it is unrelenting, long days, more than what we're used to, most of us. honestly, i'm not sure how we're getting through it. this is beyond what any of us ever expected to experience in our lifetime. what we discover is how strong we are, and really, the depth of our resilience, and i say that for every single city employee that has been working around the clock for the last 11 months, and i also speak about myself. every day, i have to sort of have that moment of, like, okay, i'm really tired, i'm weary, but we've got to keep going. it is, i would say, the biggest challenge that i have had personally and professionally to be the best mom that i can be but also the best public certify chant in whatever role i'm in. i just wish that i, as my younger self, could have had someone tell me you can give it and to give a little more nudge. so indirectly, people have helped me because they have seen something in me that i did not see in myself. there's clear data that women have lost their jobs and their income because they had to take care of their safety nets.

it starts with us. i really want to help this community in different ways and it starts with this park. thank you, thank you. i want to encourage all youth of all ages and all races to help this community. so together we can change how the bay view looks. it starts with the youth, so when we get older we can be in the same position that everyone else is. but thank you for your time. [applause] >> all right, thank you so much, darryl. and, again, that's just one very small example of making sure that we invite our young people to participate on this project and build equity from within. so we're going to just acknowledge a couple more folks from our mohcd, eric shaw, and thank you so much for coming. from oewd and city build, ken nim, our trades workers over here. and i want to say thank you for jessica fontanelle from our success center. thank you so much. and so we are going to go ahead and do the shovel ceremony. just remember that like our shovel ceremony, it's really a way to honor, you know, not on

please bring us that caller. >> commissioners. this is the fifth time i'm listening to this conversation. and the more i listen to it, the more convoluted it gets. so, wake up. we want action. [inaudible] and you call the state. we cannot put the blame on ya'll. for the board of supervisors, [inaudible] your staff should have called whoever's in charge and ask for a resolution. there is no way we can provide the services and we keep changing the [inaudible] and we took a long, long time and, shame on you, supervisors, we took a long time to fill the seat of the behavioral department. so now we've got [inaudible] who left san francisco. we approached him for some help and they go directly to government. he knows all about this. [inaudible] the general hospital and the department is dysfunctional. it really is dysfunctional. essential workers being insulted. where essential workers are being insulted. this comes under crimes against humanity. >> clerk: thank you for your call, mr. acosta. f.y.i., your. could you please connect us to

walk us through how it works. let's say your business and you don't have a big construction project and you don't have complicated cannabis or liquor licenses, you know, i'm assuming there's a route for noncomplicated businesses and then there's a route for businesses that have to navigate state and local allows and attend regulatory agencies. if you can kind of walk us through in general and specifically who these two specialists will be working with. >> sure. so the goal, supervisor, is that we can help any would be small business coming in the door. and i think the good news is we have had at oewd over many years, i think a lot of experience with very young, very small businesses, but also a lot of sector based experience of small and medium sized businesses. so the starting point is really to understand to your point what sector that business is in. because as you know, trying to open a food and beverage company let alone that has abc involved and trying to open a small service based business. if they are prov

i also use use use proper funds as intended for housing. our city has long tried to hide his poverty and systemic racism and then by policing them and putting them in cages. please present themselves as a solution to these problems, safest neighborhoods are not the ones with the most cops they are the one with the most resources. assigned to prioritize funding for lifesaving services like childcare, mental health care, see art help. start with a $24.7 million that are already old to people. please make a motion monday to reduce the sheriff's budget by $24.7 million and other costs. thank you very much. >> thank you and can we have the next caller please. >> hello, good afternoon, my name is virginia marshall. i am a member of a mega- black and president of the san francisco alliance of black educators. i would like to thank you president walton chairman, hrc director, i am here to fully support to the request to mega black and to anchor the mayor and staff do working with everyone. and also to make sure that all of us have computers during

