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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the 07/29/2025 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 Chen? Present. Chen present. Supervisor Dorsey? Present. Dorsey present. Supervisor Engadio? Present. Engadio present. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder present. Supervisor Mahmood? Present. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Ramayfush 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?

[Speaker 2.0]: I pledge allegiance

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: On behalf of our board, I wanna acknowledge the staff at SFgovTV today, especially 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 here in the board's legislative chamber in the 2nd Floor, Room 250 Of City Hall. Or you may watch the proceeding on SFGOV TV's channel 26 or view the livestream at www.sfgovtv.org. If you have public comment that you would like to submit to the board, send an email to bos@sfgov.org or use the postal service and just address your envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The number one, Doctor Carlton B Goodlip Place, City Hall, Room 244, San Francisco, California 94102. To make a reasonable accommodation request under the Americans with Disability Act or to request language assistance, contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance. And you can call (415) 554-5184. Thank you, mister president.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Approval of the 06/24/2025 regular board meeting minutes and the June 25 06/25/2025 special meeting minutes at the budget and appropriations committee meeting, which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, can I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented? Moved by Chen, seconded by Walton. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the minutes as presented, supervisor En gardeo. En gardeo, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud? Mahmoud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. Madam clerk, let's go to our consent agenda, items one through 23.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items one through 23 are on consent. These items are considered to be routine. If a member objects, an item may be removed and considered separately.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items one through 23, supervisor Engadio.

[Alan Wong, Supervisor (District 4)]: Aye.

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

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, these ordinances are finally passed and the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, let's go to unfinished business. Please call item 24.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 24. This is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to expand the scope, excuse me, of emergency procurement provisions for goods and services and to allow city departments to modify agreements in ways not contemplated in the original solicitation.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call item 25.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 25, this is an ordinance to approve health service system plans and contribution rates for calendar year 2026. Just pursuant to the charter, this matter requires nine votes of all members of the board of supervisors to approve for passage today.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And again, we'll take the same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call item 26.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 26. This is an ordinance to settle the lawsuit filed by Archdiocese of San Francisco Parish and School Juridic Persons, Real Property Support Corporation against the city and county for $248,000. This involves alleged property damage and economic losses arising from flooding caused by a water transmission pipeline break.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Chan spoke last time to disclose that she does not believe that she has a conflict, and we can therefore take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, please call items twenty seven and twenty eight.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items twenty seven and twenty eight are two ordinances that waive the competitive solicitation requirements under chapters 14 b and 21 of the administrative code for the police department's procurement of equipment, technology, and services. Item 27 supports the department's RTIC, the real time investigation center, utilizing gift funds received from the San Francisco Police Community Foundation. And item 28 is for the regional vehicle interdiction desk using grant funds from the United States Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance.

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thanks, president. Colleagues, today we're being asked to approve over $9,000,000 of in kind gifts and waive competitive bidding requirements to expand the San Francisco Police Department's real time investigation center. These four items range from private tech donations to surveillance software and drones. I will be voting no on all four items related to the expansion of the real time investigation center for the police. While public safety is a priority that I share, we need to also consider the long term implications that come with expanding surveillance infrastructure, especially when it's funded by private donations developed with minimal reforms of oversight and advanced through waivers of our city's competitive bidding process. Just this year alone, we learned that SFPD illegally shared data from automatic license plate readers with out of state law enforcement, including agencies the at the federal level. This is a clear violation of our city's sanctuary laws and a direct. Sorry. This is potentially a violation of our city's sanctuary laws as we have no control over those federal agencies and what data they share with ICE. This also presents a direct threat to civil liberties of all immigrant residents in San Francisco. I want to reaffirm that we are a sanctuary city, and any investments in surveillance that we cannot guarantee have strong guardrails risks undermining our sanctuary promise. Tools like drones, data software, and license plate tracking may be crime fighting assets, but we also have to evaluate those benefits against the risk to our communities. These measures deepen our alliance on privately funded law enforcement equipment, and it raises concerns about accountability and transparency. For these reasons, especially for the potential harms immigrant communities and civil liberties, I cannot support this expansion. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Madam clerk, please call the roll on items twenty seven and twenty eight.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items twenty seven and twenty eight, supervisor and Guardio. Engardio, I. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, no. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk, please call items twenty nine and thirty together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items twenty nine and thirty are two resolutions that approve in kind gifts to support the police department's real time investigation center. Item 29 retroactively authorizes the police department to accept and expend an in kind gift of office space from Ripple Labs Inc, valued at 2,100,000.0 through 12/31/2026. Item 30 retroactively authorizes the police department to accept and expend gifts of equipment, services, and funds totaling approximately 7,200,000.0 for the installation of fiber Internet service, purchase of 12 docks and drones, related software and services, data integration software, and employee parking fees with a start date of 04/30/2025, and to authorize the police department to accept and expand future gifts from San Francisco Police Community Foundation for support of the RTIC.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items twenty nine and thirty, supervisors and Gardeo? Aye. And Gardeo, aye. Supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, no. Supervisor, Mahmood? Aye. Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, I. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, I. Supervisor Walton? Walton, no. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen. Aye. Chen, aye. And supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, aye. There are nine ayes and two nos with supervisors Fielder and Walton voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk,

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 31. This is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to promote equitable access to shelter and behavioral health services by prohibiting the city from siting a new city funded homeless shelter, transitional housing facility, or certain behavioral health residential care and treatment facilities collectively called covered facilities in a neighborhood where the neighborhood share of the city's shelter and transitional housing beds exceed the neighborhood share of the city's unsheltered persons, and to prohibit the city from siting a new city funded homeless shelter within 300 feet of an existing homeless shelter, and to authorize the board of supervisors to waive these prohibitions upon a finding that approving the covered facility or homeless shelter at the proposed location is in the public interest and to provide that this ordinance sunsets on 12/31/2031.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Thank you, president and colleagues. I wanna begin on this ordinance by recognizing the strong and united community support we just saw outside at a press conference steps away. That moment underscored what this legislation is really about, Showing that San Francisco can come together across neighborhoods, backgrounds, and sectors to build a smarter, fairer, and more compassionate approach to homelessness. We heard from labor unions, business leaders, political leaders, and community advocates, many of whom have experienced firsthand how our current system strains already burdened neighborhoods while leaving others behind. That's why we're proud to bring this ordinance forward with the support of a broad and diverse coalition who all agree, we need a more balanced data informed system of care that meets people where they are and helps communities thrive. Our community and organizational sponsors include Code Tenderloin, Tenderloin Community Benefit District, Tenderloin Housing Clinic, SoMa West Neighbors Association, Lower Nob Hill Neighborhood Alliance, the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee, Local eighty seven, SEIU Genders Union, Local five, United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Unite Here Local two, Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union, the Bay Area Council, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, former Tenderloin supervisors Jane Kim and Matt Haney. Their support underscores a shared belief that neighborhoods deserve a voice in shaping how services are delivered and that partnership, not surprise, is the path to successful, sustainable solution. This ordinance reflects years of advocacy and a collective effort to strengthen the fabric of our most impacted communities. The One City Shelter Act is rooted in a simple but long overdue principle, that every neighborhood should be part of the solution, and every San Franciscan should have access to shelter and care no matter where they live. For too long, we've relied on reactive and crisis driven planning. It's led to a harmful overconcentration in just a few neighborhoods, while others have remained service deserts. This ordinance aims to break that cycle. What we're bringing forward today is the most implementable, data informed version of this policy, one that strengthens transparency, aligns services with need, and ensures early, meaningful community engagement. Currently, 75% of all shelter and transitional housing beds are concentrated in just 30 neighborhoods or sorry, in just eight neighborhoods, while more than 1,000 unsheltered residents in the remaining 30 plus neighborhoods have no nearby access to care. That kind of imbalance sends a message, whether intentional or not, that only a few neighborhoods are expected to shoulder the city's response to a city wide crisis. It creates a dynamic where neighborhoods like the Tenderloin and SoMa are carrying the weight while others are left on the sidelines. This ordinance is about zooming out, shifting our perspective, and addressing our homelessness response through the lens of one city, where every neighborhood plays a role and no community is left behind or asked to do it alone. This is not about drawing lines between neighborhoods. It's about drawing a circle that brings every neighborhood in. Equity isn't a zero sum game. When each part of the city contributes, the entire city becomes stronger, more resilient, and more just. At budget and finance committee, we made several key amendments based on feedback from experts and partners to strengthen and clarify our equity framework. We created a first of its kind fair share rule. New city funded shelters can't be pursued in neighborhoods that have already have a higher share of beds than their share of unsheltered population unless a waiver is granted. We will also have a 300 foot buffer between new shelters to avoid hyper clustering and preserve neighborhood balance. We have expectations for projects already in in the pipeline or exempt exemptions, facilities expanding with an existing footprint, or replacing closed closed services in the same neighborhood. We call for a biannual equity analysis and reporting to keep decisions grounded in real time data. And for the first time, provide transparency about where the city might be considering siting sites. And we wrote a sunset date for 2031 to allow us to test, evaluate, and adjust this legislation over time. It's important to recognize that this ordinance is not about shifting burdens. It's about finally building a balanced system that serves all San Franciscans. In the Tenderloin, we have 3,500 children and not a single toy store. Revitalization cannot happen without balance. We see real impacts from this con from this overconcentration, but this legislation will send a message that we are putting trust back into the communities of color, immigrants, refugees that have shouldered the burden of responsibility on this challenge for too long. And when we talk about revitalization of our city, we have to consider the revitalization of these neighborhoods, because you cannot have a downtown revitalization without a Tenderloin revitalization either. Let's also be clear that this is a budget decision, and a budget reflects our values. We're saying that city funds should follow unmet need, not political convenience. This is how we rebuild public trust, deliver public outcome better outcomes, and truly act like one city. In closing, I wanna acknowledge so many people who have led in ensuring and collaborating on this legislation. First, I wanna thank my legislative director, Sam Logan, who put in hundreds of hours onto this legislation, and those hundreds of hours have resulted in a collaborative approach bridging together so many different communities, stakeholders, departments, offices to come up with a first of its kind framework that we will hopefully pass today. My sincerest thanks also to Anne Pearson in the city attorney's office for her clear, steady guidance, and deep commitment to both the legal and community impacts of this legislation. I'm grateful to Nick Menard and Christina Milamute from the budget and legislative analyst office whose rigorous analysis provided a strong foundation for equitable decision making. Deep thanks to our partners at the Department of Public Health, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, especially Dylan Schneider, Emily Cohen, Sneha Patel, and Claire Altman for their guidance, feedback, and commitment to making this framework workable on the ground. I also wanna thank the many neighborhood leaders, service providers, and community partners who have carried this vision for years. Your persistence, insight, and belief in a more equitable city have shaped every part of this ordinance. And finally, I wanna thank you to my colleagues, supervisors Walton, Dorsey, Sauter, and Melgar for your early support and shared commitment to ensuring our system of care reflects our city wide values. And importantly, I wanna thank supervisor Walton who led us as a board of supervisors to unanimously vote in favor of geographic equity earlier this year. This legislation would not have been possible without his early advocacy and championship. So today, colleagues, we have the opportunity to break that status quo. To say that geographic equity, community partnership, and data driven planning are not just ideals, but the new standard for how we care for our most vulnerable. This ordinance charts a clear path forward, one that delivers shelter and stability to those who need it most, brings balance to neighborhoods that have long been asked to carry too much, and restores trust in our city's ability to lead with both compassion and fairness. I urge your support, not just for the legislation, but for a more united and more just San Francisco. Thank you. Supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, as I have stated in the committee, at the budget and finance committee, I agree, with supervisor Balamamu that neighborhoods such as Tenderloin and Saddle Market have shoulder the burden of providing shelter and services to unhoused individuals in our city. This has resulted in decades of saturation of blight in these neighborhoods, and the data confirms the saturation. That's why I have continued to say I would support a moratorium on shelters in certain neighborhoods. This is a moment of humanitarian crisis. Our city needs to focus on delivering equitable services for the people who are in need with flexibility to meet the public health trends and demands, be it drug intervention, shelter, housing, or other services. Based on the data that we now have, we have the opportunity to understand the actual needs of unhoused people. They're not monolith, instead of simple percentage by neighborhoods, which is what we're seeing right now, have yet to really dive deep and understand. Let's provide solutions accordingly. However, the legislation before us today, despite its many amendments, is both overtly prescriptive, yet not precise enough in targeted solutions, and only serves to further divide our neighborhoods. I would rather support a shelter moratorium for saturated neighborhoods as we continue to solve homelessness citywide. For these reasons, I will not be voting in support of this legislation today.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Supervisor Sauter. Thank you, president. I wanna first applaud, my colleague, Reza Mahmoud, for all of the work that he poured into this. I believe this is ambitious legislation. I believe it's important and much needed legislation, and also to extend, that gratitude towards the mayor's office for their, role in collaborating and shaping this, and many of my other colleagues as well, of course. You know, I I will be supporting this. You know, as I think about this legislation, I think about, in my district, our neighborhoods of Lower Nob Hill, where, I inherited a situation where more than a half dozen sites and services had been opened in short order during the pandemic, and there had been no, you know, no pause to to think about that or to coordinate their success. And, you know, literally just this morning, walking through that neighborhood, had a couple that came up to me and talked to me about this legislation and shared their hope and optimism optimism for this legislation because it will require us to be more thoughtful about this, to ensure that we do not over concentrate services in one neighborhood. By many measures, District 3 has the second highest concentration of services now, largely because of, the last five years in Lower Nob Hill. So I believe this is, again, thoughtful. I believe it's needed, and I will be supporting this today. Supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: Thank you. President Mandelmann, I'd like to start by thanking supervisor Mahmoud, for introducing and working to shape this legislation and also to supervisor Walton for his leadership as a cosponsor. I'm proud to also join as a cosponsor, and I only apologize that a late commitment earlier prevented me from being on the city hall steps to, for the for the event. For too long, our districts have shouldered a disproportionate share of homeless services. In District 6, I've seen firsthand how concentrating vulnerable populations in just a few neighborhoods can exacerbate rather than solve many of the challenges that we're facing. Oversaturation doesn't only strain communities, I think it also erodes public support for the very services we need to best address the challenges facing vulnerable San Franciscans. I think this ordinance creates a framework for a smarter, fairer site citing scheme, and I think decisions that are grounded in data, transparency, and early community engagement will succeed best. These are principles my constituents have asked for, and they're embedded in this legislation. I wanna thank, especially the many District 6 residents and partners who were part of this, including Selma West Neighborhood Association and the Selma West CBD, among others, who have engaged on this issue. Their voices helped to shape this ordinance, and that is thanks, in large part, to the willingness of its author to listen to those voices. And I really appreciate it. So thank you, supervisor Mahmoud. I'm proud to support this, and I thank you for your leadership on it. Supervisor Waltman.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Melderman. And I just wanna thank supervisor Mahmoud, supervisors Dorsey, Sauter, and Melgar for their cosponsorship in bringing this legislation forward. I also wanna send a special thank you to supervisor Mark Mood for his willingness to work with others cooperatively to move towards a successful and equitable way to combat homelessness and provide services for our unhoused in this city. I do want people to understand that this legislation is not an anti shelter strategy in certain communities, but more of a pro shelter and homeless services strategy across the city and in areas that have opportunity to provide more support. A lot of work has gone into us getting here. And although I don't feel this legislation has the complete necessary teeth to guarantee that we have equitable access throughout San Francisco, it most certainly is the first legislation of its kind and recognizes that shelter and services for our unhoused population should be in close proximity and available for all. If we are ever going to truly address the root causes and the issues surrounding homelessness, then we must all work in unison. This is something that affects this entire city, and we should address it as such and ensure that no one community is overwhelmingly charged with providing shelter and services for our unhoused community. We all play a role in getting people off of our streets and into shelter. So I wanna thank, again, everyone who worked on this and for everyone coming together collaboratively and proud to cosponsor this legislation. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, I think we all want meaningful solution to homelessness, and our community deserve a thoughtful planning, transparent communication, effective strategy, supportive services, and housing that truly helps stabilize people and puts them on a path to safer, healthier, and sustained housing opportunities. For my own district, equity means investing in wrap around services and permanent affordable housing. I would like to see a more investment in deeply affordable housing in District 11. And I would also welcome interim use at those affordable housing sites that allow us to serve unhoused neighbors and hopefully transition them into permanent housing solution in the future. These are the kind of Investment District 11 needs and deserves. And we know it is possible for two years prior to the groundbreaking of Kapuso at the Upper Yaw affordable housing development, we had a temporary RV site where, very closely housed neighbors could safely park and live. This process included ample community input and eventually garnered support from the neighborhood. For too long, my district has received too few resources to meet the basic needs for all our residents, including the most primary city services intended to promote public safety, public health, clean street, and more. I don't believe this piece of legislation as it has been amended gets us towards these goals and toward the goals of geographic equity. Placing a shelter in every neighborhood without intentional community input won't address root causes of housing and affordability, behavioral health issues, and more. Further, I fear that it pits services against neighborhood against city agencies as well. Thus, I won't be supportive of this legislation today. Why I strongly believe that in geographic equity of services, I also believe our focus should be on providing permanent solution that adjust the root causes of housing insecurity, including significant investment into preventable solution and expedite developing, deeply affordable housing. And I hope that I can work with my colleagues on the board and the mayor's office to move forward with this kind of investment in the city. Thank you.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president. I will start by saying thank you, supervisor Mahmoud, for the amount of work that went into this ordinance, and to, our colleagues who are cosponsors. I am the supervisor for one of the West Side neighborhoods that has seen no services, shelters, transitional housing, or behavioral residential services, really, ever, with the exception of Laguna Honda, where we have seen some of the activities be at risk. And so I will say that whereas I agree that community input is really important, it's also important to acknowledge that some communities do not want to have services anywhere near the community. And that's a problem, because folks are homeless in every single district, in San Francisco. About three years ago, another colleague who is now in the assembly, introduced legislation that would have done something similar. However, he chose to have a very specific tool, a navigation center, cited in every district. I think this legislation is much more flexible than that. It acknowledges that every population, every geography has slightly different needs, and one tool is not necessarily the appropriate one everywhere. So, I have seen in my district a great increase of, folks experiencing homelessness. A lot of it is due to the activities, downtown, in the Tenderloin, in SoMa, where a police presence has shifted people to go to other places. And, what has happened is that those places where folks feel like, you know, they're left alone have no services. There there's no opportunity to support mental health, to support behavioral health, to to support drug addiction. All of those things that we know are necessary to get people to success. So I, I'm glad we're even having this conversation. Because prior to this, it wasn't even an acknowledgment that, you know, there is a lack of equity. Both in communities that have taken more than their fair share, but an acknowledgment that some communities have no support and have a really big problem, like mine. And I am looking forward to the day where we have hot teams. We have, you know, shelter beds. We have places where people can go and get better, be off the streets, and have a path towards success. So I very much welcome this. I'm proud to be a cosponsor. And thank you, supervisor Mahmood.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Melgar. For myself, I wanna thank, supervisor Mahmood for your work on this legislation. You I was probably one of the harder votes to get. I appreciate your willingness to engage with me. I in my time on the board of supervisors, I have become concerned that, of course, as I would agree with supervisor Melgar and a number of you that, that we need places. We need places for people to come into off of the streets, and that was the motivator for, my push for place for all and shelter for all. I've also seen the impacts that places badly done or overly concentrated can have on particular neighborhoods, and I think it is not unreasonable, for neighborhoods in San Francisco to see what has happened in some neighborhoods and say, under no circumstances here. And so I think, the the proposed the the legislation, has, I think, generated concern from folks who are afraid of that. I appreciate your willingness, again, to engage with the mayor's office, to engage with colleagues, to engage with me. And I think that this is a geographic equity resolution that I that I can support. I'm happy to vote for it. I think the conversation continues because I'm not sure. I mean, I what I am sure of is that we don't want to see shelters dotting the land and creating the impacts in all of the neighborhoods of San Francisco in the way that they have impacted a few. That's not what this legislation does. I support this legislation, and I wanna thank, supervisor Mahmoud for for the extensive work and outreach and willingness to be flexible. I'm a much more stubborn person. I appreciate I appreciate your flexibility. With that, madam clerk, could you call the roll on item 31?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item 31, supervisor Engadio. Aye. Engadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud? Aye. Mahmud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Sheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, let's go to our two thirty special order.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Got a lot of folks here today, and I think we got at least one of them with a flight to catch. And so, supervisor Sauter, District 3, we're gonna take you out of order.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, today I have the honor of recognizing the consul general of Italy, Sergio Strozzi. Sergio, would you please join us? Sergio has served in this role since 2021, and we are honoring him today. Just is it hours? Is it days? Just hours before his flight Yeah. To Rome for a new post.

[Sergio Strozzi, Consul General of Italy]: Precisely.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Sergio came into this role as our city was reeling from the pandemic. And yet, despite that, he got to work right away doing the everyday routine work of visas and passports, but also pursuing ambitious new programs to bring our communities and countries together through shared investments in trade, technology, and culture. In one example, his leadership to establish the INOVAIT program means that hundreds of Italian entrepreneurs and creatives are now embedded with the brightest minds in Silicon Valley and working with companies like Salesforce, Apple, and Google. Sergio also took every opportunity possible to be a champion for the rich Italian American heritage of San Francisco, especially in District Three's North Beach. Just last week, we stood alongside each other in unveiling a new plaque for AP Giannini at Washington Square Park, which is part of the broader Little Italy Honor Walk. We were lucky to have Consul Strozzi based in San Francisco, but his work stretched further. He covered Western states, including Washington, Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, and Alaska. And it was not just Sergio that our Italian communities embraced, but also his delightful family, his partner Simone and his daughter Caterina. They did all of this together as a team. I know that he has made a profound impact on everyone he interacted with. It may have been his sharp dress, his fine beard, but most of all, I think it was his warmth that touched people and a shared understanding, a shared humanity from country to country, and optimism that our best days are ahead of us but can be reached only through mutual partnership. Sergio, please don't be a stranger to San Francisco. You will always have a home and a place here. And now if you wish, the floor is yours to say a few words.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: But first, no, no, no.

[Sergio Strozzi, Consul General of Italy]: Can I? You can

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: listen to more supervisors say nice things about you, mister Consul General. Oh, Chen. Sorry. Not Chan. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president. Council general Sergio, it was great meeting you at our, district eleven, ninth celebration of the Italian cup. Thank you for your friendship. Thank you for your services, and I wish you the best journey back home, and you have San Francisco as your home too. Welcome to visit us anytime. Thank you.

[Sergio Strozzi, Consul General of Italy]: Thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I am just gonna jump in the queue myself to say I'm very unhappy. I'm not excite you you you cannot leave. This is this is not acceptable. I I have enjoyed getting to know you and and your husband and your family, and I think and Matteo as well. The the newborn. Yeah. Matteo deserves a little call out. And you've, you've just been wonderful for San Francisco, and it's been wonderful to have you here. And I'm gonna miss you.

[Sergio Strozzi, Consul General of Italy]: Thank you. Thank you, president. Both of supervisors, I feel privileged, humble, and more than honored to be here with you today. You're right, supervisor Sauter. It's I I'm gonna fly on Thursday. I can't believe it, I'm telling you, because I've been rooting so much in San Francisco. I'm talking to people that don't know me. But, I arrived in 2022 with my family. We had 2021 with my family, and we built up a lot of things. Supervisor Solter, you summed it up so well. I'm I'm not gonna bother you with the details. But, yeah, the main goal was to bridge more San Francisco and Italy, which is a a little nightmare because San Francisco and Italy is something which is natural to be a bridge between the two places. Let me remind the words of mayor Daniel Lohrey at the Italian National Day Reception. He said San Francisco simply wouldn't have San Francisco without the Italian American community. Our immigrants came here late nineteenth century, poor families, poor workers, hard workers, and they build up their way and their life with their families through the decades. And I feel honored to have represented this community, but also to have brought to San Francisco some Italian innovation and tech community. What the innovate the Italian innovation hub in Jackson Square is not a short term project. It's a long term project to bridge companies in San Francisco and Italy Italian companies in the field of innovation and technology. So what we've done here in the past years was exactly to bridge in the long term the communities, the Italian, but also the other communities of San Francisco, so vibrant ones, so lively ones, and Italy, the Italians that live in the country. Let me remind the San Francisco Italian work has been a milestone in our, during our tenure, honoring the greatest, Italian figures and the Italian Americans that contributed to make San Francisco the great city it is, innovate on the tech side. And, also, let me thank you, supervisor, for the great collaboration we had. I have to thank you in person because I was not here at that time when you take took the decision about the San Francisco approving the San Francisco Utility Dollar Walk. So thank you very much for approving that. It's been an honor. And I've been working and collaborating with president Mandelmann, with you, supervisor Sotto, with supervisor Chang. It's been really unbelievable journey for me to be here. We'll be missing San Francisco, but the good news is that I'll be back to the minister of foreign affairs being a diplomat and not a political one. So I'm going cross political colors, let's say, which makes things a little bit easier for me to handle. And I'll be heading, guess what, to the head the office for innovation, technology, and start ups. So nothing closer to San Francisco and to the vibrant place that San Francisco is. Thank you so much for having me here in these four years and for making my life so happy and my family's life so happy. And supervisor Sauter, I'll be handing over to you a little memory I would like to leave to the board of supervisor, to president Mandelmann, and to you personally as a supervisor of these two three, which is the remodeling of the consulate because we also took care of the building, which is here in San Francisco. So thank you very much again. Thank

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Have these for two days and then give them some money. Thank you. Yes. District 4, supervisor and guardio.

[Joel Engardio, Supervisor (District 4)]: Good afternoon, colleagues. I want to recognize 30 of the most important people at city hall, our custodians. We could not do our work without them. The public would not be able to use this space without them. From passionate public comment in the board chambers to passionate weddings under the dome, our custodians make sure it all happens in a clean and welcoming space for everyone. And the hardest work of all is keeping our offices clean, each packed with four staffers, countless interns, and a supervisor where long days means lots of snacks and takeout containers to clean up. The work of a supervisor and their staff might make headlines, but we must acknowledge the role our custodians play in managing the space where the legislation happens. And when people enter city hall, their first impression is not about us supervisors. It's about how beautiful and majestic the building looks. Visitors appreciate the polished floors, the orderly hallways, and the quiet dignity of the space. That feeling does not happen by coincidence. It's the result of the consistent dedicated work of our custodians. They are an essential part of our public service helping us do our jobs every day. That's why I want to highlight, recognize, and appreciate these amazing city staff. Many of them are part of our strong immigrant community in San Francisco. A community consistently under fire by our federal administration. Not only should we acknowledge their hard work and the value they bring to this building, but we should also celebrate the richness they bring to our city and nation. On behalf of our city hall custodians, I would like to invite Austin Wong to say a few words. Now I know Austin well as he often cleans our office when I'm working late. He's very wise and I enjoy talking to him and listening to him and learning from him. Austin came to The United States from China fourteen years ago. He worked for the city the past eight years, first in the public library and then the police department. And we are lucky to have Austin and all his colleagues here at city hall. Austin, if you are here, the floor is yours. Come on, Austin.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Yes, though. Hold on. Austin, you have to wait because supervisor Melgar has some things to say.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: I think we all have something to say. Thank you. Supervisor Guardio, thank you for doing this. This is a really great commendation. Thank you to the staff that does this amazing work here in this amazing building. I, of course, wanted to give a special shout out to Austin. I have, really enjoyed getting to know you. I enjoyed meeting your parents. I enjoyed the gossip in the late night, comments, whenever you are here, and we're here. And I, so appreciate that you notice everything. So for the rest of you, just as as a warning, behave yourselves, because Austin notices everything. But also your attention to detail and your strong support for everything we're trying to do here, it goes, I just I really appreciate you. I really appreciate the staff, and, you know, seeing you carry out your work every day, makes it possible for everyone to be here and engage in democracy. So thank you so much for everything you do.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Austin, I just wanted to thank you, and say a couple of things that people may not know. But because you're such a fabric of our city hall, many of my staff have gotten to know you really well when I've apparently been putting them to work pretty late at night. They've noted how much you talk about your children and how much you love them. You're apparently learning Spanish. I'm not. And, I don't know any Spanish. I can't even practice right now with you. But, but also just, like, you offer snacks and support to our team every day that they're working late. And I think it just speaks to the community we have here. And you are a part of that community, and it means so much. And lastly, my staff wanted to really thank you for bringing peace of mind to their to our office and helping them find things that they probably should not have lost.

