pierson and mr. feldman have the greatest qualifications. as a gay elder myself i think that having a person who is sufficiently aware to attend this meeting is a key criteria. one of the things unfortunately attending a lot of meeting the police and library commission etc. there's a real problem with attention at the meetings. if someone can't bring themselves to come to the meeting i think that is an unfortunate messages there might be some attention. it's easy to say, you know, i'll do what i have to do but it's a lot harder to get people to do that. unfortunately for example, on the library commission we have at least 2 library commissioners that miss more than they attend pea the mayor's office has a policy when their absent they should be recommended for replacement that was put in place by mayor nooum. so again, i would say that ms. pierson and mr. feldman would bring the most experience to this body >> thank you any public comment on this item?. sooendz. first of all, i want to thank the 3 ca

so deputy city attorney pierson, i know my office was in communication with you about an amendment to this that would allow us to keep this. >> i understand from the clerk that there actually is a little bit of room in the calendar to continue the item because the original is only at the mayor's office right now and there's 30 more days before it goes into effect. i understand it's okay to continue it with the intention of amending it at the next meeting. >> chairman: sounds good. i'll move that we continue item four to the call of the chair. madam clerk. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item number four to the call of the chair or may 26th? may 26th is the last opportunity. >> chairman: state that then. >> clerk: item number four will be continued to may 26th. [roll call] there are three ayes. >> chairman: great thank you. madam clerk, is there any further business? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> chairman: we are adjourned. >> we are providing breakfast, lunch, and supper for the kids. >> say hi. hi. what's your favorite? the carrots. >> the pizza? >> i'm not

so deputy city attorney pierson, i know my office was in communication with you about an amendment to this that would allow us to keep this. >> i understand from the clerk that there actually is a little bit of room in the calendar to continue the item because the original is only at the mayor's office right now and there's 30 more days before it goes into effect. i understand it's okay to continue it with the intention of amending it at the next meeting. >> chairman: sounds good. i'll move that we continue item four to the call of the chair. madam clerk. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item number four to the call of the chair or may 26th? may 26th is the last opportunity. >> chairman: state that then. >> clerk: item number four will be continued to may 26th. [roll call] there are three ayes. >> chairman: great thank you. madam clerk, is there any further business? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> chairman: we are adjourned. sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very minimal energy use. it still matters where the energy comes from and also part of t

and i want to recognize cody doherty, pierson's plea for gun storage. and i've been to a few of the events and i get to hear what these incredible women have been doing to fight and it's amazing and cody's story shows a woman who is determined to not hear the word no. and just, plow forward, she joined leslie to support the effort by identifying locations, for gun storage and one might think that may be an easy task find a place to put hands sman somebody dangerous. however when cody contact to inquire about the storage, she encountered hostility, they don't want you to store your guns they want to tell you lots of them. they don't believe in that really. and just the little fact, in 2022, there were nearly 78,000 licensed gun dealers that's more than all the mcdonald's, burger king and twice the number of u.s. post offices. so in june of 2023, cody took matters into her own hands by obtaining her very own firearm licenses enabling her to store the weapons herself and expanding her work nationwide. now pierson's pledge national storage map is available

if ann pierson is able to speak to that, that would be great. >> good morning everyone. deputy city attorney ann pierson. i was involved in this project in drafting the legislation. i have not been in involved firsthand since that time. i think you've heard a wonderful description of the process that has been undertaken by my office in collaboration with the public defender office and the court. three offices started working together to develop the form pleading that will be need to initiate one of these cases. i understand lot of work has gone into that. i'm sorry that the attorneys who worked on it is not here today but they are in court now. there were lot of back and forth with the court to make sure there's an understand who's burden it was to prove the underlining finding to show somebody is eligible. i do understand that the emergency stalled those discussions little bit. they've gone forward to completion and that the parties feel that -- we are ready to bring a case as soon as there's an individual who meets all the eligibility criteria. >> supervisor mandelman:

and i want to recognize cody doherty, pierson's plea for gun storage. and i've been to a few of the events and i get to hear what these incredible women have been doing to fight and it's amazing and cody's story shows a woman who is determined to not hear the word no. and just, plow forward, she joined leslie to support the effort by identifying locations, for gun storage and one might think that may be an easy task find a place to put hands sman somebody dangerous. however when cody contact to inquire about the storage, she encountered hostility, they don't want you to store your guns they want to tell you lots of them. they don't believe in that really. and just the little fact, in 2022, there were nearly 78,000 licensed gun dealers that's more than all the mcdonald's, burger king and twice the number of u.s. post offices. so in june of 2023, cody took matters into her own hands by obtaining her very own firearm licenses enabling her to store the weapons herself and expanding her work nationwide. now pierson's pledge national storage map is available

