>> president walton: good afternoon and welcome to the march 8, 2022 meeting of the san board of supervisors. welcome back to the meeting. we have not had a public meeting since march 17, 2020.

two years ago. it's grate to see everyone back. this is a sign of positive movement forward. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you mr. president. [ roll call ] >> president walton: for the record, supervisor preston is here he responded to roll call but he will be remote today. >> clerk: thank you mr. president. all members are present. >> president walton: thank you so much.

the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unceded home land of the ramaytush ohlone who are original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgot their responsibilities as caretakers of of this land. as well as for people 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 with me to recite the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance]

today, colleagues i want to remind us that we have staff at sfgov tv. kaleena mendoza who record each meeting and make the transcripts available online. i do believe that we have our mayor here. madam clerk, let's go to our 2:00 p.m. special order. >> clerk: first order of business the special order at 2:00 p.m. we have the appearance today from the honorable mayor, london m. breed to engage in a formal policy discussion with the eligible board member. prior to the discussion, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes.

>> president walton: good afternoon. do you have any opening remarks? >> thank you president walton. good afternoon supervisors. today is international women's history month. i want to send a shot out to all the womens on the board of supervisors and the work that you continue to do to lead the way. it's been really a long winter for us. as we vol into spring, i am feeling hopeful. last week i was proud to join a number of businesses and announcing their commitment to san francisco and bringing their workers back to the office. we are seeing more people out in the city on the weekends and during the week which is great news for our small businesses. as of yesterday, city workers once again have shifted back to in person work. even with these positive signs, we have a real and significant challenge ahead of us that requires our focus. we are facing a real workforce shortage. we've already seen those challenges playing out in our police staffing, which is down

significantly from where it was three years ago. this is led to fewer officers walking the beats and addressing serious issues like property crime. the reality is that our staffing issues are not limited to one department. after two years of this pandemic, we have seen the impact across all departments with city's ability to deliver core services and implement critical initiative. over 10% of city staff positions are vacant. backlogs of contracts are stretching our providers and small business providers. these limit inflations are making it too hard for the city to deliver on promises. we must continue to focus on the well-being of our residents and work to restore our economy, we also need to get back to the basics and focus on the recovery of our government operation. that starts with fixing our hiring process.

with this significant shortage, we now have -- we can't wait months and months to fill a single job. we saw with our state of emergency in the tenderloin, we were able to hire behavioral health staff in weeks, not 6 to 9 months. that's because -- that shouldn't be the exception. it should be the norm. for the buses to run on time and get new homes and mental health services in place and make it possible for small businesses to contract with the city, we need to do better. city administrator, human resources director and our controller are reviewing the rulings, regulations and processes that make it difficult for the city to meet the needs of our constituents. they will come to us with solutions that will cut the hiring it time so that when we have vacancies, we need filled, they don't sit empty for months. it's essential. i look forward to working with

the board of supervisors to do the hard work necessary and necessary steps to remove obstacles, streamline processes and gets our city back to work. >> president walton: thank you so much. madam clerk t please call today's topics. >> clerk: first topic submitted by the district 11 supervisor, supervisor safai is seasonal and fennel worker, healthcare security and employment opportunities. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. please ask your question. >> supervisor safai: thank you mr. president. madam mayor thank you for being with us to discuss issues of concern. thank you for your leadership to get people back in our offices and to assist our economic recovery. my question today relates to special event and seasonal workers. many of whom who are in my district, who rely on events to earn their income and secure their health insurance.

many memorandum of agreements require certain events to maintain healthcare. many employees meet the concern at many of the musical venues around the city and city hall. even as our economy recovers, events are slow to return. although, major league baseball season could happen, early games likely be canceled or rescheduled. question is, what can we do to help the workers maintain their healthcare when the minimum number of events is harder to meet? >> thank you for the question supervisor safai. we know that the hospitality and tourism industry has been hit hard by this pandemic. many workers continue to remain unemployed. thousands of hotel workers, are

still out of work or working less than full time. ast last two years shown us, healthcare is essential for all workers and for our seasonal and event staff, many healthcare plans require that they work a certain number of hours in order to receive coverage. the pandemic reduce these hours but our economic recovery efforts to support the hospitality and tourism industry had help people get back to work and gain the hours they need to ensure the continuation of their coverage. there are likely limitations what we can do legally. we want to also make sure that all policies and guidelines are followed with respect to healthcare coverage for workers. my staff is in touch with office of labor standards enforcement on this. i am open to working with other parties to try to find resolutions that provide help to those workers. we're taking into account the reality that some portions of our economy are just going to be slower to recover than others.

we hope both parties involved in the major league baseball discussion can come to an agreement quickly and games can resume, it is also important to bring attention to the broader economic impact closures and the delayed openings it had on small businesses and employees. as i said before, it is critical that we bring back more in person events including sport events, conventions as others who are economy and our workers and i'm going to continue to work very hard to do that. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor safai, you may now ask a follow-up question. >> supervisor safai: i would say, are there other things -- what can we do more to help find employment opportunities to make up for lost income for folks that have not been able to return back to work in

situations where they are relying solely on seasonal work. >> thank you for the follow-up question. i'm happy to work with both parties. as i mentioned in my opening remarks, the city is hiring. we have lot of opportunities that we can work with people who are struggling now to find employment opportunities with the city and other places. our office of economic and workforce development, they work in various neighborhoods throughout san francisco. there's a real need for employees in all kinds of sectors. >> supervisor safai: thank you. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk mayor, if you like you can ask a follow-up question to supervisor safai or any other

supervisor pertaining to the same topic. >> thank you, president walton. i don't have any questions at this time. >> president walton: thank you so much. madam clerk mayor, this includes the district 11 topic discussion. this concludes our time with our mayor. we appreciate you coming out and with no questions, madam clerk that concludes our mayoral discussion. do we have any communication? >> clerk: yes mr. president. the member of the san francisco board of supervisors has mentioned by the president, welcome the general public back into this chamber room 250 where the public may attend board's weekly board meeting here in the public gallery and provide public comment in person. for the future, the board will continue to provide remote access for the public to both listen to the proceedings and to

provide their public comment via telephone. if you wish to access the meeting remotely you may do so through your television on sfgov tv award winning channel 26er by viewing live stream at www.sfgovtv.org. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first. for those wishing to provide public comment remotely please wait for the item to be called and use your telephone to connect to the remote call in system where you will be in live sync to provide your comment. throughout the meeting the telephone number is streaming on your screen. it is (415)655-0001. when you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i.d. 2484 139 2261 # #. you'll know you have joined the meeting when you hear the discussion. however your line will be muted.

once you are ready to provide your comment, that is when you should press star 3 to get into the speaker's queue. the system will prompt you when it is your turn to speak. listen carefully for the prompt. and begin speaking your comment. today's agenda content eligible for either testimony or comment is limited to the following two items. first the board of supervisors welcomes your public testimony for the 3:00 p.m. special order. item 23-28 that's a public hearing for the city to establish a special tax district around the power station to incur bond of debt and determine other matters contained in those items. additionally, the board will hear your general public comment once item 30 is called. you may speak to the following matters. the mayoral attendance and the ensuing policy discussion. the approval of the february 1, 2022 board meeting minutes,

items 31-37 is the items for consideration on the adoption without committee reference. all other general matters that are not only the agenda today but that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board may also be spoken to. all other agenda content would have been reported out to the board by appropriate committee. the board will receive your written correspondence by u.s. mail use the address san francisco board of supervisors, number one, dr. carlton b. goodlett place, san francisco, california, 940102. we wish to express our gratitude to the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs for providing this meeting with interpreters who will join us beginning with the 3:00 p.m. personal order. i will invite them to introduce

them to provide access information. we have a live person standing by to assist members of the public if they are experiencing any trouble connecting to this meeting remotely. our telephone is -- that concludes my communication. thank you mr. president. >> president walton: just reminder, supervisors, please mute your microphones when you are not speaking. madam clerk, let's go to approval of minutes. colleagues, today we are approving the you meeting minutes from it february 1, 2022 regular board meeting. i don't see anyone on the roster for changes. i will entertain a motion to approve the minutes made by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor stefani. >> clerk: on the motion to approve the minutes. [roll call vote]

ssafai absent. there are 10 ayes. >> president walton: the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented about. let's go to our consent agenda. items 2-7. >> clerk: items 2-7 are on consent. they are considered routine if a member rejects an item maybe removed and considered separately. >> president walton: i don't see anyone in the roster wishing to sever any items. please call the roll on the consent agenda.

>> clerk: items 2-7. [roll call vote]. there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objections these ordinances are finally passed unanimously. please call regular agenda unfinished business item 8. >> clerk: an ordinance to amend planning code to establish zoning codes and determine the ceqa determination and make the appropriate finding. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. please call the roll for item 8.

>> clerk: on item 8. [roll call vote]. there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: this ordinance is pass the unanimously. please call item 9. >> clerk: an ordinance to amendment the administrative code that employees are permitted a flexible or predictable working arrangement unless such arrangement would cause an employer undue hardship and to require employers to engage in an interactive process

to mutually agreed working arrangement to strengthen enforcement of the ordinance and to make other changes. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor safai? no. supervisor chan? [ indiscernible ] >> supervisor chan: i have met with small business commission president -- [ indiscernible ] i will continue to have conversations.

>> clerk: supervisor chan, can can you pull the mic closer so they can hear you? >> supervisor chan: as i said earlier, i've been last week i know we had concerns. said last week that i have made commitments talking to different business community members and i have already met with some of them and will continue to meet with more of them in the coming weeks. as i said last week as well, i'm committed to hear any issues that they may have and willing to go back to amend the legislation necessary. i urge for your support. >> president walton: thank you so much supervisor chan. i don't see anyone else on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll for item 9. >> clerk: on item 9. [roll call vote]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. please call item 10. >> clerk: an ordinance to amend the public works code to regulate vending to require permits and to authorize permit fees and enforcement action to amend provisions of various code the administrative business and tax regulations code the park code and police code to conform with these amendments to amend support code to merge its permit program with the public works permit program and to repeal reporting provisions from the health code and to adopt the

appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: colleagues, i'm here today to ask for your support for this legislation. the mission district is dealing with dirty, crowded and chaotic street conditions. major issue is the street vending and stolen goods. i walk down mission street you will see all kinds of merchandise being sold only the streets blocking access to sidewalks and undercutting small mom and pop stores that barely survived the pandemic. i have had small business owners call me crying because vendors are selling the same products at half the price, block entry into their business and unlike them, don't have to pay rent or business taxes. in collaboration with the mayor's office and with support from supervisor safai, we crafted this legislation to

strike the right balance between providing economic opportunity, access to goods for low income communities and prevent sale of stolen merchandise on our streets. the goal is to stop people from selling stolen goods but not to punish immigrant street vendors. the legislation creates a permit process for street vendors. built in the legislation are requirements for low barrier test to permit process, language access and extensive outreach. we have included the community suggestion that the permit accessible through mission-based organization who know and work with the vendors. only folks selling new and labeled items will be required to show proof of ownership so we do not interrupt sale of used goods. all fines may be reduced or eliminated all together based on the individual's ability to pay. there will be a 48 hour opportunity to cure any violation before a fee is

assessed. we hope that this legislation will have an impact on our streets to stop the illegal vending and provide economic opportunity for vendors trying to make extra money and to help our small businesses. i want to thank the mayor's office and specifically ivy lee for her work on this legislation as well as supervisor safai, the mission economic development agency, latino cultural district and small business commission for all their input and participation in this process. most of all, to my legislative aide who has ready poured his heart into striking the right balance here to make sure our streets are healthy, safe community but also make sure that vendors have economic opportunities that they might rely on. i hope to have your support, thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor safai?

>> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor ronen. colleagues, i think lot you know that our city has been hit and plagued over the last two years by organized retail theft and brazen theft that's been happening in our city. we put together a working group over the past year and a half working with chief scott as the co-chair, hotel council, california retailers association, organized labor, union square alliance and many other actors throughout san francisco, small and big businesses that have been impacted by crime. sheriff's department as well. one of the first thing we've did, we passed our 10a legislation. that allows for the expansion in the next two weeks we will see deputy sheriffs on the streets working with retailers.

second thing we heard from the chief and others in the community was we needed to stop seeing people selling stolen goods on our streets. all across the mission, impacting small businesses but also adding to the sense of lawlessness. if you go to u.n. plaza, you'll see a stolen goods being resold. if you go to other parts of the city t farmers market along our commercial corridors this is something that's been plaguing our city for some time. this is an attempt to work with the department of public works. we're going to lead with the department of public works. i want to thank ivy lee and the mayor's office and all of the folks that have been working on this, supervisor ronen's office for making this a priority. if we are going to really be serious about dealing with this type of theft, this is not just happening reselling items from people from businesses. this is also something where we see people's homes broken into

and having goods resold out on the street. this is a first attempt. this is what we believe will bring the bad actors into the light. we believe that leading with the department of public works is the right way to go. they will be out there, we'll have a conversation and the budget process putting right resources into this initiative. let's not be naive. we are not in this situation. if there are criminal elements that are involve the and they are violent, we will have to work with the police department to suppress this activity. this is something that many did not realize in the beginning through but i think it's clear this is part of larger international networks that are taking items, reselling them on the streetings, reselling them on the internet and reselling them all over the world. very proud to have been part of this. i want to thank again jeffrey

omorris, put lot of time and effort in this. thank you to the mayor's office and ivy lee for her tremendous work. also organized retail crime working group. chief of police, our sheriff, the hotel council, the union square alliance, united food and commercial workers, other folks in organized labor and those who have been impacted the most. many of our large and small businesses in san francisco. thank you for your support colleagues. i hope you will support this today. i think this will have a tremendous impact on what we're seeing on the streets in san francisco. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor mandelman >> supervisor mandelman: i want to thank supervisor ronen and supervisor safai and the mayor's office and ivy lee for tackling an issue that is concerning to my constituents and merchants large and small in any district

as well. i heard from parties across the city, residents, business owners, troubled by this. its impact on the sidewalk is challenging, impact on street life is challenging what it's doing to facilitating the sale of stolen goods is awful. i want to commend and thank everybody, supervisor ronen and others for doing everything we can within confines existing state law to tackle this problem. the existing state law, sb946, that constrains and bounds what we can do as a city is i think problematic. i think that it's good to really see whether we can make this work. i think that's what supervisor ronen are trying to do here. i think that is right. all we can do really as a city.

i think and have expressed the state senator weiner and planning to express other members of the state legislature, we may need to rethink revisiting aspects of sb946. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk, seeing no one else, please call the roll on item number 10. >> clerk: on item 10. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously.

item 11 >> clerk: an ordinance to amend the park code to waive fee for admission by the san francisco residents to the japanese teagarden and the conservatory of flowers to authorize the park department to waive discount and admission fees to this facility. as the san francisco botanical garden, all known as the gardens, to require the recreation and park department to begin waiving admission fees for veterans at the garden and to fund these changes by reauthorizing the recreation park department to set admission fees for nonresidential adults through flexible pricing based on certain factors to ensure consistent simone all threecy a. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. colleagues, first i really want to thank budget chair haney and the budget committee for really spending the time with me on this item and for supervisor mar

for his amendment to this piece of legislation to also include veterans admission for free. to enter all three gardens. when we're first learned about this agreement, the lease agreement that where botanical garden society will be taking on all three gardens. which is conservatory flowers, japanese teagarden and botanical garden. it's not to bear the $1 million deficit created by park alliance. with those amendments, i thought that agreement, which is lasted about two decades long, was

acceptable and agreeable. with that, though, does come with this admission fee as the gardens, all three gardens, thanks to mayor breed and also rec and park commission, now all residents are free to enter all gardens. it does come with the non-resident fee which is what i want to talk about today. i have some concerns about the fact that in its original legislation, was really allowing an increase of 50% time and time again, whenever with no cap. with some conversation we have decided that, with the support the budget committee, we are allowing for the increase to cap at $7 based on master fee schedule. i have to say, it does actually mean, i want to be very

transparent about this, that means the initial increase it allows the department and the garden to increase non-resident fees by almost up to 70%. that's quite a jump. although they are not necessarily going to be full on at that increase. it also means whatever revenue generated likely to capital improvements. this 70% cap, initial 70% increase but really $7 cap over two decades time you will see

significant decrease over time of what they can actually charge. i want to be transparent about those -- fee ordinance. up to you to decide whether you want to support it or not. thank you. >> president walton: thank you supervisor chan. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you president walton. i want to acknowledge supervisor chan and budget committee for making this better. at a moment in time when we are trying to attract non-residents back to san francisco and some of its star attractions, this sends the wrong message. san franciscans free, we can compensate for that by charging non-residents. it feels like we are saying to

the folks that we want to attract, you're paying more because san franciscans are paying less. i feel like if we're even going to go down this road, this is not the time to do it. we should all be putting our money where our mouth is. making rec and park whole. i know it feels attractive, but at the same time, we're discouraging people to do precisely what we want visitors to do, visit conservatory of flowers, visit japanese teagarden. i didn't like when it was proposed for the botanical garden and i hope we could consider voting it down today and sticking with what we've got. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk please call the roll for item number 11. >> clerk: on item 11. [roll call vote].

there are 10 ayes and 1 no with supervisor peskin in dissent. >> president walton: by vote 10-1 this ordinance is passed unanimously. madam clerk it is international woman's day. please call our 2:30 special order. >> clerk: it's the recognition of commendation for women's history month recognizing women in the community for commendatory service for city and county of san francisco and their communities.

