supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor fewer? >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: there are two ayes. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. on the motion now to move this item number 10 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. on the motion, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman is excused. supervisor fewer? >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: two ayes. >> chair fewer: i have to make my dentist appointment today, now that you have reminded me. let's go back to item number 2, please. are we able to get that up? >> clerk: yes. i will share the power point presentation now. mr. holland? >> yes. thank you very much. >> chair fewer: excuse me. one second, madam clerk, before we start this presentation. supervisor walton, is there a time conon your time today at this committee meeting? >> supervisor walton: yes, if possible, maybe we could continue this if this is something that you're okay with? >> chair fewer: okay. so after so much effort to get th

supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor fewer? >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: there are two ayes. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. on the motion now to move this item number 10 to the board with a positive recommendation, could i have a roll call vote, please. >> clerk: yes. on the motion, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: aye. >> clerk: supervisor mandelman is excused. supervisor fewer? >> chair fewer: aye. >> clerk: two ayes. >> chair fewer: i have to make my dentist appointment today, now that you have reminded me. let's go back to item number 2, please. are we able to get that up? >> clerk: yes. i will share the power point presentation now. mr. holland? >> yes. thank you very much. >> chair fewer: excuse me. one second, madam clerk, before we start this presentation. supervisor walton, is there a time conon your time today at this committee meeting? >> supervisor walton: yes, if possible, maybe we could continue this if this is something that you're okay with? >> chair fewer: okay. so after so much effort to get th

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. one question. i would love to know what percentage of transport workforce are san francisco residents? this is a pretty big contract. >> this is a big contract. right now there are no local hire provisions given the -- >> supervisor walton: my question is how many people are san francisco residents that work for this company? not what the mandatory hiring requirement. >> there are i believe two staff that live in san francisco. >> supervisor walton: and this is a $30 million contract, correct? >> so we're not actually allocating $30 million. the cap on the amount of work that we can execute is $30 million. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: yes. supervisor walton, would you like any other kind of data from m.t.a. at all? or is that suffice? >> supervisor walton: i mean, two people. only two folks from san francisco. i don't need any additional information. >> supervisor fewer: yes. i'm wondering. i know this was a sole source contract. and i'm wondering, have we had discussions a

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair fewer. i appreciate you, and thank you mr. kilgor and mr. hollands. my questions are really for the sheriff's department at this time. mr. kilgor actually answered a lot of the questions that i had for him within his presentation. a couple of things that i just wanted to note, mr. hollands -- typically how many people are on electronic monitoring over a course of a month? >> today we have approximately 300 people on electronic monitoring and that's been pretty consistent for the last year or so. >> supervisor walton: and so from yearly data, what would you say, 300 times 12 or what do you think in terms of the year. last year how many people did we have on electronic monitoring, for instance? >> you know, i hadn't thought about it necessarily in that way. but that data set that i was presenting in my slideshow where we looked at people who were -- who were charged between -- for six months, that had a thousand people in it. so, you know, possibly there are 2,000. and the reason is that it do

thank you supervisor walton. mr. clerk, do you want to -- >> yes, operations will check now to see if we have any callers in the queue. please let us know if we have any callers that are ready. for those who connected to our meeting via phone, please press star followed by 3 to be added to the queue if you wish to speak on this idtem. for those on hold, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. you will hear a prompt that says your line has been unmuted. for those watching our meeting on cable 26 or through sfgov.org, please call in now by following the instructions displayed on your screen. the meeting id for today's meeting is 1467720960. you'll be prompted to press the pound symbol twice. after you done that, press star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak for agenda item number 4. can you connect us to our first caller? >> and i will say a few words about public comment. our speakers will have 2 minutes. please state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the phone. if you pr

thanks again supervisor walton. the floor is yours. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much chair mar. as you know, rest of my colleagues know and everyone in the city knows, we are in a challenging time with covid-19. we understand that some of this takes a little bit more time and appreciate the committee allowing us to have this hearing today. thank you supervisor peskin and supervisor haney as well as all of you know, this is a continuation of hearings. for years, we have continued to learn about workplace discrimination on behalf of san francisco department of human resources and some of our city's larger departments. there has been documented instances of racial bias in hiring of black people and people of color, promotions for black employees and a disproportionate number of black employees in disciplinary action. on june 15, 2018 supervisor kim introduced a hearing on african-american workforce hiring, retention, promotional opportunity and data tracking on workplace discrimination complaints at the city and

