>> this meeting will come to order. welcome to monday july 24, 2023 meeting of rules of the board of supervisors i'm supervisor dorsey chair. i'm joined by vice chair walton and member safai is running late bull join us shortly. with this our 90 rules committee before recess i enjoyed serving. legislation and soon take up ballot measures when we return in september. thank madison tamp i want to thank our clerk mr. young for all of his hard work and everyone in the clerk's office who supports us.

thanks to the team at sfgovtv for facilitating and broadcast today's meeting and our producer today mr. michael. >> mr. clerk, do you have announcements. >> yes. the board of supervisors are coloneling vehicle hybrid public comment will be taken on each item. those in person allowed to peek first then those on the phone line. the public comment call in number is streaming across the screen. when connected you will heart discussions but mutes and in listening mode only when your item come up and public comment is called those in person line xup those on the phone dial star 3. if you are on the phone remember to turn down your tv and all listening device you may be using. you may submit comment in writing not guilty following

ways. e mail them to myself the rules clerk at vishthor. young sfgov.org you may send written comments u.s. mill to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244. san francisco, california 94102. items acted on today will aparrot board agenda of september 5 of 23 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. mr. clerk. would you call item one. >> item one motion approving the mayor's nomination for dominica henderson to municipal agency board of directors ending march first of 2026. >> mrs. henderson is joining personful we ask the appointees limit opening res to 2 minutes and allow time for questions and

answers. welcome to the rules mittee. the floor is yours. >> thank you. and good morning chair dorse, vice chair walton i'm dominica henderson. i am a lifelong san francisco resident grew uptake the bus from bayview and bernal heights and the haight. i'm the child and grand child public servants. feel like this is a surreal moment to follow foot steps especially those my grandfather who was a cable car and muni operator for retired and also a member of the trance port worker's union i respect the work the members do to help provide critical services to the city and to drive the city toward recovery during changing times i live in bayview and

thank you to supervisor walton a member of the cac for the past 6 years. i seen impact of land use decisions and transportation decisions on the policy level and also -- at a practical and neighborhood level and that experience i hope to bring to the mt aboard of directors. i'm a howser i work for 5 years on hope sf and moved to oak land i work for the housing authority with oak land's chief social impact officer am my role is to hear from different community members and property owners and resident and make sure i'm sing siegz their ideas and their feedback and able to create innovations that drive the city forward. i hope to bring that experience to the board mt aboard as well and then i would say i'm a transit rider i ride the twine

and t and take taxis as well i use the net works and drive my car this morning. i know that the system has the ability to be an equalizer and also you know the transit system added can create stable neighborhoods and stable employment opportunities for our community members and i look forward to being able to participate in contribute to building save walkable neighborhood and safe communities and bus routes. i appreciate you giving me the opportunity to speak today. >> thank you, mr. hendz son i wanted to say i'm impressed with your experience and i think when we met we had a good talk temperature nice to be in a role i can like get ton people who have the expertise in transexit i was impressed with the other public service things. these other folksil turn to as

my brain trust. good to know there are people i reach out to when i have i question about the issues. >> colleagues, questions or comment sns >> thank you we open up. oop. my apol gees supervisor safai. >> good morning. i appreciate the conversation we had on friday. i appreciate also and i'm sure mentioned this, the fact you will bring a perspective from a part of town this is transit challenged and also a perspective from someone this grew up in a household operator that is important. to have that perspective on the mta. so, look forward to working with you. and thank you. thank you. >> can we open up to public comment? >> members of the public who wish to speak joining person

should lineup at this time. . for those remote on the call in line press star 3. to enter the speaker liven for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue to begin your comments. first in person speaker >> good morning chair and supervisors i'm patricia list executive officer of the housing authority of oakland, california the national president of the national association housing and development officials i'm here to support this phenomenonal nomination and tell you about the perspectives of mrs. henderson impact officer for the housing authority she links policy with applications to make our housing authority served over 17,000 individuals in the city transit ride torse have

healthy, safe community where they live and connection to workforce develop the, health care. nutrition, sxejz safe communities. she cease transit as a correction to house to make neighborhoods healthy. nationally she serves for narrow. she has impacted leadership for the organization which upon represents 8 million families and transportation in the connection to healthy house and save communities is add vo >> level and the other level. i and happy can we have no other

per in the room. can we move on to remote public comments? will hello good morning i'm a former mfbt of sfmta citizen advice real council i worked with dominica for 20 years, i don't drive i reline on muni. i want to ensure they have options to maintain nndz and get around the staechl i'm confident that dominical uplift the communities and make sure that sfmta prioritized action equity. she is dedicated to serving san pran and bring a fresh

perspective. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. good morning i'm jafier i work for [inaudible] i known do min cat last 15 years. [inaudible] bayview and dominica around me all this time [inaudible] in the neighborhood i think she is an amazing candidate for this position. understands the challenges in bayview to try to navigate embarrassed [inaudible].

literally [inaudible] i think a [inaudible] voice that we need to have and i'm happy she is at the table she understands the needs and residents needs being a native and muni user. you need both to m with positiv

recommendation. >> the motion to delete reject throughout and recommend as amended as a committee report allow times for q and a. mr. sugarman welcome to rules. >> thank you and thank you for hearing me. you had said i have been a

journalist in san francisco for a time now with significant work at bay city news service. san francisco daily journal. examiner and sf weekly. i will say that now my current role the public records issue is in the as important as restaurant reviews. but in previous iterations of my career i have been a passionet person in investigative journalism. i worked with the san francisco daily journal on public record's requests pertaining to assignment of >>s and saul reese. for head line, i did a story on crime rate in haze valley and then a cover story which was not public records but investigative having to deal with essential low related to the queer

community and how instagram was related that result nothing the shut down of significant company from over seas. and basically, i have been interested in this task force for awhile. i have interviewed before for a seat that occupied by hood and i delivery everdeferred and encouraged mow to reapply and i had an opportunity to do this. thank you. >> you got another the first that is mention this to everyone the first chime is means you have 30 seconds left you have more time. that's all i needed to say. thank you. why great. gi want to express my gratitude to you for applying to this. my career in this building i have had appearances before the

sunshine ordinance task force. i succeedod my explanation for delays or what responses to people. thought were insufficient or oust compliance and sometimes i lost. well is a rule i would now that i'm on the board of supervisors and talked to colleagues about this. i think there is a lot of opportunity on sunshine to start working with city departments to improve efficiency. one of the things i have seen when people have sunshine requests or public records requests they are not turning quick enough that city employees are dealing with inefficiencies within their department this really hold department heads, count okay for fix i would love the idea i will say this to everyone on the task force assumes you are approved. open to working with us because

in addition to being an advisary and quasi judicial. you often hear case and complaints. i think well is a role untapped to give guidance to the city and city departments how to improve to be transparent. no government is good when there is a transparency. the sunshine of prince pavo accountability and transparency and sunshine makes government bfrment i'm a believer in this and hope you will be open so i don't have questions other than am work with us i think we got a lot of work to do. >> of course. this sounds like meaningful work i would love to help with. >> seeing no one else. thank you. can we open up to public comment? consider the other applicants. i'm sorry. we will come become to public ment for all the applicants. thank you.

>> next our 2 applicants to seat 9 the requirement for seat 9 they must have dem stated interests or experienced in the, of citizen access and participation in local gentleman of the let's start first with david pilpel. welcome the floor is yours. >> good morning. david pilpel i think you know me limp you hear from me regularly. i think you know that i have been engaged with city government for my entire adult life going back to as a teenager with my interests in muni. i am very supportive of access to records and as you -- i hope saw on my application i served on the task force 3 times before. i to the issue of working with

city departments. i did work fair low closely with a number of city departments that earned some support and opposition in other quarters. i understand this there is a letter in the file opposing my application that person has consistent low opposed my service and may hear from that individual and perhaps others today. i certainly have been very engaged in public policy and the politics of city and that does not get you 100% support you all know that we don't elect people based on 100% support just a majority. i think the time is due and over due to reexamine the sunshine ordinance it has been 25 years since prop g was on the ballot.

passage of time that change in state luto recod fight public record's act. technology mayes huge strides. there is a lot to be discussed in terms of burdens and benefits and the task force startd that discussion i have been part of that as a member of the public. pleaseed serve on the other side a member of the task force if this mittee and the board sees fit. i'm happy to address questions you might have am thank you. >> thank you, mr. pilpel. i don't see anyone on the roster i say i appreciate the point you know we can have offer the years i have prevailod things before the task force and not and i think reasonable minds disagree i appreciate the consciousness which you serve the city and participate active in our local

democracy. seeing nobody else with questions next hear from ruth ferguson. thank you, the floor is yours >> hello. thank you. i am ruth ferguson a residents of bernal heights and recent graduate tr uc berkeley school public policy received i masters in public service analysis. my first experience with local government when i was a teen and apointsed a task force in my small rural home town. this task force addressed the number of hate crimes. tackled how to support my public high school as they addressed the number of confederate energyos student's personal items when the northwest chapter of the kkk came knock we thought what can we do to report residents should the group establish a headquarters in our

town. i learned lieu experience to bring in community organizations, leaders and my peers to address complex deep rooted issues. you i carry third degree experience and lessons i learned on this task force in battleground, washington throughout nile life. the issues in san francisco may be differents this experience made mow curious and eatingtory listen to others to reach conclusions. i everas a graduate stount nightmy policy research experienced by dave cortez in san jose and focus on california star welfare. focused on policies extensions but identifies the state's legislative open record's act. i see transparency and, counselability in government critical to addressing inequity. i would be thrilled to serve on

the sunshine task force. i believe my expert eelsd be helpful in the task force i have reviewed government transparency models and research on the subject i would provide to be used by the task force. and as a former legislative star and public pol analyst i understand the considerations needed to address the issues and implementation challenges. thank you, i would be grateful to answer questions you may have. >> thank you so much. i appreciate the opportunity we did not have a lot of time but i think what i mentioned earlier about the work the task force can do to move the city to improve efficiency. one other thing i did in the mention, over the years i worked with tim redmon48 hill and talked about the other models that other states connecticut

has a freedom of information department that does things. as we sort of look at things how san francisco does things i appreciate your policy expertise and doing research on other government entities, states and locates on how they do things to make sure open government and ensure it is efficient. and seeing no one else on the roster. appreciate, thank you very much, open this 3 appointees up to public comment? >> members of the public when wish to speak in person lineup at this time. those remote, dial star 3. two minutes?

