>> president yee: okay. thank you for your comments, and as there's no other member of the public lined up, public comment is now closed. so last thing, i will invite both appellants to present rebuttal arguments. mr. pilpell, you will have up to three minutes, and you may go ahead. >> once again, i believe safeway is going to go first here. thanks. >> president yee: okay. i don't think there's any rules for this, but i'll go ahead and oblige you. safeway, go ahead, you have three minutes. >> thank you. m.t.a. said that this project has been done to provide a level of service that prevents overcrowding and vehicles, you allowing essential trips to be made. however, the j church only has a few people on it, and there's no mass crowding. there's plenty of room for social distancing to meet their needs. in addition, they came when evaluating projects, they can, if it meets the definition of emergency at that time, they can proceed with it, however, as stated in castaic, if [inaudible] the emergency statutory ex

. >> president yee: okay. good afternoon and welcome to our october 27, 2020 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madam clerk, will you please call the roll? >> clerk: thank you, mr. president. [roll call] >> clerk: mr. president, you vid have a quorum. >> president yee: okay. thank you, please place your right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] if . >> president yee: all right. thank you. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, karina mendoza, who records each of the meetings and makes each of them available on-line. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: yes. the minutes of this meeting will reflect that during the covid-19 health emergency, board members participated in this meeting remotely through video conference to the same extent as though physically present. the board recognizes that public access to city services is essential and certainly more acute during this time of covid-19. therefore, we h

through the president, president yee? >> president yee: go ahead. >> thank you. so some hotels have specific contracting requirements, and there's 29 sites, and i will be honest that i don't have them all memorized, but we would have the ability to consolidate hotels. we wouldn't have them ending all on the day that we are trying to rehouse everybody by. we have demobilization and back up plans that we can history to, but if we -- pivot to. but if we continue to rely on that, we will come to that 30 to 60-day notice that controller rosenfield talked about, and we will have too many people in our hotels for san francisco to sustain on their own. so i'm hoping to make this much more clear is the reason we need to begin now and consolidate so that if fema disappears, we can manage -- we have a more manageable number of pop that we can -- people that we can work to rehab. >> supervisor haney: got it. i just want to ask you, and i have one question that i want to ask of the controller. i'll make both quick. so i had the opportunity as a d.s.w. to work with your staff,

>> moved fewer. >> president yee: seconded by -- >> walton. >> president yee: supervisor walton. and then why don't we take the roll, madam clerk. >> clerk: on the minutes as presented -- [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. madam clerk, let's go to our consent agenda. call items 1-6. >> clerk: items 1-6 are on consent. they're considered to be routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: ok. see nobody on the roster. madam clerk, can you call roll. >> clerk: on items 1-6. [roll call vote] >> clerk: supervisor ronen, i believe you said aye but it was feint though. aye. [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: ok, without objection the ordinance is passed. let's go to new business. please call the next item. >> clerk: item 7 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require employers and employees covered by quality standards program at the san francisco international airport to provide fami

supervisor yee? >> president yee: than >> we could get thebu businesse.erse during a time when families are in desperate need of their services. just as most of you may be know, there areju many, many forms of child care or preschool or early education organizations where they are based in a mall or licensed family childld care hos serving six to eight or larger ones which serves 12 to 14. there are co-ops that people never talk about. there are 14 existing co-ops in san francisco serving another 600 families. similarly, the education organizations we see the federal paycheck protection program ppp. child care home providers licensed in san francisco, very few,ar if any, received any funding. in san francisco we are fortunate to receive $1 million donation throughec the gift to f fund to provide some relief for family child care home businesses. itho helped a handful of them bt not all of them. health orders have severely restricted the number of children that can be served in a limited space. several factors are calling child care businesses to shut down

yee. >> thank you, president yee. this is one of those times where we have to make a difficult decision and the decision has taken a very long time for me to reach. as a black man impacted by racist institutions, i want to share our recent decision how i feel that we don't really have another option. if today we don't approve the p.o.a. contract we will have to find millions of dollars this year and next year. that's not a fact or ifs, ands or buts about it and not created. this decision will force cuts to be made. it is important for supervisors do not determine that. that is determined by [indiscernible]. as much as i don't want to approve this m.o.u. negotiated by the mayor's office there's a few things i need to make clear. if we don't approve this contract today, it goes back to the police department automatically they get raises and create a budget hole of millions of dollars. at the board of supervisors we will have no say in where those resources come from when that whole -- hole is created. therefore we'll be

