21st 2024 regular meeting of the government audit and oversight committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

I'm Supervisor Dean Preston, Chair of the Committee, joined by Supervisor Connie Chan, our committee clerk is Monique Creighton.

And our thanks to SFGov TV for staffing this meeting.

At the outset, I'd like to make a motion to excuse Vice Chair Catherine Stephanie for the meeting.

Please call the roll on that.

Yes, on the motion to excuse Vice Chair Stephanie.

Member Chan.

Aye.

Member Chan I.

Chair Preston.

Aye.

Chair Preston I have two ayes with Vice Chair Stephanie Excused.

Thank you.

That motion passes.

And Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements?

Yes.

Public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda.

When your item of interest comes up and public comment is called, please line up to speak on your right.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in writing in either of the following ways.

Email them to the government audit and oversight committee clerk at Monique, M-O-N-I-Q-U-E.org.

If you can submit public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and also included as part of the official file.

You may also send your written comments via U.S.

Postal Service to our office in City Hall number one, Dr.

Carlton, be good lick place, room 244 San Francisco, California, 94102.

If you have documents you would like to be included as part of the file, please submit them to me before the end of the meeting.

Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices to prevent any interruptions to today's proceedings.

Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the Board of Supervisors' agenda of December 3rd, 2024, unless otherwise stated.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Please call items one through 13 for closed session.

Yes, items one through 13 is uh seven ordinances and six resolutions authorizing and approving its settlement of lawsuits and unlitigated claims in amounts ranging between three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars to six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Thank you.

And these are closed session items before we go into closed session.

Let's open up uh these items for public comment.

Yes, members of the public who wish to speak on these items should line up to speak now along the side by the windows.

All speakers will have two minutes.

Good morning, committee.

Uh, my name is Julia Sebastian.

I am the climate policy director at Jobs of Justice San Francisco, a coalition of working people and SF.

We also coordinate a statewide coalition of labor unions who advance climate jobs policy, um, including the largest oil and gas union, USW, um, who sits at our table, the steel workers.

We are a coalition that is designed and won millions for worker-led climate transition policy at the state level and have deep policy expertise in creating workforce development um uh policy programs for the oil and gas industry in the era of climate change.

I am here to respectfully ask you to vote no on the settlement agreement with Chevron.

Um San Francisco's passage of ordinance 236-16 requires our city to do two things relevant to the settlement decision.

One is to end San Francisco's involvement in the oil and gas extraction industry.

Clearly, the sale of San Francisco property Chevron through the settlement would be counter to this mandate.

It is impossible to believe that Chevron is buying this land to cease operations and plug wells.

Second, and most importantly, the ordinance required a clear public process, including the production of a just transition plan.

Um, we understand COVID greatly delayed this process when it coincided with the lease expiration.

That does not, however, nullify the requirement for San Francisco to complete this public process.

We request for you to vote to deny the settlement today so that we may undergo proper public process and complete a thoroughly investigated transition plan.

We are here to commit to your to be your full partners in this and offer our experience and capacity as organizations and unions to present alternatives for consideration, including proposals for the design and funding of a workforce development pilot program for oil well remediation.

Um this would create high road jobs, ensure environmental justice, and cease exacerbation of the climate crisis, as was um in the mandate.

We simply ask you to vote today to give us time and the public process that we are due.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Next speaker, please.

Hi, I just want to clarify first.

Are you taking public comment for all the items or just the first one?

All the items.

Okay.

Um, I am commenting for item 12, settlement of lawsuit, Paul Wilde and Reed Sandberg.