>> the market is one of our vehicles for reaching out to public and showing them how to prepare delicious, simple food. people are amazed that the library does things like that. biblio bistro is a food education program. it brings such joy to people. it teaches them life skills that they can apply anywhere, and it encourages them to take care of themselves. my name is leaf hillman, and i'm a librarian, and biblio

bistro is my creation. i'm a former chef, and i have been incubating this idea for many years. we are challenged to come up with an idea that will move the library into the future. this inspired me to think, what can we do around cooking? what can i do around cooking? we were able to get a cart. the charlie cart is designed to bring cooking to students in elementary students that has enough gear on it to teach 30 students cooking. so when i saw that, i thought bingo, that's what we're missing. you can do cooking classes in the library, but without a kitchen, it's difficult. to have everything contained on wheels, that's it. i do cooking demonstrations out at the market every third

wednesday. i feature a seafood, vegetable, and i show people how to cook the vegetable. >> a lot of our residents live in s.r.o.s, single resident occupancies, and they don't have access to full kitchens. you know, a lot of them just have a hot plate, a microwave, and the thing that biblio bistro does really well is cook food accessible in season and make it available that day. >> we handout brochures with the featured recipe on the back. this recipe features mushrooms, and this brochure will bring our public back to the library. >> libraries are about a good time. >> i hired a former chef.

she's the tickle queen at the ramen shop in rockwood. we get all ages. we get adults and grandparents and babies, and, you know, school-age kids, and it's just been super terrific. >> i was a bit reluctant because i train teachers and adults. i don't train children. i don't work with children, and i find it very interesting and a bit scary, but working here really taught me a lot, you know, how easily you can influence by just showing them what we have, and it's not threatening, and it's tasty and fun. i make it really fun with kids because i don't look like a teacher. >> in the mix, which is our team center, we have programs for our kids who are age 13 to 18, and those are very hands

on. the kids often design the menu. all of our programs are very interactive. >> today, we made pasta and garlic bread and some sauce. usually, i don't like bell pepper in my sauce, but i used bell pepper in my sauce, and it complemented the sauce really well. i also grated the garlic on my bread. i never thought about that technique before, but i did it, and it was so delicious. >> we try to teach them techniques where they can go home and tell their families, i made this thing today, and it was so delicious. >> they're kind of addicted to these foods, these processed foods, like many people are.

i feel like we have to do what we can to educate people about that. the reality is we have to live in a world that has a lot of choices that aren't necessarily good for you all the time. >> this is interesting, but it's a reaction to how children are brought up. it is fast-food, and the apple is a fast-food, and so that sort of changes the way they think about convenience, how eating apple is convenient. >> one of the things that i love about my program out at the market is the surprise and delight on people's faces when they finally taste the vegetable. it's been transformative for some people. they had never eaten those vegetables before, but now, they eat them on a regular basis. >> all they require is a hot plate and a saute pan, and they realize that they're able to cook really healthy, and it's

also tasty. >> they also understand the importance of the connection that we're making. these are our small business owners that are growing our food and bringing it fresh to the market for them to consume, and then, i'm helping them consume it by teaching them how to cook. >> it connects people to the food that they're buying. >> the magic of the classes in the children's center and the team center is that the participants are cooking the food themselves, and once they do that, they understand their connection to the food, to the tools, and it empowers them. >> we're brokering new experiences for them, so that is very much what's happening in the biblio bistro program. >> we are introducing kids many times to new vocabulary. names of seasonings, names of vegetables, names of what you

call procedures. >> i had my little cooking experience. all i cooked back then was grilled cheese and scrambled eggs. now, i can actually cook curry and a few different thing zblz . >> and the parents are amazed that what we're showing them to cook is simple and inexpensive. i didn't know this was so easy to make. i've only bought it in the market. those comments have been amazing, and yeah, it's been really wonderful. >> we try to approach everything here with a well, just try it. just try it once, and then, before you know it, it's gone. >> a lot of people aren't sure how to cook cauliflower or kale

or fennel or whatever it is, and leah is really helpful at doing that. >> i think having someone actually teaching you here is a great experience. and it's the art of making a meal for your family members and hope that they like it. >> i think they should come and have some good food, good produce that is healthy and actually very delicious. >> cooking is one of my biggest passions, to be able to share, like, my passion with others, and skills, to h today we are going to talk about fire safety.

we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. it's a wonderful display. a little house in the urban center exhibition center that shows what it's like in a home in san francisco after an earthquake. one of the major issues that we are going to face after earthquakes are fire hazard. we are happy to have the fire marshall join us today. >> thank you. my pleasure. >> we talk about the san francisco earthquake that was a fire that mostly devastated the city. how do we avoid that kind of problem. how can we reduce fire hazard? >> the construction was a lot different. we don't expect what

we had then. we want to make sure with the gas heaters that the gas is shut off. >> if you shut it off you are going to have no hot water or heat. be careful not to shut it off unless you smell gas. >> absolutely because once you do shut it off you should have the utility company come in and turn it back on. here is a mock up of a gas hear the on a house. where would we find the gas meter? >> it should be in your garage. everyone should be familiar with where the gas meter is. >> one of the tools is a wrench, a crescent wrench. >> yes. the crescent wrench is good and this is a perfect example of how to have it so

you can loosen it up and use it when you need it. >> okay. let's go inside to talk about fire safety. many of the issues here relate to fire, for example, we have a little smoke detector and i see you brought one here, a carbon monoxide smoke detector. >> this is a combination of smoke and carbon monoxide detector. they are required in single homes now and in apartment buildings. if gas appliance is not burning properly this will alert you before the fumes buildup and will affect you negatively. >> this is a battery powered? >> this is a battery powered

and it has a 10 year battery life. a lot of times you may have one or the other. if you put in just a carbon monoxide detector, it's important to have one of these too. every house should have a fire extinguisher, yes. >> one thing people expect to do when the power goes out after an earthquake about using candles. what would you recommend? >> if you have a battery operated candle would be better to use. this kind of a candle, you wouldn't want it in an area where it can cause a fire or aftershock that it doesn't rollover. you definitely want to have this in a

non-combustible surface. >> now, here we have our stove. after a significant earthquake we expect that we may have gas disrupted and so without gas in your home, how are you going to cook? >> well, i wouldn't recommend cooking inside of the house. you have to go outside and use a portable stove or something else. >> so it wouldn't be safe to use your fireplace to cook? >> not at first. you should check it by a professional first. >> outside should be a safe place to cook as long as you stay away from buildings and doors and windows. >> yes. that will be fine.

>> here we have some alternative cooking areas. >> you can barbecue and if you have a regular propane bark could barbecue. >> thank you for joining us. and thanks for this terrific space that you have in this exhibition space and thanks for helping san francisco stay safe. >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic

development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share

one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese.

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

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

wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen

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

trying to solve. >> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event.

undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the

magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and

san francisco is surrounded on three sides by water, the fire boat station is intergal to maritime rescue and preparedness, not only for san francisco, but for all of the bay area. [sirens] >> fire station 35 was built in 1915. so it is over 100 years old. and helped it, we're going to build fire boat station 35. >> so the finished capital planning committee, i think about three years ago, issued a guidance that all city facilities must exist on sea level rise. >> the station 35,

construction cost is approximately $30 million. and the schedule was complicated because of what you call a float. it is being fabricated in china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring.

it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles. so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps,

which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power, water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few

designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

. >> chair peskin: and welcome to

the special rules committee meeting 2-22-22. i am chair aaron peskin, joined by supervisor connie chan and supervisor raphael mandelman. our clerk is mr. victor young. mr. young, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. the board recognizes that public access to city services is essential and will be available in the following ways: public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. sfgovtv cable channel 26, 78, and 99 are streaming the meeting live. opportunities to speak in public comment are available by calling 415-655-0001. the meeting i.d. is

2692-457-6123. then press pound and pound again. when your item of interest comes up, press star, three to enter the speaker line. best practices are to speak slowly and clearly, call from a quiet location, and turn down your speakers. if you submit public comment via e-mail, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. written comment may be sent via u.s. mail to city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place, san francisco, california, 94102.

>> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. can you please read the first item. >> clerk: yes. initiative ordinance, police code, public health emergency leave. members of the public who wish to make public comment press star, three to enter the queue. . >> chair peskin: supervisor

mar, the floor is yours. >> supervisor mar: thank you, chair peskin. i want to thank supervisor chan for your strong support of this measure. this is the third time this item has been before this committee, but i would like to briefly recap the importance of the measure and hope we find the right balance in the measures. public emergency leave is a commonsense policy to protect public workers and workplaces. in the past, public health emergency leave will make a material difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of san francisco workers. paid leave is essential for economic security and for public health. it protects everyone because if this pandemic has taught us anything, it has taught us that

we are closely connected, and we're stronger than our neighbor, our grocer, our teacher. covid-19 has shown too many gaps in the rise in benefits for social workers, and also, climate change continues to drive worse and worse fire seasons, so let's continue to take some lessons from this pandemic, to be more prepared for the next emergency, and the public health emergency reflects the important of these measures. when a local statewide health emergency is declared, it would automatically become available to use. if you're sick, need to quarantine, need to take care

of a family member due to an emergency or if you can't work due to the emergency, and protect health care workers and hospital staff, they can use public health emergency leave when the need strikes. i think today, we have reached the right balance, and over the past few years, we have seen the pandemic hit some of the racial injustices we face, as it disproportionately affects people of color. health care injustice as

barriers to matters of inconvenience become matters of life and death. one of the most important public policy interventions has been the expansion of paid public leave. no parent should have to choose between a paycheck and sending their sick child to school, so i really want to, again, thank you, colleagues, for this

opportunity to consider public health emergency leave for the third time this morning, and again, we prepared it as an initiative ordinance to keep this crucial safeguard in place for this and future emergencies because covid-19 isn't the only emergency we face. and especially as climate change presents a direct and immediate health threat to worsening fire seasons and health quality. emergency paid leave will provide two weeks of paid emergency leave during times. thanks again to my cosponsor, supervisors chan, ronen, and

preston, and i also want to thank city attorney lisa powell, and my legislative aide, edward wright, for their work on this policy, and all i ask for this committee is for you to -- thank you for accepting the amendments at the last two meetings, and i would request that you support this item moving forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, supervisor mar. are there any comments from committee members? if not, why don't we open this up for public comment? >> clerk: mr. chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. if you have not already done so, please press star, three to enter the queue. for those who have already done so, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted before you begin your comment. it appears we have two

listeners but no one in the queue for public comment. >> chair peskin: okay. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. supervisor chan, would you like to make a motion? >> supervisor chan: yes. i make a motion to accept the ordinance and move the item to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> chair peskin: thank you. roll call vote, please. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without action. >> chair peskin: thank you. mr. clerk, can you please call items 2 and 3 together?

