experience and have a voice for companies like ours. thank you. thank you. mr. haze. >> we have mr. connolly back with us. >> great. >> he is in queue. can you hear us? mr. connolly can you hear us. you having technical issues? keep cannot hear you. we will take your comment later in the meeting. okay. >> so then next up is apolo wallace. an applicant for seat 11. >> good morning.

welcome. >> good morning to the committee thank you for your time i'm apolo wallace from 2785 born and raised in san francisco in the lower haight. 25 year teamster the last year and a half i have been organizing cannabis deliver competence warehousers. i did a start to finish campaign with grass door, 100 person unit. we won that campaign exterior currently negotiating their contract. and i'm in the middle of another with another delivery company and have another lined up. i deal with the workers are aspect and their point of view

the entire time. i deal with them constant 3 and have been put as their business agent. i deal with the work and you think i have a good points of view. thank you. thank you. next up perry jones. perry jones an applicant for seat 12. perry jones online? hello, everyone. i like to thank the board of supervisors and anyone who showed up to support the agenda. i'm perry jones a lifetime native of san francisco. i started this journey unfortunately on the [inaudible] by being targeted by the war on drugs. i was impacted and incarcerated on a school campus having marijuana. that is something that drove me want to to have justice got me involved in the cannabis industry i am a teamster myself. but and besides my skill in the trades i'm focused on the cannabis. went to a university i mirj in

the cannabis civics and engaged with the cannabis community educating and public engagementment i have been able to start my own 100% own company. upon company by myself [inaudible] and have been able to incorporate that and partnerships where i was able to get my permit. the [inaudible]. was passd and need to move forward with a perimism purchased a building in the mission district. as far as retail i appreciate the opportunity to educate the community more around legal can combis provide safe access. i believe i was a great candidate and verse when it come to the law and the policies and also changing the narrative being an african-american male it the industry which is new.

tell be a great to have a face and expertise such as mine and great partnership with chop it is to have the expertise in retail. i like to share that experience in addition to my personal experience to further the agenda of the cannabis industry and where we are. and sdparz the over site committee a great idea but i like to see room for improvement and i will want to come in to be able to have that narrative my perspective and those who are under represented incarcerated or don't have the opportunitiful i appreciate you being able to make that and learn and share my life experience. why great. thank you, mr. jones. next is wayiat lynn. for seat 12. >> good morning. supervisors i'm we at lynn in

the medical cannabis space since 2013. my experience has been operator since 2013 and currently i run another legacy cannabis retail store in union scare. founder of 710sf a supporter of establish and want growth of cannabis operators and the equity program. the designed access to the industry promote ownership and employment opportunity for the social equity applicants invest in infrastructure for historically disinfranchised communities and the impact of the drug enforce am policy. my firm is providing technical assistance to 3 applicants who are applying for cannabis business permits in san francisco. we prioritize hiring of equity

and individual his meet the criteria in our residents. i have been in the space for awhilism understand the taxes and safety issues and as an asian-american i would like to put my hat for this position. thank you very much. great. thank you mr. lynn. next is david tally. an applicant for seat 13. good morning. thank you for the time to listen you to. thank you for you being here as limp i'm david tally, i have been in the bay for 15 years before that i had the operation done in southern california cultivation, deliver and he dispensary as limp since moving here i have been specific low

focussed on the cannabis industry. working at urbeena, harvest. managing. i pent time getting batch complors masters in hope so of using that information and my toejz have myself my own operation in the city. with the regulations and costs of that, it was not feasible at the moment a lot of you understand. i have been in the sales space the last 6 years. i'm a cond wit between brand and dispense iaries i listen to occurrence of dispensaries equity operations or store front and they have a lot of worries as well. you know with my experience i hope i can bring perspectiveef the equity applicants. somebody who has sdratsdz everstraddled both sides and just hope to inform. i was overwhelmed by the support from reaching out to people.

recommendations. appreciate your time upon and thank you, thank you. >> great. >> thank you mr. tally. next is walter redding junior. mr. redding an applicant for seat 13. >> how y'all doing? my journey start i'm a native here. went to middle school, element and high school here. i started off with out reach. teamed up with london breed when there was the african-american culture center. i deal with high risk youth. i like to stop the violence and making sure you know everybody is safe and going on. in gavin newsom used to walk to work i accompanied him on the walk all the time. a couple years ago i just started my own cannabis journey.

my own deliver competence manufacture, gummy yum waiting for permits now. yea, and when i first got in, i experienced fraudulent immediately. somebody new like me and black like me i experience fraud. i started a new organization equity defense firm. and i want to help the people like me little fishes that don't know much about the business. and you know other people come and they pray on your licenses and stuff and pray on your permits. so i would love to be a part of seat 13 with the committee. because i have been through a lot. got a lot of background in san francisco, period. and you know,ip want to make sure everything is okay and help others and that's what i'm here for seat 13, i would love it.

>> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> appreciate it. >> and next up is wilial doll an. an applicant for 8, 12, then or 14. >> good morning i'm william dolan. i wanted start by saying thank you for having us this morning i appreciate your time of although i applied for multiple seats i am look to contribute and add value whatever seat i sit in i would be happy to take that role. my primary goal as a member would be continuing to develop an equal and sustainable cannabis industry and by preserving equity ownership. the local cannabis. a couple reasons why san

francisco i have been in san francisco for 18 years. and adversity in my lifetime i'm a cannabis business owner i have 2 in cannabis under construction onopen nothing june and another in 2024. the first business is 4033 jouda in the outer sunset and 560 valencia with a full service consumption lounge i'm a licensed attorney and real estate broker. licensed to practice law in california. just left week admitted to practice at the supreme court of the united states and take my oath in front of the 9 justice in washington, d.c. with an incredible and memorable experience. i had deal subject matter in california laws related california regulation and compliance and our local laws

lands use, zoning and cannabis compliance a medical cannabis patient and abused for 22 years to treat medical conscience including my hearing disability. thank you and i'm honored apply for a seat in this committee. i have been san francisco cannabis retailer alliance and browning democratic club and look forward to working with you in the future. >> thank you. i like to interrupt i believe we have resolved mr. connolly's technical issues are you with us now? >> good morning, i am. >> good morning. >> mr. conlow is an applicant for seat 8 or 12. >> the floor is yours. >> thank you very much. i apologize for my technical problems. good morning i'm conlow i go by

ray and ray-ray my husband and i live nothing san francisco for 30 years prior to joining the cannabis industry in 2014, i spent 23 years in the software industry i specialized in bringing technologies up to either be acquired or go public. i went through 2 acquisitions [inaudible] and in 2014, i yoined the cannabis strep and working must have awarded the first permit from the office of can bills with thes equity program. and it was it is eureka sky in the castro and have a second retail space located in the wharf seaweed. and most low have been the co

chair of raising 23 million dollars for the friends of harvey milk an anticipate in the wharf merchant's association long with the casted row merchantses i sat as secretary of the merchant's board. my history and my [inaudible] i [inaudible] understanding of the condition bills industry of being successful but also the challenges that we face. we are faith challenges with tax, black market and competition. and i'm looking at the industry with a bounce not from success but failure. and i see a lot of really great people in the industry. that are struggling now. i see people being successful and i feel as though my back

fwrunldz and the balance i bring of being level headed. i can add e normous value to the committee and i hope i'm considered for a seat. thank you. >> thank you. next rubin sortet for seat 13. >> hello, thank you for the opportunity. and i want to say it is right here is truly the democratic process being real that i can be considered to be a part of this committee. now, i'm a fourth generation resident of district 10 bayview. community this has been historically pummelled and taken

advantage of with the war on drugs. me, by trade i'm a licensed [inaudible] in the state of california now i'm serving our population working at the [inaudible] build being. i think a deeper point of view being that my brother was incarcerated. the person i live instead same room with and had every opportunity to go to college however he remained incarcerated. and i'm looking at it is from the point of the consumer and the doctor. i have a specialized knowledge of what happen when is you have dry mouth. when you add heat to our athlete. and what happens when you have bad breath and build up. and also what it is to be actual

consumer not trying to be involved with the black market. and i feel that i have an interesting point of vow not necessary low being twhoon has sold cannabis or been a seller or anywhere inspect that time industry. however, i'm honored have the position now to be considered and i hope that i am going to be picked for seat 13. thank you. thank you. >> next up can lewis rodriguez. mr. rodriguez seat is applicant for seat 14. i come to you as the coprofessor

and founder the cannabis social equity and he entrepreneurship at golden gate school of law on mission street. i held my law degree from the school of law proudly and i am here also requesting a residency waiver. i am a proud transplant. i do live in oak land. but i'm here because i think that it is important to be present in knowing that a residency waiver would not hinder me because i could be here anyway. i'm here because i'm root in the san fran i believe in the work of social equity competence the work i have done to achieve that is to pro bono service social equity of community in san francisco but all across california and new york. and since inception of the clinic we have given 2600 hours

of pro bono services to verified equity applicant it is. across california but in the state of new york now. as well when i came out to the bay area in 2017, ggu was the only school of law that accepted meeen though an applied to various schools i had a nissan ultma no friends or family in the area and 3 years i went on to serve the community and create a clinic one of one in the country. and the last 6 years experience in this industry and i believe i can serve on this community because of 3 things culture being equity and he youth. culture we teach our kids the foundations from rudy corp us view it takeses the hood to hood to the views of regulation. equity we understand it is the cornerstone of inclusive society

and youth i understand that they other architects of tomorrow. i understand i must plant trees and in shade or experience harvest. thank you. >> thank you. >> and next up is shale gilmore. also an applicant for seat 14. good morning i'm shale gilmore applying for seat 14. i have been a lawyer in california for over 20 years the last 5 years had my own law practice serving cannabis investors and operators including equity applicant in corporate, commercial and regular matters. in 2018 cofounded the bar cannabis law section for extension networking opportunity to lawyers in san francisco serving the cannabis industry that year i upon cofounded the

first group of volunteer warriors pro bono services to equity applicants that group evolved to the current were partnership the bar association enjoys with office cannabis today. since 20 ton i developd and taught legal and finance 101 through the city college of san francisco program and i authored legal articles addressing law including one last month look at california cannabis provision and it is commerce clause. fiwere to be appointed my goal would to be daily and with integrity serveace a resource on california laws related cannabis i want to be appointed i care about legal, revving litted and tested and environmental associately equal cannabis in san francisco i lived for 19 years. as a gill man who knows about

the role that stigma play in our law and institutions i see value in the mittied of water works removing stigma from cannabis in society. i want to play a troll help the communities garth and evaluate data and hope to pleasure objectives with iny teg rit and he emphasis on equity. i thank you for your time and i'm available for questions. thank you. >> next issan 21et for seat 16. >> good morning. can you see mow? >> yes. >> yea, hi. good morning. yea. set to go. >> your 2 minutes begins now. >> okay. so good morning i'man 21et a

native of oakland, california i have resided in san francisco, bayview neighborhood since 2011. i am applying for seat on this committee for a couple of reasons. one i am a current user of medicine cannabis believe in affects are efficacy on patients living with chronic pain. parents with cancer. and actually began my advocacy back in 1966. prop 215 our s b 420 that passed the laws of creating america a medical marijuana identification card. because at that time our numbers for people living with hiv and

aids and those attracting hiv was tremendous. numbers were tremendous at this time i worked for the haight ashbury clinic where we saw a multitude of folks that were using drugs. american to me has been criminalized long enough. helps with mental health and people to gain appetites so they eat and sur5 when their cancer patient its is incredible. for me my goal to join this committee i do have an extensive knowledge of sxrouls regulations and laws using can bills i would like to see safer access to the

cannabis for the newt those hoping criminalized. almost support system and thank you very much for their time and consideration. >> next is brand goodwin an applicant for seat 16. thank you i like to say that hearing cannabis talked about in the chambers a great day for us. we appreciate that. i have been a residents since 1977. i loved san francisco and i love cannabis. i'm media director of the brownie democratic club. we protect the rights of medical patients. and consumers. i think someone should be on the committee. who is not tied to the industry.

which i'm not. who advocates for consumers. i think the basis of this business is consumers. and i would i like to see changes in the regulations to help medical patients to help consumers. and to lower the price by cutting the red tape. and making it visible to people much higher prices because people go to the unlicensed market because it is a third of the price of our legal operation. so -- you know i work with brownie mayor and run a compassion program we give out free cannabis to low income and medical patients we want to expand that and make it easier we want to create education so

we talk to our fellow citizens not about the stigma about the benefit. i appreciate you ash pointing me because i come from the accomplice of the consumer of the medical patient. thank you. we have heard from all applicants now public comment. members joining person line up to speak. for those listening remote low on the call in line press star 3. for those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted that is your queue to comment. can we have our first in person speaker. >> good morning i'm excited see all of the new applicants.

we need as much new blood and energy to evolve this industry and committee i'm nita parks i serve first 2 years of the verified equity seat on this committee and the very first year the chair. and i hope to be remembered for my pz process and auditing of the department and how their framework moving permits through. there are 3 things i have to recommend about this committee. swon there needs to be a great path way of communication with the committee and the supervisors. there is no like formal path way of getting all the recommendations to you at least as that when i sat on the chair hi to do it on my time and there was no formal time period. >> the other thing is that there needs to be 2 seats added for events its is missing off of the

mittee and licensed type that is not represented there it is a license that and a permit the city gives out. >> and that voice is not represented. we will have to go as members of the mounts to be heard example 2, and 3, the there be a seat for human right's commission. the economic equity folks because now as a woman who holds that seat, she penned the equity program we need to hold the framework of the. equity program so we can evolve what we are doing. we are currently looked at by the nation our failures and achievements and as many as we have there would be great. thank you for your time good

morning by way of reference the city employee i'm here on my personal time. grit to see you. >> i wanted give my support to donaldson. for this seat. i known him since he was 15. i wanted give a shout out to his dedication to the local city and mall business communities. to give him kudos for not only graduating high school, going to uc and helping start businesses in the city coming from potrero and north beach public housing. no easy feet a lot have done a lot in that sense as limp i want to say besides dedication here in the city he brings connectivity to the small business commission through partnerships and friendships with mentors and does a bunch of great work.

