Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20240713

Want to say thank you to a few people. Dennis herrera for trusting me in this position for the last several years. My office is full of brilliant, hardworking, committed attorneys who do all of the work to advance your policy agenda while i sit in this room and i am grateful for today and the things you have said, but it really reflects on the work of everyone in my office who are working on the actual legislation and advice for you. Three people in particular, i just want to call out and thank who have really guided me and been an essential part of my professional life will i have been working for the board, buck , whose influence on me i didnt fully realize until very recently. Jesse smith who is the smartest lawyer i know and has been a friend and mentor to me. And andrew shan who is just the best, most generous and patient coworker and sounding board. If i wasnt sitting next to him for the last seven and a half years, im sure i would have gotten many more things wrong, delivered advice more poorly, and would not be hearing the things that you are saying today i was trying to gauge how many legislative aides i have worked with 26 supervisors, not including you supervisor preston , and i believe over 100 legislative aides. Six my oral liaisons during the time i have been here. Working with them and getting to know them and puzzling through problems with them has really been the most enjoyable part of this job. There are also responsible for all the downsides of the job. [laughter] the Clerks Office is just an incredibly professional group of people who are tasked with the job that, from the outside can look painstaking and tedious with incredible pressures on them because if they make any one mistake, they will be hearing it from the 11 of you or at least one of you, and they do incredible work. I want to acknowledge all of them, particularly two. Alisa, i dont thank you get the kind of public recognition that you deserve for what you do for this board and to make things happen in this room. So since i have the floor, i want to give it to you. You are so smart, so consistent and thoughtful and i will really miss working with you. And a. C. , always cool, angela, thank you for your partnership and your friendship. We share the same goals and visions for this job, which are that we want to ensure that each of you achieve what you want in the job, but also that we want to ensure the rules are followed to protect the integrity of the institution because we both believe in the institution. Thank you for allowing me to come into your lane sometimes and for teaching me how to be composed and calm and professional in the middle of every storm. As our district and supervisor would say, i appreciate you truly. [laughter] thank you all. It has been a privilege. I will see you on the second floor. [applause] thank you, colleagues, for all your kind comments to john and so that end that concludes the special commendations for today and madame clerk, can we go ahead and go back to item number 21. Can you call item 21 . Twentyone is a resolution to authorize the mayor or her designee to cast an assessment ballot in the affirmative for the proposed formation of a property benefit district and Business Improvement district with respect to certain parcels of Real Property owned by the city that would be subject to assessment in the district. Okay. The last item i think, colleagues, can we have a roll call, please. On item 21. [roll call] there are 11 aye. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Twentytwo is a ordinance to amend the Green Building code to establish Energy Performance requirements for certain new Building Construction and to adopt the appropriate findings. Supervisor safai . Yes, i know we talked about this inland use, but i wanted to ask if there was someone here from the department of environment. I want to get one question i wasnt able to ask on the record on the record. Great. Come on up. Through the president , this pol his policy for new construction as it pertains i understand it is straightforward with municipal buildings, it is all electric that will have to meet the code, but i wanted to ask a couple of questions as it relates to commercial Properties One of the things that ive gotten in between land use and today is there was some concern from folks in the Restaurant Industry with regard to the push for all electric and how it impacts restaurants because a lot of restaurants really rely on gas stoves for cooking. I see it says it allows for a stove, but can you talk about that on the record for the moment . Thank you. Im with the San Francisco department of the environment. One of the things that we are doing right now in partnership with the Mayors Office and supervisor mandelmans office is we are going through a stakeholder process to look at what it would mean for the city to follow in berkeleys footsteps to ban natural gas. When we do that we will be consulting with our stakeholders like restaurants, large buildings, his ago family homes, you know, the complete diverse array that is out there to make sure that when and if we move forward, that we are doing so in a way that is appropriate for the stakeholders, is appropriate for what the city needs, that is appropriate for the development that is happening in the city, and that is also looking forward to existing buildings, which is the toughest thing when we think about banning natural gas. Okay. But this particular piece of legislation doesnt create there will be an additional piece of legislation that will set the standards for all construction moving forward, other than municipal because we took that separately. Correct. The existing legislation incentivizes, at singles the citys preference to go all electric, new construction doesnt have to. They can still have and use natural gas under this current piece of legislation. What about projects . I saw the Effective Date was january 2020 or however many days. What about projects that are in the pipeline . Does it speak to specifically of ones that have pulled their permits . For existing projects that are in the pipeline and have already pulled permits, it would not affect them, but im saying that without my annals here, but i believe that is the case. What about the ones who filed applications and are going to the planning process and have not . Give me a second here. If they havent received a certified building permit, then i believe this legislation would affect those projects. And it would meet the percentages here and they would have to follow the percentages here . If they were still Going Forward as mixed fuel buildings. Okay. Okay. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just would like to be added as a cosponsor and i also want to thank supervisor mandelman for his leadership on this ordinance it is an important step forward and i think as supervisor safai s questions just highlighted, is one of many more steps that we will need to take to decarbonized our building sector and realize a cleaner, greener and more environmentally just and sustainable city. As mentioned at a prior meeting, i have commissioned it a report on strategies for building carbonization. A report that is now underway and will be published early in the new year. I also wanted to acknowledge the work underway through stakeholder meetings convened by the department of the environment and Labor Community and environment of Justice Groups to create a comprehensive plan to d. Carbonate our buildings by 2030. My staff has attended these meetings alongside supervisor mandelmans staff and there will be much more work coming to this important issue in 2020. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Colleagues, can we give take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call item 23 and 24 together. Item 23 is an ordinance to amend the planning code and zoning map establish a 2,000 straight special use district and to create key additional cites exceptions for the flower mart site located on the southern half of the block north of brannan street and item 24 is an ordinance to approve a developer to agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and the flower mart for the development of an approximately six weight 5acre site located at fifth street and brennan street 6. 5acre site. Thank you. I have spent about a decade of my life on this institution that has existed for over 100 years and i have a lot to say. Having said that, and i think we are close and i would like to commend the parties and particularly the office of economic and workforce development, and within that office, there is still language that is absolutely unsatisfactory to this supervisor, which im happy to talk about, but until i understand that that language has been corrected, for in the beginning, the history of this town and this market were inextricably linked and they have remained that way since late 18 hundreds. And as our downtown has grown and expanded, expanded the original flower market that was co like it located between a number of italian and japanese vendors at the corner of kearney and market, eventually it moved south to Howard Street where it continued for another half a century in and in 1953, ended up where it is today. And half a century later, as our downtown continues to expand with the growth of jobs and economic opportunities, the flower market has yet again found itself at the crossroads one it is where it is now time to move again, but there are and this has been one of the most complicated things that has happened to me and the 20 years that i have been in and out of this job and the 35 years that i have been in the business of negotiating real estate, but as somebody who does both of those things, one thing is abundantly clear to me, which is that the parties, the 50 some odd vendors, the individuals who work for what used to be called the italian side and the japanese side, which is now called, i think the flower market i dont even know what it is called anymore, it is an l. L. C. All of those people should have, and must have the unfettered right to petition their government, to talk to the press , and the language that i just saw does not yet states that. So until i see language that makes that abundantly clear, i would like colleagues to continue this until after roll call, after public comment, and when i see language that restates the tri party agreement, i will bring this back, but all parties must have the unfettered right to petition their government to talk to the press. I am happy to do the economic terms, which i want to thank mr. I want to thank the flower market for, which has been in motion up until a couple of hours ago and i do believe that we have resolved the last issue last issues where we were a million and a half dollars apart , but until i see language restating the agreement that gives every vendor the unfettered ability to petition their government and talk to the press without any recrimination by contract, i will ask for a continuance until our next meeting on the 7th of january, 2020. When i see this language, i will ask my colleagues to vote on this. I sincerely want to thank all of the parties, the deputy City Attorney who i call charles sullivan, but is now somebody else, on both sides for the Kilroy Corporation and for the vendors of which there are numerous council. Thank you. I cannot commend this to my colleagues. With that, i would like, colleagues, and i would like that item 23 and 24 be continued until later in this meeting. That is a motion. Okay. Thank you. I dont think we need to vote on that. I will honor that until the end of the meeting. At that point we will make a suggestion or motion on whether to act on it or continue the item. Okay . All right. Please lets move to item to the next item. [please stand by] located at fill more street. President yee without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Lets go to roll call for introductions. First up on roll call is supervisor mar. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame clerk. I will submit all of my items except for i would like to adjourn the meeting in the memory of a Prominent Community activist, sar kassian who passed away suddenly on saturday. Mr. Sarkassian has a rich legacy of serving six decades in the city and county of San Francisco and was instrumental in the formation of the Armenian Community and later at st. Gregorys. And as a founder of the Armenian School as well as a founder of the local Armenian National committee of the chapter here in San Francisco. Additionally, he devoted his life in the armenian cause for the rights of armenian people. I would like this convey condolences to his wife, sons, and grandchildren and families. Clerk supervisor preston. Im calling for a hearing on june 25, 2018, voters passed proposition f to guarantee a right to council for any tenant in San Francisco facing eviction from their home. Proposition f required full implementation by july 2019. They have taken positive steps, but have fallen short of fulfilling the promises and the requirements of proposition f. Many tenants still go unrepresented, which is in direct violation of prop f. The right to council is an essential part of keeping people housed. Prop f requires right to counsel and San Francisco residents deserve nothing less. I look forward to working with the Mayors Office, colleagues, to make sure we achieve the universal right to counsel required by voters in prop f as soon as possible. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, colleagues. Today im introducing legislation to tighten regulations on landlord buyout of rent controlled tenants and protect tenants from high pressure. They feel like theyre living on borrowed time. Fearing the day their landlord decides its time to go. That comes in the form of take it or leave it, facing eviction or taking a cash buyout. Were seeing landlords and attorneys use loopholes to intimidate and force out tenants. With rents continuing to rise out of control, landlords have powerful incentives to remove and replace longtime tenants. Some landlords see a cash buyout as a way to get tenants to move out quickly. My predecessor passed the buyout ordinance in 2014, which among other regulations established reporting to the rent board. They reported 379 buyouts filed in neighborhoods throughout the city, with the highest numbers in the mission district. We also know there are buyouts that are not filed. In fact, some advocates estimate that there may be as many as three untracked for every one that actually does get recorded. We need the facts and need to be sure the laws are being followed. What this legislation will do is the following. First, it will ensure that tenants are informed of their rights. Were seeing landlords deliver required disclosures to tenants after starting negotiations or never deliberate at all. My amendment will require landlord file a declaration prior to commencing negotiations providing evidence of disclosure and method of delivery. Second, it will give tenants time to decide. Landlords use take or leave it deadlines that leave tenants no time to reach out for assistance. The amendments set minimum of 30 days between the initiation of a buyout and execution of agreement. Finally, the legislation will force landlords to file. Landlords sometimes file an unlawful eviction after they start the buyout negotiation, in order to recharacterize them as Eviction Settlements. Our amendments define Eviction Settlement agreement filed within 120 days of start up of negotiations subject to regulation. Lastly, the amendments will push landlords to file by voiding any waiver of tenant rights that tenants agree to in the agreement if the landlord does not file on time with the rent board. I want to thank the very fierce persistence of tenant advocates who together with the San Francisco coalition brought these issues to light. And then, of course, to the late great ted who was the brain behind the original buyout ordinance, that supervisor compost sponsored and i was a legislative aide at the time, who had the privilege of writing that law together with ted. So i can never think of this law without thinking of ted. But the amazing teresa, fred, deepak, scott, are continuing his legacy so much love and persistence and were the ones to bring these continuing issues to us. I want to thank amy, my incredible legislative aide who is such an expert on housing and just has never ending appreciation for her. And then finally, im hoping that this is our very own tenant rights advocate attorney, supervisor prestons first cosponsorship of a tenants right legislation, seems appropriate, but i want to thank you, supervisor preston, for your cosponsorship, as well as fewer, haney and preston. Supervisor safai submit. Supervisor stefani thank you, madame clerk. Colleagues, its no secret our country is behind so many other countries in supporting families. Our National Paid parental leave policies force people, particularly women, to choose between their newborn children and going to work. Of course, here in San Francisco were doing a little better than the rest of the country. In 2016, under the leadership of then supervisor wiener, San Francisco became the first city in the county in the country to ensure that employees received 100 of their salary when they took paid parental leave. San franciscos Program Works like that. Under california law, workers can take up to six weeks of partial paid parental leave. San francisco employees are required to pay the difference of the salaries, so theyre making 100 of their salary up to a limit. This law has helped so many people and has become a National Model and had major impacts throughout the country. In may, Clerks Office<\/a> is just an incredibly professional group of people who are tasked with the job that, from the outside can look painstaking and tedious with incredible pressures on them because if they make any one mistake, they will be hearing it from the 11 of you or at least one of you, and they do incredible work. I want to acknowledge all of them, particularly two. Alisa, i dont thank you get the kind of public recognition that you deserve for what you do for this board and to make things happen in this room. So since i have the floor, i want to give it to you. You are so smart, so consistent and thoughtful and i will really miss working with you. And a. C. , always cool, angela, thank you for your partnership and your friendship. We share the same goals and visions for this job, which are that we want to ensure that each of you achieve what you want in the job, but also that we want to ensure the rules are followed to protect the integrity of the institution because we both believe in the institution. Thank you for allowing me to come into your lane sometimes and for teaching me how to be composed and calm and professional in the middle of every storm. As our district and supervisor would say, i appreciate you truly. [laughter] thank you all. It has been a privilege. I will see you on the second floor. [applause] thank you, colleagues, for all your kind comments to john and so that end that concludes the special commendations for today and madame clerk, can we go ahead and go back to item number 21. Can you call item 21 . Twentyone is a resolution to authorize the mayor or her designee to cast an assessment ballot in the affirmative for the proposed formation of a property benefit district and Business Improvement<\/a> district with respect to certain parcels of Real Property<\/a> owned by the city that would be subject to assessment in the district. Okay. The last item i think, colleagues, can we have a roll call, please. On item 21. [roll call] there are 11 aye. Okay. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Twentytwo is a ordinance to amend the Green Building<\/a> code to establish Energy Performance<\/a> requirements for certain new Building Construction<\/a> and to adopt the appropriate findings. Supervisor safai . Yes, i know we talked about this inland use, but i wanted to ask if there was someone here from the department of environment. I want to get one question i wasnt able to ask on the record on the record. Great. Come on up. Through the president , this pol his policy for new construction as it pertains i understand it is straightforward with municipal buildings, it is all electric that will have to meet the code, but i wanted to ask a couple of questions as it relates to commercial Properties One<\/a> of the things that ive gotten in between land use and today is there was some concern from folks in the Restaurant Industry<\/a> with regard to the push for all electric and how it impacts restaurants because a lot of restaurants really rely on gas stoves for cooking. I see it says it allows for a stove, but can you talk about that on the record for the moment . Thank you. Im with the San Francisco<\/a> department of the environment. One of the things that we are doing right now in partnership with the Mayors Office<\/a> and supervisor mandelmans office is we are going through a stakeholder process to look at what it would mean for the city to follow in berkeleys footsteps to ban natural gas. When we do that we will be consulting with our stakeholders like restaurants, large buildings, his ago family homes, you know, the complete diverse array that is out there to make sure that when and if we move forward, that we are doing so in a way that is appropriate for