Afternoon. Welcome to the july 23, 2019 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll . Thank you, mr. President. Brown present. Fewer not present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. President yee. President yee thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, michael and kelowna, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, are there any communications . None to report, mr. President. President yee colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the june 18, 2019 board meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, then can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor walton, seconded by supervisor brown. And without objection, those minutes will be approved after public comment. Madame clerk, lets go to our special order for 2 00 p. M. Yes, the first order of Business Today is to welcome the honorable mayor, london n. Breed to present a fiveminute address to the board of supervisors. There have been no questions submitted by eligible districts. President yee all right. Welcome, madame mayor. Mayor breed, there are no topics submitted by supervisors today. Its your freebie. We welcome you. [laughter]. We welcome you to share your remarks. Mayor breed thank you, president yee, are you sure, nothing . Well, i know in the past ive come to the board and really talked about a lot of our differences and the challenges that weve faced in the city because of those differences. But today i want to talk a little bit about how were all working together. While there are and will always be places where we will have disagreements, there is plenty of room for us to come together for solutions. First i want to thank president yee for your support and leadership with the Affordable Housing bond. That bond came out of a collaborative process and we worked through all the issues on the agreement, whether it was the size of the bond or how much money we were going to spend. And while there were numerous opinions, we sat down, had the hard conversations and got the job done. So, thank you, president yee, and also happy birthday. Supervisor fewer, you were a fantastic partner on the budget, getting it out of Committee Earlier than scheduled and bringing all your colleagues together to fund our shared priorities and i want to thank you for your fairness, and your transparency and your hard work, every step of the way across every issue. Supervisor safai, i commend you for stepping up and finding us a location for the safe vehicle triage site in your district and leading that very difficult conversation in your district. Supervisor stefani, i know youve been working really hard on 3333 california Street Project and we all know that we need more housing in this city, in all communities. So thank you so much for your work on that. Supervisor mar, i want to thank you for your dedication to fully funding free city college. Your collaboration together with the trustee, the chancellor and the coalition helped us to remove a Charter Amendment that would have locked us in a ballot policy that we would not be able to adjust here at city hall. And anytime that we can accomplish something in city hall instead of the ballot, we should. And i want to appreciate supervisor ronen and supervisor haney for their willingness to sit down with my office and the department of Public Health to work on a Mental Health solution that involves support with Substance Abuse treatment for those that we all know are most in need. We know Behavioral Health is one of the top issues facing people in our city, particularly those sleeping on the streets. And i know i have a tremendous ally in supervisor mandelman and his commitment to helping those who continuously refuse treatment. I want to thank you, supervisor mandelman, for your leadership. We both share a sense of urgency to push these Solutions Forward now. I recognize that there is also a sense of urgency in district 10 where supervisor walton is dealing with the tremendous amount of issues around violence in the community and im committed to working with you to address those issues and to, of course, address issues around criminal justice reform. So thank you for your leadership. Thank you to supervisor brown for your hard work on legislation to streamline the business permitting process and to fight Vacant Store Front retail across the city. And for your work, together with supervisor fewer, to push for an office of racial equity. Supervisor peskin, your commitment to a clean ballot and interest in getting our gross receipts underhaul under way demonstrates your commitment to our responsible policy making for our residents and i truly appreciate that and your thoughtfulness. We all know that what our challenges we all know our challenges in the city, and i believe that weve proven we can come together to work in the best interest of the people of the city. Im willing to have these conversations and im truly glad you are, too. Ultimately, were here for the people of San Francisco and they, of course, want us all to Work Together towards solutions that are going to make the quality of life better for the residents of our city. Thats why im here. Thats why were all here. And i want to thank you