You have heard many of the people who live in the tenderloin express themselves as best they can. We have a budget of 12. 3 billion dollars, and i didnt know in your mind how you can do a Needs Assessment with all the things that the tenderloin needs and you give them a dollar. You must be ashamed of yourselves. More after hearing the concerns of all the organizations that came here to give the tenderloin and the neighboring neighbors addons. Supervisors, you must have empathy and you must have compassion. If you go to the tenderloin, you see practically every nation on this earth represented. So why cant we set aside 500 million to improve the tenderloin . And we have an example of some people that are giving a dollar and they spend thousand dollars and most of it is coming from their own pockets. Think about it. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any other speaker in support . Hello. I have a studio in the tenderloin that i could comfortably afford, but i chose to live inside of my car outside the tenderloin instead. This was simply because of the ongoing level of drug activity and availability in the neighborhood. He is an addict, drug fleet drugfree and seriously dedicated to his own recovery. I noticed in my own neighborhood that basically just purchasing seven gallic 7 gallons of paint for 70 to base to paint a lamp post eight months ago, if you were to visit the neighborhood today, you would notice attractive new trash cans , water pipes being replaced , streets being resurfaced, at t replacing the aging overhead wiring and d. P. W. Has extended the Color Palette to the public are no longer limited to various shades of green. A long time ago, i prepared several miles along the highway abroad by moonlight, headlight and by hand held lantern. It was part of a social experiment for very practical reasons as well. It was to help facilitate Doctors Without Borders and activity in the area. I noticed that two months after the work was complete, the country announced and embarked on a nationwide nationwide highway repair and resurfacing project. As they say, and as we heard today, it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. I am neutral on this. I think the neighbors can get a lot of work done without the homeowners being taxed heavily to support this. Any other speakers in support seeing none, then this will be closed, and now if you are in opposition and you would like to say something, please come on up i am opposed to reauthorizing the Business Improvement district for several reasons. Is that Public Policy first and foremost. We have four former members of the school board involved and it is all parallel with the discussion of Charter Schools and lodgers. Im sure there are plenty of examples of good Charter Schools around the country. Im sure there are multiple examples of good voucher programs around the country. The schools and vouchers have the intent of dismantling public education. This is a policy matter that dismantles public oversight of public lands. You are ceding control of the commons to property owners, of which hospitality house is one. That is intrinsically bad Public Policy, so im urging you to think carefully about this, and the issue of lowering the approval threshold while also extending the period it is antidemocratic and nothing else. So one possible remedy and i hesitate to mention remedy because it means i am agreeing with the premise, which i absolutely do not, but you could break up the extension period, the 15 year period into five year increments, force a public hearing every five years at a minimum to make sure there is continuing public support. You could expand the number of Community Seats on the c. B. D. , the b. I. D. , and make them not subject to internal approval. Now we could devise some other seating process for that. I would also say, and im just thinking about the longstanding argument the late jane jacobs had with robert moses in new york about this very thing, about what constitutes community , what constitutes local control. That is what we need to concern ourselves with today. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, kelly cutler with the coalition on homelessness. I am not even here for this item , but im surprised were talking about Business Improvement districts, and i feel like we need to do a lot more education on this. What is connected right now within the tenderloin, which is such an amazing community, and they know everyone else is jealous because the tenderloin is awesome. Right now we have the healthy treats Operation Center that is going through and doing massive sweeps and they are brutalizing our community and it is not okay they even hit out in front of Saint Boniface when there was a Community Agreement from 6 00 p. M. Until 6 00 a. M. Not to be doing the cruel and inhumane sweeps, yet they were doing it. It is out of control, absolutely out of control. So not only shouldnt you be giving more funding to it, but it is really bad, and we can provide more info about it but it is just really going in the wrong direction, but right now they are really targeting the tl , and the tl has a Great Community and it will not put up with it, it is just really bad. Next speaker. Hello. I live south of market. I was in opposition to the commission of the community district. I want to endorse all that joey kelly said. They go very well and they wont repeat it. They are both right and i just wanted to also that, well, i really encourage the members of the board to look at the opportunities for private profit , not necessarily on this Community Benefit district, but in the industry of creating Community Benefit districts, and that could really use some oversight. I have just done a little googling