Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20200126

>> good afternoon, and welcome to the january 14th, 2020 regular meeting of the san francisco board of supervisors. madame clerk, please call roll call. >> thank you, mr. president. [roll call] mr. president, you have a quorum >> thank you. please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] okay. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of the san francisco government tv who record each of our meetings and make the transcript available to the public online. madame clerk, are there any communications? >> i have known to report, mr. president. >> great. colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 21st, 2019 special board meeting and a november 21 st, 2019 regular meeting minutes to the budget and finance committee meeting which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. are there any changes for these meeting minutes? seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? motion made by supervisor mandelman and seconded by supervisor preston. to approve -- motion to approve. okay. without objection, those minutes will be approved after public comment. madame clerk, please call the 2:00 p.m. special order. >> special order at 2:00 p.m. is a mayor's appearance before the board. we are welcoming the honorable mayor london breed here today. there being no questions submitted from supervisors representing district nine, 10, and 11, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes >> okay. welcome, madame mayor. mayor breed, there were no topics submitted by supervisors today. we welcome you to share your remarks. >> thank you, president yee and members of the board. today earlier i spent some time in the embarcadero talking to people who are struggling with homelessness. today was a good day because we had the opportunity to help three people into the navigation center on a bark -- on embarcadero. for the three people we helped, there are still dozens more who turned us down for service. including one particular woman who clearly needed help, it was clearly in distress, who was hungry, refutes service, who had a lot of items with her, -- refused service, who had a lot of items with her, and there's nothing we could do. addressing homelessness is a real challenge in our city. along with making sure that we meet the goals to have 1,002 shelter beds open by this year, we also have to look at what happens in the future for those who refuse services. we have to make sure that there are places for people to go. many of you know that i am committed to opening sobering centers, safe injection sites, and other places that we so desperately need, but ultimately , the hard conversations around making sure that we are able to get people off the streets, whether they agree with us or not, will be a critical conversation that we need to have on a local level, but on a state level. dealing with these challenges, you can't just be about grand ideas and headlines that have some substance. we know that we focus on policy, good policy. we can put forward the kind of change that really will address this crisis. just take one avista horseman. we knew when it opened it was just for the students at that school. and hardly being used. once we opened it to all san francisco unified school district students, we know that a lot of them use the shelter. we have been able to help people , families in particular, exit homelessness. it has been a real challenge, but thank you, supervisor ronen, for your leadership on this particular shelter. but more importantly, for your willingness to make adjustments one something isn't working, and that is what we have to be prepared to do. there is no numerical fix that will fall out of the sky that will help us deal with this problem. it will take shelter, it will take hard work, it will take some changes or adjustments to policy, but at the end of the day, what matters most is it will be housing. housing will be critical to making sure that we can help address what we know is a serious challenge that we all face. most recently today, i'm excited about 1939 market street and identifying an opportunity to build 100% affordable housing in supervisor mandelman's district. thank you for being a real partner on this particular issue where 80 seniors will hopefully have an opportunity to be permanently housed in a place that they can afford and a place that they can call home. we know that we have a number of other units that we've broken ground on all over the city and we need to get those places build sooner rather than later. today, along with supervisor walton, the potrero power station, the legislation is being announced. 2600 units, and that is the kind of work that we have to do. we have to focus on building more housing, building more housing faster, and not allowing our policies to obstruct our ability to do so. i am looking forward to a great 2020. it will be a challenging year, but we were able to make magic happen last year, in particular with the housing bond, and so many other anticipated revenues. let's be clear, folks. we have a 500 million-dollar budget deficit. we have a number of other challenges that we face, and its importance that we work together -- and it is important that we work together and be responsible as possible and focus on dealing with the challenges that we all face because we know and have proven that when we work together we can get great things done for the residents of san francisco. thank you for the opportunity to address you today. >> thank you, madame mayor for joining us today and thank you for your comments. i am hoping for my last year that this will be a banner year and i'm anxious to work with everybody to get things done. i think we are in -- taking the right steps -- we have been taking the right steps last year it felt like we did and a norma his amount of work in collaboration. thank you very much -- it felt like we did an enormous amount of work in collaboration. >> thank you. >> this item shall be filed. madame clerk, let's go to the regular agenda. please call items one and two together. >> one and two are two ordinances that pertain to the academy of art settlements. item one authorizes the settlement of the lawsuit filed by the city and the state of california against the stevenson his -- against the stevens institute and against their liability companies that own properties in san francisco. item two his approve the developed agreement which provides for various public benefits and waves constricting provisions in the planning and administrative codes under the california environmental quality act and makes the appropriate findings. >> okay. madame clerk, please call. [roll call] -- please call roll call. [roll call] there are 11 aye. >> without objection, these ordinances are passed unanimously. please call item three. >> item three is an ordinance to amend the regulation of sidewalk widths to reduce the official sidewalk with a certain locations along the westerly side of pearse street between o'farrell and ellis street to adopt the sequel determination and make the appropriate findings. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this is finally passed. madame clerk, next item, please. >> item four is an ordinance to amend the environment code to require new construction and major renovations of the municipal buildings to include natural gas and include exclusively all electric energy sources and to affirm the sequel determination. >> supervisor stefani? >> thank you. colleagues, i ask for your support today on this ordinance to require all electric sources of energy in new construction and major renovations of municipal buildings. this legislation fills an important gap in our current network of climate resiliency plans. natural gas combustion in buildings currently comprises approximately 38% of san francisco's greenhouse gas emissions. currently 100% of greenhouse gas emissions from municipal building operations are due to the use of natural gas. we can't ignore that we are seeing the consequences of the climate crisis every day. whether it's the impact at sea level rise on our seawall or the wildfires that are devastating communities locally, and around the globe, we will be paying for the consequences of climate decisions for a very long time. this legislation is an important first step. i look forward to working with the department, out communities and my colleagues as we find new additional ways to limit the use of natural gas in our buildings. it is important for the city to lead the way on electrification because it is increasingly necessary that all buildings begin down this path. i want to thank former supervisor vallie brown, the original sponsor of this legislation, and supervisors mandelman, peskin, ronen, fewer, and preston for cosponsoring. i urge your support. thank you. >> supervisor mar? >> i just would like to be added as a cosponsor. >> did you hear that? >> yes. >> okay. okay, colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. please call item five and item 39 out of order. >> items five is a resolution to approve and authorize a 50 year lease with a 16 year option to extend between the port commission and broadway l.l.c. for a mixed-use hotel entertainment venue and a public open space development, with an annual minimum base rent equal to no less than $1 million to affirm the sequel determination and make the appropriate findings. for item 39, this item was considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on monday, january 13th and was forwarded as a committee report. item 39 is a resolution to declare the intention of the board of supervisors to order the vacation of the vallejo street right-of-way between davis street and the embarcadero , and a portion of the davis street right-of-way generally located between broadway street and the embarcadero as part of the improvement for the tea natural hotel theatre in public part development project on seawell lodge 323 and 324, and to set the hearing date for all persons interested in the proposed vacation public right-of-way. >> colleagues, can we take these items same house, same call? without objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item six is a resolution to authorize the general manager of the san francisco public utilities commission to execute a contract with cdm smith incorporated for planning and design services and possibly engineering support during construction for the proposed valley water treatment plant ozonation project for a not to exceed amount of $15 million and a six year term march 2020 through march 2026. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call the next item. >> seven is a resolution to declare the intent of the city to reimburse certain expenditures and proceeds of future bonded indebtedness to authorize the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit an application and related -- and related documents to the california debt limit allocation committee to permit the issuance of a not to exceed amount of $24 million in residential mortgage revenue bonds for 1223 webster street. >> can we take this item same house, same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. please call items eight and nine together. >> item eight and nine call together pertain to turks 500 l.p. this is a resolution to authorize the execution and delivery of a multifamily housing revenue note in a not to exceed amount of $53 million to provide financing for the construction of a 108 unit multifamily rental housing project. item nine is a resolution to approve and authorize the director of property to acquire real property located at 500 through 520 turk street in exchange for a $12.2 million credit to construct affordable housing and to also approve a loan agreement in an amount not to exceed $32 million for a 57 year term to finance the construction of a 100% affordable, 108 unit multifamily housing development on the property for low-income households with ancillary commercial space for public benefit or community serving purposes for an annual base rent of $15,000 to construct the project. >> okay. can we take these items same house, same call? without objections, his resolutions are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call items 10 and 11 together. >> these items together pertain to the apartments. item 10 is a resolution to authorize the issuance and delivery of multifamily housing revenue bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed approximately $45 million to provide financing for the acquisition, development, construction, and equipping of a 105 unit affordable multifamily residential rental housing project located on parcel c3 .2 in the treasure island master plan currently assigned to the street address of 401 avenue of the poems. item 11 is improving the loan agreement with the may apartments l.p. in an amount not to exceed $24.2 million for a 57 year term to finance 100% affordable, 105 unit multifamily rental housing development for low and moderate income veteran households. >> can we take these items same house, same call? without objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call items 12 through 22 together. >> twelve through 22 are resolutions that authorize the mayor's office of community development on behalf of the city to execute certain grant applications. item 12 authorizes the mayor's office of housing and community development with a joint applicant with sunnydale block block iiia housing partners l.p. for 100% affordable housing as identified as sunnydale block iiia in the sunnydale hope s.f. development agreements. item 13 is a joint applicant with the city and sunnydale block iiia housing partners l.p. for 100% affordable housing known as sunnydale block iiia in the sunnydale hope s.f. development. fight -- for item 14, joint applicants with sunnydale block three b. housing partners, 100% affordable housing identified as sunnydale block three b., in the hope s.f. development agreement, authorizing the city to assume joint and several liability for completion of the projects required by the terms of the grant awarded under the program. item 15 is joint applicants with the city, sunnydale block three b. housing partners l.p. for 100% affordable housing identified as sunnydale block three b. in the hope s.f. development