San Francisco Government Board of Supervisors

Meetings

Call to Order and Roll Call (00:00:04)
President Rafael Mandelman called the meeting to order and the Clerk called roll with 10 members present.
Land Acknowledgment and Pledge of Allegiance (00:00:44)
The President delivered a land acknowledgment for the Ramaytush Ohlone and led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Clerk’s Communications (00:01:59)
The Clerk provided information on meeting access, public comment options, and ADA and language assistance.
Approval of Minutes (09/30/2025) (00:03:09)
The Board moved to approve the September 30, 2025 minutes, which will be approved after public comment.
Unfinished Business: Item 1 – Affordable Housing Bond Proceeds Appropriation (00:04:02)
An ordinance appropriating approximately $5.8 million in tax increment bond proceeds to MOHCD was finally passed.
Item 2 – Healthy Airport Ordinance Update (00:04:58)
An ordinance revising airport worker health care expenditure requirements beginning 01/01/2027 passed on first reading by same house, same call.
Item 3 – Planning Code/Zoning Map Amendments (North Beach and Use Limits) (00:05:31)
An ordinance consolidating North Beach districts and expanding allowable uses was finally passed 8–2 (Chan and Walton no).
Item 4 – HCD Transitional Housing and Navigation Programs Grants (00:06:27)
A resolution authorizing HSA to apply for and accept approximately $5.3 million in THP and Navigation/Maintenance funds was adopted.
Item 5 – SFO Duty Free/Luxury Store Lease Amendment (DFS Group LP) (00:07:34)
A resolution temporarily reducing percentage rent and MAG for DFS at the International Terminal (2026–2029) was adopted by same house, same call.
Item 6 – Muni Coach Midlife Overhaul (Complete Coachworks) (00:08:22)
A resolution approving a $95.4 million agreement for midlife overhauls of hybrid coaches was adopted by same house, same call.
Item 7 – Port Lease for Observation Wheel at Seawall Lot 301 (00:08:53)
A resolution approving Port Lease 17322 with SkyStar Wheel LLC and exempting competitive bidding was adopted by same house, same call.
Item 8 – MCD Conversion Process to Cannabis Retail (00:09:47)
An ordinance establishing a process to convert certain medical cannabis dispensaries to cannabis retail was passed on first reading.
Item 9 – Appeal Deadlines for Zoning Administrator Decisions (00:10:08)
An ordinance clarifying appeal deadlines and affirming CEQA determinations was passed on first reading by same house, same call.
Item 10 – ADU Process and State Law Conformance (00:10:30)
An ordinance modifying the ADU approval process and increasing certain size limits was passed on first reading.
Item 11 – Public Works Code: Contractor Parking Plan Requirement (00:11:09)
An ordinance eliminating contractor parking plan requirements for certain permits was passed on first reading.
Item 12 – Commemorative Street Plaques Streamlining (00:11:50)
An ordinance streamlining commemorative street plaque approvals and affirming CEQA was passed on first reading.
Item 13 – Pollution Liability Insurance for Excavation Work (00:12:27)
An ordinance authorizing Public Works to set requirements for pollution liability insurance for excavation was passed on first reading.
Items 14–20 – 2025 Building, Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing, Green, Existing Building, and Housing Code Updates (00:12:56)
Seven ordinances adopting the 2025 state codes as amended by San Francisco and related references were passed on first reading.
Item 21 – Artist Housing Certification Program (00:15:29)
An ordinance requiring the Arts Commission to certify eligible artists for affordable housing, with non-substantive amendments, was passed on first reading.
Item 22 – HSS Life and LTD Contract Exemptions (00:17:28)
An ordinance exempting certain HSS insurance contracts from minimum compensation and health care accountability requirements was passed on first reading (9 ayes).
Item 23 – Appointment to Homelessness Oversight Commission (Thomas James Roca) (00:18:31)
A motion appointing Thomas James Roca to the Homelessness Oversight Commission was approved 8–2.
Items 24–25 – Mayor’s Appointments to Homelessness Oversight Commission (00:19:19)
Motions approving appointments of Obai Rambo and Dante Ball to the Homelessness Oversight Commission were approved unanimously.
Committee Report: Item 29 – Planning Department Fees and CEQA Fee Schedule (00:20:23)
An ordinance modifying planning fee timing, large project environmental review fees, and removing a separate Class 32 fee schedule was passed on first reading.
Committee Report: Item 30 – Appointment to Building Inspection Commission (Judy Lee) (00:21:08)
A motion approving President Mandelman’s nomination of Judy Lee to the Building Inspection Commission was approved.
Roll Call for Introductions (Initial Segment) (00:21:40)
Supervisors submitted new business including letters of inquiry on workplace harassment protocols and surveillance ordinance costs.
Special Order 2:30 PM – Commendations (00:26:36)
Commendations honored District 2 centenarian Cho Chang Yaohun, District 3 cleanup captains, a District 5 veteran, a District 6 centenarian, and a District 10 neighborhood institution.
Item 37 – Motion to Convene Committee of the Whole at 3 PM (01:01:21)
The Board approved convening a Committee of the Whole at 3 PM to hear a CalFresh backfill appropriation and take related public comment.
Special Order 3 PM – Committee of the Whole (Item 26) Hearing on CalFresh Backfill (01:03:45)
HSA presented a City–Crankstart matched grocery card plan to backfill November CalFresh benefits; public comment was taken and the hearing was filed.
Item 27 – CalFresh Backfill Appropriation (01:22:05)
The $9.1 million appropriation from reserves to HSA for CalFresh benefits backfill was passed on first reading and forwarded to a November 10 special meeting.
Roll Call for Introductions (Resumed and Concluded) (01:23:01)
Supervisors introduced additional items, including AV local control, reaffirmation of sanctuary policy, maternal health inquiries, and support for movie theaters serving beer/wine.
General Public Comment (01:45:31)
Members of the public spoke on various topics within the Board’s jurisdiction.
For Adoption Without Committee Reference (Items 33–36) (02:03:45)
Four resolutions on first appearance were adopted unanimously.
In Memoriams and Adjournment (02:04:51)
The meeting was adjourned in memory of Gary MacLean (Empress Marlena), Deanna Mooney, and Kit Kat.

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[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Good afternoon, and welcome to the 11/04/2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Chan. Chan present. Supervisor Chen. Chen present. Supervisor Dorsey? Present. Dorsey present. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder present. Supervisor Mahmoud? Present. Representative Mandelmann present. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar present. Supervisor Sauter? Present. Sauter present. Supervisor Sheryl? Sheryl present. And supervisor Walton? Walton present. Mister president, 10 members are present.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, mister president. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes you all to attend this meeting in person here in the board's Legislative Chamber. We're in Room 250 on the 2nd Floor in City Hall. When you cannot be here, we are showing or are airing the proceedings live on SFGOV TV channel twenty six, or you may view the livestream at www.sfgovtv.org. If you have public comment you'd like to submit in writing, you can either send an email to bos@sfgov.org or via the US Postal Service. Just address the envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, doctor Carlton b Goodlip Place, City Hall, room two forty four, San Francisco, California nine four one zero two. If you need to make a future reasonable accommodation, under the Americans with Disability Act or to request language assistance, please contact the clerk's office two business days in advance by calling (415) 554-5184. Thank you, members.

