Folks are meeting at 24th and mission at 11 00 a. M. To march to city hall and should be here by 1 00. So lets all do our best to protest today. With that mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Items acted upon today will appear on the september 24th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you, would you please call item number 1. Yes, item one, appointing Rafael Mandelman for a two year term to be determined for the executive board Regional Planning committee. Great. I will open this up to Public Comment. Is there any member of the public liking to speak of this item . Seeing none, do i have a motion . [gavel] without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] item number 2, to update and revise legislation findings in support of the Indigenous Peoples day. Thank you so much. Is anyone from supervisor Browns Office here . I dont see anyone. Any comments . I will open this item up for Public Comment. Any member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] my understanding is that this measure is about some technical amendments to this administrative code, correcting some names of tribes. I really appreciate supervisor brown for bringing this forward. With that, is there a motion . I move that we move this forward to the full board with positive recommendation. Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4 out of order. The ordinance to reenact and revise the Tourist Hotel ordinance, which constricts the convergence of hotel rooms by deleting the sunset conversion and the credit lottery. I understand that supervisor peskin was suppose to be here to introduce amendments. I imagine he didnt think it would happen this quickly. I will open this item up for Public Comments first. Any member of the public that would like to speak on item number 4 . Seeing yes. Please come forward. Please come up. Lean line up against the window part of the room. Supervisor peskin is on his way so well take Public Comment first. Were just taking Public Comment first. Please begin. Hi, good morning everyone. My name is nicole and i have worked at the hotel for three years. Im here today because i just dont want my hotel to be converted. If they are converted to condos, Hotel Workers like me could lose our income, our health benefits, and even be laid off. Especially im a single mom. I have two kids. If i lose my job, my health benefits, how could i raise my two kids and Everybody Knows that, even in the city. Its very expensive. I support the Tourist Hotel ordinance and the protection of good jobs and strong tourism in the city. Thank you. I work at the heritage place. I get a daily square for 11 years. 35 years in the industry. Im here in support of the ordinance by allowing this to happen, by allowing condominium conversion in the hotels. It would lead to distress in the industry. A lot of families will lose their insurance benefits, pension, and it will cause distress in the industry. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker please. Good morning, my name is duc nguyen. I worry about my hotel to be condominium and we lose jobs, healthcare, and benefits. I support the Tourist Hotel convention and protection of good jobs and the strong tourist industry at the city. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next speaker. Good morning, i work at omni hotel for 7 years. Im here because i dont want any part of hotels in San Francisco to turn into condominiums because we lose our jobs, benefits and get laid off. I support the protection of good jobs and industry in the city. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Good morning supervisors and thank you supervisor ronen for spreading the word on todays action. Im a Research Analyst and i wanted to give a little bit of context and history for todays legislation. In 05 and 08, our city took measures to protect against hotel rooms. The housing created would be for the wealthy, the second, third, fourth homes and would have decimatedd tourism for the city meetings responsible for 760,000 of that budgets, allowing San Francisco to remain competitive. Transit occupancy tax is responsible for 14 of the General Fund Budget of San Francisco. The top ten conventions of 2019 will book 6,000 rooms. If only 1 of San Franciscos large Tourist Hotel rooms were converted to condos, the city would lose 5. 294 million. So this protection is needed. It was successful for 10 years. We would like to bring it back and bring it back in a way that ensures that with some amendments, that ensure that once our city hotel stock is healthy and competitive, then there will still be a process to allow for limited conversion of condominiums through a similar process to what existed last year and i will let supervisor peskin add whatever i left out as im sure i left out a lot. I thank you for your support. Thank you, any other member of the public who wishes to speak . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] i think she did a good job. A decade and a half ago there was a phenomenon sweeping cities across america. It started in new york and eventually made its way to San Francisco and in the district that i represented then. Now, hotels ranging from the mark hopkins, to the fairmont and others were considering wholesale conversions of hotel rooms to condominiums. It was much more lucrative, at one time, to convert and the impacts were many fold. There would be impacts not only to the men and women in our hotels, but also to one of the fundamental drivers of San Franciscos economy and to that end, in 2008, we did chapter 41f of the administrative code, which passed unanimously, and was cosponsored by my then colleague supervisor maxwell and we put a provision in there to sunset it in 10 years. That sunset has happened. The need is still there as ms. Gomez indicated. We committed over half a billion dollars to make our center competitive like las vegas and orlando. This only applies to large hotels, not small hotels. As ms. Gomez indicated, once we hit a baseline inventory of 40,000 large hotel rooms, there would be a process for conversion of existing large hotel rooms. I do have some amendments which i really just spoken to that are before you, which would reenact section 41f, delete the sunset provisions, and allow for conversion once we hit 40,000 rooms. It is set forth in the ordinance to be presided over in the m planning department. Im here to answer any questions you have. Thank you supervisor peskin. You know, it is so frustrating how out of whack we are in this city. We know that we need more housing, yet were converting houses and apartment buildings into hotel rooms and then hotel rooms into condos. Its all out of whack. It makes no sense. I 100 support this. If i could be added as a cosponsor, i would appreciate that. Thank you for reupping your ordinance. I didnt know the history of this was needed 10 years ago and i guess we face the same challenges every decade of it in different forms. I just wanted to say to the local members, thank you for your hard work. Youre incredible. Youre organizing to protect your jobs and your conditions that you deserve for the hard work that you do, for yourself and your coworkers. Its always admirable and i appreciate you for coming out today and speaking. Is there any other comments from my colleagues . Yes, thank you chair ronen. I want to thank supervisor peskin for your work on this and for the local 2 members and the local 2, especially for all of your work on this. I remember when i was a Community Advocate supporting this 10 years ago, working with local 2, and its been such an important policy we had in place over the last decade to protect good jo jobs in the Hotel Industry and our tourism industry. I also strongly support this being continued or removing the sunset provision and the amendments that supervisor peskin worked on to allow a limited number of hotel room conversions into condos once we reach our goal of number Hotel Convention hotel rooms in the city. I would like to be added as a cosponsor as well. Thank you everybody. Thank you so much chair ronen. I would love to be added as a cosponsor as well. You got the whole Committee Supervisor peskin. Without objection, that motion passes and i am assuming we can send it forward with positive recommendation. I will make that motion and without objection, that motion passes. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you everyone. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 3. Item number 3 is the ordinance to establish the Street Level Drug Dealing Task force to advise the board of supervisorser regarding policies to eliminate street level drug dealing. Thank you so much. Were joined by supervisor haney. Good morning. Good morning colleagues. For your consideration is legislation that would create the Street Level Drug Dealing Task force to address the Harms Associated with drug dealing in the Tenderloin Civic Center and mid market. Im creating this task force in response to the frusation that many of my colleagues are dealing with. Together with residents, small businesses, and community organizations, im proposing this task force to ensure the city gets serious about asking this addressing this crisis. Were demanding change. I want to read some constituent emails my office has received. Deer supervisor haney. Im the father of two young boys and we live in the tenderloin. When my wife walks my kids to school, drugs are being dealt in front of them. They witness dozens of drug sales happening in front of them. The moment we step outside our homes, we are offered to buy or sell drugs. You must protect our children. We live in constant fear. Dear supervisor haney, it has been getting worse and worse. Ive been talking to neighbors around mid market and its been the worse in over a decade. I know you have one of the toughest jobs in the city, but how do we help . Is anyone helping . The harassment from drug dealers out of control. Please do something now. The next email was to address to myself, mayor breed and the district attorneys office. Today i close my business. Rampant drug use has taken over my block. No one wants to be on my block, including me. As a native San Franciscoen, that makes me sad. You all are wasting all the progress thats been made in the mid market neighborhood. Your streets will never improve without open storefronts. Stores wont open if the streets arent safe. I received hundreds of calls and emails that echo the same sentimen sentiment ass as sentiments as these. We know that drugs are dealt in the open with impunity 24 hours a day and this is a situation that will not be tolerated anywhere else. The task force will bring together Community Members and experts, departments, to actually put forward Real Solutions to this crisis. The city cannot keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. I convene meeting after meeting, trying to figure out how we can get to the root of this issue and the next steps we have to take. One thing that became abundantly clear is that our city lacks a collaborative plan to meaningfully address street level dealing and our communities are suffering because of it. When we had our public hearing about it, we had the police department, public defender, sheriff department, present to discuss their solutions. We had a number of community organizations, including the c. B. D. , and glide. It was a long four hour hearing with other 100 Community Members in attendance demanding answers and solutions. The office compiled a report saying the city spends 12. 