City and County of San Francisco Wednesday, March 17, 2021

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>> chair haney:   the meeting will order. This is the March 1700 21

budget appropriations committee meeting. I am matt haney, joined by committee members President Walton, supervisors ronen, safai and mar and our clerk is missed linda wall. I want to thank sfgov tv for

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>> chair haney:   thank you Madam Clerk. Before we call item one I want to thank all of my colleagues for the work they've done to prepare for today's meeting. We are going to hear of

incredibly important items that relate to how we are going to

spend the projected hundred $25

million surplus in the current year. I again want to thank all the

committee members and supervisors floor here.

Every supervisor had some input into what is in front of us and I wanted to thank the mayors

office for their partnership and the mayor for her leadership . I'm proud to say the spending

plan will direct resources and

support to the people most

impacted during this crisis including small businesses, families, tenants, artists and animals local residents and it

is a package that will keep small businesses open, like the opioid affidavit, support cartesian family and ensure tenants can stay in their homes . It's crucial because we have an unexpected set of money in the current year he put directly

into the pockets of our residents and small businesses that are suffering and address our most urgent priorities for recovery. Our city residents need us to work together collaboratively and deliver real solutions and we got here today. Thank you to mayor greene and her staff, President Walton and all the supervisors and committee members.I know we

are already getting started on

our full process which I believe will be one of the most important budget decisions we

will make in the history of the city and I think our work together on this service spending plan is a very good

sign things to come including

our ability to work together

and address the most urgent priorities facing rcc for recovery so with that clerk

will you please call item 1 . >> item 1 approximating 10

million general reserves to the mayors office of community

development for risks under the

resolution and relief funds and approximately 10 million foot

acquisition creation and

operation of affordable social housing under the housing stabilization , facility in fiscal year 2022 2021. Members who wish to provide public comments to call 415-655-0001, meeting id 187

251 8978. Then press pound twice and if

you have done so please press star agreed to line up to speak. A system can't initiate you are

ready to speak and you May begin your comments.

>> chair haney:   thank you Madam Clerk and we have supervisor preston here with us on this item. >> you so much care and let me just start by thanking you for

your leadership on this

committee during what art

really unprecedented times in so many ways and thank you for your engagement around the

whole spending plan and in

package committees considering today. A lot of the vice chair safai

for our extensive conversations

particularly around this item

and potential uses of disability fund money and also thank you committee members

walton, ronen and mar. I'm here to ask for your

support in carrying fourth the will of the voters and the intent previously stated by the board of supervisors to

allocate initial funding from

proposition I revenue to the resolution and really fun and

to the housing ability fun. I was before the budget and

finance committee on February

24 where we introduced

substantive amendments increasing the amount of the

supplemental request to reflect updated revenue projections.

I spoke extensively at the time

of the context of this request and the use of funds and the in the interest of time we will provide a preview today but also duty to provide some

context and also recognize that we have the full committee with

additional members who were not present for that discussion last time.

So the background . October 2020 board of supervisors unanimously 2 ordinances. One establishing the resolution and really and the other establishing the housing ability fun . In addition the board unanimously approved a resolution stating our intent

to use funds from the increase in the transfer tax on high-end

real estate sales for these programs.

Divided equally. The voters by a considerable margin and the increase in the transfer tax through

proposition I. About supplemental before the committee is the next step in this process. on February 12 , the

controller's office issued a six-month status and 14 which

projection for prop I was

increased to this 16.1 million or $21 million after based

on. The budget and finance committee on December 24

amendments to the ordinance to

reflect the increased projections.

As mentioned at the committee

in February, much has changed in a landscape of rent relief

since prop I was originally passed in November.

That time our rent resolution

of the lease program was the only existing proposal to provide such assistance from public funds to small property owners and for the benefit of

tenants to address unpaid rent. What remains the case though is

that the programs proposed by

the state and the funding provided by the federal

treasury are orders of magnitude short of protecting all tenants , preventing evictions and addressing all

the rent that. On the recently published city

website on the rental relief program updated just on March

15 , there's a recognition of this dynamic and it means quote, the city is actively

working to identify and secure additional funds for covid-19 assistance and assistance is

not for all who apply. We need to take advantage of every possible source of funding to prevent covid

related displacement, assisting small landlords facing hardships . There should be no question that prop I revenue should be

used for its intended purpose. My office has met with the

tenant advocates community , with leadership in the san francisco apartment association as well as with an ocd leadership enter seems to be an

emerging consensus that the funds for rapidly can and should be used to fill gaps on

the state program and our local fully funded program.

These funds , the funds will make sure no one including

undocumented tenants,

working-class tenants whose income May be slightly above any applicable, or others are

left behind by covid related hardship and this is in keeping

with the city of st. Francis as

reflected by the this measure . This will necessitate a tracking on the existing programs to allow analysis of emerging gaps in real-time and

with and requested an ocd report back on an ongoing basis and certainly no later than June on such information as demographic data, on tenants who receive the support and the amount of support they receive, demographic data on tenants

whose applications were denied , data on landlords including united amounts received from other programs, the number of units they own and the number

of tenants households that are in arrears in their san francisco portfolio.

This will inform the use of the funds to fill gaps particularly with respect to those whose applications are denied so by improving response we ensure

that they will be used promptly

to address debt relief for tenants in small property owners who might otherwise be left out and I ask for your support of the urgent rent really need. The supplemental also seeks to allocate initial funding for the housing stability. The purpose of which is to

provide a dedicated funding stream to scale non-commodified permanently affordable housing.

It can be a source to pursue a range of strategies including small site acquisitions,

community land trusts, I'm municipal housing and other energies with an emphasis on those strategies that lack access to funding. And oversight board will

discuss which strategies are best to pursue and provide recommendations on budget allocations to both the board

and mohcd and thank you for moving forward with recommendations for the

appointees to the membership of the oversight body which will

be before the whole board of

supervisors next week at our meeting. The full board blessing should that occur, we intend to move

to convene the initial meeting

so that initial recommendations

can be made on allocating this

first round of funding and if there are any projects that

require funding that fit within the scope of the housing stability fund ordinance, nothing stands in the way of the oversight board recommending that initial funds get out the door quickly.

And that's something I didn't want to say on the record. I've raised in some of my conversations with including my recent conversation with vice

chair safai the desirability of looking at ways to immediately

activate some or all of the initial song.

My hope is that this committee recognizes that in order to create systemic change that

will fundamentally alter how we house the people of san francisco and to avoid the

crisis of displacement persists in our city that we need to find new ways .

We need new ways to permanently

, to fund permanently affordable housing and this is a major first step in that direction today. I want to offer one final thought as well as amendment before closing. The figure in the supplemental is

based on revenue projections provided in February. We know that even this number, even after was increased as I've described is well sort of

what prop I will bring into city coffers and I want to know

in just a single real estate

transaction that I know many of you are familiar with, the sale of the dropbox headquarters

reported on March 8 valued at $1.08 billion. Just from that transaction the

transfer tax increase from prop I in an additional $32 million to the city which would not have existed voters not

approved the measure. As one sale generated 125 percent of the revenue

projection in the ordinance before you today.

I want to make clear this supplemental should be considered in context.

While not a dedicated tax, prop

I was understood by voters to

be part of a broader package where we wealthy real estate transactions to fund rent

relief and social housing. This is not an unexpected

windfall.

This is and has always been our plan, our planet as a board of supervisors and electorate

working exactly as intended. Finally I want to offer an

amendment or request that the committee moved amendment made at the suggestion of the controller. The ordinance as written seeks

to allocate from the general

reserve .

But given the recent update we believe it makes sense to

allocate property tax revenue instead and artifacts to the

chair and controller for flagging this issue and making the suggestion. Amendment which had been

distributed by my office to members of the committee reflect this updated revenue source and I informed that

change is substantive in nature.

I'm happy to read the amendment if necessary.

I will assume you all received

but with that I ask for your approval of the amendments and for your support of this effort going forward. I'm available and happy to answer any questions you might have and thank you very much.

>> chair haney:   thank you so much supervisor preston for

your leadership and for allowing us to make some changes in terms of how the funding will happen and bringing

it in and presenting again to us here at this committee.

I am going to before we take the amendments I know there are a number of members who want to make comments. Supervisor safai.

>> supervisor safai:   thank you chair me. Thank you supervisor preston

.

These are ideas many other localities are talking about.

These are ideas that many other

localities are fully rely on

federal relief and that will be ephemeral in nature. It will not be a lasting source. We had a lasting source of income will address some pretty important things .

I know in the immediate, the

idea of the need for rent really is actually.

In our last ports that we received prior to this hearing when we first started the

conversation , the report from

the bla said that the need was estimated to be between somewhere between 90 and 180 million. With this 10 and a half million to the pot on top of the additional federal money brings us to around 65 million with a projected 44 million coming in in the third round of stimulus which puts us at around 100

million.

I know you and I have these

conversations last year in the beginning of covid and los

angeles did 100 million . We are now going to have around

100 million . I think that's a good place to

be and let's see how it impacts

both our small property owners, property owners that have a hard time paying their rent as

well as tenants facing possible interactions with mounting debt. One question I wanted to ask to make additional comments about the social housing. I appreciate the point about

small gaps . About filling the gaps in an effort to help small landlords one thing that was not 100 percent clear was how this

would impact payment. Initially you have talked about

having landlords agreed to wipe away about 50 percent of the

debt they took these funds. Have adjusted that or have there been conversations about adjusting and having more in line with the federal to ensure

that landlords partake and that was one of the things that the

bla highlighted.

>> supervisor preston:   we have not engaged in discussions about changing those criteria but we have been in very active

discussion with mohcd.

Obviously all this is new in terms of federal and state money. So I think the assumption is

that particularly the federal money probably would be the most attractive for those that

qualify and would probably be

the first money out the door. So we're mindful of that and

we're trying to work with mohcd

to immediately identify the

gaps where folks are not qualifying for that and view these funds as coming in.But this time they would be pursuant to the ordinance that as you reference supervisor,

lays out the 50 to 65 percent reimbursement.

I think we will need to see on

the uses rent and whether in light of additional funds any tweaks need to be made and

we're certainly willing to have that, keep an open mind on that

but our assumption is that it would be folks who don't qualify for the higher level

reimbursement would be using.

>> supervisor safai:   good to

hear you open to further conversations on that because that would be my concern that there is additional money

coming down and that would put

us kind of in the larger bucket spoke at the state, federal and

initial previous monies for this 10 and a half will be I guess last will go in so I'm glad you say. Secondly to talk about the social housing parts.

It sounds like in terms of

household eligibility has no restrictions as law, just before we get into social housing. There's no restrictions on that as well and provide for good

flexibility I appreciate that

part of the original design. Secondary on the social housing, I know we had some

conversation about this .

In terms of filling the gaps for overall affordable housing. I appreciate you really emphasizing trying to get the oversight committee seated, talking to them about immediate needs.

I know that we don't have a consistent source for small sites. I think that high contender for this money.

I know that there are a lot of projects. For instance in my district we were very beneficial, and

fortunate that we allow money to come in a couple years ago

and then shifted to propagate but still allow us to be competitive on the state level so for 100 percent affordable housing so having this potentially as money for project shortfall.

Also the seed money we received

has decreased dramatically over the years.

This could be which are also used to help shortfalls of 100 percent affordable housing so I think that's all good and I also wanted to say I really appreciate you being firm and holding firm bam islands and

mirroring what we've done these

sites where the average would have to be around 80 percent amr.

Which allows for more working

families and teachers, janitors and others.

I think there's somewhat of a shortsighted debate from some

people in the city that are really not cognizant of the

fact that the janitor can't afford to live in the city both in private sector housing and affordable housing, we're

doing something really wrong in

the city.That we , we're not working families. We're forgetting about that missing this social housing in

the original ordinance placed

pays homage to that, is cognizant of that ensures this will be applied in a real positive manner so I appreciate .

I will say that it would be

really helpful to this committee as soon as the

oversight committee is seeking

to come back as quickly as possible with those immediate needs. Because I think that's the best

way to activate this money in

an environment where there's so much demand there. Again, I wanted to say I think

this is a wonderful time. As was written about the other day, there are other areas in the bay area

, talking about social housing that don't have any money to implement it so

this is something that I think has been very beneficial so I appreciate your hard work on

this and appreciate your openness. The last thing I'll say we did

talk about was her oversight committee and the need at least in the future to have a conversation about having

someone representative in public housing and I appreciate your openness to that conversation moving forward. I know that's a large part of our affordable housing's. And I know you have a lot

of good representation on that body. But it would be good to keep thinking about public housing as well. >> supervisor preston: thank you .

>> chair haney:   thank you so

much vice chair safai. Supervisor melgar .

>> supervisor melgar:   first I wanted to thank supervisor preston very much. For your leadership .

