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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Good afternoon. Welcome to the 07/08/2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Chan. Chan present. Supervisor Chen. Chen present. Supervisor Dorsey? Present. Dorsey present. Supervisor EnGuardio? Angadio present, supervisor Fielder. Fielder present, supervisor Mahmood. Mahmood present, supervisor Mandleman.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Present.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandleman present, supervisor Melgar. Melgar present, supervisor Sauter. Sauter present. Supervisor Sheryl? Present. Cheryl present. And supervisor Walton? Present. Walton present. Mister president, all members are present.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone who are the are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramaytush Ohlone have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders, and relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples. Colleagues, will you 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 Kalina Mendoza, who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam Clerk, do you have any communications?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mister president, the special order at 2PM.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. So let's go to our 2PM special order.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. The special order at two is the appearance by the honorable mayor, Daniel Lurie. There being no questions submitted from eligible districts. The mayor may address the board for up to five minutes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Welcome, mister mayor. We have no topics submitted for today, so we're gonna hear from you for up to five minutes.

[Mayor Daniel Lurie]: Good afternoon, board president Mandelmann and members of the board of supervisors. Today marks six months since I took office. We still have work ahead, but city hall is demonstrating what a new era of collaboration can achieve. We're on track to close an $800,000,000 budget deficit while investing in our recovery, strengthening public safety staffing, taking bold action to address our homelessness and behavioral health crisis, and advancing legislation to streamline permitting and build more housing. None of this progress would be possible without this board. Over the past six months, I've worked closely with each of you on legislation and budget priorities that reflect our shared commitment to this city. Throughout this spring, supervisor Chan and I engaged in deep discussions around the budget and priorities for San Francisco. This year's budget offered few good options, but I'm grateful to chair Chan for helping guide our city toward fiscal sustainability. Also in this spring, supervisor Cheryl and I introduced legislation to renew first year free, making it easier for small businesses to launch and grow in San Francisco. Later this week, we will sign that legislation into law. Last month, supervisor Saussure and I introduced legislation for five thirty SAMHSA, a project that will deliver a new fire station, hotel, and office space while contributing millions of dollars for affordable housing. Earlier this year, supervisor Engadio and I met with neighbors along Sunset Boulevard to discuss much needed improvements to that median. This budget delivers on those improvements. Two weeks ago, supervisor Mahmood and I held a signing ceremony at Keyesars Stadium to celebrate a $10,000,000 investment from Golden City FC and the arrival of San Francisco's newest professional sports team. In May, surrounded by the recovery community, we signed supervisor Dorsey's legislation declaring San Francisco a recovery first city. Tomorrow, the budget and finance committee will hear a proposal developed by my office in partnership with supervisor Melgar to address the issues of RV encampments, an effort to provide better options for the people living in them and improve conditions for our neighborhoods. In District 9, I worked with supervisor Fielder to establish the city's newest entertainment zone on Valencia Street. In District 10, supervisor Walton and I are working with community on the best approach to Gerald Commons' shelter site to ensure District 10 is at the table for future decisions. In District 11, we're partnering with supervisor Chen to ensure capital investments in the Excelsior, OMI, and Crocker Amazon deliver for families, children, and seniors. And none of this would be possible without board president Rafael Manaman. From the fentanyl ordinance to my breaking the cycle executive director, from supporting cancer screening for firefighters to to addressing street conditions in the Castro, there are few issues, policy or district specific, where I haven't sought his advice, support, or collaboration. Together, we are showing our residents and visitors that we are focused on what matters, public safety, clean streets, and a strong economic recovery. As we finalize the budget, we're also advancing key priorities. Our family zoning plan to keep San Francisco affordable for our next generation, our permit SF plan to cut red tape for small businesses, and our RV plan to bring compassion, safety, and order to our streets. I wanna thank you all for your partnership. I look forward to the next six months as we continue to deliver for the people of San Francisco. Thank you, board president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, Mayor Lohrey. Congratulations on your first six months.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Thank you, sir.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Good to see you. Thank you all.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. This matter has been discussed and is now filed. And, madam clerk, I think you may have had some communications.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: That's right, mister president. Yes. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes all the members of the public here in the chamber to attend this meeting in person. We are in the board's chamber, 2nd Floor Room 250 within City Hall. Or if you can't make it down here, you can watch the proceeding on SFGOV TV's channel 26 or view the livestream at www.sfgovtv.org for items three through 32. These are the items that comprise the city's budget. They have had their public comment in committee, and you are not able to speak on the budget today during general public comment. But if you would like to provide any written comment on any other items, you can send an email to b o s at s f gov dot org or use the US Postal Service and just address the envelope To the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, doctor Carleton, Capital B, Period, Goodlet Place, City Hall, Room 244 in San Francisco, California 94102. And the last two comments are that if you need to make a reasonable accommodation request under the Americans with Disability Act or if you need to request language assistance, please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. Thank you, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Let's go to the approval of our meeting minutes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Approval of the 06/03/2025 board meeting minutes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, I don't think anyone has any changes. So can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Moved by Chan, seconded by Walton. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the minutes as presented, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor, Angadio? Aye. Supervisor, aye. Supervisor, Mahmood? Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor, Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor, Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. Madam Clerk, let's go to the consent agenda, items one and two.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items one and two are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Madam clerk, can you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the consent items one and two, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Angadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor, Mahmoud? Aye. Supervisor, Mandelmann?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor, Walton? Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, these ordinances are finally passed. Madam Clerk, let's go to new business and introduction to the budget. Please call items three through 32 together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items three through 32 pertain to the city's budget and pursuant to charter section nine point one hundred sub b. The board shall not adopt the budget any earlier than July 15 nor later than August 1. Item three is the budget and appropriation ordinance that appropriates all estimated receipts and expenditures for departments of the city and county of San Francisco as of 05/30/2025 for the fiscal years ending 06/30/2026 and 06/30/2027. Item four is the annual salary ordinance that enumerates positions, in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fiscal years ending 06/30/2026 and 06/30/2027. Item five, this ordinance amends the administrative code to modify the short term license fees for the use of city hall. Item six amends the administrative code to transferring data collection oversight duties from the city administrator to the human rights commission, as well as removes obsolete reporting requirements. Item seven, this ordinance amends the administrative code to clarify the status of the treasure island development authority as a city department. Item eight, this ordinance amends the administrative code to eliminate the budget savings incentive fund. Item nine, this ordinance adopts the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup fund tax designation ceiling for tax year 2025. Item 10, this ordinance, modifies the baseline funding requirement for early care and education programs to enable the city to use the interest earned from the early care and education commercial rents tax for those baseline programs. Item 10, this ordinance retroactively authorizes the San Francisco Public Defender's Office to accept and expand a $3,400,000 grant from the Crankstart Foundation to expand the capacity of the immigration defense unit to meet the increased demand for services. It also amends the annual salary ordinance to provide a four four grant funded positions, eighty one seventy seven attorneys, and a class eighty one seventy three legal assistant. Item 12, this ordinance amends the administrative code to authorize fees for vehicles registered to a San Francisco address to fund law enforcement programs related to fingerprint identification of persons involved in crimes committed while operating motor vehicles in accordance with the California state law and to establish the police fingerprint identification fund to receive the fee revenue. Item 13, this ordinance appropriates and deappropriates a total net deappropriation amount of approximately 87,000, from a previously approved ordinance, number one twenty four dash 24, for for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission capital projects budgets and supplemental appropriation. Item 14, this ordinance authorizes the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water revenue bonds and other forms of indebtedness by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission for an approximate amount of 1,000,000,000 to finance costs of various Capital Water and Hec Hec Hec

