thank you supervisor melgar. i wonder if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the h

thank you supervisor melgar. i wonder if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the h

thank you supervisor melgar. thank you, alex. i appreciate this time to kind of talk through. i think i would like to level set and make sure it's clear. like i'm really speaking to the behavioral health portion of alex's slide. the california children's trust and the engagement they have with the city right now. the target for my presentation today is the behavioral health portion of it. particularly on the f.r.c. side and additional claiming opportunities. but the presentation today, the focus is on what we can do for behavioral health claiming both in mental health and other opportunities. i appreciate the time to speak to it. it's an important, somewhat technical issue. sometimes people are bored by it but i'm always excited to speak to it. and i'm excited. i'm happy to be joined by fara aremond. let's go. here is an overview of the overall neighborhood health budget. it gives the flavor of the spending on the and authentic then on the right is the revenue sources. we're really talking about the medi-cal reim

well, thank you, chair melgar. i would just say i appreciate the space to have the opportunity to talk about this. as you all know, we're working on some of the standards or have worked on some of the standards for safety in the work place or office workers. both of you have been super supportive in your own way. all of us collectively have heard from our workers in their discussions about returning to the workplace. we've all worked tirelessly over the last year within our department of public health to do that in the healthiest way possible. but this conversation and this shifting culture in the office environment i think was one that was important to have. i think maybe what we'll do is maybe not as many presenters, but maybe have a small -- maybe if i can ask the chair to continue this hearing to the call of the chair, we can check back in a few months, maybe as we get into the fall to see where things are and see if there are any adjustments that have been made and maybe we can recheck back in on this conversa

>> present. >> and melgar? melgar, not present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the care takeers of this place as well as all peoples who preside in this traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramatoush aloni community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please place your hand on your heart and join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. on behalf of the boar

>> present. >> and melgar? melgar, not present. mr. president, you have a quorum. >> thank you so much, madam clerk. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unseated ancestral homeland of the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula. as indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition, they have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the care takeers of this place as well as all peoples who preside in this traditional territory. we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. we wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders and relatives of the ramatoush aloni community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. colleagues, please place your hand on your heart and join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. on behalf of the boar

well, thank you, chair melgar. i would just say i appreciate the space to have the opportunity to talk about this. as you all know, we're working on some of the standards or have worked on some of the standards for safety in the work place or office workers. both of you have been super supportive in your own way. all of us collectively have heard from our workers in their discussions about returning to the workplace. we've all worked tirelessly over the last year within our department of public health to do that in the healthiest way possible. but this conversation and this shifting culture in the office environment i think was one that was important to have. i think maybe what we'll do is maybe not as many presenters, but maybe have a small -- maybe if i can ask the chair to continue this hearing to the call of the chair, we can check back in a few months, maybe as we get into the fall to see where things are and see if there are any adjustments that have been made and maybe we can recheck back in on this conversa

thank you supervisor melgar.r if i can have the screen share activated help. that's activated. thank you. so i'd like to begin by acknowledging the many public sector leaders who've made today's presentation possible. in particular, the department of public health, the all children all families coalition, dclyf, hsa and numerous others. and, i'll ask that the elected officials and others listening take a deep breath. i had a mentor who said to me we have the most complicated descriptions for the things we understand the least and there's probably no more winding road and difficult public sector administrative challenge than medi-cade. california devolves the vast majority for understanding and accessing these funds to the local level and it's really complex and difficult. and i will without doing too much on my background, i have directly worked in and built. i've been an emergency social worker, worked in schools, directed and designed mental health services for children. and for seven years, i was the health di

