supervisor chan, you- >> thank you chair preston and i want to first make a motion to amend. >> please call the roll. >> on the motion to amend-vice chair chan. chan aye. preston aye. two ayes. >> thank you madam clerk. the motion to amend passes. >> chair preston i just want to thank you. i thank you for your knowledge. i think the drivers have said, i think that just really appreciate your understanding of the industry and i think that it's interesting we share the sentiment about uber and the transportation network companies in general and i think that it's not a functioning business model for workers i think in general, and the goal is how do we help and support taxi industry put into a disadvantage because of the tnc? it is a interest dynamic that now we are-we have find ourself in. and it is because of that though. i do appreciate sfmta effort. i do appreciate sfmta been listening to us and in the communications however brief you actually-you communicated suggested amendments to this resolution that i think aside from the fact i think you would like to see to have the third party

chan aye, member walton. >> aye. >> clerk: walton aye, chair preston. >> aye. >> clerk: preston aye. ayes. >> anything on whether we need to continue this on the call flt chair or can we file it. >> clerk: i don't think so, there are no follow-ups. >> can we have a motion to file item 5. >> so moved. >> clerk: on the motion to file number 5, vice chair, chan aye, member walton. walton aye. chair preston, preston aye, 3 ayes. >> thank you, the motion passes, thank you again to the grand jury civil grand jury members for all of their reports including this last one and thank you vice chair chan for your leadership and longstanding work for our parks. please call items 7 to 17 close session items. >> chair preston, can i. ?fm before you go to the next item. i want to clarify we're tracking the recommendations, we didn't hear any supervisor speak to recommendations what numbers are? r2, r3. >> is it the same that you gave us. >> okay. >> i think vice chair chan addressed them, they're the same response and i think she just addressed them collectively on the record. do you need them verba

thank you for taking a lead on this important issue for your district >> i would like to thank chair preston and vice chair chan for the opportunity to speak. i will focus on the case for our 2 most important recommendations or one in the 3 i believe we have slides. the report clears the risk miss a bit of detail they boil down to this. riseings groundwater brings point in contact with humans. this map is a task of the depth of water in the shipyard at 4 feet of sea level rise where it is red the water is under the surface. where it is purple on parcel g it is coming out of the grounds. the reason we have this map to look at is because the city of san francisco has been arc wake for years to the risks that rising ground water will go on the shore line and the foresight to prepare for it. the office of resilience and planning collaborated with the climate institute and san francisco institute to -- create map it is for the city along with 3 other bay area counties this is critical for the port and puc and other departments to maintain the city's infrastructure and sea levels rise. the shipyar

supervisor chan, you- >> thank you chair preston and i want to first make a motion to amend. >> please call the roll. >> on the motion to amend-vice chair chan. chan aye. preston aye. two ayes. >> thank you madam clerk. the motion to amend passes. >> chair preston i just want to thank you. i thank you for your knowledge. i think the drivers have said, i think that just really appreciate your understanding of the industry and i think that it's interesting we share the sentiment about uber and the transportation network companies in general and i think that it's not a functioning business model for workers i think in general, and the goal is how do we help and support taxi industry put into a disadvantage because of the tnc? it is a interest dynamic that now we are-we have find ourself in. and it is because of that though. i do appreciate sfmta effort. i do appreciate sfmta been listening to us and in the communications however brief you actually-you communicated suggested amendments to this resolution that i think aside from the fact i think you would like to see to have the third party

have to-require future action, that we would need to continue to the call of the chair. >> yes, chair prestonvisions made will require the hearing to be continued and agendized in the next 6 months. >> so, we can't address--continue to call the chair and come back to item 2? is that appropriate? >> let's make sure that's right. just to be clear, it isn't the changes being made that require a continuance, it is that within the amendments there are future actions of the board and bodies and thrats that's why these have to be remain open and in committee rather then filed. madam clerk, or deputy city pierson, can we move the hearing to the call of the chair now and then come back in the amendments or should we just put these both over until later in the meeting? >> we remember you put the bulk over later in the hearing. whether this needs to be hearing depends on the responses are so we need to look at those more closely. >> okay, i'll state for those who may be tuning in or in the chambers that it is certainly my intention to subject to advice from city attorney to approve those amendments. i d