agreement. for item 16, joint applicants of the city with fourth and full some associates l.p. for 100% affordable housing project at 2,664th street to authorize the city to assume joint and several liability. item 17 is a city with a joint applicant as potrero housing associates for 100% affordable housing. potrero block be in the hope s.f. development agreement. for item 18, the city as a joint applicant with potrero housing associates, again for 100% affordable housing, identified as potrero block be in the potrero hope s.f. develop met agreement. item 19, the city as joint applicants with the balboa park housing partners l.p. for 100% affordable housing at 2340 san jose avenue. for item 20, the city as a joint applicant with balboa park housing partners l.p. for 100% affordable housing at 2347 -- 2340 san jose avenue. for 21, this is a resolution which authorizes the mayor's office of housing and community development to submit a grant application to the state of california for funding in the amount of $5 million under the cal home program and any other related documents necessary to participate in the program. for item 22, a resolution to authorize the treasure island develop met authority to execute a grant application under the department of housing and community development infill infrastructure program. with the san francisco county transportation authority and/or the public utilities commission for qualifying infrastructure projects within the treasure island major sub- phase one and if successful, authorizing the city to assume joint and several liability for completion of the projects. >> okay. colleagues, can we take all these items same house, same call? without objection, these resolutions are adopted unanimously. madame clerk, please call the next item. >> item 23 is a resolution to authorize the planning department to apply on behalf of the city to confirm existing and to create new and revised designations of priority development areas, priority conservation areas, and priority production areas by the association of the area government and metropolitan transportation commission as part of the plan bay area 2050 update. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you. colleagues, i am proud to sponsor this legislation to expand priority development areas citywide alongside supervisor fewer. this resolution designates areas in all supervisorial districts as p.d.a., which play a positive role in our efforts to expand sustainable transit-oriented development through comprehensive community-based planning throughout our city, and especially on the west side. currently, they are mostly limited to the east side. this expansion represents a more balanced distribution of p.d.a. and more equitable resource allocations. we are proposing four new p.d.a. , namely lombard street, the richmond district, the sunset corridor, and the west portal. the resolution proposes boundary changes for existing p.d.a. age new areas for environmental conservation and proposes the first priority production area in district 10 to support the preservation of these areas. p.d.a.s provide resources to expedite our community planning goal and have already unlocked tens of millions of dollars in planning, capital, and transportation funds. sfpd 14° have previously received $4.3 million in p.d.a. planning grants and $87.5 million in p.d.a. transportation funding for local improvements, not including major transit products -- projects also allocated. other cities and counties throughout the bay area are also currently updating their designated p.d.a.s is a key step towards updating a plan for the bay area. our long-range 30 year land use plan. want san francisco to demonstrate leadership in this process. in the west side and citywide, expanding p.d.a.s will allow us to access regional funds to enhance and expedite important planning efforts that we already have underway. in district four, for example,, we are proactively engaging sunset residents in organizations and planning for the future of our neighborhoods. and my first year in office, we hired a new westside planner three citywide add back. with supervisor fewer, we invested in building capacity to develop westside affordable housing and we commissioned a sense it transit immobility study with the county transportation authority. today, i'm very proud to also announce the award of a new contract to conduct a community needs assessment to a coalition of sunset nonprofits. the district four youth and families network because good planning starts at the grassroots level. and next month i will be launching sunset forward, a comprehensive community planning framework to bring all of our neighborhood planning efforts together, making sure we center the people on the ground and their needs. however, planning and development will require additional resources, even though we are off to a great start. the regional funds provided for p.d.a.s will support our comprehensive community planning for increased housing density alongside transportation and infrastructure improvements and other neighborhood needs in the sunset and other neighborhoods throughout our city. there is a false narrative out there claiming we don't want to development or change in our own backyard. unfortunately, this narrative has had disastrous consequences, building support for ill-advised state bills like senate bill 50 which undermines committee efforts to plan for our own future. and frankly, has taken so much energy away from planning for our neighborhoods first. this p.d.a. resolution and my track record show we are moving forward with true community driven planning and not waiting for state mandates. we will build more affordable housing alongside transportation and infrastructure with the needs of our community at the center. i want to thank josh from the planning department for all of his work on developing the new p.d.a. resolution and proposal, and also my constituents and community stakeholders citywide who provided input, and finally i want to thank my legislative aide for all of her work on this i urge you to support this resolution today. >> supervisor fewer? >> yes, thank you. i would like to thank supervisor moore and his office for taking the lead on this resolution. i am proud to be a cosponsor. i also want to thank josh from the planning department for attending a community meeting i hosted in my district last week to explain what p.d.a.s are and how they work. i understand the concerns about increasing gentrification and displacement pressures and that is why i have been working alongside many of you to strengthen tenant protections against evictions and unfair rent increases from debt service and property tax passes. i have also been working hard to strengthen our small sights program with more funding and more capacity building for nonprofits. the next step to building more affordable housing on the west side is creating affordable housing community development organizations based on the west side, and i'm excited to have security grants to facilitate this progress. i also want to thank my legislative aide for all of the work that he has been doing on this and also his collaboration with supervisor mar's office. i'm looking forward to using p.d.a.s as a tool to engage our neighbors in community planning and to get funds for planning grants and transit improvements for my district as we grow. this will supplement all the work we have been doing to plan and build more affordable housing. thank you. >> thank you. i want to thank supervisor mar for bringing this forward. in my district we have been working towards some sort of area planning for a while now actually and what we found as we are always lacking funding resources to get this done. this hopefully will get us over the hump in terms of what we need to get a solid plan together. i would like to add my name as cosponsor to this, if you don't mind. >> thank you. okay. can we take this item same house , same call? without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. that brings us right to our 2:3. madame clerk? >> yes, mr. president, we have three from supervisor mandelman, one from supervisor ronen, and supervisor preston. >> and supervisor peskin, also. there is four. okay. we would like to go ahead and ask supervisor peskin. >> thank you, mr. president. last wednesday, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors, i had the pleasure and honor of being the only nonmember of the press to show up at abc seven to honor somebody who we all know, who i am about to kick out of the press box because he retired last week, and that is a thick lee wright over here. thank you for coming and letting us honor you for your 50 years of journalism, not only here in the city and county of san francisco, but all over the united states, and indeed all over the world. for those of you who do not know vik's story, he was actually born in shanghai, but raised in japan. his father was a foreign correspondent ntv commentator. the fruits did not fall that far from the tree. he was assigned to japan after world war ii and his mother was a chinese opera actor, so he had everything he needed for his chosen profession. he immigrated here and for college, where he went to san jose state during the rocking 1960s, and the year i was born he actually got an early start in politics when he was elected as student body president. you should see those photos. they are extraordinary. he started his career at the new york times with an internship, and then joined what we used to call the upi, united press international in 1969. he covered some of the most extraordinary stories in america and beyond. ranging from the charlie manson trial, to president nixon, and then eventually came back here to the bay area in 1972 where he joined tv and had international assignments covering the philippine revolution, the handover of hong kong, the earthquake, the olympics in korea, famine, and civil war in sudan and ethiopia. when i came here 20 years ago, 30 years into vik's career, it was right before he left for abc seven in -- 2006. i have been honored to work with you on and off for those 20 years. a couple years ago we celebrated the hundredth anniversary of the board of supervisors chambers. it's amazing to think that vik lee has been doing journalism for half of that time. so i know other folks may want to chime in, but i want to, on behalf of the board of supervisors, and vik, i really have to kick you out of the pressbox. he have to go to the microphone. you are a civilian now. go over there. [applause] [laughter] [applause] [cheering] >> this is kind of rare because elected officials generally are scared to death of reporters, but i want to wish you -- we all want to wish you well in your retirement and thank you for your work, which truly made a difference. you have made the world a better place. you have called out the wrongs and celebrated the rights, exposed corruption and held not only members of this board, but elected officials, accountable. on behalf of san francisco board of supervisors, thank you for your service. >> thank you very much, supervisor. >> thank you, supervisor peskin. i will be real brief. i just wanted to add on to the kind words. i can remember starting my professional career in this city it was almost 20 years ago to the day and i was working the san francisco housing authority. vik lee was on the beat on the housing authority, as you can imagine, and it was right after that time that i started that the executive director was indicted on 42 counts. so all the work that vik had been doing, he came in, he shined a light, and covered a lot of corruption. i remember thinking to myself, i'm so scared of that man, i hope i never have to stand on the other side of the microphone being interviewed by him, but once i became supervisor, we had a number of interviews and i just want to say, you have always been kind, you have always been fair, and you have always been right on point when it comes to covering the stories >> thank you very much, supervisor. >> vik, i want to say that when i was growing up as a kid in chinatown, i remembered that i rarely saw anyone who looks like myself and yourself on tv. even throughout my adult life in san francisco, there was still no one on the national or local news who seemed to focus on asian-american communities' concerns and priorities. and basically you are one of these that came along and did this. you continue, for 50 years, to do this. you made sure that we received the benefit of fact-based information, no bias, opinionated gossip, but information and current events that impact our lives. this is a real news for us in our community. and when you deliver the news so professionally, that may not sound radical, but i think we can all agree that in today's world, that it is, you know, it is increasingly being a rare thing. i want to thank you, vik, for always rooting yourself in the community. it's one of these things where every reporter that i've come across i have never felt the same way i feel about you where you are asking from the community rather than just reporting about the community. and really bringing attention to news and events that other mainstream reporters and journalists did not find important enough to even raise, you know, for your journalistic integrity and commitment to enlighten us, educating us in bringing us all closer together as a city by showcasing our common ground and our humanity. i remember early on in my career in the community that it was so weird to see mainstream reporters come to my events and some of the issues that i was trying to cover, and it meant a lot to not only myself, but to the community. your voice will be missed, but never forgotten. you will be a legend. you are a legend. you are really one-of-a-kind. i don't know if norman phong is here? come on up for a second. i know we grew up together in the community and you have the same sentiments. >> i wish we could chant in this room, but i would say, give me of the. it is thank you, vik for giving us a voice. back in the 80s, or 81 when i became a minister, and a lot of stuff we do in chinatown doesn't get publicized. so one day i wanted to make a form, so we brought a cow in and you made it a big story. but it made a lot of us feel pretty good. like what we do is