supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. president, i think there has been some really thoughtful comments here today. i think it's unfortunate the situation that we're in. as someone who has worked tirelessly since i've been in office along with my colleagues to try and support our schools, we won this lawsuit prop g. we passed another parcel tax that we were involved in, prop j, which has additional fund on annual basis to the schools. we're constantly looking at ways we can support through the rise initiative. supervisor ronen, melgar, chan, all been involved, thank you supervisor chan for the work that you did. every opportunity, supervisor mandelman highlighting the fiscal concern and support that they have and putting this out here early. we are constantly in conversation how to support our schools. that is unanimous. this particular situation we're in now, where ever you fall on elections, whether it's a special election to fill a vacant seat, whether it's the recall, whatever it may be, those are happening. and i thi

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. president, i think there has been some really thoughtful comments here today. i think it's unfortunate the situation that we're in. as someone who has worked tirelessly since i've been in office along with my colleagues to try and support our schools, we won this lawsuit prop g. we passed another parcel tax that we were involved in, prop j, which has additional fund on annual basis to the schools. we're constantly looking at ways we can support through the rise initiative. supervisor ronen, melgar, chan, all been involved, thank you supervisor chan for the work that you did. every opportunity, supervisor mandelman highlighting the fiscal concern and support that they have and putting this out here early. we are constantly in conversation how to support our schools. that is unanimous. this particular situation we're in now, where ever you fall on elections, whether it's a special election to fill a vacant seat, whether it's the recall, whatever it may be, those are happening. and i thi

vice chair safai. >> aye. >> safai, aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> a great. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call item six. >> an ordinance retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand the grant increase in the amount of approximately $2.2 million for a total amount of approximately $3.3 million from the centers for disease control and prevention for participation in the program entitled strengthening sexually transmitted disease prevention and control for health departments. for the period of january 1, 2021 through december 31, 2021. and amending ordinance number 166-20 to the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2020, the 2021 and 2021 to 2022. to provide for the eight grant funded full-time position in the one class 922 manager 1 and 3 class 2595 health program coordinator 3. and and health care analyst. member of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001 meeting i.d. 2482 5480 and wait until the system indicates that

vice chair safai. >> aye. >> safai, aye. >> member mar? >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> we have three aye's. >> a great. thank you so much. mr. clerk, please call item six. >> an ordinance retroactively authorizing the department of public health to accept and expand the grant increase in the amount of approximately $2.2 million for a total amount of approximately $3.3 million from the centers for disease control and prevention for participation in the program entitled strengthening sexually transmitted disease prevention and control for health departments. for the period of january 1, 2021 through december 31, 2021. and amending ordinance number 166-20 to the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years 2020, the 2021 and 2021 to 2022. to provide for the eight grant funded full-time position in the one class 922 manager 1 and 3 class 2595 health program coordinator 3. and and health care analyst. member of the public who wish to provide public comment should call 415-655-0001 meeting i.d. 2482 5480 and wait until the system indicates that

thank you. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor safai. 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 th

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: thank you, mr. president. thank you supervisor peskin and ronen for your questions today pointed, focusing on public health. focusing on mental health and focusing on the additional details of this plan. i would be remised to not respond to some concerns and questions about the conditions and the request for policing in the tenderloin. as i said in my comments on the 23rd to the 24th, i worked half my career in the tenderloin. i represented those families, many of them are janitors and service sector. they lived there, immigrant families. they want more presence. if you had spent -- if any of us had spent even an hour in the tenderloin in the last month, would see conditions, would see drug dealing and violence to the point. i agree with you, i'm not saying this was an emergency today or last week. this has been going on, supervisor haney called for state of emergency. we will be remised not to talk about the violence and drug dealing to the point where there are gaggles of people selling drugs openly. one of

supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, supervisor peskin, for highlighting that. i think we all might of seen the story published in the sf standard that highlighted some of the incidents that are happening now for s.r.o. residents. so just to build on that last point, isolation and quarantine hotels were an important part of how we helped and dealt with covid and moved people away from their homes when they needed to quarantine. particularly in districts in the city and neighborhoods in the city with overcrowded living conditions. so my question to dph is will you still be allotting beds for people residing in overcrowded conditions particularly like those living in sro housing and other forms of overcrowded housing and how do you plan to deal with that dr. colfax and/or anyone on your team? >> yeah. and just to emphasize, i think the omicron variant is going to be around for the foreseeable future and the most important interventions we need to do is to ensure that everything in crowded conditions is up to dat

supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, supervisor peskin, for highlighting that. i think we all might of seen the story published in the sf standard that highlighted some of the incidents that are happening now for s.r.o. residents. so just to build on that last point, isolation and quarantine hotels were an important part of how we helped and dealt with covid and moved people away from their homes when they needed to quarantine. particularly in districts in the city and neighborhoods in the city with overcrowded living conditions. so my question to dph is will you still be allotting beds for people residing in overcrowded conditions particularly like those living in sro housing and other forms of overcrowded housing and how do you plan to deal with that dr. colfax and/or anyone on your team? >> yeah. and just to emphasize, i think the omicron variant is going to be around for the foreseeable future and the most important interventions we need to do is to ensure that everything in crowded conditions is up to dat

thank you so much. >> supervisor safai: thank you, commissioners. thank you for all your thoughtful. >> vice president zouzounis: thank you for all your work on this. >> president laguana: all right. next item, please. >> secretary: item three, commission president and vice president elections. this is a discussion and action item. the commission will discuss and may take action on the january 2022 to january 2023 term commission president followed by january 2022 to january 2023 term vice president. the. >> president laguana: director, do you want to provide an overview of how this works. >> director: sure. thank you. for the election of both, the president and vice president our commission secretary will call for nominations and we'll begin with the president and then each nomination needs a second. then nominees can make a short statement and the commissioners can also make some comments as well. after that, we'll move to public comment and then our secretary will take the roll call for each nomination in the order that they were nominated. so th

first up is supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i know these last few weeks, i'm sure many of you like our office have been bombarded. supervisor preston, sorry i didn't get your permission, i just wanted to see for myself what i had been hearing and the lines were literally down the block. in my district, the lines were around the corner for four blocks and as you know, this and a dramatic need. i'm putting forward the department of emergency management to establish a covid command center to address the omicron surge. our schools are being bombarded. our students. if they are vaccinated. and are exposed, they have to monitor and come back and test. there's a lack of supplies z. i know our city has done everything we can to support, but we need to do everything better and we need to react as quickly as we can. grocery stores are being bombarded. lines out the door. our muni bus drivers, our first responders and these are people that are vaccinated. our community based organization as i referred to all over the city, the

supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you. thank you, supervisor peskin, for highlighting that. i think we all might of seen the story published in the sf standard that highlighted some of the incidents that are happening now for s.r.o. residents. so just to build on that last point, isolation and quarantine hotels were an important part of how we helped and dealt with covid and moved people away from their homes when they needed to quarantine. particularly in districts in the city and neighborhoods in the city with overcrowded living conditions. so my question to dph is will you still be allotting beds for people residing in overcrowded conditions particularly like those living in sro housing and other forms of overcrowded housing and how do you plan to deal with that dr. colfax and/or anyone on your team? >> yeah. and just to emphasize, i think the omicron variant is going to be around for the foreseeable future and the most important interventions we need to do is to ensure that everything in crowded conditions is up to dat

thank you. >> supervisor safai: thank you both. i think this has been eye-opening in just the first presentation to all of us. some of our presenters have to go. i want to make sure we move this along. some of the questions may get answered. we have the unified school district and head of pediatrics and so let's move on. thank you dr. sanchez. you are welcome to stay and hear the rest of the presentation. if you have to go, we thank you for your presentation and all your hard work. next up, we have ucsf associate professor of pediatrics dr. amy beck. >> thank you. can everyone see the slides? great. thank you for that introduction and thank you supervisor safai for the invitation to present today. i'm going to talk briefly about disparities in childhood obesity in san francisco prior to the pandemic. we heard a lot about that from the previous presenter. i'll move quickly there. and then i'll talk about what happened with the pandemic and how it impacted childhood obesity and finally, i'll provide recommendations for moving forward

vice chair safai. member mar. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> vice chair safai. absent. we have two eyes are vice chair safai absent. >> sorry my mute button was stuck. >> we have three ayes, mr. chair. >> chair haney: thank you so much. please call item two. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the office of contract administration to enter into people soft contract id1000023748 between the city and county of san francisco and inter vision systems llc for the purchase of networking equipment software and hardware and software support manufactured by juniper networks with a contract got to exceed amount of $40 million and for a total contract of five years commencing on february 1, 2022 through january 31, 2027. if you wish to comment call 415-655-0001. id24808654274. pound twice. if you haven't done so dial star three to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. mr. chair. >> chair haney: we have two from the contract administration. welcome. >> thanks, supervisors. good morning. i am here with my assistant. we will present and then take questions. >

