i would like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us live on sfgovtv. madam secretary, please call the roll. >> directors please respond when i call your name. director forbes. >> spent. >> director heavy rai haney. >> present. >> director luresh. >> present. >> director lipkin. >> present. >> director tumlin. >> present. vice chair gee. >> spent and chair sesay. >> present. madam chair you hav you have a . >> the next item is communications. we would like to provide further instructions for public comment. callers dial into the toll flow number and listen to the meeting as they wait for public comments. they have three minutes on each item. we will announce when public comment is opened on each item or for general public comment. during each period viewers and callers will be instructed to dial 18883634735 and enter the passcode 413-4030 followed by the pound sign. press the pound sign again to enter as parties pant. this number will -- enter as a participant. this will be on the screen. when you are connected listen to instructions. when prompted dial

thanks to clerk john carroll, and i'd like to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting this remote meeting. mr. clerk, do you have announcements? >> clerk: thank you, mr. chair. i have announcements. due to covid-19, the board of supervisors committee and legislative chambers are closed at this time. members will be participating remotely. a committee members will attend the meeting through video conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. both channel 26 and sfgovtv.org are streaming the call-in number up near the top of your screen. each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone by call 888-204-5984. that phone number again is 888-204-5984. there is an access code. the access code is 3501008. again, the access code for public comment is 3501008. once you're connected, wait until public comment is opened on an agenda item and dial 1, then 0 to be added to the queue to speak. call fr

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 speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. commentses or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone, by calling 888-204-5984. access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. you will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. the system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. all callers will remain on mute until the line is open. everyone must account for the time delay and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streami

alternatively yo you make public comment by e-mailing myself sfgovtv at lindawong at sfgovtv. if you submit by e-mail it will be included as part of the official file. finally, items acted upon today will appear on the april 14th board of supervisors for consideration unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk can you call items one and two together. items one and two on the regular budget and finance agenda authorizing the treasure to secure a short term line of credit in an amount not to exceed $20 million for the purpose of providing short term emergency unsecured loans to small businesses in san francisco that are unable to meet rent or mortgage costs. item two. $20 million of short term load proceeds and $600,000 to to t the office of the treasure and tax collector. individual loans for small businesses impacted by sars-cov-2. >> the items from last week's agenda. >> at last week's meeting i announced i worked with oewd to create $10 million small business package launched within days. also, last week the committee granted my request for one week continuance. just

alternatively yo you make public comment by e-mailing myself sfgovtv at lindawong at sfgovtv. if you submit by e-mail it will be included as part of the official file. finally, items acted upon today will appear on the april 14th board of supervisors for consideration unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk can you call items one and two together. items one and two on the regular budget and finance agenda authorizing the treasure to secure a short term line of credit in an amount not to exceed $20 million for the purpose of providing short term emergency unsecured loans to small businesses in san francisco that are unable to meet rent or mortgage costs. item two. $20 million of short term load proceeds and $600,000 to to t the office of the treasure and tax collector. individual loans for small businesses impacted by sars-cov-2. >> the items from last week's agenda. >> at last week's meeting i announced i worked with oewd to create $10 million small business package launched within days. also, last week the committee granted my request for one week continuance. just

i'd like to thank sfgovtv for airing this

i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (888)204-5984. use the access code. that is 350-1008. after you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. when you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. while you are waiting the system will be silent. the call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. all callers will be in mute until open for comment. you must allow for time delays between live cove

thank you sfgovtv. >> good job, julie. >> thanks to sfgovtv and everyone. we will see you in the next few weeks. good-bye. good night. >> once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. i just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didn't have to ask twice. you can always find me on the court. [♪] >> we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. they provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a national paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. >> it is great to have this opportunity here in san francisco. we are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. now that that is happening, you know, i i'm looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs -

