>> good morning everyone, and welcome to monday march 20, 2023 rules committee. i'm supervisor dorsey and joined by vice chair walton and safai. i want to express gratitude to the committee clerk, victor young and thanks to sfgovtv. >> the board is convening

-first public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. those in person will be allowed to speak first and then we'll take those who are waiting on the telephone line. for those watching either channel 26, 28, 78 or 99 and sfgovtv the call in number is streaming across the screen. the number is 415-655-0001. then enter the meeting id, 2 (498) 163-6584 then press pound and pound again. when connected you will hear the meeting discussion but you will be muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called those joining in person should line up to speak and those on the phone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. please remember to turn down your

television and other listening devices you may be usingism . we will take those public comment from those in person first and then the telephone line. you may submit public comment in writing e-mail to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgov.org. if you submit by e-mail it will be forwarded to the board of supervisors. you may send comments to 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place room 244 san francisco california 941 0 co. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call item 1. >> item 1, ordinance amending the administrative code to add a seat to reentry

council for entity responsible for administration of pretrial service involving alternatives to incarceration. >> thank you this item was introduce ered by hillary ronen and understand she is joining remotely this morning. supervisor ronen, if you are available, the floor is yours and i want to also-- let me ask the city attorney--deputy city attorney. >> deputy city attorney ann pearson. as of the beginning of the month supervisors need to appear in person at board meetings. >> i see, okay. one moment. >> please proceed. >> good morning, anna herrera appears on behalf of supervisor ronen who couldn't be here

today. apology for the delay. so, good morning committee. the legislation before you today would amend the administrative code to add a seat to the reentry council for the entity primarily responsible for administering pretrial service in san francisco, in this case the sf pretrial diversion project which was established in 1976 under the promise the goals of community safety and restoration could be achieved by focusing on individual development, education and public service. sf prestrile tries to insure justice involved individuals appear for court dates, achieve maximum-housing employment and healthcare programs they can significantly reduce the jail population insuring public safety and breaking the cycle of justice involvement for

thousands in san francisco. given the council main goal is support justice involved and formally incarcerated people sf pretrial should be represented on the reentry council. today we have david (indiscernible) sf pretrial to present. he will be joining us remotely. >> thank you mrs. herrera. mr. maro, are you available? >> hello everyone. i am here. how are you all doing? >> thanks. the floor is yours. >> thank you. >> may i interrupt you one moment? can i ask parties not speaking at this time turn off your cameras and mute your microphone s so we can have a clean screen. thank you very much. my apology, please proceed. >> thank you so much for having me today. sorry i couldn't be in person, i am out of town for work related meeting,

but essentially we were asking to be a part of reentry council on behalf of the pretrial service work we do and the request is very clear and not necessarily about our agency, it is about the agency administering pretrial services in san francisco and we are fulfilling that function at this time. essentially, the reentry council is one of the main coordinating bodies in san francisco around criminal justice related issues, and the request essentially comes from wanting to be at the table. we have a unique model in san francisco where we have a non profit community based pretrial service agency, so we don't-we sometimes don't fit in the typical spaces that are occupied by the city partners and law enforcement partners because we are outside

the government function, but we are embedded in the system. like i said earlier, been doing this since 1976, and we overlap significantly with the courts and the sheriff and probation and police and the public defender and district attorney. we sit at the nexus of all the organizations in the courts, at this point the case load is 1800 and has historically high case loads of individuals with 950 clients and it just seems logical for us to be in that space. we occasionally present at the meeting. there have been questions about our work, and we feel like being at the table gives us the opportunity to work hand in hand with all the other groups connected to the crimial justice system and really bring more transparency and clarity to our role and the process. we also have

functions that cut across different levels of the criminal justice system. for example, we were just designated as justice involved access points, so within the coordinated entry system there are access points around the city and given our background working in the criminal justice space, we are that housing access point for anyone in the system. for example, it is not just pretrial clients, it could be clients on federal pretrial or probation or parole or having left prison or jail within the last 60 days. for us it is able to be connected and coordinating with all the other criminal justice systems and available to the public so they can ask questions and be part of the discourse. i am here to answer any questions if you have them, and i appreciate the time.

>> thank you and thank you mrs. herrera. colleagues, any questions or comments? >> yes. >> commissioner safai. >> thank you chair. thank you david for joining us today. good to see you. know the work you are doing is important. i'm not aware off the top of my head, but how many people sit on the reentry council and what is the diversity of representation on there? do you know or supervisor ronen's office know, through the chair? >> david, do you know? >> i believe-just going through my head. i believe-i think i saw victoria westbrook who will definitely know. i think there are 15-18 agencies. all the ones i mentioned. department of public health, child support services and there is also a group of appointees, some by the board and some by

the mayor's office. for the record, we understand there is currently someone from our office that was appointed by the board of supervisors and we also understand we can't have double representation so there are also community seats on the council, but dont know the exact number. >> so, you have an appointed seat and now you will be on it, so that isn't the case anymore, that will be balanced out so there are not multiple representatives? >> correct. the appointment seat would go away and have the opportunity to appoint another person and correct, we have a permanent seat that wont be turned over. >> that makes sense. i just was curious about the reception of the idea from the whole reentry council and seems like this would be a step in the right direction but i want to give supervisor ronen's office a opportunity to speak

about that. >> there are 24 members on the reentry council. >> did you hear my question? my question was, this is a new seat that is being created and wanted to see what the reaction was for the entire reentry council and how it was received. >> apology supervisor. i came unexpectedly this morning and the staffer who worked on this- >> maybe we can ask david. no worries. sorry about that. david, what was the genesis of this idea and how was it received? that is really my only question. >> well, the genesis i think was being connected and being part of the bigger criminal justice picture and making sure we are available to the partner jz also to the public, given our role in the system. we presented at the october reentry council meeting and made this request at that time. there wasn't a lot of