important. farm day, you made our chinatown alleyway tours. he put it on bay area back roads remember that? and all of a sudden you could see chinatown become citywide news. this is back in the day. integrity. they can't fire you now. i am telling you something i couldn't tell anyone, so you were doing a story, you had a cameraman and another reporter. do you remember this? you were going to expose the housing authority about some gossip problem, and then when he got there and he saw me, he goes , you are on it? everybody out. the camera his go out. i don't know about you, but a lot of reporters want to -- he knew if i was involved, you trusted me. >> you only. >> yeah, i.o.u. big time. i tried to be really fast. erin always called to a class act, but you have the heart of the community. we were facing an eviction on 665 of the ellis act all over the place. you said, norman, just bring me one tenant, mrs. chang, she didn't know any english but she could say "we won't move." you publicized the story. and because of you, we owned the building and we saved all the tenants. you are a brother. thank you. [cheers and applause] they don't make them like that anymore! >> all right. the one and only vik lee, come on up. >> i do want to acknowledge that the presiding president of the chinese consolidated association , mr. lee, is also here in honor of your being in all -- acknowledge today. >> thank you very much. [applause] [speaking foreign language] reporters like to speak on and on, but i have laryngitis, so that is probably an omen that i should retire. generally, it's a career breaker , but hell, i am retired, so who cares if i've laryngitis, right? supervisor peskin, thank you very much, supervisor yee, supervisor haney, and all of the supervisors here for that awesome proclamation that supervisor peskin was kind enough to present me at the kgo sendoff. i also would like to thank and acknowledge my colleagues here, the executive staff, our president and general manager, our news director, all of you, thank you so much for supporting me through the years at abc seven. i am so glad i can retire from this great station. thank you, supervisors. i want you to know, from the bottom of my heart how much i respect you all. i respect what you do, i love politics, i love covering the supervisors. this is a job that began over the decades. i have enjoyed covering you, and yes, at times, the stories may not have been too complementary, but i hope they were also always considered to be fair and balanced as some of you mentioned. that is something that i want you to know is a journalist. thank you for your support, those kind words, and for the proclamation. and one last thing, supervisor yee, as with the proclamation, do i have any powers at all? [laughter] >> you could take over this city and solve our problems. >> i was going to suggest we do during this meeting and celebrate at a pub. thank you very much, folks. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] next up is supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, president yee. tom, come on up. >> e.a. -- yes, but also, no. i would like to take a moment to offer -- honor san francisco's outgoing director of cultural affairs -- affairs, tom decaney. he has overseen san francisco arts commission and its budget and has championed civic investment in the arts, particularly in marginalized communities. he was critical to the effort to pass proposition e. in 2018 which added significant funding for arts and cultural programming, cultural programming including grants for the arts, the cultural equity endowment, city-owned cultural centers, the arts impact endowment and cultural districts during his time as director of cultural affairs, he has also shepherded the removal of the early days statue in civic centre and secured capital investments and cultural centers in the civic art collection neither of which was in terribly good shape when he started the job. although this parting is certainly bittersweet, san francisco has been fortunate to have an individual of tom's capacity and experience in the position for these last eight years. prior to his appointment, he had served for nine years as executive director of performing arts workshop, a san francisco-based organization dedicated to helping young people develop critical thinking , creative expression, and essential learning skills through the arts. prior to being an executive director, he helped found in arts middle school for youth in the juvenile justice system, managed the aids memorial national aids education program and conducted research for the national committee for responsive philanthropy. you have been busy. over the years, tom has served on many -- [indiscernible] -- tom has served on many across our board -- >> sir,, we will let the supervisor speak first. >> and host communities as two terms as the cochair of lyric, secretary of the master plan advisory committee, post committee cochair of the national guild for community arts education his 2010 annual conference, steering committee chair for making art and making change, post committee cochair for the 2017 americans for the art convention in san francisco, and cochair for the 2018 world city of culture summit in san francisco. he also serves on the board of san francisco community investment fund were he oversees distribution of over $45 million a in new market tax credits. beginning next month, you will be returning to his roots in arts education as the new executive director of the california alliance for arts education where he previously served on the organization's committee for legislation and as board treasurer from 2008 to 2015. san francisco's loss will surely be california's gain, but i'm hopeful we will see plenty of him still in these halls. on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to thank him for his years of service to our great city and we will ask them him to say a few words. >> thank you so much, supervisor certainly it is bittersweet, before the number of you that came to your roles through public education, you can understand the attraction to be in a champ -- be a champion for youth across the state of california. this was an incredibly tough decision. being san francisco's director of cultural affairs for the past eight years has been an opportunity of a lifetime and i mean that from the bottom of my heart. san francisco has one of the most resilient artist communities in the world, making us such an incredible city. i want to thank all of you for your partnership over the years and your predecessors. three mayors, our various commissioners over the years, and their current commissioners. and a very special thank you to my team who many of whom are here today. can you all stand up? it's such an honor to have gotten to work with you all at the arts commission. please give them around of applause. [applause] without a doubt, the hardest thing about leaving this job is leaving this incredible group of people. i am not going far. i am staying in francisco. my new agency has given me permission to work from home, so you will be seen plenty of me. i plan to be very active here in san francisco. i'm so proud of what we have accomplished over the last eight years, particularly with the passage of proposition e. to secure the hotel tax revenues for arts and culture. we were one of the first cities in the country to dedicate hotel tax revenue to in arts investment as part of an economic engine to draw tourism to our city. it's great we have that security in perpetuity and i want to thank everybody who helped make that possible, particularly supervisors peskin and former supervisor tang who were critical and leading that effort , but all of you who have enforced it and supported it. thank you so much to all of my colleagues from the mayor's office, city controller, everybody i get to work with. all of my city colleagues. it is a bittersweet moving on, but i am not going far. please call on me and i am here to help serve and i will be in front of you hopefully someday in my citizen capacity. thank you so much. [applause]. >> thank you. >> tom, maybe we can do a photo with your folks out in the hallway after. >> thank you. [applause] >> next up is supervisor ronen. >> thank you. today i have the honor of shining light on a true star, a community organizer extraordinaire, a lifelong fighter for civil rights, a passionate advocate for vulnerable people, and an all-around wonderful guy. brock baguette, please come up. [applause] >> he was born in trenton, new jersey, and grew up with his sister, barbara, who is here. [applause] just across the river in pennsylvania. he attended catholic grammar school then one an academic scholarship to learn -- to learn to a college prep. there were many challenges that he encountered in his childhood that he struggled with until adult hood. channeling what he learned from his difficult experiences into a lifetime devoted to helping others along the path. despite his challenges, he excelled academically and was awarded a scholarship to harvard he arrived in cambridge in the fall of 1969, at time of enormous political upheaval in the united states. it was the middle of the vietnam war, nixon was president, in boston was the east coast epicenter of the antiwar movement. the free speech movement and, although, rivaling with berkeley , and a fight to segregate public schools. thousands of people were protesting in the streets. he very quickly joined the fight on the side of peace and social justice. here is where his incredible lifelong ability to organize the community began. the causes that he championed our way too numerous to name, but here is a taste. establishing buck studies at harvard, organizing student antiwar protests, fighting segregating public housing, organizing the student strike in response to the national guard killing of students at kent state, advocating for prison reform, and fighting for the rights of incarcerated people. meanwhile,, he somehow had time to be a student at harvard and joined a teamsters as a trash collector working four days a week. he graduated from harvard in 1974 and moved to los angeles, but just four years later, found his way up the coast to san francisco. he has been a resident and vital beloved member of the bernal heights community ever since. back has been on the front lines of virtually every because in our city and our country for the last 50 years. workers rights, civil rights, affordable housing, antiviolence , anti- gentrification, women's rights, tenants rights, every form of social injustice and discrimination. he cofounded the bernal heights neighborhood center in 1978 and many -- [applause] -- and many are here, including our executive director. he served as the founding director. to this day, he remains deeply engaged in affordable housing development and organizing committee his. he was also a cofounder of the bernal heights democratic club, self proclaimed leading progressive political voice in bernal, and he is an elected member of the club's executive committee. for decades, he has worked to reduce violence and housing developments and has done that work alongside you. and to make the communities a safer and better place for children and adults alike. his deep commitment to bernal's alamein he housing and holly courts, the first public housing west of the mississippi designed by the same architect who designed the building that we're sitting and standing in right now, have developed a build of community power against residents to fight for resources he was a leader in occupy bernal , which formed in 2009 in response to the high number of foreclosures and worked alongside low-income homeowners to fight against predatory banks that were causing neighbors to lose their homes. i could go on for a long time praising you, but president yee would yell at me so i will stop here and just tell you that i respect your incredible and countless achievements and the causes that you have championed for so many years. obviously i am not alone. we have so many beloved members of the community who are here to applaud you i can never thank you enough for everything you have done for our community. you have touched the lives of so many. you've touched my life and i just want to say congratulations and thank you, thank you. we love you, buck. [cheering] >> since supervisor ronen was so effusive improved -- praising me , i will be very short. does this mean i have to retire now? okay. great. [laughter] so i am a lucky guy. i've got a great family, and and all suffering smarter sister than i am. really great friends, and i want to think the bernal heights folks and residents of subsidized housing all over the country for giving me the opportunity to do this work. and god, i have to recognize the all suffering executive director of the bernal heights neighborhood center who, you weren't brought up catholic, but in the catholic church, sometimes you don't go right to heaven unless you suffer on earth. you tie it -- spent time in purgatory. gina will go right to heaven when she dies. she will not spend a time -- a second in purgatory. and you are the best. it's so wonderful to have you as supervisor and as your friend. everybody wants to know where are you taking us for lunch? so please let us know. thank you. [applause] >> and other events. it was formally club morocco. it was a storied jazz club that opened in 1959 and featured such legendary performers such as billie holiday, marvin gaye, bb king, tina turner and james brown. 