we ask that you together with us . we want sustainable funding for a brighter future and a stronger communityin san francisco area please ,please help us with the funding . >> my name is alayna hill and i'm a teacher at mission high school. we need the city of san francisco to fund city college you fund our k-12 schools. we recognize the importance of the education and i hope you recognize the importance of postsecondaryeducational institutions like city college . it would make possible programs like ours for students in conjunction with city college dualenrollment program . this allows our students to stay in the city and work for city agencies like our fire department and ourambulance companies . i think it's important and i think it's imperative. thank you for your help .>> with that mister balthazar do wehave any more speakers in the queue ? >> there is one remaining caller in the queue. >> thank you mister balthasar. >> district 1 and i'm calling today to urge that we have someone, one of you to make a motion to d

folks can take care of us on the front end only to evict us and throw us out on the streets on the back-end. black support is required. lastly, black lgbtq support through secure transitional housing subsidies. thank you. >> i'm representing restorative justice. the black community needs the opportunity to address and repair the harm that has not only been caused but they are victims of. 80% of this has happened under drug and alcohol and related. black community is the only community that doesn't have a domestic violence shelter. in particular, one specifically for black women and children. number two, we need an alternative to policing. and criminal justice reform. we also provide housing. specific justice for those that are experiencing reentree. we also need to look at the rebuild and redesign of juvenile hall so we can get a jump start on hesitating some of the returns to the justice system. thank you very much and i pass it on. >> i'm a resident of the tenderloin and i'm here to talk about food. we have had generations of foods unavailable to our community and overall effect in our he

this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey.

they were really keeping us informed. and right back at you, supervisor ronen, i enjoyed working with you and laughing. and supervisor mar, it has been great working with you. and president walton, your presidential nature really had shown through in all of these discussions. i want to thank you my team. i'll have more to say, for sure, but definitely really appreciated everyone on our side and all of the work we did together, and, of course, working with ashley rothenburger and sofia and team. it definitely was -- i would say this was a labor of love. and i hope that people fully appreciate all of the time, effort, and energy that our staff has put into this. thousands of e-mails, thousands of calls, thousands of hours -- it's not something you can fully appreciate unless you're actually experiencing it. i know we tried from the bottom of our heart to do what we think is right tor right forsan francisco, in partnership with the mayor and her team. his covid crisis created an unprecedented situation. we can't just turn of

if they can't displace us they push us out on the street and cage us. there's no reform or training that can transform the police that criminalize and murder our residents. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. operations let's hear from the next caller please. >> caller: hello, i'm executive director of library. on june 19th, the san francisco chronicle ran an editorial. the headline was "california is open why aren't san francisco's libraries" that's something we've been asking as well. since you're funding a huge amount of money and an increase over the previous year, we ask that you do a number of things to ensure that service is equitable and not unnecessarily reduced. that is first of all, insist on full funding for service now. right now there's no plan for full service until fall. there are a few libraries open, they have limits on service. all the other ones have very limited service. second of all, we're asking that you study and have them set aside for a study and to eliminate unequities in service as well as cuts in service. right now there's not

they asked us to provide a report how it was used, which we provided in spring of this year, and they provided a sunset clause in 2020 for it to continue, and that's why we're presenting it. what was the provision? the provision applied to our four major locations. it allowed adjustments to nonresident adult rates only of increased of up to 50% and decreases of up to 25%. it does not apply to san francisco residents, and it does not apply to nonresidents, seniors, or youth. in addition, there are a variety of free admissions to all, including, the gardens, in the last year have joined not just the san francisco for all admissions but the gardens for all that provides four free admissions to anyone with an e.b.t. transfer card meeting the standards. so whether you live in the city or not, if you are low-income, you're able to come into these gardens. just a reminder. the botanical garden is open to everyone for free, and the gardens have a variety of free days and times. for coit tower, the gardens and murals remain open for all. on the japanese tea garden, we had a $2 increase, only a

this space used to be unoccupied. it was used as a dump. to repurpose it for something like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. that is a great way to give back to the community. >> this is a great example of a public-private community partnership. they have been supporting this including the san francisco public utilities commission and mayor's office of workforce department. >> working with the joint venture partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. >> bayview has changed. it is growing. a lot of things is different from when i was a kid. you have the t train. you have a lot of new business. i am looking forward to being a business owner in my neighborhood. >> i love my city. you know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in san francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. they are proud of me. i don't want to leave them out of the journey.

