really had no choice. i wish we didn't have to do this, but, uh , we're a fee based, um. self funded organization, and we simply just don't have the money to fund the programs, unfortunately, and like, alex says. we will work. as diligently as we possibly can to serve the community and to conduct inspections for habitability, induce buildings and, um conduct outreach to that community as best we can thank you. thank you for pointing out just the magnitude of the expenditure reduction as you can see here. almost $12 million difference between fiscal year 23 budget and proposed fiscal year 24. this slide pie chart of our expenditure budget really highlights the major categories . the fact that the department

is almost three quarters labor and 20% so over 90% of our budget is, uh outside of our control. labor costs are what they are subject to city collective barking agreements. on the revenue slide this slide again, it's very important to highlight our current position in our current operating gap. this is a structural deficit that the 15% fee increase. is a beginning step to addressing. however more work will be needed in future years to close that gap. um again. uh the volume the demand for db services has decreased and we don't have a crystal ball. we don't know when the demand for this business will come back. but we will continue to monitor and review our services in the current year because we are self funded department. we have seeing a

projected $5 million deficit from what was budgeted on the revenue side, so to be responsible, we immediately held back on all discretionary spending and have done our best to be responsible stewards of the balance that we have. lastly on for our positions. this slide really highlights that not much has changed in the past four years, as requested by chair. chan. um we are not. proposing any new positions. the slight changes from year to year are just due to changes to attrition. and. that concludes our presentation. we'd be happy to answer any questions. thank you, um colleagues as. director over and then has and his team has pointed out that we have, um , members of the public hears.

seems like you're either to comment on this item. would it be all right if we just go directly to public comments on item 15. um. and then and then we'll come back and then after the public comments, and then we'll start going to the questioning. thank you, mr clark. let's go to public comment. thank you, madam chair members of the public who wish to speak on this ordinance amending the building code to increase the fees charged by d b. i uh huh. go ahead and line up now. and. and following our in person. speakers will go to the cell phone line if you haven't already done so press star three to enter the speaker line, and for those already in the queue, police continued to wait until the system indicates you have and then made it and that'll be your signal to begin your comments. go ahead and, uh gordon structure comments and i'll start your time. thank you. mattias martino, chief of staff at chinatown community development center, one of the cbos in the c. r s r o families

program, specifically on the fee study on the side. um this is a way to solve the problem that all our constituents all our members are going to talk about in just a few minutes after the board of supervisors presentation there is an opportunity here to increase peace, um, to increase fees on bad actors to increase revenue for the board to then allocate. to the department of building inspection. we have had a long partnership with this department over a decade. have we worked with them on our ability to do this work collaboratively. we are a little bit miffed about not having had, um, outreach pre , the publication of the budget. but we're also grown ups and we understand the difficult choices the department had to make. so we're here today to urge the board. and to urge the

department to work collectively with us to solve this problem with the same fee legislation that is in front of you. we will be at the building inspection commission in support of this fee. uh increase and hopefully maximizing this fee increase to the maximum allowed, uh, percentage that the study recommends. thank you. thank you. potatoes amormino for your comments if i could request, uh , flora, our chinese interpreter to make clear that we are taking public comment right now on the ordinance to increase the building code fees and item 15 and not, uh and not the mayor's budget at this time. okay uh, are they gala high? though you legal we eat. ninja quiet fans and a young lady who jahjaga pinguin ones hunting pig and dog

fan, or they had. fans and jaffa who? that legal guanzhong. thank you. thank you much for that. next speaker, please. okay if there are no speakers here in the chamber i there is a standing roll in the chamber. so if you're not providing comment for this, we do ask that you sit down, please. just so i can affirmatively say that there are no further speakers here in the chamber. is that okay? i can interpreted in chinese made. get my sound something hard. hope you're that, like, dando. um you see how we go on to and out? thank you much flora. and with

that, if you could start your comments will start your time. hello i'm sarah fred sherbourne . zimmer from housing rights committee were in support of raising these fees and 2015 and the height of the boom. these fees were cut. um um, that we need these fees increased, um, including increased fees on landlords, especially problem. landlords um, and there might be less demand for inspection of new buildings. but there's an increased demand of cia programs . and so these fees crucially important. ah it is an enterprise program and rich city and that the department didn't plan ahead and boom years to be able to make sure to take care of these things. we need to raise these fees. we need to also raised apart the fees on, um on landlords for apartments,

and we need to raise the fees on problem. landlords who is a huge percent of both the department one part of the department's work, but also all of us at psi ops, agencies and sorrow. collaborative these landlords should have to pay for these services, uh, and that this department has the ability to do that and not just pay for the inspectors time that they waste for the city will seek tenants have ceilings collapsed on them, and their toilets don't work. but pay for the time of c op organizations and sorrow. collaborative. thank you very much. thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please. hello my name is becky harm contracts and services director at council rooster just caused we also agree with increasing the fees. i don't really have anything new to say. but, yes, we agree. increasing the fees

are important because like others said we need this department we well funded to that community can collaborate with the department and really have, um, are you know our strong what we bring in which is the strong culturally with dick. um connection to the community and work with the housing inspectors. um, and we need the feast increase for that to happen. thank you. thanks so much back your home for your comments. okay signal further speakers here in the chamber. miss second laugh. are there, madam completar que? thank you see, no more public comments. public common is now. okay? i by my name is teresa de la la's. i live in the south market, so um, the dilemma is how do you balance this? so um, so i felt so bad, you know for db because now knowing and understanding

that their self funded and so and then there are in this times right now. everybody is actually having problems. you know, economically, um so help us please. and we how do you? how do you help? the each of these departments. to actually have the money and not be cut. and then so, um for me. um, the s r o i love the s r o. you know the old the communities that, um, have actually. provided services. you know, for our residents here. please help. what what? what i'm asking for you is no more cuts. how can you cut when there's no money, right? so please help. each department. please help our

community. please help all their programs, please. thank you. thanks so much very comments and again. we are taking comment on the ordinance on raising the fees charged by the department of building inspection towards the building code, so if there are no more speakers here in the chamber. checking the telephone line again. and madam chair that completes our q great. see you. no more public comments. public common is now close, uh, would like to go to back to supervisor . preston who was originally on the roster has questions for the t b. i thank you so much chair chan and colleagues and i, i really, um i came because i wanted to try to give, uh some context and perspective to the discussion based on many years of advocacy that i have done at the state level, working around

code enforcement issues all across the state of california and i want to say, you know, we don't we don't often talk about the things that we're doing right in san francisco, because sometimes those don't get noticed, and we focus on the things we're doing wrong. let let me be very clear that our housing inspection services are tenant code enforcement in san francisco. while everything can always, uh, stand to have some improvement. um is not just a statewide model but is a national model. and it is housed within the department of building inspection, but a critical piece of that work, um is the are the programs that are being cut here, the c op program and the ah that sorrow outreach . there are a critical part with the cultural competence of connecting with communities to make sure that our housing inspectors are able to get out and do the inspections and it's really i was shocked by this

cut. um and i have i think what i really wanted to share more than any question i could ask what i wanted to share with you all is in running a statewide tenure rights organization and working with dozens of jurisdictions. um i just wanna have make sure that the committee and the public understands that san francisco is held up as a model. of how you have responsive code enforcement for tenants, and that is that is a testament to, um dbs work on this and also to all of these community groups. i have and i'm happy to distribute . i pulled up an old article because i remember from when i was working on this. the examiner did you know there was in in 2016 report and they go through exactly this and they talk about how they did the first ever citywide report and they compare us to all these other cities and how san francisco is light years ahead and responding to habitability complaints, life or death issues for tenants in san francisco,

and they note that we are worthy only, um, municipality that performs code enforcement outreach with tenants and landlords. groups like this. what's being cut here is the critical feature or one of them. that differentiates this program, and they refer to it in that that article, um as a national standard. and national standard that we have set and that's what's in jeopardy. um with this this potential cuts. so um, i m not too in any way, belittle any of the other, crucially important work that'd be does but i am hard pressed to think of anything that the department spends money on. maybe with the exception of some structural work to make sure buildings don't collapse, but second, maybe two that i can't think of any other, um fund cut that would have a more devastating impact. um then then this one. so um, i guess my only

question i really wanted to do more to make that comment. uh, happy to share these, um this old article examiner that that gives some of that history um i think my only question for director reardon through the chair is just you know, the comment that you have no choice and i understand the bind you're in and the instructions you're under, but i do. um okay. i do want to understand. um. like in deciding to cut this particular program that i think you and i probably share a view of its its importance and value. um half how that decision was reached. what other alternatives were considered as potential cuts and also just to be really clear. is that the desire of db? i should , through fee increases or other

savings should there be those? should those funds be available ? i assume it remains the desire of d b. i to continue to be a leader and pioneer in this work and fund. the program with the money is there. yeah thank you for the accommodation of our housing inspector supervisor preston. it's much appreciated. i share the same sentiments. um how we got to here to your to your question. you and i spoke several weeks ago, and i told you that we you know, i didn't know that there was going to be any impact on the program and, uh, we attended a building inspection commission meeting. i believe in march. and so what? i can tell you is, uh we included the funding. in our in our budget request. and it was determined based on having to make an $11.6 million. caught to balance our budget that we could no longer rams. uh essentially

what it came down to was maintaining the staff that we have to be able to. provide our core functions of inspections, code enforcement for habitability, and you know the structural items you mentioned so. that's what it came down to. so, uh, as you know. the budget is a is a process and we we're engaged in that process, and this is where we landed. one other question at through the chair. i i'm. some of some of this outreach results in additional cases that are brought in terms of enforcement actions, either being led by the db i in enforcement or being referred to the city attorney, no matter how much of this kind of work we do, there are some bad landlords out there who will not make repairs and, frankly, either need to be held accountable by d b. i the city

attorney or by private, uh, attendance with private attorneys bringing those cases but there is a revenue generating side to that, uh, to that work right that the more cases that are, but i guess my question is, if you could just share any thing on the economics that in other words, if we have more cases coming in, that obviously costs the department money because you have inspectors out and there's staff time to do that. but there's also a time where we're electing penalties and fees and then for the city attorney's office, potentially um ah. penalty additional penalties and attorneysfees there. so how did the economics workout in terms of increased referrals for from two housing inspectors, some of which end up in a situation where we collect fees do we do we lose money on those cases gained money or revenue neutral? i don't have the dollar data for you right now. president supervisor preston but we can

get that and we can share it with all of the supervisors here. um and i just like to say that we have a great track record in responding to complaints. we respond to complaints within 48 hours, uh, generally and habitability complaints are no different. uh that won't change. we will. we have a page in our website dedicated to complaints for folks who want to understand the different ways in which they can file complaints. they can go through 311. they can call they can file a complaint on our website. and we will be formulating a plan to ramp up outreach to those communities as best we can. in addition to that , thank you and thank you again for the work, and i just i will respectfully just push back on the idea that it won't change because i understand the structures in place won't change. the inspectors will still respond again in compared to other jurisdictions. we respond very quickly in san francisco. but i think for those

of us who worked closely with tenants, and if you talk to any of your housing inspectors in many situations, people are afraid to make complaints. they don't know what their rights are and what these programs that are being eliminated under this budget. what these grants to community groups that have the cultural competence to work and develop relationships with tenants, including some some of i recognize a former you know, participate in that program came up and spoke in public comments just a minute ago. uh you know whose family was assisted by sea out program ending up, you know, suing their landlord and getting repairs and having db issue citations and, um, like that, that would change dramatically. i don't doubt that folks who can figure out how to navigate the system and get to the website would get the help that you're referring to, but we would see a dramatic decrease, um, in those kind of enforcement activities if this program were eliminated thank you very much church san for the opportunity to share those views. great. thank you so much. supervisor preston. um i just wanted to, um make sure

that when you do come when you return next week with what i would love to see and really to share with my colleagues. actually, before you return in the next couple of days. we'd love to see you basically zero out of programmatic projects, which is about roughly 6.36 $0.4 million, and then you also zero out the city grant would like to see specifically just the line items under those categories. so help us understand? um specifically what was impacted. my assumption is that the programmatic project that you zero out is what we really call co enforcement here and then the city grant is what we generally speak. it's the srl collaborative. that's my assumption. correct me if i'm wrong, alex, can you? um the programmatic project budget. we're just ongoing. they didn't have anything to do with that, um grant money. they were long term records retention projects

. so digitizing records, um, illegal in law unit enforcement program, things of that nature that were multi year. programs. and so we have eliminated all of those, but we can show you a line by line project by project accounting of what those items were, and then so when we talk about co enforcement reduction as well as this srl collaborative reduction, exactly how much are we talking about? and where do we see that in terms of, um in this chart. so it's a it's a single line item in our budget. however, i have a breakdown of the programs and the organization. so the s r o collaborative in total is $3.1 million and the tenderloin housing clinic gets approximately 600,000 chinatown community center. gets approximately 500,000 dolores street community services, million dollars and sorrow. families united collaborative,

approximately a million dollars the code enforcement outreach program is a total of $1.7 million. the housing rights committee of san francisco and the san francisco study center. get half a million dollars cause of use to approximately 300,000 chinatown community development center. approximately 300,000 and tenderloin housing clinic, approximately half a million and then for the owners and the owners side, the san francisco apartment association receives approximately $200,000. so we would love to get that list for this body just so that we can identify and come through, um love that before you come back next week. absolutely. and so i supervised herself. i e. yes i just want to thank all the people coming out today. all the folks that we heard from and talking about the importance of this work. i think there's been a lot of things said about what this meant during covid what it means to putting forward livable

and habitable living conditions for folks living in some of the worst conditions in the city and those that have the propensity to be taking. advantage of oftentimes because they're immigrants are monolingual. my question to the department is do you see value in the s r o collaborative. and do you see the impact that it has on the work that you do in the department? uh absolutely, uh, i think it's, uh, they have been instrumental in helping tackle some of the most difficult, uh, habitability issues, especially during the pandemic, and during covid when they had greater lines of connectivity to those communities. so the answer is yes. and then also the code enforcement. you see value in that i think the value in that is solutions are found before complaints have to be filed with the department because of the programs. so essentially, what it means is, uh things are taken

care of before db. i hears anything about what the problem was. so in a lot of ways, it seems like this work, then saves money for the city. even though we're spending money up front it's a way for the city to save money and be proactive in the work that they do. potentially i mean, we don't know what we don't know, because we don't know who it is. it would be filing a complaint but didn't because they worked with these organizations. the cbos so but there's i mean, that's potentially true as supervisor staff. i yes. and do you see any other areas in your department that there that there could be tradeoffs? if this body were to push back and have a conversation around protecting this important work. i think we have looked at cutting everything to the bone shape of laying off staff that provide the core services we provide. and, um i mean, we're we're

we're postponing replacement of cars, laptops. uh other programs are being impacted. i would say the assessor's office. alex, if you can speak to that we sure during the boom time db i funded various other city traditionally general fund supported areas that a nexus with db. i was found so db i historic or up until this next year. d b. i has funded a number of assessor's office staff. um and that will no longer continue so tester's office staff to do what property assessments related to, um value property value changes your budget. yes that has been in our happening anymore. what about your what about your upgrade to your system? i know that you spent a lot of money on upgrading your permit system

still not done. how many more millions of dollars are allocated to that? so that program or that upgrade path. it's my understanding that it. did not result in upgraded system and that that worked completely needs to be redone. we are exploring additional funding, we will likely be submitting. uh uh, request to quite and will be seeking out general fund dollars in future budgets for that project. the system is very old. it has reached the end of its life, oracle said. they will no longer support it and city risks continue to grow as time goes on, and we don't replace it. and how many millions of dollars did you spend on that? project that did not result in an upgrade of your technology would need to check to get the precise figures but i think good when you come back with the information for the sorrow, collaborative and

the code enforcement, we'd like to have those numbers. how much money you spent on. upgrading your technology that did not actually result in upgrading your technology. thank you, madam challenges, and with that, i think is this is a it's difficult to swallow this proposal given the state and the work that's been done in the past and how important it is to the community. so we have to find a way to protect this important work. thank you. thank you. and with that said, i'm going to make the motion to continue item 15. second by supervisor saffy. and with that , mr clarke roll call, please. yes on that motion to continue into the ordinance as item 15 to the june 21st meeting of this committee vice chairman herman gentlemen, i remember stuff i suffer a i remember ronan. running. i remember walton walton. i church hand and i we have five days. thank you. the motion passes. and the next item

is our board supervisors budget . thank you and see you next week. members of the committee chair chan the clerk of the board of supervisors. this is the time of the year that we highlight the culmination of the intensive work of our cfos in the city. and i'd like to highlight the work of our administrative deputy, dr edward de assis and his predecessor, junco laksamana, who prepares this material for your review and consideration. for those city employees who made it through the 2008 economic downturn. we will never forget. their precarious economic years occur. and since that time this department. consistently strived

to manage its budget requests and expenditures in a transparent lean and efficient manner to ensure that the board of supervisors was able to meet its mandates and to have the resources to appropriately exercise its oversight. responsibilities without excess in general fund or any unnecessary of t ease. the budget request responsibilities. in the current year. it was intentionally modest. and i will identify in a moment. the consequences, uh, to the to the budget requests, uh, in this, uh in the mayor's budget were briefed. each member of the board provided you with the details and posted the brief overview on the website for the public's review. slide one depicts the current year highlights it identifies our day to day in and out workload. it's self explanatory. i won't go into it, but to put it mildly employees in the clerk's office

constitute a factory that churns out dependable services for the board, the public and for the departments. slide two illustrates the department's organizational chart. the department has 93 full time positions. 23 are permanent civil service 68 are exempt and two are temporary. we also have 59 commissioners seats in the department. which i don't believe the mayor's budget book recognizes, however, the attention and time to those positions is time consuming. as to on board and off board frequently and ensure payroll benefits. as a june 2023. the department has three vacant positions in the clerk's office . a senior clerk, accountant three and an assistant clerk, we have made an offer for the assistant clerk position and hope to have that position filled by the end of the fiscal year. we expect to fill the accountant three positions in