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 temporary mayor edwin lee before moving to the port committee and working with that budget. part of my work was overseeing the bond committee and most recently delving into ifde and issuances. prior to transitioning -- sorry. as c.f.e. of sfusd, i now oversee the school facilities bond program, and we a

thank you sfgovtv. >> good job, julie. >> thanks to sfgovtv and everyone. we will see you in the next few weeks. good-bye. good night. >> president yee: good afternoon and welcome to the april 21, 2020, meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call] . >> clerk: mr. president, you have a quorum. >> president yee: thank you. everybody, please place your hands over your heart, and would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> president yee: thank you. >> supervisor safai: supervisor safai is present. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor safai. >> president yee: okay. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available on-line. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. during the board meeting, members will participate on-line as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in t

members of the public listening on sfgovtv but have not dial dialed in should call 18883634735 and enter 413-4030 followed by foun pound sign andd sign again. then 1 and 0 to be placed in the cue. an automated voice will let them know when it is their turn. give me a moment. >> there are no speakers cued up for this item. >> we had a motion from director hursh. may i have a second. >> second. madam secretary, please call the role. >> director forbes. >> aye. >> director haney. >> aye. >> director hursh. >> aye. >> director lipkin. >> aye. >> director tumlin. >> aye. >> vice chair gee. >> aye. >> chair sesay. >> aye. seven ayes. item nine is approved. all right. excuse me that was item 8. item 8 is approved. >> madam chair call your next item. item 9. approving the tjpa title six program for april 12020 to marcy program. >> you have in front of you the title vi program. any recipient of federal transportation dollars has to have a title six program to ensure nondiscrimination when offering public services. this is the first program that it covers for operations of the transit center. it i

i would like to thank daniel williams from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, the covid-19 health emergency and to protect city employees and the public the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed.

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

this is broadcast live on sfgovtv cable channel 78 and will be rebroadcast on friday. it is available on the website and downloaded from sfgovtv.org. we will swear in or affirm those who will testify. i will admit two people to the meeting. please note any member of the public may speak without taking an oath pursuant to rights under the sunshine ordinance. if you intend to testify and wish to have the board give evidently weight raise your hand. we will do our best with this. raise your right hand. do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth? thank you. please put your mic phones on mute. i want to make an announcement public comment will be taken by phone. if you want your phone number blocked dial star 67 prior to calling the number. i understand from sfgovtv this number is being broadcast live across the screen and also on the website. the appellant for the first case just arrived. since there is a short lag time between the broadcast we will be going slowly. we want to ensure all members of the public can provide comment. we are go

our clerk is here and i would like to thank jason from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the c

this meeting is being televised by sfgovtv. please note that there is a 20-to-30-second time lag between what you are hearing and the meeting. for those who want to make public comment or listen on the listen line, the number is 888-363-4734, and the access code is 2241350. please make sure you are in a quiet location, turnoff any t.v. or radios, and if you are listening to sfgovtv, you mute the sound. at the appropriate -- [inaudible] >> you will be queued up in the order in which you press one-zero. there will be an automated voice that will tell you when it's time to speak. i will start your two minutes when you begin talking. i will say "30 seconds" when you have 30 seconds remaining. when your time is up, i will say, "thank you for calling." at that time, the operator will put you back on mute. i will repeat the instructions later in the proceedings as i am aware that some members of the public may join the meeting late and are not aware of these instructions. alternatively, you may send public comment to sfers@sfgov.org.

alternatively yo you make public comment by e-mailing myself sfgovtv at lindawong at sfgovtv. if you submit by e-mail it will be included as part of the official file. finally, items acted upon today will appear on the april 14th board of supervisors for consideration unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk can you call items one and two together. items one and two on the regular budget and finance agenda authorizing the treasure to secure a short term line of credit in an amount not to exceed $20 million for the purpose of providing short term emergency unsecured loans to small businesses in san francisco that are unable to meet rent or mortgage costs. item two. $20 million of short term load proceeds and $600,000 to to t the office of the treasure and tax collector. individual loans for small businesses impacted by sars-cov-2. >> the items from last week's agenda. >> at last week's meeting i announced i worked with oewd to create $10 million small business package launched within days. also, last week the committee granted my request for one week continuance. just