safai: aye. >> commissioner stefani: aye. >> commissioner walton: aye. >> we have 11 ayes. motion passes. >> thank you, please call item 9. >> item 9 approve the san francisco transportation investment and growth strategy 2021 update. this is an action item. >> i think we have rachel hyatt here. there you are. hello? >> yes, good morning, chair and commissioners. yes, rachel hyatt, the acting deputy for planning. and please move to the next slide. so this transportation investment and growth strategy, also known as t.i.g., is a requirement of the m.t.c. as the congestion management of san francisco, they're required to prepare one of these growth strategies as part of the regional one bay area grant program. or obag program. as you probably are aware, the program seeks to integrate transportation, planning and land use in response to senate bill 375, greenhouse gas emission reductions act. and so sfmta is responsible to support our priority developments areas, or pdas, and these are the areas tha

first up is supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i know these last few weeks, i'm sure many of you like our office have been bombarded. supervisor preston, sorry i didn't get your permission, i just wanted to see for myself what i had been hearing and the lines were literally down the block. in my district, the lines were around the corner for four blocks and as you know, this and a dramatic need. i'm putting forward the department of emergency management to establish a covid command center to address the omicron surge. our schools are being bombarded. our students. if they are vaccinated. and are exposed, they have to monitor and come back and test. there's a lack of supplies z. i know our city has done everything we can to support, but we need to do everything better and we need to react as quickly as we can. grocery stores are being bombarded. lines out the door. our muni bus drivers, our first responders and these are people that are vaccinated. our community based organization as i referred to all over the city, the

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: please add me as a co-sponsor. >> supervisor melgar: i want to thank supervisor safai for doing all of this work to update and implement something that we should have done many years ago. mandating comprehensive analysis of what is necessary and feasible to implement article 25 is an important step in revising these provisions. we have seen how much interest there is in my district in private security. we should debate what is going on in terms of our public safety and privatizing public safety. whether or not that's something we want to do. in the last couple of years, we seen reports of security services company without any justification stopping youth from communities of color walking around in one of our neighborhoods. accused of stealing food or shoplifting. these are deeply humiliating to the individuals involved. the public streets and walkways of san francisco are for all to use as are our stores open to the public. every person who is accessing these publ

first up is supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, madam clerk. colleagues, i know these last few weeks, i'm sure many of you like our office have been bombarded. supervisor preston, sorry i didn't get your permission, i just wanted to see for myself what i had been hearing and the lines were literally down the block. in my district, the lines were around the corner for four blocks and as you know, this and a dramatic need. i'm putting forward the department of emergency management to establish a covid command center to address the omicron surge. our schools are being bombarded. our students. if they are vaccinated. and are exposed, they have to monitor and come back and test. there's a lack of supplies z. i know our city has done everything we can to support, but we need to do everything better and we need to react as quickly as we can. grocery stores are being bombarded. lines out the door. our muni bus drivers, our first responders and these are people that are vaccinated. our community based organization as i referred to all over the city, the

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i want to say really quickly, i would be remised not to thank the deputy january in -- jenna clark for their tremendous work on getting this through the last few months and working together. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk? >> clerk: on item 6. [roll call vote]. ronen is a no. walton no. preston no. there are 8 ayes and 3 nos with supervisors, ronen, walton and preston in the dissent. >> president walton: the ordinance is finally passed by vote of 8-3. please call item number 7. >> clerk: item sitch is an ordinance to appropriate approximately $3.6 million from the general reserve and approximately $5 million from other revenue to the department of elections to support additional costs from unforeseen elections in fiscal year 2020 through 2022. >> president walton: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: before we vote on the second vote for the $8.7 million, i wanted to duplicate the file and amend the duplicated file to once again give it a

