clubhouse. there is an 18 hole course this is free. du see that shot? i won! am i was not very good now i have a huge respect for disk ball player its is difficult but fun. thank you for joining me in the excelsior this is goldenate adventures. . good afternoon and welcome to the february 11th, 2025 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors.

madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> thank you, mr. president. supervisor chen chan present supervisor chen chen present supervisor dorsey dorsey present supervisor in cardio and cardio present supervisor fielder fielder present supervisor mahmoud mahmoud present supervisor mandolin president mandell amin president supervisor melgar present melgar present supervisor sartor sartor present supervisor cheryl sherald present and supervisor walton walton present. >> mr. president all members are present. thank you madam clerk. will you please call the roll? oh, you just did actually. okay, let's try that again and adapting the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramakrishna aloni who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as the indigenous stewards of

this land and in accordance with their traditions the raw material oni have never been have never ceded lost or forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. as guests we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homelands . we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramakrishna owning community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. >> colleagues, will you join me in saying the pledge of allegiance? i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> on behalf of the board i want to acknowledge the staff at s.f. gov tv and especially today kaleena mendoza who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. and with that, madam clerk can

we go to our 2 p.m. special order? >> yes. the special order at 2 p.m. is the appearance at today's meeting by the honorable mayor daniel murray president to engage in a formal policy discussion with eligible board members prior to the discussion the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. >> welcome, mr. mayor. >> do you have any opening remarks? i do. thank you. thank you for having me. good afternoon president management and members of the board of supervisors. it's an honor to be here on what is an important fun and exciting week for our city. i look forward to marching with you all and the lunar new year parade welcoming fans to san francisco for the nba all star weekend to ensure residents and visitors feel safe and welcome. public safety is key. last week supervisor dorsey and souder joined me to announce the san francisco police department hospitality zone task force which will main

which will make downtown safe and kickstart our economy. the hospitality zone task force will be an important part of our public safety plan for this weekend nba all-star game and then lunar new year parade. but it will continue after those events are done. the hospitality zone task force will provide residents and visitors with the security they deserve. 365 days a year. this new effort is part of our diversified strategy to get san franciscans back to work, clean up our streets and welcome more people to our city. san francisco is open for business conferences, tourism and the community events that make our city special. and with your help in this new era of collaboration, our potential as a city is sky high. so thank you all for your support on that. >> thank you, mayor lurie.

>> madam clerk, could you please call the topic? yes. the following topic is short term operational funding for the san francisco municipal transportation agency offered by supervisor melgar. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> supervisor melgar. thank you president randleman and good afternoon, mayor. >> thank you for being here. san francisco is a major global hub of commerce, hospitality technology, finance, education. >> in order for all of these sectors to thrive the way we all want them to and for our neighbors right here in san francisco to be connected to one another and to all those sectors we rely on are public transportation systems. the bay area is home to many different systems muni bart caltrain that are interconnected and the trains, busses, ferries are the backbone of our city and keep the economy going even through times of economic difficulty.

nearly one third of san franciscans do not own a car and rely on public transportation to get to work to school and to complete daily errands. a couple of years ago we made muni free for kids and that affected at truancy rates and allowed them the freedom to get around. >> for residents who do not own a car. public transportation reduces citywide congestion allowing for quicker trips for everyone . >> a safe, accessible, affordable public transportation system is essential. an essential element of san francisco's past and our present in our future and a key ingredient for the success of our economy education system, public health infrastructure and the growth of the west side which i represent part of. unfortunately as you know muni is facing a current short term budget deficit in more than $300 million annual structural deficit going forward. >> we are already seeing the

impact of this possible shortfall in you know, maybe impending cuts this summer without both short term and long term fixes. we are all but guaranteeing the failure of some of these elements for our city and robbing an entire generation of opportunities in the future. so therefore mario, my question is this. will you do everything in your power to ensure that we can weather the next couple of years with no service cuts to muni while we work together on long term solutions for the system? >> thank you for the question supervisor melgar. i'm here to do everything in my power to support muni's immediate and long term health. as you set it correctly muni is the backbone. it is the lifeblood of this city. weekday ridership is up to 500,000 daily boardings. muni isn't just critical for san francisco it's vital to the

entire region. over 60% of all regional transit trips start or end in san francisco. residents and visitors rely on muni every day. and as ridership steadily returns to pre-pandemic levels, it plays a vital role in our city's economic recovery. san francisco's chief economist ted egan said it best if we don't have a solvent transit agency we will never have an economic recovery. no one especially myself, no one wants to see muni service cuts. >> but the city's budget crisis is real and the reality is this is what muni may need to do to solve the wider budget crisis they're facing. i know s.f. mta is not only evaluating service reductions but they are also evaluating all of their expenditures to determine what can be cut back or improved through efficiencies. >> so i want to work with you supervisor melgar and all of you the entire board of supervisors to find long term

solutions to make muni and the city thrive. >> thank you, mayor lurie. supervisor melgar. you may now ask a follow up question directly related to the opening question. >> thank you, president. my follow up question is what ideas do you have for funding sources or sources of income for the system? >> i was up in sacramento just yesterday advocating for state funding and i'm doing everything in my power to secure those resources. but we need a multi-pronged approach. is almost certain that we will need both local and regional revenue measures on the 2026 ballot to support muni's budget and we're going to need help with stopgap funding this year so i can continue alongside all of you to advocate for our state officials for help from sacramento. >> thank you, mayor. >> thank you, mayor lurie. you may now ask a question to supervisor melgar or to any other supervisor in attendance

pertaining to the same topic but not necessarily related to the previous question. i just i want to say thank you for inviting me over. supervisor thank you for the questions and look forward to working with you all on on this important and vital topic. >> thank you marilyn you very much. >> this concludes the district seven topic discussion. >> thanks. good to see. >> and with that this matter has been discussed and is now filed and then rifling back in my papers. madam clerk let are there any communications? >> thank you, mr. president. the san francisco board of supervisors welcomes your attendance in this meeting in person in the board's legislative chamber room 250 here on the second floor in city hall. you may watch the proceeding on s.f. govee tv's channel two x

or view the live stream at w w w dot s.f. geo vtv.org. >> you can submit your public comment in writing by either sending an email to bos at s.f. gov.org or the u.s. postal service to the san francisco board of supervisors. >> the number one dr. carlton b goodlatte place city hall room 244 san francisco, california 941022 make a reasonable accommodation request under the americans with disabilities act or to request language assistance please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. thank you members. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you, madam clerk. and i believe that takes us to the approval of meeting minutes. today we are approving the meeting minutes from the january 8th, 2025 inaugural board meeting. does anyone have any changes to these meeting minutes?

seeing none. can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented moved by dorsey seconded by melgar. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on the minutes as presented? supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i. supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sartor i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chen chen i supervisor chen chen i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio either are lebanese. >> thank you madam clerk. without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. let's go to the consent agenda items one through nine items two through five, mr. president. >> absolutely. items two through five.

>> yes. these items so much these items are on consent. they may be considered routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. all rights i don't see well does anyone want to remove anything from the consent agenda? i don't see anything without objection these well madam clerk can we take that same house and call if you could, mr. president. >> okay then let's take that same house, same call. without objection, these ordinance ordinances are finally passed. >> and with that, madam clerk, let's go to the regular agenda unfinished business item six item six this item amends the business and tax regulations code pertaining to commercial vacancy tax exemption pursuant to article 29 section 20 909 of the business and tax regulations code. final passage of this ordinance today requires an affirmative vote of two thirds of the entire membership of the board.

that's eight votes. >> all right. and i think we can take this same house, same call without objection. the ordinance is finally passed . >> madam clerk, please call item seven. item seven this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to provide that to provide for the core initiatives to strengthen the city's response to homelessness, drug abuse, mental health needs and related crises. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item seven supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor of mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman all right, gentlemen i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton no supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i then supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes and one no

with supervisor walton voting no thank you madam clerk can you please call item eight a oh nope. >> the ordinance is finally passed. >> madam clerk can you please call inmate yes. item eight this is an ordinance to appropriate 526,000 from the general reserve to the san francisco municipal transportation agency to support free two hour parking in the portsmouth square parking garage january 28th through february 28th, 2025 and transit fares for the lunar new year parade weekend on february 15th and 16th 2025 for the fiscal year 2024 through 2025. >> and can you please call the roll on item eight supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman i randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i

supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chan i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio in cardio either are elevenses without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item nine item nine this is a resolution to authorize the human services agency to apply for and accept the county allocation award under the california department of housing and communities development transitional housing program for approximately 4.2 million and the housing navigation and maintenance program for 630,000 to provide funding to assist young adults to secure and maintain housing. and i think we can take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. madam clerk, will you please call item ten?

>> item ten. approves a retro active grant agreement with the young community developers for the following programs black to the future and the school site mentoring program for a five year term july 1st 2024 through june 30th 2029 and for approximately 12.4 million. supervisor walton thank you president madam and colleagues. item ten is a grant to young community developers my former employer. i do not have a financial relationship with y c d nor have i since i left over six years ago and i do not have a conflict of interest on this item but to avoid the appearance of any conflict i would like to ask for a motion to excuse me from participating in this retroactive item. >> all right. is there a motion to excuse zero so walton made by fielder seconded by melgar. >> i think we can take that without objection and then

madam clerk, can you call the roll on the item on item ten supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor mandel bin hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor chin chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection this resolution is adopted. can you please call our next item item 11 this is a resolution to approve the first amendment to an agreement with bay area community resources for following programs sunset media waive reset just as collaborative the youth line technology pathway and career

pathways for undocumented youth to increase the contract amount by 1.5 million for a new total of 10.4 million with no change to the five year term through june 30th 2029. >> please call the roll in this item i'm item 11 supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chen chen i supervisor chen chen i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are 11 eyes without objection the resolutions adopted madam clerk can you please call item 12 item 12 resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute

a contract water capital program management with hdr stantec jv to provide program management consulting services to support delivery of the water enterprise and hedge hagee water capital improvement program and the water system improvement program for 80 million and with the duration of ten years with an anticipated timeframe from april 2025 through march 2035 and i think we can take this same house same call without objection the resolutions adopted madam clerk, can you please call item 12 or item 13 rather item 13 is a resolution to approve a third amendment with a lease lease use and operating agreement for a bart station and related facilities and grant of easement at san francisco international for a rent credit in support of the san francisco bay area rapid transit transit district's next generation fare gates replacement project for 3.15

million with no changes to the term of of june 20th 2nd to 2000 and three through june 21st 2053. >> we will take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 14 item 14 resolution to approve the fourth amendment to the grant agreement between the city acting by and through the department of homelessness in support of housing and catholic charities for the s.f. home rapid rehousing program for families to extend the grant term by 16 months february 28th 2025 for a new term of july first 2018 through june 30th 2026 to increase the amount by approximately 4.7 million and a new total of 14.5 million and we can take this item same house, same call without objection the resolution is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call item 15 item 15 this is an ordinance to approve the

amended airport surveillance technology a new policy governing the use of automated license plate readers ground transportation management system and parking assist parking guidance system. >> we can take this item same house, same call without objection the ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item number 16 item 16 this is a motion to appoint supervisor belal mahmoud to the bay area air quality management district board of directors term ending february first, 2029 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> is there a motion to excused supervisor mahmud i moved by melgar seconded by cheryl. we can take that without objection. >> supervisor mahmud is excused if and on the motion madam clerk, will you please call the roll on item 16 supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor

randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk can you please call item 17 and 18 together? >> item 17 and 18 are two motions to appoint supervisor connie chan to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission and free city college oversight committee for an indefinite term or the conclusion of her term as a member of the board of supervisors. colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor chan moved by mahmud seconded by chen. we can take that without objection supervisor chan is excused.

