State of her state or federal prison term. Supervisor safai if the court could please add me as a cosponsor to this. Supervisor yee great. Can we take this item same house same call . Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 51, motion to approve the mayoral nomination for the appointment of to the board of appeals for a term ending july. Supervisor yee colleagues, can we take this item same house same call . Without objection this motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, can we go to Committee Reports . [inaudible]. Clerk item 52 was recommended as amended with a new title. A motion to approve the mayors nomination for the appointment of ruby, to the board of directors for a term ending february 26, 2022. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk please call the next one. Clerk item 53 was recommended as amended with a new title, motion to appoint julie roberts, term ending july 1, 20202 the children, youth and their families oversight and Advisory Committee supervisor yee colleagues, can we take this item same house and call . Without objection this motion is approved unanimously. Next item, please. Clerk item 54 recommended as amended with a new title, motion to reappoint theodora, term ending july 1, 2023 to the entertainment commission. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call . Without objection this motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, next item. Clerk item 55 a motion to appoint supervisor gordon mar to the bay area executive board term ending june 30, 2021. Supervisor yee can i have a motion to excuse supervisor mark . Without objection, supervisor mar is excused. Clerk i apologize, who was the first on that motion . If you thank you. Item 54, supervisor haney. [roll call]. Supervisor yee without objection this motion is approved unanimously. Next item. Clerk item 56 is a motion to appoint supervisor walton, term ending february 1, 2021 to the bay area air Quality ManagementDistrict Board of directors. Supervisor yee okay. Can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton on this one . Motion made by supervisor brown and seconded by supervisor ronen. Without objection, supervisor walton is excused. Roll call please. [roll call]. Supervisor yee without objection, the motion is approved. Clerk a motion to reappoint supervisor mandleman, term ending june 30, 2021 to the association of bay areas government executive board. Clerk no objection. Supervisor mandleman is excused. [roll call]. Supervisor yee without objection the motion is approved unanimously. Madame clerk, i want everybody to know that it is 2 51 and we are going to go to roll call. [roll call]. Supervisor haney that was quick. Today, my colleagues, we are calling on the sheriff and the city and most traders office for a plan to shut down county jail number four at the hall of justice 850 bryant street and present these plans at hearing here at the board. Built nearly 60 years ago, the building has been marked for demolition since 1996, over 20 years ago. Two years ago the city administrator called for the jail to be closed by the end of this year, 2019. Despite this, no active plan exists to close the jail. For the immediate safety of those in the jail which includes hundreds of city employees, staff and those housed at the jail. Many are awaiting trial because they cannot afford bail. The board in the city must take steps immediately to close this facility. No one believes this building is safe area ive met all of the key city officials on this issue , and they all agree, the building is seismically unfit. As a result, nearly everyone who works there will be moved out of this building, including the District Attorneys Office who are said to him of the. The only group for whom we do not have a plan for, are the people who are incarcerated there. And those who work directly with him. Everyone is in agreement that the jail should close and that it will close in the near future. One city official actually told me that the building is so obviously unsafe, and widely understood to be so, that our own department of Building Inspections code read tag it and close it themselves in any moment. Shockingly, there is no plan or process in place for us it is urgent that we change this and develop a plan for the most safe and practical way to close this jail. Two months ago i spent the morning at county jail number four, on the seventh floor of a 50 bryant which sits in my building. It is an old way of building a jail. Forcing those who are incarcerated to spend most of their day in old, small, concrete, crowded cells. It is like a defunct alcatraz prison but without a yard. Most modern facilities including the jail at san bruno house individuals and pods i regularly accessible recreation space. So individuals can spend most of the day outside of the cells in recreational and educational areas. At 850 bryant, large numbers of people are incarcerated for 23 hours a day in small cells with little to no space for counseling groups, Education Programs or exercise. People with severe Mental Illnesses have very little ongoing care and more importantly are not in an environment fit for treatment. 