Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Land Use Committee 20240712

Shelter, education and healthcare. Please invest in these resources by keeping us all safe and invest in the community. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im born and raised in the city. Calling in on behalf of my community. Im calling on behalf of the lives lost by sfpd. One of the things that need to change about the Police Department, i will echo the same thoughts about reduce running the Police Budget. We need higher budget cuts. Next speaker please. I live in district 4. Im calling to ask defund and disband sfpd and the Sheriffs Department. We need to cut the Police Department by at least 50 . We need a budget that fires sheriffs deputies and cut overtime. You take that money to invest in the community, police dont keep us safe. That was made apparent again. We need to make drastic changes nationwide and San Francisco can lead the way. Communities are those with better acts with housing and healthcare and education. Invest in people and communities, not cops. Thank you. Next speaker please. Im calling on behalf of my family of districts 7. Please adjust the budget and reallocate police and sheriff money to public housing. You are funding the next death by the police and sheriff. Think about that. People are real lives to lead who died at the hands of police and youre continuing to fund them. They are murders. The board and the mayor have said about care being black lives movement, but refuse to change anything. We see your hypocrisy. Next spheric please. I want to say to the clark and board, this is First Amendment zone for Public Comment. Dont tell us not to swear. Im calling to demand you defund, disarm and sfpd and sheriff. Fire the police, fire the sheriff, fire them all this year. One, i have homeless encampments that live outside my house. Sfpd came to put homeless lives in danger. This board passed and done nothing to improve the settlement. We keep spending money on the Police Department and move Homeless People around. Do better and do your job. Next speaker please. Hello, my name is catherine. Im resident of district 5. I lived in San Francisco for 10 years. Im calling like so many other people to urge the board of supervisors to read the mayors budget and make deeper cuts to defund and disband sfpd. I want to thank all my neighbors who have called in tonight and all these weeks as we try to get our elected officials to listen to us. Supervisors, i i want to say that im incredibly saddened and disheartened to see that despite the pronouncement that the mayor has made to watch you guys bend over backwards to preserve as much as sfpds budget. Please listen. We will vote you out. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Good evening supervisors. Thank you so much. Im a policy director. Im [indiscernible] 80 of homeless families in San Francisco are families of color. Most of them are single mom. They are sitting in cars during the pandemic. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Thank you supervisor. My name is catherine walter. I live San Francisco and im a epidemiologist. We ask you defund the Sheriffs Department now. We heard you say black lives matter, please dont vote for a budget and put black people in harms way. Take that money and invest it where the constituent nee ci. Reparations for the black community. We urge the supervisors to stop privatizing that cost jobs. Please clearly dont police dont clearly dont keep us safe. We urge supervisors to invest in people an communities. Healthcare and housing for this pandemic hit. Now this pandemic is going on, san franciscans has even more needs that are unmet by the city. The city has an opportunity now to direct the money it has towards the critical need of healthcare, education and reparations. Supervisors we urge you to do it right thing and defund, disarm and disband sfpd. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hi. Im a resident from district 5. Im calling to urge you defund sfpd and Sheriffs Department this year. Reinvest in Community Resources that will keep us safe. Weve heard hours of comments telling you Community Resources that San Francisco rely on. We should be funding those instead. Eliminate police and schools and housing. The Community Engagement communities, traffic and airport unit, personal training increases and any other raises that are apparently set for sfpd. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello, im an attorney. And San Francisco resident. I want to thank the committee for showing up for us in face of global pandemic. You sit uniquely but the Racial Disparity in community in color are affected by Public Health crises. Its appalling. Without too much detail, i have unique perspective of my role. I can attest for the dire need to support multiple housing. Things have changed since the 1980s. Last week i supported a teenager who was kicked out their home by their family. San francisco hopes to maintain that legacy. Trans people of color gets assaulted in the streets, in their home and by the government. These funs are essential. I want to say to think about the cost of covid19. According to a report that i just heard, clearly an hour ago, this is exactly whats happening. Covid19 has noticed the effect that hiv epidemiology. Hiv testing has decreased by 90 . Million dollars in housing subsidies for People Living with hiv will have direct improvement on the hiv death rate. San francisco cannot can control the hiv pandemic or address the Public Health crises. Thank you all. Thank you. Next speaker please. Next speaker please. Hello supervisor, my name is laura. I live in district 11. Lets take a deep breath together and just take inhale through your nose, and exhale, really slow through your nose. Whatever. Wait up. Each member of the sf board of supervisors, ask yourself, why are you in the position you are in. You seek political power you want to help people or selfserving in your pursuit. This is your chance to listen. So we can lead the way and not defund but abolishing the police and abolishing poverty. If we can defund community and schools we can Defund Police officers. If you are strapped with cash [indiscernible]. Public land should remain in public hand. I yield my time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hello, illyria i live and wos district 6. It makes so since all the city talk about black lives matter, weve not taken the most basic steps of defunding the Police Department and Sheriffs Department. Last year, black people made up only 5 of the population but they accounted for 40 of police searches and half of the jail population. Even after weve had decades of reforms that were actually for the benefit of cop getting more money. We need to reinvest that money to reparations to black and brown communities. Thank you. Next speaker please. Hello, good evening supervisors. I am someone with social capital and privilege at this point in my life. As a teenager, i was brown kid on the street corner. That experience, lived through at least half dozen violent incidents on behalf of sfpd against me and other people mostly young men of color in front of me. I know the experience of people being beaten by sfpd. Then being told when i try to complain to a public defender, i better worry about the charges and not worry about trying to press charges on the sfpd. All that to say, im in total support of cuts to sfpd. Because this an evidencebased approach. Increasing safety in San Francisco. We know from data and research that investment in employment, social services and elsewhere will get us to safety much more than increase investment in sfpd. I love to see at least 125 million in cuts to sfpd and the Sheriffs Department. I want to see all that money go to support the wellness of San Franciscos africanamerican community. I would like to see preservation of funding your time as expired. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker please. Hi, eelier i i live in distr. Im urging you to tonight to put the money where your mouth is. You can invest in resources to that keep us all safe including housing, healthcare, education and so much more. Please dont make excuses. Make it happen. Weve been over the facts, scale of policing has not shown any correlation or impact to crime. A study from the institute, less than 5 arrests lead to violence. Funding of police is only help to perpetuate criminalization of poverty. Even after so called reform, 76 in q4 last year were against people of color. Sfpd officers still point their guns at people, 2. 4 times a day and other use of force categories decrease less than 3 from 2016. Any money spent on policing will be better spent on programs. I urge you to reject the budget that was passed by mayor breed and redistribute the money to much needed social services in San Francisco. Thank you for your time. Next speaker please. Hi. I agree with supervisor mandelman comments last week about what happens when the Planning Department has plans and we should not allow bunts that allows bad cops to serve in the sfpd. As a Longtime Mission resident and the mother of a black son who is a victim of Police Brutality in 2015, i can attest to the trauma and harm. One cop involved, he should have been involved about he put together 30page bad come case study report. This is present to a joint board of supervisors Police Commission meeting november 15, 2015. All supervisors and all Police Commissioners were given multiple copies of the report. The d. P. A. Stated montoya was on the radar. Nothing was ever done. The city settled two more losses on his behalf, beside my son. Line item of the settlement amount, the city paid enormous costs for rogue policing such as the investigations and the Legal Defense by the city attorney. The uprising and trauma around killing of george floyd, brought us back together to create a petition to highlight and demand the city to fire him. We gathered approximately 10,000 signatures. The d. P. A. And the e. Punishment f. Hai. F. Hasnot protected citi. Next speaker please. Hi. Im calling in to ask you to reject mayors Budget Proposal as more need to be done to help things such as covid relief, housing relief, education, homelessness, and more. These departments are being cut more than the police bun budget. I became aware of the city charter. We will be voting on to end and no longer be tied by this. By voting yes on prop e. One thing im sure is that theres probably more ram in the budget. More money to be invested in the police to be use to fund some of the departments i mentioned above. It will help the Community Drive versus punishing it. As i hear people on this call to ask for your help to funding essential workers, i hope you will take action so San Francisco can be an example for the rest of the country. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. Next speaker please. Hello. I rent in d10. I like to thank all the incredible people calling in to explaining their personal story and saying reform does not work when it comes to policing. 2. 6 is a slap in the face. [indiscernible] next speaker. Hi, im a social work student, d5. I thought i called 5. 5 hours listening to organizers, teachers and ask for basic funding for their program. They are worried about austerity and extremely difficult time. Theres a source of funding for all of these important programs that serves san franciscans. They are run by caring compassionate san franciscans. Our budget shows our values. We should be investing this things that increase Public Safety and create a equitable city. Child care, healthcare, Mental Health, housing and reparations for black san franciscans. Sfpd and the Sheriffs Department do not keep us safe. They are primarily served to traumatize san francisc san s and eat up the budget. We hear you say black lives matter, we do Community Actions with police. Fire sfpd officers. Theres lots of bad ones. Fire sheriffs deputies. Invest in resources that keep us all safe. All eyes are on you. Be on the right side of history. Do your job and represent us. Thank you very much for your comments. Next speaker. Is there a caller on the line . My name is anthony. We dont receive city funding. I empathize with the nonprofit worker. I wonder if people know how to feels to hear people fighting to avoid layoffs and Police Officer and sheriffs deputies while nonprofit workers from facing layoffs for themselves. It brings to my mind, operators, in which when the [indiscernible] laying off officers and reducing them is a reduction at the hands of police. [indiscernible] this is your guest clerk for the committee. We like to request just a brief break so we can refresh our system to make sure everything is up to shape while we push our way back to the Public Comment queue. Lets take a 15 minute break. It is about 8 35 now. Well reconvene at 8 50. Thank you very much. Thanks to the listeners and folks on the line. We welcome back. Thank you. [break] we will begin again with Public Comment. Please connect us to the next caller. Is there a caller on the line . I live in district five. Im exhausted. Im exhausted trying to get the attention of our own elected officials. San franciscans have shown up to make it clear that we want Public Safety for all. We care about black, trans folks need to change now. Lives depend on it. We made it more than clear that this budget is far from good enough. You know about the specifics. You know about the way sheriffs perpetuate of poverty rate. Implore to listen to the community that voted for you and keep us safe and represent what we want. We will vote again. You have an Incredible Opportunity to be a leader right now. This current budget does not make you a leader. It shows weakness and work priority that do not respond to city values. Where is the Public Safety for all . We hear the voice of support from some of you, we do not see the number. Its time to fire cops and sheriffs deputy. This cannot wait until next year. You still have time to do whats right with this years budget. You have all the people on this call who will back you up. So please pass the budget that fires cops and sheriffs and give us safer streets. I yield my time. Thank you very much for your comments. Next caller please. My name is lindsey. I deliver in district 5. Im calling to defund sfpd. I was so excited when mayor breed, couple of months ago, wanted to stop police from responding to noncriminal activity. Im not sure what happened with that and how that is no in the this budget for 2021. That involve creating new jobs that will have more people out in the streets. Where does this go . What happened . If you care about this. Do it. It takes work. I expected better you said you would do better, youre not doing better. Reject this budget and please defund the sfpd. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. Next speaker. Hello everyone. My name is karina. I live in district 3. When will this stop . Look at your own bloody history. Were in the mil middle of a pandemic and wildfires now were asking for more funding to department that kills people. It is ridiculous as people in pay taxes and people left of you, we have to spend weeks and months protesting and emailing to be heard. Im a white woman and im a immigrant. When i was 17 after moving to country, i trespass school party, not knowing what to do when the police came. I ran. I was thrown to the ground and as i was handcuffed to a chair, bleeding and crying, the officers threaten to deport me. It traumatized me. Looking back i know if i was a black teenager i know i will be shot. If you do nothing the souls that we lost will be on your hands. Think about the world you want to leave for your children. Think about your black colleagues and friend. I urge you to step up and do what is right. Until theres justice for the black community, there cannot be justice for all. I urge you to defund the sfpd and Sheriffs Department. Fire sfpd officers fire sheriffs deputies and invest in resources that actually keep us all safe like housing, healthcare and reparations. Black lives matter. Next speaker please. Good evening supervisors. Thank you so much for your patience today. [please stand by] the time has concluded. Thank you very much for your comments. Caller good evening, my name is dr. Monique and theres one caller after me. Question to commissioners, mr. Secretary, thank you for all your work with these extra long days. Im a proud 25 year resident of San Francisco district five and executive director of the coalition for health and wellness and im from San Francisco black wall street. Ive been on this call for nine hours and 22 minutes. I feel that once again black voice have been bamboozled and silenced. We were never told we could have video or group calls. We have sacrificed too much for this city being foundation to its creation and maintenance. Were not marginal and should not be treated with more respect. I was qualified at ocd that they never listen to us meaning black Led Organizations beau they didnt have to. We hadnt been vocal or organized enough because there are these systems of systemic racism that keep us distracted and wounded and upset like today with the change in the rules. Also the murder of two black men by the police over the weekend. It impacts our psyche and our health. As black citizens we implore you to respect black voice and leadership. We can and will advocate for selves without talking over us. Its your job to listen and not push a personal agenda. Stay out of our pockets and supervisor walton alone. We want the 20 million. We reject any budget that recases or takes away from this allocation and ask to maintain these funds. Its not sole about the san sod for their antiblack miss and harm to black Led Organization and the black neighborhoods and black families. You said you have another speaker you were going to pass the phone to. Yes. Here is the other person, hold on. I implore you, please. Defund the Police Department with 120 million that was identified by mayor breed to go directly to black communities and not unfunded city wide mandated initiatives. We will take any budget that reduces or even takes away from this allocation. In addition, please, i implore you to make sure that transitional Housing Available to young people so they have opportunities of housing and unlike some of us who are unhoused at this point. Lastly, if we could look at the hope site where theres department and homes not yet filled we can begin reparations in those spaces for the black community. And create how home opioid ownep for black communities and as we have some preferences based on blacks. We dont have language but we definitely know we have some unculturated situations. Thank you. Next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is shanty and im a district 3 resident. I got involved in San Francisco politics six years because they rejected a symbolic resolution endorsing barack obama milk guidelines. They rejected that. I have spent my 20s working to elect several members of this site. I feel like im coming full circle. This Budget Proposal and anyone who supports it and saying one thing. Were fine with punishing teachers, nurses, janitors, along workers, community organizers, transit drivers who are dis purport disproportionat. Is this committee fine with cutting their resources and sending them packing in the middle of a pandemic as long as we make sure not a single cop experiences a single reduction in their employment. Based on one supervisor, this committee is only talking about how the cuts dis purchase position atly impact employees of color and one is about cost but not anyone else. Multiple groups who have spoken have put sensible proposals forward to cut ver is and the environment that were in. If you do not heed all the people who are talking to you, especially the City Employees, in this world historical moment of use tu austerity you are makg faith with across the marginalized people of the city. You are breaking faith of working class people, people like me who picked up a phone, or knocked on a door because they believed in you when you said you wanted real change. I urge you to consider that. Thank you. Thank you for comments. Could we be connected to the next caller, please. I work in district 6. And i am calling today because i think that its rather interesting that its perfectly all right for every department other than the Police Department, have to deal with the fact that well, times are hard and you know, things are theres a pandemic on and the city doesnt have Unlimited Money and they need to suffer from the oppress of the Police Department. The Police Department gets a raise in its budget even though the percentages are reduced. I think that the question that ends up being asked then is if you are going to live in a world in which bad things are going to happen anyway, were going toffee convictions and homelessness and people facing hunger and poverty and various kinds of mental breaks do we want to fund the non profits and funding the schools and funding the libraries or do we want to try to address that with the people. Not every call is going to get answers and poem are having bad things happen in the streets but dissolution that weve been pouring money into that everybody did not want is cops and the solution that everybody wants has been over and over nine hours in this Public Comment. In previous Public Comments and i know that you refuse to do your jobs and listen to the people, but i dont know, this is a moment where it gets rage is the public. So there is that. Try to do something. Troy to defund the police. That would be cool. Thank you. Thank you, very much for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller good evening. Ok, hi, my name is april young and im a member of parent voice and chan english and im a essential worker providing care for disabled persons and seniors. Ive been on wasting list for four long years and ive been doing the best i can do to support my families. Some days i have to take my daughter to work and others i can leave with a friend or Family Member but with the covid crisis its hard to find stable care. With the stress of the world right now the last thing a parent should worry about is where their children will be while theyre working. This is why i will continue to fight for the 3500 children on the wait list. They need this funding. Our livelihood depends on it. Our children are growing and deserve access to childcare with a safe and nurturing environment for them. We are asking to provide sub sid doze for children or childcare waiting lists and honor the prop c budget priority. Reinstate cuts to cares 2. 