president and supervisor shamann walton. >> president walton: seconded. clerk can we have the roll, please. >> it seems madam clerk may be having issues. on the motion to continue the item 11 to may 11th, 2021, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you. the motion carries unanimously. thank you so much, lisa. madam clerk, we are now going to skip items 29, our closed session item and item 30 and come back to them after we do items that are for adoption without committee reference. would you please call item 31 through 39. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. and thank you to the legislative deputy lisa samara much appreciated filling in for me for that. >> president walton: welcome back. >> clerk: thank you, kindly. items 31 through 39 were introduced for domgs without reference if to committee. the unanimously vote is required for resolutions today. alternatively any member may require resolution to go to committee. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: president walton, may i pleas

president. >> president walton: thank you. would you please present the in memo up. >> clerk: today's journey will be adjourned in loved memorial on behalf of president walton for mr. randy armstrong. >> president walton: thank you. do we have any other business today, madam clerk? >> clerk: i would just like to point out there is an eclipse of the moon. it's a super flower blood moon this evening. everyone should check that out if you're awake. but that would conclude our business for today, mr. president. >> president walton: thank you so much. that should be a great sight and we will end today's meeting with the following. not everything that is fixed can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. james baldwin. this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. [♪♪♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> district nine

. >> president walton: thank you madam clerk. the board of supervisors acknowledges we are on the unseededancestral homeland of the ramakrishna alumni who are the originalinhabitants of the san francisco peninsula . as the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their tradition , they have never forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place. as well as for our people who reside in their traditional territory. as yetwe recognize that we benefit from living and working on their 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 right as first people. would you please place your right hand over your heart and join me in the pledge of allegiance ? ipledge allegianceto the flag of the united states of america and to therepublic for which it stands , one nation , under god , indivisible with liberty and justice for all. and on behalf of the board of supervisors i would like to

thank you, president walton. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor haney. madam clerk, would you please call the roll on item 2. >> clerk: on item 2 -- [roll call] [please stand by] >> clerk: supervisor safai. >> aye. >> supervisor walton aye. supervisor chan, aye. supervisor haney, aye. supervisor mandelman, aye. supervisor mar, aye. supervisor melgar, aye. there are 11 ayes. >> without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. [gavel] madame clerk please call item 7. >> clerk: approved the third amendment. this say resolution to the terminal 2 news stand and lease between world duty free group llp and the city for a term extension with no change to the current minimum annual guarantee subject to adjustment and accordance with the terms and conditions including a condition authorizing to terminate within advance of six months of the lease. >> commissioner: and call 8. >> clerk: the secondary movement to the luggage cart lease between smart cart inc. and the city and authorizes the luggage cart service and the federal inspection service area to charg

president and supervisor shamann walton. >> president walton: seconded. madam clerk can we have the roll, please. >> it seems madam clerk may be having issues. on the motion to continue the item 11 to may 11th, 2021, [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: thank you. the motion carries unanimously. thank you so much, lisa. madam clerk, we are now going to skip items 29, our closed session item and item 30 and come back to them after we do items that are for adoption without committee reference. would you please call item 31 through 39. >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. and thank you to the legislative deputy lisa samara much appreciated filling in for me for that. >> president walton: welcome back. >> clerk: thank you, kindly. items 31 through 39 were introduced for domgs without reference if to committee. the unanimously vote is required for resolutions today. alternatively any member may require resolution to go to committee. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor stefani. >> supervisor stefani: president walton, may i

