People who represent them. Its based on a simple idea, that the choice of who should represent us in elected office belongs to the public, not in approximate back room deals. We deserve free, fair, and open elections, not political favoritism. The Fair ElectionsCharter Amendment addresses these issues simply and directly. It will prevent candidates from elected office from being appointed to the office theyre running for within 90 days of their election. It will also prohibit those elected to offices within 90 days of election. I want to thank my cosponsors, hillary ronen, sandra lee fewer, mat haney, and aaron peskin for your support. We who represent t secondly, im introducing an ordinance requiring the Planning Department to prepare an annual jobs housing fit report that analyzes the alignment or misalignment between job growth and housing level by affordable level in our city. This is a new analytical tool that will help us better manage growth in our city. According to the b. L. A. Report i commissioned on jobs housing fit, our Housing Production is out of alignment for job growth for low and moderate income workers, and we are failing miserably at meeting the housing requirements for low and middle class income households. Planning commissioners have been asking for this data for years, and we need jobs housing fit data every time the Planning Commission and the board of supervisors consider a Major Development projector area plan. Jobs housing fit data will allow us to make better Economic Policy and land use decisions. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. Sorry. Colleagues, today, im introducing a resolution urging the state of california to rescind or amend new department of Health Care Service medical policy regarding feeforservice covering medical prescriptions. A new drug policy now reimburses pharmacies at a much lower rate than what they pay for the specialty drugs that treat complicated conditions, including psychiatric conditions, hiv and hepatitis. Honest and hard working pharmacies are being completely bankrupted by these changes. It has become financially infeasible for their to continue providing services to vulnerable patient populations who depend on them to access life saving medications and care. According to the california pharmacists association, a pharmacist providing a medical patient with a certain skrits i cant drug will loose 533. 38 per patient per year. A pharmacist providing another drug will lose over 600 per year. It is also demanding that pharmacies payback the higher reimbursement rates that they received over the twoyear period. They policies are mis these policies are misguiding, theyre wrong, and they make it more difficult for patients to access the help they desperately need. These are patients who are living with hiv and aids, who are dealing with Mental Health on the streets, and they need our help. Colleagues, through this resolution, we will urge the governor of california and the state department of Health Care Services to rescind or amend this damaging policy on fee r feeforservice pharmacy benefits. And i want to thank supervisors mandelman, haney, and brown for cosponsoring this resolution. Secondly, colleagues, i wanted to talk about a request that i made to the City Attorneys Office to draft legislation addressing, you know, a small response to our air quality emergency. I should have talked to our bay area air Quality Management district appointees before, as well, but i will ask supervisors mar and walton to update you about this. It kind of came together at the last month. A year ago, San Francisco suffered the worst air quality ever. So far, this year hasnt been as bad as last year for us, but the fires are still raging. My heart goes out to the neighbors in the north and the east, and im proud that San Francisco has stepped up to provide aid that president yee just spoke about. And as we wait for our heroic firefighters to get control of the situation and youre like me, youre obsessively checking now air. Gov, to see if youll see more healthy conditions, we unfortunately have to recognize that this is going to be our new normal and we have to get ready. The report by the department of Emergency Management task force assembled over last years wildfire hasnt yet been shared publicly, but the advance preview disclosed that medical professionals have found and this is what weve heard that masks and even the n95 ones that so many people are using, to not only be inadequate, but potentially dangerous, especially for children, and misleading for adults that more likely than not are using them incorrectly. Instead, theyre advising people that the best option is to stay indoors with the windows and doors closed, and preferably in a room with a hepa filter. But the reality is for many families, this advice will not work. We cannot close schools for every single bad air day. Many families and seniors cannot afford to purchase individual air purefiers. While we propose more longrange solutions and improve ventilation systems more over time, we should not wait to implement strategies. We must find ways to slow and reverse Climate Change impacts. Lets make sure that we are taking proactive actions to keep children and seniors as safe as we can. Ive asked the board of supervisors to provide legislation to buy and provide portable hepa filters for all schools in San Francisco and for all Senior Centers. They are easy to use, they will minimize the Health Impacts