will be confirmed. i look forward to her serving on the board and let's go forward. thanks for listening. >> chairman: next speaker, please. >> caller: good morning commissioners. my name is david hooper. i was always raised in san francisco and have lived out here in district 11 in mission terrace for 35 years. i'd like to assure you that not only do people work well with stephanie, but because of her leadership, they work well together. i'd say the point is is that

people learn that they have points of unity regarding the issuings in their community and work towards solving them because of stephanie's particular strengths of character and in closing, i'd like to say 45 years ago when i started working as an operator for muni, there were services available that i think have been diminished and stephanie can provide leadership for the benefit of families, working families and people who are going to school. gosh, this is more thrilling than a 49er game. thank you very much, stephanie. >> chairman: next speaker

please. >> hello, i just want to say my support for stephanie cajina and i want to urge the board of supervisors to approve this nomination. i was also on the sfmta small business working group also as an inaugural member and i found her to be a woman of wisdom one willing to listen to all sides of an issue and to bring forward as a community together as david mentioned. i urge you for your affirmation of this nomination and thank you for your time. >> clerk: thank you. can we have the next caller who appears to be the last caller. >> caller: good morning. this is gabriel medina. i want to thank the rules

committee, first supervisor melgar for recommending her and supervisor peskin and supervisor chan and supervisor mandelman for your recommendation. i was born and raised in san francisco like stephanie. i appreciate supervisor safai's remarks today. stephanie's nomination is really important. and stephanie's a firm believer in having more community process and community input. muni riders, pedestrianses, taxi drivers are all happy to have stephanie as an director on the sfmta. i've seen her hard work, so i know she'll do very well listening to everyone's input. so thank you so much. >> chairman: last, but not least. thank you. are there any other members of the public for public comment on item number one.

>> clerk: we had two more people just jump on. >> chairman: not last and not least. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello rules committee members. hello supervisor peskin. my name is cathy meyer. i'm a district 11 resident. i worked for district 11 supervisor safai but prior to that, i worked with stephanie cajina on many projects related to muni. we worked on vision 0. we ordinary cared on an sfmta audit mobility access for elderly folks and mobility impaired people on the mission street corridor. i cannot recommend someone more highly qualified who understands how different parts of the city affect transit throughout the city, who

sensors small businesses and some of her decision-making processes and will just be a strong component for equity and for community voice in sfmta decision-making. i want to thank mayor london breed, supervisor melgar, supervisor safai, and the rules committee and the sfmta board. >> chairman: thank you and good to hear your voice. we miss you around city hall. next speaker, please. >> caller: good morning supervisors. my name is oscar grande. and i'm a neighbor, resident, and also a neighbor of the excelsior strong leadership council. i am just wholeheartedly backing up stephanie's nomination to the board. i've known her for a good part

of the decade. i know her mama, i know her sister and to me, the qualifying factor is not only she's a daughter of immigrants, central americano, she rode the 14 mission. she knows if you could survive and ride the 14 mission, you've got my back and my support and not only that, i've had the pleasure of working with her a couple years back and to district 11, excelsior in particular and working with her, she brings, you know, she just brings a lot of -- she's smart, she listens, she really sometimes when you have different voices, you know, throughout the spectrum, she's able to find that sweet spot and bring us together and really push for real change, real access and inclusion and i appreciate that about her. it's important too, supervisor

chan, really just speak to me and their comments. raising three daughters in the city and having stephanie to show you can achieve and do this is super important. having folks like stephanie. having the right faces in these spaces is so important and i just back her up 100% and i hope you do too. >> chairman: are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on item number one. >> clerk: that completes the list of public commentors on this item. double checking. one last double check. that is confirmed. that was the last caller. >> chairman: okay. public comment on item number one is closed. and, colleagues, the matter is in our hands and i think we have heard widespread support

and if there's no comments from committee members, i would like to offer an amendment to change to remove in the long title, the word ''rejecting'' at line three and at line 20 to remove the word ''rejects'' on that amendment. mr. young, a roll call please. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: okay. and i'd like to make a motion to send the item to the full board with recommendation. >> clerk: yes, on that motion, [roll call]

the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: congratulations. one step left and then the hard work begins. we look forward to working with you in your soon to be new incarnation as a member of the m.t.a. board of directors. the only other body in is this government that has legislative authority. so i'm sure you'll be hearing from all eleven members of this body. with that, mr. young, can you please read the next item. >> clerk: yes. item number two is a hearing considering three members terms expiring november 21st, 2022, to the citizens general obligation bond oversight committee. there are three seats and two applicants. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. and g.o.b.o.c. is quite an important oversight body relative to its review of

general obligation bonds. we have succeeding himself tim timothy matthews for seat two and andrea crawford for seat one. and why don't we start with my former neighbor, ms. crawford. please go ahead. >> good morning. good morning supervisors. thank you so much for considering me for the cgoboc is the way i refer to it. i'd like to just take a couple of minutes to talk about my professional experience and my personal interests in joining the cgoboc and just to, you know, state my initial qualifications. i am a resident of san francisco for the past twelve years.

i'm the proud mother of two sfusd students and a small business owner. i live in district i've always lived in district three and my business is based in the flood building in district six. we also -- i founded this business, our corporate headquarters are in san francisco, we had another office in gainesville, florida. we are fundraisering and phil philanthropic and also for government agencies and so one of the reasons i'm really interested in serving on the cgoboc committee is that i have so much experience developing proposals, putting together

budgets for large capital projects and writing reports on those projects. but one thing -- my experience kind of stops there and i'm really interested in learning more about and getting more experience with what happens after these projects are funded. learning more about how the, you know, what the challenges are on the projects. who works on these projects and i think serving on the cgoboc is a really great way of learning about that. i also have pretty good written communication skills and i enjoy reading the cgoboc reports and i'd like to participate in those, in both, you know, interviewing those working on these projects and translating that into these

simple report that is are easy for community members like me to digest. a couple of items of note, i have worked on some projects. one project in particular, one of our clients is outwardbound california and they just completed a public private project in john mcclaeren park which is a challenge ropes course which is open to the community one saturday a week. it's a partnership with dcyf. we did some private funding and now this is open for nonprofit organizations, schools, and like i said one saturday a month for the general public. so i talked a little bit about why i'm interested. i'll also just a consumer.