3 different business and personal time. yea. hungry entrepreneur brings a youthful perspective and the other things i mentioned. thank you. good morning. i'm joyce hicks i'm here to give walter redding support. for the opportunity to be on the board. upon i think that he has been working very hard in san francisco. trying to help youth. and help through the cannabis industry. he will be a good person for the seat. whatever seat he is going for. i just wish you guys to give him that opportunity. thank you.

>> good morning. ben here. in my capacity as a civilian today to speak on behalf of donaldson for the seats he applied for. i met drai 17 years ago in the big brother big sister program when he was 16 worked as a dish wash in my bar. at 18 he was by far our best bar back in all of our embarrass we had 150. and he was had managers at different embarrass fighting over having hem work. he is deeply uncomfortable speaking about himself. i will do it for him here. by the time he was 21gm of 2 embarrass. when he was 24 he was an owner in a bar with us and now he is a ceo and manages all the prescriptions for our dispense easier open. reason i think he would be grit for this role he is the time

person who can take in incredible amounts of information, filter them and come up with practicing mateck workable solutions to get them through. he does it every day. as an employee or the ceo and partner of ours t. is hard to think of that considering the journal we have been of he does at this time cannabis industry is facing extinction event. a lot is federal and state. but there are more the city can do. drape is deeply aware of where all of the things combine and he is the time person who can help to make things better. thank you for hearing me i appreciate it and have a good day. thank you. no further speakers in the chamber we will move to the remote callers. we have 6 with 3 in line to speak at this time. can we have our first caller.

>> go ahead this . is dave you'd goldman i want to thank the supervisors for considering these candidates. i'm from the brownie mary democratic club and endorse dondzson for seats 8 and 12. our democratic club has run a compassion program we give away free legal excess condition bills to low income medical patients with hiv and cancer and veterans throughout northern california. as one of the ordinance of the california street cannabis company he has been instrumental in helping us. make this program robust. i want to and that's for seat 8 and 12. i support wilyom dolan for 13 and 14. he, too, has been extremely helpful for us.

in getting our democratic club robust and strong as it is and finally that is seat 13 and 14 and graham goodwin for seat 16, he has been a member of our democratic club runs the social media program and has been essential for the functioning of our club. the committee will be served by donaldson. dolan and goodwin. >> thank you. >> thank you. can we have our next caller. >> [inaudible] i thank you for, show my support for alex. i have came not sure what [inaudible] i'm work nothing the capacity of the mentor with alex and able to see exactly where he

makes an impact in the communities. him being the fillmore district and give become to that community is important. especially from the standpoint he has prolific idea and a strong mission. to educate his communities about cannabis and one individual who has been able to navigate the search program and license. he visited in himself and created manage that will have a lasting impact in his communities came from a dream as a chieldz had he was a kid it is shocking next door to the barber shop had a vision as a child to give back to the communities and now he has the opportunity to from committee standpoint and business standpoint. >> the communities able to navigate the politics and able

to give back in a way that an individual. calling for support for toward seat 14 i believe mr. rodriguez is capable of a qualified and i have seen him create a clinic closing and with doing everything the right way and make sure they are in the position to exceed as applicants and the students themselves.

equity applicants especially as a person of color understands unique position that we are in in order to try to succeed in this space and i mentioned he is the per fect candidate. thank you. >> >> thank you. next caller, please. >> good afternoon this is lloyd smith i would like to give my support to mr. rodriguez. i known alex for a number of years we went to law school together and during that time he was the president of our chapter of the drug policy. i seen him take that work and when we graduated he began a

clinic. >> he was also on the board. he is best seated for the position he knows about the law and works in san francisco to help people get their licenses and stay in compliance. and that is the best person for the job. thank you. >> thank you. just double checking. yes. proceed. >> i'm marie and i'm an equity advisor and technical assistant. for about 5 years. i know a lot of the applicants on the list and i'm confident a lot of them will do a great job i'm calling specific low for alex, i have been working with alex since 2018 and i watched

him create his dream into reality. alex is a successful entrepreneur. instead of take upon hundreds of thousands outside and looking for other place. he invested in san francisco and investing in the fillmore and where he is from and does in the have per ins another one of those inspect license holders which literally are rare and i think if we do anything to support someone that it is putting the world on their shoulder and trying to see the shift in the storm through on their own and all the different aspects i seen him over come and the programs going on throughout the process and hopeful low get in a grand opening here soon. and i want to call in support for the people that are reinvesting in the community, from the community and a sole

proprietor in the cannabis industry is a unicorn. my voice heard for alec seat 8 and supporting david tally for seat braen. bran for seat 16 and all great people make sure we can support those. next caller. >> hi. this is angela white calling from successors. i am call nothing spchlt alex. perry jones and david tally. i think these 3 and i'm sorry and dra cary. i think all of them will be excellent candidates for the seats. they are all native san franciscans. manslaughter 3 of the 4.

but we need folks with the voice of the community. the voice of equity and i am so excited they come fourth. build themselves in the race. support all 3 of the candidates. thank you very much. thank you. next speaker, please. >> yes. good morning. i'm michael cohen. i'm a secretary of the san francisco democratic club and like to endorse 3 candidates. one is dracary for seats 8 and 12. and william dolan for seats 13, 14 and bran goodwin for seat 16. thank you very much.

>> thank you very much. >> that was our last caller. thank you. public comment on this item is closed. >> there is a few things that i want to mention that one of the things my least favorite part of this job is when we near a position to say no to excellent applicant this is is something that we have to do today. in a couple of instances. the second is public comment recommending changes public low to the law and i said in my remarks sometime when is they are over low prittive that means we don't have the let tude we would like to have. and then the issue of residency requirements that came up. my view on this general low is when it it is something like this as so long as there is an

investment and understanding in the businesses that go on in san francisco. i don't feel that strong low about the need for someone to be a resident as long as they are involve instead communities. this is business sector we prefer everybody to immediately move to san francisco. if you are have a business here but as long as you are invested in communities i don't feel strongly about against having i residency waiver. i nan my colleagues want to speak. first is supervisor safai. >> thank you. i want to thank everyone this amriered today. we obviously from the responses we have a very diverse cannabis communities from individuals working on the issues for decades to those who are recent to the industry and building a sustainable 40 for the industry as limp i'm committed to a

sustainable cannabis industry why each time i joined with supervisor mandelman to put a pause on delaying the local cannabis tax i think the industry is under a lot of different economic precious. many of which deal with federal and state. tax. cannot bank or get significant lending and rely heavy low on carb. and saying things that everyone knows. we are working on public safety we got pd to assign a high level person on staff to be a point of contact for an industry under assault. to robberies. and kidnapping. this is something that is -- scary and dangerous and it is threatening on those in the

industry. we have worked i lead the changes to the planning code to allow for security gates metal gates to come down to protect people's investment. many of which they put their life savings and inferring themselves and families and to an industry. it it is under the threat of robbery and break in. this was afternoon important change. we are looshging for ways to explore reforms to protect cult virts and pdr zones and labor to ensure those in the industry are well represents and workers rights are a strong consideration. we care workers are not an after thought but conditions to work and respect in the city is of appearance to me. must be honest the impact of store front retail.

having more saturation does not protect those we invested to ensuring they will be successful that includes, let that are home grown. san francisco residents and the ones we want to ensure benefit the most first from the industry. those that put the time, effort and energy in this and those that have been unfortunately the victims of the war on drugs. we. to ensure that is manage that is highlight exclude that is part of the reason why i push for this pause. i and that will be heard manage up this thursday to talk about how we put a pause on the applications. allow those in the strep and those who applied catch up. i want to remind folks it was

important me been here from the beginning of the this legislative conversation that we highlight those that are equity applicants we made sure that meant you have 40% ownership. and before we opened more applications to nonequity applicant and met those that were equity would be able to thrive a lot of that ties become to the pause. and nothing it also allow you to coordinate public safety response for dispensary and to convert medical cannabis permits from article 16 and then working with those neighborhoods that have opposition allowing them to understand where we and are how the spreadingly out of the industry across the city makes

sense. with that i think president new oversight committee is essential. this they can ton give us input and give us insight and direction. i will following the lead of chair dorsey today in terms of comments he made earlier about the upon balance of the i want to say we have a couple seats hope we worked with labor and will work with them to fit seats i think highlighting having more female applicants from that industry is important. if you notoriety selected today apply where lawyer vaccances and participate in the process and work with us. having been former chair because you are not selected in this round does not mean you will not in the next round we hold your application. stay active in the industry and when opportunity arise we look to ensure have you that

opportunity to rise. can tell you some of the people here today were not chosen the first time thank you for the interest and support. there are good correspondidates for few positions we want to make sure you continue to want to serve here there are options that are available to get involved and serve and payment. and making the city better and so -- want to thank you and reminds you we have a difficult decision to make at time when is we have a number of good candidates. don't take anything personal if machine is not selected today

this means keep try and working and hopeful low there will be a way for you to participate and working with community in san francisco. thank you. thank you. and so seeing no further questions or comments i like to make the motion to recommend the following applicant and send them to the full board seat 8 ja malian. 9. adam haze. 11. wallace residency waiver approved. seat 12 donaldson. seat 13. dave you'd tality we residency waiver approved. seat 14 gilmore. 16 mologyly. i had trouble keeping up. seat 8ali ja malian. may i ask if seat 9 is adam

haze. seat 11 apolo wallace. request residency waiver. >> correct. seat 12 dracary donaldson. >> yes. i have that. seat 13 david tally. with residency waiver approved. >> seat 14 shane gilmore. and seat 16antonet mologyly. >> thank you. >> roll call. >> on the motion to recommend the members to the referenced seats with residency waiver if required vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye yovm chair dorsey.

>> aye. >> motion passings without objection. >> thank you, mr. clerk. on that item then 7 have theeds recommended to the cannabis oversight commission and upon appointments move to the full board with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk do we have further business >> that completes the agenda for today. >> thank you, clothes and thank you, everybody. we are adjourned.

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>> my family's starts in mexico in a small town. my parents are from a very, very small town. so small, that my dad's brother is married to one of my mom's sisters. it's that small. a lot of folks from that town are here in the city. like most immigrant families, my parents wanted a better life for us. my dad came out here first. i think i was almost two-years-old when he sent for us. my mom and myself came out here. we moved to san francisco early on. in the mission district and moved out to daily city and bounced back to san francisco. we lived across the street from the ups building. for me, when my earliest memories were the big brown trucks driving up and down the street keeping us awake at

night. when i was seven-years-old and i'm in charge of making sure we get on the bus on time to get to school. i have to make sure that we do our homework. it's a lot of responsibility for a kid. the weekends were always for family. we used to get together and whether we used to go watch a movie at the new mission theater and then afterwards going to kentucky fried chicken. that was big for us. we get kentucky fried chicken on sunday. whoa! go crazy! so for me, home is having something where you are all together. whether it's just together for dinner or whether it's together for breakfast or sharing a special moment at the holidays. whether it's thanksgiving or christmas or birthdays. that is home. being so close to berkley and oakland and san francisco, there's a line. here you don't see a line. even though you see someone

that's different from you, they're equal. you've always seen that. a rainbow of colors, a ryan bow of personalities. when you think about it you are supposed to be protecting the kids. they have dreams. they have aspirations. they have goals. and you are take that away from them. right now, the price is a hard fight. they're determined. i mean, these kids, you have to applaud them. their heart is in the right place. there's hope. i mean, out here with the things changing everyday, you just hope the next administration makes a change that makes things right. right now there's a lot of changes on a lot of different levels. the only thing you hope for is for the future of these young kids and young folks that are getting into politics to make the right move and for the folks who can't speak. >> dy mind motion. >> even though we have a lot of fighters, there's a lot of voice less folks and their voiceless

because they're scared.

please stand by for the san francisco budget and fifanc committee meeting of may 24, 2023.

please stand by for the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting of may 24, 2023.