[Elias French, City and County Surveyor (Public Works)]: So

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: thank you so much, Austin.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you. And thank you, Austin. And Austin is a great karaoke singer and truly is a great father. And, and we really appreciate Austin, who always been very caring. But, really, also thanks to all the city hall janitor team. We're just so appreciative of you. You work hard. You work late. You work early, and clean after us, but also the general public, and yet you're always there, and we're just very grateful. Thank you.

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

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Austin, thank you. I think I'm not gonna repeat what my colleague have said, but I also enjoyed it, all the chatting with you that is related to, like, our community, what is our needs, and and your feedback, and your, you know, your advice as well. Like, this is, like, what problem you see. I enjoy all those chatting. But on top of that, I really appreciate all the city staff who are keeping our our city hall clean, and I truly appreciate all of your services.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. And I won't belabor the point about your amazing work, but I do just wanna say congratulations, and thank you and your entire team for the work that you do every day. And I wanna thank you, supervisor and guardio, for honoring Austin and his team this afternoon. I would just say, like, I I don't know, but you have the uncanny ability to know what not to throw away. And I don't know how you do that, but I definitely appreciate you and your team for that. Congratulations, and thank you. Supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Yes. Thanks again, supervisor and Gardio, for for recognizing the whole staff. Thank you, Austin. It's been a pleasure to get to know you. I know my staff appreciates you. It's always nice to see a friendly face after hours. So thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I will finish just by thanking, again, supervisor and guardian. This was a very good idea. And and to Austin, to all the staff, thank you. And Austin, in particular, you are beloved. Everyone is just delighted to see you coming down the hallway or coming into our offices, and I know a lot of folks enjoy chatting with you about, whatever. So, so thank you and congratulations. And now, finally, you can speak.

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

[Austin Wong, City Hall Custodian]: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Austin. It is great honors for me to stand here today and accept this award. I am truly grateful and deeply moved. These recognitions is not only a personal honor, but also an affirmations of our efforts and dedication. This honor is certain, but it is also a responsibility. In the future, I will continue to work hard in my work with more enthusiasm and firmer faith and strive to contribute more to the development of our city. At the same time, we would also like to thank you for the cooperation and support of our supervisors and supervisors' offices. Finally, thank you again for your affirmations of our work. We will definitely cherish the honor and continue to work hard. Thank you so much.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Colleagues, today it is my honor to recognize Dion Lim, an extraordinary journalist, storyteller, and fierce advocate whose work has left an indelible mark on our city and beyond. Dion, wanna come to the stage?

[Seema Shree, District 6 Civic and Cultural Leader]: Sorry. Hold on.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: After nearly eight impactful years as an anchor and reporter with ABC seven here in San Francisco, Dion is concluding this remarkable chapter of her career. Her reporting during some of our city's most challenging moments, especially her courageous frontline coverage of anti Asian hate during the COVID nineteen pandemic, helped Asian Americans like myself feel heard and understood in what was such a difficult moment for our community. Her work has not only informed, but inspired us all. I'd also like to acknowledge that you are the only person who would be able to get my fiance to come back to the chambers after my inauguration despite many attempts. When I asked, why are you coming for Dionne? It's like, because she speaks for us all. And I think I've heard from her many times how there's no politician that could get her back, but you could. And I think it's because of what you represent and the stories you tell. You've told me how you really wanna focus on elevating our community and sharing our stories and often having to fight the powers that be to tell those stories. And I think it resonates so much with so many of the community members that have come out here as well to support. As other local leaders have also said, while others choose to scapegoat or look away, Dion chose to be brave. By sharing the truth of what was happening, especially to our elders night after night, she helped spark a movement. Dion made history as the first Asian American woman to anchor in multiple major markets, breaking barriers and lifting up underrepresented voices wherever she went. Her forthcoming book, Amplify, My Fight for Asian America, is a testament to her enduring commitment to truth, justice, and community. She has received numerous accolades for her impact, including the Champion of Truth Award from SF Cause, recognition from the California State Assembly, and the San Francisco City Attorney's Office For API And LGBTQI Plus advocacy, and inclusion in the Gold House a 100 list of the most impactful Asian Americans alongside leaders like vice president Kamala Harris. In 2022, she was the only local journalist invited by the Biden administration to the White House for the first ever AAPI heritage month celebration. Whether moderating a fireside chat with Martha Stewart or reporting from the Oscars red carpet, Dion brings authenticity, empathy, and integrity to every story she tells. Her leadership in covering issues of race and violence has resonated far beyond our city, earning her recognition alongside national figures and invitations to the White House. Yet she has always remained deeply rooted here in San Francisco, where she lives with her husband and spirited toddler indeed. Dion, thank you for your fearless journalism, your authenticity, and your unwavering dedication to amplifying stories that need to be heard. Your work has strengthened our community's understanding and our city's commitment to justice and inclusion. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Super okay. Supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: I just wanna take this opportunity to just say that, I went to the same college, Emerson College, as Diane. I'm everybody. We're both Emerson Lions, and it's a big deal for, for the school that we went to. I started in the police department, as the communications director just a few weeks before the COVID lockdown. And I saw firsthand how the scapegoating, played out against our AAPI community and how that played out in violent attacks. And I am just so grateful that in that really difficult time, we had a journalist of your caliber to cover it. It meant a lot to me as somebody who cares about public safety, but I know it meant a lot to everybody in the AAPI community and everybody who is in like, as I am, a gay man in a vulnerable community that's also disproportionately affected by hate crime. So I just want to, thank supervisor Makhmut for honoring you and just pile on with kind words of my own. Congratulations.

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

[Joel Engardio, Supervisor (District 4)]: As someone who was a journalist before I was a supervisor, I really respect your journalism and how impactful it was. It's it's a noble cause, and you really showed, the best it can be. So thank you for serving the profession and the community as well as you as you did.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And, well, congratulations, and thank you for all of your years of service to San Francisco. It has been a treat for me to get to know you a little bit over these last few years. Dion Lim.

[Dion Lim, Journalist]: Oh, boy. Usually, I'm on the other side waiting for this seemingly boring meeting to end, so I can chase all of you down with a big microphone and get you all on camera. But I just wanna say as I look out on the crowd and I look out at all of the supervisors and people in San Francisco government, I have to say it feels so damn good to be a San Franciscan, doesn't it? I didn't expect to get so emotional, but I have to share my deepest gratitude. First off, of course, for supervisor Bilal Mahmood for sponsoring this, and also for each and every one of you for being on board because at one point or another, we have spoken. I have been hard on all of you, but yet I think we all fight for the good of this fair city. I can't thank enough the people who are here from so many different facets of my life. I'm shaking because I did not expect half of them to be here. Because the challenge sometimes being a journalist, especially one on television, is you speak to one camera. You're unsure of who's on the other side. You don't know who is supporting you, but you sure as all hell know the vitriol that comes your way. You all know as supervisors. So to see my family and my friends here, and also I have a special place, of course, in my heart to my two year old who will be two on Friday, because I want him to see what his voice can do, that he is not just one person, that there is a community rallying behind him. You know, during the pandemic and throughout my career, I always knew what representation was, at least I thought I did by having a seat at the table. But truly what that means is doing something with that seat, flipping that seat over until people listen. Maybe that's unconventional for a journalist. Well, that's not my problem anymore, I suppose. But we've accomplished so much, and we oftentimes talk about the hate, the violence, the discrimination, all of that, but we also must take this time to celebrate. As a Chinese American woman born from parents who came from Hong Kong and Taiwan, I think it was inherent in me to always be extra humble, extra Asian humble, I used to call it. Whenever there was an award or an accolade or a compliment, no, no, I don't deserve it, give the credit to someone else. But I am standing in front of all of you proud today to accept this special commendation because I think this is for all of us. So I leave you now be with this reminder that the remarks that I'm making, if you see this special commendation on social media or if you are watching online on the Internet, hello, mother and father out there in Connecticut, remember, we must always be brave in the face of adversity, when we are being gaslit, when we are being made to feel two inches tall. Remember that if we have two things on our side, the truth and our community, we will always, always prevail. Thank you so, so much.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Daddy, do you wanna come?

[Dion Lim, Journalist]: Yeah. Yeah. First, me and

[Harry Breaux, Public Commenter]: Bob.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. District six supervisor Matt Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: Great. Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, as we celebrate San Francisco's inaugural South Asian heritage month this month, it is my honor to recognize one of my district's most tireless civic and cultural leaders, Seema Shree. Now Seema Seema has been a District 6 resident for nearly twenty years. She is an accomplished corporate retail professional with Macy's and Sephora North America, headquartered here in San Francisco. And her experience there has well informed her advocacy for San Francisco's local business and retail vibrancy. Inspired by her Indian immigrant mother's urban fashion boutique and in memory of her father, a Howard University graduate and lifelong HBCU professor, Seema has made it her mission to build spaces where diverse voices and communities can thrive. She has an impressive record of civic leadership in District 6. She cofounded ID8SF, a volunteer led nonprofit that strengthens civic engagement in our highest density neighborhoods. With ID8, she led successful advocacy campaigns that include the establishment of The Crossing, a cherished public space in the East Cut that quickly became that neighborhood's backyard and has been nationally recognized. She served as a member of the OCII Transbay Citizens Advisory Committee, where she has been a well informed and forceful advocate for the promise of twenty first century urbanism. And she also serves as a board member for some local political advocacy organizations, and I have always valued her thoughtfulness as someone committed to building bridges rather than burning them. In addition to her incredible organizing work, she is one of the most active, influential, and busy members of the Bay Area's South Asian community. Seema spearheaded San Francisco South Asians, a growing online resource that highlights local South Asian events, talent, vendors, and community leaders. She has also launched cultural collaborations that have become District 6 traditions, from Diwali celebrations in with Somal West and the Rincon Center, to my hands down favorite, the, Holy, the legendary festival of colors, which started a couple of years ago at the crossing in Eastcut, from which the San Francisco Chronicle, featured a photo of me, absolutely covered in pink and blue powder, that I really cherish. Now, Seema has also elevated South Asian yoga teachers, dance artists, and Ayurvedic practices throughout the city. Her work isn't just about celebration. It's also about building connection, inclusion, and visibility in the city she loves and proudly calls home. Seema saw gaps in the District 6 civic space and the South Asian community, and she enthusiastically jumped in to fill them. She is a doer, an innovator, and someone I am incredibly lucky to have as a constituent. I would like to recognize some of the folks who are here to support Seema today. I know that Andrew Robinson, executive director of the Eastcutt Community Benefit District is here, I believe, back there. Also Seema's mother Rita Shree, also a District 6 resident, who is herself staunchly committed to making sure her district supervisor is as well fed as possible and whom I hold personally accountable for most of my weight gain as a supervisor. Thank you for being here. For San Francisco's first South Asian Heritage Month, I can't think of a better District 6 representative to commend for your extraordinary civic leadership and dedication to advancing South Asian culture in our city. Thank you, Seema Shree. I'd like to thank you or invite you to say a few words.

[Seema Shree, District 6 Civic and Cultural Leader]: Well, thank you, supervisor Dorsey, for those very kind words. We've always appreciated the support you've given the South Asian community in our district. And thank you to the entire board of supervisors and our audience here today for celebrating the inaugural South Asian Heritage Month in San Francisco at this meeting, with special thanks to supervisor Mehmed, and commissioner Kudrat Choudhary for spearheading this initiative that's historical as the first South Asian Heritage Month on the legislative record. It is deeply meaningful to see our city honor the richness of the South Asian diaspora. For over a century, South Asians have helped shape San Francisco's civic and cultural fabric From freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, whose writings inspired students of South Asian descent here in the early nineteen hundreds during the British rule of India, to the early Punjabi farmers who settled in the Bay Area, and activists who made it a base for both livelihood and justice. The legacy lives on today through the immense contributions of South Asian talent in technology and health care, and in the growing civic and political leadership shaping San Francisco's future. It also shines in our food and chai traditions, in yogic and Ayurvedic wellness practices, and in the arts, dance, and music that bring communities together. The Bollywood meets Burning Man Holy Color Festival supervisor Dorisley cherishes is also one of my fondest memories in my twenty years in San Francisco, made even brighter by leaders like Assemblymember Matt Haney and supervisor Matt Dorsey celebrating with us in District 6. It's been a joy to collaborate on these festivals with partners from the Eastcutt CBD, like Andrew Robinson, Parivar Bay Area, ASHA for Education, Manpreet, who is here today from Rangde, Bollywood. She brings out hundreds of people to teach them South Asian dance, courtesy the Eastcut CBD and TGPA partnership at Salesforce Park every Friday. If you haven't tried it, you have to come dance with us. It's such an essence of South Asian culture. So to really celebrate South Asian heritage, month with us, come dance with us Friday evenings at the park, and also monthly at the crossing. And I'd also like to thank Bollywood Dance Central and Ora Tea and New Delhi Restaurant that have partnered with us on these pop ups post COVID to bring color back into San Francisco. New Delhi Restaurant is the oldest South Asian legacy restaurant in the city, and we wanna continue to see the South Asian restaurants throughout every district thrive for generations ahead. I look forward to continuing this work with all of you. And since supervisor Mehul missed the beginning, just special thanks to you and Kudrith for spearheading this initiative. And also just to kind of close, we are working on some closing celebrations for everyone to dance with us mid August, in the East Cut CBD, so stay tuned for that. Follow SF South Asians on Instagram to curate more South Asian experiences for yourself and the community around you. Thank you again.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you so much. So I see my honoree here, miss Smith. If you could come up. Along with I also I also see, like, the top brass of SFUSD and DCYF. Don't go anywhere, Charice. Come on up. So if you could all come up and stand behind as support from her community, that would be really great as well. So today, I have the great privilege of honoring someone who has been so instrumental in serving, having supported the success of literally thousands of young people and families in San Francisco for thirty years, and that is miss Mele Lau Smith. So you will notice she's sitting because she hates the limelight. When I proposed that we were gonna do this, she was like, no, Myrna. But we have to do it, Mele. Because behind the scenes, this amazing woman has been working on transformational anti racist policies that promote social justice in education and public health practices in our city for thirty years. Miss Lau Smith started her career at the San Francisco department of public health, where she played a key role in launching programs that tackled adolescent tobacco issues. And the way she did it was firmly rooted in racial justice, organizing, peer support, and education. Something that she has carried her whole career. She co developed the community action model, a five step framework that empowers community to tackle health inequalities through policy and systems change. Mele then joined the team at the San Francisco Unified School District in 2012, and has been an essential steady part of the inner workings ever since. She has served in various leadership roles, including executive director of community school. She basically rescued that department. I'm, like, I'm not underestimating that. And later, she became the chief of student and family services. I met Millie in 2014. More than anyone that I've ever met in my life, she embodies the concept of a warm demander. This is someone who, in relationships, all the all the education people are nodding, focuses on building rapport with others and trust, shows personal regard for others, earns the right to demand. And also, is very competent. Technically proficient. Encourages productive struggle. She certainly did that for me. I think Mele has said no to me more than anyone in my life. And she is the best of the best. Melei Lau Smith showed incredible leadership and courage during the COVID nineteen pandemic, developing district wide protocols, and coordinating across agencies. All communities. Communities that suffered the most. It was Mele's quiet work, competent work behind the scenes that made it happen. In '23, she joined the superintendent's office where she continued to lead equity driven work to support students and families. Miss Lau Smith's leadership does not only pertain to education. She has also spent time working and leading complex advocacy projects for youth, low income families, communities of color, the LGBTQ plus community. Her leadership will have a lasting impact on our school district, the community she supports, and the city as a whole, and countless generations of young people and families. A passionate advocate for social justice, she has served the residents of San Francisco with unwavering purpose, earning our deep respect for her and her work. Mele is also a loving, caring mom to four kids, four children, all SFUSD graduates like her. Oh, superintendent Sue's in the house too. Thank you for coming back, superintendent. I am proud to call you a friend, Mele. And I wish you the very best in your next step in your life. I'm now going to pass it along to your district supervisor, Cheyenne Chen, who wants to say a few words before I have superintendents who come up and say a few words as well.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, supervisor Melga. Congratulations, Your work at SFUSD and the Department of Public Health has always been centered around community and equity. You have been an incredible public servant, advocate, community organizers, and District 11 mom raising your children in the Excelsior. I first met you when I was a youth at a youth program in Chinatown. Thank you so much for your mentorship and guidance over the years. Your incredible work and invaluable knowledge will no doubt be missed by everyone there and more of your colleagues that you you have touched their life. And I wish you all the best, in the next journey, which is retirement, which I also look forward to seeing you more around Industrial eleven. Congratulations.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, President Mandelmann, and thank you, supervisor Melgar, for doing this. Meli, I just wanna say that, you know, over the years and I have a different experience than supervisor Melgar in terms of I don't remember you ever telling me no when I was on the board of education, but actually coming up with strategies and solutions to solve some real problems to address a lot of the needs and issues that our our young people had, our students had, and our family had. And so I just wanna thank you for the care and the consideration and everything that you put into the work that you've done in our district over the years. I want you to know that we see you. And I'm just very thankful that the district has had the opportunity to have someone like you serving for so many years. So thank you, and congratulations. You deserve this honor.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: I I president, I will now, ask, superintendent of schools, Maria Sue, to come up and say a few words. And also want to acknowledge that we have two school board members here, Alita Fisher and Parag Gupta. Miss Sue.

[Maria Su, Superintendent, SFUSD]: Thank you. Whew. There's a lot of Meli supporters here tonight, today. First, thank you so much, commissioner supervisor Melgar, for for honoring our our wonderful Meli. And when I say our, I mean she is truly a city person because she started her career in the department of public health. I remember being on the hiring panel for her when she was, she was actually applying for a job within the city. And in that room was the assistant superintendent of student families services department, Kevin Truitt, who leaned over to me and said, you better not hire her because I want her. And there then started the journey that Meli had moving from the city over to the school district. She brought with her the same rigor, responsibility, accountability, and desire for greatness, from the city over to the school district. And she has done that for many, many years, leading amazing teams. But honestly, at the end of the day, it's about making sure that she centers her students and our students in all the decisions that she makes. And as you can see here by all the people who is standing in line, supporting her, she has made a lasting impression here in our school district. And I am positive there are many more people watching at home, watching all over the place, in full celebration and support of Melly. I want to acknowledge that when she comes to work, she is bringing her full self here. And I know that her partner and her friends and her children, have shared her with us. And I am really happy that now she gets to spend more time with her partner, her children, and her friends. And I fully expect to see her in District 11, because that's where I live as well. And then also on the tennis court, because she is also my hitting partner. On behalf of the San Francisco Unified School District, thank you so much for honoring our Melly Lau Smith and so much for doing this accommodation for her. Thank you so much.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. Thank you, superintendent. You have to say a few words, Mele.

[Laura Daza Garcia, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)]: Wow.

[Mele Lau Smith, Education and Public Health Leader]: I did write something, but it's only one page, so don't worry. I am so, so humbled. I'm gonna try not to cry and overwhelmed by the beautiful words said. I'm so grateful to you, supervisor Melgar, supervisor Chen, and supervisor Walton, for your beautiful words and this incredible gift. I have been so extraordinarily blessed and privileged to have spent the last thirty four years, you cut me off of I want that thirty four, as a public servant in service of all San Francisco residents, working together with them to create and put policies in place to improve the well-being of all. All of my dear colleagues, friends, families who are here today, who are not here today, and who have passed on, You all have made me a a better person, and have honored me with your love and friendship,

[Janine Cotter, CEO of Luminalt]: for which I

[Mele Lau Smith, Education and Public Health Leader]: am forever grateful. Together, we have done good work in service of others. And I could not have done any of it without you. Many of you know that I don't like to speak in public. Thank you, supervisor Melgar. And when I must, I always speak of my four beautiful children, and the endless love I have for them. And that love is extended to their many friends who shared meals at our table and spent nights at our house, wreaking havoc together, making me laugh and teaching me so much. Dylan, Caitlin, Kyle and Miley, I know you couldn't be here today, but I wanna tell you that you are my four wise, my four Lao Cs, and my greatest joy, and my best teachers. I am so incredibly lucky to be your mama. You four have made me a better person, and you four are definitely who I wanna be when I grow up. San Francisco is my home. I grew up roaming its streets, as did my children, taking Muni, riding my bike, and running up and down its hills. It is a city that educated me and my four children in its public schools. It is a wonderfully diverse city, and its public schools are the richness of its diversity. Attending public schools gave me the opportunity to make friends from all over the city, from the Bayview, to the Western Addition, to the Sunset, to the Richmond, to Chinatown, everywhere. And many of them were from other countries around the world, as well as other states. Later, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Nepal, I learned my own culture from the outside. I experienced struggling to be to be understood and to understand while learning a new language. Because of these experiences, both in my personal and professional life, I have strived to practice cultural humility. To be aware of my own cultural biases, and to learn about and be respectful of other cultures. Now more than ever, we need to lean into this practice of cultural humility, and resist the attempts of the Trump administration to erase so many of us. Everyone has the right to be seen, and heard, and welcomed. Our democracy depends on it. I carry my heart with I carry you all in my heart every day. And as I start my next journey of resistance starting in d eleven, I will continue to work with you all to ensure that we all have the right to be seen, heard, and welcomed. I truly believe that a people united can never be divided. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for this incredible honor. Thank you.

[Dion Lim, Journalist]: We're gonna do pictures.

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: District 2, supervisor Cheryl. Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, today, I am honored to recognize Calvin Swift. Please come up to the podium. For over fifteen years of service maintaining the Chestnut Street corridor through the San Francisco Public Works Corridor Program. Calvin was born and raised in San Francisco and still lives here today along with his father, stepmother, and sister. He is deeply rooted in his com in this city, and I think all of us in District 2 know how dedicated you are to its well-being. Now Calvin got his start start with public works in 2009 through the Human Services Agency's Job Now program and transitioned to public works as a public service aide with a corridor program, and he has never looked back. Calvin's been with the city for almost fifteen years now with all of them spent on Chestnut Street, and

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

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: is a consistent and friendly present to merchants, residents, and visitors alike. Calvin shared with us that he feels true happiness and a sense of satisfaction being part of the corridor program, helping keep the streets of San Francisco and especially Chestnut Street clean, vibrant, and beautiful. You've described the businesses and neighbors on Chestnut as wonderful and very friendly and says that's why he's so dedicated to giving his best every single day. And now I know you say how incredibly proud you are to serve this city, but I think you underestimate how grateful we are for your service. I texted a lot of people about you. And so if I may read a couple of them.

[Unidentified speaker]: Yeah.

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Heart emoji, heart emoji, heart emoji, fire emoji, heart emoji. It's unclear who loves him more, me or my daughter. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Love you. Thank you. And I don't know what I would do without him. He's just wonderful. There are about 10 others, but they're pretty much the same. So Calvin, I just want to thank you personally for being kind and generous to me in answering my annoying questions, but really for being such a wonderful and dedicated public servant. You are the epitome of what it means to be an employee of San Francisco and DPW. If every person in this city was just like you, we would be doing great. And we're gonna be doing better because of you. So I just wanna thank you on behalf of me, but also on behalf of the Marina Community Association, on behalf of Kalawalo, Marino Neighbors and Merchants, and I also wanna recognize longtime Marina resident and parks rec and parks commission president, Kat Anderson, representing the community, and her thanks to you. Calvin, I just can't thank you enough for your dedication and your kindness. The floor is yours.

[Calvin Swift, Public Works Corridor Program]: Oh. First of all,

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: I'm gonna thank all of you guys for being here today

[Unidentified speaker]: on my behalf, and I wanna thank the board and everything here too. And, I started HSA back in 2009, and I worked myself up to a job now program. I used to always go out looking for jobs every day every day. And I landed one with the DPW, and I've been here ever since, fifteen years, and working real hard. I get compliments every day, every day on the street, from people hanging out the windows, passerbys, cars honking, buses honking. So, you know, and and it's a blessing. It's a blessing to be here today. And I just wanna continue doing what I'm doing as a good worker to help keep the city clean. And, I only have, like, a year left out of my three years working with DPW. And I would like to continue doing what I'm doing to help the program out and the community out as well. Thank you.

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

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president. May I have Kenny Lau to go to the podium? Colleague, today it's my great honor to recognize mister Kenny Lau for his lifelong dedication to traditional Chinese medicine, cultural preservation, and community services. Mister Lau is a respected trailblazer in his field, a third generation herbal medicine petitioner, and graduate from Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine. He has spent decades providing compassionate care to San Francisco community. His Chinatown shop has served as a trusted neighborhood anchor for over fifty years, a milestone recently celebrated by many of us who benefit from his work. Beyond his practice, mister Lau has helped advance traditional Chinese medicines on the international stage. He has organized it and chaired major academic conferences and hold leadership roles in global TCM associations. In 2022, he found the Nash he found the first nations traditional Chinese herbal medicine exhibition hall right here in San Francisco, a remarkable gift to our city that celebrates Chinese heritage and healing traditions. He's also a committed educator and mentor, training future generations and building bridges between east and west, traditional knowledge and modern practices. His advocates led to the California State Assembly declaring 03/18/2024 as California Chinese Medicine Day, a recognition of the enduring contribution of TCM in public health. But mister Lao's legacy does not stop at medicine. He has also found civil he has found civic and cultural initiative to uplift Chinatown, promote small business, preserve Chinese American heritage, and foster cause cultural understanding. Kenny Lau, thank you for your visionary leadership and your unwavering services to city of San Francisco. I'm gonna say a few words in Chinese. On behalf of the board of supervisors, I'm proud to declare that 08/28/2025 as Kenny Lau Day in the city and county of San Francisco. Thank you. And I know my colleague, supervisor Salter, will also have a few words, and also supervisor Chen also have a few words to say. Thank you.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you, supervisor Chen, for honoring Kenny today, or honoring mister Lau today. I think it's a very well deserved honor. I think that he is really someone you're really someone that been, serving the community in so many way, in so many diverse fashion. But I think that, it has been a very long time for the community that when it comes to our, traditional medicine, be it acupuncture or be it herbal medicine, it has a stigma attached to it for a very long time. But you have been working, advocating for the community tirelessly. You're making sure that today, that I think that Chinese herbal medicine is the way it is today, is because of your advocacy work, that people recognizing the importance of it, the medicinal aspect of it, and recognizing it now even the Medicaid being able to cover for acupuncture treatments, it's all because of your work. And I think you've been working on that so for so long without much credit, so I appreciate supervisor Chen for recognizing you today. Thank you so much for your service. I look forward to see more to come, and thank you, and we're grateful.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Kenny, congratulations on this honor, supervisor Chen. Thank you for bringing this, before us. You know, I have enjoyed getting to learn more about holistic medicine and traditional medicine through your work. And I also want to recognize the impact that you have on Chinatown through your work and leadership with CHCA and ensuring that, there are, initiatives in Chinatown that we're excited about. I see you, Nancy, and I see you, Dennis. Every, meeting that we have together, I come away with a very long, to do list, and and there's a lot that we're excited about. So thank you for your leadership as a merchant and within the health care space.