[Rafael Mandelman (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 09/30/2025 board meeting minutes.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On the minutes as presented, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor, Chen? Aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor, Mahmut? Mahmut, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor, Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Sheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented. Madam clerk, let's go to unfinished business. Please call item one.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item one. This is an ordinance to appropriate approximately 5,800,000.0 to fund affordable housing projects to the mayor's office of housing and community development and to place these funds on controller's reserve pending the sale of the tax increment revenue bonds and receipt of proceeds in fiscal year 2025 through 2026.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item one, supervisor Chen. Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmut? Aye. Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, please call item two.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item two. This is an ordinance to amend the labor and employment code to revise the healthy airport ordinance to require, beginning on 01/01/2027, that the contracting parties employing certain airport workers make irrevocable health care expenditures on behalf of their employees at tiered rates to reflect the employee's household size.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Colleagues, we can take the same same this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item three.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item three. This is an ordinance to amend the planning code, the zoning map, consolidating the North Beach special use and neighborhood commercial districts, and to expand allowable uses and use size limits in certain zoning districts.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item three, supervisor Chen. No. Chen, no. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor McMood? Aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Milgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Nay. Walton, no. There are, eight ayes and two nos, with supervisors Chan and Walton voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: The ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, please call item four.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item four. This is a resolution to authorize the human services agency on behalf of the city and county to apply for and accept the county allocation award under the California department of housing and community development transitional housing program for an approximate amount of 4,700,000.0 and housing navigation and maintenance program for approximately 600,000, which provides funding to help young adults secure and maintain housing.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item four, supervisor Chan. Aye. Chan, I. Supervisor, Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor, Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor, Fielder. Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmoud? Ma'amoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam clerk, please call item five.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item five, resolution to approve the Sixth Amendment to the international terminal duty free and luxury store lease between DFS Group LP and the city and county to temporarily reduce percentage rent to 28% of gross revenues up to 100,000,000 and thirty two percent for gross revenues above 100,000,000 for lease years 2026 through 2029, and to approve a temporary reduction in the MAG, the minimum annual guarantee for the same duration by establishing the MAG at 25,000,000 for 2026 with annual adjustments as provided in the lease.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item six. This is a resolution to approve an agreement with Complete Coachworks to perform midlife overhaul services to replace and rehabilitate systems for up to 152 standard and 69 articulated hybrid electric new flyer coaches for 95,400,000.0 for a five year initial term with two one year options to extend.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item seven, resolution to exempt from the competitive bidding policy set forth in the administrative code sections 2.6 dash one and twenty three point thirty three. And to approve a port lease, 17322 for the continued operation of an observation wheel at Seawall Lot 301. Between the board of San Francisco and Sky star wheel LLC for an eighteen month term with one option to extend for eighteen months through 04/30/2027 for a monthly base rent of $11,000 with an annual increase, plus a percentage rent of 8 percent for an estimated revenue of approximately 1,800,000.0 and to adopt the appropriate findings.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item eight, ordinance to amend the planning code to establish a process for the conversion of certain medical cannabis dispensaries to cannabis retail establishments and to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item nine. This is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code and the planning code to clarify deadlines for appeals of decisions or determinations by the zoning administrator to affirm the secret determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item number 10.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 10, ordinance to amend the planning code and the business and tax regulations code to modify the state the city's state mandated ADU, the accessory dwelling unit approval process, and to conform changes to state ADU law to include by removing any appeal to the board of appeals and to increase size limits for certain detached new construction ADUs on a lot containing a single family dwelling to affirm the secret determination and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item number 11.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 11. This is an ordinance to amend the public works code to eliminate the requirement for a contractor parking plan as a condition precedent for approval of ex excavation permits for major work that is thirty consecutive calendar days or longer, and as a condition precedent of specified temporary street space occupancy permits for construction work, as well as the associated parking plan, notice requirement, and the parking plan review and inspection fees, and to affirm the CEQA determination.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: We can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 12.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 12, ordinance to amend the public works code to streamline the requirements and approval processes for the commemorative designation of public right of way and public places and the installation of commemorative street plaques to honor sites, events, and persons of historical interest or significance to San Francisco, to eliminate the requirement that public works hold a hearing on applications for a commemorative street plaque, and to affirm the CEQA determination.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item number 13.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 13. Item 13. This is an ordinance to amend the Public Works Code to authorize the Department of Public Works to determine the circumstances under which contractors performing excavation in the public right of way shall be required to obtain pollution liability insurance and to affirm the CEQA determination.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Same house, same call without objection. The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call items 14 through 20 together.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Items 14 through 20 are seven ordinances that repeal or amend the following codes in their entirety. For item 14, this repeals the twenty twenty two plumbing code and enacts a 2025 plumbing code to consist of the 2025 California plumbing code as amended by San Francisco to adopt the environmental findings and findings of local conditions under the California health and safety code. Item 15, this repeals the twenty twenty two mechanical code and enacts a 2025 mechanical code to consist of the 2025 California mechanical code as amended by San Francisco to adopt environmental findings and findings of local conditions under the California health and safety code. For item 16, this repeals the twenty twenty two electrical code and enacts a 2025 electrical code to consist of the 2025 California electrical code as amended by San Francisco. Item, 17, this repeals the 2022 green building code and enacts a 2025 green building code to consist of the 2025 California green building standards code as amended by San Francisco to adopt the environmental findings of local conditions under the California health and safety code and the findings under the California public resources code. Item 18, this ordinance repeals the twenty twenty two existing building code and enacts a 2025 existing building code to consist of the 2025 California existing building code as amended by San Francisco to adopt the environmental findings and findings of local conditions under the California health and safety code. Item 19 repeals the 2022 building code and enacts a 2025 building code to consist of the 2025 California building code and the 2025 California residential code as amended by San Francisco to adopt the environmental findings and findings of local conditions under the California health and safety code. And for item 20, this ordinance amends the housing code to update references to provisions of the 2025 building inspection code and to affirm the planning department's determination under the California environmental Quality Act, and for all items 14 through 20 to provide an operative date as of 01/01/2026.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And I think we can take these items, same house, same call without objection. The ordinances are passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call item 21.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 21. This is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to require the Arts Commission to develop and administer a certification process to identify artists in San Francisco who may be eligible for affordable housing.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Colleagues, this item passed out of the rule rules committee with positive recommendation on October 27. Thank you, chair Walton and supervisor Cheryl. The legislation would establish, as the clerk indicated, an artist housing certification program under the arts commission to facilitate artist housing projects. There's one, currently in contemplation, we hope coming to fruition soon in supervisor Dorsey's district, but we hope there will be many more. I have my office has previously circulated by email a few, non substantive amendments, and I have given them out earlier. In general, these will make a few minor edits to the findings for cleanup and accuracy, provide that the director of the arts commission will have the authority to direct the application process for the certification, add a reconsideration process for applicants who may be rejected, and lastly, sunset or clean up the sunset and operative dates. Again, these are nonsubstantive. Deputy City Attorney Brad Russi is nodding on that point. Can I have a motion to adopt these amendments So moved? By Dorsey, seconded by Cheryl? And colleagues, can we take that, those amendments without objection? Without objection, the amendments are adopted. And then, colleagues, I think we can take the amended item, same house, same call. Without objection, the amended ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 22.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 22. This is an ordinance to exempt the health service systems life and long term disability insurance services contract from the requirements of article one eleven, the minimum compensation, and article one twenty one, the health care accountability of the labor and employment codes.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item 22, supervisor Chan. Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey absent. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, absent. Supervisor Mahmut?

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Fielder's here. Fielder was an I.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Pardon me. Of course, you are. Thank you. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmut? Mahmut, I. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Milgar? Aye. Milgar, I. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, I. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, I. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, I. There are nine ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 23.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 23. This is a motion to appoint Thomas James Roca to the homelessness oversight commission term ending 05/01/2029.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Madam clerk, can you call the roll on this item?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item 23, supervisor Chan? Chan, I. Supervisor Chen? Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, no. Supervisor McMood? McMood, no. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: The motion is approved. Madam clerk, please call items twenty four and twenty five together.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Items twenty four and twenty five are two motions to approve the mayor's appointments to the homelessness oversight commission. Item 24 approves Obai Rambo term ending 05/01/2027. And item 25 approves Dante Ball term ending 05/01/2029.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On items twenty four and twenty five, supervisor Chan. I. Chan, I. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey? I. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahmoud? Aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor, Cheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton?

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Without objection, the motions are approved.

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: And

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: madam clerk, let's go to our committee reports. Item 28 was not forwarded as a committee report, so please call item 29.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Yes. Although item 28 is mooted, as the president stated, item twenty eight and twenty nine were considered by the land use and transportation committee at a regular meeting on Monday, November 3. Item 29 is an ordinance to amend the planning code to require certain planning department fees to be paid to the department at the time the development application is submitted to modify the environmental review fees for large projects and to remove the separate fee schedule for class 32 categorical exemptions under the California Environmental Quality Act to affirm the CEQA determination to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And 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 number 30.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 30 was considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, November 3. It was recommended as a committee report as amended with a new title. Item 30 now approves the appointment. This is a motion to approve president Rafael Mandelmann's nomination for the appointment of Judy Lee to the building inspection commission term ending 07/01/2027.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: First member to introduce new business, supervisor Chan. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen (Supervisor, District 11)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I am introducing a letter of inquiry to the Department of Human Resources on the policies the policies and procedures in place for when a city employee experiences sexual assaults or harassment in the workplace. San Francisco has a long stated history of supporting survivors of sexual assaults and harassment. In 2018, supervisor Ronan passed it legislation creating the office of sexual harassment and assault response and prevention to help survivors navigate the cities and resources after an assault or harassment occur. In 2022, assembly members Stephanie championed a ballot measure establishing the mayor's office for victims' rights. We know that sexual shot assault and sexual harassment are deeply pervasive. They impact multiple generations of families and are both oftentimes invisible and severely underreported. As a city, when with a demonstrated history of sending up offices tasked with supporting survivors after an assault or as or harassment occurs. I want to better understand the protocols and policies implemented by the city departments for if when a city employee experiences assault or harassment in the workplace. I want to ensure that we have up to date and culturally competent best practices in place in the rest I submit. Thank you.

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

[Matt Dorsey (Supervisor, District 6)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, I am today notifying the heads of 41 city departments of my intent to submit letters of inquiry through the office of the board clerk, of course, requesting that they estimate the amount of time and staff resources their departments have devoted to complying with our surveillance technology ordinance. I will ask that this be estimated on an annual basis since its enactment in 2019. Many San Franciscans will recall that this ordinance, Administrative Code Chapter 19 b, Acquisition of Surveillance Technology, placed restrictions on the use of facial recognition technology. Far less well known, however, was that it also imposed significant research reporting oversight and iterative engagement burdens on city agencies. Originally enacted in June 2019, this December word 22 page ordinance originally prescribed a detailed process requiring city departments to submit an inventory of all surveillance technologies to the committee on information technology or COIT, and it's four person workforce. For each surveillance technology, departments are required to submit a surveillance impact report, a surveillance policy, and annual surveillance reports, which has since been updated to be biannual surveillance reports. The ordinances labyrinthine approval process begins with the Coit subcommittee where submissions are scrutinized by at least one meeting of the privacy surveillance advisory board or PSAB. Coit itself then reviewed the submissions until subsequent legislation removed that step, and then the submissions are sent to the board of supervisors for our approval. Colleagues may recall that I recently proposed an amendment to repeal a single sentence from this ordinance to remove the ordinances prevailing plaintiff's fees and costs provision, which I consider to be a disservice to our taxpayers, and frankly, a brazenly self dealing sop to advocacy organizations who sue municipalities. However, it was brought to my attention that attorney's fees and costs may only be a drop in the bucket compared to the vastly larger investment of time and taxpayer funded resources for city agencies to comply with this ordinance. This letter these letters of inquiries will go to 27 distinct departments with applicable surveillance technologies, another 12 departments that are covered under the city wide social media monitoring software policy, and also the city attorney's office in COIT for their estimations of staff time and resources that admin code 19 b compliance has imposed on their offices. At a time when so many conscientious activists and leaders are doing much needed work to improve efficiencies and cut needless waste in San Francisco's local government, on commission streamlining, on contracting reform, on charter reform, and more. I think we are all best served by an estimation of costs imposed by a law that also has important implications for public safety and effective policing in San Francisco. I look forward to working with the clerk and department heads as we gather data to better inform policy decisions, which will hopefully make local government more cost effective and our city safer. And the rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, supervisor Dorsey.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Madam Clerk, let's go to our 02:30 special order.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Yes. It's now time for the 02:30 special order, which is to honor those residents of San Francisco for meritorious service.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. And first up, district two, supervisor Cheryl.

