[gavel] >> this meeting will come to order. good morning everyone and welcome to the monday april 17, 2023 meeting of the rules committee of the

san francisco board of supervisors. i am supervisor matt dorsey chair of the committee and joined by vice chair shamann walton and committee member ahsha safai. on behalf ofoir colleagues i would to express our gratitude to victor young and the sfgtv and the producer there today. mr. clerk do you have any announcements? >> yes the board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings to allow in person attendance and public comment while providing remote access and public comment via telephone. public comment will be taken on each item on the agenda. those in person will be allowed to speak first and those waiting on the telephone line. the public comment call in number is streaming across the strene. when connected you will hear the meeting discussion but muted and listening mode only. when your item comes up and public comment is called those joining in person shall line

up to speak and those on the telephone dial star three to be added to the line. please turn down the tv and all listening devises you're using want alternatively you may commit public comment in writing to myself of the city clerk at the website on the agenda and by us mail at dr. goodlet place san francisco california, 9410 2. items acted upon today are expected to be on the board of supervisors agenda on april 25, 2023 unless otherwise stated. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk. to accommodate schedules today we're going to call item three first and i will call item one last because we're going to be

moving to continue that item once again, so the order for today will be items number three, two, four and one and with that mr. clerk please call item number 3. >> yes item three is an ord amending the administrative code to redeal chapter 12x and thereby repealing the prohibition on city funded travel to a state and center entering into a contract with a contractors that united states headquarters in a state where any or all of the contract would be performed in a state that allows discriminatory practices with lgbtq with voter suppression laws. >> thank you mr. clerk. we are joined by supervisor mandelman and the floor is yours. >> thank you for doing this this morning and my desire to go a

little early. so today we're considering an item or a matter that you have thought about in this committee before, chapter 12x, which prohibits city funded travel to and contracting with companies headquartered in states that have restrictive lgbtq -- anti-lgbtq and antiproductive rights and antivoting rights legislation. it's a definitely issue and thank supervisor safai for taking on a piece of this a few months back. for benefit of those that may not have been paying attention to this effort i do want to go over the background and this legislation goes back -- well, not my legislation but chapter 12x goes back to the aftermath of the supreme court's decision recognizing same sex marriage and in the wake of that decision a number of states

enacted antigear, antilgbtq plus legislation. the board of supervisors responded in october 2016 by adopting chapter 12x to the administrative code with not go to these states with anti-gear states and it was a few states at the time. it has such expanded to anti-choice laws and restrictive voting rights laws and all of these prohibitions were put in place i think the same underlying theory of change. progressive jurisdictions would come together, pool our political and economic power and stand up against bigotry. and then behavior of these states that were adopting these laws would change, and that coalition never materialized and that behavior has not changed. no other cities or jurisdictions have

come along for the ride to enact boycotts anywhere near as sweeping as san francisco's and meanwhile no states with restrictive voting rights or productive laws have cited this as motivation for reforming them. for more than two years i and my office have been looking at this specifically looking at the efficacy and costs associated with 12x. last year the budget and legislative analyst released a report that i requested that found poor comprince across city departments and dozens of waivers of contracting tens of millions of dollars spent in banned states even with the ban so we were incurring cost by having the ban and still doing a ton of business with banned states. departments were

granted waivers and $75 million in contracts for banned states but as compliance tightened between july 2021 and july 2022 there were 35 departments approved by 538 waivers which brought the total up to $791 million. and probably the improved compliance of the law more attention paid attention to it is the reason those numbers went up so high but they beg the question what is the point if we have this prohibition but for a lot of good reasonables we provide a pathway to get around it's costly to do the work arounds and we still have the costs of reducing our bidding pools and shutting out potential contractors. the bla analyzed you know identified nearly half a million in staff cost in terms of processing these

waivers but the more significant cost in terms of its impact to procurement they estimated more than 20% and millions of dollars. following the repeat released last september many supervisor submitted a letters of inquiry to the city administrator and she look at the chapter 12x and propose considerations for the board consideration. that report was released in february and associate side with high levels of administrative burden significant opportunity for costs for the city and its employees and increased contracting costs, and i have become aware of some of you have heard these stories of unintended unintended consequences of 12x

and -- because of 12x. our office of economic and workforce development can't conduct economic development missions or recruit businesses in most of the country, and recently i saw an email in which a disaster presence coordinator wouldn't authorize a constituent's release for emergency housing after replaced because of a fire and the company was in a banned state and including the state to the east nevada but there's a ton of others. none of this makes sense. these outcomes aren't good for san francisco and not helping those vulnerable people in the banned states and i don't believe it's working the way it was intended. repealing 12x should increase competition for city contracts and lower costs that should save the money tens or hundreds of millions of

dollars when having construction projects and the daily procurement smaller projects in the city and should reduce the administrative burden and make the government better and help us advance our social policy goals by creating more opportunities for engagement with communities impacted by restrictive lgbtq plus reproductive right and voting rights laws and this was hammered home with me listening to npr story a year ago about a gay couple in north carolina that opened a furniture business and making furniture and had been very successful and it occurred to me that san francisco could not buy furniture from that particular company because it is located in north carolina or perhaps we could have by going through a complicated and expensive waiver process. now i've heard two sets of concerns about this repeal. first i wasn't anticipating but i think has promoted a useful conversation and i

know supervisor safai and also supervisor melgar have been part of that conversation and expanding opportunities for the minority local experts. i don't think 12x is a particularly effective policy tool to create or protect small business opportunities for our local small businesses. on april 6 i met with the lbe advisory committee and do i think there are that the board can do to support these businesses and i know supervisor safai and supervisor melgar are working on this, but i think that the fact that we need to do more to support our small businesses and especially our minority small businesses doesn't mean we should keep 12x in effect. we need to find more targeted and effective ways to do that. now the other argument is certainly in this particular moment

emotionally a harder one for me in that we see states doing terrible, terrible things enacting the most ridiculous laws prohibitions on drag you know going after trans kids and their families, their doctors and of course the issues of reproductive rights and choice have become even more polarized and we see states doing terrible things on those fronts as well and some feel that repealing 12x means that san francisco is waiving the white flag in our fight for equality and justice. i don't think that. i think that is quite wrong but i also firmly believe that the best thing a progressive city like san francisco can do for progressive politics nationally is demonstrate that a great city like

san francisco can govern itself efficiently and smartly and do smart and good things for our vulnerable populations right here in san francisco. we're facing a very challenging budget this year. it's going to be challenging going forward and yet we know that there are choices that we need to make to lift up our trans folks, to make good around the commitment on reparationses and support reproductive rightses for women and those goals have not been achieved in san francisco and insofar we have a more effective government that is spending its money more wisely we can do more for vulnerable populations here and i believe this board has a commitment to do that. i want to thank president peskin and supervisors supervisor stefani, peskin -- well, we have peskin, ronen and supervisor safai for the cosponsorship and i believe chair dorsey you're a cosponsor as well i and want to

also thank bla analyst for the initial report, city administrator charmen chew and deputy city administrator and the purchaser in the city for their analysis and i wanted to thank deputy city attorney filbert for his drafting support of this legislation and thank ross green in my office for his work on this, and that's what i got. >> thank you supervisor mandel don. vice chair walton. >> thank you chair dorsey and thank you supervisor for coming in this morning. i do just want to say that i 100% feel that there's so many unintended consequences with this repeal. we still have not analyzed the effects of small businesses with this repeal as well as

completely analyze the effects on the populations that 12x was intended to protect. i think it's a mistake to completely repeal this legislation without having a real conversation and a plan moving forward looking at the impacts of our small business, looking at the impacts how this affects protected communities and i think what this does is most certainly help big business but it could be at the expense of harming our protected classes and harming our classes in san francisco and i know there's going to be unintended consequences to a complete repeal without a plan to make sure those populations are protected, and i don't think we can make these changes without a plan in place, without to your point the conversations that are happening with some of my colleagues and small business. i think that's putting the cart before the horse

actually repealing the legislation before some of those strategies and plans are implemented so i really don't know what this repeal is attempting to solve and as you stated supervisor mandelman most certainly a lot of states across the country are doubling down on their discriminatory practices. they're doubling down on their hate and prejudice and the policies they put in place to promote that hate and prejudice and i really just think that we should be more methodical and thoughtful about how we move forward with something like this. >> thank you vice chair walton and supervisor safai. >> thank you chair. thank you supervisor mandelman for bringing this forward today. i think sometimes when we create policy we end up ultimately conflating a number of different member issues. i think the intent of this

legislation was started out i believe supervisor wiener at the time the intent was really to send a message on policy and hope that states that had these abortient policies would begin to rethink them if they wanted to do business with the city and county of san francisco and as supervisor mandelman said that has not happened and what in fact what happened is the cost to the taxpayers of san francisco over and over again has gone up. i just want to reiterate some of the things that i said when we took on one piece of this and supervisor mandelman said the same thing. 12x was never intended to stop competition or intended to look at some of the different groups in our city that are under represented and say we're going to do everything we can to enhance and create an environment that will enable you to get more business. that wasn't what 12x was intended to do and

we expanded it with good intentions but i think it's been shown based on the conversation with the city administrator and all the different departments that have to do business within the state of california and outside in other states the fact that 30 states would be on the list and growing most likely would really i think impact the city and county going forward in our ability to have good sensible policies that will get good pricing essentially for the city and county. i do want to reiterate i am committed to working with the lgbtq community. we will continue to work with them and look at some of the areas they need help with and strengthening the environment for them to do business in. i heard supervisor mandelman and supervisor walton is committed to that since being on the board and we will all work together to try

to strengthen and understand areas they need help on but i think this is the right step forward for us as a city. i think it's a sensible piece of legislation and there's enough time to show that the impacts it was intended to have not had but in fact hurt us as a city and it's time story peel it and i appreciate you bringing this forward and working with you on this one as well. thank you mr. chair. >> thank you supervisor safai and i want to express my appreciation to supervisor mandelman for the leadership on this and supervisor safai and others and i would like to be add as a co-sponser to this. i think as i expressed once before a lot of my perspective on this is informed by you know over the years working as a manager and director in city departments and seeing some of the inefficiencies about city contracting. at