i'm a user. i've got two kids that we as a family love to visit parks in the city and i'm more interested in learning about and reporting on how these large public infrastructure projects get done. >> chairman: thank you, ms. crawford. and give your kids my regards. i miss seeing their smiling faces when i leave the house in the morning. and thank you for your interest and it seems like you're imminently qualified and, with that, why don't we go to our next applicant to succeed himself timothy matthews for seat number two. >> good morning rules committee and staff. chair peskin, vice chair

mandelman and member chan. i did have the opportunity to both mask and distance see chair peskin on polk street and member chan in the park a few times in her district in richmond. vice chair mandelman i think you were being arrested on broadway at our strike against the mayor over there. it's hard for me to cross market street let alone waller street. i'll keep my eyes peeled for you. i've been a resident of district five since 2014 and at the outset of the pandemic, i had my bicycle stolen and now i truly feel like a san franciscan as for the requirements of seat two, i'm a member of teamsters local 56 and i work for the professional local engineers of union 21 that represents your dedicated staff and former member

mandelman and chan. i've worked for labor organizations for the past 17 years for a brief hiadus for the president campaign. i believe it's role is directly involved in probably the most important function of government and that's providing public service. this board gets to play the oversight role in actually delivering the will of the voters as physical infrastructure and it's a unique opportunity to show case the impact and importance of the public sector. on the perspective of delivering projects through civil servants is ideal, but where that's not possible, it's vital that we engage with contractors who have local apprenticeship programs training up the next generation of san francisco's work force.

currently, i'm elected kind of as last man standing but especially giving the circumstances of our ongoing work. revenues have been extended in accordance with ballot measures. currently, i'm co-liaison to the transportation and bond programs i'm looking forward to the implementation of the 2014 transportation bond as well as the newly authorized affordable housing bonds particularly with prop sections k and i. so i appreciate your time this morning and i look -- i thank you for considering my re-application to succeed myself and it will be an honor

to have the opportunity to continue to serve the city and county of san francisco on this oversight board. so thank you. >> chairman: thank you, mr. matthews and thank you for your previous service and look forward to bumping into you on the street again. and, with that, if there are no questions from committee members, why don't we go to public comment on item number two. are there any members of the public who would like to speak on this item. >> clerk: yes. members of the public call (415) 655-0001. the meeting id is 24816783884 then press pound and pound again. if you haven't already done so, please press star three to line up to speak. a system prompt will indicate you have raise your hand. of please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your

comments. the we have one caller on the line for this item. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> caller: good morning, commissioners. my name is kate mcgee and i'm here to speak in support of andrea crawford. andrea is a committed san francisco community member who's lived in district three for the past decade with her family. she's a successful business owner in the community. andrea's fiscally responsible and has strong communication skills. she will be a fantastic addition to the oversight committee. thank you. >> chairman: thank you, ms. mcgee. colleagues, i had nothing to do with this, but that's one former neighbor calling to support another former neighbor, but a qualified public commenter for a qualified applicant for the seat, are there any other members of the public who would

like to testify on item number two. >> clerk: just double checking that was the last caller for this item. >> chairman: all right. public comment is closed. if there's no objection, i would like to send with recommendation ms. crawford for seat one and mr. matthews for seat two. on that motion, a roll call please. >> clerk: on that motion, [roll call] one moment, please. operations has just indicated someone has jumped in late. i'm getting another update. nope. they dropped out. my apologies. on that motion, [roll call]

the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: next item, please. >> clerk: next on the agenda is item number three. an ordinance amending the administrative code to create the central soma legacy business and p.d.r. support fund and the jackson playground park fund creating payments to be made by kr flower mart and transportation sustainability fees under planning code. to accept land located at 71 boardman place and 356 harriet street for affordable housing. >> chairman: thank you, mr. young. colleagues, this is long awaited legislation involving the san francisco flower mart and the killroy corporation

that i am pleased is finally going through the board of supervisors and there are some minor amendments that i will describe, but, first, why don't we go to the office of economic and work force development and ms. ann topier who has been shepherding this progress for a number of years will give us background on what this trailing legislation is and does. with that, the floor is yours, ms. topier. >> thank you very much. i'll be very brief because one, i have very terrible allergies this morning and also i know you have a very busy agenda today. so this is trailing legislation that was continue plated in the original kilroy development agreement in the san francisco

flower market agreement that was approved january 7th, 2020. it accomplishes four main goals. one is to create the central soma business leggy in the amount of $2.4 million. it creates the jackson playground park in the amount of $2,158,000. and, finally, as a bit of clean-up, we inadvertently left off the first three pages of the project transportation management demand exhibit when we recorded the document back in 2020 and so i just wanted to make sure that all of those were read into the record for

today. the legacy business fund will be paid out in regular installments over 34 years to make sure that we're able to stabilize these small pdr farmers and businesses in the san francisco market. with that, chair peskin, if you would like to read the amendments into the record or i can, whichever is your preference. >> chairman: i'm happy and to read them into the record. those are, just two technical amendments that would replace the uncodified holders for the two funds for the central soma legacy business and section 10.100/82 for the jackson park playground. you may won't to speak to three changes to the transfer agreement and i think the updated version which victor

has put into the file is two of them. i'm not sure it has the third one. so if you would just speak to those three, the perimeter fence, the $919,000 and change from 553 to five and a quarter. >> that's correct. thank you so much, chair peskin. we were able to get two of the amendments on the record on friday afternoon. the first one does establish a one-time payment to the mayor's office of housing community development for environmental clean up of the boardman site. additionally, we are asking

that the -- that kilroy provide the site upon closing with all structures or any buildings on the site to be removed from the site and a perimeter fence be put up for the site. and then, finally, the final letter of agreement between mayor's office of housing and community development and kilroy reduce the credit from $5,355,000 to $5,250,000 and that's the entirety of those amendments. >> chairman: got it. okay. are there any questions or comments from colleagues? seeing none. why don't we open this item number three up to public

comment. >> clerk: yes. members of the public call (415) 655-0001. meeting id 24816783884 and then press pound and pound again. a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. you may begin your comments. we have one caller on the line so far for this matter. >> chairman: first speaker, please. >> caller: good morning, supervisor peskin. i'm name is jeannie bose. it's been an interesting roller coaster ride for the san francisco flower mart over the last i would say seven years since we originally sold the

property to kilroy property. but the last two years, it's been challenging, but also eye opening about how important this market is to both the state and the state and the overall u.s. agriculture of community. the city of san francisco has always gone above and beyond supporting our market especially with the help of supervisor peskin helping us to renegotiate our original agreements with kilroy realty and understanding the necessity of our mark. the san francisco flower mart is a piece of a large floral and agriculture history of the state and in the u.s. if the market were to go away or close down and leave san francisco, it would directly affect every farm in the u.s. that distributes product through our market. most of these businesses are family owned, would be deemed legacy businesses in san

francisco if not in the state. but all the small businesses who also shop at our market and need our market to continue their businesses would be affected dramatically. those range from retail shop owners to design professionals who bring color and life into this city at every event or venue that you walk into. but the interesting piece is that the plan for the future of the flower market is to move the management side into a nonprofit and that will support our small vendors who are microvendors. to open up to local schools and the community. it would open it up to there's jobs in the industry that you may not have ever dreamed of and there's very minimal hurdles to enter our industry and we're looking for young

folks. >> chairman: finish up. there's no time limit for you. you're the only speaker on this item. >> clerk: we may have muted her. please continue. >> caller: i can continue. >> chairman: yes, you may. >> caller: thank you, aaron. we can expose the residents of san francisco to the art of floral design or the science of flowers of the ability to bring flowers into your world because flowers do make people happy and at a time right now we see mental health issues rising and if it were not for the city and supervisor peskin and the mayor's office of economic work force development, i'm not quite sure we'd be looking at a future for the flower market.

