Good afternoon.

Welcome to the September 9th, 2025 regular meeting of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the role?

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Supervisor Chan.

Chan present, Supervisor Chen, Chen present, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey Present, Supervisor Ringardio, Engardeo present, Supervisor Fielder, Fielder present, Supervisor Mahmoud, Mahmoud present, Supervisor Mandelman.

Present.

Mandelman present, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar present, Supervisor Sauter, Soder present, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl present, and Supervisor Walton.

Walton present.

Mr.

President, all members are present.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors acknowledges that 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 Ramatushaloni 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, will you join me in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands on a nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all.

On behalf of our board, I would like to acknowledge the staff at SFGov TV, particularly today, Kalina Mendoza.

They record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online.

Madam Clerk, do you have any communications?

Mr.

President, special order at 2 p.m.

Okay.

Let's go to our 2 p.m.

special order.

Special order at 2 p.m.

is the appearance at today's meeting by the Honorable Mayor Daniel Lurie, present to engage in a formal policy discussion with eligible board members.

Prior to the discussion, the mayor may address the board for up to five minutes.

Welcome, Mr.

Mayor.

Do you have any opening remarks?

Thank you, Board President.

I want to say I missed you all.

I hope you got some uh good downtime.

Earlier today at Union Square, I announced my heart of the city executive directive to make downtown a 24-7 neighborhood where you can live, work, play, and learn.

Downtown is the heart of San Francisco, and our job is to bring it more fully back to life.

That means more housing, more jobs, more culture, and more learning.

On housing, with President Mandelman and this board's support, we're creating a downtown revitalization financial district to make office to residential conversions easier, turning empty towers into new homes.

On jobs, we're creating conditions to make downtown the premier destination for employers and employees.

Through Permit SF, we're streamlining permits for new offices and small businesses, and we're modernizing our office stock to attract new companies.

On culture, we're activating public spaces and expanding nightlife.

Expect more free concerts, more art, more entertainment zones across downtown, supported by philanthropic investment, state legislation, and state legislation for additional liquor license, and even easier permitting.

On education, we're working to bring more universities and institutions downtown, creating opportunities for young people and helping anchor the neighborhood's future.

This effort is already underway.

In the first 100 days, we've secured over 40 million dollars in private sector commitments to beautify our streets, support small businesses, and activate plazas and corridors.

In the next six months, we'll open applications for conversion projects, launch new entertainment zones, attract new retailers, and establish a new park in the East Cut.

And within a year, we'll break ground on major place-making projects and align city properties with our revitalization goals.

Together, these reforms, housing, business incentives, cultural investments, and education form a coordinated strategy to restore restore the heart of our city.

Downtown belongs to every San Franciscan.

The economic generated in downtown powers Muni, funds our parks, pays our first responders, and sustains critical services that help families thrive.

With this directive, we are building a downtown that will thrive for generations to come.

I want to thank the Downtown Development Corporation for partnering with us to make these economic investments possible and this board for approving my economic development behested payment waivers that enables this work.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mayor Lurie.

Madam Clerk, could you please call the topic for District 7?

Yes, the topic submitted by the member of the board representing District 7, Supervisor Melgar, is the family housing plan.

Supervisor Melgar, please ask your opening question.

Thank you, President.

Thank you, Mayor, for being here with us today.

I hope that you had a good break with your family as well.

I know we all needed the break.

And thank you so much for your commitment to meeting our city's housing crisis head on with your proposed family housing plan, particularly as it affects the West Side part of which I represent.

In the meetings that I have attended, and you and your staff have attended as well, people have brought up some issues consistently that they see as challenges with a plan.

And I would like to hear your ideas and your commitment to including specific legislation or to working with us to support others' legislation addressing some of these issues.

So for me, these issues include the potential displacement of small businesses, the residential tenant displacement due to demolition of rent controlled units, and the lack of dedicated funding for affordable housing, which has not been built on the west side for a very long time at the same time it's certainly not at the same pace as in the eastern neighborhoods, and it is sorely needed.

We have better schools, we have better parks.

It's an opportunity for people.

I appreciate that opportunity.

We will not leave small businesses, renters, or affordable housing behind.

Family zoning will strengthen, not weaken our neighborhoods.

That means protecting small businesses, safeguarding renters, preserving what makes our community special, and building real affordable housing.

We know from experience that most new housing is built on vacant lots and sites like gas stations or shuttered commercial spaces, not spaces with thriving businesses.

Still, small businesses know construction can be disruptive, and they are the lifeblood of our neighborhoods.

That's why I'm proud to support your legislation, Supervisor Melgar, creating a small business rezoning construction relief fund.

This would enable grants and loans to businesses impacted by new housing construction and connect small businesses with other services like leasing support and financial counselors to help them stay afloat.

I'm also happy to support the recommendations from our small business community, including early notification of businesses when new housing is proposed, and incentives for providing commercial tenant improvements in new retail space.

San Francisco has among the strongest tenant protections in the country, and the planning department has been working with Supervisor Chen to make them even stronger.

I want to be crystal clear here.

Demolition of rent controlled housing is extraordinarily rare.

Further, when demolition does occur, existing laws require one-for-one replacement units, and we will go further.

Supervisor Melgar's proposal will give housing developers an option not to just replace, but to add new rent controlled units to their inclusionary requirements while protecting the rent controlled housing that we already have.

It's true, as you pointed out, that affordable housing has been concentrated in some neighborhoods on the eastern and southern neighborhoods for decades, and that has to change.

If we are going to meet our affordability goals, the family zoning plan creates capacity for new housing, including opportunity sites that are optimal for 100% affordable housing.

Supervisor Melgar, your resolution takes the net next step by urging the city to explore innovative funding tools to afford building housing in well-resourced neighborhoods, including dedicated funding from future property tax growth.

San Francisco must grow, but we must grow fairly.

These measures ensure that as we welcome new neighbors, we are protecting existing tenants, supporting small businesses, and securing real funding for affordable housing in every part of our city.

From day one, I have said San Francisco is at its best when the mayor and the board of supervisors were together, and Supervisor Melgar's proposals show how collaboration can deliver real solutions.

Thank you, Supervisor.

Thank you, Mayor Lurie.

Supervisor Melgar, you may now ask a follow-up question directly related to the opening question.

Thank you very much, President Mandelman, and thank you for that really thoughtful answer.

Mr.

Mayor, uh the tenant protections uh in the plan are current uh are modeled after SB 330.

Um SP 330 does not quite do everything that we need uh in protecting rent controlled units from demolition because it doesn't require like for like replacement, it requires one for one, but there's no guarantee that the units are rental units uh for one and the um requirement for um you know the right of first refusal is only for low-income tenants.

Uh and one of the foundational underpinnings of our own rent control law is that it's for everyone.

And so um the look back period for tenant history is only five years, meaning that owners could, you know, just hang on to their permits for a little while longer to get around it.

So I'm worried about that.

Um, I'm also worried about a dedicated uh source of funding for affordable housing, as I said, because very little has been billed on the West side, uh, and there's also political pushback every time we propose it, and so I worry that there will not be enough with the funding sources that we have right now to meet this obligation for the west side while not hurting the east side of town, which also has very serious affordable housing needs.

So uh are you committed to working further uh to uh add protections to incentivize uh rental housing construction, uh the preservation of rent-controlled units, which we're losing every day, and affordable housing.

I'll be very quick and direct and to the point, Sir Supervisor.

I agree that preserving our rent controlled housing stock is essential to maintaining affordability in San Francisco, and I commit and look forward to working with you on your forthcoming tenant protection proposals.

So I thank you for it and I look forward to working with you on it.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Mr.

Mayor, you may now ask a back on.

Mr.

Mayor, uh, you may now ask a question to Supervisor Melgar or to any other supervisor in attendance pertaining to the same topic, but not necessarily related to the previous question.

No, thank you for having me today, and I'll let you all get down to your business.

Thank you, sir.

I appreciate it.

Appreciate it.

All right.

That concludes our district seven topic discussion.

Uh the matter has been discussed and will be filed after general public comment.

Uh, Madam Clerk, I think you may have had other communications.

Uh yes, thank you, Mr.

President.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors welcomes your attendance at this meeting in room 50 on the second floor within City Hall.