>> second, melgar. >> chairman: seconded by melgar. thank you, commissioner melgar. madam clerk please call the roll. >> clerk: on item 3, approval of minutes minutes. [roll call] >> clerk: the minutes are approved. >> chairman: great. thank you. please call our next item. >> clerk: item 4, state and federal legislation update. this is an action item. >> chairman: and i believe we have mark watts and amber crane. >> good morning, chair and commissioners. pleased to be here and present to you today. today's report, prepared by your staff, recommends support on five items, so there will be an action requested at the end of the presentation. five measures are recommended for support and i'll just briefly go through them. the first one ab43, the assembly chair laura friedman, deals with traffic safety and a number of the current and most recent amendments were by the m.t.a. and the bill deals with local speed setting and providing more flexibility. the bill was listed previously as a watch item, and now the staff is recommending support. a

preview melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, president. thank you supervisor ronen and chan and haney. i did as we spoke earlier today -- i did notice the organization on the press release when it was sent out a few weeks ago. i did call the mayor's office and asked about it in detail. i was assured that the organization footprint on the initiative would be very minimal and only in the portion that is privately funded not publicly funded. after i talked to you supervisor ronen, i did look at the website. i did see all of the things that you pointed out which was a bit surprising to me. i also think that we should have funnel transparency. i'm totally okay with waiting a couple of weeks to make sure that all of our is are dotted and ts are crossed. i wanted to point out that the way that summer programming works as supervisor chan noted well, the funding starts flowing in may. it doesn't get reimbursed until june. because it's on a reimbursement basis. even if we ask on this in a couple of weeks, it's well within the time line for folks to

i am supervisor melgar joined by dean preston and aaron peskin. john carroll is our clerk. i would like to acknowledge sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. mr. clerk, any announcements? >> thank you. to protect the public and board members and city employees, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and community rooms are closed. members are participating to the same extent as if present in the chamber. public comment is available for each item. sfgovtv.org is displacing the comment call in number across the screen. you have an opportunity to speak during the comment via phone by dialing 415-655-0001. following that enter id1874819510. then press pound twice to be connected. you will hear the discussions and you will be in listening mode only. when your item calls up dial star 3. the system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. you may begin comments. best practices call from quiet location. speak clearly and slowly. turndown your television or radio or streaming device. account for time delays you may encounter between life coverage and streaming. if you have writt

supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you, madam clerk. our nation has been -- a safe and just system that protects us all, protects george floyd, his family, my family because it is so extraordinarily rare that we see justice prevail in matters like this, that police were held accountable. george floyd and his family deserve justice, and black people in this country deserve to have a criminal justice system in this country that works for them. we must continue to work to repair, heal, and transform how we as a nation will uphold the sanctity of people's rights and protections. to move forward and create a better world, we must first dismantle these systems, and here in san francisco, let us continue to work on crisis intervention, on deescalation, on community based solutions, on education against violence, on gun control, all these issues that people face. thank you, colleagues, for this time, and thank you, president walton, for your right on words. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor melgar. next is supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin:

my apologies, supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you.ng for supervisor preston to speak. i wanted to say that i have spoken to supervisor preston about this appointment. i support the spirit of this body and the need for prop i to foster like innovation and a new -- come up with new tools for social housing and affordable housing production. i'm disappointed as the composition of this body because it is very heavily male identify skewed. i want to make a point saying that 70% of our nation people living in poverty are women. women are 35% more likely to live in poverty than men. housing in our city is an issue of not having enough money to afford the rent. in looking at new solutions, for how we're going to structure new programs, how we're going to do things differently and come up with social housing solutions, i think it's really important that we have gender equity in the decision-making in the bodies that we are putting forward. we are creating this group from scratch. i was hoping to have that representation. i have spoken to super

supervisor walton, mandelman, chan, peskin, haney, melgar, mar, ronen, preston, all for your support on and co-sponsorship of this important resolution and thank you and hopefully this time around, under the new circumstances, that so many of us have witnessed this will passat the e state level. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor melgar. >> thank you president walton. i wanted to be added as a co-sponsor and we've got it. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor preston. >> thank you press walton. glad to see this back in sack ra men co and really wanted to recognize the really long track record of one of our other colleagues supervisor peskin, just around ellis act evictions trying to reign them in and just appreciating his decades of work on this when i was ellis act inconvictions and he was consist inly really incredible work at the state level by former senator mark leno and including committee of san francisco and union and in particular, which sent huge numbers of tenants to sacramento and busloads of their members turned out and this was a major priority.