. >> clerk: and sfgovtv is on here, so why don't we push "live," christine? okay. we are now -- somebody needs to turnoff their microphone. in fact, i'll ask all to turnoff their microphones. okay. we're getting feedback from someone playing back the sfgov delayed broadcast. josey, if you can move your cursor to take away the floating menu bar. >>> okay. welcome to the meeting of the planning commission on february 16, 2020. i will remind the public that on february 26, the mayor declared a state of emergency. as we a and then, she declared that we may hold meetings remotely. some tips to keep in mind. we are learning that there are problems with the at&t bridge conference line. it is extremely finicky and has a limited capacity, so as a result, we're asking members of the public calling in through the 800 public line is to call in once essentially. call in and follow the hearing. every time someone calls in, hangs up, and calls back counts against the city. in the event that our at&t bridge fails, we may be forced to recess and call back in. however, this should n

i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (888)204-5984. use the access code. that is 350-1008. after you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. when you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. while you are waiting the system will be silent. the call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. all callers will be in mute until open for comment. you must allow for time delays between live cove

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 speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. commentses or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone, by calling 888-204-5984. access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. you will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. the system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. all callers will remain on mute until the line is open. everyone must account for the time delay and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streami

i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (888)204-5984. use the access code. that is 350-1008. after you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. when you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. while you are waiting the system will be silent. the call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. all callers will be in mute until open for comment. you must allow for time delays between live cove

alternatively yo you make public comment by e-mailing myself sfgovtv at lindawong at sfgovtv. if you submit by e-mail it will be included as part of the official file. finally, items acted upon today will appear on the april 14th board of supervisors for consideration unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk can you call items one and two together. items one and two on the regular budget and finance agenda authorizing the treasure to secure a short term line of credit in an amount not to exceed $20 million for the purpose of providing short term emergency unsecured loans to small businesses in san francisco that are unable to meet rent or mortgage costs. item two. $20 million of short term load proceeds and $600,000 to to t the office of the treasure and tax collector. individual loans for small businesses impacted by sars-cov-2. >> the items from last week's agenda. >> at last week's meeting i announced i worked with oewd to create $10 million small business package launched within days. also, last week the committee granted my request for one week continuance. just

i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements. >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee room are closed. members will be participating in this meeting remotely as if they were physically present. comments will be available for each item on the agenda cable channel 26 and sfgovtv are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. comments or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available by calling (888)204-5984. use the access code. that is 350-1008. after you have entered the access code you will press the pound symbol and the pound symbol a second time. when you are connected, and then zero to be added to the order in which you dial. while you are waiting the system will be silent. the call in system will notify you when you are in line waiting. all callers will be in mute until open for comment. you must allow for time delays between live cove

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 speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. commentses or opportunities to speak during the public comment period are available via phone, by calling 888-204-5984. access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. you will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. the system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. all callers will remain on mute until the line is open. everyone must account for the time delay and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streamin

so that was rude, thank you, sfgovtv. so the decision to shutdown the rail system was also driven by our necessity to increase cleaning crews. we increased them where they were needed. our crews were cleaning enormous rail stations. our -- [inaudible] >> sfgov, is there a way for restricting access to this call or at least cutting off sound? hopefully, you'll be on that. in any event. >> is this system in any way related to zoom? >> just having the guy doing me, maybe one or two or three -- [inaudible] >> and we can do with respect, too, too these -- >> this is david. i've just unmuted all. go ahead, jeff, and unmute yourself, please. >> all right. that's excellent. that should work. so once again, one of the other critical reasons we shutdown the rail system was to be able to reallocate our car cleaners and station custodians in order to direct them to do more thorough cleaning for our buses and for our facilities. [please stand by] . >> we knew that we needed to have a system that was going to be resilient to an unpredi

