Good afternoon, welcome to the february 11th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , and supervisor yee. Mr. President , all members are present. Supervisor yee ok. Thank you. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Supervisor yee on behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts to the public online. Are there any communications. I have none to report mr. President. Ok, then, lets go to our 2 00 p. M. Special order. Special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the appearance by our honorable mayor, london n. Breed. Theyre being no questions submitted from supervisors representing districts 14, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. Supervisor yee welcome, madam mayor. There was no topics submitted by supervisors today. We welcome you to share your remarks. The hon. London breed good afternoon to members of the board of supervisors and members of the public. I wanted to take this opportunity, this black History Month to talk about Racial Equity and reparations. All too often, people in this country talk about reparations as a financial matter but, its so much more than that. Reparations are a framework through which we as a government together, with the community, actively work to undue the systemic harm that has been inflicted both past and present on the basis of race. Here in San Francisco, we need to have a serious conversation about repair and justice in every aspect of our policymaking especially as it relates to housing and homelessness and excited about the work that supervisor walton is doing to introduce the resolution around reparations. We know that our housing shortage is rooted in racial segregation of our residential zoning and housing approval process the citys first planning law in 1870 the air for dinnance forced working class chinese renters out of their apartments finding them and jailing them to discourage them from staying in San Francisco. And in the 1930s, red lining by the federal government prevented black people from getting loans and buying homes and certain neighborhoods. When thousands of japanese americans returned to San Francisco from force, we didnt have a right to return policy for housing back then. Through the 1940s, land titles poet in racial restricted covenants to prevent long whites and from renting and buying those companies. Some were around in the mid 2000s and i want to thank president yee. Even today, we know that of the 4,000 people who were living duel diagnosissed on the streets, 40 of them are black. In 1978, the downing of 70 of the city eliminated 183,000 Housing Units to begin our housing to keep san franciscans housed in San Francisco. We as a city need to reverse that injustice and supervisor fewer, i want to thank you for creating and Building Support with supervisor vallie brown for the office of Racial Equity and its our city, population has been growing and will continue to grow. And the fact is, we dont have enough housing. I know we have our disagreements about how to address this shortage and we are trying to work through those issues. We cant just debate the theories. We need clear and targeted policies that will help address and advance Racial Equity. Its the investments we make, its the policy decisions we make and we need to do so with the fierce urgency of now. The right to return is a great example, along with the neighborhood preference legislation that supervisor former Supervisor Malia Cohen and i worked on when i served on the board. This helped to directly address the displacement of African Americans in the city but it is not enough. When i talk about displacement or gentrification, i cant help but think about the community that raised me about my own upbringing in public housing. I think about the opportunities that i have and how lucky i am to be standing here as your mayor. And how we have to replicate those opportunities for all san franciscans and lucky breaks are in short order for the thousands of families who are living with housing an insecurity and we mut act with urgency and innovation, advancing policies that meaningfully address the injustices of the past and the present. I will never farther starting through programs to neighborhood presence and right to return and home sf and focusing on building more housing in this the people who are struggling and living on our streets, 40 African Americans are depending on us to make better decisions and not continue the fight which delay much needed housing. I ask you to join this year and thinking about how we can drive and truly, not just talk about the need for Racial Equity and inclusion, and how African Americans have been traditionally left out the opportunities that so many enjoy in the city. What are we going to do about it . The time is now. Thank you, madam. Thank you, madam mayor for joining us today. This will conclude our special order and and it will now be filed. Ok madam clerk. Please call the consent agenda. Clerk items 15 are on consent. Theyre considered routine, if a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. Supervisor yee colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the consent agenda. Seeing no names, seeing none, madam clerk, please call roll. Items 15. Supervisor walton. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee objection, ordinances are finally passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to the regular agenda. Please call item 6. Clerk item 6 is a resolution to retroactively authorizing public works to expend 260,000 grant from the San FranciscoBay Area RapidTransit District for the pit stop Toilet Program through june 30th, 2020. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call. Without objection, this is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, next item. Clerk resolution to approve and authorization the director of property to acquire Real Property located at 1939 Market Street from the Sheet Metal Workers InternationalAssociation Local union number 104 for purchase at 12 million to affirm the ceqa determination. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call without objection. This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets call item number 8. Clerk item 8 is an ordinance for the planning code to enable the use of Development Projects sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the Planning Department to authorize activities at projects sites as temporary uses for up to 36 months subject to extension in increments for a maximum possible total of 24 additional months to adopt the seek what determination and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take these items same call. Without objection. Then, this ordinance is passed on First Reading. Madam clerk, next item. Item 9 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to clarify provisions for the tenant Buyout Program agreement. Supervisor yee supervisor ronen. The legislation before you today will amend the rent ordinance to tighten our regulations on landlord buy outs of rentcontrolled tenants. With speculative rents and sale prices breaking records, landlords have a powerful incentive to remove and replace longtime tenants. Until we change state law, landlords have the option of using the ellis agent or they can use an owner moveinto evict tenants without cause. Some landlords seek wash buy out as a way to get longterm tenants to move out quickly and to avoid our condo conversion restrictions. With the every present threat of eviction hanging over them, San Francisco tenants often feel like theyre living on borrowed time. Holding on until the day their landlord decided its time for them to go. All too often the message comes in the form of a take it or leave it now or never choice between accepting a cash buy out or facing eviction. My district nine presidencies