Good morning, everyone.

This meeting will come to order.

I'd like to welcome everyone to the regular meeting of the Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for Thursday, March 12th, 2026.

I'm Supervisor Matt Dorsey, Chair of this committee, and I'm joined today by fellow committee members, a Vice Chair Bilal Machmood, and Supervisor Alan Wong.

Together, we'd also like to welcome our colleague supervisors, colleagues, Supervisor Danny Sauter and uh Supervisor Merna Melgar, who are joining us.

Um our ever capable clerk today is Ms.

Monique Creighton, whom we thank for staffing us and keeping us on track today.

And as always, we want to express our appreciation to the entire team at SFGov TV for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting, and especially our producer today, uh, Mr.

Eugene Labadia.

Madam Clerk, do you have any announcements?

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Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Would you please call item number one?

Yes, item number one is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the Department of Public Works to perform evaluations and report periodically on mechanical street sweeping operations, including submittal of written performance reports to the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor, amending the health code to revise and clarify clarify outdated terms concerning refuse receptacle requirements and authorize a process for the imposition of administrative fines and affirming the planning department's determination under the California Environmental Quality Act.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

And as I mentioned, we are joined today by District 6 Supervisor Danny Sauter.

Supervisor Sauter is the sponsor of this first item, and I believe we have staff from the Department of Public Works to answer any questions following their presentation.

But for now, Supervisor Sauter.

Thank you, Dorsey.

Thank you, Chair Dorsey.

Thank you for having me in this committee this morning.

Colleagues, I want to share just a little bit about this what is before you.

The ordinance before you is the first piece of my legislative package, the Clean Streets Act, which is designed to improve the cleanliness of our streets and public spaces.

It contains changes to the administrative and health codes.

You can think of it as cleaning up our codes so that we can better clean up our streets.

First, on the administrative code changes.

We are proposing that the Department of Public Works submit a report on the city's mechanical street sweeping operations at least once every ten years.

This idea was a BLA recommendation from a October 2025 audit, which found that surprisingly, mechanical street sweeping in San Francisco is not currently evaluated to determine optimized route scheduling frequency and labor needs.

It also noted that routes have not fundamentally changed since the last optimization efforts in September 2008.

And I think we can do better than this.

And we are still stuck with that decision today.

There are many neighbors, many of my constituents who want this service.

So we are asking the Department of Public Works to consider certain metrics and present findings and recommendations on how they may improve the performance of street sweeping operations.

Some of these key metrics include number one, effectiveness and efficiency of mechanical street sweeping equipment.

Number two, estimated the average quantity of debris collected per block, season, mile or supervisor district.

And number three, number of requests and complaints from the public concerning street sweeping operations.

The deadline for this first report would be on March 31st, 2027.

To arrive at these particular performance metrics, we consulted with the department, and I see Ian Schneider here from Public Works.

Thank you for your work on this, Ian.

We wanted to make sure it would be feasible and realistic, but also productive to improve outcomes.

Second, our change in the health code, which proposes a clear layman's definition for the term putrescible, which I don't know about you, colleagues, but is not a term that I was particularly familiar with, and I don't think the average everyday resident or small business owner is either.

So we would uh define this term as it is used in healthcode section 283, which is where the city lays out the standard for properly storing and containerizing garbage for collection.

The proposed definition aligns with state law and will automatically incorporate future changes to the state law definition.

This category of waste deserves more attention because we are seeing incidence of dump food and other foul decaying matter on our public streets and sidewalk.

Um, colleagues, there is an amendment which I have circulated.

I would like to uh respectfully ask the committee to adopt one non-substantive amendment to section 283 before sending this file to the full board, which is as follows deleting subsection C, which you see on page six, lines two through five.

Uh so given all that, I'm available for questions, but I hope to have your support in sending this file to the full board with recommendation.