i am myrna melgar. do you have any announcements? >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members city employees, the committee room are closed. members will participate remotely. this is taken pursuant to statewide stay-at-home order and all local state and local directives. committee members will attend through video and participate as if they are physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. channel 26, 78 or 99. we are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. opportunities to speak are via by calling 415-655-0001. the meeting id is (187)859-1223. then pound and pound again. when kecked you will hear the discussions -- when connected you will hear the discussion but in listening mode only. dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. call from a quite el location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. alternatively you may submit public comment by e-mailing the land use and transportation clerk. if you submit public

i am myrna melgar. do you have any announcements? >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members city employees, the committee room are closed. members will participate remotely. this is taken pursuant to statewide stay-at-home order and all local state and local directives. committee members will attend through video and participate as if they are physically present. public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. channel 26, 78 or 99. we are streaming the number on the screen. each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. opportunities to speak are via by calling 415-655-0001. the meeting id is (187)859-1223. then pound and pound again. when kecked you will hear the discussions -- when connected you will hear the discussion but in listening mode only. dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. call from a quite el location, speak slowly and turndown your television or radio. alternatively you may submit public comment by e-mailing the land use and transportation clerk. if you submit public

supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. so i have a couple questions. so the first one is as this is a great exexpansion of what summer would usually be i'm wondering if the department is providing any extra support to the c.b.o.s and, you know, in terms of technical assistance and training and that also is for all of the young people that we're hiring, all of the high school folks that are going to be working in the summer programs and also rec and park. >> through the chair, that is an excellent question. thank you, supervisor melgar. we actually are planning to do intensive training two weeks prior to summer programming. so by mid may, we are setting up trainings for all providers, but mandated for dcyf funded agencies, but open to all providers, trainings, integration of stem, intercurriculum, trainings around interracial studies curriculum. as well as trauma-informed care and signs and symptoms of mental health issues because we fully once again recognize that a lot of our young people might come into these programs with issues and fears of their o

supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you, supervisor peskin, for introducing this resolution and for having consistently supported this cause to bring attention of the world and for the last 14 years of introducing resolutions. yet to this day, there continues to be a continuance of denial by the turkish and azerbaijan government that this ever happened. we have seen the vandalism and the hatred and how that has caused fear and insecurity for the community and for the kids who attend the armenian school and their families? our places of refuge should not be places of fear, and we must consistently condemn these acts, and we need to remind ourselves and remind the world that this kind of hatred will continue to rise if we don't at least acknowledge the mistakes and the terrible things that have happened in the past. defending human rights is not only a global issue but it is one that we must embed locally. this sunday, the armenian association of america bay area chapter is organizing a protest

melgar. madam clerk, please call the roll on the motion. >> clerk: [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this motion to amend passes. please call the roll on item 14 as amended. >> clerk: supervisor haney -- [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clear, please call item number 15. >> clerk: a resolution to adopt the city's 5-year information and communication technology plan for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 pursuant to administrative code section 22a.6. >> president walton: please call the roll for item number 15. >> clerk: [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call item 16. >> clerk: item 16 is an ordinance to aim the planning code to designate 1830 sutter street, also known as japans ywca the issei women's building and to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: please call t

melgar. madam clerk, please call the roll on the motion. >> clerk: [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this motion to amend passes. please call the roll on item 14 as amended. >> clerk: supervisor haney -- [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. madam clear, please call item number 15. >> clerk: a resolution to adopt the city's 5-year information and communication technology plan for fiscal years 2022 through 2026 pursuant to administrative code section 22a.6. >> president walton: please call the roll for item number 15. >> clerk: [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call item 16. >> clerk: item 16 is an ordinance to aim the planning code to designate 1830 sutter street, also known as japans ywca the issei women's building and to make the appropriate findings. >> president walton: please call t