>> you've got me on that one president walton. it is essentially the same program but we have to retool it. we were originally going to launch the pilot last year. our partner with city college with their esl team whose budget got cut right before the pandemic, so we weren't able to launch it. we were going to have city college certify everyone who went through the training. that didn't happen. we're projecting a soft launch right now. a version of that testing how community interpreters who have gone through our interpreter training, how they can assist during some public meetings and these are more for when the public meetings involve an affected population in the city who is lap. we have a small $30,000 pilot fund set aside. city college needed something like $300,000 to launch. that's not something our little office could do. we said let's start small. we're good at developing a pilot and doing all the metrics and assessing and evaluating it. and then you could scale it up. that's pretty much what we're doing now and our plan

this is blaise walton. the story of what happened to him and his brother. but he wanted to tell it starting from the beginning. the two brothers had just paid and we're still standing at the checkout line when they saw something strange. and was the first thing you hear that's weird? >> everybody looks to the main entrance. and we all looked as well. then a loud sound happens and three people go flying and that's when people realize what is going on. and they run. >> three people flying into the air? >> they just fell backwards. it was scary. >> did you think it was a bomb or something? >> i thought it was a bomb at first. but then when i heard the two gunfire sounds, i knew it was in just a bomb. it was something else. >> he knew he had to protect himself. and more than that, he knew he was responsible for his younger brother. you grabbed your brother? >> yeah. >> as fast as you could? >> yeah. and just ran. >> were you pushing him? >> yes. >> you didn't want him to see it? >> no. >> that's hard for -- it

>> you've got me on that one president walton. it is essentially the same program but we have to retool it. we were originally going to launch the pilot last year. our partner with city college with their esl team whose budget got cut right before the pandemic, so we weren't able to launch it. we were going to have city college certify everyone who went through the training. that didn't happen. we're projecting a soft launch right now. a version of that testing how community interpreters who have gone through our interpreter training, how they can assist during some public meetings and these are more for when the public meetings involve an affected population in the city who is lap. we have a small $30,000 pilot fund set aside. city college needed something like $300,000 to launch. that's not something our little office could do. we said let's start small. we're good at developing a pilot and doing all the metrics and assessing and evaluating it. and then you could scale it up. that's pretty much what we're doing now and our plan

>> you've got me on that one president walton. it is essentially the same program but we have to retool it. we were originally going to launch the pilot last year. our partner with city college with their esl team whose budget got cut right before the pandemic, so we weren't able to launch it. we were going to have city college certify everyone who went through the training. that didn't happen. we're projecting a soft launch right now. a version of that testing how community interpreters who have gone through our interpreter training, how they can assist during some public meetings and these are more for when the public meetings involve an affected population in the city who is lap. we have a small $30,000 pilot fund set aside. city college needed something like $300,000 to launch. that's not something our little office could do. we said let's start small. we're good at developing a pilot and doing all the metrics and assessing and evaluating it. and then you could scale it up. that's pretty much what we're doing now and our plan

>> you've got me on that one president walton. it is essentially the same program but we have to retool it. we were originally going to launch the pilot last year. our partner with city college with their esl team whose budget got cut right before the pandemic, so we weren't able to launch it. we were going to have city college certify everyone who went through the training. that didn't happen. we're projecting a soft launch right now. a version of that testing how community interpreters who have gone through our interpreter training, how they can assist during some public meetings and these are more for when the public meetings involve an affected population in the city who is lap. we have a small $30,000 pilot fund set aside. city college needed something like $300,000 to launch. that's not something our little office could do. we said let's start small. we're good at developing a pilot and doing all the metrics and assessing and evaluating it. and then you could scale it up. that's pretty much what we're doing now and our plan

>> yeah, and thank you, president walton. as you know, and said, we announced last week that we're re-opening city hall to the public on june 7. what that means is the assessor's office, the county clerk, city hall events, elections office, office of small businesses and the treasurer's tax collector will be open for in-person services. and that means we will have tourists wonned wandering the hall, people taking photos and weddings in the rotunda. as hard as it is to deal with the challenges that you face, nothing more can lift you up than walking to the second floor and seeing all the amazing weddings take place. the city administrator's office under the leadership of carmen chiu is working already hard that collaboration with the department of public health, human resources and the labor partners to reopen services beyond what is happening here at city hall. as services reopen, we will be sure they are posted publicly on sfgov.org and i want to take this opportunity to recognize the hard work of all of our san francisco em