4 million a year to try to suppress drug dealing. The main take away is the lack between coordination for city departments and the need for experts to draft a comprehensive solution to the issue. Many of the Community Members that came that day put forward the proposal to create this task force, to come up with the solutions. The task force would be comprised of experts, city departments and those impacted by street level drug dealing in the civic center and mid market neighborhoods. It will identify the underlying causes and allow Evidence Based Solutions to tackle the problem. Im apointing a group of a Diverse Group of residents, incarcerated individuals, Law Enforcement, and city departments. They will look at economic development, and alternatives to incarceration, and hold public hearings and solicit testimony. They will Research Best practices around the country and submit to the board of supervisors and the mayor on how best to address this issue. The task force will be a platform for residents and experts to implement new ideas to address this cry sisz now. There should be no reason that we should wait until a report is done before we can make improvements. I am hopeful that putting all relevant stakeholders and city leaders in the statement room will lead to collaboration to addressing the harm of drugs in our city. I will continue to support proactive efforts to curve this challenge immediately. There are some amendments that are highlighted in yellow, which i believe you all have copies of. These amendments were made after the initial legislation was introduced a couple months ago. After Consulting Community stakeholders and departments that made a hand full of amendments that were more comprehensi comprehensive. This will require the board to choose and approve the members to the task forces duties and the content of its report and allow them to issue quarterly reports and meeting sty sty pends. We need to come up with Solutions Beyond policing. My constituents have been victims of under resourcing that has failed them. This crisis is a deadly one with 259 people dying from deadly overdoses from drugs in 2019. We must protect the most vulnerable members of our community and the community i represent refuses to sit on the sidelines. They have seen the impact of this for many years. Theyre ready to be a part of the solution. Theyre ready to contribute their expertise and their experiences. I trust that we will come up with a solution that our city should consider carefully and adopt. With that, members of the rules committee, i hope you will support this task force. I think its something that provides an opportunity and were ready for it. I hope it can lead to some real changes on the ground. One thing i think we all agree on is that the status quo, when it comes to this crisis, its unacceptable, unfair, and unequitable in terms of who it impacts and those deserve an opportunity to partner with the city to make some changes. So with that, im sure there are some folks in the community who i see here and some who i read their emails that have been partners on this and i know are going to be closely involved with this moving forward. So, thats all i have to say. I dont know if i should move the amendment or we want to hear from the public . Well leave it to Public Comment in a minute. I wanted to chime in here and first just thank you supervisor haney for your leadership on this. Every time i walk around the tenderloin, im truly shocked. There is right there before your eyes, the complete failure of the city to take care of people in great need, but also to prevent others from praying on those people. I just want to apologize on behalf of the city for letting things get to this level. I think its outrageous. I am very heartened and excited about supervisor haneys relationship because i see him paying attention and taking this seriously. We partnered to work on Mental Health f. S. , which will reform the services that we provide to people with serious Substance Use illnesses and hopefully will really provide the help that people deserve and need so they truly feel if they take that step to reach out for help, that it will be effective and provided to them, which it is not currently. We have to look at both ends of this, both the victims and those who pray on the victims, and we have to do better. So, i know this is a very district specific task force, but i want to cosponsor it because i want you to know in the tenderloin that you are not alone, that supervisor haney is not alone, and other colleagues on the board of supervisors see what youre dealing with everyday and think its absolutely unacceptable and well be fighting along with your supervisor to improve the situation. I just wanted to chime in there and looks like supervisor walton wants to speak. I think all of us have seen the negative effects of street level drug dealing and what it does to a community. I just want to say that i think bringing attention to the issue and really understanding that were not going to wash our hands with the activity thats taken place and continue to let it happen. Its important. We know the prevalence of street level drug dealing varies across the city. We know its