>> good morning. the meeting will come to order. welcome to the july 12, 2023 special meeting of the budget appropriation committee. i'm surpriser chan, chair of the committee joined by supervisors safai and walton. i like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcement? >> a friendly reminder

to please silence all cell phones and electronic devices so as to not interrupt our proceedings in the chamber. the board of supervisors and committees are convening hybrid meetings that allow in-person attendance while providing remote access. those in person will be allowed to speak first and take those waiting on the telephone line. those watching remotely and streaming throughout sf-you will be muted and listening mode only. if your item of interest comes up and public comment is called those in person should line up to speak and those on the telephone dial star three to be added to the speaker line. please turn down your tv and listening twices and each speaker is allowed to speak 2 minutes . you may e-mail to myself the budget appropriation committee clerk

at brent-and also included as part of the file. you may send the comments via postal service, 1 dr. carlton b goodlett place. items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of july 18, unless otherwise stated. madam chair. >> thank you mr. clerk. we requested request to excuse have visor mandelman and ronen and i'll make a motion to excuse both of them and second by supervisor walton. roll call, please. >> on the motion to excuse supervisors mandelman and ronen--member safai. safai aye. member walton. walton aye. chair chan >> aye.

>> chan aye. we have three ayes. >> thank you, motion passes. as reminder for everyone, today we are hearing the final two budget trailing legislation. at the last hearing we already move substantive amendments for both items, but both require second hearing at committee so we can move both to the full board, along with the rest of the budget package. since we already have those conversation on both items, we will not have presentation, and we do though have city departments here to answer any additional questions that the committee members may have. with that said, mr. clerk, please call item 1. >> item 1, ordinance amending the business and tax regulation code to extend through december 31, 2024 the gross receipts tax rates effect january 1, 2022 for the business activities of retail trade, certain services,

manufacturing, food services, accommodations and arts entertain and recreation and post pone to january 1, 2025 the imposition of the gross reseelths tax rates otherwise set to go into effect beginning january 1, 2023 for those business activities and provide for businesses that open a physical location in certain zip codes on or after january 1, 2023 threw december 31, 2027 and did not have a physical all location in the city for three years prior toepeening annual gross receipts tax equal to 0.45 percent of the knz san francisco taxable gross receipts from one or more of the business activities of information, administrative and are support services, financial services, insurance, and professional scientific and technical services, for businesses not engaged in business in the citys as administratorive office or.7 percent of the taxable payroll

expense of a business that engages in the city as administrative office for each up to three tax years immediately following the tax year the businesses open td the physical location but no later then the 2028 tax year and not to exceed 100-0000 per tax year. those who want to give public comment and joining remotely, press star 3 to enter the queue and you will hear a prompt that you raised your hand and please wait until the prompt says you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. madam chair. >> thank you. colleagues, reminder item 1 was the substantive amendments to narrow down specific zip codes for opening city location to receive the tax credit and those zip codes are listed in the legislation, but they are actually concentrated in downtown area and so with that, mr. clerk, could you please go to public comment?

>> yes. madam chair. one second. members joining remotely and wish to comment press star 3 to enter the speaker line. plaiz wait until the system indicates you are unmuted and you can begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, if you can unmute your caller, please. >> eileen boken coalition for san francisco neighborhoods speaking on my own behalf following up on my written comments. urging the committee to delete credits for opening a city location for the tech sector, especially ai. the mayor stated she wants san francisco to be the ai capital of the world. not just the u.s., but the world. ed lee and every mayor since has been starry eyed about the tech sector, about the high wage jobs and city revenue, not to mention the political contribution, however each

mayor has down-played the negative aspects, such as rising income in equality, displacement, gentrification and the tech sector's oversized influence in the city. is this yet another version of the twitter tax break? thank you. >> thank you so much for your comments. madam chair, i do believe that is our last caller in the queue. >> thank you. seeing no more public comment, public comment is closed. colleagues, i like to make a motion to move this item to full board with recommendation. second by supervisor safai and roll call, please. >> on that motion seconded by member safai to forward the ordinance to full board with positive recommendation, vice chair mandelman is excused. member safai. safai aye. member ronen is

excused. member walton, walton aye. chair chan. >> aye. >> aye. >> thank you the motion passes and mr. clerk, please call item 2. >> item 2, ordinance reallocating approximately $16,360,000 in unappropriated earned interest revenues from the our city, our home fund to allow the city to use such revenues from the homelessness gross receipts tax for certain types of services to prevent homelessness; temporarily suspending the limit on funding for short-term rental subsidies; and finding that these changes are necessary to achieve the purposes of the our city, our home fund pursuant to business and tax regulations code, section 2811. members of the public, who wish to provide comment and joined remotely, press star 3 to enter the speaker line and prompt indicates you raised your hand and when you have been unmuted you can begin your comments. >> the reminder of substantive amendments that we