>> yeah, and thank you, president walton. as you know, and said, we announced last week that we're re-opening city hall to the public on june 7. what that means is the assessor's office, the county clerk, city hall events, elections office, office of small businesses and the treasurer's tax collector will be open for in-person services. and that means we will have tourists wonned wandering the hall, people taking photos and weddings in the rotunda. as hard as it is to deal with the challenges that you face, nothing more can lift you up than walking to the second floor and seeing all the amazing weddings take place. the city administrator's office under the leadership of carmen chiu is working already hard that collaboration with the department of public health, human resources and the labor partners to reopen services beyond what is happening here at city hall. as services reopen, we will be sure they are posted publicly on sfgov.org and i want to take this opportunity to recognize the hard work of all of our san francisco em

thank you, president walton, for putting this together. it does amazing to see your vision of this coming together, this vision of what reparation means and to make it meaningful, frankly for the black community in san francisco has been suffering way too long and to see how you brought all these people together from all walks of life, black community members, just really passionate about this. from the older generation to the younger generation and different kind of expertise and i find it amazing to see this. thank you so much. >> thank you, supervisor chan. i don't see supervisor mandelman's name on the list. >> i want to thank president walton and all of the applicants. i'm looking forward to receiving their work back and this is an important conversation for san francisco to be having and i hope we can come up with models that are along overdue national models for the country. it is going on 200 years late, but hoping that our reparations advisory committee can help us get to the right place. thank you, everyone. >> if you for those c

just want to add my voice to the appreciation for folks for president walton in calling the hearing and also to all of the presenters for your work for language access. and also really want to associate myself with the remarks of vice chair chan, particularly around accountability and looking forward to ways the board can help with accountability and compliance. i would urge the public to read the report that is part of the agenda. taking the time to read through that in detail, i learned an incredible amount. and i think that's enormous amount of work going into the report. i want to acknowledge that and thank you for all of that work. and also, i knew i appreciated the work of the office for having your talented folks assist the board to make sure folks can have access during this time, especially during this time where folks can't be in the building physically. what i didn't know is you only have 2.5 positions in your office to provide that service to any city department. my appreciation for that, you're making your folks available to the board of supervisors and the public. i have o

president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair haney. i'm going to be brief. my colleagues have said everything and i know we had a thorough hearing on the item last week. i want to reemphasize, this is the best time to do this pilot in a fiscally responsible manner and because we owe it to mt a to do everything we can to get people back on our buses and rail system and reducing the barrier of cost when we can afford it is the right thing to do for muni and its ridership. thank you supervisor preston for bringing this forward and i look forward to continuing to support this. >> supervisor haney: thank you president walton. we said a lot about this at the last hearing. i do want to say that, and maybe it was only something reported publicly, and we knew it at the time, there was an article that put out there that muni ridership was at 30% of prepandemic levels. if that doesn't tell us that we need to do all we can to get people back on buses and trains, i don't know what does. 30% of prepandemic levels on muni and we're almost at 100% of congestion already even

president. >> president walton: thank you. would you please present the in memo up. >> clerk: today's journey will be adjourned in loved memorial on behalf of president walton for mr. randy armstrong. >> president walton: thank you. do we have any other business today, madam clerk? >> clerk: i would just like to point out there is an eclipse of the moon. it's a super flower blood moon this evening. everyone should check that out if you're awake. but that would conclude our business for today, mr. president. >> president walton: thank you so much. that should be a great sight and we will end today's meeting with the following. not everything that is fixed can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. james baldwin. this meeting is adjourned. >> clerk: thank you. >> good afternoon this is the meeting of the san francisco port commission. tuesday april 27, 2021. item number one is roll call. [roll call] commissioner woo ho having audio problems. item number two is approval of minutes for the april 13, 2021 port co

president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair haney. i'm going to be brief.lleagues have said everything and i know we had a thorough hearing on the item last week. i want to reemphasize, this is the best time to do this pilot in a fiscally responsible manner and because we owe it to mt a to do everything we can to get people back on our buses and rail system and reducing the barrier of cost when we can afford it is the right thing to do for muni and its ridership. thank you supervisor preston for bringing this forward and i look forward to continuing to support this. >> supervisor haney: thank you president walton. we said a lot about this at the last hearing. i do want to say that, and maybe it was only something reported publicly, and we knew it at the time, there was an article that put out there that muni ridership was at 30% of prepandemic levels. if that doesn't tell us that we need to do all we can to get people back on buses and trains, i don't know what does. 30% of prepandemic levels on muni and we're almost at 100% of congestion already even thoug