and then on the motions. >> madam clerk, will you please call the roll and item 17 and 18 supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor mandelson hi middleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervise her sadr sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton i walton i soup her chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i their attorneys without objection these motions are approved madam clerk will you please call item 19 item 19 this is a motion to appoint supervisor danny sadr to the golden gate bridge highway and transportation district board of directors term ending january 31st 2027 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board of supervisors. >> colleagues can i have a

motion to excuse supervisor sadr from voting on this matter moved by chen second by walton without objection the supervisor sadr is excused. >> and on the motion madam clerk, will you please call the roll on item 19 supervisor fielder fielder i.e. supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton i walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk could you please call items 20 through 22 together items 20 through 22 are three motions that appoint supervisor matt dorsey to the

outside boards or commissions for the four an alternate member to the san francisco bay conservation and development commission for an indefinite term item 21 to the reentry council term ending june 1st 2026 or the conclusion of his term as member of the board and for adam, 22, as a member to the association of bay area executive board term ending june 30th 2025 or the conclusion of his term as a member of the board. >> colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor dorsey from voting on these matters moved by cheryl seconded by mahmoud without objection supervisor dorsey is excused. >> and on the motions madam clerk, will you please call the roll on items 20 through 22 supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi management i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sadr sadr

i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin eyes supervisor chin chin i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten eyes without without objection the motions are approved madam clerk can you please call item 23 item 23 a motion to appoint supervisor myrna melgar to the metropolitan transportation commission term ending february 10th 2027 or the conclusion of her term as a member of the board of supervisors colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor melgar from voting on this matter moved by field or seconded by sauder and we can take that without objection supervisor melgar is excused and on the motion madam clerk can you please call the roll? >> oh, and item 23 supervisor fielder fielder i.e. supervisor mahmud ahmad i supervisor randleman all right gentlemen i supervisor sadr sadr i

supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton hi walton i supervisor chin chin am supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection the motion is approved congratulations and thank you colleagues for stepping up to serve on these various boards. >> madam clerk, can you please call item number two for item 20 four was referred without recommendation from the rules committee. it's a resolution to accept the san francisco sheriff's office military equipment use policy 2024 annual report and inventory and to approve the request for purchase and use of the additional equipment consistent with the criteria set forth in state law. >> supervisor chen thank you president. >> i would like to make a motion referring item 24 back to the rules committee for amendments and i have been

working with this year with our sheriff miyamoto to introduce some amendments regarding the acquisition of our pepper ball launchers. >> the amendments will refer to the usage guidelines in the pop up menus and this manufacturer guidelines in the product menu for the pepper ball we spro launchers and munitions include four of the amendments one it's never a point or discharge the launcher at any time that and anything that we do not intend to suit. >> the second one is increasing the velocity of this product increase the risk of death and injury and the third bullet point is never discharge our launcher at the personal property of others. and last one is keep all pepper ball put projectiles and launchers out of the site and rich off children's. all right. thank you. supervisor chen supervisor walton one i'd like to second the motion to send back to

committee but just also want to state for the record that we have already had some negative impacts with chemical weapons from the sheriff's department. >> we've actually had children in san mateo county school that is located next to the jail in the environment have also already received chemical impacts from testing and training at the san bruno county jail site. there continues to be an ongoing investigation of the harms of these chemical weapons used by the department and so this is always been a red flag for me so i appreciate supervisor chin sending this back to committee but i hope that we get the results of the investigation very soon or even when we come back to the full board. there's no way i would support those chemical weapons. >> supervisor fielder thank you, president. i want to thank my colleague supervisor chen for working on

the amendments. i also have concerns for all the reasons that supervisor walton noted and and also the just the the limited role of of sheriffs in our city security at jails, hospitals, city buildings. >> i definitely have major concerns about how these will be deployed and and what other equipment exists in the department's inventories and why at this time especially in our budget deficit are these being considered? >> so thank you. thank you. supervisor fielder is there a representative of the sheriff's office here? >> come on up. >> good afternoon. board chief john ramirez with the sheriff's office, the sheriff's office have any objection to our rules having another look at this? >> no, we don't. >> all right. thank you. then the motion has been made

and seconded to send this to rules and i guess and on that, madam clerk, can you please call the roll on the motion to send item 24 to the rules committee? supervisor fielder fielder i supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sutter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton high walton eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey eye and supervisor and cardio and gaudio i there are 11 eyes thank you. >> thank you madam clerk and i would just as a mild admonition ask colleagues to the extent that they can to get their amendments into committee well while the mat matters are still pending before committee it can't always happen. sometimes things do get sent back to committee but as a best practice that's ideal.

madam clerk, can you please take us to our 30 2:30 p.m. special order? >> yes. this is the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of san francisco and i think we have one commendation today and that is from supervisor walton in district ten. >> thank you so much, president madam in the legacy of black excellence is built upon the dedication and resilience and unwavering commitment of individual girls like officer jason johnson, jason, if you could come on up. officer jason johnson better known as officer jj is a 17 year veteran of the san francisco police department.

he has not only upheld his duty to serve and protect but has gone beyond the badge to uplift and empower the next generation through his visionary leadership officer jj founded operation genesis inc., a transformative program that bridges coaches and builds identity by taking youth and adult chaperons on life changing journeys to ghana africa. his work extends far beyond this initiative he has spearheaded programs like genesis academy a journey to self-discovery youth career academy blow up girls group body engineer fitness community essential relief and neighborhoods united each of these programs reflects his deep commitment to mentoring guiding and supporting over 300 youth and their families particularly in the bayview. officer jay's impact is immeasurable. he is a mentor, a role model

and a beacon of hope for countless young people thriving to see beyond their circumstance choices and reach their full potential. his dedication to fostering self-discovery, career development and community engagement is a testament to his belief in the power of transformation and collective progress as we celebrate black history month we recognize offer jay's officer jj as a modern day changemaker someone who is not only shaping the present but laying the foundation for a future where every young person has the opportunity to rise. his work embodies the true spirit of service, leadership and black excellence. officer j.j., we commend you. we honor you and we thank you. your impact will be felt for generations to come. >> thank you.

>> so i guess this is the part where i give a speech i know this is this is you guys yeah, yeah, this is this is this is pretty cool. this is a huge honor. you know, since i became a police officer and you know, i just fell in love with san francisco. i'm not originally from here but i feel like i am now and just being fully immersed into the community. yeah, it's just this is great, you know, we've served over hundreds of community members. we've taken over 90 people have gone to africa and brought back some of that culture that they have their back to san francisco and immersed it with the culture we have here and it's been tremendous and the results you kind of see the numbers for the how the crime

is down a part of it is what we've done in the community, what community members and community members buying into the community and giving back. it's just been it's been amazing. this is such an honor and i'm grateful. >> thank you. >> and i do see we have deputy chief lazaro on here and i don't know if you want to say anything. >> well, first i want to say congratulations officer officer j.j. and i want to thank you, supervisor walton for making this announcement for his award. and you know, oftentimes the san francisco police department's asked about well, what are you doing about community policing and what is it to you? and i look at officer j.j. as one of many great examples about how it's not just enforcing the law, it's not just arresting individuals but it's what is our intervention strategy to get people out of a certain lifestyle of criminal if they're involved in crime and get them connected with

jobs and training and education and doing all those things. and he has been a role model and a mentor to so many people for so many years that this is very fitting. so on behalf of chief scott and the entire san francisco police department, i want to thank you supervisor walton and this entire board and i want to congratulate j.j. for everything you do and will continue to do for our city to make our city safe. >> so thank you so.

madam clerk, let's go to committee reports. please call item number 25. >> item 25 will be considered by the audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on thursday, february six, 2025 and was recommended as amended bearing the same title as a committee report. >> it's a resolution to authorize the office of the mayor, the office of the city attorney and the office of the city administrator and the head of each division, office and department under the supervision of the city administrator to solicit donations from various private, nonprofit, philanthropic and other entities to support services fundraising for services related to immigration, lgbtq plus rights ,environmental protection, reproductive rights and racial

equity for the be hosted payment waiver. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on this item on item 25. supervisor fielder fielder is supervisor from would mahmoud i supervisor mandel mendelson i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor carter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton walton absent supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor and cardio and guardian i there are ten i's thank you madam clerk without objection this resolution is adopted. can you please call item 26? item 26 was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting and was forwarded as a committee report. it's an ordinance to amend the planning code and the health

code for the inclusionary housing ordinance non non-potable water exemption we can take this item same house, same call without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading madam clerk can you please call item 27 item 27 what's considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on monday february 10th and was also forwarded as a committee report. item 27 is a motion to appoint supervisor jackie fielder to the local agency formation commission term ending february 4th, 2027 at the conclusion of her term as a member of the board. >> colleagues can i have a motion to excuse supervisor fielder from voting on this matter moved by chen seconded by chan. we can take that without objection. supervisor fielder is excused. >> and on the motion. >> madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item 27 supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman. >> all right, gentlemen, i

supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sartor sadr i supervisor cheryl cheryl eyes supervisor walton walton absent supervisor chan chin eyes supervisor chin chin eyes supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor in cardio and cardio i there are nine eyes without objection the motion is approved madam clerk let's go to roll call for introductions of first member up to introduce new business is supervisor fielder hey hello thank you colleagues i am sure many of you are aware of an incident that took place in my district on sunday night as super bowl sunday was getting underway i got a call from fire chief chrisman at 350 that a car had crashed into a parklet injuring six including a mom and a child who were sent as of general

under a red code for that reason i was completely prepared to arrive at a tragic scene and now we know that thankfully all six are expected to be okay. we know that the crash was a result of a police chase of a wanted vehicle that started at stone's town and continued all the way to 24th street in mission district. the horrifying crash destroyed a parklet at a popular sports bar that was full of people enjoying the first quarter of the super bowl. >> i saw the video of the crash myself and it is an absolute miracle no one was killed. >> i talked to witnesses up and down 24th street and learned that before the wanted car crash into the parklet it sped northbound on mission, crashed into a light pole at 24th in mission and crashed into

another parked car outside of the mcdonald's which i noticed on the scene had all its airbags deployed due to the impact. >> i am so relieved no one was killed but this day could have been an even more tragic one for our city as well the injured victims and witnesses while not in critical condition and will be traumatized for a long time. it is unclear to me at this time whether there was an imminent threat to anyone's lives before as apd began to pursue this vehicle. >> and as you all know, voters passed prop eight last year which among other things expanded the criteria criteria for four vehicle pursuits to allow as of greater discretion in those decisions between 2018 and 2023 before this new policy was implemented as live pd reported, 150 police chases. 38% of these ended in a collision in june 2023 a police

chase killed someone. san francisco's new vehicle pursuit policy loosens restrictions on vehicle chases beyond that of most other major american cities. >> and so i am submitting a letter of inquiry to as of pd chief scott to better understand the circumstances and decision making surrounding the case. i would like to understand one what were the circumstances surrounding this case and what was the top speed of the police car or cars involved to what is the existing as of pd policy regarding police chases and how have officers been trained on it? three how did this incident comply with current as a pd policy and how did it arrives to the level of vehicle pursuit that ultimately put many lives in danger or what is the pd protocol after a car chase that leads to injuries or fatalities? five who made the judgment call

