City and County of San Francisco Tuesday, February 12, 2019

>> President Yee:   all right, folks.

Good afternoon, welcome to the February 12, 2019, regular meeting of the board of supervisors.

Please call roll.

[Roll call taken]

>> President Yee:   would you

please join me in the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america.

And to the republic for which it

stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and

justice for all.

>> President Yee:   I would like

to acknowledge the staff at

sfgov tv, maya hernandez and

kalena mendosa, who record each

of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online.

Any communications?

>> Clerk:   none to report.

>> President Yee:   approving the

minutes from the January 8,

2019, board inaugural meeting.

Any changes to these minutes, meeting minutes?

Seeing none, motion to approve as presented.

Ok, motion by supervisor

mandelman, and seconded by supervisor walton.

So, without objection, then we'll go ahead and approve these

minutes.

After public comments.

So, Madam Clerk, would you call

the 2:00 special order.

>> Clerk:   item 1, welcome the honorable mayor, london breed, present in the chamber to engage

in a formal policy discussion

with eligible members of the

board, districts 5-8, each

question and corresponding answer have two minutes each, and comments during public comment, and the mayor May address the board up to five minutes.

>> President Yee:   welcome, Madam Mayor, mayor breed.

Did you have any opening remarks?

>> first let me say happy lunar new york and happy black history month here in san francisco.

We are so fortunate to have so

many diverse communities celebrating during the month of

February which is a great time to highlight and support our various communities, whether it's, you know, the kick-off

that took place for black

history month or the chinese new year parade, so excited about,

hope to see you out there celebrating these festivities and thank you President Yeah who hosted a great event in his district this past weekend with

so many community members and families. It was absolutely amazing. We all know that we have a lot of work to do here in the city to build more housing. It's too hard and it takes too

long and it's too expensive.

Some of the reasons include

construction costs that are beyond our control but some things we can change right here in city hall. Yesterday I announced a new

pilot effort to break down the

barriers we have with building housing in our city.

By eliminating fees assessed by the department of building

inspection for 100% affordable

housing and for in-law units in san francisco.

These are two different kinds of

housing, but they both add badly

needed housing to our housing supply. When we are investing resources

in affordable housing, it makes

absolutely no sense to charge

significant amounts of city fees for these particular projects. We can bring down the housing

costs for affordable housing by eliminating those fees, especially when we are using public money to actually produce these projects in the first place. And with in-law units, with he want to make it easier for people to build in their homes.

These units are an easy way to quickly add density throughout neighborhoods throughout san francisco.

It's why I issued an executive directive to the department to

streamline and simplify the

process for building in-laws and

eliminate fees for the units entirely.

If we can remove thousands of dollars from project costs, we

can have incentives to do more to bring new homes into the light. Each of these ideas fits into a simple idea.

We need to get rid of the

barriers of bureaucracy that block building housing in the first place.

We need to build housing for all income levels and that's exactly what I'm hoping this proposal as

well as so many other proposals

that I put forward will help us do. And with that, I am prepared to answer your questions.

Thanks for having me here today.

>> President Yee:   ok.

Thank you, mayor breed.

Well, supervisor brown, please ask your opening question.

>> Supervisor Brown:   thank you, mayor breed. I'm very excited about your

proposals for building housing,

especially 100% affordable housing.

I have about five parcels

waiting patiently for funding to

build 100% affordable housing. So I definitely thank you when we do have the money that these properties can be built for 100% affordable. So, thank you for that.

But my question today is earlier

this morning issued public

alerts about another s weather

forecasted in the next few days.

That includes flash flood watch, high wind warnings issued by national weather service.

As this weather approaches on heels of the last storm I share the concerns of many of my constituents and colleagues

about the health impacts of the city's homeless. Climate change means more and more extreme weather events.

I know we have been adapting

this to the reality by expanding emergency protocols to include heat and air quality. We have a long standing and clear protocol in place for cold snaps, and that when implemented, available beds often do not fill up, even with

the outreach the city does and

the free transportation we offer. My question is, how can the

board work with you to better maximize uptake for emergency

protocols and pop-up shelters,

and if also like to know if you would be supportive of opening severe weather pop-up shelters in appropriate city-owned properties and areas not currently well served by

established pop-up locations? >> thank you for your question.

Providing safe places for people

experiencing homelessness is an

essential part of our homeless response system.

This need is even more critical during the winter months and severe weather.

In the past year we have seen

cold nights, heat waves, and

poor air quality caused by the wildfires around california.

During the winter, the city in partnership with the san

francisco interfaith council and episcopal community services operates the winter interfaith shelter program, provides

shelter for up to 100 additional people per night.

This is in addition to 40

additional beds per night at st.

Anthony's winter program and

M.S.C. South shelter.

And also have shelter capacity during times of severe weather and poor air quality.

Additional 75 shelter spots.

We do not stop at this

additional shelter space for 75.

When 70 of the 75 are full, pop-up shelters including

recreation centers we have done

in the past and other community spaces.

It's rare that we reach this occupancy threshold but we are ready to respond. San francisco shelters are

heavily utilized resources, our shelters are approximately 93%

full every night, and our winter interfaith shelter program is nearly 100% capacity.

However, the pop-up shelters that we open during extreme weather has been underutilized. to improve the utilization of

the shelter beds, we have begun using taxi vouchers to provide

people with transportation to empty shelter beds throughout san francisco. San francisco can and should do

more to provide people with safe and dry places during extreme

weather all year around.

I'm committed to opening additional 1,000 beds in the next two years.

We need more pop-up shelters during the rain and also shelter beds available 24/7 every day.

My shelter crisis ordinance, combined with what you just

approved will help us open and

operate shelters more quickly.

>> President Yee:   ok.

We will approve the funding today, hopefully. >> for the second reading,

right, President?

>> first reading.

>> President Yee:   supervisor brown, follow-up question?

>> Supervisor Brown:   yes.

I know that when we have the

weather, the extreme weather and some of our emergency shelter beds are not full but I can go through my district and see

people standing there in the rain, like completely, the homeless population. So I'm wondering if there's

other creative ways, I'm asking for your office to look in other, your departments to look

at other creative ways of how do

we get people in these emergency shelters? I know probably a lot of it is a

trust issue.

A lot don't want to leave neighborhoods, you know, where they are like, and you know this

in haight ashbury, don't want to go across town. So the buildings available are in neighborhoods to look at.

So, it's -- it's not a question

for you now, but just something to think about.

Thank you.

>> President Yee:   would you like to respond? >> thank you, and as supervisor

brown and I both know with our

intimate knowledge specifically,

the particular individuals in

haight, very challenging in some

instances to work with, often

times there is a shelter, an offer of supportive services and

with some of the challenges with mental illness we know that that's a real difficult thing

that we struggle with with people who are homeless on the streets and I think that providing more options are going to be important, especially when

we talk about, you know, wanting to get people into shelter, wanting to get them off the

streets and we need to make sure that we have places for people to go but there will continue to be a difficulty, especially when there are certain neighborhoods

more high demand than others.

So, reforming our policy but providing the shelter beds and providing the shelter beds in various places throughout our city is going to be important and it's a first step to coming

up with a comprehensive plan to

address this particular issue. But, as I mentioned before,

building more housing.

We need to do more of all income

levels and in fact, not continue to pass additional laws that

make it very difficult to get housing built in san francisco in the first place.

many of the policies that I'm

putting forward provide funding, provide an opportunity to expedite housing, incentives and things that are going to get the job done. We need to build more housing.

We need more shelter beds and we

need to stop letting the bureaucracy and the introduction of so many different layers of

laws get in the way of our ability to do that.

>> President Yee:   ok, thank you, mayor breed. So, did you have any follow-up

questions for either supervisor

brown or any other supervisor in attendance? >> not at this time, thank you.

>> President Yee:   all righty.

In that case, with no questions from the mayor, this concludes

the district 5 topic discussion.

Madam Clerk, call the next topic.

>> Clerk:   school district

supervisor from district 8,

supervisor mandelman, regarding

public transit.

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   mayor breed, san francisco's growing by the day.

Back when you and I were in high

school, just over 700,000 people lived here. Today nearly 900,000 people do. With this growth comes challenges and one of the biggest challenges, one I hear

about daily from my constituents, the need to improve the public transportation system. Over the next 20 years,

additional 17%, adding 138,000 more residents.

Over that same time span,

projected to add 296,000 jobs. Many in san francisco, myself included, are concerned we do

not have an adequate plan for how the transportation system

will accommodate the significant growth.

This does not appear for lack of trying. We have had two transit task forces over the last decade, and

it does not feel like we are planning for a sustainable transportation future. You have identified homelessness and housing as top priorities for your administration and clearly they are. But close behind homelessness and I think essential to solving

our housing crisis is fixing our transit system.

Building more housing will not work if we can't move these people around. How do you envision closing the gaps in the transit system and

moving from the reality of our congested present toward a truly transit first future?

>> well, well, well, supervisor mandelman. I appreciate this question today.

Muni we know suffers from

decades of underinvestment and deferred maintenance.

We have a growing population and jobs base that does put

additional strain on our transit system.

We can't simply accommodate this growth without sound investment in public transportation, and we

need to make muni faster and

more reliable. Address the major issues that make it difficult.

We must invest in reliability by tracking our deferred

maintenance backlog, and we must

expand our capacity, hire more

drivers, extend the system to

new areas and improve rational efficiencies and ensures transit is not hampered by vehicle congestion.

Without creating a reliable and efficient transit system we will

never achieve our climate goals.

Last year the transportation task force identified approximately $100 million that

was needed annually in order to

make a significant dent in the deferred maintenance and service improvement necessary to turn

the tide with M.T.A.

That's why I propose to dedicate

the $38 million windfall money

to accelerate the purchase so

the j church in your school

district, and in supervisor

brown, and another supervisor

mar, the m ocean view side,

President Yeah -- >> President Yee, from

delays and melt downs impacts the constituents. I wanted to, unfortunately,

those funds were significantly

reduced in the budget committee,

by $19 million so the muni yards could have solar panels.

Now I fully support energy efficiency and energy independence, solar panels with

an unreliable transit system

will not help us reach our goals.

And I want to be clear. Transportation generates a significant portion of greenhouse gas emissions.

