thank you, chair melgar. >> chair melgar: thank you, supervisor preston. well, we should go to public comment on this item if there's no more speakers. madam clerk, can we go to public comment? >> clerk: madam chair, d.t. is checking to see how many callers we have in the queue. for those already on hold, wait until you hear a system prompt that you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. we have ten listeners and six in queue. kalina, if you could unmute the first caller, please. >> hi. this is [indiscernible], and i'm the executive director of jobs for justice in san francisco. we have been looking forward to this report. i appreciate the supervisors and their offices for making this happen. i just wanted to, in thinking about this report, it's so essential. i think there's a lot of misinformation about oh, there's not enough housing when the question is there's not enough question for low wage workers and very low wage workers. a little while ago, we were looking for workers for the today show about commuters. we just asked a couple of our me

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

chair melgar, i think i'll kind of leave it at that for my questions for now. >> chair melgar: okay. thank you so much, supervisor mar. supervisor preston or supervisor peskin, do you have any questions? >> supervisor preston: i do, chair melgar. supervisor mar, thank you so much for your presentation on this and your health care workers report. i will admit to a little bit of frustration at the lack of media interest in your work and that planning is working on this report. it is a very strange upside down media landscape when a quick google search reveals 19 separate articles on a housing project on stevenson street while zero addresses the issues that we are addressing today. but that said, i do have a couple of questions about the report that was presented, and through the chair, thank you for your work on this. i was curious why all the various income levels, 120 and up, are put in that one category -- well, let's just start on that. i'm curious why it's reported in that way. >> it was: admin code asked us to report by the four rhna categories, and that's what we did, and everyt

>> supervisor melgar: yes. i appreciate all those answers and i would just make the plug for signage particularly in the places where we know a lot of folks are using these devices for the first time for fun to look at our beautiful city mainly in supervisor peskin's district, but also in district 6 along the embarcadero, that's where i see by far the more. and your data underscores that well, so maybe we can just pilot a couple signs, you know, for another ferry building, pier 29, just where we know lots of folks are starting or ending the trip so people can have some guidance as to what's allowed and what the rules are. >> okay. great. thank you. i made notes. so i'm not sure if there are other questions on scooter share or should we go to my colleague adrian on bike share now? >> supervisor peskin: before we go there, madam chair, just so that you know, colleagues, i didn't just call for this hearing. i've been talking as ms. torren said to the m.t.a. for quite some time and these initiatives that have been

supervisor melgar. >> thank you. i am looking forward to the continuing the hearing and hearing from folks in the central kitchen. the school district outsourced food production to a private company. no reason we outsource to the vocational school, the city college or any of the many community resources that we have that are producing fresh and culturally responsive food. just an idea. we could do things in a different way and leverage the assets of the community. my question was about what supervisor safai has touched on earlier which is opening up high school campuses. i know that that option is there. it is very expensive because partners using school district real estate on weekends have to pay and it costs quite a bit. that is a policy issue the school district has made and i am wondering if there is any way to revisit that policy for a community organization or teams or folks who are providing community resources for moving and getting the kids out and engaging in activities that are good. >> i would say that,

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

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

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