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[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Good afternoon. Welcome to the 12/09/2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Chan. Present. Chan present. Supervisor Chan. Chan present. Supervisor Dorsey. Dorsey present. Supervisor Fielder. Fielder present. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmood present. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann present. Supervisor Melgar? Present. Melgar present. Supervisor Sauter? Present. Sauter present. Supervisor Sheryl? Present. Sheryl present. Supervisor Walton? Present. Walton present. And supervisor Wong? Wong not present. Mister president, you have a quorum.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes, mister president. Our office is in receipt of a memo from supervisor Alan Wong requesting to be excused from the board meeting until his arrival to the chamber.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Great. Colleagues, we have a request from supervisor Wong to be excused. Can I get a motion moved by Chen and seconded by Sauter? Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On the motion to excuse supervisor Wong until his arrival to the chamber, supervisor Mahmut. Mahmut, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Uh-uh. Aye. Mandleman, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor Fielder? Fielder, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The motion passes, and supervisor Wong is excused. Madam Clerk, was that it for your communications?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: I will just state that if you need to make a reasonable accommodation to a future meeting under the Americans with Disability Act, or if you need to request language assistance, please contact the clerk's office at least two business days in advance. You can call the number, (415) 554-5184. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Let's go to our meeting minutes.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Approval of the 10/21/2025 regular board meeting minutes, and the 11/03/2025 special meeting minutes at the land use and transportation committee meeting, which constituted a quorum of the board of supervisors.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On the minutes as presented, supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Sheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor, Chan? Aye. Chan, aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, aye. There are 10 ayes.

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

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

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On items one through eight, supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor, Chan? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Ordinances are finally passed. Madam clerk, please call our next where are we? Sorry. Please call item nine.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item nine. This is an ordinance to appropriate 4,500,000.0 of state cost reimbursement revenue to the Department of Elections to support costs associated with the statewide November twenty twenty five special election in fiscal years, 2025 and 2026, and specifically for the state reimbursement share of 4,178,500. This item requires a two thirds threshold or at least eight votes of all members of the board to approve this appropriation ordinance for final passage, pursuant to charter section 3.113 sub c.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam Clerk, please call item 10.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 10. This is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by Tommy O. Johnson by and through his attorney, in fact, Rev Doris White and John Doe, by and through his conservator, Thomas O'Connor, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated against the city for approximately 5,800,000.0. This lawsuit involves claims of elder dependent adult abuse, invasion of privacy, negligence, and violations of patients' rights brought over by 700 former and current residents of Laguna Honda Hospital.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed. Madam clerk, please call items eleven through 14 together.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Items 11 through 14 are three ordinances and a resolution that comprise the family zoning plan. Item 11, this ordinance amends the general plan to revise the urban design element, commerce and industry element, transportation element, the Balboa Park Station area plan, the Glen Park Community Plan, the Market And Octavia area plan, the Northeastern Waterfront plan, the Van Ness Avenue area plan, the Western SoMa area plan, the Western Shoreline area plan, the Downtown area plan, and Land Use Index to implement the family housing zoning program by adjusting guidelines regarding building heights, density design, and other matters to amend the city's local coastal program and to make other, appropriate findings. Item 12. This ordinance amends the zoning map to implement the family zoning plan by amending the zoning use district maps to reclassify certain properties, to amend the height and bulk map, to reclassify properties, to change the height limits on certain lots, and designating various parcels to be included in the, SFMTA SUD, to amend the local coastal program, to reclassify certain properties and to designate one parcel as part of the SFMTA SUD and to make the appropriate findings. Item 13. This ordinance amends the planning code to create the housing choice San Francisco program to modify height and bulk limits, to require only buildings taller than 85 feet in certain districts to reduce ground level wind currents, to create the residential transit oriented commercial district, the RTO Dash C, to implement the Metropolitan Transportation Commission's transit oriented communities policy, to revise off street parking and curb cut obligations citywide, to create the SFMTA SUD, permit businesses displaced by new construction to relocate without a conditional use authorization, and reduce usable open space and bicycle parking requirements for senior housing to amend the business and tax regulations code regarding the board of appeals review of permits to amend the local coastal program to implement the housing choice, the San Francisco program, and to make appropriate findings. And for item 14, this resolution requires the transmission to the California coastal commission for review and certification an amendment to the implementation program and land use plan of the city's certified local coastal program to implement the family zoning plan, and to affirm the CEQA determination.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On items 11 through 14, supervisor Mahmood. Aye. Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? No. Walton, no. Supervisor Chan? No. Chen, no. Supervisor Chen? Chen, no. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor Fielder? No. Fielder, no. There are six ayes and four nos with supervisors Walton, Chan, Chen, and Fielder voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinances are finally passed, and the resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item number 15.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 15. This is an ordinance to amend the building code to revise the timing of expiration of certain building permits and building permit applications and to affirm the CEQA determination.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 15, supervisor Mahmoud. Mahkamud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Walton, I. Supervisor, Chan? No. Chan, no. Supervisor, Chen? Chen, no. Supervisor, Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, I. And supervisor, Fielder? Fielder, no. There are eight ayes and three excuse me. There are seven ayes and three nos, with supervisors Chan, Chen, and Fielder voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: We need to res there's a motion to rescind the vote made by supervisor Walton and seconded by supervisor Chan. And can we take that without objection? We can take that without objection. Great. And can you call the roll on item 15?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 15, supervisor Mahmoud? Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, no. Supervisor Chan? No. Chen, no. Supervisor, Chen? No. Chen, no. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor Fielder? Fielder, no. There are six ayes and four nos with supervisors Walton, Chan, Chen, and Fielder voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: The ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item number 16.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 16. This is an ordinance to amend the planning code to allow the city to waive the inclusionary housing fee and other requirements in certain residential and neighborhood commercial districts outside of the priority equity geographies special use district, the SUD, in exchange for a project sponsor's agreement to subject all units in the project to rent control and to allow projects in certain residential and neighborhood commercial districts outside of the priority equity geographies, SUD, to comply with the inclusionary housing ordinance by dedicating land to the city to require periodic reports to the planning commission and to affirm the CEQA determination and to make the appropriate findings.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, president. Just wanted to, address this item for a little bit. It came out of the, land use interpretation committee with a positive recommendation. It also left the planning commission with a unanimous recommendation. With pending rezoning, this legislation provides more flexibility and options for developers outside of priority equity geographies to opt to fulfill their inclusionary requirements by offering rent controlled units. And we would thus be increasing to our rental housing stock that is rent controlled. Rent control remains one of the most important tools for our long term stability and affordability in neighborhoods. Given the current market conditions, I think providing these options is helpful to see if we can spur more rental stock in neighborhoods that have historically not embraced new housing and new rental housing, such as District 7. Again, this is not a mandate, but only expanding additional options. We work with affordable housing organizations to limit where developers could use this new tool and this exemption so that we can fulfill our goals to support more rent controlled stock in certain areas, while also encouraging traditional below market rate affordable inclusionary requirements in other areas. So I hope I can count on your support for this legislation. Thank you.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 16, supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam Clerk, please call items seventeen and eighteen together.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item seventeen and eighteen are two resolutions that pertain to grant agreements for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing. Item 17 approves the third amendment to the grant agreement between Episcopal Community Services and the Department of Homeless and Supportive Housing, HSH, for shelter services at Sanctuary Shelter to extend the grant term by twenty four months for a total term 07/01/2021 through 06/30/2028 to increase the grant the agreement amount by 15,000,000 for a new total amount of 41,000,000. And for item 18, this resolution approves the third amendment to the grant agreement between Felton Institute and the HSH for drop in center operations to extend the grant term by twenty four months from 06/30/2026, for a new total term, 10/01/2022 through 06/30/2028. And to increase the agreement amount by 7,100,000.0 for a new total of 16,800,000.0.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I think we can take these items, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam Clerk, please call items 19 through 22 together.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Items 19 through 22 are four resolution four resolutions that pertain to permanent supportive housing for the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, HSH. Item 19. This is a resolution to authorize the city and county through the Department of HSH to execute a standard agreement with the California Department of Housing and Community Development and to and co applicants, swords to plowshares, veterans rights organizations, and ten thirty five vets, LLC for a total award of approximately 39,000,000 under the Homekey Plus program for the acquisition of real property located at 1035 Van Ness, Avenue for permanent supportive housing for veterans and for operating costs and support to accept and expand anticipated revenue from the city's portion of Homekey Plus grant funds up to 3,000,000 for the rehabilitation of the property to approve and authorize the city to commit up to 8,000,000 in required matching funds for property rehabilitation and a minimum of five years of operating subsidy. Additionally, the city has committed up to fifteen years of operating subsidies through the city's local operating subsidy program, subject to budget appropriations, and to authorize the city to assume any joint and several liability for expenditure of the Homekey Plus grant under the standard agreement and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 20, this resolution approves and authorizes a loan and grant agreement for $11,000,000 consisting of an 8,000,000 fifty five year minimum term loan and a $3,000,000 grant with ten thirty five vets, LLC, to rehabilitate real property located at 1035 Van Ness Avenue into 124 units or permanent supportive housing for veterans exiting homelessness and to adopt the appropriate findings. Item 21, This resolution authorizes the city and county through the department of homelessness and supportive housing to execute a standard agreement with the California department of housing and community development and co applicants eight thirty five Turk, LLC and Five Keys School and Programs, for a total award of approximately 17,300,000.0 under the Homekey Plus program for supportive operating costs and up to 13,800,000.0 disbursed by HCD as a grant to the city for rehabilitation and associated relocation costs for the real property located at 835 Turk Street for permanent supportive housing to retroactively accept and expand anticipated revenue from the city's portion of the Homekey Plus grant funds in an amount of 13,700,000.0 to support the rehabilitation and associated relocation costs for the property for costs incurred from 03/05/2024 through HCD's capital grant expenditure deadline to approve and authorize the city to commit approximately 16,300,000.0 in required matching funds for the rehabilitation of the property and a minimum of five years of operating subsidies. Additionally, the city has committed up to 15 of operating subsidies through the city's local operating subsidy program, subject to budget appropriations and to make the appropriate findings. And for item 22, this resolution approves and authorizes the director of property and the department of HSH to enter into a ground lease for real property owned by the city located at 835 Turk Street with eight thirty five Turk LLC for a fifty five year lease term and $1 total rent in order to rehabilitate and operate a 100% permanent supportive housing, 106 unit multifamily rental housing, development affordable to very low income households, to approve and authorize the mayor and the director of the mayor's office of housing and community development to enter into a loan and grant agreement with eight thirty five Turk LLC, to finance the development and rehabilitation of the project with a loan in an $13,000,000 amount for fifty five years for a minimum loan term and a grant of approximately $13,700,000 from the California Department of Housing and Community Development, and to adopt the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I think we can take these items, same house, same call. Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call items twenty three and twenty four together.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Items twenty three and twenty four are to accept and expend grants for the office of the district attorney. Item 23 retroactively authorizes the office to accept and expend a $1,100,000 grant from the California department of insurance for the workers' compensation insurance fraud program for the grant term through 06/30/2026. And item 24, this resolution retroactively retroactively authorizes the office to accept and expend an approximate 347,000 grant from the California Department of Insurance for the automobile insurance fraud program grant term through 06/30/2026.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we can take these items, same house, same call without objection. The resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call item number 25.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 25. This is a resolution to authorize a two year extension of the agreement between the Recreation and Park Department and Active Network LLC for use of the city's recreation programs and facility reservations beginning 12/31/2025 for a total term through 12/31/2027 with no change to the contract amount of 100,000 annually and to update certain standard contractual clauses.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. Items twenty six and twenty seven are two resolutions that pertain to contract agreements for the Department of Public Health, DPH. Item 26 is the first amendment to the agreement between the city, DPH, and Priority Healthcare Distribution, Inc, doing business as Cura Script Specialty Distribution for the procurement of specialty drugs to extend the term by four years from 11/30/2026 through 11/30/2030, and to increase the amount by 89,400,000.0 for a new total of approximately 98,400,000.0. And item 27, this resolution approves the second amendment to the agreement between the city and DPH and Hyde Street Community Services Inc. To provide mental health services to extend the term by two years from June 30, 2026, through 06/30/2028, and to increase the amount by 11,800,000.0 for a new total amount of approximately 38,800,000.0.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we can take these items, same house, same call, without objection. The resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, please call item number 28.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 28. This is a resolution to approve an agreement between the city and DPH and the California Department of Social Services and its third party administrator, BDO, Government Services LLC, having anticipated revenue of approximately 7,400,000.0 for a performance based period, commencing on execution of the grant agreement through 06/30/2029.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. I do think we will get 02:29, but I wanna make sure we get to thirty before we do our 02:30 special order. So madam clerk, can you please call item 30?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 30. This is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to re to establish the reparations fund.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we can take that same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. And madam clerk, please call item 29.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 29, this is an ordinance to amend the business and tax regulations code to extend the suspension of the cannabis business tax through 12/31/2035 and to remove references to the cannabis business tax from the common administrative provisions of the code. This item was referred without recommendation from the budget and finance committee.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk. So, I would like to speak on this, but I'm not gonna do it from the da dais. And so I would like to invite, supervisor Melgar to come up and chair this part of the meeting.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Okay. Supervisor Chan. Thank you, chair Malgar. I'm sorry.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: But actually, can I, guys?

