President yee good afternoon welcome to the november 10th, 2020 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, can you call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk all members of present, mr. President. President yee thank you. Please plays your righthand over your heart. Join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. President yee thank you. On behalf of the board i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv. Who coordinates our meetings and makes the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. During the Current Health emergency, the Meeting Minutes will reflect that the Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conferencing to the same extent as though physically present. The board recognizes that Public Access is essential and more acute during the time of covid19 and therefore were hoping the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to communicate with the board of supervisors or to access this meeting and participate remotely. We are happy to receive your written correspondence and well make it part of the legislative file. If youre using u. S. Mail address it to the board of supervisors city hall and San Francisco, california, 94102. If you are accepted via email,d access livestream by going to www. Sfgov. Org or if you can watch the proceedings by going to channel 26 and important point is to be aware that during the signal delay, if you are expecting to make Public Comment, its best that you listen by telephone. You are able to listen to the ploweddings and make Public Comment by using your phone at 415 6550001. When you hear the prompt, enter the meeting i. D. And thats 146 149 2857 and press pound twice and you will have joined the meeting as a listener. To provide Public Comment express star 3 and listen carefully. And you may begin speaking your comments. And now that you know how to access the meeting its important i just say a few words about the agenda content available for your Public Comment. There are five separate public hearings today or items 14 through 17 and this is an appeal for the proposed project at green street. Items 2225 this is a hearing of statutory exemption from Environmental Review from sfmta and associated stops and items 2629 is another appeal of statutory exemption from Environmental Review and mtas covid19 muni rail Service Adjustments and item 30 a shelter in place rehoursing and site demobilization plan that is occurring today. These items are noticed to begin no earlier than 3 00 p. M. And Public Comment will be associated with each item. I understand that the mta items may be combined in which case Public Comment for both items would be taken at the same time. If your purpose is to provide testimony during general Public Comments, please wait for item 36 to be called. General Public Comment you can speak about the october 6 the regular board Meeting Minutes. The mayoral appearance today and the items within the subject matter jurisdiction on the board not on todays agenda and the items not reference to committee calender. Those are items 37i will correct that, all other items that ar on the agenda may not be spoken about. Pursuant to the citys policy and along with federal state and local laws we welcome your criticism and your comments and there cannot be comments that insult any conversation or comments that are discriminatory or harassing in nature. We have interpreters at todays meeting. Will you please introduce yourselves . In order we have fay and vivian and arturo. Madam clerk [voice of interpreter] [voice of interpreter] clerk thank you all for being here. And finally mr. President , pursuant to title 2 of the americans with disability ability act, we have an individual on the phone who is prepared to make his Public Comment when its appropriate in your opinion. President yee ok. Thank you, very much, madam clerk. 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. And before i get into our agenda and having our first public speaking due to accommodations, i want to take a minute just to congratulate director john arnts of the department of lexe elects for running an excellent election this year and given all the challenges and recordbreaking people voting it went smoothly and things were tallied very quickly and a lot quicker than i had expected and so, i want to congratulate all my colleagues who have ballot measures on this election and also on the mayor congratulating everybody for having successful ballot measures and i also want to congratulate supervisors peskin, supervisor preston, and supervisor and roman and well be in good hands to have, i guess, supervisors to carry the work of the board of supervisors next year and and you will be connie chan and merna melgar. Congratulations to those two which means now you will increase the women on the board of supervisors by 33 . I dont know if mayor breed, are you there . Im not sure. Im here. Good, good. So, why dont we go to our special order 2 00 p. M. And go ahead. The special order at 2 00 p. M. Is the appearance by the honorable mayor london breed. Theyre being no questions submitted from supervisors representing districts, nine, 10 and 11 the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes. President yee welcome, mayor breed. There were no topics submitted by supervisors today and we welcome to you share your remarks and i know you have quite a few things to say so make your remarks. Thank you president yee and thank you for your opening remarks. Ill be as brief