0, fund bce, support for black children, from the defund the Police Budget savings and reinstate cuts to parents for Public Schools. We appreciate the efforts to allow us to access baby prop c funds. Thank you so much. Thank you for your comments. Can you connect us to our next caller. Hello my name is jose and i am the organizing director at the baker center for human rights. Im also former chair of the legislation and policy of the San Francisco council and im also currently on the San Francisco commission which is intrusted with ensuring the safe closure of county jail number four. This is personal to me because im a San Francisco native and im also formerly incarcerate rate and spend time, years inside county jail number four. Before you today, you have a very real opportunity to divest the millions and millions of dollars that are going into incarcerated black and brown people in San Francisco. Its an embarrassment, its absolutely ridiculous hassan fran has a black population that is less than 5 and yet we incarcerate rate 50 of people in San Francisco. Until today the call to defund sfpd is not something new. Its something that has been revamped and something that is getting more mainstream audience right now. Some of you know me personally and you know that ive been working this for a long time along with our organization. Lets just talk about how last year alone, San Francisco Sheriffs Department gushed out 4. 16 million in just overtime alone for the San Francisco sheriffs office. That is unacceptable. Imagine where that 4 million could have gone to fund fund resources. Lets talk about San Francisco Police Department and how 700 million is the operating budget right now. Compare that to other operating budgets. Compare that to other non profits or resources that could happen right now in the community. Unapologetically urge you, urge you to divest from policing and incarceration and reinvest in the Community Resources. You do not want to be on the wrong side of history. Now south time to act. Thank you, very much. Could you connect us to the next speaker, please. Hello, supervisors. My name is ma lane and im a district five resident urging you to reject this unacceptable budget and insist on meaningful cuts to the Police Department. Black lives matter, black disabled lives matter, black survivors matter and black employees matter. Please, do more, supervisors. As an activist i urge you to listen not only to those who have access to power but to those who lack such privilege proximity or influence. Take out and listen to people with disabilities. Immigrants and unhoused people who are dis prattly harmed by bias policing. Listen to la looses family and other families of police trauma. Listen to the many rape victims from sfpd the Domestic Violence victims that had to zoo the city because police refuse to give them simple documents for protective orders. Settlements for unlawful policing dont come out of their budget. Police dont protect us. They harm us in so many ways and bleed our funds dry. They harm black and brown communities especially. Listen to sf labor. Im a Disaster Service worker and a local 21 member. Im building emergency infrastructure and a medical field hospital. Unlike police, were not eligible for overtime or horses, motorcycles and s. U. V. S to ride to work. Its shocking the mayor wants to balance the budget on the backs of essential workers when there are rainy day Funds Available as well as another extremely obvious solution. Defund, disarm and disband sfpd. That is where we need the immediate layoffs and eventually the abolishment of policing. Austerity up holds racism. The street of our city workforce is vital. Again, black lives matter, black disabled lives matter, black survivors matter and black employees matter. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Connect us to the next speaker, please. Caller my name is christine and i work in district 3. To supervisors, i want to talk about police inaudible . I honestly have been told with an rage all day. I woke up today thinking about jacob blake, i woke up thinking about how yet another black man has been shot by the police and how they practice the same violence where he was shot and i woke up thinking about just on friday supervisors on this committee were still ringing their hands over police and sheriff days off. Its not only kills marginalized people trying move in their daily lives, Law Enforcement kills Law Enforcement doing the work of violence prevention and theyre over and over and over again. Please stop asking for Perfect Community models. You need to acknowledge the police, the sheriff and other forms of policing dont end the way of working done. You need to acknowledge that so long as they have policing forces on our streets you will never be able to finish that work. Its not about better training. If all distractions from dismantling this quote Justice System that enables abuse and enables impunity and reducing anyone who doesnt uphold to status quo and then criminalizes or destroy the lives of those who disagree. I just, i encourage them to push hard. For everyone else, i would be so offended if i were in a position of power and see these connections and receiving to make them do better. Thats it. Thank you, christine. Caller good evening, supervisors. My name is monica. I live in district 5 and work in San Francisco. From hearing all of the Public Comments, its heartbreaking to hear families from our communities share countless testimony als. How the police have not protected them and has actually inflected harm and trauma. Calling in victim retrauma or being targeted took courage and im so proud to call them neighbors. Im moved by their stories. You also have family. I hope you are too. Were pleased that more funds are desperately needed for health, Mental Health, to put food on the table and shelter, these are basic human needs. As a volunteer every week, i and helpless wait in the hot sun during a its critical to evaluate the current budget and trim the fat of departments and sfpd and sheriff and row invest and marginalized. Do not allow for the budget to pass and provide artificial Public Safety at the expense of black and brown lives. The budget towards the Community Needs and its not adequate. There are budgetary needs elsewhere. We urge you to re district sfpd share funds to overhaul and rebuild a Better Community by decriminalizing Mental Health, homelessness and provide a better social safety net for everyone. Thank you for your leadership and mic north happen. Thank you for your comments. Next us to the next caller. Caller hi. My name is catherine rivers im a 16 year long resident of district the 9 and i live in San Francisco because i believe that this is a city where everyone could be welcome. That is no longer the case and its up to us to fight for everything this city can stand for. Equity injustice for everyone. In addition to supporting words today, i want to ask you to hold the Mayors Office accountable for a budget that claims on the first page to take 120 million from Law Enforcement for city measures and i combed through the 309 page document twice department by department and at best i have found only a cut of 69 million from the sfpd, the Sheriff Department and juvenile Probations Department combined y is 40 million being put from the Public Library and where is equity and reparations. Sfusd cannot provide technology for every family so education happens equitably especially in district 10. This budget continues to severely express underserved communities. Defund sfpd and the Sheriffs Department by 50 . Do not be bullied by the sfpoa negotiations on unjust salaries and blocks to change. Prioritize cbos in district 9 and 10 fighting for families to secure basic needs. Prioritize life and street use and lion martin and other health right 360 organizations that need funding. I have been a client of lion martin for 16 years and theyre a place where everyone is welcome. Its your duty to be just with our money. Considering for going your raise this year and your bake needs are not at stake in this economic crisis and why is taking home 700,000 per year in compensation . That is not just advertise. Do not approve this budget. Do not say that black lives matter, act like black lives matter. Do justice. Next speaker. Please. Holalolala. Speaking spanish. [ speaking spanish ] im sorry i didnt hear everything. The sound was muffled. This speaker is a single mother who is working with parent voices. She is saying that herself and many parents dont know where to leave our children when we are working. So we are advocating to divert money towards education and opportunities for their children. Thank you both very much. Can you connect us to the next speaker. Is there a caller on the line . Hello. Good evening. My name is elliott hell man and ive been in San Francisco most of my life. I grew up here and i learned about the world here. I live in district 6 now. Im calling because ive seen how sfpd funding is impacting the city reece sources at the expense of our social safety net. Im a sign Language Interpreter and have worked in our Public Schools for decades and ive seen the negative relationship between our kids and the police and ive heard many stories of the negative interactions between kids and their communities and sfpd. Now, i know that many of of you have experienced concerns about finding Police Officers, especially now during these tough economic times. I share that human concern as well. However, im more concerned about the impact of Police Shootings and incarceration on our kids and on our communities. Considering sfpds track record, the departments inability to reform itself even after years of efforts considering the long list of sfpd killings of black and brown people and frankly the disinformation and the attacks on some of you and the mayor by the police union, doing right by the people you are here to serve should compel you to defund sfpd. We need house, healthcare, education and reparations to keep