all again for the work weve been able do to move San Francisco forward in a positive direction. Thank you. President yee thank you. In the time that youre allocated, so madame mayor, i want to thank you for joining us today and making those positive comments as we sort of end this session pretty soon and go into recess. And hopefully, in september, well continue having these collaborations. Thank you very much. Mayor breed thank you, president yee. President yee madame clerk, lets go to our regular agenda. Can you please call the first item . Item 1 is a resolution to establish renew and expand the property based Business Improvement district known as the Civic Center Community benefit district and levy assessments for 15 years to beginning 201920 and affirm the ceqa determination. President yee supervisor brown i think has made a motion to the Civic Center Community district . Supervisor brown yes. And id like it make that motion to renew and expand the Civic Center Community benefit district with amendments, specifically, i would like to remove parcel 0768021 through 71 on the northern westernmost edge of the cbd. The amendment and Management Plan and engineer report before you reflect the changes. And id also like to ask deputy City Attorney givner to confirm the timing of this process is correct and legal. Deputy City Attorney jon givner, yes, this is an appropriate time for the board to make amendment reducing the size of the proposed district by removing those parcels. The process is essentially set forth in state law and state law provides that the board can make this type of amendment at this point in the process. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you. And thank you for your the legal clarification. Which was all i wanted. I do have to say for the record, though, while it is in state law and he correctly advised the department and were now dually advised by our counsel, it seems a weird thing you can change it after the election. I realize that its legal and i will be voting for it, but it seems like a very bizarre provision in state law. President yee okay. So there is the motion made and is there a second . Second made by supervisor safai. Colleagues, without objection, can we take the revisions . The document will be accepted, okay. Now on resolution itself, with the changes to the supporting document, which is item 1, madame clerk, please call the roll. Item 1, fewer . Fewer on item 1 . Fewer aye. Haney aye. Mandelman aye. Mar aye. Peskin aye. Ronen aye. Safai aye. Stefani aye. Walton aye. Yee aye. Brown aye. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted with the revised Management Plan and engineers report unanimously. Madame clerk, please call items 2 through 18 together. Items 2 through 18 are being called together. They constitute the budget for the city and county of San Francisco for fiscal years 20192020 and 20202021. Item 2 is to appropriate all estimated receipts for the departments in the city as of june 1, 2019. Item 3, the annual salary ordinance to enumerate the positions in the budget and appropriation ordinance. Item 4 is the ordinance to adopt the beautification and graffiti cleanup fund ceiling. Item 5 is the ordinance that authorizes refunding certificates of participation or the c. O. P. , for multiple Capital Improvement projects to improve the form of notice and sale and attention to sell the c. O. P. S. Item 6 is refunding certificates in the amount of 160 million to deappropriate 16. 5 million in 2009a and b and to reappropriate series 2019r1 in the amount of 176. 5 million and place these on reserve pending the sale in fiscal year 2019. Item 7 is to amend the fire code and increase fees for services and affirm the ceqa determine sak determination. Item 9, to set nonresidential Adult Admission fees at specialty attractions by utilizing flexible pricing based on certain factors. And item 10, authorizes the imposition of the surcharge of 1 per nonresident adult visitor at the japanese teagarden to fund the restoration of the facility until such time as the restoration is complete and determine the ceqa for all three items. Item 11 eliminates fine for Overdue Library books, material and equipment and to forgive outstanding debt for overdue fines. Item 12 is the resolution to approve the budget for the office of Community Investment and infrastructure operating as the Successor Agency to the San FranciscoRedevelopment Agency and authorizes the issuance of 41 million in bonds by the office of Community Investment. Item 13, resolution to concur with the controllers establishment of the Consumer Price index for 2019 and to adjust the access line tax by the same rate. Item 14 is the resolution to concur with the controller certification that Services Previously approved can be performed by a private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by City Employees for specific services. Item 15 is the resolution to authorize the Planning Department to apply for, accept and expend 625 million s b2 Planning Grant from the California Department of housing and Community Development for citywide planning projects that streamline housing approval and accelerate production. Item 16, resolution to authorize the acceptance