supervisor walton. >> president walton: thank you madam clerk.agues, today i have in memorial for mr. gregory johnwell. he was a great person and passed from stage 4 cancer after surviving the disease for almost four years after being diagnosed. his birthday was this past saturday june 12th, 2021, and he would have been 67 years-old. born and raised here in san francisco, bayview area, he was a standout athlete at mlk middle school. gregory led wilson high to the tournament of champions at the oakland coliseum arena. he was all city basketball and football star. he went on to play at san francisco city college where he led the team to two golden gate conference championships. (please stand by...) >> clerk: supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, madam clerk. today, i am introducing a personal in memore yum. but before that, i just want to thank my team and kelly broke because there's no way i would be able to do the work that i do for the people if it were not for them especially during the past couple of weeks and thank you to all of you

supervisor walton. >> president walton: thank you madam clerk. colleagues, today i have in memorial for mr. gregory johnwell. he was a great person and passed from stage 4 cancer after surviving the disease for almost four years after being diagnosed. his birthday was this past saturday june 12th, 2021, and he would have been 67 years-old. born and raised here in san francisco, bayview area, he was a standout athlete at mlk middle school. gregory led wilson high to the tournament of champions at the oakland coliseum arena. he was all city basketball and football star. he went on to play at san francisco city college where he led the team to two golden gate conference championships. (please stand by...) >> clerk: supervisor chan. >> supervisor chan: thank you, madam clerk. today, i am introducing a personal in memore yum. but before that, i just want to thank my team and kelly broke because there's no way i would be able to do the work that i do for the people if it were not for them especially during the past couple of weeks and thank you to all

thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor mar? >> supervisor mar: please add me as a co-sponsor as well. thank you. >> president walton: madam clerk, please add me as a co-sponsor as well. please call the roll for item number 15. >> clerk: i noted all the co-sponsorship and on item 15. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: without objection, this ordinance is passed on the first reading unanimously. please call number 16. >> clerk: a resolution to support the establishment of a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week alternative response team. in constituent for more effective response to homelessness. >> president walton: supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: i like to be added as a co-sponsor. >> president walton: thank you. please call the roll for item number 16. my apologies, supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i like to be added as a co-sponsor as well. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. i don't see anyone else on the roster. please call number 16. >> clerk: on item number 16. [roll call vote] there are

. >> 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: thank you. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. we in san francisco are beyond lucky to have you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: i want to echo the comments and just add that in this position as with everything else there is public space and public work that we all do. everyone else said, i would echo our deep appreciation for doing all that through a pandemic, before that pandemic and i know after this pandemic, we couldn't do this without you and all the other folks who support us quietly. others in the chamber today, city attorney's office, b.l.a. and others who are key to make hure we do -- sure we do the work. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i want to thank you and your team and your professionalism and how you put it all together for all of us and for the public. i think that is something that very personal. i think that you, with your leadership, it carries out to the entire team. everyone is respectful and kind and cons

supervisor walton? >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. today, i'm introducing legislation to expand the committee on information technology, also known as c.o.i.t. currently, c.o.i.t. is managed by the city administrator and has five permanent seats for the mayor, president of the board of supervisors, controller, city administrator, and chief information officer as their designees -- and for their designees. a chair is elected based on the permanent seat to serve for two years. five additional department heads are recommended by the chair and approved by the permanent members for two-year terms. one representing each of the major service areas: public protection, human welfare and neighborhood development, community health, culture and recreation, and general administration and finance. and three additional members are appointed representing the major service areas: public works, transportation, and commerce. the board of supervisors currentlying have one seat on c.o.i. -- currently have one seat on c.o.i.t. for their designee. i'm propo

thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor mandelman? >> supervisor mandelman: thank you. we in san francisco are beyond lucky to have you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor preston? >> supervisor preston: i want to echo the comments and just add that in this position as with everything else there is public space and public work that we all do. everyone else said, i would echo our deep appreciation for doing all that through a pandemic, before that pandemic and i know after this pandemic, we couldn't do this without you and all the other folks who support us quietly. others in the chamber today, city attorney's office, b.l.a. and others who are key to make hure we do -- sure we do the work. >> president walton: supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: i want to thank you and your team and your professionalism and how you put it all together for all of us and for the public. i think that is something that very personal. i think that you, with your leadership, it carries out to the entire team. everyone is respectful and kind and cons