and based on what factors? >> six were there other options such as drones or other measures that could have been deployed to avoid a vehicle pursuit that puts lives in danger. seven lastly, what accountability mechanisms are in place for officers whose decisions injure innocent bystanders and extensively damage local businesses as of police car chase policy calls for police to safely apprehend a fleeing violator without unnecessarily endangering the public and or officers according to state law. >> members of law enforcement are also supposed to balance the offense and need for immediate capture against the risks to motorists, pedestrians and officers. public safety requires holding all people accountable for the harm that they cause no matter who causes it. >> and i'm doing this out of concern for the safety of our community and i want to ensure that the san francisco police

department is doing all that it can to avoid such an incident in the future while balancing the needs of all of our public safety. thank you your honor's i submit. >> thank you supervisor fielder supervisor i would submit thank you. supervisor mendelsohn colleagues i'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of reverend robert crummy who passed away on january 14th at the age of 93. >> robert was born in new york city in 1931. he earned an athletic scholarship to attend new york university where he was the captain of the swim team and earned his bachelor's degree in english and philosophy in 1954. after graduating he attended general theological seminary and was ordained as a priest in 1956. in 1962 he was recruited by james pike, the progressive bishop of california at the time to invigorate the episcopal episcopal ministries in the mission district of san

francisco. the following year he was invited to preach at grace cathedral church. his sermon argued for the equal treatment of and lesbians by the church. in 1963 he was not invited back. he went on to co-found the council on religion and the homosexual. after police raided the group's 1965 new year's eve costume ball, crowley and other clergy denounced the police polices discriminatory practice practices in a press conference that led to all charges being dropped at st aidan's episcopal church in diamond heights where he served first as victor vicar and later as rector. robert performed what is believed to have been san francisco's first same sex church wedding ceremony in 1968. he performed many more when he became rector of trinity episcopal church on gough. when the church hierarchy forbade him from officiating weddings for same sex couples, he responded that if he could not marry same sex couples he would stop performing marriage ceremonies altogether. eventually he got around the prohibition by inviting in

visiting ministers to perform the nuptials while while he stood by robert open trinity kitchen to ruth brinker and project open hand when she outgrew her home kitchen. feeding men dying from malnutrition and aids they ran project open hand from trinity for several years until they found their own building. he performed more than 70 funeral services for gay men who died from aids complications. a true ally of the community robert solidarity was not limited to any one community or cause. he joined dr. martin luther king on his march to selma, preached in support of farmworkers and cesar chavez and defended nudity in north beach bars. his very first sermon at trinity delivered on december 15th, 1981 called for then-defense secretary caspar weinberger to resign his membership in the episcopal church because of his hawkish views which ran contrary to the church's antiwar positions. robert was arrested proudly, many times for many causes. >> in later life he was an avid blogger and kept writing until

the end of 2024. in one of his final blog post titled how to stay cheerful, robert wrote the only way i know how to be cheerful is to be thankful. positive thinking does not work. it avoids acknowledging pain and sorrow. being thankful makes pain and sorrow part of thankfulness. rest in peace and power robert crummy. may your memory be a blessing. >> the rest i submit. thank you, mr. president. >> supervisor melgar. i thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, as i mentioned to the mayor earlier, our public transportation system is in a financial crisis. i am hopeful that all of us on the board can commit to working together to fill the funding gap for muni and ensure that the city keeps running. today i am introducing a resolution affirming san francisco's commitment to developing fiscal solutions to ensure that public transportation remains safe, affordable and convenient as an option. >> thank you to supervisor sauder tenant and cardio for

your early co-sponsorship. and madam clerk i have two in memoriam. the first is for charles kopecky marion. >> we honor charles miscarrying today. he recently passed away at the age of 91. he is survived by his loving wife of 34 years, diane, his brother and sister, his sons, grandchildren, nieces, nephews and relatives who brought him immeasurable joy. charles led a model life of service and entrepreneurship. he served our country in the air force and was very active in the reserves and later in the veterans community. >> he spent an incredible amount of time helping boys and girls through the boys and girls club of santa ana and was dedicated to his armenian community in northern california. he was an active member in the effort to save the mt. davidson cross in district seven and served four years in the council of armenian american organizations of northern california. his legacy of service and

compassion will continue to inspire and resonate for resonate for generations to come. >> lastly colleagues i am offering an in memoriam for san francisco firefighter and san francisco police officer bob geary who died january 26th at the age of 85. robert geary was born november 22nd, 1939 in oakland and he was five minutes younger than his twin sister patricia. he attended zero school in bishop o'dowd school in oakland. he was a seven time elected member of the democratic central committee and served two terms as a on the board of directors of the air. >> he was one of those characters that made san francisco space ideal. he was assigned to a community policing position in north beach and how he made it his own was to order an expensive

wooden dummy out of a vintage tril equis catalog. he taught himself how to use it in front of the mirror and he chose the name smarty as a pun of the word dummy and the full name. brendan was smarty to add dignity to the doll geary took the dummy to entertain children while he was out on patrol dressing it in police uniform with a badge one half and a water pistol. despite carrying the dummy, geary was able to function as an officer chasing and tackling at least one suspect with the dummy at hand. >> in 19 93 he placed a ballot measure to the voters after being told by his captain and then chief ribera that he could no longer be a ventriloquist with a psychic proposition. bebe was supported by 68,000 san franciscans. this was the second ballot victory. he had already won big by championing proposition b which saved a mounted unit from elimination in 1988. >> bob geary walked a beat in

north beach and retired on the west side. >> he will be missed by all who knew him and voted for him. he is survived by his twin sister patricia and geary and his partner in ventriloquism brenda no marti. the rest i submit and i would like to be referred after supervisor dorsey please. thank you. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. supervisor sutter. >> thank you, madam clerk. first i'd like to build on supervisor mcguire's words related to bob geary. even many years later he is someone who the community of north beach remembers fondly and share stories of. and i think he also represented the best of community policing and what we subscribe to in central station and in the north beach community of making our police officers and our public safety responders part of our neighborhoods. >> next i'd like to introduce a resolution recognizing the month of february 2025 as children's dental health month

in the city and county of san francisco. kerri is also known as cavities are tooth decay are the most common chronic disease in children across our country. kids only get one set of permanent teeth and it's crucial to protect them from day one so they last a lifetime. >> when kids have poor oral health it affects their ability to succeed at school, to sleep, to eat and to grow. and we want our city to remain committed to protecting and improving the health of our city's children. youth and families because we know when they are healthy our city thrives. some of the most effective oral habits kids can form include brushing twice a day, flossing every day, eating healthy food ,limiting sugary beverages and going to the dentist for a checkup twice a year. i say that as much a reminder for the children as for all of us in this room and as an expecting father i plan to ensure my daughter performs all of those healthy habits so that no matter how big her sweet tooth might be her teeth can stay in good condition.

>> this resolution also recognizes the work of cavity free s.f. which is a citywide oral health collaborative committed to addressing children's oral health disparities. our kids in chinatown, the mission and bayview hunters point in particular bear the highest burden of tooth decay. cavity free s.f. works to engage with kids and parents in those communities to support them in accessing resources to improve their oral health. i want to thank nico's chinese health coalition and their executive director kent wu in particular for bringing this important issue to the attention of our office and for their important work in district three to improve the oral health of children in chinatown. thank you to all ten of my colleagues for co-sponsoring this resolution and working to improve the health of kids across our city and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor sutter. supervisor cheryl. >> colleagues today i'm introducing two items. first, i'm introducing an ordinance to implement a simple amendment to the planning code that will better allow our

corner stores to attract foot traffic on our commercial corridors. we all know that our small businesses have struggled to recover since the pandemic. citywide we have persistently low levels of tourism and commercial vacancy rates that remain higher than 2019 levels. our sales tax revenues are lackluster compared to the pre-pandemic years. it is our responsibility to do everything we can to create an environment where small businesses can thrive. the legislation i am introducing is a commonsense code change that lets businesses on corner lots have to projecting signs for the two adjoining facades further inviting patrons and contributing to a violent, vibrant streetscape. >> planning department analysis agrees that visual cues like signs will not only introduce patrons to the individual business but also draw attention to and in court encourage activity throughout the entire merchant corridor. >> amidst troubling economic indicators and a shift away from brick and mortar commercial businesses, we must do all that we can to encourage flexible city that encourages

economic recovery. when analyzing prior signed legislation. the planning department staff also found that today nine noncompliant businesses that have that already have two projecting signs are mostly concentrated in our city's cultural heritage districts. we must acknowledge the historical context of san francisco's design controls and the impact of past regulations on diverse cultural expression. since the mid 1960s the city has implemented sign controls that sought to restrict quote visual clutter. this term is often employed as a proxy to minimize the expression of cultural identity and diversity. recently, however, we have rightly implemented design guidelines in our cultural districts that recognize the importance of promoting and protecting businesses that advance the variety of cultures that make san francisco so unique by allowing additional signage flexibility. this ordinance will not just bring these shops into compliance with the law. we will also ensure that more

corner stores can reflect the artistic and cultural identities of their communities. this legislation is straightforward yet it serves as another powerful step toward economic revitalization and toward fostering a welcoming, vibrant streetscape across the city. >> i want to thank supervisor sutter, supervisor melgar and board president mandel min for your early co-sponsorship. and i look forward to working with all of you to gain your support. furthermore, i'm joining mayor lurie as a co-sponsor of a resolution to execute a loan agreement between the mayor's office of housing and community development and the tenderloin neighborhood development corporation. this loan finances the acquisition rehabilitation and preservation of over 100 affordable homes in district two located on ellis street between goff and laguna. this project the normandie apartments converts 108 privately owned units into permanently affordable housing. >> this acquisition expands much needed affordable housing opportunities for low and

moderate income households in a neighborhood with strong transit access and senior services. critically, rents in these apartments will be capped at 30% of household income. i'm thrilled that the normandie apartments is a second site acquisition in d2 and most notably this site is one of the lowest public cost per unit acquisitions in the small cites program history. i'm grateful for the extensive work that most city and tienda have done to make this project a reality. it's pivotal that we continue to create and preserve affordable housing across the city, ensuring that every district remains accessible to the diverse range of residents that make san francisco the vibrant city it is. >> by fairness, by financing this project we make a cost effective investment to protect needed affordable housing and support a future in which all communities can continue to thrive and live in their homes without the risk of the place of displacement. >> the rest i submit thank you . >> supervisor sheryl supervisor walton. thank you, madam clerk.

first i just want to be added to the letter of inquiry read supervisor fielder and the questions around police chases. i know at some point with the law changes someone is actually going to die because of these police changes. intentional or not. >> and so it's disheartening today. >> colleagues, i just want to speak on a silent hearing that i introduced last week. i introduced the hearing regarding the mistreatment of residents at the alice griffith apartments by mccormack berrien salazar and property management around the quality of services they are providing mistreatment of residents and oversight responsibilities. our office has heard from numerous residents about the lack of services as well as quality of life issues. we are requesting the san francisco housing authority john stuart company, mccormack bear and salazar office of

community investment in infrastructure five point bayview hunters point multi senior services and the mayor's office of housing and community development to report at this hearing. >> there have been other hearings that we've held around public housing communities here in this body and we've most certainly had some successes as a result of these hearings. it's unfortunate that we have to go through the trouble of calling a hearing to make sure that the quality of life for our residents are met and their needs are met. but this is something that continues to be a problem in some of our our housing communities. and so we're going to continue to fight to make sure residents have the services and the quality of life that they deserve. >> the rest i submit thank you . supervisor walton. supervisor chen submit. thank you. supervisor chen submit. thank you. supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, madam clerk.

