thank you chair preston. members of the committee. my name is sophia kitler from the mayor office joined by matt larson. the item before you today is a behested payment waver for the civic bridge program. it is the second such behested payment waver and pleased to say we were the first behested payment waver for the first time last year. civic bridge started in 2015. we are in the 10 th cohort and the goal is to bring in outside pro bono consultants and volunteers to work on strategic projects across the city. the program brings in extra capacity where there is a time crunch or the particular team does not have the expertise to work on something. it is kind of the scope of projects where you don't toopt get a full blown consultant. they tend to be designed oriented or facilitation oriented projects. so, it is short-term work, adds capacity and outside perspective how the private sector or outside partners might think about a problem a little differently then how the city does. the behested payment before you allows us to solicit teams

. >> aye. >> preston aye. peskin. >> aye. >> melgar. >> aye. >> madam chair, there are three ayes. >> and i believe we made a motion to continue until the meeting of the 22. >> on that motion, also offered by member peskin to continue to january 22, vice chair preston. >> aye. >> peskin. >> aye. >> melgar. >> aye. >> madam chair, there are three ayes. >> thank you, that motion passes. >> let's go to item number 6. >> okay, again mr. star, welcome. >> hi, good afternoon, supervisor manager of legislative affairs. ordinance was introduced by the mayor. this um dates code updates code assembly bill 22-21 and senate bill 997 all were affective january first. the changes are amendments that are required to make to comply with state law, it's important to note that planning staff are already reviewing permits. the code would be revised to reflect the changes. recommended approval with one modification. typically project only add 1 to 2 a dus however there is been a few cases that are 9 have been added to the propert

supervisor preston. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues today i'm introducing a resolution demanding safeway reconsider and reverse the plans to close the fillmore only full service grocery store which is scheduled to be shut down in march. i want to thank supervisor walton for his early cosponsorship of this resolution. colleagues, last thursday safeway inc. announced that the safeway, 1335 webster street would shutter in or around early march and that is a 3.68 acre property would be sold to the real estate developer align real estate. the announcement of this abrut closure and sale of this grocery store has been met with outrage, fear and questions from community members who rely on this store. when i reached out to city departments about this sale closure and development plan they informed they were completely unaware of the proposal. the safe pch way in fillmore is not just a grocery store, it has a pharmacy and bank and the services at this location were purposeful post-redevelopment response to previous red lining and red

matt sherman, dean preston, um, great to see you all. matt, last time i saw you, you came to a memorial and you tried to use the death of one of our fellows and twist it into a political ploy. shame on you. you need to make this right. i want to read a few quotes. the children are always ours. every single one of them. all over the globe. and i'm beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. that's james baldwin. uh, he also says i'm terrified at the moral apathy. uh, angela davis, who graduates from my alma mater, brandeis university, says palestine is a moral litmus test for the world. this is a moral litmus test for san francisco. we are voting, uh, six supervisors in or out this upcoming election. we got, uh, many propositions. the mayor da we are watching and, um, this is one of the things that is going to define, you know, where your morality stands, where your values stand, and, uh, thank you so much. hi. thank you, supervisors, for listening to us. my name is stacy, and i'm a 30

yes, i felder, i commissioner preston. preston. i commissioner williams i williams i there three eyes thank thank you madam clerk. can you please call item number three. yes item number three is an update on the clean power sf program, including activities in lafco, updates on battery storage and green financing studies. members of the public wish to provide comment on this item should line up to speak or press star three. if you're joining us remotely. madam chair, madam vice chair, thank you. well, now i'll hear from deputy assistant general manager for clean power, s.f. michael himes. and if you can, please keep your presentation at ten minutes. that would be appreciated. good morning. uh lafco. commissioners mike himes. i'm the deputy assistant general manager at the sfpuc power enterprise, responsible for clean power sf. uh, happy friday, i do have some slides, so thank you very much. uh, i see that they're up. um let's see for my report today, i'm going to provide our usual update on clean power sf customer enrollment and ser

