preston preston. present supervisor. ronen. ronen present supervisor. safai safai. present supervisor. stephanie. stephanie not present. supervisor walton. walton. present. mr. president, there is a quorum. thank you. colleagues. can we have a motion to excuse supervisors melgar and stephanie made by supervisor mandelman seconded by supervisor walton. and we will take that without objection. madam clerk, do we have any communications or announcements? yes mr. president. the board welcomes all interested in this meeting to attend in person here in the legislature chamber room 250 at city hall. the this meeting is airing live on tv's channel 26 or you may view the live stream at sf nsf.gov tv.org. our office did not receive a request for a language interpretation today, so we do not have interpreters here. but as a reminder, if you anticipate a future need for them, please call (415) 554-5184. at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. mr. president, that concludes my communication on. thank you. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula, as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions , the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests, we recognize that 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 ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. madam clerk, could you please call the first item? item number one is a charter amendment to provide that the mayor may disapprove in writing certain mta proposals that must be part of mta a's proposed budget or budget amendment. add an election to be held on march 5th, 2024. supervisor sapphire. thank you, mr. president. thank you, colleagues, for taking time to come in today for this special board of supervisors meeting. as you all know, we've received thousands of written public comments opposing the mta's late night and extended parking meter on sundays. as it stands now, the city charter provides that the mayor appoints all members of the sfmta board of directors, subject to the board of supervisors approval who have sole authority to set transit fares and meter rates without mayoral approval. further, the mta board of directors delegated sole authority to the director of transportation to set parking meter rates. operations and time limits, effectively removing any public process from from these changes. my proposed charter amendment would have provided the ability for the mayor to block fare and parking meter increases along with fares. the intent of this charter amendment was to provide san franciscans with accountability from an elected official for the decisions that affect their everyday transportation needs and calls out exactly what happens over the course of time with the mayoral power and their influence over this process. but upon further discussion with transit advocates and a commitment from the sfmta that they would halt their original plan to extend parking meter hours and days of operation. i'm withdrawing the proposed charter amendment that would have provided mayoral accountability over the mayor. sfmta fares and increases in parking meter rates and hours. small businesses and working families need time to recover from the years of the economic crisis from covid. and i'm committed to this ongoing engagement with thoughtful conversations with san francisco on issues that affect their everyday transportation needs. so, mr. president, i would like to make a motion to table item number one motion made by supervisor safai. is there a second for that motion seconded by supervisor ronen and on the motion made and seconded a roll call, please. madam clerk. mr. president, we need to take public comment on this. is there any public comment at. currently the unelected department head of sfmta has the authority to extend parking meter hours, raise rates, raise muni fares cetera with no oversight from elected officials and no accountable to voters. this proposed charter amendment would change that, placing the authority back on elected leaders, namely the mayor. in 2007, san francisco voters approved proposition a, which granted the sfmta exclusive authority over changes to all operation fees. the following year, the sfmta board of directors delegated the sole authority to set parking meter maximum rates operation zones and time limits to the director of transports ation. this is ridiculous as this is a huge governing item for san francisco and there is no way that it should rest solely in the hands of jeffrey tumlin on transportation fees. greatly impact the lives of residents and businesses, particularly those in lower income areas. when fees need to be changed. this decision should be made by our mayor who can take all factors and constituents into consideration. thank you. thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment on this item. public comment is closed. thank you for your comments, madam clerk. on the motion made and seconded a roll call. please on item one, supervisor chan chen i supervisor dorsey i dorsey i supervisor engardio engardio i supervisor mandelman mandelman i supervisor peskin i peskin i supervisor preston preston an i supervisor ronen ronen i supervisor safai a safai i supervisor walton walton i there are nine eyes the motion passes and the item is tabled and madam clerk, i would like unless anybody has any thing, i would just like to adjourn today's meeting in the memory of tina. tina willis silver. sylvia excuse me, who was a longtime resident of chinatown in immigrating from samoa to the penguin in housing projects some 30 years ago, where she raised her six children and grandchildren and rose to be the president of the penguin residents improvement association. prior to, i believe, the first and only non-chinese or asian resident to hold that role. and while it wasn't her place of birth, she considered chinatown her home and cared deeply for it. and that's why even after her son in passing in samoa on october 13th, her family made sure to bring her back to san francisco for a proper farewell. she leaves behind three generations right here in san francisco. may she rest in peace. ar

preston preston. present supervisor. ronen. ronen present supervisor. safai safai. present supervisor. stephanie. stephanie not present. supervisor walton. walton. present. mr. president, there is a quorum. thank you. colleagues. can we have a motion to excuse supervisors melgar and stephanie made by supervisor mandelman seconded by supervisor walton. and we will take that without objection. madam clerk, do we have any communications or announcements? yes mr. president. the board welcomes all interested in this meeting to attend in person here in the legislature chamber room 250 at city hall. the this meeting is airing live on tv's channel 26 or you may view the live stream at sf nsf.gov tv.org. our office did not receive a request for a language interpretation today, so we do not have interpreters here. but as a reminder, if you anticipate a future need for them, please call (415) 554-5184. at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. mr. president, that concludes my communication on. thank you. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ramaytush ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the san francisco peninsula, as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions , the ramaytush ohlone have never ceded lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory as guests, we recognize that 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 ramaytush ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. 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. madam clerk, could you please call the first item? item number one is a charter amendment to provide that the mayor may disapprove in writing certain mta proposals that must be part of mta a's proposed budget or budget amendment. add an election to be held on march 5th, 2024. supervisor sapphire. thank you, mr. president. thank you, colleagues, for taking time to come in today for this special board of supervisors meeting. as you all know, we've received thousands of written public comments opposing the mta's late night and extended parking meter on sundays. as it stands now, the city charter provides that the mayor appoints all members of the sfmta board of directors, subject to the board of supervisors approval who have sole authority to set transit fares and meter rates without mayoral approval. further, the mta board of directors delegated sole authority to the director of transportation to set parking meter rates. operations and time limits, effectively removing any public process from from these changes. my proposed charter amendment would have provided the ability for the mayor to block fare and parking meter increases along with fares. the intent of this charter amendment was to provide san franciscans with accountability from an elected official for the decisions that affect their everyday transportation needs and calls out exactly what happens over the course of time with the mayoral power and their influence over this process. but upon further discussion with transit advocates and a commitment from the sfmta that they would halt their original plan to extend parking meter hours and days of operation. i'm withdrawing the proposed charter amendment that would have provided mayoral accountability over the mayor. sfmta fares and increases in parking meter rates and hours. small businesses and working families need time to recover from the years of the economic crisis from covid. and i'm committed to this ongoing engagement with thoughtful conversations with san francisco on issues that affect their everyday transportation needs. so, mr. president, i would like to make a motion to table item number one motion made by supervisor safai. is there a second for that motion seconded by supervisor ronen and on the motion made and seconded a roll call, please. madam clerk. mr. president, we need to take public comment on this. is there any public comment at. currently the unelected department head of sfmta has the authority to extend parking meter hours, raise rates, raise muni fares cetera with no oversight from elected officials and no accountable to voters. this proposed charter amendment would change that, placing the authority back on elected leaders, namely the mayor. in 2007, san francisco voters approved proposition a, which granted the sfmta exclusive authority over changes to all operation fees. the following year, the sfmta board of directors delegated the sole authority to set parking meter maximum rates operation zones and time limits to the director of transports ation. this is ridiculous as this is a huge governing item for san francisco and there is no way that it should rest solely in the hands of jeffrey tumlin on transportation fees. greatly impact the lives of residents and businesses, particularly those in lower income areas. when fees need to be changed. this decision should be made by our mayor who can take all factors and constituents into consideration. thank you. thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment on this item. public comment is closed. thank you for your comments, madam clerk. on the motion made and seconded a roll call. please on item one, supervisor chan chen i supervisor dorsey i dorsey i supervisor engardio engardio i supervisor mandelman mandelman i supervisor peskin i peskin i supervisor preston preston an i supervisor ronen ronen i supervisor safai a safai i supervisor walton walton i there are nine eyes the motion passes and the item is tabled and madam clerk, i would like unless anybody has any thing, i would just like to adjourn today's meeting in the memory of tina. tina willis silver. sylvia excuse me, who was a longtime resident of chinatown in immigrating from samoa to the penguin in housing projects some 30 years ago, where she raised her six children and grandchildren and rose to be the president of the penguin residents improvement association. prior to, i believe, the first and only non-chinese or asian resident to hold that role. and while it wasn't her place of birth, she considered chinatown her home and cared deeply for it. and that's why even after her son in passing in samoa on october 13th, her family made sure to bring her back to san francisco for a proper farewell. she leaves behind three generations right here in san francisco. may she rest in peace. ar

