File should be submitted to the court. Items after the will be on the june 14 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Supervisor peskin thank you. Please read the first item clerk yes, item number one resolution approving sfmta eight 201617 paratransit broker in operating agreement withservices incorporated supervisor peskin thank you. Is there a representative hear from the mta to address this item . Staff annette williams. Before you today is a new contact or Paratransit Services will provide doortodoor transportation for people with disabilities unable to use muni. For the past 35 years, and i note you been here for many of those years, and contacting San Francisco Paratransit Services and we went through a competitive bid for this new contact. When out in november with drs p and we had an evaluation made up of panel of disabilities and seniors and experts and paratransit that a valuate of the proposal. Were their recommendation, mpa staff negotiated a contract withfor a fiveyear period and fiveyear option. Some of the new things in this contract are mobility management activities. We are going to revenue information and Referral Center for seniors and people disabilities to tell them about all the Transportation Options that there are in San Francisco. We are also going to expand the travel Training Program for people who may not have use the system before and could benefit from that. We also have some new Technology Related projects in the contract. One is the integration of the debit card. This is the taxi debit card with flywheel so customers will be able to call a cab using electronic technology, which we think will be a huge benefit, especially to wheelchair users who can differentiate between accessible and nonaccessible vehicles. In addition, we will have software that allowed the band customers to do their scheduling, canceling, tracking of rides using technology as well. So, we can both of those are going to be new and good additions. Im happy to answer any questions you have. Im glad to be here before you again. Supervisor peskin its good to see you here im amazed mark soto is still running the program and youre still doing it for the mta. All these many years later. Ms. Newman, on behalf of the budget analyst, you recommend approval of this item. Any comments staff through the chair, supervisors, yes, debra newman from the legislative i would just note that the mta did issue a request for causal in november 2015, and then in december 2015. The board approved a ordinance require the sfmta eight to include prevailing wages and worker retention provisions in the new agreement. So if you look on table 1, on page 4, of our report, it doesnt show the various Funding Sources that will be used to fund the 142 Million Dollar agreement over the next five years. We would also note the proposed agreement for the first year for fiscal year 1617 will cost approximately 25 20 million, which is about 2 million, or eight 8. 6 higher than the fiscal. About 22. 7 million, and we just note the primary reason for the cost increase is related to the higher salaries associated with the prevailing wage provision that we do recommend approval. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Newman can supervisor breed president breed thank you. Ms. Williams, i just had a question you during the process, can you provide me with information of who did it on the contract as well as who was on the Selection Committee and tell us a little bit about the process . Staff sure. We had three firms that came to the prebid for the rfp Selection Process and that was zapt, first transit, and secure transportation. We had two options that the firms granted under option a or b. One was doing Administrative Services get the other one was administrative and some of the transportation services. So any from the bit on both options. We had two calls from one firm, so only one of the three firms transbay, elected to bid on the trunk contract and they did under both options amd. The Selection Committee reviewed both of those proposals i made up of three people with disabilities, to organizations that serve people with disabilities, a paratransit expert from outside of San Francisco and a paratransit expert from San Francisco. President breed thanks. Supervisor peskin i want to welcome vice chair the Committee Supervisor norman yee was joined us that other any members of the public would like to testify on item number one . Seeing none, we will close public almonds. [gavel] supervisor peskin supervisor yee any questions for ms. Williams relative to the the contact with zepp . Supervisor yee i reviewed it and it seems fine to me. Supervisor peskin that we have a motion to send this item to the full board with a recommendation . Dylan do want to add anything . Okay. Moved by supervisor breed without objection will send this item to the full board with a recommendation. Thank you ms. Williams. Good to see you again. [gavel] supervisor peskin please read the next item clerk item number two, resolution retroactively authorizing San Francisco Business Commission to accept and expand increase the grant from the United States department of education. Supervisor peskin thank you. Supervisor yee this is your item supervisor yee this is always nice for the city to be the seed funding from the federal government. Particularly, with this type of funding for [inaudible] and i believe tracyis here to present staff im tracyphone for the commission. This is a additional 300,000 for a grant that began in july 2012. This is the federal dollars passed through to the California Department of education for our Early Learning Quality Improvement system which is also called quality rating and improvement system. What this fund is, not only assesses the prequel classroom, but also workshops, training, technical assistance, and other developmental support. Like Mental Health and inclusion. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Long. Ms. Newman, any comments . You recommend approval i noticed. Any questions from Committee Members . Are there any members of the public would like to testify on item number two . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor peskin is there a motion to send this to the board . Supervisor peskin i the motion to send this to the board supervisor peskin motion to the send this to the full board with a recommendation. Without objection, that will be the order. [gavel] supervisor peskin please read the next item clerk item number three 81 examining the administrative codes require housing platform to residential unit is on the city registry prior to listing. Supervisor peskin thank you. Weve been joined by the chief sponsor of this orbix david campos and i want to thank supervisor campos for his leadership on this issue as well as the coalition of housing advocates, homeowners, tenants, Public Safety advocates, Hotel Workers, the Hotel Council, the Apartment Association, the tenants union, for lending their support to this very reasonable and longoverdue piece of legislation intended to fix some of the loopholes in my predecessors well intended but yet evolving and still flawed legislation around shortterm rentals. With that, but he turned it over to supervisor campos supervisor campos thank you. Much mr. Chairman. I want to thank you and your staff for working so closely with us on this item. I am proud to be cosponsor of this piece of legislation with you. Colleagues, i want to thank the committee for their attention to this matter. I am handing out a amendment that we would be introducing to the legislation, but essentially, where we are and what is before you todayi want to thank all the members of the public on both sides of this issue who have come outfor this item what is before you today is a very modest and very simple proposal that is aimed at helping here in San Francisco reserve the very precious Housing Stock that we have them and we know that we have a housing crisis, and what we are doing through this very modest amendment is simply closing a loophole in our current shortterm rental law. I would like to once again, thank supervisor peskin which and that is been working on this for quite some time. I also want to thank for their cosponsorship supervisor mar and supervisor avalos. This legislation mandates that web platforms support, not hinder, the enforcement of our current shortterm law here in San Francisco. Let me be very clear. This is not about changing the existing law. It simply about making sure that this lot that has been in effect for 18 months or so, that this little lot is actually enforced. Its ultimately about corporate responsibility. , about an industry that has made and continues to make tens of millions of dollars in this business, in this line of work, taking responsibility for the negative impact that theyre having on the Housing Stock. Why is that important . Its important because we have been facing for the last 23 years, a housing crisis unlike anything that San Francisco has seen. Again, this proposal is about enforcement and the proposal specifically mandates that have housing platforms like b b verify that a host has actually registered with the city and county before they actually advertise their shortterm rental on their website. Its that simple. If a hosting platform fails to do so, we believe that hosting platform has a responsibility to be a good citizen. That hosting platform under this amendment would be penalized up to 1000 a day. While the current law has set rules for hosts stipulating that all posts must register with the city and county and postRegistration Number, as of today, more than 75 of the 7000 , plus bmd house 7000 with bmd alone, have not registered, and yet, what we see is platforms like b b allowing those folks knowing they are breaking the law to advertise on the platform. To budget and legislative Analyst Reports as well as extensive reporting by the San Francisco chronicle of all entities, show this industry continues to exacerbate our worsening housing crisis by taking even more units off the market. Last year, the budget analyst did report that found that bmd alone is responsible for taking up to 2000 entire units completely off the Housing Market for the purpose of engaging in commercial shortterm rentals. This is why we need to bring the hosting platforms into the regulatory scheme by making sure that they have a role in helping enforcement. This is something that Planning Department staff, as much as the maid tried to walk away from this comments, Planning Department staff when asked about how to enforce this law have recommended in the past and will alsohave made it very clear as has the budget and legislative analyst, that the changes we are making is consistent with what is required for proper enforcement. The weakness of the current law is the fact that corporate accountability is nonexistent. Corporate accountability is not part of the equation. We believe that when, after two years, we still have 75 of folks out of compliance, that it shows the law is simply not working. Again, i law, this amendment does not change anything about the rules that are in place. It simply ensures that hosting platforms follow the law and help the city not hinder compliance. Let me say this. I met with many in the home share and community. I support hosted i support the mom and pop goo