Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Neighborhood commercial districts would not be part of the vacancy tax if it is passed by the voters, and the merchants of bernal and the portola who responded to quickly to confirm that they indeed do support this action, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor stefani . Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you. I have three items that we will be introducing today. For the first, along with my cosponsors, supervisor mar and supervisor haney, im introducing a supplemental budget appropriation ordinance to help restore the 300 classes proposed to be cut for the spring 2020 semester. I know firsthand how important city college is [applause] [gavel]. Supervisor walton i know firsthand how important city college is to San Francisco. Every year, thousands of district 10 residents and san franciscans across the city rely on city college and its various programs for jobs and skills training. I understand that city college has to make some hard decisions as it looks towards the future, but changes this drastic without Community Input or alternative solutions are incredibly worrying. I have several concerns about these proposed cuts. How do these cuts impact students of color, how are these cuts decided, and what students are most impacted . While i understand the importance of underlying class of online classes, i understand not everyone has online access. Again, who are more impacted . I see that about 12 Child Development classes are being cut. We are always in a crisis for educators, and as we move to expand universal preschool and child care, these classes are crucial in keeping a qualified workforce in place. It is also not lost on me that we are cutting classes while administrators received raises at city college. [applause] supervisor walton anyone attending city college knows how quickly classes can fill up and how difficult getting class requirements can be. How much harder will these cuts make it for students who are awaiting class enrollments for a transfer or for a degree completion . We on the board of supervisors have a responsibility to represent the city and county of San Francisco and to look out for our constituents, yet none of us were included in any discussions by city College Leadership about the impacts these class closures would have on our city. This is a onetime supplemental that says we stand with access to education, and i know we need to have a more detailed conversation with the city and College Leadership about how we can further support city college for the longterm. I strongly believe in free, equitable access to Higher Education for everyone. These cuts dont allow for that equitable access, and because of that, i believe we on the board of supervisors need to do our part to protect our constituents from the hardships these cuts will cause. [applause] supervisor walton secondly, i am introducing the ordinance to allow the director of property to abrequire and accept land from caltrans along a portion of highway 101 and the Northeast Corner of bayshore boulevard overcrossing the southeast intersection of third street and bay avenue to create a gateway to the neighborhood. This gateway will let you know you are entering the Bayview Community from the southeast part of San Francisco. Im also proposing legislation to help ensure we dont have another situation like juul as a significant tenant on City Property. The port entered into a longterm ground lease with horton development for restoration of Historic Buildings at port 70. Juul managed to acquire sublease space and skirt the need for port consent. In circumstances like that, the city should have a lower threshold for consenting to subleases on its property, including port property, where those subleases can harm the citys interests. Accordingly, i am asking the City Attorney to draft an ordinance amending chapter 23 of the citys administrative code to provide that all commercial leases of City Property with a term of at least 35 years must expressly require that the tenant obtain the citys consent before entering into significant subleases. I believe significant subleases are subleases of 25,000 square feet or more. That requirement would apply to all City Property, including port property. The ordinance imposing this consent requirement would apply to all new commercial leases of 35 years or more, including leases in the pipeline that have not yet been approved and executed by the city and also to amendments of existing commercial leases that would enter into and have a term of 35 years or more. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor walton. President yee . President yee submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer thank you. We absolutely need bold action from washington, d. C. To keep our Families Together not only by immediately closing detention camps, which i know we all support, but also by allowing these parents to stay in the u. S. With their children and having an opportunity for a path to citizenship. Instead, the action that we are seeing from the white house, the department of Homeland Security and immigration and customs reform is the opposite of what we need, and todays breaking news is that the u. S. Officials that u. Of the officials are creating u. S. Officials are granting road blocks to people that request asylum. I appreciate the demands from community placed on us and our federal representatives to not only react to the white houses xenophobic agenda but boldly instate actions for our immigrant