colleagues, i have requested the city attorney advice and begun the process of preparing a formal legislative drafting request in response to a recent police commission resolution urging this body to amend relevant provisions of the san francisco administrative code that govern rewards for information pertaining to unsolved homicide cases. in general this would seek to address expanding rewards for information leading to the file filing of homicide charges rather than solely for criminal convictions and potentially certain other circumstances for which i will need to work more closely with our city attorney. i would however, like to extend my gratitude to miss paulette brown for her advocacy for this and also for her long time support of those who like her have suffered the loss of a family member or loved one to homicides that remain unsolved for many years. ms. brown has been nothing short of the conscience of the san francisco police commission reminding us of law enforcement's important and enduring work to do justice and

to offer a measure of closure for those left behind in the wake of tragedy. to the extent we policymakers can incentivize information that may help law enforcement's task in solving homicides, we should do so. and i look forward to working with advocates, with colleagues and with our city attorney's office to accomplish that. >> separately, i would like to reserve the right to offer a more complete in memoriam next week. but we received sad news of the passing earlier this morning of a true sun of san francisco a long time labor leader, a conscientious civil service commissioner and an admired and beloved leader of san francisco's irish-american and roman catholic communities in ethics. crowley. for those of us who knew ethics as a friend, i think we still have some processing and grieving to do before we can collaborate on an in memoriam that is fully worthy of alex's remarkable legacy to the city he loved. preliminarily, however, i would ask that we also adjourn today's meeting in honor of

ethics. crowley extending our condolences to his beloved family members, his wife nancy and his children jill, robbie, carrie and meg. our hearts go out to all of you in this difficult time and the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor dorsey supervisor melgar, thank you so much, madam clerk. thank you, supervisor dorsey. i also just wanted to weigh in as commissioner crowley was a friend and was a constituent up until two years ago when that a neighborhood with redistricted into district four. i wanted to highlight a little bit commissioner crowley's great contributions to the labor movement in san francisco and as a civic leader and civil servant. commissioner crowley at joined i see the stagehand at union and if he served for 30 years he was a member union member of

society at local 16 and he began his career as a stagehand in 1982 working for the san francisco opera and broadening his field experience in motion pictures and performing arts. he joined the management staff in 1990 and was elected president of piazza local 16 in 1994. rising to business manager in 1997 where he was elected to seven consecutive terms he was a highly skilled labor negotiate and mediator. >> he had his own firm where he advised folks on nonprofit labor business negotiations. he served as port commissioner from 2010 to 2012 and also as commissioner from 2008 to 2010. he served as president of that commission from september of 2009 through 2010. also serving on the sampras's

go labor council executive committee and is a charter member of the friends of the san francisco film commission. commissioner crowley has served three terms on the travis san francisco travel board of directors and also as a member of the san francisco cork ireland sister city committee. we will miss him dearly. he was also a candidate for supervisor of district seven. his wife nancy also a dear friend is an avid cyclist and activist in these circles. we send all our love to nancy and i hope that we can close the meeting in his memory. >> thank you. let's have that be from the full board. >> thank you. supervisor melgar. supervisor walton, you asked to be re referred on this item. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. my apologies, colleagues. i'm also requesting a hearing

on the budget and legislative analyst's performance audit of the san francisco police department over time requested by former supervisor dean preston. i want to thank him and his staff for initiate this audit with the bla. the findings in this report raise serious concerns about accountability oversight and financial management within s.f. pd and fiscal year 2022 2023 s.f. police overtime expenditures totaled 108.4 million. yet just 12% of officers were responsible for 32% of all overtime hours. at the same time sick leave and injury related leave among sworn staff increased by 77% over five years. with troubling patterns suggesting potential abuse, the audit also found that cpd failed to enforce absenteeism policies did not adequately

monitor attendance and violated key provisions of its mou with the police officers association resulting in 51,000 ineligible ten b overtime hours between 2020 and 2023. additionally, 13 percent of overtime cards were improperly approved with the missing or duplicate signatures and even officers approving their own overtime. perhaps most concerning s.f. pd spent over 30.8 million in general fund dollars on 319,945 overtime hours for special initiatives without clear performance metrics or oversight. these findings demand answers. >> i'm calling on both the budget and legislative analysts and as a pd to report on these issues and explain how they plan to correct these systemic failures.

san franciscans deserve transparency and accountability in how our public safety dollars are spent. the rest i submit, is for real this time. >> thank you, supervisor walton ,supervisor and cardio colleagues. i'd like to express my condolences to the family of f crowley. he was a neighbor. he lived not too far from me such a respected member of the community when i was brand new to politics he was a front runner for supervisor. i learned so much from him and perhaps most importantly him and nancy raised some great kids. so my condolences to crowley's family. >> the rest i submit thank you supervisor and guardian. >> mr. president, seeing no names on the roster that concludes the introduction of new business. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> let's go to public comments. at this time the board welcomes your public comment. please line up on your right hand side of the chamber along the curtains. you may speak to the mayoral appearance today the approval

of the meeting minutes as presented. other general matters not on today's agenda but within the board subject matter jurisdiction. all other agenda content has been reported out to the board by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement occurred. we are setting the timer for two minutes and will welcome our first speaker. welcome ms. brown. good morning. i mean i said i'm sorry. i like to use it over here and i want to thank you matt darcy for speaking on the resolu ation is over here working now i'm here concerning my son aubrey zappacosta who was murdered august 14, 2006 as matt darcy spoke about about unsolved homicides i bring these pitches with me because they're all unsolved homicides and these cases have never been set. so this is a new new one of all unsolved homicides and there are people of color are unsolved homicides and i say

this because i'm a mother have been fighting for years about my son. this is me standing over my son lifeless body. this is something i have to remember for the rest of my life. >> so that's why i asked for this to be done. this is my son's corpse. this is what i see. so i'm saying that if we can implement this new resolution and max carter over stone was the one that implemented this at the border. he's the the vice president at the board at the police commission. so he may implement this and i'm hoping that the board of supervisors can help us mothers heal. we need we need our cases solved. i've been doing this for almost 20 years for my 17 year old boy who was shot been to different supervisors, different days, different police chiefs, different everybody and i have to start all over again and

start all over again. >> what can we do please approve this resolution. >> i thank dean preston for the street renaming of the street renaming of the 1500 block of my son. i see that every day and i thank god for that and i thank all of you that showed up. but please implement this resolution that matt dorsey just to read to you. >> thank you. thank you, ms.. brown for your comments. okay. >> welcome to the next speaker . >> good afternoon. i want to make this real quick perjury, forgery, fraud, identity theft. everything was taken wrongfully from me. i had two pieces i'm still getting attacked, still getting wrongfully arrested outside the the shelter i'm at they're coming inside the shelter.

>> nobody's doing nothing. but yet if i hit an officer i go to prison, right? >> so my lawyers come up with a new tactic because my service dog got kicked. >> see, i'm going to get my i'm going to get my justice. the investigation's taking so long when my lawyer is due to the fact of all the officials involved in fact i brought videos to this man's office and he ran behind the wall like a coward. >> yes, sir. so this is what my lawyers are doing investigating each single one of you because when i brought this to your attention, you should have launched off an investigation. in fact, we got two people that cheated on their spouse, so i'm going to ruin your reputation as you being behind this table and these deaths doing your jobs as well as your home lives. >> you can bank on it. mr. dorsey. i do like you, sir. sir, remember to address your comments to the board as a whole. >> i do appreciate what you do as well as a couple other people in here but i can assure you ladies and gentlemen, my

lawyers are ruthless and the investigator your team is ruthless. you're going to give me my justice. you're going to stop these officers and my ex who's a registered sex offender for assaulting a child under the age of five. >> that's you you're helping. you're going to get my justice or don't i don't care. we're going to take it and then you're going to get humiliated with your jobs and with your families you can take on it. and they tried to arrest me again yesterday for not paying to get on the bus. they stopped me from being able to get my id here in california and stopped me from getting my cash out of my bank. >> ladies, gentlemen, y'all have a beautiful day. you know why i'm happy for you to find out. >> thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next speaker, mr. amen. >> good to see you, angela cavell, thank you for your time today. thank you for the reelection of

connie chan in this south supervisor melgar let me see i see your district five where i've been for 24 years at the oasis apartments between leavenworth and i. i help you, sir joel you're able to keep your position. i read something about the great highway. i know some places that are familiar and some are not. congrats. elections supervisor ralph hillman and i want to thank you for yourself supervisor management and jackie thornhill for helping sylvia margulies who passed away on july 12th. he was a retired doctor who died of cancer, a supervisor ralph hillman. and then you did a lot for sylvia as well as jackie thornhill over and over. i'm grateful to see all of you. the last board was magnificent and i know you all do a good job. be safe and be well. thank you for your time.

>> bye bye. thank you for your comments. next speaker good afternoon supervisors and all the other people in the chamber. my name is tina martin and i'm a member of transit justice. you might have guessed that that's what i'm here to speak about from the way i'm decorated i think it's really, really important that we support our public transportation and i really appreciate what supervisor mel gar said today and the questions that she asked. i don't feel it was sufficiently answered and i'm disappointed because i really thought this was going to be a presentation of a plan to save public transports motion my favorite saying i've been taking muni since 1966 and in many many different roles is a mother with a toddler, an infant babysitting going to school and now as a retiree i get all over the place on muni and i really love it and i really want to see that is supported. maybe that over time problem we

have with a police department could go the money that's being wasted in the systemic failure could go to public transportation. i don't know how these things work but it's got to work and my favorite saying is when done by the mayor of bogota, former mayor who said the progressive city is not one where even the poor have cars. >> it's one where even the rich take public transportation. so let's see that we support it. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . good afternoon. good afternoon. supervisors and staff. my name is cyrus hall. i'm a sustainable transportation advocate. i'm also a district seven resident and today i'm speaking as part of the muni now muni forever campaign i urge the board to work together with mayor o'leary to find the $15 million needed to stop the 4% service cuts planned for this summer. sfm today has spent the last

five years tightening its belt . the agency runs somewhere between 80 and 90% of pre-pandemic service. and while muni has already cut a number of routes, they have also drastically increased on time consistency service with new transit only lanes headway management and a muni metro that rarely has delays public opinion is at an all time high yet many routes are now bursting at the seams with riders and our economic headwinds present a monumental financial challenge starting in fiscal year 27. >> this is a challenge we can meet if we try. most immediately the board could transfer 15 million from the general reserve to sfm to to alleviate the need for summer cuts. that's the same fund that was used today for free parking for a month and for free transit for the 15th and the 16th. >> the 4% cuts planned for this summer would likely remove additional routes one that i use the 36 teresita would be cut back to one bus every 45