preston. >> aye. >> preston, aye. supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor sa fa see. fai. >> aye. and supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> there are supervisor walton? >> on item 24, this is the ballot sim mrikation committee appointments. >> aye. >> and walton, aye. >> the motion a is proved. >> i will just state for the record, there are 10 ayes. >> madam clerk, can you go to the special board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole. >> yes, items 19 through 21 together, con priced a special order at 3:00 p.m., item 19 is the public hearing of the board to convene the committee of a whole today. to consider item 21 which is a charter amendment to amend the charter of city of san francisco to provide the mayor. must be part of sfm proposed budget or budget amendment such as fares and maximum rights and net expansion of hours or days meter operation on an election to be held. and item 20 is the motion to mote fie the amount of time required under board rule 2.2, 2.27 before the first appearance on the board's agenda and the order of submission to provide that the mayor may disagree at an election to be held on march 5th, 2024. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, as you know this will perform the process for changes sfmta fares and meter rates and hours and days of operation for those meters. many working families and others that rely on public transportation in our city. expressed deep concern there was a halt, mayor intervened. most recently there was conversation of extending parking hours and again, the mayor intervened sfmta board is completely appointed by the mayor and what we do is call out the process that happens in realtime. the mayor, is completely appointed board has afforded their authority to executive director. takes the direction from the mayor and city of san francisco. last week in response to feedback, we made a few amendments intended to target the policy of dis approval towards increase fares and hours and days of operation rather than approval. with worked with advocates on that, something that was also conversation around, changes versus increases something that supervisor preston and others had asked for in case of the future, there may be a desire to work with few money' city wide. we heard who would be affected by the lack of ability when it comes to this decision making and wanting to know who in offense and in the city, they make the ultimate decision. that's really what it's about. i'm not going to spend too much time reiterating today. i know there are some members that want to comment, i'll conclude and have more later after we have public comment. >> supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, president peskin. i have concern with the policy and process on this charter amendment. first on the policy. twice in the last quarter century in 1999 and pop significance a, the voters adopted measures that sought. this moves us in the opposite direction, that agency, this proposal very much feels to me like a solution in search of a problem. needlessly and in many ways inserts the mayor in a process that the mayor is already a paster, as the city and county chief executiv

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preston. >> aye. >> preston, aye. supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor sa fa see. fai. >> aye. and supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> there are supervisor walton? >> on item 24, this is the ballot sim mrikation committee appointments. >> aye. >> and walton, aye. >> the motion a is proved. >> i will just state for the record, there are 10 ayes. >> madam clerk, can you go to the special board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole. >> yes, items 19 through 21 together, con priced a special order at 3:00 p.m., item 19 is the public hearing of the board to convene the committee of a whole today. to consider item 21 which is a charter amendment to amend the charter of city of san francisco to provide the mayor. must be part of sfm proposed budget or budget amendment such as fares and maximum rights and net expansion of hours or days meter operation on an election to be held. and item 20 is the motion to mote fie the amount of time required under board rule 2.2, 2.27 before the first appearance on the board's agenda and the order of submission to provide that the mayor may disagree at an election to be held on march 5th, 2024. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, as you know this will perform the process for changes sfmta fares and meter rates and hours and days of operation for those meters. many working families and others that rely on public transportation in our city. expressed deep concern there was a halt, mayor intervened. most recently there was conversation of extending parking hours and again, the mayor intervened sfmta board is completely appointed by the mayor and what we do is call out the process that happens in realtime. the mayor, is completely appointed board has afforded their authority to executive director. takes the direction from the mayor and city of san francisco. last week in response to feedback, we made a few amendments intended to target the policy of dis approval towards increase fares and hours and days of operation rather than approval. with worked with advocates on that, something that was also conversation around, changes versus increases something that supervisor preston and others had asked for in case of the future, there may be a desire to work with few money' city wide. we heard who would be affected by the lack of ability when it comes to this decision making and wanting to know who in offense and in the city, they make the ultimate decision. that's really what it's about. i'm not going to spend too much time reiterating today. i know there are some members that want to comment, i'll conclude and have more later after we have public comment. >> supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, president peskin. i have concern with the policy and process on this charter amendment. first on the policy. twice in the last quarter century in 1999 and pop significance a, the voters adopted measures that sought. this moves us in the opposite direction, that agency, this proposal very much feels to me like a solution in search of a problem. needlessly and in many ways inserts the mayor in a process that the mayor is already a paster, as the city and county chief executiv

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preston. is there a second? moved by preston and second by commissioner williams. please call the roll. >> on item 2, preston, aye. williams, aye. fielder, aye. three ayes. >> alright. madam clerk, please call item 3. >> just to clarify, the minutes are approved. item 3 is update on midtomorrow park apartment municipal housing management study. >> we'll now hear from lafco consultant fernando mar tee and if you can please keep your presentation to 10 minutes that will be appreciated. >> thank you. i have a power point presentation if you can make that available for sfgovtv. thank you commissioners. my name is fernando marti. fantastic to see you here and thank you for selecting our team to work on this project over the next 6 to 8 months. our project team is--if i can get to the next slide on here. there we go. steve suzuki is architect with asian neighborhood design. myself fernando marti, community planner and engineer team of triangle engineering and [indiscernible] doing the structural and mechanical and plumbing and electrical study. we applied for this knowing a bit of history of midtown park apartment

preston. is there a second? moved by preston and second by commissioner williams. please call the roll. >> on item 2, preston, aye. williams, aye. fielder, aye. three ayes. >> alright. madam clerk, please call item 3. >> just to clarify, the minutes are approved. item 3 is update on midtomorrow park apartment municipal housing management study. >> we'll now hear from lafco consultant fernando mar tee and if you can please keep your presentation to 10 minutes that will be appreciated. >> thank you. i have a power point presentation if you can make that available for sfgovtv. thank you commissioners. my name is fernando marti. fantastic to see you here and thank you for selecting our team to work on this project over the next 6 to 8 months. our project team is--if i can get to the next slide on here. there we go. steve suzuki is architect with asian neighborhood design. myself fernando marti, community planner and engineer team of triangle engineering and [indiscernible] doing the structural and mechanical and plumbing and electrical study. we applied for this knowing a bit of history of midtown park apartment

