>> oh. daydreaming. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music] go good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome back. as we reconvene the recess budget and appropriation meeting from monday, june 26th, i'm supervisor connie chan, chair of the committee. i'm joined by supervisors safai and shamar walton, our clerk is brant spar. again i would like to thank michael baltasar from vtv for broadcasting this meeting. mr. clark, do i have any announcement? thank you, madam chair. just a friendly reminder for those in attendance to please make sure the sounds, all

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alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways. email them to myself. the budget and appropriation committee clerk at brant alipay at sf of 4g. if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file. you may also send your written comments by us postal service to our office and city hall. that's one. dr. carlton be good place room to 44 san francisco, california, nine for 1 or 2. and thank you, madam chair. that concludes my announcements. thank you, mr. clerk. i want to let the public know how we're going to proceed today. much of the day will be spent working with the controller's office on the final items needed so we may forward and balance that budget package to the full board. this meeting will be in recess during that work. as we have updates, i will reconvene this meeting in order to share those with the public. our first reconvening meeting today will be at approximate 1

p.m, at which time we plan to give updates on some of the issues remaining from from last week's deliberations and also discussions of potential amendments to trailing legislation after dispensing with that business. we will go back into recess and plan to reconvene a approximately every two hours until we get this done . we will not have public comment today since we satisfied that requirement on monday, nor will we have presentations from departments today when we have an agreement on a final spending plan, we will reconvene and announce the resolutions on the remaining trail, trailing legislation. so with that said, colleagues, we will recess this meeting until 1 p.m. today. the meeting is now in recess.

budget and that is reflected in the legislation before you today . and i think this was a fabulous outcome for a very difficult situation. i want to thank our comptroller, ben rosenfeld, who helped us come to

this agreement. the mayor's budget director and dunning dunning. i keep saying it wrong. the advocate, some of whom are in the crowd. i see. jennifer freedom box, the director of the coalition of homelessness, who played a major role. the department emily cohen whitley. and it was really it was a really group effort. so everyone , you know, was at their very best, fiercely defending the needs of so many people that all need defending and more resources. and i think we're all very happy with the outcome. so if you will accept these amendments, they will they are substantive. so they will have to sit until our next budget meeting and i'm happy to answer any questions. thank you. i second the motion to amend and vice chairman. uh uh, thank you, madam chair. i want to thank

supervisor ronan for your work on this. i think this is an elegant solution to our current predicament today of getting ourselves to a budget that can pass and can make the shelter investments that were identified by hsh and the mayor's office. i do continue to believe that we are not focusing enough energy and resources on addressing what i think is a central challenge for our city, which is encampment and neighborhoods across the city and the only way to address that is going to be a significant expansion in shelter and then a real commitment to addressing encampments, much more robust and rigorously than has been done so far. i didn't i was glad to see the mayor investing in some shelter, although i thought it was not enough. i'm glad the board is preserving that. but i think going forward, we need to be open to using all resources at our disposal to addressing what i think is an ex substantial crisis for san francisco. but

for today and tonight. thank you, supervisor ronan, for getting us here. thank you. and supervisor walton. thank you, chair shannon. again, supervisor ronan, just want to express my gratitude for stepping in and bringing everyone together. i want to thank the advocates for coming to the table. you worked on weekends. you brought folks in and continued to work because we knew how important this was. and so i just want to say i appreciate you and obviously we still have a lot of work to do, but this certainly is a step in the right direction and helping us be able to preserve some vital resources for areas that were carved out in the original legislation. so thank you. thank you. and supervisor, fyi. thank you, chair. thank you. supervisor ronan. this is a good, good step in the right direction. i think it's a creative solution, but it also exhibits what it means to bring all the stakeholders to the table because you can't make these decisions unilaterally when you have a whole

constituency of people that have been involved in this conversation. and i think it's really important that each side compromise. and i think that's what this exhibits today. it's a compromise. i will say i do appreciate the comments of supervisor management. i do think that we have an existential crisis in our city right now. we have to be a bit more aggressive. and i would say we have to be a bit more aggressive in every neighborhood in san francisco. this is not a solution for one part of the city because homelessness now is spread all over san francisco to every neighborhood. and so every neighborhood, every district and every supervisor should be embracing this work in their district. it should not be a conversation about just putting it where the most convenient and the most cost effective. it should be really about spreading out the solution to entire san francisco. and that means everybody. so thank you. and we have a lot more work to do. thank you. and before i turn back to you, supervisor ronan and i, again, just i am a very fortunate chair to actually have

you as a colleague on this body and i also think that is a great compliment that both the mayor and our advocates and our constituents and your colleagues , all of us trusted you as our trusted colleague at that table and negotiate it in good faith. and also most importantly is i think that it's because we all see that you are here to try to do the right thing to serve san franciscans and you're here to balance all our needs, which is a very challenging task during a budget deficit year like this one. so we appreciate you and thank you so much. and supervisor ronan, thank you so much. i appreciate that. i just wanted to share with you and somewhat to respond to supervisor randleman, because while i very much understand your position supervisor and to a degree, you know, when i had

my daughters after school program, we hosted her at city hall and all the kids gave testimony on supervisor randleman shelter for all. and when i was trying to explain to them the crux of what it meant in trying to put it, you know, in a way that eight to, you know , 11 year old would understand. i basically said, you have a pot of money. you could there are a lot of people sleeping in the streets. you could spend all that money to try to get everyone off the streets and sleeping in shelters. or you could spend some of the money on that and some of the money on preventing people from becoming newly homeless that are about to get kicked out of their homes and to help you know, people find permanent housing so they're not in a shelter for, you know, explain how you would

