Clerk okay, mr. President , you do have a quorum. President yee okay. Thank you, please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee welcome, supervisor safai. Lets see. Where are we . On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. President yee go ahead. Clerk yes. The record will reflect that during covid19, members of the board of supervisors participate in the same extent as if they were in the chambers. The board of supervisors believe that all communities with or without the internet have the following available options to participate in this meeting. We will receive your correspondence and make it part of the legislative file. Address the mail to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, room 244, San Francisco, california, 94102. If youre sending an email, you can send it to board. Of. Supervisors sfgov oug board. Of. Supervisors sfgov. Org. If youre watching online, go to www. Sfgtv. Org. If you are watching it on cable simulcast, please note that there is a delay. If you have any problem, call my office at 4155546544. We have someone standing by to help you with your problems. You can provide Public Comment or listen in if you call 14156550001. Enter the code identifying the meeting, which is 1466263696. Press pound, and pound again. To request to speak in Public Comment, press star and three, turn your t. V. Or computer down otherwise, the feedback will be heard when you provide your comments. Items 36 and 37, heres the public hearing to approve the submission of a sales tax to support Caltrain Service. Procedurally, this public hearing moves forward only after item 40 is approved to convene a committee of the whole, which would then be to hear item 37. Further depending on how long all other items will take, that will occur before item 40. Please note that the public hearing may not occur at 3 00 and in fact sometime after 3 00 p. M. But for those who wish to provide general Public Comment, its item 39. The public may speak on items within the subject matter jurisdiction of the board to include the june 23, 2020 Board Meeting minutes, and items 30 through 45. If you are speaking on item 40, that is for the board to convene a committee of the whole to hear item 37, the Caltrain Service item. That is not on the merits of the matter. The merits of the matter will be heard at a public hearing once item 37 is actually called. So if you do speak on item 37 on general Public Comment, well just reorient you and ask you to safe your comments for when the public hearing on item 37 is called. Okay. So all other items on the agenda, items 1 through 23 have already had their noticed public requirements fulfilled at committee and are not available for additional Public Comment today. Again, if youre having issues, contact my office, 4155545584. Second, will all our interpreters let the Community Know that youre here to assist speakers with Public Comment. Well begin with agnes lai, go to mr. Cosenzo, and finish up with the next interpreter. [speaking chinese language] president yee sorry about that noise. Madam clerk, before we get started, could i remind all supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Madam clerk, go ahead and receive go ahead and ask the person who asked for accommodations to go ahead and speak at this point. Clerk operations, mr. Qu, is our caller on the line and ready . Hi. My name is zach. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can, and welcome. Hi. My name is zach, and im a while chair user and disability advocate. Im here today to speak up for people with disabilities. This july has been declared disability pride month by mayor london breed, and unfortunately, there are still many things about access and key quality that we do not have in this city today. Starting with the Audio Quality of the disability accommodation ive been granted to attend this meeting. Its a much lower quality than other officials have to attend these public meetings. Many Board Members have allowed zoom access for better Audio Quality and visual participation for those with disabilities, and yet, this governing board lags on that, and its fall behind other departments who have made improvements for the disabled. This board hardly ever talks about disability, the abuse, mistreatment at laguna honda hospital where patients have been sexually and physically abused, and its ongoing. African americans are twice as likely to become disabled in this city, and this board says it cares about black lives matter, but what are you doing . We were supposed to get a Community Center as proposed by the Dignity Center in 2016. Its now 2020, we have no Community Center, no place to have communities and be together with our fellow people with disabilities. It takes three years to get a curb cut for San Francisco, and 30 years after the passage of the a. D. A. , there are still thousands of curb cuts that have not been made to prioritize the people of San Francisco. I ask the board of supervisors to please, please, please make it a priority. Thank you. Clerk thank you for your comments. Mr. President . I believe youre muted, mr. President. President yee sorry about that. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the june 23, 2020 regular Board Meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, could i have a motion to approve . Supervisor fewer move, fewer. President yee okay. And seconded by . Supervisor mandelma mandelman mandelman. President yee okay. Can you please call the roll. Clerk okay. On the motion to approve the minutes [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay, then. Without objection, the minutes will be approved after Public Comment 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, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee okay, then. Colleagues, are there is there anyone that would like to sever any of these items . Seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, please call the roll for items 1 through 5. Clerk on items 1 through 5 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Then the ordinances are finally passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our unfinished business. Please call the next item. Clerk item 6 is an ordinance to approve an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South reveemt project which approved an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the mission bla south redevelopment project, which modifies the mad use designation for Certain Property in blocks 29 through 32, to add hotel and residential as we are mitts uses, and to make the appropriate finding as permitted uses, and to make the appropriate finding. President yee okay. Colleagues, last week, we continued this item until i could get clerk clarification on the child care project not only on this block, but on the entire project itself. Upon further collusion with the land use and Transportation Committee and the golden state warriors, i am proposed to move this forward today. There are seven sites either built or in the pipeline, including one with 59 slots around that area. I know they are committed to continue to push for San Franciscos for San Francisco to be a world class city for families with children. I appreciate staff and the warriors for reaching out to further this discussion, and i apologize for my confusion on my position last week, and but i think it speaks to the urgency and need at a time when child care is more needed than ever, especially what were asking from our providers. So madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on this. Clerk on item 6 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 7 is a Charter Amendment, second draft, to amend the charter of the city to provide the future annual adjustments and baseline funding for specific charter mandated funds will not take into account certain changes in city revenue resulting from voter approved business taxes, and to make other specific changes to the citys business taxes, and to increase the citys appropriations limits by the total revenue collected to be submitted to the ballot for the election held on november 3, 2020. President yee colleagues, i just want to express my gratitude to an Incredible Team that put this unified measure forward that is supported by the mayor, a majority of the board, and the sponsors. To my team sponsors, haney and budget chair fewer, peskin, safai, and mandelman, thank you for helping me craft this. It may have been one of my favorite experiences working on the board so far. I also need to give a huge thank you to the city controller, Ben Rosenfield, our chief economist and our City Attorney teams, for their work and collaboration. And, of course, thank you for our work labor and Community Partners who are fighting so hard for our community families. And also thank you to supervisor mandelman and safai for joining as sponsors. I want to summarize the key points for member of the public. This is repealing the payroll tax and replacing it with a gross receipts system. The measured response to the unprecedented economic crisis we are in with a fair, equitable recovery, especially for our Small Business community and our most vulnerable residents, that is why we are calling this the Small Business and economic recovery act. We must recognize that the that this Health Emergency only made existing inequities force, and that the economic burden is not carried evenly. Who is hurting the most right now are working families, small entrepreneurs, and family owned businesses. Recovery must start from the bottom up. We need to provide immediate relief to the hardest hit industries and businesses and also to provide a responsible, Stable Funding source for our future. This this measure has a very critical element, allowing us to unlock funds already collected through our city, our homes, and early care and education for all measures. This measure will free up 300 million for the general fund by placing a back stop tax that only goes into effect if we lose the court cases, and thats a big if. This will allow us to fund the general fund while also freeing up the Housing Support and Early Childhood education support. We are also helping our Small Businesses by exempting them from this business tax for any of them making 2 million or less. This will benefit 3100 businesses, who are barely getting by right now. Small businesses making less than 1 million are also see reductions to their tax fees. We are proposing more measures to help businesses hit hard by covid19 over the course of the next few years. Lastly, it is clear that the economys recovery is not going to be recovered for a while. Therefore, we are proposing that no tax increases are considered until january 2022, in which there will be a small, phased, incremental increase to the tax rates for Large