this meeting will come to order. good morning. everyone. welcome to the monday july 10, 2023 meeting of rules of san francisco board of supervisors. i'm matt dorsey chair and joined by vice chair walton and member safai. on behalf of my colleagues express gratitude to our clerk and government sfgov.org for broadcasting the meet being. it has been a month since our left meeting the celebrations of juneteenth and july fourth and the budget process. we have a packed agenda today. for all the appointisil ask you

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them to myself victor. young. sfgov.org and sends u.s. mail to our office in city hall, 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 2 seventy-four. >>. s will be on the upon agenda of july 18, 2023 unless stated. >> item one ordinance amending the code to extend the sunset date to june 30 of 2026. >> request this matter sent out as committee report. >> thank you we have eddie from the da's office to speak. welcome. the flower is yours >> good morning. thank you. good morning safai and walton. i'm chief policy communication for the office of san francisco

da exit like a moment to say thank you for hearing our ordinance to extend the sunset date to june 30, 2026. the da is proud to serve as the chair established in 2012. and the body is charged encourage the development of criminal sentenceings strategies prioritize public safety and emphasize fairness and employ evidence based practice and ewe lierz san francisco criminal justice resources. >> the membership was developed ensure representation from city and county partners involved in the criminal justice system and those who come in contact >> each seat represents time arrest to post release and the critical access points for support services provided to victims and survivors. in addition to this service and

experience the commission includes experts around sentencing and analysis. these are essential conversation points and correct to data informed improvements and practices regarding sentences. >> our office joined by departments including adult probachlgz juvenile probation. sheriff, d. public health and the [inaudible] to name a few. we have members of the sentencing commission that include a member of nonprofit serving victim violence sxouns supports reenreal council and of course member from the board of supervisors and academic researcher providing a holistic perspective when discussing singles the sentence commission meeted to discuss topics

criminal sentencing, but we held conversations and presentations around local jail population. cal aim and a presentation on enhancements by the california policy lab at uc berkeley. all of these i'm happy to provide officeos as needed requested. the san francisco sentence commission facilitates conversations between criminal justice stake holders related to approaches of sentencing and generates action oriented recommendations to could be resulting in successful program and policy. >> in 2002 and 3 partner focused on 3 key areas one understanding the needs of people who are unhoused and regular contact. understanding characteristic of people with mull pull contact

and yale stays and programs best for people with mull pel system returning to the community. sentence commission increase just the partner's knowledge and path ways to housing resources to forge relationships with city partners and our community. >> the sunset date for the sentence commission was youn 30, 23 the commission recommend that authorized to continue to operate through june 302026. and we request support today. in closing i like to thank the mayor and supervisor stefani to bring this item before us today and i have i'm here for questions. we have a staff member from the san francisco sheriff's office here to also provide commentses to support.

great >> good morning. i'm director of programs for the sheriff's office and i'm to express the sheriff's support for the extension of the sentencing commission the sentencing commission a productive space for partners to discuss sentencing trends. new policy solutions and hear from state, national leadership around sentencing reforms and important space to dive in the jail the sheriff office provides every month. thank you. >> thank you. are there questions or comments from colleagues? toipt ask the da's office can you give examples of success of the commission. why one of the success points before my time there was a lot of discussion with the commission closing jail number 4 and there were a number.

ideas -- opportunity for public discussion and took place making recommendations to the board and other stake holders. another area of success/opportunity is my partner mentioned, we do collect and analyze data regularly. regard to jail population to understand the demographics and the opportunity and potential policy improve ams. going forward we understand the snap sho quarter low what the jail population looks like the nfbt members asked this we take a holistic look over the last 5 years to understand what the population looked like before covid, during and now we are moving past covid. unique opportunity for you to have that discussion around jail data in general and see what

come of it. i will add another item. the sentence commission serves as a governing body for a grant that the da's office applied for and received. it is the sentencing i'm sorry. it is -- grant received from mc karther foundation for sick million dollars to date. applied for it in 2018 and received the funding the focus to understand jail population trend and that is taking place and take san francisco and compare it to jurisdictions. and so we serve as the valuable partner for the safety and justice challenges to look at what san francisco stands and other national cities. those are dma examples. you have given me examples of data and grant what policy changes have you done or

implemented? i'm this is00 autofirst i heard television and never heard it mentioned or highlighted. i'm curious. there is a lot of conversations about the existence of commissions and boards and i'm certain that you have someone on your staff that does grant writing that would apply. >> not to diminish this commission i'm trying to understand what potts changes have been made because of this commission. why you say understanding the prison population and understanding the trends that are happening. we have a lot of recidivism and people coming in and out of the jails what has this commission learn snd what recommendations has it made and policy proposals. >> thank you. i would say that as of today, which is when the da took over the office. that's the question and the conversation we are having now.

which is that we don't want to take ownership for previous policies or electric of policies brought forward when we are looking at to your point an opportunity to identify those policy improvement says. when we are doing in this point issan lieding the data to explore had they could be to have conversations with you to take them forward. we are not dlchlt but separately the policy improvements is an opportunity to talk about challenges that exist. i upon mentioned about we have city member from department of public health. they brought forward a challenge they are burglar to be approaching with cal aim and it is i strong presentation to identify an opportunity or challenge within their department to understand asked haves exit, you know our jail

community what are the right resources programs and service available to them and are there necessary for us as a city to come together to see if our solution sns i think the majority of the opportunity went body is to talk within the community law enforcement, community partners. experts like i mentioned that serve as part of the sentencing conversation and elevate. part whf we hope to do is to have that conversation. supervisor. gi will end this was credit in the 2012. reauthorize 3 times it would be great to have examples of the last 10 years what the commission has done in terms of recommendations for policy. happy to support this today but i'm reluctant in general to continue to create layers of bureaucracy and commission if

than i can't point to successes. >> that would be my responseful i just we don't have to belabor the point. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> seeing no one else on the roster can we open up to public comment. >> members of the public who wish to speak in person line up to speak. for those remote on the call in line dial star 3. can we have our first speaker. >> i'm steven and i'm here in support the ordinance for the sentencing commission. the sentencing commission is a voilths tool for public safety officials to continue reform of san francisco justice system. some of the out come of the

garths are offer service recommendations. over the past decade in operations the former sdreshth the adult probation department we worked with the sentencing commissions and out come is they did a decision point analysis of -- some of the folk catharsis in the system that are in the -- working throughout da's office where their inneractions with the justice system as well as one of the results was the da's office does blind readings of police departments no racial information include in that. as we continue to strife to lead in justice reform the sentencing xhiz is a vital tool and hope you consider extending the ordinance. thank you. >> good morning i'm destiny i'm here to give my support for the

extension of the sentencing commission. the sentencing commission around since 2012 as mentiond and has been a player in the justice space and has come up with a number of initiatives and decisions has advanced racial equity competence -- all serves as a model for the rest of the in addition. thank you. >> hello i'm chieflya mccarthy i'm here in support of of extending the sunset date to the commission. it is very important we have a space for conversation to come up with the innovations that are so important to the community this we serve. i would like to say that i think -- we need to extend this and i appreciate your consideration.

moving on we will move to our public call in line we don't have anybody on the line per public comment. public comment is closed. i would like to make a motion to send item one to the full board with period recommendation. ia mr. clerk a roll call. >> a motion to recommend this matter out recommendation as a committee report on that motion. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> chair dorsey. aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> call item 2.

item 2 a motion approving reconjectures the mayor's nomination for the appointment of lydia so to the municipal transportation agency board of directors. term ending march first, 2025. >> thank you, mr. clerk i want to welcome i think supervisor chan? there we go. >> supervisor chan our colleague is joining us. supervisor, welcome to the rules committee. floor is yours. thank you. chair dorsey so appreciate you have this hearing for this ash pointee and thank the mayor for appointed commissioner so. because commissioner so i have the honor to appoint in our historic preservation commission as the former member of rules. i'm grateful she continues to

want to serve our city and i'm sad to see her go as one of the very few woman of color, architect in the industry. it is sad to see her go as a commissioner on historic preservation commission. ch we want her to stay or clone herself in this scenario. i'm grateful the fact he is willing to serve upon her expertise will bring a now dynamic and now perspective to the sfmta board of directors. and most importantly her rots with the chinese-american community will to be able to bring again perspective to given fact that opinion transit system at this point not in san francisco in bay area a critical

juncturure i say there are a lot of issues per ap i community when it miss to be public safety and efficiency. around public transit and i look forward for having her to bring that perspective. i'm here to express my supports for this appointment and hope that you concur and will appoint her to support her appointment and sends her to full board with recommendation, thank you. thank you. lydia so. thank you, welcome to rules the floor is yours. wow. good morning. and thank you, supervisor chan. and good morning chair supervisor dorsey, supervisor safai and supervisor walt orng i'm lydia so a former historic preservation commissionering and served 4 terms and i irrelevant

lost planning department and my experience working with many of you especially supervisor chan in making sure that our cultural asset and appropriateness to our communicates of diverse backgrounds. for mow as a licensed architect and a very experienced proven track record public service an, 7 years. i love to build bridge and get things done and love to see people who are marginalized and in land use and red lining and in -- what they like to identify themselves for who they are. have a voice. have a voice to express themselves. for me as an urban plan exterior architect. we like to see what the city looks like in 30 combroers what the city looks like in 50

combreers make sure that our legacy don't disappear that involve a lot of collaboration with listening to the community. of all spectrum. and i love. my time is up. i report a ap i community and can public safety is very important perception of trust and safety is important i love to be a colleague to work along in the community to make sure that everyone is taking care and teals save. clear clear

i skurd why in the would you recalled want to serve on the mta commission. [laughter]. you will make a lot of enemies that's not a joke, it is the truth. one thick i the say publicly i did say to you. i think the mt aloft site.