[Stephen Sherill (Supervisor, District 2)]: Colleagues, today, I am very, very honored to commend Cho Chang Yaohun on the occasion of her 100 birthday later this year, a remarkable milestone that reflects a like that reflects a life of strength, of perseverance, and of family. Now I'm not sure I can say that you are necessarily the oldest living San Franciscan today, but you are the oldest living that I know of. And for that, I am very happy. But more importantly, we are here to celebrate not only you but your legacy of family, and I'll talk about that in a minute. But for you, I just want you to know how much your family has meant to me and to so many others on a personal level. But let's talk about you for a minute. Cho Chang Yaohun was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on 06/09/1918, the fourth of nine siblings. Now I found this interesting. Your birth certificate only has four digits, and now Hawaii uses 10. When you were just two years old, her family returned to China as her father joined doctor Sun Yat sen's revolution, a powerful connection to history in itself. In her youth, she was crowned one of the four beauty queens, no surprise there, of the Shek Kee District in Zhongshan City, Guangdong. And at age 20, she was wooed by doctor Cho Lang Cheung, the director of Canton Hospital, who later became her husband. Together, they built a beautiful life in Macau, raising seven children and later becoming grandparents and great grandparents many times over, 16 grandchildren and 19 great grandchildren with a family continuing to grow. Today, missus Chu is one of the oldest living residents in San Francisco, and her life is that testament to love, to resilience, and the enduring spirit of family. Her legacy lives on not only through her many descendants, but also her through her granddaughter, Leslie Hugh, who founded Pierce's Pledge in honor of her late son Pierce. Leslie, unfortunately, couldn't be here today, but is represented by her parents, Therese and Howard Hugh, who found Leslie has transformed unimaginable loss into advocacy, working to prevent family violence and promote firearm safety reforms so that other families may never face the same tragedy. Now that courage, that compassion that defined Leslie's work are a reflection of the same strength that has carried missus Chu through more than a century of life, that life of purpose, that life of love, that life of family across generations. So today, we celebrate you, Chiu Chang Yaohun, for your longevity, but really for your family's legacy of service and for the light that so many members of your family have told me that you bring to them and to everyone in our city. So to you, missus Chu, and to your entire family, congratulations on this extraordinary milestone. We wish you continued health, joy, and the blessings of family for many years to come. And now I invite Therese to say a few words.

[Therese Hugh]: Dear chairperson and member of the board of supervisor, the two MFHA Chang families are deeply honored to be here today. As supervisor shall say, he told he has explained the story of my mother. I need to improvise something that my mother is a very strong willed and very proud woman. And that's the qualities that she surely helped us to become the life of an extraordinary life of 107 years old, four months and four days to days, which is equivalent to thirty nine thousand two hundred and thirty days today. Mhmm. Okay. We are very delighted that our family is represented here today by four generations of a of our family and also a standard family. Unfortunately, her youngest sisters, auntie Millie, who is 98 years old, and auntie Lucy, 97, are unable to join her here today. On behalf of my mother, the Chew and the Chang's family of a special appreciation to supervisor Cheryl, we extend our heartfelt gratitude to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for recognizing my mother as the oldest living person in San Francisco. Thank you very much.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. District 3, supervisor slaughter.

[Danny Sauter (Supervisor, District 3)]: Thank you, president. That was remarkable. Colleagues, today, for my commendation, I am excited to honor the individuals who helped make district three's neighborhood cleanups possible. So would the district three cleanup captains please come on up to the podium? Every weekend, these dedicated volunteers gather their neighborhoods and fan out across our streets and sidewalks to tackle trash. They don fashionable orange vests. Some of them even have them today. They grab pickers and brooms. And they carefully consider how many extra trash bags to carry as backup. They equip themselves to tackle any mess that they find. Whether it's cigarette butts on Polk Street, pizza wrappers on Columbus Avenue, leaves on Russian Hill, cardboard in Chinatown, they put it all into trash bags. And one by one, week by week, they take thousands of bags of trash off our streets. In fact, we as a group just collected more trash. When I invited these folks to come in today's meeting for a commendation to recognize them, They said, well, why don't we do a cleanup on the way? They wanted to do even more work. So we just, finished our cleanup. We started at Portsmouth Square in Chinatown and picked up trash, and filled more bags all the way to City Hall today. These cleanup captains, of course, are not paid. They give up Saturday and Sunday mornings. They often have to lug equipment, many blocks, store things in their own garages or apartments, but they do it all because they know they're making our city cleaner. And maybe even more importantly, they are building community one orange trash bag at a time with their neighbors. We have a number of our clean up, clean ups represented today. I wanna give out particular shout outs to our leader, our cleanup leader in Chinatown, Jessica Lee, our Lower Knob Hill cleanup captain Dallas Hyatt. And Dallas is multifaceted in his talents. He has a art show. His photography is in display in our District 3 office at the moment. Andy picks up trash on the weekend, so he does it all. North Beach is represented by Eric Bauer, Debbie Marche. And we have Upper Polk, Laura Palin. We have Kumar from Lower Polk. And I also wanna recognize, although they couldn't make it, we, of course, have regular consistent cleanups in D 3 at the Filbert Steps and at Russian Hill as well. Alongside these dedicated volunteers are a support system that make this all possible. That includes Vince Yuan, the head of Refuse Refuse. Vince? He has spawned countless cleanups across the city, and he's in every single district. Caleb from Civic Joy Fund who helps helps give a little extra incentive with, some lunches and breakfast at some of the cleanups, which also helps support the nearby small businesses. And then, of course, behind all this and in tandem is is DPW and the amazing workers who are clean up cleaning up the bags of trash as well. These cleanups will always be near and dear to my heart because when I got involved in my neighborhood association in North Beach more than ten years ago, I started a regular cleanup. Eric and Debbie have taken that to new heights. We have a new tradition as well, which I really, cherish helping to start, which is a I think we call it the great neighborhood trash off between Russian Hill neighbors and North Beach neighbors, those two neighborhoods. Eric, Debbie, we need to keep stepping it up to make sure that we're represented and and take the awards next year. But district three cleanup captains, everyone who is out there every single weekend, it's truly incredible what you do. Dallas, every single weekend, I see your Lower Nob Hill cleanups grow. You post the pictures and, you know, it's it was 30 and then it's 40 and then it's 50. You're all doing amazing work in your neighborhoods. Thank you for everything you do for this city. And if anyone, is so inclined to join to speak, please do. Vince.

[Vince Yuen (Refuse Refuse)]: Hi, everyone. Vince Yuen from Refuse. And thank you, Danny, for your long time for support of this, even prior to, being here in the Board of Supervisors. And, it just goes to show, you know, what ordinary citizens can do when we act collectively and the difference that we can make. And, these people behind me are extraordinary. They go above and beyond on their own time and their own dime to be out here to to lead their neighbors in these cleanups. And they're they're, again, very, very effective. Now, although we're tackling the symptoms of all the waste and litter out there and it does make a huge difference, we've seen transformations in these areas that we have regular cleanups. It's still not enough. And that's why we we do need the board of supervisors help as well to tackle the upstream causes of this. And number one is cigarette butt litter. And I know all of you have done cleanups because I've done cleanups personally with every single board of supervisor member here, which I thank you for. Because you guys are walking the walk and not just talking the talk. But we need your help on the other end. And, obviously, you all know Barbara Bella. And she's not going to stop emailing you until we get something done. Thankfully, we have the pathway. Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz and Capitola, even Tiburon, Baltimore. These are places that have banned the sale of filtered tobacco products. And, San Francisco's leaders in the environment should also follow this pathway and do the same. And, we have a playbook for that. So, Barbara will be following up with you on ways that you can support this. And, in addition, just keep spreading the message to your own constituents and your districts to come out to the cleanups. All of your districts have neighborhood cleanups, and I know you've been supportive, but don't don't give up. Keep it going. We had a volunteer today who came for their first time because Danny sent out the email about this cleanup that we did from Portmouth Square to City Hall. And and don't assume that people in your districts know that these cleanups exist. I was just down in Bayview. Supervisor Walton, we had YCD out there, and it was a great community building at All Good Pizza. And it just reminds me of how much, we have more to do to bring more people in the community in the fold. And, again, we're so thankful that people like this behind me are are really supporting these, the the unknown phases. So, it's great to to get some recognition for these people here. So, thank you very much, everyone.

[W. Otto Duffy]: Okay.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: District 5, supervisor Mahmoud.

[Bilal Mahmood (Supervisor, District 5)]: Colleagues, ahead of Veterans Day, it's my honor to recognize mister Douglas Jenkins. Can he come up to the podium, please? Mister Jenkins is a proud veteran and a lifelong advocate for whose service has strengthened not only our country, but the very heart of the Fillmore and neighborhoods across the city for over forty years. Mister Jenkins began his military career in the US Army in North Carolina before relocating to the Bay Area in the nineteen eighties. He continued his service for over two decades in the army reserves at the Presidio, achieving the rank of staff sergeant. Service and advocacy coursed through his veins. Through the eighties and into the nineties, mister Jenkins stood up amidst the urban renewal in the Western Addition, fighting on behalf of the black community facing displacement. That courage, along with his unwavering dedication to community, helped shape a stronger and more united Fillmore. Mister Jenkins also serves as a proud member of New Liberation Presbyterian Church, where he continues to nurture community and faith through service, by mentoring younger generations to engage with our local government, and volunteering his time as a poll worker during election season. Which if you haven't submitted your ballot for this November's election, there is still time to do so. At the Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, mister Jenkins is known as a connector and a source of joy. His warmth and honesty have made him a cornerstone of the senior wellness program, a member who not only shows up, but uplifts everyone around him. He's also a small business owner who has built something lasting. For thirty six years, Mr. Jenkins ran Bright Image Cosmetic Center in the Bayview, providing beauty products and encouragement to generations of local families. When asked, his friends at Booker T. Washington described him as a kind and gentle soul, someone who was always energetic and happy. Through colleagues, I'd be remiss if I didn't also share what that was directly followed by, don't let that fool you. He is a straight shooter who has no trouble speaking his mind when needed. Douglas Jenkins is the embodiment of service, not just in uniform, but in action. Thank you, mister Jenkins, for all your service. The floor is yours.

[Douglas Jenkins]: Giving honor to God, first, board of supervisors, people that's in the audience, and myself. Just giving thanks to Boogity Community Center for the enjoyment that I have established within the last couple of years. I think that all veterans that might be here in this audience, might be here in the city, state, country is deserving of the day. So Veterans Day actually is observed this coming Monday. I wanna ask the people in this room to do whatever they can to enlighten the fact that you've been a veteran, that person been a veteran, and given them the benefit of the doubt that they love this country and love themselves. Thank you.

