The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the october 19th, 2020, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me is the vicechair Catherine Stefani and gordon mar. Our clerk today is victor young and i would like to thank sfgovtv for staffing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk to protect the Board Members and the City Employees and the public, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, the members will participate in the meeting remotely. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the numbers across the screen. And Public Comment is an opportunity to speak via phone by calling 1 415 6550001. And, again, thats 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. Again, that is 1469652968. Excuse me 1469652968. And then press pound and pound again. And when connecting you will hear the meeting discussion but youll be muted and in listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star, 3, to be added to the speaker line. The best practices is to call from a quiet location, speak clearly and slowly, and turn down your television or radio. Alternatively you may submit Public Comment to myself, the rules Committee Clerk at cicgor. Young sfgov. Org. If you submit by email its forwarded to the supervisors that is included as part of the file. That completes my comments. President hillis thank you, read item number one. Clerk a hearing to consider appointing one member term, ending 2020, to the revenue Bond Oversight Committee. We have one seat, one applicant. Chair ronen thank you so much. Is mr. Crunen here . Good morning. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Chair ronen thank you so much and thank you for your service thus far, and just to plain to the public that mr. Cronen has moved out of San Francisco, which were very sad about. Hopefully youre happy about it but were sad about it. But has been willing to stay on the commission for a temporary period while another applicant can be considered. So really appreciate that. And i wanted to know if you wanted to share anything about your experience on the commission, your work, anything that youd like to share . Sounds great. No, i dont have too much to add. I think that folks on the committee are doing good work and i think that probably the motion they have moved on during the time on the committee is routine and an outside auditor to review the bonds that have been issued over the past couple years and making sure they are issued in accordance with the law and that spending is being done in accordance with the law. I think that because im now kind of seeing the end of my time on the committee, that i do think that it would be good for the board to think about is if this is the most critical thing that we have done over the last several years is to retain an outside auditor to perform this review. Does it make sense to sort of encapsulate that into the processes of the city auditor and encapsulate that into the law that these external audits just need to occur regularly as opposed to having the revenue Bond Oversight Committee to come up with this process ad hoc and making sure that it keeps going. Im wondering if this was a standardized process that occurs every year, every couple years, Something Like that, if it might end up being more efficient over time than the committee trying to go glue that process, given, you know, that the committee is made up of folks that have fulltime day jobs. You know, theres limited staff availability to the committee. So maybe just standardize that external audit process as opposed to having it to be something that the committee itself needs to organize every few years. Chair ronen that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for that. Maybe you can help to make that happen in the short time that you have left. That would be wonderful. Let us finish w know if you cann any way. And i wanted to make sure that our colleagues didnt have any questions or comments . Nope. Then if you have no more remarks we can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes, the members of the public who want to provide Public Comment on this item should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 1469652968. And then press pound and pound again. If you havent already done so, press star, 3, to line up to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you can begin your comments. Do we have any members of the public to speak at this time . Madam chair, there are no callers in the queue. Chair ronen thank you. Then Public Comment is closed. And i would like to make a motion to forward the appointment of mr. Cronen with residency waiver to the full board with recommendation as a committee report. Can we have a roll call vote on that motion. Clerk yes, and this is for seat two. Chair ronen yes, for seat two. Clerk yes on that motion [roll call] the motion passes to recommend this out as a committee report. Chair ronen thank you. Again, mr. Cronen, both for your service thus far and for willing to serve this role in the interim, i really appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you, have a great day. Chair ronen you too. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item 2. Clerk yes, item number 2 is a motion approving rejecting the mayoral nomination for the appointment of Rachael Tanner to the Planning Commission for a term ending june 30, 2022. Chair ronen thank you. And miss tanner, good morning, how are you . Good morning, how are you doing . Chair ronen thank you, good, welcome. It was great meeting with you last week and getting a chance to talk and i would love to hear from you. I just wanted to make sure that neither of my colleagues had opening remarks. None. Then, please, begin. Thank you. Thank you very much, chair ronen, and good morning, supervisors. Its good to be with you this morning and thank you so much for considering me and for speaking with me in the past week and i just really enjoyed our conversation. I wanted to share with you all and for the members of the public who are watching a little bit about my background and my path to and continuing Public Service. I was born and raised in michigan, in a workingclass family. My dad was one of the first African AmericanPublic Safety officers in our small citys police force in the 1980s and had a big role in helping to integrate the police force here. And my mom worked as a lab tech in a local hospital throughout her career. From a very young age i have really believed in and seen the power of people working together to solve the issues that face our communities, whether it was organizing my Elementary School to recycle all of those Plastic Grocery bags or a little earth club, i really thought that if we get together and we work hard, we have an idea, we can change the world around us. That belief has continued to fuel me in my work, in my career. In undergrad i started Political Science and really focused a lot of my energy in the field working with Community Development corporations in detroit, working to understand how they could develop strategies to redevelop the neighborhoods which at that time were much different than they are in this current well, the most recent economic boom time. And that really solidified for me that working at the local level, and working with people, is where i find the most rewards from my work and the most passion. I then went to on to do Community Organizing in my hometown with faithbased organizations. So working with congregations to think not just how do we help the people in our communities who need it, but how do we change the structure of our governments and our laws to prevent more and mere people from needing the help in first place. So we helped to pass some of the Housing First legislation in our town, and more programs for youth and a host of other issues that really met the needs of real people who know what they need and know how to figure out the solutions to the problems that we have. And from there i went on to study city planning. I have a love of cities, all things cities, from infrastructure and understanding transportation and sewer systems, to building the people who make our cities really what they are. And, again, that