If we want to move the needle on our climate goals we must make

our transit system a reliable

source so that people get out of

their cars and use it as their

option first. >> President Yee:. Do you have a follow-up question?

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   yes, and thank you for the commitment

for the additional L.L.R.D.S,

and if we have additional money in the future, sounds like you would, but commit to trying to

use that money for, to close the

gap with the L.R.V.S and work

with the board for additional

ongoing sources of revenue for M.T.A. >> always.

>> President Yee:   quick answer. >> follow-up question, supervisor mandelman. Would you make an amendment to remove that money and put it back into the place where it belongs so that we can get those

trains and busses delivered to

our sits faster?

>> Supervisor Mandelman:   that's why you were so excited about

that question.

You know, this is a -- this eraf

spending plan is a complicated

compromise that took a lot of

work and a lot of folks giving a

lot, and although you know, our

only option at this point is to

send it back to the M.T.A. Board. I have received commitments from staff and from you, from

colleagues, that if there is

additional eraf money in the future, we believe there will

be, we will close that gap.

>> I'm committed to doing it,

and the priorities you all care about, we in san francisco make sure we are making the right investments.

We need to put our money with our mouth is. Thank you.

>> President Yee:   and before you leave, any questions of any other supervisor? at this point? >> not at this time. Thank you, President Yee.

>> President Yee:   thank you for

coming out to the district 7 new

year this past weekend. The people really appreciated.

And thank you for your answers. So this concludes the district 8

topic discussion and Madam Clerk.

To the next items.

>> Clerk:   items 2-4, consent calendar. Considered to be routine.

If someone objects they May be removed and considered separately.

>> President Yee:   any items severed from the consent agenda?

Seeing none, call the roll for

items 2-4.

>> Clerk:   items 2 through 4.

[Roll call vote taken]

>> President Yee:   these items

have finally passed unanimously. Madam Clerk, let's go to the

regular agenda and call items 5-7. Together.

>> Clerk:   5-7, comprise the appeal of a conditional use

authorization granted for the

project located a the 3637

through 3657 sacramento street.

Public hearing required for this

item was held and closed on January 29, 2019.

Decision on the appeal was continued until today.

Item five is the motion to

approve for the sacramento street project.

Item 6, and item 7.

>> President Yee:   supervisor stefani, share any remarks at this time?

>> Supervisor Stefani:   thank you, President Yee. Colleagues, before you today of

course is the conditional use, we have heard the hearing and thank the neighbors for coming out and expressing your concerns about this project.

I do find this process somewhat exasperating, to be honest, that

we have projects that goes to

the planning department to a

different reiteration what can

or cannot be done, lacking predictability what can be done and then going to the planning

commission where it's reviewed

at a 4-2 vote and a level of parking was taken away, I think

everyone is fine with.

And now before us is the appeal

of the conditional use for this building, for the various

reasons that have been laid out.

And I take this appeal seriously.

We sit in a quasi judicial

manner and it's important to me I consider everything that has

been said, everything I know, desired.

The mayor spoke of housing. 18 units of housing at this

site, maximum number allowed.

I think it's very important that

this property, this project fit

in the neighborhood. I think parking is important to

support the businesses and the restaurants and I think that conditions on construction are extremely important, considering

the impacts that will be felt by

the neighbors and the merchants, and I also think it's important to structure any type of office

space based on the sacramento street neighborhood commercial district which should be low

impact as I think outlined in

section 724 of the planning code. Sacramento street neighborhood commercial district is on

sacramento street, comprised of residential, commercial and office space. I have heard many concerns on this project.

In addition to those expressed

by the appealants, and merchants

need foot traffic and places for

people to park so they frequent the shops and restaurants.

And heard from the neighborhood

organization in the area, presidio association of neighbors have not taken a position on the project because some are for the project and some are against it, and they

decided not to get involved.

Some liked three floors of

parking and were surprised when

they removed the third floor and somewhat upsets. Earlier on people were concerned the doctors in the buildings were going to be displaced.

There was a push to allow for

medical on the second floor,

mostly because they were limiting the number of people

coming to shop at traditional retail stores. Maximizing the number of units,

we have done here for a total 18 units, the utmost importance. The sponsor wanted things, like

another floor of parking, wanted

the building to look different

and some of the conditions, I'm not too sure he's happy with.

So, I'm in a wonderful position

I get to make nobody happy.

So, this is what I -- I think

based on, I'm telling you, based on my experience in district 2 living here for 18 years,

working on behalf of district 2 for nine, knowing this commercial district well, listening to the neighbors, caring deeply about what they think, wanting housing, based on

all the principles I just laid

out, I've come to the following decision.

Also I also wanted to say, concerns raised about the back side of the building and my understanding is that now the project will create mid block open space.

It does not now exist, I think will be better. On the california street side, neighbors new look at walls right up the property lines,

rear of the garage in the medical dental buildings with this project goes away. And from the project record, in April of last year, concerns were raised about the wall at the rear property line and it was then redesigned to lower the

rear yard, eliminate the rear

wall, contributes to the mid block open space.

This is not a perfect solution

for a lot of the people, but I think it's a concession that does allow for mid block open

spacing is extremely important.

So, in addition to the planning commission, took away the third

sfloor of parking I agree with,

and based on the conversation

with neighbors and appealants,

first, design modifications of

the building.

So, one, the project sponsor shall modify the fourth floor

and sacramento street facade, r

fourth floor set back three feet deep by 20 feet wide at the east

and west ends of the buildings

shown on sheet 82.7 of the plan.

And appearance of the central portion of the proposed

building, projecting facade will

be removed and replaced incorporating a horizontal band at the top of the building. One of the concerns I continue t hear over and over again, the

mass of the building allowed through finding seven in the planning commission motion and I do agree the building needs to be modified a bit to fit better in the neighborhood.

In addition to those setbacks

just mentioned, the project sponsor shall proportion the windows so more in keeping with

the neighborhood and also

de-emphasize the balconies,

replacing the glazing with metal

railings and horizontal siding

or brick. Project sponsor will work with planning department design staff

on the above for design more compatible with neighborhood character. I think it's extremely important with a building of this size

that it fits in with the neighborhood.

Also medical office space size limitations. I've heard concerns and like I

said, that we should just get rid of medical entirely.

I have also heard concerns that relocating all the people in

the -- that are using space there now is something that

should be considered. Right now at the site there is

13,000 square feet of space, with 16 medical offices. Like I said, concerns have been raised there should be no office space at all, that it needs to

be low impact and no clinic usage that might require large delivery trucks.

So limit the impact of the state, medical on the second

floor, limited to more than 3500

square feet per r tenant. Leaving only 4500 square feet left, so the most we are looking at 4 to 6 offices in the

building restricted to low

impact uses. In addition to the design

modifications and the limits on medical office space, I believe that there needs to be conditions on construction to limit impacts on the neighbors and merchants. Construction must be done in a

way that protects our merchants and neighbors from the impacts as much as possible. Should the conditions not be followed, permits shall be suspended. You should all have the

conditions in front of you, and the construction conditions are

laid out in 3-12, and I'm not

going to read them in the

entirety.

But three deals with the

assessment and requires preconstruction assessments

during construction and oppose construction assessment.

And also the vibration plan,

noise control plan, dust control

plan, parking during construction, agreements that the project sponsor will provide parking for the businesses and those affected, that's spelled out in detail. Also the construction equipment

that can be used to minimize the impacts on the neighborhood

while different phases of the

project are going forward.

Also house of construction, and

a community liaison to inform

the neighborhood of community issues that arise and construction periods and distributing notices describing

construction stages and timing to plan accordingly. And affected businesses for the

3600 block of sacramento, and

any other businesses within 150 feet of the project site. This outlines the project sponsor shall provide temporary office space to the therapists

who regularly see patients, outlined in here.

And also work with Mr. Richards

who has the salon at 3631 sacramento street to address concerns, his business will be

impacted by construction. I know this is not what

everybody wants, and I feel,

though, that it preserves a

project that hopefully will add to the neighborhood commercial district. It is large.

I've tried to limit it as much as possible with keeping with the neighborhood commercial district and what I think is

needed there, which is housing, low impact medical and then

ground floor retail to add to our neighborhood commercial district to support our merchants on that street. I don't know if you have any questions or I should make a motion now.

>> President Yee:   go ahead, make

your motion.

>> Supervisor Stefani:   I move to

amend item 6, and approve a new conditional use authorization with the planning condition original conditions, plus the following 12 additional conditions I have just outlined

and which have been passed out to you.

Finally, table item 5 and

approve item 6 as amended and

approve item 7.

>> President Yee:   seconded by

supervisor peskin, thank you.

Impose additional conditions and

approve the conditional use

authorization and approve item

7, preparation of findings and to table item 5. We have already a second.

Can we take this house same call? >> one comment.

So, I -- want to say that I

think supervisor stefani has

crafted a very nuanced, good, compromise. You always know that is truth

when the appellant and project

sponsor are unhappy, and I want to say that in the hearing we

obviously heard from a lot of neighbors who were very

concerned about construction impacts.

I have to say that the

conditions that supervisor stefani was able to secure are rather extraordinary.

I mean, this could be the model

for other in-fill projects relative to what good neighborly behavior during construction look like. I'm happy to second it.

>> President Yee:   ok, thank you.

Without objection, items 6 as

amended and item 7 approved.

Item 5 tabled unanimously.

Madam Clerk, 2:36 at this point,

can we ask for the special order

2:30 recognition of commendations.

>> recognition of commendations, four members who would like to

acknowledge the good works of

certain individuals.

>> Supervisor Peskin:   I'm honoring a woman I've known for

much of her tenure at the grants for the arts.

I think most of us were a little

surprised when we heard the news

that she was retiring after truly significant accomplishments that have helped to shape not only the local arts scene here in san francisco, but

also the national reputation of

grants for the arts as a model

generous progressive and community led arts funding.

For the past 38 years, carrie has been director of grants for

the arts, municipal funding agency for san francisco arts

community that has granted over $300 million to arts organizations and cultural projects, big and signal,

ranging from ethnic neighborhood celebrations to the san francisco opera. Her colleagues, many of whom have taken the time to be here

to bear witness to her amazing

work are in the chamber and can attest to the fact carrie has

been a tireless advocate and

supporter of arts for all in san francisco.