use you have a limited pot of money. you have a lot of needs. how would you do that? and it was interesting to me that most of the kids would said i would divide the money and i would spend some on shelter, some on permanent housing and some to stop people from becoming newly homeless. and i just i just think that's it's really that simple. and i think that prop c was very carefully constructed in order to, you know, make sure that that's what happened, that the money was divided in in those ways. and i you know, i there's no right answer to that question. all those needs are legitimate and extremely needed . but what i feel particularly proud about this outcome is that and where the advocates really moved me in this process is that if we don't address youth homelessness, then when those individuals grow up, the chances of them being adult homeless is

much higher and then we're never breaking that cycle. and so that was i think that's why focusing on tay and families with some of our money is crucial. and i'm really happy that we're doing that with this budget. thank you. and with that, oh, vice chair mendelson all right. but before you start, you know, we're going to have to move this. i'm aware. i think supervisor ronan and i demonstrated last week our capacity to agree and disagree endlessly on these topics. and we could go on here for a long time. but we're not going to. and so i will happily, we can take this on the road. supervisor thank you. and with that, we are going to do a roll call with the amendment. yes, madam chair, on that motion by member ronan, seconded by yourself, that this ordinance be

amended as offered by member ronan, vice chairman allman middleman. i remember i saw if i remember running, running, i remember walton walton and i chair chan i chan, i. we have five eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. what are you going. to add? and with that, so , supervisor, would you like to move item six and seven to the next? actually, seven doesn't have to, like, move six and seven to full board to actually. sorry, the six has to be continued. yes i'll make a motion to continue. item six to the next budget and finance. budget and appropriations meeting. second and roll call on that one. yes. on that motion to continue the ordinance as item number six to the next meeting of this committee, seconded by

sorry, offered by member and seconded by chair chan. how vice chair gentlemen, i gentlemen, i remember. i i remember running. i ronan. i remember walton. walton i chair chan hi chan i we have five eyes. thank you. the motion passes and supervisor ronan, would you like to move item 7 to 4 board recommendation ? yes. but before i do that, i'd like to. i'd like to duplicate the file and expenditure plan. it's just. sorry we're not yet. i haven't called that one yet. all good. totally confused. we put you to a lot of. i would like to move item seven to the full board with positive recommendation. second and roll call please. and on that motion to forward the ordinance in item number seven to the to the july 11th full board with a positive recommendation moved by member owned and seconded by chair chan , vice chairman middleman. i remember i, i remember on and i

ron and i member walton walton i church and i chan i we have five eyes. thank you. and the motion passes and next mr. clerk, could you please call item number five? yes madam chair. give me one second. item number five is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to waive retroactively to july first, 2023, certain first year permit, license and business registration fees for specified small businesses that newly formed or that open a new location and refunding any waive fees that have been paid to the city. madam chair, thank you. and could you also call item number three with the. yes item number three is an ordinance amending the public works code to eliminate permit fees for a curbside shared spaces permit approved before june 30th, 2025, amending the administrative code to increase the gross receipts threshold from 2 million to 2.5

million for reductions to annual curbside shared spaces. permit and license fees, and affirming the planning department determination under sequa madam chair, thank you. supervisor ronan. thank you. referring to item number five, i would like to duplicate the file. five together. go ahead please. no problem. i would like to duplicate the file. i would like to send the duplicate file or i'd like to continue the duplicated file to the call of the chair. and then i want to amend the original file to limit the length of the program to one year and add. is that enough detail? okay, so it's basically to from. so now i'll explain what i'm doing. thank you. so as you know, the mayor only funded

the first year free program in the in her budget for the first year yet introduced a piece of legislation to expand the length of the program for many more years. in talking to our brilliant city comptroller who am thankful for all the time, he suggested that given that the mayor and our board president and the comptroller's office are going through a process of relooking at our business taxes and fees globally and potentially really putting an item on the ballot next year that would sort of restructure our entire system that we might be able to put first year free into that legislation and make it permanent. and so if that happens, we wouldn't need this legislation ongoing beyond a year. so i think that's a great

plan, a great idea. i think we should see what happens with this with this global negotiation. i would love to see first year free become a permanent part of our our system for taxing and feeing businesses in san francisco. and i think that's a great way to not have to add additional money for this program in this year's budget, which is becoming more and more challenging by the minute. so that is why i am keeping this alive in case that doesn't end up happening. and then amending the ordinance today so that it just covers one year. okay. i'll second those motion with that vice chair mendelson i want to thank supervisor ronan for that amendment, but i also do want to say that this is a good program. i think it is one of the things that came out of the pandemic that people feel very positively about. and i think we need to do a ton of work to make it easier to open small businesses in san

francisco. and maybe we will get to the point where we will have done such great work. something like this is not necessary, but for the foreseeable future, i think it is very important. and so i am hoping that it will in fact be permanent. and i know the supervisor, ronen, is committed to making it permanent . chair if i could just respond briefly. yes and i wanted to say that the reason i feel comfortable doing this is because i think that's a widely recognized opinion about this program. and so i don't think any of us are going to let this program go away anytime soon. and it's because of that collective of commitment to this program that i feel very comfortable doing this today. so thank you for that. thank you. and with that, i would like to do the roll call for the motion proposed by supervisor ronan. second by myself. yes. on that motion to amend this ordinance, as offered by member noonan, moved by member ronan, seconded

by yourself church and how? vice chairman melman i remember sapphire. sapphire. i remember running ronan. i remember walton walton. i chair chan i chan, i. we have five eyes to amend. thank you. the motion passes and now i'd like to make a motion to send the amended item to the full board with positive recommendation to the 21st. is that right? the next just next to the next. it's a july, but it's not substantive and therefore it's the next full board, which is the july 11th. yes. okay. on that motion. oh, sorry. did we have a second on that? yes. okay so on that motion by member owen and seconded by jerry chan to forward this ordinance to the july 11th full board with a positive recommendation as amended, vice chairman tillman middleman. i remember sapphire. sapphire. i remember running ronan. i remember walton walton, i chair chan, i chan i. we have five eyes. thank you. and the motion passes. but before we