san francisco is to us. we have to take responsibility for this city. we have to work harder to keep it it the green an clean and beautiful city we all know an love. we're going to be making some unprecedented investments. trees, garbage cans, making things easier to get things cleaned up in their communities. we have a lot of work to do in san francisco. this is a critical part of our recovery, our economic recovery. not just people who visit and shop here an visit from all over the world but the people who live here. people who want to walk down the streets and feel they are safe and clean. how do we make san francisco better? we have to work hard for it. we have to fight for t. that's . that's what we're here to do today. fight for the future of san francisco. let me just go over a few of the initiatives. one point eight million dollars to make this shine on sf program permanent. power washing and mobile teams, office of economic and work force development, that's in addition to the power washing of stree

firms that will be working with us. one is a.g.s., and they do have an office location in the bayview. and another is s.c.a. environmental, and i'm going to ask my colleague, christina raine, if i may be forgetting a third that's on our team. >> hi, there. yes, the third is geoblue, and they are a california s.b.e. located in north bay. >> yes. i believe a.g.s. is, and i believe i know s.c.a. the only question i have is regarding the reporting relationship, so the consulting does work, does reviews, does reports. i mean, the staff memo talks about members of the city family being involved in this process, as well. mentions the city attorney's office, for instance, and obviously the department of public health, so i'm interested in what the reporting relationship is. does ocii have an agreement where they receive all reports first? can someone explain that to me? >> yes. so under this contract, langan would be the consultant with ocii. so although we do work with the san francisco department of public health, and the cit

used cars is up 24% year overyear. with pretty healthy year over year with livestock and beverages and those can work into food prices and work into hospitality, restaurant, supplies, spryses and that could have an inflationary effect. this is a that is a peer of what is happening. for me that is a key and critical indicator. the used vehicles, which is my industry, as you noted as sort of a side mention s as much about a lack of supply of vehicles due to worldwide semiconductor shortage and what have you. but restaurant are historically very narrow margin businesses and labor is the margin and they have found untapped reserve efficiencies and they have been able to do more with less. we have seen that with the qr codes on men use and some of that, but what i think i am waiting for is noticeable inflation on restaurant pricing and i think that would be the clearest indicator that we have a significant labor shortage and there is no more room for the ownership of the restaurants to absorb that cost. and they have to pas

supervisor safai, do you want to kick us off here? >> mr. chair, if you could do me a favor, can you skip this item and come back to it. i'll be ready after the next one, if you don't mind? >> chairman: sure. madam clerk, can you please call item 5. >> clerk: item 5: resolution red actively authorizing the recreation and parks department (indiscernable) outdoor environmental education facilities program in the amount of $250,000 that requires the department to maintain trail improvement funded by the grant for the duration from july 1, 2017. [inaudible] members of the public who wish to provide public comment, call 415-655-0001, i.d. 1462883384, and then press pound twice. if you have not already done so, please dial *3 to line up to speak. please wait until the system indicates you have bun unmuted and you may begin your comments. >> chairman: we have tony moran from rec and park. >> thank you. good morning, committee members. i'm tony moran. on behalf of the recreation and parks department, i'm requesting that the budget and finance commit