Industries. Future step increases in 2023 and 2024 will be tied to economic recovery triggers. If the economy would not recover, the tax Rate Modification will be deferred to the following year. Our economy is entering into uncharted water, so we wanted to remain nimble and have the flexibility as a city by proposing reporting requirements so that the controller can provide recommendations to the board if taxes need to be further deferred due to the economic conditions. I truly believe the updated measure is balanced by bringing immediate relief to those who need it the most. While the casts to Large Industries are less cost sensitive. Colleagues, i hope i can count on you for your support. This might be one of the most important measures to be voted on this november. So supervisor mar . Supervisor mar thank you, president fee, and also to supervisors fewer, peskin, and haney, and mayor breed and all of your staff for your work on this very important measure. Yeah, and and also to the controller Ben Rosenfeld and everyone who worked on this. This is an important tax for our tax four Small Businesses tax for Small Businesses, so thank you very much, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. President yee thank you very much for your comments. Supervisor haney . Supervisor haney thank you, president yee. This is one of my favorite projects, too. I know that this is a very challenging thing to do to bring together all of these different parties, all of these different supervisors, the mayor, the prop c and baby c coalitions and do it on such a tightened timeline, and to do it in a way that was balanced, you know, i think this is a measure that is desperately needed right now, both to make sure we have the urgent funds required to continue to respond to this crisis and protect essential services, and also to provide some relief to our Small Businesses when theyre suffering a great deal during this time. So i think where we ended up is a great and necessary economic recovery measure, and i do hope that the voters join us in supporting it, and i can say without a doubt there are a lot of people involved in this. Supervisors peskin and fewer who did an extraordinary job, and their respective staff, and all of the coalitions, but this would not have happened without you and your leadership, in your final year as president , this is just a great testament to what you have contributed to our city. And finally, the prop c coalition, we should recognize the work that theyve done to both pass those measures and now to continue to fight to be able to have the spending and to support us in seeing this across the finish line this november is just tremendous, and i want to acknowledge them, as well, but also, president yee, you and your staff for your leadership. President yee thank you, supervisor haney. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. What you said, what supervisor haney said, but you steered the ship incredibly well, as i said, when it was in the Budget Committee last week. You exceeded, i think, all of my expectations, and i got a little bit of history with our business tax. I mean, everybody may know that our business tax was actually goes way back to the days when Dianne Feinstein was our mayor in the late 1990s. San francisco was sued for its hybrid gross receipts payroll structure. I was on the board when we had to settle that lawsuit and actually retire our gross receipts tax and go to a payroll only tax. That was commonly referred to as the filthy 52 multinational corporations that brought suit against San Francisco and even threatened to bankrupt the city. We ended ups settling that lawsuit, i believe, in 77 million in debt bonds. When i was out of office, the iteration of the gross receipts payroll that we were putting on the ballot that we are putting on the ballot today was crafted, and frankly, it gave Information Services commonly known as big tech a tax holiday that theyve enjoyed now for almost a decade, and this tax immediately addresses that in a way that i really think is about what taxation policy stands for, which is is economic fairness in our society. And we went a lot further not only retiring the payroll tax but by exempting Small Businesses and increasing that threshold. And obviously, a lot of the policy thinking that we all were influenced by was a result of covid19, so i just wanted to say in all, i think it is a remarkably fair package. Im delighted that the mayor has come on in recent days fully on board. So i want to thank mayor breed, and our controller, Ben Rosenfield, and his staff. Ben did not do it by himself, ted egan did not do it by himself. He had some incredible staff, and every time we asked for some new modelling and changed one thing in this remarkably complex package, he was able to show us what that meant in his crystal ball. Lets be clear, there will be more adjustments in the future. Took us a number of clears to get the gross receipts data that the city was lacking in order to make the adjustments that are in the tax schedules that will go before the voters, and these tax packages are not static. If the economy fails to recover, the board can choose not to implement portions of them and delay portions, so we will cross those bridges as we get to them. And i want to say even Large Businesses and Small Businesses realize this is a fair and right package that will allow San Franc