Speaking over 12 languages. That is a big asset to international visitors. We have my sf which trained 400 people to be tourism ambassadors. San francisco saw 25 million visitors. We hope that continues to climb. We will continue to try to make that number climb. We 4,375,000,000 3. 7 million visitors and that is over 1 21 Million Dollars in impact. Our twitter had 215,000 followers. Our facebook over 500,000. I want to note for context that our Destination Management organizations were in the top tier in terms of social impact. These are impressive when you look at other dmos around the country. Our moscone expansion had 500 million project. It was completed on time and on budget and opened earlier this year. We had a phasedin portion of the construction so we allowed the building to stay open to accommodate Convention Attendees to continue to come through the building. This was challenges with construction noise and impact. We were able to mitigate the impacts to continue the economic benefits having the center open during that time. Lastly, we utilize the incentive fund. We use to that attract new clients to the space and really was helpful during the expansion to mitigate impact from current clients. That is all i have to present. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Thank you. Do you have any questions . Thank you for the presentation. We will move to Public Comment. Any members of the public to testify on this item . Public comment is closed. Colleagues can we recommend this item to the full board without objection . Great. Mr. Clerk please call item 6. Resolution receiving and approving the annual report for the yerba district submitted as required by the Management Agreement with the city. This is the 20172018 annual report for the benefit district. I will skip over some of the the repetitive slides. Unlike the two districts you heard about this is property based. The initial budget they were renewed recently was 2. 9 million. If fiscal year 201718 budget approximately 3 million. They were renewed in 2015 and set to expire on december 31, 2030. Executive director and Service Areas are safety and security, branding activation, marketing, management and operations. For property based they review if the budget was within 10 from the Management Plan. Benchmark two, 5. 08 of the actuals came from Stores Sources other than assessment. Three the budget was within 10 from the actuals and four whether it is in the amount of funds from the fiscal year and designating projects to be spent in the upcoming year. They did meet number one for the budget and Management Plan budget. 2. They did meet this benchmark as well with a 8. 46 non assessment Revenue Generation in 1 1718 ad has done well meeting this. 3. 1718 they did not meet this. They missed this by. 74 for the cleaning and streetscape improvements. Upon further review we reviewed this was done to delays in improvement projects we can discuss further. For benchmark 4 they had the Carry Forward how to spend it. They met this. In conclusion they met three out of four requirements. They have performed well in implementing the service plan and market and produce the events, increase the Community Stakeholders activities and maintain an active board of directors and subcommittees. I would like to invite her up to present accomplishments of the district. Thank you. Good morning i am the director of the yerba Community Benefit district. I have a few slides. First i want to highlight the district. It is basically between second and fifth streets on the south side of market down to perry, a half block south of harrison. The colors show you the different type of uses that we have in the neighborhood. We are fortunate to be a mixed use area and as a result of this we have a board of directors of 28 people who have to represent this diversity as well and very active board. We are thrilled and i know that cassandra has left we are thrilled this is done. It has had a significant economic benefit. We appreciate them adding public art to the neighborhood which has a lot of art components. What do we do . Our focus is to improve quality of life in the neighborhood. We define this in five ways. I am sorry the formatting the funky. We do cleaning, safety, marketing and Community Benefit fund grants to organizations also working to improve the neighborhood. To give you a sample we responded to 60,000 requests for cleaning in the fiscal year 2018. We moving 161tons of trash from the neighborhood. I know you can read so i am not reading this to you. This is supplemental to what public works actually does across the city and specifically in our neighborhood. For safety we have community guides, goodwill ambassadors a social Service Specialist working with the street population for services and partner for a bike patrol officer. He responded to 5,000 requests for services dealing with specific issues. We d do a count how many people are on the streets. We averaged 53 people each night in our neighborhood. Our approach is service first. We are trying to connect people to services. Our specialist will get to know the people, find out their issues and connect them to services, make appointments and escort them and walk them through the process to make it to give us the best chance of success. We do streetscape improvements. One of the