Wives, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, of people who are incarcerated, it is a long, long time and we need to give every Single Person the right to full citizenship under the law and the right to vote as soon as we possibly can. Everybody who has served their sentence needs the right. Thank you very much. [ bell rings ]. Chair ronen next speaker. Good morning. My name is michael sevadra. Im also formerly incarcerated. I spent 19. 5 years in prison. Im now a pathway to Law School Student and also i work and pay taxes. However, i cant vote and i think its very important for me to be reintegrated back into the community to have that right and also to represent my community because my community is being marginalized as well and their voice as well as mine need to be heard. So i urge you to pass this. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, my name is wendy click. I work for hospitality house but also represent myself. Im formerly incarcerated. The sentence i carried, i had to be on parole for five years. If it wasnt for the dorothy nones and joe wilsons, i never would have thought about voting. After my five years, this past november was the first time i was able to vote. I brought 34 people who have never voted here to city hall. We did a walk to windy and that was so liberating for me because it wasnt for all of us or none of us who gave that pamphlet out to vote, i wouldnt have had all 34 folks here. Im going to continue this, but now at hospitality house, we have people, six with a life sentence. We are reaching out to the communities to say lets get out and vote. So i support this, hospitality house supports this, and we all would love for this to pass. Thank you. Good morning, my name is michael mendosa, and im the policy director with the antirecidivism coalition. We are in strong support of this resolution. We want to thank supervisor haney for his leadership and believe that democracy needs everybody. Thank you. My name is kelly savage. I work for the California Coalition of women prisoners with all or none and several others. As formerly incarcerated individual, i understand that no matter what choices we made then, today were at jeopardy every single day we dont have an opportunity to vote. Our safety is at risk. Were not afforded the same opportunities as everyone else. If were harmed in the community, the da may or may not decide if they want to prosecute that person that harms us because were not full citizens until that parole is over. That is unacceptable. Were here paying rent, were here paying taxing, were here paying every other bill everyone else pays. With this vote, it will give us one more opportunity to get one more step towards that citizenship we deserve just as well as everybody else. Once again, as others have talked about, its not about negating the crime itself, its about who we are today because we earn the right to be here. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any other member of the public who would like to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. I just wanted to thank everyone for coming out and your incredibly compelling testimony. I could not be more proud to be a cosponsor of this measure, this item. The fact is, and many of you expressed this very articulately and clearly, that in this country there has been systemic efforts to prevent black people from voting for ever, since slavery, whether its, you know, violence in lynching, whether its literacy tests, whether its the requirement of i. D. Cards, i mean, every tactic that you can that any system could think of to prevent africanamericans from voting has been tried, and this is the latest effort of that. And we must work tirelessly until we eliminate all of these barriers to anyone. Now, not only africanamerican folks, but latino folks and anyone incarcerated, but primarily people of color are disenfranchised and their vote is taken away over the most important decisions of them and their families and about as wrong as wrong can be. Were going to change that law here in california. This is the first step in getting there, and im very, very excited to be passing this resolution in our city. Thank you so much for all your work. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, chair ronen. First, i want to thank everybody who came out to speak today and who came out to the rally, and of course supervisor haney and all sponsors in support of aca6. Its really like darcy none said earlier when he talked about the fact when you take away someones right to vote, youre actually taking it away from their children, youre taking it away from their grandchildren, and youre creating a generational way of keeping voice out of the political system and out of the system where people make decisions. Of course thats unfortunate, that generational silence, but we also have to stop using the law to try to keep people from being able to reengage into society. Trying to use the law or mistakes and lessons that people have learned to keep them from being successful and positive pieces of society. We do understand that a big part of being productive is actually having the right to vote and we notice singling out people of color, we know what the data shows and demonstrates in terms of who is incarcerated, who is formerly incarcerated, who has a voice and doesnt get the right to vote. The last thing i will say from a commonsense standpoint, we understand that people are more productive when they have a voice and opportunity to reengage, and the more additional obstacles we put in front of