Through her stewardship of G.F.T.A. Enabled arts organizations of all sizes to serve the people of our city with programs that are really

the envy of the nation. At the symphony programs such as

school partnership series,

adventures in music, if you have

not seen you should go to, or celebrations honoring diverse

cultural traditions, such as

this weekend's annual chinese

new year event or others are a reflection of the hard works that arts in san francisco remain the center part of the vibrant communities and a part

of all of our lives.

Her rotunda dance series,

brought dance troupes from

around the world to enjoy.

And tom has helped lead funding

initiatives, arts for everyone,

prop e on the ballot last year,

that supervisor tang and I co-authored, and which passed in the November election. Carrie helped empower everyone from local grassroots arts and cultural organizations to large

scale cultural institutions like

the opera and ballet with grant

work and funding partnerships.

Numerous panels and advisory

committees, national endowment

for the arts, golden gate university, national council on

foundations and the seattle arts

commission, among many.

And managerial awards, silver

cable car award, and the

business arts council trustee's award, as well as honorary

degree from act mfa program.

Published beyond profit, a management guide for non-profit

community and volunteer

organizations, co-authored with

fred setterberg in 1985. Prior to working for the city of san francisco, executive

director of feedback

productions, a grassroots

productions, to special constituents, children and elderly.

Her work before moving here, antioch college in yellow

springs, ohio and public affairs producer for community radio

station wyso, also in yellow springs.

Carrie, we are going to Miss Your dedication, lovely way

about you, passion and advocacy in city hall and the community

every day and we wish you so

well, so much on your next endeavors. Carrie shulman, please come on

up.

[Cheering]

>> Madam City administrator.

Watching on tv, that is not carrie, but the city

administrator of san francisco, naomi kelly. Go ahead. Miss Kelly.

>> President Yee:   I think after

you, Miss Kelly, I think that supervisor brown would like to say something. I see her on the roll. Go ahead.

>> protocol. Well, I just wanted to also thank you carrie for all of her

work, for throughout the years. I can't tell you how many times

when I'm thinking, oh, I've got to, something is coming up, in

the community, and arts, and I just go straight to you and you help us do what we need to do, and I -- I think how I'm going

to have to completely readjust

myself not reaching out to

carrie, to get things done, and

thank you for the years of

getting cultural events through

like the black film festival, juneteenth, and black history month and when I think of the

things you've done to make sure we have both cultural events

happen and how important they are, I just want to say thank you.

So, simple, carrie, I'll probably still reach out to you but a different level. All right, thanks.

>> President Yee:   Miss Kelly.

>> thank you, board of supervisors. Naomi kelly, I know carrie had been talking about this for a while but we were not prepared for when it actually happened.

her legacy, I met her in 1996,

and she, in 1996, when I first started working for the city,

and her ability to graciously walk us through all the

different art organizations.

Grants for the arts is 219 organizations city-wide.

And to methodically think about

how they are an instrumental part of the city and she through the last few years of being the

city administrator and the last

seven years has spent a lot of time with grants for the arts through the hotel tax fund and her leadership we got proposition e on the ballot, to

make sure the grant organizations are getting the money that are needed to make sure we have a san francisco

that is -- that has the arts and

cultural fabric part of the city and makes san francisco unique.

Through her leadership also she took the time and lead in working with the nonprofits to

make sure we had space in the arts community because they were concerned about arts nonprofits

being displaced, and through her work, working with the arts

commission and northern N.C.C.L.F., northern california leadership fund, to make sure we

had a fund for the nonprofits to

have a space in san francisco,

and just as supervisor brown

mentioned and supervisor peskin, her commitment to the different cultural parades and events and dance festivals we have throughout san francisco to make sure that they continue because as residents of the city, we

enjoy going to all of those different events on the weekends.

And fostering interest among

young people to get involved with the arts.

And to be here in san francisco and making sure that it's part

of our school curriculum, after

school curriculum, and just getting engaged into our

community and neighborhood event. Her leadership over the last 38

years cannot be replaced.

But she has told me via email, via snail mail, in person, that she is a phone call away, and

she, and we have been using

that, we have been to her on a regular basis how to keep moving

and live up to the promises of

prop e, up to equity, promises

of the vibrancy of the city and

for that, carrie, I'm very thankful to you.

>> President Yee:   all right. Ok, carrie.

Come on up.

>> can I use this one? >> yes.

>> because I'm a 20th century woman, so I use paper.

My children might say I'm a late

19th century woman, if asked. President Yee, thank you so much

and board of supervisors, thank

you so much for this commendation.

38 years ago I got a job out of

the blue with not very lively qualifications, frankly, that I wound up loving and that for the

most part has loved me back and

you can't really ask for much

more than that from a career. Serving the city of san francisco by helping the arts with municipal dollars has been a joy every day of the 38 years that I've worked here.

I've worked for eight mayors, starting with mayor feinstein,

five city administrators, or

chief administrative officers,

now proudly for the last seven years, serving with our first woman city administrator, naomi

kelly and her deputy, jennifer johnston. Office of city administrator is not exactly unsung but it's not

an office that seeks the limelight.

In fact, most public servants don't seek the limelight and has been a huge pleasure to get to

know and work with all of the incredible public servants in the city of san francisco.

When I first took the job, my main interface with government

workers was at the D.M.V., and so -- that did not really

prepare me for the caliber and quality of the people that I

would be working with in san francisco as colleagues.

And some here, supervisor

peskin, of course, angela, I think I knew since she got out

of high school, and ben, graduated from elementary

school, I believe, I have known

him, and particularly the grants for the art staff which loves the arts and is at their service. Anyone will tell you the grants

for the arts office is the most accessible and the most patient

and the most helpful office in

city hall and here with us are

valerie, kong, and kara from our office. [Applause] They are beloved in

the arts community and the colleagues at the san francisco arts commission, which

supervisor peskin mentioned, led

by tom and rebecca, have been

absolutely --

and ongoing general operating

support to the widest swath of san francisco cultural activities, but in doing that, there have been times when we have been able to do some other

special initiatives and projects.

The one I'm most proud of was

initiated by supervisor peskin.

He perks up.

Many, many years ago there was

another space crisis in the arts. Another time when arts organizations could not hold on

to their spaces, some of them

were not safe, some were falling

afoul of various kinds of permitting rules in the city,

and so an amount of money was

set aside to be given in loans

to art spaces.

Over time that program began to falter.

Arts organizations found themselves unable to pay back

the money and supervisor peskin charged my office with cleaning up the program to protect the

city's investment with no harm

to the arts borrowers.

And it was renegotiated, and to

groups, many different theaters,

all across the city, all neighborhoods, all cultures, benefitted from approved

affordable spaces and they wound

up free of city debt. We are now in another crisis of

affordability for the arts and I hope the passage of prop e will bring the possibility of funding to address it like the successful model of 20 years ago.

The model is in place. We just need to fund it. I want to thank the members of

the board of supervisors and the

members of the previous board,

particularly supervisor peskin

and tang, supported prop e, hotel tax, became a national

model and allowed me at last to

declare a great victory and retire.

When someone is in their 70s,

and has served for almost 40

years, it shouldn't come as too great a shock.

But I held on until I could leave on high, and thank you supervisors for supporting that.

And of course, to the citizens

of san francisco, who 75% of the citizens voted for prop e.

A marvelous victory. Thank you to city hall.

[Applause]

>> thank you, supervisors naomi kelly, to san francisco arts community for allowing me to work for you and with you at what I believe has been the best job in the world. Thank you all.

>> President Yee:   thank you.

Don't go away, I was going to ask the President If we could invite you in and give you this proclamation and have all of our pictures taken with you, if you would be willing to do that. Or if the President Would be

willing to do that, it's his call.

>> President Yee:   how could I not? Make sure the photo is artistic,

ok?

[Applause]

>> President Yee:   so, next up --

I just want to remind, we have three more commendations and I

would really appreciate it if we

stick to our five-minute rule of

presenting and, you know, and

giving the person getting the

award a few minutes to talk also. So, that would be nice, ok?

so, supervisor brown, would you

like to share your commendation?

>> Supervisor Brown:   yes, thank you, chair.

President Yee.

Today -- hang on -- is my mic on? Ok.

Today I'm so proud to honor

kamia tucker of her leadership

in fillmore and western edition.

Grew up in the bayview hunters

point district and working with

disadvantaged and at risk youth over 15 years. She has witnessed the violence,

drugs and crime, seen past the

negative and how to desire to help the people in the community

seek their way to a better life. Her work spans from working with

foster care children to teaching

incarcerated youth at san francisco guidance center, to working with at risk young women

for the center for youth women's development. Her passion always remains to serve the community on the

ground and to address with, and

address the mental health disparities. She has served multiple roles

with the organizations. Originally a work force director

at collective impact and 2016,

became executive director of the

mo magic program in the western edition.

Leading a cola laborative over 20 nonprofits.

Deliver high quality programs to

over 800 youth and transitional

age youth each year by

connecting our kids to outside resources.

Kamia's work strengthens the fact of community building

throughout the western edition fillmore.

She May transition from mo magic

but not going too far.

Her new role at the mental

health specialist san francisco

black infant health program, kamia holds a bachelor's degree

and M.S.W. From san jose state university.

She is currently pursuing her clinical work, social work license with plans of being

fully licensed by the end of 2020. She is an incredible community

leader, sister, daughter, and

mother to two beautiful toddlers. Casson and valor.

I'm honoring you, but also sad

you are leaving mo magic and there will be big shoes to

follow, someone to fill those shoes.

So, kamia, can you please come up?

>> President Yee:   before -- before Miss Tucker speaks,

supervisor walton would like to

add a few comments.

>> Supervisor Walton:   I wanted to co-sign for this honor. I've had the privilege and the pleasure of working with kamia

for years and I see her mother

and her father in the audience,

and she is just an amazing

person, amazing woman.

You can tell from supervisor brown's description, some of the trail blazing things she's done more recently in her life, but I

do want to make sure that everyone understands even though she was working very hard in the western edition and city-wide,

she is from bayview, which is in

district 10.

So happy to honor and give her props here today.