minutes. >> this is a level of service that will ensure lower ridership and doom the lines to being fully removed during future cuts that will leave my disabled neighbors have no choice but to use paratransit service in the medium term the city needs to face this crisis heads head on and work towards holding a special election this year to raise the revenue. the alternative is we would run smack into the $320 million deficit next year which would imply 30% service cuts. >> so let's all work together. >> let's figure out how to solve this. thank you so very much. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hello supervisors. my name is sara. i live in d5 five and like so many folks in the room and more importantly hundreds and thousands of people not in this room i rely on muni if you as a governing body in partnership with the mayor are not serious about finding funny finding funding for muni service this year and into the future you

are not serious about the future of san francisco if you're not serious about funding muni you're not serious about safety and muni safely brings people to and from work school and leisure with far fewer fatalities and automobiles. if you're not serious about funding muni you're not serious about economic recovery. there is no downtown recovery or neighborhood vibrancy without muni service. if you're not serious about funding muni you are not serious about facing the effects of climate change. public transportation is one of the strongest most financially efficient ways to fight climate change. the gravity of cutting muni service won't just affect safety, the economy and the environment it will affect individuals, artists, teachers, students, nurses, engineers, service workers and according to our city charter and at least once a week this very governing body hundreds of thousands of people ride muni every day totaling over half a million daily trips. now imagine all of those folks in the room with us would be more packed in the 30 at at rush hour. now imagine letting each one of them know that you couldn't figure out funding for their

bus line or train. now imagine letting them know that you could figure it out. sure. >> that one feels a little bit better, huh? so supervisors and to wherever you're listening, mayor lurie, if you're not serious about funding muni you are not serious about serving san francisco. thank you. thank you for your comments. let's hear from our next speaker. welcome. no outburst from the public, please. well i'm sorry. hello board of supervisors. my name is jackie liquido ba i'm a frequent voter in district eight and i take muni everywhere. i'm here to urge this board to reject any cuts to muni service in san francisco especially those that would cut service hours to 10 p.m. or any plans that would cut lines most taken by residents of the tenderloin western addition and fillmore. i love this city and i didn't leave the conservative state i grew up in to come here and watch the same forces shredding public infrastructure and funding federally do so here we should be setting an example for the nation by doing the opposite and ensuring our

transit system is prioritized, well funded and expanded. >> there was a proposition on the ballot that would have eliminated this problem tax rideshare companies fully funded muni and the majority of s.f. voters said yes on it. but dark money groups like grow s.f. and together have put their weight behind a proposition that was written with a poison pill to kill proposition l even if it passed ,most voters were not aware of this by design those shady groups backed the campaigns of many city officials including some in this room. the people of san francisco tried to fix this problem. it would be shameful for those complicit in killing proposition l to community service now i urge you to vote no on any cuts so that we can have a transit system worthy of a major city and stay in line with our climate and equity goals. >> if the issue is the budget deficit i'm sure we can shift funding priorities around starting with not funding further military and chemical weapons for sfpd as i mentioned earlier in this meeting. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. >> next speaker please.

>> good afternoon. i am the win. i'm a voter in district five. i'm here this afternoon to also urge you to prioritize funding muni service and to prevent harmful service cuts. as someone who does not own a car i rely on muni service to go about my daily life on lines that are in danger of being cut . >> muni is a primary way i'm able to enjoy our city, move around, visit our cities, engage our community and patronize our small businesses . >> decreased muni service means more cars on the road which means more traffic for motorists higher risk of injury to pedestrians and cyclists and increased greenhouse gas emissions. muni directly supports our city's public safety, economy and climate goals. in the shadow a presidential administration that is seeking to dismantle infrastructure and undo climate progress. s.f. should be an example of a city that chooses to invest in public transit. >> the voters have made it clear that they support funding muni with the majority of

voters voting yes on prop eight this past november. it's crucial that the board of supervisors work with the mayor and ask to find solutions that are alternatives to cutting service. i salute you use your leadership and power to fund muni's future to ensure that it can continue to serve our city and its people. thank you. thank you for your comments. welcome. next speaker. >> good afternoon, burt. i am christopher peterson and i live in the ingleside. aside from my own feet muni is my primary mode of transportation. i'd like to start off by thanking supervisor melgar for raising the issue of muni funding with the mayor today and for her other comments. i urge this board to take action to avoid the need for serious cuts in muni service this summer. the board can do this in at least two ways. first the board should support sfm to in its own efforts to

raise revenue. unfortunately the board in the past hasn't always done this. in particular the board should support expanding where and when fees are charged for on street parking. this would be good both for muni and small businesses. it increased parking turnover thereby increasing parking availability for customers who prefer to drive. second, the board should establish new additional funding for muni at least until ballot measures are passed establishing new long term sources of funding for muni. as a citizen economist ted egan has pointed out the city's economic recovery depends on a healthy public transit system shutting down muni metro at 10 p.m. for example would be devastating for the city's nightlife and performing arts organizations. please be creative and generous in establishing new funding for muni. >> thank you. thank you for your comments.

>> next speaker. hi my name is sarah greenwald and with 350 san francisco. >> and i was just thinking, you know with all the challenges the city everybody is facing now it's easy to forget san francisco's a fantastic city. it's got these beautiful views. it's got all this greenery and the parks and and you know, it's a center of learning and innovation and and culture and the arts and and a transit system i would point out that is fabled in song and story. it's worked really well for a really long time. it's older than a lot of the systems in the country. and i often also mentioned that it's tremendous benefit to the climate. and the mayor was just reminding us that you think of somebody getting on muni that happens half a million times a day even now after covid. >> so i would just say let's

keep this thing running. >> thank you for your comments . >> welcome. next speaker. >> hi, my name is annabel little john bailey. i'm not with an organization but i'm a resident of district three in the tenderloin. >> i rely on the 38 to get everywhere i go. i take it to work. i take it to the grocery store which is especially important for tenderloin residents because so many services we need are not accessible within our own community. >> i just urge urge you very very strongly to find a budget solution before cuts are made. the 38 is already incredibly packed as are many of the most popular bus lines and we require as residents without a car the bus and the muni to take us where we need to go. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome. good afternoon. board of supervisors.

>> my name is young and i'm a resident of cavalli district eight. >> i'm also a doctor. i work at the sutter hospitals across the city from the one up on venice down to the one on mission bernal. i have a clinic at pac heights so i take transit to work every day. >> so transit is a service that's deeply important to me. >> but more importantly, i'm here today because many of my patients have told me that they either don't own a car or they can't drive and they rely on muni to get to their doctor's appointments. >> these are people who are the most vulnerable in our city. >> and if you make these service cuts they will have even harder time getting access to health care. >> the other thing that i want to say is that this budget deficit as of now should not be and cannot be expected to solve this problem on its own. >> the board of supervisors and the mayor have just as much responsibility to find a solution without resorting to service cuts. >> thank you.

thank you for your comments. >> speaker welcome. good afternoon supervisors. i'm dillon fabris, community and policy manager at san francisco transit riders and member of the muni know me forever campaign. last week the s.f. mta proposed three scenarios that would bring devastating service cuts to every corner of our city. cuts could include ending muni service hours earlier increasing wait times up to 45 minutes shortening and even entirely eliminating some lines . every one of these cuts will hurt riders who depend on muni to get around the city and access city life. san francisco loves muni but we also need muni expanding access to affordable and reliable transit as a cornerstone to meeting so many of our city's goals from climate to safety to housing to downtown recovery to economic recovery in our neighborhoods. allowing muni to crumble will make it even harder for us to address each of these issues and more. for several years now the mta has been doing what it can to find efficiencies and prepare for its deficit. it was ahead of the game when

it came to implementing its hiring freeze. it streamlined its schedule and cut down on operating inefficiencies and has raised fares and increased enforcement. but now we're reaching the point where the agency's options to balance its own budget are limited and unfortunately it looks like massive cuts are coming as soon as this summer. but these cuts are not inevitable. we need the board of supervisors to be working along with the mayor to address this service cuts like the emergency that they are. we need to be having a serious discussion about how to fund transit service before lines get cut. >> the board should be doing all in its power to find the 15 to $50 million necessary to prevent this year's cuts so we can begin working toward a more sustainable solution to address the even larger deficits that s.f. mta faces next year. this is an urgent issue for us. it to be slowly moving towards disaster while seemingly nothing is happening to stop it. so we need the board to be treating service cuts like they

like the problem they are for so many san franciscans. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. welcome. the next speaker. >> hello. my name is natalia. so the cobalt i have a privilege of living in san francisco for the past 37 years . >> and during this time unfortunately i have seen the public transportation is getting worse, worse and worse . now i am retired. i am living in subsidized housing. >> and from what i read the busses that we use to go to the doctor's to take to grocery stores they are going to be eliminated on sutter street where i reside. >> does several subsidized housing for seniors like new housing market theros for example we are going to see the doctors in kaiser hospital. >> we are going to shop in people with walkers people was

you know you seybold elderly people it is difficult for us really like i have never had a car since i arrived this seat to always use public transportation. >> and this is really causing a lot of stress because 38 bus which is very full it's you know, overcrowded. >> so what what is the choice for us? because every year it seems busses are going our way and we don't have cars. we will be balanced in the in the houses. we can't go anywhere. >> we can't visit the park. we can't enjoy the city because we are not driving. >> so please help us find the money. >> thank us. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hi, my name is etan adler. i'm a district three resident and voter. i personally take the bus

nearly every day and i make extreme sacrifices to do so. in one recent example i found that the bus took about an hour for me to to to go when it should have taken about 20 minutes by car. and another example it was an hour and a half by bus for what it was a 15 minute car ride and i have the google maps receipts to prove it. i came today to give this kind of personal stories that would explain why muni is so important. but sitting here in the last hour i changed what my statement was going to be. as the mayor said, we have a real budget crisis and we have a real and muni has a real budget crisis that's going to lead to service cuts. yet in the hour and a half that i was sitting here more than an hour and a half i already and found $526,000 that we could have used to solve the budget in just sitting here. i started. >> you should continue. thank you. thank you for your comments. >> next speaker. >> hello.

>> my name is lisa platt. i'm a d2 resident and as a former elected official i truly do appreciate the budget challenges that you're facing. >> but we prioritize our spending and we absolutely cannot compromise on muni service. we just transferred a half million dollars to cover free parking for a month in transit for two days. so that's that's one of the messages that we're sending and how we're thinking about spending our dollars. >> we are at an absolutely critical point. >> we are now at the point where it's nearly a non-viable public transit system. no viable system has trains that stop running at ten. if you aren't convinced that it's non-viable. come with me as i out walk the 19 on my way to saint francis for my auto appointments. >> very ironic.

