Good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calling 408 4189388. That number is 408 4189388. The meeting i. D. Is 1467992222. Again, thats 1467992222. Press pound and pound again. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussions but you will be muted and listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. Best practices are from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly and tun down your television and radio. You may submit Public Comment. You can reach me at erica. Fmjor sfgov. Org. If you see a card a email it will be forwarded to the supervisors and part of the official file. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda of july 14th, unless otherwise stated. The planning code to allow the consolidation or merger of groundfloor storefronts in north beach special use district for R San FranciscoPolice Department functions or Space Associated with such use and appropriate members of the public who wish to revise Public Comment on this idea should call the number 408 4189388. Meeting i. D. Is 146799222, press pound and pound again. Press star 3 to lineup to speak. Supervisor peskin this is a drafted piece of legislation to allow the merger of two storefronts to merge two properties that both have been leased to Central Station to allow those twostore two storeo consolidate during the covid19 period to give a little bit of breathing room to the inspectors that habitat at that spot. This is part of a piece of property that has 34 singleresident occupancy hotel rooms above that the city has expressed center in purchasing that is by way of full disclosure and the Planning Commission waved its 90day period to review this pursuant to the charter i would like to open this up to Public Comment. Seeing no questions from members, are there any members of the public would who like to item on item number 1 . Clerk operations is checking to see if there are any callers in queue. There are no callers wishing to speak. Supervisor peskin this is been without controversy in district 3. Seeing no Public Comment, Public Comment is now closed. And colleagues, if theres no objection i would like to send this item to the full board with recommendations. Madam collect, could you please call the roll on that motion . Clerk on the motion as stated by supervisor peskin, supervisor preston. Aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Superivsor safai aye. Clerk supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin aye. Could you read the second and final item. The reenacting of emergency ordinance number 620 to temporarily prohibit rent increases that would be permitted under the administrative code due to covid19 pandemic. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 408 4084189388. The meeting i. D. Is 1467992222 and press pound and pound again. Supervisor peskin this committee voted on this legislation, which is emergency legislation that lasts for 60 days and is expiring on june 23rd. It was approved unanimously by the board of supervisors this will extend the norent increase for 60 days during the covid19 period. Do you have any questions or comments colleagues . No. No, mr. Chair. Seeing none. Supervisor peskin. I just want to thank you for renewing this and asking to be add as a cosponsor as i was on the original legislation. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor safai. This is your opportunity to be a cosponsor. Superivsor safai yes, please add me. Members of the public would would like to comment on this item . Mr. Chair, operations is checking to see if there are any callers in cue. There are no callers wishing to speak. Thank you Public Comment is closed and i would like to make a motion to send this with recommendation as a Committee Report for hearing at full board of supervisors tomorrow, july 7th. On that motion a roll call, please. Clerk on the motion as stated supervisor preston. Supervisor preston aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Superivsor safai aye. Clerk supervisor press kin. Supervisor peskin aye. Clerk you have three ayes. We are adjourned. 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 simplicity of the look, or sometimes the complication of the look. I have had people say, do those shoes really match that outfit . Retirement to me is a very strange words. I dont really ever want to retire because i would like to be able to impart the knowledge that i have, the knowledge that i have learned and the ongoing honor of working in the peoples palace. You want a longterm career, and you truly want to give something to do whatever you do, so long as you know that you are giving to someone or something youre then yourself. Follow your passion and learn how to enrich the feelings along the way. I have 2 job titles. Im manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. This building is multifaceted to say the very least its a Municipal Building that operates the city and county of San Francisco. This building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of San Francisco in 1912. He didnt have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. Construction began in april of 1913. In december 1915, the building was complete. It opened its doors in january 1916. Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the United States capital. You could spend days going around the building and finding something new. The embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. President yee good afternoon and welcome to the july 7, 2020 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 , you have a quorum. 