>> President Yee:   Miss Tucker. >> thank you. I would like to thank the entire san francisco board of supervisors for having me today. Next, thank supervisor brown for this honor. Since I met you years ago, you have always supported so genuinely the work of mo magic

and all programs involved in the collaborative. You have been nothing short of genuine to work with, and I'm

forever grateful for the relationship we have developed

over the years. Next, a huge thank you to supervisor walton who has always had my back and been a huge

support from day one, and actually the reason I even met

the founding director of mo

magic in 2012, Miss Cheryl davis. Honor to serve under one of the

greatest visionaries in Miss Davis. And the things I have learned

under her leadership are invaluable. Forever thankful and grateful to what she has given me.

In 2016, apointed to direct the human rights commission of san

francisco, she along with the founder of the magic program

took a chance on me.

I was beyond nervous to even attempt the shoes she filled in for ten years in the western

edition but I'm so glad I did.

Also thank jeff adashi, allowed me to grow not only in the position but super supportive of my future goals. I have been a part of the collaborative for six years, and

I've had the honor to serve the

most amazing youth, transitional age youth, community partners

and community as the executive director for the last two years.

Towards the end of 2018, I began to struggle with pursuing my

dream of becoming a licensed clinical social worker, and

serving my community in the area of mental health. Always been beyond committed to my community and the youth so you can imagine how difficult this decision was.

This is where I thank Dr. Mary

anne jones for encouraging me

for the step of faith, and my parents, backbone I have ever

had and supporting me every way,

and my husband in his absence,

the encouragement and support I needed it most to follow my

dreams of becoming a clinician. I have gained so many lessons

and experiences as a part of the

mo magic collaborative, slept in

hospitals with young mothers who have given birth, unfortunately

been to funerals, courtrooms as advocate, jail visits, and responded to way too many late

night crisis situations to count.

I have also attended gra graduations. I met my husband through my work

at mo magic, and have two

beautiful rambunctious boys.

My heart is humbled at the honor I feel in my heart God has called me to do.

Full of gratitude for the opportunities I never would have had anywhere else, such as

working with the elite and top officials, as well as being a

part of the most amazing team at

collective impact, including

alongside my two life savers,

rika and james, and the work mo magic will continue and i believe God has for me in the career of mental health. Thank you to the bottom of my heart.

I promise to stay grounded and

connected in the communities that helped me become who I am. Thank you.

[Applause]

[Please stand by] Director mar

>> continue to serve residents and workers in the months after the fire. They launch the chef for feds

effort partnering with over 100 restaurants to support thousands

of federal workers and their families throughout the longest

government shut join in united

states' history and served meals

until the furloughed received

their first back paycheck.

World central kitchen activated hundreds of volunteers and chefs and tyler florence and his wife

and business partner here with

us today to feed bay area federal workers including employees of the coast guard,

nasa, epa, citizenship services

an department of agriculture and social security administration and the department of transportation.

I want to acknowledge dan bernal from speaker pelosi's office.

They worked hand in hand with world central kitchen to connect

them to furloughed workers in san francisco and the bay area.

On behalf of the san francisco

board of supervisors I'm thrilled to honor world central

kitchen and the many chefs and volunteers who helped ensure our

federal employees had access to food during the shutdown. Jose couldn't be here today but

i'd like to invite chef tyler

florence and his wife and dan bernal from speaker pelosi's

office to accept the certificate

of honor on behalf of world central kitchen.

>> thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman.

You did an amazing job.

It's been a real absolute pleasure. President Yee and the board of supervisors. I want to thank you for having us today.

For the amazing commendation for work for a situation I think needs to be addressed on a much deeper level.

That's how we feed people in

situations of climate change and situations of political upheaval that happen from time to time we

just went through as a nation.

I feel so proud to represent not

just myself but also the entire chef and culinary community because we're leading the charge

in so many ways that feel so

incredible to be behind. The city of san francisco has all stood up for progressive ideas and jose

andres is an

amazing inspirational leader to us that worked shoulder to shoulder with him at world central kitchen.

It's been an amazing year. We've learned how to deal with

climate change and feed people

on the drink of disaster.

We were in the middle of the fire to a community that lost everything in the matter of 12 hours and didn't know where to

go or what to do and didn't know

where their next hot meal was going to come from and world central kitchen was on the ground within 72 hours of the

disaster happening serving hot live meals to anybody and everybody they could get in touch with.

I also want to thank nancy

pelosi our dear speaker of the house from san francisco, california.

Our chief of staff, dan bernal, with me today, give him a round

of applause, I want him to say a few words as well.

The speaker's office was so

instrumental in getting us into

federal buildings here in san

francisco to make sure that we

could share our love and appreciation for federal workers

that went 35 days without a paycheck.

We wanted them to know someone

cared and loved them and could take dinner home to their family

that night and we sent federal workers here in the san

francisco bay area that last week during the final part of

the government shutdown. Every federal agency we could

reach out to, we did.

The irs, nasafd , fda and we distributed food and they were hap yesterday to have it.

The question is here we are now. 2019.

The fire season of October and

November is upon us again.

What are we doing as a state for that and how are we ready to reach out to those in need if it happens again.

I filled -- filmed a adopt --

documentary and refilled filmed the fire

adds it happened and we stood up for our neighbors in the north

bay as they were devastated.

And 365 short days later, here

we were again with a fire even bigger and more widespread with more devastation and more loss

of life. The fire season is upon us and we need to address how we feed

people and how we deal with climate change in a fragile

state and what does 2019 look like? As fires have proven they don't care about any social economic class.

They'll burn your house down in

20 seconds flat and the

difference between HAVEs and have-NOTs becomes clear when you

need a bowl soup and the chefs were there in the past and will be there in the future on the front lines to make sure our neighbors and our community and

nation and country and world are

fed in the time we need. Thank you very much.

[Applause]

>> Commissioner:   would you like to say something, go ahead?

>> I'm here on behalf of speaker

pelosi to express gratitude to those who helped during the government shutdown.

Our office was connected with tollen and tyler. You know when you meet somebody

when they see somebody's in distress or suffering and there's no option for them other than to help.

They just dove in and dove in and helped. In addition to the agencies that

were mentioned, the coast guard,

the ninth district court were

all served wonderful meals by

chef tyler florence and paula la

duc and speaker pelosi had the

great privilege of inviting chef

andres and tyler florence to be her guests at the state of the

union to humidity -- highlight

their important work to show the

quences of -- quences of the

longest -- consequences of the

longest federal government shutdown. Thank you.

>> Commissioner:   thank you.

>> Commissioner:   lastly, supervisor mar would you like to share your commendation?

>> colleagues, I would like to

give a special posthumous commendation in memory of an

amazing woman who was a great inspiration to many community members in my district and

throughout our city and beyond.

Grandma kim led an extraordinary

life as a survivor, woman and activist and passed last week at

the age of 92. Taken from her home in korea she was a comfort women. Women and girls rounded up by

the japanese imperial armed

forces in 13 asian pacific

countries from 1931 to 1945.

The ensured unfathom violence.

After surviving a suicide

attempt the found the will to live.

She made her way home.

Kim spent decade in silence as

she spent a life running a successful fish restaurant then

in 1991 another south korean

comfort woman survivor came

forward to share her story of in imprisonment. Kim became as she was meant to

be, unstoppable.

She gained international acclaim

with her testimony bringing survivors together from all over

the world including women in vietnam attacked by soldiers and set up the butterfly fund and started a scholarship for

children in conflict regions.

she denounce the inadequate reparation deal between south

korea and japan in 2015 and

gained notoriety for campaigning every wednesday outside the

japanese embassy starting in

1992 which continues decades letter. She testified at the

international human rights

convention and was a plaintiff

in the war crimes tribunal under

japan's sexual slavery and receive received the person of

righteousness prize.

An estimated 2300

200,000 victims

endured sexual slavery only 239

in south korea came forward.

She empowered herself and others.

She overcame the shame and stigma and the silencing all survivors face.

She served as a beak jon --

beacons for survivors around the world sharing her message, you

are not alone.

She fought until the end demanding justice for comfort women.

The butterfly symbolizes victims

freed from her hurtful past.

In her memory let's remember the

March for freedom of those of

sexual violence and those

oppressed and members of the

comfort women justice coalition and education for social justice foundation are here to share in

honoring this legacy.

Thank you for lifting up her story and continuing her fight.

I'd like to invite judge lillian singh to share brief remarks.

>> Commissioner:   before that we have supervisor fewer who would

like to make a comment.

>> Commissioner:   thank you, president yee.

I'd love to associate my

comments with [Speaking french]

Mar this is a woman who led a

life of determination and this say fine example of you cannot

crush the human spirit.

And when someone is speaking

truth to power about their own experience and bringing it to

the world and never forgive speaking the truth it's so appropriate we're honoring her today.

This is again a woman who has suffered such atrocities in her

life but did not allow this to

break her human spirit and the resiliency of that human spirit

should be celebrated today. Thank you, supervisor mar, for bringing this forward.

It's a woman who has a lesson

today about speak her truth and

actually not settling and demanding that reparations she

was due in all the victims of

the comfort who these comfort women deserve. Thank you very much.

>> Commissioner:   thank you.

Judge singh. >> I'd like to ask my co-chair

to join me. This memorial is meaningful to us. In 2015 we came forward to ask

the board to pass a resolution

to support a comfort women memoriam.

At that time, eric ma was the

lead sponsor with other board

members here and I was passed unanimously.

Both judge singh and I go by

grandma and we joined her in the

March before the japanese consulate.

At that time she was pretty frail already.

but her suffering is the suffering of hundreds and

thousands of women and girls who

were called comfort women

sexually enslaved by the japanese armed forces.

13 asian pacific countries from

1931 to 1945. Unfortunately, a lot of them

have died just like grandma kim.

Today, we have approximately 23

korean comfort women still alive and 14 chinese comfort women still alive. I'd lake to invite you to come

to our memorial to see this

because the memorial is

installed to eradicate sexual violence and trafficking

throughout the world.

I'd like to give the rest of my time to the judge.

>> I'd like to thank this auspicious board of supervisors you're the best in the word at

least in san francisco for your really compassion for the

comfort women.

Taze -- taze

it's an

memorial for a group of women to speak on what happened

to them in in 2008 the united

nations security council passed a law that recognized rape

during war is a crime against humanity. Prior to that there was no jurisdiction against that kind of violence.