feedback. it was a presentation. we presented a lot of data so there were questions about some of the information we presented. i didn't get a feel whether or not there was a lot of push-back either way. there were a couple people that did speak up and agreed it is a good idea for us to be on the council but dont have a overall idea of the consensus of the council. >> okay, i wanted to know the reception and where the idea came from. >> supervisor, i believe we have victoria westbook online who may have a answer to the question. >> okay, yeah. mrs. westbook, did you want to answer that question? >> good morning supervisors. so, the idea adding pretile service seat was never formally brought before the council for a vote, however when the issue came up and proposed by supervisor ronen, i did send an e-mail out to the 6 cochairs of the reentry council

asking if they had comments, questions objections and nobody replied to that e-mail, and so there was no opposition from the cochairs. >> okay. i didn't anticipate that. i just was curious where the idea came from and how it was received on the reentry council. makes sense to me. thank you. >> you're welcome. >> thank you supervisor safai. thank you mr. mora. supervisor walton, any questions? thank you. thank you mrs. herrera. mr. clerk, let's open public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on the item and joining in person should line up to speak now along the side by the window. those listening remotely call 415-655-0001 meeting

id, 2 (498) 163-6584 and pound and pound again. once connected you need to press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those already in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin your comments. i do not see anybody in the room for public comment, and just checking to see if we have anyone on the telephone. there is nobody waiting on the telephone for public comment on this matter. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment- >> sorry, this is victoria westbook again. i just wanted to add that as far as multiple representation, pretile service is funded by the district attorney office and sheriff office, so not sure if that would add any level of conflict, but just wanted to put that out there before the board.

>> okay. thank you. public comment on the item is now closed. colleagues, any discussion? okay. i guess i like to make a motion to send item 1 to the full board with positive recommendation for reentry council pretrial services seat. >> yes, on that motion-- [roll call] the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. young. unanimous vote. full board with positive recommendation. please call item 2. >> item 2 is hearing to consider appointing 8 members terms ending december 31, 2024 to the shugry drink distribution tax advisory committee. seats 1-3, they must be held by

representatives of non profit organization to advocate for health equality and communities disproportinately effected. seats 4 and 5 held by individuals who are employed at a medical institute in san francisco and have experience in diagnosis or treatment of research or education about chronic and other diseases linked to consumption of sugar sweeten beverages. seat 6 must be a person under the age of 19 at the time of apontment and member of the youth commission nominated by the youth commission and appointed by the board of supervisors. seat number 15 must be a parent or guardian of student enrolled in san francisco unified school district at the time of appointment (indiscernible) board of supervisors

if no nomination the board of supervisors may appoint a member of the public. seat 16, must be a person with experience or experience in service and program for children 5 years old and under. >> thank you mr. clerk. there are many qualified applicants for the vacant seats on this body and much like we had last week for the inaugural appointment for hsh oversight commission we need to say no to really good applicants who would be excellent appointments. i really do want to encourage those who are not selected to this commission to consider serving on other oversight bodies and in other ways in our city. this is something where this is often the hardest part of this job. for seat 1, ms. almon and aleman and kuo are

unable to join us today so let's go to mr. williams. >> welcome supervisors. nice to be here today. i have been in the city a long time, and i have a good history of san francisco in relationship to the needs of the sugary issue. i want to speak from my personal perspective, coming from african american perspective many in our community have a history of diabetes and that was the motivation about 4 our 5 years ago when the board first start #d the commission that interested me because i wanted to find out more medically about that issue. i attended a number of meetings and found it was very good but i was also

involved with other projects. now that i have a chance to possibly become part of that issue and to look at the soclogical concepts needed to get people particularly in low income communities to find a way of reducing the amount of sugar they have. we are fighting a huge battle with the food industry and what they have in it, but i think it is something that we need to look at because i'm very concerned about the future of our young kids, how they will have it, and so at this point, rb i am hoping you can use my services in the future and we can do something to really make a change on this issue. thank you. >> thank you so much mr. williams. colleagues, any questions for mr. williams? okay. thanks so much. now let's hear from any

annie ching who is joining us remotely. >> hello everyone. can you hear me okay? >> we can hear you. >> okay. thank you for having me. i currently work at project open hand, which is a community program. my background is in nutrition and [difficulty understanding speaker due to audio quality] low income populations, coming from one myself. i thought this would be a good opportunity for me to use what i learned and just my -work in the community i grew up in while learning more about

health policy. >> great. thank you so much ms. ching. i don't see anyone on the roster with questions so thank you so much for your willingness to participate. let's move to john lesha ena join remotely. the floor is yours. >> good morning board of supervisors. i come before you and just want to share many years here working thin community, starting off as a youth program coordinator and building one of the biggest youth programs here and also on the groundwork and wincing many of our youth accessing inexpensive drinks, whatever drinks out there, and also identifying that water is so much more cheaper, so much more expensive then many sugary drinks. i think 3

years ago cdc had a project bringing healthier snacks into our community and identifying many (indiscernible) access the cheaper drinks including our black and african brothers and sisters. this is all they offer here in our community at a very discounted price. you can buy a soda for 25 cents but a bottle water for $1.50. that didn't make sense to the youth and started the project and encouraged the stores in the neighborhood to sell more kid friendly and healthier options for our youth. reading a statistic, low asian black african american (indiscernible) twice likely to experience tooth decay then in kindergarten then white children. that is all