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Item 17 amends the park code to allow the recreation and park department to set fees for recreation programs based on the department's operating costs for those programs and various other factors, including whether the program is designated for youth, seniors, or persons with disabilities subject to approval of the Recreation and Park Commission, directing the commission to update its scholarship policy to provide for further discounts for recreation programs based on financial need, making clarifying changes and affirming the CEQA determination. Item 18, this ordinance amends the business and tax regulations code, the health code, the administrative code, and the public works code, to eliminate the Department of Public Health permit requirement for veterinary hospitals and laundry facilities, to eliminate the food facility surcharge and certain fees for agricultural inspections, to establish fees for regulatory compliance activities for solid waste facilities, refuse service for commercial and residential properties and licensing of refuse collectors, establish regulatory fee for food safety classes and food safety examinations, to increase existing regulatory fees for agricultural inspection and hazardous waste management, to increase penalties for violations of tobacco sales ordinance by tobacco retailers, and to decrease fees for certified farmers market permits. Item 19, this ordinance amends the health code to set patient rates for services provided by the Department of Public Health and authorize DPH to waive or reduce fees to meet the needs of low income patients through its provision of charity care and other discounted payment programs. Item 20, this ordinance amends the public works and subdivisions code to modify certain permit fees, including waiving fees for cafe tables and chairs and display merchandise registrants and certain minor sidewalk encroachments that are a pertinent building features and affirms the CEQA determination. Item 21, this resolution approves the budget of the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure operating as the successor agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, also known as OCII or successor agency, and approves the issuance by OCII of bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed 223,000,000 to finance a portion of OCII's enforceable obligations. Item 22, this resolution concurs with the controller's establishment of the consumer price index for 2025 and adjusts the access line tax by the same rate. Item 23, this resolution approves the homelessness and supportive housing funds expenditure plan for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing Fund. Item 24, this resolution authorizes the San Francisco Public Library to accept and expend a 1,000,000 grant of in kind gifts, services, and cash monies from the friends of the San Francisco public library for direct support for a variety of public programs and services. Item 25, this resolution concurs with the controller certification that department services previously approved can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by city employees for the following services, budget and legislative analyst services, fleet security services, real estate division, custodial services, real estate division security services, convention facilities management, security services, for the general services agency, public works security services, security services for homelessness and supportive housing, human services agency, food services at the county jail, the assembly of vote by mail services, and security services for the Department of Elections, the mayor's office of housing and community development, and public health. Item 26, this resolution authorizes the Recreation and Park Department to accept and expand a 3,600,000.0 bequest from the estate of William Benjamin Bobo to provide benches, park furnishings, and park improvements at various park sites across San Francisco. Item 27, this resolution authorizes the municipal transportation agency to set parking rates in Golden Gate Park and to affirm the CEQA determination. Items 28 through 31 are four resolutions that authorize three accept and expand grants and one grant agreement between the Department of Public Health and various state entities. Item 28 is a reoccurring state grant funds, by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Item 29 is a grant agreement for a term commencing on execution, acting through the Department of Public Health and the California Department of Social Services and its third party administration, Horn LLP, under the Community Care Expansion Program, and having anticipated revenue to the city of approximately 9,900,000.0 for construction of a substance use disorder residential step down facility at Parcel E 1.2 Treasure Island. Item 30, this is a retroactive authorization for the Department of Public Health to to accept and expend 2,500,000.0 from the California Department of Health Care Services through the San Francisco Health Authority, a local government entity, doing business as the San Francisco health plan. Item 31, this is a resolution to authorize the Department of Public Health to expend 6,000,000. This is a grant from the California Department of Health Care Services through the health plan to participate in a program entitled incentive incentive payment program for the EPIC enhancement implementation project and to delegate authority under charter section 9.11 sub a to the director to approve grant agreement between the city and the Department of Public Health. And finally, item 32, this was referred without recommendation from the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Pursuant to business and tax regulations code, section twenty eight eleven amendments of the article 28 of the business and tax regulations code require approval by a super majority vote of at least eight members to approve this item. Item 32, this is an ordinance to authorize the city to reallocate approximately 34,700,000.0 in prior appropriated revenue of unappropriated earned interest within the Our City, Our Home, also known as OCOHO fund, to follow to allow the city to use revenues from the homelessness gross receipts tax for certain types of services to address homelessness, notwithstanding the the expenditure percentages set forth in the business and tax regulations code where future revenue and interest to the OCOH fund exceeds amounts appropriated in the adopted budget for fiscal years 2025 through '26, '26, and '27 to authorize the city to expend up to 19,100,000.0 of such additional revenues and interests on any programs to address homelessness as described in the BTR code section, twenty eight ten with regard to expenditure percentages in that section and temporarily suspending the limit on funding for short term rental subsidies and to find that these allocations are necessary to achieve the purpose of the Our City, Our Home Fund pursuant to the BTR code section twenty eight eleven. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. As as the clerk indicated, the budget has to come back to the board per the administrative code by July 15, but the charter requires that we are not to adopt the budget earlier than July 15 nor later than August 1. So, at some point, we are going to need to, continue, these items to our next board meeting on July 15. But, before we do that, supervisor chair, budget chair, Connie Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Chair]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, before we continue these items, I would like to make two technical amendments to the board of supervisors' budget spending plan. These amendments should have been provided to you previously. The first is to include the reduction to the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, and this would actually an agreement to substitute a budget and legislative analyst recommendations to reduce the department, funding. And this is, we came to an agreement about downward substitution of a management's positions and eliminate an additional vacancy to achieve a comparable cost saving. And then, also, this agreement, also include the additional non general fund reduction of nearly $26,000 And also, the amendment is on top of the page of the sheets that you have in front of you, which added third line under the department budget reduction section at the top. The second amendment is on the second side of the documents to update the language for line six, replacing the words in d six and d 11 with, with the, line with the language that is, quote, and community stabilization and cultural development. This language more accurately reflects the full, compliments of service for restoration. And I would like to move these two amendments.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: There is a motion to on the floor, and there is a second from, supervisor Walton. And I think we can take that, motion without objection. Alright. The motion passes. And then can I have a motion to, continue these items with the amendment we just, voted on, to the board meeting of 07/15/2025, moved by, supervisor Chan and seconded by supervisor Dorsey? And madam clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the motion to continue items three through 34 as amended, items three and four to 07/15/2025, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Engadio? Engadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, I. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, I. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Sheryl, I. And supervisor Walton? Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, these items are continued to 07/15/2025. Madam clerk, please call item 33.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 33. This is an ordinance to amend the park code. To apply the park code to certain parks on Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, to allow application of the park code to certain additional properties operated and managed by the Recreation and Park Department, subject to approval of the Recreation and Park Commission, and to make clarifying changes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 34.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 34. This is an ordinance to amend the planning code to update eligibility requirements for the priority processing program for certain commercial uses, including enabling formula retail use with fewer than 20 establishments to participate in the program and updating scheduling and extension extension requirements for the priority processing program to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And again, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 35.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 35. This is an ordinance to amend the building and planning codes to extend the awning amnesty program to apply two existing unpermitted signs and gates to amend the planning code to remove design standards for gates, railings, and grill work on the Ground Floor, street frontages of non historic buildings in neighborhood commercial, residential commercial, commercial, and mixed use districts to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 36.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 36, this is an ordinance to amend the planning code to streamline and simplify the process for obtaining and extending temporary use authorizations, implement standards requirements for any temporary use authorization, and permit as temporary uses seasonal political campaign offices for up to one year to extend the maximum time for a pop up retail temporary use to three years and to affirm the secret determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 37.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 37, ordinance to amend the public works code to streamline the approval of certain encroachments in the public right of way, to establish a registration requirement in place of all permit requirements and fees for cafe tables and chairs and display merchandise, and to eliminate minor encroachment permit requirements and right of way occupancy fees for a pertinent building features to amend the administrative code to exempt cafe tables and chairs and display merchandise from the shared spaces program and to affirm the CEQA determination.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 38.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 38. This is an ordinance to amend the police code to adjust various entertainment fees.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we can do that. Same house, same call without objection. The ordinance is passed on first reading. And madam clerk, let's go to our 02:30PM special order recognition of commendations.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. The recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Sam O'Ganham, come forward. I am very excited today, colleagues, to be able to present a special commendation to Sam O'Ganum, a native San Franciscan, second generation grocer, and visionary behind the Buy Buy Right family of businesses. Sam's family has owned Buy Right Market on 18th Street since 1964. He grew up working in the market, but later chose to pursue a different career path after high school. He graduated from San Francisco City College's hotel and restaurant management program, then cooked in Switzerland and Oakland before opening his own restaurant, Rendezvous du Monde, in 1991. In 1997, Sam and his brother took over Buy Right Market. The next year, the two reinvented the family business through a chef's perspective. They built out the kitchen to allow Sam to continue cooking ingredients stocked from local farmers. Since then, Sam has overseen the expansion of BioRight across San Francisco. They opened a second BioRight Market on De Vizzidero, BioRight Creamery just up the street from the 18th Street Market, and a commissary and catering kitchen in the Bayview, launched a shopping app, and most recently celebrated the opening of their third Buy Right Market location on Polk Street. And those are just a few of the Buy Right projects that have kept Sam busy these last three decades. During that time, he also helped found eighteen Reasons, a nonprofit community cooking school that empowers thousands of residents each year with their skills and confidence to cook and share nourishing meals. Sam's commitment to sustainability and equity is reflected in Byrite's certification as a b corporation and its recognition as a best for the world honoree for community impact. His leadership has helped shape San Francisco's food culture, making it more inclusive, ethical, and delicious. As a proud Palestinian American, Sam exemplifies the entrepreneurial spirit and civic dedication that Arab Americans have brought to San Francisco for generations. His work has not only enriched our city's culinary landscape, but also strengthened the social fabric of our communities. Sam, you are an extraordinary human being. Your basic kindness and decency are breathtaking, as are your accomplishments. So today, we honor you for your amazing contributions to San Francisco's food, culture, and community, and for being a great San Franciscan. And I have colleagues who also want to say nice things about you, so you can't speak yet. Supervisor Mahmoud.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Sam, I wanna thank you for for three things, in addition to what president Mandelmann said. One, By Right isn't just a grocery store, but it's a vision for how you think about equity within communities. And I've seen how you've collaborated with Booker T. Washington on food access, and that, has been really amazing to see in District 5. Second is, I've been not sure you're allowed to announce it yet, but your your new non profit grocery store, I think is a really brilliant model that I'm looking forward to seeing it take off. And, just shows how much you care about doing things differently, doing things equitably, and making sure that there are different models for food access. And you're doing it not for profit. So it's pretty amazing to see. And third is, as someone with a really bad sweet tooth, you have some of the best ice cream in the city. And, I hope you can get more of those throughout the cities as well. So thank you for everything.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, supervisor.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Fielder, a neighbor.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thanks, President Mandelmann. Indeed, as a neighbor, by right takes more of my money than I think my budget would would allow. But, I just wanted to to say that Sam exemplifies what it means to be a San Franciscan, and that the prosperity that you generate, you also dedicate yourself to sharing with the rest of San Franciscans. And that means a whole lot to a lot of people, not just myself, but a lot of people that, share that value as well in San Francisco. So thank you so much. It's been great to become, your friend, in this position, and I just appreciate you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Chair]: Thank you. It seems like I don't know if you remember, Sam. Like, we went way back in terms of, just how committed you are to the community. And that when Dolores Park, through my work at Regan Park, that there was a lot of challenges with broken glasses all over the park. And, when the department went to you and say, well, we know that where people are buying their beers and and champagne glasses and, and and wine and alcohol. And immediately, you're committed to making sure that the parts stay safe and that environmental friendly, and that you're committed to actually change your inventory to cans and and really think about, like, how do you contribute to the to the city and to your parks and open space and to families by really we know that it's a cost to doing the business. And yet, you were committed to do that. I know that on so many levels, you you did that. You make sure that you can open a soft serve, like, to a business, including soft serve that it's affordable to the neighborhood across the street, the Civic Center Plaza, when it first got going. Just all of that. Sam, thank you. And then, I don't think it's just the past generation, but the future generation of San Franciscans, really are lucky to have you, as one of us. Thank you.

[Sam Mogannam (Bi-Rite Market)]: Thank you, supervisor.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: So I hope that we've appropriately embarrassed you. Yeah. And now, the floor is yours.

