On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. City attorney . I just wanted to clarify one thing. The motion was just to accept the modified d. A. Into the board file. It was not because the changes were substantive, just to accept it into the board file. Just wanted to clarify that point. Supervisor fewer thank you very much, madame city attorney. And now i in closing i just want to say to president yee, a very happy birthday, president. Thank you for joining us. And we have another meeting that were very late for. Were over an hour late, but i am going to call a recess for 15 minutes. I would say supervisors have been sitting at this meeting and i think we also sfgovtv wants to transition. So lets take a 15minute break. Lets come back at 2 25. Excuse me, madame chair. I just wanted to clarify that the motion so the motion that were taking, were on item number 4, can we also take a motion on item number 5. Supervisor fewer yes. So i think we would like to send this i make a motion to send this to the full board without recommendations . On the motion, supervisor walton . Walton aye. Mandelman aye. Fewer aye. Three ayes. Supervisor fewer okay. For people listening, the budget and Appropriations Committee will will start at 2 25. And were taking a slight break. And is there any more business in this committee . We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Supervisor fewer good afternoon, everyone. This is the Appropriations Committee. I am joined by Committee Members supervisor walton, mandelman, president norman yee and supervisor matt haney is subbing today for supervisor ronen. Our clerk is linda wong who is assisted today by grant philippa. We would like to thank [inaudible] sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting. Madame clerk . Mr. Clerk. I think that we need to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. Id like to make a motion to excuse supervisor ronen. A second please . Second. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Could i have a roll call vote . Im sorry, could you clarify who is the second . Walt supervisor walton walt supervisor walton. Walton aye. Mandelman absent. Yee aye. Ronen sorry, were excusing her. Fewer aye. Clerk chair fewer, aye. Supervisor mandelman . Mandelman absent. You have three ayes. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. I believe supervisor haney is substituting today for supervisor ronen. Thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes, madame chair. Due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to order, declarations and directives. Committee members will attend the meeting through video conference. Public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. 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Interpreter [speaking chinese]. Clerk thank you. Chair fewer, that completes my announcements. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Would you please call item number 1. Clerk yes, chair fewer, item 1 is a hearing to identify the Youth Commissions Budget Priorities for fiscal years 20202021 and 20212022 and requesting the Youth Commission to report. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 14156550001. Access code, 146 812 0226, then press pound twice. The system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, we did hear a presentation earlier this year from the Youth Commission about their Budget Priorities, but given that the city had to start from scratch with budget planning, we wanted to give the opportunity to hear again from the Youth Commission about their Budget Priorities. Today, we have with us calvin click, nora hilton, sarah chower and alexander. Youth commissioners, you have the floor. Thank you, chair fewer. Staff, could you share the presentation, please . Yes, give me one second. Great thanks. So good afternoon, supervisors. My name is calvin click. I represent district 5. Im as chair fewer said, im here today with my colleagues to present on the Youth CommissionBudget Priorities for the upcoming two fiscal years. So to begin with, im just going to touch a bit on how the covid19 pandemic has impacted youth and students. Thats part of why were here today. As chair fewer mentioned, as the pandemic has progressed and the city and state have imposed measures to enforce social distancing and Public Health, youth have been and continue to be heavily impacted by measures such as school closures, implementation of distance learning, access to food and nutrition, wellness centres, among other support systems as well as access to Mental HealthServices Provided by school programs. Both the pandemic and the impact has been disproportionately felt in black, brown, and latinx communities. Youth commission has been working with the Youth Services and others to identify how the city can better serve you during this challenging time. So the preface which was included, touches on the specifics of this with some concrete recommendations. So we also have representatives at each our policy committees to present. Im going to turn it over to them to begin with, commissioner chung, for this engagement committee. Excuse me, am i not supervisor fewer your presentation is not progressing. It is just at the first page. Here we