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>> president walton: and, madam clerk, on the amended
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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
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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.
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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]
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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
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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]
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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]
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clerk, we are now at roll call for introductions. >> clerk: yes, supervisor mar
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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?
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>> 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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.
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>> 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
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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
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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.
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>> 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,
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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
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meeting in language. agnus lee chinese, raymond for filipino and arturo has joined us for spanish. [speaking chinese] [speaking filipino]
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[speaking spanish] >> 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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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]
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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
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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.
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>> welcome to the march 8th meeting. i afthe chair mandleman. vice chair peskin. clerk today is angela tsao. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> present. >> haney. >> present. >> mandelman. >> present. >> mar. >> absent. commissioner melgar. absent. commissioner peskin.
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>> present. >> commissioner preston. absent. commissioner ronen. >> present. >> commissioner safai. >> present. >> commissioner stefani. >> present. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. madam clerk. colleagues. commissioner mar indicated he needs to arrive late. commissioner haney will need to leave early. i make a motion to excuse each of them for the portions of the meeting they are unable to attend. is is there a second? >> second by stefani. call the roll on that motion.
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[indiscernable] that is without objection. >> thank you. madam clerk. could you please call item 2. >> may i make a announcement. >> sure. >> public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 415-655-0001. when prompted enter access code 24928041621. then pound and pound again. when you join you will be able to listen as participant. public comment on an item when it is called dial star 3 to be added the queue to speak. do not press star 3 again or you will be removed from the queue. when your line is unmuted the operator will advise you you
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have two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order received. speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios. if you wish to comment during the meeting listen via public comment line to avoid delay on the live stream of the meeting. >> supervisor mandelman: cheese call item 2. approve the resolution making findings to allow teleconferenced meetings under california government code section 54953e. this is an action item. >> this allows public meetings to meet during a proclaimed
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state of emergency. we must make the finding it has considered the state of emergency and conducting in-person meetings would present implement risk to at temperature be des and public health and safety. this applies to the transportation authority board for the next three weeks. >> thank you. i should say we are moving to get the ta board meeting in person as the board of supervisors is. hoping to get that going as soon as our april 12th meeting. with that we should open this item to public comment. >> there is no public comment. >> public comment on item 21 closed s.there a motion to approve item 2. >> so moved.
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>> thank you, commissioner melgar. >> second ronen. >> please call the roll on item 2. 2. (roll call).
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>> we have nine ayes. the item has finally approval. >> please call item 3. item 3. community advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> welcome, john larson. >> good morning, chair mandleman, vice chair peskin and commissioners. i am chair of the advisory committee to report on the meeting held february 23rd. on the discussion agenda there were three items. there were a number of questions and discussion generated among the members meeting. the loan action item on item 80
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your agenda request to alloy kate $2 million in -- allocate $2 million. the workday funds was significant part of the focus. they want assurances energy stations or evenner guiser stations would be evenly distributed along the 11 districts. the addition of bike to wherever day given this low return of commuters to the downtown core parked members in the outer districts with long commutes to downtown to recommend broadening the scope to include biking to wherever and everywhere and appeal to noncommute bike south carolinaists as well. -- bicycles as well. they suggested all allocation
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requests include a presentation on equity benefits and impact of proposed projects as part of the regular presentation. as opposed to the issue raised in discussion. those members with more communities of concern in their districts. the cac supports this idea going forward. the cac heard an item from a previous meeting on san francisco climate action plan 2021. there was interest in moving people to electric vehicles give ten major impact on reducing greenhouse gases through transition to eev. staff responded to the focus on transitions to electric vehicles were keys to bringing down costs and moving the rates to levels assumed in the climate action plan. to focus on more broad-based to
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reduce private vehicle use if electric ones. a few members were interested in the component parts of the plan and how they interacted to achieve climate goals. the inbefluence of carbon through public lands trees and impact of walking and biking and green transit that included nonfossil-fuels. staff responded the impacts were sinnergistics. the strategies mentioned above while beneficial for a number of other reasons had impacts on emissions at the margins. the main source of emissions that need reduced are still private cars and trucks being driven around the city. transportation demand strategies including pricing strategies.
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the cac received an update on ex expenditure plan for the sales tax you are voting on in item 6 today. among the funding categories they were pleased to see the neighborhood transportation program being codified to the transportation system development and management expenditure category. this program allows creative and worthwhile projects grown from community-based planning. in addition to cac welcomed to programs equity priority transportation program to fund projects focused on equity priority and disadvantaged communities. the transportation program. they haven't experienced it in years such as west side of san francisco and new areas in the city as well. i would like to take this opportunity to thank cac member
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rosa for serve serving on the advisory committee and the hard work for putting this plan together. that is my report today. thank you. >> thank you, chair larson. open this up to public comment. >> hello, caller. is this is right time to talk about the expenditure plan or wait until the regular agenda item. >> you should be waiting. >> i will wait. sorry about that. >> thank you so much, caller. there are no other callers. >> we will close public comment on item 3.