[Matt Dorsey (Supervisor, District 6)]: District six, supervisor Dorsey. Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, it is my privilege to offer this commendation for Maria Tan whose daughter Carol Tan will be accepting on her behalf. Let's go. What an honor to celebrate the extraordinary life of Maria Tan. Born on 09/25/1921, in The Philippines to Chinese immigrant parents, Maria carried with her the courage and resilience of her of her family's journey. In 1978, she came to The United States and later proudly became an American citizen. Since 1982, San Francisco has been fortunate to count her among its own residents. Maria's story well represents the immigrant experience that has so powerfully shaped our city and continues to shape our city. As well, it reflects the strength, faith, and faith, and determination that define the diverse communities we San Franciscans cherish. For more than three decades, Maria devoted herself to service. Through her work with self help for the elderly, and later, her many volunteer hours at the old Saint Mary's bookstore, she has touched countless lives with quiet and steady kindness. Her example reminds us that true community is built through consistent acts of generosity and care. Maria's dedication has uplifted and inspired many people. And, her own life shows the difference one person can make when they focus on helping others. Maria's life has also been rich in family, joy, and creativity, and her Catholic faith. A devoted parishioner at Old Saint Mary's Cathedral, she has drawn strength and forged enduring friendships among her faith community. She has found peace among the redwoods of Muir Woods, and has shared her love of poetry by reading and writing, offering beauty and insight to those around her. These passions have enriched not only her own life, but have also been gifts to her family, her friends, and her neighbors. Above all, Maria's legacy shines through her family. As a devoted mother of four, she has passed down the values of love, perseverance, and faith that will endure for many generations to come. Today, as we honor her, we celebrate her life's milestones and the lasting contributions she has made to the strength and carrier character of San Francisco. At the age of 104, notably neither the oldest living San Franciscan nor even the oldest honoree today, Maria Tan reminds us what it means to live with purpose. While she is unable to accept this commendation in person, we hope that she is watching on TV. And we welcome her daughter, Carol Tan, who is here to on her behalf to accept this honor and to say a few words. Welcome, Carol Tan.

[Carol Tan]: I am so honored to be here on behalf of my mom, who is a 104, and she's very feisty still. She still scolds me, and she's still a very happy, vibrant person. And she's now in a nursing home, and she asks every caregiver to dance for her because that's the only way they can communicate. She can't hear very well, so she'll tell them dance, you know, and she'll she'll force people to dance. Mhmm. But I'm really fortunate to have a mother like her. We were here when I was 13 years old in 1973 on our way back to The Philippines because she thought the only way I could grow to become a better person is to be brought back to Asia, but she was wrong. And then I returned here after college and fell in love with San Francisco in 1982. But she tagged along and she came to visit me, and she never left. Mhmm. And she found a job as as a volunteer at Self Help for the Elderly who graciously took her in for over thirty years under the wings of Annie Chung. And, she has been a dedicated, you know, server, because she thought as a senior citizen, it's a privilege to give back, especially to The United States and to the city of San Francisco. I took care of my mom for the last three years and learned more about her, and she gave me the courage to continue this civic citizenship, you know, duty. I'm actually working currently for the school district for to serve the our special needs students, though I don't get paid as well, you know, if if if I had chosen a private company to work for. But it's a civic duty to work for the city, and I'm proud to be part of it, part of this, you know, city. And actually, the one who brought me here was one of our directors from one of our schools and someone who I closely worked with also for the school district. And it's just such an honor to live in this city. And hopefully, I will also be able to afford to live here until I retire and die here. But anyway so again, thank you. It's an honor to receive this in on behalf of my mother.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And finally, district ten, supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton (Supervisor, District 10)]: Thank you, President Malinman. If I could have Billy Catechci come up to the podium. Colleagues, today, we are honoring Billy Catechci and the beloved neighborhood institution, Il Piazza. For generations, Il Piazza has stood as a gathering place for neighbors, artists, and families, a space that embodies the warmth, diversity, and creative spirit that makes San Francisco truly special. We'll begin as a family endeavor, has grown into a neighborhood landmark, passed down and cared for through generations of ownership, devoted to community, hospitality, and heart. This is not just a business. It is a living legacy, a place where parents once brought their children to share a meal or a song, and where those same children now return as adults to create memories of their own. Through the years, the family behind Il Peralta has continued to honor its roots while welcoming new faces. And I know Billy's sister and mother are also here, ensuring that everyone who walks through those doors feels at home. When Billy's family took over El Parata back in 1994, Potrero Hill was a different place. But through every wave of change, through the tech booms, the building cranes, and the rising rents, they kept El Parata grounded. They made sure there was always a place for working people, for musicians, for dreamers, for anyone who needed a good meal, good music, and a familiar face behind the bar. From the energy of its legendary salsa nights, to its role as a gathering place for locals and visitors alike, Il Peralta has always been more than a bar. It has been a cornerstone of Potrero Hill, where community, culture, and connection thrive. In a city that continues to evolve, El Peralta reminds us of what remains constant. The power of family, the importance of neighborhood, and the enduring value of places that bring people together. Their hospitality isn't about business. It's about belonging. Their warmth, humor, and quiet generosity has made El Parata a second home for so many. Today, we give our heartfelt thanks to Billy Catechci and his entire family for their vision and love of people. May Il Prorada continue to be a light in our city and a reminder that community thrives when we make room for one another. Thank you, Billy, for reminding us that a neighborhood is as only as strong as the people who care enough to keep it together. And thank you, Il Peralta, for being that gathering place and for keeping Patrol Hill's heart beating.

[Billy Katechi (Owner, Il Pirata)]: Thank you very much. Very grateful, very fortunate to be here to represent the Katechi family. It all started with my late father, Bill Katechi, who showed me the way, who is hard work and determination that I followed. We just last month, we turned 31. And like Shamon just said, very fortunate, his support, district ten supervisor, that we went through everything that we did through the good times, the bad times, and we made it through. And it's the whole life cycle of from a baby shower to many, many birthday celebrations to retirement parties to celebration of life parties, many, many events and gatherings with local city people from DPT, public works, nine eleven, just countless holiday parties and gatherings. We have a beautiful space, and we like to do community events, like food drives, like canned food buckets full that we donate to food banks. And also, we do, like, toy drives with, like, niner, 40 niner watch parties. And for, like, Christmas for, like, the kids to, like, kick it, like, a lot of presents. So we do, like, toy drives, and we also do, excuse me, many, many, events like Shimon mentioned, the salsa party that we've been doing for since the 2002, legendary Cuban salsa party that's every last Friday of the month. And then we also had a comedy show that ran for many years, like sixteen years, and many of our up and coming comics in San Francisco that you see on the big screen now, like Ali Wong, Hasan Minhaj, and many, many others. And also the staple of our business is our residents and businesses in our district. And, like, UPS is here and USPS, and, excuse me. And, without their loyal support and community gathering, you know, I wouldn't be here today continuing on this legacy at, you know, Il Pirotta and Potrero Hill, just across from the one site of, Seal Stadium where the San Francisco Giants used to play and right next door to the main UPS building at San Francisco. And it just an amazing place and an experience amazing experience that many, many families has have enjoyed. And I'm very fortunate to have that experience in my life, and I'm just very honored. And I just wanted to thank you again to Shamone Walton and the rest of the district supervisors. Thank you very much.

[Shamann Walton (Supervisor, District 10)]: Go play the video, dude. Thank you. Percy has a quick video.

[Billy Katechi (Owner, Il Pirata)]: For being a great restaurant and bar. If you wanna be at the bar or go out to one of our two patios and get together with friends and family.

[Unknown (Il Pirata video narrator)]: I have known El Parata restaurant for a very, very long time. It's a great family place, definitely. Whether it be for dinner, for drinks, or even to hold a private party of your own.

[Billy Katechi (Owner, Il Pirata)]: The most popular food is probably our pizza. The El Parata Burger is really big here. Two of our entrees here that are most often ordered are steak and seafood. People really enjoy that. Our specialty beer is called Eel Pirata, and it's a local California microbrew.

[Unknown (Il Pirata video narrator)]: One of my favorite things definitely would be the steak bruschetta. Tomatoes, garlic, fresh basil on toasted bread, and olive oil. Absolutely delicious. When you come here, you feel part of the family.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright, colleagues. I'm gonna ask for a little help from our clerk and our city attorney, perhaps, in getting to the next little bit of this meeting. We have a 3PM special order, to on the for which are a couple of items, twenty six and twenty seven. But I believe we need to consider item 37 before we take up twenty six and twenty seven. And so and we will need to take public comment on '37 before we vote on it. But the public comments that we open up will not be general public comment. It will be public comment only on item 37. So madam clerk, could you please call item 37?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 37. This is a motion to schedule the board of supervisors to convene a committee of the whole today, November 4 at 3PM to hold a public hearing to consider the ordinance appropriating 9,100,000.0 from the state and federal revenue risk reserve to the human services agency for CalFresh benefits backfill in fiscal year twenty twenty five through 2026.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. Thank you, madam clerk. So if we, approve this motion, we will then have a a special order at 03:00 that will involve a committee of the whole with a presentation from, Trent Rohrer from HSA. And then, we will vote on item 27. But first, we need to take public comment on item 37. Again, that's just the SNAP item. Madam Clerk, could you please call for public comment on item 37?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Alright. If you are here in the chamber to provide public comment on item 37, which is whether or not the board should convene in closed session for items 26, which is the public hearing, and then the ordinance contained in item 27.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Yeah. And never to correct my, my clerk, but it would be open session.

[Shamann Walton (Supervisor, District 10)]: It It be

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: a committee it would be a committee to hold, not a closed session.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: I think I said committee of the whole. It's a committee of the whole, mister president.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Alright, mister president. I don't see any members of the public coming forward.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Great. So public comment on item 37 is closed. Madam clerk, could you please call the roll on item 37?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On item 37, supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. Supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. Supervisor Mahmut? Aye. Mahmut, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. Without objection, the motion is approved. Madam Clerk, could you take us to our 3PM special order, items twenty six and twenty seven?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Item 26 is the board convening a committee of the whole pursuant to the motion that they just approved, item 37, for a public hearing for the board to host, public comment on item 27, which is the ordinance to appropriate 9,100,000.0 from the state and federal revenue risk reserve to the Human Services Agency for CalFresh benefits backfill in fiscal year twenty twenty five through 2026 for consideration after the public hearing.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I am very glad and grateful to the administration that we are able to consider this today, and also, of course, to Crankstart for their match. And with that, I'd like to invite Trent Rohrer, the director of HSA, to present.