the end of the day i think when we make competitive bidding less competitive we're doing a disservice to tax payers and residents, and i think there are ways that our values should be better reflected in especially as we go into a budget downturn the programs that we're not cutting and the ability to prioritize the important programs that we have here in the city rather than squandering resources for you know the things that affect our procurement and biddings processes that are costing taxpayers needless dollars so with that mr. clerk can we open this up to public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely on the call in line pressing star three to be added to the que

and nose in the queue wait until you're unmuted and the cue to begin your comment. there being no public commenters in the chamber can we have our first caller? >> good morning. david pilpow can you hear me okay >> . >> yes,. >> great. i agree with supervisor mandelman and supervisor safai on this one. we don't like appropriately we don't like some of the laws and policies in other states but 12x isn't changing them and instead is costing the city to comply and reducing opportunities for travel and contracting and so is having kind of the opposite effect as what was intend and i had agree there are other approaches to address concerns in other places but 12x isn't doing it right now so i support this

measure and thank you for the work on this. thank you for listening. >> thank you. that completes our public comment call in. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. [gavel] >> and i would like a motion to send item three to the full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk a roll call on the motion. >> yes on the motion to recommend. vice chair walton. >> [off mic]. >> walton no, supervisor safai. >> [off mic]. >> supervisor safai aye. >> chair dorsey. >> dorsey aye. the motion passes with supervisor walton discenting in committee. >> thank you mr. young. on a 2-1 vote item three repealing administrative code relations and related travel with discriminatory laws moving to the full board with a positive recommendation. [gavel] >> mr. clerk please call 12.2. >> yes item number two is a hearing appointing one member to the african-american reparations advisory

committee. we have one seat, nine applicants. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. as this committee often sees we have an applicant pool with an abundance of lived experience and knowledge and very viable on this committee and others and i always want to reiterate that whenever we're in a situation where we need to say no to someone i hope that people will look for other opportunities because we are all enriched in important ways as a city when people seek the help of the city on oversight body and other commissions. in the job that we have as policy makers making these decisions it's not necessarily about individuals. i think it's important that moment don't make anything personally. my committee colleague supervisor walton lead on the creation of this committee and a champion on this issue and i know he would like to say a few words.

>> thank you so much chadors and he first want to thank the african-american reparations advisory committee for all their work. as you know we're here because someone had to resign their seat so we need to make an appointment so the work can continue throughout january of next year in terms of the work of the committee. excited to thank you so much many applicants and so many folks step up and want to serve. i want to reiterate what chair dorsey stated in terms of the fact we do have so many applicants that are ready and excited and we truly appreciate that at the same time we only have one seat so want to encourage everyone who doesn't get selected today to continue to want to serve and step up and be involved with other committees, or other opportunities that do exist here in the city and just appreciate to have a pool of applicants that is so large and thank you all so much and looking

forward to hearing this item. >> thank you vice chair walton for your comments and leadership on this issue and i want to reiterate my support for everything that you're doing in this and any help that i can facilitate. i really appreciate what you're doing so i'm going to be calling up the individuals in the order they're listed on the agenda so first let's hear from fatimah abdul-khalig who i believe is joining remotely. fatimah abdul-khalig are you on the line? . >> hi good morning. i'm here. thank you. >> thanks welcome. the floor is yours. >> thank you. i would like to speak a little bit about myself and why i wanted to join the african-american reparations advisory committee so i am raised in san francisco and actually a third generation san franciscan so my whole family lives here, has moved around due

to some of the circumstances of san francisco of them being pushed out, different situations like that. i am also an hbcu grat. i am currently working as a psychotherapist for the department of public health and services to black african-american families all over san francisco particularly in the bayview and visitacion valley and it's really an honorable torto be part of the conversation to a tone for slavery for the atrocious acts of the trans atlantic slave trade with reparationses and to certainly hold this nation accountable for the pain and suffering of black people. reparations are a necessary demand for justice and this is a fight that is extremely important to me and to

my community. i'm an advocate -- i'm an hbcu advocate. i'm eyelet mental health advocate and civil rights advocate in my community so i am out there in the community daily trying to help with working with my community, and yeah. i want to be at the forefront of advocating for reparations for my community as well, and i think i would be an asset to the committee because of all the experiences that i have in the city and my passion for healing my community and advancing the black community. thank you. >> great. thank you. and now let's hear from frederick martin -- >> just real quick i have a question. >> vice chair walton.

>> i do have a question for the applicant and i will be asking all the applicants this question and feel free to touch this in your statement and have you attended any of the current african-american reparations meetings? >> i haven't had the opportunity to attend any of the meetings. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> great. thank you. and now let's hear from frederick martin. is mr. martin available? >> hi. thank you for considering me for this seat. just to answer the question off the top yes, i have attended many of the reparations committee meetings. also the substance meetings -- subcommittee meetings and economic justice with [inaudible]. >> . >> there's been a lot

of community engagement that i have done with and for the committee in regard to district 5 and district six and getting a lot of people to attend. excuse me. i have a cold or the flu, so the experience that i've had in san francisco i have lived here all my life. i have had times where i've lived in public housing and also times where i didn't live in public housing, so we were in market rate housing for most of my childhood but i have lived experience. i'm currently living in subsidized housing, and the work that i did

starting in 2015 with housing rights committee it was funded through hud and we were to go in to all the project section 8 units we could that were in danger of losing their afford ability or they were in condemnable conditions, lots of inhabitablity issues. tenant rights were ignored. i got trained in that and learned of all the statistics, utilize the statistics. currently i believe there is over 40% of public housing or subsidized housing are black and african-american which is a direct result of the red lining and all of the historical system stemically racist segregation and you know bumping up how much people would have to pay for loans and mortgage and devaluing properties, so i dealt with a lot

of that first hand and all of the majority black neighborhoods, so it was western edition, fillmore, tenderloin, bayview hunters point and third street and we actually successfully because of the training and organizing that we did and educating that we did with the tenants of many of these properties shore view, bayview apartments, [inaudible] arms, fred lick douglas haynes. i could go on and on with the issues that were going on and the amount of units that were saved from grass roots organizing knocking on the doors, talking to 10ants, getting first-hand accounts, visiting their home and talking with their families to bring about some sort of justice and make sure that the affordability remains but also they got respected and treated

fairly. that's one of the commitments that hud makes. it's one of the promises in their contract affordable safe and decent housing so we actually saved team at housing rights committee. we actually saved thousands of units, and several buildings from being converted you know taken off the affordable housing market. there's just a lot of things i could say about that, but it's important like when you have shelter and when you have housing and when it's affordable through whatever program or system for you it changes your life, so i dedicated myself to that for many years. before that i was doing organizing with tenderloin development neighborhood corporation and served on the board for tmdc. i got a lot of behind the scene what is was going on, how to make things work, how to make things better,

so i have a lot of experience with that. i've also organized many events and people with disabilities on housing rights with the san francisco planning department. i had conducted several focus groups, planned with them based on all of the data that we have compiled in the city on the discrepancies or the need or the amount of people that that need affordable housing. the people that we aren't reaching so a lot that that work had do with reversing and changing and dealing with the racism that exists in housing and to make -- they made a commitment to change that, so i've done work with the city there. most recently i am doing a series i now work for glide as the community engagement and

congregational life manager which also includes housing support, so i think i have a lot of experience. it's close to my heart. i am one of the only people in my family that wasn't displaced or priced out or made a decision to move out of san francisco. i have a lot of family that is in the east bay and beyond because of that but i made a decision to stay. i love the city. i love my people and i think you know it's about time for change in the entire says, in the entire housing system, not just public housing but housing in general. there's reparations that we deserve that we are owed. many of our -- many of my forefathers and foremothers help build this city and help build the wealth yet it was taken from us at every single turn so i would love to and be glad to be a part of the

committee who is doing great work and to help them bring about the change and the justice that we need. >> okay. thank you mr. martin and next up we will hear from larry martin and just to move things along with the entire agenda i'm going to ask if folks could observe two, three minutes but next up we will hear from mr. larry martin. mr. martin. >> yes. can you hear me? >> yep the floor is yours. >> yes. my name is larry martin and first i want to say i have attended numerous meetings reparations meetings and i have been very vocal on supporting reparations. i also want to mention before i start john

connors junior in 1989 he introduced hr 40 and it was a commission to study reparations, so i want to thank the brothers and the sisters that serve and supervisor walton that served on the reparations committee because the torch has been passed, and like i said i have been living in san francisco for 16 years, and when the late john connors passed -- well he didn't pass but he introduced the bill and a strong supporter then and i have been living in public housing going on 11 years now, and i just recently got my associate degree from city college, and

i really believe that it's important that san francisco start this process of reparations because i believe it is the starting point to reeducating the black mind because our minds have been damaged as a result of slavery, so it's important that the people that is in power start this process because if it's not started it's going to be really -- i think it's a good investment to start this process you know to invest in health health, to invest in housing, to invest and into repairing the damaged mind that was done to black people by the hand of white people. you see what i am saying? so i truly that it's our responsibility. it's black people's

responsibility to reeducate ourselves but we need a adjustment start from the government and like i said before you know this has been been the first time that reparations has been brought to the floor you know, and i was in detroit michigan when the late -- like i said when the late john connors brought this up so like i said whatever is needed of me you know like i said i'm a college student. i'm a 11 year resident of public housing. i have been actively involved in leadership things in san francisco from the grass root level. i have worked with numerous non-profits on dealing with social issues in the community you know, and i know housing is a very important

thing in san francisco. there's a lot of people that lack housing and i cherish what i got but i foment help people obtain housing but i believe one of the major things is repair the black mind and through reparations through investment that will be a good starting point you know to invest, so i support and enforce reparations, and it's my hope that san francisco will be the role model for the rest of the country whether it comes down to repairing the damage that was done by the hands of white people. you see what i am saying? so like i said i'm not here to blow my residentials or anything like that. i want you all to know i'm a strong advocate for reparations since the late 80's when i was a resident of detroit michigan. now i have been living out here in san

francisco for almost twenty years and i have been supporting and allocating reparations you know what i am saying? and i'm going to continue to do it. i recently been accepted at san francisco state university and i am looking forward on this you know helping out anyway i can, and so i can leave a legacy so i can pass the torch like mr. connors did because he planted the seed for us so it's our responsibility to do whatever we can to make this a reality so we can repair the damage that was done to us black people and it's a lot of us holds a lot of responsibility. i know a lot of effort and things we have to do ourselves but i believe that the people in leadership and the peoples in power have to do something because this can get out of hand. thank you.

