yes, and melgar. thank you. and the rest please support. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. seeing no one on the roster, we'll take this item same house, same call. without objection this ordinance is passed on first reading unanimously. madame clerk please call item 31. >> item 31 is a resolution to urge permittees of san francisco's bicycle share and powered scooter share programs to implement measures to advance rider compliance with the existing terms and conditions of the san francisco bicycle share and powered scooter share program requirements and to urge the san francisco municipal transportation agency and its board of directors to establish new permit terms and conditions for future perms that further serve the goal of ensuring the public health and safety of pedestrians, seniors and persons with disabilities. >> president walton: thank you, madame clerk. seeing no one on the roster, we can take this item same house, same call. without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. m

supervisor melgar. >> supervisor melgar: thank you so much, president walton. i wanted to start -- first, thanking you, maryellen. you have done just so much amazing work these last couple of years and have proven yourself to be a master coordinator of things and you do it with grace and a smile on your face despite, you know, getting so much and i just appreciate you and i'm grateful for you. thank you for our city. i also wanted to thank supervisor ronen for her relentlessness in putting together mental health sf. you know, very few people have devoted the time and mental space and heart that she has to this. so i thank you my dear colleagues for all of that just like your pursuit of what's right. and i also want to thank my colleague, supervisor haney for his work and having articulated these issues and the conversations that i have had over the last few days. you know, i appreciate your thoughtfulness and what's in your heart. you know, which i think is genuine and i appreciate that you have taken the time to talk to all of these different people and to be

thank you, chair melgar. >> supervisor melgar: with that, madam clerk, please go to public comment. >> we are checking for callers. press star 3 to be added the queue to speak. for those on hold continue to wait until the system indicates you are unmuted. we have 12 listeners with seven in the queue. first caller, please. >> greetings. don mcgrain. i would like to express how i wanted to live in the san francisco bay area. i was sworn in the marine corps. after the pandemic i lost housing. i lost security deposit on our house. we have a couch surf sleep anything the car. i turned to va for help. i didn't have much options. i had to resort to non-profit to get housed in mission inn which wasn't a great place for my family. if you were a veteran and maybe that would be a good place but not for young kids. through jenna at 401 third street on the va she came through after staying three months at the mission inn which was not appropriate we got down to some housing in men io park. we had to get out of san francisco to get housing. too much police activity and drugs and crime. we are waiti

motion to excuse supervisor melgar from today's meeting is approved. the san francisco board of supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homelands of the romay turbo loany. the ramaytusholiny have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as 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 abcestors, elders, and -- ancestors, elders, and members and acknowledging their rights as first peoples. colleagues, please stand with me and recite the pledge of allegiance. ["pledge of allegiance"] >> president walton: and on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv. today, we have kalina mendoza who record each of the meetings and make each of the recordings available on-line. and madam clerk, i believe we have mayor breed here, so madam clerk, let's go to item 1 on the agenda. >> clerk: yes. pursuant to charter s

supervisors approved or funded including mental health sf , and the covid hotel and thank you to supervisor melgar for advocating moving cars out of the health department and i hope all the supervisors use whatever influence you have two pressure mayor bree to implement these programs and might i suggest you offer hotel rooms to people sleeping on the sidewalk if you don't want them dropping away. it doesn't get more simple than that. mayor bree never fully implemented using hotel rooms related to covid now she's trying to wind down the progra . she helped create a problem and i just don't get it. >> clerk: thank you for your comment next caller please.we have 159 listening and 98 left in the queue .>> caller: i'm daleseymour from the tenderloin. in all fairness i wouldsupport this ordinance if it was a citywide ordinance . you have no right to demonize my neighborhood . we were trying to make this a better neighborhood by making a state of emergency willnever get tours, never get anyone in the tenderloin. i'm a good friend of keith scott. i respect him . i respect london breed but we don't need a