>> president walton: thank you madam clerk. colleagues, before we begin, i would like to invite supervisors chan, stefani, melgar and ronen to make remarks. we will start with -- >> supervisor chan: sometimes we hear about heroes in history books that we hear about in the history books. love to look around and think about all the good women in our lives that really bring all of us here today. i wanted to celebrate all the

good women in our lives. i do want to say for me, personally, to think about all the women supervisors, their shoulders that i stand on. i want to start off with supervisor mabel chang, she was the first influence chinese speaking supervisor on this board. on her shoulders that i stand on. to think about -- there's many women supervisors. i will name a few that's meaningful to me in my life. supervisor sophie maxwell who mentored me and allowed me to have a start of my public service. supervisor jane kim first korean-american woman. she made history here too. she was one of the youngest women elected to this board.

it's something to think about the next generation and young women and making sure they can continue to have a path in this chamber. definitely, my predecessor, supervisor sandra lee fewer who is a trail blazer . she's fierce. i try to carry her fierce spirit, representing district one in this chamber. those are the women shoulders that -- that i stand on. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor safai: thank you supervisor chan for those comments and to my fellow female colleagues, when i first started here, there were seven women on the board.

now we have four. i always like to make sure that we are doing everything we can to get more women running for office. i think it's very fitting that on women's history month, we are finally opening the board chambers to the public. i think it's because a lot of women in public service did a lot to make that happen. starting with our mayor, mayor breed, carmen chu, my comments. we have so many doctors, department of public health that got us through the pandemic and we have so many women throughout city government that have really led us through this pandemic. the theme of this women's history month is the resiliency of women leaders in san francisco. we have faced unprecedented challenges. our communities, healthcare, public safety, our school system all have gone through so much.

it's really the womenful san francisco that have led the way. i remember sitting in hearing recently on vaccination rates. all those that were reporting back to the board of supervisors were all women leading us through that discussion. that was not lost on me. women lim, -- women leadership is essential because of the pandemic disproportionately impact women. since the recovery began, men have regained tripled lost job that women had. our workforce has not been this skewed in almost a century. the pandemic exacerbated gender disparities which has impacted women participation in our labor force. added to the burden on caregivers and increased rates to gender-based violence.

as we emerge from this pandemic, this month couldn't be more important. i look forward to looking forward to san francisco's amazing women. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you first of all, i wanted to say, thank you to my female colleagues. i've been on the board for a year. your collaboration, your companionship, your emotional support your ears and your brain have been amazing in terms of

the work that we do. you are amazing as a colleague and legislators, supervisors of mothers and i'm so grateful to serve on this board with you. i wanted to thank my feminist colleagues who do the work with the lens towards gender justice in equity. it is important in terms of achieving what we're trying to achieve of more equal and just world to have that perspective. i appreciate you all. thank you. my mother in electromagnetic --f we work together for justice, we can do it. my mother taught me that. my grandmother taught me that. i'm trying to teach that in my

daughter. my female colleagues are doing the same. i am so excited that we live in san francisco, in a world that is reaching and working towards that. i along with supervisor khan, i wanted to thank all the women who came before us. i want to give a special shotout to susan lowell, who swore me in. the first a only latina to be on the board before me. also a gay woman to pave the way for somebody like me to be here today. i wanted to say during the pandemic, latina women in our city have traditionally don't all the work taking care of our kids and cleaned our hotels and done the work to take care of others that have not faired well during this pandemic. women of color have not faired

well. black women still are the folks who have the worse outcome in birth rooms in our general hospital. we need to support women in san francisco. not just because they are victimized in terms of domestic violence, because they don't have the same access as the rest of the folks in san francisco. happy international women's month everyone. >> president walton: thank you.

supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: such an honor to come back to this board. happy international women's month. as i look at all you amazing women, not only my colleagues, all of the incredible women that we're going to recognize and honor today and all the women and friends and family that you brought with you, i know what you do. i know that you work hard all day every day and then come home and work more and then when the kids are asleep, and partners are asleep u work some more. you support one another. you support all your friends and your family you handle all the logistics and you cook and you clean. women are amazing.

having a sister on the board that i can cry with is an amazing thing. i appreciate that sister hood and that solidarity and happy event. i'm excited to celebrate. >> president walton: thank you supervisor ronen. now we have some remarks from our director of the status of women, kimberly ellis who is coming to us via video.

>> happy women's history month and international women's day. today, as we celebrate women's history month, in all of the passionate hope that it often endures, what was global tensions at peak times, financial strains, physical and emotional exhaustion from a never-ending pandemic. domestic assault on reproductive freedom and gender expression, hope can feel evasive. yes, our resiliency. women's resiliency that often times unexplainable ability to overcome, to come back to never been stronger. in the face of all, women have persisted through it all. today, we have the privilege of honoring some of the city's

finest persisters. women who's grit and grace have continued to provide healing and promote hope in a time of -- [ indiscernible ] like the late great harriett tubman, these women are leading us through some of the darkest times. amid heightened fears, against odds that might not be in our favor. in the face of negative forces determined to hold us back. thankfully, gracefully, 46 is -n francisco is not short on fierce, brave, phenomenal leaders. as director on the department o status of women. it is my privilege to recognize 11 exceptional leaders who have been among our diverse communities. women who's purpose and call to action in this moment is to

serve as healers and help guide us into the light of hope. on behalf of the board of supervisors, the department on the status of women, our own trail blazing mayor london and city and county of san francisco. we extend our deepest gratitude, our love and our appreciation to and for these remarkable women for their significant contribution. congratulations to all of the 2022 board of supervisors women history month honorees. thank you for your service to the city that we all love so dearly. >> president walton: thank you so much director ellis. now, we will go to acknowledge all of our amazing honorees. we are going to go in roll call order. starting with the trail blazing

women on this board of supervisors. supervisor melgar, you are up >> supervisor melgar: colleagues , i'm honored today to have the opportunity to recognize the amazing mary travis allen as our district 7 honoree. i'm excited to be recognizing women's history month on international women's day to not only recognize the struggles accomplishments and amazing contributions of women through our history but also to uplift the ongoing trail blazing work that they continue to be engaged in. not too long ago, the future is female. yet in these past couple of years, women and girls across the world experience the most challenging time of this generation. women especially women of color, were the most impacted by the

global pandemic. the progress that we made by the warriors came before us. today i want to highlight work of mary travis allen what -- who has been relentless fighting against oppression. mary was born, raised and educated here in our city growing up in the tenderloin, and mission district. mary continues to live in san francisco in the neighborhood of merced, district 7. mary retired from the city and county of san francisco after serving as a senior operations manager with the sfmta for 32 years.

over the years, mary has been involved with many organizations and movements advocating and creating opportunities for underrepresented groups. she has been active in advocating for housing, healthcare, education and representation in government for her community as well as others. mary has been a staple in the american indian community and has roots in alcatraz, the american indian movement here in san francisco in it '70s, she frequently spoke at rallies and organized with many of the political activist groups and local leaders throughout the bay area. advocating for racial equality, freedom from political prisoners and more. mary is a generous volunteer who has also served on civic boards

and councils. she leads fearlessly to uplift the resilience of the native people of this land. i love this quote from her that really captured her generous spirit. she said, we learn from those that have come before us traditions and knowledge to gives strength and value to live and survive this life. we learn, we cultivate and we continue to plan for ways that will follow. mary thank you for your amazing contributions and ongoing advocacy to make our city a better place for all and for uplifting the experiences and

voices of a community that have too often been left out of the conversation. we honor your vision, ural your movement building and mentorship of new leaders. your leadership truly embodies this year's theme, providing healing, promoting hope, celebrating resilience of women leaders in san francisco. mary thank you so much for everything you do. [ applause ] >> president walton: supervisor melgar, let us say a few words and we'll take a picture. >> thank you very much. happy international women's day. i celebrate all of you. i'm humbled and honored to

receive this recognition. on behalf of myself and my community, i want to thank you supervisor melgar for selecting me to receive this. but i'm here today because of all the women warriors that came before me. i want to acknowledge the land that we are meeting on is the unceded ramaytush ohlone land and to thank them for allowing me and my family to live here. the living descendents of the ramaytush ohlone people because of their leader, culture, song and traditions were carried forward through their great grandmother le andra, ventura ramos. i want to offer a prayer of protection for the women and children in ukraine and all women struggling to survey --

survive. the quote "better life" has not been realized for much of our community. we have struggled to survive in this urban environment and presently we have the highest homeless rate, lowest housing rate, highest suicide rate and lowest graduation rate of all populations in san francisco. it is through the efforts of our community that we have survived. our women have fought to protect and preserve our culture, traditions and languages so we could pass it on to us and we could create a better future for

our family and those yet to be born. our women hold a sacred place. some of our community women leaders that have passed -- some of our present elders and women leaders --

i must also acknowledge the three women that are my role models who taught me my values and taught me to never give up. my mother, wanda travis, my aunt, my mother-in-law lucy little. in closing i want to acknowledge many allieses that have supported us to raise our visibility and helping us heal our community in particular, the women leaders in this city who has supported us. thank you mayor breed. human rights commission director cheryl davis, supervisor ronen, supervisor melgar, supervisor

stefani and all others on this board that supported the creation of our american indian cultural district, permanent location for the american indian culture center, resolution to support the release of leonard. legislation and funding for the american indian truth and healing reparations committee and so much more. this recognition is not just for me. it is for my ancestors, sisters, young one and future ones. it is for my community the work continues. thank you. [ applause ] >> president walton: thank you supervisor melgar and congratulations ms. allen. now we have supervisor ronen.

>> supervisor ronen: if i can call up to the mic, amanda ford. it is my pleasure to recognize amanda ford, the executive director as our district 9 honoree for women's history month. amanda is a wonderful and remarkable leader and advocate in our community. the proud daughter of immigrant mexican farm workers, amanda has been practicing law for 30 years. for other 15 years, amanda has represented low income immigrants before federal government and agencies helping women and families secure asylum

and avoid deportation. amanda first volunteered as a pro bono attorney in 2011 and later joined as a staff attorney. she briefly left the organization to work at other nonprofit agencies. when she learn the the agency was struggling without stable leadership. by remember those times. amanda returned as executive director in 2019. under your leadership, nearly most of the staff that had previously left the organization returned. staff report increased salary, support for leadership, and despite representing immigrants and workers under the harsh conditions of the trump

administration, morale and tension are higher than ever. the organization thriving and serving more san francisco's immigrant workers and community members than ever before. what's most incredible is that amanda has accomplished these feats as executive director while still carrying we are own case load and being the managing attorney at the immigration program.

amanda is a roll up your sleeves director and compassionate and humble leader. it's no surprise she's a proud mother of two. amanda, your humble and compassionate leadership is an inspiration to all of us and from all of us in district 9 and the city of san francisco, congratulations. [ applause ] >> thank you so much supervisor ronen and board of supervisors, president of the board. thank you so much. i'm truly humbled and honored to be in such amazing company. such impressive women leaders in san francisco, this is truly an up expected honor. all i can say is that, our legal aid, our little neighborhood legal aid was founded by chicana

law students. few decades later, how we've changed. we've gotten to the point where our little legal aid at the cornerrer of 16th and valencia hassed as a their new staff hire, who speak spanish who passed the bar. many of them are here with me today. please stand attorney staff. [ applause ] all staff, paralegals, everyone please. i simply want to say i am supported by a tremendous leadership team. we are the only legal aid in the

bay area that is staffed entirely by a leadership team of coordinating attorneys who are entirely latinx. our constituency that we serve, primarily latinx immigrants, but also immigrants from around the globe. in the last two years we represented clients from asia, africa, europe from all over. our immigration attorney staff to ukrainians national who have families who are stuck in their home country. i say this because the legacy of our founders who really wanted that legal aid that their own families as latino immigrants to go to and get a consult from a licensed attorney whom they can trust. also get wonderful legal

services full scope legal representation without charging a dime. they knew this little legal aid belong to them. our coordinating attorneys who helped us relaunch the agency in 2019, i need to mention them by name. they are impressive. they are the leadership team that made it all happen. without them, we never could have cone it. our amazing staff and board to steer our agency and volunteers. we are just so honored to continue now in soon to be 49th year serving city and county of san francisco with nine attorneys, all licensed and five paralegals and one finance

controller. we are here to serve the community. we will continue doing so. god willing for the next 50 years. thank you city and county san francisco and board of supervisors truly enjoy women's history day. please just thank you for all of your service. i appreciate all the women and mothers and grandmothers who have made this beautiful city what it is today. thank you. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions. next supervisor stefani

>> supervisor stefani: thank you president walton. i like to call dr. novina bobba. deputy director of health for her more than 10 years of dedicated public service through her work the our department of public health. i want to thank the doctor for her tremendous leadership during our response to the covid-19 pandemic. you have been absolutely amazing. she began her career in 2009 as director of public health, emergency preparedness and response. a role which was prepare her very well for the challenges she

would face these last two years. she oversees all aspects of d.p.h. policy and planning. during the pandemic, dr. bobba led efforts to prevent the spread of covid-19 by ensuring collaboration with city agencies, academic partners, community partners and other healthcare systems. she helped lead a community-based pandemic response which was absolutely crucial to better understand and addressing the need, barriers and pinpoints for those disproportionately affected and impacted by covid-19. thanks dr. bobba's leadership, san francisco has one of the lowest covid-19 death rates and among the lowest transmission rates in the country. it's impossible to overstate how critical her work has been unlike so many cities across the globe, our hospitals never became overloaded and thousands

of lives were saved here in san francisco because of your work. dr. colfax described dr. bobba a passionate leader and invaluable member of the d.p.h. team who works tirelessly to provide quality healthcare and services for all san franciscans. i had the opportunity recently to tour the lincoln center with dr. bobba. i continue to be impress the by her dedication to thoughtfully serving those most needed in our city and the reason i emphasize thoughtfully is because you are so good at listening to so many different ideas and opinions and grievances of how our policies are working or not working. i can't thank you enough for always being open to listening everything that i have to say without judgment. thank you for that. even with her many responsibilities, she continues to see pediatric patients where she practices as an allergy

specialist. dr. bobba is a leader and role model within the department and to so many young women. i'm proud to call dr. bobba not just a san franciscan but a district 2 resident. thank you so much for your continued public service and your leadership through some of our most challenging -- challenging times. [ applause ] >> thank you so much supervisor stefani and board members. i'm so honda by this commendation. i want to take a moment to recognize the thousands of women who have done heroic work around covid. i don't know if you no ethis, healthcare and public health, 70% of workforce were women. that is who got us through that the last two years and main through great personal sacrifice. i'm struck by one of my

colleagues who told me when we didn't know what was happening, changing different room for her kids but she had to create a will. she's a young woman. this is the kind of dedication and sacrifice that the women of san francisco and the nation did. i hope we take a moment the impact on women and covid have been really detrimental on

social and economic standpoint. i cannot have done this without you. the tough words is still going strong. one of the things they have brought up is dr. maya angelo who said i'm grateful to be a woman. i must have done something great in another life. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions and thank you so much for everything dr. bobba. now we have supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: colleagues, i'm just so proud to honor a

district 1 resident who not only lives in district 1 but works in district 1 for a very long time. i'm so proud to be here honoring kana li. she serves the richmond district senior population both as a case manager at institute on aging and previously having work at the richmond senior center. she is one of the richmond district tireless interpreters. she's way better than i am. that is amazing. by learned a lot from her. interpreting and translating for our community. with her skills and expertise, relying critical information in chinese to our community members every day. most definitely during the covid, during this pandemic. how critical it is for our

community, our monolingual resident to have that information. she works to ensure that seniors and adults with disabilities have access to the same information and resources that english speaking neighbors do. she goes out her way to build and maintain relationship with clients, new and long-term. she also regularly helps with meal deliveries, providing. meals to elders and adults with disabilities. she developed the friendly caller service program. you have no idea how critical that is during this pandemic when many are isolated. this program aimed reducing isolation and health risk associated with loneliness on monolingual chinese seniors and adults with disabilities.

over 60% of seniors in san francisco live alone. city doesn't have a direct hotline that api community members can call for mental health support. the friendly caller program focuses on older a.p.i. adults living in physical and social isolation due to physical, income or language barriers. friendly caller program hopes to raise community awareness of mental health issues. you can always count on kana to bring a smile and her sense of humor is contagious. i'm so grateful that i can call her my friend and my constituent and to be serving her and serving our community with her

together. >> hi, everyone. it's my honor to be here and celebrate women history month. i make grammar mistake when i type in my essay. i'm so lucky that i'm living in san francisco. the city of culture diversity. living in san francisco, i the opportunity to get education. i have the opportunity to work here. i have lot of opportunities to what is a lot of amazing people and community leaders. as today, i'm going to share something about my community

leadership. i work at richmond center as program coordinator before. now i'm living as case manager at institution of aging. in the beginning of the pandemic, we trained seniors to use zoom. we host a program called chinese social hour on every wednesday on zoom. we hope our chinese seniors can get the updates as english neighbors.

thank you all for the experience. i feel more confident to give out information to help my community. definitely for the chinese community. i never feel tired to share that. voting is an opportunity for change. if we want to change, we have to vote.

in san francisco, there's no direct 24-hour hotline that a.p.i. community can call. i hope we can let our community member know that it's okay to be sad. it's okay to take a mental health break. our emotions is part of our life. as immigrant chinese woman, i was educated to be quiet so i can avoid the rest of making me think and being judged.

