Mr. President , all members are present. 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. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfg tv, Mia Hernandez and kalina mendoza. Madam clerk, any communications . Yes, mr. President , i have one to report. We received correspondence on february 14th, 2020 from mayor london breed communicating her veto of the ordinance with 2. 7 millions of general reserve conditioned upon an executed agreement at city college. Pursuant to 9. 104, my office received no request to consider this veto and therefore, file 1961 stands. Thank you, madam clerk. First of all, i want to apologize for starting a little late. We had a little press thing with the mayor announcing some issues that youll hear about in the paper. So colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the january 7th, 2020 and januar january 14th, 2020 board meetings. Any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor walton . And so the motion has been to approve and those minutes will be approved after Public Comment has presented. Madam clerk, please call the consent agenda. Items 1 and 2 are considered to be routine. If a member would like an item removed, it could be considered separately. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items . Madam clerk, can you sever item just one and two, right . Role call . role call . Without objection, the ordinance is passed. Madam clerk, please call item 3. An ordinance to authorize the director of the department of Public Health, to allow an existing medical cannabis dispensary permitee to operate at a new location under that permit and affirm sequa determination. Anyone on the roster that i dont see . Supervisor hainey . Ill say a few words as the author. I want to thank the Land Use Committee for moving this forward and for hearing this a few times and taking amendments. The main purpose of this legislation is simply to help Small Businesses and equity applicants who have been evicted. Small independent and especially equityowned businesses are facing hurdles staying open. What we continue to see in San Francisco is that businesses in general are incredibly vulnerable to evictions and restrictions around portability make it especially hard for cannabisbusinesses and that hurts equity applicants the first. Theyre rolling out article 6 to applicants and moving away from the article 33s. Portability for these businesses will be a reality regardless of whether we pass this ordinance. However, for these particular businesses who need a stopgap measure, particularly equity businesses, this is a critical protection that will ensure if they are evicted that they will have some openings to be able to continue their business at another location. To that end, we work very closely Wit Department of cannabis, the department of Public Health and the City Attorneys Office to make sure we are supporting the needs of vulnerable businesses is balancing that with making sure that limited portability is available and narrow to prevent abuse. This ordinance would authorize the director of the department of Public Health to allow a grandfathered mcd permitee to change the location associated with the permit only if the following criteria are met. One that the permitee requests the change and identifying the changed location, the permitee has been verified by the office of cannabis as an equity applicant. The permitee has been notified by the landlord that the lease of the location has been terminated and the new location has an existing authorization for medical cannabis dispensary use and the permitee has complied with all applicable codes and the Planning Department, dbis disability and office of cannabis review and inspect a new location to report to the director and only the director can determine whether the permitee has satisfied the requirements. Im introducings an amendment which all of you should have which further restricts to exclude any location where there is a judgment, finding that the landlord or other than of the new location has wrongfully evicted another permitee from the new location. This is legislation that applies to a very narrow set of businesses, ones that are not already under the article 16 and still continue to be under article 33, yet, have experienced an eviction or faced an eviction and need to move to another location with narrow requirements and very specific apoliticcability. I appreciate everyone who has weighed into this and the amendments which have specified who we want to support with this legislation and i hope that you all will vote to support this. Supervisor peskin . Thank you, president yi. I would like to rise to second supervisor haineys amendments and thank supervisor hainey and his office for not only bringing this legislation forward but addressing the potential inequities we all came to understand and realize. So i stand in support and second the motion. Can we take the amendments same house, same call . So amendment passes. Colleagues, while sorry. I recognize this legislation was crafted to address a difficult circumstance for the equity applicant that was displaced from their sight with little options to move forward with their permit application, i am unable to support the ordinance given the background and the possible precedence this sets for the future. The portability of this particular permit currently applies to two locations in San Francisco, 1940 ocean avenue and 1545 ocean avenue. One of these locations previously evictses previously and operating, 33 permit holder, medical cannabis dispensary and we delayed our deliberation on this item so that their court case could move forth to a decision. The reality is that it is difficult to prove whether or not there was an unlawful eviction of a commercial tenant. What we do know