thank you, supervisor melgar, for calling attention to this important issue. >> supervisor melgar: thankmar. i'm so excited to be in front of your committee for the first time. thank you supervisor stefani and haney for providing us the opportunity to hold this hearing. what i am hoping to achieve today is for the board and the public to gain a better understanding of the city's medi-cal reimbursement practices and how we are not taking advantage of every available state and federal funding source for mental health services. at the board, there has been a lot of attention focused on the mental health crisis for many of our residents and the monumental efforts under way with mental health sf, thank you supervisor ronen and haney. i think we can all admit that after a harrowing year, we are facing a parallel pandemic with a mental health crisis. for all of us maintaining mental, physical, and social well being. how we as a society, we will address our collective trauma. we are receiving increasing reporting of young people visiting the hospital due to suicidal thoughts or suicidal iduation

and i know supervisor melgar was going to be here with us. is she a sponsor? what is her involvement with that? i wasn't entirely clear? >> or is she just supporting? >> she is a sponsor, chair haney. >> chairman: okay. got it. great. all right. with that, any other questions or comments from colleagues? i am going to make a motion to accept the amendments for this item. can we have a roll call on that, please. >> clerk: vice chair safai? >> aye. >> clerk: member mar? >> aye. >> clerk: chair haney? >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chairman: and now i want to make a motion to recommend this item to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. can i have a roll call, please. >> clerk: vice chair safai? >> aye. >> clerk: member mar? >> aye. >> clerk: chair haney? >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chairman: this will go to the full board with a positive recommendation. we'll look forward to seeing these out on the street soon enough, as soon as possible. >> thank you. >> chairman: with that, madam clerk, are there any more items bef

>> aye. >> clerk: commissioner mar. >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner melgar? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner preston? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner safai? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner walton? >> aye. >> clerk: we have 11 ayes. >> clerk: item 11, san francisco transportation recovery plan. this is an information item. >> chairman: well, i believe we have director tomlin and julie criston, director of transit, and tom mcguire, director of the streets commission. and i believe we're going to start with commissioner chan. >> thank you, chair mandelman and colleagues. back in february, i called for this hearing, and i really appreciate chair mandelman for scheduling it, and for all of you to be joining this hearing because as we begin to recover from the pandemic and we open our economy, really our communities on the west side, we really need to see a concrete plan from sfcta showing it is safe and efficient to get from point "a" to point "b." we a

>> aye. >> clerk: commissioner mar. >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner melgar? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner peskin? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner preston? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner ronen? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner safai? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner stefani? >> aye. >> clerk: commissioner walton? >> aye. >> clerk: we have 11 ayes. >> clerk: item 11, san francisco transportation recovery plan. this is an information item. >> chairman: well, i believe we have director tomlin and julie criston, director of transit, and tom mcguire, director of the streets commission. and i believe we're going to start with commissioner chan. >> thank you, chair mandelman and colleagues. back in february, i called for this hearing, and i really appreciate chair mandelman for scheduling it, and for all of you to be joining this hearing because as we begin to recover from the pandemic and we open our economy, really our communities on the west side, we really need to see a concrete plan from sfcta showing it is safe and efficient to get from point "a" to point "b." we a

>> second, melgar. >> chairman: seconded my melgar. please call the roll. >> clerk: yes, on item 4, approval of minutes. [roll call] >> clerk: there are nine ayes. the minutes are approved. >> chairman: great. thank you. please call items 5 through 9. >> clerk: items 5 through 9, these items were approved and they're now before the board for final approval. staff is not presentering, prest they are available for questions. >> chairman: i do not see any questions from my colleagues. so is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> i move that we approve the consent agenda. >> i second. >> chairman: thank you, commissioners, melgar and ronen. please call the roll. >> clerk: on the consent agenda. [roll call] >> clerk: we have nine ayes, the agenda has final approval. >> chairman: thank you. madam clerk, please call item 10. >> clerk: item 10, for final approval, state and federal legislation update. this is an action item. >> chairman: so the board approved and recommended four positions on five state bills on first street at our a