move forward, i just want to make sure is deputy city attorney and pearson online. i just want to make sure just in case we start to have some legal questions that she's actually here. okay good. thank you. am here. sorry, i just want to make sure that we are not proceeding without you and i'm sorry. thanks for being here with us. where's like, we need to take good care of you and but anyways, with that, i just want to quickly discuss item. three. and, you know, just as we're continuing to move this forward, would supervisor sapphire, you would like to is there anything that you would like us would you like us to continue this conversation or other thoughts that you have at this moment about particular this one? i know that we amended this to a to a later years, which just to shorten it instead of a

permanent waiver now is ending on june 30th, 2025. i just really want to again, i from what i understand, right, like for what supervisor ronan has articulated for first year free is that we also understand similarly in the some of the situation is that we understand that the mayor's proposed budget has only budgeted for one year, but not for the second. and therefore, as for today's conversation, we now have scaled back to the year that is limited to one which the mayor has proposed and budgeted for with the potential ballot measure in 2024. i just want to propose this question to director dunning at this moment is from the mayor's office. and just want to make sure again about the share space where we're at and in terms of being able to cover the next two years. uh,

good afternoon, members of the budget and appropriations committee and so i'm just going to repeat what i shared last time that again, this the revenue loss associated with expanding this program is not currently assumed in the mayor's proposed budget. i think what we just acknowledged with first year free is that we amended the legislature to reflect what is in the proposed budget. so if at this time the board is considering amending the proposed budget to support and pay for that revenue loss, then you may consider moving this forward. but i'm not sure what the will of this committee is at this time. i appreciate it. thank you so much. sorry. go ahead. so i have a question. i through the chair to the budget committee. so the budget director. so this revenue was intended to do an excess of the existing program. this program exists. we have a shared spaces program. we have permit reviewers. we have people that issue permits. so i guess what i'm trying to understand is

you're saying that this would be revenue loss to expand the program, but if we pass this legislation and said we want to waive this initial initiation fee for the next two years, you would still have a program to operate. am i correct? i believe the shared spaces program, as it exists today will continue operating. and when we developed the proposed the mayor's proposed budget with the department of public works, we took into account a number of policy matters that are affecting their their bottom line revenues at the time that we consider those we were not considering this expansion of the program. so did not build that in to the revenue assumptions within the department of public works. but we don't this legislation doesn't necessarily contemplate an expansion. it contemplates the ability for businesses to not have to pay the fee to get the program their permit issued

. but there are staff that are assigned to the program. the program is up and running. it can issue permits. so i guess i guess again, i'm not trying to argue with you, but it would be one thing, i guess i would say if the mayor said we have a new program that you're proposing that is not funded, but we have an existing program. what we're saying is you all had assumed as the revenue was going to come in, you were going to expand additional staff to continue to operate and expand the program. and i guess my argument would be if we didn't do that and we just waived the fee as as is contemplated here and you didn't add any additional staff this year. and you did it eventually it still would the program would still be operating. i guess that's what i didn't i didn't understand when you first stood up and said we didn't we didn't assume room the expansion. all i am saying is that we did not assume the additional fee waiver

. correct. i understand that with the additional fee waiver comes a different revenue assumption. i understand. so i guess what i'm trying to clarify to the public and to the committee members is this program would continue to operate if we pass this and you all don't fund an additional expansion. my understanding is the core of the program to offer shared spaces as is exist today will continue to operate. thank you. that's all i wanted to clarify. thank you so much. thank you. i. have some additional thought. you asked me if i had any additional thoughts. oh, sure. yeah. i mean, i guess i would just reiterate some of the things i said before this to me is fundamentally and we did this two years ago when businesses were asking for rent relief because they couldn't pay back rent because they were asked by the city per health order to shut down. but yet they could not shut down paying their rent. it's the same thing in this

situation. many of these businesses are still struggling . they're still have the inability. i have multiple businesses in my district that still have back rent and this is all over the city. i've talked to folks in the castro in the richmond in the mission in south, the market all over the place that still have back rent. this allows them rather than giving the city five, ten, 15, $20,000 to keep that money in their hand to continue to operate and keep their business going. that that is that is the crux of this proposal. it is a short term stimulus. i took the committee's advice and whittled it down to two years because i think that's when we assume things economic might begin. and i'm happy to continue the conversation. and i think that's like the key of it too. like, like let's continue. and i think that's the goal of this moment and for us to articulate about these trailing legislation

again, is it's unusual that we have this many trailing legislation. i think it's only fair that we continue to have these conversations in public and be apparent about some of the negotiations that's going on. and i just wanted to be part of this like like just having these dialog and making sure that these part of the dialog is transparent and public. i want to say that in my opinion, i have been in, you know, both as a legislative a and city government for quite some time, 20 years and now. and so what i see, though, there are moments where, you know, regrettably and i think that as policymaker, we should always be thoughtful about, you know, when we make policies and we move forward, policies which should ought to be also make sure that they can be carried out and implemented with funding support. and but i also have over the years have seen unfunded mandate. i think that those are the not that we cannot pass those mandates but