today i'm standing here and making a speech. my experience took me there. people caring too much, i love my chinese community, i love my city. i know i'm not alone. there are many wonderful amazing social workers and community leaders on my side. thank you for all your service and make our community and the city more loveable. in the end, thank you. thank you. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions.

congratulations again. every now and then in this role, we get to honor someone that we get to see in action. someone we watched blossom and climb. someone who we can look up to even as a young woman superstar.

her residency and bay view hunters point and exposure to systemic inequities in communities of color, catalyze her passion for initiating change and historically oppressed communities. dr. burch is passionate about preserving the life and culture of the neighborhood that raised her in surrounding areas. she also received and finalized her doctorate court studies during a pandemic. not only is she currently the inaugural director of the dream keeper initiative, she worked for hope sf here in san francisco.

it has been truly amazing and humbling to watch her grow and become the leader that so many young women and girls look up to for guidance and direction. most recently, it was a beautiful thing to hear her opening remarks and the way she fired up community at the dream keeper initiative event with drn library.

she's a true trailblazer, i cannot wait to see all of the greatness she will continue to accomplish in life. thank you for improving the lives of so many and for caring for people in your community in this city. dr. burch. [ applause ] >> there's a proverb that says, the road to leadership is through service. i'm thankful for those who continue to pour into my servant leadership including god who is the head of my life, my ancestors who guide me and the women who birth me and continue to give me life. my mom, elaine, who is here today for exuding excellence and being a perfect example. my father, my husband, percy

burch who walks with me no matter the direction, my family and friends here and signing in, the dream keeper initiative team and the human rights commission under the leadership of dr. cheryl davis who trust me to lead the work and the women of delta sigma theta sorority incorporated. operating in an environment rooted in white supremacy has me questioning whether or not i'm worthy and deserving of such recognition. then, i remember the generations of black and pacific islander women who went unrecognized for our contribution to this city and country. i remember that coming from kings and queens make leadership

my birthright. i am grateful to supervisor walton for this incredible recognition. i look forward to continuing to serve to maintaining a seat at the table and building one where we are welcomed and to advancing the fight for black liberation and indigenous sovereignty. thank you. [ applause ] >> supervisor melgar: next to present supervisor from district 4, gordon mar. >> supervisor mar: what an incredibly powerful and

inspiring celebration of women history month and international women's day. thank you so much supervisor stefani and others fierce female colleagues for organizing this. congratulations to all of the honorees and thank you for all you do every day for our community and our city. as district 4 supervisor, i'm very excited to be able to honor -- -- born and raised in san francisco, ann and her family were part of many irish organizations grow up including the united irish society and the united irish cultural center. began a career in retail in 1989 while attending s.f. state university. graduating from college and

pursued retail management. she met her husband, sixth generation san franciscans. after raising two children, ann went into education and found her calling working with high school students. it was during this time that ann pursued her masters degree. ann became president of the united statessed irish culture center board and utilized her nurturing ability to unite and motivate the irish community to modernize the business structure making wayings for new vision business becoming 501c3 with community and cultural flam focus. during the pandemic, she started three new businesses. under ann's leadership in 2020,

celebrated 45 years on 45th avenue and honored many accomplishments through the years with a library filled with donated photos, books. the 27th year of providing scholarships for students going off to high school and college as well as the partnership with dozens irish community organizations collaborating on events and activities over the decades at the uitc. ann now director of cultural programming at the uicc. in january 2022, ann launched and exhibit at the uicc celebrating 150 years of irish dance in the bay area. irish dancing is a centuries-old tradition that continues to capture the hearts of dancers and long before gold was found in the hills of california, couple of centuries to be precise, the dancing matches of ireland was promoting the rich

traditions of irish dance. ann is currently deeply committed to helping build a new united irish culture center and remains excited about the future of the irish community. with her deep historical compliment to san francisco and highly respected leader in the irish community, ann is inspiring the next generation of women leaders in san francisco. thank you so much, ann, for all of your community activism and public service. i'm so honored to be able to recognize you and the uicc during women's history month. i would add just before the triumphant return of the st. patrick's day parade this weekend. unfortunately, ann wasn't able to make it in person. i believe she's be joining us remotely. >> president walton: she is here. >> good afternoon.

thank you very much supervisor gordon mar, board of supervisors and mayor london breed. thank you for this amazing afternoon honoring women during women's history month. i am so honored to be recognized with all of the beautiful and amazing honorees that are here today. when someone calls out of the blue from the san francisco supervisors office informing you that your name has been put forward as commendation for san francisco women's history month, it leavings one lost for words. i was born and raised in merced in san francisco by two irish immigrant parents. sharing and honoring the story of the immigrant has been important to me. parents showed me how to support their community by constantly giving back and in turn for the last 17 years, i've worked with the irish community, specifically with the united

irish culture center in the most southwestern corner of san francisco. it's a 47-year-old nonprofit that has seen chapters in its existence.

this has been an honor to work with san francisco irish community. we're excited to see it new cultural project popping up around the city and honoring the different generations here in san francisco. i have been delight the to be here with all of the wonderful honorees today. i accept this on bell half of -- behalf of all the immigrants who have a story to share. i thank you all for your time and this beautiful event. thank you. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions again. now we have supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: amazing honorees and the women that i'm about to honor, this is the perfect day as we have our first

in person board meeting in these chambers on international women's day. that's the chief executive officer of chinese officer dr. zhang. when your board of directors, many of them gathered here today, had the wisdom to appoint you as the new c.e.o., chinese hospital was in a little bit of trouble. that was right before the pandemic hit. financially, the hospital was on the brink. there was discord between various doctors groups and the chinese hospital. all of that was before the pandemic hit. when the pandemic hit, finances be damned, dr. zach immediately

got in action. it was an in early february of 2020 that dr. zhang came to my office and said, this is real. it is going to spread like wildfire. we have to educate the populace. densest area of san francisco, area where people live in congregate settings shared bathrooms and kitchens miraculously had the lowest transmission rates, lowest death rates. although death rates in asian-american community were higher than other communities. she led her troops and we all know that the healthcare industry was ground zero and she

did that while negotiating contracts with her nurses. there was no job too big or small. calling on police to close down streets. went into s.r.o. after the forefront of the vaccination movement. not only vaccinating it 50,000 people, when early on thankfully before the anti-vaccine movement, dr. zhang -- not our department of public health, drl vaccinated the cops at the central station. i know it's been a stressful time. dr. zhang hell -- held us and

department of public health to rise to a higher level and during all of that, she was able to continue to address the financial realities that the hospital is facing and the issues with with the doctors group that the hospital is facing and take those on successfully as well. it is truly a miracle. rose pack who love no institution more than chinese hospital is smiling down on dr. zhang right now. there's so many stories that are really moving and heart wrenching when dr. zhang called me on a friday to say that she had all elderly couple that had covid and will not live through the weekend. that couplefuls miraculously saved. when the san francisco unified d school district canceled one

meal program -- her leadership team, five out of six of them, are women. i really want to honor them as well. the vice president of operations gina yam, sylvia pittman of nursing and the director of nursing, beverly flick as well as your general counsel who helped you get through tough trouble spots, also a woman. dr. zhang, in my mind, there's no nobody more befitting this honor, particularly at this time as we emerge from the pandemic. thank you so much from the bottom of my heart. [ applause ] >> thank you supervisor peskin. good afternoon everybody. i'm honored and humbled to be

nominated by supervisor peskin for this recognition. i'm just happy that we can meet here today in person to celebrate the international women's day. however, do you remember at the beginning how it was like? like two years later that we can be here meeting in person. i wasn't sure at the time. it has been challenging for chinese hospital in the past two years. as supervisor peskin told you earlier about chinese hospital being the only independent hospital left in san francisco. this is the reason why, it's

only independent hospital left in san francisco. i still -- lot of moments. i still clearly remember terrible outbreaks.

i talked to our mayor's office, supervisor peskin -- any help we can get. i talked to san francisco d.p.h. about how to work together to prevent this major outbreak in s.r.o. hotel. i clearly remember how worried i was. we didn't have income but apparently we have to spend more to do the community outreach and safeguard our community. that was the hardest decision

for me as a c.e.o. of a hospital to make the decision you have to spend money for public health issues. during the pandemic, there's no single d.p.h. can do at all. it doesn't matter here in the united states or in china or in anywhere. we have to step up to help out. that's why i think after the pandemic when mayor brown talked to me saying, we need to be build hospitals like chinese hospital for the latino community and black community. it's proven that community hospital really important for the community. because you provide sensitive care to the community. i was concerned i was about the safety of providers and staff.

i am still today, really concerned about our employee safety due to the anti-asian hate crime. they are still being yelled at and attacked in a public transportation or out in the street. however, there were exciting and hopeful moments when i felt inspired to continue knowing how difficult the situation was.

we were able to establish a pathway to procure a p.p.e. from china and ship to us after numerous communicating, officials and transportation companies. there were many moments when community made generous donations and medical equipment and p.p.e. to protect our providers and staff. many brought food to cheer up our employees. it was the collective efforts

that make our battle against covid-19 successful. with special gratitude go to our mayor and our supervisor for your leadership. our media friends disseminating the information to the community. our community leaders as our owners for working with us during the entire pandemic. i would like to thank our board for supporting our team during the pandemic. some of representatives here today. amazing back in 2020, at the very beginning of pandemic, they stepped up to do fundraising and

to support our hospital. last but not least, i like to thank my team for working tirelessly both in the hospital and in the community. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions dr. zhang thank you and your team. now we're going to bring up supervisor mandelman supervisor

preston? >> supervisor preston: let me start by thanking supervisor stefani and her staff for doing

so much work to organize this event today. it's pretty amazing. i really want to thank all my female colleagues and director ellis for the introductory remarks today. also just congratulate all of the honorees. it's an amazing group of people. it's an honor to be part of this today. as part of our international women's day and women's history month celebration, i am thrilled to honor dr. mary anne jones as district 5 honoree. [ applause ] she's executive officer of west side community services. extremely important organization in san francisco and in particular in district 5 where she and her team provide essential health services in the western district.

dr. jones was born and raise in the fillmore and received bachelor's degree in chemistry from mills college. she began her training at the georgetown university of medicine. she started her work in the san francisco department of public health office in the late 1980s. she was a research assistant at the bay area aids clinic at ucsf. she worked at the -- family addiction center for pregnant women with drug addiction. in addition to her local efforts, dr. jones worked all around the world in the area of trauma in particular including work with the african union in darfur sudan with americas in

georgetown guyana. and with the governments of antigua and developing services for families impacted by sexual violence. dr. jones joined westside community services in 2004 and became the c.e.o. in 2010 and has continued in that role where she serves today. most of you are familiar with westside services. the organization serves the mental health needs of our local community including families dealing with the grief and loss of love ones. those impacted by multigenerational effects of drugs and violence. veterans and their families, vulnerable neighbors who are hurting because of loss of jobs or loss of homes and severely

and persistently mentally ill individuals who require medication, treatment and in many cases assistance with managing their daily lives. westside has a long history in the city serving in particular vulnerable members of the african-american community, using programming, created by members of the community for the community. among the many services and there are many, among those offered in my district one, i want to note in particular is the ongoing westside methadone detoxification program which provides medical intervention through daily dispensing of methadone. i want to thank dr. jones and her team. thank you for showing us around

and pleased that the facilities have been renovated. under dr. jones's leadership, westside provided crucial programs and services for those most need, especially through the pandemic at a time intensified need with new and unprecedented challenges in service delivery and tremendous stress and anxiety for everyone including the staff. during this women's international history month. we recognize dr. mary anne jones for improving the quality of life for san franciscans for her kindness and col -- compassion

and outstanding leadership. on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, i'm proud to honor you today and while i'm unable to be in the board chambers today, members of my office are there to present the commendation to you. congratulations dr. jones and thank you for all you have done and continue to do for our community. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. i'm so honored president preston and the board of supervisors to be here today and to receive this commendation as a child that grew up with two sisters, and single parent home and one room studio, i feel so honored to had the opportunities that i

had largely because of the great programming that we've had at san francisco that has wrapped its arms around me and held me up and made it possible for me to go from galileo high school on to mills college when a counselor told me, both my sisters went there, we should only go to trade school. we were not college material. for me this means a hospital i -- means a lot. i really want -- i want to extend this to my team that

comes out and works so hard. also to thank you for your support and also presidential walton who comes and visits westside and supervisor preston comes and visits westside. i invite all to visit our program and thank you for this very great commendation. [ applause ] >> president walton: thank you. thank you and congratulations dr. jones. now we have supervisor rafael mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: colleag ues, i'm recognizing mary ellen

carroll today. our executive director of department of emergency management for her dedication to making the city and county of san francisco a safer and more resilient place. over the past two years, san francisco made history by mobilizing one of the effective covid-19 responses, saving countless live and averting catastrophe on a scale others suffered.

mary ellen modeled steady leadership, kindness and good humor even in the most trying time in the well-being of our city and residents. mary ellen dedicated two decades to serving san francisco. in 2005 she joined department of public health as a program planner for responsible for the department emergency response program. she's leading san francisco through a once in a century pandemic as the executive director of d.e.m. mary ellen has served in departments working to improve the resilience of services. she developed programs and training for emergency response at the p.u.c. she coordinated emergency response programs within her department. now she oversees the department of nearly 300 people who are responsible for leading the planning, response and recovery for citywide emergencies and

disasters. this is not your grandma's d.e.m. we have turned to mary ellen and her team to address the city's most problems whether it's fires, smoke o flooding, pandemic, persistent encampment, tenderloin emergency. over and over again, the city asked, mary ellen and her team answered. i want to thank her from the bottom of my heart for her fearless, service on the front lines of our most challenging emergencies. >> thank you. [ applause ]

>> let's get this going, reverend amos brown is waiting for me. i told him it's all your fault that i'm late. in seriousness, thank you so much supervisor mandelman. i am really humbled and honored by this. i appreciate your support throughout all of this. i want to thank you president walton and the entire board of supervisors. all were there in different ways. some of you worked in the e.o.c., supervisor peskin has a t-shirt to prove it.

within a matter of a few weeks, i'll be getting a call from the mayor's office to come meet the mayor and would be considered for the job at d.e.m. for that, i'm eternally grateful. i remain inspired by her leadership and by the ability to be able owork for a woman and woman of color in the city. i want to say i also i represent women of d.e.m.

we have women who are dispatchers. we have women who in emergency services who true it will led us through covid and ran covid demand. currently in the tenderloin the head of the t.l.c. is a woman, the head of operations is a woman, head of planning is a woman, head of logistics is a woman. my deputy suspect a woman. i as a woman leading this for the city. these problems that we face right now in our city are ones that we had for many years. they are deeply buried within our culture. we have to work to be better and do better. first of all, we are patient because we have to be. we have to fight for every damn thing most of the time.

i'm patient. i'm not going to give up on those problems. we also bring people together. what i would ask of all of us is that as we encountered these problems that are so difficult for us and we all have a different position, i feel like one of my jobs is to get people to step out of their comfort zone so we can see each other's perspective. so we can move together to save lives. i want us to be able to do that together.

finally, i want to say, i'm a mom. i have a daughter who i want to be role model for. i have a son who i want to raise him to make this world easier for mothers. i'm also have a mother who was a nurse for 40 years and who fought very hard her whole life, was a single mother as i am now. i have two fierce grandmothers that went through horrific things to get to where they were. i look back on my ancestors and i honor that. thank you so much. we all have work to do. i'm going to go. you guys got work to do too. i want to say, so honored to be along all these women that you all have chose to highlight today. [ applause ] >> president walton: thank you so much director carroll and

congratulations again. now we have our supervisor from district 11, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: what an honor to be here today. sometime it's the real benefit to go last, almost last. you get to hear all the wonderful stories. thank you to colleagues on the board, women colleague and for your leadership and for awesome keeping us honest and keeping us in line. supervisor melgar, you know what i'm talking about. [ laughter ] i have the great honor today of

honoring -- -- felicia draws inspiration from her own family history overcoming natural

disasters with roots in new orleans she lost family members during hurricane katrina. she is the c.e.o. founder of at your service professional services. founder created you go girl. youth leadership academy. she is a founder and creator. if you ever seen her work with our elders in in the elderly community, she has a special touch. so many of them are drawn to her and feel comfortable when she's there leading and working with

them. specifically, for us and the theme of today, felicia has taken vaccines door-to-door. hoping thousands and thousands of people over the last two years. i had honor to spend little bit of time with her as some other members of the commute did working and serving our community. her work includes creating housing retention programs, teaching communities how to navigate the affordable housing application process and helping it residents address resiliency post disaster.

her resiliency plans focuses on providing resources. she leads community first attitude. her covid-19 and resiliency work has been honored over the past year. many great ways at the white house, san francisco 49ers, kpix5, the san francisco department of public health and even mayor london breed. we're going to honor her here

today. we're going to elevate her and these a district 11 resident and leader and so many great things that she's been doing for us. thank you from the bottom of our heart, felicia, thank you for so much what you've done over the past year. [ applause ] >> board president, supervisor walton, i really like that name, president walton. distinguished supervisors, it is with gratitude and humility that i accept that recognition.

i don't take this recognition lightly. supervisor safai, thank you for your unwavering support of me, personally, when i first came to lake view, you gave me your number, i remember calling you on a sunday morning, disgruntled. i ask if you didn't mind calling me because i had something on my mind. you said give me a minute, you gave me an hour on a sunday. i appreciate that. it let me know then that you are true to your word and that also you cared about the issues of the community. to e.j., earnest jones, your legislative assistance, i really appreciate e.j. as he hired me and gave me the opportunity to come and work in lake view. i remember him telling me, this is my community. my family lives here solidarity do i.

