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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Good afternoon. Welcome to the 07/15/2025 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? Present. Chan present. Supervisor Chan? Chen present. Supervisor Dorsey? Present. Dorsey present. Supervisor Engadio? Present. Engadio present. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder present. Supervisor Mahmood? Present. Mandleman present. Supervisor Melgar?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Melgar present. Supervisor Sauter? Mhmm. Sauter present. Supervisor Sheryl? Mhmm. Cheryl present. 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 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, as we speak to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for our On behalf of the board, I want to acknowledge the staff at SFgovTV and today, particularly, Kalina Mendoza. They 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]: Thank you, mister president. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to attend this meeting in person in the board's Legislative Chamber within City Hall on the 2nd Floor in Room 250, or you may watch the proceeding on SFGOV TV's channel 26 or view the livestream at www.sfgovtv.org. For members of the public, I wanna let you know that item seven through 36 comprise the city's budget. These items have already had their public comment, during committee, and you will be redirected if you do speak on any of those items. If you would like to submit public comment via email, use the email address bos@sfgov.org or via the US Postal Service to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, doctor Carlton, B period, Goodlet Place, City Hall, room two forty four, San Francisco, California 94102. For today's meeting, our office is in receipt of a couple of ADA accommodations today. And by request and prior arrangement, we will have American Sign Language interpreters, for the meeting from 2PM to 4PM as well as one remote caller as a means of ADA accommodation during public comment. Our office is also in receipt of a request for language accommodation. We are providing simultaneous Spanish interpretation services from 02:30 to 6PM. If you require a listening device for Spanish simultaneous interpretation, check-in with the operations staff who are in the hallway right outside the board chamber doors. If you would like to make a future reasonable accommodation request under the Americans with Disability Act or to request language assistance, please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. Thank you, members. 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 06/10/2025 and the regular board meeting minutes, for June 2025, comprising a special meeting of the budget and appropriations committee constituting a quorum of the board of supervisors.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, we have, as the as our clerk indicated, minutes from 06/10/2025, our regular board meeting, and then the June minutes of the budget and thirteenth minutes of the budget and appropriations committee. As usual, I don't see anyone with changes. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Moved by Walton, seconded by Sauter. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the minutes as presented, supervisor Chen. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey?

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Engadio? Aye. Engadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Fielder, aye. Supervisor, Mahmoud? Mahmoud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, I. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, I. Supervisor, Walton? Walton, I. And supervisor Chan. I. Chan, I. 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 our consent agenda, items one through six.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items one through six are on consent. These items are considered 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 items one through six, supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. I. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Angadio? I. Engadio, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, these ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk, let's go to unfinished business.

[Eric J. Kim, SFPD Commander (formerly Captain, Central Station)]: And Mister

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: president No. There is no standing in the chamber as being demonstrated in the back of the chamber. Members have to grab a seat.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item seven through 38, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Can you call 7 through 38 but leave out 36?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. Item seven through, 38 minus 36 are recommendations of the budget and appropriations committee and pertain to the city's budget. Item seven is the budget and appropriation ordinance that appropriates all estimated receipts and expenditures for the departments of the city and county as of 05/30/2025 for the fiscal years ending 06/30/2026 and 06/30/2027. Item eight, this is the annual salary ordinance, enumerating all the positions in the annual budget and appropriation ordinance for the fiscal years ending 06/30/2026 and 06/30/2027. Item nine, this is an ordinance that amends the administrative code that modifies the short term license fees for the use of city hall. Item 10, this ordinance amends the administrative code to transfer responsibility for oversight of the collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data from the city administrator to the human rights commission and removes obsolete reporting requirements. Item 11, this ordinance amends the administrative code, to clarify the status of the Treasure Island Development Authority as a city department. Item 12, this ordinance amends the administrative code eliminating budget savings incentive fund. Item 13, this ordinance adopts the neighborhood beautification and graffiti cleanup fund tax designation ceiling for tax year 2025. Item 14, this ordinance modifies the baseline funding requirements for early care and education programs, in fiscal years '25, '26, '26, and '27, and enables the city to use the interest earned from the early care and education commercial rents tax for those baseline programs. Item 15, this ordinance accepts and expends a retroactive grant for immigration defense unit from the Crankstart Foundation and amends the annual salary ordinance for fiscal years twenty twenty four-'twenty five and twenty twenty five-'twenty six in the amount of $3,400,000 Item 16, 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 California state law and establishes the Police Fingerprint Identification Fund to receive the fee revenue. Item 17, this ordinance appropriates and depropriates for a total net depropriation amount of approximately 87,000 to previously approved ordinance number one twenty four dash 24 for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, capital projects, budget, and supplemental appropriation in fiscal year 2025 through 2026. Item 18, this ordinance authorizes the issuance and sale of tax exempt or taxable water revenue bonds for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission water revenue bond for other forms of indebtedness issuance, not to exceed 1,000,000,000. This is to fund various Capital Water and Hetch Hetchy Water projects benefiting the water enterprise. Item 19, this ordinance deappropriates approximately 13,000,000 in the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in fiscal year twenty five through twenty six to benefit the water enterprise division from the operating budget changes driven for the capital improvement projects. Item 20, this is an ordinance that amends the park code to authorize the recreation and park department to charge fees for reserving tennis, pickleball courts at locations other than the Golden Gate Park Tennis Center and affirms CEQA determinations. Item 21, this ordinance 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 recreation program fees. Item 22, this ordinance amends the business and tax regulations code, the health code, the administrative code, and the public works code, for environmental health permits, fees, and penalties revision. Item 23, this ordinance amends the health code to set patient rates for services provided by the Department of Public Health in fiscal years 2025 through '26 and '26 and 2027 and authorizes 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 24, this ordinance amends the public works and subdivision codes to modify certain permit fees, including waiving fees for cafe tables and chairs and display merchandise registrants and certain minor sidewalk encroachments that are the apperturn apperturnent building features and to affirm the CEQA determination. Item 25, this resolution approves the fiscal year twenty twenty five through twenty six budget of the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure 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 26, 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 27, this resolution approves the homelessness and supportive housing fund and expenditure plan, for the supportive housing fund. Item 28, this resolution authorizes the San Francisco Public Library to accept and expend a $1,000,000 grant of in kind services, gifts, and cash monies from the friends of the San Francisco Public Library for direct support of a variety of public programs. Item 29, this resolution concurs with the controller's certification that department services previously approved can be performed by private contractor for a lower cost than similar work performed by city employees. Item 30, this resolution authorizes the recreation and park department to accept and expend a $3,600,000 bequest from the estate of William Benjamin Bobo to provide benches, park furnishings, and park improvements at various park sites across San Francisco. Item 31, this resolution authorizes the Municipal Transportation Agency to set parking rates in Golden Gate Park in accordance with the park code provisions that authorize SFMTA, a rate setting on park property and affirms the CEQA determination. Items 32 through 35 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 32 is a reoccurring state grant fund by the San Francisco Department of Public Health. Item 33 is a grant agreement for a term commencing on execution of the grant agreement through 06/30/2029 with the California Department of Social Services and a third party administrator, Horn LLP, for approximately $9,900,000 to construct a substance use disorder residential step down facility at Parcel E 1.2, Treasure Island. Item 34, this resolution retroactively authorizes public health to accept and expend 2,500,000.0 in grant funds from the California Department of Health Care Services through the San Francisco Health Authority to participate in a program entitled housing and homelessness incentive program to expand San Francisco's Department of Public Health recuperative care community support for a term of one year and one month in sixteen days through 06/30/2026. Item 35, this is a resolution that authorizes Department of Public Health to expend 6,000,000 from the California Department of Health Care Services through the San Francisco health plan to participate in a program entitled incentive payment program for the Department of Public Health EPIC enhancement implementation project for one year from 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026. Item 36, mister president, I will

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Skip over that item.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Continue on with item thirty seven and thirty eight. Item 37 is an ordinance to amend the building, subdivision, and administrative codes to adjust fees charged by the Department of Building Inspection and to establish sub funds within the building inspection fund and affirm the CEQA determination. And for item 38, this is an ordinance that amends the park code for cost recovery, for use of golf courses, outdoor event facilities, picnic areas, and athletic fields, and golf course fees in general. Thank you, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Chair Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you, president Mandelmann, and thank you, colleagues. Colleagues, before you today is our budget and trailing legislation. This year's budget require not just solving for our current $800,000,000 deficit. As your budget committee chair, I recognize that the federal government's attacks and impending cuts put us in an impossible position. Given this reality, we had to focus on the core mission of city government, keeping people housed, fed, and cared for. As I said on budget, night two weeks ago, the agreement before us today for its first vote, may not be something we all can fully celebrate. But we must acknowledge how we have come together despite our differences to meet this moment. Thanks to the partnership, of mayor Daniel Lurie and with the support from our colleagues on the budget and appropriation committee, with today's vote, we come together to deliver for our most vulnerable communities. The budget package before us today guard against draconian cuts from the Trump administration by putting $400,000,000 on reserve, so that we will be able to continue to provide Medicaid, housing subsidies, and food security in the face of these pending cuts. Restore jobs for essential city workers, reversing proposed layoffs so that we can deliver the services San Franciscans need and deserve. We preserve funding to some vital programs and services that impact our most marginalized individuals, our Pacific Islander community, our Native American community, our transitional age youth, our trans youth, our LGBTQ community, our seniors, our immigrants community, and they restore funds for people living in single room occupancy hotels, and legal services for people at risk of losing their housing and other legal rights. And we came together to negotiate our City, Our Home proxy allocation, adding $17,300,000 for family rapid rehousing for a total of almost 30,000,000. An additional 9,500,000.0 for transitional age youth rapid rehousing for a total of 19,000,000. An additional 3,000,000 for RV intervention and homeless prevention measures, and 9,000,000 for medium term housing, totaling 21,000,000, and an additional 3,400,000.0 for hotel vouchers for transitional age youth and adults. This is all in addition to the mayor's funding for shelter and hygiene care. I wanna acknowledge that we did not do this work alone. I wanna give my sincere thanks to my colleagues on the budget and appropriations committee, especially our vice chair, supervisor Matt Dorsey, and board president Rafael Mendelmann, and members Shimon Walton, Joanne Gardio. Thank you, supervisors. Thank you, also to, Sophia Kittler, the mayor's budget director, and her team for her partnership. Dan Goncher, and the entire budget and legislative analyst team, and special shout out to Harvey Rose, who have worked on tight deadlines to get us their reports. Our deputy city attorney, Brad Rossi, for quickly drafting, amendments to keep us moving, and to Greg Wagner, our controller, and his entire controller team for keep us keeping us on track. To the entire, clerk of the board team, thank you. But especially, our fearless budget clerk, Brent Halepa, and, of course, the team of legislative aids in each of our offices who make sure we are where we need to be, especially on time, and prepare for the fight. So, colleagues, we may not always be in agreement. We will speak on our differences and find common ground to deliver policy solutions. We must continue working together to meet this moment, because San Franciscans deserve to have us always speak the truth, advocate in their best interest, and work together to deliver solutions. I know we have done so through this year's budget, but our work is not done. There's a lot of challenges ahead of us, not just because of our local economy, but the truth of the matter is the federal government, and for what they're going to do, not just to San Francisco, but to the state of California and to the entire nation, We ought to be prepared. We owe it to ourselves and our duty as elective, but we also owe it to San Franciscans. So I hope to have your vote and your support for the budget before us today. Thank you.

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

[Deborah (Debbie) Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office on Disability and Accessibility]: Mister Ahmed.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, chair Chan. Thank you, madam clerk, for attempting to maintain order in the chamber. And, supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6) and Budget Committee Vice Chair]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. As vice chair of the budget committees, I wanna take a moment to thank budget chair Connie Chan, for her hard work and expertise and attention to detail throughout this process. San Franciscans were incredibly well served by her leadership. Connie and I have known each other for a better part of twenty years, and I really just appreciate, the opportunity that we had to work together. I learned a lot, and I often resent having to say that about people who are younger than I am. But I I really did and I just appreciate it. Likewise to, board president Rafael Mailman for his leadership and guidance and stewardship. I've watched budget processes play out in this building for more than twenty years and I can say with confidence, this is one of the among the toughest. It was an extraordinarily uncertain year. We entered this budget season facing a nearly $800,000,000 deficit, one of the largest in our city's history. And we still don't fully know how difficult could things could get in the years ahead. In the face of fiscal pressure, this budget prioritizes what matters most, which for me includes securing and protecting public safety. We made targeted reductions across city government, but we did so without compromising foundational services that keep our city safe. We also safeguarded public health and behavioral health services, stabilizing housing, homelessness investments where possible, including prioritizing drug free and recovery oriented options that are particularly close to my heart. We preserve vital programs for youth, seniors, and working families. And proudly, we stood strong for those facing historically unprecedented attacks and dehumanization, including our transgender and immigrant communities. At the same time, we took meaningful steps to right size city government. We eliminated vacancies, reduced reliance on contracting, brought more discipline to how we spend our public dollars, and we did it without mass layoffs. And that's no small feat in a budget of this size and the challenges that we faced. Yet with all that said, no one is celebrating the decisions we made. They were necessary, and they were responsible, but they were difficult. I'm optimistic that we are beginning to pivot away from one time fixes and toward real structural reform. Given the looming threats from the federal level, next year's budget could be harder, and our work isn't over. But this budget lays a responsible foundation, reflecting shared sacrifice and showing what's possible when we work together. And for that, I wanna thank chair Chan again, and all my colleagues, for their participation in this process. I'm grateful for the spirit of collaboration we have managed to have under president Mandelmann's leadership. Thanks also to mayor Lurie and his team and the city attorney and the controller. I look forward to continuing the work with all of you in the months ahead. Thank you. Supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, I wanna begin by thanking my aide, Fung Han, for leading the budget work in my office, and chair Chan and the budget committee for taking on the nearly impossible task of closing a $750,000,000 deficit over two years. It's a relief that, actually, so many vital programs, especially in our safety net, were preserved. Thanks to chair Chan's leadership, we avoided dozens of devastating layoffs to the city workforce. Street cleaning, graffiti abatement, and vending enforcement in the Mission were protected. Community engagement staff on 16th Street are going to be moved there, doing essential work. I'm grateful to the mayor for helping preserve that and to my colleagues who fought to protect our cultural districts, workforce programs, and legal services that serve District Nine's most vulnerable. Thank you especially to supervisors Walton and Engadio. As you all know, family homelessness has been one of my top priorities since coming to this board. It's not just a policy failure, it's a moral failure. That in one of the richest cities in the world, 1,800 children in SFUSD are homeless. My office, alongside Faith in Action, the Coalition on Homelessness, and courageous immigrant mothers, has fought hard to change that. Those mothers came here again and again to share their stories and demand that the city do better. They asked for $66,000,000 to end family homelessness. And while we didn't get all of that, I'm incredibly proud we secured $20,000,000 for homeless families and 9,000,000 for youth housing. That happened because families themselves led the fight. Thank you to chair Chan for your leadership, supervisors Walton, Chen, Mahmoud, and Melgar for your partnership. I wanna thank my staff, Jen Ferrigno, and the department leaders at HSH and the mayor's office who worked in good faith to make this possible. But now I I need to speak truthfully about the parts of this budget that are indefensible. And I say this with the utmost respect to my colleagues who work tirelessly in budget hearings, and I say this with deep disappointment in the mayor's choices. The mayor has talked a lot about hard decisions. And, yes, he made them. He put layoffs on the table. He slashed nonprofit budgets. He demanded 15% cuts across departments. But you know what was never on the table? Law enforcement overtime. In fact, in a deficit year, SFPD and the sheriff's department got a $50,000,000 increase after this board gave them $90,000,000 and reappropriated overtime earlier this year. While programs serving immigrants, families, BIPOC and LGBTQ communities were gutted, law enforcement walked away with more money. And let's not pretend this is new. Every year, SFPD comes back to this board asking for more money after the fact. This year, we just gave it to them upfront. And for what? So they can moonlight as private security under the 10 b program while urgent calls go unanswered, so they can prioritize political protests over foot patrols in places like 16th Street. This is not getting back to the basics. It's turning our back on the public. In District 9, my district was hit especially hard in this budget. Community ambassadors, arts and culture, the climate equity hub, food pantries, gone. But two cuts stand out as especially devastating, Muni service and immigration legal defense. Let's talk about Muni. This board doesn't control SFMTA's budget, but we do confirm the MTA board appointed entirely by the mayor. And this mayor, like every mayor, must be held accountable for the decisions of his appointees. This budget cuts Muni lines to save $7,000,000 while SFMTA is sitting on a $140,000,000 in reserves. They could have made a different choice, and they didn't. I ride the 49 bus. Every packed, pothole ridden ride is a reminder of how working people in this city are ignored and deprioritized. Meanwhile, the mayor is rolling out the red carpet for Waymo. This is austerity for the people and corporate giveaways. It's disgraceful. And finally, immigration legal defense. In a moment when Trump is pledging mass deportations, the city has chosen to flatline legal defense funding. That's not neutral. That's that's a cut. Staff are already being laid off. Families already being left defenseless. Meanwhile, counties like San Mateo and Santa Clara are increasing funding up to $5,000,000 We're falling behind, and our constituents will pay the price. This is not leadership. This is abandonment. For all those reasons, I cannot, in good conscience, vote in support of this budget, and I will be voting no with disappointment, with frustration, but also with clarity about the kind of city we are fighting to become. We owe our residents more than austerity. We owe them dignity. And with that, I also wanna request to sever items seven, sixteen, twenty, twenty one, and 31.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: Okay.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Let's we are severing seven.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: There are no audible sounds of support. That is from an approved board rule. We we do appreciate you all here this afternoon. Just if you wanna show your support, do it quietly, please.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: 7. What are the other? 16? 20.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: 16, 20, 21, and 31.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: 2021, 30. 30?

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: 31.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: 31.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: so much, president Mandelmann. First, I want to start off by thanking all of my colleagues on the budget and appropriations committee, especially chair Chan, for working hard to preserve vital services and for doing what we could to address several gaps that existed from the mayor's proposed budget. I also wanna thank the budget and legislative analyst office, the controller's office, the mayor's budget team, especially Sofia Kittler for all of their work, all of my colleagues, and especially all of my colleagues' aides. And, of course, my district ten office and the amazing Tracy Brown Gallardo for all of her work through this tough budget process this year. I have never agreed with all aspects of a city budget, but in seven years of working on the budget in this capacity, I have never seen such dramatic proposed cuts and attacks on low income families, people of color, and populations that need us the most. I know we have a budget deficit, but there was no focus in this proposed budget budget on including additional revenue to address budget gaps that exist. The mayor's original reductions focused on cuts to programs like workforce development, health services in public housing communities, reducing resources for permanent housing, eliminating some areas of legal defense, and removing crucial services provided by neighborhood hubs. Together, we restored some of these vital services, but we could not save everything and everyone. I am committed to focusing on garnering additional revenue and supporting securing resources to fully restore many programs that are going to suffer from this budget's reductions. This budget is not ideal, but the work was done to decrease the negative impacts for so many. And I do wanna thank the community and my colleagues for that. And I will be supporting this budget because at the end of the day, a lot of the services, a lot of the things that I believe in were preserved through this budget process. Most certainly, we did not get everything that we continuously have to fight for. But the hard decisions were made, and the budget and appropriations committee did come together to preserve many vital services.