our children in the same neighborhood i have been working in 20 years and think it is very important our voices be heard in this committee and we continue to (indiscernible) bringing healthier options into our communities for our youth families and seniors as well, because our seniors are the other folks that are looking for cheaper food items and everything seems to have sugar that is very inexpensive. i would love to sit and be a part of this committee to help bring more equitable solutions and healthier snacks and drink options for our community in district 10. thank you for the opportunity. >> thank you. i wanted to ask, i saw in your application reference to the-there is disproportionate impact that diabetes is having on

the- >> when we come out in the states our lot of our islanders, folks from the island don't have the exercise that goes back on island where everything is manual labor so you are able to sweat off a lot of what you eat and take in, and unfortunately many seniors have come out to america, no longer participating in daily activities that could help keep them healthy, keep them moving, mobile, and i am even seeing diabetes in some of our youth that are only in 6th grade. one of our students that i was able to work with had diabetes when she came-it was important

to understand why (indiscernible) i know the numbers of diabetes in the community is very high. when every mile or so you see a sign posted by the american department of public health about diabetes and how to prevent it, what are activities on island they can participate in. it is a prevalent disease in our api community and a lot of it like i shared is from the sugary drinks. we love sweet things. we drink coconut milk and all that healthier things, but whether we come out here, those things are no longer acceptable because they are right there on your land in the island, but now you come to america where nothing is on your land, you have to go to the store and buy, it and look at the price more so then what is more healthier for you and your family. if that makes sense.

>> thank you so much ms. ena. seeing no one on the roster with further questions, let's now move on to marna armstead reapplying for seat 3 and joining remotely, ms. armstead. if you are ready, the floor is yours. >> good morning, can you hear me and see me? >> yep. go ahead. >> awesome. i are want to thank the board this morning for the meeting and thank you for the opportunity for hybrid. it allowed me to go to a much anticipated doctor appointment and still be here in time for the meeting, so thank you for continuing that option for us. again, my name is marna armstead executive director of sister web, san francisco community dual network in san francisco which are all here. i'm also a native of san francisco and lifelong d10 resident so excited to be in front of you today. in my role

at sister web, i oversee day to day operations including budgets and recommendations to my team as to what we are going to do and spend money on, and so with that, i also work with the sugary drinks advisory committee as cochair and also make recommendations where we should spend our money. i see in the community a lot of the times we do not have access to healthy food options, we do not have the same accesses to healthy activities, healthy living activities. the ways we are able to move about as black people in our city, we are just-it isn't as accessible and as walk friendly and things like that happen, so we want to make sure those things are available and also make sure like ms. ena said, our community healthy retail places and community stores and options available are

more healthy. healthy water and eating options. i like to make sure that happens. as a cochair of the sugary drinks committee i try to make sure the funding recommendations align with the needs of the community and work with the team the rest of the sugary drinks advisory team to educate each other and make sure we are educating other members of the board and other relevant members of the community in san francisco city and county about the importance of why we are recommending the funding. so, i am excited to rerun. i have been on the committee and the reason i'm rerunning is because i saw we are in a critical point where we have reestablished and recommitted to our priorities and our funding and we have a plan that we would like to enact, which is approaching the board, approaching the relevant people and talking to them about the priortize and expecting the importance. just like ms. ena said and

exciting she is applying, there are things that need to happen within our communities, making sure we have access to healthy food, retail, access to parks, access to water in the schools and outside in the public and so in the world of cochair, i am excited and proud to say that i'm a part of the team that says this is a priority and helps make that happen. excited to rerun, because we are in the middle of critical time and still making a lot of changes and adjustments and frankly, two years is a long time, but not quite enough to pull off what we are doing and so i'm committed to reapplying in that role. that's kind of all i have for you today. if there are any questions you want to ask me, i am free and excited to answer them. thank you. >> thank you so much ms. armstead and thank you for your service and willingness to reup

for another tour of duty. seeing no questions from colleagues, i appreciate your presentation which i think covered a lot as well as your application. next up, let's hear from francis abigail cabrera reapplying for seat 4 and understand also-joining us here. >> good morning supervisors. i'm francis abigail cabrera and go by abbey. i'm a proud daughter of two immigrants in the philippines. i was born in san francisco and raised in the bay area. i am also a public health researcher and project manager at the university of california in san francisco and within that work focus on research and health equity and partner with a lot of community based organizations, some of who are also applying for seats 1-3. i am seeking reappointment and as marna previously said, the two years does go by very fast. we had a lot of work done in

the two years, and even in the two years of the legislation research done by the public health institute has shown 34 percent decrease of sugary beverage consumption. we know there can be many years for impact and evaluation and so i'm seeking the reappointment to continue the great work. i was fortunate in 2022 to be voted cochair by my fellow committee members along with marna armstead and in this work as a cochair, i dedicate over 8 hours a month in addition to my full time job for the committee for the community to see better impacts and health and wellbeing in our community. in district 10 for example, about 34 percent of the community based organizations that are funded by the sugary drinks are by community based organizations that are hundred percent serving bipoc

communities. a priority for supervisors ask your community are children. i have from my data, 46 percent of san francisco unified school district students are also impacted by increases in fruit, vegetable and tap water increases, so these are just some of the numbers, but beyond the numbers are there stories of our community and we want to be able to continue that great impact and i would like to seek reappointment to continue to serve in seat 4. >> great. thank you so much ms. cabrera. i appreciate your leadership so far and your willingness to seek another tour of duty on this and think this is important. i don't see questions from colleagues, so thank you so much for your presentation. >> thank you for your time. >> okay. and next up is linda ye, nominated to seat 6 by the