20 years later, club ma morocco shuttered its doors in 1979 and for 20 years after that, it was not open to the public. they were determined to reopen a venue in this long, closed, space. for over two years, they lobbied the robinsons, the owners of the space, who lived just blocks away in district 5. trying to representative the space to them so they could reactivate it. after knock on their door, their persistent paid off and in 1999, their dream came to fruition as they opened club wazima. today, they have poured their hearts and soul into this business over the last 20 years. they have raised three children and ran the club. they work fort department of public-health as a nurse and the jail system. nebiat say nurse worked for the v.a. and has worked full time at club wazima. i have no idea if and when these two find time to sleep. hopefully they did. it was important not for its wonderful food and events and the friendship they offer but it also carries on the essential tradition of african american and immigrant-owned businesses in the district. after decades and decades of displacement, despite the challenges of small business ownership, the club continues to thrive so i want to thank you both for giving so much of yourselves to the community. thank you for all of your work to save this important piece of san francisco history and culture and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i would like to congratulate you 20 successful years and wish you 20 more successful years to come. thank you both so much. [applause] >> thank you. before 20 years ago, i was here many times in front of the board of supervisors fighting for the license. and now thank you all the board of supervisors, they gave me the license and we succeeded for 20 years and so i want to thank dean. he was helping us at that time to get our licenses and that was difficult and took for many years. and now we are doing very well, thank you, thank you for the city of san francisco. thank you for the good count try of america. we pursue our dream and we fulfill that and i would love to thank dean, his very, very important person not to our community but to the city of san francisco. he helps a lot of people make a lot of differences on a lot of people's life thank you also for promoting that community meetings and affordable house meetings, meetings, group meetings. he had always has a meeting with individuals. he is a very good listener. he listens very carefully to you for recognizing us. after 20 years, i came in front of you and got this opportunity. i appreciate it so much and thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. i really appreciate it. this is a person who i so -- for the first time, a car and you were 17. i came from a very remote area and to be here is only in america. i really appreciate dean. when dean was making in the name of the board, he always says keep san francisco tidy. he say you do this with the independent folks. i was a commander of gravity in four years. in from blocks radius, i keep it clean. i got a certification and recognition from the mayor then, who is a governor now, i still have it. and you are smart, you keep the community moving, but above all you are human. your humanity is like all its and you help us to give the liquor license and for five years we fight it as if it's a drug or alcohol. we went five years. but now, we are here and all we can say is that thank you so san francisco to the community and dean, please, please, keep doing what you are doing. the community really appreciates you and thank you so much. >> thank you. [applause] >> >> thank you. that concludes our special -- madam clerk, all our first 3:00 p.m. special order. >> clerk: items 24-30, mr. president. >> let me double check. >> ok. >> that is correct many of. >> clerk: item 24 is the board of spurs sitting as a committee of the whole subject pursues to resolution 500/19 approved on november 27th, 2019 for a public hearing to consider the following legislative items to form a special tax district number 2019-1 known as the peter 70 condos. item 25 is a resolution to propose the formation of the special tax district. number 29/1 otherwise known as the pier 70 condos and a future annexation area and item 26 is the resolution to determine this necessity to incur bonded indubbedness not to exceed $1.07 yun. to call a special election for the special tax district. item 28, a resolution to declare the results of the special election. item 29 is the resolution to authorization and ratify issuance of bonded indebtness and other debt in an ago ra get principle amount not to exceed $1.7 billion and item 30 is the ordinance to levee special taxes for the special tax district. >> supervisor yee: we are now convening as a committee of the whole. the board will now open the public hearing on one formation of the special tax district and a future annexation area. levee of special taxes and two, the need to incur bonded and indebtedness and other debts. today the board -- >> supervisor yee: excuse me. >> it's nice to be here and i appreciate it and you are wonderful. [ off mic ] >> supervisor yee: sir, the public comment will be later if you would like to make public comments. >> thank you, sir. >> supervisor yee: today the board will be hearing a number of items related to the formation of the special tax district for pier 70. condominiums, the special tax district will allow the city to levee special taxes on property in the special tax district for authorized infrastructure and services. the board previously approved resolutions of intention to form the special tax district and a future annexation area. and to encourage indebtedness for the special task tax district. the board will be considering throw resolutions including a resolution calling a special landowner election. we will now hear a report on the matter from staff. >> thank you, president yee and members of the board of supervisors. my name is wyatt. i am here representing director elaine forbes who is unable to come because she's at port commission. i will present on the condominium community facility district first. i'll come back for the least properties. >> can you just move the microphone close. perfect. thank you. >> sorry. thank you. so again, my name is wyatt and i am with the port on behalf of director forbes who is unable to make it because she's at the port commission. just turning to the overview of the presentation, i will present as a whole first and talk about the finance mechanisms and the community facility district is one of many financing mechanisms. i'm talking about the condominium facility. i will go over next steps after this is complete. the project as a whole, the site is in district 10 it's east of illinois street and north of 22nd and south of 20th. it's a 35-acre site. the project was entitled in 2017. it's at completion between 1,600 units of housing and 3,000 units of residential units. the special space will be between 1.1 and 1.75 million square feet of commercial. the range is because of the later parcels in the project are flex parcels and they can be residential or commercial. there's also nine acres of open space as part of the project that will be at the full build out. there's a robust benefit package and local business requirements and transportation demand management program and historic rehabilitation of buildings 212 and 21. sea level rise protection including raising the site to account for sea level rise projections to the year 2100 and revenue for sea level rise and resiliency projects. 90,000 square foot art facility and on site childcare space. returning to the financing mechanism, the initial investment is funded through developer part capital. and the port make equity contributions to build the horizontal infrastructure which includes utility roads and parks. the first is land value and the latter is the cfd community facilities district and ifd which is another tax district that's already been a formed. the tax revenues will be used to secure bonds that will reimburse the initial equity investment from the developer and port. the goal is to repay the developer as soon as possible to make sure the project is fully funded. so far today, there have been several public financing actions. the first was in september of 2018 when the board approved an infrastructure financing district and the map on the right you can see the parcels associated with the infrastructure financing district in flew and in october of 2018 there was an infrastructure and revitalization financing district. this is similar inform affordable housing and it's the yard site and you can see that in the orangish brown color on the map. earlier last year in september of 2019, we amended the city special tax law which is the local version of the mellow ruse law that creates for special assessment districts. and we amended it specifically to include a few uses at the pier 70 and mission rock projects such as sea level rise, protection, historic rehabilitation. lastly in november of 2018, we were here to approve the resolution and tension to form the community facility district. this is a public noticing-like process for the actual formation of the district. so the current legislation there are six items. at the meeting today we're requesting approval of the resolution formation, resolution necessity debt, resolution calling the special electricityd declaring results of the election. the resolution authorization the bonds and the ordinance leveeing the special taxes the reason is the first throw have to be approved prior to actually holding the election which occurs when the director of election counts the votes and we wanted to bring them all together to show full package. and map at the right shows the current map for the vcfds in dark blue. you can see the condominium cfd which is the item being heard right now. it's a later phase of the project and the least property is the second item at the later hearing. the annexation parcels are parcels that are planned to be part of the project but they will be brought into the c.f.d. at a later time as they're built. so what are some of the uses that special tax funds? the first is the facility tax and that is used specifically for the infrastructure and parks at the site so it funds roads, utilities, sewer and open space. and there's 40 years of bonding authority for that so we will issue bonds and repay those bonds with taxes to fund their improvements. and the second is an arts tax which is for that community space and arts building that i mentioned earlier and the third tax is a shoreline tax. this is a continued revenue stream for resiliency and seawall and shoreline protection and it continues for 120 years giving us a long-term funding source for shoreline resiliency and sea level rise. the last is the services tax which funds on going maintenance for the entire site. so what is next, this slide i've given times and it's getting shorter and shorter. it is very exciting for us. we'll come back later this year to actually issue bonds. the amounts on the resolution are not to exceed the amounts for the life of tax districts that includes decades of bonds and multiple issuances on each tax. we will actually come back for a specific tax issuance associated with each tax. and then if there are any questions. >> supervisor yee: in regards to the residential units, where you have a range of 16,000? >> it was approved as part of the initial project and by the board and supervisors and in the later phases it's a multi phase project. the later phases could be residential or commercial. that's right. i remember. any other questions? >> we will open this item up for public comment. any public comments? come on up. >> supervisors, two years ago, when this matter came before you all, i spoke to y'all that is over a million tons of coal tar on this site and two very large other moania spills. y'all may be wondering where does this come from. there was a power plant there that ran on coal. and pier 70 played an important role in world war ii in building ships. none of this is being mentioned because you cannot have that type of building ships in those huge amounts without contamination and pollution. so what happens supervisors is some people come and show you conceptual plans and then they give you a definition of a conceptual plan. it's like a dream. and then when you wake up, it's your worst nightmare. so as people come, i've never seen them before, i've been following this for 35 years, i want to say 40 years but 35 years, and i really know the places that are contamination is. and it's very difficult to build something holistic but standard if you don't do a mitigation abatement and you will look at this supervisors. whether it's hunters point, candlestick point, pier 70, you got all these monsters developers and they want to build high density housing and compromise quality of life issues. and but heard your mayor today, all she's talking about is navigation. navigation centers. navigation centers do not address quality of life issues. thank you, very much. >> supervisor yee: we will now reconvene as the board of supervisors. we will now consider items 25-27 resolutions proposing formation of the special tax district. and the future annexation area to determine the necessity of incurring bonded indebtness for the special fax district to finance and authorization facilities calling for an election of the qualifying for january 27th, 2020 to approve the special tax to propose indebtness limit and a appropriations limit for the special tax district. so, i see that supervisor walton, which is on the roster. >> thank you so much, president yee. i wanted to make the statement that district 10 office is behind all three resolutions. as you saw, this will support the facilities shoreline and arts work for pier 70. this is a housing and commercial district projects. we need to finance it. we know that the developer is on the hook for a large amount of support but we also need to allow other ways to get revenue for the project so this is something we support and looking forward to all the benefits for communities. >> supervisor yee: can we take these items same house same wall. >> we need a roll call. supervisor safai and haney are out of chamber. >> roll call, please. >> on items 25-27, supervisor preston. [roll call] >> clerk: there are nine ayes. >> ak, the resolutions are now adopted. colleagues, can we have a motion to continue items 28-30 to the board of supervisors meeting. on january 28th, 2020. so moved. >> motion made by supervisor walton. seconded by supervisor ronen. and without objection, item 28-30 will be continued to the board of supervisors meeting on january 28th. >> clerk: mr. president, we have a different house. mr. safai is present. >> supervisor yee: ok, well. can we have a roll call on the motion? >> clerk: motion to continue -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> supervisor yee: ok. this motion passes unanimously. this completes proceedings for the special tax district pier 70 condominiums. on january 28th, 2020, the board will review the campus of the election