or, david compost passed the ordinance in 2014, which among other regulations established annual reporting. In 2018, the most recent reporting period, there were 379 completed buy outs filed in neighborhoods throughout the city with the highest numbers in the mission. But some tenant advocates estimate that there may be as many as three untracked buy out for everyone that does actually get filed. We need the facts and we need to be sure our laws are being followed. This legislation strengthens our current regulations by ensuring that tenants are informed of their rights, giving tenants times to decide and forcing landlords to file. Press tune hope you will support this today. Can we take this first time first call. Its passed on First Reading unanimously. Madam clerk, item 10. A resolution to approve and authorization a trust Exchange Agreement with the California State Lands Commission to remove the public trust from certain trance space streets the na vin tee of the Millennium Tower and trance bay terminal and further impresses the public trustor fisherman war of streets and adopt the appropriate findings. Supervisor yee can we take this item same house same call without objection. The resolution is adopted unanimously. Item number 11, madam clerk. Item 11 is a motion to appoint supervisor Catherine Stefani to the Golden Gate Bridge highway and transportation district term ending january 31st, 2021. Supervisor yee can we take do we have a motion to excuse supervisor stefani for this item . Motion made by supervisor ronan and seconded by supervisor haney. Without objection, supervisors stefani is excused. Madam clerk, please call the roll on this item. [roll call] there are 10 ayes. This objection is approved unanimously. Please ask her to come back in. Madam clerk, go to the next item. Item 12 is a motion to a alien arm strong to for a indefinite term. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. A motion to approve the president of the super norman yees nomination i want to thank commissioner melgar this was tough to fill and i want to thank the committee for sending to Community Based work continually around land house and housing issues. Maria terry a is familiar face in this chamber because shes dedicated to past decade to advocating for the residents most impacted by the housing we are not just a city of buildings and boxes but a city of people. And the to work supports low income residents and navigating the affordable system in San Francisco. She has built collaborative versions to plan a community planning. This to me is very critical. I think the Planning Commission needs to have a balance view and we want to ensure respective to provide an equitable and far. Planning commissioners spend dozens of hours a week to prepare for their weekly meetings and those meetings start in the afternoon during the weekday. The meetings can last hours and hours well into the evening. Commissioners are asked to do this voluntarily and many of them still have to hold fulltime jobs and sacrifice time away from that in order to serve. We make it incredibly challenging for residents to serve in this capacity. I want to thank them for their patients. The last couple weeks with two vacant seats, we know that its hard to be quorum to ensure that theres a full compliment in the body and that reach to willing to take on this role and do the hard work to be thoughtful and be a thoughtful member of the planning she will listen she will be a great addition to the body and look forward to working with her in this new capacity. I want to thank supervisor mar and stefani for moving this motion forward with a positive recommendation and i hope that i can count on all of you for your support that we can get theresa to work this week. Ok. So, can we take this item same house same call. Without objection. Then, this motion is approved unanimously. Ok. Clerk ill call for introductions, mr. President. Supervisor yee thats where we are. Supervisor walton you are first up to introduce new business. Thank you so much, madam clerk. I have two items. First, along with supervisor safai, we are announce an ordinance amending the police code to provide that Cannabis Retail permit applications will not be accepted as of the Effective Date of the passing of this ordinance. And affirming that the Planning Departments determination under the California Environmental act. We will still remain 100 focus and addressing within the cannabis industry and it appears doubtful that the San Francisco market can sustain additional businesses and secondly, im going to announce the resolution for reparations for here in San Francisco. I want to thank the leadership for the black community and several allies and greater San Francisco community as well as every member of this board of supervisors, supervisors ronen, haney, fewer, safai, mar, preston, mandelman, yee, stefani and peskin and were announcing our process to begin realizing reparations for the black community here in San Francisco. We stand on land that was taken from our native American Community members, our japanese brothers and sisters were sent to camps, our immigrant children are being torn away from their families and locked in cages. Our arab americans are a target of discrimination since 9 11 and we cannot forget the pain and suffering of our own ancestors. The hundreds of years of free labor and the continued oppressions that are directly connected to the impacts of slavery on black people. African americans were enslaved in the United States for hundreds of years until slavery officially ended with the ratification of the 13th amendment. But the trauma of slavery remains for generations throughout the african American Community and exists today. The city and county of San Francisco has acknowledged the wrongs of history through chapter 12y, the San Francisco slavery disclosure ordinance. The impacts of slavery manifests and housing disparities for the african American Community through red lining and refusing to back loans for African Americans. This forced the African Americans to live poor and under resourced neighborhoods and strongly hindered wealth accumulation among black people. For example, folks living in bay view Hunters Point, a African American neighborhood at one point, and previously red line neighborhood are five times in the marina. The impact of African Americans are 7. 7 more times likely than wife sawhite San Franciscos to e arrested. African americans are more likely to be convicted and when convicted theyre more likely to experience lengthy prison sentences and San Francisco these they continue to help disparities for the african American Community. African american neighborhoods consistently have fewer healthy food options and the combination with predatory have led to African Americans having higher rates of diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and tooth decay among other disparities and cancer rates and Mental Health diseases. Those are just some of the areas where we have seen disparities in the black community. Reparations are a financial recompence for African Americans whose ancestors provided free labor for hundreds of years and lived through the jim crow era. The enslavement and over all persecution of African Americans in the United States has enriched the United States and created disparities in income, wealth and education between blacks and whites and almost every other population. Reparations are needed to reduce these current day legacy of slavery and jim crow. It describes the injustices suffered by black people and both the u. S. And specifically in San Francisco and in addition the resolution describes the coal he ising of leaders in the black community along with allies to provide input on the make up of a working group that will be legislated and tasked with the develo