State wide sta stay at home ordr and declarations of directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same ex at the present time if theyre present. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. On channel 26 and sftvgov. Org. Each speaker will allowed two minutes to specific. And call the none on the screen. 408 4189388. The meeting i. D. Is 146 9957258. Again, thats 146 9957294and you will hear the meeting discussion and you will be muted in is lening mode only. When your item of interest comes up dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and turn down your television or radio. You may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. Email myself, the land use and transportation clerk, at erica. Major at sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment ve email it will be supervised to the supervisors included as part of the official file. Finally, items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda jule stated. Thank you please read the first and only item on todays calender. An emergency ordinance to establish cleaning and disease prevention standards in Tourist Hotel and Large Commercial Office buildings to help contain covid19. Members of the public, who wish to provide Public Comment on this item, call 408 4189388 and the meeting idea is 1469957258 and if you have not already done so, press star 3 to lineup to speak. You will be indicated that your hand will raise. Thank you, ms. Major. I want to start by thanking my co sponsors, the vicechair of this committee, supervisor safai as well as supervisor walton and i want to recognize my chiefofstaff, sunny angulo who has been working on this legislation over a number of months as the city gets closer to reopening. I represent the district that has long fueled the citys local economy with respect both to tourism asper wonderrance and Northeast Corner in San Francisco and downtown and knob hill and Fishermans Warf as well as office uses in the north of market area, the traditional downtown portion of San Francisco. Its without question that the covid19 pandemic has hit this city hard, not just because of the loss of visitors during this time but also to the impacts to workers and our essential workers. We all know from our daily brief beings with the department of publichealth that our essential workers, particularly are lowwage workers of color and in the Latin X Community are at the top of the list of the most vulnerable grapple to go the virus. Tens of thousands of jobs of San Franciscos ability to attract visitors and San Francisco has really set the standard tornado gating the spread of covid19 starting with the early shelter in place ordinance to an order that my office worked on with the department of publichealth, which created and the Mayors Office which created minimum cleaning standards for our singleresident occupancy hotels. We know that strong sanitization and cleaning protocols have been a key factor in reventing the spread of the virus and keeping our transmission numbers down in San Francisco where we have really been a leader around the country and around the world. So, as we move to reopen, we have to do so safely and to the recovery phase, today it was looking first at guidance set by the World Health Organization and as the culmination of months of discussion and collaboration with our department of publichealth as well as the real experts themselves. Including those Office Buildings. This morning, the secretary treasurer of unite here in local 2, had a piece in the chronicle where they eloquently stated housekeepers, know about cleaning rooms. Listen to us. And to that end, we have received over 1800 letters and emails into court of this emergency measure as well as a few dozen emails from the Hotel Industry and the representatives in opposition. And i want to be clear about what we are going to do during Public Comment. Theres a multi billion dollar industry that has been cutting corners when it comes to reopening. We have seen it in las vegas, we have seen it in other cities in as as were the health of guests and their workers has been con prom highed. Compromised. They want to cut housekeeping out even though international publichealth guidance recognizes the problems with letting grime and germs buildup on high touch surfaces. For the corporate c. E. O. S in this Hotel Industry, many of whom i have to note have gotten federal bailouts from the Trump Administration, actually President Trump himself owns a number of hotels, lets be real, this is all about money. But today, we have an opportunity to vote on the correct side of history and pass policy that puts publichealth and visitors and worker safety first and make San Francisco. I have a number of non substantive amendments that i will introduce and that have been circulated to the clerk and the members of this committee and with that, i will turn it over to my cosponsor, supervisor safai. Superivsor safai thank you, mr. Chair. I think you hit on a lot of the important points. One of the things that i wanted to say is that its really important that when were thinking about the perspective of this and you did, you did emphasize this, i just want to reemphasize this, were looking that the through the perspective of the workforce. This really important to think about how many of these conversations have played out over the last few decades. Whether were talking about daily cleaning, guest rooms. Whether were talking about the amount of men and women it takes to clean an Office Building. I have the Great Fortune of working on the frontlines with