somewhere. >> supervisor mar: i'm here, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to make sure we didn't lose quorum when the chair had to leave. >> chairman: no bathroom breaks for this last item. do you want to just go ahead and start talking. >> i will happily start talking vice chair safai. chair haney on his way and supervisor mar for the opportunity to speak today on supervisor mandelman's behalf. this would suspend the city's imposition of the cannabis business tax through december 2022. there's a little bit of background. san francisco voters approved proposition d which allowed for the imposition on cannabis business activity. this tax would be a new local tax paid only by cannabis businesses and would be in addition to all of the other city taxes and fees that they pay in the rationale for the suspension was in part about the uncertainty about the new tax of businesses struggling under the weight of covid-19. there were also noncovid related factors including high taxes on retail cannabis sales at the state level that disalloweded the deduct

somewhere. >> supervisor mar: i'm here, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to make sure we didn't lose quorum when the chair had to leave. >> chairman: no bathroom breaks for this last item. do you want to just go ahead and start talking. >> i will happily start talking vice chair safai. chair haney on his way and supervisor mar for the opportunity to speak today on supervisor mandelman's behalf. this would suspend the city's imposition of the cannabis business tax through december 2022. there's a little bit of background. san francisco voters approved proposition d which allowed for the imposition on cannabis business activity. this tax would be a new local tax paid only by cannabis businesses and would be in addition to all of the other city taxes and fees that they pay in the rationale for the suspension was in part about the uncertainty about the new tax of businesses struggling under the weight of covid-19. there were also noncovid related factors including high taxes on retail cannabis sales at the state level that disalloweded the deduct

somewhere. >> supervisor mar: i'm here, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to make sure we didn't lose quorum when the chair had to leave. >> chairman: no bathroom breaks for this last item. do you want to just go ahead and start talking. >> i will happily start talking vice chair safai. chair haney on his way and supervisor mar for the opportunity to speak today on supervisor mandelman's behalf. this would suspend the city's imposition of the cannabis business tax through december 2022. there's a little bit of background. san francisco voters approved proposition d which allowed for the imposition on cannabis business activity. this tax would be a new local tax paid only by cannabis businesses and would be in addition to all of the other city taxes and fees that they pay in the rationale for the suspension was in part about the uncertainty about the new tax of businesses struggling under the weight of covid-19. there were also noncovid related factors including high taxes on retail cannabis sales at the state level that disalloweded the deduct

supervisor safai? >> commissioner safai: thank you, chair haney and ms. ruggels for anticipating a number of the questions we sent over to your office. i'm just looking at the b.l.a. report and, so, you know, i know you highlighted the residential care facilities. you said they're about $11 million out of the annual $17 million so that leaves another $6 million. and i see in the b.l.a. report things like mental health service providers who serve mental health plan members who reside in other counties. wraparound service for mental health clients, including expenses such as housing and food. that makes sense to me. transportation, clothing, vocational training. emergency stabilization housing for homeless clients. i'm sure they fall under mental health. and then the one that jumped out was parent-training institute support through a family resource centers? i know many of the family resource centers in our city are vendors and they work with and contract with office of early child care as well as our department of children, youth and family. workforce deve

supervisor safai? >> commissioner safai: thank you, chair haney and ms. ruggels for anticipating a number of the questions we sent over to your office. i'm just looking at the b.l.a. report and, so, you know, i know you highlighted the residential care facilities. you said they're about $11 million out of the annual $17 million so that leaves another $6 million. and i see in the b.l.a. report things like mental health service providers who serve mental health plan members who reside in other counties. wraparound service for mental health clients, including expenses such as housing and food. that makes sense to me. transportation, clothing, vocational training. emergency stabilization housing for homeless clients. i'm sure they fall under mental health. and then the one that jumped out was parent-training institute support through a family resource centers? i know many of the family resource centers in our city are vendors and they work with and contract with office of early child care as well as our department of children, youth and family. workforce deve

supervisor safai? >> commissioner safai: thank you, chair haney and ms.cipating a number of the questions we sent over to your office. i'm just looking at the b.l.a. report and, so, you know, i know you highlighted the residential care facilities. you said they're about $11 million out of the annual $17 million so that leaves another $6 million. and i see in the b.l.a. report things like mental health service providers who serve mental health plan members who reside in other counties. wraparound service for mental health clients, including expenses such as housing and food. that makes sense to me. transportation, clothing, vocational training. emergency stabilization housing for homeless clients. i'm sure they fall under mental health. and then the one that jumped out was parent-training institute support through a family resource centers? i know many of the family resource centers in our city are vendors and they work with and contract with office of early child care as well as our department of children, youth and family. workforce development training