supervisor melgar? >> thank you, chair mar.i just wanted to say thank you so much for calling this hearing. our districts are next to each other, and we share a couple of commercial districts that have seen a rise in violence. we, a few weeks ago, had a violent incident involving an older asian veteran that got in the news. but what didn't get in the news was the lack of support there was for him from veteran services, from just folks who should have been there in terms of community support. so i want to thank you you most of all for your leadership and your approach to uplift community voices,and to leverage the strength that we have in terms of culture and language and community support to tackle this issue, and to build out an infrastructure to support victims. and also to proactively support people's safety based on community. thank you so much. [audio breaking up] making sure we can support and help fund the efforts of community to do all of the things that you listed. so thank you very much for your leadership. >> chairma

supervisor melgar? >> supervisor melgar: thank you supervisor mar for calling out names. i really appreciate that you did that. colleagues, today i am announcing that i'm introducing a request to the city attorney to work on the ordinance at looking at our policies. if this pandemic has eliminated anything it's the great gender equity across economic background that women tend to carry burden of child care, elder care and home care. we are in desperate need of normalizing. our workplaces has never fully been parent friendly. i hope we can get past prior political hurdles. the u.s. remains one of the few countries in the world without any national parental pay parental leave policy. as of 2018, only 17% of u.s. private sector workers had access to paid family leave through their employers. many parents don't take advantage of their full leave. we need to support parents particularly mothers. here in california and in san francisco, we have made some strides and stronger peoples for all parents and for women, expanding paid leave, sick leave and adding lactation rooms at ci

we have, i believe, supervisor melgar may be here with us and janet martinson from sfmta to present on this item. >> mr. chair, i believe mr. garenton from m.t.a. will be presenting. >> chairman: this is a wrong set of folks on my script. welcome, mr. chang, and i'll turn it over to you. >> good morning. let me share my screen. can you see the power point? >> chairman: yes. >> okay. great. thank you. hi. good morning, supervisors haney, supervisor safai, and supervisor mar. i'm with the sfmta. today i'm here to present an item to seek your approval to purchase the 32-foot motor coach replacement. okay. next slide. sfmta operates one of the cleanest fleets in the country. over half of our fleet are zero emission vehicles, and these are the trolleys, historic street cars, and, of course, our iconic cable cars as well. they are operating with the latest hybrid technologies and using renewal diesel. in this pie chart i'm showing, this is the emission gas for the greenhouse gas in 2018. transportation is 45% contributing to the greenhouse, and for sfmta, for our vehicle, we only contribute

i am myrna melgar. do you have any announcements? >> yes, due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect board members city employees, the committee room are closed. members will participate remotely. this is taken pursuant to statewide stay-at-homeer

first i would like to extend my appreciation to supervisor melgar for introducing this and supervisor safai for cfo co-sponsoring this item. this is for a grant in $285,000 that will allow us to expand our clean slate program by 50%. we are thrilled that we were awarded this grant as it enables us to help more people to make positive changes in their lives. people associate the public defender's office with being fighters, and we will also continue to be fighters, but much of what we do is also healing and building. we like to think of ourselves by the mantra: we fight, we heal, we build. the clean slate program helps the san francisco community by clearing criminal records that are barriers to education, barriers to employment, and barriers to housing. we get clients connected to employment. it all offers restorative justice by getting san franciscans out of the shadows of their criminal records and ending their treatment as second-class citizens. many are discriminated against once the legal system has labeled them as criminals, and that often leads to denial of public benefits, den

you got safe houses there but how was india's government in general treating those who have fled melgar well there is a divide between the national government and the states blunderings young lad because the indian government has put pressure on issued and by 3 do all these deeds asking them to do in a way to get lots of sound up to your t.v. along the border trying to seal it it was also fun to watch you invited the aussie to quit late he just uses a sense of duty would you say being into india but this was quickly when john to the scene in because of the backlash he does from the steve needling than mine which have to tell you that we didn't live down my diet as well as she died had insisted that they cannot stand by and watch one of them bored into prime minister one of the things we cannot just leave and watch but it's such violence is breaking out in our own backyard feeling much has to be blocked now and. india has issued statements condemning the violence in myanmar but not the coup itself what is the indian government's position on the military junta in myanmar. my diary full ar