And many more ways than just

one. I think you and I have worked

on tenant issues before. You and I got on the board I've always appreciated your

commitment and your clarity of

thought around all of these issues. I'm appreciative of the

flexibility that you have shown in making sure that we fill in

the gaps in between the local

and state sources and address the needs of those who just

have the most urgent need for rent relief and particularly

folks who are undocumented. I see folks who have lost their

livelihood because of covid and are at greater risk of losing everything.

Their homes, their livelihood . Their kids. So I can't thank you enough for your

leadership on.

Now, the social housing part of this appropriation you and I have spoken about two. I am with you 100 percent about

the need for having a place of innovation.

I think that we are remarkably

uncreated as a city in on the affordable housing.

We've been very conservative

and I want to see a place where

we have new tools, new models. We can replicate best practices .

We can leverage different types of funding. All those things I think that we need in order to solve the problem of affordable housing in our city which is complicated .

it's not unidimensional . There's an entire folks who can't afford housing here. I must say I disagree over the by colleague supervisor safai. I don't want to see this money

replacing decreases in funding or gaps in funding in other places because I think this is

the place for new things and

innovation. However, I think something that's valuable in this pot of

money is that we have chosen to fund a lot of our affordable housing in san francisco with

the balanced receipts . The problem with that is when there's not a lot of

development like is happening right now the fees go down at a time when we need affordable

housing the most. So there's this counter cyclical event that we have built into the structure from the get-go.

But are coming from realistic property taxes and transfer taxes, we find even that because our real estate transfers remain steady so

that's genius. Thank you so much. I am appreciative that this is a structural fix to a problem that we have built into the system. That being said in my

conversation with you I also raised the issue of the

committee and I wanted to see the diversity, the wonderful rich diversity of our city

reflected in that committee. i appreciate you brought a lot of young voices to this. I love that. I wish there was more gender balance in the community.

That came out of rules and more voices for people who live in public housing and in social

housing and , you know, in

affordable housing at only by nonprofits.

Maybe some trans folks as well. I will make a plug for dinner

diversey . It is important.Women experience the affordable

housing shortage , particularly

women who are parents on their own.

In different ways . I think those are voices we

need to represent as well so with that I will just say I am in support of this and I want

to thank you and appreciate your leadership and all of these things.

Thank you.

>> chair haney:   thank you supervisor melgar and I love the jacket. Happy st. Patrick's day everyone. Did you want to respond to that

before I turn it over to...

>> supervisor preston:   now, there are other commenters.

I'm happy to answer questions and appreciate all the comments .

>> chair haney:   supervisor mar .

>> supervisor mar:   I wanted to express my thanks to supervisor preston for his extremely proactive and strategic work, including work on prop I that

led to , created the basis for

this ordinance which I'm proud to cosponsor. Thank you

. Thank you for how comprehensive this approach has been addressing the immediate needs of tenants and small property

owners through the rent relief program and addressing the longer-term need for us to create new models for affordable housing in our city . So I'm really looking forward to both of these pieces moving

forward. Particularly around the social housing and housing innovation fund.

I would just an comments from

supervisor mar, the importance of us looking at new models .

Also on how we can create affordable housing that's

needed for our low income and working-class folks in our city and for social housing to co-ops

. I think especially in a district like mine which is

mostly young single family homes and residential, we

really lack opportunities for

development under the traditional model of 100 percent affordable housing development that we've been focused on. We need to look at new models

to create affordable housing on

smaller sites all the way down to single-family homes which is something I've been working on with some stakeholders as part of the discussion of our h1. I really look forward to this

exciting work moving forward. Thank you so much supervisor preston. >> chair haney: thank you, supervisor ronen.

>> supervisor ronen:   two. I don't have that much to add.

Just a lot of agreement as a lot of my colleagues spoke before me.

I also just want to express my appreciation to supervisor preston 's missionary work on prop I and the position is put us in during a time when we affordable housing options and funds to keep people in their homes more than ever.

We also have an opportunity now to create visionary ways of

purchasing more land and more

buildings for affordable

housing than at other points in history so the timing really could not have been better of this initiative.

I'm really glad it's your brainchild and your perseverance that made this happen. I just want to recognize and

appreciate you so much for the . i also similarly wanted to mention to my colleagues I have

signed on to the demands of state in action which is an incredible group mostly made up

of latinx women who are the women supervisor melgar ascribed that are often homeowners who need an

experience public housing for affordable housing in general

is very unique. One of their demands is that we

have timely access to rental assistance right now as many of them were laid off from their jobs during the pandemic and need that so supervisor safai

laid out the different pools of funds that we have is incumbent on all of us in the city to make those funds easily accessible during this time so I think that's the challenge

here that we need to work on.

Then finally I wanted to wish a

very happy birthday to supervisor melgar who is one of our newest colleagues and has been an affordable housing advocate for decades.

I think combination of visors melgar and preston with tenants rights affordable housing expertise is so powerful_. It makes me so happy and optimistic about our future so

thank you so much.>> chair haney: ditto, happy birthday supervisor melgar.

We will try to buy some time on our agenda to sing you happy birthday

later in the meeting.

President Walton.

>> supervisor walton:   of course

I have to start by saying happy

birthday to supervisor melgar

and I want to reiterate supervisor ronen's comments.

Your work on prop I and thanking the voters for the passage of prop I and for your

continued commitment to focus on the intent of what prop I was put in place for. That's very important. We're able to receive the additional millions of dollars because of prop I and because of your leadership on that so for all of us who fought for prop I we appreciate the voters and our job and I want to work

hard with you as well as our colleagues to make sure that

the resources go to what they

were intended for so thank you very much for that and I'm just excited about this first allotment that will go towards social housing and where we are as a city in terms of affordability.

>> chair haney:   thank you

President Walton and I want an

everything that's been said. Of course, your leadership

supervisor preston has been extraordinary. Early on in the pandemic of us were concerned course first and foremost with people's health and safety and really right

below that was the year of an

explosion in elections due to an inability for people to be able

to pay their rent.You together with the mayor jumped into action right away to make sure that people were protected from elections but that eviction protection is only part of the overall strategy we

have to take to make sure that people get through this pandemic , get through this

economic crisis able to stay in their homes and we know there

is tens of millions of debt

that renters, tenants have accumulated in recent months

and to be able to have real

solutions for them at the scale that's needed, not just around the corner the scale of relief

that's needed to action. Vision and I want to thank you for that and as President

Walton said , as long as we are here on this budget committee

we will fight to fulfill the

vision and commitment and was

also one that the voters

supported as well. That is something that we are staying true to today and we

were not willing to on and we will not stray from the commitment and move forward so supervisor preston I saw your name on it if you want to respond to this and we also have the public comment and we

want to make these amendments .

>> supervisor preston:   I just want to thank you colleagues for the kind words and join in

wishing my colleague supervisor

melgar a happy birthday. I hope you have a wonderful day and a chance to celebrate also wanted to give credit where it is due.

You have given a lot of kind words my way and I just want to

emphasize first off that this

was a community driven effort. Moving forward with prop I

.

and second, at the time we were envisioning this was considered

a fairly radical proposal and a question of whether it could pass at the balance.

I just want to recognize my colleagues, all of whom are in

this committee I realize. My name was not the only one

thinks to the signature line on prop I. And in fact while other

supervisors were on it as well I want to recognize President

Walton, supervisor ronen, supervisor mar and our chair on this committee, chair haney for

the the 4 other supervisors along with myself he signed on to prop I which is why it ended up on about.

And I appreciate all of you for the same thing you have to spend appreciated of me in terms of your vision on this item and your willingness frankly to go out on a on something that was fought very hard at about area I think we all recognize that and just I think my appreciation for all

of you as well as especially to

the voters for giving us this tool to address the housing crisis and the rent debt in our city .

>> chair haney:   thank you. Supervisor ronen, did I see your name pop up again?

>> supervisor ronen:   someone keeps texting me saying put your name on it so can you add me as a cosponsor?

>> chair haney:   thank you. All right, so we have a couple of

other things to do. We had a bla report on this, Mister

Campbell. >> .

[Inaudible] Welcome, men are

from the front office so is is $20.1 million from the general reserve and transferring 10

million to the relief fund and

$10 million to the housing disability fund and on page 5 of our report we know the funding sources and programmers of the various relief efforts

in the city and that mohcd is developing rules for its program. Because this proposal is consistent with board policy we recommend approval of the proposed ordinance.However we recommend the board request a report back from mohcd regarding the final

implementation.

>> chair haney:   thank you.

And before we take that

amendment and the other amendment, Madam Clerk can we check if there's any public

comment ? I want to say for public comment today and all our items because we have a number of them to deal with we're going to keep public comment to one minute each so if you can check for public comment.

>> linda wong:   checking to see if there are any colors, members of the public who want to provide public comment

please press star 3 to be added

to the queue and for those on hold wait until the system indicates you have been on muted .

Any speakers in the queue? >> there are 22 callers listening and eight in the queue . >> linda wong: could you please

unmute the first caller.

>> caller:   I was calling to respond to item number two,

property tax fund .

>> linda wong:   if you could press star 3 to lower your

hand, you can press star three again to raise your hand.

Next speaker please.

>> caller:   sean davis and I want to thank you for doing this . It's really important and I was

an enthusiastic supporter for prop I and prop k last year. I think this is really something that we need. We need rent relief we need social housing which is a new

paradigm for basically integrating people into a 30 percent standard. That's what social housing is and even though my focus areas of supportive housing, social housing can help abortive housing tenants move on so thank

you very much for doing this supervisor preston. Happy thursday supervisor melgar and I yield the rest of my time.

>> linda wong:   next speaker please .

>> caller:   hello, it's anastasia on novelist, I

support the amendment to

allocate property taxes and I am thrilled that this is coming about right now at this time

during covid. We need this relief.

As far as renters, no one should be evicted for nonpayment of rent through no fault of

their own during the pandemic. It's urgent for a small property

owner to have the money to meet expenses. As far as the social housing

programs, that oversight committee I participated in the hearing. I like you to know there are three women on it and one trans woman on the committee and a gay

person.

So there is some diversity and

there are very sharp minds that will do the work that's needed

area thank you everyone for

your enthusiastic support .

>> linda wong:   next speaker please .

>> caller:   I a resident of

district 7 . I'm calling to support

supervisor preston's prop I . Gentrification and the climate

crisis are causing massive displacement with the greatest impact on poor communities of

color we need to build a

society where housing is no longer a commodity and everybody lives in a safe

affordable sustainable housing

not fear of election or displacement and that's why relief and social housing are important.

>> linda wong:   next speaker please.

>> caller:   my name is carlo kissinger in district 7 and I'm

a member of the essay san francisco and the ego social committee and I'm calling to support supervisor preston's ordinance as well which would allocate prop I funds for social housing.

Rent relief is sorely needed

right now and tenants are struggling to make their rent

and other prop I we have no program to fill the gaps in state funding and pay off a

huge scale of the rental debt .

Beyond the immediate rent crisis we need to make sure money is being provided for

social housing and middle-class san franciscans.

They allocate half the funds , we can pursue strategies such

as nonprofit affordable housing and municipal social housing.

You saw the voters approve prop I and prop k so we have a

unique opportunity here to launch a pilot program for municipal social housing it would be under local control

and we could censor our values

on racial economic equity.

>> linda wong:   thank you for your comments, next speaker

please .

>> caller:   on director of organizing programs at the lotus street community services . I wanted to continue to voice

public support with this appropriation.

As part of the displaced, we

are seeing up close how the state and other are not going

to be enough to address all the

outstanding debt unless we also expect the funding to run out quickly and appreciate commitment and attention of the

voters to ensure that this

allocation takes place and also the recommendation with the la to request full review of the landscape so that we do

prioritize this funding moving forward. If you . >> linda wong: next speaker

please.

>> caller:   my name is carly gomez, I live in district 6,

chair haney's district and I am a member of the homeless working group and I'm here to call for support for supervisor preston's ordinance, inclusive of his recent amendment for prop I funds to be allocated to rent relief and social housing and for the funds to be utilized in the way that voters intended.

I'm frankly annoyed at the benefit system of people who live in the city. Given the city has no other plan to relieve ordinary tenants and many landlords of their

rent burden, the prop I funds are our only option and it's the option that will have the

most positive impact in our community right now and long-term. You guys have been talking

about something that super important as we think of solutions for how you respond to crises. That's all I have to say and I

yield the rest of my time .

>> linda wong:   thank you for your comments. Next speaker please.

>> caller:   my name is susan marsh and among other things and also a member of the democratic socialists of america. I also think it's absolutely

obvious how desperately needed

the rent relief funds are and I think it should be equally

apparent from our experiences with other alternatives that the solution to this crisis and the ongoing housing crisis we had long before the pandemic is the commodified and therefore social housing. I want to thank supervisor preston for introducing this and I want to thank all of you or your support.