[Kenny Lau, Traditional Chinese Medicine Leader]: Honorable president, Benjamin, honorable supervisors, esteemed guests, dear friends, it is my profound gratitude that I stand here before you today, to be honest about this incredible city, with a day that bears my name, Kenny Lau Day. This is more than a personal milestone. It's a celebration of the valley, traditions, and collective journey that have suffered my life and the lives of so many before me. I extend my deepest gratitude to supervisor Chen, supervisor Satya and supervisor Chen, for recognizing my journey with this trip will and and the population. Forty five years ago, when I arrived in San Francisco, I left the city immediately. From the moment I stepped onto the Story Street, I felt connection, so powerful, that I wasn't just a wife in someone new, someone very new. I was coming home. Little City offers diverse culture and a great community. We welcome me naturally and inspire me. I follow the path of my father and grandfather, each of whom dedicate their lives in essence and healing part of the traditional Chinese herbal medicine. As a family, we have served the community through this practice for more than hundred sixty years. Visualization of patience. Visualization of persons, patience and purpose. Through the business, Allison Enterprise Corporation, we have protected and sustained not only the herbal wisdom, but the cultural leaders, operating the oldest Chinese herbal medicine store in San Francisco since 1972. It is not about commerce, but culture, connection, and the constitution. My service has extend beyond the storefront. For eighteen years, I had the privilege to serve as the as a chairman of of the American Chinese Australia Association. I founded the Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, USA campus to empower future generations with a formal education. I proudly established the first Chinese herbal medicine exhibition hall right in the heart of of Chinatown located on the 2nd Floor of the Chinatown post office, serving the community and the visitors to learn the benefit of Chinese herbal medicine. My contribution to the community could not be possible without those who stood beside me. I'm thankful to my colleagues, my mentors, my friends, and especially my families, my wife Sue, and my brother Edward, and and too many good friends,

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: such

[Kenny Lau, Traditional Chinese Medicine Leader]: like Sally and Joseph and Tammy and Queenie and Nancy and Dennis. These are very good fans. Without their support without their support. I don't think so. I could I couldn't reach this point today. Let Kenny Love Day be a celebration, not only of man one man story, but the city's beautiful story of immigrant with silence, cultural richness, and harmony. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for all of the supervisors again. Thank you for giving me another birthday from this year. I saw that I will remember and celebrate August 28 every year from Lao and forever. Thank you so much.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Andrico Panik, come on up. I feel like I'm about to hear about a real estate deal. Colleagues, today I'm presenting a special commendation to Andrico Penek, who is retiring this month after more than three decades in public service, including the past seven years as San Francisco's Director of Real Estate. Since 2018, Andrico has led a division of 300 employees responsible for managing more than 4,000,000 square feet of public facilities and handling real estate transactions from more than 50 city departments. In a city where every square foot is hard fought and hard won, Andreco has brought strategy, creativity, and an unflappable calm to some of San Francisco's most complex and high stakes negotiations. Under his leadership, the city finalized major deals that will help San Francisco achieve its public safety, health, housing, and workforce goals. He negotiated a lease at 1455 Market Street to establish a modern, seismically safe campus that now houses 11 city departments and provides thousands of public employees with a safer, more functional place to work. He also led the city's acquisition of multiple parcels to build a unified San Francisco fire department training facility, consolidating outdated sites into one future focused campus now in planning at 1236 Carroll Avenue in the Bayview. Once completed, the facility will serve 1,700 firefighters and strengthen the city's emergency preparedness for decades to come. Andrico's contributions don't always make headlines, but they're essential to the work of city government. He's helped build the physical infrastructure that enables our departments to serve the public more effectively, efficiently, and equitably. Before becoming director, Enrico served as deputy director of the city's real estate division, deputy general counsel of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, and chief real estate counsel for the city of Alameda where he played a key role in transforming the former former Naval Air Station into what is now Alameda Point. A skilled attorney and strategic thinker, Andreico has consistently brought legal rigor and pragmatism to his public service. A navy veteran, Andreico began his legal career in the Judge Advocate General's Judge Advocate General's Corps representing the federal government as a prosecutor and providing defense counsel for sailors and marines. He was, honorably discharged with with the rank of lieutenant commander. He holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School and a bachelor's degree from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Throughout his career, Andreico has been known for his no nonsense approach and meticulous attention to detail. He's also been a gracious and generous colleague no matter how complicated the task. He works behind the scenes negotiating complex deals, modernizing city facilities, and ensuring public service public servants have safe, functional spaces in which to do their jobs. And that's made a real and lasting impact for San Francisco. I feel fortunate to have been able to work a little bit with him, and I'm deeply grateful for the leadership, professionalism, and y wise counsel along the way. We're going to miss you, Andreico, but your retirement is well earned and well deserved. We'll just have to suck it up somehow. Some of my colleagues would also like to say some nice things about you. Supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you, president Mando Minh, director of Henick, and thank you so much for all your work. There were times, I think there were times, me as budget chair put you through some tough situation, and some tough questioning. You just kept going, and very even heal with your presentation. You answer question like it is. I think there were times even my our former board president, Aaron Peskin, gave you a hard time. And, you know, even the former vice chair supervisor, Asher Safaie, also gave you a hard time. And time and time again, we questioned you and we challenged you, but you you kept you kept it together. You explained where you were coming from, but you also were open minded. You you actually understood that policymakers at times, we we make comments and we push back, but you you understood what we were trying to do and that we came together. And with those back and forth, I wanna say consistently, you really serve in the best interest of San Franciscans. Your service, at least in for me, both on a personal and a professional level, well regard, and we're just so grateful. Because of your service, San Francisco, as a city government and as a city, has made really sound financial decisions for our city, both in our assets management, but in also in our decision making, both for the past generation and and building that foundation for the generation to come. And so we're really I concur with president Mendel, and we we will miss you. I I miss not just your personal like, your professional skills and experience, but also your personality, you know, just how you're consistent about it. And we're also grateful how you always work with the budget and legislative analyst and and and with us and making it work. So thank you.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Supervisor Walton. Thank you, president Madeline Mann. And I just wanna thank you, director Penick, for all of your work. I think, like, one, you always have the answer to a lot of problems that need to be solved, particularly around what to do with facilities, how to benefit the city with the facilities that are available. And, you know, you always work towards a yes. You don't come in there and and say things are not possible. But I really wanna appreciate you for the fact that you also connect with community, and you let community groups and members of community have conversations with you so they can learn how to be successful in some of the things that they wanna do with, city buildings as well. So I wanna just appreciate you for that. Not a lot of people in your role will allow that opportunity, and have those conversations with people in community. So I wanna thank you for all of your service over the years. Like president Mandelmann, I would definitely miss you Mhmm. And your work. And thank you for all of the things that we've accomplished, obviously, in my district, one of which super president Mandelmann, spoke about, and I'll be talking about a little later. But just definitely appreciate you for all of your service. Thank you.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann, and thank you for doing, this. Enrico, I am gonna miss you. In addition to the things that my colleagues have said, I wanna highlight what a creative thinker you are, and that's not those words are not often attached to, like, real estate and management, you know, but you embody that. To supervisor Walton's comments, you always come to the table with a problem solving approach. But it's more than just, like, your knowledge, your technical skills. It's also your creativity of, connecting the dots, across different areas and not just your department, but everyone else. I have really appreciated your support on any number of issues, during my work in my district, but also seeing you, solve so many of our issues as a city, for city government. And I have just so appreciated your enormous brain and your creativity. I hope that whoever steps into your role, does it with as much grace, and I know that your coworkers love you. So we're not the only ones that are gonna miss you, but I wish you all the best in this next step in your life. Thank you for everything you've done for us.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Supervisor Melgar, it is hurtful that you think that real estate lawyers are not creative. And, Andreiko, panic.

[Andrico Penick, Director of Real Estate]: President Mandelmann, madam clerk, supervisors, Andrico Penick, director of real estate.

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

[Andrico Penick, Director of Real Estate]: at least for another two days. I I I'm a bit overwhelmed, and thank you for this honor. It was unexpected. I consider myself just to be a run of the mill public servant. I come to work, I do my job, and I don't really expect all of this, but it is much appreciated. I have to say that it's been it is with excitement and sadness that I take this next step and retire from city employment. The director real estate position has been one of the hardest jobs I've ever had, but it's also been extremely rewarding. The city's real estate needs and its portfolio are constantly changing. I am proud to have played a small part in meeting the city's real estate needs. I am thankful for the experience and appreciate working with each and every one of you. Many of my staff are watching on SFGov TV right now. They didn't have the luxury of being able to come to the chambers, and I wanted to give them a shout out. Because without the excellent staff of the real estate division, none of my success in this role would have been possible. I also want to acknowledge and thank my wife, Catherine, who is in the audience, for her love, support, and patience. This isn't the end of my journey. I'm sure there's another challenge, another opportunity on the horizon, and I'll be ready for it when it comes. But for now, I wanna take this pause and enjoy a well deserved break. Thank you all. I really appreciate you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Andreco, I'm gonna invite you to come into the well. Alright. Friends, we're only an hour behind. Madam clerk, can you please call our 3PM special order?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 56 through 59 comprise the 3PM special order. Item 56 is the public hearing of persons interested in the decision of public works dated 06/25/2025 to approve a tentative parcel map for a three lot subdivision at 1979 Mission Street. Item 57 is the motion that approves the public works decision and approves the tentative parcel map. Item 58 is the motion to conditionally disapprove the public works decision and disapprove the tentative parcel map Based upon the board of supervisors adopting a written finding findings in support of the disapproval, item 59 would be that motion to direct the preparation of findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, we have before us an appeal of the tentative map approval by public works for the project at 1979 Mission Street. After the hearing, the board will vote on whether to approve or conditionally disapprove the decision of public works. Unless there are objections, I propose that we proceed as follows. We will give up to ten minutes for a presentation by the appellant, then we'll take public comment from speakers, two minutes per speaker, in support of the appeal. Then we'll have a presentation of up to ten minutes from the city departments. Then we'll have a, presentation of up to ten minutes from the project sponsor. That will be followed by public comment of up to two minutes per speaker in opposition to the appeal. And, finally, we will give the appellant three minutes for rebuttal. Any objections? I don't see any objections. Alright. Seeing no objections, the public hearing will proceed as indicated and is now open. And I would ask the appellant to come forward. Hello, mister Solomon? Hello. Are you needing, assistance on the on the tech?

[Mark Solomon, Appellant Representative]: There we go.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh, there we go.

[Ali (last name unknown), Nurse and Neighbor]: Good afternoon, President Mandelmann, Board of Supervisors. Just before we get started, I just wondered if, you received the email about striking the first two.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. We did. If you could just announce that on the record and speak into that microphone as best you can. Thank you so much.

[Ali (last name unknown), Nurse and Neighbor]: So with regard to this appeal, we've decided to strike the first two portions of the appeal, and we're going to continue with the third portion, which pertains primarily to safety and, safety of the neighborhood. Okay? So hello. My name is Ali. I live on Cap Street across from Marshall Elementary. I'm a nurse at SF General, and I work daily with nurses, EMTs, social workers, and police. I'm deeply aware of the affordability crisis in SF. I'm also acutely aware of the health issues that concern community members accessing safety net health care. I also represent a group of neighbors and Marshall families, the defenders of Marshall, living in the immediate vicinity of the proposed 1979 Mission Project, who share concerns about the proposed lot subdivision and the implications for the public health and safety of the neighborhood, especially the kids who attend Marshall Elementary. We appeal this subdivision map as the intent of subdividing 1979 mission advances the placement of an overbuilt permanent supportive housing, PSH, building with associated substance and psych treatment services, which will exacerbate the already dangerous conditions found around Marshall Elementary, which serves at risk students, including immigrant, homeless, low income, and students of color. Stated simply, if this appeal is denied, then project sponsors can subdivide, finance, and build PSH and associated services, which will endanger the Marshall community. If the appeal is upheld, that danger will be prevented. As Marshall Elementary community members, we seek to amplify the voices of Marshall families who are unable to attend this hearing because of the summer vacation. We need the supervisors to go on record on whether they support a drug, alcohol, and psych treatment center on top of a primary school full of at risk students. The defenders strongly support the core premise of the Plaza sixteen Coalition to expand affordable housing focused on working class and low income families. Defenders demand the board of supervisors and mission housing grant the appeal unless it can show a substantive and transparent manner how the project promotes health and safety in the context of our neighborhood, not as a stand alone discrete concept, but in the actual current context. In our appeal, Defenders of Marshall will show that the city and associated nonprofits have a poor track record of following through on promises to mitigate dangerous impacts from their projects, with few avenues for redress when city funded nonprofits fail to meet their obligations. The siting of PSH next to a school with vulnerable students is dangerous, as the study shows it draws as much violent crime as liquor stores. That PSH is dangerous at this site, as it is expression of systemic and structural racism that would be unacceptable at any other elementary school in SF. The Marshall community has borne many times over the burden of difficult social services that any other neighborhood, save the Tenderloin. Also, that we, in our neighborhood, have welcomed 4100% affordable buildings, and we support more. Marshall parents know. Residents make great neighbors. Anyone, including the project sponsors, who try to weaponize the term NIMBY in reference to our legitimate local concerns of our neighborhood is disingenuous and in denial. Affordable health housing is not a binary of being for or against. Citing PSH here is a question of safety, nuance, and proportion within the current context of this neighborhood. The subdivision will have significant consequences for this neighborhood, its long term health, sustainability, and prosperity, as well as other communities facing the same types of projects in the future. The NIMBYs here are the project sponsors who live elsewhere, forcing undesirable land uses in the backyard of brown kids' schools, not theirs. With respect to this project, YIMBY now means yes in Marshall's backyard. So with regard to history of our neighborhood, Marshall neighborhood has been designated as at risk and is overburdened with many social service facilities, some of which negatively impact the community and which nonprofit operators, including the project sponsors, don't secure. Currently, 45 agencies and facilities directed to homeless support are clustered within a three block radius of this site. Supervisor Walton and Mahmood have already spoken to this just today. Marshall Elementary is designated a sensitive community per ABAG and the proposed SB 50. 2002, residents supported a homeless center for 165 CAP, which is Mission Neighborhood Research Center, because the homeless people were already there. As soon as the facility opened, the 100 block of CAP with the Section 8 Mission Plaza parking egress has been continually blocked by addicts and homeless people sleeping in the doorways. In 2015, the Gubbio project respite for addicts was cited at St. John's Church at 15th And Julian. This has become a magnet for drug users, immediately deteriorating conditions at 15th And Julian, including a fire at the church. Nearly two hundred days of of mission local reporting has shown the area will not stay clear and safe unless it is continually swept by police. We have our slides. In April 2024, the city, with the support of former d nine supervisor Ronan, cited Mission Cabins at 1979 Mission next to Marshall over the objections of the Marshall community. The Marshall community objected because we've seen that these facilities are magnets. Once mission cabins went in, the conditions around the entrance worsened. Once cabins established, gunfire begins. And the bullets kept flying, and the bodies kept piling up. One of the victims I actually took care of at the hospital that day. A target of gunfire enters Marshall after shooting on Capp Street. Mission cabins still can't secure East Side of Mission Street. One project man sponsor, Mission Housing, owns La Fenix, affordable housing at 1950 Mission, also a home to a Head Start pre k program. Residents of La Fenix, affordable housing, have asked to move to another building because street conditions are no place to raise a family. Housing is failing to secure the Head Start facility, and addicts have infiltrated youth spaces. In a desperate move to clean up their act prior to this hearing, Mission Housing has scrambled to clean up the West Side of Mission between 14th And 15th Streets. This has only driven attics across the Street and further into the area surrounding Marshall Elementary School. Mission Housing did not take care to architect the sidewalk frontage of 1950 Mission to minimize the opportunities for bad actors. Can we trust them to design the BART Plaza frontage in the subdivision for safety without handholding? The evidence indicates that these nonprofits will not secure PSH and that PSH will thus be dangerous to Marshall students. Crime danger. A study intended to dispel NIMBY objections to citing PSH suggests that substance treatment centers lead to violent crime rates similar to those observed at liquor stores. City would never approve a liquor store adjacent to any other elementary school in SF. The SFPD and successive DAs appear to have never added drug free school zone enhancements for arrests that have been made around Marshall around Marshall and has been of no use in securing the school. Citing the subs a substance abuse treatment facility near an open drug bazaar can be deadly to those in recovery, as you saw earlier this month with the tragic death of Melvin Boulan at a GEO facility in the Tenderloin. Mister Boulan stated he'd rather be in San Quentin than go through reentry in the fentanyl ridden streets of the TL. Sadly, mister Boulan relapsed and OD'd while in custody. Danger of racism is real. PSH is clustered in a census tract with higher Latino populations, which only reproduces the structural racism that exists. Racist trauma damages youth youth of color's brains. There are no racial differences in brain structure, but there are racist differences. Stress from being vigilant about experiencing racism can lead to adolescent depression. Childhood poverty exacerbates the impacts of race trauma. Traumatic experience from immigration and acculturation stressors, experience of discrimination, and community violence disproportionately hurt youth of color. With regard to equal protection, clustering these services in our neighborhood does violence to the fourteenth amendment equal protection clause. The Congress of Racial Equality describes Lulu's locally undesirable land loose land uses in a write up of environmental injustice. The fourteenth amendment has been under attack from Donald Trump, right wing Supreme Court. Will San Francisco stand up to these attacks on equal protection under the law or aid those in seeking to undermine it? We share the goal of a successful development that will expand affordable housing for low and middle income families, not PSH drug treatment facility that will further endanger Marshall. Our neighborhood is one of the few that have welcomed affordable housing, but the streamlining approvals is just for the sake of streamlining benefits for developers, and in this and in this case, at the expense of our community. We demand denial of this subdivision.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, sir. Time's concluded. Okay.

[Ali (last name unknown), Nurse and Neighbor]: Thanks.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you. Alright. I don't see comments or questions from colleagues, so we will, open up public comments specifically for those who want to speak in support of the appeal and in opposition to the project. If folks could line up over on your right of the room, our my left. And madam clerk, will you please call the first speaker?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Alright. We are setting the timer for two minutes. Welcome.

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

[Calvin Swift, Public Works Corridor Program]: My name is Naomi Fox, and I'm a single mom of two children who attend Marshall Elementary. I'm also a resident of the neighborhood. I've resided across the street from Marshall at 15th And Cap since May 2021. Since my oldest started kindergarten, I've poured my heart into the school community, volunteering for events and leading the Marshall PTA, and I'm so proud to be a part of this community. I'm also very involved with monthly neighborhood meetings with the HSH reps about Mission Cabins. We can all agree that the rate of decay around 16th and Mission Area has only ramped up in the past few years. Gangs of drug users now crowd our streets and alleys in drug markets and fill our sidewalks. It's been very scary for me, especially as a mom. Even on the way here, I saw a group of fentanyl users on the front steps of Marshall. This is a very, very common thing I see multiple times every day, small groups of drug users clustered on our sidewalks. Last month, on the morning of the annual Marshall Field Day, there were gunshots on the block, and the target took refuge within the Marshall school yard. My own child could easily have been caught in the crossfire. That was a close call, and I believe that only more violence is coming until the drug markets are shut. The population served by this PSH will feed this drug market, and housing them in that chaos is truly a disservice to those seeking recovery. On May 16, principal Noah, who's here today, invited META and Mission Housing to come to Marshall, Okay. To talk about this project. And the cafeteria was packed with Marshall parents and staff. One after another, parents stood up and bravely voiced their concerns about this project. And I saw how much stress this has been putting us all under, and I feel it too. And it's very sad when children don't wanna walk to school because of what they might see on the way there. I believe the communication from the developers has been very poor. It took over two months to reply to our email about

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

[Todd (last name unknown), Former Marshall PTA Leader]: Hello there, board. My name is Todd. I was a former Marshall parent and Marshall PTA leader, the president for two years, and I was very honored to do that. But I just wanna make sure to, center the needs of the Marshall families and the community members who all the time express, what difficult circumstances they have to endure to, get to school, to protect their children from seeing the things that they see on a daily basis. And, you know, I'm very thankful that the mayor has raised some of those concerns. And I wanna make sure that we do everything in our power to, you know, center the needs of the families, who definitely you know, there's a lot of homeless, families at Marshall, And they need housing. And definitely, you know, I wanna make sure that people understand how important that is and that, you know, we realize that, you know, the convenient thing to just accept money for permanent supportive housing for, you know, certain, members of the community is not what the community has said that they really need. And that's that, you know, these these families who are often housing insecure. And, you know, I thank supervisor Fielder for her work in, you know, bringing that to, people's attention. But I think when it comes to this project, we should also be focused on the needs of the community rather than just an easy, win for, you know, these developers. So thank you very much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Let's welcome our next speaker. Just a note to the members of the public in the public gallery. If you are in support, you can just quietly raise your hands, and, we have a board rule that there are no audible sounds to interrupt the proceeding. Welcome to the next speaker.

[Mariana (last name unknown), Marshall Community Schools Coordinator]: Hi. My name is Mariana, and I'm the community schools coordinator at Marshall Elementary, which sits just steps from the proposed development site. I'm here today not as an opponent of housing, but to speak for the children of Marshall Elementary, children who are already some of the most vulnerable in San Francisco. Over thirty percent of our students at Marshall qualify as unhoused. These are children who come to school hungry, tired, traumatized, and yet they still show up trying to learn. What they need most is stability, safety, and support. But what we've seen just outside of our school tells a different story. I have personally had to call security when two people were defecating near our front doors. I've watched children be afraid to walk on the school sidewalk because of people injecting in front of our gate. One day, a homeless man was masturbating in plain sight of students. These are not one off incidents. They are

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: part of the daily landscape of

[Mariana (last name unknown), Marshall Community Schools Coordinator]: students who are forced to walk through. I'm families, for students who don't have a bed to sleep in, for the parents who want to stay in the Mission but can't afford rent. This project doesn't promise that. It promises permanent supportive housing for adults with substance abuse and other complex needs, but gives nothing to the families in our community who are already doing everything they can to survive. I'm asking you to pause and reexamine whether this location next to a title one elementary school filled with trauma impacted children is the right place for this type of housing. We need housing that supports families, not one that risks retraumatizing our students. Please don't forget the children in this conversation. They may not be here today, but I am here on their behalf. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Welcome our next speaker. If you would please hold your applause. Welcome, sir.

[George (last name unknown), Mission Resident]: Hi, board. My name is George, and I've lived in the intermission for thirty four years, twenty three of them right around the corner from the Marshall School. And I won't reiterate what all the other speakers have said or the appellants have said because it speaks for itself. The news article speak for itself. I've seen it. I've experienced it. The first time that I ever got official information that the plans were changed to build affordable housing, right, for families was this letter from DPW. It was dated June 25. I received it in the July. My understanding is, though, that the project was already approved by the planning department in May. I wasn't informed of that. I wasn't informed of any community meetings to discuss plans to change the plans for the parcel, to develop this housing for, drug users and homeless people. I wasn't informed. Most of my neighbors were not informed. So I don't understand that. That's a lack of transparency and it's very disrespectful. So what I would like the board to do is to grant the appeal and give us, the stakeholders, time to find out what's really going on and have actual input into what these changes are, because it involves us too. It's not just about the developers and the sponsors of the program who do not live where we live, and their children do not go to school at Marshall. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Alright. I'll just make an announcement is if this is the last speaker on behalf of the appellant of the project or who is against the project, please come on up and get in line. Welcome, sir.

[Noah Engber, Principal, Marshall Elementary]: Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Noah Engber. I'm the principal of Marshall Elementary, SFUSD. I want to echo what Mariana, my coworker, the community schools coordinator, was saying about I I I wanna say I'm very much for I'm a yes in my backyard kind of person. Affordable housing is crucial. What I'm more concerned about is about the housing for substance abusers people with a history of substance abuse. Putting that next door to an elementary school, I think, is very problematic. And I'm very concerned about the reality of that. I'm concerned about the height of those buildings that are going to cast a shadow over our playground. Literally, and and these are students that are, you know, metaphorically live in the shadows. And we will be literally in the shadow of these taller buildings, much taller than the the current buildings in the in the neighborhood. But, in in short, I I just wanna be very clear that I am for public housing, especially for families that over 30%, like Mariana said, over 30% of our families at our school qualify. And I am concerned about those, substance abuse folks. Thank you.

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

[Ms. Brown (mother and advocate)]: Next evening. I am in support of these, people talking about, the dangers that they have to endure every day with their children. I am a mother who have lost her child to homicide, shot 30 times with a semiautomatic gun, saving someone else's life. I don't want none of these mothers and fathers that are coming up here and asking for justice and safety in their neighborhoods. Because when, when when children are killed, we we're counting on the, the system to, give them housing somewhere else because of the danger of the rippling effect of it. And who wants to walk and take their kids to school in a dangerous neighborhood? Who wants to do that? These people need help. I need help. So I'm thinking even next month, it will be the anniversary of my son's death who was murdered in San Francisco, on San Francisco Streets. So I ask for all the support that these people are asking for, for you to show up and and give us mothers some support and some fathers some support. I agree with you that are that are here talking about the school, the Marshall School. I had a child that went over to that school also in the past. She's an adult now. But I understand that you don't have to be taking your kids to school in a dangerous neighborhood. Please help them. Help me. I'm a mother who lost a child. So just getting up here, supporting them, and hearing that the fit and all and the drugs in the neighborhood is not good. So please think about them. Think about me. I've been coming here for years asking for support. For years, you guys are new commissioners. So now now I got to get to know you, and which is okay. I can't let my son's his deaf be nothing. So and I congratulate these people that are coming up here and asking for service.

