Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting of september 15, 2015. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll . Madam president. Supervisor avalos. Supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen, supervisor cohen, supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor yee. Madam president , all members are present. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen can you please join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge of allegiance, to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. Madam clerk, are there any communications . I have none today madam president. Okay, madam clerk, can you please call the first item . Yes the first item of business is the policy discussion between the honorable mayor edwin lee and the board of supervisors. The mayor may proud additional remarks up to five minutes. The mayor may recognize supervisor christensen. There maybe followed up questions asked. Thank you very much, welcome mayor ed lee. Do you have opening remarks at this time . I do. Thank you again president breed and supervisors and guests to our city hall. Supervisors welcome back from your recess. I know youre all eager to get to work. I like to use my time to talk about how we are working everyday to keep our city more affordable. Thats our laser focus on housing, housing thats affordable to low and middle income families. We are using this time of prosperity in our city to make sure every resident benefits. We have already together, raised the minimum wage for our city. Weve made muny free for low income kids for seniors and people with disabilities. Weve invested in our public schools, the great equalizer to make sure our kids succeed. By providing Affordable Housing to low income families is an essential part of our affordability challenge that we must solve. Even though we have a housing crisis thats decades in the making, we must act decisively together now to make sure that families stay in their homes and get access to an affordable one. Thats why last year, 2014, i announced a pretty aggressive housing plan. Build and rehabilitate 30,000 homes by 2020 making sure its affordable to low income family and to middle income family. Were making sure this progress with the most housing weve ever seen built in our cities since the great earthquake. We need to do more. Thats why last week we launched a blueprint to build an additional 10,000 homes. More than 10,000. While we set the ambitious goal of 10,000 Affordable Homes, with this package of legislation for the first time, we have a clear blueprint to meet and i believe that we will exceed, the goal of 10,000 affordable units by 2020. Were working together, the board and the mayor, championing legislative package of five key policies and programs that will help us reach our Affordable Housing goals. We are together fixing Public Housing. No more poverty housing but well rehab one thousand foreign and Public Housing units in 15 different sites in just phase one of our Public Housing rehab. Were giving existing residents the priority for Affordable Homes built in their communities through our neighborhood preference program. Were helping tenants who lost their homes to an eviction or no fault eviction. Who had to leave below market rate with a displaced tenants preference. My thanks to supervisors christensen to breed and cohen and all the supervisors for your support on this legislation. We are revamping our Inclusionary Housing Program by Incentivizing Developers to provide affordable units alongside market rate units. I along with supervisors farrell will introduce legislation today to create more 100 Affordable Housing developments entirely funded by the private sector and Incentivize Developers to provide affordable units at a greater range of income levels under private projects. For the first time in our citys history this package will help us to secure housing for families and rent controlled units and stabilize the rent at permanently affordable levels. Finally, we are Incentivizing Developers to build projects that have low income, middle income and market rate ones side by side with our Affordable Housing bonus program. Im excited about the package of legislation that will be introduced today and hopefully we will all Work Together to make sure that we ramp up our Affordable Housing production with our citys resources and with the private sector investment. If we talk about homes, we need to talk about homelessness. Im eager to get to supervisor christensens question. Thank you mr. Mayor. Now i like to recognize the supervisor from district three. Supervisor julie christensen. Mr. Mayor, good afternoon. I thought today will be a Good Opportunity to look at the homelessness issues. I know it affect all the district. Our count of homeless persons is up 27 in district three. Theres been some talk about impending celebrations that might be occurring. But this is a daytoday fact for a lot of folks in the district. I thought this would be an opportunity to talk about how your office is addressing the issue specifically in our district. Thank you. Thank you supervisor christensen. Youve asked a question thats been on my mind everyday. On the minds of all san franciscans. Im sure each of your colleagues the same thing. As we all try to offer hope to people who are living on our streets. Because of smart investments, theres no doubt our city changed many lives for the better. In