Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

SFGTV Government Access Programming July 13, 2024

Private property that the city if they want to buy the building that is one thing. But you are taking a private person who invested their time money to bring everything up to code and provide a nice place, and you are frying trying to make it do something else. If you want to be a landlord situation, its a big difference because as soon as they hit 32 days its rent controlled and its like being every other apartment in San Francisco. You have this amount of rent, its a 1906 building. So that means whatever they get in on, immediately they are permanent residents. So you are saying that relative to individuals that say they are for seven days as opposed to a month or longer, that you charge more for hotel taxes, first of all. If its a sevenday versus a monthly theres hotel taxes on top of it so its already cheaper that way. I had a monthly guest that started off weekly but they get to see if we like each other, but they have to go through the background credit checks that some of the people you are trying to help are not going to be able to pass. When those people become monthly residents, i assume at that point they are subject to rent control and they can stay as long as they want . Yes. I have some for two years now. One is a student from brazil and one is a San Francisco resident that has health issues. And they are designated as tourist . No, they are sro, permanent residents. So by the way, im happy to have this conversation with you offline. So im trying to understand more about the amortization issue that im trying to get my hands around. If you add up my bills and go to where i can only take monthly guests, im not going to be able to afford the guests. I would have to close down. Im already looking at it now, because we are worried about whats going to happen. I have staff i have to pay, insurance, mortgage. I get all that. There are real structural costs and thats true and correct whether its janitors and maintenance and sinking funds. But are you saying that you are charging more per day for a oneweek resident than you would be charging for a 30day resident . Yes. Because its a weekly yes, i pay hotel taxes, its already more per day. Maybe like 40 difference or something. So the hotel tax is 14 percent no, with everything, with the t. I. D. , its 15. 2 something or 3 something. So you are in the tourist Improvement District so you are adding that. Its just how far you are. I pay a lesser percent than the center but im in the mission. This is very helpful. I will give you my card. I would love to talk to you more. Next speaker, please. All right, thank you. Good evening, supervisors. My name is andrew. Im the attorney for the San Francisco sro Hotel Coalition. I represent the Hotel Coalition in the legal challenges to the 2017 and 2019 amendments. Thank you, supervisor peskin, for giving us the opportunity to bring you information about amortization regrettably, when you have a hearing scheduled at 1 30 and we get called after 5 00 there were a large number of hotel owners who have had to leave and this will not come out of your time, i am going to continue this until next monday so all of those individuals have the opportunity to actually testify and supervisor safai and supervisor haney are very excited about that. Please proceed. Thank you. I need to correct the record with respect to the history here. The 1981 Hotel Conversion ordinance as enacted strikes a careful balance between the need for San Francisco to preserve existing affordable Residential Housing and San Franciscos need to have affordable tourist transient rentals. There are specific findings in the 1981 ordinance to that effect that have never been changed. And i believe those need to be considered to this day in your analysis. There have been significant changes since 1981. The original 1981 version provided that when a residential unit was vacant in the summer months, all those residential units could be rented by the day. It was not a 25 percent number originally. That was a major change going back to around 2000 forgive me if i dont get the exact here. And there have been other significant changes through the years. The problem with the amortization provisions that are before you under the amendments that are here today that we are considering in terms of the information thats been provided, the problem is, and may i have a few more minutes, please . Yes, i did not mean that to come out of your time. The bottom line that im trying to get our hands around as a decisionmaking body, is how wrong your long your clients would need to recoop their investments to rent to longterm tenants. That is the question. Understood. And i think thats obviously critical from the courts perspective in the case that we handled. The problem with coming into a public hearing and providing that information is that thats going to involve highly confidential, private Financial Information. And i doubt that any hotel owner is going to want to stand here on television before a committee and reveal their personal Financial Information to the city. Thats something thats protected under rights of privacy. And we would not recommend that. We are committed to engaging the board and yourself, supervisor peskin, in as broad a way as possible, and i would suggest we do that. But where we are today is we have an ordinance invalidated by the court that to this day is still on the books. The ordinance before you today suggests that theres still a 30day rule according to the 2019 amendment. We have requested the City Attorney schedule hearings to invalidate those ordinances, and then we should sit down, and i would suggest we sit down as a stakeholder here. My clients are not on any of the lists that your office is sending out in terms of being stakeholders. They are one of the critical stakeholders on these questions. We are talking about ultimately whether the city is going to be taking their property for public use or not. Amortization schedule is here to protect against that taking. The manner in which the proposed ordinance attempts to do that is clearly insufficient at this point and we would like to be heard on that in a way where my clients interest can be given serious consideration. To my fellow santa cruz alum, mr. Dack zachs, i look forward o doing that. Maybe there are ways that we can have that conversation. So i dont have to guess but can actually figure it out in a way that is legally sound and policysound. And with that, are there any other members of the public that would like to testify on this item number 10 . Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. And colleagues, im sure you would like to object, but you cannot. We will continue this item one week to next monday. We will do that without objection. Thank you, council, for being here. Madame clerk, can you call item 9 . Item 9 is an ordinance amending the housing code to revise the requirements for heating in residential units and affirming the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. I will make this fast. Are there any other members other than the one who inappropriately testified on item number 9 . Public comment is closed. This is a nobrainer piece of legislation that says that if you have heat, you got to keep the heat on all night for your tenants. And if theres no objection, we will send this to the full board with recommendation as a Committee Report for consideration tomorrow, decembe. And we are adjourned. Brine is in the pro o bryan works on oceanside projects. We understand the infrastructure is old and there is new technology to incorporate. Bryans role is to manage the Capital Projects to update infrastructure and to make things more efficient. Bryan is a unique project manager. He brings technical experience but only that but he is a great mentor to young project managers in my group. Mentors is a lot about compatibility, too. He showed me his process and how he organized things and managed projects and had conversations on escalating things with contractors. Brine shows leadership. He is independent. We Work Together pretty well with the resources we have to get the best outcome for the city. I think we have an open communication and that trust again of teamwork. Bryan is a straightshooter, he likes to get things done. He doesnt seek praise. I think that is why myself wanted to nominate him for the award to get recognition for the things he does to go above and beyond in his job. He is committed. That is why he deserved the golden pride award. I havent been awarded anything like this in my 20 years. That is exciting to be recognized. It is special. It is excited to get recognition with the ongoing activities with the focus on the southeast. It is good to have a little bright light over here every once in a while. We are next to sor ocean beach. I am a project manager for the sewer system improvement the sewer system improvement we will call the meeting to order. Police silence all electronic devices. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. Please silence all electronic devices. [pledge of allegiance] mr. Taylor, i would like to take roll call. [roll call] also with us tonight or chief chief scott and director henderson from the Police Accountability board. You have a quorum. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. This is the december 11th, 2019 meeting of the San Francisco police commission. We do have a lengthy meeting tonight due to items on closed session and the complexity of the issues on the agenda so we will be limiting Public Comment to two minutes. Just a few housekeeping matters before we get started, there are some line items on the agenda that we will be removing from the agenda. Line item two is being removed from tonight agenda at the chief s request so sfpd and d. P. A. Can review and discuss. A line item one a is also being removed from the agenda. This is the presentation of the first and Second Quarter 2019 firearm discharge review board findings. That is an item that is obviously very important and we take seriously. I know many of us received the materials yesterday so we need additional time to look at the cases and prepare for the meeting. We will be moving that to the january 8th agenda. And then finally, in the closed session agenda, item c. Is being removed. Just a couple things, commissioner taylor. With a the juvenile policies and procedures and fdr, are they both being removed for january 8 th . Line item two, i will leave that to d. P. A. And the chief. I know d. P. A. Wanted time to be able to look at the proposed changes and perhaps talk about it with the department. I dont know the next Commission Meeting we didnt. That wasnt from us. Heres my concern. It has been seven months since the ordinance passed and this issue has been come has become ripe. We do not have a bulletin or some policy by the Police Department on how to deal with these situations. So i dont want to kick it further down the road too long because i think this is very important and, you know, chief, you and i have spoken about the youth issues and incidences that happened at balboa and how important it is to get something in place. That is my first question. My second question is whether or not the Police Department and d. P. A. Have reached out to the community, including people like patty lee from the Public Defenders Office who has received National Awards on her work in juvenile issues, juvenile detention, and miranda warnings. I think has also helped, you know, the legislation that was crafted by the board of supervisors. Those are my two issues. Then i have an issue with fdrb after that. Chief, january 8th, will that be enough time . I think it should be. Do we have room on the january 8th calendar . We do. We will move line item two to the january 8th agenda. My other thing with the fdrb report, we did not receive that until yesterday and i have been noticing instances where the department