[Sam Mogannam (Bi-Rite Market)]: Well, you know, I'm I'm super grateful to you all and honored, that that you've, made this, made the time for me and to recognize the work that not just I do, but my partner Calvin Tsai and, my entire team does. It's a it's a it's a collaborative effort, and, we wouldn't be able to do it without the support of, the entire city of San Francisco and all the communities that we, that we support and work with. You know, I'm I'm a native San Franciscan. I love this city. And and I I feel that businesses have a responsibility to, be partners, and to, be more than private enterprises, that they have a public purpose. And that purpose should be to uplift and to recognize those that, in in all of our communities that need love and need support. And, it's something that I learned from my father at a very young age that, anytime he, when I was working in the store with him, anytime that anyone that came into the store that was hungry, he would ask me to make a sandwich for them and feed them. And and that, I think, is, like, one thing one thing that every business, that does business in San Francisco, should understand that they have a responsibility beyond making a profit. And, I think that that's one of the things that that, has made Buy Right different, It has, I don't know, brought us here today. Anyway, so I'm I'm I'm I'm grateful. And, you know, Supervisor Mohamud, I'm I'm I'm excited about the the nonprofit grocery store too. I think, you know, we've made some great strides, forward in the in the last few weeks. I think we've got, the right support in order to be able to push it forward. Supervisor Walton, I look forward to talking to you about it soon. It's, it's slated to happen in the in the Sunnydale, across the street from the hub. And, I'm also, very excited to to see, what, and hopefully, mayoral candidate, mom Mamdani in New York City actually gets elected and and gets to realize his vision of creating, state owned, you know, publicly supported, grocery stores in each of the boroughs in Manhattan so that we can begin to see a model where good food is accessible to more people. Because every every citizen of this of this country deserves to be able to eat, every day. There are there are far too many people that are hungry, especially children. And it's it's incumbent upon all of us as leaders. Every single one of us is a leader to do our part in making sure that we feed people and take care of each other. Because we at the end of the day, we need each other in order to be able to get through everything that's coming at us every day. So I appreciate you all. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. And with that, I think we go to committee reports.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items forty one and forty two were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, July 7, and they were recommended as amended bearing new titles. For item 41, the amendment is to strike the word rejecting. It now reads motion to approve president Rafael Mandelmann's nomination for the appointment of Gail Starr, term ending 06/06/2029, to the enhanced infrastructure financing district, public financing authority number one. Similarly, item 42 strikes the word rejecting. It now reads motion to approve motion approving president Rafael Mandelmann's nomination for the appointment of Kath Sokolakis, term ending 06/06/2027 to the Enhanced Infrastructure Financing District public financing authority number one.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. I think we can take these items, same house, same call. Without objection, the motions are approved. And madam clerk, let's go to roll call.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: First member to introduce new business is supervisor Chan. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Chen. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Dorsey. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Angadio. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Fielder. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Monk Hood. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Mendelmann.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Submit. Thank you, supervisor Melgar. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Sauter.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Okay. I'm gonna interrupt that. What? I'm sorry. We almost made it. I promise it's for a good reason. So colleagues, today I am calling for a hearing on the current performance and future extension of the central subway. As you know, the central subway has been open since November 2022, and this followed more than two decades of planning and community advocacy, particularly from the Chinatown community. And I think it's now time to examine what is working, where we've fallen short, and what's next. So our hearing will seek to address the following. First, to examine the current performance of the central subway. We have a lot to learn from the many mistakes and delays in getting it open, of course. But I believe there's also promising numbers for us to highlight. For example, April and May of this year set consecutive records for highest ridership months ever. And 2025, the closure dates withstanding show a 15% year over year ridership growth on the line. Next, I expect our hearing to produce a set of specific short term improvements that SFMTA will commit to that will deliver concrete improvements to speed, reliability, and operations of the subway. We wanna learn more about the opportunities to speed up the train at bottlenecks throughout the system. For as quickly as the train moves underground, we've all been in that unfortunate situation when we are above ground and see pedestrians on the sidewalk walking faster than we move on the train. We also expect commitments on how the Chinatown Rose Pack Station will avoid continued breakdowns of its elevators and escalators that force seniors to climb hundreds of stairs. And we want details on when the empty retail kiosk in Union Square in Chinatown will open. Finally, our hearing should address the outlook and specific next steps for an extension of the central subway to North Beach and Fisherman's Wharf. We've already studied this extension for more than a decade. A 2014 city study showed a two station extension would likely boost ridership by 55%. We also know that this extension would compete favorably for federal funding when such funding is available to San Francisco again. Let's get ready now so we can make the case for how important this extension is, and we can win these funds in the near future. And let's remember, the central subway tunnel is already dug all the way to North Beach. Since 2014, for more than ten years now, an empty tunnel has been sitting under tens of thousands of residents in one of the country's densest neighborhoods. I call for this hearing with full awareness that we are in the midst of a financial crisis for our transit systems here in San Francisco and nationwide. We can and must keep our focus squarely on finding more sustainable funding, improving operations, and avoiding a looming fiscal cliff. But we also need to give our transit riders something to believe in. We must show that our system is always striving to be better and deliver world class transit service that we all deserve. This is what our voters and residents of San Francisco need if we are to pass future funding measures. And in this case, we must finally reach the full promise of the central subway project. Because delays and endless studies with no follow ups have consequences. Plenty of past mistakes have gotten us to the situation today, but we cannot allow our generation and this board to make those same mistakes. I was reminded of this recently when I read an op ed from Tommy, a 16 year old high school student at Jewish Community High School of the Bay who called for the extension in a wonderful op ed. And I'm reminded of this every time I look at my daughter, now three months old, and wonder how old she will be when she can ride the central subway as it was meant to be. It's not too much to ask for the densest neighborhoods in San Francisco with some of the lowest car ownership rates in the entire country to have access to a subway. I look forward to our hearing to show how we can finally deliver this. And the rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Sauter. Supervisor Sheryl? Submit. Submit. Thank you. And supervisor Walton? Submit. Submit. Thank you. Mister president, seeing no names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I realize I may have, shouted out, the wrong person. I said we have t d TV today. So if James Kawana is out there helping us, I wanna thank James Kawana. And with that, we can do fourteen minutes of public comment. So we are gonna do a first round of public comment. If we are not finished, we'll come back to it later.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister president. So if you'll line up on your right hand side of the chamber next to the curtains, Public comment, you are able to speak on the mayoral appearance. You're able to speak on whether or not the board should go into closed session on the PG and E litigation. That is item 45. And you can speak to items 46 through 50. Those are on the adoption without reference to committee. I'll repeat again. You may not speak to the budget items as those items have already had their public comment. And let's hear from our first speaker. Welcome, mister Fille.

[Unidentified public commenter]: So you look there. See? She wanted to come because two other brothers came. Last year was for touch was I mean, it's here. Yes. Okay. So the 5¢. So I see, I told you, Angela looks like you. I mean, you look like her a little bit. Look. Check it out. Yeah. I mean, apart from the hair, yeah, but look. We don't care. Anyway, it's all light here today. Okay? For the kids. See? Now she hears everything, so she heard. You don't wanna speak. Right? No. She doesn't wanna speak because first off, she doesn't speak English really well. No. Okay. So, anyway, she hears the truth. You know, she understands everything. So you can't hide. It doesn't work. So, sooner or later, you see, because the kids know too. They are they are this great. Beautiful, I should say. Puppets for the kids. So, anyway, I don't have anything much, I mean, more important to say today. I think it's important enough. What else? Oh, yeah. Everything matters. Remember this one. Everything matters. Everything. They're just an order of, you know, importance, I think. We agree here. We okay. Have a good day. You too, mayor. By the way, it's a lot of your resolutions you passed today. And I go, well, okay. Hang on, guys. Have a good day. And maybe I'll see you next week.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you. Can we hear from our next speaker, please? Welcome.

[Leah McGeever]: Hello. My name is Leah McGeever. I live in D 6. I am really confused about San Francisco's immigrant sanctuary status. I have been going over to ICE Court on a weekly basis, and fighting with ICE. There's like these clashes between ICE and people that don't want people abducted and deported to South Sudan, or some concentration camp in South America, or Alcatraz, or Alligator Alcatraz. The confrontations are getting more and more violent every time people are, like, being rammed into by these ICE vehicles. Someone is going to get hurt. Today, I was asking SFPD what their role is here because they stand by. They clear the road for ICE operations. They let the vans with the abducted people make sure they can go through the city. They say they're not facilitating an ICE operation. I tell you, it very much feels like, from my point of view, they are. So can you please do your job? Can you can you define what the sanctuary status actually is and then enforce it? You know, I'm really glad I have my wife, who is a transgender woman, because I just don't get mad on my own behalf anymore when these double standards are held for civility. How I'm supposed to talk to you after witnessing what I do earlier today with shit and ice and my people being abducted. You know, she still gets mad on my behalf. She gets mad at the double standards here. She gets mad that white men can call me a very offensive slur repeatedly, direct his comment at me while I'm sitting back here with the public, and that's not given as much recommendation as I am given for saying the f word. I just tell her it's a state of being trans in America. A trans Mexican American at the moment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Leah McGeever, for your comments. Can we hear from our next speaker, please? Welcome, miss Brown.

[Ms. Brown (public commenter)]: Come here. You're not doing anything. I'm gonna stand over here. Come here. You're not doing anything. I'm gonna stand over here. Come here, Amira. Amira. Okay. I'm here today with my grandchildren, Amina and Amira. They're twins. And I'm here to, you know, talk about their their their, uncle that passed away. Next month will be the I mean, August 14 will be the anniversary of his murder. And I've been coming to these chambers and the police commission for years. It'll be twenty years this year. And my two grandchildren are growing up without their uncle. I have 12 grandchildren that don't have an uncle to look up to. I ask that on the anniversary of his death that you that most of you would show up on Grove Street to represent unsolved homicides, to bring awareness to all the unsolved homicides, to help mothers like myself. I do appreciate that the new the the policy that that's been passed about ways to pay tipsters have been passed. I'm praying that the mayor come and sign that policy so that he can, you know, let the mothers know that he do care. So I'm praying that he will come and sign that policy with us and have us least at least stand with him. And I thank you, Matt Darcy, for for for doing this for us. And please don't stop working for us. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Alright. Let's hear from our next speaker.

[Jason Wyman]: Hello. My name is Jason Wyman. I have lived on the Corner Of 20th And Hampshire for over twenty years. In that course of the time, that's been District 6, District 10, and now District 9. And I wanna speak to what I heard is the priorities of San Francisco from the mayor today. What I heard was public safety, clean streets, and strong recovery. In my experience working in this city and in this town, it seems like those actually aren't the commitments currently, especially given the state of San Francisco. What seems to be the commitments of San Francisco are reneging on commitments and slashing budgets. Very specifically, the San Francisco Dreamkeeper Initiative funding. That was a commitment made by the city that it reneged on. It also seems to be a priority that we are privatizing everything. I just recently found out that we're gonna be charging for parking in Golden Gate Park. What are we doing? Do we not have any free resources

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: in this city? I'm positive. I'm positive. I'm positive.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I'll just

[Jason Wyman]: The third thing that I wanna talk about specifically. Yes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Pause your time. Just for a moment. Your time is paused. The budget matters that I read off earlier

[Jason Wyman]: I hear you. These are priorities of San Francisco, not just funding. Okay.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Just stay away from

[Jason Wyman]: these items.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you.

[Jason Wyman]: Of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I'll

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: begin your time.