Thank you and have a good day.

>> linda wong:   next speaker please.

>> caller:   I'm gabriel

haldeman, also a member of the essay san francisco.

I live in district 2 . I'm calling also to support

supervisor preston's ordinance

. using funds from prop I for

rent relief and social housing,

we really need to become a high survival and the private market

has jailed a lot of san

franciscans and I also under covid believe rent relief is

needed as tenants face millions in debt and have no way to get

this money . Up to 33,000 renters May be able to rent due to lost income. All the things in terms of

insurance will expire so it's

really important to provide

that money and not have instability in suffering for

working-class san franciscans.

>> linda wong:   thank you for your comments, next speaker

please .

>> caller:   my name is eric is

like and I'm calling from district 4 and I'm really just calling to thank supervisor

preston and supervisor mar

. It's very exciting and we need

it.

The housing innovation that May

come from this is very exciting and I thank you. We have a wonderful board of supervisors.

And I want to be sure you knew

affordable housing advocates in

district 4. Quest class as a reminder if you wish to comment on item number one, please

press star 3. For those on hold until the system indicates you have been

muted next color please.>>

caller:   my name is emily and I

member of the essay ego socialist committee calling to

support supervisor preston's ordinance. For funds to be split between rent relief and social housing

and I wanted to thank everyone for supporting this. As an ego socialist I believe we need to the commodified basic survival and the private market has failed to house thousands of san franciscans,

gentrification and the rapidly worsening climate crisis and they're already causing mass displacement and more is on the

way with the greatest impact on poor communities of color we must build a society where housing is no longer a commodity and everyone lives in safe affordable stable housing

without fear of addiction or displacement and that's why I request a board allocate funds for readily. >> thank you for your comments, next speaker please.

>> adair, I don't have many words to say other than thank you dean preston.

92 the cosigners.

And I'd like to thank also I'm speaking on behalf of the tenants that call me , I counsel on the housing rights committee.

It's beautiful. The time is now.

And we have stepped up san

francisco once again as ever as san francisco.

And I can't tell you

, I am a whole bunch of people who are

not on this call . are ecstatic about this so thank you very much.

I yield my time back. >> linda wong: Mister Chair this

completes the queue. See one I did see also

President Walton on the roster. >> thank you so and I just wanted to make sure I was added

as a cosponsor.

>> chair haney:   supervisor preston I'll turn it back over to you and I

know we have amendments to be made.

>> supervisor preston:   I know you have many things on your

agenda so I will refrain from closing remarks.

I did neglect to recognize that chair any and supervisor mar previously asked to be cosponsors of this measure and I appreciate that very much and thank you resident walton and

supervisor for adding your name is cosponsors.Hopefully others will as well. Now or later and I just want to hurt support for the amendment and for the item and I really appreciate the time to go through all of this. Thank you.

>> chair haney:   thank you.

We have the amendments that you put forward that you circulated. We also have the amendment from the bla which would require some reporting back. If you're okay with that as

well. And we want to make sure both of those are reflected.

Deputy city attorney pearson, are these house amendments or do you have any other comments for

us on these amendments? [Inaudible]

>> chair haney:   great. Colleagues, is there a motion to accept the amendments

western mark supervisor,

seconded by President Walton. Roll call please not import. >> on that motion device care safai .

[Roll call vote] Five prop I. >> colleagues, is there a

motion to continue item number one. To a special board of appropriations committee

meeting on tuesday. March 23.

As amended.

Moved by supervisor mar. Seconded by supervisor ronen. Roll call please. >> .

[Roll call vote] Thank you,

President Walton.

>> chair haney:   not them, understand the process here. We also need to recommend this with a positive recommendation now or do we do that at the meeting next week?

>> linda wong:   this can be done at the special meeting next

week.>> chair haney:   we will hear this again next week. Then we will vote on it later that same day.

Supervisor, anything in conclusion or you're all set. >> just my fax. >> thank you as well.

this will be heard at the special budget and appropriations committee meeting on tuesday, March 23 as amended. Thank you.

Non-clerk can you please call item, were going to take this a bit out of order.So Madame,

can you please call item 5.

>> item number five ordinance

extended the deadline for certain businesses to pay the business restoration fee for fiscal years ending June 30, 2022 to November 1 2021 rarely defending November 1 2021.

Penalties for late payment and measures fees and point-of-sale

efficiencies filled by the test

collector on or after March 2020 and on or before October 1, 2021 and the funding suspended penalties paid to the city members of the public who wish to provide public comment

on this item should call 415655 euros 01 meeting id 187-251-8978 , then press count twice if you have not already done so plus are 30 to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates

you've been muted.>> chair

haney:   we have amanda freed

from the treasurer's office who

is here to present on this item. I believe we have the mayor's office here as well to answer

any questions. >> thank you. Good afternoon supervisors.

this proposed ordinance would extend the deadline for most businesses to pay their business registration fee for fiscal year 2021, 2022.

Which is normally due on May 31 2021 and would then be due November 1 2021

.

Any business registration certificate was issued for the year would continue to be valid through November 1. 2021.

And this ordinance would also

temporarily suspended late payment penalties.For certain rates and measures fees

and point-of-sale .

These are any fees that were built by our office, the

treasurer tax collector from March 17, 2020 through October 1 2021.

And businesses would have until November 1 2021 under this ordinance to pay those fees without any additional penalties .

Thank you. >> thank you so much Mister

Pre-area and is there a bla

report on this item.

>> yes here there is.

As noted by Ms. Freed, this proposal would extend the deadline for most businesses to pay registration fees for this fiscal year from May to November . It would also temporarily suspend late payment penalties for certain weights and measurement fees and point-of-sale stations.

As we point out on page 23 of our report the controller's

office makes a one-time $32 million revenue loss in this fiscal year that would be received in the next fiscal year. We consider approval of this legislation to be a policy

matter for the board. >> I do have some amendments

that I want to share but before we do that, colleagues is there

any questions for Ms. Freed.

I don't see any immediately. Madam Clerk, can we see if there's any public comment on

this item. >> he is checking to see if there are any colors in the queue. Members of the public to

provide:   item number five please press star agreed to be added to the queue. For those on hold continue to

wait until the system indicates you've been rooted. Miss When he got, are there any callers in the queue area.>>

linda wong:   there's one color in the queue. I'm sorry, there is now 2 callers in a few .

>> linda wong:   please unmute

the first caller.

>> caller:   this is pressed writer, ceo of yellow cab san francisco and I wanted to say I hope you approve this because

it will have a big impact on the industry. We're incorporated in these weights and measures fees and we're still facing penalties for not being able to pay our fees on time due to the pandemic and this would be a

huge boon for us so we appreciate you guys attention

in this matter .

>> linda wong:   thank you for your comments, next speaker

please.

>> caller:   thank you supervisors, this is mark hoover on behalf of green and I

want to thank you . I echo the remarks of chris twice for this

ordinance.

The pandemic has hit the taxi industry awfully hard and this is still an in honest hardship

as business has not come back and basically we're going to have 2 years of fees now.Now

as of November 1

. So I wish there was a way, maybe it's not realistic but I wish there was a way these fees

could be waived but if not we appreciate the fact that you are giving us that much leeway to pay.

So thank you and that's it. >> linda wong: thank you for

your comments, I believe we have one additional color.

>> caller:   my name is barry

from hill and I want to endorse the comments of chris twice and mark gruber. A taxi driver I am very much concerned that if you make more of hardship on the color scheme or the companies, then you are creating a problem for the

cabdrivers to make for the rental of the italians and the vehicles and right now on nearly , I'm not even making half of the city's minimum wage .

The result of the increase of the gas prices, I'm paying $.40-$.50 more per gallon than I did at the beginning of the

pandemic and the business is

not that good and I can't even

use the stands because they are occupied by private cars and to

get parking initial officer or police officer to show up to tag the vehicle or have it removed as become a huge headache and very difficult and is created conflicts between myself and the people legally

using the taxi stand.

>> linda wong:   thank you for your comments.

This completes the queue.

>> chair haney:   public comment is now closed. I did have an amendment that had been circulated to the

committee.

The current ordinance extend the deadline to pay the business registration fee for

fiscal year 21, 22 from May 1,

2021 November 1 21 for most businesses . These amendments would limit

the application of that

November 1, 2021 extension two businesses engaged in business

in the city in 2020 san francisco gross receipts in 20 $25 million or less.

For businesses that commenced business in 2021 .

And also for businesses engaged in business in the city in 2020

who had sf gross receipts in

2020 in excess of 25 million will extend the payment deadline only to June 30, 2021

so it is still a bit of an extension for them not an extension all the way to November.

Only businesses with 5 million

will have their deadline

extended to November 1, 2021.

Is argued the substantive

amendments.

[Inaudible] Rate.

I want to make a to accept

these amendments for this item.

Is there a second? Seconded by supervisor safai. Can we have a role call on the amendments Madam .

[Roll call vote]

>> linda wong:   there are 5 ayes .

>> supervisor safai:   I think this is the recommended and having this be targeted towards businesses that are really smaller in nature, that could

really be additional help during this financial time. Kind of making the coffee 25 million is the right amendment and it allows it to address many of the other needs or proposals that are on the table today.

It frees that money so I appreciate your work on that

and your leadership and I think that is the right move for the business community and those that will benefit from it the most so I hope and I wholeheartedly support this .

>> chair haney:   thank you for

your leadership and partnership with don on this as well.

I believe that from the numbers that were shared with us that the , close to 99 percent of

businesses or people who pay for businesses that adcs will

have the extension to November so it really will still be a very small number of just the largest businesses that will be required to pay these fees by

the end of June but we're still giving them an extension for that which I think is also important area we worked

closely with the treasurer's office and I want to thank this free for her support and partnership on this. I don't see any other colleagues who have any questions or comments about this item.

So because these amendments are

not substantive we can send them to the full board with a positive recommendation. I want to make a motion to move

this item to the full board with a positive recommendation as amended. Is there

a second?

Seconded by supervisor safai. Roll call vote please .

[Roll call vote]

>> supervisor mar: >> chair haney:

>> supervisor safai:   please add me as a sponsor on this item.

>> linda wong:   there are 5 ayes .

>> chair haney:   great, thank

you. This will go to the full board with a positive recommendation.

Madam Clerk, can you please

call . [Inaudible]

>> linda wong:   item 2, appropriating of 1.2 million for property tax to the general services agency with the

administrative to the arts commission for arts impact

endowment . 4000 for the cultural center and 4.4 million for cultural

equity endowments for fiscal year 2020, 2021.

Item 3 ordinance appropriating

20 million property tax revenue to the office of economic workforce development for fiscal year 2022 2021 to

provide relief to 2000 low income businesses, in particular those most impacted by shelter in place orders and

those that have not accessed state or federal financial

programs and loan programs which spend existing local and state initiatives aimed at providing relief for small

businesses struggling as a result of covid-19 and item

number four is an ordinance operating 15 million from property tax to the department

of children and families for number programming, learning

and activities for youth for fiscal year 2022 2021.

Members wish to provide public

comment on these items to call 415-655-0001, meeting id 187 251 8978.

Press pound, pound.

If you have not done so press star 3 to speak.

A system prompt will indicate you have lined up to speak, wait until you have been on muted and you May begin your comments.

>> chair haney:   thank you and I

do want to first say on amendments, we are going to

make substantive amendments for item 3 and we're going to address those when item 3 is

called and in this will capture some of the amendments that will also be discussed for items 2 and 4 so going to go through 2 and 4 first and then to 3 and deal with all the amendments altogether. For item 2 I want to ask the

mayor's budget director ashley

to present on this item .

>> ashley groffenberger:   I am here today to talk to you about

the proposed supplemental to

backfill funding for arts and

culture programs funded through

hotel so I will change here,

give me a moment. Okay. Hopefully you all can see

that. So as a reminder, the voters

passed proposition e back in

2018 to allocate a portion of the city's hotel tax collection to various arts and culture programs including grants for the arts, cultural districts, cultural centers, the cultural equity endowments and arts impact endowment. Of course, given the historic loss in hotel tax revenue in the current year, this has created a significant gap in what was budgeted for these programs and how much revenue has been collected in this current fiscal year so the supplemental that is before you

today would backfill commitments that have been made in the current year for these programs.This table here is meant to show you for each of the programs what was

originally budgeted and the budget the mayor adopted this past October. And how much hotel tax was

actually projecting to collect in the current year. As you can see only $4 million available to support $26 million worth of expenditures. The supplemental before you today would backfill funding

for programs and spending that has already been committed or has already gone out the door such that we do not have to hold back any grant awards that have

already been made.I have ralph remington and kevin quan from the heart arts commission with me as well as aleah brown

and brian hsu from the mayor's office of housing and community

development and if there's any specific questions you might

have about the programs ported as part of this supplemental.