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preston. >> aye. >> preston, aye. supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> supervisor sa fa see. fai. >> aye. and supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> there are supervisor walton? >> on item 24, this is the ballot sim mrikation committee appointments. >> aye. >> and walton, aye. >> the motion a is proved. >> i will just state for the record, there are 10 ayes. >> madam clerk, can you go to the special board of supervisors sitting as a committee as a whole. >> yes, items 19 through 21 together, con priced a special order at 3:00 p.m., item 19 is the public hearing of the board to convene the committee of a whole today. to consider item 21 which is a charter amendment to amend the charter of city of san francisco to provide the mayor. must be part of sfm proposed budget or budget amendment such as fares and maximum rights and net expansion of hours or days meter operation on an election to be held. and item 20 is the motion to mote fie the amount of time required under board rule 2.2, 2.27 before the first appearance on the board's agenda and the order of submission to provide that the mayor may disagree at an election to be held on march 5th, 2024. >> supervisor safai. >> thank you, as you know this will perform the process for changes sfmta fares and meter rates and hours and days of operation for those meters. many working families and others that rely on public transportation in our city. expressed deep concern there was a halt, mayor intervened. most recently there was conversation of extending parking hours and again, the mayor intervened sfmta board is completely appointed by the mayor and what we do is call out the process that happens in realtime. the mayor, is completely appointed board has afforded their authority to executive director. takes the direction from the mayor and city of san francisco. last week in response to feedback, we made a few amendments intended to target the policy of dis approval towards increase fares and hours and days of operation rather than approval. with worked with advocates on that, something that was also conversation around, changes versus increases something that supervisor preston and others had asked for in case of the future, there may be a desire to work with few money' city wide. we heard who would be affected by the lack of ability when it comes to this decision making and wanting to know who in offense and in the city, they make the ultimate decision. that's really what it's about. i'm not going to spend too much time reiterating today. i know there are some members that want to comment, i'll conclude and have more later after we have public comment. >> supervisor dorsey. >> thank you, president peskin. i have concern with the policy and process on this charter amendment. first on the policy. twice in the last quarter century in 1999 and pop significance a, the voters adopted measures that sought. this moves us in the opposite direction, that agency, this proposal very much feels to me like a solution in search of a problem. needlessly and in many ways inserts the mayor in a process that the mayor is already a paster, as the city and county chief executiv

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preston. supervisor preston, welcome to the rules committee. the floor is yours. thank you. chair dorsey and committee members. and just wanted to make some comments on this measure. and let me just start with expressing my profound disappointment that neither the mayor's office nor our economic and workforce development, nor anyone in the administration bothered to contact us or work with us at all around what might be appropriate exemptions to the transfer tax. let me give a little context for this measure and also uplift a part that was addressed in passing, but it's probably the biggest part of this measure. so for context, prop i passed with 58% of the vote in 2020, and that was despite a $5 million campaign against it by billionaire real estate interests. as the measure colleagues, as you know, has already raised approximately $300 million for the city and despite a unanimous resolution from the board of supervisors urging the mayor to use the funds for affordable housing, the mayor's fought every effort to do so. the city's housing element recognizes this as a source of affordable housing funds. now, to date, this board has successfully allocated significant resources from prop i to fund critical housing needs. we've set aside $42 million in prop i funds for rent relief, keeping thousands of people in their homes and making san francisco the city with the lowest rate of pandemic era evictions in california. for we have allocated added $64 million of prop i revenue to housing preservation helping to keep long term tenants in their homes by converting their buildings to permanently affordable housing and prop i revenue was the premise for a groundbreaking $112 million certificate of participation long term debt deal in the 2022 budget, which included the first ever dedicated funding source for site acquisitions and land banking, which allowed the city to buy five sites across the city. accounting for hundreds of new affordable homes, rather than work with our office or for that matter, with any stakeholders, including labor, affordable housing groups or supervisors as to discuss any concerns or proposed amendments to prop i. the mayor's office introduced what can only be described as a reckless ballot measure that threatens to gut prop revenue. i want to be clear, though. the poorly drafted measure that is before us goes and will be before the voters goes far beyond reversing some of the prop i revenue giving a 100% exemption not just from prop i but from the entire transfer tax created by multiple ballot measures in san francisco . the result is an absurd situation where a homeowner selling their family home will pay a higher tax rate than a multi-million dollar real estate company selling a downtown office building for conversion from offices to luxury condos minimums, for example, were this measure to pass a homeowner selling a $1.5 million home would pay a tax of $11,250. but a seller like presidio bay ventures, which just sold a downtown office building at 60 spear street for $41 million, would pay a whopping total of $0. instead of what's currently required under existing law, which would be a payment on that sale of a transfer tax of $2.46 million. if they were converting the property from home office to luxury condos, perhaps even more importantly, while this measure purports to be about office to residential conversions, it's actually a trojan trojan horse whose real purpose has little to do with those conversions and everything to do with overturning the transfer tax. more comprehensive, the most impactful and damaging and dangerous part of the of the initiative and the real purpose of the measure is the part that hands to politicians is the unlimited power to reduce amend or eliminate the entire transfer tax by a simple majority vote without notrillioneturning to the voters. this part of the law authorizing the legislative body to eliminate the transfer tax by simple majority is not even mentioned. and in the mayor's extensive three page announcement of the measure, i think it is telling that that was not even addressed. and similarly in today's presentation, it's buried in the final slide of a presentation that is otherwise about office to residential conversion. so make no mistake about it, this measure is step one of a two step plan to eliminate the transfer tax in san francisco and give an annual 100 to $200 million subsidy to the richest billionaires and real estate investors. finally, i want to emphasize my office remains open to working with stakeholders and city leaders on reasonable amendments to the transfer tax. and in fact, such discussions have occurred and continue to occur and there is in fact already legislation on at the board for a narrower exemption around affordable housing projects. unfortunately, the mayor chose to place this reckless measure on the ballot without consulting stakeholders or anyone. it's very unfortunate, but i appreciate very much chair dorsey, the opportunity to provide these comments today. thank you. thank you. supervisor preston, vice chair walton. thank you, chair dorsey and i'm just going to be a little brief here, but definitely agree with a lot of statements of my colleagues. supervisor preston but i will even say this as a member of the board of supervisors, that we should not be able to overturn turn the will of the voters and i think that this being in this proposed initiative is definitely something that makes it extremely impossible to support and giving up hundreds of millions of dollars when we're facing a deficit is not something that i deem feasible for this board of supervisors hours. if it was just about waiving taxes to convert to commercial properties, the language could be specific to that and then we could be having a more serious conversation about this measure. but i do want to read specifically what it says, because i want the voters to understand and with what this says, section 1119 amendment of 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preston chairing today. for supervisor melgar. i'm joined by board president preston. the clerk is john carroll and thanks to sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. any anoungs ams. >> thank you, if you have comments on of today's items send them to my e mail john. carroll @sfgov.org or write to city hall 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place san francisco, california 941 where are 2. items today will appear on the agenda of november 14 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. mr. clerk. before the first item a motion to xrus supervisor melgar today. call the roll. >> the on motion to excuse chair melgar today. member supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> chair preston. >> aye >> no opposition. >> thank you this passes and mr. clerk call item one. >> an ordinance to create the nonprofit art's education special use sdrekt francisco joans and 11worth 800 chest nut amending the zoning map to show the special use district. >> thank you, mr. clerk had item is experienced by president supervisor peskin. floor is yours. >> thank you acting chair preston this item was previously scheduled but due to lack of quorum at historic preservation has not yet red to hear subject to public comment i would like to continue this a week until next monday and then because of our time schedule send it as a committee report for the full board of supervisors to consider tuesday november 14th. >> thank you, let's open up public comment on the continuance. >> thank you. we are not joined by anyone here in the chamber i imagine we have none on this item >> thank you. public comment is closed on this item. and like to move to continue this item to the land use and transportatio