>> clerk: [indiscernible] and appear before the refuse rate board to determine rate adjustments. item 3 is a motion ordering submitted to the voters at an election to be held on june 7, 2022, an ordinance amending the refuse collection and disposal ordinance to restructure the refuse rate setting process to replace hearing before the department of public works. >> chair peskin: thank you. mr. young. we've also had a robust discussion by the individuals who placed this on the calendar from the board. why don't we open this up for public comment on items 2 and 3? >> clerk: yes. members of the public wishing to provide public comment

should call 415-655-0001, enter meeting i.d. 2492-457-6123, then press pound and pound again. press star, three to enter the queue and wait until the system indicates your line has been unmuted. and it appears there are no callers in the queue. >> chair peskin: thank you. i would like to make a motion to send these two items to the full board with a positive recommendation. mr. young, a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on the motion to send item number 2 -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and then, colleagues, on the next item,

which i suspect will have no objection after march 1, i'd like to make a motion to send item 3 to the full board with a recommendation. mr. young, on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: yes. on that motion -- [roll call]

>> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: item 4 is a hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending january 6, 2026, to the small business commission. we have one set and one applicant. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. i just want to thank the member who has sat in this seat a dozen years. that would be commissioner kathleen dooley, thank you her for her service and wish her well. we have one applicant, tiffany

walker-carter. miss carter-walker, the floor is yours. tiffany, turn your camera on. >> okay. sorry about that. hi, everyone. i am tiffany walker-carter, a san francisco native, and a small business owner of [indiscernible] i'm sorry. i'm in my restaurant right now. we have locations in the first women led location of la cocina. i help to champion and serve what businesses will look like in the future of san francisco, and some of my goals had to cut the barriers and red tape to start and grow small businesses in san francisco. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss carter-walker. are there any questions or comments from committee

members? are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item? >> clerk: yes. members of the public who would like to comment on this item call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2492-457-6123, then press pound and pound again. press star, three to lineup to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then you may begin your comment. we have lost our caller in the queue. there are no callers in the queue. >> chair peskin: okay.

i would like to make a motion to -- supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. i would like to thank commissioner kathleen dooley for all of her years of service. it's critical to serve our city and speaks to the diversity of our city. i want to thank her for her years of work and commend miss walker-carter, as well. you're already busy with your restaurant, but you've made the time to serve on this

commission, so we thank you for your service, and thank you, chair peskin. >> chair peskin: thank you, supervisor chan. with that, why don't we take the motion to approve the motion of supervisor chan. [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: yes. item number 5, hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending july 1, 2025, to the entertainment commission. we have two applicants. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. young. good morning, miss thomas.

>> good morning. >> chair peskin: we thank you for your interest in a seat on the entertainment commission, which would help protect the community as set forth in your application. we have two applicants, so we will take them in the order they appear on the agenda, so we will start with miss thomas. >> thank you. i've been serving in this seat on the entertainment commission. i'm really proud of the work that the commission has been able to do. as supervisor peskin said, my background is in public health. both my academic credentials, my work at the department of public health, and currently, i serve as the director of public

health at the san francisco aids foundation, and i'm proud to bring a public health and pandemic reduction lens to the entertainment commission. i'm very happy to answer any questions you may have. >> chair peskin: are there any questions for commissioner thomas? seeing none, let's move onto the next applicant, antrina crawford. good morning. i'm so sorry. you're on mute. >> can you hear me now? >> chair peskin: yes, we can. >> okay. thank you, and good morning. first, i would like to give thanks and recognition to the

body of the city and county of san francisco. we're all doing the best i can. for myself, this was rather new to me. i am a native of san francisco. i was born at san francisco general. my mother was, and my grandmother, as well, who just passed away at the age of 97. growing up, i always wondered why there was no one with my face on the commission. i'm glad to see them now, but i would like to see more. music has always been a soothing element in my life. the joy and expression of

gratitude i receive is indescribable. music is the universal language. it bonds and it heals, if i would love to be on a team of working with intelligent people, and everyone is my mentor right now, all of you guys. i would love to be working with you guys. how can i insert myself and be a good person in the community. i'm a mom of six and lost my husband six years ago to a heart attack. we're a family, and we just want to do the right thing and represent people that look like ourselves in a decent world of light. [indiscernible] you know, maybe a vegan outdoor event, but i

just want to be part of a team where i can make sure that everyone is happy at the end of the day, and that's just simply it for me. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. crawford, and i very much appreciate your interest in the entertainment commission. this particular seat, as i indicated earlier, is a seat that has a requirement for a public health background, and looking at your application, there are other seats that are more general in nature, but i didn't see a public health background relative to your application, but there may be other good fits out there for you to get involved. >> okay. when you say public health, is care taking a public health? >> chair peskin: that could be. public health, like in-home care taking, is that what

you're saying? >> yes, i was providing those services, and i was also working at laguna rehab center. i've been doing it at the age of 18, and i'm 50 years old now. >> chair peskin: i didn't see that in your application, but i very much appreciate that. why don't we open this up to public comment who would like to speak to item 5. >> clerk: members of the public who would like to speak to this call should call 415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2492-457-6123. then press pound and pound again. press star, three to lineup to speak. for those already on hold, you should wait until the system indicates your line has been unmuted. it appears we have two

listeners but no one wishing to comment. >> chair peskin: okay. public comment is closed. given miss thomas' experience and her role in public health, particularly at the san francisco aids foundation, i would suggest that we continue her in this seat, and i would further suggest that, miss crawford -- and the clerk can point you to something called the maddie act.

i see supervisor mandelman nodding his head. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you, miss crawford, for your interest in volunteering for public service. i am in agreement with chair peskin, that there are other opportunities that you can help us on other commissions, with your life experience and your life stories and your passion for music that perhaps we can find a good fit along the long list of commissions that we're actually in seat. there are many seats that are vacant that we hope that someone like you to serve on, so i really just want to thank you for your -- you submitting the application, and i thank you for your interest at this time, and just thinking about the night life and just so many

things that are happening in this city, that i do look forward to having commissioner thomas continue on the entertainment commission to bring a very specific opinion with her expertise on events and making sure that we continue on with the aspect of public health and bring that expertise to the table once we talk about, you know, recovery during this economy but also planning for different types of events and entertainment venues. so thank you, and i thank chair peskin for your suggestion on this. >> chair peskin: thank you, supervisor chan. and just -- i am just -- my staff just informed me that there may be commissions that

support in-home service work. so i'm going to ask you to reach out to my staff, calvin yan, c-a-l-v-i-n y-a-n@sfgov.org. so with that, let me make a motion to move the name of -- to approve the name of laura thomas with a full recommendation to the board to fill the seat. roll call vote, please. >> clerk: on that motion -- [roll call]

>> clerk: the motion passes unanimously. >> chair peskin: thank you. next item, please. >> clerk: thank you. item 5 is a hearing to consider appointing three members, terms ending october 21, 2022, and two members, terms ending october 21, 2023, to the local homeless coordinating board. >> chair peskin: the current incumbent in seat 8, eric brown, informed us this morning that he is not seeking reappointment. i want to thank him for his many years of service on the local homeless coordinating board. and then, i also need to tell

you that as to seat number 9, that is an appointee of the controller which has to be confirmed by the board of supervisors. i believe that the controller is getting ready to make that appointment but has not done so yet, so we will be continuing seat number 9 to the call of the chair until controller rosenfield has made that appointment, and then, we will take that up. so we have actually four seats and eight applicants. i want to start out -- i did some research over the weekend about how the local homeless coordinating board came to be in the late 90s, and then looked at the 2016 ordinance that was our current operating code provision that was created by mayor lee when he was creating the department of homelessness and supportive housing, and i thought we could

start with emily cohen from that department who could give us a little bit of background about the local homeless coordinating board and the role it plays, and specifically the qualifications for membership, which, as you see, to all of these seats, represent homeless subpopulations as set forth on the documents we have, families with children, single adults, veterans, chronically homeless, t.a.y. youth, persons with hiv/aids, persons with substance use disorders, mentally ill, and domestic violence. so miss cohen, the floor is yours. thank you for joining us this morning, and thank you for taking time over the weekend to give a little guidance in this area. >> thank you, chair peskin and

supervisors. thank you for having me, emily cohen from the department of homelessness and housing. this board is the oversight body to our continuum of care which is the federal funding and federal care to support solutions to homelessness locally. last year, we received about $60 million in continuous funds, and the lhcb is responsible for outlining those funds. this is an opportunity to engage the public, it's an opportunity to engage with people experiencing homelessness, and enhance public transparency from the department. the lhcb meet monthly.

our director and many staff attend. it is an important and informational component of our work. it's where we do a great deal of our public engagement at the lhcb, so grateful to all members of the public and members of the public who have indicated an interest to serve on the commission.

>> chair peskin: thank you, miss cohen. are there any questions from committee members? okay. why don't we go to the applicants in the order that they appear for statements for a couple of minutes each, starting with kelley cutler for seat 5, and kelley is the incumbent member of that seat. good morning. >> good morning. i am hope that my chiweenie stays under control this morning. i am applying for this seat again. i qualify for a number of things under that category.