. >> supervisor walton: present. >> president yee: present. we have quorum. >> thank you, madame clerk. please read the next item. >> public comment. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 1-415-655-0001, and when prompted, entering access code, 146 226 7339 # #. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. to make public comment on an item, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. when it is your turn, you will hear a message saying your line is unmuted. the operator will advise you have two minutes to speak. when the two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. best practices are to speak, slowly, clear and turn down radios and televisions around you. please allow for a 30-second lag time. >> thank you. next item. >> item 2, chair's report. this is an information item. >> thank you, madame clerk. i first want to recognize the effort that the timma staff with our board support have made to secure federal, state and city funding for yerba buena. we rec

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. one question. i would love to know what percentage of transport workforce are san francisco residents? this is a pretty big contract. >> this is a big contract. right now there are no local hire provisions given the -- >> supervisor walton: my question is how many people are san francisco residents that work for this company? not what the mandatory hiring requirement. >> there are i believe two staff that live in san francisco. >> supervisor walton: and this is a $30 million contract, correct? >> so we're not actually allocating $30 million. the cap on the amount of work that we can execute is $30 million. >> supervisor walton: thank you. >> supervisor fewer: yes. supervisor walton, would you like any other kind of data from m.t.a. at all? or is that suffice? >> supervisor walton: i mean, two people. only two folks from san francisco. i don't need any additional information. >> supervisor fewer: yes. i'm wondering. i know this was a sole source contract. and i'm wondering, have we had discussions a

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair fewer. i appreciate you, and thank you mr. kilgor and mr. hollands. my questions are really for the sheriff's department at this time. mr. kilgor actually answered a lot of the questions that i had for him within his presentation. a couple of things that i just wanted to note, mr. hollands -- typically how many people are on electronic monitoring over a course of a month? >> today we have approximately 300 people on electronic monitoring and that's been pretty consistent for the last year or so. >> supervisor walton: and so from yearly data, what would you say, 300 times 12 or what do you think in terms of the year. last year how many people did we have on electronic monitoring, for instance? >> you know, i hadn't thought about it necessarily in that way. but that data set that i was presenting in my slideshow where we looked at people who were -- who were charged between -- for six months, that had a thousand people in it. so, you know, possibly there are 2,000. and the reason is that it do

thanks again supervisor walton. the floor is yours. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much chair mar. as you know, rest of my colleagues know and everyone in the city knows, we are in a challenging time with covid-19. we understand that some of this takes a little bit more time and appreciate the committee allowing us to have this hearing today. thank you supervisor peskin and supervisor haney as well as all of you know, this is a continuation of hearings. for years, we have continued to learn about workplace discrimination on behalf of san francisco department of human resources and some of our city's larger departments. there has been documented instances of racial bias in hiring of black people and people of color, promotions for black employees and a disproportionate number of black employees in disciplinary action. on june 15, 2018 supervisor kim introduced a hearing on african-american workforce hiring, retention, promotional opportunity and data tracking on workplace discrimination complaints at the city and

thanks again supervisor walton. the floor is yours. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much chair mar. as you know, rest of my colleagues know and everyone in the city knows, we are in a challenging time with covid-19. we understand that some of this takes a little bit more time and appreciate the committee allowing us to have this hearing today. thank you supervisor peskin and supervisor haney as well as all of you know, this is a continuation of hearings. for years, we have continued to learn about workplace discrimination on behalf of san francisco department of human resources and some of our city's larger departments. there has been documented instances of racial bias in hiring of black people and people of color, promotions for black employees and a disproportionate number of black employees in disciplinary action. on june 15, 2018 supervisor kim introduced a hearing on african-american workforce hiring, retention, promotional opportunity and data tracking on workplace discrimination complaints at the city and

yes, supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: sorry about that, chair fewer. i did want to first of all to start off by saying that i can remember years ago when chair fewer and i were serving on the board of education that we talked about the possibility of a public bank here in san francisco and how important it was. and so i was excited upon making it over to the board of supervisors and seeing all of the work that chair fewer put into making sure that we push this space to allow us to charter a public bank across the state of california and so i want to thank her for her leadership on that as well as assembly member chiu for being a champion at the state level. it is -- i still think very exciting, even though we know that, obviously, there are some fiscal and financial implications for us as a city to achieve success with a municipal bank. but i am excited that we have made it this far and we will get this past the finish line for our residents here in san francisco. so i wanted to say that. i'm not sure that -- are we doing questions right now, superviso