around, but it is relatively easy to find topics that could use a little oversight, and im not sure they are getting enough. That actually is the problem with having Community Benefit districts that are not fully subject to public oversight, you know, government really should not be privatized. Even if it does some really good stuff sometimes. Thank you. Wr duffy, i just dont think, i get very nervous when the tenderloin is this united, so i wanted to back joe wilson on the left, you know, if this c. B. D. Starts to work too well, then all these yellow journalism articles and occurred chronicle but have terrible the tenderloin is, then they will start realizing it is a beautiful place with all the service agencies, and also, one other point of opposition is the expansion of the c. B. D. I would like to see possibly it expanded a little bit further because the general organizing area of the north of market goes from pearl street to van ness, that corner and if we could get more into this c. B. D. , that is my opposition, and also, i dont think that sam dennison was cranky enough and i want to be crankier. [laughter] are you speaking . Yes. Good afternoon. Hold on a second. Hold on a second. Are there any other speakers in opposition, please line up right now or otherwise she will be the last speaker. Thank you for your patience. Go on. Can i have one minute, please i know everybody talks about the tenderloin. I know the answer, the answer is [indiscernible] i guess she is done . Okay. Seeing no other speakers for this hearing, the hearing has been heard and is now filed. We will now adjourn from the committee as a whole and reconvene at the board of supervisors. Just to remind people, the department of elections will count the ballots cast and will return with the final tabulation later in the meeting and come back to the item. When that happens, we will come immediately back into item number 50. For now, i will ask that there are some speakers. Supervisor haney . Thank you. I did want to ask a question of chris porter, but i dont know, he just left. Okay. So he is okay. So there was a point that was brought up about the voting threshold and that they had been reduced. Can you clarify that in the amount of time that it would take and whether that had been a change . I think mr. Wilson had brought up the concern about the voter threshold. That is a great question. Sorry had to go close the election. The voter threshold worked for the state of california for the petitioning and it is 40 of the wait of the assessment of the total district. Her article 15 of the transportation code, using the city statuses a charter city, the state code was augmented by article 15 for San Franciscos purposes, since we have a lot of mixeduse neighborhoods and it lowered the threshold to 30 of the wait of assessments to authorizing election and also allowed c. B. D. To form initially for up to 15 years. But that has been in place in the case since 2005 . 2004. 2004. There isnt a special situation . No, they have the ability to go up to 15 years, but some choose to form for ten years or less. Great. Thank you. I just want to thank everybody who came out today. Everyone from the tenderloin community, it is extraordinary to see such diversity of our community and all of the leaders and organizations and different Business Owners and i just want to thank the staff and the board and everyone who is involved with this organization for what you have done to really bring this community together, to do it in an inclusive way, the corner captains, thank you so much for all that you do every day and i will probably see you tomorrow morning as i do every day and i hope that my colleagues will support this organization for all of the reasons that you heard today from the community. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Actually, mr. Quercus said a little bit of what i was going to say which i was the author of the enabling legislation in 2004 the state law was really created for cities that are not like San Francisco, they were created for places that that had solidly business districts, and we had, in those days, in 2004, one bit one Business Improvement district, and no Community Benefit districts because we dont look like other cities because we have housing up above , groundfloor retail, but when we constructed this, we constructed it in no way, and i say this to the chair of the government audit and oversight committee, and to every member of the board of supervisors, we constructed it in a way that the board of supervisors can disband any Community Benefit district, pretty much at its will, and we get an annual report, so to my friend, mr. Wilson, to kelly, to auto, i concur with my colleague from district six that it is extraordinary to see a Community Come together like this, and i also believe that this has not been, but could become a gentrifying force for a remarkable neighborhood, the tenderloin a national forest, a some people call it, and when that happens, and when simon is not doing right, you have an opportunity to petition with the body, which can disband that c. B. D. At any time. That has not happened yet. We have had a couple that died natural deaths, mostly because they were too small, but hopefully, this will be an agent for good that takes care of the people who need to taking care of and if that is not the case, i will be the first person to team up with supervisor haney to make sure that that is the case, and i just wanted to say that for the record. Okay. So now we will reconvene as the board of supervisors. Before we move on to the next thing, i would like supervisor brown . Would you like to make a motion to rescind number 41 so you may cast your vote . This like the third