Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the june 15th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. I am supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the Video Conference is rules Committee Vice chair supervisor Catherine Stefani and rules Committee Member supervisor gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young. And id like to thank sfgov tv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. My apologies. Due to the covid19 health emergency, and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stayathome order and all local, state, federal and declaration directives. Committee meetings will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. 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Finally,itemsactedupontodaywill appear on the board of supervisors agenda of june 23rd, unless otherwise stated. That completes my comments for today. Commissioner ronen thank you so much. Can you please read item number 1. Clerk item number 1 a motion reappointing supervisor sandra lee fewer, term ending june 1st, 2022 to the reentry council. Commissioner ronen colleagues, does anyone have any comments or questions . Seeing none, can we please open Public Comment. Clerk yes. Operation is checking to see if theres any callers in the queue. If you have not already done so, please press star three to be added to the queue. For those on hold, please wait until the system has indicated you have been unmuted. We will give operation a moment to double check the queue. Commissioner ronen okay. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for item number 1. Commissioner ronen okay. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, does anyone want to be the honors . Commissioner mar sure. Id be happy to do that. Id like to make a motion to reappoint supervisor sandra lee fewer to the reentry council, and send that to the full board with positive recommendation. Commissioner ronen thank you so much. Can we take a roll call. Clerk on that motion, supervisor stefani . Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar . Aye. Chair ronen. Aye. Clerk the motion passes. Thank you. Can you please raze item number 2. A motion approving appoint of lydia ely, shes redevelopment assessor Successor Agency over board, term ending january 24, 2024. Goo good morning, ms. Ely, is that how you proannouncement pronounce your name. Do you have anything to share with us this morning. Good morning. Supervisors, i know some of you, not all of you. Im pleased to be considered for this spot on the board. I have worked at mocd for ten years and in Affordable Housing for about 25 years on the nonprofit and the government side. Most recently ive been focusing my efforts on Public Housing and as you all know, the Oversight Board is responsible for a number of things, including the completion of the Alice Griffith public house replacement project. Im really excited to be able to expand my knowledge and expertise and serve on this board. And id be happy to answer any questions about my qualifications or experience, if you have any. Supervisor ronen colleagues, any questions . Supervisor stefani no, i want to say i have enjoyed working with you over the years, especially on the edward ii, the project with Community Housing it partnership in district 2. And i know youll be of a great service. So thank you for your service on this. Supervisor ronen thank you. Supervisor mar. No . Okay. Then well open this item up for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this appointment . Clerk members of the public who wish to speak Public Comment on this item should call 415 6550001, access code 145 307 5686. And press and again. Please dial star three to line up to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. I will we will give operations a moment to check the queue at this time. Supervisor ronen thank you. And ill just note that weve been joined by president norman yee. Good morning, president yee. Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue for item number 2. Supervisor ronen okay. So we will close Public Comment. And id also like to thank you, miss ely, for your incredible work over the years. And be happy to make a motion to send this item forward with positive recommendation. Clerk madam chair, i believe we need to amend the motion. Remove the word rejecting the legislation. Supervisor ronen i make a motion to delete the word rejecting throughout the delegation and move forward with positive recommendation. Clerk on that on that motion, supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor mar . Supervisor mar aye. Clerk mare ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk the motion passes. Supervisor ronen thank you. Thanks again, ms. Ely. Can you please read item number 3. Clerk appoint of Anna Van Degna to the redevelopment assessor agency Oversight Board, term ending january 24th, 2022. Supervisor ronen hi, good morning, miss van degna. Do you have any comments or statements for us this morning . Sure. Good morning, supervisors. Im Anna Van Degna, the director of the Controllers Office of Public Finance. Im honored to be here today to consider my potential appointment to the Oversight Board. Ive been a resident of San Francisco for nearly two decades. And my role of the citys finance director, i manage a 4 billion debt portfolio and oversee the issuance of the citys general fund back debt. Prior to joining the city in march of 2018, i worked in Public Finance for over 15 years, assisting california local agencies with the issuance of debt, including redevelopment agencies, both pre and postdisillusion. I understand that the Oversight Board has a fiduciary responsibility for the obligation and the taxing entities that are entitled to receive an allocation of property taxes, once the obligations are met. I appreciate your time and consideration. And please let me know if i can answer any questions for you. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Colleagues, are there any questions . Or comments . No. Okay. Then well open up this item for Public Comment. Is there any member of the public who wishes to speak on this appointment . Clerk again id like to make the statement. Membecall 415 6550001. Access code 145 307 5686 and press and again. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comment. Lets give a moment to operations to check the Public Comment line. Supervisor ronen thank you. There are no callers in the queue. Supervisor ronen okay. Thank you so much. Im going to close Public Comment. And mr. Clerk, id like to make a motion to remove the word rejecting in the legislation and move this item forward with positive recommendation. And again, miss van degna, thank you so much for all of your work for the city. Clerk on that motion, supervisor stefani. Aye. Clerk supervisor mar. Aye. Clerk chair ronen. Aye. Clerk the motion passes without objection. Supervisor ronen congratulations. Thanks so much. Thank you. Supervisor ronen mr. Clerk, can you please read item number 4. Clerk a motion approving rejecting the appointment of cynthia wang to the Entertainment Commission, term ending july 1st, 2023. Supervisor ronen hi, is ms. Wang here with us . Hi, good morning. Good morning. Supervisor ronen how are you . Im so sorry i havent had the chance yet to meet you. But im really looking forward to hearing from you today. And do you have any comments that you wanted to share with us to start off . Sure. Sure. Good morning again, chair ronen, vice chair stefani, supervisor mar. My name is i want to check, my video has you frozen. Can you hear me . Supervisor ronen we can hear you. Yes. Great. Great. My name is cynthia wang, im a freelance native, a Community Activist and a single mom. Its an honor to be nominated to serve on the Entertainment Commission, which as we know promotes and enhances entertainment and nightlife in the city. And regulates the industry by conducting hearings for entertainmentrelated permit applications. This sector includes restaurants, bars, nightclubs, outdoor events, Art Galleries and performance venues. The social spaces has been cultural touch stones, that have fueled our economy and the character of our city. In 2018, we had 3,850 nightlife establishments that employed over 63,000 workers and generated an estimated 7. 2 billion. The motion of such space is being a vital part of our cultural fabric is also deeply personal to me. As a young queer person that grew up here, i found my identity and sense of community in the queer nightlife scene. It is often the first place many of us feel safe and affirmed. Yet only weeks ago, our oldest gay bar announced its closure. Today this industry is among the hardest hit by the Public Health crisis. And we must do everything we can, as a city, to support its recovery. The entertainment and nightlife sectors operated on razorthin margins with high costs and liability exposure, well before the pandemic. With more than 400 restaurant closures in San Francisco, during 2019, Small Businesses were struggling to stay afloat long before social distancing and shelterinplace. The already dire situation has been exacerbated by this pandemic. Many of these businesses are suffering and many may not survive. I believe my career in municipal and landuse law, in Public Policy, hospitality, and insurance equips me with the technical background for understanding the challenges Small Businesses face in this sector and also for understanding the tools that may help them rebuild. I currently work for wang insurance, the small Family Business my parents founded in 1979 in the sunset district. We insure over 1,000 restaurants and bars throughout the state, the vast majority being immigrantowned. In my role i discuss Risk Management on a daily basis. So i have an intimate understanding of the issues they grapple with. I helped a dozen shared spaces and applications. Prior to this, i worked in the Hospitality Industry as a Public Policy manager, as a u. S. Diplomat during the obama administration, and began my career practicing law as assistant City Attorney for several bay area cities, mostly focusing on landuse, zoning and code enforcement. Additionally, as a child of immigrants, a queer woman and a single mom of an sfud kindergartener, i bring deep local roots and hope to be a voice for underrepresented communities. Above Everything Else