are using this as a way to make ends meet. We have no problem with that and we made a very clear them and there is nothing in this law that actually places any burden on those hosts. But, left unregulated, this industry will continue to exacerbate the housing crisis and as much is bmd and platforms may try to hide behind the momandpop castle host, those are not the target of this legislation. At the end of the day, this about enforcement and compliance. Some have claimed this legislation would force platforms to please shortterm rentals. Let me just say, that is a ridiculous notion. If you are a rental car agency and you make sure that a person has a license before you let them rent a car from you, does that somehow turn you into policing the folks who rent cars from those entities, those companies . I dont think it does. Likewise, it doesnt do that with these platforms. Im a huge supporter of Internet Freedom and we work carefully with the City Attorneys Office to make sure that we follow the very letter and spirit of the law and what the law provides. As mark rosenberg, executive director of the la Privacy Information Center has said, if youre operating a business on the internet and providing business related information, pursuant to a license activity, it seems entirely reasonable that you comply with those obligations. This law, once again was carefully written so that it does not come into conflict with federal law that we are not forcing web platforms to edit hosted content in any way. We are simply saying that with a platforms must be that they have to be responsible actors and not facilitate unregulated activity which is the very problem that we have here. That facilitation is happening. Unscrupulous whammo seven abusing the loopholes in our law robbing San Franciscos residence of the Affordable Housing they need, and bmd from our perspective to take the analyses further, poke seven robbing residents of that housing and bmd has essentially been driving the getaway car could this is government stepping in and saying, enough is enough. This has to stop. Again, want to think the broad range of people worked with my office on this legislation. Supervisor peskin, his chief of staff sunny and cool, San Francisco tenets unit, local two, choochoo, tenants together the San Francisco Apartment Association, you can see its a very interesting gathering of people were not usually on the same page. Senior and disability action. Share better, housing rights committee, and many more good i also want to thank the City Attorneys Office, especially rob catholic for his phenomenal work on this legislation. I also know that kevin guy, the director of the office of shortterm rentals is here and we want to thank him and his staff for the input they have provided, but before i turn it over to rg cosponsor supervisor peskin i do have a question that i want to to the chair asked the City Attorney. People have been raising concerns in the past about the Communications Decency act, and theres a lot of posing on the part of bmd and others that they have a winning legal case, and as an attorney and someone whos litigated many cases before, i know that people tend to do that, tend to say that and boast about those things. But i want to just directly asked the City Attorney, if you can address that issue because this is not any layperson simply saying this is a legally defensible. We want to be are directly from the City Attorney. City attorney good morning. At your direction supervisor, we drafted this ordinance in a way that minimizes any issues under the Communications Decency act. The law that you mentioned. This ordinance does not regulate the content of any posted information on the website, the hosting platform. Rather, it relates to Business Activities as you said, supervisor, of the hosting platform. So, essentially, it extends the type of information that they must collect in order to engage in booking services and doesnt regulate the content of the website. Supervisor campos thank you much mr. Gibner and we want to thank our City Attorney. This is an office that has a stellar track record of event defending challenges to city law and a successful record and that will continue shouldve the litigation here. I will just close with an expiration of the amendment that i ended out. And at some point ill ask the committee to amend the legislation along with those lines but the amendment does the following. One, it clarifies the definition of a hosting platform. Second, it clarifies what happens the first day the law goes into effect just to have as much clarity as possible. Did it clarifies privacy protections for people registered with the city, and finally, it actually streamlines the compliance process. This is actually a amendment those made at the request of the office of shortterm rentals. With that, colleagues, i look forward to the discussion and respectfully ask for your support. Again, thank you supervisor peskin to you and your office and to Carolyn Guzman in my office whose been work on this long time. The peskin thank you supervisor campos. I know theres many individuals here there would like to testify. I got huge stack of speaker cards so we are going to limit testimony to 2 min. To that everybody will have a chance to testify. I also want to thank the office of shortterm rental in the city administrator for offering the opportunity for anyone in this chamber coming this building today, might want to register. There is a table outside that is being staffed by li mei lu and anybody who would like to fill out an application to register a shortterm rental can do so. Out this door my right, your left, so feel free to avail yourself of