(gavel) (gavel) this meeting county of san francisco rules committee meeting this morning at 10:00 am., monday, december 11, 2023. >> i'm supervisor dorsey chair and joined by supervisor walton and supervisor safai i believe is on his way we would like to express our gratitude thank you to sfgovtv for 3wr506r9 today's meeting this is going to be our final meeting before you winter rest of the rules committee and recognize to expend our gratitude for the clerk of the board of supervisors and ed

pierson and everyone in david choosing office and all who made this possible the sheriff's department who manages the security for sfgovtv to insure our work is assessable to all we serve on behalf of all of us in the rules committee hope you have a restful holiday with our families and loved ones thank you. well earned. >> mr. clerk any announcements. >> when public comment it called please line up on the right and public comment in writing or e-mail to myself or the city clerk at sfgov.org or public comment by e-mail will be forwarded to the supervisors and included in the file. >> you may send our written communications to our office at

city hall. room 244 san francisco, california 94102 a make sure to silence your devices as - items acted b upon are to be on the board of supervisors' agenda of january 9, 2024, or otherwise stated. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk call item mayor's nomination for the appointment of azalina eusope, term ending july 1, 2026, to the sanitation and streets commission. (clerk of the board). >> term ending july 1st. >> thank you mr. clerk the mayor has nominated azalina eusope to seat 5 on the sanitation and streets commission and we ask the nominees limit their remarks and please. welcome to the rules committee.

>> the floor is yours. >> i hope i haven't miss pronounced your name thanks so much. >> good morning, supervisors my name is azalina eusope. i have been resident of san francisco for the last 21 years and run my business over the last years and a mother of two adults in san francisco. i currently reside in candle sticks my business is here. i have been on three continents before the united states. >> san francisco is by far the city that truly gives opportunities to every single person doing everything we can. i'm honored mayor breed nominated mow i hope i can be

helpful to the community that i currently very much in love with. >> um. thank you very much. i wanted to um, just express my appreciation to freda to serve the mother of children and refuge a small business you're looking for a few things to - i appreciate you're giving back to your city and um, i was interested in looking at some of our background seeing in the new york times you were accredited by the um, chronicle the coup intervene in san francisco so it is important to this body but

important how sanitation is. >> small businesses right now like trying - always collective at first my big thing i can't do that by myself but my staff coming up we move one step forward doing everything we can but giving our guests memorable experiences to tell other people; right? but working and giving back san francisco is always about collective efforts. in order for us to establish this perimeters how we can successfully have some sort of - i'm sorry. >> system that we can get to

what we wanted to have sanitation and cleanliness especially in some farts of the city needs extra support and. okay. >> ag nothing questions on the roster i prefer your time open up for public comment and . >> yes public wishing to speak line up each speaker has 2 minutes and a chime will let you know. >> good morning. work in the been in the neighborhood for 15 years and i know azalina eusope known her and her partner for 20 years. >> one thing i know about azalina eusope she is the shying away from decisions. how

cleanliness makes a big difference for small business owners especially walking to the establishments she'll provide an excellent position to bring people together she's also he ever sense joined tenderloin family she has - and her partner has jumped in to resolve the issues i know - definitely support her and looking forward to her doing not is just for

tenderloin but the rest of the city thanks (bell ringing) any other speakers for this matter? >> if you would like to speak it is just that you line up to speak. >> hi. i work for a nonprofit community leadership foundation in san francisco. and i worked in the tenderloin for 8 years in the tenderloin district i've known azalina eusope and her partner for years before openly in the tenderloin and i'd like to say azalina eusope she's passionate. she's toxic and within the things we talk about with be the cleanliness forefront of her business and

she is knowledge but run a small business we talked about you need to have a clean um, safe environment outside of our shops before you, make a difference in the inside and would be an amazing choice i wholly support her a tough thing for her to run her business everyday she does it with support for the community so thank you. >> thank you. >> hello, my name is nancy a business owner and part of the business in the community we shared for the last two years. >> and i've been in connection

i was one of the lucky businesses that activated in the marketplace and her and i have been talking and i was with her and one day i saw a lot of garage outside three bins were full i asked what is going on and she said well, this is what and see everyday no change. i said what will you do about it. >> he was happy because i noticed something we struggled how you can have a place that sells food if you don't ask cleanliness on the outdoor i hope in the meantime, her to support the business in the area where she's at in the greater

san francisco. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> hi there (clearing throat) i'm one of the owners at the fedex hotel in the past year i've had the privilege to work with azalina eusope we've been trying to you know, improve the quality of life for residents in the neighborhood and recommending azalina eusope because i feel she has a really unique blend of aptitude for business in the community but i think she is the compassionate compassion to weigh it out and we need to right now in our neighborhood she's a good candidate. >> any other closing arguments