thank you, supervisor mar, for authoring this bill and supervisor melgar, stephanie wallon, safai and ronen for co-sponsoring this great bill. thank you for supporting our veterans. and one more last thing. veterans did not earn this status just in san francisco. they earned their status serving this country. so if you guys are trying to think of limiting it to san francisco residents, you know, i think that is a slap in the face in our veterans community. thank you. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: hi, david wong. san francisco resident and also a veteran. i'm in support of this bill. thank you for the board of supervisors and thank you for commissioner chan for bringing up this legislation. saving a veteran is much, much better than trying to earn a dollar or two in the long run. and thank you and i'm in support of this legislation. thank you. bye-bye. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> caller: hello. i'm super bowl champion with the new england patriots. i'd like to thank commissioner chan and the san francisco veterans affairs

comment i just wanted to give a few thanks, especially to my cosponsors, president walton supervisor melgar, supervisors chan, haney, mar, safai and preston. thank you so much for your support. and my absolute deepest appreciation to kimberly the director of the california domestic workers coalition, who has been working on these equality and justice issues as long as i've known her. the senior council for the national domestic workers alliance who partnered with our city attorney and our office to help write this law and include her vast experience on making worker rights laws equal for domestic workers, not only here in california but around the entire country. the director of the -- [speaking spanish] -- who is an international leader for the right of domestic workers. and finally, to santiago from my office who has carried this legislation for quite some time with so much skill and love and focus. santiago, thank you so much. and finally to all the domestic workers who work tirelessly to support our homes and our families and our economy. no work would be possible without domestic worke

comment, i just wanted to give a few thanks, especially to my cosponsors, president walton, supervisor melgar, supervisors chan, haney, mar, safai and preston. thank you so much for your support. and my absolute deepest appreciation to kimberly, the director of the california domestic workers coalition, who has been working on these equality and justice issues as long as i've known her. the senior council for the national domestic workers alliance who partnered with our city attorney and our office to help write this law and include her vast experience on making worker rights laws equal for domestic workers, not only here in california, but around the entire country. the director of the -- [speaking spanish] -- who is an international leader for the right of domestic workers. and finally, to santiago from my office who has carried this legislation for quite some time with so much skill and love and focus. santiago, thank you so much. and finally, to all the domestic workers who work tirelessly to support our homes and our families and our economy. no work would be possible without domestic wo

this weekend, commissioner melgar and i joined bay area transit leaders to celebrate the passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill with speaker pelosi and representatives. speaker pelosi and representatives underscored what the new $1.2 trillion, including $550 billion in new funding means for the region and state and highlighted the importance of better connecting our rail systems within the state and especially the bay area, to address the climate crisis and improve health equity outcomes and create good union jobs. as we gathered in the train station to be in the transit center basement, speaker pelosi made it clear she is particularly wanting to see the downtown rail extension and related investments in the coming year,s. it was a fitting way to cap a productive but challenging year for transit. as you will recall, when we began the year, transit was a precarious state. ridership was at an all time low. over the past 12 months, we have started to recover and there are many positive developments as we move into the new year. together we successfully urged congress and president b

commissioner melgar? >> sorry, couldn't get in the chat quick enough. so thank you so much for the presentation, that is really helpful and helpful to hear the commitment to increase the number of projects in the future. something i have never understood, how these projects are selected by staff and put forward for approval. so, you know, i understand the high injury corridors and the equity zones. that sometimes it overlaps and sometimes doesn't with areas where there are vulnerable populations -- seniors, people with disabilities, children. so i'm wondering if we can talk a little bit about that. i'm particularly interested in playgrounds and school zones as well as senior centers, community centers, places with a lot of folks in wheelchairs. and the other thing i'm wondering if you can talk about, recent state legislative efforts to empower localities to slow down. and what has passed and what is in the works in how you think it may help you accelerate the efforts in a way that make sense. >> sure. i'll invite jamie park to join for quick build and i