If you are unable to make it down to the board's legislative chamber, you may watch the proceeding on SFGOV TV's Channel 26 or view the live stream on your computer at www.sfgovtv.org.

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Just address your envelope to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, the number one, Dr.

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And you can do that by calling 415 554 5184.

Thank you, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Let's go to the approval of our meeting minutes.

Yes.

Approval of the July 29th, 2025 board meeting minutes.

Could I have a motion to approve the minutes as presented?

Moved by Fielder, seconded by Melgar.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Yes, on the minutes as presented, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Machmud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter.

Soder I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton, I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen, I, Supervisor Dorsey, Dorsey I, Supervisor Ringardio.

Ingario I.

And Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder I.

There are 11 ayes.

Then without objection, the minutes will be approved after public comment as presented.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our regular agenda.

Unfinished business.

Item two, this is an ordinance to amend the administrative code to revise the goals and reporting requirements for food purchasing by the Department of Public Health and the Sheriff's Department for city hospitals and jails, and to revise the sunset date such that the program standards and reporting requirements will remain in effect until December 31st, 2035.

Please call the rule.

On item two, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Mahmoud I, Supervisor Mandelman.

Aye.

Mandelman I, Supervisor Melgar.

Aye.

Melgar, I, Supervisor Sauter.

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl.

Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton.

Walton, I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen.

Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey I, Supervisor Renguardio.

Engardio I.

And Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder I.

There are 11 ayes.

Without objection, the ordinance is finally passed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to new business.

Please call item number three.

Item three, this is an ordinance that authorizes the execution and delivery of tax exempt or taxable certificates of participation in the amount of sixty-five million to finance and refinance certain capital improvement projects within the city and county as evidenced in the capital plan and to approve multiple agreements, forms, supplements to approve the form of the official notice of sale and a notice of intention to sell the certificates to approve the form of an official statement in preliminary and final form, the form of the purchase contract between the city and one or more initial purchasers of the certificates, and the continuing disclosure certificate.

Madam Clerk, please call item number four.

Item four resolution to retroactively authorize the Office of the District Attorney to accept and expand an approximate one hundred and sixty seven thousand dollar grant from the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco for the grant term of September 1st, 2024 through August 31st, 2026, to support the Bern State Crisis Intervention Program Activities and Services.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item number five.

Item five, this is a resolution to approve the Fourth Amendment to the agreement between the city and project open hand to provide HIV and AIDS food and nutrition services to increase the contract amount by 1.7 million for a new total of 20.5 million with no changes to the term.

Now April 1st, 2017 through March 31st, 2027.

And again, same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item number six.

Item six resolution to retroactively authorize the San Francisco Department of Public Health to enter into an agreement with the California Department of State Hospitals to provide funding for the felony incompetent to stand trial mental health diversion program for a five-year term, July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2030, having anticipated revenue of approximately 15 million.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item seven and eight together.

Item seven and eight are two resolutions that approve two real property leases.

For item seven, this approves and authorizes the director of property to lease approximately 4,000 square feet of real property for the public defender's office.

Located at eight boardman place for a five-year term with two five-year options to extend at 95% of fair market value at an annual base rent of $144,000 from Steel Ark LLC.

And for item eight, this authorizes and approves the director of property to execute a lease agreement for a four-year term and three five-year options to extend with NPU Inc.

For the continued use of the old mint located at 88 Fifth Street, paying as participation rent 10% of the gross monthly revenue generated from their use of the old mint.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call item number nine.

Item nine, resolution to approve an agreement with Solaris Bus U.S.

Inc.

to procure three 40-foot and three sixty-foot battery electric transit buses from Solaris Bus U.S.

Inc., along with the associated spare parts, special tools, manuals, and training through assigned options established under a procurement conducted by King County Metro with an anticipated expenditure of 10.8 million, which includes a contract for an amount of 9.9 million and a term through December 19th, 2027, with options to extend the contract to December 19th, 2029, and responsibility for the payment of an estimated eight hundred and fifty-five thousand in taxes.

Same house, same call.

Without objection, the resolution is adopted.

Madam Clerk, please call items 10 through 12 together.

Item 10.

Items 10 through through 12 are three resolutions that pertain to the Balboa Reservoir Plan and authorizes the director of property and the mayor's office of housing and community development for item 10 approves and authorizes for the purposes of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended.

The execution and delivery of multifamily housing revenue notes of approximately 84.1 million to provide financing for the construction of a 127-unit multifamily rental housing project expected to be located at 505 Mayor Edwin M.

Lee Avenue, formerly known as Eleven Frida Colo Way, known as the Balboa Reservoir, Building E, to approve the forms, agreements, terms and conditions of the loan, the execution and delivery of the note, the projected loan and regulatory agreement, and declaration of restrictive covenants, to authorize the collection of certain fees, to approve modifications, changes, and additions to the documents, to ratify and approve any actions thus far taken in connection with the back-to-back loans, the note, and the project.

For item 11, this item executes an amended restated loan agreement with the BHC Balboa Builders LLC for an approximate loan amount of $56.4 million to finance the first phase of infrastructure improvements related to the revitalization and master development of an approximate seventeen point six acre size, complete with various public benefits such as affordable housing and to adopt the appropriate findings.

And for item 12.

Here, this authorizes a ground lease for real property owned by the city and located at 11 Fredacalaway with Balboa Lee Avenue LP as developer for a lease term of 75 years and one 24-year option to extend and an annual base rent of 15,000 to construct a 100% affordable 127-unit multifamily rental housing development, affordable to very low and low income households to approve and authorize an amended and restated loan agreement in an amount of $28 million for a $57 year loan term to finance the development and construction of the project and for the projects to adopt the appropriate findings.

Chair Chan.

Thank you, President Amendelman.

Colleagues, this has uh we need to make an amendment that was not quite ready uh at the budget committee, but was discussed uh and recommended by the budget and legislative analyst uh when it was at the committee.

Um, and the amendment has been sent to you electronically, and um is for item number eleven, and the file number is two five zero eight two nine.

Uh and the amendments that we want to make today is on page four line one uh to adding a clause that indicating that MOHCD has agreed to provide written reports to the poor supervisors within the 90 days of the completion of building E.

Particularly, this is really about to report back.

Um we are providing a loan to the project and um and whether or not that uh the total dispers disbursements of the proposed infrastructure loan is what we're providing, the city is providing, and whether or not any action uh has taken to forgive uh all or part of the loan.

Uh so that's what we want to know ultimately.

Uh this is a loan approval, approval, and we want to know if we end up forgiving the loan.

So, with that, I hope to have your support on this amendment.

There is a motion from supervisor or from Chair Chan.

Supervisor Chan.

Is there a second?

Seconded by uh Supervisor Melgar, um Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you so much.

Uh I just wanted to say thank you very much to Chair Chan for her work and thoughtfulness uh on uh this amendment and to the entire uh budget committee uh and to express my gratitude to the mayor's office of housing uh for their diligent work on this project.

It's been literally 30 years of the making.

Uh and uh the person that I also want to thank is uh my uh uh your friend and former district seven supervisor and president at Norman Yee, who uh was a supervisor with this project, was entitled.

You may remember a couple years ago we we amended the development agreement to have the affordable housing go first, and that's what's happening.

Uh and this infrastructure will support uh primarily affordable housing that's being built first, but will support the project overall.

So I'm really grateful that we're there.

Uh and also again, thank you to Chair Chan for her thoughtfulness and for uh moving this forward.

Uh thank you, Chair Chan and Supervisor Melgar.

There's a motion that's been seconded.

I think we can take that uh without objection.

Without objection, uh the motion passes.

And then I believe that we can take items 10, 11 as amended and 12, same house, same call without objection.

The resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, let's look good to committee reports.

Please call items 13 through 20 together.

Item 13 through 20 were considered by the government audit and oversight committee at a regular meeting on Thursday, September 4th, 2025, and were considered as committee reports.

Here we have eight ordinances that authorize settlement of lawsuit.

For item 13.

This lawsuit was filed by Katrina Baptiste involving an employment dispute and authorized to settle for 125,000.

Item 14, filed by Eliana Crucio, involving an alleged personal injury on a city sidewalk and is authorized to settle for 225,000.

Item 15, this lawsuit was filed by Jane Gozola, involving an alleged personal injury on a city sidewalk and is authorized to settle for 128,000.

