Should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it right, im more surprised than anything. Im laurie green awe girardin. Im in district 9. Thanks for this opportunity to be considered for the league of women voters seat on the Ballot Simplification Committee. Im a selfemployed Communications Consultant and writer. I help nonprofits, foundation and others share their stories and engage their communities. I have 20 years of experience in communications. In my work, i use plain language to make ideas and information more accessible to more people. I specialize in legal, complex, technical, medical information into writing that people can easily understand and use. As a consultant and writer, i must be impartial, bias and nonpartisan. I have written articles about politically charged top licks about elections, regulations and Public Sector issues. And successfully put my own views aside and done the work. Clients and editors who praise my ability to be objective, while also writing information thats highly relevant. Im a volunteer on the communications committee. As a volunteer, i often create communications content, that complies with the nonpartisan mandate. My goal as a Ballot Simplification Committee member will be to provide the people of San Francisco with ballot measure information they can understand and then use to decide how to vote. I look forward to contributing my Public Communications skills to an important part of a long process, that makes elections more accessible to more people. Thank you for your consideration. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Great nomination. I really appreciate your willingness to serve and your experience seems perfectly suited towards this role. Is there any other questions or comments . Thank you so much. I will now open this up for prompt. Public comment. Anyone who would like to speak, come forward. Good morning. Im betty, im chair of the Ballot Simplification Committee. I want to echo everything that lauren has said and expound in the three years ago, she was nominated for this committee. And experienced cancer. And had to take a sabbatical. And were so happy shes coming back, because her dedication was such that she came in an entire certification and sat in every day for our whole session, just to understand what we were doing and what she was getting herself into. And she was such a valuable person, just as a sub member. Im really excited to have her pack, her passion and her skills are wonderful. And i certainly applaud you and her and hope that you will move her forward. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thank you for all your work. The school board is still sitting. [laughter] supervisor ronen Public Comment is closed. [gavel] supervisor walton. Thank you. I actually was just going to touch on the fact that i have been trying to get our colleagues on the board of education to step up and appoint somebody to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Trying to get people to really understand the importance of the role that the committee plays. Sort of the language that goes on the ballot, in terms of when you have a voter who reads the booklet, can make all the difference. And it really actually does. And so we need to make sure that the legislation and ballot matters that are put forth, people can understand exactly what theyre attempting to do, whats going to happen in, you know, the Ballot Simplification Committee is very thoughtful. You really read through everything. You really do everything you can to make sure that every voter will have an opportunity to understand the measures on the ballot. I appreciate your work. It is very important. Thank you, miss girardin for stepping up and wanting to serve, because this is important and vital for the voters here in the city. So thank you. I will continue to reach out and hopefully we can have a full committee, because it is important. We appreciate you coming. Supervisor walton thank you. Supervisor ronen thank you very much. Do you want to do the honors . Wall definitely want to move forward miss girardin railroad for seat 3 for the Ballot Simplification Committee to the full board. Supervisor ronen and without objection, that motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you. [gavel] mr. Clerk , can you please read item number two. Clerk item number two, a hearing appointing one member, term ending february 1st, 2020, to the park, recreation, and open space advisory committee. Supervisor ronen so unfortunately neither mr. Falino nor anyone from district 5 office is able to be here today. So theyve asked to continue this item. So i will open this measure up for or this item up for Public Comment. Please note i will be making a motion to continue this item to our next rules Committee Meeting of november 18th, after Public Comment. Now is the time for any member of the public to come forward and speak on item number 2. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] i make a motion to continue this item for the next rules Committee Meeting on november 18th. Without objection, that motion passes. Can you please read item number 3. Clerk item number 3, a hearing consider appointing two members, term ending november 21st, 2020, to the citizens general Obligation Bond oversight committee. Supervisor ronen great. And is kristin chu or timothy mat hews here . Please come forward. Good morning. Im kristin chu. I am the current chair of the general Obligation Bond oversight committee. I think this is my third or fourth term, over 15 years or so. You can do two terms and then youre off for a little bit and then when i had moved to the east coast and moved back, i wanted to get involved again. I feel passionately about Good Government and citizens role in Good Government. I also feel passionately about investing in our infrastructure. I think the bond funding is an appropriate investment in that infrastructure. Since being chair, i have tried direct the people, the fellow members in our goal, its very hard to understand bond funding and how to govern it. And so i try to simple it by saying is the project on time, on budget, and does it meet the needs of the voters. So were undertaking some experiments in trying to understand what the voters expectations are when they signed the ballot and to mr. Waltons earlier comment, how this is written on the ballot is very, very important in the voters understanding what theyre voting for. Theres been a number of bonds that have come in front of the voters, that like the emergency bond, the emergency its for fire people, police people, its for hod podge of things. Even the housing bonds that have come in front of the voters, its really for a number of different initiative. It makes it very difficult to govern. So one of the challenges i think the Governance Committee has is trying to understand how do you, when the use of the bonds is not specified in the bond language, how do you determine your own budget and on track. The example i always give is the sf general rebuild, which was very clear what it was. It was clear when it was finished. You know, with the value to the voters were. Thats something that i feel passionately about when i think of how do we govern this. As you know, the Bond Oversight Committee has oversight over the City Services auditor division, and in particular the whistleblower program, which i also think is a very important governance aspect of the work that we do. And we have two members that are dedicated to that program in particular. Supervisor ronen thanks so much. Any questions . No. Thank you so much for being willing to serve again. I had one other. Im up for both seat 1 and 3. The business seat and the community seat. Im also a member of the league of women voters. And we tend to have trouble keeping those seats filled. And so supervisor ronen seat 3. Every seat. So id love to be considered for whichever one is a harder one to fill, that you think is appropriate. Supervisor ronen great. Is Timothy Mathew here . I dont see him. Our controller Ben Rosen Feld is here. Did you want to say anything . Just here for moral support. Supervisor ronen okay. Great. Great. Then i will open this item for Public Comment. Any member of the public wish to come forward and speak . Seeing none, Public Comment oh, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] and timothy voters just got here. Please come forward. I prepared a little thing. Hi, good morning. Good morning. Okay. All right. Thank you. Sorry, i was over at the p. U. C. With a new employee orientation. Supervisor ronen congratulations. Yeah. Okay. So good morning, board of supervisors. My name is Timothy Mathews. I have applied to fill the vacancy of seat 2 on the oversight committee. I believe that this committee plays a vital role in both maintaining the maintaining and building the public trust. I will be honored to have the opportunity to serve the residents of the city and county of San Francisco. Beginning with the passage of proposition f in 2002, voters made clear their demand for transparency and accountable with our bond programs. Further, with the passage of each new bond program, the citizens have made clear that the work this committee does is a positive thing. And that they would like the city and county staff to continue to borrow money to improve our community. Ive been a resident of San Francisco in district 5, on the same block as our mayor, since 2014. And plan to remain here. As for the requirements in seat 2, i work for the International Federation of prediction professional and technical engineers, local 21. The union that represents your dedicated staff. Ive worked for labor organizations for the past 14 years, with a brief hiatus to john edwards president ial campaign. And lets see. Over my career as a researcher for union, ive been deeply involved with the implications and connections of Large Capital programs, with respect to organizing, contract enforcement, bargaining and electoral politics. My experience includes small municipalities and special districts, with capital programs totaling the tens of thousands of dollars, to new york city transits fiveyear, 50 plus billion dollar program, as well as here in San Francisco. Our tenyear, 39 billion program. So again id like to thank you for your time and consideration my application. And it will be, indeed, an honor to serve, to have the opportunity to serve the city and county of San Francisco on this oversight board. Thank you. Supervisor ronen great. So youre still working for local 21 . Still working. I was conducting supervisor ronen got it. Three great new employees. Supervisor ronen fantastic. Fantastic. Got it. Is there any questions for mr. Mathews . Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor ronen i really wanted to appreciate you both for being willing to serve on this. It is extremely important. Rely on those bonds for so much of our critical city infrastructure. And making sure the public understands that those dollars are being spent wisely, ensures that theyll be willing to vote for new bonds in the future. So the work that you do is critical and we really appreciate you for it. And so i am happy to make a motion to forward with recommendation kristin chu to seat 3 and Timothy Mathews to seat 2, if that works for my colleagues. Without objection, that motion passes. [gavel] can you please read item number. Clerk a hearing to consider the proposed Initiative Ordinance submitted by the mayor to the voters for the march 3rd, 2020, elections entitled onion amending the planning code to add back certain converted office space to make it available for the Office Development, establish Affordable Housing and Small Business priority reserve to make Office Space Available for Office Developments that provide sites for Affordable Housing or include community arts, p. D. R. Space, or neighborhoodserving retail and increase the cap for smaller Office Development projects. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Ken rich with the office of economic and workforce development. Could i have the overhead slides, please. So im here to briefly describe a measure submitted on the ballot for march 2020, by player breed, to adjust some of the mayor that the prop m annual Office Allocation works, in order to promote housing and Small Business. So, first, just some basics on proposition m. It was passed built voters in 1986. It is codified in section 320 to 325 of the planning code. And establishes an annual limit of 950,000 square feet of new Office Development per year, of which 875,000 go to what we call large cap projects of 50,000 square feet or larger. And 75,000 square feet go to small cap projects of 25,000 to 49,999 square feet. Office additions of less than 25,000 feet are exempt. In years where less than the full allocation is used, may be banked and used in future years. Supervisors, its been rare in the history of prop m for there to be more square feet of office space in the approval pipeline than allocation in the bank. But we are currently in that situation. We are currently over 7 million square feet of Office Development that are asking for approval in the pipeline and only about 5 million square feet projected over the next five years, allocation available in that same period. So im going to through a few policy issues that underlie the proposed ballot measure. The first one is we dont have enough office space to meet demand. And what that does is by virtue of simple supply and demand. It increases the rents on office space. One point i want to get to a little bit, that does not necessarily, by building less office space, does not necessarily translate to lower housing costs or less pressure on our housing market. San francisco has one of the lowest office space vacancy rates in the country. And we have historically high rents. Increasingly as i think we all know, only the wealthiest companies can afford to rent space in the city. As these Companies Lease space in the limited amount of new office space recognized, we see rents in older buildings going up. The upward pressure on the older buildings means we risk losing companies that inhabit the older buildings, that tend to provide more of the middle class jobs and we tend to or we risk losing them to the east bay and the peninsula generally. If these jobs and office space move out of the city, which we are seeing a little bit of happening already, a portion of those employees will still live in the city. So we wont we wont well still have the pressure on our housing, at least some of the pressure that would have been brought through those. This graph, and i want to direct your attention to the lower of the two charts here, shows that when the what class a office space, which are the brandnew buildings, when class amp office space rents increase, class c, and class b follow behind. When we see increase rents on our brandnew, fancy office space, rents increase across the board on the less fancy office space. So another policy issue is that Office Development has significantly been a has been a significant Revenue Source for Affordable Housing and transportation, as well as other important uses paid through paid for through fees and the property taxes paid by this development. The Central Plant alone provides 2 billion towards these and other community benefits. And with the increase in the job sizing linkage fee, which is expected to pass on second reading tomorrow at the full board, new Office Development will become a more and important source of revenue for Affordable Housing. Next policy issue is its more difficult currently as things are set up with prop m to get approval for smaller Office Developments, which tend to have Smaller Companies as their tenants, as opposed to larger ones. As you can see here on the slide, i wont read all of the stats, San Francisco is home to a lot of nonprofits and a lot of Small Businesses. Roughly one third of the small by thes are owned by minorities or women. And what were seeing is as the vacancy rate on office space has decreased, the a