experiencing homelessness [indiscernible] as well as a single adult, and -- compounding trauma when it comes to homelessness, and so ptsd that figures into the ball game. so my -- the things that i am really focused on is coordination with homeless people and lifting up those voices and making sure that at the table [indiscernible]. the other folks on the board have been amazing, and it's very diverse, and loads of

experience being brought to the table. i actually want to continue to learn so that we can actually do more, and we can be utilized more than we have been. part of the challenge is we have covid. that turned everything upside down, but we're still plugging along -- oh, and my experience. i didn't even -- oh, for the past few decades, i've been living and working in the community here. i worked in direct service, i worked with larkin street youth services, i've been doing street outreach throughout this, and then, for the past decade, i've been involved with the coalition on homelessness. i'm an [indiscernible] organizer there, and i made it there through way of the hope

office [indiscernible] and so i was actually in that role collaborating [indiscernible] and i saw how great it was when everyone came together because during this time we created this real shelter access which has been great, and i'm really hoping that it gets back on-line because it's not currently there. >> chair peskin: thank you so much. why don't we move on, if there are no questions, to nicolas staton. i'm sorry, supervisor mandelman, and my apologies. >> supervisor mandelman: i think i know kelley's answer on this, but i'm going to ask all

of the candidates. i'm asking about the balance of shelter versus permanent housing and the different types of investments that san francisco should be making. i am someone that thinks that we are dramatically undersheltered and ought to have many more access on the street for people who want to come off the street now, not when we have a permanent supportive housing unit for them in the future. that is not a position with which kelley is affiliated, but i wanted to ask her about the allocation of scarce funds now and the investments we should be making, your thoughts on

permanent supportive housing and shelter and the relationship between the two? >> yeah, i think there needs to be a balance because we look at [indiscernible], and you're stuck. a shelter, it's not a home, so there's a real, you know, balance. right now, we need a lot of homes, so i don't think -- i think we need to be smart about it, and being focused on actual housing solutions because that's going to end homelessness. i don't believe that we should accept that this is how it is, because frankly, this is not normal, but we've been dealing

with homelessness when it doesn't have to be this way, but the answer is balanced. i still believe that we need to be looking at the final goal of housing for persons experiencing homelessness, but also what the researchers are saying on this, and it's all directed in the direction of housing. >> supervisor mandelman: i would just respond that many of the cities, at least on the

east coast, make a commitment to shelter anyone who asks for it, and i think that we can do both. >> chair peskin: thank you, miss cutler. why don't we hear from nicolas staton. >> clerk: i'm checking the list to see if they logged in. i'm not seeing a log-in for mr. staton at this time. >> chair peskin: okay. why don't we go to josh steinberger. >> great. can everyone hear me? >> chair peskin: yep. >> okay. great. my name is josh steinberger,

and i am a san francisco native. i'm currently the director at the [indiscernible] foundation. at e.c.f., i was the manager of the problem solving services program. for those who don't know it, it's kind of the tip of the spear for entry into the adult coordinated entry system. i have a master's degree from the university of san francisco in urban and public affairs. i completed my thesis on unconditional cal transfers for people that are homeless, specifically those deserving in our welfare systems and how this concept of deserving this makes these types of resources inaccessible for homeless. so now that i'm working in

oakland, i want to stay connected to the homeless life in san francisco. i think the homeless coordinating board is at an intersection which kind of makes it the perfect format where i want to apply myself. my value to the board will be my intimate knowledge of homeless service networks, down to the day-to-day operations but also while not losing sight of the big picture of the change that's needed. my personal goal is always to increase the quality of living for people that are homeless and unsheltered. as a point of support, my first goal will be increasing people receiving services into the san

francisco e.o.c. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. steinberger. i want to make sure that anybody we support is able to vote on all the funding matters and does not have to recuse themselves. >> we have a -- many funding sources that go into all of our programs in eocc, but they're all funneled through alameda county. >> chair peskin: gotcha. because eocc receives a lot of their funding from the city. i know that supervisor mandelman has a question for you. supervisor mandelman?

>> supervisor mandelman: yeah. i don't know if you heard the question for the previous applicant, but i asked the question about the unsheltered and the need for investment in various types of exits from homelessness, from immediate shelter to permanent housing and lots of other steps in between. you've worked on lots of the other steps including problem solving, but i was curious about your thoughts on what i perceive to be a significant under sheltering and how to think about permanent supportive housing and other types of exits? >> yeah, right, i think my position starts off in the position of a lot of other people, which is we need more of both, and we need to do a lot more on both.

one thing that i give alameda a lot of credit for is that piece between completely unsheltered and unhoused and being in a permanent housing, which is where we want everyone to be. the process of how we get there, i think there needs to be a lot more emphasis on. alameda is doing a lot with tiny homes, and i think there needs to be a lot more coordination on transition. the housing stabilizers, those working with those who have gone from the streets to the navigation centers and then

moved onto housing settings, those are the ones who have the greatest problem, and the touch of resources that they have can really follow up. i think the answer is to have more options in between people going from unhoused and unsheltered to housing, that can kind of prepare for more stability. i also think that there's a difference between unhoused and unshelteredness, just from supervising a team of housing workers. when we went into a neighborhood, we would see people that are in situations that we know can be improved with just a little bit more. like i said, my personal goal is to improve the quality of living for people that are

homeless, and that, for me, means people that are in situations that are dangerous, living on the treats, to another shelter, whether that's a navigation center, but taking that person into permanent housing might not always be the most hopeful. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. steinberger. and then, the policy representations question, there may be many answers to that, what subpopulations do you think you would be representing? >> well, i can take where i am now with the east oakland community project. i supervise a contract that helps people with hiv and aids. there's a majority of our unit

that's for d.v. survivors, behavioral health contracts, we have programs to support people who are recently released from jails, and people that are housing houses services in the field, so i think that there are a lot of kind of populations, subpopulations that are served by my work. >> chair peskin: thank you for that very thorough response. if there are no other questions, why don't we go onto mark nagel. >> supervisors, my name is mark nagel, and i'm a cofounder of rescue s.f. to bring about the bold action to end the homelessness crisis,

san franciscans must get off the sidelines and make their voices heard. i'm plying to join -- applying to the board to do just that. [indiscernible] the city will this month open a shelter at [indiscernible] the city will begin visiting some of these sites this week. we've advocated to improve data management practices and [indiscernible] on the city response to the crisis. we'll work closely with the department of emergency management and [indiscernible] i believe that i can be a

productive member of the lhcb. the skills that i developed in my business career before founding rescue s.f. [indiscernible] my work in the financial sector is in investment banking and capital [indiscernible] as a trained lawyer, i can assess the legal frameworks and constraints underlying programs and institutions. i appreciate the responsibility of serving lhcb. thank you for your consideration. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. nagel, and i will ask the same question that i asked the last speaker, and i'm sure supervisor mandelman will ask the same question that he's asked the last several applicants, and that is with regard to what subpopulations,

as we are required to consider, you would be representing? >> yes, i asked the same question myself. so i actually started with the bylaws for the lhcb, and i found article 3, section 2, that lays out the constituents of the members that the board should come from, and members of boards and local organizations are eligible to be on the board [indiscernible] with respect to your question, supervisor, i would explain my focus the last few years have been [indiscernible] people unsheltered are by and large homeless adults. 36% of people who are chronically homeless or

unsheltered, the vast majority are veterans and [indiscernible] so we are advocating for more shelter to [indiscernible] and certain adults. >> chair peskin: thank you. great response. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, chair peskin. i don't think your answer is going to be a surprise given where rescue s.f. has been the last couple of years. but going back to the newsom administration which closed many shelter beds, we've never recovered from that, and i

would ask you how you would go about solving that? >> it's clear the solution to homelessness is permanent housing. [indiscernible] it's obvious to us the answer must be something real, some interim shelter. there can be others, using emerging practices in the bay area and other parts of the country. it is cost effective, and it is a solution that people, we think, would very much value. not a dorm-type shelter, but a shelter where everyone would

get their own unit, a bed, storage unit, table, chair, with air and heating, something that they haven't had for years. it should be accompanied by services that would be right there on the site. [indiscernible] it's also important because with these service intervention, we can open up the sort of shelters to a wide range of subpopulations that we traditionally serve. traditionally, san francisco has been operating with scarce resources, and it's been focusing on [indiscernible] and when you become unhoused and

you aren't sick, you become sick and finally qualify for housing. [indiscernible] short-term housing to get to quickly then we can get tailored services, like some job or workforce development to get them back on their feet, leading productive lives and in independent living. they should not be forced into government supported housing to live their lives. thank to prop c, we can have a flow of money coming into this city so we can get people out of shelters and into permanent housing. >> chair peskin: okay. seeing no other questions from

committee members, thank you, mr. nagel, and why don't we go to the next applicant, the incumbent for seat 6, del seymour. >> okay. i can't turn my camera on. can you hear me? >> chair peskin: yes, we can hear you but we can't see you. >> okay. i can't turn my camera on, but i'll go ahead and get started. >> chair peskin: we know what you look like, mr. seymour. >> okay. thank you. my name is del seymour, and i've been in the san francisco area approximately 30 years,

and 18 of those years were homeless. i'm been out of the homeless community 12 years, but i was given opportunities to get out. a lot of help from my veterans organization, swords to plowshares. i'm a disabled viet nam veteran, and i'm proud to have served our country. so what i do now is i spend a lot of time with the local homeless coordinating board, and i'm the cochair. i probably am working for the board 20 hours a week. i'm calling mary ellen from the department of emergency management or shireen from h.s.h., or emily, who just got off the floor, i was on the phone with her this weekend. so i don't hesitate to call the community partners when there's an issue or a problem or someone needing somebody.

it's a seven day a week thing because homelessness is a seven days a week 24 hours a day problem. i actually was looking forward to -- i'm 75 years old. i was actually looking forward to stepping down somewhere around this year, but with the new management at h.s.h., shireen and her fantastic team, i'm just so excited and giggly about this department now moving forward so quickly, and real estate acquisition, setting up a decent housing and respectable sheltering. and the sky's the limit, and i just can't see leaving right now. i'm so involved in all the new acquisitions, i'm helping to get those navigation centers.

i hear yourself, supervisor peskin, stepped in for some of our nob hill housing that was in jeopardy. i really appreciate the stance that you took, and supervisor mandelman, i appreciate your stance on some of the issues that we deal with. as far as my residency situation, because i have a situation with residency, i moved out of the tenderloin two years ago because i got economically forced out. after being homeless 12 years ago, i was able to buy my family a home in another part of the city on the g.i. bill. i do not live in san francisco, i live in another area of the city. i'm here seven days a week, probably 16 or 17 hours a day.

i barely know what color my house is because i'm hardly there in the daytime. i want to put a community group together -- i can answer your question right now, supervisor mandelman. we need more high capacity sheltering. i've been to san diego, baltimore, l.a., and they shelter more. i would love more permanent supportive housing, but what about tyrone and sheela tonight? yeah, we can wait on housing, but we can't. we need to have shelter for everyone who needs housing. i will never stop yelling and screaming about it until we get in agreement on that. i was just facilitating a planning board equity meeting, and i'm also on several of the

boards of san francisco, so i give a lot of my time to this city, and i'm done. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. seymour, and it sounds like you answered my question, and it sounds like you answered supervisor mandelman's question, so why don't we go to ansel romero, the incumbent for seat 7, also on a residency waiver. >> thank you for the opportunity to join and serve the lhcb. [indiscernible] which is an off shot of three fairly large nonprofits that have come together over a number of years. in that role, i served over