>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 24, 2023 budget finance committee. i'm supervisor chan, joined by supervisor mandelman and shortly by supervisor safai. mr.

clerk, do you have any announcements? >> thank you. friendly reminder to make sure to silence cell phones and electronic devices to not interrupt proceedings. the board and committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow in person attendance and public comment while providing remote access. public comment will be taken on each itemmentf those in person will be allowed to speak first and then those on the telephone line. for those watching remotely and streaming through sfgovtv.org, the public comment call in number is streaming across the and when connected you will hear meeting discussion but muted and listening mode. when your item comes up and your item is called those in person line up to speak and those on the phone dial star 3. if on the telephone please remember to turn down the tv and listening devices. you may submit public comment in writing, e-mail to the

budget finance committee clerk at brent.jalipa@sf (indiscernible) you may send written comments to city hall at 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place room 244 san francisco, california 94102. for item 7 we are working with angela and richard to provide interpreted service and cantonese mandarin and spanish and will provide when public comment is called. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 6. >> thank you mr. clerk. also for today's public comment, to be limited for one minute. with that, also before we call item 1, i like to

remind everyone here that for items 3-7 that actually accompany with budget and legislative analyst rortd. report. we will have the department presentation fallowed by the report and questions and comments and public comment. with that, mr. clerk, please call item 1. >> item 1 is a resolution authorizing the office of the mayor, office of economic workforce development and chief of protocol to solicit the donations from various private entities and organizations to support the city hosting the asia pacific economic corporation summit. notwithstanding the behested payment ordinance. [providing instructions for public comment] madam

chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have shawn elseborn, chief of staff for mayor breed. >> good morning supervisors. thank you very much for taking this item. thank you very much for scheduling the item. supervisor chan, thank you very much for your cosponsorship of the item and president peskin thank you for your cosponsorship of the item. supervisors we can as brief or extended as you like to be. i would like to provide a little summary of what we are asking here first. mayor's office hopefully you and we are hoping to generate as much excitement throughout the city about hosting the apec conference this november. this is truly a historical opportunity. the city will be playing host to 21 heads of state from the pacific rim. this is the largest collection of heads of state

the city ever hosted. a lot of people like to point to the signing of un charter after ww2 . president biden will be here, vice president harris will be here. it is a truly great opportunity beyaunds the heads of state we also expect to have between 600 and 1,000 press credentialed communicators from the 21 different economies around the pacific rim who will be here. it is a opportunity for san francisco to show the world what a impressive city it is and can be. it is a opportunity for our business community for both large and small to highlight the contributions they make in the city, but also the key role they play in the international economy. and it really is what we hope will be a inflection point for the narrative around san francisco. the legislation in front of you is

important in that, as part of the hosting duties the city has a requirement to raise approximately (2) 000-0000 to help facilitate the summit. those dollars will go to everything to reception. we hope to host here in city hall. for the media representatives from around the world. to various catering cost for the leaders at the summit itself which will be held at moscone center and events and transportation cost. this resolution requires as transparency any and all donations will be publicly disclosed. this simply waves the interest ed party pobition and allows solicitations to anybody defined as a interest party. this is for the mayor, chief of protocol, mayor office

and economic workforce development. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> very cool. excited to see this happening and i like to be added as a cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> i would as well. just wanted to ask, what kind of activities do you think the money will be spent on? >> thank you for that question, supervisor. the big big big buckets we do expect as i said on the tuesday that week expect to host right outside the chambers to be hosting reception for the international press. we have a responsibility to host what is called the leaders welcome reception. that location is not yet been publicized but it is not-i can tell will not be here in city hall, but that is a reception where we expect the heads of state, ceo and delegations to be at. we have responsibility to fund

the catering costs for all of the events throughout the week and moscone center. this is hundreds if not thousands of people. there is the basic signage. there is going to be transportation costs. and if we do--our goal is 20but we love to do a lot more and the more we raise the better we can off-set any potential cost the city may incur say around dpt, having to close off streets, dpw having to do extra cleaning cost. fire overtime and police overtime. any dollars we can raise is the better. >> that is what i was trying to get at. it sounds like there would be a need for overtime police and fire and public works so seems to make sense. is there a contingency plan in case we are not able to raise-not saying we

won't, i believe we will because this is a once in a century type of event as you opponented -pointed out for the city, is the mayor planning on putting those dollars in her upcoming budget as a contingency ? >> yes the mayor will propose a line item she will be introduced june 1 for the cost. >> thank you so much. happy to be cosponsor. >> thank you. seeing no more names on the roster--sorry. >> my excitement i forgot to introduce the chief of protocol, marian, deputy chief of protocol (indiscernible) the two of them are playing point in our office. as we get closer my guess is you and your colleagues will get a lot of questions. happy to answer them but they are

playing point on the project and can be your source on the information. >> we have a meeting next week so look forward seeing you then. i appreciate the effort and i think that this is what san francisco needs and the coming months to be able to showcase the city to the world and i really appreciate the mayor and her team's effort on this to bring us to showcase the city and to world stage. with that, let's go to public comment. thank you. >> thank you madam chair. members who wish to speak on the item and joining in person line up now to speak. those joined remotely please dial star 3. if you wish to enter the speaker line. please wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. if we can form the line along the curtains.

as the chair stated, i will start your time for one minute. >> good morning for supervisors. my name is megan murphy the chair person of the league of filipino (indiscernible) san francisco state university and here to denounce the resolution as well as sf hosting this november. i'm particularly concerned at the invitation of heads of state including furd nand (indiscernible) the president of the philippines. we have sown countless killings. roontly with the murder of alex (indiscernible) fighting for the right of call center workers. currently in the philippines (indiscernible) due to father creating a weak national economy dependent on (indiscernible) ballooning the national debt from $22 billion during his time. marcos is

continuing in the legacy and hosting apec and welcoming with open arms it sends the message san francisco is supporting the killings and economic plunder of the filipino people. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is rachel a sf resident and member of organization called malia movement san francisco which advocates for human right said democracy and sovereignty in the philippines. we are concerned as president marcos will will be in san francisco and only pursue economic agreements with multi-national corporations that threatening the livelihoods of filipino workers and indigenous people defending their lands. he is also marcos garnering military funding from the u.s. which contributes to these

human rights atrocities. if you care about the filipino people we urge you to support the philippine human rights or phra, which limit u.s. military aid to the philippines until the government is held accountable for the human rights abuses. we urge you to improve service for filipinos here in san francisco such as housing and preserving filipino language in schools which the community organized against. thank you >> next speaker, please. >> good morning. my name is nilo a san francisco resident and (indiscernible) city college. we are detest apec which in realty does nuther for the working clas here or the working people of the philippines. it is disgusting apec will hold the summit here when they enable expansion of monopoly

destroying for resources and exploit workers for economic growth and global development. (indiscernible) budgeting is also disgusting. it is distasteful she bid $30 million towards the summit and not put the funds helping people who need the in the city. the marcos family is (indiscernible) including youth activist and land defenders the militarization on the countryside and putting our people under marshal law for 9 years. the death of banko brown is the city choosing to allocate the budget in the wrong places. the (indiscernible) still people in the street without a roof over their head. thank you. >> thank you much for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. good morning chair chan and committee members. my name is (indiscernible) and i'm a baristy and grew up thin city. i have seen first hand the increase of

displacement eviction gentrification and police brutality here and overseas. apec is evil and the agenda to (indiscernible) such as giving more economic growth and tourism downtown or open the free market when it looks to put me and immigrants at risk. not address the housing crisis homelessness and police brutality. only seek tuesday increase militarization here and overseas. we will omsee billion airs and fascist leaders to sell out our city and other third world countries like the philippines. (indiscernible) we can allocate these funds towards social services such as housing, base resources rather then increase the police budget that further harms. (indiscernible) thank you. >> thank you. next speaker,

please. >> my name is jordan she, her, they them. i'm here on another item but decided to speak on this because i really denounce this item for the reasons that other commenters had, like because of the oppression of the marcos . i also want to point out the atrocities that will happen here. this isn't poor and working class people. this is another economic growth masterbation summit and it is gross we are spending all the money that could be used towards social service and there will be more police brutality. -i yield my time. (indiscernible) >> thank you for your comments. seeing no further speakers in the chamber, do we have callers on the line? perhaps

that line is unattended. maybe we can go back. we do currently have 8 speakers in the queue. sorry, 8 members of the public listening with 4 members in the queue. if you can unmute our callers, please. >> hi. my name is rick sfu and part of the league of filipino student and firmly oppose the resolution. apec is a venue for heads of states and (indiscernible) sell out countries to the highest bidder. these

deals (indiscernible) working people and military agreements product of protecting- (indiscernible) welcoming dictators of marcus, jr. to enact human (indiscernible) this applies to sf too. money is going to surveillance sirfbs. $37 million in revenue to revitalize downtown is nothing to the sfpd (indiscernible) won't trickle to the workers and $714 million for homeless and help revitalize downtown. mayor breed has a history of ethics violation. how is there not impropriety? (indiscernible) buying off the mayor office. this is worse and the resolution must be delayed if not voted down. thank you. >> thank you much for your comments. next speaker, please >> hi, my name is

alyssa. i work in san francisco with unhoused folks and a member of gabriela oakland. i (indiscernible) san francisco should not be sponsoring apec to begin and asking city officials to do research and learn how it does not provide true economic solutions. it just makes it easier to destroy the environment and exploit vulnerable people. the philippines the country where i'm from will be a target. i oppose the waiving of the behest ordinance because the money spent and mayor breed hopes to raise should be going to folks in san francisco. i seen first hand inadequacy (indiscernible) thank you. >> thank you much alyssa for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is claire and i am a filipino resident of

san francisco and member of organization called gabriela and oppose the apec meeting and behested payment ordinance to support apec. the behested payment ordinance passed to prevent private interest influencing public afacials so this should be the standard the city is held to at all times. not a principle compromised by the sake of profit. the resolution suggests apec will bring $37 million to the city but how much go tuesday the workers who's can not keep up the cost of housing? the workers who keep city moving and exploited and the process of preparing for apec. the (indiscernible) does not translate to increase in wages improved living conditions, the funds will go to hotel corporations who have been union busting and are committing wage threft. go to increase private police and surveillance who target poor and working class residents like banko brown who are being killed for trying to meet basic

needs. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, here in san francisco the united nations was formed. more to have democracy, you supervisors haven't been hearing to the young people not at this meeting, but the previous meetings that apec will not have (indiscernible) you are encouraging countries who funnel drugs into san francisco. you are encouraging governments that do not foster

democracy. but the worst thing you are doing is, encouraging u.s. donations. there is a few of us- >> the speaker time elapsed. sorry to cut anyone off. next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is brandon lee with san francisco committee for human rights in the philippines and last december i was recognized by the board of supervisors as a honoree, and i was born and raised in the sunset district and i gave 9 years of my life to serving indigenous people in

the philippines. they were opposing mining corporations and renewable energy projects that allow corporate plunder of their natural resources. this is why we should not host apec in san francisco. please i beg you all to reconsider hosting this in the city. thank you. >> thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is (indiscernible) with san francisco committee for human rights in the philippines and born and raised in san francisco. i'm thai and not filipino, but anyway--i am concerned about the militarization that apec will bring to the city with 21 heads of states over 10 thousand

people and that (indiscernible) militarized response and negatively impact the people in san francisco. people in (indiscernible) and blinded and so just a level and intensity of response there is probably likely to happen here as well. the same as banko brown and effects of (indiscernible) >> thank you for your comments. just seeking-madam chair, that was the last speaker in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues, i wanted to first thank all the public commenters for their public comments today, expressing the thoughts and particularly i do want to highlight brandon lee we honored in this very chamber and while i understand

the sentiments and the public comments on this, i think that san francisco is definitely a space where that is where all the diverse opinions and thoughts should be able to be said and respected, and so i would like to make the motion to move this item to full board with recommendation, but also allow us the space and time to continue this conversation and consideration about the concerns from the public comments that we gathered today. supervisor safai. >> thank you chair. thank you to the commenters. we obviously want to always be concerned and cognisant of international human rights, and so appreciate their comments here today. also wanted to add my name in the chorus for support for the chief protocol officer. she is newly

appointed and this is probably going to be the biggest task she will take on in her early tenure. we are here to support you madam protocol and we are here to help make this a successful events. this is as i said earlier in the mayor office-once in a century opportunity for san francisco. it has the opportunity to help to showcase all the wonderful things about our city, has a opportunity for us to come together as leaders of the city on showcasing everything that san francisco has to offer, and be a stage for the international community, and what that also provides for is a opportunity for those that are critical of other regime and practices it provides them the space to do that and to highlight those inefficiencies and short-comings and that is a beauty of our democracy. it isn't unique to the

philippines, it is something happening in iran. we are struggling with human rights violations and fight for democracy there. it is happening in the sudan, it is happening all over the world right now and so this provides a opportunity to highlight and talk about those things on this stage as well and so i encourage those that are active and want to be critical and critical of regime to have that space and feel free and highlight the wonders of our democracy. with that, thank you madam chair and here to support this measure today. >> thank you. i appreciate it. i concur with the sentiments that first right amendments is going to be very clear here and it is democratic and what we support in san francisco. the chief of protocol has big shoes to fill since the passing of mrs. shultz and we appreciate you stepping into this role. with that, mr. clerk,

please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward to full board with positive recommendation. mandelman, aye. safai, aye. chan, aye. three ayes. >> the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 2. >> item 2, resolution adopting the city 5 year information and communication technology plan for fy2023-2024 through 2027-2028 pursuant to the administrative code. [providing instructions for public comment] >> thank you. today we have julian johnson. >> hi, good morning.