so, again, thank you very much. this fund is essential to make sure that the vendors in this market can continue to operate in san francisco. >> chairman: thank you ms. bose and thank you for your incredible stewardship of the flower mart all these many years and while this episode has gone on for seven years as you said, the flower mart actually was threatened with removal by the academy of art some 15 years ago. so it's been a 15 year journey for me and for you, but thank you so much and we look forward to making sure this is a healthy institution for another 100 years and, with that, are there any questions or comments from committee members of the comment -- can i close public comment, mr. young? >> clerk: yes. that was the only caller. >> chairman: public comment is closed. seeing no questions or comments from committee members, i would like to move the nonsubs

substantiative technical amendments. on that, roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion, [roll call] that motion passes without objection. >> chairman: and then i would like to move to send the item as amended to the full board with recommendation. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> chairman: thank you, colleagues. thank you, ms. topier. thank you, ms. bose. next item please. >> clerk: yes. item number four is a charter amendment to establish a.

of system services and policy and strategy families to include the department of children, youth, and families and promoting the development of programs and planning strategies to enhance services for children, youth, and their families, authorize the agency to include a new department of early childhood which will assume the duties of previously assigned to office of early care and education promoting the development of programs policies and strategies to enhance services for children aging 0-5. modify the process for expending funds in the children and youth fund to support services for children. modify the process for expending funds in the public education enrichment fund to support the san francisco unified school district and to

require the board of education to submit a certification of compliance with specified governance requirements before the city appropriates funds to the san francisco unified school district not otherwise required by the charter or state law. members of the public please call (415) 655-0001. and the meeting id is 24816783884. press pound twice. >> chairman: thank you, colleagues. this is the first of our charter amendments before us. it's charter season and just to lay this out, there are six of them before us today. we have the ability to continue to hear amendments for next monday, january 31st and the following monday, february the

7th before they either leave committee or not. and charter amendments have to be done very carefully with as much transparency as possible. so any amendments made today will be out there for the public to see and comment on for next monday and the following monday and when they hit the board, they have to actually sit at the board for another week because the charter is in essence our constitution and, of course, any changes to the charter are subject to a vote of the electorate of san francisco. i just wanted to lay out the process for each of these. we will first in each case start with a brief synopsis of the controller's statement to any financial impacts foreseen

as a result of each and every one of these charter amendments and then we will go to the primary sponsor for a presentation about the charter amendment itself and any amendments that the primary sponsor may be offering and then we'll have committee deliberations and public comment. so with that, i don't know if there's anybody here from the controller's office as to the controller's statement. if not, i can give it a quick synopsis. ms. stevens, i see you. the goor is yours for this charter amendment. please go ahead. good to see you. >> good morning supervisors. peg stevens from the controller's office performance group. we've submitted a letter which

i hope made it into your meeting materials. none of these are materially changed by the charter amendment itself. we did note that any new commission that's created does have an operating cost. we've updated it as something on the order of $350,000 for a secretary cost that go with just running a commission, but it's not in our language of substantial cost to government. so i'm happy to answer any questions if you have them but the major funding sources and interactions between them are not substantially changed by the amendments.

thank you. >> chairman: thank you. and then in accordance with the protocols that i set forth a moment ago, is the primary sponsor in this matter, mayor breed. is there anybody here from the mayor's office who wants to make opening statements and there are two cosponsors supervisor melgar and supervisor mandelman. is there anyone here from the mayor's office who would like to make an opening statement or presentation? what's the name of the liaison to the board? >> supervisor melgar: tom palino. >> chairman: is mr. palino

available. >> good morning, mr. chair and member officer the rules committee. as far as from the mayor's office i believe or i believe supervisor melgar may be introducing some amendments today, but as far as my colleague maria sue, i'm not seeing on the line today, but if there are questions you may have, if you give me a minute i'm happy to connect with her to get her on. >> chairman: i will look on the participant list to see if ms. sue is available. why don't we go -- i don't see ms. sue. why don't we go to the first cosponsor and i know supervisor ronen wants to speak. the way we're going to do all six of these is to start with a sponsor for presentation in so far as the mayor's office is deferring to supervisor melgar and so far she is listed as the

first cosponsor, why don't we go to supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, chair peskin and colleagues for putting this on the agenda early on. as i'm sure you are aware, there have been many member officer the public and stakeholders who have weighed in on this proposed charter amendment. it is a critical discussion and a timely one right now. we as a city have been trying to center children, youth, and families at the corner of our policies especially right now given the devastating impact of the pandemic and how do we recuperate and move forward. while i have no part in today's forecasting this charter amendment. do i want to share why i supported it early on, why i decided to cosponsor. this charter amendment is trying to establish a few

goals. one is to establish a children's agency and commission. the other is to provide accountability measures for the san francisco unified school district in the event that the city expensed discretionary fund or the education and public which i want to clarify is different from the set asides that are automatically expended to the school district for library, arts, and music as well as others in richmond. i do believe as a city, we would benefit from a more wholistic view on how our systems intersect and how to best serve youth in our families. as a former e.d., i can attest that things work best when we collaborate in agreement about what the outcomes are and how

to plan for them. i do think that we need visionary approaches and strategies to carry kids from cradle to career throughout the whole spectrum and too often, we lack meaningful coordination between agencies, providers and schools that allow for kids to fall through the cracks especially during transitional periods like preschool to kindergarten and during adolescence and we are not succeeding in this. this was the promise of our children, our families and we haven't quite gotten there. i believe that there is a better way and that is through a unified system that makes is seamless and compelled and even departments who do not shield their kids, for a truly child-friendly city. that being said, i understand that this charter amendment

proposal is a large undertaking and has not provided enough time for various stakeholders to weigh in. we have heard from nonprofit providers, early childhood educator, child policy advocates that we need more time to incorporate their feedback. it was not lost on me that the great concern came from early care and education communities that the priorities for san francisco to have truly universal child care would get -- might get diminished and overshadowed by this amendment and i want to address those concerns because i do believe as i think you all share that universal child care is one of the foundational aspect of a truly fair gender balanced economic society. as you know, the office of early care and education of which i am a commissioner are

