think vision zero is one of the best things this board can fund in terms of getting things for our buck. i met with you yesterday, i requested whether or not kind of assumes some of the components c.i.p. plus passing. >> chair borden: director heminger? >> director heminger: you heard enough from me today. i will be quick with jonathan. >> chair borden: everybody can speak as much as they want. [ laughter ]

>> director heminger: you certainly don't mean that now i hope. [ laughter ] jonathan, you're a bit of dynamo today. that's all i can say. i noticed on page 19 of this presentation, you mentioned the train control upgrade couple of times. i certainly would second that emotion. that's a really important project. i know bart has done a really excellent job in positioning it for a lot of federal money. train control is what runs the train. if we don't get that in place and soon, i know we're going to see service continue to degrade. what you didn't have is the potrero yard. although adding the housing component to it is sort of big pain in the ass lot of ways, i think in terms of attracting

discretionary funding, the fact that we are trying to use our assets to get the housing crises as well as our transportation needs, should be pretty attractive. i know you said that you're going to need to line up the capital piece that milestone payment before we enter in the construction contract? >> that is correct. >> director heminger: we don't have a whole lot of time to do that if we can keep the schedule that's in there. i guess the last one i would mention is the cable cars which again, were a showcase for attracting federal funds right before the democratic national convention san francisco. they worked out well. i think that's another good indication that's one that look good on the road. that's all i got.

>> chair borden: any other directors want to make comment. we'll open up for public comment. this is time for members of the public to comment on our capital plan and advocacy related to it. this is not an action item. we're not taking any action. if you like to give feedback, press 1, 0 to put yourself in the queue. first speaker. >> caller: good afternoon. i'm the executive director -- i want to thank jonathan for the presentation. at walk san francisco, we are very grateful that we serve not only the g.o. committee and the prop k. we all know, we can all see it on the city's c.i.p. that street is doing it religiously to get

the smallest place of the pie when it comes to funding. we're seeing that it ranks high. prop k funding is one of the most flexible we can get. where it stands today, street budget is only about 6% of the total prop k budget. since our seniors and people with disabilities are always 50% of our annual traffic related fatalities. we are seeing year after year that programs are woefully underfunded. i want to ask this board to encourage the agency to continue to fight for more of the prop k

funds for streets. as an advocate, we can only do so much. we need the city agency to advocate for that. thank you so much. >> chair borden: thank you. >> caller: this is david pilpel again. to follow-up on the last comment, i like to see not equal but a more equal distribution of the pie here. whether it's the discretionary amount of pie for the total amount of pie. there were lots of acronyms in the slides, towards the end. i found it difficult because the ten state good repair categories and 10 capital plan c.i.p. categories don't line up. they are different terms. they are different things in

them. it will be good if those categories were the same. i see state of good repair as a need of the agency versus enhance and expand which i see as wants. given the constraints, i would do the needs first or only at this time and then see about the wants. from all the graphics here in the slides, it looks like parking and traffic, for example, has $1.765 billion in assets with more than 50% deemed in poor condition. it's not clear to me how much of the capital plan or c.i.p. would go to parking and traffic assets due to those different categories. just using the $3.83 billion in backlog on slide 6 and $2.5 billion in investment on slide 9, 12 and 13, that seems

to be about 65% across-the-board. i would start there and apply 65% to the backlog assets, tweak that based on any funding restrictions then identify unfunded needs of roughly $1.33 billion and the additional wants. enhance and expand stuff. if i'm not understanding this correctly, somebody can correct me now or later, i can follow up with other appropriate m.t.a. staff to learn more or correct my math or understanding. thank you for listening. >> chair borden: thank you mr. pilpel. are there additional callers?

>> caller: hello. i inadvertently i was not able to make a comment on item 11. would it be possible to make comment on item 11. >> chair borden: you couldn't get through. >> caller: i wait the on the line for two and a half lines. >> chair borden: that's fine. go ahead. >> caller: good afternoon directors. we put together a bid for the potrero. our bid cost several million dollars and involved over 100 consultants. sadly our bid was rejected by muni. it is important that you understand this p.d.a. allows muni to cancel the agreement at any time with maximum payment of $14 million.

other bidders may have different terrific perspectives than we do. if they are willing to sign the p.d.a., god bless them. if they request significant changes we would ask the project to be reopened and our bid be considered again. i would note that as mandated, we carefully maximized our housing opportunities. if muni allows the select lead developer to exclude this requirement, it represents a material change from the project core objectives. in conclusion, mission housing who built thousands housing units. emerald is the only firm in san francisco that successfully done project like muni. our team includes many san francisco firms with substantial

local experience and design, construction, community outreach. we have built billions of dollars of projects in the city combined with our p3 developers. we are more than capable completing this project. if muni is unable to include this interesting, we asktor readmitted to the bidding process. thank you so much. >> chair borden: thank you. are there additional callers on the line? with that, we'll

close public comment. are there any additional comments that directors have on this topic before we close the item? seeing none. we will close this item and move on to the next one. >> clerk: this places on item 13. discussion and vote pursuant to admin code section 67.10d as to whether to invoke the attorney-client privilege and conduct closed session with legal counsel. >> chair borden: this is on public comment on us going into closed session. if you're in the queue to make a comment on this, please 1, 0 to add yourself to the queue. are there callers on the line? hello mr. pilpel. >> caller: yes, it is.

on the closed session matters, i had time since you had the long discussion about potrero. i looked up the case numbers. i don't think the second case number is correct. the purpose of the disclosure requirement and the brown act and since ordinance is that. so that members of the public can look up the cases that are referenced and figure out what they were about and whether the settlement is a good idea and make any comments that they may choose to make. if the case number isn't fully disclosed with the names of the parties and the date filed so that someone cannot look at it up, then that thwarts the purpose of that disclosure

requirement. the question that you may want to put to counsel whether the description for the second case is sufficient for you to discuss it today or if it requires another continuance. that's my concern. i have no comment on the substance of either proposed settlement. thank you for listening. >> chair borden: thank you. city attorney, would like to address the concern that mr. pilpel raised about the number, the correct number? i'm not sure if it's correct or not. >> good afternoon. this agenda has been reviewed by our office. i don't any reason to believe that it's the wrong case number. i think that we are okay to proceed into closed session.

>> chair borden: with that, please call the roll on us going into closed session. please take the motion. >> director hinze: i move we go into closed session. >> director yekutiel: i second that. >> chair borden: please call the roll. >> clerk: on the motion. [roll call vote] thank you, the motion passes. the board will now go into closed session. please click on the meeting invite. thank you. >> the board met to discuss the

city attorney and devoted item a, notitem be . item 50, motion to not disclose informationdiscussed in closed session . >> moved to not disclose. >> second . >> on that motion director heminger. [roll call vote] >> thank you,that motion passes . >> we are adjourning today. have a great evening everybody. goodbye.

>> i am so happy. african-americans in the military from the revolutionary

war to the present, even though they have not had the basic civil rights in america. they don't know their history. in the military the most sacrifice as anyone in this country to be willing to lay down your blood and fight. i believe that all african-americans have served because they love this country and the hope that the citizens.

>> the city has undertaken a pilot program to hook up private privately -- owned hotels. >> the community members say this is helpful for them especially for the seniors and families with kids from seniors

being able to connect with the family during the pandemic and too watch the news has been really helpful during this time where they are stuck inside and are not able to go outside. for families it is important to stay connected to go to school, to get connected so they can submit resumes to find jobs during the pandemic. [speaking foreign language] >> challenges that might seem for the fiber in chinatown is pretty congested. the fiber team found ways around that. they would have to do things such as overnight work in the manholes to get across through

busy intersections, and i think the last challenge is a lot of buildings we worked on were built in the early 1900s and they are not fitted with the typical infrastructure you would put in a new building. we overcame that with creative ideas, and we continue to connect more sites like this. >> high-speed internet has become a lifesaver in the modern era. i am delighted that we completed three buildings or in the process of completing two more. i want to thank our department of technology that has done this by themselves. it is not contracted out. it is done by city employees. i am proud and i want to take a moment to celebrate what we are doing.