late summer after the citywide list is published. and the third position was purposefully kept vacant for one year for attrition savings in the current year to assist with the department to finish on budget for the salary in the midst of high turnover at our in our offices. and i just want to say to the department employees who regularly observe the department's budget presentation . thank you for your work. ah thank you. for the many, um times you've been tolerant of tedious work and still take enormous pride in being attentive and diligent to the work at your desk. we embrace the work that we do. much of it is mandated by the charter and the municipal or the administrative codes, and we know that board members also respect the work that we do as given the approval of our budget request before i talk about that. i just want to state that slide three. provides a

historical review of the department's employees. full time employees going back to 1997. when the department had three legislative aides. despite significant growth in the city's budget over the last four years of approximately 1.7 billion, or by 14. the board of supervisors budget less the addition of the fourth aid. grew by 4. or 733,000. over that same period of time. in recent years, new units of government have been created the department of homelessness and supportive housing the department of early childhood, the department of sheriff accountability, the department of police, accountability all were created. to exercise its oversight responsibilities over the ongoing homelessness and behavioral health crisis. the board established the homelessness and behavioral health select committee this year. that's the board's fourth fiscal committee and ninth committee overall. for the board

to fulfill its oversight responsibilities. a certain level of administrative support is necessary in the department and this table. on slide three shows the department staffing since 1996. the number of fts has remained flat for 27 years, with modest increases in 2019 2022 23 due to the higher workloads in the district offices and in the office of the clerk of the board. historically your legislative aides and the clerks in my office and those within the divisions in the clerk's office absorb more duties with less staff, less money and less resources. for example, in fiscal year 21 22 for the redistricting task force , hate to bring that up as my staff still feel the sting of that. but we did redirect approximately $85,305 of non personnel budget to the redistricting task force, which

is money that otherwise would have been spent as seed money for the legislative management system and the deferred upgrade to the abc system to be compatible with the assessor. controller. tax collectors news smart system. and so while we're all very proud of the budget restraint to this department um , the city's bureaucracy has increased, and therefore so has your need for oversight. however you're lean budget and slow fte growth. ah in the long run, maybe i say this genuinely and emotionally for staff, maybe her. there's a human cost to that. that's to our employees, all who have aging relatives after working heavy workloads for the past four years, even before covid and the table and slide four shows the department's current budget and changes for the proposed budget amounts. so on slide forward in the budget year, the

department's expenditure budget increased by 2.5% or 549,910. from the current year, mainly due to natural wage growth in the mou s mandated cola's and fringe additionally, quite funding for the legislative management system and increases in work orders in the out year. the expense budget increased my little less, but still for the same reasons. and now to our budget requests for june on slide five. 1st 1st item is the quick. i'm not going to go through all of these, but i do want to just sort of really proud. we competed at the commission on the information technology for the legislative management system quite found that our project was viable and funded us our department $1 million. we're very grateful for that. i understand that the mayor reduce that in the first year to 500,000 and we have met with the mayor's budget

director, and we are requesting that, if possible, the mayor's office could find and adjust mayoral adjustment and replace 500,000. so then what we would be dealing with with the committee would be line items. two through seven. that is our budget request. ah it's a meager $270,000. and additionally there were some other cuts made to our department. aligns eight through 13 that were reduced. ah from the mayor's, uh, staff. some of these cuts would reduce your remote. the remote collins system, which the, uh temporary position that we have. we're asking it to go to a full time position to be a permanent position in our department. since you've codified that we were to use the remote colin system for our meetings. that's important to us. the oc of funding for language access

that's an important to us as we only have a $5000 line item. ah additionally to these cuts well , also, we also have put in our budget of work order from the office of contract administration for 128,660. i happy to answer any questions that you have on these items members? and i'll just make one further comment about line a slide six. there are two items from february to june that we are coming to you to mention because the assessor's office has the need to have their smart system. talk to our smarts to are not so smart system. we need to integrate the two together, and so we need to have a contractor. do some of that work for us, and our a b system is not equipped to handle the robust new technology that's

being used, and it has been asked of us recently that we begin to clerk a body that's being created at the youth commission. it's the youth commissions sexual assault prevention committee, as well as work with other bodies in the city that needs some training around clerking and noticing and parliamentary procedure and those kinds of things, so we have the existing position. it is a 14 06, and we just wanted to exchange it to 14 54 executive sarah secretary position. and so. finally in closing if the mayor's office is able to find $500,000 to replace the quite funding, then the remaining items that we could talk about our 693,600. i do think the mayor's budget director and her staff absolutely the controller staff. and um dan gantcher from the

budget and legislative analyst's office. i'm available with our deputy director for any questions. thank you. thank you, madam clerk. we appreciate all the work that you have done in, particularly i do want to commend you and your team for the work that you did with our redistricting. we knew that, um , you know, from the process we learned it was unexpected. uh what you have done, though, was you roll with the punches, and you just did the work? um and i think that is something to be commended. you know, just thank you. thank you. i want to say that colleagues, i think, in my opinion that, uh, what we do see is a list of unfunded mandates mandates of the legislative branch, too. fulfill its role and i think that is regrettable to see the cuts. um if they're you know if they're not funded, like the legislative branch literally cannot function. it is my goal. and even though at one

point i was asked, like, how would i a prioritize this list? um i think frankly, it is my intention to fully restore the reduction. i haven't been an aid , uh, long ago two decades ago. now uh, almost and it was only actually two legislative aide. um, but just to think each district office have roughly about anywhere between 70,000 to 80,000 constituents, um, and each supervisor with right now to date have about four aids. but you can we can do the ratio of you know one a per constituents and or per for how many constituents i'm not gonna do the math that fast, but as we can imagine, it's very fairly large scale, but we couldn't do this work if it weren't because the clerk's office and supporting us and managing all the staffing that require ness and require of us to do our work . um, so that's my intention. um

but i don't see any names on the roster. um and with that, uh, i think we're going to thank you. and we're going to see you next week, and we're going to continue these conversations. thank you. members of the committee, madam chair. thank you. and so with that, that is actually our last city departments for today, and we will now go to public comments for item two and three. thank you, madam chair. i thought we. that's who we are. so members of the public horse to speak on this item and or sorry on items two and three are regarding the annual appropriation ordinance and annual salary ordinance. please line up now and remember, and for those who have joined us remotely and haven't already

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us and how cutting the budget is going to hurt all the families who live in sa rose. all of the members who are in the assault families united collaborative monolingual, low income immigrants. they don't have that language access. they rely on this collaborative. we rely on them to help us to soft building issues. and i cannot imagine without the help what will happen to us? it's the only way and it's the only resource for us at the essential services that they provide is especially important to all of us. and i am here to urge you to oppose the budget cut and please support all the esso families. thank you . thank you. union link, frank comments and just as a reminder , i did. i didn't announce earlier in the meeting that we did have we did, uh, employee interpretive services, but unfortunately we did lose them at six o'clock today, so next

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continue to handle the stress. familiars last person asked. hotels. i remember walking in a soho hotel with supervisor compost and then legislative aide hillary ronan and supervisor compost almost coming to tears by seeing kind of the condition that the children were living in where they had bug bites on their faces and their bodies. um, and how impactful kind of that visit was, um, and how much we really need services and outreach in soro hotels. recorded a dvd forecasting dvd. i it's as familiar as bunga kadar. singing you know. to differentiate not saying force temperature cambios. and therefore we're here to ask for

no cuts to these programs under the b because it is a collaboration. we do work with d b. i and without these families will continue to not have access to services. gracias senor. favor are you diagnosed cannot cortez are you? there must be a parquet says no identification. they usually atallah, senora, superb as much as gracias. the last thought was like we really need you. we really want we have a hope we come here with hope. um and that these cuts to the department to these programs will not stand. thank you very much. thank you. r s l e a lot

of your comments next speaker, please. good evening supervisors . i'm crotteau district, five residents and manager. for the latino task force. uh and here in solidarity with all immigrant communities, uh, speaking for us really here to reject any cuts to osaka. the programs would definitely affect parent voice. that's something that we've worked very hard in the community to promote to advocate for, so please protect parent voice through osias programs. m o. h c d cuts really rejecting the characterization that it's just for consultants? it is not just for consultants. we are community folks that have skilled up from volunteers from interested parties that have developed platforms and coalitions, uh, to provide community organizing and community collaboration so that we can all get to a place where work collaborating and coordinating as community and

not not competing. and those are the types of things that are being protected by some of the work that we do with our capacity building work in the in the community, so we really hope that you know those types of programs are supported, and, of course, protecting every program that's slated to be cut around. housing housing is critically important, especially for immigrant communities. folks of color. we know how critical those types of programs are. so thank you for your support your ongoing support and hopefully that this unfortunate sounds like it's going to be a trend that this budget is being balanced on the backs of the working poor and immigrant communities. and so you know, we'll be here every day this week and next week. thank you. thank you so much louise, proud of her comments next speaker, please. hello my name is melissa gomez. i'm senior program manager of housing rights at dolores community services and

also known as home. as for the ms rock collaborative. the work we do at the mission is or a collaborative and the work by other housing collaborative here elevates human dignity and allows people who make the city of cities possible chance at a life here. we elevate joy until the rate those long overlooked and marginalized. we educate, inspiring fight alongside the people who dream to call this city home. the funding provided by db helped to ensure that as a collaborative, we are able to staff personnel to not only meet our directive goals but serve our community. we have teams that include community organizers, tenant organizers, counselors, outreach workers, etcetera. each of these roles are essential to providing support with issues regarding rent harassment from landlords, um pests and habit brewery issues. without the s r o collaborative. there would be various for monolingual speaking tenants who historically have had difficulty understanding the services db offers making it impossible for them to even ask for help. we also use the

funding provided to run programs , trainings and host events. the mission is or a collaborative operates fire prevention trainings, which could prevent fires such as the one that occurred at the grand southern hotel and the mission a couple months ago. we also run a leadership academy that trains community members to be organized under buildings, advocate for 10 and right and confront, uh kind of issues. the services that these programs provide to the committee are important in making a difference in the lives of real people, and it is crucial that are funding is restored. we hope you hear us and we trust you. thank you. thank you so much for your comments. next speaker, please. good evening supervisors. thank you for having us and allowing us to speak. my name is lucy abrego, and i'm, the director of the san francisco latino parity and equity coalition representing over 21 organization certain the latin x immigrants citywide. i want to speak on the importance of keeping m o. h c d. n no cia programs hole. um cbos uplift

communities across san francisco in ways that the city has not been able to. specifically i want to talk about keeping m o. h c d convening and capacity building grants whole during our last retreat and our coalition. we had a discussion around being able to plan for our community seven generations ahead. and that is what makes convening and capacity building grants so important, it allows communities to grow and plan for their future beyond providing services . convening grants allow us to create solutions and to recommend and implement culturally equipped models that work for us. it gives us the aton ammi from for our own communities and allows us to make decisions over our neighborhoods. it also allows communities to have a network supporting them and fighting for them. it allows their communities to also develop their leadership for future generations. it took our coalition almost a decade to get a director, i'm standing here after almost a decade of planning and dedication from our

community leaders and our elders. i am a testament of that planet planning like many other young latin x professionals, this is important. it is more than just consulting and convening. it is planning for generations to come, and it is planning for community sustainability. so i urge you to please help us. keep all cbos in convening and capacity building grants whole. thank you. thanks so much for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. go away. see? some see later, whole amy, thanks in. ability tang, i. tindall time c g t legal someone to be with zynga. high at their supervisors. my name is amy die. i am a asshole organizer from chinatown community development center. i

want to let you know that at 12 pm we had around 70 families here. they wanted to, um comes to speak at the public hearing, but they weren't able to end the afternoon so they had to go home. little make up. come. might um. party tongal. a lot of families were like me. they when we first came to america, we had to live in the asshole that is less than 100 square feet. we share staffed kitchen kitchen bathroom toilet. and my kids they didn't even have it does to do their homework, and they had

to do the homework. on the bed. come lord. via. a your weight, soga. jochen high you call, you know guy i do you have that your ma? jochen hey, you go. okay they raise so from my, uh, inga did the assault. all the stores are always broken in the beginning. i didn't know i have the right to ask for repair. through i visit of my sl organizer. i learned that i could ask my landlord to make the repair and i also learned how to contact the b i, inspector. mhm teaching someone

. to um samnang. i. you have to go through this experience. i was inspired and i became asshole organizer to help other asshole families to communicate with that landlords to make repairs and the s r o buildings. how you doing? guarding their python climate t. on so more than 90% of the cases. we didn't have to report it to dvd, and we were able to solve it just by

communicating with the landlord and i also wanted to mention that turning the pandemic. all of esso organizers were in the front line. helping out with helping the tenants outdo, passing out vouchers and p p e dog and guarding. i jumped on that week, england forgetting i have been working as an organizer's for more than eight years. we have been able to prove that we are able to help our families and police support us and, uh, restoring the funding for the cr program and as whole families united collaborate. thank you. thank you much everything very comments. next speaker, please. well i mean, are you ah, thank you. for many. how hard you who are focused on from regarding

government why you moved surkamp . uh, will show you something getting can give with geeta my bone job holds up to my whole whole park. our hotel. so you yeah, well, they highway so that more taito um, monty hall or how you can join the toe hold. you can see how in all caleb in your samples, silo high 11. whole time. some come with our home, ortega told the unit timecard bonzo. um montilla, the whole fighter. so that you would you don't get that on my with google

myself. secretary yoon go out of my foot and you don't know him on some forgotten to give way. how you guys are tp. i got you. xinjiang things happen or they heard hold on someone gotten those. are you critical bonds or . hello supervisor. my name is young. you fan with the we my family of five in the s r o in chinatown today. i want to urge you or don't cut the as our family united collaborative budget actually need their support and assistance that as our building i live with is quite old and had many maintainers. issues when we reach out for the many manager for repairs they often like don't pick up the phone and also respond slowly take a long time for them to address the problem.

um for example, doing the hairy wing. my won't have the could happily and her. i have to use the but case to catch the water . it's was especially your challenger with three young kids who like to play with the water. i start. i started for help for the s r organizer. they will quickly we respond and we solved the issues during the regular risk with this, the sa organizer could chat and document the condition of my sl building. if they notify any problem, they would dialect. we request that repair from the management companies. they also provide many resource information programming and training opportunity for me. i'm truly grateful they are extensive and please don't cut our budget. many as our family like me, ehealth. thank you. thank you very comments. younger fan. next speaker, please. like a whole.

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indian you can go. they get hot name. i don't want to know more in europe. you guys aren't bound to win more. 11 net, just starting with thought. can make a gave way. guys of getting what they most bound to put phone. thank you. hello supervisor. my name is leaking her. i'm i'm a member of the s r o family united collaborative. my family of five is leading azzaro union in chinatown in here to urge you to maintain the funding for the asthma or family united collaborative. before i have

easter. i had experience that israel repealing, paying in the hallway and in my room that will directly hurt our our resting health and also especially for the children, so i'm trying to contact the building manager for many times, but no one answered the phone. no one will follow up after that. i turned to s r o organizer how me to communicate and directly writing the report for their manager. and then the rate they have fully shrink. they have fully fixed the problem and i don't have to worry that problem anymore. if the funding for the s r o family united collaborative had cut our friend our esnal family, we lost the important organizations that can use our language and how us and how us too, and also education our rights. we will also missing many opportunities

for five for our rights and import our living conditions and how you will continue to support us too. to keep our budget. thank you. thanks so much leaking, not for your comments. next speaker, please, and then you didn't go home with eating nice sand phone guarding for the remote. sign fong. yeah that those emails and so come sleeping. so you're not even. lewis obviously don't talk to your size open like fungal mood dialogue as i want. to. then we'll hold young. what are you go? you've seen me feed than group plc. mochi no loss anymore . chili ticked off on gangel.

lcc local that all more lord hello, sam. could you hold you d hope i don't die down sofa they owned by me thinking, missy. hi hi. sign founding. sanya okay. papal government, meaning doctor khoisan gave way high tall for me guarding. you go sit com using. call isn't even one g english. wanting gave wiggle using. hi everyone. my name is function. boo i used to live in an s. all my family of three who was living in an assault because we didn't make enough money to move out to live somewhere else. the s o. that we live in always has a lot of rats. in the middle

of night. i could hear rat and i was what i would like wake up in the middle of the night. my daughter. she is really afraid to go to the bathroom by herself because of the rat the in the s. so there are lots of bacteria, and that's why my family has developed skin problems. we have demand the landlord to send someone to get eliminate the rats. but he said he didn't see any rats and that's why he didn't do anything. one day. the wall and the s o. had a big hole because of the rats that were because the whole room in infested by rats. i felt really helpless. so i contact my sl organizer. after they communicate with the landlord. the landlord was able to repair the hole in the wall and they arrange for past control. last

month with the help of esol families united collaborative i was able to move out of the s r o and my families, skin problems was improve significantly. i cannot imagine without the assault families collaborative program and without the cr program. how the lives of all the children living in assault will get into, uh impacted. so i'm here to urge you to please oppose the budget cut and restore the funding for us. thank you. and um, next to me. i have functions daughter. she also wants to share with you, her experience living in and as so hello. my name is your team will and when i was living in those small apartments, i was always scared to go to the

kitchen and by myself or the bathroom and like there will be always rats crawling around and in the bathtub water would either not drained or they were like plunge out and then we would have to deal with it overnight. and sometimes they will be sleepless nights about it. so please don't cut the budget because the s o r. are people working. there have helped us a lot and they helped us so that we can move out of that place. thank you. thank you . thank you. yeah jlo for showing your comments. could we have the next speaker, please? oh wait, wait. it says i'm seeing them went hong or high san phone can get with a guard tank, do it wanting good with with we're doing on san juan garden. like higher from. gr

communicate dessert, young ah! i'm talking about. um. is up evil. thank you. yeah. penguin where for some tzung or somewhat is or teaching sacrament i it's not okay to model young. moyal how lord some funding. when dawson got uh, you take you got your man to allow our whole far direct. could you know what?