Item 16 contains the authorization to settle two lawsuits filed by Keith Baraka involving an employment dispute and is authorized to settle for 160,000 for both lawsuits.

Item 17 was filed by the coalition on homelessness.

It involves plaintiffs' allegations that the city unlawfully seized property without adequate advance notice and discards the property going forward.

The city should store under terms of the city's bag and tag policy in a manner that allows retrieval and is authorized to settle for approximately 2.8 million and other non-monetary terms.

Item 18.

This lawsuit involves allegations that Purdue and the Sacklers contributed to the opioid crisis by incentivizing the sale and use of opioids, despite knowledge of the growing epidemic caused by the misuse.

Item 19, filed by the city and county of San Francisco exrel Roger Schneider against ATT Corp and Pacific Bell Telephone Company for approximately 15.4 million.

And for item 20, this ordinance authorizes settlement of the lawsuit filed by the city and county uh ex-rayel Roger Schneider against US Telepacific Corp doing business TPX communications for $3.6 million.

Both of these settlements involve the allegations that both ATT and TPX and other telecommunication companies knowingly under collected and under-remitted amounts due under the access line tax ordinance in violation of the California False Claims Act.

All right.

Without objection, the ordinances are passed on first reading.

And Madam Clerk, let's go to our 230 special order.

Yes, at 2 30, it is now time for the recognition of commendations for meritorious service to the city and county of San Francisco.

And I believe we have District 11, Supervisor Chen.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

Yes.

Coach Adam, may I have you come to the podium?

Good.

Yes, give him a big round of applause.

Good afternoon.

It's my great honor today to recognize Coach Calvin Adams, a lifelong educator, coach, and mentor.

After 43 years of dedication to his players, Coach Adam retired this year.

Today we wish to celebrate his exceptional impact on Galileo High School and San Francisco Athletics.

Coach Adam let Gallio Football from 1981 to 2008.

Was hat coach for 15 seasons, won 10 San Francisco Triple A championships, and finished it as runner up six times.

This lead is the city's highest level of high school sports, featuring the most skewed and dedicated athletes.

Under Coach Adams' leadership, Galileo had three undefeated seasons and ranked in the state's top eight.

His team reached the Turkey Day Championship 16 times, including a straight in 1994.

He was twice named San Francisco Triple A coach of the year and helped lead the North to shout out win in the 1991 Shine Game at the Roast Bowl.

Beyond football, he also led Gallio's Vassity Boys basketball teams to championship in 1998 and 2005.

The 98 team was ranked third in the Bay Area, and he coached the player of the year, Kenny Walls.

During his career, he also coached at track and fields in 1986.

His four by 400 replay placed it fourth at state finals.

Their record times is due the fastest by any San Francisco high school teams.

His four by 100 team also set a school record and placed it sixth in the state.

It's also coached two NFL players, Bobby Shaw and Nanny Walls.

And his nephew, Joe Mixon, went on to become the an NFL star with Coach Adams' support.

Coach Adams' guidance extended beyond the court.

He mentored three student athletics who later became doctors.

Additionally, Coach Adams' legacy is recognized in several local halls of fame.

As a student athletic himself, he was an NCAA Division II National Finalists and earned honor at both San Francisco State and Skyline.

Coach Adams' story shows that the success is not just about winning.

It's about effort, it's about character, it's about perseverance.

Thank you, Coach Adam, for your remarkable career and your commitment to uplifting your players and for inspiring generation of ethics.

Thank you.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Thank everybody for uh being here again.

This is a great honor uh to be recognized after I guess that 43 years that goes by quick.

Um again uh without good students, good support from the uh administration, um, also from the city, period, just to uh give the kids an opportunity.

That's what that's what it's all about to be.

Um again, you know, I've been lucky enough to win some games, but I had to have some good players also, and some good coaches that helped me.

Um, again, uh support from my family also.

Um, you know, it's a strong backboard for my father, mother, and my grandmother, and uh, you know, encouragement from my siblings and also uh some of my friends and my wife right here, uh Ivana, who's here, and uh Ron Kennedy, a neighborhood friend, and Joe Mixon's dad, who's right here.

Again, my my uh my sister's oldest kid.

So again, I appreciate this honor and uh I'll never forget it.

And uh I'm sure the uh kids who I talk to, hopefully uh someday they'll be up here.

Thank you.

All right, is Nancy Alfaro here?

Come on up, colleagues today.

Um we have another bittersweet commendation.

I'm presenting a special commendation to Nancy Alfaro, who's retiring from her role as director of SF 311 after more than 30 years of service to the city and county of San Francisco.

Nancy first joined the city in 1992 as a management assistant.

She worked her way up the ranks and became our county clerk in 1997.

In that role, she modernized and expanded services to the public, including the introduction of online systems for marriage licenses, ceremony reservations, and queuing to make it easier to access services.

She successfully lobbied the state of California to accept electronic marriage licenses, which eliminated the need for staff to manually type out each license on paper forms.

San Francisco became the first county in the state to produce electronic marriage licenses with other counties following our lead shortly thereafter.

In 2004, Nancy helped make history when she issued the city's first same-sex marriage licenses to queer activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.

Under direction from former mayor Gavin Newsom, Nancy's team worked quickly to update marriage license forms to accommodate same-sex couples.

Between February 12th and March 11th of 2004, her office issued more than 4,000 marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

Although the marriages were later halted by the California Supreme Court, the month long winter of love brought new energy to the fight for marriage equality.

In 2007, when SF 311 was created, Nancy became its deputy director.

Two years later, she took over as director of the city's customer service center, which connects the public to city departments 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

As director, she fostered partnerships with department leaders to make it easier for the public to submit requests and improve the city's ability to resolve requests effectively.

She implemented business process improvements that led to faster service delivery.

She also created new data and reporting dashboards that strengthen transparency and accountability.

Over the past two decades, 311 has evolved significantly.

The agency added online and mobile app services, which are available in Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino as well as English.

The 311 app has processed more than four million service requests since it launched.

Nancy, we thank you for making it easier for San Franciscans to access city services.

You've helped to make our city a cleaner, safer, and more accessible place to live, work, and recreate in.

Thank you, President Mandelman.

I want to express my appreciation to the board president for that for honoring Nancy Alfaro.

I just want to express my gratitude to you when you were county clerk.

This was something the marriage equality fight was something that was really personal to me.

I was one of, along with Terry Stewart, two of the uh queer members of the City Attorney's Office executive staff.

Um, and everybody who stood with that just meant the world to us.

Um you could have said no.

Um, and I think it's it's appropriate.

In the history of um LGBTQ rights, there was going to be a case with your name on it because they sued you.

Um, and I I always thought that was kind of kind of great because you could have said no.

And it really did matter as in that time when we were doing everything we could to get married to get people married and to start a fight that would actually make history and you know change the law.

It took nine years, but we got there, um, and you have really a special part in that, and it means a lot to me.

So congratulations on a well-earned retirement.

Thank you very much.

Supervisor Sauter.

Um Nancy, I want to thank you for your decades of service to the city.

Um, and I appreciate hearing about all of your work before 311.

Um, quite a remarkable um set of work that you've um engaged on with the city.

I appreciate your work on 311 because I think it is the probably uh the most common way that everyday citizens engage with our city.

And it is something that um I would say 99% of the time it feels like magic to people uh when they use it, and it's a really important way for us to engage with everyone.

And in particular, in the last few months, um you were wonderful to work with uh as we tried to um keep the um the 311 open API going, and in particular, make sure that we continue to support SOLVSF.

Um that's an app that personally I use multiple times a day, and I know uh thousands of our neighbors do as well.

So thank you for all of your service and all of your work to improve San Francisco.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you so much, President Mandelman, for uh doing this commendation.

Thank you so much for everything you've done for our city.

I uh have to just share like personally how much you've meant to me.

I met you uh when I was working for Gavin Newsom when he was mayor, and we were uh handful, and I mean a handful of Latinas working in government at the time.

And I have seen you, uh, your leadership, uh, your visibility for the rest of us uh in that position of power and uh everything that you've done so competently uh and so wonderfully.

You are just uh it's just been an honor uh to work with you and the different things that you've done and um again to thank you as uh from one Latina to another uh for your visibility, your representation, and the way that you have carried yourself in uh this position and what you've meant for the rest of us.

