As well for all people who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living on their homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging their ancestors, elders and relatives of the community and by affirming their soverne rights as first people. Colleagues please stand with me to resite the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. And on behalf of the board of supervisors, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgov who make the transcripts available online. I have seen the mayor can we go to the 2 00 p. M. Special order. Clerk yes, the special appearance by the honorable mayor, london anne breed present to engage in a formal policy discussion. Prior to the discussion, the mayor may address the board for up to 5 minutes. Thank you, madam clerk. Welcome madam mayor, do you have any opening remarks . Yes, thank you president walton and good afternoon, supervisors. Over the summer we saw a lot of excitement, tourist particularly from europe were everywhere. The championship parade made San Francisco shine. And our neighborhood were past our residents and visitors but with all of that positive movement, were also seeing downtown continue to recover far too slowly. Yet, San Francisco is not alone in dealing with the impact, our Current Office attendance is on par with los angeles, san jose and new york. This is a change that is playing out across the country. Here in San Francisco, we need to do more to draw out our recovery and plan our future. San francisco is a city that has risen to the challenge before and we can again. We need to acknowledge five areas, vacancies and diversifying, enhancing vibrancy, maintaining a clean and safe city, increasing and improving access to downtown and growing our labor force. We have already made some progress in these areas. For example, together we passed a budget bringing festival and other activations downtown, supporting Small Businesses and recruiting and maintaining Police Officers and ambassadors on our street. Those are positive steps but we have a lot to do. We need to be creative and be open to a wide range solutions. We think to think differently. This is about the future of our city. The reality is that so many of the programs and services we provide to help those most in need, the priority so many of us care about are funded, by taxes by our downtown area. If we dont take steps now and if we dont do things differently, we will lose out on that funding. And well be forced to make budget cuts. Thats not what any of us want. Its not what our residents want either. They want us to Work Together to create a stronger more resilient downtown that supports workers, Small Businesses and economic not just for our region. Letsz be open to ideas. I know many of you are doing work in this area and interested in coming up with Creative Solutions and i believe we can do this together. And there is hope for our city. People want to bet on San Francisco. Just last week, supervisor doersy attended a ground breaking. 333 new homes, 25 of which will be affordable and nine floors of office space. That does not happen if there are people in our future. We need to show that commitment and work. We have our policy and in the coming weeks, more ideas will come out. Lets dig in and have the conversations and move Solutions Forward that will support our economic recovery. Thank you. Thank you so much, madam mayor. Madam clerk please call the first topic. Jaot first topic submitted by the member is supervisor preston is Public Transit. Thank you, madam clerk, supervisor preston please ask your opening question. Thank you, president walton and thank you for being here for question time. This month is transit month. And i enjoyed celebrating Public Transit with you at last weeks rally on the steps of city hall. I believe that there is no economic recovery without a full and complete transit recovery. Fortunate, thanks in large part to pressure from transit riders, activist and operators and this board of supervisors we stop line elimination sxz reverse fair hikes during the pandemic. Despite the progress, we remain in a Public Transit emergency. Services lacking, and rider ship is low far below prepandemic levels. Nowhere is the lack of service more notable than during the evening and night time hours. And madam mayor is this, what is your plan for restoring evening and night time maoun service . Muni service. Thank you, for the question, as somebody that grew up riding the system, i know what muni and coming out of this pandemic, we know that it needs to be built on a foundation. That does not mean that things will look the same as they used to, people are not traveling the same way that we were in 2019. We need to prioritize Service Based on our equity needs to match the way that people use it now and to support our economic recovery. Were so happy to hear from constituents that is reliable and people can count on it. That is what is most important. But we need to be honest about our limitation. We dont have enough operators and mechanic nicks to run more service now. There was a hiring freeze and weve had more retirement and natural attrition than we can keep up with. I asked sfmt a to streamline the process so we can hire more operators as soon as possible. I know what a great job being a muni transit operator is. A lot of people i grew up with, are working there every day. Thats why were promoting this opportunity, through job fares and Workforce Development