Good afternoon, and welcome to the land use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco supervisors board today, on monday, november 16, 2020. I am the chair of the committee, aaron espeskin and joined by vicechair, supervisor safai and the committee member, dean preston. Miss major, do you have any announcements . Clerk due to the covid19 Health Emergency and 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 be participating in the meeting remotely. This precaution is taken pursuant to the statewide stay at home order and declarations and directives. The Committee Members will attend through Video Conference and participate in the meeting as to the same extent as if physically present. Comment is available on channel 26, 78 or 99 as well as sfgovtv. Org and are streaming the number across the stream. Each speaker is allowed two minutes to speak. 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And items acted upon today are expected to appear on the agenda of december 1st unless otherwise stated. Mr. Chair. Commissioner peskin thank you, can you please read the first and the only item. Clerk yes, an ordinance to amend the administrative code to temporary restrict landlords from evicting commercial tenants for nonpayment of rent that was not paid due to the covid19 pandemic. Those who wish to call should call 1 415 6550001. And the meeting i. D. Is 146 331 8244. After entering the meeting i. D. , press pound and pound again. Mr. Chair . Commissioner peskin thank you, miss major and colleagues. As you both know this item was continued from last weeks meeting when we duplicated the file following substantive amendment that was made to clarify that the termination provision for tenants, those with 10 or fewer employees applies notwithstanding any other contract terms. I want to be very clear about our intent here with respect to the termination provision for those tier one tenants because questions have been raised about language in past versions. Mainly that if you are tier one commercial tenant and elect to terminate your contract, that the intent of this legislation is that you would not b are cond terminated without future liability. Finally, before we vote on this, i would like to make one nonsubstantive amendment to the top of page 5, where we define each tier of Small Business based on the number of fulltime equivalent employees. We got a very good comment from the member of the public that spurred this nonsubstantive amendment. The current legislation states that the number of fulltime equivalent employees is determined as of the Effective Date of the legislation. And this nonsubstantive amendment on page 5, lines 18, that you are both in receipt of, would clarify that the termination of the number of employees is dated to november 1st of 2020. And with that, are there any questions or comments from Committee Members . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. We have james from tech checking to see if we have any callers in queue. James, can you queue up the first caller. There are no callers there is one caller. Can you unmute the first caller. Caller hi. Thank you for taking my Public Comment. My name is calvid ramadan, and we own a small familyrun business that has been serving San Francisco since 1984. Prepandemic we had two locations, one in the sunset district and one downtown. Unfortunately, as with many in our community, the pandemic has taken a significant toll on our business. Were forced to close our Downtown Location in march. We assume that the closure would be temporary, but, you know, here we are eight months later out of that location and in a significant amount of debt. We tried repeatedly to come to any sort of compromise with our landlord at that location that would allow us to survive and to continue after this, but we were unsuccessful. Unfortunately, now we find ourselves left with we had found ourselves with no other options than to vacate the premises and to terminate our lease there. We lost that Downtown Location and we find ourselves now in a legal bind. On a personal level this has been a huge emotional loss for my family and my parents are in their 60s and i hoped they could retire in the next coming years. Now it seems like a farfetched dream. This business is our lifeline. We poured our sweat and tears into building it. We dont know what our future will look like after this pandemic, but we hope that this audience will help the many San FranciscoSmall Businesses that find themselves in our situation. We thank the board for all of their hard work in being such advocates for the Small Business community of San Francisco. We are fortunate to work in such a great city. Thank you. Commissioner peskin thank you, mr. Ramadan, and we are sorry for what you are experiencing. Any other members of the public for item number 1 . Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. I have james saying that there are no other callers on the line. Commissioner peskin okay, then Public Comment is closed and i would like to make a motion to move the nonsubstantive amendment that we previously discussed. Can we have a roll call on that motion. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Commissioner peskin and then i would like to make a motion to send the item as amended as a Committee Report for a hearing at the full board of supervisors tomorrow, november 17th. Clerk on the motion as stated [roll call vote] you have three ayes. Commissioner peskin and that concludes our business and were adjourned for today. Thank you. Thank you