they do have consequences both on the budget, but also impact on the on the streets that we see. and i think that i would really like for us to come to a conversation where we can continue to these policy ideas. i i think that one option i would also like for us to consider specifically about this one is that like look like some of these is kind of like what supervisor sapphire has mentioned. it doesn't really have to be part of the really budget conversation. it should be, in my opinion. but we could continue to have these policies conversation beyond the time frame that we ought to abide by with the process of budget. so just some thoughts. i want to throw it out there so that we can actually move forward today . so i would like to continue item three on the agenda. and so we're not acting on item three at this moment. instead i would like to call sorry, i'm like

trying to i'm jumping everywhere. and as for the public should know, i am calling items out of order. really in accordance of sort of the conversation that we've been having and whether we can move some of the things forward. but most importantly, we need to continue to have some of these conversation and dialog publicly . so the next item that i would like to call and so that we can have conversation with is the item ten on. thank you, madam chair. item number ten, his an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to extend through december 31st, 2024 the ghost receipts tax rates in effect on january first, 2022 for the business activities of retail trade, certain services, manufacturing, food services, accommodations and arts, entertainment and recreation, and postponed to june 1st, 2025, the imposition of the gross receipts, tax rates otherwise set to go into effect

beginning january 1st, 2023. for those business activities and to provide for businesses that open a physical location in the city on or after june 1st, 2023, through december 31st, 2027. and that did not have a physical location in the city for at least three years prior to that opening, an annual gross receipts tax credit equal. to 0.45% of the businesses. san francisco taxable gross receipts from one or more of the business activities of information had ministration and support services. financial services, insurance and professional, scientific and scientific and technical services for businesses not engaged in business and the city has an administrative office or 7/10 of a percent of the taxable payroll expense of a business that engages in business in the city has administered out of office for each of up to three tax years immediately following the

tax year in which the business opened the physical location in the city but no later than the 2028 tax year, and not to exceed 1 million per tax year. madam chair. thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues the amendments that for grocery seats circulated by our comptroller and thanks to his team and his he he and his teams work that we were here we are and the amendments. i want to just i'm not going to go through in details, but just the summary that these amendments is first that it does is limit the credit limit. the tax credit to taxpayers that open a physical location in certain downtown zip codes. two, the amendments also will exclude home based businesses, both with respect to determining whether the business had a location during the prior three years and with respect to determining whether a new location was opened. and third amendment is requiring that the

taxpayer take the credit on an original tax return and maintain a physical location in the designated zip codes in the tax year in which the taxpayer is taking the credit. so those are the proposed amendments that i would like for us to consider. i do think, though, in good faith, i would like to continue the conversation with the mayor's office about like what that actually look like for the entire budget. i do see this because the mayor proposed this and that. we're making the amendments. i think, in good faith. i like to continue this conversation and i just really want director tuning to just kind of be, at least on the record, to articulate to the committee that we're continuing to working together and we're having these conversation. yes, thank you, supervisor chan. we're familiar with the amendments and what is being proposed. we also understood that if proposed the board may be asking the mayor to grow the budget to accommodate other budget changes which are still being discussed. so thank you. look forward to continue working

with you all over the coming hours to come to a final agreement and a complete package . thank you. and so, colleagues, be patient while we propose these amendments. and i think that if you have anything against these amendments, please speak. speak now to let us know that you're not in support of it, but otherwise, we will continue these conversation with the mayor's office to make sure that we do come to an agreement . and as part of really the entire budget supervisor sapphire, i just want to duplicate the file for the gross receipts so that we can continue the conversation that we had about potentially helping businesses that might be in other parts of the city relocate into the zip codes that are there. so they won't be penalized for having already had a business in san francisco and wanting to expand the whole argument. we had the other day that that you and i were talking about. but we would need to think think that through a little bit more legislatively

and then work with the treasurer's office on how that would actually be administered. so if we can just duplicate the file, then i can continue to work on that and i think that is the duplicate file. duplicating a file does not require a motion . it's just a single member privilege. so we will let that stand. and. vice chair just before you do that, see supervisor and looking confused, did you have a i'm calling on him. supervisor i can run this. oh, i didn't see him on the thing. i'm just it's all good. i'm sorry. mendelson well, my confusion is i don't think we're doing anything now. i think i think the chair has just put some ideas out there that she is talking through with the mayor's office. and i guess i feel about this similarly to the way i felt about big prop c, which is i think there's probably a larger conversation to be had that is going to need to happen about our overall business tax strategy. and i think it may well be that we want to rethink some of our business taxes. but i also understand that we got to get through this city budget and

we got to try to do it today. and so i trust in the mayor and the chair to find a resolution to this that that ideally provides some some relief. to businesses trying to locate in san francisco and also gets us to a budget. thank you. i appreciate this. so again this is for conversation and to be continued. we will continue this item on this agenda for later time. and i would like to call again a conversation with is to just a quick conversation on item number 11. yes item number 11, madam chair, is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to allow a sub lesser to deduct rent for commercial space. the sub lesser pays up to the amount of rent the sub lesser receives for that

space when determining its early care in education, commercial rents tax for the tax year 2023 through and including 2029. madam chair. thank you colleagues. it is my intention to make the motion to table this item later today. but again, i think that we will continue to think about and the bigger picture of this entire budget. but i just want to articulate my intent for later today that we will likely i will put forth a motion before you to consider tabling item number 11 for the commercial rent tax. sublease and i'm happy to open for a discussion right now if the new name on the roster. vice chair mendelson and same comment as before i think the mayor and her team and food are to be commended for trying to think through ways to get some of

these vacant spaces filled up and revitalize our downtown. and so i think this proposal was offered in that spirit. and i also trust that in the conversations today between the mayor's office and the chair's office, you will arrive at something wise. thank you. and we will continue item number 11 on the agenda. and to stay on the agenda and for continuing the discussion, item four, please call item number four. thank you, madam chair. give me one second to scroll. hi item number four is an ordinance amending the building code to increase fees charged by the department of building inspection by 15% and affirming the planning departments determination under sequa madam chair. thank you, colleagues. i want to be very specific about building code like in terms of fee increase. while the planning actually, i should say the building inspection commission

has proposed that they have approved for the fees to increase up to 20% in it is not i think that it is it really we cannot as a body to do so. we really has to we collectively have to look to the mayor to really think about and consider the proposal before her by the building and inspection building inspection commission and so director janine, i just want to make sure that we're continuing this conversation. but i just really also want to be open and make sure that director doonan can walk us through like also what's to come this fall. and so that to help us understand some of the technical challenges that we actually face, even in the events that we do come to an agreement that this may not be a feasible option for us. so at this time, what the mayor originally proposed still stands, which would have be a