the stakeholders, is appropriate for what the city needs, that is appropriate for the development that is happening in the city, and that is also looking forward to existing buildings, which is the toughest thing when we think about banning natural gas. Okay. But this particular piece of legislation doesnt create there will be an additional piece of legislation that will set the standards for all construction moving forward, other than municipal because we took that separately. Correct. The existing legislation incentivizes, at singles the citys preference to go all electric, new construction doesnt have to. They can still have and use natural gas under this current piece of legislation. What about projects . I saw the Effective Date<\/a> was january 2020 or however many days. What about projects that are in the pipeline . Does it speak to specifically of ones that have pulled their permits . For existing projects that are in the pipeline and have already pulled permits, it would not affect them, but im saying that without my annals here, but i believe that is the case. What about the ones who filed applications and are going to the planning process and have not . Give me a second here. If they havent received a certified building permit, then i believe this legislation would affect those projects. And it would meet the percentages here and they would have to follow the percentages here . If they were still Going Forward<\/a> as mixed fuel buildings. Okay. Okay. Supervisor mar . Thank you. I just would like to be added as a cosponsor and i also want to thank supervisor mandelman for his leadership on this ordinance it is an important step forward and i think as supervisor safai s questions just highlighted, is one of many more steps that we will need to take to decarbonized our building sector and realize a cleaner, greener and more environmentally just and sustainable city. As mentioned at a prior meeting, i have commissioned it a report on strategies for building carbonization. A report that is now underway and will be published early in the new year. I also wanted to acknowledge the work underway through stakeholder meetings convened by the department of the environment and Labor Community<\/a> and environment of Justice Groups<\/a> to create a comprehensive plan to d. Carbonate our buildings by 2030. My staff has attended these meetings alongside supervisor mandelmans staff and there will be much more work coming to this important issue in 2020. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Colleagues, can we give take this item same house, same call . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Madame clerk, please call item 23 and 24 together. Item 23 is an ordinance to amend the planning code and zoning map establish a 2,000 straight special use district and to create key additional cites exceptions for the flower mart site located on the southern half of the block north of brannan street and item 24 is an ordinance to approve a developer to agreement between the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> and the flower mart for the development of an approximately six weight 5acre site located at fifth street and brennan street 6. 5acre site. Thank you. I have spent about a decade of my life on this institution that has existed for over 100 years and i have a lot to say. Having said that, and i think we are close and i would like to commend the parties and particularly the office of economic and workforce development, and within that office, there is still language that is absolutely unsatisfactory to this supervisor, which im happy to talk about, but until i understand that that language has been corrected, for in the beginning, the history of this town and this market were inextricably linked and they have remained that way since late 18 hundreds. And as our downtown has grown and expanded, expanded the original flower market that was co like it located between a number of italian and japanese vendors at the corner of kearney and market, eventually it moved south to Howard Street<\/a> where it continued for another half a century in and in 1953, ended up where it is today. And half a century later, as our downtown continues to expand with the growth of jobs and economic opportunities, the flower market has yet again found itself at the crossroads one it is where it is now time to move again, but there are and this has been one of the most complicated things that has happened to me and the 20 years that i have been in and out of this job and the 35 years that i have been in the business of negotiating real estate, but as somebody who does both of those things, one thing is abundantly clear to me, which is that the parties, the 50 some odd vendors, the individuals who work for what used to be called the italian side and the japanese side, which is now called, i think the flower market i dont even know what it is called anymore, it is an l. L. C. All of those people should have, and must have the unfettered right to petition their government, to talk to the press , and the language that i just saw does not yet states that. So until i see language that makes that abundantly clear, i would like colleagues to continue this until after roll call, after public comment, and when i see language that restates the tri party agreement, i will bring this back, but all parties must have the unfettered right to petition their government to talk to the press. I am happy to do the economic terms, which i want to thank mr. I want to thank the flower market for, which has been in motion up until a couple of hours ago and i do believe that we have resolved the last issue last issues where we were a million and a half dollars apart , but until i see language restating the agreement that gives every vendor the unfettered ability to petition their government and talk to the press without any recrimination by contract, i will ask for a continuance until our next meeting on the 7th of january, 2020. When i see this language, i will ask my colleagues to vote on this. I sincerely want to thank all of the parties, the deputy City Attorney<\/a> who i call charles sullivan, but is now somebody else, on both sides for the Kilroy Corporation<\/a> and for the vendors of which there are numerous council. Thank you. I cannot commend this to my colleagues. With that, i would like, colleagues, and i would like that item 23 and 24 be continued until later in this meeting. That is a motion. Okay. Thank you. I dont think we need to vote on that. I will honor that until the end of the meeting. At that point we will make a suggestion or motion on whether to act on it or continue the item. Okay . All right. Please lets move to item to the next item. [please stand by] located at fill more street. President yee without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Lets go to roll call for introductions. First up on roll call is supervisor mar. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, madame clerk. I will submit all of my items except for i would like to adjourn the meeting in the memory of a Prominent Community<\/a> activist, sar kassian who passed away suddenly on saturday. Mr. Sarkassian has a rich legacy of serving six decades in the city and county of San Francisco<\/a> and was instrumental in the formation of the Armenian Community<\/a> and later at st. Gregorys. And as a founder of the Armenian School<\/a> as well as a founder of the local Armenian National<\/a> committee of the chapter here in San Francisco<\/a>. Additionally, he devoted his life in the armenian cause for the rights of armenian people. I would like this convey condolences to his wife, sons, and grandchildren and families. Clerk supervisor preston. Im calling for a hearing on june 25, 2018, voters passed proposition f to guarantee a right to council for any tenant in San Francisco<\/a> facing eviction from their home. Proposition f required full implementation by july 2019. They have taken positive steps, but have fallen short of fulfilling the promises and the requirements of proposition f. Many tenants still go unrepresented, which is in direct violation of prop f. The right to council is an essential part of keeping people housed. Prop f requires right to counsel and San Francisco<\/a> residents deserve nothing less. I look forward to working with the Mayors Office<\/a>, colleagues, to make sure we achieve the universal right to counsel required by voters in prop f as soon as possible. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, colleagues. Today im introducing legislation to tighten regulations on landlord buyout of rent controlled tenants and protect tenants from high pressure. They feel like theyre living on borrowed time. Fearing the day their landlord decides its time to go. That comes in the form of take it or leave it, facing eviction or taking a cash buyout. Were seeing landlords and attorneys use loopholes to intimidate and force out tenants. With rents continuing to rise out of control, landlords have powerful incentives to remove and replace longtime tenants. Some landlords see a cash buyout as a way to get tenants to move out quickly. My predecessor passed the buyout ordinance in 2014, which among other regulations established reporting to the rent board. They reported 379 buyouts filed in neighborhoods throughout the city, with the highest numbers in the mission district. We also know there are buyouts that are not filed. In fact, some advocates estimate that there may be as many as three untracked for every one that actually does get recorded. We need the facts and need to be sure the laws are being followed. What this legislation will do is the following. First, it will ensure that tenants are informed of their rights. Were seeing landlords deliver required disclosures to tenants after starting negotiations or never deliberate at all. My amendment will require landlord file a declaration prior to commencing negotiations providing evidence of disclosure and method of delivery. Second, it will give tenants time to decide. Landlords use take or leave it deadlines that leave tenants no time to reach out for assistance. The amendments set minimum of 30 days between the initiation of a buyout and execution of agreement. Finally, the legislation will force landlords to file. Landlords sometimes file an unlawful eviction after they start the buyout negotiation, in order to recharacterize them as Eviction Settlement<\/a>s. Our amendments define Eviction Settlement<\/a> agreement filed within 120 days of start up of negotiations subject to regulation. Lastly, the amendments will push landlords to file by voiding any waiver of tenant rights that tenants agree to in the agreement if the landlord does not file on time with the rent board. I want to thank the very fierce persistence of tenant advocates who together with the San Francisco<\/a> coalition brought these issues to light. And then, of course, to the late great ted who was the brain behind the original buyout ordinance, that supervisor compost sponsored and i was a legislative aide at the time, who had the privilege of writing that law together with ted. So i can never think of this law without thinking of ted. But the amazing teresa, fred, deepak, scott, are continuing his legacy so much love and persistence and were the ones to bring these continuing issues to us. I want to thank amy, my incredible legislative aide who is such an expert on housing and just has never ending appreciation for her. And then finally, im hoping that this is our very own tenant rights advocate attorney, supervisor prestons first cosponsorship of a tenants right legislation, seems appropriate, but i want to thank you, supervisor preston, for your cosponsorship, as well as fewer, haney and preston. Supervisor safai submit. Supervisor stefani thank you, madame clerk. Colleagues, its no secret our country is behind so many other countries in supporting families. Our National Paid<\/a> parental leave policies force people, particularly women, to choose between their newborn children and going to work. Of course, here in San Francisco<\/a> were doing a little better than the rest of the country. In 2016, under the leadership of then supervisor wiener, San Francisco<\/a> became the first city in the county in the country to ensure that employees received 100 of their salary when they took paid parental leave. San franciscos Program Works<\/a> like that. Under california law, workers can take up to six weeks of partial paid parental leave. San francisco employees are required to pay the difference of the salaries, so theyre making 100 of their salary up to a limit. This law has helped so many people and has become a National Model<\/a> and had major impacts throughout the country. In may, Governor Newsom<\/a> he will extend the leave to eight weeks, still not enough in my opinion, but im introducing legislation today to update the citys paid family leave to comply with the new state law and ensure eight weeks of fully paid leave. As a mother, i had the benefit of strong paying laws when i had my children. It made a difference. The rest i submit. Supervisor walton colleagues, today i have an ordinance, a hearing and memoriam today. Illegal dumping has been prevalent in many of our neighborhoods. From january of november of this year, we have seen almost 91,000 Service Requests<\/a> for legal dumping in San Francisco<\/a> for public works and recology. In district 10 alone, we have had 11,177 cases of Illegal Dumping<\/a> from january to november. The second highest in the city. And in district 9, there has been 16,930 cases in the same time frame. Making it the area with the highest rates of reported Illegal Dumping<\/a>. My office has been working with public works, recology, sfpd, the City Attorney<\/a>, to come up with solutions to stop people from putting their trash and debris on the streets and sidewalks. We had a safety in the Public Safety<\/a> Neighborhood Services<\/a> committee in march to address some of the concerns. And im excited to announce this new piece of legislation to address Illegal Dumping<\/a> citywide. Our proposed legislation will redefine and expand the definition of Illegal Dumping<\/a>, including what constitutes as one commercial waste, two, electronic waste, and prohibited materials. The legislation will also clarify the types of violations as