youth commission. ms. ye. >> good morning supervisors. my name is linda ye. thank you for having me today. i am 16 years old and current high school junior born and raised in san francisco. as someone who has seen friends and family members effected by sugar related disease including hypertension and cavities i know a long time something must be done to support our communities impacted by the damaging corporations who sacrifice wellbeing of consumers for profit. i see and experience how low income youth including myself are more vulnerable effected by the corporations from the lack of nutrition education and pressure to fit in. i worked numerous times with youth through work as counselor for camps and work with various youth service non profit organizations. i have seen things such as (indiscernible) casually having 3 cans of soda for lunch and

disparities in the diet between kids. these experiences motivated me do research and the right steps to be taken to advocate for the community and youth of the city. i experienced organizing and educating youth through various projects and events and believe increasing accessible to vital resources and information including the accessibility to clean water, non processed foods, nutrition education and other necessities to support the public health of san francisco. i hope through the sugary drink distrirt committee i can work with a team who cares about health equity as much as i do and utilize opportunity to introduce public health awareness through youth and encourage involvement. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you so much ms. ye. i apologize if i mispronounced that. >> you got it. >> yee or ye?

>> ye. >> i might have mispronounced. no other questions other then impressed by command or topic and someone of your age, the amount of accomplishments that you have. thank you for your interest and willingness to serve. i don't see any questions from my colleagues, so i think we'll move on to our next person. eva holman who applied for seat number 5. ms. holman. i apologize, applied for seat 15. >> my favorite number. incredible to hear all the speakers today and i first became interested in this committee after reading the 2018 report by ucsf that connected lack of access to public water to diabetes and other illnesses so thank you for allowing me to speak to you

today. i'm a public school mom, my son is in the 4th grade and goes to the same elementary school i went to in the 1980's. i'm an old mom. i run the green team at our school, which makes public pedestrian safety and public pedestrian bikeways. we do (indiscernible) events and sports equipment swaps. i'm part of mothers out front, dedicated to climate action and families in san francisco,ic and my professional history is in public policy related to eliminating pfas and single use plastic from food and beverage containers. much of the plastic we see, the same things we see in plastic beverage bottles also cause illness among communities in san francisco. pfas and

other chemicals can be highly toxic. because of that i feel professional experience in policy could relate to this role and while i feel i have more to learn, and really excited about learning more about how i can help communities impacted by sugary beverages in san francisco, i think some of my policy background could benefit the committee. look forward to potentially working with this group. >> great. thanks so much ms. holman. seeing no questions from colleagues i'll go to jamie schmidt. jamie schmidt is applying for seat number 4. >> hello. >> floor is yours. >> i believe this is laura urban our last speaker online with us. we can take her and go back to mr. schmidt. >> let's laura urban

and we'll come back-i skipped over jamie schmidt. >> she is online. we'll get her back on. >> can you hear me? >> yes. >> you can see me. >> i can see you. floor is yours. >> thank you very much. good morning. thank you for having me. excited to be considered for seat 16, a person with experience and expertise in services and programs for children 5 years and under. just to share about myself, i have over 10 years of experience working at the state and local level focus ing on nutrition security initiatives and programming, to impact positively impact the development of healthy behaviors in young children. currently as the associate director of health

nutrition, i oversee programs to support the development and growth of children through increasing access to healthy foods and encouraging environments that support the development of healthy behaviors, including encouraging healthy beverages. i oversaw division of public and behavioral health, also food security in nevada where i designed and evaluated state food insecurity (indiscernible) i also oversaw the state food security council so i have experience with cross agency collaboration at all levels, and also open meeting law as well. i hope to be considered for this seat so i can speak to the issues facing the early care and education community impacting providers educators and parents to ultimately have a positive influence and insure children have a healthy staff so thank you so much

for your consideration today. >> great. thank you so much ms. urban. and at this time i did skip over jamie schmidt who applying for seats 4 and 5. >> hello. thank you for inviting me to present to the rules committee. thank you. i am a mom, dietician, clinical researcher at (indiscernible) my research started in boston connecting the black american life style intervention conducting the study to identify the best (indiscernible) work to create partnerships with community health centers to recruit women from the neighborhood and familiar environment that enhance engagement. moving to san francisco i landed at zuckerberg san francisco hospital and my research investigated insulin resistance with those with hiv. i have been conducting clinical research to meck measure the impact 06 work place

intervention and 650 hospital employees. employees recruited from hospitals offering a healthy beverage initiative to ban the sale of sugar (indiscernible) vending machines or control hospital there is no change. we studied impact for a year. the results found impact on participant in the healthy aboveerage initiative and been accepted for publication. now we are in year 2 of federal grant looking at a multi-level work place intervention. the first level is randomly applying 16 hospitals to control healthy beverage initiative. the second is randomly assigning 700 full time hospital employees to intervention or no intervention. the goal is to determine if we can create a cost effective scalable intervention that can be implemented at work places. as a resident of san francisco over 25 years, participating in this committee allow me to give back to the city i love, raised my daughters with my husband also born and raised in san francisco. my career

is seek to find the best method to improve nutritional helths. this is a natural extension of the work especially i (indiscernible) fellow san franciscans. i admire the dedication of the committee i hope my skills are complement to the past current and future success. thank you. >> thank you mrs. schmidt. impressive rez sume and lot of work you have done is and research. very impressive. let me hand this off to vice chair walton. >> thank you so much chair dorsey. first, i want to say thank you so much to everyone who applied to serve. it is very commendable and always excited to see when we have more folks apply then seats available, because it shows commitment and dedication. i think like chair dorsey said, it also puts us in a hard position when there