the commercial tenant was displaced by the landlord and they are now turning around and selling the property knowing this legislation will benefit them. I want to be very clear that my position is not in favour or against any particular permit holder. This is an unfortunate situation on all sides. I, for one, support conditional uses for these types of business so that communities are able to determine what is best, but that is not what we are discussing today. My decision lies on the fact that the players who are benefiting most from a bad situation or the landlords who are knowingly taking advantage of Business Owners and consequently leaving storefronts vacant waiting for the higher the rents and charging high amounts of rents, knowing that certain uses are more lucrative than others. This was the very thing we were concerned about when the board passed policies to implement Cannabis Retail legislation. We did not want land use speculators and the special Property Owners to have the upperhand to charge top dollar and displace tenants so they can make more profit. It just so happens that the two sites of this ordinance would apply to are also in my district along the ocean avenue corridor and i fine i find it troubling e carving out something that support ocean avenue. This sustains Family Businesses and restaurants despite the hot market of mixed use market rate developments. But theres a commercial fear that rising rents will impact the great mix we currently have. While this legislation is narrow, it does send a message that there is little the city can do to hold commercial landlords who are displacing tenants and holding sites for ransom accountable. I want to recognise the equity applicants struggling to make it here in San Francisco and look forward to furthering that discussion with the office of cannabis and the department of Public Health. I thank supervisor furer for calling upon that hearing and to really understand what is happening with this industry. The decision im making today comes after many months of discussions and ultimately, allowing a tenant outcome and it also unintendedly rewards greedy landlords. For this reason, i am unable to support this ordinance today. Madam clerk, could we have role call on the amended item . role call . Role call . role call . There are knife ayes and two nos. Its a 92 vote and this ordinance passes as amended. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 4 an ordinance to order the vacation of streets on a portion of the valejo street rightofway and a portion of the davis street rightofway as part of the improvements from the zhani hotel venue and project open space project to make the appropriate findings and adopt other appropriate findings. role call . There are 11 ayes. Item five is to repeal ordinance 3817 and 10219 and amend the administrative code and to affirm the sequa determination. Supervisor peskin . I wasnt sure. You just raised your hand . I did. I would like a motion to continue this to 24, march 2020. So theres a motion to continue the item and do we need a second . Seconded by supervisor fewer and can we take this without objection . Then it passes. Madam clerk, item 6. Item 6 is a resolution to approve modification number 1 to a contract number 11211. 51, support of the airport shared use passenger Processing Systems with the sit communication for a new not to exceed 15. 9 million with no change to the Contract Term which expires december 31, 2023. Supervisor preston. Thank you. I had some questions and i dont know if its for the legislative analysts or if theres someone here from the airport but i understand there were questions that came up in committee that im not sure Additional Information was requested or provided. And just looking at this, theres pretty big jumps including paper costs from 150,000 up to 1 million flexible staffing from zero to almost 2 million. I didnt know if either staff could provide more information on that . Thank you. Mr. Rose, do you have a response . The airport explained to us that after the rfp and the contract was awarded they did not consider various additional equipment that was to be installed. As a result of that various additional equipment, theres related staffing personnel costs and other related costs and we itemize that on page 3 of our report and that totals 5,000,928. 53 and we fac felt wd not what that would be or include these additional personnel or related costs. We recommended that to the committee. Same house, same call . Different house, mr. President. We need a role call. Role call, please. role call . Without objection the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, i see its 2 32, so lets go to our 2 30 item. We have commendations from five members beginning with president yi, supervisor stephanie, safaye, mandelman. We have several commendations. Lets try to keep every commendation to less than five minutes so that we are respectful of every ones time. So thank you all for being here today. The first person that i would like to bring up is my commendation, ken rich. Are you in the room . [cheers and applause] we wanted to recognise you for all of your years of services. For the past 24 years, ken has served at the San Francisco office of economic and Workforce Development and at the Planning Department and for the past ten years, he has been director of the department of director of development at oewd and a principal adviser on planning and development issues. T. Ken has lead the citys team n a series of large transformational Real Estate Development projects, waterfront revitalization, and public openspace projects. These projects include more than 20,000, yes, 20,000 new residential units, six million square feet of commercial space and 40 acres of new open space. Ken, thank you for your hard