>> yes. this is peter warfield head library user association. i have comments on all 3 i had limited ability to review the material because of the short notice to my awareness. the first applicant, on seat 3 mr. sugarman looks qualifyd and we would based on review of the materials in the file, give endorse am for his appointment to that seat or any other. for which he is qualified. the second name on the list david pilpel we give a no. we prefer zero appointments to this seat that is a guaranteed no vote on public complaints.

to the appointment mr. pilpel you have i letter that recounts serious issues in the file. from patrick shaw. and i also on in a letter in 2016 opposed his appointment don't think he has been fair to the public. seeks to i could go in detail and glad to answer questions. mr. ferguson has our support based on had we have seen well is a major thing i'm concerned with as a potential conflict of interest that is she serves on an advisory committee to the city attorney. and since the city attorney is in the position of advising the sunshine task force at times disagreed with the advice and told them not to give certain

advice and since the city attorney has been brought to the task force regarding complaints they found against the city attorney. and not our complaints i'm -- concerned about a potential conflict of interest and love to hear when she might have to say to questions i hope you will ask. thank you. thank you. seeing no other persons instead room. can we have our were first phone caller. >> yes. good morning. patrick shaw can you hear me? yes, we can. all right. thank you. i strongly support ruth ferguson's application. and i will hope that you will strong low recommend her for seat 9 over mr. pill pelf my

written testimony shows, [inaudible] also oppose the appointing mr. pilpel to the [inaudible] for good reason. including and incident in which he had been rifling through [inaudible] after hours. mr. pilpel is not serve on the task force for a total of 12 years. he currently in 7 to 8 year period of not having been appointed to the task force. the board of supervisors before that, have rejected him for 2 other 4 year appointments. so he has not served 12 years, i'm sorry. he has not served for going on 15 years for good 13 is the

board of supervisors have consistent low found him to be deceptive for any city policy body or advisory body. he was not appointed to 2 different committees. not appointed the task force and i urge you to reject his application today. and send a recommendation to appoint ruth ferguson. and the gentlemen applying for seat 3. >> thank you. >> speaker time, >> thank you. >> thank you. sorry for cutting you off we are allowing 2 minutes today. can we have the next speaker? >> hello good morning. this is bari toronto i happened

to catch the meeting. first i want to say that i'm hoping that dominica learned about the taxis are regulated by the mta. regarding david pilpel the sunshine task force could not go without the appointment david pilpel because of his knowledge of city codes and ordinance. and the charter. and various departments i know about the sfmta. there were issues regarding finances. and it is various ways of how it approves various rules and regulations and different changes to the street scape and muni service. i think now you need somebody who knows how to go through

public records and obtain them. nought opinion needs all the help it can get to access why something came about the mta has been secretive at times. i think we need someone whoness how to require this transparency and supervisor dorsey is correct we need to help and coax city agencies how to be miles an hour transparent and could in the think of i better individual than david pilpel. thank you very much. >> thank you. can we have our next caller? >> yes. good morning i'm christine i'm urging the committee to definitely appoint david pilpel to the sunshine task force i appreciate people have be important conflicts but over time i watched david pilpel the

last 25 years e involve to a mature, responsible individual advocate the tireless low i mean that seriously on behalf of the citizens of san francisco. i have known david for many years special he is the first person i call if i have a question as an attorney about issues pertaining to the san francisco municipal code. he has been instrumental in advocating for civil rights and the rights of individuals in san francisco e inthl it miss to matters open meetings, brown act and other documents that people have a right to listen to and see and obtain. i urge this committee to speak if there are occurrence you may have. i could not think of anybody better and poised at this time when everybody in the city needs to come together to bring our city out of the pandemic malaise and urge you to appoint him he

will be a productive member of the task force. i worked with him on projects where he has been a team player. and i have no concerns about his ability to work well with others. thank you very much for your time. thank you. hole i'm laura, can you hear me? >> yes. >> hi. as native from san francisco born in [inaudible] i have known daved for 30 years and worked with him initially when the sunshine task force was created in bringing about awareness for the importance of the sunshine task force. my comments are in strong support of david for this

position. mr. pilpel brings several things to the stable that were mentioned by the moderators of the group. efficiencies. transparency. conscientious, he is -- very focused on citizen access to governments. community participation. he has been stayed informed not only about san francisco but something that i think mrs. ferguson brought up in her case her ability to bring in outside perspectives which is important. david in my experience being researches that is helping in other cities and states as points of reference. i'm always amazed. not only san francisco but of the entire country in related

issues he tracks. it is mentioned he is a disruptor and we have seen in the bay area it is the disruptors who make a difference. i think mrs. ferguson brings a tremendous amount of education and evidence based research and transparency and a terrific candidate in the future when she has more experience and i do note the conflict of interests with the city attorney. this is in strong support david pilpel who advocates for san francisco the last 30 years. thank you. i urge you to reject david pilpel i think he is not bias and institute ral he is sided

with agencies that are trying to obstruct sunshine and stop people from finding out how the government is working. i have been using sunshine for 30 year its is invaluable law and needs the citizens of the most highest levels of integrity and he unbiassed objectivity. and don't believe mr. pilpel will bring that to the task force. reject mr. pilpel and continue with your good work. >> we don't have additional callers on the phone line. that completes yoochl public

comment is closed. and hang on a second. i think begin designated seat requirements under the sunshine ordinance we have some vacant seats we have no applicants and also have one vacant seat for which we have 2 eligible applicants. we have a term expired member who represented an ordinance requirement that member be machine who is handicapped. at a recent meeting it was public low discussd and confirmed over the weekend this we have a current mfbt sunshine task force, hill, holds seat 10 that mr. hill has an eligibility eligible this would fill this. reason this matter system this assuming mr. hill fulfills the disability requirement and we could appoint both applicants to the vacant seats so the sunshine

ordinance task force could do its work without issues around quorum. i had hoped we could do that today. what i was hope to do was move to appoint david pill foal seat 9 and allow member hill to fulfill seat 10 and appoint ruth ferguson to seat 11 i was advised by council doing so require steps with noticing if possible i like to ask the city attorney to walk us through that i don't know if i'm doing justice in explaining it. upon deputy city attorney. supervisor dorsey, i think when you proposed was that to the extent there is an existing member who might be able to fill the qualification of somebody with a physical handy cap the committee take action today to move them in that seat. and i explained that the

committee may not do that today this has not been noticed. and in any event this questions of law sifkz not attached to a seat. that is the requirement of the sunshine ordinance is that all times some member have a physical handy capful but this person should being the committee should know as make a finding a person has meets that qualification at the time of appointment. i think what the committee can do is to have another opportunity to post the open vaccance and hes female who feel they may meet apply for it society committee can make that finding. >> thank you very much. you think when i will do is work with the city attorney on taking necessary steps involving member hill for the disability seat and revisit i really am impressed with everybody. i want to make sure we revisit

mr. ferguson's application at a meeting at the next meeting. i like to make a motion for the following. all alcohol be sent to the full board as a committee report to recommend sugarmachine to seat 3 of sunshine ordinance task force and david pilpel to seat 9 with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk a roll call. >> yes, on that motion. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. >> thank you. unanimous vote item 2 sugarman to seat 3 and david pilpel to seat 9 positive to the board to the san francisco sunshine ordinance task force. >> mr. clerk call item 3.

item 3 appointing 3 members ending november 6 of 25 to the committee on city workforce alignment. >> thank you we have 3 open seats and one applicant for each. seat 15 and 16 the member of the public who at the time are employed by a nonprofit that provides workforce development services to low income san francisco residentses and those with barriers to employment. let's first hear from ruth barajas. >> chair dorsey. >> thank you. mrs. barajas in a conference in chicago hearing the vice president speak she cannot make it her like the other 2 applicants are very qualifyd and exited about serving on the committee. >> great. >> thank you.

prosac numbership. we will get that corrected. >> okay. mrs. barajas i will take i don't mind playing second fiddle to the vice president. >> we do have tiffany jackson. ms. jackson. welcome to the rules committee the floor is yours. >> good morning, supervisors tiffany jackson. i'm a member of the homeless workforce collaborative. in my decade of working in community focus workforce development, i would not to be a part of the body i have a passion for advocating for others and a voice for the community. i desire to be a part of a body that makes a positive impact and allows me to engage in

discussions and decisions that shape the workforce policy and strategies in san francisco. some of my goals for the future in discussing with committee members workforce programs. earn and learn creating a colocated services where people get assistance with a job and house negligent same place. and more collaboration with community based organizations and city departments. in my decade, of -- working in workforce development i built a freshman that bridges the gaps between job seek and employers and providing direct impactful services to the communities. every month for the last 5 years i managed to host employer spotlight event. the events highlight employer job openings. and gives the space for direct

communication with employers and job seekers. once a year the past 3 i hosted annual career job fair at the san francisco public library. bring nothing 65 employers and 500 job seek and service providers. i also fostered reps with employers they call me directly before firing or disciplining employees. on the other hand my leadership my program impacts the lives of 3-400 people in a year. half of the population homeless reentry are facing a barrier. i have built a team of amazing warrior case advocates and tailors everybody person's needs getting appreciate the opportunity to stand in front of you and talk about qualifications.

thank you. thank you. thank you mrs. jackson. we have applicant for seat 17 and the requirements for this seat is a member of the public affiliated policy and programs including aprenticeship promise. this one applicant is bartolomy padmanabhan and not 18 to attend but submitted a statement. i'm bartolomy pantoja i'm a construction and labor leader. except my apologies for not attending i have a retreat with union council leader my construction background begins in 96 and complete thanksgiving program and a journeyman in

1999. especially the later years. i held the seat of my local union and reported to business agent for local 718 in 2070 and lected the same position. i was elected to business manager of the san mateo council construction council in 2022. my work experience in the field it is my pleasure to bring light, the opportunity to -- of work negligent construction union trades. or good union job and the benefit this is provides to those who may not know what the good opportunity exists i sit on the citizen's obligation bond oversight the commission enlightened my on the city and county of san francisco and the work that gets done. i take pride in bringing down to earth perspect and i have how

tax money is spent and benefits provide to reach their objectives. i thank the members in advance for consideration of might have application. to the committee on city workforce alignment appointment of seat 73 i will bring a voice to represent the work and grow opportunities for all of san franciscans. i thank mr. pantia for his statement. colleagues? >> mr. clerk, public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak are in person line up at this time. for those listening remostly press star 3 to enter the line. for those in the queue wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted that is your key to comment. >> seeing no parties in the room for public comment. we have one person in line to speak on this matter.

i'm joe wilson hospital house. i will stip stipulate with tiffany jackson. tiffany jack established herself and one of the city's true gems. in workforce development system. promoting this model of effective community based workforce services. tive no in her life experience has traveled a similar road. fighting obstacles and over coming them. keeping her spirit in tact and dreams alive. she set a high standard for community based work formals service.