well as add enforcement allowing public works employees designated in the police code to Issue Citations<\/a>. At the moment, only sfpd may Issue Citations<\/a> to the people caught in the act of Illegal Dumping<\/a>. This creates the possibility of negative police contact. I want to thank the deputy City Attorney<\/a> Christopher Tom<\/a> in my office for working on this legislation along with cosponsors fewer and haney. I would also like to introduce along with supervisor mar, a hearing to be heard at the joint city sfufd select. The hearing is on how class cuts impact lowincome communities of color, immigrants, seniors, and in particular, the residents that take these classes for Vocational Training<\/a> and for continuing education classes. Im also interested in hearing how this impacts High School Students<\/a> who take classes in an effort to meet College Entry<\/a> requirements. Any proposed cuts should be heard by the students and communities that will be most impacted. It is our hope through this process, we will get a better idea how to advocate for the students most impacted by class closures. And last, it is with a heavy heart that i want to call this in memorial. In district 10, we lost 12 lives. Other neighborhoods have been impacted, such as the western additi addition, tenderloin and the mission. It is clear that the strategy we have in place need to be accountable to these families. Our response and followup need to come from a lens of healing and prevention. I am committed to working in the name of these Fallen Community<\/a> members and commit to continue to advocate for Real Community<\/a> strategies that bring us all together to take care of each other. To you will the families that to all the families impacted by senseless violence this year, i offer my sincere condolences and will continue my work in honor of your loved ones. To all those lost lives in traffic accidents, i will work to improve Traffic Safety<\/a> and pedestrian safety. Finally, to the family of the young native woman who lost her life too soon. I commit to fighting for resources for women and children. Together we can honor these memories through our commitment of addressing violence. Our district 10 safety plan will be released early next year. And i hope this is the first step in working towards healing and solutions together, along with our vision zero plan to fight homicides and Violent Crimes<\/a> here in San Francisco<\/a>. The rest i submit. Clerk supervisor yee. President yee thank you, madame clerk. Before i go ahead and introduce my hearing request, i want to make sure that because earlier when i was naming off the committee membership, i actually omitted one of our very important committees. Which is the joint City School District<\/a> and city college select committee. So i want to read into the record that it would be the members representing our board would be supervisors haney and fewer. And the alternate will remain supervisor mar. And the other members from the other institutions remain the same. So, one of the things i want to do is talk about second hand smoke. Just yesterday, the first study of the ecigarette use over extended period of time was published. Over 32,000 American Adults<\/a> were part of this study that took place over three years from 2013 to 2016. The city found there is a real casual link between use of ecigarettes and a persons risk of developing chronic lung disease like asthma, bronchitis, and more. The study also found that people who used both cigarettes and ecigarettes are the highest risk of developing chronic lung disease. Before i speak further, i want to really give thanks to supervisor walton and former supervisor cohen, for their work in fighting big tobacco. I think that your work has, and will continue, to save lives in San Francisco<\/a>. But my interest now with the legalization of marijuana, the use of ecigarettes still increasing nationally, on top of the continued use of tobacco cigarettes is the impact of the second hand smoke for all of these substances. Secondhand smoke exposure has skyrocketed over the last two years according to the California Department<\/a> of public health. There has been an 80 86 increase in secondhand marijuana exposure. And 67 increase in secondhand vape exposure. And over 50 of the californians are still exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke. So why should we care about impact of Secondhand Smoke<\/a> . Cancer, lung disease, harm to the brain, and heart functions. And these impacts are even more troubling when the victims are our children. Secondhand smoke causes lung disease, including lung cancer. Secondhand smoke from cigarettes can also cause heart disease. Children with asthma who are exposed to secondhand tobacco smoke can have more frequent and more severe as mama attacks. Asthma attacks. Secondhand vape contains high concentrations of fine particles, breathing in these particles can worsen respiratory illness asthma and lung tissue. Secondhand vape contains chemicals like formaldehyde and nickel. Cancer causing chemicals like cadmacademca cad and chromium. I recently heard from the residents from my own district asking me to investigate further what the city is doing and how we can do better to provide relief for them. When it comes to being exposed to Secondhand Smoke<\/a>. Ive also heard doctors pleading for the city to act, because the patients are suffering from being exposed involuntarily from Secondhand Smoke<\/a> exposure in their own homes. And they lack the resources to be able to easily find and move into alternative housing. Such as seniors on fixed incomes and families trying to survive with limited income. We know only too well that big tobacco and corporate interests have profited for decades from seducing customers, especially our children and youth, into addictions through nicotine and other substances. We also know that this country acted too slowly to address this major health threat. I dont want i dont want that to be the case here in San Francisco<\/a> if there is something we can do to address this issue. Colleagues, this is why i am calling for a hearing on impact of Secondhand Smoke<\/a> and what the city is currently doing about it. Are we doing enough . Our residents who have few housing choices, are they able to avoid bearing the health risks that come from exposure to Secondhand Smoke<\/a> . I am not looking forward to this hearing because i wish that we didnt have to be on watch for this, but the fact is, that we do actually watch for this. So the second hearing request, as you know, in San Francisco<\/a> we were hit by some particularly wet weather this month. The weather on the weekend of december 7, we had what we call 150year storm. And experienced rain that exceeded an inch in an hour. The phrase 150year storm refers to the estimated probability of a storm event happening in any given year. 150year event has a 1 to 150 chance or less than 1 of occurring in any given year. In some areas of the city, the storm water drain system just wasnt able to keep up with the sidewalks, streets, homes and businesses were flooded. In the neighborhood, water flowed downhill collecting