So thank you, Nancy.

I'm sorry that you're leaving.

But I appreciate you and admire you.

Uh, and yeah, you're gonna live on in our history and the history of this country, and that makes me so, so proud.

And now, City Administrator Carmen Chu.

Thank you, President Mendelman, and of course, the board of supervisors for allowing us to honor a really a true public servant here.

Uh, Nancy is joined by her family.

So I wonder if they would just stand for a minute so we can see them and recognize them.

Let's give them a big round of applause.

I think as as many of you have already articulated, and and President Mendelman, you already articulated so many of Nancy's accomplishments.

Uh, there is so much that uh we will miss about Nancy and myself included.

It is often hard to replace someone who is so excellent and so amazing to work with.

And so we're gonna have really tough uh shoes to fill, Nancy, with your departure.

Um, I remember when she had actually set up the appointment to meet with me to let me know that she was uh leaving or retiring, and I'm like, oh no, I know what this is.

Whenever someone gives me an appointment and it's not one of the things that I'm expecting, I know it's gotta be about this.

And so, in fact, it was.

And I will say that as someone who has seen Nancy work at the county clerk's office, but not only that, and 311 in my latest capacity here, she is someone who has always been a true champion of public service and really about what it means to provide excellent service to anyone who comes to the door.

And I think that's what she's tried to do, both at the county clerk's office and also 311, regardless of where you come from, what your language capacity is.

She understands that that first interaction that the public has with us will set an example for how they think about their government and how it is that we're responsive.

So just having someone who is constantly aware of that importance, uh, someone who is constantly innovating and never uh really content to say how it is is how it should be, but always trying to figure out the next thing to do to improve service, the next kind of thing to build on in order to make it more convenient for workers or for people to access government services, is a true um true, true treasure.

I think as you know, so many of the people in your city government work incredibly hard, and they are the unsung heroes to the work that is here.

And Nancy is truly one of those champions.

Um, but above and beyond that, the thing that most people don't see is just how much she truly loves and cherishes her employees and the people that work for her.

Uh, she is someone who is routinely having fun committee parties where she's like making sure to recognize the staff and their great work.

And I think that's important to celebrate each other and to celebrate the great work that they're doing.

So, Nancy, you're not gonna only be missed because of the work that you've done to modernize and move our government forward and for all of the innovation and work that you've done.

We're gonna miss you for your partnership.

We're gonna miss the fact that we're losing a really great person amongst us as a colleague, someone who has humanity and understanding of what's necessary to serve people, but because all of your employees and all of us will just miss working with you as a human being.

You're just a really great person.

And so at the end of the day, to me, that is the thing that is most important is how you live your life and how you treat others, and you do that with dignity, and we will miss that.

So, Nancy, to your 30 years, thank you so, so, so very much.

We couldn't be here without all of your great work.

Congratulations.

Being in the spotlight is not one of the things I like.

So thank you so much uh for this incredible honor.

Um it's just I have so much honor and respect for everything that you do.

I am just so appreciative of the support and opportunities that I have been given throughout my career.

I have gained so much knowledge, inspiration from so many city leaders, um, just like our city administrator Carmen Chu or deputy city administrator Jennifer Johnson, uh, who were always standing by my side, supporting every crazy idea I might bring up, but they trusted my judgment and appreciated anything that I brought that was innovative and always with the public interest in mind, as she said, that's really important to me.

Um, but as I reflect on my accomplishments, um, I remember starting as a young management assistant, having no clue what the next 30 years were gonna come up and be part of me.

But I am really fortunate to have had managers that really believed in me, that uh saw my potential, that mentored me that encouraged me to apply for higher positions, and that led me to have confidence in myself, and you know, build two departments, um, two brand new departments because the county clerk had separated from the recorder's office, um, and then 311, who was just wires hanging off of the wall when I first uh came to 311.

So it's pretty exciting, and not many people have that opportunity, as well as the history that was made with the same-sex marriages.

So I'm very proud of all of that.

And I always keep that in mind as I stand here now as director of 311.

But I couldn't have accomplished this without um my employees.

You know, they are really who make success out of your leaders, right?

And I mean, the employees of the county clerks, the volunteers at the county clerks, amazing individuals.

All the colleagues from the all the various city departments, without their support, 311 would not exist, and we wouldn't have been able to answer questions to the public.

And of course, all of the 311 staff.

Uh, I mean, they mean the world to me.

They're passionate, dedicated, hardworking individuals who really have truly have a passion for customer service, and they are doing everything they want because they want it better for the public.

They I always say it's a special type of individual that accepts these types of jobs because it's not for everyone.

And we understand that, but we do hire some of the best people, and they really care about the people that are on the other line on the phone or on the counter, and that's really important, and they're gonna have a special place in my heart for sure.

Um naturally I want to thank my family, right?

My parents uh were great role models.

Um, my mom is right now watching uh, I think the board meeting on the computer, and unfortunately, my dad couldn't be here anymore to see me, but I know he would be so so proud.

They really instilled great values in all of us.

Um, they told us to work hard, have good work ethic, you know, and that's what I think allowed me to get to where I am today.

That was really important.

And of course, I had to keep this uh a little bit low-key because otherwise I would probably have 20 family members as a Latina, you know, every second cousin and every aunt is immediate family, so um, but I do have some special people here.

My husband, of course, who has been like one of my biggest supporters, uh, you know, even when he knew that some of these jobs were gonna require working really late, working weekends no matter what, we had young children.

Uh, he was like, I know you can do this, take the opportunity, don't let this go by.

So he was always there for me.

So thank you, Jorge.

Um, I have, you know, my older son, my sister, my brother, my niece, uh, you know, here with their family supporting me because I have always had that love and support uh from them, and that's been very, very important um to me and to my success.

And um, just lastly, I just want to say that it's just been a great honor to have this recognition.

Um, working for the city and county of San Francisco has truly been just amazing.

I've had just a wonderful time.

It does go quick.

Um, I don't even feel like it's been over 30 years, but my age says otherwise.

So I leave uh with my head held high and very proud of what I've been able to accomplish in these last 30 years.

So thank you very much.

Oh, but they have to do this first.

No, no, no, just together.

Well, maybe you'll just you want to talk.

I think here with the board.

Okay.

I'm commentary.

Oh, yeah.

You have video, no more.

Okay, we can do that.

Congratulations.

All right, people, back to work.

Um, Madam Clerk, could you uh please call items twenty-one and twenty two together?

Items twenty-one and twenty-two were considered by the rules committee at a regular meeting on Monday, September eighth, and are two motions recommended as amended to uh approve President Rafael Mandelman's two nomination appointments as committee reports.

Actually, we are striking one word in each motion, and that is the word rejecting.

So we have new titles.

These are appointments to the San Francisco Downtown Revitalization and Economic Recovery Financing District Board of Directors.

For item twenty-one, this motion approves the appointment of Antonio Tolentino, term ending July twenty second, twenty twenty-seven.

And for item twenty two, this motion approves Kristen Wong term ending July twenty second, twenty twenty-nine.

Okay, I think we can take these same house, same call without objection.

The motions are approved.

And Madam Clerk, let's go to roll call.

Supervisor Mahmood, you're first up to introduce new business, colleagues.

Today I am calling all bookworms, Oxford, debaters, and reading escapists, because as the son of a former librarian, I am proudly introducing a resolution recognizing September as library card signup month in San Francisco.

This resolution uplifts the San Francisco public library system, the best in the nation.

I just ask our city librarian, Michael Lambert, and reminds us of the extraordinary resources available to every resident with just a free library card.

Our city has 27 neighborhood branches plus the main library, ensuring that every neighborhood has access to knowledge, culture, and community.

A library card provides access to millions of ebooks and audiobooks, research tools, and canopy, a world-class streaming service with award-winning films and documentaries.

Through Discover and Go, families can also access free passes to museums and cultural institutions across the Bay Area.

The library is far more than books.

It's free homework help, digital literacy training, small business resources, and a civic and a safe civic space where all San Franciscans can gather and learn.

Flagship programs like Knight of Ideas showcased the library's role as a hub for culture, dialogue, and civic engagement, and simply fun.

Now, at the national level, libraries we have to acknowledge are under attack.

Federal funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Services, responsible for hundreds of millions in library grants face elimination, and states like Ohio and Oregon are already cutting back on local funding.

