Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240712

SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors July 12, 2024

Clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee all right. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Would you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] president yee thank you. On behalf of the board, i wish to acknowledge the staff of sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. I just want to make sure that i captured supervisor stefani or did i miss you, supervisor . Supervisor stefani madam clerk, i believe that you did, and i am present. Thank you. Clerk i believe that, and i apologize to you, and yes, mr. President. All members are present, just to make sure. President yee mmhmm. Clerk and yes, i do have a communication. The minutes will reflect that during the covid19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely through Video Conference to the staple extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access to this meeting is essential and certainly more acute in the age of covid19. Therefore, we hope that members of the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to participate remotely in this meeting. We will accept written correspondence and make it a part of the legislative file. If sending by u. S. Mail, send your letter to the San Francisco board of supervisors, room 1, carlton b. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california 94102. If sending by email, sent to bos sfgov. Org. You can watch the cable cast on your television by going to substantial 26. When you were readying your public testimony, please turn your television down. That way, youll be able to follow the prompts on your touch tone. You can listen to the meeting and be in sync with live meeting. To provide your comments, telephone number is 4156550001. When you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. That number is 1469958608. Press pound twice, and youll have joined the proceedings as a listener. Were working hard to not leave anyone out of these proceedings. If youre experiencing problems, we do have a person to assist you. Telephone number is 415554, 8184. I would just like to identify agenda matter that is available for your comment. There are 1 03 p. M. Special orders. Public comment will appear for each item. It is important to note that the 1848 grove street cua and ceqa appeal will be called together. 42 and 43 is the committee of the whole for the emergency ordinance, and i will also then just mention the numbers for the 1846 grove street appeal. Thats 44 through 51. Items 52 through 55 and 56 through 59 both have potential continuances that will be addressed during Public Comment as there is a notice date on the agenda that they might be continued to. These dates are subject to change, depending on the boards final decision today, and additionally, the president will have the m. T. A. Items called together. Thats items 60 through 63, 64 through 67, 78 through 79. The items within the subject matter of the jurisdiction of the board, items 80 through 88, those items on without reference to committee calendar. All other items are not agendaeligible content for your testimony as they have had duly noticed public hearings fulfilled at committee. I just want to be a little more certain than that. Items 5 through 21, these are the budget items for the city, containing the annual appropriation ordinance and the annual salary ordinance for the city budget. Couple of last point, pursuant to city policy, it is worth mentioning in advance that the board of supervisors will not tolerate discriminatory or harassing remarks made at this meeting. There is nothing in state law that will extend protection for anything that constitutes discriminating or harassing remarks. We have interpreters today. Will you please announce in concession and let the Community Know youre here to assist them. [speaking spanish language] [end of translation] interpreter sorry. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can. [speaking spanish language] clerk i will just interject, mr. Cosenza, we heard what you said, but your connection may be a little its difficult to hear you sometimes. You did cut in and out, but if there are any members of the public who are listening, we will have the interpreters standing by for this meeting, and if you need any assistance, please just start speaking, and the interpreters will jump in and assist you without any prompting needed. Miss interpreter . Yes, thank you. [speaking tagalog language] [end of translation] [speaking cantonese language] thank you. Clerk thank you all for being here, and finally, mr. President , pursuant to title 2 for the americans with disabilities act, we have an individual who would like to make a statement via telephone. President yee okay. Thank you, madam clerk. Before we get started, just a brief reminder to all supervisors to mute their microphone when they are not speaking to minimize audio feedback. Maybe people have not heard from the public that San Francisco has moved its color, i guess, in terms of where we are with the pandemic, and weve moved into the orange state as the color code that the state is using, which means that there will be a variety of businesses that will be able to open that have not been able to open from until tomorrow, i guess. And that includes restaurants. I want to say everyone in San Francisco has really followed the safety suggestions, guidelines that our Public Health officer has made. Continue to wear your mask and do your social distancing, and just because were returning to what kind of businesses are open, it doesnt mean that we can just let go or let down or defenses on this. As you can see from the news, theres been many other locations where they opened up more quickly, and they loosened up social distancing