they forget often times their infrastructure runs through neighborhood and well is real people live thering and real businesses operating there and the impact of businesses is almostation a secondary thought for the mta. whether it come to configurations how we'll implement access to mobility whether scooters or bike, bike share and so i want to you carry with you. a voice for mall businesses as well. and for the neighborhood per spifkt for our city. because it is upon often under minded. i do believe that in having a diversified system that is thinking about pedestrians. thinking about alternative forms of mobility. bike. scooters other ways of getting

around and how those impacts are done and sometime its is ditch you are not going to come out with winners in all situations but having the voice of the community and included in the process is really important. i think this is something that mta needs to do better in terms of their community out roach and engage with businesses and community. and the left thing was safety, public safety on public transportation and mechanic that gotten impacted and it discouraged people from wanting to ride muni. so. if you want to respond feel fro if not i appreciate and i'm happy you are willing to serve and support you today i think you will be a wonderful contribution to the mt aboard. >> thank you. supervisor safai.

your point is heart felt and i took it to heart. i will one of the things that i have been peek to a lot of the various communities relationship we need to do do better in community out reach. me inside small business owners for now over 8 years i understand a lot of my clients are small businesses. and vary partisan fran. i can remember every corny of all parcels we have in the city as an urban planner i take your comment to heart exit will put it into action. we have to be reaching out to more community and culturally appropriate way to get resolved and be efficient. vice chair walton. >> thank you for willing to

serve. i will say the same when it was controversial when you were appointed serve on historic preservation commission. griet see young asian woman serve nothing leadership roles. and i want you to know that i'm happy to support this appointment. thank you. >> thank you. mr. clerk open to public comment. >> members of public who wish to peek and in person lineup to speak at this time. for those remote on the public call in line press star 3 to enter. for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and then begin comment. can we have our first in person caller >> not my apologies our first in

person speaker. >> thank you. >> good morning, supervisors walton other safai, chan and chair dorsey i'm forest. i'm here to provide public comment in support of the nomination of lydia so to the mt acommission. one of the solutions i see to ending antiasian sxriens hate is more rep upon 7ation for asian in all gentleman of the mta has a severe lack of asian representation. the population is a third and more asian grandmas who ride the bumps lydia loves the city and here to stay and great on the mt acommission. >> thank you. seeing no speakers in the room. can we have our first caller?

>> i'm a voltory for coalition of homelessness and out reach to people in vehicles in the bayview. i hope this lid kwa so is aware of the affects of [inaudible]. vehicles. the increase in parking restrictions that mt aboard agrees to makes the life of the [inaudible] rung around look for a place to park, trying to stabilize their live and keeping jobs and live their lives. which is irrelevant when we all want to do. also losing their vehicles means you have another person or importance living on the sidewalk.

thank you. next caller. >> hello. good morning this is bari toronto i'm an executive board of takes worker alliance. i want top welcome lydia so to the possibility of being elected to the sfmta board. i did not hear questions about her usage of the services? of the sfmta. if he is a regular muni rider or taken a taxi in the city. if she uses either of the fly wheel app or the taxi apps. and wlp she has oraled eltives or family number members that use the service because of the

paratransit programs. great if the communities asked her about experience she'll revving lit taxis which are also simultaneous businesses and the fact that the taxi industry has been harmed by the policies of the mta with the purchase medallion program and the also the separation that some taxys pick upon from the airport and others can't. and impacting the tieblt provide best service possible. great if you ask the questions if not we like to invite kwlad so to next driver's meeting to ask questions about the taxi industry. and if we can occur about her building and what whether she would be willing to help to improve takes industry.

and the line a large number of seniors. and the [inaudible]. >> use of taxi. >> thank you. next caller. >> can you hear me now? >> proceed. >> agreement of the daved pill pechlt good morning. i don't know the appointee lydia so i hope if confirmed will be independent and not a rubber stamp for mta management. there absolutely hard choices near on the horizon like now and the next couple of years as to transit and nontransit service. provided by the mta with regard to routes. vehicles facilities and finance. and similarly regard to taxis

bari pointed out. traffic engineering. and a number of issues at mta it is a busy and critical time and would be step nothing at a very important time i think it is important for members of the board to listen to the public and not just to mta management and the companies. and to respond to what she hears from the public and the community. so i hope she'll take into account if confirmed. and i do believe that the commit eeled need to act modify the motion at line 20 if you are intend to approve to remove the word, reject in line 20. thank you.

next speaker, please >> good morning. supervisors i'm mike chen i'm a district appointee and for the 2 years chair of the sfmta advisory council i support for lydia so. i have known her for years on a personal level and public service work and believe her experience in planning, land use helped will able her to [inaudible]. i appreciate her multiple communities the chinese community. i urge you to approve this nomination and sends it to the full board without delay. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. i'm kevin ortiz i'm calling in

full support of kwlad's appointment. i serve the chair of the community advisory committee for upon county transportation authority i'm here personally as the president of the latin x democratic club commissioner so proven a track record for ecquit and he growth in san francisco in a time when our communities are not being heard and having a seat at the tain. the highest ridership now currently is -- you know asian population and second is the latino community. commissioner so demonstrated ability to work k with communities of color in a time when systems are strug 39ing stay afloat we need people that understand the make up of the communities that are riding the bus in order it make sure we are moving forward in a way transit

will be sustainability. her track record speaks for herself. formy art's and historic preservation commissioner and i'm excited to see her on the sfmta board at a time the asian population has not been represented. this is an amazing opportunity to right the wrong happening the last year. i'm in support of lydia appointment. thank you. that was the last caller. public comment is closed. and i would like to make ail motion to strike word reyekt where it appear and sends item 2 to the full board with a positive recommendation. mr. clerk? >> on the motion to strike reject throughout the motion and recommend as amend vice chair walton.

>> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> awe. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. on the unanimous upon vote item 2 mayoral appointment of lydia so to seat 5 of the sfmta of the board of directors is recommended to the full board. >> and mr. clerk call item 3. >> item 3 is a motion approving the mayor's nomination of vincent yuen. i learned from the major's office mr. yuen's nomination has been with drawn. take public comment on the tabling of the item. >> members who wish to speak on this item and in person lineup to speak for those remoted dial star 3 to enter the line.

for those in the queue wait until you have been unmute exclude that will be your queue to begin your comment. nobody in the room we have one

caller on the line. >> agreementful daved pill pelf so i believe this is to fill the vacancy created by the residenceificationination of ike kwon that occurred in february we are now in the middle of the july. it is 5 months. i hope the mayor will nominate a qualified individual instead of mr. yuen. soon. i think we should think about a future charter amendment that would require the mayor or other appointing entities to fill unschedule vacancies in 30 or 60 days so we have less of a period that completes our call in public comment. where thank you, public money this item is closed. >> i would like it make a motion to table item 3. a roll call. >> on the motion to table, vice chair walon. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you mr. young unanimous vote item low is tabled. call items 4, 5 and 6 together. >> item 4 a motion approving the nommation appointment bianca

neumann to the building inspection commission. item 5 is motion approving the appointment afternoony sommer to building inspection. and item 6 is aing motion approving the mayor avenue just a momentination for appointment raquel bito to building inspection commission. >> thank you. mr. clerk. to set the stage for appointments considering for building inspection commission. i want to remiamied you that voters passed prop b in june of 22 with 62% of the vote. lead by our colleague melgar, building inspection and the commission to enhance acounsel abltd and transparency. voters changed the structure of the commission by replacing seats prescribed occupation designations with broader options for qualified members of