at the corner of 15th and warner. On that rain, in such a short amount of time, overwhelmed storm drains and brought up sewage. Over three feet of storm water and sewage flooded garages. The first floors of homes. Bottom floors and inlaw units and vehicles. And only homes the only homes spared were the ones that had properly placed sandbags. Something that not all residents know how to do. And may not even have the physical strength to do so. This flooding is devastating. Especially when we look at it in terms of the holiday. Instead of getting ready for the families and celebrations, residents are trying to deal with the raw sewage in flooded homes. Puc is aware that this area does not meet the city standard level of service for storm Water Management<\/a>. And this area has been identified as puc as 1 in 4 priority locations to watch for flooding during big storms. This is actually a third time in six years that this area has and many of these homes have been flooded. In response to this, two years ago i legislated mandatory flood mapping of the city so that the residents would be able to be more aware of the risks if they were living in the flood risk area. And we also legislated mandatory notifications to renters and to buyers that the property is in high risk flood area. Puc has a project plan to increase the capacity of the storm Water Management<\/a> system in this area and to bring this up to city standard level of service. The estimated time line for completion of this project is march 2023. Climate change means these bigger rains wont stop anytime soon. And even bringing the storm water system up to the standard level of service of this area, likely wont prevent all future floodings to happen. So we need to talk about two things. The first is that the city has to do more and has to speed up the spending down of the 700 million that we have already allocated to make improvements to upgrade our storm drains and sewer systems. Second, when our city is hit by storms and homes are flooded, we need to do more to respond. Our departments need to be on site responding in realtime. When i recognize representatives from puc, the Mayors Office<\/a> and Neighborhood Services<\/a> to go door to door to speak to residents impacted by the flooding recently, residents will still asking, is it asking if it was safe to handle the water that had washed up inside their homes. And the representatives from our city departments were not prepared to even answer this question. That is incredibly frustrating. When you imagine having your home flooded with black and brown gook and you cant even respond. If the city cant respond thoroughly when there is a flood that impacts two blocks, how are we supposed to trust that we are ready for any sort of major catastrophe, whether its earthquake or multifires or future flooding. All of these things are not a question of if. Its a question of when. For many of the residents we spoke with, this was the second and third time their homes had flooded in the last six years. Puc has funds for homeowners to make changes to help make their homes more resilient to floods. And none of the residents knew about this program. Let me say that again. No one knew that there was a way that they could have secure their city secure city help to make their homes more secure. We need to get these resources those resources into the hands as soon as possible. Im not calling for a hearing on how this happened or why our city was caught flatfooted. I really dont care anymore. The fact is that i am 100 disinterested in finger pointing. What i do care about, and what i think should be publicly explained, is a concrete plan of action so that our residents including those on the west side, know and understand what that we are there for them during both the good times and the bad. This is one of the four Priority Areas<\/a> identified by puc to respond when there is significant rain in the city. The city departments did not respond effectively. I want to see concrete plan to place in place on how we respond to the city and next time the next time we have a flood. It was it has to have realtime action and every department should have to be have clear rules and expectations for their response. If we cant respond when we have a disaster impacting a few dozen homes, im really afraid what is going to happen when we have a larger disaster. And also, part of this response mechanism really should be about notifying my office when things happen. There is nobody in four days that notified our office there was flooding. I only found out about it through the media. So the rest i submit. Clerk thank you. Supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer i submit. Supervisor haney thank you. Today, i am introducing a revised and strengthened version of our legislation to build Navigation Centers<\/a> citywide authored with supervisors ronen, walton, and preston. There are over 9,000 People Living<\/a> on our streets without housing. 65 of those are people who are experiencing homelessness and unsheltered. And there are unsheltered people in every neighborhood in the city. While we must continue to create more housing exits, people who are living on the streets tonight cannot wait for the new housing to come online. Were investing in building more housing faster. We dedicated erat funding and raised the linkage fee to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding for housing. We passed a massive rezoning and streamlining measure for Affordable Housing<\/a> and educator housing. We created senior operating subsidies and so much more. There are 12,000 affordable units now in the pipeline. But while we ramp up the work of building those units and expanding Mental Health<\/a> services and outreach, we must be equally patient about finding safe places for people on the streets right now. We have to rightsize our homelessness response system and that must include a massive citywide investment in shelter. Weve made it easier to build Navigation Center<\/a> with our shelter crisis ordinance which allows the stream line of the construction as well as the contracting process for services. And removes planning code barriers to opening shelters in certain Zoning Districts<\/a> that have limitations or restrictions. And as weve spoken about extensively recently, were investing heavily in Mental Health<\/a> services and drug treatment. But the urgency of the problem has not met the urgency of providing solutions. Despite the board and mayor affirming were in the midst of a shelter crisis and more support for people experiencing homelessness. In the past five years, weve built only 500 Navigation Center<\/a> beds in three districts. I know youve done the work to identify sites and asked the department for resources and shelter the Homeless Population<\/a> in your districts. We had initially introduced this legislation back in april on the heels of the approval of the new embarcadero Navigation Center<\/a> which was just unveiled today. At that time we were told that additional sites in the neighborhood would be announced. Its now been eight months and that announcement has not come. The plan to expand homeless resources