unemployment rate is 53 years low. how can you justify that many people lost jobs because of covid? it is so hard for businesses to find employees now. please stop the eviction protection. stop taking properties for public use. stop the government abuse of power. thank you. >> next speaker. >> thank you. good afternoon board. my name is sarah freed here to represent interfaith movement for human integrity. i'm a san francisco resident and bay area faith leader. our organization works with many

san francisco faith communities that work diligently to stand up for immigrant justice. i'm speaking today in support of supervisor ronen's safety net for all resolution and the resolution to uphold sanctuary. sacred scriptier speaks to the importance of loving your naerbd and welcoming the stranger. since 1989 san francisco has been a proud sanctuary city. our local communities need strong protections from double punishment caused byclusion with ice as well as protections from falling into poverty. when communities are supported our neighborhoods and local economy thrive. the san francisco sanctuary ordinance is now long standing policy to keep our communities together. all human beings are sacred and deserve protection compassion and care. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. let's take the next caller, please.

>> hello. sorry for the noise. i'm on bart. my name is jacky from south (indiscernible) here to defend san francisco sanctuary city-i apologize for the noise. sanctuary policies have been found to be safer and [difficulty hearing speaker] insure equal treatment for all communities. [audio cut out] especially children of undocumented residents. i urge the board to make the right decision and uphold our values and compassion, equality and humanity and as a former druck prevention coordinator, criminalizing people is not use prevention. thank you. >> thank you. let's take the next caller, please. you have two minutes.

>> can you hear me? >> yes we can. please begin. >> okay. this is mina young. my mother in law is 82 years old and we are san francisco-have been san franciscans for over 40 years, and we live in district 1. my mirther mother in law has been suffering from cancer. he owe 11,000 in rent but still has to pay for appliances and other repairs with no pay. this is slavery and she has no way out. please stop the so call eviction moratorium or eviction protection. it is out-right robbery with government as the

-my mother in law has the right to have timely compensation for her service as part of the constitution that i know of and the supervisors as i know swore to defend the constitution, so what you are doing is wrong. the moratorium is a mistake and should never happen again and you need to stop the abuse right now. thank you. >> thank you so much. let's take the next speaker, please. >> so, no one is that i think is recommending a whole sale repealing of our sanctuary city ordinances so i don't know why there is so much fuss from all the non profit reps. what i do think is a reasonable amendment is what supervisor dorsey proposed, which is to add fentanyl dealing

as a exception to our sanctuary city protections. i think everybody needs to understand, we are dealing with a fentanyl epidemic. i walked by on market street between 8th and 6th there are people strung out and severely addicted. when someone son or daughter gets hooked on this poison it is horrible, it is destroying families, so if somebody has a-is convicted of dealing fentanyl and caught again, it is a kindness to get them out of our country. sorry. >> can we have the next speaker, please? >> hello. this is michael putrellis calling and

i'm sorry to report on the death of the castro theater. we are now in the third month of no film programming at the castro theater. it is an absolute shame that greg perlos and north planet entertainment have stopped showing any movies at this beautiful theater. they have kept the castro theater blank for two months now. in addition, they have metal barricades in front of the box office to protect that beautiful box office, and i am very sorry that the castro theater as we knew it as a cultural institution for many gay people for lots of

film festivals, those days are gone, and it is really also with shame that we have not seen any protests organized by the castro merchants or castro cultural district. the death of the castro theater must be recognized so that we can keep the other single screen theaters alive in san francisco. why the castro theater died, i believe has a lot to do with the nasser family not maintaining this cultural institution and not keeping it up to code in terms of its structure and seismic retrofitting, so let us take a moment to recognize the death of the castro theater. thank

you. >> thank you for your comments. mr. lam, do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> hello, good afternoon. my name is alejandro garcia in support of supervisor ronen safety net for all and up hold sanctuary. it is important to maintain the sanctuary ordinance as is in san francisco to avoid anymore separation of families by using immigrants as scapegoats to collude with dhs and ice. not only does the ordinance protect immigrants and provide them a safe living situation, but the ordinance also allows workers to come forward when their rights are not respected at work. more then i can

count workers have come to us letting us know they fear retaliation and calling-employer calling ice on them so they didn't report wage theft which-discrimination, retalitation and sexual harassment. also calling to urge the supervisors to oppose it proposal broad forth by mayor breed and district attorney jinken and those by supervisor dorsey as well. we cannot arrest or deport our way to public safety. mass incarceration is proven to be inefficient time and time again. i also urge you not to support the mayor request for additional $27 million for the police budget. right now a lot of communities are struggling to meet basic needs and the last thing we need is more money for a agency

that continually harasses black and brown communities. the safest and most healthy communities don't have the most police. they have the most resources and we cannot arrest our way to public safety. lastly, i urge the supervisors support safety net for all- >> thank you. >> it is unfair that people- >> billy lets hear from the next caller, please. >> hello. my name is francisco, i live in district 9 and spent 15 years defending against deporpitation as a immigration lawyer and oppose attempts to weaken the sanctuary ordinance. so many beautiful comments from immigrants communities and hope you are listening because once you escalate talk about deportation and make

public suggestions law enforcement should work more with ice, even if you think it is narrowly tailored exceptional you are going to trigger fear of the police. you are going to trigger fear of deportations and fear of broken families sent to countries with lives could be at risk and this is something no person should fear t. is also a legitimate fear because if we make one exception here we open the flood gates for more. have supervisors considered how to actually enforce this exception? the potential impact of institutionalizing a relationship between the sheriff department and ice and how that could have further negative consequences because let me assure you, giving ice a inch they will take a mile once there is a institutionalized

relationship there will be abuses. now, some people say sanctuary was never designed to protect and fill in the blank with a horrible offense. well you know, they are actually right, and here is the deal-there is nothing in the sanctuary ordinance that stops police from making an arrest. sanctuary does not present a legal defense to a crime. we can have a debate about whether policing stops drug dealing and drug use- >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. billy, let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hello. >> yes, welcome. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can hear you. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> i'm a retired small

house provider in san francisco and strongly against the extension of the eviction protection. my tenant pay the rent regularly before covid-19, but since the eviction protection is in place, april 2020 he have been paying me a single penny for 3 years but bought a new car in this time. i cannot take him to court because of the eviction protections. i got some rent relief covered only a portion of the rent but not enough to cover the cost. the rent relief program running out of funding, so i get nothing since last summer. i just want to ask the council to

-who want the vote the extension of the eviction program to think about, have you contribute a portion of your salary to support these poor renters? if you did not, then why you ask me to support the tenants? i have been taken advantage for 3 years already. why should i still continue to be a burden of the poor tenant? it is responsibility of entire society to support the poor tenants, not only me. eviction protection just lurs good people become bad people and lur bad people become

robber. that's my comment. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> can you hear me? >> yes, we can. welcome. >> perfect. i don't see a timer. there should be a timer. my name is san francisco and we need to comment every single line item for the brown act law. also in public comment one can say anything they wish so think that is very critical to understand the constitution so i are believe there should be term limits. that means such as aaron peskin is actually out term so should be leaving. very important public

meeting, public comment is (indiscernible) very quickly, three points, dialogue, education mental healthness resources. root cause of the city and contry problem is mental illness. (indiscernible) drug use. anyone using fentanyl (indiscernible) mental illness. (indiscernible) the origin of fentanyl is (indiscernible) produced by a dr. paul janson, a physician. now become a

synthetic opioid. i think 50 to hundred times stronger then (indiscernible) it isn't an illegal drug. one can go to the doctor and get fentanyl so want to make sure we are clear on this. when you say (indiscernible) all these other pharmas on drugs because they created the drugs. dr. janson in10ed intended to be a drug to kill a million people? i don't think so. >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. let's hear from the next caller, please. >> hi. my name is gabriela wells and i am a human rights advot can icate in san francisco, a bay area native and i speak in super strong support of supervisor ronen's safety net for all resolution

and the resolution to up hold sanctuary. we know that our local communities need strong protection from double punishment caused byclusion with ice as well as protections from falling into poverty. let's be clear, ice detention is plagued by severe systemic abuses and reports finding horrible horrible treatment including sleep-deepervation, medical neglect and human rights abuses so we cant fall down a slippery slope. this city has a sanctuary ordinance that we must uphold and i commend supervisor ronen for this and all her other work and i really hope all supervisors will uphold this and maintain our beautiful sanctuary city ordinance. thank you. i will give the rest of my

time to other speakers. >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. can we hear from our next caller, please? >> hello, good afternoon. my name is christian a attorney with immigrant resource center in san francisco. i'm speaking in support of supervisor ronen's resolution to up hold sanctuary. san francisco has lead the way in protecting immigrantrectomies rights and one of the first to send message to department of home land security to not (indiscernible) we stand strong-we need to stand strong and send message orphunity instead of implementling policies and reiterating racist and discriminatory narratives held and support by the extreme right. now when i hear what is happening in san

