President yee good afternoon and welcome to the june 30, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. Before we move into the meeting, i would ask that all participants please turnoff your camera. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all the meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during the pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the board meeti meeting through online conference as though present inperson in the chambers. We will receive your written correspondence and make it part of the file if you send it by u. S. Mail. Our address is San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall room 244. San francisco, california, 94102. If youre sending by email, send to board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. Org. If youre able to watch online, youll go to www. Sfgov. Com. You can watch on your t. V. On channel 26. Were working hard not to leave anyone out of these proceedings. Were happy to host a virtual workshop with you or a group. You can join our Virtual Office hours mondays through fridays. You can use your telephone if you want to both listen to the proceedings or provide Public Comment if you dial 14084189388, and when prompted, enter the meeting i. D. 1461235541. Press pound twice. Youll have joined to listen to the meeting in progress. Ill make a note that regarding the specific order or items eligible for Public Comment, items 1 through 23 are not eligible, as they have each had Public Comment previously satisfied at individual hearings at a committee and are not eligible for additional Public Comment today, but items 24 through 27, the special item at 3 00 p. M. Is a public hearing on the appeal of conditional use authorization at 1420 taraval street. It will have its own Public Comment both on the project and the merits of the project. Shortly thereafter, general public will be agendized. The matters will receive Public Comment on items not on the agenda, and you can speak on items 31 through 37, the adoption for reference without committee calendar. We have two interpreters standing by to assist listeners in Public Comment. Interpreters, please join in now, starting with miss amelia lau, and then mr. Lorenzo cosenza. [speaking chinese language] interpreter thank you. Clerk okay. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you to all three interpreters. Mr. President , pursuant to title 2, the americans with disabilities act which provides americans with disabilities with an equal opportunity to participate in the program, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone. We would like to provide the accommodation as requested, and the caller is prepared to make those comments now. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. So before he does this, id like to give everybody a friendly reminder to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. So madam clerk, please invite the speaker. Clerk thank you, mr. President. Operations, please send the speaker through. Speaker, you know youll have two minutes. Welcome. Hi. My name is zach. Im disabled, and im a disability advocate and a Community Organizer and a voter of district 9. I want to thank Angela Calvillo for his effo her effort to enlarge participation in these meetings. Its really sad to see the citys response has been to shutdown the Mayors Office on all disability meetings for the past four months. Deputy director Deborah Kaplan has been ignoring my emails for months, when theyre supposed to file complaints for a. D. A. Access issues. This department is not functioning like its supposed to, and i would like to know if the board of supervisors can do anything about this. The ten digit access code, the very short time for the input of the access code, the lack of an ability to auditorily enter the access code, the fast scrolling of the access code on the screen on the sfgov website, and the lack of information on the board of supervisors website and many other websites for the meetings. They dont say the many great stuff that was just said a few minutes ago. If would be great if departments could have that information, postit clearly on their websites. A lot of websites say come down to city hall to this room, and of course, thats not available. We need to have special accommodations for our disabilities. I urge the mayboard of supervis to work with the Mayors Office of disabilities to figure out why they refused to release information on the [inaudible] for people with disabilities and also look into why theres repeated sexual abuse of disability people at laguna honda. Clerk thank you for your call, sir. Thank you, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam clerk and caller for arranging this accommodation. And lets go to our approval of our meeting minutes. Clerk thats the may 19, 2020 regular Board Meeting minutes. President yee all right. Do i have the minutes from the may 19, 2020 regular Board Meeting. Do i hear any changes to the minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve . Supervisor ronen ronen so moved. Supervisor mandelman so moved. President yee ronen, so moved, and seconded by supervisor mandelman. Madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk on the minutes [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the minutes will be approved after Public Comments as presented. Madam clerk, lets go to our Consent Agenda. Please call items 1 through 5. Clerk items 1 through 5 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, the item can be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, then, madam clerk, please call the roll on items 1 through 5. Clerk on items 1 through 5 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The Consent Agenda is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our regular agenda, item 6. Clerk item 6 is authorization to allow the department of Public Health to accept and expend 105,000 from the epic charitiable fund to help lowincome and atrisk populations or the period of february 28, 2020 through february 27, 2021. President yee all right. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. This was on our agenda last week and required a new title because president yee youre muted again. Supervisor peskin okay. Hows that . Thank you, colleagues. This item was on our agenda last week and was continued one week because the title and the uses of the charitiable gift changed. I just wanted to express my slight discomfort with this item. I mean no disrespect to epic or the department of Public Health, and i understand that the representation from the department of Public Health is that this donation was not solicited, but this is a company that was doing a very that is doing a very extensive project for the city and county of San Francisco. Im reticent to accept a grant like this. It seems to me if a charitiable donor wants to make a donation to the city and county of San Francisco, the best way they can do that is by reducing the price of their services, and we, in turn, can then spend the unspent general fund dollars on what we choose to appropriate it to. And i realize this budget is only 105,000, but im uncomfortable with it. I mean no disrespect to d. P. H. Or epic. Given everything thats going on, i wanted to express my discomfort with it and the fact that im not going to be able to vote for it, and im sorry, mr. President , for my problem with the mute button. President yee okay. I see no one else who wants to speak, so madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk on item 6 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes and one no with supervisor peskin voting no. Supervisor safai that sounded like an aye to me. Supervisor peskin no. President yee okay. With a vote of 101, item 6 is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call items 7 and 8 together. Clerk item 7 and 8 comprise the proposed interim budget and appropriation ordinan ordinance and budget for 2020 and 2021 and 2022, continuing, creating, or establishing these positions. President yee thank you, madam clerk. So there was some discussion on these two items last week and not so much on the items themselves, but in terms of what we can and cannot do in terms of the vote, and i believe theres some clarification that as we vote on this, one can vote no on this, and if the majority of the vote is in favor of passing these items, then it will pass, even though its a no vote. Deputy City Attorney pearson, is that correct . Yes, president yee, that is correct. Okay. Thank you ve. President yee thank you very much. Supervisor preston, did you want to speak . Supervisor preston you know, i wanted to speak on the standards, but you clarified that, and also, thank you to the controller for walking me through some of my concerns. I continue to be concerned with a budget that contains police funding, but i thank the controller for taking the time to discuss the budget with me this past week. Thank you. President yee thank you. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. I just wanted to thank my colleague, supervisor preston, for finding this conundrum that were in, for pointing it out in this budget process. I am on the budget committee, and i am ashamed to say that i did not notice this increase spread when we were in committee, but it really does bother me. Either were going to be serious about reenvisioning Police Reform in our city and diverting that money into other areas and into the black community, into better ways of dealing with homelessness and Mental Illness or were not. I see no reason to be increasing the Police Budget by close to 50 million and then decreasing it in a month. You know, it again, like, we should be consistent, we should be sending a clear message, and we should be serious about that. So im also going to be joining my colleague, supervisor preston, in voting no on this interim budget. Im serious about Police Reform. Im thrilled that the mayor and supervisor walton are taking the lead on diverting funds from the Police Department into the black community, and i see no reason to increase the budget now, only to be decreasing it later. I think that sends mixed messages. Thank you. President yee okay. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you, president yee, and i am going to briefly state, like i said in last weeks Board Meeting, i cannot in good conscience support a budget that has increases for the Police Department when we have made it clear the board of supervisors, that we have made it clear as a city that we will be redirecting money from the Police Department to invest in the city. I will not be supporting this budget as it is today. President yee okay. Thank you, and thank you for comments, colleagues. It is kind of strange that this is supposed to be an interim budget thats basically looking backwards and projecting forward. Even during a rebalancing activities, that you would think that the budget for the Police Department would go down and not up. It is strange. I also know that this is an interim budget thats pretty much not used it will not be used for necessarily for next years budget, so im comfortable that the impact on this year, it sends the wrong message is pretty nil. I will vote in support of it for the rest of the budget. Okay. Roll call, please. Clerk thank you, mr. President. And i will say that should item 7 and 8 be approved, my staff will do something a little different. They will be preparing the interim budget to move to the mayors desk sooner rather than later as the controller has mentioned the time sensitivity on the budget. On items 7 and 8 [roll call] clerk there are 6 ayes and 5 noes, with supervisors preston, ronen, safai, and haney in the dissent. President yee thank you, colleagues, for the vote. The vote is final, with a 65 vote, and it passes. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 9. Clerk item 9 is a Charter Amendment to amend the charter of the city and county of San Francisco to authorize youths aged 16 and 17 to vote in municipal elections at an election to be held on november 3, 2020. President yee colleagues, today, i am proud to join supervisors fewer, walton, haney, supervisor, preston, safai, and mandelman to extend Voting Rights in municipal elections to 16 and 17 year olds. I would like to thank the San FranciscoYouth Commission and youth advocates who have been working to make San Francisco the first city to allow 16 and 17 year olds to vote in municipal elections. I want to thank you for your tireless effort. It is so important at this time in our city and country we take steps to secure our democracy and take steps to ensure we have a government that works for everyone. It is essential that young people develop a habit of voting as young as possible and continue to participate in our democracy throughout our lives. Voting in the United States is far lower than other established democracies, and turnout is lowest among voters from 18 to 29. So when you look at that subgroup, only 30 of those voters actually vote, which is really low, and so theres also evidence that other cities and countries, they have set the minimum voting age at 16 show that lowering the voting age increases the voting turnout among young voters and even encourages parents to vote at higher rates. In San Francisco, voting turnout is lowest in the two neighborhoods with the highest number of youth and children. Thats bayview and visitacion valley. We know that on issues we vote on as a city dont just impact everyone anyone thats just 18 and over, they impact our young people also. 16 and 17yearolds dont have a say in the decisions that we make about their education system. 16 and 17 year olds can be tried as adults, but they dont have a say in our criminal justice system. And 16 and 17 year olds can get a job and pay taxes, but they dont have a say in our voting results. They can have a say in education, transportation, housing, policing, and Economic Development, and they deserve to have a say. Over many decades, they have had the opportunity to live and work in San Francisco, and weve seen that they can and want to navigate complex issues. They are at the forefront of local national and global movements, movements to end gun violence, reform our communal justice systems, and confront the challenges of Climate Change are being led by our youth. Earlier this month, 10,000 people joined a youthled protest at Mission High School to demand justice for george floyd and end the systemic oppression, racism, and other problems that communities of color continue to endure. Young people are capable of changing the world for the better, and we will stand alongside them and let their voices be heard. The struggle of equal Voting Rights extends back to the earlier days of our nations history where our right to vote belonged solely to white adult males. We have come a long ways but still have to ensure that everyone who has been afforded a right to vote in this country is able to cast their ballot on election day, and we have a long way to go to ensure that groups who have not yet been afforded the opportunity to vote but so greatly deserve to do so by extending their rights. That is what this fight is about. This is about moving us forward as a city and sending a message to our country at a time when we are confronted with division, gridlock, and so many seemingly intractable problems. It is about recognizing that our youth have always, always pushed our city and country forward, and it is about recognizing that our democracy is stronger when everyone is informed, engaged, and able to participate in decision making. And i just realized recently that even the state is almost following suit by allowing 16 and 17 year olds to vote in state elections. Colleagues, please join me in putting this item on the november 2020 ballot. Thank you so much. Madam clerk, can you take the roll, please. Clerk on item 9 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the item is submitted to the november 2020 ballot unanimously. Madam clerk, can you please go ahead and go to new business and call the next item. Clerk item 10 is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code to permit the City Attorney, with the consent of the county recorder, to allow or settle Real Property transfer tax claims for refund and lawsuits in excess of 35,000