thank you very much. >> supervisor walton: thank you. we received a lot of information during the presentation and we'll have some questions but first, we want to hear from members of our language access network. so we have annette wong, chinese affirmative action and claudette dean, all of them part of the language access network. you are up. >> thank you for the opportunity. good morning. thank you for the opportunity to speak today on behalf of the language access network and for hosting the hearing on language access. we appreciate the city's commitment to equitable access to services regardless of language. we appreciate the opportunity to share with you about language access services. the language access network of san francisco was formed in 2012, a collaboration of some of the city's leading immigrant services providing organizations who have been supporting limited english proficient speaking communities for decades. our mission is to advance language justice strengthening and advocates with immigrant communities to overcome lan

item number 38, please. >> president walton: thank you.k, will you please call the role on the remaining items. >> clerk: on items 36, 37, 39, 40, and 41. [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: . thank you, without objection these items are adopted. >> clerk: item 34 is a motion to approve final map number 1067 -- i'm sorry. 10674. comprised of lots one, two, and 3, located at 2150 through 2166 hayes street and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. president. i just wanted to call the roll separately on this one. >> president walton: sounds good. please call the roll for item 34. >> clerk: on item 34 [roll call] there are eight ayes and three noes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. would you please call item 38. >> clerk: item 38 is supporting california state assembly bill number 666. by david chiu and would require the state that evaluates the current state of the substance abuse work force. >> president walton:

thank you, supervisor walton for your leadership, president walton on that and so many others. i know george floyd's death has not been in vein in the san francisco. we are committed. i as one of the 11 members on this board. in terms of the introductions today. i will be introducing a resolution and ordinance in the nexus of the work we are doing that needs to be done to continue equal and equitable access in our democracy. states tried to exclude who can vote, when to vote and how it can be counted. our state legislators such as mark burman are seeking greater access to voting. my resolution in support of ab37 requires all ballots to every registered voter permanently. we experienced historic couple half point below historic turnout in the city in november. 86 -- 86.33 ballots were done by mail-in-ballots. we have to increase accessible voting for everybody. my resolution seeks to support ab37. that will accomplish this goal. secondly i have an ordinance to require san francisco department of elections to distribute vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters including thos

item number 38, please. >> president walton: thank you. and, madam clerk, will you please call the role on the remaining items. >> clerk: on items 36, 37, 39, 40, and 41. [roll call] there are eleven ayes. >> president walton: . thank you, without objection these items are adopted. >> clerk: item 34 is a motion to approve final map number 1067 -- i'm sorry. 10674. comprised of lots one, two, and 3, located at 2150 through 2166 hayes street and to adopt the appropriate findings. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, mr. president. i just wanted to call the roll separately on this one. >> president walton: sounds good. please call the roll for item 34. >> clerk: on item 34 [roll call] there are eight ayes and three noes. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. would you please call item 38. >> clerk: item 38 is supporting california state assembly bill number 666. by david chiu and would require the state that evaluates the current state of the substance abuse work force. >> p

commissioner walton? >> president walton: my apologies, president mandelman.t to say that it's been a long morning, but we will double down at 2:00. >> chair mandelman: thank you, commissioner walton. i will do my best to get us through general public comment in time to allow that to happen, if we have general public comment. >> chair, did you get commissioner preston? okay. just checking. >> chair mandelman: i think we got commissioner preston. so i guess my only thoughts on this, at the end of this very, very, very long hearing is, for me, personally, i have a long record of supporting car-free j.f.k. i'm a member of the democratic [inaudible] committee back in 2007, supported healthy saturdays, and i think, you know, i have experience, along with a lot of other folks -- i have experienced, along with a lot of other folks, the joy of that car free space. i also think that many of my colleagues and others have raised critical, critically important equity situations touched on by the work of the working group and have been also discussed here, and i know that

