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Quarter of next year. [inaudible] hotel started construction on their project in 2018. They have proposed to divide 28 of their 37 one and twobedroom suites into 49 individual rooms. This request requires an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan to increase the number of rooms allowed on the block one hotel parcel from the currently approved 250 rooms to the rounded number of 300 rooms. The last [inaudible] including the ocii commission, Planning Commission, the Oversight Board, and the California Department of finance. This shows the current change to the proposed project. As you can see in the bottom row of this table, the buildings overall Square Footage remains the staple because the additional rooms will be achieved by moving interior walls and adding doors, thus, no exterior work will be needed for the suite conversion. This slide shows the typical floor plan and examples of twoinone bedroom suites, which are outlined in red. Each suite also has a living room which will be converted into a standalone room. The main change required in the redevelopment plan is an increase in the number of hotel rooms on the hotel parcel in block one. There are also minor installations having to do with the 2013 redevelopment plan amendment also associated with the larger block one. This slide shows all of the approval entities, again, that have acted or will act on the proposed amendments. The ocii commission and Planning Commission approved the redevelopment amendment in july, and after todays hearing, the Oversight Board will review the participation in the agreement on october 8. That concludes my presentation for today, and i and other ocii staff are happy to answer any questions. President yee thank you, gretchen. We will now proceed to Public Comment. Is there any first of all, before i do that, are there any questions . First of all, lets go to Public Comments. You have two minutes each or if there are anybody that would like to speak on this item . Madam clerk, are there any speakers . Clerk thank you, mr. President. Operations, can you let us know how many are in the queue, and if you would unmute the first caller. Operator yes, i have two callers in the queue. Clerk okay. Ill set the timer for two minutes, mr. President. President yee yes. Clerk okay. Welcome, caller. All right. Hello, caller . I believe i can hear your television. You should turn down your television. All right. Operations, this person might have walked away from their phone or is not watching their television. Well circle back. Can you unmute the next caller. Welcome, caller. Good afternoon, president yee, members of the San Francisco board of supervisors, staff, and members of the community. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak today. My name is don hokett, and im a field representative at carpenters local 22. I represent 4,000 carpenters here in San Francisco and 40,000 across california. I am a member of pile drivers local 34 and have worked on most of the projects in the bay area. I know having worked on this project firsthand in particular any local hires and apprentices are given the same opportunities today. The members of Carpenters Union local 22 support somas request by replacing suites with more rooms. San francisco Hospitality Industry has been impacted by covid19, and we need to support business requests to adjust to the demands of the current market. The soma hotel and their Union General contractor, hathaway dinwiddy, provides Contractors Union wages and benefits. This project provides good jobs while making every effort to hire local. In addition, the corarpenters union is in full support of the changes, and we ask that you approve them. As well. Thank you for your time. Clerk all right. Thank you for your comments. All right. Operations, try the caller once again. We are currently taking comments for the members of the community who are interested in the community from the Mission Bay South redevelopment comment. Excuse me. I meant to comment for a different were going to have Public Comments at 1 10 . Clerk were going to have general Public Comment later in the meeting. Excuse me, then ill wait for the appropriate time. Clerk okay. Operations, is there another caller . Im sorry, clerk. I thought this was Public Comment, but i just heard its 1 30 or 1 10, so ill call back. Clerk no, sir, this is Public Comment for the Mission Bay Redevelopment plan south. So if youre waiting for general Public Comment, itll be later in the meeting. I was watching the meeting on t. V. , and supervisor peskin is so smart. There was a 20 million allotment for the [inaudible] of mission bay. That was 20 years ago, and, you know, i dont know, maybe 10 years ago, and they were given 20 million to fix that problem. Peskin is so smart, he said wait a minute. That was ten years ago. I want to know what the real cost of taking care of the society is now. Hes so smart, man. Clerk operations, is there another caller, please . Hello, caller . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam president. Seeing no other speakers, Public Comment is now closed. Are there any other comments from my colleagues . Seeing none, this hearing has been heard and is now filed. Madam clerk, please call the roll on item 70. Clerk on item 70 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our next 3 00 p. M. Special orders. Lets call items 71 through 106 together. Clerk okay. Items 71 through 106 consistent of land appeals comprised of matters proposed for continuance and take individual votes on each of the appeals beginning with items 71 through 74 compromised public hearing and associated motion for 552 through 554 hill street. The suggested date for the continuance is october 6. Items 75 through 78 comprise the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination for exemption for Environmental Review for the proposed project at 231 37 avenue. For items 79 through 82, the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of conditional use authorization for the proposed project at 2001 37 avenue. Suggested date for continuance is october 6. For the items 83 through 86, for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review for the proposed department of Public Health local Oversight Program for investigation remediation project at 1776 green street with a suggested date for a continuance to october 20. For the items associated with items 87 through 90 for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of final mitigated negative declaration proposed for the project at 2417 green street. Suggested continuance date to october 20. And for the four m. T. A. Projects, items 91 through 94 for the public hearing and associated motions for the public exemption from Environmental Review for the transportation Recovery Plan from covid19 for temporary transit ways and bikeways, suggested continuance date is september 29. For the items associated with 95 through 98, public hearing and associated motions for the appeal of determination from statutory exemption from Environmental Review, suggested continuance date to september 29, and for items 99 through 102, for the public hearing and associated motions for the appeal and statutory exemption from Environmental Review for the m. T. A. Environmental operations center, emergency temporary street changes program, suggested continuance date, september 29, and lastly, for the items 103 through 106 for the public hearing and