[Speaker 11.0]: Thank you, mister president. Thank you, supervisor Walton. Supervisor Chan.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleague, we have been facing the crucial task of adapting our city budget, And this process has involved making extremely challenging trade offs. The budget isn't just a ledger of numbers. We all know that. But it signifies our commitments to the people in our local neighborhoods and communities. It is about ensuring that as many of our competing values are represented in our final budget document. This process has demanded open minds, very honest dialogues, and a willingness to compromise. Every dollar we allocate or chooses not to allocate has a ripple effect. It impacts the essential services our residents rely on daily, our workforce across industries, and the fabric of our city. We know there are passionate advocates in the community represented in every line item. I know that I am very concerned about investment in my own district to sustain vital community serving programs. But with that, I also want to really appreciate budget chair Chen, president Mendelmann, and the entire budget and appropriation committee and their staff for their spirited and thoughtful leadership through the budget negotiation. And especially, I wanna shout out to my staff, Jackie Prager and Lin Xiaoqin, for their support. This is the same thing that I have asked of every department, recognizing that there are incredibly difficult times and that more difficult times are ahead. It's it is more important than ever that we continue to work diligently to protect the most vulnerable, advocate for transparency, and in good faith partnerships. Do that and do what we can do to continue to increase access across communities and languages. Now that this budget season is coming to an end, we also have to continue to maintain the flexibility and communication that was demonstrated throughout the process. I myself is very committed to continue to work very closely with all my colleagues and the mayor's office to continue to support our neighborhoods and communities as we continue to push San Francisco into a healthier, safer, and more equitable future. So and I'm committed to vote yes on the budget. Thank you.

[Speaker 13.0]: Thank you, supervisor Chen. Supervisor Sauter.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I first wanna thank all of my colleagues for how seriously you took this matter. This has been something that we faced. It's been an impossible task to face, and certainly for many of us in this chamber who are on the board for the first time, for the first year, not what we wanted to do coming into office. And yet I think we approach this, with the respect and the tone that deserves with these important decisions. I will be supporting this budget. I am, in particular, grateful to the mayor's office and to our budget chair, Chan, for their prioritization of many issues that matter to San Francisco, in particular to my district. I think of the you know, where we started and where we're going to end up with restoring our SRO collaborative funds, which are so important in particular to our low income tenants and SRO residents in Chinatown. I think of how far we've come in restoring general legal services, knowing how that is a wise investment that keeps people housed, keeps people in shelter with families, the tenant's right to counsel, giving anyone facing an eviction a fair shot. Food security, something so important given the difficult cuts from the state level and federal level that we preserve that here in San Francisco. And an expansion of street cleaning programs or restoration, in some cases, of street cleaning programs, knowing that we need those basics to grow our city. I wanna thank budget chair Chan. I wanna thank, the mayor's office and everyone involved. You know, I think this was a process where none of us are completely happy. But from my perspective, and I think from from many of our perspectives, this was a process that was done in collaboration, was done in transparency, and with respect and compromise. And those are gonna be qualities and traits that this board and this partnership with the mayor's office needs to continue to demonstrate because we have difficult challenges ahead. And for all those reasons, I will be supporting this.

[Speaker 11.0]: Thank you, supervisor slaughter. Supervisor Mahmoud?

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Thank you, everyone. I just wanna kind of call it again in in agreement with many of my colleagues as well that this was a difficult budget, that we had to make, difficult decisions. Not all all of us didn't get what we wanted. I know there was non profits in the tenderloin that we were advocating for that, unfortunately, we're not able to make it. But I do think it's important to call out, amidst a historic budget deficit, what was, done in partnership, and I wanted to thank, Chair Chan for her leadership on this as well as in cooperation with the mayor. We are very cognizant of what's happening in the federal administration right now, and due to the work of the budget committee, we did hold, I believe, over $400,000,000 in reserve to prepare for an eventuality of what could happen with the federal administration clamping down, city, across the country. We also held money in reserve, for our city attorney's office to be able to litigate against the federal administration in preparation to be proactive and not just reactive against what we're coming down from threats from the federal administration. And that diligence and proactiveness in ensuring that our city attorney has the resources we need is often one of the only lines of defense that we have against the Trump administration. So I think the foresight of the budget committee and the mayor's office to ensure that we are investing in those resources is a commendable action that we were happy to advocate for for my office, but also really goes, again, to the budget committee and to the mayor's office for leading there. I also wanna comment that, we are in this budget, we are increasing funding for the immigration legal defense fund. It's item 15, and which I was happy to cosponsor with the public defender's office. And so I think especially miss this historic budget deficit, the fact that we're able to get the government working together with community and nonprofits in the city to invest where we need to to add more more attorneys to the public defender's office is an important investment that we're making that was part of the trailing ledge that we're gonna vote on as well. And I would hope that we could maybe sever that item, item 15, so I can hope that we get a unanimous support to show that the board is committed to immigration defense and allow people to vote holistically how they'd like on the regular budget, but at least shows a message from the city and county of San Francisco that on item 15, to support immigration legal defense, that we are unanimous in our support for hiring attorneys into the public defender's office and ensure that, they they know that we have their back in this very difficult time.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Mahmoud. Thank you, colleagues. We're gonna have to vote on this stuff after the, two thirty special accommodations because it got much more complicated than I imagined it was it was gonna be. Just Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: With all due respect, super president Malauvin, why?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Just that it is going to take we have a number of people waiting for this two thirty special accommodations, including Harvey Rose and what I thought was gonna be a relatively quick vote, on a bunch of items. And a longer conversation about one of the items has turned into a number of separate votes. So I'm inclined to put that over until after the 02:30 special order. I would like to also echo the thanks of my colleagues for our budget chair, chair Chan, for the other members of the committee. I think, this was a historically difficult budget. I think it is a hard thing for the budget chair to accommodate the preferences of a majority of a board of supervisors that does not all individually see, priorities the same way, does not, rank items in the same way. What may be self evident to one supervisor, maybe anathema to another supervisor. And that was the world that supervisor Chan and her staff, thank you, Frances Shea and others, found and I think did, from my perspective, great work in trying to, honestly and in a collegial way, accommodate as many perspectives, as many views, and satisfice as best as best could be done. The other thing that I really appreciate about the way the chair ran this process is that it kept the era of cooperation between our mayor and our board of supervisors going. There were some who said that the good vibes of the earlier part of the year surely would not survive our budget. This board did not leave the mayor's budget untouched. We changed things that were important. We asked for compromise from the mayor. The mayor gave compromise and I think, in some ways, re perhaps reset some of the relationships with some of the folks on the board, I hope. And I think there were opportunities for cooperation, which we took and he took, and that is largely through the leadership of our chair. So thanks, Chair Chan. Thanks, Mayor Lohrey. Thanks, committee members. Thanks to all the staffs, in my case, especially Bradley Phelps. Thanks, to all the people, who have already been thanked by the controller's office, the budget and legislative analysts, our clerk, of course, Angela Calvillo and Brent Majalipa, and our city attorney and all the other people I'm forgetting to mention. None of us are happy with this budget. I don't think the mayor is happy with this budget. But, you know, we are doing the best we can to protect the city our city in a difficult, difficult time, and we will work our way through a set of complicated votes after we go to our 02:30 special order. And I would note that we have been joined in the chamber by two former members of this body, state senator and former judge and former member of the board of supervisors, Quentin Kopp, is here, and our former colleague, former president of the board of supervisors, Aaron Peskin, is here. There's Quentin Kopp. And Aaron Peskin's a few seats back. Aaron. And I think they might be here for, our first, celebrant Celebre. Anyway, madam clerk, could you please call our 02:30 special order?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. It is now time for the recognition of commendations for meritorious service and with distinction for this to the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Colleagues. Taking us we I usually go last. I'm going last on my normal commendation, but I have a I do have a thing for, Harvey M. Rose. I'm gonna put the thing down while I talk a little bit about Harvey Rose. While all commendations are special, today we have one that has more been more than a half a century in the making. On behalf of the full board of super supervisors, it's with great appreciation that I am gonna be presenting a resolution commending and honoring Harvey M. Rose that we are gonna be voting on, later today. He has served with the distinction for more than five decades as the budget and legislative analyst for the city and county of San Francisco. Harvey, this is your opportunity to stand up and get some applause. And as I said, later in today's meeting we're gonna be voting to place into the record a resolution officially and forever recognizing Harvey's place in San Francisco's history and codifying Hatchet Harvey's contributions to our city. Harvey Rose was born and raised in Nutley, New Jersey. He attended Rutgers University and later completed college at the University of Miami before becoming a certified public accountant. In 1971, this board of supervisors chose Harvey to serve as budget analyst. But for a short stint as the state auditor in the mid nineteen seventies, Harvey served in this role through June 2. During his tenure, he oversaw the expansion of the office of budget budget analyst in response to requests from this board for additional independent reports and services, including performance audits, budget analyses, analyses of proposed legislation with fiscal impact, policy analyses, and support for board responses to civil grand jury reports. Harvey has conducted independent management audits of nearly every department and key function in the city, analyzed and made recommendations on fifty two fiscal years' worth of proposed mayor's budgets, and proposed thousands of legislative and policy analysis reports on every key fiscal and policy matter considered by the board. Obviously, those of you who have watched the board have seen har Harvey in action. But for those of you who may have missed out on that opportunity, madam clerk, can you please roll the tape?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: SF GovTV, please.

[Harvey M. Rose, Budget and Legislative Analyst (retiring)]: You know, I'm not so sure why today we have all these hot issues. But anyway

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: The controller is now projecting that the public library will have a projected budgetary shortfall of 2,800,000.0 for this fiscal year, and that's based on the year to date expenditure patterns. This request before you from a variety of sources would fund 1,601,488 of that shortfall. Therefore, if you approve this shortfall, you would still have a projected budgetary shortfall of $1,278,259. And this is clearly a case of overexpending, in budgeted temporary salaries, overtime premium pay, as well as the related fringe benefits that's clearly illustrated by the controller's, schedule.

[Speaker 18.0]: What's gonna happen is that we're gonna be back here. Mister Rose knows knows because he's been around longer than I. A year from now, eighteen months from now, and we're going to have a huge, cost to the indigent defense. We're not looking at the whole cost of indigent defense holistically.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Let's hear from Harvey, Harvey Rose.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: To say the least, I am a little frustrated, at this item. And I'm frustrated because the public defender has constantly, during the course of our preparing our draft reports and submitting it to the public defender, has constantly changed his position. Let me give you an example. Just today in his testimony, he said to you that if he goes to the Bar Association, he's going to have to spend a $120 an hour. Yet in his written memo to our office, which is attached to our report, he stated that the hourly rate would be 85 to a $120 an hour. That's just one tiny example of the inconsistencies and the the spin that the public defender has put on this item.

[Eric J. Kim, SFPD Commander (formerly Captain, Central Station)]: My understanding is that the extension that we're approving goes back to 10/01/2008. We're talking about late January. What why are we waiting so long to do something involving, you know, pretty large amount of money?

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Well, I I agree with you, supervisor Campos, and that's why we called it out in our report. The department, inadvertently did not provide payments for October and November 2008, and so they they started to expend the mic. But I I I fully agree with you that it should not retroactivity to the extent possible should not be done. And every time it happens, we point it out to the board, and recommend that the legislation should be amended appropriately.

[Speaker 19.0]: We recommend eliminating positions and in some cases, adjusting attrition settings to do just what the director says, to bring everything into alignment. And so, we'll look at any new information they can provide, but we don't believe there is any way that these recommendations will result in layoffs.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Let let me make one other comment, madam chair. This this budget, contrary to what I testified before on some other budgets, which I've argued that the budgets have gone up and our recommendations just lowered. In fact, we agree this budget has gone down. But think about it. There's nothing magic about the mayor sending over. But when the mayor sends over budget and he reduces that budget, that doesn't make the mayor's budget, which is down, perfect. It is possible that there can be simply because there have been cuts, it is possible that there can be other cuts without impairing service levels, and that's the argument, and we'll certainly work with the department this week. But what mister Bruce is telling you is they've overachieved salary savings, and our recommendations do not result in service reductions. Now madam chair and members of the committee, let me make just one other comment, and then I'll start my recommendations. And my comment is this. Repeatedly or historically, supervisors, in commenting on our annual recommendations to reduce the Department of Public Health's budget, the department has repeatedly stated that any cuts made by the budget analyst would result in severe service reductions. For example, in this very current year, 02/2002, the budget analyst recommended reductions to the finance committee of $795,009.65, but the board of supervisors accepted only 02/1988 of the budget analyst recommendations based on the testimony by the Department of Public Health that the department could not absorb the budget analyst recommendations without resulting in serious service reductions. I called mister Rosenfeld yesterday and he advised me that to partially resolve this fiscal year 02/2002 budget deficit, the Department of Public Health provided $5,000,000 in savings. Not 795,000 that we recommended, but of is a department head telling a board of supervisors about the severe service reductions that are gonna result from our from the implementation of our recommendations, advising them on the one hand, they advise the board of supervisors that they can't absorb the budget analyst recommendations, but on the other hand, somehow this department is the first one to come forward to help the mayor resolve a budget crisis. Supervisors, I assure you that the fat in the department's budget, and our recommendations are to eliminate that fat and are not made to cause any service reductions to the city's health delivery system.

[Speaker 20.0]: Mister Rose,

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: you are the former auditor for

[Speaker 20.0]: the state of California. Isn't that correct?

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Auditor general of the state of California.

[Speaker 20.0]: That is correct. And you are familiar with the airport both by doing its operating budgets for the last three decades as well as the management audit and other scopes of work that you've performed over that period of time?

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: We are also familiar with other airports throughout the country with respect to the work that we've done.

[Speaker 20.0]: Can you tell me what the added value of having an independent audit that is not paid for by or instructed by the airport, but instead by an independent party such as yourself in doing such an audit?

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Well, supervisor, I'm glad you asked me that question because forgetting about me or my firm or the budget analyst, as the former auditor general, as a former supervisor or the United States General Accounting Office, having the airport retain and pay for a management audit, as far as I'm concerned, is a total waste of funds. It's a sham. There is no way that there can be an independent management audit by having the airport retain the outside auditor. I would urge the board of supervisors, take me out of the picture. Somehow create legislation, if that's what you want. I mean, we'd love to do the audit. But if that's what you want, hire someone else, not me, under the auspices of the Board of Supervisors to do a management audit. That's the only way you're going to get an independent management audit. This is like the fox watching the chicken coop for the airport to retain a performance or management audit.

[Speaker 20.0]: How much would an an audit like this cost in the industry of an organization of this size?

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: In in the industry, an audit of this magnitude will probably if it's a true comprehensive management audit, it would probably be upwards of $800,000 would be my estimate.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Thank you.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Madam chair.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Oh, yes.

[Harvey M. Rose, Budget and Legislative Analyst (retiring)]: Madam chair, members of the committee, I I said I didn't wanna comment on each department, but

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: let me just make one comment. If mister Roar does not have a surplus in this coming year, I will eat his budget, ketchup in front of his former supervisors.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. I've heard that I've heard that before.

[Harvey M. Rose, Budget and Legislative Analyst (retiring)]: What I said

[Speaker 13.0]: what I said was we will not have an $8,000,000 salary surplus at

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: the end of the year.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: So if you will have a surplus, then that means the board of supervisors could take some additional funds.

[Speaker 13.0]: The surplus Is that correct? The surplus is not gonna be another 1,400,000.0 above the four point Understood. Understood.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: Then what what would it be, mister Rohrer?

[Speaker 13.0]: That's difficult to project, mister Rose. I can't project

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

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: it would be something. You just said that there will be a surplus.

[Speaker 13.0]: Sure. Let's let's pick a number. Do you wanna pick it out in a hat?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The more things change, the more they stay the same. We wanna thank our operations deputy for the board, Wilson Ng and Michael Baltazar, Anson Ho, and Jack Chin from SFgovTV for creating that tribute, video. I know we have some, dignitaries in the audience who, would like the privilege of the floor. But before we get to them, I have some colleagues who'd like to say some things. Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Madeline. Obviously, I wanna thank you for keeping us on task, Harvey, and for making sure that this body is fiscally responsible when we make decisions. But also, like I said at the last budget and appropriations committee meeting, I think that the community owes a lot of gratitude to you and your team, as we go through what we call the add back process. You are the one that is responsible for finding all of the fat, all of the waste that exists in government. And those resources come back to the board so that we can give them to community. And so I I want to make sure that the community knows and understands that as they were able to see some of your work through the video. But you have saved some critical services for this city year after year during that process, and definitely want to make sure that we thank you for that. I think for me, from a personal standpoint, it's going to be a little different when I walk in here on a Tuesday after a 49er game. And I don't have a chance to have a conversation with you about what happened on that Sunday or what happened on that Monday. But I do appreciate the way you work, the fact that you understood the assignment and understood what your role was, and that you did not back down to any city department or not back down to, quite frankly, any mayor's administration. And just appreciate watching you, and I respect your work. And you are going to be missed here at this board of supervisors, but I do wish you the best in whatever you decide to do in your retirement. But thank you so much for your many decades of service. Supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I have so much to say, but I will keep it short. I'm OG here. And I have so much respect and admiration for mister Harvey Rose. In 1997, I was a budget I mean, I was a baby legislative analyst, along with, Clark Calvillo, before district elections. I was an aide to supervisor Medina, and, Clark Calvillo was an aide to, Tom Ammiano. And mister Rose, went to found, that same year that Barbara Kaufman was president, his firm, you know, Harvey Rose and Associates, and started what became an amazing career, helping us, take it up to, the level that we now have today to support, billions of dollars, in our budget being spent, with oversized, with keen analysis, calling BS when you need, but also supporting us in being able to analyze properly and take it all in context. You've also managed to mentor a whole generation of folks who you leave behind, who are trained to continue helping us do the same. And I do not take that lightly, because your staff is amazing. And you have left that for us as well. On a personal note, I have very much appreciated getting to know you and your wife, Renee. We have a personal connection, and I have just so appreciated and will continue to see you outside this hall. But I cannot thank you enough for everything you've given us, our city, the folks that you have touched and trained, in your amazing brain in what it has left, you know, as a mark in our city. Thank you so much.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you. And Harvey, I said this, mister Rose, I said this when we kick off our budget that generation of San Franciscans did not know your name, but really you have served them really well. And you lay a solid foundation for generations of San Franciscans to come, that they will have a city government with your team that you left behind and mentored and trained, that we will have a city government that has integrity, most of all, and city services that has accountability and continuing just making sure that we deliver for San Franciscans. And and that truly, that is your legacy. And, I cannot wait to see what you're gonna do next.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, colleagues. As I said, some of the 90 members of the roughly 90 members of the board who Harvey Rose has to whom Harvey Rose has has served as a trusted adviser have showed up today. And I would ask colleagues, without objection, that we grant the privilege of the floor to Quentin l Kopp, who served four terms as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, then went on to the California State Senate and served as a superior court judge, now retired, Judge Kopp.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank

[Quentin L. Kopp, Former Supervisor, State Senator, and Judge]: you. Thank you, mister president. I stand here as one of the few living apostles of good government in San Francisco, who was on the scene in 1971, when Harvey M. Rose arrived from Los Angeles.