>> chair haney:   thank you, I appreciate that.

Colleagues, supervisor ronen .

>> supervisor ronen:   a cosponsor of this measure so obviously I am supportive of.

I have a question of why cultural statistics were left out and I know supervisor haney

and I were requesting this , adding it back in through other means but I don't understand why you would have left it out in the first place. >> ashley

groffenberger:   thanks

for the question supervisor. Cultural statistics were not included as part of this

particular supplemental because

we had identified other sources of funds to meet the commitments in the current year . So the mayor's office of housing and community development was able to utilize other funds in their budget as well as prior year unspent funding for cultural districts

that had been accumulated from

prior years and unspent. So while it is not part of this

supplemental we were confident

there was sufficient funding to support the commitments made in the current fiscal year using other sources.

>> supervisor ronen:,was it and what were the sources?

>> ashley groffenberger:   the

cultural appropriation in the fiscal year was 2.4 million. 1.1 million that would be supported by prior year unspent cultural district funding and

the other 900,000 would come from other sources of funds in that

apartment, in the mayor's office of housing and community development. other non-general fund savings

they had available .

The final 400,000 is how much hotel tax would be allocated to cultural districts based on what was collected in the current fiscal year .

>> supervisor ronen:   so that made them whole. >>

ashley groffenberger:   yes, that's correct.

>> supervisor ronen:   yes. , that was not my understanding .

Maybe I questioned chair .

The 1 million that included for cultural districts, we knew

that that was in addition to what the cultural districts got

in the previous year ?

I wasn't aware of the mayor's office of housing had found additional funding . Or is that to supplement I

guess , is that basically the 1.1 unused money from prior

years, are the cultural

districts saying that they were planning on using that money and so it's therefore this million is meant to replace that?

Is that what happened there?

>> chair haney:   Miss Groffenberger, you seem to be in notting.

>> ashley groffenberger:   yes, there are some proposed amendments to this item today

which would add $1.1 million to the cultural districts so that they do not need to utilize prior year unspent money to backfill them in the current

year.

>> supervisor ronen:   I see.

So you have not included that in the original proposal because you didn't realize they had plans for that money, is that right?

Is that the communication?

>> ashley groffenberger:   that's

right and the mayor's attention in the supplemental is to make sure we were able to backfill

encumbered contracts or for

spending next already gone out the door. So we have heard from the cultural district that there

were plans for that money and

are supportive of adding back the 1.1 prior year unspent

allocation to become available. >> I guess I bring this up and I think the arts are a crucial

part of our city and what makes

it amazing and why it's a world-class city and believe

that all of the supplemental appropriations are completely appropriate. I don't want the cultural districts to become like the

stepchild sort of part of our system in san francisco. I believe the cultural

districts horse help create and expand the

concept, are as

important as any of our other

arts infrastructure. In the city county of san francisco so going forward, I

will always fight to make sure

that in times where we're prioritizing parks and keeping artful based on crisis like

were having a moment that cultural districts are treated

in a similar way to every other piece of our arts infrastructure. And I want to make that point today because that's not what happened in this instance with

this budget supplemental in the first place and I'm glad we are able to remedy that and we're all on the same page.

But this cultural district concepts is not only about

preserving the arts and culture

and the labor of our different

neighborhoods in san francisco.

That makes san francisco

chinatown, michigan, japan town.

The african-american cultural districts, all of those neighbors and their character are what makes our city so he. And part of that is very much the people that we can't, that we displace the people we want to culture that is where the cultural district concepts is

broader and more visionary.

Then just , and just

appropriating for taking the

amazing cultural products of

people and then being okay with displacing them. That we believe that we all

benefit from that rich diversity of our culture and we

need the people here in order

to continue to preserve it so

it doesn't, neighborhoods don't become disneyland a different cultural identities that are truly the home and the neighborhood of people.

So I just felt that it was important to bring this issue

up because I believe cultural displacement is part of our vision in san francisco and

contribute accordingly.

>> appreciate that supervisor.

Colleagues, supervisor safai.

>>

supervisor safai:   a quick question to Miss Groffenberger . I understand grants for the arts and cultural centers,

cultural equity endowments , art impact endowments.

Those are all normally ended by the hotel tax . Our cultural districts also funded by the hotel tax or are

those things through mohcd?

>> ashley groffenberger:   they are funded as part of the hotel tax . >> that was just a point of

clarification .

Thank you. What's the final. I know we in our report it was one number and I know we added to that based on some of the final negotiations. The final negotiation that were doing this particular appropriation? What's the final number.

Is it 26 point something?

>> one moment. And can you put that screen back up if you have for a moment ?

Please .

>> ashley groffenberger:   a presentation I showed you

reflects the original supplemental that was introduced.

Is not incorporate the amount today. Do you still want me to pull

that screen up? >> that was confusing me. Go ahead and pull but I want to ask a question because I know the majority of the money

was designated for programs in arts that had already gone. It would be additional funding . Those that allow, what's the final revised number.

It's down there, 21 million.

Wait.

>> ashley groffenberger: understanding of the amendments would be an additional 7 million

.

To support these allegations.

>> supervisor safai:   what the total number we are putting on mark . >> ashley groffenberger: $24.1 million.

>> supervisor safai:   so will some of that number be going into the upcoming year, some of that number will not necessarily be for grants and programs that have already

funded, correct?

>> ashley groffenberger:   right.

My understanding is there will be money that will be appropriated today to offset the gas we anticipate for next year. so yes, that would support those allocations and then

future awards.

>> supervisor safai:   90 for your hard work on this.I

think that just to end on a positive note I think it's super important to have a

cultural center or cultural

districts and grant for arts programming uses music and entertainment, otherwise and

even our cultural centers in

our districts , without this funding, without additional support, so many things would

be lost so I'm super excited that we have a sufficient funding and thank you for the negotiation. Madam Clerk, can you please add

me as a sponsor western art I thought I already was for this

I'm looking and if you could add

me I would appreciate.

>> chair haney:   thank you,

President Walton. >> supervisor

walton:   thank you so much chair haney. A question about the carryover . Is the carryover because organizations and cultural

districts didn't want to use the resources and didn't request the resources to draw down or is it something to do with us, when I say us, the

city not getting the resources outdoor?This is probably

more for Miss Groffenberger . >> the original source of the carryover tarted off because

when we got our first

allocation of the hotel tax

fund it was before most of the district was up and running.

We had about a year's worth of funding that rolled over each year.

This last year we allocated a significant portion of that

rollover for a one-time project

that were designed to support covid-19 related programming

265,000 per cultural district . After we made that allocation we had about 1.1 million left and that money could be utilized for similar one-time

programming in a successive

year so that's what that was.

>> supervisor walton:   for me I

think it's important our

cultural districts get all the resources they can use and obviously we have to to fight

to supervisor ronen's point to make them whole next year and increase revenue but I think that it would have been great if we could try to get as much money out the door in the previous fiscal year before

this fiscal year and that money

could have been spent because

there's so many projects I know across the city that are fighting to make happen and

they want to utilize those resources. I want to make sure we are allowing them to use their resources because they are available and not trying to hang onto them and carry them over from year to year or do anything like that.

>> brian chen:   yes, thank you .

>> chair haney:   thank you President Walton.

Director groffenberger, do you have any amendments or did you cover all of that in your

comments?

You are on you.

>> ashley groffenberger:   that was all I had for my comments for today.

>> chair haney:   rate. Madam Clerk, is there any public comment on

this item?

>> linda wong:   would you like to open public comment for items 2, three and four together?

>> chair haney:   let's go through the other items and then take public comments altogether.

So I think that unless there

are any other comments from...

Yes .

>> if I May I was hoping to have a couple minutes to say a few words about this

appropriation. I thought it would be helpful to share some background information about the appropriation with the committee and particularly how it relates to proposition eight which as you heard was passed by the voters in 2018 and transferred to 1.9 percent of the hotel tax into an account for five enumerated purposes.

I want to add to the background you heard from Miss Groffenberger to explain the

legal side of this area proposition e specifies the

dollar amount each of the five purposes received out of the account.

With the remainder or excesses being transferred to the

general fund .

And under proposition e the dollar amounts are just up and down based on changes in the city hotel tax collections up to a maximum adjustment of 10 percent annually.

So hotel tax collections if they had remain at or near the amount collected in the pandemic years this would have

meant the amount available for programs would have fluctuated

by no more than 10 percent in any given year but because the hotel tax collections really collapsed as a result of the pandemic, the 1.5 percent of

the hotel tax collection that is transferred into the pond for arts purposes is

insufficient to satisfy those

specific dollar amount that are

listed in the funds even after adjustment. Even though opposition he has the specific dollar amounts in it, those figures are only

binding on the city it 1.5 hotel tax that's collected is

sufficient to satisfy those dollar thresholds.This year

when the 1.5 percent was smaller than the dollar threshold those thresholds do not apply. And proposition e doesn't mandate more appropriate general fund money to make up the differences. The voters can't adopt an ordinance sets minimum baseline funding for the general fund. To do that they would have to

adopt hr and proposition e was an initiative ordinance and not

proposition amended so without sufficient funds allocated under proposition e and without a specific amount set aside by

the charter

, the only way to fund these purposes is from

operation from the general fund approved by the mayor and board of supervisors as has been proposed here.

I just wanted to share that

background information. >> thank you deputy city attorney thurston, thank you

for that clarification and that we are following the rules here appropriately with this

operation. So we do have some amendments to this item but as I said you're going to take a minute for 2, three and four altogether. We discussed item 3. As well as public comment on items to bring in for when we discussed item 3 area so with

that, we are going to item 4.

And I believe we have director

maria sue was here to present on this item.

But before I call on director sue I didn't want to get an opportunity for some of the other sponsors of this item to

also say some words in introduction. It is supervisor

chan with us? >> chair.

thank you so much for calling on me and allowing me to share the comments today and first and foremost I want to thank

your leadership in bringing this item forward today and of course our cosponsors

supervisors ronen and melgar, I couldn't have done this without

all of you and I'm grateful. The reason for this appropriation is to support and get a much needed relief to our

working families free all day summer programs available for

every public school students. Especially it really is for those who are currently enrolled in the san francisco unified school district but everything that our families have been struggling with, with during

this year of pandemic, it's critical that our families have low access to sign up for these

summer programs and that they get to choose the types of

programs whether one was more

academic support for more

recreational activities. Really they get to really make sure that they can do what really works best for their family.

So this funding is not only that it's going to cover, it's

not going to cover this entire program it did jumpstart our department collaboration and

now if we learn that there is a

donation, really hoping kick off this fully funded version of this summer programming so I really want to thank the department of children, youth and families read the cif and

our recreation department at the san francisco unified

school district and for your work and in serving the children and families for the last 10 months and really thank you for your incredible partnership in this effort. I just want to say thank you and it's really good to see this like here as an item and it's amazing that it's all coming together so I'm grateful

, thank you.

>> thank you, supervisor ronen

c6 hi, sorry.

Sorry. I am so excited about this

program.

It's an opportunity to offer

universal summer programming

this summer to every single

student at sf usc is what these

students and their family. They have been out of school for a year. It has been incredibly trying on both children and their families.

And we have this summer an

opportunity to , and I'm going to say. It is learning loss. When you look at the data on

simultaneous testing that took place for fourth and fifth graders, what the data shows is

that african americans , solicit pacific islanders and latin students , homeless students,

students in foster care and students that are low income. Students living in public housing.

Our years behind their grade

level in basic reading and

math.

That could take them off course for the rest of their lives. And the opportunity to use this summer to begin to remediate that is essential.

And I am so proud of the cys

and rec and park and the mayor's office, of my colleagues

supervisors can, melgar and haney for joining together with

me to make this a reality. Supervisor melgar and I are not something this summer area you are going to take what we do this summer and were going to extend it for the rest of our days at sf usc because we have

got to take this moment of

better understanding than we've ever had before what is an

important role sf usc plays in

the life of so many children and so many families in the

city really in the city being able to function at all. We have to make sure that we appropriately fund this institution. So that we are turning out our

students to meet and continue

in their fullest potential.

That's what is the role of

government and its universal right to be quality and education and even though we

don't run the school district, we control one of the biggest municipal budgets in the country. And our youth and our public

school system should be a major priority to the city and county of san francisco and I am so

proud of us for making it that way. I want to share one thing with you that our erector of easy white shared with me and all of

us in the meeting the other day.

There is a program called springboard which is a national program. That has proven results that in five-week period, it can take a

child one grade level in their

reading proficiency . Imagine that.

It is an extremely expensive program and it's perhaps a bit

expensive because it works and it's almost miraculous in how it works . You know what, every single one

of our children in sfusc deserve the best and they

deserve to take advantage of programs like this that often times only students that are

wealthy or who come , who are

part of families that have a good income are able to take

advantage of the most amazing educational programs out there. That's not going to be the

case anymore in san francisco our board of supervisors

anything to say about it and

partnering with sfusc with the department of children and family and with reckoned parks.