people, the harder it is for them to be successful and reengage in society. Anecdotally, friends and family whove been incarcerated and never had someone come home for the most part and say the first thing i want to do is go out and create another crime. They want another job to make income and they need family and friends a positive support system. When you put obstacle and obstacle and obstacle on top of all of the other things that weigh in when someone is trying to reengage in society, it makes it worse and taking away the right to vote is another form of that obstacle. I want to thank you all for being here and of course i want to thank our votes at the state for pushing aca6 forward. This is only one step in terms of the changes we really need to make to make sure people can positively reengage in society. This is a very important step. Thank you, supervisor haney and colleagues. Supervisor mar thank you. Yeah, i also wanted to, first of all, thank supervisor haney for bringing this resolution forward. Thank you to all the state legislators who have cosponsored and thanks to all the advocates who spoke today and at the rally and especially the formerly incarcerated and returning Community Members for all of your dedication and focus on this issue and in the broader issues of restorative justice. Yeah, as my colleagues have stated, is another important step that i think we can take as a state in the state of california in terms of racial and restorative justice. As elected officials, we know or understand as well as everyone that elections matter and every vote matters and i think the voice and the vote of Community Members who are on parole are incredibly important to bring forward right now in all of our elections, local, state, and especially the federal elections coming up in 2020. So again, im thanks to everyone for all your work on this issue. I look forward to not just moving this resolution forward, but supporting all the work yall are doing on these important issues. I also want to thank everybody who came out today and especially the returning citizens, returning Community Members, who have been leading this fight for a long time and got us to this point where we have got the opportunity to put this on the ballot that can really address this. Its going to take all of us to get this passed. Theres going to be fearmongering and misinformation. We have to make sure the governor signs it on his desk and it goes to the ballot. We know in this building, sometimes people dont want things on the ballot and this has to go on the ballot. What florida has shown is that we can win when were united and when we correct the misinformation. Particularly, were going to talk about democracy and were going to talk about rights, and thats the right framing, but also the Current Situation is damaging to Public Safety, that when you exclude people after theyve been released from prison and you continue to isolate them and marginalize them, thats what causes that doesnt only not serve Public Safety, it doesnt enhance the Public Safety in any way. So were going to fight that misinformation as well. I want to thank everybody whos been on the front lines of this. I joined for the march with wendy and thats where i voted. Actually, when i was elected, thats the time that i voted and was very proud for your leadership and this is a frisk issue, this is an important issue for our community. So we need to see it through and be on the front lines and follow the lead of our formerly incarcerated returning Community Members as you all lead this fight and we join you. Thank you to my coauthors, all three of you, and to the committee for considering this. Chair ronen thank you so much. So we i will make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendations. Amended. Chair ronen sorry. I will make a motion to accept the amendments that supervisor haney submitted without objection those amendments pass. Then i will make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation without objection. That motion passes. Thanks so much for everyones advocacy. Congratulations. [ applause ]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk item number 4 is a resolution urging the office of Small Business to convene a Small Business economic Mitigation Working Group to outline economic mitigation measures in support of San FranciscoSmall Business retailers affected by ordinance no. 12219 and requesting the office of the controller to provide an Economic Impact report for ordinance no. 12219 and an updated report for ordinance no. 14017. Chair ronen supervisor walton, would you like to make introductory remarks . Supervisor walton thank you so much. Supervisor fewer and i are putting forward this resolution to let everyone know we are serious about supporting our Small Businesses here in San Francisco. I have said before that Small Businesses are the backbone of a lot of our communities here in the city. We want our Small Businesses to thrive and we need to put policies in place that will help Small Businesses succeed here in San Francisco. We sat down with the Small Business commission and several Small Business advocates to work on this resolution to convene a Small Business economic Mitigation Working Group. The goal is to mitigate negative impacts on our Small Businesses due to recent legislation, but also to legislation that could be harmful to Small Businesses in general. So this resolution will support the Small Business commission convening that committee to Work Together on strategies and policies that will help Small Businesses thrive even