Good afternoon and welcome to the march 19, 2024 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, please call the roll. Thank you mr. President. Supervisor chan, present. Supervisor dorsey, present. Supervisor engardio, present. Supervisor mandelman, present. Supervisor melgar, present. Supervisor peskin, present. Supervisor preston, present. Supervisor ronan, not present. Supervisor safai, present. Supervisor stefani, present. Supervisor walton, present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. Thank you, the San Francisco board of supervisors we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors and relatives of the ramaytush community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Please join me in 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. Madam clerk, do we have any communications or announcements . Yes, mr. President. The San Francisco board of supervisors welcomes all persons to attend this meeting here in the board legislative chamber here in city hall, second floor, room 250 or watch the proceedings on sfgovtv channel 26. To submit Public Comment in writing, send email address to bos at sfgov. Org or 1 dr. Carlton b goodlett place, city hall, room 244, San Francisco california 94102. And mr. President , we understand that we have received a communication from the office of supervisor ronan indicating she would not be present at todays meeting and like to be excuse said. Thank you. Madam clerk. Motion to excuse supervisor ronan . Well take without objection and supervisor ronan is excused. Is there a motion to approve the february 13, 2024 minutes . Motion by supervisor mandal elman and second by supervisor preston. A roll call, please . On the minutes, dorsey, aye. Engardio, aye. Mandelman, aye. Melgar, aye. Peskin, aye. Supervisor preston, aye. Safai, aye. Stefani, aye. Walton aye. Chan, aye. There are 10 ayes. Those ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk, please read item 6 and 7 together, please. 6 and 7 comprise items regarding the potrero power station project. 6 is ordinance to amend the Development Agreement between the city and California Barrel Company llc for the potrero power station project to allow for the establishment of the San Francisco enhanced financing district 1 and make the appropriate finds shz. Item 7 resolution approves the infrastructure financing plan for the enhanced infrastructure financing district number 1 to include the division of taxes set forth herein and acquisition and financing agreement document jz other actions related and to authorize the filing of a judicial validation act. Supervisor safai. Thank you mr. President. Madam clerk, we emailed just a short while ago. If you can add me as a cosponsor to item 6 and 7 i would appreciate it. Thank you. Seeing no other names on the roster, same house, same call, item 6 is passed First Reading and resolution item number 7 is adopted. Please read item 8 and 9 together. Item 8 and 9 comprise two resolutions that pertain to Computer Aided Dispatch contract. For 8 approves a amendment to the agreement between the city and motorola solution inc. S for a Computer Aided Dispatch and mobile computing system to increase amount for new total of 45 million to extend the term by 11 years for a total Contract Term december 22, 2023 through november 30, 2038. Item 9 the resolution approves a amendment to the agreement between the city and Central SquareTechnologies Llc for Computer Aided DispatchSystem Software maintenance to increase for new total of 8. 3 million and extend the term by 3 years for total Contract Term of june 29, 2020 through november 30, 2027. No names on the roster, same same house same call. The resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. Item 10 is resolution to approve a third amendment to the grant between the city and non profit selfhelp for the elderly for administration of the home delivered meal Nutrition Service for Older Adults Program to increase the grant amount for new total not to exceed 11. 5 million with nochange to the grant period through june 30, 2025. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please read item 1114 together . 1114 comprise four resolutions that receive and approve Community Benefit district annual reports for fiscal year 21 through 2022. Item 11 is for the yerba buena Community Benefit district. Item 12 is japantown Community Benefit district. 13 is north of market tenderloin Community Benefit district and item 14 is the east cut Community Benefit district. Same house, same call, the resolutions are adopted. Next item, please. 15 approve a agreement with non profit Owner Association for Administration Management of the property based Community District known as excelsior Community Benefit district. Same house, same call, the resolution is adopted. Item 16 is ordinance to amend the planning code to modify offset requirement for height exceeding 30 feet in the bernal height special use district in the japantown neighborhood. To allow medical cannabis dispensary to operate as temporary Cannabis Retail uses until december 31, 2024 and to clarify eligibility for reduction in incluseary housing requirement. To correct a error in the zoning control table to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Seeing no names on the roster, we will take this item same house, same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Madam clerk, committee reports, 17 and 18. 17 was considered by land use and transportation meeting monday march 18, 2024 and recommended as a committee report. 17 is ordinance that amends the planning code and zoning map to create the 900 kearney street special u. S. District to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. That is just item 17. Shall i read item 18 . No. On item 17, we will take that same house, same call, the ordinance is passed First Reading. Next item. Item 18 was considered by the rules committee at regular meeting on monday march 18 and recommended as amended with the same title. Item 18 is ordinance to amend the administrative code to establish a permanent Homeward Bound Program administered by Human Service agency and the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing for individuals experiencing homelessness at the risk of experiencing homelessness or formally experienced homelessness such as individuals residing in permanent Supportive Housing to receive paid travel and relocation to a destination where they have someone to receive them. Supervisor safai. Thank you madam clerk and mr. President. I rise to speak on this issue in particular because this is a program that started in 2005 under mayor gavin newsom, called the Homeward Bound Program served over 11 thousand individuals up until 2019. In essence it is reunified people not from San Francisco with family members in their home town, and unfortunately over the last few years it got buried in bureaucracy and no longer utilized or promoted so we today put forward the legislation to codify this program to elevate this program and insure it will be utilized in the tool kit. We heard yesterday in committee, thank you supervisor walton and supervisor engardio for pitch hitting for supervisor ronan, but we heard in committee yesterday that they are now planning to get this number backprogram back up to what it used to be serving about a thousand people a year. We ask them how they were going to do that and they said, the department said, we are now going to train our staff, educate people, promote the program and elevate the program. Just underscored to me this had not been happening for years unfortunately under this administration. We