The idea about this universal program this summer is that

families and parents and students to choose for themselves what do I need this summer? And I caught up on my academics ? I need to be outside running and playing and jumping and being with my peers and finding

some of that social and emotional support I've been lacking for this entire year. If I'm a child behind in

academic subjects , I get to

choose programs like springboard and like other

academic programs that the cys is going to offer and make sure I can use this summer to catch up and to be ready to learn next year without being far

behind my tears. This is such an important program and I'm so proud of us for making it a reality and I

cannot wait to hear from maria

assuming about where we are in this process . Thank you so much and thank you colleagues in advance for supporting this budget supplemental that is going to join with private foundation funds to make sure that we are

able to collect the dream, the

best quality summer programming based on the needs of children

for free

, for every sfusc child.

Thank you.

>> chair haney:   thank you supervisor ronen, supervisor

melgar .

>> supervisor melgar:   I'm not going to repeat other stuff that my colleagues have very well said. I want to thank supervisor chen

for your amazing foresight and having this be the beginning of

our recovery strategy for youth

and families in our city and for chair haney for putting

money into it in this way. Thank you so much for your

quick action and flexibility

and to supervisor ronen for being the fierce advocate for youth and families in our city .

I want to point out 2 additional things that haven't been spoken about. This will the program for everyone, it provides free summer programming for all youth. And the purpose of that is

because there's an ecosystem in

terms of the programming that happens. There are ceos that run very high quality programs that have

to hire staff and train them

starting now actually so the fact that this is for everyone

and we're making available for everyone is going to really build the capacity of our

community organizations to serve and to help in their recovery which is something

that wouldn't have happened otherwise if we weren't having

this very large, robust number program. The other thing I want to point out is as supervisor ronen alluded to its that for low

income families . The summer learning loss is a real phenomenon and it is

cumulative so that when you

track low income income communities who do not participate in summer programming you compare them to the outcomes of kids who do

have high quality programming and the cumulative learning loss year after year of being home for three months without engaging in your mind catches

up and by the time you they get to high school they've lost a

lot of opportunity because they don't have access to that.

I am hoping that this will be the way that we open this opportunity for everyone in our

city and I'm very excited for

the opportunity to get started . I am incredibly grateful to

supervisors chan and ronen and haney for their work on this

and also to mayor reed for

recognizing its importance and to maria sue for being that advocate who's always a couple steps ahead of us and to the

folks at sfusc for making it

happen and I see supervisor mar

is going to talk about his part but I want to make a plug that part of what we do in the summer is higher high schoolers get wonderful workforce training at the same time as they are helping their little brothers and sisters and cousins in the community have a great number of wonderful experiences, learning and having fun so I want to thank

you colleagues for getting behind us and for taking the issues of low income and all

kids in our city seriously and incorporating them in our recovery strategy with some real action.

Thank you.

>> thank you supervisor melgar,

supervisor mar .

>> supervisor mar:   I want to thank you for this bold and incredibly needed summer youth

program proposal . Again as I noted yesterday's board meeting I'm proposing

along with share any and amendment or really an

extension to this and specifically to support high school students to recover from the damage this past year that it had other academic and social development as well as mental health and career

readiness . As a parent of a highschooler

myself I have experienced

firsthand how challenging this

past year has been and also seeing how little attention or resources have been focused on the needs of our teenagers from the school reopening plans to the community learning hubs. We have an opportunity to nurture the talents of older

youth as we emerge from the pandemic. Through this program this summer by school students will get to support the development of younger sfusc kids while working in paid internships connected to city college courses and field experience credit. Not only are we supporting

young people who lack access to these opportunities we're strengthening public institutions as well and today's

interns are tomorrow's indicators, staff and leaders in the unified school district

and other educational settings . So in summary this is a $2.6

million supplemental budget

request and its funding to

bolster sfusc's early college programs during the summer which is an innovative partnership with the college of san francisco so I do want to

highlight the internship model has a track record in successfully read reaching students from equity groups including lack and latin communities, immigrants, low income and working-class families and strengthening college readiness and matriculation.I school students will participate in a paid internship combined with enrollment in a career technical education course at city college and receive college credit. The proposal provides 800 internships in July and August

running 35 to 150 hour rising 11th and 12th graders are generally the target age for the internships but this program seeks to conduct early intervention to guide some rising 10th-graders to the secondary success and in addition , the class of 2021

graduating seniors is predicted to under enroll in college due to academic social and economic

losses from the pandemic when compared to the last pre-pandemic class of 2019 so a

group of targeted June and July graduates will be supporting

the transition from high school to college matriculation bios summer course work and a longer internship. Sfusc's college and career

readiness team will coordinate the program as well as the internship placements. most students will in turn with you and be part of a pre-educator pipeline. Others will be part of a community health program for

general internship placements

to learn job readiness skills . Interns will be placed at various sfusc school sites, partner sites and other sites such as businesses and law

firms and three quarters of the interns will work in educational settings. Finally I did want to say this program really adds to the other important efforts to support summer recoveries for children and youth including

the proposal from supervisors chan, melgar and haney for free summer camps. As well as the summer together

initiative signed by mayor reed

and superintendent matthews and

again opportunities for all in the mayor's youth employment

and education program. I just have a few questions

because I wanted to ask of the

school district just to clarify a few points around this proposal. I don't know if this is a good time to ask this question or I could wait until after other discussion. >>.

[Please stand by]

>> Supervisor Safai:   -- really, really elevating the importance

of dcyf and how we will continue to tackle so many of the shortcomings and so many of

the areas that we can help in this city and our public education system, whether it's

through foundation support, whether it's through institutional support and staffing support, so much of

what has allowed us to get through this year has been about the work that they've

done, so I really, really and

truly want to appreciate maria.

I know she works seven days a week, along with director ginsburg in rec and park. They're working tirelessly to make these things work for us and help our children and help the city and unified school

district be as successful as

they can with the resources that they have.

So wanted to highlight that.

Would like to be added as a cosponsor, as well, and I think this is just the beginning -- as supervisor ronen said, this is not the end of the work that we're going to do, this is an on going work that we're going

to continue to elevate and strengthen the community, and I'm totally committed to this,

as well.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you, supervisor safai. I'd like to jump into the presentation, and if there's

anything you'd like to add, director su, we'd like to hear how this is going to fit into

the larger education of young people over the summer. >> thank you, chair haney. Thank you to every member of the board of supervisors.

Just reflecting on the fact

that we are at a one-year -- I'm not sure if we want to call

it an anniversary, but the

one-year mark of shelter in place. It's been a long year, and a long year in particular for our children and families. I just want to thank you for

your support of me. Supervisor safai, you said that I work seven days. You do, too. Every one of you. Every single time I've called

you, you've answered my calls,

you've helped me through this, because, as our mayor stated,

in the beginning of this whole pandemic, it will take a village to get our children and families back on track.

And a village is what we've created. I'm just so, so honored and

proud to be able to partner

with my partner in good, phil ginsburg over at the rec and park department, and honestly, it's not just phil. It's his entire department who literally stepped up, stepped

in, and rolled up their sleeves

and said what can we do.

Also, those at the libraries stepped up and steps in.

And every single person who said yes to us -- department of

I.T. Who went out and helped us

wire all of our public facilities. From the department of public health to make sure there are

no holes in our community hubs. These are some of the lessons

that we have learned during this pandemic. I don't know which supervisor said it, but you're absolutely right.

We need to learn how do we do

government better, and how do we do partnerships better because we absolutely need to learn to build these coalitions. I wanted to take this time to

share with you the latest coalition that we are building in san francisco. We're calling it summer together.

I do have a slide deck.

I know that we're short on time. I wonder if I could just run

through the slide deck quickly?

Can I do that, chair haney?

>> Chair Haney:   yes.

>> Madam Clerk, can I -- great.

>> so the summer program that

we're building is summer together. We are building a free summer learning program in which we will bring in the nonprofits,

the business partners, our city departments and pretty much

anyone who's willing to pitch in to help, to help with

getting sites ready, help with

donations, help with supporting our families.

We're working on building a

virtual platform for all of our

school children.

As you mentioned, it has been a really tough year.

All of the presentations you presented, supervisors, have

talked about dealing with the severe mental health and stress on our communities, and this here is to help support our children, youth, and families.

Don't need to go into details.

Our children have struggled with accessing the remote learning that our school district has been providing. Our young people are missing

being with their family -- with

their friends, seeing their teachers, being with each other, and, of course, hearing

with pediatricians, our young people are also experiencing a lot of mental health issues as a result of the isolation and

the lack of connections that

they need. And, of course, we know that

all of these things are

exacerbated in our marginalized communities, but there is hope.

We need to now pivot into creating a summer for recovery, and that's what this is all about. We are going to double down on all of our children. We are going to make sure that

we focus our summer programs

towards continuity of learning, supplementing the traditional summer camps and summer programs that we always have.

We're going to build inside our summer programs curriculums to combat learning loss. We're going to build inside our

summer programs comprehensive supports for these young people

and their families, and, yes, we're going to build inside

these programs mental health

supports for these kids.

We're going to ensure that learning happens everywhere,

but we're going to make sure that there's fun, as well.

We're going to have to work on our school district to ensure

that young people, particularly

juniors and seniors who need

the additional credits to graduate will get them, and

we're going to infuse ethnic

studies into these programs. We're going to start soon.

We need to work with our children to make them understand that we are all in this together.

It's not an us against them situation. We are all in this together. So what does that mean?

We are looking at providing all of our sfusd families and children opportunities for independent learning, and this means partnering with our

public libraries to ensure that there are books that children can take and keep in their

homes to build their own libraries.

We're also building out special programs that are geared towards virtual support for families who still feel that virtual programming is the

right thing for them and their children.

We're going to build academic

in-person learning for 20,000 children. It's going to be very focused on integrating academics during the day so that children can have the opportunity to catch

up, and then, in the afternoon

hours, they continue to have

their summer fun and, you know,

bowling and just enjoying themselves in the summer.

We're partnering with rec and

park to standup the usual phenomenal rec and park programs. We're also offering scholarships for families who

choose to go to other types of camps and programs. And I also talked about the virtual supports that we will be providing for all of our children.

Just want to emphasize that

it's not just dcyf.

Although I greatly appreciate your acknowledgement of dcyf, it is all hands on deck. We have rec and park centers that are going to open up for

their phenomenal rec and park programs.

We are looking at over -- operating school district sites

in partnership with sfusd so we

can make sure those curriculums lineup with those children.

We are working with our

libraries, we are reaching out to all of these private camps so that they can offer spots for our children, and we are hiring thousands and thousands

of teachers and youth

development professionals and

other support staff to join me

in making this a reality.

I'm grateful that we have the

school district, the libraries,

and better together S.F., and

out partners at head start. For families who are interested

in this initiative, please go

to summertogether.Org, and

enter your information so that you can learn more.

We will start registration in April, to stay tuned for -- so stay tuned for that, and we will have more information as the days get closer to April. Thank you.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you,

director su, who, I'm sure, some of my colleagues have questions or comments now, as

well, but I did want to turn it

back over to supervisor mar,

who had some questions for Miss

Moggy, who is here from sfusd.

>> Supervisor Mar:   just wanted

to say thank you for your presentation. Super excited for this. I

yeah, I did have a few

questions for Miss Mogge for some of the items that came up

and director su for her

proposal and the investment in early college internships and

college interest models, and particularly around the existing funding for this program because it is a model that the city college and district have been developing

for a few years. So yeah, I -- I -- so I guess

the first question is just

wanted to confirm that the city

has funded high school internships programs with a pipeline to college classes

over the past through years

through -- through -- I -- past

few years through -- through --

I believe through eraf funding, and I believe without renewed source of funding, the program

expansion to 600 students over the last few years -- per year over the last few years would

need to be cutback drastically, and you would no longer be able to support a significant number of high school students along

the path to internships, college credits, and future careers. Can you just -- yeah.

>> hi, supervisor mar, and chair haney, and members of the board of supervisors.

Thank you so much for that question. Yes, the college and career team has been able to implement

this program prior to the eraf

funding to about 63 to 64 students. And thank you to director su and to the board of supervisor

to allow us to use the eraf funding. In the last few years, we were

able to build an infrastructure

to support 600 students total, so the additional funding did allow us to do that. As the funding will end in the spring, nard to continue the

same amount of students, we will require the additional amount for the summer. I think for the amount that was allocated this summer, we would

be able to go actually up to

800 students, and I think

we're -- that's a very exciting number for us. The students will be able to

not only benefit from in-person

internships and virtual classes. I think this will be just a

great pipeline for our

students, as you said, to work

in a lot of city agencies including sfusd.