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Do you wanna speak first? Yeah. I'll speak first. I'm sorry. He hadn't put his name on the roster yet. So would you like this is your item.

[Oscar Grande (Honoree)]: Yeah.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: So go ahead, supervisor.

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

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

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Colleagues. This item is one on which I think reasonable people can disagree, but I strongly believe, as I have believed for, a number of years now, ever since this tax was passed in 2018, that it is not appropriate to be subjecting the legal cannabis industry to additional burdens at this time. Our cannabis market remains highly competitive, and, frankly, the competition is being lost by our legal operators. The illicit sector is dominant, controls more than 50% of the market. They sell their products at substantially lower prices. They are not subject to the same regulatory and tax obligations that, legal operators are subject to. And to be clear, those illicit sellers do not pay taxes. They do not apply for business permits. Their product is not subjected to the rigorous quality control that legal operators are subject to. And so I have believed since this tax passed in 2018 and continue to believe that it is not and will not be appropriate to be subjecting this industry to the legal industry to more burdens until the factors that are unfairly burdening that industry are alleviated. There is no indication that that is coming on the horizon. I have authored three prior deferrals of this tax. The first passed in 2020, passed passed the pushed the collection date back to December 2021. The second pushed it back to December 2022. And in late twenty twenty two, we pushed it back through December, of this year. At the budget committee, this year, I did indicate that I was concerned that our budget projections were, showing this as a revenue source in the second year of our current budget. I thought that was a mistake, and I said that I would, try to address it going forward over the course of this year. In conversations with colleagues, it has been pointed out to me, and I agree, that in general, when we have received from the voters authority to tax, we should be loath to give it away forever. And so rather than doing an elimination of this tax, we have asked the Budget and Finance Committee. And I wanna thank the members of the Budget and Finance Committee for turning that elimination into a ten year deferral. I think that is a decent period. Maybe the world will have changed in ten years. Maybe the federal government will come to their senses, and be regulating cannabis in a reasonable way. And maybe the state tax burden will have been reduced. And maybe, at that point, it will be appropriate for San Francisco to begin collecting this tax. But I cannot imagine and I hope that's what happens, but I don't see that happening in the near future. And so I think it makes sense to for our own planning purposes and for the legal industry that is trying to plan, to push this, tax far out. I wanna thank supervisors Dorsey Sauter and Mahmoud for their cosponsorship of the ordinance. And I wanna thank my legislative aide, Sophie Marie, for her work as well. And I would respectfully ask for your support for the ordinance today.

[Greg Wagner, City Controller]: That's it.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Okay. Supervisor Chan. Chair Markart, thank you.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: I have voted against the suspension of this, tax previously when it was, proposed to be suspended for three fiscal years. Colleagues, we continue to face close to a $1,000,000,000 budget deficit. We are gonna learn more, in the coming weeks. And federal cuts are expected to greatly exacerbate our deficit. As your budget committee chair, I have always been committed to fulfilling our shared budget priorities, from providing support to our most vulnerable when the federal government cuts food nutrition programs, like SNAP, to additional funding for immigration legal aid, setting aside a reserve to safeguard against health care cuts, and prioritizing funding for critical programs like free muni for youth, fee waivers for small businesses, critical services supporting the LGBTQ community, public safety initiatives, and much more. All of all of which we accomplished together, while we also tackle threats to city worker layoffs, federal cuts, and state budget deficit. This coming year will be even more difficult, not because of what we do or don't do on a local level, but also because of the federal government's continuing threatened, our local and state governments. We cannot, though, just to cut our way out, to back to a balanced budget. We must also maintain and increase our tax revenues. To waive any tax revenue for ten years for a projected $80,000,000 in tax revenue without other critical budget and financial analysis that we could would typically have during the budget process, it's simply irresponsible. I think we can do this. We can do this and have this conversation during the budget process. But in the middle year in the middle of a fiscal year, I don't understand why we must do this right now. There's not a good reason. So this is why I will be voting against this ten year suspension of a cannabis business tax. Thank you.

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

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Thank you, supervisor Melgar, and thank you president Mandelmann for your leadership on this item. I support continuing the suspension of the cannabis tax. And I will admit, as someone who has never used cannabis in their life, I never thought I would be vociferously defending this legislation. And the reason is that if we don't vote to suspend this tax today, legal tax paying cannabis retailers will face yet another setback. Cannabis businesses are among the toughest to run-in San Francisco, and these businesses are small businesses. And as nascent businesses, they face a challenging planning and leasing landscape that are already taxed at nearly 30% at the state level and by our city's general gross receipts tax. These additional costs and difficulties that are imposed as a result of the drug illegality at the federal level only compounds this issue. And so suspending this tax will give the industry more breathing room to make up ground against illegal, untaxed black markets that are still thriving on our streets. Because of this double taxation at the high level from state and local levels, it causes these businesses to pass on that cost to consumer, raising the prices and, in turn, allowing for an illegal black market to undercut and fester on our streets. And while I understand this the the issue raised by my colleagues about a loss in potential tax revenue, what we're failing to account for simultaneously are negative externalities that result as a result of this tax. I challenge anyone to walk through my district in the Tenderloin that is heavily affected by this, in in this this issue. If you go to Market And Jones, at the corner there, there has been a thriving illegal black market for cannabis. And what you see happening around that neighborhood is the proper hotel is losing revenue. The Hibernia Bank, where there are event venues there, is losing revenue. The mosque that I pray at right there is facing significant challenges because right in the middle of it is an illegal cannabis market. That is sales tax revenue that also should be assessed and understood as potentially being lost. If we continue to dissuade these businesses from operating legally from from a cannabis perspective, we drive out more buyers and sellers into the black market. Simultaneously, this is a public safety concern. Every day, I walk to and from City Hall past that intersection at Market And Jones and also where three 3,500 children are walking to and from school as well. On that corner of Market And Jones, just this year, there has been a stabbing that put someone in the hospital. There was a couple that came out of the mosque that I pray at that was assaulted and and right after that incident. These are all public safety implications of a black market that is persisting on our streets. And so when we increase the price of legal cannabis, we make things harder for businesses big and small, and we create conditions on our streets that are allowing public safety challenges to emerge. It also creates retail vacancies on Market Street that if you walk down, you will see on that same corner effectively is entirely vacant. And we will cause those vacancies to persist longer and businesses will see greatly reduced foot traffic if we, as a board, make the choice for more and more customers to go to the streets. Ultimately, it is the mayor who sends a budget every year for us to respond to. And as that is happening right now, that is why I think the timing of this legislation is important because we are signaling as a board what are our values as a board and how we want the mayor to prioritize policy. And so the question of where our revenue comes from must be answered by mayor Lurie first. I'm more than comfortable with the policy choice that this revenue does not come from punishing small businesses to the benefit of street dealers that make our neighborhoods less dangerous and more livable. Our budget is, as I said, a reflection of our values, and imposing this tax does not reflect our values.