i know amazing the decision for someone to come into the i.t. bookman was professional but it was personal. thank you so much for giving me that opportunity. however, you didn't tell me all the dead bodies were buried. i want to also thank the clients who my shining stars i had the opportunity to serve seniors of lakeview and aging and disabled and those living with access and functional needs. i hope i have served them proud and opened up the doors of the community center to serve all, black, white, disabled, unable, reabled all of the ableisms. i want to use my voice to speak and advocate for the voiceless, unsung, the unheard. those who feel invisible and those who refuse to ever stop

talking such as myself. i want to thank my grandmother late vivian johnson who went without everything to make sure that this young girl who was a runaway 14 times from age 11 to 14 because i grew up in crack addicted house with a father on heroin. i found myself pregnant. i met a counselor there who saw something in me. if i would just complete high school, i will give myself a very low time in my life, i didn't know which direction to go, partying up and down 30 street, seven clubs you couldn't help but get caught up. i didn't know which direction to take. she literally picked me up and put me on my way. i haven't looked back since.

my grandmother, vivian johnson, my aunt theresa, who earned her gold jacket. that was a big accomplishment for a black woman. all those things is what shaped me for who i am today. to the staff of i.t. bookman.

i hope to be like them one day. i hope i'm making them proud and continuing the work in the legacy that they have brought here. delia fitzpatrick she took me in. i was coming from bayview to

lakeview, shaking in my boots, not really knowing if the community would accept me but they accept me. patty clement, she works for catholic charities. all of the shining stars who i call clients but they are my friends of the lakeview. my mother always said, don't go with where's a trail. find a path and lead one. you have to be the change that you want to see in this world. i'm proud to serve the city and county of san francisco. i don't live here anymore but i

trek here, hour, two hours, every day to give my all and leave it all on the table. thank you so much. i'm honored and appreciate. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions felicia. thank you again, supervisor safai. >> i want to end by saying, won't he do it? he, god? >> president walton: now in this amazing day, last but not least, supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you president walton. this has been an appropriate and powerful way for us to reopen these chambers and welcome back the public by honoring and uplifting the incredible women who have sustained it city over the last few years and provide

such tremendous leadership every day for our residents. thank you supervisor stefani for your leadership in putting together this event and to our women colleagues, supervisors chan, melgar and ronen, thank you for your inspiration and your leadership. i believe that the honoree that i chosen for district 6 continues that.

the district became one of the organization to provide testing in the tenderloin a neighborhood that was severely underserved at the beginning of the pandemic. they were able to launch the hot program providing direct housing and subsidies to keep people housed. she did all of this while hiring more staff and creating a diverse majority bipoc trans team, providing economic opportunities for community members and helping foster our future leaders and advocates.

ms. saed created the united states first sex worker protection law. she could not be with us today. she's on a flight doing the important work that she does. i'm very honored to be able to celebrate her today and her leadership and again, congratulations and so much gratitude and respect for all of the honorees today. [ applause ] >> president walton: congratulat ions. thank you supervisor haney. i want to thank first of all the amazing women i had the pleasure serving with on this board of supervisors. thank you to all my colleagues for honoring such amazing women who do great work here in the city. particularly who have had to work during this time of pandemic. we truly appreciate all of the

honorees. thank you so much for all of your service and your commitment. madam clerk, we are now at our 3:00 p.m. special order items 23-28. >> clerk: items 23-28, comprise the special order at 3:00 p.m. item 23 is a public hearing for the board of supervisors to convene in the setting rags a committee of the hole to host a public comment to consider the establishment of special tax district, number 22-1, the power station, the improvement area number 1 and future annexation areas and to consider incurring bonded debtedness and other debt for the city and county of 46, special tax district and to determine other matters in connection. item 24 it calls for the special election to determine other

matters and connection. item 25 determines the necessity to incur the debt. item 26 is the resolution to declare the results of the special election. to direct the recording of the notice of special tax lien for the improvement area, item 27 is the resolution to form the special tax district and future annexation area in item 28 is an ordinance to levy special taxes within the special tax district. >> president walton: thank you so much madam clerk. colleagues, we have before us a hearing on established incurred bond and undebtedness. after the hearing we'll entertain a motion to continue items 26 and 28. we have several city staff here to present.

>> thank you mr. president, we have a brief presentation. i'm with the office of economic workforce development. we'll be here for answer questions after a brief presentation. we'll go to the next slide. i'm going to quickly just add

some context in terms of the underlying project. brief reminder, this is the site, the petreo station, just south of the port of san francisco project. that's 23rd street you see on the left towards illinois and third street and points west.

here you see the tally of the site that was studied as part of our entitlement project both the ceqa review and covered by our development agreement and associated plan documents about 29 acres in total. notably includes some port property along the shoreline as well as a portion of 23rd street. this project will deliver improvements on those port assets.

our entitlement document provides the flexibility of future annexation of the non-reelect switch yard in the northwest corner. if pg&e is no longer needed for utility purposes, the d.a. and other planned documents provide flexibility of that being brought into the project which could be developed in accordance with development on other documents. we'll talk a bit more about how that's reflect the in the special tax district that's before you. here in axon view, we see land use and generalized hype and bulk are very rich program in terms of housing over 2600 units.

you can see the port along the shoreline improved and accessible for the first time. i won't go through the whole list. we're very proud of negotiating agreeing to this with the sponsor of this project. 30% b.m.r., representing all 800 below market rate units. i will mention that the bottom two items, benefit to the port as you mentioned this includes the shoreline areas or the port

jurisdiction which have been enjoyable to the public. very proud of opening up this area. the port is able to realize obviously some important policy objective. this special tax district is a benefit. one which most project now and to the city in the future. it allows for the city, the option to collect revenues in the form of potential bond proceeds and tax assessments to fund a wide range of public improvements in the future, certainly ones that we expect may be necessary to deal with as sea level rise. i mentioned the first note there

on the potential of annex, the northern switch yard. lastly, i mentioned the port shoreline areas will be improved. we include in the community facility district is so called contingent service tax. which is structured as a back strop and -- backstop and guaranteed at the port. this tax could be collected and those revenues used to maintain those areas at no cost to the port. i believe now i'll hand it off to marisa and i'll be here for questions. thank you. >> thank yous, john. good afternoon board of supervisors. i'm with the controllers office of public finance. before you today are five pieces

of legislation, resolution to form a special tax district, resolution determining the necessities, resolution calling for a special election, resolution declaring results of that election and in ordinance to allow for the levying of special taxes. as john said, the board reviewed and approved key document for the power station project including the development agreement back if the spring of 2020. the d.a. envision the creation of a special tax district and bonding against its revenue as a key component of the development financing. the legislation before you provides for the creation of the special tax district and for the potential and position of two taxes. of facilities tax and contingent services tax. the contingent services tax would only be imposed in the event that it developer or h.o.a. defaults on its obligation. this tax will protect against

any additional cost. the facilities tax is. of -- expected to be bonded with the project development. the developer with use and bond against this revenue for an initial period either 42 years or until qualified project costs have been reimbursed and the debt has been repaid. after than point, which is known as the conversion date, the city can bond special activities including sea level rise in the project area. on this slide, we have a table outlining the facilities tax rates. during the development period, the revenue generated in fiscal $22 will be about $5 million or $5.3 million depending pg&e

annexation comes into being. the annual amount will reduce to $3.3 million acknowledging conclusion of development activities. this table has the rates for are the contingent services tax should be there needed. the proceeds of the special revenue can be used for a stated eligible uses including sea level rise and shoreline improvements for the facilities tax, for the operation and maintenance of identified open space and privately owned facilities for the contingent services tax as well as bond and related administrative fees for both. this is our timeline for the legislative process. the board reviewed and approved the first legislative packet consisting of the resolution of intention to form the district and the resolution of intention

to incur bond at your meeting. before you today is the five pieces of legislation, four resolutions and one ordinance needed to complete this process. we would kindly ask for your consideration and action today on three of the resolutions. the resolution to form the special tax district, the resolution determining the necessity to incur bound and indebtedness and resolution for call special election. we're asking for a motion to add the rate and method of apportionate document to the official file. it's referenced exhibit b in that resolution that the document wasn't submitted to the clerk at the time of introduction. for the resolution, there's special election and the ordinance levying special taxes. we would ask that you continue those items to your march 22nd board meeting.

thank you for your time. my colleagues and i are happy to answer any questions you might have. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: my question here today is trying to understand a better about the proposal and better understand the development agreement that was approved. help me bridge the gap between where we're at today and what was previously approved. mainly is to have a better understanding the first part question that i have is, a better understanding about knowing that this is a power station and now we're converting it -- we have housing unit in this area. please walk me through about the clean up and approval process.

>> sure, i can share some things on that supervisor. i will offer to yourself or your colleagues, if there's interest for fuller briefing on any aspects of the implementation of the project or regular updates on limitation as it unfolds, i'll be more than happy to facilitate that. some highlights on the remediation, first thing that's important, the remediation has been ongoing. it's parallel process. even if the current owner had not proposed the potrero power station mixed use project, there still be remediation he was under way.

pg&e is the primary sponsor given pg&e's long role as long time owner of the site and operator of the power generating facility that were locate the on the site. they are the primary responsible party for the clean up. also because that effort has been ongoing, the water board essentially deemed much of the site, meaning the site that became the potrero power station, remediated before the project was even approved by the board of supervisors.

d.p.h. has been one of the key stakeholders in that ongoing remediation effort. they had the opportunity to engage and review and comment all of the official notices and reports associated with ongoing remediation. d.p.h. also, depending on certain actions, there are specific permits that may go d.p.h. that they have to sign off. when large storage tanks were removed from the site for several years, d.p.h. had to review and approve that specific plan. every time there's a draft of a

new document, there's a common period and engagement process around that and i mentioned, d.p.h. is one of those key stakeholders that has been engaged. i will mention, the water board approved a risk management plan for the entirety of the power station site. >> supervisor chan: my second

question is again, have a better understanding and bridge the gap between now and the development agreement, could you give us -- walk us through more detail around privately owned community improvements. what are they and an example or how are they being determined and what is the community process. >> i'll take a stab at that as well. we'll be happy to accommodate. as i mentioned in the presentation and overall graphics, there's private land and public land involved in the project. primarily in the form of port property. the site plan and the project was designed to have community

facilities across the site regardless of whether it was on private or public property. there's a development agreement, covers the rule and regulations and standards associated with both these privately owned community improvements and these public jurisdictions. we call them public access open space areas. there's some detail in the exhibit i'll be giving to the standards of the used maintenance and operation of those spaces also in conjunction with the special use district that was adopted for this area. there's some process requirements around the design proposal and construction of some of the open spaces in particular. i think that's primarily what you're asking about. there's 9 or so different open

spaces throughout the site plan. there's plaza, context, there's recreational open space. there's a whole suite of open space amenities provided throughout the site. the exhibit will go into details what the rules and regulations and governing those will be. regardless -- those are still eligible expenditures for the special tax district that is before you today. they act and feel like public amenities. the goal is to -- user of the open spaces in the project won't know if you're on private land or public land. they will look and feel like open space to the user.

>> supervisor chan: thank you. >> president walton: thank you. seeing no one else on roster. madam clerk, let's open this hearing up for public comment. >> clerk: thank you mr. president. at this time, the board of supervisors welcomes your testimony on the 3:00 p.m. special order to consider the establishment of the city and county of san francisco special tax district number 2022-1 for the power station. we will take public comment from those here in person first. then we will take those who joined us remotely to provide your testimony remote, you must connect to the system by dialing the telephone number streaming on your television, it's (415)655-0001. meeting i.d. 2484 139 2261 # #. you will hear the discussion. you'll be muted and you'll be in the listening queue. as stated earlier, integrate

partnership with the office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. interpreters are present until 7:00 p.m. i like to invite them to introduce themselves and the access information on how to access this meeting remotely. in language. we'll start with chinese, raymond for filipino and connie for spanish. welcome. [speaking chinese]

[speaking filipino] [speaking spanish]

>> clerk: thank you all for being with us operations, i think we have one caller in the queue. we like to open up to any members of the public gallery who like to offer their public comment. seeing none. operations, let's hear from the first caller. welcome. >> caller: board of supervisors, this entire area, we are 70.

landmark buildings like the bethlehem steel buildings and other buildings i believe will be preserved. gentlemen should be very clear if they have addressed the contamination of million tons of cold tar linked to the power plant. also two hot spots. we have to have transparency. we need to know about the mitigation of this area. just because we have some land,

we can't go on building housing without proper mitigation and abatement. i spoken about this site for the last 35 years. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you. do we have another caller?

>> caller: i wonder why during pandemic -- >> clerk: citizen 22, i'm pausing your time. this is specific to the special order for the special tax district formation. is that the subject matter of your comment? >> caller: i apologize. i thought it was general comment. >> clerk: not just yet. we will call that item later in the meeting. thank you for your patience. operations do we have another caller in the queue? >> there more further callers in the queue. >> president walton: seeing no more public comment, public comment now closed. i want to thank the public for their comments.

this hearing has been held and it is now filed. colleagues, i would like at this time to make a motion to amend item 27 to include the updated exhibit b. can i have a second? seconded by supervisor ronen. >> clerk: on the motion to amend item 22. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you, item number 27 is unanimously uy

amended. please call the roll for items 24, 25, and 27. >> clerk: on items 24t25 and 27 as amended. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: madam clerk, i would like to make a motion to continue items 26 and 28. do i have a second? seconded by supervisor safai.

on the motion. >> clerk: the date to continue -- >> president walton: apologies, march 22, 2022 board meeting. >> clerk: on the motion to continue items 26-28 to march 22, 2022. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: items it 26 and 28 are continued to our march 22, 2022 board of supervisors meeting. madam clerk, let's go back to item number 12.

>> clerk: an ordinance to authorize the office of cannabis to accept approximately $3 million grant award from the department of cannabis control for the local jurisdiction assistance grant program, february 11, 2022 through march 31, 2025 to amend annual salary ordinance to provide for the addition of size 18 series analyst positions to include -- in the office of cannabis through march 31, 2025. >> president walton: thank you. seeing no one on the roster. can we get a roll call for -- >> clerk: mr. president, supervisor haney has an amendment. >> president walton: my apologies. [ please stand by ]

>> president walton: and, madam clerk, on the amended item. >> clerk: on item 12, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this amended ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 13. >> clerk: item 13 is an ordinance to retroactively authorize the san francisco public library to accept and expand a $2 million grant. for the jail and services for december 31st and to the annual salary ordinance.

>> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. seeing no one on the roster. >> clerk: [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 14. >> clerk: item 14 authorizes the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute a power enterprise operating budget funded agreement with a.p.x

incorporated for power services requiring the power system electricity market. for $135 million through a term ending march 2027 for a five-year term. >> president walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. please call the roll for item number 14. >> clerk: on item 14, [roll call] there are eleven ayes.

>> president walton: thank you so much. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 15. >> clerk: item 15 is a resolution to authorize the tax collector to sell at public auction certain parcels of tax-defaulted real property as defined herein. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. >> there's an amendment. >> president walton: no one's on the roster. >> supervisor safai: my amendment. >> president walton: supervisor safai. not my job to read mine, supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: i just saw the e-mail. >> supervisor safai: i'm going to say something during public comment. we made our amendments in committee. i mean in role call. >> clerk: mr. president, i understand that amanda freed from the tax collector's office has an amended report that they have amended that she would like the board to accept on their behalf.