elevated hospitality house profile with a development system and i think that the committee would do well by voting positive on her nomination. and someone who devoted her work experience to lifting people up. connect them with life affirming careers. as well as paid jobs. and elevating better standards and higher standards both for community based workforce programs and employers across the bay area. i'm excited, please and proud of all of the work tiffany jackson has done on behalf of the city generally, hospitality house, specifically and job seekers across the city. thank you. >> thank you. >> that was our last caller. for this matter. >> thank you, mr. clerk. public ment on these items is

now closed. beforehanding off to vice chair walton i do want to express appreciation to him for his leadership in reauthorizationing this body it is important in a time we have a lot of jobs to fill and work to do. i thank you is true in construction trade but many public sector role and private sector roles i appreciate vice chair walton and, vice chair walton. >> thank you. i wanted to state that you are all aware that my office introduced the legislation to reauthorize the workforce committee and the focus is to make sure that city departments are, lined in terms when the definition of work norse development is resources to provide the best benefit to community and get the skills so folks get jobs available and prepared. i'm excited about the mittee now

up and running. i'm excited about the 3 candidates. experience. and the fact they are prepared serve is something i want to thank them for, also and with that said i know supervisor safai does have something to say but i do want to make a motion to refer this item to the full burden as a committee report with positive recommendation for consideration on july 25, 2023. >> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you chair and supervisor walton. i think it is really fortunate have individuals that have i broad perspective of relationships within our city. we have different pockets of our city with different rates of unemployment important top have true connections to community. when we budgetary opportunity and look at future employment

and as the economy is changing as more technology is infused in jobs and how that technology is impacting jobs is important to have really connected individuals like tiffany, ruth and part that are doing the work and have their ear to the grounds and will be strong voices for aligning our departments goals and priorities. with connecting the community with employment opportunity. so. thank you entires walton. i'm happy to support in any way. does not look like we can add our names but if an opportunity i would. thank you. chair. >> thank you. supervisor safai. mr. clerk can we have i roll call on the motion. >> yes. i wanted to possibly add that requirements are waived for

barajas and jackson? >> yes. >> as a committeement. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes. thank you. >> without objection. >> and i want to be clear our agenda is slightly has fullmultiple seats ruth barajas. 15. tiffany jackson 16 and bartolomy is seat 17. 3 members are appointed to the workforce alignment move to the board as a committee report with the necessary residency waivers. mr. clerk call item 4. >> ordinance amending the park code reduce seats on the park

rec and open space mittee provide for alternate members allow members to serve for more than 4 terms provide for the appointment of members experience with equity and provide the meetings occur at city hall. >> thank you, mr. clerk. we heard this item last week and continued due to substantive amendments and may have heard it. supervisor safai may have additional. >> no. >> that's it. we i don't need to say we talked last week. >> my apologies is this intended to -- you know the question i of i hope as a mittee report to be on the agenda tomorrow? did that happen? it it is -- recommend agsz. yes. >> great. >> okay. so no -- make a motion to sends this to the full board after public comment. >> let's seeing no further

comments from colleagues let's open up to public comment. >> yes, members of the public who are like to make public comment at this time lineup to speak. those remote dial star 3 to enter the speaker line in the queue wait until the system indicated you have been unmuted then comment. can we have our first in person speaker. >> david pilpel. thank you for your support earlier i spoke on this matter left week i wanted reminds the committee it is my view you could add, regular so that regular meetings of prosac are held at city hall giving the xhintee to hold special meetings outside facilities. in the committee discretion you could duplicate the file again and trailing whatever. there are a lot of ways but the sooner you get this piece of legislation the first changes

the better. i don't think i -- said in my previous comments about prosac it is important committee -- uneven relationship with the rec/park department and i hope this will reini havingerate the work so it can provide meaningful recommendations to both rec park as a department and commission. ultimately to the mayor and the board of supervisors as well to you know really get information and thoughts from the communities about how our rec and p facility and programs are run. the central focus here. thank you.

again, very much. >> thank you. just checking our caller line to see if there are speakers, there is nobody on the line for public comment. >> thank you, mr. clerk. public comment is now closed. and i would like it make a motion to send item 4 to the full board with positive recommendation. >> i believe that member safai made that. >> okay. >> okay. >> no problem. mr. clerk can we have i roll call on supervisor safai's motion >> on the motion to recommend. vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. thank you, unanimous vote item 4 prosac member moves to the full board with positive recommendation. >> mr. clerk do we have further business. >> that completes our agenda. we are adjourned.

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impact on my chinese business. >> i'm the founder of joe-joe. i'm a san francisco based chinese artist. i grew up in the bayview district. i am from china i started at an early age i started at age of 10 my grandfather my biggest inspiration. and i have followed with my traditional art teacher in china:i host educational workshops at the museum and local library. and i also provide chinese writing in public middle school and that way i hold more people fall in love with the beautiful of our chinese calligraphy.

it is a part of our heritage. and so we need to keep this culture alive. hand writing is necessary field that needs to be preserved generation toieneration. this art form is fading away. but since covid i have been very dedicated to this art and i hope that my passions and serving this art form. there are many stores and shopping centers and companies that are interested in chinese cal iing ravi. i feel motivated to my passion for chinese calligraphy in today's world. so people can always enjoy the beauty of chinese calligraphy,

from time to time i have a choice to traditional chinese calligraphy to make it more interesting. we do calligraphy on paper. i can do calligraphy different low. >> my inspiration is from nature and provide calligraphy that was popular style of persons time. i will invite to you check out my website or instagram. and there is some events and updated upcoming events that you can participate. >> 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. >> it's about celebrating tlc, bringing in new years by visiting temple and giving to the monks. >> it's about inclusivity. >> it's about keeping family traditions. >> it's about hindi culture. >> it's about your heritage and knowing your roots. >> it's about culture sharing. >> about thes it reconnecting with my past. >> it's about celebrating heritage for api. >> it's about learning the culture differences and finding ways to celebrate them. >> it's about being proud of yourself. >> it's about keeping tradition alive from my parents to my son from chinese new year to celebrating the holidays. >> it's about recognizing and celebrating our culture

richness and the importance of inclusion. >> for a brighter and just future. >> let's celebrate aapi heritage month by writing our own history for the future and remembering our past. >> you're watching san francisco rising with chris manners. today's special guest is katy tang. [♪♪♪] >> hi. i'm chris manners, and you're watching san francisco rising, the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and revitalizing our city. with us today is katy tang, and she's talk to -- talking to us about assistance and services provided to local businesses.

can we talk about the role of the office of small business? many small businesses are struggling to help. how can you help? >> director tang: we are here as the city's central point of information for all things small businesses, so we can help people start, stay, and grow in the city. if you want to start a small business, we can pair you up with small business advisors, who can talk you through your business plan, help you develop it, whether it's regulatory requirements, business permits, and just help you understand the journey that was up ahead. and if you'd like to stay in san francisco and perhaps your business is facing challenges, we can also pair you with a business advisor who can assess your business needs and figure out whatside that would best help you. so for example, perhaps you need more marketing assistance

or you need to be connected to a loan, a low interest loan or a grant program, if that's available. those are services we can provide to you, whether you're starting out or trying to stay in san francisco. and of course, if you want to expand and grow into a new space, we can help assist you with that and help prepare you for the journey ahead. we have a team dedicated to assist you you with all the small business needs, all the requirements needed to help you establish your small business in san francisco. >> do you have an e.s.l. program for people who want to start small businesses? >> director tang: we have staff that can speak spanish and mandarin and cantonese, and we understand if english is not

your first language, it can be difficult, so we want to be as helpful as possible. >> excellent. i know that s.f. shines was created to help with restoring and improvement. can you tell us more about that? >> yes. it's run out of a sister development and it's much needed in the small business community. if you are trying to improve your storefront, whether it's outside, perhaps you want to make some interior improvements, a lot of times, that involves a lot of cost and resources to be able to do so. for example, you may need to hire an architect to submit drawings so you can get your work done. currently, s.f. shines is offer a pairing of business sign services. you can be paired up with an

architect to get your drawings done to help you start to do the actual work. we hope that people will stay tuned, and you can find out more information on our website. that's sfgov.org/osb. >> let's talk about the shared spaces program. it's been a huge success, and outdoor dining spaces are very popular. >> the shared spaces program, especially during the pandemic, really helped spaces survive. to have an outdoor space where people could safely gather was critical, and the office of small business has been working with these shared spaces during the pandemic. some may or may not have been

up to the city's code regulations, so department of public works and other departments have been trying to figure out what violations are and help businesses come into compliance. the planning department and the city have decided that they'll give businesses until 2023 to come into compliance. also in the meantime, for businesses that want to start new shared spaces, new parklets, that is still an on going program, a new program, so people can always submit their applications for shared spaces regardless whether they started one during the pandemic or not. >> do you anticipate there being other shared spaces programs in the future and how do small businesses go about

finding out about them? >> small businesses can find out about it by visiting our website, sfgov/osb or you can call 415-554-6134, and we can connect you with the planning department and other agencies that would be connected with the shared spaces programs. >> over the pandemic, businesses have been victimized by vandals and other crimes. how can you help them? >> the city offers a program called the vandalism relief fund, and this would allow businesses suffering from graffiti or broken windows to apply with the city through our neighborhood services division, and you could get up to 1,000

or 2,000 if you submit certain documentation, such as a photograph of the damage or a copy of the receipt or document showing the amount you paid for to correct the incident. we are so excited that the city now has a centralized permit center, where people can come and get their business done, hopefully, in the same day where there are several different agencies, ranging from department of building inspection, planning department, public health, fire department, all here to help people, whether you're building a new business or even new construction, to be able to, again, fit all of your appointments in one day and get things done quickly. so starting in may, our office of small business has actually started working out of 49 south

van ness at the permit center, and we have a team of two staff who are dedicated to helping small businesses through their permitting journey. so we do encourage people, you can come to the permit center or you can e-mail us at sfosb@sfgov.org, and you can communicate with our staff dedicated to helping you with your permitting needs. we hope that people will consider consulting with us before you even sign a lease so that we can help you on the path to success and understanding the journey of setting up a small business in san francisco. >> well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, miss tang. thank you for the time you've given us today. >> director tang: thanks for having me. >> and that's it for this show. we'll be back shortly. you've been watching san francisco rising. for sfgovtv, i'm chris manners.

thanks for watching. >> 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 >> i'm san francisco's first drag laureate and the first one in the world. the drag laureate program and the position is one this celebrates an artist for being the best in their craft and i'm proud to have received that xroel it it is afternoon ambassador role. a role that represents the

lbgtq+ community in san francisco the focus on the drag performers and trans-activists and performers in san francisco as well. when i heard the city was creating the drag laureate role i was so excited because it did foal like they were paying attention to us. and cared about when we gave culturally and economically to the city >> here is your new drag laureate for the city and county of san francisco! i'm getting the call from the mayor i was chosen was fantastic day. i will always remember. i thought that it would just be about the bay area. because of what happening in the world it became a national story. i hope it can shine a light on san francisco and how they take care of the drag community and

the lbgtq+ community. i hope that i can help carve out this position and create a role with programs and events this can be passed down to future drag laureate this is come after me and can set a stage and standard for what this program is in san francisco and national low and inner nationally. there is a rich history in san francisco. that the drag community has been part of. i'm very proud to follow in their footsteps and able to maintain what the drag community has done in the past and move forward with creating a bright future. my job is to elevate and celebrate >> i moved into my wonderful, beautiful, affordable housing

march 7th. i have lived in san francisco since i was two-years-old. i've lived in hunters view for 23 to 24 years now. my name is vlady. i use titus and i am the resident commissioner for the san francisco housing facility. from the very beginning, this whole transition of public housing and affordable housing was a good idea. but many, many residents didn't think it would ever actually happen. it's been a life changing experience. and i'm truly grateful for the whole initiative and all those that work on the whole sf

initiative. they've done a wonderful job accommodating the residents, who for many years have lived in delap tated housing. now they have quality housing. i was on a street where the living room and the kitchen and stairs. it wasn't large enough to accommodate. the children are grown. i had the accomplish of having a dishwasher in my home. i really like that. [laughter] i really like not having to wash dishes by hand. we still do it from time to time. the mayor's office has been a real friend to us, a partner. we know that our city supports us. i love san francisco. just to be able to stay in my community and continue to help the residents who live here and continue to see my neighborhoods move into new housing, it's been