>> Supervisor Mar:   thanks. And the next question is

similar, but it's about the --

the -- the -- the state

government has created a $4.6 billion fund for -- to address learning loss for

students, and these are things

that school districts can apply

for and access. I guess whether the [Inaudible]

Would be able to qualify for

this funding, and, yeah. >> sorry. I think I have a bad connection, so I'm going to

turnoff my video. Am I back? >> Supervisor

>> Supervisor Mar:   yeah, you're back.

>> I think it's A.B. 88 -- A.B.

86, I'm sorry, for the learning

loss fund, it is actually meant

to be dealing with in-person learning and services.

the in-person, it'll be an internship. However, the classes will still be virtual. In addition to that, while we will be receiving the funding

with just our summer funding,

we're already exceeding our budget, and trying to I go if figure

out how we can maximize our

funds and support these

programs, as well. This will be a super great benefit for our high school students, however, we are still trying to manage the funds that

we are receiving from the state

to support our summer

programming that will be in person.

>> Supervisor Mar:   great. Thank you for that. I don't have any other questions, chair haney.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you, supervisor mar. Colleagues, any other questions or comments on this item?

I did want to thank, again,

director su and her team for

their extraordinary work, and

this really is an effort that's happening together, and we are

all stepping up for all of our kids, really, in approximate a

year that has been one of the toughest imaginable for them. They've been kept out of in-person learning. Many of the opportunities for

social, emotional, physical,

wellness, have been taken away, and for that reason, at the soonest moment that we're able

to step up and be there them, programming -- there for them, programming, we need to be, and I think when we had the opportunity for this surplus to provide some additional support, I spoke with supervisors chan, ronen, and melgar, and all of us felt immediately -- and I know it

was reflective of the entire committee and the board, that

we needed to invest in our kids

and our families, and thankfully, with your leadership, with the mayor's leadership, we were able to

have it be part of this broader commitment.

And now with supervisor mar and

sfusd, we can also include in a

really creative innovative

proactive way our high school

students, so this is -- as

everyone has said, something that is a very appropriate needed use of the funds that we

have, and I really am proud of

the work that has everyone has

done, and now, we have a lot of

work to do.

So this is the commitment that we have to have to our young

people as a city going into the

fall not only to makeup for what has happened over the last

year but what we now has been underfunding and undersupporting of so many of our young people for so long, so I hope this is an opportunity to change direction with a much greater commitment and collaboration all-around.

So support su or Miss Mogi, anything you want to add before

we move onto the next item? >> chair haney, I do want to

add a couple more things. I know supervisor melgar

brought this up to me. We should be able to add additional spaces that will be colocating, as well.

To be able to increase the numbers. Thank you so much for that

feedback, and we do want to

continue to work together with this not, you know, outside of

the funds that supervisor mar has been supporting us.

And also, including I really appreciated supervisor ronen's feedback on spring board.

I'm glad this has been going on with our schools even before the summer. Any kind of more direct -- I know that director su has just been incredible with us about hearing what are some other interventions that are working

but can be extremely expensive,

but she has been trying to find

additional funds fill rom

philanthropic funds. It's a lot to collaborate, and I'm learning very quickly, but it's been a wonderful opportunity, and we're really grateful for all the additional

funding that's coming for our students, all of the students

in the city, so thank you.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you. I will note that many of the supervisors that we have here are parents of sfusd children,

and they bring their expertise and their knowledge and their

commitment, so I think you have

a very supportive and understanding but also people who really do want to see this get done, and they have the personal experience and

knowledge of that, as well. And so especially thank you to

the authors of this, the moms, because this is the kind of commitment that we have.

So is there a B.L.A. Report on

this item?

>> yes, chair -- yes, chair haney. There is. You're talking about --

>> Chair Haney:   item 4. >> item 4, excuse me.

So item 4 is a proposed ordinance that would appropriate $15 million in property tax revenues to the department of children, youth,

and their families for a summer learning program for children?

As described on page 19 of our

report, dcyf estimates that the proposed appropriation would fund approximately 10,000 slots

for an approximate nine-week

summer program. We do consider the program to

be a policy for board of supervisors matters.

>> Chair Haney:   great. Thank you. So seeing no further comments or questions from the board --

or, sorry, from the committee, we are going to take amendments

for this item when we -- after

we discuss item 3, and we're going to bring all of it

together in one, so with that,

we are going to move to item 3, which has also already been

called, and I would ask -- I'd

like to ask diana ponce dely ay

deleon

to present on the city grant and loan programs to provide relief to small businesses

affected by covid-19. >> thank you, chair haney and board members, to present to

the board.

We're seeking $20 million of

property tax revenue to the office of economic and workforce development in fiscal

year 2021 for a grant program

to provide relief to over 2,000 low-income small businesses across the city. It's been a year since our

shelter in place order, where we've seen many of our

businesses closed and our loved

ones impacted by covid, and I would like to take a moment,

too, to honor your partnership in this relationship.

While I was at covid command

and using our framework of

equity, we hit some of the hardest hit neighborhoods to make sure we had access to testing and vaccines, and together with our staff, we joined the departments of public health, department of emergency management, and

others to make sure that our neighborhoods that were most impacted were able to be supported during this very difficult time. So I just want to acknowledge that because we worked so closely with your staff, and I

know that all of us have had to

take on additional roles in order to support the communities in san francisco.

With that, in addition, invest in neighborhoods was able to

set up actually a P.P.E. Distribution center in partnership with the port and

was able to deliver P.P.E. To organizations so they could get

this out to small businesses as reopening was happening.

In addition, we've allocated 24 million in small business loans and grants over that same

period and supported over 1,000

businesses through that allocation, of which about 57%

of those awardees were women

owned businesses and 67% were minority owned businesses. So while we're at reopening again, we have to keep our eye on the prize and really looking

to the partnership in terms of working towards recovery, getting vaccinated, and making sure that our neighborhood corridors are supported and our small businesses. So today, I am going to be

reviewing the proposal for the $20 million allocation that,

once again, that's for city dollars allocated. We know that there's a greater allocation coming from the federal government, but what

this does, it helps provide

immediate relief for those businesses while we wait and collaborate to make sure that those dollars get to our small businesses here in san francisco. So with that, I am going to be quickly sharing my screen and presenting on this item.

Excuse me while I do that.

I do want to say that I shared

a very expansive deck with you all today that I'm not going to

be getting into, but it went into how we were going to be spending the $20 million and the impact that our grants have had on our small businesses.

So with that, I'm just going to go ahead and go into the slide

that covers this specific appropriation.

So the 20 million appropriated

would be divided in small

business loans for all the

resources that we have.

Now the proposal that you will see before us today was a

result of feedback that we

received from multiple stakeholders, one-on-one meetings, focus groups, and some of our stakeholders?

And what we heard from them was

many were tired of applying things for things that they would not qualify for or would run out before they would get to them.

We also heard that they wanted

a desire to remove barriers to

those who needed the funds most, like minority or

low-income businesses or maybe legacy businesses or in

cultural districts or really

serving our low-income neighborhoods of color.

So with that, we created two

grant programs of which we proposed two different pathways. One would be in the small business storefront equity

grant, and the other the

community storefront anchors grants what you will see is

that we focused on the storefront specifically that serve our community of san francisco. The total amount of awards with

this proposal would reach 1,580 small businesses, so -- and I'm going to go into a little bit

in detail about each of these grants and what the qualifications and the criteria are. For the small business storefront equity, that one has

no limitation in terms of employees. It could be a business owner that's running it.

There is no limitation there.

The grant is up to 5,000 -- it's actually $5,000.

Not up to, but it is a $5,000

grant, and it focuses on those businesses that were closed by

the restrictions at least six months? The bars and restaurants and salons that could not reopen.

They were barred from reopening by our public health order.

The businesses that were

located in communities.

Some criteria was if the

business had made less than $2 million in gross revenue, had

not received loans exceeding

$5,000 or loans exceeding $20,000 and they must be from

low or extremely low-income households. The start date -- this is one thing that we heard from some

of the businesses that had started between June and

December had been left out of federal programs, they wanted to be out of this. In this case, we would really limit the amount of paperwork in this category so that we can

make sure that we're getting the funds out to businesses as fast as possible.

In the next category, community storefronts, you May have noticed that there's two amounts there.

One for 10,000 and one for 25,000. The amount category would be based on number of employee.

The amount for -- in the 10,000

realm would be for those businesses that have employees

from five to nine, and anything above ten would be -- they

would be allowed to apply for

the $25,000 grant. Now, this is precovid numbers,

so part of this from the feedback reflects the opportunity that they will have

to hire, hopefully, their

employees back and continue their strong -- to serve strongly in the neighborhoods

that they serve.

So these would be community storefront anchors such as

businesses that are 15 years or older, entertainment venues, and for those that are located in cultural districts or opportunity neighborhoods, they

would have to be five years or

older in order to qualify. There's also been a setaside

for life entertainment venues

in this $20 million of 1.5.

And the minimum, once you do meet any of those categories,

is you must make less than $10.5 million of gross revenue,

and this one, you must prove at

least 20% loss of revenue, and nonprofits May qualify also

within this category, and they

will need to provide proof of eligibility. And the application process is going to be on-line, again,

based on the feedback that we

received, we limited the categories to really be targeted to businesses, so we're proposing to have a survey up front with so much of

these minimum qualifiers where they wouldn't need extra documentation before a business

even applies so they can know if they'll really qualify or not, so that's what we're

adding as a new part based on feedback that we received.

For the loans, so currently, we

are -- our total loan portfolio

has been 14.6 in response to covid?

We are proposing an additional

$7.3 million as part of this

appropriation.

So the 7.3, we're proposing 3.4 will be for immediate

investment in the state's california rebuilding fund.

This initial investment will

leverage, we're expecting, up

to $10 million in loan capital with this partnership.

And then, 3.9 would be available after this first

phase, depending on demand of this loan product.

So in terms of the loan proposal and the loan details,

again, this is a partnership with the california rebuilding fund, so the loan requirements would be based on that

partnership, so it's a maximum

of up to $100,000. The interest rates, which is

what we're buying down, also, to make these terms more

attractive and favorable to some of our small businesses in

neighborhoods in san francisco

would be 2.5%.

No principle payment for the first 12 months, and all of these funds would be flexible in emergency room its of what

the business owners need and

what they see best to use the funds for.

In this case, it would be the

eligibility of 50 or fewer

employees as of March 2020, and

the gross revenue requirements

will be based on 2019. The net positive income, 2019 again, and they must have been

in operation since June 30, 2019.

And with that, that concludes my piece of the presentation.

I also have colleagues -- oh, sorry. One more thing.

So the 300,000 is for the application to help support both application, marketing of

our products, again, in preparation for federal resources coming on-line,

trying to make sure that our local partners and C.B.O.S are ready to responsibility and connect our businesses to some of these resources. We also understand that there

is a federal program that will

be boosting our support, but we

want to make sure that we're with building our capacity and

getting ready for that, which

is what we heard in the B.L.A. Report and the report.

With that, that concludes my presentation, and I and my colleagues are available for any questions that you May have.

Thank you.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you so

much, Miss Ponce de leon for

your work and your very thorough presentation. Colleagues, do you have any

questions or comments? Supervisor satisfy fai?

>> Supervisor Safai:   sorry.

Thank you, Miss Ponce de leon. Thank you for your presentation. One of the things that I want trying to understand was the

reasoning behind -- and I'm glad we're moving so quickly. This has been helpful. Trying to understand -- I saw

one thing you pointed out was a limitation was that if someone

had received a loan of 20,000, that they would not be eligible for certain types of the grants. I know, for instance, talking to a lot of the businesses,

many of them are in debt

between 50, 60, 80, $100,000

and they're taken on loans,

some of which, obviously, are forgivable, if they keep employees employed and themselves just in terms of payroll. Just trying to understand why

we would add that limitation because it seems as though if you've set the gross receipts of the business, you're going

to be targeting lower income

business, lower gross revenue generating businesses, so I

want to understand why you guys put that in there? >> yeah, so that was based on the feedback we received of really the intent of trying to reach businesses that have not

had access to basically loans,

grants, or very little in very small amounts, so that was the intent behind that.

>> Supervisor Safai:   has that been the case? Is that what you've heard, that you haven't had businesses -- because I think a lot of the

businesses have had access to some form or another, even a

small amount, but I just feel like we certainly wouldn't want

to exclude people based on the current requirements. Is that flexible or is that a hard rule in terms of the way you've set up the program?

>> no, that's definitely flexible. Again, it was based on the feedback in trying to narrow

that, but that's -- yes, we're

open to your feedback on that.

>> Supervisor Safai:   okay. Great. I think it's been great.