7,000 low-income individuals, housing over 8,000 low-income individuals. we were managing and operating and had developed over 7,000 low-income units. i'm a certified property manager. in 2019, i had the distinction of being awarded the grassroots advocate for the year by leading age california, which is the largest senior advocacy group in the state. with regards to the city that i've really grown to love, i had a really significant role in the preservation of the fed -- frederick douglas haines gardens, so i've been involved

in housing and supportive services, specifically in san francisco, over 400 low-income individuals. in january of last year, i've created my own consulting company, and in that role, i have served a number of other housing organizations and advocacy organizations. just been a desire to further broaden my scope. in that role, i was asked by the state of california through the california department of aging for a project on the s.c.a.n. foundation to create a project that was the first of its kind. it was identifying all the agencies in the state of california that serves all individuals, both seniors and people with disabilities and cross-referencing these agencies to identify the different scopes of the

services that they provided, their funding, along with providing recommendations. what i hope to do if fortunate enough to join the boards is really leverage my experience in not just leveraging the development of housing but also services and equate that into the realization of the lhcbs strategic plan. measuring is really important. what doesn't get measured doesn'tet get done. when looking at the materials, it was heartening to note the targets, and i would like to see that done in the future. but i think in closing, in addition to metrics, what's really important is really looking into what have we done

as a board working with our partners and really making a difference in a person's life individual by individual, and that's something that i would really look forward to participating in if fortunate enough to be appointed to this board. thank you for your consideration. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. romero, and i know that supervisor mandelman has his question that you've heard before, but let me just ask the question that i've had before, which is which subpopulations do you think that you would be representing if appointed? >> well, given my experience, chair peskin, i'd look forward to serving single adults. i've also served veterans chronically homeless and people with hiv/aids and certainly look forward to serving these folks on the board. >> chair peskin: thank you, and then, my second question is

relative to conflicts or potential conflicts relative to your new business; if any of your clients are recipients to grants or contracts with the city or county of san francisco that might preclude you under certainly conflicts from casting a vote. >> not at the time, chair peskin, but i would be mindful of that moving forward. >> chair peskin: thank you. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: yes. i would think about investing in shelters and other ways to

immediately move from the street and potentially into permanent supportive housing, and i think we have overbalanced that, the permanent supportive housing in favor of the shorter term and more immediate exits, and wonder what your thought right side -- thoughts are about that and how to think about that? >> thank you, supervisor mandelman. in 2019, the homeless population, over 8,000 individuals in the city and the county, i was just struck by the fact, and i shouldn't have been, but over half, over 65% have been homeless for over a year. given my experience and how long it takes to develop low-income housing, anywhere from six to seven years, there's got to be a balance. we just look around, and we see that there's a problem with undersheltering at this time. so i'm all for -- it's just -- that's got to be addressed, and there has to be a balance, and

there's got to be -- for as long as the shelters have the necessary services that we were talking about before -- in my opinion, the worst thing you can do, whether it's permanent supportive housing or temporary shelters, if there's not enough housing to support that, it would be a disaster. just looking around this, over half the population, the homeless population has been unsheltered for over a year. that really needs to be addressed. understanding that lhcb is really looking at permanent solutions to housing, it may be counter intuitive that if there's a huge, huge focus on sheltering -- sheltering is a

huge part of moving to permanent supportive housing. as long as the services are aligned with that, then that's certainly something i will be -- continue to be behind. >> chair peskin: thank you. all right. seeing no further questions, why don't we move onto nikon jeanell guffey for seat 7. good morning. >> hi, good morning. thank you for having me, chair peskin and supervisor chan and vice chair mandelman. just really quickly, simply i'm a resident of san francisco county. i'm currently -- am a product of a child who faced housing insecurity in san francisco. i currently am employed as an employee with family and

children services. i've been there almost 22 years. my role currently is director with family and children services, and with my experience and background, i have a masters in social work, and i'm a licensed clinical social workers, and i am an advocate for foster youth and [indiscernible] youth, and it's my job to make sure that their voices are being heard. currently, [indiscernible] under the age of 25 are foster youth, and i believe and ensure that we can and will do better. i believe that the voices of the families and voices of the children that are impacted with all of the trauma that they experience is very crucial and critical, to kind of bring that

knowledge, and to housing security to t.a.y. youth. to answer the question of supervisor mandelman with permanent and supportive housing, i work with both, so i value the importance of temporary shelter. what's important for the youth that i serve is ensuring that there are safe environments and space for their belongings, so they kind of feel a place where they're valued. and the other piece is ensuring that there are appropriate services in place, even in shelter structure. i think with my experience and what we currently have in the foster system, i would able to add a voice on things that have worked for us, areas of growth, and looking how we can transfer some of this to our housing population.

so with that, i thank you for your time and consideration, and i look forward to your questions. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. guffey. i think you've answered all of our questions. very much appreciate it. last, but not least, why don't we move onto gary mccoy. >> good morning, supervisors. i've been very active in advocacy the last ten years, having experienced homelessness, substance use disorder, and hiv and aids as a member of the lgbtq community. i would love an opportunity to serve san francisco in this capacity. previously served on the san francisco shelter monitoring committee from 2015 to 2018 as vice chair and chair of its policy subcommittee and served on the california homeless committee and finance coordinating council from 2017

to this past january, when it transitioned to the california interagency council on homelessness. i would love your support for a seat on the local homeless coordinating board. i'm also happy to talk to you about any issues that come up. in terms of supervisor mandelman's question, i do support increased shelter capacity, but there needs to be permanent housing. i'm a fan of the housing ladder. it worked for me, so any time we have an opportunity to support housing opportunities would work, whether it's moving onto families or friends,

anything to sort of clear the bottle neck that we do have in our housing system that's right now. >> chair peskin: thank you, mr. mccoy, and relative to my question, i believe that health right does not have any contract with h.s.h. is that correct? >> yes. as far as i'm aware, we have no h.s.h. related contracts, but always happy to recuse myself if any conflicts happen to come up. >> chair peskin: perfect. and i'll turn it over to supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: i think mr. mccoy answered. he's a believer in permanent supportive housing and recognizes that we need more shelter. >> chair peskin: there you go. >> supervisor mandelman: there you go. >> chair peskin: okay. why don't we open this item up to public comment? are there any members of the

public who would like to speak to item number 6? >> clerk: yes, if you have not already done so, please press star, three to enter the queue. if you have already done so, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted before you begin your comment. it looks like we have three callers lined up to speak. >> chair peskin: thank you. may we have the first caller, please. >> yes. i'm calling in support of kelley cutler for the homeless coordinating board. it's absolutely critical that the coalition on homelessness retain a seat on the local

homeless coordinating board. it's vital for us bringing up questions and having a dialogue in a public forum with the department of homelessness and supportive housing. additionally, i wanted to just support gary mccoy, who's done amazing advocacy and been part of standing up with the linkage center, and finally, i wanted to comment on mr. nagel. appreciate with great respect that he is coming to us with a goal of creating solutions for homeless individuals. i don't believe he represents homeless individuals, i believe he represents neighborhood groups, and so i feel like it's important to acknowledge that. rescue s.f. is not made up of homeless individuals or people that have experienced homelessness, so i feel that that might be a disqualifying

aspect of his application, and thank you. appreciate your time to build a group of people that will help us navigate through the challenges of creating real solutions for our homeless neighbors. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is fred winegrad, and i'm calling in support of mark nagel. i totally disagree with the last caller. rescue s.f. is looking for solutions, and their solutions are driven by alternatives. what i like about mark is his ability to bring people together. in a federal sense, it's like crossing the aisle. rescue s.f. has had advocates from the homeless coalition on their seminars. they've also had feedback in

the tiny houses that will be implemented on 33 gough, so i think we need really new and supportive programs that will help the homeless, not keep them out there as a shelter. it's inhumane, so i'd really advocate for mark to be a member. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. are there any other speakers? >> clerk: yes, we have two additional callers. >> chair peskin: next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is jennifer laska. i'm the president of the [indiscernible] foundation. i'm calling in support of mark nagel. he's done a tremendous job over the years educating the public

on the complexity of issues facing homelessness. he's been instrumental in getting homelessness opportunities launched in the city, and i think he would be amazing. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker? >> good morning, chair peskin and members. my name is carolyn kennedy. i'm a core team member of rescue s.f. i've read all the applications, and i support the candidacy of mark nagel, gary mccoy, kelley cutler, and josh steinberger. mr. nagel has tremendous skill and experience that would benefit a wide range of san

francisco homeless community. most recently, he met with stakeholders in the tenderloin and the department of emergency management to redefine the dashboard that he developed. i also want to say a little bit about mark as a human being. he's caring and committed and thinks objectively before making decisions. he works with others well, works constructively is well. mark is a tremendous advocate for both housed and unhoused, so i want to just add that because i've observed this over the last two years. thank you for the opportunity to give public comment. >> chair peskin: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please.

>> hi. this is jennifer friedenbach, and i am calling on the coalition of homelessness, and thank you, rules committee, for your consideration today. i wanted to call in support of kelley cutler to be reappointed to the local homeless coordinating board? you have a number of incumbents here that are very -- have been really -- putting a lot of work into this and have a lot more work to do and have been very -- you know, this -- this body is not an easy body to manage, but what kelley brings is she is doing -- spending her days doing outreach on the street and is bringing direct representation of folks and what they bring. she has experienced homelessness and knows this

system really well. she has a knowledge of what's working and not working in the homeless system and is able to engage actively with people who are experiencing crises and undergoing homelessness. i feel like it's incredibly important to preserve that seat. thank you so much. >> chair peskin: thank you. are there any other members of the public for public comment on this item? >> clerk: i believe we have one additional speaker. >> chair peskin: yes, please. >> hi. my name is carolyn thomas. i've been involved in trying to forge homeless relations in the neighborhood for oh, at least

the last seven years. i've also been an attendee of the lhcb meetings. i'm here to support mark nagel's appointment to the lhcb board. i believe has the ability to serve all segments of the population. he's not beholden to a specific idealogical point of view. i'd ad -- advocated for many of the homeless solutions that are being implemented for many years, and he's encouraged people to show up and support

different solutions. he brings to an analytical and data driven mind. i'd like to support del seymour for his experience in organizing and collaboration in several different organizations, including the lhcb board. i believe his appointment should be reupped. >> chair peskin: thank you for your comments. are there any other speakers in public comment? >> clerk: i believe there's one more who jumped on. >> hi. my name is olivia growacki. i am a resident of the outer sunset, and i am calling to

support kelley cutler on this board. she has the experience of homelessness and has been working in the homeless response system for over a decade, so it's really important that we have people who know what it's like, that have been homeless, that aren't just seeing homelessness from an angle where they haven't lived it or experienced it. i think it's important that kelley has a background where she's walked in direct services. you can't walk around this city without someone stopping kelley and saying hey, i know you or don't you work for the homeless coalition? i think it's imperative that kelley continues to serve on

this committee, and i ask that you support her reappointment, and i just can't speak enough about what she's done for our communities here in san francisco. so thank you so much, and i ask that you reappoint kelley cutler to the homeless local coordinating board. >> chair peskin: mr. young, do we have any other callers wishing to make public comment? >> clerk: that was the last caller. >> chair peskin: okay. colleagues, i just wanted to point out that there are actually a number of vacancies. mayor has one vacancy that has yet to be filled, and as i mentioned earlier, the

controller has yet to fill his vacancy, which of course would still have to come before this committee and the board of supervisors, and then, [indiscernible] that are before us today, seats 5, 6, 7, and 8, wherein we have two incumbents applying for reappointment and two that are vacant. so i just wanted to say that because when we are done today or when the board is done next week, there will still be two vacant seats, and we have quite a number of qualified applicants here who may be able to be appointed by the controller to his vacancy or by the mayor to her vacancy, so i just wanted to [indiscernible]. my inclination, but i very much want to hear from you, colleagues, is for continuity

and for the qualifications to reappoint the two incumbents who are seeking reappointment, and that gets us to the very difficult work of sorting through the balance. i will make a couple of observations, and i really want to thank all the applicants, all of whom are clearly committed and qualified. the couple of observations that i would like to make for our commission is seat 1, sophia isom, who is not seeking reappointment, was an h.s.a. representative, the human services agency. i say that because miss guffey also works for the human services agency. it does not constrain us, but i think there's some value in having a human services agency

member on that body. and second, i will note that we have many, many san franciscans here. i know that we have two individuals who are seeking residency waivers. one of them is, of course, del seymour, the incumbent, and another, ancel romero. i would be inclined to be sparing with our residency waivers. i would be inclined to not do two of them, but one perhaps, but let's hear from you, colleagues, as to what your thoughts are. don't all speak at once. supervisor mandelman?

