>> welcome everyone. thank you so much for joining me today. the round table

discussion. i actually have background in youth work. worked in china town before so having you four from youth commission join today is very interesting to hear your thoughts and concerns and what you are talking about from the youth commission and your generation your thoughts. let's get into it. start with introductions. your name. grade rkts school. and what lead you to become into the youth commission? could start with emily. >> so, my name is emily, she her pronouns. (inaudible) in san francisco. and i joined the youth commission because growing up i relied on public transportation and a lot of community organizations such as (inaudible) and through these organizations they introduced me to a lot of community organizing movements happening and that is when i learned of the youth commission because my friend was also on it

at the time and i was interested because i saw a benefited from a lot of public service in san francisco and wanted to insure all youth in san francisco could have opportunities to benefit from these services as well and these services would be available to everyone. that's when i applied to the youth commission and i joined and that's where i got to learn so much about like how local government works and how i could contribute my voice to make better opportunities for all youth in san francisco. >> nice. how long have you been on the youth commission? >> i joined in 20 21 and this is my second term. >> normally the youth commission, what's the age range? >> youth ages 12-23. >> wow! you can be out of high school and on the commission? >> yeah. we have college students and we used to have middle school students on the youth commission too but now they are a freshman in high school. >> nice. awesome. >> (inaudible)

>> ewen a senior at san francisco high school. i joined the youth commission. i had beener interested in san francisco politics freshman in high school and volunteered on local political campaign and district attorney election and got into that process, and from there did more campaigning and got into youth advocacy and activism in the city. and from there i sort have (inaudible) city hall on certain issues and wanted to be on the flip side and see what i could do in city hall for young people and a voice for young people and are the youth commission was the perfect opportunity for that so why i decided to apply. thankfully i was appointed. >> great. how many years have you been on? >> second term as well so beginning september 2021. >> every turm is one year? >> yeah, because people age out so quickly and people

go away for college so we try to make it like a school year roughly. >> okay. nice. thank you. >> hi. i'm hayden. i'm a junior this year at (inaudible) my first term on the commission but what drew me to it is like emily i have always been super fascinated by public transportation. since i was two years old i had a baby sitter and she couldn't get a driver license so would take the bus everywhere and it was fascinating to see all the people and places i could go around the city and just as i got older i would explore more and more but realized that you know, like, it is not as simple as buses driving around and i can be involved in getting more buses out there, having more places to go to and like i think especially when the

pandemic happened and all government meetings moved on line it was a lot more accessible for me so i was able to pgo and make public comment and see had all the presentations, see all the people on commissions and stuff and also had several friends who had been on the youth commission in the past so i just saw it as a great opportunity for me to advocate for young people, because i feel we have a lot of needs and sometimes it isn't always represented. >> thank you. >> hi, i'm yoselin. a senior at urban school of san francisco. this is my first term in the youth commission. similar to everyone else said, i have been interested in politics and public policy and how legislation is made. i are worked for someone who worked with supervisor ronan, he really-i was fascinated with what he gets to do in his job and the issues he gets to work on and people he gets

to speak. this is a great opportunity to test what you are interested in and so i applied and got in and very happy. >> how many total in the youth commission? one per district? >> yes, one per district and 5 from the mayor. >> there is 11 supervisor ones and 6 from mayor office, 5 of it which are specifically for minority community representation and one is appointee so 17 total. >> 17. great. >> (inaudible) one of the bigger commissions in the city, but because youth is everyone at some point in life, every community has youth, it is important to have enough seats to have a voice for communities and their different needs on the youth commission. >> for sure. let's get into the nitty-gritty of it. i

really interested to hear some of the concerns that either the youth commission is talking about now or even you yourselves personally what concerns are you trying to like advocate for and stuff like that? who would like to start? >> i guess i can start. before joining the youth commission i'm involved in housing and mass incarceration crimial justice system. i knew these were topics i wanted to discuss and bring up so i'm also on individual committees so two main topics is youth incarceration and substance abuse and gun violence and-yeah. those are the main issues we are talking about. >> for youth incarceration, what are some of the topics? is it more about the resources putting or not putting into it or is it- >> yeah. one main thing now is talking about juvenile justice center. forget the street. and, i think woodside

and por tolla. >> it was supposed to be closed last year and has not because there is a lot of uncertainty about what is supposed to happen. i recently spoke to chief miller the probation officer at the center, so discussing ways we can support them to get that closed and have more equitable resources for the youth who are currently inside still and relying on community members and families and friends instead of like abusive and harmful police officers and the justice system. >> is sthr racial disparities in the youth incarceration? >> yeah. what i heard from the meeting there is currently like 14 youth inside. they range in age but it is all like people of color and people from low income families who are usually the ones more involved in the crimial justice

system. >> i read somewhere that like perhaps there could be more money put into the communities to help low income or kids being not targeted but don't have as much opportunities and end up in those places. >> yeah. >> versus putting money in- >> i think it is better to fund organizations and programs. i think emily you mentioned you are in break through, i'm in the smart program help afford education and help get to college and teach them and offer activities so they have more resources and opportunities for their future. just like putting more money into programs activities and things that like shift youth experiences to a more positive one. >> any other concern? >> i can add on. i

think you all said investing in youth early is really important rather then focus on punishment. i think that goes unsaid. break through helped so much in the education. if not for breakthrough and summer program jz tutorer and mentorship they offered which my parents couldn't offer me i don't know where i would be. i think community organizations like break through and after school programs funded by the city are so important supporting youth early and insure they dont go down the wrong pact. coming from under resourced neighborhoods and first generation it was very hard to carve my own path so finding mentorship in organizations like this is important and crucial to my personal development. >> i say the science behind it too backs up the testimony. violence-i do a lot of work in

gun violence prevention and programs are often more successful then police are in preventing gun violence in our city. obviously both are a part of the equation, but i think that we have seen a lot of investment. we have seen them be quise successful and i know i am and think everyone on the commission is interested in looking how to support those programs and have them work specifically with youth as well and get young people into the program early before they have a opportunity to be put into these situations that cause violence to occur. >> yeah. >> i just say also like the education system plays a big part because it is great we have a lot of community organizations, but sometimes it can't always be the most accessible so one thing we are working on is

expanding outreach and access so people know about these problems and also within our education system i was looking at data in regards to suspensions and expelgz and similar to juvenile justice center it is overwhelmingly student of color and lower income students effected by that as well as students who are often miss school and there is a lot of reasons for that. some relate to transportation and such. it is just been exacerbated by have distance learning. not everybody had the same access to technology and such to stay connected and engaged in their education during that time. >> i'll add on, i feel when people think about issues like youth not attending school or not doing homework or committing these petty crimes, there is often a moralization and everyone is like they are just bad people. they have the wrong intentions, they are

messing up the city, but i think it is just generally very important to investigate the root causes. a lot of these kids come from under resourced naerbd s and have-for a lot of people it is means of survival so so important to look beyond the surface and no there is no need to moralize these situations. these kids don't have other solutions so it is important to look at the root cause and see how to address prevention rather then punishment and suspension and removal from school. >> it is funny talking about resources and schools. i'm often surprised how many good community organizations are like i don't know how to reach young people and i'm like have you been going to schools, the place where young people all have to pgo during the day? i think i also feel schools dont realize that they have the opportunity to provide resources to young people. they are allowed to connect with outside resources and bring them in and use them as

well. that is something i'm hoping to encourage on the youth commission as well. >> right. usually it is outside -i dont want to say non profit but the-schools themselves are [multiple speakers] >> teachers have become social workers for young people. >> which is why prop g is such a great proposition. i think it is $60 million. increases over time but $60 million goes to public schools for activities, classes, nurses, therapist to support students, which is great. which is what we need. >> yeah. just add on to that or the question, because i know high schools have counselors and probably i don't know if mental health specialists, but do middle schools and elementary schools in the city have that? >> i think it depends

on the institution. i am very fortunate to go to private middle school and high school. i did go to public elementary school and there is a huge gap in education and resources available in public and private. i can't speak to that now. >> it has been a huge burden. recently both our school nurse and our school wellness coordinator left and there was an iligez to the fact it was connected to the pay roll issues occurring with sfusd and not just that but they are already paid much less then other public school districts private school districts, like for nurses if they were to work somewhere else so it is really hard to attract people to work in these schools and we don't budget enough positions in the first place. now we have 7 school counselors for like a body of 3,000 kids and you can think of the kids that have questions about

college and classes to take to graduate. it is just not enough resources in the schools. i went to sfusd middle school and we had one counselor for each grade level, but it just really isn't enough and a lot of schools-it kind of-there is pto or lowel-able to fund a second librarian or nurse the full week opposed to 2 and a half days so if you get injured monday, you got a nurse, but tuesday you are out of luck. that's something happening in the schools and i just feel that is crazy because they don't have a affluent enough pta to fund the nurse. that should be basic. we shouldn't have to ask for

donations to fund a school nurse. >> that ties into the mental health issues people are facing. covid was detrimental to everyone but especially young people who spnt hours a day online and away from mental health support in a really difficult time and i think people are beginning to realize now how important those services are. i think there is work to do but advocase hads been relatively successful in san francisco getting more support for mental health but there is a huge gap we are now catching up with. it was never priority before the pandemic and beginning to become one now but there are so many young people struggling and waiting for support and frankly often falling through the cracks of the system that is supposed to help them. >> yeah. speaking from an older person, no mental helt what so ever in anything growing up so to talk

in the progress is like huge, but of course it isn't enough still. >> there is also stigma depending on your race and religion whether mental health is a real thing. >> and also what your mental health condition is too. >> right. >> i think mental health issues always existed but the pandemic brought to light all the really bad things happening. not exacerbated i feel no one was talking about mental health before the pandemic and i think often times like you said, a lot of the services are not offered in school so i think in general there is a wide disconnect from students and services, whether that is service in schools or community organizations. all these services exist but students don't know how to access them so there needs to be a better way to connect students to everything that can support them. >> another concern possibly-you brought up gun

violence, is that another concern you all have? >> just i think just yesterday the new york times posted a story about how it is officially over-taken any other cause for deaths for young people in the united states . >> 19 percent. >> it used to be car deaths and now number one is gun violence. >> gun violence. also the racial disparities there are incredible too. and concerning. i do a lot of work on gun violence prevention. of course there is need for federal action. we are not go toog solve the gun violence crisis until we see senate and house pass safety legislation that prevents gun getting in the hands of dangerous people but there are actions on the local and state level. eve enin california even in liberal san francisco that can help save lives, particularly around

things like safe storage of guns. i wrote a resolution on the commission urging all san francisco schools to send home safe storage information and just recently a stay law passed that require schools to send home safe storage information for firearms. violence intervention programs are incredibly important to help end this crisis: building the community relations. and also mental health is a big part. access to a gun increases-i dont know what the statistic is off the top of my head, but gun (inaudible) in killing the person then any other form of suicide and it is so irreversible. that access to guns can exacerbate the issues too and someone who might be struggling today and tomorrow but in two years from now would be in a much better place with support and medication they need there is a irreversebal thing they can do with

a gun then they can in other ways of hurting themselves. >> is it the norm to have drills at school? >> yeah. it is scary having to like go through that process. >> the data actually-it is unclear but also pretty clear that having these drills doesn't actually save lives. we now in the united states have enough data points of school shootings in schools that have lock down drills and that don't have lock down drills that frankly doesn't make much a difference. there are other policies and things we could work on that are less traumatizing to kids as well that would be better use of time and resources then lock down trills. not advocating against them, but i think that isn't where our focus should necessarily be.

>> haven't done it this year. it is interesting because i just think our school campus we have so many kids and people wander on and off. i are try not to think about it, but it is a thought in my head, anybody can wander on to here. >> i think it is crazy. ever since sandy hook i literally started doing lock down drills in third grade before i even started sex ed. i think growing up and having to do that every year was really traumatizing. this could happen to me any day so it is scary and seeing gun violence get worse as i grow up not even an adult it is terrifying. >> too many times i walked out of school and checked my phone and see a story of kids like me in a classroom like me all day being shot and killed in the classroom. it is astonish to walk of the last class

of the day and check the news and see that whether it is in michigan and texas and here in california, relatively random it was that school. it very much could have been your school. that is something we can't-there is a feeling of helplessness around that too i think. >> there was the story about the kid campaigning for (inaudible) he got shot. >> 13 year old i believe. >> campaigning for warnack. i have been the kid in freshman year volunteering on a local political campaign and lots of people dont like campaigns. that is reasonable, i get it. having a gun in the situation made that 10 times worse. >> right. yeah. >> i was like not knocking on doors just like walking up and hanging door fliers this election and in the back of my head, i thought about what if somebody like thinks

i'm stealing a package or break into their house? >> (inaudible) >> especially i feel in some more afffluent neighborhoods i see next door, they are like this teenager is walking up to my door and must be up to no good. it was a thought in my head. i was like dang, maybe it isn't a gun, maybe it is a dog or they have something on me. >> this is not-i think people think we are in san francisco, we don't have the issue as much. especially in poor communities and communities of color, this is a consistent issue that we are still facing and a lot has to do with the fact san francisco policies don't cover parts of the state and country as well. san francisco lead the way with the ghost gun ban. ghost guns are guns you can buy online and put together yourself that don't require a serial

number which gets rid of any system of keeping track of guns we have in the country, and we were the first city to actually make that illegal and in california fallowed through with that as well. selling of that was illegal. it is things like that, all these ways gun manufacturers and gun industry is going around the policies that we put in place that is continuing the issue. especially with the gun violence we see on the e streets every day. there are school shootings acrauz the country and many more kids shot walking home because they live in a community of color that had this consistent issue. it is an astonishing thing and it uniquely american issue as well. >> i guess as the youth commission, what actually do you feel you could bring up or

advice-because obviously there are many topics that have a lot of issues, but the gun violence just hits home i everyone, especially for me and everything. as a youth commission, how do you go about that? >> well, i don't know much about the ghost gun ban but our job is advice the mayor and board of supervisors on issues related to youth. we can't solve the issue of gun violence in a night, two nights but i think what we can do is urge local policy makers to take action and i think by the local government taking action we can inspire the state government, inspire the federal government and that is how change works so i think everything we can do to inspire our local elected officials to take action on things like the ghost gun ban can inspire more counties and states and just the world in general. >> we can bring up any topic. any issue to the board of superrisers and the

mayor and whether they take our recommendation or not, we can still push them and urge them to do something about it, so they can't ignore us, they have to realize this is what the youth are writing about and what they like us to do, we have to do something. >> it is fun because the youth commission in san francisco and relatively unique to san francisco as well. it is part of our city charter so they legally can't ignore us. they don't have to take our recommendations [multiple speakers] they have to read the resolutions and talk about the issues and think most people in san francisco are open to work wg the youth commission. there is power behind that and that is where a lot of advocacy work we do gets its power. >> also, there is many board of supervisors care about us and care about the work that we are bringing up, so it isn't like they are just not reading our-or caring. they actually do care about the issues and

read them and consider them. >> it is really unique, because a lot of supervisors just like reach out to us and are like hey, what do you feel about bike parking and they care about what you say. >> they offer resources or do you want to speak to this person or let me introduce you to this organization. they really do want to help us continue our work and really expand what we know. >> the mayor recognizes me places now. that is how you know you are making a im pact, that is that kid. her office is very open to work wg the youth commission as well and i appreciate-i don't think i can think of a supervisor or mayor office that isn't open to us and listening to our concerns. >> it isn't like they just want to take our feedback for their

benefit, they want to help you grow as a person. multiple offices offered me internships and different opportunities to be in this ad or help write this legislation or be in the video and that is unique because they want to see you grow as a person and follow all your dreams. literally the senator was asking what college i wanted to go to and if they could help in any way so very sweet. >> sometimes i look at the youth commission and like, these people are going to be on the board of supervisors in 20 years. this is good we are learning now and doing this now, because we are the next generation of leaders of the city. i really do believe that. of the country. >> any other concerns? >> i think big issue we are also thinking about is young people and it is kind of upon us in some ways but climate change. there is talk recently about the great highway and we will have to close a

portion of it in 2025 because it is literally crumbleing into the ocean. this is real and here now. there is a lot of the city is very ambitious when it comes to setting vision and policies. we have vision zero that in two years i think at this point we want to eliminate all traffic fatalities of people walking across the street, get hit by a car and essentially made no progress since it started. we want 20percent of trips in the city people making them by bicycle and we are just not making any progress on all these goals we set out in terms of climate change so it can be frustrating but that motivates me. we set what our values are and how we make sure our policies and decisions we make day to day, make sure those align with what we are actually saying that we

value. >> and that's replicated across so many issues of san francisco. we love to be this progressive icon but sometimes when you get down to the nitty-gritty we are not making the progress on issues we need. we are not setting the transformative policies that need to be done. transit is a great example with vision zero. >> i agree. i think the city can be very performative and also like-it is like they say they want one thing but they completely do something else and that just gets by-pass and don't think that is okay. also, i think specifically with climate change and transportation, there are so many neighborhood disparities people dont talk about like under resourced communities experience the climate change a lot worse then other communities and growing up in the bayview and excelsior and living near freeways and experiencing pollution and not able to bike in my neighborhood in fear of a car crash

because of the narrow streets t is really horrible. we can't fix the issue in the weltier communities how do we help the under served communities that experience the brunt of it? i also think people are so resistant to change. especially with the slow streets program which we have been looking into as a committee on the youth commission. the housing recreation and transit committee. we (inaudible) benefited youth in the city specifically overall, but still the mayor and other elected officials are resistant to it and afraid of change because we are such a car dominated city and think it is important to be optimistic about the future and be realistic but also like slow streets are helpful. this can actually get to where we want to go in terms of the climate goals and people need to consider that. >> it is kind of like in a sense feel a chicken and egg problem because before i used to be somebody that is mad like i don't understand why are people stuck in their cars but i feel a lot of issue,

that is the system. we set up a system that if it will take me a hour to take the bus across town or i will be all most hit by a car biking down a 40 mile per hour road, the obvious choice is to drive. that is the system we set up so it is hard to convince people that we know this is system and understand why you drive. we are not saying you are a bad person because you drive because there i think there are people out there who are like you are a horrible person because you drive a car and you are killing all the turtles and the children. that's the system we have, so we need to show people that there is a better way and we can get there and it will take a lot of time and there will be inconvenience but in the long run, if we sit and never change it isn't going to work. there has to be a little bit of inconvenience

change, people will feel uncomfortable but if we stay stagnant it isn't going to work. >> i think that's something that the youth commission has been pretty big on making people uncomfortable. elected officials [multiple speakers] i think specifically with free muni for all youth which the youth commission helped create. of course the sfmta was super uncomfortable and like how will we pay for transit for all youth. youth cant afford fares or drive how do you spect them to pay to get to school and their job and since we proposed it we have seen so many positive im pacts. youth and hop and ride for free. they have access to so many opportunities and i think that is so important. making people uncomfurtable and showing change is good and being resisant to change is unhethy. it makes us go in the wrong

direction so making people uncomfortable and doing our job to hold them accountable creates positive im pact for the youth in the city. >> i think we make each other uncomfortable too. >> you mean ear each other? >> i remember-we do a retreat before we begin every year to see where people's priorities are and meet each other and we had intentional uncomfortable conversations recognizing the privilege people hold, recognizing the backgrounds people have and how that impact s how they view the world as well. and think that is important and often missing from the conversations we have in the city. i often see two different groups about housing is the ultimate issue. people on one side saying we have issues of not approving and building more housing and people on the other side saying i'm concerned my neighborhood will get gent riifyed and lack

of dialogue and be uncomfortable stops the progress. we have so many unnecessary divides in the city especially in politics are the reason the issues are not being addressed. people in san francisco agree on the solution. we want to see less homelessness, less crime on the street, we want to see more people getting the services they need and more people getting stable housing, but because we are not willing to sit down with each other and made the strong divisions and so resistant to changing and changing our opinion as well i think that is a reason we are seeing so many san franciscans especially within the last couple elections have expressed this we keep voting on the issues. every politician promises to solve the problem in their own way but it is never getting solved. >> we also see people