[Harvey M. Rose (archival video clips)]: It

[Quentin L. Kopp, Former Supervisor, State Senator, and Judge]: was claimed that no one had ever heard of the budget analyst in 1971, and even Harvey's father, who was visiting and strolling downtown, asked people if they knew who the budget analyst was. And nobody did. I could always count on Harvey to ask me for many things, but, primarily, Super Bowl tickets. And fortunately, a fellow Dartmouth alumnus was president of the Cincinnati Bengals, and I would bother him for Super Bowl tickets for the entire Rose entourage. And occasionally, if I got to the Super Bowl by, let's say, Friday before the Sunday game, I might get a dinner out of it from the beloved budget analyst. He loved every one of nine members who created a city and county of San Francisco budget. From Joseph Lawrence Alioto, to George Moscone, to Dianne Feinstein, to Art Agnos, to Frank Jordan, to Willie Brown, to Gavin Newsom, to London Braid, and, now, the honorable Daniel, Lohrey. The only financial problem he couldn't analyze was the stock market. But, his loyal wife, Renee, and she is loyal, never complained. So as he jogs, as he used to do every morning with the then controller, John Farrell senior, which he also calls home in the sunset, we say mazel tov. Congratulate on a long accomplished career, and thank you from the taxpayers of the City and County of San Francisco and all the supervisors from Ron Pelosi and Bob Mendelsohn, John l Molinari, and John j Barbagillata, and Terri a Francois, to Aaron Peskin, who, is, in the, chambers today. And, I think will regale us with more up to date, tales of the, budget analysts. Harvey's analysis of budget enabled us, for the first time in the history of the city and county, to spend money without enjoying it. Harvey saved us from breakdowns and enabled San Francisco citizens to pay as they go. And they didn't go anywhere here without Harvey's benediction. His marksmanship always enabled the city and county not to keep taxpayers from being affected with civility by mayors and all supervisors. And it's a moment in history which is being recorded today in a way which is deserved by the first, and the only budget analyst in the annals of the city and county of San Francisco. Congratulations, and thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, judge Kopp. I would now like to invite our former board president, Aaron Peskin, to come on up.

[Aaron Peskin, Former Board President]: Ketchup and relish. How many times did we hear in these chambers that he would eat a report with ketchup? I never actually saw it. But I did relish the reports that Harvey would issue. And I wanna actually thank judge Kopp and the board of that day, over a half a century ago, fifty four years ago, of having the policy idea of arming the legislative branch with a truly independent legislative budget analyst. Most other counties, most other boards of supervisors do not benefit from that. So thank you, Judge Kopp, for having the presence of mind to do it. And thank you, Harvey M. Rose, for doing it all these years. And to your generations of staff, some of whom are department heads and CFOs within this government, outside of this government, thank you to Renee and your family for putting up with you and all of us this half a century. And I wanna say that that report that you saw me asking about, we actually did get. And boy, did I relish that report. It showed immediately. And Harvey was Harvey, on my first day, said to me, you can count on me to be independent and not to bow down to or kowtow to mayors or members of your body. I'm an umpire. I will call it as I see it. And boy, was Willie Lewis Brown pissed at him when he issued a report that showed how much of a boondoggle the airport runway project was. And after that report came out, front page, top of the fold, San Francisco Chronicle, they were spending money for thousand dollar night hotel rooms and $10,000 dinners. I kid you not. He held nothing back, and we managed to avoid a financially and environmentally catastrophic boondoggle. Thank you, Harvey Rose, for that. Harvey, it has really been a pleasure working with you, your sense of humor, and I just want to say I now forgive you for missing that one extra deputy department head position that Willie Brown slipped into the port commission's budget, which I found and you didn't, you are forgiven.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And with that, unless there are members former members of this body in the chamber who I am not seeing, it is my great, though bittersweet, honor to call upon you one last time in your capacity as budget and legislative analyst Harvey Rose to provide the Rose report. Harvey, the floor is yours.

[Harvey M. Rose, Budget and Legislative Analyst (retiring)]: President Mandelmann and members of the board I'm sorry. President Mandelmann and members of the board, I will make this short, sweet, and simple. I cannot adequately express in words what a tremendous honor and privilege it has been for me to have served the San Francisco board of supervisors for fifty two years as their budget analyst. As a matter of fact, president Mandelmann, I am so old, I knew Baskin Robbins when they only had two flavors. But seriously, I wanna thank each member of the board and all of you for your very kind comments. I'm not sure that I deserve them. I I can't thank former supervisor Quentin Kopp and Aaron Peskin for their kind comments. They were two great outstanding supervisors who have always had the highest respect as I've had the highest respect for the entire boards of supervisor that I have served. I also want to thank my family and friends who are here today. Thank you very much for for being here. I I am honored. I I am so grateful to each of you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: With that, Harvey, I'm gonna invite you to come into the well. All of my colleagues join. If judge Kopp and former, president, Peskin would like to join us, come on in. I did not. I dropped that joke.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: It's his joke.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: For the record, Harvey Rose wanted to, leave off by saying that Angela Calvillo is a fantastic person, a point I think we all agree with. And not just a fantastic person, a great, great clerk. Thank you, Harvey Rose. Okay. Now, folks, we got a lot of commendations today. So we will go to district nine supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thanks, president Mandelmann. This time, I wanna invite the neighbors of the Gottenton Stairs to come up to the podium. Please give up for them. I'll start as you make your way. It is with deep admiration and gratitude that I present this commendation today to a group of neighbors whose vision, grit, and perseverance turns turned a once overlooked hillside into a vibrant work of public art and reflection. We honor the Gautengen Neighbors Group for their commitment to transforming the stairway at Gautengen And Dwight Street into what is now lovingly known as the Steps To Wisdom. This journey began nearly twenty years ago, early in the early two thousands, when a simple neighborhood cleanup effort led by about 10 residents decided to care for and beautify the block they call home. They received a small grant to clean up the overgrown hill, and from there, the city connected them with the San Francisco Parks Alliance, launching a long term effort to reimagine what this space could mean for the community. It was not an easy process. The group faced red tape, setbacks, and resistance, and today are also one of the many grassroots groups caught up in the SFPA, mismanagement. But nevertheless, they have never given up. In 2019, they were awarded a community challenge grant, and momentum grew. They fundraised, collected stories, and collaborated with neighbors, youth, retirement homes, and community centers to gather words of wisdom. Life lessons, affirmations, and advice that are now engraved into the tiles of these beautiful steps designed by artist Philip Hoi, who's here today. Philip's design is a gradient that moves from dark to light, a beautiful metaphor for growth and healing. At the top, mirrored tiles reflect each visitor, making them part of the journey. This project is more than beautification. It is about resilience and a love for one's block and neighbors. It shows what happens when neighbors claim a space, shape it with intention, and continue to show up year after year. And perhaps most beautifully, many of those who led this project still live on Gautengen Street. Representing the group here today is Philip Hua, Eric Rotenberg, Jeanette Wright, Laura Kemp, and Mika Salas. Thank you to the Gautengen Neighbors Group for your vision, your commitment, and your love for the Portola neighborhood.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Is that it,

[Gautengen Neighbors Group representative]: please? Thank you, board of supervisors. Thank you, Jackie Fielder. It started off as just an idea to make a little part of our neighborhood a little nicer. Our group partnered with the San Francisco Parks Alliance in 2006 to help us fundraise and create a beautiful space out of a neglected hillside. We spent our own free time volunteering to clean up trash, pull weeds, organize plant sales and other fundraisers. Countless unseen hours were spent in planning and organizing. Eleven years after an idea to beautify the stairs on Gautengen Street, we finally manifested the steps to wisdom in the Portola. I invite you all to visit it. We didn't do it alone. We had the support of our community, local businesses, friends and neighbors, supervisors, individual donors, Avenue Greenlight, and the community challenge grant. While that chapter has ended, the story isn't over. The Gottenjin Neighbors group, along with many other community partners of the San Francisco Parks Alliance, are now in limbo regarding the money that we have fundraised for our community projects because of the financial mismanagement of the San Francisco Parks Alliance. We thank the board for investigating this issue, and I sincerely hope that these community groups can somehow be made whole. Because if these groups are to be left in the dust, I fear the goodwill and community spirit of these groups will dry up, and San Francisco will lose so many community civic partners that help make San Francisco the beautiful and magical place that it is today. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. District eleven, supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, President Mendelmann. Patty is Patty in the room?

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

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Patty. Please come on. Colleagues, it is my great honor to celebrate Patty Clement on her retirement, an incredible career for over thirty years leading Catholic charities. Since 1990, Patty has led programs to aid vulnerable population, foster safe and healthy environments, and to maintain dignity and independence for the elderly. Patty's numerous accomplishments include serving as the chair of the coalition of agency serving the elderly, where she has advocated for elderly with disabilities. She served as the commissioner for the San Mateo County Commissions on Aging. She also served on the board of coalitions sorry. She also served on the board of the California Association of Adult Day Services to advocate at the state level and federal level for the needed services for adult day care programs. With the Lakeville OMI collaboration, she created and launched it, the OMI community health fair during the pandemic, serving over 450 community members. She was a key member of the effort that brought COVID testing and vaccination program to the OMI neighborhood and helped countless residents to secure groceries during those times. Thank you, Patty. Thank you for your thirty years of community work and dedication to senior advocacy. You will be missed. I hope that after all the well deserved break and long vacation with your husband, and that I will continue to see you around. And again, thank you for all your leadership, dedication, and hard work, and your heart and love to our community and neighborhoods. And congratulations on your retirement. Thank you.

[Patty Clement]: So thank you so much. I don't like to be in the limelight, really, and I couldn't have done all that I've been able to accomplish over the years without an amazing team that I was able to create and the collaborations that I've worked with and the community members, CBOs, and, of course, the Department of Aging and Disability Services. It's been a true honor to, live out what I think is my passion and my calling. And to be able to serve San Francisco for over thirty five years in doing that and working in multiple areas has been a true honor and a blessing to me. And you will still be seeing me around. I'm gonna take a little break for a few years, spend time with my mom while I still can. But I'll be back, and you'll see me lurking around the neighborhood. So thank you again so much. I really appreciate this.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District two, supervisor Cheryl.

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Are Lucas and Max in the chamber right now? Or are they still outside in line? Nope. They may still be stuck outside in line.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. We'll go to District 3 and come back to district two. District three, supervisor slaughter.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, today I have the honor of recognizing Jahan Eric Kim, formerly known as captain Kim, now known as commander Kim Kim. Commander, would you come on up with the rest of your team, please? We have been so lucky to have Eric serve as our captain at Central Station for the past two years. His time as our captain followed nearly three decades in the department that has taken him across Terreval, Ingleside, and Bayview Stations. I started to get to know Commander Kim a few years ago when he was new to Central, and I was serving on the board of my neighborhood association. And since then, there's a lot that I've admired about him. First, his candor and his honesty. I can't tell you how many times he started a conversation with, I'm just gonna tell you how it is. I'm just gonna be honest with you. I'm gonna be straight with you. And that's the sort of honesty and transparency we've needed, especially in these last few years. He has been very committed, continues to be committed. He's always available. We've had conversations early in the morning, late at night. I know he's had those same conversations with many of my colleagues and many other of my constituents. I think most of all, though, he understands, that this is a role that must be done in partnership with community for it to be done well. He is always willing to meet with community groups, large and small, willing to meet with constituents who deserve and need to hear directly from a captain and directly from the police department. He's also dedicated to foot patrols and getting officers out of stations and into the streets, and I appreciate all of your partnership in doing that in our district. We will miss commander Kim. Though, to be clear, he is not retiring to spend more time attending k pop concerts. He is being promoted to commander of metro unit, which means we will continue to benefit from his leadership and his dedication to our city. Eric, thank you for all your service. And if you'd like, I invite you to say a

[Eric J. Kim, SFPD Commander (formerly Captain, Central Station)]: few words. I really wanna start off by thanking you, supervisor. It means a lot being recognized for all the work. I do wanna say that being the captain of central station or any of a station, I realize that, I don't know the success of a captain. No matter how hard you work, it's really about building relationships and, getting support from people. So I wanna take this time to thank people who made me successful in my role. And I first off, I wanna start off by thanking you, supervisor, because I think even before you became supervisors, I know we met and worked together when he was a member of the North Beach Neighborhood Association. And then you became supervisor. And I really wanna thank you for your support, your leadership. And I really wanna thank also your staff, because to be very truthful, I know with any great leader, the most important people is the staff. They do all the work and, all the time and effort. So I really wanna thank them for their partnership. But also a successful captain, I believe, is, well, the members of the community, their support. And besides thinking there's so many community groups in the central that I'm very grateful. But I see one here in the audience today, Annie Chung from the Self Help for the Elderly. A great organization, and I love working with her and being able to help her and her helping us in the support. So, organization and people like Annie is the reason why captains, I believe, do so well. And lastly, I have to really thank, the officers at Central Station who day in, day out put their lives on the line to protect the citizens of District 3, obviously, but all all the officers in San Francisco. But then I have to recognize finally the backbone, when I was a captain, backbone was my staff, who's behind me right now. I would not have been successful at all without their hard work. And, obviously, I tell people they're actually the brains of the operation. I'm just the face, but they are the brains. And without them, there's no way that I would have been successful at, Central Station. So, I wanna thank everybody here, and thank you again for the strike condition, their supervisor.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Sheryl, are you ready for us? District two, supervisor Sheryl.

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Alright. Lucas and Max, please come up to the podium. Well, colleagues and fellow San Franciscans, today I am extremely excited to recognize two incredible young athletes who grew up in District 2 and are making San Francisco proud. Lucas Kelly and Max Banks were both selected this past weekend in the twenty twenty five Major League Baseball draft. Personally, I think it's pretty cool when one San Franciscan gets selected. But when two San Franciscans who grew up playing against each other and I think Max said that you guys played against or with each other a thousand times, which sounds ridiculous, but might be true.

[Quentin L. Kopp, Former Supervisor, State Senator, and Judge]: That's probably true.

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: But that is incredibly exciting

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

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: of us. From rec leagues to weekend tournaments, these guys put in the work right here on our local fields and in their respective colleges. And I can't tell you how excited all of us are that you're taking that next big step, and I know we're gonna see you in the big leagues before long. Lucas grew up in Pacific Heights and graduated from Stakeard Hart Cathedral Prep in d two. He played college ball at Texas A and M and then at Arizona State, where he built a reputation for a fastball that touches 99 miles an hour, just slightly faster than my 71 mile an hour two seamer. He was drafted in the sixth round this weekend by the Seattle Mariners. Max grew up in the marina and graduated from Stewart Hall High School, also in d two. He played at Chapman University and the University of Washington with a phenomenal track record both on the field and in the classroom, earning all big ten second team in CSC academic all district honors. He was drafted this weekend in the fourteenth round by the Chicago White Sox. Both of these guys got their start right here in San Francisco, and they didn't do it alone. They were both coached as kids by Gerald Reeder, who helped lead their teams to multiple Pony League West zone championships. They also trained with Michael Icardi, who runs the San Francisco Baseball Academy on Geary and Kevin Schneider. For Lucas in particular, additional coaches like Brian Morgan, Greg Greg Franceschi, and Mary Cole of Sacred Heart all played key roles in development. These coaches and communities have helped shape not just great athletes, but much more importantly, great teammates and great young men. It's rare to see big league athletes who are truly homegrown right here in San Francisco proper. And of course, this is a huge moment for your families. To Lucas' parents, Tala, Brian, your stepfather, Thomas, and to Max's parents, David and Anne, congratulations. You deserve all the credit. I know the boys are great, but you all deserve so much credit. Lucas and Max, you guys earned this through talent, grit, and years of hard work. We're going to be cheering you on every step of the way to the bigs. So congratulations to you both, and I'd like to invite you to say a couple words if you'd like.

[Max Banks]: I'll go first. Yeah. Just thank you for having us out here. It's an incredible honor, especially to be up here with my with my buddy Lucas, who I grew up playing with, like we said, since we were eight years old. It's really special, like you said. Couldn't have done it without our family. So shout out to my parents, and shout out to coach Gerald who's in the house as well. Lucas and I grew up playing for Gerald, and he definitely facilitated our love for the game, and we couldn't have done it without him. So thank you to my family. Thank you to Gerald, and thank you to, the city of San Francisco. Can't wait to represent SF at the next level.

[Lucas Kelly]: Thank you all for having me today. I thought it was very fitting that I got some good news yesterday, in my home city of San Francisco. This city means a lot to me. I have four fifteen on my glove. Born and raised here. It's just a super unique experience. I think, as you go along in this game, you don't see a lot of people with our backgrounds growing up in a city like this. It's a very unique spot. But I couldn't agree with you more. I'd like to thank my mom. She's my rock. Without her, I would not be in a position to do what I've done. Driving me everywhere, buying me new equipment, just sacrificing everything, so I to put me in the right spot. So I'd really like to thank her. Thank Coach Gerald. Definitely played over a thousand games with that guy growing up. He built the foundation. So, thank you guys for having me.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District five, supervisor Mahmoud.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Good afternoon, colleagues. It is my great honor to recognize the legendary Alice Wong. Alice, for those who don't know, is a visionary leader, cultural organizer, and one of the most powerful voices in the disability justice movement. Alice's work has redefined not only how we understand disability, but also how we understand each other. Alice is an activist, a writer, editor, and community builder. She is the founder and the director of the Disability Visibility Project, a platform dedicated to creating and amplifying media and culture for and by disabled people. What started as an oral history project has grown into a powerful force for cultural change. Through her work, Alice has opened space for stories that have long been ignored or kept silent. Stories of joy, relationships, and justice. Stories of our humanity. It's reflective of Alice's work, which is deeply rooted in community and care. As a long time San Franciscan, she is a beloved finger, not only in our city, but across the country and beyond. Through her memoir, Year of the Tiger, her anthologies, Disability Visibility and Disability Intimacy, and her digital organizing, Alice has redefined the conversation around disability and power. Last year, Alice was awarded the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship or Genius Grant for her visionary leadership. She has also led national campaigns like Crip the Vote, which encourage platforms to hire disabled writers through disabledwriters.com and raise funds for the Access is Love Project with Maya Mingus and Sandy Ho. Her leadership is expansive, intersexual, but always inclusive. Alice's advocacy spans pop culture, health care, politics, food, and education. And through it all, she invites us to imagine a world where access is the norm, not the exception. One of Alice's most powerful reflections is this. Storytelling is a powerful form of resistance. It leaves evidence that we were here. In a time when disabled people are often made to feel isolated, Alice's work insists on wholeness and empowerment. But she doesn't just tell her own story. She creates space for others to share theirs. She builds coalitions and communities. She mentors rising leaders, and she creates the space which reshapes the world and process. It's also worth noting that Alice is a huge Star Wars fan, which I also personally can attest to having grown up with. And I say this in that she's not just a Jedi Knight, but anointing her as a Jedi master just feels right. She brings the clarity and conviction and compassion to every space she enters, and like a true Jedi, channels the force of the community to disrupt injustice and form a path towards a better world. Alice, your voice has transformed how we think, how we write, and how we organize. And as we prepare to recognize the anniversary of the Americans with Disability Act, we celebrate your work to shift our culture from one of exclusion to one of interdependence. You've taught us that access is love and set an example that true inclusion requires imagination, humility, and a bit of artistry. And lastly, to close, I'd like to quote from one Jedi master to another, from a famous person named Yoda. And I'm not going to imitate his voice. Sorry. Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? I guess he hums a lot. Well, you should not. For my allies, the force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not the crude matter of our body. You must feel the force around you, here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere. So, Alice, may the force be with you.