. >> 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 streets every single day.

not only does he show leadership in the field but he is a great supervisor to his staff. he constantly checks to ensure outreach staff are working in safe conditions and prior teams people working in this difficult job. most recently he volunteered to support the new tenderloin center in addition to existing work site. his willingness to be a team player are essential to get people housed. he is a true asset to our community district 9 thanks you immensely for all of your incredible hard work and love and kind beness that you show to nose that are suffering on our streets. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor ronan.

>> thank you, mr. president. thank you supervisor ronan for this tremendous opportunity. it has been a pleasure of working for the san francisco homeless outreach team since 2015. it has been an incredible run. like you said, the pandemic has been challenging but we stepped up to the plate. we have done the workday in and day out. this amazing team i have been working with just ground zero to help the clients that we helped from the streets and the chance to housing and navigation. it is amazing. i served on this team since 2015. i served on every district throughout the city. i served on every team. i have been part of every special project we have been on,

whether it be the tl project, walking through sixth street with the mayor, the now linkage center. i have been there. i couldn't have done it without my amazing team. i want to say thank you for this incredible honor and thank you on behalf of the san francisco homeless outreach team. we will continue to do the work. [applause]. >> congratulations. thank you, supervisor ronan. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, president walton. i have the great honor today of honoring a group and movement that grew out of my community call invest black. it was born out of the racial reckoning that followed after the murder of george floyd.

mural was on the 100 block of broad in the neighborhood of my district. historical corridor that once had many black owned businesses and still has many black churches and congregations. this stood as public rally cry to san francisco city government to reinvest in black neighborhoods and spaces around san francisco. as proud supervisor of my area one of five black areas and neighborhoods in san francisco. i have worked tirelessly to support the black leaders, businesses and community institutions in my district. i have used my voice and position of leadership to elevate members of the invest black coalition within city government, departments, city roles, board of supervisors and positions, my office, and other city stakeholders.

the invest black lake view coalition has grown from the june of 2020 protest mural to a call of action. in july 2020 invest black coalition opened up covid-19 testing hub with several partnering non-profits, many community members who later became my staffer helped open the 50 broad site. 100 feet away from the mural. the work of the testing site is highly revered by the department of public health and community garnered a ton of publicity and recognition. 446 randolph has organically broken racial barriers and rejuvenated community engagement in my area. on top of that, we have also in

the last two years opened up one of the city's most important opportunity centers that has done tremendous work to provide opportunities and pathways for employment in our city. today i am proud to honor the members of the invest black coalition and al lies. mary thomas, brown, morton, rivers, janet right. fisher, patty clement and daniel and cathy meyer as wonderful supportsters. from the covid-19 work they rejuvenated the interest in the

african-american community and elevated the voices of the entire community in that area. i would like to if it is okay with you, president walton, have mr. monroe say a few words on behalf of invest black. >> thank you, supervisor safai. i do see them. you are on mute. >> good afternoon. thank you, president walton. special thanks for our supervisor safai. honored to be here with these amazing people as well as the board of supervisors. i am glad that supervisor safai named everyone as part of invest black. very important because everyone that you named stepped up big time for the community. we traditionally come from the forgotten part of the city and

we have to always step up for our community to do everything. we have to fight for everything. since we have supervisor safai he is our voice and most supportive backer of what we are trying to come establish in d11. i also just want to give a special thanks to our team. not just us that we are standing up during the pandemic. people who were volunteering and out there doing all of the things that it took necessary to meet the need and i want to specifically single out michael perkins, that wilkes, marlin short, brittany tar son, kindle starling and lisa wiley who stepped up during that time. we left off one person who has

been very influential and has taken the lead from her father who passed away. i want to give a special thanks to gwen brown in d11. we learned a lot. her father, mike brown, was our mentor. he taught us what being a community member was all about. i am so thankful and honoredtosh here as well. i thank everyone for your hard work. i will pass it over to felicia who is a wrong star at the center. >> thank you, president walton and supervisors and gracious supervisor safai. we appreciate you. we come to you with ideas and concerns and you do not hesitate to find a door for us to walk

through and stated many times before no single person, no single agency, no single community, no single city, no single nation can fight this pandemic. it takes us all to do our part. i am so blessed to be part of the lake view family representing bayview all of my life. lake view and finding a home. when we started the invest black cohort it was the forgotten city. we wanted to put lake view back on the map to let people know the african-american of lake view was here but would answer the call and rise to the occasion. if we called they would come. we provided access. to date we have tested almost 20,000 lake view residents and provide more than 3,000

vaccinations as well as 15,000 brown bags. whether it was the volunteers busting down the fruit, sweep up the street, move the vans, all of us are equally as important. there is no hero. we are all the supervisor stars. -- superstars. we work together. thank you for the recognition today. [applause] >> congratulations. >> thank you, president walton. >> supervisor stefani. >> thank you, president walton. thank you for the opportunity to honor an incredible man who has done so much for district 2. jackson for management for after-school programming in d2.

our mayor's alma matter. i want to recognize his dedication to the community and under served populations throughout the pandemic. 67% of the students economically disadvantaged. no cost after school program serving 500 students each year. it provides safe and positive safe for participants, students utilize for many reasons mentorship, place to hang out after school and engaging in activities and students part of fen find an important sense of community. it is a key role in the strong community be he does this because his passion is providing young people with access, opportunity and direction. he joined in the second semester of 2019-2020 school year at the

onsets of covid lockdowns. since then he worked to stabilize the thriving programming and provided positive leadership reflecting his uc berkeley degree. he meets demands by fostering posspuff relationships as educator in person and virtually. last year he worked to create the summer program for students. learning losses and summer programs are critical. despite the mounting challenges he has gone above and beyond for the students. i am thankful for his service and thank you for his tour he gave me and my staff. it was incredible to see the program and students in action. i would love to turn it over to malachi.

>> i will be brief. thank you to the board of supervisors. thank you supervisor stefani. all of our city partners to make this work possible. our students are blessed to be able to participate in programs like this. nearly all of the programs throughout the city that work so hard to keep students safe and secure through the pandemic as best as possible. special thank you to my team here. all of the work they do. the administration for support for our students and every person on this call hearing about the work you all do throughout the city and for all of our participants makes a difference. i am grateful for this recognition. i have to go to run the program.

thanks again. [applause]. >> thank you, supervisor stefani. supervisor chan.. >> in my time living in san francisco i have the good fortune of learning from and being inspired by many strong black women in my personal and black life. maria is one of them. we share the vision environmental justice is social justice. she is a mother, write and educatestor. she represents district one on public utilities advicery committee on waste water. former director for waste to zero waste. vice president on the board of

directors. she continues to fight against the climate crisis recycling zero waste program manager for the san francisco conservation. the main policy conversations by helping us to focus on equity and community building. she has lived in richmond district for 15 years raising her son and organizing communities to advocate for social justice and so much more. she also is known that people may need something everybody needs something so nothing, nothing goes to waste. she is helping many people to rehome their items through her efforts. that is the kind of person that

she is. also, what really highlights how she builds community during pandemic is that she also worked to organize donation drives to bring feminine supplies and clothes to homeless women, especially in our district. those are some of the many examples of what she has done. i cannot wait to see all that she will accomplish. no doubt she will make a mark in the san francisco black history. it is my privilege as district one supervisor to recognize her toed. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor walton. i would like to thank former supervisor who appointed me to

the cac. it propelled me to get involved in politics in a way i hadn't before. i understood it was important for someone like me with my back ground and my stories to be in the room when folks are talking about zero waste. that we are addressing issues that relate to zero waste. homelessness, affordable housing, living wages, child care, all of these factors that contribute to overabundance of single use products and plastics that are in our communities lettering our streets and have access to certain standard of living. that is what inspired the beach

cleanup. anti-homeless reactions to folks trying to to be at peace and live and have a bit of community. i will continue to advocate for that in the city that i have grown to love and out by the ocean. currently working in the bayview with san francisco conservation core and being able to share my stories and my experience and relate zero waste to lives, how this is not just a job. it is your protecting health when you promote this and you are protecting your future health, yourself, family, community, planet. i will continue to work. i thank everybody for

recognizing and what seems to all of you it is wonderful hearing so many stories and so much work that has been done by so many great black folks in san francisco. thank you. [applause]. >> president walton: i want to thank you for honoring our covid-19 superstars. i apologize to our magnificent honorees for not being able to do this in person. we are still in the pandemic. i appreciate all of you. again like some of united statessed who have been honored today i was excited to see the great work happening in communities during this pandemic. i also want to thank my office for working to set this up and morris from supervisor safai for

working on today's reception. i appreciate both of you and madam clerk this concludes 2:30. please call the first 3:00 p.m. special order. >> 3p special order. 24-27. this is a public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from environmental review under the california environmental quality act issued as common sense exemption by planning department on september 8, 2021 for the proposed project at 2000 oakdale avenue to establish new cannabis retail storefront within existing cannabis micro business.