francisco it all most sounds like i'm tuned into fox news segment. we know these are tough issues, changing our sanctuary policy is not the way to solve this. we need and can do better. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> that's me. good afternoon supervisors. beverly uptonism thank you so much for your recognition today of the women housing coalition supervisor peskin and life saving work. the san francisco domestic violence consortium supports our sanctuary city ordinance with no new exceptions. this helps to protect survivors of domestic violence and all gender based violence and children while they reach out for help and try to find solutions and support. thank

you. >> thank you beverly upton for your comments. next caller, please. before we do, i will just announce that we have about 20 callers in the queue and 7 who are already in line. if you are one of the 20 and like to speak this afternoon please make sure to press star 3, other wise we might take the next group to the end. >> hello supervisors. today i'm calling for a end to war on drugs. as we can see in our society when we have done a war on substance and particular substance that substance is grown more potent. today i like to talk about some of those examples. first of all we have an example we are all in crisis about today. the one we are willing to sacrifice our liberties for and

sanctuary city ordinance for, opiates. (indiscernible) the government had a war on it. in response to that war that war implemented primarily for the purposes of criminalizing people of asian descent. we got a heroin crisis and that was pervasive in the city and tour the tenderloin apart and we fought a war against it. that war has brought fentanyl. we are fighting fentanyl today and if you think that war is over and that process is done, i have to tell you the dea is commenting that car fentanyl is responsible for a significant portion of our new wave of overdoses. we nearly made these substances more potent. the process is

reversible and should look to alcohol to show us that. today however i think it is important that i stand with sanctuary city ordinance and stand with immigrants of ourf city in saying, this war, this leg of the war won't help. it only has harm for us. it only has a more potency to the issues that are in our society. we should look to embrace the immigrants in our society and look to protect the sanctuary city ordinance. >> i want to apologize to everyone i interrupt. we are setting the timer for two minutes. billy lets hear from the next caller, please. >> hi. my name is victoria sun a immigration attorney in san francisco. i am also

a volunteer with asian (indiscernible) i'm speaking today in support of supervisor ronen's safety net for all resolution and the resolution to uphold sanctuary. i represent immigrants who live and work in san francisco who are in deportation proceedings including those with criminal records. i have seen how deportation and immigration detention tears families apart traumatize children elders and communities. we learned from past experience any new loop hole in the sanctuary city status even talking about loop holes or exceptional (indiscernible) tears families apart. thee attacks on sanctuary will spread fear among immigrant communities and signal sf is no longer a safe place for immigrants no matter how many dick decade they lived here-also set a precedent for other cities and counties to dismantle their policies. san francisco should be a leader in protecting immigrants and being welcoming for

immigrants. ice detention is plagued by severe abuse with (indiscernible) subject to sleep deprivation, medical neglect abuse and mistreatment. there are dozens of people on hunger strike in kern county for the past 19 days protesting the horrifying condition s in detention. we also know police use racial profiling to target black and brown communities and relying on police arrest and convictions is not how we should be determining who is welcome in our community. sanctuary ordinance is crucial in upholding equal justice due process and building a strong safe community for everyone. that's why i strongly support supervisor ronen's resolution and oppose any attempts to weaken sanctuary including the mayor district attorney and supervisor dorsey proposed ordinance. >> thank you for your

comments. do we have another caller in the queue, please? >> yes. good afternoon supervisors. (indiscernible) asian law caucus. i am also speaking in support of supervisor ronen's safety net for all resolution and the resolution to uphold sanctuary. we know our local communities need strong protections from double punishment caused by any collusion with ice and protections from falling into poverty. when communities are supported our neighborhoods and local economy thrive and employment benefits are a key part of economic stability for employers and workers who face unexpected job loss and the san francisco sanctuary ordinance has been a long-standing policy to keep our communities together. thank you so much for your time. >> thank you for your comments this afternoon. let's hear from our next caller, please. >> hello. my name is

dave. i'm here to speak about a (indiscernible) first of all, [difficulty understanding speaker due to audio quality]

>> thank you for your comments this afternoon. billy, do we have another caller in the queue? >> madam clerk, there are no more callers in the queue. >> remote public comment is closed. >> thank you mr.

president. seeing we have no new members of public in the chamber, please come to the podium. hear from our first speakerment welcome. >> good afternoon. my name is (indiscernible) we are here in support of the safety net for all coalition and resolution that hillary ronen introduced. we encourage you to support this as it is important that we provide unemployment benefits for undocumented san franciscans and residents throughout california. people are already paying taxes $3.7 billion in taxes so it is important that that money be returned to people when they lose their jobs. thank you and the rest of my team will share as well. >> thank you for your comments. >> hello, good afternoon board. my name is (indiscernible) also part of the (indiscernible) workers united here in support of supervisor ronens resolution for safety net for all and sanctuary for all.

please take into consideration the impact of immigrant undocumented workers that are hold here in san francisco. when we enter a restaurant and enter a hotel any kind of work a lot of that work is done by undocumented immigrant workers so please please take into consideration supervisor hillary ronen's resolution in support and be on the right side of history. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome. >> [waiting for translation]

>> arturo, please interpret. thank you. >> the following is a summary of what the speaker said . good afternoon. my name is (indiscernible) i live here in is san francisco and work at a car wash and here to support the safety net for all and also the sanctuary city resolution. trust me, i know the difference between what it is like to live in a sanctuary city

and not in a sanctuary city. so, i'm here to represent thousands of essential workers but it is hard to imagine what essential really means to you since we are not seeing much help. also here in support of sb227 and hoping that with your help we can make this dream for undocumented workers without taking into consideration the race or origin or religion, so please last year or two years ago when this law got to the governor desk, it died there, so i am here to ask for your support in that resolution. thank you. >> thank you.

welcome. >> [waiting for translation] >> welcome. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is roburto and a member of united workers here in support of the safety net for all and also in support of supervisor ronen's resolution because i support sanctuary city, and also sb227. thank

you. >> thank you. >> [waiting for translation]

>> good afternoon. my name is ramon also a member of united workers. i'm here to represent and support a safety network for all workers and here to defend the sanctuary city. my message is san francisco is a very pretty place and there is here work for all of us so please take our pleas into consideration and also for worker safety of my colleagues. i support sb227. thank you. >> thank you. >> [waiting for translation]

>> good afternoon. my name is (indiscernible) also a member of united workers. i live in san francisco and here to count on your support. i support a safety net for all workers and sb27 and also support supervisor ronen sanctuary resolution. i was

excluded so i'm asking now for your support. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon my name is (indiscernible) i also work for workers united. outside of work i spent the past 4 years ice detention. i am not a immigrant and urge you to listen to the immigrants who have spoken today but i will use my two minutes. i have spent countless hours of my life listening to the murder torchen and rape people are fleeing to come to the country. i also spent countless hours hearing the horrific and nefarious (indiscernible) people experience while working in san francisco. and i think what breaks my heart most is hearing how people normalize and accept those abuses for fear of retaliation

and economic destruction. the fact that we are debating today whether or not we should uphold sanctuary is proof the fears are real. you all have a opportunity today to support the immigrants in our community. thing what you ate today whether you went to a restaurant or made yourself something at home or ate a banana or fruit the fruit that is allowing you to listen to the public comments which again listen to all the people and all the immigrants that took days off work to come here, the reason you have food in your bellies is because an undocumented worker aworked for that. and in all likelihood someone experienced labor abuse along the way. you have a opportunity to uphold sanctuary and support workers when they lose their jobs perhaps because of retaliation, perhaps because

of discrimination. we have opportunity to support them. when we support our communities we all benefits. the communities are safer when we are all healthier. please support sanctuary and support safety net for all. >> thank you. welcome. >> hi. everybody. my name is (indiscernible) born and raised in san francisco. i am also here with workers united in support of sb227 and in support of sanctuary city that i call my home. here because i support my community, my family who is also undocumented. our beautiful and amazing members part of our organization so i urge you all to really put your words and promises into action and back up safety net for all and also help pass sb227. thank you. >> thank you for your

comments. welcome. >> [waiting for translation] >> good afternoon. my name is--i am also a member of workers united. here to support the safety net for all.

i work at subway. but here to support sb227. many of us don't have a work after pandemic and many don't have a family to count on for support so please i ask you to support sb227. thank you. >> thank you. welcome. >> [waiting for translation]

>> good afternoon. my name is alfonso. a member of workers united. i'm very moved to be here and i am grateful to be able to express my support to the supervisor as well. many of us don't have the means to get by and the support from the city is very important so i ask you to support sb227. thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board during general public comment? alright. seeing none, mr. president. >> public comment is closed. thank you madam clerk.