moving out of san francisco because we can't fix the problems. and those cities are being also like having more housing problems as well. >> to add on, i think from not even two years i have been involved in san francisco politics i see so many patterns. the same prop every year and named a different prop. there is no change. that is why it is important to sit together and have conversation like this and i think that is why being involved in politics as youth has been such an enlighting experience. i it is uncomfortable but i think discomfort brings positive changeism i find arguing with other youth commissionsers. i realize blind sfauts and where i can im prove by listening to other people and think why youth involvement in politics is important because you are exposed to different perspective and your own

perspective and it-you are like why do i think like that and have this opinion? that is a way i have grown on the youth commission, being involved in the really intense discourse in san francisco and try to find myo perspective and being introspective with myself and other people. >> people are often ask me why are more young people not involved in san francisco politics ? there are a lot of people doing activism and organizing, young people in san francisco, but because when we have these conversations we try to put people into these groups like moderate and progressive and that isn't how issues work and that is such a toxic environment particularly fl young person who is also still trying to learn as well. i think i felt that on the youth commission. not between ourselves but outside

the youth committee being put into a box and i am like i dont know where i lie. a big part of the youth commission is learning about the issues. i don't come on the youth commission with a opinion on every issue. i had to do research and talk to people and hear different opinions in order to determine how i felt about something. we often don't give people the space to do that. >> i think in san francisco politics there is a need to put labels on people and especially i see with the whole board of ed stuff with the low admission policy, i remember i was in a internship and they reallyb expected me to have opinions right away about how i felt about issues. i'm a ayouth and learning how to have my own perspect and engage. i think with the low admission there is a thing like if you believe we should do lottery emission then you are progressive but if not you are moderate. i

think the labeling is bad because confining people in a box makes you question-that's not healthy discourse. you are labeling them. that is toxic. >> and there are only two options. we can do- >> politics isn't multiple choice. >> i think the low admission system is problematic but doesn't mean i want to get rid of it entirely. there is middle ground and im provements that could be made and we dont allow for that. >> do you guys feel as youth especially with climate change i guess, but is a lot of pressure as youth to-not that you solve it but it is your problem? do you feel more pressure? >> of course. i feel there is a problem with putting all the pressure on people instead of company who are the most responsible for toxic air emissions and things

like that. telling us to stop using plastic straws but the big companies use plastic bags and plastic containers. there is a definitely pressure on youth to fix the problem because the older people are like we will not by in the world much longer, so why do we have to fix anything? >> crazy how connected every issue is. i was in richmond the ort day which is very under served community and they center the big chevron refinely and smoke in the air and with the free way is by. i think everything is so connected and we need to do so much. when we talk earlier about people getting to school, transportation is a big part and free muni. everything is interconnected. it is crazy. it is like hard sometimes to-i know this is a issue

we need to do something about it but it is hard to really-you do need to figure out the root cause of everything and-but i think what yoselin said is true. it is hard to like when there is a drought and they tell me shave a minute off my shower, i'm like okay, but there are all these people growing live stock and agriculture using millions tons more water. in some ways i understand there is a personal aspect to it, but we need more big policy changes. i can't solve this alone and think that is something the commission shows is really like-i didn't come into this work as a part of any big groups or organizations, i was just kind of like doing my own thing and then like kind of like when the pandemic happened there was kind of like

this like coalition of people came together to like save muni service and that is when i thought we were getting results and i'm like, this has to be something we all like come together and work on. i think young people actually like realize that and that's one of the great things is we see this is like a horrible thing, but in some ways unifys us. we all have to deal with this problem so we need to work with each other and move past any labeling of i don't like this person because they are a moderate and i'm a progressive. it is kind of uniting in a weird way. >> to add to hayden's point, that is why individualism is a big problem in the capital ist society because everyone is like you can do this by yourself and be successful and solve the world problem but since i joined the youth commission i have been introduced to people power. we are so much more power when we are collective and

work together and think about the system rather then our own self-and the youth system taught me to think beyond myself and the world in general. that is something so unique i never found in any other institution. that is why people should teach kids in school. they should teach them to graduate, make as much money as possible, do whatever you want, buy the biggest house, a mansion, make a family. they should teach kids to feel responsible for the world and im pact they make on the world and that is what the youth commission taught me and it has been the most meaningful life lessen i learned. >> it is funny how often an adult will come up to me or in the youth commission in general and say i'm so glad you are the future. you will solve our problems. you will be part of the solution. these people work in city government too. your job is to solve the issues. i'm part of the solution too, but you can't just give that to our

generation. that is expectation we feel the im pact of climate change so therefore we need to solve it. we can't solve gun violence until young people demand it from the state legislators. you need to be part of the solution too. we need to bridge the gap between youth and adults as well. a big thing i believe in is coalition building across divides. there are things that yoselin and i don't don't agree on and with vote against each other. at the same time we need to work hand in hand to solve the issues we do. and like hayden was saying, there is a thing i dont want to work with this person because we disagree on this issue. >> you need that. >> you can disagree on the issue and also agree on this issue and need to work together to get it done. >> i think that is another thing with teaching youth these things in schools. these are really important life

skills. leadership is important life skill. collaboration across divides is important life skill and taught me so much as a person being able to debate with all these different people. me and you argue a lot, but- >> we are great friends by the way. >> we are really great friends but have been able to do meaningful things together and that is something we should include in the education system challenging youth to think beyond their own perspective and work with people they disagree with and i think leadership opportunities like that should be provided all across the city so we can cultivate the next generation of leaders that will change the world. >> there is this term that being used a lot by the younger generation. it is funny for sure, and but i want to ask what does okay boomer, that term, what does that mean? what is the meaning? obviously i don't know if you can explain where it came from, but what does it mean and really mean i guess, if there is a

real meaning to it. anybody want to explain what okay boomer is? >> kind of a millennial thing i think. >> i don't know. i'm somebody who is on twitter and see it a lot there. it is like- >> any social media platform you see it. >> it is something that we'll say in response to-sometimes there is a lot of we do face people or adults who they might straight up disagree with us, but they might be people who they say they agree and say i really want to help you and do the opposite. they don't really put their money where their mouth is so to speak, so it is like calling them out like okay--i think it is kind of like seeing sometimes people say look at you, you guys are all entitled or the lazy generation or whatever and they see us as being rude to them by

saying okay boomer, but the realty is, it is kind-they dont value us. i don't get respect from you so why am i going to go and support whatever you want or agree with whatever you say? i feel like-there is this weird twisted power structure. they always tell you respect your elders but you don't respect me, so-- >> there is a huge gap between adults and youth now a days. they like don't like care about our ideas or think you are still too young. we had more life experiences. we have been in school longer and seen more so you don't understand and can't speak about this. that might be maybe true but also our opinions matter and we have been through things and seen things and you should like care about our opinions as well. okay, boomer. >> interesting, it is

a funny neme but speaks to the issue of how much space our different generations taking up in the conversation and gen z is willing to demand space then others and political movements. >> gen-z is-late 90 to early 2010? >> yeah are. i think everyone on the youth commission now is gen z. >> gen z has stereo type of, never experienced no internet. >> addicted to technology. very loud. >> yeah. they also say a social justice warrior. >> yeah. [laughter] >> some of the stereo types. >> the best thing gen z when needed we come together and unit and fight for what we need and want. >> just fed up.

i think there is a push within our generation to be like guys, this is so dumb. adults arguing over the issues, 40, 50 years and so over it and need to move on and solve the issues instead of talk about them and think that is true on the local state and national level and globally. >> i was just going to say, i feel like the term okay boomer is a justification for the massive divides that exist between our generations and we have seen that because there are so many technology advancements happening so it is created wide divides between us and the generation before us but i don't think using the term is a okay to justify that. we don't have to work with these people. we do have to work with these people to achieve meaningful change. these people make the decisions that effect our every day lives and if they don't have

perspective how we are im pacted no change will get made and i think that is quhie why the youth commission is so important because the mayor district supervisors, they make decisions on everything that effect our lives so why it is important to have a voice in city hall because they need to work for us to create better outcomes for all youth in san francisco. >> i think it is important to recognize there is a lot we have to learn as well. i think part of okay boomer can be dismissive of generational knowledge that we need to get as well. i think it is possible to both demand change from a generation and learn lessens from them at the same time. >> right. >> has anyone said it? >> i never used it. >> we use it as a joke. >> we use it against each other. i don't think i have been told a person okay boomer. >> i thought it in my head. i feel a lot of times there is a like thing where like it is like a form of like gas lighting. we have a personal

experience and like that's my experience and i'll share that with people and the first thing they tell me is stats dont support that. my experience doesn't support that. that shouldn't have happened and try to dismiss me. my personal experience can't possibly be valid because they have done research that may or may not be valid. maybe their research didn't include youth so there is no way the research included my perspective. they will invalidate me. i don't say to them. i don't want to be super rude but i'm like uh-huh, uh-huh. sure. that is what you think. >> i think also for like career expectations one thing i love about the youth and younger people is that we dont let companies--how do i say this (inaudible) we have more salary expectations. that is sometimes companies give you

the low ball and people are like, no, we want transparns and want to get paid what we need to get paid because minimum wage living and you can't afford to live in a city with hundred thousand dollars you need to live well, so i think that for careers it is also which career will give us the most money to survive in this world. which is tech comes in and stem. >> interesting too, there is-very tabu to share your salary but becoming encouraged. i would feel very comfortable-i don't make a salary but post college i think it is important especially as a white male to share the information with others to be aware of disparities and rectify them as well. that might be a generational thing too. i feel it was

taboo to talk about your economic situation. we complain a lot about it. we also grow up in a time of incredible inflation. literally everything is so expensive and my parents are like how does it cost $5 for a cup of coffee? i'm like let me tell you about books in college. >> everything is expensive. >> it is weird, i work for the city in a job outside of this and like, i don't know, i just like think it is like cool because it just list the salary when you apply i looked at other jobs and like wait that isn't the standard they don't tell you how much you get paid? somebody was telling me about buying a car and the weirdest thing in our society we are like go to the car dealership and it isn't the price, it is quhoo is the best negotiator. it is a weird thing. i just want simple. i want to walk in and know how much i pay. >> i think i feel

aware of the value of my work. especially doing this work as well which is demanding and hard and unpaid because of just how the city is set up. i love it. knowing the value of the skills you have and being willing to say that's not a high enough salary for me. i need to live off--especially if you have a degree. that's just not what i'm worth and think people in gen z are willing to be aware how the system is taking advantage of people and like low balling them basically and much more willing to stand up to that and because i think there is also this personal dynamic where it is like if i was talking to a employer i would be much more willing to say i know you are not low balling me intentionally. like what you said.

[laughter] but the system is. >> to add on r i love the youth commission. i love the work we do and it is a really fulfilling job and i would love to find a job like this some time after i graduate college. >> i see myself being a staff member. >> it is also a privilege to be able to know what you want to do and to be able to pursue that because if i wanted to do writing or something because i reading and writing, i probably would want be able to do that because i'm first generation, parents are immigrants and don't make that much money and don't have the line of generational wealth t. is a privilege to do your job and what you love and public service is pretty well pay-it is privilege and think being able to consider that and having privilege to do something like this and having the time right now i'm really grateful for that but not everyone can do that because they don't have time and have to consider salary more then we do. now we are just

checking on-is this going to make me enough so i can go shopping but these are really important jobs people rely on their lives for. >> we talked about-is there a stigma about youth in politics and- >> for sure. >> do you feel it or do you feel it at all? >> i feel there is little like-i dont know if micro aggression is the right term. i got a permit to use the bike room from city hall and i filled out the form and the lady was looking at me and was like, you work here? i'm like yeah, i don't have a city e-mail address but can i write my employee id number. she is like, you have those, that is cute. she wouldn't talk to an adult like that. she wouldn't say you have employee id that is cute. i was like wow, in that moment. i don't want to tell too many

stories. >> sometimes they don't take you seriously because you are a young person. >> i remember walking into supervisors office, we were inviting-legislative aids and a couple times they are like, hello. they are like, why are you here? i'm like this is a public office so everyone can walk into and second of all, we are commissioners. that is the reason we are here. >> i have been called cute so many timeatize is unbelievable. i'm like man, i'm just trying to do my job. i remember there was a interesting debate i had with this guy. we were doing a trash cleanup and it was me and this other dude talking about this book we read about youth involvement in politics. i said i don't think youth should be involved in government because they will be sad and disallusioned how much the government can't do. i'm like-i tried my best to argue with him very respectfully but that is such a bad

take because i think youth should be taught to be optimistic rather then pessimistic where we can go in the future but a lot of adults think otherwise. a lot of adults believe the same things he believes. they think youth should just do their little thing, go to school, have fun- >> if you are not creating change why are you there? for the money? >> there is also issue the youth commissioners felt of tokenization and being like a politician with-photo op- [multiple speakers] look at the youth leader i'm promoting and are they leave and there is no mentorship. there is big difference between mentorship and tokenization. i think we do a relatively good job in city hall. i think most people care about us and (inaudible) but there are times

too where i'm like from people who i think of as people who are mentors who are like you just want me here to stand next to you for a photo opand don't think i'm will ing to do that without having a conversation with you about this issue. >> you can tell when meeting someone or being at an event when they are just like using you versus if they actually care what you have to say. >> i think as a youth commissioner, it is so important to find the balance between being used for tokenization but also using that clout. you should take advantage of it. >> you are standing next to the elected official. >> it gives the youth commission more prominence and if it helps us do our job mine as well. it is important to find balance and make sure you are not taken advantage of. >> something else that is interesting is-i feel like i mentioned earlier but i feel like i didn't have any

training. i have my own experience. >> before you continue, just saying you do not need experience to come into the youth commission position which i feel sometimes is the- >>b i have no experience in politics. >> push people not to want to apply for the job because i don't know anything about local government and won't know how do this or that but you don't need it. >> you don't get thrown on a commission. there are people to support and educate you. >> i do feel in some ways i'm expected to know a concern thing or behave the way like the political machine kind of wants me to and you know, be professional and smile when the presenter is obviously like lying to me and stuff and thank them for coming and like, that's just not me. don't feel you will disrespect me and lie to me and then expect me to be nice because i am supposed to be nice to you. i

feel people feel they can get away and that i'm not go toog call them out or not supposed to call them out as a young person. i'm supposed to thank you so much for your time. thanks for valuing my poor youth commission. no, i don't know-i just feel you wouldn't lie to the board of supervisors like that or if you did you would get called out so i'll call you out. there is this expectation we are supposed to behave like-not saying we shouldn't be professional, we should be professional but i expect the same professionalism back. i don't want to be, yes. >> there have been times people come to the youth commission and are think they forget we are ultimately here to hold the city government accountable. >> an employee of the city. >> that and also it is like, the job of the youths commission is to be a voice for youth. we are going to call you out when you don't

know if lie is the words to use, fudge the number, whatever happens. there have been times where i'm like, you forgot this isn't just a group of young people who are interested in this, but a commission who job is to hold people accountable. >> i think the image of youth in the city is also just really interesting because some people will be like, you dont do any knowledge, they hang out and get (inaudible) they just sit and play video games. a lot of people come into youth commission presentations thinking we don't know anything. we will surprise them when we know these procedures and ask the specific questions related to policies on whatever they are presenting on. it is funny. >> so, is it i guess not youth commission but in general as youth is it a challenge to get more youth interested in politics and anything the youth commission is try toog do to help that? >> i think just bringing more

awareness of what the youth commission is and the resources available for people to sign up and join. that is something that our community outreach members are trying to do. >> yeah. last year i was (inaudible) and we did this thing where we made instagram posts about the initiatives we worked on. we detailed the initiatives and free (inaudible) able to put the work on social media and legislation on social media is important because it teaches youth that you can have a voice in all these city policies that are effecting your lives and a voice in the big movements and think making the youth commission as accessible to avenue everyone as possible is important. >> (inaudible) >> vote 16 is an initiative by the civic engagement committee of the youth commission and works to lower the voting age to 16 age in all city elections-

>> san francisco specifically. >> san francisco city elections. it is actually received a lot of support from the board of supervisors, but lost my nearly 3 percent in the first election in 2016- >>.5 >>.5 in the next election. we are working to get it on the 2024 ballot again with more voter education, more outreach because we believe it is important youth get involved in voting early because it instills a habit that voting is important. >> i think-i touched on this before, but a lot of young people are interested in politics but also scared to get involved because of how toxic it can be. i feel like i also heard from so many young people their first interaction with politics was negative so they were steered away from it. i had plenty situations happen to me with political activism but i think the environment we have

on the youth commission and trying to create more generally within youth advocacy and activism in san francisco is positive and supportive. all of us have different opinions, have different views on issues, and voted different ways but i also know i can go to any of the people around the table and on the youth commission to say this was a bad experience that i felt x, y, z about or i am in the situation, can we talk about it, because we all are in the same boat of sometimes things don't go our way and because we are young people we have certain experiences we want to share with each other as well. >> i think what is interesting about the youth commission is you don't need to know much about politics to be on the youth commission. my perception of it was that i need to know all of these u.s. amendments and need (inaudible) i think that is what a lot of people think the youth commission is. that

you need abundance of political knowledge to be on the youth commission but i realized it was less political. a lot of community coalitions and just speaking from your own perspective and where you come from as a youth for better outcomes for everyone in san francisco and i think that is important because it is like, i think the discussions in the youth commission encourage people to talk about where they come from and what they truly believe rather then affiliation to a political party. that is not what the youth commission is at all. >> i remember when i was applying to the youth commission, i reached out to (inaudible) i don't know anything about politics and scared. what will happen during the first meeting and you were like no, you will be fine and learn along the way and that is for any youth who want to get involved you dont need to go anything. you will be trained and taught along the way so take initiative, join it, don't be scared. >> also people get turned down from the youth commission. the supervisor jz mayor decides. there are other opportunities to get involved.

reach out to youth commission staff. the youth commission seats people on other bodies and outside the youth commission as a whole another area of politics and policy work as well. i also say anyone watching this being i don't know if i want to be on the youth commission or i want applied but didn't get on, there is still so many ways to get involved. we have a website you can find our information on. i really encourage that because you don't get started until you get started and once you get started you keep going and end up in a seat like this. >> i think it is so funny because involvement in politics is a little ball rolling. there is a million little balls rolling and opportunities. it is just crazy actually because the first thing i did is internship where i cleaned the streets in san francisco and now i'm like on the youth commission. >> (inaudible) if you are not sherbet the youth

commission or not accepted to first time volunteer for the district supervisors, try to form a relationship with them or who ever is in the office and apply again to the youth commission. >> i think the other thing too is like, as much as there are people involved, there are a lot of people who aren't and it is a great opportunity because i feel the biggest thing-you don't have to know anything special. you don't need to have learned anything. just show up and live your experience. you don't need to be on the city commission. we have our meetings are open to the public. you can show up to the board of supervisors and make public comment and speak your truth. just know your own experience and it will get you pretty far honesty. people will recognize you. i was just some little kid who would go to the mta board of directors and are- >> now they know you. >> i was at a random event and they came up to me and hugged me and are like my gosh, you

are hayden miller from the meeting. i felt somebody. i'm like wow, these people know me and they don't always vote the way i want them to vote, but they listen and they hear you and that's what government is there for. just remember at the end of the day, it might not always go the your way, the way government works, but for you that is the whole purpose of government is to serve you, so- >> the youth commission has public comment on every item and every motion we ever make. every city commission does. our meetings are open to the public. we want to make space for you. we want to hear from you. please come, share your opinion and you can also even if you can't make a meeting you can write public comment in too. i say especially at the-it is hyper-local the youth commission. we only represent young people in one specific area and one specific state so that is where your

public comment will have the most im pact. a couple times people reached out and said this is a issue i didn't know needed to be addressed but it was because i reached out that this is something relatively easy we could address and change too. it isn't a big deal for city government but it is big deal for this person. >> adding to hayden's point, i think city hall is pretty youth friendly because ewen was talking about running into city hall at 5 p.m. i have multiple occasions where i run down trying to get to the bathroom in city hall and an elected official would pass by or i'm holding a big bag of snacks. i think professionalism is important but like hayden was saying it is important to speak your truth and be yourself because coming into city hall, i didn't know anything about city politics. all i knew is i cared about these organizations, i cared about all these issues and i wanted to make a difference and people here really believed in me regardless how

prfessional or elquent i was. they mentored me and come a long way. it is important a place like this is accessible for youth because people have offered me professional clothe to go to this event and they offered me opportunities to like speak on panels and have speeches in front of crowds of 200 people and i'm shocked people believe in my. that is what san francisco city government is and it is beautiful. >> everyone in the building is still like a person. i remember the first time i met with an elected official and was like i'm nervous and what if i say something wrong and they came in and was like i'm tired from the last meeting. give me a second while i get a cup of coffee. there are moments where i'm like, it really like-we ultimately are still just students who spend most of our day in high school. elected officials are still people who make

mistakes and who are doing their best and who have been entrusted with this position by voters, but also are still people who you can relate and talk to. >> i think before i would see city government as like blocks. they were machines but it is people operating these machines. people are making decisions and writing these documents and i think realizing that was so important understanding how i make a voice. i think a lot of the role on the commission isn't research, it isn't writing, it is just connecting with people. understanding that city government is all just people and making realizing how important the connections are. it really helps you in your work. >> really realwy appreciate you all coming today. i learned a lot from you all. please please always keep saying your truth, your voice and also encouraging other youth to share their voice as

well and i think-we always think we are in good hands but we got to keep fighting the good fight so matter what so thank you for joining us today. >> (inaudible) follow sfyouth-calm. >> we have facebook too. >> we meelt every other monday 5 to 7. >> thank you to sfgovtv as well. >> thank you so much. >> awesome. thank you. >> thank you.

>> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not going to eat the pizza. >> you like the pizza? >> they will eat anything. >> yeah, well, okay. >> sfusd's meal program right now is passing out five days

worth of meals for monday through friday. the program came about when the shelter in place order came about for san francisco. we have a lot of students that depend on school lunches to meet their daily nutritional requirement. we have families that can't take a hit like that because they have to make three meals instead of one meal. >> for the lunch, we have turkey sandwiches. right now, we have spaghetti and meat balls, we have chicken enchiladas, and then, we have cereals and fruits and

crackers, and then we have the milk. >> we heard about the school districts, that they didn't know if they were going to be able to provide it, so we've been successful in going to the stores and providing some things. they've been helpful, pointing out making sure everybody is wearing masks, making sure they're staying distant, and everybody is doing their jobs, so that's a great thing when you're working with many kid does. >> the feedback has been really good. everybody seems really appreciative. they do request a little bit more variety, which has been hard, trying to find different types of food, but for the most part, everyone seems

appreciative. growing up, i depended on them, as well, so it reminds me of myself growing up. >> i have kids at home. i have six kids. i'm a mother first, so i'm just so glad to be here. it's so great to be able to help them in such a way because some families have lost their job, some families don't have access to this food, and we're just really glad to be

>> roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. the light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. >> working with kids in the ocean that aren't familiar with this space is really special because you're dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. >> when i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it.

>> we'll get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who don't like the beach. it's too cold out, and it's those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. >> over the last few years, i think we've had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. >> surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. >> we've start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. >> swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all -- not being anxious. >> so when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is

the way to earn your p.e. credits. just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. but now that we've been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids that's consistent, and the word has spread, that it's super fun, that you learn about the ocean. >> starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. >> we usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. we once did a special trip. we were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. >> we get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. >> once we go to the beach, i

don't want to go home. i can't change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. >> our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. >> i don't really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didn't think i'd like, like, ended up being my best friends. >> it's a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybody's doing it for themselves. >> it's great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. >> it can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. >> i feel significantly, like, calmer. it definitely helps if i'm, like, feeling really stressed

or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, i'm going to be okay. >> it gives them resiliency skills and helps them build self-confidence. and with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. >> i went to bring my family to the beach and tell them what i did. >> i saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. >> for some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a mentorship program like this, it's they want to surf,

and then later, they'll find out that they've, like, made this community connection. >> i think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. >> for kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. >> we go on 150 surf outings a year. that's year-round programming. we've seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. >> i just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that they're engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how they're doing, like, in general. >> what i like best is they really care about me, like, i'm not alone, and i have a group

of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. >> we're creating surfers, and we're changing the face of surfing. >> the feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. it's definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but it's definitely fun. >> it leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kid's going to go out and do. >> i think it's really magical almost. at least it was for me. >> it was really exciting when i caught my first wave. >> i felt like i was, like -- it was, like, magical, really. >> when they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know -- their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. >> i was on top of the world. it's amazing. i felt like i was on top of the

world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. it was, like, the scariest thing i'd ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after

>> my name is marie pena, a producer and video programmer specialist for sfgovtv. my dad always had a special or new electronic gadget and i remember visiting one summer he bought a huge square box that was amfm radio and it had a tv integrated into it. i remember watching some videos that really impacted me and i said i wanted to do so once i graduated high school i wanted my career to be in the (indiscernible) i worked in television for now about 30 years, and more important to me is my whole time in media, it

really focused around informing my community, particularly the latino community. i'm originally from mexico, my parents immigrated here when we were very little so i straw the struggle within immigrant community. (indiscernible) in contributing to informing viewers and being a resource for people to get information and be empowered with that. one thing that i noticed versus my male counter parts is that sometimes i really felt i wasn't taken seriously because i was a woman, and as a latina, it is even more so and talking from my personal experience. we have to prove ourselves even more. i also had people along the way in my career that have really mentored me, that have taken me under their wing. i thought what female inspired me in my life, my mother

said dont let anyone put you down and be proud of who you are. she emphasized to me p because i'm a woman i need to learn to stand up for myself, and to really assert myself and do whatever i needed to do to be successful. if i could go back in time and have a sit down conversation with my younger self-i would tell her to trust yourself. trust your gut, don't second guess yourself, allow yourself to make mistakes and dont try to always have the perspect situation. you need to take (indiscernible) because if you don't get out of your comfort zone, you won't know what else is out there and opportunities come up that you never imagine will

happen. >> good afternoon everyone, i'm san francisco mayor london breed and i'm joined here today with commissioner shawn dureof the california highway patrol, major (indiscernible) national guard. our district attorney, brook jenkins, our police chief bill scott, and president of the board of supervisors aaron peskin as well as a representative on behalf of sheriff

miyamoto. he are here to talk about the partnership that will be established between the state and our federal law enforcement agencies. let me begin by expressing my appreciation to governor gavin newsom for answering the call for taking on this problem head on and his willingness to be a partner in the work that he knows we need to do. as a former mayor of san francisco and someone who grew up in the city, he understands the value of partnership and also understands the value of san francisco as it relates to entire state. here locally, we have been doing i think a extraordinary job between our police department and our district attorney's office. they have been working hand in hand as partners to help us address the many challenges around public safety, but more specifically, the

challenges related to this fentanyl crisis, which includes the large number of people who have died from overdose deaths, as well as the open air drug dealing, the violence associated with this, and how it impacted the tenderloin and soma communities considerably. time and time again, we have you know, reached out for resources to try and get support and the fact that this is finally happening and it is something that is never happened before will be significant for our city and will send a strong message to those who are perpetrating these crimes that are holding communities hostage, that we will do everything we can to work together to make sure that there is accountability. some of the challenges that have recently been highlighted that you may not be aware

of, just this past tuesday, the san francisco police department made an arrest of someone who five kilos of fentanyl, and just today our district attorney announced the charges associated with that arrest, and the point i want to make is, this is something that was not happening previously, and the fact that our district attorney and our police chief are working hand in hand and just between january and march this past quarter, the amount of drugs seized was over 150 percent from even last quarter, demonstrates to the public that we are doing everything we can. we are making the arrests, we are bringing charges, we are being aggressive as we possibly can to hold people accountable and i want to appreciate the leadership of our district

attorney brook jenkins and leadership of bill scott and the teams that they represent, because it does take a village, it does take partnership and now that partnership is expanding. expanding on a state-wide level. so, we are appreciative to have our state representative here to talk about some specifics of what they plan to do, but we will not provide all of the details of what we plan to do to the public, just the basics. we know when this plan was first mentioned when the governor came to san francisco with the attorney general and they did a walk in the tenderloin, they heard the pleas and cries of the community asking for help, asking for something different. this is something different and i'm looking forward to a real change in our city. separately from what we plan to do around law enforcement, people have consistently tried to say really horrible

things about san francisco and the challenges around safety, and i say like any other major city, we have our challenges, but there are so many other wonderful things happening in san francisco right now. just this morning i was out at mlk middle school with kids who were scooting and biking to school and i was at fort mason with a number of high school leaders who all are public school students who are thinking about ways to change the future. all over the city, there are communities coming together for various reasons and loving and enjoying our parks and open space,b the public schools, the warriors will be playing tonight and the championship and concerts and activities and we just hosted one of the biggest conferences here over 40,000 participant desnded upon san francisco and many had a really great experience and there opponent i'm making is, it is time for us to write our own

narrative about what san francisco is, because we live it and breathe it every single day, and part of adding to the value of our amazing city will be the fact that we will continue around our reforms and the work we need to do and the criminal justice world, but there will and must be accountability associated with that. with that, to talk a little bit more about the plans, is commissioner shawn dere of the california highway patrol. >> thank you madam mayor, good afternoon everyone. my name is shawn, the commissioner of the california highway patrol. the chp has a mutual interest insuring the safety of california communities and we are committed to collaborating with partners here in san francisco. under the direction and leadership of governor gavin newsom and mayor breed, state agencies partnered with

city officials and we have identified specific action items we can take immediately to improve the current issues in san francisco. beginning may 1, next monday, the chp will deploy officers to work side by side with san francisco police officers to enhance public safety within the city, with a focus on specified high crime areas. this will be accomplished through three main objectives at the highway patrol. first, we'll assist the san francisco police department increasing uniformed officer in spirfck area with intend to deter and disrupt criminal activity. second, provide specialized training to sfpd officers to assist those officers in the ability to detect, deter and prevent drug and alcohol related crimes, and finally, we will use the highway patrol existing resources from our specialized units to provide investigative support to develop

crimial cases that disrupt illegal narcotic traffic. the chp mission is provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of california. we are proud to stand with the california national guard, the california department of justice, the san francisco police department, and the san francisco district attorney's office in a collaborative effort to address these public safety issues. i'm happy to turn it over to major general matt beavers. >> matt beaver of the cal guard and what i want to do up front is spell out rumor, the california national guard presence in this is not boots on the ground in san francisco. the support that we will provide really consists of very talented and dedicated soldiers and airman that do essentially criminal analyst work and that is taking a look at all the information that

we-gets generated by law enforcement agencies, taking that information, senticizing it and into actionable information we can map, cartel networks inside and outside the city, understand those networks build a common picture of and dismantle the network. we have 14 or 15 folks working on the ground today supporting the northern california high intensity drug traffic area and we have proven success in the area. in san diego, dug traffic area where we support, in the last month in march alone, all most $50 million of fentanyl seizures that our soldiers and airman supported so we can do it in san diego and intend to do the same work here in your city. with that i'll be fallowed by district attorney brook jenkins. >> good afternoon. i first want to say thank you

to governor gavin newsom as well as general beavers from the national guard as well as commissioner dere from the california highway patrol for offering their assistance with tackling the open air drug market in san francisco that chief scott and our departments have both been working vigiously to address the last 9 months together. what we know is that this is not a problem that is easily solved and the more support and collaboration that we have allows us to address this problem more expeditiously so i'm very excited about the prospckt of this collaboration and this new partnership. this was an opportunity that at least from the vantage point of the national guard that was offered to my office about a year or two ago and declined. that was not in the best interest of san francisco. what is in the best interest of san francisco and particularly communities like the tenderloin and

south of market, they deserve to make sure that they get to walk down the street without the situation that we currently see. an additional benefit of this collaboration is how it will assist us in the prosecution of these cases. more recently, we have experienced many criminal defendants in narcotic dealing are asserting a umhooen trafficking defense. it requires significant evidence on our part in order to robut that defense so i'm excited at the prospect of having additional resources to be able to dispel the notion that people are not here dealing drugs of their own accord, because that is clearly what is happening. today we announced charges against an individual as the mayor pointed out in possession of 5 kilos of fentanyl that can kill more then this entire city.

that individual we argue should be detained based on the public safety risk he presents and the judge at this point agreed to that. we are moving the ball forward in trying to keep san francisco safe and as i said, this part nership will only allow us to do that on a higher level and at this time, i will bring up police chief bill scott. >> thank you district attorney jinken. i like to start by thanking our mayor london breed and thachck governor newsom and all the partners here today. as well as our board of supervisor president aaron peskin who's here with us today and is a supporter of making our city a safe city. i will fill in some of the blanks with some of what you heard here. the tenderloin and the epicenter of the

crisis with fentanyl is a very small area, about a square mile. generally. about a square mile. san francisco police officers have made 269 arrests in a very small area in the course of 4 months. think about your own community and think about a 10 block radius where you live and think about 269 drug dealers dealing poison on the street taken from your community. that is what the people who live and work in the tenderloin have to deal with day in and day out and that has to stop. our police officers have confisicated 39,000 grams of fentanyl year to date. a conversion is about 85 pounds of fentanyl. that's a lot of death and destruction. think about it for a second.

that is higher then what we have seen this time last year. we are working very hard as a city to address these issues, but it is not enough and that is why we have partners here. that is why we have commissioner dere and general beavers and their respective organizations here to help us and we need the help. i want to make a few things very clear, this city is committed to policing the right way, to policing with dignity and respect. to respecting the people who live work here and respecting the people who commit crimes here and our partners are here to enhance that. nothing short, nothing more, nothing less. they will enhance the values of this city. most of us who live here and work here, the

mayor has lead the charge, the district charge brook jenkins, myself, chief lazar from san francisco police department here, supervisor peskin, all most every public official in this city have heard over and over again that this has to stop. people are fed up with, we are fed up with it, and our attention needs to be on the people who are causing the problems. not only each other. our attention needs to be on the drug dealers that are making all this happen and that is exactly where our focus will be. we know this isn't a san francisco alone problem, we know that these people who deal drugs in our streets have tentacles in other cities, and other states, and perhaps in other countries and we have to do everything we can to bring every resource to bear to

identify every piece of these networks that are killing people in our city and we have to dismantle them, and that is exactly what we intend to do. whether it be da jenkins and straight prosecution or whether be federal prosecution, we will do what we need to do to make this problem better. because together, we are stronger. i want to again thank all the partners for being here. i know there is a lot of questions and i think at least the general questions have been answered. what is it national guard role, what is chp role? we are blessed to have a leader who pulled this all together in the mayor and we'll do everything we can to work together to solve this problem and with that, i will open it up for questions. >> [unable to hear speaker]

>> we seize crack cocaine, powder crack, meth, we see a garden variety, but when you look at the medical examiners reporting of the last couple years and this year is no exception, what is leading the charge and killing people thin city is fentanyl by far, it isn't even close. that is why we focused on fentanyl, because that is what is literally kills us now and we'll continue to focus on that. but we do make arrests and seizures for all the other illicit drugs as well. >> (indiscernible) when you talk about cartel, how does that factor into what we see on the streets? >> i think it is appropriate place to start. the drugs that come to our cities across the state, not independent of each city, it is not independent of each county, it is

fundamentally transnational organizations that bring narcotics into the state and city, so if we start from there and look through that prism it gives a good jumping off point to do the tough analytical work to determine who those folks are, and understand the network and their associations and go after dismantling them. thank you. >> [unable to hear speaker] >> yes, ma'am, just the mere presence of the officers being with the sfpd officers we believe will help deter criminal activity. the officers are trained in crim 2348 apprehension and take action if they see it and make appropriate arrests. we are not coming in here to take over, the highway patrol will supplement san francisco efforts and we'll complement them in the efforts.

>> (indiscernible) >> that is a fair question and i think we are early in this. we are having discussions we measure the success of it and those are things we'll establish in the days to come. >> the most immediate measure of success is we have to see a change in the streets. you heard me say we have to see a change in the streets. when people-i was out there last night, 10 o'clock last night, there were people visiting our city from lands far away that for a short second before our officers cleared it could not walk down it the sidewalks. that has to change. >> (indiscernible) >> arrest stutistics tell a story and we'll keep reporting those statistics because it is public interest and people want to see we are working and doing something about the

problem, but if i came and told you-told you 269, if i told you a thousand and walked out the building and still saw drug dealing on the streets that probably would not matter to you. if you had to see that every day, you probably don't care about statistics we bring before you so we have to see a change in the streets and see a change in behavior more importantly. it isn't okay to do what people are doing and not okay not only to deal drugs on the streets but to use drugs on the streets. if anybody thinks that's okay, it's not. >> (indiscernible) >> these things take time but we expect to see immediate changes. here's the realty and our officers see it every day and many of you see it every

day-when we deploy large amounts of officers in areas in the tenderloin or anywhere in the city the problem tends to go away while we are there. that isn't the long-term solution because sometimes that is unsustainable but temporarily that will go away. we want to disrupt this behavior. we want to make it difficult for people to come in the city and county and do what they've been doing, dealing drugs. the longer term plan as many speakers said today, there is a-there is dismantling the organizations bringing these drugs to our streets. there's prosecutions both state and federal prosecutions and at the end of all this, what we want to see is some of these organizations go away and be dismantled. that is a sign of success, because when that happens you won't see what you see right now on our streets. >> (indiscernible) >> i can't tell you. i know what the commitment is from

these people that are standing here. now we'll do whatever we need to do and the mayor and the governor will get together and decide. we are trying to build this for sustainability. part of that process is putting infrastructure in place or enhancing infrastructure that already exists, so we can sustain the effort. the last thing we want to do is clean the streets up for a week, two weeks, a month and then everybody goes back to their regular way of doing things and it starts all over again. we have to sustain this effort and so that is how we are trying to build this. >> (indiscernible) >> well, our federal partners are definitely dealing with that and that's a

little of what general beavers were talking about with the work they are doing in san diego. this takes partnership. that question the answer to that question is this takes partnership and no one organization that is standing before you can do this alone. people who do this, people deal, people who distribute, people who bring narcotics to any city, they don't care about boarders, they dont care where the county lines or city lines are, all they care about is making money and kill people in the money and we are not smart enough to join together and fight this together then shame on us. i applaud the mayor for asking for this help and applaud all our partners for willing to say, we'll help. we are all impacted by this. thank you. >> how many chp officers and national guard are there? >> i can have

commissioner general beavers answer their parts of the question and then-- >> for the safety of the officers and integ taef of the operation i won't disclose. they are all coming out of the san francisco area. the chp has 75 uniformed officers assigned to the san francisco area. in june we have academy scheduled to graduate and plan to send additional 9 officers so bring up to 84. i will tell you this, the officers that volunteered to work alongside sfpd officers all volunteered for it. they all are from san francisco, they love the community, they want to be there and serve the community so i think that's a important aspect from our viewpoint. >> we have 14 criminal analyst assigned to the northern california high intensity drug traffic area. those

14 will be assigned a multijurisdictional task force that include the folks up here on the stage today. 14. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i have more concerns about the number of people who are dying from drug overdoses. i have more concerns about the families and the people who are struggling in these various neighborhoods overrun by drug dealers who have increasingly become violent and fight over territory and number other things, so as far as i'm concerned, my plan is part of what's been missing, because this city has been extremely generous with regards to social services. in fact, when you look at our city budget, the amount of money that we spend

for non profits and organizations to help with treatment, to help with second chances and support and resources are mostly in the tenderloin, soma communities and that will not change. we will continue to invest heavily in providing opportunities for people and second chances and all of those things, which is different from what was happening in the 80 . there were hardly alternatives or nobody seemed to care about that, everything is about arrests and lock people up and in fact this is different. this is program services, second chance opportunities and also accountability and what is missing is accountb ability and that's what this is all about. i do want to also mention that measuring of success includes reducing the number of drugs overdose deaths in this city, which we have seen decline at

one point and starting to see a spike and increase and so we want to make sure that we are saving lives in the process of the work we are doing here in our city. >> (indiscernible) >> well, i hope it does and i think that you know, just recently you recall when we declared a state of emergency in the tenderloin, and we set up a link it center which was supposed to be the place we help people and officers had a alternative place to take those struggling with addiction and it didn't quite work out that way for a number of

reasons including challenges with capacity of the police department. ulimately we can't sit back and throw our hands up. we need to be innovative and do everything we can to provide all the resources so that we have the capacity to handle a problem of this magnitude, and as i said earlier, you see the arrests have gone up considerably from the police department in terms of drug arrests, not just for fentanyl but this past weekday meth. you see the da time and time again to charge people in these many many cases so we'll continue to do all we can, but the partnership is going to hopefully make a significant difference. i want the streets to be safe , we all want the streets to be safe and part of that includes all the right programs we are doing but there has to be accountability attached to this and think this capacity will help us get to a

better place. alright. thank you very much.