dean preston wants the grocery store in the city, still more neighborhood to stay open.s is the talk of the town. their supervisor, dean preston introduced a resolution during today's board of supervisors meeting. >> and kron 4, sarah, since it caught up with him to learn more. she joins us live in the city. sarah, what's going on? >> yes, supervisor dean preston says shutting down that safeway will be harmful for some of the most vulnerable groups in the fillmore district. and that is not only a grocery store. it provides a pharmacy and a bank. a san francisco supervisors doing what he can to keep a grocery store open in the city's fillmore neighborhood. safeway on webster street is set to be closed in march after serving the neighborhood for 40 years. >> safely officials announced last week they sold the property to a company that will turn it into housing and commercial retail right away. supervisor dean preston got to work on a resolution demanding the grocery store stay open until the property developer breaks ground. it is not a good option shut down the community'

supervisor preston introduced a resolution today to try to stop that. sarah stinson not talked with us. the supervisor joins us now live. >> in the city, sarah. >> supervisor dean preston says shutting down this safeway will be harmful to some of the most vulnerable groups in the fillmore district as this location. it not only serves as a grocery store, but also a bank and pharmacy. a san francisco supervisors doing what he can to keep a grocery store open in the city's fillmore neighborhood. safeway on webster street is set to be closed in march after serving the neighborhood for 40 years. >> safely officials announced last week they sold the property to a company that will turn it into housing and commercial retail was pretty shocking to members right away. supervisor dean preston got to work on a resolution demanding the grocery store stay open until the property developer breaks ground. it is not a good option shut down the community's only grocery store so that it can vacant. >> for months or years, i just doesn't benefit any. >> preston says the c

supervisor preston. and i do appreciate you as well as supervisor ronen, for the for the tone and, um, approach that you've brought to this for your your leadership on it. um, i mentioned that i intended to propose amendments. um, and again, in the interest of transparency rather than waiting, sometimes you know, the amendments will be made after public comment. i think it's important for transparency sake, to outline them here. i want to just start by mentioning that when this resolution was first assigned to the committee, i chair my initial preference was. to oppose the resolution as written and author. my own statement as supervisor preston mentioned to express my support for a ceasefire under certain conditions, um, under the brown act, i'm not allowed to interact with, you know, we're not as rules committee members. we're not allowed to interact with each other, but we can have conversations with some of our other colleagues. um, when i reached out to some of other colleagues, um, in that process p

you've taken upon yourselves (bell ringing) only more just thing at that time i thank supervisor preston for a ceasefire and the board members have joined him on this side of history. thank you. >> thank you for your comments mr. president and madam clerk to the approval of our. >> approval of the december 5, 2023, and december 12, 2023, board meeting minutes. motion by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor walton a roll call. >> on the minutes, president peskin, aye. >> supervisor preston, aye. >> supervisor ronen, aye. >> supervisor stefani, aye. >> supervisor walton, aye. >> supervisor chan, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor dorsey, aye. >> supervisor mandelman, aye. >> and supervisor dorsey i. >> mdc call 9 and considered to be routine if a member objects an item maybe removed. >> same house, same call. those ordinances are finally passed (gavel). >> next waivers of specified contract-related requirements in the administrative code for this transaction. (department of technology) >> seeing no names other than is roster. >> same house, same call. this ordinance p

preston, aye. ronan, aye. safai, absent. stefani, aye. walton, aye. there are 10 ayes and minutes are approved. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call the next item. >> item 5, election of chair and vice chair for 2024. this is action item. >> thank you mr. clerk. nominations are now in order for the office of the chair. vice chair mandelman. >> i would like to nominate matt dorsey to be our chair for another year. >> thank you. i welcome the opportunity to be nominated. is there a second? commissioner stefani. are there further nominations? okay. nominations are now closed. let's open up to public comment. seeing no one in the chamber, operators anyone remotely who wants to comment on the election of myself as chair? >> there is no public comment. >> thank you, public comment is closed. >> i thank you for being nominated as chair. do we need a roll call on this? >> we do. >> okay. roll call. >> on the motion in favor of electing commissioner dorsey for chair. chan, aye. dorsey, aye. engardio, aye. mandelman, aye. melgar, aye. peskin, aye. preston, aye.

