Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via 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 number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at victor. Young sf. Org. Chair ronen thank you. Can you please read item number 1 . Clerk yes. Item number 1 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to expand the boundaries of the american incidentian cultural district and provide Additional Details regarding the cultural and historical significance of the district. Chair ronen and this is a matter continued from last week, so i think all we need is Public Comment. Clerk yes. Members of the public wishing to comment should all 4156550001, meeting i. D. 1460305414. Press pound, and pound again, then press star, three to be entered into the queue. Mr. Qiu, do we have any Public Comment at this time . Operator yes, i have one public caller in the queue. Good morning. I just wanted to reiterate im [inaudible] for the american incidentidian cultura district. I just wanted to reiterate my support for this item, and my huge thank you to paul and supervisor ronen for going above and beyond and making sure we can do this change on such short notice. Just wanted to reinstate my comments for the california native people who once suffered on these lands and were moved from these lands. Its important to be able to protect this site for all of our relatives and those who enjoy it now. Thank you to all the folks behind it that are supporting it. Thank you. Chair ronen thank you so much for all your work. Are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item . This is debbie sant contracti santiago with the washoe tribe of california and negative. This has always been an area where they have worked and lived and all over the areas there in San Francisco, so this would be a great part of the cultural district, of the heritage, and also the history of our cousins in this way when we came down and treated between each other, so i would urge you to please add that into the cultural district, and we can move forward and be a part of Everything Else as part of the first people of this country and here of San Francisco. Thank you very much. Clerk thank you very much. Are there any additional callers . Operator madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair ronen thank you. Public comment is closed, and, again, thank you for everyone that has been an integral part of this effort. With that, i would like to make a motion to send this item to the full board with positive recommendation. Clerk cle clerk as a Committee Report . Chair ronen as a Committee Report. Clerk recommended as a Committee Report. On that motion [roll call] clerk the motion passes without objection. Matter will be recommended as a Committee Report. Chair ronen thank you so much. Can you please read item number 2 . Clerk yes. Item number 2 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to establish the guaranteed Income Advisory Group to advise the board of supervisors, the mayor, and the city departments regarding the establishment of a guaranteed income Pilot Program. Chair ronen and this is supervisor haneys program, and i believe hes with us today. Supervisor haney, did you want to start us off . Haney y han hane haney supervisor haney yes, thank you. The need for a guaranteed income is clear here in San Francisco, especially during this pandemic. People are unemployed, food lines and services are overwhelmed with demand, and countless people are worried about how theyre going to pay their rent. In district 6, we have the highest poverty rate and the lowest Median Income as compared to the rest of the city. The district 6 poverty rate is nearly twice the average citywide, and there are thousands of people in the district i represent, and im sure in the districts that you represent, who are struggling now more than ever. Dozens of cities around the country including san jose, seattle, los angeles, and new orleans have already pledged to create or have created Advisory Groups. Contrary to what critics say, guaranteed income is not a replacement for work. Instead, it is a much needed part to supplement families in desperate need of an economic safety net. This Advisory Group would advise the board of supervisors, mayors, and various city departments on the path to Economic Security specifically outlined in this ordinance. The proposed ordinance would create an 11 ber advisory body. The board of supervisors would appoint eight members, the treasurer, the executive director of the human rights commission, and the executive director of the h. S. A. Would each appoint one member. By no later than december 31, 2021, they would submit a report modelled on the best practices of guaranteed income, and challenges in the implementation of such programs, how a guaranteed Income Program may be associated with reductions in poverty, crime, and violence, how it affects work stability, economic stability, consumer protections, and economic mobility, and how it would affect children and families in San Francisco. I also want to note that there have been efforts underway currently with guaranteed income Pilot Programs in San Francisco, which we are all very excited about, and this Advisory Group would also provide Additional Information to support those programs, to continue them, to build on them, and to create a framework for further guaranteed income Pilot Programs here in San Francisco. There are two nonsubstantive amendments to the legislation that i would like for the committee to adopt. The First Amendment is to accommodate the seats from 9 to 11 members. We would like to accommodate one person younger than 24 hours of yaj 24 years of age currently experiencing poverty, and someone with antiracial and discrimination training. I hope you all will join me in supporting this ordinance, establishing this guaranteed Income Advisory Group with this Broad Coalition in partnership with the Treasurers Office. In doing so, we will join many cities across the country, including our neighboring cities, who have already started joining the work in this movement which is now more essential than ever during this pandemic. And i believe that amanda fried from the Treasurers Office is here to answer any questions that i cannot, and lastly, i would like to thank abbie al monte in my office, as well. Chair ronen thank you so much, supervisor haney, for this. I believe im a cosponsor, and if not, i would like to be added as one. I have been working with amanda fried on another piece of legislation coming up voss domestic workers, and i know theres tons of complicated issues involved in starting a program like this, and so i just want to appreciate both amandas work as well as our treasurer, jose cisneros, who cares so much about financial equity in our city and are just such great partners in this work. So i wanted to i dont have any questions for amanda, but i just wanted to see if she wanted to make any remarks or statements . Thank you, supervisors haney and ronen, for your kind works. No, i have nothing to add. Just excited to be working with all of you, and excited about the work ahead. Chair ronen okay. So with that, i see no other comments, so we can open this up for Public Comment. Clerk yes. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this item should call 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414, then press pound, and pound again. If you havent already done so, please press star, three to lineup to speak. A system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted to begin your comment. Mr. Tue, do we have any Public Comment at this time . Operator yes, i have three callers in the queue. Good morning, supervisors. Can you hear me . Clerk we can hear you. Please proceed. Thank you. Calvin click with the San FranciscoYouth Commission. First of all, thank you to supervisor haney for sponsoring this legislation and to his legislative aides, courtney, for coming to present to us a few weeks ago. On november 10, Youth Commission voted unanimously to forward this with a positive recommendation. In the past, we have supported universal basic income and guaranteed income as, you know, solutions to not just the situation that we are facing with this pandemic, but broader issues of systemic poverty in San Francisco, so we are very pleased to see this happening. We are also very pleased to see that a youth seat will be added to the commission Advisory Groups. This is one of our recommended amendments that we had made, and were also glad that a focus around how this guaranteed income would impact residents and families. Thank you, supervisor haney. Only thing i would add to that is we would ask the committee to consider how if it would be possible for Advisory Group members to be compensated for their time, and also to add perhaps some focus around specifically solving for the issues of how a guaranteed Income Program would reach financially marginalized populations, including, but not limited to undocumented immigrants. Nonetheless, we absolutely support this legislation and hope you pass it out of committee today. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Next caller, please. Hi. Can you hi, can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Hello . Clerk please proceed. Hi. My name is dr. Zaya malawa here in San Francisco, and im running a program called the birth project in San Francisco. I really support this measure, and i think its important that San Francisco develop a basic Income Program within the city limits. We know that theres a strong connection between stress and health outcomes, and we know that in a city as expensive as San Francisco, Financial Insecurity is causing a great deal of stress, which is causing a lot of health challenges, particularly in communities that have been subjected to racism. Also, when we look at the black, Pacific Islander, latinx communities, we see disparities that we havent been able to touch for a very long time, and its costing people their lives, so one solution that might be able to dispel some of that stress is a cash program. While some poor people might need housing, i poor people might need to figure out how to fix their car, make an investment, or go back to school. So when we give people an income, were giving them the dignity that they know how to meet their needs rather than being kind of dictated to by large benefits programs with a lot of restrictions. And lastly, i just want to lift up the programs like urban renewal and red lining, programs that are based in racism, have caused huge harms, particularly to the black community. I think if the city wants to be authentic in its goals to be equitable, we need to figure out how to start to make repairs for othe policies in or past that have caused harm. Clerk your time has expired. Thank you. Next caller, please. Hi. My name is sophia tabula. I was born and raised in bayviewhunters point. First generation american samoan. Ive had the honor of, like, giving testimony for the abundant birth project, and i just wanted to say how hard its been for me, like, being a first time, having had to access child works and all of that, how hard it has been being a first time mother, and just, like, what a tremendous impact guaranteed impact would do for my life and my daughters life. I wish there was more to say, but im more so emotional, but again, echoing everything everyone said. Thank you. Clerk thank you. Can we hear from the next caller, please. Hello. Can you hear me . Clerk yes, we can hear you. Please proceed. Hello. My name is debra, and im calling in as a resident of San Francisco for nearly 20 years, and im also a social epidemiologist and assistant professor at ucsf, studying the effect of income on underserved communities. Im thrilled to see additional and broader income work in San Francisco, and especially the focus on children and families that have just been included. So we know that ample evidence from ongoing guaranteed Income Programs, international uncondition Cash Transfer programs, as well as policy evaluations of policies like the earned income tax credit in particular, but we know that giving people money improves their health and wellbeing, and certainly no period is more critical to ensure life along health in early pregnancy and childhood. I think we have an Incredible Opportunity here in San Francisco to focus on those that have been most harmed by economic exclusion and also the dramatic Racial Disparities that we are currently seeing from the covid pandemic. I also want to lift up that as we have seen in the early work of the abundant birth project, its so important to include all leadership in the Program Design and evaluation to ensure that what we create has the potential to mitigate the harms from economic inequalities and also health inequalities. Thank you so much for putting forth this legislation. Clerk thank you. Can we hear from the next falle caller, please. Hi. Im [inaudible] and im also from the abundant birth project. Im having problems with income and property, so i just want to touch on how another income will be for African Americans and Pacific Islanders. Clerk it appears the caller has completed the comment. Mr. Tue, do we have any additional callers . Operator madam chair, that completes the queue. Chair ronen thank you so much. Public comment is closed. Supervisor haney, did you have any closing comments . Supervisor haney first of all, i just want to thank everyone who called in for all the support, and especially the individuals from the abundant birth project. Dr. Malawa has been such an extraordinary leader in our city on this issue, and supporting people with guaranteed Income Project that they have launched, and we hope that this Advisory Group will be able to both provide opportunities for further projects and assist the one thats needed, and i hope with dr. Malawas leadership, that San Francisco can continue to be a leader in guaranteed income. One thing i will say, there are many groups that we believe could and should benefit from guaranteed income, and there were a lot of folks, transitional age youth, undocumented people, certainly, the black and Pacific Islander communities that could be specifically targeted for guaranteed income Pilot Programs. We didnt name those groups extensively in the the the actual resolution because or the ordinance because, really, the focus of this group is going to be looking at the different groups, looking at the type of programs that could exist, and we didnt want to put together a lift that was noncomprehensive. Of course, the list is the groups that could most benefit from this and could benefit most from guaranteed Income Programs. So just in response to some of the points, absolutely, this group should look at undocumented individuals and how they could benefit from this, as well as a number of other groups. So with that, i would ask that we put this forward to the full board, and would love to have you as a cosponsor, supervisor ronen, and anybody else. I think this is going to be a really important thing for the future of how we address poverty in our city. Chair ronen thank you, supervisor haney.