community. I am introducing a resolution to call on congress to protect children providing a pathway to citizenship for their parents. Thank you to my cosponsors for your support on this critical issue. I am happy to cosponsor supervisor waltons supplemental appropriation for city college, which is facing significant class reductions for the Spring Semester. I want to share a bit of my thinking on this issue. I think we can all agree that Public Education seriously and tragically underfunded in the state of california. Our state has the fifth largest economy in the world, and we should be fully investing in our k through 14 system to support the development of the next generation, including Community College students, and in San Francisco, we invest significantly through tens of millions of dollars each year into the San Francisco Unified School District or k through 12 Public School system, but city college has been for years, excuse the expression, the step child in the education in San Francisco. I personally am a graduate of the city college of San Francisco. My father died when i was 14, and i was not a very Good High School student, and so city college was the only option for me. I spent 3. 5 years there, and from there, i transferred to a fouryear university. And my husband is also a graduate, and also my three children attended the Child Development classes at city college, so we are a city college family. I recognize that the timeline for the supplemental funding is incredibly late and that registration for these classes has already begun. I do not know whether this funding will come in time to save these classes from the proposed cuts, but i do know that this is an institution that we need to support as a city and county. City college is an institution of opportunity for students of color and working class people to better themselves and invest in their own futures, future city college is San Francisco. I will say this is the beginning of many conversations about not only this funding but also what longterm support looks like for this critical institution. We know that city College Needs to implement serious structural reform. The current structure is not sustainable, and we need city college not just to survive, but to thrive for the thousands of students that attend there each yes, sir, and i look forward to discussions with supervisor walton and mar as these situations progress. Clerk thank you, supervisor fewer. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you. I have one resolution that i am introducing today which is in support of the community and residents at San Francisco General Hospital. Over a year ago both the internal medicine and Family Medicine departments at s. F. General made Hospital Administration aware of an impending crisis based on staffing issues that were creating unsafe conditions with patient census increases. To date, unsafe conditions have persisted. I am supporting the both the workers at San Francisco general and the San Francisco general patients who deserve better. The doctors and medical professionals at sf general signed a petition, 534 of them, calling on the Hospital Administration to act and prioritize patient care. General practitioners are expected to work in excess of 80 hours a week to compensate for the staff shortage. Today, these front line medical practitioners are working within the lines of their contract to establish effective systems that accommodate the staffing needs of Emergency Department and positively impact the patient services. In planning for the future of this hospital, these doctors are also fighting to ensure they have a voice to address the issues at lahand. By adopting these proposals, we can ensure that patients are receiving the best possible care and valuable resources like patient beds and staff time are being used proposely. Especially with todays passing of Mental Health sf, we need our doctors more than ever, we need them supported, we need appropriate staff, and all of us rely on San Francisco General Hospital in particular to be there for residents of our respective districts and all across the city who are in need, so i hope that we can support these interns and residents who are working upwards of 80 hours a week, and by supporting our doctors, were supporting the patients. Second, i just want to also say that im very proud to be in support as a cosponsor of the supplemental for city college. I think that, you know, we have to be clear that this isnt city college over here, the School District over here, the city over here, this is for all of our residents and all of our communities. We dont stand apart in any sort of way. I spent five years as the joint chair of the city and Community College committee when i was a school board member, and thanks to the reestablishment of the committee by supervisor yee, i share a chair with them. And one thing we have been absolutely clear about between the trustees, and the commissioners, and the supervisors is were in this together. We have to be there when city college is in need, when the city is in need, when our facility are in need, and we want to get back and tran scend t transcend the needs of all of our residents. Its important for all of our folks who not just use city college as a pathway to other types of higher learning, its critical that city college is there for all of our residents and maintains its support for city needs and lifelong learning. This is crucial to all of our residents, to their quality of life. I come across folks in my district all the time who say they