I know a few of the businesses

that have benefited from some of the grants in our district.

i assume, when you say excelsior, does that also

include lakeview in my district? Excelsior is a specific neighborhood, but lakeview is in mine. I know you were in charge of

the person in investing in neighborhoods in any district for a long time, so that

included or excluded in the neighborhoods that are named? ? >> so the opportunity neighborhoods are specific

corridors, which is -- excelsior's covered.

However, O.M.I. Is not covered. However, all neighborhoods can

qualify if they're low-income, right, household businesses,

and they haven't receive any amount of, like, support currently. So they would still be able to qualify, and that applies

citywide if they meet that criteria.

So it would be one of the categories. Either your opportunity

neighborhood or you've been closed, like, like, the barber

shops -- we have a few salons

and barber shops along broad and randolph.

>> Supervisor Safai:   right. >> that would qualify as long as they haven't --

>> Supervisor Safai:   I know you

have a larger -- I guess it,

bayview, chinatown, excelsior, mission, and tenderloin, and it

says serving communities of color.

I wonder if it was an oversight not to include O.M.I., but to call them out specifically. Are we able to do that?

>> so again, I think they would qualify under one of these

criterias, so it exists under one of the criteria that they would qualify.

So it's called down

specifically to one of our

neighborhoods of opportunity --

>> Supervisor Safai:   but the

O.M.I. Is not an opportunity neighborhood? >> that's correct.

>> Supervisor Safai:   oh, okay.

Well, I guess we've got to talk about that, too. Then. Thank you.

Those are my only questions.

>> thank you.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor mar?

>> Supervisor Mar:   thank you.

First want to thank Miss Ponce

de leon and the mayor's office for much needed financial support to small businesses, particularly those that have not been able to benefit from the prior opportunities.

And I also want -- want to present or propose an amendment

to this, and a small expansion, really, to create the fund for

small business victims of crimes, and this is to address an important and overlooked program that has been harming

our communities throughout this pandemic on top of concerns about our public health and

restrictions on businesses, our commercial corridors suffer from the added insult and

injury of crime, burglaries,

vandalism, arson, and their aftermath. While the overall crime rate

has gone down, crime incidents

like these compromise the safety and feeling of safety for other businesses,

residents, and patrons, and for groups who are already being

racially targeted during covid-19, like the asian american community, criminal attacks on minority businesses,

and cultural communities have exacerbated harm and fear, and we need to do better as a city in response. While we continue to work with law enforcement agencies to

investigate crimes, we must

respond immediately and provide tangible support to small neighborhood businesses that

have been victimed of crimes,

and we -- victims of crimes,

and we must also invest in their overall safety along the corridor.

So this will directly support storefront small businesses

with financial relief in the after math of a crime to restore the harm done.

Not only will we try to make

businesses whole by addressing the direct proper damage and costs as a result of crime, we can make them even better.

The fund will also allow small

businesses to make capital improvements that enhance security and [Inaudible] And

this could be for a replacement

lock, a new security gate, fixing an alarm system, adding new lighting. When we invest in one business, we support the security of

businesses nearby and the safety of people in that community. And colleagues, in all of our districts, we have heard of the

heart break that comes from a

storefront is attacked, and we know of the trust that someone -- we know of the trust that something will be done by

the city, so I look forward to

working closely with oewd and plaumplt law enforcement agencies to make this program a success,

and I'm glad this program is

being considered as one part of many. Thanks. >> thank you, supervisor.

Looking forward to that, also.

>> Chair Haney:   thank you, supervisor mar, and thank you for your leadership on that, and I absolutely agree. I've heard from, you know, a

lot of businesses in my

district, as I'm sure we all have around the property image. Even when they're not open as

much or some have been closed altogether, and they've experienced property damage, I

think this will also add a needed supplement and support that we can provide to small businesses who have suffered in many ways through no fault of

their own because they've lost revenue, because of changes in

what the city can allow with

our health orders or required

closures or, in some cases, damage to their businesses, so I think it's absolutely consistent with what we're doing with this overall approach, and I'm going to be happy to support it as part of the overall amendments that

we're going to take today.

I -- I -- so what I would like

to do, we do have another --

>> Clerk:   chair haney, supervisor ronen is requesting to speak.

>> Chair Haney:   sure.

didn't see her name there.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   thank you.

I'm having one of those days

where I didn't have my charger, and so I'm participating my phone.

I can't figure out, from my phone, how to put my hand on

the roster. Madam Clerk, thank you for having my back.

Just very simply, I just wanted

to, a, welcome deanna ponce

de leon back to oewd.

Thank you so much for what you did as an emergency worker, but our small businesses need you,

and you're such an amazing

champion for them, so-so glad you're back. Thank you. >> thank you for that.

>> Supervisor Ronen:   and I just wanted to thank my colleagues,

all of you, and just really say

that I'm very proud of oewd,

the mayor, and this board's

work to champion small businesses. We have collectively somehow,

and really, over many years,

and probably unintentionally,

made it very difficult for small businesses to open, grow, and survive in the city.

As we know, it is the vehicle

for so many people to pursue their passions, and also to be

their own bosses, and to be

able to earn a living in a way

that is on their own terms, and

it's such an important part of economic development, not only for communities that are often

left out of traditional paths towards economic freedom,

really, but it's also -- it's one of the biggest job creators

in the city.

And I just feel very proud to

be part of this board of supervisors and to work in conjunction with this mayor and our collective attention and support to small businesses that frankly have been left

behind and ignored for way too long. So I think the budget

supplemental with supervisor

mar's excellent addition --

businesses in my district have been victim to property crimes

and just can't afford it more

so now than always. I just wanted to chime in to

really thank all of my colleagues and to thank oewd for all of your tremendous work

and to say it is time to focus on the small business community

and to really make material changes to help them succeed.

And the last thing I'll say is, you know, this nightmare of

this pandemic has -- has shifted our perspective in such

a radical way that I feel like

we're finally focused on the

essential right places, and they're so little to appreciate

about this pandemic, that focusing on these small businesses in approximate an

economic and tangible way is

long overdue, and I really

appreciate everyone's, you know, service, you know,

working together to do that.

Thank you.

>> Chair Haney:   supervisor ronen, thank you. You can always let the clerk

know you want to speak, and I really appreciate your comments. I think oewd has done a tremendous job in working and

supporting businesses during this time. We appreciate their work on this and thank the mayor on bringing this forward and are

glad that we're going to be able to supplement it in a

number of ways, both with an additional investment in small

businesses that have experienced property damage as

well as an increase in the

support for our independent

music venues who were some of the first to close and the last

to reopen and many of them have been closed throughout this last year. Many have not received support from other sources and are really struggling to survive

these last couple of months and, now

I know, we can't imagine our city without our

performance venues, or arts venues, and the music and culture they provide to our

city, so I'm glad we are going

to be able to increase support

for those venues. I know we have some other

changes that I'm going to describe in the amendments.

There's also additional support

for shared spaces in this

proposal, and I don't know if

that is something that you

would, Miss Ponce de leon, that you would present on or someone

else from the mayor's office would present on, but there are

some other things that I want to focus on, some of the critical investments that we're going to be able to make today.

>> so what I can say about the amendments is that this

proposal currently for the 20 million, so definitely happy

to -- those other pathways -- incorporate and work with the

board on how to best -- you

know, do we need a separate program? Do we added, you know, the

separate options that exist so

that we make sure we're hitting the target as intended for those funds.

So it would be incorporated as part of our existing programs or pathways.

So whether it's this or others,

that's what we'd be looking at.

>> Chair Haney:   great. Thank you for that.

So I think what I'm going to do

now is I'm actually going to --

and I know risa sandler is here from the controller's office, and I want to make sure that everyone is fully aware of the set of things that we are going

to be voting on today, which have been circulated to all of you, which are, of course, the things that have been presented

to us, with items 2, 3, and 4,

but also some additional amendments, some special expansions, some of which have been discussed by supervisor

mar, in some cases, and there are a few other things that I want to make sure we are all clear on.

So the amendments have been

circulated, and the amendments

include part of items 2 and 4 and were related to the projected spending proposal

related to the six months' surplus.

They provide relief to families, small businesses, cultural centers, cultural

districts, youth learning, and

will also help to prevent

opioid overdoses, and I can speak to that item specifically.

But I wanted to ask risa sandler from the controller's office if she might be able to

go through this itemized list and answer any questions about the specific line items.

And then, I also, after that,

want to call on President

Walton to speak on one of these items.

Miss Sandler?

>> supervisor, sure. I'm risa sandler from the controller's office, and I

think what I've been asked to

do is explain the contents of what's before you.

As supervisor haney said,

what's before you is two other supplementals plus what was included in what we call the small business supplemental. So there are several items

there related to small business relief.

There is one change, one

amendment to the dollar amount

that was listed in the original

supplemental for small business grants.

That was reduced by

1.5 million, and that was

allotted to another item, I

think it was the small venue recovery. Another was 2.5 million for

shared spaces, 1 million for small businesses impacted by

property crime, and a total of

3 million for the music and entertainment venue recovery.

In arts, entertainment support, there are a number of items

that were pulled as they were initially in the mayor's

proposed hotel, arts -- hotel tax arts supplemental, and

those were for the arts,

cultural arts, anden endowment equity.

Additional items were 1.1 for

cultural districts, and then, 1

million labelled as a contingency loss in case there's additional loss in

decreased hotel revenue that comes in. There's another $5 million that's looking ahead to what might be additional losses in the next year.

In terms of youth learning, there are two items that were

discussed before.

There's a new section on

overdose prevention and

fentanyl team street work.

1 million in family relief

fund, along with a reserve.

And that's based on the $125 million that our service

projected minus the rent relief

and housing proposal and the items that I outlined above, and that's the summary.

>> Chair Haney:   sorry. Having issues. Thank you for that. I want to say to my colleagues, we have heard most of these

items today.

There are some key ones that I

think have not been spoken to today. In the small business and

entertainment venues, there's some support that is so important.

We're all aware of the venue recovery fund that's been put

forth where these funds will go

to, some additional funds for

shared spaces, and then, in the proposal for arts, there's a slight increase because of the additional losses, projected losses in the hotel tax in the current year as well as some

additional funds for the

cultural districts, and then,

$5 million for next -- next

year, when we, unfortunately, expect there to be a shortfall. And then, in the youth summer

learning piece, we had an

increase of 2.7 million, which

will go to the sfusd dual

college enrollment, and then,

there are a couple things that

are true but are also programs

that I know you all are very

supportive of and are aware of. [Inaudible]

>> Chair Haney:   sorry. Somebody's either trying to

speak or not on mute. Okay.

So with that, I want to turn it

over to -- quickly, before I turn it over to President

Walton, I did want to ask you to speak to the shared spaces part of the small business support. This is something that is new

and just want to make sure that everyone understands for the record how this will be used. [Please stand by]

Is a steep climb so this additional money is very intentional and important and I think it helps compliment some of the things that deanna was saying in the targeted neighborhoods where you might

not necessarily see this. So, I'm a big pro phone apartment of

pa prone ant ofthis and we've been pushing the shared spaces program so this will help allow more businesses that have not been able to afford to get this off the

ground to get it going and up and running so thank you for

that clarification. >> thank you supervisor safai and your leadership on this issue and so there's one thing that I wanted to actually turn

it over to President Walton to speak to.

There's a new piece of our over all proposal that we're going to

vote on today which is a program I know we're familiar with but needs additional support and

helped to ensure urgent and

critical resources for some of the families and individuals in

our city who have not been able

to access other types of support

and who are. >> I just want to thank all of my colleagues. If you remember, during the

early parts of this pandemic, when we figured out that even though support was coming from

the federal stimulus, and there was some additional supports from the state, we realized there were populations of folks

here in our city that were not

going to be a beneficiary of those particular opportunities

and so, we worked together to put legislation in place to

provide family relief for those individuals who were not

eligible for that type of support and fortunately we worked closely together with the mayor's office and did not have

to do it through the legislative

process and we did a lot of philanthropy and we pulled

resources from our own budget to make sure we provided their family relief.

The money did not go far enough and we want to make sure the resources are available for family relief.

We were promised an additional $5 million for family relief. We haven't located the total amount so we're going to be

asking for 2 million and this supplemental to go in along with our right to recover and it's

something that we all are

familiar with and we've been working with our essential hubs

here and working on gaging with

the needs of our communities and written relief has been one of

the most major supports that have been requested as well as the loss of income support and we need this continued funding

in order to help our residents during this pandemic and so that they can meet their basic needs

and whether it's for rent,

bills, clothing, food, and of

course support of education materials that are needed and

during our first round of family

relief, we distributed resources

to over 4,900 families and we

exhausted the resources and as I mentioned before, we're promising a million more and so this is going to help us fulfill the promise of making sure that

we address the gap for those families that need resources

that don't qualify and these are four uncockmented families and people we actually rely on to do our jobs everyday and for

survival and right now, we have a couple of thousand families

who are not waiting list and I'm excite today announce this $2 million which is included in the community amendment that's

have been circulated so thank you chair haney and I want to

thank just the entire board and the championship for supporting

the opportunities for families

and have no other plays to turn to.