[Jason Wyman]: Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Three seconds left.

[Jason Wyman]: The third priority that I keep hearing about is public safety. On July 4, I can tell you that right outside my home, there was a militarized police presence. They came down both sides of Hampshire Street and they came down 20th Street in formation with the pawns at their ready. They made threats to the community that was, setting off some fireworks right there on 20th that had been doing it for over twenty years. Again, I've lived there for over twenty years. It is a regular occurrence every single year. I've never seen SFPD in military formation marched down the street, issue commands, and tell my neighbors that if anyone were to lay hands on a police vehicle, they would be met with assault. That was stated by SFPD on July 4. That is not public safety. That is public terror, and that is public terror as we continue to see ICE show up in San Francisco. So again, it seems to me that the mayor's priorities are not actually they're rhetorical priorities. They are not actual priorities of the city of San Francisco, and it's really disappointing. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we're probably only gonna be able to take one or two more folks before our 3PM special order.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And then we'll come back later.

[Apple (single name provided)]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Apple. I'm a resident of District 7, and I'm speaking from lived experience over ten years, unhoused of the on the streets of San Francisco, struggling with substance use. I'm here to strongly oppose mayor the mayor's breaking the cycle initiative and the proposal to reallocate Prop c funds away from their original purpose. Prop c was passed by voters with a clear mandate to fund permanent housing, voluntary mental health services, and harm reduction, not involuntary treatment or clerical systems, redirecting 90,000,000 in unspent Prop c funds to breaking the cycle without meaningful community engagement.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Ma'am, I'm pausing your time. That matter is associated with the budget that, we have continued to next week. It has already had its public comment

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: fulfilled.

[Apple (single name provided)]: I can't I can't finish

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: my comment. If you wanna tell us about your experience, happy to take that. But don't talk about item 32 on the agenda. That's the prophecy that you were referring to.

[Apple (single name provided)]: Okay. I can speak from my own experience.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Left. I'll resume your time.

[Apple (single name provided)]: Thank you. While I can't speak for everybody because every crisis is different, I can speak from my experience. At 16 years old, I was forced into a locked mental health facility for nearly a year. It was traumatic. I was conserved, held against my will, and denied dignity and autonomy over my own life. It didn't break the cycle for me. It deepened it and spiraled me further into crisis, poverty, and addiction for years. If the cycle is jails, hospitals, and being back to the streets, I live that. What finally broke the cycle for me wasn't force. It was low barrier, voluntary care, and access to permanent housing. So please reject this reallocation. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: So if there are any other members of the public who are in line that expect to talk about item 32 or proposition c? That is not allowed. I will be re redirecting you as well. Welcome.

[Unidentified public commenter (Black community advocate)]: Thank you, board of supervisor members, today. I just wanna reiterate a quote that's said every time that we go through budget issues in this city is show me your budget, and I'll show you what you care about. And by that measure, San Francisco's values are loud and clear, and deeply disappointing for the black community. The largest divestment in this year's city budget has come at the direct expense of black San Franciscans. Programs created to uplift, stabilize, and empower communities, particularly in D 10 and D 5 have been quietly defunded or deprioritized. And the same residents who have had long carried the weight of the systemic inequality were excluded from meaningful budget conversations until after the decisions by this board had already been made as well as the mayor. This stands in direct contradiction to the public commitments made just a few years ago. Most of the members of this board of supervisors marched in the streets during the George Floyd Uprisings with many other community members. Many stood beside community, raised fists with us, and publicly pledged to reimagine public safety and invest in black communities. Those actions mattered, but they must be backed by policy, funding, and follow through. We are here today asking this board to uphold that promise. The black community demands the following actions, a citywide audit of the Dreamkeepers Initiative, and we call for a full and transparent audit allocated of out of every single dollar that has been allocated to every city department in the city since the program's launch, including how much was actually spent on the black communities and how much went to intermediaries, non black led organizations, and remained unspent. We also are requesting a full accounting of unpaid invoices owed to black led organizations, as well as a full rescinding and reissue of the current HRC RFP 100. We call for the immediate cancellation and reissuance of the RFP due to lack of clarity and transparency in the process, contradictory and discriminatory evaluation and language within the RFP, as well as a measurable reversal of that that that basically gives a measurable reversal of progress emerging for black

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: So I think we're we will come back to public comment after our 3PM special order. So we will resume public comment, but it will be in a bit of time. Madam Clerk, can you please call our 3PM special order?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. The board of supervisors will convene as a committee of the whole. This is scheduled pursuant to a resolution number two zero eight dash 25 adopted on 05/06/2025 for a public hearing of the board of supervisors, today to consider renewal and expansion of a property based business improvement district known as the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District. Item 40 is the resolution that establishes the property based business improvement district, again, known as the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District, to order the levy and collection of assessments against property located within the district for the next fifteen years commencing with fiscal year twenty twenty five, twenty six, subject to conditions as specified and to make the environmental findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. The purpose of this committee, the whole, is to hear testimony on the proposed levy of assessments on the property and business improvement district named Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District, pursuant to the board's resolution of intent intention adopted 05/06/2025. The resolution of intention to renew and expand this district scheduled today's hearing and also approved the management district plan, the engineer's report, each dated April 2025, in the form of ballots for the property owners. I am anticipating that at today's hearing, supervisor Chen will introduce proposed amendments to the management plan and engineer's report, each dated July 2025 and also included in your file. And I am also anticipating that the amendment itself will be detailed later by supervisor Chen. After the public hearing is closed and the amendment is considered, the Department of Elections will count all ballots submitted, including any additional ballots received during the business hearing to the business hearing today and submit the tabulation to the board. Members of the public may view the ballot tabulation by the department of elections on the Basement Level Of City Hall in Room 59. If the tabulation of the weighted ballot shows a majority protest, the board of supervisors will not approve the establishment of the district or impose the assessments. If there is not a majority protest, then the board may vote to establish the district and impose the assessments. A majority protest will exist if the weighted ballots submitted in opposition to the establishment of the assessment district exceed the weighted ballots submitted in favor of establishment of the assessment district. Ballots are weighted according to the proposed financial obligation of each affected property. And after the hearing closes, the ballots will be counted. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mendelmann. And I do have amendment that I'll I'm gonna introduce. My colleagues, today, I do really sincerely hope that you all will support the renewal of the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District. The OAA, has helped to make this commercial corridor a more thriving and beautiful space for both District 7 and District 11 residents. Through OAA's leadership, they have continued to add new murals, provide enhanced pressure washing and cleaning, and organize community events, and provide technical assistance to small business. Most recently, I have enjoyed the wine tasting event that and also a very popular Boba festival in Taofen, which, this year, we connected the Excelsior Corridor to Ocean Avenue business as well. During the hearing, I plan to introduce again the amendment to amend the community benefit districts boundaries. The amendment will also remove some noncommercial parcels at the end of the district. I also want to thank and also recognize the supervisor Melga's leadership and also her staff general for the hard work to move this forward to help out small business. And I also wanna thank the engineer and Jackie Hazelwood from OEWD for their continued partnership and collaboration. And I appreciate, the work both of you have done to get the amendments in time for today's hearing. I really appreciate, Jackie has always made herself available, and also to work with my my staff, Lin Shaoxing. Thank you, Jackie. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Chen. Supervisor Melgar?

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you so much, president Mandelmann. I also wanna thank, the staff, particularly Jackie Hazelwood from OEWD for her diligence and attention. I wanna recognize, the work, the great work of former supervisor John Avalos, and also supervisor Ellsburn, who, got this to where it needed to be originally. And as supervisor Chen and I have worked together over the last six months, I have to recognize how important it is to have this interdistrict collaboration for a commercial corridor such as Ocean Avenue, which serves both districts. I cannot express how important this community benefits district has been to our merchant corridor, to our to my constituents, and supervisor Chen's constituents. I know that, she will be introducing some amendments, which I, wholeheartedly support. Over the course of the life of this community benefit distance, the change on Ocean Avenue has been noticeable. I have lived in this community for about fifteen years. And since the b CBD's, inception, I can see it. There's regular sweeping, graffiti removal, street washing, and the very friendly presence of our corridor ambassador, Roland, who always has a smile and is there to greet neighbors. And then the little touches, like the flower baskets that are hanging, the new murals, the friendly faces on the street. As we expand the services under this renewal, I know that the CBD will need to strengthen its own capacity. We will be there to support you, and to make sure that it is a functioning organization, that thrives and is connected to the community, and addresses the diversity of the many businesses in this corridor. It's what makes our community so wonderful. It has been a journey to get to this place today. I feel confident that the next chapter of the Ocean Avenue Association, will be bright. I especially wanna thank executive director Christian Martin and Rosendo as well. Thank you for all the work that you do. Thank you for taking this organization in a positive direction. I will vote, today. Also, because we're proposing to expand the CBD further into District 7, covering Lakeside Village, which is the other side of Ocean Avenue. Lakeside Village is on the upswing because of the visionary support from community leaders and neighbors. And I would particularly wanna shout out to Kath Sakalakis, who we actually just voted into the EIFD committee, and the friends of Lakeside Village, who want to revive this often forgotten part of the commercial corridor. So I'm looking forward to seeing it be a part of the CBD, strengthening Ocean Avenue, getting all those good neighbors' energy into what we're trying to do. I hope, colleagues, that we can support this effort today and continue all of the good work, that has been done by this organization and the staff in Districts 11 And 7. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Melgar. I believe that we have presentations. Yes. Come on up.