are very excited about this. This is about reunifying people with family members, about insuring that they have support, we check on day 30, 60, 90 and as i said, from 2005 until 2019, 11 thousand individuals were served, so and thank you supervisor engardio for your input on the amount of time it can be utilized. We made a amendment and reduced the time to two years in case someone had improvement and had the ability to work with them to get back to their family. I think this is a smart program. It is exactly why we ran proposition c a couple years ago, highlighting management and accountability of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing. We are bringing back in department of Human Services agency to insure now colleagues we will expand the scope. This allows us to work with people in shelters and allows to work with people in permanent Supportive Housing, so the scope of people that will be served by the legislation is broader and the accountability and reporting on a annual basis to this body to see the numbers and see how many are served. I think in last year it was just over 300 people served by this. We intend to get back up to a thousand, and i thank supervisor chan, cosponsor for your early support on this and input. Thank you colleagues, i urge your support for this. Seeing no other names on the roster, item 18, same house same call the ordinance passed First Reading. Colleagues, your board president made a mistake. We didnt have consent calendar, so what i thought was the consent calendar was actually unfinished business. Madam clerk, please circle back around to item number 1. Ordinance that appropriate 645 million from the issuance of one or more series of refunding general obigation bonds and place such amounts on chromeer reserve in fiscal year 2023 through 2024. Same house, same call, the ordinance is finally passed. Next item. Item 2, ordinance to amend the administrative code the building code, business and tax regulation code and planning code to clarify the ministerial approval process for certain accessory dwelling units that meet certain requirements in Single Family and multifamily buildings and affirm the ceqa determination. Same house, same call, the ordinance is finally passed. Itedm 3 is ordinance to amend the planning code to designate the Sacred Heart Parish complex to include 546548 fillmore street. 554 fillmore street. 755 [indiscernible] affirm the ceqa determination and to make the appropriate findss. Same house, same call, the ordinance finally passed. Item 4, ordinance to amend the planning code to wave the conditional use authorization requirement for removal of unauthorized unit in a Single Family home where the owner satisfying certain Eligibility Criteria to affirm the ceqa determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house, same call, the ordinance is finally passed. Item 5. Item 5, ord inance to create the legacy Business Assistance program. Same house, same call, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, lets go to roll call for introductions. First member to introduce new business is supervisor dorsey. Thank you supervisor. Next member to submit is supervisor engardio. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman. Thank you madam clerk. Today im introducing a resolution to put our board of supervisors on record in support of a initiative to develop and implement San FranciscoFirst Electric vehicle curbside charging program. Our transportation sector accounts for close to half San Franciscos emission. Of course, the est moimportant thing we can do to reduce the emission is make Public Transportation clean, safe and reliable, but making it easy ownership and use easier is a part of the mix. This initiative described in the resolution is underway some months and i want to thank the hard working staff at the department of environment and sfmta who have been partnering on this project which i hope will in the near future result in actually cite chargers on curbs. The Ev Charging Initiative has three main components. First, the departments are engaging in a curbside charging city wide assessment. This study evaluates instillation operation and maintenance of Public Charging Infrastructure at the curb in selected locations in San Francisco. Some aspects of this assessment as i said are underway. Deparms learned from case studies from la and new york that have robust curbside charging programs and best practice to meet the needs of san franciscans and assessing site level conditions to find areas with most suitability to promote access. The departments are looking the permitting rules and regulations may need to change to facilitate ev curbside charging. Lastly, the Department Plan to engage a wide variety of stakeholders in the Industry Community organization and neighborhood groups to communicate their plans and gather feedback. Based on the results of the city wide evaluation, the department develop a framework for ev curbside charging pilot program. This framework developed in parallel with and inform bide the study identify key components project cost and parameters for implementation of a future pilot, which i hope will begin no later then next year. The departments are expected to present that plan later this year. Lastly, the ultimate goal of the project is to deploy public ev charging station at the curb in neighborhoods across San Francisco. We have a little more then a thousand publicly accessible chargers, estimates are we need 5 thousand to get to our goals so we have a lot of work to do. I want to thank all the staff who have been working on this initiative from sfmta, tim [indiscernible] director tumlin from San Francisco environment i are want to thank charles [indiscernible] of course [indiscernible] from my office i want to thank [indiscernible] meeting with these departments for going on i think more then half a year now on this and i want to thank our intern harper for their work on the resolution and the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor mandelman. Supervisor melgar. Thank you madam clerk. I like to ask that we close this meeting and also take a moment of silence at the closure of this meeting to acknowledge the great pain and loss of a young family on west portal avenue over the weekend. You have read in the news that a young family standing at the bus stop in front of the west Portal Library lost their lives when a car sped out of control, plowed into the wall of the west Portal Library and still had enough force to knock down a family immediately killing the dad and 1 year old snding the mom to the hospital where she passed away and a baby who is now in Critical Condition at Childrens Hospital in oakland which is our best trauma hospital in the region. The family was waiting for the bus to go to the zoo, the most normal thing to do on a saturday, beautiful sunny saturday. There was at least three birthday parties that were happening at the West Portal Playground right above the station and everyone described it was packed, a Beautiful Day on saturday. Multiple people heard what they thought was a explosion. Kids ran to the fence to see what was going on, and so many people witnessed this horrific traumatic event that should not happen. It should not happen in our city, so 2024, this year is a year we were supposed to reduce traffic deaths to zero, and we are no where near close colleagues, so i beg all of us to take action. This is not something that should go through a Long Community process to have physical barriers against traffic violence for people just standing on the sidewalk waiting to cross the street waiting for the bu