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, chair Melgar. There was a time period where I definitely agreed with our president and was actually a major supporter of suspending this tax for actually a a few years. But if we look at the state of our budget in San Francisco, there's no way we can responsibly suspend this tax, in my opinion. I do have a couple of questions for our controller through the chair. The first one is, what is the projected budget deficit for the upcoming fiscal year?

[Greg Wagner, City Controller]: Supervisor's Greg Wagner, controller, through the chair to supervisor Walton. My office, the mayor's budget office, and the board of supervisors budget and legislative analyst are currently working right now on an update to the deficit, which will be out in the near future. So I don't have an updated number, but I can tell you, as a kinda general description of our financial position, in our most recent five year projection issued in March 2025, the forecast was that an imbalance between revenues and expenditures showed growth in the deficit in excess of $1,000,000,000 by the end of the five year financial forecast.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you. And do we know the projected revenue if we didn't suspend this tax?

[Greg Wagner, City Controller]: The revenue varies a bit by year to year based on the schedule for the administration of the tax, but $6,200,000 per year is the average projected tax revenue once the tax is implemented.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, controller. So as we can see, we have forecast of at least a billion dollar budget deficit going into the next year. And to turn around and suspend forms of revenue, I just truly, completely feel that's pretty irresponsible on our part. The pandemic and the deficit most certainly have been hard on a lot of our industries here in San Francisco. I think we've done a lot to address that. And, of course, we'll have to continue to do that. But I also know that we're challenged with making sure that we maintain a level of services for all of our residents. I think that all streams of revenue, we need to make sure we are pushing for that support, particularly during this budget time. We've waived this tax for years, and I just don't see how we can continue to do that, particularly at carving this out for this particular industry. A lot of industries could request some relief if we really looked and did an an analysis of industries that are suffering during this time period. And and I think one of the things that, you know, I want us all to also understand is that this tax will not stop the black market. So if if that is our reasoning, it just just doesn't gel with what's happening here in in in the state of this nation. The reality of it is only federal legalization will do that and put a dent in what's happening within the black market. But this tax suspension will not stop the black market. And I know that this is an attempt to protect an industry that has been treated unfairly. But most certainly, we have a deficit that is historically the largest deficit we've seen in this city. And to give up tax revenue, I just don't think it will be responsible of us to do that. Thank you, chair Milgare.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. President Mantelman.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Just a note on timing and why we would do it now rather than through the normal budget process next year. This tax is set to be start being collected in 2026. So if we are going to have our treasury tax collector not collect that tax, we need to act now to to to not have this tax start. It is a tax that has not been collected, so it is it would be a new burden on these businesses. And, if we were to try to address it through the budget process, this is sort of echoing supervisor Mahmood's point, This is probably an amount that is more than the board of supervisors can come up with through our add back process, but is a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of a $15,000,000,000 budget. So

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

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, chair Melgaard. I just wanna say that 2026 is exactly the perfect timing for this tax to be collected and to come into effect. Again, we've heard the projected deficit from from the controller. And I hope that when we go through this budget process, and we start going back and forth over what we need to prioritize, I hope to hear again that $6,500,000 is a small part of this budget when there are other priorities that we're going to be fighting for through this budget process. Because I have a feeling that folks will be saying that $6,500,000 is not a small amount of money when we talk about certain priorities when we go through the budget process. Thank you, chair Milgau.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. Okay. I think that's all I have on the roster. Madam Clerk.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 29, supervisor Mahkmaud. Mahkmaud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Walton, no. Supervisor Chan? No. Chan, no. Supervisor Chen? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor Fielder? No. Fielder, aye. There are eight ayes and two nos with supervisors Walton and Chan voting no.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And sorry. The ord the ordinance is passed on first reading. Alright. Madam clerk, let's go to our 02:30 special order.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: It is now 02:30 and time for the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And we will start today with district eleven supervisor Chen.

[Chayanne Chen, Supervisor (District 11)]: Thank you, Bob Preston. May I have Oscar Grande to go walk to the podium? We all love you, Oscar. Colleagues, many years ago, a janitor at the San Francisco Chronicle on Mission Street fell in love with a seamstress at the old Levi Strauss jeans factory on Valencia Street. Living their story of the American dream as hardworking, first generation immigrants from El Salvador, they brought young Oscar Martin Grande into this world. Young Oscar came up on the street of the Excelsior District. He attended Corpus Christi Elementary School and Sacred Heart Cathedral at Peppertory High School. Yay. Yay. Oscar later attended San Francisco State University where he fell in love with Cynthia Mesa, a public school educator. And together they have four children, Siomera, Nyla, Sofiane, and Umali, who they raised in the same childhood home where Oscar grew up. As a young man, Oscar began working in community at the Real Alternatives program where he where he was mentored by the OGs and himself became a mentor to young people surviving on the streets of the missions. For those who don't know Oscar, he has a shining spirit, a commanding presence, an infectious sense of humor, and deeply rooted in sense of community. Let me walk you through some of his many lasting legacies. Oscar famously spent much of his adult career as a community organizer with people organizing to demand environmental and economic rights in San Francisco's Mission's District. As a cofounder of the Mission Anti Displacement Coalitions, Oscar helped to craft the people's plan for jobs, housing, and community. The eight years the eight year community organizing effort helped to create land use policies to secure affordable housing, green space, locally owned commercial corridors, and job creations for the Mission District. Antonio Diaz, organizational director of Podare, he said of Oscar, I remember how he powerfully spoke true to power when Mac had then planning commissioner president Gerald Green and two commissioners attended a community meeting accountability section at the Horace Mann Middle School back in 2000. Oscar has been a solutionary acting out of deep love for his family, community, and for a vibrant San Francisco. When many low income and working class community were first hit and the worst during the great economic receptions, Oscar organized it with monolingual immigrant neighborhood leaders to formalize mutual aid strategies such as a Time Bank and worker cooperated restaurant, Maya Luna, in the Mission District. Oscar contributed his passion for bicycles as a cofounder of BC Dalpreble. This biopled mobility freedom effort, it's a community cooperate program cooperative program to put bicycles into the hands of everyday people, teaching safety and riding skills, and building community through culturally based bike practices. In his in the first month of pandemic, Oscar Grande joined with District 11 neighbors to establish the first free testing site at Crocker Amazon Clubhouse. Pow yay. Powered by volunteers, their site was able to process up to 800 tests per day before appointments were even offered by corporate insurance companies. Oscar was also part of the team that created Mi Makado program that provided 400 families with debit card for use at eight Excelsior grocery stores and reloaded them with 880,000 for food during shelter in place. From the front light of public health crisis, he was able to advocate for the most vulnerable of our neighbors and personally ensure those services were delivered. Oscar serves in the compatriots council at Casa de Apoya. He has been a part of the growing the space from a abandoned flower shop into a vibrant hub for resources, public health, community driven actions, job development, neighborhood givebacks, and a bike shop. For the past five years, he has led team to host a holiday bike giveaway and host an annual bike ride for Father's Day. Oscar carries the spirits of solidarity and organizing to ensure our San Francisco working class families are at the forefront of receiving the resources they need to thrive, have the skills to be decision maker in their communities with laughing, making everybody feel good and joy, and celebrating our very, very much diverse culturally rooted and traditions. Today, us, our communities are deeply, deeply grateful to Oscar for your years of services. Thank you, Oscar.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: But wait, because supervisor Melgar wants to talk.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: So thank you, supervisor Chen so much for, this wonderful honor to my here and fellow Selby bike enthusiast, Oscar. First, I just wanna say that I'm so happy to see OG in the house. So glad that the whole community came out to support Oscar and Cynthia too, who is, my dance sister. I, don't have to go through all of the wonderful accomplishments of Oscar as an organizer, and, although the wonderful work that you've done, because, supervisor Chen already did a very thorough compilation. But I just have to add, the human aspect of this wonderful man, from being a wonderful son and community member and a husband. You and Cynthia have produced four outstanding human beings who are so connected to the community, so smart, so creative, and artistic, and are giving back to this world, because you are wonderful human beings. In in addition to all of the wonderful things that you've done to the community, to those of us that know you, Oscar, going back for decades that I've known you, and, you know, debated policy issues, and also give career advice, and everything in between. I just have so much profound respect for you, Hermano. Not just the work that you've done, but who you are as a human, and what you have done in this world. So much love. So much community. And thank you so much, for, you know, being part of our community. Thank you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And now the floor is yours.

[Oscar Grande (Honoree)]: Mold, and I am just filled with a lot of emotions right now. Just listening

[Francisco Da Costa (Public Commenter)]: to

[Oscar Grande (Honoree)]: you, supervisor Chen, supervisor man of God. We go way back, go way back with supervisor Chen and the CPA, the Chinese Progressive Association days and the union days and and I'm I'm just so blessed and humbled to be surrounded by my my familia, my loved ones, my comrades, my my sisters, my brethrens. I mean, this is, I'm not shit without community. You know, all those those accolades, those achievements, those It's it's not alone. It's it's all of us. All of us together have co created this. And and I and I'm and I'm a little and it's a little bittersweet for me, you know, and for many of us here that learning of the passing of a dear brother, Ricardo Pena. Ricardo Pena. Dear brother from Ardanza, our spiritual community, our 24th Street community that passed yesterday. So it is bittersweet and it makes me think about the ancestors who followed and who showed us the path, who showed me the path, who's the shoulders I stand on. And, you know, namely my mother and my father, Oscar Nema.

