i'm norman yee, the president of the board of supervisors.ou know, this celebration will not be complete unless the board of supervisors comes up here and really gives this group a big welcome. hello there! and by the way, happy lunar new year. [speaking chinese language] >> president yee: i want to say this is a real important celebration. i've been to every one of them. this is now my eighth one. why is it so important here? because we know in our districts that without the volunteers, the neighborhood groups, the business people, and everybody who cleans up the street in partnership with the city, that we continue to make our city great. is that right? yeah. and i want to say that we will continue this effort because without the people in the community, this city is not a city. it's empty. but with the people in the community, we are really blessed that we all live in san francisco, the best city in the world! thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, president yee, representing the board of supervisors. we

first, i want to thank board president norman yee and budget chair supervisor sandy fewer to continuing to be strong and collaborative leaders. over the coming weeks, we will work with both of them and the board of supervisors to finalize this budget so that we can continue to deliver for the people of san francisco. i want to thank controller ben rosen field for the work he and his team has put in as well as all the city departments who worked to find ways for us to close this deficit. finally, i want to thank my budget team. led by ashley golfenburgering. san francisco is lucky to have these two strong smart women leading this challenging process. now at this time, i want to introduce ashley who's going to give us a short presentation on our budget. >> good afternoon, thank you mayor breed. i'm the mayor's acting budget director. i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the

i'm norman yee, the president of the board of supervisors. know, this celebration will not be complete unless the board of supervisors comes up here and really gives this group a big welcome. hello there! and by the way, happy lunar new year. [speaking chinese language] >> president yee: i want to say this is a real important celebration. i've been to every one of them. this is now my eighth one. why is it so important here? because we know in our districts that without the volunteers, the neighborhood groups, the business people, and everybody who cleans up the street in partnership with the city, that we continue to make our city great. is that right? yeah. and i want to say that we will continue this effort because without the people in the community, this city is not a city. it's empty. but with the people in the community, we are really blessed that we all live in san francisco, the best city in the world! thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, president yee, representing the board of supervisors. we'r

first, i want to thank board president norman yee and budget chair supervisor sandy fewer to continuing be strong and collaborative leaders. over the coming weeks, we will work with both of them and the board of supervisors to finalize this budget so that we can continue to deliver for the people of san francisco. i want to thank controller ben rosen field for the work he and his team has put in as well as all the city departments who worked to find ways for us to close this deficit. finally, i want to thank my budget team. led by ashley golfenburgering. san francisco is lucky to have these two strong smart women leading this challenging process. now at this time, i want to introduce ashley who's going to give us a short presentation on our budget. >> good afternoon, thank you mayor breed. i'm the mayor's acting budget director. i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the pr

i am commissioner norman yee and i will be chairing today's meeting. i'm joined by vice chair commissioner stefani and commissioner peskin. the committee clerk is britney milton. and will you please call the role? >> yes, commission peskin? >> commissioner peskin:% present. >> vice chair stefani: present. >> chair yee: present. >> we have quorum. >> on behalf of the committee i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who records each of our meetings and makes the transcript available to the public online. clerk, madame clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes. i would like to make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be -- item via telephone by calling 1-415-655-0001. and when prompted, entering access code, 146 771 7365 # #. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. to make public comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. when it's your turn, you'll hear your line is unmuted. when the two minutes are up, we'll move on to the next caller. ca

i'm norman yee, the president of the board of supervisors.s celebration will not be complete unless the board of supervisors comes up here and really gives this group a big welcome. hello there! and by the way, happy lunar new year. [speaking chinese language] >> president yee: i want to say this is a real important celebration. i've been to every one of them. this is now my eighth one. why is it so important here? because we know in our districts that without the volunteers, the neighborhood groups, the business people, and everybody who cleans up the street in partnership with the city, that we continue to make our city great. is that right? yeah. and i want to say that we will continue this effort because without the people in the community, this city is not a city. it's empty. but with the people in the community, we are really blessed that we all live in san francisco, the best city in the world! thank you very much. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, president yee, representing the board of supervisors. we're going to

norman yee's term will be up. he will be off the board. there are number of people leaving the board. sandra fewer is chair of the budget committee, she's leaving the board. in cases, new board presidents decides what committees will be established to begin with. that means almost anything that you're talking about now cannot be aimed at a specific committee or specific membership of the board. you don't know who's going to be there. i think that needs to be put front and center in our planning. >> chair ambrose: unless director pelham, unless you have further comments. i do want to entertain a motion to authorize the staff to proceed with the policy prioritization plan item, subject to further direction from the committee as we move forward in this coming quarter if i can ask if there's a motion along those lines and a second. then i want to call for public comment. commissioner smith is that first and second? >> commissioner smith: i'm seeking to amend your motion. >> chair ambrose: i didn't make the motion. i was inviting somebody make

