The determination by the Planning Department that the proposed project is categorically exempt from further environmental review. Item 38 is a motion conditionally reversing the determination, and item 39 is the motion to prepare the findings. I believe you may be muted, mr. President. President yee i believe these items were continued to a later date. Supervisor mandelman, did you have any remarks . Supervisor mandelman yes. I did not anticipate we would be continuing this today. Weve continued it several times. Yes, this has been pending for us for sometime, initially, it was delayed because of shelter in place. More recently, we have continued it a couple of times because of the because of health issues. The counselor for the appellants is sue hester, who i think folks know, and she believed that she would be able to present and participate today, and then turned out, for reasons beyond her control, that she would not, but she promises that she will be available if and will not ask for any further continuances if we continue this to our december 1 meeting. In fact, the appellants have also raised a couple of issue does in s in the last week that we think would be helpful for planning to take a look at before we hear this, and so i am going to make the motion for a final continuance of this item to december 1. But as i have said to miss hester and her clients, i think it is we are at a point where we shouldnt be granting more continuances beyond that, i dont think. President yee okay. Is there a second . Supervisor fewer second, fewer. President yee second by supervisor fewer. Supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i just want to start by saying i have immense respect for miss hester. This item has been continued any number of times excuse me but this cannot go on, so i just want to be very clear with supervisor mandelman that this is the last continuance. There are many people who think that ceqas being abused. I actually think that we adjudicated last matter very fairly, very impartially, but there are those who want to increase the barriers to entry on ceqa. I say that as somebody who actually brought a ceqa appeal to this board of supervisors as a civilian on treasure island, and some of my colleagues would like to incompeterease the bar to government decisions, which i profoundly disagree with. But relative to the incident case at 617 sanchez, through the president to supervisor mandelman, i would say if, for any reason, theyre not ready to hear this on 1 december 2020, they should substitute counsel. President yee okay. All right. Nobody on roster. Lets vote on the continuance. Madam clerk, roll call. Clerk mr. President , i believe you might want to take Public Comment on that continuance first. President yee oh, yes, thank you for reminding me. Are there any Public Comments on the continuance itself . Clerk operations, do we have anyone in the queue, and i will just say, if there are any listeners on the phone and youre interested in speaking on this item specifically to the continuance, press star, three now. Operations . Operator madam clerk, we have no callers in the queue. Clerk okay. Thank you. President yee okay. Seeing no commenters, Public Comment is now closed. Madam clerk, lets now take the roll. Clerk okay. To continue items 36 through 39 to december 1 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Motion to continue these items to december 1, 2020 passes. Okay. Lets see. Lets go back to item 20. Clerk item 20 is a motion to reappoint patricia spaniak to the aging Advisory Council term ending january march 31, 2021. President yee okay. Roll call, please. Clerk on item 20 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, then, the motion to approve is unanimous. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 21. Clerk item 21 is a motion to reappoint Steven Currier to the park, recreation, and open space advisory committee, term ending february 1, 2022. President yee okay. Go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 21 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam clerk, lets go to item number 22. Clerk item 22 is a motion to appoint kiana sezaw Kiana Sezawar Keshavarz to the sugary drinks distributor tax advisory committee, term ending december 31, 2022. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 22 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam clerk, lets go to item 22. Clerk item 23, mr. President . President yee 23, please. Clerk okay. I believe its item 23, mr. President. President yee correct. Clerk okay. Item 23 is a motion to reappoint mario paz, residency requirement waved, celine kennelly, and nima rahimi, terms ending june 6, 2021 to the immigrant rights commission. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead and call the roll. Clerk on item 23 [roll call] clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee okay. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam clerk, lets go to item 40, Committee Reports. Clerk apologize for my scrolling. Item 40 was considered by the land use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on monday, november 16, 2020. It was recommended as amended with the same title as a Committee Report. Item 40 is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to temporarily restrict landlords from evicting commercial tenants for nonpayment of rent that was not paid due to the covid19 pandemic and to allow certain tenants who are unable to pay rent to terminate their leases. President yee supervisor peskin . Supervisor peskin i recommend this to you colleagues. We all voted on this last week. This was a minor amendment that was in committee yesterday, and with that, colleagues, i hope you will all vote for this. President yee so this is first reading. Okay. Supervisor peskin right. So we already voted