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. >> president walton: thank you madam clerk. before we get started, just a friendly reminder, colleagues, please remember to mute your microphones when you're not speaking so we can avoid audio feedback. today we are approving the minutes from the may 11, 2021 regular board meeting and the may 12, 2021 special board meeting minutes. at the budget and appropriations committee. which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors. are there any changes to the minutes? i don't see anyone on the roster. seeing no changes, can we have a motion to approve please. motion made by supervisor peskin seconded by mandelman. please have the roll call. >> clerk: on the minutes by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor mandelman. [roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented bethe unanimous vote. let's go to the regular agenda and please read item number one. >> clerk: ordinance to authorize office of district district attorney to extend $6 million gra

[roll call vote] there are 11 ayes. >> president walton: thank you. these motions are approved unanimously. please call items number 21 and 22 together. >> clerk: a resolution to recognize and command jordan jo billups for organizing and leading cannabis workers to unionize at the urbana dispensary to unfair labor practices and retaliation. item 22 is a resolution to acknowledge the ninth anniversary of the deferred action for childhood arrival program, recognizing tremendous contribution from our non-citizen residents including recipients of the daca program and their families and urging congressional approval legislative bills that provide relief and pathways to citizenship for the immigrant community. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor chan? >> supervisor chan: thank you. colleagues, these two resolutions were introduced with the values that we support working people in san francisco. we support those who often times do not have a seat at the table and having their voices silence bid those who are in the positions of power. the resolution t

president walton. >> president walton: thank you chair haney and thank you so much. i do have a few questions. a couple of things, one i want to start with -- thank you for addressing overtime. down by 40% over the past two years, what is the overtime budget going for the next two years? >> for the -- for next year, it is 10.2 million. and it's roughly that for the second year of the budget as well. >> president walton: and last year, did you use the same amount of resources for overtime, approximately? >> we used less overtime than the current year in fiscal 21 than we did in fiscal 19-20. we spent about $34 million in overtime last year and then we project to spend about $26 million this year. that's 25% reduction for that one year. >> president walton: was that over projection though? >> it was over projection. with covid, our leave more than doubled from probably about 100 fte's. we were working on bringing down overtime and still brought it down over this time, but that was a significant challenge. about 100 people off on covid leave. >> president walton: have y

>> thank you, president walton. the vote i wanted to just state for the record that i'm fully prepared to vote based on the evidence presented, the hearing i did make a comment about the article which addressed broader issues of public concern about the difficulty of opening a business. i'm fully prepared to vote based on the evidence today. >> thank you, supervisor haney. madam clerk, on the motion? >> on the motion to approve item 18 and table 19 and 20, supervisor safai? >> aye. >> supervisor stefani? >> aye. >> supervisor walton? >> aye. >> supervisor chan? >> aye. >> supervisor haney? >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar? >> aye. >> supervisor mel gar? >> aye. >> supervisor peskin? >> aye. >> supervisor preston? >> aye. >> and supervisor ronen? >> aye. >> there are 11 ayes. >> thank you. item 18 is approved and items 19 and 20 are tabled. [gavel]. madam clerk, would you please call item no. 10 and 11. >> items 10 and 11 called together are two resolutions. the first, item 10, approve the a