>> supervisor mandelman: yep, thank you, chair peskin, and as is usually the case, we have -- or not usually, but as is sometimes the case, we have an abundance of riches and too many good people for us to appoint to this body. i think i share your inclination to reappointment del seymour and also share your inclination that nikon guffey should be on this body. as to the other choices, i have several thoughts about several of them. i guess i have thoughts about three of them. josh steinberger has abundant experience, i think, you know, in the city working for city

agencies as well as nonprofits. seeing this from his vantage point on the other side of the bay and as a san franciscan i think would be very good to have on there, and a good person. i think it would be good to have him on there. gary mccoy, i also know him and respect his work, and while i may have some difference with him on the shelter versus housing debate, i, you know, still think he would be great on this board, as well. mark nagel's application raises questions about what the role of the local coordinating homeless board is and should be. i think for many people and the public, this is not just a body -- and i think for the members of the board itself, i don't think they see their role or that the broader public sees

their role as simply overseeing $60 million in federal contracts. they seem to, at the very least, [indiscernible] and they also sometimes go beyond that to weighing into broader questions like encampment resolutions, the role of hsoc, and to the extent that they are going there, i would be strongly inclined to have mark nagel on there. so i guess i've put put three names out there for two spots. >> chair peskin: yes, and whether anybody is on this body

or not on this body, supervisor chan, thoughts from you? >> supervisor chan: thank you, chair peskin. i would be inclined to support incumbents. during my public service career, i have actually worked with gary mccoy, and knowing his experience in my professional and personal life, i am inclined to support gary, as well. i think it's important to think about having the mayor and the

controller to articulate their appointment and thoughts, but those are my thoughts on these appointments today, thank you. >> chair peskin: yeah, i wish the controller had made our job easier. i did suggest, on friday afternoon, that he make our job easier by supporting and appointing someone from this list, which he mentioned he might do but has not yet done. i think we've got a couple of choices. one is we can continue this to our meeting of monday and see if the controller makes our job easier. the other is we can continue

seat number 9, which is, of course, subject to confirmation by this committee and the board to whenever the controller makes his decision. but in terms of hazarding a motion that would be simpatico, i'm inclined to support kelley cutler -- maybe what we should do is take this piece by piece. do three and continue 8 and 9 to the call of the chair and see what mr. rosenfield does for us. how is that for a proposal? all right. mr. clerk, i will make a motion

to nominate -- or to recommend to the full board kelley cutler for seat 5, del seymour with a residency waiver for seat 6, nikon guffey for seat 7, and continue seats 8 and 9 to the call of the chair. on that motion, a roll call, please. >> clerk: on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: the motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: and as soon as we hear from the controller, i will schedule this at the next available agenda, and we are adjourned.

. >> president walton: good afternoon and welcome to the february 15th, 2022, regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. roll really [roll call]

mr. president, all members are present. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland.

we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community. and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. and on behalf of all the supervisors, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov tv. today, we have matthew ignaio who will make the transcripts available online. madam clerk, do we have any

communications this afternoon? >> clerk: yes, mr. point in time, i have a communication in accessing this meeting remotely. to provide public comment, listen to your touch phone connected to the remote call-in system. the telephone number is streaming on your screen. it is (415) 655-0001. then enter the meeting id number 24995637519. your line will be muted. once you are ready to provide public comment, press star three to get into the queue. listen carefully for the prompt you have been unmuted and you

may begin speaking your comments. today's agenda content eligible for your testimony is limited to the following items. first, the board of supervisors requests public testimony on two special orders scheduled not to begin before 3:00 p.m. first items 24 through 27, this is the public hearing on the appeal of the exemption from environmental review on a proposed project at 2000 oakdale avenuement the president may make a motion to contain this matter to the board should that be continued once approved, the board will take your testimony on the continuance and on march 1st, the public testimony will be taken on the merits of the appeal or the project. second items 28 through 30, this is the public hearing on the general obligation bond

election for muni reliability and street safety after which a vote will be taken on items 29 and 30. for general public comment, that is item 34, that is when the board will request your general comments on the following matters. the approval of the january 11th, 2022, meeting, item 35, the closed session regarding litigation with the pacific gas and electric company, the public was able to comment the motion to schedule the motion and on the continuance for item -- on the continuance on february 1st, 2022. items 36-38, these are the item that is make up the adoption without committee reference matters you may speak to those matters and other general matters that are not on today's agenda but that are within the subject jurisdiction within the board of supervisors.

all other joend content will be reported out to the appropriate committee where appropriate comment the requirement itself was fulfilled. the board will accept your written correspondence by u.s. mail using the address, the san francisco board of supervisors, the number 1 dr. carlton b. goodlet place, city hall, room 244, san francisco california, 94012. or we will accept an e-mail at bos@sfgov.org. in a solid partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, interpreters will be joining us today. when i will invite them to introduce themselves, the service they will provide and to assist us in providing access to information in language. the interpreters will need to sign off by 7:00 p.m. and, finally, if you are experiencing any trouble connect to go this meeting remotely, we do have a live clerk standing by in the clerk's office at

(415) 554-4184. that concludes my communication. >> president walton: thank you so much madam clerk. and before we get started, colleagues, just a friendly reminder, please mute your microphones when you are not speaking. madam clerk, we are at the approval of minutes. and colleagues, today, we are approving the minutes from the january 11th, 2022, regular board meeting. don't see anyone on the roster for any changes for the minutes. we will entertain a motion made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor ronen. madam clerk, on the motion. >> clerk: on the minutes as approved, [roll call]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, let's go to our regular agenda, unfinished business, item one. >> clerk: item one is an ordinance adding territory to and adopting the amendments to the ininfrastructure and overrule plan and to determine other matters in connection here with as defined pertaining to the infrastructure financing plan for the infrastructure and revitalization financing district number 1 at treasure island. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. . with take this item, same house, same call. without objection, this

ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number two. >> clerk: item number two is ordinance to amend the public works code to permit the office of the treasurer and tax collector to collect the mobile food facility renewal fees on the unified license bill due annually on march 31st. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. we can take this item same house same call. without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 3. >> clerk: item 3 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of a lawsuit filed by dacar spiers against the city and county of san francisco. >> president walton: would you please call the roll on item three. >> clerk: on item three, [roll call]

there are nine ayes and two noes with supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani in the descent. >> president walton: thank you, this ordinance is finally passed with a 9-2 vote with supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani in descent. madam clerk, please call item four. >> clerk: item four is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require the police department and the district attorney to submit quarterly reports to the board of supervisors, the mayor, and various other city departments regarding the number of cases of domestic violence and cases involving certain types of abuse against minors.

to require the district attorney to submit quarterly reports to the board, the mayor, and various other city departments regarding the total number of crime victims to whom the district attorney has provided or made documented efforts to provide services. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. please call the roll for item number four. >> clerk: on item four, [roll call] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. madam clerk, please call item

number five. >> clerk: item five is a charter amendment third draft to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco to revise the duties, composition, and method of appointment for members of the building inspection commission and to affirm the ceqa determination. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, president walton, and thank you, colleagues for hearing this. i am really grateful to have had the co-sponsorship brains and sound being aboard supervisor peskin, supervisor ronen, and supervisor mandelman. and i know have -- we have supervisor safai and supervisor mar as co-sponsors after getting folks' input into the legislation. this charter amendment is a small down payment on the work of the reform that we must

undertake for the department of building inspection. but this needs to be a charter amendment because it deals with how commissioners are nominated and appointed. we currently have a situation under prop g from 1994 where the regulators are the regulated and because there is no process through the rules committee then folks can be appointed who later we have found out are accused of gaming the system, that they're trying to -- that they're charged with regulating. so we -- this charter amendment will give a split appointment to the mayor and the board of supervisors and mirror the appointment process of a planning commission. it would -- we were, you know, we carefully worked with tenant groups to make sure that we

have a tenant advocate on the commission to ensure that people have experience rather than being a member of a group that way folks can bring the expertise to the body. i want to thank city attorney rob kapla and ann pierson with their assistance and moving parts and i hope that i can get your support for this legislation which like i said is a small down payment on the much needed reform for this department. thank you. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor melgar. i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk, let's do a roll call on this item. >> clerk: on item five, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you, without objection, this charter amendment is submitted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item six. >> clerk: item six is a charter amendment third draft to amend the charter to prohibit the submission of a recall petition to the department of elections. if the subsequent recall election would be required to be held within twelve months of a regularly scheduled election for the office held by the officials sought to be recalled and to provide any interim officer appointed to fill a

vacancy held on or after june 7th, 2022, may not be a candidate in the subsequent vacancy election at an election to be held on june 7th, 2022. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, president walton. colleagues, i speak to this item today up for our vote today which happens to be voting day. today being election day with i will add recalls on the ballot actually for the first time in almost 40 years in san francisco. but this proposed charter amendment deserves to be discussed outside the context of any single individual recall and actually has its roots from a long time ago back in november when we were all