These cuts are already disrupting interlibrary loans, digital access, and programming access across the country.

In some communities, residents are losing access to the very services that connect them to the education and opportunity they need.

Against this backdrop, it is important now more than ever that San Francisco continues to champion our top-tier library system as a model of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and most importantly, freedom of access to information.

I thank all my co-sponsors, Mandelman, Melgar, and Guardio and Chen, and invite all my colleagues to join us in encouraging residents from lifelong San Franciscans to newcomers to sign up for a free library card this month.

The rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Mahmoud.

Supervisor Milgar.

Excuse me, Supervisor Mandelman.

Apologies, Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

A few items today.

One is colleagues.

I am introducing legislation to um nearly seven years after it was imposed or approved to repeal our never yet imposed cannabis business tax.

Again, back in November of 2018, voters voted on this measure.

In 2019, this our our board, not this board, but our board of supervisors, I think correctly, decided to delay the imposition of the tax for a year.

In 2021, we approved another uh year-long delay, and in 2022, we approved a three-year delay.

And I think in each of these cases, we have recognized that our legal cannabis industry faces uh unique challenges from federal and state regulation, and that they are competing against a dominant illicit market.

In that environment, we have been reluctant to further burden the legal market.

As a federally classified Schedule 1 controlled substance, cannabis businesses cannot deduct ordinary expenses from their revenue.

This creates uh uh a tax burden that leads to increased costs and liabilities for individual businesses.

It also means that legal cannabis businesses cannot access conventional banking systems and must have increased security and overhead to secure their cash-run businesses.

Burgers often burglars often target cannabis businesses, knowing that they keep cash on hand.

Our legal cannabis businesses are subject to high state taxes, which have recently and inexplicably to my mind gone up.

And so I know we are not all of one mind about this, but I do think it is worth having the conversation.

If we do not have the conversation, this tax kicks in next year, which I think would be uh a big mistake and a um and very negative for our efforts to uh to support the legal industry and get rid of the illegal cannabis industry.

I do want to thank um Anha in my office for his work on this legislation, and I want to thank uh co-sponsors, uh Supervisor Dors, Supervisor Source, Supervisors, Dorsey, Sotter, and Mahmoud.

Thank you, colleagues, for that.

I'm also asking that we adjourn today's meeting in memory of Peter Kane, who died on July 15th after 10 years of health challenges related to type 1 diabetes and HIV with which he had lived for decades.

Peter was born in London, England, and immigrated to the United States on the SS France with his parents in May of 1971.

His family settled in Southern California, where he went to high school and attended Pierce College.

In 1977, he transferred to San Francisco State.

After graduating in 1979, Peter began his career in retail.

He worked at the GAP and then at New York Mann in the Castro.

It was there that he worked with Bob Farina and learned how to run a small retail business.

In 1989, Peter opened his own retail store in the Castro, which he named Citizen.

He and Bob also started a side business sourcing fabric and finished shirts in San Francisco to sell at Citizen.

Two years later, Peter expanded his business and opened a second store in the neighborhood, Body.

By 2011, the stores were located across the street from each other on Castro Street.

Each was an iconic fashion destination for locals and tourists.

In 2015, Peter won a best display, best window display award from British fashion designer Ben Sherman.

He was an active member of the Castro community and a longtime member and board member of the Castro Merchants Association.

His advocacy led to the hanging of the flower planters in the neighborhood.

In 2018, the Office of Small Business honored Peter for his contributions to San Francisco.

And uh posted uh that Peter exemplified the best of San Francisco small business and made the castro a fashion shopping destination.

Besides his key for fashion, besides his keen eye for fashion and talent for keeping track of the latest trends, Peter was known for his love of theater.

He often traveled to New York and London to see the latest shows and musical performances, and had an extensive extensive collection of vinyl and CDs that he would display in his store windows.

Peter's survived by his mother Valerie, his brother Andy, nephews Brad and Nick, his former partner and best friend of 45 years, Jeff Leiter, and his adopted son Nico Petri Mitchell.

Rest in peace, Peter Kane, may your memory be a blessing, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Mandelman, Mr.

President.

Next up is Supervisor Milgar.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Sauter.

Yes, colleagues, today I am introducing a hearing request on the performance of the city's main disaster training program, NERT.

The neighborhood emergency response team, more commonly known as NERT, has been around since 1990 and has trained thousands of residents to prepare for major events like earthquake, fire, and other disasters.

Between the terrible Southern California fires and a recent tsunami scare here in San Francisco, there is more interest than ever in getting our city and citizens ready to care for themselves and one another in case of emergency.

And September happens to be natural preparedness month, which further underscores the need to be ready.

NERT is a fantastic program run through the San Francisco fire department.

I completed NERT training myself some seven years ago and found it to be eye-opening and important.

I'm hoping I'm hoping that our hearing will answer questions such as how do our 12,000 active NERT graduates prepare us in comparison to other cities?

And just as we have a course for Spanish-speaking residents, can we have a similar approach for Cantonese-speaking residents?

Can we embed NERT training in other educational settings like high schools?

These are some of the questions we hope to address.

So I look forward to our hearing to make sure that we're doing everything possible as a city to prepare for emergencies.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Sauter.

Supervisor Cheryl.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Walton.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chan.

Submit, thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Yes, colleagues.

Thank you, Madame Claire.

Colleagues, today I am excited to introduce a residential tenant protections ordinance.

This ordinance offers proactive strategy to expand the rights of tenants who face displacement when a developer or landlord pursues the demolition of a tenant-occupied property in order to build new housing.

This ordinance applies citywide and creates a set of new policies and system of enforcement.

It comes at a crucial juncture in San Francisco.

Developers now have a host of new tools and incentives to advance projects from density bonuses, streamlining provisions, and increasing development potential through proposed rezoning, not to mention state laws which enable the demolition of existing rent controlled and tenant-occupied housings.

At recent hearings of the land use committee and the planning commission, we have seen an outpouring of community voices humanizing the struggle of everyday San Franciscans who fear displacement.

They include elderly tenants who are relying on their support networks in existing rent control housings, such as grocery stores, doctors, transicts, and neighbors who support them, and are terrified of the disruption to this network if they are displaced from their home when landlords choose to redevelop, or the real fears of tenants who are forced to absorb unmanageable rent increase on a private market when their landlord choose to redevelop their buildings and displace tenants through no fault of their own.

This legislation provides solutions to help fill the gaps in policy enforcement and accountability.

It established common sense rules for developers and common sense protections for residential tenants.

One extensive tenant notification that is linguistically accessible to all steps of entitlement from application submitted to permit approval.

Second, relocation assistance for all displaced tenants with additional assistance to lower-income tenants, a relocation plan and specialists to facilitate to facilitate the implementation of required protections, a right for tenants to remain in their homes for at least six months with time-specific notification, a right to return at prior rental rate if demolition does not proceed and units are returned to the rental market.

A right of first refusal for lower income tenants to move into newly developed developed units at higher rent or an affordable rent, which it's whichever is lower.

Replacement of all protected units in buildings that will be demolished with a combination of rent control and below market rate units, additional tools for tenants to stop tenant harassment before they are displaced and before land law have to comply with the provisions of this ordinance.

This legislation is informed by on the ground expertise of tenants and counselors, lawyers and advocates who have to take picnic call very pending calls from community members when they are faced with evictions and housing insecurity.

I want to acknowledge the leadership of the race and equity in all planning coalitions and the San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition in helping to craft this ordinance.

I want to also thank my legislative aide, Charlie Shamas, for coordinating such collaborative and participatory process to develop this legislation.

I also want to acknowledge the partnership, expertise, and collaborations from planning department, the rent board, and city attorney's office.

I know that this is also an issue.

Our mayor cares a lot, and that our members of the board also have stated repeatedly on record that we are committed to defending tenants in this city.

So with that, I want to thank my co-sponsorship, Supervisor Feder, Walton, Chen, and Supervisor Dorsey.

And I look forward to work with my rest with the rest of my colleague and get your support.

Thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Chen.

Supervisor Dorsey.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues, I ask that we adjourn today's meeting on behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors in remembrance of John Burton, a true son of San Francisco, and a one-in-once-in-a-generation political leader whose influence spanned six decades and whose legacy will endure for many decades more.