associated 340egs associated motions for the m. T. A. Post streets phase three. Suggested continuance date is september 29, 2020. Thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor haney, did you want to make some comments . Supervisor haney i had no comments, but im going to make a motion to continue these items. President yee you want to you want to make a motion to continue all the items . Supervisor haney yes. President yee okay. We could do that. Supervisor peskin mr. President , to what date . President yee to next week, to september 29. Supervisor peskin second. President yee so the motion to continue all the items from 71 to 106 has been made. Any discussion . Seeing none clerk mr. President , i just want to interrupt for a moment. The president yee go ahead. Clerk i just want to make sure, for claritys sake, supervisor haney, your motion is to continue all of these dates not to the suggested date on the calendar, but to next week. That is your motion . President yee theres different dates for different ones. Clerk yes. Each item has a suggested continuance date. President yee supervisor haney, would you like to rescind your motion, and ill just call people that might want to make motions on particular ones . Is that okay . Supervisor haney sure. I rescind my motion. President yee okay. Thank you very much. So for items 71 through 74, is there a motion to continue . Supervisor safai so moved. President yee is there a second . Second. President yee and there is a motion and a second. Supervisor peskin and, mr. President , i will go ahead and withdraw my second. President yee okay. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Madam clerk, if you would call the roll. Clerk mr. President , if you could capture who made the second, and well open it up for Public Comment so the public can comment on the continuances, and then, well take the vote on the item individually. President yee sounds good. I believe it was supervisor peskin that made the second . Is that correct, supervisor peskin, on the last vote to clerk the hill street appeal. Supervisor peskin second. President yee okay. That was him. Clerk okay. President yee is there a motion to continue items 75 through 82 . Clerk yes, that would be president yee supervisor mar . Supervisor mar yes. I would make a motion to continue items 75 through 82 to october 6. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second, supervisor mandelman. President yee second by supervisor mandelman. Is there a motion to continue items 83 through 86 . Supervisor stefani thank you, president yee. I would like to move to continue items 83 through 86 to the october 20, 2020 board of supervisors meeting. President yee okay. Thank you. Is there a motion to continue items oh, is there a second for item for that motion . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee is there a motion to continue items 83 through no, 87 through 90. Supervisor stefani yes, thank you president yee. I would like to move to continue items 87 to 90 to the october 20, 2020 board of supervisors meeting. President yee okay. Any second . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee all righty. Do we have a motion to continue items 91 through 94 . Supervisor mandelman mandelman. Clerk now were getting into the four m. T. A. Appeals for reference. President yee okay. Clerk and so this is supervisor mandelman who made the motion. Supervisor preston second, preston. President yee okay. This is a motion to continue these items to september 29. Is there a motion to continue items 99 through clerk mr. President , im sorry. 95 through 98 would be next. President yee okay. Sorry about that. Is there a motion to continue items 95 through 98 to the meeting of september 29 . Supervisor preston president yee, id like to move 95 through 98 to continued to september 29, 2020. President yee okay. Thank you. Do i have a motion to continue items 99 through 102 to september 29, 2020 . Supervisor mandelman you do, but ill also second supervisor prestons prior motion. Clerk thank you. President yee im glad i have you guys for colleagues to remind me. No, im serious. Is there a second . Supervisor mandelman made a motion to continue items 99 through 102, and seconded by who . Supervisor preston preston. President yee okay. Do i have a motion to continue items 103 through 106 to september 29, 2020. Supervisor preston motion. Supervisor mandelman second. President yee okay. Madam clerk, before we vote, lets take Public Comment on the continuances for all the items. Supervisor fewer president yee, before you president yee okay. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes, id like to ask the City Attorney for her advice. I own property near 2001 37 avenue, i think within 500 feet of the proposed construction site, so i may have to recuse myself on a motion to i just want to know, do i have to recuse myself on the motion to continue . Deputy City Attorney ann pearson, if you are confidence your absolutely confident your property is within 500 feet, its probably a safeway to proceed. Supervisor peskin i make a motion to recuse supervisor fewer. President yee no, no, no. Wait a moment. What items do you have to recuse yourself on, supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer 75 through 82. Supervisor mar i believe its 83, 84, 85, 86, and 87. Supervisor peskin and i would like to make a motion for supervisor fewer to recuse herself for those items. President yee okay. Is there a motion to recuse . Supervisor mar second, mar. Second by mar. President yee okay. Lets those items are going to be heard, also, so im a little bit [inaudible] procedurally because i will be taking Public Comments on all of these items. Madam clerk, whats the procedure here . Clerk sure. Mr. President , i think youre right. Lets take Public Comment first, and then, well take the fewer recusal, and then, well take each motion one at a time. So well begin with Public Comment. President yee okay. Do we need to excuse supervisor fewer now . Clerk no, we can take Public Comment first and then excuse her during the action. President yee okay. Lets take Public Comment for items 75 to 106 and in regards to the continuance. Okay, madam clerk, go ahead. Im sorry. Clerk i will provide the telephone phone number. It is 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 14675500645. Press pound twice and then star, three if you are interested in getting to speak. The board is accepting Public Comments for items 71 through 106. Operations, do we have any public speakers . Operator yes. We have four callers in the queue. I will unmute the first caller. Clerk okay. Welcome, caller. Can you hear me now . Clerk yes, welcome, caller. Okay. Its david pillpow. Here are my brief comments. One other appeals today are proposed to continuance for october 6 through october 20. M. T. A. Has already implemented the project, so theres no prejudice to m. T. A. M. T. A. Provided new information which i have not yet digested for researched. Five, it is extremely difficult for me to submit more information to the board by this friday, either by noon or 5 00 p. M. , so one week for me is definitely a hardship. Six, yom kippur is monday, so i dont think i can submit anything by friday morning, which is not enough time for anyone to read anything on my appeals. Please, seriously. Otherwise, i cannot meaningfully participate despite my best efforts to pursue these appeals in good faith, and i think both planning and m. T. A. Can live with two weeks, so i ask you to do the same. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin mr. President , this is supervisor peskin. I realize this is rather extraordinary, but insofar as as the Public Commenter is an appellant, if you will give me the ability to do so, i would like to, through the president , ask the individual a question. President yee you may. Go ahead. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. Mr. Pillpow, are you still on the line . Yes, im still here. Supervisor peskin mr. Pillpow, i heard the arguments that you set forth regarding the hardship and the jewish holiday that you and i share, but i would like to ask you and i dont mean to be antagonistic or argumentative, but what is going to take your days between now and y yom kippur . What is your schedule like between now and then . Yes, i can. I have family issues going on that id rather not make public. I have preparations with the synagogue relative to the ten days. On the appeals, theres a lot of information some of which was only provided yesterday by planning and m. T. A. That requires some more research both factually and legally, and he h id like to give it the effort it deserves. Im not asking for two years or six months, im only asking for two weeks. Supervisor peskin thank you, mr. Pillpow, and i understand you have family issues, nor would i like to pry, but do you have a job or anything that occupancy you eight or more hours a day . Its a yes or no question, mr. Pillpow . I do not. Im spending as much time on these appeals and spending as much time as i can on these appeals, as you are well aware. Supervisor peskin thank you for your answers, mr. Pillpow. Mr. President , thank you for allowing me my comments. President yee thank you. Madam clerk, next caller. Clerk operations, lets unmute the next caller. Welcome, caller. Do you have comments specifically on the continuance for these items . This is mary eliza. I want to support what david pillpow is asking, for two weeks. I also want to make a comment in general on how this whole process is not really set up to help the public at all. Theres a lot of concern over m. T. A. Staff time, but theres no concern for the publics time. The public [inaudible] if they have longer to analyze them or [inaudible] it would be less it would be more helpful to file an appeal immediately, so theres something really wrong with the process. The public is not allowed to do anything other than following an appeal, so if you could come up with a better method for dealing with this, and the business [inaudible] we thought what was happening with the businesses. They would like to have some kind of mitigation when things dont work out their way, but theyre not allowed to even see whats going to happen, so i would like to work this out in a longerterm manner of how we can better serve the public and not worry zoo much about these matters Going Forward in too much about these matters Going Forward in such a fast way. Clerk thank you for your comments. Operations, would you unmute the next caller, please. Hello. Clerk hello, welcome. Can i be hear . Clerk youre being heard right now. Thank you. My name is gary russ. Ive lived at 500 north in district eight, just where the city closed twin peaks boulevard on march 8. Im calling in on item 94 for my request for strong support for continuances or, if not accepted, the appeals. The city closed twin peaks boulevard without any input from our neighborhood and without any kind of ceqa review whatsoever. The citys premise for doing this was to create added recreational space, there by increasing social distancing and reducing therefore covid spread. And heres what happened six months ago. Theres been no increase in social distancing whatsoever at daytime when there is minimum fog, hundreds of people i saw mostly tourist park on burnet avenue, crest line, palo alto, and then, they walk up about a half mile to see the view. No social distancing, no masks, no effort to enforce social distancing on twin peaks at all. At night, young people gather on burnette avenue, zero masks, zero social distancing. No net benefit from closing twin peaks boulevard. Closing twin peaks boulevard has driven crime, late night, noisy, alcohol and drugfuelled partying, and hundreds and hundreds of pounds of trash on our street and private property. None of this existed before closing twin peaks boulevard. Clerk thank you for your comments, sir. Yep. Clerk okay. Operations, do we have another caller, please . Thank you. Can i be heard . Clerk yes, youre providing Public Comment on the continuance of the yes. Clerk thank you. Please proceed. Yes, i am. Mary miles. I represent coalition for representation of adequate review. We have submitted requests for continuance in order to provide the public and the appellant adequate time to inform the board of facts and Legal Authority supporting this appeal. Our request asks for specific dates that are beyond the september 29 proposed date, and we have no idea who submitted a proposal for that, but it wasnt appellant. We did have dates certain on there to accommodate the public and the appellant. Yesterday afternoon, m. T. A. And planning submitted voluminous material to this board. One week is not enough time for appellant and the public to review that material and submit comment thats informed. The city, as mr. Pillpow stated, already implemented many of its proposed projects, and therefore, it will not be prejudiced by allowing these continuance requests. The board is considering only a one week continuance on five appeals involving Major Projects affecting thousands of people while it allows a full month continuance on a single ceqa pe ceqa appeal in pacific heights. That is unfair treatment, and we ask for the same treatment that other appellants receive. Its the boards duty to hear the appellant and not be a mouthpiece to m. T. A. Appeals to the board are the last level of appeals to resolve issues at the administrative level. Theyre important in the ceqa scheme and serve to obviate the need for litigation. We ask that the board continue the dates beyond september 29 and study our request. Clerk thank you. And state again, one week is not long enough. Clerk thank you for your comment, miss miles. Operations, do we have another caller, please . Operator madam clerk, that completes the queue. Clerk okay. Thank you. Mr. President . President yee thank you. Seeing no other Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. Supervisor peskin, do you have something . I see you on the roster. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i already made any comment. Thats an old. President yee yeah, i can only tell supervisor peskin yes, i spoke much earlier. Thank you, sir. President yee madam clerk, can we actually take motions on the continuance together . Clerk if youre speaking about the 2001 37 avenue project, i believe that would be already. In my conversations with the deputy City Attorney ann pearson, it was recommended that each of these be taken individually for claritys sake. President yee okay. Then well do that. Why dont we go ahead and, just so ill just do it my way. Im going to take items through 75 through 78 and then right after that, 79 through 81 first. So theres been a motion to recuse excuse supervisor fewer. And was there a second on it . I dont remember. Clerk yes, it was supervisor mar. President yee okay. Can i have a roll call on that motion . Clerk on the motion to recuse supervisor fewer from items 75 through 82 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee so the motion passes to excuse supervisor fewer. Madam clerk, please call the roll on the motion to continue the items 75 through 82 to tuesday, october 6, 2020. Clerk okay. On that motion [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, items 75 through 82 are continued to the meeting of tuesday, october 6. Madam clerk, we can bring back supervisor fewer at this point. Clerk yes. President yee and lets go to items 71 through 74, to continue those items till october 6, 2020. Roll call. Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, items 74 71 through 74 are continued to the meeting of october 6, 2020. Madam clerk, on the motion to continue items 83 through 86. Clerk okay. To october 20, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk okay. On the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection. Items 83 through 86 are continued to the meeting of october 6, 2020. On the motion to continue items 87 through 90, madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the motion to continue items 87 through 90 to october 20 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, items 87 through 90 are continued to the meeting of tuesday, october 20, 2020. On the motion to continue items 91 through 94 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, items 91 through 94 are continued to september 29, 2020. On the motion to continue items 95 through 98, madam clerk . Clerk to september 29, mr. President . President yee yes. Clerk okay. On the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to pass without objection, then items 95 through 98 are continued to the meeting of september 29, 2020. On the motion to continue items 99 through 102 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So motion passes. Madam clerk, on the motion to continue items 103 to 106 till september 29, 2020, madam clerk . Clerk on the motion [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion passes. Thank you, colleagues, for your indulgence in going through all that. Madam clerk, lets go back to item 53, go ahead and call item 53. Clerk item 53 is a motion to amend the taxes and penalties and interests relating to taxes that are subject to the common administrative provisions of that code and to add provisions for administering the cannabis business tax. President yee okay. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 54 is a resolution to approve the terminal 3 boarding area f news and multiconcept retail store lease number 190246 between mrg San Francisco terminal 3, l. L. C. , as tenant, and the city and county of San Francisco, acting by and through its airport commission, for a term of seven years with two oneyear options to extend, and a minimum annual guarantee of 750,000 for the first year of the lease, to commence following board approval. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 55. Clerk item 55 is a resolution to authorize adoption of the San Francisco Mental Health services act threeyear program and expenditure integrated plan for fiscal years 2020 through 2023. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 55 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets take items 56 and 57 together. Clerk item 56 and 57 are two items that deal with 681 florida street, construction of a 130 multiunit family project. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on thoese two items. Clerk on items 56 and 57 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The resolutions are adopted unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, go ahead and call 58 and 59 together. Clerk items 58 and 59 are two resolutions that pertain to the communities facility district or c. F. D. S [inaudible] not to exceed 18 million and to approve related documents, including an official statement, fiscal agent agreement, bond Purchase Agreement and continuing disclosure certificate, clarifying certain items of the rate and method of apportionment of special tax, and determining other matters in connection there with, as defined here in. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk okay. On items 58 and 59 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the items are adopted unanimously. Next item, please. Clerk next item, mr. President . Okay. Item 60 is a resolution to approve the form of and authorize the distribution of a preliminary official statement relating to the execution and delivery of city and county of San Francisco certificates of participation for the animal care and control project and to authorize the preparation, execution, and delivery of a final official statement and to modify and ratify the approvals and terms and conditions of a previous resolution and related matters, as defined herein. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 60 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 61. Clerk item 61 is a resolution to levee property taxes at a combined 1. 19 on each 100 valuation of taxable property for the city and county, San Francisco unified school district, San Francisco county office of education, San Francisco Community College district, bay area rapt transit district, and bay area air Quality Management district, and establishing a passthrough rate of. 07 per 100 of assessed value for residential tenants pursuant to administrative code. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Next item. Clerk item 62 is a resolution approving for purposes of the revenue coat section 146f, the issuance and sale of revenue obligations by the California Enterprise Development Authority in an aggregate Principal Amount not to exceed 20 million to finance the acquisition, construction, renovation, rehabilitation, improvement and or equipping of educational and related facilities to be owned and operated by San Francisco day school. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on the item. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 63. Clerk item 63 is an ordinance to order the vacation of streets in the india basin project site, located generally at innes avenue between griffith street and earl street, alone the india basin shoreline, reserving temporary public utility and access right in favor of the city and temporary easement rights for existing pg e gas and overhead electrical facilities, authorizing the city to quitclaim its interest in approximately 3. 6 acres within earl street, hudson avenue, and arrestlious waumer drive to india basin investment, l. L. C. , and making the appropriate findings. President yee okay. So then, madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 63 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee and unanimously, this item is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, lets go to the next item. Clerk item 64 is an ordinance amending the health code to establish cleaning and disease prevention standards and practices in Tourist Hotel and Large Commercial Office buildings to help contain covid19 or other Contagious Health threats. President yee okay. Supervisor pesk peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I have five very minor amendments, all of which have been distributed to the board and which the deputy City Attorney has been deemed to have been nonsubstantive in nature, and i want to thank the council for giving five of the six changes that we asked for and other parties asked here in. [inaudible] to have that section read, nothing in this article shall preclude an employee from bringing a civil action for alleged violation of this article where such civil action is recognized under the law. That would replace the previous. Just a few words that are changed in that provision. At 65. 