for this matter? >> no, thank you mr. clerk public comment is closed. (gavel) i'd like to express my appreciation to azalina eusope for someone having someone of our caliber serving our city you're a blessing and make a motion to and send this appointment to the full board mr. speaker, a roll call. >> on that motion supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor safai absent. >> supervisor dorsey. >> the motion passes. >> without objection one sanitation and streets commission azalina eusope moves to the full board (gavel). >> congratulations. >> mr. clerk call item 2

question. >> 2. administrative code - composition of behavioral health commission sponsor: dorsey. commission sponsor: dorsey. commission sponsor: dorsey. commission sponsor: dorsey. commission sponsor: dorsey. to six; reset staggered terms for all seats;and remove seat requirements for child advocates and certain mental health professionals. thank you, mr. clerk i have some amendments to the item but first a little bit of background on the legislation i've been serving on the board for about a year and a half my honor to be chair of this committee. being chair of the rules committee is a front row seat how they function and you struggle we as a board can set them up for success i've talked

with supervisor peskin a supporter the psychological and psychiatry between serving on small both sides and including the behavorial health commission that is large containing more seats to the board of supervisors and we were a small body my colleagues and i know how important it is to can be an impasse if two members disagree. one person self show up we don't have a meeting miss the quorum and a absent has a less of an impact this is really one of the issues we're tackling with that sternum to meet the quorum so the changes will help to set this body up for success by roving the district areas

appointments since the work of this body is citywide concern. and removing the district specific residents requirements for each seat makes it easier to recruit. my colleagues appoint excellent individuals to those commissions i hope every office will have interested candidates we work closely with the community to make sure this new composition it compliant are the state requirement for the behavorial health oversight both sides and that nobody will lose their seat and appreciative the medical associate and i trust we have the person here to make brief remarks. >> thank you supervisor dorsey

and supervisor safai. >> a special thanks to supervisor dorsey for sponsoring this legislation and working and my chance to speak i'm jessica brown the mvnl service act person and here on behalf of mary lasts behavorial health and the behavorial health commission who is out on vacation today. i'm here to express sf support for the direction behind many legislation and castle welfare and institution code 5804 for all california county will have a behavorial health commission. the primary purpose of the county behavorial health commission serving in an

advisory capacity with the local becoming initiative and in addition the behavorial health commission is also subject to a local san francisco ordinance. there have been recent changes to the california welfare institution code 5604 regarding the composition of the behavorial health health the current requirements for the county behavorial health commission are 50 percent of the board membership shall be a family member or consumers who are receiving or have received market street services 20 percent shall be consumers and at least 20 percent family members and in one hundred thousand population one member of the board shall be a veteran or veteran advocate. counties are appointing individuals with experience with mental health

and the proposed legislation will bring governing behavorial health commission in alignment with the updating of state law. in addition the behavorial health commission of san jose county xheemsz of 17 individuals difficult to meet the quorum in the last month and the proposed legislation from you 17 to 12 to meet quorum and making sure that all current commissioners will keep their seat and sfgov supports this we hope you recommend to the full board i'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> thank you so much jessica brown my apologies to missing middle this. and quite a few amendments this evening and i have on our desk this morning

for the record add an additional seat must meet the requirements for 3er7z with experience in the mental health system and reducing the number with experience of the mental health system to two and requiring that too of the seats be persons from professions from shall be from the following prospects psychology and psychiatry and mental health social work and nursing and marriage and family counseling and board administration of a hospital providing mental health services for the community mental health facility and all the seats to june of 2024 and members have substantive to continue one anymore time. colleagues any comments and questions? >> seeing none, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> mr. clerk

open up for public comment. >> yes. members of the public who wish to speak line up at this time. each member will be allowed each person is allowed two minutes a soft chime and a louder chime when our time is about to expire. >> hi, my name is leah, i live in the district. um, as following this particular item i don't know this has been addressed i have not been keeping or what have you i'm curious about the child advocates for the seats. to me that's a red flag i don't know the logic of or reasoning and if we can pubically discuss that i prefer it very much. being we've been through and going through covid pandemic. children have been seriously psychologically

impacted in my opinion that means we should keep advocates for children for mental health issues. um, and as well as the rising homelessness own is revise that means more children are homeless and can't go to school, etc. and another reason i'm concerned about the seat requirements for the child advocates especially, when you're adding different seats for veterans. it is just really the child advocate seat removal maybe been revolved in an amendment but for children who are very, very vulnerable you know, they're already (laughter) going through a lot of issues like protection repealed in children's rights (bell ringing) again i don't understand you'll

take away an advocate for children. um, so again, if you work pubically discuss that or amend this to explain that i don't know, you, e-mail me if you want to that is what i'm curious about. thank you. >> you know, shall i again. >> thank you mr. clerk. >> members of the board in the size of behavorial health commission is reduced as planned it will very badly damage the adversey those are required to be including in the commission by state and local law. currently the commission is all either black or white hispanic.