the public and changed appointment process to require commissioner appointments to go through a public hear and press we are having today. this will provide accountability. the mayor has chosen 3 appointise when have been serving on the commissions before restructuring because of reinstructing they appointments first from bianca neumann to seat one. >> welcome to the rule's commit eat floor is yours. >> i'm bianca neumann i work in the affordable housing for 20 years. i'm a native francesca and i have enjoyed able to give back to my city by serving on the d. building inspection commission. i know that this has been an important time to serve. and -- especially being in affordable housing developer to

see00 autowork become more efficient in the time that i have been able to work on the commission and all to -- see the level transparency and ethics and issue countability increase that has been wornful to see. i am happy to answer questions you might have for me. >> okay. express my appreciation to you for wellingness to serve the next is mrs. afternoony sommer to seat 3. will be held by formerly active structure ral engineer, architect or residential builder. mrs. sommer is not available to attend today but has a good reason we'll hear from the statement. she provide a sometime statement i will read. my name is afternoony sommer i'm

a licensed engineer joins building inspection in early 2021. renominated by mayor broed it condition to serve on the bic. and ask your consideration to accept my apologies for not in person i'm 9 months pregnant and expecting my second child. the time meeting i have an appointment i appreciate your understanding. my engineering background includes degree from cal pol competence 18 years of practicing structure ral engineer nothing california and australia. in san francisco i meet the requirements of seat 3 on the bic. which shall be active retired engineer being architect or builder nominated by the mayor. in the last 2 years i learned about the process and procedures of the commission dbi and our

cityism feel my contributions acysted dbi and the bic in sheltering in shedding previous negative public perception moving forward defined by accountability and improved resource. in my time on the commission i sought to frame my contributions through the lens of the seat i occupy and provide input on issues pertaining to technical topics and made an effort to become involved in the advisory committee and the structural subcommit east cac t. is help to understand the context of decisions and recommendations that come to bic for the groups as well as foster a strong link with the bic and cac. in the coming year there are initiatives wishes to be involved in, one will be beneficial include the concrow

retrofit ordinance developed the office -- expertise structural knowledge near insight to the topics. and appreciates her consideration and looks forward to able to continue to serve the city and county of san francisco. next. i would like to hold on. chair dorse mr. sommer is with us online. >> okay. go ahead. there you go. >> hello. >> i covered a lot i will say we covered a couple minutes of the statement but was not aware you would be online. >> i just got online. i'm sorry i was hope to make part of this meet and iing happened to be able to join right as you were reading that.

>> thank you for reading that for me. >> good. >> if you want to speak fwleefl is fine. >> thank you. i think you summarized my qualifications i was presenting today i thank you for your consideration for this position. as you read from my statement i enjoyed my experience to date and feel like a beneficial i have been a beneficial member of building inspection commission and wish to condition service on that commission. and welcome other questions or information you like to discuss today. and thank you again. >> thank you. i appreciate your willingness to serve am no one on the roster. lite hear from mrs. raquel bito appointment to seat 4 held my structural enginey, architect or residential builder.

>> welcome the floor is yours. >> good morning. chair dorsey. vice chair walton and supervisor safai. i'm raquel bito a licensed architect with 20 plus years of experience. served on the bic approaching 3 years in january of 2024. my interest in getting involve instead bic started out working in mixed hughes house negligent south bay and looking at policies and advocating for housing and mixed use projects. what i have found challenging on the building inspection commission is trying to understand the challenges of city faith now. one of which the housing element and economic recovery.

one thing they have done in the last first year i was commissioner is that i spearheaded00 subcommittee client services that was focusing on the stream lining process. that is of interest me. it is important to the city's economic recovery. as well as newhousing placement. i believe 18,000 in 23. i'm honored to serve and would continue to be honored. i'm available to answer questions you may have. thank you. >> upon grown there are questions or comments from colleagues i would. >> i dom one thing that mrs. bito brought up the housing 38 is one i feel strongly about.

i upon represent a district that has alost transit and well is alost density. and i do feel i worry that if we are not successful as a city. and fulfilling obligation of the housing element. we stand the possibility of losing state funding for transit and sfoordable house and my district will be affected boy that. may not be obvious to people there are other commissions and departments that will have important irrelevants to play and the building department is one of those. i appreciate that is -- that -- you had me at that one. that will be a priority for me. supervisor safai >> thank you. president bito have a few questions for you. first. we had a conversation in legislation with regard to plan

review and so on. i wanted give you a minute to talk about plan review and what you think in terms of you have been able to accomplish the last 3 dwroers improve process of review and time as you have been on the board. one of the things that the d. building inning spection in reorganize leadership group is throughout subcommittee i spoke about is really trying toace tain the time lines are. and i think as a commission and the commissioner and president it is really holding them acountable to the time lines. one thing that was positive was the preplan check. operation that dbi instituted so this when applicants in in they are going through abinitial step

in the door and make their process for the department more efficient and for the applicant as well. but one of the things i bye-bye many things i have been involved with is looking at how dbi functions. and how they make it easy for applicants to submit for building permits that is looking up and down different types of applicants. large scale projects i'm familiar with but looking at somebody for the first time is submitting an application and the only time for their home t. is looking at the yes. toior point improvements they made operationally throughout preplan permit process. but also i think internal low seeing that the culture and the

director o min tains respectability and service a north star for you the dbi. we're proud of that process. well is a language way to go for building inspection. the other question as a member of the budget mittee we had to scram fwhel experience to an initiative you other president of that commission and we received a budget e eliminated sro collaborative and code enforcement.

i want to know on the record did you support that coming out of your department? and if so, what was the justification for that. serves an important tool. for dealing with people living many of them in over crowded housing. and -- housing that is substandard. this these are important it was a prize to the budget committee when we received that. and you know as i mentioned to others in the past i have a sister legally deaf and blind. i know what it is like to try to find housing for somebody who does not have the capabilities. not language but they are physical handy caps and if not for her family would not have

you know, the living conscience he is in at the time i'm in support of the sro's effort. and being as an organization as a nonprofit organization what we did not vote in support was raising the fees and as the president. part of my job is balancing the conversation between supporting and looking how increase the fees would affect the economic recovery of the city. raising the fees was -- i think going to make that an adjustment for the city harder. i understand that was probably not -- a vote they supported hear from us.

but i think i was not in support raising fees but am in of the sro's we sat there for a number of meetings lasted an hour to listen to comments and it was doyle here and many case you heard people living in the conditions and what we heard were abhorrant conscience. it was a tough decision to make. >> did you support the elimination of the sro collaborative funds and code enforcement. i don't think it was our decision what we were voting to the motion we were looking at increasing the fees. >> trite do that. >> your department submit aid budget whereveroed out the sro and code enforce am the budget committee that's why fees came update budget committee had to work together to make cut in the budget.

i visited the sro's in june of 27 of 22 when they invited me and i went out with commissioner tammy and walked through one of the sro's the and talked about

the kwshs they were reviewing. i would like to say on the record i have been to the seen them and first hand >> that's good. i think what the referring to is once the budget was cut and e lim nitted they were asking to you meet with them. i don't recall a request to me. but you know when when -- we had a presentation by the tenderloin housing clinic we had a housing

presentation by jason they extented an ini have fagz we accepted it. groups felt in communication between the department and the collaborative. what is your roll in ensure your department is doing better with communication with groups that they work with? one thing we have at the end of every commission is the director's report. and requested this in the past and understanding the. pressure of the sro's to keep their budget and also the housing crisis not just san francisco the entire bay area

suknow, suffering from which i think bring back the housing inspection report every month is burglar to be now something i would highly recommend. and be firm about including as part of the directory report. okay. >> thank you. chair. appreciate it. >> and no one else on the roster mr. clerk open to public comment. >> yes. members who wish to peek on these items and in person line up to speak. for those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the speaker lineful for those in the queue continue to wait until the system has been unmuted that is your queue to begin your comment. nobody in the room for public comment can we have our first caller? >> good morning. i'm garcia with sro family

collaborative. i will make a brief comment i wanted to reminds you i sent a letter nomination of raquel bito and bianca neumann. [inaudible] bito and neumann rejected ignorred invitations earlier this year. to visit the sro in china town and the mission. [inaudible] encourage to see how the [inaudible]. and the role the collaboratives play in the community they serve. >> families who visit the sro's to service the families and seniors.

the willful disrespect was saddening. as pedestrian bic commissioner bito sho sh have reminded refrain from distractions. no connection to the city they represent and they are remain completely unreachable and uninterested doing subject the last 15 years. we hope you reject the 2 nominations and just as a final comment revisit the commissioner bito is mentioning was not with

the sro collaborative that was the tenderloin. them year.

mull pull attempts made to encourage each commissioner to see how the families are living and what the services do and they visit and cut the budget a disservice to the family and individuals living there. and during the june 2023 bic hear and since the commissioners bito and neumann the experience of our out reach program they refused to visit this year. and the collaborative. and improving the ability and the system that is unimaginable to us. how they dismiss with not know when we do. >> commissioners communities in our cities. and the 2 commissioners uncommunicated representatives through sro individuals. reject the nominations. thank you.

