Clerk mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv, who record each of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 pandemic, the members of the board participated remotely Via Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their meeting chamber. The city believes that it is essential all communities with and without internet have the ability to participate remotely in this meeting. Your written correspondence on any item will be made a part of the official file. Address any mail to San Francisco city hall, 944 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. If using your computer, you can access the live extreme by going to sfgtv. Org. If you are watching on cable channel 26, please note there is a delay. If youre calling in, telephone number should be crawling across your television or computer. Its 14156550001, and when you hear the prompt, entering the meeting i. D. 1464274376, press pound, and pound again, and turn down your t. V. , otherwise, youll miss the prompts. Will the interpreters introduce themselves in session, in language to let them know youre here to assist speakers with Public Comment. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation. Interpreter thank you, madam clerk. [speaking tagalog language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. [speaking cantonese language] [end of translation] interpreter thank you. Clerk thank you all for your great assistance. Just a quick word of on what the public is able to provide testimony on. There are two agenda items that are slated to begin consecutively at 3 00 p. M. , each with its own public hearing that the president will call individually. For 26, thats the determination of Community Plan evaluation at 23 harrison street, and the proposed project at 617 sanchez street. For those that wish to provide Public Comment, that is item 39. During Public Comment, you may speak on items of subject matter jurisdiction that are not on the agenda, the minutes, items 43 through 47 on the Committee Reference calendar, and i want to point out item 47, whether or not to convene the closed session on the labor negotiations, and for those interested in the question of whether or not the board of supervisors should convene in closed session to discuss existing litigation in authorizing settlement of the lawsuit filed by Hastings School of the school. Public comment will be permitted, but limited to whether or not to convene in closed session, and not on the actual terms of the settlement. All other items 1 through 25 and 34 through 37 have each had a duly noticed public hearing fulfilled at committee and are not eligible for additional Public Comment today. Two last points. If you have any access or connection issues, please contact my office at 4155545184. We have someone standing by to assist you, and mr. President , pursuant to title 2 of the americans with disabilities act, through a prior arrangement, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone, and we are able to provide him that when you determine ready. Thank you. President yee thank you, madam clerk. So 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. Colleagues, today, we are approving the minutes from the july 14, 2020 regular Board Meeting and the july 8, 2020 budget and Appropriations Committee meeting which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes at presented . Supervisor peskin so moved. President yee moved by supervisor peskin, seconded by supervisor mandelman mandelman. President yee seconded by mandelman. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk on the approval of the minutes [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Then without objection, the minutes will be approved, after Public Comment, as presented. Madam clerk, would you please go ahead and invite the the individual who needed accommodation for Public Comments . Clerk yes, mr. President. Before i do, i want to just indicate to the individual, please let us know in advance when you want this accommodation, sir. We will only grant it if we know in advance before the meeting begins that this is something that youre interested in doing. Happy to provide it, though. Operations, please let the caller make his statement. Hi. My name is zach karnazes. Can you all hear me . Clerk yes, we can. Thank you. My name is zach karnazes. Im a wheelchair user and disability advocate here in San Francisco. I would like to explain a little more of what happened in this situation because i think it has everything to do with the a. D. A. Coordinator with the board of supervisors. Before i go into that, i just want to say i support a settlement around the u. C. Hastings lawsuit. Its very much a Community Issue that should not be decided in closed session. So the reason why this accommodation was to so tricky was i informed mr. Wilson, the a. D. A. Coordinator, that i had been calling in every week for this accommodation. I asked him if it could be a rolling accommodation because its very difficult for me to use a computer. Mr. Wilson denied that request. He has previously demanded that i prove my disability, which i offered to do, and did not follow up with me on that. In an email quote, he said, i do not have to answer your interrogatories. And then, when i called in two weeks ago, he said this board was on vacation, and i asked him if he could let me know when that was happening so when i make the request and call in, im not wasting my time. He said he would not do that, he refused to do that. And then, when i called in today, he did not want to pass me through on the line. Every time i talk to mr. Wilson, he