when? what size of some fontaine give, which was that got tangled garden san fung in my home cause i made on both fat based can. don't know yet calls us. young tom will find a hotel buoyancy. see handhold over dog. uh. son human. but your. so you come san fong, think it we got zika. you know what your comments could. we have the interpretation of. hello supervisor. my name is yang sell pen and a member of the srl family united

collaborative our family of four in the s r o union in chinatown , so collaborative helps important. it's important for our s our family, for example, they provide building. building coin tape training, which allows us to learn more about the state , the fire safety and also the tendon right in our building. only in there have 22 union one on the 14 which, um, we each department have about 4 to 24 to 4 people. they're only have three bathroom we can use. we always doing ongoing asia with the bathroom. we tried to call the building manager office. there was no answer. if the only door to help only can ask how organized that can help me face the issue, and now they're if

happened, any building problem? the building manager will act quickly because they know that s r o organized that will come to our building and chat. i saw family united also per rai. many different events, for example, is 2% day. there was the wonderful for our family who like the in the s r o space that's struggling provider of tv key area for our children. the cake can pray around and make some new friends. and also they will provide additional different community on information with the parents, however, to how else us the light the new immigrant to know what united states look like a strongly a strongly us you do not cut our budget because it's very important for us. thank you. thank you for sharing your comments with the committee. could we have the next speaker,

please? i hope will be my king. what? hi, sam fong cutting there yet, project say how to desire coming up. um welcome out, sees hamsik idol. see seating we got perform your supervisors. my name is rachel, who i am part of sl families united collaborative . my family of four has been living in chinatowns. that's all i am here today to urge you to continue to support our collaborative and the cr program. zama what they so you know what they did to hotel? why would anti what they got. no saturday pan. why by tom backups, soy patterns. our sweet time don't painful pan walls fund movie. yes, lady mantle. so

what they where y'all longer assignment i host side. commented. doing what they can hong wong wanting. we all hold you what they don't call thank you. by some anti hope i guy could because it s all building is so old. we have so much, uh, building issues. our for example , our bathroom floor was broken . the water was clogged. there was also leaking and the war on the walls and on the ceiling. there were mold all these problems and no good for my two kids who are still really young . all of these building issues is also also no good for their health. and there's not not good for this. save the eater. and do the help of our soul organizer. they were able to communicate

with the management and the management was able to fix these issues. don't tell us that you inform manual they see game tat found you. what? so in manti de . your man, taiwan and guarding tyson would just so total welcome to t p t t my s when the my asshole organizer came to visit me she would check my building's condition and ask how i'm doing every time when there are building problems, she would ask the landlord to, um to send repair services because of their help everybody in my building and my family. um our life i live in conditions got improved significantly. i'm really grateful for it, uh, support and

i'm i'm here to really urge you to support the cr program because these services are really, really fundamental to our well being. thank you. thank you, wolf for sharing your comments with the committee. could we have the next speaker, please? well you know, winning borrowed supervisors. my name is anna young. um i'm new to this ah, organization because i'm a volunteer translator. s i'm translating, helping elderly's and translating. i found that tons of horrible issues, but let's make it like director at this point. c o p. and as our attendance services make it possible for tenants to live in habitable homes. to the outreach of a cultural and linguistic story competing uh, pendant educators. they bring to the department of a building inspectors process support tenants sending up for the habitat both home and that they

deserve and ensure that are in the conference with building codes. us. secondly, tenants in the community have grown to know this. to know and trust this organization in the last 20 years of the program. and f. 100% cut tenants will have less knowledge about their rights to repair or how to get their landlords to itself code enforcement issue. and there will be tundra problem, and my point is right now they're doing the translators work for you guys. if you guys cut this program equal to, like, cut all these translators for you. i wonder, how are you going to understand what they're talking about? even though they lie up, they show up. they try to communicate you and then your translators already off after six pm so you just basically will become the milk. that and then they put the trust into all

your board of trustees. because they have you elected. they hope they put their all the trust the faith into you. they need your help. so well crippling their wind. that that meat so praise like think about it because i know you guys have a good heart to help us. so thank you very much. thank you. a young for sharing your comments with the committee. could we have the next speaker, please? so training another shaming. yes sir. who? uh, entry. also john. to the conclusion. uh uh, someone chatting. usana. hello

supervisor. my name is pinching who i am a new image square holy in chinatown. helped at the hour of our building. total have 88 s r o union, um, here to speak about we dumped and then also, um i'm a part of the s r o union as a whole family. you're knighted collaborative. john and daniel, mean, uh, somewhat, said . is it? lawyers should help. so the collaborative. role is like the beach about the d b. i and the community and also they also affect our leap. our living

condition our life, our information of an also ran. someone getting ah, that's woman said. woman, aga. so that woman law you. like a. uh, hi. oh, uh, yeah, maybe government. got to get a woman. to legal ology

mhm. so um that. then the asa organizer fly like our family. they were wasting our home and layouts like before. i say our building had 80 a unions such a like the big union and then many people living there. they will have many different like, um different issues building a shrewd for example, three days ago, i understanding our bathroom stuff falling off, try to like mail communication with the building manager and also looking for the, um, meant the building manager companies, but we didn't get any really respond or some or callback like, follow up, but, um, that s r o organizer have followed up with me and also like help the directly can session with the company, the manager companies

so they are very helpful and without them, i don't know who i can looking for help. into the mayor. tell georgia law you when you wanna chinese, deborah. lawyer that just shelf and john . thousands of to rooney fastened angels ago. and also they will have the, um they will have to fire safety wash up on our buildings and also, sometimes they will have to wash up about the, um tandem. right so without them, i don't have. i don't have no idea. where can i find that kind of information? because i'm i only speak chinese cannot fight they cannot like used any fighting in the china. those information in chinese and

we and if we cut the budget, we don't have that program anymore . it will cost many people will lost. they don't they also, like , don't know. where can they can find those information? thank you. thank you for sharing your comments. speakers time is concluded. we need to hear from the next speaker. ah thank you. can we have the next speaker, please? provide his something and needed. help. why have fun? what do you say? yes, i say, girl power guys, handphone hunter. how low your. advantages shooting on. good afternoon, commissioner. my also, professor . my name is yet yan lu su fan. i am as our resident who lived

in 1449 powerless traits. i'm here today to urge order of you to reconsider the budget on srl program and added back to the budget plant. hi yes, i need to call you. you let ginger holla what they allow you banking and henhouse to hang on. yeah old although sheila got to follow taiwan, you can more online all the. in 2014, i'll living conditions certificates so never currently the crease because the building owner had changed for the central part. the new landlord cancel our month monthly pass control service and we were suffering in unacceptable conditions. also we have made multiple requests to the repair or replace the kitchen stove since it was damaged by rent here, but let's

not ignore our request. julius hi. quote you cannot the. and what they had you had it down. to at. yet. hey yeah case so don't get gambling. don't order . tampon by. g $44 that legal you said motala. at jola after facing the landlord ignorance we say hell from chinatown, cdc and this is cdc assistant. we could express our tenants, right and file decrease in housing service

partition through the rain board . under the mediation, we finally received a response from the landlord. and we as, uh, they, the landlord accept our request to include remaining pest control service, repair the kitchen stove and reduce ramp. basis on decrease the service. he decreased it. and what did. would ranking. again doing what i guess. okay modal gave up cuisine jihad language banking tong. no hunting, got weiss's hamzi. therefore another cia program. we were safe, reduced rent and were able to get back

to a comfortable living conditions also educate the landlord to pay attention to our future requests, so i'm pleased order. you do not reduce the budget and it back to the off program and remain it to help more srl building tenants like us. thank you so much. thank you so much for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. hello diego. hope youll revenging. dating all the time wanting with the gara. you're banning guy out salmon thingy will gone dot more than hip draw dot sandmann guarding hold. hold on monte like you. the entire wise out. because they have lousy model longer. she's also my a. now you know why? why

someone gangel? jihad kenya, goolagong even bond on what is an phone guarding luca jiggle. kenya to my gate. what is regarding to give away doing what his son from guarding defeat on seating on monday going job, but use your gun lawmen. hello supervisor. my name is young. you lay soro, organizer with chinese progressive association. i'm here to ask your continue to funding and support our s our old family. united club programs . ci joy s are destroyed the capital in 2018. i have been a sized helping us our family in addressing. there are a lot of like issued those issues, including including like stealing, stealing and hallway

li every term mean maintain this then match or the kitchen stone leaking fastest peeling ping in underworld and also overall, the building hygiene is look, we also paride many tender, right, right, washed up and another training session to empower as our western to understand the importance, see? up speaking up for themselves, and also they are right. the word of our s our old family. united club tip is like so for the srl household. i hope you can continue support and understand the family needs and support our work. thank you. thank you. thank you much on your life for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. like a hold. muhaimin steve, will you should emotional camps are wanting to wake up the phone. hi everyone. i am jumping

huang from chinatown community development center, and i am an esso organizer, um, here to urge you to support our esol family s all families and police do not cut up budget. model. pastimes of sehgal yourself. i'm going to human difficult on guy could get yourself ochola t b i you take i could get i have been working as an esso organizer for more than two years and these two years i follow up for 100 and 34 building cases and out of the 134 cases. there are 100 and 15 building problems that we were able to solve. do direct communication with the landlord and 19 of them. we uh we work

with our housing, cancer and db. i. in journal, you can get the union wanna kangai until like you kept going like you have global yamaha human type. do our data do our frequent visits at the esso building. we were able to find out a lot of the building issues and we also talked to our educate our tenant about all the building regulations and we encourage them to bring up any of the building issues that they see. don't get in it my heart job getting. on top of a visiting the buildings were also organized activities and

workshops for the families to many years of collaboration. we were able to build relationship and community and build trust with our soul families. like damn some you didn't come. gonzaga wallowa. how you more like. because we are in the same community and we speak the same language families don't have to worry about language barrier or cultural barria. they can use our services without any barriers. db i to myself and to give. we have dropped long hold you getting at you. do our collaborations db i and s o families collaborative work together to really improve the living conditions for all the low income families who live in srs. see what i see heidel

hunting's camps and from getting phone being or they go on to get we're getting thinking how you get the default mode. not that for this reason i am here to urge the board of supervisors to please do not support the budget cut for the as all families collaborative and the cr program so that the 800 s all family members can continue to receive these essential shirt services. thank you. thank you, john ping wang for your comments. next speaker, please. always and argue, loyally. hey. galaxy hotel using or their son wanting . give we go, go get. that's

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surprise her my name a c yulian law. esa organizer with chinese progressive association today i'm cursed. you don't cut the budget for the ece of family united collaborative. i have been working with the sl family for seven years in my work. i'll help help how many as our family resolve building issued that's why my word is our worst is so important. i used to live in your building to our building had many many, many, um, seriously eat problem that in that including like webs move in our world and the leaking silly and amounts to another issues. when where i got noticed that usually of course, first i will contact the building manager and then i will call the contact the building management. companies but they never, um, network sold out and never responds, even though they say they will come

to fix the problem, but same thing. they won't response. but at that time i met my as our organizer should help me to communicate with the landlord and also faced a problem. that's that's why i decided to join the s r o family united collaborative. doing my work. i come to cost on that southwestern, who had the have a large hole in their in their world. she only used the keep us starlight, the temperature the face, but it's still have a lot of light coming. do which have the certificate impact of for her and her family health? she also report that to the landlord but also know respond until i intervene and eventually the landlord had we praise, praise it and also there have another

like a lot like that kind of situation happened. but does it show us our worst is so important for our community for our as our old family. and. and i have many experience in my world. there are many dogs i cannot share here. i hope i hope to urge you do not cut the funding and allow us to continue serving. that's our family. thank you. thank you willing my for your comments. next picture, please. home come on,

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fixed, they're building issues. and also we love like we like the big family priests organized our worst piece, recognize our words and also understand the sls need. i hope you can keep our budget. thank you. thanks so much for your comments next speaker, please. hello good evening supervisor. my name is rachel home from chinatown. cdc i've been working as a community organizer in health and counselor for almost two years. through the code enforcement outreach program. i have met many households living in s r o units. some of them are low income families, seniors and new immigrants who only speaking cantonese or mandarin. unfortunately the living conditions in the sorrow units are not good. and even though made housing standards the room

has more with shared bathroom and kitchens. there are problems like water leaks, cracks more rodents approach, um, like broken stores. um the tenants often struggled to communicate with the land up because of the language barriers, and some landlords don't respond and take response responsibility for repairs. china's can no longer tolerate those issues. they come to us for help. um they just us to fight for that their right to proper living conditions. because we have a trustworthy relationship. however recent budget cuts have made them had erred to look for our help. they don't know where to go. as a non profit organization. we deeply involved in the community we have built trust with the tenants. we stand by their side , offering support and fighting for their rights. with our knowledge and repetition. we have been able to so many

problems without involving the db i that's why as an important to continue finding us, uh, funding our program. ah however , there are difficult case where the landlord refused to fix the problems in those situations. we work with the db to deal with this troublesome landlords. for example, we have recently heavily involved with the law reality case trying to resolve the issue faced by the tenants, uh, in conclusion, um, we hope that, uh, yeah, it will be so much. thank you for addressing this committee, though, rachel next speaker. supervisor my name is camille as formal as our family of the ece. oh united family united collaborative, and i have leaving the s r o image immigrating to the united states of assad yield. now i'm sorry,

like a community organizer for chinese progress association and respond for the as that organizing with the s r old fat. family united cooperative. i understand the challenges living the living conditions in s r o rash share for the solitaire office perceived, often faced the maintainers issued due to the high western use in the past language barriers and fear to offending the building manager and my me and my family from reporting those issues. thanks for thanks for my as an organizer supporting and also corny, we asked. we learned that making making request, especially the maintainers request is our wise in the united states. so. ok mm. i saw residents and also a community

organizer. i recognize i recognize and the you're lying. those family holy in the substance, substandard conditions on organizing on organizing like soro united in the capital city, and our worst is vital in for its riding down the access to safe and affordable housing, essential service and the resource. to import their life budget cut coat on demand our program postgres and list those family without quite tickles. support their needs whole, you can understand the impact of the budget cut and our collapsed how you support understand our thank you for your comment, spending one. the next speaker, please. good evening supervisor. so i'm a housing counselor. my name is jackie from c. c. t. c.

chinatown community development center. i bet you guys are here. a lot of story from sl family today and as a housing counselor , i believe all this is true. and one of the things that they combined to terror and then conclude today is the living quality. they just want to fat, maintain and repair fast and maintain their living quality in the s r o units. and i want to show one more example today that as a housing counselor, i mean a case that tenants for looking for us to communicate with the property manager, and they just want to have the property manager to repair all the issues they mentioned. but the problem is they don't know how to communicate to the pm. and without the cr program, they will not have any resources to look for anyone to assist them to communicate with the popular manager. so in our help as a housing counselor. we help

assist the tenant to ah! to assist the tenant to notice the pm to fix in all the issue in one weeks, which i don't think db i maybe can faster than us to finish all the process. and tenant just want to maintain the service and without this program , or the sl family won't be having a better living quality. so in here i urge all the supervisor please do not cut the program ordered db funding. thank you so much. thank you so much jackie for iraq. addressing this committee. thanks, speaker, please. hello supervisors. my name is lisa and i'm a senior community organizer at china town city. see i just wanted to share that for us. it was really shocking and devastating to see the 100% cut that's made to our code enforcement program and also to a so collaborative and i don't really understand how db i will really serve the

communities by cutting this budget by 100% and our collaborative and also the cr program actually directly served . these community members didn't even discuss it with us and david try to work together with us to make it um and then you know the cut for the db budget. we're really affect our overall programming, which you already heard today. it provides services to the light that the language is needed for families and people that live in such conditions and as zero and today you already saw how our staffs help our families translate and how they stayed for a really long time to be able to speak, so i really hope that the supervisors can help advocate and help us. add back the budget for the s or collaborative and the cr program in the db i budget. thank you. thanks so much. lisa for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. good evening supervisors. my name is claire lau. i am with the chinese progressive association in here this evening to speak on, uh, three different budget cuts that cpas facing

under d b i and the city administrators office, um, the mayor and the board of supervisors has said that safety is really important issue right now in the city. and i want to reiterate that our families cannot be safe when their buildings are on fire. our families cannot be safe. when there are cockroaches and rats in their kitchens and bathrooms. and that's why it's really important for you to restore the 5.2 million complete cut to the d b. i s r o s r o collaborative funding and code enforcement outreach program funding. in addition, when we talk about safety are immigrant workers cannot be safe. when there are being threatened to have their wages stone. actually there cannot be safe when their wages are getting stolen by their employers, and they're threatened to be fired and so they cannot speak up for themselves. that's why i'm urging. lsc under the city

administrators office to restore the $400,000 cut through the workers' rights collaborative to do workers' rights outreach to immigrant communities. thirdly, when we talk about safety c p a has been creating a safe space through sisterhood gardens in the excelsior. and this is a space where people of different races. neighbors come together to grow food together. elderly chinese people who are afraid to go outside during the pandemic and are afraid of violence in the streets are afraid, but they still go to sisterhood gardens, and this is where they can interact with other community members of different races. so when we talk about community safety, i urge you to fund sisterhood gardens under cia. which is also under the city. um and administrators office, um, to create this safe space. thank you. claire laugh for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. ah good evening. my name

is eric wu step at the chinatown cdc. you have all heard about how the code enforcement outreach program benefits the living environment for residents , but the program also helps preserve the housing stock of s. r o s. i want a tenant comes to us with a problem such as no hot water in the building, and the owner has not been responsive and fixing it. we help encourage the owner to ultimately make the repairs that would preserve the useful life of the building through the sea of landlords, tenants and community organizations identify the systems have been asteroids that need attention from boiler system. and flooring to appliances like attendants, refrigerator, identifying and getting problems fixed early on , helps preserve sa rose and the community. so the longer you wait to make repairs, the more expensive it is for the owner and a shorter than buildings useful life is while we would like more sorrow, upgrades and retrofit this program helps keep the existing soro building conditions habitable for residents, please, please urged

the department to put the program back into the budget. thank you. thanks so much eric root for addressing this committee. next speaker, please. good evening. my name is peter. johan oh, and i'm with saddle market community action network . sam can, uh, it's very upsetting that unessential program in the cities facing to get cut during the height of the pandemic. the s r o organizer and collaborative was in the front line, giving support to families, whether that's groceries, ppe and also mental support. um that's our collaborative provides services to are very vulnerable community members, not only the collaborative, educate tenants on building codes, but also provide language access and other resources. they need. police support the sorrow, families united collaborative and no cuts on other essentials . essential programs that our community needs. thank you. thanks. so much for your comments. the next speaker, please. hello supervisor. my