go. Yes. Now i see covid19 and shelter in place. Oh. Thats been a while ago. We are on the Civic Engagement page. Chair fewer, your connection may be a little slow. Supervisor fewer oh. Okay. President yee im seeing the correct one. Supervisor fewer oh, i am not. Okay. I see the committees now. So sorry. Maybe my connection is slow. Go ahead. I can hear you. Go ahead. Thanks, commissioner. Im sarah chung, the district 1 appointee and the vice chair of the commission. This past year has been mainly working on the vote 16 campaign to expand Voting Rights to 16 and 17yearolds, but first we wanted to thank you all for Charter Amendment 16 and 17yearolds voting in municipal election on novembers ballot and thank president yee for sponsoring this Charter Amendment. As you know, allowing 16 and 17yearolds to vote will get more young people involved in the democracy by installing the life long habit of voting at a young age. San francisco would become the first major city to expand Voting Rights to 16 and 17yearolds and set a precedent to other major cities throughout the u. S. To follow. But to continue this movement, we need your support. If it passes, we need to make sure we have enough funding for vote 16 to be implemented so we can see a high voter turnout from 16 and 17yearolds in San Francisco. One way to implement vote 16 is to work with the board of education to fully implement their resolution 1622383, encouraging students to exercise their Voting Rights to make further registration and education available so that 16 and 17yearolds can easily register to vote. Voter registration and further outreach would require about 84,556 to 102,000 of funding for the department of elections. After franchising 16 and 17yearold citizens, the next would be to enfranchise 16 and 17yearold noncitizens to make sure our city democracy is taking into account all of the 16 and 17yearolds in San Francisco. Now over to commissioner hilton from the transformative Justice Committee. Hi, im nora hilton. This year, the transformative Justice Committee aligned with the plan as outlined on the image shown in the presentation. We recommend that the budget reflect the wishes of the San Francisco community to defund the Police Department and instead invest in communitybased alternatives to policing an incarceration. The steps outlined are, one, defund the police. Two, demilitarize communities. Three, remove police from schools. Four, free people from jails and prisons. Five, repeal laws that criminalize survival. Six, invest in community selfgovernance. Seven, provide safe housing. Eight, invest in care, not cops. The following in following the first step which is defunding the police and moving away from incourse cars ration incarceration, we recommend that they cut the budget by 50 . We suggest that 25 should go towards a community and peoples budget which was similar to a proposal made in los angeles. 8. 5 should go to the trauma informed counselors and victims of social misconduct. 50 of this should go to equitable education for black, brown and latinx youth. And policing within communities of color and other marginalized communities. With the funds that are created by divesting from the Police Department, we recommend for the expansion of alternative to incarceration for youth. T. A. Y. The following points on the presentation display our recommendations for implementing 28 of the movement and these steps are lelaborated on in our full budget priority. Ill pass this on to commissioner. Im our first recommendation is that the board supervisors work h. S. H. To complete the t. A. Y. Housing plan. The Youth Commission is appalled that it is still not complete five years after it was supposed to be. Lets make this a point to complete it, not stop it like the last recession did. It would cost around 48 million to complete 120 units of this plan. We also recommend that h. S. H. Maintain and have at least one operating Navigation Center and one in the pipeline waiting for construction. We also recommend that the board of supervisors and h. S. H. Work to increase Financial Support services for t. A. Y. This would go to laundry, Case Management and opportunities and the funding should be proportional to the amount of t. A. Y. Inside the system. Our second priority relates to transportation equity. The sheer number of complaints, San Franciscos Transit System does not work for youth. Muni, caltrain, bart, should work for youth and make them equitable. The easiest way for this to be done is to include youth. We recommend that the sfmta needs to make fair policies that work for youth and board of supervisors needs to provide funding that is constant and dedicated to train muni, caltrain and bart. We are em that the sfmta recommend that the sfmta stop working to enforce fares. We also recommend the board of supervisors, h. S. H. Work to eliminate fare [inaudible] 2 million to eliminate this fare, however, this will be offset by admin costs. We also recommend there is increase of funding for the sunset park and increase in funding for improvements to other experiencing extraordinarily high youth ridership. We recommend that the board of supervisors provide funding to muni static electric bus Pilot Project to give muni more experienced operators of electric buses. This would cost 4. 