[Alice Wong]: Wow. This is quite an honor. I'd

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

[Alice Wong]: to thank the board of supervisors. Please look at me when I am talking to you. Thank you have some important stuff to say, and especially a shout out to supervisor Mahmood and his staff. And by the way, congratulations supervisor Mahmood on identifying as an autistic person publicly. Welcome to our amazing, diverse community. And if you ever want to hang out and talk about disability justice, I'm your disabled cyborg. I'd like to thank you, Lyle Larden, from the office on disability and Accessibility for his friendship and support. And by the way, I think he's doing a stellar job in the few months Eli has been in this position. The City and County of San Francisco is lucky to have him. I want to thank my friends and family who have always had my back. I want to thank my disabled comrades such as Debbie Kaplan and Satya Baetner who are also recognized today, and I want to honor my friend Patty Burn who transitioned to the great beyond only a few months ago. Patty was the executive and artistic director of the performance arts group Sense Invalet and one of the founders of the disability justice framework. Without her wisdom, we would not have disability justice as we know it today. I moved here over twenty five years ago to attend graduate school at UCSF. One reason I moved here is because of the accessibility and progressiveness of this city and state. Thanks to programs such as IHSS and a medical waiver, I have been able to live and work in the community, which is not the case for so many disabled people in the country with complex medical needs like mine. I have the privilege to learn about disability justice from some of the key thinkers and developers like the late Patty Burn, the late Stacey Park Milburn, and Mia Mingus. As I reflect on this idea anniversary month, I feel ambivalent about its celebratory nature. I struggle to feel festive and proud when there are so many threats facing disabled people locally and nationally. To the supervisors and other elected officials in this room, I want to say that this city desperately needs to be officials in this room, I want to say that this city desperately needs to understand what disability justice is and implement its principles into the policies and practices that impact everyone. One principle of disability justice is collective liberation, the belief that we leave no one behind and we are doing just that in this city. I am enraged by the passage of the HR one, also known as the big beautiful bill, and the upcoming cuts to Medi Cal, food stamps, and other safety net programs. We are on the clear path toward a autocracy led by a fascist white nationalist at the federal level, and this is not helped by our own governor who restored the asset limit to Medi Cal after years of advocacy by the disability community and the denial of Medi Cal to undocumented applicants that will take effect in the near future. I fear that home and community based services will be first on the chopping block because they are considered optional Medicaid services unlike nursing homes. This is not disability justice. Right now, disabled immigrants are being kidnapped by ICE without due process and denied access to their medications. There are families ripped apart and entire families deported including children with cancer. Immigrants who are following the law are getting snatched up just a few blocks from here at 100 Montgomery Street while SFPD does nothing to intervene whether they are legally allowed to or not. What is happening in Los Angeles will happen to our city fairly soon and I are genuine with power in this room and city hall to resist with all of the powers they have and prevent ICE from terrorizing communities of color who by the way include monolingual undocumented disabled people. ICE is the entity creating major threats to public safety. ICE is laying siege and causing violence, not peaceful protesters who are bearing witness to racist, xenophobic injustice. This is not disability justice. I live in the South Of Market neighborhood, District 6, and it has been disheartening to see unhoused people displaced in the name of revitalization. A significant percentage of unhoused people in San Francisco have disabilities such as substance use disorder and severe mental illness. The solution by this mayor's administration and the governor is to institutionalize them in forced treatment, regressing decades of advocacy by disabled people for the right to live in the community autonomously. Thanks to the Supreme Court decision and Grants Pass v Johnson, which ruled that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for camping on public land do not constitute cruel and unusual punishment of homeless people. It essentially gives local governments free reign to displace unhoused people with little recourse, which is cruel and unusual. We do not need more hospital beds. We need accessible and affordable housing with supportive services from nonprofits, but that's not likely with the slashing of budgets that eliminate these critical services that actually saves money by preventing hospitalizations and emergency room visits. And the reason why so many people are on the streets is a function of the economy and a lack of housing stock. For some reason, it's easier for this mayor to invest in institutional and carceral settings rather than investing in rather than investing in community based solutions. Someone came to visit me lately and was so scared to park in my neighborhood, blithely mentioning how she saw, quote, hobos on the street. This casual comment incensed me because it's so easy to dehumanize poor disabled people, undocumented people, and unhoused people in order to facilitate policies that encore chariot them in the name of safety. The mindset of out of sight, out of mind is eugenics. This is not disability justice. If you listen to the wisdom of disabled people, disabled people of color in particular, you would know that we keep each other safe, not the police or other agencies such as ICE. With my work as the creator of the disability visibility project, I believe visibility is part of resistance against all the forces that want to erase us. I try my best to show the nuances, the messness, the realness, the beauty of disabled people in a world that thinks we are all takers who get special treatment when they are actually rights and accommodations under the law. Our narratives matter and our inherent power and wisdom can be of value to everyone if only people listen and believe us. To all the supervisors in this room, you should know how blessed we are to be in the Bay Area, the site of the independent living movement and decades of disability history and culture. Just a few blocks from here was the site of the five zero four sit ins, the longest occupation of a federal building in the fight for disability rights in 1977. Resisting the federal government is nothing new. We should learn from the past and harness people power today. Right now, we need community more than ever. It was a lifeline that saved me decades ago when I was starved for connection. The rights enshrined by the idea that made us a protected class is something that must be defended in this empty intellectual culture that is dismantling democracy, diversity, equity, inclusion right before our eyes. I urge everyone in this room to not look away, to demand accountability from our elected officials, and to stand up for our communities. Thank you and free Palestine. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: District 7, supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. President Mandelmann, Sasha Bittner, can you please come up? Hi, Sasha. This disability pride month of July, I am honoring one of our city's staunchest advocates for the disability community and the rights of the domestic workers who support the dignity and independence of many of the members of this community. From Washington, DC to Sacramento to her home city of San Francisco in our neighborhood of Ingleside Terraces, Sasha Bittner has tirelessly championed disability rights for over twenty five years. A lifelong community activist with a particular focus on disability and domestic workers' rights, Sasha is the immediate past president of the San Francisco In Home Supportive Services Public Authority Governing Board. I do see Kelly Dearman here in the audience. And, in addition, she was an appointee to the disability and aging commission. Sasha has served on the national steering committee and local and also on the local chapter of Hand in Hand, the domestic employers network, working with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, SEIU, and UDC to ensure good working conditions that benefits both employers and workers, including those who provide home care for disabled people. She has served as a leader on the Golden Gate Regional Center Self Determination Local Advisory Committee, the Bay Area regional advisory committee on developmental disabilities, the California state council on developmental disabilities, the national council on disability, and is on the citizens advisory committee of the San Francisco MTA. Sasha worked with members of the San Francisco board of supervisors on a successful pilot program to provide affordable long term home care for middle class San Franciscans. And for over twenty years, Sasha was a program coordinator for Kids Project, co facilitating disability education workshop for thousands of students in Bay Area schools to promote inclusion and to combat bullying. This amazing, accomplished woman has done so much for others. She got her start with direct action, die ins, protests, and marches, advocating for accessible public transportation with ADAPT. She received a degree in social work welfare from UC Berkeley. But before that, she attended Lowell High School and sued the San Francisco Unified School District for excluding students like her when they planned the senior class trip to Disneyland without thinking about students with disabilities. She has always been a fighter. She continues to advocate for her community and the community of domestic workers, recognizing the ways in which their unique experiences are deeply intertwined with the victories that they are have shared. Thank you, Sasha, for your committed and tireless activism. Thank you to, her family, for, supporting an amazing person like Sasha. And, thank you for all the community members who have come out today to support you, Sasha, for preserving and advancing justice in our city, our state, and across the country. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: you, supervisor Melgar, for that wonderful introduction.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: My my brother gave a pyramid that I give from the the three organization. He's going to be my.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: I'm Sasha's brother, Caleb, and I'll be helping voice a few words on her behalf. Yeah. Today, as I reflect on how far we have come at making America more inclusive for disabled people, I also watch in horror as the programs that have helped us achieve these goals are decimated. When I was born in 1973 to a single teenage mother, many disabled children were still placed in institutions with expectations for us very low. A renowned pediatrician told her I'd never be able to do much of anything. Thankfully, my mother had a different opinion, but faced years of struggle to get me the support and services I needed. In 1980, we moved to San Francisco, specifically Lakewood Avenue in Supervisor Melgar's district, where my mom and dad first met. At that time, there was no ramped platforms for streetcars, so my mother had to carry me on the k. There was also no curb cuts or bus lifts, and even the few schools available to me as a specialized student had limited accessibility. What we didn't initially realize, though, was that the Bay Area, especially Berkeley, had also become the center of a growing disability rights movement. As my mother learned about this movement, she began to see disability more as a civil rights problem than a medical one, with solutions that involve changing attitudes and laws while creating accessible, accommodating, inclusive communities. When I was bullied in eighth grade because of my disability, my mother wanted not only to comfort and support me, but to address the problem more widely. We joined a nonprofit started at the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley to ensure more inclusive and welcoming schools. Kids Project brought disabled guest speakers in the classrooms to talk about their lives, the disability rights movement, barriers, accessibility, independent living, discrimination, and other issues in order to provide information, dispel stereotypes, recognize similarities, and also celebrate our differences. I became involved in the disability rights movement and had the privilege of learning from such trailblazers as Ed Roberts, Judy Heumann, and, of course, my fellow performers in Ry Cripps disabled women's theater group while developing a sense of pride in my community and culture. Eventually, mom became the director of Kids Project, and I became a program manager as part of a collaborative funded by DCYF. For twenty years, we educated thousands of students in San Francisco schools about the value of, yes, diversity, equity, and inclusion. So current attempts to gut DEI efforts are an attack on my life's work. When we are told this carnage will help make America great again, to what great, era in America do they refer? Was it when my people were warehoused in institutions and completely excluded from civic life? Was it when

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: public transportation, restaurants, movies, and schools

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: were inaccessible and restaurants, movies, and schools were inaccessible and unaccommodating, and we were stigmatized, discriminated against, and treated with contempt? When my mother struggled to get me included in a regular education, or we when we had to fight to get an entrance ramp to my high school role and access to extracurricular activities, the promise of America for my people has only just begun to be realized. And now they want to return to what, for us, was the dark ages. For the last fifteen years, I've particularly focused on expansion of home and community based services, critical components of self determination and inclusion that allow disabled people and seniors to live in our homes and communities instead of institutions or nursing homes. Unfortunately, these programs are dependent on Medicaid funding, and we've all just learned how much the pro life party cares about my life. With an aging workforce, increasing home care needs from the baby boomer cohort, and the scarcity of younger people in the workforce, we already have a dire shortage of home care workers who provide these essential services. Slashing Medicaid while mandating mass deportations will massively exacerbate that situation. Again, for whom is this making America great? When speaker emeritus Nancy Pelosi appointed me to the National Council on Disability in 2022, I learned it was this council that first proposed the ADA and helped get it enacted. While we still have a long way to go, when I traveled to New York for a council meeting in May, I experienced firsthand the enormous progress and accessibility since I first visited the city before the ADA's passage. But the highlight of the trip happened after we attended a performance of Wicked. We were able to have a talk back with the first disabled actress to play the role of disabled character Ness on Broadway. Hearing her story and seeing that glass ceiling shattered, ceiling shattered was beyond uplifting and inspiring. I want everyone to know, no matter what destruction this administration wreaks, we're not going back. In closing, I'd like to acknowledge the critical work being done by my colleagues in the disability and domestic workers' rights movements, and to thank of all of those who've supported and uplifted me throughout my life, including teachers, political officials, community activists, and leaders, like the recently departed Joe Feldman, who was so instrumental in securing the educational services that helped me thrive. My colleagues, neighbors, and dear friends, people Christine Pelosi first referred to as team Sasha. Finally, I'd like to express my deep appreciation to my loving family, the most important of team Sasha, including my sister Annika, who is watching from LA, and especially to my mom, Emily Metters Bittner, who's been with me from the start. We definitely proved that pediatrician and so many others wrong.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: Thank you, supervisor Marco, for this incredible honor.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Thank you, supervisor Melgar, for this incredible honor.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: Happy thirty fifth anniversary, ADA.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Happy thirty fifth anniversary to the ADA.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: And to all of you, keep your eyes on the prize. Alright.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: And to all of you, keep your eyes on the prize.

[Sasha Bittner (with assistive communication)]: We do not be moved.

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: We will not be moved.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Congratulations, Sasha Bittner. And that brings us, to our final commendation of the day, from District 8, Deborah Kaplan. Colleagues, today I am presenting a special commendation to Debbie Kaplan, a pioneering disability rights attorney and activist who currently serves as the deputy director of the San Francisco office on disability and accessibility. Debbie was born in Cleveland, Ohio. While she was growing up, her family moved to Massachusetts and eventually to Colorado. She moved to California in 1967 to attend UC Santa Cruz where she majored in religious studies and from which she graduated in 1971. She worked as a substitute teacher, house cleaner, and waitress before deciding to go to law school. In May 1972, on a backpacking trip with her friends in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Debbie broke her neck diving into a creek and was left quadriplegic. She spent nine months in rehab, but emerged undeterred from her quest to be a lawyer. She applied to UC Berkeley Law School, unique at the time for having a program for disabled students. In 1974, Debbie cofounded the Disabled Women's Coalition at UC Berkeley. The same year, she cofounded the Disability Rights Center. From 1980 to 1985, she was an attorney for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, a national cross disability civil rights law and policy center, direct by individuals and parents who have children with disabilities. In 1997, she became the executive director of the World Institute on Disability, where she pioneered projects on policy and focused on universal design and technology. She also headed the Accessible Technology Initiative for the California State University System and later served on the sec as the section five zero eight policy lead and agency wide section five zero eight coordinator in the office of the chief information officer at the US Department of Health and Human Services. Debbie joined the mayor's office on disability, now the office on disability and accessibility, in April 2020. As deputy director of programmatic access, she oversees all aspects of programmatic accessibility compliance and technical assistance on behalf of ODA, which includes fielding accessibility complaints and concerns, ensuring effective communication and digital access, and helping to curate citywide training on accessibility best practices. She also leads the office's engagement efforts pertaining to vision zero and all local legislation impacting people with disabilities and advises the mayor's disability council. I got to know Debbie while working on our beyond the front door legislation while she was acting director of the then mayor's office on disability. I found her to be a terrific partner in that effort, and I'm grateful for her wise counsel, pragmatism, and deep knowledge of the issues based on her decades of work and her lived experience. Debbie, I wanna thank you for your service to San Francisco and your advocacy on behalf of all people with disabilities. And now the floor is yours.

[Deborah (Debbie) Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office on Disability and Accessibility]: Probably. Yeah. Thanks a lot. Do you wanna hold me a hold of it? I think I got it. Thank you very much.

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

[Deborah (Debbie) Kaplan, Deputy Director, Office on Disability and Accessibility]: just turn around a bit. So thank you, president Maldenman, and members of the board of supervisors. I have been reflecting, since this is the month of the thirty fifth anniversary of the ADA, how long it's been that I've been involved in the disability rights movement. And it's over fifty years, which comes as a bit of a shock to even be able to say that at this point in life. And I have to share that I feel extremely lucky to have had that accident when and where that I did. Because it happened really near the Bay Area in Berkeley. And I then had the privilege of being involved at the beginning of the disability rights movement in Berkeley and working with many, many other folks with disabilities who took the radical and empowerment ideas of other human rights and disability and civil rights movements and applied them to ourselves, and have had the privilege of changing the world. You've heard a lot today about other pioneers in our movement and the situation that people with disabilities currently find ourselves in. And yet, what we also know is that the majority of people with disabilities are not obvious to others. Most disabilities are not visible, and yet the laws that we have put into place and benefited from for decades now have benefited far more than you might think. And those of us who do have hidden disabilities, know what I'm talking about. If we look at how the ADA has changed everybody's lives, I think we think about curb ramps, and the fact that everybody uses curb ramps. When I talk to people on the street and mention that the curb ramps were put in place because of activism by folks like me, they don't even know what I'm talking about because everybody uses them, whether it's delivery people, parents with strollers, or just all pedestrians just use the curb ramps. Sometimes I want them to get out of the way so that I can. And then the other big change that most people know about is captioning on TV programming. That is part of the ADA and is now a ubiquitous part of streaming media and the videos that are part of everyone's lives. How many people rely on captions who are not deaf or hard of hearing and are able to fully follow what's going on, and know have a better experience of the video because of the ADA. And I invite you as policymakers to understand that those things don't happen by accident. It's because when we do things, thinking primarily of people with disabilities, we make life better in ways that we can't fully predict. And yet, that is what will come about. It's not just doing things for handicapped people, an old fashioned idea. It's doing things for everybody. And I invite you as you hopefully will have the chance to rebuild things from the wreckage that is currently going on. Hopefully, we will all have a chance to do some of that rebuilding and finding opportunities to make things better when we do reconstruct our country and our state and our city that think about what are the benefits from talking with people with disabilities at the very beginning about what our needs are, not just to do the right thing, but to make the right policy and make things better in unpredictable ways that everyone will benefit from. I hope that you take that away as we get through the next few years, and I pray that we will all be engaged in Reconstruction really soon. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Thank you. And that, friends, is our two thirty special commendations. And we will now go back to our dis well, I think we might be done with some of our discussion of the budget, but I think we have some votes. So madam clerk, you have called items seven through 38, but not including 36. We have taken out of that items seven, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31. So could you call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: We have a speaker on

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: the roster. Chair Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you. If I may, colleagues, I I wanna say it is not if I may say, one of the reason why it is called together and oftentimes as budget and trailing legislation, there's nothing in the rules against us to call out and sever all the items and then vote on them separately. So I I just wanted to say this is this is not that's not what I'm talking about. What I am talking about though, that is to be clear before you cast your votes today, as you cast both separate and apart and then also to understand all of them together is that is what is before you is really the budget. What it means that the trailing legislation, be it a paid parking fees or a court fees, all those are actually have physical impact. Without passing of these chilling legislation, it actually impact the entire budget because it is revenue that we assume that we will generate and what we call a budget that we put together before you today. So before you cast your vote, I I just wanted to, again, urge for your support for these all each and every single one of them. They are not what we love. They are not good options. No one wants to increase fees, and I am very sure of it among all 11 of us. But, again, I just wanted to articulate, for example, that, you know, the building inspection fee before you raise funds all across, but really, particularly, that will be inclusive of the coenforcements for SRO buildings. I'm just giving you some example of what it actually goes back to. Again, together, it generate revenues, and it becomes assumption that we must include as budget. If any of these trailing legislation do not pass, particularly some of these fees, that I wanna, again, let you know that it really would impact the budget in its entirety. So even though it may not be, seems like, just a few million dollars here and there, but I I I just wanna, again, to articulate that point and why they are actually going together and along with the budget as trailing. And that is what I wanted to make sure that you are aware before we do so. So thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, chair Chan. And so with that, madam clerk, could you call the roll on the items that have been called excluding seven, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items eight through fourteen, seventeen through nineteen, twenty two through thirty, thirty two through 35, and 37 through 38, minus seventeen, fifteen, sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Angadio, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmut? Aye. Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Supervisor Walton?

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Aye.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Then without objection, the, ordinances are passed on first are adopted on first reading passed on first reading, and the resolutions are adopted. Alright. Madam clerk, please call item seven.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item seven, supervisor

[Speaker 11.0]: Hold up. Supervisor Walton. President, madam, and

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: just a question because I'm wondering if we can't call the remaining items together and vote all at once. Is that something that we all could agree on rather than voting on each of them separately?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I I will ask the sever if we could vote on all of the remaining, unvoted on items that have been called together.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: No. Because I have a different vote for 16.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. We're gonna go item by item.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Well, we can I believe we can call everything but item 16? Sorry. Item 15 together.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: 15 is the one we're not 15 correct. Without. Alright. Madam Clerk, please call the roll on items seven, sixteen, twenty, twenty one, and 31.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item seven? Yeah. Yes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh, but before we do that, Cher Chien.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: My apologies. I just wanna quickly reference, and I I think that I asked the budget director. She doesn't seem to think we need to do that, but I wanna articulate on July 9, the budget director actually has sent us technical adjustments to the budget, and they're they're technical adjustments. But I just want to raise that. That is particularly for item seven. There are tech technical adjustments sorry. For seven and eight, there are technical adjustments, and that shows the transfer of function and and that the board needs to adopt them. But I assume we don't need to make the motion to adopt them because they're technical adjustment proposed by the mayor. Or do we?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: If you want to I I think we should accept that generally, a transfer of function memo is a hearing. So let's rescind the vote on item eight, accept the technical adjustment to item eight, and then continue with the vote on seventeen, sixteen, twenty, twenty one, and 31.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: My apologies.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. So I'm gonna treat that as a motion to re to rescind the vote on item eight.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Yes. My apologies. And it's like when a suburb like this.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: By Walton. I can can we take that without objection?

