He was a very passionate about fighting racism, he was very passionate about fighting injustice, and he was also very inspired by the recent move of supervisors to shut down juvenile hall. And i ask in his honor to continue that you fight that. Mass incarceration has one of the massive one of the massive impacts it has on our communities is a culture of violence. And thousands of people rotating in and out of the state penitentiaries with intense ptsd , and without the support to be able to pay rent and buy groceries, and with the potential of their ptsd, just like military veterans, exploding all over again. We are seeing the impact of this and his honor, i want to thank the board of supervisors and San Francisco, and i ask you to honor his legacy by continuing to fight racism and continue to fight for Economic Justice and by dismantling mass incarceration. Thank you very much. Thank you. Im sorry for your loss. Good afternoon. Im his mom, and i just want to say thank you for taking the time to acknowledge my son, and for letting people know him. Too many kids, all victims, and nobody hears about them. On behalf of my family, and all of luis family, i want to say thank you. We will do everything we can to keep his legacy going. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. The rest i submit. Okay. Thank you very much. I am sorry, once again, for your loss. I dont have any formal introductions but i wanted to go on the record to say that i think today is the day in our nations history that we will remember for a long time. I want to give a big shout out and support to our speaker, nancy pelosi, are making for making a strong move to initiate impeachment inquiries against this president. This democracy has been under assault for the last three years , and finally, we have reached the tipping point. This most recent action by our president to use taxpayer money to go after a political opponent is just completely disintegrating what the founding for fathers and mothers and everyone that fought about what this democracy would been would mean is just unconscionable. I just wanted to make a note of support for the impeachment inquiry. I wanted to put on record that i think this board of supervisors wholeheartedly supports restoring our democracy and going after President Trump in all his machinations to undermine our democracy. The rest i submit. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Supervisor stefani . Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton . Mr. President . Thank you. Colleagues, i am introducing a resolution today supporting the issuance of permits of s. P. Five compliance emergency technology, entities and contractors seeking to operate in San Francisco by the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. As we have seen in the past few decades, no employment models prioritize an independent contractors and have given way to companies avoiding the responsibility of benefits and investing in workers being ineligible for being ineligible for basic benefits typically made available to employees. This is also been exasperated with pervasiveness of the emerging technologies. California has been at the forefront of addressing the negative impacts of this worker model. In july, as a board, we passed a resolution in support of Assembly Bill five, which establishes the presumption that a worker is they are an employee for purposes of wages and benefits. Two weeks ago, a. B. Five past and was signed by governor newsome. While there is a legitimate space for the use of independent contractors, the exportation of many workers who have been denied the opportunities for benefits afforded to employees has run rampant. These workers are denied the basic benefits such as unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, paid parental leave, overtime pay, workers compensation, a guaranteed minimum hourly wage, and a right to organize to better their working conditions. From my work for the development of the office of emerging technology, it is clear that much of the innovation being launched is in the realm of transportation. The resolution i am introducing today urges the sfmta to consider compliance with a. B. Five when issuing permits to emerging technology entities. Contractors, vendors, and any entity which seeks to operate in San Francisco. This resolution requests any sfmta permit holder that the workers be employees and not independent contractors. I want to thank my cosponsors, and the rest i submit. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor brown . Thank you. Today as cities across california, including San Francisco update our Building Code to ensure we are all in alignment with the state, im introducing legislation to amend chapter 7 of the miscible Green Building requirement to eliminate natural gas and all new Municipal Construction and whole building renovations. And the action strategy, the department of environment has studying the credentials for all new Electrical Construction since 2015 and city agencies. [please stand by] , i hope that you will all join us as cosponsors as well in the rapid accelerated change towards a more sustain allelectric feature. And also, colleagues, i want to address an ongoing issue that threatens vulnerable rentcontrolled tenants in my district and yours. Today, along with supervisor peskin and fewer, i am introducing a resolution urging the San Francisco rent board to develop stronger criteria for the concept of reasonable reliance. Last year the board of supervisors passed legislation to limit