Population. [inaudible] president yee thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. President yee next speaker. Are we done with speakers, sir . Excuse me. Are you speaking, sir . Well in light and in part of the reasoned alleged occurrence and unfortunate incidents at laguna honda hospital and legislation to help seniors remain in their own homes and help mentally ill residents in group homes where theres the benefit of a ready make social environment and peer group, i applaud you. Some of you know i provided security on a psychiatric ward for 30 days a couple of decades ago. One evening, a lone psychiatric nurse asked i assist her placing a patient in a fivepoint restraint. At no time was he saw for a Mental Health orientation. I reminded her the patients book of rights, told her to stop frightening him, and bitterly returned to her desk. Along another vain, you may be aware of the fact that billions of dollars in penalties have been paid in settlements in recent years by Major Pharmaceutical Companies who have allegedly been targeting seniors in nursing homes, paying kickbacks to doctors, manufacturing powerful hypnotics to treat minor illnesses such as confusion president yee okay. Any other body want to speak . If seeing none, then Public Comment is now closed. [gavel]. President yee madam clerk, lets go and call for adoption without Committee Agenda item 58 through 65. Clerk items 58 through 65 were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. A unanimous vote is required for resolution s on first reading. Alternatively, any member may require a resolution to go to committee. President yee okay. Would any colleagues like to sever any item . Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman id like to sever item 62. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin items 58 and 59, please. President yee so madam clerk, lets take item 60, 61. Clerk 63, 64, and 65. President yee okay. Clerk okay. President yee colleagues, can we take these items, same house, same call . Without objection, the resolutions are adopted, and the resolutions are approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call item 58. Clerk item 58 is a resolution to oppose California State Assembly bill 68 authored by California Assembly member phil ting. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee, colleagues. As i said, this has been on the agenda the last three meetings. I dont like this lightly. Assembly member ting is a former colleague and friend. I was a little bit ahead of my time in 2002 when i introduced our first a. D. U. Law in San Francisco 17 years ago. I did not tell you how delighted i am that were all falling all over each other, whether its the mayors executive orders or whats been done by supervisors chiu and wiener and my predecessor, christiansen, supervisor mar whos working with planning. Many members of this board, we are all over it. As a matter of fact, we have been the example to the state of california and many municipalities have copied us, and now the state legislative is falling all over itself to repeat. Item 58 was based on a. D. U. S. I am truly for Assembly Bill 68 as it relates to jurisdictions that do not have robust controls, that do not have a. D. U. Control schemes, god bless. In San Francisco, if out of here 1 our 120,000 singlefamily homes, if 5 did it, wed have 30,000 lowincome homes. My office continues to work with Assembly Member ting. I think our office has disseminated a fact sheet to all offices in this building with respect to three outstanding amendments, but i think given the late part of the session in sacramento, it is important for San Francisco to go on record saying were only going to support this bill if these amendments are made. I would like to thank the members of the public from the Housing Committee and the coalition on community housing, and i hope it meets your approval. I have offered a number of amendments that are not substantive in nature. They are all items have i spoken to in this speech and specifically, ab 68 should be amended to allow San Francisco to apply waivable standards to a. D. U. S to ensure rent control and San Franciscos vigorous rent control protections remain feasible. President yee theres been a motion and seconded by supervisor ronen. And without objection, that is passed. So can we take this item as amended, same house, same call . Seeing so, then this resolution passes. Where am i at . Number 69 clerk number 59, mr. President. President yee number 59. [agenda item read]. Supervisor peskin thank you, colleagues, for the oneweek continuance. In the intervening week, ive had the pleasure of being regaled with the land made island but not the man made island that is treasure island. They may well apply to besh ab yerba buena island, but it clearly does not apply to treasure island, and i want to thank our county surveyor for walking me through that relatively obvious piece of history, so i have no questions, and i will support this matter. President yee okay. Can we take this same house, same call . Then this motion passes unanimously. Madam clerk, item number 62. Clerk item 62, resolution to support California State Assembly bill number 5, authored by Assembly MemberLorena Gonzales to codify the California Supreme Courts decision in dynamo versus lodge that a person is an employee in terms of wages and benefits. President yee supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, press president yee. Thank you, again, supervisor peskin for your tireless and successful efforts, and a growing number of san franciscans are working for big corporations with 2. 