125 affirm the exemption it is exempt. 26. motion to conditionally reverse that determination. item 27 is motion to direct preparation of findings. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. we have before us appeal of determination of exemption from environmental review 2000 oakdale avenue. we received request to continue to march 1, 2022 meeting to allow more time to try to come to an agreement. i would like to make a motion to continue this hearing to the march 1st, 2022 board of supervisors meeting. is there a second. >> seconded by supervisor mandelman. we must take public comment before the vote on that continuance.

>> the board of supervisors will now hear a testimony on the continuance. these are 24-27. telephone number is on the screen. using a touch phone dial 415-655-0001. when you hear the prompt enter id 249959637519. press pound twice. you will have join as a listener. you will hear discussion and your line will be muted. when you are ready for the queue to provide testimony that is when you should press star 3. the mr. prompt -- will prompt you when it is your turn. from the office of civic engagement we do have three interpreters. they will jump in to assist in language. i will invite each interpreter to introduce themselves and

provide access information to this remote meeting please. filipino. spanish. chinese. [speaking foreign language].

>> thank you. i just want to say thank you. thank you all three for being present today. now for the callers interested in providing testimony specific to the continuance of determination of exemption from environmental review. first caller. two minutes. welcome, caller. >> i have general comment. >> thank you for being with us. star 3 to go back the queue. any other callers to speak to

the continuance of the oakdale avenue project? welcome. >> madam clerk, there are no callers in the queue. >> president walton: public comment on continuance is closed. on the motion to continue this appeal can you please call the roll. >> on the motion to continue items 24-27 march 1st 2022. (roll call) mr. president there

are 10 ayes. >> without objection the motion to continue this hearing and its associated motions to march 1, 2022 is approved. >> madam clerk, please call the next special order. >> 28 is a public hearing of persons interested in the board of supervisors convening in a committee as a whole february 15, 2022 to hold a public hearing to consider an ordinance which is the subject matter of 29 and 30. to call provide for a special election to be held in the city and county of san francisco on

tuesday, june 7, 2022 for the purpose of submitting to the san francisco voters proposition to incur following bonded indebtedness in the amount of $400 million to finance cost of construction, acquisition and improvement of transportation, street safety and transitory lated capital improvements and related costs for the for going purposes. authorize landlords to pass 50% of the property tax increase to residential tenants. administrative code section 6.27 to require certain funded projects to be subject to project labor agreement provide levee and collection of taxes to pay principal and interest on such bonds, incorporate the provisions of administrative coast setting procedures. [please stand by]

>> thank you for your support on the amendments last week. colleagues, the reason why i asked for those amendments was really because sfmta and the presentation and the ordinance language about how they will spend that money lacked details for me to give me the confidence that this money will be well spent. especially with the equity in mind. it was that reason that i thought we really ought to amend the ordinance. with that said, also there are many challenges that i can think of when it comes to sfmta, not just on this operation, but really on its capital improvements. just to name a few, you have already been tackling these long before i be -- long before i came onboard. the central subway and the l.r.t. there was the controller's report that we all heard at the

transportation co. authority that sfmta cannot deliver the capital improvement project in a fashion, not just to exceed the

standard, but to even meet our

standard. i will continue with that. i will vote in support with a lot of reservation. >> the board of supervisors will now hear public testimony specific to the committee of a hole on the general obligation bond for reliability and street safety. for those watching, the telephone number is on your screen. please use your touch phone to dial (415)655-0001. when you hear the prompt, eating -- enter the meeting id. press pound and then pound again. you will have joined the meeting as a listener and you will hear the discussions once you are ready to get in the queue. police press star three and listen for the prompt that indicates that you have been on muted. that will be your cue to begin your comments. as stated earlier, the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. we have three interpreters here to jump in and speak with speakers who need language support. i invite each interpreter to

traduce themselves in their language and provide access information to this remote room eating -- remote meeting. first we have raymond for filipino, arthur for spanish and agnes for chinese. raymond? span-mac -- [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language]

[speaking foreign language] >> thank you all for being here with us today. for callers interested in providing testimony, police press star three now to get in the queue to speak. we have 13 listening and three in the queue. please put the first caller

through. >> hi there. my name is zac. i'm the advocacy director with the san francisco transit riders. we represent over 250,000 daily riders that take transit in san francisco. i want to voice our strong support for the bond on the june 2022 ballot. it will repair our aging facilities, allow us to create charging stations that support the conversion to electric buses and help address the climate crisis and improve the quality. it will also invest in low income and cost transit improvements like transit only lanes that collectively improve speed and reliability providers by 10-20%. i want to recognize supervisor chan's concerns over delivering these projects. it is critical that every public dollar invested in our system is well spent and improved transportation and equity outcomes for all san franciscans. however, our sense is sfmta has

demonstrated a strong ability to deliver low cost transit improvements that do benefit riders and serve our equity priority communities. i think this bond expands on their ability to do the work that they are very good at delivering, while avoiding potential future boondoggles like what we have seen in the past. and finally, repairing our facilities is critical to an electric bus future that preserves air quality. and while this is something they haven't done as much before, it is a crucial opportunity to advance our city's equity and climate goals. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much for your comments. mr. atkins, the next caller, please. [ indiscernible ] >> good afternoon, president

walton and supervisors. my name is brian and i am walked san francisco's vision zero organizer. we strongly support the 2022 muni bond to the june ballot. there's 400 million-dollar general obligation bond will invest $300 million in what we really need. faster, more reliable service, and over $100 million to help make our streets safer. it is essential to get us closer to vision zero. the fate of eliminating traffic is in line with the fate of sustainable transportation options -- options. we need a convenient space that is convenient and enjoyable, otherwise will continue to be stuck in a car centred, climate backwards state killing 30 people and injuring 500 more annually and traffic crashes. the city asked for an action strategy that is achievable and will make our streets safer. none of those initiatives will

be possible without the funding to implement them. additionally, the funds are leveraged to get more funds. we know the sfmta is ready to put these dollars to work as soon as they are received so projects happen now and not in 10 years. we really can't wait another day for critical funding. we ask for your support for this bond today and in the coming months. thank you. >> thank you for your comments and being with us today. can we have the next caller? >> good afternoon, president walton and supervisors. my name is christopher white. i am the director of programs of the san francisco bicycle coalition and i am also here speaking in support of making sure that this bond goes before the voters in june. at the san francisco bicycle coalition we know a well-functioning transit system is absolutely vital for the healthy transportation

ecosystem. not everyone can ride bikes and all people who live and work in san francisco need options that work well for their needs. this bond can help achieve that. additionally, it would support improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure in the city, which, as you know, is still sorely needed. we have not yet achieved vision zero and the end date for that goal is in may. as a number of the expenditure advisory committees have been learning a great deal about the complexity of transportation funding in our city. the need is great. and the geo bond will, along with the renewed sales tax, be a necessary piece to make sure everyone in the city has access to transportation that is safe and sustainable and accessible and reliable. thank you for all of your work to make that happen. >> thank you for your comments. mr. atkins, do we have any other callers left in the queue?