>> president walton: thank you and welcome amanda. >> thank you, supervisors. good evening. i appreciate your action this evening and hoping that you could accept an amended report to go along with this item. we have removed 88 parcels since this item was heard last week in budget and finance. >> supervisor peskin: so moved. >> president walton: moved by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor ronen. madam clerk. >> clerk: all right. on the motion to accept the amended report, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you. motion to accept amended report approved unanimously. madam clerk, on the amended item. >> clerk: on item 15, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you, without objection, this amended resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 16. >> clerk: item 16 is a resolution to approve multiple retroactive modifications going

back to 1991 to an airport contract 9186 with the bank of new york, the mellon trust company for a bond trustee services to increase the contract amount by $1,050,000. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. please call the roll on item 16. >> clerk: on item 16, [roll call]

>> president walton: thank you, and without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 17. >> clerk: item 17 authorizes the department of homelessness and supportive housing to execute a standard agreement with the california department of housing and community development for an approximate $54.7 million grant from project home key to accept and expend these funds for the acquisition of the property located at 1321 mission street for permanent supportive housing and to support the operations upon execution of the agreement through june 30th, 2026, and to affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. please call the roll for item number 17. >> clerk: on item 17, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you, without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 18. >> clerk: item 18 is a motion to establish goals for the board of supervisors' budget and appropriations committee and a process to guide the board's deliberations on the city's budget for fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll for item number 18. >> clerk: on item 18 -- >> president walton: supervisor safai.

my apologies. >> supervisor safai: our chair is stepping down. i wanted to thank supervisor haney for his leadership over the last two years. we're going to be transitioning into new leadership. and so i think that the way that he incorporated in a community input, the way that he incorporated in fairness i really want to appreciate that and thank him for his leadership as chair of the budget committee and for all the work that he's done to drive consensus and i think that was shown last year doing during one of the most difficult times to conduct a budget process and that was during our covid crisis. and i just wanted to reiterate some of the priorities that were highlighted by the budget committee specifically housing affordability, stability, homeless services, health care, mental health and drug treatment along with early care and education program, services

to seniors, people with disabilities and addressing the climate crisis and, of course, covid recovery in healthier streets in public safety and community safety plans and focusing on the cleanliness of our streets in general. those are the priorities that i have championed over the last year and will continue to champion, but i just wanted to take a moment to thank my colleague, supervisor haney for his leadership and great work. thank you, mr. president. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor safai. i don't see anyone else on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll for item 18. >> clerk: on item 18, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you, without objection, this motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 19. >> clerk: item 19 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to designate 447 battery street also known as the jones-thierbach coffee company as a landmark to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster or hands raised, so madam clerk, please call the roll for item 19. >> clerk: on item 19, [roll call]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 20. >> clerk: item 20 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to designate 1801 green street also known as the golden gate valley carnegie library and a landmark to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, president walton, i just wanted to say a few words because this was a long road to get here. the matter before you is to designate the golden gate valley carnegie library as a

historical landmark. san francisco was the beneficiary of $750,000 which led to the creation of seven carnegie libraries in san francisco. the golden gate valley library was designed by master architect earnest coxhead and opened in 1918. this is the last carnegie library to be formally landmarked. there was an unfortunate administrative oversight that prevented the library from being landmarked along with the other six branches. i know how eager the community is to see that this library be formally recognized for its landmark status along with the other six carnegie libraries and i just wanted to give a few people some shout-outs who have been on this. thank you to melanie bishop with the planning department for her work on this and to bridget maly for her advocacy and my co-sponsors supervisor peskin and supervisor

mandelman. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor stefani. seeing no one else on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll for item 20. >> clerk: on item 20, [roll call] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item 21. >> clerk: item 21 is a resolution to receive the 2021 overdose prevention policies for the department of public health, department of homelessness and supportive housing, healthy streets operation center through the department of emergency management, and the human

services agency to describe how the department and its grantees that provide direct services to clients who use drugs will promote strategies to reduce drug overdoses. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: yes. thank you, president walton. colleagues, this weekend, there was a huge tragedy in my district that showed a side of the drug overdose epidemic that we don't talk a lot about. we talk a ton about people that are severely addicted to drugs on our streets that are homeless, but we don't talk about recreational drug users. the, you know, young folks in their 20s and 30s who go out to clubs might think they are purchasing a small amount of a recreational drug which in the past while never good for you wasn't deadly to the agree that

it is today we don't know for sure but what we suspect that four individuals went out to purchase some cocaine did not know it was lace wednesday fentanyl. came home and took it while one person woke up, the other three never did and they were in their 20s and 30s and had their whole lives in front of them. so i just wanted to shed light for a moment on the other side of this pandemic -- this epidemic. we know that we talk about it in terms of homeless people on the streets and we're working nonstop on trying to prevent it. i believe we have to do more to

and much like in the atsz, we made condoms readily available every place you can imagine. i think we have to start thinking about the fentanyl epidemic in similar ways. i think there are pretty similar drug testing strips that folks can get that we need at every bar and every restaurant throughout the city to have a steady supply of and so everyone can know whether or not the drugs that they're going to take have fentanyl in them. we need narcan everywhere. of course, i think we're a little farther on distributing narcan but not as far as we need to go. no individual in san francisco should take any drug today without having narcan nearby with maybe the exception of

cannabis bought in store. other than that, it's just not safe. my office will be working with the department of public health on this strategy of making sure you can pretty much walk in to any entertainment bar or restaurant in san francisco and pick up a test strip for free because we can't make it complicated. you can get it right now at the behavioral health access center. but you can't just pick it up when you're going out easily. so i just wanted to in the memory of these three young individuals, i hope that we can do something like this as a harm reduction technique throughout the city and very soon. thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor haney. >> supervisor haney: thank you, president walton. and i want to echo the sentiments from supervisor ronen of the tragedy of the

three young people who were lost from overdose. as we know, we're still losing nearly two people a day to drug overdoses in our city. this is something that has not slowed. it's also something that as tragedy demonstrated is not confined to the tenderloin or to district six. most of the people who die of overdoses in san francisco are not in the tenderloin. most of them are also housed and so i know that we are focusing a lot of energy and we should on confronting the drug overdose epidemic in the tenderloin and among people who are unhoused, but as supervisor ronen said, this is something that requires every department, every provider, every business in some cases to have a role in protocols and evidence-based strategies that can save lives. i do want to note that that's

what this admission and this hearing which will happen on an annual basis is intended to do and it's going to take ongoing pressure and monitoring and partnership from this board to make sure that this is happening. i think for those of us who are on the public safety committee, we were, you know, hopeful with some of the steps that have been taken and i do want to note that what this policy does, this is a policy that we passed last year and this is the first submission of it, it requires not only the departments to have overdose prevention policies in place which is new, but requires all of their grantees and all of the navigation centers and supportive housing providers to also have overdose prevention policies in place and for these to be included explicitly in their contracts. and i think in our hearing, what we saw is that there has been some progress in the

development of these policies. there are still massive holes in the type of coverage and the type of scale that's needed to ensure that every department, every official, every contractor, everyone who provides housing on behalf of the city or to people have training in place have monitoring the people at risk have all of the tools and approaches that they need to save lives because this cannot be something that some folks are doing. only some departments are doing because this is a city wide crisis at the scale which we have never seen in our city and there is unfortunately sadly and tragically, nobody who is entirely beyond its reach or impact and there's nothing so far that is slowing.

it's really it's reach of death and devastation. and so i hope, i appreciate that the leadership of supervisor ronen on that particular aspect of fentanyl strips and testing strips and i know that our committee at the public safety neighborhood services, supervisor mar, supervisor stefani, and i know supervisor safai has also been involved with this. we all need to continue to step up and lead on this because there's a lot more to do and these show progress, but until we slow and stop and reverse the number of people who are dying, we can't stop stepping up in every possible way that we can. thank you, president walton. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor haney, and thank you supervisor ronen. madam clerk, on item 21. >> clerk: on item 21, [roll call]

there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, item 22. >> clerk: item 22 is a resolution to determine that the transfer of a type-48 on-sale general public premises liquor license to pacific cocktail haven at 550 sutter street will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and that the california department of alcoholic beverage control impose conditions on this license. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. please call the roll on item

22. >> clerk: on item 22, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. dent walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> clerk: yes, supervisor mar first up to introduce new business. >> supervisor mar: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i have three items today. first, introducing the community policing ordinance that will require each sfpd district station to develop a community policing plan with input from neighborhood stake

holders to update the plan annually and make it publicly available. the goal is to foster collaboration and open communication between police officers and community members and to prevent crime in our neighborhoods. it expands on the department's community policing strategic plan and departmental general order 1.08. the community policing plans will include public safety strategies for each district station that deploy foot and bike patrols, meet language access needs of the community and foster proactive problem solving through collaboration between the police and the community. we need to build strong relationships between our communities and the police department to address the important public safety issues facing our neighborhoods. this ordinance will ensure that our district stations have a proactive and transparent plan to build trust and meaningful collaboration with the community. stronger communities are safer communities with a community policing plan, we can ensure

residents are heard, supported and ultimately kept safer. secondly, i'm calling for a hearing on the building operations component of the city's 2022 climate action plan. buildings are the second largest source of green house gas emissions in san francisco after transportation. we have robust policy frame works for reducing carbon emissions from cars and while that work continues, we need an equally robust frame work for reducing methane. it depends on cities like san francisco getting bold, creative, and committed to solving these challenges. and i look forward to further discussions about our road forward with the department of the environment and my colleagues. finally, i'm introducing a resolution approving an emergency declaration for the repair and restoration work in stern grove increasing the total from $4 million to

$20 million. last fall, an air valve failed leading to extensive flooding and a declaration of emergency by the p.u.c. general manager. in the home of the stern grove music festival and i'm committed to sharing this community space is restored thoroughly, efficiently, and effectively. as remediation work has moved forward since august, the damage to this green space has revealed to be far more extensive than originally thought. we now know we will have to rebuild an entire hillside within stern grove using engineered soils along with rebuilding the drainage systems and structural retaining walls to stabilize the hillside and remove and re-install historical rock walls. restore the concert and west meadow turf grass.

replace buildings damaged by mold and water. [please stand by] >> i want to thank supervisor stefani for her early

cosponsorship and the mayor office. we can all agree that vandalism has become much more visible throughout san francisco. every neighborhood and resident are fed up. in my own district, neighbors have taken it upon themselves to walk around with paint buckets. it's gotten so out of hand. if we want economy to recover, we need to put little more elbow grease to spruce up storefronts and places. reality is this falls on lot of the small business tenants. small businesses have been struggling through the pandemic, having them open for limited hours which will help keep residents sane and provide essential services. this pilot program is meant to offer back some support while

they regain financial help. there's inability for property owners to keep up with the graffiti clean up. the city suspended fines and penalty during the pandemic. i know the issue is up for discussion at committee on thursday. thank you for the timeliness. regardless of the policy debate. i think the city should launch this program tied to economic revitalization by allowing property owners and businesses to opt into this graffiti abatement program this will help combat graffiti. we have been in close discussion with the mayor's office and the department of public works how we can launching this program. i want to thank our mayor and

city administrator for their cooperation and deep experience. i want to acknowledge the office of small business and small business commission for their input as well. we especially want a workforce component that leverages resources of the hiring hall at the labor union to put people to work as they learn a new set of comprehensive skills that will help put them back in the marketplace. i know small business owners and neighbors are anxious. i want them to know that we are working to get this program launched. today, along with supervisor connie chan, i'm introducing a resolution urging the biden administration to expedite issuing special immigrant juvenile visas and work permits to immigrant university who need this resource for survival in an opportunity to heal.

yesterday afternoon, a coalition of immigrant rights organization and abuse, abandoned immigrant youth, filed a lawsuit in federal court in l.a. they are initiating an advocacy campaign requesting that the biden administration issue work permits to tens of thousands of young immigrants with applications still pending review or approval. the backlog now dates back to 2017. to provide brief background, the immigration act of 1990 created a special immigrant juvenile status. currently, the these young immigrants waited an arch 5 to 6 years before being granted their

visas and work permits. immigrant youth judicial for this immigrant visa have endured the unimaginable. experiencing the challenges and trauma in escaping violence in their countries and seeking sanctuary in the u.s. it is absurd to expect that these youth who have done nothing but seek an opportunity in this country to earn a living and to live safely to wait for years with no income, resources or any certainty for success. streamlining visas is a win-win effort.

i'm proud to support this effort and i want to thank the organization that is leading this advocacy campaign. thank you again supervisor chan for your early co-sponsorship. lastly, colleagues, i would like to close today's meeting in loving memory of louise me laney who passed away with her family on february 17th. vivian was born on april 10, 1929 in ohio. growing up on a farm without

electricity near hicksville. she started we are journey to fulfill -- adventures. in san francisco, she met mullaney. vivian was a dedicated member t volunteering for yard duty for hotdog day, singing in the choir and playing bingo. she was also a talented and dedicated mother to her four children. after taking a flower arranging

class, she volunteered to aring bouquets at the church with -- vivian was a gender spirit for providing supported over 200 organizations, charities. for over 20 years, vivian and in close circle of friends met every tuesday morning without fail to make hundreds of sandwiches for st. vincent depaul center for the homeless. she had a zest for life enjoying fishing, traveling and even at the age of 84 went river rafting in the mckenzie river. she will be remembered every time someone tries to replicate her famous apple cake or when somebody called out bingo. vivian lived her life to the fullest and gave her all to serve those around her. she is survived by her children,

martin, patrick, mary, molly and susan and her grandchildren, alex mu laney who is a publisher. we share our deepest condolences. madam clerk, the rest of submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: submit. >> clerk: supervisor preston? >> clerk: submit. >> clerk: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: thank you, today i have two memoriam and one ordinance. starting with the ordinance. today i'm introducing legislation that would prohibit the san francisco police department from storing any victim dna profiles in their dna databases. this legislation is in response to d.a.'s discovery last month that a rape victim's dna from a

rape kit she submitted five years earlier had been used to identify the victim herself as a suspect in a robbery case. the police department crime lab has been storing and using victim's physical evidence against victims, came as a shock to most of us in the city. while the police chief has ordered an end to this practice and d.a. is working, i felt it was important to add to the local law for two reasons. one, recent u.s.a. today article has cast doubt on whether the police chief's order ended the practice of victim's dna data. it is unclear when the state law will pass. we need to clarify that we will never allow this practice in the administrative code to ensure it never happens again under any police chief leadership. furthermore, it's extremely difficult for rape victims to

report this horrific crime. i fear the news coverage about our practice will make it more likely that victims not come forward. we need to send a clear message that is a disturbing violation of victim privacy and never happen again. the legislation does four main things. it prohibits police or city department from storing dna in the database beyond 60 days. it prohibits the use of that data for any purpose other than quality control. it requires sfpd to purge all past dna data by july 1, 2022. i plan to amend legislation requiring the controller to enact an audit of the crime lab dna profile database and report on whether, how and what dna profiles were used in past cases. within two months of this

legislation, the crime lab will be required to publish a public notice detailing to victims now their dna evidence is handled and stored. i hope you join me in supporting this legislation. it was a test week for us in the mission district and today, i would like to remember abraham joshua, young man and beloved teacher at the mission preparatory school who was life was tragically cut short last thursday morning in the mission. abraham was riding his scooter on his way to teach when he was struck and killed by a city truck at harrison and 22nd street. he was only 23. i like to thank mission local for her beautiful reporting of abraham's life. abraham was born in texas on november 25, 1998. the son of a radiologist and pharmacist. his family had fled to escape

the 1988 ethiopian war. from the age of 10, abraham grew up in morgantown, west virginia where he excelled in science, music and school. in 2016, he attended princeton university and studied chemistry, material science and engineering. help spent time learning chinese and participating in a literature program in beijing in 2017. while at princeton, abraham was member of the black arts fan company and ocapella princeton group. he was known for his rendition sam cook's change will come. in august 2021 abraham became seventh and eighth grade science teacher. for him it was a chance to get back-to-back this community. after completing two years of teach for america, joshua planned to go to medical school. he was well aware of the lack of black doctors and wanted to

continue to make a change in the community. the mission preparatory school closed on thursday for a day of reflection of their beloved teacher's life. students remember him as one of their favorite teachers for his humor and infectious love of science. he was the shining it light to everyone who lucky enough to know him and will be deeply missed by family and friends. i offer my deepest condolences to abraham's parents, family and friends. colleagues, it is my honor to share an in recognizing dennis cunningham. he worked tirelessly to defend the rights of those working for justice and civil rights. he was born in illinois 1936.

in 1968, fresh out of law school, dennis and several colleagues from the national lawyers guild founded the people's law office and converted on the north side of chicago. with the goal of working in and for movements for social change. his first case included defending people arrested in the uprising that followed martin mlk'smurder and at the 1968 democratic convention. in december 1969, fred hampton chair of the illinois black panther party were murdered by chicago police in a vicious raid. chicago police crafted a cover story that they were attacked and defended themselves. dennis and his colleagues collected evidence to refute that lie and proof that the raid

was set up by fbi as part of the fbi secret intel program to infiltrate and destroy activist political organizing. after 13 year the state's attorney and chicago police officers, to plan and execute the raid cover up the murders and prosecute the survivors. dennis and people law colleagues obtained the largest civil rights settlement of its kind on behalf of surviving panthers. dennis led the defense of dozen of prisoners falsely accused ring leaders in western new york.

democratic party convention in -- dennis is survived by his four children, bernadine, joseph and miranda, nelly. deeply humble person, he always put the work first. it wasn't about him about those who represented and contributions to justice. dennis's long-term law partner and protege ben rosenthal described him this way, dennis was people's lawyer fighting for every day victims of racism and oppression as he did for his famous clients. he never sought the lime light

but let the light shine through him. he was unrichly unrecognized. dennis was a hero for the movement, humble, gentle and gracious man. he will be remembered for his beaming smile, dry writ and deep laugh. to his family, his colleagues and all those who defended we send our sympathy. rest in power dennis cunningham. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you adam. colleagues i have couple of items today. first is regarding the item that we saw today, item number 15. i'm asking the city attorney we will be sending in the request

to draft legislation to establish clear notice notification requirements and time lines for owner occupied property that are behind on their taxes. last week at the budget and finance committee, we learned that treasure and tax collector were proposing auctioning off certain properties. treasure tax collector's office while commendable, is not required under state law. we will ask the city attorney to clean this up and put into the code there will be proper notification. we found the property and tenant call -- a owner of the trust called in to let us know that they were going through significant upheaval and gotten attorney and they asked us to remove that property from the list. they had intention to pay the back taxes. who they will. i felt like this was the right time to ask that we clean this

up. second, we are submitting a letter of inquiry to the director of public health and the mayor's budget director asking for update on the addiction care team future at san francisco general hospital. some of you know, there's an interdisciplinary team of tending physicians and navigators. assisting people who need help and want to begin recovery by sebbing a as link between general and network of residential treatment provided by and funded by the city. the program slated to end on march 2023. i'm inquiring as to the planning work needed to preserve this program. i visited this program personally. dr. marlene martin. who's done wonderful work during covid.