us safe. Question need you town vest in people and communities. I look forward to San Francisco being an example to the nation and how do reallocate funds towards cutting programs we need and that you, our city leaders, will be able to innovate and making San Francisco the equitable, sustainable and just city that we all want to be. Hi, my name is julie robert and i center a video and the Justice Coalition submitted earlier today. Im sorry, what was the videos name called . Julie roberts fung. The Justice Coalition folder. Thank you. All right. One moment, give me a second. You kind of surprised me right there. After six and a half hours. I see it. One moment, please. Im cueing up right now. Im sorry. Oops. Hi, my name is Julie Roberts fong and im contacting you to urge you to fund the nourish the tender line pro proposal and all the proposals of the public Justice Coalition. The nourish the tenderloin proposal is important as the city of San Francisco lost its usda waiver that lost them to provide free meals to any family. This loss has meant that in the tenderloin alone weve lost 8,000 meals a week. During the pandemic my family lost income and we were picking up grab and go meals and from the pop up pantries and it was a relief that we could feed our family and also make the little money we had coming in stretch to cover the bills we had to pay. Our friends in the tenderloin told us that they werent able to pick up. There was no pantry in the tenderloin and there was no sfusd grab and go site. Families shared they were afraid to leave their homes. Some had covid cases in their building. People also didnt feel like they could walk out into the streets and socially distance and some reported being harassed by Police Officers. So the Community Came together and tenderloin fashion and Community Based organizations figured out a way to deliver foods to families at home. This is been a huge help and its complicated to figure out that last mile system for delivering food. Its urgent we fund this the nourish the Tenderloin Program and create Sustainable Food Delivery Systems for our families. I thank you in advance for your support for the nourish the Tenderloin Program and supporting Mental Health sf and other priorities of the budget Justice Coalition. Thank you. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. I am a resident of district nine for more than 10 years and im also a nurse for and im calling to ask you to defund and as many other speakers have booked to and 19 years of reforms and trainings and all the this other stuff later so im asking to you also defund the Sheriffs Department since i work at San Francisco general and they provide our security and most hospitals dont have Law Enforcement providing security and it increases the chance that someone will get hurt and while theyre well funded and i just spoke to a sheriff deputy last week who works when theyre not busy and its his redded scheduled overtime and as nurses were being denied any overtime at all. Im doing Contact Tracing and when we had a huge spike and early july and it was vital to the health of the workers in the hospital and the patients, we were told not one hour of overtime. Its better staffing and the clinics need better staffing and theres a million things, schools, ihss, childcare, muni, all these other things that housing especially and Addiction Treatment and i think Addiction Treatment and housing would do a lot more to take care of our community and also decrease the harms that come from people that are on substances. Thank you, very much for sharing your comments. Mr. Tee can you connectio conneo the next speaker, please. Is there a caller on the line . Caller ive just been unmuted. My name is sarah and im a dress enter of district 10. Defund and disarm and disband. Weve heard you guys say over and over that black lives matter but its nothing but perform tive and we need action. Fire sfpd officers and fire Sheriff Deputies and invest inhousing, healthcare, education and reparations. Sheriffs budget is a waste of money. The sheriff budget has increased by more than 50 while the jail population has fallen by 60 . Last year average total compensation for a Deputy Sheriff was 210,000. The recent expansion of electronic monitoring is jails and surveillance into the homes and communities of black indigenous, brown, trans and poor people even worse, its ineffective and it hasnt helped the city decrease its jail population. They cannot be reformed because it harms communities of color. The sheriff duties is put people in cages and perpetuate the poverty and race. We can never provide better treatment and services and any money spent on jailing would be better spent funding Community Based programs available to the general public. Instead of expanding communities which are already targeted by surveillance like electronic monitoring we should support networks that can help people heal and black lives matter, black trans lives matter. I dont yield my time. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. Caller can you please share an update on the queue after my comment. Im an attorney and a resident of d7 and as someone who worryings can System Impact and formally incarcerated people and who have had family and friends threatened by policing institutions around the country, im here to impose each of you, please, do the right thing. Defund the sheriff and sfpd and vest in people and our communities. Not cops in cages. All summer long, san franciscans have called on the city to stand up for our communities and help us build lasting Public Safety. While the city find itself in a deep budget short fall, and despite the mayors rhetoric the proposed cuts to sfpd and the sheriff are a drop in these departments budgets. All while life saving services, face uncertainty and massive cuts. This is not the time to prioritize cops and jails over our communitys basic needs. Cops wont keep us safe when people are facing a pandemic. A recession, and a threat of eviction. I appreciate some of your proposals. Including the proposal to cut overtime and Academy Classes but we can do more. Lets cut electronic monitoring and get deputies out of our public institutions, hospitals and clinics and buildup those alternatives. It proves that more police does not make youre Community Safer. How many more studies and working groups do we need. I urge you, please help build a new legacy or for our see the city. Thank you. Thank you very much for your comments. We have 71 callers listening to the call and 38 of them are in the queue. Connect us to the next caller. Good evening. This is julie fisher. District one, 35 year member of the united food and commercial workers five nowretired. I appreciate the opportunity to speak. Im calling for one specific topic, our nonprofit city funded workers. Good evening, my name is matt and i live in district five and thank you for Holding Space for our comments tonight. Weve heard from wondering Community Organizations about their need for funding and i think its very clear that by defunding the police, we can meet all those needs and then some. 120 million a year was quoted and its been all over the press and i dont know why we should accept a penniless. We know the police have failed to keep our communities safe. Its a great deal of violence upon black and brown communities and those communities would greatly benefit from resources that those police are using and black lives matter and San Francisco can do so much better. Thank you for your comments. Connect us to the next caller. Caller my name is jana and im born and raised in public 10 and publichealth official and educators and inaudible and these hearings for the last few months urging the board of supervisors to abolish and defund sfpd now. Ive listened to hundreds of callers and communicated our peoples priorities and the to defund the police and the Sheriffs Department and re district money to healing. We project the mayors austerity budget and urge you to stop balancing the budget on the backs of those vulnerable because that will intensify Health Disparity across the underlined. We must be critical about all forms of structural violence, pever tee, health, underfunded schools, hospitals and trance is systems. Ive also like to raise a question about department and Community Based organizations and while not challenging a fully funded institution that inflicts violence and trauma with taxpayer money. Im disappointed after countless hours of Public Comment our demands are fallen on deaf ears. Were not challenge the institution of white supremacy. Our city should fund a culture of care not harm. If this budget is passed, response to our communitys demands its a continue structural violence on our families. We need to be bold and stand up to the poa. We will not forget how you move forward. We want 26 million cut from the academy and overtime but no less of 50 be put in order to fund the priorities by the budget Justice Coalition. Police make us feel less safe and its the only responsible decision to make given their history of misconduct, lack of accountability and justice for all the people and all the victims of Police Violence and across the country. Black lives matter. Connect us to the next speaker, please. Good morning, supervisors, my name is jackson and im a member of local 21. Im a coordinator with the city and county of San Francisco. My job is staff at the medical branch and i coordinate on boarding of medical staff and ac6 sites. Im in shock we are choosing between our jobs and our ability to a arrive with a pandemic. If im unable to afford the cost of living in the bay area how can i serve the public. The city has one billion dollars inly serve. Thank you to unfilled job having vacancies we have agreed to a six month cost of living alone and each department presents boys and 50 million has been saved during fiscal year loans and isnt the time they use the reserve for workers who helped build this reserve. We are all waiting cut to the bone. Given, given our fair share trying to in order to survive this pandemic, you need a workers to survive and continue delivering much needed services. There should be no more budget cuts or layoffs. Let us serve the public in the pandemic as you say, we are your heroes and show it. Invest in us. Thank you. My name is carrie knicks. I used to live in Bernal Heights. We havif a social worker respone would still with be us today. Im calling to disarm, defund the from other speakers and Funds Services shown vibe antsy of our communities and stand with the people and against the mayors Budget Proposal that fails to show any of these promises, be brave and bold as so Many Community members and please see Police Budgets for what they yield and please do the right thing and i yield the rest of my time. Can we have the next speaker, please. Caller [ speaking spanish ] she lives in San Francisco and she needs