concentrated in certain areas of district 6, district 10, and district 9. Im definitely in support of this and i want to see how we can be effective with this. We can get some things done, not only for strategies to prevent and curtail street level drug dealing, but also come up with some solutions and things to help people really survive in different ways, as well as work to support some of our folks that have certain addictions. I just appreciate the thoughtfulness of making this happen and bringing folks in the Community Together with of course city leadership that is responsible for addressing these issues. Its long overdue. I think this task force will actually set precedence in terms of how we address whats happening across San Francisco and appreciate the Community Getting involved and jumping right in to make this happen. I would love to be added as a cosponsor in support of the task force as well. Absolutely and one of the things that we thought about, we did decide to focus specifically on the impact in these neighborhoods, but i think theres no doubt that many of the things that will be discussed and the ideas, if they came up with a set of recommendations, my guess is that a large number of those would be citywide recommendations on things we could do differently, like adult probation, whatever it is. It would have a citywide impact. I recognize this is not just isolated there. It impacts other neighborhoods as well. I would add that we will be grateful as a city for the recommendations that come forth so we can advocate in our own districts, but i think its appropriate that there is a focus on tenderloin. In those areas, these problems are extreme in a way that i havent seen before in the city. I just want to thank you all for addressing the issue and coming up with solutions that we can replicate in our districts as well. I want to thank supervisor haney for all your work on this and the Community Activists and the Community Members. I actually had worked at golden gate for many years before i stepped into my role so i saw and had to walk through these issues on a daily basis. So, thanks again for the focus on these issues and actually, since joining the board of supervisors, i sort of had to quickly deepen my understanding of the whole range of challenging issues here in the city and you can really see how drug dealing on the streets, especially in the neighborhoods, its so connected to many other issues were grappling with. I also see that there hasnt been enough focused attention on this issue and the task force will really fill an important need in bringing more focused attention on these issues. Thanks again everyone on your work for this and i would also like to be added as a cosponsor as well. With that, we will open this item for Public Comments. Please come forward and if you can form a line to your right and my left and anyone can start us off. Feel free to come forward and start us off. Hi, im alan jerome. I am here to speak to you about the language of this legislation. So, seeing that one of the words put on is eliminate online on line 5 and address that to address harm related today. Were speaking life and love into this situation versus speaking death and hate into this situation. It also gives us definition and it really gives us a clear outline on what we can do versus eliminate, which is a broad and general, and it can be extreme and leaves a lot of space for harm to be done when we use a strong word like eliminate. By exchanging the word eliminate for address harms related to, we are allowed to have clear directive from all points of view and also speaking love. So when were having conversations about this, were not going to the extreme and were consistently speaking love into what we need to address in the city. I live in the tenderloin now so i see people shooting up. I saw someone shooting up in their knee the other day. That was the first time for me. These are the kinds of things that hearing the email that the father sent with the two children, seeing that everyday, i am now getting involved in the community. Im only 2 months in. I am slowly seeing more and more, as we take our blinders off. I just want to say thank you so much. The language is everything. Thank you so much you guys. Good morning supervisors, im sam dennison, and i live at turk and hyde, this many call ground zero for these issues. I know many people who deal, i know many people who use, and many who are in recovery and this is a complicated issue. What i appreciate with the dialog we had with supervisor haneys office, is we talked about who should sit on this task force. There are a number of people that have been meeting for the last four months to be part of this dialog, there in the tenderloin and theyre saying we dont want the knee jerk reaction. We dont want the easy solutions because we know those havent worked. Were in it for the long haul. We appreciate the length of time that the task force will meet and the types of people that will be on the task force. We believe we will come up with some solutions that will slowly and steadily address the problem thats been in development for decades. Were seeking the hard answer, which when i communicate with people across the country, getting more research on these issues, the constant i hear is no city has tried this yet. Were going to bring experts along with the people in the enforcement side to see how we can do this together. So i think San Francisco is looking at breaking some new ground, which is not surprising. There is a real spirit of cooperation with this. Thank you