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Thank you to everyone in the seh this amazing appointment. When a lot of my friends in they heard the news, they were absola very good sign. Very good. Thank you once again. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, ill address the pe here. On my advice, i told him not to. We are considering his contract. He was all in and willing to bes appropriate today. So one final thank you before wt this as people know, vicechairs with jeff making the announcemey received. Between the time when director , this agency was extremely ably e maguire. Here, here. Profess professional, was cae about his people and his missio. So tom, as i said to every groue and appreciation, thank you for. [applause] and with that, we have a motiono approve mr. Tumlins contract. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed . Good luck, jeff. Discussion as to whether inve and conduct a closed session . Moved second. All those in favor please sa. Aye. Any motion to not disclose . Second hold on. You are back in open session. The board met in closed discussa litigation, no action, it will t disclose the information. Motion to not disclose. Second. Aye. That concludes the business. Good morning, everyone. This is monday, november 18, meeting of the budget and finance committee. Im supervisor fewer. I am joined by supervisor mandelman, stefani, and peskin. I would like to thank sfgovtv for their assistance in broadcasting this meeting. Clerk please make sure to silence all cellphones. Complete speaker cards and provide any documents to be included in the file. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you call item 1. Clerk motion ordering submitted to the voters at an election to be held on march 3, 2020, an ordinance amending the business and tax regulations code and administrative code to impose an excise tax on persons keeping ground floor commercial space in certain neighborhood commercial districts and certain neighborhood commercial transit districts vacant, to Fund Assistance to Small Businesses; increasing the citys appropriations limit by the amount collected under the tax for four years from march 3, 2020. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, chair fewer, and members of the committee. I would like to thank you for convening two special budget and finance committees this week. Of course we are getting used to the changed elections cycle. We normally have elections in june, but because of changes in state law this will be the firm time we have an election at this time. I want to if you for your constructive suggestions at last weeks meeting in regard to this tax. Today i am proposing an amendment that i think addresses the concerns that supervisors fewer and stefani raised at last weeks meeting, which is to address what happens when a Small Business goes out of business, but still has more time on their lease. While i think theres a fair argument to make that a lease in that scenario would become void or that the proprietor would be filing for bankruptcy or walking away from the lease, i fully agree that this tax should not be assessed against a lessee that goes out of business. An amendment im proposing is at 290 d lines 8 to 12 that says if a business has been open for eight months, a legitimate lessee, and goes out of business with more time on their lease, they should not be liable for the tax on the remainder of the lease. I also want to thank ms ms. Dikintreesee and the office for Small Business for the revised memorandum that they sent this morning that addresses the amendments that we made last week and contemplates this amendment as well. Finally, i would like to apologize in advance for the fact that i will not be here on thursday, but thank you all for being willing to convene not only a special budget meeting, but a special Board Meeting in order to consider the possibility of putting this before the voters of San Francisco in march of next year. With that, im available to answer any questions. Any questions or comments . Seeing none, well open this up for Public Comment. You have two minutes. Please come forward. My name is mark borsak. Im a retail Leasing Broker and a Real Property attorney. I reside in supervisor stefanis district, and our property is on justin just across from the apple store. Retail leasing is a troubled business. Earlier this year our tenant filed for bankruptcy and vacated the premises. We have a highly experienced broker handling this space, and since april we received inquiries but only a few leasing proposals. In sum, were not even close to making a deal with a digital native food provider or traditional food provider after almost eight months. The internets introduction sealed the fate for many retailers. In the late 1990s i predicted that the shift to Online Shopping would undermine locationbased retailing. After the great recession, people increasingly shopped online shifting more sales from the store. Dr. Eagons report notes a falling demand for physical space. Particularly vulnerable are shopping street, merchants unable to offer customers convenience, goods, services or unique services. Amazons new nextday Service Offers yet another reason to avoid the store. In a recent study, i described the ongoing mayhem and its ongoing impact on many retailers and Property Owners. In San Francisco, store front vacancies result from formula impact. Iatrogenesis describes the unforeseen harm caused by the dealers practice. In this case, even more unstricted vacancies. In effect, the 2004 law are poisoning [ indiscernible ]. Thank you very much, sir. Your time is up. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. I am with the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I spoke at the last hearing also, and i just want to say again were really pleased that this legislation has been amended to try to ensure that the reason behind this legislation, which is to capture and discourage the bad actors who are intentionally holding their properties off the market, that by doing that were not inadvertently harming all of the good actors who are trying to fill their retail spaces as quickly as possible. I feel like the amendments are getting us there. This amendment is also very helpful. I still have some concerns that we are going to end up punishing people who are not able to fill their spaces due to no fault of their own, but i think that were moving this in the right direction. I heard at the last hearing that the supervisor may be open to some trailing legislation, if should this pass we would be open to working with you on that. We do appreciate that this is moving in the right direction. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors morning, rather. Cory smith on behalf of the San Francisco Housing Action coalition. Some of our members are obviously trying to lease up ground floor space. In my conversations with them about this, one of the ideas they brought up was continuing to find ways to incentivize ground floor uses that were all in support of and that we want to have. One of the ideas that had come up previously piece of legislation was to create ground floor child care units, where they would be able to live on the ground floor of a building and operate a child care facility out of there. We also are trying to get people into productive uses on a ground floor. If its a piece of trailing legislation with be we want to do what we can to encourage some proactive amendments in order to try to get as many folks into those uses as possible. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im ron mcgel. Since 1938 our family has owned two buildings with ground floor Retail Businesses over 80 years. In spite of that, Property Owners and n. C. D. S were never notified of this legislation. We have been fortunate that neither of these spaces have ever been vacant. However, ive been obligated to drastically reduce the rent on one of them and defer any increase on the other, despite rising costs. Were only one of a multitude of small Property Owners that work with their tenants at a time when the entire Retail Business concept is drastically changing. You see it with major businesses in the union square area, as well as our n. C. D. S. Our retail is undergoing farreaching transformation. This legislation attempts to put a bandaid on a crisis and fails to acknowledge our current and particularly future retail reality. The action is a slap in the face, a stick without a carrot. Other approaches might be to allow small office space, incubation space, p. D. R. , or others which are now prohibited by code in n. C. D. S. The problem of serving on the Planning Commission was the pages and pages of detail regarding n. C. D. S that vary greatly from one to the other. Sometimes us in San Francisco try to seek control over minu a minutia. Please look to the future. Dont attempt to duplicate the past. Its not going to happen. Seeing no other speakers oh. I used to engage in Foundation Research at the Foundation Center in the World Affairs Council Building on behalf of the local nonprofit. I would predict that the proposed ordinance amendment would have the effect of increasing the volume of Small Businesses along select commercial corridors filing for bankruptcy when they are defunct. I believe that it is reasonable to predict an upsurge in bankruptcy filings if the proposed ordinance amendment were to go into effect. Also, it might concretize existing vacancies while imposing holding costs. So i hope that you are prepared to offer evidence to support the assertion that the imposition of an excise tax across a narrow band of the commercial segment will improve the opportunity as well as the deposited outcome of restaurants, the Food Industry in general, or any other businesses. By evidence, i am referral to specifically but not exclusively, to a dataset of statistical evidence, a probability study, empirical analysis based basically anything of merit to ensure restaurateurs and commercial proprietors that the imposition of the proposed excise tax is not based solely on vague hypotheses, kneejerk reaction, or an invalid sampling of those few select storefronts. Yeah, ill just stop this. Thank you very much. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor peskin, any comments at all . Yeah, i would like to make a few comments. Number one, we can and we actually are, as supervisors, legislating carrots. Whether it is the fee relief package that i spoke to last week at the board of supervisors in certain areas, changes to zoning. In north beach we extended the abandonment period. In other areas, people have embraced more flexible zoning, but only the voters can actually vote for the stick. As i said last week in committee, this is a tax that is absolutely avoidable and that we dont want to collect. It is an incentive for certain Property Owners who have not been the best actors to get it together. Actually, what mr. Mcgel said was really important, which is that he has managed, despite pressures from internet commerce to keep his n. C. D. Ground floor commercial spaces occupied and admitted that is unfortunate but other people need to learn, which is in some cases there is going to have to be a reduction in rent if youre going to fill those spaces. So that was actually i understand that while he might not like the proposal, is precisely what this legislation is aimed for other people who have not behaved as rationally and appropriately as the speaker to emulate. So i commend it to you and appreciate you holding not one but two special meetings to consider this legislation. I do finally in closing want