3 sube sub7 page 6, strike the word dedicated. At line 7, after primary public entrance, insert in a hotel 100 rooms or more, and in section 625. 3 subf sub3 and subf sub7, insert open, and at line 17, insert youll see this in the word document that is before you, must remove the guest room for use, and then insert for seven days or until the department, and that would be the department of Public Health, determines that its safe for reuse. Those are the amendments that i hereby make a motion to move. President yee is there a second . Supervisor mandelman second, mandelman. President yee second by supervisor mandelman. Roll call on the motion to amend. Clerk on the motion to amend item 64 [roll call] president yee okay. Motion to amend passes. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the item as amended. Clerk on the item as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee so the ordinance as amended is passed on First Reading. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, item number 65. Clerk item 65 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to extend by five months to august 31, 2020, the deadline for the streetlevel Drug Distribution task force to submit its initial report to the board of supervisors and the mayor, and to revise the contents of that report, and subsequent reports, to require a summary of the progress of the task force and its plans for the next threemonth period. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 65 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. So the motion to without objection, the ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, call item number 66. Clerk item 66 is a resolution to confirm the nomination of alfred sims as the county Veterans Service officer for the city and county of San Francisco. President yee okay. Go ahead and call the roll on this item. Clerk on item 66 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 67. Clerk item 67 is a motion appointing dean schmidt, lila lahood, and jennifer wong, terms ending april 27, 2022, to the Sunshine Ordinance Task force. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 67 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, this the motion is approved unanimously. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go to item number 68. Clerk item 68 is a motion to appoint Cissie Bonini and Emma Steinberg to the Food Security task force for an indefinite term. President yee supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. Id like to strike all reference to seat 18, as that seat is not correct, and the seat will be up for considerations by the rules committee next week. President yee is there a second . Supervisor preston second. President yee okay. Second by supervisor preston. The motion to amend, roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to amend item 68 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to amend passes. Madam clerk, please call the item as amended. Clerk okay. Thank you to supervisor ronen for making that amendment for our office, and to the members for approving that. On item 68 as amended [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The the item as amended passes. [gavel]. President yee is approved. Okay. Madam clerk, please call the next item. I dont know whether were at Committee Reports or not . Clerk our Committee Reports, that is correct. President yee okay. Clerk item itesitems 17 0 1 107 and 108 were considered by the government audit and Oversight Committee at a regular meeting on thursday, september 17, 2020. The chair intends to request the committee to send the following items as Committee Reports on tuesday, september 2, 2020. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on these items. Clerk on items 107 and 108 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to 108. Clerk 108, this is a resolution to urge the association of bay hair governments, abag, in its upcoming Regional Housing needs allocation, rhna, process to focus on San Franciscos unmet needs for housing affordable to low and moderate income residents, counteract the displacement of low and moderate income communities of color in core urban cities like San Francisco and oakland, prioritize increased to the regions above mad rat rhna allocation in high resource and high opportunity jurisdictions, and limit increases in above moderate rhna allocations to bay area cities with sken ken concentrations of sensitive communities. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on the item [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without resolution, the item is adopted unanimously. Okay. Madam clerk, lets go to our roll call for introductions. Clerk supervisor preston, youre first up to introduce new business. Supervisor preston submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen yes. Colleagues, today, i have a few items. First, i will be introducing an ordinance that would broaden the boundaries of San Franciscos cultural indian district. Cultural districts are one of the most important tools we as a city have to strengthen the cultural identity of neighborhoods and communities that face the dangers of gentrification and displacement. The recently formed American Indian cultural district which is situated within the Mission District and the Mission Delores neighborhoods in areas that expands districts 8 and 9 provides a home base for the american indpopulation in San Francisco to make sure that its contributions and milestones are not overwritten. Due to covid and the urgent need to establish this cultural district in order to channel city resources to the American Indian community as quickly as possible, we decided to approve the legislation with the original boundaries and revisit expanding the boundaries through an amendment to the legislation once things stabilized. Now that most City Government departments are back in operations, were following through with our commitment to recognize a slightly broader footprint for the American Indian cultural district which would be roughly bounded by 17 street, market street, duboce avenue, and 7 street. It has been a great honor to partner with so many great leaders from the American Indian community and bring this project to a fruition, especially when cultural districts are playing such a Critical Role in connecting our communities to the resources and information they need to navigate this crisis. I want to thank supervisor mandelman and his office as well as [inaudible] in my office for their work on this, as well. Next, i will be introducing a request for a hearing on the department of Public Healths response to the Covid Response in the community. Unfortunately, studies show that the Latino Community was contracting the virus at a much higher rate than other san franciscans completely disproportionate to the population numbers in the city. After nearly 4,000 tests, ucsf found that 95 of those who tested positive in the Mission Study were latino, and at the time, latinos accounted for 55 of all covid cases in San Francisco. The citys response should have been swift and decisive to mitigate the toll that covid has inflicted on our city. Today, nearly five months after the study, the situation has only gotten worse in the mission and in the latino population