>> madam clerk, there are no further callers in the queue. >> thank you. mr. president? >> public comment is now closed. as you know, we called items 28 through 30 together. madam clerk, please call rollcall on the ordinance and resolution. >> the hearing has been heard and filed. >> the hearing has been heard and filed. thank you. my apologize. supervisor preston, i did not see you there. >> no problem. thank you, president walton. i just wanted to briefly comment on this item. i want to thank supervisor chan for the important points that she raised here. i want to be clear, though i think we absolutely need this. i think this is a crucial part of delivering the transit that people in the city deserve and expect. i think it is incumbent on all

of us and on m.t.a. and the mayor and the m.t.a. board to tackle the issues, including the issues supervisor chan's raised on project delivery, and oversight and issues that we discussed today around staffing and service, but i really want to be clear with the public. this is part of the package of things that we need to advance to be able to do really important infrastructure investments for public transportation and other street improvements in our city. i would like to be added as a sponsor to this and really look forward to working with all stakeholders, not just around passing the bond, but around

showing the muni riders, in particular in the city, that we are committed to restoring service in a meaningful way to dealing with the burden that they face to making the improvements that we need to make and to assuring folks that we are not just investing in physical improvements here, you know, that are not going to result in better service, but that it is the opposite. and these physical improvements are a key part of us being able to deliver on the promises of a transit first city. please add me as a cosponsor. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor preston. i don't see anyone else on the roster. madam clerk, on 29 and 30. >> on items 29 and 30... [ roll call ]

there are 11 ayes. >> thank you. without objection, the resolution is adopted and the ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, this concludes our last 3:00 pm special order. can we go back to item number 9. >> item nine is a resolution to approve amendment number 2 to the agreement between bayview hunter's point foundation for community improvement and the department of public health for behavioral health services to increase the agreement by approximately $3.6 million for a new total of approximately $13.4 million with 15 month term extension for a total agreement term through june 30th, 2023

and to authorize dbh to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract that are necessary to effectuate the purpose of the contract and do not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. seeing no one on the roster, we can take this item, same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, we are going to come back to item 10 later in the meeting. would you please read item 11. >> item 11 is the resolution to approve and authorize an amendment to the lease and management agreement between the recreation and park department and the san francisco botanical garden society for the san francisco botanical garden and golden gate park to also include the japanese tea garden and the conservatory of flowers as part of the leased premises which shall be known collectively as the garden of golden gate park. >> thank you. i don't see anyone on the

roster. we will take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. would you please call item number 12. >> twelve is the resolution to retroactively approve amendment number 2 to the agreement between the chinese hospital association and d.p.h. for skilled nursing services to provide covid-19's capacity to increase the agreement by night by $5 million for a new total of $19 million and to extend the term by one year through december 31st, 2022 and authorize d.p.h. to intern amendments or modifications. >> thank you, madam clerk. seeing no one on the roster, we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call items 13 through 16 together. >> items 13 through 16 comprise for resolutions that delegate retroactive authority to the san francisco municipal transportation agency to the

following contracts. item 13 for the agreement with i am c.e.o. parking llc, garage management services not to exceed an amount of $46.4 million. four item 14, a retroactive authorization to approve a contract with imperial parking to manage the group garage is comprised of the fallen garages at civic centre, lombard, performing arts, peers street, mission, bartlett, and the seventh and harrison parking lot for approximately $60.3 million from february 1st through january 31st, 2022 and to approve the fifth amendment to extend the contract by one term for an 11 year term from february 1st 2012 and to correct and increase the contract amount by $5.2 million for a total contract amount of $65.5 million. item 15 is the resolution to

retroactively authorize a contract with i am c.e.o. parking llc to group b garage is comprised of st. mary's square, golden gateway and the stadium parking lot. item 16 is another resolution approving the contract amendment with the management of the group c garage is comprised of union square and others. with a total expenditure of approximately $85.7 million through january 31st 2022 and to approve the fifth amendment to extend the contract for a new term going through january 31st 2023 and to correctly contract and increase the contract amount by six-point $6 million for a total contract of $92.3 million.

>> thank you so much, madam clerk. supervisor peskin? >> thank you, president walton. colleagues, from time to time i call out to all of you when items that should have been approved by this board of supervisors under the charter, specifically 9.118, which says that certain contracts of tenure -- of 10 years or more or over $10 million or increases of certain threshold amounts, or in cases of income to the city, income over a million dollars need to be approved prior to their being entered into, and there has been a pattern over many years where some of these slip through the system and i have been working with the controller now for a number of years to try to make this a failsafe system wherein these

contracts don't come to us retroactively, but come to us prospectively, and i thought that this would be an opportune moment to hear from the controller as to where that project and the controls to prevent this from happening in the future are in the controller's shop, and i believe insofar as every single one of these contracts have to be approved by the city attorney. that is probably a good spot where the city attorney can have a checklist that says they have to come to the board of supervisors before they can be entered into or substantially amended. with that, mr. rosenfield, if you could regale this board with how your section control project is going. >> controller rosenfield? >> good afternoon, president walton and members of the board.

supervisor peskin, your question, we have been working with the city attorney's office on new processes and controls regarding these questions. in recent months, the city attorney's office has reiterated guidance to all of their deputies regarding the proper procedures for routing and approvals of these sorts of agreements, additionally they have created a compliance checklist that is required to be completed prior to pushing them forward in the process. our office has built a dashboard in the city's financial system that now is populated with expenditure contracts as they approach these thresholds. we have piloted that dashboard with one department and vetted it and we are now rolling that dashboard out to all departments that they can use to better monetary their compliance with 9918 questions. we just trained cfos on them last week. and then, the next step we are

taking, we intend to have a notice for all departments notifying them of these new tools and asking them to review any agreement that they have outstanding to ensure past compliance with these questions and report back to our office with any findings that they have. i would be happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you, mr. rosenfield. >> thank you, controller rosenfield. thank you, supervisor peskin. i don't see anyone in the roster. i will assume we can take these items same house, same call. without any objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 17. >> item 17 is a resolution to approve modification number 2 to a contract with covenant aviation security llc to exercise the last to your option to extend the term through june 30th, 2024 and two increase the contract amount by approximately $7.9 million for new contract amount not to exceed approximately

$19.6 million. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. same comments. thank you so much. seeing no one on the roster, we can take these items -- this item, same house, same call. this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 18. >> item 18 is a resolution to approve the execution of the master agreement for state-funded projects between the city and county of san francisco through the municipal transportation agency and the state of california through its department of transportation for the funding of transportation related projects. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. seeing no one on the roster we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item

number 19. >> item 19 is a resolution to approve and authorize the director of property and the mayor's office of housing and community development to enter into a ground lease for real property owned by the city and located at 78 hate street and 128 octavia street with the octavia associates lp for 75 year lease term and 124 year lease option to extend with an annual base rent of 15,000 for the ground lease. to construct 100% affordable, 63 unit multifamily rental housing developments, affordable to low income households, not to exceed 20 six-point $6 million. again, for the 57 year term to finance the development to construction of the project to authorize the director of property and/or the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute the ground lease and loan agreement to make certain modifications to the agreement as defined herein. >> thank you so much.