And rape as a strategy of war is

also deemed to be a crime

against women, against humanity and a war crime.

So we have to thank this group

of women who really engendered

the atmosphere and ethics to have this law passed so during

times of war you're not allowed

to rape and sex traffic women,

at any time of course but especially during war. During war women are vulnerable.

I want to ask supervisor fewer

she came out for our memorial for her last saturday in the

rain spo -- to support us.

I'd like to present a gift for

gordon since you're the one who made this motion and you scan

share it with -- can share it with the rest of the board of supervisors. I made it myself.

It's a photo of har harmony and the organization that's been working hard for several years.

It's an organization that judge

julie cheng and I co-founded and

co-chaired after reretired from -- we retired from our judge's

position to do that. >> let's move to our special

order since it's past 3:00. So Madame Clerk can you go ahead

and call the special order

items, 20 through 27.

>> Clerk:   3 order items 20 through 23 the

public hearing for the 1052

through 1060fulsome and appeal

of the determination of

community plan evaluation.

Items 24 through 27 comprise the

public hearing for the appeal of the california use authorization for the same proposed project

and the motions associated with

the persons interested in both

the appeal for of the determination of community plan evaluation and the conditional

use authorization.

>> Commissioner:   okay. Supervisor haney, would I like to make remarks at this time? >> yeah, so colleagues, we have a request from both the parties to make a continuance. I think they're both here and

will come forward and make that request.

I believe it's to continue to April 9.

>> Commissioner:   before you do that, supervisor safai.

>> I needed to recuse myself

from the project from previous work.

>> Commissioner:   what do you want us to accuse you of? >> I said recuse.

>> Commissioner:   sorry. >> please don't accuse me of anything.

>> Commissioner:   I guess we

should take a motion to recuse supervisor safai.

Could we have a motion?

Motion by supervisor stefani and

seconded by supervisor fewer.

Roll call, please. [Roll call]

>> Clerk:   on the motion to

exclude supervisor safai.

Supervisor mar. Absent.

A motion to excuse supervisor

safai from items 20 through 27

made by supervisor ste stefani.

Supervisor aye.

Roanin aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye.

Supervisor yee, aye. Brown, aye.

Fewer aye.

Haney, aye. Mandelman, aye.

There are 10 ayes.

>> Commissioner:   and supervisor

safai is reused.

Before we take any action on

this item do we have department

staff to mike -- make any

comments?

Seeing none, are you going to

make a motion supervisor haney?

>> to continue this to April 9.

I believe in order for that to happen the parties have to agree to that.

>> Commissioner:   can I have the parties take turn and

acknowledge that agreement. >> I'm for the appellant.

We agree to April 9th.

>> attorney for the project

sponsor and the project sponsor also agrees to the continuance to April 9.

>> Commissioner:   thank you. With the understanding the items will be continued, we will now take public comments. Are there any members of the

public who wish to speak on the

continuance?

Any speaker would be two minutes each.

Seeing no public comment, public

comment for this is closed. [Gavel]

>> Commissioner:   supervisor haney, would you like to mation

the motion? >> I move to continue to April 9.

>> Commissioner:   seconded by supervisor mandelman.

Colleagues, we have a motion to

continue items 20 through 27 to the board of supervisors meeting April 9. The motion to continue.

Can we have roll call on the item.

>> Clerk:   without objection.

>> deputy city attorney john gib ner I want to get something on the record. I understand based on

conversations with the project

sponsor and appellant the April 9th date was agreed to outside

of this room the planning code sets certain time lines for the board to make its ult mall

decision on this conditional use

appeal and in asking for this continuance to April 9 the

parties are weaving the time

lines -- waiving the time lines.

>> Commissioner:   thank you for the clarification. Now, without objection? Item 20 through 27 will be

continued to the April 9th, 2019

meeting. [Gavel]

>> Commissioner:   Madame Clerk

we'll go back to item eight.

>> Clerk:   a resolution to retroactively enter into an

agreement for an

intergovernmental agreement for

substance use agreement for approximately $145 million for

the retroactive term to June 15,

2018 to June 20, 2019 and

designate the department of

public health county alcohol and

drug administrate

or to approve amendments for under 10% of the

contracted amount.

>> Commissioner:   do we have a

speaker for this?

>> Clerk:   supervisor peskin. >> thank you, Mr. President and

thank you for continuing to the one-week continuance last week

as there were a number of

retroactive approves -- approvals from last week's agenda and the individual from department of public health was

less than clear in the

explanation to why this was retroactive. I've since met with the acting director of the department of

public health, Mr. Wagner, who

is here who has a very cogent explanation and I want him to explain it because it's a case

where retro activity makes perfect sense.

Mr. Wagner to the President.

>> thank you, members of the board, greg wagner department of

public health.

I understand the concerns around retroactive contracts. In this case the item before you is an agreement between the city and county and the state department of health care services. This is an agreement required

for us to draw down state and

federal funds under the drug medical waiver which allows us

to draw medical for substance

use disorder programming.

We originally brought a contract

to the board of supervisors

approved in May 2017 shortly

before the effective term of the contract.

So we did bring that piece in.

What happens with the contract the state makes amendments to them over time and the

amendments allow us to draw down additional funds particularly federal funds for items negotiated between the counties, states and governments over

time.

We received an amendment from

the state and it allows us to

retroactively go back and claim

medical dollars for additional

costs we wouldn't be able to

prior to the state of the contract. This amendment came into the

term of the contract but it's a benefit because it allows us to

claim the costs retroactively. We're bringing it forward because we feel it's a positive for the city and department.

>> Commissioner:   thank you

wagner for the explanation.

>> Commissioner:   a roll call on

the item.

>> Clerk:   Mr. Goodman, there is

no public comment.

>> Commissioner:   roll call, please.

>> Clerk:   supervisor mar, aye. Peskin, aye.

Ronin, aye.

Safai, aye. Stefani, aye.

Supervisor walton, aye.

Supervisor yee, aye.

Supervisor brown, aye.

Supervisor fewer, aye.

Supervisor haney, aye.

Supervisor mandelman, aye. There are 11 ayes.

>> Commissioner:   okay.

The resolution is adopted unanimously.

Madame Clerk call items nine through.

>> Clerk:   comprise flee resolutions approved by the

airport commission item 9

approves the terminal 3 concession lease between gourmet brands sfo group and the city for an eight-year term with two

one-year options to extend and

375 minimum annual guarantee for

meg for first year of the lease. Item 10 the modification number 6 for management support service

for the terminal 3 west

modernization project with wcme

joint venture to extend the term

through October 4, 2023. The contract was increased for a

new total not to exceed $50 million. Item 11, a resolution to approve

the term of the 2011 lease and

use agreement between iceland

air f and the city for joint

used based landing fees for the

term expiring June 30, 2021.

>> Commissioner:   okay. Colleagues, can we take the

items, same house, same call? Without objection the resolution

adopted unanimously. Madame Clerk.

>> Clerk:   12 is an ordinance to

amend the police code to require sellers or landlord to disclose to buyers or tenant the property

is located within the flood risk

zone delineated 100 year storm

risk map as prepared by the san francisco public utilities commission and require the

department of building inspections report a record include disclosure statement for

property within the flood risk

zone and determine the ceqa determinations.

>> Commissioner:   this is relevant we're in the midst of

the rainy season and climate

change doesn't see a sign of slowing down.

Many low-lying residents are

negatively impacted by severe

flooding dur the heavy rain season.

In 2017, I held a hearing

co-sponsor supervisors fewer, safai and ronin.

On short and long-term flood

mitigation strategies because

sfpuc identifies several

neighborhoods in my district 7

as well as district 8, 9 and 11

as flood-prone areas.

As consumers or prospective

homeowners it's important to be informed to make informed decisions about insurance and other mitigation measures to protect your property.

As a homeowner myself, I would want to know the information and imagine many of you as potential

or current homeowners or tenant

would want to know before a decision. This requires property owners to

disclor -- disclose if their

property is listed on the sfpuc100 year storm flood risk map.

the map shows flooding from

storm runoff and the fema map

only lists those areas affected from open water ways.

Use

using this model they identified property where's storm runoff is likely to occur during a 100-year storm.

The term 100-year storm means an

intense storm with a 1% chance

of happening in any given year. Publishing storm risk maps is

only one way sfpuc is working to prepare community members for

flood risks.

Klieg -- colleagues, I hope you will support this flood

resiliency.

So without objection?

Colleagues, can we take the same

house, same call?

Without objection the ordinance passes.

>> Clerk:   item 313 is revocable per noigs 650 indiana street llc to occupy and maintain a portion

of the 19th street public right-of-way between indiana street and the interstate

highway 280 with age

art-focussed public pedestrian

plaza to accept an offer and

adopt the ceqa determine nage determination and finding.

>> Commissioner:   the resolution

is adopted unanimously. Madame Clerk call item 14.

>> Clerk:   a resolution to grand

revocable permission to 1532 harrison owner llc to maintain

the public right-of-way between

harrison street and bernice street within lgbt

q leather focussed roadway to accept the offer of public improvement and dedicate the

improvements to public use and adopt the appropriate findings.

>> Commissioner:   can we take

this same house, same call. Objection the resolution is adopt. Madame Clerk call item 15.

>> Clerk:   a motion to appoint

michael papas to for a term of March 1, 2021.

>> Commissioner:   objection the

motion is approved unanimously. Next item.

>> Clerk:   a motion to appoint

kisai henriquez.

>> Commissioner:   the motion is approved unanimously. Call the next item.

>> Clerk:   motion to appoint karen rhodes to the park

regulation ration and open space advisory committee term ending

February 1, 2021.

>> Commissioner:   the house has changed. Can I have roll call.

>> Clerk:   supervisor mar, aye.

Supervisor peskin, aye.

Supervisor ronin, aye.

Supervisor safai, aye.

Supervisor stefani, aye.

Supervisor walton, aye. Supervisor yee, aye.

Supervisor brown, aye.

Supervisor fewer, aye.

Supervisor haney, aye. Supervisor mandelman. There are 11 ayes.

>> Commissioner:   this motion is approved unanimously. Next item, please.

>> Clerk:   item 18 a point to

appoint cindy bakii of r to the pedestrian safety advisory committee ending March 31, 2021.