for the city. Today, 50 of all people in San Francisco with covid are latinx. The hearing im calling for is intended why were not making progress. We want to know specifically how d. P. H. Focuses its resources in the latinx and how has the strategy involved given the rising infection rate, and what standards are used to measure success . What is the plan to reduce the infection rate in the Latinx Community . I look forward to hearing from dr. Colfax and the staff, and to have a robust discussion on what we need to do to get infection rates down in the Latinx Community, and i will be asking this hearing be scheduled as soon as possible. And then finally, today, im introducing a resolution in support of california state p proposition 17, free the ballot. When passed, it will allow the california constitution to allow people who committed felonies to vote after their prison term and while they are still on parole. We will join 17 states in doing so. Right now, there are 50,000 californiians w californiia californians who have completed their prison term, and yet, california denies them the most fundamental right to participate in our democracy. Make no mistake, stripping the right to vote from formerly incarcerated people is a form of voter suppression, and part of the legacy of jim crow segregation and continuing Racial Discrimination that proportionally locks black and brown people out of voting participation. It is time for our state to be a leader in progressive and inclusive democracy. Initially authored by Kevin Mccarthy in sacramento, thank you to my cosponsorship, supervisors walton, preston, haney, and fewer, los angeles, san jose, oakland, and berkeley, have all passed similar ordinances. I hope we can join them, and the rest i submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Today, i will be asking for a hearing in the way the ongoing local and federal investigations have made clear we need more accountability from city departments. This ordinance was drafted in response to the city auditors Public Integrity review and contracting in public works. In that report, the city auditor found that public works issued 19 grants totaling 24 million [inaudible] which was a source of corruption of its own. The city auditor found these grants were found in accordance with city policy only because there is no city policy, and that needs to change. The problem is larger than public works. The city issued 5,746 grant awards totaling 5. 4 billion over the last four years. The city has only provided guidance to departments which does not carry the force of law and is totally nonbinding. This proposal will create a new chapter in the administrative code to create formalized standards for the notification, selection, and participation in grant awards. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, madam clerk. Couple of things for this afternoon. Last friday afternoon, the board of supervisors, as you know, received an email from the director of the department of Human Resources regarding the corruption at the equal Employment Opportunity office where a manager allegedly had forged documents and lied to a black employee regarding their e. E. O. Case, including manipulating and deleting case lines, forging communications, dismissing lawsuits, and misrepresenting the department and the city. Somehow, this was allowed to happen. There have been multiple black employees who have complained about this over the last few years as documented by the black employees alliance and as reported by employees to our office. The state of African American employment and economic mobility in San Francisco is troubling at best. We will conduct a hearing on these issues at the october 15 government and accountability committee, where d. H. R. Will present and complete an audit requested by the mayor on how departments are doing on the mayors ten employee mandates given in 2018. Today, i am also requesting another hearing, along with supervisor peskin, to receive recommendations on restructuring and reforming the equal Employment Opportunity office and an analysis of the best practices of similar urban jurisdictions with c. E. O. Offices, including Core Functions of the c. E. O. Offices within overall City Government structures, staff reporting and investigation protocols, and general oversight and requesting the department of Human Resources, the budget and legislative analyst, and office of controller to present. [please stand by] which is the save our stages. Which was introduced this past july in the United States senate by senators john cornen and amy cobichar providing 10 billion in aid to small, live venue operators. As we all know, the covid19 pandemic has devastated Small Businesses and forced non essential businesses to cease operations in march of 2020. While some businesses have slowly reopened, at largely reduced capacity, many Entertainment Venues in San Francisco and across the country remain shuttered with no set plan for reopening. They have provided bid and the businesses and to our country business and workers by passing the Small Business Administration Program and its failed to meet the need with millions having been given to multi million and billion Dollar Corporation and instead of the Small Businesses they were intended to support. In particular, our beloved small venues even and community theats provides greater flexibility and is available through the ppp program when it comes to and we have to act fast if which expect the business to survive the pandemic. The live Event Industry is experiencing upwards of 90 revenue loss with venues and theaters predicted to remain closed well into 2021 due to safety concerns posed by large gatherings. Without support from congress, 90 of these venues across america also report that they will be forced to close their doors forever. This is important to us locally and nationally. San francisco is famous for its unique and diverse night life that continues to shape art and culture across the globe and protecting this legacy is essential and is the need to make sure that San Francisco continues to be a place where we all can see each other and enjoy life and in corridors because they hope to find a critical part of who we are and they play a role in our local economy and according to an update of the Controllers Office of Economic Impact study in 2018, 3,418 night life establishments in San Francisco employ 63,000 workers and generate 7. 2 billion for city. A permanent loss of independent venues and theaters will have tremendous Economic Impacts on the city of San Francisco and the country at large including venue owners and staff and also the artists, the companies have individuals that provide renters and Tourism Industry which rely on them for entertainment for their guests and the restaurants and bars and taxi and Ride Share Companies and and more. We need our night life venues, our cultural identity and a portion of our economy are at stake. The save our stages act will authorization them to grant eligible live venue operators producers, promoters, talent representatives out of this establish fund and it has bipartisan support with 42 cosponsors and we need it to pass now and our venues rely on this support and i want to thank my cosponsors, ronen, walton and preston and join the many dozens of independent venues in our city that have been organized for the passage of this fact in calling for us to support the save our stages act so we can prevent devastating impacts on the induce tremendous and on our culture and economy. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman. Submit. Ok, thank you. Supervisor mar. Thank you, madam clerk. Today i have two items. First, pursuant to charter section 9. 117, im calling for a hearing to receive the report covering fiscal year 20182019 and to hear the audit plans for fiscal year 20192020 to 2020. Given the on going fiscal challenge and gren Community Needs in our city, its more important than ever to ensure our city finances in order and that all plans in every dollar is used in accordance with the intended purpose. Secondly, im interesting an emergency ordinance to reenact the right to reem employment. This policy was passed by the bored on june 23rd and enacted on july 3rd. Since then we reenacted it and i introduced a regular ordinance that would codify this policy to provide certainty as the publichealth emergency conditions. That regular non emergency back to work ordinance moved through the legislative process for our considertation will keep the right to reemployment in effect. As our city allows more business to reopen, and more jobs again become available, this one will ensure that laid off workers are given the chance to be retired through a fair process rather than replaced. And the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin. Thank you, madam clerk, thank you mr. President , colleagues. First of all, i would like to associate myself with the comments of supervisor walton with regards to the revelations at the eeo office and they are profoundly disturbing. Ive spoken to the mayors chiefofstaff about this and to the head of our department of Human Resources who, as we all know, will be retiring shortly. This, in many ways, is more scandalous than what we learned about terrible but relative low petty corruption that was commit bid Mohammad Nuru and other senior officials in our government. This really goes to the core of pair Employment Practices and i am profoundly doubled by this and look forward to that hearing and thank you supervisor walton, for his leadership in that matter. We are close to the end of the month, september 30th, the Expiration Date of the state wide commissioner eviction protection regiment and later this evening, item 111 on our calender will be vote ong a resolution urging the governor of the great state of california to take immediate action to extend the suspension, emergency suspension of state laws that preempt our ability to protect Small Businesses at the local level and its absurd to think if they will have back rent and regular rent when so many are operated at limited if any capacity so today, together with supervisor preston, were introducing a 60 day emergency ordinance and the most we can do to prohibit evictions and Small Businesses for their inability to pay rent. For extending relief, were will be introduction emotional and i apologize for this to have it heard as committee of the whole next tuesday and thank you president yee for granting that request. If all goes well, the governor of california will take his own action and if he does so, our mayor, who acted before, can take a similar action. Because what we really need is relief from the state to untie our hands so we can continue the work that mayor breed and this board have done to prevent the worst catastrophe to our residential and commercial businesses and we wont have that hearing next week and and so well see how that goes. And that relief is part of this fight and these stop gap measures really beg for more holistic relief and i know that both this emergency ordinance, as well as a permanent ordinance and we are submitting today contain hardship for hand lords and Property Owners and many of whom are hampered by their own mortgage and other debt obligations and to the commercial tenants in jaytown and the Small Business owners and their employees in northbeatnorthnorth beach and n francisco. I profoundly want to thank you for sticking with it and continuing to do what you really do best which is to adapt and thrive even during these trying times. The rest i submit. Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Mr. President , seeing no names on the roster it seems to be the end of the introduction of new business. Lets go to Public Comment. If you need assistance contact my office at 415 5545184 and we have someone standing by to assist you and ill give you the telephone number. Its 14156550001 and the meeting i. D. Number is 146 750 0645 and press pound twice if you have already dialed in mr. President , did you call me . I was going to say, just be clear, we will give one minute to Public Comment. If youve dialed in early and youve been listening to the proceedings all along and you wish to get in line to provide your testimony you will press star 3 now. This is for general Public Comment. The prompt that you are lining for is you have been unmuted and you can just begin your testimony. If you are dial in now, the number is on the television and on the internet. When you are ready, again, just press star 3 when you are ready to get in line. Its the best practice you can you will miss the prompt if your location is loud. I want to say about a moment Public Comment today and of course the items would then subject managers jurisdiction of the board not on the agenda and can be spoke on and you can speak on the approval of the Meeting Minutes and talk to committee calender and those are items 111 through 119ment all other items on this agenda, 168, as well as 107 through 108 are not eligible for your testimony today as they have all had their dually noticed public hearing fulfilled at committee. You can also speak on the Meeting Minutes as well. I want to just be clear the items 2952 contain the annual appropriation ordinance. These are the matters associated with the citys budget and these are not items that are eligible for Public Comment. If you do happen to cross over in the line of Public Comment items, ill just pause your time and well do that one time and well redirect you gently. Second to last point, unfortunately its worth mentioning in advance that the board of supervisors will not tolerate discriminatory or harassing remarks made at this public meeting. Pursuant to city policy, along with federal state and local laws the city invites Public Comment or criticisms on its policies, procedures and programs, services, acts or omissions on the board but theres nothing in state law that will confer a privilege or protection for expressions that constitute a discriminatory or harassing remark. All right, we have a couple of interpreters who are still with us, i believe. I would love for them to interest themselves in succession. Well begin with agnes lie. I want to confer one thing. Is it public time is one or two minutes . Yes, thank you so much. Were providing Public Comment up to one minute. Thank you. [voice of interpreter] vladimir puti[voice of interpre] thank you so much, madam clerk. Thank you all three for still being able to be with us this evening. Mr. President , that concludes my comments. Supervisor yee lets get started. Operations, lets hear from the first caller, please. Welcome caller, you have one minute. Caller what can you say one minute that frankly im going to breakdown and cry so it doesnt matter. I saw today in the paper and the Granada Hotel which is Senior Housing like the broad moore, you know. Needed, needed. And by that for Supportive Housing. My Street Corner theres a hotel for sale