name is ramon bonifacio and i'm with start up market community action network. some can and some can't is a member of the s r o family united collaborative. and i'm here to ask you to stop the budget cat s r o to our families and to our community. again. it's really upsetting to hear that an essential program like s are collaborative is being cut. many of our family relies on the resources and services. that s our collaborative and the cbo under it provided a community. we have seen family being scared to report any building issues to their buildings to their landlord to their property management because they don't know that they have rights or scared of being evicted. and even if they do know their rights, uh many of our family are scared to seek help because they don't understand the process through s are collaborative. the family are able to access resources they need many of our families relies

on cbos for language access to the to access services and resources for t b. i and the city. the many testimony you heard today, just relax, really shows that the importance really shows the importance of sorrow. finance uh, family united collaborative, so a lot of the families and the community, please. again i ask you supervisors to stop the budget cut to s r o to our families and our community. thank you. thank you much. remember the fascia for addressing this committee? next speaker, please. all boys in jericho cinabbon building marking familia. come in now walk. pangolin on budget, so family

for visors. my name is jericho, cinnabon. i live at an s. r o building with my family. i am. asking you to please not remove the budget or not cut the budget for the s r o family. because we are immensely helped by this program. um and this is, uh, with problems in our building, um like unsanitary conditions in

our building, um, broken elevators, uh, also providing us with tenants. rights background , especially during the pandemic. food banks strengthening family program and others. essential programs for families. thank you very much. thank you much jericho cinema for your comments. next speaker, please. hi once again i'm becky from casa who's too just cause i'm here today to urge you all to, um sorry. like like your words urged you to restore all the cuts. the $5.2 million in the db i budget for the cia and the s r programs as you heard our communities our organizations really have built long relationships with people in the community they know to go to us when there's an issue with their housing. sometimes people come to us. with an issue such

as harassment, and they don't even think at first even mentioned that oh, yes, their toilet is broken. whether ceiling is like has an issue. we're able to let people know that that is something that their landlord needs to fix for them. we're able to collaborate with department building inspection, so we work with a lot of immigrant latino community members. a lot of them are monolingual spanish speakers. and you know there are amazing inspectors. not all of them speak spanish, so we're able to explain to the community. what is the process? how do they prepare? how do they write down what their issues are? so if there is an inspection that's needed that they can get. make sure that everything is written down. their landlord has to fix everything. or also our counselors are also able to work with the community at times to get their issues resolved without the housing inspectors. um and lastly, we also know the outreach that we do is super important. i know. the

department said that you know, they'll try they'll do their best, but we know that the people are nervous amount government if they're nervous about is a safety for them to speak with that groups like ourselves are super important. so please restore the cuts. thank you. thank you much, becky. next speaker, please. fred zimmer housing rights committee. i have to say, pretty horrified when i saw the mayor's proposed budget. the cuts to prop up by the cuts to affordable housing for low income families, funded in props , see the lack of any real cost of doing business. for groceries going up rents going up. but i'm here instead to talk about the 100% cut to see our programs. i don't know other calls to a and services may be going down and db i, but housing complaints are going up 25. can d b i handle

another 20,000 more complaints because collectively, that's what these organizations handle every year. 20,000. we've been doing this work at housing rights committee with in partnership with b i, for over 25 years. we have two staff people who were hired under this program who have been with us for 23 years. tommy and stephanie. they've mentored. generations of housing counselors. question is when we lay off a third of our staff at housing rights, and some of these organizations lay off many more. where are people going to go? counselor? speak five languages, one of the few that specialize in helping hud tenants and let me tell you that hud housing in the city is disgusting. and i just we need a

people's budget now. and we need you all to be brave and to demand the fees that need to come and demand that other things in these budgets get get pushed aside, and that programs are community members who loves san francisco who build san francisco who make the city run wednesday here. but thank you, fred sherman zimmer for comments next week, please. good evening, and djokovic obando with some can just want to echo the horrible cuts that's being proposed for the s r o families united collaborative and the court enforcement and just want to remind the city that you know. in a few years ago. you guys supported language access ordinance like the filipino language ordinance, chinese language ordinance and spanish

language ordinance. a lot of us are the ones that are rolling out all of this work to make sure that residents that has not speak or cannot understand english or is not able to fully comprehend the different, um, codes and enforcement that the city is supposedly informing them. we were the ones that's doing that, and by cutting us out of the story or this work. you're cutting out the relationships that we have built many years with with our community and their ability to not just only not only to speak up for themselves, but also their children to be able to know their rights as they continue to try. to live here in san francisco, so we really encourage you to remember those ordinances that i want to really lift up the language access that

all of our organization provides and that we also provide all of jobs for our community to be able to stay in here in san francisco. thank you. thanks so much. angelica, commander for addressing this committee. signal further speakers here in the chamber. miss second lap if you can admit her color, please. eileen broken was speak. i'm on the call to speak about item 16 to 22 about the pc misspoken. we have not yet called those items . so if you can hit start three to get back into q, we will call those items shortly. okay what's your said that was the last item they're going to take. no, she didn't. but yeah, we will call those items shortly. thank you. thank you much eileen. broken. um the second love. do we have any more? speakers in the queue.

madam chair that completes her cue. thank you seeing no more public comments. public communists now close colleagues . i appreciate all your patients today, and i definitely want to thank all the public commenters that came out as well. um some of them actually, most of them today also have waited actually , hours before we take public comments on the items, so of course i appreciate them, uh, turning out and waiting as well and their patients and with asset colleagues. i think that what's going to happen is we're going to continue item two and three to next week and definitely more to come. i appreciate everybody's hard work today, so i'm going to make the motion to continue items two and three. to next week. oh till tomorrow, madam chair. okay is this the same city departments? not same, but different. thank you. sorry. um thank you second. second by supervisor walton to continue that item 2 to 3 to tomorrow. with that. please call

the roll and on that motion to continue. items two and three to the 6 15 meeting of this committee vice chairman. gentlemen, i remember saffy. suffer absent member ronan running. i remember walton. walter and i church in have four eyes with members saffet absent. thank you and the motion passes . and with that, um, struck clark, could you please call items 16 to 22 together all together? yes, madam chair item number 16 through 22 items. 17. there's an ordinance appropriating is 759,000 have clean power sf revenue for clean power sf capital improvements and approximately 858,000 in california public utilities commission grant funds to implement the disadvantaged communities, green tariff and community solar green tariff programs for fiscal year 2023 to

2024 how items 16 18 and 19 her ordinances appropriating and placing the following amounts by project on controllers reserve, subject to the controllers. certification of funds availability. including proceeds of indebtedness for construction related expenditures, excluding program, management, planning and design for these projects, as applicable is also subject to the prior occurrence, sfp ucs and the board of supervisors. discretionary adoption of california environmental quality act findings for projects following review and consideration of completed project related environmental analysis were required in fiscal year 2023 to 2024 items 16 appropriates a total of approximately 124 million have had schatzi revenue cap and trade revenue hand power and revenue revenue bonds sorry water revenue bonds. for the san francisco public utilities commission, hedge hedge e capital improvement program and placing approximately 41 million

of power bonds and approximately 77 million have water bonds by project on controllers reserve. hide, um 18 appropriates a total of approximately 332 million of proceeds from revenue bonds are state of california water resources control boards. revolving state loan funds for state grand funds, water revenues and water capacity fees from san francisco. public utilities commission. water enterprise capital improvement program and play, placing approximately 282 million of revenue, bond and state loan funds or state grant funds. proceeds by project on controllers reserve item 19 appropriately total, however, approximately 1.1 billion who proceeds from revenue bonds state of california water resources control boards, revolving state loan funds or state grant funds. waste revenue , wastewater revenue and capacity fees. for the puc. uh for the pcs wastewater enterprise capital improvement

program for fiscal year 2023 to 24 and placing approximately 1 billion in revenue. five revenue bonds, who are state loan or grant funds by project on controllers reserve. items 20 through 22, or ordinances authorizing the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water revenue, bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the s f. p c to finance the costs of various capital water projects benefiting the water enterprise pursuant to amendments to the charter of the city and county and that goodbye to voters on november 5th 2002 as proposition e. authorizing the issuance of water revenue refunding bonds and the retirement of outstanding water enterprise commercial paper. declaring the official intent. i'm sorry. the official intent pardon have the commission to reimburse itself with one or more issues of tax exempt bonds or other forms of indebtedness and ratifying previous actions taken in connection there with as the fine and the respect of ordinances hiding twenties in an

aggregate aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately 358 million hide them 21 and then aggregate principal amount now it takes approximately 1 billion item 22. in an aggregate principal amount that succeeded approximately 41 million members of the public who wish to provide comments on the afro mentioned should call for 156550001 today's meeting ideas to 5910926245 and then pressed pan twice. and if you haven't already done so, please dial star three lined up to speak. hey promptly indicate that you have raised your hand. and when how the system indicates you have been in meetings. you may begin your comments, madam chair. thank you, mr clark and before our general manager for myself. puc general manager dance herrera start. i just want to remind colleagues that all these items have a budget and legislator, analysts report so let's have the snp you see, just go through all the items presentation at once, and then we'll go to the er a report. i know that there is some ah, recommendations with

amendments and then then we can go to questions and comments and then also public comments. thank you. thank you. madam chair. denis ferreira, general manager of the puc. it's my pleasure to be with you today to talk about the fiscal year 23 24 operating budget, mid cycle changes and our capital budget, but before i get started, i just first want to say how much? um are folks have appreciated the cooperation and good work of the mayor's budget office. uh and a dooming in jack english. thank you. so much for your help as well as the comptroller's office. can hinton and, uh, rita sandler. thank you very much for, um your hard work and cooperation with our staff. we very much appreciate it. uh i was going to say goody afternoon supervisors, but good evening. uh, my pleasure to be with you today. as you know, the puc s mission is to provide our customers with

high quality, efficient and reliable water, parent source services in a manner. that is inclusive environmental and community interests in the sustains the resources entrusted to our care. that mission statement is reflected in our budget proposal that we're here to discuss with you today. who are a bit when we were here before you last year. we shared the two year budget we have designed and it was guarded by three overreaching principals, responsible management and all that we do from our finances to the environment, supporting people in communities as well as access and affordability. those remain our priorities. uh as far as responsible management goes, the bucs budget is grounded in responsibility and transparency with a focus on core service delivery. as such, the puc will prioritize financial sustainability meet regulatory requirements, ensure public confidence, advance environmental stewardship and maintain critical infrastructure. some of the

examples of this in the fiscal year. 23 24 budget include a significant driver of the department's year over year cost increases his power purchase and distribution costs as the power enterprise utilizes the p genie electricity distribution grid to deliver power to its customers. pg any fees and tariffs represent a substantial portion of power purchase costs through the mayor's budget proposed budget. the department is continuing to work on the acquisition of pg knees. several san francisco uh, san francisco electricity distribution network that will enable the city to provide electricity that is more cost effective, cleaner, safer and more reliable. the fiscal year. 23 24 budget also includes new funding to run the waste the westside recycled water plant, which will begin operation in late 2023. the plant will provide up to $2 million.02 million gallons per day on average of drinking water that

is currently used for non drinking purposes such as irrigation and lake villain and provide a new service to golden gate park lincoln park golf course another landscaped areas for irrigation, particularly on the west side of san francisco. we talked with you here last year about the challenges we and many other city departments are facing with recruitment and retention. and i remember in particular supervisor ronan had a particular focus on that very pleased report that in the last year we have been focused on chipping away at our vacancy rate. we have hired nearly 300 people and process 236 internal staff movements like promotions. in addition to participating in the city wide initiatives to improve hiring human resources team is in the process of streamlining our internal processes to improve the time to hire and has been pursuing outrage, including job fairs, communication about opportunities at public events, improving access to job listings on our website and social media postings. to improve visibility

about the city and sfp you see as an employer of choice. as we discussed here yesterday, the bucs new water and wastewater rate structure will begin in fiscal year. 23 24, based on the results of an independent rate study, completed in spring, 2023. at the same time, the puc recognizes and is committed to ensuring rate fairness and affordability for its customers . the projected utility rates meet the department's approved affordability level of service goal that the average combined water and wastewater bill remain under 2.5% of median household income. in addition, the puc is expanding the customer assistance build discount program and we're changing the maximum income eligibility threshold for the discount to be 50% of am i and established two tiers of discounts within the program of 40% discount, perhaps households with incomes equal to

or below 30% of am i and at 25% discount for households with incomes between 31 and 50% of am i, and we're very proud of our leadership in the area of trying to be, um, responsive to our most at risk. ah, ratepayers. one of the most visible and meaningful ways the puc will contribute to the recovery of the economy and restoring the vibrancy of san francisco will be through its capital program, which will invest approximately $1.4 billion in fiscal year 23 24 and 8.8 billion over the next 10 years. these investments will support local jobs and businesses while improving the city's essential utility infrastructure. um, our budget this year is simply an update to the budget that you adopted last year. the budget has a fixed two year by any operating budget for fiscal year 22 23 and 23 24, and

this year obviously represents the second year of the fixed biennial budget and as such only critical changes are proposed, including covering the increased cost of power due to energy prices and debt service. debt service savings. i also want to note that we have not included any request for new f t. e s and r revised operating budget and we stick to the framework that was their last year. for fiscal 24 25 fiscal year. 24 25 represents a roll over budget that will be revisited as part of the department's next by any old budget process. on the capital side of last year, we were faced with a 10 year capital plan that contained more infrastructure projects that are projected revenues could cover at that time. we're in the midst of doing the hard work to right size our capital plan so we could afford it, deliver projects on time and optimize our borrowing. so only we only came to you with one year capital budget last year, and as we told our commission in this

body at that time, we were in the process of doing a thorough review and update of our capital budget to strike the right balance. and that is what we're coming back to you with today. and it has been already approved by our commission. we've done the hard work to make our capital plan more efficient in the process, where reduced our capital plan by over $1 billion the proposed capital budget before you make the investments needed to help our systems adapt to droughts and storms as the climate changes, while also being mindful of our customers and keeping our rates competitive. will be asking for your approval for fiscal year 23 24 capital budget and related bond authorizations are now turn the presentation over to nancy hammar, chief financial officer and assistant general manager of business services to go into more detail about our proposed budget, and we look forward to your questions, supervisors. thank you, dennis. good evening

chair and committee members. my name is nancy home. i am the s. f. p. c s chief financial officer and assistant general manager of business services. thank you for your time today. this slide here is a high level overview of our proposed fiscal year. 23 24 operating budget, which totals approximately $1.8 billion. our budget has grown by approximately 26% over the last five fiscal years. the pie chart on the right. is a proposed budget organized by the major cost categories and as you can see, the largest cash driver is capital uses, which is which are the funds we spend on our capital projects. this consists of consists of debt service comprised of interest and principal repayments and revenue funded capital, which is the portion that we pay directly from our revenues. the second largest cost driver is power purchases for the power enterprise and clean power sf program. these two drivers account for over half of our budget and nearly all of the budget growth in the past five years, and this trend will continue into the future. as

mentioned. we are at the mid cycle of a two year fixed operating budget and only making minimal changes at this point. however these changes do add up to a large figure, which is approximately $97 million. this table lists the changes we've made from the adopted budget in 23 24 23 24. now as you can see, the main driver again are the power purchase prices that have increased and these are associated with delivering power by the power enterprise inclusive of the clean power sf program. the significant increases have been driven by a volatile energy market, representing nearly an 89% increase in our power purchase budget since fiscal year 2020 21 these increases are offset by decreased savings in our debt service costs, which are driven by our debt strategy and repayment schedules and savings and revenue funded capital. and we. we've also included $2 million in our operating costs related to the westside westside recycled water plant at dennis

had mentioned earlier that asset will be placed into service later this calendar year. the project is transferring from our capital budget to become an operational asset and the $2 million is associated with ongoing operating costs. and lastly, there is an increase in our general reserve contributions for the wastewater enterprise water enterprise and clean power sf program to balance sources and uses in those enterprises to remain in alignment with our fund balance reserve policies. continuing to the capital budget, which is the biggest driver of our operate overall operating costs, as dennis has shared earlier staff across the agency have worked intensively over the past year to develop a revised capital plan that is right sized for customer affordability and deliver ability. prior year, we chose to move forward with only a one year capital budget to enable us to complete this work. and so the second year is here before you today for adoption. the total capital budget for fiscal 23 24 is $1.4 billion,

and this again is largely driven by the wastewater enterprise and by a single capital project, which is the major upgrades at the southeast plant by spiral solids digesters, which is in full construction at this time. to finance or capital budget. we do need to issue that, and the authorization from the border supervisors is needed includes in the balance amount, financial projects $1.2 billion inclusive of another $200 million in financing costs, and those are for capitalist interests and the cost of death debt issuance. this next slide here is a list of some of the key and critical projects that are funded by our capital budget next fiscal year in 23 24 for our each of our enterprises and clean parts of program, the largest is listed at the top again. and i want to jump to the last slide here, and i just want to close with a brief overview. these are the ordinance that are eight ordinances that are before you today that support our pc

proposed budget. thank you very much and opening this up to any questions. thank you. let's have report. thank you. chair chair and nick menard from the b l. a uh, so before you are several ordinances related to the bucs. capital budget and operating budget. items 16 and 22 are two ordinances that authorized $41 million in power bonds and then appropriate. $124 million in power, bond, water, bond and other capital revenues for projects that we described in our report. and we show the budget for those projects on page 17 of our report. the these bonds would be repaid as part of the rates that uh, hedgehog customer pay. and we also know in our report that and the next fiscal year had to keep our rates, um are projected to increase 14% which is higher

than what was projected in the in the department's financial plan last year. we did have a recommendation on the power bond authorization. which unlike the other two bond authorizations before you does not have a reporting requirement to the border supervisor is, uh which i think is important because you know these bonds are issued. um under the charter, their revenue bonds that don't go to the voters. they require border approval that required two thirds approval. um and so this is really the only outside check on the bonds. and it's for that reason. ah. do you think of reporting requirements helpful and it's helpful for us if the reports are included in the legislative file, so that's the change that i would recommend for item. for the power bond authorization item. 17 is, um related to the clean power. ah! yes. capital program. inappropriate $1.6 million in

