>> chair ronen: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the march 9, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. i am chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee member catherine stefani, and seated to my left is committee member gordon mar. i'd like to thank sfgovtv for airing this meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes. [agenda item read]. >> chair ronen: thank you. can you please read item number 1. >> clerk: item 1 is a motion appointing megan wallace to the treasury committee for a term ending june 30, 2021. >> chair ronen: thank you. megan, if you want to come up? >> thank you. my name is megan wallace. i just want to share a little bit about my qualifications. first, i've been a public servant in the areas of budget, finance, and public service for approximately 15 years. in 2008, my family moved to san francisco, and i began my service with the city and county of san francisco in the mayor's office of housing and community development, first under mayor gavin newsom and then under tempora

>> actually, i'm sorry, chair ronen. i actually had -- it is a little complicated what i'm proposing to do here. there's actually five motions that i want to make. >> got it. sorry. go ahead. >> ok. actually, before i do that t i did want to acknowledge the comment by supervisor stefani and also that were reinforced by chris wright from the committee on [inaudible]. acknowledging the fact that many employers in san francisco have already stepped up and voluntarily provided additional paid leave to their employees in this time of crisis. so that certainly has happened. and we definitely dome want to penalize employers that have already stepped up so that is why one of the amendments that is included today is making sure that those employers get credit for the additional paid leave that they've already voluntarily provided towards the 80 hours that is required under the ordinance, as long as the paid leave that has been provided is comparable to what's specified in the ordinance and i wanted to acknowledge the different fo

>> supervisor mar: aye. >> clerk: chair ronen? >> supervisor ronen: aye. >> clerk: this matter will be recommended as a committee report, as amended to remove the word rejecting throughout the motion. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, ms. rubke. congratulations. and hope to talk to you again soon. >> thank you so much for your time. take care you guys. >> supervisor ronen: bye. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 2. >> clerk: item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member term ending august 1st, 2022 and two members, term ending august 1st, 2023 to the south of market community planning advisory committee. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the item should call (888)204-5984, access code 32501008. i believe at this time we have two members -- two applicants on hold. i believe that mr. elberling has not called in. >> supervisor ronen: okay. before we call the applicants, i was wondering if abigail from supervisor haney's office wanted to make any comments? >> clerk: give us a momen

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

>> actually, i'm sorry, chair ronen. i actually had -- it is a little complicated what i'm proposing to do here. there's actually five motions that i want to make. >> got it. sorry. go ahead. >> ok. actually, before i do that t i did want to acknowledge the comment by supervisor stefani and also that were reinforced by chris wright from the committee on [inaudible]. acknowledging the fact that many employers in san francisco have already stepped up and voluntarily provided additional paid leave to their employees in this time of crisis. so that certainly has happened. and we definitely dome want to penalize employers that have already stepped up so that is why one of the amendments that is included today is making sure that those employers get credit for the additional paid leave that they've already voluntarily provided towards the 80 hours that is required under the ordinance, as long as the paid leave that has been provided is comparable to what's specified in the ordinance and i wanted to acknowledge the different fo

thank you, deputy city attorney pearson and chair ronen. yes, i -- in answer to your question, chair, i would like to -- i will be making a motion to duplicate the file so we can move the nonsubstantive amendments forward as the committee records to the full board hopefully for vote and adoption tomorrow and then we can move the substantive amendment forward -- or continue it as we will need to but then move that forward hopefully a week later. i would say we want to ensure that our health care providers working on the frontlines have paid leave. so, that's important. but we don't want to hold that -- the overall important provisions of the ordinance while we have to continue that amendment. >> that makes perfect sense. i just wanted to thank you so much for bringing this forward, supervisor mar. it's pretty outrageous that the congress left out of the law the employers that most can afford to provide this benefit. they are the biggest employers making the most money in this society and perhaps their donors to the congress members who left t

>> supervisor mar: aye. >> clerk: chair ronen? >> supervisor ronen: aye. >> clerk: this matter will be recommended as a committee report, as amended to remove the word rejecting throughout the motion. >> supervisor ronen: thank you so much, ms. rubke. congratulations. and hope to talk to you again soon. >> thank you so much for your time. take care you guys. >> supervisor ronen: bye. mr. clerk, can you please read item number 2. >> clerk: item number 2 is a hearing to consider appointing one member term ending august 1st, 2022 and two members, term ending august 1st, 2023 to the south of market community planning advisory committee. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on the item should call (888)204-5984, access code 32501008. i believe at this time we have two members -- two applicants on hold. i believe that mr. elberling has not called in. >> supervisor ronen: okay. before we call the applicants, i was wondering if abigail from supervisor haney's office wanted to make any comments? >> clerk: give us a momen