of state grant funds by the San Francisco department of Public Health. Item 17 is the resolution to approve the expenditure plans for the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing for the fund. And item 18 is the resolution to authorize the San FranciscoPublic Library to accept and expend approximately 808,000 in inkind gifts, services and cash monies from the friends of the San FranciscoPublic Library for a variety of Public Programs and services in fiscal year 20192020. President yee okay. I see supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin i would defer to chair fewer, but when the appropriate time comes, i would like to sever item number 9 and offer some amendments to it that i passed out. I just wanted to put that on the record. President yee number 9. Supervisor peskin yes, sir. Supervisor fewer thank you, president yee. Colleagues, i gave my comments and thanks last week when the budget and trailing legislation first appeared on the agenda, but i realized that i did not acknowledge the incredible interns in our office who helped staff on budget. Since today is the first vote to pass the budget, i want to take a moment to recognize them. In particular, jimmie, jackie and marissa. Without the support, the budget process would not have gone an smoothly as it did. Thanks to our interns, my staff, the bla, the mayor budget office, the controller and all of my colleagues for the collaborative process that allowed us to prioritize investments for many of the most vulnerable in our communities. Thank you. President yee can we take items 2 through 18 with the exception of item 9, same house same call . Without objections, these ordinances are passed on First Reading. Can we call number 9 again . I think you already called it. So supervisor peskin. Reminder, item 9 is setting nonresident adult fees at specialty attractions. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. I want to thank the chair of the Budget Committee, supervisor fewer and other members of the Budget Committee for the entire budget that we just passed but also for their deliberations and modifications to this provision in the park code with regard to the conservatory of flowers, the teagarden, the Botanical Garden and coit tower elevator and want to commend the committee for the amendments that have already been made. I would like to further suggest insofar as a report will be forth coming in march 2021, that the legislation would sunset at that time or the board of supervisors could extend it for a period of time, or permanently, if it so chose and to that end, ive circulated on page 5, lines 10 through 16, a sunset provision to that effect. Which i believe supervisor fewer has a friendly amendment that she has shared with me that i support. Which she can or tick calculate in a moment. Articulate in a moment. I also talked with rec and park and the code as it was already written had a mistake in it, which i am offering some amendments to fix. And that is on page 2, section 12. 06. As a matter of fact, coit tower which was built with a bequest from the Lily Hitchcock coit and the art came courtesy of the United States of america from the Works Progress administration or a similar new deal federal program, has indeed been free for everybody since it opened some 80 years ago. Only the elevator has been the source of revenue and a fee. So weirdly enough, the way the code currently reads and i think its just a mistake it says admission fee. So we have gotten rid of admission fee and it now is very clear that it is an elevator fee and not an admission fee, so those changes are at the top bottom of page 2 and top of page 3. I want to thank deputy City Attorney for making those amendments and so i offer those amendments, but i know that supervisor fewer has a slight change to the sunset provision. Supervisor fewer thank you. Yes, on page 5, line 8, before the paragraph begins, i would like to include, unless extended by ordinance. Supervisor peskin i would just incorporate that into the amendments that i previously discussed and so that is a motion from the supervisor. President yee okay. I think we have amendments on the floor made and motion made by supervisor peskin, and seconded by supervisor fewer. Can we take these amendments without any objection . It passes. Can we take item 9 as amended, same house, same call . Seeing no objection, it passes unanimously. Madame clerk, lets go to item number 19. Item 19 is an ordinance to appropriate 50 million of the series 2019b embarcadero earthquake wall bond proceeds to the port of San Francisco for fiscal year 20182019. President yee colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Next item. Item 20 is ordinance to retroactively approve agreement between the Public Utilities commission and the California Independent system operator for reliability accord nalter Services Coordinator services to suspend the administrative code. Subsection b, and to authorize automatic renewal of the Contract Term in excess of 10 years without returning to the board for authorization and with maximum cost not to exceed 3 million. President yee colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Madame clerk, item number 21. Item 21 i