here in sunny dale and with the reconstruction of the long overdue transformation of the san francisco housing authority. we are building and rehabbing housing, creating stronger and healthier communities and investing in the people who live there. we owe it to them to keep our commitment and make a difference for this community and those across the city. with every decision we make, i want to make sure that equity and accountability are at the forefront of our minds. we have to be focused on people in all neighborhoods, like the people who live here, who for too long have been living with broken pipes, mold, infestations, dilapidated conditions. people like breanna, a third generation resident. she and her three sisters have lived through the conditions you saw today. despite these challenges, breanna is a leader in her community, and she is fighting for the next generation. she has not given up on this community and we will not give up on you. we have to be accountable to the thousands of residents across the city living in public housing and our low income communities. our budget would be accountable

ami, the only opportunity to move out of sro is through housing voucher provided by the san francisco housing authority. therefore, the sro families united collaborated is asking for new housing choice voucher that will support up to 50 families to move out and 25 moving in. 100,000 for additional staffing as the sro families collaborative to support families. thank you for your time, and again, support. thank you so much. [speaking native language] >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is mary. as you have heard today, we have a severe crisis, housing crisis. as an outreach worker and the mission i'm seeing firsthand the travesty that our families are suffering. we are asking for our families. we are asking for 5.5 million for housing. that would allow for 50 families to move out of sro hotels. and 25 families that will be allowed by the moving on initiative. that will be able to move from the housing units with assisted living. making room for other families that are homeless. [speaking native language] with an additional $100,000 for personal, for staff and family collaboratives. to live in the sr

house, same call? this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call the next item. >> thirty-four is resolution to authorize adoption of the san francisco mental health services act annual update for fiscal year 2019 through 2020. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? this resolution is adopted unanimously. next item, please. >> thirty-five is a resolution to approve an amendment number 4 to a san francisco public utilities commission agreement for preliminary design and environmental services, power transmission project with urs corporation americas to increase the amount for a total not to exceed $11.5 million, a total duration of 11 years and eight months and to execute a name change from u.r.s. corporation america's to u.r.s. corporation. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call item 36. >> thirty-six is a resolution to approve the fourth amendment to a contract between the municipal transportation agency and the transbay joint powers authority for transbay transit center program services to extend the term through december 31st, 2019 and to

house same call? without is adopted unanimously. madame clerk please call the next item . item 42, 190766, resoln authorizing the san franciscoublic utilities commission to accept and expend a grant in an amount not to exceed $3,759,822 from the california state water resources control board for planning, design, and construction of the sewer system improvement program baker beach green street early implementation project for the period of november 4, 2017, through march 21, 2022. >> supervisor yee: can we take this item same house same call? without objection this resolution is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item . item 43, 190764, resoln approving and authorizing the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute documents relating to loans for the acquisition, rehabilitation, or permanent financing of four project sites pursuant to the small sites program, preservation and seismic safety program, and downtown neighborhoods preservation fund, for a total loan amount not to exceed $37,493,000; confirming the planning department's determination under the california envi

housing approval and accelerate production. item 16, resolution to authorize the acceptance of state grant funds by the san francisco department of public health. item 17 is the resolution to approve the expenditure plans for the department of homelessness and supportive housing for the fund. and item 18 is the resolution to authorize the san francisco public library to accept and expend approximately $808,000 in in-kind gifts, services and cash monies from the friends of the san francisco public library for a variety of public programs and services in fiscal year 2019-2020. >> president yee: okay. i see supervisor peskin. >> supervisor peskin: i would defer to chair fewer, but when the appropriate time comes, i would like to sever item number 9 and offer some amendments to it that i passed out. i just wanted to put that on the record. >> president yee: number 9. >> supervisor peskin: yes, sir. >> supervisor fewer: thank you, president yee. colleagues, i gave my comments and thanks last week when the budget and trailing legislation first appeared on the agenda, but i realized that i did not acknowledge the incredible interns in

. >> good afternoon, commissioners cory smith on behalf of the san francisco action -- housing action coalition. obviously the authorf this has a history with a.d.u.s and is really well documented. we think it is a fantastic opportunity to find some naturally affordable homes that can be created. this conversation of new construction came out and we are also very excited. we just want to make sure that whatever we are doing that we don't just incentivize people from creating these homes and at times, the burdensome process in san francisco can be complicated , it can be confusing in the past it has resulted in a bunch of a.d.u.s being built illegally, which we know has run rampant. i don't think this will happen as much a new construction, but whatever we can do to make sure that we are not inhibiting or stopping people in any way from adding these homes, because there are opportunities for people. we don't want to miss out on that opportunity. thank you. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? public comment is closed. commissioner johnson? >> thank you. so this is an issue that we, at the planning com