[applause] >> thank you, president walton. yes, it is the busiest time of year for our board of supervisors and president walton's office. commissioners, appreciate your being here, and i just want to acknowledge that we are missing our -- one of our commissioners, who died last week, tony rodriguez, so if we can all just take a moment and think good thoughts for his family. i also want to take a moment to acknowledge sean buford, the president of the board of supervisors -- sherman tillman is here, as is the president of our rescue captain, paramedic rescue captains, kevin choker. if i've left anyone out, i humbly apologize. i'm terrible at thanking anyone. one person i really want to thank, chief dewitt from our support services stepped in in the middle of this project. she wrangled this together, and she's just done a great job. she's super organized, and i want to thank my sister, kathleen, the project manager. all the way through, kathleen, we felt like you had our back, and thank you for seeing this through all the way f

. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. i want to note that commissioner chanwas excused. will you please call the next item. >> i will make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda by calling 415-655-0001. access code (187)736-6351 of the pound pound. you will be able to be a participant. when the item is call press star 3. when it is your turn to speak you will hear a message and you will be allowed two minutes to speak. calls taken in the order received. speak slowly and clear down the volume of your television or radio. item 2. chair's report. information item. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i want to thank vice-chairman delman and commissioner ronen for serving on this committee. we will consider adoption of employer and worker affordability programs and funding strategies. thank you for your willingness to serve. the clean ferry system we are planning with the water emergency transportation authority. following last month's approval of the multi operato

good morning president walton. the public protection fund is largely the state realignment fund from the block grant. the juvenile probation sifts fund and some of the smaller funds. >> president walton: thank you. i think your overtime budget is over $900,000. can you tell me more about that? >> our overtime is largely grounded in the hall. our juvenile hall is the bulk of it. we did actually budget a significant reduction from last year to the current year in our overtime use. we have had to rely significantly on overtime this year at various times due to the pandemic. we've had periods where we had significant staff offline because they to quarantine at home. that's been a large driver for us. we've had to do kind of increase staff training. we had more young adults coming in the hall. we set aside time for that. whenever we do training, we essentially have to make sure that we're bringing in additional staff to cover the positions. between training and the pandemic, we have been spending overtime. as a departme

president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair and thank you director mcfadden. just got a few questions. one, how many vacancies do you have in the department? >> i believe we currently -- i'm going to ask staff to step in again. i believe currently 12 vacancies. >> supervisor walton: 12? thank you. and how many exempt? >> gigi, can you answer that for me? >> president walton, we have approximately 60 exempt positions, some are charter exempt. many of those are for the covid response and about 11 of those are for staff that are permanent but have taken a leave of absence maybe for a promotion or being backfilled. >> supervisor walton: are the covid response staff still reflected in this budget? >> yes, they are. >> supervisor walton: thank you. and thank you for being proactive in answering questions around racial equity. do you have an idea of how many unaccompanied minors we have living on the streets in san francisco? >> i will refer back to the deputy director for that answer. >> president walton, yes, the most recent point in time count identified about 120

president walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you chair and thank you director mcfadden. just got a few questions. one, how many vacancies do you have in the department? >> i believe we currently -- i'm going to ask staff to step in again. i believe currently 12 vacancies. >> supervisor walton: 12? thank you. and how many exempt? >> gigi, can you answer that for me? >> president walton, we have approximately 60 exempt positions, some are charter exempt. many of those are for the covid response and about 11 of those are for staff that are permanent but have taken a leave of absence maybe for a promotion or being backfilled. >> supervisor walton: are the covid response staff still reflected in this budget? >> yes, they are. >> supervisor walton: thank you. and thank you for being proactive in answering questions around racial equity. do you have an idea of how many unaccompanied minors we have living on the streets in san francisco? >> i will refer back to the deputy director for that answer. >> president walton, yes, the most recent point in time count identified about 120

president walton. >> [shaman walton (bos)].tion and thank you for being proactive in answering questions that have been asked all departments. you have talked about working the scale translation services and one of the things that we love about the oc, is the opportunity to provide translation that supports meetings and community, including meetings liquor board supervisor meeting. and i know that this has never been high, what can we do together to change that capacity because that is important and valuable tool. i have not seen a lot of proposals that let's hire more translators. >> , i think it's a great one and i think especially having come in the past from an assessor's office where we thought about a lot about where do you provide language access? i think one of the things especially that we have an opportunity in the city administrator's office is to think more broadly about how to be help departments to scale on their language access? the hope is that everything in the department takes the language access ordinance ser