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 on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of the meetings and the transcripts are available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. During the covid19 pandemic, members of the board of supervisors will participate in the meeting to the extent they are present in their public legislative chamber. The board understands the need for Public Access is more acute during this covid19 pandemic, and the board believes its essential to have the public participate in this meeting. I will just reiterate some of the opportunities that members of the public have. We are able to receive your written correspondence and make it part of our file. Our address is San Francisco board of supervisors city hall, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. If you are sending via email, you can send it to board. Of. Supervisors sf. Gov. If youre using a television, you can go to channel 26. The meeting is cable cast. It does have a bit of a delay, so if you are if you are watching, and youre utilizing your telephone to listen to the meeting, please make sure you mute your television. If you have access or connection issues, please contact my office at 4155545184. We have someone standing by specifically to assist you with getting access to this meeting. We are also posting Virtual Office hours or workshops to help you or a group to use this system, walkthrough, and answer any questions that you might have. If youre utilizing your touch phone, you will be able to listen to the proceedings and participate in Public Comment. Heres the telephone number. Should be streaming across the television. Its 14084189388. That is 4084189388, and when prompted, enter the meeting i. D. , which is 1467445071. Press pound twice, and youll be able to listen to the meeting as it is happening. Lets see here. Two last points. We have two interpreters with three interpreters standing by to assist anyone wanting to provide their Public Comment in language. Im going to ask each interpreter to introduce themselves in their language and then let the Community Know that youre here for them. Well just start with faye. [speaking foreign language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk mr. Lisenzo, please. [speaking spanish language] interpreter thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you. And miss li, please. [speaking chinese language] interpreter thank you. Clerk thank you. Thank you, all. Two last points, mr. President. We did receive a communication from supervisor walton, indicating that he would be late to todays meeting and is requesting that his comments could excuse him until his arrival. And finally, we do have, pursuant to title 2 of the americans with disabilities act which provides persons with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in the programs and Services Offered through the city, through a prior arrangement, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone, and we would like to be able to provide the accommodation as requested. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. So why dont we take the first issue first. Can i have a motion to excuse supervisor walton until he gets to the meeting . Pi supervisor peskin so moved. Supervisor preston seconded. President yee so moved by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor preston. Can i have a roll call vote, please. Clerk on the motion to excuse supervisor walton [roll call] supervisor walton madam clerk, yi am here. Supervisor peskin i would like to make a motion to rescind my motion. Second. Clerk okay. So the record will reflect that supervisor walton has arrived. Nice to see you. Supervisor walton thank you so much. Sorry for being late today. Clerk okay. President yee before we get started, just a friendly reminder for all the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback, and madam clerk, i understand, as you mentioned, that there is a request for accommodation for a member of the public who wishes to do Public Comment. Madam clerk, is there a speaker who wishes to make Public Comment . Clerk were checking right now. Is the caller available right now, mr. Kao . Operator madam clerk, he is. Let me unmute the line now. Clerk thank you. Ill set the timer for two minutes when he begins speaking. Hi. My name is zach, and im a disability advocate and Community Organizer and district 9 voters. I want to thank Angela Calvillo for her efforts towards improving accessibility to these meetings. Im here expressing a concern that San Francisco has one of the smallest urban canopy in the country. Theyre cutting down more trees during covid19, even though scientific studies has sloane that air pollution has been limpged to has shown that air pollution has been linked to more covid19 infections, and the board goes alo of apl goes along with all of these tree killings because the Vice President , darryl honda, is friends with chris buck. I urge the board of supervisors to investigate and take action on this egregious conflict of interest. By the way, this happened on july 1. Just last week, darryl honda was bragging with his relationship, his personal relationship with chris buck. I posted this on youtube. The board of appeals is one of our most important departments and cannot function properly or be remotely in line with all of this personal bias. Please suspend all the tree killings in 2019, especially those ordered by mohamed nuru before his arrest by the f. B. I. Id like to point out that the head of this department that ordered many of these tree killings was arrested by the f. B. I. Clerk thank you for your comments. [inaudible]. Clerk than