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

[Griffin Lee, Public Commenter]: Good afternoon, board. Griffin Lee here speaking, from the heart. I'm actually here for, an introduction, which I actually may not be able to make public comment for because I have somewhere to be. But I did wanna say, I think if we do approve this plan as is, which includes permanent supportive housing, there's a very good chance it will contradict a resolution that was actually introduced last week, that I'm very supportive of, which is allowing for priority a calls, for drug use around parks and schools. Well, this housing development would be right down the street from an elementary school. And there would be a higher probability of continued drug activity along with those living in permanent supportive housing in that development, given we know the nature of what's happening in a lot of our housing today. Just look at the data in our overdose deaths. So I think we've got to rethink about this proposal. I'm very much supportive of affordable housing. And I wouldn't let the the shadow topic get in the way of building housing. I think we saw what happened on 5th And Mission, which is now a a drug crisis center or a triage center. So that's my 2¢. I I would reconsider the approval to eliminate permanent supportive housing given it's down the street from a school. Thanks so much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Before the next speaker, if there's anyone in the chamber who's here to speak on behalf of the appellant or if you are against the project, now would be your opportunity to provide the board your comments. Otherwise, this will be our last speaker. Welcome.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Yes. Okay. It's what George says over there about not having a time to for the notification to arrive on time to analyze exactly what's what's going on. That's why you appeal. The rest, and then you have time to consider that in fact, there is no prob okay. These guys, drug addicts, are not a problem for kids, specifically. They are not the pedophiles, and pedophiles are not in the streets. So you work together since you you work in prox at in proximities of each other. You work together. You ask these drag addicts to help the kids, in fact. They're gonna love it because at least they feel useful. You understand? You need to work together, not separate, you know, no racism, all this. Is this clear? You appeal, meanwhile, just to have time to see the situation precisely here. Simplify.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Public comment in support of the appeal is now closed. And we are now gonna hear from representatives of city departments for up to ten minutes. And I think we are starting with Elias French from public works, maybe.

[Elias French, City and County Surveyor (Public Works)]: Can you hear me? Hi there. My name is Elias French. I'm here on behalf of

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Elias, can you speak directly into that microphone?

[Richard Baumann, Public Commenter]: Sure.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: It it moves, so just direct it towards

[Elias French, City and County Surveyor (Public Works)]: Got it. I'm here on behalf of, Department of Public Works as the city and county surveyor. We're the agency that processes subdivision map applications in San Francisco. I'll give a brief outline of the project's processing through our office. We received the subdivision application and tentative parcel map on January 2025. It was deemed submittable, circulated to city agencies, and approved by planning on 05/28/2025. At that time, following that, our our department, after reviewing the tentative map in its own capacity, issued tentative map approval. At that time, we notified the neighbors as required and thereafter, received the notice of this appeal. Based on our review of the subdivision, which proposes the subdivision of the existing parcel into three parcels, we found it compliant with the applicable rules and codes. The planning department found it similarly compliant with regard to the general plan, lot size, and slope, etcetera. The appellant's letter and the concerns here relate to the type of housing proposed on the site, the size, shape of the buildings, etcetera, and concerns related to those. These matters aren't directly related to the subdivision of the parcel itself, but rather to the, development of the structures on the site, which is not what the subdivision map involves. Therefore, I find that, in our opinion, the concerns raised are planning related with regard to the proposed construction, which are approved through the planning process and building permitting process, not the subdivision process. I will defer the rest of my time to the planning department, who I believe has a presentation or can explain further, unless there are any questions at this time.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: No questions.

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: Good afternoon, president, Mandelmann and members of the board. My name is Aaron Starr, manager of legislative affairs at the planning department. I'll give a brief overview of the project and how the subdivision complies with the planning code, and then address the issues raised by the appellants. The project proposes to subdivide a 57,325 square foot parcel into three new lots measuring approximately 24,700, 18,700, and 13,800 square feet. It includes the demolition of an existing commercial building and the construction of a nine story residential building with 136 units of supportive housing. This project was submitted under AB 2,162, which allows for the ministerial approval of supportive housing developments. The planning department determined the project met all applicable requirements and issued approvals accordingly. The tentative map was subsequently approved for compliance with the planning code. Under planning code section one twenty one, all new lots must meet minimum standards for area, width, and frontage. Specifically, each lot must one, have a minimum of width of 20 feet, have at least 16 feet of frontage on a street or alleyway, and a minimum area of 1,200 square feet. The proposed subdivision meets all of these objective standards. I will go ahead and skip the first two, concerns that the appellant raised in their application since, they have withdrawn them. But, the last one, the appellant expressed concerns about public safety, homelessness, and neighborhood conditions. While we acknowledge the seriousness of these issues, they are not factors that govern the review or approval of a tentative map. Subdivisions the subdivision does not cause or mitigate these broader social concerns. In summary, the issues raised in the appeal focus on the broader development, not on what the tentative map was, not if the tentative map was properly approved. The planning department has determined that the subdivision complies with the planning code and the general plan. No evidence has been presented to indicate that the city erred in approving the tentative map. We respectfully recommend upholding the planning department and DPW's decision to approve the tentative map. That concludes my presentation. I'm I'm available for questions. I also have, my colleague, Carly Grove, here, who can answer questions about the approval of the, development project.

[Mark Solomon, Appellant Representative]: Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I do not see any oh, supervisor Fielder.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you. I just have a couple questions. So for for DPW, what are the criteria that Public Works considers in approving a parcel map?

[Elias French, City and County Surveyor (Public Works)]: Eli French, county surveyor. The criteria that public works considers when approving a parcel map are, we reviewed the tentative map for technical correctness and the the proposed parcelization for conformance with the general plan, and also intake the comments from planning with regard to that conformance. Those are the approval is largely technical and doesn't hinge on analysis of the types of concerns that were raised here.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you. And then, planning. So you planning approved this project on May 27. Correct?

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: Yes. I believe so.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Can you speak to this project's compliance with our general plan and specifically policy fifteen twenty six and planning code subsection one zero one point one b four as laid out in your approval letter?

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: I'm sorry. Could you repeat the numbers again?

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: So specifically policy fifteen twenty six and planning code subsection one zero one point one

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

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: So the one zero one b four is related to commuter traffic not impeding muni, transit, or overburden our streets or neighborhood parking?

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

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: So we found that the project, as designed, would not do that.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Okay. Did planning approve a waiver for usable open space for this project?

[Aaron Starr, SF Planning Department]: I will defer to my colleague on that. Yes. We did.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you. And lastly, the density of the project is under Planning's purview. How did Planning comply with the state density bonus law in approving this project?

[Carly Grove, SF Planning Department]: Carly Grove, planning department staff. The state density bonus law provides 100% affordable housing projects, unlimited density, and up to three stories above the zone height limit, as well as waivers and incentives and concessions from certain planning code standards. So the den underlying density of the site is already relatively high because of the form based zoning for the project. So a code compliant project here could build up to a 105 feet, you know, with certain setbacks assumed. So, essentially, the project used provisions of the state density bonus that are allowed by the state law for a 100% affordable projects to achieve the density.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you. And then I wanted to bring the affordable housing developers up for a question. I just wanted to ask a question about what outreach to the community has been like during the development process.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: They also will be doing a whole presentation.

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: So Understood. Yeah. We can say that then.

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: Do you want me to answer, or do you want me to wait for the presentation? It's all

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

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: Hi. Sam Moss, the executive director of Mission Housing Development Corporation, our partner here. Please go ahead.

[Laura Daza Garcia, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)]: Good afternoon. I'm Laura Daza. I'm speaking META, Mission Economic Development Agency.

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: From the years before, this was an RFQ. Plaza de Sisses, Mission Housing, Mission Economic Development Agency, were working with community, talking with community. The RFQ itself was informed by community after dozens of meetings. After it was awarded, for the better part of two years, We had both small and large meetings. We had multiple meetings, which were publicized in the press about the density and the height. We had a community vote over the course of three separate meetings. The community voted for as tall and as much affordable housing for families and homeless individuals as possible. But I do before I see it, I just wanna say this isn't gonna stop community outreach. We plan on having meetings a lot, both before, during construction, and then after the building is built throughout the entire lifetime of the building. It's something both Mission and Meta care a lot about, and we have over fifty years track record proofing.

[Dion Lim, Journalist]: Thank you.

[Laura Daza Garcia, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)]: I would also add that we met with the school community as well, and we are committed and take very seriously their concerns. Any development near school can bring, you know, positive and also difficult situations that we are committed committed to addressing and working with the community, to make sure that La Maravilla is an asset to the community.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Fielder. And just so I understand kind of all that's going into this, I mean, what's in front of us today is oh, you guys can sit down. We have a we have a map appeal. You've talked to us some about the planning approvals, although those were nondiscretionary. Right? Correct. So there was not really a place for the planning department to think about as a policy matter whether this is a good or bad idea. So the only discretion on the city's side here is on funding, which, presumably, there is funding for this project, but that's not from any of you. Right? I mean, kind that Adam talks about, but I'm not gonna put him in the in the hot seat. K. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Alright. I don't think we have any more questions for for our departments. So with that, I'll call up the project sponsor to speak for up to ten minutes.

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Sam Moss. I'm the executive director of Mission Housing Development Corp. Mission Housing has been building, developing, and running affordable housing with and for community for over fifty years. We're proud to stand with residents, families, and partners who believe San Francisco should be a place where everyone has secure, affordable, and sustainable housing. I wanna start by thanking everyone who's here to support affordable housing. Thank you. Your presence truly matters. And thanks to the city agencies who have submitted their reports about the appeal. Thank you for the countless residents, families, and community partners who've made their voices heard throughout this process. We're here today not just to speak in support of a parcel map. We're here to defend the very idea that working class and low income families who are the backbone of our city deserve to live in San Francisco, That they deserve the dignity of a lasting home. A home that allows them to have the right to remain in the neighborhoods and the opportunity to thrive in our city. We're here today to defend the belief that housing is a human right. Building affordable housing in the mission should not be controversial. It is one of the many solutions to a dire situation. It is urgent and it is long overdue. This appeal isn't about protecting the neighborhood. It's about protecting privilege. It's about using bureaucracy to block equity. It sends a clear message to low income and housing insecure folks in San Francisco, you don't belong here. That's what this appeal is really about, and we should call it what it is, a weaponization of process in the service of exclusion. This isn't just about technical objections. It's about a few individuals trying to silence the voice of hundreds of community members, undermine the city's commitments, and break promises made to this community. The appellant is arguing that subdividing one lot into three somehow harms the community. That is simply false. This is a backdoor attempt to delay, derail, and discourage the creation of desperately needed affordable housing, and we cannot let that stand. And yet here we are. Even deep affordability with wide community support still faces obstruction, and this should concern all of us. This movement raises an important and broader question, one that this board will have to grapple with. What systems need to change to prevent the misuse of procedural steps to block desperately needed housing? What are you, the board of supervisors, doing to ensure that baseless appeals such as this no longer happen? What are you, the board of supervisors, doing to ensure that we build and support 100% affordable housing in every single neighborhood? Because if 100% affordable housing supported by community partners, designed to serve most most in need, in a neighborhood deeply impacted by displacement, can't move forward without being attacked and delayed, then what kind of city are we becoming? Every day of delay has real human costs. There are thousands sleeping on our streets every night. Children are sleeping in SFUSD shelters. Families are overcrowded conditions, doubling and tripling up in apartments they can barely afford. And generations of San Franciscans have been told that they can grow up in the city, but they can't grow old here. While we waste time here, the crisis is just growing more urgent. This isn't theoretical. This crisis is about real people, real lives, and the marvel is part of that solution. And if you care about economic recovery, family stability, and reducing homelessness, then build this kind of housing. We need it now. Enough delays, enough obstruction, enough hiding behind traffic and perceived neighborhood character while families and individuals sleep in overcrowded conditions, SROs, and on gymnasium floors. True equity means taking action when it matters the most, and this is one of those moments. And so today, I ask the board of supervisors to do what's right. Deny this appeal. Approve this subdivision. Let's build a marvel. Let's build a more affordable and inclusive San Francisco. I wanna thank you and now pass it to my colleague, Laura Daza Garcia, from Mission Economic Development Agency, our partner on the project.

[Laura Daza Garcia, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)]: Thank you, Sam. Good afternoon, supervisors and members of the public. Mara is a proud co developer of La Maravilla, the marvel in the mission. First, I want to remind us that this project is the result of over a decade of grassroots advocacy to meet the urgent need for housing for working families in San Francisco. META is proud to help deliver over 300 units of affordable housing to the Mission, a neighborhood that has long been home to working class families and one of the communities most impacted by displacement. The Maravilla also plays a critical role in helping the city meet its state mandated housing element goals, including the requirement to build more affordable housing in the neighborhoods well served by public transit. Only a few steps from BART and key muni lines, it offers family direct access to schools, jobs, healthcare, and opportunities. This project provides housing stability, addresses homelessness, and ensures that long time residents and those with greatest need can remain in the city that they help sustain. La Maravilla is exactly the kind of transit accessible community rooted and equity driven development that San Francisco must prioritize. At a time when housing insecurity continues to displace families, we urge your support to come to move La Maravilla forward without delay. Thank you for your time.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your your comments. I'll just make a note. No audible sounds of approval. If you are in support, just wave your hands as such. That that is an approved board rule. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Do we have any comments or questions for the project sponsor? Supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. I just, wanted to hear, and I didn't hear it in the presentation, why there is a need for a subdivision of the lot.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Why? Let's come back up.

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: Good afternoon, supervisors. Kevin Kitching. I'm director of housing development at Mission Housing. In order to facilitate the tax credit finance for each of these parcels, they have to be individually parcelized. Also, to get a permit for each of the buildings, you would have to be on one parcel for each building.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: That's a really technical answer. Can you, just say it in lay lay terms? Yeah. In order to qualify three different buildings?

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: Yeah. In order to qualify for the financing, you need them to be three separate persons.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Different about the buildings? That's They're individually owned. Financing different?

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: Yeah. They'll be individually owned by separate LLCs. So it's you've worked at mayor's office of housing for years. Supervisor, you remember some of these setups. So we have to we have to finance them individually, and they have to have their permits individually.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: But why? What why are they different?

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: That might be a question for the state of California, so why they affect their tax credit finance that way. Does Moe have any backup on that? That that's all I

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: have on that.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Mister Moss, can can you just answer the question? Why are they different buildings? Why do we need the subdivision?

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: Well, there there are three different buildings in three different places, one on 16th Street, one on Mission Street, and one on Cap Street. They'll all have three different addresses.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: And now they're serve serving different populations?

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: One will be permanently supportive housing as discussed, and the other two will be for seniors and families, mostly families.

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

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: Yeah.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you so much.

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: No problem.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: What I was looking for. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, supervisor Miller. Don't go back. I I got well, mister Moss. I'll be, you know, I'll be honest. I think this was this is should be a pretty easy appeal for you to win. I think on the on the simple legal question, I think you that, you know, that probably, there's there's not a whole lot the board could do if the board were concerned about this project to stop it based on, a map, a map appeal. But you did go further than making that argument, and you, discussed this as, sort of, as a battle between people of privilege who are opposed to affordable housing in their neighborhood and, people who believe that, affordable housing is good and and should be in the neighborhood. And I don't see it that way necessarily. I mean, to to I don't think this is where supervisor Melgar was going, but but all three of these buildings will be affordable. They will have different funding sources, and they will be serving the needs of different populations. Now I don't know the I you know, I know a couple of the appellants. I don't know all of them. I don't know what their motivations are. Maybe they hate affordable housing. I suspect that's not the case. I think there's a concern in the city right now, and I think we saw it earlier in the conversation about geographic geographic equity. The real live lived experience of people in neighborhoods where where homeless services are being placed is that although the city promises that these are gonna make things better, that often they don't. And I've seen that some in my district. I think we've seen it in other districts. And I am I actually have great gratitude and respect for Mission Housing and Meta. Meta just did a small site project in in my district. There's 12 people who are able to live in their, you know, what their their long term homes because because of the work you're doing there. I hear good things about Mission Housing and their operations and you know, all the time. But I am a little I mean, since we're on the policy question of this, when I look at 16th and Mission, which is one of the mayor's very top priorities in terms of areas that need to get cleaned up, and I hear the real live concern from people who see what happens when and it might not be all homeless facilities, but certainly some homeless facilities or drug related facilities do seem to make things worse. Like, with what confidence and why should these people believe that this will be one of those cases where things don't get worse?

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: I mean, are we talking about the the actual appeal? Or

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I I mean, I would happily do that for people. But your statement was about the motivations to people who run it.

[Sam Moss, Executive Director, Mission Housing]: I can say with confidence that the supportive housing industry is learning and getting better. The budget for our PSH building will be much more with much more wraparound services than ever being built. I would ask what else you would have us do than house homeless people. I stand by Mission Housing. I stand by Mission Economic Development Agency. More than anything, I stand by the decade and thousands of people from the Mission who have called for these buildings at these income levels. We, Mission Housing and Maida, do not plan on making anything worse. We plan on making it as much better as quickly as possible. But I can't you know, I don't have a wand to go to the future to prove it. But, you know, we're also open to any support. The city of San Francisco, DPW, the police department, the board of supervisors wanna provide for the current state of the streets because that's not permanent supportive housing's fault.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Madeline. I I wasn't gonna chime in. I was gonna stick to the intent of the hearing. But since we're having a general conversation now, I do just wanna say that this site has been something that community has been fighting for for so many years. I mean, prior to my election to the board of education, prior to my election to the board of supervisors. And there were other projects proposed at this site that community fought against. And most certainly, they should have. And their community came together to get a site where we're gonna see all affordable housing. To me, that is one of the most wonderful things that can happen in the city and county of San Francisco, is to get a site that is a 100% affordable, particularly when we know all of the prior issues around the developer and what was going to be proposed at this site. I went and had several conversations. Obviously, it's a different school community now, but most certainly spent time with parents and families at Marshall at that time. But the reality of it is we need more affordable housing in San Francisco. We need more permanent, supportive housing in San Francisco. And there are several ways to mitigate all concerns that have been brought up from the school community, as well as any community. But I know that there's overwhelming support, excuse me, for this project. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. With that, we will go to public comment in support of, of of the in opposition to the appeal and in support of the project.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: If you would line up on the right hand side of the chamber, near the curtains, let's hear from our first speaker. Come on up. We're setting the timer for two minutes. Yes. Proceed.

[Connor Allen, Mission Resident]: Hi there. My name is Connor Allen, longtime resident, first time speaker to the Board of Supervisors. I'm here because I wanna highlight the cost of bureaucratic delay. I'm born and raised in the Bay Area, resident of the Mission. 16th Street in BART is my BART station. And we deserve better than an abandoned Walmart. The alternative to building something that's gonna house people and support people is an empty storefront and an empty parking lot that becomes a place for these issues to get worse. I deeply care for the people who have their children in the city. I hope to be someone who can live in the city and raise my kids here. We are going to be more capable of making the city a safe place of housing people with an affordable housing development at this location rather than an empty Walgreens sorry, empty Walgreens, that the police have to sort of skirt around the edges and constantly sweep up after. San Francisco needs people who love it. Mission housing is a group of people who love this city, And love means a lot more with action and building the supportive housing. Building the affordable housing that includes support for families is that action that we need. And the bureaucratic delay is going to continue the process that we have seen, which is the decay of the sniper pit. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Hello? Thank you. Next speaker?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Hello. My name is Nick Roethlisberger. I live in the Mission. And I can't think of a reason that you I mean, this is the perfect place. There's 300 affordable units on top of a BART station in the heart of the city. You know, for years, people have complained, well, we don't want market rate housing. This is a 100% affordable, and now there's complaints that it'll attract the wrong kind of people. I can't wait for this to get built so that more people can live in my neighborhood. Those are a long line of people, and I'll stop, but it's ridiculous. It's it's the weaponization of process.

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

[Ruth Ferguson, D9 Neighbors for Housing]: Hi. My name is Ruth Ferguson, and I live in Bernal Heights. I am really proud to be here with d nine Neighbors for Housing to speak in support of La Maravilla, which will add over 350 units of desperately needed, a 100% affordable housing for our community. San Franciscans have stood loud and proud in opposition to Trump's fascist ICE raids. We've opened our hearts to residents facing homelessness and addiction, and we champion our San Francisco values with compassionate, sensible solutions to even our greatest challenges. So why wouldn't we support this critically needed affordable housing? Why wouldn't we stand together to support evidence based housing first solutions for our neighbors when we need it most? There's been a lot of talk today about the impact on children's and families if this site is approves approved. But what about the children and families who will benefit from this project? Who will have a roof over the heads because of this project? I sympathize with the challenges faced by our mission neighbors. I really do, and I don't wanna minimize what they've experienced. I hear you when you say when you share how tough it's been. To be clear, I support building this 100% affordable housing site in the Mission, but I know that wealthier commune communities like my own in Bernal Heights need to step up and welcome more affordable housing in our own neighborhood. That's why my colleagues and I at d nine Neighbors for Housing have been vocal in asking the city to include Bernal Heights in the family zoning plan so we can see more housing like La Marvilla in our own backyard. We must address the racist history of exclusionary zoning and share in the housing burden faced by our neighbors in the mission. Poverty and homelessness is a policy failure, and it's a policy choice. I urge all of you to deny this appeal and instead build a future that creates opportunity for all San Franciscans. Thank you.

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

[Brandon Powell, D9 Neighbors for Housing]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Brandon Powell. I'm a member of district nine Neighbors for Housing. The concerns about street conditions that were highlighted in the appeal, perfectly valid. It is appalling. It's an injustice that this city allows neighborhoods like the Mission and the Tenderloin to bear the brunt of these conditions that would never be tolerated in else other parts of the city, that's not a reason to stop housing. This housing will address those very conditions. It may be incremental, but it is still progress. I encourage you, and implore you, I beg you, don't stop this project. Approve this subdivision, which the professionals in city government have indicated, is completely warranted, and allow this project to proceed. And let's get some more neighbors. Let's take care of some people, who need help. People with substance abuse issues are not pariahs. They're our neighbors. They're our family. They're our friends. So that's that's not a problem that we would house more of these people. Let's provide some housing for seniors who desperately need it, for families who desperately need this housing. We gotta do this. Thank you.

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

[Philip Ravel, District 8 Resident]: Hello. My name is Philip Ravel. I'm a resident of District 8, Noe Valley. And I come out in support of this project and reject the appeal. Much has been said about permanent supportive housing and the risk it involves. I just buried my friend earlier this year who overdosed in Downtown San Francisco. He would have benefited from permanent supportive housing to clear and it might have saved his life. It's too late for him. To the families who are who are mentioning they fear for their children, I can understand. I not not far from La Marville, I was nearly jumped two years ago and would have been beaten up had by several by several men had it not been for my 100 pound rottweiler that I was with that day. I understand the that street safety is a concern and is a valid one. But furthermore, much has been talked about in housing about how it's a gift to developers. This is a nonprofit developer building 300 units of housing for families, including children who go to Marshall and would need that housing. It is far better to be housed, but having to deal with street safety and and then to be unhoused and at the mercy of the streets. I think this I think if we fail at this, MAGA could not have caricatured ineffectiveness of San Francisco better, and we would deserve it. Thank

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

[Kate Voschel, Architect]: Hello. My name is Kate Voschel. I am a longtime resident of the mission and a member of d nine neighbors for housing, and I fully support this project in its totality, and I'm gonna tell you why. I was a project architect for several occupied rehabs of tenderloin SROs back in the early two thousands. So I was working day in and day out with exactly the kinds of people who would be living in the PSH in this project. And one day, I was doing a final, walk through of unit as a woman was moving in, and we always put, like, a little shelf in the kitchenette. She brought me over there to show me her mom's China. And she was so proud to be able to, after carrying it around in a bag for, I believe, six years, to be able to put it on this little shelf. This little shelf in this little room transformed this woman's life, Transformed it. And, here we are twenty years later, and we have barely made a dent in trying to give that transformative experience to thousands of people in our city. We decided in the mission eight years ago that we wanted this to be a 100% affordable housing, And, every single delay cost lives. It cost people in trauma. It cost our city vitality. And, it's time to not let the process stop the the the progress. So I urge you all to deny this appeal, and let's get this built, and let's get these hundreds of families and individuals in need housed in the mission. Thank you very much.

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

[Charlene Antoli, Mission Bay Resident]: Hi. My name is Charlene Antoli. I'm a resident of Mission Bay. I just wanted to come and speak in support of this project. Number one, it's just 300 homes is a large number. I think about it's 300 households or over sorry. Over 300. Over 300 households that would be transformed by this. That's probably enough to fill this room multiple times. And so I just I'm here supporting this to think about all the lives that could be supported by this project. Secondly, we know we have to build a large number, a very, very large number of affordable units, based on the housing elements. And, every every single project that we can do, really counts a lot. Lastly, I think the way that we've gotten here feels a little bit wrong to me. This is like, we're getting here we're having an entire, hearing based on a legal technicality around parcel subdivision. And yet the majority of the things we're talking about have nothing to do with that. To me, this sets a bit of a dangerous precedent that only those with the access to free time and lawyers can find the loopholes to block housing. So overall, I would I would urge the board to approve this and help transform the lives of 300 over 300 households. Thank you so much.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for your comments. Just a reminder to those in the very back of the public gallery, no audible sounds of either approval or lack of support. Welcome.

[Spanish–English Interpreter]: Hi. I'm gonna be translating.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Okay. I'll set the timer for four minutes. You can speak for two minutes and then translate for two minutes.

[Spanish–English Interpreter]: Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Her name is Madeline, and he her child's name is Ivan. She is showing up in support of the construction of La Maravilla. She lives on 18 In Mission, and she's looking for she wants to make sure that there is enough and that she's looking for affordable housing. So that's why she's here.

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

[Spanish–English Interpreter]: Thank you so much.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Hi. Laura Foote, executive director

[Laura Foote, Executive Director, YIMBY Action]: of YIMBY Action. And, this project obviously has special meaning for a lot of us. I've been doing advocacy for ten years, and was a supporter of the market rate housing at the beginning until my now husband was like, shut up, Laura. And really the amount of community building, education, learning that has come out of the process of this project in particular, for the pro housing movement, for affordable housing advocates. There is no project that is more popular, more well documented, and has brought more people together in support of affordable housing than this project. I think it is, without question something that this should move forward and that the city should embrace. It brings people together. Shirod was telling me that he was having mixed feelings about a letter of support from Sonia Trauss. So I think there's a lot of humor to be had about this as well. And I think that there's an aspect of this that's, oh, this isn't important because we have the votes. But actually, people are afraid of supportive housing. People are afraid of homeless people in every neighborhood. People are afraid of drug users. They're gonna be afraid in every neighborhood. And that's going to create concerns in every neighborhood. And it's actually understandable and human. And it's something that this board has to navigate and be resilient to. Because you have already decided that permanent supportive housing is a key strategy for addressing the housing shortage. And so you have to address every time this comes up, how are you actually going to get it built in the wealthiest neighborhoods? I've spoken in support of homeless housing in Marin. Okay? It gets harder than this. But it's going to get harder for you in San Francisco as we build on the West Side, as we build in districts that have done very little to no permanent supportive housing. This is supposed to be the easy one, and we're still here. So what are you guys going to do to ensure

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

[Bob Akastandari, San Francisco Democratic Party]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Bob Akastandari. I'm here speaking on behalf of the San Francisco Democratic Party, which passed a resolution in May, calling on supporting the maximum affordable housing at La Maravilla, the marvel in the mission. And at the time, that resolution that my body brought forward was about a different set of complaints, some of which were brought up in earlier public comment about the shadowing. But the the notion at the time was that it was more or less concerns were being raised in the press, but that that this project, because of state law that has been debated and settled and local law that has been debated and settled, and housing element proposals and drafts, many, many, many meetings has been debated and settled. This city is supposed to be prioritizing building supportive housing, below market rate housing for people who cannot afford the market rates. We have to build a lot more of all housing for sure, in order to address our housing shortage, but the San Francisco Democratic Party supports building the maximum amount of affordable housing at this particular place because the families in the city need it. People who have nowhere to go need it. And I think that one of the public commenters or not the public commenters, one of the project sponsors spoke earlier and said, if we don't do this, where do we where do people go? What is our actual solution? People will deteriorate and die and be subject to violence and be subject to other things on the street if we do not address these conditions. And and the city should do more addressing those street conditions, but we also need to make sure that we're building places for people to be able to rebuild their lives and to live the best life that they can live, and you cannot do that if you are living on the streets. So the San Francisco Democratic Party urges you to deny, this subdivision appeal and to make sure that this project moves forward. Thank you.