90 of people housed there have not been can convicted of any crimes. Many have been awaiting their day in court for months or years and language and cramped sales because they cannot afford to pay bail or lack of a space and other facilities. Continuing to house people in this facility is also an issue of Public Safety. People who are house their need and deserve individualized treatment and rehabilitation, not concrete cellblocks on a fundamentally unsound building. We are not safe as a community when individuals spent time in this, or treatment, and released back onto the tree. The jail the racial and economic disparities of our citys criminal system. Fiftysix of those held in the jail or black 30 are in need of Mental Health care, a quarter under 25, an 80 of the people are held pretrial. Those incarcerated on the seventh floor, employee sheriffs deputies and other employees including doctors, nurses and counselors. Its also a violation of their safety and wellbeing. For the many staff that work there. In fact, a recent news article in 2017 alerted the public to the fact that the building will likely crumble in a major earthquake. The community has recognized the need to act. Many of you were lobbied, i believe, last week. One hundred Community Members that came and met with our respective offices. Seventy Community Organizations who signed on, united and this amount to take immediate steps. In 2015 we rejected new jail construction, and instead directed departments to pursue ways to reduce the jail population. We are now well along in the process, and need to put forward both a process and a plan for this jail to be closed. We will be asking the city administrator, and the sheriff, who i have looked into as well as Close Partnership on this moving forward with the mayor, the district attorney, the public defender to put forward plans related to a timeline, reclassification, released to noncustodial programs, in collaboration with the police to release bookings. Im looking forward to working with these departments. To this hearing, i want to thank my colleagues for their support on this as well. Secondly, quickly, i am introducing legislation to create a streetlevel Drug Dealing Task force which will be comprised of Community Members, city departments tasked with evaluating the increase of streetlevel drug dealing, and putting forward new Creative Space solutions. Many of you remember, or you were there, and we had a seven hour hearing where we had most of the departments, who respond to the issues related to drug dealing present. What we heard from them, and what we heard from the many residents that came out and spoke, at that hearing, the city urgently needs ordination. We need a comprehensive strategy. We need to partner in a serious way to put this forward. This Drug Dealing Task force will allow us to bring together experts, residents, Department Officials to be able to develop this strategy, and act with great urgency, prioritizing real solutions, collaboration and accountability. We are going to be working closely with the chief of police , who is aware of this, and supportive. The task force will look at Crime Prevention, Law Enforcement, economic development, and alternatives to incarceration. They will be able to hold public hearings, testimony, and access data and research were best practices. This is, without a doubt, one of the issues i hear the most for my constituents on an absolute daily basis about how extensive street level drug dealing is, particularly south of market, tenderloin, and the civic center. They are demanding, calling out for a real strategy from our city. I am hopeful that this task force can be a key part of that. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandleman thank you, madame clerk. Today i am introducing an ordinance that will allow cannabis businesses participating in the Amnesty Program to continue to access fee waivers. The ordinance will also extend temporary cannabis permits through 2020. Following the passage of proposition 64 which legalize Recreational Cannabis activity in the state of california, the city commence that allowed existing, resale cannabis operators to come forward and make themselves on their activities known to the city. [please stand by] am. Memori tand by] am. Secondly, some of you may recall that late last year, which seems like a lifetime ago, i requested a budget and legislative report. That report was released today and im requesting a hearing on the report so we can better understand the citys use of these conservatorships. Contributed to a decrease in the total l. D. S. Conservative caseload. Interestingly, that caseload has increased somewhat over the last year. Now one of the perhaps surprising things i learned from this report is San Francisco is conserving gravely disabled people at an alarming average and is ranked ninth among counties in its per capita rate. So whats going on . Are there fewer people in need of conservatorships in San Francisco county or are we failing to meet the needs of residents that cannot take care of themselves . Part of the explanation of that decline is the loss of the last decade of appropriate placements of people suffering from serious Mental Illnesses. Plainly, theres more work to do, and the report and the experience of my office over the last year suggests that the lack of placements may not be the only reasons for San Franciscos low conservatorship rate. I hope we can all agree that caring for the sickest among us, ensuring that the gravely disabled are not left to fend for themselves is among the most basic obligations of a humane and caring community. By that test, San Francisco has been failing for some time, and although i hope we have turned a corner and there is actually some evidence for that in the b. L. A. Report, we are far away of meeting that threshold of decency. Above all, we must use information to build a complete and compassionate system of care for those who cannot care for themselves. I love forward to discussing these issues with the b. L. A. , department of Public Health and the office of the conservator in the fall. And the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mar. Supervisor mar thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, i have two items today. First i am requesting a hearing for the citys internal auditors to present the comprehensive financial coffer and their single management letters, if any, related to the citys audit for Fiscal Year Ended june 30, 2018 and to present their plans for fiscal year 2019. This hearing is required under charter section 9. 