seeing no one on the roster, we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 20. >> item 20 is a motion to respond to the civil grand jury's request to provide a status update on the board of supervisors' response to certain recommendations contained in the 2019 through 2020 civil grand jury report entitled a recycling reality check and what actually happens to things we put into our blue recycling bins. >> thank you. seeing no one on the roster, will take this item same house, same call. without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, would you please call item 21. >> twenty-one is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require residential landlords to allow tenant organizing activities to occur in common

areas of the building to require certain residential landlords to recognize duly established tenant association to confer in good faith with said associations and upon request attend meetings and to provide that a landlord's failure to allow organizing activities or comply with stated obligations as to tenant associations may support a petition for a rent reduction. >> thank you so much. supervisor peskin? >> thank you, president walton. this measure would create a tenant organizing right in san francisco, which is a first. i want to start by thanking my cosponsor, supervisor chan, ronen, preston, walton and i also want to acknowledge the precedent for this effort, albeit an unsuccessful one, which i know supervisor preston is intimately aware of. that was california state senate bill 529 which was authored and

introduced by state senator de rosso of los angeles and supported by the statewide tenant's organization, tenants together, along with a number of other statewide tenant groups. unfortunately, that effort at the state level failed, but hopefully san francisco will lead the way locally and maybe it will go the way of california in the future. the push to provide tenants with organizing power comes in the context of an actually -- of a pretty fascinating, albeit scary phenomenon, which is the creeping consolidation of real estate assets by private equity firms and real estate investment trusts. and if you have not seen it, i encourage you all to read february 7th's public peace when private equity becomes your landlord. veritas here in san francisco

has become san francisco's largest landlord in a very, very short period of time, and yet this is an entity which purports not to own any buildings because those buildings are, in fact owned by a pool of unknown investors with expectations for returns on their investments that frankly and candidly ignore the lives of the individuals who we know, because they are our constituents and we represent them, who are providing those returns. the legislation before you is designed to give those constituents, those tenants a seat at the table about issues that directly affect them. unlike the traditional landlord tenant context where a tenant calls up there landlord when there is an issue with the property, this really aims at creating a context for a more collaborative relationship with tenants as a whole.

it is an entirely new concept in the landlord and tenant context, but not a new context in the labor and management arena. and indeed, this borrows a page from the good old school of labor organizing. and in that vein, i want to thank the house of labor who have supported this, along with a host of tenant advocates who have worked with my office specifically and my staff, lee happen or, “i want to thank and appreciate during this last remarkably precarious year for tenants in san francisco and those organizations include the housing rights committee of san francisco, the veritas tenant association, and southeast tenant association, the eviction defence collaborative, dolores street community services, the coalition on homelessness, affordable housing alliance and asian law caucus. i particularly want to think and shout out lena and debbie who

are residents and tenant advocates in the district that i represent, for their tireless advocacy and involvement in this issue from the start and this policy is for them and tenants like them. i also want to acknowledge and thank san francisco apartment association. and while i know they maintain, to put it likely, reservations about this proposal, i want to thank them and their members for meeting with my office about this and offering suggestions to improve it. some of which we incorporated in the ordinance that is before you. with that, i commend this proposal to you and hope that we will pass it today. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. supervisor ronen? >> i just wanted to thank supervisor peskin and his office and all of the veritas tenants who really got creative and took

strategies and tactics from other fights and transferred them over to the tenant context. it is exciting legislation. i love this cutting edge type of creativity and three cheers for this. let's pass it unanimously. >> thank you so much, supervisor ronen. supervisor haney? >> thank you. ditto to that. i want to thank supervisor preston for your leadership on this and your staff and really acknowledge, a supervisor ronen just did, the work of the veritas tenant association. i am a tenant myself and i have been involved in working with other tenants and they have really demonstrated what is possible with this kind of model of being able to organize and negotiate collectively, and obviously it was incredible during the pandemic and will continue to be. i want to make sure that i am added as a cosponsor. thank you for your leadership.

>> thank you, supervisor haney. supervisor preston? >> i wanted to thank you, supervisor peskin, for taking this concept across the finish line and i appreciate your remarks around the statewide efforts on this. i do want to give special acknowledgement to the senator's work on try to move -- trying to move this bill which was very similar at the state level in the building. it is not as friendly to will -- to working people and renters as this one, or at least this body is. all the member organizations got together and the housing rights committee of san francisco, in particular did an incredible amount of work to try and move this forward at the state level. and sometimes we are not able to do things at the state and we are able to do them locally and

they have become models for other cities. this may be one of those. it is just reasonable that folks should be able to organize their homes like they do in their workplaces, and collectively bargain and have a requirement that there landlord come to the table in good faith to talk to them about issues in the building. this is an important piece of legislation and i am proud to be a cosponsor of it. thank you, supervisor peskin for all your work on this. >> thank you so much, supervisor preston. i don't see anyone else on the roster. i believe we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please calls item 22 and 23 together. >> item 22 and 23 are two motions that approve the

treasure's nomination to the treasury oversight committee. for item 22, this item appoints nancy home and that nomination approves both terms that and in 2022. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. i do not see anyone on the roster. we will take these items same house, same call. without objection, these motions are approved unanimously. madam clerk, let's go to item 31, and ordinance to amend the

code to prohibit landlords from evicting residential tenants from nonpayment of the rent who came due on or after 2022 and was not paid due to the covid-19 pandemic and to prohibit the imposition of late fees, penalties or other similar charges on such tenants. >> thank you. colleagues, this one may look familiar to you because you passed virtually an identical ordinance in 2021. let me briefly describe what this one is and isn't because we have had many different eviction ban ordinances before this body. i want to start by thanking supervisor melgar and supervisor preston for supporting this in committee yesterday. the city acted very swift with these evictions at the outset of the pandemic. first by the executive order in

march of 2020, followed by this body passing an ordinance in june of 2020, which made rent that -- rent debt caused by covid-19 permanently nonevicted bull. then the state intervened in august 2020 to stop san francisco from determining the best way to keep people in their homes. the statewide protections and preemptions are coming to an end on march 31st. obviously, the covid -induced hardship is not coming to an end. we hope it will soon. we are certainly not there yet. san francisco has more than 10,000 pending applications for rent relief, with more than $182 million in requested funds that have not been paid. the ordinance seeks to reinstate permanent eviction protection for tenants unable to pay rent during a state of emergency. and like the previous ordinance

that i reference that covers the april to september 2020 rent, and ordinance that i should note was upheld against a legal challenge by the landlord lobby against the city and the ordinance was upheld by the san francisco superior court. similar to that ordinance, this proposal permanently takes nonpayment eviction off the table where the inability to pay rose out of a substantial decrease in household income or substantial out-of-pocket expenses that were caused by the covid-19 pandemic or any local state or federal government response to covid-19 and that is documented. the rental period covered by the ordinance are from april 1st 2022 through the end of the mere's proclamation emergency related to the covid pandemic. as long as conditions warrant a state of emergency, people facing hardships should not

leave their homes. i want to be clear on this. the legislation does not cancel rents that accrue during the period i have described in the state of emergency. instead the obligations on rent would become a cane to consumer debt if they were not promptly paid. the legislation does establish that the rent debt for these periods is not grounds for eviction and will never be grounds for eviction. i want to thank the displacement coalition for working with my office on this ordinance and also the chief of staff, as well as the cosponsor supervisor chan, peskin, ronen, president walton, and supervisor melgar. thank you. >> thank you so much, supervisor preston. seeing no one else on the roster, i believe we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this

ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 32. >> item 32 is a resolution to add the commemorative street name, sister vishnu way to the zero zero block of blair alley in recognition of the activists sister vishnu, cofounder of the sisters of perpetual indulgence and her dedication to and lasting impact on san francisco and the global lgbtq community. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> the first member up to introduce new business is supervisor haney. submit? supervisor mandelman?

>> i have a piece of legislation. i thank you and goodbye. the piece of legislation is an updated version of the four plex ordinance i announced about this time last year. a lot has happened since then, including significant changes in state housing law, the adoption of plan b area 50 and arena targets out have san francisco produce 82,000 over the next few years and the unanimous endorsement of this. what has not changed is this. san francisco continues to struggle to provide housing opportunities for middle-class san franciscans in our neighborhood. the intent of the ordinance is to allow for moderately sized multiunit buildings to be built in our zoning district which make up 60% of the city's developable land that is zoned for housing but have only seen a relatively small amount of housing development in recent years.

allowing for this missing middle housing and neighborhoods that have been preserved for single-family homes is a way not only of helping to meet our housing production goals, but to do so anyway that promotes greater geographic equity in terms of where new housing gets built and in a way that i hope how this will contribute across the city. the ordinance that i am introducing today would, as proposed allow for an exception to density limits up to four units on all our age zoned lots for projects that are not using the state density bonus and are complying with existing hype and open space requirements. this version would also go further on corner lots and allowing for density exception of up to six units on corners, allowing them to fit within the current height and bulk limits. this was a recommendation that recommends the historic pattern of denser buildings on corners throughout the city, including in many rh neighborhoods, as well as the fact that corner lots with street frontages lend

themselves to buildings with more units, which require window spacing out on the public right-of-way or open space and additional means of egress. i should note that this is something we are able to do now following the passage of sb 10 last year. that bill, you will recall, allow city step zoned residential areas without requiring anything for that up zoning legislation. individual projects that take advantage of this exception would still be subject to review. this ordinance will also make any building that includes at least four units subject to a 30% rearguard requirement which is the same as what currently applies in districts, but less than the 45% yard required in rh to an rh three districts. this was another recommendation to the planning commission to comic buildings while adding more units and still preserving our yards and open spaces. the ordinance also recommends another recommendation which is a state bill that as of januaryt