as i can. Really, i want to take this opportunity to talk about a setback. Covid19 has been challenging and unpredictable and today is no different. Were not in a surge of hospitalizations yesterday but we are seeing what is clearly a significant increase in cases at a rate that we havent seen since the summer. This reflects what were seeing across the country and across the world. People are relaxing and were undertaking riskier activities and over and over San Francisco looked at the data and made the tough choice and thats where we are right now and today along with the department of publichealth were pausing Indoor Dining in restaurants and were also reducing maximum occupancy in gyms and movie theaters and while we have opened a handful of high schools and those will remain open, we are pausing the reopening process for our high schools and we foe Outdoor Dining has been a success but we know its not enough, particularly because winter is coming and and we also announced a Million Dollars in grants to help restaurants build out have shared spaces on top of the 3. 5 million we provided in sf health which is zero interest loans we announced yesterday. Which will be districted to the restaurants that cant hope and i want to thank supervisor mandelman and recognize supervisor mar for his support on the issue but these dollars are not enough. As we make decisions in the weeks and months we need to remember that there are people out there losing their jobs and businesses and its going to get worse. Yes, there are other priorities but there will always be priorities. We need to get creative and let me say this about our schools. While we are pausing reopening for a high school, that does not mean we should not stop preparing to open our public schools. Keep to keep our kids in school and getting our young students, in particular, back in the classroom and i know theyre calling to get schools open in january. Im very supportive of that and we will continue to put city resources and support behind that plan. Now, lets end with good news. The good news is that yesterday the person who is going to be our next president said something simple. Wear a mask. It was a profound shift in what weve experienced over the last several months of this pandemic from our current president. I know this wont turn around fast but finally we have someone who believes in science in the whitwhite house and joining joe biden is camel cam kamala harr. Im proud of her and her understanding of San Francisco and california in general and what that means for very challenging issues around housing and homelessness and the issues were going to be facing with our economy for years to come. We also know that theres good news about a potential vaccine though even if they move fast any broad impact on our country are still along ways off. This isnt going to be easy and i appreciate your support for our residents and our publichealth officials and we still have a lot of work to do. Were in a pandemic. We still are dealing with a very challenging economy things are nowhere near normal. So we need to start making sure we do everything that we can to make good policy decisions, to make good financial decisions, because the people of this city are counting on us. We will get through this together. Thank you. President yee thank you, madam mayor, for joining us today and that concludes our special order im glad were going to have unlike the to have revenue to put you through this pandemic. Why dont we go back to providing the person that needed accommodations for public speaking and for Public Comment. Clerk operations, i believe we have an individual standing by ready to make his two minutes Public Comment statement. Its been a huge battle and i have more emails october 1st, october 13th, october 19t october 19th and november 3rd and apparently the election is an excuse to cut Public Comment down to one minute for reasons i do not understand. Three weeks ago, ms. Breed declared we were doing covid and we should start reopening to support our Small Business, i do not support what the mayor has been doing around covid19 she has canceled seven months of meeting which is hugely disabilities to the disability. Im immuno compromised at risk for covid19. As a result of her reopening orders, we had a spike in cases and we now have 151 people dead in San Francisco over 1,000 dead in the bay area and the mayor hopefully who is listening to this blames the public for not Wearing Masks or taking precautionary measures. Ms. Mayor, we look to you for your guidance and your leadership and when you say things are Getting Better when theyre not, you cause these deaths. You cause these infection rates to rise. More over, when you make sure we do not have access to proper p. P. E. And you are not putting the homeless into hotels as you were ordered to do by the governor you increase the spread of covid19 not us or the public. We take safe guards with our help and ive heard from seniors and Homeless People that theyre looking to the leadership of mayor breed around this issue and when that leadership fails theres a problem. I would like to position to mayor london breed ordered homeless suit suites and i encoe this board and the public to look up that article for the many false hoods this mayor has told us. Thank you. Thank you for your comments. Mr. President. President yee thank you, very much. I wanted to let my colleagues know i did not forget about district 11 i just wanted to make sure it was a special announcement