>> director for the committee of information technology here to make the presentation and the floor is yours. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. thank you for having me today chair chan, supervisor mandelman and supervisor safai. julian johnson here toprint on information communication technology plan for fy23-24 and 27-28 on behalf of information technology. just as a overview for those not familiar, coit is the information technology is city and county of san francisco technology governance body providing a form for leadership for form and use of procurement of technology and inform residents (indiscernible) our main responsibility include developing technology policies enable successful development operation maintenance and support of the city technology. such policies include

cyber security policy, disaster preparedness response and digital access (indiscernible) and then also under technology policy we are responsible for implementing chapter 19 be on the acquisition of surveillance technology and that means reviewing and advising impact reports and policies before they come before the board for potential approval. we also annually develop budget recommendations for any ict project over a hundred k to advice the mayor and board ahead of the annual budget process. monitor completion of the project and compliance of the project with adopted standards and policy and finally what i'm here for today, our responsibility around 5 year planning, we create a 5 year ict plan that represents the city wide coordination on

strategy and investments in the technology in the city. i'll go more in depth what that means. what is the purpose of the 5 year ict plan? it offers coit and city the opportunity to define the city ict priorities, identify projects that align with those priorities and forcast the cost and draft recommend ations how to fund them. this year or over the last year coit surveyed city departments on the top ict priorities for the next 5 fiscal years. we also in that survey found department priorities remain consist want with those identified in the plan 2 years ago. asked city departments to itemize priority projects over a hundred k to help assess city wide need and we also surveyed departments and completion status of previously active projects.

i'm here presenting before you today because the san francisco admin code requires coit create this plan and submit to the mayor and board of supervisors each odd number year so coit approved this plan for board review february 16 of this year and then it also requires the admin code requires the mayor and board adopt the 5 year ict plan by resolution amending as necessary. i like to note the adoption of this plan does not provide funding to departments. funding decisions are made through the annual budget process that you will be undergoing. the priorities inform the annual budget recommendations to the mayor and the board and so it is relevant in that way. so, the plan there is a guiding vision throughout the plan to provide government services that are available and accessible in times of crisis and beyond. over the next 5 years the city has to balance in

order to meet-has to balance the need to replace legacy technology, support it infrastructure and modernize service in a cost efficient and effective manner. in order to do all that there are three level goals that all projects align with in this plan. one is online accessible city services residents can use so projects that align with that goal. as well as integrated city operations efficient and cost effective and it infrastructure that you can trust and i i'll speak more to each of the goals. the first goal around accessibility city service, universal accessibility of government service require ongoing commitment to [speaker speaking too fast] including website and innovating the services to be provided digitally with accessibility at the

forefront (indiscernible) for that goal really the economic impact of covid-19 pandemic and slow pace of the economic recovery requires the city do a lot more with a lot less and so technology solutions must improve efficiency so the city can improve the quality of service delivery without increasing cost. and finally, for the goal ict infrastructure we can trust much like capital projects technology infrastructure requires continual maintenance and investment to insure critical systems are available at all times. all the projects align with the three goals. to give flavor of the projects that are going on in the city, for the online accessible city services, sf.gov website is continuing to be-to have departments on-boarded to the central face for the city and that website aligns

with policy or standard (indiscernible) by coit called the digital accessibility inclusion standard. that insures the digital content for the public is accessible to all of the public including folks with disability, it also insures all vital information on the web sites are translated to chinese spanish and filipino. a project in the plan is supporting departments and moving to sf.gov and aligning with the standards. digital service help moved 52 city departments to sf.gov. this next goal integrated city operations. one example of a project aligning with that goal is the government operations recovery project. initiative aimed addressing staff shortages, contracting

backlog and (indiscernible) this work includes proposing legislative business process changes with focus on developing improving key city systems such as people soft and service now. and then goal 3, (indiscernible) the department of technology has been working on resiliency. cyber security taking steps to secure the city infrastructure by establishing strong policy and practice while integrated cyber security tools such as it risk resiliency application. this application will assist departments with it risk analysis business impact analysis and resilience planning. moving on to the financial forecast. there are various sources that fund all of the it work happening in the city, both the hundred k it projects discussed as well as general it operations. coit allocation is one

source of fundsing dedicated towards a range of projects. projects that cost over a hundred k with the mayor financial forecast. that allocation is typically what coit focuses on when we develop the annual budget recommendation frz the mayor and board and then there are other forms of financial sources that play into it resources in the city so department operational budgets, support all projects under a hundred k and continue the licensing and maintenance cost for technologies. most of the city responding on technology is within department operational budgets. there is department of technology rate model which supports implementation of projects through charge back rates and non general fund sources (indiscernible) [speaker speaking too fast] i'll focus on the coit

allocation since there is where (indiscernible) and so in january of this year, the city 5 year financial plan assumed higher figures for the coit allocations and i think are likely to appear in the mayor proposed budget. here are the initial projections for the coit allocation. and then in terms of what the ict plan projected the information we surveyed from departments there were 83 priority projects totaling estimated cost of $244 million over the next 4 years. $109.5 million of which were request for general fund support. here are table breaking down how those projects break down across goals and general fund request over the next 5 years. and then just to give you a sense of how the coit

allocation has been effected by the financial picture, in january 2019 before the onis etof covid that first bar showed there was a rate of increase from $50 million in the coit allocation in 23-24 up to $80 million expected in 27-28. once covid happened a lot of restructuring had to happen in the budget so the coit allocation took quite a hit and i think this what was assumed in the 5 year is that third turquoise bar that represents roughly $40 million in the fiscal year 23-24 growing to $60 million in 27-28. but again, as mentioned, i think it is much more likely that the current coit allocation is going to be that middle gar that

was projected a year ago before the 5 year plan came out in january and i think roughly likely to say flat in the coit allocation ranging from under $30 million in 23-24 up to maybe 40 millionish in 27-28. that really doesn't align with what we are seeing departments ask for with regards to the major it priorities. with that, one of the couple recommendations from the committee in order to support these projects is to restore coit allocation levels to meet pre-covid levels shown in the first slide so by 27-28 we are back to our original 2019 funding levels and so more aggressively funding over the next 5 years. and then also we suggest considering new funding models outside the coit allocations resilient to economic downturns. with that,

that's my presentation, any questions? >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan. thank you for the presentation. i guess i have a few questions in different areas. just curious about the city's thinking. one is on the topping of overall data security. there was pretty disturbing if you were a former city oakland employee like myself data breach in oakland and i'm curious what we are doing to not have that happen or what our-yeah. exactly that. what are we doing around data security? where is our information? is it on servers, in the cloud, how do we protect it? >> those are really great questions. i certainly can tell you the person that can

answer those questions, mike maxman the city's cyber security officer has really been focused on developing policies and standards in the city to make sure that we don't have here what happened in oakland. we have a fast bounce back and lots of redundancies in place to make sure that our services are not impacted. >> is that work implicateed in the 5 year plan? >> say that again? sorry. >> is that work implicateed in the 5 year plan? >> yes, it is part of the 5 year plan. (indiscernible) has several projects aligning with making sure we are resilient. if there is a disaster or under the category of disaster some sort of highjacking i guess. >> that would be bad. you are not the person to talk about that. i'm guessing theing r answer to the next is similar. a topic we have talked a lot about at this board,

been a couple years, norman yee isn't around anymore so not doing quite as many conversations about justice, but what's going on with justice? is that part of the 5 year plan? what's happening? >> good question. it is also part of the 5 year plan. i believe we just got off the mainframe, which was a big win this last year. that project is reflected in the ict plan itself. i think we are moving towards implementing better integration across case management. i can't speak to it. i will say dt department head linda will be a great speaker to that. >> i think that in the conversation with city administrator carmen chu adjusts was launched june last year and it was

successful implementation. now it is very similar to the chapter 6 database, we built the system and look to the agencies that is the responsible to input the data to actually input the data. in her letter inquiry to law enforcement sfpd, district attorney office who are responsible to input the data into the system. a system is no use if no one puts data in it, so i look forward seeing that and circle back. we do hope to hear that from the report about the implementation of it. >> i guess the last issue i'm curious about and i assume it is in the 5 year plan, but may not be something you can talk about, in the move to have greater transparency and clarity around permitting and have less paper and more

online, i assume that's in this and i don't know if you are in a position to talk about that, but if you are, please do and if you are not, maybe the person who can. >> once again, sorry to say, the permit center director (indiscernible) she helped-she was one of the authors in the plan as linda and mike and they included updates on the projects in the plan. >> i want to point it is page 11 of the plan that is on the file right now. >> sor ry- >> listed with the permit center about just the digital queue, customer support and centralized (indiscernible) i think it is there and we can definitely go through that too. >> thank you >> and talk to the permit center. okay. thank you. >> thank you. what i

don't see though, i think that we have briefly talk about that and i know it is a 5 year plan, i do see that part of it is according to this plan, part of that is digital equity, and i think for me that also part of it means language access. can you speak about that because the plan doesn't really show in terms of dollar amount. i think it does talk about digital equity or access in general, but can we talk about implementation of language access? >> yes, happy to. i'll refer back to the digital inclusion standards. a key part of the standard is focused on language access. it incorporates the language access ordinance

requirement that-information be available in the threshold languages in the city, chinese, spanish and filipino. the standard requires all city websites, digital platforms have information, human translated. we know there is lots of great ai tools in the world, but don't always function or fully understand the breath of the human language, and so- >> sorry to interrupt. i should be more specific to my questions. to date according to the presentation you have 52 city departments already adopting the ais, which is the system that really inclusive of language access. clearly we have more to go, so within this 5 year plan, what is the plan within 5 years, how many more city departments will

be accomplishing that? >> got it. all city departments should be accomplishing that. not all city departments are expecting to move to sf.gov. i should be clear. there are only (indiscernible) the standard path by coit applies to all departments so any funding that they expect to put towards that sort of accessibility work language accessibility should have been included in the numbers reported through the project or included in the department operational budgets, because everyone is expected to make sure their websites comply with that standard. one way to help comply is just move to sf.gov where there is a central group of folks very focused insuring that information is provided accessbly both in terms of folks with disability, but across language access. >> what is the committee on information technology plan on making sure that they do either integrate into sf.gov

or in compliance? >> the standard requires everyone be in compliance by may 2024 with both existing and new-any existing websites be made compliant by may 2024 and newly created websites comply now and we have been doing regular engagement with department said to understand how they plan to meet the deadline. we had our second check in with departments may 18 where they were supposed to do assessment over the last 6 to 8 months of their existing websites to see where they were in compliance or not,b and then from this may through next may 2024 they are supposed to working on remediating issues they found. if there is information not available in those threshold languages vital information not available in the threshold

languages they need to be working on that over the next year. >> director johnson, i love to circle back and perhaps just have you bring back this plan and for updates in january 2024. a few months ahead to understand the compliance on language access, how that progress has been for all city departments beyond these 52 city departments and i appreciate it. i don't see other names on the roster. mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person line up now. for those joined remotely press star 3 to enter the speaker line and for those in the queue please continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. no in person speakers in the chamber. if you could unmute the caller, please. >> great. can you hear me okay? >> please begin.

>> great. david pillpel. i have three items to comment. on the ict plan i spoke about this at coit. i'm not particularly impressed with the text of this year's ict plan. i don't think the plan text compares well to the capital plan which i find much more detailed and thoughtful. never the less, i think the ict plan before you does comply with the administrative code and i support this item. if i had more time i might speak about cyber websites and other it projects but don't have time today. thanks for listening. >> do we have anymore callers? that completes the queue. >> thank you. public comment is closed. i would like to make the motion to move this to full board with recommendation, and mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward the resolution to full board with

positive recommendation, mandelman, aye. safai, aye. chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. >> thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk, please call item 3. >> item 3 is a resolution approving the professional services agreement contract number pro.0179, wastewater capital plan delivery program management consultant to aecom technical service inc. to provide program management consulting not to exceed $90 million of term of 10 years effective upon approval of this resolution pursuant to the charter. members of the public calling and wish to comment call 415-655-0001 meeting id, 25957659214 and press pound twice and once connected press star 3. madam chair.

>> thank you mr. clerk. today we have steven robinson assistant general manager from infrastructure. >> good morning. thank you. steven robinson general manager for infrastructure sfpuc to award contract for wastewater capital plan program management consultant to aecom to provide program management consulting service and replacing existing program contract nearing capacity. i'm joined by raquel mason the program administrator and we have representative from aecom as well. just recap and background, combined sewer in san francisco is combined meaning sanitary and storm water in the same system. thousand miles of pipe and three treatment plants in san francisco and also one on treasure island. this is infrastructure that we are working on and in the process of moving from less affordable

one time large investment approach to more sustainable strategic capital planning approach based on asset management. the last major investment in the system is in the clean water act in the 70 so our goal is keep pace with a more sustainable reinvestment in the system and try to smooth the curve. we have three programs in the wastewater capital plan. the sewer system improvement the larjest of the 3. there is facility infrastructure program overlapping and ongoing renewal and replacement program that continues in a steady state. if you look at the right we are trying to move to is to raise the renewal and replacement bar. we want to merge the sewer system improvement program with facilities infrastructure together to one capital plan. this helps improve clarity, consistency and accountability. our goal is to right-size the capital plan for affordability

and deliverability. the current program contract and focused on the sewer system improvement plan. the new contract will support the entire wastewater enterprise capital improvement program which includes the three programs in a more integrated way. how did we get here? following sewer system master plan rfx there was a series of workshops in 2010 to define goals and levels of service to help with that the current program contract was awarded in 2011 for period of 15 years to start up the program. (indiscernible) 2018 and again in 2020. now we look forward to the rolling 10 year cip which we rebudget every 2 years as part of the normal budget capital planning process. the s165 is near capacity but been ex

osted before the contract duration. there was a significant ramp up in the early years of the program to get off the ground as we invested in major projects. neither projects are up and running and the (indiscernible) contract will allow to sustain and keep the work going, but also to regroup and reimagine how we deliver the cip in today's market. we did not want a second iteration of the project. we have a opportunity to support delivery of the entire cip. this graphic shows how we separate planning and administration adding a few task for strategic capital planning and also removed the controls and preconstruction manage lt we stopped using during the cs165 program. in order to set the budget for this new contract we looked hard and from a bottom up based

approach looking at resources and full time equivalent and looked from a top down perspective on the projects in the capital plan and we also bench marked the contract for what we have been expending over the last decade. we did encourage audit and great we went through a audit process in 22-23 and external audit through the controller's office and the contract was deemed to be in compliance but there is room for improvement on the puc needs to work on contract management. we concured with all recommendations in the audit report to insure program contract management contract and procedures are probust before the next 10 year project. some of the recommendations are complete and all will be complete by the time this next contract starts. just brief look at the schedule for how we got to where we are today. we advertised the contract june last year concluded the evaluation in january and looking forward hopefully to awarding and getting to work in july of this year.