supervisor haney and the three of you for your support as well. Thank you. Good morning supervisors. My name is eric, im the operations manager. We operate the gary theater on gary and the strand theater on the 1100 block and the costume shock theater, so were very affe affected. Thank you for bringing the item to them. I also chair what we call the 1100 block of market group. We meet monthly. Were business owners, residents of the area, and we have had heavy participation by departments from the city, department of health, department of public works, and the Mayors Office even helped us create an action plan for our group. This task force to us is very important because it does do what weve been doing, which is bringing the Community Together with departments of the city and Law Enforcement and were heavily participated in by Law Enforcement, to talk about these problems. We made little incremented changes. The need for this task force is great. I think the focus on dealing is key and its a key concept of a c coordinated effort. I think it will be very important. Well be meeting again, our 1100 block Meeting Group will be meeting next week. We will be discussing a member of the group to be a representative and well endorse that to supervisor haney. I dont know how that process will work out but we really want to participate in this task force. Thank you i think this task force will make a difference. Thank you very much. Thank you, next speaker. Morning, i represent the tenderloin benefit district, which represents just about anybody that visits the tenderloin. We have a culture of building safety in the neighborhood. Those are having an impact on the community. We wanted to voice our strong support of the legislation and share gratitude to supervisor haney for bringing education and calling attention to this issue and having an ongoing dialog with Community Members and really listening. We support the amendments that were made as well, particularly stipending Community Members that would participate, those with lived experiences. Thank you to all the supervisors who have voiced their support, not just here but the Neighborhood Committee where this was first heard. Thank you for bringing attention to this issue and to the point of seeing whats concentrated in the central city neighborhoods, there is no doubt that what we see in visual transactions and lot of use is concentrated here, but we will quickly learn that if we do not know already, that this is an issue that is not sustained by those neighborhoods and those people that live in those neighborhoods but by regional market base. We will quickly see that. Thank you very much. Hello supervisors, my name is jane wild. I live between 7th and 8th, which is another ground zero for the open drug use and Mental Illness crisis. I consider this to be the worse crisis in our city right now. We are not a compassionate city to allow people to suffer the way we do on our streets. I worked with supervisor haney and many people in this room to help craft this Task Force Legislation and support it wholeheartedly. Thank you for bringing it forward to the crisis that it is. We must address this much more aggressively in shortterm responses, as well as looking for the longterm realistic solutions. Many of the people using openly on the street are housed. We must not confuse the Mental Health and drug use crisis with the housing crisis. We cannot house everybody that shows up here to score cheap drugs. We need the mayor and the board of supervisors to declare San Francisco, or at least mid mark and the tenderloin as a state of emergency. We would do it if we had an earthquake and we need to do it now. Its impossible to live there. People are moving and businesses are closing. People in our building have been assaulted at the bus stop. We just cant let this to continue to happen in our city. Mayor breed said the response to the homelessness and the Mental Health crisis is compared to the aids crisis. We must make that real now. We need one person to pull the city departments together and make them accountable. Set a 6 months deadline. Its incredible that they just coordinated for the first time to compare their lists of the 250 sickest, most neediest people on our street. How is it that two departments had the same list and didnt compare it . Good morning, im one of the directors of the mid Market Community benefit district. I want to thank supervisor matt haney for taking the leadership on this critical matter and i want to thank everybodys support to advance this. I have worked in the area of mid market, soma, tenderloin, and civic center for the past 10 years. It is not getting better. Our organization supports not only this task force but hopefully as quickly as possible, meaningful legislation and Meaningful Solutions to really address this era of drug dealing. Thank you so much. Good morning supervisors. Amy, the founder and director of the st. Francis homelessness challenge. They support this task force and thanks for bringing it forward. We have been part of the meetings with the Community Council over the last four months. When dealing with impossible tasks, you do whats necessary and mobipossible and you start o the work. We treated each individual person as a human being. So there are two things i want to bring forward. Number one, we need to have curiosity. We need to inspire curiosity as a city. Why am i putting this in my body . What am i putting in my body . Why am i selling this particular substance . What am i selling to people . Are there alternatives, and like Shamann Walton was