staff and our clerk and sfgovtv for being so accommodating also. madame clerk, any other business before us today? >> there is no further business. >> supervisor fewer: we're adjourned. thank you, everyone. really somt will help tremendously with what some workers and in many cases, these are the workers who have most likely been laid off from work and could use what could amount to anywhere on average $1300 per person. so i'm really grateful to all of the people who worked on making this resource available. as we deal with this real challenge around public health, simultaneously, we must ensure that the things that we are able to do and provide, we need to do it. people need to work and they're going to need jobs when this is over. people are going to need to have places to live. we're going to continue to need to deal with the challenges around homelessness and so, this will be very difficult and require some very difficult choices. an estimated 1.1 to 1.7 billion-dollar budget deficit is nothing to sneeze at. so as we are making decisions today,

our clerk is here and i would like to thank jason from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 health emergency, and to protect commissioners, staff and public, city hall is closed. commissioners will participate in the meeting remotely to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available for each item. cachannel 26 andsfgovtv will st. comments will be available by calling 18882045984. dial the access code 350-1008. then press pound and press pound again. when you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be adde added to the qo speak. all callers will remain on mute until their line is open. everyone should account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. best practice call from quiet location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. you may have submit public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail me. if you submit via e-mail it will be in the legislative file as part of the matter. written comments may be sent through the u.s. post of

our clerk is here and i would like to thank jason from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. do you have any announcements? >> yes. due to the covid-19 health emergency, and to protect commissioners, staff and public, city hall is closed. commissioners will participate in the meeting remotely to the same extent as if they were physically present. public comment will be available for each item. cachannel 26 andsfgovtv will st. comments will be available by calling 18882045984. dial the access code 350-1008. then press pound and press pound again. when you are connected, dial 1 and 0 to be adde added to the qo speak. all callers will remain on mute until their line is open. everyone should account for time delays and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. best practice call from quiet location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. you may have submit public comment in either of the following ways. e-mail me. if you submit via e-mail it will be in the legislative file as part of the matter. written comments may be sent through the u.s. post of

on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who air the meetings and make the transcripts available on-line. madam clerk, are there any announcements? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. during the board meeting, members will participate on-line as though they were present in person, and the public is invited to participate in the meeting in the five following ways. first, you are welcome to submit via e-mail at board.of.supervisors@sfgov. if you do not have internet or you'd like to listen on the go, you can listen to the meeting on your cell phone. the telephone number is 888-204-5984. when prompted, enter the access code 3501008, press pound, then press pound again to join, and you'll get to hear the meeting in progress. if you do have internet, you can hear the meeting on san francisco cable channel 26. you can watch the live streamed meetings on-line at www.sfgovtv.org. and if you would like to present up to two minutes of comment on general public comment, it is item 19. if you dial in early or wait until general public comment is called, utilize the teleph

kind of beyond that, but we need to have virtual town hauls using youtube, and i know we rely on sfgovtv to make visible, like, to video record our meetings in general, but i would like for all of us to explore ways that we can be meeting with constituents and community-based organizations via on-line platforms? you know, i think we should be thinking a little more creatively -- like, we're thinking creatively about distance learning? we will versus think creatively about how we make these conversations public and inviting the public to participate. and then, additionally, i just also wanted to say, you know, i appreciate your comments that you're working collaboratively? we know that, you know, italy is a whole country that's shutdown, and if we had actual leadership, i'm just going to name it, we would be shutting down the whole country, but we're seeing it state by state because we don't have a national leader. we as a region are trying to operate. as a nation, we're getting worse. the good thing about twitter is you get this real-time feed of how things are happening, and things are

department and the entire sfgovtv staff. madam secretary, please continue. >> clerk: thank you, madam president. at this time, i'd like to make a statement regarding public comment. this meeting is being televised by sfgtv. for those of you watching the live steam, please be aware that there is a 20-to-30-second lag between what you are watching and what is happening at sfgtv. if you wish to comment on an item, please call the phone line when the item is called. for members of the public who make public comment on agenda items, dial 888-273-3658. again. that's 888-273-3658, and access code 3107452. absays code 3107452, and i believe that's also scrolling on the bottom of the sfgtv feed, and then followed by pound and then pound again to join the meeting as a participant. then dial one and zero to be added to the speaker line. this is the public comment period. you will be queued up in the order your call was received. you will hear an auto mated voice when it is your turn to speak. when your mit is your turn, yo will be unmu