an -- were to use comps. so the parties negotiated that the rent would remain the same. so the rent for the next five years will be at the current base rent with no adjustments. that means it's about $27.84 per square foot or about 5364 per year. the office of the court will pay over half the rent. i think it's 61% or something like that. and all other terms remain the same. director is here from the behavioral health services to answer any questions you have about the program. and i can answer any questions about the lease. we ask that you give the proposed lease extension a positive recommendation. >> chair haney: thank you. questions or comments from colleagues? supervisor safai? no? b.l.a. report? >> supervisor safai: no, i'm good, thank you. i've said pretty much what i needed to say. thanks. >> yes, the proposed resolution approves the five-year extension of existing lease between the city and matteson family trust for 555-575 polk street. this is subleased to -- a portion to the administrative office o

if they can't displace us they push us out on the street and cage us. there's no reform or training that can transform the police that criminalize and murder our residents. thank you. >> clerk: thank you. operations let's hear from the next caller please. >> caller: hello, i'm executive director of library. on june 19th, the san francisco chronicle ran an editorial. the headline was "california is open why aren't san francisco's libraries" that's something we've been asking as well. since you're funding a huge amount of money and an increase over the previous year, we ask that you do a number of things to ensure that service is equitable and not unnecessarily reduced. that is first of all, insist on full funding for service now. right now there's no plan for full service until fall. there are a few libraries open, they have limits on service. all the other ones have very limited service. second of all, we're asking that you study and have them set aside for a study and to eliminate unequities in service as well as cuts in service. right now there's not

that is private use of public space. i know our residents get upset when we talk about requirements that go along with it, i know that almost the entire marina green set back from that area -- all of those homes, every single amount of that yard is in public space. we issue minor and major encroachment permits. this is construction and i'm looking at the former president of the planning commission because she dealt with them all the time. this is not a permanent privatization. this is a permit of use. so let's talk about a scenario -- the city needs to re-do a street. this shared space on that street. guess whose cost it is to remove that shared space? guess whose cost it is to reconstruct that shared space? the permittee. there is so much layers that we have thought about in this process but the idea of keeping it open to the public we address, and it was debated considerably in the land-use committee and it is going to be, it's written into the legislation that there has to be dedicated space for the public. what we're

what you have before us is about half of what came to us. what we decided to do was split off all the things that were not controversial. that were really good idea. we all agreed on that could go forward and held back the stuff needed some more work. we split the file. what you have before you are the things that we talked about, vetted and thought. we heard quite a bit from all of your constituents about this piece of legislation. the things that we left on the table were things -- it wasn't consistent. like everyone was. opposed to all things. it was different constituents that had issues or concerns with different aspects of the legislation. i want to thank the mayor's office for all of the work. he put in enormous amount of brain power. i wanted to tell you little bit of background about this and to know that, there may be around two. we want to be thoughtful and responsive to the community's needs and how we go forward. thank you. >> president walton: thank you. supervisor peskin? >> supervisor peskin: thank you. let me concur with lan

us. so i would make a motion, mr. president, that we send this item back to the budget committee for further conversation. >> supervisor peskin: second. >> president walton: thank you. motion to send item 68 back to budget and finance committee, seconded by supervisor peskin. supervisor stefani? >> supervisor stefani: thank you, president walton. i think obviously there has been concerns raised, articulated very well by supervisor peskin around this, and it's curious to me, after hearing there's no urgent need articulated by the m.t.a. to get to the board on a committee report, that this should still be in committee. so i think the motion is a good one, and before things get to the full board, you know, they need to be -- it should be fully based, i think, as committee, and -- at committee, and this has not happened. i support it going back to committee. >> president walton: supervisor stefani, thanks. madam clerk, can we get a motion on item 68, to send it back to committee? >> clerk: on