and there is large proportion of the population that is asian has currently no representation among active members so if you refuse the size of the commission and make the current members 9 of the 11 you'll have to kickoff two active members in order to do that and not going to have members for a long time i know in asian applicants before you but the better path forward to make an appointment to the commission rather than reducing it with two appointments that committee makes you understand have an equal impact on quorum agency shared with reducing the size of the commission. i think the it better pathway forward this is a big county and find additional

tasks without assigning people to do them (bell ringing) we need people to do the task we need to get back to you mr. clerk. >> thank you. >> any other speakers own this matter? >> mr. chair. >> public comment is closed on item two is closed and a motion to amend this. >> i do have a question. i said this is our legislation what is reason behind roman listens 14 through 16 a member of the commission shall be a child advocate for members for adult services. actually 14 and 15. >> on the legislation. >> i'm sorry page 2. >> wait um, yeah - page two.

>> the part of having a child advocate. >> (clearing throat) and i see you put language in there any one of the members may satisfactory their reminders of subsection i think so you're adding a veteran that makes sense. the issue in working- >> (multiple voices). >> the department is here. >> (multiple voices). >> you can answer if you want to. >> i want to add in we currently will have a child advocate on the committee jackson lane is one and also with the legislation with the language so i'm not sure continuation anyone with a mental health experience or knowledge a family member or someone that's why we are trying to streamline the language a little bit more but will include someone that has experience with mental health we currently have a member with a child advocate

on the committee already. >> i see through the chair i see on page two at the top lines 4 through 7 it says as required by california welfare institutions codes section 4. and 6 members of the commission should be consumers or parents of the siblings and three members being family in family of consumers. i understand that is captured in there but i was curious what the reason is behind taking out the language that says child advocate. >> (laughter.) >> in general terms. when we have a larger committee that is struggling with with to meet quorum i think looking at some

of the things that not just the numbers but also areas where you know, overly proscriptive is hamstringing to recruit people as in this case we have a child advocate who is on the committee. so i think what this is- >> (multiple voices). >> no, no, i understand i appreciate one of the things we skrulgd with (clearing throat) did our oversight body here with the department of supportive housing had general language. but the thinking was from my perspective insure to have someone direct for the youth often an afterthought i'm glad an advocate own this body but any things to leave the language that will continue to be prioritized? you understand we

had a problem - we in quorum but i do have concerns about it this person were not appointed it would be difficult - someone can answer that but in the past filling (clearing throat) meeting the language have a child advocate or a family member. >> good morning supervisor safai government affairs manager at dph and are working with folks to bring in alignment with the state law because of the requirements for 50 percent of membership to be either consumers or family members. we add one more seat we'll have to add another seat for advocates. >> no, no, i want to say if we

had would it be difficult to leave that language in in that you could leave that language in and still have. >> we could but have to balance that with the state requirement. and that's why the legislation is as it is in front of you today. so that is - would be um, thinking behind that we discussed will be continued because those amendments are substantive by that's the reasoning behind that as we stated early we have a current commissioner. you don't know i don't believe it is hard to recruit. to this but wanted to state the reasoning behind that. >> why not through the chair or the city attorney a way to put language in that honored the state welfare code and not add

an additional seat maybe you thought about that. >> i do think ultimately this is a policy choice. the state code requires pointing out 50 percent of the code is family members a body of 6 and further an advocate or veteran and most of consumers and their family members need to have 20 percent it is proscribed whether there are some seats on the body have anymore open edited qualifications could be limited to the one qualification perhaps this is is standing we can figure out between now and next time. >> would that is a substantive amendment? >> um. >> hard to tell. >> probably not. >> okay. great. why not talk about that i wanted to make the point that i think it is for

that to think about the amount of mental health stress people have been put under and having a family member i see i maybe keep that there. >> thank you. >> thank you, supervisor safai. >> if we entertain a motion it will be substantive. >> city attorney thank you. i i don't think that it would it is one of the seats we're restoring that no promises. >> i'd like to oh, supervisor walton. >> thank you supervisor dorsey i wanted to coincide any comments and my feelings to leave the language with supervisor safai.