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please call item 4. >> approve the minutes of the february 15, 2022 meeting. this is an action item. >> i do not see any comments from colleagues. >> public item on item 4. >> no public comment. >> is there an motion to approve item 4. >> melgar approve. >> i will second. please call the roll. >> i had advice that i should call the names and say excused if they don't respond. commissioner chan.
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>> aye. >> commissioner haney. >> aye. >> commissioner mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner mar. >> excused. commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> absent. commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye. >> commissioner walton. >> aye. >> we have nine ayes and the item has final approval. >> thank you. please call item 5.
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>> appoint one member to the community advisory committee. this is an action item. >> mr. pick ford. >> good morning. the transportation authority has an 11 member advisory committee with two year term. applicants must be san francisco residents appear before the board at least once to describe interest and qualifications. attachment two is a list of applicants and detailed information on each applicant this. is due to district 8 representative's term. i can take questions. mr. canaan is here. we were expecting other candidates. i do not see the name on the list. >> let's hear from mr. canaan. >> i will begin the timer.
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>> good morning, chair mandleman, vice chair peskin and commissioners. very brief. district 8 resident seeking reappointment. my applicant summarizes my background with s.f.m.t.a. if reappointed i will focus on muni transportation network company vehicles, bicycle and scooter sharing. i am happy to answer any questions. thank you. >> any other candidates to hear from? i will take that as a no. we will open up to public comment. >> there is no public comment.
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>> public comment on item 5 closed. i want to thank you, peter, canaan for going on 14 years of service. you are willing to serve? i am personally grateful that you are signing up again at this time. you are the dean of the cac. your expertise and knowledge are valued by other members and by me. i am going to move that we approve peter's application to continue serving on the cac. is there a second? >> second, preston. >> thank you, commissioner peskin. >> call the roll. >> commissioner chan.
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>> aye. >> commissioner haney. >> aye. >> commissioner mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner mar. >> absent. melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> absent. commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye. >> commissioner walton. >> aye. >> we have nine ayes. the item is approved. >> thank you, madam clerk. please call item 6. >> endorse the 2022 expenditure plan for the reauthorization of
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the local sales tax for transportation. also, a note we have received renewed public comment for this item posted to our website. >> thank you. i have a few remarks to start. this item to endorse the 2022 expenditure plan is a major milestone to guide the next generation of investments in san francisco. this is updated 30 year spending plan for the sales tax that promised to deliver safer streets and more reliable transit and reduce congestion and improved air quality across san francisco. as with the prior expenditure plan managed by the transportation authority in 2003 this would not raise the tax rate but provides a plan to
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spend extension of sales tax level that must receive approval by two-thirds of the san francisco voters that i hope appears on the november ballot. for the 30 years transportation played a role. it is important to have input to ensure we have a good plan building on lessons from the past. there will support key goals around vision zero, climate action. it is the leading source of greenhouse gas. we have an opportunity to leverage billions of dollars to create jobs to support economic recovery. this spending plan sets up to make good use of those opportunities. this is the first in a number of approval steps before extending
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that to 2022 expenditure plan to the november ballot. this includes approval by m.t.c. and action by the board of supervisors to place the measure on the ballot which i hope to advance in may and june. first the board must endorse the expenditure plan for 2022 before us. i want to recognize and thank the more than two dozen who spent the last six months as members of the advisory committee including every district, neighborhood and equity advocates. we heard from departments desiring use of the funds delivering with the staff and arrived at what i believe is a fair and real sticks balance of the priorities which they forward to us at the final
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meeting two weeks ago. i want to thank everyone who served but particularly the chair and vice chair. for your hard work on this plan. this increases sales tax to downtown caltrain expensive and muni capacity projects street safety and increasing funding for paratransit which is a lifeline support during the pandemic. i look forward to the discussion on the item today and hope we can come together to advance the plan. i want to thank the agency staff not just from transportation authority, chief deputy and principal government affairs and
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s.f.m.t.a., bart, public works and others for hard work on the plan and those providing feedback for the opportunities from attending the meetings and town halls and outreach efforts to sending in comments. with that i will ask michelle to present the item followed by the chair and then i believe we have the bart directors dusty and lee. >> thank you, commissioners. i am michelle. i am extremely pleased to be here to present the 2022 expenditure plan as recommended by the expenditure plan advisory commit fee for your endorsement. brief update on our outreach and
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engagement and e.p.a. c and focus on overview of the recommended 2022 expenditure plan before the next step. for the benefit of those who may not have seen this we are working to a new plan for the existing half cent sales tax for the november 22 election this would extend the tax and establish a new set of funding priorities. we want to remind why we want to go the voter as well. the projects are complete or under construction. many of the programs are anticipated to run out of funds in the next few years. by establishing the new plan it allows us to replenish ongoing programs and maintain jobs which is crucial to our city's economic recovery. the new emerging priorities such
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as the meet the capital projects, upgrades to the train control system and management and redesign such as those. we keep the city competitive with a local match and local opportunities coming up to benefit this. our outreach had a variety of different components. connect sf, town hall, getting to the community meetings where people are gathering. to insure we hear from a diverse lane of folks. we conducted one-on-one interviews working in our equity priority communities. we held free focus groups. one in spanish, chinese and russian with the trusted cbos.