we got to see lot of the patients as they come in with severe addiction how the city handles referring them to the right type of treatment program. this is a phenomenal program and we certainly do not want to see it lost to budget cuts. finally, colleagues i wanted to take a moment to recognize and honor the persian new year in the official part of that begins in the coming days. which will culminate an celebration here at city hall that you are invited to on marc. it always lines up with the spring equinox. it is actually time to that precise moment. there's a big countdown every year to the first day of spring and the first moment of spring. in our culture we celebrate for 13 days, on at 13th day we have national picnic and families get together and very

similar to lunar new year, new crisp money is given from elders to juniors, people successfully visit family members house by age, usually start with the matriarch to the patriarch. everyone gets together for feast and food and tell stories. it is a celebration that is celebrated about 300 million people worldwide and has been celebrated for 3000 years. wonderful time of year. recognition of rebirth. also on march 18th downstairs in the light court, we'll have a traditional half scene set out. it's a table with symbol of seven prosperous, symbolic things that signify good fortune

for the new year. if you have an opportunity, please come down. if not come to the evening event for cocktails and wonderful celebration. thank you. i wanted to recognize that and put this on the record and start the persian new year. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you supervisor safai. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: i'm introducing final resolution stairwell lane. as we all know, beecha was 84-year-old immigrant from thailand. she was retired in the united states to be closer to his eldest daughter and grandchildren. he was very well for hour long walks each morning.

i want to thank everybody who came out on january 30th to asian justice rally and the national day of remembrance in action. we gathered the senora lane which will be called -- we had a rally to protest the horrible acts of violence against the a.aapi community. for the past year, beecha's daughter has turned tragedy into action. she worked to amplify the voice

not only in the thai but all those in the aapi community. i'm honored that their family has entrusted me to work on renaming this very stairwell after b eecha. renaming the lane will commemorate and memorialize his death as what movement towards equality and anti-discrimination with the asian-american and pack islander community. i want to thank his daughter from the southeast asian development center. thank you for initiating this

and for all the work you do to support our aapi neighbors. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you supervisor stefani. supervisor walton? >> president walton: today i have an in memoriam for juanita jackson banks. she was born on may 16, 1953 in san francisco, california to dr.est ---- unfortunately her husband passed away in 2016. in 2004, juanita was employed with the ihss as a caregiver and a member of local sei u-uhw.

she was traveled to other cities over the weekends to represent the union. juanita retired from ihss in 2010 but her care for people did not stop there. juanita continued to voluntarily assist performer clients to ensure they were properly cared for. in 2015, juanita moved to the dr. george w. davis senior center. juanita volunteered to assist with all at the programs in her building. including the food voucher program and receive several certificates of appreciation for the work that she did. juanita was passionate about making sure people had everything they needed to live a

full life. juanita's children will remember her as a kind, loving, selfless, fearless, outspoken, loveable, godly woman who encouraged everyone to love one another. juanita enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren, grand nieces, nephews and their children. she was known to all of them as granny. juanita was a very family oriented person and she often hosted family dinners at her house to feed her family. juanita wanted to make sure that everyone was checking in with one another and stuck together. she will be greatly missed by her friends, family and community. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. supervisor chan? submit, thank you. supervisor haney?

>> supervisor haney: thank you madam clerk. i have one resolution in support of a very important community intervention in the tenderloin, which is the yellow brick road. in 2008 a group of latino mothers joined to created an 11 block sidewalk mural. the yellow brick road. connecting schools, community centers, parks and youth program sites. for two years this yellow brick road brought joy to the neighborhood and was a vehicle for tlcbd, culture of safety, buildings relationships and agreement with people on the streets and ensuring they were respectful for kids who were walking around along the road. this pilot program for the yellow brick road lasted two years until ongoing maintenance issues led it to be removed.

current state of emergency highlighted how important it is that we take the safety of this neighborhood seriously, especially when it comes to children. however, we have an opportunity to use this emergency to correct the challenges and failures of providing for safety moving forward. today i'm introducing a resolution urging the city of public works to bring back the yellow brick road so we can let everyone know that children live in neighborhood we are committed to prioritizing safety. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you supervisor haney. supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: i'm asking we adjourned of anna. she was a proud lesbian.

for the first two decades in san francisco, anna was a technician and operator at pacific bell. while working for p.a.c. bell she was a shop steward. she left her career telecommunication in 2021 to serve in state government. for the last four years, anna worked for the office of diversity e -- equity and inclusion at sfo.

in her spare time, she held leadership positions, she served on the pride celebration committee from 1999 to 2002, from 1998 to 2002 board president golden gate association. first lgbtq chamber of commerce. i met anna through the democratic club. she first joined in 1999 and active in the club. she served on the club political action and events committee and joined the alice board. she was committed to registration efforts and help

develop outreach strategies. she was a fierce champion of causes and candidates she believed in. latter years of her life, i was grateful for her support and friendship, sometimes sharing mealings, gossipping i will run into her. we will miss you. rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president, seeing no names on the roster. that concludes the introduction of new business. >> president walton: thank you. we are now at public comment. >> clerk: at this time the board of supervisors welcomes general public comment. we will first hear from those here in the public gallery and then we'll take those who joined us remotely. you must connect to the remote system by dialing

the number streaming on your television or computer screen, (415)655-0001. meeting i.d. 2484 139 2261 # # you'll hear the discussion. you'll be mute the but you will be in the listening queue. once you connected press star 3. it system will indicate you have raised your hand. listen carefully when the system indicates you have been unmuted. that is your cue to begin speaking. you may speak to the mayoral attendance and the policy discussion. the approval of the february 1, 2022 board meeting minute, items that are on the latter section of the board agenda, items 31-37, those are the matters considered today without referred to a committee. then matters that are not on the general today but that are

within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board. all other general content would have had public comment requirement fulfilled. as stated earlier, we have interpreters who are present. i like them to introduce themselves and the access information to this remote meeting in language. agnus lee chinese, raymond for filipino and arturo has joined us for spanish. [speaking chinese]

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>> clerk: thank you all for being with us this evening. operations, we are setting the timer for two minutes. i understand we have six callers listening and three in the queue. lets take public comment from mr. washington who's in the public gallery. >> caller: i like to say, welcome to two supervisors. this is women's month.

happy and glad to see you here. you will see my face quite frequently. i know i only got two minutes. it's been a while, almost two years. i don't know how i'm going to get this in two minutes. i was here to speak to district 5. i want to talk about some of the issues of the 261 housing in the a2 area. the fillmore center section 8, six sites. i want to talk about yoshi, about the situation. what's going on with yoshi now? i don't know if supervisors know before the virus, it was a situation we didn't know what was happening. we still don't know what's happening now. my name is ace. i will be on the case about those issues here. i want to say that, i haven't

been -- [ indiscernible ] i will be here on the regular basis going through all the committee meetings and things. i want to say that i'm glad to be back at city hall. i call it silly hall. [ laughter ] i'm glad to be here. i want to say that we're going to be working together and new supervisors, i've been in city hall for almost 30 years. i been around a little while. i'm going to be talking about reparations that supervisor walton, about the dreamers. i got lot on my plate. my name is ace. >> clerk: good to have you back

mr. washington. any other members of the public in the public gallery? operations, let's hear from the first caller. >> caller: what i want to bring to the attention to the board of supervisors, october 25, 1945, the united nations -- [ indiscernible ] i say this because right now, we have russia threatening the entire world. the security council, a resolution response but it says three times because russia use

its -- the general assembly took the resolution and 141 nations voted against russia. russia, belarus and syria, why am i bringing this to your attention? the united nations -- [ indiscernible ] >> clerk: you have 20 seconds

left. >> caller: i heard some laughing going on. the united nations plaza should be maintained. so should the war memorial theater where the charter was signed. thank you very much. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. operations, do we have another caller in the queue? >> caller: good afternoon madam clerk, president walton and board of supervisors. the mayor only cares about fare heights and service cuts. the mayor has no plan for transit in the city. vision zero is a joke. people are being run over by traffic every day in the city. we need a transit equity and a

fair transit for everybody. instead of having buses that go five minutes in pacific heights, every five minutes, we need bus service for poor and neglected neighborhoods. we need to have muni restore services to the lines they cut during the start of the pandemic. we need the central subway open. we need to expand the subway to north beach fisherman's wharf and the ocean. muni is going to come before you with a ballot measure to increase their budget. anything on that ballot should be free muni for all. all the counties around san francisco are doing free transit for their residents. i don't understand why san francisco isn't doing that. with the price of gas at $5.59 a

gallon in san francisco, we should be encouraging people to take public transit. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. operations, next caller. there are six listening and if you one of the six, should star 3. >> caller: hi. i'm speaking in support of agenda item number 33. our garden members it have been in the process of developing a mural i'm asking you that the

board of supervisors help us waive the permit application fee. it's been a very expensive. it's equivalent to $5000 and yearly assessment fee based on the square footage of the stairway. i hope the funding that we do have we can priority. this fairway is going to be riehl exciting. it's going to be very important to help us celebrate neighborhood pride and it's a stairway.

>> clerk: operations, is there another caller in the queue? >> caller: sf can't claim to care for women or mothers until females of child bearing age are protected from second hand smoke at home. shielding their babies from mismarriage and birth detect defects. toddlers from developing leukemia. resulting from unlimited rights for indoor chain smokers, poisoning sf females in densely populated areas. as lifelong pedestrian, i wonder why during pandemic there were more bikes on sidewalks than cars on streets. cops claim to be forbidden from ticketing sidewalk vehicles. they told me call city hall.

elders mourn sidewalk roads, preventing independence as scooter rush 30 miles an hour into the way, shouting, get out of the way! as if everyone had healthy abled body of athletes. in sweden, sidewalks are acknowledged as gender equity protected terrain. a female with kids shopping are just socializing. they call that loitering in san francisco. they create policy to maintain sidewalk for women supporting sf women includes, reclaiming slow sidewalks from lawless scooters like the one that killed 60-year-old actress from the movie "gone girl." during pandemic you'd see women walking in the street, where cars were more reliably observing rule of law.

no surprise. elders and pregnant women get trapped in traffic when the light change preventing them from accessing the curb by schoolers and bikes running red lights without glancing at those in danger. trapped in the intersection of corporate open air markets. selling out our sidewalks in sf. >> clerk: thank you citizen 22. operations, do we have another caller in the queue? >> caller: good afternoon. happy tuesday. very happy to see the first hybrid meeting. my name is curtis, i'm district 5 resident. i want to say that i hope that the remote participation doesn't go away. not everything has to go back to pre-covid. some things should stay. one of them is allowing remote call-in.

allows for diverse group of people to participate, mainly people suffering from chronic illness and disability. i get it, that's public comment can take a long time. thesis the role of the chamber and board of supervisors. for example, commendations as good as they are to recognize community leaders to recognize them, i don't think it falls under necessary item under the board of supervisors. i think that can be done on a separate day if the issue is the same time. i will say if you guys do all go back to in-person, you have to be consistent. i think that an idea that may be i was okay with and may be doing

public comment. let's say that we i think we should keep remote public comment. it's a good thing. thank you. >> clerk: thank you for europe comments. >> there are no further callers in the queue. >> clerk: thank you >> president walton: seeing no more public comment, public comment is now closed. madam clerk let's go to our for adoption without committee reference, items 31-37. >> clerk: items 31-37 were introduced for adoption without committee reference a unanimous vote is required for adoption of resolutions on first reading today. alternatively, supervisor may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee. >> president walton: thank you so much. do we have anyone that wants to sev? supervisor peskin?

>> supervisor peskin: 37. >> president walton: thank you so much. madam clerk clerk please call the roll on items 31-36. >> clerk: on items 31-36. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: the resolutions are adopted and the motions are approved unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 37. >> clerk: item 37 is a motion to authorize preparation of written proponent and a opponent valid argumentings for submittal to

the voters of june 7, 2022 statewide direct primary election. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i like to move the amendment that the clerk of the board circulated the assigning the proponent's arguments and rebuttals to individual supervisors and thank the clerk and her staff for her work. >> president walton: do we have a second? seconded by supervisor ronen. >> clerk: on the motion to amend item 37. [roll call vote].

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. motion to amend is approved unanimously. madam clerk on the amended item 37. >> clerk: on item 37 as amended. i want to say great big thank you to victor young and elisa semara for all the work. [roll call vote]

there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: amended motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk do we have any imperative items? >> clerk: none to report. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals in roll call order on behalf of supervisor melgar for the late vivian louis mulllaney and dennis cunningham, behalf presidential walton late juanita jackson-banks. >> president walton: thank you so much. do we have any further business before you today? >> clerk: that conclude our

business for today. >> president walton: don't ever make decisioned base the on fear. make decisions on what should happen and not what shouldn't. michelle obama, former first lady.

>> the bicycle coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. i was happy to receive one of them.

>> the community bike build program is the san francisco coalition's way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. the city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the san francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. the partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent.

we ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. we make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. >> bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. it is not only a form of recreation. it is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. i really appreciate it. i am very thankful. >> we teach a class. they have to attend a one hour class. things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. after that class, then we would

give everyone a test chance -- chance to test ride. >> we are giving them as a way to get around the city. >> just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. i guess enjoyable is a word i could use. that doesn't describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they haven't ridden a bike in years. these folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. take my picture on my bike. that was a great experience. there were smiles all around. the recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. at the end we normally do a

group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. >> if someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike.org/volunteer you can sign up for both events. we have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. we are growing each and every year. i hope to top that 376 this year. we frequently do events in bayview. the spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. >> for me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. most of the time the kids will

be in the house. this is a fun way to do something. >> you get fresh air and you don't just stay in the house all day. it is a good way to exercise. >> the bicycle coalition has a bicycle program for every community in san francisco. it is connecting the young, older community. it is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. it has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. i have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program.

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illustrator by day and a [inaudible] composition teacher. right now i'm practice by transscribing [inaudible] that is what i have been doing the past couple years, teaching myself. california college of the arts, illustration there has really great teachers. robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot. what i'm working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were

definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing

and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot of people. i chss in ban that had cool break jz get parts on tv shows or things like that. a friend of mine, we had mutual friends that got signed to a record deal in san francisco called 4 nonblaunds and i addition frd the bands and moved to the bay area. i think things are different now than 30 years ago, the world evolved a lot. it could be a challenge but have to know how to negotiate everything and sometimeatize is [inaudible] it was great to get to a point where i was just treated like another one of the people, a musician not a female musician and that is always what [inaudible] >> you don't hear stuff on the

radio [inaudible] i need to write music [inaudible] be more conscious in their decisions and somehow make that poetic so they will be convinced. i think i will do that. [singing in backgrounds] drawing and writing music since i was a really little kid and fortunate enough to have a good education in art and parentss who supported me. i hope my life will continue to allow me to do both. >> for me now having all male, female girls, boys students it shows the world has changed a lot and people areope toon open to a lot more than they were in the past. you can get a deep satisfaction from responding a lot of year practicing in one thing and becoming really good at

something. sometimes i think that it is better to get lost. you have to practice and become good at what you do, so if you have everything together then go out in the world and do what you do and then i think people weal accept that. >> welcome to our city's newest park, the park at 5m. welcome to our city's newest hub of creativity, commerce, and community. welcome, everyone, to 5m. [applause]

>> this is an exciting day that has been more than a decade in the making, but it's just the start of great things to come for the people who live, work, and spend time here at 5m. when we broke ground, we were surrounded by four acres of mostly parking lots. today, brookfield properties is proud to announce the completion of its development commitment. the first is the parks at 5m. about the size of five basketball courts, this is the city's largest privately owned open space. it has been wonderful to see just the immediate reaction that we've had to this open space from the neighbors that have come in today. this stage directly connects to the dempster building. children from all ages will be able to play in our play area, which is right behind the

camline building, and our lawn areas, as well. dog owners used to walk their dogs here in the parking lot because there were so few places to go. now, they can chase their tails in an area made just for them. this here is 415 natoma. it is a 25-story office building designed by k.t.f. 5m opens into a courtyard of terrace spaces. to my left, right here, is the george apartment building, with 302 rental units, which is now

leasing. it includes 98 middle-income units, including housing units for seniors and formerly homeless individuals. finally, the two historic buildings were also renovated: the camline building that is earmarked for retail and nonprofit uses, and the dempster building. new tenants, programming, and residents will bring energy to the site. beginning this spring, community programming for the parks at 5m will feature a mix of events, performances, art, and food curated by brookfield properties. our long-standing community members will be on this property. off the grid will return with popular weekday lunch markets.

cast will take its programming outside of the walls through that door and host a series of arts and cultural programming featuring its tenants and partners. we are incredibly proud to have worked with so many individuals and organizations to help create this transformation. this is a testament to our sponsors and collaborators, and we are very, very happy to have completed this project without a delay through the pandemic, and it's a great testament to the tenacity of our team that we were able to do that. residents are moving into the george. we have some residents right now. the dempcenter is now home to push dance company and women's audio commission, and soon, we'll be home to

restauranteurs, nonprofits, and community. i'd also like to thank ann topier, judson true, former supervisor jane kim, and laura cressemata, and the architects for their incredible design of 415 natoma, among others. and of course, i'd like to thank our incredible team, current and past. a special thank you to mayor

breed for your support of 5m, your leadership and relentless efforts to create more housing for all income levels in the city. we appreciate your efforts to help all people of ages, background, and income in the city. please welcome mayor london breed. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: hello, everyone. i am so happy to be here, to see the almost completion of this beautiful project, 5m, which has been going on, jack told me, for 14 years, and we just broke ground in 2019, and here we are, just a few years later, and look at the magic that can be created as a result of us coming together to push projects like this in san francisco. i can't even believe it.