>> president yee: okay.nk you for your comments. since there are no other speakers, then public comment is now closed. [gavel]. >> president yee: now, we will have up to ten minutes for presentation from the representatives of the planning department. >> hello, mr. president. if we could give presentation access to jennie diluna, she is going to be running the slide deck. >> clerk: okay. if we could give her access. >> operator: she now has access, madam clerk. >> clerk: great. thank you. >> all right. good afternoon, president yee and board members. my name is lauren beale, planning department staff here today with other planning deputy sta deputy -- department staff. planning staff jennie diluna will be presenting the department's response to the appeals of the statutory exemption for the covid-19 muni rail adjustments and associated street and parking changes dated august 22, 2020 and fall 2020. our presentation today will focus on the environmental review of the projects. although we will give a brief de

thank you. >> president yee: okay.andelman, were -- yes, you're up next. >> supervisor mandelman: so just to follow up with miss gibson, so there's a section of ceqa that says you cannot use a categorical exemption where a site appears on the cortese list. >> that is correct, supervisor mandelman. >> supervisor mandelman: just out of curiosity, what might that section be? do you happen to know? >> yes. the section of the ceqa -- i'll refer to the ceqa guidelines section. it is section 15300.2, and it is subsection e that is the exemption to reliance upon a categorical exemption for sites that are -- or for projects that are located on-sites that are on the list that is commonly referred to as the cortese list. >> supervisor mandelman: and we relied on it any way -- the city -- the planning department and the city relied on it because they thought that how could that section of the guidelines mean properties that were on the cortese list where the issue has been addressed, is that right? >> with regards to the prior cat

>> moved fewer. >> president yee: seconded by -- >> walton. >> president yee: supervisor walton. and then why don't we take the roll, madam clerk. >> clerk: on the minutes as presented -- [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: without objection the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. madam clerk, let's go to our consent agenda. call items 1-6. >> clerk: items 1-6 are on consent. they're considered to be routine if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: ok. see nobody on the roster. madam clerk, can you call roll. >> clerk: on items 1-6. [roll call vote] >> clerk: supervisor ronen, i believe you said aye but it was feint though. aye. [roll call vote] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: ok, without objection the ordinance is passed. let's go to new business. please call the next item. >> clerk: item 7 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require employers and employees covered by quality standards program at the san francisco international airport to provide fami

president yee?sident yee, you're on mute. >> president yee: are -- thank you, miss reeves, for the presentation can presentation. i'd like to ask some specific questions around the senior speed zones. i know that there's been one put up around the geary boulevard, there's a senior center around there, and the traffic is slowed down around there. so the question is how many have we done? i mean, how many areas or -- or -- where you have actually slowed down the traffic at all for seniors? >> sure. i just want to pause to see if our city traffic engineer is on the line, ricardo celaya? all right. well, i can give an answer -- oh, did ricardo just join us. >> clerk: ricardo has been here, and the speakerphone is unmuted. >> being on. ricardo, do you mind answering the question around the slow senior zones? >> yes. the slow senior zones are something we can do under california vehicle code, and it's -- [inaudible] >> -- or to the facility, so it's relatively restrictive type of regulation that we can lo

commissioner yee?e have a quorum. >> supervisor peskin: commission er ronen when you need to leave, just let me know. we'll excuse you until you come back. we'll go to our citizen's advisory committee report. mr. larson, the floor is yours. >> good morning chair peskin. vice chair mandelman i'm reporting on our september 23rd c.a.c. meeting. there was extensive discussion among c.a.c. members regarding program guidelines, programming and allocation request concerning the traffic congestion mitigation tax or t.n.c. tax. given it was the first time a request related to this new source of funds, this come before the committee, c.a.c. members inquired about the difference between projected amount of tax and lower amount actually collected even before the impact coded. oversight of time lines and budget delivery of projects and the prioritization of quick build projects especially in communities of concern. because priority is being given to quick-build projects, defer to the sfcta tax goals. the c.a.c. una

supervisor yee? >> president yee: thank you. colleagues, child care workers, like many other small businesses, are at the brink of survival, too. we forget that they're actually businesses, and it's even more adverse during a time when families are in desperate need of their services. just as a preliminary -- just a -- most of you already know this already, but there's many, many forms of child care or preschoolers or early education organizations, whether the center is large or small. there's even licensed family care homes that are serving six to eight, or the larger homes, which serve 12 to 14, and there's even co-ops that people never even talk about, but there's actually 14 existing co-ops in san francisco serving another 600 families. similarly, care and education organizations were fortunate to receive, through the federal paycheck protection program, p.p.p., but most did not, and it's pretty save to say that of the 600 families child care home providers that are licensed in san francisco, very few, if any, received any o