would you please proceed with the adoption without committee reference calendar? >> 29-38. unanimous vote is required on first reading. any member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee. >> would any member like a item or items served? supervisor ronen. >> items 30, 31 and 36. >> supervisor preston. >> item 29. >> supervisor chan. >> 32, please. >> supervisor engardio. on the balance of the calendar, items 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, a roll call, please. hold on before the roll call

supervisor safai. >> can you please add me as cosponsor to item 34? >> noted. >> supervisor melgar. >> thank you. i like to be added as cosponsor to item 35. thank you. >> thank you. alright. on the balance of the calendar minus item 29, 30, 31, 32 and 36. roll, please. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. >> those resolutions are adopted. item 29. >> item 29 resolution

to condemn the passage of red-baiting house concurrent resolution 9 and couraging grass not to engage vote for or otherwise support fearmongering and redbaiting by the federal government. >> supervisor preston. >> thank you president peskin and i have had the opportunity to discuss this further with supervisor engardio who raised some concerns last week and at his request propose amendments that have been circulated and that is to strike page 1 lines 12-16 and then to strike the phrase on page 2 line 14, the phrase, this type of misleading. those words. so, i like to move to make those amendments. >> okay. motion by supervisor preston seconded by

supervisor dorsey. supervisor engardio the floor is yours. >> pleased to report the amendments proposed to colleague in district 5 have been accepted. we had oo productive conversation, heard each others point of view and came to agreement i can support. i want to mention this because it is important to demonstrate to the residents of san francisco that their elected supervisors even when on the opposite end of issues can civilly work together. it won't always be this way but should always be the goal to create the best san francisco. i appreciate my colleague amending the resolution so does not discount the valid rerns of respected democrats like nancy pelosi. explaining his vote representative kana said it was introduced so republicans could make baseless

comparisons. also said, i voted for it because the text of it bill includes language condemning oppressive rezemes throughout history. i agree with the view. i prefer that our city council not consider issues outside the scope of fixing things in san francisco. we have state and congressional representatives from matters outside san francisco. i look forward to working with all my colleagues on pressing local issues. my constip wnts in the sunset urge to focus on basic things like public safety, street conditions, schools and helping small businesses survive. this past week there were 3 armed or violentthets in the sunset. thieves steling a catalytic converted so turn our attention to daily issues effecting the lives of san franciscans. >> on the motion to

amend we can take same house same call. on the item as amended same house same call. the resolution is adopted as amended. madam clerk, item 30, please. >> item 30 is resolution to urge the department of home land security and biden administration to reject recent attack on san francisco longstanding sanctuary ordinance and urge dhs to extradite the individuals without further delay. >> supervisor ronen. >> are i need to make a resolution to (indiscernible) >> it requires 8 votes. >> just 8 vote threshold. okay. then never-mind. >> alright. why don't we call the roll on item number 30? >> item 30, supervisor peskin. aye. ronen. aye.

safai aye. supervisor stefani, aye. walton, aye. chan, aye. dorsey, no. engardio, aye. mandelman, aye. melgar, aye. preston, aye. there are 10 ayes and 1 no with supervisor dorsey voting no. >> the resolution is adopted. item 33. sorry item 31. >> resolution to urge governor gavin newsom senator wiener and matt haney and assemgly member phil tang- >> if we can continue this item this another week. i was on work vacation and didn't have the time to meet with supervisor stefani to

work on the language of this so if we can- >> motion to continue by supervisor ronen. is there a second? second by supervisor mandelman. without objection are the resolution is- >> march 14. >> please read item 32. >> resolution to oppose state ballot initiative which qualify for november 24 state wide ballot and severely limit the ability of voters and local government to raise revenue for government service. >> supervisor chan. >> thank you. after councilitation with the city attorney office, i request to make slight amendment to the resolution as i have shared with you the amendment is from page 1 to page 6 inserting and striking the word proports to and on page 2 line 11,

insert the word proported before application and strike measures and insert taxis fees and (indiscernible) page 2 line 12 strike the word the before november 2022 and i would like to make the motion to amend. >> motion by supervisor chan and seconded by supervisor ronen. to the motion, supervisor ronen. >> i just wanted to be added as cosponsor. >> supervisor melgar. >> i want to be added as cosponsor as well. thank you. >> amendments without objection. the amendments are approved and on the item as amended a roll call, please. >> item 32 as amended- [roll call]

there are 11 ayes. >> the resolution is adopted as amended. item 36, please. >> item 36 is resolution to support california state senate bill number 227 a safety net for all to create a exitcluded worker program to offer unemployment benefits to undocumented works who paid into the system through tax on their wages. >> supervisor ronen. >> thank you colleagues. i just wanted to thank all of the advocates who brought this resolution to my office and for all their advocacy. [speaking spanish]

as the many workers mentioned, undocumented workers contribute hundreds of million dollars if fot billions of dollars into the unemployment system yet when they lose their jobs and find without work they don't get to receive the benefit of one cent of the hard earned money they put into the system. it is time to change that here in california and i hope you will vote with me. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. >> thank you. i also just wanted to say thank you to the folks in the community for your hard work and advocacy and supervisor ronen for introducing this ledgeilation and like to be added as a cosponsor. >> noted. okay, on item 36, same house same call. the resolution is adopted and that brings us to the end

of our agenda. madam clerk, could you please read the in memoria and would you please make the in memoriam for former supervisor tom shay from the whole board of supervisors without objection. madam clerk. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. on behalf of president peskin, for the late johnson chan shing tam and larry the bucket man hunt and motion made by supervisor chan dorsey safai stefani walton and on behalf of entire board for former member of the board of supervisors thomas ks shay. >> we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

good morning it meeting am come to order welcome to march second, 2023 molting of government audit and oversight committee of the san francisco board of supervisors i'm dean preston joined by vice chair stefani and supervisor connie chan the clerk is stefani cabrera thank sfgovtv for

staffing the meeting the board of supervisors and committees are convening hybrid meetingly allow in person attendance and public comment is remote access and public comment via telephone. equal access is essential and take public comment as follows. first on each item on the agenda. those in person will speak first and then those on the phone line. for those watching channel 26, 28, 78 or 99, and sfgov.org the call in number is streaming on the screen. 415-655-0001, access code: 2495 940 2203 ## whether your item

come up thez in person should line up to peek on the curtain with you and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the queue. if you are on your phone remember to turn down your tv and lynching device. we'll take public comment from those attending in person first then the phone line. alternateively, you may submit comment in writing e mail them to me the government odd irrelevant and oversight clerk ste ph anie. cabrera sfgov.org if you submit it e mail tell be include part as the official file. you may sends them via u.s. postal service to city hall at 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place

room 244, san francisco, california, 94102. items acted upon today will be on the board agenda of march 14th unless otherwise stated. thank you. call items 1 and 2 together. >> swon a resolution receiving and approving the report for the central market community benefit district for 2021. item 2 is i resolution receive and approving a report for the civic center benefit district for 2021. members who wish to provide comment on these items call 415-655-0001 enter access code: 2495 940 2203 ##. dial star 3 to lineup to be added to the speaker 82 the property will indicate you raised your hand. wait for the system to indicate

you have been unmuted and you may comment when we go to public comment. >> thanks. for both these items will hear first from chris, program director for office of economic and workforce development and from tracie who is the executive director of both of the cbd's before us the mid market and the civic center cbd. welcome, the floor is yours. office economic workforce development i would like to thank mimi who did work on the 2 reports. today we ever talk about this calendar year of 21 annual reports for mid market cbd and the civic center. these operate on a calendar year and historically have.

you may know, cbd's are governed by 2 laws the 94 act streets and highway code and local law article 15 of the business and tax regulation code. to review our process ensure all districts are meeting management plan. a review of reports and financials. and provide a sum row to the board of supervisor which is is in today's packet. basic information about both. they are property based. the mid market current assessment budget per plan is 1.2 million dollars with a fiscal 21 assessment role of 1.7 million dollars. civic center plan assessment budget is 3.1 million dollars and the 21 submission was approximately 3.1 million dollars. the districts have been formed for a significant amount of time

and renewed or amended various times before the board of supervisors. mid market will sprier in 2028 and civic center in 2034. the 4 bench marks reviews for all property based cbd. whether the variance with the budget amounts were serve category is within 10 variance pointses from the management plan percentages. 2, whether it meets the nonassessment revenue source requirement. 3, whether the variance with the budget amounts for each service category within 10 variance points from the fiscal actuals. and 4, whether the cbd indicating the funds carried over from the current fiscal rear reported to the upcoming fiscal year. for the mid market cbd they did not meet 1 and met the other 3 bench marks in the year reporting period. the findings from the mid market are they missed upon one by.13%

over the allowable 10 percentage for management and economic development service category. annual reporting was late due to the team being part of the d. emergency management joint field operation's teamch will they through a community challenge grant were able to over see land scaping upgrades to mid plaza issued a survey in the first quarter of 21 to understand stake holder priorities for the economic recovery. there were no reported violations of brown act to oewd. complied with memo regarding surveillance technology reports. active board and well positioned carry on their mission. to the civic center, they did meet all 4 of the fiscal bench marks. and moving on to the findings and recommendations, once again the cbd's recommending period was late due to the team the same management for both being