preston. is there a second? second by dorsey. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 5, chan, aye. dorsey, aye. engardio, aye. mandelman, aye. peskin aye. preston, aye. safai, aye. stefani, aye. walton, absent. the motion is approved. >> thank you mr. clerk. i would like to do excuse commissioner walton from that vote and remaining votes on this agenda as he indicated he is not able to be here. can you please call our next item? >> item 6. program $2,601,000 in senate bill 1 local partnership program formula funds for construction of the yerba buena island hillcrest road improvement project (hillcrest project) and design of the yerba buena island multi-use pathway (ybi mup); approve two fund exchanges, with conditions, to fully fund the hillcrest project, including accommodations for a new class i multi-use pathway; and appropriate, with conditions, $4,850,000 in prop k funds for design and construction of the hillcrest project action . >> we have camille our transportation planner to present this item. >> good morning commissioners. i'm camille assistant transportation planner. sfgovtv i have my slides up. today i will present the funding acti

preston. is there a second? second by dorsey. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 5, chan, aye. dorsey, aye. engardio, aye. mandelman, aye. peskin aye. preston, aye. safai, aye. stefani, aye. walton, absent. the motion is approved. >> thank you mr. clerk. i would like to do excuse commissioner walton from that vote and remaining votes on this agenda as he indicated he is not able to be here. can you please call our next item? >> item 6. program $2,601,000 in senate bill 1 local partnership program formula funds for construction of the yerba buena island hillcrest road improvement project (hillcrest project) and design of the yerba buena island multi-use pathway (ybi mup); approve two fund exchanges, with conditions, to fully fund the hillcrest project, including accommodations for a new class i multi-use pathway; and appropriate, with conditions, $4,850,000 in prop k funds for design and construction of the hillcrest project action . >> we have camille our transportation planner to present this item. >> good morning commissioners. i'm camille assistant transportation planner. sfgovtv i have my slides up. today i will present the funding acti

preston and onto lancaster. manchester has the government's intelligence agency hub, while preston has businesses like bae systems country from cyber attacks. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. a diplomatic row has broken out tonight between the british and greek governments over the elgin marbles. let's speak to our political editor chris mason who has the details. we know the greek prime minister is in london what is going on? ., ~ , minister is in london what is going on? ., ' , , on? creek prime minister is in london and — on? creek prime minister is in london and he _ on? creek prime minister is in london and he met— on? creek prime minister is in london and he met the - on? creek prime minister is in london and he met the leaderj on? creek prime minister is in i london and he met the leader of on? creek prime minister is in - london and he met the leader of the opposition keir starmer today who was due to meet the prime minister rishi sunak tomorrow. that meeting at the minute has been cancelled with the greek prime minister already here. it is a ro

preston and onto lancaster. manchester has the government's intelligence agency hub while preston has businesses like bae systemser: for more - stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. hello again. you're live with bbc news. to india now, where the high cost of cancer drugs risks putting treatment out of reach for many poorer people with the disease. now a group of hospitals is taking on the drug companies by pooling their resources to buy the drugs in bulk. they aim to cut the cost of treatments by more than 80% and make sure even remote places can get access to advanced medicines. could it be a model for other developing countries? archana shukla has been investigating. a quiet revolution in india is bringing cancer care closer to home for many, like this man and his wife. after an arduous search for breast cancer treatments in distant metro cities, the three—drug combo his wife needs is now available at a local hospital in their hometown in the far east corner of india at one third the price. translation: earlier, it cost| $650 for one treatment cycle. i had to sell land to pay. at least now

preston and onto lancaster. manchester has the government's intelligence agency hub, while preston has businesses like bae systemsountry from cyber attacks. you're live with bbc news. here in the uk, home secretary james cleverly has defended emergency laws to revive plans to fly asylum seekers to rwanda, as a former supreme court justice said the measures would be extraordinary. mr cleverly disagreed with the criticism and said a new treaty with rwanda would allow flights to depart. in their ruling on wednesday, the supreme courtjustices said there were "substantial grounds" to believe the rwandan government could deport people sent to the country to places where they would be unsafe. let's cross live to madeleine sumption, she is the director of the migration 0bservatory, at the university of oxford thank you for being with us. what did you make of the court ruling and the home secretary's decision to say that we can go ahead with this anyway and we are going to come up with a new treaty with rwanda to make it happen?— with a new treaty with rwanda to make it happen? obviously will have to see the details _ mak

preston and onto lancaster. manchester has the government's intelligence agency hub, while preston has businesses like bae systemsr attacks. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. new figures show that pilots of opt—in blood tests, where people have automatically been checked for certain conditions, have identified more than 3,500 previously undiagnosed cases of hiv, hepatitis b and c. and the bbc has learned that sir eltonjohn will address mps this evening where he'll talk about what more the government could do to hit its 2030 target of eliminating new hiv cases. our political reporter jack fenwick has the story. jackie was diagnosed with hiv after many years of ill health. if i had been tested early, i would never have got to the point where they asked my children to spend time with me before i passed. sorry. that's ok. take your time. sam, not his real name, is one of 580 people who've been diagnosed with hiv via opt out testing. it's made me look at life in a completely different way. ijust feel grateful that i got the test because i was quite happily going through life, feeling f

preston and onto lancaster. manchester has the government's intelligence agency hub, while preston has businesses like bae systemss. for more stories from across the uk, head to the bbc news website. you're live with bbc news. let's turn now to the israel—gaza war. we can go live to southern israel to our correspondent mark lowen for all the latest. israeli police have said that they killed a suspect involved in an attack on a checkpoint injerusalem. 0lette speak to yolande knell. —— letter speak to. this is a checkpoint between the occupied west bank and jerusalem, it is a road mostly used by israelis from the settlements. at a busy time this morning, there was an attack there. we have heard from the israeli police now that three gunmen have been killed. we understand they arrived at the scene in a car with false license plates, which may have led the security police to believe it was an israeli car, and they began to open fire. several israelis have been wounded in that attack, one of them in a critical condition in hospital, the israeli police are continuing, they say, to scan the area. this is indicative of t