(indiscernible) set up the evaluation process and a table to show how the maximum points are broken down. we had three proposals which went through a interview process. we also included the voluntary submittal for diversity equity inclusion and also for social impact partnership program. there was a protest from both of the firms not successful and we did follow the normal process and the process was denied. this item is award the contract to aecom technical service. (indiscernible) is the largest of sfpuc capital programs for water power and sewer. we carefully considered the work we need to do and what we can do in-house and what we use a consultant for. the contract has a 15 percent lbe goal and the proposer committed to 20.25 percent.

happy to take questions and also supported by folks with me today. >> thank you. bla. >> good morning, nick monard, budget legislative analyst office. item 3 is a resolution that would approve a new agreement with aecom and puc, the agreement has a initial 10 year term and option to extend 5 years and currently not to exceed $90 million. the agreement includes $900 thousand social impact partnership commitment which we detail in our report. we also detailed the budget on page 8 of our report and breaking out the $90 million not to exceed amount. we felt like puc had a thoughtful approach to estimating the not to exceed amount. cost for this

contract are fronted by wastewater rate payers. we also noted that this is the second wastewater enterprise agreement we reviewed where there haven't been annual performance evaluations of the contract as required by the department own policies, and i do think this is a high risk area for the city and so it is for that reason we are recommending that the board request puc to improve the existing language in this proposed agreement to specify there will be annual performance evaluations as required by the department's own policies and otherwise recommend approval of item 3. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> i'm curious the bla can talk more about the risk and why from the bla perspective this is problem and curious from puc, do you agree and

why isn't it happening? >> sure. well, i think there are a couple-wastewater is obviously-can be dangerous so if the capital improvement is not plans are not proceeding and facilities not maintained there are regulatory risk, risk to the residents the water leaks and there was a consent decree 15 years ago related to a leak. the other issue is the controller's own audit on the existing contract found that puc wasn't managing this agreement well, including spending $150 million that was supposed to last 15 years before the agreement ended and they were not vetting task orders and couldn't provide sufficient documentation for approving task orders, so there was i think a lot of

internal management issues that if they were active performance evaluations of the contractor would be a method to just better manage the outcomes of the agreement. >> okay, thank you. i mean, from puc perspective does that sound right or do you agree in part or disagree in part? what is your sense of the risk of not doing these performance evaluations? >> risk is a interesting word and can mean a lot of different things and would internalize like the comment made toward contracting and procurement how we execute the work. (indiscernible) did expend earlier then plan. i explained why the increased rate was necessary. to put in performance evaluation process on a better cost control measure will help mitigate the risk to make sure the next

contract is executed more appropriately perhaps. i would say two things, one relatively new to the commission. we made a commitment to update policies and procedures. and yes, we are happy to amend the contract to say we will do performance evaluations on a annual basis the contract language it says may or may not so there is interpretation there and we want to- >> why wouldn't that have been done, going back. not you, you were not there. >> the procedure at the moment isn't as clear as it could be but the frequency who does the evaluation and the level and purpose is a simple form used-should be used on annual basis so want to improve the clarity it should occur and why and benefit of that and how it feeds on a long duration contract that last 10 years. the previous was 15 so there are checks and balances to make sure we are doing the right work in the right way.

that help answer your question? >> sort of. there is often procedural requirements trying to get at different risks, and we--i'm curious when city departments don't do on paper what they are supposed to do and whether that is because there is is a capacity problem or a actually we don't think this is that important and not addressing the thing you think it is so don't want to do it. not hearing disagreement here, it sounds like the bla is saying this is something that is actually a good practice and would reduce the risk of bad outcomes on the level of discharges, and also would help with managing cost and things like that. sounds like you

agree with that, and that is why you are saying you will do it rather then just-it says we need to do this, this is pointless, but we'll do it anyway. it is nice to see if that is what happening? >> i think the work of the program contract and work of the cip is protect public health and environment. (indiscernible) discharges in work that happens in the city but internalize more to the contracting processes. the performance evaluation process specifically, i don't think will get to cost control. it goes to performance of evaluation of the consultant. one of the other recommendations from the audit and procedures we are in the process of updating and requirements we have in the next contract is have a better forecast for plan of expenditure over the duration tof the contract. those combined will help. >> what things would performance evaluation look and

catch? >> (indiscernible) we think of individual career performance evaluations, they are hard conversations but should be about improvalment and having a plan, how to adjust what is going well and not going well, so our process and puc is very similar. the evaluation of performance how the consultant perform with a certain piece of scope over a certain time for budget, rb is it on schedule and budget [speaker speaking too fast] all the requirements we have under that scope of work fallowed. is there a area for improvement? it is helpful to do that on reasonably frequency to learn and adjust and make sure we spend the ratepayer money well. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor safai. >> thank you chair chan. who is head of the wastewater enterprise? >> that is currently

vacant. acting assistant manager jewel (indiscernible) has been with wastewater enterprise for a while but (indiscernible) moved a month or so ago. >> i want to add on to some things that supervisor mandelman said. i just-this is in the bla report and read the language. it says the lack of annual contract annual performance evaluation appears to be a vision wide phenomenon for wastewater enterprise. you are here on behalf of the department today and appreciate jeremy and hard work and communication he provides to our body, but please convey back to the acting head of assistant general manager for wastewater enterprise that we evaluated this working with our bla, we see this as a division wide problem because it is not unique just to this contract and something i know

whether it's homeless supportive housing, whether it's mayor office of community development, whatever contracts we are giving out,b it is the charge of this body asking-this is a large amount of money, $90 million and as it should be because it is a significant amount of work, we want to insure that there are performance evaluations, particularly if it is part of scope of your work, so just want to say that to the record. i know we are going to update the proposed contract so it is subject to annual performance evaluations, but it is not just for this contract, we want to be on the record to ask you to insure that you take that back to your division, we'll convey that also through jeremy to the general manager, but this seems to be a wastewater enterprise issue. >> i think we have seen on the two larger contracts because that is the peak of investment is happening now but

the performance evaluation policy procedure that i'm mentioning lives within infrastructure, the division i'm responsible for that supports all three of the enterprises. i made the commitment and in the process updating- >> just a final point, another thing-it is also on the energy side, you have come to us because of the need to be flexible and nimble. not in your area, but jeremy knows what i'm talking about to say you no longer want to come before the body for approval on certain contracts because you need to act quickly and nimbly to respond so in that instance we are not having additional review. it is something that i think just to take under consideration. i think it is a really important point that that's something that we are hearing more and more about. performance measures is a really important aspect. it just doesn't-it makes sense to me that you-we have the same

thing with sfmta with tires. they were not evaluating the tires and were not getting the information back and so hard for us to know if we get the best bang for the buck, regardless of the process by which you went through to choose the contractor. we want to insure the contractor is performing well. thank you madam chair. >> thank you supervisor. i concur and i think-i appreciate you agreeing to the practice and continue the practice of performance adit and are evaluation. i do think that help us track the progress. ultimately it helps us not just making the progress budget-not just on time but also on budget as well. with that, let's go to-before i go to public comment, i want to acknowledge the oakland international high school joining us here today. we appreciate you being here and welcome to san francisco and the board of supervisors chamber. with that,

mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. members of the public who wish to speak and joining in person line up now along the curtains. for those joining remotely dial star 3. if you-for those already in the queue continue to wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, if you could unmute our first of two callers, please. >> next one. >> that seems to be unattended. perhaps we can loop back to that one. if you can

unmute the caller, please. >> great. david pillpel. the wastewater enterprise projects are important and i support them, i think we should add city staff to perform the core work here with limited consultant support on specialized task city staff are not expert in. i think there is a opportunity to staff up at puc and public works to perform much of the work. i would work with local 21, add city staff, rescope the rfp. you may want to continue to call of the chair to allow firthser discussion. i do not support this resolution as presented at this time and thank you very much for listening. >> thank you for your

comments. next speaker, please. >> so, first and foremost, this was-this started as a $6 billion project. it is now nearing $12 billion, and in all this time aecom has had a role to play and failed us. (indiscernible) millions of dollars wasted. a good firm that worked on this project is nwh. the budget analyst has to talk to this company and find out how these clowns are managing this huge contract and now aecom should be removed, totally.

totally removed. because you (indiscernible) >> speaker time elapsed. >> operations and maintenance, project delivery. >> speaker times elapsed. >> we have (indiscernible) here we have a clown giving us-were a >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> thank you, seeing no more public comment, public comment is closed. i like to move to full board with recommendation and with that, please call the roll. >> on the motion to forward resolution to full board with positive recommendation. vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, >> member safai >> aye. chair chan, aye. >> thank you the motion passes. please call item number 4. >> item 4 is hearing

to consider the release of reserved funds to public utilities commission placed on the budget and finance committee to reserve by ordinance number 4-13 in the amount of approximately $6.8 million to fund the transmission lines 7/8 upgrades project. members joining remotely and wish to comment please call 415-655-0001, id25957659214. press pound twice and once connected star 3. a prompt indicate you raised your hand and when the system indicates you are unmuted you can begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. today we have presentation by margaret hanferred division manager from hetch hetchy water power. looks like a online presentation today? >> yes. good morning chair chan, supervisor safai and supervisor mandelman. i'm

margaret, the puc manager of the hetch hetchy water in california. i would like to thank you chair chan for scheduling this hearing on the release of approximately $6.9 million on budget finance committee reserve for the puc transmission line, 7/8. january 2013 the board approved ordinance 4-13 that authorized the puc to enter into mitigation agreements for projects that impact the power assets and required any future funds excess of hundred thousand dollars for given mitigation agreement be placed on budget and finance committee reserve. just to be clear, these are not city general funds or rate payer funds, they are mitigation payments we are receiving from other renewable energy developers in california for impacts on our

power assets. the puc has identified three project cost totaling 20active generation projects that would effect the puc power transmission lines 7 and 8. these transmission lines extend approximately 12.6 miles from the puc warnerville substation near the town of oakdale to (indiscernible) substation in the city of modesto. the puc is using these mitigation funds for the transmission lines 7, 8 upgrade project which mitigate the risk of imposed by the interconnection of these electric generating project to the grid modifying existing powers and reconduct the transmission lines. the total estimated cost of the project is $37.97 million. the puc anticipates receiving approximately $33.3 million in

mitigation payments for the project. the puc enter under to agreement with 15 developers for total of $29.119 million with 5 mitigation agreements still being negotiated. of the $29.119 million in signed agreements, the puc has received $27.43 million in payments and $1.69 million in letters of credit. construction for our project began in september, 2022 and scheduled to be completed in july 2024. contract close-out is expect ed to be complete by december 2024. a portion of the project cost have been funded by hetch hetchy water and power capital program. as mitigation funding becomes available, it is used to reimburse the capital program funds. in august of 2020, the budget finance committee approved the release

of $9.47 million in mitigation payments held on reserve. july 2022 the board of finance approved the $12 million in payments held on reserve. of the $21.47 million previously released, $1.4 million has been spent on planning design, and $19.67 million remains incumbered for construction activities. the remaining $392.711 and this requested release of approximately $6.9 million will be for remaining construction cost. (indiscernible) become available, it will also be used to reimburse the capital program funds. hetch hetchy water and power respectfully request release of