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Members of the board, Trent Rohrer, executive director, Human Services Agency. The 9,100,000.0, will be coupled, as president Mandelmann said, with Crankstart Foundation's generous donation of 9,100,000.0, which is in the form of a contract between the Human Services Agency and the San Francisco Marin Food Bank, for the entire amount. And then the the food bank, in turn, has a contract with a private vendor called GoodCard. And GoodCard, along with the food bank, opens a joint bank account of that amount, from which CalFresh recipients can draw their funds when they activate their, gift cards. Now let me walk you through. So that's that's how the money will be spent. Let me walk you through with a little bit of context and and sort of how this is gonna work. Well, it's already working because as of 11:00 this morning, a 153 people have redeemed their gift cards. So, as you know by now, the federal shutdown, it has, for the first time ever, affected federal entitlement programs of which, HSA administers. It's specifically halting of federal money for the CalFresh program in California, affecting, or essentially delaying or not issuing benefits at all in November for 82,000 households in San Francisco, comprising about 112,000 people. As I communicated to you last week in a memo or a couple weeks ago, the average household benefit is about $275 Average individual benefit is about 178. Over $20,000,000 in Cal in federal CalFresh money goes to recipients every month in San Francisco and is spent in our local economy. As you also know, the CalFresh benefits are are not cash. They're no longer food stamp coupons. They're issued on an electronic benefit transfer card or EBT card that gets loaded every month directly from the federal treasury, US treasury, through the state of California to the EBT vendor. I point that out because San Francisco has no, role in that loading of the card, meaning that we cannot should we find money on our own, we can't simply add to the existing card, which which, limited our options in terms of backfilling benefits. So what we decided to do when it became clearer through the month of October that the USDA was going to renege on its promise, over time to continue to provide SNAP benefits nationwide, due to the shutdown, We put together a whole sort of a set of scenarios my team did, along with the mayor's office, sort of, what if we had $2,000,000 what could we do? If we had 5,000,000, if we had 10,000,000, etcetera. Pie in the sky was if we got the whole 20,000,000, what would we do? And we, we decided at that point, rather than, funding food pantries with the food bank and other community distribution points, we really wanted to, maintain that $20,000,000 that's in the local economy. And we also wanted to maximize choice for our, our CalFresh clients. Many of them work. Going to a food pantry, you know, is is waiting in line is difficult. Obviously, having a grocery card where they can choose what they want is is preferable. We sent that proposal onto the mayor's office. Kunal Modi and and Peggy Moriarty, shopped it to to several funders, I think. But Crankstart stepped up with $9,100,000 contingent on the city matching that 9 point 1. The structure that we had presented to them is is as follows. Because the way the CalFresh benefits are calculated, pretty much every each of the 82,000 households has a different benefit amount by a little bit. It's based on household size, rent burden, how much they pay in utilities, etcetera. We weren't gonna attempt to match dollar for dollar each each household. That would have been administratively impossible. So instead, what we did is we we tiered the benefit amount. So a household of one or two people would get $200 in a grocery card. Three to four would get, 350. And then five or more would get 500. So in a sense, some households might get a little bit more than what they were getting through CalFresh, and some might get a little bit less. Crankstart did fund the 9.1. We're here before for the supplemental to draw from the reserve for the other 9.1. We got word this was a sprint last Monday. And, from Monday of last week to Friday, the human services agency drafted, along with the city attorney's office, a contract a sole source contract for $18,200,000 a data sharing agreement, because the CalFresh data needs to be protected. So that was with with vendor GoodCard. I signed the contract at 3PM on Friday. We worked through the weekend with city reproduction and city mail to mail to print and mail out 82,000 individual letters to each household who are CalFresh recipients in their native language. Each of those letters contain an activation code specific to that household that allows them to activate their virtual gift card using that code along with some personal identifiable information, which I'm not going to specify here. It's just sort of fraud protection. But they have to verify that it's the person on the letter, and that they are benefits of or recipients of CalFresh. Recipients also have an option for a physical card. They could contact, the call center for gift card. They could get issued a physical card. It would be mailed within five to seven business days. Of the 150 or so who have activated so far, fifty two percent of them chose the virtual route. The remainder have chosen the physical card. The virtual one simply goes on your Apple Pay or your Google Wallet or whatever. We have provided toolkits to CBOs to help clients navigate that activation, should they have questions. Senior centers, family resource centers, our homeless shelters, our navigation centers. In addition, as I said, GoodCard has a +1 800 number for a call center. Because there might be capacity issues, we have linked to their call center. So overflow calls now flow into the human services agencies, benefits center, service center to to provide, assistance. I think it's important to note that both GoodCard and the food bank are doing this work pro bono. GoodCard will charge $5 for each physical card that they have to mail. And that's just covering their costs. If all 82,000 households requested a physical card, it would cost us $410,000 which, in terms of a percentage of the total, is is very small. We know that not everyone will need that that physical card. How will clients find out? A lot of clients might not even know that their EBT card will be loaded because of the federal shutdown. So we sent, as I said, 82,000 letters. This morning, over 90,000 text messages went out to the 112,000 CalFresh recipients, informing them that their benefits will be delayed and that they should expect, a letter regarding the the grocery card in the mail. The grocery card can only be used at point of sale machines in grocery stores, markets for food or for prepared meals, warm meals that are prepared. Can't be used in restaurants. Can't be used for alcohol, can't be used for tobacco. Also, cannot be converted to cash. You can't get money out of an ATM. You can't use it to transfer money into into a checking account. Let's see. What else? Oh, really important piece that we sort of struggled through. We think we have as elegant a solution as possible for our CalFresh clients who don't have a fixed address. We have about 8,000 recipients who use what's called general delivery, which is the post office on Hyde Street, to get their correspondence from us. About 85% of them are people experiencing homelessness. What we are doing for them, again, they can activate the cards virtually without even a letter, provided that they have their EBT card number and their identifiable information to prove it's them. But we are also going to open up our offices, our distribution offices at 1235 Mission Street, Mission between 8th And 9th, starting Thursday to give, activate, and provide physical cards to people experiencing homelessness or others who use the general delivery address. We are partnering with Code Tenderloin, whose offices are literally right next door. We share a wall. And they're opening an additional six desks, kiosks, if you will, to help individuals. We're under no illusions. This is 8,000 people. There are going to be lines down Mission Street. We're going to do everything we can to mitigate that. In addition to the code tenderloin windows, we have four windows at HSA. We will likely open up additional windows in our lobby. We will also have volunteers from HSA, and potentially CBOs, working the lines with tablets, activating for those individuals waiting in line who have smartphones and can use a digital card. We can activate them in line so they don't have to wait for a physical card. Again, that begins on on Thursday. That's sort of it for the, you know, the overview. I do have to say that this was a Herculean effort, not just by HSA staff, but by the city. Mayor's office, great partnership with Kunal, Modi, and and Peggy Moriarty, and also Adam. San Francisco Marine Food Bank and then executive director, Tannis Crosby. I called her two weeks ago, and I said, hey. What can you guys do if we give you $10,000,000, $15,000,000? Could you expand your pantries? She said, sure. When we decided to go a different direction with the cards, called Tannis, and she said, no problem. We'll be the intermediary. And, you know, they pivoted in, you know, on a dime. City attorney team, getting a contract from from a blank page to certification and signature in five days is unprecedented. Treasurer's office, they linked us up with the vendor GoodCard and are are helping with the policies and procedures for sort of the the fraud safeguards that we're putting in place. City administrator's office. So HSA has our own printing and mailing capacity. We mail out notices to our 250,000 clients on a regular basis. Of course, last week on Wednesday, two of our printers, copiers, were down. I called Carmen Chu, and she immediately stepped up, not only to say that they will help, but when I I said that we needed them to work through the weekend, and that HSA would pay for their overtime, she got back to me within a half hour and said her staff were more than happy to work through the week through the Halloween weekend to get those letters out. And they went out Monday, around 6PM. HSA's Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing used, through their community networks, all of their CBO partners, drop in centers, shelters to get the word out to people experiencing homelessness. And literally every division at at HSA worked tirelessly, from our IT, contracts, communications, planning and policy led the effort. It was really, an amazing undertaking. And and just have to say, I'm very proud of not only my staff, but the way the city stepped up to meet the food needs of 82,000 people who otherwise, have been forgotten by the federal government. So I'll conclude with that, and obviously happy to answer any questions.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Thank you, director Rohrer. Great work, everyone. Supervisor slaughter.

[Danny Sauter (Supervisor, District 3)]: Thank you, president. Thank you for stepping up, and thank you for sharing that background. It does sound like a herculean effort, and it's something we should all be proud of. Just briefly, maybe a question and a suggestion. The if if, you know, we don't know how many sign ups there will be. You know, 153 is a good start, but for money that is not utilized, where does that go? And then, you know, just a unsolicited suggestion, but on the on the SFGov website, the, you know, top banner today is, of course, about the election as it should be, but maybe you could get that spot tomorrow for the next week. I'm sure you're already working on that. But I just I want I want this to be everywhere, and and, you know, we should do that as a board to get this out to our networks and constituents as well. But, but my first question on where unused money might might go, what happens?

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: Great question, supervisor. Recipients of CalFresh and of the cards have until December 31 to activate the cards, and then they have until the March '26 to spend. All the funds that are unspent, as of 04/01/1926 will will, on a fifty fifty basis, return to the general fund and to, crank start.

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

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: And then in terms of the the marketing, yeah. Our top banner on on the HSA website is certainly the CalFresh replacement. Good suggestion about the citywide website. The the CBO toolkit is also highlighted. It is it is quite extensive. And, everything from 11 by 17 flyers to, step by step instructions how employees of community based organizations and others can help people activate their cards or order physical cards.