>> help me make that last 10 p.m. 45 bus that was cut in the pandemic. so i can see the final set at the saloon and still get home which i can't today. >> transit is the highest roi thing that we can do right now . we have a perception of crime despite crime dropping more people out and about on our streets. >> make people feel safer. >> that's what they're looking for is to feel a sense of community who is going to be there. >> our small businesses need the foot traffic. >> we're talking about signage and all of those things to get more people into our small businesses. >> i could have bought one more drink at the saloon but then it would have cost me $25 to get home. >> so i beg you today to transfer funds from the general fund to cover the shortfall. >> we will absolutely work with you to find solutions to fund muni long term.

please avoid any service cuts. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to our next speaker. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is hymie viloria from the muni now muni forever campaign and also from the tenderloin. thank you so much to supervisor melgar for asking the question to the mayor. and it's disappointing to hear the answer is something that is frankly not inspiring nor did it evoke a brand new day for san francisco go for something as the backbone and the lifeblood of the city. we sure do treat it like a hernia. i'm asking this board and the mayor to help the mta solve the problem and not rely on service cuts for a department that has 73% approval rating the highest in 23 years. we understand it's a huge deficit we face. that is why we've been working to address this for a couple of years now. and you all except for one and including the mayor supported prop l to fund the bus and raise money. thank you for the support but it didn't win enough to beat the the poison pill. now i ask that we do something

now. we cannot let our transit system fail. we need you all and the mayor to do something or we'll end up the way we are dealing with the housing and the drug crisis. now we're both have become a deeper problem and continue to cost us more. a brand new day for san francisco requires a proactive approach to find muni. we can start by helping now to stop service cuts this summer and we can spend more time to help fund muni in the future to have it forever. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. welcome to our next speaker. >> hello. my name is liam mckeever. >> i live in d six. last week a few disabled homeless people living in decrepit rv using bayview begged you to help them because police would be evicting them in three days on valentine's day. >> that's the police leaving you. >> what have you done for them? i hope someone is doing something. residents at the site have also complained about the failures to accommodate people with disabilities, prompting investigation by hud. >> $15.5 million have been

wasted on this experiment and offensive waste of our money would have been better just to give people the money directly. >> but this is the soulless circus that is played here at city hall. >> just before this i was at a meeting with homeless families from the hamilton family shelter and mr. murray of the chief of health, homelessness and family services showed up instead of the mayor. >> he said he was there to listen only and why is that? what were these people these campaign people doing researching during their entire campaign? >> so now already have informed plans ready to deploy just sounded like now they're starting to gather information and hear stories and. he also said he couldn't imagine what these families are going through. everything. maybe the people who can't imagine who have been homeless or who are currently homeless who understand the daily emergency of what being homeless is should be the ones to be given this power since they seem to be the only people

who will act with the urgency this requires. >> don't admire their resilience create a society where they don't need to be resilient. one person said every day is like a year. >> something needs to be done to date. >> they're basically just asking to have a real shelter to stable housing solutions. they don't have to exit onto the streets with their kids who are depressed, some of which are contemplating suicide because of their dire straits. that's serious enough for you? is that urgent enough for you? is that an emergency enough for you? i'm just like this is pathetic. thank you leo mckeever for your comments. >> welcome to our next speaker . >> hello. my name is taylor and i'm the youth t v prevention coordinator with back revolt against domestic violence. i want to thank you for our next item on the agenda which is recognizing teen dating violence awareness and prevention month for the second year with appreciation a d-10 supervisor shemar walton for his support in bringing this to the youth commission in its

inaugural year. teen dating violence is a type of domestic violence that affects middle high school and young college students. according to the cdc, 1 in 12 dating high school students will experience sexual violence and 1 in 12 will experience physical violence at the hands of a dating or a consensual partner. in the last 12 months right some will experience both for a total of up to 1 in 3 high school students by their graduation. i am thankful for our partnership with the san francisco youth commission asian women's shelter which is a fellow san francisco domestic violence consortium member and sfi usd students for raising this issue that affects their fellow students. limiting their personal lives, relationships, safety and academic opportunities on and off campus. >> we look forward to continuing to promote healthy relationships skills in accordance with the california healthy uk act. while also raising awareness for the need for intervention, resources and services for youth 12 to 24 who are both experiencing and perpetrating dating violence. leo to bring this to you the board of supervisors in january

of next year to amplify our efforts for the prevention event. thank you to those of you who joined us today for wear orange day and in co-sponsor the resolution to support survivors and imagine a world without teen dating violence. >> thank you for your comments. >> welcome to our speaker. good afternoon. my name is and i'm live sharma speaking with developers texas millennials. the reason why i brought this piece of ten it costs me $250,000. it's an affiliate fighting vector with swiss watch. if i bought that good souls that i can sell for $2,000 what those do for 250. but this is worthless. this is handcuff because city want us to rely on disabled wheelchair to ramp taxi people's business. they do not want us to give any white collar people's business . >> how can we provide services to them if we don't make any money? i'm there fraud don't fund any

money to empty. >> before you bail us out taxi drivers are in limbo. we express our angst to hundreds of time. no one cares of us. empty your territories. join their hands with right should increase their own income to own their pet tech. we get a bleeding to death. >> you give us curse nor empty for taxi drivers. >> empty place out of the woods. they allowed our empty you to pick up at the airport because there is no ramp taxi yet people's business in this city . >> so this type of business suffocates of a life drive your taxi cab is a misery. our life is terrible. we want you to lower the price on morality $125,000 because empty a sold 200 medallion 11 years ago for $125,000 price. but it kind of you know despicable this ammunition with us we are paying higher

interest extra amount which is like a $125,000 extra compared to 11 years some driver got for that same mode only for $125,000. >> thank you. thank you for your comments. next speaker are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board? come on up out of there. you go. >> welcome. good afternoon sam again and again. you know it's as everybody knows taxi business is dead only we are running on the street but there's nothing is going on. we're word how to feed our families. we're worried how to pay our bills and we are stressed all the time. we don't have future. we don't have a dream to come to america. even our families i mean like our kids nobody has that dream is killed and is killed by you city and is killed by mta

because everyone they know well know that we're business is done. there's no business and any other state has done something for the cab drivers release them but why are we have been punished have we done something wrong for the city? no. we served that city for years and we deserve something better not to get into that slavery by slavery and paying the bills and all these things. i swear to god we're we're tired. we're sick and we want you to listen to us because it's been years and even you ask the kids out on the street nobody knows even taxi anymore. only some very sick people maybe 1 or 2 cars in a day or you sit for six hours at the airport and get somebody from there and just to trip is not going to be good enough to pay your bills and feed your kids. so we really want you guys get together please before something happened to us save

our lives so our families so our kids and let us be free. >> we are stuck. we're okay. i mean like and we feel like we're in a cage all the time. i appreciate it. >> thank you. please concerned about us. thank you, sir, for your comments. >> mr. duffy mr. president, madam secretary, my name is alan duffy although i'm known as james duffy, a curry senior center and in the vicinity of willow alley i'm known as willow where a kindly spinster took me in many years ago. you're lucky or otherwise a serving at a time of probably the biggest change up in the board since district elections . you're there. you're following in the footsteps of the great ammiano . i don't know too much. i know a few things. i do know one thing the person who sits in the seat closest to where public comment is i have complete respect for that

person and in fact i once many years ago pointed out that alan cranston, former presidential candidate once said in that seat no, not actually. thank you, mr. duffy for your comments. >> hello. board of supervisors and madam clerk i'm a wonder a school garcia the director of the san francisco youth commission my apologies are commissioners cannot be here today due to school restraints. we're here today to thank you all for supporting teen dating violence awareness and prevention month. a special shout out to the author district nine supervisor jackie fielder and her legislative aide jen ferrigno for supporting the legislation through working out this legislation this year. one of the things that we've noticed and we'll hope to continue working with the board on is that there's a lot of issues regarding violence amongst youth.

>> there's been cuts to legal aid for youth facing domestic violence. the department of education has vowed to gut title nine which affects our youth here greatly. we've already been seeing title nine shortfalls and so the commission will continue to work with our partners our asian woman shelter and black women revolt to advise the board of supervisors and the mayor on this issue. so thank you again for supporting teen violence awareness month and we hope to continue working with you all on this issue. >> thank you. thank you, director, for your comments. >> welcome. >> last if it were well about only a flushing and the transit you'd be fine. >> okay. no gov tv you make sure you are in sync with me unlike two weeks ago when i launched the revolution that you can't stop by. it's not possible which is about reconnecting humanity with our fellow creatures.

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time it became a sort of a gold up to the point where it ended up being where on the eyes it the jolt of the mushroom all based on a total alice ition you are in the tribe we are all in a tribe. >> we need to get out of it because the trapper won't save you it's easier to kill you if you do not understand that you are less intelligent than the rabbit that we cut into a trap . don't expect to be saved but bite me no. thank you for your comments. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide general public comment? >> mr. president? all right. >> seeing no other speakers public comment is now closed. madam clerk let's go to our for adoption without committee reference. >> agenda item number 30 item 30 was introduced for adoption

but without reference to committee therefore unanimous vote is required on adoption of a resolution on first reading today. alternatively a member may require resolution on first reading to go to committee. >> all right. >> seeing no one on the roster madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item 30? supervisor fielder fielder eyes supervisor mahmoud mahmoud i supervisor randleman hi randleman i supervisor melgar i melgar i supervisor sutter sutter i supervisor cheryl cheryl i supervisor walton walton i supervisor chan chin i supervisor chin chin i supervisor dorsey dorsey i and supervisor and cardio and guardian i there are 11 eyes right without objection the resolution is adopted madam clerk do we have any imperative agenda item to report mr. president then can you please read the in memoriam? >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the

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>> i am supervisor melgar. i am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to san francisco. my family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. this place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and

as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, i'm grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. i have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. i care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. >> we are back in san francisco post pandemic. so important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. >> i'm the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. i'm the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that (indiscernible) i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our decision making

and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. district 7 is one of the most diverse districts in san francisco both in economics and ethnicity. it spans north from golden gate park. it includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. the music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. includes the zoo (indiscernible) all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. includes city college, san francisco state. i had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. it is mostly single family homes, so it is the place where for

generations family (indiscernible) nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. >> this is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. we tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. >> ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. as you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. if you haven't been there, it is really fun. as you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old school commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. it is definitely hopping and full of

families on any weekday. >> i'm matt roger, the coowner or (indiscernible) >> carl, other coowner in west portal. >> we are a neighborhood hardware store. been a community institution since it was founded in 1936. we had a little bit of everything. (indiscernible) to gardening or gift buying. >> my entire experience in san francisco is this community. it is a very small town feel for a big city. the community is caring and connected. >> what makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. i grew up here. i knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. it is very comfortable place and feels like home. >> if you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a

awesome farmers market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. there is everything you need. >> friendly and safe and (indiscernible) i love they bring their kids with them. they teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. i love to see the kids come and talking to you. it is something different then i see from (indiscernible) >> the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. we now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz don't have to to worry about traffic. >> graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the

pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. we are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. >> i'm grateful for the collaboration. we passed legislation at the board and put $4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. i think that for a couple

years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then it's a vote. it is popular vote. we have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at aptos middle school to pedestrian safety projects on (indiscernible) it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the

things get improved in front of them. >> i like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. it is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. (indiscernible) also not boring. there is stuff to do too. >> so, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]

. all right. you all good? can you all hear me now? i'm supposed to look at the cameras but we got the whole crew over here. >> so forgive me as i look at them. i'm not trying to be rude, but thank you all for being here. i want to thank supervisor matt dorsey for being here. i want to thank district attorney brooke jenkins for being here. i want to thank police chief bill scott for being here and marissa rodriguez, the ceo of the union square alliance and scott rowe, its executive director of the year bob wayne a partnership. i want to thank the arts and culture sector that is represented over here to our right. the hospitality sector as well as jeff travel, alex bastian. i want to thank tyler florence for being here. i want to thank our seiu local 87 janitors for being here. really appreciate that.