prepared by the director of the department of elections and consider resolution declaring the results of the election and other remaining formation proceedings. so, madam clerk, please call our next 3:00 p.m. special order items 31-38. >> items 31-37 mr. president. >> supervisor yee: correct. >> clerk: items 31 is the board of supervisors sitting as a committee of the whole scheduled pursuant to resolution number 502-19 approved on november 27th, 2019 for a public hearing to consider the following legislative items to form special tax district number 2019-2 otherwise known as pier 70 leased properties. item 32 is a resolution to propose the formation of the special tax district number 2019-2 and a future annexation area. item 33 a resolution to determine the necessity to incur bonded indexness in a principle amount not to exceed $1.8 billion. items 34 a resolution to call a special election for the special tax district number 2019-2. item 35 a resolution declaring the results of the special election. item 36 a resolution to authorization and ratify issuance of bonded indebtness and other debt in an ago ra get principle amount not to exceed 1.8 billion and item 37 an ordinance to levee special taxes for the special tax district. number 2019-2 scheduled pursuant to resolution number 502-19 approved on november 27th, 2019. >> supervisor yee: colleagues, we're now convening as a committee of the whole. the board will now hold item 31 at public hearing. in the second special tax district with pier 70. lease properties. of the special district that will allow the city for special taxes on property in the special tax district for authorized infrastructure and services. the board previously a proves a resolutions of intention to form the special tax district and their taught annexation area an. the board will be considering three resolutions including a resolution calling a special landowner election. we will now hear from staff. >> thank you, president yee. wyatt donnelly representing commissioner forbes. the financing mechanism is similar. this is the second special tax district community facility district at the site. this is for the lease properties so just going back to the slide with the map. these are in the light blue with the potential to a annex parcels that are striped and request your approval of the resolution of formation, resolution determining necessity debt and resolution calling special election and request continuance of the other three items to hold the election on january 27th. thank you and i'm here to answer any questions if you have them. >> supervisor yee: are there any questions or comments? seeing none, we will now open the open for public comment including any protests. if anyone wishes to be file a written protest they must file with the clerk right now. if you wish to speak on this item, please come up. [applause] [applause.[please stand by] >> someone has blood on their hands. someone has blood on their hands. >> supervisor yee: any other speakers on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. colleagues, if there are no further comments, the public hearing on item 31 -- the public comment of item 31 is now closed. we will now reconvene as the board of supervisors. we will consider items 32-34 resolutions proposing formation of the special tax district and the future annexation area determining the necessity of incurring bonded indebtness for this special tax district to finance the authorized facilities and calling for an election of the qualified electoral for january 27, 2020 to approve the special tax to po indebtness limit and the appropriations. >> i believe supervisor walton is on the roster. >> i just wanted to reiterate my support for the project and my support for items 32-34. >> supervisor yee: now, without objection, the resolutions are adopted unanimously. did i ask to take the same house same call? madam clerk? >> clerk: essentially you did, mr. president. >> supervisor yee: ok. and we'll keep on moving. colleagues, can we have a motion to continue items 35-37 to the board of supervisors meeting on january 28th, 2020. motion made by supervisor walton and seconded by supervisor fewer. without objection, items 35-37 will be continued to the board of supervisors. meeting on january 28th, 2020. >> clerk: mr. president, did you want us to put that at a 3:00 p.m. special order or just on the agenda without a time certain. >> supervisor yee: i'm sorry? >> clerk: 3:00 p.m. >> supervisor yee: what about it? >> clerk: we will place that on the agenda mr. president as legislation not at a 3:00 p.m. special order. >> supervisor yee: supervisor ronen, i missed for the next -- ok. i'm missing things and i'm feeling guilty here. this completes today's proceedings for the special tax district for pier 70. on january 28th, 2020, the board will review the canvas of the election prepared by the director of the department of elections and consider a resolution to results of the election and other remaining formation proceedings. madam clerk, let's go to our committee reports. >> clerk: y item 38 was considered by the land use and transportation committee on monday, january 13th, 2020 and was forwarded as a committee report with the same title. item 38 a manning the planning code to establish the following 12 neighborhood commercial districts or ncds. the inner balboa street ncd, the outer balboa street ncd, the bay view ncd, the geeryncd, the san bruno avenue ncd, the coal valley ncd, the lakeside village ncd, the lower poll being street ncd, the inner and to amend the zoning map to include the neighborhood districts and a form the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. >> my home is within 500 feet of the court land avenue ncd so i'm asking to be recuse from the vote and remove may anymore as a supervisor. supervisor walton has agreed to be the lead sponsor of this measure and supervisor mess kin wilpeskinwill make a motion to . >> motion. >> can we have a second. secondedby supervisor fewer. without objection, supervisor ronen, you are excused. madam clerk, please call the roll. i have a speaker. >> just a short comment. i want to thank supervisor walton for his leadership on this and i think it is long overdue we recognize those commercial corridors that are so special to each of our neighborhoods. i also want to thank legislative aids amy and percy as well as the city attorney's office in planning staff for all their hard work on this. >> supervisor yee: no one else is on the roster. what aim doing? madam clerk, call the roll. >> clerk: supervisor preston. [roll call] >> there are 10 ayes. >> supervisor yee: this is passed on first reading. madam clerk, let's call roll call for introductions. >> clerk: supervisor preston you are first to make the introduction of new business. >> thank you, president yee. col equal sam announcing we're taking the first steps towards universal dental care for san francisco and i have requested a budget and legislative annalist report to cope and analyze the costs of such a program. the broad exclusion of dental health coverage from our national and local healthcare discussion really makes no sense from a policy economic or health perspective. today for most san franciscans, if you break i bone healthcare is available to you and if you break your tooth you are on your own. this is the state of dental healthcare not just in san francisco but across the nation. the results are devastating. anyone who has suffered from dental issues knows it can involve unmanageable pain and dis com forward and lead to health complication and not surprisingly poor oral heath effects low income people vulnerable communities and the underserved. to be clear, the solution here in medicare for all which should include dental health and our human right to healthcare including dental care is a national issue. it's also a municipal issue and just as san francisco led the way with healthy san francisco and recently took a giant step forward with mental health sf we can lead on mental health as well. i've asked the b.l.a. to study the cost and potential programs to expand dental healthcare to cover all san franciscans and i look forward to working with the bla, my colleagues and all stakeholders on this critical issue. thank you. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor ronen. >> colleagues, right now there is an active proposal by the department of public works to remove 48 ficus trees from the 24th street corridor. i've been dealing in 2017 the city paid arbor pro that does tree risk assessment to do an evaluation and issue maintenance recommendations for them and that study, which was done in partnership with pcw and recommended the removal of 16 trees from the 24th street corridor however, dpw's bureau of urban forestry has since suggested the removal of 77 trees on 24 street nearly five times the number of removals in the independent evaluation and the department only lowered that number to 48 trees after strong pressure from community members and environmental advocates in my district. this proposal would rat i cannilichange thescanned scape s that the community considers part of their home and adding to the fears and this community is being pushed out of this city. as we grapple with climate change we should invest in strategies that promote san francisco's climate resilience instead of removing large number of trees from our urban can pee in the city. today i will ask the city attorney to drop legislation and that will lower the daughter proposed tree removing to the 16 trees recommend by arbor pro. if we invest half a million dollars on city resources on this independent a cements, why are we not following the experts recommendations from this study that was given to us. this makes no sense to me. having a more targeted and justified approach to tree removal it's important for the 24th street corridor but it's an integral part of environmental stewardship and will allow us to better address environmental health disparities in our most vulnerable communities. i just wanted make a couple of remarks about the controllers excellence report evaluating the first year of the stay over program. the first of its kind programming emergency shelter for homeless families with children. this came about thanks to the leadership and the vision of principle claudia moran and her wonderful staff and parent community and because of their willingness to partner with my office and try something new to help our most vulnerable families. this was a labor of love and i'm glad to report the program has been successful in supporting families in desperate need. i want to thank twoel my colleagues on the board. who were at the time, cool board members. they weren't supervisors. partner closely with my office to get this program up and running and made it possible. so i want to thank you both so much. because of this program, and thanks to the extraordinary partnership with the department of homelessness, san francisco unified school district, we have addressed the needs of a population who with have never been able to reach. immigrants spanish speaking families with children in our public school system who lack a safe place to lay their heads at night. 74% of the families using the stay over program are latino. many spanish speaking and two-thirds of them had never accessed city services before coming to this program. that is a tremendous a griefment and the report has a few other takeaways that i wanted to share with you all today and i think are important and important for other cities and counties to study potentially looking at this strategy fight north our communities. over 30 schools before coming to the stay over program, half of the families had not known about shelter option force this in the city. the students in this program are extremely vulnerable academically speaking. 60% of the students in this program were absent compared with 32% of the homeless student population in general and 13% of the general population it has bilingual staff, showers and cots for people to sleep on and not just mats on the floor and family stayed a medium and more than six times longer than families that stayed at first friendship and other emergency family shelter in the city the average in first friendship was three days so this is a pretty extreme difference. we have so much more work to do to solve family homelessness including securing more long-term beds and permanent homes for these families but i'm proud of our community for coming together to develop this unique program that has resulted in a welcoming and safe space as well as increased services for homeless families in our schools and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor safai. >> not. >> thank you, madam clerk. i have two items i'm radio today. one is a resolution in support and one is a request for a hearing. the first one colleagues i'm introducing is a resolution in support of the recently introduced california assembly bill 1909 it's the virgin tee test ban. her bill would make illegal the so-called virgin tee test exams that medically unsound and merit less exams that focus on women's and young girl's hymen. the u.n. women and u.n. human rights were all collectively called for a global ban on this egregious practice and these are violation of girls and women's privacy and a form of sex discrimination and they're meant to control and coerce. i was shocked to learn na they are still legal under federal and california law. i urge our representatives sack ra men co to support this california ab1909 and also urge our federal legislatives to draft this inhumane and sick practice and the state of new york will be considering a state wide ban this year and legislation was introduced in november of 2019 as we celebrate the women's march in san francisco this weekend, let's say it's 2020. this outdated form of control and belief about girls and women cheapen not just their lives and rights for self-independence but they're a stain in our democracy and this ban in 2020 should happen and it's a violation of girls and women's rights. and it's time. i want to thank catherine stephanie for co-sponsoring this with me and i hope i count on my colleague's support. would you like to say something now? so the rest i submit on that. colleagues, i'm requesting a hearing in partnership with