>> this meeting will come to order. good morning and welcome to the may 1, 2023 rules committee. i'm supervisor dorsey chair of the committee and joined by vice chair walton and committee member safai. on behalf of colleagues i want to express gratitude to committee clerk, victor young and thanks to the team at sfgovtv for broadcasting today's meeting and our producer jason. mr. clerk, any announcements >> yes, the board is convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and

public comment. public comment will be taken on each item. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first and then take those waiting on the telephone line. the public comment call in number is straeming across the stream. you will hear the meat ing discussion and muted and listening mode only. when your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, those joining in person should line up to speak and those on it telephone dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. if you are on the telephone please remember to turn down your television and all listening devices you may be using. you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail them to myself the rules committee clerk at victor.young@sfgvo.org or send to city hall.

finally, items act aupon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda may 9 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, please call item number one. >> item 1 is hearing to consider appointing one member aterm ending february 1, 2029 to the ethic commission. >> thank you mr. clerk. on item 1 and want to express a oversight that resulted in the item be agendized in error after i made commitments to the community members and one applicants and intended not to call the item this week. the published agenda was a version control error on my part so i beg everyone's forgiveness. i don't know if it is too late-been here long enough to call a rookie mistake but do apologize. as viewers may know we had a couple delay said and

a couple other 11th hour applicant. i want to make sure the ethic commission applicant have time to meet with colleagues and are heard from community members they want more time to be heard. i know this item has been continued a few times for few different reasons, the ethics commission is aue naeckly important body of the city and county of san francisco with unique powers in our city government and think it is important we take time need today make the best most thoughtful choice in the best most participatory process for all involved so i move to continue this item. mr. clerk, can we take public comment on the continuance? >> would you like to continue to date certain or call of the chair? >> call of the chair. probably next week. >> continued to our meeting next week. on the motion to continue, we are taking public comment. members who

wish to speak on the item and joining in person line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely press star 3 to enter the speaker line. those in the queue please wait until the system states you are unmuted. there is nobody in the room for public comment and no callers in the queue on this matter. >> great. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on the continuance on this item is now closed. okay. >> the motion to continue the matter to may 8 which is next monday, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objections. >> mr. clerk, the item is continued to the-well, to next week. mr. clerk, please call item 2?

>> yes, item 2 is ordinance amending the campaign governmental conduct code to create permit priotorization task force responsible for recommending permit prioritization guidelines to department of building inspection, planning department and public works requiring the review and update the permit prioritization guidelines periodly and requiring each commission to oversee each department to approve the department permit prioritization guidelines. >> thank you mr. clerk. i appreciate supervisor safai leadership on this and he is a member of this committee and prepared to speak to it, supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> thank you chair. colleagues, this is-i feel a pretty straight forward piece of legislation but i want to give background how it came about. in terms of priority processing, there are certain categories that make

for individuals or sponsors or others to want to put forward something, whether it is affordable, whether it adds to the city housing stock in great need, so in this instance this came about a as result of a issue in my district. if you-many may recall but was a strong champion and have been a strong champion of home sf program to create more density, affordable housing and get more housing in the city. essentially zoning incentives and affordable housing with market rate housing together and after we passed it we wanted to see more home sss f projects not just in my city but city wide so we push project sponsors to consider it and a number submitted applications in my district in particular, but what we found out was the planning department to their credit were and are

prioritizing home sf projects, but department of building inspection and public works were not, and so it isn't helpful to have one department and others that are part of this process not prioritize. dpw has not updated that priority processing list since 2014, and working-when we brought this to the attention of the department of building inspection, director orearden did pake the change of the priority processing. we worked with the city attorney highlighting this as a need and wanting to bring parallel to what the planning department is doing. but we shouldn't have to go throughs this on a individual basis. it should be the city should have a list of

priority permit processing so this process should be inform ed and driven by data and looking what we are trying to accomplish based on the priortaz of the city and data. in this case you have a program with home sf doing affordable housing, market rate housing, greater density, greater number of units. the result is stakeholder and commission input done in a public meeting and that way we have the opportunity for there to be a public vetting of the process. but we should allow individual department said the flexibility to have department specific priorities that may not be shared by other departments so each has its own flexibility but meeting the common goal of a particular policy objective. but this is also how in my mind how you also root out corruption, because these department by making it clear

to them and clear by our permit department and what they prioritize and why they are prioritizing not based on individual relationships or individual circumstances. so, what you have before you is a ordinance that amends chapter 4 section 3.4 of the campaign government conduct code to require the creation of a permit prioritization task force responsible for developing a recommended city wide list of prioritize permits and projeblth types and recommending guidelines department of building inspection, planning department and the department of public works. requiring those departments to review and update their permit prioritization guidelines periodically and requiring the commission that oversees each department to approve the departments permit prioritization guidelines and that again goes back to the public vetting and public process for it. we did have some additional edit

said in here we handed outd today to clarify the task force is recommendation and not binding departments. given this is created by ordinance it doesn't have the power to override the commission and charter authority but felt it was important to have a specific group focusing on this then advising the commissions and their departments and as we understand the city attorney has deemed that these are non substantive. so, that's it colleagues. if there is any questions, happy to answer them, but we felt at the end of the day-i know we have folks here from the planning department. i don't know if dan snyder wanted to hop in and say anything. nope, just here to look good. okay, great. [laughter] thanks for being here, dan. >> great. thank you supervisor safai. i don't see any other question from colleagues. i will just say that i

know it may seem counter intuitive sometimes we need process to speed process, but it has been my experience in city government that there are task forces in particular in the city attorney office over the years i have seen a code enforcement task force that brought together a lot of different departments with a lot of different skills and areas of expertise to speed the process, so while it may be we don't need another task force or commission, i think the realty is that having a task focused task force really can be something that improves the operation of city government for everybody involved, so i want to express my appreciation to supervisor safai for that. mr. clerk, can we open up to public comment? >> yes, members who wish to speak and joining in person should line up to speak at this time. for those listening remotely on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker linement those in the queue, continue to wait until the system indicates

you are unmuted and you with with begin your comment. no parties in the room, checking the call-in line- >> one here. >> good morning, joe kelly is my name. i got in here just as you were closing the public comment on item 1 and i made my way down here so i wanted to just say that-i could speak on this as well but i wont. efficiency of government, i'll just address this and the other one, it boggles my mind the inefficiency of this government and the fact item 1 is tabled with a gentleman who has basically- >> my apologies, i hate to- >> that's fine. >> item 1 was not tabled, it was continued.

>> continued. whatever. the person that-there is a person that is up for the commission appointment that basically wrote- >> okay, again, we take comment on item 1. >> on this, the permitting process, just because i'm here and i am small business man and do insurance in the city and-it is monday morning and will give your jolt of coffee, it is absurd what you are talking about. it is so broken that-i'll just say that. i was here for the other item, but this discussion, it is really depressing and i care about city government. i served on it civil grand jury, 8, 10 years ago and i just would really ask you folks to contemplate what

you're doing, because it is not serving the public interest i don't believe. anyway, have a good one. >> thank you. no further speakers in the room, just like to note, we do not have any call in speakers on the matter. i believe we can close public comment. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. supervisor safai would you like to make a motion? >> yeah, i want to add one more bit of clarity so folks know that the task force the group will be lead by the san francisco permit center director and their area of city government, which we think is appropriate and just for clarity for those listening, the campaign in government code requires all permits as they come before can department said are treated equally to insure there isn't corruption and favoritism, however, unless

the departments declare a priority permit and provide administrative bulletins to memorialize why they are prioritizing something and in this instance we have asked that when someone or some project sponsor is creating affordable housing and greater density and greater housing, we want that to be prioritized, we want that to move faster through the process. hundred percent affordable should be prioritized and in this instance home sf is in exchange for much greater levels of affordability and greater density. we want that to be prioritized as well and so we found there was unevenness in the application so that was the genesis why we did this. anyway, thank you. and then just one last thing, the reason this task force expires, one of the amendments on page 8-6, is we have to provide a date for

a-expiration date for a task force so-so-is that not right? anyway,wy did, so it will expire unless it is extended and hopefully good work has been done and there's a lot of clarity in terms of moving forward. thank you. i like to make a motion to accept these amendments that we have in front of you today that i distributed. >> thanks. mr. clerk, roll call on that. >> on the motion to amend the ordinance, that will be vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> now we can make a motion to send this to full board with positive recommendation. >> on the motion to- >> as a-minded. >> walton aye. safai,

aye. dorsey, aye. motion passes. >> on unanimous vote permit prioritization task force moves to the full board with positive recommendation. and mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> yes, item number 3 is a motion amending the bord of supervisors rules of order by amending 3.25 and 3.25.1 and striking rule 3.31 young desolve the youth young adult and family committee. >> thank you mr. clerk, this item introduced by supervisor hillary ronen who chairs the committee and she has some brief remarks i'll share. desolving the yuth young adult family committee the board is no way deprioritizing youth and education issues. we will continue to engage in these issues by channeling hearings and legislation as needed to other committee assignments a well as through the

work each district office does doing support youth in san francisco in partner ship with sfusd, dcyf and other important youth base #d organizations. i want to echo supervisor ronen's sentiment as someone who served for a short time on that committee a few months as did supervisor safai. i really appreciate the work of the staff at usd and dcyf and hearings that took place at that committee. this is a area that i was-relative newcomer to joining the board, but i learned a lot and one thing that i think is really going to be a challenge that is with us is to remember that we have kids who went through a period of time where they didn't have school during the covid lock down and we are going to have too cognisant of that in our work around youth and young adult and educational issues,

so i want to express appreciation to supervisor ronen for her leadership on this and echo her commitment that this is not something-the fact we are getting rid of the committee does not mean we are in any way getting rid of the important work in front of us. mr. clerk-don't know if there other comments from colleagues? seeing none- >> i agree hundred percent, and we will continue to take up issues for children youth and families and many different committees we sit on, and i would just add i think one of the most lasting and consequential things i have done on the board grew out of that committee which was prop g which is setting significant dollars aside as opportunities at doing enrichment for math and reading literacy and helping close the

achievement gap as referred to, building on so much that has been done in the city, but unfortunately many times a lot of the work is funded in very short stints. good work and good momentum is created and funding removed and we created a opportunity building on the success of thing s we learned from covid from the work of department children youth and family and board of supervisors and the board of education and sfusd, so those schools that are the most under-resourced in the city will have the opportunity to create community school model and have enrichments other schools have benefited from for years because they had strong pta. anyway, i just want to say that tremendous work done by chair ronen, supervisor melgar, all

of those-supervisor walton, everyone involved in this process, but i have to say one of the most consequential things i have been a part of and grew out of that committee and we'll continue that work. thank you. >> thank you supervisor safai and echo your appreciation for the leadership on the stud ntd success fund which i was a latecomer today but proceed proud to be cosponsor. can we open up to public comment? [providing instructions for public comment] no persons in the room for public comment, there is nobody on the phone line for public comment at this time. >> okay. thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item 3 is now closed. i like to make a motion to snd this item to full

board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, roll call on the motion. >> yes. on that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, aye. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. clerk. that item goes to full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk, please call item number 4. >> item 4 is resolution approving the use of city corporate seal for the purpose of jackets for district 6 supervisor dorsey and staff that identify them as members of the board of supervisors and board of supervisors staff representing district 6. >> thank you mr. clerk. colleagues, section 1.6 of our administrative code governs the use of the corporate seal in the law but what we know as the city seal of the city and county of san francisco, which i think we all know is a well recognized brand that

features the rising phoenix alongside visual reference and mining and navigation history. i represent downtown district with several different union ambassador programs and dont think my district unique in having residents who appreciate the high visibility of public servants where city contractors or community ambassadors representing their role when they serve in the public role. for some time i have been working with staff to explore options how we might represent our office when we have public facing roles out in the community and we all agreed we think it is more important then ever we should be visible representation of the city we serve and the board of supervisors when working in this public capacity. this past weekday i was with staff and we were at the leukemia and

lymphoma society, big event to support efforts that that organization does to cure blood cancers and we were at oracle park with the firefighters and there was a lot of public entities and private entities representing visibly their teams, and we didn't have any representation. i think people who recognized us were appreciative, but it wasn't showing the support of the city that we could have been and i think could have made a difference. we went to a meeting with equality california board. the same thing. some people know me and some dont but think showing the support of the city and board of supervisors for a important community based organization. we went to oasis for legalized drag event for a community that is under siege in many parts of the country. i think this would have been important to show visible representation of the city. and went to

the holy event the celebration from south asian community that involves a lot of colored chalk and might have taken the jacket off for that one because it was a little messy, but a lot of fun. when we are showing up for our city and our public roles whether as matt dorsey or (indiscernible) we love our city as individuals of course, but also serve our city proudly as city employees, and i talked to them about it and we agreed it would mean a lot we think for those we serve to see us and to recognize we are public servants acting on our residents behalf separate from this also aware there is one community ambassador program in-pretty visible district 6 office of civic engagement and immigrant affairs. they have the florescent jackets with city

seals. it is my understanding their seals may not be authorized so i want to take steps to retroactively authorize them because i want to make sure for the same reason they have a lotf ofans in the neighborhood and people appreciate seeing them and understanding this is the city that is there. so, i hope-i want to makesure we are respecting the process of the administrative code. this is something we should do thoughtfully and have policies around it. i want to make sure this isn't something we are cheapening the brand and when we wear the city seal we are doing so in a way that reflects the high expectations our residents have of us and think when you put our city name on our uniform whether it is stef curry or steve young or anybody-there is high expectations for excellence and think that is-and integrity and think that is true of my office. i think that is true of the members of the board of

supervisors i serve with and think it is true with the excellent staff all of them have that we will take this seriously, but i hope i can get support for the authorization of the city seal on office jackets. with that, i guess i dont know if there is comments from colleagues? if i can invite up the clerk of the board, angela. >> good morning chair dorsey and members of the committee. i ran down the hall, forgive me. angela. clerk of the board. pursuant to administrative code 1.6 as you know, the clerk of the board is the constodeian of the steel and the space i occupy with that item is that when there are requests that come to the board of supervisors for usage of the seal that the clerk of the board is authorized to provide approval upon review of

the look and feel and style of what that city seal-the placement of the seal. i have done that the last 16 years and my predecessors as well 6789 the style guide is such that when there is an item that is requested, that it is slightly-yes, it may be the official business, but there might be considerations associated with it. that is generally when i ask that the board of supervisors get a toint to opportunity to review and there are times you see the city seal come for adoption without reference to committee portion of the agenda. with this particular item, it is the first time we received an official request in writing to utilize the city seal, and with the intention that this move forward. my request

that a resolution be placed in front of the board of supervisors was not to say no to the request, but to just bring up the consideration. the considerations i mentioned to your staff and your office are, any liability to the city, if an individual is wearing the jacket is hurt. if there-with the city receive the jacket back from an individual who might not be in your employment any further and so while there are several departments and agencies and programs that are definitely utilizing the city seal on clothing, it did not come to the board of supervisors for usage and so we had not had the opportunity to have the conversation around these considerations mostly for the city protection, for the individual's protection and so

that is why that item is also here before you today. f it is again not to say that it is not a worthy usage of the city seal. would never want to say that, but there are some things to consider. i'm available for questions if there were to be any. thank you. >> great. thank you so much madam clerk. i agree. i will say as-i am not a lawyer, but i worked most of my career with lawyers and spent of my career in city government and city attorney office. there is a reason there are laws and should respect that and think that is why it is important we go through the process administrative code provides. and we should be able to hear concerns and i know one of them for example, if somebody leaves city service, we dont want official looking gear out there. i know when i worked in the police department, there were jackets and there was

actually a badge. i was always nervous having to have a badge because i was worried there is a expectation i will be able to do something useful in a emergency and that isn't a well placed expectation. even-i quickly gave that-this is no longer my role and giving that back as well as my jacket. i appreciate your participation in this and i really do want to make sure we respect the process of what the administrative code provides, so making sure we are doing this the right way is really what matters. thank you for that. colleagues, i don't know if there is comment? can we open this up to public comment? >> yes [providing instructions for public comment]

we have speaker in the room at this time. >> thank you chair dorsey, vice chair walton. i applaud this item. this is a excellent item. i think it will look great on whatever-which ever garment to attach the seal and think it will reflect great. it reflect very nicely on the work you do. you guys-i know this board is-very proud to be here and to listen to the activities and the discussions that occur, and i hope to be a part of the solutions that you guys are providing or making. when i first started working for the city, i got a seal myself. i work frd the sheriff department and i got a badge. my uniform said san francisco sheriff department cadet and

that was a very very proud moment for me. i got the uniform for the first time, got into my car and was in a hanger and hanged it up in the car and if you were passing by the car you saw my uniform. you knew i was part of the sheriff department, and that makes me proud. that makes everybody proud. this is a great item. i urge you to pass it to the full board for consideration with positive recommendations and let's make this happen. thank you. >> thank you. moving on to our public call in line, can we have our first caller? >> can you hear me now? yes, please proceed. >> great. david pillpel, good morning. interesting item. thank you for the thoughtful comments from chair dorsey and

clerk of the board calvio. it is in my experience rare, but not without precedent that items come before the board for use of the seal. i would note that the mayor declared a emergency over a year ago in the tenderloin and took certain actions as did the rest of the city to address concerns in the tenderloin. it seems to me like one of the easier things that can be done to improve the visibility of supervisor dorsey and his staff is to approve this particular use of the city seal on jackets. it is certainly not go toog clean up the tenderloin or address the myriad of problems there, but i think having a

presence that indicates when the supervisor and staff are out that they care and are in the community doing work is a very good positive sign. i have no objection and in fact support the proposed use. i did have at least one thing in the legislation to bring up i think on page 2, line 8, the word "termination". i would suggest replacing that with the word separation. upon separation from the board of supervisors and page 2 line 19, the time period through november 3, 2026 makes it look like it is more elect torl related. i suggest (indiscernible) >> your time has elapsed. thank you. just checking to see if we have additional speakers. that was our last telephone speaker and

believe we can close public comment at this time. >> thank you mr. clerk. public comment on item number 4 is now closed. can i ask-i appreciate the comment and the observation from mr. pillpel and don't disagree. can i ask deputy city attorney, is that a substantive amendment? >> no, those amendments could be made today. >> okay. i like to make a motion then to substitute the word separation for termination and to move the date reference for the end of the period that was one thing that did-i like the idea of let's bring this back for reauthorization. i like sunsetting things because we can try it. mr. (indiscernible) the date referenced i move that we amend that to say it will end at noon january 8,

2027. >> january 8, 2027? >> correct. and could we have a motion amending- >> on the motion to amend? vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> and could we now have-could i move to positive recommendation? >> would you like to go out as committee report? >> sure, yeah. actually, we can just are send it- >> okay. recommended

as amended not as a committee report? >> correct. >> on is that motion, vice chair walton, aye. supervisor safai, absent. chair dorsey, aye. the motion passes without objection with supervisor safai being absent. >> okay. thank you mr. young. on unanimous vote use of city corporate seal moves to full board with positive recommendation. and before we call the next item i want to-i see we have visitors i like to recognize. ellen, can we introduce- >> would you like to introduce your class? >> you want to come up to the--so we can say hello?