supervisor safai? >> supervisor safai: i want to say really quickly, i would be remised not to thank the deputy january in -- jenna clark for their tremendous work on getting this through the last few months and working together. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. madam clerk? >> clerk: on item 6. [roll call vote]. ronen is a no. walton no. preston no. there are 8 ayes and 3 nos with supervisors, ronen, walton and preston in the dissent. >> president walton: the ordinance is finally passed by vote of 8-3. please call item number 7. >> clerk: item sitch is an ordinance to appropriate approximately $3.6 million from the general reserve and approximately $5 million from other revenue to the department of elections to support additional costs from unforeseen elections in fiscal year 2020 through 2022. >> president walton: supervisor ronen? >> supervisor ronen: before we vote on the second vote for the $8.7 million, i wanted to duplicate the file and amend the duplicated file to once again give it a

gandhi. >> present. >> commissioner safai. >> mr. president -- >> we have three. >> let's wait and somebody else will come on. >> clerk: okay. >> hi, commissioner bridges has joined us. >> commissioner bridges, are you there? >> maybe not. >> she's been shown she is not speaking. >> she is on mute. there is commissioner driscoll. >> commissioner driscoll, we are doing roll call. >> present. >> thank you. president casciato, we now have a quorum. >> okay. thank you very much. at this time i would entertain a motion to not disclose the -- we don't disclose our close session a and close session b. >> second. >> okay. it's been moved and seconded. commissioner heldfond, seconded by commissioner driscoll. public comment please. >> thank you. members of the public who wish to provide public comment on this item should call 415-655-0001, access code 24957830519 and pound and pound again. if you have not already done so, press star 3 to line up to speak. moderator, do we have any callers on the line? >> madam secretary, there are no callers

supervisor safai, anything to share? >> i will just say this and wait for the rest of the presentation. some of the best thing as in our history when it comes to civil rights and reform are driven by students. when we look at history that has played itself out over and over again. for casey and george and others to have been really the drivers of this, i think that is powerful. thank you for your voice on your moat this timevation in moat this timevating us to talk about this important history and apologizing to such an important part of san francisco's fiber, the chinese american community. i will reserve my remarks. thank you to the students. >> thank you for those words, supervisors. >> chair haney: anything, dennis, anything else you want to say or is it all right to move on? >> no, you just do what you were planning on doing. do you need me for anything else? >> chair haney: you need to get back to class. we don't want to get you in trouble. >> i will head out now. thank you supervisors haney and mar and safai and a

vice chair safai. [roll call vote] we have 3 aye's. >> chair: all right, this will goto the full board with a positive recommendation . very much. now we will go to item 9. >> item 9 is a resolution approving the grant agreement between urban alchemy for emergency shelter operations and support services serving approximately 250 adults experiencing homelessness at the property located at 711 post street for a total term of every first 2022 through june 30, 2024 for a total amount not toexceed approximately 18.7 million . affirming the planning department's determination for the general plan . members of the public who wish to provide she calls 415-655-0001. meeting id 249-0080 5064 then press pound twice. if you haven't done so press part three to line up to speed. a system prompts will indicate you have raise yourhand . wait until the system indicates you havebeen a muted . mister chair. >> all right. so welcome supervisor testing. i know we have emily from the department of homelessness and supportiv

supervisor safai, the floor is yours. >> supervisor safai: thank you, chair peskin, it is sunny. especially because we have one of our own native representatives about to join the sfmta. i just wanted to say a few words. i've worked with ms. cajina over the last few years. she brings a personality that's calm, cool, and collected, one that can work with district groups. i'm really happy and proud to be supportive of her today. i want to thank supervisor melgar for her tremendous support for soon to be commissioner cajina. the work that she described was not easy work. the excelsior, outer mission, district 11 is very much a microcause. of our city and so to be able to do that under the umbrella of transportation falling back on her training and background as a planner was always extensively important for us as district 11 residents and me as district 11 supervisor. the excelsior outer mission process, the transportation, the muni forward, all the things that she's been involved in were really positive and had wonderful positive outcomes for the community. i know she'll be a stron

supervisor safai, do you have closing remarks? >> member safai: no, i think just a few. i basically made them to director -- acting director pierce and director arsay and you colleagues. we have a few things we need to continue to look at. i think we've created what i'd like to say are some real strong regulations. we put in there businesses have to be held for seven years before they sell. for equity applicants, you have to own 40% of the business. we wanted to ensure that when i wrote the legislation that there would be parity in the market and we wanted to prioritize equity so that there would be parity in the market. we're concerned about delivery. we want to make sure that's done in the right way. it's not done to undermine everything we've done and it's the same thing with the conversation about the appropriate tax level along with the appropriate numbers in the market. i'm not advocating in any way for a moratorium. i think the market will take care of itself right now, but we do need to have that conversation going forward and we do need to look at how delivery i