15% across the board increase to all fees. that is a temporary proposal as the department of building inspection undergoes a comprehensive fee study to look at all their fees. there are hundreds of fees they charge for different services and make sure they are fully recovering for their costs. that fee study should come out sometime in the fall, at which time dbi, along with the mayor's office and other stakeholders, will review the results of that study. the potential, the potential impact to tbis budget, and then likely propose a more nuanced, comprehensive fee proposal. so we're familiar and understand the purpose of the additional fee raise that the commission has recommended, and it's something to consider. again in these next few hours as we're debating what can be funded in the ultimate budget. but there's a number of things worth considering as we think about the future of dbi and how they're funded. and thank you and colleagues like it is my intention, though, when we do

return, that i would like to be in agreement with the mayor specifically on this building code fee increase. i look to the mayor to consider, but i am most definitely inclined to make the motion to move this item forward with a recommendation to full board as it currently is before us. i understand. and even through the process, it was it was quite a rush. but the most importantly for me is the fact that it has a fee study that is coming to this fall. so i think it's actually reasonable to accept this as a temporary hold for the moment until until we have more information. so i just want to articulate that and it is not again, we're going to move all these things together once we have a better picture about where we're heading and hopefully truly a agreement to come back and add and be able to put before you and so that we can discuss fully and in greater details. and so with that, again , this item two will be continuing on this agenda. and i

would say, colleagues, if it's okay with you, all of you, it's at 1:43 p.m. now and i will call back for us to recess until 3 p.m. today. let's go into recess .

it. news is that we're very close now. the bad news is we're still not done yet. i want to say we're going to recess now until 10 p.m, but thereafter, we're likely going to be return if we're not done by ten, we're going to return in a much shorter interval. so it's not going to be like more than an hour because that's how close we are to it. so we are going to return at 10 p.m. we're going to recess until then. now we're back to recess.

i would just like to report back that we are now have an initial agreement with the mayor. and i

think it's something to celebrate this moment and then we know there are technical adjustments need to be made now and we just want to thank mr. controller ben rosenthal and his team working really hard for all the agreements and just, you know, all the technical that needs to be done. so with that, i think that we just need a little bit a little bit time to make sure we get this right. it's about an hour from now. and so we will return and then we will actually start getting things moving. so i will return . 1130 tonight and so now we're going to go back and recess. thank you. thank you, colleagues . really appreciate it. could good evening. welcome back to the budget and appropriation committee. after a long day of recess. here we are. and with

that now we're returning to this committee and, mr. clerk, could you please call item one and two? yes, madam chair, but a little bit of housekeeping with the appearance of supervisors and gaudio and melgar, who are now convened as a special meeting of the board of supervisors. and with that, items one and two are the proposed budget and appropriation and salary ordinance for the fiscal years ending june 30th, 2024 and june 30th, 2025. item one appropriates all estimated receipts and all estimated expenditures for departments. how the city and county as of june first, 2023 and item number two enumerates positions in the annual budget and appropriation appropriation ordinance, continuing creating or establishing these positions, enumerating and including therein all positions created by the charter or state law for which compensations are paid from city and county funds and appropriated in the annual appropriation ordinance, authorizing appointments or continuation of appointments thereto, specifying and fixing the compensations and the work

schedules thereof, and authorizing appointments to temporary positions and fixing compensations. madam chair. thank you, mr. clerk. colleagues, i would like to just start thanking tonight. it's really a production. not by one person, but an entire village, a village of really not just the people in the audience, the people who may just be listening online as well. but i want to first start thanking francis shea on my team. francis is a friend and a mentor and how all of us accountable through this process. and of course, i just want a quick shout out to robin berg and

bangas and kelly grove to, you know, amazing district one team . but we also couldn't have done it without brant halibut, who our clerk. and a rotation of clerks that i'm not going to name them all but just just the entire team to just keep this meeting going. but then of course, it's really members on this committee and supervisor hillary ronen amazing caring a lot of work she is someone that i say she's just passion and a trusted colleague that can actually go and negotiate with us and on our behalf. and i just for that i'm thankful and i also want to thank vice chair mendelson, believe it or not, who actually keeps this all these meeting going and second motion is very actually

important to keep. many things happen and just more than that, just having a very even keel manner to kind of keep us negotiate throughout all the debates. and of course, supervisor sherman walton, thank you. i would say supervisor walton keeps us honest as a committee and as a body and that we write. and i would say, you know, the person who often just kind of hold us together and making sure we keep talking to each other, no matter how difficult the situation is, is supervisory. and that's why i would say i am the most fortunate budget chair in the most difficult time to actually have this team of people with me and i definitely also want to

thank our budget and legislative analysts who actually help us have have all those deductions and reductions that we actually get to do all the negotiations that we have today and throughout the week. and of course, mister comptroller ben rosenthal and making sure we have all the solutions that we can. of course, resa, i think resa resa i blanking out your last name. my apologies, but thank you so much for being with us. and of, of course, director anna dunning. thank you so much . and her right hand person, sally, just really want to say, you know, things through you. you know, having conversation with the mayor herself and i really appreciate all the work that we do together here. but i just really want to turn all my things to the people in the audience. all our advocates.