that opportunity, if you wish to do so. With that, i want to start by acknowledging that we have two members of the Planning Commission here and would like to give them an opportunity to address this body. The Planning Commission actually did a very conference of review of the shortterm rental regimen in San Francisco and made a large list of recommendations, some of which the board talk in 2014 in october, when the original shortterm rental legislation was passed, and some of which were not taken among including the legislation that is before us today. So, i want to welcome commissioners Dennis Richard and catherine mar. He like to address this panel and after that, well go to members of the public. Dont be shy. Commissioner richards i think ive been on record as saying im everybody in the room and supervisors, theres a definite benefit in the city shortterm rentals. I think from a Cultural Exchange point of view, from a business point of view, in terms of additional business for local businesses, local small businesses, especially my and for the people who are trying to make ends meet in San Francisco. So, i dont think shortterm rentals is anything evil. Things actually kind of nifty interesting right that folks naturally use their asset. Their extra bedroom went on vacation, their flat, for reasonable period of time. I remember the morning that i was on the Planning Commission in the september of 2014, i remember making a couple calls to a couple of board of supervisors that i knew, a couple of the board of supervisors and i said to them that morning, you know, the way the law is written as is, you need some type of a better enforcement mechanism. You need the ability to actually figure out who is renting and who is not and was renting towards the time of and who is not writing about the time limit. I made this case. I made that case in the Planning Commission. When this was heard i believe twice the horror the force even a staff report indicated that requiring the Registration Number was a linchpin and i quote in the report, of actually making this law work and make it effective. I sat through a hearing here before but was supervisor weiner chaired it in entertainment such as, hey lets let this law work and i think enough time has gone by good we are now in june of 2016, 15 months afterward. The law went into place with 75 compliance rate i think everybody can agree that its really not working. I know thered been playing around but its too slow to get registered, is too complicated, but ill be honest with you. The office of shortterm rentals streamline the prospect i support streamlining the process, how. However, let me make an analogy. The compliance rate of about 25 , i likened that to greece, the country of tax agrees etiquette can you imagine if the homeowner tax and self that combined rate here was only 25 . Within a real deep hurt. I think its a fair this issue to get that too many many host. Host web and following the law and actually was supporting a Ballot Initiative last year that did not win, but in my conversation with every host, everybody largely registered said this is a fairness issue. Why do i have to go through registering through the process and do the reporting a lot of people dont. I likened that to jumping turnstiles on the subway. A buddy starts jumping turnstiles on the job subway the what is going to be. The other thing i want to talk about was the loss of tax revenue. That is yet to come up in this discussion. Its great d d this company and entity has an agreement with San Francisco to remit taxes on behalf of its host. However, all the other platforms dont. If youre not registered as a host and your platform does not remit taxes, were losing that tax money. So, thats by the equation is that nobody is talking about is the elephant in the room is probably in the millions of dollars. As to the spurious argument about d d our the coasting platform becoming a police entity, let me remind you when i opened up my Checking Account yesterday at the bank, they asked me for a Social Security card. Was nobody from the iris there at the bank. The bank legally had to require me to pull out a Social Security number. No different than a Registration Number. The other thing that i was asked yesterday when i went out for a drink and the bar asked me for my drivers license because they can want to lose their license. They were carding everybody because they serve minors they get punished by getting suspension of the license and they could go out of business. So whats the difference between that and what were asking for today . The other thing yesterday when it went to safeway i gave them my credit card and asked me for my license to verify it was actually me making the charge. Again, it wasnt these or mastercard standing there. It was equally. Acting as the agent. Lastly, the whole issue around any privacy concerns around a Registration Number, let me remind you of this. I drive around in my car with a license plate on it. It doesnt tell people who im. It doesnt tell them where i live. It identifies me and for appropriate lawenforcement agency, thats exactly what we need. Can you imagine folks with 75 of people do not drive around the car with drivers licenses. It would not make any sense. I believe this is a common sense that the government piece of legislation in a 1 supported and asked the supervisors vote unanimously to approve it. Thanks. Supervisor peskin thank you, commissioner. [applause] supervisor peskin commissioner moore anything like that animal go to Public Comment . Commissioner moore since commissioner richards took more than 2 min. Oh make it simple get my position about this is quite clear. Im