[Jackie Hazelwood, CBD Program Director (OEWD)]: Thank you very much, supervisors. My name is Jackie Hazelwood. I'm the Community Benefit District Program Director with the Office of Economic and Workforce Development. I'm part of the team that oversees and administers the Community Benefit District Program on behalf of OEWD. So I'm joined here today by Casey O'Hollick from our CBD team at OEWD. As stated in the resolution itself, this is a renewal and expansion of the existing Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District, also known as the Ocean Avenue Association. As touched upon in supervisor Chen's opening remarks, there will also be a forthcoming amendment, from the supervisor that would exclude 54 parcels from the initially proposed boundaries. I'll soon introduce Christian Martin, Executive Director of the Ocean Avenue Association, but before I do, I wanna acknowledge and thank several people. A massive thank you to supervisor Melgar for her ongoing support of the organization, for the efforts with renewal and and beyond and before. Thank you also to your staff. Thank you particularly to Jen Lo, and thank you also to supervisor Chen. Thank you to your staff, Lynn Shaochin. Thank you for all your support and working to to get to a resolution here. I'd also like to commend Executive Director Christian Martin, his staff, and OAA's Board of Directors for their ongoing efforts throughout this campaign. It's certainly been a marathon and not a sprint. Christian and his team's meaningful work on this renewal lays the groundwork for continued success as the organization looks ahead to the possibility of continuing their work for another fifteen years. As a part of this renewal, the Ocean Avenue Association is proposing to expand its boundaries to include the Lakeside Village commercial corridor. Leading this expansion to the Lakeside Village is Kath Sakalakis, cofounder of Friends of Lakeside Village, a nonprofit formalized in 2020, but working for years even before that to ensure their commercial corridor is clean and vibrant. CATH's ability to connect everyone connect with everyone from property owners to merchants to residents has been essential in bringing Lakeside Village, into the conversation here. So thank you, CATH. Lastly, this process could not be completed without various city departments and staff. In particular, I'd like to thank Chris Corgus and Casey O'Hollick from OOWD, staff from the clerk's office, in particular, Alisa Samara, John Carroll, Monique Creighton, also deputy city attorney Manu Pradhan, and, from the Department of Elections, Alice Law and Priscilla Tov. So now, I'm gonna go ahead and introduce, Christian Martin, the executive director of Ocean Avenue Association, to provide a little bit more detail on the renewal and expansion and services that are gonna be a part of that. We're just gonna get the presentation set up. Thank you.

[Christian Martin, Executive Director, Ocean Avenue Association]: Good afternoon, supervisors. It's good to see many of you. Thank you all for the opportunity to present. I'd like to echo, many of, Jackie's thanks to supervisor Melgar, supervisor Chen, and staff for all the support, over the last couple of years. We certainly wouldn't be here without you. And, you know, we we aim to, keep the the community thriving and moving forward. So couldn't do it without you. Appreciate you. I wanna talk a little bit about where we have been and where we're going with this renewal. And I will start with a little history about the OAA, established in 2010, and to do cleaning, maintenance, and, business support on the corridor. And, I started in 2020, '3, following the strategic plan that the organization enacted, in order to, improve our, our board relations and our community relations, as well as our operations. So, following the, spring audit, we addressed, all of the findings, getting our fiscal house in order, putting best practices in for accounts payable and receivable, and, increasing transparency and openness in our, operating, procedures. And, I'm happy to report that that audit, was closed in 2024 and we addressed all 19 findings, which enabled us to focus, more on the the fun stuff, which is a dizzying array of community events, beautification projects, and enhanced cleaning and maintenance program that provides daily sweeping, weekly pressure washing, landscaping, other beautification projects on the corridor that makes the, the avenue feel clean and cared for day in and day out. So by the numbers, we completed 43,547 tasks along the main Ocean Avenue corridor, not counting Lakeside Village. This has been done predominantly by our one full time ambassador, Roland, who supervisor Melgar shouted out earlier. He's the real MVP here day in, day day out doing the the dirty work. And then most recently, we adopted the Lakeside Village corridor, completing 2,650 tasks along Lakeside Village, funded by a grant that allows for Roland to go down there three days a week. In addition, that work collected about 62,025 pounds of trash, which, is anything from, you know, litter to trash that fill out a waste receptacles, recology cans, things left behind by the unhoused community, you name it, feces, needles, all the hazardous waste as well. So that's mixed in with all of that. We have a small team of landscapers that comes out once a week doing light weeding, tree well cleanup, using three one one, cutting low hanging trees, collecting litter as well, filling up trash bags, planting trees, and and sweeping up any leaves or debris that may have accumulated. So we've done over, almost 2,000 landscaping tasks between Ocean Avenue and Lakeside Village over the past couple years. Moving on to community events, we've promoted, sponsored, or participated in several events, cultural celebrations, networking events, wine walks, an awesome boba festival, business networking events, art shows, and youth events. We also opened our office at 1720 Ocean Avenue, which has been the epicenter of community activity. So we've done, fitness seminars, wellness days, obviously hosting our, community meetings and board meetings there. It also serves as a part time art gallery and event space. So thanks to Rosendo and Gabe for keeping that space active and community serving. And then finally, through Rosendo's work with the CPDG grant, we've done a number of advocacy and business support activities, including providing information and assistance on grants and tax credits, technical business support, and promotions.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: So I'm

[Christian Martin, Executive Director, Ocean Avenue Association]: gonna talk a little bit about our current budget, which is, from the assessment about $378,000 but we supplement that with grants and earned income. But it is a shoestring budget, and it's remarkable what we've been able to do. But we're talking about expanding that and including the Lakeside Village portion. So the next slide will show what we're proposing on the ballot, and then I'll talk a little bit about supervisor Chen's amendment. So our current budget proposed excuse me. Proposed budget and service area would give us a total budget of about 500, thousand dollars. And, with supervisor Chen's amendment, in the next slide, you'll see a little bite taken out of the Geneva area, which, is about 40 or so parcels. And that would bring our, budget down to $460,000, which we are prepared to work with. So looking ahead, what we are proposing is expand expanding the district to Lakeside Village, expanding a little bit our ambassador service coverage to do a little bit more cleaning and maintenance and continuing our business support with one full time ambassador and two full time employees doing the office type of work. So with that, I am happy to take any questions. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you. I do not see any questions, so it may be time for us to go to public comment. Madam Clerk, let's open a public comment for the hearing. Every speaker will be allotted two minutes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Let's hear from our first speaker.

[Unidentified Ocean Avenue resident]: So I live in that area.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Can you grab that microphone and speak directly into it?

[Unidentified Ocean Avenue resident]: Okay. At first, I'm here. Sorry. Nice to see you, everyone. I live in 18 Dorado Terrace for from 2011. First of all, I see that Ocean Avenue BCD doing nice job. I see changes. It's really nice. So I stop by my office, talk to Ronald. So I'm kind of around that area and walk a lot with my dog. What I want to mention another part, somehow I am represented kind of representative of about 30 residential houses that not on Ocean Avenue. Somehow we were included into businesses And assessment assessment, what will go to businesses also somehow will go to just a few residential properties. When I see in the in my window, I see other houses that not included, but even they are closer to Ocean Avenue than my house. So I'm ready to pay fair assessment, but I cannot understand why just limited number of houses, residential houses included and other not included. So it should be extended who will pay assessment or should be our houses be excluded. So here's my point.

[Mary Vic Bure]: It's the company.

[Unidentified Ocean Avenue resident]: Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comment. Can we hear from our next speaker, please?

[Geraldine Anderson]: Good afternoon, elected members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. My name is Geraldine Anderson. I'm a dedicated veteran city and county employee for over thirty six years of service. I'm the author of two emails written to chairwoman of the Budget and Finance Committee, Supervisor Chan, and the shared email to Mayor Lurie and the rest of the board. I respectfully come before you today on behalf of the most senior staff, 42 employees to be exact, of the San Francisco Superior Court, whose employment, tenure, and retirement benefits are monitored.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Ma'am, I'm gonna pause your time. This is not general public comment for all of you who are standing in line. This is a public hearing for the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District renewal and expansion

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[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Only. Great. Thank you so much. We will return to public comment for general public comment at the end of, later on in this afternoon. Let's hear from our next speaker. Welcome.

[Kate Favetti]: Good afternoon, board. This my name is Kate Favetti. I have, lived in the broader OMI area for the entire most of my life, almost the entire part of my life. I am an interested member of the community, and not and also very active in the community. I am here to speak strongly in favor of the renewal. Ocean Avenue is not just a commercial corridor. It is that entity that knits our very diverse communities together. And as the Ocean Avenue Association has brought forth, not only cleaning and graffiti removal and the infrastructure type things, But it's the community building that, again, accentuates that, bringing our diverse communities together. What is also very important about having the Ocean Avenue Association and the renewal is that it is governed by the public laws, the Brown Act, which guarantees the fact that the public has the right to address the the board, and to be able to speak as to how the money is going to be spent. And so it guarantees that public involvement, which is so very important. So again, speaking as somebody who was on the steering committee, granted from for the formation of the CBD back in early two thousands, but also, we're an interested member that is of the community that is active, but also to urge you to enthusiastically vote in pro in in favor of the renewal. Thank you very much for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, madam president, civil service commission president. Thank you for your comments.

[Kate Favetti]: For identification purposes only.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Of

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: course. Of course. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Unidentified public commenter (Black community advocate)]: Hello, board. I'm speaking again on behalf of small businesses to the city in support of the Ocean CBD. I've seen the work of Chris Martin when he worked at Soma CBD and supported a lot of small businesses during the COVID pandemic, especially on Folsom Street, and the work that they did to keep those clean streets clean, their responsiveness from small businesses when there was feces and needles on the floor, as well as power washing streets that had urine in them. We called them as early as six in the morning sometimes, and they got out there on Sunday mornings to make sure that the businesses that were shuttered were able to open up and have our block party, street closures, and so forth. And so I just wanna say that I strongly support, this item, before to reissue and extend the district's corridor to be able to also support the Lakeshore Village. As a previous alumni of Lowell associate of Lowell High School, we used to go to that shopping center a lot, the which was back in the day as lucky as I'm dating myself, but, and Arby's over there. So I really think that, as much that the city and the board of supervisor can do to support small businesses along the corridor, especially with making sure the areas are clean so that people can conduct business and get in their offices is great. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's hear from our next speaker.

[Salah Haqueer Chandler]: My name is Sala Haqueer Chandler, and I'm definitely in support of this item. Unfortunately, I feel he was asking too little. You know, all of the millions and millions of dollars that have been spent in this city in regards to things that have been evil and corruption. I think, unfortunately, if it wasn't such a low price, he probably would have been denied. We have seen this all over, and it's time for us to hold the city accountable in regards to when it comes to the black nation, they cannot even ask fully what they need to start their businesses. So once again, I am in agreeance to this item. Thank you very much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Next speaker.

[Aronde Sterling]: Hi. My name is Aronde Sterling. I'm a resident of D Eleven, also a community activist in D Ten as well too. I have a small business, Sterling Builders, doing business with Sterling Framers. I'm in support of the Ocean Avenue, community benefits. I've been over there my whole life. But one thing I do want to say on record is that make sure that we are that you guys are reaching out to the community, small businesses as well to do those projects or whatever projects that you guys have over there. And also to reach out to the community for community employment as well too. So that's, thank you for your time.

[Ms. Brown (public commenter)]: That's right.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Alright. Let's hear from our next speaker. Welcome.