are qualified committed and are caring people who want to serve and unfochinately we only have a certain number of seats. i'm cognisant of the impacts of sugary beverages, particularly the negative impact on low income communities, certain communities of color and most certainly want to make sure this body is reflective of folks who understand those issues and have insight into that as well as people with certain levels of experience, because at the end of the day, we want to do everything we can to prevent people from indulgeing in sugary beverages and quite frankly, decreasing their sugar intake in general. i would like to make a motion to refer chester williams for seat number 1, john ena for seat 2, marna armstead for seat number 3, francis abey cabrera for seat 4, jamie

schmidt for seat 5, linda ye seat 6 and apologize if i did not pronounce your name right. eva holman for seat 15 and laura urban for seat 16 and want to motion these names to the full board as committee report for tomorrow's board meeting. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you. thank you supervisor walton. i agree, it is so nice to have qualified dedicated people involved in this subject when we originally set this oversight body up a couple years ago i was the chair of the rules committee and we spent a lot of time looking at people's qualifications and we know from the work that has been done over the last couple years there is significant impact, so we appreciate the work that has been done. thank you to all of those that applied and again if you are not chosen we'll continue to work with you and

look for opportunities, but i just want to thank the folks that served on this body before and the good work that has been advanced and the ability to shift people away from life threatening products and impact they had on communities disproportionately with communities of color. thank you supervisor walton, thank you chairand thank you to all those applied. >> thank you supervisor safai. mr. clerk, let's open public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak should line up to speak at this time. for those remotely call 415-655-0001 enter id, 24981636584 then press pound and pound again. once connected press star 3 to enter the speaker line. for those already in the

queue continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and that is your queue to begin comments. there is nobody in the room for public comment at this time and we have one person on the line for public comment. can we have our first caller? >> good morning (indiscernible) environment action team. shape up we appreciate the rule committee (indiscernible) select new members of the (indiscernible) transparent process to review the data to develop recommendations is critical to insure the funds go back to the communities most impacted. the data from the most recent rfp for healthy community grants shows in sf these populations are black, african american,

latinx, pacific islander, (indiscernible) legislation establishing the committee seats 1, 2 and 3 are held by representatives of non profit organizations that advocate for health equity in communities disproportionately impacted by diseases related to consumption of sugary beverages. the shape up coalition urge the members to consider diversity and intersectionality of the members to insure the appointees are connected to and can represent in a meaningful way the populations disproportionately burdened by chronic disease related to conshump on of sugary drinks. (indiscernible) achieve the mission of making community driven funded recommendations that support services and innovative community lead work to decrease consumption of sugary beverages and increase access to water and support healthy eating and active living.

members seeking reappointment provide that important community perspective and continuity of work. members in good standing we recommend this group be appointed. thank you so much for your consideration. >> thank you. that our last caller for public comment on the telephone. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on that item is now closed. we have a motion on the floor and if i understand the risk risk of getting wrong, it is chester williams for-motion for chester williams for seat 1, john ena for seat 2, marna armstead, seat 3. francis cabrera seat 4, (indiscernible) eva holman to seat 15 and laura urban seat 16 and send as committee rort, report. do i have that correct? >> i believe we need a residency waver for

mr. williams. >> residency waver. motion on it the residency waver. >> on the motion-- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. okay. mr. clerk, roll call on the underlying motion. >> next on the agenda is item 3, hearing to consider appointing 4 members to food security task force. seats 12, 13, 15 and 19 must be representative of the community based organization that provides nutritional support and increase the food security of san francisco residents including but not limited to representatives from

organizations serving food in the following program types: home delivery meals, meals for seniors, food bank, free dining room, multiservice agencies serving family and youth shelter meals, faith based organizations, food retail and hospitals and health clinics. no organizations shall have more then one representative nominated by the food security task force and appointed by the board of supervisors. >> thank you. the food security task force. today we'll hear from the three individuals they recommended and the vacant seats all have the same qualifications. earl campbell barbee isn't able to join today so why don't we start with jade quu quizon in the chambers. >> thank you. good morning. my name is jade here to speak on my nomination for the food

security task force. a native san franciscans who grew up in the outer sunset and daughter of philippine immigrants. i pleev everyone deserves a chance to thrive and flourish and that begins with access to nutritious food and this is the driving force behind my passion. everyone has a right to food. i have committed the last 6 plus years working on the issue. first when i volunteered on organic farms through central and south america doing 3 month internship on a farm (indiscernible) i worked with the task force on research project to research different food policy council structures across the nation. now api council where i am building and managing the food security and food portfolio and par ticipating on food

agriculture action coalition. if appointed i would represent diverse viewpoints and particular the api community impacted by food insecurity. there is not a lot of data on asian americans and how they struggle with food security but (indiscernible) article showing 62 percent of san francisco food bank participants are asians and many seniors. i'm grateful for (indiscernible) i feel it proves what we have been feeling and that is ourcommunity members are (indiscernible) api council published a landscape (indiscernible) accessing food for api communities and some of the barriers are language barriers, and also (indiscernible) so, if appointed to this task force i just really

want to serve all residents, all people suffering with food insecurity because everyone eats and everyone deserves the right to food. thank you. >> thank you so much. seeing no questions, let's hear next from austin dalmasso joining remotely. >> good morning everyone. can you hear me? >> we can hear you. >> perfect. i'm austin and work with kdc as part of the healthy retail team housed within the community tndc known for actions such as cal fresh benefits resolution passed last week. my history is public health with social medical sciences, which is mouth full by (indiscernible) encourages