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. And then

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Motion to accept the technical adjustments for items eight and seven and eight? Yes. Would be in order next, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Moved by Chan and seconded by Walton. And we can take that without objection. The amendment is the technical adjust adjustments are accepted. And with that, madam clerk, can you call the roll on items seven eight

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: As amended.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Seven, eight as amended. 1620, 21, and 31.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Supervisor Fielder, 15 is your item. Correct?

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: So I would I would request that we vote together on seven, sixteen, twenty, twenty one, and 31.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Not eight.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: So, mister president, supervisor Fielder would like to hold back several items. Currently, the roll call would be on seven as amended, items sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31. Correct. Correct. Okay. Mister president?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Twenty one and thirty one and not 20?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. 17 as amended. Sixteen Seven as Seven as amended. Sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Madam Clerk.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: But Walton is on the roster.

[Speaker 11.0]: Supervisor Walton. I was

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: just gonna say, can't we just do eight? But that's okay.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I think supervisor Fielder is interested in speaking about eight.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: No. No remarks on eight.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh. So we are including We're gonna

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: need to vote on eight.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Seven and eight as amended. Nope. Nope.

[Speaker 11.0]: Supervisor Walton. At seven, seven is

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: included separately. We we amended seven and eight, but we still have to vote on both items. But we can include seven with the other package and just vote on item eight. Correct?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. I I'm lost. We have we have not adopted seven or eight. We've amended both. Correct.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Now can we adopt eight and then take the other ones? Take eight alone.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Agreed.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I don't see why not. Madam Clerk, you wanna call the roll on item eight?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item eight. Supervisor Chen.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor, Envadio? Aye. Angardio, aye. Supervisor, Fielder? Aye. Fielder, aye. Supervisor, Mahmood? Aye. Supervisor, Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor, Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor, Sauter? Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walton, I. And supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Chan, I.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh, yes. Item eight. Madam Clerk, do you wanna

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: That is item eight.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And that is item eight, which without objection, the ordinance is adopted on is passed on first reading. Alright. That is eight. Then we have seven, sixteen, not 20?

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: 20.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Twenty, twenty one, and 31.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: 31.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And 31. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll while seven is amended and the other items that I announced?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. On item seven as amended, item sixteen, twenty, 21, and 31. Supervisor Chen. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? I. Dorsey, I. Supervisor, Angadio. I. Angadio, I. Supervisor, Fielder. Fielder, no. Supervisor, Mahmoud. I. Supervisor, Mandelmann.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Melgar, I. Supervisor, Sautter. Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. And supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. There are 10 ayes and one no, with supervisor Fielder voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. So with that, the ordinances are passed on first reading, and the resolution is adopted. And then, madam clerk, I think that leaves us

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: 15, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Just 15?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: We have we have called 15, but just for those who weren't here in the chamber, this is an ordinance that accept and expands a grant retroactive immigration defense unit, Crankstart Foundation, in the amount of 3,400,000.0.

[Speaker 11.0]: Supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Thank you, colleagues. To be clear, I wanna I'm gonna support this item, but I do wanna clarify that it does not represent Citi funding to community immigration legal defense services. It represents a donation by a foundation for the public defender's office, which is is welcome. We need a lot more philanthropic support to fund immigration legal services everywhere. And I support this, but these are two different things. City funding city funding for immigration legal defense services was kept at a baseline. I was at a Hundred Montgomery this morning. There are not enough community deployed lawyers to cover every immigration court or every person who needs to process their case. And community defense organizations, legal defense organizations are spread so thin that when ICE is waiting in the hallways for people, volunteer court observers, everyday people, neighbors, are calling the rapid response line to connect people with lawyers. It's a reactive system because people are spread so thin. And at a time when Congress just gave Trump $75,000,000,000 to scale up his ICE deportation machine, lawyers are being burned out. They're experiencing secondhand trauma of seeing families ripped apart. They're the ones showing up on the scene, at the courts, in the streets every time our city calls a rapid response line or attorney of the day program, and this amounts to a cut. All that said, I do support this and welcome more of this kind of support from philanthropy for our public defender as well as our community based organizations on the front lines. Thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Madam clerk, please call the roll on item 15.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item 15, supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor, En Gardio? Aye. En Gardio, I. Supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor, Mahmoud. Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Without objection, item 15, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Okay. I think that got us through those items. Madam Clerk, could you please call item 36,

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: item 36? This item was referred without recommendation from the budget and appropriations committee. This is an ordinance to authorize the city to reallocate approximately 34,700,000.0 in prior appropriated revenue and unappropriated earned interest within the, our city, our home, AKA Ocoho Fund, to allow the city to use revenues from the homelessness gross receipts tax through fiscal year 2026 through '27. For certain types of services to address homelessness, notwithstanding the expenditure percentages set forth in the business and tax regulations code section twenty eight ten, where future revenue and interest to the fund exceeds amounts appropriated in the adopted budget for fiscal years 2025 and 2026 and 2026 and 2027 to authorize the city to expend up to 19,100,000.0 of such additional revenues and interest on any programs to address homelessness as described in the BTR code section twenty eight ten without regard to the expenditure percentages in that section and to temporarily suspend the limit on funding for short term rental subsidies and finding that these reallocations are necessary to achieve the purpose of the of the Our City, Our Home fund pursuant to the BTR code section twenty eight eleven.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thanks, president Walton. Colleagues, while our negotiate allocations of Prop C over the next two years are important wins, I'm deeply concerned about the precedent that section four sets. Section four, up to $20,000,000 for up to $20,000,000 will eliminate the super majority requirement at the board for approving future surplus funds. This is a serious problem. Prop c was intentionally designed to require a supermajority of the board to approve spending plans, ensuring that real solutions to homelessness, like housing and housing for families and youth, aren't sidelined in favor of short term fixes or political whims. This requirement is a safeguard of a voter approved check on especially mayoral power. Now we're using that very super majority to give away this essential safeguard. That's not sound governance. Whether it's up to 20,000,000 or a dollar, Rewriting a voter initiative like this has never been done in past proxy trailing legislation and sets a dangerous and unprecedented example for other voter initiatives with a super majority trust. By passing section four, we're setting a precedent that will be hard to walk back in the future. If the mayor has a thoughtful plan for spending voter mandated funding for homeless services, he should be able to present his plan to the board of supervisors and gain the support of a super majority. This is an unnecessary move that represents an attack on the voter initiative process and thereby local democracy. And I have to ask, why is this board okay with a move that blatantly defies the very principles of good governance? We love to talk about collaboration here, but if collaboration means steamrolling local democracy, count me out. And with that, president Mailman, I request to have the question divided for section four on this item.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. There's been a request to divide the question to vote separately on section four of the ordinance and the remainder of the ordinance, and I think that is the right of any member to request that. So we will do that when the time comes. Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. And not to repeat everything that my colleague, super fielder supervisor fielder stated, I do think that this board has been very generous in working with the mayor to allow for flexibility within Our City, Our Home, a proxy funding. But I cannot support waiving the super majority or two thirds threshold for additional revenue that may be reappropriated in the future. I also don't think that this should have been a conversation, a part of the entire budget conversation. I really think that this was the way of the administration to try and divide this board of supervisors. The fact that we are willing to allow the mayor to reappropriate dollars to different categories, if acceptable, is very reflective of this board's cooperation, and this proposal has definitely allowed the administration the flexibility that it has requested. I also wanna add that every dictator states that they just want additional authority once, and then they keep pressing. This administration asked this board to waive certain powers for the fentanyl crisis, and then came back during this budget process and asked us to continue to waive our charter given authority again. The more the administration pushes to take away the will of the voters and undermine the legislative branch of government, the more they will continue to request to undermine authority moving forward. This budget is already reflective of cooperation by this board of supervisors in the mayor's office. Our mayor already has a lot of power in this city in accordance with the charter without this body allowing more. No Kings applies to San Francisco as well. We cannot misuse voter resources without checks and balances. So I will not be supporting this item. Chair Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you, president Mandelmann, and thank you, supervisor Felder, for dividing the question so that we can have this discussion. Colleagues, I wanted to speak to the evolution of this legislation from where we started from and where we are today. This legislation's first draft included an reallocation of $88,000,000 in interest and unencumbered proposition c, Our City, Our All Home funds, to the shelter and hygiene care category proposed by mayor Lurie. But we know that there are homeless families, transitional age youth, as well as those living in RVs who need immediate assistance to be housed, not just to be sheltered. After many hours of conversations with stakeholders, the mayor, his policy chief, Kuno Modi, HSH, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing director, Shireen Maspadden, and her team, we now have the legislation that is before us today. It is, in my opinion, a proposal with a balanced approach to help the most vulnerable in our city, investing in housing people and giving them shelter. Our negotiation throughout the budget process have resulted, as I mentioned earlier, in adding an additional $17,300,000 in spending for family rapid housing, for a total of almost $30,000,000 an additional $9,500,000 worth of rapid rehousing for transitional age youth, and for a total of $19,000,000 an additional $3,000,000 for RV interventions and homeless prevention measures an additional $9,000,000 for medium term housing for a total of $21,000,000 and an additional 3,400,000.0 for house for hotel vouchers for transitional age youth and adults. That is all in addition to the mayor's proposed increase for funding for shelter and hygiene care for families and adults. The mayor's original proposal also included a clause to allow his office to reallocate any and all funding over projected revenue to any initiatives he prioritizes with the scope of proxy funding for the DINX three fiscal years, with a, simple majority vote of the board supervisors. So I agree, and I concur, understandably so, that this clause caused a lot of concern. So, we address these concerns by amending the legislation, mainly section four, to place a cap of $19,000,000 on the amount of additional revenue that would be eligible for reallocation by a simple majority, as well as limiting the authority to the end of fiscal year twenty six, twenty seven. Any additional changes to the currently projected and budgeted $370,000,000 of our City Our Home proxy funds will still require a super majority vote from this very same body. I understand, though, this is not everything some stakeholders wanted, and and our soup and some of our supervisors too. And I thank them for their very good fight. And it certainly isn't everything that the mayor and his team wanted. And I wanna thank him and his team for his partnership for their partnership. But I know that these amendments represented a balanced proposal, and that, you know, and that I moved, that day, just in good faith. It was it was not easy. But I must say, instead of holding up these sorely needed funds with a parliamentary debate, I want to see this fund spent now to ensure we invest in programs vital to provide housing for families, transitional age youth, and giving shelter for people who are suffering on our streets not five years from now or when politics work for eight supervisor instead of six. But I do understand the concerns. And with that, I do wanted to also point out again, this is limited to 19,000,000 for the next fiscal year through 2026, 2027. I do wanna also point to just the documents that is on our legislative file just so that, again, every other everyone can see where the money is going, and it's actually on the legislative file for this particular legislation, and it's under the category of prop c budget summary. And I also wanna flag that there's a column specifically show you and indicate what the board has done through the budget negotiation and with this legislation, what it comes with, and that there are specific notes that in the no section that indicate what it actually also means for the spending so that there is a explanation. For example, that the the increase of funding for for my apologies. For medium term housing subsidies of that increase will also include a 100 adult rapid rehousing sites for RV strategy. So I I again, I just wanted to indicate that it is understandably so that there's objection to the section four language and, again, not without struggle to say that is what I'm lending. But I also understand that taking a step back to look at the entire context of budget and the entire context of the added fund that will be spent for the Prop C funds, I will be voting in support of this the section four language as amended at the budget committee and also the legislation as a whole. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, chair Chan. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president. I again, I want to thank the budget chair for her diligent work of overseeing our budget process. This was a first time for many of us on this party. And the leadership that chair Chen displayed it

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: was invaluable in restoring many of the direct essential

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: services that were that was cut. Restoring many of the direct essential services that were that was cut. I think, over the last couple weeks, I received thousands of email. This issue now comes down to the basic principle of good governance, and good governance. And I believe in check and balance between the branches of government. I believe that it is also important to always uphold the will of the voters, and if only for the sake of maintaining our public trust. And I believe that I myself have placed great trust in the executive branch in my last six months full as a supervisor. And also, this board also has demonstrated strong collaboration with the mayor's office. At this point, I I really appreciate all the robust discussion that has occurred around this item, and and that we continue to able to disagree respectfully. But today, I am continue regardless how I vote, but I'm still continue to commit to work closely with all my colleagues in the mayor's office to continue to support, the neighborhood, support the community, as I also believe that, San Francisco is on the rise, that we can continue to work together to make sure that we have a balanced approach to, not only the budget, but for the items that is coming to the board in the future. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Chen. Seeing no one else on the roster, I will offer a few comments of my own. I, again, wanna thank Chair Chan for her for her work on, on this legislation. I think this legislation improved significantly, for the, conversations and collaboration, between the board of supervisors and the mayor's office. And I wanna thank the mayor's office, and especially Kunal Modi for their willingness to engage around some of the concerns we were expressing, that advocates were expressing. So I think this legislation got better by a lot, and I am happy to support it. I'm happy to support both parts of the divided question today. I would have supported section four in its original incarnation, from my perspective, and I did support and campaign for Prop C in 2018. The allocations that were, laid out in Prop C in 2018 were placed there by the authors, were not central to the voters' deliberations or thinking about whether to impose this tax, and are now seven years old. Whether or not they were the right, formula what it was the right formula in 2018 is debatable. Looking back on what we have done with those funds over that time, I think that those allocations pushed us to overinvest in in PSH relative to other types of homelessness interventions that we could have invested in during that time. I would be willing to do anything within what is allowed by the law to allow the mayor and this board or future boards to rationalize our spending of Prop C dollars and spend those dollars based on need as we identify them in any particular year through a process that involves the mayor and the board. But that's not what is in section four at this point, thanks to, the much more, I guess, moderate perspective of our chair, not the extreme position of, president Mandelmann, what is, included is a provision that would allow additional funds that might come in up to a total cap of less than $20,000,000 to be spent by the mayor and the board of supervisors in the second year of this budget subject to a majority vote. That is what this issue is, and I am completely comfortable giving the mayor and his team the ability to propose programming those funds in next year's budget subject to a majority vote of this board of supervisors if we are so fortunate, that we have some of those funds. And, again, if those come in at more than $20,000,000, we will be back in our two thirds conversation even though president Mandelmann believes we probably should try to get beyond the two thirds conversation on those allocations. With that, madam clerk

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mister president, if I could just Yes. Draw the member's attention to the blurb on the agenda underneath the referred without recommendation from bud budget and appropriations committee for item 36. This requires an eight vote threshold. We have divided out section four. And for the record, that is found on page five, line 22 through page six, line six, the entirety of section four. As this is an eight vote threshold for the divided portion as it is for the ordinance, the question is the same for both items. The question is, shall this ordinance be passed on first reading? Which means if you are in support of this ordinance, you're in support of the divided section, you will vote aye. If you are against it, you will, you will vote no. Just for the record. I'm getting, questions on how to vote for this matter.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Madam so we are voting are we separating both?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: We're voting separately.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Separately. But if I vote, yes, then I can still vote no on the as a whole. Certainly. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. And madam clerk, do you have any preference on whether we vote on section four first Yes. Or the remainder first?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Typically, when we divide the question, we divide, we vote for the divided portion first and then on the balance of the ordinance without the divided portion if it Okay. Does not pass.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. So section four can you call the roll on section four first?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. On for item 36, just for section four found on page five, line 22 through page six, line six, supervisor Chen. Chen, no. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Angadio? Aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder? Fielder?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Fielder? Fielder? Fielder? Fielder? Fielder? Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Sheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? No. Walton, no. And supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. There are eight ayes and three nos with supervisors, Chen, Fielder, and Walton voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. So with that, section four passes on first reading. And then madam clerk, could you call please call the roll on the remainder of, of item 36?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the remainder of item 36, supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Angadio. Aye. Angadio, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmut? Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the remainder of, item 36 passes on first

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: reading. And, mister president, for just for our minutes, it will show the votes on the divided portion and on the remainder, but that, as a whole, the item will show as passed on first reading.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Thank you, madam clerk. Can you please call item 39?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 39, this is an ordinance to amend the administrative and employment code to update city processes and requirements.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Now I would like to speak on this item, and so I'm going to trade places with supervisor Walton. And then supervisor Walton, has some things I think he would like to do to this item, and so we will trade back. And we may do that, perhaps, more than once today.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: President Mandelmann.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton, and colleagues. We're gonna talk about this item today more than I had hoped that we would, but I do want to do a little bit of, reminding folks who may not have had to pay too terribly much attention to this legislation what we're doing here today. I think you all may know that I have been interested in the city's challenges around contracting, for some time. We do much of our work through procurements. Something like a third of our city budget is spent, through procurements and contracts. And I think there is a general sense well, at least, it may not be universal, but I believe, and I think a lot of folks believe, that our contracts are simply too complicated, that they take too long, that they discourage lots of folks from doing business with the city and county of San Francisco, that they are not advancing the public interest. And so that we should try to find ways to simplify our procurement. I did some work on that over what took a couple of years to, repeal Administrative Code, chapter 12 x. That was the legislation back in, I think, 2015 that said that San Francisco would not do business with, businesses located in, states that were bad on LGBT rights. That was expanded to include states that were bad on reproductive rights and then ultimately states that were bad on voting rights. And by the end of it, we had 30 states where we generally wouldn't do business with those businesses, but then we had a little cottage industry of waiver processing where we actually might do business with businesses located in those states, but we would certainly spend a lot of time, energy, and effort getting there. So I think, correctly, we repealed 12 x. But in the process of doing that, it I I decided I wanted to try to do more. And in 2022, I submitted a letter of inquiry to the city administrator asking her to provide recommendations for a more transparent, streamlined, and less costly procurement process for low dollar contracts to encourage greater competition and support our city's small businesses. In May 2024, the city administrator, Carmen Chu, released a report, and her report found a number of things. First, low value contracts are subject to the same contracting requirements as higher value contracts, making executing a $10,000 contract often just as difficult as executing a $10,000,000 contract. Two, in the past five years, the city had awarded thousands of contracts for $200,000 or less. That accounted for 59% of the city's contract volume, but only 1.8% of the city's total contract spending, meaning that our staff and suppliers were spending an incredible amount of time, energy, and effort on a relatively small share of the city's spending. Three, the current con the city's current contracting processes and requirements create a high level of administrative burden for both city staff and suppliers, making it more difficult for the city to serve the public. The city's contracting and four, the city's contracting requirements make doing business with the city confusing and cost prohibitive for some suppliers and small and local businesses, and nonprofits are especially impacted by high barriers to entry, which can run counter to the city's goals of local investment and equitable contracting. Five, and finally, the complexity of the city's contracting processes are, as I suggested, limiting competition to provide city goods and services. And, as an example, in fiscal year twenty twenty three, nearly half the solicitations the Office of Contract Admission Administration issued received one response or no response at all. So that's not a competitive process designed to get us the best product at the best price. City administrator's report made five recommendations. First, improve the informal procurement process, which refers to procurements under what is called the city's minimum competitive amount. That's currently, about 200,000 doll $230,000, but it's reset every five years using CPI. Two, simplify the city's standard contract terms and conditions, which are significantly longer than those in other cities and municipalities. Three, amend the city's procurement requirements to update and reconcile inconsistency inconsistencies in processes, thresholds, and triggers. Four, standardize future procurement legislation. And five, increase interdepartmental coordination in contracting and align policy and administrative processes across departments. Now some of this can be done at the staff level, and I wanna congratulate the Office of Contract Administration and the city administrator for the work they've done to try to implement some of these recommendations. But some of us requires our participation and help, and that's where this legislation, the Open for Business, Act, comes in. Does not fix everything at once. In fact, I think in a lot of ways, this is, a very modest measure. Supervisor Dorsey, in committee indicated that he thought we should be doing a whole lot more. I agree that we should be doing a whole lot more, but I wanted to put out something that would be digestible for this board, stretch some of our muscles in this regard. I know Supervisor Mahmoud this year has already done some, some procurement reform around software, and I think we all gotta keep looking for ways to make this government more efficient, more effective. And I think that actually is the best way to advance our San Francisco values. So the package cleans up outdated laws, streamlines duplicative processes, requires future procurement legislation to undergo, more rigorous review. And in that regard, I have an amendment that I have circulated, for your consideration and, I hope, adoption today. And, so that amendment you should have, but it it responds to an observation that our clerk made. I have proposed that, when future legislation may have an inter impact in complex further complexifying our contracts, that we should give the city administrator at least sixty days to analyze the potential impacts and report to us to let us know what we are doing before we do it and at least grapple with the consequences of adding further complexity. Now our clerk, looking out for this board and future boards, asked what happens if they don't come up with a response in those sixty days? And this, this amendment would address that, allowing the I mean, we already allowed the president of the board to grant an extension, but that would have to be done prior with the amendment prior to the expiration of the sixty, day deadline. And if it is not if the analysis is not provided by that deadline and the, president has not granted an extension, then the board would be allow would be explicitly allowed to proceed with consideration of the legislation without the analysis. I don't know what's gonna happen here today, folks. I'm curious to see. But whatever happens, I think if if this thing is not killed today, it would be good to, make this amendment. And, I'll stop talking and go back up to the dais.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: President Madeline, is that a motion to amend to accept that amendment?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Yeah. We're not gonna be able yes. I move that. Great. Thank you. And I will call on supervisor Walton in a moment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mister president, did did we capture the second supervisor Chan? Okay. Okay.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Melderman. I don't have a long spiel. I would just like to make a motion to send this item back to committee while we work on language to remove eliminating the sweatshop committee. I think it's important to have a conversation agreement on this and work on what that amendment looks like, Why we would want to continue why would we want to discontinue a committee that is involved with making sure that we don't support sweatshops in San Francisco. I have no idea why, but I'd like to make that motion to send this item back to committee.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. There's a motion from supervisor Walton. It has been seconded by supervisor Melgar. Supervisor Chan?