citywide to every community that needs it hasnt come either. And while we wait there are still more than 9,000 san franciscans experiencing homelessness in the city. This not only requires the department to work with each of us to open Navigation Centers<\/a> in our district, Navigation Centers<\/a> that fit the particular needs of the district, it also defines what a Navigation Center<\/a> is so we replicate what we know works. The original Navigation Center<\/a> model was created by statute, by this body. It was authored by supervisor compost. Its important we revisit the legislation and amend it to reflect best practices and strengthen it where needed. Our legislation that were introducing today will take the best practices that work to get 50 of clients to a stable exit, outline this model and makes improvement to get even more people out of homelessness. Weve captured the integral parts of the model like intake and assessment plan, access to on Site Services<\/a> and daily activities for residents. And made adjustments mandating that clients get initial stay of 90 days until they achieve a stable exit, not ending up back on the streets. In a survey by the coalition on homelessness, nearly three quarters of clients staying in Navigation Center<\/a> or shelter felt like they werent making progress toward their housing plan. A huge part of is this whether we have in adequate stay. We shouldnt be bringing people in Navigation Centers<\/a> just to have them exit back on the street. Navigation centres are themselves a critical part of an overall spectrum of services. And they must be paired with both outreach and housing exits. But we have a huge crisis on our streets now. Not just in district 6, 9 and 10, but across the entire city. This is a citywide challenge. And having all neighborhoods step up is the way that we build on the solution of a Navigation Center<\/a> and make it more critically integrated into a plan to solve homelessness in our city. There is absolutely no excuse to have thousands of people sleep on the streets when we have a tool that works, that we can use a lot more, and commit collectively to solve together. This is something that los angeles has done, washington d. C. Has done, and having the commitment for not just a bigger bolder investment in shelter and Navigation Center<\/a>ings, but to do it in a way that is a shared commitment and equitable commitment is key. I want to thank supervisors walten and ronen. And theyve been hearing from their constituents, as im sure many of you have, that this is something that neighborhoods will welcome, but they do want to absolutely see it as part of a broader plan. And equitable distribution. I want to thank supervisor preston for signing on. I know you campaigned heavily on wanting a Navigation Center<\/a> in your district. I appreciate you for that. And i think this will be a critical tool in helping us get there by having that shared commitment, having the expectation that it will get done, having the reporting, the transparency, the accountability. I also want to appreciate supervisor safai for bringing a vehicle Navigation Center<\/a> to his district. And to really demonstrate in leadership. I dont want to out him here, but he said that people asked about this legislation as something they were interested in and hopeful about. And also supervisor peskin for his leadership in working hard to bring in Navigation Center<\/a> to his district, for recommending sites, for introducing a resolution, which i was happy to cosponsor, and im hopeful we can get this done and make this collective commitment as a board together with the mayor to invest in Navigation Centers<\/a> across the city. The rest i submit. Supervisor mandelman i submit. Supervisor peskin i would like to be rereferred. Thank you, madame clerk. At the risk of freaking out our new deputy, i would like to make a few more statements for the record that actually involve senate bill 50 as well as what my colleague from district 6 just spoke to, which is that its not always a onesizefitsall solution and i will do this in committee, so dont get nervous ms. Pearson and mr. Givner, but i have championed a Navigation Center<\/a> in my district now, fourth time maybe a charm for three and a half years. But there are other districts, like supervisor mars district im not picking on supervisor mar, who actually do not have a homeless problem. We have districts, but we have one city. So respectfully to my colleague from district 6 where we share, if you look at the heat maps, the propensity of homelessness in the city, and i salute supervisor walton and supervisor ronen, who have against all odds, managed to get navigation centres in their districts. But we really need to address it where the problem is. So i just dont see this as an issue. I apologize to the two deputies for freaking them out by saying something i will say in committee. Maybe it will come to land use. If not, i will show up at that committee. But i want to say that early and often. President yee before we get im seeing other people on the roster. And this is not the time to have a discussion around this. And i dont know if deputy City Attorney<\/a> agrees, but i have to put a stop to this. Deputy City Attorney<\/a> john givener, the roll call is for announcements of legislation theyre introducing, but not the board to discuss the pros and cons of that legislation. So as president yee said, supervisors who would like to engage in that debate about this item should have that discussion in committee when this item is heard in committee. President yee unless you have Something Different<\/a> yes. I wanted to be rereferred because im cosponsor and i wanted to the prime sponsor to speak first as we do as a measure of respect. But id like to make my comments on why im a cosponsor of this legislation and proud to be introducing it today with supervisor haney. I think that is appropriate. Thank you, deputy City Attorney<\/a>. Yes, we are one city. But we have a containment strategy that keeps people that are really suffering in certain neighborhoods in the city. And those neighborhoods are primarily districts 6, 9 and 10. And we have been dealing with it for decades. And you have three supervisors of those three districts and really grateful to supervisor preston for joining in, because there is a major issue in district 5 as well, who have done everything in our power to be solutionoriented, to find money, to find sites, to negotiate deals, to open up Navigation Centers<\/a> to say we will be not only the ones to take responsibility for this citywide crisis, but we will do our work that is not traditional work of the legislature. Of the legislator. For example, when i went and found a negotiated deal with and went to the money to pay for the Navigation Center<\/a>, that was in district 9. When that closed down, got a site and money to get a replacement one. That is going above and beyond and fulfilling our duty as leaders in the city to be proactive and solve a problem. But heres and we did a great job in the mission for a while. We went from 260 tents down all the way to 30. 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