. >> chair haney: supervisor walton? supervisor walton? i will go to supervisor mar. >> president walton: sorry about that, chair haney. >> chair haney: no problem. >> >> president walton: and thank you for the presentation, dr. colfax, and addressing some of my questions. i just want to know about the racial equity improvement plan, and how are you bringing in more employees of color, particularly in higher leadership positions? is. >> -- positions? >> yeah. i think that's one of the key elements of the racial equity action plan, and i'm going to have mr. wagner respond to -- dr. bennett respond to that, and mr. wagner may have some information on that. >> i'm sorry, supervisor walton. i'm having a problem with connection on my phone, and i don't want to sign back onto address your question, so could you repeat it? >> president walton: yes. i want to know what's being done specifically in line with the racial equity action plan and hiring employees of color, specifically in higher leadership positions? >> so we're looking at data and repo

president walton? >> [shamann walton, president].ee you of course, public defender roger. i only have one question really we've had a lot of questions but i am interested to know and i'm actually going to ask the da the same question. what is the ratio of attorneys? >> [manahar raju, pdr] my director of of engagement margaret malloy is here and she can answer that question. >> good afternoon i am marjorie mike malloy the director of equity engagement and i started with the department in november of last year. your question with respect to attorneys is an important one because they represent one 50th of our staff and currently our racial breakdown aims 43% white and 57% of our attorneys are attorneys of caller. >> [shamann walton, president]. you have is aggregated by attorneys of caller? >> so yes, asian attorneys are present to 97% of our attorneys, black or 17%, left annex r16% and3ññ?ñ? other is 4% and those numbers may actuallyññ?ñ? need e adjusted because i just completed a recruitment and hired seven new employees, six of whom

. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> we have a quorum. >> thank you. i want to note that commissioner chanwas excused. will you please call the next item. >> i will make an announcement about public comment. public comment will be available for each item on the agenda by calling 415-655-0001. access code (187)736-6351 of the pound pound. you will be able to be a participant. when the item is call press star 3. when it is your turn to speak you will hear a message and you will be allowed two minutes to speak. calls taken in the order received. speak slowly and clear down the volume of your television or radio. item 2. chair's report. information item. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i want to thank vice-chairman delman and commissioner ronen for serving on this committee. we will consider adoption of employer and worker affordability programs and funding strategies. thank you for your willingness to serve. the clean ferry system we are planning with the water emergency transportation authority. following last month's approval of the multi operato

colleagues, president walton. >> president walton: thank you so much shlgs director eng. i do just have a couple questions. couple things, one, last year the district attorney and i made a request for the civil service commission to create a policy that states the city and county will never hire anyone from another law enforcement body with a history of racial profiling and a history of complaints. where do we stand right now on that? >> we are actually very close. our commissioners after hearing the resolution have actually requested commission staff to look further into expanding this to all four volumes of the rules. currently, we are looking at volume two specifically for the police department and the commission is has also requested not looking at the entry level positions, but expanding to promotion and also looking at if an employee decides to resign or retire pending an investigation, it will actually disqualify the person from applying for another public safety position until the investigation is completed. so we are actually very close to proposing. we have work

>> aye. >> supervisor walton? >> aye. >> chair preston? >> aye. >> there are three years and olders -- ayes on the motion. >> the motion passes. >> agenda item no. 3 is a resolution authorizing the director of health to extend the term and increase the amount of the participation agreement between san francisco department of public health behavioral health services and the california mental health services authority for the development of technology-based mental health solutions to increase the agreement amount by $8,802,179 for a new not to exceed amount of $10 million, and extending the terms through may 31, 2024, to commence following board of supervisors approval. members of the public who wish to provide comment on this item should call 415-665-0001. enter the meeting id of id of 187-035-5480, press the pound symbol twice and then press star followed by three to enter the queue to speak. finally, mr. chair, like all items on today's agenda, this item is agendaized potentially as a committee report to be sent potentially to the june 11