i say that supervisor safai has been reelected for district 11. I apologize for not including you in the first grouping. But you are special i needed to say individually for you. [laughter] ill take it. Ok. All right. Madam clerk, before we approve the Meeting Minutes id like to return briefly to communications to share a video. Before shelter in place, we used to have a board segment highlighting positive city initiatives. And i guess since the pandemic we havent had an opportunity and in fact this particular video was developed, i believe, either at the end of the year last year or about january. So this video is part of the original sfgovtv series called big news sf which features up lifting stories of what makes San Francisco unique and diverse. So many Small Businesses are struggling and programs that support our Small Businesses are more important than ever. Small businesses are a huge part of what makes our neighborhoods vibrant and unique and you need our support more than ever especially as just heard from mayor breed that theyre having to reverse having the ability to have Indoor Dining that we support them for the Outdoor Dining. They need our support now and we must have their backs. This is about a business. I wanted to spend a few minutes to honor this Small Business that has been here for 63 years and has been run by the mahan family since 1980. Small businesses like this are the backbone of our communities. Again, i dont want us to think this is just about this restaurant, its about all our businesses and i just happened to have the opportunity to feature this particular restaurant today. So, if you can roll the clip. Is there any sound . [ ] [ ] of the 26 neighborhoods that we have in district seven, this is probably the ideal neighborhoods when it comes to being in a small, little town. You can walk around here and it feels very unlike the rest of San Francisco. People know each other, they shop here, they eat here, they drink wine here. What makes the neighborhood are not only the people that live around here but also the businesses. And without these old establishments you wouldnt know h one neighborhood from the other. This is a unique restaurant. Its my favorite Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco. Not only because its great food but when you look around in this restaurant theres nowhere else you see decorations like this and it just gives you the flavor that you are in a different world which is very symbolic. With the restaurant has been here since 1957. Were going on 63 years now in the neighborhood. My family took it over formally in 1980 and with me coming into my role around 1998. My husband was a designer before so he knew a lot about art and he loved art. He loved color. So that is what inspired him to do the decorations so the few times that we went to mexico, we try to get as many things as we could so any time i would see something, he had to bring it in and even though theres no more spaces he would figure it out and find another space to put something else. One of the reasons why we created the legacy and the concept was that we were finding out that many of the businesses old establishments were leaving and closing down for a variety of reasons. It was a reaction and trying to keep our older businesses continuing in the city and i think weve had some success. I think this is this restaurant itself is probably proof that it works. Having the legacy business experience has helped us a lot too because it makes us a unique business because of the fact that we have been here so long and we have stayed here so long. They interact with us and we get to know them by name. We get to know their children too and eventually they come so we know who they are also. Its a great experience to talk to them and to know them. Supervisor, i come here to eat at the restaurant so he is a very Loyal Customer and he is very wonderful to us. This is the chilly relleno. I never have to say anything. The owners son comes out and says i want one again . Well, were really known for our mole. We do three different types of mole. Another dish were known for is our spinach enchilada. Everybody loves t. Even my non vegetarians love that dish. In the beginning, i wasnt familiar with the Legacy Program and San Francisco, being committed to preserve a lot of the oldtime businesses. Its important to preserve a lot of the oldtime and oldschool flavor of the neighborhoods. And for us it was just incredible. Being recognized in that capacity by the city and county of San Francisco. Ive been here for 40 years so i hope it will be for a few more years. I dont know if i could make 40 more but definitely a few more years. President yee thank you for indulging me and to all the Small Businesses who are fighting to keep the heart of San Francisco alive. Ok. Colleagues, today were approving the Meeting Minutes from the october 6th, 2020 regular board meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none give me a second here. Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Fewer. President yee seconded by walton. President yee supervisor mandelman. Madam clerk, can you call roll. Clerk on the approval of the minutes [roll call vote] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee without objection the minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Lets go to our unfinished business, please call the first item. Clerk item 1 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require employers of employees covered by the