part of the department of emergency management joint field operation's team the state of emergency in the tenderloin in december of 21. focus on increasing cloning in high traffic areas such as un and civic center plaza i survey to understand the priorities for economic recovery. and the several activations the hell day tree lighting in front of city hall. no reported violations of the brown act within this reporting period to oewd. complied with memo regarding surveillance technology reporting requirements. they have afternoon active board and community members and well positioned carry on the mission. are there questions the report oewd appropriated and if not eye would like to invite my colleague for her portion of the presentation. >> go ahead with the presentation and questions after

that. >> welcome. good morning, supervisors tracie. executive director of the mid market community benefit district. this is a map of our district on an angle. our district runs from the west side of fifth street. all the way down to south van ness. long the south side of market street. down to mission. and then our sixth street corridor down to folsom. core service are cleaning, maintenance, public safety and economic development support. we are out there 7 days a week 7 to 7. and i wanted to illustrate some on going changes to our work i

know are now new to you. post pandemic drug dealing open air drug unanimous sidewalk encampments and illegal vending of stolen merchandise have gotten significantly worse since the pandemic. our work is -- doing its best providing regular services. built touch points. maintaining sidewalks, which is property owner responsibility. not public works. and you see the amount of grime that is built up here in front of the in a week. that we are taking care of. >> and then we are doing some extraordinary cleaning work -- as evidenced in this one instance. down on sixth street. >> the image on the left is from market street outside sam's

restaurant. and another pretty extraordinary incident down on sixth street which is the norm on a daily basis down there. we have pretty robust big bell trash receptacle program throughout the district. unfortunately, due to vandalism including theft of the sole are components, arson and this year we had drug dealers take over the units to store drugs. so they were not in possession of them. and told our staff to stay away from the cans. so we are going to be disbanding this program in may. >> the cans are 6 thousand dollars a pos to replace and we simple low can't forward to sustain it even with city grants and support of the >> in terms of public safety

ambassadors provide directions and referrals. merchant support, resident support, you know mid market is home to 40 single room occupancy holings and several affordable housing sites that have insufficient community space in the buildings. so, the sidewalk becomes people's place to rescueerate and we provide social service reach. hope they will be accepted unfortunately than i are not. and then instances like this, there is in the much ambas

dovers can do but make sure people are not victimized and passers by know that we are there to help make them feel safer. given the growing number of encampments on sidewalks, we have increased number of fires happening out there. we are the first on the scene if during hours of operation. reporting this to the property owners and the fire department, law enforcement and helping to clean up after. we are also the first on the scene to spot break in's we do -- a good job of letting property ordinance know when we finds their building has been penetrated. and roach out proactive low to make sure vacant buildings are secure. this is one building that had been broken into several times on market street the army surplus store. and the metal gate no longer

came down the electric compossiblies have been stolen from it. so, in addition to peopleune living in the store front they were getting in the building and we were concerned about fire risk. we deploy safety teams we partner ambassadors with an officer. the most effective thing we do for public safety. unfortunately e given the officer shortages we are not always able to fill those shifts t. is great when we have the officers. we have public safety cameras throughout the district. and they are underutilized boy law enforcement. we are more like low to use them to find out what happened when our field members of our field crew are victimized. post pandemic with the electric of positive pedestrian activity on the streets.

our workers, are greater risk of being assaulted by people on the street with mentality illness. we middle the eye and ears to help protect our workers. this gentlemen was, tacked twice in 2021. these are -- a few of the very, very courageous men and women on our team in 2021. most of them still with us. fortunately. they deserve recognition and an amount of praise. terms of economic development we are working hard to preserve when businesses are out there many made it through the pandemic. or marketing team gone out to small businesses and produced will video reels they and we can share on social media to help

attract customers. we have a media campaign in the examiner. i hope you see we did a full page spread on mid market, businesses on february 11th with a theme of valentine's day. we are excited about this 2021 we were anticipating the opening of a now whole foods on eighth and market and now hope it stays temperature is already closing early because of crime and safety issues. >> we tracked the initial ground floor commercial vacancies in the district, promote them on our website and the brokerage community. and we try to keep all the vacancies working good. the plywood attracts graf feetee and the store fronts attract lightering. in the case of the store 41ed i showed we worked with the property owner to get the front

safely secured and we were also able to obtain a community challenge grant to bring back this mural of robin williams that had lived across the street and went away when the property was developed. we were grateful to bring that back. why we have a wonderful marketing for mid market. illustrated how many wonderful things are already there. and hopes we can attract more. thank you. go ahead. >> good morning gaevenl trace director of the community benefit district. they are 2 separate districts with 2 separate boards of

directors. my team manages both for a myriad of reasons. cost efficiency and you know ain't to advocate for both will districts and save time for agency staff as well. it has been a great partnership. so. chris, this is not showing all the detail. . them is not coming through. this is our budget of the 76% is what we spend on cleaning, safety and activation, 17% is administration and 7 is marketing. this is the district. western border on the west side of golf upon we go up to turk street by the tenderloin school. and along market street. we have parcels on the south side of market as well. you will see there is one

building that does in the pay in the cbd this is the federal building at 50un plaza. those are most of probably not all our public realm hero in 2021 and civic center we have ambassadors and cleaners from street plus. work with urban alchemy and the downtown streets teamful in terms of cleaning and maintenance, these other yours that we focus of cloners. 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 7 days a week. community ambassadors. a parking garage greeter in the eaching urban alchemy. downtown streets team. we do a lot of pressure wash and we secure the civic center play ground 24/7. sorry the stats are missing we have lots of stat fist you need them.

we can provide those. we also do some landscaping. i do remember here the needle member we alone removed 30,000 needles in addition to what other city teams are remove from this public realm this is a tremendous issue in the district. >> additional work for us in 2021 came from parklets but they addedup keep for us and the once that were not secured over night. we saw increase in retail theft. you know e approximately in the haze valley portion. wore first on the scene. reporting this to the property owner. business owner, law enforcement and then helping with clean up. we had to pay special attention to areas with children, we spend a lot of time at the tenderloin school keeping the alley cleared

of encampments the ballet school. we struggle to keep public transit shelters fro and clear of encampments. and the picture on the right is the 12th street customer dover just off mugz this is next to the old honda dealership and these were all people who are housed just across the street at the civic center hotel. these were there places to be out on the street. and i think we are making headway but this area continues to be a challenge for us. we had a lot of increased issues on the street because of the safe sloping riage on fulton. we worked closely with the art museum and the library to do what we could to abate graffiti and the challenges of having over 100 people living on the

street. in the village. and again, un plaza was a similar situation. we were unable to reopen the cafe kiosk in 21 the operator was not willing to resume business with city staff having not yet returned to the office. and however we had unpermitted vendors happy to set up in united nation's plaza. and sell things including alcohol which we were able to stop this quickly. thanks to help from the major's office. and i wanted to point out here this there was a pretty bad attack in un plaza in 2021 made the press. and i wanted illustrate how many different groups it took to

triage that situation. cbd ambassadors and alchemy am bas dorse witness today but in the permitted to intervene the farmer's market has private security and has more authority to attempt it restrain individual in a dangerous vagz the security was alertd and able it restrain someone attacking another person. . the police were called and they were able to detain the suspect. it took a village tos draez the situation. in 2021, we implemented new technology better tracks where our field staff are throughout the district. and what they are doing. we have amazing statistics if you are interested.

again, to promote the things that were open in the district in 2021, we launched a street ban are campaign, which taughted our performing arts and cultural offerings in the district. again, we went out and shot promotional video at mall businesses and shared that on social media. and we have a list of businesses and services in the district on our website. we deployed tables, chairs and umbrellaos farmer market days for patrons. to sit there. unfortunately, we had to pull all this away. it was taken over by illegal vendors in mid market. pate rons could not sit and neither ambassadors, al kemp the

farmer market security or the police department were able to remove the illegal venders this is pulled away until we have i better solution. same in civic center plaza it was not illegal vendors we pull today until we have more ability to keep it safe. there is an image of our ambassadors at the play ground. in 2021, we had started w on a dog park in un plaza. it is done and you in over 2,000 people a month use it. it is stewarded daily. and then we have to have 24 hour security for it because this is what it looks like at night and early in the morning. butt cost to secure it over night is 200,000 a year.

the dog run is not permanent and we are at the junction now we need to decide whether it is sustainable to keep it or not gifrn the over night cost to keep it secure. >> and finally, we are working heard to preserve this neighborhood tradition this is the holiday tree lighting and toy give away in civic center plaza. we hope to continue our holiday concerts on van ness with the san francisco conservatory of music. thank you. >> thank you very much for your presentation supervisor chan. >> thank you very much chair preston. and thank you so much for the presentation as well. and just it is a let to absorb

and a let of photos as well and imagery. i think out of all of the images i have questions i know you say you have a lot of statistic i'm interested. i'm interested in i think i will start with the mid market community benefit district you have present in the your presentation. and am hat's off to the people that all the teams for both benefit districts. for their hard work. i think my interest is on your one of your slides talk about public safety surfaces. you indicated this they provide directions, referrals. resident service. social service other out roach and merchant support. how do you track and if you track, encounters and when does this electric like?