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

[Chayanne Chen (Supervisor, District 11)]: Thank you, president Madeline. I just wanna appreciate and say thank you to director Roller and everyone, that is involved and in your team, that to making this in a short turnaround into a reality. I I just want to acknowledge that, and thank you for the hard work. And I am actually incredibly proud of our city stepping out for for for all the residents at this time. Thank you.

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. Let's open this item to public comment.

[Chris “Sergeant Klein”]: Good afternoon, everyone. I just wanted to say great job, not making this political and doing the right thing for the citizens of San Francisco. So thank you.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Welcome to the next speaker.

[Unknown public commenter]: Board of supervisor and mayor office of San Francisco. The title of my speech today is, are you a wolf or you're a sheep?

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: I think this might be general public comment that you are providing. And right now, we are only taking public comment on, the committee of the whole appropriation, state and federal revenue risk reserve human service agency, CalFresh SNAP benefits backfill in the amount of $9,100,000.

[W. Otto Duffy]: W. Auto, Duffy, District 5. I just wanna compliment also doctor Rohrer. Surprisingly long career in a difficult position.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Are there other speakers to address this issue? Alright. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. Public comment is closed. Seeing oh, supervisor Walden.

[Shamann Walton (Supervisor, District 10)]: Thank you, president Mehtleman. I just wanted to lend my voice to the course and say thank you to the Department of Human Services. I definitely reached out to director Rohrer immediately, and he already had had conversations with philanthropy and already was set to move forward with the plan to address the gaps. So I just wanna let you know, we appreciate you, and thanks for coming up with something so quickly.

[Trent Rohrer (Executive Director, Human Services Agency)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. And I do have to thank all 11 members of the board for so quickly embracing the suggestion and and the action of getting funds off reserve for this this cause. It's, it's nice to see the city family coming together all as one on this.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Thank you, director Rohrer, and thanks to all of your partners in city government as well, our treasurer, tax collector. And as I said, it makes me very proud to be a San Franciscan that we're able to do this and that we are doing this and fortunate that we have reserves. Thank you, chair Chan and and mayor Lurie, and that we have private philanthropy philanthropy with the pockets to, to be able to to do this. And, of course, most places in this country are not gonna be able to do that, and that is horrifying. Alright. Seeing no other names on the roster, this matter has been heard and is now filed. And we will now consider item 27. Madam Clerk, do I need a motion on this, or do I do we just

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: No, mister president. Just call the Yeah. Oh, mister president, you will be May I do? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: So you're going to be asking for it to be approved on first reading, but also continue to

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Oh, that's right.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: The special board meeting of November 10, I believe, at 10AM?

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Thank you. So oh, because we yes, colleagues. We're doing a we are doing a special meeting on November 10. At least, we will if you all agree. So may I have a motion to pass this ordinance on first reading and send it to the November 10 special meeting? Moved by Cheryl, seconded by Walton. Madam Clerk, can you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On the motion to approve this ordinance on first reading and forward to the board meeting, the special board meeting of November 10 at 10AM, supervisor Chan. Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen. Chen, I. Supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder, I. Supervisor Makmud. Makmud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading and will be sent to the November 10 special board meeting. Thank you, colleagues, for being willing to do that. And now, madam clerk, I think we go back to roll call.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Yes. We left off, and it is supervisor Fielder who's next up.

[Jackie Fielder (Supervisor, District 9)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, I want to present an in memoriam in honor of Kit Kat, the beloved bodega cat who was adopted by Mike Sieden, the owner and operator of Veranda's Market on 16th Street in the Mission. Kit Kat was struck and killed by a Waymo robotaxi last Monday in a tragic incident. Effectually known as Mayor of 16th Street, Kit Kat arrived at the market six years ago, and since then became a neighborhood fixture and a true icon of 16th Street. A familiar feline face to every person that walks by or into the market, Kit Kat would calmly greet cinephiles as they left the Roxy or patrons from Dalva and Delirium, always ready for loving pets from regulars and new visitors alike. A one of a kind cat, it would not be an overstatement to say that anyone who ever spent any time on the iconic 16th Street corridor in the Mission knew of Kit Kat. He represented everything that makes the Mission District special. He was friendly, brave, and deeply rooted in his community. I certainly appreciated seeing him, whenever I would go to the Roxy, Dalva, any of the wonderful restaurants and bars on that street. Kit Kat and our pets are living creatures with inherent value that deserve dignity and our respect. If the measure of any society is in the way it treats those who are the weakest, then Kit Kat's death deserves our sorrow, our reverence, and our regret. And this incident that resulted in Kit Kat's tragic death deserves just as much scrutiny and attention as the death of any other. And ofrenda popped up outside of Rhonda's market in the days after Kit Kat's passing with hundreds of offerings from the many lives he has touched. The outpouring of support, the countless stories, and many memories with Kit Kat are a testament to just how vital his role on 16th Street was and the joy that he brought to people's lives. The mission will not be the same without our Kit Kat. However, his memory and legacy live on in our hearts. Rest in peace. And on that note, I am also introducing a resolution today calling on the California legislature and the governor to give local communities the power to decide for themselves whether autonomous vehicles should be allowed to operate on their roads. State law first authorized autonomous vehicles on public roads in 2012. And last year, the California legislature considered SB nine fifteen, which would have allowed municipal governments some control over their deployment. The Board of Supervisors in March 2024 unanimously passed a resolution supporting that bill. Unfortunately, that bill did not pass, in part due to concerns about maintaining intercity consistency. Since then, the proliferation of Autonomous vehicles in San Francisco has continued to raise significant privacy, workforce, environmental, traffic, and public transportation concerns. This resolution proposes a path forward. Rather than leaving cities powerless, it calls on the state legislature and the governor to grant local communities at the county level the right to decide whether autonomous vehicles should operate within their jurisdictions. By doing so, we can promote more local democracy, ensure regional coordination, and give communities a real voice in shaping the future of our transportation systems. I want to thank supervisors Chan, Chen, and Walton for your early cosponsorship. Let's send a clear message to Sacramento. Local communities deserve a say in whether autonomous vehicles operate on our streets. The rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, supervisor Fielder. Supervisor Mott Moon.

[Bilal Mahmood (Supervisor, District 5)]: Colleagues, last week I spoke about how the news of a potential National Guard surge left many of our residents feeling anxious and uncertain about what comes next in our city. As representatives for our districts, it is our job to do everything in our power to keep our residents safe and at ease. In fact, San Francisco has long prided itself on being a sanctuary city, a place where everyone, regardless of background or immigration status, knows they belong and trusts that they are welcome. In the past few weeks, we've heard questions from community about the National Guard. So today, I'd like to clarify a few points. I'm introducing a resolution recognizing that our sanctuary city ordinance still stands strong and prohibits the use of city resources to assist any federally deployed National Guard personnel or other federal agents engaged in civil immigration enforcement. It is a reaffirmation of the city's enduring commitment to support immigrant communities because sanctuary policies embody our values of inclusion, dignity, and the rights of all people to live free from discrimination, harassment, or intimidation, regardless of immigration status. This policy has set the model for the rest of the nation for decades, and I want to reiterate that these sanctuary protections apply equally to any federal entity conducting civil immigration enforcement, whether it's ICE, federalized National Guard troops, or other agencies like the DEA and ATF that could be tapped for civil immigration enforcement. Our city resources will not be used to assist in civil immigration enforcement. I've said this before. What our residents want most is to feel safe, to feel protected, and to know that the city has their back. So to our residents who are watching, we stand with our immigrant communities. We stand with residents against fear and discrimination, and we will continue to keep our residents safe no matter what comes our way. I'd like to thank SF Rising and AROC for supporting this resolution, and thanks to our deputy city attorney, Brad Ressy, and my chief of staff, Jessica Gutierrez Garcia, and most importantly, legislative director, Sam Logan, for working in our office on this legislation. I'd like to also thank supervisor Chen, Walton, Sauter, Chan, and Fielder for their early cosponsorship as well. The rest, I submit.

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

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I have a couple of in memoriams today. First, I'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Gary MacLean, known to many by drag name Marlena, who died on October 5 at the age of 85. Gary MacLean was born on 11/14/1939 in California's Central Valley. He divorced his wife and came out as a gay man in 1973, after which he would, become known for his work with the Imperial Court, a nationwide philanthropic LGBTQ plus nonprofit. Prior to coming to San Francisco, Gary reigned as Marlena Empress three of the Imperial Owl Empire of Modesto. In 1990, he was crowned absolute Empress twenty five, Marlena the Magnificent of the Imperial Court of San Francisco. And in February, he completed his thirty fifth anniversary celebration. Empress Marlena was known for her warmth, mentorship, and flair. She was so influential that she was crowned the first Queen Mother One of California by Nicole Marie Ramirez, Queen Mother One of The Americas. In 1989, following the Loma Prieta earthquake, Gary opened Marlena's, a self described queer oasis in Hayes Valley, a neighborhood that had historically lacked queer public spaces. Gary's name was on the lease, but it was truly Marlena who ran the bar that became a cornerstone of the Hayes Valley community. Marlena's was known for its vibrant drag shows, community fundraisers, and legendary Christmas Santa displays. It became a refuge from the despair of the AIDS epidemic. Even after selling the bar in 2012, Marlena remained a pillar of the community. Friends and fellow monarchs described her as someone who accepted every everybody and became an extended version of their family. Marlena is survived by her daughter, Pamela Harrington, her son, Gary MacLean, her eight grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, and a large extended family of friends from the imperial court. And, an imperial state funeral will be held on Saturday, November 8 at noon at Saint Mark's Lutheran Church, followed by a celebration of life outside her former bar at 2PM, featuring the return of the Hayes Street follies and performances by the San Francisco Imperial Monarchs. We send our deep condolences to Marlena's family, friends, and the entire Imperial Port Imperial Court community. Rest in peace and power, Empress Marlena the Magnificent. May your memory be a blessing, and your crown forever shine for San Francisco. Secondly, I'm asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Deanna Gwen Crawford Mooney, who died on 10/02/2025 at the age of 84. Deanna was born 10/05/1940 in Woodward, Oklahoma, the eldest child of Gwen Suther and Ivan Crawford. She grew up in Enid, Oklahoma where she attended McKinley Elementary, Emerson Junior High, and Enid High School before earning a nursing degree from the University of Oklahoma. In 1961, Deanna moved to San Francisco and began a career at San Francisco General Hospital where she would work for nearly four decades. There, she led the country's first nurse sick out in 1966 to demand fair pay and better working conditions, and later helped secure lifetime health care for city nurses and their families. She also helped oversee the hospital's relocation in the nineteen seventies and worked on national task forces that developed the first AIDS treatment protocols with the CDC, FDA, and NIH in the nineteen eighties. Outside her nursing career and advocacy, Deanna worked as a set decorator for Warner Brothers, contributing to iconic San Francisco films, including Bullet and the Dirty Harry series. In 1964, she was introduced to her husband, Sean Mooney, through ABC Nightly News anchor, Peter Jennings. Together, they supported Sean's ventures in hospitality, including Monroe's restaurant and Mooney's Irish Pub. In 1971, they attempted to have a secret wedding on a Tuesday that became a citywide event after it was announced over hospital loudspeakers mentioned by Radio Coast Jim Dunbar and celebrated in Herb Caine's column. Deanna and Sean shared a love of laughter, travel, and entertaining. They lived on Telegraph Hill and later in Noe Valley and spent summers at at their Sierra retreat known as The Cabin, where friends and family gathered for barbecues, card games, and deck living. After Sean's death in 1990, Deanna continued to live life to its fullest, traveling the world, enjoying San Francisco's cafe scene, and earning the nickname the saloonista from the Marina Times for her charm, humor, and a love of conversation. She was a great neighbor and a wonderful host. The Duncan Newberg Association holiday parties will not be the same without her, and I will miss seeing her there and elsewhere. She's survived by stepchildren, Shayla Fromer, Kevin Mooney, and Siobhan Stevens, niece Casey Newman, seven grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, and many friends and relatives around the world. We send our condolences to her family and many friends. Rest in peace. Diana Mooney, may your memory be a blessing, and the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Milgau.