because let me just say that you have turned this budget because of your advocacy, because of the your passion that you bring to the table and to this room. you have turned this budget to the people's budget. so for that, i'm grateful. and i'm going to turn this to my colleagues, supervisor ronan, can we all give a huge round of applause for our amazing budget chair who got us out in record time? connie chan. thank you. connie you are the only person that has ever turned me into a good cop

my entire life, i've had to play bad cop until connie became budget chair, and she's like, no one's messing with me. and i just can't tell you how much i've admired your leadership, how fierce you've held it down for the people of san francisco , how much skill you put into negotiating this budget and getting this incredible outcome for san francisco. so just so much pride and joy in our budget chair and appreciate for all of your hard work and vice chairman coleman. thank you, madam chair. and i want to congratulate you and thank you for getting us through through this process. and i actually think this budget is the story of a of a of a group of very strong women. you

know, connie chan, hillary, ronen london breed and a dunning , myrna melgar. the boys have helped out in various ways. ben rosenfield pretty important. but but but i think, you know, we don't agree about everything, but i think that you have gotten us through this and you've crap between all of you crafted a budget that i think san franciscans can be proud of, even in a difficult time. you know, i think it does reflect our values. i think the mayor had important commitments she wanted to make and fulfill to labor and community. and i think we also have done that at the board of supervisors. i think, you know, as one now, one of the gays, not the gay, but one of the gays on the board of supervisors, i think the investments in the queer community, and particularly the

trans community coming from the mayor and reinforced by the board, are things that i'm proud of. and it hasn't been. i mean, we fought for it, but we didn't have to fight that hard with this crew because i think folks recognize that these are important investments. so i want to thank you and i want to thank two super great women in my office. jackie thornhill, who i will be losing on after friday. but who the city will be keeping in the department of emergency management. thank you, jackie. and my other superstar, zara haji. so thanks, everybody, and congratulate. and i'm glad we got here before well before. one supervisor. so sapphire. thank you. thank you, chair. i just say at my name to the chorus to just say i think when we first got this budget, i think there was a lot of anxiety and a lot

of frustration. and i don't think anyone would have predicted that we would have gotten this done in record time. and the way that we did. so i just want to thank you truly for your leadership. i know we say that a lot in this chamber here. thank you for your leadership. but no, truly thank you for your ability to bring us all together and do it in such a, you know, concise and firm way. and you held the line where you needed to. and i think that that was really, really important. and you sent a message to the entire board and to the entire community. and so i appreciate you working and thank you to everyone. thank you. supervisor walton. thank you, supervisor mano men. and thank you, supervisor ronan for your tremendous work. we really was a team effort bringing this whole thing together. i want to thank my staff, lila, lauren and all the staffs that put in all the work. i mean, because they're the ones that really made it happen. and thanks to the mayor's office. thanks. and thanks to the comptroller. and.

and supervisor melgar for coming in and doing serious heavy lifting, not even being on the committee. so it was tremendous what you were able to do. and that helped us get over some really hurdle early hurdles. so thank you. i'm not going to call it anything specific in the budget. i think we did everything we could to restore some really important work and preserve and expand some really important initiatives in the city that we all deeply care about. thank you. thank you. and supervisor walton, thank you, chair chan. and first, just really want to thank you and francis, and particularly just for having a plan and sticking to it and making sure that you were firm during this budget process as you know, we are facing a deficit and there are a lot of priorities that we all wanted to make sure we succeeded on during the budget process. but you came in and made sure that we stayed the course and actually focused on getting the work done for the benefit of the

community that we serve. so i want to appreciate you and francis for toeing the line and holding us all to that. definitely want to thank tracy brown guajardo from my office. she she is really the boss of the budget for district ten office. and so i mean it when i tell everybody having a conversation with me makes no sense. she is the one you need to be talking to when we're talking about the budget. but i do want to appreciate all of my colleagues again, folks stepped up and worked on weekends with the advocates to make sure that we were able to address some of the most pressing issues around the budget and get it done quickly, efficiently to the point where today we were really battling about maintaining certain priorities that are important to all of us. but not having to be here till 3 a.m. or even until friday. so thank you,

everybody. and looking forward to getting this budget passed. thank you. and supervisor ronan , i was so intense on giving you the accolades that you deserve. chair chen that i forgot to mention my incredible staff. i want to start out by thanking jackie prager, my lead staffer. my lead staffer this year on the budget who had never staffed on budget before. so she she took it on like jackie takes on everything 150, working every weekend, jotting every eye, crossing every t, caring so deeply about every last dollar and every last organization and person who is going to benefit from these dollars. i love you,

jackie. you're amazing. and then santi, who we said, for once in your life, you're not going to be staffing on budget this year . could not, of course, stay away because we needed him so badly and had to pull him back in. so as much as you tried to not focus on the budget, we just can't do it without you. we have to drag you in every time. so thank you so much. love and appreciate you both so much. thank you. thank you all. and super advisor melgar, thank you so much, chair chan and thank you for letting me tag along in this process. yes, even though i'm not on the committee, i wanted to say that, you know, this whole process is a science, a math. you know, exercise. but it's also an art about relationships and values in listening to people. and i think you've done an outstanding job.