work and decades of dedicated Public Services to the city and county of San Francisco and congratulations on your retirement. Although, we really know this is not an actual retirement. So congratulations to that. Before you speak, supervisor peskin . Thank you, president. I think i have the pleasure of roasting mr. Rich soon, but i thought i would start at the board of supervisors to say that this is the individual in his earlier incarnation at planning who have sold us the eastern neighborhood plans. So supervisor ronan, any concerns that you have, should be directed to mr. Rich. [ laughter ] but in all truth, in the last couple of years, we have worked side by side on making sure that the pdr use that supports thousands of workingclass individuals at the flower mart will live to see another day, another century and i cannot thank you enough, ken, for the work that you and miss topay did. We can can take care of the peoe that make San Francisco, sanfrancisco. So ken rich, thank you for your service. I have another speaker. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you. I couldnt let this opportunity go by without saying something, ken. Ive worked with you for 13 years now, both as a legislative aid and as a supervisor and your work on the 3333 california project was just magnificent. You stayed calm when we were under several lines of attack from the community and different aspects and i just want to thank you for that. Because of you, we have 744 units of housing, including 186 low income and Many Community benefits, including Public Open Space and Daycare Center with 175 spots. We couldnt have done it without you. When i heard you were leaving, i was sad but hopeful for your future endeavors. You will be missed and thankful for your hard work here. [cheers and applause] the floor is yours. Thanks so much, president and supervisors. This was unexpected and it really is a true honor. I want to thank mayor breed and former mayor lee, may he rest in peace, for the trust they placed in me and this board for the fair hearing and consideration i and my colleagues have always been afforded by you. Before going forward, i want to say that any commendation should go to this group of people. Dont be shy. Stand up. Wtheres 40 acres of open space and a couple of just hospitals and a flower mart. Theres no more important issue than Housing Affordability and im proud of the number we have included in our projects. Wwe need to understand we wont get there without broadbased public support and funding to ensure housing for workforce families. In my next chapter, i hope to continue working together with all of you as a part of this ongoing conversation on how best to accomplish this and in closing, just to say im incredibly flattered and humbled that you took the time for this, so thank you very much again. [cheers and applause] mr. President withi, while yu give the certificate of honor, i will forego the story of the inclusionary housing increase and ill tell that at your retirement party. [ laughter ] i still have another one. But before the next honoree, whr up anyway. Colleagues, i would like to invite eva to come on up. She is the top engineer, the chief engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge highway and transportation district. [cheers and applause] in my other hat, i also sit on the bridge board with several of my colleagues and my colleagues who have had the privilege of working with eva understands why shes being honored today. I would like to show a short clip of the type of work that she has to manage. Its crazy, crazy in terms of stuff that she actually is directing. So katelyn, would you show it. Its just a short clip. [ ] we are on the east and west side of the bridge structure and the delay of the bridge is 1. 7 miles and times two, well be hanging 3. 4 miles of a horizonal netting. We want to impress upon people that do not jump because it will hurt. Its hurtful. Tonight whurtful. This will be mf stainless steestainless steel rd because of the square footage, this is quite a heavy system and very transport to assure that there is as minimum impact on the bridge as possible. This project is by america which means that all of the steel has to be made in america. This is a very large and complex project and we have dozens and dozens of people evolve, engineers, grants people, contract people and our attorneys and our insurance person. Theres something to be said about being very, very, very busy. It keeps the mind from becoming too emotional, but theres no doubt that i think a lot about this. The feeling that we had when we installed a medium barrier, and i think i have the same feeling when i see this netting style, its a feel of an extraordinary accomplishment. [cheers and applause] let me say a few words. Ava is the top Civil Engineer and the true innovator in her field and shes the first woman to hold a position of chief engineer in the history of the Golden Gate Bridge highway and district. Ava has been 20 years with the district and shes managed and constructed several Major Projects including managing the privilege seismic and wind retrofit project, overseeing the installation of the longest bridge, movable, movable, medium barrier and she is currently overseeing the construction of the physical suicide deterrent project. This project is the remarkable feat of lifesaving engineer. The barrier is an intricate structure comprised of 385,000 square feet of stainless steel. The equivalent of seven football fields. Hung 20 feet below the bridge public walkway and the construction of the barrier requires the use of heavy equipment suspended 250 feet above the water. The impact of this project cannot be overstated. The physical suicide deterrent project will save lives and provide critical Second Chance to people