before we move forward, can we have a motion to excuse supervisor melgar for this meeting. i see supervisor peskin's hand so moved. madam clerk, please call the role. >> clerk: on the motion as stated, supervisor chan. [roll call] you have three ayes. >> chairman: thank you. the motion passes. madam clerk please call the first item. >> clerk: yes. item number one is extending six months and modifying interim zoning controls enacted in resolution no 430-19 and 539-19 to require a conditional use authorization and specify fied findings. members of the public to comment on this item call (415) 655-0001 and the i.d. number is 1872080203. the system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. please wait until we get to public comment and you will hear a system prompt noting that you have been unmuted. mr. vice chair. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. this item was previously amended on our meeting on march 22nd. and we're joined by mr. billlif from supervisor mandelman's staff. is there anything you would like to share? >> no. i'm available for any questions you hav

i did not check in with commissioner boggess, but i did check in with supervisor melgar this morning.nd i also had a chance to check in with maria sue, the director of department of children, family, and youth in considering both experience and proper diversity of the group for seat 3, the group is leaning towards rand carol hill. but i would love to hear from the applicants before offering you my suggestions. >> chairman: perfect. if you're sticking around, we'll stick with you. and, with that, why don't we do the applicants in order that they appear on the agenda. i believe that we received an e-mail from leslie hu and i believe marcus wong is in school right now. but i think everything else is here. if ms. hu is not here, why don't we go to rafael picazo for seat 2. >> good morning, supervisor peskin. my name is rafael picazo. i'm the current applicant for district 2. born and raised in san francisco. i live in alameda now because of gentrification. but everything i do, i do for san francisco. i've worked here for 38 years in the school district. i'm an advocate for the people of t

kudos to supervisor melgar for stepping up and being part of the board and also supervise stefani. we need two more supervisors to step up. the passion of free muni, this is where it starts. it's a big transportation provider from the north. buses and ferries. we need people to represent san francisco and step up for decisions that will be made. people are getting in their cars and driving across the bridge. while services at a minimum, we heard that they don't want to go into the towns anymore. we need people to step up. we are short two supervisors and short mayor's appointment. we need san francisco to be fully represented. we see what sonoma put forward with mayor folly. they knew he had allegations but they still put him forward. check the article and the press democrat on that one. hopefully the passing for transit and get some people -- supervisor peskin served on the board and president walton served on the board. it's really telling. hopefully we can get people to step up. people of color to represent san francisco. this is an important decision to be made. >> clerk: thank

and i know supervisor melgar was going to be here with us. is she a sponsor? what is her involvement with that? i wasn't entirely clear? >> or is she just supporting? >> she is a sponsor, chair haney. >> chairman: okay. got it. great. all right. with that, any other questions or comments from colleagues? i am going to make a motion to accept the amendments for this item. can we have a roll call on that, please. >> clerk: vice chair safai? >> aye. >> clerk: member mar? >> aye. >> clerk: chair haney? >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chairman: and now i want to make a motion to recommend this item to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. can i have a roll call, please. >> clerk: vice chair safai? >> aye. >> clerk: member mar? >> aye. >> clerk: chair haney? >> aye. >> clerk: there are three ayes. >> chairman: this will go to the full board with a positive recommendation. we'll look forward to seeing these out on the street soon enough, as soon as possible. >> thank you. >> chairman: with that, madam clerk, are there any more items bef

i actually had a conversation with supervisor melgar specifically about this specific topic of so the shared space. but nonetheless. there's concern about being but at least on the phone with me she told me that she was looking including raising the height that a sign could be allowed to put so currently right now there's a very specific height for signs are allowed to be so she expressed some interest in changing the planning codes so that retail shops could have signs a bit higher. wouldn't necessarily be shot by the shared space. i think the larger point i think is, you know it's detailed specific policy that can address what's happening in a particular neighborhood and can still make the policy applicable citywide without it being 16,000 pages. some of this has to be deferred down to the local level, but the top level concern that you're raving here doesn't have a shared space i can just tell you that through all my conversations with shared spaces, that's very much a concern and that people are talking about it including the chair of the land use committee and i'm confident it's

i'm supervisor dean preston and connie chan who will be substituting for mayor melgar