help with her rent, thank you. Thank you both for your comments. This is my fourth of these calls and you guys are just not getting the message or you are and you are choosing to ignore it. Ronen, thank you for defunding the Police Movement but you took your time and you didnt respond to my question about who else is with you. And this two parts to this. One is obviously investing in the black community and this 120 million is fantasy. I went back and fourth with supervisor safai i dont know in six or 10 emails. He couldnt square it. You are lying. You are all fucking lying. The cops dont even vote for you. They dont live in San Francisco. Even if you were spending 120 million on the black community, which would be great, you are still not getting rid of the cops which are posing a danger. And also, what would that do to mamario woods and all these bron people that have been killed by the cops in the bay area. This is not just investing in the black community. We need reparations and less police on the streets. The state is on fire and you are cutting the fire budget. What the fuck are you doing. You act like you are progressive but you are not. This state is won by democrats from the top to the bottom. None of this in this state its democrats who hold all the power and you are not doing shit. You are just lying, 120 million, a good headline. What the fuck. None of us care about cops losing jobs. We care about the essential workers who arent cops losing jobs. We care about poor people. Thank you for your comments. Connect us to the next speaker, please. Regina eastloss good grief. How do i follow that up. That was fantastic. Its just been amazing and wonderful to listen to the diversity of voices on this call tonight over the several hours. I do appreciate it. This is my fourth phone call and this is what i want to say, of course reject the mayors budget. Its an inassault. However, when i was nineyearsold i grew up in district 10 and we had a Public Library and i got my First Library card and i took my little brother into the library and ms. Jake b jacobson, my firt librarian, filled our arms with books and as many books as we could carry. That woman, that library opened doors to experiences and two little kids. I cannot think of a single Law Enforcement officer who has opened doors to any childs life in the same way with the same impact. Law enforcement officers do not belong on any School Campuses anywhere every. And they need to be removed immediately. Whether or not this damn budget goes through. Council teachers and music and all kinds of programs is and please get thank you for your comments. Can you connect us to the next speaker, please. Hi, im [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] thank you, i dont yield my time. Thank you very much. Connect us to the next speaker, please. I truly do not know how to follow that. That was a beautiful song. Thank you jj for always having the best Public Comment. How many more black people need to be shot or killed by police for you to learn this part of the job. What is the number. When did you decide it . Is there no number and every time someone gets killed its easier to Say Something must change. Did you decide to believe that we need police and that the numbers of shootings and deaths are unfortunate but acceptable. The only way is to stop contact between them. Shrink the size and scope of policing, theres no justice after the shooting. The conditions arent just. This is a quote from human rights lawyer and scholar, and i suggest you all being, especially rah yall mandelman, read her brief article in the atlantic from last month. I lived in district 8 in San Francisco my whole life. Throughout my time living here ive seen horrendous impact of sfpd. We Needles Police on the streets. Yes, did he funding sfpd will result in firing cops. Defund sfpd and invest that money to make new jobs that are not forms of violence work. Today, less than 5 of sfpd calls for service are in response to Violent Crimes and cutting the budget and staffing by 50 say conservative demand. Part of our misunderstanding about the power of policing is we keep managing we can turn police into social workers and make them nice, Friendly Community outreach workers but police are violence workers. The legal capacity to use violence. So when we turn a problem over to the police to manage theres violence because those are ultimately the tools that theyre most equipped to use, handcuffs, threats, guns arrest and instead of trying to inform this system we must have better alternative solutions. In a Budget Hearing last month the supervised chiefen dosed programs by coop. Cara hoots to a replace Police Presence in our communities and is asking for more money for the Police Department. Your time is concluded. Thank you very much for sharing your comments. Connect us to the next caller, please. Caller im a Receipt Department of district 5 in San Francisco and to defund, disarm and reinvest in true Public Safety for all. Its encouraging a few members seem to be recognizing the cynicism of the mayors proposed budget trying to git the headline of defunding without actually doing anything. I was out in Bernal Heights last week and saw all my neighbors show up at ronens asking asking for a hero and i was inspiring in a way and just so sad that people are made to sort of grove he will at the feet of you our elect officials and thats a low bar for heroism just asking you to do jury job and represent the values of the people who pull you in office and you campaign for aggressive platforms for this and now you are seeing less people move into when they said they wanted to vote to a progressive representatives and for a change and these are people who have been on the receiving end of the violence of the police their entire life and theyre expected to say it would be heroic of you to do the bear minimum living up to the values that put you in the opposite space. Do your job and stand up to the mayor and disarm and disband the cops and reinvestment in the communities and separation, all of it. Everything people have said. Thank you. Thank you, very much for share injuring comments. We have 72 callers on the line and 33 are in the cue to speak. Connect us to the next caller. Hi, good evening supervisors. My name is juan and i am a resident of district 5. I am calling to urge you to please defund, disarm and disband the San Francisco Police Department and the San Francisco sheriffs. Frankly im just really tired of seeing my house less neighbors in district five being harassed by police and there is a lot of people in this neighborhood and in this district that do need serious help and the police are absolutely the last place that that Health Assistance love everything should be coming from. Theres so many other Community Organizations and Community Groups that are really trying to provide these people with that help and i think really, you know, its on us to just troy something new. Obviously we dont know what is going to work and no one does. No one has a perfect solution to many of the problems that were dealing with but one thing that is so clear that we all know is that police is not the answer. It really isnt and so, yeah, its scary and its doing something that is so unknown is hard but i think we really have to be a city that leads the fight in this country to try something new because theres got to be so many other solutions out there and we just have to find it. Im urging you, listen to all these people calling in and vissen to our versus, we want to defund, disarm and disband the San Francisco Police Department and we want that funding to go to education and to Mental Health resources to housing our unhoused neighbors. Theres so many better uses for this money and i know that as a city, were capable of making great changes so please, supervisors, project the budget. Thank you. Next caller, please. Caller hi, my name is david chen im a resident in district 7. I dont really have much new to add. I know the countless callers that have come and the hours and hours before me have said it all. Im just calling into plead, really plead with the board of supervisors to please reject the mayors budget and make real substantive cuts to the Police Budget for this coming year. You know, its just embarrassing really that the mayors claim that theres hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts when in reality its 18 million, less than 3 of the total budget ex its an insult to the citizens and the voters and the city and you know, our voices i think have been made loud and clear over the past few months and for even longer. We want real substantive cuts to the sfpds budget and its got to be more. It just simply has to be more. Listen to your constituents, listen to us, the community, listen to us as voters otherwise we will vote you out of office. Thats all i have to say, i yield my time. Thank you, david chen. Mr. T, can you connect us to the next caller, please. Supervisors, my name is frank and im with stop crime San Francisco. And im speaking on behalf of this 900 plus. Stop sf and all the families and victims and including the cuts to the police Academy Classes that window graduate up to 150 any officers. You need to recruit higher and trained a Diverse Force of new officers committed to reform and Community Based policing San Francisco needs to continue to fund Police Training if were going to implement reforms and the use of force and deescalation policies. I also want to say that transferring Police Duties to social and Community Services and creating programs to pick tens of thousands of homeless calls and mental calls cannot be done in the flip of a switch. It needs care of the planning and highering and tranning of new stuff over months if not years. Ihomicides are up 30 this year and 31 . You have heard the people of San Francisco demand that you take action and cutting the sfpd budget this year. Adds the board of supervisors you have failed to listen to the community you served so you work for the people and think terrorized by the police because you havent made deep cuts to the mayors cut. Smoke and mirrors budget and it you heard evidence of how vile enter and racist the police are and our nation warns the death and jacob blake and you do the humane thing. This is a several hundredyearold nation wide emergency. Its the moral value of our community and i told you the people what the people need for real Public Safety. We are here inform fire every single last one of you. Next speaker, please. Hello i work in district 10 at the clinic for queer and transgender youth with the San Francisco department of publichealth. Im a member of dph and i want to urge this community to divest from the presence and the department of publichealth and invest in care for marginalized communities. Suicide is the second leading cause of death. These are not just numbers. These are youth who