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

[Robert Fruchtman, SF YIMBY Volunteer]: Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Robert Fruchtman. I am a volunteer lead with San Francisco YIMBY. I live in District 5. We strongly support this project. We believe the city should do more to clear administrative obstacles that prevent the creation of affordable housing. I will say that two weeks ago, I had no idea that you could appeal the subdivision map for any kind of project, much less affordable housing. People will come up with any kind of reason to justify their appeal. In 2016, then supervisor Scott Wiener spent a lot of time to prevent conditional use authorizations of affordable housing. Now many, many, many projects have skipped conditional use appeals of affordable housing. And more state laws have gone have have done a lot to streamline affordable housing in San Francisco. But more work is needed. One important lesson from this hearing should be that appeals of projects is not community planning. Appeals are veto points. It is an inherently reactionary process. The best outcome is that the contested project proceeds as planned. The frequent alternative is that the project dies. And it is with bitter irony that I say that an appeal of a subdivision map is community input, but that doesn't mean it's constructive. City leaders in this very room have made it clear that affordable housing is a priority for the city of San Francisco. And if it is a priority, then we should do what we have set out to do. We should not say, well, we support affordable housing, just not this one. Because that is how we have gone to this crisis. Over fifty years of saying time and time again, well, we support housing, just not this project. There's a reason why administrative processes do not result in more affordable housing. Please approve this project. Thank you.

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

[Joel Engardio, Supervisor (District 4)]: Hi.

[Andrico Penick, Director of Real Estate]: I'm Mario. I live a block away from the project on South Van Ness. I just wanna say that I'm really looking forward to having hundreds of new neighbors. Please deny the appeal. Thank you.

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

[Eli Halloran, Teacher]: Hello. My name is Eli Halloran, and I'm here to speak against the appeal of the 1979 Mission Parcel Parcel Approval. This appeal is an undemocratic attempt to circumvent California housing laws intended to alleviate severe shortages of affordable housing in the state. The 1979 Mission Project has met all standards set out under the law for approval, and has in fact gone gone above and beyond legal requirements in several cases by holding multiple community meetings in the mission to get our input about shade and height. This appeal is unrelated to the actual parcel map approval process and only related to the frustrations of some of my neighbors at having to actually see the effects of anti housing advocacy on their city and on their unhoused neighbors. I live one block from this project at 15th And South Venice, and I teach at Hoover, the SFUSD middle school that receives students from Moscone, the other close by elementary school in the attendance zone. I work with students from the mission whose families are unhoused or unstably housed every day in the school year. To say you care about students like this and then do anything other than wholeheartedly support a project that would house hundreds of low income residents, that would house SFUSD students, that would house families, is a contradiction beyond ridicule. I'm ashamed at this classist and hostile behavior from some of my neighbors, and I urge you to respect the norms of the parcel approval process and uphold the values of a just and welcoming city by rejecting this appeal and upholding the approval.

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

[Jenny Barragan (via interpreter)]: Thank you. And I'll be translating. Good afternoon. My name is Jenny Barragan. I work with community and live at 14th And Mission Street. I support families with resources the most vulnerable families with resources in our communities, those in shelters, living in cars, and simply asking for dignified and affordable housing for themselves and their families. I see with great sadness the suffering of all these people, and I respectfully come to you and trust that you'll make the best decision and move forward with this wonderful project so that many families can benefit from it and have sig safe and dignified housing. Thank you.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for the interpretation. Next speaker, please. Welcome.

[Spanish–English Interpreter]: And I'm gonna be translating. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is Myra. Her name. Her name is Myra Hernandez, and I'm here to share a little bit about my my story. She lived in a small room, and after she got beneficiary she was a beneficiary of the Dahlia Lawrie, her life changed for her and for her son. And that's why she's here today to ask to to continue with the project of La Maravilla and to ask you to support more families and to ensure that more families get benefited by that, and that they have a a place to live like she does.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: And thank you for the interpretation. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Blanca Trujillo, Mission Community Leader]: Hello. Good afternoon, everybody. Respected supervisors. My name is Blanca Trujillo. I am community leader of the mission. I want to tell you a little bit about my story. I live in a two bedroom apartment with another family. I know how stressful it is to be cramped in a two bedroom apartment. We were nine people live together. My children have different chronic health conditions, and leaving cramped wasn't helping their health. My daughter has asthma, and my son has eczema. In SF, the high cost of housing and the lack of affordable housing force families to leave cramped. Children need their own space to their daily development and well as to study and concentrate on doing their homework. I spent several years applying through Dalia Portal. Finally, in 2021, thanks God, I I won the lottery at the Vansa Building at 490 Sultvanese, which is a a block from the from the Maravilla. Now my children have their own space to study and do their homework. They're doing very well in their studies, and their health has improved a lot. Right now, there are many families with children in shelters. There are children and adult with chronic health conditions, and living in a shelter worsens their health because they don't have access to cooking, resting, etcetera. There are also family with children living in cars. I hope these families have the opportunity to have a decent housing. I think it's a human right that every person should have. I'm here to continue advocating for the construction of or the marble. That is affordable housing for families because having a stable housing change your life and improve your health and gives you security. Having this in housing for every family is a foundation for moving forward, and our children still do better.

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

[Jenny Barragan (via interpreter)]: I'm gonna do my best to summarize, because everything she said is amazing and so powerful. But her name is Gladys. She's a beneficiary of the Dahlia housing lottery, and she's had it for the last two months. She's lived here for three years. Before that, she lived with 18 people. And as part of that housing, because of the situation, she was sexually assaulted. She's a survivor of sexual assault, and after she received the housing, her life completely changed. She was able to finish high school. She learned English. She now is able to live happily with her girlfriend, and she's able to live a dignified life. And she believes that everybody deserves housing and a chance to be able to thrive because housing allows for people to serve to not only survive in the city, but also to thrive, and live their best lives.

[Laura Daza Garcia, Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA)]: Thank you, guys.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you for the interpretation. Alright. Are there please come on up, just before you speak, sir, I'll just ask if there are any other members of the public who would like to address the board against the appeal and in support of the project. Please come forward. Alright. Welcome.

[Dairo Romero, Mission Resident]: Good afternoon, super supervisor. This is Dairo Romero. I am a Mission resident working from there for a long time in housing, being with many community organizers and leaders fighting for affordable housing in the Mission District. We are proud to bring a lot of developments, more than seven, housing more than 800 families, and the situation in '16 and '24 I am close to 20 I live in 26th Street. It has been for other issues. And if we want to address those issues, we have to bring together, be organized, and demand from the city more services for people that are in difficult situation. This is the first time. I was doing community engagement for most of the projects in the mission. This is the first time that I hear from community members here treating human beings like nothing, and I think that we deserve better. We deserve better because I I I was in a community meeting when a woman, a Latina mother, was talking with the Marshall parents, telling that, thanks to God, no other your relatives or son has a problem with addiction. We had to treat people with respect and bring the resources for that. One of the the the buildings is for that. People who has been in some issues that we can support them. This is the first time that I I see this treatment to people, and this is unacceptable for San Francisco. Please do the right thing. And from plus assisting, when we were fighting for against Demostel, we mentioned that one building, it has to be for low very low income people living in the SROs. Now it's a a luxury within the living in the SRO. Now they are in the street. We had to allow people to have a better condition of life. And the families, there were kids here. Some people had to move, but there were real kids here asking for affordable housing. Thank you.

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

[Jenny Barragan (via interpreter)]: Hello. It's me again. My name is Kristen Agosta. I'm the community programs manager at the Women's Building. I'm also a housing advocate and a resident of the Mission District. And I'm here in defense of this a 100 foot a 100% affordable housing project, which lives off the back of a decade of community organizing. Many of us know that our communities fought really hard for La Maravilla because we really know how urgent affordable housing is as well as supportive services. Our community makes up a really wide range of individuals, and all of those individuals, whether they're just individuals or families, they deserve the right to live with dignity and support. And we need to acknowledge that no human being is disposable, as opposed to a lot of the things we are hearing today. And with that, many of them would benefit from this project. And many of these people have families who are working towards a reality that enables their households not only to survive, but also to thrive here in San Francisco. We should all be coming together as a community to prioritize housing and not villainize those who need support. So we must go forward with making the Maravilla a reality, and we appreciate your support. Thank you.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Public comment, in opposition to the appeal is closed. And now we will hear from the appellant for a three minute or a rebuttal of up to three minutes.

[Mark Solomon, Appellant Representative]: We were told five minutes rebuttal. Five minutes rebuttal.

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

[Mark Solomon, Appellant Representative]: But we're emailed five minutes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: I'm sure it was three minutes, mister Solomon.

[Mark Solomon, Appellant Representative]: Mister president, supervisors, I'm Mark Solomon, a 36 resident of Marshall neighbor. I help write the appeal. None of us are attorneys. We don't have a budget or a staff. Danger is the legal basis for granting an appeal on a subdivision map. Project sponsors have introduced no evidence that the project, as planned pursuant to this map, will not endanger Marshall. So many white EMBs from nowhere near Marshall that have no such facilities near them spoke in the first person about our neighbors rejecting their prejudices. Our new neighbors live at La Phoenix, Casa Delante, Avanza, and 17th and Folsom. Our neighborhood needs more higher functioning neighbors like that. Why does mister Moss insist on YIMBY lying, casting YIMBY preaches onto residents about everything every time he opens his mouth? Mission housing has not mitigated any impacts at La Fenix. Miss Clark said they had the votes. How does she know that? Was ex parte violated here? I've worked to better the Marshall community with former supervisor Jane Kim to recite parking egress from 1550 15th Street to divert cars away from Marshall and with SFMTA on the home zone that calm traffic around schools. Supervisor Walton's concerns, I was one of the few residents in the nonprofit dominated sixteen three Plaza Coalition that, worked on this stuff ten years ago. Right? We advocated for community based planning to build affordable housing for families and took care to call threats to call at first solar access at Marshall. That's all been thrown out the window with the subdivision. That is wrong. I'd support a Salesforce tower of affordable housing for homeless families on that parcel unquestioningly. That's what we need. Project sponsors did not reach out to any Marshall area residents. They called their nonprofit CLAC to rig public engagement. They've kept their cards close to the vest because they know that PSA should face one with a gender opposition. The first we learned was at the Mission Cabins community meeting. It's been meeting since Mission Cabins went in, where Mission Cabins told us what we're going to get. We did this appeal because that was the only way for the community to be heard. Our claims that the subdivision does increase dangers to the risk in Marshall has not been addressed by sponsors and stands. We live this every day. Marshall families support dense, affordable housing on the parcel, and post a PSH on top of their kids' schools. Youth have a right to be safe around and walking to their schools. And youth of color have a right for their city not to do a racism to them. This sends a message to kids of color that you are expendable, second class citizens. The Marshall community is anti NIMBY. We've taken it in our backyard, but most of you all won't ever have in yours. We've seen the work. We're demanding the city not blow it again and further endanger our neighbors' kids. Project sponsors are the NIMBYs here. We are the NIMBYs. We want permanent affordable housing for families as dense as you can get. We can't trust shaky nonprofit budgets to follow through with security obligations. What if they lose funding? We're screwed. Defenders call on Soups to sustain the appeal and force sponsors, unaccountable nonprofit oligarchs, to work with the community to build affordable housing for homeless families that poses no such dangers. You've heard from the elementary school principal. Okay. First, do no more harm than the city has already done to our neighborhood. We need to build up. We don't need any more burden. We've taken more than any of your neighborhoods have ever taken, and we want to see permanent affordable housing for homeless families as high as you can go. Thank you very

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: much. And, mister Solomon, we've printed out our communication, and we'll provide it to you in just a moment.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. With that, the public hearing has been held and is now filed. And as previously discussed, we're now gonna consider whether to approve or conditionally disapprove the decision of public works and the tentative parcel map. And I see three colleagues in the queue. Supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. So this is a rare and, maybe even unique, land use appeal in that I am strongly sympathetic to concerns voiced by the appellants, Because their concerns are very similar to concerns I hear regularly from the residents of my district, whose homes and businesses are adjacent to permanent supportive housing facilities. I will say, in in this little arcane proceeding, you know, we're we're having a policy conversation now that maybe we weren't planning on having as president Mandelmann said. But I I am a little troubled by some of the conflation between the policy conversation around affordable housing, which I think everyone supports, and permanent supportive housing, which I think has real problems that we as policymakers really need to dig in on and help to solve, and that I would argue that we ignore at our peril. Virtually all PSH facilities in this city embrace drug tolerant policies that are mandated by California's implementation of Housing First. This often comes up in public settings with the residents that I work with when we have PSH facilities in South Of Market. The things that end up on social media are provisions from the Housing First policy saying that tenant screening and selection practices promote accepting applicants regardless of their sobriety or use of substances. That the use of drugs in and of itself without other lease provisions is not a reason for eviction. That recognizes drug use as an addiction as part of tenants' lives where tenants are engaged in nonjudgmental communication regarding their alcohol and drug use. So this is the feature. And, this isn't something. This is the thing that residents are objecting to. And, when we, tell them that there's not going to be drug related bad behavior, they know that we're not accurate about that. I don't oppose Housing First. I do wish California, back in 2016, had embraced an approach to Housing First that the Obama administration's HUD had recommended, which that it that it should be recovery inclusive. I applaud the work being done by my predecessor, Matt Haney, who is in this legislature right now trying to legalize funding for drug free and recovery oriented housing options within our Housing First framework. But, I do think we have to acknowledge the fact that permanent supportive housing sites in our city are routinely among the most responded to residential addresses for nine one one calls for service. And, that's especially true for police calls for service. And that can be somewhat exasperating because what I hear from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing and what I hear from our nonprofit partners is that no one has it in their budget to provide security for PSH sites. And as a member of the board of supervisors who has, you know, you know, for some responsibility for the the entire citywide budget budget, that's exasperating to hear because the city and county of San Francisco is providing security. We're providing the most inefficient and expensive security because the police department is showing up at these facilities once or twice a day, when we could be having maybe rethinking about how we're funding these so that we're avoiding those problems. Our failure to do so is why we're losing the confidence of San Franciscans. One thing I think we can all agree on, is that as a city, we seem to be asking permanent supportive housing to solve problems that permanent supportive housing was never intended to solve. I had a hearing last year on security issues around permanent supportive housing, including one that was in Mission Bay, ironically, next to the Public Safety Building, a block that one would expect to be the safest in San Francisco. And there were that was one of the top calls for police service. And the calls about drug use and violence and nuisance behavior were just off the hook. And there was, in that hearing, a lot of talk from neighbors and also residents of the facility. Talking about the the fact that there was a woman who spent all night screaming and nobody could get any sleep. And after that hearing, I was haunted that, yes, we have residents across the street who are it's who are objecting to the noise from the woman screaming. And, yes, there are people who are in that permanent supportive housing facility who are upset because there's a woman screaming. But I am also haunted by the fact that I have had a constituent who spent the night screaming. And what are we doing for her? And what we owe the kind of level of care that we owe her. And what we gave her instead was a lease and a key. We I think we finally got that person the level of care that she needed. But that is something else that I think we, as policymakers, need to have serious conversations about. Two weekends ago, I had, I had to call 911 myself for a neighbor of mine who's my dog is friends with her dog. She doesn't have a phone. She lives in a permanent supportive housing facility. She's being threatened by somebody there. As somebody who's very out about being in recovery from addiction myself, I hear from a lot of people in the recovery community

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

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: in permanent supportive housing, who are begging and pleading with me to do everything I can to fight for drug free and recovery housing options. I had one constituent who even said, if it weren't for the fact that he had the responsibility to take care of a dog, he would rather be on the street. It was a madhouse where he was living. So I do think that, you know, I acknowledge that this particular project has its own history. But I would feel much better to hear from non profit partners and city policy makers that we have a lot of work to do. To listen to our sides, to hear all perspectives, and to acknowledge problems where they exist. And, I'm troubled when I hear people sort of shamed as privileged NIMBYs when I don't think that's true. All that being said, you know, the the board's legal duty here is to address what is at issue in this appeal. This is a tentative map under the planning code, a subdivision of a parcel. A parcel I agree with the planning department's conclusion that the appellant's concerns relate to matters that are outside of the tentative map that's under appeal. I'll be supporting the project, opposing the appeal based on this proceeding. But as policy makers, because the policy conversation came up, I think it's really important that we all recognize that we have a lot of work to do in this city to get permanent supportive housing right. And, I hope that we will consider things that we can do to expand drug free and recovery inclusive options in our permanent supportive house housing portfolio. Thanks. Supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president. I also will be supporting the project and voting against the appeal. It is fairly straightforward in terms of the technical aspects of it. And we heard from the developer that it is needed for the project to proceed with, financing. But I wanted to address a couple of the issues that have been brought up more philosophically in this conversation, like my colleague from District 6. So one of my very first jobs in San Francisco was working for an organization called the Iris Center that provided perinatal support to women who use drugs Right there. Between fourteenth and seventeenth. And roughly then Valencia and Cap Street. At the time, we were still in the days of AIDS transmission. And my job was to hand out condoms and bleach to the ladies who worked in the SROs on Mission Street. And this was a population that was then on the street thirty years ago, and it's still there now. So, I don't think it is correct to say that the Mission Cabins, or La Fenix, or any of these, new, activities have, you know, brought this population because I can tell you, this population was always there. And, no, it has not increased. The drug of choice is different. Back then, it was heroin. A decade before that, it was crack. Today, it's fentanyl. But I you know, to to your point, supervisor Dorsey, I do think we have a responsibility to look at how we're spending our dollars, to see whether what we are spending on works. And if it doesn't work, to adjust the model. But I can tell you that thirty years ago, when most of these folks were living in SROs that are privately owned with no services, That didn't work either. So, you know, I I think that, you know, we have spent a lot of time talking about getting people off the streets, getting supports around them. I do believe that permanent supportive housing is part of the answer. I don't think it's the whole answer. I, don't think it's a model that works perfectly. I think that there's a evolution that needs to happen and laws that we can do. But one thing I'm sure of, is that it's unacceptable to have people living on the streets, decaying to their deaths, using, and not providing them services. So, this project will, build housing for folks who have, struggled with drug addiction, and also for seniors, and also for families, which we desperately need. So I, also was on the planning commission, when we held the hearing on the project that did not go forward that was proposed by Maximus. We held a huge hearing at Mission High School when where hundreds of community members, you know, Latino community, Chinese community, the YMBs, everyone came out and talked about how what we needed in the mission was deeply affordable housing. So there were protests that, the, sixteen coalition. This was, you know, almost a decade of work, of community organizing, to make sure that we had affordable housing at this corner. And I am proud to support it. Not to minimize the issues. Marshall Elementary School has been in this spot. Not in the same building, but in this spot for a hundred years. And the conditions on the street are unacceptable. I don't think it's due to affordable housing. I don't even think it's due to permanent supportive housing. I think, it is a failure of our city government to provide security services, for this, community, and to provide housing and services that are targeted and adequate. But I think that housing is actually part of the solution. And then I'm proud to deny the appeal. Thank you.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Supervisor Walton. Thank you, president Madeline. I just want to say, as we look at the appeal itself, I believe that planning and the Department of Public Works have given the appropriate response in terms of what is allowable by code here in San Francisco. But what I was going to say before I interrupted myself was the issues that have been raised here by community, one, are not to be invalidated and are important. But I also think that there are ways to mitigate those concerns. And this would actually not be the first time where we have seen a situation where we've had permanent supportive housing, and other types of housing, quite frankly, that folks don't necessarily get excited about, in close proximity to schools, to businesses, and to other residential areas. But this project is very important. And if I go back and look at projects like when we had conversations about bringing a a stay over site to Buena Vista Horace Mann, and the work that we had to do with the school community when I was on the board of education then, and supervisor Ronan was in office, or even the proximity of the safe parking site to Bret Hart and my community, where we had to work on how we would mitigate concerns of communities. So the concerns are very real. But the work that has gone into getting to this point at this site is also very real, and it's something that I also cannot overlook as we have a policy conversation. And I would love for all housing to be 100% substance abuse free. But the reality of it is we cannot keep people living on the streets because of addiction or because of some of the things that might affect them negatively. We have to provide the housing. I think there is a bigger conversation, to your point, Supervisor Dorsey. But most certainly, we have to get excited about a project that is going to provide housing for seniors, that is going to provide housing for families, that is going to provide permanent supportive housing and get folks off the street. All the services that need to accompany that, that's important. And we have to fight to make sure that that happens. Mitigating the concerns that were expressed today by a school community, absolutely, we have to come up with strategies to mitigate that. But this is an important project for the city. It's an important project for that community. And I do not live in a mission. But I most certainly have worked closely with a lot of leaders in that community around this particular project for a very long time. And this is something that is welcome in community. The people who express concerns, most certainly, they're valid. And I think that a lot of that can be mitigated. And obviously, there are going to be more conversations about how to come together, what to do to address concerns. But from a policy standpoint, this is important housing that this community has fought for, for over a decade, quite frankly. But even policy aside and my personal feelings aside, if we take the hear on its hearing on its merits, I have to stand by planning in DPW. Thank you, mister president.