fewer: 5 and 6 together. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the mayor's office of housing and community development, ton behalf of the city and county of san francisco, to accept and expend the county competitive allocation award in the amount of $18 million under the california department of housing and community development program and number 6 resolution authorizing and delegating the mayor's office of housing and community development, on behalf of the city and county of frisk, to accept and expend the inconsequential non-competitive allocation award. >> items 5 and 6 authorize us on behalf of the city to accept and expend no place like home project designation for competitive funds which is item number 5 and non-competitive funds which is item number 6. the state of california created this program to develop multi-unit housing for people with mental illness, homeless or at risk of chronic homelessness. the no place like home funds was made available to each county's most current sheltered and unsheltered count. we have awarded the city funds based on approval of documents that we have submitted with the county's documentation back earlier in th

san francisco chamber of commerce leadership for him. he also president of the board of community development center. a former member of the housing authority. most recently a member of the hunters point shipyard. he was a community activist. he will be missed. i think we share that with the commission, i just wanted to make sure i shared that again, to extend his service area with that, i have nothing to add. i want to remind folks that the community session is tomorrow. i can send information with regard to ucsf and uc berkeley list and, they are not intending to produce a report. they are there to listen to the community, what they would like to be reflected in the report. it is more like a listening, not an interaction. that would be held at the site office at 6:30. >> there is a question by a member of the commission on the report? >> no area -- -- no. >> the next order of business is item nine jik, commissioners questions on matters area. >> on the report for the resolution, number 12-2019. i noticed on page 3 where it lists the community business organization, we are missing the excess sentence. it is in this report here, it is the r

author working with san francisco and other cities in california. also at the state level, a great piece of news. the affordable housing and sustainable communities grant program has awarded a grant to treasure island. the treasure island development authority, applied for $20 million in funding from this grant program. it rewards affordable housing and transportation infrastructure programs, that demonstrate sustainability features. out of the $20 million awarded, $15 million will fund affordable housing construction on the island and $5 million supporting transportation improvements. we -- on transportation look forward to using the funds for the bicycle pedestrian path come from y.b.i. to the touchdown at treasure island, as well as new a.c. buses, hopefully electric buses. on the lombard street bill, again good news that that bill a.b.1605, sponsor bid us and asked by supervisor stefani, moved out of the governance and finance committee, heads next to the senate transportation committee on july 9th. we hope for a favorable approval there as well. and finally, on the management front, and administration front, we he

200 poles, that includes the poles owned by the housing authority and that are going through the construction site. >> supervisor fewer: okay. so san francisco puc owns 200 power poles? >> correct. >> supervisor fewer: in comparison to the, something, 22,000 -- >> 32,000 by pg&e. >> supervisor fewer: owned by pg&e. so i think it's safe to say the vast majority of these utility poles are owned by -- in some part by pg&e, even if they're jointly owned? >> that's correct. and i also want to clarify -- yeah, so this is basically when you say there is utilities, so under the joint pole agreement a lot of the communication companies are able to attach to the pole on the communication space that they have >> supervisor fewer: so they're able to attach to your poles? >> they do if they apply. we're also part of the joint pole agreement. we're the base owners >> supervisor fewer: so you -- all of you -- so this association is getting really -- >> we don't have any ownership on the pg&e poles that i know about, of that 32,000 poles, because we don't have any facilities to attach. >> supervisor fewer: okay. but on your 200 poles, and you're just up 200

under the false front of teacher housing in our constitution is another way of bypassing the legislative authority which actually represents more of the people of san francisco than the mayor's office. and i just think that i want to associate myself particularly with supervisor fewer's remarks at the opening, i feel like they covered the realm of what has really been happening and echoed by those of you up there. and i hope to see frankly that the overwhelming majority of the board supports -- [microphone cut off] supervisors, my name is ken tray, served san francisco unified school district from 1985 to 2017. most of those years was as a classroom teacher teaching social studies. working with the children of san francisco. i'm here today representing uesf, a staff member of the union in support of the initiative. there was some illusion earlier to whether we worked with the mayor's office or with the supervisors. i think uesf would say as up front as we can that we started good faith negotiations with both sides of the legislature here in city hall. we did meet with the mayor's office, talking about the charter amendment. never really had an opportunity to

commentator and author of the book divided we stand the search for america's soul and in san francisco we have christine pelosi she is a democratic strategist and the daughter of the house speaker nancy pelosi welcome to you all right to start with i do want to read you all a subsequent tweet from donald trump after the initial tweets that we had he says those tweets were not racist i don't have a racist bone in my body christopher you're a staunch supporter of the president where the president's initial comments racist . there in my view the president's comments were not roses at all here and fox was expressing an opinion that is held by many people the difference is he says what he has to say it is not politically incorrect about it i don't see the racial angle here on this tweet i'm christopher i do want to ask you about that because you're saying that he's saying that other people and said same the similar views and therefore it's not racist but surely other people could also have racist views or just saying that he's speaking on behalf of lots of people doesn't make his tweets not racist. well in fact the president look in my experience i have no reason to believe