come to seek refuge from violence and abuse. Many of these youth are Psychiatric Services at San Francisco General Hospital. Im unable to do my at sf general to provide care for our patients. We can and must do better. As a therapist i tell youth i want a world with you in it. Were fighting for a world where you are safe and loved. Supervisors, you can join this fight but Funding Services that keep our Community Safe. We need you to follow the leadership of your community. We have been calling, commenting and marching because our lives and the lives of those we love depend on t i join my community and the must Diverse Coalition demanding they invest in the health and safety of our communities. All black lives matter, thank you, i yelled my time. Thank you, next speaker. Please. At the good evening. Im a librarian and currently deployed as a Disaster Service worker to the food bank. Since the beginning of this pandemic, Library Staff has routinely been deprived of clear information and police have last minute job appoint manies dumped on us and weve rolled with it. The junior had to fight for protections for us including p. P. E. And covid specific sick pay and we dealt with that. Weve had our concerns about our vulnerable Community Members and their ideas ignored weve been told the mayor isnt interested. Yet we keep showing up. This is another step in the wrong direction. It is so disappointing and worrying that this budget fails to adequately protect and support our communities are color who have been affected by this pandemic. And im surprised and im really dis heart ended to break the Union Contracts and balance the budget on the backs of city workers. When we, city workers, are currently holding the city together. The city is and will continue to rely on us during this pandemic. And throughout its aftermath. You have the option to make the changes needed to support city workers and our communities of color. First, tap into the citys rainy day and reserve funds of 1 billion. Second, curtail expensive contracting and granting out. Third, support initiatives to make sure that billionaires pay their fair share to fund public services. And lastly, listen to your callers. People are asking you to reallocate funds from the police and Sheriff Department to public services. I hope you will consider how did he tell practice mental this budget plan is to city workers and residents of the city at large. Thank you and good night. Thank you, next speaker, please. Caller good evening, supervisors, my name is dan and im a representative of d5. Im shocked after months of protest or a pandemic the sf board of supervisors has decided not to shrink the sfpd or the Sheriffs Department. Theyre expensive and theyre ineffective. Our citys money is better spent elsewhere. Provide one easy example. Suppose sorting last year determined the Traffic Enforcement she was reduced enforcement of traffic violations despite an increase of traffic deaths. They moved the job of Traffic Enforcement in it considers equity in its work. Lets use the savings in our black and brown communities. Which is one example. Defund our police and sheriffs and i believe in your ability to do this and i beg you to have the political will to do so. Did you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisors. My name is kj and im a teacher and resident of district 4. Im calling to ask you to listen to your community and project the the mayors budget. Were asking you to defund the police and redistribute that money to those organizations in our community who are already successful atri ducing harm. And earlier caller said that you cant just flip a switch and he is right. Many organizations in our communities have actually shown success and reducing harm. And yet those are the people who are on the line calling and begging for money. We need to spend more on chief nickolsons highly successful ems16. We need to fund our Fire Department because we are in a crisis, the state is on fire. We need to give cost of living raises to our frontline workers who have kept our Community Safe and spread throughout this pandemic. You need to fundraisers and public transportation, we need to fundaMental Health. Folks working right now need p. P. E. Were asking you to listen to the hundreds of please and do the bear minimum. To takeaway the military equipment that theyre using against my neighbors . Your vote and he is stop buying more tatical gear that just escalates the violence. We elected you because we believed that you would advocate on our behalf and support the marginalized members of your community who lives in this city through the pandemic when most of the wealthiest residents fled. The sf police and Sheriffs Department have continued to prioritize the limbs of those wealthy folks and they protect property over people and shelter themselves and each other from discipline or reforms. I wanted to be able to tell my students theyre a Public Officials they can believe in. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, im calling to ask the supervisors to please eject the mayors budget and defund, disarm and dis panned Fire Department. We have so many crisis related to food access, childcare housing and jobs we need to redirectory sources that provide real activity instead of maintaining the violence by policing. Community solutions are needed to solve issues that are violent and im asking that the friends that are redistricted from sfpd and sheriff offices going to the black communities and agencies that serve the black community, not just to general city agencies. Thank you, i controlled the rest oyield the rest ofany time. Caller hi, my name is catalina and i live in district 4. Im calling tonight to urge you to defund, disarm and disband the sfpd and Sheriffs Department. Real Public Safety starts with comments in our communities not cops. The scale of policing has not been shown to have any correlation or impact to crime. A study done last year by the bear enters taught found that less than 5 of Police Arrests were related to violence. What has been proven effective in reducing invitens and harm is having access to basic needs, resources and Community Programs. Continuing to invest in systems of punishment and control harms our community and will not lead to the change that our city needs. Its time to divest from these harmful systems and focus on Building Community support and truly need to stay alive and thrive. We need to address the inequalities and fund races not cops and cages. The peek have spoken. Im urging you to disband and the sfpd and Sheriffs Department. We heard you say black lives matter so you dont vote on a budget that puts black people in harms way. This year we need a budget that fires sfpd, sheriff, eliminates Academy Classes and cuts overtime. That i can that invest in the communities harmed by reply is. Stop prioritize cops jobs over Community Basic needs. Police dont keep us safe. Housing, healthcare and education and reparations keep us safe. Not cops in changes and help us build a lasting Public Safety for all of us, do better. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. I have 61 listeners and 24 in queue to speak. And next speaker, please. Caller caller, you are on the line. Caller good evening, supervisors. Im lucy Vice President secretary of the Healthcare Professionals chapter of local 21. Im also a very tired city worker. Very tired. With the events of the last eight weeks. Fragile like a bomb. Exhausted. Im 55yearsold and if the focus dont come i will sigh 66. I worked at dph as a contractors for 19 years and unfortunately four of those have been as a city worker. Im not able to retire for another six years and that my friends is another talk show. However, every day i leave this house and i risk my own health and i listen to the mayor talk on the news about how we essential workers are in the news daily and what a great job were doing. [ speaking spanish ] caller hi, im here to say that i need help paying my bills and my rent. Thank you, very much. Thank you, supervisor. Next speaker, please. Hi, im a member of district 11 and im so frustrated by the actions of the supervisors so far. In this moment it seems like the poa is still more important these calls for defunding and disbanding and disarming the are not naive. People have lost loved ones yet you make substantial cuts. People are starving and are unwilling to fund our citys basic needs. We dream of a world where elected officials listen to their most impacted and a see the that invests in and the people will remember who stood for them in the next election cycle. Thank you for your time. Im a disappointed who care for brown and black people of sf. This proposed budget public and[ music ] [ music playing ] next speaker, please. Caller my name is kelly hayes and i live and work in San Francisco and reside in district 7. Im the daughter of a retired south bay Police Officers who was the president of association. Im joining many others who urge the board of supervisors to reject the marry proposed budget and defund, disarm and disband the sfpd and Sheriffs Department. And reinvest in Community Resources and the many, Many Organizations we heard from today pleading for their funding. For funding from their vital work. To approve this budget looks like you are tempting to placate the outraged citizens while not taking any real action to help protect and provide opportunities for our most marginalized and vulnerable Community Members. The data is clear. Police requirement doesnt change outcomes and Police Interaction requestinteractionss of ineffective Police Reform and training must we endure while black, indigenous, other people of color and the mentally ill are murdered in the community. The truly change the nature of police north this city we must defund the racist and violent sfpd and reinvest those funds in areas that will make us all safe. Publichealth, housing, education, Community Programs and reparations from marginellized communities. It should be a right not a privilege. Defunding sfpd and sfsd and reinvesting in the communities wont result in chaos. Theres a better way. Im surging the supervisors to reimagine how we can achieve a safe, healthy, thriving San Francisco for all. Stand up to the poa and listen to your constituents. You work for us. Black lives matter, thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is mariah and i live and work in San Francisco and i live in the tenderloin. A lot of people dont have basic human needs met in a city like San Francisco that just seems unconscionable and the Police Department and like the man who called earlier to defend it said crime is going up. Its not making us safer. As far as crime rates go and i dont know what better argument there would be for looking at that budget and taking that money and reallocating it. Im calling you to urge you to respect the mayors budget o like so many other