The date i want clarification on which date it would come to the Board Meeting. The full Board Meeting. Supervisor fewer do you have that . I have that, madam chair, to the president. So the First Reading you were looking for this, because this is an ordinance, june 23rd. The important meeting to have it near the top of the agenda would be on the second read on june 30th. Supervisor yee okay. And we do not have a t. A. Meeting. So just supervisor fewer okay. Thank you. Supervisor fewer thank you, president yee. I believe that it was i have a motion on the floor to continue this item to the next budget and appropriations committee. And as amended. Could i have a second, please. I thought it was seconded by president yee. I seconded it. Supervisor fewer he did. So sorry, president yee. Roll call vote, please. Clerk on that motion, supervisor walton . Supervisor walton absents. Supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk supervisor yee . Supervisor yee aye. Clerk supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk chair fewer. Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk there are four ayes. Any more business before us today, madam clerk . Theres no further business. Supervisor fewer we are adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Were now back in session. Thank you everyone for your pa i,. Will you please report on the deliberations in closed session . Yes, mr. Chair. The committee took the following actions. Agenda items two, three, four, six and seven, the committee acted unanimously to recommend each of those ordinances to the board of supervisors. For agenda item number five, chair mar was excused via a unanimous vote and the remaining members recommended that ordinance as well to the board of supervisors for consideration on june 16. Thank you, mr. Clerk. I believe we need to make a motion to not to disclose the closed session discussions. So moved. Please call the order on the motion from vice chair peskin to not disclose [roll call] mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, any further business . There is no further business. Thank you. We are adjourned. Good morning. The meet willing come to order. Welcome to the thursday, june 4 meeting of the government audit and oversight committee. Im supervisor gordon mar, the chair of this committee and joined by vice chair aaron peskin. Committee member matt haney will be joining us shortly. [inaudible]. Thank you for joining us, supervisor haney. And i want to thank this committees clerk, john carroll, and also like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this remote meetingful mr. Clerk, do you have any mouments . Announcements . Yes, thank you, mr. Chair. We are closed during the covid19 health emergency. However, members will be participating in this meeting remotely to the same extent faz they were physically present in the shame better. 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Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. Alternative, you may submit Public Comments in either of the following ways. Email to me, my name is john carroll, im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email address is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervise source and will be included as part of the official file. Your written comments may also be sent by u. S. Postal service to our office in city hall. The address is 1 dr. Carlton b. Goodlett place room 244 in San Francisco, california, 49102 is the zip code. Items today will appear on the supervisors agenda of june 4, 2020 unless otherwise stated. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call item number one . Agenda, item number 1 is an ordinance amending the planning and building codes to authorize the waiver of fees related to granting legal status to existing dwelling units constructed without required permits and extending the waiver through december 31, 2024. Requiring annual rofrtses on the Fee Waiver Program and making findings of consistency with the general plan a priority policy and findings of public convenience or necessity. Under planning code section 302, members of the public who wish to provide Public Comments in this ordinance shall once again call the Public Comment number. 4156550001 and the access code that is 920536187. Press the pound symbol twice and then star and 9 to enter the queue to speak. And one last thing, mr. Chair. Im in receipt of a memo from your desk asking that this be agdized as a Committee Report. Thank you again, mr. Clerk. Colleagues, i introduce this ordinance to reauthorize the planning and building inspection fee waivers for the unauthorized dwelling unit legalization program. Now more than ever we need to focus on the preservation of housing and housing that both safe and habitable for workers and families in our city. In 2014, the city created a program to encourage homeowners with unauthorized dwelling units constructed without Building Permits to bring them out of the shadow. This slol voluntary Program Requires homeowners to meet light safety conditions, making a habitable unit a legal part of the housing supply and has resulted in 169 units being legalized. In my district, there are many more potential opportunities to participate in this program. My constituents include many singlefamily homeowners with unauthorized dwelling units antethans loving in these units. This is an undesirable position for everyone involved and i heard from constituency requesting a solution. This ordinance will incentivize the establishment of safe and relatively affordable units to stabilize housing for the community. And was supported unanimously at the Building Inspection Commission and planning economy. Sing as we enter a period of greater housing instability, including declining incomes, potential foreclosures, installing of new construction, and increase predatory practices, we need to provide every additional tool to keep people in their homes. This includes supporting homeowners at risk to stabilize themselves by bringing in a Family Member or generating rental income and for tenants who need safe housing to work and thrive in San Francisco. In addition to authorizing the waiver of planning and building fees for permits to legalize u. D. U. S, the legislation also requires annual reports on the Fee Waiver Program. And i have two amendments pertaining to reporting requirements to make at committee today. In the ordinance, d. B. I. Would be required to provide annual reports on the legalization program. Including the amount of fees waived, number of projects, the building tide and the nature of ownership. There is much needed information about applicants to inform future policies and expanding accessory dwelling unit housing in the city. I would like to amend to add that the department should additionally report on if there is a tenant in the unauthorized unit at the time the applicant submitted the application for a permit to legalize. And also if there was a tenant in the unauthorized unit in the five years prior to submission of the permit application to legalize. Without a housing inventory, we do not have adequate information about the tenancy of our housing stock. So, this would provide much needed information to understand how communities are living in my district and citywide. The Second Amendment is to clarify that the department may determine how to collect information for their report which will include but not be limited to selfreporting by applicants. The amendment will clarify that the ordinance itself does not require excessive d. B. I. Staff time and add nointion verify the applicants selfreported information, such as the tenancy. And if an approximately cants owns multiple propertis in San Francisco. So john murray from the department of. Building inspection will provide a brief presentation on the