has things put on the agenda on the calendar and it will hit friday when we have to post it online, but we as commissioners do not receive the material until monday late monday or even tuesday, which isnt fair to us because as you know, we all have fulltime jobs most of us read this stuff on night and weekends. The fdrb report is very important. I received it yesterday, because apparently the department did not provide it, and it should have been in on friday. I will ask you, chief, to hold the department accountable and make sure these materials are provided to our Commission Office by friday at five or at the latest, saturday morning. Because it is difficult for us, who do have fulltime jobs, and to use any extra time we do have to read the materials and make sure we are apprised of the issues so we can have an intelligent and coherent conversation about these issues. Im scrambling at the last minute to try and get this stuff done when it is handed to me at the 11th hour. Im going to ask you to police personally to please hold the department accountable. I would agree with that. I know it would be good to have more than 24 hours to review this with a fulltime job. I understand. We will make that happen. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate it. We apologize for the stress that caused you. Thank you. With that, can we call the first line item . One a is chiefs report. Weekly crime trends. Provide an overview of offences occurring in San Francisco. Significant incidents. The chiefs report will be limited to a brief description of the significant incidents. Commission discussion will be limited to determine whether to calendar any of the incidents for future Commission Meeting. Major events. Provide a summary of planned activities and events occurring since the previous meeting. This will include a brief overview of any unplanned events or activities occurring in San Francisco having an impact on public safety. Discussion on unplanned events and activities be limited to determine whether to calendar for a future meeting. Thank you. Good evening, commissioners. I will start with our crime trends. I will be brief on the crime trends and move on to the rest of the report including the significant incidents that happened over the weekend. With the crime, yeartodate we are down 5 overall for crime. That break down his property crimes are down 5 , highlighted by 15 reduction in burglaries yeartodate and a 2 reduction in car breakins. Our Violent Crime is down 6 . We have had a total of 37 homicides for the year compared to 43 this time last year. This represents 14 decrease. We had three homicide incidents recorded last week. One of which was an incident that occurred on december 1st in which the person succumbed to injuries on december 7th. There was also a homicide reported in november with that the victim of an aggravated assault from august of 2019 who passed away from injuries sustained in the august attack. I will talk a little bit more about the homicide event over the weekend when i get to the significant incidents. Looking at gun violence, that is defined as number of people injured shooting injured in a shooting incident with a firearm , we have had 103 shooting incidents resulting in a total of 126 gun violence victims. Twentytwo of those were fatal and 104 of those were nonfatal. In looking at our shooting victims, we are 5 below where we were this time last year and in terms of our homicides with firearms, we are even with where we were this time last year. The homicides are at 14 reduction from yeartodate, december 2018. Significant incidents, i will start with the homicide over the weekend in the bayview district. This occurred and the 1100 block of oakdale on december 7th at 8 10 p. M. Luminary information of the victim who was 50 years old, he was at home preliminary information of the victim who was 50 years old, he was at home and other relative saw a suspicious person walking on the other side of the street. As the relative entered the house, is suspect pushed open a door, walked into their location and shot the victim who was shot multiple times. The suspect fled on foot. The victim was transported to hospital and later succumbed to his injuries. Investigators have located evidence in the area and the investigation is still very much in full swing. We have not identified a suspect at this time. There were also three shooting incidents that caused injuries to five people over the last several days. Two of the shooting incidents occurred on december 10th. Within 20 minutes of each other. They maybe related as the vehicle description is similar. The first one, one of them happened in the bayview and the other was located in the terra vale area. The three people who were injured in the two incidents we believe, based on description of the vehicle which is almost exact on both incidents, that these are related. The investigation is ongoing. No suspects have been identified at this point. Also over the weekend, we had an officer involved shooting in the mission district. Our first of the year. The officers one officer was injured during the incident and the person who was shot was also injured. The person who was shot is still hospitalized. And as we do with all officer involved shootings, we will have our town hall within 10 days of the incident. At this time, that is scheduled for tuesday at 6 00 p. M. At cesar chavez elementary school. We will post that to the public and confirm that address and let the public know if that changes, but we are set for now for tuesday at 6 00 p. M. As i said, the individual who was shot was hospitalized. Charging decision by the District Attorney on this case has not been made at this time and remains under investigation. The investigations are being conducted by first the San Francisco District Attorneys office, the officer involved shooting the shooting itself is being investigated by the d. A. s office. Theyre independent

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