first, i want to thank board president norman yee and budget chair supervisor sandy fewer to continuing be strong and collaborative leaders. over the coming weeks, we will work with both of them and the board of supervisors to finalize this budget so that we can continue to deliver for the people of san francisco. i want to thank controller ben rosen field for the work he and his team has put in as well as all the city departments who worked to find ways for us to close this deficit. finally, i want to thank my budget team. led by ashley golfenburgering. san francisco is lucky to have these two strong smart women leading this challenging process. now at this time, i want to introduce ashley who's going to give us a short presentation on our budget. >> good afternoon, thank you mayor breed. i'm the mayor's acting budget director. i like to thank the rest of the mayor's budget office team who worked so hard to put this budget together under mayor breed's leadership. today i'm happy to walk you through the details of the mayor's fiscal year 2021 and 2 21-22 budget. the total size of the pr

they partnered with the district 7 supervisor norman yee to have the first ocean avenue lunar new year celebration. oewd believes that the c.b.d. though could benefit from a review to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the organization to ensure that it's operating at the highest capacity and to have outreach to determine the direction of the organization should it be renewed. oewd believes that the organization should have a strategic plan to look at the short term and the mid-term and the long-term needs of the district and to focus on ensuring the management structure is effective and including the board/staff relationships and engaging the effectiveness of four c.b.d. programs and to provide recommendations on how to be improved. and improving the c.b.d.'s overall effectiveness and the respect in the broader ocean avenue community. and, four, identify the strategies to ensure the long-term financial stability of the organization, especially related to non assessment resources. the c.b.d. has sought an early renewal and oewd say to explore the expansion avenues, up to the ocean a

they partnered with the district 7 supervisor norman yee to have the first ocean avenue lunar new year celebration. oewd believes that the c.b.d. though could benefit from a review to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the organization to ensure that it's operating at the highest capacity and to have outreach to determine the direction of the organization should it be renewed. oewd believes that the organization should have a strategic plan to look at the short term and the mid-term and the long-term needs of the district and to focus on ensuring the management structure is effective and including the board/staff relationships and engaging the effectiveness of four c.b.d. programs and to provide recommendations on how to be improved. and improving the c.b.d.'s overall effectiveness and the respect in the broader ocean avenue community. and, four, identify the strategies to ensure the long-term financial stability of the organization, especially related to non assessment resources. the c.b.d. has sought an early renewal and oewd say to explore the expansion avenues, up to the ocean a

so there, alongside with the president of the board, norman yee, had a task force to try to get a numberf people together to be thinking about what is it that the city can be doing now to start planning for our economic recovery, to have it successful for the mid-term but also for the long term going forward. so we have a group of people who are just amazing, people who are contributing to our communities. so we've had large and small businesses. businesses from a cross-section of different industries and services, from different neighborhoods. we had academia who are part of this task force as well as different foundations and profit service providers who are all part of the ecosystem that makes san francisco special. so the task force is really meaning to pull together the thinking about how the city could help us to facilitate going back to a reopening scenario, but how to have different scenarios and policies to ensure that we can be successful during an interim period as long for the long term. >> great. now we've all heard about the economic impacts of the covid-19 had across the c

norman yee is my supervisor. and i'm here to not add anything different or additional to all of the comments made in support of the project and against the appeal, but rather to offer a little bit of historic perspective. i used to be on the planning commission in the late 1990s at a time when supervisor peskin appeared before us on behalf of the telegraph hill dwellers, and i think, if i might be so bold, that he would agree with me that this is the type of project that his organization was in support of, particularly one that has gone through four years of the process and had hearings before the planning commission where the planning commission raised issues, and the project sponsor, again, in conjunction with the neighbors and the relevant stakeholders involved addressed those issues so where the planning commission unanimously approved the project. it's time to call an end to the process. i'm still involved in real estate 21 years after i resigned from the planning commission, and san francisco is seeing a hu

they partnered with the district 7 supervisor norman yee to have the first ocean avenue lunar new year celebration. oewd believes that the c.b.d. though could benefit from a review to evaluate the overall effectiveness of the organization to ensure that it's operating at the highest capacity and to have outreach to determine the direction of the organization should it be renewed. oewd believes that the organization should have a strategic plan to look at the short term and the mid-term and the long-term needs of the district and to focus on ensuring the management structure is effective and including the board/staff relationships and engaging the effectiveness of four c.b.d. programs and to provide recommendations on how to be improved. and improving the c.b.d.'s overall effectiveness and the respect in the broader ocean avenue community. and, four, identify the strategies to ensure the long-term financial stability of the organization, especially related to non assessment resources. the c.b.d. has sought an early renewal and oewd say to explore the expansion avenues, up to the ocean a

and spread misinformation and now city attorney office to with hold information from supervisor norman ia yee. it wasn't until sf attorney showed earl your court rulings that contra districted the p.o.a. that they were able to move forward. a vote to hold in closed session is a vote for tony montoya and a vote against the people of san francisco. we need all discussions regarding the p.o.a. to happen in open sex. thsession.it's a matter of publ. thank you. >> i'll take the next caller. this is public comment online item 2 only. good evening, caller. you have two minutes. >> conduct all negotiations in discussions regarding the p.o.a. including today's in open session. >> this is public comment for line item 2. >> i have a previous opportunity to (inaudible) the chief's report. i had an interaction with the chief today. i asked him -- >> this is public comment regarding online item 2 only. line item 2. 2. [please stand by]