[Carmen Baysac (spelling uncertain)]: Good afternoon to everyone. I'm a a Carmen Beysak, a property owner in Ocean Avenue. I'm just wondering because, this year, my assessment was, 1,895. And, I'm just wondering how come that big. It's more than one third of my property tax. And if you if maybe the presentation is really good, but if you went to from 1,300 down, the trees are dying. Nobody's maintaining it. And I want to know the services provided, accomplishment made, and was was it maintained? In my area, you can see all the trees dying, and no nobody's even the street, they said that they they they power was the sidewalk. That one is not is not done in our street. That's all.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. I'm going to ask Jackie Hazelwood just to meet with the resident and answer some of her questions for her. Thank you. Let's hear from our next speaker.

[Denise Burns]: Hi. My name is Denise Burns, and I'm a resident of Lakeside Village, and I'm one of the co founders of the Lakeside Village nonprofit. I'm here to speak in support of joining the Ocean Avenue Association. Since 2020 volunteers like me have been doing heavy lifting to improve the commercial corridor on Ancient Ocean Avenue in Lakeside Village. One of our top priorities was and still is to support the small local businesses. We organized frequent litter pickups. We fundraised to have murals painted, to have market lights installed on the sidewalks, and to beautify and add plants in every bit of empty dirt that was available. We just wanted wanted lots of greenery. So all this hard work was done to improve the appeal and the safety of the area for businesses and for their customers. In 2023, we started to work with the OAA and wow, what a difference. Like everyone has said, the power washing, they pulled weeds, they picked up litter and they even helped when some of the vacant, storefronts had their windows smashed or their doors smashed. So positive feedback across the board. Sadly we had to cancel that, relationship, the services with OIA because of the SF park Alliance and the fact that they've been shut down. So as a result, the quarter is beginning to look, messy again, trash cans overfilled, the things left on the sidewalk. You know, we miss Roland, we miss the, you know, we miss the team. It is impossible for volunteers like us to raise the the funds to maintain the commercial quarter in a vibrant and clean fashion. The best path forward is for Lakeside Village to become a part of OAA. So I ask and I hope that the property owners will vote in favor of it and that you all will vote to extend it, expand it, and renew it. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's hear from our next speaker. Welcome.

[Deborah Mitchell]: Hello, supervisors. My name is Deborah Mitchell, and I guess I represent the much beleaguered property owners of Ocean Avenue. And I wanted to explain why I am very much in favor of joining the association. It's certainly not news that the failures of our society are on the streets around us all, and we need more help directly on the streets, and this is what it's providing. As a property owner, I have cleaned up feces. I've had to wake unhoused people in the morning. I mean, I try not to wake them actually. I try to wait till they wake up. But still, having people there first thing in the morning is a huge help. It's more than any of us can do individually. And we just need to pay for this to get it done. It's our streets. It's our homes. It's our businesses. It's our city. Thank you for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Randi Swindell]: Hi. Thank you. My name is Randi Swindell, and I'm here to support the Ocean Avenue Association and the extension to Lakeside Village. I'm a board member of Unity Spiritual Center. We're the property owner at the corner of 19th Avenue, and Ocean. We're that cute little turquoise church. And the Ocean Avenue Association provides important services to help clean up litter, grime, and worse, from our sidewalks, doorways, and gardens. We need OAA's help to maintain and weed the sidewalks. Gardens replace plants when they die. We've got a dying tree next to our property, and we just don't have enough volunteers to be able to do that kind of work ourselves. And we do have an active volunteer community, but it's just it's not adequate. We really appreciate the marketing and promotion that is done through newsletters, social media, events, and other activities in Lakeside Village. We want to be part of OAA because this will benefit our church and our entire community. And I have to say, I've been there about four years, and when I got there, it was a windswept gray, just bleak landscape, and now it is vibrant and colorful and clean and just an exciting place to be. So, let's vote yes, and thank you so much for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Kath Sakalakis]: Thank you. My name is Kath Sakalakis. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. I'm here to speak in support of the Ocean Avenue Association. After we started the business council in 2021, we did a survey of the small businesses. And the number one priorities were clean, safe, brightly lit streets with higher footfall of customers and fewer empty buildings. So no surprises there. While it was quite easy, Denise spoke to the work we did to apply for grants as volunteers. It was quite easy to find grants for new shiny objects like murals or a stage in a little community park we call Lakeside Landing. It was really hard to raise the money for basic cleaning services. In fact, it took us two years. So I'm really happy to hear the people that have noticed the difference. July 2023, OAA started. And since the Parks Alliance implosion, we really miss them. So I wanted, also to mention that OAA were the best value. When we got our grant, we we went out and got quotes, and they were twice the quality, twice the frequency for half the price. So I really feel like this is a a good value for the property owners. And I want to read a couple of quotes from people who couldn't be here who are property and business owners. One of our property owners said, we want to be part of the OAA because this will benefit our business as well as the entire commercial corridor. And many others, I won't read them all, highlighted here. So, volunteers, as Denise said, we still organize monthly cleanups because the kids love to do their community service, but we can't possibly keep on top of a busy commercial corridor. So we urge you to vote yes for clean, safe, vibrant street, and we hope that the expansion will be approved. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Howard Chung]: Good afternoon, board of supervisors. My name is Howard Chung. I'm a lifelong San Francisco resident, and a commercial property owner. I own the property at Faxon And Ocean Avenue in San Francisco. I've also been a member of the board of directors of the Ocean Avenue Association since its inception. So as a property owner and investor, I I look very simply at the amount of the assessment versus the value add that, the OAA brings. And I can say wholeheartedly that I've always supported and support the expansion and renewal of the Ocean Avenue Association. The OAA cleans sidewalks, picks up trash. In short, the quarters is just a lot cleaner. Secondly, there's a constant safety and community presence with the OAA that translates to what I believe to be less crime and partnership with SFPD and the perception of less crime. The OAA is also a driver of economic vitality and business support. They've supported a number of great events, including the art pop up series, wine tasting at various Ocean Avenue businesses, and live music events. And also the OAA supports and holds business assistance programs and especially advocates for Chinese American owned businesses in the area. I think the OAA is the, I think, the smallest CBD, but yet it really punches above its weight, in terms of getting grants, giving business assistance, and shaping public policy for the area. So I invite each of the members of the board of supervisors to come to Ocean Avenue and check out the businesses that we have there. Thank you very much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Henry Kivane]: Good aft good afternoon to the board of supervisors. My name is Henry Kivane. I am a resident of Westwood Park, which is adjacent to the Ocean Avenue corridor. I have been a member of the board of directors of the Ocean Avenue Association since it was founded in 2010. And I'm not here to repeat all the things you've heard about the services that the CBD provides using the assessment dollars. I wanna instead call your attention to another aspect of this wonderful organization, and that is the Ocean Avenue Association itself, which is all volunteer, neighborhood based, community driven. And supervisor Melgar, you earlier had thanked supervisor Avalos for all the work he did to found this CBD. He did it with the inspiration and the help of our legendary community activist, Dan Weaver. And I just wanna acknowledge and recognize the spirit of Dan Weaver and all that he stood for in making this organization possible lives on. We still are a voice of the neighborhood. We still hope to work with the city to improve the neighborhood. We're here to listen. We're here to convey neighborhood feelings back to the city, and that is as important as the use of the assessment dollars to clean, beautify, and improve the safety of the corridor. So thank you very much for your attention.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. And we will welcome the next speaker. Are there any other members of the public who would like to address the board during the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District public hearing? Alright. This will be our last speaker. Welcome.

[Tiffany Zeng]: Hi, everyone. My name is Tiffany Zeng, and I am a property owner, business owner, and a board director of OAA. And I'm here to strong, to urge everyone and my send my strong support to renewing the Ocean Avenue Association. Over the years, OAA have been playing the key role in keeping our corridor safe, vibrant, and thriving. And this renewal isn't just important, it is necessary for continued well-being for our neighborhood. And with the renewal, AIA can con OAA can continue support public safety through our partnership with the cities. And also, with the renewal, OA will help small business, you know, like mine, survive and grow with resource, technical support, and funding support as well. And most importantly, serving as a strong unit voice of Ocean Avenue when we speak to the city and advocates for our community is a real need. OAA is more than just a organization. It is a force for connection, advocacy, and part progress. I hope everyone will stand with us in supporting this renewal, and we can keep the building better and safe the better safety for Ocean Avenue and, for the neighbors. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Alright, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Seeing no other speakers, public comment.

[Unidentified public commenter (CBD opponent)]: Yeah. I'd like to speak. The board of supervisors are gonna handle all these enormous figures. Those figures are not the truth. The truth is that that commercial district of Ocean Avenue has, from Frida Kahlo Street to El Rey, 15 vacant businesses that have and two of them, one is a 15,000 square foot business. The other one is at least 10,000. And their Walgreens has left. Business are leaving. And they're leaving because not just the assessment. The assessment is something piled onto excessive taxes, business tax, property taxes. You have to be realistic. You can't do business in a city that constantly drains the economic vitality through what they call non profits. These are not non profits. They are created to create jobs for highly educated, very clever people, and send out a few people to clean the streets, bag the bags outside. And then then public works comes along with their army of employees and picks up all the garbage. This is a boondoggle. If you want to help lower the taxes, restrict the assessments that they're paying, and restrict the years that they want. And the idea that Lakeside Village is gonna become part of this is an absolute absurdity. Lakeside Village is divided by Juniper Serra, a very large very large difficult street to get across. They're two separate entities. Thank you very much. I mean, I could go on, but I hear that buzzer. That must mean my time is up. Right? Thank you very much. Please, con think about what I said. You have the opportunity to really help by lowering taxes, lowering assessments, and lowering the years that this nonprofit has been Thank

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: you for your

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: comments.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mister Duffy, are you here to speak on the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District? Okay. Welcome.

[Mr. Duffy (public commenter)]: I just can't see it ending on that note, public comment. I live in a neighborhood a few blocks away from here. And, I I think it's just wonderful people are trying to keep up the quality of life in their neighborhoods. And I I think it's kind of odd that, the funding for the quality of life in my neighborhood is under attack right now. The other thing I would say is that if we're gonna have such large adult people talking here, maybe there could be an extension for the for the microphone for the larger people.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister Duffy. Are there any other members of the public who'd like to address the board on the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District? Please come forward, sir.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: Yeah. Can I have the chance?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Please proceed.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: Good afternoon. Good leaders.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Good afternoon.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: Everyone. Good afternoon.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: This is for the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District. Welcome.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: I cannot speak very well. I'm near the box.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: It's okay. We'll listen. I'm setting the timer for two minutes.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: I just want to know who's assigned to clean the street, public works or the association of ocean? Because I work I I asked this guy, worker. I asked him why don't you clean up also around the tree?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Because Can you use the microphone, sir? Speak into the microphone.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: The leaves are everywhere. You just pick up McDonald thing and all about the the trees' leaves. It's accumulated there on the street, Ocean and, Granada.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Sir, can you use the microphone? Speak into the microphone, please. Thank you.