and started not wearing masks, and they saw a rise in races. Its an announcement to keep distancing and to keep wearing masks. Tonight is also the first president ial debate, and i know many of you havent made up your mind in who youre going to vote for and would love to see the debate. Ill try to get you out of here on time so you can go see who the best president ial candidate is. With that, madam clerk, i understand weve received a communications request. Clerk yes, mr. President. Operations, is the caller ready to make his comment, please . Im concerned this department has still not allowed visual participation of members of the public or made any effort to provide participation for those who do not have phones or internet laptop access. Ive concerned that this department refuses to add any disabled access on the meeting website. In fact, the word disabled does not show on the website. For seven months, the disabled have not been able to address city hall with their grievances and access to p. P. E. And other needs. According to the New York Times [inaudible] have resulted from people in hospitals and longterm nursing homes. Thats 77,000 deaths of people, and theres cases of a hospital in San Francisco, laguna honda, of staff taking pictures of residents while theyre naked and distributing them. I would like to know what the supervisors are doing about this. [inaudible] during the covid19 pandemic and support the moratorium that protects Small Businesses and tenants during this difficult time. As we know, the ellis act and no fault evictions are used by housing speculators to wrongfully and immorally evict people without just reason, and there is no reason why this should be continuing during this covid19 pandemic. Id also like to thank supervisor walton for the caring act legislation to stop racial profiling on 911 calls. Thank you for your time. Clerk thank you. Mr. President. President yee okay. Thank you, caller, and thank you, madam clerk, for arranging this accommodation. Colleagues, were approving the minutes from the august 20, and august 25, 2020 regular Board Meeting minutes. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Hold on a second. Let me make sure i put you on chat. May i get a motion to move the minutes as presented . Supervisor fewer so moved. Supervisor peskin second. President yee a motion by supervisor fewer and a second by supervisor peskin. Well take Public Comment after clerk mr. President , we need to have a roll call. President yee oh, yes, madam clerk. Well take a roll call, and then following, that. Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. After Public Comment, the minutes will be approved. Okay. Madam clerk, lets go to the consent agenda. Call items 1 through 3 together. Clerk items 1 through 3 are on consent. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. President yee okay. Seeing nobody on the roster, would anybody like to sever . I guess not, so seeing no names on the roster, madam clerk, would you please call the roll. Clerk on items 1 through 3 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee the minutes are finally passed. Madam clerk, lets go to the unfinished business. Please call the next item. Clerk item 4 is an ordinance approving an amendment to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project, which modifies the maximum number of hotel rooms permitted on block 1 at the intersection of third and channel street and making the appropriate findings. President yee okay. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 4 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call items 5 through 21 together. Clerk items 5 through 21 kpri comprise the matters associated with the citys budget. Item 5 is from the budget and appropriation ordinance proopting all estimates receipts and all estimated expenditures for the departments of the city. Annual salary ordinance he enumerating positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fiscal years ending june 30, 2021 and june 30, 2022. Item 7 is an ordinance adopting the neighborhood beautification and graffiti Cleanup Fund Tax designation ceiling for tax years 2020. Ite items 8 is an ordinance proopting a total of 5 a79,184,142 of proceeds from revenue bonds. Item 10, ordinance to appropriate 260,351,806 dlsh of hetch hetchy revenue, low carbon fuel standard, capandtrade revenue, and power and water revenue for the San Francisco Public Utilities commission hetch hetchy Capital Improvement program for fiscal year 2021 at 94,380,451 and for 202122 at 165,971,355, and facing 142,970,073 of power ba bonds, and 108,626,733 of water bonds by project. Item 151 an administrative Code Amendment amending the administrative code to adjust fees of the office of the chief medical examiner to include postmortem investigation services. Item 16 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize the department of Administrative Services to impose a fee for reproduction and notely Services Provided to the public. Item 18 is an ordinance to deappropriate approximately 4. 6 million of series 2010a retuneding certificates of participation prior reserve funds and appropriating 102 million of refunding certificates of participation series 2020r1, including deappropriated funds and 9. 5 million of one or more series of refunding certificates of participation proceeds. Item 20 is a health code amount to set rates for services such as patient rate Services Provided by the department of Public Health for fiscal year 2020 through 21, and 2021 through 22. And the last item, item 21, is an administrative Code Amendment to suspend the restrictions on expenditures on Funds Available in the budget savings Incentive Fund and to authorize the use of the fund for any purposes relates to the citys response to the covid19 pandemic or its related impact. President yee thank you, madam clerk. So if theres knox, then no objection, then, madam clerk, i will ask that we take roll on items 5 through 21 together. Seeing no objection, madam clerk, call the roll. Clerk on items 5 through 21 [roll call] clerk there are ten ayes, and one no, with supervisor stefani in the assent. President yee without objection im sorry. The ordinances are passed by a 101 vote. Congratulations, chair fewer, on the Budget Committee and other members that were deliberating over the budget this year. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Clerk item 22 is an ordinance to amend the health code to establish cleaning and disease prevention standards and practices in Tourist Hotel and Large Commercial Office buildings to help contain covid19 or other contagious Public Health threats. Supervisor peskin mr. President . President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin can i ask that we refer this item until later in the meeting . President yee number 22 . Supervisor peskin yes. I will be ready for it in a few minutes. President yee sure. We can do that. Madam clerk supervisor peskin thank you, mr. President. President yee no problem. Can we go to item 23, madam clerk. Clerk item 23 is an ordinance waiving, for a twoyear period, permit and renewal fees in the public works code for cafe tables and chairs in public sidewalks and roadway areas, and for display of fruits and vegetables or nonfood merchandise on public situations and waiving fees for use of parklets. Supervisor peskin mr. President , if you could delay this for a few minutes, we will be ready for it in a few minutes. President yee all right. Madam clerk . Clerk item 24 is a resolution approving terminal 2 book store lease number 200049 between books, inc. As tenant, and the city and county of San Francisco, acting by and through its airport commission, for a term of ten years, and a minimum annual guarantee of 220,000 for the first year of the lease, to commence following board approval. Mr. President , i believe youre muted. President yee madam clerk, please call the roll. Clerk on item 24 [roll call] president yee and without objection, the resolution is adopted. Supervisor peskin mr. President , im ready on items 22 and 23 . President yee okay. Supervisor peskin we are ready, so if you could call the roll on item 22. Clerk on item 22 [roll call]. Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection, the item is passed. Supervisor peskin and mr. President , item 23 is ready. President yee okay. Supervisor peskin, do you have anything to say . Supervisor peskin yes. Last year, before the pandemic, my staff assisted going through every fee assessed through Small Business in the city of San Francisco to identify those identifies that represent unreasonable barriers to entry. Were not the first office to do so. I think my predecessor, david chiu, worked on that. And while the pandemic disrupted that larger project, it made it abundantly clear that many fees charged to Small Businesses in the outdoor realm, particularly the realm that is within the jurisdiction of the city and county of San Francisco, particularly when it comes to tables and chairs, were too high. And too th that end, we have c up for this temporary waiver for tables and chairs and displays in parklets. I have a few minor amendments. On pages 2 and 3, clarifying that we cannot waive m. T. A. Fees and urging the m. T. A. Board to take up this fee waiver of their own accord pursuant to their charter authority. So i would like to move those amendments, and id also like to duplicate this file and rerefer it to committee in order to continue working with public works and their staff to ensure that shared spaces permits are fully accommodated going forward, and that we not be put in a position of needing these businesses to reapply for this service that has emerged during the pandemic. I want to thank public works and robin abad for everything hes done to sheriff the outdoor spaces program, so id like to move those two amendments, mr. President. President yee okay. Is there a second for the amendments . Supervisor mandelman second. President yee okay. Seconded by supervisor mandelman, and a roll call on the motion to amend. Clerk okay. On the motion to amend as stated [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the amendments are accepted, and before we take a roll call vote on the resolution, i would like to add my name as a cosponsor. A few years ago, myself and other colleagues had also introduced legislation to cleanup a lot of the fees that were charged to Small Businesses, and i would like to continue that item as started a few years back. Is that all right, supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin thats fine, mr. President. President yee okay. Madam clerk supervisor preston . Supervisor preston through the president , just one clarification. Im sorry i didnt raise this earlier. Supervisor peskin, you know, the findings talk about Small Business, and i strongly support the policy youre putting forward. I just want to make sure, in terms of the waiver, that this would not be apply to would not apply to, say, formula retail if they dont apply to the permits that are specified there, but just to the extent that it could, wanted to just raise that issue as a possible friendly amendment or the duplicated file. Supervisor peskin right. So we have been wrestling with the issue of formula retail, and we can deal with that in the duplicated file, and its something that i have talked with my staff as recently as early this afternoon, and thats one of the reasons that were duplicating the file and sending it back to committee. Supervisor preston thank you. President yee okay. And well take a motion on the duplicate file in a second, but madam clerk. Clerk so mr. President , may i

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