clean power customer revenues and, um state grants to fund projects described in our report. items 18 and 20, or two ordinances related to the water enterprise, including authorizing $350 million in water revenue bonds, which will be used for water projects, and also for power projects, and then appropriating $322 million of water, bond proceeds and other water enterprise capital revenues. for project described in our report, which we show on page 28 the budget of those projects. the water rates are not going to change relative to what was projected last year, and we have, um recommendation here, too. have the to amend the bond authorization to request that the report that they're already doing being included in the legislative file. for the bond authorization. and then finally, items 19 and 21. are two ordinances related to the wastewater enterprise. um

authorizing a billion dollars in wastewater enterprise revenue bonds and then just over a billion dollars to appropriate those proceeds and other capital revenues for projects described in our report for which we saw the budget on page 37. we have the same recommendation for the report to go to the legislative file. um and was the operating budget item called as well. operating. budget no, no. okay, so i'll speak about that later. thank you recommend all their items as amended. thank you. and with that, i just, uh i. i concur with wash. i should say, do you agree with the recommendation reporting that it's not a problem? we happily agree to that. and what i really, i think as a layperson as these are very complicated project and what i would as a layperson and having some of

these information additional to what the b l a is recommending within the report. i just look forward to seeing just some description. i get it. it's like some of these key projects that is listed, but just kind of help us understand the scope. the work. uh, timeline like where it is right now for these projects , um and alyssa contractors involved as well as the projection of where where we're heading. where do you think that ? when do we do you expect us to complete the project and just so that this information? um as part of the report on legislator file will be tremendously helpful. i think not just for me, but i think that for anybody wants to know more about um these projects then they can have more information. so with that colleagues, would it be okay? if we just got to public comments on this, and then we'll sorry, john. manager herrera. i'm sorry, madam chair. is that information? i mean, we're happy to give you a little update

hours. that's something you'd want on some of those projects is or is that something you'd like in writing? i think it's in writing and that we would love to have that as part of like the legis report on the legislative file. very good. thank you. agree upon thank you. public comments or supervisor ronan i just can't help. uh but saying since you're beautiful pictures are here that i was in heggie this past weekend. i wish i was still there have to say, but it is just extraordinary. i didn't know it every time i'm there, and i read all of the plaques and information guide you have on the hike when you cross the bridge. i just can't i the engineering feats. it's just it makes me so, you know, ride by moccasin. it's just it's just extraordinary what you all do, and this unbelievable for steven shorter supply those comments in our in our advocacy pieces supervisor but we appreciate

that. and obviously, the puc takes a great deal of pride and being stewards of an unbelievable water system and anybody that gets up to, uh, head she and goes up to marks and sees a tremendous, uh vision that san francisco leaders had 100 years ago and we take that seriously to try and maintain that system. and obviously we're celebrating 100 years of o'shaughnessy dam, and we were just recently up there, and it's a great time to be up there now, and it's beautiful, but some of these projects that we're talking about in the wastewater side. we want to make sure that we're making that investment that they made 100 years ago in a great water system. so we take that very seriously. so thank you for the compliment. and you're about to have emergency repair for your cherry and hedge hedge the road. what's that? i think there is an emergency repairing for the head, checchi road and cherry rolled. yep that is true. come to us to and then we'll figure out um, thank you with that. let's go to public comment. thank you. supervisors. thank you. thank you, madam

chair members of the public who wish to speak on the ordinances from items 16 through 22 and our jennison person should line up now and for those who have joined us remotely and haven't already done so, please plus star three if you wish to enter the speaker line, and for those already in the queue, police continue to wait until the system indicates you have been in muted and that'll be your signal to begin your comments. seeing the wind person speakers here in the chamber. yeah. and the second laugh if you could, uh, unusual color, please. eileen bergen will speak on my own behalf. following up on my written submission regarding item 16 to 22. urging the committee to move items 17 forward with a positive recommendation and tabling other buc items. i don't 16 and also items 18 to 22 alone, total an amount of 3,046,000,200. whether

the committee to add these items to the upcoming audit. of the pc , which is found number 230719. the £800 gorilla in the room is the former puc general manager who left under questionable circumstances. i would strongly urge the committee and the full board to use this opportunity to contract with the b l a to other pc to also address any concerns the tenure of the former general manager property in 2002 stated pc bonds were not to exceed 628 million. the puc debt is now 6 billion. the pc has sued the state water resources control board twice based one spaced on a trump error ruling. the pcs environmental stewardship has failed to address the collapse of salmon populations on the 12 me the ipcc drought management

is overly conservative for 8.5 years, the current puc debt payments are 30% of the operating revenue and within five years will be 50. drinking water. a watts is inconsistent with proper to 18. thank you. thank you much alan bogen for addressing this committee. ah, miss second love next speaker, please. create david pill people . it's a little late. i'm a bit punchy. i appreciate the puc hee and o'shaughnessy facilities as well. i'm a bit envious of supervisor ronan. i have not gotten up there recently, but i would love to do that again as soon as possible. i do support the various ordinances here, although i was initially not crazy about ah and unbalanced capital plan last year and deferring some choices. i think the work that's been done in the subsequent year has been good,

and i appreciate that. i think the recommendations are fine. but i also note that there is a puc revenue bond oversight committee that exists to do just that to oversee revenue bonds, including. um all the various revenue bonds of the psc, um and . i can't think any further. i hope we get done with this meeting. thanks very much. thanks so much for your comments. uh and madam chair that completes her cue. thank you. seeing a more public comments. public common is now close. um i want to say that i just want i want to confirm. i understand it is rather burdensome to amend these items . uh, according to the budget, and legislative analyst's our recommendation, but i just want to confirm that and just. i

think what we can dave agreed. remember they'll be they'll be logged in the notes of this meeting. so i think we're for all on the same page. i think it's we can proceed without an amendment. so just for the record, i'm going to say for items 16 2021 22. these will actually include reporting on the legislative files for these items. because those were supposed to be amended. i wrote it down for a recommendation. but you know to for amendments, so let's uh, with that said, i just want to highlight those four items will be requiring reporting, which we all agree upon. uh and then with that said, i'm going to make the motion to move 16 through 22 2 full bore with recommendation. second by supervisor ronan and mr clark. let's call the roll. just for clarity. madam chair you said 16 1920 22 16 2021 22 excuse me. i'm so sorry. we well

. we also include 23, also for operating budget as well. uh not at the moment we're going to call the 23 and 24 together. thank you. thank you. thank you for the clarity, madam chair. so with that motion was seconded by member running how to afford the ordinances and item 16 through 22 through to the july 11th meeting of the full board of the positive recommendation. have i stir mandolin? gentlemen, i remember stuff i suffer you absent. remember running run, and i remember walton. walter and i church and i have four rights with member safayev absent. thank you. the motion passes. and mr clark, please call item number 23 and 24 together. yes items. 23 and 24. okay item 23 his an ordinance appropriating approximately 502,000 in the porter commission hand approximately in 97 million

in the public utilities commission in the fiscal year 2023 2024 hide him. 24 is an ordinance amending ordinance number 1 66-22 the salary ordinance for fiscal years, 2022 to 2023 and 2023 to 2024 to reflect the addition of four positions. 3.16 fts at the port commission and the substitution of 31 positions 31 have to ease in the addition of 128 positions . uh 101.12 fifties at the airport commission in fiscal year 2023 to 2024. members of the public who wish to provide comments on both these ordinances should call for 156550001 with the meeting idea of 259109 to 6 to 45, then press pound twice. and if you haven't already done so, dial star three lineup to speak promptly indicated your raise your hand and wait until the system indicates you having that meeting and you may begin your comments, madam chair. thank you colleagues. it's my mistake.

actually general manager dennis herrera already make the presentation on the operating budget. it's just it's actually this one. that is um with this so. i'm just gonna go to the blog report because we did not go into the report on the operating budget. um which which is part of the item 23. um so is that okay? if we just go to the blog report for items of 23 okay, let's step. thank you, nick mundy from the l a this so this item item 23. it pertains to the puc and the ports operating budgets. i'll just speak to the pc portion primarily relates to it's a $97 million change. um to the fifth gear 23 24 budget. uh what's because it's over. 5% requires board approval. that's primarily related to the increased cost of

power purchases. um which we've discussed at budget and finance earlier this year. um, and it's offset by lower than budgeted debt service, so the net change across all enterprises is $97 billion. we don't have any recommendations and recommend approval of this portion of the ordinance. thank you and i'm going to call on airport because this is 23 and 24 is s a p u. c ports commission and airport. so i'm going to call on because i don't. is there any support staff here? my apologies. um let's go to sfo, and then we'll go to court.

good evening chair. chan and fellow committee members. kevin cohen, assistant chief financial officer for the airport. i'm here this evening to talk about the fiscal year. 23 24 amendment to the annual budget. on this slide. we wanted to lay out the history of what has been going on at sfo for the past 20 years. um you can see through the time , uh, continues that sfo was the fastest growing airport in the country up until 2019 and 2020. we hit the pandemic. you can see that we managed to the financial crisis. including the aftermath of 9 11. airline bankruptcies, public health crisis, sars the

great recession. we entered the pandemic in a position of financial strength in 2019 into 2020 again. as i said, we were one of the fastest growing airports and top 10 fastest growing airports in the united states. well fiscal year 20 risky or 21 were challenging. fiscal year. 22 we moved in a positive direction of over 13.5 million in plane passengers in our budget or 29% higher than we anticipated. this last year in fiscal year 23. we expected to surpass our 19 million budgeted implements that's approximately 23 25% higher than what we had anticipated. this means that the fiscal year 24 implements we expect to continue to surpass these projections that we used to create the budget for the last two years. next slide. a little bit about what's going on in the airline world. right now, the sfo has a growing number of

routes that are returning to the markets. uh, the only international market that has not returned to full strength is hong kong and china. when those markets return, we expect to have an immediate impact and surge on the airports needs and plant. we're trying to plan for that right now. we know that the operational demand will outpace what we had planned in fiscal year 23 24 in terms of our resources, and we will require an additional 128 positions to prepare for these things that are coming in front of us. next slide. as a reminder of the airport is able to contribute to what we call an annual service payment, which is 15% of our concession revenues, and you can see in the chart. the airport contributed 49.1 million to the general fund up until 2019. it dropped off commensurately with the drop in covid, but we're happy to say our forecast for fiscal year 2023 is 48.4 million

, only one or 2% below where we were in fiscal year 2019 so it really shows that traffic is roaring back at really fast paced much faster than we had anticipated. next slide. this slide here shows that we're able to add 128 new positions while keeping our operating budget relatively flat. and the way we've done, that is we had bond restructuring refunding savings . we have restructured some of our programs and we're asking for these level of positions because we know that we were understaffed. going into the pandemic. we need 128 positions to ensure that we have a safe and, uh, safe operations for the traveling public. as the traffic returns. if i if i may i wanted to offer um after the pandemic started when we locked down in march of 2020, we had less than 2000 passengers moving through

the terminals a day. pre pandemic on a summer day we could hit 90 to 95,000 passengers a day. last friday. we had 80,000 passengers in the terminal. it is roaring back at a much faster pace than we have ever imagined. how do we anticipated this return in their traffic? we probably wouldn't be asking for 128 more positions, but it's coming back at a faster pace. as i said, um the other thing, too, is the passenger forecast that we used for the second year of the budget. was our slow forecast. during the pandemic. we did a slow, moderate and fast forecast. we used the slow forecast to ensure that we were conservative. but we were a little bit too conservative. next slide. so this slide depicts the request that we're asking for. you can

see clearly where the changes are. um a lot of the changes i'll note are in our accounting finance group. uh trying to staff properly for the amount of transactions at the airport is processing. and it is it is throughout the trades throughout the management, uh, custodians as well are in this request. next slide. this is another scenario that's in the budget down this report that depicts a reduction of nine positions instead of the 43 that we saw earlier. these nine are a combination of custodians. terminal manager to help take care of the new terminal complex. as all of you know, we opened harvey milk terminal one just under two years ago. and one other management position. so with that, um i won't go through each one of these lines . but for your reading, you can

see a little bit more detail. and where were these positions are um, we have facilities positions, financing commercial positions, information technology positions to ensure that the airtime airport is trying to monetize its asset its digital assets to ensure that we're generating revenues. and on the last slide. is a summary of the operating budget between last year and this year. and overview of the positions the 128 positions that we are requesting. and with that, i'm happy to take any questions. thank you. thank you. uh so the esso amendment before you uh, for the airport does two things it approves 31 position substitution and then adds 128 new positions to the airport. um . and uh, you know, we evaluated

these positions. we don't have any recommendations on the substitution. um but we were struck by the scale of the new positions. um and part because the airports, projecting a $40 million salaries surplus this year. it's about what you know they had last year. they have 300 vacancies. and i think you know the way we looked at it, too, was where are implements? um relative to where they were pre covid, and there are about 80% below that, you know, pre covid baseline, whereas their staffing proposal would bring them to 11% higher staffing, right? so i think given that set of facts, i approached their position request with some skepticism. we then looked at the new positions, particularly the new management positions. um, and then positions that uh um, had a lot of vacancies so

you can see the summary of this analysis on page 51 and exhibit eight of our report. and you can see that. where the airport is recommending is trying to add 53.72 fte. positions next year. they actually have 66 vacancies across those classifications. um and. aside from the trade vacancies the vacancies that they have are over two years old, on average, right? so i think we. i also want to really thank the airport for working very diligently with us, particularly denise peyton. um we didn't have a lot of time to review this. and we gotta really we had a really high quality engagement with them. ah! but i do i do want to present. i mean, this is a maximalist proposal. to recommend deleting 33.97. of

the new fte s. that's about a 40% decrease of what they're asking for that allow them to fill their existing vacancies. and then come back during the normal two year budget process where we can look at where the economy is. if there's going to be another recession, can they fill those vacancies? um and then you know. go through the normal budget process. the airport does agree to a portion of these cuts. they agree that, um, seven of the new custodian positions could be deleted and deferred to a and added in a later year and then two of the management positions, so i think that that would be perhaps be a good starting point. but i did also want to be responsive. to the committee's interest in these new positions as well. thank you and i just i am in technically, um, what it is, though. even with these fts it's unlike other because of the

nature of as an enterprise agency, which then you really contribute 15% to the general fund it no matter what, it's not really a technically no attrition saving to the city's budget. is that correct? right? i just want to, actually, that's a that's an important point. none of these carts will grow the general phone. add jackpot. there are revenues. revenues would all stay within the airport, so i, but i think the emphasis here by mr menard from but budget and legislative analysis that we were just having this that very consistent approach to also to departments , whether enterprise agency or you're just general funded agency. so that's really where we're at. i appreciate the compromise of seven custodians and to supervisor could we go with that? and just just so that we can understand more and just

really allow that conversation. when you do come back, you will come back in 2024. so i look forward to seeing that, uh, is that agreeable? can i supervise his chance? can i just make a couple of points on that on the vacancy rate? uh like many large departments is very high, and we acknowledge that we have about 300 vacancies, much like the puc , but much like the pc. the airport also hired 300 people this last year as well. and to help mitigate this, and the reason why we're asking for these additional positions is that we're going to be bringing on 10 temporary personal analyst t e x. to help knock this down even faster than we did last year. the reason why we're asking for this, and we know that it may be may feel uncomfortable for the city to see this is that um it's very important in this business to stay ahead of the operational needs. if some of you recall december of last year there was

a certain airline that had a debacle during the holidays because of staffing. and it's because they did not anticipate. the comeback, the roar back that people did during the holiday travel. we're doing the same thing. i would ask that. maybe a discussion amongst yourselves, even cutting custodians. during these peak periods is going to be challenging for us. we will probably have to hire temporary custodians to meet the demands. and if i may put this in kind of a layman's perspective for this committee to understand i'm going to use the united airlines is an example. pre pandemic they flew what we call eight banks. eight banks means there's eight times a day. that all the passengers get on the planes to go to all different places in the world. post pandemic. united airlines is now flying six banks. but the same amount of

passengers. so what's happening is each bank is putting more and more stress on our facilities. the bathrooms seemed to be cleaned sooner. the facilities need to be maintained faster because of the stress of the amount of people that are playing in six banks that used to fly in eight banks. so i have told the director, we can't really wait until next august to come back for these positions. we need to maintain the facilities. as i said in my speech earlier for the safety and smooth operations of the traveling public this summer and this winter. so i asked that you maybe consider not having any of these cuts for operational reasons. understood? vice chairman delman um. why do we care if they have too many? i mean, as an enterprise. if they are in an enterprise department. and they have then they higher up. what's what is what is the

risk? i mean, they're they're professional judgment for the operation of their airport is that they need these positions. why i know why i'm worried about general fund department doing that. over hiring because then it it limits my ability to spend. but if they are over hiring, it reduces the efficiency and profitability of the airport, which i guess i do care about as a supervisor. but . i understand, but i don't know that. i mean, what is the oversight that is like how do you like am i do i know how to run an airport? i mean, like what? exactly if we if we get into a fight with them like how does that play out? exactly and who is who are the checks on you? to dislike to decide like what the right amount of staffing is. the checks on us is

the, um interactions with the airlines with keeping the landing fees and terminal rental rates at a competitive and reasonable rate for airlines to continue to fly here. right and the airlines as airlines continue to fly, they bring tourism. family to the bay area, which stimulates the economy. you know, i guess i would given that. i think the airport is well run and in a far better position than me or the blade to decide. how much staffing they need. i would be inclined to give them the positions they're asking for. okay supervisor walton. thank you chitchat and that kind of agree with supervisor amanda man, except for the fact that you offered up seven positions. and so i'm wondering why you did that. we did that at the request of the budget analyst which means you could afford it. well again. we're i'm not saying we disagree . asked for 33 point, something i believe. and you offered up

seven, which seems like it's something you went back and had conversation with. and i would say the oversight for the airport. supervise amendment is the airport commission. i mean, i'm i would be inclined to agree with supervisor melamine. your enterprise department. uh you know, we you know how to make a profit. you do very well at that. but at the same time you did offer up seven positions. we offered seven understanding that it will compromise the again the operations of the organization and would probably lead to us having to hire temporary employees using temporary salaries to ensure that we get those people in and then next year we will put in those seven positions to be pcs positions in next year's budget. thank you. thank you. thank you. we'll go to the court. thank you for noodle on it.