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: I I will be voting in support of that, but I wanted to articulate that I was I I voted against the motion to forward this to full board simply because we do have a duplicated file as well at the committee and thought that there are a few things we could do. I I I think first and foremost that I I think I I do wanna thank president Mandelmann for in his attempt to streamline this, that it's so that we can update a policies that was, you know, introduced and passed a while ago. But I but I do think that there are a lot of issues with that. And I have committed to to this when, I wanna say, mister Tim Paulson, who is the former San Francisco labor council executive director, reached out, have asked me to read the statement. And I'm gonna read this in my voice, but if you may, this is a statement from mister Tim Pawson along with former assembly member and former board president Tom Ammiano, president of this board. And so you can try to hear this in their voices. And I'm sure former board president Amiano will be a lot more animated than I am with this statement. And I I think after the statements, then I I wanna articulate the reason why I will be why I have issues with this legislation and and what we can do to to make a difference. And and so it's a strongly worded statement, and I'm purely just reading from them. The proposal to weaken again, this is from mister Tim Paulson and mister Tom Ammiano. The proposal to weaken the historic sweat free labor standard legislation as well as eliminate the advisory committee is an unacceptable and unwarranted attack on the worker rights standards and legislative legacy that San Francisco has fought to advance and uphold. We firmly demand it demand that you, president Mendelmann, pull this legislation from consideration. But if you choose to continue down this anti worker path, we urge all supervisors to vote no on this ill advised precedent. The current narrative of how government is the problem for improving our economy has become a disturbing excuse for gutting labor standards. Living wages, health care, affordable housing, worker safety, sick days, all the standards that labor and San Franciscans fought for and are proud of has never, and I mean never, been statistically or empirically shown to be an impediment to finding contractors, creating jobs, building affordable housing, or starting a business. It's usually just an excuse to increase earnings and profits. San Francisco has not been impeded by buying anything because of this ordinance or the sage oversight of this citizen advisory council. Again, we ask that you vote no on this proposal and stand firmly for maintaining the historic labor standards this city has been proud to promote and maintain. I wanna concur the sentiment that, oftentimes, labor standard really is built by layers and layers and decades of fight, and I think that when they begin to chip away, it's also through pieces piece by piece, and it's never just, like, significantly just thrown away. Well, maybe Trump will do that. But I think I I do think that we can work on this. I I will be in support of sending this back to committee. I I will be continuing to working on duplicated version, however, technically, it would work. I'm also ready to but I don't think I'm ready. Like, I I thought I was gonna be able to be ready to propose an amendment to add back the advisory group today, and so that we can, you know, make that amendment and decide if we if we would like to make the amendments, and then we can vote on the legislation regrettably based on my conversation with our deputy city attorney, Pat Russi, is not possible today. Could we possibly do it next week? Maybe. I I don't know. Like, you know, we could also do that in committee. So I I think either way, I am in a space where I think that we can work on this legislation. We can do more of it. I think the spirit of trying to make it work without, you know, taking away the labor principle of sweatshop and even the McBride principle, I think, again, it it's really where where I am at, but I am more than happy to reevaluate how the advisory body can work better that is providing more teeth to the body or however way that we can make improvements of a legislation that been around for a long time, and I'm I I, for one, will be saying that we could always update our legislation, and that's what the elections are for. That's what supervisors are here for. That's our job, and I'm happy to roll up my sleeves and to do that work. Thank you.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: you, president and colleagues. I'd like to speak in support of item 39, in addition to as amended as proposed by president Mandelmann, but also in opposition to the decision to send it back to committee. The Open for Business Contract Streamlining Act is, from my perspective, simple but necessary in the city's process of fixing onerous contracting rules, especially for let's remind ourselves, these are for small dollar contracts. It untangles, some of the bird's nest of rules that have made our procurement process lengthy and complex, unnecessarily scaring off potential vendors, especially local small businesses, who lack the legal and compliance staff to sift through dissonant sets of standards and thresholds. By standardizing these rules and removing outdated requirements and cutting back on duplicative regulations, our procurements will incentivize a diverse applicant pool, equating to more opportunity for local businesses and lowering costs for the city as well. This will also cut down on contracting time and make processing more efficient. This legislation is not a one and done. It establishes a review of future procurement legislation to ensure we evaluate its impact as a city and prevent overburdening going forward. And colleagues, like many of you, we were elected to this office because residents want a city hall that works. They're tired of ineffective policies preventing us from getting the basics of government right. So this is a perfect example of that, and we can't let politics get in the way of logical improvements to the way our government works. So I support this legislation in its current form with the additional amendment provided by president Mandelmann because we need to shift the culture around public procurement to align with values of equity, competition, and good governance. So I thank president Mandelmann for taking the lead on making these essential improvements to our procurement and contracting system and legislative framework. I wanna thank Carmen Chu and the city administrator's office for helping to identify these process improvements as well, and acknowledge the nearly probably over a year of work that's already gone into this legislation, all the decisions and frameworks that have already been implemented, that I think it's ready for a vote today.

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

[Alan Wong, Supervisor (District 4)]: I wanna thank, president Malleman for this legislation that I'm proud to support because it's good governments. We do need procurement reform. Our city administrator needs it. This is good legislation, and we can do more of it. And that said, I've been hearing a lot of concern about one component of it, this sweatshop advisory committee. And I can understand it's a very sensitive topic, especially for labor. If you think back to 1911, with the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, more than 100 workers were killed, including children. And this kind of set the stage for the labor movement. So it's a very sensitive issue, especially with sweatshops. There's modern day versions of sweatshops that we know about. So to me, it feels like it's a good compromise to let 99% of this great legislation go through all the good stuff that we need to happen and take a pause on the sweatshop part and talk about that a little bit more. Labor, you know, workers have a large concern about it, and rightfully so. So I'm comfortable with going back to committee and letting 99% of this legislation go forward and carve out a little bit for this sweatshop advisory board. And we can talk more about that.

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

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6) and Budget Committee Vice Chair]: As I said in committee, my perspective on this is informed and influenced by a long time working in city government, where I was in situations where I was going through contracting processes and encountering inefficiencies, and practices that were infuriating to me as a city employee. But also infuriating to me on behalf of San Francisco taxpayers. We have a an everything bagel kind of policy making where years of well intentioned policies and practices have been piled into our contracting and procurement rules. Contracting and procurement isn't the only way we can accomplish the aims of public policy. But what we have done in San Francisco is to create this incredibly onerous process. And I think if San Franciscans had any idea how how wasteful and inefficient this is, I think they would share my anger at what we're dealing with. And I think it's entirely possible that this process this is now the second time we've taken this up since I've been here. The first was 12 x, and now we're having this again. It may be that the lesson to come out of this is that this is a conversation that really needs to happen with voters. That the electorate really needs to weigh in because at the end of the day, it's their dollars. I think it's also worth remembering that in the last five and a half years, we have had three emergencies. COVID, the Tenderloin Emergency Initiative, and the Fentanyl Emergency. And other than the provision of the COVID Emergency that enabled us to draw down federal dollars, all of the emergency declarations we have had have been to get out of our own way. And at some point, when we've done three of these in five and a half years, it's probably good that we ask the questions of what's wrong with our of what's wrong with our process that we have to have an emergency every time we need to get something done. And, I will say that the thing that, to me, was the coup de grace that always bothered me the most about this is that when you've worked in city government long enough, you figure out that there is a way, if you really want to get a contract with a certain vendor or service or good, that there's always a way to get somebody else to do to get an approved vendor to subcontract the unapproved vendor. We have to do this in a way that is more efficient. I think we could we should maybe, I would like to think that we, as a board of supervisors, can do this. And it's a lesson learned if we can't. Because I but I do think that many of the difficult decisions that we have made in the budget process involve how much money we are spending for the workers and the compliance to make competitive bidding less competitive and goods and services more expensive. I think we can do better. I appreciate the leadership that supervisor president Mandelmann has brought to this in trying to do that, and I'm gonna support this legislation moving forward.

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

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. And I do support sending it back to the committee. And I think the original intent of the sweat free ordinance was to ensure that the city dollars be spent with responsible contractors. San Francisco previously was home to many garment factories. Immigrants with limited job opportunities, including many of my family members, depended on these jobs for survival. Government workers are often paid by piece rate, being paid a few cents to sew each item with often does not add up to the legal minimum wage. As globalization forced garment man manufacturing overseas, it has become a race to the bottom as business look to manufacturing their goods in countries with the most lax labor protections. The threat free ordinance requires independent monitoring of overseas factories. When other cities, universities, and government institutions all participate in collective monitoring, there can be some minimum minimum assurance that clothing and uniforms for the city are not produced under under sweatshop conditions. By sunsetting the sweat free sweat free ordinance, San Francisco is setting a bad example and sending a message that labor standards are not a priority. Thank you.

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I am respectfully, deeply disappointed that these proposed amendments to the sweat free contracting ordinance would renege on our commitments to preventing abusive labor conditions in the global garment industry. This is something that advocates and labor has fought incredibly hard for and would represent a wholesale retreat from protecting workers' rights and preventing sweatshop abuses overseas. This would be an embarrassing and unjustified step back from leadership on this issue and could open the possibility of our city being complicit in the exploitation of workers who ask for nothing more than to be paid a wage above the local poverty line for their country. While I understand the benefits of streamlining and removing red tape in our city laws that make it harder to do business. We cannot open Pandora's box to worker exploitation, which is why I will be supporting sending this back to committee.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Thank you, supervisor Fielder and colleagues. I would like to address the proposed amendment. And although I there is no one else in the queue, I fear that after I speak there could be, so I probably should trade places again with supervisor Walton. I will correct myself. The proposed motion, there is no amendment. There may be an amendment. We don't know. What? What's your name? There is my amendment, which I which I would appreciate if we could take action on. Alright. Earlier today, I, observed that things that are self evident to some supervisors are anathema to other supervisors. This is absolutely in this in that category. It is self evident to me that the Sweat Free Procurement Advisory Committee should go away. The conversation about it, in my view, is a bunch of nonsense. What we are not doing with this legislation is eliminating the Sweat Free Ordinance. We are preserving the sweat free ordinance. We will still have staff in OLSC doing work to ensure that the working conditions of the people who are supplying our textiles, our garments that our departments purchase, are still being made in a way that, that complies with our San Francisco values. There are some people who would query whether that is really the best use of our public dollars in this city, but I'm not tackling that. I'm not saying do away with the McBride principles, do away with sweat free, do away with the equal benefits ordinance. You could make that case, but that's not what is in this legislation. What is in this legislation are some modest tweaks to make these provisions slightly less burdensome and onerous for contractors and for our city staff. This particular body has struggled to make quorum since 2020. This particular body has no voting or legislative power. It is completely advisory, and the work of advancing our sweat free priorities is done by staff, not by the volunteers on this advisory group. This body has existed for twenty years. The notion that once a body that has a name, that identifies a value, that we think is important, should continue in perpetuity is not a good notion, is not a notion that is consistent with the effective delivery of services for our public. And so, I absolutely oppose strongly, preserving the sweat free advisory group. I think it is one of a number of groups that our Prop E Commission should be proposing elimination. But my concern is that the difficulty that this body is having even eliminating a group that struggles to make make quorum, indicates that we are gonna struggle mightily to advance the will of the voters around Prop B and the elimination of commissions and advisory groups. I do not think that there is a necessary tension between advancing our San Francisco values, between and protecting our workers, and also having an efficient and effective government. In fact, I think we have to do that, but it requires a willingness to tiptoe up to our sacred cows and inquire whether there are some things we might be able to do, not necessarily to kill them, but to make them work better for San Francisco. And I'm concerned that if our friends in the advocacy world and in labor are unwilling to take those steps with us, that it will fall to the Elon Musks and the Donald Trumps of the world to do that without any participation from the kinds of people who we think should be leading those conversations. So I'm a little heated about this, and as always, I respect people's goodwill and ability to disagree. I understand that not everybody sees this issue in the same way that I do. But, that is how I see it. And with that, I'll go back up to the dais. Alright. Colleagues, I made a motion, and it was seconded by Chan. Can we take that motion without objection?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: This is the Mandelmann amendments.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. This this is the amendment that would allow the board to move forward with considering legislation if the city administrator has failed to provide the procurement impact analysis statement within sixty days and the board president has not, granted an extension of that period. So we'll take that motion without objection. The motion passes. And then there is a motion on the floor to send this item to committee. It was it has been made by supervisor Walton, seconded by supervisor supervisor Melgar. Madam clerk, please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the motion to send item 39 to committee as amended, supervisor Chen. Chen, aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? No. Dorsey, no. Supervisor, Engadio? Aye. Engadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, no. Supervisor Mahmoud? No. I'm sorry.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Fielder meant to say aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: You meant to say aye. Okay. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmut? No. Mahmut, no. Supervisor Mandelmann? No. Mandelmann, no. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Sauter, no. Supervisor Sheryl. Sheryl, no. Supervisor Walton?

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Aye.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walton, aye. And supervisor Chan. Chan, aye. There are six ayes and five nos with supervisors Dorsey, Mahmoud, Mandelmann, Sauter, and Cheryl voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The motion passes. Madam clerk, please call item 40.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 40. This is an ordinance to amend various codes to update parking restrictions for large commercial vehicles as well and amending hours and exceptions and to affirm the CEQA determination.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I wanted to provide a little bit of context about this legislation that went to the budget committee. I have been working with the mayor's office for a few months to get us to this point. I want to, first of all, thank Kunal Modi and Euford Pan for their, a generous time and amazing amount of work on this legislation. It was more work than I have seen being spent on this issue for years before, you know, we we tackled it here. Last year, this body considered an appeal from advocates on the MTA's decision to restrict parking of recreational vehicles in the city. And I voted to support that appeal, because I didn't think that the legislation considered the experiences that me and my staff had had in dealing with, the issue in District 7. We spent, the better part of, four years, trying to help the folks who living in recreation and vehicles on Winston Avenue and Buckingham behind Stone's Town, to try to be successful in obtaining housing, permanent housing that was not vehicles on the public right away with traffic traveling 40 miles an hour next to them. And what we found was really disheartening. So, to begin with, the department, HSH, did not have language capacity. Many of the families were Spanish and Portuguese speaking. In the system itself, the coordinated entry system that the department was using to do housing assessment on these families disadvantaged them, Because many of these families were just poor, and didn't speak English, and were newcomers to our country. So what happened is, you know, they were being assessed and deprioritized because the families were not dealing with mental health. They were not dealing with drug addiction. They were not dealing with a lot of the issues that the department was set up to, address. Nevertheless, with a lot of hard work, we were able to, place a lot of folks into housing with vouchers. And I consider that a success. What happened, however, is that we found that a lot of families were living in vehicles that they did not own. Someone else owned them and, wore on the public right of way for free, and charging a lot of money for rent, to live in these vehicles and taking advantage of the desperation of people. And for every family that we placed into housing, most of them in the neighborhood, someone else would take their place. The department did not have have a system to keep track of who was being placed and who took their place. And the MTA and the HSH departments did not have a system to coordinate with each other once a family was placed in housing to recuperate the public right of way. I wanna say that throughout this process, I was grateful for the staff at the Coalition on Homelessness and La Raza Family Resources Center who helped going door to door to, speak with families and, properly assess their needs. However, what we found is that the lack of parking restrictions allowed for the growth of the amount of vehicles parked on the street, which was which is a problem for District 7. Because Winston Avenue is uphill from Lake Merced, which is our secondary drinking water source in case of a disaster. Folks were using generators to keep warm because it's cold in San Francisco, especially in the summer. And the generators produce pollution. And they are fed with gasoline, which people keep on the unimproved sidewalks that have, dry grass and vegetation. And it is a hazard for both the families living in these RVs and the community around them. So, after many years of work, we were able to come up with a system to help the families. We were lucky that, Park Merced had empty apartments. And they were willing to work with the departments to take the vouchers, and to be able to put families in those apartments. However, it is a regional issue. People move in RVs back and forth between San Mateo County, San Francisco County, and Marin. And we do not have a system to not just regulate, but also support these families in an adequate way. So what this legislation does that is further than what the legislation that was presented last year is as follows. It creates a refuge permit system so that people who are living on our streets can apply for a permit to stay on the street as long as they follow certain rules. And that those are disposal of waste, both human waste and garbage. And sort of good good neighbor rules around how they interact with the community around them. Those are specified in the legislation. That permit can go up to six months and then renewed as long as the family is working with folks in the department to try to secure housing, and they are being good neighbors. That will allow us to keep track of who is on the street, to make sure that people don't fall through the cracks, to allow HSH to assign caseworkers, to keep a list of how people are progressing in in their quest to gain permanent housing. It also has a buyback program for folks who, you know, don't have any place to store their vehicles, but want to monetize that asset to help them, in addition to getting a subsidy and a deposit for a department. So I think that this legislation is a great progress over what was proposed last year, which was essentially just a restriction. I also wanna thank the mayor's office for working with MTA to, in addition to, restricting, the, vehicles where people are living, we are restricting large vehicles. So, in District 7, we also have a problem with folks who are commercial business owners who park in unrestricted areas of our city for free instead of paying for parking somewhere else. And that brings all sorts of issues in the safety of our streets, for bikes, for pedestrians, for, everyone who uses it. You know, San Francisco is a very small city, really. It's seven by seven square miles. We, as the city government, are charged with not just, maintaining the public right of way, but making sure that it is safe for everyone, but that it is also, you know, available for everyone. And I think that this, legislation does the same. This is a very complicated issue. I, wanna say that the folks who are living in vehicles in my district are not living in Saint Francis Wood or the areas that are very wealthy. They are living in areas where, working class folks live in rent controlled apartments. And there has been a lot of conflicts with the housed residents, which put people who live in vehicles at risk. We have had harassment. We have had broken windows. We have had people who call law enforcement, federal law enforcement, and local law enforcement. And they are basically sitting targets on our streets in a city as wealthy as ours. I think it's on us to build a system to support people to success and not pretend that by leaving them to be on the streets, we are doing the progressive thing. So with that, I, ask for your support. Thank you.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you, president Mendelmann. This legislation to limit large vehicles parking to two hours citywide has created a lot of concern for people living in RVs and those who support them and care for them, and it creates a lot of concern for me as well. However, mayor Daniel Leary's team and really especially, you know, thanks to supervisor Melgar, really have together demonstrated in good faith a thoughtful approach, compassionate solutions, and willingness to take feedback to provide exemptions to these parking limits. As a result, we will not only see reinforcements to keep our public spaces clean and safe for everyone, but also earnest efforts to house people living in RVs in the coming months. But these guarantees do not mean that we should simply trust the process. As policymakers, we must continue to hold city departments accountable for an ongoing compassionate approach, results driven solutions, and a commitment to hearing feedback and making improvements. So I will be requesting regular reports to identify gaps in funding and resources that may require further policy change. What I do know, though, is this, that it is not acceptable for our city to sit on the dollars from our city, our home, to simply accrue interest when there is so much need. So instead, we must spend on housing solutions for housing San Franciscans, including those living in RVs. San Francisco voters want us to deliver solution with public dollars, and our city's most vulnerable cannot wait for the perfect policy. They need the housing relief dollars now. And so for that reason, I will be in supporting this legislation today. Again, I look forward to seeing follow ups, follow through, housing people, and that we continue to create exemptions, through the refuge permits program, to and, also and thank you so much for taking our amendments for the short term residential parking permits as well so that, again, people who may not deem qualify immediately for the refuge, refuge permit program still actually have time, to sort themselves and not be, displaced, with this parking restriction. And I think that there is always a balanced approach to figure out ways to really house people and be compassionate. And then, at the same time, how do we, keep some of the public spaces, as indicated by supervisor Malgar safe and without hazards? And at this time in San Francisco, it is challenging to do so. We are limited with spaces and availability that can be made safe for those purposes. Thank you.