i see supervisor safai. b.l.a., do you want to make your comments now, supervisor safai? to a say a few words. thank you, caroline for being here today. she has been such an amazing partner. we honored her and meta, particularly her for her amazing work. not a lot of women of color in the field. and she called her on a friday, she called me back on a monday. and i think by the next week we had an offer in on the largest acquisition in city's history in my district. so i am an extreme supporter of the small-site program. i think that building has 23 units, five commercial spaces. we did another one last year, in fact, the only small-site acquisition in the entire city with meta's help again. if you drive by it, you'll think you're in miami, it's an interesting color choice, but it's pretty cool. and it's already gotten attention of the neighbors. so i'm a big, big supporter of keeping people in the communities in which they've resided for a long time. this is a real tremendous tool. but this tool definitely needs a reboot. and the fact that we only did one acquisition last

somewhere. >> supervisor mar: i'm here, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to make sure we didn't lose quorum when the chair had to leave. >> chairman: no bathroom breaks for this last item. do you want to just go ahead and start talking. >> i will happily start talking vice chair safai. chair haney on his way and supervisor mar for the opportunity to speak today on supervisor mandelman's behalf. this would suspend the city's imposition of the cannabis business tax through december 2022. there's a little bit of background. san francisco voters approved proposition d which allowed for the imposition on cannabis business activity. this tax would be a new local tax paid only by cannabis businesses and would be in addition to all of the other city taxes and fees that they pay in the rationale for the suspension was in part about the uncertainty about the new tax of businesses struggling under the weight of covid-19. there were also noncovid related factors including high taxes on retail cannabis sales at the state level that disalloweded the deduct

somewhere. >> supervisor mar: i'm here, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: okay. i just wanted to make sure we didn't lose quorum when the chair had to leave. >> chairman: no bathroom breaks for this last item. do you want to just go ahead and start talking. >> i will happily start talking vice chair safai. chair haney on his way and supervisor mar for the opportunity to speak today on supervisor mandelman's behalf. this would suspend the city's imposition of the cannabis business tax through december 2022. there's a little bit of background. san francisco voters approved proposition d which allowed for the imposition on cannabis business activity. this tax would be a new local tax paid only by cannabis businesses and would be in addition to all of the other city taxes and fees that they pay in the rationale for the suspension was in part about the uncertainty about the new tax of businesses struggling under the weight of covid-19. there were also noncovid related factors including high taxes on retail cannabis sales at the state level that disalloweded the deduct

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you. the furniture store has partnered with countless nonprofits over the years and provided many, many discounts and free goods to the community members in the district in need in districts 9, 10, and 11. during the pandemic, home delivery, as all of us know, became such a huge part of the ways families received their food services, and so many families were in their home environments on a more daily and consistent basis. as service providers would make deliveries, they would notice that many children were without furniture or beds, and these were things that they heard. sergio and his team would ensure furniture items and beds for the children to ensure that the family was comfortable at their home. sergio thanks and credits his team for the location and assembly of those items for those families who never would have been able to have those items without those services. sergio believes that this strengthens the community, so i just want to thank him for his tremendous work and giving bac

supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: please add me as a cosponsor. i want to appreciate and this is something long overdue. something that i think remised to look over very often. having this be something that the formalized, i want to thank supervisor ronen and the larger native american community and 150 tribes here in california. very proud to be cosponsor of this and thank you supervisor ronen for your leadership. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you president walton. thank you supervisor ronen for your leadership on this resolution. please add me as a cosponsor, i would appreciate it. >> clerk: through the. to the supervisors, we have mandelman, preston, walton, peskin and safai. just adding. and now supervisor melgar. >> president walton: thank you for the clarification. supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: add me as a cosponsor as well. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: add me as a conference cover -- cosponsor. >> supervisor ronen: i motion to make the amendm

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: yes. due to a meet-and-confer on this item, i'm requesting this item be continued until the next meeting. >> president walton: thank you. is that a motion, supervisor? >> supervisor safai: yes, sir. >> president walton: motion to continue this item to next week's november 23 meeting. >> president walton: oh, i'm sorry, to november 30 meeting. do we have a second? supervisor stefani seconds. madam clerk, on the motion. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item 4 to the next meeting, the november 30, 2021 meeting -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this item is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is an ordinance authorizing the municipal transportation agency to set parking rates at the kezar stadium parking lot and golden gate park underground parking facility in accord oens with park code provisions -- accordance with park code and affirming the ceqa determination. >> president

supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, chair peskin and supervisor safai. i think it's important and good legislation in response to a very real need. i think we've been hearing now from multiple retailers around the city it's not just walgreens or cvs or target or safeway it's all of them seeing something very troubling. when it hits a store like the castro safeway as it done in unprecedented fashion over the last six months that's a challenge for lots of folks of course for the workers who work in the stores and need to be save and have jobs and also a problem often for lower-income communities and folks that may be getting their food, their prescriptions and may need to go to safeway at 2:00 in the morning because of an unusual work schedule. you can step inside one of these stores as supervisor safai did and see extraordinary and bad things happening i think this is a smart solution. i know from some of the walgreens where they put in a 10d officer it makes a difference when they have them but we know there's not enough officers to go around and this he