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

[Oscar Grande (Honoree)]: I think about the brother Miguel Martinez. I think about Eric Quesada. I think about some of those phenomenal organizers like Marie Harrison, Sharon Hewitt. I think about Jazzy Collins. Some of the OGs we talked

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

[Oscar Grande (Honoree)]: think about Bill Sorrow. I just as recently thinking about our our Tia who recently passed, Mercedes Garrido, who was that first generation of Salvadorian immigrants that came to this country and really paved the way for our family to come over and to plant roots here in San Francisco and to build a life. And as my kids are that second generation of San Franciscans, you know, with roots in El Salvador, I, you know, think about and I and I think profoundly my loved ones and my comrades from my wife Cynthia Mesa who's a twenty five year SFUSD school teacher. Besides being a phenomenal wife, best friend, an amazing teacher, educator. I My shit without you. And I think about my kids and I have Nyla Sopian, I have I have Xiomara here, Mali is at Mission High, go bears. She got finals coming up next week. So, and then, you know, and and all these folks that are surrounded here. And I think what I've learned over the years is really what has made me and what guides me and what is my moral compass point is really movements. Spiritual, cultural, political movements. The assembly of loved ones that are here today and those that couldn't make it, that I've been blessed to know and grow from. These are folks from my environmental justice community where I cut my teeth as a young organizer, you know, of of the the sacredness of land and being in harmony with with mother earth and and and organizing alongside working people, people that are most impacted by the injustices that that that we face today. Is my cultural, spiritual, political home. That's where I cut my teeth. An amazing staff that's here continuing to do that work, building off of that legacy of fighting for land and fighting for the people of of the mission, the Excelsior and City. I think around my bike liberation spaces where I I learned cooperatism, collectivism, mutual aid and reciprocity. The only chains that set us free are those bike chains. I get that from our anarchist brothers and sisters. You know, and and housing justice, you mentioned Mission Anti Displacement Coalition. You know, that anti displacement work that we all co created, you know, early two thousands, you know, where a lot of us learned and grew have grown from to really elevate the housing justice work with at is front and center still to this day. We have not solved that crisis. And, and, and I think about the affordable housing work and the advocacy and the organizing work when we see the fruits of that labor up and down 16th Street with all them beautiful affordable housing buildings that line there and all this influx of new families, African American families, immigrant families, folks that are raised in this city, folks that are are are refugees and are finding respite from the horrible places they've had to escape. And my spiritual home It is my spiritual home. It is where I, you know, where we practice our Mexica ceremonial dance traditions. It's where I have really learned to reground myself in spirituality as I mature and as I become an older en route of becoming an elder. It is more critical and important, and don't sleep on spirituality, young folks. And and and also working with the city for the past few years, a coming home of some sorts because I'm back in the union, SEIU ten twenty one, and and and and my parents were union members, janitors, garment workers. And it is one of the solid ways really that immigrants during that time that came here were able to build a life, be able to put down roots, achieve, you know, a lower middle class lifestyle, and be able to buy some real estate and excels your mission, Bayview, and beyond. And that's what really guides me and inspires me in my work, especially after me and my wife, my family. We just bought our childhood home. And I want that for all of us. So thank you, supervisors. Thank you, supervisors. Please continue doing the business of the people. Thank you, community. I love you, and we'll see you out on the streets.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Seems like a rotunda photo opportunity, supervisor Chan. I mean, they're they're making their way. I think they're They'll get out there. Alright. District three, supervisor Sauter.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Thank you, president. Colleagues, today, I am happy to welcome Miguel Escobedo, owner of El Pastor Papi. Miguel, please come up and join us. Chef Miguel has brought his Mexico City style al pastor to district three with the opening of El Pastor Papi in the heart of Union Square. This opening was recently made possible through the Vacant to Vibrant program. It paired Miguel's talent for cooking with his talent for making people feel right at home. I could have brought him in today to honor him for his delicious food, and he would have deserved recognition for that alone. After all, he is the genius behind pabellote salsa, and he has taken down Bobby Flay on Beat Bobby Flay. But he's really here because of the heart behind his food. At his grand opening this summer, Miguel was quick to make the day not about himself, but more so about his staff. And on day one, he started by donating hundreds of burritos to City Eats, and we fanned out across the Tenderloin to donate those meals to neighbors. When Washington politics threatened food access for San Francisco families, Miguel stepped up. He offered free burritos each week to any family on SNAP. And that resulted in more than 700 burritos distributed in just a few weeks. And right now, in this holiday season, he is organizing his seventh annual toy drive to collect toys for kids of farm workers, because he knows, especially this time of year, no kid should be without a reason for joy in this season. He is a champion for our city. He is a staunch defender of farm workers rights in immigrant communities. And on top of all that, he happens to be a very, very talented chef who is drawing huge crowds to Union Square's tastiest new restaurant. And Miguel, we typically offer flowers to honorees in these chambers. But today, we're gonna distribute a toy instead for your holiday toy drive. And Miguel, thank you for all you do, and the floor is yours to say a few words.

[Chef Miguel Escobedo (Honoree)]: Thank you so much. Thank you so much for this recognition. It it means a lot. And it's funny that my man before me, I wish I wish you guys would have done him after me, but I've worked with in with Papalote when I had Papalote with my brother. We worked with BCs El Pueblo. We worked with Poder. We supported a lot of people that supported our community as well as our farm workers. My whole thing is just like Oscar said, I'm nothing without my community. I can't be a business. I can't operate without giving back. And also because of my business and what I've been able to accomplish, I've been given a little bit of a voice. And that voice lets me speak for those who don't have a voice and who have a need. So it's not a business thing. It's more a human thing. It's a compassion thing and I think we can lead by example and offering our community something back. It's a thank you. Thank you for letting me be me and operating in your area. So whether it was the mission or district three, I think leading by example and giving back helps me be me. So, again, thank you so much. And if I smell like food, I'm sorry. We're just knocking out some burritos. I really appreciate the toys. We got a lot of donations. And thank you so much for this honor.

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

[Stephen Sherrill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Thank you, president Mandelmann. Colleagues, today, I am honored to commend Piper Johnson. Piper, will you please come up

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: to the lectern?

[Stephen Sherrill, Supervisor (District 2)]: Now, Piper, before I get into this, I wanna thank you for, I think, maybe knocking off of school a little early to be here. And so, theoretically, I'd be worried that you're missing class. But as we're all about to find out, I don't think that's gonna be much of a problem for you. Piper is a remarkable student at Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep in District 2 whose innovation is helping make our coastal waters safer for swimmers, surfers, and marine life. And And for those who don't know her, Piper lives in the Richmond District, in District 1, with her parents, Jeremiah and Julie, and her dog, Teddy. She grew up visiting Ocean Beach, and it was those early experiences that inspired her deep love for the ocean. After last winter's storms caused sewage runoff along the coast, Piper saw friends fall ill and neighbors avoid the beach. But instead of accepting this as normal, she decided to take action. As part of Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep's inquiry and innovation I two program this past semester, Piper designed and built a real time sewage detection sen sensor that measures dissolved solids and turbidity, that's cloudiness, in ocean water. Yes. Thank you for teaching me something too. Her prototype provides readings in seconds, far faster than the city's long testing cycle. It can transmit data remotely, and, eventually, it will power a public dashboard to help beachgoers assess water quality in real time. Piper, your work exemplifies what can happen when young people are empowered to engage directly with real world problems and creatively deliver transformative solutions to our pressing issues. And in a city, frankly, that leads the world in innovation, you demonstrate how STEM education has helped many of our students just like you step into that legacy and shape the future. Now beyond this project, Piper is engaged in global and climate health work through UCSF internships, service in Kenya and Appalachia, and a year long capstone with UCSF Center for Climate Health and Equity. And if you don't think that's enough, Piper is also a two sport varsity athlete in soccer and tennis, an avid biology student, a dedicated volunteer at dog rescues and community gardens, and a sourdough baker with a love for nonfiction. But I would be remiss if I said this was only to honor you today, because we also must honor your parents, Jeremiah Johnson and Julie Brannigan, and I too moderator Davna Stanley for their support in nurturing Piper's curiosity, leadership, and commitment to giving back. Piper's innovation and service embody the spirit of San Francisco, bold ideas, community driven solutions, and a belief that one person can truly make a difference. So today, Piper, we celebrate you for your leadership, your scientific contributions, and the example you set not only for young people, but for all of us across the city. Piper, congratulations on this tremendous achievement. We're excited to see where your talent and determination take you next. And I now invite you to say a few words.

[Piper Johnson (Honoree)]: Thank you, supervisor Cheryl, for this recognition. I've always been interested in math and science and the wonderful access to nature we have in the community here in San Francisco. And these have inspired me to create my project, Waterwise. I look forward to continuing to work on ways we can more meaningfully and responsibly enjoy nature and our environment here in the city. I also wanna thank Sacred Heart Cathedral, my teachers, and fellow students who've also supported me and inspired me every day. Thank you.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Sacred Heart Cathedral thanks you.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Madam clerk, let's go to our 3PM special orders, which I believe is items 31 through 38.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. Thank you, mister president. Items 31 through 34 to begin with is a public hearing of persons interested in the determination of exemption from environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act issued as a categorical exemption by the planning department on 05/29/2025 for the proposed project at 350 Amber Drive, which proposes to install a new AT and T macro wireless telecommunications facility on an approximately 104 foot tall monopole consisting of 12 new antennas and nine new remote radio units and ancillary equipment within the public zoning district and open space height and bulk district. For this public hearing items, 32, 33, and 34 are the motions that either affirm the planning department's determination or conditionally reverse that determination or direct the preparation of findings. For items 35, five through 38 for this public hearing, This is for those interested in the approval of a conditional use authorization pursuant to planning code section two zero nine point two, three zero three, and three zero four for the proposed project at 350 Amber Drive issued by the planning commission by its motion dated 09/25/2025, again, to install the AT and T macro wireless communications facility, as I described. And items 36, 37, and 38 are the motions that either approve the planning commission's decision, that disapprove the decision, or require the preparation of findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, both, the appellant and project sponsor are interested in continuing this item. We or these items, we've received, signed continuance requests from both, also waiving statutory deadlines that would otherwise apply. So, colleagues, might I have a motion to continue these appeals to 02/10/2026? Moved by Melgar, second by Sauter. And, we will take action

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: on the motion Miss president.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: That's right. Public comment first.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: But first, we need to to take public comment on the continuances. So if anyone would like to speak on the continuances, you are welcome to come forward and speak. And looks like there's no one coming forward. So public comment on the continuance is closed. And so madam clerk, can you call the roll on the motion?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes, mister president. Can you just remind me who made the motion and who seconded the motion?