on the second reading on the underlying legislation. This is a very small tweak that has come to this board based as a Committee Report from yesterdays land use meeting, yes, sir. President yee got it. Okay. So roll call, please. Clerk on item 40 [roll call] supervisor fewer please add me as a sponsor. Clerk okay. We will do that. There are 11 ayes. President yee okay. The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, introductions. Clerk first on introductions of new business, supervisor haney. Supervisor haney submit. Clerk okay. Thank you, supervisor. Supervisor mandelman . Supervisor mandelman thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, im requesting that we adjourn todays meeting in memory of nico diman who died from complications of surgery in greece. He participated in the fillmore rise in new york and queer uprisings in San Francisco, as well. He was a video artist and writer who documented the early lgbtq Rights Movement in more than 30 novels and memoirs. Nicos was born on november 1, 1936 in San Francisco. He spent stints in los angeles, paris, and new york before returning to San Francisco in the mid1970s. He was an avid geneaologist who leaves behind a brother, a sister, and a niece. May his memory live on forever. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mandelman. Supervisor mar . Supervisor mar colleagues, today im just introducing a third back to work emergency ordinance. This will continue this policy which has already helped hundreds of san franciscans get rehired through a fair process on an emergency basis while this body considers codifying it through a regular ordinance which i previously introduced. The rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor mar. Supervisor peskin . Supervis supervisor peskin [inaudible]. Clerk okay. Supervisor peskin, well circle back. Supervisor preston. Supervisor preston submit. Clerk supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you, colleagues, i just wanted to wish my eightyearold daughter a very happy birthday. Since i couldnt celebrate with her, i thought id at least put it on the record. Clerk well make a note of that in the minutes, supervisor ronen. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai submit. Clerk okay. Thank you. Supervisor stefani . Ste supervisor stefani than you, madam clerk. I have two in memory memoriam, and the first is sam [inaudible] throughout his career, sam opened 30 restaurants and in San Francisco and was known for always pitching a new idea. Sam was passionate about food and even more passionate about creating experiences for his guests. With every restaurant, sam had the ability to combine these passions, creating so many places we loved to eat. His restaurants were always more than somewhere to grab a bite. Sam created restaurants that took you away from your daytoday and brought you into a new all encompassing experience. Sam is survived by his daughter, soninlaw, two grandchildren, and exwife. I loved reading in the chronicle that just a few months before he passed, he was already talking about new restaurant ideas in the city, including a new paella restaurant. He is terribly missed, yet i know his passion and legacy will continue to live on in our community of restauranteurs. I would like to close todays meeting in memory of a dear member of our district two office, alice long. At the age of 77, alice passed away from a. L. S. , or lou gehrigs disease. When i was appointed supervisor, i was both thrilled and honored that alice continues to serve the needs of district 2 residents. Up until city hall closed in march, alex was coming in each week to help me and my staff. While his time serving district two is just one of his many accomplishments on january 16, 1943, alex was born in new york, new york. His parents were both doctors and quickly immersed him in a world of exploration and curiosity. Alex spent much of his time with his mother on the campus of columbia university, where he was encouraged to interact with the Schools Research community. From an early age, he was captivated research. His coming age coincid of age with the computer age. While alex made strides with his studies and experiments, its where he met the love of his life, alison bowers. He went onto cofound expert e systems, a Software Company that pioneered the development of a graphic user incident face to support engineering model and analysis. Alex also shared many of our concerns with the help of our planet, in particular the impact that energy use has had on our environment. In 1992, alex founded environmental components. Throughout his time in the district 2 office, alex worked with countless constituents and city employees. His modest yet persistent drive to solve any problem that came his way always served an incredible role in the office. Alex put up a fight against the m. T. A. And won, we all know thats not an easy thing to do. A few years ago, the m. T. A. Had planned on ut canning the [inaudible] jackson bus, yet alex might it abundantly clear that cutting this bus to downtown was a big mistake. After rallying and gathering signatures, alex convinced the m. T. A. To keep the route. To my aides and supervisor farrells office, he made the struggle worth every ounce of effort. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his son, and loving extended family. After a life of service to improving the world around us, alex chose to spend his retirement constantly looking for new ways to serve. Its not often you find someone so humbled in their determination to serve others. His drive has been an inspiration for my own work. I cant imagine the countless others who feel the same way, but i also know that alex would never expect my praise or the praise of anyone. If theres anyone who truly embodies the naming of public service, it is our dear friend, alex long, and the rest i submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor stefani. I will miss stopping to speak with him at the front desk whenever i would go into your office. He was a wonderful person, and im grateful for his service to your office and to the city. Thank you. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton submit. Clerk thank you, supervisor. Supervisor yee . President yee thank you. Colleagues, child care workers, like many other Small Businesses, are at the brink of survival, too. We forget that theyre actually businesses, and its even more adverse during a time when families are in desperate need of their services. Just as a preliminary just a most of you already know this already, but theres many, many forms of child care or preschoolers or Early Education organizations, whether the center is large or small. Theres even licensed family care homes that are serving six to eight, or the larger homes, which serve 12 to 14, and theres even coops that people never even talk about, but theres actually 14 existing coops in San Francisco serving another 600 families. Similarly, care and education organizations were fortunate to receive, through the federal paycheck protection program, p. P. P. , but most did not, and its pretty save to say that of the 600 families child care home providers that are licensed in San Francisco, very few, if any, received any of this funding. In San Francisco, we were fortunate to receive a donation of 1 million through the give to s. F. Fund to provide some dedicated relief for Family Child Care home businesses, and they helped a handful of them, but certainly not all of them. Health cares have severely restricted the number that can be served in a limited state. Certain child care businesses have shutdown, and many more are on the verge of closing [inaudible] because of health orders. [inaudible] parents choosing not to bring back their children to the programs, reducing the number of families theyre serving, and many Staff Members are in their vulnerable age category, so Child Care Centers face the choice of hiring more staff to serve the same number of children, increasing their costs, or serving fewer children, which decreases revenues. Programs that have government contracts, like state funding and or city funding to serve lowincome families are better off than those not receiving any support. Its not to say that these government supported programs are held completely fiscally harmless, but the contracts up to now have been fully honored. Other providers that do not receive government funding are in dire straits. Many have closed or are months away from closing their doors. There is already a shortage of child care providers in San Francisco, and with those closed, it will worsen the crisis that were already in. The San FranciscoEconomic Advisory task force recognizes that we cannot have a quick recovery without a robust child care system in place. We have a one Time Opportunity to allocate funding to help not only save our child care system from collapsing but to also strengthen it. The San Francisco san franciscans passed prop f earlier this month to unlock nearly 500 million of problem c dollars, and its an opportunity to assist the entire child care system, not just those under our current existing Early Learning scholarship system, which are contracts to entities to different organizations. The board of supervisors will be approving a spending plan for baby c, which is at budget and Appropriations Committee tomorrow. We know that our directive is clear; that with the unlocking of these funds, we must stabilize the workforce that have been severely underpaid and have aquiliccess to qualit child care slots for our families. The reality is the entire system is bleeding out, and we need to keep providers afloat in order for these dollars to be the most effective. Today, i am sharing an effort that i am undertaking by the office of Early Childhood care and education. We are working to establish a new group called the Early ChildhoodEducation Recovery Program to provide grant and also possibly zero interest loans to child care providers for providers zero to six years of age, and it will be all to all child care providers that serve at least four children. All nonprofit child Care Organizations and coops serving children zero to six years of age, and even those forprofit licensed Child Care Centers that have more than two locations in the city. So we are crafting the details of this legislation, but i wanted to share this with all of you because in the last few weeks, i have been meeting with child care providers outside the system that are often unseen and unheard, and its clear after hearing from all of them that they need help. So i just wanted to bolster something. Connected to this is, of course, friday, november 20, i think its this friday, its world child rights day. [please stand by] the hon. London breed good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for joining us here today. Were here with dr. Grant colfax of the department of Public Health to provide a very important update around whats happening in San Francisco as it relates to covid19. As of today, the total number of cases in San Francisco are 13,139. The total number of hospitalizations are 36. Sadly, the total number of deaths has reached 151, and we are seeing 5,000, almost 6,000 tests per day. Our Positivity Rate has went from a record low to now 1. 28 , and what does all this mean . We are seeing an uptick. Two weeks ago, we put a pause on our reopening efforts, and we made it clear to the people of San Francisco that we are seeing the number of cases increase, and we should be concerned. We had plans. We had plans not only to continue our reopening efforts, but we had planned to really exp