>> thank you supervisor walton. >> i'd like to make a motion to amend the file agency read into the record earlier and continue the item to the january 8th meeting of rules committee. >> mr. clerk a roll call. >> oh, yes on the motion to amend and continue to january 8, '24 supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> domineered, aye. >> meetings without objection. >> is amended and continued to january 8th (gavel). >> mr. clerk please call the next item. >> 3. [campagn and governmental conduct code - form 700 filers - general services agency - city administrator] administrator] interests) filing requirements for officers and employees in the general services agency under the city administrator. (city administrator) thank you, mr. chair we're joined by sophia

from the administrations office and from the department of resources the city administrator has requested a continuation the floor is yours. >> . thank you very much. supervisor dorsey and supervisors i'm sophie from the office of city administrator as amended i want to summarize for the record there are 4 basic changes that we escalated in the amendments and legislation by the way, it is essentially a list of things that are required to file before form 700 their hard to read but under animal control on page three operations manager. and on page 4 under contract monitoring division we

added a deputy director position. under real estate on page 10 added the transaction manager and for tids we add the analyst and project manager and my understanding that is those are substantive amendment need to be heard at a later date and in addition dhr is giving them an opportunity to chime in and as back if january i'm available for questions. >> thank you. thank you very much. ms. hayward's mr. chair open up for public comment members of the public wish to speak line up and each speaker is allowed three minutes a soft

chiming of 30 seconds and lourdz when the time is up any commenters a no public comment for this item. >> thank you mr. clerk public comment is closed. and motion to amend item three read into the record by ms. hayward and continue to january 8th and mr. clerk a roll call. >> on the motion to continue to january 8th. >> supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> motion passes. without objection. >> on the unanimous vote 3 for the code general services city administrator is continued to january 8th the reporting duties of the reentry council, and extend the sunset date of the reentry council by

five years, to june 1, 2029. >> thank you mr. clerk department of motor vehicles can if supervisor safai is joining us and supervisor safai is the author and welcome to the rules committee the floor is yours. >> good morning supervisor dorsey and supervisor walton and supervisor safai the item before you extends the council date through june 1st update reentry counsel. and the ordinance that provide the reentry council have an annual report by 2024 and provide a response to the amendment as an addendum in the

final report and 2008 the reentry council played a role in the justice community no supportive housing formally incarcerated individuals and 24 members this was as corner of the organization and with the stakeholders to create an approach for formally incarcerated people and the work of the council makes sure that no one is - individuals have access to the resources and programs positive direction and academy in the billy holiday center by the row destroy council and has changed many lives and the reentry supports this community. supervisor safai buildings this plays a role when justice is involved and makes a

positive impact to the changing life and i'm available for questions. and victoria with the prosecution prohibition is here. >> i don't have questions i want to express my appreciation for the work in the are reentry council for this and no one on the racist open up for public comment. >> yes. any members of the public would like to make public comment at this time? >> good morning supervisor dorsey. >> supervisor walton and supervisor safai i'm for the adult prohibition but to urge you to support the new legislation that authorize the council will i extending the

sunset date and there is no other collective body in the city or county that has 17 different city departments an organization that provides prechild services isn't communicated and formally incarcerated people that worked for incarcerated people in our community. >> thank you. >> there doesn't appear anybody else. >> public comment is closed. and make a motion to send this to the full board with a positive recommendations and roll call. >> oh, yes on the motion supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor safai, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> and motion passes. without

objection. thank you, mr. clerk and unanimous vote on item 4 for the administrative codes poivent the sunset date to the full board as committee report. >> mr. clerk any further business. >> no additional items on today's agenda. >> thank you mr. clerk we are adjourned and happy holidays. [meeting adjourned]

♪♪ >> san francisco! ♪♪ >> this is an exhibition across departments highlighting different artworks from our collection. gender is an important part of the dialogue. in many ways, this exhibition is contemporary. all of this artwork is from the 9th century and spans all the way to the 21st century. the exhibition is organized into seven different groupings or themes such as activities, symbolism, transformation and

others. it's not by culture or time period, but different affinities between the artwork. activities, for example, looks at the role of gender and how certain activities are placed as feminine or masculine. we have a print by uharo that looks at different activities that derisionly performed by men. it's looking at the theme of music. we have three women playing traditional japanese instruments that would otherwise be played by men at that time. we have pairings so that is looking within the context of gender in relationships. also with how people are questioning the whole idea of pairing in the first place. we have three from three different cultures, tibet, china

