Okay. , good afternoon okay, good afternoon. Im sorry, what . Okay, good afternoon. Welcome to the july 9th, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, please call the role. Thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of San Francisco government television, lawrence and alexander and jesse who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . Yes. We received a communication from the office of supervisor Catherine Stefani who anticipated being out of town today and requested to be excused from this meeting. Colleagues, can i have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani from the meeting . Motion made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor safai without objection, supervisor stefani is excused. So, madame clerk and colleagues, before we move on, i would like to do something a little bit different today and introduced to you a new segment to highlight the work of our city departments that are sometimes overlooked. Today we will have a short clip from whats next San Francisco, or whats next s. F. , produced by our Emmy Awardwinning team at San Francisco government t. V. , featuring the department of recreation and park and theyre wheelchair basketball program. Can we roll the clip . I got the hang of it a little bit from the first time. I never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask me twice. That is where you can always find me, on the court. [ ] thank you to some generous support for sports and recreation, we have been able to purchase approximately 12 athletic wheelchairs. This grant provides a really expensive tool to facilitate basketball, specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden skate war golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state. Led by its captain, chuck gill, it was a National Pair olympian and is now an assistant coach on the u. S. National team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. This is the main hub of the bay area which, you know, we should definitely have these resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i am looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that these resources are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied to be able to see and to try this sport and to appreciate just trying different things. People can come and check out the chairs to use them any time we have openings, but also friday evenings from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball. We will make sure the floor is available. That way people can no that other people can come into play at the same time. We always try to meet people where they are at regardless of any difference in ability. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusionary programming, but this is the first time we have ever had our own equipment and that enables us to do some important things. [ ] thank you. Thank you. You know, we often times are here to critique, criticize, or to try to get our departments to be more aware of issues that come from our home districts and throughout the city and we forget on a daily basis that our departments actually do a lot of positive things. I want to take the opportunity to maybe do this once a month where we have these short segments. I hope that you will provide some suggestions and some of the departments that you would like to see. I think it is important for the public to know how our tax dollars are being spent. Okay . So, thank you. Lets go to our approval for the Meeting Minutes. Yes, approval of the june 4 th, 2019 Board Meeting minutes. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from june 4th, 2019. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the a minute prove the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. Motion to approve without objection, these minutes will be approved after public comment. Madame clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda and call items one through five. Items one through five are considered routine, a single roll call vote will occur, otherwise discussion of an item will occur only if a member severs it to be considered separately. Okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing no names on the roster, madame clerk, please call the role. On items one through five. [roll call] there are ten imacs. Okay. Without objection these ordinances are passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item six is an ordinance to call and provide for special election to be held in the city on tuesday, march 3rd, 2020 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur bonded debt of this city in the amount of 620. 5 million to finance the construction and seismic retrofitting of multiple facilities for earthquake safety and Emergency Response pursuant to california Government Code Section 43607 and 608. This item requires a vote. Okay. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item seven is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 12. 2 million in Public UtilitiesCommission Funds to appropriate to but 1 million from airport airport Commission Funds to d. Appropriate and re appropriate 304,000, approximately from the port Commission Funds and pursuant to charter section 9. 113 subsection c. , this ordinance requires a 23 rd vote of all members for the 12. 1 million in Public Utilities commission appropriations approval, 200 and 83,004 Airport Airport Commission reappropriation approval and 139,000 in Port Commission reappropriations. Chair peskin okay okay. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, please call item number 8. Item eight is an ordinance to amend the ministry to code to establish the cooperative living living opportunities for Mental Health loan fund and the Mental Health program to finance the acquisition of Residential Properties operated as communal housing for people with chronic Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection oh, i see supervisor safai. Sorry, you are moving so fast i almost missed it. Colleagues, i am in support of this amendment, this legislation today. I think it is very thoughtful. I wanted to add my name is a cosponsor, but just speaking to the sponsor of the legislation, i wanted to add one small piece of language on i am proposing an amendment on line 23, page 5 that would add the ability that there would be an appraisal of the Property Done before any purchase of the property, so that would just be four words after the word start with the Program Regulations shall address matters such as programs and fund administration, public and competitive processes to apply for loans, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, appraisal of the property affordability restrictions for the longest possible term. Those will use the funds underwriting the criteria and Transaction Processing documentation and compliance monitoring and enforcement. Okay. Any objection . I see there is a motion put forward by supervisor peskin. I think the actual provision in the code is pursuant to chapter 23 of the administrative code, but i will defer to council. Deputy city attorney. You are correct, supervisor peskin that chapter 23 addresses appraisal requirements for city purchases of property. This amendment will authorize the department to adopt regulations regarding appraisals under this program. Okay. Any other comments . While i have the floor, perhaps a relevant section of law that supervisor safai wants to refer to his chapter 23 of the administrative code. He said applicable law, the applicable law is that chapter. The current ordinance provides that the department will adopt regulations regarding compliance with applicable law and other issues including appraisals, Program Administration et cetera. So i think supervisor safais amendment hits the mark. For the president , i get it. Is there a second for that . Okay. If there is no objection, one can we take the amendment as stated . Okay. Motion passes. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call as amended . Without objection, this ordinance as amended is passed. On First Reading, mr. President. Thank you for the correction. This ordinance is passed as amended on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item nine is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish the castro lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer cultural district in and around the castro neighborhood and to affirm the sequel determination. The sequel determination. Colleagues, can we take the same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is finally passed. Madame clerk, please call items ten through 12 together. Okay. Item ten through 12, item ten is a resolution to determine and declare that the Public Interest and necessity demand Affordable Housing improvements and related costs necessary to be financed through bonded indebtedness in an amount not to exceed approximately 600 million, to authorize the 50 passthrough of the property tax increase to residential tenants under chapter 37 of the administrative code and to adopt the requisite findings. Item 11 is an ordinance that calls for and provides a special election to be held in San Francisco on tuesday, november 5 th 2019 for the purpose of submitting to the San Francisco voters a proposition to incur the 600 million of bonded indebtedness for Affordable Housing improvements into and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 12 is the motion to urge the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to update and amend the 2019 general obligation Affordable Housing bond report to reflect the increase to the bond amount update allegations of proposed funding and proposed amendments on prioritized issues pursuant to the california Government Code Section 43607 and zero eight. Item ten and 11 require eight votes. Thank you. As you know, in anticipation to this vote this morning, we had a little press Conference Rally out in front of the city hall steps. I want to think all the supervisors who attended the event because this really shows that we are working very closely with the mayor, not only the mayor, but also the community in presenting this bond measure. As you know, we started this discussion a few months back with a 300 milliondollar bond housing bond measure. Eventually people all agreed that we needed to grow it. The needs are much greater and much too great for us to not make it larger then the 300 million. I think with the urging of many of the members on the board of supervisors and with the mayor agreeing that we finally grew it to 600 million, and that is a good thing. Because of your efforts and your staffs efforts, we are going to be able to do a lot more than we had anticipated. Because of this, with the input of the Board Members, we have been able to secure funding to address the Housing Needs in neighborhoods that have not seen any net new Affordable Housing for many, many decades, and we have seen even more investment in Supportive Housing for those with chronic Mental Illness. We also have a callout for a very important population, housing for our Public School educators and staff. I am most proud of us seeing the diverse crosssection of the Community Partners who came together to help form this bond. With the help of our four Incredible Community cochairs, malcolm and others, they were able to engage in a robust discussion about the bigger picture. Housing is a Public Infrastructure issue. It is a Public Health issue, it is a social equity issue. Our roads, our parks Means Nothing if there are no residents here to enjoy them. We need to invest in ensuring existing Affordable Housing stock, but also bring in units that will be available to those who need it most. For the first time ever, and im so excited for this, there is a dedicated conversation about our aging population. Nearly half of our seniors cannot even qualify for Affordable Housing because they are on fixed incomes. We also have seniors who feel trapped in homes that they can no longer maintain, but are unable to move out because of scarce options. Only 12 of the housing in the pipeline for Affordable Housing was dedicated for seniors. Now we have 150 million in this bond to reverse this trend. In addition, this bond measure emphasizes that while we must invest in Public Housing units and build more extremely affordable units for our low income residents, there is still a growing need for our middle income households. If we want to keep our workforce and new families in San Francisco, we must do more to support these residents, too. The need will continue to be there after this bond, but we will be bringing 2800 units online. This is not a small feet. It shows that we can it shows what we can do when we roll up our sleeves and put our brains together. That is what we intend to do. After this board approves this bond measure, it will be in the hands of the voters in San Francisco. I hope we can keep this momentum going strong. The mayor and the board of supervisors, who dont always agree on everything, but for this one, this one particular issue, were coming together to make sure this bond passes overwhelmingly and i want to think you for being with us every step of the way. I would say, lets take the goal and lets get this done. Colleagues, i can see there are other supervisors who would like to make some comments. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just wanted to briefly acknowledge and commend mayor breed and president and your staff and all the members of the Affordable Housing working group for all of the work that you brought in on this incredibly important bond measure. I would like to add im very pleased that it includes the importance of geographic balance of the criteria and allocation of Affordable Housing dollars to prioritize projects in district four and other districts that havent received their fair share of Affordable Housing over the years. I also wanted to highlight that from all of the input that i received from my constituents in district four, also very pleased that there is allocations not only for the different a. M. I. Levels for Affordable Housing, but specific populations that are a high priority including seniors and our educators. Finally, i just wanted to also comment that i think we can all agreed that while this is an incredibly important measure to move forward and 600 million of new investment is supported by housing, that, you know, it is clearly not enough. And all the difficult discussions that happened through the Affordable Housing working group and among Board Members about how to allocate that pie highlights the need for us to continue to look at other Revenue Streams or Revenue Sources so we can truly address the Affordable Housing crisis at the scale that it is and really something that is affecting, you know, all districts and all communities here in the city. I look forward to further work with colleagues on the board and other stakeholders at looking at other revenue proposals that we can come up with and finally i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Th