supervisor peskin to discuss on bee hand and delivery companies platforms like post mates, uber, eats, grub hub, caviar, and the impact that they're having on small businesses here in san francisco. i have heard from countless small business owners talked about the rates of these delivery service what's they become part of their business model are having a significant, significant impact on the bottom line. so i'm requesting the office of small business, the office of economic and workforce development, the planning department, the office of labor standards enforcement to present on the impacts of delivery fees on small businesses the contract terms between good vendors and delivery providers and the amount of fees charged in san francisco relative to other cities. in addition to that, we want to explore and kitchen and ghost kitchens that operate on demand delivery platforms and have on small businesses ability to survive and thrive in san francisco and if you look at caviar and uber eats you see exclusively provided on uber eats or caviar. these are large kitchens and practice the and the purview of san francisco laws as it relates to industry and all types of wages and oversight. so we want to have both of these things presented on. we want to allow fort opportunity for these small business to come forward and talk about their way that they're operating in san francisco and how this is a difficulty for them to thrive in the city. and the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. >> supervisor safai. and i also maybe ask you to include the office of emerging technology. it seems like this would be appropriate to be involved with. >> yes, sir. so also i would add as part of my request, office of emerging technology. thank you. >> clerk: thank you mr. president, thank you supervisor safai. supervisor stefani. >> thank you for introducing this resolution supporting ab1909. i cannot believe in the year 2020 we have to pass laws in california to protect the basic rights and dignity of women. virgin tee testing, like mandatory ultrasounds and gentile mutilation is just the latest in a long history of sham medical practices. they shouldn't just be considered medical malpractice but felonies to the men who would try to control us we are your equal and not your property and we have the right to control our own bodies. although i am outraged we even have to legislate on this, i am more than happy to co-sponsor the revolution with supervisor safai and i urge the support of all of our colleagues. i'm also announcing today that i've asked the city attorney to draft legislation to protect small businesses and improve the vibrancy of our merchant corridors. we have heard complaints from our neighborhood businesses about how hard it is to start, own and operate a small business here in san francisco. businesses often face a long and costly permitting process. unclear or contradictory rules and regulations, due public a tive and all of this comes at great costs and creates tremendous uncertainty for those who are already taking a big risk to open a small business here in san francisco. my office is researching and gathering evidence on all these inconsistencies and working with the departments to come up with ways to improve the permitting process and to make it fairer and more transparent. as a city, we must look at our part in this process and make the changes necessary to ensure that small businesses are able to thrive. they are the life blood of our neighborhoods. they enrich our communities and made the city beautiful, a vibrant place we all know and love. i believe we have a duty as a city to try and ensure their success because their success is a piece of our shared prosperity. thus today e. i'm announcing i've asked the city attorney to draft a legislation to one, create a centralized billing portal for all annual business permits and associated fees to ensure clear and consistent building practices. two, consolidate permitting process to eliminate any duplication and create a process for parallel co concur ant permt reviews or wave the penalty businesses face when new regulations conflict with existing rules and five, to ensure that businesses don't face a penalty when the city makes an error. i'm committed to work with our city departments, our small business communities, and my colleagues here at the board of supervisors to ensure our city is the vibrant thriving place we all know and love and i look forward to introducing this package of reforms in the coming months. i would like to close today's meeting in the memory of stephanie. and i believe supervisor peskin will be joining me in this. stephanie passed away at her home on december 19th at the age of 91. she was born in san francisco and is matriarch of her family, stephanie successfully led their family business, the alioto fish company. a wholesale fresh fish company, not easy to say, operating on fisherman's war of for 70 years. the fish company is the live's work of three generations of women representing two old north beach italian families. at the helm of the business, she was still grabbing crabs until she was 82 at which point one latched on to her finger and forced her to move into the office and take phone orders for the company. under steph me's leadership, this uniquely all-women operation has withstood the test of time and has become a true staple along san francisco's waterfront. alioto fish company is owned and operated by stephanie's three daughters angela, a net and marianne. she was a strong, kind and savvy woman and she was someone that could be row lloyd on while simultaneously running this successful business in a male-dominated industry. in 1948, stephanie married sir jason cota with whom she had five children. in 1968 she was a marine core mom and in 1969 it was extended to gold star mother after the loss of her son, thomas, a silver star recipient. stephanie survived by her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and siblings and will be remembered for her character and contributions to the alioto fish company which is now training their fourth generation of alioto and lazio families. my thoughts and prayers go out to the family and all those who new and loved her. >> clerk: supervisor walton. >> rerefer. >> clerk: thank you. mr. president, it's my understanding that supervisor walton would like to rerefer his introduction until after public comment. is that correct? >> correct. >> supervisor yee: is there any objection that he gets rereferred until after public comments. seeing no objection, we will do so. >> clerk: thank you mr. president and supervisor walton. supervisor yee. [roll call] >> thank you madam clerk. first, i have a hearing request, which i imagine will go to our joint committee on the city school district and city college on the need for new schools and new school facilities. i know my colleagues who were previously on the board of education will remember that often we felt like there wasn't enough planning ahead for the demographic growth that we see in our city to make sure that we had adequate school. this should something she always talked about and i'm glad she's on the committee and westbound e a conversation about the demographic growth of children across the city and the need to make sure that we're planning ahead to have adequate school facilities looking at what there's important conversations with park mer said, treasure island, hunters point. so we know the school district recently did a new demographic side and they'll be able to share with us some of the latest and what we can do to work together to plan ahead for the needs of our families and children in san francisco. secondly, i have in memoriam. it is with deepest sadness we share with you the news of the untimely passing of marco jostalana. a dear friend, brother and contributor to the filipino community in the city. marco was one of the creators of the night market and the man who actually came up with the idea and the name undiscovered sf. after his travels to aish asia. you may remember that a few months ago we honored undiscover sf and he was here for that occasion. as a brand strategist, he worked closely with the filipino team to conceptualize and create the website so it would be a platform to lift up the people, the stories, and the communities who are the soul of our cultural district. marco was so proud to be filipino-american, ex 'em plied in the warmth of his soul and smile and the quality of his work. through his work with the agency, marco launched kick-starter campaigns to help so many san francisco small businesses and entrepreneurs raise money to launch their dream businesses including popular businesses like senior sesig, and polling lounge. originally from southern california, marco attended uc berkeley for undergrad and has been a resident of san francisco for more than 20 years. he lived in the richmond with his partner, elaine. marco is survived by his mother and his father mrs. and mr. jostalana and his brother. his magnetism, creativity and commitment to community will be greatly missed but his legacy and contributor of building of the filipino cultural heritage district will be carried out by his friends, colleagues and community he has helped build so i want to recognize his best friend here with us. and our condolences are with you and with marco's family. and i know you will continue to remember him and to continue his legacy as well. the rest i submit. >> thank you, supervisor. supervisor mandelman. >> thank you, madam clerk. colleagues today, mayor breed and i are introduced a resolution to resolve 1939 market street. the acquisition a affordable housing site has been a priority for me since i took office. over the last 10 years, district 8 has seen the second highest number of units removed from protected status of all districts second o our neighbors in district 9. despite this high level of displacement, my district -- [please stand by] >> as well as space for more services and cultural space on the ground floor. i want to thank everyone who has been involved in the process of bringing this forward, and in particular, i want to thank the staff of the department of real estate including josh keane. and the mere's office of community and development. -- the mayor's office of community and development. great thanks to the mayor for adding affordable housing in upper market. i would be remiss if i did not also acknowledge marcy and kayden -- karen for their vision and leadership. i met marcy 20 years ago. she is the godmother of the lgbt senior housing in san francisco. for many years she and her late partner and a crew of folks who put you put together were voices in the wilderness describing the great need that lgbt seniors have for housing and popping the bubble of the idea that lgbt seniors were wealthy and did not need to need help with housing. they came along in the last few years and improve -- approved the concept of opening two buildings at 55 and 95 laguna. what we learn from that is the need is so much greater. there are 3,000 people on the waiting list for open house. this particular project won't come close to meeting the need for? or -- for? or mac -- we need to keep doing more of it. i also want to adjourn today's meeting -- i want to thank tom soprano for all of his work on this project. i also want to adjourn today's meeting of hampton smith, at district eight resident who worked in the adjutant legislative analyst office. a native of south carolina, he attended yale university where he earned a bachelor's university in french. he attended the university of chicago where he received a master master his degree in international relations. he received assignments to washington, d.c., the philippines, the new zealand, and the democratic congo. he developed a love of travel spent every year travelling argentina. after moving to the bay area, he worked for the office of the courts and the city of berkeley before working as a freelance design and development consultant and joining the b.l.a. in 2010 is as a public policy analyst. many of us had the pleasure of working with him and benefited from his hard work at the b.l.a. you contributed to a variety of topics including public art, a rental registry, homelessness and mental health, housing policies, in the list goes on. he is missed by his colleagues, friends, family and all of us on city hall -- at city hall. the rest i submit. >> supervisor mar? >> thank you. today i have two items. first introducing a resolution to support the schools and community's first statewide valid initiative that we expect on the november 2020 ballot. for the last four decades, schools and cities have been drastically underfunded due to limitations on what was once the main source of funding for schools and local governments. currently california's school support ratios rank at the bottom of the nation and local government infrastructure and critical services have faced cuts to public servants that -- services. schools and communities first would close commercial property tax loopholes that corporations and wealthy investors use to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. homeowners and renters would not be affected because the initiative excepts all residential property. the ballot initiative also exempt small businesses, owners, and properties worth $3 million or less. the measure will reclaim $12 billion per year for california k-12 schools, community colleges and local communities. schools will receive about $5.3 billion of it. we also expect about $800 million to be reclaimed locally in san francisco for the unified school district, city college of san francisco public services that could address our housing. closing this commercial property tax loophole will be a game changer for our schools and public services in san francisco and statewide. i would like to thank the supervisors for cosponsoring this resolution. second, i am calling for hearing on the economic and administrative impact of alcohol abuse in san francisco. this topic was studied at some length in a budget and lend -- legislative analyst report prepared for my brother and released in 2017. that report was not presented to or heard by the board of supervisors, nor to the public. the city of san francisco encourage significant healthcare costs, treatment, and