You please call the role.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Chan.

Chan present, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey present, Supervisor Ringardio.

Engario present, Supervisor Mandelman.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Milgar.

Melgar not present, Supervisor Peskin.

Present.

Peskin present, Supervisor Preston.

Preston present, Supervisor Ronin.

Ronan present, Supervisor Safai.

Safaye present, Supervisor Stephanie.

Stephanie present and Supervisor Walton.

Walton not present.

Mr.

President, you have a quorum.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Ramatushalone, who are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula.

As the indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Rama Tushaloni 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 Ramatushalone community and by affirming their sovereign rights as first peoples.

Colleagues, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Madam Clerk, do we have any communications?

I have one, Mr.

President.

Dated July 17th, 2024 from Board President Aaron Peskin, President of the Board of Supervisors, calling for a special Board of Supervisors meeting today, Tuesday, July 23rd at 9 a.m.

to call from committee and to modify time for submission of a charter amendment, uh file number 240544 under Rule 2.22 point one point seven.

Additionally, a special board meeting at 905 to uh for the same file, file number 240544, charter amendment pertaining to police staffing and voluntary deferred retirement option program for police department.

Thank you, madam clerk.

Would you please read the first item?

Yes.

Referred to the Board of Supervisors is item one, a motion to call from the rules committee the proposed charter amendment file number two four zero five four four on police staffing and a voluntary deferred retirement option program and to modify the amount of time required under board rule 2.22.7 between the first appearance of the proposed subject charter amendment on the board's agenda and the board's order submitting to the electorate for the November 5th, 2024 election.

Should the motion be approved to call the charter amendment pertaining to the police staffing and voluntary deferred retirement option program from committee pursuant to board rule 3.38, the charter amendment shall be considered at the next meeting of the Board of Supervisors, which is the 905 a.m.

The happening this morning during a special session of the Board of Supervisors.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh colleagues, uh as the clerk just said, we have this item at this meeting and then another meeting at 9 05 as to the item on this agenda calling from committee uh file number 240544, supervisor ronin.

Thank you.

Um colleagues, I wanted to just address why I took the extreme measure of resigning as the rules committee chair.

Um I believe that our committee structure is really important to this board.

And the reason that it's important to this board is because we are faced with analyzing so many pieces of legislation that we can't possibly go deep enough into every single piece to make an informed decision.

That's why we divide the work.

We divide the work up.

And as rules chair, as chair of every committee that I've ever been a chair of, I have done my job to do that.

When I first got the draft proposal, uh, like many of you who signed your name on to it, I I wasn't against it.

I I know that we have uh a severe staffing crisis at the police department, and I uh thought originally maybe maybe this is a solution.

But as I dug deeper and deeper into the proposal, and and the next item I will share what I've learned.

I realize that this is a very mistaken policy that will be highly unpopular among the people, and that I think, colleagues, that you affixed your name to this legislation because you weren't aware of the consequences.

I talked in depth and worked in depth with the controller's office with retirement with human resources, and the information I will present to you in the next item, um, I'm hoping will will change your mind.

Uh, but I just wanted to say that uh the integrity of the committee structure is important.

It's important for this for this board.

It's the way that we get all of our work done in a timely manner, and rules committee chairs should be, or I'm sorry, chairs of committees should be uh respected.

Uh and for that reason I will be voting no on this motion.

Thank you, uh Supervisor Ronan.

And and I will just say, with the benefit of uh a long discontinuous tenure on this board, uh, that while I agree that committees are the places where public comment is taken and amendments are made, there has been a long pattern and practice that ultimately, as it relates to measures that go on the ballot, that they have gone to the full board for deliberation.

And in discussions, uh, I mean, I remember this even when Scott Weiner was chair of the committee.

I remember this when Matt Gonzalez and Tony Hall, who had very different political views, that at the end, after their amendments were made in committee, that it was ultimately the full board that made a decision whether or not to forward it to the ballot.

But I respect your position and um Supervisor Chan.