do you log in the wellness checks per date and emergency calls or social services offered tracks what is offered or individuals? why we track all of that. we use a system called jia. and yes. along with one page long we track all of that and it is per instance. >> we may talk to judi who is homeless on the street 3 times a week. we are checking off and check with her. wellness checks recorded. calls for emergency services are recorded. memory chant interactions are recorded. and i think the other good gauge we have is we produce a really nice hand out with a list of social service resources in the area from toed to shelter and

sures and. am training and we produce alost those. and how do they look. individual when they have encounter like do they have a device in the log on them? >> correct. >> correct. they have a phone with a user friendly app. it is transformational for us for easy for staff to pull it out and -- hit a button for when they have justice done and also accepts photographs. so we check how something looked before or after. >> and is that the same app applicable to the mid market and civic center? >> correct. >> i can't remember which district use today first. we adopted it immediately after meeting it. tremendous tool. >> and that is including i hear you mentioned about arson that you track arson it is

unfortunately. those dintss are logged? >> you know i don't think we have an arson category it is prebl we will track that through photos and a call for emergency services. >> i see. you do have a log for call for emergency? >> yes. i assume the fire is in there. >> yes. i'm trying to look at actual detail in your report here to go and help us understand the number of emergency services you call. do you by any chance have it with you. >> i don't you i can e mill it to you after the meeting or if my staff is watching now they can get that to you. >> great. i think it is amazing looks like a small but mighty team doing the work they do. and it would be so helpful to get stats from the cbd's for the

mid market and civic center. for the lives public safety services you indicate here. love to get some statistics from the app itself. like to help us understand you know. and help us not a bit like if i can say. you know comparris notes with our public safety agencies like fire and police and 9 upon 11 dispatch and help us understand the scale of just you know volume of calls. and scale of ins debt that require service this is is attended to both by cbd as well as by our public workers. so tell be great to have the statistics if they are available. you have a lot, so we will love to have the statistic from the directly from the app. and for both the mid market and

civic center j. provide those. >> thank you. supervisor chan. i have questions as well. first i will start, you mention third degree in passing i want to highlight and express appreciation for one of your ambassadors out there every morning in front of in and [inaudible]. in what hen a really remarkable collaboration between him stephen and riparent who had a student at the tenderloin xhoont school. and no longer has a kid there but shows up every morning the 2 of them 6 a.m. or something like that are out there every day. and out there with them and just the kindness they show for folks. who are struggling and in the

alley way and irrelevant unnoticed by anyone except the folks at this school at the critic of dawn every day. it has been remarkable. i'm sure you have stories of embas embassador doing similar things the table and the umbrellas, had was this functioning and when was it disbanned? >> we stopped putting tables out the end of january. >> this year. of this year. iel >> how long a period was this tried for? >> gosh when did we?

all of i think half of 20 to and all of 2022. it became yea. it became unmanageable. with the increased the inability increased inability of the police department to ask loiterers to move. >> the dock run you mentioned, what is the 200 thousand dollars a year on site security all night? over night. yea. >> what are they 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. >> and is there a plan regarding the dog run going forward? you mentioned you might have have to prop it differently? >> we will need to -- we need to start funds raising for support

that. i don't think we thought we would have to condition it we did it in the beginning as a precaution when the park was new and we were learning how it would be used and treated and maintained. but the issues got worse. it is apparent you to now it needs steward ship over night. so a funds raising campaign is in order but i think it is, legality of machine tow raise for a small place. we will have to come up with other solutions if we want to keep it. >> thank you. the -- stepping back on un plaza. my understanding this is right on the border of the 2. >> right. >> so technically in the mid market one?

no in civic center this is where the 2 districts meet. and so what is the can you update us on what the plan is for un plaza. i see a lot of chatter about different reactions to things in civic center plaza. our office is often the last to know when -- suddenly the administration decides they will close un plaza in a different hour. so -- to date we have not done -- made aware of actual planning for beyond what we seen so far in terms of increased police presence and ambassador presence and earlier closure of plans for un plaza this is in the heart of the cbd area.

i wonder if you can shed light on current discussions or plas for un plaza. >> so, i do have an interesting visual i can share our office put together when we took over the plaza in 2020 from the tenderloin cbd, there are so many public agencies with jurisdiction. over un plaza. it is minds boggling. the good news is they are all talking right now about what can be done out there. with conscience being worse just within the past 3 months. 3-6 months. i'm definitely hearing bits and pieces from different

departments. when it will all turn to a formal method. i don't know. hopeful low we'll be the first to know and i will make sure your office is, wear. >> and you know i than there are -- trying to figure out how best to move forward, given law enforcement's staffing shortages. and the ability of inability of ambassador groups to have an impact without law enforcement's support. public works is trying really heard to address illegal vending issues but than i cannot do this without support from law enforcement. so, and the recreation and parks instrumental in giving us extra support from the p range are program at the dog park. they were called a couple time this is week for fires set at

the dog park over night. so -- everyone is talking, which is a good thing. it it is such a big problem. and it will take time. but we are pushing daily for some sort of a cohesive plan. we will share that with you. why thank you. and look, i'm it is beyond this report in this hearing i don't want to go too far but i will say, it is i good sign if multiple agencies are tucking and you are i per of the conversations i will push become on the everyone is talking, had i say is our office has not been included and all the pep we represent had have strong feelings and have worked a let of resident in the tenderloin worked putting forward different plans, ideas to my knowledge have been excluded. that is in the your responsibility i want to point that out but it is good to know

that the conversations are happening. but i think it it is essential this we are not only including board of supervisors but including alegality of residence denial his may not be on the board of or a staff of the 2cbd's. we share your occurrence we are offer the last to know as well and not included in important conversations is a problem. yea. let me know -- you know -- anyone you would like to make sure is included in any discussion. we may have the 80 to bring them in, too. >> thank you. >> on the -- looking at the -- and let mow thank you for -- we had you provide us information in conversations before the hearing we met.

and i think we have been trying to a little to with respect my brain around the structure of the civic center one. it is unique of the cbd's that we see in that the city is a major property owner within that cbd. so, my understanding is that the city in the only has seats on the appointees on the cbd board. but also the city itself is assessed and paying into the cbd and accounts for about or in 2019 cording to oewd data in 2019 accounted for 30% of ref nows for that cbd x. may be i should start with that. i asoul this is a pretty stable

number and that is the case, i don't know. >> this is the 2021. >> yea. >> it is stable. >> ref now is 30%. >> we are not demolishing belling or building now, should be stable. >> right. so i think what came up and i wanted to address it healer but again we discussed this off line here. is the role of the the -- city appointees and e special low as legislation before the board or matters of policy that may be contentious matters; and came up most recently i think, around the tenderloin center. where the approximate civic center cbd submitted a letter

backing the major's closure while the board of adopting a resolution and saying this we should have a new center open before we shut down the tenderloin centers. i wanted to ask you a sxlths get your thoughts on this. it instructor:s mow we have and may be we can start with the basics how many folks on the board are city appointees? the city administrator's office

can appoint. and we have some others just -- throughout regular board approval process such as the representative from the asian art museum. >> so -- there is twop appointed by city administrator. >> correct. >> and that's representing the library and the war memorial. >> correct. >> and someone from asian art museum. >> thank you. and then -- when we discussed the -- potential issues around them voting on these positions on legislation, and meeting, i think you indicated that they a

conflict of interest policy afforded to us and your understanding was they would recuse themselves from those votes? i wanted follow up. on this did in the electric like they did and something is off in the minutes. wanted you to clarify something subject to legislative action before the board and had the appointees on the cbd board. are they supposed to be voting on the matters recusing themselves and when light can you shed on that? >> so. i forwarded some language from our counsel's office explains that -- any board members regardless of who employer is have a responsibility and duty of care do had is best for our

organization. if they themselves perceive a conflict, then this needs to be disclosed and had recuse themselves. but the rest of the board members should identify there is a potential conflict and could recommend that the individual recuse themselves. so -- any board member, and chris reminded me, we also have 2 other city staffers on the board who are also attorney and consulted with city attorney's office extensively before joining our board to understand what their duty and obligations are, this is to do what is best for the organization and its

mission. i understand than i have their own duties and check with city attorney and we are all familiar there is a financial interest than i might have recuse themselves itch think i'm trying to get a more specific, are they expected to if if there is legislation before the board, and the cbd is we nothing on this, dot city appointees still participate? are they expected to vote or not vote on those things i'm not say willing is a legal conflict i'm trying to understand when we met i thought that they the city appointees were staying out of those votes guwhen i look at the minutes, at least had the tenderloin center came up they are all voting. in fact i think they made a motion to approve it. it was a city.

