Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Picking up spilled refuse and generally keeping an eye out for our neighborhood. Frank is one of recologys most reliable drivers, really taking sick days and always showing up on time. His supervisors have nothing but praise for his ability to remain calm and collected no matter what is thrown in his way, sometimes literally, and his precision and attention to detail has made him somebody who is loved by his fellow colleagues and by the community. I want to thank recology drivers ron and bobby for also going along and taking me on a ride along. Thank you for arranging. Thank you for supporting us every day in the community. As i said, our safety could not run without you. It doesnt work without you and your commitment, in particular to an area of our city that faces extraordinary challenges around maintaining cleanliness really means a lot. I just wanted you to know, i appreciate you. I can tell that the members of our community and the residents of the tenderloin appreciate you as well. I also want to recognize teamsters local 3504 supporting an incredible set of workers and for being such a great partner with me and my office in the city in helping to keep our streets clean. I want to recognize some of the folks who are with you also. Karina, sophia, tita and chris who are here along with you and joining you. I hope they know how proud and thankful we are of frank for all his work. If you want to say a few words . Thank you. [applause] thank you, supervisor haney for acknowledging me. It is truly an honor. Im proud to receive this commendation. A supervisor haney mentioned, i am a driver for recology for recycling, collection and resource every company. I have been relying providing reliable city can collection for 18 years. I do love the people. Collecting garbage in the tenderloin is just as challenging as it is rewarding. Im proud to be out there every day supporting the effort to keep the tenderloin clean. I have strong relationships with community members. Each thankful smile and wave hello lets me know that the neighborhood appreciates my hard work and i am humbled to know that the board of supervisors is grateful for my efforts as well. Thank you. [applause] i do this job because it is essential and meaningful. Thank you for honoring me form 18 years of collecting city trash cans in the tenderloin. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. [cheers and applause] [laughter] [applause] okay. Thank you, everyone. That concludes our special commendations for 2 30 p. M. Today. Lets go back to item number 25, i believe. Twentyfive is an ordinance to amend chapter 19 b. Of the ministry of code governing the citys acquisition, retention, and use of Surveillance Technology to allow the acquisition and retention of Face Recognition Technology under certain conditions, to preclude legal relief for alleged violations of chapter 19 be that the city timely cured following notice, and two authorizes a debated administrator to adopt implementing standards to guide departments in compliance with chapter 19 b. s restrictions on the acquisition, retention, and use of Surveillance Technology. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. This legislation trails the ban on the city use of facial Recognition Technology that we, the board of supervisors, passed earlier this year. I have a couple of nonsubstantive amendments that boil down to a semantic distinction between the purchase of devices or software that may have facial Recognition Technology bundled in them, and the prohibited acquisition of facial Recognition Technology. In either event, the city must make written findings that the city would never use that technology. This legislation also strengthens the citys ban on facial Recognition Technology by creating a means market for dark market to do not have this technology embedded in aunt. The changes are at the bottom of page two and the top of page three. They are the exact same insertion of language that says i Software Product or device that includes, and that it appears in subsection g. , and the two succeeding clauses. I thank you for your support and would like to make that motion. Okay. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor walton. Supervisor peskin, your motion was to amend . My motion was to amend as i previously described by inserting the language that i identified at the bottom of page two, line 22 and 23 at the top of page three of lines one, two, five, and six that inserts the Software Product or device. Okay. Got it. There has been a motion seconded by supervisor walton to amend. Without any objections, we will take these amendments as stated. Colleagues, can we take this item as amended, same house, same call . Without objection, as ordinance as amended is passed on First Reading unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Twentysix as an ordinance to amend the ministry of code to clarify the right of current households to occupy replacement Housing Units and provide a priority to former households of an existing Public Housing Development Return to revitalize Housing Development and provide a priority to current and former households of an existing Public Housing development to occupy a new affordable Housing Units. Can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call the next item. Twentyseven is an ordinance to amend to administrative code to apply eviction controls to units that are exempt from rent increase limitations because they first received a certificate of occupancy after june 13th, 1979, or have undergone a since of substantial rehabilitation. Supervisor haney . Thank you. Thank you to the rules committee for unanimously supporting this ordinance. For 40 years, the San Francisco rent ordinance, which our city has a set of laws which govern renters rights, has treated tenants differently based on when theyre building was built. If youre building was constructed before 1979, you have the benefit of rent control and protection from arbitrary eviction. If youre building is any newer than that, you simply dont. We have little data on what happens to tenants in the post 17 1979 buildings. Fifteen of renters reported they were threatened with eviction in the previous five years. Over the past decade, the number of Homeless Individuals reporting that eviction is the primary cause of homelessness has more than doubled. Now is the time to correct this inequity and treat all units the same when it comes to eviction protections. That is exactly what this universal eviction protection legislation will do. Earlier this year, we passed the tenant protection act of 2019 that establishes just because eviction protection in every California City starting on january 1st, as well as implement a statewide rent cap. This is a huge werent win for tenants statewide. We have an opportunity to go even further. Our legislation will close the gaps in the state law and build off of San Franciscos rent ordinance to ensure tenants and buildings constructed after 1979 , including tenants who just moved in and those that live in singlefamily homes, and those that are built in the last 15 years are protected by strong eviction protections and Relocation Assistance if they are subject to a nofault eviction. After the ordinance goes into effect, the rent board will have the opportunity to provide support and oversight over these buildings in a way that they have not up until this point. I want to thank the organizations in the antidisplacement coalition, especially the San Francisco Tenants Union for bringing this proposal forward and partnering with us to expand it, and also to my cosponsors who also a special thank you to Courtney Mcdonald from