we can defer to city attorney pierson. i think the answer, i'm not a lawyer is that t by ordinance, this board can actually dictate things to general fund departments. not true pursuant to the charter as to most but not all enterprise agencies. ms. pierson, would you like to comment on that completely non-legal piece of advice that i inappropriately gave supervisor preston? while we're waiting for ms. pierson, vice chair safai? >> supervisor safai: i had a number of comments. i don't want to lose your question. >> supervisor peskin: i'll hang on to it. >> supervisor safai: i think this is a really important conversation. appreciate supervisor prestton - preston bringing this up. i don't want to lose this in sight of the conversation. people often say, you have a public resource, why would you attempt to allow that public resource to have private dollars come in and not use that solely for 100% affordable housing. balboa reservoir is a good example. there's a lot of other examples in the city. even the list she put up, the

we can defer to city attorney pierson. i think the answer, i'm not a lawyer is that t by ordinance, this board can actually dictate things to general fund departments. not true pursuant to the charter as to most but not all enterprise agencies. ms. pierson, would you like to comment on that completely non-legal piece of advice that i inappropriately gave supervisor preston? while we're waiting for ms. pierson, vice chair safai? >> supervisor safai: i had a number of comments. i don't want to lose your question. >> supervisor peskin: i'll hang on to it. >> supervisor safai: i think this is a really important conversation. appreciate supervisor prestton - preston bringing this up. i don't want to lose this in sight of the conversation. people often say, you have a public resource, why would you attempt to allow that public resource to have private dollars come in and not use that solely for 100% affordable housing. balboa reservoir is a good example. there's a lot of other examples in the city. even the list she put up, the

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perhaps, we should refer that to deputy city attorney pierson. ms. pierson do you believe that whether they require continuance in and of themselves or whether they require comment. i don't think these amendments are substantive and i don't think they require a referral. really restores certain elements of the legislation that the public has not had an opportunity to comment on already. >> president walton: thank you, deputy city attorney pierson. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i would just make one last closing statement in response to what supervisor peskin just said. when we did our inclusionary housing that he and i and others led on, we did a significant amount of work in the land use and transportation community, but there are multiple opportunities at the full board. the public was not shut out. we continue to keep that conversation open. and to your point, this is not a perfect piece of legislation although i think it's close. and we'll continue to keep this conversation going and thank you, mr. president. >> president walton: thank y

pierson at 8 o'clock last night but insteadate dinner. go to 2, john lee who has written us and incumbent on the board is absent and in receipt of his letter and believe him to be qualified. mervin conlen for seat number 3 on assessment appeals board 2. >> i just unmuted myself. >> good morning. >> good morning to you and the board and all. that was-i wish the entire city could have heard that reentry council business. i sat through much of that and thought it was going to be a boring session that was all most exciting. in any case, my qualifications for the seat on board 2 include having an appraisal company for over 30 years myself and half dozen appraisers handled real estate appraisal from commercial, residential and land. my own personal desire is to serve the community in some way, which the rest of the real estate industry tends to emphasize. i want to join in that. i also gain much knowledge from this sessions the assessment appeal board, because they cover a wide variety of property, which serves my interest well. and as far as i

perhaps, we should refer that to deputy city attorney pierson. ms. pierson do you believe that whether they require continuance in and of themselves or whether they require comment. i don't think these amendments are substantive and i don't think they require a referral. really restores certain elements of the legislation that the public has not had an opportunity to comment on already. >> president walton: thank you, deputy city attorney pierson. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: i would just make one last closing statement in response to what supervisor peskin just said. when we did our inclusionary housing that he and i and others led on, we did a significant amount of work in the land use and transportation community, but there are multiple opportunities at the full board. the public was not shut out. we continue to keep that conversation open. and to your point, this is not a perfect piece of legislation although i think it's close. and we'll continue to keep this conversation going and thank you, mr. president. >> president walton: thank y

. >> deputy city attorney ann pierson. i know it's very defund on how interest is managed and whether appropriations are automatically authorized for expenditure. but i'll have the detail officer category 4 and let you know. >> chairman: if they are automatically confirmed for expenditure and don't need an accept and expend resolution, then we can remove that clause for it is redundant in that lines 21 and 22 of page 1, but we can research that as i go with my other questions. so that was a question: i assume this one is for third party grants. is that true? is that the way -- what's the source of funds? >> supervisor safai: wells, initially, i believe it will be general fund and then it also says there might be some additional cost that could be assumed by grocery stores or supermarket businesses, but essentially, i believe it is general fund. ms. smith, did you want to jump in there? >> sure. so to answer your prior question, supervisor peskin, my understanding is this category of funding is similar to the fire victims f