callers. Ive been on several of these calls throughout the past week of listen to people comment on this issue and weve heard hundreds of people and hours of comments and people have been passionate andel owe went and Crystal Clear we want you to defund the police and do what you can to, stand back from our communities and spend the money on ways that make people safer. Fund the library and pay our city workers and programs that help people in this time of difficulty so, please do what you can and thank you and its appreciated. You will be notified that your line is unmuted. Hi, my name is jeff watson. Im a resident and voter of San Francisco. Like many of my fellow citizens im calling to reject the budget as it stands. Weve been calling on weeks on end and the hours that ive been on the call, i can count the number of dissent ising advises on one hand. Weve been staying up lake to make Public Comments asking that the budget better reflect our values as san franciscans. We are supposed to be a liberal bashion here and able to have the political will to make these progressive choices, i read an article that our mayor would cut funding to asset fpd and Sheriffs Department by 120 million. I was hoping for more but i had pride and the Budget Proposal came out and i see no more than 27 million of cuts to those two departments. I was ashamed. What happened between then and now. Police presence does not decrease crime. Programs that reduce or eliminate poverty do that. Health and Mental Health services do that. Affordable housing programs do that. Education funding does that. I, like many of my fellow citizens here, are calling on the funds to be diverted from the police and Sheriffs Department that too not make our communities healthier and safer into the other services and decrease crime and they make our communities healthier and safety. I can many of this call i will vote against any supervisor that votes for this budget regard lis of what else is in their platform in favor of another candidate that better supports our values and will vote in accordance with our interests. I yield my time. Thank you so much for your comments. I have 55 listeners with 18 in queue to speak. Next speaker, please. You will be notified your mic has been unfutured. My name is monica and im on strike and black woman dies three times and i white woman to help with thousands. We node more black midwives. They make up less than 2 of the free workforce in 2018 the program Whose Mission is diversify the Current National goal. This year i was named walking scholar the only midwife to be honored with such support to develop this expand of program. I like and next generation and i graduated from ucsf Nursing Program and awarded given to one Nursing Student and hoe court of 100 in 2017 and i graduated program. And the number one program in the nation and i graduated the only person with color. I am currently only ucsf black faculty, midwife in the history of the General Hospital and free service. I am also the only black provider to provide black centered care from the beginning of pregnancy to the end of pregnancy to black families in San Francisco. I cant describe the pain of not being able to do the one thing i love the most which is working with black families and prenatal care and catching black and brown babies. My strike will continue until every sheriff is sought. On july 8th i experienced trauma with six armed sheriffs at the hospital. Leave my public details that incident. As a result i no longer safe he. Row imagine safety and leaders its imperative to row lion factual resources making decisions and most importantly, human app safety. Defund, disarm and disband the cops. Lets fund our childrens education. Next speaker, please. Hi, my name is mary and i live in district 9. Hello supervisor ronen, hope you are there. On saturday, i stated in a car caravan advocating for firing officers. We got a few scowls but there were overwhelmed by onlookers who cheered, clapped and joined our chats. The people of the city know the police arent here to protect and serve us. The people of the city know that Police Officers patrolling streets pose a threat to black indigenous, latina color and trans people of the community. Real Public Safety is built by ensuring everyone has the resources they need to thrive. Housing or unhoused neighbors in real homes by providing physical and Mental Healthcare and preventing people from getting evicted during a pandemic and forever and by paying our teachers livable wages. By reinvesting directly in our black indigenous and trans communities. The people of the city know this which is why they filled the streets of thousands of ep powered people led by the youth of the city yelling that black lives matter and defund the police. Its why we continue to protest week after week and why the Public Comments have been longer than ever before. The people of this city believe in defunding sfpd and the Sheriffs Department this year. Supervisor ronen and fewer and mandelblitel man and president yee, we need you to be brave. And stand up to the poa budget. Because just as the people of the city want to defund the police they will remember how you chose to respond to this Historic Civil Rights Movement if you sit in the seat of power, ask what you will do with that power . Who are you losing it for . Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Caller my name is gracie and i grew up in San Francisco and live in district 7. When i was 16yearsold i was berated, chased and tackled by a Police Officers and septembe seo Juvenile Hall after my family was evicted. The police are a terrorist organization. This citys policies have derailed my life. At age 29 i have a ged and working hard pursuing a degree. Why are you making cuts to pcsf and not the police, defund education and services for your consist winters. They need to fire sfpd officers. Their jobs do not mean more than the people they pay u racism is not just watching people die but knowing that black and brown people are being harass and traumatized and accepting this is the cost of doing business. Were did he manning that you evaluate the impact that policing has on the lives of the police. Its not respond telling you Police Threat a safety by failing to fire Police Officers. Theyre attacking and killing us. Hilary ronen, you should have advocated for this earlier, norman yee, you need to get comfortable with laying off sfpd this year and the constituents are afraid of police and will work hard to unseat you if you fail to take this opportunity to fire police. We are pushing this hard because you are threatening our safety. You heard from many Community Organizations and essential workers members of black trans and unhoused communities that need funds. Its not acceptable for you to ignore them. It looks like we have 54 listeners and 16 in the queue. Hello caller, you are on. [ speaking spanish ] good afternoon, welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco board of supervisors for today, monday, august 24, 2020. I am the chair, aaron peskin, joined by supervisor dean preston. Miss clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution to the state stayathome order order, all local and state and federal declarations and directives. Attend during Video Conference and participate to the same extent as they were physically present. Public comment is available on each item, and sfgov tv are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker allowed two minutes to speak, calling the number on the screen, 4156550001, again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1461286155. Again, 1461286155. When connected i want to note that vice chair safai has joined us. Hello, everyone. When connected you will hear the meeting discussions but muted and listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial the number star three to be added to the speaker line. Best practices to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Email myself, the land use and transportation clerk, if you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the special file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisor agenda of september 1st. Madam clerk, i think we lost you at the very end of your statement unless otherwise oh, ok. Sorry about that. Let me repeat that. Theres only one item on this agenda and a Committee Report that, if my colleagues agree with me will go to a vote tomorrow for reenactment. So, its ok if you dont repeat that part unless you wish to. Its ok. So, i call item number 1. Madam clerk, please call item number 1. Yes, mr. Chair. Item number 1, reenactment of emergency ordinance, 6820, to temporarily prohibit rent increases under administrative code due to the covid19 pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide public item should call the number streaming on the screen, 4156550001, meeting i. D. Is 1461286155. Press pound twice. If you have not done so already, star three to line up to speak. You only need to press it once. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted at Public Comment and then you may begin your comments. Thank you, madam clerk. As the title of this measure indicates, this is a 60day reenactment to legislation that this committee previously recommended to the board that the board voted for unanimously and as it says would, during this emergency period, prevent rent increases and i commend to you colleagues, no questions, i would like to open this up to Public Comment. Seeing no questions, madam clerk, could you please call the first speaker. Yes, mr. Chair. I have jim from the department of technology, checking to see if there are any callers in queue. Can you let us know if there are callers ready, and if you have not done so, star 3 to line up. Only press it once. Presently i have no callers. If there are no members of the public for Public Comment, i will close Public Comment, and colleagues, i would like to supervisor vice chair safai. A quick question i wanted to get on the record. Our office has gotten some calls about landlords that have sent them to renters telling them the rent was going up on the a annual increase. Is there a mechanism you want to get on the record in case people are saying rent increases. Landlords can send out a letter but it will not be effective until after this legislation is terminated, which in today, given our powers under the emergency we are in every 60 days we have to reenact this measure. If anybody is being asked for rent increases effective today, please call or otherwise contact the rent board of, the rent stablization arbitration board of the city and county of San Francisco. I indeed have gotten similar emails from people who do have landlords that are ignoring this law. It is a violation of law and can be enforced by the rent stablization board. Thank you. Thank you, chair. Thank you for that question, supervisor safai. If there are no other questions, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with recommendation as a Committee Report. On that motion, madam clerk, roll call, please. [roll call vote taken] i, apologies, folks, my computer crashed, i am just calling in right now, and i am an aye vote, sorry to be off for a minute there. It happens, apparently the school day zoom crashed the first day. There you go. Supervisor safai. Aye. Supervisor peskin. Aye. You have three ayes. Ok, the motion is approved, sent as a Committee Report. We have no other agenda items, we are adjourned. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Coping with covid19. Todays special guest. I am chris manners, you are watching coping with covid19. My guest is the director of economic and Work Force Development here to talk about the programs the city has in place during this crisis to help Small Businesses and vulnerable and disconnected residents. Welcome to the show. Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure to be here, chris. Start by talking about gift to sf. It provides many of the resources we are talking about. Could you tell us a little bit about the focus of gift to us. Then we will talk about specific programs. I very much appreciate the question. For anyone who is watching right now, so much of the work that has been accomplished to serve most vulnerable is because of very generous donations to the give to sf covid19 response and recovery fund. Over 28 million has been fund raised to support areas as important as Housing Stabilization for vulnerable communities, Food Security programs which has been a big issue not only in San Francisco but up and down california and of course across the nation. Very much thinking about workers and Family Members who may not have been access to state and federal programs the same way that others who are impacted have and do. That was to make sure families and workers were supported with woulrelief. Small Business Community to make sure they have access to loan was and grants. We are excited how diverse we have been able to do this. We have been able to roll these out to ensure that our communities are supported by our city together with all of us with city funds and philanthropic dollars to help realize them on behalf of the communitys needs. That is great. Now, many of our Small Businesses dont have large payrolls. They are unable to qualify for the federal ppp loans. Does the city have active programs available for Small Businesses to help with ongoing expenses such as rent while they are still closed . Certainly. One of the programs we launched in partnership and because of the ability of the give to sf loan fund presented us with was for loans and grants to do that. We knew in the beginning that it was not easy for smaller businesses not connected or those who were to get an answer around relief provided through ppp. We have seen success of the program. We knew it was important at the time to also have the San Francisco hardship mcwas Emergency Loan Program be launched and designed to support businesses who needed resources the most. We have committed 15. 5 million in ongoing covid19 Small Business Financial Relief. We have awarded grants and loans to over 400 Small Businesses thus far. We wanted to make sure that we were equitable about that approach always guidings work through Racial Equity lens. One of the most important pieces is ensuring every district would be represented and also more equitable work and places where we were doing that work would be supported through these efforts. In the first phase 1 million to 128 Small Businesses and 29 different neighborhoods with up to 10,000 in funds to support those who were experiencing loss. We set aside a minimum of 2 million for low and moderate income owners to ensure they were supported with relief efforts. Neighborhood goes like lower filmore, bayview, castro and excelsior. Longterm businesses have given to the city and we want to give bamto them as well. Then because we were looking for additional funding sources, we took dollars that we had with existing partners already with our partners to do Small Business work and help convert to support Women Entrepreneurs around San Francisco and very specific neighborhoods for mini grants to serve immediate needs. Every little dollar helped. One of the programs that just become available. Right to recover. I am glad you are asking about right to recover. We know that it is extremely valuable right now as we look to incentivize Community Members disproportionately impacted by covid19 by economic hardship, spaces to work in because they need to provide for families, having access to the Economic Relief or wages that you count on to protect yourself, stabilize your families, support your families and children or parents or extended family. That is a huge disincentive if you believe you may not have access to quarantine to do what we want you to do. If you are sick to get tested. If you test positive to quarantine and stay home. So that you can get better and not infect anyone else. That comes at a cost. You are not going to work, not making wages. For so many low income workers that is not acceptable. This is to provide relief based on the individual to give minimum wage for that period of time. When they walked into the testing site they knew if i test positive is there a program to help me, we could say yes . That was important to mayor breed, extremely important to supervisor ronen and they worked together to make 2 million available to support these individuals. Together with the department of Public Health we have a holistic system to fill the gaps that may exist to encourage people to get tested to do the right thing. Wear a mask, social distancing, not going places when they are sick and doing our part to make sure they were incentivized. Not having sick pay with the virus would be really stressful. Iit is important for undocumented. We know the lat inx is more than 50 of the positive cases and may not have access to sick leave or Financial Hardship to do the right thing and to quarantine with financial reli relief. As we start another new releaf program. Africanamerican Small Business Revolving Loan fund. How will that fund work . Well, i am very, very proud. This fund. I do have to give a shout out to our invest in Neighborhoods Team who worked day and night with the africanamerican chamber of commerce and main street launch to support the zero percent interest loan up to 50 thousand dollars. We have been striving to be specific and target communities of color and africanamerican Small Business Entrepreneur Community. It is so much more difficult for this community to access resources and it was important to do something in this moment that is reflective of a movement we know has been emotion for such a long time. For us to do something real, provide Financial Relief for the community in this ka this way ar them specifically. We are very proud to get this up and running. We look forward to applications being live so people from the africanamerican and black business communities to get relief. Flexible terms. Forgiveness up to 50,000 for those loans which can make a huge difference fought only for relief when you think about rent for a Small Business but also in terms of longterm recovery and being smart about the moment. There are businesses with the ability to be open, even a little bit. It is a stress on them. There are others that dont have the ability to do this at all. Where is their relief . They wait for us to do our collective part to ensure we can reopen. These dollars, very specifically for the black Entrepreneur Community are important for longterm viability success. That is good for them, the diversity of the city we hold dear and we need to be proud of. Do we have active programs for disconnected or underserved communities . Absolutely. As i was mentioning just simply about the right to recover program. When people go to the mission hub at 701 alabama within the Mission District to serve the community, they are providing Food Security, access to resources. What they have done is extraordinary in terms of partnering with the city with relief efforts to help pay and maintain Food Distribution for families. Thing are important like the latin x to do so many dishes with one item masa. Access to rise, cereals, milk, butter, fresh foods and vegetables. That is across the city in the entirety in those areas of need. To ensure those programs are made available for our most vulnerable communities. Seniors or families who desperately need that help. Finally, is there a website specifically designed to provide access and information about these resources . One of the easiest things to do, people have a general question and to want dont have access to the internet call 311. Reach out. We have been working closely to ensure the members and staff have the information they need to get what you need. As you call in. Most specifically for workers, employers, nonprofits to go to our website oewd. Org and click on covid19 which is a large button on the site. You will find a full list of information specifically designed for you as employer, as worker and nonprofit so that you know where to go for resources. Also, our phone number 5546134 for the small acciden small bus. The incredible staff are administering those lines. If they dont answer they will get back to you so you can talk to a real person in multiple languages. Also email sfosbasfgov. Org. Again, visit the website oewd. Org and you can find that. In terms of workforce 415 7014817. Someone will get back to you if they dont pick up immediately to answer your questions if you are a worker. Then to donate. Give to sf. Org. All of that information is to find to the website if you need resources or you need an understanding how we are phasing reopening or updated information, please visit us. We will get back to you. We look forward to serving you and the community to get through this very, very challenging time. That is great information. Thank you so much for coming on the show. I really appreciate the time you have given us today. It is a pleasure, chris. Thank you for helping get information out to our communities. People are aware your government is hard at work on your behalf to get you what you need during a dynamic and challenging time. That is it for this episode. We will be back with more information shortly. This is coping with covid19. I am chris manners, thanks for watching on sfgovtv. The meeting is being called to order at 5 31p. M. The Small Business commissioner thanks Media Service and sfgov tv for televising the meeting which can be viewed on sfgov tv2 or inaudible . Ill remind all of the commissioners to please mute yourselves if you are not speaking at this time. Members of the public who will be calling in, the number is 408 4189388 again, that is 408 4189388. The access code is 146 705 4896