and i want to thank you in particular for listening to folks that don't usually get listened to. and so i i'm really grateful for that and for just going above and beyond. i'm grateful to francis shay for her great competence. and i also want to thank ronan for the heavy lifting of the things that we did to try to get folks to where they needed to be. so i really appreciate you. i want to thank jennifer faber in my office, who was the first time she was doing budget, but she just it's you know, she did it as if i were on the committee, which i really appreciated. and we kept track really closely and all of you colleagues, supervisor walton, for keeping us honest and keeping us on task and supervisor mandel and i thank you so much for putting in the long hours and doing all of the wonderful work. so thank you all. thank you, supervisor melgar. and with that, colleagues, i will have to make

a motion to take the following action and to get us there and so the motion, of course i would need a second, but i'm going to read off the motion. the motions has three parts, and first is to amend the appropriation ordinance and salary ordinance, which is item one and two, to reflect the committee's final changes. as indicated in the summary entitled board of supervisors budget spending plan. second part to authorize the comptroller to make adjustments necessary to implement the committee's action to balance accounts and to update descriptive codes contained in the spending plan. or third, to forward items. one and two. on today's agenda, as amended to the board of supervisors for the july 11th meeting with positive recommendation. second by vice chair mendelson, and with that may i have a roll call, please?

thank you, madam chair. and on that motion, as stated, vice chairman mehlman, i members of a staff, i remember running ronan and i remember walton walton. i chair chan. i chan i. we have five eyes and the motion passes . so technically the budget is done. but now we actually have to move on, on, on trailing legislation. and mr. clerk, could you please call item number three? yes. item number three is an ordinance amending the public works code to eliminate permit fees for curbside shared spaces permit approved before june 30th, 2025, amending the administered code to increase the gross receipts threshold from 2 million to 2.5 million for reductions to annual curb curbside shared spaces, permit and license fees, and affirming the planning department's determination under sequa. madam chair, thank you

and supervisor safai. thank you, chair. after further discussions and negotiations with all of us, we're going to amend this to make it a one year program to june 30th, 2024, and that will allow this program to continue to be the short term economic stimulus for small businesses that intended to be and allow us to continue moving forward with the program and the proper manner. so thank you for the support there and i make a motion to amend it down to that date. and would you like to just make it one motion to amend and move to full board? yes motion to amend and move to the full board with positive recommendation. amendment yes. second, and with that roll call, please. and on that motion by member staff, seconded by chair chan to amend this ordinance and forward to the july 11th full board with a positive recommendation as amended, vice chairman ellman gentlemen, i

remember safai i safai. i remember running heroin and i remember walton walton. i chair chan i chan. we have five eyes. thank you. and the motion passes and mr. kirk, could you please call item number four? yes. item number four is an ordinance amending the building code to increase fees charged by the department of building inspection by 15. and affirming the planning department determination under sequa. madam chair, thank you. and i would like to make the motion to move this item to full board with recommendation second by supervisor ronan. and may i have roll call, please? and on that motion seconded by member ronan, that this ordinance be forwarded to the july 11th full board with a positive recommendation and vice chair. i remember i, i remember ron and ron and i remember walton walton. i chair chan i chan i, we have five eyes and thank you. the motion passes. and with that, please call item eight and nine together. yes item number eight

is a resolution approving amendment number five to grant agreement between the office of economic and workforce development and the san francisco tourism improvement district management corporation for management of the downtown. welcome ambassador program to increase the grant amount by approximately 5.1 million for a total not to exceed amount of approximately 21.4 million to increase the term for one year and eight months for a new term from july 1st, 2021 through june 30th, 2025. effective upon approval of this resolution and authorize the director of pd to enter into amendments or modifications to the contract prior to its final execution by all parties had to not materially increase the obligations or liabilities to the city and are necessary to effectuate the purposes of the contract. and item number nine is a resolution approving amendment number three to a grant agreement between the office of economic and workforce development and mid-market foundation for managing of the mid-market tenderloin community based safety program to increase the grant amount by 31 million

for a total not to exceed the amount of approximately 61 million and to extend the term from october 15th, 2023 for a total period of july 1st, 2022 through june 30th, 2025. active effective upon approval of that resolution and also carry the same authorized ations. madam chair, thank you. and colleagues, i want to say that, you know, we need to continue the conversation around ambassador programing and we must continue on. and i think that there's a commitment that we have from department of emergency management that they will actually come back and return this fall to really have that dialog with us. so i look forward to that and so with that, having that commitment that we will continue this dialog to really look at citywide. ambassador programs, i would like to make the motion to move these two items to full board with recommendation second by vice chairman dalman and may i have the roll call please? and on that motion seconded by vice

chairman to forward both resolutions to the to the full board with the positive recommendation. vice chairman gentlemen, i remember sapphire. sapphire i remember ronan. ronan i remember walton walton. i chair chan i chan i. we have five eyes. thank you. the motion passes and mr. clerk, could you please call item number ten? yes. item number ten is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code to extend through december 31st, 2024. the gross receipts, tax rates and effect on january first, 2022 for the business activities of retail trade, certain services, manufacturing, food services, accommodations and arts, entertainment and recreation, and postponed to january first, 2025, the imposition of the gross receipts tax rates otherwise set to go into effect beginning january 1st. 2023. for those business activities and to provide for businesses that open a physical location in the city on or after january 1st, 2023 through

december 31st, 2027. and that did not have a physical location in the city for at least three years prior to that opening, an annual gross receipts tax credit equal to 0.45% of the businesses . san francisco taxable gross receipts from one or more of the business activities of information, administrative and support services, financial services, insurance and professional, scientific and scientific and technical services for businesses not engaged in business and city as an administrative office or 0.7% of the taxable payroll expense of a business that engaged in business in the city as an administrative office for each of up to three taxes and immediately following the tax year in which the business opened the physical location in the city but no later than the 2028 tax year, and not to exceed 1 million per tax year. madam chair. thank you, mr. clerk. that was a long title. colleagues, we circulated the amendment at 1:00 today. we had