rely on city college for english language programs, for technology, for art, for all sorts of ways that they can reenter the workforce, enrich their lives, enrich their communities. And its not a city college issue, its our issue as a city. As our citys elected representatives, our duty is there, to step up and commit city college when its in need and to have a responsibility to address the structural and longterm funding questions. I think this is a stopbat measure as we work with city college stopgap measure as we work with city college, and this relationship is one of thriving for our residents who rely on it and really expect it to be there as one of our citys most essential institutions. So thank you, supervisor walton, for your leadership and supervisor mar and supervisor fewer, and im proud to stand with you all on this and to see a path and to see us Work Together on the committee and beyond to address the needs of city college. [applause] president yee so are we done . Clerk mr. President , that concludes our roll call for introductions. President yee okay. Thank you. So why dont we go straight into Public Comment . Clerk at this time, the public may now address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items in the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the october 22 and 29 Board Meeting minutes, and the closed session. Public comment is not allowed when an item has been previously subject to Public Comment on a board committee. Direct your comments to the board as a whole, not to individual supervisors and not to the audience. Speakers using interpretation assistance will be allowed twice the amount of time. If you would like to display your document on the overhead projector, please state such to sfgovtv, and say when the camera should return to live coverage of the meeting. President yee okay. I just want to remind when speakers make their comments to, we dont allow live audibles. If you approve, show your fingers, and if you dont, put your hands down, so we can hear what theyre saying and move quickly through the line here so everybodys going to get an opportunity. Okay. So first up. How you doing . Thank you very much, president yee, members of the board of supervisors. Greetings, and happy holidays. I am here today in terms of information. Im a resident of San Francisco. Im the president of the San Francisco Fire Commission for the last 25 years. Before that, i was an art commissioner. I am also an executive director of the Japantown Task force. I am here today as a public citizen. I am here to take the time to thank our supervisor, vallie brown, for all of your advocacy, all of your tireless work in terms of our endeavors. Its very, very important to have someone that knows the neighborhood, and i know you know the japanese neighborhood, our history, our culture, our challenges, as well. We sorely are going to miss you. Ive got to be honest, im worried about our future. Just as a point of information and transparency, and i do hope theres no retribution or any ill effects upon me or the japanese american community, but the supervisor elect whos coming into office, in the eight years of him trying to accomplish that endeavor, weve never been able to have a conversation with him. We ask you, members of the board of supervisors, to help us introduce ourselves to that supervisor, dean preston, but also, were going to ask each one of you supervisors, who knows us we will in or our Japanese Community of our traditions, of our endeavors, because we do not want to be a community that disappears, as well. We are going to be looking at our sister supervisor, stefani, in terms of our wellbeing. Supervisor brown, we love you. Thank you for all and good luc in all of your endeavors. President yee thank you. Next speaker. I am peter war field, and i am a student at city college in the adults program. Id like to show you a letter from some of us who have formed a group called equity for older students, and this appears in the current edition of the guardsman, which is the city college newspaper. The theres a serious issue with respect to the process and the product of the huge cuts, 288 classes was the last that we heard in the week before thanksgiving in what some have called a midnight massacre, cuts made just a day before or the day of registration for Spring Semester. These cuts were done without any of the normal process, and they affected not only many areas, and in particular the arts, but constituted a 90 cut in the older adults program. Again, there was no public process in advance of this. The chancellor has sent you a letter in which he says this is part of a longstanding process. Well maybe in his mind, it is, but there hasnt been any discussion that i know of about these particular cuts at board of trustee meetings nor even on thursdays meeting is there anything on the agenda with respect to specific class cuts. I appreciate the supervisors who have helped, who have already commented about their concerns and hope that you will be able to help fund, as supervisor haney said, an asset for everybody in this city, especially continuing education, ongoing learning. Thank you. President yee thank you. Next speaker. Mr. President , supervisors, i thank the supervisors for those who are listening to my comments, and i request that those who are not listening start listening. I come to you today for my brief Public Comment as a voice of San Francisco past. I have lived in this grand city for many decades. [please stand by] suffering, including during this, yet another christmas sea