have to-require future action, that we would need to continue to the call of the chair. >> yes, chair prestonvisions made will require the hearing to be continued and agendized in the next 6 months. >> so, we can't address--continue to call the chair and come back to item 2? is that appropriate? >> let's make sure that's right. just to be clear, it isn't the changes being made that require a continuance, it is that within the amendments there are future actions of the board and bodies and thrats that's why these have to be remain open and in committee rather then filed. madam clerk, or deputy city pierson, can we move the hearing to the call of the chair now and then come back in the amendments or should we just put these both over until later in the meeting? >> we remember you put the bulk over later in the hearing. whether this needs to be hearing depends on the responses are so we need to look at those more closely. >> okay, i'll state for those who may be tuning in or in the chambers that it is certainly my intention to subject to advice from city attorney to approve those amendments. i d

i think that tackles what chair preston also talked about. just both in the media or the general sentiments sometimes that i think that the controversy on safe consumption sites also has a lot to do with community engage ment engagement and education. the question lump into i think you do talk about overdose prevention, community engagement, so then i think i want to go beyond the overdose prevention, but a little bit about overall community engagement and education that are also just those who are maybe not users themselves, but they know the users or that they come across users that they are not-may be strangers to them, what about that piece of the community engagement? >> i want to say i agree. we need to do more community education and engagement and i think there is profound stigma around people with addiction and they face discrimination, hate, lack of empathy. i have a personal goal of helping all of us humanize folks with addiction, and many of us have family members loved ones ourselves who face this serious but treatable problem, a

chair preston, no further callers on the line. >> thank you madam clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. i want to thank all of our presenters today and also all the members of the public who waited patiently to weigh in and appreciate all the comments that were made. we have covered a lot of ground today. just like the plan released by dph covers a lot of ground. i want to highlight a few handful of take aways from this plan and from this hearing before we wrap up. i want to lift a few things up. first is from the title of this. i appreciate the title of this plan from dph. which is overdose deaths are preventable. i think we can solve this, we must ask i think that title is important and profound and i think should be a point of agreement. second thing is the racial disparities and saw the chart presented by dr. kunins are unacceptable. black residents are 5 times more likely to die of drug over dose in san francisco. this cannot continue and appreciate the plan contains concrete goals about tackling this and reducing the racial disparities in

chair preston, no further callers on the line. >> thank you madam clerk. public comment on this item is now closed. i want to thank all of our presenters today and also all the members of the public who waited patiently to weigh in and appreciate all the comments that were made. we have covered a lot of ground today. just like the plan released by dph covers a lot of ground. i want to highlight a few handful of take aways from this plan and from this hearing before we wrap up. i want to lift a few things up. first is from the title of this. i appreciate the title of this plan from dph. which is overdose deaths are preventable. i think we can solve this, we must ask i think that title is important and profound and i think should be a point of agreement. second thing is the racial disparities and saw the chart presented by dr. kunins are unacceptable. black residents are 5 times more likely to die of drug over dose in san francisco. this cannot continue and appreciate the plan contains concrete goals about tackling this and reducing the racial disparities in

supervisor preston. >> thank you. chair megovern and as eager as i am to get to this we arranged with the right folks at mta to have this hearing on october 17th would love to be continued until that date. >> >> okay. is this a motion. >> it it is. >> thank you. >> we have to take public comment it is noticed that way >> go ahead and do that. are i there members that would like to peek in the chambers we will move to the line. we have 4 listeners with 2 in the queue. let's take the first caller, please. >> great. daved pill pel. witting all afternoon and another continuance that is just what is happening today. the supposed mta response to the board resolution is in the on letterhead. has no author or date. so it is hard to get the context if they could resends it. with somebody's name, date and may be mta all right letter head not/khrer how many are in the served they are on routes not in service. in the clear how this effort related to other transit planning work. i'm sure they will say they are busy doing transit plannin