thanks for letting me share. >> thank you mr. martin. next up is leontine collins. ms. collins. are you on the line? . >> i don't believe she sot telephone line. let me double check. no. she's not on the telephone line and i don't recall receiving indication or response to my invitation for today's meeting. >> okay. next up is ramekon o'arwisters. . >> he should be outline with us. >> ramekon o'arwisters? . >> she is the line

with us. if you can unmute your line you can begin speaking. . >> okay. i do see them on our guest list. maybe we can come back. >> okay. let's move on to mr. ronald carter. mr. carter are you available? . >> i'm just double checking my response list. i did not get a response to my invitation today. >> okay. let's move on to shakema stoney. ms. stony are you available?

ms. stony? yeah. >> either one of those and if you can do it in a few minutes that would be great. >> good morning everyone and to my fellow applicants on line good morning. i'm a little nervous. i want to start off by saying that a lot of black san franciscans have moved or thinking about moving away and if you ask my family and friends i thought about it everyday but i can't do it and i realize that i have been just reading and educating myself a lot and reading the reparations report. i identified myself in it which is a good thing and a bad thing in it and i told myself i can't leave being a preschool teacher in the past. uri am just seeing my community i stopped being a teacher in 2017 and

looking at my community now it's empty. i don't see the same faces and another reason why i can't leave. i currently work for ds yf and the data and in the reports about the population decline just the population of black youth that we serve every year and every time i see the reports it's declining, declining and i told myself i can't leave torque work on the equity committee we get the same reports and we get reports from the city as a whole. we get reports from other community based organizations, and seeing that makes me so sad at times and also happy and i told myself once again i can't quite leave. just reading some of the items in the report regarding foster care youth. i was a foster care youth before and when it talked how they transfer people outside of the county i was like that's me. just reading about

the housing discriminations i am also currently as real estate student so in school i would hear about red lining and while studying i hear about red lining and in the report you hear about red lining and constantly and dang we go through so much and i say again i can't leave. i will probably say that like 20 times, and currently i do site visits for dcyf and on the nutrition team and site visits since 2018 and like going there and i love my sites and boys and girls club and rec and parks and as a teacher i saw the decline in the population. i see families i have to go and i need to make it to vallejo or vacaville and they can't afford to live here and i want to continue thes real estate degree and i want to help. what can i do to help? i have attended

meetings and i remember one lady in particular and also i always hear the narrative we have so many reports so much data and all these things it's time to move forward now and that really resonated with me and i agree and i didn't agree and things don't happen so quickly and bring up a quote from [inaudible] his report for the case of reparations. he says "250 years of slavery, 90 years of jim crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 year was racist housing policy and reading all of that it's literally in the whole report everything lined out not everything but the majority of that phrase, that quote is up here and i was kind of getting mad and yes that lady was right on the call. i believe we have so much reports and data and incite and when will we move forward? and i am

here to lend my support to move forward at end of the quote in the case of reparations and until we work with the debts america will not be whole and we have debts to pay and i tell my friends don't be stuck on the $5 million and sounds amazing but it's more to it and the debt of health disparities, health regarding school, debt with educating our youth. there's a debt to be paid on so many level and i thank you for this opportunity and a chance to lend support and help for my community and like i said earlier i can't leave and things making me not leave and i hope this is the opportunity that will ground me here so thank you. >> t for not giving up on our city and next up is tiana danielle blunt.

ms. blunt i'm not sure if you're here or online. >> i did receive an indication she would be here in person. >> okay. ms. blunt the floors is yours. >> good afternoon board of supervisors. it is my pleasure to be in front of you today. i am here in response to application that was submitted for the african-american reparations committee specifically seat 15. let me interviews myself. my name is tiana danielle blunt. i'm maintain the occupation of a registered nurse. i hold a bachelor's degree in science. i am currently in a graduate program for a master's degree in info admitteddics but importantly i'm a san francisco native. my family has been

here since 1930. i was born here. i have been residing in san francisco since 1976. i was raised in the streets of san francisco and continue to live here. i'm a property owner. i've had the opportunity to be a student as a san francisco unified school district and when i had the chance i went back to the district and gave my service as a school district nurse so what qualifies me for seat 15? well, through my unique journey i also had the opportunity to live in san francisco public housing. i resided in valence sea garden before the redevelopment and relocation. if i am chosen for seat 15 of the african-american reparations committee in san francisco i would like to develop a system for identification purposes that will provide the necessary data of personal identification information, ancestorial data and

proof of residenceacy and occupation within the city of san francisco. it's my thought this process will verify and construct a reasonable and economical solution to generate revenue for the african-americans that qualify for reparations. my goal is to provide an extended process an expedited process that is logical, comprehensive and effective. also relieving the burden, the financial burden for the city. thank you. >> vice chair walton. >> thank you and thank you so much for being here this morning. just one question have you attended any of the african-american reparations and advisory committee meetings?. >> yes i've had the opportunity to attend some of the meetings. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> great. thanks so much. next up i believe is totiana white i believe is joining us remotely. ms. white are you

on the line? . >> i'm here. okay. all right. hi everyone. oh can you hear me? >> yep the floor is yours. go ahead. >> okay. awesome. good morning everyone and thank you so much for being here. it's an honor and privilege for me so let me jump in. my name is totiana white and an sf native and 35 years old, a single parent and my background is in performing arts, community health work and also equity [inaudible] and i lived here for 15 plus years in public housing and i've also lived for years in another county which makes a difference for me living in different counties under public housing and once i turned 18 -- before i turned 18 i lived with my parent and grandmother so we didn't have to worry about public housing or anything like that, but i just want

to tackle some things that once out of the 18 year old range how life changes when you're you know you can't provide and you're looking for jobs to help you pay for income and things of that sort san francisco housing is very expensive, so if you're 18 years old or out of your parents home you can't afford to live here on your own and that's why we need the public housing programs, so that's a big thing that we need to tackle providing resources for young adult who is are trying to get into public housing, right, and we also want to make public housing accessible meaning like having liftings. they have liftings but people need help and need help with transportation and housing. they need help looking for housing and applying for housing. some people don't have the mental state to apply for housing. some

people are intimidated applying for housing but we need more housing social workers or people to help with the application process to get the word out there. we need it to be more accessible. we need resources. another thing is the laws that is in public housing some are them are very hard to define because they have delaines and you can't get public housing. >> >> and the african-american population was pretty much targetd and we're in the war on drugs and meaning a lot of african-americans were incarcerated and have felonies and if they have that the population can't apply for public housing and that creates a lot of dark spaces and why people are selling drugs on corners, why people are sleeping on it is corners using drugs and because

they have felonies and prevents from applying for housing and what do they do? we need to attack that as well. also we need to open up public housing more like san francisco public housing just opened up over 10 years. it's been a long time since public housing is closed and it's finally open and there's a short range that you can apply and it's not fair for those that don't know public housing open that don't have access to emails. they don't -- a lot of people in the world don't have access to technology and they're not in their right minds or transportation funds to get to these places say to apply and what not so we definitely need to make sure that the housing when we're opening up these hud applications or these applications to apply for hud and housing we need to make sure that everybody is aware of it, not just people who have an

email and we need to have more of a housing mental station or something like that like covid stairses and create mental health stations for people who like i said mentally need housing but they don't know how to apply for housing. they don't even know what to write but they need housing so what do we do with those people who are mentally disabled but need housing but can't apply because they're mentally disabled and i was thinking too with reparations people always want money, yes we do but at the same time the reparations can be a replacement for rent payment so instead of paying cash pay the rent for us. we will be in the program like section 8 the rent won't go to us but to the landlord but the 30% we're paying you can make them pay all of it and we're still in the program and go by the laws and like a section 8

but reparations like for rent payments and i thought that would be a great idea because everybody wants money but that isn't the case and also partner with other counties -- i'm going to hurry up but these are things and i hope you're writing it down and even if i am not picked you guys can tackle the issues and i am living in it now and have my community and my family are affected by it and these are things you might not knowis from a hood state of mind or i would say because i am from bayview hunters point. i'm from the ground up and a lot of people don't make it out of the hood or don't get to make it out so i am just speaking for all of us, not just me, and also partnering with other counties because i have lived in san joaquin county and the process was a little hard because they only give you so much time to look for a place and the

voucher will expire and that's stressful for someone homeless and with the child in the car or on the floor and giving us a voucher and yes but you only have three months and we might not find a place in three months and we need help and not take the vouchers back or time limits and we don't have the money or the income or have stability so why keep putting these things on us to make it harder for us to be successful? because if we're not properly housed we can't look for income because we can't keep ourselves clean. we can't think right. our kids in foster care because we have no where to stay and people are calling on us and housing affects everything. if don't fix housing we won't fix homelessness and not fix the drugs on the street and not fix the food insecurity. housing

plays a part in everything. without stability you have chaos and that's why it's the way it is now and i will hurry up and demolishing the projects and i notice they're demolished and who is living inlet places? they're not african-american people anymore because they got kicked out because they can't afford the income. they have needs and just different things preventing them -- they maybe [inaudible] and move back and owe back pay and a lot. places that you guys and beautiful tore it down to make it nice and put the people that lived there all their live and let them back in because non african-americans move in and their credit score might be better and then also shelters are not safe. that's another reason that homeless are out on the streets and homeless cheryls are not safe. the kids are not safe in the shelters student: a lot of

dirty things are going on with shelters and i wouldn't recommend a shelter. i was sleeping in my car for months because it was so dangerous in the shelter and please do something with the shelters and that's all i have to say. that's my time. i have so much more to offer and give and like i said i am here now. i am thankful i live in i better community. i live and still on section eight and thank god i am still here and like i said [inaudible] to be an advocate and still support my city regardless so i thank you for your time. >> great. thanks ms. white. vice chair walton. >> thank you chair dorsey. ms. white i didn't hear you say whether you attended any african-american reparations advisory committee meetings? >> no, i haven't had the pleasure yet. my apologies but that's my truthful answer. >> thank you and i also encourage all applicant focus you have great ideas and

if you're not selected to serve. >> . >> to make sure that you share them with the committee and find when the committee meets on the human rights commission website. >> thank you vice chair walton. thank you ms. white and mr. young i will ask if we can circle back if we have the other applicant and contact with him? >> yes, do i see ramekon o'arwisters connected on the online system. if you want to unmute your line and turn on your camera you can at this time. i'm not seeing any response. my apologies and if there's any other applicants who have not yet called if you come forward there's two additional applicants who have not appeared to speak yet.