that discussion and that i just want to again to remind you that amendments that we discussed at 1:00 are actually substantive. so it will actually have to be continue to the next meeting. but it will just like that. our city, our home amendment, it will actually catch up with this entire budget when we do come before the board for the vote on july 18. so with that, i would like to make the motion to adopt the amendments to limit the credit to downtown zip codes and other changes and continue this item to the next meeting. second, by vice chairman coleman and roll call, please. and on that motion to accept the amendments to this ordinance, as read earlier, i believe, and to continue the ordinance to the next meeting of this committee has scheduled. for july 12th, as amended. vice chairman amendment i remember i safire i remember running running. i remember walton holt and i chair chan. i

chan i we have five eyes. thank you. and the motion passes and mr. clerk, could you please call item number 11? item number 11 is an ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code to allow a sublet to deduct rent for commercial space. the sub lesser pays up to the amount of rent the sub lesser receives for that space. when determining its early care and education. commercial rents tax for the tax year 2023 through the through and including 2029. madam chair, thank you. i would like to make the motion to table the item second by supervisor ronan and with that roll call, please. and on that motion seconded by member ronan, that this ordinance be tabled of vice chairman management. i remember i, i remember running ronan. i remember walton walton. i chair chan i chan i we have five eyes. thank you. the motion passes. thank you. and mr. clark, do we

have any other business before us today? madam chair, we have item 12. outstanding oh, we do have other business. that's why you asked. i know. that is why i ask. and let's call item 12, please. yes. item number 12 is an ordinance modifying the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs in fiscal years 2023 to 2024 and 2024, 2025 to enable the city to use early care and education, commercial rent tax revenues for those programs. madam chair, thank you, colleagues. we made the amendments last thursday. this is the early care and education commercial rent tax and proposed those amendments by supervisor melgar. thank you so much. and with that, i would like to move this item to full board with recommendation on second by vice chairman coleman roll call, please. and on that motion seconded by vice chairman to forward this ordinance to the full board with a positive

recommendation, vice chairman middleman. i remember sapphire. sapphire. i remember runnin heroin and i remember walton walton. i chair chan high chair, and i, we have five eyes. thank you. the motion passes. let's try this one more time. do we have any other business before us today? madam chair, that concludes our business. thank you. and the meeting is adjourned. sfa gov tv, san francisco

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china, and will be brought to treasure island, where the building site efficient will be constructed on top of it, and then brought to pier 22 and a half for installation. >> we're looking at late 2020 for final completion of the fire boat float. the historic firehouse will remain on the embarcadero, and we will still respond out of the historic firehouse with our fire engine, and respond to medical calls and other incidences in the district. >> this totally has to incorporate between three to six feet of sea level rise over the next 100 years. that's what the city's guidance is requiring. it is built on the float, that can move up and down as the water level rises, and sits on four fixed guide piles.

so if the seas go up, it can move up and down with that. >> it does have a full range of travel, from low tide to high tide of about 16 feet. so that allows for current tidal movements and sea lisle rises in the coming decades. >> the fire boat station float will also incorporate a ramp for ambulance deployment and access. >> the access ramp is rigidly connected to the land side, with more of a pivot or hinge connection, and then it is sliding over the top of the float. in that way the ramp can flex up and down like a hinge, and also allow for a slight few inches of lateral motion of the float. both the access ramps, which there is two, and the utility's only flexible connection connecting from the float to the back of the building. so electrical power,

water, sewage, it all has flexible connection to the boat. >> high boat station number 35 will provide mooring for three fire boats and one rescue boat. >> currently we're staffed with seven members per day, but the fire department would like to establish a new dedicated marine unit that would be able to respond to multiple incidences. looking into the future, we have not only at&t park, where we have a lot of kayakers, but we have a lot of developments in the southeast side, including the stadium, and we want to have the ability to respond to any marine or maritime incident along these new developments. >> there are very few designs for people sleeping on the water. we're looking at cruiseships, which are larger structures, several times the size of harbor

station 35, but they're the only good reference point. we look to the cruiseship industry who has kind of an index for how much acceleration they were accommodate. >> it is very unique. i don't know that any other fire station built on the water is in the united states. >> the fire boat is a regional asset that can be used for water rescue, but we also do environmental cleanup. we have special rigging that we carry that will contain oil spills until an environmental unit can come out. this is a job for us, but it is also a way of life and a lifestyle. we're proud to serve our community. and we're willing to help people in any way we can.

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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..

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>> hello everyone. welcome to the bayview bistro. >> it is just time to bring the community together by deliciousness. i am excited to be here today because nothing brings the community together like food. having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the long-term success and stability of the bayview-hunters point community.

>> i am nima romney. this is a mobile cafe. we do soul food with a latin twist. i wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my african heritage as well as mylas as my latindescent. >> i have been at this for 15 years. i have been cooking all my life pretty much, you know. i like cooking ribs, chicken, links. my favorite is oysters on the grill. >> i am the owner. it all started with banana pudding, the mother of them all. now what i do is take on

traditional desserts and pair them with pudding so that is my ultimate goal of the business. >> our goal with the bayview bristow is to bring in businesses so they can really use this as a launching off point to grow as a single business. we want to use this as the opportunity to support business owners of color and those who have contributed a lot to the community and are looking for opportunities to grow their business. >> these are the things that the san francisco public utilities commission is doing. they are doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. >> i had a grandmother who lived in bayview. she never moved, never wavered. it was a house of security

answer entity where we went for holidays. i was a part of bayview most of my life. i can't remember not being a part of bayview. >> i have been here for several years. this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the

opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey. everyone works hard. they are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. >> all right. it is time to eat, people.