pierson, deputy city attorney pierson can you please regale us with what we need to do? >> yes. i'll be happy to rebale you. so the motion before you today requires a motion for omit because it's left for this committee to decide to reject the nominee and the practice of this committee is to make that amendment in committee and then to send it to the full board either with recommendation or without. so the board may amend it here to make that choice, but it may still send it to the board without recommendation. and this practice derives from the board's rules with the clerk to require to send two separate motions. over time, that process has been expedited a little bit, but to send you one and have you make that selection through amendment. once you make the amendment, it allows the motion to arrive on the agenda tomorrow and to align with the question that's presented in the agenda which is "should this motion be passed?" >> chairman: right. let me just look at that motion on tomorrow's calendar which says, well, the motion on tomorrow's calendar is the same as the motion on to

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, want to share words you are welcome to. >> deputy city attorney ann pierson. >> for the record. >>ns a lot so thank you. i get asked whatlawyer for the supervisors. i have a couple different answs, but the usual thing i say, it is amazing because i get to sit in the room where it happens and i have been so lkythis seat right here in the room where it happens for the past 4 and a half years and if you are somebody who loves policy making and politics and that cities and counties are the laborary of democracy, the isis is the only room you wa to lot about this room and how much i associate the job buzz as supervisor peskin said, for the first year and a half we a room, we were at kitchen tables and dining rooms was a extraordinarily hard time and it was a time i feel very privileged to have been a part of.[ it was unprecedented and what i got to watch you all do and to play a . her staff put together a ut remote room ■?e it happens overnight. literally, and this body, which in a decade before pandemic had passed a small handful ncy ordinances, really got the just of it pretty fast an

also, our city attorneys ann pierson, job gibner and tom owen. and, you know, mostly the unpaid volunteers who now sit on our board commissions and do the work of the city. and, lastly, i want to thank various individuals and parent am leave experts who've reached out to our office to weigh in on this and provide really good feedback. some of it we've incorporated is and some of it we can't because of the current charter. for instance, adoption and surrender ga sea wasn't a thing it is today particularly for gay so that after we do that, we can come back and do more to this file. i hope we can send this out with a strong, positive recommendation. thank you. >> chairman: thank you so much. gosh, this is overdue and i can't thank you enough for prioritizing this and updating our laws to modern times. thank you so much. supervisor safai, is there anything you wanted to add? >> supervisor safai: yeah, i just want to appreciate the experience and perspective that supervisor melgar is bringing to the table. having been a former commissioner herself and

deputy city attorney pierson. no further questions or comments. mr. clerk can we open for public comment. >> yes, members speak and joining person line up at this time. for those remote on the call in line dial star 3 to enter the line. for those in the queue continue to wait not guilty system indicates you have been unmuted then begin your comments. first in person speaker? >> good morning, supervisors ip steven. i'm a member of prozac for district 11 by supervisor safai. and i think when we first learned about this. supervisor peskin was last tuesday night at our prozac meeting and most were shocked. we are not shocked that we are discussing quorum we had issues with having quorums in the past. especially when they were highly agenda item this is need votes on we could not participate in. but i think the one thing that we are not interested in is having one voting member in one ultmitt from each district tell pin the 2 people against each other. i think. the suggestion of 2 appointise at large from the board is wron from the mayor and one from each

ann pierson. with that, supervisor chan. >> thank you indeed. difficult clients we are. one of them as well. nothing is more having a supervisor pretending they are lawyers. i'm one of them. i only play one like board president peskin like to say, we play one on tv, so i know that-and yet you have been patient. you have been so kind. you have been just wonderful in the sense where you kind of let me just be and pretending and respecting as a pretend lawyer and sometimes me and francis do that together, which is worse and yet , you are letting us say our thing and you patiently and slowly but very that's not how it works. so, i appreciate you. i also do appreciate even though it has been difficult at times at committee, i wish we could do this right now, actually more often then not look back to say, it was the right able to take the time to understand the langua this is something we can do right now on the spot, or not to actually defer for later and think through to make sure we have solid legal argument of course according to you. not so much to me. i am like, we can d

i want to acknowledge holly pierson and i'm pinch hitting for her. so i think the most important thing is to understand about district 6 i want to talk about the complicated environment it is. the district 6 open space task force come out of the negotiations that start out of the bond. where in discussion with the supervisor to identify parks for inclusion in the bond we looked at the sites that were actually rec and park. there are other open spaces through mission bay and city planning. so in looking at those spaces we looked at the fact that many of them when i put the stars on are receiving some kind of capital investment. it became clear that the real need of district 6 was to identify alley-oop spacing for acquisition. it's because of that anticipated growth and we're thinking between all the neighborhood plans about 20 thousand new retinas on top of new residents. so that's just the residents there's also expected to be an inclusion of other new residents. there have long been a number of resident plans and as you look at this map you can see