>> so the applicants who we've not heard from are leontine collins, mr. ramekon o'arwisters and mr. ronald carter. okay. okay. so i think we have heard from all of the applicants so why don't we mr. clerk open this up to public comment unless there's comments or questions from my colleagues? seeing none let's open this to public comment. >> yes, members of the public who wish to speak on this item and in honor line up to speak at this time. for those calling in pressing star three to be added to the que. for those already in the queue wait until the system indicated you're unmuted and that's your queue to begin your comments. there being no persons in the room for public comment we're double checking the line. we have one caller in line to speak at this time. can we have that caller? .

>> supervisors i will make it very clear to all of you that from day one in san francisco we had a black gentlemen by the name of william [inaudible] a millionaire. he financed the city and county of san francisco which i don't understand from day one african-americans they got used by the city and county of san francisco. now, i have seen some ramp belling going on but people don't know their history. thein buffalo soldiers and administration that played a key role

contributing to city and county of san francisco. we have the first baptist church which is 150 years that should give you some perspective of the contribution of african-americans here in san francisco. in spite of african-american contributing to the city and county of san francisco they were denied their rights, and still they denied their rights, so i don't know why we're begging for anything. we need to prove as we have proved before that we can storm and do whatever we want to, and then we had people on the list that are not present or

they don't want to participate. [inaudible] agenda you haven't addressed that. >> speaker -- thank you. that completes our public comment call in line. >> great thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item number two is now closed. [gavel] >> vice chair walton. >> thank you chair dorsey and i again want to thank all of the individuals that took the time to apply for seat 15. again this is a very important committee and task force here in the city. obviously we can only select one person and therefore i would like to move forward the name of frederick martin with a positive recommendation for seat 15. >> great. thank you vice chair walton and i just want to again to reiterate my appreciation to everybody who applied and also to our colleague supervisor walton for his

leadership not just i think this is something that is nationally significant leadership and i do appreciate everything you're doing. mr. clerk roll call to recommend frederick martin for the committee committee and send the recommendation to the full board. >> vice chair walton. >> [off mic]. >> walton aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor safai aye. dare coursey >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> . >> on a unanimous vote frederick martin is recommended for seat 15 for the land use and transportation committee to the full board with positive recommendation happens please call item four. >> item four is accepting the surveillance report under the municipal administrative code section 19b.6 from various departments. >> thank you mr.

clerk. we have the director information technology here to present and if there's questions on the policy there are representatives to answer the questions but first let's hear from ms. johnson. welcome. the floor is yours. >> thank you chair dorsey. thank you for the warm welcome and hello good morning to supervisor walton and supervisor safai when we gets back so i am here reporting -- i'm the director of the committee on information technology and on behalf of 21 city departments that submitted 31 annual comprehensive annual comprehensive . >> . >> surveillance reports on the acquisition of silicon valley technology and i will just dive in. >> . >> so overview of what the reports is required under 19 bt requires the departments with board approved silicon

veal -- >> . >> for the board of supervisors for the seepages of the resolution by february 15 and the annual report offers departments an opportunity to report changes to the policies, any violations that occurred, any complaints from the public about the technologies and overall effectiveness of the technologies and achieving the stated purposes. today you will be hearing the resolution before you request that you accept reports on behalf of the silicon valley technologies listed. >> . >> surveillance technologys on the slides and drones and radio frequency, identification, circulation and security gate systems, security cameras and face recognition and addendums memo from the police on facial recognition which i will detail a bit more later and the various departments that supported them are associated on this

slide. i will not read through all of them. so to give you a bit of overview of the process this is the inaugural year for this annual surveillance reporting and the first policy was approved in 2021. the chapter requires two policies under chapter 19 b and submit the report to the department of information technology and the clerk of the board within a year and february 1 thereafter each year and following that submission departments have to submitted to the board of supervisors via resolution or request for acceptance of the report via resolution by february 15. since this is the inaugural year coit took charge and standardized reports for departments creating a easy form

for departments to allow christianity and a deadline extension to november 1, 2022 in order to support departments coming into compliance and christianity is afforded that authority under chapter 19b and all reports from submitted to them and the clerk of the board and published on their board and the resolution is introduced to streamline the process this year. many departments reported no proposed changes no violations or copt participates with the policy and the police department reporters and pd and public works annual license plate readers, drones on from the fire department dt port, public works and director rec of park and recreation and proposed changes and detailed

in the files that you received. the file has all reports from the department and give a lot more context than this slide but several departments proposed changes in terms of authorized job titles that can access the data from the technology or the technology itself. several departments changed the technology in some way of either adding units replacing equipment and several department says also requested both of those things so those are listed here under that slide as well. they're also provided in the summary memo that was tissued to the file for your review. and then there was one submission from the -- or i will say it's not necessarily related to a specific surveillance policy but related to the larger chapter 19b. there's a requirement or the chapter 19b

explicitly states it's unlaw to attain or retain or access information from face recognition technology a the police department informed them on four separate incidents since the initial implementation of the law officers requested face recognition data from external cooperating law enforcement agencies however there was no match received so no information essentially shared with the development. that being said we asked the department to create an addendums to their reports detailing these incidents, the date of each incident and the summary what happened in the incident and the actions afterwards to insure compliance and the department submitted that memo and it's included in the file you received and finally i want to note two small corrections to the summary memo that you received so on page six of the file there's a note that says "recreation and park was proposing a change to the drone

policy" that. is inaccurate. they're not proposing a change in the policy want it requested that third parties would be contracted for use of drones and also related to recreation and park 32 a note on page 19 that says their application -- their policy for application was discontinued in 2023. that has not happened yet. october 2023 hasn't happened yet so that should said 2022 and with that that's my presentation.s as you mentioned we have representatives from all the departments and questions about reports and i'm happy to have them answer or questions about the process i am happy to speak to that. >> thank you so much ms. johnson. i went through a lot of these. and i will say i want say congratulations to co

it and it's a heavy lift and a lot on the committee for your work and i want to ask and maybe this is something that i know what the answer is going to be, but do you feel that you have enough resources to handle this work? i have a feeling that -- i know this was the inaugural year and i welcome the opportunity to have a conversation. is there an expectation this will change in years to come or are you continue to be the department that sort of herds cats here? and if that is the case if you have the resources to do that i would love to hear your thoughts on process moving forward? >> thank you for that question. i have many thoughts about the resources for this work they will not dive into too deeply today. i will say we made due but certainly it's a strain on the office to some

extent to herd so many cats as yous and pull at this time the documents and work with departments making sure they understand what they need to report and that they understand the ordinance and that's a continual process because as you know the city has turn over that happens and continually trying to educate and there's a lot of work and we would certainly welcome additional resources to do that work because i don't think -- yeah so i think very much welcome additional resources. >> i don't know if there's any other questions from colleagues? i know there's a lot of representatives from departments here and if there's no specific question that i have and i don't see anyone on the roster with questions and i would encourage departments with questions on information technology for documents and the things that department needs to please cooperate and make sure this isn't something continually on the back burner and

that makes life more difficult for a department that we're putting a lot of work on and i will do everything i can to make sure that you get the resources that you need to do this work so i really appreciate your presentation and seeing no comments or questions from colleagues mr. clerk can we open this up to public comment? >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak on this item and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely please press star three to until the line and wait until you're unmuted and you're key to start. seeing no speakers in chamber we have one comment for public comment. can we have our caller please? >> great. good morning. david pilpow again. i had only two minor issue with the report one of was pointed out

on page 19 and should be 2022 and on the page five of the report page eight in your packet there's a big list of job title classifications for the puc, the supporting paperwork indicates that most of those positions are out at the southeast wastewater treatment plant, but the way it's written suggests that any 5241 or o 933 within puc would have access to the drone video and i don't think that's what was intended, so i don't think that there's any need to change the report or the resolution. i would just suggest that going forward the survey instrument that co it uses to check with the departments be as specific as possible and give

examples of a good response to each question for comparison on page six of the report page nine in the packet under arts commission security cameras it's very specific to the classifications, the deputy director of finance and ad min and [inaudible] and the different positions so i think that's more clear to which positions have access to the surveillance technology information. i support the resolution before you today and i recognize that there's a lot of work behind this item in many departments to date and continuing a large number of policies that are still to come through these different representatives and the board. thank you very much for listening and thanks for the work. >> thank you. just double checking to see if we have additional callers. that completes the public comment call in line. >> great. public comment on item four is closed.