>> hi, good morning. this is (indiscernible) elementary second great, room 208. >> thank you second graders. grateful for you to be here. i was actually a second grader when i was-i was like a government nerd. hopefully maybe some will be sitting in these seats. welcome to the board of supervisors, to the rules committee. i think this is. is there anymore business? >> that completes the agenda for today. >> okay, we have no further business. thank you everyone, we are adjourned.

>> he is a real leader that listens and knows how to bring people together. brought this department together like never before. i am so excited to be swearing in the next chief of the san francisco fire department, ladies and gentlemen, let's welcome, jeanine nicholson. (applause).

>> i grew up total tomboy, athlete. i loved a good crisis, a good challenge. i grew up across the street from the fire station. my dad used to take me there to vote. i never saw any female firefighters because there weren't any in the 1970s. i didn't know i could be a fire fighter. when i moved to san francisco in 1990, some things opened up. i saw women doing things they hadn't been doing when i was growing up. one thing was firefighting. a woman recruited me at the gay-pride parade in 1991. it was a perfect fit. i liked using my brain, body, working as a team, figuring

things out, troubleshooting and coming up with different ways to solve a problem. in terms of coming in after another female chief, i don't think anybody says that about men. you are coming in after another man, chief, what is that like. i understand why it is asked. it is unusual to have a woman in this position. i think san francisco is a trailblazer in that way in terms of showing the world what can happen and what other people who may not look like what you think the fire chief should look like how they can be successful. be asked me about being the first lbgq i have an understands because there are little queer kids that see me. i worked my way up. i came in january of 1994.

i built relationships over the years, and i spent 24 years in the field, as we call it. working out of firehouses. the fire department is a family. we live together, eat together, sleep in the same dorm together, go to crazy calls together, dangerous calls and we have to look out for one another. when i was burned in a fire years ago and i felt responsible, i felt awful. i didn't want to talk to any of my civilian friends. they couldn't understand what i was going through. the firefighters knew, they understood. they had been there. it is a different relationship. we have to rely on one another. in terms of me being the chief of the department, i am really trying to maintain an open relationship with all of our members in the field so myself and my deputy chiefs, one of the

priorities i had was for each of us to go around to different fire stations to make sure we hit all within the first three or four months to start a conversation. that hasn't been there for a while. part of the reason that i am getting along well with the field now is because i was there. i worked there. people know me and because i know what we need. i know what they need to be successful. >> i have known jeanine nicholson since we worked together at station 15. i have always held her in the highest regard. since she is the chief she has infused the department with optimism. she is easy to approach and is concerned with the firefighters and paramedics. i appreciate that she is concerned with the issues relevant to the fire department today. >> there is a retired captain

who started the cancer prevention foundation 10 years ago because he had cancer and he noticed fellow firefighters were getting cancer. he started looking into it. in 2012 i was diagnosed with breast canner, and some of my fellow firefighters noticed there are a lot of women in the san francisco fire department, premenopausal in their 40s getting breast cancer. it was a higher rate than the general population. we were working with workers comp to make it flow more easily for our members so they didn't have to worry about the paper work when they go through chemo. the turnout gear was covered with suit. it was a badge to have that all

over your coat and face and helmet. the dirtier you were the harder you worked. that is a cancer causeser. it -- casser. it is not -- cancer causer. there islassic everywhere. we had to reduce our exposure. we washed our gear more often, we didn't take gear where we were eating or sleeping. we started decontaminating ourselves at the fire scene after the fire was out. going back to the fire station and then taking a shower. i have taught, worked on the decontamination policy to be sure that gets through. it is not if or when. it is who is the next person. it is like a cancer sniper out there. who is going to get it next. one of the things i love about

the fire department. it is always a team effort. you are my family. i love the city and department and i love being of service. i vow to work hard -- to work hard to carry out the vision of the san francisco fire department and to move us forward in a positive way. if i were to give a little advice to women and queer kids, find people to support you. keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep trying. you never know what door is going to open next. you really don't. [cheers and -

>> shop & dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges resident to do their showing up and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop & dine in the 49 san francisco owes must of the charm to the unique characterization of each corridor has a distinction permanent our neighbors are the

economic engine of the city. >> if we could a afford the lot by these we'll not to have the kind of store in the future the kids will eat from some restaurants chinatown has phobia one of the best the most unique neighborhood shopping areas of san francisco. >> chinatown is one of the oldest chinatown in the state we need to be able allergies the people and that's the reason chinatown is showing more of the people will the traditional thepg. >> north beach is i know one of the last little italian

community. >> one of the last neighborhood that hadn't changed a whole lot and san francisco community so strong and the sense of partnership with businesses as well and i just love north beach community old school italian comfort and love that is what italians are all about we need people to come here and shop here so we can keep this going not only us but, of course, everything else in the community i think local businesses the small ones and coffee shops are unique in their own way that is the characteristic of the neighborhood i peace officer prefer it is local character you have to support them.

>> really notice the port this community we really need to kind of really shop locally and support the communityly live in it is more economic for people to survive here. >> i came down to treasure island to look for a we've got a long ways to go. ring i just got married and didn't want something on line i've met artists and local business owners they need money to go out and shop this is important to short them i think you get better things. >> definitely supporting the local community always good is it interesting to find things i never knew existed or see that that way. >> i think that is really great that san francisco seize the vails of small business and

creates the shop & dine in the 49 to support businesses make people all the residents and visitors realize had cool things are made and produced in san fire department ems at station 49. i was born raise in the oak land my dad is mexican my mom is black i was playing soft ball this hayward and directly behind our soft ball field is an empty field. and almost every day at practice i saw this tiny woman leading the big people in work outs and eventual low i look in the and found out she was teaching how to do physical trin to get

people red to work in the fire department. that peeked my interest. the oak lan fire department was the first fire department i did. i did a firefighter one training program there. that got me into fire whim start the paramedic school i went to city college and fell in love with the city. i did nile internship at station 49. it was wonder. . i learned the san francisco wave doing things. like the wild, wild west, every day. i loved it was a family environment here. that made mow say san fan fire department, that's i didn't want to be. i avoided science my entire education up to becoming a paramedic. i failed my first time taking my emt registry. i hope well is nobody out there that gets discouraged if this happens. you have opportunity to take again. i d. i came back.

took it, passed and continued to paramedic and pass the my registry the first time. being a woman in the fire department i am a minority here. a minority in multiple aspects. i'm a woman. biracial i'm the only black woman paramedic in the ems position. it is insane and i hope i encourage other women to join this profession that does not represent the city of san francisco. i love to show up on a scene and i can see the comfort in member who men looks like me or my family members they see me and they are comforts. i hope there are women that see me and see themselves in me and know they can do this job limp i have a 20 month old daughter at home.

i would like to teach my daughter it is okay to say no as a woman and have and voice that opinion. and i did a good job of that already. >> i really hope that anybody considering this field schedule a ride along. go to your local deputy or knock on an ambulance window can ask to schedule a ride along. that is irrelevant how diit my first couple ride alongs i saw things that blew my mind and said, that's what i want to do with my life. [music]

>> today's meeting will come to order u welcome to the may third meeting of the budget and finance committee. i'm supervisor connie chan chair

and i'm joined by supervisor safai and hopefully shortly mandelman. our clerk is brent jalipa. i would like to thank matthew from sfgovtv for broadcast thanksgiving meeting. mr. clerk. >> make sure to silence cell phones and electronic device. and the board of supervisors and the xhiet convening hybrid meeting allow in person public comment and providing remote access and public comment via telephone. public comment will be taken on each item. in person will speak first and then those waiting on the phone upon lightweight. for those watching remote on sfgov.org the public call in number is streaming. when connected you will hear the meeting but mute exclude in listening mode. when your item come up special

public comment is called. those in person poke and thez on the phone dial star 3 to be added. if you on the phone turn down you were tv and listening device and each speaker will be allowed up to 2 minutes. alternateively you may submit comment in writing e mill them to myself the budget and finance clerk at brent. jalipa sfgov.org. if you submit it via e mail tell be forward exclude included part of the official time send written comments rion u.s. postal service in city 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room two 44, san francisco, california. items acted on today will appear on the board agenda of mi9 unless otherwise stated. why thank you, before bee start we like to announce we would

like to limit the public comments to one minute. that's one and just of course the general reminder we'll always have the city department presentation first followed by the budget and legislative analyst report for those the item that has them and will go to questions and comments and then public comments. i like to call the items out of order. item 5 and sick. >> yes. items 5 and 6 are resolutions approving the 2023 lease and use agreement with the city and county airport commission and 29 airlines in 5 and 11 airline in 6 flight operations at the san francisco interinitial airport for 10 years from until first of 23 through june 30, 2033. confurthermoring the ceqa. and to authorize the airport director to enter in

modifications to the lose that don't materially increase the obligations nor liabilities to the city and the purposes of the lease of the 2 resolutionless. members remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001. access code: 2597 675 7544 ##. and once connected you mode to press star 3 to enter the line. i prompt will indicate you raised your hand and you have been unmuted that is your significant until to comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, mr. cohen the managing director of finance and acting airport controller cannot be with us today. in person to make the present anticipation. which i have questions about the 800 million dollars of operation reserve. as well as capital improvements with that my intention to condition these 2 items again to

the call of the chair. with that, let's go to public comment. >> member who is wish to peek lineup now. for those remote and have in the done so press star 3 to enter the line and for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted that will be your signal to begin comments. >> thank you. >> that's not you that is somebody else zone what i am. i want to say the truth and iment i want to ask is this something you would do to your child. is this something you would do to your child. you got a kid here. is this manage you want for them. be honest. i'm wondering, you know. them is a child.

is this. i want to finish. a lot of things i'm warning you. don't go! don't go. there is tomorrow you will get it tomorrow. its okay. coming tomorrow. roadway it. i'm like, you know. i don't know. thank you. and reminder to wish it provide testimony we can take public comment on the agenda item that is before us. so if you can keep your comments on topic this would be appreciated. thank you. >> and seeing nobody else in the chamber for public comment. mr. lamb unmute our caller. >> david pilpel. i previously spoke own this issue. relative to the airport lease and use agreements.

i support the resolutions before you today. i not there is i continuance and i know the items will be heard and questions asked and answers given and it all happen in time. thanks for listening. take care. >> thank you, david pilpel for your comments. that sorry. that completes our queue yoochl public comment is now closed. >> mr. clerk i would like to make the notion move 5 and 6 to continue the call the chair. roll call. >> on this motion to continue these to the call of the cheaper. vice chair mandelman. >> aye yoochl member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> thank you. >> thank you the motion passes. >> and mr. clerk call item upon one >> item one is easterns amending the code to modify the waivers

of contract related requirements in the administrative environment code authorizes arbitration for contracts with investor owns utility and increase the limit from 150 million to 200 million. members who are joining remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001. access code: 2597 675 7544 ##. press star 3 to enters the line. when the system indicates you have been unmuted that is your kig signal to comment. >> thank you, colleagues, we have an extensive conversation last week and this item is continued from last week to amendments substantive amendment from thes department. with that and gone throughout presentation and the budget and legislative analyst report. so with that mr. clerk, go to public comment. >> members of the public who

wish to speak and joining in person lineup. remote, press star 3 if you wish top enter the speaker line. for those in the queue, wait until you have been unmute exclude that is our significant until to comment. >> kindly step up. >> puc permission to buy electricity before the board. and that there were people selling electricity on the street in the morning i wonder if this item is related that. a lot of people selling 150 million dollars. 200 million dollars and it is intrusive. intrusive amount money temperature is enough to knock down a few doors. thank you. >> thank you. >> seeing no one else in the chamber. we have none in the queue public

ment is closed. vice chair mandelman. >> i will move we forward to the full board with positive recommendation. >> call the roll >> on this motion by vice chair mandelman support this to the full burden with positive recommend agsz. vice chair mandelman. >> aye >> member safai. >> aye jam chair chan. >> aye. >> the motion passes. and mr. clerk call item 2. >> item 2 authorizing the office of treasurer and tax collector to amend the service and support agreement with 21 tech llc enables the city to accept online tax fundings for 10 years increasing the contract amount by 10 million not to exceed 18.2 million for the period of may therein, 2023 through may 31, 2033. members are joining remote, call 415-655-0001, access code: 2597 675 7544 ##, press star 3 to

enter the queue. >> a prompt will indicate you raised your hahn xu have been unmuted begin your comments >> we have amanda freed chief of communication from office treasure and tax collector's office of the treasurer and tax collector. thank you. >> good morning chair, supervisors i'm amanda freed with was of treasure and tax collector i'm presenting a resolution that will extend a service and support contract with 21 tech. which has built and supported online tax filing and payment forms for san francisco business taxless since 2013. our office is seek approval to extend the contract term boy 10 years and nksz the amount by 10 million dollars. 21 tech built and supported online payment and filing

applications including our business tax and fee payment portal. and filing forms for business registration, annual business tax including gross receipts homelessness gross receipts, rent and executive taxes and the commercial vacancy tax. the last 3 years on line tax forms built by 21 tech, 350,000 tax filings. resulting in more than 2.4 billion dollars in tax revenue for the city. 95% of our accident tax filings occur through one forms built boy 21 tech. partnership increased automation and officials. including the implementation of automatic and immediate identification of new businesses and now locations for first year free and reducing staff review and refunds work intinaugurations with existing systems result in less then and

there a percent of on line filings requiring manual intersection. this is a sole source contract and received a sole source waiver all business tax applications must have the priority sat ware system which houses all business tax. 21 tech provisioned with the source code to integrate with the application outside of the company this owns momentum. i'm joined by my colleague we are happy to answer questions you have thank you for your consideration. >> good morning. nick from budget legislative analyst office. item 2 is a resolution approving an ma'am the 12th if the treasure tax collector agreement with 21 tech. extends through 2033 and increases not to exceed amount to 18.2 million dollars. on the agreement, we show the

budget for this agreement on page 8 of our report. and it shows about i million dollars projected spending a year. actual spending close to 815 thousand dollars. so the department built and some contingancey in case there are tax and modifications to forms going forward. we did review the if work completed by the contractor with the department. we feel the billing rates is are reasonable. we have a recommendation not to exceed amount to be consistent with the under and recommend approval of the amendment as amended. >> i want to confirm when you mentioned nathe built in contingency of up to a million dollars but the upon spends

suggest roughly 800 thousand dollars per year that is still built within this contract after we dot correct the contract not to exceed amount. >> the resolution is in the to exceed amount is built on an assumption of projected spending of about a million dollars a year going forward. actual condition tract based on you know the specific project scope of work determined by the department. over the past 11 amendments the department and the contractor developed a scope of work with deliveriables. and attached payments to those deliverables the upon spending will be different this . is going forward based on but they assume will occur. plus a buffer. in case there is new taxes or improvements to the existing forms. make sense? >> yep, thank you

>> andmented to understand the cost estimates for the contingency my assumption is kinds of what we are looking at now different types of you know changes in our tax measures, ballot measures or harf it is and therefore we need the form to adjust accordingly. want to conform when the bla suggest in the not to exceed amount ump sept amendments and that it is confirmed with this amendment that you know with that -- not to exceed amount you were contract moving forward can be inclusive of all the potential changes. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor, yes,ure accurate in this assessment and analysis. the adjustment recommended by the board of supervisor annual lift will enable us to have the buffer this is necessary to allow all of you to make the necessary changes to our taxes

as we see fit. >> thank you. seeing no names on the roster. there are no questions or comments and mr. clerk go to public comment. >> thank you, members who are in person line up now for those remote and have not done so, dial star 3 if you wish to enter the line. for those in the queue wait until you have been unmute exclude this it is your signal to comment. sir. >> tax filing should be in person. people should see and you have been you and understand you and talk to you about it. can't be done online. has to be in person. i'm saying t is this item and extending the contract, you gotta seat person. seat person. upon is the person to fire.

comfortable? you can't do it online. you gotta do it in person. that's all i have to say. >> thank you for your comments. seeing no one in the chamber. >> we have no speakers in the queue >> public comment is now closed. leagues i would like to make the motion to amend the legislation as recommended by the budget and legislative analyst and is to correct the contract not to exceed amount. with that, mr. clerk call the roll >> on this motion to amend the resolution to correct the not to exceed amount of the contract as read by the vice hair machine man. mandelman aye. >> member safai >> aye >> chair hahn. >> aye. >> thank you, the motion passes i would like to move the item to

full board with positive the amended item to full board with recommendation and mr. clerk call the roll >> on the motion to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes >> call 3 >> a resolution approving the director of public works declaration of emergency under the code for repairs and remediation work at the library cost approximately 550,000. members who were joining remote and wish to comment call 415-655-0001, access code: 2597 675 7544 ##. press star 3 to enter the queue. >> thank you.

today we have john director of facilities from the public library. online? thank you. good morning. am i'm -- january 20th, we had a sewage stoppages the main library on the fourth floor. worked down to the second floor. and over spiff sewage there for all the floors butt second floor. out of concerns obviously health concerns and prescriptional occurrence i called a remediation company who was on site the same night and began the clean up. compoliced the clean up of damages approximately on or around february 9. and began the reconstruction of all the damage which was done.

by this event. so -- this morning we come to request approval of the proposed resolution that allows the interim director of public works to declare an emergency for repairs at the san francisco main public library. thank you. >> thank you. item 3, is a resolution approving emergency work at the library the code 6. 60 allows for work to be done. through treatment line procurement process which happened here. the board of supervisors has to approve emergency work if the cost exceeds 250 thousand dollars. as they do in this case this approves 550 thousand dollars of emergency work costs beyond this amount require board approval example in this case the library contracted on a sole source

basis with bell forto remediate the flood damage from the toilet over flow in the library that damaged three floors. most of that work is done and there are furniture this is still on its way. see the bulk of the costers covered by insurance exempt for a 10 thousand dollars deductible. we recommend prove of item 3. >> thank you. good to here we have insurance. and that deductible is the first 10 thousand dollars. with this seeing no names on the roster. mr. clerk let's go to public meant. why members of the public who wish to peek joining in person line up and for those remote press star 3 if you wish to enter the speaker line. condition to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted then begin your comments. >> sir? >> a lot of time at the library

that's where i go until the one meeting starts. great to see the facility's manager a great bureaucratic institution. historical institution. i did not seat sewer come down which is a shame absolutely. bad thing that happened this needs to get authorized. i'm seeing is i learn a lot. the library they say coming this day and that day. say it is coming tomorrow. coming tomorrow, tomorrow. the upon end of the day 30 years and you know 30 years. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. >> seeing no further speakers here. mr. lamb unmute or caller. please. >> david pilpel again. so on this item i support the resolution. i think it would be good to have

a follow up report with the detail and perhaps photos of the remediation and the clean up of the library materials. and i was looking through the file and although, the public works commission chair authorized this i'm not sure i can't remember if public works commission ratifyd that action and might be useful to look at the code and see if well is clean up need since there is now a public works commission which did not previously exist and a little interesting given this occurred in one department but another department is authorizing the work through dpw. there is interesting inner jurisdictional issues i support the resolution and authorizing clean up at the library. thank you. >> and with that we have no more

speakers. public comment is closed. like to make the motion to move this to full board with recommendation. and so with that, police call the roll. >> on this motion to forward this resolution to the full board with recommend agsz vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes. >> and mr. clerk call item 4. >> item 4 a resolution authorizing office of cannabis to extend i grant 1.5 million for april first of 23 through october 31, 2024 from the governoror's office of business and economic development for local equity grants mrm program for local jurisdictions authorizing office of cannabis execute the agreement with the governor's office of business

and economic development and extensions, amendments or contracts subscent there to on behalf of the city and economic development liability out of the forms of this contract. members when wish to comment call 415-655-0001. access code: 2597 675 7544 ##, star 3 to enter the queue. had the system says you have been unmutted begin your comments. >> thank you. today we have jeremie schwartz from office of cannabis for the presentation. thank you. >> good morning, supervisors jeremie schwartz office of cannabis approval an accept and extend resolution and amount of 1.5 million dollars. from the governoror's office of

business and economic development to provide social equity businesses with funds for start up and on going costings associated with their cannabis upon business. >> i believe we may have a power point presentation. and if not i can speak through it as well. >> i don't think i received this power point. >> i will spoke through it. so the purpose is to advance economic justice near populations impacted by cannabis prohibitation equity applicants with start up costs of their cannabis businesses the term is april first, 2023 through october 31, 2024. to date the llc office of cannabis dispursed 7 million dollars in fleckable funds to over 60 equity businesses resulting in 41 social equity permitsed.