you have -- >> yes, if they feel as though they can be fair and impartial they can vote. >> okay. i'm think again this probably goes beyond this peculiar report. i think this is something this is worth our city looking at and thinking about of some more explicit guidance. when i see is -- a bit of a pattern, some ways i will say differs a bit tr had i see in other cbd's of pretty active involve am by the cbd and lobbying for things where there is not necessarily consistency inform consistent views across government. it is a strange thing we have

city paying a third of the revenues of the cbd. occupying seats all of which represents differents parts of the registration and voting for the cbd to lobby the board of supervisors on matter this is may be contested with the board of supervisors and the administration. if you care to share. i think it may be more a policy matter that the board should or the administration should sort through whether that is appropriate. or not. and again i'm not suggesting a willing violation of any kind. i don't know if you wanted to >> the structure predates me. the district was form in the 2011. so but happy to have you know our council and board work with

the city attorney's office to help you know get the more clarity around that structure and -- i know there are other cbd's with city staff on their board as limp we can gleam insight from them as well. why thank you. >> i think that the part of the problem is here this is also in the correspondence board approved from the cbd and the civic center in the mid market. is really i think say a very negative characterization of the work that another department is doing. d ph standing up the tenderloin center and then we have the cbd writing a scathing letter about the tenderloin center impacts in

the your and requesting its closure. so -- i just -- it strikes mow. cbd is noilthsed voice its opinion. i'm concerned by what issues the -- cbd is chose to weigh in on and which not to weigh in on. and that seems to very much reflect the will of -- an administration that has multiple members on this body. you have slides of tents and talk about engagement i did not see a letter from the civic center cbd in 2021 saying ramp up the sip hotel program so we have more accomplices to move peoplism did not see this in the minutes. or come before the board. i did not see a letter asking for this. een though i think most of us

would agree that would have provided better tools for you your people engaging with people homeless in the cbd but we don't see this letter. again, this is the in a spigz that the administrationmented to take or the mayor did or that the several city appointed representatives on the cbdmented to it would have aleaveiated some of the issues on the streets. may be i will ask like in terms of selecting which things from city policies and legislation the cbd is going to we in on. right. who decides. why are we not getting letters around solutions and things that the board of supervisors puts forward or advocates do but getting letters increased funding for mroechls closing the tenderloin center and other thing catharsis controversial and high priors of the mayor?

we do a very good job of staying in our lane and react to things that are under our purview. so we do have a number of letters this we have written over the years in support of things like shelter and care courts. and mental health support. most recently, we have reacted to the place for all. as an example. so we do have the letter this is we can share with you. so that we will react and comment on things that are related to our mission. and just as a reminder, this is we -- are not in the business to

do as much advocacy and lobbying as we have been forced to do over the past 2 years. we are, our mission and budget is for the provision of service for clone and safe. we have very little staff capacity for advocacy. and lobbying. so the sooner we can move away from the -- as much as we had to do the past 2 years the better. but we are absolutely concerned about the lack of shelter space. permanent affordable housing space. ability to get people in care. who can't get themselves there. they are happy to look through what we have provided over the past 2 years over all and shirr

that with you. >> are you is the cbd asked to provide the letters? by the administration? i >> sometimes we hear from outside sources. and in line with our mission and asking for our opinion on that. okay. i will -- the tenderloin center the way that was handled is concerning to me to -- to -- advocate for the closure. not supports efforts of the board of supervisors to ensure there was a replacement facility. you are seeing the results as you said things got worse in the last 3 months because we closed the centers this 400 people were going to and what is concerning for the neutrality and the

perception and trust in cbd is if you are going to weigh in the waters. i don't think there is prohibition on you taking a position on city policies. but appears to only be happening on controversial matters where of in support of i approximate suspicion the mir is taking. and that the concern. i just would expect this if we get a letter saying we don't want the tenderloin center because of x, y and z, why are we not getting a letter to the board to have a replace am center so you don't have 400 people a day displaced on plaza. i'm concerned what seems to be selective advocacy caused

concern why that is. >> so we welcome out roach from your staff. to make us aware of things that you would like to see. let's work on that communication going forward i think that will make a big difference. >> supervisor chan. >> thank you, chair. i with this i want to quickly confirm we are on this conversation around civic center, cbd around board of directors i question is for and you perhaps another for mr. [inaudible] and help us understand how the cbd's w with the board of directors when we have on record is from 2021. if i could i'm reading off from hai see now can you condition firm. i continue is hard on top of your head to confirm your board of director. when i see i'm identifying as

when we would identify as city staff. or city workers. will be i think john from an fran war memory yell and performing art's center. tom from san francisco public library. [inaudible] rec and park department and then i'm seeing and also [inaudible] sorry. butchering the anymore. sudden front public library. and [inaudible] san francisco real estate that is a bit of a list and in this though you have listed or your team listed key partners shaping district policy, program and infrastructure. a whole list of city departments and you are included home land security there is one on the last one i'm not sure by united states of america.

it is listed there. >> i'm not sure what it is but it is listed. so i think it it is piggyback on hachair preston talked about. feels like you know i think at time his we think about cbd the expectation that in the partnership with memory chants and property owners. who want to have i say about dictating their dollars in terms of per inship with stele and city services. in a wagz like this when we see you know heavy influence from the government itself and city government. just trying to understand better about you know is this trough to the intent of the original intent of the establishment of a cbd. and is there independence of opinions and ideas about how city government can do better from the board of director hos provide that direction.

the names i read off and city diameters how do than i come about to become the members of the board of directors? >> had a cbd is formed the members from within the area have to be represented. so i was not here back in 2011 had this district was originally formed. but you know it was a lead from the city. 2 leads from that city looks like john from the city and -- [inaudible]. right. he was one of the founding members this helped put together the management plan and the board composition. but we renewed in 2019 so we had this process all over again. so at the tain residents and --

representatived from the city and the state of california. and now the united states of america that relates to one will building so weird we put it 50 united in addition's plaza. they don't pay in the district several buildings will in the pay. mid market we have a 9k circuit court of appeal and the federal building than i don't pay but collaborate with us and we share resources. they are a good partner. everybody is at the table and to be honest i think when civic center was renewing there was a lot of resistance from the neighborhood and the residents having so much [inaudible]. so many city representatives on the board. but, they are there for a reason. and the state of california is almost as big a stake holder as san francisco.

so they mandated rep 7ation on the board as well. we have a complicated matrix of board who comprises the board i can share that with you as well. yea i think and we i can't remember exactly how many seats the city add administrator gets to fill. but we don't have a limit on how much city representatives can sit on the board. the most important thing we have the knowledge and the expertise that will help strengthen our organizations. so we love folks with financial experience, real estate, law experience. those are when we are looking for. >> i see this you have bill whittfield for [inaudible] and mid market and civic center. if i may direct this question to -- and i think the question is then again.

intevenlt cbd's in class is our property owners commercial property owners say that they and residential property owners have say in terms of how the dollars allocated and to with city partners to mandate level of city services botch the base line. and this is the governing rule of cbd's. is there any, could you educate me about the by laws now that what is in place about what is dictating and the make up of the board of directors for all cbd's? >> sure. supervisor chan. for each cbd they have their by laws for each one. so 15 property based will have 15 different sets of boy laws have different ways of pritting their board. that is their right as inspect entities of san francisco.

in article 15 of the business and tax regulation code it states that 20% of the seats for i board. 20% out of the total number is have to be for nonproperty ownering merchants. think ever that as a tenant merchant. we work with the city attorney think thatted be a tenant nonprofit. but this is had the language is in article 15. that is the only statute ory level in san francisco for board make up. after this they are owners association's. the best add voice would be the rate payors the property owners be 50. %. of the board of the cbd. at least 50%. some instances that 20% for

nonprofit merchant. remaining seats allocates to other community stake holders. the neighborhood and what the cbd is doing. and the cbd if in their management plan some have a very robust set of rowels that go before the rate paying voters and the board of sproirz when is they are established. the challenge approximate when came to moindz in cbd's and you know about community benefit districts and what chair preston also articulating between the partnership with the city for just city services and programming and thinking about focusing on that end as a partner on the issues. and versus about i would say --

advocacy work. policy. that is the different direction and city service policy. and then the reason why we have conversation about even city grants providing to 1c for you versus a 3. 3 provides direct services and programming. c4 will have sometimes have a policy add vo kaegs role and we want them to we want drive c01c3. in this can is they don't fit in any of those categories. some are 501c3 and others are c sections men years ago the irs in terms of ebtsities in the able to get the 501c3 folks were under a different designation.