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make public comment remotely, the best way to do so is by dialing (415)!a655-0001 and when prompted entering access code. 25995940771. and then press pound and pound again. you'll be able to listen to the meeting in real time when public comment is called for the item wish to speak on press star three to be added to the queue to speak. do

not press star three again or you'll be removed from the queue when the system says your line is unmuted, the live operator will advise that you will be allowed two minutes to speak. when your two minutes are up. we will move on to the next caller. calls be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. public comment for items on this agenda will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the legislative chamber and then afterwards from the remote speakers queue on the telephone line. thank you. thank you, mr. clerk. i'd like to excuse chairman tillman and commissioner ronan from today's meeting before calling. the next item is chair. i'd like to invoke rule 3.26 from the rules of order to limit total public comment for item to 30 minutes for today's meeting. each speaker will have two minutes to speak on a given item. mr. clerk, will you please call the next item item two approve the minutes of the june 27th, 2023 meeting. this is an action item . thank you, mr. clerk. i don't see anyone on the roster. can you please open public comment on this item. is there any

public comment? um, operated? we have any remote public comment on item two? checking for remote public comments. and there is no public comment. okay. with that, public comment is closed. colleagues, can i have a motion to move the minutes please? supervisor preston moves. is there a second? supervisor dorsey. thank you, commissioner dorsey. mr. clerk, please call the roll on this item on item two, commissioner chan chan absent commissioner dorsey. dorsey i commissioner garcia i vice chair melgar a margarita i commissioner peskin. peskin i commissioner preston preston i commissioner safai five absent commissioner stephanie stephanie i commissioner walton one i um. vice chair. the minutes are

approved. thank you so much, mr. clerk. please call the next item . item three community advisory committee report. this is an information item. thank you. i'd like to invite cac vice chair katz. siegel who is joining us remotely to give the cac report. welcome. ms. siegel hi. good morning, commissioners. thank you. vice chair at our june 28th meeting, we adopted a motion of support for amending the propel strategic baseline and adopting five year prioritization programs for paratransit street resurfacing and maintenance, pedestrian and bike facilities, maintenance and end tip members were also supportive of the fund allocation requests associated with those four programs. there was particularly interest in the street repair and cleaning equipment requests with questions from members about the large backlog of sidewalk and curb repair requests as well as the timeline for replacing all of the street sweepers in the

fleet on the sales force, transit center wayfinding request members wanted to know why the useful life of media players was so short and requested plans to improve wayfinding for the visually impaired at the transit center. the cac also voted to support the transport fund for clean air program of projects, though members had feedback for several projects for the short term biking facilities, members noted that few racks had been installed in the last three years in certain equity priority communities, particularly in the southern and southeastern neighborhoods, and requested that mta work with community based organizations to proactively install cultural and responsive bike facilities on the emergency ride home program . some members expressed concern about whether people are aware of the program and whether reimbursement is an accessible process and ask that both program and promotion and accessibility be improved to achieve the desired emissions

benefit. thank you so much and i'm available to answer any questions. thank you, miss siegel. do we have any questions? colleagues okay, mr. kirk, let's please open this item up for public comment. um, operated. do we have any remote public comment checking for remote public comment on item. three and there is no public comment. thank you. so this public comment is closed. mr. clerk, please call the next item . item four state and federal legislation update this is an action item we have mark watts from our sacramento. our sacramento advocate joining us remotely. welcome, mr. watts. good morning. good morning. um, thank you. vice chair and commissioners and staff have a

couple of small items that small items have a couple of items to present to you. first of all, i just want to update you again and remind you that the end of this week, july 14th, will be the beginning of the summer recess for the legislature and they'll be gone for an entire month, returning in august. and they'll be here for approximately a month at that point in time to wrap up the legislative session. and put bills on the governor's desk in terms of recommending the staff is recommending a position of support on senator wiener's measure. sb. 532. this is the measure that would add or authorize for several years a increase in the toll rates on the bridges to finance or fund or make money available to assist transit agencies. as this toll increase would be distributed by mtc. at this point, mtc is not taking position. they are taking a very

hard look at the language to make sure it's workable given the different layers of tolls and bonding that's out there. they have to be very careful, make sure it's going to be something that would be available if signed and put into law. the bulk of the funding is intended to be distributed to avoid service cuts, but there is opportunity for funding for safety, security and cleanliness improvements to be funded as well. there the bill does require now that funding should be prioritized for operators for providing service to the greatest number of folks, and that could benefit san francisco serving operators. the bill also requires equity based programs to mitigate the impact of the toll increase on low income drivers. the staff is making the commendation to you to support this. this is another of a credible near-term measure to

help address the transit fiscal cliff that we've been working under for the last several months in the legislature in particular, part mbta and caltrain would largely see some great assistance in closing their funding gaps. um, and with that would move on to the next item. but just remind you that that is an action item recommending support. um, in addition today the legislature, the senate judiciary committee is working on legislation including ab 645, which is the safety speed safety cameras. it came out of the senate transportation committee recently and it was democrat and voting and republicans voting no. so it's not generally a party line vote. um, and it's in

senate judiciary initially the committee was set to be starting this morning at 10:00. they divided the hearing into several categories. there's a group of bills that are being heard. first, there's a small group of bills that are being heard. vote only. and then there's a reconvening in the afternoon of 130. and at that point in time, at some point in 645 will be available to be presented by chair freeman from the assembly. your staff did get a letter in on this. um, i would mention that the, the support and opposition that's noted as formal is heavily weighted in the support column. right now bay area council is registered as a no vote as a no recommendation. a number of entities mainly mostly the cpas, the cmas, as well as transit agencies and public sector

support groups like transform it, etcetera, are supporting the measure. so you've got a great coalition. i will mention that at the close of last week's meeting in the transportation committee, senator wyman, senator wiener, did mention that he intends to have a bay area caucus meeting to discuss more in depth with all the members of the caucus. the provisions that are contained within the bill and to ensure that there's enough support within the caucus to continue moving forward, notwithstanding what's going on with the committees. so bring my presentation to a close and remind you that there's an action item on. 532. thank you so much, mr. watts. if there's no questions or comments from my colleagues, let's open this item up for public comment, please.

oh commissioner dorsey, thank you. thank you. vice chair melgar. i just wanted to enthusiast express my support for sb. three 532 earlier this summer, the state legislature thankfully reached a budget deal that closed some of the funding gap for bay area transit agencies, but there is still a persistent need for transit funding. cuts to transit have a disproportionate impact on my district, where the majority of our bay area transit agencies converge. and while there may be equity arguments that this is regressive, i think this is a bill that has a lot of important and thoughtful safeguards, including lowering the toll evasion fine to $5 and requiring mtc to study, design and implement an equity based program to mitigate the impacts . so i see this as also as an equity issue for what, 21st century urbanism should be and needs to be. it is an equity issue for low income people who

don't, many of whom don't drive like the 60% of california residents who make under $35,000 a year and who commute via public transit and all other households that can't afford to own or operate a car. so i want to make sure that we're doing this and i will be strongly in support, and i hope we can send a strong message of support as well. thank you, commissioner dorsey. commissioner chan thank you. i have a different perspective on this. i will be voting against this today to thinking about the bridge toll increase. is regressive and it's also the fact that i it has not been a very given the fact that the state already have provided a $5.1 billion bail out for our transit agency, the transit agencies, including our own, has not presented a concrete plan to tell us with this $5.1 billion already given by state legislators to be able to tell us what they can do to restore

the transit line that was lost and transit services that already lost and let's not forget, during the pandemic, our transit agency has received federal bailout, both local and bay area. so it is not a convincing argument for me to say let's increase bridge toll. i have yet to see the express lanes in south bay when it comes to the bridge to actually, again, collecting tolls has taken a positive impact out for especially low income residents and actually how that really is working out for them. it's not clear to me how we can say that there's equity when clearly even the transit public transit system, as well as those who need to drive to get to work, has not shown equity at all. so i will be voting against this proposal to increase bridge toll

today. thank you. okay if there's no more comments, let's open this item up for public comment. please. um, operator, can we check our public comment please? uh, excuse me. looks like. sorry, i read it. looks like we do have one in person comment. you ready for me? okay. thank you so much. i was just downstairs. the sheriff's cadet said i can't bring the sign in here. is that true? i've seen people bring in science over here and talk to the podium. she said there's absolutely no way you can bring this site into the building. i don't know if she's right or wrong. i mean, this is part of my body as far as i'm concerned. i'm wearing it. it's a it's a it's an item of clothing to me. so i don't think that that's pretty, you know, so that's those are some of the things i want to talk to you about. i couldn't get into the building. she said, i can't bring this sign in here. i don't know. the city attorney are you listening to me? is that is that

correct, sir? so i said i said, i'm going to put this. do you have a comment on. yeah yeah, yeah. i'm just i'm just speaking about the fact that i had a hard time getting in here. that's all right. well you have to keep your comments to the item that we're. absolutely. absolutely. but i just wanted some clarity on that because she said there's no way you can get. and i said, what? so i went back out. i went around the corner and then i came through the front door and i put it inside of my pocket. i put it inside my belt. and so that's how i got in. i'm not even i'm not even supposed to be here. so so this item right here, i heard about it, the state and federal legislation of the gavin newsom. i sent him an email. i texted him about this and he said, i don't give a shit. he said, i don't give a shit. he said, this transportation board is a mockery. it's fake. it's not real. it's bullshit. people are trying to push you around. it doesn't make sense to me, you know what i'm saying? so gavin, if you're out there, where are you? you came in my class one time and galileo. you talked to us. you remember that? i came in here. i try to help you in your

office, but you won't return my calls. you won't. you won't listen to my emails. you won't take my texts. i don't know what's wrong with you, man, but this. this mta board is. it is what it is. you know, i'm saying i couldn't get in here, bro. you know what i'm saying? so i. i'm having a hard time hearing, comprehending that fact that i can't get into this building. but the fact is, i'm going to be here. i'm going to sit here. i'm going to finish the meeting. i'm not just here to make my get on tv and leave. i want to listen to what you're saying. i want to provide an input. i want to i want to contribute. that's why i'm here. thank you. um operator, can we now check remote public comment? checking remote public comment for item four. hi. caller your two minutes begins now. good morning, vice chairman and commissioners roland, i'd like to associate myself with commissioner chance and comment and voice my opposition. to sb

532. i'm going to give you a couple of reasons. first of all is generally accept it. the current daytime population in downtown san francisco by about 200,000 people every day, everywhere. and this in turn has impacted local businesses and the tax revenues that they use to generate it also has impacted muni parking revenues because people are no longer driving downtown and increasing toll bridges is not going to help with the situation. i'd like to close off with caltrain. coincidentally, i wrote a letter to the board and giving an example of caltrain could permanently take themselves off the fiscal cliff by modifying the operations of the savings in

excess of $30 million a year. and i'm sure that some of the other agencies could do something similar to resolve their their current revenue shortcomings. thank you. thank you. public. there. more public comment. okay. thank you so much . colleagues, may i have a motion supporting this item? yes, commissioner dorsey, is there a second? commissioner stephanie seconds. mr. clerk, please call roll on item four, commissioner chan chan no. commissioner dorsey. dorsey i. commissioner garcia cardio i vice chair melgar i mcguire. i commissioner peskin. hi peskin i commissioner preston preston i commissioner safai absent. commissioner stephanie.

stephanie i commissioner walton walton i. there are seven eyes with commissioner chan dissenting. the motion is approved. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call the next item . item five adopt for 2023 prop l five year prioritization program and amend the prop l strategic plan baseline. this is an action item. thank you. we have camille joshua here, assistant transportation planner . welcome, miss garcia. all right. good morning, commissioners. i'm camille kushwaha, assistant transportation planner, tv. i'm going to be pulling up my slides and it says that i'm sharing the screen. okay. should be.