117, and we look forward to sharing their findings at the government audit and Oversight Committee in september. Secondly, following growing incidents of property crimes targeting chinese residents today, im formally requiring that the San FranciscoPolice Department provided aggregated data over the past ten years. This is critical to developing more effective Crime Prevention strategies in ensuring all communities are safe. Thank you to supervisor walton for cosponsoring this request. I first requested this in february. Four months later, Chinese Americans have been victims of violent and serious crimes, but the Police Department has not provided this data to the public. At my hearing in march on Home Invasion robberies, over a dozen chinese residents from the sunset district spoke out about this, yet the Police Department was not able to confirm or respond. Four months later, they havent responded despite the Violent Attacks on two Community Leaders in chinatown and numerous other incidents in other neighborhoods. We have also seen other communities being targeted for crime. Supervisor walton has indicated how the African AmericanCommunity Bears the burden of the most Violent Crimes, including homicide. Given these Alarming Trends and urgent Public Safety concerns of many different communities, i am submitting a formal letter of inquiry today requesting that sfpd provide al ravated Demographic Data on victims of crime by category, Police Department district in even year for the last ten years. Furthermore, to ensure this data is tracked, aggregated and disclosed going forward, i would urge that the Police Department be mandated on reporting the aggregated data yearly. This information is critically important to strengthening our Crime Prevention strategy and keeping our districts safe. Its information that other Police Departments already provide to the public. For example, new york city Police Department has been providing reports on the ethnicity in annual reports for ten years. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you. Today, i have several items. While theres certainly a rationale that everyone, regardless of their status of tena tenant, there are some on fixed or lowincomes who budget their income down to the last penny with no room to deal with further rent increases, and they should be subject to hardship petitions. Weve heard from tenants across the city in virtually every district on pass throughs on top of the annual allowable rent increases. This will allow a process by which those tenants can petition for the same relief as operating and maintenance and capital pass throughs in order to keep them in their homes. Speaking of tenant displacement, we have also seen a citywide increase of tenant displacement as a result of construction and mandatory retrofitting. Im sure youre all getting the same complaints and emails that i am. This applies both to residential and commercial tenants and has serious ramifications, and while i was not on this body when the mandatory seismic retrofit was adopted, i think we are all along overdue in creating some protections and mitigations for those displaced tenants. Our own rent ordinance allows landlords to temporarily evict tenants for the performance of Capital Improvements, but a lot of these go on way too long. For example, a pending project in my district threatens to evict four longterm tenants, seniors, in my district, without replacement housing. Even given for those at the top of the income scale, a temporary Capital Improvement eviction notice is a disaster in the making. As a result, some unscrupulous investors and landlord attorneys have utilized the mere threat of these to vacate their homes. Additionally, i know that many of us have been approached by tenants, particularly, veritas tenants struggling with pass throughs on their rent. There are residents in my district that did not make the cutoff for reforms. This means that all the lowincome tenants are absorbing the property and rent pass throughs mostly which are banked over a number of years. Were talking about what is potentially balloon pavement increases that some of these tenants were not contemplating and you go yare struggling to. I am contemplating proposing an answer for those who need relief, and i am looking forward to discuss with veritas and i appreciate their willingness to discuss this and hopefully we will find a solution. On a different topic, i want to repeat what we said at our last Transportation Authority commission meeting. As we all mourned another Pedestrian Fatality due to running a red light and excess ti sive speeding, as we say speed kills. Its one of the top five serious cyclists and pedestrian injuries and fatalities. And while weve added Additional Resour