>> hi. i'm beck homelessness the contract and services director [inaudible] just cause. i wanted say that [inaudible] opposes nominations of raquel bito and neumann for lack support for the community. commissioner bito talks about the importance of the work both bito and neumann dismiss the program and sro collaboratives to realist which you stated improve housing habitability. thank you. >> thank you. this was the left caller for this matter. >> thank you. mr. clerk. supervisor safai. >> mr. chair i like to make a

motion to separate these -- appointments so we can take them individually. mr. chair well is a separate motion for each item. wroo called at the same time yoochl yes >> great. thank you. >> public comment on this item is closed. >> i think we will take these separate low do you want to make supervisor safai a motion. >> yes. i'm fine. i will say a couple words i appreciate folks coming out today i known. i appreciate commissioner neumann. there were concerns about the budget process and we have our biggest reservation. i will say that commissioner neumann is not the president i'm

happy to support her today. i think we should see her work continued on the body. i appreciate. the process with -- the commissioner recently on my legislation i appreciated the work that commissioner sommer did and the work he is not the pedestrian commission. with commissioner bito. i will tell you that my frustration is someone involved in development and working with that community for a long time. the process has not moved. in a fagz think is important for the development of more housing in the staechl cause order frustration for build and having gone through the site permit in addition not knowing about the citizens.

there is responsibility and accountability. i will make a motion to sends to approve and affirm bianca neumann and affirm commissioner sommer. but make a motion to reject commissioner bito.

>> >> to the full board as a committee report. >> yes. one moment. restate. item 4 the appointment of bianca mou man and item 5 the appointment afternoony sommer. we are deleting rejecting throughout the legislation and recommending it to the full

board as a mittee report. >> that's correct. >> on that motion, vice chair walton. >> no. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes with vice chair walton no in committee >> thank you, mr. young on a 2-1 vote the 2 appointments to the building inspection commission neumann and sommer proceed to the board as a committee report. can we take. 6. >> would you like to make the -- for 2 supervisor to redact the appointment of commissioner bito >> yes. why would you like to sends that

as a committee report, also? >> i believe the motion is to delete the word approving through the the legislation and making a motion to reject. appointment of miss bito and recommend it to the full board as a committee report. >> on this motion. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> chair dorsey >> no. appointment of raquel bito is rejected >> and mr. clerk call items number 7, 8 and 9. restate the action for item 6 before moving on and that will be to -- refer the motion to --

rejecting the appointment of mrs. bito to the full board as a committee report >> items 7, 8 and 9. >> 7 motion approving rejecting president supervisor peskin nomination for appointment of alysabeth to bic. and item 8 is a motion approving rejecting supervisor peskin's nomination for appointment of chavez to the building inspection commission. and item 9 approving rejecting aaron supervisor peskin appointment of kavin williams to bic ending july first 2024. we will contract presidential appointments to building inspeck. first from alysabeth alexander-tut nominated by the president of the board to seat 5 will be held by someone with one

or more a residentialing tenant or employee or former employee of nonprofit housing organization. >> welcome to the rules commit eat floor is yours. >> >> i'm alysabeth alexander-tut i'm grateful torhere. and in front of you as the nominee november 19 years in san francisco and work in the a housing organizations the housing ensure safe stoornsd of living for san francisco renters. all renters [inaudible] access to hot water. heat. electric. egress and pest free environment. there are gap in the conscience across the housing stock. 2 many sro's and apartment building house fells individuals are lbgtq+ elders and foster

youth ages out of the system house neighbors severely out of compliance with the housing code. low income tenants unlivable condition and terrified they don't know rights and believe they can be evicted for complaining the code is not an accidental add-on to the d. focussed on building the maintenance [speaking fast] i worked with a tenant organize in the tenderloin advocating for apartment renter rights. code violation, discrimination, evictions and policies to protect residents. i worked at the [inaudible]. single adid you tell us. people [inaudible] persons [inaudible].

i'm available for questions. thank you >> thank you. mrs. alexander-tut. and i can atest if my days on the democratic committee of your wellingness to work hard for the sthipgs you believe in and appreciate your wellingness to serve in this role >> now let's hear from evita chavez nominated by the board of supervisors to seat 6. >> hi. good morning. thank you for your time and consideration i'm evita chavez a tenant in d8 live nothing san francisco for 2 years. to begin my questions of lawifics i work at the san

francisco foundation a program officer and masters in urban planning from harvard. i work in the housing policy the last 8 years previously in california state legislator stacked landmark legislation on accessory dwelling units. nab completed the [inaudible] leadership institute appropriates to be effective community members with boards and commissions. the reason i'm here is because of my commitment to equity. as someone who grew up in los angeles. and corruption. 2020 i -- excited for the opportunity to join the bic and hold ash counselability and transparency. i seen what the past decisions regarding development can have on communities of color.

thank you for your consideration. >> thank you. >> 've next let us hear from mr. kavin williams by the president of the board supervisors to seat 7. there williamsful the floor is yours >> thank you, good morning. we had a briefly speak about my backgrounds. and goals and joining the building inspection commission. i'm an attorney with representing tenants. consupers and small business ordinance. defend residential and commercial small business owner in eviction actions and lawsuits and spent 3 years a right to council attorney. and in my experience in eviction

defense attorney i seen the negative impacts that housing and substandards building continuous have on individuals and communities and in communities. irz litigated the issues and my experience as a defense attorney in litigating them and being -- familiar with those continuous do combaulifiy me for the building inspection i like to build them and serve on the commission. so i can improve the continues to improve living conscience of my neighbors. i like to explore building inspection practice and community explore the practices as pacific low. with that, i thank you for your

consideration and i'm available to answer questions. thank you. i will just mention that00 eye appreciate, no question. bring up the issue of willing xhemgzs with tenant protections. we were have the ability issues weaponizeed drive people out of rent control housing stock and important to have somebody on building inspection recognizes the importance of issues for because habitability, are things we should be doing can be official incentive for bad actors to use that. that is manage we can't to the

rachlt i say that. can we have our first in person speaker. >> i am the program manager of leadership of urban had been at that time the boards and commission leadership institute. when we interviewed for the program we were impressed with her policy and her race in class analysis. work that she does and professional life and her livid experience is important to

serving on the commission. prior to my time at urban habitat spent 20 years in the construction industry and familiar with planning diplomat work to facilitate inspections for my companies. i ask you vote for her she is qualifyd and not only have the support of fellow board appointise will have be uplifted by urban habitat staff. as well as the racial planning coalition which she is a member. hello i'm molly goldberg director of the antidisplacement

coalition we support all 3 nominees for the commission. and commissioner -- alexander shown a clear understanding of the importance of the program and sro programs the commission's work in the recent period. we appreciate your requests supervisor safai today and along with item and we all believe that both e i havea and [inaudible] have the clear understanding of the essential role that they had in preventing it in the day in keeping working class communities and community of color in the stele they love. we support the president's nominees and ask you to do the same. thank you.

i'm jason hene and calling to passport all 3. i'm a senior attorney at eviction defense collaborative. my personal experience with kavin williams. we found him to be extremely hard working, competent and an advocate for tenants and it was a tremendous asset to have on our litigation team and a loss to see him go. i'm sure heel be an os set to the board. >> can we have our next caller? i'm jacqueline a staff attorney

at defense collaborative and support behind all 3. especially alysabeth alexander-tut and williams. i worked with kavin williams. i cannot speak highly enough about his capabilityings fought tierlsly for tenant and recommend him. thank you. >> thank you. >> i believe that was our last caller. on this matter. >> thank you. public comment is now closed. >> and seeing no one on the roster i would like to make a motion to strike reject in all 3 motions and sends the iments pos alysabeth alexander-tut to 5. and chavez to seat 6 and kavin

williams to seat 7 to the board >> vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> ayech >> the motion passes. without objection. >> thank you. on a unanimous point. alexander-tut, chavez and williams to 5, 6 and 7 of the bic. move to the full board as a committee report. >> congratulations. >> mr. clerk. call items 10 and 11 together? >> item 10, is the motion approving rejecting the mayor owe's nomination for kate faveto civil service commission.