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: yes. due to a meet-and-confer on this item, i'm requesting this item be continued until the next meeting. >> president walton: thank you. is that a motion, supervisor? >> supervisor safai: yes, sir. >> president walton: motion to continue this item to next week's november 23 meeting. >> president walton: oh, i'm sorry, to november 30 meeting. do we have a second? supervisor stefani seconds. madam clerk, on the motion. >> clerk: on the motion to continue item 4 to the next meeting, the november 30, 2021 meeting -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are ten ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this item is passed on first reading unanimously. madam clerk, please call item number 5. >> clerk: item number 5 is an ordinance authorizing the municipal transportation agency to set parking rates at the kezar stadium parking lot and golden gate park underground parking facility in accord oens with park code provisions -- accordance with park code and affirming the ceqa determination. >> president

supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> supervisor safai: thank you, chair peskin, i appreciate the opportunity to just say a few last words. i just want to emphasize to the public and also for the record, the main driving force behind this legislation has been the uptick in retail theft that we've seen in our city. this type of brazen theft has impacted the well being of our front line workers that work in a lot of these stores. it's impacted the well-being and the psychology of shoppers and people that frequent these stores, often neighborhood stores both small and big and it's impacted the perception of san francisco. so, for me, we wanted to put together a working group and i've called that working group out last week. it's co-chaired by police chief bill scott, but i want to make sure to thank all the members that participated and support this legislation. sheriff mianmotto police chief scott. san francisco chamber of commerce. the san francisco counsel of district merchants. many of our community benefits districts, particularly the union square, cbd as well as fisherman's wha

supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: please add me as a cosponsor. i want to appreciate and this is something long overdue. something that i think remised to look over very often. having this be something that the formalized, i want to thank supervisor ronen and the larger native american community and 150 tribes here in california. very proud to be cosponsor of this and thank you supervisor ronen for your leadership. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you president walton. thank you supervisor ronen for your leadership on this resolution. please add me as a cosponsor, i would appreciate it. >> clerk: through the. to the supervisors, we have mandelman, preston, walton, peskin and safai. just adding. and now supervisor melgar. >> president walton: thank you for the clarification. supervisor mar. >> supervisor mar: add me as a cosponsor as well. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: add me as a conference cover -- cosponsor. >> supervisor ronen: i motion to make the amendm

vice chair safai . [roll call vote] we have 3 aye's. >> chair: now i want to move the item to the full board with apositive recommendation as amended . can we have to roll call please? >> clerk: [roll call vote] >> i couldn't hear. >> clerk: [roll call vote] we have 3 aye's. >> chair: it will go to the full board with a positive recommendation . thank you, i know we will see you a little bit later inthe meeting . mister clark, can you please call item 4. >> clerk: item 4 is a resolution authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand a grant in the amount of 6 million on the mental health services oversight and accountability commission or participation in the program entitled mental health student services act of 2019 . first period of october 1, 2021. through september 30, 2025. members who wish to provide public commentshould call 415-655-0001 meeting id , 2493 341 1331. then press pound twice. if you have not done so plus áthree assistant prompt will indicate you have raised your ha

[roll call vote] there are 3 aye's. >> chair: thank you supervisor safai.m clerk, please call item . >> clerk: hearing to receive updates on the implementation and funding of the city's urban canopy maintenance waterand retention replacement and expansion plan . including all trees on public property and in and francisco parts as well as the trees. proposition e in 2016 and reflecting public works recreation park department and public utilities commission to report. i thought our members who wish toprovide public comment they should call the publiccomment number now, 415-655-0001 . enter the meeting id of 2493 569 4649 . then pound and pound again to connect to themeeting. once connected please press star three to enter that you to speak at a system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait for public comment on this item and when the system indicates you have been unneeded that willbe assigned to begin . the chair . >> chair: thank you supervisor peskin for calling this hearing and this is a follow-up to part one in october where we had an infor

