Otherwise, id consider it approved as amended to be a policy matter. Chair fewer thank you very much. Supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you, chair fewer. First, i just wanted to thank supervisor walton for his incredible leadership to look out for undocumented members of our community but has been left out of the federal relief package. You know, i always feel so grateful to live in a city that, you know, the theme of covid19, were all in this together. And whether you were born in this country or born outside of this country, youre a human being who deserves to survive and live with dignity, and i just very, very much appreciate supervisor walton for his perfect, incredible work here, and his staff, tracey brown. I also, you know, want to thank the mayor for creating this fund immediately so that it does not need to be delayed. Thats fabulous news. Thank you for standing up for immigrants, mayor breed. I did learn this morning, which was very surprising to me, from supervisor walton, that there was an effort to combine an effort that im working on last minute with this effort. Nobody it talked to me about it, so it took me by surprise. I just want to make clear to this committee and to the city, mayor breed, joaquin torres, office of workforce development, that groups had approached me many weeks ago that undocumented workers, many of which are individuals who do not live with their families here. Many have been separated from their families because of poverty and the need to migrate to survive, and they said just like families were left out of the relief package, that workers have been left out of Unemployment Insurance at the federal level and at the state level. So as of friday, i had a conversation with the director of oewd, joaquin torres. This was after my Office Hosted a phone conversation between mr. Torres and Worker Rights works, which includes jobs with justice, the colectiva mujeres, the chinese progressive association, the asian law caucus, and countless other groups. I cant even remember all. It was a conversation bilingual conversation with many workers. The result that we worked at the end of that phone call was that oewd was going to come back with a proposal with an amount of money that they used from the Philanthropic Community for the undocumented workers who dont qualify for Unemployment Insurance. I spoke to mr. Torres as late as monday, and he told me i would get that proposal, and ive been waiting for it ever since. The news was that low wage workers were going to be able to weighin on that proposal, and we would be able to solidify that legislation. Then, this morning, i woke up to emails from supervisor walton and his staff, tracey brown, saying that the mayor and others were trying to amend his proposal to include my proposal. Again, i dont have a proposal. Im waiting to get the proposal that oewd comes to us with. So i would ask joaquin torres, the director of oewd to please talk directly to me if the plan has changed. Im still waiting for the proposal. I would ask any member of this committee if you have comments or questions on something that im working on, come talk to me. Id be happy to answer your questions or try to get the answers to your questions. As far as the project goes, im not dropping it. The immigrant and workers rights group that im working with are not dropping it. I havent heard from oewd, and well take it up at the board of supervisors if thats necessary. Im not trying to raise the 10 million fund. Im a cosponsor of that fund, and i believe that immigrant families need and deserve this money, and i will work with immigrant workers to create an Additional Program which will be similar to Unemployment Insurance for undocumented workers. How these two funds work together, if at all, we can talk about, and we can figure that out together, but i would just ask everyone to speak to me directly if working on a proposal that im meeting the effort on. Thank you so much. Chair fewer thank you very much. President yee . President yee yeah, thank you, chair fewer. And supervisor walton, again, i want to thank you for your leadership on this issue. When you spoke to me about it, it was a Quick Reaction by me. I realize it was a gap in terms of what the state was doing and the federal government was doing. Theyre really, especially the federal government, theyre not doing as much as they should for the groups thats impacted, that the group that this was trying to serve was almost left out of this. I realize this is going to be a fiscal impact, but i realize its one that almost no one is paying attention to. Thank you very much. Chair fewer supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, chair fewer. I did have a couple of questions on the b. L. A. Report and find out if theyre substantial or not. No, i dont think they are, and they would not require a continuance. Supervisor walton thank you very much. I would, of course, thank all of my colleagues who are attending the meeting, but also everyone who are supporting these amendments as supplemental as they are required to maintain the structures of some of our families that have been forget forgotten about. I do feel in times of emergency, it is very appropriate to use resources to support what were proposing here with the two pieces of legislation and supplemental, and, also, some Additional Needs that are going to arise as were in this crisis. We will, of course, be doing everything we can to try to get philanthropy, trying to get private sector to participate and support, but the reality of it is, in some cases, were going to have to provide our own safety nets as a city, and im just excited to have people who know and understand that and are willing to fight for our