6 million, 877 thousand, 765 dollars and 24 cents in reserve for the transmission lines 7/8 upgrade project. thank you and happy to respond to any questions. >> thank you. bla report. >> thank you. item 4 is a request to release from committee reserves $6.8 million. the source of these funds are mitigation payments that are required by the california independent system operator to mitigate the cost to up grade infrastructure resulting from new energy development. we detailed the project on page 14 of our report that budget shows this is a $38 million upgrade to two transmission lines near oakdale that are impacted by new energy develops so this release $6.8 million of those mitigation payments to off-set

the cost of that project. we recommend approval. >> thank you. i do have a quick question for sfpuc, the fact it looks like according to the budget and legislative analyst report that there is still 5 mitigation agreements being negotiated and so i think my question is, with the release of this mitigation payment that is on currently on reserve, what are we looking at? do we have a sense of dollar amount and on the 5 mitigation agreements that is still being negotiated right now or is that something you can disclose today? >> we have approximately 5 mitigation agreements left. the value of that is about $4.5 million, and we are actively discussing one

developer that (indiscernible) so, we do feel that we will be successful at recovering a large portion of that remaining amount, which is about $4.5 million. >> great. thank you so much for the information. seeing no name on the roster, mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. [providing instructions for public comment] no in person speakers in the chamber, if you can unmute the caller, please. >> great. david pillpel. last item today at this committee. this item release reserve funds for power line upgrade from warnerville to (indiscernible) i believe the puc fallowed all the applicable procedures and

steps here and i support releasing the funds. thanks for listening. >> thank you david pillpel. do we have anymore callers? madam chair, that completes the queue. >> public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation and please call the roll. >> actually- >> we need to-got it. first, the motion will include to file this hearing and approve the release of the reserve. >> on that motion to approve the release of $6.8 million in reserve, and that this hearing be heard and filed. vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, absent. chair chan, aye. we have two ayes with member safai absent. >> thank you motion

passes. thank you. mr. clerk, could you please call item 4 and 5 together? >> 5, 6, madam chair? >> sorry, 5 and 6. >> 5 and 6 approve the grant agreement between city and county to provide scattered site housing and rental subsidy administration service to seniors and adults and disability during the period of july 1, 2023 through june 30, 2027 for total not to exceed amount of approximately $15 million and item 6 is institute on aging for the provision of the community living fund program for the period of july 1, 2023 through june 30, 2027 for not to exceed of approximately $22.7

million. [providing instructions for public comment] madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. we have melissa mcgee, program manager for office of community partnership from human service agency. i believe you are here to present on both items 5 and 6. i appreciate it. thank you. the floor is yours. >> thank you. good morning supervisors. as stated my name is melissa mcgee a program manager with the office of community partnership at department of disability and aging with hsa. here today to present the contract with brilliant corners for 4 year term to administer the scattered site housing rental subsidy program. this program is funded under the community living fund providing housing options for residents of skilled nursing facilities and individuals in the

community at risk for institutionalization and facilitate independent community living for participants. the scattered site and rental subsidy program using a person centered aprovide to provide (indiscernible) tenant landlord liaison, housing retention, wellbeing inspection and unit modification and repairs. participants receiving service must meet elg frblt the community living fund program. the community living fund program works closely and collaboratively with brilliant corners participating in the integrating housing meeting for coordination of transition to community living. objecives of the scattered site housing program are locate the most appropriate housing for participants, transitioning from institutions or prevent institutionalization

and for that housing to provide a stable long-term living situation. i welcome any comments or questions. >> thank you. item 5 is a resolution that approve new grant agreement to hsa and brilliant corners. this is for the period june 2023 to june 2027 and has not to exceed of $15 million. approximately. this primarily provides rental subsidies to seniors and other adults with disabilities. brilliant corner is the current provider for these services and so we did review the most recent annual program monitoring report completed by the department, we didn't see issues there and we note on page 21 of the report that the annual grant budget for this

service is $3.4 million, 75 percent going towards rental subsidies. this serves 110 clients per year. and this is funded by the community living fund which is largely funded by the general fund as well as federal funds. we do recommend approval of item 5. >> thank you. do you have a presentation for the-- >> you want me to go into the community living fund? >> yes. >> okay. good morning again. so, again melissa mcgee department of disability and aging services. i'm here today to present the contract with institute on aging ioa

for community living fund program for the next 4 years beginning july 1 of this year. the community living fund program provides home and community based services using two pronged approach of coordinated case management and purchase of goods and services to older adults and adults with disabilities who are making the transition from skilled nursing facilities to community living or individuals in the community who are at risk for institutionalization. the community living fund created by the city in july 2006, developed so older adults and adults with disabilities could access services and supports to live independently in the community. rather then in a institutional setting. the community living fund is a payer of last report thereby providing service not provided by other means. the community living fund program enables older eligible older adults and adults with

disabilities to remain safely in their home as long as possible. provides financial support to community based long-term care and supportive services, offers flexible wrap around services rkss facilitate development of service delivery models to strengthen support. target population includes individuals ready for discharge from laguna honda hospital, zuckerberg general and other san francisco skilled nursing facilities. or individuals who are imminent risk of institutional placement but willing and able to remain in the community with services. priority for these services is given to residents of laguna honda hospital and zuckerberg general hospital. the program works collaboratively with dos and the centralized intake unit to facilitate referrals to the program. the institute on aging is the current provider

of the clf program along with community subcontractors. that's my presentation. if you have any comments or questions. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> item 6 is also a resolution approving a new grant agreement between the human services agency and the institute on aging. this is a agreement that goes from july 2023 through june 2027 and this agreement has a not to exceed of $22.75 million. this agreement provides case management services to people who are at risk of institutionalization, so people coming out of skilled nursing facility that can potentially live independently with some help with case management and there is a also component of this grant agreement that is

purchase of services, so it allows the clients to purchase goods and service to allow them to live independently. you see on page 25 of our report the annual grant budget is about just over $5 million, largely funded by the general fund. this is a new grant agreement, part of the result of a competitive process for which the institute on aging was the sole proposer. what we saw last year is that the institute on aging only served about half the number of clients that they are contracted for. they are supposed to serve about 400, they are served about 200 last year. we got more updated data from the human service agency that shows this year

they are on track to also serve about half those clients so as of may they served 218 out of the 425 they are contracted for. according to the department to some extent this is related to issues at laguna honda because there is a pause on discharge and that is a pipeline for clients for this program and the agency is intending to basically expand outreach to other skilled nursing facility. i do-50 percent of units of service i think is stands out to me as unusually under-performing, and we look at a lot of grant agreements that come through this and other committees and this is significant and does not appear to have improved over the past 12 months and in addition to

that, the spending on the contract, i was perplexed by because the purchase of service component i assume to some extent would be variable and tied to the number of clients served, but in fact, last year the institute on aging fully spent the $1.8 million of purchase of services evenen though they only served 50 percent of the clients they are contracted for. hsa has provided updated data that shows the average cost per client has gone up by 50 percent due to inflation of goods and services over the past couple years. the cast of assisted living. the cost of goods that people need to make their dwelling units accessible or otherwise live independently, but it was only-the information was only explained 50 percent of the increase. i think from my perspective either the

$1.8 million budget for purchase of service, is sufficient to serve 200 clients, or 400 clients and they fully spent it on 200. there is a grant going forward keeps it at that level. >> 200 or 400? >> 1.8 million dollar for 400 clients. i feel there is disconnect between the budget and target number of clients. i again am concerned they are only serving half the number of clients and again, these are people leaving laguna honda or similar facility. i think-in is a situation like this, our position is that rather then approve a multiyear agreement, the committee should consider approving a shorter term agreement so the department can

then come back and amend the contract to extend the term through the full year they are requesting now. i think come back in a year or two to show the improved performance. performance has not improved, a plan to switch to a different provider, to bring in-house- >> or do a cost adjustment? >> right, or do a cost adjustment. to provide alternative service delivery. and perhaps right-size the budget. those are my thoughts. i think there are a couple options. the board authority to approve agreements is $10 million so you can reject the resolution, they could do an agreement for $9.99 million and come back to amend it. that would give them all most two years based oen the existing grant budget of $5 million, or

if the department agrees you could work with them right now to lower the not to exceed amount to be a two year agreement i believe that is $10.4 million, they could then come back that provides sufficient time for a performance improvement process to take place and i think that would be appropriate in this case. >> thank you. vice chair mandelman. >> yeah. thanks to the bla and curious for human service agency that sounds peculiar. what do you think is going on? >> well, all the statements of course are accurate from the-part of the-in terms of the purchase of service they may or not be the same client so not necessarily the 200. there are clients who are just receiving purchase of service and part of the cost of that is inflation, especially in home care and rental subsidies as

stated. it increased $1300 average per client over the past couple years so that is-in terms of the intensive case management being part of this is, some pandemic related things, issues with laguna honda, continuing to have the staff and operating costs static as referrals come in or out, buts the department does agree with there recommendation to enter into two year contract and to implement increased performance measures that we'll monitor at more regular intervals and set guideposts and then evaluate as we approach the end of the-evaluating along, but at the end of the two year period whether to come back and extend the grant or make

other accommodations or recommendations. we are in agreement with that and if that were the case then we would request approval of the 2 year contract in the amount of i think 11 thousand 414 dollar. >> 11 thousand or 11 million? >> $11 million >> i would triple that. $11 million? >> 11 million, 414, 740 and that is exactly half of the current request. >> great. i appreciate that. i appreciate the willingness to making this adjustment. i think after all-what we love to see is i think that the budget legislative analyst mr. monard mentioned it really well. i think the key term is to right-size the budget. to serve to be exactly that we understand how many clients that we need to serve, and to right-size the budget

accordingly. i'm not in a space to think that the cost of inflation or the intensiveness of care that is required, especially in the case of the status of current status of the laguna honda, i am not questioning too much about if 50 percent cost increase, but a little bit. i would like to understand a bit more and have more information. of course i understand the impact of pandemic as well on this very vulnerable population, by far the most vulnerable so appreciate the willessness to scale it back with not to exceed dollar amount and we can actually have a conversation and moving forward about how in the next 2 fiscal years figure how to right-size the program but not drop the service since it is coming up july this year.

with that, mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. thank you. [providing instructions for public comment] seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, if you can unmute our caller, please. >> so, supervisors and the lady who dpaiv gave the presentation, my name is francisco decosta, and for decades i was involved in laguna honda, and it is very easy for us to forget

about laguna honda, which created a problem all over our city. the seniors want to remain under one roof, and not be forced to live in a congregate situation because of the pandemic, ongoing pandemic for seniors, and i want to meet you face to face to tell you of the many people that come to me and how (indiscernible) to provide them with housing. >> thank you for your comments. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> thank you, public comment is now closed. i would like to make the motion to amend item 6, which is the contract with institute of aging as

discussed and recommended by the budget legislative analyst and agreed by human service agency that we will scale back the contract to 2 years from now, so is 2025, and the not to exceed amount of 11 $11 million roughly stated by the human services agency and with that, mr. clerk, can we have a roll? >> on that motion to amend the resolution as item 6 accepting the bla recommendation to scale back as read into the record by the chair. vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. i would like to make a motion to move item 5 and item 6 as amended to full board with recommendation. >> on the motion to forward 5 and 6 to the full

board with positive recommendation, item 6 as amended, vice chair mandelman, aye. member safai, aye. chair chan, aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you. motion passes. and mr. clerk, please call item 7. >> item 7, ordinance appropriating $10,000,000 from the general reserve for the following uses: $4,000,000 to the office of economic and workforce development for nonpolice ambassadors for areas of the tenderloin that currently lack such coverage, $3,000,000 to the office of economic and workforce development for small business safety and security grants, and $3,000,000 to the department of public health to launch the tenderloin street dealing intervention program in fiscal year (fy) 2022-2023. [providing instructions for public comment]

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>> thank you very much. do we have angela on the line? >> yes. i am here. i'm on the line. this is angela. interpreter. >> yes, if you can provide our public comment instructions in language, please. [providing public comment instructions] >> thank you much.

with that madam chair-- >> thank you mr. clerk. oom polk going to hand this over to supervisor preston who is the sponsor of this appropriation. >> thank you very much chair chan and members of the budget committee for hearing this item today. i know you have a lot of things on your place and appreciate being on the agenda. i will try to keep opening remarks short. i have a short presentation and then i understand some of the applicable departments are available if there are questions from the committee members. there has-as i think we all know been a lot of focus recently on safety in the tenderloin and for obvious and good reasons, i hope we can all agree that urgent measures are necessary to improve

neighborhood safety in the tenderloin and while we are focused on longer term efforts to get at root causes of neighborhood crime, many of which i hope to see addressed through the budget process, this supplemental seeks funding specifically for three measures that have a more immediate positive impact on neighborhood safety and security. i'll go through themane little more details. ambassadors. safety and security grants for small business and non police street dealing intervention teams. i'll expand on those in a minute. i wanted to give a little more context how we got here. i introduced this emergency safety supplemental for the tenderloin in march. at the time we were deep into a debate here at the board of supervisors regarding the police department

supplemental $25 million, and i think there was some probably unfortunate- [phone ringing] framing of this supplemental as an alternative to the police supplemental and want to say clearly that i think that it is not one or the other and are never has been, so regardless of folks views on police funding, i believe the programs in this emergency supplemental are things that can bring everyone together and everyone should support. again, regardless how they feel increasing or decreasing the police budget. i along with budget chair chan and want to express appreciation to chair chan for facilitating a meeting with the mayor budget office last month to discuss whether there is special support from the mayor for these crucial

programs and investments coming out of those meetings unfortunately we were not able to get any commitments of support from her office and so therefore we pushed at that time to go ahead and have this callandered. my hope is those discussions are ongoing with the budget office, but in the meantime i think these are urgent items and that's why we wanted to make sure to get this hearing calendared as soon as possible so we can get work toward getting investments and programs out the door and into the streets of the tenderloin. the need is-i dont think anyone would argue that the need is overwhelming. i think people may have different solutions, but again, i think this collection of proposals is one that my hope is that can have more universal support. let me jump into the

preezentation we put together. my hope is in the interest of time to just be able to pgive you this overview. if there are questions i know you will want to hear from b all bla and happy to answer questions and department oewd department of public health and department of emergency management is standing by for questions. mr. clerk, through the chair, you are one step ahead of me. thank you for putting up the slides. go to the first slide. total appropriation here is $10 million that we are seeking. what the package includes is $4 million for community ambassadors, gaps that exist in the tenderloin and we'll show the map soon that shows the area we are talking about. $3 million for grants to small businesses for safety and security. this is