equalization rates for past grant awards over 95%. this would be the fourth iteration of this program. results of a survey to direct grant recipients has shown this funding roached a diverse racial and ethnic audience over 95 percent report third degree they were satisfied with the program. and 98% felt this the llc was highly responsive to their inquiries as part of this program. there are 13 eligible expense categories. the majority of funds have been used for rent payments about 55% of grant funds used for that purpose. followed boy capitol improve ams. compliance. fixtures and equipment and legal service the eljilt is determined with recommendations from cannabis oversight committee. a part of the current iteration

70 thousand dollars is allocated to equity businesses. the last 3 weeks 900 thousand dollars has been approved for dispursement. 3 million remain and this should this accept and extend resolution proceed would provide 1 million and a half dollars for this purpose the augmented services with free technical assistance for verified applicants, this currently includes professional development. by the success center. security consulting and upon training from tree line security. legal services from the bar association of san francisco. legal services from golden gate university, cannabis law clinic and legal service from law office of mathedue cumin. happy top address questions or occurrence. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you, looks good i like

to be a cosponsor. >> thank you >> thank you. >> thank you and let's make sure we do have a copy of the presentation, still on the record. so this it is clear to us because i think the upon presentation walks through the spending this grant and the preaches seven million dollars has been spending on. quick questions. seeing you do have partners that provide free services, do we fund the partners so they provide 3 assistance? >> that is a great question temperature is a blends. several of the services provide by success centers and tree line security selected through rfp process as a part of the grant. additional low, we agreed informal relationships with the bar association of san francisco and golden gate law clinic the last several years it have on going assistance for different

services. >> and so these equity grants from the state allow you to also contract with them or have an rfp and issue out and partner with the folks to provide free tech nal assistance. up to 10% of grant award. includes that majority is supporting rent payment and renovation. capitol improvements. >> yes. in other words there are 2 buckets. one director guarantee to the businesses to use what does be helpful for business. and separately bucket 2 technical assistance to support them with additional considerations to start ump a business. like putting together a business slide deck. profit and loss statements and things of that nature. and security consulting >> oovenltdz any of the

guaranteeses go become to office of cannabis for staffing. >> up to 10% used for over head. >> good to know >> thank you and seeing no other questions and no other name on the rosters. open public comment. >> members who wish to peek on this item in person lineup now. and for those remote and have not done so press star 3. for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted then begin your comments. why no in person in the chamber. and we don't have speakers in the queue. >> public ment is now closed. >> vice chair would you like to move this? >> thank you, i will move we forward with positive recommendation. >> and with that mr. clerk call the role >> on that motion by vice chair mandelman to forward to the

board with positive recommendation vice chair mandelman. >> aye. >> member safai. >> aye. >> chair chan. >> aye >> thank you the motion passes. >> thank you, and because we call. 5 and sick early on out of order on this agenda, mr. clerk do we have other business before us today. >> this concludes our business. >> the meeting is adjourned.

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seats so wes so wes so wes so wy name is davids davids da chu. ir to be the firste firste firste n city attorneyttorneyttorney in d county of san francisco.anciscoa you, madam mayoram mayoram andal of the city and county county c francisco, welcome welcome welce officialofficialofficialofficiai heritage month. month. month. mt our cityour city we we we we we, the cultural, the social socialr of the asianhe asianhe asianhe y in our country country country,t just just just just because of our historyhistoryhe fact thatct thatct that asian is started here in our very city. it's not just because of the fact that we have the oldest chinatown in the united states, one of three japan towns in the united states, little saigon, the filipino cultural heritage district and so many communities

that reflect the diaspora of r ap community it's because of all of you. all of you who represent this amazing diversity who are leading in so many ways, and i just want to thank you for that. we have so much to celebrate this year, and i'm not just talking about academy awards. i'm talking about the progress that we re making after very challenging. several years as we are bringing our community back after covid in the wake of anti asian hate, as we move things forward, and each of you again has been a part of that. i also want to say that san francisco this year there's so much that we are doing to continue to anchor our status as the asian american capital. and that includes the fact that this fall in november san francisco is going to be the host city to apec, which is the asian pacific economic cooperation leadership summit where we will be hosting literally heads of states from countries to our east,

representing where our communities came from, and it's going to be an incredible moment to showcase who we are. um. i know today we're going to be acknowledging a lot of folks and shortly we're going to be hearing from our great mayor. we're going to be hearing from our city administrator. i want to take a moment and acknowledge our asian american sheriff. i want to acknowledge are the head of our asian arts museum and i'm looking for other department heads. i know the head of our library is here, michael lambert, and i'm sure i'm missing others, but i'm sure the mayor will catch up with me. once i once i complete my comments, but let me also say this. this event this month would not happen, but for tremendous community partners, and they are listed on the boards we have here, but we have many, many amazing community partners. i know we're going to acknowledge several of them for their decades of leadership. we have many amazing community sponsors. um but we only have one woman who has been at the heart of this event for the

better part of 19 years since she was, i think eight years old. ah! this is an event that came about because the then head of national organization of chinese americans approach then mayor gavin newsom and said it is high time for san francisco to put ourselves on the map and acknowledging a p i heritage month and claudine cheng, you've been at the heart of this. you have worked so hard for almost 20 years of doing this. thank you so much on behalf of the city for everything you do, and without further ado claudine cheng. time time does fried 19th years how to believe, but but really, this is a labor of love for everybody who is involved every year to, um put together this celebration is amazing 19 years we really do not have people ask me that some of the sponsors about what is your operating budget this and that we really do not have an office. we really do not have stopped. all we have a volunteers and our

committee and i really cannot thank you enough out committees and especially at this time, i'd like to introduce our three celebration coaches, and fortunately, thomas lee is out of town for work. but l. perez entertainment commissioner l press one of our celebration coaches. and amazing grace grace. hurry, keary. celebration co chairs. and a special shout out to tennessee who is heading up our awards committee. dennis thank you so much for everything. so our city attorneys talk about the rough and tough times that aapi community has gone through in the last few years, so we feel that when we think about our theme, we just feel that we really need to take the opportunity to continue to strengthen ourselves, and that's so to make it very simple. our theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community. looking around, we might all be coming from different places. we

have very different may have different culture history heritage, but you know, we are one api community and we hope that throughout, uh the month of may. that's what all the program is going to tell this story of our community. um thanks to again to co chair thomas lee was very, very creative this year. this is the hour event. this is our commemorative poster, and it's really a very intricate design of different parts of the fabrics as you can see, putting the different parts of the fabrics together how the community is going to connect. and be one whenever we can, um, on our website now, which is just updated again by thomas is the celebration guide the celebration guiding quote, a list of all the art and cultural events as a happening. the key events that we are aware of that is happening in san francisco during the whole month of may want to really appreciate our celebration partners, the asian art museum campus. san francisco public library. i mean,

throughout the month of may this amazing so many events. um therefore for everybody for all generations to enjoy. we are not just celebrating our month. we are also, i think in, maybe also sell celebrating small business week. so we are also this year having a joint celebration of small business week. i think l perez have taken leadership of that we are going to have this fun event called child fund. uh in district in his district. 11 is it? yeah and to collaborate and bring up the smart, bring out help help our small business in that area with small business week and all the restaurants so there are many ways throughout the city that we are every year. we are trying to think about new ideas. how do we expand this collaboration? how we can spread the community loved around, so they're really plenty going on, and we look forward to seeing many of you next wednesday at our aapi heritage awards and, uh and reception. um. but without

but we really cannot do all of this without you know your substance cities support and since 2005 we were so happy to have all the mayors, strong support and presence every year when we celebrate, and it is a very important message that we are supported. both in the bottom by our communities and all the way you know the whole spectrum. so um, i'd like to welcome mayor lee mayor breed to our out. i think mayor lee wanted to know wanted us all to know that he's still with us in some capacity or another. i take that as a sign and a good one. for really the spirit of the asian community in the city and county of san francisco, one of resilience and one of excitement in these times after dealing with some very challenging times

. what i appreciate most about this opportunity to celebrate the month of may as asian american and pacific islander heritage month is. we have an opportunity to really talk about not only the accomplishments and the things that we have achieved in the arts and in philanthropy and community, but we have an opportunity to really reflect on the past and also look back at what this community has gone through and emerged even stronger than it has ever been as a united front against those challenges, and so this is really an opportunity to reflect because last year i don't know if there were a lot of smiles on people's faces. in light of all the anti asian hate and the attacks on many of our asian seniors. in particular, there was a lot of sadness and a lot of frustration and coming together and working together

and making investments and changes to policies and with our new d, a accountability has really change what is happening in these communities all over san francisco? no we are not where we need to be. but we have come a long way and we are seeing those numbers. decline thanks to really an emergence of our public safety officials, including our own paul miyamoto , who has really been at the forefront of working with chief bill scott and working with district attorney brooke jenkins to make sure that accountability is at the forefront of the work that we do because san francisco as a compassionate and second chance city, we believe in reforms. we believe in second chances, and we believe in the importance of the work, too. to deal with the challenges that exist, but we also truly believe that when those lines are crossed, people need to be held accountable, and that is also a part of a safe community. i also want to take the opportunity to

really recognize that amazing organizations who really stepped up the, um uh c y c with their various ambassador programs and also self help for the elderly with the work that they've done for the senior escort program, and so many people in volunteers really came together in our city, and it has been a really beautiful thing. i was just out in chinatown last week. uh really celebrating community coming together in the festivities and all the kids and the excitement for the spring and the year of the rabbit and i was on clement street celebrating their and the cherry blossom festival the past couple of weeks, and i thought to myself, nothing makes san francisco come alive. more than these activities and festivals and celebrations and many of our commercial corridors and the asian community as a whole is at the heart of all of those activities. so i want to just really reflect on that and how far we've come as a city and the

excitement that will spring out as a result of a p, a heritage month in san francisco. thanks to the great leadership of claudine and thomas and al perez , and so many people who spend a lot of time volunteering to help make this really an incredible opportunity for people to explore different parts of the city, including our folks from visitation valley are pacific islander community who really. has been at the forefront of helping to make sure that part of san francisco is not forgotten. so today we are grateful to our asian art museum . thank you. j for being here are partners with the san francisco public library, and you have a fierce advocate in michael lambert and also camp fast. we know it's gonna be a big thing, but they also aren't a partner. for asian pacific and asian and asian american and pacific islander heritage, mom, so mouthful um, but today we

also take a moment to really honor a number of organizations , the 30 40 and 50 years of existence, and i don't know if you did that on purpose, claudine. but um, the asian pacific fund for supporting community through philanthropy and making sure those investments get made in asian organizations. the asian island . i mean, the angel island immigration station foundation for 40 years of protecting the stories and the history and the heritage of the asian community in the bay area, the japanese cultural and community center of northern california one that is absolutely my favorite because of the work that they have done with me and partnership over the years even before i was a supervisor on the board of supervisors collaboration that took place between this center and the african american art and culture complex. those cross cultural relationship building opportunities were always central in my life in the

western addition community and so they are celebrating 50 years , so a wide spectrum of organizations doing extraordinary things along with events, activities, films, you name it. it's all a part of what's happening during the asian american and pacific islander heritage month for the month of may and san francisco and i am so grateful and excited. i want to really thank and acknowledge all of our sponsors for investing in our asian community. i know u. s bank and amazon and wells fargo or some of the top sponsors here , making sure that the resources are available so that community can have support and i see valley brown. from grants for the arts. thank you for making sure that we continue to invest in our arts organizations are parades are festivals in our exciting events of san francisco , and i'm going to just, um, leave you with this. um apec is going to be extraordinary in san francisco. and what is so

amazing about what it represents ? david shoe touched upon it a little bit, but this is going to be an international event. of. a magnitude proportion and when i say that no other event on an international scale has existed in san francisco since 1945 when the united nations was created right here in our city. and so we will have heads of states. we will have ceo s and folks and companies. this will be an opportunity to showcase san francisco like never before, and the asian community will be on full display. we know that there are so many people who come from asia in different parts of asia and we know that there is a very close knit relationship. for community but also for business and so that will be on full display during november, when

apec will descend upon san francisco like never before, we will be on center stage and this community will be at the forefront of so many events and activities that we will do. to make it clear what is great about san francisco to make it clear all the wonderful things that are happening in our city. no one is going to define the narrative of our city. we are the writers of what happens in this city and our history and also our awesomeness as it relates to the work that we do to bring community together. so what we're gonna do in our celebration. we're going to show them what san francisco is all about. during the month of may during a pack and year round as we continue to build relationships and change san francisco for the better working with each and every one of you, thank you all so much for being here to kick off asian american and pacific islander. heritage month in the city and county of

san francisco. thank you. mayor. london breed. um. uh so our next speaker will city administrator come and chill comments one of one of our honorees in earlier years and obviously haven't you illustrious public service career through city home. so many positions as part of supervisors assessor we call the and our city administrator, so thank you for being here coming. hello well, you really can't follow the mayor. so i'm not sure why i got this wonderful responsibility, but i really wanted to be here to celebrate with you. and to tell you how excited i am to celebrate with my daughter, she's finally vaccinated. she's four years old. we're going to get out

there and want her to see what our city is all about. and to be able to experience all the wonderful, um, parts of our city , but i really want to take a minute to acknowledge the mayor and her championship. of all of the wonderful things that happen in our city. there are so many things that happen. the things that you see might be the headlines that grace to our news . it might be the information that is kind of top of mind when it comes to conversations in the public sphere, but by and large, sometimes the support that you get from leadership comes in ways that are small and quiet but effective. i don't know if you know, i know. she just mentioned valiant and the grants for the arts program. but this mayor understood just how important it was to not only revitalize our economy and make sure that we're activating our spaces in our city. but the fact that every time we have these parades, these festivals, these cultural events, there are an opportunity to uplift the communities that we value so much in our city. i don't know if you know, but in our last budget, she doubled the amount

of investment that we made in parades and festivals. these are not things that ever get covered impressed because maybe people don't pay attention to those small things, but they are the things that make a difference, and i just really want to acknowledge her support if anybody saw her at the cherry blossom festival, you know, just recently i was on that float with her. oh, my goodness. she is no better champion. she was dancing, enjoying it, and i'm like, how am i going to dance next to the mayor? that is not. that is not something that that , um is definitely in my forte. but she really is a champion. i want to thank the mayor for all of her support for these events because it truly is important. but i have the wonderful opportunity today to be able to acknowledge the 30 40 and 50 year old contributions of these organizations. so it's not only about getting the voice of our api community out there, but it's also about recognition recognition of the people and the organizations who have been steadfast in our community, supporting our community and helping less weather all of the storms. so this time i want to

be able to recognize that people and ask you to stand so we can get give you a big round of applause. for their contributions. representing the asian pacific fund, caroline wang colin, who is the president and executive director. asian pacific fund is celebrating their 30th anniversary. they have been doing so much to not only be a community foundation that helps to support our organizations across the bay area, but really has been focused on making sure that they were continuing to make the investments in our api community funds all across the board. i want to thank you for being here representing the organization, and we look forward to recognizing your contributions. the agent, angel island immigration station foundation, represented by darlene shoe, bryant. celebrating their 40th year. as you know, the angel island immigration station foundation is devoted to preserving the former u. s immigration station at angel island and promote the history of the exclusion, detention,

hope and determination of all immigrants who arrived there. so i want to thank you, darlene for all of your great work and continue to keep our history alive. thank you. and finally the japanese cultural and community center of northern california. scott okamoto, are you there? there you are. and laurie matoba as well. the deputy director is celebrating 50 years in our city. the center preserves and promotes japanese american culture and historical heritage enhances understanding and appreciation among people, the united states and japan and promotes a multiservice community space to serve the community. so for those organizations who have had an immense impact on san francisco , thank you so much, and we look forward to continue to celebrate with you throughout the month. thank you. thank you, carmen. i see that. seven point, miyamoto is also here. would you like to see if it was. thank you. i just

want to say one thing that, um the theme this year is strengthening the fabric of our community, and if i could draw your attention to my pants i just happened to be wearing denim today. today is world denim day in recognition of the support that we in public safety and in and all the different positions in our community we give to women victims of sexual assault victims who have to suffer sometimes through biases and prejudices on, uh, being victims, and we want to show that support for them. by wearing denim jeans and i don't want to go into too much detail other than to say something happened in italy. where someone was blamed for being assaulted because of the clothing that she wore, and that's why legislatures in that country the next day war denim in support of the victim, and we do we do that now and recognition of that, so i think it's very timely because we're strengthening the fabric

of our community. denim is a very strong fabric. and it also represents how we how we support each other worldwide. on things , and that just brings us all together. over one issue. we're coming together now and celebration, but i also want to make sure we always remember community is there to support each other through good times and bad. and as we've all gone through the experiences of a p i hate as we've all gone through the experiences of the challenges that we have in public safety right now. i just want to remind everyone we rely on you to make sure that we're in this together to keep people safe. so please keep that in mind. you mentioned apec. more than a few people have mentioned apec. and every time i hear that as a public safety member were challenged with keeping everyone safe and we'll need your help to do that. so let's start with the celebration and roll up our sleeves. really good work to come. thank you. thank you, paul. um as the mayor have

mentioned, and on previous speakers, we this we are so fortunate that this, uh, celebration every year was really support well supported by many organizations that our community sponsors or the non profits, you know to our business sponsors. um, three, uh, so we are very thankful. and today we want to specifically acknowledge our heritage champion, um, sponsors because they really have been amazing to want to support how we strengthen the fabric of our community. um i want to first knowledge, fargo because in 2005 when we started in 2005 when we never have done any celebration before wells fargo was there to support us and through the years and now returning we are so excited, so i want to in spite lorenzo cordovan from. marco he's the vice president of

philanthropy and community impact, say if it was. good morning, everyone. i'm lorenzo cordova on the philanthropy and community impact team at wells fargo, and we're thrilled to be here this morning to kick off and celebrate the start of aapi heritage month here in san francisco. there's no denying that the same. francisco is the great city. it is today because of the contributions of our api community past and present. whilst fargo like claudine mentioned has been a steadfast partner of our api community. in fact, it was one of the first california companies to service our chinese customers in their native language. just last year through a partnership with the chinese cultural center of san francisco, we unveiled a community mural where we depicted 12 ap i community heroes, so as you engage in a p i related activities. i invite you to visit the corner of jackson and grant avenue to view

this mural. this year. one of the many ways that we're celebrating aapi heritage month is through the sponsorship of the heritage awards at which we will be celebrating these three organizations that work day in and day out to equip our api community with the resources and tools that are api community needs to succeed. i want to take claudine claudine chang. for her stent, fat, steadfast leadership and dedication to execute this event to our mayor, mayor london breed for her commitment to celebrating and amplifying the voices of all the communities that make this city a special place to call home. thank you. thank you, lorenzo. and next i'd like to invite our friend from us bank send you william, who is the senior vice president and baby area? market leader? thank you for your support. send it. good morning, everyone. my name

is sandy wall. yeah, and i'm the bay area market leader for us bank where we believe every day that we invest our hearts and our minds to help power. human potential, um, in alignment, actually, with the theme for aapi heritage month, which is strengthening the fabric of our community. us bank has recently committed to $100 billion investment back into our communities with 60% of that right here in california. over the next five years to really help make community possible through inclusive and equitable growth, so very excited about that commitment back to our communities we are passionate about and committed to creating more access as well as more opportunities to help all of our minority owned businesses succeed, as well as helping to close the racial gap. racial wealth gap in this country through our dedicated program that we've launched, which is called access commitment. we really believe in putting our people first, um and drawing all of that strength through the diversity, which we can see in this room today and really be on behalf of all of us that u s

bank. we look forward to our continued partnership to serve san francisco and help make the area a wonderful place. thank you. thank you. u. s bank and also appreciate amazon's multi year support. unfortunately sally k cannot be here today. so um, we are almost at the closing of press conference. i want to acknowledge i see a couple of commissioners here, commissioner irene e. riley from the human rights commission is here. um commissioner ian lou from the us commission is here. anybody i'm missing? and, um, we, um as we're going to may i already mentioned preschool to our website a psf dot org for the celebration guide that has a good listing of everything that's happening in the city. i want a specific and not what is not on the website is our to kick off events this saturday. it's very exciting. we are kicking off this saturday, april

29th first at noontime in japantown. great sorry, curious there and then in her team, we are going to have a 23 hours of celebration. japantown after which we are going to samoan community parliament center in precipitation fairly. thank you very much. restituto and your team. they are also going to have the aapi month kick off. so you know, everywhere in the city . we want to have action. we want to engage, you know, met people in the different neighborhoods so that you know we are all part of it. so, um and i look forward to seeing of your next wednesday. we will have a full house if you have not registered. please do so, and, uh, as many of you have been to our events, the first hour is at the herbst theater where we do the piece was presentation and some cultural performances. but then everybody comes to city hall, where we will transform it to be our party space. so i hope that all of you will stay and come and enjoy yourselves. so thank you very much for being here. and

please take a poster with you if you can put it in your organization office space and what not help spread the word that would be great.