thank you very much. >> thank you, president yee. so i think this is an important piece of legislation, and i recognize the tremendous amount of work that president yee and his office have put into it. i do -- it has moved quite quickly, and i understand that president yee is interested in having us act on this before it leaves the board. i want to do everything i can to help make that happen. if that were not the case, i would probably move to continue this item for a week or until our next meeting to sort of get more feedback and input on this cannabis issue. i think there is a real point here, which is that cigarettes and cannabis and nicotine are in a different position. people cannot legally go outside their home and smoke or vape cannabis. that is not true of cigarettes. they are limited where they can go but there are placing place o smoke marijuana. maybe medical cannabis is the right way to deal with this. it is the one piece of the legislation i have a little bit of concern about. what i would propose, if my colleagues are

thank you very much. >> thank you, president yee. so i think this is an important piece of legislation, and i recognize the tremendous amount of work that president yee and his office have put into it. i do -- it has moved quite quickly, and i understand that president yee is interested in having us act on this before it leaves the board. i want to do everything i can to help make that happen. if that were not the case, i would probably move to continue this item for a week or until our next meeting to sort of get more feedback and input on this cannabis issue. i think there is a real point here, which is that cigarettes and cannabis and nicotine are in a different position. people cannot legally go outside their home and smoke or vape cannabis. that is not true of cigarettes. they are limited where they can go but there are placing place o smoke marijuana. maybe medical cannabis is the right way to deal with this. it is the one piece of the legislation i have a little bit of concern about. what i would propose, if my colleagues are

security kahn. >> thank you, president -- miss stewart can. >> thank you, president yee. so i think what i was trying to say was during a pandemic, we never have as much time as we would like, and yes, we need to start planning for housing now, and yes, i wish i had more time to answer all of these questions and all of the data answered. but with housing available now, i'm not understanding why we wouldn't move forward, and i don't hear this board asking that either. so i think to clarify the conversation that you and i had, i would like to have higher-up take a coordinated assessment data, certainly. i'm really pleased that we now understand how to kind of bring urgency to that, to supervisor preston's questions, and so we are going to have to keep moving. [please stand by]

president yee? president yee, you're on mute. >> president yee: are -- thank you, miss reeves, for the presentation can presentation. i'd like to ask some specific questions around the senior speed zones. i know that there's been one put up around the geary boulevard, there's a senior center around there, and the traffic is slowed down around there. so the question is how many have we done? i mean, how many areas or -- or -- where you have actually slowed down the traffic at all for seniors? >> sure. i just want to pause to see if our city traffic engineer is on the line, ricardo celaya? all right. well, i can give an answer -- oh, did ricardo just join us. >> clerk: ricardo has been here, and the speakerphone is unmuted. >> being on. ricardo, do you mind answering the question around the slow senior zones? >> yes. the slow senior zones are something we can do under california vehicle code, and it's -- [inaudible] >> -- or to the facility, so it's relatively restrictive type of regulation that we ca

>> yes, president yee. >> president yee: i have a quick question.showed the revenues that are coming in or -- i wonder -- i saw in the paper today that cannabis is doing really well and there's -- we could have captured like five or six million dollars worth of taxes or something like that. and i don't know if we basically shot ourselves in the foot in passing this more to be yum or something on collective feeds or taxes from cannabis businesses, are we going to lose out on the five or six million at this point? that's probably the only industry that is doing well in san francisco. do you want to speak to that? >> relatively speaking, they're doing better than many of the business types. in terms of the revenue lost, we had projected that the text was go into effect on january 1 would have generated just under $5 million in the current fiscal year and so yes to the extent that that's delayed and we will provide that projection to share that. not coming in. >> it triggers the other question which is, in the protections are you using our prop f -- sor

thank you very much. >> thank you, president yee. so i think this is an important piece of legislation, and i recognize the tremendous amount of work that president yee and his office have put into it. i do -- it has moved quite quickly, and i understand that president yee is interested in having us act on this before it leaves the board. i want to do everything i can to help make that happen. if that were not the case, i would probably move to continue this item for a week or until our next meeting to sort of get more feedback and input on this cannabis issue. i think there is a real point here, which is that cigarettes and cannabis and nicotine are in a different position. people cannot legally go outside their home and smoke or vape cannabis. that is not true of cigarettes. they are limited where they can go but there are placing place o smoke marijuana. maybe medical cannabis is the right way to deal with this. it is the one piece of the legislation i have a little bit of concern about. what i would propose, if my colleagues are