specifically for small businesses in the tenderloin and then the third bucket of funds is $3 million for launching street dealing intervention team. all of these are made necessary by a history i don't need to go back over of the tenderloin often treated as a containment zone for many of the challenges the city faces and being under invested for decades and despite recent investments and i want to say beyond the contversal policing investments there have been positive community lead investments, but the neighborhood still undenybly has significant public safety needs and that is what the supplemental is seeking to address. next slide, please. so, first up the ambassador gaps we are trying to fill, this is something i raised a question with the mayor and we have been trying to get these gaps filled since the redistricting a year

ago working with community residents, and i want to point out for the blocks that have community ambassadors and all there are different programs operating in the tenderloin, our office received overwhelmingly positive response to community ambassadors. we having a separate hearing to go into details of different ambassador programs and people have the praise and critiques for different programs, but i think overall there is a overwhelmingly positive response to the idea of and realty of having ambassador coverage. the problem is in the tenderloin the way this has been rolled out is to provide significant coverage, sometimes overlapping multiple program coverage in certain blocks without covering other blocks and predictbly conditions have gotten once on the blocks with no coverage, so a plan that i

supported that this board supported that the mayor supported of having a community ambassador presence on blocks thin tenderloin has served to improve certain blocks and make things significantly worse on other blocks to the frustration of residents and small business on the blocks experiencing increase in drug dealing and safety hazards and deteriorating conditions as people move from the blocks with ambassadors to the blocks that don't have them t. is a about a third of the tenderloin with no ambassador coverage and what calming benefits we have on the blocks with coverage we see the opposite on blocks without coverage. let's go to the next slide, which is the current ambassador coverage. this map shows whautis covered within our district 5 boundaries. different colors reflect different ambassador programs,x and again we'll go through some of this in more detail around what

these different programs offer next week in gao but the important point is look what is not covered. let's go to the next slide and if you look what is in red here, this is the area that we are seeking through the supplemental to fund ambassador coverage for. about a third of the tenderloin. a very significant chunk so if you look the lower portions have multiple ambassador programs operating. the oper portion the northern portion of the tenderloin and western portion have no coverage what so ever, no assistance for residents and made the conditions worse. i want to emphasize it is also really i believe harming our efforts to build support for models of street presence that are alternatives to police and provide calm ing of blocks, eyes on the street and

when things get worse in a neighborhood obviously we lose public support for those programs. i want to say it isn't just our office, the residents and the merchants of these areas have been now for a year pointing this out and it makes absolutely no sense we continue to not provide this and my hope is through the supplemental we will cover the rest of the tenderloin. next slide, please. the small business grants that are planned for small business up to $10 thousand each, this is a very important part of the supplemental. we heard from small business in the tenderloin about the unique challenges of operating business in the tenderloin. these will give small business owners the ability to protect businesses workers and customers. want to note these are paired with through add-back funds. we provide district 5 businesses with free consultation grants through sf safe so they are able to get assistance and have

their fees waived in district 5 to get those assessments with a non profit sf safe on what improvements could help with safety and security for small businesses. but what is not funded is the actual improvements so this allows grants administered by economic and workforce development to improve safety and security and possibly uses that we heard from the folks who requested we do this, include gates, indoor security cameras, strustaff people in the evening shifts when workers feel less safe being working alone in a small business, late night transportation options as well for folks leaving work late in the evening on unsafe blocks. those are just examples. the purpose is work with oewd to further define those grants. next slide and this is

the final bucket of funds, the street dealing intervention team. this would help with violence interruption and to the extent possible redirection of drug dealers who may be ready for a change themselves. there is currently little to no engagement other then sending police out. the other neighborhoods including the fillmore, bayview, mission have dedicated violence prevention teams through svip. they don't have a dedicated program in the tenderloin and they've-i think everyone agrees there are specific needs for violence intervention in the neighborhood, these teams can really play a crucial role in our ability to make long lasting improvements in the neighborhoods and i want to note that the kind of things

that can be done in terms of conflict de-escalation negotiating agreements as well as trying to reach folks who are reachable for pathways out of dealing, it is really makes no sense this many years into a drug dealing and using crisis in the neighborhood that we still do not have these kind of services and this kind of team. i also want to note in our work in talking with providers, many providers in the tenderloin are already doing some pieces of this informally. none with city backing to do this. they are going out and navigating the difficult conversations with folks who are dealing on the streets of the tenderloin. sometimes with success, sometimes not, but we need to actually formalize

this. there is some folks seem to think this was-i think some folks had trouble with this idea when it came up because all the talk was around police intervention and not around non police intervention. i want to note we are very encouraged to learn since the time we introduced the supplemental there is actually federal grant that a number of providers have come together and applying for with support of the city. the city is entering into mou should the federal funds to help facilitate similar what we propose in march around non police street interventions so no guarantee we'll get the money and very competitive process even if we do, that is probably many months away and we have a urgent need so we should take the lead funding this as a city getting it going

if we get federal money for it, we can add that to the pot which will be great but we cant wait on that uncertain money. those are the three buckets of the supplemental. i'm happy as i said to answer any questions. i really urge your support for this and just appreciate the work of the budget committee on this both in terms of holding this hearing and pushing for some of these things in the budget process obviously running parallel right now. i will leave with that and thank you so much for the opportunity to present this. >> thank you. with that, supervisor preston would you like this to go to public comment now? >> sure. that would be great. >> thank you. mr. clerk, please let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. >> my apologies. there is a bla report. am i

correct? my apology. there is a bla report. >> hi, everyone. item 7 is ordinance that appropriates $10 million from the general reserve to 3 programs supervisor preston just outlined. i'll add a little more color, which is that the $4 million component for the community ambassador s we estimate based on existing contract costs would allow for expanded coverage up to for 15 blocks over a 1 year period. that would change depending on the outcome of any procurement process for those services and the duration of services and intensity of the services. the $3 million for small business grants approximately 300 grants based on assumed cost per grant of $10 thousand each. and then this 3 million for the tenderloin street intervention program which is a new

program, we show the budget for this on page 30 of the report and i'll note that any draw from the general reserve has to be paid as a deposit in next year's budget. we consider approval to be a policy matter for the board. >> thank you. do we have a maybe controller could answer this just a quickly update on how much remaining in the general fund reserve at this point? >> sure. risa (indiscernible) controller office. we ended fiscal year 22 with $43.8 million in the general reserve budget 64.6 is a required deposit this year. two supplemental that passed for 50 million so that is the math and there are many other pending supplementals that also draw on the reserve. >> so, we out-spent our general reserve already for this fiscal year? >> not quite all. >> about how much? >> there is about 50

left. >> thank you. >> sorry, let me check that. 57.8. >> thank you so much. with that-sorry. >> thank you. if i could just add chair chan and thank you to the bla for their work on this. i just want to clarify on the ambassador piece, because obviously it is a lot of talk in budget committee and generally about the funds and we approved a number of contracts. it is up to the administration what ambassador programs-they are responsible for implementing, so if the funds are appropriated we have not structured this as for one particular program and i want to note there are a number ambassador programs operating so in a portion of this, the cbd has a ambassador program,

the tenderloin merchant association as a ambassador program so in discussions with dem, i think they have suggested that it may be possible through the existing contract run through mid-market for urban alchemy as a possible source. i don't think that is landed whether that is a the vehicle but i don't believe the committee needs to resolve that issue. i think what is essential is that we get a commitment from the mayor's office to cover this area that has not been covered at all and they have considerable discretion on whether that is through a new vehicle or one of the existing contracts. >> thank you supervisor preston. with that, let's go to public comment. >> thank you madam chair. [providing instructions for

public comment] as mentioned, we do have angela and richard to assist with interpretive service for public comment on this item. angela and sam. if you can provide the public comment instructions again in language, please. [providing instructions for public comment]

>> with that, yes, if you can start your comments. as the chair stated we are taking public comment at one minute today. >> thank you supervisors. my name is curtis bradford a resident and work in the tenderloin neighborhood, have for well over a decade in both cases and here today speaking in support of the measure. we are all political (indiscernible) interest trying to address the really obvious problems the tenderloin had to face in particularly a situation degraded with the fentanyl overdose and so they demonstrated this desire and we certainly expanded the

police money and invited in other resources from the state, so if we are interested after decades of under investment this seems a small request to actually make this down payment on additional services that i think we all agree will provide real benefit to the tenderloin neighborhood on the street and in the short order and i think you'll find we have broad community support and we really hope you can support this. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. in support of the tenderloin emergency funding my name is liza (indiscernible) a community mental health advocate and activist. i like to present with you 300 signed signatures in support of the voices that cant be here but present in signature. thank you very much. i yield the rest of my time. >> thank you.

alright. that thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon members and members of the public. i'm here to let you know i have a problem with the language you are using the word appropriation. we are not asking for appropriation. we are asking for investment. appropriation sometimes just maintains the status quo, investment you get your money back. what we do services reduce, 911, reduce hospital and crime. why do i want you to be the investors because we are investors. (indiscernible) they invested time their money their lifehood to the tenderloin and asking you to do the same thing. join our investment group, you will get your money back. i heard the encouraging words from the mayor yesterday and hope she will latch on to this. the one we think dealt with, we have, 8 years ago when we start

cleaning up the dope corners. we need to focus oen the drug dealer. the core of the problem. you just can't get rid of them, you got to invest in them also. >> thank you so much for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is marny regen with larkin street youth service and coshare (indiscernible) expressing our support for the emergency supplemental. as the clients and staff travel in and out of the tenderloin and lower polk public safety is primary concern. we are also concerned for clients in recovery triggered by street drug use but we know law enforcement exclusively will not disrupt the drug trade or compel people suffering with addiction to stop use drugs. a trauma informed (indiscernible) criminal record face a challenging barrier to improving lives for good. decades of drug war intervention it doesn't work as evidenced by the streets. inest have in

treatment on demand, job training with living wages and pathway out of dispair that does not involve jail cells and criminal records. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hi, i'm cash. i run worm planet bikes in the tenderloin on market street. we had a burglary about a year ago. they cleaned us out wall to wall. i cannot afford to have that happen again. i will lose my insurance and will go out of business. i need about $30 thousand worth of physical improvements to make it so it is physically impossible for another burglary to happen. some of this money could come from you guys and would help me a lot. thanks. >> thank you much for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is jordan, she, her or they them. i agree with my mayor del seemore this is investment and i live in the

tenderloin and (indiscernible) impacted by crime and many of us agree despite the impact of crime we need non police ambassadors and impacted by police as we are also impacted by police violence and glad we have a district supervisor that agrees with us. thank you dean preston. -the police, they do not nothing but (indiscernible) we don't need another banko brown and don't want more police as you saw what happen when the (indiscernible) you wonder whytion through a brook, brick? (indiscernible) to those who want more police in the tenderloin i yield my time-- >> thank you jordan davis. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is renee colorado executive director of the lower polk merchant property owner association in support

of supervisor preston budget supplemental. there is as supervisor mentioned also already patch work of working models proof of concept of what this supplemental is trying to fund in the lower polk and tenderloin now and i think myself speaking as a resident been in the tenderloin 10 years, homeless, housed, i really think every outlined in the supplemental is common sense and can't believe hasn't come sooner, so thank you and thank you supervisor dean preston for bringing this forward. thank you. >> thank you much for addressing the committee. >> (indiscernible) near 20 year resident of the tenderloin and director of safe programs with community benefit district. we are very much in support of the supplemental income and we really believe that this is strong need for this to continue and

they expand programs in night time hours. (indiscernible) thank you everybody for your support in this. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon everybody. my name is (indiscernible) rose exicative director of fathers to founder and senior director for cotenderloin. together months back we proposed a project to address the dug dealing in the community called hustler alternative project. basically it is incentivizeing individuals to challenge that nature of just imposing destruction on a community and taking therapy and taking classes and ways building themselves up. we need more supervisor on board to support this. we appreciate you dean preston for having us here today and we unveiled

this project of a night ambassador project for nights and weekdays for where there are no opportunities july 1 and budget restrictions allow ed us to barely get out there and we need support to make this program a success, so please contact us. thank you. >> thank you much. next speaker, please. >> hi, christopher, a tenderloin resident supportive housing resident in the tenderloin. i support this emergency appropriation. i live in the middle of the area with probably some of inmost intense drug activities in the city. on hyde between geary and eddie i walk through some of the most traumatic situations you can possibly see every day. it is obvious police response has not worked to help us with

conditions on the street in the tenderloin and that is something that needs to be addressed immediately. we need alternatives to police response and i think this appropriation or investment is quite sensical. please support it. thank you. >> thank you much for addressing this committee. seeing no further speakers in the chamber, we have 8 members of the public listening with 5 in the queue. 7 in the queue. if you can unmute the first caller, please. >> so, supervisors, i support this project, and let me remind, if you all going to give us one minute to express ourselves while you all can talk and talk and talk shame on y'all. one minute to

express ourselves on quality of life issues which y'all failed to give to us citizens of san francisco. the budget chair doesn't even know how much money is remaining in the general fund. she has to be told $57.5 million. shame on y'all. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> hi, my name is anna wagoner. been living in uncovered area of the tenderloin by encampment at willow street and van ness for years and cannot leave my home without fear and many occasions threat of physical violence. criminal activity (indiscernible) numerous calls by myself and neighbors to sf311 non emergency police and the police. the additional police presence the mayor recently approved for the tenderloin made little to no

difference. i'm begging the committee to please approve the funding request. i'm a sf resident and deserve (indiscernible) thank you. >> thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is james taylor. i live near the 700 block of eddie street in the tenderloin and we have very serious problems there and think this program would help to alleviate those programs. we have campers in the alley behind the 700 block that tapped to a power pole and run pow toor all the tents oon the street. very dangerous situation. in front of 750 eddie, gather every day with customers and also taken over the 2 bus stops on eddie at van