supervisor preston. >> thank you madam clerk. colleagues today i'm introducing a resolution demanding safeway reconsider and reverse the plans to close the fillmore only full service grocery store which is scheduled to be shut down in march. i want to thank supervisor walton for his early cosponsorship of this resolution. colleagues, last thursday safeway inc. announced that the safeway, 1335 webster street would shutter in or around early march and that is a 3.68 acre property would be sold to the real estate developer align real estate. the announcement of this abrut closure and sale of this grocery store has been met with outrage, fear and questions from community members who rely on this store. when i reached out to city departments about this sale closure and development plan they informed they were completely unaware of the proposal. the safe pch way in fillmore is not just a grocery store, it has a pharmacy and bank and the services at this location were purposeful post-redevelopment response to previous red lining and red

supervisor preston. >> thank you, chair melgar. i really just wanted to thank, president peskin for how you have approached this and just, and a lot of stuff coming out of this committee. times when you take the time to get it right, you get criticized as if you're not in favor of the end goals of the legislation, i will not go into details. but is do think this was before the board, i think, i was proud to be a cosponsor many of us were supportive, poised to pass it with no problem but then issues were raised. and that's not a common thing, you know for us to send things back to committee and make sure we get them right. in this case, it's important and i think a lot of issues that you've been working on from the department is really important here. and i say this as a supervisor in a district in san francisco ar where a man died and found onsite in the film water, it was a scooter battery that was suspected as possible cause here. so you know, there is, there is both an urgency to pass legislation but also a real need to get it r

matt sherman, dean preston, um, great to see you all. matt, last time i saw you, you came to a memorial and you tried to use the death of one of our fellows and twist it into a political ploy. shame on you. you need to make this right. i want to read a few quotes. the children are always ours. every single one of them. all over the globe. and i'm beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. that's james baldwin. uh, he also says i'm terrified at the moral apathy. uh, angela davis, who graduates from my alma mater, brandeis university, says palestine is a moral litmus test for the world. this is a moral litmus test for san francisco. we are voting, uh, six supervisors in or out this upcoming election. we got, uh, many propositions. the mayor da we are watching and, um, this is one of the things that is going to define, you know, where your morality stands, where your values stand, and, uh, thank you so much. hi. thank you, supervisors, for listening to us. my name is stacy, and i'm a 30

seconded by preston. i think we can take this same house same call without objection the motion passes. mr. clerk, please call item 5. >> item 5, introduction new items. this is information item. >> well colleagues, i have bad news, which is that after a year and a half of serving us and getting through these meetings and keeping me from bungling too badly, our own eliza saunders is going to be leaving us and his last day is january 12 so i wanted to thank him and have all of us thank him. wish him all the very best. thank you mr. saunders. we are going to miss you. >> thank you chair. >> embarrassed enough mr. saunders? >> i believe so. >> you're welcome. mr. clerk, please call item 6. >> item 6, public comment. >> any general public comment in the chamber? don't see any. is there any remote public comment on item 6? >> item 6 has no public comment. >> alright. public comment on item 6 is closed. mr. clerk, please call item 7. >> item 7, adjournment. >> we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] watching. >>

thank you. >> thank you supervisor preston.visor chan and supervisor stefani this was introduced in november. 2 and a half months later it went to building inspection that recommended to the board of supervisors so this isn't a lot of non expert folks jacks of all trades, namely the 11 of us. this went to building inspection commission. i'm still just-no individual offense. in the future if we have one of these, tip the board president off please. supervisor stefani. >> thank you president peskin. i just want to say something. there is no need to cast dispersions on one another when we have questions about legislation that come before us. this is our job to ask questions. as a attorney a question came up late in the game that i thought was worth asking the city attorney office. i ask the city attorney office that question and i was met with hesitancy which made me very trepdacious about it. i made calls and did due diligence last minute because it didn't rise to my level of knowledge until brought to my attention. so, based on