>> president walton: i have not. >> chairman: okay. go ahead. >> president walton: few questions. one, how many vacant positions do you have? >> currently, we have 20 vacant positions and we have 22 positions in place. >> president walton: thank you so much. [please stand by] >> thank you. i'm with building inspection. we completed our first phase of our facial equity plan in december. it focuses on internal so staff policies and procedures and basically what we did to get to where we are now we had working groups with different employees. we had different affinity groups and from focussing on the internal there are three major things we'll be focussing on in the first thing and these things get bubbled up to the top. diversifying the staff and we're going to do targeted outreach for certain classifications such as others to make sure we diversify the staff. we also want to focus on improving the organizational culture. we'll do trainings department wide and we have that happening during the current year. then specifically for our entry-level employees, there was a concern or a re

>> certainly president walton.quity committees to develop a racial equity plan our department and they continue to meet on the plantation and help with emil tatian. our department plan and includes nine specific tasks that we intend to implement over the next few years. our real focus in the coming fiscal year is some highlights including developing and implementing a department mentorship program. we are looking to expand internships and fellowships and and and in particular greater opportunities for people coming into the city's accounting and other financial functions which we think would be kind of a front door for the city. and then lastly we have plans regarding limitation of different training options spee6 thank you and how are you can find with the language ordinance with the department? >> as you know we are predominantly an internal service department so we are supporting other city departments with less focus on the public but we do have some public facing functions and when we do we ensure that we are

for those of you who don't know that mayor breed and president walton through police reform have given the black community $120 million. [cheers and applause]. $120 million. $60 million for this year, $60 million for next year, and also in her budget she also put $60 million to the black community at the baseline. and we want to make sure as black people that we are going to honor her wishes, that we're going to push back on the board of supervisors, and we're going to push back on the board of supervisors -- what? being black in san francisco. and so our group is called "mega-black, budget watchdog group." so may i have them come and stand beside me on both sides. mega-black budget watchdog group. we're fighting. we're fighting. no doubt, we're fighting. we're fighting. we're fighting. and we're not afraid to go up in the board of supervisor's chambers and let them know, black folks, three reports, 55 years, and black folks are worse off now than we were 55 years ago, and we want our due. we want our due! come on, y'all tell me, power to the people. we want our due! we want our due! w

president walton? >> [shamann walton, president]. course, public defender roger. i only have one question really we've had a lot of questions but i am interested to know and i'm actually going to ask the da the same question. what is the ratio of attorneys? >> [manahar raju, pdr] my director of of engagement margaret malloy is here and she can answer that question. >> good afternoon i am marjorie mike malloy the director of equity engagement and i started with the department in november of last year. your question with respect to attorneys is an important one because they represent one 50th of our staff and currently our racial breakdown aims 43% white and 57% of our attorneys are attorneys of caller. >> [shamann walton, president]. you have is aggregated by attorneys of caller? >> so yes, asian attorneys are present to 97% of our attorneys, black or 17%, left annex r16% and3ññ?ñ? other is 4% and those numbers may actuallyññ?ñ? need e adjusted because i just completed a recruitment and hired seven new employees, six of whom all but o