John Burton was a proudly liberal, fiercely outspoken, and deeply compassionate lawmaker and leader.

He believed that the most important duty of government was to help those least able to help themselves.

That simple conviction guided a lifetime of public service.

Together with his brother Philip Burton, his sister-in-law Salah Burton, and his lifelong friend and political ally Willie Brown, John helped to build a political organization that not only reshaped San Francisco, but also gave rise to some of the most consequential leaders in state and national politics.

Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Kamala Harris, and Gavin Newsom among them.

As a member of the U.S.

Congress, California State Assembly, and as California State Senate President Pro Tempor, John Burton was a legislative giant.

He authored and fought for landmark measures to expand services for foster youth, to protect farm workers, to fund special education, to preserve old growth redwoods, to restrict guns and to extend benefits for the poor.

His legacy includes having shaped welfare reform, strengthened labor rights, championed the Americans with Disabilities Act, and raising the federal minimum wage, in short, advancing the myriad priorities that represent the Democratic Party at its very best.

It is perhaps no accident then that he would also go on to serve as one of the state Democratic Party's most accomplished chairs.

In that role, in fact, he was credited by former Governor Jerry Brown as someone who will go down as the guy who gave life and structure and success to the California Democratic Party.

Whatever else he was, however, John Burton was never shy about being himself first and foremost.

He was rumpled direct and famously profane.

But his bluster always came from a place of love.

He had a knack for cutting through politics as usual with blunt honesty, sharp humor, and deep humanity.

He could negotiate with governors and presidents, sang songs on the Senate floor with Republican colleagues, and still find time to deliver blankets to those sleeping on the streets.

His leadership extended beyond the Capitals in Washington and Sacramento, however, through his nonprofit John Burton advocates for youth.

He championed foster kids and homeless youth.

He worked to help thousands of young people build brighter futures.

Among the multitude of admirable qualities for which he has been remembered and praised in recent days.

John Burton's vulnerability and courage back in the 1980s in acknowledging his struggle with drug addiction is what most inspired me.

He spoke openly about it and in so doing gave hope to countless others who've struggled with addiction similarly, and who may have doubted their own prospects to get another chance in its aftermath.

His recovery was not just a personal triumph, it was a powerful reminder of redemption's possibility, and he used his second act in politics to fight harder than ever before for the underdog.

John Burton embodied passion, conviction, and resilience.

He yelled because he cared.

California is better, fairer, and more compassionate because of it.

In addition to his daughter, Camiko and her children, Juan and McCullough.

John Burton is survived by Michelle Burton, his first wife and mother of Camiko and grandmother of Juan and McCollar.

Our condolences and our hearts go out to all of them, as well as to his friends, loved ones, and admirers.

Rest in power, Senator, and may your memory be a blessing.

And the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.

Supervisor Chan.

Thank you, President Mendelman.

I definitely want to join in this.

But I first want to say, you know, I I do not have a deep, I did not have a deep relationship with him and as many had.

But uh today, I think President Mendelman are both wearing the Bobby Pan that actually was given by Francis Shea on our team, and is it's like part of her family treasure.

And uh I think that's how John Burton impact everyone.

Some maybe very deeply and personal, and some like me and Francis Shea and and President Mendelman, I would say.

Um I got to know him actually when I was running my first term and as a candidate.

I remember, and I think that that's so much about him.

He did not have curse words when I call him and when he picked up the phone.

But he was very straightforward and simple.

I as a candidate, of course, always it's like, wow, what an honor that you pick up the phone, Senator Burton, and and would love to have coffee with you and hope that you know uh you get to I get to know you and you get to know me.

But uh he was very straightforward.

He said, Nope, we don't need to have coffee.

I said, Oh no, this must be a rejection that's coming.

And then he said, Um, does Mike Casey and anybody who knows my Casey, local too, does Mike Casey did my Casey endorse you?

I said, yes, indeed, he did, and local too did.

And he said, that's good enough for me.

You have my endorsement, goodbye.

And then he hung up with me.

There was no more words to be said.

But I think that while that was short and brief, I think that I learned so much in that brief minute.

One, he knew who he was.

He knew his values, he knew his ally, my casey, he trusted him, and he knew what it was about, the labor movement.

And if we have labor, and and being part of the movement, then he's part of it too.

So um I think that even though it was short, brief uh conversation, I took that with me and carry with me.

I think for my for those years that since I took office, but I think also for my remaining time here in San Francisco and as a member of the board of supervisors.

And I'm sure that this is just one of the many, many stories that all San Franciscan experience um during their time and interaction, be again, you know, very brief like I did, or someone that have a very long relationship, like maybe our Speaker America Pelosi and many other politicians and electeds and community leaders like my Casey in this town.

Um, for that, I am just truly grateful to even have that brief conversation, and that um not only that he will be greatly missed, I think that he should ought to be a shining legendary example of what any elected, any San Franciscan should be uh fighting for San Francisco.

You can curse.

You don't have to curse, but I think with the same passionate um spirit and fighting spirit and most important San Francisco value.

So thank you.

Thank you, Supervisor Jan.

Thank you again, Supervisor Dorsey, for doing this.

Um I feel I sent a little message to uh Senator Burton's daughter, um, saying that I just feel I feel so lucky to have known him a little bit, not uh maybe as much as uh Supervisor Dorsey, but um to have had a little bit, a few opportunities to get to know him a little and uh more so I feel fortunate to have um to have been it to have lived the entirety of my life um in a California and a San Francisco that was uh in many ways defined by the Burtons.

Um I think you have to go back to like the 1950s to see the beginning of their influence and um his death, you know, sort of puts a bookend.

But if you think about what a San Francisco, what it meant to be a San Francisco Democrat for you know half a century really, it was a lot about what the Burtons understood about what it was to be a Democrat.

And I think Supervisor Chan spoke about that, but fighting for working people, knowing that you're on the side of the underdog.

I think I've spoken here about that statue on the marina or at Fort Mason that I think is uh so great, but it's it's uh John Burton's brother Philip Burton, which has that little speech sort of poking out of his uh his pocket, which you know is the little just a section of the quote.

I mean, the full quote is the only way to deal with exploiters is to terrorize the bastards.

And I think that that idea was so core and basic to so many of the people who were creating you know so much of what good things have happened in the United States for like a half a century.

So it's it's pretty extraordinary.

The other thing I think is worth noting about John Burton, I mean he was not, you know, probably a um, I mean, he wasn't you wouldn't think of him as a sensitive man, um, but he did open the door for an extraordinary number of very powerful and effective women, or he helped a lot of very powerful and effective women.

There was a period where the entire Northern California congressional delegation, I think was made up of women, and that was a lot.

A lot of those were women who'd been proteges of John Burton's.

And I think, you know, from Diane Feinstein to Barbara Boxer to Nancy Pelosi to Jackie Speer to Anna Eschew and Fiona Ma, so many people uh who benefited from that.

And of course, the Burtons um did a ton for the queer community as well.

And so for lots of communities, I think they were really part of that um transformation that happened in Northern California that were, you know, as we face conflict about what it means to be an American and what America is about.

I think California kind of knows what it's about in large part because of the Burtons.

So thank you, Supervisor Dorsey.

Um, Madam Clerk, we can go back to roll call.

Next up is Supervisor Ingardio.

Thank you.

Colleagues, today I'm introducing an ordinance to expand the city's community policing policy.

The community policing policy was adopted nearly 15 years ago to provide guidance to the police department on building relationships and maintaining trust with the communities they serve.

As the needs of our communities evolve over time, we must also periodically review and update our public safety policies to ensure our residents, workers, and businesses continue to feel safe.

The Sunset District is served by Terravel Station, which is one of the largest geographic police districts in the city.

From Ocean Beach to Twin Peaks, Golden Gate Park to I-280 and the Daily City border, Terravel Station is home to culturally diverse neighborhoods and a wide range of economic backgrounds.

Through community policing work out of Terrible Station, I identified two key components missing from the police department's current policy that this ordinance seeks to address.

First, while today's community policing policy emphasizes the importance of inclusive programming and community relations with vulnerable stakeholder groups, particularly youth, LGBTQ individuals, communities of color, and unhoused residents.

The intent of this ordinance helps make certain other vulnerable populations are included in the department's efforts.