[Speaker 11.0]: Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I think, for me, when I first heard about this legislation, I was like, wow. The administration found 1,444 homes for people living in vehicles, which was the twenty twenty four point in time count. Even the twenty twenty five HSOC count, which is not an official PIT, stated that there were 437 people living in large vehicles, which is not the total amount of folks living in vehicles. That's great, but this is not the case. This proposes offering housing to people living in RVs, housing that we do not have, housing that we never had. This also means that people living on the street are going to be skipped over while folks living in vehicles are prioritized. I know that a negative times a negative is a positive. But a negative plus a positive is negative if the negative number is larger. So simple mathematics tells me that more RVs than shelter builds equals an ineffective and impossible plan. This is operationally impossible to implement. We have suddenly found homes and beds for all people living in vehicles, then we wouldn't even be discussing this impossible plan, which, in my opinion, is a plan to fail. The legislation itself states on page two, lines 11 through 16. On 04/11/2025, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing closed the baby vehicle triage center program at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. The program, which accommodated 35 large vehicles at an annual operating cost of $2,900,000 did not achieve the intended outcomes of transitioning participants to stable housing or significantly improving street conditions in the surrounding area. That part I disagree with. But the legislation itself states that there was a failure to transfer folks from vehicles into homes. Now all of a sudden, those homes are available? I think not. There's a need to do something, but it's not this. Where are we going to store these vehicles? How do we determine the value? Too many questions to be answered with this legislation. I don't believe this plan would do anything but criminalize people who don't have stable brick and mortar homes. This will be an attack on people trying to have a shelter in this expensive city, and they will lose their only homes. A home is a place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or a household. To say that someone living in a vehicle does not have a home is malicious when they have no other form of shelter. This legislation is alluding to supporting brick and mortar as the only possible home in the most expensive city on the planet. I cannot condone mass evictions to the streets for people trying to live in their homes, mobile or not, especially at a time when there's an attack on immigrants, people of color, our LGBTQ community, and basically anyone that is not in the 1%. I truly think that this plan is unobtainable and something that we shouldn't be considering at this board of supervisors. And I know that many people may disagree with me, but this is very problematic for me to sit here and vote on something that I know is going to fail.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thanks, supervisor Walton. With that, madam clerk, please call the roll on item 40.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item 40, supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Angadio, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, no. Supervisor Mahmoud? Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor, Walton? No. Walton, no. And supervisor, Chan? Chan, aye. There are nine ayes and two nos, with supervisors Fielder and Walton voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinance passes on first reading. Okay. Madam clerk, please call items 41 through 43 together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 41 through 43. These items are general obligation bonds for the Department of Public Health. Item 41, resolution to authorize the issuance and sale of a not to exceed approximate amount of 150,000,000 in aggregate, principal amounts of one or more series of bonds on a tax exempt or taxable basis of city GO bonds for health and recovery. This item also approves the forms of the official notice of sale, notice of intention to sell and directing the publication of the notice, the purchase contract, the preliminary official statement, and the execution of the official statement of such bonds, including the continuing disclosure certificate. Item 42, this ordinance appropriates 150,000,000 of general obligation. The GO bond proceeds from 2020 health and recovery GO bond series 2025 g to the department of public health and the mayor's office of housing and community development for acquisition and improvement of real property for various behavioral and mental health facilities for permanent supportive housing or shelters and related costs in fiscal year twenty twenty five through twenty six and to place the funds on controller's reserve pending receipt of the bond proceeds. And for item 43, this is an ordinance to depropriate approximately 160,500,000.0 of general obligation bond proceeds from 2020 health and recovery geo bond series 2021 d from the Department of Public Health and the Department of Homelessness in support of housing in fiscal year 2025 through 2026.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items 41 through 43, supervisor Chen? Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Angadio? Aye. Engadio, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmut? Aye. Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Sheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. And supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinances are passed on first reading, and the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 44.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 44, resolution to retroactively authorize the police department to accept and expend an in kind gift of 600 units of naloxone naloxone valued at approximately 14,400 through the naloxone distribution project, which is funded by the substance abuse and mental health services administration and administered by the Department of Health Care Services for the, a grant term of 08/07/2024 through 12/31/2024.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's take this item. Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 45.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 45, resolution to approve an agreement between the city and Seneca family of agencies for the provision of family and children services, wraparound services, for a term of four years, 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2029, and for a total amount of 15,900,000.0, and to authorize the executive director of the Human Services Agency to make necessary nonmaterial changes to the agreement before execution.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we can take this item, same house, same call without objection. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 46.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 46, resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute a contract for professional services for Sono Valley Facilities Improvements with CDM Smith Inc for a contract amount of 15,000,000, contract duration of ten years, through July 2035 to provide planning and engineering design and support services necessary for the design and construction of improvements to various San Francisco public utilities commissions facilities in Sonole Valley pursuant to 9.118 of the charter.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call without objection. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 47.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 47, this is a resolution to approve and authorize the general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to execute the first amendment to a contract for biosolids digester facilities construction management staff augmentation services with Arcadis US Inc to increase the contract amount by 26,500,000.0 for a new contract amount of 68,500,000.0 and to increase the contract duration by three years and nine months now through 05/27/2029 to reflect the current schedule and budget for the, digester facilities project and to ensure continued qualified experience to construction management, pursuant to the charter 9.118.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 48.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 48, resolution to approve a grant agreement between the city acting through the Department of Disability and Aging Services and Meals on Wheels, San Francisco, for the provision of home delivered meal nutrition services for older adults for a four year term, 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2029, and a not to exceed amount of 37,100,000.0.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: 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 authorize the Treasure Island director of Treasure Island Development Authority to execute an affordable housing loan agreement with the Bay Area Housing Finance Authority under the regional early action planning grant two point o, priority sites pilot program for a total award of 3,000,000 disbursed as an unsecured low interest loan, to the authority to fund design, permitting, or construction of infrastructure, improvement serving the affordable housing parcel, e 1.2 senior housing project on Treasure Island, a three year loan term execution date

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[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: agreement, with the option of two one year extensions and to authorize the authority to accept and expend the funds for up of up to 3,000,000 for eligible costs approved by the BAHFA and to authorize the Treasure Island Director to execute and deliver documents, including a memorandum of agreement with the treasure island community development.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 50.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 50. This is a resolution to retroactively authorize the Office of Cannabis to accept and expend an approximate 3,300,000 grant award and to expend interest earned or accrued on grant funds for the grant term through 10/31/2026 from the governor's office of business and economic development for the local equity grants program for local jurisdictions.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call without objection. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 51.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 51, this is a resolution to retroactively authorize the Port Of San Francisco to accept and expend a $28,000,000 grant from the San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority to fund the Mission Bay Ferry Landing project through 10/01/2028.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 52.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 52. This is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to update the minimum comp competitive amount and threshold amount for contracting to reflect recent consumer price index increases, to update the local business enterprise size criteria amounts to reflect recent consumer price index increases, and to allow the align the consumer price index increases with the fiscal year and to add delegated purchasing amount as a defined term in the administrative code.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. And then madam clerk, let's go to our committee reports.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 50 Yeah. Item 53. Yeah. Oh, sorry.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Apologies. Was considered by the Land Use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on Monday, July 14 and was recommended as a committee report. Item 53 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to fenestration, transparency, and sign requirements, generally, sales and service uses in the C 3 and RC districts, and 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, item 54 was not referred to the board. So let's, or at least not referred to the board as a committee report. So let's go to roll call for introductions.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Supervisor Chen is first up to introduce new business.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I'm I am introducing a resolution a resolution affirming due process right and community partnership for public safety, and urging training and protocols for law enforcement given recent federal immigration enforcement actions and increased law enforcement impersonations. San Francisco has seen a great reduction in crime over the past years. A lot of that has been achieved through community building between law enforcement agencies and community. These efforts have been supported through the strengthening of oversight bodies, accountability, and transparency. Last Tuesday, roughly 10 ICE agents clashed with protesters outside of a courthouse at 100 Montgomery Street. Many of these agents cover their faces. In other instance, alleged ICE agent have approached the citizens in unmarketed vehicles. ICE operation have escalated over the past months and will likely to continue to escalate under this federal administration. In addition to the escalation of detentions and deportation in The United States, there has been a massive spike in law enforcement impersonations in which non federal agents pretend to be ICE operative to spread fears, hate, and chaos. This instance, a role might any public trust that was being built between communities, especially communities of color, and local law enforcement agencies. We need our policy we need our police department and sheriff's office to prioritize taking the steps necessary to preserve public trust during these times. The Los Angeles Police Department has recent recently issued a police has recently issued a policy directing their officers responding to suspected federal immigration enforcement to request a supervisor if one is not present, verify the credential of the lead agent or supervisor if they are not clearly if they are not clearly identified. And capture the verification on body worn cameras to ensure transparency. Policy implementation like this are the modest but important step in safeguarding public trust, upholding public safety for all of our city's residents, and standing up for the dual process right that are afforded to everyone. And I want to thank my colleagues, supervisor Fielder, Mark Moo, Walton, and Melga for their early cosponsorship. President Mendelmann, I also have, a good neighborhood policy that I would like to introduce. And today, I, drafting the request from the I'm request. I am introducing a draft request from the city attorney's office. Every day, I receive feedback from constituents who are concerned about possible impact on their neighborhoods if covered a facility for homelessness or behavioral health services are built nearby. The reality is that these are life saving and stabilizing services that our city desperately needs. But it is also true that the city hasn't always upheld its side of the bargain to ensure that these facilities are good neighbors. I have asked the city attorney's office to work with my team to draft legislation that would formally codify the good neighborhood policy for cover facilities, and mandate community services plans with commitments for responsive departments. It doesn't appear that good neighborhood or good neighbor policy have t. There don't appear to be strong account accountability measures, performances, metrics, or public plans that constituents can access to be informed of what is realistically expect when a new facility is proposed in their neighborhoods. Our departments work in silo, and our nonprofit partners operating the sites are woefully underfunded, but as to do more work on top of the care that they provide to some of our city's most vulnerable and acute. This has a role that public trust, and it's also pivot essential services against neighborhoods. In an attempt to force a more working collaboration and share ownership of city owned facilities, the community services plan will require that departments provide information on what neighbors can expect from their involvement. I'm excited to work on this legislation and will hopefully earn your support once drafted. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Chen. Supervisor Dorsey. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Angadio.

[Alan Wong, Supervisor (District 4)]: Colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution reaffirming the board of supervisors support for the San Francisco school district's shared school yards program and urges the school district to explore partnerships that expand public access to neighborhood school yards. Our schoolyards have increased access to recreational open space in communities across the city. Families love being able to use their local schoolyard for recreation when school is not in session. This use is worth preserving. And we should promote site awareness and encourage shared accountability and investment in our school facilities. The program planned to include 61 schoolyards spread throughout the city. Unfortunately, the school district shuttered the shared schoolyards program on July 1. Unlocking our schoolyards on weekends is one of the simplest and most cost effective ways to increase access to open space for San Francisco families. Leaving them locked and inaccessible would be a disservice to parents and families. The shared schoolyards program has improved quality of life in neighborhoods across every district, and its loss will be felt citywide. So it's important that we support the school district in finding a sustainable path forward with the shared schoolyard program and ensure that San Francisco's next generation of children, youth, and families continue to benefit from these essential recreational spaces. And the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Angadio. Supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I have one introduction and one in memoriam. For the introduction, last week at a Castro town hall, SFPD leadership made deeply troubling remarks suggesting that local police should be prepared to protect federal ICE agents from unarmed protesters and equating them to California Highway Patrol needing backup. I wanna be clear that these kind of equivalences are both invalid and dangerous. It's baffling to me that SFPD leadership would equate unarmed protesters with Trump's armed ICE agents. ICE agents can protect themselves with their pepper spray, their guns, their vehicles, and their armor as they did so readily on protesters last Tuesday. ICE is not a law enforcement agency upholding public safety. It is a fascist operation that is violating court orders and the rule of law to stoke fear and sow chaos. I have general questions on the cost of deploying SFPD officers and sheriffs to protests, surveillance of demonstrators, protocols for protecting protesters during interactions with ICE, and the steps, if any, that law enforcement takes to verify the identity of federal agents to thwart impersonators. In a city with real public safety needs, like the challenging conditions in my district on 16th Street, we need officers on foot patrols not acting as bodyguards for ICE. And lastly, just yesterday, a standard article reported that SFPD shared automatic license plate reader data with federal law enforcement agencies in violation of California state law. For all these reasons, I've submitted a formal letter of inquiry to the police department, the sheriff's department, and the controller's office asking for a full account of decision making related to these data sharing practices. The Trump administration has unleashed billions of dollars in funding to expand ICE's detention and enforcement apparatus. And so we must ask, will San Francisco law enforcement be a participant in that, or will it defend our people? Because of the urgency of escalating actions by the Trump administration, I expect full responses from SFPD, the sheriff's department, and the controller in thirteen days by July 28. Our residents deserve transparency, accountability, and a police department that defends our sanctuary city laws, not one that collaborates with memoriam. It is with a heavy heart that I share this in memoriam for three beloved brothers, Jesus Manassas Ramos, who's 18, Yoni Ernesto Ramos, 22, and Joel Jeremias Melendez, 28, who perished in the recent explosion at a fireworks warehouse in Yolo County on July 1. Jesus and Yoni were alumni of Buena Vista Horace Mann in District 9. To do this in memoriam justice, I'm going to share the words of three adults who knew and loved the boys in different ways. From Buena Vista Horace Mann social worker Nick Chandler, quote, Yoni and Jesus Ramos, in their short time at BVHM, comprised the center of a beautiful community that spans from the Mission District to Richmond, San Pablo, and up to the Sacramento Valley. While unique in so many ways, these brothers shared a common gift. They each moved through the world with a subtle and knowing smile. Their eyes and demeanor put one at ease, lifted spirits, and reminded people around them of the joy, humor, and beauty in every moment. They were trusted and dependable anchors to countless friends and family members. They were loyal beyond question, radically honest, and committed to upholding the values of their family and community at all costs. The ripple effect of their tragic death is vast and illuminates the impact they had on the world. Their premature passing leaves a hole in our hearts and community, depriving us of the fruits of their journey and reminding us all of how rare and priceless it is to have people like Yoni and Jesus Ramos in your corner and in your heart. From Jesus and Yoni's teacher and mentor, Jeff Cino, quote, I have known the Ramos family for over ten years, and one of the things that I have learned from the brothers, Yoni and Jesus, is that the best people aren't necessarily the best students. Yoni and Jesus were the best people. They routinely gave their teachers a run for their money and each in their own way. Yoni challenged authority and often questioned what was being taught that day. Quote, is this really necessary? He'd ask, politely raising his hand. His inquiries often prompted valid class wide discussions, and the teacher who paid attention to his comments and modified the lesson of the day on the daily on on the spot became, in the end, a better teacher. Yoni was a luxury car from another time, calmly gliding around the hilly curves of middle school, spreading joy, goodwill, and generosity in his wake. When that movie Everything Everywhere All at Once came out a few years ago, I was certain it had to be the life story of Jesus Ramos. Peripatetic to a degree that was hardly mortal, this boy was everywhere all the time. From the roof of the breezeway to the depths of the dungeon below the school, no stone was left unturned by this dude. Whereas Yoni challenged authority, Jesus challenged life itself With an intelligence and impressions that belie his limited years, I'm confident that Jesus has already squeezed in at least six or seven important and noteworthy lifetimes during his short time here. And finally, from Jesus' high school principal and advisor, Anna Clafter. Jesus Ramos is a valued member of the Independence High School community. He is a proud graduate of the class of 2025 who earned his diploma on June 4. He's known best for his bright smile and his artistic abilities as a muralist. Jesus is remembered fondly by his teachers and his close group of friends. He was always supported by his loving family, and we are holding them closely in our thoughts, unquote. Their older brother, Joel, was a mentor to his younger brothers. They worked together at the warehouse and had big plans for their futures. I wanna offer my deepest condolences to the Ramos family and friends, the entire Buena Vista Horace Mann community, and to their siblings, Janeli and Ernesto, Joelle's mother, and most of all, to their parents, Marisol, and Yoni Ramos, senior. Your sons had a lasting impact on so many. And while our hearts are broken, their memory lives on in our community. Rest in peace and power, Jesus, Yoni, and Howell.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Fielder. Supervisor Mike Wood.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Colleagues, today I'm introducing a letter of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department and term chief Yap regarding captain turnover within SFPD. My office has heard consistently from residents and neighborhood leaders the critical role station captains play in local public safety, not only through delivering public safety and enforcement for our communities, but through community relationship building and long term problem solving for some of our toughest challenges. However, frequent or unexpected captain reassignments can undermine that trust, stall progress on ongoing issues, and create uncertainty for the communities we serve. In District 5 alone, we've lost five different police captains over three police districts in just the past six months. I recognize that many of you here also share the same concerns and had felt the uncertainty of changes in public safety leadership. That's why we're asking the police department to share data from the past five years on how often captains have been reassigned or replaced and for what reasons, whether due to promotion, reassignment, or retirement. We're also asking whether the department tracks these transitions in a centralized way and whether any strategies exist or could be developed to support longer captain tenures at individual stations. This isn't just a matter of staffing. It's about stability, accountability, and building strong, lasting partnerships between station leadership and the communities that they serve. I look forward to the department's response and to continuing this conversation on how we can improve leadership continuity and neighborhood safety outcomes across our city. And I wanna thank supervisors Walton, Cheryl, Sauter, and Fielder for their cosponsorship for this letter of inquiry as well. The rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Monkwood. Supervisor Mandelmann.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I am introducing a resolution recognizing the thirty fifth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and celebrating the work of disability rights leaders in San Francisco. The ADA was signed into law on 07/26/1990. Every July, we celebrate Disability Pride Month to honor the passage of this law and history, achievements, experiences, experiences, and struggles of the disability community. San Francisco earned its place in the history of the struggle for disability rights in 1977, just a few blocks away in UN Plaza. Hundreds of activists from groups including the Black Panther Party, Glide Memorial Church, Gay Men's Butterfly Brigade, Delancey Street, the United Farm Workers, the Gray Panthers, and the Salvation Army staged the historic five zero four sit in at the San Francisco Health, Education, And Welfare Federal Building. The coalition called for the federal government, particularly Health, Education, and Welfare secretary Joseph Califano junior, to implement section five zero four of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, a predecessor to the ADA that prohibited discrimination against people with disabilities in programs and activities receiving federal funding. That twenty eight day sit in was the longest takeover of a federal building in American history. The coalition won, convincing secretary Califano to sign regulations to enforce section five zero four. This moment brought national attention to the needs of the disability community and helped secure and and helped lead to the passage of the ADA. It's worth noting that the American disability rights movement simply would not be where it is today without the contributions of San Francisco advocates, particularly women, including Judy Heumann, who led the five zero four sit in and founded key organizations like Disabled in Action and the World Institute on Disability, Patty Byrne, who cofounded and led Sins Invalid, and Debbie Kaplan, Alice Wong, and Sasha Bittner, who were honored here earlier today. San Francisco has demonstrated its commitment to supporting people with disabilities through the establishment of the mayor's office on disability, now the office on disability and accessibility, and the mayor's disability council. Provision of direct services to the Department of Disability and Aging Services, and the distribution of grants to make businesses accessible through the Office of Small Business. Later this week, I'll be joining members of the disability community and city staff to celebrate the grand opening of the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center, the nation's first municipally funded disability center and a first of its kind space dedicated to honoring the artistic, cultural, and civic contributions of the disability community. Nonetheless, and notwithstanding the important work that has been done to expand services and protections, many people with disabilities still experience discrimination when trying to access housing, employment, health care, and many other essential areas. This resolution recognizes the hard fought wins and reaffirms San Francisco's commitment to increasing access. I wanna thank the director of the Office on Disability and Accessibility, Eli Jelerden, Joe Malika from the Human Services Agency, and Calvin Ho in my office for their work on the resolution. I wanna thank you all, colleagues, for your unanimous cosponsorship, and the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Milgar?