preston. is there a second? second by dorsey. mr. clerk, please call the roll. >> on item 5, chan, aye. dorsey, aye. engardio, aye. mandelman, aye. peskin aye. preston, aye. safai, aye. stefani, aye. walton, absent. the motion is approved. >> thank you mr. clerk. i would like to do excuse commissioner walton from that vote and remaining votes on this agenda as he indicated he is not able to be here. can you please call our next item? >> item 6. program $2,601,000 in senate bill 1 local partnership program formula funds for construction of the yerba buena island hillcrest road improvement project (hillcrest project) and design of the yerba buena island multi-use pathway (ybi mup); approve two fund exchanges, with conditions, to fully fund the hillcrest project, including accommodations for a new class i multi-use pathway; and appropriate, with conditions, $4,850,000 in prop k funds for design and construction of the hillcrest project action . >> we have camille our transportation planner to present this item. >> good morning commissioners. i'm camille assistant transportation planner. sfgovtv i have my slides up. today i will present the funding acti

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preston and onto lancaster. manchester has no government's intelligence agency hub. while prestonsbbc news. the final season of the crown is streaming today — the first four episodes. my boss said today he quite likes the crown because he knows the story end and so he can read his ipad while its on in the background. and to be honest, judging by what has been written, that is one of the friendlier reviews. the telegraph said the netflix series has hit a dead end, the guardian that is has plummeted into the abyss. spoiler alert — since we are going to talk about it. season six, as it is, deals with the late 19905, including princess diana's death. one particular element divides opinion, and that is a rather odd cameo from princess diana's ghost. let's hear more about it. let's speak to nick hilton, chief tv critic at the independent. really, there is a ghost in it? that is a ghost- — really, there is a ghost in it? that is a ghost- and — really, there is a ghost in it? that is a ghost. and it's _ really, there is a ghost in it? that is a ghost. and it's not _ really, there is a ghos