i would be humbled for this opportunity to roll up my sleeves and apply my experience and skill set to help support an industry in crisis. Supervisor ronen thank you so much. Your experience is tremendous. And i know you had a chance to talk to amy, of my staff, and she shared it with me as well. So you are extremely qualified for this position. I just had a question. I, too, so many of the queer bars and nightlife in the city are in my neighborhood or connected to my district in some way. And i attended the online funeral for the stud, which was inspiring and very, very sad. At the same time, im just wondering what ideas you have to help this industry that is so, so in trouble at the moment. Nightlife is taking one of the biggest hits in the city. And i was wondering if you have ideas for helping helping this industry survive and thrive again. Yeah. Absolutely. Obviously being nominated for this position, i have spent a lot of time thinking about this industry and how to best help it. I think weve all watched the ground shift beneath our feet and this industry plunge into an existential crisis. Ive been thinking about how we as city could help it survive. All should be on the table to reimagine Business Models and how to incorporate entertainment in a way that allows businesses to stabilize and stay open. Based on what were seeing from a Public Health perspective, it might be a long time before crowds can gather again in what weve traditionally known as nightlife. So i think the shared initiative was a very strong start, in helping businesses to build capacity and make up for some of what theyve lost indoors. Some of the other ideas ive had are im not sure how familiar everyone is, but San Francisco does have minimal restrictions regimes when it comes to last performance. It currently requires Art Galleries, restaurants and venues to acquire onetime event permits or limited live permits for any live performance, even nonamplified ones such as poetry readings. I believe loosening some of those restrictions, particularly with nonamplified being the lowesthanging fruit, we can give businesses the ability to bring customers in a safe, socially distanced way, allowing artists, a community hilt very, very hard by the pandemic, earn some extra income. Certainly anything we can do to continue commercial eviction, paired with mortgage or tax relief for owners, at least through the end of 2020, would be wonderful. And then a few other things i think that, as i was talking about before, Small Businesses have been in crisis, you know, for a long time. A lot of it is the result of our local system of you know, best intentioned, interwoven codes, review boards, appeals and fees that dont allow businesses to be nimble and change their uses without a ton of review and processes. So for a bar, for instance, right now that wants to start doing some retail or production, this can be incredibly burdensome and prohibitive and slow in a time when they need to be nimble. So i think we need to think creatively about flexibility of use, spiethed re expedited review, suspension of enforcement when it comes to changes and improvements made for safety, such as togo windows, hand wash stations and again multiple uses of space, whether that involves food togo production, wholesale, maybe suspension of some of these zoning guidelines and reviews processes, while theyre in survival mode. Perhaps remove some of the notifications requirements that theres usually a public notification, change of use process of four to six months as well as removal of successly use limitation. Lastly, you know, ta tax reliefd fees. And then i was also looking at like business programs. I know your predecessor supervisor compost worked with s. F. Heritage on this. And we there have been a list of businesses that have been seen as having contributions to neighborhood history or the identity of a neighborhood or community. I think theres a lot in your district, chair ronen, maybe we can look at opening up that funnel again for, one, the historically important to the Queer Community or certain communities of color as well. And latinx and asian communities as well. Supervisor ronen thank you. Its amazing. Thank you so much. I really appreciate that answer very much. And if you are appointed, i would love to work with you on some of those ideas, because this is a big priority for me and my district. And im very, very worried about this industry. I really appreciate your willingness to serve in this way. Thank you for the really complete and really thoughtful answer. Colleagues, do you have any questions for the applicant . Supervisor stefani i dont have any questions. Thank you, ms. Wang, for being will to step up and serve. We talked about everything that you just discussed, including the restrictive permitting schemes and how we can better there and how we reimagine business. I think youre absolutely one of the most qualified candidates ive ever seen. You are absolutely brilliant. Your experience is remarkable. And your passion is above reproach. I have enjoyed getting to know you, and im so excited to have someone like you serving hopefully. Because i do support you immensely on the