, allows for serial approval for duplexes or lots with two units per lots for total of four in all rh one zoning districts. i'm proposing that the commission recommends we rezone all our age one parcels to our h2 and create our own local equivalent that would allow for the same increase in density or more on corner lots while retaining our local design review and rear yard requirements in these areas. while i agree with sb nine's sponsors that we need to add more housing into historically single-family neighborhoods, we should and can do this in a way that will respect the long-standing pattern and block open space formed by rear yards in the interior that defines many of our residential neighborhoods and is important to providing air, late, and green space which are essential. this ordinance will also include some additional features for any unit or a low-income tenant has lived for the past for -- past five years and with the right of first offer for the prior tenant. he recognizes and reflects recent changes in state law to allow for a central place for

replacement unit requirements in single-family districts. this ordinance will protect historic resources by illuminating the density exception only to projects that can proceed without opposing any effects on a local or state or federal landmark or any ceqa historical resource that we will refer to as category a. i want to thank supervisor haney for his cosponsorship and the deputy city attorney for their work and partnership over these many months. along with the planning department and my legislative aide, who has been working on this for a long time to get us to this point today. my second thank you and goodbye is today is a set day for me and my office but a happy one for tom and equality california. for anyone who missed it, tom

starts tomorrow as their statewide political director. i met tom more than 10 years ago on a mayor campaign. we were founding members of queers for all of love and i still have the t-shirt. over that decade, tom has done extraordinary things. serving two terms on the harvey milk democratic club and hosting and djing 10 of amazing and parties, getting elected to the board state college of san francisco when he served three years as vice president, helping me get elected in 2018 and serving as chief of staff for my office for the past three and a half years. he has done extraordinary things because he is an externally person. relentlessly positive, in marked contrast to his boss and remarkably likable. so hard-working and dedicated to the betterment of san francisco and california and the investment of lgbtq people and all of the allied people. he is also a lot of fun. with tremendous gratitude for his service to me and my office

and to the students, faculty, and staff of city college, we all want to wish tom the very best in his future endeavours. i will miss you, my friend, but i know you will be around. i'm eager to see and follow everything that you will achieve. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mandelman. we were joined just a moment ago. we will miss you. supervisor mar? >> thank you, madam clerk. i just have one hearing request today. i am calling for a hearing on cannabis cultivation in san francisco, including permitted and illicit operations. this comes in response to a very concerning crime incident in the outer sunset last week that was a residential robbery and what is it allegedly and illicit grow house. the incident included gunfire on the street and one fatality. through this hearing, it will be an opportunity to evaluate city's efforts to address public

safety and fire hazard concerns of illicit cannabis cultivation facilities and incentivize legally permitted cannabis cultivation in appropriate locations. i am requesting the office of cannabis, sfpd, fire department, planning, and dbi to report. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor mar. supervisor melgar? submits. okay. thank you. supervisor peskin? >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, today i am truly saddened to adjourn our board meeting in memory of the beloved, every bubbly, loving, dear, kinsey dang who lived in supervisor ronen's district. this is, at least from the two

of us who have recently passed away at the age of 96. he was born in 1926 in china. throughout his adult life, he was the manager of a general store. he migrated to the state of oregon with his third son in 1985 and relocated here in 1992. his four sons now reside in san francisco, in oregon, hong kong and china. while he and his surviving wife have been well-liked, loved residents of bethany center senior housing in supervisor ronen's district, he has really been a centrepiece of life in chinatown for many, many years, including starting out there in an s.r.o. he was also an eager learner and studied english for a few years when he was living in oregon. he loved being an adult student of everything of life and music,

well into his nineties. when he first moved to san francisco, he was living in an s.r.o. with his entire family. like many immigrant families, they dreamed of living into step up senior housing and out of their s.r.o., and that, like for so many others, proved extremely difficult, given that even affordable housing, quote unquote affordable housing, was out of their price range. in 2001, 21 years ago, he joined the community tenant's association. the largest tenant's association in san francisco and immediately was recognized as what he was, a star organizer, and was quickly elected to the board of directors. he taught naturalization classes for c.t.a. members and hosted popular and rambunctious singing lessons for the seniors. despite his age, he always lived by his personal motto. helping others is a great source

of happiness. he found genuine joy in helping others and exuded an infectious positivity that was an inspiration for his allies in the senior and tenant's movement from myself personally. for many of you who got to know him. he loved c.t.a. because he believed in its mission of organizing seniors and low income communities and was critical to its growth and success. he found a way to champion community involvement and stewardship of the community that allowed him to hang out with his friends every day while getting us to pass cutting edge legislation. even brought that spirits back to his own housing facility at bethany center where he started the jade club. a weekly social gathering for residents to get updated on community issues and encourage them to get civic lee engaged. he always said, i often treat

c.t.a.'s hard work just like my own personal matter. for those who have had the pleasure of organized marching and singing with him, then you know what a bundle of joy and joyous energy he was. always ready to put on his backpack and sneakers and marched to city hall to champion everything from senior operating subsidies, to public safety and more open space and parks. this will be the first chinese new year parade that i won't get to hear him giggling at his own jokes or singing songs. i know it is a tremendous loss for the community, and particularly for c.t.a. we waited a week to do this because everyone really needed some time to start processing his departure. and my most sincere condolences to his four sons and life -- and wife. she cultivated -- she cultivated for so many decades. thank you. >> supervisor ronen, did you want to speak about him?

>> i do. thank you so much. i will rise to do it because that man deserves me to stand. gosh, i feel so brokenhearted. he was just a life force. thank you so much for that beautiful in memoriam, supervisor peskin. he just had something special that very few people have and you felt it almost immediately. when i first began hanging out with c.t.a. originally when i was running for office and seeking their endorsements, and then because we agreed on almost every tenant rights legislation and stood side-by-side fighting to protect tenants, just seeing him in a crowd just lifted my spirits and my heart and immediately resolved any anxieties when you are in a

crowd of people and you are a monolingual english speaker. and many c.t.a. activists and members are monolingual cantonese speakers. i always feel awkward and want to show my appreciation for them and my respect without having the language skills to do so. he would somehow cut through all of that and just grabbed me by the hand and dragged me around and hugged me and introduced me to everyone and despite his english that was worlds better than my cantonese, despite our inabilities to talk, we formed such a bond. it genuinely grew deep affection for one another. i had the honor of honoring him one year for api heritage month

and the crowds that came pretty much took up the whole board of supervisors' chamber. i remember supervisor peskin was so jealous that i got to claim him as a district nine resident. he protested and got up and spoke as well because that is how much he inspired our love and our enthusiasm and support. i will miss you. my deepest condolences. we are so lucky that we had him in our life and in our hearts and we will always carry him with us. may you rest in peace. i love you. >> supervisor chen? >> thank you, madam clerk. i too want to join this in memoriam. i was just about to join c.t.a. just to wish them happy new

year. i got this very sad news and i learned to get to know him. it was good to be in chinatown. is also good to -- when i was running for supervisor, he was -- by the time i saw him for c.t.a., it was no longer in person. it was just on the screen. seeing him try to manoeuvre or zoom and meet and unmute people in their own homes, that was a very difficult setting for me to get to know him. everyone is in their own home and their own setting. he definitely was going to be very much missed. thank you for doing this today. >> thank you, madam clerk. thank you for saying such kind