hearing loud and clear the message when it was then governor newsome, my former colleague on this board of supervisors being recalled. at the time of that recall, we couldn't hear enough about the unnecessary and enormous costs of the recall. we could not hear enough about the need for reform. in fact, a report by the public policy institute of california released last year revealed while governor new some maintain and approval rating. 82% of the democrats supporting the reform of the recall process. 70% of all voters agreed that that particular recall was a waste of money. and that's why we're here today. i want to be clear, the measure before us is not about prohibiting recalls and it's

definitely not about removing elected officials from office for other cause official misconduct. the core premise of this measure is simple. san francisco taxpayers should not have to show out tens of millions of dollars as we just did to fund special recall elections when officials being subject to recall are already up for election on the same year's ballot. this is also about safeguarding the fundamentals of our democracy. if someone wins their election fair and square, that person deserves a fair chance at fulfilling their voter mandate. and i'm sorry, just because you're disgruntled that your candidate lost or someone you opposed won, you don't go and get to ask your well to do friends to bankroll a second bite at the apple. that's why in this measure, you have to wait for one year

before filing a recall petition against a duly elected official. to those weighing in on this, i believe this is common sense. that is democracy, when you honor the voter mandate in an election. then, on the other end of a four-year term, this measure says as i've already said that you can't trigger a special election if the elected official you're seeking to recall is up for re-election in the next year anyway. this is about saving money. and we all know that the school board recall just cost the city and, yeah, i lost that vote in the entire 12 knowing the school district's not paying any. think about what that $12 million could be spent on. school supplies for our cash-strapped students. operational subsidies for seniors living in s.r.o. housing. muni. the victim's right to council what we discussed yesterday at

the rules committee. colleagues, i for one cannot in good conscience ask taxpayers to pay for these elections when they are redundant. and, of course, this charter amendment if it proceeds to the ballot will be up to the voters to adopt or not. lastly, i want to be clear about another argument that has been floating around which is that somehow this impairs the ability of underrepresented voices to gain a foothold into elected office. i believe and if you want, i can demonstrate that historically that is untrue. and you need to only look at who is subject to today's recall. and the only pacific islander ever elected to city office in san francisco. or take a look at who gets appointed versus who has to win an election versus judicial seats on our supreme court. or, if you're going to get into

that argument that an incumbency is an advantage point let's take a look at how appointees have historically performed which has been a pretty dismal track record and we all know people who were appointed who've stood for election in their own right and didn't survive that election. i think our current mayor beat one of those. finally, i note that as to vacancy appointments, we reach a compromise where only in the case of a successful recall we leave the appointment power to the mayor's office that say that we want an open election in the next scheduled -- regularly scheduled election. those open elections have been profoundly successful at producing diverse candidates. this is about putting up some common sense guardrails to ensure that the recall system is not abused, but used properly. it does not prohibit recalls,

but reforms the process with an unnecessary redundant cost and removes some of the corrosive political behavior we have seen quite a bit of lately. before i urge your support, colleagues, i do want to clarify one issue on the record following an incorrect interpretation of this measure which made it into an opinion piece that you may or may not have seen over the weekend written by john trasvenia who alleged this would prevent any recall to an official at a school board. that's not the intent of this proposal nor does it do it. for the sake of clarity, the legislative digest has been amended by the city attorney to reflect that and i do want to ask for the record, our deputy city attorney john gibner a couple of questions so we can clarify this once and for all.

mr. gibner, as much as this charter amendment would effectively prohibit our recall from being held twelve months prior to a general election for that seat, what is the impact on a college or school board seat that has staggered terms? >> deputy city attorney john gibner. the reference in this proposed measure to the office that's held by the person who's been recalled is a reference to the particular seat of the recalled official rather than to all seats on the college community board. so if a person is recalled and their seat becomes vacant, 19 months before that person's next election, the election for

the recall may be placed on the ballot. does that answer your question, supervisor? >> supervisor peskin: in other words, the fact there are staggered terms on those bodies does not come into play. this is not a blanket prohibition for recalls on the college board or school board. >> that's right. i think the reason that this question is coming up is that on -- on the third page of the measure, the measure uses the term 'a regularly scheduled election for the office held by the elected official.' and the argument that has been made is that means the office held by any member of the school board or community college board. but as that term is used in other sections of the charter, particularly section 13.1 and 13.5, we distinguished between an office that's held by any member of the board versus an

office held by the particular official and this language refers to the office held by the particular official. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, deputy city attorney gibner. and as i indicated, the legislative digest has also been updated to set that forth. i want to thank my co-sponsors president walton, supervisor ronen, and supervisor preston for their co-sponsorship. and i'm happy to answer any questions and encourage your support. >> president walton: thank you you, supervisor peskin. supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, president walton. i was very wholeheartedly supportive of the original version where the recall reform that specifically i want to say that is the mayor -- this is

the original version. the mayor would no longer make vacancy appointments for the board of supervisors. the school board or governing board of community college district. instead, those appointments will be made by a majority of the board members that has the vacant seat. i was really excited about that version and it gave me some pause, the final version that's before us today and let me explain why that it then says right now the way that it has amended is that with this charter amendment, the mayor will continue to make appointments for the vacancies created by the recalls. the appointees would be interim officers that would carry out the responsibility of the vacated office, but would also be prohibited from being candidates in the following election how to fill those vacancies and i think that for me gave me some pause because as i'm thinking about our

government and reform, thinking about the executive branch of government and in this case, we'll then extend its power to elected office with someone that will be holding that office, but no longer be holden to the voters because this person will no longer be running for that seat. instead, this person appointed by the executive branch will be beholden to the executive branch alone. so that gave me pause. that is what we'd be sometimes thinking of the seat of the caretaker seat or a caretaker appointee. so i've been struggling thinking about it because we never really have done this ever and i'm just thinking about what that impact could be. and then i also remember there were days in the moments that

when we face a vacancy of our mayor, how much i long for a caretaker mayor and thinking about a caretaker mayor would really be focusing on the day-in, day-out operation of the city government instead of thinking about running for office and giving someone that edge about being the mayor. thinking about how important that seat really is that if someone were to run for that seat, there should be a level play field that everyone is inned the same position running for that seat simply because they were appointed to that. [please stand by]

>> we are spending with a lot of anger around recalls. i don't support that. i supported the original legislation before it was amended. and before we dismiss the issue of representation of people of color and women, i want to make a couple points. i am the first latino to be elected in this board in 25 years. the only latino elected supervisor in all of san francisco in all of history was susan appointed by may or jordan first. the only two times we had women

as mayor was because some guy died and they were appointed not by a mayor but by the process we have. the only time we had a chinese supervisor the same. i can, of course think of successful and unsuccessful ones and all are people of color in the last few years. leadership development is tricky. it takes, time, energy, money and mentoring. we don't have enough people of color representing the very diversity rich with different cultures and constituencies. the most common pass to exercise leadership, to be appointed to

commission, be involved in community organization to be elected to a smaller body first before you make it to supervisor or mayor. i think there is a path. an appointment or important part of that path. there is another reason, too. whoever is mayor is. when they are appointing someone that does not get the face of voters will appoint someone that he or she when control and have close rapport too. the board of supervisors and mayor in history have been sort of in two different sides of representing the people. i think having the mayor appoint someone who can go on and win is actually a much better proposition for me than someone who is not face voters and will

only do what appointing person asks. i am sorry. i will not support this measure. i do wish we had recall reform. i think the 12 months on both sides is an excellent idea. i wish we had that in the original language, but this is a very strongly-held thing close to my heart. i have fought my whole life for representation of communities and women. i think this may hurt us. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor haney. >> chair haney: i have a question. i don't know if this is best for the deputy city or supervisor peskin. through the chair. there is currently, i see a six month prohibition at the beginning of someone's term. that would be extended to 12

months. this would add a 12 month prohibition on the submission every call petitions for the 12 months prior to the subsequent regular election. is there currently any time window connected to the regular election on the back end or are we creating new? are we extending similar to the beginning of the term or creating new prohibition for a window at the end of somebody's term that doesn't exist now? >> technically, procedurally, it is impossible to do in the last

six months of somebody's term. that is not actually written but procedurally you can't. now it is written and it is written in such a way that effectively for the last year of that person's term when they are up for election you would be prohibited from recalling that individual in that seat, but the six month requirement is currently in law written at the beginning of the term. i defer to deputy city attorney. i do while i have the floor in response to supervisor melgar would like to again reiterate. the notion of a caretaker appointee only apply in the case of a successful recall. it does not apply across the board. the mayor's current charter powers to appoint to a vacancy created by death, resignation,

election to another office which is resignation, that remains unchanged. only in the case of a successful recall, and the reason for that is because we do not want to have an executive to recall or get involved in recalling individuals because there is a political gamesmanship advantage to supporting the recall because the executive has the power to appoint. in so far as there has not been a successful in over 40 years. 1983 was the last recall that was mayor dianne feinstein and it failed. i haven't done the research prior to 1983. it is an extremely narrow targeted provision. i want to say that to supervisor

melgar and hope he will reconsider given i have given how narrow it is there. >> this may be for city attorney. the district attorney recall and considering when that is on the ballot and the timelines when petitions were collected would that have been affected by this if this charter amendment were in place previously would that recall have been within the timeframe that is laid out here or would that have been prohibited?

>> depteen city attorney john givner. to the question about the six-month period at the end of the term. as practical matter, that is impossible. the charter doesn't speak to the period at the end of the term, but where the charter is silent on elections issues we look to the state elections code that has a provision that prohibits recall in the final six months of the term. that doesn't answer your last question about the district attorney. .i can't say what the timing of the recall circulation was. this measure would apply to a district attorney recall and

vacancy. >> the recall for the da started after the year. it would not have affected the recall of the da. >> the da recall would have actually still fallen within the window laid out here, but not the school board recall because of close to subsequent election. >> correct. >> this would be on the same ballot as the da recall and would apply immediately so voters would be choosing. if we put this on the ballot they would both be making a decision about the da recall and making the decision at the same time if the da were to be recalled would have a caretaker da or not. they would make both decisions

at once. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor safai. >> thank you. this is a technical question. through the chair to the city attorney or supervisor peskin. based on the windows that you have created in terms of blackouts from when this can happen, walk me through a term and what would be left as remainder of when the election actually recall election could actually happen? >> deputy city attorney. the four-year term is blackouts in beginning, 18 month window prior to election. how much time is left? what period are you talking about? >> that ends up being roughly an 18 month period in the middles.