thank you. >> thank you supervisor preston.visor chan and supervisor stefani this was introduced in november. 2 and a half months later it went to building inspection that recommended to the board of supervisors so this isn't a lot of non expert folks jacks of all trades, namely the 11 of us. this went to building inspection commission. i'm still just-no individual offense. in the future if we have one of these, tip the board president off please. supervisor stefani. >> thank you president peskin. i just want to say something. there is no need to cast dispersions on one another when we have questions about legislation that come before us. this is our job to ask questions. as a attorney a question came up late in the game that i thought was worth asking the city attorney office. i ask the city attorney office that question and i was met with hesitancy which made me very trepdacious about it. i made calls and did due diligence last minute because it didn't rise to my level of knowledge until brought to my attention. so, based on

supervisor preston we have questions stay please. >> thank you. >> supervisor melgar i'm fine with the motion that we make amendments and then has to be referred back and take action but i think we probably should make a higher universe amendments and a couple of things occurred to me iowa one is given the roefbt millennium of actions out of state of california lastly it ours to me that this is catching up with changes to the state law as ms. flores said happened a year ago but more mostly courtesy of our delegation in affect on the first day of this month haney taken away the right of most appeals to the board of appeals and that there is old language in here might mislead the members of the public with senator haney took that right away from them and also changes to the state law curtesy of it's on the tip of my tongue that vastly broadened the ability to sell off separate parcels not reflected here rather than pea mail this the legislature will leave this to the cities how to do it. >> with we might want to conclude those things um. and then there is some things in here i'd like to

chair preston, aye. have two ayes with member stefani absent cht >> it motion passes and before we call the next item i like to move to excuse vice chair stefani from remainder of the hearing. >> thank you. on the motion, member chan, aye. preston, aye. you have two ayes with member stefani excused. >> that motion passes. let's call item 6 please. >> item 6, resolution approving and authorizing the director of property, on behalf of the department of homelessness and supportive housing, to execute a lease agreement with lawrence b. stone properties #08, llc, for use of the property located at 2177 jerrold avenue as a temporary shelter program for the term of 15 years, to commence upon approval of this resolution, with two five-year options to extend and an annual base rent of $2,469,606 with 3% annual increases beginning in 2024 under charter, section 9.118; authorizing the city's contribution of up to $5,866,869 towards the cost of tenant improvements; affirming the planning department's determination u

preston, aye. and member chan has been excused.r chan excused. >> thank you. the motion passes and any other business before the committee? actually, before we close, is my understanding that the item 10 which we heard earlier was actually agendizes as a committee report but our motion did not reflect that so i like to move to resend the vote on item 10. >> the motion to resend the vote on item 10, stefani, aye. and chair preston, aye. we have two ayes with member chan excused. >> thank you. then i'll move to forward item 10 with recommendation to the full board as a committee report. >> move to forward item 10 to the full board with positive recommendation as a committee report. stefani aye. preston, aye. we have two member chan excused. >>an

. >> commissioner preston. absent. commissioner ronen. >> [off mic]. >> present. commissioner safai, absent. commissioner stefani. present. commissioner walton. >> present. >> commissioner safai is now present. we have quorum. >> thank you so much madam clerk. i believe we have a public comment announcement. >> yes, i do. thank you. for members of the public interested in participating in this board meeting we welcome your attendance here in person in the legislative chamber in city hall or watch cable channel 26 or 99 depending on the provide eror stream the meeting live at our website. for those wishing to make public comment remotely the best way is by dialing 415-655-0001 and when prompted enter access code 2662-307-4053. and press pound and pound again. you will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. when public comment is called for will item you wish to speak on please press star three to enter the queue to speak. do not press star three again or you will be removed from the queue. when the systems your line is unmuted the operator will advise you y

preston, aye. peskin, aye. melgar, aye. madam chair, there three ayes. >> motion passes. thank you. mr. clerk, do we have anymore items in front of us? wait, we do. >> one more vote. >> i heard there may be- >> president peskin- >> i like to make a motion to rescind the vote to continue item number 3. >> just a moment. i will jump forward in my notes. bye. >> we are still in session and conducting business, so if you are leaving please exit quitely to take care of the last several steps. madam chair i record a motion to continue agenda item 3 to february 5. we are hearing a motion now to rescind that. >> sorry, if you could please speak quite. we are still conducting business. thank you. >> on the motion to rescind, preston, aye. peskin, aye. chair melgar, aye. madam chair, three ayes to rescind item 3. >> go for it. >> madam chair, supervisor preston, because of the length of item 7, the deputy city attorney from the treasure island development authority were able to propose some amendments that addressed the issues i rais