to reiterate what ms. Freed said from the treasurers tax collectors office, which is should we put this on the ballot and should the voters approve it, it will not go into effect until january 2021 and the Treasurers Office is committed to doing a large outreach. This only applies to the spines of our most important commercial corridors, be it supervisor stefanis union and Chestnut Street corridors, my polk and columbus avenue corridors, clement street corridor, irving, terradale, some of the n. C. D. S in supervisor mandelmans corridor, but these only affect the vibrant or what should be vibrant commercial corridors in the city and county of San Francisco. I commend the legislation to you, colleagues. Thank you very much. Any comments or questions from my colleagues . I also want to say that i think this amendment actually addresses the issues that supervisor stefani and i had last week in the questioning about whether or not who would be liable in case a business goes under, is it the tenant who is whose business has failed or the land or property owner. I also want to say, yes, i would love to see those spaces being utilized for nonprofits and child care, but they cant afford the 20,000 a month rent. It just is what it is. In my neighborhood, i have nonprofits looking for space and dying for space, but at 20,000 a month, they just cant do it. I hope the legislation will bring the prices down and be an incentive for people to keep their tenants there that have been paying for 30 years. That theyre not going to be slapped with a rent increase of four times the monthly rent so they can stay in the neighborhood and continue to be a business in our neighborhood for another 30 or 40 years. I am hoping that this is what this will do. I want to echo what supervisor peskin said, people who have been paying attention know that we have actually legislated many carrots and sticks. I think the mayor is also offering one to help Small Businesses get into these storefronts too. Today before us we have a simple amendment that i think we shall approve, and we will continue this until thursday. I make a motion to approve these amendments and to continue this item to the meeting on thursday, which is the 21st of november. Can i take that without objection . Thank you, colleagues. Madam clerk, can you call item number 2. Clerk resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 84,840,000, in one or more series or subseries, for the purpose of providing financing for the acquisition and rehabilitation of a 202unit multifamily rental Housing Project known as eastern park apartments; we have a little change in the presentation. In each hand from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, item 2 before you is related to the citys proposed bond issuance for 711 eddie street. The proposed issuance is conduit financing. The project is existing 202unit Affordable Housing that is sponsored by the Northern California prebs tooern homes. The project would entail rehabilitation of the residential units, common space, and some of the buildingwide systems. The project serves households between up to 50 to 60 of the area median income. Existing tenants will be temporary relocated and not replaced as a result of the rehab. In terms of the schedule, we will the project expects to be starting construction in early 2020. So we are asking the committee to recommend approval of the issuance. Im available to answer any other questions. Thank you. There is no b. L. A. Report on this . Seeing no Public Comments, this is closed. Clerk would you like to send this item for a report . Yes, i think thats necessary. We can take that without objection. Madam clerk, can you please read item number 3. Clerk resolution authorizing the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount scbrooipt resolution; and related matters, as defined herein. Resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 80,000,000; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee cdlac to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 80,000,000 for 2340 san jose avenue; this would secure an allocation of bonds as well to approve the d. D. A. Status. Were requesting that this item be recommended as a Committee Report to go to the full board tomorrow to meet the deadline of december 11. Not meeting this decline for this project would cost the city 11 in subsidy. The proposed bond issuance would be financing and will not require the city to replenish its funds to retrieve the funds. This will be a Housing Development and will include commercial space and a community clinic. 72 of the units will be affordable to households earning no more than 62 of local median income. Please note that this is the equivalent of 80 of tax credit a. M. I. No residents will be displaced because its currently undeveloped. Financing will close in 2020, with construction complete by august 2022. We will return to the board for the issuance approvals. I also have representatives from the project sponsor Bridge Housing to answer any questions. Thank you for your support. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Lets open it up for Public Comment. I would like to move this to the full board. We take that without objection. Thank you very much. Madam clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded scbrooipt to exceed 80,000,000; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee we ask you to approval an allocation of bonds as well as to preserve the projects d. D. A. Status. Were requesting this item to be recommended for the full board tomorrow to meet the application deadline of december 11, which if we were to miss it would cost the city 10 million in subsidies. Thank you for this. The proposed funds will be bo bonds. This will be a new Affordable Housing development located next to balboa park station. 