understanding of the more in depth features that create the oppressions we see today. my specification is history ethics and law so have experience with food policy and food action as well as (indiscernible) born and raised in the bay-air area but newly san francisco resident. i'm happy to be here since i have gotten here and started the new position in august i have been impacted participant with the (indiscernible) part of my program is funded through them as well as food security task force. i do believe fundamentally food is a human right and something that a lot of us take for granted but it is isn't the way it is or acts out in society. the more people that push for it and the more specific policy we have behind that, the easier to get to that horizon. it is difficult, but i it is worthwhile fight. probably one of the most worthwile. within my role we conducted

numerous focus groups within the tenderloin, something around 200 participants in various languages and across cultural barriers to understand the unique food needs of the populations. within that work we developed policy agendas, developed specific action plans [audio cut out] >> okay. thanks so much. seeing no one on the roster for questions or follow-up, i really appreciate your willingness to serve and with that mr. clerk, why don't we open up this item number 3, food security task force to public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment]

can we have our first caller, please? >> thank you. f good morning chairs committee members. policy manager for glide on behalf of the organization and as a member of the state wide california hunger action coalition and the local san francisco food and action agriculture coalition, we proudly and -campbell career is founded addressing hunger, nutrition and bringing equity to our food systems and we have the upmost respect and faith as an advocate organizer and provider. campbell represents the true embodyment of organization values. leads flag ship meals program the only program that

serves 3 meals a day and knows the importance of insuring all san francisco have the basic needs met. working towards his docricate in social change campbell lee aiz with a full spectrum of stakeholders and committed to improving community food system and how we address hunger. (indiscernible) living at the extreme edge of poverty and marginalization make him an ideal food security task force candidate and glide also supports (indiscernible) for the task force as well. we love to see (indiscernible) fighting to insure city wide food access. campbell, jade and austin qualification are exemplary and confident their inclusion all three on the task force would be a sure asset to the city. thank you. >> thank you. double checking

to see if there are other callers. that was our last telephone public commenter. >> thank you public comment is now closed. i would like to make a motion to recommend as the board of supervisor appointment to food security task force austin dal mauso for seat 12, earl campbell barbee for seat 13, and jade quizon for seat 15 and send the motion to full board as a committee report. >> would you also like to add a residency waver for ms. quizon >> so moved. >> yes, on that motion to recommend as committee report- [roll call] >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. young. unanimous vote item 3

go said to full board as committee report. please call the next item. >> yes, item 4 is hearing to considering one member to the ethic commission. seat 1 representative of the general public. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. is commissioner bush on the line? >> just double checking. he is not on the line. >> okay. seeing mr. bush is not joining us today, i lake to make a motion to continue his appointment to call of the chair and like to open up the continuance for public comment. >> yes. [providing instructions for public comment]

we have two callers on the line for this matter. can we have our first caller? >> commissioners, we are very grateful the city and county of san francisco, the citizens to have a person like larry bush who is a mind of information on the ethics commission. even though he is (indiscernible) he still participants at the

ethics commission and i don't know why this-maybe there is a rule that says that the candidates should be present, but we need a person like larry bush on the commission. the ethics commission. thank you very much. >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> good morning chair dorsey and rules members. this is patrick shaw. i'm speaking to the motion to continue and like the previous caller am raising a bit of objection. mr. bush has served san franciscans remarkably for many many years, and i hope you read my

letter of support that i presented. i'm hoping clerk young will get it posted online. but, since larry bush is the only candidate who applied, i don't see the need to postpone this hearing to the call of the chair, and i strongly recommend that you today pass a recommendation to approve his application as the sole applicant, and forward it to the full board of supervisors with a strong recommendation to reappoint him. my rational explaining his

qualification and experience and his tenure on various policy bodies speaks for itself. really urge you to get this done today. thank you. >> thank you. just checking to see if we have additional callers. that was our last public commenter on the telephone. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. we have a motion on the floor to continue this item to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, roll call on that motion. >> yes, on that motion- [roll call] motion passes without objection; >> thank you on unanimous vote item 4 is continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> item 5 is consider

appointing one member turn ending july 2, 2024 to public works commission. seat 1 must be a member of the public. qualifications desirable but not required include background or experience cleaning maintaining public spaces, urban forestry, urban design, construction, skilled crafts and trades, finance and audits, architecture, landscape architecture, inen and earring or performing measurement and management. >> thank you mr. clerk. this seat has been vacant for the life of this commission and very happy to see someone of mr. turner's caliber as an applicant. thank you for being here. like to invite you up. the floor is yours. >> good morning. i'm really grateful to be here in front of the rules committee. also really grateful to have here in the room our chair of

the public works committee, which i think is reflection of both the time and effort that i'm looking forward to putting into this opportunity for public service. but i think it also reflects the nearly 20 years of public service i delivered in making sure communities have high quality permanent supportive housing, mostly to serve chronically homeless and veterans and so to be able to take an opportunity to leverage expertise most recently delivering mission bay and brand new 141 unit of permanent supportive housing and jazzy collins (indiscernible) all this reflects not only exerperatize but commitment to union labor, construction (indiscernible) economic impact and making sure the projects represent the long-term and how san francisco needs to think climate change recollect sea level change and rise, all these things are reflective in the commitment to delivering not just

quality housing, but quality impactful economic development, something that many in san francisco often forget that at the root is public works. i'm grateful to have a opportunity to be of service. grateful to leverage my expertise but also recognize that this is a commitment. something i think that more and more folks need to make sure they are leveraging and more importantly civically engaged. this is how the city remain great and how the future of the cities remain vibrant. thank you. >> thank you so much mr. turner. i really appreciate your willingness to serve and seeing no one on the roster with questions and i don't have any myself, let us open up this item to public comment. >> [providing instructions for public comment]