Specifically, it adds seniors and individuals with limited English proficiency, two groups who often face barriers to accessing and engaging public safety personnel and resources.

In the Sunset District Force community safety liaison has been recognized as a bridge to these two communities, launching targeted engagement programs that have expanded and deepened our police department's relationships with residents, workers, and business owners.

I'm incredibly incredibly proud of our liaison's work leading widely accessible multilingual crime prevention programs that to build that trust and connect the Sunset District to Terrible Station in new ways.

Second, the current policy does not acknowledge the important role that civilian staff play in community policing.

Civilian staff are often the consistent presence at neighborhood stations, remaining in their roles far longer than many officers, sergeants, lieutenants, or captains.

Because of this continuity, they are uniquely positioned to build lasting relationships with residents and community organizations.

Recognizing their contributions is essential to strengthening the trust and continuity that community policing depends on.

Lastly, I acknowledge that some communities are not comfortable approaching a uniformed armed officer.

A regularly dressed civilian can immediately dissolve any wariness or hesitation when asking for assistance from public safety personnel.

A civilian staffer can also prioritize their time working one-on-one with members in the community on administrative matters, which may not be possible for uniformed officers who need to pivot and respond to an urgent crisis or emergency.

Thank you, Supervisor Ingario.

And Supervisor Fielder.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Colleagues, today I'm introducing a resolution that calls on Governor Newsom to commute every death sentence in California and redirect those resources to the survivors of violent crime who need the most.

We as Californians pride ourselves on progress.

We ban the use of gas chambers, we'd led the nation in moratoriums.

But while executions are paused, death sentences remain in place, and our death row persists as a relic of cruelty.

San Francisco has long stood against the death penalty because it is unjust, racially biased, and deeply flawed.

Two out of every three people sentenced to death in California are people of color.

We know that death sentences are more likely when victims are white, and that the majority of homicides with black or Latino victims go unsolved.

Since 1981, eight Californians, all men of color, have been exonerated and released from death row.

Meanwhile, California has spent five billion dollars since 1977 on a death penalty system that has resulted in just 13 executions.

Continuing this broken system would cost us another 600 million dollars.

Those are resources that could and should be invested in violence prevention, treatment, and services for survivors of crime, especially at a time when federal cuts have already devastated programs across our state.

Governor Newsom has already taken historic action by halting executions and dismantling the death chamber.

This resolution asks him to take the next step to commute all death sentences and move California toward a future rooted in justice, healing, and public safety.

It's time for California to close death row once and for all.

It's time to end a system that is racist, costly, and inhumane, and to build one that truly delivers safety, dignity, and justice for every community.

Thank you, and the rest I submit.

Thank you, Supervisor Fielder.

Mr.

President.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Uh and you for housekeeping purposes, you need on uh the in memorium for uh for former Senator Burton, for that's come from the full board.

Um, you want me to gavel down on that?

Yes, please, Mr.

President.

All right.

Thank you.

Um, Madam Clerk, let's uh go to public comment.

Right.

At this time, the board welcomes your public comment.

Please line up on your right hand side of the chamber.

You may speak to the mayoral appearance, the minutes as presented.

Items 25 through 32, those are for adoption without committee reference, and other general matters not on today's agenda, but must be within the board's subject matter jurisdiction.

All other content has been reported out to the board by an appropriate committee where the public comment requirement occurred.

We're setting the timer for two minutes.

Welcome, welcome to our first speaker.

Uh, yes, quickly let me repeat what I said before the the show started here again.

When the mayor was here, so you can't fake beauty or repeats and you are done as pedophiles.

Oh, if you you see, that's the way it is.

The future is self-control.

By the way, death penalty, it's interesting because in uh in France there was a president called Mitterrand, first thing he did is abolish the death penalty.

I think it was to cover the pedophiles because he knew that no matter what, if you are pedophiles, you are in big trouble, you see.

The only other option is operation, but then yeah.

Okay, no safety with spedophiles in societies in general, and let alone in any form of government.

Out.

We don't want them.

If you disagree, you are in big trouble, you are pedophiles, then that's it.

Okay, the future is self-control.

Why?

It's because self-control is what regulates you see existence.

That's why there is eternity, because of self-control.

So you control your emotions, you focus towards beauty.

You see, you are safe.

Self-control.

So globalization can only work if you promote individualism towards self-control.

Learning, then you share, you can have a sort of globalization of individual individualism, which means no government, obviously, only supervisors.

You have supervisors, not elected, but selected by drawing, you see, for one year only.

That's the future.

Otherwise, yes, we're gonna create our own currency.

We don't need any governments.

Okay, step by step.

Stop working for the pedophiles, then you focus on beauty.

It's the only future.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker, Mr.

Washington.

Thank you.

Today I'm here to do a presentation to the Board of Supervisors.

I have here, uh I like to pass out to each supervisor a document of our last week's uh Fillmore Corridor Ambassador Fillmore Tour, very successful.

It's one of three that we planning on doing this year.

So anyway, I'm also here to uh put our supervisor district five and the mayor on notice, and supposedly we're supposed to be negotiating to try to uh do a community meeting in the Western edition.

I guess they're trying to find the location, the time and place, but I'm here to help out what I can.

I am uh also coming to this board of supervisors to read to talk about my legacy, and I heard y'all talk about Burton's and the rest of them, but uh I don't know if y'all know I was through eight administrations, so that means eight mayors I've been through all the way up to this one.

I'm trying to find out relationship I'm what I'm gonna have with this mayor and supervisors.

I was around when the supervisors were just generally elected, not districts.

So you could imagine, you know, my lifespan here at City Hall, which I call silly hall, has uh preceded mostly everybody in here except for a few.

So but I'm here specifically to put the supervisor district five and the mayor on notice that the Fillmore Corridor ambassador is here to do a partnership community meeting in the Western edition where it's needed.

I'm not gonna go on the problems because I don't have enough time, but they know the problems that we have.

But I basically wanted to uh give a brochure of our tour, and uh invite y'all to know our next one.

But the next community meeting I would like to have with the supervisor and the mayor collaborating with the supervisors.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Mr.

Washington.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Thank you very much to the chair and members of the Board of Supervisors.

John Burton worked with first class, second class, and no class.

It didn't matter to him who you were, you were part of the family.

That was a burden family.

But the issues that were brought up of importance of sustainability, which is a base to live in, is something I'm an expert in.

You can check the record at North Beach Place, North Beast Public Housing.

I was the president of the association at that time to walk into hell for a heavenly cause.

I have the experience, I have the know-how.

How to deal with federal law when it comes to public housing.

So therefore, I can be called on by anyone that wants to finish the job.

128 units.

I mean 228 units, one for one replacement, are sitting right there as proof.

With businesses underneath it.

Along with the city government, we made that happen.

With all downtown merchants association, all resident businesses, Fisherman's Warp Association, Downtown Association.

Also with tax credits, governor.

So we also work with Republicans then.

You do have a Republican committee here you need to talk to.

You need votes from both sides.

Just a reminder, that's who we worked with.

San Francisco is special.

It works with every party there is.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome, next speaker.

Good afternoon, Board of Supervisors.

For the record, my name is Chris Ward Klein, and also Sergeant Klein of the United States Marine Corps.

Last week I gave a report to the board and the police commission.

So at this point, let the sheriff, the police chief, the FBI, and the DOD move forward on action items.

Across the street at the War Memorial Building, there are banners that tell the story before, during, and after war, and what it looks like.

That looks like serious national incidents, war, emigration, commerce, terrorists, and congressional lines being redrawn.

We are just a few years removed from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Every day I walk around, gauging the temperature of our community, and people are upset, extremely upset, and they are ready to fight.

About this technology war, immigration, the commerce, the terrorists, and the war that we are currently in.

We need leaders, such as the ones in this room, to promote peace and be willing to work across the lines and with others you have not in the past.

There will be serious questions and conversations, such as 1979 when my father died, and I was extremely upset because I didn't understand about war.

My little league coach came over and talked to me to never give up and go back and play baseball.

You're gonna have those conversations going forward.

In 1979, Jimmy Carter asked five of his cabinet members to resign, knowing that he would lose the election to bring peace and community to the United States in 1979 in the early 80s.

Senator John Burton was also very instrumental in the transition from war to peace in the 70s.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to the next speaker.

Thank you.