september 15 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee i'm supervisor preston joined by vice chaire chan and supervisor rafael mandelman the clerk is alissa sa mara and want to thank the team at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do we have announcements. >> the board of supervisors and committees convenning hybrid meetings allow comment providing remote access and comment i have at phone. board recognizes that public access will be taking public as follows. first commen

chair. >> thank you very much supervisor preston for your introduction of this item. i see we have veronica flores for planning here and i will turn it over to you. >> thank you very much. the item before today would create tenderloin neon special sign district which provides specific controls to encourage new neon signs and with the amendments thail descroibt committee. committee members make it easier to repair and restore existing neon science. the effort is rooted in the tenderloin community action plan. an effort led by the tenderloin people's congress to engage can with tenderloin stakeholders. over 1200 people were apart of the process and it was designed to map out a vision for the tenderloin future. the results of work including community meetings, surveys, and the tendser loin people's summit was a vision 2020 document. a powerful statement of priorities. it addresses economic opportunity, improvement, housing and homelessness as well as arts and culture. nested within the last category was a recommendation to restore and encourage more new neon signs in the

preston seconding. and madam or mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 8, commissioner chan? >> aye. >> commissioner dorsey? >> aye. >> chair mandelman? >> aye. >> commissioner mar? >> aye. >> commissioner melgar? >> aye. >> commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> commissioner preston? >> aye. >> commissioner ronen? >> aye. >> commissioner safai? >> aye. >> commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> commissioner walton? >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. the motion is approved. >> great. thank you, mr. clerk. please call item 9. >> item 9, san francisco transportation plan update. this is an informational item. >> all right. and i believe we have ms. paz. >> hello, give me one second to pull up my slides. i'm sharing my screen. okay. good morning commissioners, my name is alisa i'll give an update on the san francisco transportation plan. i'm going to call is the sfpt for short. so the sfpt is our long range transportation plan to establish our investment priorities over a 30 year horizon so 2050. it's updated four years on the plan bay area and the sf and plan bay area are says constant with one other and plan bay area was adopted in october of

. >> thank you chair melgar and thank you to yourself and supervisor preston who voted for the original legislation in january of last year that the board approved unanimously and the mayor signed on january 22nd of last year. this pressure as set forth in the title extends this interim control by six months to january of next year and slightly modifies the provisions specifically as it relates to another exception for conditional use authorization set forth on page 6 at line 10. wherein the conditional use shall not be required for xisting residential buildings in rc-r dismrks rto districts wherein the expansion is to two or more units and no resulting individual unit been later than 3,000 square feet and 50% of the size of the largest unit in the building. this has actually proven quite successful this these districts in maximizing density and we are working on permanent controls with the support of the planning department and hope to get that done in the six-month period and those have been productive considerations. conversations. and this would terminate if we pass the permanent co

preston. >> mr. clerk? call the roll. no audio... >> dorsey aye. >> chair mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner mar. >> aye. >> commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stephanie. >> aye. >> commissioner walton. >> aye. >> there are 10 aye's the consent is approved. >> item 7 final approval on first perns adopt 1 bay area grant cycle 3 project nomination this is is an action item >> thank you, mr. clerk this item is back. we discussed it -- at our last meeting. and -- i believe that our staff has been able to work with your offices. and with bart to address the issues that were raised and so we department drkt for policy and programming back to update us. >> yes. thank you. >> sfgovtv i will pull up my slides says i'm already sharing the screen. >> i'm not able to pull up my slides if somebody is able to help me with that. i will get started. >> let's -- see if we can soch the problem. there we go. now it is sharable. >> great. >>

chair. >> thank you very much supervisor preston for your introduction of this item.ee we have veronica flores for planning here and i will turn it over to you. >> thank you very much. the item before today would create tenderloin neon special sign district which provides specific controls to encourage new neon signs and with the amendments thail descroibt committee. committee members make it easier to repair and restore existing neon science. the effort is rooted in the tenderloin community action plan. an effort led by the tenderloin people's congress to engage can with tenderloin stakeholders. over 1200 people were apart of the process and it was designed to map out a vision for the tenderloin future. the results of work including community meetings, surveys, and the tendser loin people's summit was a vision 2020 document. a powerful statement of priorities. it addresses economic opportunity, improvement, housing and homelessness as well as arts and culture. nested within the last category was a recommendation to restore and encourage more new neon signs in the nei