>> 18 month remainder on four-year term. it is smaller if it is -- i guess these are all four-year terms. >> all elected officials are four-year terms. >> remainder is 18 month window. my second thing is just on the process of actually, we talk about separation of powers. when i see the result of this when no person can be a candidate after they have been put in this position. you have created another departmental head or staffer of the mayor. that person ends up beholden to the mayor. no longer have the advantage of office of incumbency of the power of the office because the person knows they are in that role as caretaker.

to supervisor melgar's point there is a significant history. supervisor peskin you are one of them sitting in the seat. the voters are smart. if the wrong person is put into a position in appointed position the voters will decide and put the right person in that position. i am confused as to why the amendment was made as to no person could be. if it is about the power of incumbency i don't think that argument holds based on your personal experience. to supervisor melgar's point and i agree with it, so many women, so many people of color have got their start in elected office even on boards and commissions. these are positions we go out of our way to look for that level of diversity, opportunity. it doesn't make sense to me why we would put that into this

position and then shift the entire balance of power toward the mayor, toward the executive branch and have that person 100% beholden to the mayor. i understand in theory. in practice i have not seen that play out in san francisco. in fact, i have seen the opposite play out time and time again. because of that it gives me reservation. i will not be supporting this amendment be today. >> thank you, supervisor safai. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, supervisor peskin for your leadership on this. it is no secret i have a strong view the mayor, this mayor, prior mayors or future mayors should not be able to appoint vacancies on other elected bodies or school board. i shared supervisor chan's view

of excite mend around -- excitement tackling that through the ballot. that is not here before us today. what we are dealing with is a measure that supervisor peskin has worked on to make it, i think, more surgical. this is what was initially a measure that was more about balance of power between the executive branch and the other elected bodies, including this board. it is less of a balance of power measure and more of good government measure. i think addressing the points supervisor peskin raised around the new realities that we are in, around recall fever from the governor, across the country to southern california. you name the jurisdiction. the recalls are on the rise by

big money interests. it makes good sense to use this moment to look at the rules and to figure out how to still allow people to recall officials when there are grounds, but also to not be wasting money on recall elections right before general elections or recalling people just because you lost an election and starting a recall right after someone takes office. i think that the provisions of this are really tailored to that goal of dealing with the potential abuse of recalls, and i am happy to support and cosponsor this measure. >> thank you, supervisor preston. supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, supervisor preston for those comments. thank you, colleagues for dellin

beroperations and thoughts around -- deliberations and thoughts around this. as to the balance of power the original draft of the charter amendment attempted to deal with that. that is a conversation for another day. i note that the president of the united states does not appoint to vacancies in the house or senate nor does the governor of the state of california. the reason we have a special election for the assembly district 17 seat in half of the city is because the governor of the state of california does not appoint to the legislative branch. that is a conversation for another day. i have to be candid with you, that i suspect if that were still in this measure, some of the same people voting against it today would be voting against it's for that reason. why don't we just vote and see

whether or not the voters get to vote on this or not. >> supervisor mandelman: i hesitate to speak given how many other folks have spoken. at committee i did reserve the right to vote against if full board. i thought about this measure. there are things that make sense, aspects do not make sense. it is actually impossible to separate from the separation of powers conversation earlier in the year and the conversation about the validity every calls going on this year and i am not comfortable supporting it today. >> thank you. colleagues i want to state, one, that i appreciate this thoughtful recall reform and the approach. like supervisor chan, i was more in line with the more aggressive

approach. we have conversations about separation of powers at the board of supervisors. that is the purpose of the board of supervisors. the recalls are mechanisms for voters to exercise their right to remove someone who abuses power, does something illegal but not due to philosophical and political differences. that is what we see a lot of. remember this charter allows the voters to decide if they support the current process for recalls or not. this is something that we are proposing to put on the ballot so the voters in san francisco can decide if they like proposed changes or not. i just also want to say i believe the only recall to qualify recently is a recall that removes 10% people of color

-- 100% people of color in the city and county of san francisco. that is all i have to say. i don't see anyone else on the roster. madam clerk. roll call on item 6, please. >> item 6, supervisor haney. >> aye. >> mandelman. >> no. >> mar. >> aye. >> melgar. >> no. >> peskin. >> aye. >> preston. >> aye. >> ronen. >> aye. >> safai. >> no. >> supervisor stefani. >> no. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> there are seven ayes and four nos. with supervisors mandelman, melgar, safai and stefsan.

>> stefani in desend. 7-4 submitted. >> would you please call item 7. >> motion to consider mayor nomination to juvenile probation commission for a term ending in 2026. the mayor's provided communication to the board of supervisors from nominee andrea shorter as she was withdrawing her name from consideration to the commission. therefore rendering this matter as tabled by operation of law. >> thank you so much. please call item 8. >> ordinance to retroactively authorize the $1 million grant through the united states department of justice office of violence against women for the domestic violence high risk program and to amend the annual salary ordinance for 21-23 to

provide 1820 junior administrative analyst position through september 30, 2024. >> thank you, madam clerk. please call roll on item 8. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor ronan. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan. >> aye. >> 11 ayes. passed unanimously. i apologize we are people waiting. please call 2:30 p.m. special

order. >> today the board of supervisors celebrates black history month in recognition of service to the city and county of san francisco. >> colleagues. today we have special commendations in honor of black history month. i wish we were able to do it in person. if we continue to wait we will wait forever with this pandemic. i am glad we are able to bring it back and this is our first where we all present. we are going to kickoff honoring folks who are covid-19 superstars. we are going to do this i am going first then we will do this by roll call order. obviously we want to honor our amazing members of community

that we want to do it and make sure they have all of the accolades they deserve. we are in the board of supervisors meeting. try to stick to the protocol in place as we honor these amazing folks to give them recognition. first i want to take the time could commend the equity in neighborhoods team of the covid command center. during the heights of the pandemic the equity and neighborhood teams were the stakeholder focused arm of covid command center. there were tasks and equity driven approach to the city's covid-19 response and recovery efforts. equity in neighborhoods

identified in prioritized hotspots using data and community first about needs and concerns. the equity in neighborhoods team used the guiding principals of continuity, accountability, transparency and dedicated communication with the goal of clear communications between the covid-19 command center and community so the priority populations most affected by covid-19 would have the most up-to-date information and services. all of these city workers took the time away from their traditional and typical jobs to be in community pretty much every day working with folks on the ground to make sure that appropriate testing was happening in the communities, to make sure when vaccines became

available folks received vaccines to make sure unhoused populations were connected with services while working with community members to address concerns. i want to thank them for stepping up in a major way in our community and again i would love to acknowledge and honor today the three for all that you have done during this covid-19 pandemic and for all that you continue to do. i do believe larry is on to say a couple of words. >> thank you board of supervisors for the recognition. all i can say is thank you to the community who partnered with

us during that very tough time. the partnership and a lot of community members are on today. other accolades for work with the community. i want to thank those community members for partnering with us, trusting us, giving us space and time to serve the community how we all show our concern and be servants for the residents for the city and county of san francisco. thank you for the recognition and appreciation to the community members who opened their doors and opened their hearts and trust to partner with us to serve folks in a very tough time from feeding unhoused, testing and vaccinations. my appreciation to all of the community folks who partnered with us. >> thank you. mr. jones i see you are from as

well. >> thank you so much, as my colleague in equity in neighborhoods larry mcclindon, great to see you. i am honored to say i was working alongside so many colleagues across the city and i think this was uncharted territory for all of us and personally touched my life with several family members who contracted covid and believe it or not that they found out about this honor last tuesday for the first time in this pandemic. i tested positive for covid. i am at the house right now doing great. i just definitely want to let members of the public or fellow members across the city know there is still a pandemic going on. to larry's point. it was the community who came together that was our guiding

source of inspiration and making sure that they had what they needed to be successful in this pandemic and through the work across the city we have seen our numbers and we have seen that we have been in some cases the envy of cities across america and the world. i know that people are tired. i know that this pandemic is yet and still a reality. with equity in neighborhoods has shown us even as city workers working together. it takes communities and a village. i want to thank you so much. >> thank you, mr. jones and mre equity and neighborhoods team. [applause] >> supervisor haney.

>> thank you for giving us this opportunity. i am very honored to be able to share the story of our district 6 honoree sherry davis, program manager of sixth street self-help center at hospitality house. she grew up in st. louis and left at 18 years old to come to california to dream to become a dancer. she tried to make a living. it led to drug use and impacted relationships with family and children. she experienced trauma, abuse, and tragedy the death of a son. with the help of her grandmother she created new dreams. nine years ago she confronted her turmoil and began the long journey back to a stronger

healthier mother for her sons. she met the love of her life and started working at hospitality house. she progressed from on call worker to counselor to case manager and past four years program manager of the sixth street self-help center. this center offices behavioral health resources and support using peer based model and accounts for 20,000 visits each year to 12,000 low income community residents seeking various types of support. sherry exemplify giving back. that is what community means. she is an inspiring leader, woman of color working shoulder to shoulder with the city's most vulnerable and overlooked. when you see sherry at work you see someone comfortable in her

skin, generous and kind word and encouraging smile and laugh that fills up the room. she has a journey like many in our community and district 6, she has found strength in service to others and it is my honor to recognize sherry davis as or district 6 honoree for the black history month celebration. >> i believe she is logging in. >> hi, i want to say i am honored to be part of this

journey. honored to be recognized and i am here to continue to provide and support the community. >> we have technical difficulties. >> turnoff your camera. >> i am honored and i appreciate everything and everyone in my life and in my circle. i appreciate hospitality house for giving me the opportunity to be able to express my support for the community.

i have. [indiscernable] >> thank you. >> we are still having technical difficulties. >> they could not hear me still? >> not a good part of it. >> i am honored to be here today to be represented by an agency, by matt haney. i am here and i want to thank you again. >> thank you so much. congratulations.