[gavel] >> and i would like to make a motion to send item number 4accept the annual reports regarding surveillance technologies to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> dorsey aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk. on unanimous vote item four goes to the full board with positive recommendation. >> thank you very much. >> and mr. clerk would you please call item one. >> yes item one is considering appointing one member to the ethics commission. i want to note that we have mr. bush on the telephone line today. >> thank you mr. clerk. as you're aware we needed to continue this item a couple of times regarding the board's appointment to the ethics commission. in the intervening time we have another applicant for the position and i was

informed there's an additional person considering making an application so i would like to give them the opportunity to do thank you so thank -- and to continue i would like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair but mr. clerk can we open public comment on this. >> did you want to hear from mr. bush at all? >> yeah. i think we're going to continue this -- >> okay. thanks. >> we will continue and hear from all the applicants at the same time but we can open to public comment. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to speak line up at this time. for those listening remotely press star three to be on the speaker line and please indicate until the line is unmuted and you can begin your comment. there being no speakers in the room and we have one caller. can we have

our caller please? . >> great. david pilpow last time today. since larry bush's term expired by operation of law on sunday april 2 he not able to participate last friday in the ethics commission meeting. another member was absent and so there were only three members present on a five member commission that required all votes to be unanimous. there was disagreement about some of the stipulations and therefore some of them did not go forward. it's just really important to have these seats filled and have members able to attend and without any unnecessarily conflict so i support the motion to continue to the call of the chair but i hope this position will be filled as soon as practicable. thank you very

much for listening. >> thank you. that completes our public comment call in list. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item number one is now closed. [gavel] >> and mr. clerk could we have a roll call to continue the item on the call to the chair. >> yes. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> walton aye. supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor safai aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> is the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. young. on unanimous vote item one point to the ethics commission is continued to the call of the chair. mr. clerk do we have any further business? >> that completes our agenda for today. >> great. thank you mr. clerk and thank you to everyone. we are adjourned. [gavel]

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[music] >> san francisco is known as yerba buena, good herb after a mint that used to grow here. at this time there were 3 settlements one was mission delores. one the presidio and one was yerba buena which was urban center. there were 800 people in 1848 it was small. a lot of historic buildings were here including pony express headquarters. wells fargo. hudson bay trading company and famous early settlers one of whom william leaderdorph who

lived blocks from here a successful business person. african-american decent and the first million airin california. >> wilwoman was the founders of san francisco. here during the gold rush came in the early 1840s. he spent time stake himself as a merchant seaman and a business person. his father and brother in new orleans. we know him for san francisco's history. establishing himself here arnold 18 twoochl he did one of many things the first to do in yerba buena. was not california yet and was not fully san francisco yet. >> because he was an american citizen but spoke spanish he was able to during the time when america was taking over california from mexico, there was annexations that happened and conflict emerging and war,

of course. he was part of the peek deliberations and am bas doorship to create the state of california a vice council to mexico. mexico granted him citizenship. he loaned the government of san francisco money. to funds some of the war efforts to establish the city itself and the state, of course. he established the first hotel here the person people turned to often to receive dignitaries or hold large gatherings established the first public school here and helped start the public school system. he piloted the first steam ship on the bay. a big event for san francisco and depict instead state seal the ship was the sitk a. there is a small 4 block long

length of street, owned much of that runs essentially where the transamerica building is to it ends at california. i walk today before am a cute side street. at this point t is the center what was all his property. he was the person entrusted to be the city's first treasurer. that is i big deal of itself to have that legacy part of an african-american the city's first banker. he was not only a forefather of the establishment of san francisco and california as a state but a leader in industry. he had a direct hahn in so many things that we look at in san francisco. part of our dna. you know you don't hear his anymore in the context of those. representation matters. you need to uplift this so people know him but people like him like me. like you.

like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music] >> i think a lot of times we get in adult lives we are afraid to follow our passions and think life can't be that easy. but i truly do believe i followed my heart this time in my journal in city government i did not know that is where my passion lied. i kept following it and ltd. to great opportunity to serve the city. [music]

>> i'm katy tang the executive director of the office of small business. >> small business contributes to san francisco's economy. they provide the bulk of employment in the city and employing a million people in san francisco. and roughly 90% of the businesses are defined as small businesses. so, they contribute to the economy but also just the quality of life. small businesses are more then and there a place of transaction it is a community center. a play where people gather. know each other and form memories about the city. >> at the office of mall business i run a team this helps report all mall businesses in san francisco whether they are looking to stfrt a new business

or expand or perhaps they are feeling with issues. our office is here as a point of information for anyone with a business that has 100 or nower employees. >> i was growing up i had many ideas of when i wanted to do. i wanted to being an olympic swimmer. and i wanted to men be an architect, you name it i had many ideas for what i wanted do when i grew up. and i never anticipated entering in politics. this opportunity came along wh started working for former supervisor carmen chu and she became the district 4 sunset district supervisor. that was my firstent row in politics and government in a different level. and so when i was finishing up my time working for legislative

aid i thought, i will go off and do something else. may be explore opportunity outside of city government what was then approached by this opportunity to also serve as a district 4 supervisor. if not the traditional route that many people think of when you enter in politics. a lot know that is manage than i want to do and run for office. that was not part of my culture and upbringing with manage my parents were wondering why i wanted to go in that role this legislation and important because so many women when have it return to work after having a child feel embarrassed or don't feel comfortable asking their supervisor for will any lactation accommodations. i saw it as an opportunity you could use the position where you have tools creating legislation and pass laws and where people

listen to to you help the community and pass cause catharsis important to the city and individuals. my family immigrated to the united states from taiwan. and they came here in pronl probably late 20's almost 30. and so, they came also in the knowing english limp barely read or write but had to quickly understand english to i can't haveigate services and find a job in america. i grew up in the san francisco sunset district i spent most of my childed hoo up until i went off to college. so when i started working in city government, i think i had mixed reactions about my involvement working government because for some of our parents generation, there is i bit of distrust in government. i think there are questions about why i was entering in this field of work.

i think you know when i went in city government i thought about my parents like so many other who is have to navigate city services and resources english first language and help the individuals both navigate, intercept that is on an application approximate signage. it is fulfilling to mow to help people like my parent and feel like government is there to support them and not to harm them. my parents are happy that i retired early from politics and being a district 4 supervisor i could have continued on for a couple more years approximate decided to leave early. i think that over all they were able to see some of my work appear in the chinese newspaper. through that they were able to see i was able to help communities in a tangible way. >> the member of the board of supervisors. >> transportation authority.

for the city and county of san francisco. congratulations. >> i think about one importance when i was worn in as district 4 supervisor. years ago, and someone actually came up to me during the swear nothing ceremony and said, wow, i'm traveling here from canada, and i just i could not believe i saw an asian female worn in in this role a leadership role this meant so much that someone would say that and felt they were inspired by the scene. so -- i hope that as more people see people that look like them and more women coming in positions of leadership than i feel they can doing the same. person this inpyred me is carmen chu who is our city add administrator but also was district 4 supervisor when i worked with her as a legislative aid. at this point, i too, was

skeptical of going in politics. i saw someone who had herself never seen herself in politics. got thrown into it and put her heart and soul and dedication to serve people. and it gave me the confidence to pursue that same job and i honestly would not have either chosen or accepted or considered serving on the board of supervisors were not for carmen. >> if you want to make your business accessible. >> in my role in city government where i have seen the most challenge is people who don't know you and you are here to serve and help them that they classify you as our city government and here to hurt you. so, people will talk to you and -- and just you know treat you disrespectfully. and sometimes i noticed that they might do more to me as a female compared to my male

colleagues. but you know i try to be empathetic. one of the most significant barriers to female empowerment we feel like we have to be 100% meeting all of the qualifications before we think that we are qualified to do a job. if we look at a job description or an opportunity to come your way well is self doubt about whether you can fulfill the obligations of that role. i think that the confidence is huge and sometimes i think we make up for it by trying to gain more experience. more and more and more in whatever we can put under our belts we'll feel better. that may not be the case. we might be qualified with when we have already accomplished. i started rock climbing indoors a couple years ago as an

activity to try to spends time with my husband and also to try something new and i finds that rock climbing there are so many parallels to life. you know when i'm on the wall i'm concentrating and trying to make it to the next piece without falling. there are daying you think i'm not making progress. you come back and wow, i hit another level. and so i feel like in our daily lives and w we think we are not making enough of i change in the city. and sometimes we have to take out time to reflect every day as long as you try and give it your all and you look back you will have made a significant contribution there is no limit to where you go in terms of rock climbing. i want to reminds myself of that in terms of daily life.

>> follow what it is you are interested in, what makes you feel excited about wake up every day. you never know and be open to all the possibilities and opportunity. [music] >> good morning. everyone. welcome to the april 11th meeting of the upon san francisco county transportation authority board i'm rafael

mandelman. our vice chair is commissioner melgar and i want to change coppeena from sfgovtv our clerk is elijia saunders i will excuse vice chair melgar and safai and stefani. will you call the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> aye >> commissioner dorsey. >> present. >> commissioner engardio. >> present. >> chair mandelman. >> present. >> melgar is excused. >> commissioner precinct. >> present. >> commissioner pest pest. >> present. >> commissioner steph no is excused. commissioner walton. >> present. >> we have quorum. >> thank you. i think you have a public comment announcement.

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after on the phone line, thank you. >> before calling our next item i would like to invoke 3.26 to limit total comment for 30 minutes. my intention to give each speaker 2 minutes to speak unless i indicate otherwise prior to public comment for that item. mr. clerk, item two approval of the minutes march 22st meeting. we have one comment on the item posted website. open public comment for the minutes. why do we have remote ment on item 2? >> check for example remote public comment. there is no public comment. >> great.