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

>> actually, i'm sorry, chair ronen. i actually had -- it is a little complicated what i'm proposing to do here. there's actually five motions that i want to make. >> got it. sorry. go ahead. >> ok. actually, before i do that t i did want to acknowledge the comment by supervisor stefani and also that were reinforced by chris wright from the committee on [inaudible]. acknowledging the fact that many employers in san francisco have already stepped up and voluntarily provided additional paid leave to their employees in this time of crisis. so that certainly has happened. and we definitely dome want to penalize employers that have already stepped up so that is why one of the amendments that is included today is making sure that those employers get credit for the additional paid leave that they've already voluntarily provided towards the 80 hours that is required under the ordinance, as long as the paid leave that has been provided is comparable to what's specified in the ordinance and i wanted to acknowledge the different fo

thank you so much, chair ronen, for allowing us to hear this item today. an emergency ordinance before us is in response to a true emergency. the lack of sufficient paid leave for workers to follow our public health order to weather this crisis. while there is no silver bullet to our health and humanitarian emergency, this measure will

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll

i am chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee member catherine stefani, and seated to my left is committee member gordon mar. i'd like to thank sfgovtv for airing this

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

>> actually, i'm sorry, chair ronen. i actually had -- it is a little complicated what i'm proposing to do here. there's actually five motions that i want to make. >> got it. sorry. go ahead. >> ok. actually, before i do that t i did want to acknowledge the comment by supervisor stefani and also that were reinforced by chris wright from the committee on [inaudible]. acknowledging the fact that many employers in san francisco have already stepped up and voluntarily provided additional paid leave to their employees in this time of crisis. so that certainly has happened. and we definitely dome want to penalize employers that have already stepped up so that is why one of the amendments that is included today is making sure that those employers get credit for the additional paid leave that they've already voluntarily provided towards the 80 hours that is required under the ordinance, as long as the paid leave that has been provided is comparable to what's specified in the ordinance and i wanted to acknowledge the different fo

>> actually, i'm sorry, chair ronen. i actually had -- it is a little complicated what i'm proposing to do here. there's actually five motions that i want to make. >> got it. sorry. go ahead. >> ok. actually, before i do that t i did want to acknowledge the comment by supervisor stefani and also that were reinforced by chris wright from the committee on [inaudible]. acknowledging the fact that many employers in san francisco have already stepped up and voluntarily provided additional paid leave to their employees in this time of crisis. so that certainly has happened. and we definitely dome want to penalize employers that have already stepped up so that is why one of the amendments that is included today is making sure that those employers get credit for the additional paid leave that they've already voluntarily provided towards the 80 hours that is required under the ordinance, as long as the paid leave that has been provided is comparable to what's specified in the ordinance and i wanted to acknowledge the different fo

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

ronen: thank yo,. chair fewer. i'd like to thank president yee for bringing this to the committee so quickly. tens of thousands of small businesses and hundreds of thousands of workers are at risk. the shelter in place order, while absolutely essential for public health, has businesses scrambling to figure out how to stay afloat, and some businesses won't survive without us. i don't need to tell you because i'm sure you're hearing it as much as i am, but small businesses need our help, and they need it now. they need lots of different options to figure out the best way to withstand and survive this crisis. the moratorium on commercial evictions provides some immediate relief to shop owners as is the rent and mortgage moratorium that supervisors haney, preston, and i are calling from from our state and federal officials. but until then, renters are still on the hook for the rent and fixed operating costs. i worked with the supervisors' office to put together quickly a $20 million rent stabilization loan progr

>> thank you, chair ronen. colleagues, as you may recall, this item is to move forward one amendment that was made to the public health emergency league ordinance at last week's roll committee meeting. the amendments that we're considering to the public health emergency leave ordinance applies to section 5 and it pertains to allowable uses of emergency leads and only applies to employees who are healthcare providers and this amendment was crafted to balance the need for healthcare providers and similarly are healthcare workers to be able to take time off when they're sick or need to quarantine and balance that need with the urgent need of maintaining our healthcare wor workforce. to thithis provides leave whose employers can opt out of the leave expansion. and it goes without saying that healthcare providers should gott go to work when sick or quarantined. this ordinance will give them expanded pay leave to use if they're sick or quarantined. we know that pfizer sent a letter asking for an exemption but we disa