go ahead. thank you. good evening supervisors. my name is nate crews and the acting cfo at the port of san francisco. as a reminder. the port of san francisco is the steward of the waterfront, stretching 7.5 miles from fisherman's wharf down south to heron's head park. ah! traditionally our role is primarily to attract the public

to the waterfront and support maritime functions along the water, but we're particularly proud of this point in our history of really being a core player in, uh in the city wide recovery effort to attract visitors back to downtown san francisco, we think you know our our role as a visitor attraction is, uh, particularly critical at this point in time, and we're proud to be part of the team here. but so like my colleagues at sfo and the puc, we approved biennial budget last year and we're here to make some very minor adjustments. the length of my presentation is somewhat related to the amount we're asking for a total of $500,000. so i'll be brief. um two real big things or two things are happening in the budget, and the rest are sort of, sort of, uh, could be thought of as typical biennial adjustments in the second year. the first is the transfer of the maintenance obligation for mission bay parks. currently those parks are operated by oc ii. they're being transferred over to both. the court and rec park. due to the

dissolution of oc ii. uh that's happening on july 1st those maintenance costs. although we'll be performing the maintenance o c. i has a revenue stream from which they will reimburse the ports. so net net. it's neutral to the sport, but we're happy to bring those parks into the sort of ports portfolio of public directions. the other adjustment it makes is it reduces a general fund add back of $500,000. that was, uh added into the ports budget by the board to incubate to incubate black owned businesses on ports property. there was a similarly sized add back in fy 22 23 that remains unspent were actively in negotiations to deploy it. we think we can still deliver on the intent of that ad back given the ad back from last year, plus, we have other tenant attraction and retention funds available. i mean, frankly, the need. ah! to help small

businesses in san francisco. find a home for exceeds all of these sources, so we'll take any any advice you'd be willing to restore will take and put to good use, but we think we can really deliver the spirit of the original add back with with these adjustments. this next slide just sure provide you a line item. ah! line items of all of the adjustments in the supplemental. i get the park maintenance costs add up to about a million dollars. 80% of that is about staff costs. i'm sorry 80% of that is steph costs that includes two or i'm sorry, rather four new positions that were requesting to laborers and two gardeners. uh we don't need any additional new positions that we estimated this time. obviously, we haven't actually maintained the parks. before they're currently maintained by a private contractor under under contract with oc ii. um at this point. we just think we need the four positions. obviously there's other supplies and

utilities and security costs involved. work order adjustments are typical to the second year of a biennial budget as well as the fringe adjustments. some minor changes. the reduction to the reserve is how, because of our expenses are going up to accommodate those second year adjustments. to balance our budget. we reduce what's able to fall to reserves at the end of the year. and finally, there's that general fund add back reduction of $500,000. this is sort of an overview of the budget. the two years i'm presenting here are the current year. to the upcoming budget year to b y one. i do want to point out that the bar is getting shorter, not because we're reducing services, but because the prior year budget had a lot of stimulus in it. we received $117 million of stimulus from the state to sort of back filled gaps that we experienced during the pandemic , and so were the budget is

getting smaller, but it's reverting more towards normal levels. it's not a service cut. and with that, i'll take any questions. thank you be away. thank you. uh so the ports portion of the supplemental appropriation uh, amounts to a $500,000 change to the ports budget. uh there is also a decrease of approximately $500,000 to the general fund portion of the ports budget. because the mayor's office deleted aboard add back as part of the budget process. and so we consider approval of that relation to be a policy matter for the board, but we don't have any recommendations related to the enterprise revenues portion of the thank you. i just wanted to thank you recognize that was bull presidents peskin zap back for his district. because this is this is his district, okay? i just want to flag for colleagues that this is actually one of our own colleagues. back uh, which

is roughly about $500,000, and particularly, was really to encourage by park, business on site or a property is that correct? that's correct for particularly a black owned businesses property. but what you're saying is that since the mayor has reduced it, um, but you still think the ports still think that you would be able to move forward, attracting black owned small business at ports property. that's correct. the facility condition most places where envisioning for to support these businesses. the need to bring the facilities up to a place where they're attractive sentence exceeds the ad back and it's full full form. we always knew there was a gap there that we would need to fill. this changes the amount but we have with some of those affirmations stimulus funds available to spend on tenant attraction and we think we can we can deliver on the mission. thank you with

that. i appreciate it and colleagues. i'm just going to send this to public comment for now, and then we can think about and deliberate, mr clark. let's go. public comment. thank you, madam chair members of the public. i wish to speak on these two ordinances. energy. joining us in prison should line up now. and for those who have joined us remotely and haven't already done so and that will start three if you wish to enter the speaker line, and if you're already in the queue, please continue to wait until system indicates you have and then meet and that'll be your signal to begin your comments. seeing them in person speakers here in the chamber. uh miss saigon loaf if you could, uh, commuter color, please. david pill. people still here. okay couple of quick comments. um no. i have no issues with the a o amendment in item 23 on the a s. o amendment on item 24 if you could turn to that on page one line, 16, i

would ask you to amend it to read ordinance fiscal years. 2022 23 and 23 24 closed parents in fiscal year 2023 2024, and i'm not sure if ft is surplus and could be deleted, but in any event it's in fiscal year 2023 24 to be very clear on that. that's page one lines 16. on page two. lines 11 to 21 page three, line three and four and lines 11 through 19 and page four lines two and three. the column labeled amendment i think should be populated with either addition or deletion as appropriate if it's a positive or negative in the next column to make clear what the amendment is and so it's consistent with the rest of the ordinance. um and finally, i concur with supervisor mandel men's comment

i would give in this case, the airport all the positions that they've requested in the event that they need to enter, able to fill them in the event that they don't or can't than any savings would remain in the airport. fund and revert to fund balance, so i don't think there's any effect or harm on the general fund, but i would ask you to consider the amendments i outlined on pages one through four and item 24. thank you very much for listening. thank you much for your comments and madam chair that completes our cue. thank you see no more public comments. public common is now closed. hmm. thank you and colleagues, i think, um what? uh, i'm just looking at the budget and legislators legislative analyst. uh. i am going. to made the motion. let's

see. i think that that we should it sounds like it's the will of this body that we will, uh, concur with um the airport and that we will just let us stands for what they propose. come back to us, and we'll see if you fulfill all the vacancy that will be great. um and then we will also approve the sfp u. c s proposed non general fund budget change. um that's in item number 23. sounds like we have some amendment that we may actually thanks to dammit! poeple that we have some amendment that we must make technical amendment. um i'm gonna let our deputy city attorney to help us actually really walked her through before we make the motion, but i just wanted to lay on floor for a

quick brief discussion. but if there is no discussion at all, and that we're just going to approve the ports general fund reduction i i'm fine with that, too, because it sounds like the poor is making the commitment to continue to encourage black owned business to be at the port property. i don't see any name on the roster. wd city attorney in pearson, please. deputy city attorney and pearson. i had a chance to confer with reza sandwich from the comptroller's office and of the amendments that were suggested she disagree with one that should be made, and that's a correction to page one line 16. where it now, says 2024-2024 to change the 1st 1 to 2023. thank you. and with that colleagues, i'm going to make the motion to make the amendment are read out loud by our deputy city attorney. second by vice chairman delman and this is made to item 24 page one line 16.

roll call, please on that motion to amend the ordinance as item 24 as so stated ah seconded by vice chairman andelman held by storm edelman. gentlemen, i remember stuff i suffering absent member ronin. around and i remember walton i church and we have for us with members of a absent thank you. the motion passes and colleagues i would like to move item 23 in the 20 item, 24 as amended to full board recommendation, second by vice chairmen delman roll call, please on that motion, seconded by vice chair mandolin that, uh , the ordinances an item 23 and 24 as amended. before worded to the july 11th meeting of the full board of the positive recommendation. vice chairman delman gentlemen, i member stuff i suffer a absent member running running. i remember walton

walton. i church hand and i we have four hours with member safayev. thank you. the motion passes and mr clark, do we have any other item before us today, madam chair that completes our business for this committee. and just for those just want to notice that there is a special budget and finance committee that would just be supervisor mandolin and i and that with that set, the budget and appropriations committee is adjourned.

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motion passes. and with that, mr clark, could you please call all three item 12 and three together? yes, madam chair, won the second. items number one and two are resolutions approving the 2023 lease use agreement between the city and county acting by and through its airport commission. the item one with 29 airlines. item two is with 11 airlines to conduct flight operations at the san francisco international airport for a term of 10 years from july. 1st 2023 through june 30th 2033. referring the plane department's determination under ceqa and to authorize the airport direction director to enter into modifications to the least that do not materially increase. the obligations are liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the leases or these resolutions. item number three is a resolution approving the issuance of not to exceed approximately 6 billion aggregate principal amount. help san francisco international airport second series refunding

revenue bonds to refinance bonds and subordinate bonds approving of the issuance of not to exceed approximately 60 million aggregate principal amount of san francisco international airport special facilities bonds to refund bonds issued to finance, fuel storage and delivery facilities. approving this ones have not to exceed approximately 262.5 million aggregate. principal amount have san francisco international airport special facilities bonds to refund bonds issued to finance the airport hotel, approving revolving lines of credit and term loans and then available principal amount together with the aggregate outstanding principal amount have supported it. bonds issued as commercial paper notes. not exceed 600 million, approving the purchase of bonds or supportive bonds by the airport , approving the maximum interest rates. maturity dates, a number of issues of such capital bonds . capital plan bonds, refunding bonds, subordinate bonds and special facilities, bonds approving certain resolutions of airport commission and approving

certain other related matters as defined and members of the public are joining us from mostly in which the comment. please call for 156550001 enter the meeting. i t have 259109 and press pound twice, once connected press start 32 entrance speaker line prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand when the system indicates you haven't and muted there will be your second to begin your comments. madam chair. thank you, mr clerk. and i want to say that on the record that all three items uh particularly one, particularly three has been heard and percentage, uh and with the b l . a report previously and that was on may 17 and then for item one and two. we are going to have the presentation from the airport. both items, has a budget and legislator, analysts report but i assume it's going to be brief. um so with that, thank you. and finally. thank

you and good evening chair chan vice chairman andelman. i'm kathy weidner with the san francisco international airport and i will first present on items one and two, both of which are leeson use agreements. um between the san francisco international airport and 40 signatory airlines for a 10 year term from july 1st 2023 through june 30th 2033. the least in use agreement is the mechanism that allows airlines to provide flight operations and rent terminal space at the airport. the agreement also provides a common set of least provisions such as rent fees and permitted uses of terminal space and supports the legal framework for the airport to make an annual service payment to the city. this new agreement replaces the 2011 agreement, which will expire on june 30th 2023, which was approved by the board of supervisors, as well as subsequent addition of airlines.

the 2023 lease retains the residual rate, sending methodology for terminal rentals and landing fees based on the airports, rates and charges and the annual service payment to the city's general fund. the 2023 lease has been offered to all air carriers operating at san francisco airport and will continue to be offered to all airlines through the remainder of this term, including new entrance. the least in use agreement will generate $6 billion in airline revenue over the term of the lease and gives the airport the financial stability to plan for the future and to continue our post pandemic recovery. the biella has reviewed the new agreements and recommends approval. and i am joined by my colleague kevin cohen, the airports assistant chief financial officer. who is prevented prepared to present on the new operating revenue and capital improvement fund as well

as the $6.1 billion in revenue over the term of the lease if i can ask him to come up and present that to you. good evening church end supervisor mandolin kevin kahn again, the assistant chief financial officer at the airport. so what's unique about this next operating leasing used agreement as kathy indicated it is still using what we call the residual agreement, which i'll go through a little of the mathematics of how that works, but it provides for what we've developed as an operating reserve in capital investment fund and i'll go through a little bit about how that works. on this first slide. we show the two primary sources of revenue coming from the airlines, which is terminal rental rates. and lending fees on the terminal rental rates. we have five categories, depending on the

types of space at the airport. the most expensive category is ticket counters and the least expensive is areas on the ground next to the aircraft. on the landing fee side. we charge landing fees to the aircraft for each £1000 of the aircraft landed weight so every time an aircraft is landing at sfo, they are charged the fee. next slide. so how are the reverend airline revenues used? we use what we call a break, even financial framework, which is again the 2023 lease and use agreement. the total revenues or the airline revenues, plus the non airline revenues. non airline revenues are examples of like concessions and parking. and on the expense size. we have the o and m expenses, which includes the airports, debt service and our routine operating and capital expenses. and then new is this operating reserve in capital infrastructure fund. as

mentioned earlier. the revenues coming from the airlines is valued at over 6 billion over the 10 year period. and will use these two again pay the expenses for the airline airport operations. next slide. this slide shows, uh, a table. that what we're getting about $3.4 billion in terminal rental rates about $2.6 billion in landing fees. next slide. so a little bit about the operating reserve and capital investment fund. so this is again a fund that was added into the equation and what it's going to do is it's going to pay the airport over $800 million over 10 years. the first deposit from the airlines will be on july 1st where they will make a deposit of 250 million into the fund. this is going to be used for a number of purposes

. um first they has to be legally, um, aviation related purposes. and so we will use it to do a number of things. we can use it to fund capital projects that don't have a 34 30 year loose to life. so, for example, it components they last 5 to 6 years. we would rather use this fund to buy components that last five or six years rather than using a 30 30 year general airport revenue bond, so the cost of capital for those as much cheaper cash fund things like vehicles, uh, small items, small purchases again where we don't have to sell bonds as part of capital projects, fire alarm systems, things that we know that don't have a 30 year life. this will bring down the overall debt service for the airport by using these funds. the other thing, too, is um the. the way the rate making methodology works as any year that the

airport had a surplus. the following two years were required to give that surplus back to the airlines by lowering their rates and charges. by having this additional liquidity coming from the airlines. it increases what we call days cash on hand days. cash on hand is a credit, uh, rating item that the moody's fitch standard reports reviews. and that makes the credit rating of the airport stronger by having more days cash on hand as well. next slide. so as i said earlier, we will use this to use cash fund capital projects. and the other thing that i didn't mention earlier is that if we have another covid type of event or downturn in the economy, we can also use these funds to help stabilize the airports, financial operations. to allow for the airlines to continue to fly at a competitive rates through what could be a

pandemic, a downturn or recession so we can. then again take these monies put it back in the rates and charges so that it maintains a competitive rates compared to other airports on the west coast. so think of it as a stabilization fund for the airport as well. last next slide. so some of the uses for the orson f as i mentioned earlier has to be for any lawful airport purpose. this falls in line with the compliance with faa requirements. other things that we could do a is, as i mentioned lower long term borrowing cost, we may be able to use this funds to purchase real estate around the airport. this would help move. um are move some of our operations off airport and use the land that's more valuable on airport for airline operations. other projects as we could venture into is revenue generating, uh,

ventures and what i mean by that is, um, possibly building a small gas station or a mini mark on the airport so that one rental car passengers are leaving the rental car facilities they can stop off. pick up some things before heading onto their tourist destination. the other idea that we have to is to create what we're calling a sfo academy. that is a facilities where off airport we can buy a warehouse converted into classrooms where we can bring, um inner city youth to the airport, teach them about their careers and opportunities. we can hold civil service exams for the trades and the in a sfo academy locations. so these are just some of the ideas. that we're thinking about and how to use the source of fun. but again, it has to be for any lawful airport purposes only. um so with that i'd be happy to answer any questions. thank you, and we'll have the report first. thank you can i

don't have any updates to our reports on these items, and then i think it was just recommend approval. yes i just really want you to say that, um with that i do have a quick question. you know, i think that, uh, director cohen you mentioned a few times already, with the emphasis that, um that has to be a lawful, you know, related to the airport use ? um i you know, this is particularly on just uh what i think my previous conversation with the budget legislator ellis that we understand the capital investments and improvements. um, what we see what it was kind of unique and perk. our interest was really that the specific term of saying operation reserve makes sense given really what we've been through with pandemic. um so specifically in the event that there are labor dispute at the airport really like, not necessarily airport

style, but contractors, subcontractors labor dispute will this fun can be useful in related to things like that. i'm going to defer this to kathy. good. um kathy weidner at the san francisco slash international airport. i'm gonna try and address that with the caveat that i will confirm this and follow up with the committee. um if the contract were a contract between the airport and a business or a service provider yes, i believe that would be considered a lawful use. um. but if we don't have a direct relationship with the contractor it could not be used for that. there are other financial tools similar to what we did with our concessions when they we're negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement

where we increased the percentage of street pricing we increase. we have the ability to do that. we can increase. um, the percentage. of cost that goes to their healthcare things like that, that i do not believe that this fund could be used to directly pay wages to any, uh, contract that wasn't directly with the airport. understood thank you, uh, and with that said, um, eve today we approved these items. um and send it out . i just want to confirm with mr clerk that, uh, these items will appear at the full board on june. twenties. 20/7 madam 27 tuesday, so i just wanted to clarify that in the event we decided to approve these do you things and let's go to public comment. thank you, madam terry , members of the public who wish to speak on these three resolutions and are joining us impression should line up to speak. and for those who have joined us remotely and haven't

already done so. press star three. if you wish to enter and speaker line, please continue to wait until the system indicates you have been in muted and that'll be your signal to begin your comments, saying no. one person speakers here in the chamber. ah! ah! man s mendoza, if you can and meet her color, please. great david till people still here hours later. okay um , so i have previously spoken on the leases and i continue to support the lease approvals here today as chair. chan just indicated that or suggested the board has no meeting next tuesday, june 20th so this would go to the full board on the 20/7. because these are all resolutions only requires one read. i hope those leases and the um, bond, refined it the bond that all three of these items, move quickly from the board to the mayor and can be signed and take effect prior to july 1 so that everything is on schedule for july, 1st. finally

i was going to ask, and i wonder about the interest or npv impact due to recent federal reserve interest rate. actions but i did see in. the bls report them on page 16 that the fuel bonds and hotel bonds are not expected to provide any service savings. but the refunding bonds would represent a savings of about just under 81 million, or npv savings of 1.27, which exceeds the 1% minimum in the airport's policy. in any event, i support all three of these items. thank you very much for listening. thank you much for your comments, just double checking. if we have any more colors, madam. sure that completes our cue. thank you see no more public comments. public comments now close. um just want to

commend the sfo team for, uh, great work. uh usher us through the pandemic. um i think that these lease agreements for total of 40 airline along with the additional $800 million is really a bonus, um, to disagreement. what do i do want to and not today? but in a separate, perhaps, hearing, um and as you know, a different occasion, perhaps a g a o to really, um i have a better understanding for the public in terms of the operation at the airport. uh and i want to point to, um a couple of events of first is the most recent, really literally 24 hours ago with the power outage. uh and then also with the southwest and united airlines, which cost the early aborted landing. um and it was within two weeks time frame back

to back and seems like the airline involved were the same. both southwest and united. um so i don't expect like diving really deep today. it's late. i want to make sure that our team really our controller budget. let's just legislative analyst and our city attorney and on clark will actually have a chance to go home for another few long days to come. so um i just wanted to highlight those incidents and you can make brief remarks, but we just look forward to a deeper discussion about day to day. sfor operation understood. i can give you just a very brief snapshot on both of those issues. chair chan so the airport did experience as you referenced pretty significant power outage last night between nine o'clock and 10 30. um it was caused by a high voltage cable line that flows through

the san bruno substation. um while the power was out, we had to divert to the substation in millbrae, and that is why we were able to come back online relatively quickly. an hour and a half. it's pretty good. um the failure was identified as a section of cable that needs to be replaced and in fact is scheduled to be replaced. we have a contract to award to do that work exactly on our next airport commission meeting, so it was unfortunate timing, but we are addressing it. um and in terms of the airline incidents that you, um that you reference with southwest and united those are called go around, um, ago around is an important procedure for safety to ensure proper separation between the aircraft as their landing and taking off. um they are only a concern if they happen too late. or if they don't happen at all, as was the

case in asia, jonah so, um, from an aviation perspective we see go around is a pretty routine safety measure, understanding that it is very inconvenient and can be scary to passengers. but um, in the in the in the incident that you referred to. specifically the faa has reviewed and considered it routine. so um, it's something that we always are interested in . the faa always reports on it, but successful go around is really just a good safety measure. thank you. i really appreciate the explanation that helps a lot and somewhat actually relevant to both the bond as well as the lease agreement with these airlines. i appreciate it. and with that, um survive. vice chairman norman will. will you be supportive in the event that i make the motion? to send all three items , two full bore and just want to okay. sounds good. well with

that said, then i am going to make the motion to move all three items. two full board. um recommendation and, uh, with that roll call, please. and on that motion forward all three resolutions to the full board with the positive recommendation. vice chairman dormant gentlemen, i chair chan chan. i have two eyes with members. saffet excused. thank you and the motion passes and mr clark, do we have any item before us today, madam chair we have concluded our business for today. thank you and the meetings of journals see all of you. early. month.

