Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors July 12, 2024

Good afternoon and welcome to the regular meeting of the san not frasanfrancisco board of su. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum. President fung thank you. Please praise your right hand over your heart and join me in reciting 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. I would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, ka lena who recorded each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications. Clerk yes, mr. President , i want to thank the president and the members for the length of this communication. The minutes will reflect due to the covid19 pandemic, member of the boards of supervisors will participate remotely through video conference. 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Either items 1821 its the appeal of certification of conditional use authorization for a proposed project at 95 murdoch street and shortly, item 23 will be called that is general Public Comment where members of the public can provide comments on items. We are asking that you not provide comment on the Consent Agenda and the unpublished unfid business as they have had their Public Comment. You are able to comment on the items that come after general Public Comments. These are items 2428. To provide comment at either of these two hearings, when the item is called, can you dial 415655001 and when prompted enter the access code 145130268 and press pound twice. That telephone number is scrolling across the television, channel 26 and across the livestream at sfgov. Org. If you wish to enter the speakers cue and i will provide this information again. You will dial star 3. The system will enter you into the speakers line and it is best if your location is quiet. 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Org and also access it from our website sfbos. Org and watch channel 26. Theres a cable broadcasting delay. If you have a smartphone and you have access or connection issues, contact my office. Thank you for your patients and the length of my communication. President fung before we get started, just a friendly reminder, for all the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedba feedback. We have the minutes from the may 5th, 2020 regular Board Meetings and the april 29th, 2020 special meeting of the budget and finance Committee Meeting and the april 29th, 2020 special Meeting Minutes of the budget and appropriations Committee Meeting. Which constitutes a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes to these minutes . Seeing none. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . So moved. Supervisor safai. Second. Peskin. Ok. Motion made and seconded. To improve these so madam clerk, would you call the roll. [roll call] there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee without any objection, the minutes will be approved after Public Comment has been presented. So, before we get into our regular agenda, i want to take this opportunity to allow for a few of my colleagues to give us some updates. Every so often i want to do this because whats not spoken about on the agenda are some of the work that many of my colleagues and board of supervisors are doing outside of their normal workload and given theres been different work groups and different structures to improve our communication between the legislative branch and the Administrative Branch and as things sort of evolve, we try to find new structures to continue the improvements so, in most recent weeks, weve performed a future policy working groups and there are five working committees to look at different issues and the committees are government reopening, economic recovery reopening, childcare and School Opening and homelessness inhousing and transportation as the five buckets. Each of these committees actually have co sponsors and one by not co sponsors but co chairs and each committee would have one supervisor as a cochair and the other cochair is someone from the administrative departments. So, id like to give them an opportunity and updated i would like to start with our chow care is supervisor catherine stefani. Would you like to give us an update. Yes, thank you president yee. Im reporting out on the working group for reopening Government Services which i co share which is our administrator naomi ellie. They identified which services and employees will need to be reengaged as we reopen. For reference, 21,000 City Employees are currently working inperson and remaining 10,000 will be reengage in phases 2, b, 3 and 4. The main challenge snow squalls how to conduct inperson business in a manner that insures the safety of the public and the City Employees. To that end, our work is focused on Government Services with significant interactions with the public including board and Commission Hearings, services and city hall including the treasure and tax collect or accessory quarter and sheriff and elections. Also, permit center and criminal Justice Agency and hall of justice. We plan to develop health and safety and review and they certify they can meet health and safety requirements. One of the major questions the board of supervisors needs to consider is how and when this body will resume inperson meetings. We have the ability to decide when that happens. Last week i sent you all a survey asking for your initial thoughts presented by emails and i have heard from supervisor peskin and president ye e on saturday at our meeting, i know many of you would like more information about risk of transmission and what kind of Technology Solutions are available. However, before we can put together some options, we need to know how urgent each of you feel the need to resume inperson meetings is. Whatever plan we adopt will be developed to reflect the input of this body. The requirements of the city charter and the advise o adviceo best ensure safety. That plan needs to be accessible to the public as possible. Last week we heard from a Public Commenter who expressed a deep frustration with how challenges providing remote Public Comment has been and i was going to mention in this in roll call but ill mention it now. Im introducing a letter of inquiry to the Mayors Office of disability and the department of disabilities and aging services to ask for their Technical Expertise and assistance regarding how to improve the accessibility of remote Government Services and public participation. So i look forward to continuing to update you all on the progress of our working group on reopening local Government Services and really looking forward to your input with regard to the email i sent last week. Thats my update, thank you president yee. Thank you, supervisor stefani. Next i would like to ask sour supervisor cochair for Economic Recovery Committee and that would be supervisor mandelman. Thank you, president yee. So our economic reopening or recovery policy workgroup is co chaired by me and carmen chu. We are we have been convening