the janitors and as they cleaned Office Buildings, ive actually cleaned an Office Building. Ive walked a day in the shoes with these members Standing Shoulder to shoulder with them over an eightyear period. I think its very important to think about this through the perspective of workers. I think my cosponsor, mr. Chair, supervisor peskin, has dedicated his career to that. I know ive dedicated my career to that. I know supervisor preston cares about that. Were looking at this through the lens of the workforce and pulling on their experiences and what they have done in this industry. So when we talk about the Current Practice right now of leaving an option to guess whether they want their room cleaned, thats a Current Practice. To remove that and say to move to another step to say that rooms dont need to be cleaned, that is something that the Hotel Industry has wanted for many years. And thats not something that we would support in this legislation. In fact, we say that rooms should be cleaned daily whether a guest decides not to. Office buildings need a significant amount of disinfect ants and cleaning in all common years. There will be thoughtful amendments made today on the amount of times that should happen. Those are reasonable. But at the end of the day, we want to elevate and ensure that the workers and the workforce are protected. As weve seen this week, if we open up too soon, theres false starts that happen. And cases begin to rise and we put peoples lives in danger. Whose lives are being put in languager . These essential workers that are doing this work on a daily basis. We all want the hotel and tourist industry to open back up. We all want Office Buildings to open back up but we have to do it in a safe way and i believe we struck that balance with the amendments well make today. I also want to say that our county Health Officer, when he understood exactly what we were talking about, i think he engage dr. Tomb as aragon he engage very wonderfully in this process and helped guide the amendments that were talking about and some of the conversations listening to the workforce, listening to the industry and understanding the best way to proceed is. Ill save the rest of my comments for after Public Comment. Mr. Chair, but i think as you said, we have a a wonderful opportunity here to set a standard for an entire industry in this country as we have in other areas being the first, one of the first in the country to be cognizant of shutting down and sheltering in place. Many of the standards and lessons were learning to think about, whether its giving paid time off to get tested so theyll be free to believe that they wont have any retribution for going to get tested. And those cleaning standards and those standards will then make Office Workers feel comfortable to come back to the office and feel comfortable to come back and visit our hotels and our great cities. Thank you mr. Chair and im proud to be a lead cosponsor on this really thoughtful piece of legislation to help our hotel and Office Workers in San Francisco. Thank you, vicechair safai. Supervisor preston. Thank you. Id like to be add as a cosponsor and would like to thank you for the really excellent piece of legislation and just wanted to associate myself with your comments and supervisors safais comments and also add i think this strikes of balance of having specificity of making it meaningful while having the flexibility to make it workable and it just strikes me in reading it that these are more are just broad statements these are specific commitment and requirements and im particularly pleased to see the portions of the law that i think are absolutely essential that deal with protecting workers from retaliation if they believe theres an unsafe workplace and it either report that or refuse to work in an environment that is unsafe and unhealthy. I think its absolutely essential as well as the more enforcement provisions but the anti protections are essential for our essential workers who are putting themselves at risk no matter what precautions are taken in the midst of a pandemic, we know that our essential workers are putting themselves at some level of risk and this ordinance will significantly reduce that risk for workers as well as for folks who are working in these buildings or visiting these buildings. I wanted to to thank you for a thoughtful piece of legislation and thank you for those in your office who i know worked hard on this. Thank you supervisor preston. Madam clerk, lets open this up to Public Comment. Clerk operations is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. Looks like we have 37 listeners and 15 in queue. First speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors, my name is nick im with the Environmental Organization in california. Where a state wide Environmental Organization based in sacramento but we have members all over the state. We submitted a letter on friday with some concerns that we noticed for the ordinance. I apologize that we did not engage earlier. It was not on the radar of the Environment Community until the the end of last week and there was a letter submitted in the sur Rider Foundation and we have a couple concerns. One is the requirement to use singleuse bags which seem unnecessary and goes beyond the recommendations of cdc and then similarly, the requirements to clean the rooms everyday seems to be contrary to commonsense in terms of reducing contact and reducing exposure for workers. And we would encourage the board to consider any process at the department of publichealth or through another