Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors July 12, 2024

And it takes teamwork to get this done. This is not something that we normally do. As you all know, this is what were faced with. We said from the beginning, we will Work Together and get things done. And this is another good example of that. Thank you very much, mayor, breed. So, madam clerk, lets go ahead and go to our special order. Clerk okay. Special order at 2 00 p. M. The appearance by the honorable mayor london n. Breed. There being no questions submitted from the representatives of districts 1, 2, 3 and 4, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. President yee okay. So, welcome, madam mayor, mayor breed. Mayor breed thank you. President yee topics submitted by supervisors today. We welcome you to share your remarks. So go ahead. Mayor breed thank you, president yee. And i truly really appreciate your partnership, especially on the Economic Recovery Task force, which you know that well be releasing a report on the work that you all did in october and im really excited about that. Thank you for having me here today. Today i really want to talk about specifically Small Businesses, because its been a hard six months for anyone trying to make a living in San Francisco. But especially for those in our city who keep our storefronts open. It was already very challenging even before covid. This city has not done its part for people to have Small Businesses in the city. They have endured month after month of shutdown and uncertainty, we had to pause our reopening in june, just when we thought we were moving forward. In trying to navigate, keeping their customers happy, their employees paid and their doors open. Weve tried to help when nearly 30 million in funding for paid sick leave, grants and zerointerest loans and our sharedspace program to give them more room to operate safely outdoors. But still its been hard. The good news is over the last few weeks, weve begun to move forward with a number of reopenings for our Small Businesses community. First, our Outdoor Services for personal services and gym. Now this week both are open indoors, because most of us know many of those services cannot even operate outdoors in the first place. We are until conversations with our restaurant owners, because we know that while they have been allowed to open outdoors and for takeout, thats not enough for them to survive. As federal support for Small Businesses drives up, its getting even harder for our businesses, even those that are able to open. Weve never made it easy as a city for Small Businesses to operate. But covid took it to a whole another level. Supervisors, we are lucky. We have not face the challenges these Business Owners have had to face, potentially losing everything that they built. These Business Owners didnt do anything wrong. This crisis is far outside of their control. Now one way we are able to help, we were able to help early was to put in place a commercial eviction moratorium. This prevented our Small Businesses from losing their lease if they couldnt make their rent. As you know, unlike residential leases, commercial leases are ruled by state law. And thanks to an emergency order signed get governor, the state lawing were overridden and we put in commercial evictions at the local level. If the governor does not extend it, thousands of Small Businesses could be put at risk of being evicted. We wont be able to protect them here locally any more. I know Governor Newsom cares about this issue and im hopeful he will extend it or find a way to provide repayment protection so that our Small Businesses are not put at risk. Our Small Businesses need us, our city needs this. And i know supervisor peskin is introducing a resolution today to put this board on record in support of extending the moratorium and im confident that you all share these values of protecting our small Business Owners. We dont know when covid will end, so these protections need to be extended. We cant lose sight of the need to do more. And i really want to thank supervisor fewer, supervisor peskin, and supervisor safai for some of their work early on around Small Businesses. But we have to do more. We cant just keep talking about caring about our Small Businesses and not willing to take risks and make significant policy changes, so that they dont continue to deal with the challenges of the bureaucracy, the layered fees and all of the other issues that they face. The time is now to focus on Real Solutions and thats what will be coming out of my office, which we know that some of the things that weve already done have not necessarily put a debit in the challenges that they continue to have. We have to do more and we have to do more now. Thank you for the opportunity. Clerk muted, mr. President. President yee thank you, madam mayor, for joining us today. This concludes our special order. This item shall be now filed. [gavel] thanks. Have a nice day. Thank you, madam mayor. President yee so, madam clerk, i guess you can continue with the rest of your communications. Clerk thank you. Thank you, mr. President and members. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely, through Video Conference to the same extent as though physically present in their legislative chamber. The board recognizes that the Novel Coronavirus has made the need for Public Access more acute and believes it is essential that all communities with and without the internet have the following options to be able to participate remotely in this meeting. We will accept your written correspondence on any subject, making it part of the legislative file. If youre using the u. S. Mail, address the envelope to the San Francisco board of supervisors, city hall, number 1, carlton b. Goodlett, 94102. If sending an email, use the email address bos sfgov. Org. If using your computer, you can access the live stream by going to sfgovtv. Org. If youre watching the cable cast on your television, use channel 26. Please note that theres a bit of a broadcasting delay, so when youre readying to provide the public testimony, make sure the television is turned down. The text phone can be used to listen to the proceedings and provide Public Comment. The telephone number is crawling across the television and it is streaming as well on your computer. Its 415 6550001. When you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. 146 360 9063. Press pound twice. Youll have joined the proceedings as a listener. Make sure youre going to turn down your television when youre ready to provide Public Comment. We have interpreters present at todays meeting. Will the interpreters please introduce yourselves in succession, in language, to let the Community Know that youre here to assist them with their Public Comment. Miss fay, miss agnes and welcome back mr. Cotenza. [speaking spanish] thank you. [speaking foreign language] thank you. [speaking foreign language] clerk mr. Cotenza . Hello. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, were having trouble with your its sort of fading in and out. Oh, really. Okay. Sorry. Let me start from clerk well okay. Very hard. Thank you. Sorry about that. [speaking spanish] thank you, madam clerk. Clerk thank you, all three of you for being here with us today. I think its important to mention what agenda content is eligible for Public Comment today. There are three 3 00 p. M. Special orders slated to begin consecutively at 3 00 p. M. Each has its own public hearing associated with it. For the 66 Mountain Spring avenue appeal, those are items 6467. The proposed project at 3516 through 3526 folsom street project. And for the 178 seacliff avenue appeal of determination of exemption from Environmental Review, item 7275. Once those items are called individually, that is the opportunity for you to make your Public Comment in association with that those appeals. If your intent is to provide testimony during general Public Comment, please wait for item 80 to be called, where you may be able to speak on the approval of the august 7th and august 11th regular Board Meeting minutes, todays mayoral appearance and the items on the subject well, those items that are subject matter jurisdictionrelated to the board, that are not on the agenda and and items 8186. Those items without reference to committee calendar. All other items, items 163 and items 7678 are not eligible for your public testimony today, as each have already had their duly noticed public hearing at committee. After having any access or connection issues, please contact my office. We have a gentleman standing by 415 5545184. And finally, mr. President , pursuant to title ii of the americans with disability act, through a prior arrangement, we have an individual who has requested to make his Public Comment by telephone, when you determine appropriate. That concludes my communication. Thank you. President yee thank you, madam clerk. Before we get started, just a friendly reminder for all of the supervisors to mute your microphones when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. So, madam clerk, as you mentioned, theres someone that asked for accommodations. So please have them come forward. Clerk thank you. Operations, are we ready to have the speaker make his Public Comment . Hi, my name is zach. Im a disability advocate and Community Organizer. Thank you for this disability accommodation to speak with you all today. During the past couple of weeks, weve all noticed really poisonous air. And air quality issues relating to the fires along our coast. And i think it is without a doubt very understandably our unhoused, homeless neighbors that are experiencing the worst of this crisis. While i am sheltered in my home, i cant even go outside into my garden without coughing and experiencing major respiratory problems, because of the incredibly poor air quality in our city right now. And yet it is our homeless who are facing the worst of this, because they dont have to place to shelter, they dont have a way to get away from this poisonous air. So far the board of supervisors and mayor breed have limited their access to Hotel Shelters that the governor ordered in the beginning of the covid pandemic. And have increased and continued the removal of peoples tents and equipment that they need to survive. Additionally, in the july issue of the coalition of Homeless People, there was some disturbing information presented about mayor breed making calls to the police chief about Homeless People just existing, one quote says man sleeping on bench on hayes street near go. That was mayor breed at a police chief to william scott. He replied, we are sending a team. Eight minutes after that, she said hes still here, but not sleeping. The police chief said, following up now. And theres dozens of these texts of even our mayor calling our police chief, use our taxpayer money and Police Resources to harass the homeless, who are just existing and trying to survive in our city. Supervisors, especially supervisor walton proposed the karen act to stop racially profiled 911 calls. I think its a step in the right direction. Lets please do the same. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. President yee okay. Thank you. So lets go ahead and go through our Consent Agenda. Madam clerk, can you please call thames 123 together. Clerk mr. President , were you going to take the minutes on now . President yee yes. Clerk thanks for reminding me. I can share them with you. President yee i see it now. So today we are approving the minutes from the august 7th, 2020 and august 11th, 2020, regular meetings of the board of supervisors. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none okay, seeing none. Can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented. Fewer. President yee moved by fewer. Second . Shamann. President yee by supervisor shamann. Okay. So madam clerk, go ahead and please call the roll. Clerk okay. On the minutes, supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin aye. Clerk supervisor preston . Aye. Clerk preston aye. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai aye. Clerk supervisor stefani . Aye. Clerk supervisor walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk supervisor yee. President yee aye. Clerk supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk supervisor haney. Supervisor haney aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk supervisor mar. Supervisor mar aye. Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The minutes will be approved after Public Comment is presented. Okay. Madam clerk now go ahead and call thames 123. Clerk okay. Item 1 the ordinance to authorize pardon me. Yes. The ordinance to authorize well, these are the consent matters. I apologize. Items 123, these items are on consent. They are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. I dont have to call them all individually. President yee thank you for remembering that. Colleagues, would anyone like to sever any items from the Consent Agenda . Okay. Seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, please call the roll on items 123. Clerk on items 123. Supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin aye. Clerk supervisor preston. Supervisor preston aye. Clerk supervisor ronen. Supervisor ronen aye. Clerk supervisor safai. Supervisor safai aye. Clerk supervisor stefani. Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk supervisor fewer. Supervisor fewer aye. Clerk supervisor haney. Supervisor haney aye. Clerk supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Clerk and supervisor mar. Supervisor mar aye. Clerk there are 11s ayes. President yee the resolutions are adopted. Unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to our new business. Please call items 2447. Clerk okay. Items 2447 comprise all matters associated with the fiscal years 20202021 and 20212022. Budget and appropriation ordinance for all city departments and agencies. Item 24 is the budget and appropriation ordinance. I apologize for my dog barking. To appropriate all estimated receipts and expenditures for departments of the city, as of july 31st, 2020, for the fiscal years ending june 30th, 2021 and june 30th, 2022. Item 25 is the annual salary ordinance enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance. For the fiscal years ending jun, 2022. Item 26 is the resolution to approve the fiscal year 20202021 budget of the office of Community Investment and infrastructure. Operating as a Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and to approve the issuance by ocii of bonds in an aggregate principle amount not to exceed 15. 47 million for the purpose of financing a portion of ocii enforceable obligations. Item 27 is the ordinance to adopt the neighborhood beautification and graffiti Cleanup Fund Tax designation ceiling. For the 2020 tax year. Item 28 is the ordinance appropriating 579. 1 million of proceeds from Revenue Bonds, state loans, grant and wastewater revenues capacity fees and deappropriating and reappropriating 391 Capital Improvement program. Item 29 is the ordinance appropriating 344. 8 million of proceeds from state loans grant funds and water revenues, capacity fees and deand reappropriating water capital appropriation of 14. 4 million and deappropriating 3. 5 million waste Capital Project funding. For fiscal years 20212022. Item 30 is the ordinance appropriating 260. 3 million of proceeds from Revenue Bonds, hetch hetchy revenue. Cap and trade allowance and de and reappropriating approximately 341,000 of fund in the walter power Capital Improvement program for fiscal years 20212022. The ordinance appropriating 4. 3 million clean power s. F. Revenue for the clean power s. F. Capital improvement program. For fiscal years 20202021 at 1. 8 million and for 20212022 at 92. 4 million. Item 32 is the ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of taxexempt or taxable power Revenue Bonds for various Capital Projects, benefiting the power enterprise in an amount not to exceed 1. 42. 9 million. Item 34 is the ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of taxexempt or taxable water Revenue Bonds and other forms of indebtedness. For various capital water projects benefiting the water enterprise in an amount not to exceed 347. 1 million. Item 35 is the examiner fee amounts to remove obsolete references and to include postmortem investigation services. Items 36 is the administrative Code Amendment to authorize the department of Administrative Services to improse a fee for reproduction and notary services. Item 37 auth

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