preston? and we will take that without objection. supervisor preston is excused. you have any communications? >> yes, mr. president the board away the public to attend this meet nothing person. in the legislative chamber in city hall second floor room 250 this meeting is airing live on sfgovtv channel 26 or live stream at www.sfgov.org. you may submit comment in writing in the following ways. e mail comments to bos add sfgov.org if you do submit via e mail tell be forwarded to the members and include part of the official file. you may send written comments via postal service to the board of supervisors 1 dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. if you need an accommendation under the ad a contact the clerk's office. our office did not receive a request for language interpretation we don't have interpreters today. if you anticipate a future need for language interpretation gift clerk's office a phone call 48 hours in advance of the meeting per sunlt to code 691.7. thank you, members and mr. president. >> thank you are madam clerk. can we have a motion to approve the board meeting minutes of september 26, motion by supervisor mandelman. seconded by supervisor walton. on that motion a roll call. >> on the minutes supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> supervisor chan >> aye. >> supervisor dorsey. >> aye. >> supervisor engardio. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. and supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> there are 10 aye's. >> the minutes will be approved as presented after public comment. could you read the consent agenda. >> items 1-8 are on consent and considered to be routine. if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separate low >> would a members like an item or items severed? a roll call. we will take that same house same call. the ordinances are passed on first reading. finally passed and resolutions adopted. >> next item. >> item 9 referred without recommendation from land use and transportation. an ordinance to amend the planning code to charge zone nothing castro street neighborhood commercial to exclude article 10 inotropics. charge the controls change the zoning controls. pursuant to the castro district neighborhood commercial district. landmark buildings from use size limitation and night time entertainment on the second floor and ceqa and make appropriate findings. roll call? item 9. supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor stefani. >> aye. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. supervisor chan. >> aye. >> supervisor dorsey. >> aye. >> supervisor engardio. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor supervisor peskin. >> no. >> and supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> there are 9 aye's and one no with spries supervisor peskin in decent. >> ordinance is passed >> next item. >> item 10 an ordinance to amend the administrative code remove the authorization for carbrevolving funds and reduce the max amount of the cash revoling fund for the port. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> supervisor stefani. >> air >> supervisor walton. >> aye >> supervisor chan >> aye >> supervisor dorsey. >> ayech >> supervisor engardio. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> supervisor supervisor peskin. >> aye. and supervisor ronen. >> aye. >> there are 10 aye's. >> the ordinances are passed. next item >> item 11 is a resolution to approve the 7th amendment to a contract the ymc aurban services truancy resource center. this is a program between the y urban service in the city for not to exceed grant increase of 5.3 million. one year extension to include a new term of july first, 2013 through june 30 of 2024 >> same house same call. next item. >> item 12 approve the emergency declaration of the san francisco puc. pursuant to code section 6. 60 contract resources to perform sewer main, water main and street repairs on fillmore between grown and union street damaged by a water main failure with an estimated cost not to exceed 5 million. >> same house same call it is adopted. next item. >> item 13. resolution to accept a gift of design documents with an estimated value of 1.2 million. from the friends of harvey milk plaza assist public works in the redesign and affirm ceqa. >> same house same call, adopted >> read 14 and 15 together? >> yes, 14 and 15 comprise 2 resolutions pertain to the mission rock facility and service. 14 authorizes issuance and sale of special tax bonds for district 2020-1 near 58.3 million. to be repaid from development special tax. the office special taxes and shore line taxes levied in tax zone number 1 of the special tax district applicable to approve related documents. including official statement and second supplement to development special tax agent agreement and office special tax fiscal agent agreement. shore line tax zone 1 special tax fiscal agents agreement. bond purchase agreement and continuing disclosure certificate and rate and method of the special tax and item 15, resolution to approve documents and actions related a pledge agreement by the city. infrastructure district number 2 and development special tax bonds for ccsf special tax district 2020-1 and determine other matter in kkz with both items. >> same house same call, adopted. >> next item. >> 16 was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee. item 16 resolution to approve a fourth amendment to a contract the japanese community council opportunity for all. between the japanese community and the city to increase the grant by approximately 3 million for a total not to exceed of 13.3 million. with no change to the term. >> supervisor chan. >> thank you, president supervisor peskin. clothe this is was voted out of the budget and finance committee without recommendation for specific reasons. this is not because we don't endorse the work that japanese community youth council has done through the opportunity for all. in fact, we are grateful for the service. and the last decades. for a time. what this is, though system that we just to as a remindser came before us in a pass an item that was identified last year that -- you know the contract in its totality should have come to the board for approval. so it was retroactive approval to start off with. and then now that they are coming back for additional not to exceed because there seems to be a discrepancy in terms of data tracking between department of children, youth and families. oewd. office work force develop export our human right's commission. finally they came together. and provide the most updated information to our budget and legislative analyst. though there are still questions it was with that our budget and analyst recommended an audit with our controller which has going to take place. well is also a new rfp for this came out on in sum and we will see new result in 2024. all this is just so that we understand you know lessons learn friday this specific grant amendment in the dynamics that occur from the grant amendment. that we want our city departments to figure out structural changes so we are do better to track our dataa making sure that our views and nonprofits are paid with the dollar amount oweed them in kind and before that you know and if necessary come to the board for approval. before we do it this way in retroactively. with that i do urge for your approval. for this item and that the committee will track not just this contract but other contract with the similar situation. thank you. >> sounds like we can take this same house same call the resolution is adopted. >> item 17, ordinance to authorize settle am of the lawsuit filed by the city for 18 million. this lawsuit involved a claim for refund of phone use are tax and access line taxes and related penalties and interests for tax periods june first 2009 including december 31, 2018 >> same house same call it is passed on first read. >> next item. >> item 18, this is a charter amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of san francisco provide the mayor must approve in writing certain san francisco municipal transportation agency proposals. part of the sfmta budget or budget amendment. proposals subject to approval of requirement include changes to fares, park meter. rate and hours or days of parking meter operation. march 25 of upon 2024. the question is shall this amendment be condition period seeing no names on the roster, supervisor safai i can't read your mind. the way it was written. upon should be conditioned i can take this same house same call it is continued a week >> item 19, this is a charter amendment first draft amendment the city of san francisco to establish within the charter the department of emergency management the position of the director of the department and the director's qualifications and appointing authority an election to be held on march 5, 2024. >> same house same call this item is continued a week. >> next item. committee reports. please. >> yes. >> item 20 considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on monday october 30. item 20, not sent as a committee report. >> next item. >> 21 and 22 were considered by the rules committee a regular meeting on monday october 30. 21 was also not forwarded to the board as a committee report. >> item 22, was recommended as amended bearing a new title strike the requirement for the police commission to hold meetings. regarding community policing and foot and bike patrols. item 22 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code retire chief to adopt a foot and bike patrol strategy for the police department. >> supervisor safai. >>mented take a moment to talk about item 22. foot patrols. appreciate all my cosponsors i think that i have supervisor supervisor peskin, engardio, walton, ronen, stefani, dorsey, and -- melgar, chan. i think we almost have everybody on board. >> sorry trying to remember off the top. supervisor chan, thank you. >> for your early support. [laughter]. but this is something colleagues, i think we discussed for a number of years and we want to see police presence back in the community regardless the number of officers we have within the department. this is something that true community policing is building trust within the community, presence in that community. supervisor engardio asked for there to be bike. we did that, thank you for that suggestion i think that was an oversight appreciate that foot and bike patrol. the truth circumstance colleagues when police are present in the community, crime guess down were not about arresting people it is knowing the mount and the patterns of the community and having those there that are knowledgeable and can be present. so for the first time, this legislation will require no longer urges but will require the chief to work with every single police captain in the city. and over the next 2 months they will come up with a plan. the resource are there. this is will not require additional resources. right now it is optional. the money is there for optional foot patrols we are saying the time in for this to be required in every part of the city not just selective parts of san francisco. we think this is the right thing to dog at this moment i will will thank supervisor walton and he and hene did. we built that and amend third degree to make turned the chief's pursue and med it more present and current with the requests that are manage from today. i thank you will have an immediate impact on when we are seeing and some of the trends in san francisco having police and in the communities doing true community policing will have a significant impact on san francisco employment to thank all the coresponsibleses and the chief. and the commission for working with us and i believe once this happens beginning january 1, we'll begin to see significant improvement in the way san francisco is viewed and the way the community views the police. lastly, also one thing we talked about yesterday supervisor walton, myself and dorsey is that well is a morale issue. there is a desire to be part of this police department. and i think that once community are back officers are back in the community, and intrakting with the community. on a daily basis, it will help to increase morale and understanding from the police department and their interactions with the community. i think this is over all going to have a