most if not all of the cbd's in san francisco are c3's. >> thank you. happy to confirm this. why great. >> thank you. love to have a better understanding and i thank you will help us to better understand how they need to operate in terms of inneractions with the city. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> thank you supervisor chan and thank you mr. korg us and i was just before we go to public comment, i adopt to say we got in the weeds and i don't want to lose sight of the fact that there is a lot of important work happening in a very challenging part of our city and part of district 5 and 6. and -- look forward as everyone to working with you and the cbd to work on a lot of the issues and challenges and i think

obviously with redistricting you know our office we are starting we have don't have, lot of cbd's in the preredistricting part of district 5 we had jeopardy an town and now working with a number of cbd's and would like to see the lines of communication more great about when we ask around something. and but as different things come up weather the dog park or arson or an attack, please, communicate with our office and let us know. and also around the planning efforts. as we talked about earlier in the hearing we make sure this the residents who are revving low talk with us and expressing opinions on the topics are also part of those discussions.

i like to see wham is sometimes a challenge in the city a more collaborative approach over all not directed as you it is at a lot of the agency and diameters this are working on the things. i think asoul thereupon is a level of consultation that is in the always happening. i would ask the board to the extent the cbd board will weigh in i think is their rit to do so, to have self reflection around what seems to be a bit of a pattern around how the selection around wham they we in on and not weighing in on. how it is received by the supervisor is that at times it is an extension of the lobby arm or administration opposed to a more organic weighing in on the

range of things this impact. i think this applies to the most recent round the all right we received around the 20 million dollars in increased police funding t. is a controversial matter. and i personal low am not convince third degree the increased dollars will make a difference. in the areas of the cbd where we heard the administration announced a ramping up of policing starting in october and yet we hear the last 3-6 month its is worse than it has been. and00 autosurrounding areas i would again be great to hope communication and discussing what the needs are and what the

things deliver opposed where it seems like sometimes things are weighing in which is hot buttons. close the tenderloin center and ramp up money for police and we may not see the issues the same way but we can collaborateerate on shared objectives. >> yea. >> have them roach out to us. >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> so -- seeing no questions or comments from clothes open up public comment on items 1 and 2. >> thank you, before we go to comment i like to let those know watching the full presentation for 1 and 2 with graphics is available on the board file number link on the agenda and can be fund boy visiting sfbos. org. or the legislative calendar. are there members of public when

would like to comment on items 1 and 2. remote callers press star 3 to enter the queue. each speaker allotted 2 minutes for comments. no one in the chamber for public comment we will must have to remote call in, can you forward the first caller. >> supervisors, the un plaza in 1945 when the charter was signd that is an important area. with our city and open the tenderloin center, made into a mess of mess. so the community benefit

district had come in with the city add administrator. i want to know what role has she played in understanding the perjuries of the un plaza to our visitors and city and county of san francisco? and then the area in front of city hall belongs to rec and park. filthy as ever. un plaza filthy. cross market street where whole foods is filthy as ever and have one of you sprieshzs and you know who you issue giving a lot of commentary on 501 and this and that >> that must stop. if you want action, take a broom and clean the plaza.

you know 25% of the fte's are not filled. if you electric at the police department, we are -- 2 thousand we are about 900. and what is giving 7 million dollars more for over time. supervisors, the time has come to get a grip on how y'all are managing our city. our city is going to the hogs. not the dogs the hogs. of >> and when. >> your time has e lapsed thank you for your comments. there are no others in the queue. >> thank you, madam clerk. thank you again to oewd.

thank you for your work on the reports. and let's go head exit will move to send items 1 and 2 to the full board with recommendation. >> would you like this to be heard and filed as well. forward toed board with positive recommend algsz. vice chair stefani. >> aye. >> member chan. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye >> you have 3 aye's. >> thank you the motion passes. any further business? >> is there is none, thank you. why thank you very much. we are adjourned. clear clear

>> i try to start every day not looking at my phone by doing something that is grounding.

that is usually meditation. i have a gym set up in my garage, and that is usually breathing and movement and putting my mind towards something else. surfing is my absolute favorite thing to do. it is the most cleansing thing that i'm able to do. i live near the beach, so whenever i can get out, i do. unfortunately, surfing isn't a daily practice for me, but i've been able to get out weekly, and it's something that i've been incredibly grateful for. [♪♪♪] >> i started working for the city in 2005. at the time, my kids were

pretty young but i think had started school. i was offered a temporarily position as an analyst to work on some of the programs that were funded through homeland security. i ultimately spent almost five years at the health department coordinating emergency programs. it was something that i really enjoyed and turned out i was pretty good at. thinking about glass ceiling, some of that is really related to being a mother and self-supposed in some ways that i did not feel that i could allow myself to pursue responsibility; that i accepted treading water in my career when my kids were young. and as they got older, i felt more comfortable, i suppose, moving forward. in my career, i have been asked to step forward. i wish that i had earlier stepped forward myself, and i feel really strongly, like i am

100% the right person for this job. i cannot imagine a harder time to be in this role. i'm humbled and privileged but also very confident. so here at moscone center, this is the covid command center, or the c.c.c. here is what we calledun -- call unified command. this is where we have physically been since march, and then, in july, we developed this unified structure. so it's the department of emergency management, the department of public health, and our human services hughesing partners, so primarily the department of homelessness and supportive housing and human services agency. so it's sort of a three-headed command in which we are coordinating and operating everything related to covid response. and now, of course, in this final phase, it's mass

vaccination. the first year was before the pandemic was extremely busy. the fires, obviously, that both we were able to provide mutual support but also the impact of air quality. we had, in 2018, the worst air quality ten or 11 days here in the city. i'm sure you all remember it, and then, finally, the day the sun didn't come out in san francisco, which was in october. the orange skies, it felt apocalyptic, super scary for people. you know, all of those things, people depend on government to say what's happening. are we safe? what do i do? and that's a lot of what department of emergency management's role is. public service is truly that. it is such an incredible and

effective way that we can make change for the most vulnerable. i spend a lot of my day in problem solving mode, so there's a lot of conversations with people making connections, identifying gaps in resources or whatever it might be, and trying to adjust that. the pace of the pandemic has been nonstop for 11 months. it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak

about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets. all of those things that we depend on, schools and daycare

and sharing, you know, being together with other kids isn't available. i've often thought oh, if my kids were younger, i couldn't do this job, but that's unacceptable. a person that's younger than me that has three children, we want them in leadership positions, so it shouldn't be limiting. women need to assume that they're more capable than they think they are. men will go for a job whether they're qualified or not. we tend to want to be 110% qualified before we tend to step forward. i think we need to be a little more brave, a little more exploratory in stepping up for positions. the other thing is, when given an opportunity, really think twice before you put in front of you the reasons why you should not take that leadership position. we all need to step up so that

we can show the person behind us that it's doable and so that we have the power to make the changes for other women that is going to make the possibility for their paths easier than ours. other women see me in it, and i hope that they see me, and they understand, like, if i can do it, they can do it because the higher you get, the more leadership you have, and power. the more power and leadership we have that we can put out

>> you are watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest, carolyn mante. >> hi, i'm chris manners and you are watching san francisco the stow about restaffing rebuilding and reimaging the city. the guest is carolyn manteto talk about the organization is helping to preserve the city cultural heritage and architecture. welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me e. >> good to have you

here. >> can we talk bat the history of your organization and the mission. >> sure, thank you. san francisco heritage started 51 years ago and the main mission is to preserve and enhance the architectural and cultural identity of san francisco. when it started out the focus was really on the buildings, historic landmark listings and really concentrated on downtown area with all the development happening. our organization was raising a reg red flag with historic landmarks in danger and victorian mansions so a hallmark of our organization is moving these victorian mansions in the way of development to inwestern addition neighborhood and other areas to get out of the way of development and preserve them. our organization was around before there was the historic preservation commission of the city so we were at the forefront drawings

attention to historic preservation, landmarking and over the last 51 years we have seen how there are more then just buildsings in safeguarding the city cultural resources, there is also small businesses and the different neighborhood icons that make a neighborhood special, so our outreach has really-it is really come full circle in a way because it moved downtown into the neighborhoods and now with the covid epidemic it is really going back to downtown again looking at how we can play a role in the economic recovery and revitalization of downtown san francisco. >> that's great. so, now i understand your organization is also responsible for maintaining a couple properties. could you tell us a little about those? >> yes, our non profit was gifted in 1973, the historic (inaudible) house. it is now a historic house museum but this was a family since