undergoing a merger to form the department of early childhood labor this year. i did make it clear when i signed on that i would need to offer amendments to ensure that there was some level of independent oversight for this work. primarily to ensure the integrity of the hard fought funding lovingly named baby prop c would be upheld higher wages for early childhood educators. clear waiting for slots and to support low and middle income families with quality child care. truly universal child care for automatic we're hearing loud and clear is that we need more time to deliberate to ensure we're placing before the voters things that will transform their lives and be something that we can all feel proud of. the second part of this amendment focuses on our fiscal

relationship with sfusd and it's couched in accountability. i think there's general consensus if the city expends the general dollars that there should be insurances that the best policies are met. when nonprofit providers receive funding from the city, we expect a lot from them. arguably, the reporting requirements can be strengthen you would you say, but the principle is a good one. we want to ensure our public dollars are used responsibly. and to be clear, we're not talking about dollars that are automatically transported to the school district, but dollars above and beyond what is in the charter or state authorities. i think it's prudent so that we can be effective partners to the school district. one of the things that i also want to talk about in this relationship is data sharing agreements between the city and

the school district. while some progress has been made over the years, it still falls short and the school districts ultimately, the main serving agency in the city establishing accountable data is essential so we can provide kids with the best interventions to support their success. there's a requirement for school board members to certify they are adhering to governance practices as provided and recommended by the california school board association. it is saying that while sfusd is an autonomous body, there should be some basic requirements met. there are discussions under way to reframe some of this language generally, i think there's more agreement on this piece than it is for the children's agency.

i have spoken at length with my colleagues, supervisor ronen who is going to weigh in on this part. after much consideration, i think since, you know, measure is trying to accomplish these two different goals, i think splitting these concepts would make it easier and we can allow for the time that it will take for proper vetting and consideration. so through the chair, i would like to request that this committee duplicate the file and continue the individual version to the call of the chair. and then i would request that the committee amend the duplicated file to include the school district and the school board accountability as it pertains to discretionary funds and the b.p. baseline fund that the city spends directly with

the school district. therefore, the amendments through the duplicated file would strike out and the children's agency throughout the document since the original proposed measure also suggests striking out portions of the existing chart. this new amendment would leave the charter language untouched as it pertains to the process for the department of children, youth, and their families. it's oversight advisory body. the service provider working groups and the our children our families council. there are a few other proposed amendments i want to note since there would not be a children's agency or commission in section 16.123, the funding for the public and education and richmond fund. on pages 34 line 7-25, the school district would provide their spending plans to the mayor and the board of supervisor instead. we also added an additional

section that requires a data sharing agreement to be in place between the school district and the city for baseline funds to be released and we also took the opportunity to strengthen language in the charter adjustments to the piece. this proposal comes from consultation with the office of early care education and early care advocates. there is state funding coming to the city to support transitional kindergarten. however, that does not mean it will address our critical need for early childhood education. so we want to make sure that the city doesn't our existing investment, but continues to supplement and act to whatever comes of the state.

we're proposing eliminating the section all together. the next proposed amendment is to add language and provide the school district to require more language in the allocation of the piece. under section 16.123-6. expenditure plans follows the district expenditure plan should also describe to ensure oversight and transpaerns of spending through regular review by the board of ed. the district public education and richmond fund community advisory committee or any successor body created by the district. and two specifically describe plans to ensure oversight and transparency in the event the district plans changing its expenditure plan in the middle of the fiscal year. and on pages 28, adding lines

4-8, subsection c, in addition to the plan in this section, the district shall submit to the mayor and the board of. >> supervisor: s supervisors year end and quarterly report including, but not limited to explanation of progress and design and delivery of programs. and in meeting student impact goals identified in the annual expenditure plan. we heard from the community advisory committee which is established by the school board, but it has not always been easy to identify changes to funding allocations mid budget. this doesn't mean that the city will be weighing in online items that sfusd peace budget, but more of an insurance that best practices are met as it pertains to budget accountability especially when it comes to the appointing

citizen's advisory committee. since these amendments need to fit for a week, i'm hoping we can continue the language funding regarding the school board govern nance in a respectful way when it comes to release of the city's discretionary dollars and i want to thank marie at dcyf and to my colleague, supervisor ronen, as the chair of the children and young adults family committee for her hard work on all of these issues. i also want to thank the stakeholders who have engaged with us with much passion and norman yee for his guidance throughout this process and the city attorney team john gibner and his work for the long work on this. thank you, chair peskin.

>> chairman: i do want to say in this instance, pursuant to the board of supervisors rules of order section 2.21 have a memo random from the clerk of the board making a number of suggestions as to advisory bodies set forth in the charter amendment, but given the nature of the amendments that supervisor melgar just spoke to which would obviate really most of this charter amendment, i think that if we are to adopt those, the clerk's suggestions for amendments will no longer be relevant, so i will forego hearing from the clerk because i think that is going to end on the cutting room floor. and, with that, i can tell that supervisor ronen is desirous of making a statement. supervisor ronen, the floor is yours. >> supervisor ronen: chair

peskin, i did see rafael mandelman. >> chairman: i was still on the button for participants because i was hoping that the mayor, her representative would make a statement in this was the mayor's charter amendment. but lacking that, supervisor mandelman, go ahead. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair peskin. and i would echo astonishment that director sue or some other representative of the administration who is able to speak to their process around coming up with this measure is not here. i'm sure it is just a screw up, but it is an odd way to start our conversation about charter amendments today. i agree, supervisor ronen. i agree. so all that being said, i am a cosponsor of this measure and i

do want to thank the folks who worked i know long and diligently and put a lot of time, energy, and effort into this, and broadly, i support, you know, both directions. i had some conversations with former board president yee and others before i signed on. but it has become clear in the days and weeks since this charter amendment was rolled out that there were a lot of conversations that needed to be had about -- there were a lot of people with say from the particularly early childhood community, but i think actually more broadly in the space of serving children and i think, you know, one of the things that i have been thinking a lot about and i've been thinking a lot about not just in the

context of this charter amendment, but in some of the other amendments we have today is the ways in which i sooerns san francisco city government not working and high on my list of diagnosable problems and the buzz word is silo-zation and the way in which the board and city of san francisco doesn't feel like a government, but they all operate kind of running off in their own direction, but i think the very good intention behind some of the thinking around the children's agency was to try to address that and try to bring more coherence and coordination among the different elements of city bureaucracy that addresses prompted to have more accountability around our