item 11 is a motion approving nomination for reappointment of jacqueline minor to the civil service commission ending june 30 of 2029. >> thank you, mr. clerk. the commission appointments are subject to charter section 3.10018. provides the board of supervisors has the authority to reject the appointment by 2 thirds of the board within 30 days following the mayor's notice of appointment. if neigh failure of the board to reject within 30-day period result in the continuing to serve as appointed. supervisor safai has requested a hearing on 2 reappointments and i would like supervisor safai to make remarks yoochl yes, thank you. good to see you here. worked with them for a long time over the years.

thank you for take the time. we are happy to encourage special support your reappointment today. the civil grand jury came out with a report i'm sure you are aware of put on the record the amount of time that it takes to hire many of the positions unfortunately many of them being first responder or dealing with our emergency response system. is beginning to irrelevant cripple that response system. we have vacancies 90 in the 911 call center. over 150 in fire department. and we have many, many in emergency room nurse. we have the conversations about hiring nurses the beginning of the pandemic where it would take on average of know 9 months a year to make a final offer. to a nurse and in this environment. no nurse will wait for a job offer when they are in demand in

many places the report about hiring process and the way in which impacts our city government and the vacancies is important to people something i think that we should work on and i than well is something you have all made a priority. i wanted put that on the record. other thing is when we look at our muni our drivers down drivers as well a host of areas in which our city government. and then also to 3 it out there on the front page the paper a conversation about the salary of the mayor. mayor the highest paid mayor in the country with the size and population of the and the mayor's salary. i want you to talk about that on the record as limp i know you all are involved innet issing the salaries for all the elected

officials in the city. thank you for being here today. we are concerned about the civil grand jury report we'll have a hearing we are happy to work with you on that employmented give you an opportunity to speak on the few items today. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor safai. >> first hear from kate favetti. welcome. >> thank you. state good morning a couple minutes. i'm kate favet and he honored to be here and honored to be considered for reappointment. i had an unusual opportunity to be able to really see from my own experience my personal experience how important the civil service commission is in personnel in the city and hiring. i started off as a clerk. throughout system able to

promote. i went to school at night. got in professional executive positions and honored be ash pointed to the civil service commission and honored to be appointed following my retimer the i see how rules and policy affect people daily and he services to the city and county. whether taking the bus, going down to muni station. having to go to the emergency hospital. the police officer or it is essential in a way we are hiring and rules do have an impact. i am very excited with our new directions urge the president of our commission jackie my in considering already for months having public hearing on the topics you have been discussing today. she lunched those the commission launched those with excitement

and look forward to many charges on rules ahead and i platform for new people coming in as they serve in the city. next up jacqueline minor. >> thank you. wrap it up. >> not quite good afternoon my colleague said. chair dorsey, vice chair walton and supervisor safai. i'm honored to be here. thank you for asking commissioner favet and he i to

come in to talk more specific low about the huge challenge we have. of improving expediting the hiring of employees. in particular for our service critical jobs. im very familiar with san francisco. i was in the city attorney's office for 10 years. i still consider at this time premiere public law office in the country. i left here and became the general council for oakland school district. that s. where i had a lot of direct experience with public sector hiring. the grand jury report is definitely sobering. commissioner favetti mentioned prior to the issuance of the grand jury report our commission had started what we initially

called the post pandemic review. looking at ways that the commissions work impacted city departments. and specific low looking at what we could do to expedite hiring. we have now conducted several public hearings. commissioner favetti and i thought the nature of the public hearings were such this we -- got generalized information from h r departments. the large departments. but we wanted it more specificity. it is very different reading roles and talking to the people who implement the roles. we have commissioner favet and he i started when we call a listening campaign. we are now met with 4h r departments. and talks specific low about the

challenges this they are experiencing. if i may, i think this will be the questions so i can address this now. last november, so that was november of 2022, fciu appear in the a commission hearing with 20 nurses. again a sobering hearing. detailing the challenges they were experiencing. not only zukerberg and public health clinics. as a result of the hearing we asked for a hearing in invited department of public health.

thank you for your trust i live in san francisco and excited to are a part of the process and affect change in the sector. not only were you a member of the public law offices in the

nation. manager and environment. and the calendar litigation and them seeing the work you have done education and sunshineful human rights commission. very capable and extraordinarily well rounded public servant and attorney and appreciate the opportunity to have worked with and you q.ed you are not giving up on xus continuing to work for the city. >> thank you. thank you commissioner favet sdpe minor for your service. i have a question on. are there updates on continues

to be at the forefront of the work of the commission. our team meets quarter low. with the racial equity managers. in the departments. and -- i think it is twice a year with department heads for human resource. focus on the work of enchiefing racial equity. as we look at changes in the civil service rules at the forefront. in overhaul minds system racial equity. hr made significant improvements in processing complaints, investigations and appellates that backlog has been cut. our commission received reports

twice a year. and the human resource department is one of the departments this struggles with vacancies. high vacancy rate and has impacted their ability to move forward. the one specific recommendation to the commission which we have researchd and talked about but not come to a final conclusion about as of yet is the question whether the commission should use hearing officer in lieu sitting on appeals.

du want to add. i didn't know if you wanted mow to sit down or stand up. >> it is a general question for either of you. i appreciate the focus on hiring time. one thing we were working on with the represented a department has high rate of vacancy which is department of public works. people talking about the clean liness of the streets ranked the highest in customer surveys the controller office did and the

frustration. and you look at public works. over the last 5 years. so -- we are talking about working on hiring agreement that would work with the labor's agreement and staff positions at public works on as needed basis to work to fill the positionsmented to give you an opportunity to talk about that. and either of you said saul reese elected officials.

you heard from commissioner favetti she is our guru on the issues. and i'm amazed by my fellow commissioner. first on the salariless. under the charter responsible for -- researching and reviewing and we have a lot of support?

and providing the data necessary to make the decision. i'm sorry i have not seen the news this morning. the 2 meetings ago. for the coming year. and -- i will need to look specifically at the mayor's salary. in relationship to the size of -- the city and county. one issue this come up as weet the saul row system this we are a city and a county. and unique you know in that

regard. and -- so -- let me stop there and i will let commissioner favetti comment if she has additional comments. the interesting point i will make is that looking at salaries in the left meeting, one of the things that we noted and the clerk of the board pointed out to us at the meeting. overnight course of the last few years. the salaries for board of supervisors has fallen behind. comparable jurisdictions. and -- so that is something we will take up. next year when looking at saul reese. commissioner favetti i don't know if you have comments about the mayor's salary that appear to be an out liar?

it my understanding that consider salaries are 2 provisions the board redo a major look at the board of xrierz salaries and the board the last 5 year mark there were changed to the board saul row and we have guide lines throughout went next 5 years for the other major change. >> when were the significant changes to the board of supervisors. >> i think almost may be 5 years ago. 156,000 which is higher we ended up within the middle taking in consideration additional in the fact they are that component as well. ap i and employee organization.

why i'm out the argument of the city and county for mayor and we are city and county. and you look at the surrounding like immediately the supervisors staff. as far as elected official its my understanding. take eye look at a group and can't take one position over another and say for this one give this percentage and this one we'll give that much. plus we are limited to the cpi in not more than 5%. so -- that -- is -- in consideration i have been getting e mills and calls about it. i wanted to know i know you made an adjustment. it was 6 years ago.

there has not been one for in time for the board. it showed our mayor's salary was an out liar for the area. i get it city and county. there is the ability to look at where as elected officials it is automatic thing. i hope that answers. >> it does and the hiring all. every consideration for the consideration we make sure we have broad out reach as possible. the hireingly hold would be one of those points of out reach. prosecute and among others. because we cannot it is important to the commission not to exclude any potential applicants. it is important. in our deliberations and in our

formation of approvals and considerations. that departments in the city is passing the broad evaluate net possible for inclusion. so -- >> right. >> i know that there could be where there was -- that would be a component of the agreement. i'm more concerned about the speed and the time which as needed contract you are sitting there with extreme low high vacancy rate in the most important departments in the city. that deals with and interactings with the public daily walk repair. mrooen clean liness or graffiti they are all public works and yet has a phenomenonally high vacancy rate and it is -- has been consistent low high. >> there may be turn over regard as needed may hopefully they

advanceed regular permanent employment. i department to move one you mentioned earlier on 911? >> yea. >> a couple things about dpw. our call with the head of hr for dpw is tomorrow. and anticipate getting some important information from her name is karen hill. about how we can further support dpw with the potential for role changes. also wanted point out that -- provisional, seasonal short term hire is than i are all per missable. we do track as the -- grand jury

report indicated. we do track the number of employees coming in to those categories. and there are reports to the civil service commission twice a year temperature is something we monitor and well is the pot that -- for a short term measure to close some of the hiring gaps. that we can encourage and facilitate the use of the provisional hiring. for some of the critical service positions. health. safety and sanitation were examples. >> thank you. any further. you had mentioned 911 hiring we heard from the union at our last meeting with their concern and