saying and hillary, to get people to feel that we care about those answers and were creating a pathway out of it. My organization has started to do drug testing with some of the substances on the street so we can inform people what are you putting in your bodies and why . Ive been spending a lot of time in the tenderloin, but im bay area, born and raised so ive been coming to the tenderloin since i was a teenager. I get offered meth all the time, very generously. I say thank you, but no, i stick to the green. That opens up a great conversation about alternatives and the curiosity and that knowledge. I had great conversations with people about that. Thats the second thing i want to bring up, that 564 failed us to giving people cannabis as opposed to harsher drugs. So when we look at cannabis, meth, crack, and heroin, lets figure out how we can create green pathways for people because there is an openness to exploring good morning supervisors, my name is max young. Mr. Haney read my email today about closing down my business. Ive been in that neighborhood for 19 years. Ive been operating my business and owned the building there. I never seen an issue like this. We have a methadone clinic around the corner. We understand the neighborhood were in. This is not pacific heights, but this is rough around the edges. There are organized drug dealings going on everyday, every hour. I have groups of drug dealers on my corner everyday. They threatened my customers, my staff, no one wants to come to work. People are dying in the streets. We need to address this situation immediately. This task force is a great first step. We need your help. We appreciate apologies, but thats not going to help us. We need change. The policies we have right now arent working. Its horrific. It is horrific. We see people everyday pass out on the sidewalks. These drug dealers are preying upon people who are safe districted are addicted to these drugs. We really need this help. We appreciate your help. Thank you. Good morning supervisors, thank you for letting us come and talk to you today and thank you mr. Haney, supervisor haney for introducing this legislation. We had been meeting as a community and talking about this for some time and even before the issue of the task force came forward, obviously this is a concern that the community has been working on since i been doing this kind of work in the community. You know, there is some piece of it i want to touch on. Everybody has said it. I know you support it. Just remind us that we tried certain things in the past. We just keep doubling down on these same strategies like policing, arresting, and we wonder why theyre not working, but then we think we need more policing and arresting and then we do that and it doesnt change anything. It seems that the problem gets worse. I dont think the two are unrelated. I honestly believe that the war on drugs and our aggressive actions around policing has made the problem worse. It creates an environment where folks dont have other options. Its complicated. Its a really complicated issue. I hope we remember that we come from a place where we need to think outside the box. We really need to look for creative new solutions, be willing to take some bold chances, and reck these that the police, the police are not going to fix our problems for us. It will have to come from something broader and its going to involve the community and those people who are the most impacted. So thank you for your time and i look forward to seeing where we go from here. Thank you very much for your support. Board of supervisors and supervisor haney, thank you for organizing this. I wouldnt be alive here if this city didnt rescue me. You guys have phenomenal services. We do have cracks in between and perhaps its time to talk about whats falling in the cracks. Im sure that liz from st. Anthonies have been in your rooms talking about this. When im disconnected, providing housing alone is not an answer. I think it takes a whole community to help someone reconnect and reengage with community. Detox centers and psychiatry alone is not really a full recovery. Some of us do not have social skills or we shut down on ourselves. We dont have the skill set, the age appropriate skill set to bond with another person. So, today i know so many wonderful statements have been made, but i have a concern, how substance is used against the will of volatile women that are forced to work against their will or not knowing whats better for them. I would like that to have a special attention for people who are put in there so that they have an addiction and they keep coming back to their abuser. I really appreciate it if you would have a special team for that. Thank you very much. I would like to see San Francisco at the forefront of resolving the issue of unregulated, unlawful encampment and related issues. You have a small set Acquisition Program working to house groups of homeless with Mental Health issues. Its a wonderful idea. It isnt perfect. Nothing is or will be or can be. The united homeless with their loved ones, you have the Navigation Centers evaluating, assessing and offering aid. Now we have the f. B. I. Offering a one year commitment. I hope it wont be squandered. This Task Force Committee which should gain insight into the problem and the precedence interest in addressing homeless issue in california and other states. So the drug dealing in the tenderloin impacts everyone in the city, in the neighboring counties. There are people that arrive at s. F. O. And the t. L. Is their first destination. I think the task force