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I believe it was made by Melgar. It was seconded by Sauter. It was a motion to continue these hearings open to the 02/10/1926 board of supervisors meeting.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you. Yes. On the motion to continue, items 31 through 38 continue these items open to February 10. Supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sauter? Aye. Sauter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Cheryl, absent. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Supervisor, Chen? Chen, aye. Supervisor Dorsey? Aye. Dorsey, aye. And supervisor Fielder? Aye. Fielder, aye. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, these appeal hearings and motions are continued open to 02/10/2026. Madam Clerk, let's go to committee reports. Please call item number 39.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 39 was considered by the government audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on Thursday, 12/04/2025 and was forwarded as a committee report. Item 39 is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by Devon Anderson, Beverly l Sweeney on behalf of themselves, and all other similarly situated current and former employees against the city and county for up to 20,000,000. This lawsuit involves an employment dispute.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: I think we can take this item, same house, same call. Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. I believe item 40 was not forwarded, madam clerk.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: That is correct, mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: So can you please call item 41?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 41, this item was recommended as a committee report. It's an ordinance to delegate authority to the public works director to vacate certain streets and public service easements in the Potrero Hope SF project site, generally bounded by 26th Wisconsin, 23rd Missouri, 22nd Texas, 25th And Connecticut Streets, and to include portions of 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, Arkansas, Connecticut, Dakota, Texas, Missouri, and Wisconsin streets, Turner Terrace, and Watchmen Way to expedite implementation of the project and to make the appropriate findings.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And I think we could take this item same house.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mister president, we have a different house.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Oh, we do have a different house. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 41, supervisor, Machmud. Machmud, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann? Aye. Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Wong, aye. Supervisor Chen? Chen I, supervisor Chen, Chen I, supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, and supervisor Fielder. Fielder I, there are 11 I's.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the ordinance is passed on first reading. Madam clerk, please call item 42.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 42 was recommended by the Land Use and Transportation Committee at a regular meeting on Monday, December 8. Item 42 was recommended as amended bearing the same title. It's a resolution to declare the intention of the board of supervisors to vacate portions of Hawes Street, Griffith Street, and Bancroft Avenue for the development of the fire department training facility at 1236 Carroll Avenue and to set a hearing date for all persons interested in the proposed vacation of said street areas.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: And this one, I think we can take. Same house, same call. Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 43.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 43, this item was is a motion to approve a final map number one zero eight five seven, a 20 commercial unit condominium project located at 1301 At 1341 Evans Avenue. And to make the appropriate findings, this item was recommended as a committee report.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. First up to introduce new business, supervisor Mahmoud.

[Bilal Mahmood, Supervisor (District 5)]: Colleagues, throughout the year, we watched as other cities experienced an unimaginable takeover by the federal government. And we, like other cities, felt ill prepared for that eventuality. We heard firsthand of the workers who planned to stay home, the students who missed class drop off, and our own city employees who felt they were looking over their shoulder as they went to work. We were on the verge of experiencing something terrible, and it was the fear and panic of our neighbors that prompted my office to take action. We worked with our deputy city attorneys who took a creative approach to learn from other cities for solutions. Because here's what we know. Wherever large scale immigration enforcement happens, disruption follows. Families stay away from schools, seniors miss their medical appointments, businesses close or reduce hours, and workers miss shifts. All of which contribute to lost revenue, local economic decline, and a reduction in public safety. So today, colleagues, I'm introducing legislation as an ordinance in which we found a piece of the city admin code that we could strengthen with this legislation, making it the first of its kind in the nation because these are impacts we simply cannot afford. And today, the ordinance we are introducing will amend administrative code section 4.19 to accomplish the following. One, prohibit any entity from commandeering city property for use that would disrupt city operations, discourage access to city services, or conflict with a city purpose. Prohibit city staff from allowing anyone to use city owned property in a way that would interfere with city operations or hinder public access to city services. Staff may face disciplinary action violations. Third, clarify that the use of real or personal property to assist in the enforcement of federal immigration law is not a city purpose. And lastly, authorize the city attorney to take legal action against any entity engaged in unlawful or unauthorized use of city property. College, this is important because public safety is our top priority in San Francisco's own public safety progress, which includes a nearly 30% citywide decrease in crime, relies heavily on community trust and cooperation. With our immigrant community representing a large portion of San Franciscans, we cannot blur the line between local government and federal immigration enforcement. It is our job to deliver services. It is our job to make residents feel they can trust us. And it is our job to make sure this city works for everyone. Our city thrives when every resident feels they can access city services freely, whether that's dropping children off at school, going to the doctor, reporting a crime, or coming to city hall for a marriage license. This ordinance assures our city's facilities remain accessible. It strengthens our local control. And it ensures that no matter what, we as the city and county of San Francisco can serve the public. I'd like to thank deputy city attorney, Jona Clark, for drafting this legislation with my legislative director, Sam Logan, and chief of staff, Jessica Gutierrez Garcia, and my office working on this legislation as well. I'd also like to thank SF Rising, KiA twenty four, Mission Action, Chinese for Affirmative Action, SF Latino Paradis and Equity Coalition, and other immigrant rights advocates groups for their partnership and feedback on this legislation. And finally, I'd like to thank supervisor Cheyenne Chen for her early coauthorship and partnership on this legislation, and supervisors Melger, Sauter, Fielder, and Walton for your early cosponsorship as well. Next, colleagues, I would like to update everyone on what's going on at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District board of directors, which I saw on with supervisor Walton. Earlier this year, we approved staffing changes that will help tackle the permitting backlog that the air district has been suffering from. This is part of an ongoing process to analyze the issues that affect the pace of permitting, everything from clarity of rules to the difficulty of regulating new technologies. Additionally, in early twenty twenty six, the air district will host workshops around amendments to the building appliance rules that passed in 2023. These rules will require new models of appliances be installed in the region to not generate harmful nitrogen oxide pollution. They take effect in 2027 for residential water heaters, 2029 for furnaces, and so on. Amendments are being considered to center around low income and small business exemptions, granting extra time for homes needing major upgrades, and extending timelines around the sale of smaller water heaters. Look forward to continuing to engage on this meaningful rulemaking. The rest I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Mahmoud. Supervisor Mandelmann.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Thank you, madam clerk, colleagues. Today, I'm introducing an ordinance to modernize and strengthen San Francisco's film incentive program. San Francisco's landmark scenery and history have been featured in countless films, including Vertigo, Miss Doubtfire, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and more. Our city has always prided itself on our storytelling and art, and films are a vital part of our artistic and cultural legacy. However, in more recent years, fewer productions are choosing to film in San Francisco. Even projects set in San Francisco only shoot in the city for very short periods of time. The SF Film Commission has long recognized the need to bring productions back to San Francisco and established an incentive program to do that in 2006. However, our film incentive program faces competition from over a 120 other incentive programs across the globe, many of which offer better benefits than ours. Productions thus often choose to go elsewhere. Film incentive programs provide financial benefits to film, television, and commercial productions in order to encourage them to shoot locally and generate economic activity. Our current program only offers a rebate for city department fees, and to qualify, productions need to shoot 55 to 65% of their projects in San Francisco. This rebate is additionally capped at $600,000 for city fees only. These incentives are quite limited in comparison to other incentive programs, and our inability to consistently attract productions means that we also cannot offer nonfinancial incentives to film here, such as a dedicated production stage or infrastructure development. This ordinance seeks to update our film incentive program to be more modern and competitive. It increases the rebate amount available to productions, lowers the minimum spending and eligibility requirements to qualify for a rebate, modifies daily use fee exemptions, and updates and clarifies several definitions and production guidelines. A single production can inject millions of dollars into the local economy and direct spending. The average location shoot adds $670,000 and 1,500 jobs a day into the local economy. For every dollar our city has rebated for past film shoots, productions have spent $12.68 locally and contributed significantly to San Francisco's economy in numerous ways, including employing 16,000 plus, local crew and actors, paying $26,000,000 in wages to local crew and talent, and spending over $68,000,000 in goods and sir and services. The San Francisco Film Commission has heard from many productions, major studios, and other stakeholders that are eager to shoot here and excited to invest in our city's creative infrastructure, and they believe these updates have the potential to increase overall production by up to 25% and can help ensure that San Francisco can generate long term economic growth and investment, remain competitive in the global creative economy, and maintain our cultural legacy. Strengthening our incentive signals to the industry that San Francisco is serious about attracting productions and competing with other regions. I wanna thank Manisha Feta and Sofia Alacastro from Film SF, Alessandra Lozano from the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, and Lori and and Lauren Curry from the city attorney's office for their work on the legislation. I also wanna thank supervisor Chan for her early cosponsorship, and I wanna thank Grace Wong and Calvin Ho in my office for their work as well. I also have an update from, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority Board where I serve as vice chair. The TJPA and the portal project have had a productive fall. At the TJPA board's October meeting, we received a presentation regarding the envisioned redevelopment of the fourth and King rail yards to be served by in the future by the portal's new underground 4th And Townsend Station, the center of a growing transit oriented neighborhood and regional transit hub. In early November, TJBA staff went to Sacramento to meet with the California State Transportation Agency and legislative staff. In the year ahead, we'll be working to leverage the state's recent enactment in September of the extended cap and trade program, which is planned to provide more than $1,000,000,000 to the portal project. To capture these funds and secure federal commitment in the coming years, we'll also con be considering an extension or expansion of local funding sources, including those driven by ongoing development around Salesforce Transit Center. Also this fall, TJPA staff welcomed the new CEO of the California High Speed Rail Authority for the tour of the transit center, and the agency's senior staff exchanged lessons learned and strategies for advancing the project as the north northern terminus of the state's high speed system. The rest, I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, mister president. Supervisor Melgar.