significant, positive impact. happy to have worked on that and happy this will happen in the next months as of january one, we'll see that and on going there will being discussions at the commission with the chiefa plans are presented annually. with that, colleagues i -- look forward to your support or further cosponsors if there are any. >> thank you, supervisor, no name on the roster colleagues can we take this same house same call? the ordinance is passed on first read. >> let's go to roll call for introductions. >> supervisor safai is first to introduce new business. >> have in memory. i would like to read quickly. colleagues. today adjourn the mote nothing memory of hosey salazar. a long know standing resident. born in new mexico on january 6, 1931 to the parents of virginia and jose salazar. after his father passed when he was a toddler his step father took him and mother and brothers to mexico. where the mother would raise them on her own. he had to work young and they taught themselves how to read and write in spanish and english and work the in the gold minus. where he met the love of his life. they had 2 children. with the gold he put aside he was able to save to return to the united states to establish a new life. he and brothers sent for his wife, kids and mother. they made san francisco their home. where he and maria had 4 more children. joined local 261 on october 26, 1952. where he worked for 70 plus years. receiving a 70 year pin. aside from the union worked men side jobs and kids and enoughue helping him. he was a hard working man who fostered good work ethic to his children. he was able to buy home for family and provide for inlaws purchasing a meat market so the family could thrive. he was a loving and caring husband, father, grand father and uncle put his family first. loved spending time with family and pun to be with a good sense of humor. in his final weeks family described him happy and dance and living with no regrets proud of his family and the life he built survived by his wife, 6 children, 10 grand children and 26 great grandchildren and 19 great, great grand children. leaves niece. nest use, family and freshmeneds who will cherish him and honor him. the rest i submit. thank you >> thank you. supervisor stefani >> submit. >> supervisor walton. >> submit. >> supervisor chan. submit. >> supervisor dorse. >> thank you. . colleagues i'm today submitting a drafting request to the city attorney and controller that will continue in needed conversation about the crisis of police under staffing in san francisco. the rules yesterday considered my charter amendment to address police staffing with a measured evidence based 5 year plan. the substantive core was amend over my oksz i will not litigate that here we will have opportunity as a board of supervisors to debate the merits now a reimagined version as amended. however i heard a specific piece of feedback from a colleague yesterday i think is worthwhile. many times during the committee meeting it was noted the provisions of the measure those tieing dollars to otherwise empty wordos paper did not need to be in a ballot measure the mayor and this board on any given tuesday could enact them. taking that add voice to heart and honoring ideas put forward by colleagues and others from yesterday submitting a drafting question the proposed to accomplish 2 things. create a police full staffing fund receiving ref nows for the purposes identified in the original proposal and 2, reappropriation of 8.4 million dollars in the current fiscal budget to support more recruiting. described in the full staffing if you meaned that is 1 half the amount in the proposed charter amendment representing half the fiscal year to move with the urgency the crisis deserves thank you. supervisor engardio i am dressed as the character joy from inside out. my staff is the other characteristic of the movie. it takes all the emotions to deal with the challenge in san francisco we must lead with joy. i know we need to lay foundation of good foundations for public safety, education, housing and our local economy we doll this so all can have a joyful live. celebrate joy in san francisco as we create more. thank you. >> rest i submit. [laughter]. [applause] supervisor mandelman. i have no joy. >> no. [laughter]. i have a charter reform drafting request, everybody. as well as a resolution. first on the charter reform drafting request we asked the city attorney to appropriate a governors charter reform peculiarage for the november 24 ballot in the hopes of delivering more decisionmaking at city hall and effective administration of city departments. as you may have noticed there has been a bit of talk of reform as oflet in august the mc kena colleges rose state and local gentleman released a report refurthermores to city charter to expand mayoral xours reform the ballot measure and commission system. some floated a 2024 charter amendment to change how the redistricting task force is selectd and votes to elect the board of supervisors and former supervisors issue senator and judge offered his own measure for election of supervisors and spur neighborhood i press to review the chart and will issue its set of proposed reforms. concern our city government is broken is of course, not new. it was 15 years ago that joe labeled san francisco the worse run big city in the us. however, it has seemed to meet hunger for a better city is palpable and felt today to create now opportunity to look at our chart and consider better ways of doing things. to thaenldz i and my staff have been having conversations with mart folks inside this build and outside the building the last several months or longer to identify a set of reforms that might be to win support in city hall with voters and leave our government in shape to dot work our peep expect. we have sick concepts the first 4 i believe are baked. the last are continuing to be process exclude considered. and shaped by stake holders. the first is to repeal a prohibition on deputy mayors in the charter and has for detectived. it envisions a mirrial administration that sits back and allows commission and other officials to govern the city without oversight for a mayor's office. i think we need an executive tht city and makes sense to have that person able to use people like deputy mayors and so i being the least we should take that prohibition out. so i'm proposing we do that second. i'm proposing allow the mayor authority to fire directors of most of the departments that are over seen by commissions. we talk about how we have a strong mayor system. in many ways we do. but we check the powerhouse of the mayor and many ways that is important. and the charter check otmayor's authority to hire department head system intended deter in taoism and i don't know i didn't mean and shared process elevate a diverse pool of qualified candidates providing the mayor with the ability to get rid of directors of departments in the branch would claire fight chain of command and allow the mir to act when the mayor felt the change was needed. third, voteo commission to have split appointmentos bodies the mayor can reject mayoral appointments. where as the board can block mayoral appointments that the mayor has no check on board appointments. i hope you will agree. >> and forth. the board of supervisors is the legislative body of the city and county of san francisco. i think it make sense for us to dot work of legislating and yet our charter provides a minority of the body to got voters with initiative ordinance and the mayor to go to the voters with initiative ordinances. i think we should do our job of legislating inside city hall and so we i am proposing this we take away this city hall business of putting initiatives to voters and weigh in. there will be a check if than i see city hall can't get something didn't power of voter initiatives i think it would behoove us and reduce [inaudible] in this building to have the board pass legislation but not be putting this off on to the voters. fifth, i think we. rekz niez we have a pluthera of commissions and oversight body and they seem to grow over time. supervisor engardio has looked at this problem and lots identified this problem and we have no framework for trimming that or stream lining that and over time they are going to grow. well is a cost to the city and city staff and oversight bodies and i don't think that we get the benefits that people think we will get from moreover assignment i don't think it necessarily leads to transparency or better decision making and wasteful. i'm hopeing measure can describe a regular process to stream line the bodies proliferate over time. we are working with the city attorney and stake holders to hone inspect on what how this commission this commission or task force that is stream lining commissions would work. but we are hope to get this finalized. the last concept that we are asking the city attorney to help us to think through is expansion of the definition of local emergency or identification of a new category that would allow you to take the benefits we got from declaring an emergency around covid to address our challenges around homelessness and street conditions and drug over doses and thing this is may not be new and presenting rate challenges that exceed our capacity to responded this is hard. will respond and require a lot of conversations and folks potential low including organized labor we will give it a try. and narrow that down that is my list. not the end all and be all of charter reform i expect many other folks may be introducing or floating their idea busy charter reform. i recognize trying to do this in an election year will be hard and men setting the tain for a measure in 2026. i hope and think we can go i long wake to make more sense who for who is mayor or sit on the board next year and i want to thank ross green in my office for his work. i want to thank our city control and add administratoror board president and shawn and the mayor's office. our ed herrington great wisdom. and other who is talked to me over the left few months and helped me think through the motions. mentioning is in the any or all of this is a good yes, i did hope they will and i am hoping our conversations can further refine and finalize a consensus measure we can feel good about and the electorate will in november and i want to thank our deputy city attorney for attention and collaboration as we work through the. resolution to recognize united against hate week 23 held november 12-18. united against hate week from united poster campaign to white supremacist rally in berkeley and san francisco in 2017 this board considered united against hate week resolution in other years it is annual event aimed promoting the rejection of hate and discrimination. it seems timely now as we have seen a rising antiarab and islam phobia and violence around the world. united against hate week provides san francisco to join states to stand against hate and celebrate our commitment to inclusion and accept analysis. thank supervisor melgar, and others for signing on. and ask for your passport and the rest i submit. >> thank you. mr. president. >> go to our 2:30 special and ared hear more from supervisor mandelman. thank you. doctor froemer. come on up. find a spot by a microphone. doctor gina fromer devoted her significant energies and talents to upon san francisco families and communities since bayview. 