relationship between the city and the various nonprofit entities that we worked with to deliver services to kids. those goals all seem lottory and correct and something that -- you know, i'm hoping i'm happy to move supervisor melgar's suggested amendments, but or suggested motion, but i am hoping that that effort and accountability to delivery of services to san francisco's children and families doesn't end here, that that conversation that a lot of people have put a lot of time, energy, and effort into continues and we do come up with somebody, you know, responding to that for the november ballot. with regard to the piece that supervisor melgar is suggesting moving forward to june which i

support. i understand we are going to hear from supervisor ronen about this. i think san franciscans have watched in horror over the last two years in particular as we have seen how our school board has responded to the pandemic, to the challenges, to children and families in the district and but for me, actually, that experience has a little bit of deja vu because i was a trustee on the city college board for a number of years and i think the challenges around that we are seeing around the governance at the school district are not entirely new and are not entirely unique to the san francisco school board. i think that generally, our voters have a very hard time

figuring out who they -- who is even running for these bodies and i think that the motivations and the priorities that folks carry with them when they join these bodies unless they are facing imminent threats of losing their power to the state which happened to the city college board within the last decade, could happen with the school board now and seems recurringly to be an issue over decades. i think that the emphasis on governance and what good governance looks like on an education board that the remainder of this charter amendment tries to address is good. i don't know that it's -- i don't think it's a cure all. i don't think it goes to the heart of the challenges related

to governance but it requires the school district and the city to at least think about governance annually as we think about our role as a significant funder of the school district and i think that is right and correct. now, community college and school district administrators across the state i think have an unrealistic expectation that elected officials will hire and fire the ceo and then get out of the way and for a lot of ways for an administrator, that's ideal and i don't think that's a realistic expectation. but i think the intervention in the day-to-day workings that seems to occur routinely in both of san francisco's educational districts is a real problem, a real disincentive and problem with hiring and

retaining excellent administrators and i think it's a good thing for us to try to address that through our authority as a funder. so those are my thoughts on this and, with that, i will get out of the way. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. supervisor ronen. at long last. >> thank you so much, chair peskin. i've been really looking deeply into this charter amendment and unfortunately, i'm really disappointed with what i see. i want to first off thank supervisor melgar for doing her best to and her incredible legislative aid jenn low for trying to salvage anything that was actually helpful in this charter amendment. and i'll reserve my thoughts on

those amendments for the next meeting when we consider them more in-depth and the public has had a chance to really look at and analyze them. but today, i really felt it was important to talk about what the mayor proposed because i think it's problematic for a number of reasons and i'll get into that in a second. i am the chair of the youth, young adults, and families committee, and have spent a good portion of the last two years focused on our public schools. in that, because of that role and because of that work, it actually pains me to oppose this charter amendment so strongly for two main reasons. the first one and both supervisor melgar and supervisor mandelman talked about it, it was crafted behind closed doors over a nine-month

period without any community input whatsoever. something that we should know doesn't work in san francisco especially when it deals or shuts out the tight-knit and uber active early childhood and school advocacy community. we all know better than that in san francisco and i'm shocked that this incredibly active and incredibly knowledgeable community was shut out of this entire process. second, in my reading of this legislation, there is very little material benefit to kids in it. there's a lot of political finger wagging, a lot of renaming and the insinuation that it will create more accountability from the school district. but it only takes a close reading to realize there isn't much of substance actually

there and, again, i want to thank supervisor melgar and jennifer lowe for finding maybe a little sliver, but i'll get to that in a second. i do want to appreciate that the mayor has recognized some of these critiques and is splitting her legislation in two punting a creation of a new children agency after workshoping the ideas with community, but i am disappointed that she's moving forward with the section on sfusd and this is the portion i'm going to focus on right now. it is no secret to anyone that i've been extremely frustrating with the school board and district administration throughout the pandemic. as an sfusd parent and policy maker watching the district closely, the constant drama has hurt kids significantly and has damaged the health of our school system for years to come. however, as leaders, we must

look at what happened at ucsd over the last two years. that it so happened, we had a concert of events. the first worldwide pandemic of our lifetime. schools did not have the leadership required and a superintendent with one foot out the door. these conditions have never happened before the pandemic and they are changing and about to change in the next few months. it is possible that three commissioners will be recalled and we'll have three new commissioners. we are currently in the search for a new superintendent that will be in place for the next academic year and the pandemic certainly ebbs and flows, but it's not as disastrous now that we have a population in san francisco that are mostly vaccinated. so why are we changed our

charter to punish and demean. this is an insult to the dozens and dozens of incredible school board commissioners that we've had in the past and may prevent excellent future candidates for running in the next few years. the entire section of this charter amendment that lays out a detailed job description of the superintendent of schools and school board members sets an extremely dangerous precedent and is an insulting overreach of power over an independently run district. i've confirmed with the city attorney that nowhere else as a charter is the detailed job description of any public service position delineated. the mayor's charter agreement literally dictates who board members are allowed to talk to, what training they should receive, how she should run

meetings and conduct itself, and how the district should spend money. it's insulting and ridiculous and sets a dangerous precedent. if i think the mayor is doing a poor job and i don't like the way shes treats people, it's my next job. should i dictate who she can talk to? what trainings she should receive? and how she should con port herself in public. it should not become a document filled with job description. furthermore, true leadership requires maturity. when that is lacking among other policy makers as i too believe it was with many school board commissioners this year, it requires other city leaders to step up, to set a different tone, to be the bigger person and find ways to create collaboration and unity, not more conflict. like it or not, if we want to

help and do everything in our power to set up young people in our city to succeed and especially young people that don't grow up privileged, we must partner with our school system. it is true that the independent system and its current leadership has not been easy to now that it is time that we are likely going to get that new leadership, it's time to reach a point in timeful collaboration. this charter amendment does the exact opposite. i know parents are angry the at the board in district 10, i am too. as your elected leaders, we need to leed.