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. i do just want to reiterate some of the points supervisor safai. i know we had at lot of callers talking about how this may criminalize. i am one of the major leaders of police reform here in san francisco and i will always continue to be. i also live in a black community. the community where we have the most people left. black people are fed up with these sideshows. we want our kids to be able to walk down the streets and play. we want our families walk down the street and not have to be in fear of being hit by people driving reckless. as a black person who talks to black people 24-7 and has had several complaints from black people, this is not an anti-black law. this is a law that protects all. so i love when people try to call in and say they're speaking for us, but if you want to speak for us, first you have to speak to us. and this is definitely -- san franciscans, including black people. we do not want sideshows on our streets. i live on a street where they actually come to my s

supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, chair fewer. i was just ready to second moving this forward with the positive recommendation to the full board. >> chair fewer: okay. would you like to make the motion? >> supervisor walton: i will make the motion that we move this forward to the full board with a positive recommendation. >> chair fewer: madam clerk. >> clerk: yes, on the motion [roll call] you have three ayes. >> chair fewer: thank you very much. can you read item number 2. >> clerk: yes, item 2, ordinance appropriating $126 million of series 2020d public health and safety general obligation board proceeds to the department of public work and department of public works in fiscal year 2020-2021 for facility upgrades in zuckerberg san francisco general hospital, southeast and the other community health centers and neighborhood fire stations, $260 million of series 2020c affordable housing general obligation board proceeds in the mayor's office of housing and community development for public, low-income, preservation and middle-inco

. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> walton, aye. supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> and supervisor safai. >> aye. there are 10 ayes. >> president yee: 8 and 9 passes. so, supervisor mar your motion to table items 7 and pass eight and nine as amended is that your motion? >> that's correct. >> ok. >> thank you. is there a second? >> second. >> seconded by supervisor preston. >> reporter: call please. >> the motion. >> thank you motion did table item 7 and approve items 8 and 9 as amended and supervisor stefani. >>[ roll call vote ] >> there are 10 ayes then item seven is tabled and the decision related to the condition all use authorization is found to be inadequate and is returned to the planning department. call the next item. >> >> clerk: to approve the health service system dental plans and contribution rates for calender year 2021 and this matter requires a vote of nine votes of all members of the

. >> supervisor walton. >> aye. >> walton, aye. supervisor yee. >> aye. >> supervisor haney. >> aye. >> supervisor mandelman. >> aye. >> supervisor mar. >> aye. >> supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> and supervisor safai. >> aye. there are 10 ayes. >> president yee: 8 and 9 passes. so, supervisor mar your motion to table items 7 and pass eight and nine as amended is that your motion? >> that's correct. >> ok. >> thank you. is there a second? >> second. >> seconded by supervisor preston. >> reporter: call please. >> the motion. >> thank you motion did table item 7 and approve items 8 and 9 as amended and supervisor stefani. >>[ roll call vote ] >> there are 10 ayes then item seven is tabled and the decision related to the condition all use authorization is found to be inadequate and is returned to the planning department. call the next item. >> >> clerk: to approve the health service system dental plans and contribution rates for calender year 2021 and this matter requires a vote of nine votes of all members of the

supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: thank you so much. i do just want to reiterate some of the points supervisor safai. i know we had at lot of callers talking about how this may criminalize. i am one of the major leaders of police reform here in san francisco and i will always continue to be. i also live in a black community. the community where we have the most people left. black people are fed up with these sideshows. we want our kids to be able to walk down the streets and play. we want our families walk down the street and not have to be in fear of being hit by people driving reckless. as a black person who talks to black people 24-7 and has had several complaints from black people, this is not an anti-black law. this is a law that protects all. so i love when people try to call in and say they're speaking for us, but if you want to speak for us, first you have to speak to us. and this is definitely -- san franciscans, including black people. we do not want sideshows on our streets. i live on a street where they actually come to my s

supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: thank you so much, madam clerk. couple of things for this afternoon. last friday afternoon, the board of supervisors, as you know, received an e-mail from the director of the department of human resources regarding the corruption at the equal employment opportunity office where a manager allegedly had forged documents and lied to a black employee regarding their e.e.o. case, including manipulating and deleting case lines, forging communications, dismissing lawsuits, and misrepresenting the department and the city. somehow, this was allowed to happen. there have been multiple black employees who have complained about this over the last few years as documented by the black employees alliance and as reported by employees to our office. the state of african american employment and economic mobility in san francisco is troubling at best. we will conduct a hearing on these issues at the october 15 government and accountability committee, where d.h.r. will present and complete an audit requested by the mayor on how departm