>> Commissioner:   the motion is approved unanimously. Next ite pem

>> Clerk:   motion to reappoint

christopher jordonek to the elections commission with I term

ending January 1, 2024.

>> Commissioner:   it's approved unanimously. Items 28 and 29.

>> Clerk:   they were considered by the budget and finance

committee at a regular meeting

monday February 11 and forwarded as committee reports.

Item 28 is an ordinance to

aappropriate approximately

$221.5 million of excess educational revenue fund

property tax and rain day

reserve funds for

single-residence occupancy

hotel, behavioral renovation and homelessness and behavioral

health services, early care for

sfsud for utility acquisition

and assessment and baseline contributions and to establish a

teacher and early care educator

unappropriated emergency

resource -- reserve for a utility substation.

>> I'd like to sever item 28 and speak on the item.

>> Commissioner:   for item 29,

colleagues can we take this?

>> Clerk:   I have only called item 28.

>> Commissioner:   excuse me. Supervisor fewer.

>> after weeks of discussion we

were able to reach consensus on

the spending plan from the

excess educational revenue augmentation fund.

The legislation we're voting on allocates funding for affordable housing, homelessness and

behavioral health services an

educator salaries and unanimously co-sponsored by the board.

As the chair of budget and

finance committee I'm glad it reflects board priorities wells

mayor breed as articulated in

her spending proposal.

Colleagues, this is a powerful example of how to serve the needs of the community. This spending plan also addresses the three ballot measures that were passed by the voters in the last two elections

which are currently held up in court.

Through this spending plan, we are communicating that we will

not be held hostage by the legal

challenges that threaten our

ability to address homelessness

or inadequate wages for education teachers.

As san franciscans we are

standing uniting.

Collectively we're united in demonstrating these issues are indeed priority. I want to thank all of our colleagues for their support and work to make this happen.

Thanks especially to supervisor peskin for drafting the original legislation and then working

closely with my office on amendment. Thank you supervisor mar to

bring the proposal to create a

new reserve fund for educator salaries to provide more

assurance to the school district and thank you to mayor breed for working win my staff and to the

city controller for the work on the legislation.

Thanks to budget member

mandelman and stefani for the support and passing this on to the full board and how to President Yee for his support and appointing me as budget

chair to serve my colleagues and the people of san francisco in this capacity.

And thank you to everyone and my colleagues for your co-sponsorship. Through this one piece of legislation, we are are

demonstrating our collective power and what we can accomplish together.

I'd be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to thank my

staff and in particular, chelsea for her hard work on this. I believe we could not have come

to this unanimous co-sponsoring

without her tenacity,

thoughtfulness and patience and skill and thank you to the staff

of the other offices for assistance. Thank you again for colleagues. This is a fine example of the excellent work we can do

together.

>> Commissioner:   supervisor mar. >> thank you, President, yee.

I wanted to thank supervisor

fewer and her staff on the great

work they did and got us to a good final outcome with

unanimous support. I wanted to echo come comments

and add my own.

I'm proud of the package and collaborative efforts it took to get here.

Not all supervisors get to begin

their term with a win fall and

address the issues facing our city with new resource. While the legislation is not perfect, it strikes a balance

between competing priority, short term and long term needs

and aligns with our values. I wanted to highlight the community input.

I and other supervisors held

town hall meetings to engage

directly with constituents.

We held countless meetings to

understand the impact of our decisions.

I surveyed neighbors and read

each message received.

thank you colleagues for being open to compromise.

The process say -- is a testament how to come together.

I implore us to continually improve our community input processes because so many were not invited to the table and

left unheard. Barriers continue to persist

between people and government. As we look to the budget season

and reforms, let's commit to

making an ever more inclusive process of engagement. Thank you.

>> Commissioner:   thank you,

supervisor mar.

I disagree this piece of legislation is not perfect.

I think it's perfect.

We have a lot of needs and mayor

breed came to have the

discussion of the mta's ask.

And what we struck was a

balanced approach to this particular paying attention to what the board wanted us to do

which is so support not only

homeless and the housing crises

but the teachers' salary whether

you're early educators or k-12.

In particular I appreciated in

addition there's been discussion recently about large

construction we do and disrupt small businesses along the

corridors.

And I'm glass -- glad we will have revenues to address some

issues we'll see in the future.

Thank you mar for bringing the

amendment that closed the deal.

I also wanted to thank all the supervisors because I saw everybody engage in this and for

this to happen in the short time

that it happened, I want to

point out and thank supervisor fewer of the budget committee

for pulling this all together in

such a really short time period.

It's almost a miracle.

It can only happen in san francisco.

Did you have any more comments? Colleagues, can we take this

item, same house, same call without objection this ordinance

is passed on first reading

unanimously. >> Madame Clerk.

>> Clerk:   item 29 is to

appropriate 38 if the

$38.1 million to the san

francisco municipal transagency including approximately $19

million to purchase light rail

streak and conduct energy

efficiency audits and a

mitigation fund and mandatory

ought -- auditor and place a controller's resource pending confirmation of cash flow timing

from the state of california.

>> Commissioner:   supervisor safai.

>> I want to echo some of the things said.

Thank you supervisor fewer and

supervisor peskin, yee, all of

us, collectively.

And supervisor fewer held her ground. If we tried we wouldn't be able

to meet all the obligations of

the voters of san francisco in

this amount of money but we were believed with riches as

supervisor yee said to do

something almost perfect. Thank you to colleagues for

supporting the request we made

to add a $500 million mitigation funds and some individuals were

concerned we were diverting

funds from LRVs and vehicles nor city.

In our dual role as commissioners and supervisors

from small businesses tell us they've been impacted by the construction in the city, this

is a small but strong gesture in

the right direction to say in

instances where we are attempting to increase transportation efficiency and

safety and at the same time

thinking with the small

businesses along the core ridors.

We talked about the need to

appoint an individual among the

mta to facilitate the speed with

which when businesses submit claims for reimbursement as

their businesses have been

adversely impacted.

And with the light rail and examples done in the past with

the puc, there's President -- precedence for this so thank you for your support on this important but small gesture.

Thank you, President.

>> Commissioner:   supervisor peskin.

>> I also wanted to add my words

about how our new budget chair

performed very ably bouncing not only different policy priority and many communities and it was tough sledding.

Through the President And to budget chair fewer, hats off to

you.

And the controller's office was

transparent within the board as

well with the mayor's office shared the information openly

and it was helpful to the process.

I'm not trying to start a fight between our branch and the

executive branch, relative to

the earlier exchange, I want to

note item 29 is rather

interesting in so far as item 29

is sponsored by the chief executive of the city and county of san francisco and given the

way the charter works we can

only reject an amendment to the MTAs budget pursuant to the

charter by a seven majority vote

this body. The reality is this is actually

the mayor's legislation.

I wanted to say that for the record.

>> Commissioner:   supervisor mandelman. >> I appreciate that and that

would have been a far better response two hours ago. I wish that question had gone to you.

I want to say as I inarticulately said early the

whole package goes together. We were

we were focussed in different ways.

And I believe I heard from my colleagues and also from the

mayor a commitment to close the

remaining gap with funds we

anticipate would be coming in

another round of eraf.

I don't think it's the last we

heard of the LRVs and we'll be

bringing relieve to the folks arriving. All those train lines and getting stuck in the tunnels for far too long. Thank you very much.

>> Commissioner:   thank you. Colleagues, can we take the same

house, same call? Without objection the ordinance

is passed on first reading.

>> Clerk:   first to introduce new

business is supervisor mar.

Today I filed the sunlight on

dark money ballot initiative to

dark money in our politics and

close the corporate contribution

loophole and limit pay to play practices.

Too many super pacs influence san francisco elections with no

disclosures where the funds co from.

While we say we banned corporate contributions we still allow

some depending on how a business

is filed the incorporation papers. Too many developers with projects before this board still

donate to candidates who May

vote to approve their projects

despite voters' clear attempts

to limit these practices. Initiate addresses all three issues. Faith in government requires

faith in our electoral process

and dark money, pay to play and corporate influences are all marks against the trust the

public places in us. Voters deserve to know who is paying to influence their votes

and decide to vote on the issues themselves and with the initiative submit with the November ballot they will.

I'd like to thank the former ethics commission chair the

sponsor and former assemblyman

amiano and john gollinger who

will be managing the campaign.

While I'm the lead proponent my colleagues signed to put it on the ballot.

Thank you to supervisor ronin,

peskin, mandelman, yee, brown

and walton for your partnership.

And finally today I'm also announcing that along side our ballot initiative, my office will be soon introducing an

ordinance to reform a public financing program.

Speaker pelosi has made it clear em embracing and expanding public

financing is at the core of how

we must protect our democracy

and the congress made this their

first priority by introducing

hr1 the for the people act of 2019. While leader pelosi worked on this on the federal level, the board can enact the reforms at the local level here and now.

I look forward to working with

my colleagues on the crucial issue in the weeks to come.

The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, supervisor mar.

Now to supervisor ronin.

>> thank you.

>> I'm introducing amnesty.

Dous dozens of businesses are facing

displacement due to violation of existing regulation.

They're small, owner operator

enterprises an most are health

and personal services such as

acupuncture and massage and closing the businesses on the

same block would be a crisis for the mission.

The ordinance I am introducing

will prevent the displacement

and provide amnesty under the

planning code and allow the businesses to be legal

non-conforming uses an thus

allow them to remain as long as

they file the appropriate recommendations within 30 days

and I'm actively working to protect our manufacturing spaces. Light manufacturing businesses

provide working-class san franciscans with important blue collar jobs.

The mission is one of the few

neighborhood where's pdr zoning exists and we must protect these hard to find spaces.

i don't want this legislation to

be seen as opening the flood

gates to other buildings where

there are non-conforming uses to

come in and ask for an amnesty. This is a very particular situation based on the size of

the building and the displacement that would occur

all at once.

I think this is the right

balance to strike within the short term and long term. The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   supervisor safai.

>> thank you, Madame Clerk.

>> I rise to present a request

for hearing with President Yee.

We have an unfortunate incident.

An owner of a bakery was robbed

in daylight in the context of lunar new year.

Lots of families are carrying cash and being targeted as they leave the bank and this

individual walked into his place

of business at the good orchard

bakery and assaulted by two individuals.