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members of the public wishing to comment on these items. saying no further comments from the public. we will now close public comments and madam secretary can we call? the next item will take roll on the consent items? yes. can we get motion and i'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. second that motion. commission members. police announce your vote when i call your name. commissioner drew i. commissioner scott i share. ludlum i bracket i madam chair. the vote is for eyes. the motion carries. madam secretary , can you please call the next item? next is the regular agenda . agenda item numbers five c and five d related to translate block to west will be presented together but acted on separately , item five c is authorizing the commitment of permanent gap loan funds in an amount of 46,000,263

. to translate to senior lp, a california limited partnership for the development of 151 affordable senior rental housing units, including one managers unit at transferring block to west, providing notice that this action is within the scope of the translate redevelopment project approved under the transbay terminal, caltrain downtown extension. redevelopment project final environmental impact statement. environmental impact report. finally i s e i r a program e i r and is adequately described there in for purposes of the california environmental quality act sequa and adopting environmental findings pursuant to sequa translate redevelopment project area discussion and action. resolution number 15-2023. item five d is authorizing a first amendment to the pre development loan agreement would translate to senior lp, a california limited partnership. to increase the loan amount by 3,086,190. for a

total aggregate loan amount of 6,586,001. for the development of 151 affordable senior rental housing units, including one managers, unit and commercial space at transparent block to west, providing notice that this action is within the scope of the transport redevelopment project approved under the transbay terminal, caltrain downtown extension redevelopment project. final environmental impact statement. environmental impact report finally, i s e i r a program e i r and is adequately described there in for purposes of the california environmental quality act, sequa. and adopting environmental findings pursuant to sequa translate redevelopment project area discussion and action resolution number 16-2023. general councilor morales. mhm chair bracket

members of the commission. this project and the other one on your agenda today. in some ways represent the final chapters of trans bait plan. with an emphasis upon. or obligation to build affordable housing. as you may know. ah! state law requires that the transbay redevelopment project area provides 35% of all housing it's built under the redevelopment plan, um, as affordable housing and this project and blocked to west and then the one that you'll hear later will provide a significant amount of affordable housing that will have us come close, if not exceed the goal. for that requirement. um this project will be presented by kim obstfeld, our senior development specialist. uh and she's been working on this for a number of years at this point and will

provide a presentation overview of the items before you kim. thank you. good afternoon chair bracket members of the commission again i'm kim obstfeld, senior development specialist specialist on the housing team at o. c. i. i the actions before you today are the commitment of approximately $46 million in permanent residential gap loan funding for transbay block to west and approval of the first amendment to the pre development loan agreement with block the block to west sponsor to increase the loan amount by approximately $3 million and incorporates certain other modified provisions. a brief background on the transbay redevelopment project area. the transbay redevelopment plan was approved in 2005 with the intent of alleviating the blight caused by freeway demolition following the loma prieta earthquake and creating a new mixed use mixed

income downtown neighborhood project area is split into two zones. zone one is administered and implemented by oc ii. zone two is under the planning the jurisdiction of the planning department. overall ii is obligated to provide 35% affordability in the project area to date in zone one, oc ii has overseen the completion of over 2000 residential units among which over 700 are affordable. block two is one of just a few remaining development sites in zone one. it will be 100% affordable housing, and the site is critical to meeting the overall project area. affordability requirement. see, i thought every development team for block to through a competitive request for proposals in 2020, april 2021, the commission approved and exclusive negotiations agreement , as well as pre development loan agreements for the two west and to east projects. last fall, the commission approved the schematic designs and took related to entitlement actions

for both to west and to east. since that approval, the two west sponsor has been working to further refine the design and prepare a financing plan for the project. last month, the citywide affordable housing loan committee approved financing for transmit block to west the overall block to site will be developed, with two distinct and individually financed, owned and operated buildings, which we refer to as to west into east that said design and construction has been and will continue to be highly coordinated between the two buildings, with key design scopes, working on both buildings and selection of a single general contractor. the two west project the subject of today's requested actions is sponsored by chinatown community development center or c c. d. c. and will serve low income senior households with a portion of units set aside for seniors experiencing homelessness. the two east project will serve low income families and families experiencing homelessness. mercy housing is the sponsor. in addition to developing the two east project, mercy is leading

overall site coordination. block to west will provide 151 affordable senior rental units, including one managers. unit affordability levels will range from 15% to 50% of the area area . median income units serving formerly homeless households will be supported through the city's local operating subsidy program and units serving extremely low income seniors will be supported by the city's senior operating subsidy program. units are a mix of studios and one bedrooms. the building includes three ground floor retail spaces, as well as secured class one bicycle parking. the overall cost for block to west is estimated at approximately 132 million. this will be funded through typical affordable housing sources, including federal low income housing tax credits paired with tax exempt bond funds allocated by the california debt limit allocation committee, or sedlak. in addition, the sponsor will pursue funding from the state department of housing and community development. infill

infrastructure grant programmer. i g in recent years, bond allocations through sedlak have been oversubscribed with demand for funding while exceeding available bond amounts because of this black has introduced a competitive scoring process, which has proved to be very challenging for san francisco projects. the scoring criteria generally disadvantages higher cost urban infill projects. to compete for this source, oc ii and the mayor's office of housing and community development. ormoc d have increasingly had to look at creative ways to structure our funding. generally we're looking at ways to pull costs out of the residential tax credit project this along with targeting deep affordability improves the likelihood of an award by reducing the residential cost per unit and reducing the overall amount of the requested bond allocation. for transmit block to west. the proposed structure is a residential gap loan of approximately 62 separate loan to fund development of three retail spaces in a park in an amount of approximately 2.5 million and a

separate loan for site improvements, including the demolition of an existing structure on the site that will be administered by mercy housing. the commission may recall that you recently saw a similar creative approach for the block 50 to 54 project at the shipyard. until there is significant changes to the overall availability of tax exempt bonds. stop anticipates that we'll need to continue to consider these types of modified loan structures in order to succeed in securing sedlak allocations. in preparation for the sedlak application. the sponsors seeking an oc i commitment of gap funding for the project. this is intended to demonstrate that local funds have been secured for competitive scoring purposes. the requested gap commitment isn't an amount of approximately $46 million. this amount is consistent with oc is recognized obligation payment schedule or rapps for this 22 23 fiscal year and is consistent with funds in hand to make the loan. i do want to note, however, that as i previously mentioned, the

sponsor estimates the actual residential gap will be approximately 62 million. this amount is consistent with the 23 24 fiscal year. roberts and oc is currently pursuing a new money tax allocation bond to secure those funds. the sponsor will return to commission to seek the full gap loan amount as well as authorization for the commercial loan in fall 2023 following oc iis bond issuance and following sedlak on that a syd lax announcement of bond awards for this funding around in addition to the gap loan commitment, the sponsors seeking an amendment to the pre development loan agreement, the amendment would increase the funding amount by approximately $3 million, bringing the total loan to approximately 6.5 million. the added funds would be used to fund design work from ki construction. subcontracts scopes engaging these trades early for design build contracts is intended to avoid pricing surprises at final contract bidding and improve efficiency and accuracy during the design and permitting period added funds will also be used to pay

city permit fees and fund other professional services contracts. the amendment would also modify the maturity day provision to allow for extensions at the discretion of the executive director to allow sufficient time to reapply for a sedlak allocation in two subsequent rounds if the application is unsuccessful, it also incorporates updated loan conditions and a revised schedule of performance. if actions are approved today, the sponsor will submit a sedlak peacock application in may and awards will be announced in august. staff anticipates returning to commission to seek authorization of funding for demolition and other site improvements in july if the sedlak application is successful demolition site preparation work would begin in late august. the sponsor will return to commission to seek approval of an amended and restated loan agreement for the full amount of the residential gap along with the long term ground lease, as well as approvals for the commercial loan agreement and

commercial ground lease this fall. under this financing schedule, the project would close on construction financing in january or early february. 2024 with construction completion in 2026. thank you for your consideration that concludes staffs presentation. i'm happy to answer any questions you might have. and i'm joined by several representatives from cdc, including kempe, hoda and abby brown. mercy housing staff is also in attendance and available for questions. thank you. thank you for your presentation. madame secretary. do we have anyone for public comment? at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on these items should call for 15655000. enter access code 2598682. followed by the pound sign, and then the pound sign again to enter the call press three to be placed in the queue. fioretti listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment. please press star three and we'd like

to invite anyone here in person to come up to the podium and we'll start with mr james. good afternoon commissioners. the masked man is here again. oscar james native resident baby hunters 0.1 of the things i'm really concerned about this project and, uh treasure island is making sure certificate holders. have a priority. in those developments. and those units also making sure that is wheelchair accessible. for people who are handicapped. and that's my concerns. thank you very much. thank you. madam charity does not appear we have any, um additional members of the public wishing to comment on this item. seeing no other

further public comments, closed public comment and referred to my fellow commissioners commissioner trip. they have any questions or comments. no, i would just like to commend staff on continuing to push this project forward. uh fingers crossed that were successful with receiving state funding. um and thank you for your efforts and moving this forward in a difficult time. uh i have a question. the total development costs are estimated 132 million. i know you said we would be doing some value engineering as we develop construction drawings was that number expected to decrease i would be surprised if it decreased. honestly we were about were the team has just finished 100% dds they expect to submit those for ioc ii review

this week, so we'll see another round of pricing from swim. turton, the general contractor based on those 100% dds, and i think the effort will really be to just maintain the pricing that we have. we do have a fair amount of contingency. built into those numbers for the sort of design and bid process as the project makes its way through, um, permit approvals. sometimes costs can be added to address requirements from other agencies . so you know, i it's possible, but um and again a big chunk of that is held and contingency, so the idea would be we would scrape away that contingency if bids come in, and we maintain hard cast as they are tonight now, but we have seen continued escalation on all of our projects due to inflation and due to difficulty securing materials in this environment. thank you. dr scott, do you have any comments? kim are, um abby.

the marketing outreach for the project. how and who will do that? how will it be done? and again? i would, um i agree with mr oscar james? uh, making sure anyone with a disability it's accessible to them as well as making sure this seop holders are notified about this opportunity. and so how will all of that fit into the marketing so that people will see that and have the hope that? yes this is an offer to us all. sure absolutely. i can start. and then if c c d c wants to jump into sort of supplement that my response. that would be great. so yes, this project will follow our standard protocols, including our preferences. certificate of private preference holders will be have first priority for these units.

um most of the units, including those offered with the senior operating subsidy will be offered through dahlia, so we'll follow the typical application process. it's just that folks meeting those income tiers who kind of rise to the top of that lottery list with preferences or otherwise. i would also receive a subsidy for those units so if their quality qualifying at extremely low income levels, this subsidy would be provided to make the units affordable for them, but those are still subject to typical oc. i preferences we would follow our early outreach plan and marketing protocols to make sure outreaches done early and frequently giving people time to prepare themselves for an application and the cdc. if you have anything else to add, that'd be great. sure thank you . um, i just wanted to add. we went through this a couple of years ago on a project in mission bay. um, where we had we had outreach to seop holders and we worked with sf hdc on that, um prior to that, uh, we were, i guess. mary handled the mary

helen rogers project in hayes valley. also we went through a similar process and we work very closely with the city. on that. hi um and just to comment on wheelchair accessibility, so we're working with monsoon architects, and they have a lot of experience building accessible housing for seniors. can i just ask that you get closer to the mic? sure. i'm sorry. is this better? thank you . yes sure. so just to comment on the wheelchair accessibility question. we are working with mithun architects who have experienced building senior housing that is physically accessible in this city. we will have a portion of units set aside as wheelchair accessible units as well as, um, auditory communication units, and the building itself will be wheelchair accessible. as well as reviewed by the mayor's office of disability. okay? and kim. were you saying you'll leave it up to dalia with the marketing is i will ask the

sponsors will be required under the amended and restated loan agreement to submit a marketing plan in an early outreach plan, so that would be subject to sec review and we will look at ways to get the word out around this senior community. we would do a postcard campaign. um the sponsors have already set up a website and have been out in the community talking about the project coming, but yeah, the actual kind of more in depth marketing plan will be that required as a condition of the gap loan, and i know we've talked in the past about that marketing plan and what we're doing, and then some of the things we hadn't moved into, like perhaps putting it on the t line. um, where. the transportation people. they go into chinatown so that on both ends people coming from bayview or sunnydale throughout, they can get that putting it on the in line if we're going to reach

seop holders, um the lines where the people are. and ways of communication so that they can get that. i don't know what it would take to do, uh, television community announcement. that's uh, they do have free tv announcements. um but something so that. we know that this is happening and what the possibilities are. and kim. thank you so much for your presentation. okay. thank you, commissioner. hello um i have a couple of questions for c c. d. c. um i just overheard you guys said that you guys were already doing some community outreach to various communities about the project now and so would like to hear a little bit about that, where those efforts are what communities. have you guys already started out reaching and what that looks like. sure i, um we have made several

presentations to the east cut cbd, who's running the interim use on the site right now. um, we will continue to um, obviously work with them in terms of access to say to the site and the work ahead. we've also made presentations to idea which is another neighborhood organization. um. and have reached out to several sorry. i've reached out to several more. um, and as the project continues, we intend to reach out to other soma organizations. um and any other interested parties who are curious about progress. if you have any to suggest him were we'd love to hear. i think did you want to add to that? um i guess my only concern is that since mission bay and transbay areas still fairly new community, um i think if we really want to have a robust diversity of people

applying for these slots we really have to reach outside of that. um primarily a lot of the cbos that currently work with seniors throughout all of the neighborhoods in san francisco would really like to see a robust, um offering to, um you know all over chinatown. um bayview visitation valley. um, even in areas of d 78 castro. we have a lot we really do have a large aging population in this city, and we just want to make sure that that gets out to the wider community that these opportunities are there. fillmore also has a high aging population as well. so i would really like to see when you guys come back to us. i know that it's going to be part of like the later marketing but just being really thoughtful about who those partners can be that you can get that information out because while we've seen a lot of progress with clp, we haven't seen the impact and results that we wanted. and so we're really pushing for more community engagement, um as early as possible into the community so

that they know even before it's completed, or, you know, during the process that that opportunity is there and they know exactly what they need to do to make sure that they're good applicant. thank you. yeah i think the only thing i would respond to is that c c. d. c has already a lot of senior units in our portfolio. this is, um finding and doing enough outreach is important to us as well. um so we share that goal with you, and i also wanted to comment that we have presented to the for transbay, which includes residents not illegal, which another affordable housing project nearby, um, as well as other interested residents. so, um we hear you. we look forward to reporting back thank you. and i had one last question. i noticed on this specific project that's not going to be parking. and i know that that's been a real stickler for a lot of low income people in the city, especially seniors, people with disabilities and people with children. i know this is more of a senior housing. thing, but, um

just wanted to hear back how you guys plan on dealing with that, because that may deter some seniors from actually wanting to live in this area. i'm not having access directly, sometimes, too, you know, or nearby grocery store because i think we're still trying to find a partner in trans bait right now, so i would really like to hear, um what kind of other amenities you guys might have for residents to be able to make sure that they're able to shop and get good groceries. yeah um , so yes, thank you. um, so we um, along with the mercy project are looking for partnerships for car rental or similar car sharing opportunities, because, as you say, there have not been parking spaces for this project, you know, since the beginning, so on the bright side, though, this is perhaps the most transit rich area in the entire city. if you're not one of them so we are also looking into making sure that residents have access to

all those transit opportunities as well as para transit and the programs that para transit offers to, um provide essential trips. so van gogh and shop around another resources thank you. thank you so much for all of your responses. there's no other further comments from my fellow commissioners will be asking for a motion for five. madam chair. could i just ask them to state their names for the record? oh, yeah. i don't think we are sorry. you both the state your name and organization you're with for the record. i'm sorry about that. hi my name is abby brown. i'm project manager with chinatown community development center. and i'm kim picota, director of housing development for chinatown, cdc. thank you. thank you. thank you. in my fellow commissioners. would anyone like to make a

motion on five c madam chair. i move that we authorized this, um , project that kim has presented so well and, uh. approve of resolution number 14 2023. excuse me. i think that should be 15. i may have had. yeah it should be a 15 and 16. i'm sorry. i'm sorry. forgive me. authorizing the commitment of permanent gap bloom funds for resolution number 15 2023. thank you. give me you think? i would second that motion. madam secretary, can you please call the vote? commission members? please announce your vote for item five c when i call your name commissioner. true. i

commissioner scott. i share. ludlum i share bracket. i madam chair. the vote is for eyes. the motion carries. um can i get a motion from my fellow commissioners on item five d. i would move to approve five d. i second that move. thank you, secretary. can you please call the roll? certainly commission members, please announce your vote for item five d. when i call your name commissioner drew i commissioner scott. i ludlum i bracket. i madam chair. the vote is for eyes. the motion carries . madam secretary, can you please call the next item? next is agenda. item number five e authorizing at a public hearing under section 33431 of the health and safety code, an option agreement with f four

translate partners llc, a delaware excuse me delaware limited liability company for the option to purchase block four of zone one of the transport redevelopment project area. and adjacent future to hamas street right of way, providing notice that this action is within the scope of the transbay redevelopment project approved under the transbay terminal, caltrain downtown extension redevelopment project final environmental impact statement. environmental impact report or f b i s e i r a program e i r and is adequately described there in for purposes of the california environmental quality act, or sequa, and adopting environmental findings pursuant to sequa, transmit redevelopment project area discussion and action resolution number 17-2023 general counsel morales. your bracket members of the commission. this is another proposed project on the side of the former temporary terminal for transbay. um it is followed

a very complicated path to get to this point. the agency has been working on this with the developer for over seven years. uh and we are attempting through the actions today to preserve a project that you approved last year and that provides a very significant amount of affordable housing and other community benefits. kim oxfeld will present this matter. thank you. good afternoon again. still kim obstfeld, senior development specialist on the housing team at o c. i the requested action before you was approval of an option agreement with f four translate partners llc for the option to purchase transbay block four. since we just discussed the transbay project area. i won't go back through that. but i do want to note that block four is another of the few remaining development sites within zone one. they're these

sites are estimated to provide over 1000 new housing units, assuming the 681 units pursuant to the d, a program on block four. the 335 units planned on block two and approximately 70 units on block 12. by this up slide further illustrates zone one development to date. the completed blocks are outlined in red blocks and pre development blocks two and four are outlined in yellow and blocked to 12 is outlined in blue as a future development site. and now an overview on the background of block four to date, the developer for block four is f four transbay partners, which is comprised comprised of heinz and urban pacific with goldman sachs as an investment partner, the oc ii commission approved an option agreement with the developer, the developer for block four in 2016 at the request of the city and translate joint powers authority, or t. j p a. as a condition of f four translate partners purchase of parcel f, which is a separate development

site, located in zone two of the transbay project area, f four had proposed that it would offsite the construction of affordable housing required on personal f to block four in 2018 . the commission approved an amendment to the option to extend the term and incorporated term sheet. that term sheet established the base development program, which guided the schematic design and negotiation of a development or disposition and development agreement, or d, d. a at that time. the developer also identified mercy housing as its affordable housing partner. in 2021. the personal f project was approved in a series of actions which culminated into in a development agreement between the city and the personal f developer. the development agreement required payment of a fee to see eye to satisfy the personal f affordable housing obligation rather than the direct off sighting of affordable units to block four separately, ci committed the loan proceeds of this fee to the block four developer for construction of affordable housing at block four in 2021,

the developer and oc. i worked through modifications to the block for housing program to address financial feasibility, with commission approval. the percentage affordable was modified from the 49% established in the 2018 term sheet back to the 45% identified in the initial option agreement. the 2018 term sheet was replaced by a program for appraisal, which was used as the basis for finalizing the d d, a in schematic design and for preparation of appraisal instructions to establish the land price. in june 2022. the commission took a series of actions related to block four, including approval of the schematic design and the d a. the approvals also included a redevelopment plan amendment, which was forwarded for consideration by the planning commission and board of supervisors. following the commission hearing, the planning commission approved the redevelopment plan amendment as well as related general plan and zoning map amendments to facilitate the block for project as designed hearings were then

initiated with the board of supervisors. however in august 2022 the block for developer informed oc ii that progress on parcel f had stalled and that as a result, the personal developer would not be able to provide the in lieu housing fee as required under the parcel f development agreement. as a result, he i would not in turn be able to provide a financing commitment for block four, hindering block four's ability to proceed. with financing uncertain the general plan amendment excuse me with the financing, uncertain oc i staff and the developer requested that the board pause block four legislation hearings , the general plan amendment would need to be reinitiated with planning commission if and when the project is ready to proceed. that fall oc i held a series of meetings with the developer to discuss potential paths forward. in december, 2022 staff provided an informational memorandum to the commission that described potential changes to the block ford deal intended to facilitate more timely development. following that memo