we need to pick up the pieces, take the high road and figure out how to work even better. the sfusd portion of the charter amendment also requires that the district provide plans to the city on how it spends $80 million to $90 million in our annual public education enrichment fund that the city provides to the district. in condition of about $10 million of those funds on that approval of that report. and the charter already gives the authority to withhold funds if the city so i'm not really sure what these provisions actually do or add to existing law. furthermore, we're going to ask voters to help, we should be

offering them truly visionary. and this charter amendment doesn't do either. on that note, i will be working with education advocates to prepare a charter amendment for november that will build a closer relationship to sfusd and include accountability measures for as well as increased city funding for a chronically underfunded city constitution. that it is the best option to education their kids. public education is arguably the most important institution in the united states. it is the one institution that has the potential to level the playing field that exists in every other institution in our nation. it deserves our deep engagement and commitment and it deserves

our local funds and i certainly be working throughout all of this. we can all do better and we can all do more for our public school system and if we do, i am positive we are san francisco can become the best public school system in the nation. thank you, colleagues. >> chairman: thank you, supervisor ronen. that was quite a lot and at a high level, i would like to and i mean had this sincerely associate myself with your comments. in any number of ways, but very well stated. i would -- i know that maria sue is now available and while she is not the sponsor, she is a direct report to the mayor, but before we get to ms. sue who i would like to and -- i

mean, given what you said, supervisor ronen, about the many decades involvement of the early childhood care network which is a very rich network of cbos and leaders in the city including our former board president norman yee, i'm also befuddled we've gotten this far without any consultation or communication with the backbone of our community that has honed these things over decades and that's just astonishing but before we get to ms. sue and somebody from the mayor's office, supervisor chan, the floor is yours. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. i just want to say thank you,

supervisor ronen, for your remarks. it is obviously a sentiment that i strongly share, but most importantly, i really appreciate you sort of just laying it out point by point. so there's not much for me to really add to that except for the fact that if i may speak from a different perspective, a bit more from a personal perspective both as a former sfusd student from galeleo high school that what we have been through in the last two years with the san francisco unified school district truly was a unique condition. of the we take the good and the bad really throughout my tiemg and also my time in city government, our board education has been great advocates for our school, for our kids, for our educators.

so it is really also just looking at this ballot measure at this moment, it's really hard for me to support it because, again, it is hearing from those who have done this work long before i even came along as an advocate and just having different thoughts and feedback and education for me why this doesn't work. so i for one always look to experts, people who know these issues and know these issues well and look to their guidance, but also if i may say, one glaring missing piece for me is families and children and parents of color and immigrants and, you know, those who don't speak the language that where were they in this

process of drafting something that's so critical to them. we don't always have to agree. in fact, you know, as we all unanimously supported the noncitizen voting for parents and guardians and we know that not every noncitizen parents and guardians are going to have the same point of view as we do in participating in elections and involving board education, but we want voices at the table to talk about how do we do education reform and that is frankly from hearing from folks to tell me they were not at the table. that is an alarming piece for me. so thank you, supervisor ronen and thank you, supervisor mandelman and supervisor melgar obviously, you know, for really trying to work this out, but i want to say as it currently is before the amendments and before having the opportunity

to reviewed amendments, as it currently stands, i cannot support this ballot measure and i think i have said that too knowing that the advocates and those who serve our decades and serve them well are not behind this, i cannot support this as well, but i look forward to reviewing the amendments, but with what supervisor ronen has already discussed, i again have reservations with the amendments proposed today. so that's how i'm going to leave it. i look forward to hearing public comment today, but i also am going to look forward to reviewing all the letters coming in about their reasoning of why they oppose this charter amendment. thank you so much. >> chairman: supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair peskin. you know, i think we will continue this conversation next week about the piece of this

charter amendment that will remain, and in my view, it does not go far enough, but it does. i think i may and i speak as a former trustee of an educational district, i think that there is part of the challenge that these districts is a real lack of clarity around what the job of these elected decision makers is. and i think that enshrining into an annual process where the members of the school board and the members of the board of supervisors and the mayor all have to review descriptions of governance in the role of school board members that are enshrined in state education code and best practices which i generally agree with and is the right direction for school board members focusing on

things like fiscal solvency and creating the space for administrators to do the work that administrators need stood. i am enshrining that in our local charter in making our decisions about whether we are funding sending the that the city does send and i think it's really important. i don't think it's just about the pandemic. i think this is an issue that will come back to us in future years, in future decades with both the school districts and the community college district simply because of the reasons people are drawn to those school boards and and the

actual lack of focus and i believe we're going to continue to get bad governance. so i don't think what's in this charter amendment is a cure all. i think it's pretty modest, but i think it's a good thing to do. >> chairman: supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, chair peskin. thank you, colleagues. i just wanted to respond to a comment made by supervisor chan. the amendments that i introduced i don't think are controversial. i think supervisor ronen and i spoke at length about them, so those are not the issue. the issue is what remains. and i do think that, you know, giving it a little time may help us, it may not, but i do think i will keep working on it along with supervisor ronen and

the mayor's office and the advocates the most important part is the public. i fully intend if we're going to have so much work on a piece of legislation, that it should be meaningful to the kids. the kids have to gain something tangible from it and that is why i'm in this and i wanted to be that meaningful piece of activity on our part. so supervisor chan, i just wanted to let you know that the amendments that i'm putting forward, are those are not the controversial part. i think the issue for supervisor ronen is that it's pretty small compared to what we need and i think both supervisor ronen and supervisor mandelman agree that we need bigger, the question is whether or not we can come up with language that we all agree with with just this level of impact by the deadline, i'm not so sure, but we're going to keep

trying. thank you. >> chairman: thank you. ms. sue or anybody from the mayor's office if they want. >> thank you, chair peskin. and supervisors. my name is maria sue. i'm the head of the department children youth and families and thank you for this opportunity to be here and to share a little bit about i guess the process. i apologize. i was in a community meeting earlier so i did not hear the question. so chair peskin, if you can ask the question again, i will be more than happy to answer it. >> chairman: there wasn't a question. it was just if somebody from the mayor's office in so far as the mayor was the primary sponsor of this measure wanted to make a presentation. subsequently, while you were here, i did ask relative to statements made by supervisor melgar who as you know is a

cosponsor and supervisor ronen as to the process or lack thereof particularly with the child care community and education community. so you heard that question. the original question was really -- i set forth for all six of these charter amendments, the process which was to start with the primary sponsor making a presentation to the rules committee and the primary sponsor to this is the mayor and anyway, we can move on to that at this point. >> understood. so just thank you and i think many of you know dcyf has always operated in a manner that is as open and with open in direct communication as much as possible. having said thanks, i've had many conversations with our cbos over the last several

weeks regarding this initiative and just hearing their concerns and recognizing the fact that everyone's working really hard to try to meet the needs of our children and families that it is important for us to slow down and for us to engage more partners in this conversation. i do want to emphasize that the reform that this charter's original intent was to really focus on changing our city and the way city departments work with each other, not specifically focusing on cbos. over the last two years, all of you have seen the power of the city coming together city departments working side by side removing the barriers that have historically separated us and made the work really hard and because of that experience, i clearly ran a little too fast

and was a little too zealous in proposing this idea, but i just felt that, you know, really building on the momentum of our emergency child and youth care program, building on the momentum of the community hubs and summer together. having dcyf play that backbone agency to connect city resources to our nonprofit agencies who then in turn served our community. i just think that that we need to leverage that and we need to do more of that and of all the systems, the children systems needed that. we need to figure out a way to really serve our children from birth all the way to 24 years old and their families. it is not right for us to say to families, figure it out. here are the resources.

go find it because we've done that. we've done that for many years, and our families, some of them are able to find those resources and a lot of them marginalized families struggle to find those resources. [please stand by]

>> i do appreciate the extra time to engage the community, to think deep about how they experience working with city departments. i wrote that this idea of coordination has been brought to dcys for many years. all of our reports we have written about the children's services. the first thing that we hear from not only cbos but also from families is can you just make the work easier? can you just make it easier for us to partner with the city, and to access services from

families. that is where those came from. that is where the idea came from. once again, i clearly do not engage broad enough community of nonprofit agencies and stakeholders. i will definitely own that. i look forward to working with our community to figure out a system and a and model where everyone can benefit from the funding and resources that our city has. >> thank you. are you saying on behalf of the mayor or not that the amendments offered by supervisor melgar, which in essence, all but gut what the mayor proposed are acceptable to the mayor?