things we under spent were projects delayed. We installed nine big belly waste reseptacles. We added 13 additional so we have 22 total. We added two new art installations. We added more bike racks and worked with the city on the Second Street improvement project. That is the picture on the right. The individual is sitting on a custom bench in the neighborhood. We market the neighborhood to bring people in to support the businesses there. Last year we launched walking tours. I want to show you the twist and i am not going to encourage you to participate. We have the annual event that was saturday night. Greatroud. And then we do regular mailings to our Property Owners and redesigned our website. The one thing that is different for our district is that we have a Community Benefit fund. The Property Owners decided they wanted us to support other organizations that were working to improve the neighborhood. In 2010 we created the Community Benefit fund. We gave away 165,000 in grants to organizations. These are samples of the things we supported. Since 2010 we have given 1. 4 million to organizations in the neighborhood. A map of the actuals. This is all in the report for fiscal year 20172018 we did come up shy on cleaning and streetscape it was not because of cleaning services or streetscape improvement. We learned that things take longer than we anticipate they are going to take. We try to fine tune the budget. I can tell you in advance we hit the mark for the fiscal year just completed. An example of the just completed fiscal year budget. Last but not least in the 20172018 we created the excellence awards to support and to award individuals in the neighborhood doing great things. This is a photo of the first recipients of this award. They have done things from people that keep the streets clean to public art, activations in the neighborhoods. Supervisor kim is here for championing the neighborhood. That is it for me. I am happy to answer any questions. Thank you for the presentation and all of your good work. Colleagues any questions . Thank you. I move we send this item to the full board with positive remember. Can we take that without objection . We do need Public Comment. Any members of the public that wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I move we send this to the full board with positive recommendations. Can we take that without objection . Great. Please call item 7. Again a the civic center comy district for the fiscal year 20172018. This is the civic center Community Benefit district annual report. It is a propertybased Community Benefit district. The initial budget was 691,000. It is a assessment budget was p. M. 828,000. It was established in 2011. This was going to expire on 2021. As you know it was renewed this summer. The executive director is tracey who is here today. The Service Areas are Safety Community be service ambassadors, activation of public placings. They review four benchmarks for the district. Checking the variance whether one percent actuals came from sources other than assessment revenue. If the variance between the fiscal year and actuals was within 10 variance Percentage Points and if they are indicating the funds carried over to the upcoming fiscal year. For benchmark one they did meet this benchmark requirement. For benchmark two, the civic center raised 46. 22 of the budget through non assessment revenue and met that benchmark as well. Benchmark three. It was well with in the 10 variance for fiscal years 20172018 and did meet this as well. They did indicate the Carry Forward as required by state law. Findings and conclusions they have performed well and the civic center has performed well in implements the service plan and met the requirements set forthwith the city and state code. They worked with oewd and the Tax Collector to collect several outstanding debts. This was distributed in fiscal year 2018 higher 2019. They partnered with city agencies on successful implementation of public space in Civic Center Plaza and the mall. They maintained an active board of directors on the operations. If there are no questions i would like to invite her up to present on their accomplishmen accomplishments. Good morning. Executive director of the cbd. A few slides to augustment the staff presentation. This was the district in fiscal year 20172018. Roughly 100acre on the north of Church Street near tenderloin school and Market Street to the south. A little over 700 parcels in the new district. As chris said. Our services focused on cleaning, maintenance and Public Safety. Key services for us are the garage greeter at the Civic Center Garage and playground safety monitors. Last year and the year before we held a safety summit inn vitting the entire community be to Market Street. A few stats here. We have many, many more on the website. We are pressure watching 46,000 linear feet per year removing 60,000tons of trash per year. Our needle numbers are back up to 1,000 each month. They dipped for a while. They are on the rise again. We had seven Free Community events in 2018. We begun construction of the cafe and Civic Center Plaza celebrating the oneyear anniversary this month. We held the Civic Center PlazaTree Lighting on december 5th. This year it will be wednesday, december 4th, same time, 5 00 to 7 00 p. M. And we are really busy with the launch of the Renewal Campaign for the district which we successfully completed in july of this year. Thank you. Thank you. Thankings for the presentation and the good work. We can go to Public Comment. They members of the public to testify opthis item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, can we send this to the full board with positive recommendation without objection . Thank you. Mr. Clerk please call item 8. Agenda item 8 resolution receiving and approving the annual report for the Central MarketCommunity Benefit district for the calendar year 2017. Thithis is the report. This is a propertybased district. It was renewed in 2013 with an initial assessment budget 1. 