, financing conditions, conditions continue to deteriorate under these market conditions. that developer informed oc i that capital would not be available to proceed under the timeline set forth in the d d. a given this oc ii staff and the developer agreed that it was not beneficial to continue negotiations in this financial climate. as a reminder of the block for project as envisioned in the approved schematic design and d d. a is primarily residential. the project includes a total of 681 units, 45% of which would be restricted for affordability to residents at a wide range of tiered income levels. the program includes approximately 8400 square feet of ground floor retail, a large portion of which would house community serving or public benefit uses. the project . also sorry. the project also includes private and public outdoor open spaces and underground garage and streetscape improvements on all sides, as well as the

construction of tehama street between main and bill the approved a sets forth obligations for the sale and development of block four establishing requirements for the timely completion of the block for project the d. d. a states that oc i will provide a loan to the mid rise, affordable project, using funds from the proceeds of the affordable housing fees paid by parcel f. the land sales sale price for the site is $6 million. this amount was determined through a two party appraisal process as set forth in the prior option agreement, and the proceeds will go to the t. j p a. the d d a also establishes a schedule of performance. the d d. a effective date is tied to the effective date of the redevelopment plan. amendment key milestones include the close of escrow on the land close of construction financing and the commencement and completion of construction. the option agreement for your consideration today does not alter the block for project or the terms of the d d. a rather the option is intended to positive goshi ations and allowed time to evaluate market conditions. the

initial option term is six months, with two available six month extensions at the discretion of the executive director. the option also provides for two additional three month extensions to allow time for legislative hearings. the first is automatic if and when the developer formally restarts the approval process with the planning department. the second is discretionary, if more time is needed to complete the approval hearings, once initiated. during the option period. the developer has the exclusive right to develop the site in accordance with the approved d a. c i will not solicit other proposals or negotiate with other parties, however, during the option term oc i, i may conduct its own assessment of the financial market and study alternative development scenarios. this work may be used to inform future solicitations if the option terminates. during the option, the developer will monitor real estate financing market conditions and will provide quarterly reports to oc ii. in consideration for the option. that developer will pay

approximately 115,000 for the initial option period and additional approximately 115,000 for each granted extension. this amount is pro rated based on the consideration contemplated in the prior 2016 option agreement. if approved oc, i will enter into the option agreement with f for transmit partners. the developer will continue to monitor market conditions and provide those quarterly market reports to see i if and when the project becomes feasible for the project, it becomes feasible for the project to proceed. the developer will initiate legislative actions. during this time he ii staff will engage with the financial consultant independently examined market conditions and financing feasibility. in addition, staff will study development options to expedite the delivery of affordable housing on block four that concludes staffs presentation. i'm joined by several members of the development team, including dan s. dorn and ali stein from heinz. i believe their counsel cj higley is available remotely

and michael kaplan and remy der are here from mercy housing. thank you. thank you for your presentation. um madam secretary, can we open up for public comment? at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call for 15655000. enter access code 2598682. followed by the pound sign than the pound sign again to enter the call, then press star three to submit your request to speak. if you are already listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment, please press star three to be placed in the queue. and would like to begin by inviting anyone who is in person and would like to provide public comment on this item to come up to the podium at this time. good

morning and excuse me for the noise there. ah this is my first time coming before you three commissioners. first time ever. my name is a sim on the case. more corridor in basket member. you okay? different. okay. how you doing? and my buddy over here. morality we done been around for years. isn't that right? i thought you'd be retired by now, anyway. so redevelopment the history i know you know about it, but it's still lingers. so much in my mind. because when i come to these mean nothing is mentioned about the western addition to feel more. and it has been resolved. so we into another phase right now. but when i'm concerned about the c o p certificate of preference. i know i'm sure morality and those about how wait wait packing. mary rogers fought for that list years ago. uh, and the actually

sued redevelopment for the copy of the master list. see i don't even know in our ask him later off record. is the master leaks has been released yet because there's different partials of the list that's still out there. and we don't know why it hasn't been released yet and when it's going to be released, more people or when these buildings are built, and no one's around who look like me. that was that needed certificate. so right now , my interest is the final. is there a master lease? is there a master lease? that the redevelopment still have yes, it is, because if it wasn't the c o p list that they have on right now. i don't know his inability unit. okay so i'm also here to talk about what? i guess i'll be able to talk about that when it comes to public comic because it's not only subject, but i would accident. uh, certificates

of preference be looked into and see what's happening on that, because right now everybody is talking about the certificate list and passing out. that ain't the master list. my name is a simone. the case and wonderful coming before your commissioners and it won't be the last time. thank you. thank you, mr washington. thank you. and if there are any other members of the public in person like to invite you now and for the members of the public who are joining us remotely press star three or raise hand icon if you'd like to provide comment. madam chair does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item. saying no man no further comments from the public available. we will now close for public comment and i'll turn it over to my fellow commissioners commissioner lead man um, i'm happy with this arrangement. i think it acknowledges the general economic conditions. and

the ah. the change and what is feasible from one this project was originally contemplated and leaves the door open to continue advancing on the work already complete. that's so i would support this option agreement. um and i know a lot of a lot of parties have spent a lot of time working on how to craft this. commissioner scott thank you. madam chair. um kim. can you help me? um with expanding a little bit, uh, 324 mixed income tower rentals. um before affordable housing. and what i have found and i've shared about it in meetings. when we tell especially our up and coming

generations, um you know? get yourself educated, make more money. but when they do, they're either making too little. for affordable. and then when they get a job and go through all the training too much. and so where is that? real. clear help. so that we don't raise false hope. and if there. isn't anything that we're doing to bring them back to san francisco or get them into housing and encourage them. it's a good thing to make more money. more money gets you nowhere. you can't you know your food, expense transportation and all of this and still no housing. what are we saying? yeah. no, i think that's an excellent question. i think we, um we acknowledge that and we've

seen that across the board. um and at the in this project specifically, we really wanted to serve households at a very wide range of income levels and with tears at 10% so that you don't land somewhere in the middle where you're sort of priced out. are you making too much for 50% but you can't quite afford a 60. so i can show a diagram that sort of demonstrates where the housing is proposed in this project, but basically we would have the 100% affordable project that would be financed typical to our regular affordable projects. tax credits that kind of the regular program, and on that one, we would still do a mix of incomes ranging from 30% all the way up to 80. and then we would have higher tier. actually i think we're at 100% in the affordable project. it's 80% t cac about 100% most cd am i and then in the tower, we would accommodate those with more moderate income , so we had units tiered at 101

, 110 and 120% am i so that the idea was that this complex as a whole would serve folks kind of all across the board wherever they might be in their career or in their lifespan that there would hopefully be a in it that would accommodate their needs in terms of am i level thank you. commissioner drew. thank you. um, i was hoping to hear from the developer just to hear i you know what are the current market conditions you're facing. i think i'm fairly well aware, but from your perspective, and then what are you hoping to see in the next 6 12 18 months that could move this project forward. good afternoon commissioners. dana's dorin with heinz in san francisco, um the markets are an interesting place right now. i'm sure that is something that you guys are also very aware of, you know, given your seats and what you see the people who you hear

from, um i would say that by and large a lot of the trends that we began to identify with staff in the 3rd and 4th quarter of last year that were impacting the development market in san francisco. um have continued in a direction that's just generally negative for progress , especially on big, ambitious and complicated projects like block four. that includes construction cost escalation, you know, generally linked to inflation, lack of, uh, availability of materials. things have not nature. um we've seen an increase in financing costs tied to increases in interest rates. generally um, we've seen a pullback in the availability of financing, especially from the bank market , which is a traditionally banks are the ones that are big lenders in the construction world. and then obviously there is a little bit of a general economic challenge that, um, the

united states and that san francisco and is facing that impacts people's ability to pay rent and just generally affects growth projections. so um we have the benefit of being a large organization and we have a lot of data points inputs not only from within san francisco and the broader bay area. um but also within the united states and even the world that give us some good insight into how those trends continue to evolve, and i think we've set up a good collaborative structure under this option agreement where we're staying in regular contact with staff and basically trading the best of those notes the best of that information and you know, honestly, being open to feedback in both directions about what we can do to deliver these housing units as quickly as possible, which is our goal. i hope that was somewhat helpful. yeah. yeah, thank you. so, um you know, it's a constellation of difficulties

that the project is facing. so it's not like one magic wand. where if interest rates were to go lower, this project could move forward. it's that plus lower construction costs. that's right. many many things have to come together at the same time in order for a project like this to, you know, get going. um we are big believers in san francisco. we've been here for 40 years as a firm and, um, have seen frankly times like this before. um and whether them and you know, as as quickly as things tend to deteriorate, and san francisco, it's our observation that they often come back very strong and very quickly, and that's certainly our hope in buying ourselves this time with this 18 month option that we'll see that kind of recovery hit san francisco once again. thank you. and i had a few questions you might want to step here. thank you so much for sharing that information with this. we know that it's a difficult time right now for a

lot of investments and deals to go through, and i did have a couple of quick questions. i know the last time you guys were before us. um we kind of had some questions around. um the partnership with morgan stanley to push this project forward. i just wanted to get your take on, um how that's been going, or if there has been some, you know, issues with that as well, um so i ask that you lean a little bit. sure is that better? um so sorry just to clarify our investment partners, goldman sachs. um i'm sorry. understandable um, you know, we have been shoulder to shoulder, um, with the goldman sachs team as we have been with many of the other players in this in this story for seven years now, they're not a figure in the you know, day to day conversations, but we still talk to them at least weekly about this project . and so there's a lot of interest and frankly, uh, you know, in addition to financial

investment, a lot of emotional investment from the people who have, you know, been on all those phone calls and, you know, try to work through these issues with us. um so i would say they are just as um, hopeful in looking at the future of this project as we are, we have obviously come as far as we have, because we all collectively believe in the project together. so um, you know, seven years is a long time for any partnership, and you know things change. people change. but you know, we're all here today because, you know, we want to see this project move forward. thank you. it's going to turn it over to my fellow commissioners. if you have any last questions, or if we have a motion on the floor for this item. hmm. c chair like that. i move that we authorized at a public hearing under section 33 431 of the health and safety

code an option agreement with f four translate partners resolution number 17 2023. i would second that motion. madam secretary. please call the vote . commission members. please announce your vote for item five e. when i call your name commissioner drew i, commissioner scott i. i share ludlum high chair bracket, madam chair. the vote is for eyes. the motion carries. madam secretary , can you please call the next item? the next order of business is item. six. public comment on non agenda items. madam chair. um. i'll open up. sorry do we have any? would you like to open public comment at this time members of the public who wish to provide public comment on non agenda items, please call 415655

. enter access code 25986824. followed by the pound sign, and then the pound sign again to enter the call. then press star three to be placed in the queue . if you are already listening to us by phone and would like to provide public comment, please press star three and we'd like to begin by inviting members of the public who are here in person to come up to the podium. mr washington. good afternoon again. well this particular item, uh has a lot to do with the western edition, particularly the heritage center . um the garage parking. as you may know me not know, i'm sure matt morality knows that garages owned by ioc ii, not yoshi's. the addition departments are the, um. anything else, but the

garage is what i'm talking about. why because i had i'm still employed by the garage in park and before there was in part, there was another company and the reason why i got this particular job. well when they started was janitorial. i was cleaning up the garage downstairs. and i was proud about that because they had a little job about the time i didn't have one, and i was affiliated to yoshi. the addition but now five years in advance. six years who we are i am going to ask that this item be brought before y'all at your next meeting or meeting after that, so and then bring in park , but i understand there's another company now e p or something. that's the, uh, actually operated for oc ii. now you got to understand that this part of the development is not a

part of that r p is going up because they didn't include us. i don't know if they include the homeowners association. and, uh, quite frankly, i think that our p right now is going to come back and they're gonna say well, nobody qualified because they've got to be a strong community component. i don't know who the ones selected not selected, but i don't know who's on the select metal panel or anything. but my main concern is the garage. in park is managing the garage because back then myself and others were um, applying to run it to operate it. it should have been operated by the community in the in the, uh back then that time or if you look into the rfp that you would see that the garage is separate. and it could be ran back the community. it was supposed to be run by the community. but something happened. reverend townsend got involved, and i'm not gonna get

involved with that. but i'm saying i like to bring this back to the your commission and find out. is there a chance that community group could move in and operate the police for the community? it's been five or six years that this other entity has been operating. i think it's time for the community to step in the community. since the rfp is going out that we be the operators so again if you could bring the company back to the i bring him back here and i'll come back and we could talk about him. my name is a step and i'm on the case. thank you. thank you, mr james. good afternoon again. one of my concerns is the sea level c rise. um we're talking about treasure island and a lot of treasure in this bin landfill over the years, and my concern is, are they going to build a seawall around the treasure island project because of

something is going to be needed the porters doing something around san francisco bay with the seawall. but that's my concern about treasure island. thank you very much. thank you. thank you would like to ask members of the public who are joining remotely if you'd like to provide public comment, please press star three. madam chair does not appear we have any members of the public wishing to comment on this item. herring no further, um, request to speak in public comment. we will now close public comment. madam secretary, can you call the next item, please? the next order of business is item seven report of the chair, madam chair. or today. i am not going to report any items. um i will just shortly just briefly share that in the next upcoming meeting. we will be sharing some information about, um some of our project areas and

highlighting members of the community. can you call the next item, please? the next order of business is item eight report of the executive director general counsel. well instead of a report of the executive director , i would like to report on the executive director who's currently um at the california senate hearing. on replacement housing. this is the senate housing committee. that is chaired by senator weiner, who is the author of replacement housing legislation at the syrian agency of sponsoring and as you know, if that's passed, will give us additional tax increment authority for affordable housing, so that hearing is underway and we expect a positive vote out of the committee. and then the bill should go to the floor, so we'll keep you apprised. of any future developments on that. do my

fellow commissioners have any questions or comments for the ctv's report? no questions. no comments. thank you. madam secretary, can you please call the next item? the next order of business is item nine commissioners. questions and matters. madam chair. my fellow commissioners. do you have any additional questions or thoughts today? i would just like to add madam chair. i'm grateful, and i have been working, uh, little bit closer with oc ii staff and out again. i cannot commend sonia enough. and uh, i just hope she gets more staff with her, but um, the issue around the process that needs to take place to get the housing even if

you are a seop holder. knowing what that means. all they know is i'm a c o p, but they're not informed enough to know what that processes and it knocks. many of them down. takes a lot of air out of them. and so if, and we did discuss this, we could come into the community. and share the meaning of c o p holder. what the steps are how they're taken and literally, sonia is holding hands and it's helping and persons are getting into their places, but they're not prepared for the distance that you know, it's like not just to 60. you know your dash. but it's a 200 m. it takes time and they don't understand it, so

they believe they're getting ready to disqualify me because so many roadblocks say that but they need to be prepped. we need the understanding when you run into this. this is what you need to do. are this? this is where you need to go. and your health is here when people know that hope is not dashed. hearts are not at this may. and the depression and just to give up spirit does not fall upon the people. so i'm hoping we will work up a plan and get some help. and uh, information. for the people so that they don't give up, give out and give over to just not believing this is for us. i would like to second commissioner scott's, uh, request come up with a plan and i think this relates to

something we talked about. at the previous hearing in which we were told that 85% of applicants . to a certain projects did not move forward. um and they were applying to units. they had no interest in that's the behavior of people who don't have confidence in the process. um so i don't know. um. what the lead up looks like now, but ah ah! you know, i think creating more. better educational program for seop holders would ah solve a lot of issues affecting many projects. thank you. commissioners um, i think this is a lot of work. that gonna, um, ultimately fall on cds, shoulders, um, sincere, the ones who are administrating, um more

of the c o p requirements and, um, how that goes through, but definitely something we can address with the executive director as he comes back and talk about some concrete steps towards that we can take to maybe, um nudge hcg to do more, and maybe there's some ways that we can also do things outreach in the community. i know, um about two years ago, we talked about as a commission taking up different, um i guess it would be subject matters as each commissioner and that we would kind of be the evangelist in the community for those things, and i think back then i think, um mara was on business. i was on c o p. miguel was on community and i forgot dr scott, which you were assigned to, but we didn't get get it off the floor because we were still dealing with. you know, the covid and the pandemic so not sure if you remember that, doctor, i'm sure i remember that and i think it it had to be community. it had to

be for me. that's what i do so i'm sure that's what i choose. well thank you. commissioners for your comments. madam secretary, can you please call the next item? the next order of business is item. 10 closed session. there are no close session items. the next order of business is item 11 adjournment, madam chair. now all my commissioners don't all go at once. madam chair. i move that the meeting be adjourned. second um. the meeting is now adjourned at 209. pm moved by commissioner scott and second by commissioner drew thank you, mr james.

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lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my

grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and

give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

i'm currently an h2 firefighter for the san francisco fire department. i served active duty in the navy. i wanted something that was going to be in the medical field, but not necessarily stay in a hospital setting and i didn't want to stay in an office and this job kind of combines everything i was looking for. everyday's different. there's always something new and to learn. and my first introduction to the department was being surrounded by people of the lgbtq community. and so we were able to get, you know, it just made things a little more comfortable that you could talk to people about things that people necessarily wouldn't understand. i've had to hide myself. able to come out. being able to understand many his and being able to do things in had that sense, it's very liberating to be able to speak like this, this city in

particular, it's a mecca for the lgbtq+ community. you know, there's so much history behind it and being part of this community that now accepting us for who we are and what we do, we're able to just be ourselves. any time somebody finds out i am a member of the gay community, i don't get anybody talking about me, nothing at all. it's just oh, cool. you have a partner? like yes, i do. they start asking about that and how my life is. you become part of the family and here in the san francisco fire department it really is just one big family. you know, it was my dream to be a san francisco fire department member and i'm here.

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