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: I will submit, madam clerk, but I'd like to be added to supervisor Fielder's in memoriam for the Ramos brothers, so I also personally knew. Thank you.

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

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Yes. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I am happy to be introducing a resolution authorizing the Little Italy Honor Walk, a fantastic project that is showcasing the expansive contributions of the Italian community to our great city. With support of this legislation, a series of commemorative plaques will be placed across North Beach. Two have already been installed. A third will be unveiled next week to honor AP Giannini. And now more will be authorized to be installed. This wonderful project is a community partnership between leaders of organization organizations, including the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club, LaDonna di Italia, the Consul General of Italy, Itau SF, Museo Italia, and the Italian Heritage Parade. In District 3, and especially in North Beach, we find ways to honor our history and to make our neighborhoods more vibrant, and I'm excited to support this project, which does just that. And the rest, I submit.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today I have one piece of legislation and an in memoriam. But first, I'm introducing an ordinance to make the city's good food purchasing standards permanent for hospitals and jails. This ordinance was previously introduced by supervisors Feuer and Mandelmann and passed by the board of supervisors in 2020 with the sunset date of September 2025. The version that I'm introducing today will remove the sunset date and lock in stronger goals around sustainability, health, labor practices, and local sourcing of food. It keeps San Francisco committed to using its public dollars to support ethical food systems that benefit people, workers, and the broader community. For hospitals, the ordinance boosts the goal for sourcing from small and medium sized farms up to 15%, and requires the Department of Public Health to publicly share any vendor labor violations. It also continues efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of food procurement, cut down on waste, and improve nutrition through healthier menus and sustainable purchasing practices. For jails, it increases local food purchasing up to 40%, doubling the target for pesticide free foods and requiring the sheriff's department to publicly report vendor labor violations. These changes will support better health outcomes for incarcerated individuals while pushing the city's food vendors to meet higher standards. Both the Department of Public Health and the Sheriff's Department will be required to report to the board every two years on their progress. At the end of the day, this is about using the city's food dollars to invest in healthier communities and protect our workers while making sure the food served in our public institutions reflects our values. I would like to thank deputy city attorneys Valerie Lopez and Nan Pearson, the Good Food Purchasing Coalition, and of course, my chief of staff, Natalie Gee, for her work on this. Also, colleagues, today I am here to honor and remember a remarkable woman, a daughter of San Francisco, a mother, a grandmother, a sister, a wife, a neighbor, and mother of mayor London Breed, and a servant of this city, Priscilla Breed. Born on 02/27/1954, to Willie Ann Camila Brown, Priscilla was a proud native of San Francisco, deeply rooted in the community she loved. She graduated from Poly High School and continued her education later in life at City College of San Francisco, where she earned her associate of arts degree and received multiple certifications in janitorial services. Her commitment to growth and lifelong learning was a testament to her perseverance and pride in her work. Priscilla dedicated over two decades of service to the San Francisco Housing Authority and more than thirty years as a proud member of Laborers Local two sixty one. Whether she was working at UC Berkeley, Nordstrom, or on behalf of our public housing residents, Priscilla brought the same unwavering integrity, skill, and care to every space she touched. Her work wasn't just a profession. It was an extension of her heart. Priscilla was deeply grounded in her faith, a committed member of Walls Without Walls International Church, where she walked with Christ from childhood through her final days. She leaves behind a powerful legacy of love, discipline, and grace visible in the family she raised, the lives she influenced, and the community she served. She is survived by her loving husband, Paul, her sister, Linda, her children, Napoleon, London, Paul, Hattie, and Camilla, as well as a host of grandchildren and extended family who care for her memory forward. We especially lift up our colleagues and friends, Mayor London Breed and Hattie Wyatt, as they grieve the loss of their beloved mother. We see you. We stand with you. And we honor the incredible woman who helped shape your lives, and in turn, the life of this city. May Priscilla Breed be remembered not just for what she did, but for who she was, a woman of strength, faith, and relentless love. May she rest in peace and power. And I would ask president Madelmann that we submit this in memoriam on the behalf of the entire board of supervisors. Thank you. I submit.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thanks, supervisor Walton. Let's do that, madam clerk.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister president. You can gavel down. Thank you. Supervisor, Chan, you're the last member to submit the new business.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you. Colleagues, I would like to offer an in memoriam for missus, Renata Margaret Margarita Kenniston. Renata was born 09/17/1933 in Germany and lived through World War two. She met her husband while traveling in Sweden on a motorcycle. After dating twenty one days, she took a boat to The United States and married John Gordon Terry Keniston. They later had two children, Nils and Gabrielle, and were happily married for sixty five years After moving to San Francisco from Malaysia, where Terry was from, they purchased and ran the Golden Gate Hotel on Booth Street for three decades until the pandemic. Renata was a real ambassador to the city who always created a warm and welcoming atmosphere at

[Alice Wong]: the

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: hotel, establishing it as a local gym for local for global visitors. She supported a number of organizations and institutions, including the board of the German Ladies' Benevolent Society of San Francisco, the Marine Mammal Center, Wild Care Rescue in San Rafael, the Golden Gate Bird Alliance, Planet Parenthood, and Doctors Without Borders. Her causes tells you who she was. She enjoyed attending community events and meetings and stayed up on local politics, never shy to share her opinions on what those in government should do to make San Francisco the best city it could be. She's survived by her husband, two children, and their spouses, Jessica and Till, much loved by her granddaughters, Emma and Estella, and many close friends, family, neighbors, and former workers. My deepest condolences to the family, and the rest I submit. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Chan. Mister president, there are no further names on the roster. That concludes the introduction of new business.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Let's go to public comment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: At this time, if you would, line up on your right hand side of the chamber. You may speak to, the items 57 through 60, other general matters as well. But the budget matters may not be spoken to or other items on the agenda that the board dealt with today. First of all, we have, as I stated during, communications, that we do have one remote caller today as a means of an ADA accommodation. And so with your permission, mister president, we will send that caller through now.

[Speaker 11.0]: Sure.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. Thank you. Alright. Welcome to the first caller.

[Patricia Eric (Mayor's Disability Council)]: Hi. My name is Patricia Eric. I'm a member of the mayor's disability council, and I want to thank you for all the pronouncements today and the very moving testimony of Debbie Kaplan and Sasha Bittner, Alice Wong. I I do want to ask the board to correct a problem that we have at Sunset Dunes. I'm disabled, and I am afraid to walk on Sunset Dunes because the highway the the four lanes of the highway are open to bikers. On July 1, we had a lady that was hit by a biker. She ended up going to a hospital in the in an ambulance. And this this demonstrates that this is a problem. It's been a problem for five years. We have bikers who race on all four lanes. I would like to ask the board to honor these these three women that that spoke today and have given their lives toward the disability community and for the celebration of thirty five years of the ADA legislation that

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

[Patricia Eric (Mayor's Disability Council)]: separate the walkers, the pedestrians from the bikers at Sunset Dunes. Not only are disabled people afraid to go up on the highway, but able-bodied people, numerous able-bodied people have said they're afraid to go up there because there are bikers Thank you. At all for the

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you to the caller. We appreciate you waiting for four and a half hours to make your comment. Can we hear from our first person in the chamber to provide comment? Welcome.

[Public commenter (unidentified)]: Okay. I don't know. So let's just mention the fact that yesterday was Bastille Day with no official sign whatsoever displaying the evidence that without the French, you your independence of seventeen seventy six would never have happened. Now there will be there will be no disappointment for the extra waste of energy that you created here by beating around the bush again. Whereas you should know, most of you, that you've been under arrest since September. So now all the evidence shows that the entire political spectrum mostly personified by the federal government, is part and parcel of of pedophile ring, okay, from which you are not exempt for the very fact that there is no difference in between an acting pedophile and someone not calling him or her out. So now I will I will be forced to consider you. Everyone here listening, you better pay attention. I would be forced by the skies to consider you as pedophiles. I hope you're going to enjoy it. Trust me, there will be no regularization of pedophilic activities. Never. So apart from that, yeah, congratulations. Of course, we keep going. And with technology, of course, there is a cover up of this absolutely ugly. You can be more than that. Activities using weather manipulation, warfare, basically, and, of course, technology, absolute incompetence, AI, blah blah blah. No QR codes.

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

[Michael Frasier (aka Amir), Public commenter]: Greetings, board of supervisors. Thank you for everything you do and being here. There is 460,000,000 460,000 children that go missing in The United States Of America, and the sex slave industry makes more money than both Walmart and McDonald's combined every year. My name is Michael Frasier. I'm a more I'm a San Francisco native born at Saint Luke's Hospital. I'm also known as Amir. I'm here to seek resolution on my situation. Back in 2001, I I got off death row in San Quentin, and, you know, since then, my life has been crazy. I gave my life to God. And, you know, we've been in session taking minutes and speaking in metaphors and soliloquies, but it's a matter of public safety. And, you know, I myself have been abused, my daughter and the public and everything. So I am seeking compensation. In my mind, there is no way to resolve this situation without compensation in that. And I thank you guys for your time. God bless everybody, and Godspeed.

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

[Leah McGeever, Public commenter]: Okay. Hello. My name is Leah McGeever. I live in D 6. I have been going out to, 100 Montgomery to protest ICE illegally, taking people, kidnapping them, abducting them. You can show the image while I read this. I I wrote this inspired by the past month. It's called Gold Rush twenty twenty five. San Francisco has struck gold once again, Levi's Gold Rush legacy funding federal crimes. Cops lubricate the streets for human cargo across the bay, across Ohlone lands, white Ford vans, all colors of skin driving, displaced indigenous children, young and old, purposefully lost on paper, in cells, on airplanes. Settlers have hit gold again, Levi family amassing more fortune. Their legacy sits in city hall, away from the violence, away from accountability, flanked by columns of Whitestone and armed men to guard their gold rush air. 40 who made bank off the murder and displacement of indigenous people here. How silly for anyone to think this forty nine are capable or willing of helping any other who can offer him no gold in return. And just to keep that, going. This represents what I fear will happen one day with these vans ramming into protesters. I have seen people knocked down, thrown off the vans. I really don't wanna see a skull crushed with brains coming out on the street. One more. This is what these ICE agents and whoever else they are look like to me. That is my public comment. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Leah McGeever. Welcome, mister Omen.

[Jeffrey (known as 'Mister Ahmed'), Public commenter]: Thank you, Angela. How's the Tom Ammiano?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Jeffrey, this is your opportunity. Here we go. I'll send the timer now.

[Jeffrey (known as 'Mister Ahmed'), Public commenter]: Yes. On April, at Cree Senior Center at 520 Turk Street, a gentleman by the name of Roberto Alvarez, although he's no longer working there, assisted me. I couldn't do it with my cell phone, so there was a computer there, several computers. For $5, I am now a member of the American Zionist Movement through Congregation Emmanuel Wake and Agrello. I saw a documentary regarding October 7, and I have a clear picture. But I also would like to say to all of you that the Palestinians need to have their clean water, their food, their medicine, there's no place to go to the bathroom, there's all kind of diseases, they live in tents. When the Palestinians go for the food, they kill them anyways. We knew we were gonna get it right. And I will say another time, I do give per month to St. Jude's Children's Hospital, And, we all belong on this planet. We're all human beings, and I hope one day we can get it right. So shalom, shalom, peace. Thank you. I hope all of you are in good health. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister Ahmed, for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker. Is that you, miss Brown? Okay. Alright. Welcome.

[Speaker 18.0]: I tried to do this yesterday, but I was told by Land Use that today was the appropriate day.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Into the microphone, please.

[Mark Bruno (Public Commenter, St. Vincent de Paul Society, North Beach)]: Today was the appropriate day to present, our views from North Beach on upzoning. My name is Mark Bruno. I work with and for Saint Vincent de Paul Society in North Beach. I'll start now. In the first sentence of the press release on family zoning, the mayor mentions affordability. The report presented by Planning on June 26, just two days later, mentions affordability 20 times. Every forum presented by the city on upzoning that I've been able to attend, three of them, has included a discussion of affordability. It seems that it's an overarching benefit offered by those who favor upzoning. Why then does the planning map attached to the ordinances favoring upzoning include buildings with affordable units? Why are we inviting those units to be demolished, putting an upzoning target on the backs of those buildings and those residents, while, at the same time, promising more affordability. We at St. Vincent de Paul Society in North Beach, as of 2028, will have worked with the poor and those living in affordable housing for one hundred years, just three years from now. And we find this approach nonsensical at best and completely unnecessary to meet state housing mandates. The city has adequate parcels whose owners are likely to be enticed by upzoning without demolishing any affordable units. Those are commercial parcels, absent residential renters, plus parcels that have never been developed, plus utilitarian structures owned by the city and many non profits, such as ours, the Catholic Church, including labor unions, and the city itself. These are all parcels that don't include renters. For this reason, we are proposing this amendment to the ordinances, two fifty seven hundred and seven zero one. No permits issued as a result of these ordinances shall diminish the habitability removed from the marketplace or demolish any rent controlled unit in the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you.

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

[Ms. Brown, Public commenter]: Good evening. I am here because on August 14 this month and those of you that are on your phones, please listen. It's not fair to us. Okay? So, I would on August 14 this month will be the anniversary of my son's death. And not only mine's other fathers and mothers that have lost their children. I'm asking the board to please show up. I just got a confirmation from the, San Francisco Police Department for the media to be there. And I'm praying that everyone will show up and support not just me, but other mothers. I just, had, Robert Ruhracker from the police department email Matt Dorsey to to, confirm this appointment on the fourteenth. We need to see you. We need your support. Too many of us are losing our children to senseless violence, especially people of color. I would like to adjourn this meeting on our children that are being murdered on the street. Just like that young lady, our the blood is running down the sewers. The ambulance are coming. And we're left with no children. I have an empty table at the table with my only son that I lost. So I asked, and I come here every Wednesday. I live in District 5. And I'd like my District 5 supervisor to be there, Mahmood. Please. And I'm asking the mayor to show up. And all of you, please come and support us mothers. We need you. We don't know what else to do. Mothers are begging for justice for their children in different districts. We need you to support us. Please come on August 14 at 03:00 on Grove And Baker.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Are there any other members who would like to address the, board during general public comment? Alright. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, let's go to our for adoption with that committee reference agenda, items 57 through 60.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: 60. Items 57 through 60 were introduced for adoption 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)]: I think that supervisor yep. There we go. Supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you. Colleagues, I ask for an accommodation to continue items fifty nine and sixty and and sever and and continue these two items for one week in order to allow me to vote on no on these two items just

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: as Supervisor Chen will call that item in just a moment.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: My apologies.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Those two items?

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Yes.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: 5960.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: So that leaves 5758, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. I think can we take those well, please call the roll on those two items.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items fifty seven and fifty eight, supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Engadio. Engadio, I. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmood. Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

[Caleb Bittner (reading remarks on behalf of Sasha Bittner)]: Aye.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, items fifty seven and fifty eight are the resolutions are adopted. And then, madam clerk, please call items, I guess, fifty nine and sixty together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 59 is a motion to adopt findings related to a conditional use authorization at 3400 Laguna Street. Item 60 is the motion to adopt findings in support of the certificate of appropriateness at 3400 Laguna Street.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1) and Budget Committee Chair]: Thank you, president Mendel and colleagues. Sorry. As I attempted to, mention earlier was that, you know, if we could continue these two items just for one week and allow my no vote, just breaks on the principle that maintaining consistency in my respect of my vote at our June 17 board hearing, regarding the subject project. So I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much for indulgence.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The motion to continue these two items to, next week. And then is there a second? Seconded by Melgar.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Let me second.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we can take that, without objection, colleagues. Without objection, the motion passes. And 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)]: Alright. Can you please read the in memoriams?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: For today's meeting, it will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor Fielder and supervisor Melgar for brothers, Jesus Ramos, Yoni Ramos, Joel Jeremiah Melendez. On behalf of supervisor Chan, for the late miss Renata Marguerite Kinston, and on behalf of supervisor Walton and to, president Mandelmann, on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the late miss Priscilla Breed.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I think 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)]: Then we are adjourned.