. >> chair fewer: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: today, supervisor haney, peskin, walton, preston, and i are introducing an emergency ordinance requiring the city to secure 8,250 private hotel rooms by april 26, which is the anticipated peak of the pandemic in california that will serve as temporary quarter te -- quarantine facilities for people suffering from covid-19, and frontline responders responding to the emergency. when we talk about people currently experiencing homelessness, that includes people that are doubled up in s.r.o. hotel rooms and do not have a safe place to quarantine in place. san franciscans have been ordered to shelter in place since march 16. nearly 3,000 people experiencing homelessness in congregate shelters. 5,000 individuals and 19,000 people living in s.r.o.s across the city are still unable to self-isolate and face a much greater risk at contracting the virus. for weeks now, my colleagues and i have stood alongside medical professionals, community activists, and faith leaders in ur

>> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: yes. my comments echo supervisor ronen, so i won't belabor that. i just wanted to say thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. colleagues, any other comments or questions? i know this has been a somewhat brief presentation. i think what we're missing are a lot of the hard numbers, i just wanted to secure a presentation for our april meeting, and to take note. i'm wondering how much we have allocated for the expense of the hotel rooms, and how much we anticipate paying for hotel rooms, and what is the rate that we are paying for hotel rooms? also, i understand -- piggybacking on supervisor walton's and ronen's questions about it, i think we would all like updates on any numbers on people being released from jails. and then, are we using frontline workers? are we using health care workers? and what is the protection being given to them? and where is this funding coming from? is this from our reserves or is this general fund money? and i think we hope to get reimbursed for s

chair mandelman. >> welcome to the april 6, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. i'm joined on this video conference with rules committee vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. our clerk today is victor young and i'd like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, city employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. -- physically present. we are streaming numbers across the screen. each sp

. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, chair fewer. first, i just wanted to thank supervisor walton for his incredible leadership to look out for undocumented members of our community but has been left out of the federal relief package. you know, i always feel so grateful to live in a city that, you know, the theme of covid-19, we're all in this together. and whether you were born in this country or born outside of this country, you're a human being who deserves to survive and live with dignity, and i just very, very much appreciate supervisor walton for his perfect, incredible work here, and his staff, tracey brown. i also, you know, want to thank the mayor for creating this fund immediately so that it does not need to be delayed. that's fabulous news. thank you for standing up for immigrants, mayor breed. i did learn this morning, which was very surprising to me, from supervisor walton, that there was an effort to combine an effort that i'm working on last minute with this effort. nobody it talked to me about it, so it took me by sur

>> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: yes. my comments echo supervisor ronen, so i won't belabor that. i just wanted to say thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. colleagues, any other comments or questions? i know this has been a somewhat brief presentation. i think what we're missing are a lot of the hard numbers, i just wanted to secure a presentation for our april meeting, and to take note. i'm wondering how much we have allocated for the expense of the hotel rooms, and how much we anticipate paying for hotel rooms, and what is the rate that we are paying for hotel rooms? also, i understand -- piggybacking on supervisor walton's and ronen's questions about it, i think we would all like updates on any numbers on people being released from jails. and then, are we using frontline workers? are we using health care workers? and what is the protection being given to them? and where is this funding coming from? is this from our reserves or is this general fund money? and i think we hope to get reimbursed for s

>> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: yes. my comments echo supervisor ronen, so i won't belabor that. i just wanted to say thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. colleagues, any other comments or questions? i know this has been a somewhat brief presentation. i think what we're missing are a lot of the hard numbers, i just wanted to secure a presentation for our april meeting, and to take note. i'm wondering how much we have allocated for the expense of the hotel rooms, and how much we anticipate paying for hotel rooms, and what is the rate that we are paying for hotel rooms? also, i understand -- piggybacking on supervisor walton's and ronen's questions about it, i think we would all like updates on any numbers on people being released from jails. and then, are we using frontline workers? are we using health care workers? and what is the protection being given to them? and where is this funding coming from? is this from our reserves or is this general fund money? and i think we hope to get reimbursed for s

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee.th me is vice chair supervisor catherine stefani and mr. kirk. mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> clerk: due to covid-19, and to protect board members city employees any public the board room is closed for the meeting, however, members will be par cities remot palting remotely on the authority conferred by -- i >> i'm logged into rules and can't hear anything, period. i'm not sure i should hold up the meeting because i don't knol that they have amendments that t require my input, is there a wai to let people know? >> we just heard you, ann. l >> um. continuing with my statement. this is taken on authority conferred by governor newsom, stay at home order and all a proceeding local state, and federal orders, declarations ans districtives. committee members will be attending through video conference and participating to the same extent as if present. public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgov.v.org are streaming.26 numbers up on the screen. each member will be allowed