i was here for the topping off ceremony of the george. not the george in washington, d.c., the george in san francisco, and when i think about what this project means to this community, the fact that we have this open space, this building that supports artists, and artists performing here, the community, the people, this project and what it will do for this community will be something that we can all be proud of. we've worked really hard to ensure that this project, we worked hard to make sure that we implemented neighborhood preference. now, when i was on the board of supervisors, we got neighborhood preference passed. it's been very challenging to implement because of other state and federal laws, but we got it done, and as a result of our work, 40% of the affordable

units built in this project will go to people who live here first. [applause] >> the hon. london breed: and before neighborhood preference, that was not happening, and the community was asked to support projects like this, and they fought for projects like this, and now, they're a part of projects like this. and i see rudy walking through the crowd from united playas, like they're coming to do something on the stage. they put in a lot of blood, sweat, and tears in this project, facing opposition to this community, and united playas fought to make sure this

happened. and none of us could have thought that the pandemic would set us back, but the 1200 people who helped to make this project possible, their jobs continued as a result of our work, and they got this project done. just imagine if we didn't do that. just imagine the number of people who would not have housing because we delayed it due to the pandemic. we knew that we could build housing safely, and that's exactly what we did. and now, as a result of waiting five years, this project, after breaking ground in 2019, is done. what year is this? i keep forgetting, because i don't count 2020 anymore. i stip that year, but the work that we're continuing to do and

to revitalize this downtown corridor, we are trying to make this feel like a neighborhood, that there's a dog run and there's open space, and there's family that can interact with our senior. there's so much amazing things that is happening in san francisco, and this is a testament to what happens when we work together with the private sector, with nonprofits, with the board of supervisors, with my office. anything is possible, and my commitment to eliminate bureaucracy is someone that i will continue to push for so

that bureaucracies do not stop projects like this. people are counting on us to make it easier to do business in san francisco. to cass, to united playas, and i know that rudy is going to work hard to make sure that filipino seniors are going to get in this housing. they said mayor, don't forget about us. when we get through down the street with that housing, we are going to make sure that they are up there.

last but not least, before i leave, i want to take a moment to really recognize someone who has been in the news world for over 30 years. i remember watching him on ktvu when i was a kid. today is rob ross' last day on ktvu, and we just want to let you know how much we appreciate you, your objective reporting, your commitment to san francisco, sending your kids through the public school system, your love for the city, but also, your ability to bring the news to us in a way that we would understand and sometimes be concerned, but more importantly, be excited and feeling good about san francisco, so we appreciate your reporting. we wish you a wonderful

retirement. thank you so much, rob, for your work in san francisco. and with that, thank you so much all for being here, and i think i want to turn it over to -- i'll turn it back -- okay. supervisor haney? i'll introduce supervisor haney. so supervisor haney and i have been working around the clock, sometimes fighting with each other, but more importantly, making sure when the time comes to do the important work, that we are aligned, that we work together, because we know that people are counting on us to deliver for them. so i really enjoyed working with them on this project, but a number of housing in his district. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the supervisor for

district 6, matt haney. [applause] >> supervisor haney: all right. it's on. well, first of all, welcome, everyone. this is a beautiful day to open what is an incredible beautiful space, and i want to thank mayor breed and her team. she has been working so hard to get more housing built in our city. she has a piece of legislation called cars to houses, which turns areas like what used to be a parking lot, like what we have here, into housing, and seeing this transformed into a beautiful form of housing, this is what can happen when we listen to the community. thank you, brookfield, for the

way that you've gone about this. we are here in the middle of the filipino cultural district, for a long time, the home of filipinos here in our city, and to be able to sit here and say that the filipino community, united playas, were a part of this since the beginning and helped to shape it is a huge testament to what is possible in our city. contrary to what people may say, san franciscans want more housing. they want more housing. they just want to make sure it's housing they can access. they want to make sure it's housing that includes community and open space. they want to make sure when we build housing, that we do it with them and for them, and that's what we've done in this project. this is a very happy day in our city when we're building more housing. it's an even happier day for

our city when we're building more housing, and for the south of market neighborhood, you deserve to have more housing in your communities, but you deserve to have open space, you deserve to have places for young people to come and grow, and know this is a place that they can live here and thrive here for many years to come. i don't see her here, but i want to thank my predecessor, jane kim, for her leadership. she really stormed this through the process, and i get to be here to espouse what it would mean for our future, so thank you to everyone who was a part of that, to our city departments, rudy's here, to all of the architects, the funders, to the hearst corporation, thank you. the future of this neighborhood

will be bright, and this will be an important central part of what makes it so. thank you. >> thank you so much. i'm jocelyn, community engager for brookfield properties, and i grew up just a block away from 5m. 5m was created from a decade of partnerships with the community and the city, including organizations that truly make a difference in soma, and those partnerships made this project possible. those partnerships made 5m better. they are relationships steeped in the history of this neighborhood, especially the filipino community, and because of community participate, we

learned what was important to the neighborhood. it's why there's a playground right around the corner, adorned with screens inspired by filipino textile patterns. it's why we provided support for the filipino cultural heritage district. neighborhood incubators, senior housing, women's programs, and youth in arts and cultural programs. 5ms community d.n.a. was created by groups like united playas and cass, and for those members of the open space advisory board, which was created to ensure that we rely on community input, thank you. we built a park that made sense for the neighborhood now and in the future. this is a special day. these relationships will

continue to help us provide programming for the parks and ideas moving forward. thank you to our partners for your passion, commitment, and per severance, and your continued partnership. one of our great partners, cass, the community arts stabilization trust, and you see the building right behind me, they are housed right there, each day, they make it possible for more arts and artists, creative entrepreneurs, and arts and cultural organizations to continue to inspire us here in the city and the bay area. their inspiration of arts and culture in the dempster building is critical to the development of arts in the

building. so please welcome their executive director. [applause] >> i have to put on these sexy reading glasses. thank you, jocelyn. as she said in her introduction, her very kind introduction, i'm the executive director of community arts stabilization trust, otherwise known as c.a.s.t. i want to thank the mayor, supervisor haney, brookfield properties, and the entire neighborhood for your support. c.a.s.t. is a living laboratory that creates permanent, i said permanent, affordable space for artists, creative entrepreneurs, and arts and culture organizations in one of the most expensive regions to

live and work in the u.s. we use financing and structural models to make and steward space to secure opportunities for the future and the present. we believe, as i think do you, arts and culture play a role in preserving the fabric of a neighborhood. arts and culture such as women's audio mission, w.a.m., push dance, who you just saw open the ceremonies, have a new home right behind you in the dempster building. they are pushing the boundaries of creativity and equity while also creating community cohesion. c.a.s.t. wants to make sure

that artists have an opportunity to grow in the community. now you may be thinking, what additional new programs are happening, so let me give you a little preview. among the prospective developments this year are a community mural for the building's exterior and a chance for the arts and culture neighborhood to create a new name that captures the resilience and energy of the region. we want to thank hewlett, foundation for the arts, start small, mobile coin foundation. it is this day that reinforces

all of our commitment to the arts, to bolster our commitment to this area, the bay area. thank you. [applause] >> and now, another community partner that we have. i'd like to introduce rudy corpus, jr., a long time leader for youth advocacy and has been a resident of soma, whose whole family has been here for decades. an organization that is rooted into ensuring safe places for youth and young children to shine. >> we here, y'all. first of all, i would like to say thank you to 5m,

brookfield, the hearst family, london breed. you know, i'm from the city just like you from the city. i'm born and raised in this neighborhood, so when they asked us to come, we walked here. and when we're done, we going to walk back because guess what? we belong here. this is our neighborhood, this is our community. our motto is it takes the hood to save the hood. what does that mean? that means all of us collectively, the mayor, the homeless people, the drug dealers, everyone in this community makes collectively this neighborhood happen. now, one important thing that i want to say is the mayor -- the late mayor, ed lee, who was a big -- who made a big impact in this process of happening, may

he rest in peace. he was there and fought, and if there's one thing we like, you know that, london, we like to fight. one thing that i understand and i know about community building with one another, that we can only be stronger when we work together, so when you see all of us as part of coming together, these are the things that happen. this right here was a parking lot that was dilapidated. it had rats, it had homelessness, it had nothing up in here. so for the project to be built and be full of people that you see in front of you now is a win-win situation, so i want to see this lastly. what made this project happen was the tremendous women that made this happen. this is women's month, right?

march 1. like misha, like carla, like jocelyn, like jane kim. there's so many women -- like alexa, who used to work for 5m. there's so many women who helped make this happen, that you should see the strength of the women that helped make this right here? we're here, and we're going to continue to be here. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, rudy, and thank you to all of our speakers. we're looking forward to seeing all of you on thursday, march 3, at 4:00, for our larger grand opening celebration event. i'd like to call my fellow speakers up to the stage in

order for our ceremonial ribbon cutting photo. if i could have my colleague jocelyn step up to the stage, and then moi and rudy. supervisor matt haney, as soon as he's done with the photo, and then, mayor london breed, as well.

commissioners, can i have a motion to not disclose any of our closed session discussions? >> so moved. >> second. >> we have a motion and a second. all in favor, say aye, opposed, motion passes unanimously. we are now in open session. item number 6, pledge of allegiance. >> 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. >> item number 7, announcements. reminder that masks are required at all times in the hearing room and failure to adhere may result in removal from the room.

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their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open, dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> thank you, jenna. public comment is closed. next item, please. >> 9a, executive director's report. >> good afternoon, president adams, vice president president woo ho, staff and members of the public. i have a lot to report today, i'm going to dive right in. it's great to announce the port will receive an award from the american society of civil engineers region 9, and this is now the second award we have received from the society for cranko park. the design of the park preserves are historic and industrial feel of the site and it gets the

public out into the waterfront and we are really seeing all the community planning effort this commission led over a decade come to life in the park. the award will be accepted april 22nd. congratulations, port engineering. and i have more exciting news. mission rock is over one year into construction, and recently topped off building b. this is going to be a new major life sciences building. the ground breaking for the final building in the first phase will happen this spring, and that's a housing building. so that will be much needed new housing, this is a big achievement for our city. i want to thank our real estate and development team for their dedication to this project, and the commission for your leadership. each of you made major contributions to shape and shepherd this project. on to economic recovery. the port's external affairs and maritime division collaborated

to produce a short video, highlighting the unique and special fisherman's wharf character to local regional and national audiences. the video to give a hand to the fisherman's wharf community. video highlights crab and fish sales and sportsfishing and commercial fishing and the character of our wharf. i would like to take this indulgence to play the video for you and for the public if you will allow, president adams. >> by all means. >> thank you. ♪♪♪ fisherman's wharf, this is a working wharf and it's part of the beauty of san francisco wharf area. >> it's not just t-shirt wharf. the fishing was here before the

restaurants, before the t-shirt shops. >> the fishermen bring the catches in, unload to the processes, process the crab, ship it, export it. >> the back of fisherman's wharf is industrial, it is fish processors. >> it's a working, living, breathing place and great place to visit, a lot of history. i'm a third generation italian fisherman. one of the oldest fishing families at fisherman's wharf. my family has been working here since 1908. my vessel called the lovely martha, currently a sport fishing vessel. that means when you come out and catch your own fish on the boat. commercial fishermen, they go out, catch fish, sell them to the market, it gets processed you buy it in the store. luckily they are selling crab off the boat. the freshest catch you could get. nothing better than a fresh dungeness crab. ours are sweeter, better

tasting, the meat is firmer. >> we love the people on the boats, they are awesome. >> easy, and good meal tonight. >> we just barely got down here in time, we would have come earlier if we knew how much fun it was. >> this is the place to get crab if you are looking for it. >> every boat does a different thing. come down and have wild-caught salmon just caught that morning or the night before, and there is nothing fresher than that. >> that's the whole thing of coming out on a party boat. come out, get your own crab, rock cod, halibut, link cod, sturgeon, salmon. you can't get that kind of fish. >> now they can buy here and take it home which is great, or buy it here and take it to a restaurant and have them steam it and then sit there and have a glass of wine and enjoy the crab we brought in for them. make a day out of it. >> come on over. it's nice and beautiful here in san francisco, and the port, and definitely comes.

>> fishermen are super excited, neat to have the public come down here and interact with us, and brings a sense of community back to the wharf. >> the whole experience for the family where they bring the kids and wow, it's crab and claw meat and everything. >> they get excited. coming down here, picking out the crab and going and posting the recipes and pictures of their food or their kids picking up the crab. making a whole experience out of it. >> it is going to give the locals a part of san francisco that was taken away from them. >> because of this, oh, now i have a reason to come back and realized it's so nice to be here. >> i had a guy the other day say he has not been to fisherman's wharf in ten years and he walked down here. he only lives two miles. he said i'm going to be here every weekend. >> i would like to thank randy who pulled this off.

thank you, randy. equity, excited to welcome back sale g.p. to the bay. an international sailing competition using high performance catamarans, where the teams compete across the season to multiple grand prixs around the world. san francisco will host the grand final on march 26 and 27 on the waterfront. g.p. has set up a technical base camp at pier 96 to temporarily house the racing vessels and equipment. this temporary two-month license has contributed to activating our parcel for maritime, generating revenue, and we look forward to opportunities in this location going forward. g.p. is working to accelerate diversity and inclusion in sailing with the promise to connect to more than 1,200 young people with education and teamwork experiences in march leading up to race weekend.

g.p. and local sales events coordinators have connected with schools in d10 and community centers to provide awareness and access to local use. these race organizations goals are to leave a positive legacy and build a sustainable sport, by providing equal, life changing opportunities and new career pathways for all achieving diversity. and we are happy to be host. i want to recognize our maritime division for ensuring equity is prioritized in the partnerships, including our youth sailing program, jobs for district 10, residents in the agreement and more, please keep up the great work team maritime. now to key projects, we are proud to partner with the san francisco water agency transportation authority, they recently won an award for 3.4 million from the federal transit administration to build a 0 emission electric ferry. this ferry is to support

treasure island and mission bay neighborhoods. the port is excited to welcome more ferry services connecting people through the neighborhoods and jobs and electric ferry services green, which is very good news for our waterfront. i want to thank our speaker, nancy pelosi, and the coalition of the bay area delegation that made funding for this project real, and we have more news on green transportation. good progress on putting in the 2-way bike lane. now open from mission to broadway. we have pedestrian signals, new flexible posts, paint to define the bike lanes and signs to show cyclists about the bike lane. a special thanks to hudson, and many neighborhood users who helped make this work. we are going to be back to you in the commission in spring to talk about how it's going and think about the next move. i would like to thank my team

for preparing this report and that is my conclusion. thanks so much. >> thank you, director. any public comment, seeing none in the room, jenna, let's go ahead and open up the lines for anyone at home. >> thank you, president adams. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the executive director's report. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open, others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> public comment is closed, next item, please. >> oh, i'm sorry.

apologize. commissioners. commissioner gilman on the executive director's report. my bad. >> no problem. director forbes, thank you for the great report. i had already seen the video but i want to say how wonderful i think that video is. i cannot wait to have that at every little demarcation along the waterfront, from the southeast to the northeast, and then zoomed in on the bubble and when we have a whole set of these it brings people to the waterfront. that's one of the things for the communications team and push it out on our social media channels and as commissioners we should push them out, too. and one comment on the bike lane quick build project. i know we are coming back in the spring but always remember hag the protective bike lanes are critical for our waterfront and while alexander samie, a bartender at water bar hit on her bicycle riding home after

work, illustrates the example why we need protected bike lanes throughout the city. her tragic accident, she is in recovery, with traumatic brain injury, a young vibrant woman, a picture of water bar, the bartender with the pink hair, alexander was her friend and i want to take this opportunity to say how important it is as support that we do everything we can to make safety for our bicyclists our utmost priority. thank you for your report. >> thank you commissioner gilman. john, commissioner burton. >> no comment. >> elaine, thank you so much for your report and happy women's history month. congratulations on the award from the american society of engineers and the funding for the 0 emission electric ferry, i think that's going to be a

wonderful addition to the waterfront, and hopefully as commissioner woo ho says all the time, we can continue to expand our ferry service. i also saw the video earlier and what an incredible job brandy and the team did in producing it. i think it was very inviting and inclusive and it made me want to go to the wharf. so thank you so your for your report. >> thank you, commissioner brandon. vice president woo ho. >> thank you, director forbes, that was a wonderful report and i also love the video and i think it will, i think encourage more people to come down and it's nice to see something that we can see in action actually what we propose in terms of live sails on the waterfront, and the rest of your report, i think my fellow commissioners have made some great comments. so, thank you and look forward to hearing more on these

projects going forward. thanks. >> director forbes, stellar report, great video and to my fellow women commissioners and all women, today is international women's day, thank you very much for all that you do. appreciate it. >> you are welcome. [laughter] >> they never have nothing like that for men. next item, please. item 10 is the consent calendar. 10a, requests approval of executive director's nominations of e.b. min, joe igber, noelle yuen, meng-hsiu chen and ken lindberg to the review board. and b, paul furman doing business as bay natives, a new lease for reduced premise of 5,000 square feet of outdoor paved land at pier 94 to the

payment to be comprised of the new rent at $0.45 per square foot, and back rent for lease 15017 of $1,500 a month to reduce outstanding balance. and outstanding on the five year team, and not in default under the new lease, port 2 forgive the remaining balance at the end of the new five-year term. resolution 2213. 10c, adopting findings under new state urgency legislation to allow certain members of this body to allow members remotely, and for the next 30 days, and directing the commission affairs manager for a similar resolution at a commission in 30 days. resolution 2214, and new

procedures for public comment at port commission meetings, to comment in-person or via teleconference, resolution 2215. >> so moved. >> second. >> at this time is there any public comment? seeing none, we will now, to the people at home, jenna will provide instruction for remote participants. >> thank you, president adams. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comment on the consent calendar. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. the system will let you know when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. queue is new open. star 3 if you wish to make public comment. at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> public comment is closed.