9 of San Francisco corporations receiving a salary from an online platform. Uber drivers are in the 10 of all wage and salaried workers nationwide at nearly 6 below minimum wage in San Francisco. Because these businesses classify workers independent contractors rather than employees, they leave them without Health Insurance coverage, without Social Security to support them in retirement, without any of the fundamental protections that have been in place more than half a century. Late last month, supervisor mar and i held a hearing at the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee on the issue of employee classification in the gig economy. Dozens of gig workers came out to share their stories about their struggles to make ends meet without a living minimum wage, health care access, or any of the Employee Benefits they would be subject to if they were employees. Ab 5 would codify a 2018 California Supreme Court decision that resets the past for Employment Status to establish a presumption that workers are employees. It comes as no surprise that not all big corporations are in support. Indeed, yesterdays l. A. Times reported that a coalition funded by the California Chamber of commerce paid uber and lyft drivers up to 100 to protest before a big senate rally last week. The employees overpower workers to subvert workers protection is not new, but it is certainly not consistent with San Francisco values. I believe its important that San Francisco stand in solidarity with workers across the state and look forward to this board passing this resolution of support for ab 5 today. I want to thank my lead cosponsor, supervisor peskin and eight other sponsors for their support of this resolution and others, and i want to again thank erin in my office and give a special shoutout to lee hepner in supervisor peskins office, as well. President yee all right. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this item motion is adopt resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, can you read the memoriams . Clerk todays meeting will be adjourned in loving memory for the young leader dav davon hehn. President yee okay, colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business before us today. President yee okay. We are adjourned. [gavel] my s. F. Dove government t. V. Moment was when i received a Commendation Award from supervisor chris daly. Then we sang a duet in the board chamber. [singing] happy anniversary San Francisco government t. V. Happy anniversary to you. Happy anniversary San Francisco government t. V. Anniversary, anniversary, happy 25th anniversary to you. [ ] chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number one. Clerk prior to that, id like to make an announcement. Please silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Documents referred to in presentations should be submitted to the clerk. Item number 1 is a hearing to propose the submitted ordinance to members of and candidates for the board of supervisors, the mayor, and candidates for mayor, the City Attorney, and candidates for City Attorney and the controlled committees of those officers and candidates. Chair ronen thank you so much. And i just wanted to note that we have quite a front row crowd in the audience. We have two former supervisors and a judge. We have former supervisor tom ammiano. We have the former chair of the Ethics Commission, tom renne. I will turn this over to supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you so much, chair, ronen, for allowing us to hold this informational hearing today, and im proud to be this sponsor on this dark money measure. Its earned the support of eight of my colleagues. Im also proud to share that it has all been endorsed by a number of important organizations, including represent us, friends of ethics, the harvey milk lgbtq democratic club, sf league of conservation voters, San Francisco berniecrats, San Francisco tomorrow, district 11 democratic club, d6 democratic club, and several former Ethics Commissioners. To work towards a more democratic and equitiable future, we must start at the root. If we want to ensure just policies, if we want to ensure just outcomes, we need a just system. Those in Public Office are entrusted to represent the public, and yet the money that fuels our elections is in large part private and fuels our super p. A. C. S who funnel large amounts of dark money in an attempt to buy elections. My constituents experienced this in district 4 last year when over 700,000 was donated by an Organization Called progress San Francisco, and they tried to influence the Mayors Office and other supervisors races last year. This is why ive made electoral reforms one of my priorities in office. While we strive for racial, economic, and gender equality, we must remember that political equality is at the root and intersections of each of these struggles. The path to a fairer, more equitiable and just city is one through a stronger democracy, where neither the color of your skin nor the amount of money in your wallet determines your ability to be represented and heard. When we have enshrined in our constitution the notion that all people are created equal, when corporations are determined to be people and people are not determined equal, in this