requesting we are requested a report that should be coming the next meeting or after it. yea. >> thank you, both so much. seeing no one else on the roster mr. clerk open up to public comment. >> yes. member of the public who wish to speak are joining in person line up to peek at this time. for those remotely, on the public call in line press star 3 to enter the line. for those in the queue continue to wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted. >> seeing nobody in the room for public comment. can we have our first caller? >> great. daved pilpel this is on both of mayoral reappointments i'm in strong support of both kate favet and he jacky minor. kate has the most impressive knowledge of civil service rowels and their impact on both

employees and public services. of anyone i know anyone in history. jackie has equal low impressive knowledge of the law and it is similarly it is impact on employees and public services. i consider them both extremely well qualified members of any board and commission in particular civil service. i appreciate the questions and discussion from the committee today i know they are both engage in the their work as commissioners with the various departments and dhr and i know they will continue to serve our city well. and i strong low encourage you to support their reappointment. address the motion and allow them to continue to serve for another 6 year term to 2029

seems a language way away. thank you very much for listening and thank you to both of them for their service. >> that was our last caller for public comment zoom thank you. public comment on items numbers 10 and 11 is now closed. >> and i would like to make a motion to strike reject where it appears in both motion and send the reappointment of kate favetti and jacqueline minor to the full board yoochl on the motion to strike reject throughout the motions and to recommend to the full board on this motion, vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you, mr. young on an ums vote 10 and 11 mayoral reappointment goes to the full

board. congratulations. >> do we have further business. >> that completes the agenda. >> we are adjourned. >> asian-american pacific heritage month is about taking a moment to think about who you are and where you come from and appreciating the wealth and diversity that we bring to our community.

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own history for the future and remembering our past.

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>> good afternoon, everybody. i'm corey smith and the i'm executive director of housing action coalition. it is grit to see so many prohousing people and people saying yes to housing, out here today. and all of us share a belief that everybody deserves a safe, quality, affordable accomplice to live. and we than the process of blgdz house nothing san francisco is out dated, time consuming and broken. which is why we are excited that mayor breed, supervisor engardio and supervisor dorsey have introduced a piece of legislation to start addressing that problem. san francisco needs to build more housing. i minimum of 82, 069 over 8

years to be exact if we will make good on in prmsdz the board of supervisors needs to pass prohousing legislation. today a piece of that solution the contrain removal legislation is going to be heard by the planning commission. with luck tell be in front of the board of supervisor's soon. >> have our first speak kick us off. i champion for housing in san francisco. san francisco mayor london breed. [applause] >> corey you must have been uplet last night because it is the daytime right now. [laughter] if he has on shades who knows what he was doing. the residual affects of provide in san francisco. right? we like to have a good time when we can. thank you all so much for being

here. we are here with number of housing add vocates and group hos push for housing reform in the city and county of san francisco. you may remember a few years oob back when senator wiener introduced sba27 hi was run for example mayor so many said you can't support this people on the west side will be opposed. and i was one of the only importance run for example mayor to support it. and when i went to the wes side and in fact, there were alegality of people that were not happy with the fact they was supporting this. you asked the audience at the irish cultural center, how many of you were born and raise in the san francisco and grew up in this city have been here for 40 or 50 years. all the hands went up. y i'ming a browed san franciscans like this lady in the green shirt i asked how many of you raised your kids in san

francisco. it was yes, i raised my kids they went to galileo high school. my kids grew up in san francisco. then i said how many of your kids still live in san francisco? the room got quiet. hardly anybody raised their hand. the fact is, so many people have had the ability to live in the city for many generations and often times the only reason why they can still afford to live here. we have failed. we faileded to be aggressive as we need to be to build more how does nothing san francisco to ensure that not only the people who are struggling to afford to live here can stay here. but what happens to the next generation? what happens to the folks who work hard 2 and 3 jobs and still can't afford the rent or can't afford to put a down payment on a home to stay in the accomplice they were born and raised in?

we have to get out of our own way. [applause] layers of bureaucracy that have been created and often times things this we don't have a say in. have really been a problem for the burden of building housing. there is a property on mission street as we speak. that houses over 100 families. and you know how long it took didn't the time property was identified and the first family move in the? all affordable it took 10 years. 10 years and it was not about the financing. it was about the process. and what we have to go through to even put shovels in the ground to get housing built. and everyoned time and time again, we support affordable housing. well now there is only clearly 2

supervisors here that i can say that mat dorse and he joel engardio who have not only talked about building more house nothing san francisco but decisions and votes reflected building more housing in san francisco. [applause] as a board of supervisors deliberated 10 housing units they basically said, no to. for complicated kind of unsubstantiated reasons. here we are again. we say we support it, but our actions show something different. we have to get out of our own way. and we need people in san francisco to rise up and to demand upon change. fact that we had to introduce policies now. very bold policies. that -- for example, the state

density bonusful san francisco has no say in whether or not anyone who builds housing in the city can use the state density bonus they can use it is whether we say so but we have a hearing process. to deliberate. the state density housing bonus with no say what so ever t. is a waste of time and waste of resources. [applause] when we talk about -- when we talk about converting even office buildings downtown, we know is that some of the requirements are different when you are talking about building new housing. so, some of the out door requirements don't make sense for that. and the fact this we have to go through a cu to debate that, is not necessary. when we have housing lus that exist, this are already a part

of various neighborhoods. when we have height limits and recessed become from the all the things are in place! why are we still deliberating? on whether or not the units can be built in the first place? [applause] keep have created laws for the sake of having laws. we have created policies for the sake of having policy and looking like we are doing something. and right now, we fleed to make changes so that we actually are doing something. that is speeding up housing production in san francisco. the city has over 50,000 units that have already been approved. park merced on the west side of town was, proved before i was even on the board of supervisors and has not started!

we got over 30,000 units in the pipeline. we have the ability to do this. we have to create bold policies to get out of the way to make it happen. the state is requiring the city to built 82,000 units. in the next 8 years. we can't build 5,000 a year. we can't do this not just because of the money, but because of our policies. today at the planning department won't want to see change. and when this legislation goes to the board of supervisors, we want to see change. i am tired of making promises and we will get housing built only to have obstructionists get in the way and stop the projects buzz they don't want to block their view or because they don't want to see a foordzable housing with low income residence denial

in their neighborhoods! enough is enough! let's get it done! and let's get it done today! [applause] >> i got more to say there are a couple other speakers. i want to thank so meant advocates pushing for more housing. it means so much and will make a difference when we start having people get their keys to new homes. because whf we are fighting for. at this time i want to introduce a member of yes in my backyard. yes, build the housing. yes make it taller. if yes, make it is happen and

home in san francisco. ladies and gentlemen please, welcome jay natolly. >> i don't know how you follow that. thank you to mayor breed. i'm jane natolly the san francisco organizationing director for action. we are proud to be here today supporting the mayor's, supervisor engardio and dorsey's legislation to speedup the production of housing. make it consistent throughout the city and allowing more types of homes and inupon cent vise affordable housing this legislation does all that. a core tenant of organizing is make it easy and predictable to build homes. eliminating unnecessary hearing and notifications and more uniform rules this legislation does that. even when projects comply with

our own rules and standards, we go through a process. note efkzs takes planning a long time we take await ieblt for the department to focus on planning. it is in the the department of reacting the department of planning. that's what they should be doing. for too long people abuse our system arguing over minor aspects of neighbor's home renovation through long and drawn out processes we empower nosing neighbors and larceny more than we empower people trying to add a bedroom for a growing family or adu for multigenerational household. for 22 too long rules about the frontage ofave property or where the landry room can go or weather senior housing can be built in all neighborhoods temperature is heard for me as

someone who does this every day to follow and hard for plan to follow temperature and inconsistent throughout the city we need to make that easy for people to understand. for too long a local density bonus not competitive. no one uses it and we saltsz our subsidized affordable housing the housing we hear people say we need with rule this is make it hard to build. thanks to mir breed, engardio and dorsey, we have a piece of legislation to tackle that. this is just one piece of the housing element that we agreed to unanimously the board unanimous ly passed our housing element! that monies we need to pass this legislation that is going before planning today. the board should unanimously

pass that. advocate and activist its is important to set the tone that's why we are here today. we are here to create energy and hold our city accountable if it does not take actions it needs to which the status quo increases cost for housing due to rules we get to the point where we have more predictable and less burden process we'll keep showing up to get the housing element across the finish line and that's how we will get to 82,000 homes in the next 8 years. [applause] thank you to everybody for showing up today. it is my honor to introduce district 4 supervisor engardio. >> thank you. i'm joel engardio represent the sunset districtism went to paris with my husband a few years ago walked down the tree streets and

enjoyed the cafes i bear low notice there were 6 story apartment buildings every where and i did not leave is a terrible accomplice because of this housing density. i only remembered the wonderful ground floor baptistos and not the height. i wonder, can we bring the spirit of paris to san francisco? now -- i don't propose turning our city into pair us we'll always be san francisco but we don't have enough housing for our teachers and first responders and the next generation of families. why not? because we have not built enough house to equal demand that is sad. what happens when people want to get married or have a kid. too often they move out of san francisco. we have to say goodbye to our family and friends. and senior don't get to see adult children ownership grand children this is why we need to emwrals the spirit of paris.