>> president walton: supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton. and, before us today, colleagues, this resolution to declare tomorrow, june 16th, susan soloman day on the occasion of her retirement from the united educators of san francisco and i want to thank president walton for his remarks at this board several weeks ago about susansoloman and her retirement. we wish susan the best in her retirement and so we will miss her. i think we all know that she will still be fighting with us on issues of social economic and racial justice for years to come and i will say, susan, i selfishly hope you go the way of your brother in your quote unquote retirement. i think we see ken out on the line more or at least as much as we did before retirement. that might be the case with you as well although i know you'll be busy with family too. colleagues, we have spoken to susan as truly remarkable san franciscans native, life long educator, passion activist, dedicated neighbor, really tireless leader who has cared deeply for her community and has strengthened our

president walton? >> president walton: did the office of small business request the support? >> it came from small business in collaboration with the rest of the team and what they would be doing. >> president walton: who would they report to? >> the office of small business, accountable to the office of small business but physically deployed in the permit center. >> president walton: would the positions address special permits for events and walk smaller organizations through the process? >> absolutely. we know there are certain small businesses that rely on events as part of their revenue. i think it would be very important, particularly for small businesses that have that as part of their business model. >> president walton: thank you. >> thank you supervisor. >> supervisor haney: okay. i think where we are going to leave this is we'll accept that all of the recommendations other than the policy ones and continue the conversation about the policy recommendations and make final decisions before or at the hearing on monday. so it's our intention to accept the budget with the

>> chair haney: president walton. >> president walton: thank you. director, if you could answer questions in terms of what are your plans around how you are supporting employees of color? what are your racial equity initiatives that you're prioritizing for this year? >> certainly. so when we were -- we were developing our equity racial plan, we sent a survey to all of our employees in the department asking what their priorities were around equity. and they responded that their priorities were around career growth opportunities and professional development. so when we developed our equity teams to implement our equity plan, we -- they already had developed training for career growth and the career opportunities. and then also they looked at when people try to come to the department. so they looked at the announcements that we issue. are they now job announcements that are distributed in a manner that will reach the most -- the most people? when people come into the department, and make it known that equity is a priority for the department, and as wel

president walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair and thank you director and to the team.. i know you and i sat down and talked about some of this stuff. just curious in terms of your work and communities of color and if we look at racial equity initiatives, what is your main priority in terms of racial equity going this year? >> well, our main priority is really to get all staff, make sure that all staff are trained in the latest procedures and best practices of racial equity and how we disseminate that throughout all of our constituents that work with us. all of our programs. we're can looking at every single one of our programs through a racial equity lens to see who is -- [indiscernible] and who is harmed. from a to z. so we're looking at every aspect of everything we do and if we see harm, we're restructuring to address those things. so, that's just for starters. >> supervisor walton: how are you complying with language access of the department? >> joanne? >> sure. thank you for the question. we have an up-to-date language access policy and we have an internal process

>> supervisor walton, thank you for the question. it was our understanding the anticipated start date was not until august 1st. the start of the new fiscal year. it starts next thursday. our understanding is that the program has approximately 20 participants identified. budgeted to serve about 100 total. based on the information that we are provided during our review. we feel confident in the recommendation we made there. >> thank you. chief, i do identified 20 participants or my understanding this was going to accelerate in terms of operational nature and you have had the provider on. it is selected. is it a matter of the final renovations to the property before you can start? >> thank you, supervisor. we have 20 lifers that are identified and ready to move in. the up grades will continue. we are now in agreement with the landlord to make the kitchen a commercial kitchen rather than just a kitchen large enough to serve all of the participants. that is a great benefit to the program. we will be ramping up very quickly and continue da

so -- i see president walton wanted to speak again. >> president walton: thank you chair haney. you actually took the route i was going to take, so i appreciate that. >> supervisor haney: great. supervisor ronen. >> supervisor ronen: i just wanted to appreciate you director ellis. when i was looking at the cuts and $60,000 cuts for the size of the budget, i have never seen a department head go to bat, but i think you're sending a very clear message. that you -- this is not business as usual. that you're going to use every cent to fight tooth and nail for women, girls, non conforming and transgender women. when i looked at the budget and knew you were coming to fight today, i had a huge smile on my face and was cheering because this is the leadership we have needed in this department for a really long time. and i'm so happy that you are there. thank you. >> supervisor safai: i concur. >> supervisor haney: i'm guessing supervisor mar is also in agreement as well. i think identifying savings like this, it's important to do and usually we accept it. when you have new leadership that

president walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you, chair and thank you director and to the team.t a couple of questions. i know you and i sat down and talked about some of this stuff. just curious in terms of your work and communities of color and if we look at racial equity initiatives, what is your main priority in terms of racial equity going this year? >> well, our main priority is really to get all staff, make sure that all staff are trained in the latest procedures and best practices of racial equity and how we disseminate that throughout all of our constituents that work with us. all of our programs. we're can looking at every single one of our programs through a racial equity lens to see who is -- [indiscernible] and who is harmed. from a to z. so we're looking at every aspect of everything we do and if we see harm, we're restructuring to address those things. so, that's just for starters. >> supervisor walton: how are you complying with language access of the department? >> joanne? >> sure. thank you for the question. we have an up-to-date language access policy and we h

president. >> president walton: thank you so much. and do we have. i'm sorry. would you please read the in memoriums. >> clerk: yes. today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following individuals and on behalf of supervisor chan on honor of the board president on behalf of the board of supervisors for the late irene tal. >> president walton: thank you, madam clerk. do we have anymore business before us today. >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> president walton: thank you, and colleagues we are in the middle of pride month and i just want to say that the sun is shining, it's a great day for this quote. there will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. we make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are. tammy baldwin. this meeting is adjourned. >> again, thank you all for coming. this is a celebration. >> excuse me -- >> (indiscernible). >> so, again, we are here to celebrate juneteenth, but for those of you who know me, we do want to celebrate juneteenth, but also

president walton? >> president walton: did the office of small business request the support? it came from small business in collaboration with the rest of the team and what they would be doing. >> president walton: who would they report to? >> the office of small business, accountable to the office of small business but physically deployed in the permit center. >> president walton: would the positions address special permits for events and walk smaller organizations through the process? >> absolutely. we know there are certain small businesses that rely on events as part of their revenue. i think it would be very important, particularly for small businesses that have that as part of their business model. >> president walton: thank you. >> thank you supervisor. >> supervisor haney: okay. i think where we are going to leave this is we'll accept that all of the recommendations other than the policy ones and continue the conversation about the policy recommendations and make final decisions before or at the hearing on monday. so it's our intention to accept the budget with the bl

president walton. >> president walton: thank you so much, supervisor haney. thank you so much for the presentation, director. just a couple of questions. and thank you for always, of course, having preliminary conversations with us as well. excited about the downtown community ambassadors. i think they're important and necessary. as you know, our district 10 public safety plan and, you know, since i've been in office, we've been asking also for increasing ambassadors and folks on our corridors for safety. are we going to see any other areas that have going to have increased ambassadors as well? >> thanks, president walton, for the question. i'd be happy to provide more detail on where that's ambassadors will be located. they're mostly located in the mid-market, downtown and kind of key downtown areas. if you give me a second, i might be able to pull it up. >> president walton: and i'm actually -- you know, pretty familiar with the plan and where they're going to be placed. the question is really about we obviously have public safety concerns across the city.

>> second. >> second. >> seconded by supervisor walton. [roll call] there are five wet. >> item number 10 is ordinance appropriating 13.3 million from property tax meeting -- revenue to community involvement for rent relief under the rent resolution and relief fund and appropriating $13.3 million for the acquisition, creation and acquisition of a full affordable housing under the fund and fiscal is years 2020-2021. they should call in. if you would like to call and provide public comment. welcome, supervisor preston. >> thank you, chair haney and committee members. i know the hour is late and you all have been at this all day. i want to thank you for agreeing to hear this item on your busy agenda today. this was introduced in may following the publication of the controllers' nine-month budget update, which showed higher than expected revenues from prop i've. the intention at the time was to allocate the unanticipated revenue in the current fiscal year to the programmes understood by san francisco voters to be funded by popeye, namely rent