consent calendar, no discussion. we have a motion and a second. all in favor say aye, opposed, resolution 2212, 13, 2214 and 2215 are adopted and pass unanimously. >> 11, informational presentation on mission rock project updates and intent for port to enter into agreement for the purchase of non-potable water from mission rock utilities, china basin channel, 3rd street, mission rock street and san francisco bay. >> new technology, just one second. >> thank you. and good afternoon president adams, vice president woo ho, fellow commissioners.

phil williamson, project manager with you today. today's informational presentation will provide updates on several project components and review the project sustainability plan or strategy -- >> i'm sorry to pause you, would you be willing to speak closely in the microphone? it's harder to project with the masks on. i know you are tall and the microphone only goes so high. >> no problem. should i start over? thank you, elaine. today's presentation will provide updates on several project components and review the project sustainability strategy, including a preview and agreement to purchase non-potable water to irrigate the project's parks and open spaces. this slide is a quick written and graphic representation of phase one which you have seen before, but just for a quick

recap, that phase one includes two residential buildings, two commercial buildings, one life science and one more of a traditional office building. ground floor retail of approximately 50,000 square feet and construction of the inland portion of china basin park. the project team has been keeping very busy over the past several months working on bokt horizontal and vertical aspects of the project, parcel g, underway, put my glasses on to read it, and the facade is now being installed and working its way to the top of the building. we are working to issue a temporary certificate of occupancy this fall with full occupancy to occur in 2023. parcel a, residential building at the corner of 3rd street and tony stone crossing is underway as well. we expect that building to top

out at its highest level, 423 in may of this year, and occupy that building in 2023. parcel b is under construction, life sciences building, just to the south of parcel a. construction is underway. we had a big ceremony there a few weeks ago and topped out the structural steel and target occupancy i2023. next year we will see a lot of new people occupying the buildings. parcel f, residential tower slated to start construction the beginning of april is currently in its final permit review process and we are looking forward to that building, pile driving starting in a few weeks. regarding workforce, the port received an updated information from the developer just a few days ago, and are reviewing that now, and will be coming back to you at a subsequent meeting with the full update. just, we wanted to share some of

that information with you, even though it is still under review, but we are seeing prim larly looking at it, $7.3 million, that's helping the project continue its trend toward 20% participation. the latest report again, information is still being reviewed but it's showing us that to date the project has issued $72.8 million to l.b.e. firms and participation rate is up to 13.2%. heading up towards 20% and hopefully beyond. we have a brief budget update for you today. primarily have told you the items before but to refresh your memory, last fall we were successful in issuing our attorney bond financing for the project, totaling just over

$99 million. very attractive interest rate, and speaking of which, the project team is keeping a close eye on the interest rates environment which is apparently in a very volatile moment. also on construction costs and supply chain issues. all challenges to the project that we are grappling with successfully and will keep you updated as the projects change going forward. the current focus for the team is to close on a construction loan for parcel f, and we are anticipating that could happen as soon as this friday, if not early next week, so a big step forward for parcel f ensuing project commencements. as originally reported to the commission back in 2017, the project is now implementing sustainability strategy. in the areas of transportation, resilience, water and energy use. the project has achieved a lead

goal certification for neighborhood development based on these project elements and constructability efforts that are underway. back in 2019 we came back to the commission and you adopted resolution 19-40 that supported the formation of mission rock utilities. mission rock utilities is a non-profit entity that will build and operate infrastructure that's critical to implementing the project sustainability strategy. the key components of this infrastructure are district energy system and a water recycling system that together will produce 100% carbon free electricity for the project as well as 100% of non-potable water needs for the project irrigation and other non-potable needs. the water recycling system will

produce non-potable water from the buildings on the project site to meet the project wide needs for toilet flushing, irrigation and cooling tower operation. this system is being built now as part of phase one, and is located in building b, the life sciences building now under construction. the recycled water itself will be purchased by the vertical parcels for use in those buildings and the port for the parks and open spaces. the port and the mru entity are currently negotiating terms of a purchase agreement for this recycled water. the port's obligation to purchase the water will be subject to a cap on the costs, and the water's cost will be based on actual costs to produce the water itself. a fully negotiated agreement is expected to be brought back to the commission at your april 12th meeting for your consideration and should you

approve that resolution in april we will move on to the board of supervisors for their consideration. so that concludes my presentation today, but before moving on to any questions you may have, i would like to ask fran weld from mission rock partners, i believe is on the line as a participate, to address the commission. fran, are you there? not sure how she -- how would she participate? >> just a second, commissioners as we work out the technology. hold on a second. >> thank you. it may be a couple of minutes. we may decide to forego the comments from fran today if we can't get a resolution in the next couple of minutes. she's not in our virtual

meeting. >> that answers that. thank you. >> that concludes my presentation. any questions you may have i would be glad to answer. >> thank you, phil, for your presentation. >> mr. chairman. >> yes. >> president. i have a question and i'm trying to remember. there's a commitment by the giants for, it was either 10 or 20 units for aged out foster children which i got them to accept at a meeting that lasted 27 years it seemed. but exactly what is the number of units that was set aside for aged out foster children? >> thank you for that question, commissioner. the project is aware of that requirement for those units, transition aged youth, i believe is the terminology.

the last i heard that will be a phase two element and the number i recall hearing is 21 units, but i would want to confirm that. >> so that's still in, and that's the deal? >> yes, that is my understanding. >> is there any way to confirm that's kind of locked in stone? or i mean -- who's monitoring to see that that happens and it also that the part of that was going to be a support system for these young children? i mean -- who's responsible looking after that? the port, a non-profit? >> so the port will be working closely with the developer to implement that part of the project and also with the mayor's office of housing and economic development, or mayor's office of community development will help us implement that

component. >> no question that's going to be in the deal. >> that's my understanding, that's no question. >> the understanding of the developer? >> i believe so. they are not here to affirm that, but that is my understanding. and the port will -- the port is aware of that obligation and will keep you informed, commissioner. >> phil, if i may, could we send to the commissioners information about how that fits in our deal term, where it's required of the developers and who is the responsible party for enforcement? >> certainly, we'll do that through the commission secretary. >> you done commissioner burton. let's open up for public comment, nobody here, jenna will provide instructions for remote participants. an thank you, president adams. at this time we will open the queue for anyone on the phone who would like to make public comments on item 11a. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comments. the system will let you know

when your line is open. others will wait on mute until their line is open. comments are limited to three minutes per person. the queue is now open. please dial star 3 if you wish to make public comment. at this time there are no members of the public on the phone wishing to make public comment. >> public comment is closed. commissioner brandon. >> phil, thank you so much for this update and this report. a couple questions. have we ever entered into a purchase agreement for non-potable water? >> not to my knowledge, commissioner. we are deep in negotiations working closely with the city attorney's official to hash out that agreement. it's a new agreement for the port, there are new examples in other jurisdictions that we have seen and looked at, but so far to my knowledge the agreement we are working on is unique to the port. >> and it has -- has it been

done in the city? >> i recall looking at some agreements with -- from municipalities. i don't recall any that were san francisco-based. >> this is a totally new concept that we are embarking upon. >> yes, it's fulfilling, it helps fulfill coincidentally, a city requirement to use recycled water that the city enacted many years but there has not been a source of recycled water to use to fill that ordinance requirement. what will happen in any projects, the project will build the infrastructure for the use of recycled water but no water to charge the system with. we now have a source for the buildings and the open space and we have to execute this agreement to fulfill the requirements of the utility to have customers to buy the project. >> if i may --

>> your mic looks to be on. >> i'll get very close. >> very, very close. >> i just wanted to let you know that as we were collecting exemplars for the recycled water purchase agreement, phil and staff worked with the city attorney's office and the public utilities team to gather what they have encountered and what they used with other agencies to formulate an agreement that will be before you once they are negotiating. >> interesting. well thank you. and i look forward to coming back in april to see what it actually looks like. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner brandon. >> commissioner gilman. >> i have no questions. i want to say how happy i am in phase 1, 199 affordable units outside the phase two work that senator burton mentioned in his

comments. this is what real estate deals in my opinion should look like. i have no questions on the water, meeting the environmental goals. i'm super happy it's happening in phase one. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner gilman. vice president woo ho. >> yeah, i just had a couple questions, not related to the non-potable water, i think you answered the question commissioner brandon had. in the mission rock phase one, is there preleasing going on now for a and b? >> i believe so, but we have not had that confirmed. i would -- the developer, i believe, is actively seeking tenants, but we don't have any details about their efforts. >> well, we know obviously that the visa is taking on one of the buildings. i think it would be useful for us to know and it's part of, i guess, i see it as a data point for understanding economic

recovery in the city and this is just to know if there is active preleasing going on and what the lease interest is with these buildings since they are coming on stream late this year and early next year. so it would be good to know and if they are actively looking to do the preleasing, and if there is interest. are they promoting and secondly is there interest so we sort of know what the trends are going to be in office space. >> that would be very useful information, i agree. we have heard that there is interest, to verify that and get some actual data points would be very useful. we'll look into that. >> whenever you do another update can you please provide that and have the giants tell us as well? >> we'll do that. >> president adams, one request. i also think it would be very interesting for us to know on the 50,000 square feet of ground floor retail as we ourselves have a lot of retail space coming up, i would like to know what the interest of that is, and similarly, what the deal points are for that?

>> just on that point, we have the kick-off meeting foreground floor phase one development, friday, actually, so we should have more information for you with our next meeting, hopefully on april 12th. >> phil, great presentation. i live down in that area and i drive by every day, walk down to the waterfront and do my exercise and it's in front of your eyes, it's just something coming. so i really appreciate that and i'm really excited about this project. ok. i think commissioner burton spoke. >> actually, president adams, we were able to get fran weld on the meeting, if it's ok if she has a moment to address the commission. >> sure, go ahead. can you hear us, fran? >> hi, thank you so much, i'm

sorry i was not able to get the teams up earlier. thank you president adams and commissioners. it's nice to see you all. my name is fran weld, with the san francisco giants, senior vice president of our development. thank you as always for a great presentation. i just wanted to note on behalf of the giants, i think commissioner gilman you mentioned how excited we are to be able to bring on this environmental info vagus -- information in the first phase and i wanted to highlight that this is one of the first items that the citizens group 15 years ago called for mission rock to be an exemplar of sustainability, and we are happy we have been able to achieve that and look forward to working on this black water treatment,

or black water purchase in the coming weeks and months. i did also want to say that yes, we are inactive conversations, both with potential commercial tenants for the office and clients space in building fees, the office space in building a, and the retail space on the ground floor of all the buildings. we are seeing some uptick in conversations and people's interest and availability to tour the site and have expressing interest in signing leases in coming out of the most recent phase of the pandemic, so we are optimistic that we'll be successful in bringing on tenants in the commercial and retail space and hopeful to have positive news to share throughout the summer with the

group. i also wanted to take a moment on a personal note to let this incredible commission know that after 11 years with the giants and at the helm of mission rock, i personally will be moving on to my next adventure and i wanted to thank this incredible body for your vision and leadership for mission rock. it's been an honor of a lifetime serving as a steward of this important piece of the san francisco waterfront and i have learned so much from each and every one of you and have really appreciated your support of our collective vision here, and when i joined the extended port family there was no cruise terminal, there was no seawall program, resiliency, leadership, you know, collecting interagencies. there was, you know, no racial equity plan and you have over

the last decade led the way on so many things for the city and i've just been truly a pleasure and honor to work alongside you and your incredible staff. so, thank you for just giving me a few minutes to express my gratitude for your partnership over the years and i will be seeing you all around. >> you will definitely be missed, fran. thank you so much. any other commissioners? doreen or kim, you have known fran a long time. >> i would like to say fran will truly be missed. she was such an integral part of this whole team and project and all that it is to say and because of the foundation and the ground work that you were engaged in, this is going to be a phenomenal project. it's been such a pleasure working with you. i highly respect you and all that you have done to create a great team and a great vision

for mission rock and you will truly be missed. >> vice president woo ho. >> i want to echo the comments, she said them so eloquently. fran, we definitely will miss you. we have learned in the beginning in terms of how to go about mission rock coming, there were steps forward and then there were steps backward, we have worked them out so it's extremely collaborative, and we have openness and transparency and good conversation. i got a text today from jack today, and i didn't know it was the announcement he was referring to we will miss you, you are leaving at a good point, the project is underway, and it's been as commissioner brandon knows something on the agenda for years and years, even before i was on this commission but i think you are leaving it at a great point. you'll have a great legacy.

you are part of that legacy and we won't forget it. thank you very much for your work and best of luck in what your next chapter will be. whatever it is. i hope it's still in the bay area, best of luck, thank you. >> commissioner gilman, you have anything you would like to say? >> i want to echo what my fellow commissioners said, and as an early community supporter of the ballot initiative that brought mission rock to be, and 40% of affordable housing, thank you for your stewardship and leadership, and on international women's day, thank you for everything you've done. >> commissioner burton, you have anything to say? ok. only fitting that the executive director, or director forbes. >> thank you so much for giving me this opportunity, president adams. fran, we'll miss you terribly, as the commissioners have said,

we have seen over the decades this incredible hard work that you've put into the project. you are part of the port team. you have always demonstrated transparency, collaboration,s problem solving, even on our worst negotiation times before we had a deal, fran, you were tremendous. your innovation on how to bring to life all of these various values in the resiliency, sustainability program, to the equity program, across the board. you're a true talent and the project is shaped with fran weld's name on it and we all are going to miss you and we hope you stay in touch with us and that we see you in your next chapter. thank you so much. >> thank you, director forbes. next item, please. >> 12a, informational presentation to review the port's proposed 2022 federal and state legislative priorities.

>> good afternoon, commissioners. good to be before you in person and in chambers. port legislative affairs manager. the iet echl before -- the item before you is the port's proposed federal and state legislative priorities for 2022. this presentation and the accompanying report are working documents that provide an overview of the port's legislative priorities and very dynamic and changing context. last year we managed an active legislative advocacy program focussed on pursuing state and federal funding to mitigate the negative impacts of the covid-19 pandemic. we are very successful in this endeavor, thanks to your support and contribution. in 2022, our primary legislative objective is to target funding available through the bipartisan federal infrastructure bill and governor gavin newsom's proposed

22-23 budget. key legislative goals, one, leverage federal and state funding that advances maritime business, reduce earthquake and flood risks and protect key facilities for the port. two, we want to position port capital projects to access federal and state infrastructure funding that supports economic recovery, resilience and equity. three, we want to ensure that supply chain congestion relief funding for the maritime transportation sector includes support for small ports like ours. funding for ports to remain high, while establishing rules on disbursement that benefit the port of san francisco. we want to effectively partner with the army corps and other federal agencies and finally, monitor progress of new laws that may impact the port's sidewalk vending permit program. this slide highlights some of the specific federal initiatives we are targeting to meet the

goals i just outlined. the infrastructure investment in jobs acts, also known as the bipartisan infrastructure bill is a $1.2 trillion spending agenda to upgrade the nation's outdated roads, bridges, broad bands and transit systems. and this initiative, our greatest opportunity to access the funds for the port of san francisco. and bid and win infrastructure funds in a moment, right now i want to turn to the build back better framework which was introduced alongside the build back better bill for climate change and social equity initiatives. passed the house in november but failed to garner support in the senate. last week there were discussions about reviving a stripped down, build back better, the framework

currently provides over $500 billion for clean energy and climate change solutions to benefit the resiliency program. we receive weekly updates for initiatives like build back better from our federal lobbyist. in 2020 port staff worked with speaker pelosi to amend the water resources development act. we wanted to modify, did modify how benefits are considered by the army corps when determining project eligibility and funding levels. the amendment ensures that port projects are able to compete by requiring the army corps to take account of higher costs when building flood reduction projects in earthquake areas. and rivering flood management projects. working with the speaker's office to clarify the language and ensure it's not only rivering projects but coastal

projects like ours. returning to the federal infrastructure plan, most of the funding is reserved to augment existing federal programs, with 550 billion in spending. important to note the money from the infrastructure plan is spread over five years. competitive grant opportunities, like the contract rfps and rfqs, solicited through notice of funding opportunities which provide a description of the projects and the entities eligible to apply for funding. i mentioned earlier the infrastructure bill provides our best opportunity at obtaining federal funds of all the available programs, our best chance to win funding is through the port development infrastructure program, made available through meradd. the purpose of the funding is to

improve facilities, operations, and intermodal connections to seaports. this was issued last month. over the next five years, $450 million will be made available annually. we have several projects eligible for these funds in our southern waterfront, berting and fendering, and drainage work, berth electrification and facility improvements at piers 94 and 96. a lot of the money currently made available is tied to goods movement, making our southern waterfront ecoindustrial projects uniquely positioned to committee. rebuilding american infrastructure with sustainability and equity offer planning and design funds to study transportation waterfront, brad benson is