landlords ability to pass through Debt Services and property tax increases when purchasing rent control buildings. The original intent of this ordinance was to enable smaller landlords with allowable increase to achieve a fair rate of return and to pay off increased expenses. At the time the board had hoped that the rent board would create objective standards on whether an investor did, in fact, reasonably rely on their ability to pass through these costs when they decided to purchase the building. Following the passage of this legislation, however, weve witnessed an uptick of certain passthroughs that result in rent increases, including operation and maintenance passthroughs. These passthroughs are disproportionately being petitioned for by large corporate landlords who own and manage hundreds of buildings which impact thousands of tenants. My constituents are currently facing hardship, uncertainty and displacement. This is unacceptable. Yesterday we learned that a major private Property Owner petitioning for these o. N. M. Passthroughs had a voluntary relief program. We appreciate that. If they want to offer casebycase relief, thats their choice. But we need to take a citywide approach and an enforceable, clear and meaningful policies. I am committed to work with supervisor peskin and fewer to offer concrete reforms to the San Francisco rent ordinance and push for stronger guidelines on reasonable reliance. This is why ive also called for a hearing and a b. L. A. Report to take a deeper dive in what we need to do to protect the tenants from these rent increases. Too many people are struggling in todays rental market and many are marching today to protest their rights and their homes. We want to ensure that tenants in San Francisco can count on more than corporate benever b b. And the rest i submit. And i left out one name that is a cosponsor, the resolution around 85. Thank you, supervisor, fewer. I submit. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor haney. Supervisor safai . We werent able to get our word to supervisor yee in time so im also a cosponsor on that. Thank you. Thanks. Supervisor haney. Thank you, madam clerk. Two items, the first is today im directing the City Attorney to draft legislation that will expand just cause protections to more San Francisco tenants. Generally if your Apartment Building was built before 1979 and has two or more units, then you are not only covered by rent protection, but also evacuationn protection. Under the eviction ordinance, the landlord can only evict you for just causes. The landlord cannot do so for nonpayment of use and the illegal use of the unit. And its to prevent evictions and to keep people housed. However, there are thousands of units, individuals, families, who are not granted those same protections simply because they are in a building built after 1979. For these tenants the landlords are not required to state a reason for evicting them. The protections as they are now are arbitrary and they leave thousands without protection. So what im proposing is simple and to expand just cause protections to buildings built after 1979. And no one should have to live in fear of an arbitrary eviction and i look forward to the continuing discussion when the legislation is introduced next month. The second item that i have is im introducing a resolution declaring a Public Health crisis on our streets caused by drug overdoses. The open drug use and Overdose Deaths in our city are absolutely devastating and are increasing at a terrifying rate. People in our city are dying from fentanyl and heroin overdoses at the highest rates ever. This drug crisis is wreaking havoc, particularly on our downtown neighborhoods. It is a Public Health and a Public Safety crisis. Deaths are skyrocketing and our residents, especially those in tenderloin and south of market are feeling the awful impacts of the lack of action. We need an Emergency Response now. I have spoken about this at the last few board meetings but i want to reiterate some of these numbers because of how awful they are. Drug overdoses in San Francisco have claimed the lives of 259 people in 2018. Fentanyl, synthetic painkiller, up to a hundred times more potent than morphine has passed prescription pills and heroin as a leading cause of Overdose Deaths in the city it. Increased 150 in 2018. Drug overdoses account for five times as many deaths as either traffic deaths or homicides. And experts are predicting now that we are on track to have a continuing large rise in deaths in 2019. Each one of these individuals who lost their life has loved ones and a future that was tragically cut short. Their are resources that must be addressed to save lives. The desperation on our streets is increasing and its more deadly and dangerous. Just the other day supervisor peskin and i were walking back from a meeting in the tenderloin and there was an individual who was on the ground who was unconscious. He was surrounded by a few other individuals who were trying to revive him. This is a situation that is i think far too common in our city. He was it seems that they had lost him. He had lost his heartbeat. That he was on the verge of dying. We didnt have narcan on us at that point so we were able to yell and find somebody who did have narcan while we called 911. Thankfully, we were able to apply the narcan and the Fire Department arrived in very quickly, in a few minutes and he was able to be revived. His situation thankfully is one of survival. There are thousands of overdoses that are happening in our city every year