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you, madam clerk. I just have an update, in my capacity as a member of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. Last, the MTCA bag puts out a, pot of money that we use to incentivize folks in the region to, meet, regional goals. Those goals are balanced and mutually reinforcing with the county goals. We have spent, the last, couple months in honing down on an updated set of principles, to put out the next, set of grants, for the one Bay Area grant program, which is in this fourth reiteration. The principles that have been proposed is to provide a flexible funding source to deliver local priority projects that support Bay Area objectives, with an emphasis on local road safety, complete streets, and a state of good repair. And to incentivize local partner agents to advance plan Bay Area goals. Which are implementing effective regional initiatives and services with an emphasis on inclusive communities, sustainability, and an optimized experience for all travelers. To advance local agencies' progress towards regional goals through coordinated planning and technical assistance. And to address multi jurisdictional challenges and improve key corridors with regional leadership and strategic support. We have seen a reduction because of federal source reductions in this pot of money. But it is approximately $800,000,000 over the next four years for the region. That compares to about 900,000,000 in the one Bay Area grant

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: three

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: process, which is what preceded this one. Some of the things that have been discussed with the nine county Bay Area representatives that make up the MTC right now are a set of principles that support transit oriented communities, including renter protections for, any new development and the deep need for affordable housing financing. Stay tuned. We think that we will be done with all the conversations and voting so that we can put out this money by the summer. Thank you.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Milgar. Supervisor Sauter.

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Colleagues, today I have two items to introduce. First, I'm introducing a request for a budget and legislative analysis on underutilized public property. We are hoping this report can shed light on the many city or state owned sites in San Francisco that are dormant, not serving their full capacity or intended use, or may be considered surplus land. When taking into account City College and the school district's properties, we anticipate some 600 properties are in the public inventory of sites, and we anticip we expect that some 50 of these properties could be considered surplus or underutilized. We want this report to explore all possible outcomes for these properties. In some cases, they may be able to be activated and serve a community need. For example, there is an SFUSD site in the Lower Polk neighborhood that is currently being used as a parking lot. And this doesn't feel like the highest use for a neighborhood that has been asking for years for more open space. In other cases, the land may be potential development sites for new homes. We also shouldn't roll out opportunities to lease or sell properties that can support our city's challenging budget. I look forward to working with the budget and legislative analysts, our real estate division, and others to produce this report and ensure we are using our public properties for their highest need. Next, I am introducing a resolution to update permissions and activate Maiden Lane, an iconic alleyway in Union Square. Maiden Lane has been closed to vehicular traffic during the daytime for many years, and there has been a resolution and public works order for the alley dating back to 1973. For decades, this board has understood the benefit of allowing the Union Square Improvement District, now the Union Square Alliance, to program the lane with tables, chairs, and events. The activation of Maiden Lane actually dates back to the nineteen forties with the establishment of the annual spring comes to Maiden Lane festival, which saw the two blocks adorned with flowing strings of flowers across the alley. Then, in May 1955, a three hour pedestrian period began and saw 4,000 visitors cram into the lane to enjoy a performance by the San Francisco Municipal Band and a speech for mayor Elmer E Robinson. Maiden Lane was once called one of the finest shopping streets in America and was praised by Jane Jacobs for its, quote, intimacy, cheerfulness, and spontaneity. It is home to the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed building in all of San Francisco. This resolution is the next step in Maiden Lane's storied history, and will put the street closure authority with the SFMTA, allow street activations into the evening hours, and allow the Union Square Alliance to do art installations and more events. This builds on the momentum in Union Square, which in the past month alone has seen the opening of a new bookstore, a new toy store, successful third Thursday concerts on Ellis, and a flurry of holiday activity. I want to thank Tita Bell in my office for her hard work to get this ready for introduction, to John Malmot in the city attorney's office, and to the Union Square Alliance for their partnership on this and their everyday work. And the rest, I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Sautter. Supervisor Sheryl? Submit. Thank you. Submit. Supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you so much, madam clerk. First, I would like to be added as a cosponsor to president Mandelmann's film incentive program.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Noted.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Okay. Colleagues, today I do have an in in memoriam for the tragic loss of our fellow city worker, Alberto Rangel, who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving the people of San Francisco with compassion and dedication. Alberto was 51 and a cherished San Francisco General Hospital and UCSF social worker whose life was dedicated to healing, service, and community. Alberto passed away on Saturday, December 7, after succumbing to injuries he suffered during the violent attack at San Francisco General on December 4. Despite the heroic efforts of his colleagues in Ward 86 in the emergency trauma and intensive care teams at General. He did not recover. His death has shaken the entire city and has left deep grief across UCSF, SF General, the San Francisco Department Of Public Health, and among all who knew and loved him. Alberto served as a licensed marriage and family therapist with UCSF and was assigned to Ward 86, the HIV care unit, where he brought compassion, patience, and dignity to some of the most vulnerable members of our community. His career spanned more than two decades and included service at the Mission Neighborhood Health Center and the Trauma Recovery Center at Parnassus. His work focused on trauma, depression, and anxiety, multi ethnic and LGBTQIA plus issues, and he provided critical support to clients seeking asylum to escape persecution and violence in their home countries. He was also a gifted artist who portrayed everyday scenes grounded in his cultural identity. His artwork was displayed throughout the city he loved, and he shared his creativity as generously as he shared his care. In an online biography, Alberto wrote that growing up as a gay identified, first generation Latino from Mexico and Iowa, taught him how life changing support and community can be. He said that being of service was central to who he was, and that it was a privilege to accompany individuals toward healing and wellness. Those words capture the heart of the person so many admire. Alberto will be remembered for his gentle spirit, the respect he showed every patient, and his ability to see the humanity in each person he encountered. His colleagues speak of his joyous personality, his deep empathy, and the integrity he carried into every room. This was definitely evident by the number of people I witnessed firsthand at his vigil last night at San Francisco General. A native of Muscatine, Iowa, Alberto built his life in San Francisco with his husband of twenty years. He is survived by his husband, Stuart, his parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, and the countless patients, coworkers, and friends whose lives he touched. As we continue to process the pain of this tragedy, may we honor Alberto by recommitting ourselves to the safety of our frontline public health workers, and to the compassion and equity he modeled every day. President Mandelmann, I would also like to add this memorial on behalf of the entire board. I know, supervisor Fielder had some words she wanted to share as well.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Great. Let's do that on behalf of the full board, unless there are objections. Okay. Supervisor Fielder. Thank you, supervisor Walton.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: I'm not but supervisor Fielder

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

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Thank you, supervisor Walton, for making this on behalf of the whole board. It's just devastating. Any time someone in our city workforce who shows up every day with a selflessness that really makes this city beautiful fears for their safety at all. And so I just think it's really it's just purely devastating. And I want to give my heartfelt condolences to the friends and family, foremost, of Alberto, and as well, of course, the SF General staff, and community that give themselves, so much every day. Everyone deserves to feel safe at their place of work, and that goes for all city employees, whether you're a policeman, firefighter, a nurse, a social worker. And I'm just so touched by the hundreds of people that came out to his vigil and the outpouring of support. Ward 86 is a special place in this city's history, and, they serve not only HIV folks, but also some of the most vulnerable people in the city. And that requires a lot of resilience to come into work every day. And so I just wanna thank supervisor Walton, and, send my my condolences to the whole community.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Fielder.

[Shamann Walton, Supervisor (District 10)]: Thank you, supervisor Fielder. Thank you, madam clerk. And colleagues, as a follow-up to this, I am requesting a letter of inquiry from the Department of Public Health and the sheriff's department, requesting a general overview of the internal investigation and the independent security review, including expected timelines for completion and how findings will be communicated to staff and the board. A summary of existing safety and security protocols currently in place at SF General and DPH clinics. And an explanation of which protocols are being strengthened or newly implemented in response to this incident. A description of the immediate safety actions taken by both departments, including changes to building access, screening procedures, and on-site security presence. A plan outlining how DPH and the sheriff's department will coordinate going forward to ensure consistent, reliable safety practices across all Department of Public Health facilities. And a description of the short term and long term improvements under consideration to enhance worker safety across hospitals and clinics, including training, communication, infrastructure, and emergency response procedures. And I do know that the Department of Public Health has already instituted some immediate changes. And I look forward to hearing from the department, in terms of what they're gonna do immediately and in the long term. And the last thing, I do have an update from Caltrain. I shared this at today's Transportation Authority meeting. But I also want to provide an update here at the Board of Supervisors meeting. We have had a conversation around governance in regard to Caltrain for decades. Originally, SamTrans was named as the managing agency of Caltrain in perpetuity. From onset in my tenure on Caltrain, I knew that was irresponsible and an antique governance model that had to change. Prior to my arrival on the JP board, JPB board, we did not have our own counsel for Caltrain. We also did not have the authority to hire and fire the executive director, which are both completely irresponsible, both for governance and for ensuring that San Francisco had equitable decision making when it came to Caltrain. Fast forward, we made those changes and also agreed after passage of Measure RR. We will continue to address issues of governance. Mainly, the managing agency issue, the issue of shared services agreement, salary ordinance, and conduct an audit of the rail. None of which have happened. We, San Francisco and Santa Clara County, paid off all balances owed to SamTrans in order to bring everyone up to a level playing field. With all of the progress, we still have not achieved equitable decision making as a member of the JPB. Furthermore, if SamTrans was to go bankrupt as an agency, what happens to San Francisco and Santa Clara as SamTrans is the managing agency? This is very irresponsible to manage a rail system like this. As a result of the continued governance issues, I have informed Caltrain and JPB members that I would not support member contributions from San Francisco at this time due to the irresponsible governance structure in place. The deficit we have as a city and the deficit of MTA. It would be irresponsible for us to use taxpayer dollars to support a rail system where we do not have equitable decision making at the table. Particularly, when we ensured the passage of Measure RR, which continues to be a revenue stream for Caltrain. I wanted to bring this to everyone's attention, as I know some people may be trying to undermine my decision not to support our taxpayer money being thrown away without us having proper oversight to hold anyone accountable. I have asked the JPB to calendar and entertain a motion at our next meeting to address those governance issues, so that we have guaranteed commitment that governance will be addressed, and that we guarantee that San Francisco is not the bank for a rail system that we cannot hold accountable. The rest, I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Walton. Supervisor Wong.