public comment on item 2 is closed. is there a motion to approve item 2. moved by peskin? a seconded. >> by preston. mr. clerk call the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye. >> commissioner engardio. >> aye. why chair mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> and commissioner walton. >> aye. >> we have eight aye's the minutes are approved. >> item 3, community advisory community report. we received a public comment posted to the website. >> i think we have kat siegel. >> >> good morning, commissioners. this is cat siegel cac member representing district 5. we had our anticipated first in

person meet nothing over 3 years. there was interesting discussion for programming tnc tax funds for the quick build program and the application based traffic calming program. regarding quick boulevard membersmented to know how sfmta plans to implement safety improvements on the network by 2024 in compliance with the vision zero time line city committed to. membersmented to know whether sfmta prioritize project in communities of concern. >> the chair requested quarter low updates for quick build projects going forward. theme was supportive but wanting to see more and faster. regarding the mrakz based traffic calming program of members ammed to know how mta will handle the wave applications it is expecting to

receive. and how projects might be prioritized and whether staffing is a concern. they anticipate applications in the first round in july they expect to advance eligible projects able to do with the old program and reevaluate if this is not the case. on the trial the travel diary survey item. membersmented to see it included harder to reach folks those in non-english speaking communities and lower income folks the sends round of data collection would take into account for lack of representation of those populations. >> we received the presentation on bay area express lanes that came in march. members were interested in hearing about the benefits of managed lanes and supportive of studies. several expressed concerns about

equity implementations with paid compared to hov and priority transit lanes. thank you very much, i'm here for questions. >> thank you. i don't see any comments from colleagues. is there public comment on item 3? anyone in the chamber? come forward. seeing none do we have remote comment on three. >> checking. there are no public comment. >> all right. public comment on item 3 is closed. >> item 4 ash point 2 members to the community mittee report this is action item and received a public comment which has been posted to our website. why all right. i think we have mike pickford here to make a presentation. we are continuing the d1 we will

continue d1 and consider the d three? >> good morning. transportation authority as an 11 member committee with each member serving 2 years the board apointses to fill open seats starch nor the cac make recommendations on appointments. applicants must be san francisco residents and appear before the board once to describe interests and qualifications there are information on each applicant. there are 2 open seats you may act of but -- chair mandelman provided guidance on that. can i take question and chair mandelman rosa chen who's term expire in the march 23 is here to speak to her interest in reappointment. >> all right. bring up ms. chan. >> good morning i'm here for reappointment for the pack. during my time i contributed to

prospect well transportation expenditure plan. beyond this i'm a part of transportation research improve am plan. working on transportation [inaudible] work in china town and the greater san francisco. specific low working a lot on the one california and central subway. i have experience in transportation work and getting voice heard on transportation issues from my job as a community planning manager and china town community development center and hope that being on the pack again i can work on safety, out reach and make projects more accessible to monolingual folks. thank you. >> all right. >> thank you. >> commissioner peskin. >> thank you, chair mandelman i wanted to thank ms. chen for her service and wellingness to continue to serve the work she

has done it has been helpful to this commissioner and i very much appreciate her service. >> commissioner chan. i wanted to note that the another appointee for district one is my mistake that i just mixed update scheduling and would like to continue this appointment to april 25th and which time our appointee sean king will show up and i can speak to that appointment for your support. >> thank you, commissioner chan and that's what i will do. and we should open up to public ment if there is anybody in the chamber come up. let's see if there is remote comment on item 4. >> checking for remote comment. there is no public comment. public comment on item 4 is

closed. i will take commissioner peskin's remarkses. >> that is true. >> is there a second, seconded boy dorsey and i think we is take this same house same call without objection. >> mr. clerk. call item 5. >> 5, federal legislation update. we received one comment posted to the website. i think we have mark watts remotely? i don't see him. >> hi. apologize there was something i'm ready. >> good ahead. >> thank you very much. golly. so, today the staff is before you to bills to consider.

both on the watch list waiting for amendments. that we were anticipating, what happened the amendments did and you in they are recommending a support position for both of these. first measure is ab251. by mr. ward from san diego area. he has interesting proposal. would require the state transportation commission to do a study to look at or task force and a study to look at the relationship between vehicle wait moving on the roadways, and the severity of injury when is there are incidents on the roadway. the measure the will require a report to be submitted by january of 2026. and staff is recommending this support position because of vehicle weight fee would have a change consumer behavior and

generated by a fee could spent on traffic safety improve ams. that's the first item. the second is -- ab645 by the chair of the transportation committee. laura freed man. would establish or 6 cities in the state including san francisco. taxicab the 80 to conduct a speed safety pilot program. and in san francisco the gold be to look at the safety corridors. on streets with my numbers of speed contests. and school zones. the bill was added to the watch list in march. this more substantive language add as i indicated. and the use of speed safety cam ares are part of san francisco vision zero strategies.

we believe that chp will be neutral this year. and as well we will see some of the traditional opponents of take a lighter position since they are limited pilot programs rather then and there state wide series of measures. with that, i would bring the 2 bills to a close. they do require action. would comment on the state budget, it hen a quiet couple of week this is is due to the fact that the department of finance typically issues what they controversy as april finance letters in the first week of april that happened so staff and the budget committee members are busy looking at the minor changes that are recommended in the april finance letters there has not been heavy budget submittee hearings other than informational items.

so that's it for now. and amber crab is rib if you have questions. and i would bring my presentation to a close. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. watts and i don't think amber has any to ad. i believe former chair peskin pushing on automated enforcement trying to get law enforcement support for that, thank you for your work and -- commissioner dorsey? >> thank you, chair mandelman. i wanted say, thank you to mr. watts and everybody cta and everybody i know working on this over the years. it is gratifying to see ab645 move from watch to recommend upon. left week the board unanimously supported a resolution supporting this. which would create a speed safety pilot program. i know a lot of advocates and many at sfmta are advocating for

the passage. this is a measure introduced by laura freedmachine and our members hene and phil ting and scott wiener the co-author in the senate. i will add this i'm working with bill scott to engage with the state wide law enforcement interests in sacramento hain year's past. have been resistant to this. so. you know as we all know we have seen presentations that san francisco is going in the wrong direction on vision zero this is trough in district 6. i think this bill is important chance for us to get going in the right direction. i want to express my gratitude to everybody for their work on this and hopefully we can get this done this year. >> thank you, commissioner dorsey. >> let's open up to public ment. i don't see anybody.

see if there is row mote comment on item 5. checking for remote public comment. >> public ment on item five is closed is there a motion to approve item 5. moved by dorsey. seconded by engardio. we can take this same house same call without objection. >> and mr. clerk call the next item item 6 adopt a mitigation tax program guideline and freshman 1, 451, 857 in 22, 23 and 23, 24 to the sfmta we received 1 public comment posted to the website. >> welcome.

>> sfgovtv i have my slides up. >> great. so i will present on the actions before the board and we will bring on gent wong quick builds program manager and damon curtis for the vision zero quick build and the structure of the application traffic calming program including review of project deliver and he goals of each program. gi will start with background information the tax was pass in the november of 2019 the measure is i surcharge on trips starting in san francisco for the portion of the trip within the city. tax includes private transit companies and autonomous vehicle. tax are 3.25 for single occupant. discount for ev and 1.5% for shared trips. >> back in 2019, revenue

projections at 30 million per year had we collect friday january of 2020 to december of 22 is 40% of that. the revenues collected is 33 million. and the first guide lines were approve immediate october of upon 2020 and due to revenue levels uncertainty programmed to the vision zero quick build program and the board allocated these funds. everwe are keeping consistent with the prior guidelines and taking prop to programming and allocations. we recommend programming funds anticipated to be collected through the dis fiscal 23-24 and allocate after collected. >> this graph provides how revenue is performing.

this bar graph includes the total revenue and the pandemic and remote trends reduced traveling. the travel reduction impact revenues collected the past 3 years. fiscal 22/23 and the prosecute jerked revenue based on controller report. fiscal 23-24 estimate is based on controller reports. we use 3% of ref nows for program administration and data analysis. >> and total the ta share of revenues collected overnight past year since 2020 and projected to be collected the remainder of 23 and all of fiscal 24 totals 20.7 million allocated 7.million with the first update to the guide lines recommend programming 21.2 million in additional revenues we expect dye by june of 24. of the total available for programming the ta received 8.1

million as of december 22. and after consulted with mta about needs to meet goals proposed program ref nows to the vision zero quick build and application traffic calming program. current program and the new roll in program and in the presentation for quick builds address that program. il not go in detail here. >> this is our proposed program. the first project fully funds the quick build the board approve in the february 23. and the second would provide double amount of fund to the quick build in 23-24. the next project would fund the construction phase for the application traffic calming program for the applications received between july of 20 and june of 21. record number. the last project be funded the

new application base the program we are excited see off the ground. >> and chair mandelman du want me to pause for questions or want mta to present their program? >> let's go to mta. nope hear from commissioner peskin. >> thank you, chair mandelman i wanted to determine or better understand whether or not the monies realized and projected include money from autonomous vehicle trips? >> commissioner, we request that information from the treasure office combu they are not allowed to disclose. they did confirm autonomous vehicle company and roadway hail companies are subject to this tax but could not confirm whether or not the av companies are paying the tax.

>> okay. so just by wave reminding you, colleagues, when we had to seek permission from the state to seek permission from the voters; where in, thankful lee assembly member ting ushered through a bill haallowed san francisco to put a tax on the ballot extraordinary that we could not actually put a tax on the ballot without the permission of the state. we did and the people of san francisco voted by over 2 thirds to allow that tax. you may recall, that general motors which owns cruise opposed that bill we got out of assembly with one vote to spare. i want to finds out whether or not cruise is paying their fair share or not.

and would like to determine with staff whether or not we can by law, wave the confidentiality as to this group of taxpayers as we vadone in other arenas including but not limited to the commercial vacancy tax where next among we'll all see who is. why don't we take that off line. i want to than cruise is paying. >> thank you. commissioner peskin. now mta. >> great. i will present general and quick build program manager to you. >> good morning. i'm jennifer wong a transportation planner at san francisco mta. and also the vision zero quick build program manager. i'm here to present a bit more

information about our vision zero quick build program to implement street changes using a stream line delivery method and support of the city's vision zero commitments. the scope of the program is to make physical traffic safety improvements that are adjustable, lower cost approximate implemented useings city staff. and those improvements fall in the 4 categories we have signal timing changes and minor hardware upgrades. parking and loading changes, transit stop changes. and anything accomplished using paint, signs and posts. to date we completed 30 corridor projects. and any begin moment we have more projects in the construction and planning and design phases. in our most recent fund request,

we are planning add more quarter style locations to that queue along side that, we also plan to install core improvements daylighting or slow are pedestrian walk signals throughout the high injury network. all of this work is in religion to our 2021 vision zero strategy in which the sfmta committed quick build treatment throughout all of the high injury met work where work still remains. >> we mate this to be roughly 50 miles remaining as shown by blue lines here. we have a consultant study to determine had scope can be done at the remaining locations and we remain confident in fulling this commitment.