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thanks, president Mandelmann. Thank you, colleagues. I have a lot to say, so everyone buckle up. First off, it's it's kind of a full circle moment. I myself was in the audience at Mission High, so many years ago, in support of this project. And then commissioner Melgar, president of the commission, was presiding over the town hall. And so this is indeed a long, long journey that that begins so beyond this room and so beyond the people in this room. Just first off, this appeal is not, in fact, an appeal of the project itself. It's a challenge to a ministerial subdivision of the parcel map, which is a procedural step handled by the Department of Public Works and is required for the project to proceed. This is not the exact proper venue for opposing the project itself. The plane department reviewed this application in compliance with state housing laws that require cities to approve qualifying affordable housing projects ministerially. In short, the city followed state law. La Montevideo is a 100% affordable and permanent supportive housing development with deep roots in community organizing and public need that meets both the letter and the spirit of state law. And the appeals claims about the project all fall under the purview of Planning's approval of the project, not Public Works subdivision of the parcel map. And Planning clearly did their due diligence and complied with the law in approving this project. But holding the land use matters for a side, I wanna take some time to address the concerns raised about public safety. Full stop, it's not acceptable for children or Marshall students to feel unsafe walking to school or to see public drug use or be subject to violence. From day one, my office has been actively working with city departments to improve safety and conditions at 16th Street and the surrounding area. It's been a top priority for me, not an afterthought. My staff and I, we all live in the Mission. We walk through 16th Street every day. We monitor conditions at the BART Plaza and nearby blocks. We are constantly on the phone with residents, small business, and community orgs. One of my first acts in office was taking the mayor on a walk down 16th Street, voting to support the mayor's fentanyl emergency ordinance, and ask him in to unfreeze the vending inspectors that were caught in his hiring freeze. And we got them unfrozen. They're out there today. I told the mayor I wouldn't be supporting a renewal of the fentanyl emergency ordinance if it doesn't benefit the mission and if conditions deteriorate. Regarding displacement, which is what I hear about almost every day, I hear you. I've been consistently beating the drum about the city's failed strategy of displacing people from neighborhood to neighborhood and block to block. It was then SFPD commander Liu, months ago, at a committee hearing, openly admitting that displacement is part of SFPD's strategy for managing public drug use. Supervisor Dorsey, if you wanna talk about inefficient security, I submitted a letter of inquiry to SFPD two weeks ago and recently found out from the answers that SFPD and the sheriffs has spent upwards of $350,000 of overtime responding to anti ICE and anti Trump protests. It was this board, with myself and supervisor Walton in dissent, that approved $90,000,000 in overtime without any insight at all into how officers are spending their overtime hours. That's why I continue to hold SFPD accountable for calling out sick the same day that some officers are moonlighting as private security in the 10 b Rent A Cop program. SFPD and sheriffs got more than $50,000,000 in this budget for overtime and wage increase. Supervisor Dorsey, you said the organizations and operators of permanent supportive housing don't have enough funding for security. We don't even give them enough funding to provide living wages for caseworkers. Maybe they would have funding if the city gave just a smidge of the hundreds of millions of dollars that goes to police over time and invests it in ambassadors and engagement specialists that are gonna be outside these places. Aside from that, I've been in a fervent search in my first six months in office for long term solutions that work. I convened a hearing cosponsored by members of this board, supervisor Mahmoud, supervisor Dorsey, supervisor Walton, supervisor Chen, on the four pillars strategy in light of increased public drug use and rising overdoses in the mission. And in this hearing, I asked SFPD again, what is their plan to mitigate displacement? And they couldn't provide an answer. And where we learned that Zurich, Switzerland, in the face of a similar crisis, deployed the strategies of harm reduction, prevention, treatment, and enforcement to dramatically transform their city into one of the safest cities in the world. A smart, balanced strategy is right there. But so far, what I've seen from our budget decisions is that the city continues to bet that enforcement alone and the accepted natural displacement of people from neighborhood to neighborhood is what's going to get us out of this mess. In May, I hosted a town hall alongside SFPD, BART, the new Department of Emergency Management neighborhood team, specifically to give the community the opportunity to share concerns about 16th Street and the surrounding areas. When that shooting happened outside of Marshall, my office connected Marshall directly with the mission mission station police captain to ensure families and students felt safe coming back to school. I've been working on advancing sustainable, long term solutions, including meaningful vending reforms to promote safety and a more strategic public health response to the drug crisis that produces real outcomes and data, not headlines. In this budget, I advocated for $2,000,000 to be allocated to non police community engagement specialists to supplement security all along Mission Street from 24 To 6th Street 16th. And while we didn't get all of that 2,000,000, we did preserve the community engagement specialist to be able to transfer them to where they were around 22nd to the 16th Street area where they are now, ensuring that children and their families can get to and from La Phoenix, Youth Art Exchange, and the 16th Street corridor. And, again, I don't think that's enough. My staff and I, we all have long and short term goals for community safety, our drug overdose crisis, homelessness, and affordable housing, and I truly believe they are all mutually reinforcing. I envision a 16th Street corridor where children can walk safely with their families to Marshall, to Youth Art Exchange, to BART, and to home. I believe in a 16th Street that celebrates the beauty of our American Indian culture district and our Latino immigrant community, where we have transit oriented affordable housing, where BART and Muni riders feel safe, and dare I say, pleased to take public transit, and where small businesses thrive. I would say the majority of the mission and the public servants, the police officers, public health workers, vending inspectors, street outreach workers who work day in and day out all around 16th Street share that vision too. I have long been a champion for low income students, for homeless families, for working class families, and I will continue to be. I myself was raised by a single mom in a low income neighborhood. I lived in a multifamily housing complex surrounded by gang violence. My neighbor owned a liquor store across the street and was murdered. I know what it's like to grow up in a dangerous neighborhood, and I'm sympathetic to the concerns about safety for kids and families. But this is not a land use issue. It's an investment issue. 16th Street, the surrounding area is home to people of all walks of life, all incomes. It's vibrant. It's multiracial. It's a gem. And I also wanna use this opportunity to implore everyone who wants to see this project come to fruition to continue to join me and the families of the Marshall students and the children living their lives in this area to continue advocating for real investments this area deserves. This budget season, budget cuts eviscerated safety programs safety net programs in District 9. And if this city is all about abundance right now, abundance for whom? Abundance for downtown, abundance for AI companies, for market rate developers, abundance for police overtime, but not abundance for 16th Street, not abundance guided and grounded in black and brown leadership. At 16th Street, we need more community engagement specialists to supplement security, more respite centers for people to exist, more green space for kids, more foot patrols from an accountable and community integrated SFPD, more funding for community led activations, more grants for American Indian and Latino artists and permanent vendors. Our attention can't just be on downtown at the expense of neighborhoods like The Mission. So let's not make this a one and done deal. Let's make this a collective call to action. We need all hands on deck, not just for affordable housing, not just for solutions to homelessness, but for investment in activating 16th Street and the surrounding area. I do wanna highlight a letter sent by United to Save the Mission, the San Francisco Latino Task Force, SF Latino Parity and Equity Coalition that is supportive of this project on many grounds, including supporting transit oriented development for poor and working class people of color, the addiction crisis among American Indians, and research that housing is a key factor in healing the trauma and health related conditions, including substance use disorder. The mission, the American Indian Cultural District, under my tenure, will continue to be and honor the original people's movement that fought the monster in the mission, and agitated for and won La Maravilla. Under my tenure, the mission will continue to be a welcoming place for all people of all walks of life and all means. And under my tenure, I will continue to fight for the safety of all children, no matter their race, class, or housing situation. And with that, colleagues, I'm moving to approve item 57 and table items fifty eight and fifty nine. Second.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: There has been a motion from supervisor Fielder, seconded by supervisor Melgar, to approve tentative map decision by approving item 57, tabling fifty eight and fifty nine. I don't see anybody else in the queue. Madam clerk, please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On the motion to approve item 57 in table fifty eight and fifty nine, supervisor and Guardio. Aye. And Guardio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmut? Mahmut, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor, Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Cheryl, aye. Supervisor, Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor, Chen? Aye. Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. And supervisor Dorsey? Dorsey, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, item 57 is approved. Items 59 and fifty eight and fifty nine are tabled. Madam Clerk, that concludes our 3PM special order. And now, we'll go back a few hours. And I believe we were we had just finished item 31. And so madam clerk, could you please call items 32 through 36 together?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 32 through 36 are five resolutions that pertain to amendments to agreements or grants for the department of disability and aging services and the following entities. For item 32, this is an amendment to the agreement with the San Francisco health plan for CalAIM community support services for a four year term through 06/30/2028 with anticipated revenue of approximately 6,000,000 to the city. Item 33, this approves a third amendment to the agreement with the San Francisco Health plan for enhanced care management fee for services, having anticipated revenue of 3,900,000.0 to the city. This term is through 06/30/2028. Item 34, this item approves the first amendment to an agreement with the Institute on Aging for the provision of the community living fund program to increase the amount by approximately 14,200,000.0 for a new total of 25,600,000.0 with a term extension by two years through now 06/30/2027 to clarify the scope of the services and to add appendices consistent with the ongoing receipt of federal funding. Item 35 approves a grant agreement with self help for the elderly for the provision of congregate nutrition services for older adults program. This has a four year term through 06/30/2029 and a total amount of approximately 11,100,000.0. And for item 36, it approves a grant agreement with self help for the elderly for the provision of home delivered nutrition nutrition services for older adults program with a four year term through 06/30/2029 and a total amount of approximately 13,900,000.0.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Please call the roll on these items.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On items 32 through 36, supervisor and Guardio. And Guardio, I, supervisor, Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor, Walton? Aye. Bolton, aye. Supervisor, Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor, Chen? Aye. Chen, aye. And supervisor, Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call items 37 to 39 together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 37 through 39 are three resolutions that pertain to real property leases for the port. Item 37 approves the port commission lease number LDash17253 with tech of California, Inc. For approximately 22,000 square feet of shed space and approximately 11,000 square feet of paved land at Pier 80 for a three year term with three one year options to extend for a not to exceed amount of 2,700,000.0 approximately. Item 38, this retroactively approves port commission lease number LDash17256 with Autodesk Inc located at Pier 9, Suite 116 And Bays 1 Through 3 for a thirty six month lease with one twelve month option to extend the term through 01/31/2028 for approximately 33,000 square feet of shed space, 1,600 square feet of shed space for storage, approximately 6,600 licensed square feet of roof space and 6,594, feet of, on the Marginal Wharf located between Pier 9 and Pier 15 for use as office space, research and development workshop space, and public access for a monthly rent of 147,000. And for item 39, this resolution authorizes the executive director of the Port Of San Francisco to execute a mutual termination agreement with Skoma's Restaurant Incorporated for premises along Al Scoma Way over Baywater.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we can take these items, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 40.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 40. This resolution authorizes the port of San Francisco to accept and expend an approximate 12, $12,400,000 grant award from the California State Transportation Agency port freight infrastructure program to fund the Pier 80 subsidence project for the period of 08/01/2025 through 06/30/2028.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we can do this one, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 41.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 41, this resolution retroactively authorizes the Office of Economic and Workforce development to accept and expend a $179,000 grant increase for a new total of 679,000 from jobs for the future, a recipient of the grant award from the United States department of labor, Employment and Training Administration for the rapid information technology employment initiative grant during the grant term 06/25/2021 through 09/30/2025.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 42.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 42. This is a resolution that approves an increase in the not to exceed amount for the general and administrative cost for Clean Power SF's participation in the California Community Power Authority by approximately $3,500,000 for a new amount of $8,200,000 with no change to the duration through now 12/31/2048.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call without objection. The resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call items forty three and forty four together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items forty three and forty four are two resolutions that retroactively approved to accept and expend grants for the department of public health for item 43. This is a $106,000 grant from the national institutes of health through Fred Hutchinson cancer center for a program entitled statistical methods for advancing HIV prevention for, the term 03/01/2023 through 02/28/2026. And for item 44, this is a $108,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health through the Family Health International for participation in a program entitled HIV Prevention Trials Network through 11/30/2025.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 45.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 45, resolution to approve and authorize the mayor and the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to execute a grant agreement with one eighty Jones Associates LP for 6,000,000 for a twenty five year term to provide operating subsidies for a 100% affordable housing project, housing for low income and formerly homeless households.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 46.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 46, this motion approves the amendments to the professional services contract agreement with West Coast Consulting Group for software development services to implement a state of the art legislative management system, to the extent that funds have been appropriated for that purpose. Dollars 2,000,000, for 2,000,000, approximately 1.2 to 3.2 for an initial term of five years ending 08/31/2028 with two options to extend the term for five additional years each.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam clerk, please call items four 47 through 51 together.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Items 47 through 51 are five resolutions that accept various reports for the Sheriff's department oversight board for calendar year 2024. Item 47 accepts the first quarter report. Item 48 accepts the second quarter report. Item 49 accepts the third quarter report. Item 50 accepts the fourth quarter report, and item 51 accepts the annual report.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call without objection. The resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 52.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 52. This is a resolution to approve the San Francisco Police Department's use of equipment policy 2024 annual report, consistent with the criteria set forth in state law.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 53.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 53, this is a resolution to retroactively authorize the director of health to sign a California Department of State hospitals and California Mental Health Services Authority memorandum of understanding to facilitate access to mental health treatment and facilitate the transfer of funds to cover San Francisco's obligation to pay for mental health treatment at the California Department of State Hospitals for a one year term in nine months through 06/30/2025 for 10,000,000.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 54.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 54. This is a resolution to retroactively authorize the Port Of San Francisco to accept and expend a $200,000 parking management capital grant from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a transportation planning, financing, and coordinating agency for the nine county San Francisco Bay Area to fund the acquisition and installation of multispace pay stations.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution's adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 55.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 55. This is a resolution to design designate authorized officers, the treasurer, controller, and city attorney or their successors in office to accept and withdraw tobacco settlement funds on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco pursuant to the memorandum of understanding dated 08/05/1998 among the attorney general of the state of California and cities and counties in the state, including San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the res resolution is adopted. And with that, madam clerk, let's go to committee reports. Please call item 60.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 60 was considered by the budget and finance committee at a special meeting on well, this morning, Tuesday, July 29, and was forwarded as amended with the same title. Item 60 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to create a time limited amnesty program for properties listed on the Department of Building Inspections' internal quality control audit and subject to a notice of violation to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call or without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading, and thank you to the budget committee. Madam clerk, please call item 61.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. And I'll first state that items 61 through 65 were considered by the Land Use and Transportation Committee at their regular meeting, Monday, July 28. Item 61 was recommended as amended, bearing a new title, which now reads item 61, ordinance amending the administrative code to authorize tenants' rights organizations to enforce the prohibition against landlords' use of algorithmic devices to set rents or manage occupancy levels for residential dwelling units located in San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we can take this same house, same call without objection. The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 62.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 62 was recommended as amended with the same title. It's an ordinance to amend the planning code to require applicants to disclose the presence of any unauthorized dwelling unit and require the planning department to investigate any unauthorized dwelling unit upon submittal of a development application, require the planning department to document when a property is subject to a regulatory agreement, subjecting any units on the property to the San Francisco residential rent stabilization and arbitration ordinance, and to require the planning department to inspect properties prior to recommending approval of any loss of a residential unit or unauthorized dwelling unit, to amend the building code, to expand the department of building inspections, expanded compliance control program, to address fraud, bribery, and failure, to accurately represent the presence and number of unauthorized dwelling units at properties subject to a permit application to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, I just wanted to talk a little bit about this legislation which passed out of the Land Use and Transportation, committee unanimously. It was inspired by my experience, both as a building inspection commissioner and planning commissioner, that we saw often, where owners applying for permits for renovations in their homes lie about having unauthorized dwelling units that were occupied by tenants. And this was an attempt to circumvent our rent control laws, because UDUs, unauthorized dwelling units, are rent controlled. And we call these renovictions. As you know, with the rezoning, that is coming with s p three thirty, developers may want to add more units, either through existing expansion or demolitions of their property. And we, have to make sure that tenants in unauthorized dwelling units are afforded the same tenant protections as other tenants. So, you know, the eviction protections in S B 330 apply only to legal units, the tenants that live in units that are units, not to unauthorized dwelling units. And this is an attempt to, try to bring everyone under the same, protection. So I did sit through several, hearings, both in building and in planning, of, tenants that were displaced, because, you know, a landlord was gonna just renovate the property, get them out for a little bit while renovations are being made. And then, lo and behold, they just lost their unit. So that's something that none of us wanna support. And I hope for I thank my colleagues on the Atlay of Decent Transportation Committee for sitting through it and recommending it, and I ask for your support. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thanks, supervisor Melgar. I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 63.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 63 was referred without recommendation as amended with a new title, which now reads, an ordinance amending the planning code to eliminate limits on nonresidential use sizes in the Pacific Avenue Neighborhood Commercial District, NCD, Polk Street, NCD, West Portal Avenue, NCD, North Beach, NCD, and North Beach Special Use District, Regional Commercial Districts, and residential commercial districts to allow specified non residential uses that exceed the use size limits to divide into smaller spaces that may continue to exceed the use size limits without conditional use use size limit in all NCDs to a round number, to affirm the secret determination, and to make the appropriate findings.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. So colleagues, we had a robust discussion about this legislation that I sponsored at the Land Use and Transportation Committee, and it is now in front of you, having received no recommendation or passed out of committee without a recommendation to you, today. And I wanted to, explain a little bit about where this came from. So this was a response to, the vastly and rapidly changing landscape of retail, in our city. It's really a phenomenon that's going on all around our country in our world. How people buy goods, now, as opposed to the way they did thirty years ago. So we have seen around the city, the shuttering of Walgreens and CVSs. There are some folks who will talk about crime. And while that is real, the reality is that when Caremark brings you your prescriptions to your house, the incentive to go to Walgreens and also buy toilet paper while you're picking up a prescription has just become less frequent. And that is happening not just with pharmacies. It's happening because people don't go to banks anymore. They, do their banking electronically. So we have hundreds of thousands of square feet of banking institutions that is empty. We have seen how big grocery stores like Safeway have reorganized their aisles to make it easier for, you know, Instacart deliverers and others to come and pick up groceries and bring them to people's homes. We have seen a sea change, in retail. But our land use controls have not really adapted. We are lagging behind the industry trends. So, this was a direct response to that. And try to make things a little more flexible, so that we can keep our, commercial corridors vibrant. So in the the legislation does two main things. One, it gets rid of hard caps and prohibitions beyond a certain size. There are only three neighborhood commercial corridors. I had these. That was North Beach, Castro, and West Portal. West Portal had the most stringent. It is a very short district, only three blocks long. But it had a square cap of 4,000 square feet that, was an impediment twice in the past couple years. One, when we opened, one of the most successful businesses, on West Portal. Because there's a 4,000 square foot cap, they had to design the space after they merged it for 3,998 square feet. And if you've gone to Atlanta, as you know that there's a line out the door always, so they could use those extra two square feet for another table. Then in the same block at the corner, there was an optometrist that also merged two spaces to make a new clinic. And I had to do spot zoning, like a special legislation just for that. And the planning commission told me, don't do this, Myrna. That's not good planning. You should have rules for everyone. And so that's where this part of the legislation came from. It also does the opposite. Big square space big, big square foot spaces like we have on Ocean Avenue. And many of you do have these in your districts that are empty. Because the CVS has left, the Walgreens have left, it's really hard to re rent those, to have somebody who can afford to pay for all of that square footage. And to subdivide it is really, really difficult. The process is really cumbersome and time consuming. So it's you know, those spaces tend to sit empty for a long time. So this legislation also does the opposite, in that it allows for subdivision of those big spaces, so that, the property owners

[Unidentified speaker]: can rent them

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: to two, three, four businesses, however, the market will bear. And it also will advantage smaller businesses to be able to afford those spaces on commercial corridors. So there was a lot of questions. We did receive pushback from folks in North Beach. I did consult with district three supervisor, Sauter, who agreed with the legislation. He's actually one of the co sponsors. And President Mandelmann agreed to part of the legislation, but not all of it, for the Castro, which is where we got to today. But, I do think, colleagues, that, in looking forward to what's happening, around our city and the changes in, retail. We should look at our controls. And we should look at, what our challenges are today. And the challenges that are coming tomorrow, because we see they're coming and not responding to the challenges of thirty years ago because it is no longer appropriate and it doesn't help us. Thank you.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. And I wanna thank, first, supervisor Melgar for her leadership in, in evaluating this. And I can concur and understand that this is a problem solving for her district in terms of West Portal. What I have questions about this piece of legislation, colleagues, is that in the context of upcoming upzoning plan, but also the legislation that were previously approved, layering such as, flexible use, for, for our neighborhood commercial district, as well as the most recent of prioritization of formula retail with 20 storefronts and less. And it is not so much of that I am, in opposition of this particular legislation, but it's much more so in the context of not just the upzoning, but overall layering of different legislation and how that actually not just impacting neighborhood commercial corridor dish or neighborhood commercial districts in in the Richmond, but clearly also in other, really citywide. And I know that we're unique. We have 47 different neighborhood commercial district, and and some of them have different kinds of restriction. And and particularly in the Richmond, we have, for just Gary alone, we have restriction on formula retail on food and formula retail on pet store, specifically. Because of that, I must say that I have questions and concerns and just, wanted to seek a more, better understanding and in-depth analysis that when we do this, in the events that for a larger lot can do do a a division without a conditional use, layering with the flexible use, without additional conditional use? How would that actually work for us, and what does that mean? I got a clarification yesterday on land use, and thank you so much for joining me yesterday, for allowing me to join yesterday, at land use committee that I can ask questions about parcel delivery, facility, particularly, a clarification that, you know, for the Richmond is not applicable for parcel delivery service, but, actually, it's not clear whether the remaining of other neighborhood commercial district parcel delivery service is technically banned in this case, which we know is has actually has a waiver for 5,000 square footage and less. All which is to say, colleagues, I I I'm putting out there, and and, again, I I can understand that there is a feeling that, you know, we should move forward with this piece of legislation today. Since there's a duplicated file, seems like it's awaiting for further amendments. I'm gonna put it out there that I wanna ask colleagues to think about whether there's a possibility to either for continuance of this piece of legislation today or send it back to committee for further communications and, you know, conversations that we can have with our constituents and particularly for me, you know, not just I wanna say not just business located in the Richmond neighborhood commercial district, but also, frankly, Chinese speaking and and monolingual merchants, for them to actually understand this piece of legislation, I have questions. I would imagine so would my constituents, not just in d one, but throughout the city that are particularly Chinese speaking. So I I'm gonna throw it out there that I will have a I am putting a motion out there for a continuance. I know I it will require a second, second by so I'm gonna lay it out there and, and for your consideration. And, but, again, I wanna I do wanna thank supervisor Malgar, for always trying to problem solve for her district. And, but I understand, you know, if there's a consideration and courtesy for both president Mandelmann carving out Castro District and rest of this actually impact many, you know, all actually neighborhood commercial district citywide. I'm I you know, and this what came out as committee report. All I'm asking just for more more time. I'm not saying that I'm voting I don't want to be in voting opposition today, but if I must, I probably will for today.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you. Supervisor Chan, just to clarify the motion, you are you have moved to continue this to

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: The next meeting.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The next meeting. September 2. September 2, and that has been seconded by supervisor Chen.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Supervisor Salter. Thank you, president Mittelman, and thank you, Supervisor Melgar, for your work on this. I've heard concerns about this from some community members, and and I wanna, kinda address those because I I think they're coming from a good place, and and they're valid, concerns at first. You know, the concerns are speak somewhat to what you were sharing, supervisor Chan, on on the layering of the different pieces. I think also just the, kind of the worst case scenario in some folks' minds of of storefronts being merged at will and, large spaces opening. And I take any of those concerns seriously. For me, I think, actually, this legislation puts in more guardrails than before, and it does it in a more transparent manner. And specifically, this retains a conditional use above 4,000 square feet. So that is a process that is retained. And and on the storefront merger side, storefront mergers are currently not allowed in a lot of the NCDs that I represent, and we have pending legislation to allow more flexibility to to change that to a conditional use. And if we are successful, there still will be a conditional use process. So to me, it is taking this action and putting it to a more in front of a more objective set of standards in a more transparent manner. Otherwise, we're having to do, as supervisor Melgar explained, we're having to do spot legislation. And the question is, can the general public follow that legislative process, which is done at the the will, in the subjective will of an individual supervisor, or do they follow a planning process better? Neither are easy to follow, but the planning process does come with a notice requirement. And so, if you're interested in community input and doing things transparently, I think there's actually a case to be said that this does it in a more transparent manner. I I also really, appreciate the the piece of this legislation. And I think that probably the piece that will be most impactful over time is the subdividing of smaller spaces. I think that is a a significant issue that there's not enough attention on citywide of these massive large spaces which are just not in demand for retail anymore. And, something like this making it easier to subdivide, I think actually goes advances the goal that I know many of us share of this small neighborhood serving retail. It also advances the goal that many of us share of of of more affordable rents, which are more attainable with smaller spaces. So on the balance, I think it is a good piece of legislation. I also you know, recognizing those concerns, I know it is, it has been duplicated, and I think there's, you know, that would be an avenue to do further work. I will not support a well, let me put it this way. I'll I'll I'll look to hear from supervisor Melgar on the issue of continuance. Thanks.

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

[Stephen Sherill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. I I just wanna thank supervisor Melgar for really, really leaning into this hard and being incredibly thoughtful. At the end of the day, this is about making it easier for small businesses to fill spaces that large chain stores can no longer fill because of retail trends that are totally outside of San Francisco. You spoke about it very, very well, and and I think supervisor Sauter touched on it as well. Giving landlords the ability to subdivide spaces into significantly smaller spaces offers new opportunities for San Francisco creative entrepreneurs, for for people without corporate backing, for immigrants, for for young people to start businesses here in San Francisco and fill persistently vacant spaces. This is about creating opportunity by making unfillable large spaces into fillable small spaces. Supervisor Melgar, thank you for weighing in on this so heavily and so specifically.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Chair Melgar, any objection to letting supervisor Walton go first? Alright.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, president Madeline. I I I guess my question is, through the chair, is why does this have to happen right now? Like, if if if there are concerns in communities, why can't there be at least more conversation before having a vote on this today?

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president, Mandelmann. I, I think this is actually really small. We do have, you know, these issues with the large spaces, that, you know, now will have an easier way to subdivide. Cheaper. Cheaper and easier. And that is something that affects all of us. I have not gotten any opposition from anyone about that part a part of the legislation. In fact, you know, the merchants on, you know, the commercial corridors are affected by the other part of the legislation. Actually, quite this. Like this quite a bit. And I think that it's relief, for a lot of folks. I think that, you know, I wanna address some of the issues that have come up because I don't think they're issues. And like I said, I think this is really small, and we should be able to move it forward today. I did duplicate the file in case there are, you know, issues that people still wanna tinker around, or someone else wants, you know, to go further. The legislation's already written, and we can amend it. But I I don't see a need to delay it. Let me just say, there are no neighborhood commercial corridors where delivery, parcel delivery, is permitted. There are three ways, you know, that we deal with it. It's either, you know, prohibited, or, it is permitted, or, you know, permitted with a conditional use. And in known neighborhood commercial corridor is parcel delivery at the 5,000 square feet or less permitted. So, you know, I don't think that's an issue, for any of you who have neighborhood commercial corridors in your district, because it is literally prohibited. And this legislation does not change that. I think that for the controversial part of this legislation, which is the, use size cap, there are only three commercial corridors that are affected. And I have spoken to all the supervisors there, and we have worked it out in a way that is satisfactory to those supervisors. So I just don't see the need for, the delay. Like I said, I think this is quite small, and it will bring relief to neighborhood commercial corridors that have these large paces that have been vacant. Thank you.

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

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, president Mendelmann. Colleagues, I think when this item came before the land use committee, I expressed a number of concern regarding this legislation. One is the portion of the legislation that removes the use size caps in some neighborhood commercial district may seem like a modest change, but these controls were put in place in order to protect small business from being squeezed out by largest business with more resources. Merchant groups, multiple merchant groups came to me and then expressed this this strong opposition to elimination of the existing limits, because they understand that removing the caps could undermine the vitality of neighborhood commercial district. This will also open door for bigger and well resourced retail tenants to expand their footprint and place upward pressure on rents. I also believe that there is another more unknown factor, which is will come to us very soon. It's with the mayor's rezoning of the city commercial corridor coming forward. There will be, undoubtedly, be demolishing of buildings with multiple small buildings. And this legislation also opened door to new development that could include larger storefront footprint that will be unaffordable to small business. So with the legislation as as of today, I am not ready to support. But in committee, I did duplicate a file. And I do hope that we can have more time and look into it, so we can address some of those, merchants' concern. Thank you.

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

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Just wanted to briefly mention that, you know, it's it we just received it this afternoon, and I just wanna mention that, you know, organize a citywide organization known as Small Business Forward has articulated, again, not in opposition to the legislation, but also just simply asking for a continuance so that different merchant groups, citywide can have a better understanding about the impact on neighborhood commercial, districts. I I think that, again, the perspective about whether it's a minor change or not, I think it's the perspective about, understanding, the impact, and and how it actually layers. And I concur with supervisor Chen's sentiment about this is really also in the context of the upcoming upzoning plan proposed by the mayor and help us actually all understand how this actually would work out for particularly for the neighborhood commercial district. Thank you.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: I will just make one last point and and and let this one go. So, you know, for new construction, the existing controls still apply. So if it's a space that's larger than 4,000, 5,000 square foot, wherever that NCD is, you still need to go through a conditional use. There are some areas where things are streamlined. That is the case. And it is a very small scenario, not necessarily connected to the upzoning. But, I will also say, you know, in the experiences that I had with a cap on West Portal, it and also, it happened with the former supervisor of District 3, with Bob's Donuts. When the spot zoning happened, it's because you have that access to your supervisor, who can write legislation just for your business. And you can pay, you know, Brett Gladstone or whoever, land use lawyer, dollars 700 an hour. Or pay an expediter to do this for you. It is not the small immigrant businesses that are benefiting from our current really restrictive controls. It is the people who have access, who have money to pay the land use lawyers. And I think that we are doing a disservice to, small immigrant, non English speaking people by having these, restrictions that only allow access for some and not others. And so I just wanted to say that. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Madam Clerk, on the motion to continue the item made by supervisor Chan and seconded by supervisor Chen. Please call the roll.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item on the motion to continue item 63 to September 2. Supervisor Engadio? Engadio, no supervisor fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud? No. Supervisor Mandelmann? No. Mandelmann, no. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, no. Supervisor Sautter? Sautter? No. Supervisor Sheryl? Sheryl, no. Supervisor Walton?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walton, aye. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. And supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. And supervisor Dorsey? Dorsey, no. There are four ayes and seven no's with supervisors Angadio, Mahmoud, Mandelmann, Melgar, Sauter, Cheryl, and Dorsey voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. So the motion does not pass. Is that a gavilable event? Why not? Says the city attorney. Alright. Madam Clerk, could you please call the roll on item 63?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item 63, supervisor Angadio. Angadio, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Magmud? Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor, Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor, Melgar. Melgar, aye. Supervisor, Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Supervisor, Walton?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 64.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 64 was recommended as amended with the same title. It's an ordinance to amend the building code to require buildings undergoing major renovations to maintain to remain or convert to all electric buildings with exceptions exceptions for physical and technical infeasibility, commercial food establishments, nonresidential to residential conversions, buildings with recent major systems replacements, and 100% affordable housing to affirm the planning department's determination and to make the appropriate findings.