Hello, my name is Leah McGeever.

Glad you all had a great vacation.

Let me share mine.

On August 8th, I witnessed a friend get violently tackled and arrested by ice.

I witnessed this happen to another comrade at 630 Sansome.

It was terrifying.

I was screaming not out of furious indignation, but out of terror.

I yelled at the ICE agent, body crushing one comrade, can they breathe?

As I watched my comrades' eyes bulge out to their face, seeming to shake.

No, they could not breathe.

The agent said, of course they can.

I don't know how he'd know that.

This felt different than witnessing ICE indiscriminately ramming their vans into protesters or pointing their weapons at us.

One masked man pointed his taser at me as I followed them, taking my friend away.

I couldn't stop following despite the threats literally pointed at my face, my eyes barely registering the beaming white light at the taser uh at the taser gun's tip, was witnessing Ice abduct two of us, not knowing if I'd ever see them again.

Would they be transferred out of state?

Would they be sent to a concentration camp?

Who the fuck knows?

We certainly didn't at the time.

As I smarched it to abolitionists, those fighting for the freedom of others, past their black bar fence and into the brutalist architecture building.

I screamed my friend's name as I watched them disappear behind closed doors.

I later cried in a comrade's embrace after another comrade washed my eyes at the burning chemical agent ICE deployed against us.

I felt like vomiting, like screaming.

I felt I needed to expel from my body what I had just endured and witnessed.

Then the media chill rolled in like a heavy fog.

Only mission local reported on this happening.

I spoke to other news outlets, but they didn't run the story.

Two U.S.

citizens were illegally attacked and arrested by ICE and silence.

The fascism was getting worse, and I was among a pool of protesters that fascism began plucking away one by one.

I felt even more scared for my comrades and myself.

On August 20th, a third U.S.

citizen, and Helica translatina was abducted, disappeared for 24 hours, and is uh currently being uh tried by the feds.

I forget are there supervisors or mayors here that care about this kind of stuff.

I really forget, remind me, please.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Hello, supervisors.

My name is Apple Kronk.

I'm a district seven resident and a community advocate.

I'm here to say thank you, supervisors, for putting into action the settlement between the coalition on homelessness and the city.

Um I'm gonna pause your time, ma'am.

That item is not eligible for your public comment.

No, ma'am.

I'm sorry, I'm not good at this.

But all right, thank you for coming down this afternoon.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Good afternoon.

My name is Richard S.

T.

Peterson.

I'm here to, I'm a Muni booster, by the way.

Uh I don't drive, I take Muni transportation.

But all of a sudden, I see that uh Mayor Lewry has proposed that the solution to Muni is to get a parcel tax uh passed.

Well, the parcel tax is a very regressive tax.

The people on the west side, and that's District 4 and district one, are the ones that are gonna be supporting the downtown interests.

Well, why do they want to do a parcel tax?

That's because a general property tax is not going to pass because you do a par property tax, everybody is alerted.

Uh, the whole city is alerted.

You do a parcel task, you go around the city and ask anybody if they any resident if they know what a parcel tax is.

90%, 95% of the residents simply do not know.

And who did they affect most?

The people who are their homeowners.

And the homeowners were not invited to mayor Lurie's uh special committee.

Uh all on that committee were boosters of the Muni uh Muni riders, Muni up uh uh anyway.

They were basically basically boosters.

Parcel taxes, parcel taxes, parcel taxes.

It's gonna be a big fight.

And don't use a term uh or don't use a tax that nobody really understands.

I understand what a tar parcel tax is.

I'm gonna have two parcels.

I'll be paying more than the millennial tower down there.

That's only on one parcel.

So when you get down to uh uh doing your tax calculations, realize that nobody really knows what a parcel tax is.

One parcel, one tax.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Welcome to our next speaker.

Look up at the uh thing here.

SFGov TV, please.

This is a great book.

I remember uh I was gonna talk about RFK's book, The Real Anthony Fauci, and then the Persian guy that sat in your seat started talking about the new year, and so he swayed me off on talking about the Sabbath year.

But it's a powerful book, the real Anthony Fauci has got like 2,000 footnotes, and everybody should read it.

And I thank God for Kennedy, he's doing a great job in exposing the lies of the CDC and the FDA.

And uh, but in this book here, uh, every American should read the light and the glory.

And it gets into these uh providential things.

Wow, minute and a half left, so I probably won't have time to read what I wanted to read, but the thing is is uh I've made statements that 1776 really does end 2,300 years from when the temple was destroyed, which fulfilled the prophecy in Daniel 8, verse 14.

But I haven't proved it.

Okay.

If you Google when was Solomon's temple destroyed, it'll say 587 BC.

But all BC dates are bogus.

The uh we don't know when he was born.

We do know when he was baptized, and if you arrange your chronology from the year he was baptized, which was twenty-eight, which corresponds with the fifteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, you'll you'll know that I'm not blowing smoke.

I'm telling you reality, and even though Peter Marshall and David Manuel didn't know this, so they certainly would have put it in their book.

That means Israel and the United States are the only two nations and we that are in the Bible.

We live here.

What a blessed thing to live here.

And uh, so anyway, just think about it.

If if Jesus was baptized at the end of the 69th sabbatical cycle, which corresponded to 28 AD, and the declaration by Cyrus was given 70 years after the exile, wouldn't that mean it was 79 sabbatic cycles, 553 years BB before baptism?

Forget the B C, it's BB or AB after baptism.

All chronology.

Thank you for your comments.

Let's hear from our next speaker.

Welcome.

I haven't done this before.

I haven't done this before, so I'm gonna try to be sure.

I was present with your presentation.

And then before I came here, I was at uh the commission for utilities, and I noticed that with my field analysis that I had conducted in the city, there's maybe a discrepancy that might be overlooked that I'm trying to bring into focus.

And it's with the fact that what you had mentioned is you're building affordable housing on land that was allocated for a small business, and the contractors, PG and E, uh, from my field analysis.

They said that the pipes that they're putting in, or they have put in it it's allocated for the resource and the demand for that specific location.

So my sketch here will show you that like a three-person household or um a business that's supposed to be um meeting the demand for the like the water in the sewage.

If you build affordable housing on it, it might potentially be it might overstrain the sewage, and that is causing the other issues that people are complaining about.

So I hope that you take into consideration, and they did say that the contractors um that it would cost more to replace the it would replace it would cost more to replace the pipes.

Um so if you're gonna have affordable housing on top of small pipes that are required for small demand, um it's gonna cause a sewage issue.

I think that concludes it.

Oh, my my solution was to provide a standardization on occupancy limits with congruent with um the PGE data sets that they might get.

Hopefully I explained it well.

Okay.

Thanks.

You guys are great.

Thank you for your comments this afternoon.

Are there any other members of the public who'd like to address the board of supervisors during general public comment?

All right, saying none, Mr.

President.

All right.

Public comment is now closed.

Madam Clerk, let's go to our for adoption without committee reference agenda, items 25 through 32.

Yes, items 25 through 32 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.

Supervisor Melgar.

Thank you.

I would like to be added as a co-sponsor to number 26 and 32.

Thank you.

And with that, Madam Clerk, please call the roll on items 25 through 32.

On items 25 through 32, Supervisor Machmood.

Aye.

Mandelman, I, Supervisor Melgar, Melgar, I, Supervisor Soder.

Sauter I, Supervisor Cheryl, Cheryl I, Supervisor Walton, Walton I, Supervisor Chan.

Chan I, Supervisor Chen, Chen I, Supervisor Dorsey.

Dorsey, I, Supervisor Ringardio, Engardio, I, and Supervisor Fielder.

Fielder, I.

There are 11 ayes.

Without objection, the resolutions are adopted.

Madam Clerk, do we have any imperative agenda items?

None to report, Mr.

President.

All right.

Then could you please read the in memoriams?

Today's meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals on behalf of President Mandelman for the late Mr.

Peter Kane, and on a motion made by Supervisor Dorsey and President Mandelman to be on behalf of the entire Board of Supervisors, for the former chair of the California Democratic Party, former member of the California State Senate, two-time member of the California State Assembly, and four former member of the U.S.

House of Representatives, the Honorable John Burton.

And I think that brings us to the end of our agenda.

Madam Clerk, do we have any further business before us today?

That concludes our business for today.

And then we are adjourned.