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well hello, everybody. i am so pleased to be here with you. let's give another huge round of applause for bongo. i'm telling you. i really needed to hear that uplifting music at the end of a long day, and i buy had that every morning when i woke up. oh my gosh, the world would be within our reach every single day all of our goals. i am so pleased to be able to recognize some of the amazing people who have joined to celebrate today. i want to make sure to call out

a few of the civic leaders who are here and if you'll join me in just giving a round of applause to them. i'd really be appreciative supervisor dean preston. our treasurer jose cisneros. our city librarian michael lambert. many department heads and, of course, our wonderful, wonderful immigrant rights commissioner. i can just ask you to please stand up, please. today is the day where we're able to gather here altogether after a long period of time being away from each other to celebrate some of our amazing immigrant leaders in the community i a grew up as a daughter of immigrants and understand very clearly how

difficult it is to come to a new country, sometimes without the roots. without family here without resources, sometimes without the ability to speak the language, so to be able to pick up your whole life to leave behind the people that you care about. um structures and societies and customs and things that are you're used to start a new life. some somewhere else is an incredible journey. it is a hardship at times. it is something that is incredibly brave for so many people to do, and i just want to acknowledge how difficult and hard that is. and while you have chosen to take the step to come to a different place to settle new routes here. i just want to tell you that i am honored. you have chosen san francisco to be your home. in the news we often hear about immigrants, the need that are immigrant communities face the hardships. so many of the

struggles that we all have. but at the same time we also know that our immigrant community is made of strength and resilience and of love. and i want to just recognize and celebrate all of those wonderful things tonight here. i also want to acknowledge that all of you are what makes san francisco so special. and so as we fight back on the narrative that is pervasive across the country when people choose their favorite place to pick on, which is san francisco. we think about the things that make our city wonderful. it's not always the beautiful places that we see. although we love our parks. we love our golden gate bridge. we love all of these different places. it's really the communities that make it special when we go down the streets and were able to go to our favorite store and know that we can see the grocer that we've known for a decade in the places that we have gone every single day to eat. where we have watched the kids who grew up in the restaurants. that was me

where you grew up. and you saw the kid grew up from a little kid all the way to the graduate. that's when they make stars are neighborhood special. it's what makes san francisco special all of you setting your roots and helping to grow the diversity. that is an francisco so i just simply want to say thank you for being part of our city. thank you for choosing san francisco to be the place that you're growing and investing your lives . it matters to us, and we're going to continue to do right by you. so again. i want to say congratulations to all of the awardees. we're going to be recognized tonight. you are an amazing group of people and i'm so glad that we get to honor and celebrate and uplift your stories tonight. congratulations to all of you. thank you see, administrator chew for those uplifting words. now i would like to welcome and recognize members of the council corp if you're here, please stand and raise your hand. or

staff. some of our elected leaders were already recognized . but i'm going to read others who may have staff in the audience. the office of nancy pelosi. rebecca roberts. president peskin. supervisor, preston was already recognized. scores are melander has staff in the room. surprise your mandolin. supervisor dorsey brother saffet. again treasurer who says he's nero's. similar department fire. some of the staff from our fire department are also in the room. the city clerk. sorry, the county clerk's offices here as well. and then offers a tragedy initiatives. and our city librarian as well. now. i would like to ask and

invite all our current commissioners to please come up onto the stage. as commissioners make their way up. i am pleased to introduce the chair and the vice chair of the san francisco immigrant rights commission. please meet the honorable chair. saleem saleem canali. and the vice chair mario pass. thank you, director rivas. good evening, everybody. do you have glare as the we see africa? helga gaelic. we are pleased to welcome you all tonight for the immigrant leadership awards. the san francisco immigrant rights commission first held this awards ceremony in 2017 as a way to commemorate and celebrate 20 years of the commission. this is our sixth immigrant leadership

awards celebration and our 20/6 year as the commission. tonight we are honoring local immigrant leaders and champions of the immigrant community for their unmatched leadership and dedication. we hope that this celebration serves as a beacon of hope and inspiration for us all. good evening. the game. the immigrant rights commission serves as an advisory body to the mayor and border supervisors on issues related to the quality of life and civic participation of all immigrants in san francisco. our commission meets on the second monday of the month at 5 30. pm all of our meetings are open to the public, and we encourage you to all attend a future meeting or special event. yeah, my strange . so at this time, i'd like to take the opportunity to introduce you to all of our immigrant rights commissioners. commissioners please wave from your name is called and so i don't believe she's with us this

evening, but i'm going to kick off with commissioner cadre. the children who sends her apology issues traveling. commissioner elahi and sunny commissioner haruko game. commissioners, a david lat. commissioner lucy a. african math, sir. commissioner neema rahimi. commissioner franklin m. repartee. commissioner jesse ruiz. commissioner markos thing or. commissioner sarah sousa. and commissioner alicia wang. we would like to give a very special thanks to the awards committee commissioners obregon , ricart single or and chowdhury . thank you for all of your work, putting this event together. so we're going to take a quick photograph and then commissioners are welcome to

return to their seats. in front of everyone together. yes. okay so we'd like i'm sorry. picture first go ahead of myself. now it's my turn. yeah, yeah. so again this evening. we'd like to recognize that mayor london mayor that major london breed speaker american nancy pelosi, state senator scott wiener city administrator carmen chu, supervisor matt dorsey and supervisor rafael mandel. men have all provided certificates of honor to each of our awardees

. this evening. they will be receiving these certificates when they are recognized. later during the program. helping chair kenneally myself present. the awards tonight is commissioner of bergen. who has served this year as the co chair of the awards committee. so i have the great honor of presenting the first award this evening. and this was close to my heart for a family that i've known since i was a young child. the entrepreneur leader award goes to the navarro's martial arts academy, carlos navarro and ruby navarro, can you please do you have? yeah. so this. this award recognizes the leadership of an immigrant run and on small business that supports immigrant communities. tonight we have the pleasure of recognizing the virus martial arts academy founded in 1966 by carlos

navarro navarro's martial arts academy is well known as a well known popular martial arts. uh program, one of the best schools and in training to martial arts disciplines. carlos and his daughter ruby, are a pillar of the community as a san francisco family on business, providing a safe space for youth of all income levels. congratulations carlos and ruby and the rest of the bar. good evening, everybody. and uh, thank you for the opportunity

and i was talking to my son. and he said, remember the reason why you came to this country? well so many visions movies, you see the luxury and ah, you see how countries going up and up? you know, i'd say. i don't belong here. i gotta go there. probably my little contribution will help this city and i'm glad that i came to san francisco and let's see. i think it's been ah. about 68 years, you know, since i came here so. ah like i said, you know, it's not only martial arts, but i was i care so much about the news, you know? yes. i developed programs to keep the use away from the drawers, alcohol gangs, you know, not only through the martial arts self defense, but we provided all kinds of activities. baseball leagues. soccer leagues , competitions have been

profoundly clubs. excited excited. i like i said, you know, i want you to we are involving in neural, not only martial arts by the exercises as well. okay. anna. they told me i'm only having two minutes here , but it's so much that we talking to thank you to everybody, uh, especially me. my family that is present here and some of my students and community, uh, people that is president tonight. thank you again. muchas muchas gracias. happy. city. city commissioner. true. thank you very much for recognizing what what you said was captured the essence of the

original immigrants that came took the strength to leave there. natural element to venture forth into a new land. and they chose this city and this city is quite fortunate to have not only my father but everybody else that is being honored today and that has been honored in the past and that will continue to be honored in the future because these people are our people that come to prove that if you come and you have a pureness in your heart to help it's gonna shine through and one day it will be properly recognized. thank you. okay thank you. navarro's.

congratulations, felicitations. our next award is for grassroots leader this award recognizes nonprofit organizations or individuals who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership for immigrant communities. this year. we are recognizing two outstanding community organizations in this category. tonight we are recognizing the work of calma calma, which stands for collective actions for laborers , migrants and asylum seekers is a grassroots community made up of entirely volunteers that provides support for families. individuals who are marginalized due to their immigration status. each month. karma collects and distributes resources to local day laborers, their work helping asylum seekers day laborers in migrants throughout san francisco and the bay area demonstrate their grassroots leadership to support immigrant communities and to help them achieve stability. welcome to the stage. iris lopez in garcia, who are accepting this award for

calma. to hit my sprint on it. thank you so much. collective action for laborers, migrants and asylum seekers has always been a volunteer based mutual aid group , assisting people in navigating the complexities of the immigration systems. through the years we have seen stay true to our grassroots communities and organizing by supporting the bay area, migrant community through this work, we are fulfilled and also angered. we hope that one day mutual aid groups like us won't be necessary as these groups would be accepted and aided by local government. every single one of us is involved with karma because we believe that migration is beautiful. powerful and a part of the human experience that everyone has the right to live freely and safely in any community. sorry um, as a

migrant's rights organization, we do not condone or support the intimidation, incarceration and neglect of migrants, the house lists and other marginalized communities in san francisco and beyond. as an example of the impact we can make. when we were together. it was a mission we believe in thank you for the honor of this award is with pleasure that we accept. justice for bingo brown for keita, o'neil and all the lives that have been stolen. so you.

our next award is for another amazing organization that has been a grassroots leader. tonight we are recognizing the samoan community development center for the grassroots leader award. s c. d c is a nonprofit that provides programs, resources and tools for san francisco bay area simone and pacific islander communities. over the past 25 years. they have built programs for youth and families, including case management, summer cultural programs. mental health promotion, breast cancer, await education and awareness, reentry, immigration and more. here to accept this award is pet cm. tito who has served as executive director of s cdc for the past 25 years. you see, i was just gonna say

that. can everybody just say tallow fun? again loaf are. i feel like i might have to the global awards or something because everybody's but for those of you that do not no or have seen a pacific islander or someone person. on behalf of the s c. d. c. to the executive director, as well as the commissioners of the. immigrates rights commission. we are honored and humbled by this award that is given to s c d. c. for so long. we've been silent. we've been hidden isolated. in

the southeast sector. but today someone told me a good friend. just said to me in the back when i seen her miss annie, she said. today is s c. d. c s season. this is our year. to be able to be recognized to be acknowledged and to be seen. by the city of san francisco that our grandfathers our great grandfathers, where. and the navy ship housing that they joined the military. and now we are finally getting our flowers that we deserve. and so on behalf of s, c, d, c and the someone pacific islander community here in san francisco . we just want to say thank you. and.

our next award is for the youth leader award. this recognizes a courageous immigrant leader under the age of 35, who has helped or inspired other immigrant youth in their community and beyond. we are excited to present this award to not ask coram nas left iran in 2009 on the heels of the youth revolt that failed to reform the country. nas found refuge in san francisco, where they pursued their education after a decade of working in the restaurant industry not founded. the bar, restaurant and entertainment venue are gonna located in the

mission district. please welcome nas to the stage. hello everybody. thank you so much to the immigrant rights commission for honoring me with this award. it's my pleasure to accept thanks for everyone. um especially to my mother who immigrated in the age of 55. just because she knew she is not going to see me for a decade if she doesn't um, i want to thank my dad for staying behind because he had too much love for my country, but he also sacrifice or i can have a better life. um thanks to my partner for truly showing what it feels to be trusted by someone and empowered and thank you so much for my staff and my team who's here in the audience for never saying no to all my crazy ideas

. you all make me realize that it was a great decision to move to san francisco and being immigrant. thank you. so next up. we have two special recognition awards. we would first like to honor catherine gin. outgoing executive director of immigrants rising for her work and dedication to immigrant communities. since 2006 catherine gin has served as the founding executive director of immigrants rising, a san francisco based nonprofit that empowers undocumented people to get an education, pursue their careers and build a brighter

future for themselves and their communities. catherine was born and raised in san francisco, and it's a proud descendant of chinese immigrants. who first came to the u. s in the 19 and 18 sixties to work in the gold mines of california and later during the restrictive chinese exclusion acts. throughout her career, she has worked to enhance art career and education, opportunities for immigrants and people of color. she announced this year that she will be stepping down from her position as executive director of immigrant risen's. we would like to congratulate her and thank her for her service on behalf of the immigrant communities. congratulations kathy and we're going to miss you. but we know you're not going away, please. thank you so much to the immigrants rights commission and i was cia for this amazing award. um i feel pretty awkward accepting this because as you have heard, i am not an immigrant, um and as was

just said. the last immigrant in my family. my father's mother arrived in san francisco in 19 20/100 years ago, and the first immigrant in my family arrived in the 18 forties, actually nearly 100 and 80 years ago, also to san francisco and also from china. and so i'm not an immigrant, and it was too young to ask the immigrants in my family what it was like to arrive in the city what they loved what they hated what they found beautiful or what kept them in this city, despite so much hatred and persecution and laws that were meant to exclude them and other chinese immigrants, and i never got to ask them. and so i wanted to thank the undocumented immigrants that i have had the honor of working beside for the last 17 years. daniel and catherine and julio, who are in this room with me. and so many other immigrants who have been with me on this journey for teaching me so many lessons about leadership in life. for teaching me how to simultaneously pursue plan a and

plan b and plan c and have at least five other plans in your back pocket. for teaching me how not to wait to dream big while finding and exploring all the opportunities right in front of you had to manage your fears how to live courageously in spite of and maybe even because of your fears. how to embrace challenges to push open door after door after door after door not just to walk through, but also to hold it open for others to follow in your footsteps. and finally, how to be someone, someone that no one else ever thought you could be and still keep a sense of who you want to be. and what story you want to tell about yourself. so thank you to my colleagues and my friends for helping me learn these lessons. thank you for helping me feel closer to my immigrant ancestors. and thank you most of all for helping me this native sixth generation san franciscan for finally feeling at home in this city. thank you.

alright. thank you. our second recognize special recognition award goes to amanda. think about hippa. kaya amanda is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and community builder born in atlanta to tie and indonesia immigrants, her art spent sculpture, textiles murals. instead of mural installations and public art campaigns. her work examines the unseen labor of women amplifies asian american pacific islander narratives in affirms the depth , resilience and the beauty of marginalized communities. tonight you have all been able

to see her work. let's talk about us a domestic violence prevention our campaign with the asian women's shelter that can be seen throughout the bay area's transit systems accepting this award on behalf of amanda. it's sara ahmed of the asians women's shelter. good evening, everyone. um it's such a pleasure to be here on behalf of amanda. um after i feel like after being at home for three years. i just this is my second event of the day. so bear with me. i'm easing into coming back in person. but it is such a pleasure to be in a room full of amazing immigrants and people supporting immigrants. so again. my name is sara ahmed. i'm the communications and community engagement specialist at asian women shelter. and it is absolutely my honor and

privilege to accept this word on behalf of a man amanda thing, body pakiya. i had a lot of practice working with her for a year. um at long last name on instagram definitely follow her and all her amazing art. um she could not be here today because she's in the middle of another project. um so earlier this year , asian women shelter had the absolute privilege and honor to work with amanda. to come up with this prevention campaign. so i just a little bit about us, where one of only three domestic violence shelters in san francisco? yes there are only three and we're the ones that provides a lot of culturally specific services, so it warms my heart to see all the language access we have over 100 language advocates that speak over 40 different languages. if any of you guys are interested, please connect with me and we would love to have you as a language advocate. um so the collaboration with amanda was

made possible by the a p i civic engagement fund. um and we worked with amanda. over a year . she met with our staff multiple times during that year , um, and listened to them and what they had to say, working with predominantly immigrant and marginalized survivors and our city. um and so all the messages on the campaign. all the images on the campaign came from those conversations. and it's just been an absolute honor. um amazing to see such colorful, bold art all over our city. um and being able to have a lot of the communities that we serve, seeing themselves reflected in the work. sorry i just wanted to give that background information , but i will now share amanda's words. um so good evening, everyone. my name is amanda. finger body pakiya. i was born outside of atlanta as the daughter of thai and indonesian immigrants. these days i call brooklyn home, but the bay area holds a special place in my

heart. since 2021. i have completed three large scare scale murals in san carlos, oakland and emeryville. celebrating the research of women in stem and recently partnered with asian women shelter to create a campaign focused on domestic violence prevention. the bay area was where i first learned about the power of intention. as a young artist. i was 17 and trained for three months here with alonzo king's lines ballet. one day in class. alonso asked me what i was thinking while doing a particular step. confused i told him i was trying to point my feet and be aware of my turnout in lines. he looked at me and said, no, the audience wants to see what you see. i want to see what you see. is it a sunrise is a fireworks show me what's in your mind when you do this step something profound clicks for me that day. alonso wanted me to go beyond technical artistry and embody the feeling and intention of the movement. it was totally

a different way of looking at things and it's an insight i've carried with me throughout all of my work. intention shapes are output as artists when we think deeply and feel deeply and move and create with intention our audiences can receive and can receive an immersed deeply with us too. for me. the power of public art lies in the ability to make a statement that is impossible to ignore. it is my privilege to honor my roots and give back to immigrant communities. my award. recognizing and celebrating immigrants as especially meaningful. my artwork aims to make space for marginalized voices, women of color immigrants survivors by honoring their stories through public art . what humbles me most about creating art is knowing that one image can resonate profoundly with someone and make them seen or give them courage. i think osha for this tremendous honor, and i share it with my, um in middle asian women shelter

family, so i cannot accept this award in person. i know that i hold this city and all of you close to my heart. so deep appreciation to amanda and i'll see a and please tried to like. sorry. grab some of these. please pass them out. thank you so much toshiya for taking the time to print them out. um, with the language access, please pass them on to the people in your lives that you know, especially the language access ones. um, and go to the website. let's talk about us a .org and start the conversations. thank you, amanda and thank sophia.