>> the mayor has heard from many community members that they are asking for more time to engage in this. yes. >> okay. are there more names on the roster or are those outlined names on the roster? i can't tell. old names. why don't we go to public comment on this item. first speaker, please. >> yes. operations is checking for callers. press star 3 to be added the queue. for those on hold continue to wait until the system indicate you are unmuted to begin your comments. it looks like there are 48 callers with 19 in line to speak. >> first speaker, please.

>> this is norman gee. hair chair peskin and supervisor chan and mandelman and supervisor roman and melgar hello. i just want to say i looked at this proposed charter amendment through lens of a former teacher, school board member and former board of supervisors member. i generally support any effort to improve coordination of children and youth services. this particular charter has two general sections that can be taken separately as highlighted buy the supervisors already. the children's agenda and

commission in concept seems to further support what i tried doing through the commission of children and families council. however, the language of this concept needs much improvement. the community needs more time for input into such an important restructuring of the city departments focused on children's services and to better understand how this restructuring will impact the existing systems that we have right now and how it would impact directly the organizations as it provides services. the school district section i can support, especially more accountability with the city funds that the school district receives. the other items suggesting that what the school board members

receive specific that they receive specific trainings and reflect certain level of behavior are all things i would expect from school board members. >> mr. yee can you please wrap up. >> i just want to say that in conclusion, i support supervisor melgar's attempt to try to amend this charter amendment to actually move it forward as you suggested and take out the language for the children's agency and commission language and to have further discussion on the school district section to see how it could go in front of the voters. >> thank you, former supervisor

yee. good to hear from you. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i work at children's council of san francisco. i am a member of the advocacy coalition and district 3 resident in peskin's district. i am here to talk about the community concerns about the ballot measure. we want to thank supervisor melgar for her comments today. it is so clear to everyone that you really engage with community and had feedback and we appreciate you. this is the type of communitien gamement that we had hoped would been in creation of charter amendment. unfortunately, there was no real community engagement, no ece voice or expertise. the community overall being opposed to this charter

amendment with grave concerns. one thing we have heard about the intent of this charter amendment is to increase accountability and the coordination in the community. we can't see how the charter amendment would do that without coordination in the creation of the charter amendment. we also want to highlight was a community are always open for different ways for more accountability and doing things. our innovation led to us having a 20% increase in child care licensed child care in san francisco during the pandemic. across california there has been a 17% decrease across the state in licensed child care. we are extremely accountable and effective because of community

engagement. we want to stress that we still have concerns. we appreciate the amendments that are being made. our main concern is that we hear that the board of supervisors -- >> thank you. sorry for cutting you off. public comment is allocating two minutes for per. next speaker, please. >> good morning. i am the parent leader and i live in district 2. hello, board of supervisors. i called the current language. we live in a democracy where we need collaboration of community stakeholders for ballot measures. the tools the charter community used with diversity and inclusion from everybody who this is going to affect. please i oppose this language.

thank you. >> thank you. next caller, please. >> hello. good morning, supervisors. this is jill win. i served on the body of education for 24 years. i think i have some experience and expertise in school district governance. i am mainly hear to talk about the jurisdictionable autonomy of the school district. i think that -- i participated in the process that went on for more than a year resulting in the reauthorization of both the children's fund together. there was a lot of discussion about how we could ensure the

jurisdictional autonomy of both entities, tried to disentangling inappropriate toltics and other spending processes which i think we did quite well. i hate to see it proposed to go back to being subject to what could be completely inappropriate political influence which we had seen before the reauthorization. i just wanted to say i will skip over talking about the process by which this was developed. we have heard it was in secret with no public input which is completely unsan francisco and inappropriate. i want to talk for a minute about the governing standards which i appreciate being mostly deleted in the amendments proposed here. i want you to know the governance standards that sound

good are in that that came to city government a school board should do are part of the school district rules. question if they are followed is separate. the professional government standards are in the rules which the board readopts every year. at least two provisions are in there which i find totally inappropriate. the provision -- >> i am sorry. will you wrap up. which are inappropriate? >> think particularly about what you are putting in the charter. please do not put things that should not be in the charter in the charter. i will send by saying people whom i consulted pointed out how ironic san francisco the most progressive city in the country

would under mine the democratic election process while the rest of the country with our allies are working as hard as they can to preserve those democratic rights. we ought to do that, too. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> i live and work in district 11. i am with the african-american early childhood educators. legacy of the san francisco children movement is includes i with grassroots involvement. the ece funding is complex and multiple funding streams and various constraints. the complexity requires its own governmental division and putting both under one envelope or one umbrella will make things

more complicated and difficult. when a single focus on early childhood education is needed now more than ever. given the new state and national attention being given to child care. thank you for considering how this amendment will impact caregivers, teachers and families in supporting us and caring for san francisco children. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am hannah. i work at project motion in the mission district. we run a preschool and after-school programs. we work within the schools to do movement programming. we want to voice we are against this charter amendment. it was rushed, secretive and

lacks community voices. folks have said in the beginning this was to censor children, youth and families, but their voices are not included. we feel there are tools already in place that could be used to better unify and enhancervises for children and families. we need to fully take advantage of those tools before we try something else. most important we need community voices. we are not in favor of the amendment as written currently. thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am executive director of san francisco library and parent of two lincoln high school

graduates. the comments i did prepare were about the section that is now going to be delayed for more consideration. they were in section 16.108. as we go forward i will share without thinking about this new and i do appreciate cord nation and need to have a unifying effort around children's services. as it is written, i think the charter would protect the existing aggregate level of the children and youth fund, but it is less clear on guaranteeing the current level of department allocations. just for a ballpark. the $17 million for the library, 10% of the budget. regardless of the department allocations in the early transition faces it looks like somewhere in the process it seems that may be the power to allocate and govern the programming would revert the new commission leaving the library

needing to apply for grants to carry out the excellent equity based service. i want to point this out in the discussion. i am happy it is delayed and have more time. library services are not requiring and privacy disclosure at the level other programming requires. it is the operating principal to be open and welcoming. if i read this correctly, it seems that it might suggest a slice of department budget to the approval of different commission. for example, if the library commission approved it could be over ridden in the piece of funding on the baseline. whether we have overriding. >> thank you. we will explore that.