2 million. The 2017 was 1. 4 million set to expire june 30, 2028. Executive director is tracey. Service Public Safety, cleaning, management and economic development. We reviewed four benchmarks for the district. The difference between it is related to benchmark two. The requirement is 3. 68 . The other four benchmarks are the same as the previous property based cbds. For the first benchmark they did meet this. It was within the 10 variance. For the assessment revenue and other income benchmark two they were above requirement at 21. 53 . They did meet this benchmark. Benchmark three the fiscal year budget they were below 10 variance on each Service Category and did meet the benchmark. For four they indicated the carryover and met it. The organization did a commend commendsable job to support the district. They hosted the seventh annual art event feature feature featue artists. They fulfill the Management Plan and maintain an active board of directors and subcommittees. If there are no questions for staff i would like to invite ms. Hello again. Executive director for the Central MarketCommunity Benefit district. Last year we changed the name we are mid market. We are talking about 2017 today so this is back to that year. This is a map of our district. 806 parcels with an annual budget 1. 4 million. You will see highlighted in yellow the significant number of sites under development in this district. Close to 2 million square feet. Core services cleaning maintenance Public Safety and maintenance 7 00 a. M. To 7 00 p. M. Each day. A few stats with human and animal waste. Graffiti takings and Pressure Washing 30,000 linear feet quarterly. Next to the tenderloin this is the most intense for a cbd to manage. Public Safety Services we are reaching out to pedestrians, merchants, local residents to do a significant amount of social Service Outreach and partnership with the District Social Service agencies. Also for Public Safety we continue to expand our Security Camera program. We have very successful safety teams we launch when we can afford to or get grants. We pair a Community Ambassador with a San Francisco 10b officer and that wonderful. It is well received in the community. Then we do the annual safety summit. In 2017 we got over 200 people to the strand theater. We did on stage active shooter training, presentation to stop the bleed campaign from sf general and the lobby is filled with the City Safety Service agencies and their information. In terms of economic developments a number of new businesses open for our highlighted here but to very large coworking facilities which have brought jobs and services and employees to our district. We appreciate that. Then because of the high number of under development in our district we work closely with developers to try to make sure Development Sites are as safe and goodlooking as possible. These are examples of two art projects we did in our district. Just a snapshot of the last art walk that we did. The art walk was created a decade ago to bring exposure to the businesses on the sixth street corridor that continues to this day. We fill almost every storefront on sixth with an artist for this event. We get 2000 people on the sixth street corridor. We look forward to that event in 2020. Thank you very much. Any members of the public to comment on this item. If i could get a word to express a few personal sentiments regarding the present state of energy as it impacts property taxed through cbd designation. It may be true by deferring maintenance they may appear rotten through the bone. 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Thank you. Any other members of the public to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thanks for all of the informative presentations. Can we send this item to the full board with positive recommendation without objection . Great. Mr. Clerk please call items 9 through 15 foreclosed session. Agenda items 9 through 15 are ordinances authorizing settlements of lawsuits and attorneys fee claims against the city and county of San Francisco. Any members of the public to testify on the items to be heard in closed session . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Do we have a motion to convene in closed session . So moved. So we are now in closed session. [closed session] [applause]. Sion] and so many Incredible Community leaders and friends who have gathered here today to support the signing of what i believe is important legislation that will hopefully make the changes in the city that are necessary to address what we know our inequalities and services, resources in general, and we know, as a city we have work to do. In fact, we can take this conversation back to two years ago. Starting with the unfinished agenda under the San Francisco redevelopment agency, recommendations back then of what should be done with the disparities that exist in the Africanamerican Community. Later on down the line, when gavin newsom served as mayor, he agreed to work with us and create a task force which produced a report that really highlighted the challenges that continue to persist in the Africanamerican Community despite changes, despite investments, the same problems that we are talking about today, were problems that were highlighted, yet there werent significant changes made. In growing up in San Francisco, i cant help but wonder, where did we go wrong . What worried the mistakes that we made, and how are we going to push forward the kinds of policies necessary to fix it . One such policy im really proud of that i helped to produce when i was on the board of supervisors, people try to fight is on it, people told us it couldnt be done, but thanks to our late mayor ed lee, former supervisor melia cone, we were able to finally get neighborhood preference legislation passed. [cheers and applause] let me give you an example of what a difference that makes. We know the challenges that exist with access to Affordable Housing. Time and time again we get asked if to support Affordable Housing in our community. But when the time comes to move into that housing, the people who grew up there, the folks so crowded up in their houses and living with their mamas and grand moments could not get access to those units. The first project where we were able to use neighborhood preference was the willie b. Kennedy apartment. Because of our efforts, 40 of the 98 units was the people who lived in the Community Community first. In fact, roughly 23 of those residents were africanamericans from that community. [applause] we understand that it may seem like a small number, but in comparison to the number of africanamericans who would get access to Affordable Housing, it is a big deal that we were able to accomplish this, but we know that there is so much more work to be done because when you look at the disparities that exist in San Francisco, sadly the numbers are clear. High school dropouts, disproportionally africanamericans are in the higher numbers of dropouts and suspensions, but less than 6 of the population. You look at the homeless population, you look at the challenges with mental health, disproportionately africanamericans are impacted by that. You look at access to housing and a number of other issues. The list goes on and on. I get that we are looking at an office of Racial Equity for the purposes of dealing with challenges that exist with minority communities, but lets face the facts. Sadly, time and time again, we have seen, on many occasions, the africanamerican communities lose time and time and time again. We cant just keep talking about these statistics and saying that we care about what happens to this community, and then also criticize me when i deliberately put money and resources into supporting and targeting this community so that we can really provide the change that we need. We need action. We need consistency. We need a change like never before. The office of Racial Equity is really about making that investment. It is about saying that we are tired of the reports, we are tired of the promises, and we need to start putting our money where our mouth is. On this issue and so many other issues. So i just want to take this opportunity to thank again supervisor sandy fewer and supervisor vallie brown for their courage. [cheers and applause] for their courage. For being leaders. For being unrelenting. For consistently talking about this, talking about the need to make real change. The Africanamerican Community may be less than 6 of the population of this city, but guess what . We are still here. We still matter. And it is time we come together and make real change. [applause] it is time we come together and hold one another accountable, but also lift one another up. Here is the opportunity to work with an office to provide that change. I went over my time, but i am excited about this. It is why we put money in the budget to make sure positions are funded. Nobody debated whether or not it should be, and now it is time we continue to work with this office so that policy is brought forward, so that more investments are brought forward, and so that everyone in this city, and all city departments understand that when i say we are going to look at everything through a lens of equity and make the kinds of deliberate changes and investments to address what we know has been a problem, then thats exactly what we are going to do. [applause] at this time, i would like to welcome up to provide remarks, supervisor sandra lee fewer. [applause] thank you, mayor breed. Im so proud to stand here today with the mayor and supervisor brown, and also my colleague and all of you as we sign this legislation to create an office of actual Racial Equity into law. Im a fourth generation San Francisco and san franciscan and chineseamerican. I remember growing up in a San Francisco where there was more opportunity for everyone. I remember when we had an africanamerican population of over 15 here in San Francisco. I remember the