>> 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

>> supervisor mar: thank you, chair ronen. d like to thank supervisor peskin for bringing this motion forward. as current chair of the government audit and oversight committee, i agree with you and also with chair ronen about the importance of this motion and in really streamlining the board's ability to issue subpoenas and administer oaths at this point. and i -- you know, i wholeheartedly agree that, you know, right now, you know, with ongoing and -- and widening investigation into corruption in multiple departments in the city, you know, and in the investigation by multiple parties, it's very important for the board's role in providing oversight and even looking at new policies to address the widespread corruption here at city hall to -- that these stream lined power of subpoenas and administering of oaths is very much needed right now, so thanks again for bringing this forward. i would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> chair ronen: supervisor haney? >> supervisor haney: thank you, and thank you, supervisor peskin and rone

. >> 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

. >> 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

. >> chair ronen: the meeting will come to order. ome 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 temporary m

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 temporary mayor edwin lee before moving to the port committee and working with that budget. p

>> chair ronen: and that item passes unanimously. [gavel]. >> chair ronen: mr. clerk, are there any other items on the agenda? >> clerk: that completes the agenda for today. >> chair ronen: thank you very much. the meeting is adjourned. i want to apologize for starting this meeting 15 minutes late, first time it has ever been started late, but such are things in the time of love and coronavirus. we are joined by our vice-chair supervisor ahsha safai, our clerk is ms. erica major who has some special announcements that have not been heard before. ms. major. >> due to to declaration of local emergency related to the novel coronavirus disease and the subsequent health order, we are asking all attendees of the meeting to maintain at least four feet of physical space between yourself and others. hash your hands regularly for at least 20 seconds and try to avoid touching high-volume surfaces as much as possible. >> madame clerk, could you please read item 2 out of order? >> yes. in addition be sure to silence your cell phones and electronic devices. speaker cards and

i am chair hillary ronen. seated to my right is rules committee member catherine stefani, and seated to my left is 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 y

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. seated to my right is captain stefanie, and we'll soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. mar. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chairwoman: can you read item number one. >> item one is appointing two members to the commission on aging and advisory council. >> chairwoman: than thank you so much. i believe we're joined by juliette rothman. if juliette would like to come up and address the committee, thank you so much. if you just want to share with us your interest in the appointment. how are you? >> good. i'm here to seek reappointment to the advisory council, and just to tell you a little bit about myself. i worked in the direct practice of aging and disability for 25 years and have chaired ethics committees and hos

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

opportunity to vote on supervisor walton's -- >> clerk: chair fewer, one of the clarifications, at the beginning of the meeting, supervisor ronen did submit amendments to item 10 for your consideration. would you like to consider those amendments? >> chair fewer: i think we can vote on the amendments, quite frankly. so let's have a vote first on the amendments to supervisor ronen's legislation. so could we have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. on the motion by supervisor fewer to amend item number 10 as stated earlier by supervisor ronen -- [roll call] >> chair fewer: and then, we have a motion on the table from supervisor walton to move this to the full board with a positive recommendation. could we have a roll call vote, please. clerk yes. on the motion by supervisor walton to move the items to the full board with a positive recommendation -- [roll call] >> clerk: there is one aye and two noes with supervisors mandelman and fewer in the dissent. the motion fails. >> chair fewer: thank you. i'd like to make a motion to move this items 10 and 11 as amended to be continued to the next meeting of the budget and finance co

. >> 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

. >> 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

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. seated to my right is captain

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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 fewer: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: yes, thank you, and thanks so much for your presentation. it was really thorough and really impressive. i was a big fan of the vote 16 campaign, and i wonder if there's any plans at all to put it back on the ballot? >> thank you, supervisor ronen. actually, we are in the process of support with president yee's office to put that back on the ballot. we are putting that back on the ballot in may and that's to garner up as much financial support as we can until may prior to it being based on the ballot because us with the civic engagement committee can't technically meet on the campaign. once we meet the deadline, we can meet outside of our roles as the youth commission. >> supervisor ronen: oh, i see. i thought you were increasing funding from the department of elections to do outreach. but in addition to that, you're putting together another bat initiative for november. >> right. so the idea behind the allocation of money, we've looked at the scottish independence

>> thank you, chair ronen, supervisor stefanie.u are the amendments that were proposed in committee last week, that you verbally suggested the city attorney, in consultation with the clerk of the board, insert into the language that is before you today. i know that the clerk of the board, ms. calvio, is here if you have any questions for her. i'd like to thank her and deputy city attorney pearson for their work on this. i would like to, subject to public comment, duplicate the file and remove, in section 6.7.1, in a file to be forwarded to the full board, the language with regard to the administration of oath to a department head, and leave that in committee so that if there is any desire by the m.e.a. to meet and confer on that, we can do so. and send this item, with the amendment removing that, to the full board with recommendation, if this committee sees fit. >> chairwoman: and to the city attorney, have we reached out to the m.e.a.? >> yes. this draft has been sent to the m.e.a. >> chairwoman: and when was that done? >> that wa

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

>> thank you, chair ronen, supervisor stefanie.efore you are the amendments that were proposed in committee last week, that you verbally suggested the city attorney, in consultation with the clerk of the board, insert into the language that is before you today. i know that the clerk of the board, ms. calvio, is here if you have any questions for her. i'd like to thank her and deputy city attorney pearson for their work on this. i would like to, subject to public comment, duplicate the file and remove, in section 6.7.1, in a file to be forwarded to the full board, the language with regard to the administration of oath to a department head, and leave that in committee so that if there is any desire by the m.e.a. to meet and confer on that, we can do so. and send this item, with the amendment removing that, to the full board with recommendation, if this committee sees fit. >> chairwoman: and to the city attorney, have we reached out to the m.e.a.? >> yes. this draft has been sent to the m.e.a. >> chairwoman: and when was that done? >>

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

>> thank you, chair ronen, supervisor stefanie.efore you are the amendments that were proposed in committee last week, that you verbally suggested the city attorney, in consultation with the clerk of the board, insert into the language that is before you today. i know that the clerk of the board, ms. calvio, is here if you have any questions for her. i'd like to thank her and deputy city attorney pearson for their work on this. i would like to, subject to public comment, duplicate the file and remove, in section 6.7.1, in a file to be forwarded to the full board, the language with regard to the administration of oath to a department head, and leave that in committee so that if there is any desire by the m.e.a. to meet and confer on that, we can do so. and send this item, with the amendment removing that, to the full board with recommendation, if this committee sees fit. >> chairwoman: and to the city attorney, have we reached out to the m.e.a.? >> yes. this draft has been sent to the m.e.a. >> chairwoman: and when was that done? >>

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

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

finally, as raphael said, it is a little >> chair ronen: the meeting will come to order.rch 9, 2020 meeting of the rules

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. with me is vice chair supervisor

i'm supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. seated to my right is captain stefanie, and we'll soon be joined by supervisor gordon marr. mar. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. please silence your cell phones and all electronic equipment. completed speaker cards and copies of any documents should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will appear on the march 10 board of

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