we seen positive out come that includes the ability to place emphasis on our designity rigz and violation project phases. the ability to responded a bit more quicker with community identified requests and construction coordination opportunity and stretch our local funding. >> we have seen a lot of positive out come from the individual project level as well. and all of our project evidences can be found on our safe streets evaluation program website. when we aggregate results across all the different projects we see in challengerer trendses as well. and that was the main focuses of our latest vision zero safe streets evaluation practical

report. and it found that -- capitol projects are performing with strong intended results but quick builds are performing as intended, too. with this we find that quick builds to be an effective way of bring street changes ahead of larger capital improvements and fifth street ask an example. it achieved similar scope at a fraction of the time and cost. and it is irrelevant a way for us to test ideas outer prior to committing them in literal concrete. this program spends 250 thousand dollars per mont the past 3 years to support planning, out roach, design, construction and

evaluation phases of 30 plus quarter sale projects and numerous spot improvements. so in closing. i want to emphasize that we believe quick builds to be an effective way of advancing traffic safety. and we can stall them through various means through the corridor style projects i mentioned. through spot improvements. but also through other efforts as well such as our bicycle program. muni forward and transit forward quick build and answering 311's from residents. it has been helpful for mack myselfing resource. i will note this it is in the a solo effort. it is one of the many tools we use to improve our street and we intends to continue this work with the knowledge this it fit in a larger strategy in of on

pursuit of vision zero. next i will turn it over to my colleague damon curtis who will talk about our traffic calming program. >> good morning, chair approximate commissioners. damon kurt i guess traffic calming mc manager at mta. i appreciate the opportunity to tell you about the traffic calming program. il start with a brooefr history of the program and go in reasons why mou is a good time to implement the changes and the changes themselves and the improvements we expect we will enjoy from those changes. first program history in 2000 the traffic calming guidelines were developed and the program was established. first decade of the program was focussed on area projects. that involved a multiier planning effort that locked at

an entire neighborhood to identify traffic calming needs. the end result was a formal report with mir and improvements this took years to implement. in 2013 the program was restructured to focus on projects the intents was to address the shortcomings focusing on evaluateses applications on a block by block base i. goal was to speedup delivery. this has not happened to the degree we would like due to process constraintsil explain in a bit. >> that brings us to 2023, today. the intent of the changes now is to use the lessons learned from the last 20 plus years of the program to credit a project delivery focus program witness and for all. who thes driving the change in

why you in? first, received increased significant low in the last few years begin nothing fiscal year 21. this cycle includes applications received between july of 19 and june of 2020. of the 221 applications received this cycle, over half submitted during the last 3 months of application period coincides with the on set of the pandemic related shelter at home orders. and those pandemic related increases continued the following year. so during the application period july 2021, july 20 through june of 2021 received 341 applications. and we did see that number return to prepandemic levels.

the following year but this was a one time drop due to number. different factors. not least which being so many applied the 2 previous years and we were e merging the latter half from some other restrictions from covid-19. that folks were getting back to living their lives opposed to focusing on traffic calming at this point. >> we anticipate receiving between 100 and 150 applications every year going forward this graph shows we have been installing more device each year. trendses continue to go up and this year 2023, we are projecting to install 300 devices which is double when we

thought 3 to 4 years ago. there has been an increase in proactive traffic calming projects the last few years including direct requests by elected officials. emergency responses to incidents. requests associated with separate projects or programs such as quick build. slow streets program, vision zero ask schools engineering. traffic calming, counts for 25-40% of all traffic calming devices installed each year. all traffic calming projects regard manslaughter of the source compete for the same resources with plan, design and implement them. it is proactive the proactive traffic calming shows no signs of slowing down. makes it person we make the application base program stream

lined and efficient as possible. what are the changes? first, important to note the criticism we hear is traffic calming takes too long. we agree. and the primary contributors to that long time line aror own processes. first of all we have a 12 mont long application period. and secondly, extra time required to manage separate fund requests for each phase. existings program shown here assuming the cycle begins july first a 12 mont application period followed by 12 mont planning phase. 12 mont design phase and 18 mont construction phase. total is 3-4 and a half years. >> comper se that to the time line under the new program

structure we are proposing where a separate be application period removed. funding is consolidated and evaluations for on a rolling basis. the cycle begins july one the first quarter is planning. applications come in they will be evaluated to which mote or not meet criteria for acceptance and notifications will be cent. 2, design and approved and quarters 3 and 4 those approved will be installed. total time for applications impmrementation of the new structure reduces to 9-12 months. this slide i include today to show the program structure. did not include it to get in details but really to show we do have a plan to manage the over limited partner and recuring phases of the now program and

the plan to integrate cowing phases from previous cycles and deliver them with the roll out of the new program. quick low the graphic shows planning phase in orange. design phase in graenful construction phase in blue. with the previous program phases the bottom in pink. we realize the changes are ambitious. but we believe they are necessary and confident than i can be achieved. with that, i will open up to questions. thank you, mr. curtis. commissioner engardio. >> i have some questions and comments about the quick build program. like i understand why it is necessary you know. it is quick. better then and there nothing. it is a way to test things observe you commit so it makes sense. except we are seeing a lot of men millions spent on many new

quick build programs and i wonder when are we going to use the data from quick builds to build the permanent corrected structures. cyclists are beg for protection. they north can thing it. place like for years protective bollards on laguna honda. many years that should be a concrete bear in i'm concern body a quick build plan by the zoo. i'm hearing that you know it is not connecting to sky line because people don't want to deal with cal tran and people will have to navigate the intersection. so my question is, when we do the quick builds how much are we

thinking ahead to making permanent and -- are we trying to do too many. with the quick builted concept sounds good cyclists don't like it and motorists are frustrated. does anybody like the quick build. we had do them to get data what point do we build the barriers? >> thank you for your comments i'm happy to discuss more about when we heard in response to our work. has a range in some people like it and don't and all various reasons. i will say that with the quick build program we are trying to establish intentional feedback lop in terms of having

implementation. evaluation and adjustment and implementation and crediting that feedback through the projects. we have already been coming become to the street. to implement the tweaks and improving them. one example is007th and eighth street we have already taken 2 or 3 or 4 different iterations of it in terms of upgrading. the intersection with bike signal and further upgrading with transit only lanes to compliment the boarding islands. of course, i know more about our quick build projects but i know this there is a connection to our street scape projects upcoming. i'm going become to the fifth street example, there is currently detailed design phase

for upgrading that quick build to the final form. it does take time. to supplement efforts we have other projects with that come additional regulations we should follow and -- in terms of conduct for our environment will reviews those are additional steps this make it is capitol projects apore to have a long are time line. not appear, have a long are time line. >> are there streets or yours where we than the quick build wed and put up a real protective concrow barrier for cyclists.

if you can identify this it would be noise to build this right, way pick this a per minute nan quickly build something per minute innocent if we know it will w and cyclists are. yea that is a great idea. again i think through quick builds we are trying to mechanic myself when we can do using city staff. a balance and -- yea. we can look at that there are additional consideration when is we do start to dot more capital improvements for example in order it install anything using concrete we would have to check for utilities.

trickers investigations about cond wit and kitchen basins and curb r. and accessibility. we want to do all that but again as that starts to kinds of when the, surface that's what adds time. >> last question. thank you. you mentioned the concrete you look at utilities and all this stuff is it possible to put concrete up put update barriers that you see on highways or you know like plopped down not imbedded that would make a cyclist happy. >> yea. i would love to see that, too. and i think there could be opportunities for that and i think -- you when we compare our program with other quick build programs throughout the u.s., we are very proud of being able to

deliver concrete elements through quick boulevard for example. transit boarding items we deliver that through our colleagues at public works we have in house capacity in san francisco. as well as some of the concrete element catharsis between the bicycle way and moving traffic. we are prud we do have that ability and we have done it in certain place. compared to, jurisdictions. that you know rely on rubber elements. commissioner ronen. is there anything this body can do either in our capacity as stshgs a commissioners or on the board to hasten the process.

it is just so many of our constituents want and need traffic calming in the neighborhoods and as you explained that it takes long and i want to be helpful in trying to stream line the press or make it easier in any way we can. >> i appreciate that, commissioner. and i think the changes we are proposing now will go a language way to getting us there. i think just shrinking the time line from 3 to 3 years to 4 and a half down to a year. will aleaveiate the concerns and the questions we get from the public regular low. all right. i don't think that beyond, proving this, this application there is much more i would ask from the supervisors at this moment but i'm sure i can think

of manage and get back to you. a year is still too long. look. we are in this proisz for so many different aspects of our city. we are trying to trim bureaucracy and make things faster and cheaper where we can. right. without losing you know our ability to meet other really important goals. i just of course i'm looking forward to supporting this item today but i don't want us to stop there i want to keep purke ourselves to shortening this time line. i just when you -- talk to i'm sure all supervisors feel this way.

when i talk to contwit went in district 9 how long it take and how burdensome the press is to get traffic calming. keep think burglar it. and feel fro to come to me if you figure out ways to -- shorten the process. we gain so much good well for doing a good job and push ourselves to make a strong and better program. why thank you. thank you. i want to say i want to make sure i manage expectations properly. i think the 9-12 mont time

period is about as compressed as i can imagine us getting it. without creating a new sort of special branch that you know has its own asphalt crew to build the things. um beyond this i think we are already really pushing the envelope a quarter low evaluation and sick mont construction period that is in the to say we will not continue to tweak and improve. it is a can iing cant change. i appreciate that. i'm very excitid don't want to damper on it. i -- also to, yes. i also think that it is still a

long time and i'm wondering so. mta does dot work or dpw? >> right now mta does all the planning work. data collection and evaluation, mta does the design work and construction is or it is done 2 ways. upon one is the bureau of street and sewer and asphalt shop that public works builds a number of our device and in the last couple of years taking advantage of as needed contracting press through mta and public works to upon veterans for devices to is up element the w they don't have the capacity. may be you can get a traffic calming crew. and i will crank them out faster then and there you can imagine mag. i like it.