september 15 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee i'm supervisor preston joined by vice chair connie chan and supervisor rafael mandelman the clerk is

september 15 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee i'm supervisor preston joined by vice chairervisor rafael mandelman the clerk is alissa sa mara and want to thank the team at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do we have announcements. >> the board of supervisors and committees convenning hybrid meetings allow comment providing remote access and cnt

september 15 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee i'm supervisor preston joined by vice chaironnie chan and supervisor rafael mandelman the clerk is alissa sa mara and want to thank the team at sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. do we have

chair of the national board. i want to give gratitude to supervisors preston and ronen for introducing resolution 25 to decriminalize ancestral plant medicines and i'm the child of immigrants of the united states from mexico. my father was a small farmer in (indiscernible) and indigenous farmer in my earliest memory is being in the fields farming with him and after my parents divorced, my parents raised us alone in san jose and it was hard times with a single mother raising children in a tough neighborhood and it wasn't until i was 48 years old that i came across an though generals which helped me heal as a trauma. i was gardening at the age of 12 and got my masters in environmental science, bachelors in biology, nature has been very dear to me, but the antigens opened me to my ancestral pass. if i were to cult val -- i could face three years in prison in california so i'm grateful for you taking this on today and showing the courage to allow me to grow my own ancestral plant without fear of i am president onment. >> thank you carlos for your comments. welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon, san francisco supervisors

preston. supervisor safai? >> supervisor ahsha safai: director yann, i would like to ask a couple questions. through the chairngs that has struck me is we have a process that is required through the ordinance and tracking data that meets patients and in the county. and we are tracking data. i'm taken a back that we are not asking for and inquiring about more data as it comes to when we are signing contracts of this size. that we are not requiring the folks that we sign these contracts with to provide data to us because a lot of the information is anecdotal and i want to recognize the clinicians and others that are out there on the front lines doing this work. it's obvious and we have our own stories of individuals that require because of covid, because of the tremendous stress that has been thrust upon so many families, so many individuals, some children that the need for mental health care has gone up dramatically, but not knowing how often the people are not being provided a service when we are one of the largest providers of health care in our city and county, that we contract with directly, what can you d

preston. supervisor safai? >> supervisor ahsha safai: director yann, i would like to ask a couple questions. through the chairngs that has struck me is we have a process that is required through the ordinance and tracking data that meets patients and in the county. and we are tracking data. i'm taken a back that we are not asking for and inquiring about more data as it comes to when we are signing contracts of this size. that we are not requiring the folks that we sign these contracts with to provide data to us because a lot of the information is anecdotal and i want to recognize the clinicians and others that are out there on the front lines doing this work. it's obvious and we have our own stories of individuals that require because of covid, because of the tremendous stress that has been thrust upon so many families, so many individuals, some children that the need for mental health care has gone up dramatically, but not knowing how often the people are not being provided a service when we are one of the largest providers of health care in our city and county, that we contract with directly, what can you d

chair. >> thank you very much supervisor preston for your introduction of this item.have veronica flores for planning here and i will turn it over to you. >> thank you very much. the item before today would create tenderloin neon special sign district which provides specific controls to encourage new neon signs and with the amendments thail descroibt committee. committee members make it easier to repair and restore existing neon science. the effort is rooted in the tenderloin community action plan. an effort led by the tenderloin people's congress to engage can with tenderloin stakeholders. over 1200 people were apart of the process and it was designed to map out a vision for the tenderloin future. the results of work including community meetings, surveys, and the tendser loin people's summit was a vision 2020 document. a powerful statement of priorities. it addresses economic opportunity, improvement, housing and homelessness as well as arts and culture. nested within the last category was a recommendation to restore and encourage more new neon signs in the neighborh