build more sick story apartments. 5 stories of housing above a cafe and senior center and childcare. everything that all residents will benefit from. will and we have the concept. it is called domicility ideal for west side neighborhoodses on a transit corridor or any corner lot. returns yours of the west side to the original intention. you see, beautiful, 5 and 6 store apartment buildings from the art deco era were built on westportal and irving steet a century ago. guess back to the future. to solve san francisco housing needs. tell help the adult children and grandchildren to stay in san francisco. give seniors more options. they can down size to elevator

buildings and age safely without leaving their neighborhood. it is in this spirit i have cosponsored legislation to make it easy to build housing lie domicility remove constraints for young families and seniors. men of the people opposed to this legislation already have a home in san francisco. why were they opposing the ability of the next generation to have a home do they not when were it was like to be young and seek the opportunity to build a life? this legislation is technical. but also has heart. the technical part provides manslaughter reforms to out dated zoning regulations. the heart of the legislation keeps our loved 1 in san francisco by making easier to house them. and if we build concepts like domicility we don't need

comparisons to paris we will have created our best san francisco. thank you. my honor to introduce my colleague supervisor matt dorsey. >> thank you. joel. so i will i'm told i have 4 minutes i'm setting a time are i'm going on a ran i'm supervisor for d6 home to the 469 stevenson street it was an example of political failure of that valued a parking lot more than the needed housing that we are on the hock to produce over the next 8 years. now i work on this side of the building. i have been there for over a year. the reason i am going on a ran i spent 14 years in the city attorney's office working with clothes like scott wean and robbery and i don't think it is

an being. because we have a front row seat to all the political disfunction of watch happening appellates use well intended laws to challenge the progress we need to make on housing. reason we can't solve problems is because people are misusing laws and that is why we are in the problems this we are in now. that's why i'm appreciative to mayor breed and my dreeg engardio for the legislation that we are proposing today this will stream line processes make need changes to our zoning map, remove constraints and fulfill the promise of when we are supposed to do in our housing leadership. i will actual we throw around terms like housing element there is a law every 8 years municipalities update their general plan. and the portion of this applies

to housing is the housing element. the housing element we paddled just this left recently, is the most progressive public policy in my years 20 plus years of work nothing city government in san francisco this it is centered on racial and socioeconomic equity. about identifying the wrongs and important low righting the wrongs. this is the work that we have to be doing. not just to solve the problems with the fulfill the promise what the city of san francisco the city of st. francis should be. when we saw this week at the board of supervisors was an appellate who invited the board of supervisorers to consider. that there is a project where everybody who touch today in the city government all the career professionals from the city attorney's office which was wrong on ceqa.

the fire marshall wrong on fire safety. our environmental plan are wrong on how that works. our engineer from public health. career professionals all of them were wrong like a perfect storm of error. this the board of supervisors with our expert ease was invited to feks. that it should not be this way and i am grateful to the mayor and grateful to hack to everybody for doing this with this! i'm coming in on time. thank you, everybody. [applause] next up irving gonzalez. >> i'm done. my apologies. [laughter] all right. no now afternoon i'm glad to see you here. i am irving gonzalez i'm an

architectigate of of san francisco 35 years in the community of affordable how doing and community base design of i'm also the form upon chapter pedestrian american institutes of san francisco in san francisco. and i00 am the board chair of mission housing development corporation. i mention all of that. go ahead. >> absolutely. i'm proud. i mention this because i have a perspective this allows no see behind how housing is delivered in this city. or i should say how it is not. it is in the a pretty picture. in that regard,il share with you today why this legislation matters to me. now i will have to read this so a get it right. as an architect a member of the san francisco community i'm frustrated how long it takes and costs to build house nothing the city. i am optimistic however because

the current state legislation as well as proposed legislation this we are all about to support here, is a further incentization to the process. and policy to be able to deliver housing throughout the city removing obstacleless. we have our client's projects solved and balloon in cost. so -- that does not help our housing situation or affordability. especially for workforce housing those that serve our community. neighborhoods and you. and i had good conversations there he is with this gentlemen who share when it is like for men people that are unhoused. great to talk to him. but it provides perspective. let's keep in minds this people matter as much as buildings we design and that is a part of the quality of life here in san francisco.

improve their lives improves our city. and am let's get housing must be a right and not a privilege of the few or long process we all deserve to be housed and housing should be red low achievable. we can do it. it is within our power. how? great news you are here that's part of it. it is where there is a there will is i way. first and foremost remove impact fees for 100% affordable housing using a density bonus. it makes no sense for the city to lends money to nonprofit developers and then in turn in become around and say, okay here other fees have you to pay. all of that hundreds of thousands could be more units for more people. remember the day when is we used to have to provide and we are a

transit bay city. so that allows you to remove the parking allows to provide more housing. this is the next step. second low and more ways others can have removing the befored conditional use requirements and entitlements to a new housing development and place new housing throughout the city. i was great to hear about u gene lou and comcyclity from our supervisor. this means fewer and unnecessary hearings for housing. rusing time it takes to get new housing approved and as we know time is money. let's spends it rooiz wise intengsz of getting folks homes and keeping them there. each one of you was can make a difference for the greater g. with that, i know there are others here i will introduce amy. [applause]

>> move the microphone up. i'm the last peeshg get everybody really hyped up to go in for public comment and guest in passed! i want to give a couple comments on how i gho the this work. it is tieed exactly what we are taxling today. i moveed san francisco when i was 22. making 15 dollars an hour as a contract drafts person for an architect finch i came dm naive and heard san francisco is a renter's city a welcoming center and sustainable city. i learn third degree we can say that out of one side of our mouth our laws and our actual processes and the actual way this things work mean that some random near by homeowner can say no not like that you cannot and veto it. we as the city have not just allowed that we have created

that. we are responsible for that. we have empowered people we created the tools and we have the power to undo them. last 7-9 years the movement has been springing up and building will and trying to champion the work from leaders like the mayor and scott wiener behind the state luthis is maik made this require exclude prom nan and possible today supporting matt dorse and he joel engardio with housing opposite neighborhoods across the staechl the tenderloin and soma out to the outer sunset and saying that what we can unify behind we need more housing and doing this wrong. and accepting that for decades, san francisco has uncritically suffered consequences of our own

hypocrisy with housing. we let ourselves get away with we have certain values and not following through and otherwise doing the opposite t. is long time past when we need to spend our resources on stomg under mining our own work, we do all the plan and we say, no not like that. we pass the policies and say, no they don't have to be enforced. say we want something and let random group thats don't represent the values of san francisco undo this work. and now we have a requirement from the state that we need to get our shit together and undo the policies if we don't pass this out of planning and land use at the board of supervisors and then pass the dozen ordinances that will come after it for rezone anding the other policies and processes, this are in the housing element.

san francisco as a city will lose hundreds of millions of dollars in affordable housing money and public transportation money risk our local control over permitting and zoning because we have proven that if we can't fix this stuff that we are not comp tent enough and should the nobe responsible for doing this. we put ourselves at legal linocaine of the estate attorney general suing sudden front and making city attorney chu defend the way we have been doing things and the fact we don't need to follow state laws for our hand. i want to thank everyone, thank you mayor breed for the courage and clarity to not just did this at minimum level but right and leadership about when the most aggressive and clear headed housing element can be and thank

you for the members of the board of supervisors today hitching wagon they want to be on the right side of this. and i hope the rest of the board of supervisors can hear we are watching how you handle the following months and the coming years with housing element legislation the consequence are in your handses. if the ordinances don't pass. with the clarity in rigor they were introduced. with that i want to close out today. thank you, everyone for coming and all the people that took off work today! all of this work started by people playing hooko lunch break and coming for public comment to dproez hypocrisy how san francisco got away with not matching policies to values. and we will tie up that book end and this with the last hearing for that. because this legislation will make it so that the default is

at good housing projects get approved. thank you. [applause]