made in the last meeting was really championed by surpriser ronen, but specifically to be able to use the interest accrued from prop c funds, the our city our home prop c funds and reallocate those interest accrued from that fund to meet the demands of trabzitional age youth housing and family housing, and also to be able to shift some of the spending into temporary shelter for adults, and with that, mr. clerk, let's go to public comment. >> yes, members of the pub lic who wish to speak and joining in person should line up now to speak and those remotely, press star 3 if you wish to enter the speaker line. wait until the ist ism is unmuted and you can begin your comments. seeing no in person speakers in the chamber, and just to double check-madam chair, no speakers in the queue. >> thank you, seeing

no public comment, public comment is closed. mr. clerk, i like to make the motion to move the item to full board with recommendation. second by supervisor safai and roll call, please. >> on the motion to forward this ordinance to full board with positive recommendation--member safai. safai aye. member walton. walton aye. chair chan. chan aye. three ayes. >> thank you. the motion passes. with that mr. clerk do we have any other business before us today for the budget and appropriation committee? >> madam chair, that concludes this committee business. >> thank you. this meeting is adjourned. [meeting adjourned] please stand by for the san francisco budget and finance committee meeting of

july my name is doctor ellen

moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of san francisco. i perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. i have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. i was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldn't see people every day. i would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasn't been the case. this building is very nice. we have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. we have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in san

francisco. we work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. that brings us closer together also. >> i am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in san francisco. as an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. i go to the field interview police officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. i maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. i am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their

lives delivering the worst news they could get. i work with the family to help them through the grieving process. >> i am ricky moore, a clerk at the san francisco medical examiner's office. i assist the pathology and toxicology and investigative team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. >> i started at the old facility. the building was old, vintage. we had issues with plumbing and things like that. i had a tiny desk. i feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. >> i am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. we test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological

substances. i oversee all of the lab operations. the forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the human performance and the case in the city of san francisco. we collect evidence at the scene. a woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. that was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. it is nice to get the feedback. we do a lot of work and you don't hear the result. once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. you can bring justice to what happened. we are able to take what we due to the next level. many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries don't have the resources and don't have the

beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. >> sometimes we go to court. whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. we do whatever we can to get our job done. >> when we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. unexpected findings are fun. >> i have a prior background in law enforcement. i was a police officer for 8 years. i handled homicides and suicides. i had been around death investigation type scenes. as a police officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective

division. i am intrigued with those types of calls. i wondered why someone died. i have an extremely supportive family. older children say, mom, how was your day. i can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. >> being i am a native of san francisco and grew up in the community. i come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. there are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. if from is a child involved or things like that. i try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. when i tell people i work at the

medical examiners office. what do you do? the autopsy? i deal with the enough and -- with the administrative and the families. >> most of the time work here is very enjoyable. >> after i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. i thought there was somebody dead? my bed. i rolled over and poked the body. sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. this job does have lingering effects. in terms of why did you want to go into this? i loved science growing up but i didn't want to be a doctor and didn't want to be a pharmacist. the more i learned about

forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between applied science and criminal justice. if you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. >> being a woman we just need to go for it and don't let anyone fail you, you can't be. >> with regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. let's face it, we aren't hollywood, we are real world. yes we collect evidence. we want to preserve that. we are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a hollywood television show. >> families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. somebody has to do my job.

if i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of san francisco. ♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is

contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is

looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed.

this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area.

it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives.

[music] so, can you tell us what it was like for you during your first encounter with the san francisco fire department? >> yep. it was super cool! i got to learn about the dry standing pipe correction. it is actually called, dry sand piper just stand pipe. tomato. you know. yea. >> so, what is coming up next for what is that for? >> oh , firefighter backsterinvited mow to a fire station to see the cool stuff firefighters use to put out fires. you have seen the had doors open like a space ship from out of nowhere. i close my eye its is like i'm there right now!

wow! whoa. watch out, man. what is that for? >> what is this? these are fire engines they might look alike they are both red. white top and red lights on top. this is a new 2021 fire engine and this is an older 2014 fire engine. if you can't tell, this one is shorter and narrower than our older fire engines. they have cool things like recessed lights. roll up doors. 360 degree cam ares and more that is important as the city is moving toward slower and safer streets adding parklets and bulb outs and bike lanes we need to decrease our footprint to keep us and the community safer on

emergency scenes. >> what's back there? >> when is not guilty fire engine. great question. i want to see, sure. >> let's go back and look at the equipment and the fire pump on the fire engine. >> this is a fire pump. it is cool all the colors and all that. this fire pump and this engine holds 500 gallons of water that is a lot. >> a lot of water. >> it is push out 1500 gallons a minute of water. we can lose our 500 gammons quickly. why we use hoses like this to connect to a fire hydrant and that gives us unlimited amount of water to help put a fire out temperature is important we have enough fire engine in san francisco to put fires out. so we can reduce the injuries and minimize loss of life and minimize property damage.

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[applause] >> good morning everybody. good morning, it will work better to hold this. (indiscernible) it is 5 after 12. this is the last time stopped this long was the 1906 earthquake. it is in fact 11 o'clock, so we are starting. i want to welcome everybody here. i'm the rick the president of market street railway, a non profit muni's preservation partner. we get no government funding. we depend on donations from individuals and businesses who love and benefit