meetings brought together and leadership of various departments that are involved and you are going to be and the work and the what is happening on the Economic Recovery Task force and in this Smaller Group and it will be an opportunity for Department Heads to think through some of the challenges around reopening and some of the communities in the more aspirational thinking about having a City Different that works effectively and makes our city more sustainable and more friendly with the public and i come up with a charter for our group and we have had our commercial meeting with the Department Heads and were going to move forward. Carmen is doing amazing work both on the task force and also sort of coordinating some of the work with publichealth around the reopening and the phasing. So, proud and honored to be part of that and support her efforts and the work that the departments are doing. Thank you, supervisor mandelman. Id like to ask the cochair for the issues and opening up schools and after School Programs and Childcare Centers and supervisor, would you like to give us a brief report . Thank you, president yee. I am the cochair of this committee on schools and early education, childcare with dcyf director maria sioux and obviously this is involving a lot of coordination with the other departments and especially in the case of the schools with the School District, we have a number of people from the School District represented on our committee and weve broken up into throw different sub groups. One focusing on transportation needs, the second focus on facilities and the third working with mph to develop guidelines and we set out a number of different buckets that we have to figure out. As you can imagine, there are a lot of questions about not just having the facilities needed but having the p. P. E. And the rules around distancing and how to enforce them at the school sites. Sfmt a and dph are involved with these sub groups. We are able to look at the state guidelines which were just released as well as what a number of different School Districts around the state and country are doing. Were reviewing all that and obviously with the moving as quickly as we can because so much of this citys determination about reopening is connected to when students can go back. A lot more to come. Thank you. Supervisor yee thank you. Thank you supervisor haney. I would like to ask the cochair for the policy group than is addressing homelessness, housing and so fourth. And that would be supervisor walton. Would you like to give a little update . Thank you so much, president yee. As you stated i am cochairing the working group for housing and shelter with Abigale Stewart khan and the department of homelessness and supportive housing. Our goal is to address the needs of people experiencing homelessness and mitigation impacts of unsheltered homeless outlining options or policy proposals for safely increasing housing and shelter capacity over the short and longterm. Were focused on five areas and our scope system planning, housing, shelter outreach, financing and the fifth component is behavior health. So weve already met to talk about system planning, housing opportunities and Behavioral Health and outreach and systems and other shelters options are those to make sure when we come out of covid19 shelter in place that folks are actually inhousing or in settings that keep them off the street. We do not want anyone to come out of this crisis and out of shelter in place and be unhoused and not have shelters so that sour major focus. We continue to meet weekly with the group and its also made up of community providers, representatives from the department of publichealth, the department of homelessness and sorsupportive housing as well as Housing Community development and director from Human Services agencies. We also continue to meet saturdays with the rest of our working groups top talk about the entire system of care for what were going to do coming out of covid19. So we are excited about the work and well also be providing opportunities for our colleagues to engage provide input. Supervisor yee were going to able open anything up and transportation is a vital piece of the puzzle here and so the cochair for that, the supervisor cochair for that policy group is supervisor peskin. Would you like to give a report . Thank you, president yee and let me start by thanking you for this new structure. Its been productive and helpful and ive been pleased to work with my cochair with the city and county of San Francisco, jeff tumlin. As we all witnesses and experienced congestion in San Francisco went dow down remarkay and actually sped up as we all know, core service has been increased with many of the lines havent been temporarily eliminated and as the economy reopens and congestion comes roaring back, we have a set of difficult but imperative choices to make relative to moving the most efficient Greenhouse Gas saving technology that we have called muni and i know a number of supervisors are supportive of taking temporary measures particularly on the eastside of the city that mr. Tumlin and the working group has been advancing and our time is really very short and if bee if we have a successful economic recovery making sure we do so by minimizing congestion is societal imperative, there are any number of elements to this and we will receive a briefing from mr. Tumlin at the San Francisco county Transportation Authority at 10 00 a. M. On june the 23rd, which all 11 of us and the public will be in attendance. Supervisor yee thank you, supervisor peskin. And thank you for all five of you for all your work that you are putting into this because its not just that once a week, its several meetings associated with that and so that we can actually hear each other out in regards to the different buckets and one of the things that we didnt want to do is sorry. One of the things we didnt want to do is have these policy and discussions and so its nice to be able to actually bridge that. I also want to give some credit to supervisor and we were partisan in trying to figure this out so thank you supervisor fewer. Ok, thank you very much for your updates and im probably going to come back around just to warn our other colleagues, supervisor ronen, maybe in the future making give us another update on sf give and for the recovery Economic Recovery Task force that supervisors preston and supervisor mandelman for future updates. Ok. All right. Madam clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda. Please call item number 16. Clerk items 16 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects an item may be removed and considered separately. Would anyone like to severe items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, call the roll on items 16. Clerk on items 16 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. Supervisor yee the ordinance are passed on First Reading an

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