>> thank you, president yee.hank supervisor mandelmanel man and his staff for their incredible work and their persistence and dedication to getting this ordinance to where it is today and as you all know, and the urgency of our climate reality demands we act with swiftness and boldness in our response ex this board require to my time on it, passed a resolution declaring a state of climate emergency in san francisco and i see the ordinance before us as a product of that effort and it's really been championed by an extraordinary group of advocates and that supervisor mandelman has been referenced and including the amazing work of the climate emergency coalition and i appreciate their efforts to move this forward. they work collaboratively to shake this ordinance and this ordinance will save lives and protect the health of our residents and protect our environment and i believe that what is before us today needs the demand for the moment and i think it's gone through as the supervisor mandelman has described many mo

thank you very much. >> thank you, president yee. so i think this is an important piece of legislation, and i recognize the tremendous amount of work that president yee and his office have put into it. i do -- it has moved quite quickly, and i understand that president yee is interested in having us act on this before it leaves the board. i want to do everything i can to help make that happen. if that were not the case, i would probably move to continue this item for a week or until our next meeting to sort of get more feedback and input on this cannabis issue. i think there is a real point here, which is that cigarettes and cannabis and nicotine are in a different position. people cannot legally go outside their home and smoke or vape cannabis. that is not true of cigarettes. they are limited where they can go but there are placing place o smoke marijuana. maybe medical cannabis is the right way to deal with this. it is the one piece of the legislation i have a little bit of concern about. what i would propose, if my colleagues are

. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. i almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you want the same thing again? >> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 yeararararararararararararararr

>> president yee: so moved. >> supervisor ronen: second. >> chair peskin: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner ronen. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the remaining item 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. that motion passes. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: adopt the portsmouth square community based transportation plan final report. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: mr. lock, good morning. it is still morning. >> good morning, chair peskin. let me pull up my slides. hopefully, you can confirm you can see my screen? >> yes, we can see it. >> great. thank you. this is the portsmouth square community transportation plan, and i want to say thank you to chair peskin for getting it funded, and then, also a thank you to the [inaudible] and a number of stakeholders who really played a significant role in helping to deliver this project for us. so we'll talk through our study objectives, the input we received, the challenges we identified, and the recommendations, as well. so the overall objectives of this program were to focus on a single block o

. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. i almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you want the same thing again? >> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 year as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is ho

commissioner yee. >> supervisor yee: more than happy. a little disappointing as everybody has expressed. i just want to reiterate what you said, chair peskin, that the -- it seems like sometimes these companies get a little bit arrogant and cocky about what we can't do locally. and i think the -- did not want to do certain things in san francisco. like not having somebody driving and speaking at the same time. we were able to pass a lot of local ordinances and even the tour buses that wasn't to go to certain neighborhoods, we were able to somehow regulate. and i don't think in the beginning they -- these tour bus companies thought they -- that we locally could regulate them. so i agree with you. that we want them at the table. we wanted to created office of immersion technology, as a -- as a platform for people to have discussions with the city. and it's better to do it now, rather than for us to have knee-jerk reactions that may actually be looked at through their business model in the future. and to take care of things now. i'm just --

>> president yee: so moved. >> supervisor ronen: second. >> chair peskin: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner ronen. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the remaining item 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. that motion passes. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: adopt the portsmouth square community based transportation plan final report. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: mr. lock, good morning. it is still morning. >> good morning, chair peskin. let me pull up my slides. hopefully, you can confirm you can see my screen? >> yes, we can see it. >> great. thank you. this is the portsmouth square community transportation plan, and i want to say thank you to chair peskin for getting it funded, and then, also a thank you to the [inaudible] and a number of stakeholders who really played a significant role in helping to deliver this project for us. so we'll talk through our study objectives, the input we received, the challenges we identified, and the recommendations, as well. so the overall objectives of this program were to focus on a single block o

commissioner yee. >> supervisor yee: more than happy. a little disappointing as everybody has expressed. i just want to reiterate what you said, chair peskin, that the -- it seems like sometimes these companies get a little bit arrogant and cocky about what we can't do locally. and i think the -- did not want to do certain things in san francisco. like not having somebody driving and speaking at the same time. we were able to pass a lot of local ordinances and even the tour buses that wasn't to go to certain neighborhoods, we were able to somehow regulate. and i don't think in the beginning they -- these tour bus companies thought they -- that we locally could regulate them. so i agree with you. that we want them at the table. we wanted to created office of immersion technology, as a -- as a platform for people to have discussions with the city. and it's better to do it now, rather than for us to have knee-jerk reactions that may actually be looked at through their business model in the future. and to take care of things now. i'm just --