ness and feels unsafe to walk down the street. we need your help and hope you pass the appropriation bill. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> hello. my name is sheva (indiscernible) public policy manager at home rise supportive housing provider. most of the sites are based in the tenderloin district and our community of residents urges the committee to please approve the budget supplemental. the tenderloin needs the investment to helps movement and join other districts recovering from the financial impact of the pandemic. many of our residents are black, brown indigenous people of color who experienced economic downspiral of the city. many continue to face racial and social challenges of just being poor. instead of pooring $70 million to the police

department invest in the narrative that support the tenderloin residents and families so they can revitalize their own community economy. investing in jobs and street ambassadors brings closer to alturn ternative to the current policing efforts that have harmed the tenderloin. it is time our community speaks for itself- >> thank you for addressing the comments. i apologize for cutting anyone off. we are timing at one minute. next speaker, please. >> yes. hello. my name is (indiscernible) with the veterans (indiscernible) i do support this proposal coming from dean preston. we do have certain caveats. we basically worked with the neighbors, the

community here to implement what everyone is talking about today. safe, clean streets working with unhoused folks near veterans alley, shannon street and what we would like do is just have some of those ones go into supporting the things that already are working here. we don't want to have private companies coming in and implementing different protocols that we already implemented by just getting out there for last year and a half 2 years to provide a safe clean environment near this area. we are seeking a semiautonomous zone to look at alternative ways of implementing these types of actions and programs that everyone else is trying to--thank you. >> thank you so much. next speaker, please. >> hi. my name is shannon stokes and live in the tenderloin in a area not

covered by ambassadors. my building is between open air drug market on eddie between van ness and willow and van ness and polk. drug overdose, burglaries, threats, threatening behavior and vandal ism are common place in and around the area. (indiscernible) had multiple burglaries, one as recently as last weekism a shooting occurred on the block earlier this year. it takes police hour tuesday respond if they respond at all. we have been asking for help over a year. there was a short three month period in 2022 ambassadors were funded for this block of willow and the only time the block felt safe and felt safe leaving my home. our neighborhood has been ignored far too long. i support the emergency appropriation and urge you to support too. thank you. >> thank you for addressing the committee. next speaker, please. >> my name is michael nolte and like to support this

appropriations and have this go to full board with recommendation from the committee. too long has the tenderloin been neglected. i especially support the idea of small businesses, small businesses tend to have the biggest problem because they are neglected as far as once something occurs as far as safety in the establishment they don't have the funds to fix a broken window, let alone the merchandise stolen from their business, having to have more expenses because of certain kinds of issues that happened in the recent years because of the pandemic, so anyway, i support all the different action items on the agenda for this item. it has been well thought out and think it will make improvements.

>> thank you for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon supervisors. hope cameer, compass family services. compass is very strong support of supervisor preston safety supplemental. (indiscernible) formally homeless families per year in the tenderloin and disproportionately families of color and asking young children to (indiscernible) we need more non police ambassadors. please support the supplemental. thanks. >> thank you for addressing the committee. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> thank you. no more public comment, public comment is closed. supervisor preston. >> thank you chair chan. i just want to thank you and committee for again for hearing this and thank all the folks not only the folks who

were able to call in and show up for public comment, hundreds of people who submitted petitions and the folks meeting with our office and these are the things folks have been asking for in addition these are the things around public safety i should say, because they are important crucial investments we are fighting for in the budget process. i do want to note in wrapping up here, the mayor came to the board yesterday at question time, spoke about putting aside the personal and political differences to solve problems and i will say that if there ever were a very clear opportunity for the mayor to show the interest in doing that, this is the supplemental to do this. the is a perfect opportunity for all in city government to show we place the needs the long neglected needs of the tenderloin

community ahead of personal and political differences to support something positive for the community through this supplemental and through the budget process, so very much appreciate everyone who has spoken out in support of this, urge myfellow supervisor jz mayor to support and also want to recognize and thank the departments all whom on standby available for questions, but also met with our office constructively about how these funds will be deployed if they are approved. thank you very much. >> thank you supervisor preston. vice chair mandelman. >> thank you chair chan. i guess i have a question about the third element of the funding. i feel i understand and i have concerns about a supplemental this late in the year, but i understand the benefit of ambassadors, i see them in my district and see them throughout the city and i

think we should be doing as much as we can particularly in areas heavily impacted by unsafe street conditions so i understand that and certainly understand supporting small businesses and property owners who have been repeatedly vandalized, as bad and impacting the whole city. sometimes folks are getting broken into many times in a year. i am curious about this tenderloin street dealing intervention program, because when i think about ways to break up street drug scenes, it seems like investing in treatment makes sense, investing in enforcement response to try to get the drug dealers outf of the neighborhood makes sense, this feels like investment in managing the drug dealers and

wondering if that is thing tried elsewhere or what the notion is behind that? >> happy to address that and you heard in public comment some folks that have been doing elements of this work already. yes, i think part of it is management. part is intervention and actually trying to reach and talk to people. we do a lot of policy making without the benefit of any engagement what so ever so everyone has a theory who is dealing drugs and why and what percent are in this category versus that category. the truth is, as with many things it is not as simple as in the media and most talking about it have no clue really who they are talking about and how best to address them. i will say that there are plenty examples of engagement. if you talk to anyone for example who operates

a safe consumption site, folks in new york, other places, they interact extensively with dealers and in that case they are often negotiating around where people are going to be and not be, having conversations. if you-similar thing here with all kinds of programs. you name a ijmayor site in the tenderloin and i'll find you members who work for that non profit who don't have the luxury of just ignoring all the people dealing drugs within a block or two of the facility. they are negotiating. if you walk with the people who do the cbd operate safe passage what do you think they are doing when they engage 20 minutes before school children come down the block? they are talking with folks on the block whether dealers users or who ever on the block to say kids are coming. some is negotiating just a more functional street presence with knowing we are not going to overnight wave a wand

and our drug dealing will disappear. we have realty on the streets. we have a lot of informal engagement and some say how can you do this because there is a level of danger and risk and only police. we don't approach that way. we are more enlightened that way. we have sbip is out there negotiating truces and conversations between people who would otherwise be shooting each other in my district in the fillmore or the bayview or the mission. we as a city have made a decision to invest in that to make that a city funded program and have that level of engagement. doesn't mean you can reach everyone. but the fact is, you can reach a lot of people and we don't even try in the tenderloin. when i say we, i mean the city. the folks who came to public comment, the non profits, the service providers thairks are trying. usually using discretionary

money in informal arrangements and we have to step up i think and actually resource those kind of interventions. supervisor mandelman, at the end of the day, it is all of the above but the point is having people who are teams who are equip to go and actually interact not to lock people up, we understand that what is the police department will be focused on, but to have some level of engagement to negotiate with folks to also reach some folks who are reachable and who are out there and would take alternative paths and when you hear from someone like mr. rose who spoke about his work proposals on the hustler program, the existing walk on fathers to founders where they connected with folks fathers out there dealing and create a peer counselor and support and trying to navigate people away from a lifestyle where

drug dealing is the only option, i would just submit that because of how we handle drug issues in our society and our city, we are not pursuing those kind of alternatives that have been more enlightened but pursuing in other contexts. that is the impetus and jump start that. >> thank you. in light of the fact that budget-mayor breed will announce the budget literally a week from now and really appreciate the ongoing conversation that mayor breed and i have been having and with

the support from director here to facilitate the conversation i think today's hearing is great we hear from the public, especially those living and working in the tenderloin letting us know what they are thinking. we appreciate supervisor preston to welcome tenderloin into district 5, and as part of district and really spread out the district in a very interesting way. it is very diverse district that i appreciate your effort to try to accommodate and meet all the demands and needs of such a diverse district. with that said, and just really thinking about in the context of the budget, not just in the tenderloin, while it is a space

that requires a lot of love and care, we are also considering a budget for the entire city in just again a short one week time, and i think that it warrants to be part of the conversation both on how we spend our public dollars, but also the commitment of around policing but alternatives to policing like community ambassador program and how do we really with the facing that $290 million deficit in this fiscal year alone, how do we bridge the gap to meet the demands and needs so how do we make sure that our public dollars are being spent more effectively to serve san franciscans across the city and so with that said, if okay with you supervisor preston, i actually am going to make this motion to continue this item to call of chair so we can

continue the dialogue and allow us to be part of the budget conversation in june and with that motion, please mr. clerk, call the roll. >> on that motion the ordinance continue to the call of the chair [roll call] two ayes with member safai absent. >> thank you, the motion passes. >> accept the following grants. one second, so sorry. item 8, accept and expend grant in the amount of $6 million from the california natural resource agency for the term

through march 1, 2026 to enter into grant agreement and enter modifications and amendment tuesday the grant agreement to increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and necessary for purposes of the agreement or resolution and number 9, accept and expend grant-economic development initiative community project funding grant in the amount of $3 million from united states department of housing and urban development and both these grants are for the japantown renovation project. item 9 through august 31, 2031 to enter into agreement and authorize the general manager for modifications for the grant agreement (indiscernible)

[providing instructions for public comment] madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. before we go to mrs. beverly ing, from rec and park, i just want to be on the record i like to be cosponsor of both these items. i appreciate the efforts the japantown community has been advocating strongly for the community, especially during the pandemic, but also just really also grateful to assembly member tang who continues to support the japantown community with state funds and providing support so with that mrs. ingf

>> good afternoon supervisors chair chan. i'm here on behalf of rec and park to present on two items today before you for the japantown peace plaza improvement project. this is ongo effort for the last few years, which had really robust community outreach and involvement to insure that the redo of the plaza met the needs of the community in terms of having a permanent stage, having open inviting space. during covid it became a spot for community members to hold rally events and covid testing sites so it is the heart and lifeline for japantown given there is only three historic japantowns in the united states all three in california, san hoiis jose, la and san francisco.

maintaining a lot of the central spaces for cherry blossom festival (indiscernible) other items as well. so currently the timeline and budget, the twoite items is $6 million from the state thanks to assembly member tang to meet the needs for the project and $3 million from speaker pelosi. both the items help supplement the additional $25 million from the bond that was in 2020which voters approved and was really advocated heavily by the community as well and there is a little as well for the general fund and open space fund used for contract permits. with that, we are looking forward to going out to bid this summer and with that we'll have more hard date with the goal of beginning construction in spring 2024, we are working hand in hand with

community to insure it doesn't impact too much of the cherry blossom festival in the spring so making sure that work is needed and our hope is in fall 2025 we will reopen and a big celebration. and that is it. >> thank you. i look forward to the celebration and sometimes it takes a little of a growing pain to get there and which is with the construction. i do want to advocate for the japantown task force as well as community benefit district. while especially during the construction, but leading to it that they could be funding allocated specifically for outreach in collaboration with them in terms of possible ambassador just having both to explain about the project. i have seen some of the display about the project and also just ongoing facilitation during construction, so i

really urge rec and park commission as well as departments to consider that as part of your budget especially for soft cost moving forward. >> thank you chair chan. yes, there are restrictions with the state and federal funding of that piece in certain parts of the bond. we have been working with japantown task force and brought in oewd and department of small business last week to meet and address that. a lot what they are asking for is the japantown revitalization while the project is going on so try to support where we can. but what we got out of the conversation is they are thinking beyond just the footprint of the peace plaza, especially the buchanan way project coming down the line with dpw as well but we'll continue working with them and see where we can. >> i think today is

making clear that-because you referenced the add-back process and what i strongly encourage with director here is that let's really make sure that the office of workforce economic development and office of small business to really think through and consider in their budget this upcoming fiscal year, but most importantly i think this is probably impactful in 2025 as well, so just kind of be thoughtful in the budget proposal in the mayor budget coming in june. with that said, vice chair mandelman. >> thank you madam chair. i like to be added as cosponsor for both items. thank you. >> thank you. alright. let's-no more names on the roster and no dauments and questions, let's go to public comment, please. [providing instructions for public comment]

no in person speakers, if you could unmute the caller, please. >> good afternoon chair chan, vice chair safai, member mandelman. my name is dr. emily (indiscernible) executive director of the japantown task force and like to urge your support of this critical legislation. the peace plaza is the heart of san francisco japantown, a historic note the iconic peace (indiscernible) in the spirit of peace and appreciation for the relief (indiscernible) japanese americans conducted in the (indiscernible) on behalf of them. 10 million japanese people benefited from the nation wide release effort in large part

conducted by japanese americans in the west coast. we thank nancy pelosi, phil tang. i want to recognize sandy mory, (indiscernible) we had great collaborative relationship with (indiscernible) rec and park department, jennifer cooper department of public works and the beverly ing. thank supervisor preston and supervisor chan and (indiscernible) steadfast support. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. just waiting for verification. madam chair, that completes the queue. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, i like to make a motion to move item 8 and 9 together to full board with recommendation and with that, please roll call. >> motion to forward

both resolutions to the full board with positive recommendation, mandelman aye. safai, absent. chan, aye. two ayes with member safai absent. >> are thank you. the motion passes. mr. clerk, is there any item before us today? >> madam chair, that concludes our business. >> thank you. just want to notice to the public that we will not have the budget and finance committee next wednesday, which is may 31 and we will see you for budget and appropriation committee at 1:30 today. thank you and the meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

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