67 of the units will be affordable for less than 50 of San Francisco a. M. I. With a balance of the units affordable to less a. M. I. No residents will be displaced. Its currently a vacant lot. 39 units will be set aside for voluntary relocates. The project also includes an Early Childhood education center, ground floor retail, and a Family Wellness Community Resource center. Financing should close by december 2020, a construction complete by october 2020. Again, well return to the board for the bond issuance approvals next year. I have representatives from the project sponsor here to answer any questions you may have. Thank you very much. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Any members of the public like to comment on item number 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Clerk subject to the terms of this resolution; and related matters, as defined herein. Resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 80,000,000; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee cdlac to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 80,000,000 for 2340 san jose avenue; this would lose about the 10 million if it would not make it down the line in december. Thank you to the committee for helping us expedite this as a Committee Report. The project is a new construction project of 130 units of Affordable Housing that is developed by the Mission Economic agency and the tenderloin development corporation. This has a large range of units for families. They serve households from below to above the a. M. I. The financing is anticipated to close between june 2020 and july 2020, with construction starting within 180 days. The project sponsor is here. Any members of the public like to comment on item 5. Seeing none, it is closed. I would like to make a motion to move this to the full board. Clerk resolution declaring the intent of the city and county of San Francisco city to reimburse certain expenditures from proceeds of future bonded indebtedness in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 20,655,000; authorizing the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development director to submit an application and related documents to the California Debt Limit Allocation Committee cdlac to permit the issuance of Residential Mortgage Revenue Bonds in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 20,655,000 for 190 coleridge street this would preserve the projects c. D. A. Status and losing the d. D. A. Status would cost the city 1 million. This proposed bond issuance is condo financing. Its an existing Affordable Housing property located in bernal heights, sponsored by the Neighborhood Center as well as bridge financing. The units will be reserved for households earning 60 to 80 a. M. I. There will be no displacement. Residents can return after any temporary relocation. The rehab scope includes significant work, including replacing windows and the roof, modernizing the elevator, waterproofing, significant exterior work. Financing should close by november of 2020, and construction will be complete by 21. I have project sponsors here as well to answer any questions. Thank you very much. There is no b. L. A. Report on this. Are any members of the public wanting to comment on item number 6 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Any comments or questions of my colleagues, seeing none, i would like to move this to the full board. We can take that without objection. Madam clerk, do we have any other business for today . Clerk there is no business. We are adjourned. Thank you. [ ] [ ] good morning. This is wednesday, november 20, 2019 meeting of the budget finance committee. I am chair fewer. I would like to make a motion to excuse supervisor. Four from this meeting paid if i can take that without objection madame clark, do you have any announcements for us today . Make sure to silence all cell phones. [inaudible] can you please call item number one. Item one, 191033. Ordinance amending the administrative code to create an office of emerging technology within the department of public works; amending the public works code to require a permit to obstruct the public rightofway within public works jurisdiction; amending the administrative code to codify the public works Directors Authority to take official actions, as defined herein, including adopting regulations for the pilot operation of emerging Technology Devices; amending the public works code and police code to provide for administrative, civil, and criminal penalties for unlawful obstruction of the public rightofway, including operation of emerging Technology Devices without a required permit; and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. We have with us today president yee. I am actually excited to have this legislation to be heard in committee today. This is the culmination of nearly two years of work expanding over several pieces of legislation. The technology and trends are changing the way we work, communicate and live today. I will argue that we are in and industrial revolution. One which were the speed, scope and pervasiveness of technological advances are unprecedented. Industrial revolutions of the past came with many benefits. Including increased job opportunities. Increased production levels. Inspired innovation allowing for faster communication and reducing the influence. However, before regulations of these benefits that took place, there were a lot of unintended consequences that had profound negative impacts on the public including the use of child labor, unsafe working conditions, unregulated hours with no minimum pay and the list goes on. This was the past. This is because the pace and impact of technological changes is ever increasing while the speed of government is considering adopting regulatory legislation