entity that could engage hello . Thank you. Next speaker, please. Thank you. President of the united local 2. Thank you for taking think. As you know our union started expressing concerns about the future of the Hotel Industry a couple months ago. Company executives were telling investors they saw opportunities it was a chance to make higher profits. Of course we were worried. Hotel workers are the hardest hit by covid layoffs and they face an uncertain future. Those fears arent theoretical anymore. If you want to see what happens when you leave it to the big hotel chains, to decide their own cleaning standards just look at some the place thats have reopened. Tourist destinations like las vegas, new orleans, and florida. Sheets are going uncleaned and corners are being cut. Workers are going unprotected. Hotel employees are dying as a result. Theres no better case for regulating Business Practices than what were seeing in those places. This just about covid. Its bringing tourists back in the coming years. As the situation and las vegas is known, its not just Hotel Workers who are scared. So too are guests. What happens . Las vegas doesnt really stay in las vegas and it will shape the opinions for years to come. San francisco needs to tell the world were not going there. Were charting a different course all together. All of our hotels should be held with the highest standards now and after covid is see limb is. The healthy building ordinance does that 6789 i hop. I hope it passes and i want to thank you for your leadership and your time today. Next speaker, please. Caller hi. The lodging association. We strongly oppose this pressure so that the health and safety of guests and employees can remain in the hands of publichealth experts. As the hotel communities tries to rebound from the collapse of the demand due to the covid pandemic, ensuring the safety of guests in hotels associates is paramount. Unfortunately, this ordinance before you today goes well beyond any publichealth guidance and will increase covid exposure risk for our associates and our guests and create an incredible strain on the bids Business Operations. It includes requiring regular cleaning at least every 30 minutes of literally dozens of locations, furniture, equipment and ex creasing exposure between guests and employees. Cleaning and dis inspectin disig contradicts cdc guidance. Opening non automatic doors for guests creates exposure and the daily cleaning of it not grounded and creates a exposure between guests and employees and guidance for mandated the daily guest room cleaning must be upon the request of a hotel guests and im importantly, consumers are telling us they dont want interaction with staff either at this time. A recent poll reveals a majority of frequent travel ters travell are uncomfortable with housekeeping entering without advance permission. Please vote no so we can remove politics from this publichealth decision and safely rebuild San Franciscos hotel jobs. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Caller good afternoon, supervisors. An behalf of our hotel and cities im calling in opposition to the Emergency Health ordinance before you today. The health and safety of our employees and our guests has been and always will be our industrys number one priority. We want to bring back our workers quickly and safety to help ensure our city can begin to recover and our employees can get back to work. Covid cleaning pro at the time and they are working with First Responders and vulnerable populations working effectively with the Citys Department of publichealth. This ordinance has been drafted by labor will play for employees at an increased time hell oh again, i was muted and unmuted. I dont know what happened there. But this ordinance was drafted by labor union we can hear you. And will place our employees at increased at a result of day loom room cleaning. Staff enter guest rooms increases a risk to staff and the guests. And limiting close contact is the best way to protect our employees and guests from covid transmission. You will hear from hotels today about how this overreaching ordinance will prevent them from actually opening and keeping them from bringing our workers back. The board of supervisors should not be legislating specific covid guidelines instead its targeted at specific industry. The department of health should be developing these guidelines like they have for other industries as well. This legislation is all cities, state and federal buildings and why are these being added for a specific industry and the public buildings where the legislation is. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is angi and i run the San Francisco merit union square and i started as a Room Attendant and a public space cleaning working as a former housekeeper myself, i know we put our employees first when it comes to safety. We have strict cleaning and protection protocols that have been established based on our brand, standards, industry, state and cdc guidelines. My employees will be safe to come back to work and they do not need your intervenance. This ordinance goes too far and puts them at risk and why its so important does it not apply to government building and only targets specific industries. If passes you are delaying the return of my 175 plus employees with their safe workplace and i owe piece thioppose this ordina. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Caller we oppose this ordinance. Pebble brooke owns 12 hotels and have invested 215 million into them. We paid 60 million in numerous taxes for San Fra