[Unidentified public commenter (Ocean/Granada area)]: And I'm the one sweeping around my building. I think they're skipping it. The the they're doing a good job. Some others are doing a good job, but I talked to that guy and another guy. They said that's public works. What uniform they have? I said no no sign of public works or association uniform. It's the yellow. Yes. I said yellow. And, that's that's not that's not public works, job. And then I talked to the same guy again one time, and he said, he he he works for the union. He's a union guy. So it's it depends, I think, who is assigned or clean the street. So that's the problem. I don't want to lose the I don't want that guy to lose his job if he's but I just want to say something about because I'm cleaning my own area, and I caught COVID three times already by the stripping.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comment, sir. Jackie Hazelwood, are you still in the chamber? Can you answer his question, please? Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you for your comments. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you for your comments.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Sir, you're you're you're you're done. Your comment is over. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Alright. Any other speakers to address the board on the in Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District? Alright. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Thank you, madam clerk. Seeing no other speakers, public comment is now closed. Supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I am just a big believer in community benefit districts, and I'm blessed to represent a district that has some excellent CBDs. So this is gonna be an easy call for me, but I didn't wanna let the moment pass to add that I'm also a big believer in Christian Martin, with whom I've had the chance to work as a mid market resident. Before I joined the board, back when he was running the Selma West CBD, so the Ocean Avenue Association has an extraordinarily conscientious and accomplished leader in Christian. You're lucky to have him. I want to express my thanks to supervisor Melgar and Chen for their hard work and leadership on this, and I'm happy to support it. Right.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Dorsey. Seeing no other names on the roster, the hearing has been held and is now filed. Now I believe that supervisor Chen was going to make an propose an amendment.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Okay. Thank you, president Mandelmann, again. I am introducing amendments to the resolution to establish the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District. The proposed amendments update the management plan and engineer's report as of July 2025. Extra copies of this amended plans are available today for the public to review and public comments. So it's welcome during the testimony portion of today's hearing. The proposed amendments, including a reduction to the original proposed boundaries as of April 2025. It will remove 54 noncommercial parcels located along the southern and northern side of Geneva Avenue between Ocean between Ocean Avenue and the I 280 off ramp. The total number of parcels in the proposed district will be reduced from 339 to 285 parcels. These 54 parcels represent $44,491.27 in assessment revenues. With this reduction, the amended assessment total will be $435,088.36. The parcels being removed are noncommercial in use and are located at the edge of the district. Their removal will not affect the services delivered to the rest of the district. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Chen. So there's a motion, and it has been seconded by supervisor Melgar. And I believe we can take those amendments without objection. So without objection, the amendments are approved. The ballots will now be tabulated, and we will return to item 40 after the Department of Elections reports the results. Members may provide additional comment at that time before we consider the resolution to establish. And madam clerk, with that, I think we go back to public to general public comment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Alright. The public who are here for general public comment, please line up on your right hand side of the chamber. I will just caution you, do not speak about proposition c. Don't talk about the budget items, which have been continued to, June 5 July 15, but you may speak about your experience. Welcome. We're setting the timer for two minutes.

[Alicia Rochelle]: Good afternoon. I'm Alicia Rochelle. I am an American. Americans are citizens of The United States Of America. Federal law does not equate nationality with race or ethnicity, but rather with citizenship. The majority of Americans or their ancestors immigrated to The United States or are descendants from people who are brought as slaves within the past five centuries with the ex exception of the Native American population. So the adjective disenfranchised describes a person or group of people who are stripped of their power, like disenfranchised post civil war African Americans who were deprived of their right to vote even after being freed from save slavery. Being disenfranchised is no fun. The rules work against you. Your rights are constantly violated, and you have little power to change your life for the better. The old French word, enfranchir, means to make free. And when you add the negative prefix dis, disenfranchised, means made unfree. A disenfranchised population doesn't rest easy. And often, they organize and fight back against their condition to demand their basic rights and freedom. That's all we want, our basic rights and freedom. We are also San Franciscans. Love on your San Franciscans. I'm not feeling the love. As a black woman, as an African American woman, as an American, this is where I'm choosing to live. Make me feel comfortable here. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Sir, I did you already provide general public comment? No?

[Aronde Sterling]: Not on this. No.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. Alright. Well, welcome.

[Aronde Sterling]: Thank you. Appreciate you. Good good afternoon, board, supervisors, chair. My name again, my name is Aronde Sterling. And I'm a proud member of San Francisco's black business community and San Francisco black community. I'm here to urge this board to continue investing in black communities because the need is urgent and the impact is real. For decades, black neighborhoods have been systematically underfunded while our businesses fight for survival with limited access to capital, contracts, and opportunities. We're not asking for favors. We're asking for fair investment in communities that have given so much to this city. When we fund black owned businesses, we're not just supporting entrepreneurs. We're creating jobs, preserving culture, stabilizing families, and building long term wealth in the neighborhoods that need it that need it most. Equity is not achieved with statements, it's achieved with budgets. And I want to close with this. We do not want to roll back the hard won gains that were made. Those investments saved lives, created jobs, and brought dignity to communities that had long been denied it. To abandon them now is to walk away from the commitments made during the city's so called racial reckoning. Budgets are moral documents. They reveal what and who we truly value. We urge this board to prove that your promises were more than symbolic. Uplift the black community, deliver on equity, and do what's right. Thank you.

[Salah Haqueer Chandler]: Go ahead, Spear. Go ahead.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments.

[Salah Haqueer Chandler]: Salahakweya Chandler, once again. And I'm really kinda confused concerning the proposition two zero nine that states that no community can receive funding in the name of a race. It's it's it's interesting to me that the sanctuary city was able to receive millions and millions of dollars. The Asian community was able to receive money in the name of Asian hate. I'm really confused. Here are the APA, which is the Asian Pacific. They have the Asian Family Support Service, Asian Heritage Foundation, Asian Cultural Center, Asian Legal Outreach, Asian Inc, Asian Law Caucus, Asian Pacific American Community Center, Be Chinatown, Bright Line Defense Project, Center for Asian American Media, Charity Cultural Services, Chinatown Community Children's Center, Chinatown Community Development, Chinatown MCA, YMCA, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Chinese for Affirmative Action, Chinese Historical Society of America, Chinese Newcomer Service Center, Chinese Progressives Association, Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative, Coalition for Community Safety and Justice, on and on and on and on. What's going on around here? What is the deception going on around here that you take 60,000,000 that was supposed to be for the black community and give it to everybody who's not working with the black community, who we don't know who they are. The evil and the wickedness that you're doing. Avenge is mine, sayeth Yeah, Elohim, and you're gonna reap what you sow. I'm just here to warn every one of you. The deceitfulness that you have been playing all these years is now coming back to haunt you. The blacks ain't never asked for much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Sala. Thank you for your comments. Let's hear from our next speaker. Thank you, Sala. Thank you, Sala. Welcome, mister Klein.

[Chris Ward Klein]: Put a hand out.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: K. We'll come and collect that from you.

[Chris Ward Klein]: Good afternoon, board of supervisors. For the record, my name is Chris Ward Klein. I also go by Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps. So I'm handing out a surveillance overview. For the next couple weeks, couple months, this is going to be the number one topic that everyone in this room is going to be dealing with. Kind of broke it down, name variations, digital surveillance, health surveillance, gang surveillance, prison surveillance, and so on and so on. The CDC acceptable guidelines for surveillance is brief and not long lasting, and not to impede a person's financial, education, and or intellectual property. There's issues with synergy and stacking of surveillances. An example of stacking is I I was born in Pennsylvania, so Penn State thinks that they own my health care. I grew up in Maryland. American University, University of Maryland thinks they own my health care. I moved to San Francisco, worked in LA, UCSF, UCLA. They think they own my health care. So I have, like, nine or 10 competing health cares, and that creates a stacking. So when somebody wants to do an interview or a questionnaire at night, there's no time. So at 01:00, they come in with their interview, and it keeps people up. Some people, to get over that, they want to get up and have a drink, or maybe they do drugs or whatever to deal with that. That creates overdoses and suicides. So again, this is just a a hand up, but we're recommending that the department heads convene an emergency meeting to determine appropriate hierarchy of surveillance, needed necessity of a person's health care over other existing issues, court orders, good of public health, safety with respect to a person's privacy, and to eliminate excessive noise from third parties such as other cities, counties, states, universities, and foreign governments, both friendly and adversaries. And my contact information is there for additional information if you need assistance. We have to get through this. We have to do a better job of eliminating the noise and external surveillances from other areas, other cities, universities, and, foreign countries. Thank you.

[Mary Vic Bure]: Thank you for your comments. Next speaker.

[Stephanie Pinkham]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Stephanie Pinkham. I'm a fifth generation San Franciscan, and I have rented my current home for the past twenty years. I'm here today to ask, what is the point of a restraining order if no one will enforce it? I have both a civil harassment restraining order and a criminal protective order against my neighbor, Preston Marks. He violates them daily, entering restricted areas, threatening me, stalking me, and relentlessly harassing me and my dogs. I report these violations, but SFPD refuses to arrest them. I've been told restraining orders are just civil matters, that officers have more important things to do, that they're short staffed or busy, and that unless there's grave bodily injury, they won't arrest. It's clear many officers view these violations as a distraction from real crimes. Even worse, many officers don't know how to read restraining orders. I've had to point out key terms only to be told the court issued forms are unclear. Officers also don't seem to understand the controlling priority of the CPO. On multiple occasions, officers have told me to go back to court and get a better order. But when I go to court, I'm told the police are not doing their job. This is an impossible situation as a victim. Officers say their job is to deescalate, but that doesn't protect victims. Accountability does. This isn't just about me. Court records show multiple additional restraining orders along with pending civil and criminal matters regarding mister Marks. This is not a private conflict. It's a public safety failure playing out in real time in a city that claims to protect tenants and vulnerable residents. As the city's legislative leadership, you are all responsible for public safety, and this is what it looks like when that promise breaks down, a resident standing before you, begging for action, begging for begging for police and prosecutors to be given the mandate, the training, the staffing, and the financial resources to enforce court orders so that I and others like me do not have to live in constant fear.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments.

