deputy city attorney jon givner. >> mr. givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. so this item was sponsored and it was introduced by the mayor and president cohen. it will authorize the city attorney to file a validation action regarding proposition c which passed in the november election. the board adopted a similar ordinance in july authorizing the city attorney to file a valuation action for june's proposition g. as you know, questions have been raised about whether proposition c in november and propositions c and g in june required a 50% vote to pass for a two-thirds majority. this ordinance will authorize our office to seek kay judgment that proposition c in november required only a 50% majority to pass. >> president cohen: that's great. thank you. so just as a question to you, deputy city attorney, how long does this process take before the city can expect to hopefully be able to drawdown and spend this revenue, this money? >> mr. givner: that depends on a number of factors. we expect this ordinance if it comes out of committee today as a committee report to

givner: deputy city attorney jon givner. any amendment you make today will trigger a continuance in this committee to another committee hearing. you could make an amendment extending the set aside to the 2040-41 fiscal year. the -- the other proposal you have to add in an additional review in 2030, we haven't yet drafted. we could draft it for the next committee hearing, but with charter amendments, we want you to be voting on something that's written in front of you because they're so difficult to change, so i wouldn't want to come up with that on the fly. >> supervisor yee: that would be my -- i would love to see a 20-year period and have a ten-year evaluation, but that's going to cause a delay in passing this out of committee. i don't know if supervisor kim, if you would have any objections to that? >> supervisor kim: no. so i am making two amendments to the charter today, so i'm expecting a special committee meeting on monday. if the committee so chooses to make that amendment, we can make that. just so you know on page

. >> yes, city attorney jon givner. they can deny appeals from interested parties. so the ordinance cannot remove that appeal authority from the board of appeals. >> and then to also answer your question, supervisor safai. from the businesses that our office has been talking to, the property owner and business are in close conversation, generally, around when they need to vacate the property. and so, for the contractor to get in and do the work. so i feel pretty confident that from those conversations the timing element will work because as we know with a couple of the restaurants, they are knowing six months ahead of time when they have to vacate due to the property owners planning and scheduling with the contractor. >> supervisor a. safai: i guess what i would say through the chair, i guess what i would say, is i want to make sure they aren't waiting. you can't issue the temporary mobile catering permit until they have their seismic retrofit permit in hand, right? so i guess just from a timing perspective, they should be allowed to go through the entire process up