He called 9-1-1 and english is

not his first language and it took four and a half hours to show up.

We have visited the owner of the

bakery who now feels suspicious

about working with law enforcement.

We have reassured him of that.

Thankfully the two perpetrators

were arrested. Hopefully that will send a message if they're the

perpetrators we ensure and want to ensure the people's safety in

this climate. At the same time the hearing

request for the department of emergency and it took a long time to respond.

It's a deep concern of president yee. He accompany med to the place of business. We held a joint press conference

with the chief and our insistence is to try to make structural changes. We believe the changes are

moving forward but intend to have a hearing on the matter and

get to the bottom of what the deficiencies might be.

I will allow President Yee if he would like later his opportunity to speak on this as well.

We do this in partnership and I

thank you for your support. The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   supervisor stefani.

>> thank you, Madame Clerk. Colleagues, I'm calling for a

hearing on the gary parker gas

line explosion with my colleagues supervisor fewer to conduct a full review of the incident including actions an

event leading up to the event of

the situation on site and

coordination of the response and

the role of each entity and

requesting

pg&e and verizon and others to report. We were in a budget and finance committee and were alerted to a

fire on the border of our districts, and my district.

We then learned a gas line exploded resulting in a

three-alarm fire at gary and

parker in district 2.

The incident spanned three hours

from the time the gas line broke

and the area was declared a safe

site to begin recovery efforts.

Videos of the incident are

harrowing at the height of the

flames reaching three stories

putting a lot of people in fear and danger. four structures were impacted. Many residents were displaced and we're working to help them now.

The beloved hong kong lounge on

the corner of park and gary was

very damaged. The people were heroic in getting all the patrons out.

Not a single person was injured. Nobody died. People were saying this is such a miracle. I talked to the chief and it's a miracle nobody was hurt.

I'd like to extend my condolences to the victims of the fire.

While no one was hurt, many residents have experienced devastating losses because of the incident. We're in close contact with them

and my priority is to ensure those affected receive resources to help them get back on their feet.

I also want to commend our first responders and other city

employees who prevented a strategy. The department of emergency

management, sfpd, puc, dbi,

human services agency and the office of workforce development

have played pivotal roles in responding to the emergency and

I want to thank them for their work and how everybody responded at the scene.

Many are still at hard work

investigating and learning lessons from the event.

I plan to hold a special commendation to those and those at the hong kong lounge and those who stepped up and helped

everyone in addition to the red cross.

While city agencies conducted a thorough response there are

still items I find alarming.

The incident highlights how

lucky we are it occur with the conditions of February 6.

If it were a warmer, dryer day

it would have been worse.

If there were stronger winds it

could have been worse.

So many possibilities could have

put it gravely out of hand putting everyone at risk including the firefighters who combat combatted the fire for two and a half hours.

It's critical we investigate what happened through when the

gas was finally shut off and contained.

We're calling for a hearing to

conduct a full review of the incident including actions and events leading up to the execution of the construction on

site, the cause of the gas line

break, notification and coordination and examination of

each entities in response to the incident.

We request pg and e, verizon and

the puc, dbi and public works to report to the hearing. We want to understand every piece of the process for safety standards and regulations in

place from how public jobs are advertised, contracted and awarded.

We want to ensure contractors

conducting work in our streets

maintain standards and if we need further rules to ensure safety, we need to put those rules in place.

Furthermore, we want to

understand pg&Es process and role as well.

What is their interaction if any

with the contractors and subcontractors and what precautions.

Put in place and were the gas

lines marked an what was the

response to the fire and

tickets.

And we need to take learning experiences.

So many team were worried about earth quick country and what were to happen if we had more

than one gas line break and more than our share of firefighters

trying to fight two or three or four gas line breaks. It's terrifying and we need to understand what precautions are in place so it never happens

again.

I'd like to turn it over to

supervisor fewer for more

comments. >> thank you to the fire department.

We're reminded how miraculous it

is there were no injuries given

the building now red and yellow tagged.

My heart goes out to the businesses that have been

displaced including hong kong

lounge number two. They have provided critical services to young people with nearly three inches of water in the basement and looking for new office space to continue their work. A deep thank you to the red

cross and dem, dbi and for working continuously to provide

support and assistance to our

neighborhood and for the rapid response to the employee

workforce for resource.

And joining supervisor stefani

for a top to bottom review including up to the permitting

of the construction activity and

it's critical we have a

discussion and figure how to

present any similar devastating incident from happening again in the city.

Thank you.

>> Clerk:   supervisor walton.

>> first colleague a hearing to

inquire why the san francisco sheriff's department conducts

its own investigations against

claims on officers in the jailed and in general which lacks an

oversight body in light of

recent reports of guards

mistreating inmates and I'm including the district attorney

to report on data of reported claims and how these claims were

addressed.

As we now on friday, February 1,

the san francisco district

attorney dismissed the case of

those who were encouraging glat

glad iater fights in the jail and the san francisco office

became aware of the events in

2015 when a few inmate stepped forward

forward with their store ies of

inmatd mate -- inmates were

pitted against each other for bets.

And we need to investigate

claims and wole call for a

hearing to discuss what has

happened in several of these

cases and these incident.

Also we're calling a hearing to

inquire the status of illegal dumping in district 10 and the department of public works

efforts in curbing illegal dumping.

In January 2019 alone district

10 received 3,098 requests for street and sidewalk cleaning

make 41% of our 3-1-1 called and

in March of 2011 we looked into

a committee with the board of supervisors. Dpw identified the scope of the

problems and resources devoted

to the effort and strategies in

other localities and plans to reduce the activity. Eight years later we still have

a major problem in the district and other areas of the city.

We'll call for a hearing to

discuss some the plans in the future to address illegal dumping as well. The rest I yield.

>> Clerk:   President Yee.

>> Commissioner:   I wanted to add

to supervisor safai's comment in

the language barrier in emergency response.

It's an issue that recurs every

so often and I'm glad we're having a hearing on this because

we have to get to the bottom of this. The committee would feel comfortable enough to report

things when they find out no one

comes for four hours is unacceptable.

When I was at the bakery, the

customers told me a month or so

before that, one of the workers

got robbed but it was never

reported and I asked why, they said they didn't know who to

talk to. We have to do a better job in the city and it's not working for everybody.

Hopefully the rest of my colleagues will join me in finding different ways to improve the system. The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   thank you, Mr. President.

Supervisor brown.

>> thank you, President Yee and adam clerk.

With supervisor walton, peskin,

safai and ronin, I'm introducing

legislation requiring brick and

mortar business to accept cash.

A no-cash sign is a not-welcome sign for many who don't have

access to banking services. The unbanked are all around us.

They're young people who don't qualify for credit cards,

seniors and low-income folks on fixed incomes or prefer to use cash.

They are the poor immigrants

african americans, latinex, asian pacific islanders and folks with concerns about privacy. The future May be cashless, but denying the ability to use cash as a payment today means

excluding too many people.

Basic industries providing s and services have an obligation to be inclusive and accessible to

everyone. As a society, we're the

beginning [Technical difficulties]

>> we must continue building

towards our own renewable power facilities and we need to advance the work and include

local build as a part of the preliminary report that the department is preparing at the request of mayor breed. Many colleagues on this board are strongly committed to the development of a green new deal

and I believe local build on our

own renewable energy resources are critical as part of that plan. The rest I submit.

>> Clerk:   supervisor haney.

>> thank you, Madame Clerk.

I have a few issues I'll introduce today. One is good news.

The announcement of a settlement

since 2013 the tenants at 1049 market street have been under

the threat of eviction after an

attempt to convert them to

commercial office space.

Their eviction was widely publicized and would have been the largest evict in the history of san francisco.

Since then the property owners

have been engaged in lawsuits with the city.

While many original tenants have

left and many have state and

fought and there's a settlement to allow the tenants to stay.

I want to thank the tenants for

leading their efforts and the

association and housing rights committee and the property owners for coming to the table

and the mayor's office and the san francisco superior court for

guiding the parties through

months of settlement negotiation

and the city attorney's office.

It will allow the tenants to

remain in the building.

Also introducing two resolutions today. One resolution in support of

state senate bill 233 introduced

by senator scott winger.

This will provide protection for

sex workers reporting crimes and

changes to protocol preventing law enforcement from using

condoms as a probable cause for arrest. This is a policy we've had in san francisco for some time

thanks to the work of

organizations like st. James infirmary and the department of the stats of women and human rights commission.

We hope it will be a policy that will expand statewide and

provide important protections to

a group of individuals at a high

risk to be victims of violate crime.

The second resolution is for a 20-year-old music festival

called the how weird street fair which will be the 20th year at the intersection of second and howard.

The resolution allows for the

festival to do sidewalk closures

to have a small admission free

for security measures and

celebrates the contributions of

the festival to our community.

Lastly, I'm introduce hearing to

address open-air drug dealing in

the tender in to and soma market

and it's no secret to the

thousands of the residents that

blocks from here heroin, meth,

fentanyl, cocaine and cox --

oxycontin are dealt and kids witness dozens of drug deals every day.

Every day people recovering from

addiction are invited to relapse. It's no secret it's a situation

that would not be it will tolerated anywhere else.

The only secret is what the city's plan is to address the crisis. A group of mothers told me how

they feared for their children, how people deal drugs at all

hours of the day and night around the open spaces that exist in the tenderloin for

children and said their kids

can't step outside without being offered drugs and how they won't always be there to intervene. They asked me what the city is doing to protect their children and want to be part of the solution.

They're not alone.

The people most fed up and

impact and most afraid are the

people who live in the communities. Last week I went to a memorial

for a young man who died from an overdose.

He was 27 years old and recently

obtained housing on ellis. With san francisco's housing

stock increasingly in the

tenderloin and soma these are

homes to low-income families and

many exiting incarceration and to have them live in an environment where drugs are in

the open is counterproductive. This is not just a public safety crisis but public health crisis.

Most people are aware much of

the desperation on the veets is --

vets is

vets -- vets is

-- streets is

linked to drug abuse.

And there's sentences for drug dealing without investment in

rehabilitation is a failure.

This has devastated families and cost millions of dollars.

The war on drugs and catch and release methods have not solved the problem. We also know doing nothing is

not an option. There is a false assumption we

have to lock up the street-level dealers or do something.