they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, home

to come to us and tell us, what would be your plan to reinstate all the lines? now if our director says, this would be the plan, however, i think it would be a mistake to reinstate this line because the world has changed in this way, this way, this way. or reinstating this line would cause this trade-off which we might not want to do. sure. that's what we want. we want to see that full plan. we want to understand the think offing the m.t.a. leadership. but we want to understand that thinking with the expectation that restoring all the lines to pre-pandemic is eventually our goal. and i believe that is absolutely the goal that we should clearly be expressing to m.t.a. i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i appreciate the work you put into it, supervisor preston. >> president walton: thank you, supervisor ronen. supervisor preston. >> supervisor preston: thank you, president walton. let me start, first of all, i think the amendment that safai proposed is a friendly amendment and i think if that's a more reasonable time frame for m.t.a. to get us tha

for us, for me. what the community looks like in the end has to bereresponsive to the residents and where they are now and what is not working and what is working. i would say we are in the process of working with residents to help ourselves understand more and help them articulate what their needs are. i think the fiscal structure is the last -- physical structure. we are in unpacking and trust building phase with the residents. kevin and urban, you are leading the work. i would be happy to have you augment what i said. >> urban strategies has experienced this. when we meet with residents now the focus is the safety concerns, getting repairs done. it is hard to lead a conversation until we address these situations. we are going to address this. we have a set plan to walk through the whole department of development. >> is there a timeline on when a decision will be made on the development path to pursue or is that to be determined? that is to be determined. in the conversations i have been part of, f

code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. the office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. we worked with the digital team to develop the online application. there are going to be hiccups. we are first to do it. it is one of the most rewarding parts to offer a seamless -- to offer a seamless approach. that is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. the best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for san francisco. it feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. in the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. really coming from a place of public safety. that was the mandate and understanding. it is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what? we got it wrong. let's get this right. i had the privilege of being in the existing

about land use matters. i did speak to his staff. there were two outstanding issues for me and i think all the amendments are headed in the right direction. as we permit these an put these -- during hours of non operation maybe between 12 and 7:00 a.m. when things are shut down or 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. it makes sense to me that you wouldn't want people that are are hanging out that are in the neighborhood that are otherwise shouldn't be in that space. also the maintenance and cleanliness portion. the last one having worked in local government here even before being on the board of supervisors in a couple of different city agencies, the way this was initially crafted, the planning department was the depository or overseer of this entire program. the work they do in the normal functioning of their departments is they interact with public works and dbi. i understand that public works in the street domain, bureau street use and mapping and the work that they do in terms of issuing permits makes sense, that th

>> we do not use it for down payment assistance. we have to follow the redevelopment laws, and currently, the laws say that the preference is tied to a housing unit, so when we were distributing fund -- when we are distributing funds for people to go out and find a housing unit that doesn't meet their standard of eligibility for applying the preference. so -- but that doesn't mean that we wouldn't -- >> chair melgar: okay. thank you, miss benjamin. colleagues, do we have any other questions for miss benjamin? all right. with that, madam clerk, why don't we go to public comment on this item? >> clerk: thank you, madam chair. d.t. is checking to see if we have any callers in queue. if you have not done so already, press star, three to enter the queue and if you have already done so, please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted before you begin to speak. michael, if you could unmute the first caller, please. >> good afternoon. this is teresa flanders, north beach preference committee. i am so pleased that the requiremen

i want to thank the community and labor advocates who have met with us, talked with us, pushed us and worked with us hand in hand for over a year moving the conversation forward. thank you to the climate emergency coalition, emerald city collaborative, jobs of justice, the building and construction trades council and many others for input and partnership. i offer this report and hearing with responsibility in mind. thank you. >> supervisor melgar: thank you. before turning it over, i wanted to ask supervisor mandelman if he would like to give some remarks. >> supervisor mandelman: just briefly, i came by mostly to listen but i did want to thank supervisor mar for the report. i think this is the right time. we've taken some good steps in san francisco with building for new buildings and more aggressive climate action plan goals. i'm excited about some of the modest but i think important investments that the board made through the budget in some of the work i think will help us accomplish some of these decarbonizing goals or at least point us in that direction. mostly thank you to the a