fundamental inequality has real consequences in the policy of our city and our country. With political spending reaching record highs as trust in government reaches record lows, the issue of faith in our Political Institution is at a crisis point. There is little question of the cause of this disillusionment. When for profits donate to political causes, this is not a kind donation. This is an investment, and they expect returns on their investments, and these returns are real and draw the line between political inequities and racial and economic disparities. We are caught in a vicious cycle in which the rich pour money into election, secure political power and write rules that keep themselves wealthy and the rest of us struggling to get ahead. This is a cycle that builds upon itself in a dangerous feedback loop, and its a cycle that freezes out people of color and entrenches existing hierarchies in centuries of racebased oppression. Solving it is a remaining issue of the civil and Voting Rights movement. The study goes on to say that the government is sharply more responsive to the preferences of the wealthy than those to the average voter. In role of case policy whe including expansion of incarceration, and our stagnant National Minimum wage. So the question we must ask ourselves is not the issues is not the issues at hand, but what we can do about them. Corporate contributions, paytoplay politics, and dark money contributions are all places that bear no place in our democracy and have real consequences. The sun light on Dark Money Initiative addresses all three of these issues. First, it will ban all corporate contributions to many committees. Many are banned under existing law, but there are exceptions depending how businesses are incorporated. But eliminating these loopholes, we can take a clear stand against the appearance and instances of corruption. Second, it will ban paytoplay donations from Real Estate Developers from donating to candidates for elected offices that could play a role in improving those matters. Finally, sun light on dark money will create the strongest dark money disclosure law in the nation. Last year, the supervisor races were the most expensive in recent history. The race for mayor was the most expensive in recent history. Too often, independent expenditure committees are a local version of super p. A. C. S are funded by statelevel committees with nice sounding names like progress San Francisco. Sun light on dark money would change this by requiring i. E. C. S to include disclaimers on political ads listing their top donors and the amount of their donation, and if one of those donors is another committee, the top donors to that committee. Citizens united decided these donations are free speech. While we cant stop this money, we can bring it out of the dark. Even in authoring the majority opinion in Citizens United versus f. E. C. , Supreme CourtJustice Kennedy stressed the value of strong disclosure laws, writing, prompt disclosure of expenditures can provide shareholders and citizens with the information needed to hold corporations and elected officials accountable for their positions and supporters. Shareholders can determine whether their corporations political speech advances the corporations interest in making profits, and citizens can see whether elects officials are in the pockets of socalled money interests. Voters deserve to know whos trying to buy their vote. The public deserves to know that our democracy is not for sale, our politics are not for sale, and our city is not for sale. Before inviting up our presenters, i want to note that in addition to the report and Supreme Court decision i referenced, ive also introduced the following into the record for this hearing. Number one, a civil grand jury report from 2013, requesting the city should require resolutions to require disclosure you ares and that the Ethics Commission should look again at the regulations from proposition j. In 2000, proposition j was placed on the ballot by Citizen Initiative and passed by the voters of San Francisco in a landslide. It regulated behavior of public officials, barring them from receiving a personal a personal or campaign advantage from anyone who gained a Public Benefit by action of the public official. This was later repealed by proposition e in 2003, which sought to recodify conflict of interest laws out of the charter, amending some of them and making nonvoter amendments possible in the future, though the repeal of proposition js regulations went undisclosed. If passed, sun light on dark money will enact the civil grand jury recommendations. Number two, a report from the Brennan Center of the citys 2013 effort to ban paytoplay contributions from Real Estate Developers which mirrors some of the language in this charter and which never went into effect. And number three, a study entitled the appearance and reality of quid pro quo corruption and empirical corruption, ensuring that contemporary politics. To be sure, while real instances of corruption exist and will be spoken on further in this hearing, addressing the potential appearance of corruption is cause enough to justify the provisions of this initiative. Now id like to welcome up former chair of the Ethics Commission and coauthor of this measure, peter keen. Thank you, mr. Chair. Supervisors, id like to commend you for putting forth this measure. Its a measure thats really desperately needed in our democracy,