all right. as a reminder, the expenditure plan requires development and board approval of a five year prioritization programs or five types as a requisite to allocation of funds from a given program, along with the adoption of the prop strategic plan. this slide illustrates the iterative process we go through every five years to identify the projects that will receive prop l funding in the next five years in step one, the cac and board approved the strategic plan baseline, which established how much prop l funding is available to each expenditure plan program by fiscal year through 2053. this is akin to setting the sales tax budget for each program. today's item is focusing on step two, during which we identify the

projects to be funded over the next five years for each program. as part of the five types. the item before you today is to adopt the first group of five types, which includes four of 28 programs. this is a small group with some time sensitive needs. let me quickly remind you of the process we go through. we collect information from the board, the cac and public engagement and use prioritization criteria to rank the projects to be funded in the next five years as part of the project evaluation process. we are looking for full funding plans. if leveraging is sufficient and we evaluate requests from sponsors to accelerate or advance sales tax funds for certain projects. as the project lists, firms up, we put that information into our strategic plan model, which estimates financing costs, and then we provide that info back to sponsors and see if there is more money available for projects or if they've gone over budget when financing costs are considered. then we work with project sponsors to make adjustments to stay within the amount of available sales tax

funds for each program. the five tips include more than just the list of projects to be funded over the next five years. the five guidance materials were approved by the cac and board last month. these are some of the elements, so leveraging prop l funds against non prop l fund sources is necessary to fully fund the expenditure plan programs for each five wip we provide the expenditure plan program description of eligible project types and project sponsors and highlight leveraging expectations established in the 30 year expenditure plan. the performance measures are used to inform future five types. the project delivery snapshot lists open grants, delivery issues and agency actions to address those issues. the cac and board approved prioritization criteria last month as part of the five wip development guidance. we look at, we look at how well the proposed project meet the criteria and how the project information supports the scoring

. the five year project lists includes proposed programs and cash flow by fiscal year criteria for scoring and anticipated leveraging of non prop l funds. and finally, project information forms include scopes, schedules, costs, funding plans and other supplemental information to support project evaluation. an important part of the five types is the guidance on how to select projects for which we use prioritization criteria. there are some criteria that are required by the expenditure plan for every five wip there prop l wide criteria such as relative level of need or urgency, which is tied to meeting timely use of fund requirements and there are program specific criteria such as safety, which have a tailored definition for each program. we've used most of these criteria before, but our expenditure plan advisory committee provided specific feedback on the third and fourth prop l wide criteria reflecting the importance of community support and equity considerations to the committee

. next, we'll go over the these 4 or 5. we five types that are recommended for approval today. first, we have paratransit paratransit funds. the broker who administers paratransit services in san francisco. this includes annual funding to support paratransit service at 13 million in fiscal year 2324, with an annual inflationary increase anticipated leveraging at 61% is good, but below expected leveraging due to fiscal challenges facing sf. mta impact sources that support their operating budget. for instance, in the first year we allowed mta to use about 2 million and cost savings from prior year sales tax funds to reduce their operating budget contribution. we recognize the fiscal challenges facing mta resulting from the city's slow recovery from the pandemic and the impact of remote work both of which are depressing the general fund fare revenues and other sources that support their operating budget. we will work with mta to improve leveraging

by increasing their contribution and seeking other funding sources. there are two sub programs for street resurfacing and rehabilitation and maintenance. the first is repaving and reconstruction of city streets. propel provides roughly 1.6 million per year for paving projects which is part of a much larger paving program. propel is not the only source we contribute to street resurfacing . we also program 50% of the vehicle registration fee or prop to and other state and federal sources to street resurfacing projects and larger projects with street resurfacing elements. you can see the proposed projects on the slide. an example of a specific criteria that public works uses to prioritize projects is the pavement condition index. additionally, projects on streets that have transit and bike facilities rise to the top of the priority list. leveraging for proposed paving projects is good at 64% and 98% for the

entire five year period. as shown in your enclosure, which exceeds the expected leveraging in the expenditure plan. the second sub program is replacement of street repair and cleaning equipment. this is a type of project that is very difficult to find funding for. so it's really prop l in the general fund contributing to it. the anticipated leveraging for fiscal year 2324 is 88, including propel and the general fund. there are two sub programs for pedestrian and bicycle facilities maintenance. the first is public works, public sidewalk and curb repair program. this is an annual program that funds non tree related damage for public sidewalks and curbs. the need to advance funds is due to lower fund availability in the first five years and public works desire to maintain the annual maintenance program. the first three years have better leveraging as public works has proposed an increased tda article three match using a

surplus accumulated from prior years. the second sub program is mta's bicycle facilities maintenance program. this program funds data good repair work to preserve safety, the need to advance funds reflects growth in the amount of quick builds, slow streets and bike network improvements. there is no fund leveraging for this sub program and we will work with mta to identify matching fund sources to increase leveraging and finally, we have the neighborhood transportation program five wip, the transportation authority developed the neighborhood program in 2014 under prop k. it was created in response to mobility and equity analysis findings from the san francisco transport plan 2040 and to the public and this board's desire for more focus on neighborhoods, especially in equity, priority communities and other underserved neighborhoods. the neighborhood program guidelines are up for approval as part of this five wip, the five wip project list includes

placeholders for projects and funding for neighborhood program coordinators. priority is given to recommendations from community based plans in all propel programs and many discretion fund sources. leverage for this program is yet to be determined. the intent is to set up a pipeline pipeline of projects to be competitive for other fund sources. as we do not expect the 700,000 per district to pay for everything and now, as a part of the iterative process, we are recommending to amend the strategic plan baseline paratransit fund advancement was previously integrated into the baseline. two of the programs we talked about today need advancing over the baseline pedestrian and bicycle facilities, maintenance in the neighborhood transportation program. five types. these are relatively small programs with relatively modest advancement requests. so the impact on overall debt needs is correspondingly small about a 2.4% or $15.1 million increase in debt costs estimated in the

baseline. we have to be thoughtful about which programs we recommend advancing funds for and pay close attention to which projects are ready. looking at aspects such as full funding plans, good leveraging capacity to deliver, and more, we are continuing outreach and public engagement efforts and will bring a summary of outreach findings to the cac and board this fall. and looking ahead in october and november, we will bring the remaining 24 or 5 types to the cac and board in two separate rounds for approval . and then in november and december we will bring the final 2023 prop strategic plan to the cac and board for approval. and with that, i'm able to answer any questions. and we also have project managers from public works and mta available and gov tv. i have finished my presentation. thank you so much, miss. are there any questions or comments? colleagues okay. with

that, let's take public comment on this item please. mr. clerk, is there any public comment in chambers. i remember. i remember these are prop l funds. i remember prop bell very well. all of us remember prop bell, right? it was on the ballot, right. when did it come out? do you guys know? you guys know the genesis of when it came out? when did prop bill come out? was it for you to do this? was this was it was prop l made for this board to be doing what it is now with it street resurfacing? is that what we come down to. i don't know. are we using brute force here? is that we're using brute force to lock up, propel.

to erase it. that's not how prop l started prop was big, big, big, big proposition. it was a big proposition. it was a strong proposition. it was a good proposition. it was a proposition that can do what it deem necessary for itself. it was a it was a proposition that could do what it needed to be done. but you guys got no faith in it. you guys got no faith in it. you bring it up a presentation here. you you talking about jargon to the people of san francisco. you're talking about jargon to the people of san francisco. people don't understand what you're talking about in this presentation. you call out acronyms. you call them up percentages. you're talking about statistics. what are you talking about, man? we don't know all we know is that what you're doing is wrong. what are you doing is wrong with this

proposition? it's not what it's not what it was made out to be. it's not what the people voted for. you're perverting it. you're making it into something that ain't. you i don't know what kind of package going down now, you see, i don't know what. what what kind of party going down, man. you know what i'm saying? so the city got to know about that. thank you. operator. is there any remote public comment? checking or remote public comment on item. five and there is no public comment. okay. with that, public comment is now closed. colleagues, can i please have a motion to approve this item. is there a second? as commissioner dorsey thank you. please call the roll. mr. clerk

, on item five, commissioner chen chen i. commissioner dorsey . dorsey i commissioner garcia gado i vice chair melgar i margaret i commissioner peskin. peskin i commissioner preston preston i commissioner sapphire. sapphire i commissioner stephanie. stephanie i commissioner walden one i there are nine eyes. the motion is approved. thank you, mr. clerk, please call the next item. item six, allocate $998,000 an appropriate $100,000 and prop l funds with conditions and allocate $300,000 and prop funds for four requests. this is an action item. thank you. we have an olive for deputy director for policy and program. welcome. ms. laforge thank you. chair melgar and thank you board members. i'm very pleased to present the first of the prop l allocate actions today and i'd also one prop a vehicle registration fee request and allocation of these

funds can now happen that the board will have adopted the five year prioritization programs that you heard about in the prior item. so the first request is from public works. this is to replace a street sweeper that has reached the end of its useful life and this is to improve safety and reduce police in. those are some of the benefits are funding from prop l complements the general fund support for public works as equipment replacement program to the tune of about $2.5 million in this coming fiscal year. public sidewalk repair is also from a request from public works. this is an annual program that's focused on the non street tree related sidewalk damage and curb repair and the tree related

damage to sidewalks is funded through a general fund set aside that was approved in 2016, which is prop e from the tree maintenance fund. so this request is for prop l funds that would match state to rda article three funds and the repairs are to damaged areas that are caused by trucks driving up on the curbs. old age heavy equipment, vehicular accidents and poor construction in the packet of materials of that are that are included that is in your packet . there is a list of the backlog of locations where the public has requested or folks have determined that repairs are needed. the locations are organized by supervisor district and also by the date of the request. so you can get a feel for what the backlog looks like. and it's a thousand locations and that this will repair about 200 of those. the neighborhood

transports program request is from sf, cta and also sf, mta. this is the funding to support the neighborhood program coordinator role at each agency . we work with supervisor missouri supervisors offices, implementing agencies, community stakeholders to identify, develop and support delivery of projects under the prop l neighborhood program. so as you heard in the prior item, we have updated the prop k neighborhood program guidelines to reflect the prop l expenditure plan and that the guidelines will be approved as part of the five wip. there are $700,000 per district over the five year program to support community based neighborhoods, scale transportation projects over the next five years and we look forward to working with your office to advance the many neighborhood program projects that are underway. funded by

prop k and exploring project ideas to make the best use of these funds and to develop a pipeline of projects in your communities as. this last request is from the vehicle registration fee from a this is for the transbay joint power authority sales force transit center wayfinding phase one be this project is part of a larger wayfinding plan that the jpa is implementing for this particular phase. it will replace 100 of the 300 or so media players. these are the computer media players behind the kiosks at the center and they're the interactive and non interactive kiosks throughout the center. and so it will support a better user experience for visitors and also will help to prevent the outages that currently occur

with the existing media players. this project is in support of regional wayfinding for mtc that under current guidelines and also under the new guidelines that we're expecting mtc to be releasing to ensure seamless transportation access across the bay area and with that i can take any questions and we have project managers here. thank you . miss leppard. are there any questions or comments? colleagues, supervisor or commissioner walton no. okay, let's open up this item for public comment then. do we have any public comment in the chambers looking like we do not ? so, operator, do we have any remote public comment checking for remote public comment on

item. six call caller begins now . hello again. vice chair commissioners roland branson. jose i'd like to very quickly elaborate on the comment that cac made earlier about enhancing wayfinding for the visually impaired. i was at the cac meeting and the response from the response from the jpa is that they would need additional funding and i think i'd like to point out to them is that this effort is being handled right now at the state level by calistoga, california. and it's a collaboration with google. and my recommendation to the jpa is to reach out to the cal itp team