>> the stewardship program is a (indiscernible) based program. we work with student kind r garten through 12 grade and work with scrks fusd and (indiscernible) focus on 5 themes. sense of place, plant adapation and animal adaptation, water soil or (indiscernible) depending on the grade level and accommodations the class may need the educators work to adapt the programming to be whatever works best for the class, so they can gain activities (indiscernible) some don't, we try to meet students where they are at and get comfortable connecting in the space and feeling a sense of ownership and safety within their (indiscernible) >> the first component of a youth stewardship program trip will be a in clasds visit where we go to the school, we give a presentation on the

natural history of san francisco, we talk about the concept of a habitat, so what does a habitat contain, understood, water, shelter, space. >> children at this age, they learn best through using their senses, having the real life experience and (indiscernible) students also learn about responsibility and it is a great message for student to learn, if you take care of environment, the environment will take care of you. >> so, when we finally get the kids outside, we have two main components to the field trips. one is going to be the restoration component where we are working on the habitat and parks by pulling out (indiscernible) or maybe watering, and then the other side of our trip is going to be the educational

component, which can range from a nature walk with a sensory theme where we are talking about what we smell and hear, to a focus on plant adaptation and animal adaptations. >> (indiscernible) >> just a great opportunity for students to learn more, connect with nature, and hopefully what they learn from the youth stewardship program they can take with them for the rest of their lives, and they will appreciate their environment more. hopefully, when they appreciate it, they take care of it more every day. >> (indiscernible) >> so every year we open the application up in the fall. interested teachers can apply for a classroom visit and up to two field trips to the city park of their choice. field trips are 2 and a half hours long and like i said,

they can happen in any city park (indiscernible) [music] >> office of initiative start in the 2017 and started as a result of community advocacy. our transgender nonbinary community advocates were really letting our government know that we needed to be heard. we needed to be considered and policy and budget decision and so, then the mayor lee and founding director of spark created officeof initiative

that allow us to advocate for equity for transgender and nonbinary communitiful we focus on 4 areas. training, education for the city employees. we focus on civic and community engagement making sure our leaders have a voice and are heard by our elected officials. we work on policies and programs to make sure our city is responsive to transand nonbinary community and add voice to departments to integrate transinclusion in policies, procedures and practice. >> we still have, lot of work to do to improve and address equity in san fran for our community upon i feel that we are on the right track and seeing how people's lives are improving thanks to those changes. i do think it is unique that our local government is sponsive to

transgender communities so i hope that people can remember that despite the work we had, we seat progress. we seat change and there is hope for transpeople in san francisco and wherever we come together and organize to improve our lives. [music] >> bring up person that [laughter]. for me it was we had neighbors growing up that were fold my dad he is raising me wrong for having me pursue the things that are not traditionally female roles. and i think the biggest barrier to anyone in general is when you have cultural norms that make you feel like you can't do

something that make you doubt yourself and make you feel you should not be there i don't belong. those other big efbarriers i think that is the thing to focus on the most is belong everyone should belong here. [music] >> wishing we trained women grow in production. and recording arts and so we have everything from girls night classes for middle and high school girls. we have certification academy program. that would be women and gender [inaudible] adid you tell us. progress in the internship frm program where they are working in the studios. they are helping to mentor the

youth in the youth programs and the job place am component. most of the time we hire interns instructors in our programs and engineer in our studios here. we have conferences we do all overnight country and we have concerts that we feature bay area women and gender artists. [music] [music] >> an education forward organization. and so advocacy organization. dedicated to closing the gender gap and the audio and production industries.

>> started out of the lead answer, why is there a critical gender gap in this industry that started at city college. why are there so few in this

class i was ashamed i did not have the answer being a feminist. why have i never thought of this i have been in the industry for decades and why have i accept today of all people. it was out of that and unraffling it. actually started the infernship last fall and just fell in love with all the things about women's oshg mission because we are diverse and so many aspects of audio i did not know and i feel like eyes opened up and i gained a lot of confidence in myself and other fells and queer people in the industry i felt there was more connection and community. ironically my time in the industry is all pretty good. i think what happened is i was raised by a father who is an engineer. i was comfortable being strounlded by men all the time in his lab i was used to technology. when i got in industry my mentors were men and i saw i had a unique importance that got mow in the place i could be fluent and navigate something difficult and it was the norm for me. what if it was not woman was createed provide it for everybody. have this environment you are surrounded by technology and people that are going to support you and get you in this industry in a good way. i have been interested in audio i was never trained in music took piano when i was a kid. i never pursued it because not a

lot of women doing that. and my family is not musically inclined. when i want to davis the first time i took a music class there were few females in the class. like a rodey for my dayed was load you will the mixers and monitors and the giant speakers and gigs and help run out the cables and take things down and set up mics i did all of that growing up and never occurred to mow that that was a field they could at all. and then one i could pursue i didn't nobody else was doing temperature my dad and then i go with him to studios and see -- the men in the studio. dj for 5 years now and comments you get like wow you are a girl

dj that is crazy. that is wild. and i have great moments where it does not happen. and they treat me like easy. telling mow what to do they correct mow in ways that make me feel less i sprjs the opposite and i notice hand's on like you don't know what you are doing rather than asking me. not consistent times it happens. it is like when i talk to other females they are like say the same things it is like funny i know that nice men don't experience tht main thing triggers me when i experience different treatment and that happens a lot in the audio world. industry is changing slowly. there is still that issue making the places that are places belonging for everybody. i don't think so.

having a studio where it is not all run by white men like most studios. the studios are only in the word built and run by women. it has been super normalize thered are opportunity for girls and nonbinary people. you go in school and middle and high schoolers know that this is a field. this is a thing there are many jobs you can have in this field. some producing pod casts to setting up live shows. there are so many things you can do >> wee go in and teach the audio skills and give them equipment. i pads and then teach them how to make music and they get to come in here and will getting the tools to people who don't have t. that is really important to me. that's why i was like wow. i want to be there for other fell and queer people who don't

have the opportunity and also to be a mentor for them to really push them to experiment and not going to break it. does not matter if it sounds bad that is the point to try it. i think it is the goal to see confidence what they are doing and passionate and asking for hymn and excite body learning and excited about making music and it changed my life to realize i'm callented in the field i can make music without being trained to it it is amazing to be able to be part of that process and -- ushering women to the field. we can entirely transform how -- the technology part of what you hear every day. we can put xhg something in women's points of view in this every time. it affects the store and he

messaging. think our best example is how we transformed an entire city. place that major artists on tour one of the men looks likeip don't get it there are woman every where i go and the person was like you are in san francisco. you like oh , you are right it is here. most venues have graduates we are grateful to the city for that reason because than i supported us at the beginning. following your curiosity and interest and don't let anybody get in the way what is presented to you, go for t. no matter what! we are here for a reason. find what it is. don't let somebody else tell you what it is. you are the oldsmobile one that have been can know when you are

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vaccine i would have less severe symptoms. (indiscernible) >> maybe i schedule the second dose just to be safe from mpox. >> most vackeens offer you a level of protections, just like sun block. sometimes you need to reapply for more protection. the m pox vaccine is based on two shots several weeks apart to provide the strongest level of protection. visit sf.gov/mpox to get yours. >> thank you boys for that reminder! make sure your are fully vaccinated for m pox this summer. text summer vibes to 21201, to get >> i'm alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joe's ice cream in san francisco. joe's ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a san

francisco legacy business since 2017. and we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. and delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. we have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean i'm from korea. korean coffee krooem. we mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in san francisco. so as immigrants, we have a special connection to this

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san francisco and richmond district. so, i hope that we can stay this way for many years. [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] >> it is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. your home,

it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. a asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. and you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. your home, small business, air looms and more. you and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. by providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and home ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on estate planning and why it's important.

>> i'm 86 years old and you do need a trustee. you need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. >> that's why i wanted to be here today. that is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. but even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. >> if you don't have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. that could be $40 thousand for a home at that level. i don't know about you, but i don't $40 thousand to give up. >> (indiscernible) important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a

(indiscernible) >> why are estate plans important? we were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. >> as mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid $2700, $2700 just for revocable trust. what we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to $3500. free or low cost meaning free, or $400 if you make above $104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. because we want to focus on black and brown households, because that's whether the need is, not only in san francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. and, >> i was excitesed to see the turn out from the western addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover

all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. >> work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. >> that's why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. so we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. >> we insure the financial stability of san francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. >> on behalf of the office of assessor recorder, i'm thankful for all the support and legal assistance they have given that makes the estate planning program a realty for you in san francisco and are thank all the community partners like san francisco housing development corporation, booker t washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of building wealth in san francisco from one generation

to the next. to learn more about this program e-mail inquiries at har >> malcolm come up here! supervisor preston, come up here! today is a wonderful day. excited to be here with all of us family, friends, partners, community. and john. hi. john! community and john. i amhe