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we had an online survey for a few months as well. we just closed that. through all of the other mechanisms included in the outreach summary in your packets. i am told my audio is scratchy. one part of this process. as noted e.p.a. c chair is with us to speak after this presentation. on behalf of staff i want to reiterate appreciation for time and dedication everyone put into
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this work. overall, from all of this outreach we heard a wide variety of feedback. there is the details summary in your packet as well. a couple of commonalities across the board such as desire to improve transit service and particularly street pedestrian bicycle safety. also the need to invest with equity at the forefront of the process. there are differences across different parts of the city where some areas of concerns about parking and traffic congestion. other areas were focused on street safety. the 2022 expenditure plan covers a broad range of exigible transportation project types including planning funds for robust planning for neighborhood issues and solutions. the e.p.a. c met nearly a dozen
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times. last meeting two weeks ago and recommended endorsing the expenditure plan. this is to help the city see the benefits. deliver safer streets, more reliable transit and reduce congestion and improve air quality consistent with the san francisco transportation plan. this is a high level summary of the plan. divided into five big categories. full plan is in your packet as attachment 1. $2.6 billion in 2,020-dollars including conservative forecast priority one and more optimistic but reasonable forecast or priority to.
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attachment two shows the funding level in more detail. a lot will look similar to prop k expenditure which is board is familiar with. it has left the mark on the 2022 plan. prop k has four categories. the transits has been split into two major perhaps it is projects and enhancement. included in major projects are big capital investments. transitory liability and batter. that includes different investments about increasing capacity, frequency and reliability. caltrain downtown extension is an important foundation project to bring caltrain to down down san francisco but a link to a potential new transbay crossing.
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maintenance and enhancement is biggest. it includes the crucial maintenance funding for muni and bart and caltrain. we can find rider touching enhancement like improving access. this includes some funding for the next generation of planning. potential west side rail project, subway north or express planning. things out of the process. the other three programs is prop k with revisions. streets and freeways is focused on safety including pedestrian and bicycle safety. this also includes maintenance for street repaving and new and up grated traffic smalls. this also has seed funding for
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major street and freeway redesign. including the tunneling or realigning. those are coming out of that connect sf. paratransit services for seniors and people with disabilities remains important part of the program. the prop k this is the only operating fund in the plan. finally. the longest name transportation system development and management includes funding for cost-effective projects that support shifting to sustainable mode bike biking or walking or less congestion at certain times of day. what we are to do here is making the neighborhood transportation program permanent. you see these projects.
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the plans is important for projects. this funding provides match funding to implement those plans. there are two new programs by the equity programs specifically geared toward equity priority communities and equity focus city-wide. another new program is the development oriented transportation program to help fund transportation projects in parts of the city planning for more housing development and may need transportation to prime the areas for development. west san francisco has a number of new pdas in the update to the regional plan. this funding can support work in those areas. we want to provide a direct comparison to the prop k plan.
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what you see here aren't the categories in the plan. we are trying to show project types we anticipate funding. i think this helps show where the committee left its mark by comparing this new plan to the old one. the biggest increases in paratransit and safe streets. those were not only priorities for the e.p.a. c but the community. given paratransit is the only operating program it was important to maintain stability for the program since this sales tax is one of the biggest funding sources for that program. increases in those areas in the same funding envelope you will see light decreases in other programs small decrease for transit maintenance pan street maintenance. the decrease in street
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maintenance is offset by the gas tax funding today indicate -- dedicated to local streets and roads maintenance. major enhancements increased in funding as has transportation and neighborhood planning. in particular that is to accommodate the new programs we discussed on the previous collide. freeway safety. this investment agency has gone down. in prop k one major project fit this. the rebuild of the approach to golden gate bridge. what this plan does include is small amount of funding for planning and project development for those types of projects identified in the streets and freeways part of connect sf and where freeway ramps touchdown on
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safe streets. in addition to revised funding distribution, expenditure plan includes instruction for transportation authority how to administer the sales tax funds. they are here as well. the 2022 expenditure plan does maintain satisfy year project prioritization in prop k. every five year we work to identify the projects to receive funding from each of these expenditure plan programs over the next five years, creating five year project list. 2022 plan adds equity to the process. this is very important to the members of the community who particularly are attending the meetings and who we heard from through other presentations to community groups.
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update to this process to strengthen community support to more than a box to be checked to see where the support is coming from. two additional new requirements in the expenditure plan i would like to height. one is requirement the transportation authority report out on allocations. not only city-wide level which we have done before. also looking at what projects are best serving disadvantaged populations across the city. the complexity of delivering major projects. the transportation adopt over site guidelines. that request include downtown expense or big muni procurement. full text is included as well.
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that will include funding level and policies. as the chair noted, we have a number of required approvals to get the measure on the ballot in november. if the board epdorces this plan this month we will take to the metropolitan transportation commission which is required in april. the board would approve it on the november ballot by the deadline at the end of july. if two-thirds approve at november 22 election 22 plan would take effect april 1, 2023. in the meantime the transportation authority would administrator prop k. we plan to post the board of supervisors dates on the project website which final. here is o