belief that if we Work Together we can shape and reshape our cities to be places of equality, places of equity, and places that are fun. And exciting to live. So after that i moved to california. I spent a little bit of time with the city of long beach working with the city manager there. Had just a tremendous experience before coming here to the city and county of San Francisco. I spent a few years working for the Planning Department, working particularly with the excellsior neighborhoods and thinking about the neighborhoods connected to each other through that main street. And thinking about what is the vision for that neighborhood and what is it that the residents from the different walks of life want to see and how could the supervisor and the Planning Department and really a host of other city departments Work Together to bring that vision to reality. Currently, my work has taken me to paolo alto, and and i have t of technical understanding but what is my greatest asset as a member of the local government is my ability to listen, to bring people together, and to try to understand all sides of the issues and to Work Together to figure out what is not the only way, but perhaps the best way that we can deal with the reassurance that we have to move forward. I have also been very fortunate to serve the city on the board of appeals. I was appointed by then the president of the board or nominated by the president of the board cohen and affirmed by the board of supervisors and have been serving in that capacity since november 2018, so coming up just on two years that. Time has just shown me how valuable it is to have Board Members who are thoughtful, who are inquisitive, who really do their homework and who want to understand what is happening and how we can best be of service to the city and county of San Francisco through that body. It would be my pleasure to and an honor to work and to serve on the Planning Commission where i would really hope to focus on three things. The first is thinking about how is our department making good on its resolution to center racial and social equity. That is a lot to live up to. Its very exciting though, and i feel that we have so much momentum and so much energy thats really positive that were building on something. And so im just really excited to work with the staff and to work with the Community Organizations to make good on that promise. I am also thinking a lot about our Small Businesses and our neighborhood commercial districts, what will be their future. And especially coming out of this covid19 pandemic and the recession thats coming or i guess that were in you know, what does that look like . What kind of services will people be need something how can we help the entrepreneurs either to reestablish their businesses or hang on . And what does that look like from a Planning Department perspective in regards to code or other things that we can do to help . And, lastly, thinking about our housing crisis. Its being reshaped right now dramatically and we have a lot to learn about how the contours of our citys housing crisis will look during and after the pandemic. So were paying close attention to that. But i still believe that it relies on the core values of, you know, protecting our tenants first and foremost as well as our homeowners, preserving as much Affordable Housing as we can and making sure that we dont lapse in that. And figuring out how to produce the housing in the places that we want to see it produced in San Francisco and for the groups that we hope that housing will serve. So i thank you for your time this morning and im happy to answer any questions that the committee would have. Chair ronen thank you so much. What a great presentation. Do any of my colleagues have any questions or comments . Chair ronen, i have a couple comments but ill wait until after Public Comment, but i have no questions at this time. Chair ronen okay, supervisor mar . Supervisor mar i think that id like to wait until after Public Comment. Chair ronen okay. I just had a couple of questions, which we had talked about during our meeting, but i just think that its great for the public to hear your responses. And you spoke about this in your opening statement, about the Planning Commissions strongly worded resolution, to the harm to the communities of color with presentday planning and zoning policies and committing to a bold and forwardthinking strategy to advance racial and social equity in San Francisco. And can you explain to us a little bit more in detail how you might apply this commitment to change the reallife impacts on communities communities of color and lowincome residents and lowwage workers and Small Businesses, and what tools that you see that are available to the Planning Commission to do this . And last, but not least, what challenges might exist to apply those tools . I would just love to hear a little bit. I know that its one of your top priorities, which is exciting, but id love to hear more details because its one of the most important things that we need to do. Thank you. Absolutely, im happy to talk about that. Im so passionate and i will try to keep my answers brief so please cut me off if i go on too long. You know, i am so proud of our Planning Commission for making that statement and i think that theres a couple things that i really see as tools that we have. The one is the allocation of resources, which in a lot of times that relates to staff time. And what are the projects that the Planning Commission allocates resources to. We have the wonderful example, i think the Mission Action plan 2020, which is birthed out of Community Response and, you know, the city saying, okay, we will work with the communities to develop this really robust planning process and i think that as important as the plan itself i mean, the plan is only as good as the people behind it are the relationships forged and the understanding that was built, and the commitment to saying, okay, we cant just keep doing what weve been doing. And i know that was hard fought, but i think that it was really meaningful because it wasnt just lip service. It was real people, you know, working with each other. I would like to see if that model can be applied to both different communities geographically or thinking about the black community of San Francisco, is it philmore and bayview or a broader citywide strategy . And, agai again, having that understanding and seeing if we can slow, if not reverse, the exodus of our black community from San Francisco. I think that we can do it. I think that weve seen in the latest update on Mission Action plan 2020, some of the plateauing perhaps of some of the outmigration of latin x families from the mission. I dont want to say that weve solved it, but i think we saw some good signs. So, okay, lets build on that, lets figure that out. We have also seen, you know, efforts such as the mission bay to look back and to say, okay, we have this area plan, how did things turn out. Lets take an audit of what are the racial and social impacts of the plans that we have done, especially as were planning for our housing element. Again, we dont want to repeat the mistakes of the past, but we can also learn what did work and what didnt work. As far as the challenges so those are just a few things, you know, how we apply our resources and how we learn from our successes as well as the challenges that we may have had. And the challenges are, of course, myriad. I think that perhaps the one that takes a little bit of the wind out of the sails a little bit can be the downturn of the economy and how will we start new projects and new outreach. But this is the time to do planning. This is the time to think about what our success will look like after this. This is the time to think about what kind of city do we want and to plan for success. This recession will end. We will have, you know, a chance to build and we can do so in a way that is more equitable. If we dont plan now though well have the market continue to do what it does, which is to have us take us on another wild swing and likely have more of the same negative impacts that weve had when the market is just unchecked and kind of running wild in San Fran