time when we had nader neighborhoods with Small Businesses that were owned by africanamericans. This is a very important moments today because, quite frankly, this is one of the reasons, the main reason that i ran for supervisor. I think that [applause] it is so delightful and refreshing that we have a mayor that actually impress it embraces this. We need an interruption and we need to interrupt what is happening and how can we get back to the San Francisco values that we are all so proud of and we all love. When you come to San Francisco, you expect to see diversity. When you come to San Francisco, the selfproclaimed, most progressive city in the united states, you expect to see people of color thriving here and yet we are not seeing that. I would like to take a moment of appreciation to really think my legislative aide for doing this work. [cheers and applause] and also district five legislative aide. [applause] and from the Human Rights Commission thank you. This is the hard work of determined women that we will write this and we will write it good. Historic race discrimination has manifested as exclusionary and destructive policies like creating obstacles for chinese residents from owning businesses the racial segregation to neighborhoods, and the internment of japanese americans and the destruction of historically black neighborhoods in the name of urban rule. Now racial it is not disclosure neri policy, but rather in the inaction of government to address and protect these past harms done. It is more insidious, and more harder to address. We see now incredible Racial Disparities in so many areas of life but also let specific islanders we see these disparities showing up in employment, our schools, housing , and the Healthcare System and more. These disparities prevent people from color in our city from leading lives that are happy, healthy, and economically secure today, we are taking a stand in San Francisco to say we will not stand for systemic racism. This legislation is a critical step in acknowledging the history and the Current Conditions of communities of color and making strong and concrete commitments to address those conditions. Thank you, supervisor fewer. At this time, the coauthor of the legislation, supervisor vallie brown. [applause] thank you, mayor breed for your support and your kind words i want to thank supervisor fewer intimate director davis for your fierce advocacy and hard work on this, but i also really want to appreciate the people behind us. A lot of times we push them in front that have really got into the weeds to work on this. Might aid, thank you my aid, thank you. I know supervisor fewer already thank you, but i have to thank you, too. You have to have a doublethink here. District 18, chelsea, and then Human Rights Commission, i want to thank brittany, raise your hand, brittany. Thank you. Everybody wants to know who she is. And other than the other h. R. C. Stuff that worked really hard on this. They really went deep and really drafted some amazing legislation for us to move forward. I really want to thank all of you for joining us here today for this historic signing of this office of Racial Equity. This office where we will work we will build and work on the legacy of the Human Rights Commission, and it is a powerful tool to break down years and years of structural and institutional racism. Our work has just begun, though, but we cant do this alone, and thats why we are all here today we need the support of each of you to repair past harms and work towards a brighter future. Its all about time, its all about time. I am so proud to stand on this land that we are here on and organize on behalf of the board. When i think about the native American Community in this city, the highest population of women that are murdered are american indians. Think about that. When they say we are 1 , why . This is something that i know we will dive deep into because these are things that matter to our community, matter to the city, matter to the elected officials, and as the years when i was a legislative aide, we used to do policy, we used to do funding, thinking we were really going to help a community, but we didnt know if it would work or not. For me, this office of Racial Equity will work with the community and bring things to us this is isnt that what we want . Dont we want the community to bring the policy, bring the funding suggestions to us . They have to come from the community, not from us telling you what you need. I am just really proud to stand here today and be part of this. Lastly, i want to make an important distinction. Equality means treating everyone the same. Equity means ensuring everyone has what they need to be successful. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you supervisor brown. Now a few words from the director of the Human Rights Commission in San Francisco, cheryl davis. [cheers and applause] this is quite an emotional day for a lot of different reasons. I want to first recognize the commissioners that are here. They are here from the Human Rights Commission. This work, i was just telling someone, it is actually just the perfect storm in terms of how it came out. I remember when mayor breed was president of the board. We had a conversation with james bell from the Burns Institute in oakland about the needs of doing something around Racial Equity. She was committed then and we were really try to figure out what it is that we wanted to do. What did we need to do, how did we work to build allies to move this forward. When supervisor fewer came into office, one of the first thing she said to me is we need to do something around Racial Equity in the city and she specifically said, i want to know what we can do to do better by africanamericans and black people in San Francisco. That was unusual, right . This idea that somebody who wasnt black was interested in doing right by black people was new for me. And then supervisor brown, they developed an Equity Program with the office of economic and Workforce Development for africanamericans in the western addition, fillmore, to help them develop the way to have access to city help. Put money for them to get paid to tell us what to do. When we talk about being committed to the work, i really have a little tolerance for people who just like to talk and i would like to say these three women have been committed to the idea and notion of Racial Equity and getting to the people who have been most harmed by the disparities and putting their money and their mouth where the work needs to be done. [applause] and i say it is a perfect storm because when i look around and i think about Felicia Jones and dante and the folks who have been pushing on the inside to say that we need to make change, michelle and cheryl, the folks that have challenged us, but at the same time, i think about ruth and their work in the mission. And the work that is being done. This idea that we want to transform city hall is not about transforming the work that happens in this building, it is about understanding how the work that happens in this building impacts everybody outside. [applause] so they wont. I am so full right now because i know that there is not just the accountability and the demand to make this happening from happen from communities, but these three women, coupled with the men over here from the board of supervisors, they will make it happen. Nobody here is afraid to be told that it is being done wrong and that we need to redo it. If you want it to work right, you all need to make sure that we are held accountable. I am excited about what is to come and being held accountable and moving this thing forward, and as mayor breed said, bringing the change that we have been waiting for for 50, 60, 70, 100 years. Thank you for being here today. [applause] thank you. As i said to all of you before during the closed session deliberations, the Committee Recommended to put all of the agenda items to the board with the caveat that the item 15 would be sent to the board. Thank you, mr. Clerk, i would make a motion not to disclose. So moved. Any further business . There is no further business. We are adjourned. Thank you. [ ] hi. My name is carmen chiu, San Franciscos elected assessor. In our seven mile by seven mile city, we have over 210,000 properties and close to 90 of their are residential like the homes you and i live in, so you might ask, how can we possibly value all these properties . Well, to better understand our work, we need to explain the states proposition 13 law. In 1978, california voters passed proposition 13. Under prop 13, we value your property at market value when you first buy it. Every year after, that value goes up by the c. P. I. Or the California Consumer price index. But if the c. P. I. Is more than 2 , prop 13 caps the increase at 2 . Well walkthrough the maximum increases prop 13 would allow. Lets take a home with initial value of 400,000. In the second year your assessed value grows by a maximum of 2 , growing from 400,000 to 408,000. In year three, that 408,000 is increased by 2 to roughly 416,000. Every year, the value grows by the maximum rate of 2 , and that is called your prop 13 value. Keep in mind as time goes by your prop 13 value may not be the same as market rate. What do we mean by that . Lets say over the last ten years, home prices in San Francisco have gone every roughly 10 every year. Despite that, your prop 13 value is capped at 2 growth creating a difference between your market value and prop 13 value. Know that the value recessed when theres a change in ownership. A change in ownership means that the property has a new zoner. Maybe through a new owner. Maybe through a sale, a gift or adding or dropping names through title. At that time the home will be assessed a new market rate. That value becomes a new starting point for the property. Just like before, the Growth Continues to be limited at 2 until the next transfer happens. Remember, the new owners are responsible for paying taxes at the new level from the first day that they own it. Value might also be added when construction happens on your property. That would be another instance when growth in your value might exceed 2 . Here, we would add the value of construction on top of your existing prop 13 value. Every july, well let you know what your assessed value is by sending you a letter called a notice of assessed value. You can use that information to estimate your property taxes early. Please note that a separate office called the treasurer Tax Collectors office will send you a letter in october and theyre responsible 230r collections. For more information, visit our website,