i'm a legislative aide and i'm here on behalf of supervisor safai district 7 supervisor. the office of cannabis is permitting a process that's progressed much more slowly anticipated and as a result, medical cannabis dispensaries are spending significant periods of times under the m.c.d. authorization. the proposed changes are the same requirements made of cannabis business permits under article 16 of the police code or the adult use operators. this legislation strengthens our equity and apprenticeships programs by legislating for all qualified dispensaries in san francisco and just in terms of who we work with to develop this legislation, the office of cannabis and john pierce is with me here today. u.f.c.w.5 and oewd, we all collaborated together to work on this to create something that was very useful. so the proposed changes and, again, this is an amendment to current legislation. the proposed changes would, one, the ordinance will require the temporary medicinal cannabis dispensaries to ensure that 35% of hires are from certified apprenticeship programs to the extent

i see supervisor safai. b.l.a., do you want to make your comments now, supervisor safai? >> just to a say a few words. thank you, caroline for being here today. she has been such an amazing partner. we honored her and meta, particularly her for her amazing work. not a lot of women of color in the field. and she called her on a friday, she called me back on a monday. and i think by the next week we had an offer in on the largest acquisition in city's history in my district. so i am an extreme supporter of the small-site program. i think that building has 23 units, five commercial spaces. we did another one last year, in fact, the only small-site acquisition in the entire city with meta's help again. if you drive by it, you'll think you're in miami, it's an interesting color choice, but it's pretty cool. and it's already gotten attention of the neighbors. so i'm a big, big supporter of keeping people in the communities in which they've resided for a long time. this is a real tremendous tool. but this tool definitely needs a reboot. and the fact that we only did one acquisit

>> second safai. >> okay. public comment, please. >> members of the public who wish to provide public comment call 415-655-0001, access code (146)680-4497. pound and pound again. if you have not done so press star 3 to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. wait until you are unmuted to begin your comments. state your name. you have two minutes to provide comments. do we have callers on the line? >> madam secretary, there is one caller on the line. >> thank you, please state your name. your two minutes begin when you speak. >> hello. i am richard halstead calling on behalf of my wife who retired as a nurse at san francisco general hospital and son developmentally disabled. will he end up homeless and hungry? how will he access healthcare and basic needs. a portion of my wife's pension reduced to my son. the system requirement that payments be made directly to him not to a special needs trust severely under mines the effectiveness of the benefit. survivor immunity by adults with disab

supervisor safaie. >> thank you, chair. i think this is an important piece of work that the city is doing, but i do have a few questions. my office reached out to the department of public health. i just want a couple of questions answered on the record. so my understanding is that as well as doing needle distribution, is this contract or the individuals on the street handing out fentanyl strips and can you talk about that for a moment? >> i work with nicole and tracy. distribution of the fentanyl test trips is part of every interaction. along with that is training on how to use the sfent nil test strips properly. i often say that syringe access and disposal is not the proper name for it because it is comprehensive and it is an opportunity to connect people that are often not connected to services. so we often offer this as a gateway for those who use drugs. >> what are the priority neighborhoods you have identified in this contract or the work that you're doing? >> the syringe sites are at set locations. your office did rea

and i believe it was seconded by supervisor safai. madame clerk on the motion. >> clerk: to approve item 18 and table 19 and 20. supervisor haney. aye. supervisor mandelman. aye. supervisor mar. aye. >> supervisor melgar. aye. supervisor peskin. aye. supervisor preston. aye. supervisor safai. aye. supervisor stefani. aye. supervisor walton. aye. supervisor chan. aye. there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: thank you, without objection item 18 is approved and items 19 and 20 are tabled. [gavel] this does conclude our 3:00 p.m. special order. madame clerk let's go back to item 10. >> clerk: it's to development - continuum of care program - not to exceed $59,300,000] sponsor: mayor resolution approving the 2021 >> supervisor: thank you. please call the roll. >> clerk: supervisor haney. aye. supervisor mandelman. aye. supervisor melgar. aye. supervisor peskin. aye. supervisor preston. aye. supervisor ronen. aye. supervisor safai. aye. supervisor stefani. aye. supervisor walton. aye. supervisor chan. aye. there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor: thank

[applause] >> thank you, supervisor safai, for your kind words.e are still here on the map. and that we are part of san francisco. so thank you so much. i would like to introduce our next presenters, bill witty is the chairman and the c.e.o. of related california, one of the state's largest developers of affordable housing and it's based here in san francisco. since he founded related california more than 30 years ago, bill was overseeing the development of 16,000 residences, completed over 12,000 affordable units. his counterpart anne silverberg is the chief executive officer for related california, and northern california affordable and northwest division. she's responsible for the strategic direction, overall management, and daily operations of the company's $2 billion affordable portfolio. in just over three years, anne has grown the northern california and oregon affordable pipelines to approximately 4,000 units under construction and in pre-development. that's a lot of work. that's a lot of work that our partners related california is doing.