time we are voting on this. Is a motion to rescind item 41. Is there a second . Supervisor peskin. No objection, this is rescinded. Roll call again on item number 41. On item 41. [roll call] there are ten aye. Okay. Imacs. Okay. It passes. Okay. We will now continue with the remainder of the agenda. Madame clerk. Please call the 3 00 p. M. Special order for item 45 through 48. Fortyfive through 48, comprise a hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from Environmental Review under the California Environmental quality act issued as a categorical exemption by the Planning Department on april 19th, 2019 for the proposed project at sewall lot 330 which includes installation of the 200 Safe Navigation Center, removal of a proximally 155 surface parking spaces, installation of two portable structures and additional demands of the structures of approximately 6,000 square feet which includes community, dining and bathroom space, placed in 12 shipping containers onsite for client storage needs and an outdoor gathering space. Item 46 is the motion to affirm that the proposed project at sewall what 330 is categorically exempt from further review. Item 47 is a motion to conditionally reverse the departments determination, and item 40 is the motion to direct the preparation of findings. Okay. , colleagues, we have before us the determination of exemption from Environmental Review for the proposed project at lot 330. A Safe Navigation Center project for this hearing, we will be considering the adequacy, accuracy, sufficiency, and completeness of the Planning Departments Environmental Review determinations for the project at sewall lot 330. There are two appellants for this hearing, but they have conveyed their desire to present through one representative while objection, we will proceed as follows. The appellants representative will have up to ten minutes for presentation, up to two minutes per speaker in support of the appeal, up to ten minutes for presentation from the Planning Department, up to ten minutes from the project sponsor, which will be represented by the department meant department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, then two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project. And finally, a total of four minutes for the appellant or appellants representative to provide a rebuttal. Colleagues, are there any objections to proceeding in this way . Seeing no objection, the public hearing is now open. Supervisor haney, would you like to make any remarks . I will say my remarks save my remarks and questions for after the presentation. I wont think the i want to thank the appellant, i want to thank all the departments were here. I had the opportunity to meet with the appellant and they want to advance thanks all the residents were here and participating in this, and i will look forward to hearing the presentations and asking my questions and making comments, and i also want to thank my colleagues for participating in this district six double feature here today. I appreciate you all being involved in taking these issues seriously. With that, you may begin. Thank you, supervisor haney. I will now ask the appellant or their representative to come forward and present their case. You have a total of ten minutes. You may start. Thank you thank you. I am the managing partner of the San Francisco law firm of a San Francisco law firm. Im here representing the Nonprofit CommunityOrganization Safe emarketing for all. Save embarcadero for all. I would like to thank the board for hearing our appeal to support this decision here today i would like to be sure that i incorporate all of the comments that have been made to date on this matter, and those who will that will be made at this hearing in our appeal. I would also like to thank the other appellant for seating its time to me and to my client today. We recognize the seriousness of the homelessness problem in San Francisco, and the good faith of all of those who are looking for solutions, we strongly oppose the placement of the Navigation Center on the waterfront. It is the gateway to the city, its front yard. More than 10,000 people, many of them retirees and young families with children that live within three blocks of the proposed project. There are undeniable negative impacts of more homeless shelters on this neighborhood including public alcohol and drug consumption, police interventions, property crime, personal assaults, public urination and defecation and attracting additional homeless encampments. This neighborhood has given generously and supported homeless facilities in the neighborhood. We are proud to have and are proud to support the street foundation, which is considered the countrys leading residential selfhelp organization. We note that the president of delancey street has also voiced deep concerns over the mayors controversial Navigation Center here. We are concerned that the organizations attempts to get people off drugs and alcohol will be negatively impacted should this Navigation Center be built. Recently, through Public Records requests, save embarcadero for all has received undisclosed documents from the city that call into question the claims that the mayor and the city staff have been making to our organization, to our neighbors, to this board, board, and to the news media. Back in march, city officials were tripping over each other to tell us what an asset the Navigation Centers would be for the surrounding neighborhoods, but newly disclosed internal city emails show that the director was, at the very same time, in his own words, getting a great deal of complaints about tents cropping up around the Navigation Center and admitting that the city needs to do a better job of complying with our