did not keep pace at the time. Today there are softwares and businesses and tech work philosophies that adopt to these environments. They allow the reassessment of plans because that is what is required in order to be successful. Our city can no longer function with blinders meant to protect justifications rather than cross functionality. Things like share rides such as uber and lyft are super examples of companies that remain unregulated and became powerful enough to refuse to cooperate with the city and now only do so when they are forced to. This is what has happened in San Francisco. Today with the office of emerging technology the unintended negative consequences stop. Early in 2018 when they tried to ban delivery robots it was seen as anti tech or solving for something that was not a problem. A few weeks later after my attempt to regulate the robots, there were hundreds of scooters out there that were dumped on our sidewalks. And suddenly everyone understood what i was talking about. This city and our residents demanded action in order to control what was taking place on our streets. City and states are fighting and working to pass legislation requiring companies to identify their workforce as employees in order to be compensated. Data breaches are common with role companies pirating personal information for financial gains. In hong kong we were seeing Technology Surveillance used against protesters and in China Technology based social Credit Systems are being rolled out by be roared or punishing people according to their scores. Surveillance is being used to track individuals and some places protests in ways that were unimaginable just a few years ago. To address this by being reactive and legislating after the technology our devices already launched is not Good Governance nor sustainable. To address this, we need to be as innovative in our policies as emerging tech is in adapting and launching products. San francisco will be the first in the nation, i believe may be the first in the world that will create a Regulatory Framework i will establish an office of emerging technology. It will allow the city, and the public to effectively evaluate emerging technologies before it operates in our Public Infrastructure or our public space. I support innovation and technology. But, our residents are not guinea pigs and our Public Infrastructure are not a freeforall for unregulated spaces. San francisco welcomes and encourages emerging technologies and the office will ensure that the technologies provide common good measure and identifiable ways and that they are safe and appropriate. Emerging technologies are new and potentially useful. They work better or have unique applications when they do not arrive without a need for accommodation. Many emerging technologies impact the public. They utilize our Public Infrastructure or write a wave. Our airspace or our data. I want to be clear that the objective is not to control these technologies but to balance the Public Service of innovation with the public good and safety. This is why i am proud we had a robust, thorough and collaborative process through my emergency technology. City administrative kelly will present more details. It is worth noting over 200 people and organizations participated including small startups, well established tech firms, advocates, labor and merchant and neighborhood associations. Multiple departments and academics. The recommendations from the report then formed this legislation for the office of emerging technology was born from that effort. The office of emerging technology is uncharted territory that we now have a realistic framework and i am confident in the process that has brought us here. As a reminder of most examples of emerging technologies today our mobility focus. The office will be inclusive beyond mobility tech to anywhere there is a nexus between an unregulated technology and Public Infrastructure and public space. Whether this is hover boards on the water facing public collection. Biometrics on the public rightofway. Anywhere there would be an impact to resources. The office of emerging technology is charged to analyze potential impact. For the first time emerging tech will have a clear streamlined process for approval. It is imperative that departments move away from working in silos and collaborate with the office of emerging technology. The office of emerging technology will be the front door in the Central Point of contact because it is our responsibility as a city to evaluate benefits costs and risks to our residents safety. Their privacy impacts seniors, children and label. Before a new technology is allowed and be launched in public. The Office Creates a streamlined process supporting innovation by facilitating approvals from all departments that are impacted by emerging technology. Not currently regulated. The office will also be charged with forecasting variation so that our city can be proactive with what may be coming down the pipeline. I will just stop at that. I want to say sometimes when we look at regulations. One of the things i found in the past is that we create regulations then lo and behold, whos going to enforce these regulations. It could be our Police Department it could be our department of public works and yet we are paying a city for enforcing these regulations and something seems to be wrong when new technology is costing the city more. I think that needs to be part of the analysis to analyze what the cost of the permits should be. For the committee, you know, i would like to have city administrator, kelly, share more details and background. I want to recognize the director of the committee of Informational Technology and also who oversaw the emerging Technology Workgroup is here as well. They are here to answer any questions if you have them. Good