from sfgov, we'd like to thank them. madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: yes.ake sure to silence all cell phones and devices. any documents should be submitted to the clerk. actions acted upon today will be on the january 8 board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor tang: i know that supervisor cohen wanted to be here for item 1 but is a little behind, so we're going to go to item 2. >> clerk: item 2 planning code zoning map district 11 large residence special use district, requiring conditional use for large residential developments and approve appropriate findings. >> supervisor safai: thank you, chair. i will be brief. we're continuing our conversations with the planning department and we will ask for this item to be continued to the call of the chair so that planning and our office can continue to work with one another and we'll -- we haven't even had a hearing at the planning department yet or their commission, i mean. so we'll ask this to be continued to call of the chair. >> supervisor tang: any members of the public wish to comment on item 2, please com

from sfgov, we'd like to thank them. madam clerk, any announcements? >> clerk: yes.ake sure to silence all cell phones and devices. any documents should be submitted to the clerk. actions acted upon today will be on the january 8 board of supervisors agenda. >> supervisor tang: no

sfgov tv? all right. ladies and gentlemen, we're going to get back to the agenda. supervisor stefani, thank you for giving us an opportunity to honor our heroes. i appreciate it. madam clerk, where did we leave off? >> clerk: we left off on item 17. >> president cohen: are there any other special orders or commendations? >> clerk: none that i'm aware of. >> president cohen: can you please call item 17? i don't think it's been called. >> clerk: yes, madam president. item 17 is an ordinance to amend the campaign and governmental conduct code to expand protections for whistle-blowers, city contractors, increase the remedies available in cases of retaliation and establish greater confidentiality protections for identities. >> president cohen: seeing there are no names on the roster, can we take this same house, same call? all right, same house, same call. without objection, this ordinance is finally passed. >> clerk: item 18 is an ordinance amending the police code to require cannabis businesses to ensure that 35% of new hires are registered apprentices enrolled in app

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and thank you to sfgov tv for broadcasting this. mr. clerk, can you please call the roll? [roll call] >> clerk: we have a quorum. >> supervisor kim: thank you, mr. clerk. can you please call items 2 and 3 together? >> clerk: chairs report, information item. 3, executive director's report, also an information item. >> supervisor kim: thank you very much. would our director like to make a report today? director tilly chang. >> thank you, chair kim. my report today is to cover several applications for funding in keeping with the direction of this body to expand and diversify funding sources. this month we submitted a joint letter from sfcta and sfmta outlining our priorities and requests for ferry toll programs. it was the bridge toll approved by voters in may. we're requesting $21 million for treasure island to purchase two ferry vessels and support initial ferry operating costs in 2021. we've submitted two state grants. one is for the affordable housing sustainable community grant program, developing those with tida. it's meant to address the climate policies through land u

sfgov tv, if you can focus on the laptop, please. it's not showing up. okay. technical problems. i happen to have a paper copy. this is a graph -- there it goes. okay, great. this shows mental health filings at san francisco superior court over the last two decades along with criminal filings. as you can see, there's been a marked drop in felony filings. that's the orange bar. about 50%. misdemeanor filings have fallen even further. felonies are trending downward and mental health findings have surged upward. 2,500 people per year. these are san francisco people. they're forced into treatment. we have tens of thousands of people in san francisco today perhaps in involuntary treatment. this is a substantial portion of the population, which should be receiving your sustained attention. there is something else i was going to add. i can't remember. i'm out of time. back to you, madam clerk. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. any other members of the public that would like to address the board? now is your opportunity. madam president. >> president cohen: thank you, ladies and gen

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and i'm also speaking to all the nerds watching sfgov tv, hopefully planning staff, this was lead by a planning process that originated in their planning department, there was a lot of out reach in the community that said we're going to have a larger conversation. we're not going to do as much project by project, just whatever's coming at our face right now. we're going to do something big. we are capable of large and dramatic change to get us on a better course. and we, too, are capable of large and dramatic change to get us on a better course. thank you. >> thank you. any additional public comment? seeing none, we'll close public comment. commissioner richards. >> just one thought. i understand possibly where the single family zoning has kept people out of neighborhoods. we had the excelsior action plan last week and i look at the statistics around who owns single family homes in the city, their neighborhoods were previously, i guess, excluded like irish and things like in the sunset. when you look at the actual ownership now, it's majority nonwhite. so, i'm having -- you know, wha