in support of where you are and my simple comment would be without the ability to enforce the laws and weve come to that point. Supervisor peskin thanks. With that, well go to Public Comments. I will call sets of speakers in the water i received them. [calling names]. Testifier good morning. The real question is, why should be in the be allowed to lift unregistered units on the platform. The Current System of enforcement that relies on neighborhoods to turn in neighbors. Im the president of the coalition for San Francisco neighborhoods. I often hear stories about things like this with air b b. I think one thing to look at with the platform is first you are asking for an arbitrary number of 1000. I say, why not 10,000 , one not 50 . They are breaking the law. Theyre breaking the law legally. The neighborhoods believe that the [inaudible] siphoned units from the unit driving up prices and tightening availability. The existing system is ruining the character of our neighborhoods throughout the city and creating many empty units as stated earlier. All air and b b rentals should have a valid San Francisco Registration Number before posting them online. From the city rentals would seem illegitimate to Listing Services would be required to respond with details about these Properties Within one business day or face big signs. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier hello. My name is ed bell. I live in San Francisco for almost 60 years and have lived in my own home for over a third. My home is a very special place to me. Its where my only child was born, where i raise my child, where my mother spent the final weeks of her life before passing on sushi to be surrounded by people do love to. In short, my home has a life [inaudible]. As with many seniors my income has decreased substantially over the last few years and about a year ago i told my wife got him very happy to tell you my house is not pursuing the only reason its not for sale is because the income i generate through air b b. Instead of two old people tottering around the house reminiscing about the good old days, unfortunately share mine with interesting adventures, were getting satisfaction from seeing the city my wife and i have love for a lifetime. Ive been fortunate in anyways. Im very familiar with computers that use computers at work i can tell you im completely air b b compliance. However, many of the air b b hosts are seniors like myself and are intimidated by computers. I know many of my senior friends would really like to become air b b hosts and share their homes but they do not because they cannot deal with the computer requirements. I dont mind paying taxes. I make money on air b b and i think i should pay taxes on that money. However, i am upset about all the forms i have to file them in computergenerated forms, it really cost more to figure out then the income generated. So, in short, please take my wife, my friends, other seniors like me into account when you make these decisions. Thank you for your time supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. And after [calling names]. Testifier good morning. My name is jordan davis in the material from from the tenderloin and i urge you to support 1604 23. Which would actually hold shortterm rental houses and platforms responsible for gentrifying our neighborhoods. This care if the need was machined has been scared passing new regulation has been saying that is fine too job i took it and apocalyptic propaganda [inaudible]. As lgbt primark has just begun lets reflect this new pride in gentrification lets think about the disabled transgender woman who needs double and the black payment among any of these others and how they could end up homeless and possibly incarcerated were dead because of rich techie man children and then go to think becoming and innkeeper is more profitable. I do not know how many lgbt people have been displaced by these but [inaudible] in our former homes as we support air b bs lies and youre no better than her lgbt people than donald trump or pat mccord. Please, go vote yes on this important bill. Its very reasonable and we depend on it. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. Im doug nielsen. Im a home share host with one bedroom one bath private unit in my permanent residence. Which i live fulltime. Im one of the approximately 3000 people registered. I think we all agree in the fact that this number is too low. Im an unacceptable. Its also known the process is very cumbersome. It can be as long as three months, it takes up to three months or more to get registered in some cases. This is also unacceptable. The city must find a way to simple five this prospect theres no question about it. By now, theres another obstacle that has surfaced that makes the registration process and legalization of a business and issue. That is, as one whose registered and the other 1300 that have have received a 571 r that was sent to already starts asking them to submit a list of all the furniture, all equipment, everything they have in their units. The date they purchased it, the price they paid, the specific items and for me, i did this. Turn it in, the total came to about 3000. Ive items in my house in that room that i acquired back in 1984. Items that have been gifted to me. So, the value came to about 3000. Now, i am trying this and in with the depreciation this inmate get that saves was about 1000 in a garage sale. Theyre going to get 10 out of me and if you put that apply that to the other 1300 registered and get 13,000 for the city. This is not spending the resources and time and energy that made the city should do. So what i am suggesting is taking a money applying to the registration process to improve it make it better but dont spend the money and resources on sending out these types of forms. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. My name is kathy. I may San Francisco voter and a member of the debtor housing policy. As an Organization Need up of both renters and homeowners, we are tired of the political games that do nothing to address the housing crisis. This amendment is not the solution we need. They only create more red tape for the renters and homeowners who want to do the right thing. The city permit process needs to be streamlined to adopt 12 people are using Online Services like eight air b b. If the average processing time is at least a month the Current System is too burdensome for huge amounts of people rent a room in their house for two weeks or two weekends a year. Thats whats fixed the process first. If you want to see more registration. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. And after, [calling names] testifier good morning, chairman peskin president breed and supervisor tammy and 10 cameras that my name is kelly powers and him representing the hotel counsel San Francisco. The Hotel Council is a nonprofit trade association that represents the Hotel Industry in San Francisco. The Hotel Council supports the shortterm rental legislation that is being discussed today. We believe required hosting platforms to verify that each of the units that listing on the site have a valid registration the city and county of San Francisco. It is reasonable and necessary. It is reported that most unregistered shortterm rentals are not renting their primary residences as the existing relations require. Renting units in condominium buildings for homeowner associations do not allow shortterm rentals tenants renting apartments without owner permission. The regulation being proposed were hoping sure that only legal shortterm rentals will be included on hosting platforms. Again, the Hotel Council supports the shortterm rental legislation that is being discussed today and we encourage your support as well. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Powers. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning cannot major in manila. Either or both days with illegally operating twist hotel and this amendment wouldve avoided this situation by requiring them to register the most they cannot do because theyre not eligible. I stayed there. On air b b they offered toi went back in and abstain for more than a year. I problems with Hotel Management or consulate trying to turn over rooms in order to rent them to torres and not taking care of their other responsibility to the resident tenants that were there. One of the issues they use the Hotel Management system with key cards, so youre automatically logged out if you didnt pay your bill every weekend 11 am which is against the rental code in San Francisco. Also, they charge me 15 hotel tax i paid more than 4200 over the course of a year in tax on what is supposed to be rent and i still have not been refunded that money. Requiring air b b to check their registration wouldve avoided this for me and other people. In addition to reserving those units which were supposed to be sro units and not poorest units for people needed them. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier thank you my name is angel sanders. A couple points i see beneficial to this. First of all, where i live, one of my neighbors is renting out his units and without him registering theres no way for me to bring up to the board that he is not doing so. So having this in place would help a lot of people like this could also, another benefit would be having people register if im looking for a place to move into, i can at least find out how many of the units around the are doing so. What i currently have come, like is that people are doing it on unlawfully and it changes the dynamic of a community. So, i think having this register would benefit everybody. Also, used to do uber and i was in uber driver you cant just slap a u on a window and go drive around. This apostate i think this is kind of the same thing were you get a processing unit was doing what. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you mr. Santa cruz. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. Mine is karen casino and im a registered host. There are two reasons i think not to pass the legislation now. That we dont make the same mistake that we did last year, before theres time to assess the results of the current law, and the second, i think it is scares many host again to not register out of fear of what is to come. Just like last year. In the meantime, the board could set up a shortterm rental task force with Major Players coming up with recommendations for the board to consider. Such as, differentiating between different types of shortterm rentals. Low use. For those hosts that only maybe do like someone said, a couple of weekends were maybe two weeks a year, they are not registering because that the registration cost a lot of money and theyre not using it very much. Also, there are people who are going sabbaticals were going extensive volunteering events and they may be old weight more than 90 days but San Francisco is still the primary ridence. There is also people who are work related absences like drivers, airline host, performers, and they may be a weight more than the 90 days due to their job hours, but there were still residence of San Francisco. These categories could be created and legislation simple five bringing in more register house and also beef 14 hotel tax. I know that those with little faith in city bureaucracy are in very early thinking way too complicated for staff. Well, i think San Francisco could show the rest of the country how to do it right. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier my name isand we registered very early taken there was a right thing to do. I still think its the right thing to do, but i think that the city is making the process tremendously intimidating in so many ways good most recent move by the Assessors Office on 571 r having to itemize every item in the room or in the house, and the value and audit and one was obtained, etc. , seems a bit ridiculous added to all the other things that the city has done up to now. To discourage people from listing. Again, i repeat we were amongst the first to list and we were encouraging people to register, and ill be damned if i would tell anybody to register now. Ill be damned if i registered under the current information that i have about the city requirements. Criminal penalties supposedly [inaudible] 1000 a day, etc. Seems a bit exorbitant and again, intimidating. Having to for seniors having to deal with computers, im semiliterate computer wise, but even that in itself is difficult for a lot of seniors who are involved in this air b b or other platforms. It seems that picking on air b b platforms were other platforms are being ignored, other platforms that are ready to sue rather than comply is very unfair. I believe there is too much hate being made out of politics rather than wellthoughtout policy by too many of the supervisors. Supervisor peskin thank you, sir. Next, [calling names] testifier good morning. My name is eric and [inaudible]. My husband and i are hosts and register. But we feel very strongly that the registration as many as many on unintended consequences and [inaudible] to be prescribed. We believe in strong legislation for Housing Residents and to those that abuse the system from causing harm. We want to see other forms step forward to do more to help the city. There needs to be more time to make that happen. We also believe the city should simplify the process for hosts who rent that space just a few days a week a year. We encourage the city to develop a one step online registration process for hosts. The everchanging rules and perform only confuse the process of more. Including the newest tool that hosts must create an inventory of all their belongings right down to sheets, silverware, [inaudible]. I filled out my online form for my business license, which was due on may 31. [inaudible] license was issued in favorite. The form did not contain a phone number to answer questions of which i had several. I worry about the future of sharing and the proposal is passed. We fear it will only be to only more confusion for host. [inaudible]. It tramples critical online attraction and conflicts conflict with important federal laws. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. Thank you for lending your effect on Kevin Craigie district for voter and redshirt host and we have a new law and her inlaws stay out when they visit and the rest of the we host and really enjoying the experience i believe like others everybody should get registered and they should agree with a lot of your intent of what your time to compost. You know, threatening imprisonment in the county jail to move the housing crisis from our homes to the jail, thats one point. I think it just basically extreme in my opinion i think when he to work on solutions were the hightech innovation and social tech capital of the. Lets work with us which look for solutions i welcome to talk with anybody from vegas two, gated a issued a think this is just a bit extreme and were kind of the top tier industry of San Francisco our hospitality and information communication technologies. I think some of this legislation is basically attacking the toptier industries of our city. I could go on and on but ill leave it at that. I would appreciate your peers and hope we can find Solutions Working together. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. I just want to point out to folks the section of the law with regard to criminal penalties to my that is actually been on the books since supervisor chiu, my predecessor, past the law. That is not in any way changing the legislation. That is the force. The legislation that is before us only adds hosting platforms to that provision in law could so, in addition to holding hosts accountable what supervisor campos legislation does, is also hold opposing platforms accountable. The civil and criminal penalty statute is the same statute that supervisor chiu introduced in 2014. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Testifier hi. My name is esther ricci. Im district for voter. Im one of the many who went through the painful and timeconsuming process of registration to be in compliance with the city. I read this legislation and i find it very disturbing and highly punitive. It is basically and intends to implement proposition f which was defeated by San Francisco voters last november. I dont see how somebody who has more than one listing because is renting more than one room in the house into going to jail regardless of its david chu were a new one, is going to encourage anyone to register. Were demanding to have Public Information. Theres many hosts, a single woman or retirees, or divorced that they dont like to have their information to anyone public. This legislation doesnt offer any solution to solve the housing problem. San francisco is known for being progressive and open minded, this legislation is very regressive and conservative jerk we should be a model of innovation and [inaudible]. Please, do not pass this legislation. It is going to hurt many decent people who could not be in the city if it were not for renting out empty spaces. The of the actions have been going down since shortterm rentals are up. I never heard any direct you to get person in these two years i have been coming here for the shortterm rentals. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you. [calling names]. Testifier hi. My name is jessica mullen. Thank you for your time this morning. I live in sunny side and supervisor yees district with my family. The law as written let us down. We need this legislation to address the problem weeks. Personally. Moved to sunny side several years ago and her neighbors were longtime San Francisco family could overnight they were forced out by the landlord we found our selves living nextdoor to an illegal hostile wizard on air b b. Even imagine living nextdoor to someplace renting out room beds, individual beds at 30 a night 46 is a room in 1000 ft. 2 house, with key goes on the door, no keys, no host anywhere to be found. They rang the doorbell in our house at all hours of the night waking up our young son which all parents know is really the worst. I called dbi, they cannot help it they told me they could not help me. I contacted ospf. They tried but they said they could not help me because they could not catch the host in the act. Those were pulled on the listing during the day so city staff cannot find him and i be able to observe it again at night. My spirits is exactly why this legislation is needed. Air b b Shopping List illegal units especially illegal hospitals cramming an individual residents in residential neighborhoods in the first place to complex permitting is a red herring. I appreciate all the legally redshirt host were here today, but frankly, this legislation is nothing to do with you. Section 230 of the cba is a post and scared sat there at the City Attorney pointed out at the beginning of this hearing. I also want to point out that any proposal from other supervisors to add provisions that apply to hosts a poison pills and i urge everyone to reject them. This legislation is great as is. Its needed. I urge you to support it. Its fair. Its practical. Its a minimum we should ask our citizens here in San Francisco, including and i think especially, most bondable corporate citizens two byebye. Please stand up for regular San Francisco like me. Supervisor peskin thank you ms. Malone. [applause] supervisor peskin i want to it knowledge your bravery and leadership in appearing on the nbc bay area investigative units expose on the abuses of shortterm rental such as you experience. That was a i think, a helpful piece of Public Information and you did a Public Service in doing that. Next speaker, please. Testifier jenniferi think you know we are very supportive of this legislation already. Ive even become friends with the Apartment Association staff while crafting this legislation. So, i think that is significant and shows the broad support we have. I know that air b b set up an email generator to expand and it was a very bizarre email that said hosts would have to count all the forks in their houses and was no mention that this legislation is retargeted at the platforms themselves. It also didnt state the we know changes for current hosts. So if b b continues to feed us lies and hide behind it hosts and this legislation will actually be good for the legitimate house is oh, cut out the bad actors. Help more hosts will rise up and told the company to stop using them like ponds. I have a anecdote. We posted on our Facebook Page of a picture of a flyer that was posted in San Franciscos chinatown those critical of air b b. We normally get like 3000 views if were lucky. This 1. 6 million views. Theres 10,000 comments on it. Went around the work it was all the comments were negative against air b b ready my point is, the whole world is watching you guys today. I hope you use your discretion and finally pass meaningful enforcement. Supervisor peskin thanks. Im delighted this matter brought the tenants and landlords and the hotel owners and Hotel Workers together. Next speaker, please. Testifier good morning. Thank you for this legislation did my name is tessa wilborn longterm San Francisco resident. We love our visitors, but we need to have taxes paid by appropriate parties. Websites sold merchandise for a long time before state sales taxes were imposed on them. Its not fair to brickandmortar businesses to have sales taxes apply to them but not to where businesses. This analogy here. The San Francisco can use all the money it can get and i would also like to point out this legislation only affects website host platforms, not individual hosts. Who managed to find on their way to use the computer to put on their listing all kinds of photos and other things. But another key issue for me is the loss of rentals. Three fourths of the Affordable Housing thatwell let me start over. So, we have an a for the housing crisis. We build units, but we are seeing Housing Units to the addictions, to nofault evictions, to use by shortterm rentals. Three fourths, if we can never build our way out of the afford the housing crisis if people continue to remove housing that could be rentals did so, please, support this legislation and get the income for our city that we need an police the web. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thanks. After the next speaker, [calling names] testifier good morning. Teresa philanderer. Thank you so much supervisor campos and supervisor peskin for bringing this to my for creating this. It sounds like we can finally say, if you want to do business here in San Francisco any and all platforms
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