and japan. this is sell vanity stot relevar has been fluid in different time periods in cultures. sometimes being female in china but often male and evoking features associated with gender binaries and sometimes in between. it's a lovely way of tying all the themes together in this collection. gender and sexuality, speaking from my culture specifically, is something at that hasn't been recently widely discussed. this exhibition shows that it's gender and sexuality are actually have been considered and complicated by dialogue through the work of artists and thinking specifically, a

sculpture we have of the hindu deities because it's half pee male and half male. it turns into a different theme in a way and is a beautiful representation of how gender hasn't been seen as one thing or a binary. we see that it isn't a modest concept. in a way, i feel we have a lot of historical references and touch points throughout all the ages and in asian cultures. i believe san francisco has close to 40% asian. it's a huge representation here in the bay area. it's important that we awk abouk about this and open up the discussion around gender. what we've learned from organizing this exhibition at the museum is that gender has been something that has come up in all of these cultures through all the time periods as

something that is important and relevant. especially here in the san francisco bay area we feel that it's relevant to the conversations that people are having today. we hope that people can carry that outside of the museum into their daily lives. >> # daily lives. >> >> >> >> you are watching san

francisco rising. >> hi, you are watching san francisco rising. reimagining our city. he's with us to talk about how our library's economic recover. mr. lambert, welcome to the show. >> thank you. i'm glad to be here. >> i know it's been difficult to have books going virtual. have we recovered? >> yes, we are on our way. our staff stepped up big time during the pandemic to respond to the health emergency. since last may, we have been able to steadily increase in person access to library facilities. currently we are at 95% of our precovid hours of operation. in the coming weeks we are going

to fully restore all of our hours. we have four branches that we are going to bring back to seven day service. they are currently operating at 5 days a week and we are going to go to every tag line and i know all the foot traffic has not returned to san francisco, but our library is seeing a resurgence coming back. >> can we talk about programs after covid? >> absolutely, that is part and parcel of our mission. we were doing that work precovid and certainly the library stepped up during the pandemic. we doubled our level of programming for personal finance, small business help, jobs and careers. we have a dedicated small business center here at the library. there is a wide suite of programs that our librarian led.

we have a financial planning day coming up in october and we have financial coaches that members of the community can come to the main library and take advantage of their expertise. >> i understand the mission is in the middle of a renovation. how is that going and are there other construction projects in the horizon? >> yes, we have major projects in the pipeline. the historic mission branch library, carnegie library over 100 years old and we are investing $25 million to restore that facility. we are going to restore the original entrance on 24th street, the staircase from the lower level up to the grand reading room. we are going to push out on the orange alley side of the library and expand space for teens and children, we are going to create a robust community room, a

multipurpose space. we are also investing $30 million in the chinatown branch, we are going to upgrade the mechanical systems to the highest level of filtration as we increasingly respond as cooling centers and air respite centers and open access to the roof. it has some unique views of chinatown to create the inspiring space it is. >> i believe you have programs for families that have free and low cost entries for museum and zoos, is that correct? >> yes. it's a fabulous resource. go to our website. with your library cart, patrons, our residents can go to the public library and get passes to the museums, all of the incredible cultural institutions

that we have in san francisco all for free with your library card. >> how are these great free services paid for? how is the library system funded? >> we are so fortunate in san francisco. we are funded for by the library fund and those that taxed themselves just for library services. we also get a dedicated portion of the general fund. that together allows us to be one of the most well supported libraries in the nation. we have the third most library outlets per square mile of any municipality. all of our branch libraries have professionally trained librarians on-site. service that we are able to provide, the collection, we are a leading library in our

country. >> that lead know ask about your biggest annual event in the city. how does the event work and what's happening this year? >> we are excited for this year's one city one book. this is our signature annual literature event. we have everybody in the community reading the same book. this year's title is "this is your hustle" named after the pulitzer prize nominated and pod taste. this is about the population. one nice thing about this selection is that they are both local. we are going to have several weeks of programming, kicking off next month. it will culminate here in the auditorium november 3rd.

so our library patrons will get to meet the authors, hear from them directly, and one other important aspect about this year's selection, we have our own jail and reentry services department. recently the foundation awarded the san francisco public library $2 million to work with the american library association to shine a light on our best practices here in san francisco, and really help our peers in the industry learn how they can replicate the service model that we are doing here in san francisco. >> that's great. well, thank you so much. i really appreciate you coming on the show, mr. lambert. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, chris. that's it for this episode, we will be back shortly. you are watching san francisco rising. thanks for watching.

please welcome to the stage, michael froman, president of the council on foreign relations. and dr. condoleezza rice, the 66th us secretary of state and current director of the hoover institution at stanford university.