[Alan Wong, Supervisor (District 4)]: Thank you. Before mentioning an ordinance related to street trees and public works, I want to thank my colleagues for excusing me for my medical appointment that I had scheduled weeks in advance before I knew I'd be joining the board and giving me that grace. It would have been unfeasible for me to delay and reschedule. For any cynics, I want to be very clear that my position on the family zoning plan remains the same. I would have also voted no on extending the cannabis tax waiver due to budgetary reasons. I'm proud to cosponsor an ordinance with Mayor Leary to simplify development requirements related to tree planting in San Francisco. This is part of our shared commitment to making government easier to navigate for everyday San Franciscans, whether they're improving their homes, running a small business, or making routine changes to the property. Current tree planting requirements can be overly complicated, costly, and time consuming for property owners. Many residents, especially small homeowners, struggle with the permitting steps, inspection requirements, and coordination needed to plant a street tree during development. These challenges often create unnecessary delays and barriers in otherwise straightforward projects. This ordinance introduces a clear and simple alternative, an in lieu fee that property owners can choose instead of direct tree planting. This option reduces permitting requirements while still ensuring we are funding new trees throughout the city. It gives public works the ability to strategically plant trees in neighborhoods with lower canopy coverage or greater environmental need. The ordinance provides a faster, simpler path for people trying to move forward with improvements on their property. It reduces confusion and costs associated with navigating multi step planting and permitting process. It also aligns with our priority of making the city's regulatory environment more predictable, more transparent, and easier for residents and small businesses. Benefits to the city's urban forests include maintaining and strengthening the city's commitment to expanding the urban tree canopy, ensuring that every project still contributes to tree planting, but in a way that lets the city plant where trees are needed most, Helping direct resources to communities with fewer trees, improving equity, shade, environmental health, and neighborhood quality of life. This fits with the mayor's Simplify SF initiative and reflects the city's broader push to reduce bureaucracy while maintaining strong environmental standards and reinforces our collective commitment to modernizing and streamlining city processes. I want to thank the mayor, public works, and office of strategic initiatives for their partnership. This legislation strikes the right balance. It simplifies experience for residents, while strengthening our environmental stewardship citywide. I the rest I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, supervisor Wong. Supervisor Chan.

[Connie Chan, Supervisor (District 1)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, I just want to report back on my role for the Free City College Oversight Committee. We are evaluating, through the subcommittee's work, evaluating the, memorandum of understanding between City College of San Francisco and the city, as well as with DCYF, making sure we maintain, a level of, spending for Free City College, but also to make sure that there is continuing investments, and clear guideline of how the city will fund the program. This critical program not only provide, higher education free higher education courses for our high school graduates. It also provides free workforce development and other type of job training for those who want to seek a better job or actually, have advanced training for their current career, and continue their career path. So, I will report back when we once we have more updates on the language, and the rest, I submit.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you. Thank you, supervisor Chan. Supervisor Chan. Submit. Thank you. Supervisor Dorsey? Submit. Submit. Thank you. And supervisor Fielder?

[Jackie Fielder, Supervisor (District 9)]: Thank you, madam clerk. Colleagues, today I, want to share that I've asked the city attorney to draft legislation to mandate a minimum bathroom ratio in the city. Public conveniences like restrooms are essential infrastructure. And as a city that prides itself on accessibility, we must not neglect access to bathrooms. Unfortunately, access to publicly accessible bathrooms is on the decline. Removing public restrooms hurts public health, dignity, and urban life by forcing people to find unsanitary alternatives, creating disease risks, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations, such as the unhoused, disabled, and those with medical needs. The removal of public restrooms has also created the unintended consequence of public urination and defecation, and reports of feces in the streets, of course. A study by the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2022 found that increased access to public toilets reduced feces reports to the San Francisco Department of Public Works. A lack of bathrooms creates significant barriers for essential workers, including delivery drivers, our mail carriers, and our transit operators. The lack of public facilities also affects our tourists to San Francisco, many of whom are visiting San Francisco for the first time, and also deserve the convenience of accessibility of public facilities as they explore our beautiful city. I intend to work closely with the Department of Public Works and the controller to settle on feasible and sustainable plans to establish and maintain a citywide public bathroom network, and would include, but not be limited to, first off, an inventory of public and private bathrooms, legislative policy and capital planning strategy, and coordination with private entities or additional agencies to meet and maintain this target ratio. The rest I submit.

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

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Alright. For those of you in the public gallery, now is your opportunity to line up on your right hand side of the chamber near the curtains, where you may speak to, items 46 through 52, the adoption without committee reference, the minutes as presented, and other general matters not on the published agenda, but must be within the board's subject matter jurisdiction. We are setting the timer for two minutes. So welcome to our first speaker.

[Unidentified Public Commenter]: Let there be lights. Okay? I'll be lights, generally speaking. But no matter what, no future whatsoever without addressing institutionalized child trafficking. So forget your fake, pretension towards safety. It's not working. It's not not gonna work. Is this NBC news? No. Nightmare before Christmas. Yeah. That's what it stands for. NBC. So go back to the movies here. Anyone knows that the nightmare before Christmas was entirely shot on 9th Street at Folsom. I was on it. I worked four months on this amazing stop motion animation masterpiece with Tim Burton coming over. I was 22, selected by the department. I mean, why should I be so serious? Selected by the department of production from CCSF where I was a student in a film production. So my short film was selected. Say, yeah. This guy, we need him. So four months, a PA, basically. Production assistant, 20. Awesome. The time of my life. As far as the genius I was working with. Yeah. Seriously. So Tim Burton was coming only twice. I saw him twice. He was shooting the first Batman at the time, 1991, you know, with Nicholson and Davido. Okay. Long story short. So what I mean is that you guys must ask for a pledge to be put on this building. It was shot the worldwide non stop motion animation feature called the nightmare before Christmas. You used it enough. Right? Nightmare before Christmas. Spooky. So now merry Christmas. It's my lifetime coming here for the year. Everything will stop next year because now I mean, give us a break. No matter what, you need to always listen. Otherwise, I mean, you guys, your intelligence is a

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you for your comments. Let's welcome our next speaker.

[Mark (Public Commenter)]: Okay. Before I begin to, read, item number 40 for, 04/22/2025 there at the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, I'd like to just take a a quick survey. How many of you heard, Harrison Ford, interview, Patrick Byrne? Can we see a show today live? Can we see a show of hands on that, please? Up, up, up, up, up.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mark, this is your time.

[Mark (Public Commenter)]: Okay. Thank you very much. You may put your hands down. And then, real quick, how many chose not to participate in the first survey? Up, up, up, up, up. Mhmm. Okay. You may put your hands down. That throws something into the mix, doesn't it? So in other words, some of you chose not to participate in the first survey. Right? Okay. Now, before I begin, to read item 40, I'd just like to say I was chilling out in the living room and with my wife and, you know, she sitting on the recliner there having a cold beer. And, she walked over to me and took her blouse off and her bra off. And as I began to fondle her breasts, I said, you know, honey, I should be killed for this if we were not married.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mark, that's just inappropriate for this meeting.

[Mark (Public Commenter)]: Now you folks are saying that two guys can marry and two women can marry, and it's not sinful. It's not wrong. But you're wrong. K? God is the authority. K? And God made marriage, and God said, the marriage bed is undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Okay. Adopt a resolution, repealing resolution number BOS, which authorizes the county executive or designee to decline to approve expenditures of county funds on travel to states that enact laws against the LGBT, reaffirming the county's unwavering commitment to supporting and honoring the LGBT. This is a sin. K? We should not honor the LGBT.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mark, your time's expired. Can we hear from the next speaker, please? Mister mister DeCosta. Welcome.

[Francisco Da Costa (Public Commenter)]: Supervisors, three innocent, hardworking employees from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission were dismissed. They were dismissed because they were enticed to work on a project. It's called confined space, cleaning the reservoir 40 feet, 50 feet below with no training, no certification whatsoever. So when they brought this matter to the managers, the managers instead of listening to them and putting the things in order, terminated them. The last three SFPUC meetings I have brought this matter to the commissioners, and now I'm bringing it to your attention, the San Francisco board of supervisors. Just read the policies and the standard operating procedures for those workers who work under those projects called confined space. These three workers should be given a chance to work for the city and county of San Francisco. One work for eight years, one work for six years, and one work for three months. Board of supervisors, let's not just talk about safety, let's do something about it, and call upon Dennis Herrera to do the right thing. Thank you very much.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, Francisco de Costa, for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Antonio Diaz (PODER)]: Good afternoon, president Mendelmann, supervisors, madam clerk. My name is Antonio Diaz, and I'm with POLER. I'm the organization's director. I'm here to speak about, item number 47, the resolution affirming San Francisco's commitment to decarbonization efforts that center environmental justice. First of all, I wanna thank supervisor Fielder for her leadership on this issue, and supervisors Melgar, Chen, Mahmood, and Fielder for sponsoring the resolution. Poder has for thirty five years organized for healthy, thriving communities. More recently, a focus of our work has been advancing healthy resilient homes to equitable building decarbonization. We have been doing this work in collaboration with city departments, especially the San Francisco Environment Department, various CBOs such as Bayview Hunters Point Community Advocates, South of Market Community Action Network, the Emerald Cities Collaborative Northern California, and many others to the Climate Equity Hub, San Francisco's Climate Equity Hub, and have deeply appreciated that collaboration to advance, building decarbonization in an equitable manner. I'm here to just ask that the board vote in, support of this resolution, adopt this resolution, and state the city's, support and affirming of this work and enhancing it in a manner that meets the needs of especially low income and disenfranchised residents of San Francisco. Thank you very much.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, Antonio Diaz, for your comments. Alright. Welcome to our next speaker. Alright. Come on. Come on up.