words? i am not going to repeat what my colleagues have said other than it -- he was always -- such wonderful interactions with him. he was such a bright spirit in such a friendly person and i think he had a permanent smile on his face. he always made you feel welcome. it was a shock for me when i found out from supervisor ronen last week that he had passed away. may he rest in peace. may the wonderful work that he has committed to continue on in his honor. >> thank you. supervisor preston? >> thank you, madam clerk. please add me to the in memoriam. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor ronen? >> sorry. today i have three items. a letter of inquiry and an

ordinance and a request for a bla report and i will start with the little -- letter of inquiry. i will be submitting the letter to san francisco police department chief scott. inquiring about officer response to crimes that are being committed in front of them and clearance rates in our city. i hope that this is not the case, but i am worried that sfpd or some sfpd officers are engaging in a deliberate work stoppage in conjunction to its political rift with the district attorney. in november 2021, the san francisco chronicle reported that sfpd officers responded to the burglary of a marijuana dispensary and simply watched

from their patrol car as the burglars left the dispensary with stolen items, got into their getaway car, executed a three-point turn and drove away. in december 2021, the chronicle reported the tenderly -- a tenderloin woman was assaulted and struck on the head on her way to a laundromat. though she immediately rushed to the tenderloin station to report the incident, officers made no effort to find the perpetrators. after leaving the station, she was never contacted by the police. this past saturday, heather night reported on the destruction of san francisco wine societies park in the financial district. police responded and interrupted the vandalism but then drove away without the perpetrator who continued to destroy the space. following this article, several commenters on her twitter feed relate to their own stories of inaction by sfpd. these accounts are deeply concerning and send a message to san francisco residents that our

officers are not doing all they can to investigate crimes and prevent future harm. these stories indicate a systemic breakdown in the department. the department of police accountability data tells a similar story. last year, of all the complaints alleged, 42.5% of those complaints involved neglect of duty by officers including failure to write incidents reports and/or investigate crimes. the san francisco police department's own clearance rate also paints another troubling picture that the department is not doing the jobs that it claims to. clearance rates have declined. clearance rates were down for robberies by 14%. for burglaries by nine%, for car theft by almost 16%, and for larceny by 36%. furthermore, stuff i've witnessed further officers tell

constituents that there is no point in investigating or arresting perpetrators of crime because the district attorney will not prosecute. this is patently false. the district attorney brought charges in 66% of cases that's the sfpd presented to him. is absolutely unacceptable for police officers to stop doing their jobs because they don't like the way another department is doing its job. last year, the board of supervisors and the mayor increased sfpd business i 28 million for a total budget of $683 million. at the same time, the board of supervisors and emeriti office created 10 straight response teams to address homelessness and people living with mental illness and drug addiction to more effectively address a poverty and public health crisis. despite the increase in budget and decrease in work

responsibilities, they are seeking additional funds from the board of supervisors. i have for one, i'm hard-pressed to give more money to a department when there are so many reports of officers simply refusing to do their jobs. i look forward to hearing chief scott's response to this letter of inquiry, and specifically what he is doing about the reports of officers failing to do their jobs and the record low clearance rates in the department. secondly, colleagues, i am asking, one second. i am asking the bla to conduct a report on the effect of the mayor's 2192 year pilot program to retain sfusd teachers in the most underserved communities. in august 2019, mayor brief

sought to retain and attract experienced teachers by providing an additional $3,000 in the first year and an additional $2,500 in the year after that two teachers in hard to staff schools. nearly all of the san francisco high potential schools or part of this program were in the bayview, mission, and southeastern neighborhoods. we have heard firsthand from teachers who received this stipend and principles of the schools that were part of the pilot program that have made a tremendous difference in retaining teachers and preventing educator turnover. however, the pilot program has ended. the cost-of-living in san francisco, thank you, continues to rise and teaching during the pandemic has only made teachers work harder. teacher retention was an issue in 2019 and is a bigger issue now. i'm asking the bla to report on how the mere's pilot -- how the mayor's stipend project is being

administered and its effectiveness for consideration in the upcoming budget year. and then finally, colleagues, a few weeks ago we introduced an ordinance regulating street vending, an activity that has been a major problem in the mission district for many years. today we are introducing a substantive piece of legislation that we have worked on with the mayor and her staff, and specifically i.v. -- and i believe that i feel comfortable supporting that i feel will help street vendors and the beleaguered neighborhoods that they are selling in like the mission. in short, the legislation requires vendors to obtain a permit for being able to set up sales on the street or in any

public right-of-way. when selling new items or certain more expensive items like tools, phones, computers, bike parts that are stolen from cards and garages across the city, proof of ownership will be required before receiving a permit. when selling used goods like tennis shoes, clothes, no proof of ownership will be required. dpw will be the agency responsible for enforcing the law. the police will not be involved. there are no criminal ramifications for selling goods without a permit. however, if a vendor sells without a permit, dpw can confiscate goods and administer fines that can be reduced or waived based on inability to pay. street vending has become a massive problem in the mission. sidewalks are crowded, and passable, and customers cannot reach the family-run businesses that pay enormous fees to sell their goods and services and are

suffering even more because of the street vending. merchants are upset. they are losing customers during an already difficult covid time. streets are littered with trash and debris left by the vendors. on saturday i couldn't even exit the bus because of the massive umbrellas and blankets lining the streets. the chaos on the streets is unsafe and unsustainable and untenable. a few years ago, my office tried to fix this problem on mission by creating -- lang which mac -- we closed down the street parallel to mission street, provided tables and monitors and allowed vendors to have a safe and orderly place to sell their goods. unfortunately, the intervention failed after close to a year of trying. we ended up serving vendors from out of town who found the spot and came here to sell their goods. we did not contain the vending

on the streets surrounding the area. and because it was my office staffing the program every weekend, it was just completely unsustainable. this time around, the mayor and her staff are working with us on a properly resourced pilot program to run these in the mission and for the properly permitted street vendors to allow them to safely sell their goods in an orderly way. i have tried every strategy you can possibly think of to deal with this problem in the mission, and the bottom line is we have got to permit the vendors in order to get control of the situation. i have not seen the mission look so bad in a really long time. the vendors and the residents are irate, and frankly, they deserve to be irate. it is untenable and we must do

something about it. i want to thank the mayor and her staff for working with our office, for being so amenable to making changes, to the original ideas, to striking the right balance of giving people who are living in poverty away to make extra money without allowing chaos in the streets. colleagues, the rest i submit. >> thank you supervisor ronen. >> thank you, colleagues. i don't have anything to submit. i just want to put something on the record regarding the rise and spread of graffiti in the city. i know we have an ordinance on the books that allows those businesses and others to not have to clean up the graffiti during our emergency order. i think this has gone on for two years. when it was introduced was the right piece of legislation. i have gotten a barrage in our

office over the last few months of people complaining about the rise of graffiti and tagging. i think it is time to rethink. i know supervisor mandelman's office and supervisor ronen's office and supervisor peskin's office is really thinking about this. it probably is time to look at ending the grace period because it is really out of control. drive through any commercial corridor in the city and you will see tagging that has just exploded. i know the citizens of san francisco are calling for us to do everything we can to clean this up. i look forward to working with my colleagues and the department to really accelerate removing the grace period and asking people to take responsibility for what we are seeing out on the streets. thank you, madam clerk. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor stefani? we will return to supervisor

stefani and move on to supervisor walton. >> thank you. thank you so much, madam clerk. colleagues, today i'm introducing legislation imposing interim zoning controls for 18 months to require a conditional use authorization and specific findings for proposed parcel delivery service uses pending the consideration of other legislation. this legislation is critical to the san francisco community, as we have seen some companies try to come into cities and neighborhoods and increase pollution and traffic, bringing along jobs that pay below industry standard wages and, in some cases, facilities with serious health and safety concerns. this legislation is meant to give each parcel delivery service project a more thorough review. we want to make sure that these

facilities will benefit those living and working in san francisco before making a decision. as the president of the board of supervisors, i had no idea that the office of economic and workforce development had signed an m.o.u. with a company in district 10, until right before it was reported in the news. members of the surrounding community, labor, and other stakeholders were also kept in the dark this is incredibly frustrating when companies attempt to slide their projects under the radar with little to no accountability to the community. large companies must come to the community and discuss what they plan to do. they must have conversations with folks who live and work in the community, and at least the office of economic and workforce development could have reached out to our office to have a