good morning, chair, vice chair, and member walton. thank you, supervisor hillary, for calling the meeting. my name is lisa la ford. i grew up in san francisco and i served san francisco communities for over 20 years as an employee of the health department. prior to covid-19, i worked in population [indiscernible] coordinating special projects for the department. since the start of the pandemic, i have served as a disaster worker in various roles. as of april, 100% of my time has been dedicated to the covid command center and to lead the d.p.h. covid response focused on the latinx community in san francisco. it is my honor and a privilege to serve my community during this difficult time. i am sharing this presentation this morning with the deputy director of the department of heal health. as you can see in the slide, we're sharing national data compared to our local data here in san francisco. overall, we've done a good job with keeping infection rates down in san francisco. as you can see, there is a current trend of a significant dec

i'd like to put a motion to excuse supervisor shamann walton. do i please have a roll call vote. >> clerk: on the supervisor, supervisor haney? >> comments are opportunities to speak during public comment period, they're available via phone call by calling (415)655-0001. again (415)655-000 (415)655-000g i.d. 146 407 0690. again 146 407 0690. then press pound twice. you will hear the meeting discussion, but you will be in mute and in listening-mode only. when the item of interest comes up, dial star 3 to be added to the speaker line. best practices to call from a quiet lotion, speak clearly and slowly and turn down the television or radio. alternatively you may submit public comment in the following way, email to myself, the budget and finance committee clerk. if you submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and will be included as part of the file. finally items acted upon today are expected to be referred to the full board, as committee reports, for consideration as today's worried of supervisor -- board of superv

good morning, chair, vice chair, and member walton. thank you, supervisor hillary, for calling the meeting. my name is lisa la ford. i grew up in san francisco and i served san francisco communities for over 20 years as an employee of the health department. prior to covid-19, i worked in population [indiscernible] coordinating special projects for the department. since the start of the pandemic, i have served as a disaster worker in various roles. as of april, 100% of my time has been dedicated to the covid command center and to lead the d.p.h. covid response focused on the latinx community in san francisco. it is my honor and a privilege to serve my community during this difficult time. i am sharing this presentation this morning with the deputy director of the department of heal health. as you can see in the slide, we're sharing national data compared to our local data here in san francisco. overall, we've done a good job with keeping infection rates down in san francisco. as you can see, there is a current trend of a significant dec

good morning, chair, vice chair, and member walton. thank you, supervisor hillary, for calling the meeting. my name is lisa la ford. i grew up in san francisco and i served san francisco communities for over 20 years as an employee of the health department. prior to covid-19, i worked in population [indiscernible] coordinating special projects for the department. since the start of the pandemic, i have served as a disaster worker in various roles. as of april, 100% of my time has been dedicated to the covid command center and to lead the d.p.h. covid response focused on the latinx community in san francisco. it is my honor and a privilege to serve my community during this difficult time. i am sharing this presentation this morning with the deputy director of the department of heal health. as you can see in the slide, we're sharing national data compared to our local data here in san francisco. overall, we've done a good job with keeping infection rates down in san francisco. as you can see, there is a current trend of a significant dec

>> supervisor walton: seconded. >> president yee: by supervisor walton, i believe. madam clerk, can you please call the roll. >> clerk: on the minutes -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. then without objection, the approval of the minutes -- the minutes will be approved after public comment. madam clerk, let's go to our consent agenda. please call items 1 through 8. >> clerk: items 1 through 8 are on consent. these items are considered to be routine. if a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately. >> president yee: okay. nobody on the roster. madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk: on items 1 through 8 -- [roll call] >> clerk: there are 11 ayes. >> president yee: okay. without objection, the ordinances finally pass. madam clerk, let's go to our unfinished business. please call the next item. >> clerk: item 9 is an administrative code, an ordinance amending the administrative code to require city departments to report annually information about the number, cost, and usage of vehicles the departments have ren

good morning, chair, vice chair, and member walton. thank you, supervisor hillary, for calling the meeting. my name is lisa la ford. i grew up in san francisco and i served san francisco communities for over 20 years as an employee of the health department. prior to covid-19, i worked in population [indiscernible] coordinating special projects for the department. since the start of the pandemic, i have served as a disaster worker in various roles. as of april, 100% of my time has been dedicated to the covid command center and to lead the d.p.h. covid response focused on the latinx community in san francisco. it is my honor and a privilege to serve my community during this difficult time. i am sharing this presentation this morning with the deputy director of the department of heal health. as you can see in the slide, we're sharing national data compared to our local data here in san francisco. overall, we've done a good job with keeping infection rates down in san francisco. as you can see, there is a current trend of a significant dec