affecting children and seniors. Additionally because weve learned that heat is of greater danger to children and seniors, we will learn the feasibility of installing air conditioning in Senior Centers. Additionally, im requesting the budget and legislative analysts to provide the costs of air conditioning and particular ventilation in shelters and city centers so we can determine the best ways to keep our unhoused neighbors safe. We must continue to look for long range solutions, but this is a practical, feasible and quickly implementable step that we can take to be ready for the next emergency. Unfortunately, as we know, our School District is struggling to even pay their teachers a living wage, so getting these filters in every single classroom is not something that the School District can afford. Thats where im asking us as a city to step up and pay for these air filters in every single Public School classroom. What we also learned from the Health Center is if we create cooling centers at places that people dont regularly go to, they wont use them. So its incredibly expensive, and people wont use them. Whereas we know that kids are spending close to seven hours a day in every single classroom throughout San Francisco, and we know that seniors use Senior Centers on a daily basis. Thats such an easy way to provide them clean air for the seven to eight hours theyre there. Its a Harm Reduction strategy, and we should use it. And the rest, i will submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor safai. Thank you. Supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, ilast week, during or Public Safety and Neighborhood Services committee, we heard from the San FranciscoPolice Department to hire civilian staff in order to employ more officers to important duties. Last year we budgeted 25 duties for police civilianization with the expectation they would be hired by april 2019. During last weeks hearing, we learned of the 25 positions, only 13 were filled. The others were held up in the lengthy hiring and classification process. I know that the Police Department is not the only department to face these kinds of issues. Between now and the hearing, i will be working with all our First Responder departments including police, fire, the department of Emergency Management, and the department of Public Health to understand which positions most urgently need to be filled because of the Public Health and safety position they provide. I want to learn what obstacles the Department Face in doing so. As a former department head, i know that we have many rules that we need to follow when it comes to hiring, but i also know that positions that relate to Public Safety and health need to be filled as expeditiously as possible. Performance standards arent met when critical positions arent filled and the public expectations arent being met. The residents of this city can feel it when they leave these positions open too long. We all need to feel the same sense of urgency around these positions as our constituents feel. Specifically, i want to know how long it takes to create a new classification for these positions, and what restrictions or obstacles that are in place that prevent hiring in these positions. I want to compare our position to other cities and to understand how we can improve. The purpose of this hearing will be to try and find ways to prioritize those positions we know are necessary to ensure the Public Health and safety of our city. Id like to thank president yee and supervisor mandelman for cosponsoring this hearing with me. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. And mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. President yee thank you, madam clerk, before we move to the next item, could i have a motion to excuse supervisor brown . Made by supervisor ronen and seconded by supervisor peskin . Without any objection, then, she is excused. Madam clerk, lets go to Public Comment. Clerk its now time for the public to address the entire board of supervisors. Youll each have up to two minutes. You can comment on the minutes, you can comment on the item, item 34 on the adoption without reference to committee, and other items that are within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board but that are not scheduled on todays agenda. If youll direct your remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members. If you would like to display a document on the overhead projector, just place the document under the projector and remove it when youd like to resume life coverage live coverage of the meeting. President yee okay. Lets get started. Hi. Im a second year pharmacy student at university of california San Francisco and i wanted to thank supervisor ronen for the resolution that she had addressed regarding reimburse policies . A lot of pharmacies are suffering right now and losing a lot of money to provide essential drugs . In addition, theres a lot of loopholes that we must go through to provide patients with the correct drugs, especially with medical . Many patients that ive seen have to get prior authorizations every year or twice a year where they must go sometimes about four to six weeks without getting their drugs due to waiting for the insurance to approve it . And these insurance and drug manufacturers make billions of dollars on these drugs but pharmacies who help medicare patients cant stay open, okay . Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Hi. My names kathrin. Im also a secondyear pharmacy stu student. Since im at ucsf, one of our mission values is to care and heel for our patients heal for our patients and its difficult to do this when the pharmacies are not equipped to payback, like, for these medications, and its hard for them to provide these medications to vulnerable populations such as people with hiv and Mental Illness, so thank you for that. President yee thank you very much. Next speaker. Hello. My name is marina gabriel. Im a transgender. I wa transgender woman living here in San Francisco. I want to thank all of you. We have a real crisis in hate crimes against sex and gender minorities in the state of california and within the city and county. Reported hate crimes are up 30 in the state of california from 2018. Thats a significant and dangerous increase that targets vulnerable communities like the lgbtqia community. I am forming a nascent coalition, and we would like to advance legislation to have an ordinance passed that will protect women as well as Migrant Workers from human trafficking, hate speech, intimidation, harassment and provocation under city and county law. I would ask the board of supervisors to consider individually per office and district whether or not they would be willing to sponsor such a bill, which is under development. Again, my name is emma gabriel. I will return next time with representatives from the coalition, and i want to thank you very much. President yee thank you. Next speaker . Linda chapman from nob hill. The subject that i need to address to you is the special victims of the Police Department whose only function seems to be to create special victims. But first, with respect, i want to say when ive tried in the past six months to contact supervisors offices, whether its my own or sponsors for the shortterm rental thing, im astonished. It used to be possible to communicate with supervisors. All i hear is send us an email, which when i it reminds me of when women would talk about their first date, and the guy would say ill call you, you know . Thats the impression i get, and it certainly has been happening elsewhere. All right. So ill have to come back to talk to you about this, but the Police Commission actually gave directions to the police chief and his others there to do something, to respond, to reopen the investigation of the jewish home where a danger to life is occurring. I bring this to you now because of your interest in laguna honda because it is a worse situation there. The people at jewish home are equally helpless, equally unable to complain, but i was there for physical therapy, and the nurse was so compulsive that it didnt even occur to her that she should be concerned about the stranger. So i will be back to talk with you because the police has done less than nothing. The d. A. S office is trying to figure out what to do because they couldnt get a Police Investigation railroaeport. All in all, this is a danger president yee thank you. Next speaker . My name is my name is sarah greenwald, and i am a San Francisco resident representing the San Francisco emergency climate coalition. We urged the inclusion in the 2020 reach code of a requirement that all new construction be electric ready. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. How does it feel when the Mayors Office does not help with the Mental Illness in pushing forward to building hospitals . How does it feel when you dont get support for something that youre doing thats right that really is the basis of what were all about . We come in here over and over, and its amazing, the similitude between us. We are all fighting for the same thing, but the people of San Francisco just dont see enough action. We do not want to talk with the sfmta because they are the ones that have got us in this mess, and we did turn down an appointment with kay turand this week, which we are meeting with her next friday. We dont want crumbs. We want what we deserve. I paid almost 10,000 in interest last year. Not only did i pay enough money, but i would have come up for my free medallion by now. We are not asking for the world, guys. I personally do not want to deal with sfmta. Theyre the ones that are getting us in this mess. I wish you guys would look from the outside and feel our pain, and ill switch it up. Lets not settle banks, lets settle the people of San Francisco that are picking this up. We might not be here to bail out San Francisco and pick up people if you guys do not support us now. We cannot wait. What happens if all the tech falls apart and the market drops . Then you guys are going to want cabs, then youre going to want us to pick up you guys . President yee thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. Ive been driving a taxi for almost 30 years. My question is i purchased the medallion for almost 250,000. Am i allowed to run it and operate it by myself without the Company Affiliation . I barely make enough money for myself. I pay my bills, and i do not take any profit, and the companies every month are taking 700, 800, 900 profit. I beg you, buy back. If you cannot buy back, at least give us an option to operate without the company so we can serve the people of San Francisco like we were before. Can you do that . I am requesting you all, and we are keep coming back and forth. I know its a long road to purchase the medallions back, but as long, you are not coming to any specific program to buy back, at least you should give us the relief to take these