courtesy conversation. as a community we must be allowed to decide if we want these types of facilities and businesses, and not just to be told that they are moving into our neighborhoods. we are always willing to work with companies that make commitments to abide by environmental regulations and are good employers. however, companies that are looking to come to san francisco with a track record that is questionable at best should be vetted by an extensive community process. you are seeing this happen all over the bay area and southern california, and on the east coast where communities are coming together and saying they want to participate in discussions and planning when their environment will be completely affected by big business. some communities have passed on these facilities, while others have reached agreements, but only after thorough reviews and

strong commitments, which is important to fit the community's needs. i am grateful to the san francisco southeast allianz, united food and commercial workers, and the teamsters for working together with our team on this. i can speak on behalf -- i can't speak -- i can only speak on behalf of san francisco, but i wouldn't be surprised if other communities and other major metropolitan areas develop similar legislation to fit their needs. i would also like to thank the deputy city attorney victoria wong for drafting this. thank you for giving feedback during the planning process, and my chief of staff for working with everyone on this. thank you so much. the rest i submit. >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chan? submit? thank you.

supervisor stefani? okay. mr. president, seeing no names on the roster. that concludes the introduction of new business. >> thank you. let's go to public comment. >> the board of supervisors welcomes general public comment. the best practice is to use your touch phone. you will be in sync to listen to the proceeding and to provide your comment throughout the meeting. the telephone number is streaming on your screen. when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting id. press the pound symbol twice. you will know you have joined the meeting as a listener once you hear the discussion, but your line will be muted. when you're ready to get into the queue to provide your comment, that's when you should press star three. when it is your turn, listen carefully for the prompt that you have been on muted and begin speaking your comments. during general public comment, you may speak to the approval of the january 11th, 2020 board

meeting minutes. you make speak to the closed session which is item 35 regarding existing legislation. the public was also able to comment on this motion scheduled -- scheduling disclosed session on february 1st, 2022. items on the latter side of the agenda, 36 through 38, the matters for adoption without committee reference and the matters that are not on the agenda today, that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board of supervisors. all other content will have had its public comment requirement fulfilled. the board of supervisors will accept your written correspondence by u.s. mail using the address... or you may send us an e-mail by using the e-mail address... as stated earlier, and partnership with

the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs, we do have interpreters present with us. i would like to give them an opportunity to once again introduce themselves, the service they provide, and the access information to this remote meeting in their language. we will start with bremen for filipino, arturo for spanish and agnes for chinese. welcome. [speaking foreign language ]

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>> thank you. we appreciate your consistency and being with us. and for the service you provide to the community. mr. atkins, we are setting the timer for three minutes. help me welcome our first caller, please. >> hello. >> thank you, we can hear you. i wanted to thank president walton, as well as supervisor chan and supervisor preston and

peskin for the resolution file on the commemoration of the 80th anniversary. the day of remembrance on february 19th. it is virtual this year on saturday at 5:00 pm. [ indiscernible ] i commend you for the resolution. and i thank you for introducing it. >> thank you for your comments and for joining us this evening. mr. atkins, i understand we have 13 callers who are listening and one caller, possibly two who are

in the queue. mr. atkins, please help me welcome our next caller. >> good afternoon, supervisors, president walton. i am the new executive director of the task force following in the large footsteps of steve nakata show. i want to thank supervisor preston and supervisor chan for their leadership for co-authoring and commemorating the 80th anniversary of the signing of the executive order 9066. i hope you will plan to join us on our day of remembrance, this saturday, february 19th from 5:30 pm in a virtual event.

my father was incarcerated in arizona for no crime other than his race. he was ripped from the customs of uc berkeley and excited -- and sent to an assembly center and eventually to a desert prison camp. what the resolution does is recognizes the city and county of san francisco and how they were complicit in this most egregious violation of constitutional rights of japanese americans. i hope you will all support the resolution and i look forward to partnering with you in terms of how we can heal the community around this. thank you so much. >> thank you. all right, mr. atkins. can we hear from another caller? welcome. >> hello.

can you hear me? >> yes. >> yes, my name is radley. i am calling to urge you to support the resolution urging the federal government to release leonard peltier and grant clemency after his years of unjust confinement as a political prisoner. this conviction is an egregious miscarriage of justice and it is a violation of the due process rights. he is an indigenous human rights defender and he needs support for being released. he also has just recently contracted covid which affects his help -- health and well-being. i urge you to support the february 24th, 2022 day of solidarity for him. thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

let's hear from another caller. >> meghan's mom was pregnant with her -- born in the western addition, she was at sunset nursery school. she wonders which district will she die in, and which supervisor might memorialize her, remembering her story in some way. she hopes to remember making was denied housing countless of times over decades of dutiful efforts, culminating in the team teach you denial tonight -- despite her insiders socializing -- [ indiscernible ] -- she had disabilities in chemical sensitivities and was taking ada rights accommodations. they were warned to not mention ada rights again as the s.f. homeless industry retaliates against the homeless to request

them. by not having them. no one ever told her how it could represent her in a claim for discrimination against her. for many years, unnecessary and suffering abuse followed while statutes of limitations expired. [ indiscernible ] she was denied equity in her never ending pursuit of safe and affordable homes in her own home town. she weeps every board of supervisors meeting where the unhoused are never represented. she was last thrown out on the street during the rising delta variant. though immunocompromised in matt haney's district as the sheriff

joked about her not dying that night, inappropriately touching her from behind. please remember meghan. please remember meghan. >> thank you for your comments. mr. atkins, do we have another caller in the queue? we have 13 listening and there's about two in the queue ready to make comment. if you are one of the 13, please press star three. let's welcome our next caller. [ indiscernible ] welcome. if you turn down your phone -- turned on your television we will be in sync. >> should i just start speaking now? >> yes, sir. >> hi. my name is paulo sake.

i would like to speak today on item -- on items regarding the resolution commemorating the 80h anniversary of the signing of the executive order 9066. and today -- today's resolution is long overdue. eight years ago, the japanese american community needed the support of our city leaders here in san francisco to help protect our civil and constitutional rights, rather than lend a hand, the police raided our homes, arrested our leaders, and assisted the f.b.i. and military and the forced evacuation of japanese americans from san francisco. i only wish those generations that were incarcerated were here

today to hear that the city is finally recognizing its role that it played in the evacuation and incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. unfortunately, there's probably only two or three% of those living today. it made its holiday recognition in 1987. the state did in 2020, and now, finally, 80 years later, the city has taken the opportunity to recognize its role. it is long overdue. at some point in time there needs to be a larger discussion about the city's role, its impact, and effect upon our community. it is not just the war.

the studio completely evicted... >> thank you for your comments. please forgive my interruption of your comments. we are setting the timer for two minutes this evening. mr. atkins? do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> supervisors, tonight i am calling to lay attention at the foot of our police department. i want to take note of their lawless behavior as our district attorney has emphasized in managing to use a rape case victim to prosecute them for petty theft. what i would really love to see in our city is more respect for the victims, but moreover for us to take note of how important it

is to have an independent district attorney that is a separate check on this unlawful authority. as we see coming before us shortly, we have propositions relating for funding for the police department and extension to the tenderloin funding and both of those things come for us soon and the expansions of the police that have continued to behave in a lawless way, whether it is refusing to comply with supervisor peskin's surveillance measures, or refusing to comply with the strict attorney or refusing to comply with the court system or refusing to comply with the constitution. you can see they have no interest in complying with the law. i urge you to bring our police

into a law-abiding and respecting relationship with the authority and the city as they clearly are unwilling to do, unable to do themselves. i urge you into an oversight role with this out of line department. >> thank you for your comments. mr. atkins, let's hear from another caller, please. >> hello. can you hear me? >> yes, welcome. >> thank you. supervisors, i would like to encourage you, maybe tomorrow, when you get into your office, go take a walk out to city hall. it will probably be a nice day. passed the library. take a right down