View rear yards, and mid walk open space as underexploited options for new housing. I am incredibly grateful, to the residence of corbin heights, and especially to supervisor mandel men for this accommodation. Thank you. [applause] [applause] madame clerk, since that completes the accommodations, its not quite 3 00 p. M. Why dont we continue with roll call and why dont we start with supervisor peskin. We will refer. Thank you. Welcome back, colleagues. So come on the legislative side today, i am going to introduce an ordinance amending the citys preference policy to accommodate tenants displaced by temporary capital improvement, evictions, which is an all too often increasingly common occurrence, citywide, but especially in districts like the one i represent that have older, other representing similar districts that im looking at, looking at supervisor brown that has Housing Stock predominantly. San franciscos rental law allows landlords to displace tenants in order to form capital improvements. Sometimes these improvements are mandatory, as in certain seismic retrofits. Some of them are voluntary. Under the rental law, these evictions are intended to be temporary, and tenants are entitled to return when the renovations are completed. The law generally requires the work to be completed in about 90 days, and provides Relocation Assistance to the tenant, during that timeframe. The law also allows landlords to extend the time without a time limit, and indeed i am seeing any number of cases where this is being exploited, really with the intent of having the tenant never return, and often it is accompanied by offers of buyouts with threats of a longterm displacement, so this proposal eligible with inclusion of our city existent policy for tenants. I think you understand the process. I think we do need to work on more comprehensive reforms to protect tenants from abusive practices. The conversion of rentcontrolled housing, corporate rentals, tourist hotels, and other uses, et cetera. Right now, this is something we can do for folks who are facing these eviction threats today. Finally, i would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting, in the memory of two individuals who have left a mark on the city, and county of San Francisco. The first, filmmaker, charles rudnick, who passed away after a long and courageous struggle with cancer. He was the husband of carmen, from tommasos restaurant in north beach. My condolences to carmen, and his family, and in particularly his three daughters, tessa, kali and margie. The second is for somebody who you all, colleagues, new. He was seen behind me, on any given tuesday afternoon, a humble, sweet, remarkably observant journalist, lauren marson, who worked at kgo tv for 38 years, passed away, after cancer. While we were on summer recess. During his storied career, mostly behind the camera, he covered the hall of justice, San Francisco police headquarters, and that the weekly goingson at the board of supervisors, and i think the longest serving member of this board of supervisors, i have to say when you got his smile, of approval, you knew you were doing the right thing. When he would give that subtle little grimace, you knew the board of supervisors was messing up. His commitment to journalistic excellence was beyond just basic ethics, integrity and reporting. He was a constant grounding element, behind the camera, and his gentle presence i really felt indicated a deep empathy for his subjects, and the news, and that incredible, soothing voice that he had, always made people feel comfortable and at home. I would like to adjourn todays Board Meeting in lauren marsons memory, and extend our deepest condolences on behalf of the board to his children bonnie and gavin. I know they have been through a lot the last few weeks as lauren struggled to hospice. The rest i will submit. Thank you, mr. President. I want to thank you, and supervisor mandleman for taking the lead on the conditional use for longterm care. In fact, i think if you get an analysis, our districts collectively have the most in the entire city. I know many of the inhome care facilities, in my district, are feeling the pressure from speculators coming in, or family not being able to handle an additional family member. I actually asked my staff to do the same thing. We would love to be a process. Please add me as a cosponsor to your resolution. I think it is extremely important part of our delivery system, given the fact that we have such a large aging population. I know i have one of the highest number of seniors aging in place, and many of them want to be able to continue to live in their community, and the relative affordability of the homes being able to be converted into inhome care, assisted living facilities, in that district is very important. I know walton also has many of those facilities, ive met quite a few that actually operate facilities in multiple districts and they are the same operator in the same family. Definitely want to be a part of that resolution. Also asking the City Attorney, we are going to begin a process conversation, i know we went through an extensive process on medical cannabis dispensaries. Weve had a lot of conversations about the number, the amount of people, equity, and so on. There just seems to be a general sense that certain areas of town are more prone to multiple applications, versus ones that are not. We want to have a conversation about a potential interim control, and what that would mean to allow for a a fullfledged community, of conversations about what say spreading them, more equitably, across the city in terms of accessibility, and terms of opportunities. I will work with the City Attorney on that, and have some some initial conversations with walton, i know there is a large queue in his district as