team. Facing historic challenges, these last two years was rider ship dropping dramatically, we should be proud making data driven decisions when providing Critical Services all throughout our city and our neighborhood corridors. Even though we have lots to be froud of, we know that we still have more work to do and i look forward to working with the board and communities and make sure that we build a Transit System for the future. We are not there, we got a lot of work to do and im hopeful that we can get there. Thank you, mayor reed. Supervisor preston, do you have a followup question . Thank you, president walton. Thank you for your response and your work on Public Transit. I want to followup more specifically about night time and evening service. I want to underscore just how dire the situation is right now for people trying to use Public Transit in the evenings and at night in our city. These are workers trying to get home and tourist trying to enjoy our restaurants and bars and music venues. They depend on Public Transit availability outside of the 9 to 5 hours. And our system is not responsive to their needs. 30 of our current muni lines have significantly earlier end times than before the pandemic. Many of these lines, they ran before the before the pandemic until midnight and now they end at 9 00 p. M. Or 9 00 am. This has less people waiting at the curb and more often forced people to either drive or spend an hours wage on a taxi or tnc. This is key part of our economic recovery that has not be received the attention it deserves. So my followup question is this, more specifically what is your message to the restaurant or theater worker who gets off at 11 00 p. M. Or to the janitor who finishes their shift in the Morning Hours . Or to the bartender who cannot use Public Transit to get home after a long night of work. Youre preaching to the quaier here. In terms of all the people that youre talking about. Many of those people are people that i know who are struggling in the city. But when you talk about maoun service as being dire in this 9 to 5 thing that is not accurate. But part of what i mentioned in my comment, is the fact that we need to focus on that muni is reliable and not stretching it to thin so its inconsistent. The fact that sometimes the run is running and sometimes it isnt. And inconsistent see is something that were dealing with every single day. But the truth is, as i said, we do not have enough operators and mechanics to run service right now. So were focused to use data, trying to restore the lines that you know, people are most interested in using and trying to make sure that the service is efficient. I dont think its as problematic in certain areas and times as what you have, mentioned especially seeing so many of our buses, along San Francisco, on the weekend and in fact on the evenings in the evening that have been empty because i pay very close attention to that. But more importantly working with tomland and sfmta, i play attention to the data. And our goal is that its data driven. Its not entirely accurate in terms of how youre portraying the problem . Thank you, madam mayor, you may now ask a question to supervisor preston or to any other supervisors in attendance pertaining to the same topic but not related to the previous question. Thank you, president , i will pass in asking the question right now. Thank you madam mayor and supervisor preston for your questions. This concludes the diflt 5 discussion. Madam clerk, would you please call the next topic. Clerk supervisor mannedleman is homelessness and street conditions. Thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor mandelman please ask your question. Thank you for being with us for question time. Given the expansion of shelter beds and other investments solving homelessness. At the time, you answered that you believe they would. And since then, my office and i have worked closely with you and your team. And we have certainly seen significant improvement from conditions at the height of covid in 2020. But the status quo in open drug sales and use and people who are in danger to themselves or others roaming the streets is clearly unacceptable. Residents and merchants reach out to my Office Every Day describing scenes of open drug use that are unsafe for everyone involved. And recently the castro merchants threaten to hold fees if conditions did not improve. While im grateful for the opportunity to collaborate with your office and your genuine care for this neighborhood which i know is real, at this point i dont feel i can honestly tell my con constituents in the castro that we are where we want to be. Madam mayor, what can i del them . Can we make this better in a reasonable timeline . If so how . And if not, why not . Well thank you supervisor, manned dman. I understand the frustrated of the residents of castro. Im frustrated too, and part of my frustration is because were adding new shelter beds with 1,000 shelter beds added over the next three months. Thats nearly 75 of our goal of our goal 200 plus for those who serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse challenges. These individuals are struggling and they need more and they need to make it clear that this is an option that they need to take. The change is going to can have to come in two ways. Better coordination so that somebody is not accepting resources and not allowed to disrupt the neighborhood, were working on that now. For example the department of