we have speaker in the room. you may begin. >> thank you. good morning chair dorsey, supervisors walton and safai. my name is lauren post and i chair the public works commission. a fairly new commission. only been up and running since late last summer but i felt the vacancy we had oen the 5 person commission and why particularly eager to have you forward mr. turner's nomination to full board of supervisors. as you heard from mr. turner, i think his (indiscernible) speak for itself but like to mention 3 qualifications i need on the commission that i will be valuing. i need the man's

brain power. he is a smart individual, nimble and creative thinker and bring a valuable asset to any commission but particularly to the public works commission. he has considerable real estate development experience. while we have a architect on our commission who always offers valuable guidance, we really have a hole in expertise on real estate development and as you know dpw oversees capital project portfolio of (indiscernible) design and planning will be invaluable to me and colleagues. finally, mr. turner has extensive experience working with municipalities large and small throughout the country and expert navigating complex bureaucracy and process and putting together strong public policy. once again, this is a very valuable asset to the public works commission. a commission is only as effective as the quality of its commissioners and that is why i'm excited to have a

person of mr. turner's quality joining me. i urge you to please pass along his nomination to full board as soon as possible. i'm hoping we will start interviewing candidates for the permanent dpw director's position next month and eager to have mr. turner participate in those interviews so thank you very much for your consideration. happy to answer any questions about mr. turner's candidacy or the commission in general. thank you. >> thank you. being no speakers thin room we can move to remote public comment. we have 3 callers and 1 person in line. can we have our first caller? >> great. david pillpel. good morning. i do not know the nominee gerald turner, but i share lauren post's enthusiasm and look forward to his service on the commission and

recommend forwarding his nomination to full board with recommendation and are thank him for volunteering to serve. thanks for listening. >> thank you. that was our last caller. >> thank you. public comment is closed and i was reminded when chair post was mentioning how valuable real estate is. someone who is a friend and mentor to me in my many years from the city attorney office was jesse smith and used to make the comment, no matter what it is, it always comes back to real estate. it is a point well taken and very impressed with mr. turner, so i like to make a motion to recommend gerald demarcus turner on the public works commission for seat 1 position. >> on that motion-

[roll call] motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk, and with unanimous vote, item 5 goes to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> yes, item 6 is ordinance amending the administrative code to establish and define the membership and duties of enhanced infrastructure financing district public financing authority number 1. >> thank you. we are joined by lee (indiscernible) from the office of economic work force development who will be presenting on this item. the floor is yours. sorry, let me hand off to vice chair walton. >> thank you so much chair dorsey and thank you so much for being here to present. i do want to just briefly state how excited i am. we are in a housing crisis and we have been

working diligently in district 10 office, all colleagues across the city to build housing and the power station is a already approved project and establishing the enhanced infrastructure financing district and of course the public finance and authority will allow us to insure we have hundreds of housing units that will be built due to resources for financing and the important part is people understand is we still maintain a net financial benefit for the city for this pre-approved project and think this demonstrates what we can do together if we work to be creative to build affordable housing, to build all types of housing not only in the district but across the city. excited we are in the position to be working to move this forward. >> thank you vice chair walton and- >> hello. thank you

supervisor chair dorsey and supervisor walton, safai. good morning. i'm lee (indiscernible) the deputy director of joint development team at oewd. joined by anna (indiscernible) the public finance director of the controller's office of public finance. we are here today with a short presentation about the proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district for power station project and public financing authority. the power station is a 29 acre site on the central waterfront just south of pier 70 and with the site of the former potrero power station. the project entitled and transform with mixed use development with residential, commercial and significant new public spaces. 30 percent of the housing will be affordable and the project includes a host of other benefits that support the community. the project sponsor has already

initiated significant site work as you see in the photo, which shows the new elevation of the future roads. but given the contraction of the financial markets and escalating costs, the project is at risk of stoppage. the proposed enhanced infrastructure financing district or eifd is a state authorized public financing tool that municipalities can employ to fund public capital improvement using property tax revenue. the proposed power station complies with city wide ifd guidelines which supplemented this year and intentional and effective policy tool to accelerate master plan projects to unlock the housing and community benefits. limit ifd to large scale projeblth and

maintain a net fiscal benefit to the city. as such, projects can access up to 50 percent of the annual tax increment generated by their development. our policy also limits ifd debt across all districts such that total annual dbt payments do not exceed 5 percent of annual property tax revenue. and comes with a use it or lose it clause that provides the option for the city to desolve a district should minimum development milestones not be met. this expires once debt is issued. eifd law requires the board of supervisorss establish a public financing authority to serve as the legislative body of the eifd. the ordinance before you today is for the creation of that body. this pfa will be responsible for adopting and implementing the infrastructure financing plan for the power station eifd which outlines

property tax allocations to the district and the pfa oversee the issuance of bonds. the pfa will consist of three members of the board of supervisors, appointed by the board president and two members of the public plus a board member to serve as a alternate. as for next steps, the pfa once established will conduct a number of meetings this year to review and adopt the ifp. there is a companion resolution of intention to form the power station eifd passed out of budget finance committee and will be heard at the full board tomorrow. we expect the full eifd formation process to take another 8 months or so. in that time, the power station team is committed to advancing site work on the project with the goal to begin the first housing project before the end of this calendar year.