authorities at one point one of the men broke into a house in broadmoor and tried to hide. they say one of the san francisco carjacking victims had been pistol whipped. >> reporter: i'm jackie ward live from san francisco city hall. a nonprofit into cisco putting a challenge out there to everyone who lives in the city. it is basically in anti-nimby campaign expected to improve the homelessness situation here. the nonprofit, tipping point, says the loudest waste is to in the homelessness crisis and sometimes it means grading affordable housing places other than soma and the tenderloin. it is challenging. the goal is to has 1100 people in the next two years. right now there are 268 affordable housing projects in the works in san francisco and most of those buildings are concentrated on the east side of the city. this petition is asking th build something.>> the politici mmun thr ba ehaveey will be e cr epic proption truck mental health care and substance abuse on-site of to the city to be provided. tipping point spent 27 my dollars as part of the but. 100,000,005 years to cut the cities homeless population in

san francisco county transportation authority for today, tuesday, july 9th, 2019 mr. clark, please call the role. [roll call] we have a quorum. >> thank you. colleagues, a couple of pieces of the house cleaning. one is that commissioner stefani his not with us today, so can we have a motion to excuse her? made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by commissioner brown. we will take that by -- without objection. at 11:00 a.m. we're going to have to recess for a press conference on the steps of this building and we will reconvene when that press conference is done. with that, please call you next item. >> item citizen advisory report. >> good morning. >> good morning commissioners. i am john larson, chair of the citizen's advisory committee and i'm here to report on the june 26th meeting of the,. beginning with items five and six and the fund exchange, million-dollar fund exchange to effectuate that project, we recommended approval of the fund exchange and inquired about certain aspects of better market street. one continuing concern voiced is the current design of the ventilation grates and bicyclists getting their tires caught in them. project staff noted that the proposed sidewalk l

san francisco's district ten? and i work with ruby, and she managed our housing portfolio which is within the justice and opportunity initiative. i believe ruby would be an excellent member of the treasure island development authority for three reasons. first her passion for housing is undeniable. her career speaks to this issue, and seeing it from multiple points. she has helped craft a comprehensive nuanced strategy to develop housing in our region and in our state. she is able to push for very bold solutions for our housing. i've seen firsthand that ruby does this beautifully. third, she is committed to ensuring equity and addressing the consequences that may impact the most vulnerable residences. she makes sure that no one is left out of living in the city and benefiting from our region's growth. so i think that ruby would be an excellent addition to the committee and i fully support her recommendation to the committee. thank you. >> supervisor walton: next speaker. >> hi. i'm anna lee gould. i've known ruby over a decade as well and her commitment not only to the members of san francisco but to the members of this most vulnerable community is something that's truly drawn me and others to her. i started working

housing development goals are in this city, and they are many and they're deep. >> supervisor peskin: and today -- i don't want to be argumentative, but in today's san francisco examiner, the president of uesf actually authoredhat supports the measure that supervisor fewer and two other former board of education presidents and this supervisor introduced and does not support the charter amendment that being done in our name. >> and with all due respect to the president of the board, the initiative ordinance recommended by the afford and put forward by the board also will not help francis scott key accelerate its development, and so there has not been in my view a careful analysis of what we actually need to accelerate affordable housing. >> supervisor peskin: i am happy to have a hearing on francis scott key to determine what is true and not true, but i know there was an exchange earlier between yourself and staff to supervisor fewer's office where there seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether or not that project is an sb 35 project or not. we believe it is. >> it currently doesn't qualify for sb 35 because the project had to be rezoned, and the unit mix of the initiative proposed by the board would

authorities and say that no one was living in the warehouse. >>> san francisco voter also decide this fall on a plan for more affordable housing. supervisors have approved a $600 million housing bond. it would allow for the construction of nearly 3,000 new low income housing units. some of those units could be available within a matter of a few years, provided the bond measure is approved. >>> new details san mateo, santa clara county officials are inspecting areas after native fruit flies were found and the bugs are considered a threat to wildlife. crews are placing insect traps near the discovery site in palo alto and also checking east palo alto and menlo park. according to county officials, exotic pets like to hitchhike on fruits and produce transported illegally from other countries. >>> new for you this morning, some researchers believe going forward, rainy season may be on again/off again phenomena in california, meaning they alternate between dry and extremely wet years. according to "the chronicle" the ucsd study looked at future models. they see atmospheric rivers happening every other year. overall, rain rates would