my office for all of her hard work. This is a huge expansion, one of the biggest, if not the biggest expansion of eviction protections in San Francisco in the last 40 years, and it is critically needed at a time when we know that many folks, regardless of when theyre building was built, are living under threat of arbitrary eviction. This will finally change that. Okay. Thank you. First of all, i want to thank supervisor haney for picking taking the initiative on this ordinance. While i will be supporting this item today, i would like to implore this board and the city to do more when it comes to educating and providing resources for small Property Owners. Many of whom are immigrants or limited english speakers. With the passage of a. B. 1482, there has been a lot of confusion and misguidance for landlords and Property Owners. Im deeply concerned that people are being misled and we are getting the unintended consequences of an eviction. This is not what we want to see happening. We need all the housing we can get and we know that many small Property Owners have provided the stock. It is unacceptable for us to assume that every landlord has knowledge or resource to understand complex tenant laws, especially in San Francisco. I know this conversation comes at a time comes up time and time again, but i have not seen any demonstration of proactive outreach and education to these types of landlords so that we can prevent evictions and disputes from happening in the first place. We need to empower communities to support each other. We want landlords to be fair counterparts so they can keep tenants housed in safe conditions. I am looking for innovative ways we can be working with our communitybased organizations and city departments like the rent board, or even the assessor Recorders Office to educate and consult with Property Owners. I look forward to working with all of you during the bridget process to ensure that these resources are provided and that they are implemented in culturally competent ways throughout San Francisco. Thank you. So, colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Item 28 is an ordinance to amend the police code to create a cannabis nursery permit. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed on First Reading unanimously. Please call item 29. Twentynine is a motion to appoint james fully know, term ending february 1st, 2020, to the park, recreation, and open space advisory committee. Colleagues, can we take this same house, same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Please call the next item. Thirty is a motion to appoint dianne wesley smith, term ending march 31st, 2020, to the commission on the aging advisory council. Can we take this item same house, same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Item 31 is a motion to appoint candy colonial for an indefinite term to the close Juvenile Hall working group. Can we take this item same house, same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Please call item 32. Thirtytwo is a motion to appoint just chanel williams, julie ledbetter, Julia Dantonio and Jennifer Friedan back to the our city, our home oversight committee. Can we take this item same house, same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Can we take items 33 through 35 together . Item 33 is a motion to reappoint Jeffrey Morris and eugene voll terms ending september 5th, 2022, to the assessment appeals board number two. Item 34 is a motion to reappoint donley, Mervyn Conlin and others to the assessment appeals board number two, and item 35 is a motion to appoint shawn and shown ritual and james reynolds, terms ending september 5th, 2022 to the assessment appeals board number three. Can we take this item same house, same call . This motion is approved unanimously. Lets go to item lets go to committee reports. Committee reports. Item 38 through 41 were considered by the budget and finance committee at a special meeting on december sixth, 2019 and were forwarded as committee reports. Item 38 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish Mental Health s. F. , a Mental Health Program Designed to provide access to Mental Health services, Substance Use treatment, Substance Use treatment and psychiatric medications to all adult residents of San Francisco with Mental Illness and or Substance Use disorders who are homeless, and insured, or enrolled in medical or healthy San Francisco. Supervisor ronen . Thank you. I am so excited to be here today after two years of studying and visioning and planning how to fix the growing Mental Health crisis in San Francisco. Supervisor haney and i reached an agreement last month with mayor breed to implement Mental Health s. F. In collaboration with her and the department of public health. I am thrilled to be voting today on Mental Health s. F. Instead of taking it to the ballot in marc. I want to thank all of my colleagues for your unanimous cosponsorship. The legislation before you reflects our joint commitment to solving our Mental Health crisis on the streets with particular attention paid to the intersections between homelessness, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse. San francisco will soon have access to a comprehensive Mental Health care program. We designed the system to provide access to Mental Health services, Substance Use treatment psychiatric medication to vulnerable residents, specifically those who are homeless, and insured, or enrolled in medical or healthy San Francisco. Mental health s. F. Includes a number of components. A 24 7 Mental Health service center, at 24 7 street Crisis Response team, a drug a sobering center, and an office of coordinated care. Increased beds at every level of the system, as well as case managers for every person who is eligible for services and who needs them. And office of Privacy Health private Health Insurance accountability for those residents who do have private insurance, but are unable to access family care. I want to thank the hundreds of frontline workers, labor unions , and advocates including nurses, Mental Health workers, and social workers, family members, and consumers of Mental Health services themselves for believing that we can do better and for partnering to make this solution. Of course, a very special thank you to my colleague, matt haney, are fighting alongside me every step of the way and to our incredible Mental Health s. F. Committee who worked so hard on every single detail of this legislation. I also wanted to give a very special thank you to supervisor Shamann Walton and gordon morrow and Assembly Member phil tang for their unwavering belief in our solution. Finally, thank you to mayor breed and her staff for her willingness to work with us to find unity and to dr. Colfax and his staff for the collaboration. And then, of course, i want to thank carlee nomar ellis and caroline from my office who spent a year living and breathing this legislation alongside me, as well as abigail from supervisor haneys office. We did it, we did it now that we have developed this thoughtful and exciting new Mental Health plan, we plan to move forward with the appointment of all members of the Mental Health s. F. And limitation commendation working group as soon as possible early next year. I thank you, president yee, for waiving the 30 day rule so we could get this rolling and get to work right away in january. The mayor has committed to hiring the director of Mental Health s. F. By next summer, and expediting major renovations of the citys current Behavioral Health Access Center so it can be transformed into the new 24 7 Mental Health s. F. Service center. Most other aspects of Mental Health s. F. , however cannot move forward until we have identifi