>> thank you. why commissioner walton. >> thank you. chair mandelman. was that a suggestion this mta set up asphalt crew to handle quick build projects y. obviously i don't want to speak for my colleagues at public works. than i welcome the work we give them but we have more w then and there they can handle now. i think this it would should begin or have a discussion with managers at public works to see if it can be done. i can seep a full crew busy. thanks to riand wong and mr. curtis and -- and commissioner

preston? >> thank you, chair mandelman i wanted to add is great to seat slide reducing the 3-4 years to one year we all feel the urgency and he i appreciate commissioner ronen's comments. i department to add that there is a part of this this rare low discuss and i had think is a big impedament to executing this is cordination between departments. this is a reason that our we did a resolution at the board of supervisors eli having the urgency tow recommit around vision verzero. and one thing we had got the funds to design the dot quick build bike lane on oak street. look at the time line and great

under a quick build program it can be done over the course of i year. low and behold, the puc was take up oak street the following year. the department's mta and puc don't coordinate about this. in fact when we were set to move forward and do turns to a project they are lining up to different department in the same space. i do think it is essential that we increased the communication between departments so this we can execute on the time line you just laid out, thank you. thank you. let's take public comment on this item. if there is anybody here that would like to speak on item 6

come forward. seeing none. do we have remote comment on item 6? checking for remote comment on item 6. and there is no public comment. >> public comment on item 6 is closed. >> is there a motion to approve item 6? peskin this is your money. >> moved by preston and seconded by dorsey. i think we can take this same house same call without objection. allocate 2, 4 one, 887 to the stay stay for you the fiscal year quick build program part 2. we received one 2 public

comments posted to the website. >> welcome back. >> hello. all right. this next presentation on the tax allocation. sfgovtv i'm sharing slides to fund the construction phase of the program. and in february of 23 the board allocated to million in tax fund and 245,000 in prospect k for design phase and portion of the construction. approval of this request is upon the guide lines which recommend programming the funds to this project. with this i'm able to answer questions. >> thank you. i don't see comments or questions from colleagues. so we will open this to public ment. do we have remote comment. >> checking for remote comment

on item 7... and there is no public comment. >> okay. public comment on item 7 is closed. a motion to approve item 7. moved by preston a second by peskin. same house same call without objection. item 8. >> authorize the executive director a funning agreement with the mta for an amount not to succeed 270 thousand dollars by travel diary data collection this is know action item and have a public comment posted the website. we have drew cooper. >> good morning. i'm sharing my screen. the bay area survey is lead by

the metro transportation commission. they have a 10 year contract with the vender to do data collection every 2 years. this would be the first year. in the first year mtc is contributing 500 thousand dollars to do data collection. sfcta contributing would allow them to contribute additional 270 thousand dollars to recruit people to participate in the data collection halive in san francisco. the data is a week long record of daily travel by people who participate in the survey. it is is begin through a smart upon phone app that people download on the phone. >> identify trips and prompt them to answer questions about the trips including why they made the trip and things like that. in addition to the mart phone there is a web based -- prefer

not to it use the phone and the survey given in chinese. >> this data would support men of the ta efforts, and updating and calibration and validation of travel demand model. a molthsdz we maintain part of responsibilities as a conjestion management agency. use project evaluation to develop forecasts in projects like the san francisco trapgdz plan. jot dataald help support the development of condition jestion management prk program we release every 2 years. the travel demand market management travel market analysis study correcting within

30 thousand dollars and this money is to ensure we get adequate participation from people in all parts of the city and help the study to identify markets this are well suited for travel demand management investments. and final low the transportation sustainability program evaluation tool would contribute 40 thousand dollars targeted evaluating the affect of parking that is built in new developments on the amount of driving that the residence of the buildings to. and this supports the city's travel demand management ordinance requires new buildings to have tdm plans. one of the tools within the tdm kit is torous parking supply.

than i would contribute 270 thounz. 1600 survey in san francisco and above what we get from mtc parts. there is pilot and the spring in a few weeks -- and the fall in september and future round of data collection -- with that i will take questions. thank you, mr. cooper i don't see questions we will open to opinion ment if there is anyone when wants to speak on item 8. come forward. see if there is remote comment on item 8 >> looking for remote comment on item 8.

and there is no public comment. >> public comment on item 8 is closed. is there a notion to approve item 8. moved by peskin and seconded by dorsey. and i think we can tick that same house same call without objection. mr. clerk, call item 9. >> item 9 amend the adopted fiscal 22-23 budget to increase revenues therein, 243, 544. decrease expend tours 19, 121, 435 and increase sources 5 million dollars decrease of 8 pick, 528. this is an action item and have one comment added the website. [speaking fast]. first of 2 items we will have our deputy direct for finance presenting.

>> good morning. commissioners cynthia fong i have fiscal 2/23 mid year budget amendment. this is a point in time we steak stock how much revenues earnd and what has been spent there are reasons why we change the mateos the next slide you see this revenues have proposed to increased 31.2 million dollars. a blue chart represents the fiscal 23 adopted budget and a gray chart the proposed changes to the fiscal 23 mates. we have change in mates for sales tax ref now. hold steady the vehicle registration fee. we have a slight decrease to our traffic congested mitigation tax. and we are alining our mates to

the city controller's estimates. we have a large increase to our interest income. we have revolving credit agreement up to 125 million to serve a lone and line of credit. we estimated that we draw down up to 75 billion dollars this fiscal year. proposing to draw down up to 20 million. since we are drawing down less we will had more cash in the city treasure pol earning an interest rate the past month. we have program revenues we are changing the estimates as well. >> on the next slide these other major changes this can be identify in the 2 different areas increasing our sales tax revenues 9 politic 5 million to 111.2. we have a conservative mate.

we were in the pandemic. and we are now out of that pandemic we are confident we will increase the sales tax revenue this . it is a one time adjustment don't get excited you will see modest increases going forward. now in terms of program revenue this is is another unusual increase. this is related minly to the yerba buena project. we near construction phase with entering in the west side construction phase. over the during the pandemic we have been incurring 20 mission of expend tours through construction. that time our grantor had limited to 20 million dollars of reimburse ams nought end of south gate alignment project they say it is okay or given us the green light to in from for reimbursements increasing

program ref nows by 21.3 million. in addition, we do have in decreases. to our projects. you see here this we have either paused efforts or are deferring costs to future fiscal years for the be month management program and hill crest road -- widening project in addition to our i280 ocean avenue off r. realinement project. >> have new funding. and there are 3 different projects for again the west yerba buena bridges retrofit and broorth headway transportation corridor and decarbonizing delivery studies. >> in terms of ecpend tours recommending a decrease of 9.1

million. interest increased on the flip side for the same reason we are decreasing our debt service cost since we are not pulling down as much from line of credit loan we will not ing kershaws much interest as anticipateded. we are increasing administrative operating costs. back in december i brought the request to migrit current, counselling system it a new cloud base system. i am proposing we are purchasing needed equip like serve and computers as we paused them during the pandemic. at that point in time sales tax revenue were not as high as now. in capital project costs the largest expenditure. our sponsors they have points of

time may request reimbursement from other funding sources their dead lines are less flexible. in addition there may be projects this are delayed such as light rail vehicle prosecute curement and l tear very well transit enhancement. we have a few increase efforts. again for our yerba buena project we are incurring more cost and progressing on the project faster then and there anticipated. >> we have new prop circumstance appropriations that were approved by this course eversource the largest the market upon analysis and mission bay access plan this item was heard before the cac at the march 29 meeting and there was a motion of support. with this i'm happy to conclude my presentation and take

questions. >> thank you. why thank you deputy director fong for your report and for your keeping our finances in good shape. and -- i don't see comments. take public comment on this item and if there anyone in the chamber come forward. and if in the see if we have remote public comment on item 9. checking for remote comment on item 9. hi, caller your 2 minutes begins now. >> francisco decosta. i have been listening to this meeting intently. i see that we are now going to have some [inaudible] type of

computers. and i cloud so this we can have better transparency. during the pandemic won't spent with mta over a billion dollars. i think we need to have a meeting or a hearing for that we analyze need's assessment. how you have done things in the last 2 years. y'all don't see, i think -- don't [inaudible] public comment. there is no public comment. this means something is not happening that should happen. you know.

so public comment is very important. and we see no public comment every time y'all are ask for public comment. you need to have focus on public comment. and a hearing on how we have been spending our monet last 2 years. thank you very much. >> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. >> public ment on item 9 is closed. is there a motion to approve item 9? moved boy peskin and secondeded boy walton. i think we can take this same house same call without objection. mr. clerk call item 10. >> item 10 approved the code and debt equal benefits investment rules of order and sunshine policy this is is an action item we received a public comment

come has been posted to the website. >> hello deputy director if any. why this is a routine administrative item before you. we are proposing updates to 6 various ta governing policies. furthermore of good management practices. had our legal council and financial advise ors assist us and prosecute posing updates to the policies. we have our administrative code. duties of board and executive director are prescribed. debt policies construct and prefers to issue dent. equal benefit policy enforces nondiscrim nigz in contracts. investment policy procedures to handle investments. our rules of order guides how meeting conducts and sunshine policy the procedures that comply and relate it brown and public record's act. they are brought for update due to the following reasons. to conform with applicable law.

provide clarity come flexibility and reflect administrative and organizational, since we have been in the pandemic the past 3 years. in addition to many of our minor recommended changes we are that are related clarity. grammar and typos and readable and consistency, current and current circumstances, we are recommending 5 changes. since the november ballot measure for prospect k to l we are making those reference changes throughout all documents. recommending an increase to the executive director contract authority if 75,000 to 100,000 and will, line with other transportation authorities. we recommending compensations going forward in fiscal year 23-24 to prosecute mote diversity in cac groups. we are updating meeting protocols with state of

emergency guidance and lastly conforming with admin code on nondiscrimiation policies inner contracts. there are no fiscal impact to the item. and march 29 meeting, which at the time included our policy for prosecute curement and travel. but the request of chair mandelman we recommend bring them later as the board of supervisors may be hearing more information on chapter 12. with this, i'm help it take questions on the policy updates. thank you. >> thank you, deputy director fong. i don't see comments. thank you for your work on this. if let's open equip item 10 to public comment. first if anyone here. i don't think there is. see if there is remote comment on item 10. >> checking for remote public comment on item 10. there is no public comment.

>> public comment on item time is closed is there a motion. moved by ronen seconded by chan. take this same house same call without objection. mr. clerk, item 11. why item 11 introduction of new item this is is know information will item j. i dent see now items. mr. clerk item 12. >> public comment we have received 1 public comment posted to the website. if there is anyone in the chamber withhold like to address us under item 12, come forward. let's see if there is remote comment on item 12. >> checking for remote public ment on item 12. and there is no public comment. >> all right. public ment on item 12 is

closed. call item 13. why adjournment. >> we are adjourned. clear cleartelevision.

>> 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