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: On item 64, supervisor Angardio. Angardio, aye. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

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

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Walter, aye. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. And supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. There are 11 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 65.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 65 was recommended as a committee report. A resolution to authorize the placement of commemorative sidewalk plaques at various locations within and around the North Beach neighborhood as part of the San Francisco Little Italy Honor Walk to celebrate prominent figures in the Italian American community.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 66.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. And I'll first state that item 66 through 69 were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, July 28. Item 66 was recommended as amended with the same title. It reads ordinance to amend the administrative code to revise the goals and reporting requirements for food purchasing by the Department of Public Health and the sheriff's department for city hospitals and jails and to eliminate the sunset date such that the program standards and reporting requirements will remain in effect indefinitely.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: I was just getting thank you so much, president Mehtleman. Colleagues, yesterday at rules committee, we amended and duplicated the file to remove a provision requiring DPH to source 5% of food from medium and small farms by January 2027 and increase sourcing to 10 to 15% by January 2028. This change will allow DPH to evaluate and analyze the updated goals over the August recess. These sourcing targets were originally established by DPH in coordination with the Center for Good Food Purchasing in 02/1920, which is why they were included in this legislation initially. This policy was reintroduced because the current policy is set to expire in September, and this is an opportunity to strengthen our goals around sustainability, health, labor practices, and local food sourcing by ensuring that San Francisco's public dollars support ethical food systems that uplift workers and communities. After further discussions with my colleagues who support the policy but requested a sunset date, we've reached an agreement to include a ten year sunset for 2035. With that, I would like to make a motion to amend the following. On page one, line five of the long title, remove the word eliminating and replace it with revising. On line six through seven, remove indefinitely and replace it with until 12/31/2035. And on page 11, lines two through four, add a provision to sunset sections 21 d point three, twenty one d point four, 21 five on 12/31/2035. And I have also passed these around to everyone.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I will second that motion, and offer my thanks to, to chair Walton for his, willingness to make that, change. As, folks may be aware, my Open for Business Contract Streamlining Act of 2025 endeavors to establish time limits for some of our social policies. I think it's generally good practice for us to have time limits, on our procurement requirements. And so I wanna thank, thank the chair for, being willing to accommodate that request in this particular piece of legislation. I think I hope we can take that motion without objection. Alright. So the motion passes. And then, madam clerk, I think we can take the amended item, same house, same call, without objection. The ordinance is passed on for the amended ordinance is passed on first reading. And then madam clerk, can you let's see. Item 67 was not forwarded to the board. So, can you call item 68?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 68. This item was amended to add the name of the appointee. So it now reads motion to appoint Kelly Young to the citizens committee on community development term ending 02/23/2026.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's take that same house, same call. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam clerk, please call item 69.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 69, this motion the amendment was to strike the word rejecting, and it now reads motion to approve the mayor's nomination of Eleanor Cox for appointment to the historic preservation commission term ending 12/31/2028.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And let's take this item, same house, same call, without objection. The motion is approved. And madam clerk, let's go to roll call.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: First member up to introduce new business is supervisor En Gardio.

[Joel Engardio, Supervisor (District 4)]: Thank you. Colleagues, today I'm requesting a hearing to evaluate the effectiveness of the city's programs and tax incentives intended to revitalize our beautiful commercial corridors. This hearing will focus on three key initiatives, the Department of Building Inspections Vacant or Abandoned Commercial Storefront Registry, the Treasurer and Tax Collector's Commercial Vacancy Tax, and the San Francisco Public Works Graffiti Abatement Opt in Program. At first glance, these programs may seem distinct, but together, they reflect the city's broader strategy to prevent commercial property blight, discourage commercial storefront vacancies, and support the long term health of our neighborhood commercial corridors. Vacant and poorly maintained storefronts do more than affect the look and feel of a corridor. They undermine community confidence, deter foot traffic, and discourage small business investment. In recent years, San Francisco has taken meaningful steps to address these challenges through targeted policies. Each was designed to reduce long term vacancies, improve the condition and appearance of commercial properties, and maintain the vibrancy of our shared public spaces. However, it's important to note that two of these programs, the vacant or abandoned commercial storefront registry and the commercial vacancy tax, were adopted before the onset of the COVID-nineteen pandemic, which profoundly reshaped our city's economic landscape. On 03/03/2020, just two weeks before COVID-nineteen lockdowns went into effect, San Francisco voters passed the commercial vacancy tax. And in fall twenty twenty three, this board suspended implementation of the vacant or abandoned commercial storefront registry for an entire year. But today, San Francisco has two overlapping commercial vacancy programs, each administered by two separate departments. This raises important questions. Are these programs effectively reducing long term vacancies? Are they helping to prevent commercial blight in our neighborhoods? And just as critically, who are these programs really serving? Are we unintentionally placing an undue burden on small mom and pop property owners navigating short term vacancies? Conversely, are we allowing long term absentee landlords to avoid responsibility while the city absorbs the cost of maintaining the external appearance of their blighted properties? These are the questions we must answer if we're serious about restoring the vitality of our commercial corridors and making sure city policy reflects both fairness and impact. And colleagues, I'm also making a formal legislative drafting request of the city attorney to help streamline and consolidate permit fees listed in San Francisco's business tax and regulations code. I know administrative code cleanup is not the most exciting topic, but it is exactly this sort of streamlining, code simplification, and cleanup of antiquated permit requirements that helps demystify local government. It helps make our city charter easier to administer and understand. And it allows more citizens and merchants to understand the cost and complexity associated with doing business in San Francisco. Our business tax and regulations code covers all kinds of obscure things from balloon advertising, license requirements for vending machines, to bird exhibitions and bowling alleys. It goes into great detail to specify the fees and permit requirements the city is supposed to impose and collect on targeted industries. Some sections in our business tax and regulations code have been on the books for nearly a century, but many of these industries no longer operate in the city. And today, some aren't even legal to operate in San Francisco. My staff has identified nearly 100 obscure fees and charges that city departments are meant to collect from businesses. But an overwhelming majority of these fee categories are not found in department budget submissions. More than several line item fee categories are issued to fewer than five businesses each year. A few dozen line item fee categories are issued to less than 20 businesses annually. On average, each fee we we reviewed generates less than $15,000 for departments each year, and no fee that we reviewed generates more than a 100,000 in annual revenue. That is why I'm asking the city's attorney's city attorney's office with support from the controller to help identify additional obscure permits codified in our business tech and reg tax and regulations code that generate less than a $100,000 in revenue for city departments. I believe it's possible to simplify the city's code and bring it into the twenty first century. There are ample opportunities to make San Francisco's permits and fees easier to collect and administer. Thank you, colleagues, 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, I have two, resolutions for introduction today. First off, I want to address an urgent matter. President Trump is once again attacking our San Francisco values and our most vulnerable communities. Just last week, he signed an executive order purporting to criminalize mental illness and poverty while defunding evidence based solutions that actually work. The city has stood up against the Trump administration's cruelty towards immigrants and the LGBTQ community. Today, we must stand up for unhoused residents who are desperately trying to change their own situation and find real housing stability. Nobody wants to be homeless. Their circumstances never appear desire. According to our public dashboards, San Francisco has housed nearly 18,000 people through permanent supportive housing. That's not just synthetic policy and numbers placed on a graph. That's real, actual human lives changed. 83% of those placed in permanent supportive housing stay for many years. Imagine 18,000 people back on the streets. That's Chase Center totally filled. That's 327 fully packed Muni buses, and we can still do way better. San Francisco has the resources. This is what Housing First looks like in action. It raises the bar for the entire city to be better because Housing First and harm reduction do save lives. Trump's order threatens to withhold federal homelessness and mental health funds from jurisdictions that refuse to criminalize poverty and addiction. It takes resources away from policies that actually work. It is punishment for compassion and evidence based strategies, and that is unacceptable. And he's already started. He's started with cutting $3,600,000,000 in HUD homeless grants that are now frozen. 60,000 households are at risk of losing their emergency housing vouchers nationally. His budget proposes over $1,000,000,000 nationally in cuts to mental health and addiction treatment. And in San Francisco, we received 63,000,000 in federal funding for homelessness alone, now at risk of being defunded. Because make no mistake, the Trump administration's cruelty is the point. He wants us to evict, incarcerate, and abandon people. He wants to defund what works because it's not punitive enough. But Donald Trump does not get to dictate how San Francisco operates. He was not elected here. Housing First works. When we provide a home and support instead of conditions and ultimatums and red tape, people survive. When people have a home, it allows them to receive services. It is unrealistic to expect our vulnerable communities to do more when they don't even have a roof over their heads. So let's be clear. Moving away from Housing First means that we've conceded the fight and have given in to Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda. It means rejecting policies that affirm the dignity and potential of every person struggling with homelessness. Let's double down on what works. Until we truly invest in affordable housing, shelter, and comprehensive services, we have no business dismantling the fragile refuge for so many that we fought hard to secure. And then secondly, I'm introducing a resolution to uphold San Francisco's values and support our immigrant residents once again with temporary protected status, TPS. TPS is a temporary legal status for immigrants granted to groups of eligible individuals from countries experiencing instability due to natural or environmental disasters, political unrest, warfare, etcetera. The TPS program has been in place since 1990 and currently encompasses 16 countries, El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, Venezuela, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Cameroon, and Burma. In The US, there are over 1,000,000 TPS holders, many of whom have been here for twenty seven years. They have built families, have US citizen spouses, children, and grandchildren. They are our neighbors, our friends, our coworkers, and our families. Since taking office, the Trump administration has bearish our communities with daily declarations and executive orders attempting to separate families and remove all avenues for immigrants to remain in this country, cutting established programs, denying due process, and using draconian and often illegal enforcement detention and deportation tactics in defiance of The US constitution. Since January, the Department of Homeland Security has terminated TPS from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, impacting hundreds of thousands of individuals from countries with verifiably and persistently unsafe conditions, and more countries are expected. Unsafe conditions, and more countries are expected. The termination of TPS affects our immigrant communities in San Francisco, and that is why our city has filed amicus briefs in support of plaintiffs in several lawsuits to protect TPS holders, thanks thanks to the efforts of our city attorney David Chu. This resolution upholds San Francisco's support for TPS holders, recognizes their invaluable contributions to San Francisco, and calls on our California delegation to protect TPS in congress and seek a permanent pathway for TPS holders. I wanna thank early cosponsors, supervisors Walton, Melgar, Chan, and Chen, Ntukares in San Francisco, the Latino Task Force, and the National TPS Alliance for your work to advocate for our communities. The rest I submit.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Thank you, colleagues. Today, I'm proud to put forward a new ordinance related to building permits, that is part of a broader effort to modernize our building codes and accelerate housing and small business projects across San Francisco. Over the last several months, we've heard from homeowners, small businesses, and developers alike. And it's clear, our current permit rules slow down progress, raise costs, and discourage people from moving forward on critical projects. This ordinance is a simple but powerful step towards bringing greater clarity, accountability, and momentum to our permitting system. More specifically, this ordinance modernizes San Francisco's building permit timelines to reduce administrative burden, align with state code, and make our processes more consistent with other major jurisdictions. Under current law, issued permits expire after just twelve months for smaller projects and forty eight months for larger projects, regardless of how much progress is being made. This means that if there are supply chain issues, unexpected obstacles, or other limitations on the pace of a project, builders need to apply for an extension. This adds unnecessary cost to projects and unnecessary work for a Department of Building inspection. The permit timelines are also based on the estimated value of construction, a uniquely San Francisco approach that adds complexity and confusion for applicants, especially those working across multiple cities. This legislation replaces a rigid valuation based timeline with a clear, consistent standard. Issued permits expire three hundred and sixty five days after issuance, but as long as there are inspections or logged activity with the Department of Building Inspection, the timeline automatically resets. Crucially, this approach allows builders to keep projects active as long as they are progressing. Even if construction is slow or intermittent, as is often the case for smaller projects like kitchen remodels or for larger multi phase housing developments. Renewal fees and extension paperwork are no longer required unless a project has been completely inactive for a full year, helping reduce unnecessary costs and delays. By aligning our permit expiration rules with those of the state and other large California cities, this legislation simplifies the process for developers, homeowners, and contractors navigating multiple jurisdictions. In short, this ordinance helps reduce administrative burden, lowers costs, and gives certainty to those trying to build in our city, whether it's a housing development or a tenant improvement to a commercial space. I wanna thank Tate Hannah at the Department of Building Inspection, and Peter Milinich, our drafting attorney, for their technical work in helping shape this ordinance. And I want to especially thank supervisor Dorsey and his legislative aide and land use superstar, Madison Tam, and and his office for their early work on this legislation, and partnering and cosponsoring as well. This ordinance will help us streamline permitting, reduce bureaucracy, and make our city work better for all those trying to build in it. The rest, I submit.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Today, I have, an ordinance and, 17 resolutions. Although not to worry, 16 of them are really the same thing. On the ordinance, I am introducing legislation to establish an artist housing certification program. As you may be aware, a recent million $100,000,000 private gift is helping fund the development of the 1687 Market Street project, which will provide more than 90 affordable apartments and creative spaces for artists, including rehearsal spaces and a black box theater. The development of this project has highlighted the need for a formal process by which to identify artists who may qualify for this or what we hope will be future affordable artist housing developments. The artist housing certification program will meet that need for sixteen eighty seven market and other similar projects requiring the arts commission to establish and maintain a registry of artists who would qualify for such housing. I wanna thank former Mercy Housing, California president Doug Shoemaker and Rami Daire at Mercy, for proposing legislation or identifying the need for it. I wanna thank, director Dan Adams and Sheila Nicholas from MOCD for helping think it through. I wanna thank director Ralph Remington and Alisa Ventre from the Arts Commission as well. And then the lawyers have been very helpful with this, and so thanks to, deputy city attorneys Lauren Curry and Keith Nagayama, and I wanna thank Calvin Ho in my office as well. 16 of the 17 resolutions that I am introducing, are relate to the initiation of landmark designation for 16 buildings across District 8. The package represents a first step toward a more comprehensive look at the built environment in District 8. We know that San Francisco has relatively few local landmarks as we move as we remove constraints on housing in up zone neighborhoods to allow more density. We need to ensure that what's left standing still tells the story of what we've been. I wanna thank Rich Sucre, Alex Westhoff, and p Pilar LaValle from planning. I wanna thank SF Heritage and community organizations, including the Mission Dolores Neighborhood Association. And I wanna thank Calvin Ho and math and Melanie Matthew Matthewson in my office, all of them, for their work on this. I look forward to continuing to work together. And finally, the seventeenth resolution, is one to add the commemorative street name, Jim Marshall Way, to the signage for the block of 16th Street Between Noe And Castro. Jim Marshall was born in Chicago in 1936, and his family moved to San Francisco when he was two years old. He began, photographing musicians and artists while attending Lowell High School, but it wasn't until the nineteen sixties that he began to rise in fame. During the sixties, he documented San Francisco's counterculture movement from its Beat Generation roots in North Beach to the culmination of the Summer of Love in Haight Ashbury. He befriended San Francisco bands including the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, the char the Charlatans, Big Brother, and the Holding Company with with Janice Joplin. And his photographs of these bands helped push them into the mainstream consciousness and mark San Francisco as the epicenter of the counterculture movement. Jim Marshall's photography has been on more than 500 album covers and in Rolling Stone magazine. In 2017, he was the first photographer to be awarded a Grammy for his contributions to chronicling music history. He was the only photographer allowed backstage at the Beatles' last concert at Candlestick Park in 1966, captured Jimi Hendrix burning his guitar at the Monterey Pop Festival, shot Johnny Cash performing at San Quentin State Prison and Doc State Prison, and documented Miles Davis boxing at Newman's Gym in The Tenderloin. Today, his work is celebrated worldwide, and touring exhibits of his photographs bring in new fans and collectors in The US and Europe. Seems especially fitting to be recognizing Jim Marshall as we entered dead summer, as he captured thousands of Grateful Dead photos. And his chronicling of the band, between 1966 and 1977 was recently published in Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall. I wanna thank Marshall's longtime friend and assistant, Emil Davis, and his neighbor, Justin Fickelson, who have been campaigning for this commemorative street renaming for the last year. They've, gathered support from dozens of neighbors on the block as well as the DeBose Triangle Neighborhood Association. I also wanna thank my legislative aide, An for his work on this project. And the rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, mister president. Your use of the word epicenter at this time since those two eight point o earthquakes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh, dear. Oops. Not lost

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: on me. Alright. Thank you. Supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I am introducing the San Francisco Street Safety Act, a comprehensive interagency legislation to address one of the most urgent and preventable public health crises in our city, which is traffic violence. Every year, traffic crashes kill or seriously injure dozens of San Franciscans, particularly children, elders, pedestrians, and low income people. Despite our long standing commitment to vision zero, the rate of traffic fatalities in San Francisco has remained largely unchanged. We cannot afford to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results. According to a 2025 report that I commissioned from our budget and legislative analyst, traffic related deaths and injuries cost San Franciscans nearly $500,000,000 every year. Not to mention, the immeasurable pain and loss experienced by families and victims. We now have a decade of data showing what we we that when we redesign streets, crashes drop. But too often, implementation is too slow, too reactive, or siloed across agencies. This resolution is a call to action and account and a call for accountability. It directs departments, the SFMTA, the San Francisco Police Department, Department of Public Health, Public Works, the Fire Department, and the school district to take clear, measurable steps to make our streets safer based on data, based on what we know, based on what we have seen. That includes expanding daylighting, deploying red lights and speed cameras within state limits, integrating street safety into repaving projects, as we should be doing already, and publishing a citywide dashboard so that the public can track progress. We know that speeding is the leading cause of fatal crashes in San Francisco. And we know that residents in low income neighborhoods, particularly, and communities of color are disproportionately affected by unsafe conditions. This resolution centers vulnerable communities and uses data driven approach to target the most dangerous streets with a focus on children, seniors, and people with disabilities. The San Francisco Street Safety Act is not just a policy solution, it's also a recommitment to making safety the default, not the exception, and calls for accountability, regular reporting in front of us, and, it will, make sure that people do what they're supposed to be doing. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this effort because no one should fear for their life simply crossing the street in our city. And the rest, madam clerk, I submit.

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

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today I have two items to introduce. First, I am submitting a letter of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department to examine their approach to recruiting and training new officers. It is my hope that we can identify ways to successfully accelerate the pace of hiring, training, and placing officers so that they can be ready to serve our communities. I wanna start by acknowledging that I believe real progress is being made through mayor Lurie's rebuilding the ranks, an initiative which I was an early supporter of. In one sample of that early success, from January to June 2025, SFPD has received 2,155 applications, which is a 64% increase from 1311, 1311, during the same period in 02/1944. But with a staffing shortage of well over 500 officers, we need to keep pushing for more improvements at every step of the process. So specifically, I am asking for more information on our approach to lateral recruitment, which is a pathway that seems promising, but may be held back by low pay bonuses compared to other Bay Area cities. I'm also interested in learning about a possible partnership with our local universities similar to the law enforcement candidate scholars program at Sacramento State University, which is a program that under prepares undergraduate students for a career in law enforcement. My letter of inquiry also asks a series of questions related to how we can better recruit and retain frontline personnel who are bilingual and can serve our diverse communities. I believe we must commit to improving this skill set across every department, especially our frontline public safety agencies. I also have a hearing request to introduce today. Just a few weeks ago, I sat in these same chambers with supervisor Walton, Fielder, and Cheryl for a hearing on the implosion of the San Francisco Parks Alliance. What we learned should be of great concern. A complete mismanagement of money, a total lack of responsibility, and at least $5,800,000 missing that belongs to community groups. To be very clear, I believe these issues lay squarely at the fault of the Parks Alliance, and likely a few individuals in leadership. But it does bring to mind the broader question of how our city engages with partners and non profits, and if there is any mechanism that we could have used to spot warning signs earlier. For this exact purpose, our city's controller office oversees a nonprofit monitoring and capacity building program. This program is long standing, having begun in 2005. Since then, a 2024 ordinance championed by now assembly member Stephanie added a new added new legislative requirements in reporting standards to this program. Over 700 nonprofit organizations are contracted to work with the San Francisco government, and these organizations deliver more than $1,500,000,000 in services each year. While 69% of the city's contractors ended the most recent oversight cycle with full compliance, the other 31% faced challenges with producing audited financial statements and agency wide budgets. So in our hearing, we intend to ask for updates on the most recent oversight and reporting requirement changes from the 2024 update and dig into ways that we can better work with nonprofit partners to deliver effective services while minimizing waste and fiscal mismanagement. And the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Sautter. Supervisor Sherrill? Submit. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Walton?

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, madam chair. Colleagues, today, I'm introducing an ordinance for the San Francisco Fire Department to construct a new training facility for the department employees at 1236 Carroll. This facility will consolidate and replace the current training facilities on Treasure Island and in the Mission District. In order to build the facility, several unaccepted streets need to be vacated. Public Works has performed the necessary steps for a street vacation. There are Public Utilities Commission and PG and E utilities in the vacation area, and their respective access to those facilities is incorporated into the legislation. I've attached the project site layout for reference. Today's legislation include includes a resolution of intent along with the ordinance for street vacation and the ordinance for the planning code update. This project is funded by the voter approved Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response, also known as the Easter Bond Measure, from 2020. Public Works has met with several neighborhood groups to provide an overview of the project and to solicit input, including the Bayview Hunters Point Citizens Advisory Committee, Bayview Hill Neighborhood Association, True Hope Church, and the Alice Griffith Tenants Association Council. I wanna thank Ian Schneider from Public Works and DCA Chris Tom for putting this together. And thank you to the San Francisco Fire Department for bringing this facility and the improvements that come with it to District 10. I'm also introducing an amendment to the lease with the YMCA for Building 49 at Crane Cove Park with the port to help cover unexpected costs from critical structural repairs. This amendment provides a $150,000 in additional rent credits, and protects 6,000 in credits for maintaining public restrooms. The new Dogpatch YMCA officially opened their doors this year, and is already delivering on its promise to serve the community. This small but important adjustment helps ensure the project stays finally financially sustainable, while continuing to provide public benefits. And last, I have a resolution to recognize August 2025 as Black Business Month here in San Francisco, honoring the twenty second annual National Black Business Month. Founded by San Franciscan Frederick e Jordan senior, and historian John Williams Templeton, this month uplifts the legacy and impact of black entrepreneurs, both past and present. It honors pioneers like Captain William Alexander Leiersdorf, a black marina and one of San Francisco's first major entrepreneurs, who helped shape the city's early economy and served as its first treasurer in the eighteen forties. From trailblazers like him to today's thriving black businesses along the 3rd Street Corridor in District 10, Such as Gumbo Social, Yvonne Suites, Pumpkin's One Stop Beauty Shop, Smoke Soul Kitchen, and more. Black owned businesses are essential to San Francisco's culture and economic life. This resolution calls on the city to deepen its investment in equitable economic development and uplift black businesses year round. I'd like to give a special thank to special thank you to our summer intern, Isra Musa, a recent Howard graduate, for working alongside my chief of staff, Natalie G, on this resolution. I also wanna shout out our two incredible year round interns, Damien Rochelle, a senior at San Francisco State who's been with us since January, and Carl Levi, a recent University of San Francisco graduate who also joined us in January. We're so grateful for their dedication and contributions to the District ten dream team this year. The rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. Supervisor Chan. Chan submits. Thank you. Supervisor Chan. Submit. Thank you. And supervisor Dorsey.

[Matt Dorsey, Supervisor (District 6)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues let's see. Sorry about this. Okay. The I have, a BLA request and an in memoriam. First, I am today submitting a request to our budget and legislative analyst's office, to estimate the cost to San Francisco taxpayers for provisions of our equal benefits ordinance, which mandates domestic partner benefits that were once, but no longer, the only chance gay and lesbian couples had for equal employment benefits. Today, same sex marriage is the law of the land, of course, and it has been for the last decade. Yet, San Francisco still prohibits what is now a growing majority of businesses from even competing for any of our $5,800,000,000 in taxpayer funded contracts for goods and services annually. The reason is that they don't provide adequate domestic partner benefits. My request today poses three questions for the BLA to research. First, what is the most reliable estimate of the percentage of all US businesses that still offer their employees domestic partnership benefits equal to those they provide to married couples since same sex marriage rights were first secured nationwide by the US Supreme Court's decision in Obergefell versus Hodges in 2015. Two, assuming the accuracy of data's data my office identified businesses nationwide today even offer domestic partner benefits, with no estimates for small or medium sized benefits of businesses, what cost savings might San Francisco reasonably expect were we to open competitive bidding for city actual direct costs to San Francisco taxpayers for enforcement and compliance of equal benefits provisions by the Office of Contract Administration, of equal benefits provisions by the Office of Contract Administration, City Attorney's Office, and other departments. I'm asking that this include an accounting for cost to process waivers and, from these requirements as well. Now there, admittedly, was a time before same sex marriage rights were secured nationwide when such a bidding prohibition made sense. For years, domestic partnerships reflected the wholly worthwhile principle of LGBTQ plus equality, and that principle was worth the added expense born by taxpayers in San Francisco. Today's equal benefits ordinance, however, is no longer an LGBTQ plus issue. That is inarguable, and it hasn't been an LGBTQ plus issue since 2015. By making competitive bidding more competitive, San Francisco can derive greater value for the goods and services we purchase with our taxpayers' dollars. It certainly seems plausible that expanding our bidding eligibility from fewer than 45% of businesses to fully 100% of businesses would achieve some measure of savings for the more robust competition. Given published research showing that San Francisco's annual expenditure for goods and services contracts totals $5,800,000,000, even a marginal savings of just 5% would net us $290,000,000. And for context, that is more than the entire budget of the Recreation and Park Department. Before we put pen to paper on legislation, obviously, let's, do let be thoughtful about this. Let's allow the BLA to do its work. Let's see what kind of cost savings they estimate, and then let's legislate responsibly and prudently. We owe San Francisco taxpayers nothing less. And next, colleagues, I ask that we adjourn today's meeting in remembrance of Scott Garvey, a deeply compassionate, creative, and loving soul whose tragic recent death has left his family and many others reeling, including friends and loved ones here in San Francisco. I grew up as a close friend of the Garbids, and I know I have known them well most of my life. Scott attended Saint Mary's Catholic School in Westfield, Massachusetts with his older brother and me. And it was perhaps there that Scott developed his commitment to social justice, which in his life would become his most admired trait. Scott was a poet, a musician, and above all, a giver. Someone who carried the burden of an outsized heart in a world that too often shuns those who struggle. Although he faced mental health challenges most of his adult life, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Scott's generous spirit and his good heart were undiminished. He found purpose in offering comfort and care to others in need, and he would often use whatever discretionary funds he had from his limited disability income to help others, to buy clean socks or warm gloves or meals to share with unhoused neighbors. For Scott, it wasn't performative. It was who he was. His impulse to help and to give back just came naturally to him. To family members and friends, Scott's empathy was radiant. Friends described him as soft spoken and poetic, someone who listened more than he spoke, and who had the rare gift of making others feel truly seen. His art, especially his poetry and his drumming, was an extension of his emotional generosity. Like many artists, he could find meaning in pain and create beauty out of struggle. San Francisco held a very special place in Scott's heart. For a time, many years ago, he lived in our city's, storied Haight Ashbury neighborhood, which was especially meaningful to him as a talented musician himself. When he moved to Vermont earlier this year, along with his mother, Judy, or Mama Jay, as she's affectionately affectionately known, he wanted to be closer to his sister Cara. It was with the hope of accessing better care in the region he grew up that he could continue continue on his path of healing. Sadly, he scarcely had the chance. Earlier this month, in the midst of a mental health crisis, Scott lost his life when he was shot in an encounter with a Vermont State Police trooper. Unarmed at the time, his family is now left to grapple with unimaginable grief. They are both haunted by knowledge of compassion and grace that Scott wasn't extended in his last moments when he needed it most. They're also humbled by the love and kindness of friends and family members, even neighbors and strangers in the community in Putney, Vermont who've been moved to help the Garvey family and to heal. In remembering Scott today, his family asks that we do not solely mourn, but also take it as a call to conscience, and that we carry Scott's spirit of social justice in how we lead, in the policies we passed, and how we care for our own most vulnerable, and how we encounter those in behavioral crises, and in the hopes we hold for a better world. Rest in peace, Scott. May your memory be a blessing and a reminder of what we need to change. And the rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, supervisor Dorsey. Members, we have received approximately 55 items for the LI this week. All of the items you've introduced today will be appropriately referred. Thank you. Mister president.