that's in charge of that project or cal state when they do, they will discover that one of the prime people working on the project is none other than the city's jurgen jillette, and that concludes my remarks. thank you . thank you. caller. there is no more public comment. thank you, colleagues. is there a motion for this? item number six, commissioner walton thank you so much. supervisor melgar. just real quick, a quick question. where does this one new streets weeper get deployed? my understanding is that citywide, if there's anyone from public works that would like to add to it, it would be deployed as part of the fleet. thank you. okay,

colleagues, could i have a motion to approve this item, please? commissioner walton, is there a second? commissioner okay, go ahead and call the roll, please. mr. clerk. um, vice chair, would you like to take the same house? same call? without objection? sure same call. um, let's call the next item, please. item seven, approve the fiscal year 2023, 2024. transportation fund for clean air program of projects. this is an action item. uh, we have mike pickford here. welcome, mr. pickford. thank you. just need to share my slides as i said of tv, you should be able to see the slides at this point. all right. so the transportation fund for clean air is funded by $4 per vehicle surcharge on motor vehicle registrations in the bay area and is intended to fund projects that improve air quality by reducing motor vehicle

emissions. 60% of funds are managed by the air district for their regional grant programs, including shuttles and zero emissions fleet vehicles. 40% of tfc funds are managed by the counties with the transportation authority administering the program. here in san francisco, as the county program manager, we program 7 to $800,000 in new revenue annually to projects and we assist sponsors in pursuing those regional grant funds as well for this year's call for projects, we had about $887,000 available and by the deadline we received four eligible applications requesting about $881,000. we were mildly disappointed with this response , but we have heard feedback from sponsor agencies that the strict requirements of tfc, including cost effectiveness limits, make it difficult to develop eligible projects. all funds must be programed to projects by november or we risk losing them back to the air district or the air district sets the eligibility requirements for this competitive program. and so to

develop our recommendation, we first evaluate the applications by screening them based on those requirements. and as mentioned, all projects must fit within the rules for a project type established and the cost effectiveness threshold established by the air district . air district policies do not include prioritization guidance , but our local expenditure criteria, which were approved by the board in february, instruct us to prioritize applications by looking at factors including project type emissions, reduced the readiness of the project, especially as most projects are expected to be completed within two years. here is the priority order for a project types from the local expenditure criteria and here are the four applications we received. we are recommending fully funding the emergency ride home program, taxi vehicle electrification and taxi ev infrastructure and programing to the remaining available funds to mta short term bike parking project which

our recommendation is slightly more than the $417,000 request. and that's again to use the full amount of funds available and ensure that no funds are lost. now, i'll briefly describe the projects, the emergency ride home program furthers san francisco's transit first policy by incentivizing commuters to use sustainable commute modes by providing a subsidized taxi ride home in case of personal emergency such as a sick kid at school or a flat tire on your bike. we've supported this program for many years. the proposed funding in this budget includes paid paid marketing efforts to increase program awareness and for this year there's a one time increase of about $28,000 compared to last year's program. sfe would use these funds to conduct additional marketing and outreach, which it expects to increase participation in the program by about 20. we will work closely with sfe on this enhanced outreach and we will explore coordinating and

leveraging other transportation demand management efforts. we will also work to build more effective partnerships between sfe and transit operators such as bart and muni that can help promote emergency ride home as a way to encourage more people to return to transit at the next project is mta short term bike parking. this would plan, design and install 1217 bike racks around san francisco. the locations of the bike racks are selected by request or proactively by as if mta project managers working on corridor projects and in high demand equity priority community locations. in your packet, there's a map of recently installed locations over the last three years, i believe. as i mentioned, after discussing with mta, our recommendation is to include slightly more than they requested amounts to avoid losing any funds. the next project is taxi electrification vehicles. this would fund a rebate program to encourage taxi

owners to purchase evs for use as taxi cabs. the grant is expected to fund about 21 rebates purchase of a new ev could qualify for about $3,700. however, higher rebates would be available if the taxi company is also able to scrap an older vehicle. the value of the rebate may depend or would depend varying on the age of the vehicle being scrapped. so the mta says the average age of a taxi in the fleet is about 2012. so that would qualify for about $9,500 as a rebate. and the rebates would be provided until the funds are exhausted to complement that ev vehicle project. and incentivize electrification of the taxi fleet. sf mta would also propose to use funds to pay for rebates of up to 90% of the cost of procurement and installation work for two ev fast chargers for shared taxi fleets. the exact locations are to be determined, but they will be at taxi yards within san francisco

as of mta expects each charger will cost approximately $90,000 for equipment and installation. with that, i'm happy to answer any questions and we have project managers on the line. thank you, mr. pigford. commissioner chan thank you, vice chair. mayor and just wanted to understand and as we know that there are taxi medallion holders in the city, how would they be prioritized? are they a first come, first serve basis for these retrofit or for these electric vehicles? all right. that's my understanding. is there a mta staff member on the line who would like to provide additional details? yes. this is maurice barnes from the mta thames division and the. rebate funds will be made available on a first come, first serve basis. they have in previous years. um, and that would include being eligible for purchase medallion

owners as well. thank you. thank you commissioner. are there any other questions or comments? colleagues okay. seeing none, let's go to public comment on this item, please. mr. clerk, do we have any public comment in the chamber. i tried very hard to listen to this presentation and a very hard to understand person speaking, very low voice , and it's not easy to understand what they're saying. what are you talking to? the city people ought to know. you ought to slow down and listen and speak to the people, to the regular people. you're not just addressing these board members that got elected. you're talking to the city. there are people there, moms, dads, the people who have hard of hearing, who have different ability, who

can't understand what you're saying. when you're talking that fast. i'm sure you were in some college. you know, pressing your professor somewhere, but this ain't that place. are people hurting in this city? there are people hurting in the city. they want you to slow down, explain to them, like their fifth grader. there's a bike rack somewhere. they want to put up. okay. wouldn't that. what's next? they want to clean the air . okay. what's next? they want to rip the car with the rid the street of cars. okay, what's next? we got clean air after that. okay. what's the mom and dad? the senior citizen in the and the sros in different places who come here and listen to you ? what's their take from this? they're takers. you just hear it for yourself. that's what you all are here for. who who? who's representing me? at the end of the day, who's looking out for my interests in me. it ain't you or ain't this guy. it ain't her. it ain't ain't one of you who was looking out for me. you know what i mean? ain't nobody here

looking out for me. you are looking for yourselves. that's what i think is going on. so what i'm trying to understand is how does this transportation fund affect me? i can't drive. i see my car. he took my license. he took my everything, you know, because they're all seeing they're all seeing the very powerful they're big people are looking down this road. this you know, they go around for us right? yeah. but listen, that's all i want to say. slow down. we want to hear what you're talking about. okay thank you. do we have any other public comment in the chambers? if not, let's go to remote public comment. checking for remote public comment for item seven. and there is no public comment. okay thank you. public comment is closed. colleagues, may i have a motion to approve this item?

commissioner preston seconded by commissioner dorsey. commissioner safire has stepped out of the room, so we have to take a roll call. please on item seven, commissioner chen, i. chen i. commissioner dorsey. dorsey. i commissioner and garcia. so no. excuse me. uh, vice chair melgar i melgar i commissioner peskin i peskin i commissioner preston present i commissioner sapphire i sapphire i commissioner stephanie stephanie i commissioner walton . well, neither are nine i the motion is approved. thank you. please call the next item. item eight approve the revised procurement policy and travel conference training and business expense reimbursement policy. this is an action item. thank you. welcome miss fong, for presenting on this item. thank you. cynthia fong, deputy director for finance and administration. what i have before you is a pure administrative item today. you may recall back in april 2023, i

brought before this board all the to governing policies for update, but at the direction of chairman, we held back on two policies. the procurement policy and our travel policy as the city was going through an update on their san francisco admin code for chapter 12 x. we typically review our policies on a periodic basis as a best practice with help from our legal teams. we are looking to conform to changes with local government or tenancies, provide additional clarity and flexibility and to reflect any changes that have happened since our last update, our last update was back in september 2020. in this updates, i have mainly minor changes to wording within the documents. in addition, we have two highlights. one is to remove restrictions from entering into contracts where companies are headquarters in states that discriminated against lgb individuals or have restrictive abortion laws. in

addition, we are also asking to update or increase our threshold within the policies from 75,000 to 100,000 and for entering contracts with goods, goods, services and consulting help within this policy. we are also asking to allow our executive director to enter into contracts up to $100,000. we have not changed this amount for over 15 years and this is consistent with other transportation authorities in the bay area. with that, i'm happy to take any questions or comments. thank you. thank you. miss fong, are there any questions or comments? commissioner commissioner chan i just wanted to raise the questions around commissioner reports specifically for amendments for the travel expense travel conference training and business expense reimbursement policy. so is that correct that instead of a written report that now is changed into an oral report from just from the chair reporting the commissioner travel

expenses? yes, that is okay. so besides an oral report excuse me. i'm sorry. please go ahead. we have a comment. i think your mic is not on. hello. there we go. maria lombardo, chief deputy. i just wanted to clarify. the report would occur during the chair's remarks, but made by the board member who had traveled. understood. and but then we will not have a written report of the travel that would be optional. yes thank you. okay thank you. let's take a public comment on this item, please. mr. clerk, do we have any public comment in the chamber on item. eight thank you very much. thank you. so i enjoyed what this

individual presented here today about the expense and expenditure program as a procurement policy. but we citizens, we are we want you to explain to us like we're we're third graders. we want you to we want you to explain it to us like we're third graders because we want to know what is these are really big words. you know, we don't use these words in regular, everyday speech, everyday language. we don't use these words, you know, the words that come up item eight approve the revised procurement process here. man i got to break that word up into pieces. policy and travel conference training and business expense reimbursement policy. we revise and approve. we i don't know. i don't understand what that means. you buy a muffin somewhere is a senior executives buying muffins and hotel rooms. is this a difference between a five star hotel and a four star hotel? you guys stay out when you're traveling out of state for

business. we don't know. we don't know what all that means. but this is language you're using to obfuscate some realities. i think i don't understand what you're talking about. i i don't know what you're talking about. you ought to explain it to us like we're third graders. you know? so that's all i ask of you. a lot of things get stolen from you. i think your life gets stolen from you. we don't know where. you can't account for it. and i think it's ways like this that that happens. so why don't you explain to this city people what you're talking about? you know what i mean? we don't know. we're talking about we don't know. we're talking about. okay. so that's all we ask. nobody helping me. nobody helps me anywhere. anything. and this is a weird place to be. it's a weird place to be, i tell you that right now. it's a weird place to be. you know, i come here every day. i see you. i see everybody here every day. nobody helps you. it's weird place to be. i don't know what you're talking about, man. i don't know what you're doing. i don't know what your ultimate goal is, what your end goal is. i don't have no idea. that's why i'm here

until the end of the meeting. no. to find out what you. what you're going to get into at the end of day. thank you. do we have any other public comment in the chambers? seeing none. operator, can we check for a public comment? checking for remote public comment item. eight and if no public comment. thank you. thank you. public comment is closed. colleagues, can i have a motion for this item, please? commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner preston. let's call roll, please . on item eight, commissioner chan chan i commissioner dorsey dorsey i commissioner garcia cardio i commissioner melgar i margaret i commissioner peskin i peskin i commissioner preston preston i. commissioner safire, sci fi commissioner stephanie stephanie i commissioner walton one i there are nine eyes. the motion is approved. thank you, mr. clerk, please call the next