with that supervisors, i'll turn it back to you for questions. thank you. >> great. thank you so much. i just was just looking at doing a walk down memory lane from days in the city attorney when there was a lot of work going back 15 or 20 years to close this. it is great to see the progress that has been made. i really appreciate your presentation and i have no further questions other then to appreciate your good work on this. seeing no further questions or comments-sorry, vice chair walton. >> thank you chair dorsey. i do have an amendment that i would like to propose. the amendment is on page 6 line 16-18. the office of controller should provide administrative and clerical support to the eifd public financing authority number 1 unless and until that

function is reassigned to another department as part of the annual budget process. thank you for your consideration. >> thank you supervisor safai. >> thank you. thank you supervisor walton for all your hard work on this. i just are want to say for the record as the president of the retirement fund and seeing investments both in san francisco and around the country, it is difficult to do real estate development right now, particularly on this scale so i really appreciate the project sponsor and their hard work, the office of economic work force development and others for their hard work, because without this level of creativity, we would not be moving forward and would not see this development maybe for a few years if at all, so yes, we are foregoing some money for the general fund, but it is reinvested back into the community and allow

for the creation of thousands of good paying union jobs, mixed use development, and revitalization of a waterfront piece of property that many san franciscans have never been able to experience because of the power plant being there and not being open to the public, so i think this is wonderful thing. a wundserful thing for the city and our economy. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai and supervisor walton for your leadertion. there are no more questions so mr. clerk why don't we open umu up to public comment. [providing instructions for public comment]

>> chester williams. that is excellent. over the history of the city, the comments made by the supervisors and the presentation shows that this is a new step in a direction for san francisco. she mentioned something i wanted to inquire. she mentioned benefits. can you give me a sampling of what the benefits are about. >> please be aware, this isn't a time to ask question but you to make comment. >> okay. i made my comment. thank you. >> thank you. no further persons thin room we can move on to our remote public comment. we have three callers with one in line. can we have our first caller?

>> you know, this is a program that has not been vetted with the community. it is not sufficient to tell us that at this time it is very difficult to build. this is a power plant and there is more to this power plant. some of you all who chronologically do not know the history of the site are not aware where there is a stack under the stack there is a million tons of (indiscernible) that has to be

(indiscernible) we get these people talking in very general terms and not talking to the environmental concerns and the supervisors who are ignorant of the facts. even though the facts have been told to you all before. the gentleman, mr. (indiscernible) is right. he is a elderly gentleman that i know. he wants to know what are going to be our community benefits. or you cannot-we cannot answer you during public comment (indiscernible) in the presentation we want to know who is going to benefit from this energy. we want to know if you have tapped into the infrastruck ture bill to focus on clean energy.

we want you to know exactly what mr. (indiscernible) questioned, who will benefit from this. the thing is, in district 10, developers come and do as they please with only one or two entities benefiting from- >> your time has elapsed. >> those are called bribes and this shit must stop. >> speaker time has lapsed. thank you very much. just double checking to see if there are additional speakers. there are no additional speaker s on the public comment line. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. vice chair walton. >> thank you so much chair dorsey and just want to thank oewd for the presentation and also remind the entire public and mr. williams if you want to send an e-mail for follow up, we have been

discussing, presenting, talking about the community benefits of this project for several years at this point, so if anyone does not know the community benefits for this project most certainly you can research and look it up or you can reach out to my office, but we communicated several dozen community benefits for community on this project for several years at this point. with that, i want to just make sure we are mindful of the amendment as we move forward. >> thank you vice chair walton. i just want to again express my gratitude to vice chair walton for his leadership on this, and supervisor safai because i know he is a cosponsor of this. it is something close to my heart just as having worked on this back as far as 2006 in my own small way. mr. clerk, there is a motion on the floor to send item 6 as amended to

full board as committee report with positive recommendation. roll call on the motion. >> yes, the motion is to accept the amendment and recommend that the matter as amended as a committee report. on the motion- [roll call] motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk on unanimous vote item 6 as amended establishing enhanced financing district public financing 1 will go to full board as committee report. mr. clerk, any further business? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you all, we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

hi, sandy, how are you? >> hi, fine, thank you. how are you? >> good. i want to ask you what inspired you to be a paramedic? >> that's a good question. you know, i wanted to go into med school and after i found out how much time it took and all of that, i decided that

that was going to be a little too much schooling, but i still wanted to figure out a way that i could provide medical care and doing that as an emt as well as a paramedic was a way to do that. >> can you give me a break down of a typical day for you? >> i come to work and sit at my desk and then i respond to e-mails and try to figure out what are some of the issues we need to address. can we hire more people. what kinds of policies we want to try to create that will help us do our job as ems. >> what does it take to be a female paramedic? >> you know, it takes quite a bit of schooling, but also required somebody who's empathetic. it can be a very stressful job and so we want people to be able to hand that on a day-to-day basis. >> so what's your greatest satisfaction in your job? >> trying to make sure that the work that we provide and the services that we provide to the community is the best that we

can in ems so that when we go out to see you if you call us for an emergency, that we'll be able to treat you in the best way possible and that you get the care as quickly and as effectively as possible. >> why is it important for young girls, women of color to see women in these roles? >> i think it really is important for us to be able to get into these roles because we are effective, we are able to reach out to the community. we are able to do the job in a very effective manner and to be able to relate to the community and be able to do that is one of the best things that we can do. and people of color and as women of color, you know, we are in a great position to be able to do that.

>> tuesday march 21, 2023. we can hear the wind gusting outside. we hoping everybody is taking precautions to stay safe during this weather. secretary morewitz, please call the roll. >> sure. [roll call] >> commissioner chung will offer the ramaytush oholone land acknowledgment. commissioner chung. the san francisco health commissi