[Myrna Melgar (Supervisor, District 7)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today, I am submitting a letter of inquiry to the San Francisco Department of Public Health along with my colleague, district ten supervisor, Shamone Walton, regarding Mhmm. Birth outcomes and disparities in maternal health. We have great disparities in our city when it comes to birth outcomes. Heartbreaking, inexcusable disparities. All babies and their moms deserve a chance to thrive in our city and have the access that they need to resources to ensure their success. This is the essence of equity, and it is our moral imperative. Over the years, the board of supervisors supported funding for maternal health. Despite that, we are still falling behind other counties. We have the highest preterm birth rate for certain populations and in certain ZIP codes in California. We would like a better understanding of what funds were allocated and expended. I was also dismayed to learn from the San Francisco standard that there is funding. About 800,000 through the state's prenatal equity initiative that we are sending back to the state. And there is at least $8,000,000 in underspending to address maternal inequities. This is morally inexcusable, and we must act now. Let's cherish our babies. Let's support our mamas. Let's hold this department accountable for setting the framework for health equity in our city. This is a solvable problem. The rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, supervisor Milgar. Supervisor Sauter. Submit. Thank you, supervisor Cheryl.

[Stephen Sherill (Supervisor, District 2)]: Colleagues, today I'm introducing an ordinance to support the operations of our beloved movie theaters citywide. As we all know, movie theaters are essential piece of our cultural fabric. They're community cornerstones, gathering spaces, and they serve a special role in bringing neighborhoods together to celebrate the arts. Our film festivals, such as Frameline, the world's largest LGBTQ plus film festival, SF Film, and others, not only reflect the strength of San Francisco's diversity, they also give unique opportunities for artists who are unwelcome or uncelebrated elsewhere. Yet over the past several decades, movie theaters have been threatened by shifting streaming habits, the pandemics, and more. And the theaters who've been hit hardest by these tough economic conditions are the small, single screen historic theaters, many of which were small businesses and been forced to close in recent years. Now in District 2, we have a landmark theater, the Clay Theatre, that I'm very excited to say will be thoughtfully restored and will reopen as a theater next year. But we also know that serving beer and wine at theaters is good for the bottom line. It's good for long term health and sustainability as businesses. And when I met with the project sponsors at the Clay Theatre, they let me know that our planning code treats movie theaters who would like to serve beer and wine the same as restaurants. And we levied the same punishments for noncompliance. Specifically, state liquor laws mandate that movie theaters who want to serve beer and wine operate a restaurant in conjunction. And then our planning code implements the same revenue test on these movie theaters that we placed on restaurants, meaning that these theaters will have to make a minimum of 51% of their gross receipts from food sales prepared and sold to guests. So in practice, we are mandating that any community theater, especially the newly renovated Clay Theater serving beer and wine, make at least 51% of their revenue from food that they prepare on-site. And regardless how much we charge for extra butter, no amount of popcorn is gonna make 51% of their revenue. This is a time where we need to make it easier to invest in and operate these community spaces. So this ordinance amends the Planning Co's definition of movie theater in Section 102 to allow theaters to provide on-site beer and wine for drinking on premises with an ABC license and only as a minor in incidental use. We need to be encouraging residents to go to their neighborhood theater, to walk their local Merchant Corridor, to support the arts in this city. And this legislation will make it clear that movie theaters are not the same as restaurants, and our planning code shouldn't treat them the same. It will make sure that we are doing what we can in city hall to be a partner and a supporter of our movie theaters and of the arts. And while I'm particularly thrilled to stop by for a movie and also possibly some Sunday morning cartoons at the Reopen Clay Theatre in the coming year or so, it's important that we fix this illogical requirement for all our theaters citywide to benefit. By enacting this ordinance, we will make it easier for all theaters, but particularly our small businesses, our local community theaters, to continue to operate as cherished cultural cornerstones. Thank you, colleagues, and the rest I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, supervisor Sherrill. Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton (Supervisor, District 10)]: Thank you, madam chair. Colleagues, first, I just want to add to the letter of inquiry by supervisor Melgar, and just state a reminder that in 2020, supervisor fewer added $2,000,000 to address black infant mortality. There were many reasons why this was important. And today, we would like to understand the impacts and the changes that have taken place to lower these national statistics. We were all in receipt of a letter signed by doctors and medical providers dedicated to supporting maternal health, who are telling us that San Francisco has the worst birth disparities in the state of California. Black mothers represent only 4% of births in San Francisco, but account for about fifty percent of maternal deaths, which is five out of ten over the last decade. So needless to say, this is a major problem, and we will also be hosting a hearing on this in the next few months. Today, I'm also formally requesting a hearing on the United States Navy's delayed disclosure of airborne plutonium detected at Hunters Point Shipyard. The Navy identified plutonium above the allowable level in November 2024 on Parcel G, And did not report it to the city until October 2025, recently, almost a year. A delay of nearly one year for information that directly affects the public health. This is absolutely unacceptable and cannot be excused or minimized. District 10 in this community has endured decades of broken promises, misleading statements, and delayed disclosures from the navy. This is the latest incident that proves that the navy continues to hide information instead of communicating honestly with the Bayview Hunters Point residents and the city and county of San Francisco. I'm requesting US Navy, the EPA, California Department of Public Health, and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to provide every document, every test result, and every explanation for this failure. And to outline what protections, if any, were in place during the eleven months the public was kept in the dark. The people of Bayview Hunters Point deserve transparency, not more excuses. Our office will continue to fight for full accountability, independent oversight, full cleanup to protect the residents, workers, the people that live around, and the artists on the shipyard. And colleagues last, I am requesting a letter of inquiry to the following departments. The mayor's office, department of homelessness and supportive housing, San Francisco MTA, San Francisco port, and the department of emergency management. On why they continue to make decisions that overtly burden District 10 communities. Right now, this administration continues to strong-arm the District 10 community and is ensuring that District 10 is shouldering many of the heavy burdens of homelessness and other issues for the city. District 10 continues to carry more than our share of the city's burdens. We show up for solutions, but we should not have to be used to shoulder all the burdens time and time again. The RV enforcement plan was enacted on November 1, and now the city is preparing to tow people's homes and move them to Pier 68 in District 10 with the port's permission and a secret deal that no one was aware was taking place. This is an attempt to quietly move a self created problem into our community without any transparency or any community input whatsoever. That is not strategy. That is displacement. We have seen this pattern already. Tiny cabins were secretly moved from the Mission to our Gerald Street site recently without any community input after plans for the original site were changed multiple times. Again, without community input. Now the city at the pushing of MTA wants to store towed RVs at Pier 68 with no transparency, no notice, and no respect. Families, seniors, and working people live, work, and gather around there. We are not the city's storage yard when other communities do not want to deal with hard problems. If this plan is safe, equitable, and effective, then it should be shared across the city and not dropped in District 10 as a secret. I'm calling for transparency, equity, and real housing solutions. Show us the plan. Engage the community. Stop concentrating the city's burdens that create negative impacts in District 10 just because you don't care about the families, people, and communities in the Southeast Sector of San Francisco. District 10 will not be the city's dumping ground time after time. I wanna know why this administration is hell bent on ignoring d ten communities. I want these departments to explain why they feel they can ignore community voice in their decision making. And put on record what they have against District 10. And how they make these decisions. Furthermore, SFMTA should be trying to bring communities together at a time when they are going to be asking the voters to address their many fiscal issues. If SFMTA doesn't support us, why should we support them? The rest, I submit.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. Mister president, seeing no names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business.

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: At this time, the board welcomes your general public comment. If you line up on your right hand side of the chamber, you can speak to items 33 through 36, which are on the adoption without committee reference calendar and other general matters, not on the published agenda, but must be within the board subject matters, jurisdiction. Setting the timer for two minutes. Welcome to our first speaker.