commissioner yee? >> president yee: thank you, chair peskin. i think commissioner haney covered the similar concerns i was going to raise. i want to reinforce that in regards to outreach and a time line for outreach, we need to look at it carefully to give adequate time for input and to maybe look at -- have all the parties come back and do another kumbaya and everybody support the project. everything that commissioner haney already mentioned, my concern around the fifth and market street. i would explain improvement to sidewalk and the curb wrap and so forth. i don't know what the improvements are for pedestrian safety measures. especially when we brought this project out to the public, it was pretty much billed as the major vision zero type project so again, i would to see whether or not -- like this see whether or not there could be other elements added so that there will be net gain in terms of pedestrian safety of that intersection. in particular, that intersection, but i would say all the intersections along market. thank you very much. >

>> president yee: so moved. >> supervisor ronen: second. >> chair peskin: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner ronen. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the remaining item 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. that motion passes. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: adopt the portsmouth square community based transportation plan final report. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: mr. lock, good morning. it is still morning. >> good morning, chair peskin. let me pull up my slides. hopefully, you can confirm you can see my screen? >> yes, we can see it. >> great. thank you. this is the portsmouth square community transportation plan, and i want to say thank you to chair peskin for getting it funded, and then, also a thank you to the [inaudible] and a number of stakeholders who really played a significant role in helping to deliver this project for us. so we'll talk through our study objectives, the input we received, the challenges we identified, and the recommendations, as well. so the overall objectives of this program were to focus on a single block o

>> president yee: so moved. >> supervisor ronen: second. >> chair peskin: motion by commissioner yee, seconded by commissioner ronen. roll call, please. >> clerk: on the remaining item 5 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. that motion passes. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: adopt the portsmouth square community based transportation plan final report. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: mr. lock, good morning. it is still morning. >> good morning, chair peskin. let me pull up my slides. hopefully, you can confirm you can see my screen? >> yes, we can see it. >> great. thank you. this is the portsmouth square community transportation plan, and i want to say thank you to chair peskin for getting it funded, and then, also a thank you to the [inaudible] and a number of stakeholders who really played a significant role in helping to deliver this project for us. so we'll talk through our study objectives, the input we received, the challenges we identified, and the recommendations, as well. so the overall objectives of this program were to focus on a single block o

. >> president yee: my favorite dish is the chile rellenos. almost never from the same things. my owner's son comes out, you want the same thing again? >> well, we are known for our mole, and we do three different types of mole. in the beginning, i wasn't too familiar with the whole legacy program, but san francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the old-time businesses, it's important to preserve a lot of the old time flavor of these neighborhoods, and in that capacity, it was great to be recognized by the city and county of san francisco. >> i've been here 40 years, and i hope it will be another 40 yeararararararararararararararr

. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor fewer. >> aye. there are 11 ayes. >> okay. that motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk. please read the memorials. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following be loved individuals. on behalf of supervisor mandelman for the late air diam. supervisor stafsupervisor stefa. >> that brings us to the end of the agenda. is there any further business before us today? i would remind everyone to get their flu shot, mr. president. >> don't forget i know a lot of you want to be in the meeting next tuesday. there is no meeting. since there is no further business, we are adjourned. lesb ri >> by the time the last show came, i was like whoa, whoa, whoa. i came in kicking and screaming and left out dancing. [♪] >> hello, friends. i'm the deputy superintendent of instruction at san francisco unified school district, but you can call me miss vickie. what you see over the next hour has been created and planned by our san francisco teachers for our students. >> our premise came about for san francisco families that didn't

. >> supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor fewer. >> aye. there are 11 ayes. >> okay. that motion is approved unanimously. madam clerk. please read the memorials. >> today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following be loved individuals. on behalf of supervisor mandelman for the late air diam. supervisor stafsupervisor stefa. >> that brings us to the end of the agenda. is there any further business before us today? i would remind everyone to get their flu shot, mr. president. >> don't forget i know a lot of you want to be in the meeting next tuesday. there is no meeting. since there is no further business, we are adjourned. >> good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and transportation committee of the san francisco supervisors board today, on monday, november 16, 2020. i am the chair of the committee, aaron espeskin and joined by vice-chair, supervisor safai and the committee member, dean preston. miss major, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect the board members and the city employees and the publi