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. with me is vice chair supervisor catherine stefani and mr. kirk. mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> clerk: due to covid-19, and to protect board members city employees any public the board room is closed for the meeting, however, members will be par cities remot palting remotely on the authority conferred by -- i >> i'm logged into rules and can't hear anything, period. i'm not sure i should hold up the meeting because i don't knol that they have amendments that t require my input, is there a wai to let people know? >> we just heard you, ann. l >> um. continuing with my statement. this is taken on authority conferred by governor newsom, stay at home order and all a proceeding local state, and federal orders, declarations ans districtives. committee members will be attending through video conference and participating to the same extent as if present. public comment will be available on channel 26 and sfgov.v.org are streaming.26 numbers up on the screen. each member will be allow

. >> supervisor ronen: thank you, chair fewer. first, i just wanted to thank supervisor walton for his incredible leadership to look out for undocumented members of our community but has been left out of the federal relief package. you know, i always feel so grateful to live in a city that, you know, the theme of covid-19, we're all in this together. and whether you were born in this country or born outside of this country, you're a human being who deserves to survive and live with dignity, and i just very, very much appreciate supervisor walton for his perfect, incredible work here, and his staff, tracey brown. i also, you know, want to thank the mayor for creating this fund immediately so that it does not need to be delayed. that's fabulous news. thank you for standing up for immigrants, mayor breed. i did learn this morning, which was very surprising to me, from supervisor walton, that there was an effort to combine an effort that i'm working on last minute with this effort. nobody it talked to me about it, so it took me by sur

ronen. [inaudible] >> chair fewer: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you. and i want to thank the clerk's office for being so prepared and ready to conduct an emergency meeting and also chair fewer for being able to do this in an atypical manner. i do want to say that we are 100% in a pivotal time for us to be working together as city leadership, and that goes for our executive branch, our city branch, and our entire bureaucracy. in my opinion, it is a little disheartening that we are forming legislation that goes against our health department, who told us we could shelter in place. there are just three things i want to emphasize. i don't want to belabor the point -- and supervisor ronen did a good job of telling you why this legislation is in place and what the purpose is. one, we have a shelter in place order. it is confimperative we do everything we can. as we've seen within the last week recently, once we had one case at a particular shelter, it spread almost overnight dramatically in terms of when we were able to test and when we were able to find out

>> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. thank you. supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: yes. my comments echo supervisor ronen, so i won't belabor that. i just wanted to say thank you. >> chair fewer: okay. colleagues, any other comments or questions? i know this has been a somewhat brief presentation. i think what we're missing are a lot of the hard numbers, i just wanted to secure a presentation for our april meeting, and to take note. i'm wondering how much we have allocated for the expense of the hotel rooms, and how much we anticipate paying for hotel rooms, and what is the rate that we are paying for hotel rooms? also, i understand -- piggybacking on supervisor walton's and ronen's questions about it, i think we would all like updates on any numbers on people being released from jails. and then, are we using frontline workers? are we using health care workers? and what is the protection being given to them? and where is this funding coming from? is this from our reserves or is this general fund money? and i think we hope to get reimbursed for s

chair peskin: aye. >> clerk: commissioner preston? >> supervisor preston: aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen? >> supervisor ronen: aye. >> clerk: commissioner safai? >> supervisor safai: aye. >> clerk: commissioner stefani? >> supervisor stefani: aye. >> clerk: commissioner walton? >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: that's it. item 9 is approved. >> chair peskin: finally passed. thank you, madam clerk. can you please reads items 15 and 16 together. >> clerk: yes, sir. oh and another plug for the public comment. just a reminder, that you can call in by -- you can make public comment by telephone, by calling 888-204-5987, entering access code 285-8465, as seen on the screen. then follow the system prompts. if you wish to provide comment on a particular item, please dial 10 as soon as you hear the item called. when it is your turn to speak, you'll hear an announcement that your line is unmuted and the operator will say "wisconsin -- welcome caller, your two minutes bin now." that's your cue to start talking. items 15 and 16, increase the amount of professional services contract with mns neurom

president yee, colleagues, and thank you to the members of the rule committee for forwarding this, and chair ronen for cosponsoring this. it's an interesting story in and of itself, but the board of supervisors has long had the power to compel testimony pursuant to this body's unlimited power of inquiry in the form of subpoenas. it is not something that has been used lightly, it has not been used often, but was last used a few years ago in and around the millennium tower sinking and tilting matter where a number of parties ranging from architects to engineers to geotechnical engineers that did not want to voluntarily come to these chambers to talk about the infirmities of that structure, which we actually already voted on today relative to a settlement where in -- i'm not bringing up a past item, madam city attorney, but where we all agreed to different them portions -- give them portions of our sidewalks for no money. that resulted in the issuance of a number of subpoenas. those subpoenas, as we all know, took quite a long time to issue, and i at that time proposed a change to the board rules to