added health has added staff that are working every day in the castro specifically and with the Police Department and homeless out reach team. With this coordination, we will identify when somebody has clearly rejected our help in a different intervention required. Individuals to disrupt the neighborhood. And i know, you know that better than anyone else, we need changes to our state law while care court will add a new tool for certain individuals. Our browder conservative reform failed to make it through the legislation of this year. But we will try again next year. In addition we will continue to bring resources for all of our neighborhoods. And we will continue our work like the castro merchants to discuss how the city can toader coeder nature and continue to partner effectively with them going forward. I look forward to working with you on it. And i know its frustrating and i know its not enough, but we dont exactly have all the tools necessary to make the difference. Im hoping to make not only in the castro but in the city. Does not mean that we will not keep on trying. Thank you, madam mayor and supervisor, you may ask another question. Thank you for that. I want to emphasize on what i think youre saying, increased coordination between our department and Public Health and San Francisco police and hot on the other is essential. That we need both of those sets of folks stepping forward working together to get people to care that they need. But ultimately also to keep our public spaces safe. Soy guess what i want to followup on, is what do you need from this board of supervisor to see accelerate on open drug use and sales and untreated illness on our streets . I need support. We need to understand that there will always be a board of safety. We need a board of supervisor to see support the police in keeping our streets safe and addressing criminal behavior while we continue to conduct service. I ask you to support our city departments in carrying this out. And as Innovative New houses are brought before you to support, you can help to rally constituents to support the solutions we need as well. Thank you, madam mayor. You may ask followup question to supervisor mandelman. Thank you, president walton, i have no questions at this time. Thank you for being here with us this afternoon. Madam mayor, this concludes the district discussion and this also concludes our mayoral discussion for this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you very much. Bye. Bye bye. Madam clerk, any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The board of supervisors welcomes the public to the legislative chamber here in room 250 to advise the board inperson or just to listen to the proceedings. 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And general matters that are not on todays agenda but within the board subject matter jurisdiction. I will also point out that there are two public hearings at todays Board Meeting. The first item is the committee of the whole item 17, committee of the whole on the tourism Improvement District. And committee of the fellow on the hospital, that is item 19. Each of those items will have their own public testimony associated with it. Communication is still possible with the board, you can send your written correspondence to the board of supervisors. Or send the board an email. In a Great Partnership with the office engagement, interpreters will be present beginning with the first public hearing on the item 17, 18, 19 and then during general Public Comment. And finally, if you have any questions accessing this meeting, please call the Clerks Office. We have a clerk standing by to assist you. Thank you mr. President. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues before we get started, just a friendly reminder to please mute your microphones when youre not speaking. Were now at approval of Meeting Minutes from july 26, 2022 regular Board Meeting and august 8, 2022 special Board Meeting. I dont see anyone on the roster, any changes to the Meeting Minutes. Madam clerk, sorry, can i have a motion to approve the minutes made by supervisor preston, seconded by supervisor mannedalman. As minutes as presented. Supervisor doersy. Aye. Mandelman aye. Mar, mar, aye. Milgaard, milgaard aye, preston aye, supervisor ronen. Ronen. Aye. Supervisor safai, aye. And supervisor chan. Supervisor chan, aye. 11 ayes. [gavel]. Lets go to our consent agenda. Items 2 through 8. Items 2 through 8 listed are considered to be routine. There will be no separate discussion unlts a member would like to have a item removed and considered separately. Otherwise these also will be contacted on by a single roll call vote. I dont see anybody on the roster. So we will take these items same call without objections. These ordinance right side passed ooh unanimously. Please call 9 and 10 together. Called together are two resolutions that support the provision of early care and Education Integrated Services to support implementation of the city wide plan for early care and education. For the term june 30th 2024 in an amount not to exceed, 260 million. Thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor milgaard. Thank you, very much president walton. I want today say thank you to the budget and finance Committee Hearing for hearing this item and the discussion that we had at the meeting. This will ensure continuity funding to most important entities for childcare in our city. So as that process is going, flow but it als