item. item nine internal accounting report investment report and debt expenditure report for the nine months ending march 31st, 2023. this is an information item. i thank you so much. this is your update to the financial status for the transportation authority as of march 31st, 2023, we had total assets of 170.9 million total liabilities of 206.1 million. now this also includes 194 million outstanding for our 2017 sales tax revenue bond. we have 20 we have total revenues of 99.6 million. this is very close to what we were expecting. we were just awaiting for some grant reimbursements that we have made over the past few months. we have total expenditure of 99.9 million, very close to revenues as well. we are waiting and expecting third quarter expenditures from our various sponsors. in addition, we have cash of 109.5 million. this represents 73.8%

in this treasury pool and is in compliance with our transportation investment policy. in addition to the government code in addition, debt compliance, we continue to make our regular bi annual payments for our outstanding 2017 sales tax revenue bond. in addition, we do not have any outstanding loans with our or us bank revolving credit loan agreement at this point at time as well. this is the update for the third quarter for fiscal year 2223. thank you. thank you so much. miss fong. are there any questions or comments? commissioners from miss fong okay, mr. clerk, let's take public comment on this item, please. do we have any public comment in the chambers? seeing none. operator do we have any remote public comment checking for a remote public comment on item. nine and there is no public comment. thank you so

much, mr. clerk. please call the next item. item ten introduction of new items. this is an information item. are there any new items to introduce commissioners? okay it doesn't look like it, mr. clerk, please call the next item. item 11 public comment. do we have any public comment in the chambers. at the end of the day, i just want you guys to just pay attention to me and. and understand that i'm in a lot of pain. i'm not here because i want to take up your guys's time or the you know, for any other reason to abuse this this privilege, this. right. i'm not here for any of that business. i'm just here to find out when is mta, when is when is empty? when, when is my train going to come? so i can be free? man, i want to be a free person. do you understand what i'm saying? i'm not free right now. i'm not free

to associate. i can't go up to anybody, talk to them. i can't go to the store to buy something. you know, i don't have $0.50 to put into bus terminal to get from one place to another. so so there's a lot of things going on at the you know, so there's a lot of stuff going on. i'm trying to find out why why i take the case, why am i best late? why is my bus late ? this bus is late. why is it late? we don't know. we don't know the bus never comes. waiting for godot never comes. you know. so. so why is it late? i mean, i'm just trying to hang down. i got no place to live. you know? so i'm being set up for something very bad to happen to me, you know? so i'm trying to just appeal to you better angels. i'm appealing to your sensibilities, to your heart, to your soul, to your mind, to your ethics. i'm appealing to your sense of ethics. okay is this this is ethical? is it ethical? is what you're doing ethical?

it's not ethical. it's not ethical. you know? so on that basis alone, i think is a transgression. but, you know, people i've you know, i just have a really hard time. i'm painted as a guy like you see me right now, crazy dude with sunglasses inside you know, that's how i'm painting. so i'm looked at. so why why am i bust late? why am i bust late? who? the people watching me who know, who see me every day? who knows why? why? why? why? you know. so thank you. thank you. any other public comment in the chambers? uh, seeing none. operator, can we check for a public comment, please? checking for remote public comment on item 11. hi. caller your two minutes now. hey good morning. this is barry toronto. i happen to turn it on. turn on the cta meeting by chance and hear that there are

some tax related items. unfortunately, the mta does not inform the taxi industry of the special project that are wonderful. that would help. that would help encourage the use of taxis and also do to which excuse me, improve taxi availability, etcetera. but we're the last ones to find out. is there any way that the cta could directly communicate with the taxi stakeholders like the san francisco taxi workers alliance can help promote these programs or help work with you for feedback because you ask the question, of course. barnes which he does great work, but we're the last ones to find out because his bosses are are not sharing with us that these programs are being worked on and existing and we could be participate in the preparation of bids or or rfps and by providing feedback, we're not we're not giving the opportunity to provide feedback. it would be

wonderful if the cta staff could directly communicate with the sf taxi workers alliance so we could help communicate with the taxi industry that these programs will be will be in operation. the emergency ride home program. i knew it existed previously, but i didn't know it. now and it would be great if that taxi drivers drivers could be updated on the program and how it works. thank you very much for your time and thank you for approving these wonderful programs, these wonderful subsidies that we have knew nothing about. thank you very much. thank you. caller. there is no more public comment. thank you so much, mr. clerk. please call the next item. item 12 adjournment. we are adjourned. thank you.

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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) . >> thank you, everyone. um, for 32nd we're to grateful you've joined us more to historic mentally ill and in disability and affordable housing i'm already crying and we've not started yet (laughter) today it groundbreaking the kelsey civic center can i get another rounding.

>> (clapping). >> wow. >> my name is ali and i used the pronounce and really proud to lead our policy work at the kelsey before we continue with today's program i'd like to share the beginning the development process for the kelsey civic center we reached out to um, the association of the racism who joined us before we moved in the construction we got to work with them to develop a development i'll share with you today. we recognize the kelsey civic center is on the tribal homeland of ramaytush ohlone people and who are the okay. people the san francisco. we honor the ramaytush ohlone for their non-stop commitment and career care for the plan. >> and as guests we declare their rights for people and pay

our respect to the ann she was and people the ramaytush ohlone community we will do this by having an active relationship with them and with the land. as the housing community road in forget and accessibility and executive session and subsequent we learn from and right the indigenous knowledge of land and in how we care for the land each other and the neighborhood. now i'm going to turn it over to isaac to take us us further

today. >> (clapping). >> my name isized came back and i'm the communication analyst at the cal and san francisco resident and for today's programming thank you to everyone who made this project possible and i'm excited for this project to become a reality. because it gives people who need it access to affordable housing and projects like these are projects like the kelsey civic center is so important to the city of and the united states and california thank you for joining us and celebrating with us i like to welcome our first speaker the mayor the san francisco london breed. >> (clapping). >> yeah. >> board of governors i'm the

first speaker. i thought i had more time here. >> first of all, it really is great to be here a took me a long time to get here from across the street but this area had an old art commission building some of might remember that and the property around here always thought what if we need the something different and the visionary leadership that came as a result what we see happening here today is something that is not only remarkable but a really blessing to a community that is not always made the priority when housing in this particular affordable housing is built i want to express any appreciation to the person who this property is named for kelsey o'connor we

know those who no her personally an advocate fought for opportunity in places like san francisco to make sure that the investments we were making that the work we were doing translated into actual results to preserve the community that need is so much and so one hundred and 12 units two bedroom and studio units, um, community rooms and programming and an opportunity for people to live in dignity. and i want to really acknowledge and thank so many of the folks i have a team of people that work for the city may not be recognized they're the behind the scenes people doing the work to put the money together to make sure the projects move forward to do what had takes to get state resources and other things and start with

the mayor's off the house and community development and the mayors officer of disabilities thank you for your advocacy and the mayor's office homelessness and supportive service and the person in chair of our work around in-home supportive services for the community kelly think i saw here her earlier and as you can see those are people who have worked in the community to deliver for this community in various capacity but this project becomes a special it is something special because it means people will have a safe affordable places our governor and the amazing i'm happy combes

to have it here he worked with the governor's office and here's the thing the governor loves san francisco but unless? something in anyone that is possible for the resources that loves san francisco too i don't know if san francisco would be getting as much money as we've been able to get in the stated as we got because of people like his leadership and at the state so projects like this where this will be about $507 million to support this particular project as well as other affordable housing projects in the bayview hunter point and project homekey is incredible to help us purchase buildings that are are people trying to put san francisco down and talk about what we're not doing and what is happening in san francisco but this story today paints a

different picture that is talks what is great about san francisco. it talks about how we look at where interesting is a need with almost 200,000 people in san francisco who are part of our senior and disabled community we are finally start through the dignity resources investing in housing programs and opportunity to insure we don't just say we want people to live in the city but make it possible. so i'm existed about that project working with our various partners to make that happen and j.p. morgan chase thank you for stepping up the kelsey developers i'm looking forward to more partnerships like this and again, gus staff and the mayor's office of housing and community development it takes a village a project like this to make that

happen this village is strong and impacts the lives of so many people thank you all more joining us here today. >> (clapping.) >> (sirens) >> thank you, mayor. breeding and like to introduce you're next speaker. simple (sirens) gus to have the director of california depth of housing development. yeah. >> thank you good afternoon, everyone buenos dias thank you, ali great to be here with all of you. >> thank you, ma'am mayor and she was talking about a picture

how important this picture is i thought about a great, great picture and turn to your left you'll see that big piece of equipment. that what it does it digs in order to set a foundation for who what one hundred and 22 new homes and look to the right of that and further in that is beautiful building symbolize the decision maker of the highest level of the city i want to say you see this very, very symbolic because this is a fact. the last three years if you between 2019 and the 2019-2020 the city of san francisco has permitted for new

construction like permitted one hundred and 22 new homes here though new units. >> (clapping). >> that's how much the housing san francisco has permit i say that because the mayor said a lot of complaints and like to, no. the glass half full of those 13 thousand more than 35 hundred three 200 have bang set up by low income people in san francisco. >> and this is another example of, you know. the city stepping you think and providing the leadership it is the mayor and we have to make sure that we have the entire city leadership behind this tiff things, as you can see concern about the delay

it takes for this new homes for permitted and entitled to be you permitted and built. but that is progress being made the mayor has put toeshth really, really that i have am what the state of california is reviewing and what is made and under the mayors leadership we believe we have made more progress way, way beyond the 13 though homes in san francisco and the kelsey this partnership so unique; right? represents the commission of the project and the stifshg will be to achieve affordability and accessibility and inclusive and a few years back i was working in d.c. at the u.s.

department of housing and urban development and the had the honor to serve to lead the fair housing agenda for this administration and not everyone go knows this but the distribution in housing decision in the housing market a more prevalent against people with disabilities than any other group in in country any other group in the country we are successful to try to use this go out there in the city of los angeles back in the day and partner with the chief but makes the city retrofit more than 3000 unions of housing have been built in violation of the disability arrangements and what we have here is the last piece

of equipment starting for the ground and doing the right thing cross point one from the very start. and that's would have to do i hear i'm aware of the federal law in terms of the - limit for mobility, um, challenges for example, no, no, no this is not like this here. this is about actually much more over what the flow is and that's what we should see in owe project we are building new housing (clapping) i remember back in the day with the city leadership in la and they were like thanks they would say this is going to kill our budget the retrofitting will be costing hundreds of millions and see that a little bit different

we are here reversing injustice and just so that that way massage establishment to be deserve a good place to leave and that continues but here not city of san francisco doing way, way over the project and kelsey and mercy every single partner and contributions it is important for us $6.02 programs the cap and trade that is all about creating housing we are safe compliment goals and that program is important it really what it is the proximity the future residents of the cooling state will have for everything they need and if 2023 want to

get married across the street (laughter). >> i mean all the services they'll need going forward will be here. >> that is what the a hsa affordable housing is all about and $37 million to the cap and trade program like california health net an invention of governor himself so many housing that is done already because of congress has not be able to there for california every other state the availability of tax exempt credits we need to step up and provide normally $2 billion to 7 projects cross the state that is shovel ready and cal is one kelsey is one of them. >> so with that, i want to say

it is privilege to be here celebrating with all the amazing partnerships and i look forward to return to welcome the residents to the better day i'll be here with the mayor. thank you. >> (clapping.) >> thank you, director vascular quiz our next people housing director really federal bank renee dare. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> hi, everyone oh, my goodness look at crowd i'm randy with mercy housing and honored to be representing the partners one half of the partnership kelsey to the center as you can see fans the kelsey you know that is kelsey is an organization the