[applause]. >> supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: thank you, president walton and thank you for organizing today's black history month special commendations. i am excited to be able to honor district 8 resident and castro neighborhood superstar carmel free man. he moved here from boston in 2010. he is a entrepreneur and nightlife promoter. he increases visibility of queer and transin the castro. he is serving in the second term advisory term for the lgbtq cultural district. he previously was co-chair of executive committee and worked with my office on standing up to successful castro covid-19 testing and vaccination hub for

which we honored back on januar. the first time my office worked with him was in june 2020 when he produced the red de tolis -- ready to listen march. he coproduced the march for asian lives in 2021 that underscored solidarity among communities of colors. he can be found at first friday serving the fried chicken. unfortunately he is traveling and his flight was delayed. he is in the air and cannot join us. i want to thank him for his great community work. >> thank you so much. we appreciate you and we do want to say congratulations to mr.

free man. thank you. [applause]. supervisor mar. >> supervsor mar: thank you to the team for organizing the special accommodations on black history month. i am very proud to recognize another inspiring leader and activists. from the outer sunset with an extremely positive impact on the lives of churn and our entire community throughout the pandemic. district 4 resident and executive director of sunsets nursery school which has been serving preschoolers and parents since it first started as wpa project in 1940. generations of sunset families are part of the community and he has provided progressive leadership. the co-op developed the

anti-racism statement. first paragraph we are living through a pivotal time in history. time to make lasts and revolutionary change. it will be remembered for years to come pan have a lasting impact on future generation. we are taking action to stand with the black community seeking equality and justice. we believe black lives matter. played an essential leadership role in the community. inevitable as executive director would be sought for direction from 60 families and children. what is safe, where is safe, when is safe? when we didn't know a greater level of leadership after the shelter experience began separating us, our nation was traumatized by the murder of george floyd and breanna taylor.

isolated she started painting signs supporting black lives matter, compassion, encouraging the vote. she engaged the children, families and community of sunset co-op in this project. four weeks before the 2020 election, hundreds of beautiful signs with powerful messages appeared on the great highway. the closed road became an open classroom. we all sought families and crowds walking the highway reflecting on and discussing the messages. this added a new dimension no the highway art to stop aapi hate. some signs were damaged. she led others to repair and replace. she made sure the conversation continued and that the response to vandalized signs was not hate

but expressions of love and compassion. in the year when so many found it difficult to talk to each other, reach each other. she initiated the project to connect preschoolers and professional artists and started an conversation for planning for public art in sunset. to express the deep and difficult feelings, respond when folks are hurt full are skills she teaches to toddlers at the sunset school every day. when her community needed those lessons brought she had the confidence, courage and wisdom to do so. thank you for your leadership and activism for community and care and love for our children. i would love you to share your remarks. thanks again. >> thank you, supervisor mar.

>> thank you, supervisor mar and the board of supervisors. i will be brief and just say thank you for the recognition. it is wonderful to be seen. it is wonderful to see all of the other beautiful black community members who have shown up for our city in all of these ways. i hope we can continue to work together. thank you very much. >> thank you so much for everything. thank you, supervisor mar. [applause]. >> president walton: supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you for organizing this. today i will be honoring a special organization in our district. engle side presbyterian church and community center. it is the intersection between black history and the black future which is our theme.

engle side presbyterian church and community center is located on ocean close to the college. it was founded 1907 right after the earthquake. at the time they served the community that was so desperate locating from downtown where folks were displaced. it was a white church. after world war ii the demographics in the neighborhood changed and it's became a black church which it has been every since. the pastor joined in 1978 rebuild the congregation with emphasis on empowering young people. in 2016, the board of supervisors landmarked the historic church in the collage

of paintings that the reverend gordon adorned the walls with. if you have never been to the church i encourage you to go and see for generations kids walked in to looked at surrounded by black excellence, black history and black power. it created an atmosphere of warmth and support for generations of children who walked through that church and community center. it captures the essence of black history of lake view and ingle side. even prior to the pandemic engle side community center and church was home to the local scene your -- senior food country service

to god through service through humanity. when the pandemic hit it was an anchor offering food security, serving as local community hall to support young students who could not be at school, attending virtually, organizing youth's after school sports and literacy and programming for low income seniors. the church and center remain an anchor for the community and unify our neighborhoods that change and grow. 2019 it hosted the lunar new year celebration with former president norman yee so i conic to bring together black leadership. i am in deep gratitude to reverend gordon known as red g. the board, staff and the program

director michael allen and volunteers who offer refuge, collaboration, positive synergy and warmth to hundreds of community members through the doors every day. it is my hope the church and community center will continue to be a mainstay as they continue to support or population and bring our youth into the incredible service oriented leaders. i would like to welcome reverend gordon and michael allen to share a few remarks. >> yes, sir. i am so thankful for this day and the work we are doing here at ingle side. we believe san francisco is microcosm of the world. we want to serve the world by

serving to the best of our ability. this ministry was established after the 1906 earthquakes to service the people who were displaced or needed help. we saw that history our current administration for 44 years. that history of service to people that we adopted the month to service to god through service through humanity. that is our dedication. the director of the san francisco council of churches would tell people in the city how we service people from the cradle to the grave. our primary focus is young people. we give them the best start we can get them on their way. it is about love for all

humanity. we lift that up. board of supervisors and community residents bottom of my heart thank you for acknowledging. michael our executive director is with us. long time servant of the people in san francisco. >> i want to say our founder walter quinn who started this program. i was a youth at 10 years old coming to the program. now, i am the program director. thank you to the board of supervisors for your support, love and just helping us to continue our mission of being a positive impact in the community and we are going to continue to complete our job. it is never ending task and we are up for it. thank you. >> thank you very much.

[applause] >> congratulations. thank you, supervisor melgar. supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president walton. when you asked us to think about who to honor today, it took us about two seconds to think of the leader who truly deserves it and stepped up during the pandemic. to address a host of central needs during what we know has been a tough and chaotic time. there was one woman who came to mind be who has done much with little and against significant odds. colleaguesth it is my honor to recognize joy morgan third street youth center and clinic. nonprofit service provider in its own right and opened up the

transitional age youth navigation center 888 post in the middle of the pandemic. frankly, with less resources than the city originally promised. i can't imagine doing these under normal circumstances. then to be told you would have to operate a low barrier multi service shelter at half capacity under ever changing guidelines with reduced work force and neighborhood watching closely is an extraordinary accomplishment. joy has been serving 43 struggling -- joy and her staff have been serving 43 struggling young adults with individual care and case management at the center while simultaneously fund-raising to secure support for on sites behavioral health

clinicians and security staffing. she has been personally engaging with neighbors going out of her way to implement good neighbor policy, focusing on community building and enhancing the neighborhood while working with young adults to envision full-service facility with health clinic education extensions in arts and recreational programming. she really doesn't stop at the minimum. she thinks big and pushes for the best possible opportunities for her residents. joy is a second generation boy view hunters point native. masters in public health. from her long time work with the center for youth's wellness to her role on the sugary drinks distributestor attack and has

been laser focused on health and wellness at black and brown communities at one of the most vulnerable moments in their lives. in the words of brittany who many of you colleagues remember when she was an aid to the board of supervisors and now at human rights commission. joy is a quiet warrior, selfless, committed to visibility and support for the marginalized people in san francisco. jackson morgan thank you congratlations and i will turn it over to you. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. joy. >> thank you. i would like to thank god for carrying me during this really tough year for me. i lost my mother shortly after we opened. that was my foundation and my

rock. the lord sent me a village full of prayer warriors, caretakers to guide me and third street during this rocky time and the pandemic. thank you may or breed and supervisor peskin and district 3, lower polk communities for welcoming us into your neighborhood and helping to challenge us and to make it better for our young people. thank you to the youth commission, market street for fighting for our center. i would like to thank the third street youth center and clinic staff and board and the leadership, staff and facilities for making sure that we succeeded in starting this up. community partners at success center and our janitorial team. for making it have the best food

in the housing system hands down. to the harm reduction therapy center for helping us carryout behavior health services when we didn't have that support. the care folks at dph, providing health services to the foundation for investing in wellness and behavioral health at the navigation center to housing partners at market street, my mentors that i reached out to learn more about how to conduct these services. westbrook, gilmour, wilson, doyle, and to the youth for trusting us to carry out the vision of low barrier services.

thank you board of supervisors for this opportunity. i am deeply honored. thank you. [applause]. >> i will bring the certificate honor by on my way home. >> i want to say the indigenous bayview-hunters point knows how to work well with everyone. congratulations. thank you, supervisor peskin. >> thank you, president walton for putting this together today. amazing group. today it is my pleasure to honor spencer an educator and founding director of boys and girls club of san francisco don fisher clubhouse in western edition. spencer grew up in houston and grated from the same school the

late georgeploid attended. graded from moore house college in 1995 with degree in psychology. educatestor over 25 years. he accepted the teacher fellowship at the branson school in california. in 1999 he was the first dean of students at gateway high school, same year as the columbine high school massacre. 2001 principal at the san francisco ymca youth high school. the first day of school was on 9/11. spencer joined boys and girls club of san francisco in 2008 as city-wide director of educational services. he led development of after-school programs and life schools courses for nearly 5,000

youth members of nine clubhouses in the city. he moved to the clubhouse director position at the old clubhouse in 2013. spencer opened don fissure clubhouse 2050 where me -- 2015. he is no stranger to adversity. at the outset of the pandemic the clubhouse was opened until they made the hard decision to move to virtual platform. thank yous to his leadership they were able to serve 150 youth daily. the fiscal house was closed. spencer continued to serve the youth and families not just through virtual programs but supporting food and supply distribution in the nearby. when the clubhouse re-opened for summer programming they developed a strong system of safety protocols with a cohort system in fall of 2020 with

studentses in distance learning. clubhouse was a learning hub to support students during the school day. clubhouse learning hub supported 100 youth daily during the day. they also hired an educationally a son to connect with schools, teachers and parents for distance learning. it also maintained after school hours to provid enrichment and physical 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. facility. they embraced. even that doesn't begin to capture the ways in which the club served the community during this pandemic including recently through the don fisher clubhouse vaccine pop up for youth and adults in the western addition.

it is remarkable throughout the pandemic rising the daunting challenges bringing decades of experience to great challenges and provide essential services and support to some of the most vulnerable residents of the community. spencer is known for strong commitment to not just a job but life work. made countless personal sacrifices for the work. thank you for your service to the youth and community of district five. my office, district and community are lucky to have an amazing person doing the critical work. during the black history month it is my pleasure to present this honor and to honor your service from the board of supervisors. welcome, spencer.

>> hi. first of all, thank all of you, especially supervisor preston and the city and county of san francisco for your leadership. i would like to thank my organization because they were able to rethink, reorganize and redeploy resources through the work that we needed to do. it was heart breaking when we had to close physically. i felt i needed to be out in the community to give more opportunity to be of service. i would like to thank those organizations who welcomed me to be of service. my life work revolves around one well-known quote and that is while i am here let me do all the good that i can for i may

never pass this way again. it is easier for mistakes versus inaction. the opportunity to be of service, opportunity to do everything that i can do to support the city and county, especially children of san francisco. i am ready to do. i am honored and more so humbled by this recognition. there are so many other people out there who could be recognized as well. thank you for recognizing me. and giving me the encouragement to do even more. thank you very much. >> congratulations, spencer. (applause). >> thank you so much, supervisor preston. supervisor ronan.

>> supervisor ronen: thank you for organizing this wonderful event. colleagues. it is with great pride i am honoring ellister hubbard. he began as entry level outreach worker. now holds the title of outreach supervisor. from the beginning his passion for work was unique to connect with people to help those living without a home. he has always been amazing. it was the pandemic that showed the true value of his leadership and his heart. from the first days of the pandemic he went above and beyond to reach the most impacted people in the city. throughout the pandemic he never worked remotely. he was on the streetser