unit legalization program. Followed by a b. L. A. Report and staff from the Planning Department are also available to answer questions. Id like to welcome john murray from d. B. I. Thank you, supervisor. Im john murray with the department of building inspection, which as you know, is the Agency Responsible for overseeing building safety in San Francisco. Im joined by my colleague tom fesler who works in our Technical Services division. The proposed ordinance you are considering today renews the waiver of d. B. I. Planned fees and legalization, the fee waiver went into effect 2015 and expires june 21 of this year. As you all know, San Francisco is home to a great number of unpermitted dwelling units. Estimates range from 30,000 to 40,000. Ive seen 50,000 as well. Although its hard to get a concrete number. But what we do know is that many of these units are not fully compliant with San Franciscos building codes. We see things like wiring and plumbing, inadequate exiting or ventilation, caoelings that are too low and a variety of other code violations. The goal is legislation, as was mentioned before, is to provide an incentive to building rs to get those units legalized and up to code so that not only are they preserved as housing but theyre safe and habitable for the residents. Since the Fee Waiver Program went into effect in 2015, we have issued 365 permits for the unit legalization and 169 unit legalizations have been completed. The average applicants saved about 4500 in building and planning fees combined. And the majority of those were in Single Family homes. As you mentioned as well, on february 19, the Building Inspection Commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the proposed fee waiver. And with that, we are happy to answer any questions. Thank you, mr. Murray. Lets go to the b. L. A. s office to present the fiscal analysis on this item. Ms. Campbell . Good morning, chair mar, members of the committee. If the proposed ordinance would continue an existing fee waiver of permit, building inspection and planing permit fees for the development of accessory dwelling units, based on information provided by the respective departments, we estimate that the reduction in permit fee revenues over the term extended term of the waiver would be about 1. 8 million. And we consider a approval of the proposed ordinance to be a policy matter for the board. Im available for any questions you may have. Before we go to Public Comment, do you have any questions . Great. Seeing none, let me go to Public Comment. Are there any callers on the line . Thank you, mr. Khaifrment operations is checking to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If youve not already done so, press star and then 9 to be added to the queue to speak. For those already on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that your line has been unmaoutsed. Do we have any speakers . Operator mr. Chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Great. Thank you, operations. Colleague, i would like to move to accept the amendment. [roll call] mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you so much. And i would like to move that we send this item as amended as a Committee Report to the tuesday, june 9 meeting of the board of supervisors. Mr. Clerk, please call roll. On the motion that the ordinance be recommended to next tuesdays Board Meeting [roll call] the amendment passes. Please call item 2 through seven for closed session. They are settlements of lawsuits against the county pursuant to california code of civil procedures section 998. Members of public who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the Public Comment number, 4156550001 and enter the access code 920536187. Press the pound symbol twice and then press star and 9 to enter the queue to speak. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Lets open up Public Comment for the closed session. Members of the public so mr. Clerk, can you please happy to do it, mr. Chair. Operations will check to see if there are any callers in the queue. Operations, please let us know if there are any callers that are ready. If you have not already done so, press star and then 9 to be added to the queue to speak and for those who may already be on hold, please continue to wait until the system indicates that your line has been unmuted. Do we have any callers for these items . Operator mr. Chair, there are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you. Thank you, again, operations. Im hearing no further callers. Public comment is now closed. So on the motion to convene in closed session, mr. Clerk, please call the roll. On a motion to sit and consider the litigation agenda in closed session [roll call] mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Thank you, mr. Clerk. We will now convene in closed session. Thank you, mr. Chair. The members will now be leaving this meeting and they will connect with the closed session. After the closed session is concluded, the members will reconnect to this meeting and a summary of the actions taken during the closed session will be reported. Members of the public who are connected to this call may remain connected to this meeting and await our return. Thank you very much. My name is alan schumer. I am a fourth generation san franciscan. In december, this building will be 103 years of age. It is an incredibly rich, rich history. [ ] my core responsibility as city hall historian is to keep the history of this building alive. I am also the tour program manager, and i chair the city advisory commission. I have two ways of looking at my life. I want it to be i wanted to be a Fashion Designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from Family Members, so it was a constant battle between both. I ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. The work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the Garment Industry. I had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. It is almost like an extended family. I have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. She was a dressmaker of the first order. I would go visit her, and it was a special treat. I was a tiny little girl. I would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. The Garment Industry had the at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. You will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. Women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you reached a point where it was a difficult to survive and survive financially. There was a woman by the name of diana. She was editor of the bazaar, and evoke, and went on and she was a miraculous individual, but she had something that was a very unique. She classified it as a third i. Will lewis brown junior, who was mayor of San Francisco, and was the champion of reopening this building on january 5th of 1999. I believe he has not a third eye , but some kind of antenna attached to his head because he had the ability to go through this building almost on a daily basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. The board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. Jeffrey heller, the city and county of San Francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. To impart to the history of this building is remarkable. To see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you Start Talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. With children, and i do mainly all of the childrens tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can Start Talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of San Francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. At times, my clothes make me feel powerful. Powerful in a different sense. I am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. Usually i do that through color, or just the simplicit