well. Anyway, we will continue those conversations. Everyone else, welcome back read the rest i submit. Supervisor. , thank you madame clerk prayed i would like to close todays meeting in memory of kirby walker who passed away on august 4, after a long and difficult fight against melanoma. She lived an amazing life with extraordinary joy, undiminished gratitude and the contagious and positive spirit until the very end. A native san franciscan, she was born to brooks and peggy walker in 1956, and was the oldest of three children. She married her college sweetheart, Paul Danielson in 1982. Kirby and paul were married for 37 years and had two sons, miles and clay. After graduating from the university of colorado and earning a masters degree from stanford university, she cofounded a productions, a Video Production company. The most recent film, the awardwinning hbo documentary, toxic hotseat, brought to light across toxic effects of cancercausing, flame retardant chemicals as well as increased cancer ratings on the firefighting profession. For her work on toxic hotseat, she was honored with the San FranciscoFirefighters Cancer Prevention Foundation white helmet award. To define the highest level of achievement in the firefighting profession, and a civilian award to those who have made a profound difference to the health and welfare of firefighters in their battle against cancer. The film elevated awareness of the toxic exposures firefighters face on a daily basis, and the importance of personal protective equipment. It was the impetus for the change in the culture of firefighting, and instrumental in changing California Law to protect consumers from carcinogens used by furniture makers, and flame retardant fabrics. Kirby also served on the board of directors at the Natural Resources defense council, where she is now an honorary board member, as well as the board of directors of the marin country day school. Kirby was the happiest, in nature, and she loved lake tahoe where she spent summers and winters, as a child, later enjoyed with her own children. While kirby found tremendous success in her career as a filmmaker, the family came first. Whether taking her husband, and sons on an adventure to expedition to rising river, or simply preparing a family dinner at home, spending time with her family brought her right pride and joy. She was widely known for spontaneous laughter, kindness, love her life that she shared with everyone from her dearest friends to hospital nurses. Kirby was a bright light in our world and she will be missed terribly by her husband, father and stepmother, as well as the many many others who left her so dearly. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor. Thank you, i submit. Supervisor yee, mr. President. Colleagues, for much of last year when i passed the ordinance limiting on Automated Delivery Services on our sidewalks, i was told by some, i was a little crazy and was creating legislation that was addressing something that was not a problem. Before that legislation passed, 300pound security robots were seen on public sidewalks, telling Homeless People to move along. A few weeks later, hundreds of scooters would drop on our streets, and suddenly everyone understood the city and residents demanded action in order to control what was taking place on our streets. Launch is really not good governance. It is not practical, nor sustainable, for a legislator, or for the Emergent Technology companies to create a single object, single subject legislation, i support renovation, and technology, but our residents are not guinea pigs for venture, capitalists to experiment on and are Public Infrastructure not a freeforall, unregulated space. With the support of supervisor ronan, if you and peskin, the Guiding Principles and the Emergent Technology working group was created in order to make recommendations for regulatory, and permitting process for those emerging technologies. I want to thank the City Administrators Office for overseeing this whole process, and evidence of the scope of interest, at the time, for this working group. We had 477 people rsvp to attend , 112 pages of session notes taken, and an additional 175 written comments were submitted by online surveys. And in 19 departments actually participated alone. Community advocacy groups, consultants, representing each of the tech firms, and academics basically we did a lot, and did research, and actually conducted some research over the 20 cities that have any indication, or interests. The recommendations through the thorough and collaborative process resulted in a legislation that would be introducing, that would create an office of emerging technology. This is imperative as emerging Tech Department is forcing departments to move away from working, and collaborate. The office of emerging technology will facilitate this process. I hope all of us agree with the recommendations creating a streamline process that will support innovation. The office of emerging technology will be the front door, because this is our responsibility, as a city to evaluate the benefits, costs and risks to our residents safety, privacy, impact to merchants, seniors, children. To launch Public Infrastructure. The city of the office of emerging technology will evaluate what departments need to be engaged prior to obtaining approval, and will forecast the variations that may be coming down the road. As you all know, San Francisco welcomes and encourages emerging technology. As a city we must ensure that technologies provide net common good, measure in identifiable ways, and that they are safe and appropriate. So, we have learned, on more than one occasion, that many businesses and in some cases, entire industries have launched and ground with little regulation oversight. This is due to the absence of