. >> supervisor mandelman presenter and supervisor preston present and supervisor ronen present. >> supervisor safai present. >> supervisor stefani present. >> and walton present mr. president all members are president all members are present. >> >> unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush (rah-my-toosh) ohlone (o-lon-ee) who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. elders, and relatives of the ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. passenger door public safety & neighborhood services committee pandemic for all. >> >> madam clerk any communications. >> yes. mr. president. on behalf of the board of supervisors all interested persons in this meeting are welcome to the board chambers and here in city hall zoned r-2 you may wash the meeting or view the live stream at www.sfgovtv.org to submit our public comment in writing send to the e-mail bos www.sfbos.org or u.s. po

matt dorsey, thank preston for his work and explained his hesitations of supporting a cease-fire. if i'm being asked to take a position against the president of the united states at a time when his administration is working to secure the release of american hostages. >> i had better be convinced that our president is doing something wrong. those in attendance made it known that they >> many saying they hope supervisors passed the resolution despite the federal government's position on a cease-fire. and what we're seeing is cowardice. >> and among some of the supervisors. the board is expected to vote on this resolution tomorrow and decide if any amendment should be added. >> but they will not be accepting public comment if you plan on going. they said people who got the opportunity to speak about this issue today. i'm sarah stinson reporting back to you. >> sarah, thank you. power is finally back on at a senior living and memory care center and san jose where residents spent the weekend in the dark that we want that to happen. kron 4 justin campbell has the story. >> the power her

preston and others are concerned about food insecurity created by the closure. the safeway film or location has been serving san francisco residents for more than 40 years. and a spokesperson just got back to us from safeway. they say the story's going to close as planned. they sent us this statement this evening. that reads in part the decision to close the webster street, safeway was not done without tremendous analysis. careful consideration and thoughtful effort to keep our doors open. like all retailers, we continuously evaluate the performance of our stores and occasionally it's necessary to close locations that aren't meeting financial expectations. the city of antioch is considering taking measures to crackdown on commercial landlords who do not take care of their properties. and next mayor, lamar thorpe says that the city has identified 9 locations which they say become blighted with boarded-up storefronts, piles of trash and illicit drug use. thorpe is now proposing the city do more legally to clean up these spots. >> the question is what we're going t

cbs's elise preston is in los angeles with more on that. good evening, elise. >> reporter: good evening to you, jericka. "endeavour" will soon be the only space shuttle displayed like it's ready for launch. the mission to move the spacecraft has a margin of error of less than an inch. more than a decade after its final flight home to southern california, "endeavour" is now covered in protective shrink wrap and waiting to be lifted by a 450-foot crane and reamuch taed upright to its giant orange fuel tank and twin rocket boosters. >> it's very challenging. this is the only place in the world that there will be a full space shuttle stack of all real hardware. >> and liftoff of the maiden voyage of "endeavour." >> reporter: "endeavour" blasted into orbit in 1992 and its 25 missions including many firsts, preparing the hubble telescope, putting mae jemison into space, and adding a u.s. component to the international space station. in 2011, after more than 120 million miles flown, it came home for good. in 2012, "endeavour" hitched a ride to hol

preston's resolution is expected to be voted on in just a few weeks. a spokesperson for safeway says that the store will close as planned that they sent us a statement this evening that says in part the decision to close the webster street, safeway was not done without tremendous analysis. careful consideration inbox, full effort to keep our doors open. like all retailers, we continuously evacuate a value 8 rather the performance of our stores. and occasionally it's necessary to close locations that art meeting financial expectations are kron 4 sarah stenson's. i'm planning to let talked to the supervisor about this resolution and the next steps and he's failed tree school teacher recently awarded educator of the year by biz world. and her husband say they're feeling optimistic about their recovery. >> after their home in hayward caught fire just days after their lives returned upside down. kron four's philippe djegal reports that community has stepped up and raised more than $23,000 to help them out. >> liz katz's home in hayward now a burned out shel

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