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

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[Unknown religious public commenter]: I'll give you 50 Sir,

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: you cannot speak about

[Unknown religious public commenter]: vote no. The campaign today. Mainly because George Soros says yes. But I'd like to read from, Paul's epistle before he died. When a man gets ready to die, you ought to hang on his every word. Only Luke is with me. Take Mark and bring him with thee, for he is profitable to me for the ministry. And Tychicus have I sent to Ephesus. The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus when thou comest bring with thee, and the books, but especially the parchments. Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil. The Lord reward him according to his works, of whom be thou aware also, for he hath greatly withstood our words. At my first answer, this is before Nero, no man stood with me, but all men forsook me, even Luke. I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge, notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion, referring to Nero as the lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. And then he was decapitated. Now this this is a perfect example of how if you're saved, you are saved by grace, not by your works. K? There wasn't one Christian that stood with Paul. Not one Christian. Does that mean they were not Christians? They were not saved, that they were going to hell with the rest of the world that rejected Jesus Christ? It doesn't mean that. It it means that all men are really pathetic. I mean, really. And you're only saved by grace. You know, you really you're if you're not saved by grace, then everyone's going to hell.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Alright. Next speaker, please. Yes. We'll come collect that from you.

[Chris “Sergeant Klein”]: Good afternoon, board of supervisors. For the record, my name is Chris. I also go by Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps. When I first got out of the Marine Corps, I went to Northeastern University, and it's one of the largest universities in The United States. They also do research. So everything that I'm sharing with you is through research on investigative skills, a bachelor of science of investigation. We are in a very troubling time, a hundred year war basically. And it's basically every university in San Francisco put people on research, and it's unethical. We have the proof. We gave it to the sheriff. Please use your voice to get the sheriff to move on three people that we've identified. Those people are Matt Haney, Ram Kapaka, and Matthew Johns. There are other people that are that are culpable and are aware of this. However, those three people are the most culpable, and we're asking the sheriff to move forward in arresting Matt Haney. And we know it's difficult because he has a friendship with him. But again, the board of supervisors here, you have that report. If you need another copy of that report, I can forward it to you. But we need everyone in this room to understand what the Belmont Report is. And this was created because of San Francisco in 1978. This report was the Belmont Report was created in 1979. I had to go back into the Marine Corps for safety and security because I was educating people about this. That's how serious it is. People are dying on your streets. And that's why the military was gonna be called in. And just to be very clear, the the Marine Corps, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force can come in at any time when there are human rights violations happening on your watch. So please get with the sheriff. Please move on this right away. And again, it's Matt Haney, Ran Kapaka, and Matthew Johns. And if it's not done sooner, we will add people to the list. Thank you.

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

[Richard S. D. Peterson]: Board president, management, and board members. My name is Richard SD Peterson. I'm still very disturbed about the apparent use of the mayor of a personal computer that is now gonna become, the official government computer of San Francisco. I think that this is dangerous because he can then manipulate what is being, released to the public. And, for example, I'm dressed like this because next summer is sixty years for the summer of love that was in 1967. I came to San Francisco in '64 as an adult, have lived here ever since, have made my profession here in the in the federal courts, and I've never quite seen the except for maybe our president, the grab of power that the mayor is now grabbing. I hear that the West Side is up in alarm, and well, they should be because the mayor wants to put through a tax policy that favors the downtown instead of the people out in the West Side District, and District 4 And 5, I believe it is. And the computer will be able to determine things, like how many parcels are out there. Well, we can get that right now, but how many people have children in the West Side versus downtown areas. And that's very important because, for example, maybe in District 8, we ought to look we ought to be looking next election for a straight in District 8. And maybe children should be identified in populations.

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

[Griffin Lee]: Good afternoon, board. Griffin Lee here, District 2 resident and staff at Connect with SF. I'm here for a couple different reasons. One, I would like to encourage the board, based off of member feedback to, look into changing some of the design and proposed plans for the inner sunset transportation study. That is part of District 7 specifically. We have a lot of members concerned about the bike infrastructure being proposed on 7th Avenue. And as an alternative solution, our members have suggested potentially considering a bike protected lane on either 5th, 6th, or 9th Avenue. The reason for that specifically is because when you're going west on Lincoln Way, turning on 7th, it's one of the only options to turn left with a designated left arrow. Furthermore, 7th Ave is a major thoroughfare for commuters coming from the East Side getting back to Laguna Honda, Forest Hill, etcetera. Secondly, I would like to urge the board to look into potential relief or solutions to support small businesses along the Geary Corridor where the sewage project is taking place right now. I think it's a two year project, and small businesses are hurting in that area right now. This is direct feedback I've had from conversations over the last week. Lastly, not on behalf of necessarily connected SF, but I urge the board to consider solutions. Although I do and we do support recovery first and abstinence based solutions, I still think the city owns Log Cabin Ranch. And I know that might be a longer term play, but it could be a a solution to get those that need services and shelter in an isolated area to get them back on track. Lastly

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

[Unknown public commenter]: Board of Supervisors and mayor office of San Francisco. The title of my speech today is, Are You a Wolf or a Sheep? When I was three, I fell and broke my arm. I sent my mom into a frenzy of chaos. It marked a topsy-turvy road to motherhood. I was only three years old back then. My mom said we were going to a houseboat for dinner. Out of ecstasy, I climbed the ladder with my face forward, my back toward the steps of the chairs. With two hands holding the ladder, I was stuck in the third step. Unable to get out of predicament, I jumped and screamed loudly and hit the floor. My mom had to cancel all her plans. She had to call the best doctor to lock two of my arm with splinters. To this day, my arm was crooked. Worse, it caused so much agony for mine for years to come. My mom had always given me the world to me. When I was going to school at age three, she hired someone just to stand in front of the schoolyard so I won't cry. The image of her hiding a personality to watch me over edged into my head. Although I had always respected teachers, it was my mom who gave the world kindness, compassion, and powerful image as my mom. My mom passed away in March 2021. I confronted Maggie Wong to see my mom before she took her last breath. Maggie Wong, Miss Chinatown of 2018, also missed popularity of Miss Chinese International 2019. For Maggie Starr, she did all she had done. Gaining her crown and seeing my mom go was as good as it gets, but not for me. In 2022, while listening to Joe Rogan, dude, I want to invite Putin to my podcast. And with that, I decided to create a worldwide constitution for Joe Biden. The list of four axis of female superpower has gone to 28 since then. I it's all in a day's work. Thank you for your time.

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

[W. Otto Duffy]: My name is W. Otto Duffy, Tenderloin neighborhood activist. Today is kind of the high holy day for neighborhood activists, election day, whenever they fall. I've we work diligently to support one side or another of various things, and it's a wonderful thing that whatever the voters vote for, that's what we go for. That's what we go with. I would say that I fall a little bit closer to the mister Pascal's beliefs than I do to the Christian guy. But we certainly got a wide range of beliefs here today at the public comment. And one thing, I guess, it's not too unsurprising that everyone that have talked agreed with is that we're in a bit of trouble. We're in a dark spot. Now I I'd like to point out that, political swings over US history, they tend to be in the sixty to seventy five year range. Like, for instance, the Democratic Republican Party was the only dominant party for about that length of time before the Republicans came in. And, the Democrats have been with the dominant party from 1930 to about 1990, about sixty years. So since Reagan and the Congress started to turn Republican, that was, you know, around 1990. That was about forty years ago, thirty thirty five years ago. So if however today turns out, if this is the bottom if this is the bottom and we can start moving to a better place, then we have we'll have dodged a calamity worse than Jim Crow, Vietnam, the COVID shutdown, the two thousand and eight recession, Hurricane Katrina, the AIDS crisis, and Jonestowns combined. And I could throw in milk in Moscone and Prop 13 and many other things. If this is the bottom, we will be very lucky. I beseech Providence that that be the case.

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

[Unknown resident]: Hey, mister speaker. I wanna submit this picture here. I wanna submit this here. I wanna ask for a a

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: public collect that from you.

[Unknown resident]: Yeah. I wanna ask for a public

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: And if you could please

[Unknown resident]: pull I am in for a victim right now that I'm speaking to you right now, ma'am. They are trying to force me out of my place right now, but I have some damages done to my apartment, and they are refusing to fix it. And otherwise, instead of their preparing what they're supposed to be preparing, they are forcing me out. That strip that I gave you on the second strip, they are charging me for property damage. If you can see this picture, I want you to put this picture up so everybody can see it.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: SFGov TV, please.

[Unknown resident]: Uh-huh. What do you say, ma'am? I'm asking for a public hearing on the submitted. Would I would I submit to you? Because right now, HSH is discussing whether they should let me stay in the program or out of the program behind this right here. I also have with Zinnia G. U. Of a medical record when I fell down inside of my house and hit my head, and I was transferred to the hospital. This is retaliation on me. They have raised my bill from $2,001.70 to 5,054. So I'm asking you for a public hearing to see it in my house. Can I get a public hearing?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Sir, this is your opportunity to tell us what you'd like the board to hear.

[Unknown resident]: My my my my point is, ma'am, I've not been in a program once before standing in front of you. I have a very bad head injury. The property manager causing these things. And this is the second time. The first time I was standing in front of you, I was in a program. I had stitches in my eye and in top of my head. This is a new program right here I'm in. I'm being forced out of my place as I speak to you now. I'm coming to you again for a public hearing based on this. I have a a $1,700 medical bill. My insurance is not gonna pay it. I wanna charge it to the Trinity Place. The manager name, I want him to be So,

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: sir, if you'll just wait at the podium, we'll come around, and we have your paperwork. We'll talk further with you. I cannot promise you a hearing. Thank you, sir. Your your time's concluded. Yes, please. If you wouldn't mind waiting for us. Thank you. Are there any other members of the public who'd like to address the board during general public comment? Alright, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: Alright. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, let's call the remaining the remaining items on the for adoption without committee reference agenda, items 33 through 36.

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Items 33 through 36 were introduced for adoption, but without committee reference. A unanimous vote is required for adoption of a resolution on first appearance today. Alternatively, a member may require a resolution on first appearance to go to committee.

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And I don't see anybody putting their name in the queue to sever anything. So madam clerk, could you please call the roll?

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: On items 33 through 36. Supervisor Chen. Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Chen. Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey. Aye. Dorsey, I. Supervisor Fielder? Aye. Fielder, I. Supervisor Mahamud? Aye. Mahamud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. And supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. There are 10 ayes.

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

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

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

[Angela Calvillo (Clerk of the Board)]: Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor Mandelmann, for the late mister Gary MacLean, also known as Empress Marlena and miss Diana Mooney. On behalf of supervisor Fielder, for the beloved feline known as Kit Kat.

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman (President, District 8)]: And we are adjourned.

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