cheaper, a Residential Hotel thats been used for tourism and its upgraded to ada and its mostly empty now where the knob hill neighborhoods are and its been living since the apartment was burned and its a lovely place. Across the building theres 88 units also used illegally and now partly reconverted. Things like that need to be bought. And motels, Tourist Hotels, and so fourth. The gra mad a and the broadmoore are places where people who i know have gone to live. People who are not going to qualify for Supportive Housing and its next caller, please. Caller wow, one minute. Its not enough time. First of all, id like to say that something needs to be done about how you call for Public Comment at the committee meetings. Because theres been a couple times where ive been watching on sfgovtv on the stream online and theyve said, call for Public Comment and given the number ive called as soon as they said and because of the delay, its been late and i havent been able to provide Public Comment. So i feel like my brown act rights and i love the brown act, as you know, i feel like in those cases my brown act rights are kind of violated because there was not enough time given for me to even call it because of the delay. It changes all the time which is weird. Sfgov gov needs to get rid of the lower third. Shrink it down so we can see who is in the meeting. I appreciate most of the things about supervisors have done and and i dont support thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller, please. Caller hello. Can you hear me . Yes. Caller yes, this is gilbert crystal of district 8. Im calling about transit issues and transit lack of transit. Muni still has not restored service to many muni lines during the pandemic that they cut. Its time to restore services and lines that were cut during the pandemic. Muni needs to open the subway and open the f line. Muni is in a black hole of financial black hole and fiscal irresponsibility muni is mismanaged and corrupt. We need to fix muni so they can get around the city. Poor people are kicked to the curb. A bus service that is operating is only operating the only reason there are buses on the line is because an election is coming. I want to thank you for the opportunity to speak. Im representing our deckhands of golden gate ferry. My comments today are regarding two of your supervisors. Its on the Golden Gate Bridge board and they have a Board Meeting where we asked the berdych members to support us and postponing a notice until january 1st and 2021. We were disappointed and sadly, to hear that the Board Members from the board of supervisors and what i would ask is well that any further issues Golden Gate Bridge to layoff employees and would be supported by the supervisors and you would fill your empty board seats and its been so distressing for all the workers there the 240 that could be laid off to think everyday as they go to work this could get the day i get my notice from the district. Operations, please unmute the next caller, please. Can you hear me . Yes, we can, welcome. Thank you, good morning. My name is shane white and im the president of the local 1575 that represent 250 front line essential hardworking Bus Operators and golden gate transit that connect San Francisco to the north bay. I want to echo some of the fronts from marina, who just spoke. Im happy to hear the supervisors have spoken up and Bus Operators by name and how the city took care of these heroes during the pandemic. Im proud and my Front Line Group and hope that they are taking care of as well. To echo what marina said again, a couple supervisors, went the opposite way and im hoping that theres going to be another vote that needs to come up to approve layoffs and we hope these can be staved off until the after the first of the year. With the holidays coming up, i just want everybody to know and the pandemic, Mental Health issues are prevalent and suicide and no one needs a layoff hanging over there head while that are dragging a bus through San Francisco during a pandemic. Thank you for your comments. Operations next caller, please. Caller hello, my name is bennett and i represent the Freedom Socialist Party with a storefront office in district 6. We support the resolution calling on governor newsome to expend the moratorium of evictions on Small Businesses. We join other Community Groups that for bid rent that is not paid during the moratorium. They should be given a full year lifted to re pay any deferred rent, Small Businesses are a part of the heart and soul of our communities and allowing evictions to proceed without during the pandemic or service landowner and for gender communities. The fsp itself calls that we believe the city of San Francisco should itself set an example by doing no less than immediately creating City Ordinance to establish a rent holiday for all residents, Community Groups until the end of the covid19 emergency. To protect renters, not big businesses, those use be airbnb or landlords. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Operations, next caller, please. Caller hello, im speaking on item 111. I really appreciate that you are doing this proactively to help our businesses. I am very active in japan town and familiar with the situation of the merchants and the japan center mall. And i just wanted to ask you, please, to do everything you can and be creative and active in finding a broadbased support for these people. They are, im in awe of them. Theyre facing a year where they will be paying a month and a half commercial rent, com an area charges, publicity charges, and theres an automatically increase in their leases. And they are facing it and working so hard to stay in business to keep our communities and our cities alive and vibrant and so do all you can to help them. Thank you for your comments. Operations, lets hear from the next caller, please. Hello. I would like to acknowledge that i would like to acknowledge can you hear me . I would like to and the people, thank you president yee, supervisor ronen and mandelman for your support and the rest of the board of supervisors for your time today. My name is mary travis salas and i am my mother side and on my fathers side. I am a mother, grandmother and great grand mother. I represent an elder from the American Indian cultural district board. I have lived in San Francisco all my life. The need to expand the already legislative boundaries of the American Indian cultural district is important. We need land for our cultural centers, ceremonials stage and Community Garden and cultural district processes. We should have already had this recognition and already had a designated district to build and support our communities and we need to be acknowledged in this city and have a voice when concerns are discussed by the leadership and Government Regarding underserved communities and the need for funding and services. Thank you for your comments. Operations, is there another caller, please . Hello, supervisors, my name is dianne and im a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific islander legal outreach. Were working with the firm of perk kins coy to represent tenants who are Small Business owners renting space in the japan center mall. I just want to thank supervisors peskin and preston for taking the lead in introducing this emergency ordinance. These tenants have been almost out of business for almost five months and theyre being asked to pay back all their rent by october 1st. We need your support to help