[Unidentified public commenter (religious commentary)]: I'm gonna tell you something quite remarkable. You you should read a book called The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall, and it just talks about the hand of God on our nation. And, it's in Daniel, we read about two thousand three hundred years. And if you start the two thousand three hundred years from the beginning of the times of the gentiles, remember I told you when Trump made his proclamation, it was three hundred and sixty sabbatical cycles and three hundred and sixty months from the start of the times of the gentiles. It's strange because it was twenty three hundred years to 1776. Nobody evidently knew that because they didn't adjust the chronology to the year that Christ was baptized. It's a very solid year in Luke chapter three. It was the fifteenth of Tiberius Caesar. It was twenty eight AD on the Gregorian calendar and it was the end of the sixty ninth week of Daniel, if you know the prophecy in Daniel nine. I've memorized it. It's powerful. It's there were 69 sabbatic cycles from Cyrus to the anointing of Christ, which was twenty eight AD. K? That means backing up seventy years or ten sabbatical cycles from the start of the times of the gentiles, when the Babylonians destroyed the the temple. K? You had seventy nine weeks or five hundred and fifty three years. Do the math, 1776. It's amazing. Was two thousand three hundred years. This is truly the book of Daniel. You've heard of Daniel. Right? I mean, he really you should read that book. The, the first reference that Christ said was out of his mouth was a reference to that incredible book, the time is fulfilled. He was talking about there being 69, four hundred and eighty three years. And here's something that's strange. K? Four hundred and eighty three years is a hundred and seventy six thousand four hundred and eleven days. But four hundred ninety years, if you use the three hundred and sixty day calendar, it's the same thing. It's a hundred and seventy six thousand four hundred days. Basically, the same thing. God. Everyone should be coming through. There's no reason

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: why. Alright. So let's hear from our next speaker, please. Please come forward.

[Geraldine Anderson]: Good afternoon, elected members of the San Francisco's board of supervisors. My name is Geraldine Anderson. I'm a dedicated veteran city and county employee for over thirty six years of service. I am the author of two emails written to chairwoman of the budget and finance Committee Supervisor Chan, and a shared email to Mayor Lurie and the rest of the board. I respectfully come before you today on behalf of the most senior staff, 42 employees, to be exact, of the San Francisco Superior Court, whose employment, tenure, and retirement benefits are monitored and controlled by this great city. I'm hopeful all of you have received the packet I filed on July 3 with this office, requesting for consideration of a voluntary retirement incentive. I make this statement. This voluntary retirement incentive would allow for a cost savings for the court, avoid unnecessary furloughs or layoffs, and most importantly, continuing in undelayed public access to our justice system. I humbly pray the city leadership will champion this request and recognize our efforts in preserving the civic infrastructure our courts provide. Thank you for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Next speaker.

[Mary Vic Bure]: Oh, hi. I'm Mary Vic Bure, and I'm proudly served the superior court of San Francisco over eighteen years. I strongly support the implementation of the three plus three voluntary retirement incentive. This proposal presents a fiscally responsible solution that aligns with our shared commitment to preserving public services while addressing budgetary constraints. By offering this incentive, the court can achieve meaningful cost savings, prevent disruptive furloughs or layoffs, and most importantly, ensure uninterrupted public access to justice. It is a strategic investment in both the well-being of dedicated staff and the communities we serve. I urge you to consider this proposal as a proactive step towards stabilizing our workforce and maintaining the integrity of our justice system. Thank you for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Are there any other members of the public to address the board during general public comment? Please step up. Okay. This may be our last speaker. Welcome, sir.

[Unidentified public commenter]: Thank you, board members and board president. There's a real cold wind coming from Washington, DC, and it's flaming our state, particularly Los Angeles, as you've seen the news. And I really don't think that the people in San Francisco are prepared for what potentially is coming. The Los Angeles events are simply a practice event. While you all think that Sanctuary City is gonna save you, it's probably gonna be fight, fight, fight. So you're gonna have to make, as I said last week, some kind of compromises to keep fighting. I read in the newspaper, this may be a sign of the times, that a bank employee was arrested for for extorting, rather embezzling, $500,000, which is half $1,000,000. But what was interesting about that article that the bank itself was not named. Is that an influence of the things that we're going to see in the future? Another one that kinda noted me and a note made I noted was the divisiveness that our districts are having in carving out special zones for each other. For example, the North Beach zone. This is probably a legacy from our last supervisor, president Aaron Peskin, and of course, the Mission 24th Street, which is another short zone, but a special district. We can't have these special districts. We've got to get united. United, we stand. Divided, we fall.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Alright. Welcome, sir. Are you our last speaker?

[Unidentified public commenter (CBD opponent)]: Excuse me. Is the subject of Ocean Avenue closed?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: No. This is not about the Ocean Avenue CBD. This is general public comment.

[Unidentified public commenter (CBD opponent)]: I can comment on Ocean Avenue?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: No, sir.

[Unidentified public commenter (CBD opponent)]: Okay. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Alright, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Public comment is now closed. We are gonna skip over the closed session, item 45, for now and call it up at the end of our agenda. Madam clerk, let's go to our for adoption committee reference agenda, items 46 through 50.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 46 through 50 were introduced for adoption but without committee reference. A unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first reading today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first reading to go to committee.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, mister president. I'd like to sever forty nine and fifty.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. Forty nine and fifty are severed. And, madam clerk, can you oh, supervisor Dorsey. 47. And 47. So madam clerk, can you please call the roll on items forty six and forty eight?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items 46, 48, and 50, mister president. Supervisor Chan. Aye. Chan, I. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor, En Gardio. En Gardio, I. Supervisor, Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor, Magmood. Magmood, aye. Supervisor, Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor, Melgar? Aye. Salter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor, Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 47.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 47, this is a resolution to urge the University of California Health and Blue Shield of California to resolve dispute regarding reimbursement for medical services and treatment by renewing their contract, thereby continuing to preserve members' ability to access crucial health care services.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Dorsey. Thank you, president Mandelbaum

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: and colleagues earlier this afternoon, literally moments after confirming that this resolution enjoyed the unanimous cosponsorship of this board. My office received word from the San Francisco Health Service System, whose board I serve on, that the dispute between UCHealth and Blue Shield of California that we were urging to be resolved has, in fact, been resolved. So this is obviously great news for the city workers and retirees and no small number of our constituents, who will not be losing access to UCSF doctors and services. I would like to think that this happened precisely because of our unanimity. But, even if that's not the case, your support certainly didn't hurt. The Blue Shield UCS contract will be renewed, thereby continuing to preserve members' ability to access crucial health care services. I wanna thank all colleagues, especially supervisor Melgar, who, like me, represents a large part of UCSF's footprint in the city, and from her team, Mike Farah, and, of course, my own legislative aide, Mike Brian Dahl, for his tireless efforts on health services for our workers, for our retirees, and for our residents.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Supervisor Dorsey, so shall we go ahead and approve this in commemoration of your success? Congratulations. Colleagues, we can take item 47, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 49.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 49. This is a resolution to urge the city and county of San Francisco to establish a small business relief fund for merchants affected by the is Islayas Creek Bridge replacement project along the 3rd Street corridor.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, mister president. Colleagues, I just wanna draw attention to the fact that the the upcoming Islayas Creek Bridge project is going to shut down a big stretch of 3rd Street for years, and that's gonna hit Bayview's small businesses hard. These are family run spots, immigrant owned, black owned, and they depend on foot traffic, immunity to stay alive, as well as all of the folks who will be affected by traffic trying to get home on the daily. If the city's gonna move forward with this project, we need to step up now with real relief so these businesses can make it through, just like how we provided relief for the Terre Vaillal project, the project on Van Ness, and during the pandemic. If we can fund and build climate resilient infrastructure like the Islais Bridge, we can also fund resilience for our local economies and working class neighborhoods. Thank you for joining me and supporting this resolution, and I look forward to partnering with our departments and our mayor to make this a reality for our small businesses.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. We'll take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Supervisor Walton, did you wanna talk about 50 or no? You did. Madam clerk, I think we we un I mean, I called for to for us to vote on forty six and forty eight. I think we may have voted on 50. So shall we resend the vote? I think it got Oh,

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: you wanna resend the vote on item 50, mister president? Yes. Okay.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Motion to resend the vote. You need a second?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Motion moved by Sherrill, seconded by Chan. We can take that. Can we do that without objection? Yes. We'll do that without objection. The the the vote is rescinded. And supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, President Madelmann. Just wanted colleagues to know why we're doing this. Basically, we have groups who are working together to come to a resolution. They need a little bit more time. We had them continue to set planning. We're now approaching the deadline to where we have to extend this for it to be valid, or we would have to go through reintroduction again. So I'm asking for your support on a ninety day extension to allow that work to continue before the project appears at planning, and then at the full board.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. And now I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. And, madam clerk, let's go to our closed session. Please call item 45.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 45, this is a conference with the city attorney. This is a closed session for the board to convene for the purpose of conferring with or receiving advice from the city attorney pertaining to existing litigation in which the city is a petitioner and Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an adverse party.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. So we'll now go into closed session.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. We'll take a moment to prepare the chamber. SFGOVTV,

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[Mary Vic Bure]: SFgovTV,

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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. We are back in open session. May I have a motion that the board finds that it is in the best interest of the public to the port that the board elect not to disclose its closed session deliberations and that no action was taken. Moved by Dorsey, seconded by Chan. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On that motion, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor, Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? Dorsey, aye. Supervisor, Enguardio? Angadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmood? Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Without objection, we will not disclose our closed session deliberations. And, with seeing no other names on the roster, this closed session has been held and is now filed. And madam clerk, let's go back to item 40.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. And I'll just say for SFGovTV, this is the resolution to establish the property based business improvement district known as the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District and to order the levy and collection of assessments against property located in the district, for fifteen years.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Great. And then, madam clerk, do I read the result or you read the result?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I have the results, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: What are the results?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: The returned weighted ballots voting for the Ocean Avenue Community Benefit District was 70.41%, and the returned weighted ballots voting against the Ocean Avenue community benefit district was 29.59%, further indicating there was no majority protest.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. So given that there was no majority protest, madam clerk, can you please call the roll on item number 40?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. And so, mister president, on item 40, resolution as amended, Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Angadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud? Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I have none to report, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Do we have any in memoriams?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I have none to report.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Well, then I believe that brings us to the end of our agenda. Do we have any further business before us today?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: That concludes our business for today.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. We are adjourned.