1 million to 5. 3 million. Well now pass it back to commissioner click. Thank you, commissioner. So, lastly, ill just touch briefly on the commissions own budget, which weve talked about during this budget cycle. Back in february, our staff worked with the clerk and board on raising our staff salaries and incorporating money for us to expand our outreach and community events. Although the shelterinplace means that our monetary needs to conduct outreach is less pressing since most events are online. We still need to keep up with the communities we serve and retaining staff, we provide invaluable support to young people on the commission which is increasingly difficult when our staff are all under the 100 a. M. I. Income line. That concludes our presentation and were available to take any questions. Supervisor fewer thank you very much. Colleagues, any comments or questions for our Youth Commissioners . I have a comment and question. So in hiring working on this committee and about the budget proposals, how were you able to during covid19, to engage other youth with feedback on this proposal . Yes. Thank you for that question. That has definitely been a central part of the last few months. So one of the ways that happened is just because a lot of the Community Meetings that were already happened had to switch to being online. So we still have been going to meetings that have happened. And weve also worked we worked together with ocls, counsel and a couple of other partners to meet regularly with them, who were also doing outreach to youth. I know cpa did a big Data Collection specifically on the youth impact of covid19. And so to make sure we were sharing that information, because it is true that its been more difficult to get youth endamaged during this engaged during this time, but its been really important to make sure even more important to make sure were all all youth advocates are talking to each other. So were trying to do our best to keep that going. Supervisor fewer and my next question is, have you do you coordinate with city advisory councils, usfsd, and if you do, in which way . Well, for both 16 and the 17 engagement committee, weve been interacting with the s. A. C. They reached out asking how they can help out with the vote 16 effort. That is a rising phone bank. So i let them know about that and theyre also helping to share other information about getting the word out there about vote 16. Supervisor fewer good. Are they willing to put before the board of education a resolution in support of vote 16 . Yes. Actually sorry. Theyre actually working on a resolution right now to support vote 16 and theyre hoping to put it in front of the board of education soon, i believe. Im not sure where they are, what the status is of that right now. But i do know theyre working on that resolution. Supervisor fewer okay. Thank you very much. I see supervisor walton in the queue. Supervisor walton thank you. Just a couple of things. I want to commend your work and particularly for highlighting the need for transitional age youth housing and emphasizing the importance of that. We have a housing and shelter work group. Please make sure you get that feedback to us, because it is very important and something i want to make sure that the work group focuses on as we come out of covid19 crisis, but also for the longterm. And then just going back to your work with sfusd youth that are in leadership and working on vote 16, have you been working also to try and diversify the Youth Commission and have more opportunities for both public and private school youth on the commission as we move forward as well . So, calvin click again. Yes, that is definitely a concern weve had. So this last i guess i can speak to how we run applications yearly for these commissions. It happens quite regularly. I can speak maybe to some of the outreach weve done and the other staff can help me out if im missing anything. I believe this year weve got we always try to reach out to community worse organizations that work with students. We always got a lot of applications from lowell, but not others. We have applications from Washington High School and a couple of others. Ones that continually tie back to the fact, as you know, supervisor walton, were not paid, prohibited by the charter from being paid in any way shape or form. That includes transportation passes. Were not allowed to have those. It would be a policy matter that would be great on eliminating that barrier. But while were still doing that, we try our best to always reach out to, you know, the communities that are not represented on the commission, that are not in the room, to make sure were at least offering an opportunity as best as that may be. Also, adding onto that. We as calvin said, we did do a lot of work this year reaching out to communities that are not represented adequately on the commission. And then in the meantime, obviously that isnt enough to work for next year, so in the meantime weve been working with Community Organizations that have a really like big population of Public School citizens. Again, like not necessary from lowell, because we have a large percentage of students from lowell. So in the meantime