seems to have a seething animosity towards the disabled. Angela calvillo has been very helpful, and the rest of her staff has not been this way. Thank you for your time. President yee okay. All right. Madam clerk, lets go to our consent agenda. Please call items 1 through 12 together. Clerk items 1 through 12 are on consent. These items are considered routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee colleagues, would anyone like to sever any of these items . Seeing none, no names on the roster, madam clerk, please call the roll on items 1 through 12. Clerk on items 1 through 12 [roll call] supervisor peskin i would like to make a motion to rescind the vote. Supervisor mandelman second. Clerk generally, that motion would have to be made before the roll call has been taken. Supervisor peskin and madam clerk, for procedurals sake, and my apologies, colleagues, we can finish it, and then, i can make the motion to rescind the vote on one of the 12 items, so i vote aye. Clerk okay. [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. So without objection, then, the ordinance passes unanimously. Madam clerk, i forgot to mention that supervisor safai will be joining us at a later point during the meeting, just to let people know. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee. My apologies, colleagues, for not hitting the buzzer sooner. I would like to make a motion to rescind the vote on item number 11. Supervisor mandelman second. President yee is there a second . Second by supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman yes. President yee roll call, please. Clerk on the motion to rescind the vote on item 11 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. The motion to rescind passes. Supervisor peskin thank you, president yee, and i should have hit the buzzer sooner on the legislation that we have nicknamed c. U. Sooner, as in conditional use sooner. I want to thank my cosponsors fewer, walton, haney, mandelman, and or ronen, fewer, haney, walton, yee, and safai. I would like to make a motion to duplicate this file and send that duplicative file back to committee, and maybe something comes of those conversations, and maybe not, but id like to provide a space to do that, so i here by make a motion to duplicate the file, send the duplicated file back to committee, and then would urge your vote yet again on item number 11. Thank you, colleagues. President yee okay. Is there a motion to duplicate the file . Supervisor mandelman second. President yee okay. So theres a motion to duplicate and a second. Madam clerk . Clerk okay. There are two things. Before i call the roll, ill read the item. Item 11 is an ordinance amending the planning code to expedite the conditional use authorization review and approval process and reduce the application for certain uses of commercial space and affirming the determination under the ceqa determination and making the appropriate findings. And then, on the motion to duplicate the file [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Then the motion to duplicate the file and send it to committee passes. Madam clerk, on the item itself. Clerk on item 11 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. So this ordinance passes, finally. Madam clerk, will you call item number 12 . [inaudible]. Clerk 13 and 14 . President yee 13 and 14, right. Clerk items 13 and 14 called together are two ordinances that amend the planning code. Item 13 amends the planning code to require that educator housing projects at least 10 residential units have three or more bedrooms, and item 14 is an ordinance amending the planning code to allow extra height, exceeding otherwise politicable height limitations, for making applicable height limitations, for making the appropriate findings under ceqa. President yee okay. Madam clerk, will you call the roll. Clerk on items 13 and 14 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance are finally passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets call items 15 through 17. Clerk items 15 through 17 together are three ordinances that compromise the balboa reservoir project items. Item 15 is the ordinance to amend the general plan to revise the balboa park station area plan, the recreation and open space element, and the land use index, to amend the Housing Element in regard to the design of housing for families with children. Item 16 amends the planning code and zoning map to create the balboa reservoir special use district and rezone the balboa rememberer voyeur west basin project site, and item 17 is an ordinance approval a Development Agreement between the city and county of San Francisco and reservoir communaute metropolitaine de montreal partners, llc. , for the balboa reservoir proje a Reservoir Community partners, and to make the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll on these items. Clerk on items 15 through 17 [roll call] president yee okay. Without objection, the ordinances are finally passed unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to new busine business, and please call the next item. Clerk item 18 is a resolution approving the c. A. R. E. S. Act Emergency Solutions grants coronavirus program, authorizing the mayor, on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco, to apply for, accept, and expend the citys c. A. R. E. S. Act e. S. G. Program round 2 entitlement from the u. S. Department of housing and urban development, in the amount of a43. 6 million and amending the e. S. G. Program round 1 entitlement expenditure plan in the amount of 3. 