That thinking has left us paralyzed. We must find actionable

solutions that address the

issues based on evidence and proven best practices. What is clear is we cannot stand

by and accept the status quo.

It's a complicated problem and widespread change can take time

but strategies can work we've

seen societies form in the 300

block of ellis and eddie. They involve businesses an residents coming together to bring a community-driven

approach to the safety concerns.

We've also seen efforts to replace street-level dealing and

enhance visibility and lighting and family-friendly activities and businesses.

We have seen programs like safe

passage make a visible difference.

Initiates like law enforcement

division are yielding results in getting individuals out of the

drug trade and we have seen more effective policing strategies.

These are all great programs and

initiatives but we have to do more.

We have to involve interdepartmental collaboration

and have well paying jobs so

drug dealing not the most accessible form of survival and

the city must ensure health and safety neighborhoods for all

residents including those in the tenderloin and soma and mid market.

I'm calling for a hearing on

open-air drug dealing and inviting the department of

public health and workforce

development and public defender

and district attorney and pre -- probation and the department do work on this issue.

I hope it will lead to ideas and collaboration and sustained commitment to permanently alter the status quo.

The rest I commit.

>> Clerk:   supervisor mandelman.

>> submit.

>> Clerk:   Mr. President, seeing no other names on the roster that concludes the introduction

of new business.

>> Commissioner:   let's go to the

next item.

>> Clerk:   we welcome public comment on the mayoral

appearance on the January 8,

2019 board meeting minutes and items 32 through 35 on the

without reference to committee calendar. Direct your remarks to the board as a whole.

>> thank you.

>> Clerk:   one moment pleased.

If you'd like to display a

document on the overhead projector remove it when you

want to return to live coverage of the meeting.

>> Commissioner:   hold on a second, Madame Clerk.

If you're not finished complete your thought.

>> Clerk:   if you need interpretation assistance you

get twice the amount of time to testify.

Mr. Goodman, you can begin.

>> my honorable norman yee

President Of the board of

supervisors honorable angela padilla.

Honored members of the san francisco board of supervisors,

my name is david goodman.

I'm a descendant of the chef rabbi of [Indiscernible] And the

favorite good in of sam goodman the chicago kid.

I come forward to you unfortunately to report criminal

activity by the staff of the board where I've been living the last few years.

I have been tolerating daily

insults, respect and quietly

waiting my time for this day.

I live at the golden residential

care home.

It's owned by antonia magalay.

She has a caretaker she calls linda. Care homes is supposed to be

where older people many times

with a mental disability are

supposed to be cared for. Instead linda chases people with

a butcher knife.

I've reported it and we have grounds for a brandishing case.

We have a witness.

I'm at 415, 555-5796 is anyone is interested in looking into

the case.

Thank you very much.

>> Clerk:   thank you for your comment.

Next, speaker please.

>> Interview:   I have roses for valentine's day. Can I give it myself.

Thank you, God bless you.

>> Commissioner:   go ahead.

>> Clerk:   Mr. Decosta, you can begin.

>> I'm watching.

Board of supervisors, it's very

interesting, you know.

Coming to city hall and

listening to the deliberations

from one to the other.

First from the san francisco authority and then the

commission and then the board.

You line up to go to a shelter

and people get a chair to sit

down all night long.

This is where the united nations

was formed, san francisco.

I'll ask supervisors, if you go

to a shelter and heard the mayor

talk on both sides of her mouth

about providing a thousand

whatever but if you go to a

shelter today and they provide

you a chair to sit on the chair

all night long, is that right?

Do you show any humanity? Is someone going to look at me?

This say -- is a fact.

You wait in the rain like one supervisor said, and you get a

chair to sit down all not long. That's why they come to city

hall to get shelter.

We spend an inordinate time in our rest rooms and all over the

city.

Anyone can talk the talk but

when we give shelter to a human

being specially for the night,

let us give that human being a bed.

If not -- [Chime]

>> Clerk:   thank you, Mr.

Mr. Decosta.

>> Commissioner:   next speaker,

please.

>> I'm lavette arnold and born and raised here 58 years. I'm having issues.

I'm disabled but also I have health problems.

I came here years early talking to a lot of you guys. A lot of your faces are new here. I have constantly said something. I'm born and raised here.

This is my home.

I was born in a hadn't hospital

here and my son died at 21 here and for people to say get out

because I didn't want to do

sexual favors and my rent went

from $788 and I was only getting

$888 this sun is unreal. They say america's for everybody but this is my home.

This is where I came out of my

mother's womb and it's sad nobody's doing anything and

section 8 is terrible but I'm talking about my issues.

I'm a mother, great grandmother and I don't have to have sex with somebody in the housing authority to stay there. i've been there 18 years.

Three years I went from to hud and everybody to make a compliant. Nobody has done nothing. Enough is enough.

I would like to live in my home

though my home now is a

three-bedroom, I used to have a

three-bedroom certificate but I

only have a two-bedroom now but

is it fair? Is it over? Please. I'm born here. I want to live here for the rest of my life.

I want to die here too.

This is my home. Somebody needs to check the section 8 with the corrupt stuff

they're doing in there. Take that, please. Somebody needs to stand up and go through this section 8 office

and find out the crooked [Bleep]

They're doing.

>> Commissioner:   next speaker,

please. >> christopher reeves was asked

what he would like to do after and he said stand up and not fall down.

After listening to a planning

member discuss a parking

regulation in a new building

after the planning commissioner said I don't know if I'm more

confused now or before.

And I felt the same way.

He could remark about it.

Another time, airbnb in the same room was given permission to

have no rules and regulations.

And they said you just gave a moratorium on rules and you

can't give the mission a

moratorium on gentrification.

I remarked I was in favor of a

pause and new direction.

it would have helped the titanic

and last week I remarked about global climate change and the

whole world is on the titanic.

Global climate change is chaos and when the currents are not

the currents in the ocean

anymore, how do we fix this? When we look at the news in the morning and evening and see a

string of traffic on the freeway

spewing invisible poison while

the lyft and uber cars spewing their poison on the street, we need to change.

These are simple and big changes we need do.

Thank you.

>> Clerk:   thank you for your

comment.

>> you can say this say

coincidence and I did public

comment as it went off and

quoting a remark the high

priestess made and the whole nation perish not.

And it was actually a prophecy. He had no idea what he was saying.

It was a prophecy it is speed

expedient for us jesus should

die for us or we'll all perish. God is going to come back. It's not going to be much longer.

I think about pelosi and she locks her door. She's such a liar and the

democrats are being exposed. She wouldn't even stand up when

the President Was talking about stopping sex trafficking. Won't even stand up.

There's coming a day of judgment and it's not going to be very

etch -- much longer.

Three days ago God said vengeance is mine. Now of course that wasn't three

and a half days ago, was it?

it was 3,500 years ago but it

was three and a half days ago on

the peter scale and there's the mystery in the bible called the mystery of God how judgment day will be in three and a half years.

I wonder what that means.

Well, passover will be from the jubilee and every jew ought to

be a christian it narrows down

the year they would die and

every gentile should abe christian too. I think God will raise the dead

on passover April 20th.

>> Clerk:   next speaker, please.

>> I'm currently a resident of the tenderloin. When I first came to san

francisco 35 years ago I

remember hollywood billiards and

the tenderloin was a vie brant

neighborhood and it was skidding

before that and we have spent millions and poured into the tenderloin and what they get in response is skid row.

We don't need to pour more money into it.

All the shelters is why I wouldn't blame other neighborhoods.

Same thing will happen to those neighborhoods.

Europe had urban squatting like

in cope en copenhagen and throwing the money at the problem isn't the solution.

We can open up to squatter

cities or empty buildings. It will be better than we have

now and people will do drugs one way or another. What we're doing now doesn't

seem to be working.

I would recommend instead of if

we turned the money back to the taxpayers it would flow the

system in a more actual way and

public policy has put people on

the streets and I think we should let the private sector do

it because they have shelters

where we are basically

subsidizing drug addiction.

>> Clerk:   are there any other members of the public to address

the board during general public comment?

This is your opportunity?

>> nobody talks about the fact that tenderloin is probably one

of the largest places for people

to treat things like mersa or

things not able to be treated by antibiotics.

We're the second densest city in the united states and for people

who don't have access to

antibiotics the tenderloin is

where you'd go to treat those situations. From the beginning of the marijuana movement and with hiv

and what not to what made it legal today.

This is not a joke.

People would not have limbs if

it wasn't for the tenderloin.

It's not a joke and people talk about open-air drug markets

being contained you're not talking about safe inhalation and injection sites which

provide a place for people to

treat things from IBFs to God

knows what other ailments exist.

Even if it's just smoking herb, it's something legal and part of

our society and treats things.

Again, this is a problem that's

existed since 2002 in the city. It's not a joke.

When you talk about removing these things. [Chime]

>> Clerk:   thank you, sir.

>> Commissioner:   any other

public comments? Seeing none, public comment is

now closed.

Madame Clerk call for adoption

of the reference calendar item 32 to 35.

>> Clerk:   items 32 to 53 -- 35 a

unanimous vote is needed for

first reading and a supervisor May require a resolution to go to committee?

>> Commissioner:   would any of my

colleagues like to sever any items?

Seeing none, could we take same

house, same call. Without objection --

>> Clerk:   supervisor fewer is not present.

>> Commissioner:   roll call, please.

>> Clerk:   supervisor mar, aye.

Supervisor peskin, aye.

Supervisor ronin, aye.

Supervisor safai, aye.

Supervisor stefani, aye.

Supervisor walton, aye.

Supervisor yee, aye.

Supervisor brown, aye.

Supervisor fewer, aye.

Supervisor haney, aye.

Supervisor mandelman, aye. There are 11 ayes.

>> Commissioner:   the resolutions

are adopted unanimously.

Madame Clerk please read in mer ore yums.

>> Clerk:   it will be adjourned in the following individual on

behalf of supervisor mar for the

late kim harmonni.

>> Commissioner:   that brings us

to the end of our agenda. Madame Clerk, is there any other business before us today?

>> Clerk:   that concludes our business for today.

>> Commissioner:   thank you

everyone, happy valentine's day and we'll see you back tuesday

February 26 adds -- as there's no meeting February 19 in honor of President's day. Until then, this meeting is jvrned.