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's go

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: to public comment.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: At this time, the board welcomes your public comment. You can line up on the right hand side of the chamber along the curtains. Items you can speak to, the minutes as presented, the items 72 through 77 on the adoption without committee reference calendar. Other general matters not on today's agenda, but must be within the board subject matter jurisdiction. We are setting the timer for two minutes. Would you like us to collect that from you, mister Few? Okay. Okay. We'll send the sergeant to come pick that up. Okay. Alright. I'll set your time for you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Yes. The cure is to keep your emotion towards beauty, but I think in your case, it's not it's not enough. The disease is to it's a disease. We are dealing with a disease. The key is to understand how to stop accepting a political system, which is now which has been for a long time already, totally infected to create governments run by pedophiles. That's what you need to understand. How to stop working in the case for a government? Run by pedophiles. How do you do that? So raise your hand if you don't know how to do it. Okay. So, now, when we come back, after this summer of thinking, I hope for you, you will have no more excuse if I call you pedophiles. Because I said, you see, it's important to understand. If you don't call out the pedophiles, find a way to do it step by step. You become a pedophiles despite what you want. So it means no matter what here, no future because no competence. Right? Meaning, no safety altogether with the government of pedophiles. It's as simple as this. So no safety for anyone. I'm done. We have no rights, guys. We have only have duties in life. Only duties to do what is aimed at beauty. That's it.

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

[Ms. Brown (mother and advocate)]: Yes. I'd like to use the overhead.

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

[Ms. Brown (mother and advocate)]: Yes. I'm here concerning my son, Aubrey Abacastro, who was murdered 08/14/2006. On the August 14 will be the nineteenth year of his death. And I am asking for you supervisors to please come and support us. And I I bring these other pictures with me, concerning unsolved homicides. And Commissioner Maddie Scott, that works for park a police commissioner now, that's her son. And she is gonna be there, and I would love to have her speak. So, just saying that no matter what we do and what job we do, our loved ones are leaving this world. Here's other unsolved homicides that are not solved. I bring here's other other unsolved homicides that are not solved. I bring this event to see to to invite and I just had her pass some out to everyone. I don't know if you've gotten it, but Yeah. So I'm asking for you your support and for mothers and fathers like myself on that day to come out just for a little while. If you if you don't if you can't have send a representative, I'm asking my district five supervisor, the Bilal, to please come. I need you there. I know you're getting married, and congratulations. But please bring her with you. So, and and half of you have lost loved ones. And if you have children, if you have children, you have nieces and nephews too. We don't want this to hit nobody else's home. Believe me, this is I don't like doing this. I don't like coming here talking about this all the time. But I want justice for my child.

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

[Unidentified activist (trans Mexican American)]: Hello. We are barely six months into this federal administration and Local one two, and things will only get worse. We are being put to the test. Starting in 2022 for redistricting is, when I started getting involved in local government, making my voice known as a constituent. Later, I spearheaded and got unanimous unanimously passed a Protect Trans and LGBQ Youth and Adults Resolution in 2023. And then things got out of my control, but I continued to be just me because that's all I know really how to do. I try to uplift the voices of the ignored, point out the hypocrisy of our government, inform people, and encourage people to care for others. I had never thought myself as a leader, but in these fascist times, I can't downplay my words and actions anymore because people are scared. There's less people being loud and critical and defiant during these dangerous days. And so to every scared person in this building and every scared person watching, know that I am scared too. Very scared. I don't know how much worse things will get, nor what will happen to me as a defiant trans Mexican American, but also know that I am proud of myself, proud of my friends, and proud of our community for not bowing down to kiss any billionaire's ring, for acting up a defense of our immigrant families, in defense of Palestinians suffering genocide, in defense of homeless people, in defense of people with substance use disorder, for persisting in practicing our morals of treating others the way you wanna be treated, for acknowledging the horrible reverberations of the genocide of indigenous people here, and the kidnapping and enslavement of millions of indigenous Africans. For not abandoning the t and LGBTQ plus and for protecting trans and intersex kids and adults who want nothing more but to live their lives as themselves. For listening and heeding to the needs of disabled people. For not villainizing sex workers, but wanting to give their work dignity and protection. And so much more. So much more. I can't fit here. And if any of this sounds like you, I am proud of you. You are on the right side of history. Future generations will admire you.

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

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

[Giuliano Lodi, Co-CEO, Sutro Power]: Good evening, supervisors. I'm Giuliano Lodi, co CEO of Sutro Power, a San Francisco based green energy company, and I'm here representing the SF Solar and Storage Coalition. The Trump administration just eliminated the 30% solar tax credit effective January 2026. This creates immediate urgency as thousands of San Franciscans are attempting to get their systems designed, installed, and activated before the deadline. As San Franciscans rush to go solar, our city's permitting processes are blocking them. Plan reviews take weeks, if not months longer than necessary. Inspections are also more difficult where it once took a single week for inspection turnaround, it is now three to six weeks to get finalized. Our installations face additional red tape on multifamily buildings, apartments, and commercial spaces. As the Trump administration attacks green energy, San Francisco should make it easier for residents to choose clean energy, not harder. You're going to hear from frustrated residents whose solar installations are delayed by current processes. This isn't just about beating a federal deadline. The permitting reforms we need now will serve residents for decades as our city requires tens of thousands more solar and storage installations. Supervisors, include our coalition in these policy discussions. We are in the trenches here. We understand exactly where the bottlenecks are and how to fix them. While other Bay Area cities are streamlining, San Francisco shouldn't fall behind. Use this urgent moment to prepare the green energy infrastructure our city needs. Thank you.

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

[John Palerap Niani (solar industry representative)]: Good evening, supervisors. I'm John Palerap Niani representing both my solar installation firm, Sutro Power, and the San Francisco Solar and Storage Coalition. I've reached out to each of your offices via phone and email both a month ago and last week regarding my coalition's platform. Thank you, supervisors Fielder, Melagar, Salter, Angadio, Mahmoud, and president Mandelmann for following up and engaging with us. I came today to request that you convene a special session or committee hearing dedicated to hearing directly from our coalition on urgent matters related to rooftop solar, energy equity, and the city's decarbonization goals before further policies made by DBI, the SF Fire Department, or Clean Power SF. We believe there's an immediate need for structured dialogue between policy makers and frontline stakeholders working on distributed energy in San Francisco. We're requesting that a supervisor sponsor this session so that we may formally present data, testimony, and policy proposals that impact thousands of residents and small businesses. Thank you for your time. We look forward to collaborating on a session that advances local climate leadership and energy independence.

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

[Mary Anne Rodriguez Gavel, District 5 Resident]: Thank you. My name is Mary Anne Rodriguez Gavel. I am a resident and employee in District 5. Clean Power SF was created by San Franciscans to generate local energy and increase our independence. It was created to make possible a path to clean local energy without the Wall Street greed and profit focused investor owned utilities like PG and E. Now, Clean Power SF intends to adopt the avoided cost calculator and kill rooftop solar in San Francisco. Look no further than our neighbors outside of the city, where it's already been implemented. Rooftop solar adoption has experienced a near market collapse in California outside of San Francisco. We have a choice to reject this model and reaffirm our values. We value clean local energy. Please review the established record of the board of supervisors, resolution four zero six fourteen, the Clean Power SF implementation plan from 2015, and SF environmental code section 18.1. Reject any compensation model that uses the avoided cost calculator and compensate San Franciscans for the full benefits of solar power. Thank you.

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

[Speaker 2.0]: Charles Adams, Albion Power Company. As a local business over the past twenty years, we've installed federal state, residential, and utility solar projects. And I was in the room with some of your predecessors when CCAs were legislated. We have immense disappointment in clean power s f efforts to destroy local solar by devaluing resident produced solar energy while subscribing to an environmentally destructive shell game clean energy model funded by Wall Street tax equity. The city is currently destroying its main street green economy. As intended, rooftop solar produces 100% local clean energy, local job creation, local tax revenue, funded by San Franciscans using their own rooftops and money. All of the energy created in San Francisco stays in San Francisco. It is less expensive, but clean power SF must honestly compensate the residents who provide this benefit. SFPUC instead wants to use the ACC calculator, a PG and E device, assuming all clean energy is provided centrally. Declaring local energy, local small business, energy efficiency, and environmental conservation is a cost shift to the poor is pseudo economics, favoring centralized power generation. The cost plus 10% utility infrastructure lobby has funded a lot of state legislation over the past two years, disguising a lot of environmental damage and infrastructure projects as clean energy. San Francisco copying this regulatory capture against local generation is a betrayal of everything CCAs were created to champion. We are not asking for subsidies. We're insisting Clean Power SF provide an honest accounting of the benefits of local generation on rooftops by residents, and the DBI building codes can realistically be implemented in an urban environment. Those things are not currently happening. Your urgent attention to SFPUC's misunderstanding is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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

[Ali Geller, Families for Safe Streets]: Thank you.

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

[Janine Cotter, CEO of Luminalt]: Probably hard to see, but it's a San Francisco building code.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Can you use the microphone, please?

[Janine Cotter, CEO of Luminalt]: Thank you. This is probably hard to see. It's a San Francisco building code ordinances that were passed by this board on solar permitting and inspections, and those are not being followed right now. I'm Janine Cotter. I'm cofounder of Luminalt, and we've been installing solar and batteries in San Francisco for twenty for over twenty years. I'm a resident of District 4, and Luminalt is in District 10. Luminalt was San Francisco's first workforce certified GoSolar SF installer. We hired folks through that workforce development program, and I'm the chair of San Francisco's workforce investment board. On July 4, Trump's one big beautiful bill eliminated the 30% tax credit for solar battery installs after this year. We have five months. We have five months. I came today with the San Francisco Solar Battery Coalition, which is comprised of locally owned small businesses like Luminal. And we have three issues of really, excruciating concern to us. One is permitting. The other is inspections. And then there's Clean Power SF's proposal to adopt PG and E's net billing tariff and undervalue solar energy generated by San Franciscans. Permits used to be pulled online for modest solar systems. Permits for larger systems took three to five days. They now take four to eight weeks with outliers taking six or more months. SolarAPP plus automatic automated permitting is more restrictive in San Francisco than any other jurisdictions. Most of our projects don't qualify for SolarAPP plus In the building code, section one zero six a point one point one five point six inspection says that only one inspection is required for modestly sized solar systems beginning in October 2020

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, ma'am, for your comments. And just for those of you who might not have spoken here before, just wanna draw your attention to the clock on that podium. It'll let you know where you're at in your two minutes. Welcome.

[Zach Lipton, Streets for All SF]: Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Zach Lipton. I'm on the steering committee of Streets for All San Francisco, member of Walk SF, and I'm glad to be here to support supervisor Melgar's street safety act. Traffic safety is public safety. More people are killed in traffic violence than homicides in San Francisco every single year. We focus a lot on these fatalities, rightfully, but I also wanna highlight the serious injuries. Every eight hours, someone is injured badly enough on our streets to need to be rushed to the trauma center at SF General. These are often devastating and life changing injuries, and yet they usually go without a single mention in the press and no response from the city. So I'm glad that this measure reaffirms the city's commitment to Vision Zero. Where I'm concerned is that a lot of this is not new. It's been the law in the city for more than fifteen years that any public or private project on the right of way has to be part of an interagency process to make significant streetscape and pedestrian safety improvements. That's the better streets policy this board already enacted. But in practice, that's worked for many private projects, but rarely ever happens for public projects. For example, the city repaved 10th Street just a couple blocks from here last fall. Utilities got upgraded, we got new pavement, and then the crews put the street right back the way it was. And the way it was and is is a six lane wide speedway through a residential neighborhood with an elementary school and the human agency human services, service center, and other important city institutions. This was a missed opportunity to make safety improvements at very little cost while the street was being repaved anyway, and that happens routinely around the city. It should be automatic to make these proven life saving improvements whenever a street is being repaved. Why do we even have a Vision Zero toolkit if we don't use it whenever we repave our streets? Why did we spend the time and money to create a biking and rolling plan if we don't implement it when streets are renovated? I'm thankful for supervisor Melgar's long term leadership on vision zero and look forward to the interagency coordination and vital safety improvements this measure will bring. Thank you.

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

[Jean Lamming, District 1 Resident]: Good evening, supervisors. My name is Jean Lamming. I live on 18th Street near Carrero, And I'm here to support supervisor Malgar's proposal for Saver Streets. I've been living in San Francisco for twenty years, car free, biking and walking everywhere, which is a wonderful privilege. I was looking forward to growing old here and being able to be mobile. And I've just found it to be increasingly chaotic, unorganized, and dangerous to walk and bike here to the point where I honestly feel like I'm going to be killed on my bike in the bike lane or on crossing a street. I can tell you that I routinely, at intersections, see cars stop at a red light and then look around and just drive through it, or they just roll through it. I see cars routinely making right turns where they come right up to the crosswalk and hover and dog you until you get out of their way so they can make their turn. In the bike lanes, of course, there's cars parked in almost every block at sometimes a day with no one in them. There's all these new uses now that have come on in recent years of motorized scooters that are delivering things. They're speeding in the bike lane, passing on the ride, doing unexpected, erratic things. There's people standing on scooters. There's scooters and electric bikes on the sidewalks, weaving among people, and something

[Kate Voschel, Architect]: needs to

[Jean Lamming, District 1 Resident]: be done to organize this and make it safer. And as the gentleman before me said, besides the shocking statistics of fatalities, it's routinely people are hit and maimed and injured. And, please support supervisor Melgar's proposal. Thank you.

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

[Audrey (District 1 Resident)]: Hi, everyone. My name is Audrey. I'm a resident of District 1. I appreciate and am in strong support of supervisor Malgar's resolution for a citywide traffic safety commitment. Now more than ever, our city must double down on vision zero on our Vision Zero goals. 2024 had the highest number of traffic deaths in recent memory, where forty people were killed in traffic crashes, including a 72 year old neighbor in my neighborhood, the Richmond On Fulton, on February. And this is to say nothing about the hundreds of people who are maimed each year on our streets. Of course, nobody wants to see our fellow neighbors killed or hurt. But I hope that this resolution not only gives us accountability, but our leaders the political courage needed to implement these changes. We must implement proven systemic solutions like complete streets, lower speed limits, even in the face of opposition. While police enforcement is important, it's not a replacement for these changes. Ultimately, we must change the physical layout of our city, our traffic rules, and how we get around. We cannot achieve vision zero without them. Thank you.

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

[Cyrus Hall, Streets for All SF]: Good evening, supervisors. My name is Cyrus Hall. I apologize if my voice is hoarse. I need water. Tonight, I am speaking as a member of Streets for All San Francisco and the Streets for All, steering committee. Streets for All supports the intent and direction of the San Francisco Street Safety Act and deeply appreciates supervisor Melgar's leadership in introducing this resolution. As San Francisco discusses how to move forward on Vision Zero, we welcome the resolution's focus on a preventative, intra agency data driven approach to ending traffic violence. Streets for All respectfully urges that the resolution offer a clear directive to implement vision zero safety measures, such as protected bike lanes, during repaving and street reconstruction projects on all streets. This is consistent with both the better streets plan and the city's biking and rolling plan. When repaving, reconstructing, or conducting other street level work, all recommended safety infrastructure improvements should be designed and constructed. These include separated and protected bike lanes as outlined in the biking and rolling plan as well as curb extensions, traffic calming, and hardened daylighting. A strong resolution reaffirming the board's twenty ten determinations in the Better Streets plan will indicate clear support for multiple uses of streets, including safe, active, and ample space for pedestrians, bicycles, and public transit. Safe streets with diverse transportation modes are more conducive to diverse public life and the efficient movement of people and goods than streets designed primarily to move automobiles. Let's work together to design and pass the strongest resolution possible. Thank you so much.

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

[Eve Carter, District 1 Student]: Hello. My name is Eve Carter, and I live in the Richmond District. And I'm going into sixth grade and old enough to walk to school by myself. I live along California Street and have to cross it to get to school. It's very busy. I would like to thank Myrna Melgar for what she is doing. It'll help not just me, but lots and lots of other people in the city who need to get places and find it unsafe to try and cross busy roads or areas where, like, there are cars parked near the crossing so they can't see. And, like yeah. It's really annoying when and and there's a road that you can't cross and have to avoid and have to go the long way around. Thank you.

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

[Charlotte Mooney, District 1 Resident]: Thank you. My name is Charlotte Mooney. I'm a resident of District 1, and, I cannot say things any better than my daughter already said. Thank you, supervisor Melgar, for introducing this, and I really encourage all of you to act on this street safety act. It affects all of us. Thank you.

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

[Richard Baumann, Public Commenter]: Good evening, supervisors. My name is Richard Baumann. I live in the Richmond District. I've lived there for the past thirty years. Ever since COVID started, I've noticed three things. First of all, there are more people walking dogs. Secondly, there are more people pushing baby carriages. And third, there are more cars ignoring stop signs, speeding, and then and entering in crosswalks when pedestrians are in the crosswalks. I don't know what happened during COVID, but driving got crazier. And now I've noticed it's much, much more dangerous to walk around in the Richmond District. Therefore, I strongly urge you to vote to pass super guard supervisor Melgar's resolution. Thank you very much.

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

[Unidentified collision survivor (Hayes Street)]: Good evening, supervisors, president Mendelmann. I come to you as a survivor of two collisions in San Francisco. Both of them occurred in crosswalks as I was walking. One of them twenty four and a half years ago, and one of them eight weeks ago within the district I live on, on this street I live on, which is Hayes Street. And what will happen with the Street Safety Act is it will coordinate city departments to work together. What wasn't working that day very well and not at all is the streetlight on wooden pole over the corner of Hays And Laguna at Pole 266711 was not working. And the driver said, who hit me in filling out the officer's inquiry on the traffic collision report, which it has a serial number of 250315780. He said he couldn't see me. Well, a city maintained constructed light pole, the light wasn't working. Four weeks after I was operated on at San Francisco General by some great, orthopedic doctors, I called 311, and two weeks later, the light was turned on. So that light should have been always on if it's city property. And please, through the Street Safety Act, ensure that we have coordination from all of the city departments to ensure a collision like mine doesn't happen again, and anyone else of the other ones that have happened in the mountain Of Death collision last year.

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

[Ali Geller, Families for Safe Streets]: Thank you, board president president Mandelmann and supervisors. My name is Ali Geller. I work for the Families for Safe Streets National Organization, and I live in D One. A few weeks ago, my husband and I were walking about eight blocks to dinner in our neighborhood. And we were almost hit three separate times. A driver sped through an intersection. A driver blew through a red light. A driver blew through a stop sign. This has become our every single day. And I am so tired of feeling heartsick and worried for myself and my family in the city I love. Supervisor Melgar, thank you for introducing the street safety act. Such measures, measures as streamlining safety projects, expanding automated enforcement, adding hardened daylighting to all high injury streets, and fully harnessing the quick build program absolutely will save lives if it is applied at scale and proactively rather than reactively after preventable tragedies. Everyone in this room has people we love and worry about. This resolution absolutely can protect our neighborhood streets and larger corridors, as well from the rampant speed and recklessness that currently and tragically, are invited on our roadways. Thank you so much for the hard work you do. And I really urge you to help us get this passed. Thank you.

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

[Speaker 67.0]: Good evening, supervisors. I see that you've had a long day. I want to thank supervisor Melgar, more than just a climate champion and really doing important stuff. I'm not gonna go into the number of missed red lights and near misses with drivers. Luckily, I've avoided being actual physical impact, but it's been exceedingly close on occasion. So I'm really glad to see the calling out the responsibilities for the various agencies, and hopefully, that will have a significant impact. That coordination among agencies is critical to make this happen. So just thank you, and I'm looking forward to seeing it move forward and getting action from the relevant departments. Good night.

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

[Harry Breaux, Public Commenter]: Good evening. I'm Harry Breaux, and I'm hoping to give you a little comic relief, at least, to even look at you in person and say hello. Thank you, supervisor Melgar, for tackling this one. This super the Vision Zero that ran out last year needed to be redo redone, because the traffic thing has gotten out of hand. I've seen left turns where there's many left turn signs. Today, I was on Fulton Street, a 25 mile an hour listed street. I was going 30. Don't tell the police. And cars were passing me, and I had an SUV on my behind because I was going too slow at five miles over the speed limit. I was in a crosswalk the other day, and as I was crossing, a car that wanted to make a right turn on the red light, all legal, but pulls into the crosswalk in front of me, two feet away from me. I had to stop, back up, go around the car. It was a Waymo self driving car. I mean, they're not even programmed to pay attention. So the city has gotten really crazy. I'm 80. I've been here since 70. That's fifty years. It's gotten worse and worse and worse. Please do everything you can to get it back. Living the rest of my life, or anyone having to be on crutches, or in a wheelchair, or in a coffin, is not the way San Francisco should respond to what's going on in the traffic here. We had a period where we doubled down on double parking a few years ago, maybe before some of you were around, and that worked. We got the double parking to stop. Why can't a truck that's delivering something pull into an empty spot somewhere? Because they don't wanna walk extra steps, so they park right in the street and stop. Something's gotta be done. Thank you, supervisor Melgar. Thank all of you for your jobs and for what you're doing. I know you're hearing this.

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

[Speaker 68.0]: Good evening, board president Mandelmann and supervisors. My name is Marta Lindsey. I'm the communications director at Walk San Francisco, which advocates every day for pedestrians in our city. I'm here to really, really thank supervisor Melgar for introducing the Street Safety Act tonight. I am looking at a board of supervisors who really gets why this resolution is so needed. You've supported speed cameras. You've legislated for daylighting to be painted across your district, and you've pushed for the SFPD to get back in the game of traffic enforcement. I know you're hearing from constituents who feel like it's the Wild West out there. And no matter what part of the city you represent, you know that seniors and children are way too vulnerable getting around. And you do not wanna get that text or phone call saying that someone has been killed in your district. Supervisor Melgar's resolution reaffirms San Francisco's prior Vision Zero commitment to end severe and fatal crashes, and this is crucial. Without this fundamental commitment as a city, traffic safety will not be prioritized. It's that simple. And Zero is still and always will be the right goal. So I really wanna thank supervisor Melgar for reaffirming San Francisco as a vision zero city. But supervisor Melgar's resolution includes a lot more. It has a suite of targeted actions for key agencies to do a lot more to design and enforce our streets for safety. This is everything from leaning into automated enforcement, reforming the residential traffic calming program, requiring that streets are left better than they were found when they are painted or paved. And by better, I mean a whole lot safer. And there's a lot of red tape cutting so that street safety projects can happen faster, because we need them to happen so much faster. So with the Street Safety Act, you all can do what I know you want to do, save lives and show that San Francisco can lead on an issue that affects everyone every day in our city. Thank you.

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

[Speaker 69.0]: I lost my fourth job in six months this past Friday. It's never a performance issue, but a discriminatory one. I'm given looks of inferiority when others learn I'm on probation just as I will today. Others to ignore their own crimes being actively committed no matter how minimal or extreme to face no consequence as the ones with more money never do while regularly denying due wages among other crimes of intent rather than of reaction. I was told I was annoying this weekend. I've annoyed a lot of people that permit abuse and discrimination. But the difference between them and myself is I do not permit it nor do I regularly attempt to deny others their freedoms while continuing to forced continuing a forced experience, they never let you escape. To anyone that might find this reality annoying, let yourself understand you are no better. I find it annoying being strangled for thirty five minutes and having a female telling me I should have learned from it. I find it annoying having to spend four months in custody for taking down a curtain stable to the wall with feces on it. My slumlords called me a freeloading drug addict as I was denied due wages by two more. That I won't tell you their race because it's not a race issue that many of you attempt to make every issue. It's a denial of rights issue, most often forced by many that don't live here. But please don't disregard. I've long understood they're being shit in every race. I find it annoying having others seek the arrest of citizens for legally protected rights while they shut down bridges for foreign lands and want to say fuck you, but attempt to hold you criminals should you say fuck you back. That happened this weekend. And more than one member of the board has used foul language unable to control their quote unquote unhinged behavior as I'm told to have. Should I use the same words while not earning a $160,000 a year, but experiencing continued discriminatory prosecution and expectation? Yes. I am repeating much of the same, but the same has yet to change as our suicide rate continues to increase. I'm not claiming perfect action in every instance. But that's

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

[Speaker 69.0]: Take the biggest

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Time's concluded.

[Speaker 69.0]: Language they use themselves while they while they

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

[Speaker 69.0]: To murder the city president. At the same space, they don't want you to say the word fuck.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Thank you, Shane. Are there any other members of the public 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 without committee reference agenda, items 72 through 77.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. Item 72 through 77 were introduced for adoption but without reference to committee. A unanimous vote is required for an adoption of a resolution on first appearance today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first appearance to go to committee.

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: I would like to sever and amend item 73.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Anybody else? Alright. 73 is severed. So madam clerk, could you call the roll on the remaining balance of the items?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Supervisor Fielder, you said 73. Right?

[Kevin Kitching, Director of Housing Development, Mission Housing]: Yes.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Correct. 73. Alright. So then on 72747570 six, and seventy seven, supervisor and Guardio? Aye. And Guardio, aye. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann.

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: With that objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call item 73.

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Item 73, a resolution to support the Golden State Valkyries women's basketball team and their fight for a fair collective bargaining agreement and equal compensation in the Women's National Basketball Association.

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you. Colleagues, I have some non substantive amendments to this item to specify our support of the Valkyries players as they engage in their negotiations. I now move to amend this item by adding players after Golden State Valkyries on page one, line one, and on line three, by also changing members to a member on page two, line 15, adding between the WNBA and WNBA, parenthesis, Women's National Basketball Players Association after negotiation on page two, line 24, and adding players on page three, line nine.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Is there a second? Seconded by Mahmoud. Can colleagues, can we take that amendment without objection? Then without objection, the the amendment passes. And I think that we can take the amended resolution, same house, same call. Without objection, the amended resolution is adopted. And then, madam clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: None to report, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Right. Could you please read the in memoriams?

[Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board]: Yes. Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of supervisor Dorsey for the late mister Scott Garvey.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. I think that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madam Clerk, is there any further business before us today?

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Well, then we are ad adjourned.