is an excellent idea. I think its unfortunate that drugs can be sold out in front of the rehab, and the open. Well, i had the opportunity to study analyzed data of all kinds in all sorts of environment and i believe that what im hearing suggests this is a good time to resolve the long perplexing issue. Thank you, are there any other members of the public that wishes to speak . Then Public Comment is closed. Supervisor haney. Thank you colleagues and thank you everyone who came out today for your comments and your partnership. As i said in my opening comments that i really do believe that this community can come together and help us address this challenge and is that this is a real opportunity for us to work together. You know, the fact that people have already been meeting before this has been formed and coming up with ideas and discussing this and listening to each other, and even being challenged. Were not all going to have the same ideas for what the solutions are, but we can listen to each other and find Common Ground and learn and be focused on change and solutions. One thing thats clear is that everybody wants to see change and new approaches and they want to see greater urgency. Because we have that in common, i think that the potential is great. Not everything that happens as a result of this task force will happen in the room or in the report thats produced. It will be because this is spurring us to talk about it and plan together and think. The same for the departments. We heard already from the departments, whether its the police or the d. A. , or the Public Health or probation, that theyre thinking about this and theyre being challenged in new ways already, even before this has been formed yet. So thats also a huge part of what i think the impact will be and the task force will be a place where a lot of this energy, not all of it, but most of it can be brought and help to generate it and hopefully produce some change for the city. So, there is still a lot of work to do and lot of uncertainty, but im grateful for the community and our partner on this for coming together and really wanting to be a part of this to bring about change. I want to thank abbey thats here from my office who has been leading this work and has been doing a great job bringing everyone together. So, with that, i hope we can move this forward as amended. There are some amendments i dont have in front of me, but i know you have. So you want to make a motion to amend . Thank you chair ronen, i would love to make a motion to accept the amendments for the Street Level Drug Dealing Task force. Without objection, those amendments are accepted. Can i have a motion to send forward with positive recommendation . So moved. Without objection, that motion passes. As amended. Yes, i recommend that it is amended. Thats right. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, are there any other items on the agenda . That completes the agenda for today. Then this meeting is adjourned, thank you. [gavel] Womens Network for a sustainable future. San francisco streets and puffs make up 25 percent of cities e citys land area more than all the parks combined theyre far two wide and have large flight area the pavement to parks is to test the variants by ininexpensive changing did new open spaces the city made up of streets in you think about the potential of having this space for a purpose it is demands for the best for bikes and families to gather. Through a collaborative effort with the department we the public works and the Municipal Transportation Agency pavement to parks is bringing Initiative Ideas to our streets. So the face of the street is the core of our program we have in the public rightofway meaning streets that can have areas perpetrated for something else. Im here with john francis pavement to parks manager and this parklet on van ness street first of all, what is a parklet and part of pavement to Parks Program basically an expense of the walk in a public realm for people to hang anti nor a urban acceptable space for people to use. Parklets sponsors have to apply to be considered for the program but they come to us you know saying we want to do this and create a new space on our street it is a Community Driven program. The program goes beyond just parklets vacant lots and other spaces are converted were here at playland on 43 this is place is cool with loots things to do and plenty of space to play so we came up with that idea to revitalizations this underutilized yard by going to the community and what they said want to see here we saw that everybody wants to see everything to we want this to be a space for everyone. Yeah. We partnered with the pavement to Parks Program and so we had the contract for building 236 blot Community Garden it start with a lot of jacuzzi hammers and bulldozer and now the point were planting trees and flowers we have basketball courts there is so much to do here. Theres a very full program that they simply joy that and meet the community and friends and about be about the lighter side of city people are more engaged not just the customers. With the help of Community Pavement to parks is reimagining the potential of our student streets if you want more information visit them as the pavement to parks or contact pavement to parks at sfgovtv. Or. 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Who afternoon. Welcome to the september 24, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll . [roll called] brown present. Fewer present. Haney not present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Ronen not present