morning. Naomi kelly, city administrator. Thank you for having me today to talk about the office of emerging technology. As you heard, this process got kick started in earnest on aprif supervisors passed a resolution asking the City Administrators Office to convene a working group to focus on San Franciscos response and emerging technologies. The resolution enacted 12 principles for regulation emerging technologies. You can see these principles on the slide here. The creation of the open working group was instrumental in order to engage the many players in the space. As you heard president yi talk about the tech companies. And government agencies. The working group also informs recommendations on our regulatory and permitting processes. It provides a foundation of framework on how it could also become, how are permitting and regulations process could be nimble and also protecting our infrastructure in residence. Also the working group resulted in final recommendations to myself, the board of supervisors and the mayor. The working group had a five official meetings. Let me tell you that doesnt really capture how much work went into this process. There were 478 rsvps to these different meetings. 200 active participants and when i say not just official meetings, there are many subcommittee meetings. With many Different Community groups and from labor industry, the disability industry. The tech, pedestrian advocacy groups. Representatives from the private sector, local government and nonprofits. They focused on the following areas. Collaborate and partnership, to have agile permitting unaccountability. To have Community Engagement and city priorities. To have equitable benefits. You accessibility and safety to have, and i dont have the others, thank you. Accessibility and safety, and forecasting. What is going to happen in the future so we are not caught left footed. At the end of the process the working Group Published a final report from the emerging Technology Open working group. With five final recommendations to ultimately help the process of drafting the office of emerging technology ordinance. The first thing that everyone recommended was created front door to provide a Central Point of contact. The second thing was to improve communications with the community by informing Technology Companies of best practices to engage local residents and businesses. Third was to do safety tests and evaluations of new technologies with clear evaluation criteria. Fourth was the support of responsive policy development in areas such as equity, sociability, privacy and data ethics. And finally, foster smart forecasting through expert collaboration. At the end we decided to have the front door, to be the office of emerging technology, be in the department of public works. It was for good reasons. I would say three very important reasons, because we can hit the ground running. The department of public works and their project Management Department already has an existing permitting system. We are not creating the ball from scratch. They already collaborate with many of the different city agencies and the different permitting agencies. They have regular collaborations. To his example of the robot, that robot wasnt just in the streets but it was on the sidewalks. It was delivering medicine, or food. You need a permit from public health. You need a permit from public works. And you need to make sure that you are not blocking access to those that are disabled or those who walk slower. They already have the existing collaboration with the multiple city departments and also public works has existing relationships with community advocates, and community nonprofits. They are not creating these lists from scratch. Before i invite deborah up to talk about public works and how they plan to roll out the office i just want to say thank you to matthias from hoyt to take the bull by the horns and facilitating the working group, deborah from public works use and mapping. Good morning. I want to say thank you to city administrators,. What do we mean by emerging technologies . How do we define it . Emerging Technology Means one or more physical objects that are mobile or stationary that constitute or incorporate new electronics, mobile technologies, applications of technology which are proposed to use a pond, above or below City Property within the public rightofway. This includes beta tests, or pre products, software, failing to have written analysis meant to be met by any regulatory body of the united states, the state of california or the city. [reading notes] generally this is something that is in the testing phase. It is not consumable at market and does not have a permitting structure or process in existence. A question we spent a lot of time discussing and working through his what fits into the emerging technology . This discussion led us to anything that does not have a defining permanent structure. This allows for a testing environment and with consideration for equity accessibility, privacy, sustainable use of data among all of the other city requirements that need to be considered throughout a process like this. What does the process look like . This graphic is a representative of the permitting and engagement process. It all begins with an idea. An idea for a new or repurposed meant of a technology with ability to impact the public rightofway. The ideas brought to the front door so potential applicants can engage with the city early. During the application process the office would facilitate and support the applicant answering questions, providing guidance and setting expectations. During the application review and analysis timeframe the office would facilitate engagement with all impacted city departments which may vary depending on the technology. Would coordinate the interagency