by our bla report. >> deputy city earn ann pierson. good morning the resolution before you introduced by the city attorney's office and seek board approval to amend the contract with jeffrey llc if a contract for litigation consulting service. schedule to expire april first of this year. we are seeking to extend it until 2027 and add 5. 5 million to the total amount. >> thank you. >> thank you. nick from the bla good morning supervisor chan and mandelman. this agreement we don't have much to add redacted it is privileged. we don't have much information about this. contract except this it it is for an analysis to support the power enterprise. we do have recommendations for you all to follow up with city attorney's office. about had solicitation which was confidential. how this bids were evaluated. had the contract budget is. the expect market rate, deliverables and performance a setszed we included in the report and consider approval to be a policy matter. >> thank you. i appreciate i understand you know -- litigation matter privileged

- oh, not yet we'll call them all up first >> next person is joyce pierson. >> oh, i'm expressing my appreciation today to meet with the supervisors here today regarding my application to become a minute of the lgbt senior task force. i'm a resident of san francisco and have lived in the bay area since the 1980s. i've worked in community services funded by age act. my most recently employment bylaw before i become semi retired i was the consultant with the national center for lesbian rights which established the first elder law for lgbt

- oh, not yet we'll call them all up first >> next person is joyce pierson. >> oh, i'm expressing my appreciation today to meet with the supervisors here today regarding my application to become a minute of the lgbt senior task force. i'm a resident of san francisco and have lived in the bay area since the 1980s. i've worked in community services funded by age act. my most recently employment bylaw before i become semi retired i was the consultant with the national center for lesbian rights which established the first elder law for lgbt people. i was trained as a legal advocate in the 1970s in a special project by the california department of aging to are a parallel and community organizer for seniors in general and i worked in that capacity for many years. i came out as a lesbian in my 40s and when i moved here in 1988 i was pressuring my gratuidegree. i would like to say i served in another position and was active and traveled around the country for the educational advocacy for the rights of lgbt people and during that period i spoke with numerous national organized having to do wi

i would like to thank deputy city attorney brad russi and deputy city attorney ann pierson for their very quick work in crafting this and the suggestions from ben rosenfield and ask for a second. >> thank you. motion to amend item 19 by president peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen. >> thank you. i'll call on supervisor walton next, but before i do that, is there a second to technical amendments, by chair chan and seconded by chair ronen. supervisor walton, the floor is yours. >> thank you president peskin. first want to start with a big thank you to chair chan for her leadership through the budget process as well as supervisor ronen working and bringing community together to address some of the proposals that the mayor put forth that really bring people together and do it in a manner that brought folks together so thank you so much for that. also want to thank tracey brown from my team as well as the entire district 10 office, the budget legislative analyst, controller's office, deputy city attorney ann pierson and of course the mayor's budget director anna dunning. we were able

of relief, deputy city attorney pierson, welcome to.city attorney ann pierson. >> for >> i am your city at [applause] this means a awful lot to me. i have loved this job.really loved it, so this means a lot so thank you.get asked what is it like to be the lawyer for the board of supervisors. answers, but the usual thing i say, it is amazing where it happens and i have this seat right here in the room st 4 and a half years and if you are somebody who loves politics and who really believes that cities and countilaboratory of democracy, the isis you want to be in. i have been thinking a lot about this room and it with the job buzz as supervisor peskin said, were not in a room, we were bles and dining rooms and that was a extraordinarily ha it was a time i feel very privileged to have been a it was unprecedented and what i got to play a small role in was extrand her staff put where it happens overnight. literally, and it was seamless. decade before the pandemic had handful of emergency ordinances, really got the just pretty fast and used th

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so this pierson of being in the room and doing what i needed to do and saying what i needed to do and after a speech people will come up and start talking to me and forced me to engagement and that work into my life i became more and more willing to talk to folks because they didn't know me. and when i was doing my that public health work and - but i a group of people sometimes large and maul groups of people i needed to engage with them. >> which i found myself doing from the pull petty had things to say to people and i learned how to be you know, a public person with whatever congregation i was working with but sometimes would hold back in the morning that kind of thing and it takes a lot of energy to be up front you know, and so but then once i would get through it reluctance to be engaged always wonderful conversations that people seem to joy. seems even any grandchildren bus that's pretty rare they enjoy my conversation (laughter). >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> okay. so i want to kind of do in rapid fire questions with short answers or kind of short comments shot out questions to you g