and i'm joined by supervisor walton and rafael mandelman. i thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, any announcements. >> clerk: due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect the board members and the city employees and the public, the legislative agenda and the committee room are closed. however, members will be participating in a meeting remotely. this precaution is taken pursuant to the local, state and

walton aye. yee aye. >> there are 11 ayes. consent agenda has final approval. >> supervisor peskin: no, no, the item number 4 is amended and now we will take item 4 as amended and the balance of the consent agenda. i making that motion. is there a second on that motion? >> second, mandelman. >> supervisor peskin: seconded by voice chair mandelman. on item 4 as amended and the balance of the consent agenda, a roll call, please. >> yes. item as amended. >> supervisor fewer: aye. >> supervisor haney: aye. >> supervisor mandelman: aye. >> supervisor mar: aye. >> supervisor peskin: aye. >> supervisor ronen: aye. >> supervisor safai: aye. >> supervisor preston: aye. >> supervisor stefani: aye. >> supervisor walton: aye. >> president yee: aye. >> the consent agenda as amended has approval. >> supervisor peskin: those items are approved. could you read item number 12? >> item 12, van ness bus rapid transit update. this is an information item. >> supervisor peskin: thank you, madame clerk. i believe that all of us, because so many dist

kalangi walton. panelist isrent dr. david goldberg who is associate professor at wayne state university. who is the detroit president -- president of the detroit chapter and tour leader and historian of all things african-american detroit. communityincredible scholar out of detroit. a wonderful set of folks who will help us think about think about politics in detroit and michigan. i am going to throw it over to the panel. thank you for being here. >> thank you. chair.e i have a couple of remarks really quick. i want to thank everybody for detroitnd hearing about politics in particular is radical. i think my panelists for being here. about theking the20th century up until beginning of the 21st century there is a span of influence of rosa parks, john conyers, and mayor coleman young. the radical black politics began in the 1800s. a couple of things that happened that really sets the stage for detroit being this hotbed of radical black politics is the uprising in 1833. 400 black people lead an to free to people who escape

. >> clerk: supervisor walton. >> supervisor walton: present. >> clerk: and supervisor yee. >> president yee: present. >> clerk: mr. president, all members are present. >> president yee: okay. thank you. please place your right hand over your heart. will you please join me in reciting 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. i guess i'm done. thank you. on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov tv. matthew who records each of the meetings and makes the transcripts available to people online. madam clerk, are there any communications? >> clerk: yes, mr. president. the minutes will reflect that during the covid-19 health emergency, members of the board participated in this meeting remotely, through video conference to those physically presenpresent. therefore, we are hoping that the public will take advantage of the following opportunities to be able to participate remotely in this meeting. we will accep

le diré al volver >>el departamento de policía de walton insta a los padres de familia que hablen con sus hijos sobre la importancia de conducir de forma segura y les recuerda su responsabilidad de hacer de sus hijos conductores responsables lo más común es conducir distraídos, falta de concentración y conocimientos para manejar >> agencia mmta planea instalar 8 dispositivos en la ciudad el próximo año, los accidentes de tránsito disminuyeron un tercio desde que comenzaron a instalarlas actualmente hay 13 cámaras en diferentes áreas >> a tener mucha precaución con el celular, por lo general todos lo usamos al conducir ,eso es infracción. muchas gracias vemos el puente de la bahía, buena calidad del aire, moderado, estamos viendo el puente san mateo más concurrido las condiciones buena visibilidad por lo menos en el Área de la bahía bien, vientos al norte continúan ,mucha precaución, el promedio de velocidad puente de la bahía 45 millas por hora san mateo 55 posibilidad de accidentes en la 880 al norte y sur, especialmente en unioncity, el tráfico más ocupado por es

. >> clerk: supervisor walton? >> supervisor walton: colleagues, tonight, i am introducing legislation to oppose proposition 20, also known as the parole and d.n.a. initiative. i would like to thank my colleagues. prop 20 is funded by law enforcement and the prison industry that have been losing money as a result of california's criminal justice reform in the last decade. cri california previously rov overwhelmingly supported and passed two justice reform measures, proposition 7, in 2014, and prop 57, which gave incarcerated individuals convicted of certain nonviolent offenses an opportunity to earn early release. both of these propositions led to a 25% drop in incarceration while statewide crime rates remain at a historic low, and new crime prevention programs were launched as a result of these reforms. prop 20 will undo all this work by reducing the threshold for felony threats which transforms a number of offenses from misdemeanors to potential felonies by repealing parts of prop 47. prop 20 will prevent some pe