25 million. President yee okay. Madam clerk, there are no names on the roster, so please call the roll. Clerk on item 18 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 19. Clerk item 19 is an ordinance amending the planning code to reenact a provision permitting nonretail professional services above the first story in Chinatown CommunityBusiness District zoning control table, which was inadvertently deleted in recently enacted legislation, affirming the Planning Departments determination, and making the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 19 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee without objection, this item is passed unanimously. Before we go to the next item, supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin yes, mr. President . President yee were you going to make any amendments on item 19 . Supervisor peskin not to my knowledge. President yee okay. Have you determined that you were just supposed to rescind the vote . Supervisor peskin i am this was a technical correction relative to nonretail uses, and when the article 8 changes were brought forward by the department of city planning, this was a technical omission that planning asked that we fix for nonretail professional services above the ground floor. I am not aware of any changes, but i will search my emails right now, and if there are any changes, i will make a motion later in the meeting to rescind accordingly. President yee okay. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you so much, president yee. I just wanted to speak when we got to item 20, if thats where we are. President yee okay. Well be there in a sec. Madam clerk, lets go to item 20 now. Clerk okay. Item 20 is a resolution to support a reparations plan that will comprehensively address the inequities that exist in the African American community as a result of slaverys legacy of systemic oppression and creating an Advisory Committee for the African American community. President yee supervisor walton . Supervisor walton thank you, president yee. I just want to thank all of my colleagues for their support in this resolution. Its great to see them fighting systemic racism going forward, and i just wanted to thank all of my colleagues. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 20 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the item is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 21 is a motion approving the mayors nomination for the appointment of jane natoli to the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors, term ending march 1, 2024. President yee supervisor mar. I think youre on mute. Supervisor mar thank you, president yee. I want to start by thanking miss natoli for her willingness to serve in this roll. I supported her, speaking in support of her nomination, and i understand that support and understand miss natolis work, especially her advocacy in the bike coalition. Since that time, ive heard many people speak out in opposition to her nomination, including the tenderloin, Richmond District rising, and latina democratic club, and they joined earlier opposition from the harvey milk lgbtq democratic club, somcan, united to save the mission, and the s. F. Taxi Workers Alliance and Mission Neighborhood centers. And i cant ignore the comments read in this opposition. Most of those are grassroots volunteer organizations that represent marginalized communities, including and especially lowincome residents, seniors, and people are disabilities and people of color, and these are the communities that are most dependent on Public Transportation and whose needs should be centered on by the m. T. A. And the sfmta board of directors. These voices have been ignored and marginalized time and time again, and we should not and cannot ignore them today. As we all know, sfmta is facing a deeply uncertain future, with Transit Service cut to the bone, a monumental budget crisis. Meanwhile, were making bold, meaningful progress on making our city more walkable. In my district, weve created the great highway to an outdoor market during the shelter in place and have moved forward with an aggressive comprehensive plan to daylighting our neighborhood. I welcome miss natolis partnership on this, but yabeyd this, we need a nominee with a depth of experience on transit advocacy and equity, where oversight is desperately needed. We need to listen to these communities when they tell us what they need, and in the face of the outpouring of opposition from equity folks groups, from transit groups, from Chinese Community organizations, i need to listen to them, and more. So with Great Respect to miss natoli, and her work on many issues, i cannot support this item here today. President yee supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer yes. Thank you, president yee. I want to associate myself with the comments from supervisor mar. I have spoken with the communities that have come out and spoken out, and i want to thank miss natoli for her willingness to serve, and also the time that she took to speak with me. I also will not be able to support this appointment today. Thank you. President yee okay. Madam clerk, roll call, please. Supervisor peskin oh, hold on, mr. President. I see supervisor stefani. I will speak after her. Supervisor stefani colleagues, i was pleased to support miss natolis nomination last week, and i do want to start by recognizing the importance of the decision that we are all faced with. As weve all heard, clearly and consistently from our constituents and director tumlin, the sfmta is in dire straits at the moment. Miss natoli will bring that leadership to the sfmta board of directors. I just want to say that