40 years of experience leading nonprofits and neighborhood organizations work to end poverty and food insecurity and advocating for children and families career touched many across the city. a sickth generation san franciscans plan began as a councillor for young community developers. moved to the potrero neighborhood house studying for a psychology degree and raising 3 sons. looking for an opportunity to work with napas next worked for the san francisco head start program. career at the y began in 200 and during her time raised 8.5 million dollars for the campaign to complete the building of the bayview y. district violent over seeing the bayview and mission branchs serve over 15,000 families. as california state director at the republic flanked created new park and park near neighborhood in los angeles and san francisco and ceo direct volunteer programs educator grant and student scholarships to help students succeed. in 2019 game the ceo of children's counsels at the heart of childcare and early education in san francisco for 45 years i imagine she had no idea when she was taking on when was coming. as the covid-19 made challenges to care and education, gina with her team of 135 staff continues to support throughout san francisco. her leadership triple budget during 5 years and left a legacy thatllow the council to advance and universal early education for all. this mob she start aid now job ceo of glide she'll launch glide forward to grow impact in the tenderloin and throughout san francisco the plan will bring mount and congregation on the other hand spiritual heeling. faith the concern challenges glide will be in great hands. her long and continuing career deserved commendation and i recognize her for empowerhouse people to advocate for themselves and create social change needed to change the world. we want to thank you for everything have you done and will continue to for san francisco shrn everchildren's council is in d 8 that's my only claim and i can see by the folks who are beginning to populate the roster my colleaguesment also to honor you. >> thank you, so much. president supervisor peskin i will try not to cry. gina you had a tough year and i love you. and admire you so much. i think it was a good over view by my colleague. of your career. you are my sister we graduated together and went through boot camp until that way. and we upon bonded out of a love for san francisco and the issues that affect women. one thing i want to highlight in your long career sill think you saved childcare in san francisco. during the pandemic you made a crucial decision to along with mar raso our director to pay subsidies to childcare providers who provide childcare for low income children even though they were not enrolled or meet criptoryia in times made them ineligible for payments had not been for that. many more of our childcare slots would have disappeared and that was your strategic, quick thinking and timing and what you have done amazing marts coupled with a deep love for the community and understanding of what community needs based on your own personal responsibles. i'm bummed you are leaving and know the women here in the audience are here because they believe in you. but you know we will get to it glide and your amazing intlect and your heart will continue just making sure that there is that safety net and infrastructure to catch people hor falling throughout cracks. i want to tell that you many of us had admire and love you will continue to support you. and be there for you and your next step because we believe in you and i am glad you are getting this award. it is well deserved. and you are just a rock star. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor walton. thank you president supervisor peskin and mandelman for honoring doctor fromer. i wanted add to the core us and say how much i respect you and have had the opportunity to watch you and learn from you over the past decades and really want to finish there is a job you can't do. because you have tackled a lot of work and in our service community in san francisco. as a fellow native proud to have experienced your work and proud to continue to be able to work with and you thank you for your service and you most certainly deserve to be acknowledged here. >> thank you. supervisor safai. thank you, president supervisor peskin and supervisor mandelman for honoring doctor fromer today. i want to add my voice. the thing i admired about you you have been a strong role model and voice for female enprenurse many, women of color and what it means to traverse the environment of san francisco and be successful and empowered so many i have been at your childcare luncheon and all the work you have done. seeing the faith and kufdz instill in the so many women. and business owners across san francisco that are providing childcare and helping working families. i wanted say, thank you, i'm happy that we are honoring you today. and you are going on to one of the most important institutions in san francisco. you will continue this w. we will work together and thank you for everything you have done and thank you supervisor mandelman for honoring doctor fromer. [applause] doctor fromer! [applause]. well. i think this year was tough for me i thought i would have tierce today i'm teared out i lost my husband genetics one and -- if he was an amazing contributor to our city and the love of children as well. thank you board of supervisors! especially melgar and mandelman you get in there and dot work you don't care about recognition but it is nice it have it as i go to the most important role in my career to help san francisco heel from the tenderloin and i'm here as a young mom i remember walk negligent children's council. desperate. i was pregnant i have 3. and i need help. i need childcare i want to go to work and school. this woman and handed me a brochure for a place and my kids went there i was able to go on my journey i had the help and stow many thousands of women and men get on that journey for childcare and need spchlt you know you guys have kids it is a hard journey where will i send my child. is it safer? who will pick them snup work from 9-5 and babies don't have a 9-5 schedule. we work on they worked for 50 years i came floong a time they needed me around covid and making sure the city lean in the commitment for childcare. and i'm looking at the people i come to the office with knocking on your door saying you make sure prop c passes. protect prop c it is for the future of our children. you know the mission of children's council is advocate for quality early care and education and power families with information and financial support and capabilities of education to ensure every child is able to reach their full potential. i was there 5 years i walked 85 million dollars budget and out with 240 million. sounds like a lot that is your money going back to community. back to community that is what is supposed to happen. we steward the dollars back the family who is need it every day. i'm proud of the accomplishments we had. upon you know, now walk nothing a my new challenge the president for glide, i'm confident that children's council staff will keep going and people it going forward it is about the foundation that has been laid and i'm proud of you all. organization is in a strong position and know tell be a force for the childcare ecosystem. now with glide. dorsey uh-huh. you and me. my journey tissues i am blessed pursue a vision. carry that forward. that's an important role for san francisco. and whatever my role is whatever time i'm here i will do my best to move glide's mission to create an inclusive, just and loving community and alleviate suffering and break marginalization. the break the cycle of poverty is had i'm really excited about we need to break it and intercept the pipe line to poverty in san francisco. with the new childcare center and family resource center we work with families so they don't end up oat street that's what glide can do. thank you supervisor and i appreciate you all for honoring me today it really means a lot. dorse i will be on your calendar soon. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] let's go to roll call for introductions. supervisor melgar >> submit. >> supervisor supervisor peskin. >> submit. >> thank you. >> and supervisor ronen. >> thank you, colleagues. today i have 2 items. first i want to mention that the timing of this item is the first item is interesting. because despite fact the board has appropriated over 140 million dollars in the left 2 years to s sfpd supervisor dorse pushes for more we had growing number of vacancies up to 144 and our behavioral health program and we have not heard a word that is telling. today i'm introducing a resolution calling on the mayor's office and department of human resources to initial an emergency hiring plan with recruitment and retention incentives for behavioral health care workers to fill our growing city vacancy and city contracted providers. these are vacancies for critical positions that address the crisis we face in our city and that are limiting the ability of the department of public health to aggress the over dose epidemic. well is currently an unpresidented workforce shortage of behavioral healing workers. as the need for behavioral health care workers on the spectrum of kay sky rocketed, more are retiring from the field, burning out due to unaenable case loads or leaving the sectsors for competitive pay and benefits in the private sector. some of our city contracted organizations providing behavioral health service to the acute individuals are experiencing vacancy rates high as 30-40%. within our own departments dph behavioral health services has 144 vacancies the shortages hindzer our ain't to provide severe metal health crisis with services and needed medical care. the shortage of data analyst system making impossible for policy makers to evaluate the success or lack thereof of interventions at work to address the crisis. despite the acknowledged workforce shortage san francisco not implemented recruitment or retention for any behavioral healing worktory address the high vacancies. we bent over backward for police department to address their recruitment and retention concerns. i mentioned the board has approved infusion of 149 million in police department to help sustain staffing levels and funds incentives and increase bonuses. at the same time we made zero investment in increasing the behavioral healing professionals. i think it is fair it say the mayor's office playing games with san franciscans despite lives hanging in the balance. on one hand supports mental health investments to address issues present every day. supports health interventions safe consumption sites and treatment on demands instead of opening the over dose prevention centers we allocate funding for focusing on the expansion of treatment service or prioritizing funds to pirecruit and retain the health workers skill in the draegsz the over dose catastrophe. main strategy in the nation for close to a century that has only lead to ever worsening crisis we see tuesday. time for us to rewatch the wire. i think it is the most brilliant depiction of the failure on the war on drugs that reinstituting in san francisco. the mayor's ballot designed to punish substance users in assistance programs is the war on drugs 2.0. arresting them and threeing them in jail to be rerelease in the the same conscience they were before arrested is the war on drugs 2.0. dumping minutes of dollars in the police department without fully staffing the health department is worry on drugs 2.0. when will we learn make mistakes over and over again will never produce different results. this needs to stop now. we need to stop trying to address a public health issue with criminalization special law enforcement and spends our money effectively. prioritizing initialives that address the root causes. we must fully fund and support our health care workers save lives every day. i'm calling on the mayor's office and department of human resources to impelement an emergency hiring plan includes incentives recruitment and retention to address the root causes of the crisis experienced by our city's poorest residents. i want to thank supervisors walton, peck perk, preston, chan, melgar and safai for early cosponsorship and look forward to continuing this conversation in a more balanced way. and talking about health care work and not police for every problem we have in the city. secondly, today i will be joining the mayor to in introducing an ordinance to extend the sunset deaf authorizing the department of homelessness and supportive housing. to enter in an amend contracts without competitive bidding for services related to cites for people experiencing homelessness. when we pass this ordinance in april of 2919, we had a goal of reducing home below 5, 250 people. despite progress we have not achieved this goal and this waiver has been critical to opening new site to get people off the streets and living in temporary dignified and long-term housing i hope you the join me in extending this sunset date and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor robe sxen seeing no other names on the officer they're concludes the introduction of new business. >> go to