>> supervisor: thank you, president walton. i could not allow this item to pass without noting that today is the opening day for the second but first ever community-based hummingbird behavioral health navigation center. it's been a long and wine windy visit from two years ago through the pandemic and various unforeseen project complication. but valencia hummingbird in district 8 finally opened its doors this morning. i know all agree every unhoused person with significant behavioral health issues should have an immediate low barrier exit from the street and no person should be released from the jail or hospital back to the street. the hummingbird model success at sf general shows us one path to get there. and i do want to thank d.p.h., salvation army, prc, tipping point, mayor breed and her staff and aaron mundy on my staff for the work of this project, and now we just need about a dozen more. thank you. >> president: thank you, supervisor mandelman. madam clerk, please call the roll on item five. >> clerk: on item five, superv

commissioner walton? >> >> clerk: we have quorum. public comment will be available for each comment via telephone by calling 415-655-0001 and entering access code i.d. 1873480602, and then pound and pound again. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. dial *3 to be added to the queue to speak. when the system says your line is unmuted, the operator will tell you you're allowed two minutes to speak. calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. best practices are to speak slowly and clearly and turn down the volume of any radios or telus televisions around you. and that concludes the announcement. >> chairman: thank you, madam clerk. >> safai is present. >> chairman: safai is present. the stefani has informed she has to miss portions of the meeting. please call item 2. >> clerk: item 2, the citizens and advisory committee report. this is an information item. >> chairman: chair larsen, take it away. >> okay. good morning, chair mandelman, vice chair peskin and comirgses. commissioners. co

thank you, supervisor walton for your leadership, president walton on that and so many others. i know george floyd's death has not been in vein in the san francisco. we are committed. i as one of the 11 members on this board. in terms of the introductions today. i will be introducing a resolution and ordinance in the nexus of the work we are doing that needs to be done to continue equal and equitable access in our democracy. states tried to exclude who can vote, when to vote and how it can be counted. our state legislators such as mark burman are seeking greater access to voting. my resolution in support of ab37 requires all ballots to every registered voter permanently. we experienced historic couple half point below historic turnout in the city in november. 86 -- 86.33 ballots were done by mail-in-ballots. we have to increase accessible voting for everybody. my resolution seeks to support ab37. that will accomplish this goal. secondly i have an ordinance to require san francisco department of elections to distribute vote-by-mail ballots to all registered voters including thos

president walton? >> president walton: thank you so much, chair haney, and thank you so much and the entire team for the presentation. i do just want to start off by saying that oewd has been very nimble and able to support our families and small businesses through the pandemic. working with the small business commission, of course, along with our office. and so i'm very appreciative of that. and as we look at moving towards permanency with the strategies and policies that we have utilized during the pandemic, like investing in neighborhoods which i know that was pre-pandemic and family relief and even possibilities for right to recover and what that could look like at shared spaces, i want to just make sure that we continue to involve entire communities because these are great programs that have supported the sustainability of our businesses through the pandemic. but there are other things that need to happen as we move towards permanency with these strategies because of the impact they have on neighb

walton and supervisor chan. i right at the outset want to express my appreciation to the groups that have united behind this proposal. that includes the lawyers committee for civil rights, community leadership foundation. chinese progressive association. poverty association, jobs with justice. jobs with action. sf youth, associated students sf state and urban habitat as well as our district 5 member who is a leader on this. many of these individuals and organizations are the same folks that stood up to fare increases last year during the pandemic, we appreciate their long-term and continued support to fare relief for riders in san francisco. the board by 10-1 opposed fare increases. now as people are struggling to recover from the pandemic, public transportation is more critical than ever. all signs suggest we are on the way out of the pandemic. there is good news. we are not there and the future of transit is critical to how we move forward in this recovery. we propose to make muni free as pilot project three m

. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. clerk -- madam clerk, mr. president. sorry. it's been a long day. just want to reiterate some of the points that i made briefly last week. some of that was cut short due to the circumstances. i want to thank my colleagues supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani. this bill would require the department of health care services to do a workforce needs assessment report that evaluates the current state of substance abuse disorder

we wrap up a supervisor walton.nd they have thoughts about ways to lift up black residents in san francisco. as this effort moves forward, how did they provide that input to this committee with a different can reach out to the human rights commission here in san francisco that is going to be facilitating the process, and i want to say thank you so much to director. sure davis for her work and her fight with this, along with all the community. they can also email us. at walton staff at sf god that orc and provide inputting information and will be letting people know how to connect with the task force and about the forms and all of the work we're gonna be doing around reparations here in san francisco. yeah, certainly a big step forward reparations task force formed in the city of san francisco supervisor shaman walton always appreciate your time. thank you for coming on today. thank you so much for having me alright? empowering asian americans. we're going to talk to a bay area marketing executive and advocate about

. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. clerk -- madam clerk, mr. president. sorry. it's been a long day. just want to reiterate some of the points that i made briefly last week. some of that was cut short due to the circumstances. i want to thank my colleagues supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani. this bill would require the department of health care services to do a workforce needs assessment report that evaluates the current state of substance abuse disorder

walton and supervisor chan. i right at the outset want to express my appreciation to the groups that have united behind this proposal. that includes the lawyers committee for civil rights, community leadership foundation. chinese progressive association. poverty association, jobs with justice. jobs with action. sf youth, associated students sf state and urban habitat as well as our district 5 member who is a leader on this. many of these individuals and organizations are the same folks that stood up to fare increases last year during the pandemic, we appreciate their long-term and continued support to fare relief for riders in san francisco. the board by 10-1 opposed fare increases. now as people are struggling to recover from the pandemic, public transportation is more critical than ever. all signs suggest we are on the way out of the pandemic. there is good news. we are not there and the future of transit is critical to how we move forward in this recovery. we propose to make muni free as pilot project three m

president walton? >> president walton: thank you so much, chair haney, and thank you so much and the entire team for the presentation. i do just want to start off by saying that oewd has been very nimble and able to support our families and small businesses through the pandemic. working with the small business commission, of course, along with our office. and so i'm very appreciative of that. and as we look at moving towards permanency with the strategies and policies that we have utilized during the pandemic, like investing in neighborhoods which i know that was pre-pandemic and family relief and even possibilities for right to recover and what that could look like at shared spaces, i want to just make sure that we continue to involve entire communities because these are great programs that have supported the sustainability of our businesses through the pandemic. but there are other things that need to happen as we move towards permanency with these strategies because of the impact they have on neighb

. >> caller: good afternoon, president walton. this is bobby lopez, she, her director of policy of baska a local housing provider. i'm calling in support of item 20 and support of assembly bill 816 homeless plan and item 21, california bill 528 regarding abandoned and lost properties. a.b.816 is paramount to ensuring local governments and state agencies are part of an accountability process by engaging to collectively find solution to our housing crisis. it creates a housing and homeless inspector general position within housing and community development that monitors the implementation of such plans and also ensures there's technical assistance. it's support the corporation for supportive housing and affordable provide and the city of san diego and now on to a.b.528. current law allows non-profits to buy tax defaulted properties. only 55 have been repurposed as affordable housing in the last 10 years. we believe this bill will make that difference to make sure we are preserving the properties for affordable housing or that tenant

and with that, president walton, the floor is yours, sir. >> president walton: thank you so much chair peskin and to all the members of the rules committee. i want to thank you for taking the time to hear this. this is according to our past legislation and experiences working and living in the black community and will be housed under the human rights commission to research, develop and present a true reparations plan with the commitment of resources for the investment in the black with the commitment for all communities and with the organized collaboration between black people here in san francisco. the dreams of equity can only be realized with the and true community ownership. i would like to thank the work of the human rights commission with director cheryl davis and her chief of staff brutally i want to thank black wall street, the san francisco the entire black community, the burns institute and providing space to gather input on what a reparations plan could look like. i would also like to thank deputy city attorney for helping draft this legislation and special thank you to nell