so our last award this evening is for the vera hail champion of justice award. this award, named in memory of the very formidable immigrant rights commissioner vera hail. is for an organization or individual that has demonstrated courage and advocacy for justice and equality during turbulent times. we are proud to present this on earth to all can single executive director and co founder of the lgbt asylum project. under his leadership. the lgbt asylum project has served more than 2.5 1000 lgbt q plus immigrants in the bay area with a 99% approval rates. exactly. the organization, which is the first immigration law group to be located in the historic castro is exclusively dedicated to providing legal representation for lgbtq, plus

immigrants fleeing persecution and feeling seeking asylum in the u. s and has been doing so since 2015. thank you for your dedication to the lgbtq community or can it is truly an honor to present you with the champion of justice award. well um hello, everyone and thank you to the san francisco immigrant rights commission for choosing me as this year's recipient of the better health champion champion of justice award. i am truly grateful for this honor. and before i continue, i wanna say happy pride, everyone. well san francisco during pride. pride month is so beautiful and sometimes people who live here,

um forget what a magical place it is my husband and i live just a few blocks away and we walk to our favorite restaurants. we hold hands we kiss in public and we proudly introduce each other as my husband. we build a home a life together, and we don't live in fear. we never take that for granted. i never take that for granted. as an immigration attorney. i hear from countless people all around the world. who don't have that luxury of safety. living in san francisco as an out gay man was always my dream as a teenager as a gaiety in asia in turkey. so i know firsthand what it is like being an asylum seeker, leaving my home country behind and coming to the united states was extremely scary. but i knew that as a gay man, i would never be

able to live a free and happy life in turkey. i wanted to be free to live my truth and to love who i wanted to love. luckily i was a little bit of myself and i had access to legal representation. so i was able to present my case to the u. s government properly. and as you can see, my case was approved, and i'm an american citizen now, but i knew i had to do more so in 2015 co founded the lgbt asylum project to make sure that all lgbt q. i plus asylum seekers have access to legal representation so they don't have to go back to those countries where they could be harmed or even killed for being who they are or who they love. thank you. i am very proud of the fact that we are positively changing the lives of our l g b

t. q i plus family and i want to say thank you to the mayor's office to cia two opposite stretch gender initiatives to him to the human rights campaign for supporting the work of the lgbt asylum project over the years. and thank you again to san francisco immigrant rights commission. um, and thank you to everyone here at the city hall for making this day one. i will never forget. thank you, everyone. so congratulations to all of the award winners this year. let's give them all another big round.

how to rock bars, please. thank you with a great evening. this is the first time we have been able to celebrate in person since the pandemic began. for the past two years, we have held this event virtually tonight. we'd like to take a moment to recognize all the award winners from the past two years who were celebrated during our virtual ward events. many of these awardees are with us tonight, will the awardees are the virtual 2021 2022 immigrant leadership awards? please make your way to the stage so we can acknowledge you here tonight. but we have anywhere. as everybody is making their way up to the stage. we'd like to give some additional shout outs

. to supervisor handymen who has joined us welcome supervisor. we're delighted to have you with us this evening. and of course to the array of folks who have made this event possible. thank you to sf gov t v for capturing tonight's event. city hall events for arranging the space for us. and amanda thing. bodhi bach iou. let's talk about us art campaign with the asian women's shelter and bart and again, please don't forget to take home a complimentary double sided print. you see melissa with the lovely red jacket waving at you in the back. she has them there for you. so now that we have our previous winners from the last two years, please give us a wave when we call your name or your organization. so from our 2021 awardees, public private, nonprofit collaborative leader awards covid 19 emergency family relief fund. the entrepreneur leader awards. um alu, emilio mola wa i divide you. head chef

and owner of eco kitchen. our industry champion award latino community foundation. our grassroots leader awards in 2021 went to soho abdu of the arab families program coordinator in chinatown. community development center and ella parrot, trans latinas. 2021 vera, hail champion of justice award stop ap i hate initiative. 2021 youth leadership award, rubi ibarra. and our 2021 special recognition awards went to san francisco interfaith council. the latino task force and united peace collaborative. in our 2022

awardees. the entrepreneur leader award lacko sina. grassroots. grassroots leader award on their jolly rimi from paris barbet area. the honorable of rc tenderloin safe passage. norma kagle slatina tenderloin safe catches. are you youth leadership award oil in java to uh, it's here. youth leadership, joy. okay? and a vera hail champion of justice award, the ucsf health and human rights initiative. and our distinguished leadership and public service to former director of the cia. adrienne pine. thank you to all of these

amazing individuals and organizations. we are so happy to get to reckon recognize you in person. you're welcome to return to your seats now, but one more hand of applause to all these crazy thank you. thank you all. oh, we're gonna do a photograph. yeah. one photograph. yes. thank you guys. i think now we. i believe we have our last performance of the evening. okay? what a great celebration of immigrant leaders in san francisco wouldn't you agree? come on, you can do better than that. so in the spirit of

celebration, i would like to introduce an amazing performer. this evening. ahmed patel. who will be performing a dense piece for us. it is a first generation indian american professional dancer, choreographer and teacher. he is a pioneer of an unconventional style of dance called indian contemporary, which fuses his eastern culture with his western training. it also works with para ver bay area. the south asian transgender led organization dedicated to transgender economic, justice and immigrant equality. take it away, ahmed.

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give it up for a meet again already. as a program concludes , i would like to thank everybody for being here tonight. together let's continue to uplift each other's work and celebrate our accomplishments, our cultures, our diversity. i want to thank mayor london breed

for her office proclamation of june as immigrant heritage. month. and the city administrator carmen chu, for being here tonight and supporting this event. i would like to invite everybody to say for the reception. with refreshments provided by food is, um alicia's tamales, los mayas bishop bob bob and the irish immigration historical center. i would also like to thank, thank thee o. c s staff for all their hard work and making this a how that happened. and then now, please take a moment to congratulate tonight's winners and thank you for being here again. let's celebrate.

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>> wow. welcome to chinatown first of all, let me say thank you to ryan and i was yesterday on an event for c y c today there were they're doing performances and getting the clouds u crowds in chinatown excited about being part of that streamlined committee you know san francisco we celebrate our diversity we really talk about chinatown as being one of the highlights of what people want

to come to when this he visit san francisco and in performance from this is icing on the cake so we have some incredible restaurants and businesses fact of the matter after spending time with c y c i walked to ryan avenue and decided i want to get 5 chicken wiggins at capital and in chinatown will was so many people here and even this past weekend we officially started san francisco we had grand masters from all over who came here to celebrate this extraordinary art the streets were packed people are everywhere and seniors and kids and visitors and commenting and staffing and dining and spending

time in chinatown at chinatown station this is the place where people want to live here and travel through san francisco. but that is also the place where people from downtown and other parts of the city come to visit they goat of the station it is clean and nice we have ambassadors that are with us today that can be cantonese and speak other languages to make sure we are able to answer questions and meet the needs of people in the communities is just wonderful a have the captain from center station and thank you for the south miami for the work at the substation and is broader chinatown community yesterday they were everywhere. but we want to do more we want to activate this space and make sure that the cafe is on we're going to work on mta to make sure we get

moving quickly and a place for people that buy food and pastries and what have you it is station but activate it and that takes resources and working with the chinese consolidate ben last night association and working with the chinatown administering thank you, eva for today and as well as c y c the incredible working we're going together to make sure that chinatown is the supported but activated. we have events and activities by people working with a various nonprofit groups and organization here celebrating art and culture and celebrating the experiences of the chinese community specifically in chinatown is what in movement it all about to why are we here to make it clear

every weekend during the spring and summer months this plaza will be activated on the weekend and to 5:00 p.m. to get over at the station and who is going on i need to stop for a moment before i head over to capital or to any place else he came here to visit and enjoy the great performs for visitor and community and more popular we are online in our stop and dine 49 campaign launching a chinatown campaign that highlights all the great businesses here and all the things to do the activities and waverly place a great celebration down to alleyway and other events activities non-stop plenty of surprise i don't know about you but i had had fear of

missing out. (laughter) i have that myself going to i don't like to miss anything so if you want to show up in chinatown everyday but especially on the weekends when this is the most active and the most fun and of the $3 million of it city to invest to make those activities happen and make sure we have thriving chinatown we know things have been challenging over the years but you i've been victorville and talking to city council special meeting/budget study session this evening at 5:00 pm, wednesday, june 7, 2023.) who is going on they said thing are mr. carroll good we can use more and i'm here to shine a light on chinatown to recommend people of what san francisco is an amazing community that is here to say a resilient through criminalization pandemic and other challenges and shill here

stronger and bigger than ever and looking at to the things happening you may see me out there every now and then stopping at the restaurant without the councilmember detoy or councilmember detoy to introduce a person used to be the supervisor but assembly mu-n member has make sure that one million dollars you activation supportive of chinatown happened have not state he served at the state assembly member and now our city attorney and doing great things for chinatown in the city and county of san francisco ladies and gentlemen please welcome, david chu. >> (clapping). >> thank you, a madam mayor and good morning san francisco chinatown who is existed for the summer you guys existed bring on the fwrog i'll start by saying we're standing in a special place not just referring to say

that buff mini station but the neighborhood the fact is in 1848 three immigrants came infrastructure chino and two years later on 20 thousand immigrants decided to come and one hundred and 75 years later chinatown is not just the old historical chinatown in the country we are the culture and social and spiritual comparatively the chinese-american and want to say the first certificate of achievement to represent city hall i think about the history of our asian neighborhoods in san francisco the old in the country here in our city and the little saigon and the currently vicinity and chinese in the richmond and sunset and portal

we are here. and we know over the years have gone through challenging times whether that is the side and chinese he rra under the 1800s or rethis after the 1906 kathy we always come back one of the last things i do in the legislative was to work with folks here to bring one million dollars back to the community. and the reason at that time we wanted to do if we had our communities were struggling after the pandemic. and after the impacts of and italian hate but a year and a half later this was more importantly because we are evolving did good news things are moving toward receipt to the retail businesses are going our night life is coming back we have more to do and thank you, mayor, and thank the office of

economic development for working with the community on programs and grants to revise and bring back the small businesses and residents and visitors together building community and building the town thank you all the mannerism that are standing behind us represented the organizations that are actually doing this work in the coming months during the summer self help and the dp and cpa and chinese companies and, of course, the chinatown merchants and the chinese camera and the legacy each you have represent in our own way communities and businesses and let me close by saying that just as chinatown after some difficult narratives we come back and rise recognize is flexing i know what we're doing this vitality and energy will continue to bring san

francisco back like the flexing we always rise and with that, my honor to announce my successor and predecessor on the board of supervisors president supervisor peskin. thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, city attorney chu and thank you for being here mayor breed it is important to every you once in awhile take stock where we're been and say thank you. and this is an streamlined stop dhoun has the highest dent not only in to but the western sea board of united states and has been staved for open space? not overly the new chinatown rose pack station this is a new open space chinatown. i saw the movie rally how many of you have shown the moving rally

everyone has to see this moving shown and theatre around the corner a store about the last of late great rose pack and the community led fight to name this dhoun station the rose pack station more than that that is really about the community and the way this community leads all of us this community leads and the politicians follow it is true. this is the first time that the mta has been an open space business and rec and park they've been programming open spaces for decades for centuries but the first for the mta and i had no doubt that with the community association with the chinese chamber of commerce, with the chinatown market street association with the chinatown administering united and chinatown neighborhood association the c y c and the

elders louisiana and tom ma gunfire your job is easier because this is the neighborhood that knows how to do it for hold your feet to the fire and come up with the resources and become an attraction far beyond this neighborhood. now we have - that is not just chinatown it is great are chinatown with raufrn hill and north bacterium beach to jackson square the reality all of san francisco is greater chinatown. and this is the center and this segue connected to the rest of the city a remarkably important state and this rooftop some the icing on the cake and in a way that attracts visitors flu all over the state and country that makes the center of this chinatown and

then let me say that because of that leadership this government under the leadership have been london breed has been consistent about the infrastructureal needs not just about having financially finished in project was also about what next up the lake superior of chinatown dougherty have will have groundbreaking and recorder to everything can be to market library on palace street not far beyond the broadway and also on our list so this is just the beginning and with that, that is my honor and pleasure to i'm going to turn it over to tom ma gunfire from the san francisco pta had the pleasure and pain of residing over this plan thank you, tom and others.

>> (clapping). >> thank you, supervisor and tommy ma gunfire the street director for is transportation and welcome you here to our newest subsidy and network every month nearly 50 thousand passengers and community and chinatown voifrtsz pass through the station this is the busiest station in the subsidy not a surprise we built if not just building contractors but we're building contexts and connecting this we're very, very excited to be hosting the event to celebrate the community and this is what transit it all been in san francisco so takes many people to do the job will be background of the community recovery and working really hard through the ambassador program community partnerships and with the san francisco police

department to make sure that everyone customer feel safe with the rearview mirror bus and welcoming to people no matter their background to get from a to s so pleasure and honor to be here to open this station and happy to introduce and with all the organizations and elected officers officials to make that plaza space so great this summer and now introduce fire one from c y c. >> (clapping). >> good afternoon negative declaration my privilege to thank the tell you on the community leaders and from chinatown we have the living room of chinatown and as a parent paris joy a good is where you have you can remember this

is the place on top of of this subsidy station and definitely last weekend had our chinese wellness screening and sold over one hundred not only chinatown but actually of the city i know some visitors came all the way from sacramento to checkout the space is all those are happening because of partnerships with the different partners that are behind me i feel thumbnail to stand in front of them they make chinatown so vibrate and take the opportunity to take the partnership with mta for their resources and investment to make that a chinatown paris possible and more than that thank the community who is station at the

chinatown station from 10 hours a day to provide support and they speak two or three languages to direct the tourists to get to the best restaurants or local resident whether they wanted to take the train or subsidy. >> the other thing to mention personally a lot of people come out buttons the public safety but chinatown we have the best the central stations will have control in chinatown but some - happen on second street when - young you know what all the neighbors and the people that backpack bad actor ask for help and just ran down the street to

capture the suspect and within two minutes and take the whole community to keep us safe and chinatown is stronger than ever because everyone behind me worked together so thank you very much. >> (clapping). >> thank you, so many and for all the guests joining us here and david chiu and aaron peskin thank you for mepgsz the community centers association and thank you for joining us as well as the chinese (clapping) and doing extraordinary work and thank you to the greater green is advocating for all things chinatown this strictly group of people and thank you for improving the lives of businesses not only for the people that live here and not

only the businesses it strive here but visitors to have a warm and welcome experience or experience we appreciate the it takes a village and partnership that's the community and the elected leaders and making that happen thank you for being here..

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

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

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

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

like anyone who looks like him to be, i can do this, too. to have the city's first banker and a street in the middle of financial district. that alone is powerful. [music]

>> long it was in fashion, o'shaughnessy water system has been sustainable. in addition to providing water for the bay

area, it also generates clean hydroelectric power to run city buildings and services. and more recently, some san francisco homes and businesses. >> satellite electricity is greenhouse gas free, so we see a tremendous benefit from that. we really are proud of the fact that, we've put our water to work. >> even with the system as well coon received as hetch hetchy, climate change has made the supply of water from the sierra vulnerable. and requires new thinking about where and how we use water. >> we have five hundred million gallons a day of wastewater being dumped out into san francisco bay and the ocean from the bay area alone. and that water could be recycled and should be recycled for reuse through out the bay area. >> we're looking at taking wastewater and reading it to drink watering standards. we're also looking at our generation and looking at onsite water

reuse looking at the technology and strategies we have available to us today. >> the very first recycling plant in the state of california for landscape irrigation was built in san francisco. we've just developed a new recycled water plant in the ocean side wastewater facility for irrigation purposes in golden gate park, lincoln park and the panhandle. >> a century ago, san francisco built a dam to create bunched znswer of fresh water to ensure the future and ensure the taps will flow for future generations, it will take as much vision when it reflects a fundamental change about how we think about water. >> i think we recognize there's going to be change in the future. so we're going to have to have the flexibility and the creativity to deal with that future as it's presented to us, it's a matter of how to see it and say, okay, let's make wise use of everything we have.

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>> thank you, everyone. um, for 32nd we're to grateful you've joined us more to historic mentally ill and in disability and affordable housing i'm already crying and we've not started yet (laughter) today it groundbreaking the kelsey civic center can i get another rounding. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> my name is ali and i used the pronounce and really proud to lead our policy work at the kelsey before we continue with today's program i'd like to share the beginning the