[Richard S. D. Peterson (Public Commenter)]: Good evening, board of supervisors. My name is Richard SD Peterson. I just wanted to comment on, the paper today that everybody has probably seen. And it's curious that juxtaposition of the spending by Citi on nonprofits doubles, and yet the parcel tax is at the at the same in the same column and given us an idea of what it's gonna cost for parcel taxes. In that parcel tax thing, I think that the the change in power is moving from downtown to the West Side in District 1 and District 6. And you will soon see the see the power of the West Side because I think the West Side has more taxable taxable properties on parcels than does downtown. I don't think that we should worry about North Beach. I think North Beach is already well serviced by our past supervisor, Baskin. Thank you, and have a good Christmas.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, Richard Pearson, for your comments. Welcome to our next speaker.

[Brian Storer (Public Commenter)]: Hi. My name's Brian Storer. I'm here to, talk about the Genesis LRADs. This is the second time I've been here. I've been hit with force and auto track by Genesis LRAD model nine fifty NXTs in this building. This is, like, the fifth time. I'm picking them up on two infrasound recorders right now. All rel LRADs in San Francisco that can hit the city should have federal compliance checks on them to make sure that they're being operated legally. For federal, state, and local laws, they're being used as military weapons. That's what the Supreme Court's ruled them as, is a military weapon. It's an acoustic weapon. The nearest coverage area is down here at the, bottom of the, Golden Gate Bridge, and so it's a serious problem. The fix to it is compliance checks. I've made two police reports with the San Francisco Police Department. I've met with the FBI here, and the same thing's still happening every time I come to San Francisco. These LRADs are dangerous operators are dangerous criminals, and where they can control an LRAD, people's lives are in danger. They have committed about every crime possible on the LRADs. I have been hit, in auto track by the military weapons, which the LRADs are, like I said, over five times in this building. And I have two iPhones with Inversound evidence to prove this. So it picks up the low frequency that's inaudible to our ears and then the passcodes that the acoustic weapons use to push the sound. Thank you for your time.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, Brian Storff, for your comments. Welcome.

[Salah Haquia Chandler (Public Commenter)]: My name is Salah Haquia Chandler, and I'm here in regards to the debris and the filth that's in Bayview. You should have seen on Carol Street near Candlestick, someone came with a multiple truck and dropped tons and tons and tons and tons of trash. They had to bring a truckload to come and pick it up. Almost on every corner in Bayview is nothing but filth. And when the immigrants came during the twenty COVID, twenty twenty COVID, and it was allowed in the city for all of the tents to be set up, and built, and cardboards, and filth, and roaches, and rats, where we used to go and sit by the water by candlestick. We can't do that anymore because it was closed down with such filthiness. It is no way, no wise that any district you would allow this for the Pacific, the Marina, Twin Peaks, any of what's being allowed. Doctor Espinola Jackson told me, she said, concerning all the trucking industry that's over in Bayview, that taxes should be added for us in the residential area. We're the only nation of people, the black people that don't have no ownership, no nothing in the mass collect collective. Every nation are progressing, but the African American people. We have no representative. You see what's happening concerning Somalia and the representation, if it's good or if it's bad. There is someone in Congress for the Somalians. San Francisco is a sanctuary for the immigrants. All over the world, every nation is represented but the black nation. The politicians can only speak for their district, but there is no one to represent my people. And this is the reason why we are in the condition. You talk about snap

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: You sell

[Salah Haquia Chandler (Public Commenter)]: You talk about section eight. You all of the disenfranchised, but not one policy he gives you

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you, miss Chandler. When I repeat Thank you, miss Chandler. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, welcome.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: W auto Duffy. Hey. That sounds good. District 5, I just wanted to congratulate their newest member who sits nearest to the public comment. Having survived one, I hope the healthcare treated you well and you were able to get through it. There are often comments that are a little bit misguided, but we get to hear from the common people, business people. I I suppose the coolest one I ever was with when when George Schultz was up here. That was that was memorable. I remember John Bartis used to come in here long after he was a supervisor. Welcome.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you for your comments. Alright. Let's hear from our next speaker. Welcome.

[Alika Nicholas (Public Commenter)]: Hi. My name is Alika Nicholas. I honestly just wanna say thank you. What you guys do as representatives is something I care passionately about. I think that next year is gonna be a fun year. I think there's gonna be ups and downs, and I'd really like to support a contingency plan. As changes happen and they rise and occur, and they'll be difficult, And maybe they'll be exciting, but I think that there needs to be more community representation, especially with the younger generation, on what it's like to survive things that we maybe don't understand or have control over that you you as representatives are really managing for the the people of this city. So mostly just thank you, and I look forward to living the good life here in this city with our wonderful support work. Thank you.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Thank you for your comments. Are there any other members of the public who'd like to address the board during general public comment? This is your opportunity. Please come forward. Mister president.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Alright. Public comment is now closed. Madam clerk, let's go to our four adoption without committee reference agenda, items 46 through 52.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Items 46 through 52 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, Board President (District 8)]: I would like to sever item 48, madam clerk.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: That's 48, mister president?

[Danny Sauter, Supervisor (District 3)]: Yep. Okay.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: I would like to sever forty nine and fifty two, please.

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

[Alan Wong, Supervisor (District 4)]: Just wanted to make sure my name's added to item 46, doctor Zhang Day.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Got that, madam clerk.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. Yes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Okay. Then, could you please call the roll on the remaining balance of the items?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On items 46, 47, fifty, and fifty one, supervisor Mahmood. Mahmood, aye. Supervisor Mandelmann?

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, aye. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, aye. Supervisor Sautter? Aye. Sautter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Wong, aye. Supervisor Chan? Chan, I supervisor, Chen, Chen absent supervisor, Dorsey, I and supervisor, Fielder. Fielder, I. There are 10 ayes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the resolutions are adopted. Madam clerk, can you please call item 48?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 48, this is a resolution to recognize 12/12/2025 as Drag Story Hour Day in the city and county of San Francisco.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Colleagues, this item recognizes, as our clerk indicated, 12/12/2025 as Drag Story Hour Day. Drag Story Hour was founded right here in San Francisco in 2015. It was started by author Michelle T, Virgie Tovar, and Julian Delgado Lopera. And the first performance featured are now San Francisco Drag Laureate Persia at the Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library. Drag Story Hour creates space for queer role models and children's stories and teaches kids that authenticity and individuality should be celebrated. It's grown into an international movement reaching thousands of kids and families around the world. San Francisco has always been a city that champions creativity and LGBTQ visibility, and Drag Story Hour embodies both. This resolution celebrates a remarkable milestone and demonstrates our continued support for programs that lift up children, affirm diverse identities, and inspire all of us to embrace our fullest, most authentic selves. And I wanna thank, supervisor Chan for her cosponsorship of this. And, I think we can probably take this item, same house.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: No, mister president. We have a new house.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: We have a new house.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. Madam

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: On item 48, supervisor Mahmoud. Mahmoud, I. Supervisor Mandelmann.

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Mandelmann, I. Supervisor Melgar? Aye. Melgar, I. Supervisor Sautter. Aye. Souter, aye. Supervisor Sheryl? Aye. Cheryl, aye. Supervisor Walton? Aye. Walton, aye. Supervisor Wong? Aye. Wong, aye. Supervisor Chan? Aye. Chen, aye. Supervisor, Dorsey? Dorsey, I. And supervisor Fielder? Fielder, I. There are 11 eyes.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Without objection, the resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, please call item 49.

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 49, this is a resolution to urge state officials to amend the Housing Crisis Act of 2019 or Senate Bill three thirty, including but not limited to government code sections, six five nine four one point one, sixty six three zero zero, and six six three zero one that limited San Francisco's ability to protect rent controlled units from demolition, weaken tenants' rights of return after demolition or redevelopment, and undermine local housing element objectives to preserve affordable housing.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you. Colleagues, I have a small technical amendment for this resolution for clarity, which I distributed, and it is to add the phrase, sections enacted by the passage of to page one line three and page three line four. And that's it. Alright. Thank you for your consideration.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Take that as a motion to amend, and it's been seconded by supervisor Walton. And I think we can take that motion without objection. And, I think we can take the amended item, same house, same call, without objection. The amended resolution is adopted. Madam Clerk, can you please call item 52?

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Item 52, this is a motion to establish the 2026 Board of Supervisors regular meeting schedule. Pursuant to the Board of Supervisors rules of order, section four point two and four point two point one, by canceling the regular board meetings of January 20, February 17, May 26, sev September 8, October 13, and December 1, And all regular board and committee meetings during the spring, summer, and winter breaks beginning March 30 through 04/03/2026, returning on 04/06/2026, and beginning August 3 through 08/28/2026, returning on 08/31/2026, and beginning 12/16/2026 through 01/07/2027, to return on 01/08/2027. And further, to suspend portions of the board rule 4.2 to effectuate certain dates within the regular meeting schedule to augment the flow of business.

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

[Myrna Melgar, Supervisor (District 7)]: Thank you so much. First, I wanna say thank you madam clerk for all the work that goes into preparing this and putting it out. I would like to make a motion to amend this motion so that we cancel the board meeting during the week during the week of Thanksgiving in 2026, like we did this year, like we did for the past couple years, so that we do not meet that week, and instead, we meet the following week. This aligns with the school district's holiday schedule. For those of us who have kids, in the public school district, they will be off that week. This amendment the amendments are on page one, line six, in the long title, deleting December 1 and replacing it with November 24. And on page two, line seven, to delete December 1 and replace it with November 24. On page two, lines eight through 11, I would like to add a clause to suspend a portion of board rule 4.2 that requires that the board meet during the week of Thanksgiving, cancel the meeting on November 24 to observe the Thanksgiving holiday during the week of Thanksgiving, and schedule a board to meet on December 1. Thank you, colleagues, for your consideration.

[Rafael Mandelman, Board President (District 8)]: Is there a second for that motion? Seconded by supervisor Chen. Is there any discussion of the motion? Seeing none, I think we can take that motion without objection. The motion passes. And then I think we can take the amended item, same same house, same call. Without without objection, the amended motion is approved. Okay. Madam clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?

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

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

[Clerk of the Board (Madam Clerk)]: Yes. Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individual on behalf of supervisor Walton, supervisor Fielder, requested by supervisor Walton to be on behalf of the entire board of supervisors for the cherished General Hospital and UCSF social worker, mister Alberto Rangel.

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

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

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