fact, through housing or family reunification, the city has helped more than 19,000 people leave the streets with nearly 11,000 move into Supportive Housing since 2004. We are making progress in better serving homeless veterans. Families and youth. In fact, we expect and we will end chronic homelessness for veterans in San Francisco by the end of this year. Well continue to make progress on family homelessness and youth. However, even with the strongest social safety net that weve all worked together and i think were proud of it here in San Francisco, we know that we must do more because we still have too many Homeless People suffering on our streets and too many people unable to make the choices they need to save their own lives because of Mental Health and substance abuse. We have relaunched the Homeless Outreach team with over 55 members to directly engage with people on the streets and give direct care. We have integrated a 311 reservation system for shelter beds so no one has to wait in long lines to get shelter. Were using innovative approaches like rapid rehousing, reversing an historic spike in Family Member homelessness and cutting the shelter wait list by more than 50er . I worked with many of you on these investments. The one im most excited about is our innovative navigation center. We started nearly five months ago and have already helped 200 people homeless San Francisco cans change their lives. Were committed to continuing this model and increasing it and multipling it. Many have joined me last week when we announced an additional 3 million to double down on our efforts to serve street homeless residents after an anonymous donor got the center going. We cant do it alone. We will need more donors. I join the supervisors to ask the private sector to step up is we can continue to intake new clients, provide meals, safe shelter and connect Homeless People with social services. Thats why were starting the navigation partnerships fund. This will raise hopefully another 3 million or more and it will be deposited into the fund with a Controllers Office. We know there is much hard work in front of us to solve this. Im willing to work with the board to make sure that we have a more robust answer to the Mental Health and behavorial challenges. I look forward to working with you supervisor and each the supervisors to making sure were working together to create and continue our focus on this homelessness problem in San Francisco. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you mr. Their for being mayor for being here today. At this time, were going to move on to the consent agenda. Madam clerk read the consent agenda. Items 2 through 5 comprised consent agenda. If a member objects, an item maybe removed and considered separately. Seeing no names on the roster. Madam clerk please call the roll. Supervisor cohen. Supervisor farrell, supervisor kim, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, supervisor wiener, supervisor yee, supervisor avalos, supervisor breed, supervisor campos, supervisor christensen there are 11 ayes these items are finally passed and approved unanimously. Madam clerk, item number six. To clarify that the Affordable Housing program applies to housing projects including Group Housing projects. Changing certain requirements and certain circumstances to allow affordable on sight units in Group Housing projects. For on sight units in Group Housing projects to be priced 75 of the maximum Purchase Price for studio units. To clarify the requirements for designated units in certain district, under section 124f to affirm the Planning Department and to make other appropriate findings. Colleagues can we take that item . Without objection, this ordinance is passed unanimously. Item seven. To require the sheriff and the Police Department to gather and regularly report data regarding detention and traffic stops. Same house same call. This ordinance is finally passed unanimously. Item eight please. To amend the administrative code to rename the disasterry Recovery Fund. To designated as a category eight fund and specify how the city may use the fund. Supervisor tang. Thank you president breed. Today we have legislation before us. As you know, currently we have a San FranciscoDisaster Recovery fund. Today this legislation will be amending it, not only is it for Disaster Recovery but for emergency perches. In particular, my intention for this legislation is to that we can expeditiously provide funding if there is an emergency situation in San Francisco quickly, these are funds specifically from private donor who decide they would like to donate money to the city for particular purposes. We would also be expanding the fund to include four categories. One would designate they would like to donate money for infrastructure and repair replacement for emergency housing or for helping animals. If you dont designate the City Administrators Office will be responsible for determining the allocation of the funds. In budget committee, we had amended the legislation so that not only is the City Administrators Office and the Controllers Office completing a report as to how much funds we are getting and how were spending the funds, they would have to submit an annual report to both the mayor and the board of supervisors regarding the use of the funds. The Controllers Office shall include the disaster and Emergency Response in its quarterly budget status report. The overall extension