a process that could facilitate envisioning the future of emerging technologies. Today the most salient example of emerging technologies are mobility, focus and impacting our streets and sidewalks. The guidelines in the prince was of the office will be inclusive of technologies beyond mobilitys. To include startup and technologies that will potentially impact of critical resources, whether it is water, air, and our environment. The office of emerging technology will speak to industries beyond mobility and transportation including health services, public, private partnerships, later sharing agreements, and anywhere there is a nexus between emerging technology and the public realm. The emerging Technology Diversity must be accommodating the most vulnerable persons, including seniors, children, and those with mobility and other limitations, not the other way around. Not retrospectively or as an afterthought. The privacy of our residents must not be compromised with data collection, and of an emerging technology. The creation of emerging technology will allow the departments to maintain their respective objectives, while working collectively toward this goal of supporting emergency technology, and limiting Public Resources to serve the welfare of san franciscans. I look forward to working with all of you, the public, private and tech sectors as this legislation is established. Resident setting Guiding Principles, and for the office of emerging technology. The rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor brown. Thank you, madame clerk can you add me as a cosponsor to supervisor peskins displacement legislation . Thank you. Colleagues, id like, many of you, have heard from dozens of massage and bodywork practitioners in this past week, due to over 200 letters from the department of Public Health. These letters were sent out, for a whistleblower complaint. Filed with the department. This is actually scary, and alarming, for many practitioners who are struggling to make a living in the city and keep their doors open. Although, this industry is designed to relieve our stress, and our aches, we know that our practitioners have felt the pain of overreaching regulations, extremely restrictive zoning. All of us at one time or another have spoken about the importance and making it easier for Small Businesses to do business in San Francisco. This is one industry where the citys current regulations are doing just the opposite. They do not reflect the importance of integration of massage to the delivery of the healthcare, and stifling its growth. I have three actions that i am asking today. One, i am calling for the City Attorney to drop comprehensive legislation that will improve Economic Vitality of legitimate massage businesses. It is clear to me that we need an ordinance that will potentially amend our planning code, our health code, and make administrative reforms. For the past several months, my office and i have been working with the office of Small Business to get policy direction , and i would like to thank regina, and her staff, for your support. I also appreciate supervisor mandleman and ronen for joining me on this work, given how this impacts their districts, too. We met with the massage council to hear the concerns and understand the challenges of this industry. I am committed to commonsense regulatory amendments that would not only serve legitimate massage business owners, but also would retain the integrity of controls put into place in order to prevent illicit sex work, and Human Trafficking. Two, i am calling for the department of Public Health to ease up on enforcement of our massage practitioners while we undergo this legislative process. This overall would take thoughtful work. And we need time to do this. We need to bring more people to the table, and work with the massage and bodywork industry, anti Human Trafficking advocates, and our sex worker advocates to determine the next steps. Lastly, i am asking for the office of Small Business to meet with them massage practitioners, on friday september 13 to get additional policy direction from the industry. We cannot develop solutions in a vacuum, we need to hear from this community. San francisco has also been a leader in delivering highquality healthcare, and we have been a leader in developing integrative healthcare. We can do the same for massage and bodywork. This is not just about the delivery of healthcare, it is an two important equity issue for women and Small Business owners. This issue impacts directly our frontline communities; women, immigrants, people of color and our queer communities. The American Massage Therapy Association estimates that nationally, massage therapists are mostly 80 , likely to be so practitioners, enter massage Massage Therapy profession as a second career, and the medium age of a massage therapist is 44 years old. The federal bureau of labor estimates there is 1900 female massage therapist employed in the bay area earning a yearly Median Income of 42,890. We need to protect this lifeline , for our women, on the margins. Colleagues, i also realize that there are illicit sex, and human traffic operators that fronted their operations under disguise a massage. I also believe that we can create regulations of that it can growth for massage as part of healthcare, and not allow illicit operators to open. I applied my colleagues were taking additional solutions, we need systematic change. I am also asking, my fellow supervisors, to please work with me on this. I need your input and guidance. I look forward to working with the City Attorney, supervisors mandleman,. Seven and the rest of our colleagues to make this happen. The rest i submit. Supervisor viewer. Thank you. Colleagues, across the city we are seeing the alltoofamiliar longrunning construction proje