and, sadly, many people are not surviving in the way that he did. Some of you may have seen the recent articles in the San Francisco chronicle about an individual named tyson fielser. Tyson had been in San Francisco and had lost contact with his family for years. And they didnt know where he was. Finally they were able to reconnect with him a few months ago here in San Francisco. And it seemed at the time that this was going to be a story of healing and of reconnection and rehabilitation. He left with his family to the midwest and ultimately earlier this month took a bus back to San Francisco and last week tragically overdosed on the streets of the tenderloin and died. This situation of people dying on our streets without any sort of Emergency Response is one that without a doubt that i hope that we can admits at a crisis level that deserves and needs an Emergency Response much greater than we are seeing now. I have spoken to firefighters and e. M. T. S and street outreach workers and theyre all completely shocked at the failure of urgent action on our streets that will save lives. So i know that this is something that i have talked a lot about and that supervisor mandelman and supervisor stefani having a hearing, and working all together on Mental Health s. F. , but i think that the urgency and the need for Emergency Responses to specifically to address the crisis of drug overdoses and drug use as many of the drugs that are coming into our streets are more dangerous than ever, i think that we should expect an emergency plan that responds at the scale of this crisis that were experiencing. So i hope that we can all Work Together on this. There are people who are dying every day. Largely in my district, but also all over the city. And i really hope that we can respond with urgency to save lives. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today im introducing an ordinance to incentivize all electric buildings and disincentivize the use of natural gas in construction. Its one of the significant contributors to our Carbon Footprint and on the heels of thousands of San Francisco youth taking to the streets on friday to demand action on Climate Change, this is an important step toward reducing emissions in New Buildings. The legislation will update the Building Code to favor the design and construction of all electric zeroemission buildings by mandating higher and more efficiency requirements for buildings that use natural gas and end electricity known as mixed fuel. While we have made significant progress in reducing Greenhouse Gas emissions in San Francisco we cannot continue the status quo when it come comes to our citys buildings. The department of the environment, say that 44 of the Greenhouse Gas emission comes from buildings and 82 of those emissions from natural gas, a fossil fuel that is a contributor to our climate crisis. Thanks to the Public Utilities commission and the clean power s. F. Program, we have 100 Clean Electricity that we can use to power all of the energy needs of our buildings. We dont need to use natural gas to hoot our wate heat our waterd should use 100 gasfree electricity to do that instead. Starting january 1, 2020, my legislation will Incentivize Developers to design and build allelectric buildings without using any natural gas. For a mixed fuel commercial buildings and units of four or more, new projects will be required to be 10 more efficient than the Building Code and allelectric will be required to meet the code standards. For lowrise residential of one to three stories, they will be required to be 1 more efficit than the Building Code. And all of this a adds up to mae natural gas more expensive than the allelectric alternative. This is a step forward but not nearly enough. So today supervisor brown and i announce a commitment to bring forward the legislation within the next six months to ban natural gas in all new residential and commercial buildings in San Francisco. Last year mayor breed committed San Francisco to ambitious as supervisor brown described mayor breed committed San Francisco to ambitious building decarbonization targets including a new goal of eliminating emissions in new construction no later than 2030. We cannot afford to wait until 2030. We need to do it in 2020. To accomplish this, we will convene a series of meetings with labor leaders, environmental advocates and equip ares and city agencies to ban natural gas in all construction in San Francisco. And we will not stop there. Following a complete ban on natural gas in new construction, the next necessary step will be to require the retro fitting of existing buildings to be all electric. What we do here in San Francisco can be a model for city it is throughout the world and we are going to lead the way in ending our climate crisis. We want to thank the department of the environment for all of their work on this legislation. Especially director debbie rafael, and barry hooper, Charles Sheahan and peter goloa and the Mayors Office for their work as well and my cosponsors, supervisors brown and peskin for joining me in this effort. Finally, i want to thank our climate advocates for demanding action and making sure that we continue to rein in our emissions and reduce our Carbon Footprint. And finally, i want to thank kyle smeily in my office for all of his work on this. And that is the legislation that i have to introduce. And i also, sadly, have a memorial. Id like to ask that we end our meeting in memory of an extraordinary woman who passed away on september 5th after battling cancer fo