of this legislation is to allow us as a city to be able to obtain funds from private donors in the event of an emergency for quicker Disaster Recovery. But also for Emergency Response and to not have to go through a board process in order to do ho. Often times we need to be able to provide funding quickly. This is what this legislation is intended to do. To date, we have only received 546 comprising 19 donations. That is between november 2011 and july 2013. To date, no expenditures have been made from this fund. We hope that by changing the way the fund is structured, that were able to better be ready to accept private donations and to help those in need during a time of emergency. With that colleagues, i hope you will support the legislation as is. We have Controllers Office staff here ready to answer any questions you may have. I know there may have been some concerns about transparency and how were spending the funds. I do want to give our deputy city controller an opportunity to speak to that. If thats okay . Yes. Good afternoon, todd, from deputy controller. I like to wish you a happy National Disaster preparedness month. The month of september. The item before you today as highlighted by supervisor tang, is really a piece of legislation that does go to the next step as far as being prepared and responsive as well as recovery efforts. Much like youve already done in your legislation for chapter 21 as well as chapter 6 for public works contracting. This is the compliment on the private donation side. If there are particular questions, i will be happy to answer there. There are the additional reporting in transparency items mentioned by supervisor tang with the quarterly reporting back to you. Thank you. Supervisor tang is there anything else . Thank you supervisor yee. Thank you very much. Appreciate supervisor tangs legislation here to make it easier for people to help on the emergency situation. While i support the intended resolution, San Francisco being prepared in case of an emergency. I also understand that as supervisor tang mentioned there hasnt been a really whole lot of funds collected through this mechanism. Of course, if we collect 2000 here and there, that can be great. I also know that when you have huge disasters and lot of times whether you read it in the news all the time, whether you want to go back to katrina where there was a lot of donations and nobody knew what happened to the funding or to other international situations, even in the quake, there was a donations that were unaccounted for. When it comes to huge disasters, the donations itself by private donors comes after the fact that we had city or state or federal government will react to the situation. Part of what i want to do is amend this. Again, i dont think its going to really have much impact unless its a major disaster. I would like us to not totally give away fiduciary responsibility and having a check and balance here. If we were indeed, to have over 100,000 and 500 is very far from 100,000, that the board would have to approve the expenditure, anything thats over 100,000. Again, i dont think going to have much impact in terms of things like the fire and the mission. If it was 100,000 paid for about 130 victims for the three nights at 256 a night at a hotel. Im asking support for this amendment so we dont give up our fiduciary responsibility as a board of supervisors. Supervisor yee has made a motion to approve an amendment that he circulated to the members of the board. Is there a second . Seconded by supervisor avalos, supervisor tang. Thank you very much. I appreciate everything that supervisor yee just stated. I do believe in transparency and accountability for even private donations. Not just city funds but private donor who are trying to contribute to Disaster Recovery and Emergency Response. We do unfortunately respectfully disagree, it does defeat the purpose why were doing this. We trying to bypass the board process only in the case of an emergency. For nothing else. That is why i proposed the amendment reporting annually. Speaking to that concern, i do want to ask the Controllers Office if you can let us know what types of internal controls there are in terms of spending. Again, we dont have much experience with this. However, do know there are internal controls in place as to how funding will be dolled out. Deputy controller. This is a matter of balancing the fiduciary responsibility as well as the internal controls. Specifically on the internal controls when donations are provided to the city, they are separately accounted for and tracked. The proposed legislation does specifically tell the controller as well as the City Administrative Office how it can very limit spend those funds. Thats one of the delegations that you would have thats presently drafted. Additionally with that required transparency and recording, you will hear from us when we give you the quartering budget updates of all the sources and uses for that fund as well as annually a full accounting of all sorts of end uses. I i know the amount before you today, you seen 500 in donations, very thankfully we have not had a major earthquake since 1989. We have not had thousands of people displaced. This will be a matter of where you feel comfortable delegating us with the oversight as well as the City Administrators Office. The allocation of the funds is in consultation with our office as well as department of Emergency Management and t