please continue. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i am diana sanchez coleman youth advocates. this did not put parents and children first. every parent wants respect for the child and have a right to be part of the solution of what happens in the school. this amendment and the process to create wasn't inclusive towards the school communities. the oversight committee established would have no seat at the table to represent students, parents or teachers voices in the decision-making process of the allocation of funds that directly impacts them. rather, it is more representative of a select few, four of which would be directly chosen by the mayor. we would like to call on the may

or and board of supervisors to engage in conversations with families working with the schools for direct accountability for families to bring more funds to the school, not less. we are asking you to vote no on the initiative. we further outline in the formal letter we sent to your inbox. thank you. >> we are in receipt of the letter to be made part of the file for this matter. thank you. next speaker, please. [ inaudible ] >> good afternoon. hello.

>> legislative deputy. myfologys for interrupting. the cable channels are down. anybody watching the tv there is an sfgovtv issue. i don't know if you want to recess until we hear back from sfgovtv. >> yes, we want everybody given the fact that people cannot come in person these days to be able to participate. i am hearing that sfgovtv is still on. my staff is telling me. >> we have gotten confirmations the cable channels are down. >> why don't we take a 10 minute recess until 11:30 a.m. to see what we can figure out. we will be in recess..

>> we reconvene again, sadly, very briefly. the rules committee for today, january 24, 2022. now a couple minutes after 2:00 p.m. the fibre optic cable has not yet been repaired. it will appear it will be at least three hours before it is repaired, and the public can view this proceeding. to that end, colleagues, if there is no objection. i will recess again until 5:00 p.m. and keep our fingers crossed and spend the evening and into the night with you on the remaining matters on this calendar. without objection, colleagues, we will it is in recess

a city like no other, san francisco has been a beacon of hope, and an ally towards lgbtq equal rights. [♪♪] >> known as the gay capital of america, san francisco has been at the forefront fighting gay civil rights for decades becoming a bedrock for the historical firsts. the first city with the first openly gay bar.

the first pride parade. the first city to legalize gay marriage. the first place of the iconic gay pride flag. established to help cancel policy, programses, and initiatives to support trans and lgbtq communities in san francisco. >> we've created an opportunity to have a seat at the table. where trans can be part of city government and create more civic engagement through our trans advisory committee which advises our office and the mayor's office. we've also worked to really address where there's gaps across services to see where we can address things like housing and homelessness, low income, access to small businesses and

employment and education. so we really worked across the board as well as meeting overall policies. >> among the priorities, the office of transgender initiatives also works locally to track lgbtq across the country. >> especially our young trans kids and students. so we do a lot of work to make sure we're addressing and naming those anti-trans policies and doing what we can to combat them. >> trans communities often have not been included at the policy levels at really any level whether that's local government, state government. we've always had to fend for ourselves and figure out how to care for our own communities. so an office like this can really show and become a model for the country on how to really help make sure that our entire community is served by the city and that we all get opportunities to participate

because, in the end, our entire community is stronger. >> the pandemic underscored many of the inequities they experienced on a daily basis. nonetheless, this health crisis also highlighted the strength in the lgbtq and trans community. >> several of our team members were deployed as part of the work at the covid command center and they did incredit able work there both in terms of navigation and shelter-in-place hotels to other team members who led equity and lgbtq inclusion work to make sure we had pop-up testing and information sites across the city as well as making sure that data collection was happening. we had statewide legislation that required that we collected information on sexual orientation and our team worked

so closely with d.p.h. to make sure those questions were included at testing site but also throughout the whole network of care. part of the work i've had a privilege to be apart of was to work with o.t.i. and a community organization to work together to create a coalition that met monthly to make sure we worked together and coordinated as much as we could to lgbtq communities in the city. >> partnering with community organizations is key to the success of this office ensuring lgbtq and gender nonconforming people have access to a wide range of services and places to go where they will be respected. o.t.i.'s trans advisory committee is committed to being that voice. >> the transgender advisory counsel is a group of amazing community leaders here in san francisco. i think we all come from all walks of life, very diverse, different backgrounds, different expertises, and i

think it's just an amazing group of people that have a vision to make san francisco a true liberated city for transgender folks. >> being apart of the grou allows us to provide more information on the ground. we're allowed to get. and prior to the pandemic, there's always been an issue around language barriers and education access and workforce development. now, of course, the city has been more invested in to make sure our community is thriving and making sure we are mobilizing. >> all of the supervisors along with mayor london breed know that there's still a lot to be done and like i said before,

i'm just so happy to live in a city where they see trans folks and recognize us of human beings and know that we deserve to live with dignity and respect just like everybody else. >> being part of the trans initiative has been just a great privilege for me and i feel so lucky to have been able to serve for it for so far over three years. it's the only office of its kind and i think it's a big opportunity for us to show the country or the world about things we can do when we really put a focus on transgender issues and transgender communities. and when you put transgender people in leadership positions. >> thank you, claire. and i just want to say to claire farly who is the leader of the office of transgender initiatives, she has really taken that role to a whole other level and is currently a grand marshal for this year's s.f. prize.

so congratulations, claire. >> my dream is to really look at where we want san francisco to be in the future. how can we have a place where we have transliberation, quality, and inclusion, and equity across san francisco? and so when i look five years from now, ten years from now, i want us to make sure that we're continuing to lead the country in being the best that we can be. not only are we working to make sure we have jobs and equal opportunity and pathways to education, employment, and advancement, but we're making sure we're taking care of our most impacted communities, our trans communities of color, trans women of color, and black trans women. and we're making sure we're addressing the barriers of the access to health care and mental health services and we're supporting our seniors who've done the work and really be able to age in place and have access to the services and resources they deserve.

so there's so much more work to do, but we're really proud of the work that we've done so far. [♪♪]

>> january 25 of 2022. regular meeting of the san francisco public utilities commission. madame secretary, please call the roll. [roll call] and you have a quorum. due to thon going covid-19 health emergency and given the public health recommendations issued by the san francisco department of public health, and the emergency orders of the governor and the mayor concerning social distancing and restrictions on a teleconference, this meeting is being held via teleconference and is being televised by sfgov tv. for those watching on live stream, please be aware that there is a time lapse. on behalf of the commission i would like to extend our

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