communities. So just want to thank everybody for listening. I will put the amendments on record since i do have the floor now. So for the for file number 200339, the emergency ordinance, if we look at page 1, line 4 and also page 3, line 4, and page 3, line 10, we just want to change the word emergency to disaster. So throughout the report, were changing emergency to disaster. And if you look at page 2, line 21, were just adding the site to the federal stimulus bill. And that those amendments are for the first file number 200339. And then, for file number 200340, same amendments in terms of changing the word emergency to disaster throughout the ordinance. And so if we look at page 1, line 4, page 2, line 21 and line 22, changing emergency to disaster, and then, on page 23, line 22. And then, on file 200340, page 5, section 4, we would have add the letter b, and this is regards to the operative date. After it becomes effective. This shall become operative upon expiration of the executive ordinance of file 200339, and the City Attorney proposed we include that language in that file number. Chair fewer okay. So before we vote on the amendments and to move the item, lets take Public Comment. Are there any members of the public wishing to comment on this item . If youd like to do so, call the number, and remember to please press onezero. Madam clerk, can you please ask the administrator if there are any members on the queue . Clerk yes. Madam chair, the moderator are letting us know if there are any callers in the queue. Caller madam chair, i have two callers. Chair fewer thank you very much. Clerk hello, caller . Your two minutes begin now. Caller one second while its queueing. Clerk hello, caller . Caller hello, caller, can you hear us . Chair fewer mr. Chiu, can you please see if the next caller is prepared to speak . Sure, one second. It appears those callers have dropped. No callers wish to speak. Chair fewer Public Comment is now closed. So we have some amendments that we need to vote on, and then, we also have motion. First, i want to say that i support legislation in terms of undocumented people. I hosted an undocumented woman in my home for several family, so i am aware of what theyre going through, yet not qualifying for any of the federal stimulus money. As the chair of finance and budget committee, i cannot support taking 10 million out of the general fund. We need to balance that with caution so we are not exasperrating that deficit and adding to the concern of organized labor. For the last few days, my office has been working with the Mayors Office to identify another potential source of funds, and im glad that the mayor is in discussion with supervisor waltons office. And i want to be very clear that i dont have any amendments today, and i dont know where this came from, as the mayor has been in Constant Contact with supervisor waltons office. But weve heard that my office has some amendments. I am not personally involved in the design of these programs, and i am not a cosponsor. My staff has been involved in many of these discussions so we can identify a funding support and bring it to a full vote before the board of supervisors. So having said that, i would like to make a motion to approve the amendments from supervisor walton, and could we have, please, a roll call vote. [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer and supervisor walton has made a motion. Supervisor, would you like to continue that item next week or to a further date . Chair fewer to next week. Clerk im sorry. My apologies, madam chair, for interrupting, but the b. L. A. Has recommended to amendment all three items. Would you like to consider those amendments, as well . Chair fewer id say lets consider those recommendations at next weeks meeting, after supervisor walton has had discussions with the Mayors Office, and they may want to add to that or they may want to change it. Im going to leave it to the discretion of the supervisor to see whether we should accept the amendments or not. So supervisor walton has made a motion to continue this item these three items, items 1, 2, and 3 until the next meeting of the budget and finance committee. Could we have a roll call vote on that, please, as amended. Clerk as amended, yes. Roll roll well do a role call. [roll call] clerk there are three ayes. Chair fewer okay. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk there is no further business. Chair fewer okay. We are adjourned. Welcome to the april 6, 2020 meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. Im joined on this Video Conference with rules Committee Vice chair supervisor katherine stefani. Our clerk today is victor young and id like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Do you have any announcements . Yes. Due to the covid19 healthy emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors litingive chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotedly as in the same extent as if they were physically comment. Physically present. We are streaming numbers across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Commentses or opportunities to speak during the Public Comment period are available via phone, by calling 8882045984. Access code 3501008 and then press pound and dial one again. Press 0 and 1 to be added to the queue. You will be lined up in the system in order you dial 1 and 0 while you are waiting t system will be silent. The system will notify you when you are in line and waiting. All callers will remain on mute until the line is open. Everyone must account for the time delay and speaking discrepancies between live coverage and streaming. Al term actively, you may submit Public Comment, email me at victor. Young sfgov. Org. If you submit via email, it will be included in the file as part of the matter. Comments may be sent to city hall, 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california. That completes my comments. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk. Can you please read item number one . Item number one is an emergency ordinance to temporarily require private employers with 500 or more employees to provide Public Health emergency leave during the Public Health emergency related to covid19. Thank you so much. This is supervisor mars item. Would you like to introduce the item, supervisor mar . Yes. Thank you so much, chair ronen, for allowing us to hear this item today. An emergency ordinance before us is in response to a true emergency. The lack of sufficient paid leave for workers to follow our Public Health order to weather this crisis. While there is no Silver Bullet to our health and humanitarian emergency, this measure will give an additional twoweek paid leave to hundreds of thousands of san franciscans and make a meaningful difference to countless people trying to take care of themselves and their family and make ends meet. Congress took action to expand paid leave for workers but they left out more than 50 of our workforce by excepting the largest employer. This is inexcusable. So, where our federal government is falling short, im taking immediate Emergency Action to close the gap here in San Francisco. With this emergency measure, employees of private companies will be able to immediately access additional weeks of paid leave, closing the major loophole in the federal legislation in making sure that in health emergencies, workers are able to take time off take the time off that they need for themselves and their families. When sick people have to choose between their livelihoods or incomes, we are all worse off. When parents have to choose between a paycheck or staying home with their kids whose school is closed, were all worse off. San francisco led the nation when we adopted our paid sick leave ordinance in 2006. In this time of crisis, San Francisco must lead again in supporting our workers. Over the last two week, my office has worked with labor leaders and business stakeholders to strengthen this proposal. Around today ill be proposing a series of amendments for clarity and to ensure this measure is as inclusive and impactful as possible. I wanded to briefly go over what the ordinance is right now and summarize the key provision. First, what the ordinance does. It wont immediately give an additional two weeks of paid leave to any San Francisco employee of a private company with 500 or more employees. Who it covers every single s. F. Employee of a private company with 500plus employees. Even if youre furloughed and even if you are the employee in San Francisco, even if you started working a month before shelter in place, even if you are a temp worker, even if you dont live in San Francisco, but you work here. Employers and Health Care Providers are allowed to opt out. However, were amending it to especially sure Health Care Providers are given additional paid leave if they get sick or have to get quarantined. And all workers are presumed to be employees and covered until and unless then their employer demonstrates they are an independent contractor. Now who this emergency ordinance does not cover people who are unemployed, Public Employees and theyre covered bier our executive action, private employees of companies with fewer than 500 employees and theyre covered by the federal law, people who do not work in San Francisco and independent contractors. And when employees can use their immediate leave. If you cant work because theres shelter in place, if you have to stay home to take care of a family member, if its replaced with work and a you cant work remotely, if you are a member of a vulnerable population, if youre showing symptoms and if your doctor recommends you not work. So, again, i presented or today im presenting some set of amendments and there are seven different amendments and theyre probably i believe you received a copy of the amended emergency ordinance and im going to summarize this up in amendments right now. Number one, provide Public Health emergency leave to Health Care Providers when theyre subject to quarantine or sick or otherwise do not meet c. D. C. Returntowork guidelines. In number two, ex. Expand uses of the leave for vulnerable populations including 60 or older. Number three that benefits Like Health Care cant be taken away while employees are on leave. Number four, require employer notice in english, spanish, chinese and any other language spoken by 5 or more of the workforce. Number five, as information on local, state and federal resources to the notice language that theyll draft. Number six, matches the Health Care Provider definition to provider regulation. And number seven, additional paid leave voluntarily provided during the emergency toward this new requirement if the composition offered meets the standard. You know, i would like to request that deputy City Attorney anne pearson provide her assessment of these amendments and whether any of these are substantive and would require continuance before the Committee Takes action. Good morning. Can you all hear me . Yes. Thanks. So ive had a chance to review all of the amendments that supervisor mar just described and the first one on his list is one that is substantive and that is the amendment that would require Health Care Employers of Health Care Providers to provide them with leave under some limited circumstances. The other ones are not substantive and would not require a continuance today. Thank you. Supervisor mar, do you want to split the file and move forward the portion thats not substantive and we can conti