seconded president walton. roll call, please. >> vice chair safai. >> we are going to need him. >> president walton. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> supervisor safai is absent. >> i have to leave for a community meeting. i am so sorry. >> is supervisor mar still here? >> mr. chair. i received an e-mail from supervisor safai's staff indicating that he had to leave the meeting at 6:00. would you like to recess this meeting until supervisor safai rejoins the meeting? >> supervisor walton have you heard? >> i am checking in now. >> i just texted him. >> sure. why don't we recess the meeting for five minutes. >> thank you. we need a quorum to continue. the meeting is recessed. this meeting is reconvened. i may being a motion to excuse supervisors marand ronen. is there a second? >> second safai. >> on that motion vice chair safai. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> there are three ayes. >> great. supervisors marand ronen are excused. we want to reopen public comment on item number 3. tha

president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair haney and director forbes. just have a question because i know you talked about this, i didn't quite catch it. how many disaster service workers were deployed during this time? >> we deployed 90% of our maintenance staff. i think we deployed about 85 or 90 workers. we took a lot of pride in deployment and our staff was excited to be deployed. i just ran into another deployed staffer at the produce market getting my own vaccination and he ran up to me very proud. we enforced it internally and everyone was really happy to step up. >> supervisor walton: i appreciate you including that and also in your report. that's important and i wanted to thank you for that. and also thank you for debriefing my staff thoroughly before today's meeting. that's all i have. >> thank you president walton. >> supervisor haney: thank you. supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: sorry, i didn't but i just want to -- i had a chance to meet briefly with the port staff before the meeting and am grateful you came to us with all the problems

>> yeah, and thank you, president walton.u know, and said, we announced last week that we're re-opening city hall to the public on june 7. what that means is the assessor's office, the county clerk, city hall events, elections office, office of small businesses and the treasurer's tax collector will be open for in-person services. and that means we will have tourists wonned wandering the hall, people taking photos and weddings in the rotunda. as hard as it is to deal with the challenges that you face, nothing more can lift you up than walking to the second floor and seeing all the amazing weddings take place. the city administrator's office under the leadership of carmen chiu is working already hard that collaboration with the department of public health, human resources and the labor partners to reopen services beyond what is happening here at city hall. as services reopen, we will be sure they are posted publicly on sfgov.org and i want to take this opportunity to recognize the hard work of all of our san francisco employee

seconded president walton. roll call, please. >> vice chair safai. >> we are going to need him. >> president walton. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> supervisor safai is absent. >> i have to leave for a community meeting. i am so sorry. >> is supervisor mar still here? >> mr. chair. i received an e-mail from supervisor safai's staff indicating that he had to leave the meeting at 6:00. would you like to recess this meeting until supervisor safai rejoins the meeting? >> supervisor walton have you heard? >> i am checking in now. >> i just texted him. >> sure. why don't we recess the meeting for five minutes. >> thank you. we need a quorum to continue. the meeting is recessed this meeting is reconvened. i may being a motion to excuse supervisors marand ronen. is there a second? >> second safai. >> on that motion vice chair safai. >> aye. >> member walton. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> there are three ayes. >> great. supervisors marand ronen are excused. we want to reopen public comment on item number 3. than

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president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair haney. i'm going to be brief.thorough hearing on the item last week. i want to reemphasize, this is the best time to do this pilot in a fiscally responsible manner and because we owe it to mt a to do everything we can to get people back on our buses and rail system and reducing the barrier of cost when we can afford it is the right thing to do for muni and its ridership. thank you supervisor preston for bringing this forward and i look forward to continuing to support this. >> supervisor haney: thank you president walton. we said a lot about this at the last hearing. i do want to say that, and maybe it was only something reported publicly, and we knew it at the time, there was an article that put out there that muni ridership was at 30% of prepandemic levels. if that doesn't tell us that we need to do all we can to get people back on buses and trains, i don't know what does. 30% of prepandemic levels on muni and we're almost at 100% of congestion already even though we haven't fully opened as a city. this is urgen