due to certain legislation. Chair ronen fantastic. No other opening comments . If theres any member of the public who would wish to speak on this item, please come forward. Good morning, chair ronen, vicechair walton, supervisor mar, dominika dalton. Thank you so much for hearing this today, and on behalf of the Small Business commission, i would like to extend thanks and appreciate to supervisors walton and fewer in them introducing this legislation in an especially timely and swift manner. The commissioners are especially grateful to supervisor walton to listening to their feedback and to emerging feedback and following up on the commitment made to a strategy to implement economic mitigation measures for our most vulnerable businesses who may have been affected by recent legislation. Were confident this effort will lead to sustainable positive outcomes for our Small Businesses and were gratefully appreciative of your consideration of this item. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much. Is there any other member of the public who wishes to speak on this item . Mr. Wright, please come forward. Small businesses, now the city has been shortchanging Small Businesses, and i generally thats not my target because i focus in on the most Vulnerable People, but when you do something thats right in front of my eyesight, because of me not being an unconscionable person i have to speak up. You have been giving preferential treatment to multibilliondollar companies not letting them pay payroll taxes, whereas Small Businesses you charge them payroll taxes. As a result their clientele is not as big as the multibillion companies, twitter, and other companies and a Biotech Company and the business is always booming, but Small Businesses end up going out of business and then you penalize the owner because plywood is being put in front of the window where the Small Business is located and you want to charge them. So you owe them. Thats difference of treatment. Its a violation of Business Code of professional ethics. Youve got a situation enjoyed by multibilliondollar companies is not enjoyed by smaller companies. Thats preferential treatment. One Company Carrier that came in and claimed taxes, state taxes, union dues, pesca denied them from being treated like twitter and gave a poor excuse, said, look, because youre paying union dues doesnt mean you should be exempt from paying payroll taxes. How come you dont use that philosophy with twitter and all the other hightech companies and one Biotech Company . Theyve got multi [ bell rings ]. Chair ronen thank you. Is there any other member of the public who would wish to speak on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you. I would love to add myself as a cosponsor of this measure, and im happy to make the motion to refer this to the full board as a Committee Report. Thank you. I second that. I just want to thank dominica for her work and support through this process. We still have much more work to do together, but thank you for coming out this morning. I would like to be added as a cosponsor as well. Thank you so much for all your work on this, supervisor walton. Chair ronen without objection, this item moves forward with a Committee Report with positive recommendation unanimously. [ gavel ]. Chair ronen mr. Clerk, can you read item number 5. Clerk item number 5 is the ordinance amending the administrative code to establish uniform procedures for the administration of city loans and grants for the acquisition, development, construction rehabilitation and preservation of Affordable Housing, authorize the director of the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development to execute certain local or grant agreements for Affordable Housing. Chair ronen thank you. We are happy to have the director of mohcd in her last week on the job. Weve got to keep things moving to the bitter end. Chair ronen thanks for being here. Thank you. Thank you very much for this hearing and for considering our request to establish protocols for the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development loans approval process. Lets see if we could get the there we go. Hold on one second. Okay. Great. Just to provide a little framework, the city charter requires that all loans that are over 10 million or longer 10 million in term receive a board of supervisors approval. In addition, we request board approval for any acquisitions or leases of real property, per the admin code, as well as jurisdictional transfers of real property. We take land dedications from our developers to the board for approval that comes through the planning code. If we get any funds for our developments from the state department of housing and Community Development, that requires board approval, as does every taxexempt bond issuance. Weve used taxexempt bonds on 98 of new construction projects. So there are many board approvals that apply to all our projects. We are requesting delegated authority for three types of loans, and i will speak in more detail about the rationale for this request in the next slides. The first is for loans that are less than 10 million, but have longer than tenyear terms. We are also asking for delegated authority for our local operating Subsidy Program grant agreements and for emergency loans that exceed 10 million. What will not change is that any substantial rehab or new construction project will require board approval. Any loan thats over 10 million will be bringing to the board. And our loan our local operating subsidy grants, those require annual appropriations approv