welcome, supervisor safai. >> this is lauren chong legislative aid to supervisor safai. he is having trouble getting on the call. would it be possible to move to a different item and come back in. >> it is possible, however, the next two items are together. it is a hearing. we are going to move to that. please let the supervisor know it is going to be awhile. >> thank you. >> let's do that. >> madam chair i was able to get on. i am sorry. >> welcome, supervisor. >> did you read the item? are we ready to go. >> we are ready for remarks. we have carla short here from staff on stand by for any questions. we wanted to hear about the legislation. >> essentially, what this legislation is and i appreciate supervisor peskin for working with me dealing with some of the advocates. essentially what we have done here is tried to ensure that the fine process that happens with regard to illegal tree removal has increased to a penalty more of a deterrent. what we have seen in the past has been people have just looked at this as something that they factor into the development process. t

commissioner safai. >> present. commissioner stefani. >> present. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> chair we have a quorum. >> thank you. would you like to make an announcement about public comment. >> public comment is available for each item via telephone by calling 415-655-0001 access code 249694401967. pound pound you will be a participant. to comment press 3 to be added the queue to speak. do not press 3 again or you will be removed. you will be allowed two minute goes to speak. calls are taken in the order receive. speak slowly, clearly and tun down your television or radio. >> item 2. chair report. >> we have a presentation on the thanksportation authority 2021 annual report from executive director chang. we have a lot to be proud of and a lot more work ahead. we allocated $100 million in local funds for transit, streets and bike lanes. infrastructure and paratransit service and the subsidy program for seniors and people with disabilities cut off for transited access due to the pandemic. we saw the stree

safai: aye. >> commissioner stefani: aye. >> commissioner walton: aye. >> we have 11 ayes. motion passes. >> thank you, please call item 9. >> item 9 approve the san francisco transportation investment and growth strategy 2021 update. this is an action item. >> i think we have rachel hyatt here. there you are. hello? >> yes, good morning, chair and commissioners. yes, rachel hyatt, the acting deputy for planning. and please move to the next slide. so this transportation investment and growth strategy, also known as t.i.g., is a requirement of the m.t.c. as the congestion management of san francisco, they're required to prepare one of these growth strategies as part of the regional one bay area grant program. or obag program. as you probably are aware, the program seeks to integrate transportation, planning and land use in response to senate bill 375, greenhouse gas emission reductions act. and so sfmta is responsible to support our priority developments areas, or pdas, and these are the areas tha

vice chair safai. member mar. >> aye. >> chair haney. >> aye. >> vice chair safai. absent. we have two eyes are vice chair safai absent. >> sorry my mute button was stuck. >> we have three ayes, mr. chair. >> chair haney: thank you so much. please call item two. >> clerk: resolution authorizing the office of contract administration to enter into people soft contract id1000023748 between the city and county of san francisco and inter vision systems llc for the purchase of networking equipment software and hardware and software support manufactured by juniper networks with a contract got to exceed amount of $40 million and for a total contract of five years commencing on february 1, 2022 through january 31, 2027. if you wish to comment call 415-655-0001. id24808654274. pound twice. if you haven't done so dial star three to speak. the system prompt will indicate you have raised your hand. mr. chair. >> chair haney: we have two from the contract administration. welcome. >> thanks, supervisors. good morning. i am here with my assistant. we will present and then take questions. >

to you, vice chair safai. >> supervisor safai: thank you, supervisor melgar for calling this hearing. you and i have had conversations. one thing i think the city could benefit from right now and the school district in particular as you pointed out. we have resources, know how, track record of really dealing with this crisis. i think up until this most recent surge we have done a phenomenal job as a country. as you said this caught us off guard in some ways, our kids in our classrooms and not just limited to there but the entire city is suffering right now. people are being asked to adjust schedules. people are asked to stay home and be with their kids. we are constantly getting e-mails saying your kid has been exposed. if you are vaccinated stay home, test on fifth day. are you getting a test? how? there is a short supply right now. this meeting is timely. as you have pointed out i want to recognize the hard work for the district and teachersdown and labor coming together to organize and finalize a deal to make everyone feel safer. also to be able to plan for the next surge, the next