prevention costs and law enforcement costs in alcohol abuse as well as costs associated with motor vehicle accidents and premature death from alcohol-related causes. the toll is immense. both for the individuals whose lives are lost or forever changed by alcohol abuse, and for the public and the city in addressing the impacts of alcohol abuse on public health and public safety. we deserve a public accounting of these costs and impacts and with this hearing we will. thank you. the rest i submit. >> thank you. supervisor peskin? >> submit. >> thank you. mr. president, for now, that concludes the introduction of new business. after public comments then you will call on supervisor walton. >> let's go to public comment. >> at this time, the public may address the entire board of supervisors for up to two minutes on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the november 21st 2019 special board meeting minutes and the special meeting minutes of the budget and finance committee. as well as the may oral appearance. and items 43 through 45 on the adoption without reference to committee calendar. public comment is not allowed when an item has previously been subject to public comment at a board committee. if you would like to utilize the projector, please place the document and then remove it when you would like the document to return to live coverage of the meeting. and if you are utilizing interpretation assistance, you will be allowed twice the amount of time to testify. >> i am from nob hill. i would have been coming to talk about residential hotels more and what we could be doing, but i saw on the agenda of these neighborhood commercial districts including lower pollock neighborhood commercial district and i am glad, i really am. the merchants down there -- >> ma'am,, i'm pausing your time >> can you hear me? >> we are pausing your time. >> are you speaking about the n.c.d. that were on the agenda? >> i'm not quite understanding. >> we are resuming your time. >> am i not supposed to be speaking? >> not about the n.c.d. that were on the agenda today. >> anyway, now that that decision has been made, because this is what i want to talk about, now that you have decided where it is, as a resident of nob hill for 50 some years and the neighborhood commercial district, i hope that city officials in general will remember where lower pulp is. there was an organization called lower pulled neighbors and they could call themselves whatever they want and they dealt with part of the neighborhood commercial district and the part that was outside. that was fine. officials began calling nob hill and the lower pollock is not a very nice. other people we knew said it's only one week away. we thought it was down by civic centre, for example, and we wondered, lower than what. i will have to come about the other thing of who it represents in the community. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello. i am an emergency department nurse at san francisco general. i am not usually a regular of these things other than starbucks, but there is some important stuff and i want to keep letting you all know and give you all and update. there is so much information. it is overwhelming. i'm trying in my mind to organize it all for you. that is what i am working on. thank goodness that supervisors took onto the resolution for us to address some of the issues that we are having with staffing i just want to say something, hopefully i can get it done in the time allotted. matt cheney said about the schools when he was introducing his resolution that planning ahead for the obvious growth of our city is important and i am concerned our c.f.o. is not doing that. surely you know that mayor breed ordered for a two% budget cut. i am not a financial officer or a politician, and honestly, we have to make ends meet and make this difficult -- make these difficult decisions. what she may not know and what you all may not know his cuts are being made in the wrong area the c.f.o. documented in the report that in order to achieve this cut, he would stop all creation of any new full-time positions, obviously regardless of growth. he said, mike to shorten wires going to say, he said that the cuts are being placed on the vital front-line staff. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please. >> eight minutes ago, somebody here said the lgbt is a voice of one crying in the wilderness. unbelievable. that comes from john the baptist straight from the way of the lord. it is strange when somebody gets saved and they say, you hereby so-and-so they have gone straight. think about that. it implies they are crooked. they are. they are crooked. they are wicked. it is an abomination to god and i will not celebrate diversity. there is a big, huge breaking story on band dodge video about vaccines out of the u.n. some lady, i forgot her name, but through one corner of her mouth she is saying, they are safe and effective, and then they caught her in a secret meeting that they deleted that other people on the internet said -- such as alex jones, got it and you can watch her. what she is really saying to the people is how they are killing people. they are killing them. it is a huge story. and one of the guys from it, i think he was interviewing peskin today, i wanted to pop in there and say, why aren't you guys talking about this? the vaccines are killing people. duck duck go. it is an honest search engine. type in the words dr. sherry 10 penny. this woman is a dr.'s doctor. there is overwhelming research that vaccines are dangerous. would you raise your hand if you heard it yesterday? he was talking about what is going on in persia and how the persians are demonstrating against the radical muslims and they are not stepping on our flag, they are stepping around respectfully. the flag of israel respectfully. this is quite exciting. it is also on info wars, but it is being blocked out except for on talk radio. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, board of supervisors. i want to thank the people in the san francisco merchant association for supporting me in speaking to you today. i will read you part of a note that appeared in the san francisco beacon just a few days ago. in this note, i'm speaking about , i believe, it is time for a paradigm change and what is considered normal or the new normal out here in the outer sunset. this is the notion that is beyond my understanding of the water and world. for a man like myself that travels globally and travels light rail systems, i have never seen such an obscene situation. i'm asking you all, and particularly current representatives who refuse to speak with the on this whatsoever to get capital investment of at least $25 million to build a proper elevated light rail station on 301st and judah, so help us all, god. thank you for your consideration and time. i will be speaking to the mayor. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> supervisors, you have heard two san franciscan his talk to you all and give you some information and i was watching you all. some of you pay attention and most of you do not. that is this sad thing that is happening in these chambers. i have been coming here for a long time. constituents say they want to could -- they don't want to come here. why? because you all do not listen. you do not listen. more, you don't have empathy and compassion. you will get your reward. there are many ways that you all will get your reward. now, i want to talk about mother brown's in district town -- district 10. some people came here and told you that there is an institution that feeds the poor. and somebody, with some other people are now bringing a group from l.a., and not o person on the board is a person of color to take out that operation. you heard the mayor today barking up the wrong tree, talking about navigation centers to have navigation centers, just go and live in a navigation center complete with animals and everything. go live in a navigation center. why are we facing this homelessness? because the board of supervisors before allowed the academy of art university and other entities to deprive us of rental housing. they don't get it. you will never get it. this is our lonely land. not everybody should come and live here. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors. or former president peskin and president norman he. i have a picture i found i was doing my laundry. this is former carl's jr. and the governor and the former mayor. the list goes on. there it is. he was the manager of carl's jr. it is no longer there. neither is the mayor. i just had a couple of songs. [singing] you know what is happening today there is -- [singing] [singing] [laughter] >> thanks. >> thank you. next speaker or singer, come on up. >> no singing. hello. my name is julie and i am from san francisco general emergency room. this will be our regular gig for a while. i will not saying. i wanted to talk a minute about since we have been here and been mobilizing forces with the leadership and the poor staffing and other issues we have at san francisco general. since we have been coming here, the leadership now is feeling some pressure to do things or at least act as if they are doing something and i was just at a planning meeting for a big town hall for workplace violence prevention. a big town hall that they are trying to plan. i would leadership did not even think about how they will incentivize nurses to go to this thing for an hour on their own time after being demanded -- mandated or first -- forced to work 16 hour days multiple days in a row and now they're supposed to show up on their own time. basically then they said they wanted to do some more studies where they will get these people who are making 300 plus a year to get together and study when there is actually very well proven violence prevention training that has been around for decades. i don't understand what they are studying. anyhow, the other thing i want to talk about real quick is the cumulative stress survey that we did on the nurses, the trauma nurses of your trauma center running -- i'm running out of time, but 86% of the nurses are feeling hopeless. there is so many mind-boggling things. they are 80 to 90% of us are feeling ptsd and anxiety symptoms for the first time that are worsening. forty% of people who took -- >> next speaker, please. >> it takes a village. i did not read the book. i didn't vote for her. i voted for another gal. when hillary accepted the endorsement of kissinger, i just cringed. when she mentioned battlefields and small nuclear weapons in her acceptance speech i cringed. when she mentioned natural board enemies, i cringed. but i like the title that it takes a village. recently we have recognize the need for teachers in our village and we prepared housing for them we made a special effort of affordable housing. one hundred and 20% of median income. affordable housing basically isn't affordable for san franciscans, the people who vote , even subsidized housing was already mentioned today by one of the recipients of the commendations. as long as the financial and the banking and the insurance in the real estate developments are working on our land and what our issues are, we will never come to becoming a village again. the people will lose and will continue to lose, just like the bankers who rule over the federal reserve. they will take care of themselves. last week i was -- i was here in a mentioned certified nursing assistants. they are the underlings of the nurses that the previous speaker spoke about who are having troubles. they're the people to change her clothes, take you to and from the toilet, shower you, bring you food, change you -- change her diapers when you need it. they are part of our village. should we make special terms term so they can take care of us when we grow old? all of you are much younger than i am. but someday you too will grow old and will need help. we need to take back our village from childcare workers to certified nursing assistants. thank you for your time. >> thank you. does any other person want to make public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. madame clerk, i think we will re refer to roll call for supervisor walton. >> that is correct. >> thank you, i submit. [laughter] >> okay. let's move on. let's see. madame clerk, let's call for the adoption without committee reference item. i sims 43 through 45 out of order. >> these items were introduced for adoption without reference to committee. items 43 through 45, unanimous vote is required for the resolutions on first reading today. a single member may require a resolution to go to committee. >> okay. colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items? i would like to sever number 45. >> i think i would like to sever item number 44. >> forty-four? supervisor fewer? >> i would like to ask to be a sponsor for item 43 and 44. thank you. >> okay. madame clerk, let's -- i guess we just take item 43. can we take item 43 same house, same call? seeing no objection, it passes. >> mr. president, apologies on this. we need a roll call an item 43. >> it was a different house before because supervisor ronen was excused. >> roll call, please. [roll call] there are 11 aye. >> okay. this resolution is adopted. item number 44? >> thank you. >> mr. president, i apologize. i will just call the item very quickly. >> sure. >> forty-four is a resolution to urge the united states congress to vote on a war powers resolution limiting president donald trump's military actions in iran and demand date that they notification sent by donald trump to members of congress delineating the legal grounds for the drone strike as required by the war powers act be fully declassified and shared with the american public. >> thank you, mr. president. thank you to my colleagues who have signed on for this. it is a sad day that we stand here and have to condemn our president insistently over and over again. in this situation, as i said last time when we introduce this piece of legislation, this was not about protecting the general that was taken out by a drone. by no means was that person in any way a humane individual. in fact,, he was someone who had blood on his hands from all over and from all different types of directions for the things that he had directed in his position to kill