1886 built this victorian mansion in the same family year after year and one of the last resident of the family when she passed way gifted the mansion to san francisco heritage so since then we have been running this historic house and the home of our office. in 2018, one of the long time members nor aa lasten gifting a building on the e h-as hate polk became a commercial corridor after the earthquake, the owner at the time, he raised the house and put 6 store front underneath in order to take advantage of the commerce so we are in charge of the house on the corner and it

has been a wonderful way to get new numbers, new audiences interested in the work of our organization. during the pandemic, we have been using it as a artson residents and partnering with different bay area artists as well as cultural institutions, cultural districts and then one of the storefronts we converted into a pop up galleries so gives a opportunity to raise awareness of the importance of the art and cultural resources in san francisco. >> that's fantastic. so, now, let's talk about legacy business. what does the designation mean? how does somebody get add today the legacy business registry and what benefits does being named a legacy business? >> i love this program. it was started by san francisco heritage and adopt ed by the city and run by the office of small business but the program looks what are the businesses

really contributing to san francisco and the neighborhood. when we started the first focus was bars and restaurants but over the years it exb panded to include other businesses so these are places that contribute to the character of a neighborhood, so sam's grill downtown, the amazingarian press in the presidio. book stores like city lights oergreen apple recently named. this year we had a lot of attention on the legacy business program. we put out a contest to the public of what you think should be the next legacy business and one of the businesses that was recommended was the club deluxe, jazz club on the corner, and 2 or 3 days after we launched the contest, the owners announced they would have to close. the rent was driven up, they couldn't afford it, coming out of the pandemic so we worked at speed

to get that application submitted with them and that status convinced their landlord to negotiate with them a lower rent and this way they have been able to stay, there was a lot of social media support around this, so when you become a legacy business, not only do you get marketing and business support from the office of small business, but you also eligible for grants and we work closely with the legacy businesses as we do our work for san francisco heritage. >> that's great. so, apart from architecture and buildings, you also work with cultural districts, and the castro theater strikes me as a place that is both. a beautiful building and cultural hub and center. what has been happening with the recent acquisition by new owners; >> it is leased to another planet entertainment and been in contact with planet

entertainment by the castro theater is historic land mark building. it is recognized as a very important architectural monument. one thing-one of the main activist organizations of the preservation of the theater we work together with supervisor mandelman on a interior landmark historic landmark designation for interior, but what happened over the is summer and people learned is there is a lot of concern not just by san franciscans but people all over the world, movie directors, stars who are very concerned about the risk to the lgbtq and film programming

at the castro theater. another planet hosted community stakeholder in august, and it was so moving to see the number of people who took the microphone-everyone had two minutes to say their testimony of what castro theater meant to them and those testimonys showed this building is contributing not just as a architectural monument but plays a role in the lgbtq community that is irrelaceuble able. >> it is beautiful theater. >> it is. my involvement in the theater raised awareness to not only the castro theater to be emblematic of the lgbtq culture and history but also there are many other sites in the city that also contribute to the identity. that is why so many people come to san francisco as a place of freedom and diversity so in my

previous work i worked at the world heritage center, so when i joined san francisco heritage i was thinking why isn't san francisco a world heritage city? for the architecture alone it could be inscribed. golden gate bridge to name a few but the city is so unique in the architecture, the mansioned and historic landmarks so hoping to start a conversation on that with city stakeholders this year. >> that is great. let's talk about your relationship with other agencies. you mentioned economic and office of work force development and planning commission. how do you unt integrate to them? >> these relationships are essential. we are working with office of small business for the legacy business program and the planning department is really one of our most

crucial relationships. we meet quarterly with them and we really see how we can support not only historic land mark listings and historical cultural context statements, strategy for culture districts and city survey among many other activities that really are of concern to both of us. for the office of workforce development, i attended a etmooing recently that the chamber of commerce organized with them on the downtown revitalization and a key goal in that meeting and in the downtown revitalization is to make sure that the city historic culture resources play a key #r0e8 in the economic recovery and revitalization especially after the pandemic. the office of workforce development has the city build program which is admirable program where youth are trained in construction techniques for rebuilding and especially with the new housing

legislation, and we really want to see how can that workforce be expanded to include training in historic preservation. we have so many victorian homes, historic buildings and other places that really need a skilled labor force to make sure that they are preserved and that they help keep the special identify of the city. we really value these relationships, we meet quarterly with the various organizations and we are really grateful for grants of the arts we receive and other supports so definitely that is a key relationship for san francisco heritage. >> the city build is great. i like that a lot. thank you so much for the time you have given today. appreciate you coming on the show. >> thank you so much raising awareness about san francisco heritage. we hope the people watching will join us in the mission to help keep san francisco special. thank you. >> that's it for this

episode. we'll be back shortly. i'm chris manners, thanks t >> in 1948 swensen's ice cream used to make ice cream in the navy and decided to open up an ice cream shop it it takes time for the parent to put money down and diane one of the managers at zen citizen in arena hills open and serve old-fashioned ice cream. >> over 20 years. >> yeah. >> had my own business i was a

firefighter and came in- in 1969 her dad had ice cream and left here still the owner but shortly after um, in here became the inc. maker the manager and lead and branded the store from day to day and in the late 90s- was obvious choice he sold it to him and he called us up one night and said i'm going to sell the ice cream store what you you talking about diane came and looked at the store and something we want to do and had a history of her dad here and growing up here at the ice cream

store we decided to take that business on. >> and have it in the family i didn't want to sell it. >> to keep it here in san francisco. >> and (unintelligible). >> share worked there and worked with all the people and a lot of customers come in. >> a round hill in the adjoining areas loved neither ice cream shop in this area and support russia hills and have clean up day and give them free ice cream because that is those are the people that keep us the opportunity to stick around here four so many years next generations have been coming her 20 er thirty or 40 years and we

have the ingredients something it sold and, you know, her dad said to treat the customers right and people will keep on coming back and 75 or 74 years, you know, that is quite an accomplishment i think of it as our first 75 years and like to see that, you know, going into the future um, that ice cream shop will be around used to be 4 hundred in the united states and all gone equipment for that one that is the first and last we're proud of that we're still standing and people people are you tell people it's been around in 50 years and don't plan on

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structures, so that people driving vehicles, people walking, and people biking can all see each other at the intersection. if cars are parked which are too close to the crosswalk, drivers can't see who is about to cross the street. it's a proven way to prevent traffic crashes. which have way too much crashes and fatalities in our city. these updates to the shared spaces program will help to ensure safety and accessibility for everyone so we can all enjoy these public spaces. more information is available at sf dot gov slash shared

>> we are right now in outer richmond in the last business area of this city. this area of merchants is in the most western part of san francisco, continue blocks down the street they're going to fall into the pacific ocean. two blocks over you're going to have golden gate park. there is japanese, chinese, hamburgers, italian, you don't have to cook. you can just walk up and down the street and you can get your cheese. i love it. but the a very multicultural place with people from everywhere. it's just a wonderful

environment. i love the richmond district. >> and my wife and i own a café we have specialty coffee drinks, your typical lattes and mochas and cappuccinos, and for lunches, sandwiches and soup and salad. made fresh to order. we have something for everybody >> my shop is in a very cool part of the city but that's one of the reasons why we provide such warm and generous treats, both physically and emotionally (♪♪) >> it's an old-fashioned general store. they have coffee. other than that what we sell is fishing equipment. go out and have a good time. >> one of my customers that has been coming here for years has always said this is my favorite store.

when i get married i'm coming in your store. and then he in his wedding outfit and she in a beautiful dress came in here in between getting married at lands end and to the reception, unbelievable. (♪♪) >> the new public health order that we're announcing will require san franciscans to remain at home with exceptions only for essential outings. >> when the pandemic first hit we kind of saw the writing on the walls that potentially the city is going to shut all businesses down. >> it was scary because it was

such an unknown of how things were going to pan out. i honestly thought that this might be the end of our business. we're just a small business and we still need daily customers. >> i think that everybody was on edge. nobody was untouched. it was very silent. >> as a business owner, you know, things don't just stop, right? you've still got your rent, and all of the overhead, it's still there. >> there's this underlying constant sense of dread and anxiety. it doesn't prevent you from going to work and doing your job, it doesn't stop you from doing your normal routine. what it does is just make you feel extra exhausted. >> so we began to reopen one year later, and we will emerge

stronger, we will emerge better as a city, because we are still here and we stand in solidarity with one another. >> this place has definitely been an anchor for us, it's home for us, and, again, we are part of this community and the community is part of us. >> one of the things that we strived for is making everyone in the community feel welcome and we have a sign that says "you're welcome." no matter who you are, no matter what your political views are, you're welcome here. and it's sort of the classic san francisco thing is that you work with folks. >> it is your duty to help everybody in san francisco.

>> my name is alan schumer. i am a fourth generation san franciscan. in december, this building will be 103 years of age. it is an incredibly rich, rich history. [♪♪♪] >> my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. i am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission.

i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended

family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you

reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. there was a woman by the name of diana. she was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. she classified it as a third i. will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of san francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. i believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily

basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are

imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the

complication of the look. i have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit? retirement to me is a very strange words. i don't really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the people's palace. you want a long-term career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something you're then yourself. follow your passion and learn

how to enrich the feelings along the way.

>> of the san francisco police commission. >> the chair called the meeting to order. if you could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> vice president carter oberstone, if i can take