. >> reporter: authored by walton but has the full backing of the board of supervisors. >> we asked voters what they think of the measure. >> they are using their white privilege to create trouble for someone else that is not a reality. >>. please add to their advantage sometimes and love that uncertainty allows us that space to make those accusations safely and is going to take a hard check to get some of that right in. actually think it's an interesting and potentially game changing measure.>> no jason powell does nothing to measure itself will think people will think twice. >> is going to take actual accountability and that doesn't come from a measure being passed that comes from the after.>> if karen act passes it will have a second reading next week before intends to the mayor. >>> the glass fire burning in napa and sonoma county is officially contained 100%, but just as we get that good news another round of red flag warnings, we are hoping to get some relief.>> we are hoping to get through these red flag warnings without getting you fires going. one more very warm down the way for t

thank you supervisor fewer and to supervisor walton, yee, mandelman and co-sponsors of the amendment. this will level the playing field between speculators and communities non-profit organizations and i fully support these amendments. thank you. >> thank you. are there any members of the public that would like to testify on this item? there is one more and i unmuted them. >> next speaker, please. >> caller: the council committee has an organization in support of this measure. thank you supervisor fewer for being that multi-year process to create the first kopa and bringing up-to-date with lessons learned and working through it and this could not be more timely given what we're hearing on the impacts of covid-19 recession and the amount of money being accumulated by speculators to begin to buy up buildings as they did in 2008 as the previous recession so thank you for this work and our presentation is in support of these amendments. >> thank you. are there any final speakers on this item? >> good afternoon, my name is bruce wolf san francisco community land trust. we support this amend

. >> supervisor walton: present. >> president yee: present. we have quorum. >> thank you, madame clerk. please read the next item. >> public comment. public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 1-415-655-0001, and when prompted, entering access code, 146 226 7339 # #. once you join, you'll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. to make public comment on an item, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. when it is your turn, you will hear a message saying your line is unmuted. the operator will advise you have two minutes to speak. when the two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. best practices are to speak, slowly, clear and turn down radios and televisions around you. please allow for a 30-second lag time. >> thank you. next item. >> item 2, chair's report. this is an information item. >> thank you, madame clerk. i first want to recognize the effort that the timma staff with our board support have made to secure federal, state and city funding for yerba buena. we rec

most people don't think 500 employees is a small business. >> we have a thing in fort walton called the area of my grandfather involved with 60 years ago. we have about 300,000 people come through a year. i have five restaurants here in the pensacola area and one we are at now fish house opened 21 years ago. >> how's the pandemic impacted this area directly? >> we are trying to keep everybody employed that we could. >> has the president's handling of the pandemic changed your support at all for him? have you waivered at all? >> no. against -- no. i think he's done a pretty good job with everything he's done with it. >> in 2019, $930 million was put into our economy just from tourists. so when march hit, april, may, it just devastated. they lost upwards of 50% of their tax revenue. >> i own a retail women's shop. and also have a banquet hall. these right here are the contracts that were set up. either they canceled the date or moved it to next year. >> how have things changed since the pandemic? >> there is no business, ped. >> tell me why as a small business owner you're planning to vot

and i'm joined by supervisor walton and rafael mandelman. i thank sfgov-tv for broadcasting this meeting. madam clerk, any announcements. >> clerk: due to the covid-19 health emergency and to protect the board members and the city employees and the public, the legislative agenda and the committee room are cle

this item has been sponsored by supervisor ronen and cosponsored by supervisors preston, haney, walton, and myself. is there a representative from supervisor ronen's office? >> [inaudible]. >> supervisor safai: i can't hear anything she's saying. >> oh, no. how is this? >> chair peskin: much better. >> thank you for allowing me to speak today. this item is a resolution supporting california state proposition 21, keep families in their homes, on the november 3 ballot. prop 21, when passed, will significantly amend the california civil code section now known as the costa hawkins rental act and rename it to the rental affordability act. specifically, what it would do is allow local governments to adopt local rent ordinances with exceptions for housing and condos owned by natural persons to own no more than two single-family units, and it would allow local governments to prohibit landlords from proposing more than 15% rent increases in one year in the city. while anecdotally, there are stories of rents dropping due to covid, the rents are still out of reach for many. a minimum wage employe