>> thank you. President Walton, thank you for your leadership.

I think we all agree that seeing there were some additional resources available this year we

had to put it in the pockets of

people who were left out of other forms of support from the federal or state government or

who have been most impacted by

this crisis and most in need of additional resource and support

and I think that program is

obviously reflective of both of those priorities.

So, colleagues, we have a number of, w. I shouldn't say say number, we have sort of a collective set of amendment wears going

amendmentswe're going to take and I want

to actually is, before we do

that, I think we can end with that.

I want to now go to public

comment for items 2, 3 and 4.

And again we are having one

minute per speaker, Madam Clerk, can you open up public comment

for items 2, 3 and 4.

>> yes, Mr. Chair. We are checking to see if there

are any callers of the queue. Members of the public who wish to provide public comment on

items 2, 3 and 4 press star 3 to be added to the queue and for those on hold wait until the

system indicates you have been unmute ed.

>> yes there are 15 callers in

the queue. >> could you please unmute the

first caller.

>> Caller:   this is debra wark

err on the arts commission and

every neighborhood, the food delivery, the vaccine lines, the

testing lines, our staffed in large part by members of our arts community so it's a really

great time to actually reach out to the folks providing these

services in your community and

find if there are gaps and talk

to us about it but I really appreciate keeping our arts

community who else. We're really devastated. A lot of us are unemployed and they're struggling so this helpful. Thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   thank you, very much. Supervisor of the budget and finance committee. I'm here to urge your support

for the agenda number 2.

Requesting full funding for all

eight cultural districts of san

francisco for this and next fiscal year.

Active member of the japan town cultural district and our community has been on the verge

of disappearing for the last 20 years and after struggling with

the devastating and in late 60s and 60s and 20 years after returning and reestablishing japan town that

was decimated as we triple back

from release in german camps.

Specifically, if we loose japan town community district all of

our energy to protect, preserve, plan for our future community will be for not.

We will lose our dedicated staff

and we will surely, as japan town, chip by chip from the face of san francisco.

You have all made tremendous

efforts during this pandemic. We deeply appreciate your

commitment to our city and our communities.

We support and ask -- >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   hi, my name is marie sorenson.

I'm with ia24. Cultural districts define who we

are as a city. Cultural districts are the soul

of our city.

Where we are necessary partners with the city, cultural

districts are, and with

businesses, residents, artists

and the history of our town.

We need to help define the past, the present and where we will be

in the future and in terms of

the cultural district, we have

been instrumental in testing and helping vaccinate. This is how important cultural districts are.

Please, support item number 2. Thank you. >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> good afternoon, chair haney and supervisors. I'm rachel.

An artist and arts and cultural administrator. Thank you haves for your subpoena or the of arts

support.

It's no coincidence that cultural districts are experiencing compounding impacts of this pandemic. Our people are being attacked,

excluded and pushed out. Because of prop e funding and

the support for -- districts are not one size fits all. This funding, prior to the short falls resulting from shelter in

place, did not cover our baseline needs. This amendment is crucial in

moving the cultural heritage,

housing economics, sustainable strategy that we're partnering with the city on to be accountable to our diverse neighborhoods.

In turn, we'll continue to lift up our unsung heroes because of that women know that we will

come out of this pandemic stronger with new creative healing spaces and more public arts honor and make history.

Thank you.

>> thank you for your comments.

Next speakers, please.

>> Caller:   hello, I've been a resident and voter in district 8 for 40 years. I wrote a one-minute statement to urge you all to suppose art

the full allocation for the cultural districts. After hearing the comments from the members of the budget committee they would have been redundant and you brought up all my points. I wanted to thank the sponsors

who are on the committee, ronen,

haney and walton.

It was either mar or safai who

asked to be added to it as a

sponsor and thank you so so

much.

I echo japan town must survive

before we are further decimated.

Thank you.

>> Caller:   I'm the director of diversity equity and community for the san francisco opera.

We're in district 6. Under supervise or haney. Thank you for your subpoena or the for

support forthe arts. We are large, small and mid sized organizations but we're one arts culture community and we stand in solidarity with each other as we're all part of this healthy arts echo system and i

want to give a special shout out

to supervisor ronen for the

comments it will serve to honor the voters.

I want you to remember we're one

of the largest employers in northern california that supports eight unions and a thousand employees and we're

doing everything we can to keep

people played and I also want to remember we are all traumatized

and we can process that trauma through arts and culture programs that serve as a

mechanism for healing, building

communities and I'm so excited

that this bill was moving

forward and. >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> hi, you are unmuted. >> perhaps we can circle back to

this caller and take the next

one.

>> Caller:   so, supervisors, you

have made so many amendments and

you are ramblings have been so

long and you are just giving us

a minute.

So, I know how to deal with a situation by writing what I need

to write about.

This pandemic has allowed us to

see how young can respond to the people.

So, I'm going to give you all a rating. It's f.

Having said that, I'm going to

address my comments on my blog because y'all have not even

fulfilled the standard of brown act.

Making drastic changes without

any input, without any meaningful discussion, from we,

the taxpayers who pay your salaries, thank you, very much. >> thank you for your comments.

next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   hello, my name is bob

goldfarb and I'm the President Of the lgbtq cultural district

and I would like to thank you

all for your support for the

cultural districts and this weekend our culture workers are grieving and as relive the closing of our doors on our

middle eastern co production,

365 days ago we grieve the disappearance of over two years

of work cumulatively from inspiring black future

narratives and mythology to our

latinx centered work calling out displacement and it's tenuous if

we do not receive funding from the supplemental and our workers

who inspire our future world are desperate for groceries, basic

healthcare needs, meeting the rent and the basic human need to

be valued by us. Thank you mayor and supervisors

for supporting this critical supplemental and the will of the voters in support of san francisco cultural sector which

is facing defamation. >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> hi, this is allison collins, commissioner, and vice President

Serving on the san francisco

unified school board.

>> community based organizations organizations, early education

centers and other youth summer programming. Thank you.

>> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>>

>> as my colleagues and the

cultural center have said, we have -- the cultural districts

are going to provide intrinsic

in the recovery of the city and

i thank you for this stanely cup mental.

It will help the current a cultural and future cultural

districts in full recovery and.

>> I wanted to comment on item number 2. The american indian cultural district of made up of two full time staff and a coalition of

eight organizations and elders

working to make up for decades

of systematic racism in the city and we have community members excited about having a homebase in the city on our own native land and losing funding for our staff of you're cultural

district and only undermining important work that's been done and the most vulnerable community in san francisco and increased the already impacts

that the community and eliminate

the only centralized -- it doesn't happened for our city so

you can imagine the impacts that happen if you couldn't fund our staff and able to fund these programs. I just also wanted to comment that we also submitted written comments and I wanted to thank supervisor ronen and all those working to make sure that these vulnerable populations aren't

lost or forgotten. Thank you.

>> next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   I just (Inaudible)

Cultural district of the operations director.

First of all, I want to thank

you for suppose support.

Inaudible:  .

There's more demand and supply

for resources, foods, jobs and

for positive artistic expression. Not having these funds will leave a void in our community.

Our work has brought hope, beauty and joy to our corridor.

I yield the rest of my time.

>> next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   hello, I'm with the

asian pacific omni cultural center. We support the arts and

supervisor haney, peskin and ronen's districts.

Thank you to the mayor and the supervisor. Like my colleague said earlier

the arts are currently supporting disability and recovery of our community. We have artist providing food deliver row to seniors to artists walking at the streets

at night to our asian community americans. Thank you for supporting all of

the allocations and the will of the votersment we hope you ken

sure the cultural centers, who

even after are taking a

66-person cut have equitable support.

The centers are the city are city-owned building and I've

been serving the city bipoc

artist and communities for 40 years and we urge to you find

that equity in ensuring all

aspects of prop e are funded

including cultural centers and

cultural districts. Thank you very much. >> there are 12 callers listening and three in the

queue. Again, if you wish to comment on items 2, 3 and 4, please pose star 3 to be added to the queue for those on hold continue to wait until the the system

indicates you have been unmute ed. >> good afternoon, supervisors,

my name is jenny long and I'm the executive director of the chinese cultural center and we're organ based in chinatown

with a long history of

presenting old art with social transformation and community impact.

I'm calling on item 2.

And support of the appropriation. I want to thank the board of supervisors for your support of the chinatown community earlier this year and I want to thank the mayor and the co-sponsors for your leadership to support the arts in this measure.

Chinatown has been hit hard economically and with anti asian hate and violence. The arts have always been part

of a healthy community and play a vital role in the community's recovery as an economic driver

but to also bring hope

contributed healing and bring visibility to our community issues. I want to thank the supervisors and look forward to your support for this measure and for all the prop e allocations for us to continue our work in the community and we hope that you can ensure that the arts are

funded equitably for bipoc

communities and culture communities and districts. >> thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

>> hello, I want to thank you

for your support san francisco's cultural districts. They highlight and support

communities that have been

historically marijuana

historic marginalized. Culture have been a source of support for many businesses

facing closure and residents experienced hardships. We have a shortfall and we are

in support of the amendment to

bring those two for next fiscal year it's important to invest in these communities that have hit

the hardest in order for

recovery to be equitable and to work.

>> thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please.

>> Caller:   my name is diana and

I work inform the asian american

artist and the asian pacific. They have also taken place in many different parts of the city

and throughout the greater bay

area and. >> there are no other speakers

in the queue. Public comment is now closed.

All right, so, we have we have

amendments we're going to take and we'll pass items that we

have in front of us. So, the first thing we're going

to do, colleagues, are there any other questions or comments before we take these amendments? I have some final comments after we take the amendments.

I don't see any one on the process

roster.

The first thing I would like to

do is move to accept the amendments for item 3.

That was the set of amendments of the various changes in allocations and this will be

where most of the allocations

for projected surplus will be. I want to motion to accept the

amendment and can I have a second on that, please. >> second.

>> seconded by supervisor safai.

Madam Clerk, can you please take

a vote on the amendments.

>> Clerk:   yes, on the motion --

[Roll call vote]

>> Clerk:   there are five AYEs. >> great. Thank you.

Colleagues, I want to make a motion continue item number

three and to a special budget and appropriations committee

meeting on tuesday March 23rd as amended. Is there a second? >> second. >> seconded by President Walton

and can we take a roll call on that, please.

>> Clerk:   y. On that motion --

[Roll call vote]

Now I want to be clear, we've

appended all of these dis the

family relief fund as well as an

urgent need reserve so we aren't

allocating the entire 125 million and I'll speak to

why that is the case.

And it's moving all into item number 3 and that a louse us

allows us to vote on that collectively.

With that, I'm going to make a

motion to table items 2 and 4 and is there a second on that? >> second safai.

>> seconded by supervisor safai.

Roll call vote, please.

>> Clerk:   yes, on the motion --

[Roll call vote]

>> Clerk:   there are five AYEs.

>> great.

Thank you. So, those two items will be tabled and item 3 will be moved to special budget and appropriations committee meeting

on March 23rd. Ms. Sandler, is there anything

more you want to adhere in terms

of process or anything that -- or on any of these items? >> no.

thank you for the opportunity. >> ok. All right.

Well, again, colleagues, before anybody else has, if you do have any closing comments I want to

say thank you all for really

contributing to this process and

to making sure that we address

the urgent priorities for our residents.

I do think these are the right priorities and we will build into the budget season which is already upon us.

These are some of the most

impacted communities during this

pandemic and we're going to be

able to make some critical investments.

On top of everything that we've spoken about here, there are two

items I want to flag for you

all. Additional investments in preventing overdoses,

specifically from fentanyl and there's 1.6 in the proposal for

some specific outreach, treatment, and prevention specifically in S.R.O.S where a lot of the overdoses have

occurred and I know that you all

share my concerns and commitment

to prevent overdoses and this is

some really urgent one-time funding we can put forward that

I do believe will save lives and

then I want to also flag for you all that we aren't allocating

the entire 125 million, there's

5% of that that is kept on

reserve and these funds are one,

to provide a level of

contingency and a cushion for potential changes in how that

actual revenue comes in and also there are some remaining, I

think t. Out standing items that

could come about in the next few weeks and months before we undergo our budget process that

May require us to revisit some additional priorities.

I do believe we've address many OFs most urgent priorities and

concerns and I want to thank

everybody who called in centering

our small business, arts,

cultural districts, schools and

kids and this is a package ak we can be proud of and the mayor's

office and the mayor was very

helpful with and support of in partnership. With that, colleagues, I don't

see anybody else on the roster.

So, Madam Clerk, is there any further business in front of us in.

>> ofus.

>> Clerk:   there's no further business. >> this meeting is adjourned. >> thank you. >> thank you.