ufc w local five is also here and the building trades. i appreciate labor being in the house. thank you all very much. so good morning everyone and thank you. today we're gathered downtown a place that we can all admit is not what it used to be. anyone who grew up in san francisco remembers going to union square for holiday shopping or seeing the tourists lining up for the cable car. this was the face of our city and we are all still so proud of it. but i want our kids to feel that same sense of pride that we had growing up. downtown's public safety challenges have hurt our economy, our businesses and our workers. it has also hurt the morale of our city. historically our core hospitality area has been split between three police districts

. >> this has been divided. this is already divided limited police resources across an area with unique public safety needs. but it is a new day in san francisco. we are ready to face our challenges head on with a hyper focus on results. >> that's why today i am proud to announce the san francisco police department's hospitality zone task force. this hospitality zone task force will make downtown safe and kick start our economy. >> the hospitality zone task force will supplement existing sf pd deployments leveraging resources that were previously divided. the task force will also work directly with local businesses and hotels to ensure their

needs are met while helping visitors shoppers and convention goers get around safely. this new effort is part of our diversified strategy to get san francisco san franciscans back to work to clean up our streets and welcome more people to our city. it will also coordinate with multiple agency entities like dimock which is currently active in the tenderloin and on sixth street. the task force builds on our work to end the hotel strike. it also complements our effort to fully staff the police department. the sheriff's department and 911 dispatch and to address the fentanyl crisis on our streets through our fentanyl state of emergency ordinance. >> san francisco those tourism and hospitality industries are the lifeblood of our economy. >> these industries generate

75% of the city's economic impact. they provide tens of thousands of jobs and help fund the services that that support residents in every corner of our city. let me tell you during the jpmorgan health care conference i stopped by union square. >> it was packed. there was people taking up every coffee table in that square. the bars and restaurants not just in union square but here in soma were packed. i stopped by some after our parties. >> there was life everywhere. and i have to tell you i loved every moment of it. that's how it should be. 365 days a year. >> during that conference the mayor's office, s.f. pd sheriffs, the department of emergency management and other

city departments executed an effective public safety plan with a constant visible law enforcement presence. and it worked. the jpmorgan conference is coming back to san francisco in 2026. the task force will be an important part of our public safety plan for next week when we have the lunar new year parade and we have nba all-star weekend. but let's be clear it's going to continue after that every single day. the hospitality zone task force will provide residents and visitors with the security they deserve. >> 365 days a year. >> i am deeply grateful to all of our partners here today who have worked with us to get this

task force off the ground including the san francisco police department, local business leaders and our dedicated first responders. i also want to thank my colleagues at the board of supervisors who are here today and who voted over whelming in favor of our fentanyl state of emergency supervisor. thank you for co-sponsoring that legislation. >> in this new era of collaboration our potential as a city is sky high. while a safe, bustling downtown, we will attract businesses and visitors. we will create jobs, generate revenue and provide better services for everyone in san francisco. when downtown wins we all win. >> now it's my privilege to turn it over to chief bill scott. >> thank you, chief.

thank you. >> thank you, mayor lori. let me begin my comments with thanking our mayor daniel for his vision on this hospitality zone task force. we've proven as a city over and over again that we have what it takes to keep this city a great city as it is and as it should be. i want to also think supervisor dorsey i'm not going to repeat all the things that the mayor gave but i just want to call out a few people. supervisor dorsey for your leadership. this has been something that you have been talking about for quite a while now. and i thank you for your partnership and support of mayor lurie's vision. our district attorney brooke jenkins who is an incredible law enforcement partner. we cannot do our work without her support and the work that she and her office does also supervisor sartor who hit the

ground running and it's been an incredible first month for everything that you have brought to the table. >> so thank you. melissa rodriguez who we will hear from next. i want to thank you because you are an incredible partner and without the union square alliance. >> you know, we've we work through some very difficult challenges in union square and i am so optimistic about the future because of you and your work and the work of your team. >> so with that, let's get down to business and talk about talk a little bit about talk a little bit about what we're here for the hospitality zone task force. this is a vital initiative for us, the san francisco police department because we know how important this corridor is this area is to our city. it's important to our economy. it's important to the image of san francisco. these are some of the most traveled and the most visited streets and corridors in our

city and it's very, very important vitally important that we are pristine 24 hours a day, seven days a week not just for conventions, not just for conferences, not just for the nba all stars but every day. and quite frankly, we've had some challenges trying to do that. i am extremely optimistic with this footprint of the hospitality zone task force because two things we will collaborate with all the work that we're doing and what mayor lori mentioned the demak work, the all the different components the sheriff's department who are here with this the probation department adult and juvenile, our federal partners all that work will be collaborated into this zone to make a difference and to keep our streets safe and clean and i think that is what we all want. so how will we do it? it will take multiple districts stations who will come together to do their work collaborative

and we struggle with that in the past with this task force model will alleviate some of the silos that we've seen in the past. as the mayor mentioned, we're talking about multiple district stations but we haven't had this model before where we put those officers together to work side by side collaboratively with all the other agencies that you see here before you and that is the model that this task force will will will do every day. and this is going to be the basis of our success. a couple of other notes. the zone will be focused and i'll i'll read the streets out in a second but this zone will be focused for the areas where our hotels are our a lot of our shopping corridors are a lot of the tourists when they come to our city and enjoy san francisco, this is where they come. we want them to walk away with a beautiful experience. we want our residents who have struggled with street drug usage and drug dealers on the corner. that is no more that is no more

. now i'm going to say this clearly we know that this work is not an overnight thing. we're not going to snap our fingers and all the problems that we have seen and endured will be gone tomorrow. but i can guarantee you this you will see a noticeable difference with this task force a note of a noticeable difference and you will see it very quickly. >> mayor lori has been very clear with the direction that he wants this to go in. the sense of urgency that we need to get this work done, the collaboration that he and the people of san francisco need to see in order to be successful. and we are we are crystal clear on that direction and we are crystal clear on our mission and we will get this done. we want people to feel safe. we have some of the lowest crime statistics that we've had in decades but that is not enough. is it evidence that we're doing

some of the right things? yes, it is. but that is not enough. i don't know of a mayor during my term and you probably have to go way back in the records that has had his first month with zero homicides during his watch. now i'm going to say this very clearly we have a lot of work ahead of us but it's a great start. car break ins are down 70% even from where they were last year and last year was a record in reductions in car break ins. so we know we have momentum. >> this is one more thing that's going to add to that momentum to get us to where we want to be. >> so as i close, here is what you can expect to see. we will have our command band stationed in the hospitality zone area. you've seen it in union square. that will remain but some also is vitally important to our success. you will see resources. you will see uniformed

officers. you will see honda motorcycle officers, you you won't see the plainclothes officers if we're doing our jobs right. but they will be out there making arrests. when drug dealers come to town we have a message for them. go back to where you came from because it's not happening here and that is so we have a lot of work to do and we are here for you. we want our city to thrive, not just survive and that is what we plan on doing. so thank you mayor lori. thank you for all of our partners in community the business community. >> and with that i'd like to call up to the mike. melissa rodriguez thank you. >> thank you. >> good morning everyone. my name is marissa rodriguez. i'm the ceo of the union square alliance. i first want to acknowledge those in this room. >> this is our lifeblood right

here in san francisco and i want to thank all of you for showing up because you have continued to show up day after day after day to bring our city back. i see neiman marcus. i see macy's. i see you rodney from the chamber. i see as of travel i see bryan fenwick, our hotel community, our hilton, our largest hilton peter, i see you and i know that everyone is here. karen flood, i see you as well. these are the pillars of our community who have been holding us up through the hardest times . the pandemic was not kind to us. i see you tyler to thank you for bringing you back to union square to help us thrive. as i said, the pandemic was not an easy time for us and we have had a difficulty emerging especially with the negative narrative. but i'm going to tell you in this last few months i don't know maybe roughly around november things have changed. >> there is a feeling of optimism and i want to thank

our mayor for being here to support us in 2022. >> the union square alliance did delivered its strategic plan for the district. >> we recognize the things that we knew we needed to see marriott, that we needed to really come out of this and come out strong. this was a new era, a shift in how people experience life. it was different and we needed to meet that moment. but first and foremost the way that we do that is clean and safe. that was clear. that was number one. that is why you have a former prosecutor in this role. >> right? second was economic development. but you can't have the economic development without the clean and safe. >> it has been a two and a half year journey getting here. >> however, within two months of his term not even that we are here and that is huge.

>> and for that i think this mayor deserves a round of applause. >> thank you. >> san francisco and our neighborhoods cannot come back unless we have a thriving downtown and that is union square as well. >> this is the face we put forward. this is our iconic city center. this is where all of you come to work where everyone comes to work. we want to come here feeling dignified. we want to feel safe on public transportation. we want to feel safe when we come in on budget. we want to be able to walk to work and spend a day at work and not worry that a car is going to plow through the door. >> we want to make sure that everyone feels like this is our community that we can be proud of. we are a world class city. there is no place like san francisco so the cable car runs through union square.

we are going to protect it and i thank you so much for your support and our convention center. scott it is our partnership. this is how we bring our city back. we cannot move our convention center west of twin peaks. it is here. it is here to stay and we are going to support it and together we are going to put our best foot forward so that people understand we are this city by the bay. we are the city that everyone loves because we're amazing and we're going to stay that way. let's work hard. let's do this together and thank you again and before i go on i want to welcome and recognize rda another partner that has helped us. thank you. it is not by accident that crime is down because our police chief and rda are working in tandem together to make that happen. this is incredible. this is an incredible time. let's keep the momentum going. we feel it. we came off a great holiday

season. it was like the light switch went off. people came in. we came off jp morgan it was a success. we're going to go into the nba all-star game. it's going to be an even bigger success. we're going to have our lunar new year parade. >> maybe a statue. we'll talk about that later. my god. but we're going to make it happen because our city deserves it. thank you so much and welcome brooke jenkins. >> there is nothing better than having a former prosecutor be my partner in trying to turn union square around. i can say that she we understand each other's language. but no, i'm honored to be here today to express my thanks and my support for this new hospitality's own task force. for the last almost three years, chief scott and i in particular have worked so hard for our department to finally row in the same direction for the sake of our city. but to make sure that accountability and consequences were a common tone and theme across this city and not only

in this city but across the world so that people understood we are not a city that is tolerant of lawlessness. we are not a city that allows anything to go on our streets but that we are going to get back to enforcing our laws in the way that they should be enforced which is across the board. all crime in san francisco is illegal and that has been the case for almost three years. >> but what we know is that it's not enough for that for us to see the data that crime is dropping. >> people have to feel safe and that's about your perception. and when streets are not clean, when they don't see police officers who they know are there to respond if something happens or to prevent something from happening that that data means nothing. and this hospitality task force is important and very significant not only because of where they will be placed in our city but because they will actually engage in foot patrols in these areas and that is significant to point out.