thousands and thousands of people, but the move on behalf of our president and the lack of justification on behalf of our president, we have come to find out that their members of congress who have resisted and gone in the complete opposite direction to say there was absolutely no justification. the president has not stopped in terms of his lies and fabrication. he then turned around and said that four embassies were imminently in danger and they were going to be attacked, but there has been no proof or no basis of that statement. today, in fact,, just two hours ago, he is tweeting pictures of our speaker of the house of congress scarves on their head and making fun of cultural practice in and religious practice and to meeting people. it does not stop. he stated and tweeted right after he took out the general that he was willing to strike 52 cultural sites as i said following in the steps of isis with war crimes in stating that he would commit war crimes on behalf of this country and in a thatched twist of fate, in response to his military action, the iranian government my mistake shot down an innocent airliner and over 100 people were killed in that plane crash. the actions, the lack of justification and this move in terms of giving our congress more authority over the military actions in the decisions that our president would make i think is important. the house of representatives voted to support this. it is now moving to all of my colleagues we don't often venture into this, but what it does is we venture into the moves of foreign policy, but it does affect us. there are members of our community that are involved in the military or military personnel and have families living abroad in embassies and in other areas. and to put american soldiers and it puts american lives at risk. i think it is important that congress would have a say on further military action that this president would make in his psychotic and barbaric moves that he's making on behalf of our country. thank you. >> colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call? this resolution is passed unanimously. colleagues, for item 45, i spoke about this in introducing it last week. >> mr. president, i will very quickly, if you don't mind, call item 45. it's a motion to show the bore the findings and recommendations regarding law enforcement, staffing numbers to occur on january 28th at 3:00 p.m. >> okay. again, i spoke about it a little bit already in terms of what i would like to do. this is the committee of the whole and around police staffing i found out that the dates that was given to me from the police department and the consultant would not -- in fact, they will not be ready to present on january 28th. we would like to request the committee of the whole to be held on february 25th instead. can we please have -- i will make a motion to amend amend the motion to convene as a committee for february 25th, 2020. and seconded by supervisor fewer motion to amend with no objection is adopted. colleagues, can we take this vote on the motion as amended, same house, same call? okay. without objection, the motion is adopted unanimously. madame clerk, let's move on to our closed session item, number 42. >> okay. forty-two is a closed session for the board of supervisors to convene what was originally on december 10th, 2019, and continue to be scheduled until today, january 14th by a motion, approved on november 19 th pursuant to the california government code and the san francisco administrative code. for the purpose of conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney regarding existing litigation in which the city is a petitioner and and pacific gas & electric co. is an adverse party. >> colleagues, public comment has already been taken for item number 42. we will now convene in closed session. i would like to ask the members of the public to exit the chamber and sheriffs to lock the doors behind them. we will reopen the chamber once we finish with a closed session in the and the public will be >> so moved. >> second by supervisor walton and if there's a no objection. then supervisor ronen is not in the chamber. i'm suggesting a roll call. >> supervisor yee: can i have a roll call, please. >> clerk: on the motion not to disclose, supervisor preston. [roll call] >> there are 10 ayes. >> supervisor yee: ok. motion passes. could i have a motion to file this closed -- this agenda item. made by supervisor peskin seconded by supervisor safai. if there's no objection, can we take the same house same call. no objection, then motion passes. madam clerk, please read the memoriams. >> clerk: today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of supervisor mandelman. for the late mr. hampton smith on behalf of supervisor haney, for the late mr. marco jostalano and on behalf of supervisor peskin and stefani, stephanie lazio-chincota. >> supervisor yee: that brings us to the end of our agenda. madam clerk, is there any further business before us today? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today. >> supervisor yee: the meeting is adjourned. >> it did take a village. i was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. the difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didn't have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. and they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. that is what i want to prevent. [♪] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. >> opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. it really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in san francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or work-based learning opportunities. >> money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. >> there's always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they don't get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. this is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. >> it is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. this is the pipe on we need to work with. we need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [♪] >> the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. young people can work in cohorts or in groups and that's really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. and in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i don't think we are ready to host an intern year-round are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. and then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have long-term employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. >> something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. it is really cool. >> i starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. i am grateful for this opportunity. thank you. >> something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. >> during this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. it is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my college tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. >> for myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. if anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. whenever. [applause] it is good. i got you. it was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and different things that i can explore. opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. >> we were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. we are still getting the final numbers of that. >> over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in investment banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. >> there are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in san francisco. and imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, affordable housing, low income communities. it is all up to you to make that happen. >> we have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. we are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. we want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. >> let's be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. >> for potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. this is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. this is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that san francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. >> just do it. sign up for it. [♪] >> first it's always the hardest and when they look back they really won't see you, but it's the path that you're paving forward for the next one behind you that counts. (♪) hi, my name is jajaida durden and i'm the acting superintendent for the bureau of forestry and i work for public works operations. and i'm over the landscaping, the shop and also the arborist crew. and some tree inspectors as well. i have been with the city and county of san francisco for 17 years. and i was a cement mason, that was my first job. when i got here i thought that it was too easy. so i said one day i'll be a supervisor. and when i run this place it will be ran different. and i i didn't think that it wod happen as fast as it did, but it did. and i came in 2002 and became a supervisor in 2006. and six months later i became the permanent supervisor over the shop. >> with all of those responsibilities and the staff you're also dealing with different attitudes and you have to take off one hat and put on another hat and put on another hat. and she's able -- she's displayed that she can carry the weight with all of these different hats and still maintain the respect of the director, the deputy director and all of the other people that she has to come in contact with. >> she's a natural leader. i mean with her staff, her staff thinks highly of her. and the most important thing is when we have things that happen, a lot of emergencies, she's right by me and helps me out every time that i have asked. >> my inspiration is when i was a young adult was to become a fire woman. well, i made some wrong decisions and i ended up being incarcerated, starting young and all the way up to an adult. when i was in jail they had a little program called suppers program and i -- supers program, and i met strong women in there and they introduced me to construction. i thought that the fire department would turn me down because i had a criminal history. so i looked into options of what kind of construction i could do. while i was in jail. and the program that i was in, they re-trained us on living and how to make the right decisions and i chose construction. and cement mason didn't require a high school diploma at that time so i figured i could do that. when i got out of jail they had a program in the philmore area and i went there. my first day out i signed up and four days later i started to work and i never looked back. i was an apprentice pouring concrete. and my first job was mount zion emergency hospital which is now ucsf. and every day that i drive by ucsf and i look at the old mount zion emergency, i have a sense of pride knowing that i had a part of building that place. yeah, i did. i graduated as an apprentice and worked on a retrofit for city hall. i loved looking at that building and i take big pride in knowing that i was a part of that retrofit. my first for formen job was a 40 story building from the ground up. and it's a predominantly male industry and most of the times people underestimate women. i'm used to it though, it's a challenge for me. >> as a female you're working with a lot of guys. so when they see a woman, first they don't think that the woman is in charge and to know that she's a person that is in charge with operations, i think that it's great, because it's different. it's not something -- i mean, not only a female but the only female of color. >> i was the first female finisher in the cement shop and i was the first crew supervisor, in the shop as a woman. when i became a two, the supervisors would not help me. in the middle, they'd call me a rookie, an apprentice and a female trying to get somewhere that she don't belong. oh, it was terrible. it was terrible. i didn't have any support from the shop. the ones who said they supported me, they didn't, they talked about me behind my back. sometimes i had some crying, a lot of crying behind doors, not in public. but i had a lot of mentors. my mentor i will call and would pick up the phone and just talk, talk, talk, please help me. what am a i going to do? hang in there. it was frustrating and disheartening, it really was. but what they didn't understand is that because they didn't help me i had to learn it. and then probably about a year later, that's when i started to lay down the rules because i had studied them and i learned them and it made me a good supervisor and i started to run the ship the way that i wanted to. it was scary. but the more i saw women coming through the shop, i saw change coming. i knew that it was going to come, but i didn't know how long it would take. it was coming. in the beginning when i first came here and i was the first woman here as a finisher, to see the change as it progressed and for me to become a permanent assistant superintendent over the cement shop right now, that's my highlight. i can look down at my staff and see the diversity from the women to the different coaches in here and know that no one has to ever go through what i went through coming up. and i foster and help everyone instead of pushing them away. i'll talk to women and tell them they can make it and if they need any help, come talk to me. and they com knock on my door ad ask how i move up and how i get training. i'm always encouraging to go to school and encourage them to take up some of the training with d.p.w. and i would tell them to hold strong and understand that things that we go through today that are tough makes you stronger for tomorrow. although we don't like hearing it at the time that we're going through all of this stuff, it helps you in the long run to become a better woman and a pers volunteers. >> my name is mark a proud grand date i didn't all over san francisco residents are adopt rains to keep our sewer system healthy i'm adopted a grain draining i thought of a simple illusion to a big problem it will help out the neighborhood and be responsible for the places we live i want or apparent to the web site and

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