staff and board and all of the support of la you have an incredible vision mercy housing we're honored you picked us to help us to execute our business i think one of the stories that i think everyone one has a story one of the stories popped up was one is how that vision turned into like an aggregate action. basically, we quota to this point here with that big drill in four years from the time the city said hey we have a site and opportunity to be innovative and to get to hear aftertime for the funding and working with the city through the process and expediting that and the partnership with all the agencies help to make sure this piece of land with all it's

complications allowed us to get permitted today is incredible and so i said to applaud everyone who worked on that and you have a hand in and many of the city folks the designers and, of course, the team and the want to take a moment to acknowledge some of those folks and quite and list i know i'll not get everybody i want to call out the amazing partners at the kelsey makayla and: >> (calling names). >> kudos for pushing us and picking this site across from city hall a great opportunity and mercy housing team and we have folks who are part of the property management team have been working with the kelsey staff and will continue to see to really figure out how to make

sure this truly is an inclusive community for people as they live here want so kudos to really and sharon and barbara and shawn and others for for all your work. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> and chris is our consultant and helps us to insure we are getting the best housing quality in all the design and scenario permitting and contractors and amazing team there. >> (calling names.) >> and the other teams and, of course, the design team i know i'll not get everyone but have. >> (calling names.) >> shout out to the exploreers providing the arts i think the

artist is here stacey green to (clapping) and you'll be part of building as well and um, the knack land acquisition land spot a team from the reality department so. >> (calling names.) >> and the department of environment. >> (calling names.) >> the mcbain family and help us with the mapping and the subdivision thanks to that team. (clapping) and then over the course we have the mayor's office of housing the amazing team lead by director shaw and for those working on the funding to support the. >> (calling names.) >> and thank you for the help on permitting and the planning department was really making

sure that we could move as quickly as we possibly 0 could to meet the deadline that was talked about with the 35 approvals in 90 days that is great and thank you for your help on that and (clapping) and sb 35 and the successor to make sure that to that and thanks to the amazing team of linda our attorney and financial consultant angel to make sure we got the various sources and j.p. morgan chase as london breed said providing the financing and the mayor office of housing and the acd and others housing trustee of silicon valley hoping they're here and we have vouchers from the hud and the

golden capacity center attributed to the capital improvement and thank you and the other foundation we have a lot of stakeholders involved including public health this together and have to take a moment to depress our gratitude and those of i and mention kudos for your work and making sure that vision came to fruition, thank you. (clapping). >> thank you, director dare and now introduce our next speaker elizabeth a board member for the kelsey. >> (clapping). >> wow. (sirens). >> (fire truck sirens).

>> i everyone. >> hello. >> i want to thank you former (sirens) (laughter). >> i'm a resident i'm on the board of the kelsey. when i

first met makayla came to my workplace i worked at golden gate advocate eric my boss as art and elizabeth and you guys get along to i just happened to go down the hauling they were coming out his officer and we kind of bumped into each other. she - we started talking. and then me and makayla went out for a couple of drinks later on that

week. and she was telling me about our cousin and she asked i was like count me in. i need to be a part of this. (clapping) this vision. do you know why? >> yes. we have a disability. i say have kelly pails. now it is i have been that people with

- people with disabilities needed to be taken care of they need to be safe. they need to someone to look out for them. >> but northbound ever stopped to say these people need to have a life. they need the work. they need the housing and in the community. i'm here to tell you yes, we need the retailers have our own life and we need to be able to be independent. and thrive. and work and have loved ones that we are part of this

and one thing i could show you kelsey will bring that to the table. when this building goes up, that will change so many lives for people. for the better and a lot of people will say but you're going to move the homeless in there. why not why not? >> (clapping.) >> we're all we are all needing to - we all need to be inclusive and together. thank you very much. >> (clapping.) >> wow.

>> okay. >> let's give a a round of applause for the kelsey civic center. >> thank you elizabeth and now i'd like to introduce you're next speaker eric and alec eric is the executive director of the golden regional center at g grc and the eric is the housing expert at the golden gate regional center. >> these sa accuse to be my

boss and alex was my boss at the center and a lot of bosses it hard to follow elizabeth like the academy award thank you, liz before i start, i want to do one shout out to another state person and from the development of service from the community development and they allowed recent golden gate regional center to put in money to others kelsey incredible project. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> and thank you, one of the unsung heroes in housing so many unsung heroes and city hall any worked with hundreds probably thousands of people that are living in the community. and into a large degree so i want to

shout out her. >> i'm going to talk about visions of visibility and incredibly briefly. um, so our vision and golden gate in support of lives of liberty 21 in the state and mostly a bunch of other stuff but serve 10 thousand people in the center in san francisco and marin county and the regional centers were started of years and golden gate were part of two and makayla was determined do have a reputable scale of housing to push forward for the state and country i think that was a pilot project we should support her and been a remark ride our violation to support the lives and liability and kelsey have a share for

people to be leaders and experts to be involved and connect around that but the disability thing the most important in the sense in we have an entitle in california that people with with disables are used to call the facilities act in the nation but 60 years after the funding a certain visibility of all people with disabilities and people with mental disabilities are better but the regional center is over the years to soft a separate equity and not mirror that as a structure we need partners reach out and do a better job we have 4 strategic plans two are here one to more education and community development and the other community living with the 10

thousand people we serve many want to live in a place or maybe living with their folks or don't want to be a creation of units here for people with disabilities and people with very well disabilities and the between that dome and the maybe symphony hall the system a lot of outskirts of town so this is right in the center of san francisco. so really appreciate being here and to gratitude so groundbreaking and now let alex talk. >> (clapping). >> hi. at golden gate strange today this is a real start

forward for housing and people with disabilities and ability. give kudos to today and i want to say a new start of partnership and that the safety, of course, the vision that is here. more than came forward for people with disabilities and all of the abilities. so thank you and yeah. >> (clapping). >> wow. >> thank you, guys. so much.

>> thank you, both >> now like to introduce our next speaker. >> marin. >> nina the vice president for the community development at j.p. morgan chase and company. >> (clapping). >> thank you, isaac hi, everybody good afternoon it is such a thrill to be here on behalf of chase for the groundbreaking and i didn't underwrite the financing has nothing to do with the closing of financing and when james my colleague asked me to come here to talk about anyone knows that james couldn't change that conflict of undergrounding and

grand opening. well my first thought to change the under writer i don't girlfriend talks but that is impossible not to feel connected to the project i them connected a group in san francisco more than a couple of decades raised our daughter here with the high school district. i go to the parks and the open space on the weekends is a recharger a big part of san francisco and beyond the city's effort more affordable housing and more sustainable and inclusive i like the center center and housing is the center of our lives and affordable housing makes that possible for everyone no matter you how much money or your abilities to be here where we belong so i really

appreciate that and also couldn't pass up an opportunity to come and celebrate and support mercy housing a long time chase partner and a shout out to the project manager (yelling). >> i hear she managed the heck out of project to get it into construction and the project managers have the unsung heirs and they know kelsey for your incredible vision and determination and for the love and resources that you could have - amazing and, you know. parmz are such a real and essential part of the work and kelsey is a great example how important to share knowledge and the ledge the expertise it is

the main thing projects like this. and, you know. in the incredible central and san francisco next to city hall surrounded but all the wonderful civic institution to roll a place that is impressive. we also want to thank all the partners particularly the states housing u.s. department of housing and urban development and the department of development services. and housing for silicon valley and the regional center and wouldn't have done it without all those folks working together and making this happen i think that's all i have i have. personally thank you to everybody who actually was in the trenches and you can be sure chase will be back for the groundbreaking and thank you

very much. >> thank you nina and finally introduce o con kelsey the ceo er co-founder and ceo that brought the show. >> (clapping). >> not the tallist i get to work with the kelsey team you'll talk about in a second on this remarkable project a thank you all for being here today and being part of the community you hear me say that but when you show up to on advocacy day or join for a fundraising or in a

group meeting you're fully a group of our moll e meeting we welcome you and look forward to a long time together to build affordable housing i want to say 6 years ago as graduate student in that building question keep bayview referring to i sat down with two folks in the u.s. department of housing and urban development and the was connected an interview to ask them about what that meant to create - affordable housing and making that more assessable to people with disabilities. we just have i got visioned i was i'med by the different pieces that takes to build housed in the community and then went on my way it is remarkable to be of years later on looking in that space and seeing that vision that we knew on that day come to

life and look around and see so many people are contributed to the vision made this a rezoning map amendment we we talk about housing for people with disabilities we talk about the independent housing one of the first ones i learned as i got engaged in the justice movement independence is a joke our goal and reality how we create community is all about entering dependence none of us live dependent lives and all of us desire to have enter dependence it is we are capable and have value and dignity about finding to be in other surroundings us to supporting us and there when we need them in the happy and sad moment to an example of enter dependence what it took to create if and randy does a

beautiful job showing people who were our amazing team fearless lead by karen and lead the stage and the reason we got this done it is because of carolyn remarkable what she's done and ice cream came back and: >> (calling names). >> and who else with us i think i got the group here and our team members not here but cross the country doing the work for assembly housing. >> thank you. the mercy team wouldn't have done it without without mercy i saw doug about 4 years ago and he'll speak in a second and i think we can do this together with mercy and he said that's what mercy does and in partnership with new

organizations to affordable housing space so we couldn't have done it without a better partner to carry this through to make a reality and she's been shout outed out she's a dream to have leading this project and sometimes kelsey we're not going to take mercy but a remarkable steward and wouldn't have done it without her and kate and: >> (calling names). >> can you stand up for me j.d. green right here the remarkable artist and j.d. created the alternate you see on the wrapping the construction site and most existing the wrapping was not temporary will be permanent in on the grove street entrance of our community and j.d. will be part of the kelsey civic center so thank you for the art you created

(clapping) and where j dvd art the people with disabilities currently center and in addition to providing affordable and inclusive homes one hundred and 12 in san francisco this community be home to the d d cp a vision by the department of aging and this vision for the culture center it salient the community and connects people with disables and on the identity and culture that is valuable not something can be fixed by celebrated and included so we were so proud when we were able to have to site be the place where that currently center last year built and now for who will operate that so check our website we love to see more involved in the partnerships and the person that

did the legal work a long list of people and i want to call out the kelsey as an organization one of our approaches to ledge into those projects we put as early risk capital to be get it up and coming and this anchors on the piece of inclusion with the residents services and other things are inclusion conspiracies and that funding made this project possible and the accessibility and disability forward features a reminder those are co-chair the community

and what exciting for where we'll be two years from now what is about the residents for disabilities and say that too of kelsey you heard kelsey mention was my cousin she's our co-founder you see her picture blown away by the community and kelsey has to favorite signs the first is thank you all for being part of this with us and our community and making this project possible and few were a part if you of whether you're a kelsey board member and emergency team you're a designer only single call organizing or part of making this community advisory group look around if you're involved. it

(clapping) it it takes a village as mayor said earlier and really remarkable all the people that contributed to the little parks so thank you for being here. and thank you, especially to all the folks to contributed to bring to light and as isaac said kelsey other favorite was more i think that we want to lead this to admonish and take this in san francisco a city that leads the way so many times around access and inclusion and innovation how we take this stand with all the partners not just one but a lead into more and more opportunity across the city and across this country for housing with people with disabilities a chance to live lives in communities and will with dignity and live lives of joy they can in the cities they love with the neighbors they love and thank you for being part of this and chores to

the kelsey civic center we're glad you're here with