this isn't just officers who are there to respond to calls. these are officers who are intended those who are not plainclothes of course to be visible and to be accessible to our tourists and our shoppers and our in our labor force who is coming to work here every day so that they see the presence of somebody who is there with one sole purpose and that's to keep them safe. because when we have that that aids in people saying okay, the data is one thing but now i can rest i don't have anxiety as i'm walking down the street i feel invited to come shop in union square because i'm not worried about my car being burglarized. i'm not worried about being robbed as i walk out of these designer stores with my bags. that is what is key. and so i just thank you, mayor, for working with the chief and the board to to make this happen. i know, chief, that this has been an uphill battle with the with the low staffing that you're that you're contending with. but that we have made this a priority so that we can get back to the point where we are fighting this narrative that's been painted of our city and

where we are actually making positive experiences not only for those that visit but as i talk to labor all the time for those who work here and live here. that has to be the case because otherwise we'll continue to see store closures and we'll continue to see hotel vacancies and that is something we just cannot sit by and watch. and so thank you all for your partnership and i'll continue to do my job to make sure that we have consequences for those who don't get it right. and i will now turn it over to my district supervisor actually matt dorsey. >> thank you. thank you, everybody. and welcome to district six. this isn't just my district. this is part of my stomping ground and this is where i usually i'll point to the gym and say that's where i where i work out. >> but the reality lately is it's where i pay a membership and occasionally go my parish church of st patrick's my office, my office weekend

offices, the grove. so you see me here a lot. so welcome everybody. and when you come to this neighborhood you really have to express a debt of gratitude to the soma filipinas cultural district and raquel rodan diaz . >> this is the heart of that district and i just want to say ,you know, when the history of this this time is written, you know, with all the economic struggles it was the cultural districts that really stepped up and carried us forward. and i really think soma filipinas is meant as much as any other in the city did that i want to express gratitude also to the house of labor and the people who are here from the janitors and local 87 we've got steam sprinklers, fitters, electric workers as i see here local to hotel workers. >> so much of the safety work that we do is also for the people who come here to work and i want to express our gratitude to that. early in my ten years on the member as a member of the board of supervisors i opened up the hood on police redistricting working with chief scott and his team and one of the things that we found when we looked at

other cities that depend on economic activity for destination activities like tourism and conventions is that san francisco is unique in being a city where you might get up at your hotel room in union square in new york in one police district you cross market street and you're in another police district and you go to the convention center and then you're in yet another police district. there is a better way to do this and i really appreciate the leadership of mayor in recognizing that and in his first month acting on it to fix it to make sure that we are coordinating better and doing everything that we can to protect and better serve the economic interests of this city with this groundbreaking task force. >> i also appreciate mayor larry's leadership in recognizing that this is one step in a process that necessarily includes getting to full staffing in our police department, our sheriff's department 911 operator and also something that i hearing

that i announced this week that i'm going to be holding. you know, we have to also make sure that one key element in our public safety infrastructure is prosecutors. we have to have a conversation too often the district attorney's office is left out of that conversation. so we're going to have a hearing on that to discuss their needs as we go into a difficult budget year. so i'm really excited about this innovation and i'm also excited about some of the colleagues that i get to work with and one that i'm particularly excited to be working with somebody that i supported right out of the gate danny sauder from district three. good morning everyone. thank you. supervisor dorsey mary lori thank you. my name is danny slaughter. i'm your new district three supervisor and so excited about this because it includes a lot of district three and union square and parts of the financial district. but i first want to say thank you to the men and women behind me in our pink jackets. >> i want to ask for another

round of applause for them. you know our ambassadors around the city whether they're in a pink jacket or an orange jacket or yellow jacket. there's some of my favorite people because wherever they are they are immediately making sure that that corner, that block that neighborhood is safer, it's cleaner that there is a friendly presence there, often a friendly smile to make sure that visitors and tourists know where to go. and with today's news we're saying that more help is on the way. we now have more resources and more coordination from our police department and other partners to make sure that this area, this really, really important area is safer. you know, the i think there's a realization from all of us up here that so much of the impression of san francisco and so many of the memories from san francisco are made in these surrounding blocks and we want them to be good memories. right? we know that these are folks

that go back home and go back to their companies and they say they're always asked how was san francisco? we want it to be good news. we want it to be tells of riding the cable car along power street. we want it to be the great jazz at john's grill. we want it to be the ice skating at union square in the winter walk. i mean that's what we want. and so with today's news we're one step closer to that and it comes at the perfect time. these next few weeks the world's eyes will be on san francisco as we celebrate our incredible annual lunar new year. chinese new year parade starting in union square and going on in chinatown. we have so much activity for the nba all-star game although it's going to be at chase center. i've been seeing pop ups up and down union square of different companies that are here to celebrate that with us and we want it to be an incredible experience. today's news make sure it will be thank you once again, we want to thank all of our

community leaders business, arts, culture, entertainment at august hall in the house. and so thank you all for being here. >> we're happy to take a few questions from members of the media, have questions you tell me what exactly? >> yeah. so what is going to be changing is additional officers. the zones are covered now this area is covered by a sector car which is two officers who not only have a responsibility of a pretty large piece of real estate but they also have the responsibility of handling radio calls is really hard when you're going from call to call to concentrate on problems to problem solve these hospitality's own officers will not be assigned radio calls. >> their focus is to problem solve to make sure when they see something that we address it before it becomes a problem and that that alone makes a huge difference and we have not been able to to do that the way

we would like to do that and this effort will allow our officers to have the time they need to actually prevent problems from becoming problems and to focus on the things that they need to focus on. so that's that's a fundamental huge change. the other thing is the coordination union square we've had deployment in union square. we've up that we know about some of the past problems but looking forward since we have upped our deployment assigned a lieutenant who will still be working that detail with with his officers they will combine with the officers that work the soma and there will be daily coordination 24 hours a day, seven days a week. and the same thing goes for the union square officers. they're not assigned radio calls. they can pick up radio calls if they're in an area of their right there where crime occurs or something is happening but they're not assigned radio calls and we've seen that that is a very effective way to police to prevent things from happening. the other thing that's different are resources that have been assigned to demak.

they've been basically the same zone concept as what we've been what we've been using with the mac. but to have the availability of for instance the homeless support team i mean the ace up the healthy streets operation center which has officers and also has a component of of professional staff type personnel who who they problem solved know we try to get people back home who want to get back home. we try to get people connected to the services they need so they're not out on our sidewalks. so the collaboration with this task force and that team is something that we have not really opened the demak model up to the rest of the city because we want to grow smartly but now it's time so they all have access to those resources and other resources so collaboration is the key. these officers won't be able to do it all by themselves. that's why we have all of our partners standing behind us. our ambassadors play a huge role but it has to be

coordinated so better coordination, more resources you will see more visibility, the ability to problems solve effectively because they're not assigned to radio calls and quite honestly, you know, when i was in patrol when you're working a patrol car, your responsibility first and foremost is to go to those calls and people need is is really hard to do that and then do problem solving so this is the model that we're going to go to to make sure that those officers have the time they need to solve our problems. so we're going to share how long the first down will be straight and where the on the key is our ability to to scale things so union square the officers in union square it goes from ten and we've had as many as 40 we scale it when we need to scale it. this some area is a total of

ten working seven days a week but we have the ability to add to that when we need to to scale this model and we've done that for instance during the holiday season we scale up if we have a conference or major convention we scale up our problem has been consistency and what the mayor's vision will do is there will be police officers assigned to this zone seven days a week. no excuses, no nothing will prevent us from deploying and we have had problems doing that. so we're going to dedicate these resources. and let me say this too because you may ask well how come you didn't do this before? we have about a 25% shortage in our staffing in the fleet and in patrol and we have to prioritize our resources and so with the new vision setting priorities, yes it comes at a cost but we'd like to start this off bigger but we started off with a motto that we know we can scale when we need to and that's how we will start this off. the mayor was quite clear that

this has to happen now and i think this is a great way to start but we will scale it when we need to. as a matter of fact in two weeks you'll see it scale or in a week when the nba all stars when those festivities start. but the chiefs got to talk a lot about the feeling downtown . you'll see specific benchmarks this task force will be used to benefit the success. >> well, one of the things that we know and i think district attorney jenkins mentioned this and i think we all mentioned it starting from the mayor i call it the eye test. you know, when you get off the bar and you see 200 people in you and plaza or 200 people here in yerba buena and anything and everything is happening drug sales, drug use, illegal vending hot dog carts there's a feeling of it doesn't feel safe. first and foremost that cannot happen. we cannot allow those types of things to happen. the other thing is the crime statistics don't tell the whole

story but it does tell somewhat of a story because when people aren't getting robbed, when their cars aren't getting broken into and people aren't getting stopped, shot and stabbed that's where crime statistics are derived from and those things aren't happening overall people are going to have better experiences and the combination of what you see, what you feel and then what we know is happening in terms of crime or not happening in terms of crime all of those things combined to a feeling of safety . the other thing is the narrative of what people's experiences are because all it takes is a bad social media post about somebodies terrible experience to go viral and then that permeates with what gets in people's minds about our city. we want as best we can to eliminate the possibility of that happening now that's going to be a lot of work to do that and not to say that there won't be crime but we know certain things we cannot allow. we cannot allow the streets to be out of control with illegal vending narcotic sales, narcotic uses. we have a lot of mentally ill

people walking around our streets. that's the other thing the resources to help those people will be tied in to this collaborative collaborative partnership and we want to make sure those resources get to the people that they need to get to. >> so thank you. let me i i'd also just like to talk about, you know, all the business leaders down here and you know, occupancy rates, storefronts not being shuttered but actually being opened. we will look at all of those statistics in terms of measures of success. mr. mayor, real quick, the news of the day on curious attorney general bondi said that she's going to cut away federal funding towards sanctuary cities. how much does going to stand to lose our deficit to listen, we're monitoring everything coming out of d.c. this was a hit. we were hit with this about eight years ago. we fought back. we actually won in the courts and so district attorney sorry city attorney david chiu is working on this as we speak

mission. we're going to ask for your support, your decision to leave that office wondering what went into that decision and how that aligns with your vision for the future. >> listen, i talking to colleagues at the bar supervisors over the last month what we have stated early and often in my administration is we are going to have a new day and a new era of cooperation and collaboration. i'm looking for commissioners across commission appointed ments who will work with us that will collaborate and that will communicate and i look forward to the support going forward of all of the commission important appointments that i make. yeah. over time to fill this team is

there going to be like a central coordination between all these agencies to make sure that the information that needs to go out is being shared? well, let me answer the overtime now these officers are assigned to this task force seven days a week. we can scale up using overtime which we often do because of our staffing shortages in terms of communications, yes, that's one of the tenets of this is communications across the board between districts the task force, the two components of it have to communicate and i'll just add to this you know what helps our communications now is our our fort cameras that we have across the city are drones where we're able to track cars that are committing crimes in union square when they come to some or any other part of the city and we've been able to make some great arrests because we are communication communicating properly.

so yes, communication is a part of this. the officers are assigned full time and we can scale up using overtime when we need to too. >> thank you. so some of these questions one is when you see what the task force are and it seems that it's going to be something that's going or it started it started last weekend. okay. and then what are you going to do because the perception of security is awful especially you know, the mentally ill health. yeah, that's you you so how can we really basically, you know, make that take care of that or you be so close to you is clearly not going to tell us to call so well this is where i want to think are the supervisors we just passed a federal state of emergency ordinance 10 to 1. it's going to allow us to stand up more mental health beds, more drug treatment beds, more shelter beds, hire more case managers, more first responders more quickly. so we are tackling that issue.

i want to reiterate what the chief said. all of these things will not happen overnight but we put one foot in front of the other. we have a successful jpmorgan health care conference like we did have a successful lunar new year weekend which we plan to do next week an nba all-star game and then we start inviting the world back to san francisco and telling them that we are open for business. we are working day and night together with everybody that you see up here. this is really truly a new era of cooperation between departments, between labor, between the business community, the arts community and i'm looking forward to continuing on the momentum. >> okay. we can we can we can get we'll get you a map. >> okay. thank you all. thank you to everybody from the community for being here

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